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- Navigating You & Me With Love & Compassion: Pet Peeves: Accept Or Reject? - by Submitted on Jul 16, 2012 from Ragini MichaelsEveryday Dilemma: Should I keep my own counsel and accept my partner’s unpleasant behaviors? Or, should I let him know that I reject them and want him to change? There’s something very odd about us humans. We invite others to be our intimate friends, lovers, and partners because we either ...
Views: 1977 - Navigating You And Me With Love And Compassion: The Two-Sided Silver Lining - by Submitted on May 31, 2012 from Ragini MichaelsEveryday Dilemma: Even though I’m exhausted, should I push myself to keep that independence that makes me feel really competent and good? Or, should I just relax today and enjoy depending on family and friends for all the wonderful things they bring me? When I was growing up, the silver ...
Views: 1162 - Navigating You And Me With Love And Compassion: Two Sweeteners for Intimate Interaction - by Submitted on May 31, 2012 from Ragini MichaelsEveryday Dilemma: Do I honor my thirst to be alone for awhile, or do I follow the longing in my heart to be together with friends and family? For years I believed intimacy meant being together with my beloveds - all the time! Everyone I knew suffered greatly from my youthfully exuberant ...
Views: 1918 - Navigating You and Me with Love and Compassion: Can Being Wrong Be Alright? - by Submitted on May 31, 2012 from Ragini MichaelsEveryday Dilemma: Should I point out my thinking and doing is right, even though you’re telling me I’m wrong? Or, should I take the high road, avoid conflict, and let you believe I’m wrong and you’re right? ‘You’re wrong!’ Those words were a red flag to my bull. I love being right; and ...
Views: 1179 - Navigating You & Me With Love & Compassion: You’re Not The Boss O’Me! - by Submitted on May 31, 2012 from Ragini MichaelsEveryday Dilemma: Should I follow my urge to take control of this project, do it my way, efficiently and quickly, and risk a fight? Or should I just breathe deep, surrender to my partner’s way, and opt to keep the peace to get the project done? My mom and dad never fought over cooking. But ...
Views: 1117 - Navigating You & Me With Love & Compassion: Our Dualistic Dance of Relating - by Submitted on May 31, 2012 from Ragini MichaelsThe Everyday Dilemma: Do I take care of myself now, or everyone and everything else first, including my career? Most of us truly wish to infuse our lives with love, compassion, and caring. And, you have probably been enticed by the common notion that bringing these words to life requires ...
Views: 1842 - Are You a Marketplace Mystic? - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2009 from Ragini MichaelsAre you by any chance a marketplace mystic without realizing it? It took me a long time to discover my own penchant for the mystical path. And it took longer still to realize that I needed to follow it while living in the practical world of daily marketplace reality. When I became clear about ...
Views: 1329(1 vote) - Managing a Paradoxical Life: A New Way of Living with What We Like and Dislike - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2009 from Ragini MichaelsI don’t know whether you are intrigued, shaking your head in dis-belief, or laughing at the notion of something so seemingly absurd as managing paradox - that mental phenomena where two things cannot logically co-exist, but indeed, do. In our daily lives paradox shows up in the form of ...
Views: 3874(2 votes) - Unaware of Unresolvable Dilemma? Discover The Biggest Ongoing Drain On Your Time, Energy and Money - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2009 from Ragini MichaelsWhat if you heard that to “let go”, you had to hold on? What if you were told that to relax, you had to be tense? What if you found out that to be aware and present, you first had to be unaware and absent? Your first thought might be ‘how ridiculous!’ But on second thought, your own experience ...
Views: 1397(1 vote) - Unaware of Unresolvable Dilemma? - by Submitted on Oct 06, 2006 from Ragini MichaelsUnaware of Unresolvable Dilemma? Discover the Biggest Ongoing Drain on Your Time, Energy and Money What if you heard that to “let go,” you had to hold on? What if you were told that to relax, you had to be tense? What if you found out that to be aware and present, you had to be unaware ...
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