Tag: Relationships

• June 16, 2011

  The Difference Between Your Brain and Your Mind

  Why do we keep repeating the same emotional patterns? Why do certain situations — an argument, a financial stress, a moment of intimacy — pull us back into feelings that…

• June 15, 2011

  The Moon and the Limits of Our Perspective

  Have you ever stepped outside on a clear night and looked up at the sky — really looked — and felt your problems shrink? There is something profound in that…

• June 14, 2011

  When Emotional Pain Becomes a Demand

  In Part 1 we explored how the three primary instincts — security, sex, and society — operate below the level of consciousness and trigger the four signs of emotional insecurity:…

• June 13, 2011

  What Is Self-Searching?

  Most of us have felt the pull of emotions we could not quite explain. A wave of worry with no clear cause. A flash of anger that seemed out of…

• 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…