My expressive-assertive needs include first and foremost a need to ventilate my powerful emotional feelings to a person who really listens and cares. My feelings of anger, frustration, disappointment. My joyful feelings of elation, excitement, enthusiasm. My sad feelings of loss, pain, hurt, rejection. All these feelings are charged with energy, like electricity flowing through

The witch hunts of old times were based on many strange things, some truth, some lies and truth mixed, and sometimes a lot of lies, false evidence, no evidence just haters, people’s lack of understanding, people wanting to remove people, religious panic, etc. If there was someone in town that people didn’t like or thought

The greatest illusion is the hunt for the perfect life, the perfect body, the perfect love, the perfect marriage, the perfect sex life, the perfect job, the perfect income, the perfect weight, the perfect existence, when the human being is in a constantly changing imperfect world. And yet the whole beauty of life is that

There are many great and encouraging books about relaxation. You will find them in most big city book stores, of course that’s where they are needed most. In the big city where stress is a daily part of life along with the hustling and bustling modern world. What a stressful mess we humans have created.

Animals never mattered in her family. Brandy the golden changed all that – February 8, 2005 My 18-month-old son, Adam, called from the front porch. “Look, Mama! Doggie.” I dropped what I was doing and stuck my head out the door. Brandy, our next-door neighbor’s 11-year-old golden retriever, was over again. “Scat!” I said, scooping

[Found on one of my hard drives – I have not read it all – posted for educational purposes] Swift was a mysterious character,full of opposing attitudes, loyalties,and contradictions. Swift was a sympathetic man, he was also temperamental, power driven, extremely active,and fearful of gossip. Swift possessed a great deal of political power in his

[I don’t know where this came from, I put it here for educational purposes – I have not read this all] Carl Jung The shadow Sex and the life instincts in general are, of course, represented somewhere in Jung’s system. They are a part of an archetype called the shadow. It derives from our prehuman,

[Found on my hard drive – I have no idea where it came from or who the original author is, sharing this for educational purposes] In 1905, he published five landmark papers without footnotes or citations. It marked the beginning of an unrivaled, two-decade intellectual burst. Here is a brief chronology of his miracle year:

James West Stack 1835 – 1919 Missionary, clergyman, writer, interpreter, secretary. James West Stack, born on 27 March 1835 in a tent in a Maori pa at Puriri in the Thames district, New Zealand, was the oldest of seven children of the missionary James Stack and his wife, Mary West. He married Eliza Rachel Jane

Our character, formed by our past, reacts to situations differently to how another person may react. For instance, if a person hated dark-skinned people (because he was beaten as a child by a dark-skinned person) and saw a dark-skinned child being beaten, he may walk away uncaring. But his very own brother who was never

One out the worst things to experience is when you wake up one day after years of being in love with someone and discovering that you don’t feel the same way about that person anymore. For various reasons a couple in love can be separated, and over time love can grow strong, but eventually it

One of the things that I disliked a lot when I had my computer company was having to accept abuse from customers “even if he or she were wrong“. The final straw came when a woman rang up complaining about the job done on her computer. She was highly stressed, very nasty, and very abusive.

One of the struggles that many of us go through is “going for our heart felt feelings” or “doing what we are told to do”. “When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him“. – Jonathan Swift. ° This is the same

One of the saddest things to experience in one’s life is once being in love so completely, beautifully and happily, and then discovering one day that the love is gone. I would call this “Losing Heart”. The magical happiness that held two people together is gone. It can be between lovers, it can happen between

One of the obstacles of success is becoming impatient because one had been taught by society to be Results-Driven, meaning that we are taught to work for results. Being Results-Driven suits the money driven society that we live in. It means, have at a goal, go for it worth all your heart and soul, and

On becoming an alcoholic: First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.  – F. Scott Fitzgerald. A good point to consider is that of you have addictions right now, then you will be an easy target for drug and alcohol addiction because your character is already set