“Know Thyself” – it isn’t that easy
Understanding yourself is actually a difficult task, if you are going to be thorough about it, and in this blog I will explain why I believe that. Freudian self-defense mechanisms were initially started by Sigmund Freud, and then later more fully developed by his daughter Anna Freud. They are asContinue Reading
Gratitude List
Dr. Roberts Emmons, a professor at the University of California Davis, as explained in this 4 minute Youtube video, designed an experiment that showed that people who keep a gratitude journal and express gratitude are much happier than those who don’t. He also wrote the book The Gratitude Effect. SoulContinue Reading
Moderation In All Things
“Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.” (Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People) This is a great quote because it seems to encapsulate Covey’s message of his book so well. HabitsContinue Reading
Making Decisions
Making decisions is a serious business, not only setting the stage for the direction of our lives, possibly setting us up for success or failure, but also a very important part of problem-solving. In fact, several books and websites I’ve seen, like mindtools.com, seems to treat problem-solving as mainly aContinue Reading
Exercise
I have read in several self-help books on mental health, like Edmund Bourne’s Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, the importance of physical health when dealing with a mental health challenge. From my experience, and from what I have heard or read, the person is a combination of several factors: mental, physical,Continue Reading
Step One to Solving a Problem: Admit You Have a Problem
This may seem quite obvious, and even stupid to say. But many people are in denial about their problems. This shortcoming, denial, may not be a problem for you personally, but it is or has been a problem for many of us. The first step in the 12 step anonymousContinue Reading
New Superior AI Voices for Spoken Audio
Thanks to Natural Reader commercial, I have a cost-effective way to produce the best-sounding text to speech files, for free listening and downloading. In the next few weeks, I will record and post the following books: – Baha’u’llah’s Teachings on Spiritual Reality, compiled by Paul Lample. – The Proofs ofContinue Reading
Budgeting with Microsoft Excel
Learn how to keep track of your monthly finances with a Microsoft Excel or LibreOffice LibreCalc spreadsheet on your computer. Reducing or eliminating unnecessary stress and struggles is, in my opinion, mandatory for coping better with chronic mental illness. Mental illness can be very stressful, completely deplete your energy, andContinue Reading
Spoken Audio
I have received permission from George Ronald Publisher to record extracts from their two books Divine Therapy and Fire and Gold and post them on this website. As well, Ian Semple has given me permission to record his books Baha’u’llah’s Teachings on Spiritual Reality, and The Proofs of the MissionContinue Reading
The World Is But a Show, Vain and Empty
The world is but a show, vain and empty, a mere nothing, bearing the semblance of reality. Set not your affections upon it. Break not the bond that uniteth you with your Creator, and be not of those that have erred and strayed from His ways. Verily I say, theContinue Reading