the limping shrink

 This is transcribed from my YouTube video @the-life-changing-book-club THE LIFE-CHANGING BOOK CLUB 1: E-squared 10th anniversary edition by Pam Grout  Hay Publishing Hello This week’s book is this one. Is that backwards? Yeah. It’s Pam Grout, it’s a book called E-Squared, and the subtitle is: Nine do-it-yourself energy experiments that prove that your thoughts create your reality. Ok why am I reading this book? Well, manifesting has been a bit of a thing recently in the ether, and I wanted to explore it partly because of that and partly because my own mindfulness practice has got to a point when I’m thinking, mm, is there really anything in this? Is it time to surrender? And the title and the layout of the book appeals to my rational side in that it claims to be a kind of experimental manual on demonstrating to yourself that there is such a thing as a kind of something that responds to your thoughts.  So first of all, I’m going to say I went into this book with a large amo

https://publicdomainvectors.org/en/free-clipart/Vector-image-of-invisible-mans-clothing/32709.html Not trying 'When you think critical things about someone, you can stop yourself from doing that. And if you do that enough, in the end it means you get less critical of yourself inside your head.' Eleanor is new in the Mindfulness for Retirement Group and, as some people do, is teaching us  the things she believes she is here to learn.  As the teacher I tend to leave people to do what they have to do, unless it touches on some misunderstanding of the basics. Today I use her statement as a teaching opportunity. 'Thank you Eleanor. Yes o f course, you might want to abstain from being critical, ha ha, but this points to a basic  difference between mindfulness and other ways of dealing with stress. In mindfulness it's not about trying to be better. It's not about doing anything special to correct something you see in yourself, or in other people. You notice and accept ho

Somebody asked me why I suggest that everyone in our dreams is us.  Because they are. Everyone and everything in our life is us too.