I am writing this short post to share a few thoughts about the relationship between inner strength/toughness and compassion. I have this great client who came to me some time back mainly because he was having relational difficulties. He was an unembarrassed supporter of people on the far right and had positive thoughts toward people …
The Power of Daily Change Introduction The End is in the Beginning “Consider not the present condition, but rather foresee the future and the end. A seed in the beginning is very small, but in the end a great tree. One should not consider the seed, but the tree and its abundance of blossoms, leaves …
Healing or Development Change is always basically the same process of changing negative energy to positive energy, but where you start from to do the change process depends upon how dysfunctional you are in your overall life. You will have to find where you are coming in last place, where you are kicked out of …
If you are feeling hopeless or in despair or know someone who he is, this post may give you some guidance about how to proceed. It is not by any means complete, but a place to start. Taking an honest look at the hell you are in including being able to talk about it openly …
The medical model in the Western world, of a necessity, developed itself into something of a subtraction equation. It says that if you have something like cholera or the plague and you get rid of it (subtract it), then everything will be peachy. If you were living with cholera in a town and then suddenly …
I am writing this article purely from my own experience and observations and not from a more rigorous scientific point of view, but I am sure that you will see the logic and common sense behind what I am suggesting. Healing from trauma to a large degree is achieved by long periods of sustained inner …
I dreamed I was in a house which was being invaded by bears the size of Sasquatch. Someone told me to not worry they know what they are doing, and they had some sort of trick to get them out, but it seemed to me the bears were going to attack. I felt so small. …
The big difficulty with getting out of blame and taking responsibility for moving your life forward is that there are a lot of people out there that are truly worthy of an immense amount of blame. When you have been a victim of injustice, the condition that most of the world lives in, then it …
Many times I receive dreams from people that appear as though they could happen in real life just as they happen in the dream world. For instance, what do you do if your happily married, but you are having sex with someone else than your spouse in a dream? How do you get your head …
“Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help. Let them see no one as their enemy, or as wishing them ill, but think of all humankind as their friends; regarding the alien as an intimate, the stranger as a …
Dream work is the ability to take a dream, analyze and understand the messages it is trying to convey, and then do the internal transformation to actualize new positive energy that the dream is trying to move you toward. Dream interpretation is one part of the dream work process. It is the purpose of this …
Remember how Adam and the others once dwelt together in Eden. No sooner, however, did a quarrel break out between Adam and Satan than they were, one and all, banished from the Garden, and this was meant as a warning to the human race, a means of telling humankind that dissension — even with the …
The Great Being saith: Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit therefrom…. Baha’u’llah Last night I had a very interesting dream in which I was in the next world (according to the dream). It wasn’t like I …
O SON OF MAN! If adversity befall thee not in My path, how canst thou walk in the ways of them that are content with My pleasure? If trials afflict thee not in thy longing to meet Me, how wilt thou attain the light in thy love for My beauty? Baha’u’llah The other day I …
The light of a good character surpasseth the light of the sun and the radiance thereof. Whoso attaineth unto it is accounted as a jewel among men. Baha’u’llah After having done a day of maximum effort, it is often very valuable to do a day where the focus is reflection. In today’s material world especially …
Dost thou reckon thyself only a puny form When within thee the universe is folded? Ali quoted in Seven Valleys The word identity in a transformational context means that you so experience and act on the energy of a particular virtue that you and others start referring to you as a person with that quality …
“So far as ye are able, ignite a candle of love in every meeting, and with tenderness rejoice and cheer ye every heart.” Abdu’l Baha One of the first keys to any transformation experience is the ability to have a positive experience and then remember it. Because of the way the world is often …
“And be ye not like those who forget God, and whom He hath therefore caused to forget their own selves.” Baha’u’llah For most people in the Western world and other places God is an angry man in the sky shooting out lightning bolts when people do bad things. I am really not sure how God …
O SON OF BEING! With the hands of power I made thee and with the fingers of strength I created thee; and within thee have I placed the essence of My light. Be thou content with it and seek naught else, for My work is perfect and My command is binding. Question it not, nor …
Being worried is a very curious emotion. It doesn’t make very much sense and it is very non-productive. The other day, after I had been feel anxious at my work, I began wondering why it suddenly appeared. I am not normally a very anxious person, but somehow thoughts started to get into my head which …
For the most part men are still stuck in the Neolithic period acting like Neanderthals. I am really sorry to say, but it is true. Men have a code. Don’t talk about how you are feeling. Endure all pain without complaint. Go to war. Not everyman carries a machine gun, but when they leave their …
Goal setting is a relatively easily process if you know where you are in your life right now. Most people are driven by what someone else tells them is important which is material in nature such as more money, better sex, a better body, a better house, a faster car, a more beautiful garden, going …
The first key to being able to overcome fear is to have a friendly, rather than antagonistic relationship with it. Fear is a universal negative emotion that we all face. It comes in a lot of varieties. We all have fear. It is part of being human. I think that perhaps future generations will have …
What is dream work? Dream work is the process of using your dreams to make the changes in your life that you have always wanted to make, but could never quite figure out how to do it. It requires believing that dreams are a form of communication delivered to you with perfect messages, that they …
Sexual dreams are very interesting because when people have them they often wake up with the physical sensations as if they actually had sex. Probably there is no other category of dreams that require the virtue of self-discipline and mental focus to get through to the message that the dream is actually portraying than sexual …
Why do you run out of gas in a dream? Automobiles in our dreams are symbols of getting from one place to another in our lives. For example, suppose you are the type of person who plans out what you want to accomplish for a day or a week or a month. You sit down …
Richard Hastings is an expert in change work and dream work and author of Dreams for Peace. He is a Baha'i and currently lives in Vancouver, BC. Read more...
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