Tag: mental-health
The Dynamics of Getting Out of a Funk
So you are finding yourself in an emotional funk. You feel stuck and cannot seem to move forward. Not to worry. I am going to give you some easy steps to get yourself moving again in a positive direction. If you know the principles and can apply them, you can move out of your negative …
Being Imaginative Can Enhance the Transformation Process
Last week I was working with a client who has a tendency to imagine that the worst things are going to happen to his family. The images are not based on concrete reality. It is like his mind goes on walkabout trying to think of dark things. He was having thoughts about his sisters dying, …
Positive Dreams: How Do You Process Them
Last night I was running with my wife in a park. We had a really nice pace and had a line of animals like geese following us. Then I saw someone who was shot by a gun, at which time, i organized the people around me to get him some help. The overall feeling was …
My Dream of Being in a Big Mess: Moving toward Organization
The dreams that have recurred the most for me in my life are the ones that I had when I was attending the US Air Force Academy, a university to train young people to become officers in the US Air Force. I was there from the age of 18-21. As I have changed over the …
The Hurt Code: Door Opener to Loving What You Do
For the longest time my presenting negative emotion was grief, especially after the untimely death of my daughter two years ago. Grief is such a challenging emotion to deal with, primarily because when it strikes, it takes your energy down. You feel depressed. It is no wonder that anti-depressants have been so easily prescribed by …
The Code of Disappointment: Beware of Expectations.
It is a little over a week since New Year’s Day. It is a good time to write about disappointment if you have already given up on the resolutions you might have set. Disappointment is the negative emotion we feel when an expectation has not been met. It has the effect of taking the wind out …
The Code of Anger: Doorway to Tranquility, Patience, Detachment, Calm
It is rush hour, the traffic is heavy, you are trying to make a left turn into busy traffic. It seems like it will take forever to make the turn. Worse yet, you have been recently cut off by other people in a hurry. OR you are in a meeting giving a proposal or ideas …
The Code of Anxiety 2 Examples
In the last post I talked about how anxiety is the negative emotion that is trying to wake up confidence in yourself. Confidence is the ability to embrace the positive abilities that you already have developed so that you can put them into action. It is almost like a feeling of being grounded in yourself. …
Day 6: Identity and Ego/True Self States
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 …
Richard Hastings is an expert in change work and dream work and author of Dreams for Peace. He is a 
Dreams For Peace 