Tag: Thought-Life

• 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 12, 2011

  You Choose Where Your Energy Goes

  Every day you make hundreds of small decisions about where to place your attention, your time, and your emotional investment. Most of us make those decisions on autopilot — reacting…

• 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 9, 2011

  How Other People’s Pain Can Trigger Your Own

  Have you ever ended a conversation feeling worse than when it started, even though nothing in your own life changed? That unsettling shift may not be a sign that something…

• 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…