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Guilt may push for change or leave us debilitated and paralyzed. Loving kindness is the healthy response to debilitating guilt.

The past doesn't disappear. When betrayed, the hurt lingers and interferes with future relationships.

The Power of Consciousness can evaluate futures and make adaptations, changing impulsive directions.

FLS Link. The Fleeting Emotions. When emotionally flooded, it is difficult to cognitively inject thoughts to escape the moment. We need habitual practices that we automatically integrate into these moments that calm the system first, then we can cognitively join adapt, thinking of the future.

Flourishing Life Society link to Inner Peace. Creating Inner Peace with Reflection.

The failed relationship provides a rich source of information about our insecurities, emotional triggers, and weaknesses. If we fail to pause and reflect on the failures, we consign ourselves to reliving the tragedy.

FLS Internal Link. Selfish or Selfless: Individuals and societies need attention. A society of individuals completely self focused crumbles. An individual completely dedicated to the group, ignoring personal needs dissolves into the mass. We need a healthy balance.

Chasing a better life, we sometimes neglect the very things that give us the life we seek.

Our environment is instrumental to our mental health. When work or home constantly ignites stress, our systems bog down, and well-being suffers.

Emotions can be powerful--so powerful we may avoid them and the people expressing them. Empathy is gained through openness to experience, one on one contact with the feeling experience of others.

FLS Link. Courage to Change: Most of us want a little better. Our lives are in motion, moving towards a destination. If the direction we are traveling isn't where we want to go, we must intervene, force change and correct our actions.

Opptimisitic mindsets can improve our emotions

We need to attend to the balances in our lives. Impulses, demand and others interfere and knock us out of balance.

Life has many wonderful parts; but it isn't always beautiful. As we work to improve, we must be patient and compassionate, working through the stubborn difficulties of self-improvement.

The intimacy and trust of long relationships are built from dedicated mature partners, working together, giving respect, and compiling positive interactions.

We must manage worry to push action without burdening with overwhelm. Concern for the future is important but easily can become all consuming.

The strength of the relationship is exposed by how we treat a partner when irritable, or stressed. Love requires intentional action.

We face face the reality of nasty habits before we can begin to change.

We improve the circumstances of our lives, moving from wilting to flourishing, with small manageable steps.

Mixed in with the beauty are some sorrows. When we are well-connected, occasionally, along with the joys are some tears.

Picture Link: Venturing into the Unknown-- Carefully moving forward in a complex world.

Life is taxing. We face daily challenges to maintain relationships and succeed. We need momentary escapes to rejuvenate the soul.

Internal Link: Achieving our potential...Healthy growth depends on supportive environments. As adults, we must create an environment that provides nutrients and protection.

FLS link. Building Shelter

Seizing the day is a joyful acceptance and a timeless honoring of the preciousness of life. Seizing the day creates a joyful connection to living.

FLS Link. Emotions and Empathy. The feelings of living come to life, pushing experience into a new aliveness. For some feelings are scary and they avoid deep contact with feeling experience. This not only limits their experience but interferes with connection to others.

Achieving the most from the wisdom of emotions requires purposeful effort to integrate emotions into our larger concepts of self.

The narcissist presents a special challenge on relationships. The characteristics common for a narcissist typically are disastrous for relationships. Often escape is the best recourse.

Judgements are penicious things. They self-perpetuate proving themselves by biasing our views.

Futures depend on action following thought. We must do more than dream to build better lives.

When we have meaningful purpose, life events take on a different color.

Internal Link. Accepting Life on Its Terms: We stress over the hardships; but life is what is. It always will have troublesome moments. Happiness comes and goes; just as sorrows. Once we accept these inevitable truths, the impact of troubles diminishes.

The strength of our nation and world will come from more open-mindedness. When we blame, shun, or attack others because of differences, everyone loses. We live in fear and bigoted hate.

FLS Link. Being Loved by a Dog: Love is never enough. Sometimes people or animals are a mismatch drawing more from well-being than they offer.

We must compassionately care for the addicted. We can't know all the underlying causes; but many lie beyond their control.

Beliefs blind our vision. We see only what we wish to see, even when the truth is obvious and helpful.

We confront the overwhelming experiences of life through a variety of escapes. A healthy adults adaptation mature as they grow, allowing for contact with reality; others, however, build deeper deviations from reality and squander the richness of living.

A Flourishing Life Society article link to Invitations to Change

Action, we need action. We can't wait for opportunities, we must work to find them, and then courageously follow the unknown paths to betterment.

We live in an age of prescriptions and corrections. Every oddity is labeled as an illness. We are not ill, just sometimes incompatible. Instead of curing illnesses, we should work towards compatibility.

Internal Link. True Love takes Time: True love matures into trust, where both partners contribute to the well-being of the other.

Internal Link: Automatic Responses. We're on auto-pilot. Ordained to arrive at predetermined destinations. But we can intercede, changing the program and becoming more than histories dictate.

Set-backs are a part of moving forward. We not only must effectively deal with them, but we also need them.

We lose control of our lives when we act without deeper contemplations. Impulses misguide, leading to chaotic survival and ego feeding action. We must live consciously to escape these deadly pitfalls.

Picture link: Nine Pillars of well being: We achieve well-being through a balanced approach to life, working with nine key areas of living.

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

Life is difficult enough without the need of a harsh inner critic. Try being kind-- to yourself.

Giving meaning to feelings with subjective interpretations

The harsh world, with the constant message that

Banner link: Punishing Imperfection- Critical self-judgments create an unfriendly environment for growth. Under harsh conditions the self-begins to conceal reality to protect the soul.

Intrigued by secrets, we seek the hidden, wasting precious time chasing unknown promises. Success is no secret formula. We achieve through consistent skilled effort, blessed by a little luck.

Article Link: The paradox between dreams and current realities confronts everyone and blesses or interferes with their peace of mind.

We are in the process of becoming, not through some fantastic event; but through a series of choices. Greatness is born from consistently and patiently making the right choices.

The breathe brings life to the body, feeding the heart and brain. Mindful attention to this life giving process can change our lives.

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