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2016 Article Archive

Flourishing Life Society article Link: Accepting Imperfections

We get stuck in an existential funk, searching for meaning. Life may not readily appear meaningful; but we can give life meaning.

Positive attitudes boost performance; but if our performance is ill designed we still fail.

We want joy; But Life is more than joy. Sometimes life hurts.

Moods interfere with interpretation of life. Stepping back with understanding helps to modify these stinkers.

A Flourishing Life Society article link. A New Relationship with Reality

We are pulled into harmful routines by emotion. We feel and then we react. Unfortunately, our reaction isn't always helpful. We need space to think and then act more appropriately.

Internal Link. Self: Here I am. The consciousness of self is complex. We are dynamic beings interacting with ever-changing environments. For stability, we need a concept of self. Too firm a concept and we are limited and deceived, to weak and we have no anchor.

FLS internal Link. Negativity: The natural feeling responses to experience give both wisdom and limiting bias. As cognitive creatures, we need to examine what we are feeling, how we interpret that feeling, and determine the utility of our natural inclinations.

We are engaged in a constant work of becoming, satisfying needs, entertaining wants, and creating meaning. We can do this purposely or haphazardly.

Our amazing mind assigns meaning to felt experience, creating emotion. Sometimes this process misdiagnosis the environment and leads us astray.

We condemn our worth through faulty comparisons with others.

Some concepts of forgiveness cross into smug self-righteousness, others create personal harm by ignoring lessons that shouldn’t be forgotten. But moving forward from injury by abandoning grudges serves us and society well.

Our emotions can be great teachers or callous task masters. We need emotion as part of the rich experience of humanness to guide us through the complexities of connection and survival but we must monitor feeling to keep us on task.

Life has many emotions. All pleasure is limiting, flowing and then gone. Too much pleasure and it loses its appeal.

FLS Link: Correlations-Life is complicated, without pure guidelines to follow. We get lost with inflexible dogma instead of flexible openness to the complexity.

Life is not a pretty little bundle of joys. We have pleasures and sorrows.

Truth is elusive. What is proven today may be challenged tomorrow. We need a different approach that allows for confidence in action without a closed mind to possible alternatives.

Change, even wonderful change, hurts. We must push against the flow to achieve something different.

Life is demanding, squeezing resources from our reservoir of strength. We must conserve energy, maintain the edge, and keep sane.

Sustainable joy is more than present pleasure. The best lives comes from actions that produce joy over time, not just momentary amusement.

Link: Healthy living isn't all logic or all emotion but a smooth blend of both. The aliveness of feeling mixed with the preparedness of thought.

Life has its challenges. Often the weight of demands drags us down. We need healthy escapes to rejuvenate and lighten our load.

$Greater clarity of self, mindful observance of the happenings in our minds and bodies, improves communication with others. When we adapt to a fast moving world by blocking awareness and skirting around details, we deceive ourselves and fracture relationships.$

Internal Link: Pursuit of Happiness | If the sole purpose of our existence is to increase pleasure, we will never be satisfied. Living a full and rich life experiences many emotions. Happiness is a balance of healthy thoughts and growth promoting actions.

we avoid personal responsibility by blaming others.

We need connections; but the world doesn't need vaguely hidden intentions. We need soul felt kindness.

Small emotions, poking through from the past, can avalanche into full blown hatred. We must catch the mislabeling of experience, make corrections and work towards building a relationship with love an intimacy.

Discovering ourselves is a lifetime process, requiring purposely digging a little deeper, and challenging comforting beliefs. Self-enlightenment can fuel heroic changes in our course of development.

Flourishing Life Society Link: Facing Ineptness

Experience burns into the networks of the brain, creating a map to quickly assess new experience

Our explorations of life in general, and individually, is never complete. There is always more to learn. When fully engaged in discovering the greatness, we open our hearts to others.

We feel fear. This is normal. How we respond is important. Sometimes fear is experience appropriate and serves as a warning to back away. Other times, however, the fear is learned from a past that no longer applies to the present.

To achieve our dreams, we must courageously take on the anxiety of change, moving from the ordinary, and doing something more.

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