Tag: Fear

• June 11, 2011

  What Emotional Transference Does to Your Relationships

  One of the most subtle ways we sabotage our present happiness is by dragging past pain into today’s relationships. We do not always do it intentionally — in fact, we…

• June 8, 2011

  The Mind That Concludes Without Checking

  There is a particular form of emotional suffering that is almost entirely self-generated: attaching strong feelings to situations that have not yet been verified as real. You conclude someone is…

• June 5, 2011

  The Real Cause of the Mid-Life Crisis

  For the first portion of most people’s lives, time feels like a friend — there is plenty of it ahead, the future is open, and the imagination runs forward with…

• June 4, 2011

  Why We Hold Back

  The term “self-fulfilling prophecy” is usually applied to failure — to the pattern of expecting things to go wrong and then having them go wrong. But the same principle works…

• June 3, 2011

  Successful People Believe In Themselves

  Most people trying to grow spend the majority of their inner energy focused on their weaknesses. They are aware of their flaws, concerned about their limitations, and quietly convinced that…