‘Assume I have failed to achieve my goal – what’s the most likely reason why that would have happened?’I was perusing my husband’s MBA assignment the other day and came across this question. – Which I loved. Now if you know me, and the work that I do, you might find that strange: ‘Surely Cathy [...]
Posts Tagged ‘attachment’
The Kind of Negative Thinking I Like
Non-resistance
“Nothing on Earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.”It’s true.Think about air. Think about water. Think about being like that.Now by ‘that’ I don’t mean passive, or complacent, or inactive; not necessarily anyway. This isn’t a blanket statement to, in the face of injustice for example, just stand by and watch. This not what we [...]
Resentment
“Resentment is the poison we swallow hoping the other person will die.”I’m sorry, because I know how compelling it is to think otherwise – but its true. Stop drinking the poison. It’s not working. Not in the way we want it to anyway. It is slowly eating away at us; slowly increasing the toxicity in [...]
Turning the Bed Around
I recently heard a wonderful lecture, as her lectures characteristically are, by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes (for info on Dr. Estes see Theatre of the Imagination in my Resources). In it, Dr. Estes tells the story of a boy, (and yes, later a man), whose godmother was the Goddess of Life and Death (if you [...]