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How to Have Difficult Conversations
Filed in healthy communication skills, healthy communication, Communication model, communication, Building trust, develping healthy relationships, healthy relationships, Ernie Larson, Verbal Communication, communication process, Stuck in Wait, difficult conversations, Ernie Larsen, The Platinum Rule, trust, process of communication, addiction, lower stress, healthy attitudes, personal development, patience, tolerance, love, peace, truth, health, compassion, feelings, Proactive Stress Management, habit control, healthy behaviors, Proactive, Personal Responsibility, Stress Managment, Personal Peace, Uncategorized June 26, 2008, 5:53 pm
This is the final part of a three-part series on communication, the focus of which is using effective communication skills to reduce the stress in our lives. Previously I described the communication model, and how it’s a wonder we communicate at all. I detailed a communication process that I refer to as “mirroring.” Which is […]
Miscommunication Leads to Complications
Filed in healthy communication, The Golden Rule, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Communication model, healthy communication skills, communication, healthy relationships, spiritual health, mental health, Building trust, Verbal Communication, communication process, The Platinum Rule, drug addiction, behavioral addiction, Lauryn Hill, trust, Recovery, process of communication, Gordon Graham, self-image psychology, addiction, develping healthy relationships, lower stress, wisdom, personal development, optimism, Change Managment, drugs, joy, truth, health, peace, love, empathy, tolerance, Personal Peace, healthy behaviors, healthy attitudes, simplifying change, World Peace, Anger Management, compassion, actions, Anger Managment, Stress Managment, Uncategorized April 23, 2008, 8:08 pm
Lauryn Hill, on her 1998 CD The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, sang that “miscommunication leads to complications“. Relating to personal and world Peace, truer words were never spoken, sung or rapped. There’s a process that verbal communication goes through, and when you consider what happens in that process, it’s a wonder that we communicate at […]
A Recipe for Personal Peace
Filed in Anger Management, World Peace, Cracked, Dr. Drew, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Personal Peace, Personal Responsibility, Jesus Christ, Les Brown, Proactive Stress Management, Proactive, feelings, tolerance, meditation, joy, love, peace, wisdom, personal development, patience, Reticular activating system, Change Managment, optimism, Uncategorized January 29, 2008, 11:02 pmFor 7 ½ years I taught drug- and behaviorally-addicted parolees in California life skills. It was a 120-hour course that consisted of four components: one was the disease concept of addiction; there was recovery, or behavior modification; there was building healthy relationships with healthy people; and stress and anger management. That’s the component that I […]
Jewels in the Rubbish
Filed in terrorism, empathy, The Art of Happiness, Pronoia, World Trade Center, 9-11, Reticular activating system, A People's History of the United States, sociopathic behavior, Rob Brezsny, Timothy Leary, Vietnam, Vietnam war, Buckminster Fuller, compassion, William Blake, corporate media, patience, tolerance, positive thinking, media, spirituality, peace, activism, history, politics, buddhism, science, health, civil rights, wisdom, howard zinn, buckmister fuller, racism, optimism, alan watts, personal development, dalai lama, self esteem, truth November 27, 2007, 5:26 pmA good friend of mine once told me that nothing is entirely good or bad. I think that’s what the little dots in the yin and the yang symbol represent – that everything has the potential for its opposite within it. The Buddhists have a saying, “When you find a jewel in the rubbish, treasure […]
