We may have generously placed money into kettles and envelopes, given food and toys to local agencies, and sent donations to charities over this holiday season. However, it is easy to let this practice of giving to others slip away during other times of the year. As Winston Churchill stated, “We make a living by […]
Why We Lie
Carl Jung stated, “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.” Among the things people will do is lie. A University of Massachusetts study found that sixty percent of subjects lied at least once (and an average of 2.92 times) during ten-minute recorded conversations between strangers. Why do we feel the […]
The Perils of Mind Reading
Mind reading occurs when we place onto others what we think they are thinking or feeling. Without their telling us, we believe we know what people are feeling and why they are acting the way they do. Mind reading relies upon a process called projection. Mind readers jump to conclusions that are true for themselves […]
Our Helpful Dreams
Sigmund Freud stated, “Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.” Carl Jung felt that, “The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the psyche.” However, what is the purpose of our dreams? Dreams show qualities of our selves which need to be currently either downplayed or incorporated […]
Working with Our Projections
We are born with all the human traits; greed and generosity, productivity and idleness, and, organization and spontaneity. However, in order to be accepted into our childhood family we learned very early which qualities were valued more than others and which were perhaps, not even allowed. We may have been told, ‘Don’t cry’ or ‘You’re […]
Revisiting Our Families
For the most part, we end up in a ‘family’ – whether biological or adoptive. It is a place we call ‘home’, or at least, a place we associate with childhood, with some type of authority or caretaking figures. A healthy family environment provides children with a sense of physical security (food, shelter, bed, clothes), […]
