To get out of where you are, love where you are 11 April 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments Everybody loves to hate emotional ‘stuckness’—those painful situations when life isn’t going the way we want it to, we seem powerless to alter the situation and there’s just no sense […]
None of our emotional wounds are random 5 April 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , No Comments When we survey the seething maelstrom of human behaviour, it’s hard to see it as anything other than random. Even if we restrict ourselves to our own life and those closest […]
Your next evolutionary step is inconvenient 4 April 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments We all have problems. Our problems seem unique, never-ending, insurmountable—as if Life had deliberately singled us out for special treatment. In a way, it has. Because that’s all Life is—problem-solving. Whatever Life puts in our […]
Unconditional love – there are no other moves in the game 27 February 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments I love this photo by Minh Pham of a lady on a giant chessboard clutching the queen. The queen is, well, the queen of the chessboard. She rules the roost. […]
Evolution is active in all life at all times 23 January 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments In late 2020, Coronavirus mutated into more virulent versions in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil. This discovery thrust the science of evolutionary biology into the news. It also provides a […]
What isn’t expressed gets compressed 12 January 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , News , No Comments We’re all familiar with Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion, otherwise known as the Law of Action and Reaction: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction. This law applies to emotional mechanics just […]
Low self-esteem = the presence of shame 23 November 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Shame , No Comments I’ve spent years trying to raise my self-esteem. Meditations, affirmations, incantations—all tried and failed. The reason they failed is simple. Low self-esteem is an indicator of the presence of shame. What is […]
We uncover issues from the least to the most buried 1 November 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments Bringing the unconscious to light is never a random process. Inflexible processes rule our journey. We only identify these processes as we repeatedly experience them. One of the rules is that […]
Align with your day to reduce anxiety 23 October 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , Emotional principles , No Comments Align with your day. It’s a neat little catchphrase, but what does it mean? Aligning with your day is a tool for congruent living. It’s a method for engaging with life as […]
You can never see more than one step ahead 19 September 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments Truth. We all think (or like to think) that we’re seeking it. Yet why isn’t there a single truth that we can all recognise? Surely someone has found ‘the truth’ by now? […]