By Jim Selman | Bio
Here we are at the beginning of another
new year. All the “Happy New Year” greetings are fading and we all seem
to be digging in for the coming months. We seem to ebb and flow with a
kind of seasonal ‘mood swing’ and now, in the middle of winter, are
beginning to get down to business. In general, most of us start a new
year being optimistic—filled with resolution(s), ready to put the
mistakes from 2009 behind us and eager to take on the world or
ourselves or whatever it is we think needs to happen for 2010 to be the
‘best year ever’. The fact is the world is in pretty much the same
place it was before the holidays: we just took a break from all of our
‘earnestness’, planning and efforts to survive for a few weeks. Being pessimistic or optimistic is an attitude
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 By Shae Hadden | Bio
The official
arrival of fall always surprises me. It’s never the change in weather
so much as the passage of time that draws me up short—what happened to
the last few months of my life? This year I feel as if I’ve been lost
in a time warp while the rest of the world runs ahead at its crazy
pace…and as if I’m only just beginning to rejoin the rest of the human
race. And no, I didn’t go on an extended vacation or take a leave of
absence. All I did was connect to my purpose…and then my body seemed to
fall apart. Strange, but I’ve come to realize a distinction between
purpose and meaning through being ‘sidelined’ with health issues.[ Read More]
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By Shae Hadden
Bio
I
live in a country where multiculturalism was once the watchword of a
generation. I attended high school in a ‘multicultural district’ in an
inner city, took several language courses at university and hung out
with people from diverse racial, social and cultural backgrounds.
Today, I am disheartened to hear how ‘terrorist paranoia’ creeps into
our everyday lives and has us question whether we will accept new
people into our lives. [ Read More]
Written by Shae Hadden at Wisdom in Action
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Life happens while we're having conversations with ourselves and other people. Listening
is the context that makes life intelligible, allows anything to have
meaning, and forms the basis for all communication (both written and
spoken). It's a whole lot more than just ‘hearing’ the words that are
spoken. It's about listening with an open mind, listening without
already having an answer, listening to the person and noticing what
they are not saying.
Unfortunately, we are always bringing a prior interpretation or
understanding of our world to every situation we encounter or can
imagine encountering. So listening with an open mind requires effort
and focus and a willingness to allow people and situations to just 'be'
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 I am 64 years old. Somehow the number seems significant, although I
don't know why. Everyone I have ever spoken to about age agrees: they
feel a lot younger than they imagined they would feel like at this age
(however old they might be). It’s almost as if we reach a 'fork in the road' age-wise—a
particular moment in time, usually in middle age, when we experience a
total disconnect between what we see in the mirror and what we
experience in our mind. I think this phenomenon, and the degree to
which we experience the disconnect, reveals our resistance to aging (at
best) and outright denial (at worst).
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Written by Jim Selman at Personal Empowerment
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Just finished reading Andy Wibbel’s comments on The Secret,
the latest new internet movie. I pretty much agree that this
extravaganza has high production values, very much along the same lines
as What the Bleep. But the whole time I was watching, I kept waiting to
hear ‘who’ was behind it — a church, the Rosicrucians, another sub rosa
plug for the teachings of some cult? Was pleasantly surprised that the
message seemed to be the whole flick —you get what you sow and we need
to “come from where we want to go”. Actually that seems pretty close to
truth to me, so I don’t discount the producers of the film at all, even
if the message is an ‘oldie but goodie’.[ Read More]
Written by Jim Selman at Wisdom in Action
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