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November 28, 2015November 28, 2015 by Pete Wiley

Clutter

“Why do we have all this junk?!”

It’s a question I ask myself quite often.

We have a small house, and it doesn’t take much to make it look and feel cluttered.

Don’t get me wrong, I love our small house. It’s cozy. It has plenty of space to work and live. It promotes “togetherness” as a family. But, as I tell my overly generous mother-in-law, our house is “full.” It has “exceeded capacity.” It is, in a word, cluttered.

It’s not that we’re disorganized. It’s not that we have a bunch of stuff lying around that needs to be put away. Everything is away, there’s just too much of it.

August 22, 2015August 22, 2015 by Pete Wiley

Content

You are the gatekeeper!

Not like Sigourney Weaver in Ghostbusters. You are the gatekeeper for something real: the content of your consciousness.

Are you aware of your thoughts at any given moment? What goes through your head in the course of any given day? How much control do you have over your thoughts?

Let’s address these questions one by one.

July 25, 2015July 17, 2015 by Pete Wiley

Breathe

Do you consider yourself spiritual? What does that mean to you?

Spirituality can mean a deeper connection; a connection that transcends the corporeal and the rational. We can access those connections in a variety of ways, which are vital for a fulfilling life. For me, these include meditation, music, time spent in natural places (particularly the ocean), and time spent in the presence of those people who mean the most to me. In the way I perceive the landscape of the universe, these are the brightest lights, and I’m constantly drawn to them.

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Sad young man sitting in a subway tunnel

July 11, 2015July 17, 2015 by Pete Wiley

Sad

People have an amazing capacity to process what is happening to them. The context of our lives is played out in our experiences, but also in the way we think, the things that grab our attention, and the things to which we turn to help us relate to and understand our experiences. All of this adds a richness to our lives that helps us to fully experience what we are going through.

I like to think of it in terms of a movie. There are characters and the story, but without the soundtrack and cinematography, the film has much less impact.

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May 16, 2015June 10, 2020 by Pete Wiley

Empathy

We all have people in our lives whose conditions affect our conditions, whose moods can greatly affect our moods, and with whom we have shared emotional states.

How does this happen? How does an emotional investment in someone evolve into such a direct connection?

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