You CAN always want what you get

I was caught the other day singing the lyrics to the Rolling Stones song “You Can't Always Get What You Want,"  I say caught because I was singing it incorrectly.  I sang,

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Reality Tunnel

The other day we heard a friend describe what he termed a “reality tunnel.”  We had never heard the phrase before.  When we construct our own “reality tunnels,”

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Expectations can be habits

Our expectations are a type of habit.  For example, every morning when you start your morning routine, you probably expect your faucet to run.  It is a habit that is

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Are you taking it for granted?

What’s really happening when we “take something for granted”?  We stop noticing a person, a thing, an event or a situation.  We stop being in the moment and experiencing all

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Fix your posture

Have you ever had or do you currently have poor posture?  Have you ever had to rehab from an injury that made you need to change your normal

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Let it be or suppress it?

It’s pretty common these days for people to talk about sitting with a feeling or allowing “negative” thoughts without resisting them.  It is in the zeitgeist, whereas just 10-15

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Simple is different than easy

There are a lot of things that are simple but not easy.  The instructions can be simple, for example, eat less processed foods. It’s perhaps simple and probably

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What does it take to listen?

Artists who are looking to recreate life-like images of either landscapes, people or any kind of object that we see in reality, have to constantly battle with what

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Making comparisons is a losing game

Winning the daily comparison game (being better than the next person) is like getting Monopoly money.  No matter how much of it you get, it is still useless

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Placing the effort on the right thing

We consider that acceptance of what is, is a required first-step in making sustained change and progress.  If we start from resistance, upset, and avoidance of an issue, our

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