No one ventures into the unconscious except by necessity 4 May 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments Carl Jung stated that “Until we make the unconscious conscious, it will rule our lives and we will call it fate.” Despite this powerful—and, in my experience, accurate—warning, very few people embark […]
By-products of breakthrough – rage and compensation 3 May 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments I’ve just been punching a cardboard box in the garage. Why? Because I’ve got something against cardboard boxes? I’ve taken up cardboard box-punching as a hobby? No. Because I’ve just had a major emotional […]
To get out of where you are, love where you are 11 April 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments Everybody loves to hate emotional ‘stuckness’—those painful situations when life isn’t going the way we want it to, we seem powerless to alter the situation and there’s just no sense […]
Puberty shames teens into emotional stagnation 10 April 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , Shame , 2 Comments In Patriarchy demands that our relationships are stagnant, I describe how our current human paradigm only survives by locking us into relationships that promise satisfaction but are in fact emotionally and sexually sterile. To […]
None of our emotional wounds are random 5 April 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , No Comments When we survey the seething maelstrom of human behaviour, it’s hard to see it as anything other than random. Even if we restrict ourselves to our own life and those closest […]
Your next evolutionary step is inconvenient 4 April 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments We all have problems. Our problems seem unique, never-ending, insurmountable—as if Life had deliberately singled us out for special treatment. In a way, it has. Because that’s all Life is—problem-solving. Whatever Life puts in our […]
Steve Jobs – “You can’t connect the dots looking forward” 19 March 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , No Comments Apple guru Steve Jobs famously observed that “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” Jobs stated this in his commencement speech […]
The Capitol riot and the radicalisation of the Grand Old Party 6 March 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Radicalisation , No Comments You don’t need me to tell you that on the evening of 6 January 2021, a mob of several thousand people stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, following […]
Unconditional love – there are no other moves in the game 27 February 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments I love this photo by Minh Pham of a lady on a giant chessboard clutching the queen. The queen is, well, the queen of the chessboard. She rules the roost. […]
Trauma is inside us and we are inside trauma 26 February 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments In Trauma exists as a series of ripples, I describe the multiple, interconnected sources of trauma that may exist in our lives. This trauma is inside our minds, our psyche, our physical […]