The more we commit to heal, the more our life bends to support healing 20 June 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments We never see the S-bends of life coming until they loom out of the fog on a narrow mountaintop road. It’s too late. We’re committed. We’re going […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Evolution is active in all life at all times 23 January 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments In late 2020, Coronavirus mutated into more virulent versions in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil. This discovery thrust the science of evolutionary biology into the news. It also provides a […]
What isn’t expressed gets compressed 12 January 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , News , No Comments We’re all familiar with Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion, otherwise known as the Law of Action and Reaction: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction. This law applies to emotional mechanics just […]