Understanding what our "ego" is and how it works will increase our happiness and deepen our understanding of our suffering. When hearing someone talk about "the ego" we might think it is something related to inflated sense of self or arrogance. However, ego is more closely tied to our self-perception, our mind and our natural defense systems. Perception is the ability to see, hear, or become … [Read more...]
Why Relationships Fail
Have you ever realized the connection between the challenges we face in life and the challenges in our relationships? There is an amazing parallel between the two. In this article, we will dig into the connection between life, our perceptions and the relationship challenges we likely will face. Relationships can be beautiful and make us feel amazing but they can also be devastating and highly … [Read more...]
Having A Breakthrough
LovingSelf.com is dedicated to the great journey of life. Helping and supporting your breakthrough as you navigate the obstacles of self perception. So where do you start and how do you get going? Most of us require some sort of catalyst. Some person or event that jars us into a self-realization that we could not see previously. Often our catalyst is something that causes us great enough … [Read more...]
Society’s Values vs. Life’s Values
The more we learn about and understand life, the more we realize almost everything we have been taught originates from society's goals for us and not our own. Today, we are going to compare the core values of society's goals to life's goals for us. We will see how it is actually society that influences our plans, our thinking and our actions. Lets start by defining what "values" are: Value: … [Read more...]
Why We Resist, Delay and Avoid
We spend most of our lives fighting against the natural flow of things. Something in our nature simply does not want to surrender our control. We often find ourselves opposing things without even realizing why. When we begin to understand why we resist, we can transform this tendency and improve our acceptance and happiness. It All Comes Back to Fear Whether we are resisting, delaying or … [Read more...]
Victim of Wrong Perceptions
Much of the suffering in our life comes from our wrong perceptions. Our strong views and beliefs have made us blind to the things happening around us. Everything we see, hear or experience comes from a specific viewpoint that is biased from our past, our beliefs and our thinking processes. Most of the Time Our Perceptions Are Wrong Unfortunately we are victims of our own wrong perceptions. … [Read more...]