by Molly Gordon | Jul 29, 2016 | Emotional intelligence, Resilience, Thought, Video, Wellbeing
We have a very different experience of life when we simply feel our feelings as opposed to when we worry about our feelings. The direct experience of sadness, for example, can be a doorway to compassion, whereas worrying about sadness leads to...
by Molly Gordon | Jun 10, 2016 | Choice, Fear, Video, Wellbeing, Wisdom
Though it might seem like we need to make a choice between anxiety and an insight that can see through or behind our moment to moment experience, we really don’t. Awareness takes care of things without effort or intervention.
by Molly Gordon | May 1, 2016 | Community, Consciousness, Life purpose, Serving others, Three Principles, Wellbeing, Wisdom
Julian of Norwich is fabled for saying, “All is well, and all manner of things be well.” I’m sure she’d be delighted to know that I agree. On some cosmic level everything is magnificent, amazing, and just peachy keen. And yet… And yet the...
by Molly Gordon | Apr 22, 2016 | Spirit, Three Principles, Video, Wellbeing, Wisdom
Often we long for spiritual connection and wish we could experience more of it in our relationships, our work, our world. But the connection we seek isn’t a function of what we are looking FOR, it is a function of what we are looking FROM. To experience more of...
by Molly Gordon | Apr 8, 2016 | Confidence, Emotional intelligence, Freedom, Resilience, Video, Wellbeing
Last week I introduced the notion of weaponized insights. I said that a weaponized insight is no longer operating as an insight, because as soon as it is twisted into a comment on your wholeness, value, or deservingness, it is not longer insightful. There’s...
by Molly Gordon | Apr 5, 2016 | Ambition, Authenticity, Choice, Community, Confidence, Consciousness, Flow, Freedom, Happiness, Life purpose, Meaning, Mind, Mindfulness, Productivity, Responsibility, Self care, Self-employment, Small business, Success, Uncategorized, Vision, Wellbeing, Wisdom
The problem of weaponized insight A participant in the Come Alive and Do the Thing! Mastermind has a brilliant term for the use of a supposedly wise observation to critique or diminish another person: weaponized insight. Don’t you love it? At first it was...
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