Category: Addiction
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Rethinking Addiction
I come from an extended family that has been inflicted with a broad selection of destructive habits or addictions. Within the wider family there have been issues with alcoholism, drug use, smoking, overeating and porn to name but a few. Some of the outcomes have been anything but happy. Suicide,…
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The Bearable Lightness of Being
Each of us has a natural lightness of being which is sufficiently buoyant to balance the things which come our way. What can tip our experience into unbearable is our own Thinking about these events. Sometimes consciously, but more often innocently, unconsciously and automatically, we entertain habits of thinking which…
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Can Commiseration Kill People?
Occasionally I write quotes and ideas which appeal to me in my journal. Today I came across an old entry, ‘Commiseration can kill people.’ It took me a moment to remember the source. I’d heard a story about Sydney Banks, whose epiphany spawned the Three Principles. Syd was giving a…
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Spirituality for Skeptics?
Last week I was visiting Balliol College, Oxford. As I unpacked I discovered that the guest room had a copy of The Origin of the Species, rather than the traditional bible in the bedside drawer. This made me smile. And also reflect. The publication of Darwin’s work and its wide acceptance…
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The Epidemic of Misunderstanding
After more than 2 decades of trainings and working with clients, I have come to see that is a single, yet important misunderstanding at the root of many of today’s chronic problems. These include addiction, obesity, stress, anxiety relationship breakdown and even depression. That misunderstanding is the false belief that our…
Christian McNeill 