emotionalmechanics
The steps appear when you commit to taking them 12 January 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments Change. Love it or hate it, it’s relentlessly and remorselessly thrust upon us. Yet when we choose to change, when we decide to tackle an issue, we can get lost not knowing […]
You can only heal a trauma when it’s triggered 6 January 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments If healing trauma were easy, we would live in a vastly different, healthier, trauma-free world. We don’t. Because healing trauma is hard. Firstly, you must […]
Do you speak to communicate or speak to dump? 17 December 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , How-to & step-by-step , 1 Comment In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven R. Covey writes: “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to […]
That which brings you success is that which destroys you 4 November 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments Many years ago, I was a jet-setting IT consultant. New Zealand, America, Hong Kong. I was billed out at $300/hour in the pre-Y2K mania. Hotels, rental cars, lavish meals. Success? Tick. […]
Feeling your family’s past 21 October 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , 1 Comment Genealogy is big business. We all know that family member constantly immersed in online research or rushing off to visit old battlegrounds or musty parish records. Over the years, the facts pile up in […]
Stay in your lane 5 October 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments One of the pitfalls of a society characterised, as ours is, by emotional immaturity and irresponsibility, is a blurring of boundaries between ourselves and others. As we bring our unconscious to light, excavating programming that undermines us, […]
The Law of Conservation of Energy governs generational trauma 8 September 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments In the early 18th century, natural philosopher Émilie du Châtelet proposed the Law of Conservation of Energy. Wikipedia: “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or […]
The only exit from the past is by going back through it 10 December 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , No Comments “The past is a door I don’t revisit very often”. I’ve heard this, and similar beliefs on leaving the past behind, over the years. This seems […]
The more traumatised we are, the more we defend our trauma 26 September 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , No Comments One of the characteristics of trauma that may seem confusing from the outside looking in, is that the more traumatised we are, the more we defend trauma. […]
Every interaction happens on the basis of quid pro quo 23 September 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments Over the course of my emotional principles blogs, I’ve outlined some of the laws of emotional mechanics that govern our lives. One of the laws that eluded me for a long […]