Words With Myself

Gifting The Gift Of Giving The Gift

Gifting The Gift Of Giving The Gift. What a peculiarly nice title, but one that pretty much sums up the meaning of the whole episode when deciphered. Allowing someone to exercise their gift of giving you their gifts. Allowing others to help us is a gift to those helping us as much as it is a blessing to receive help.

The ADHD Root Cause

Is ADHD a root cause, or a collection of symptoms grouped together? I believe the latter to be the case, with trauma being the root cause instead. A chaotic childhood environment can often cause the development of chronic awareness, where the child develops a toolkit for survival. The problem with this toolkit is it is built for survival, not living the life we want to live. Rather than trying to manage symptoms, it is important we are doing both, managing our symptoms and working on the root cause itself.

The Thinker of Thoughts

Do you think your thoughts? Are you in control of what comes to you? Can you really control what you think or can you only control what thoughts you attach to? If you want to start breaking patterns and healing, you must first understand what is happening and why.

Your Life is Your Choice

We all make these kinds of statements, "I have to do this", "I must do that." It can make us feel powerless, that our life is a chore, forcing us to go from one mandatory task to the next. We can change the rhetoric, and remind ourselves that our actions are choices we make and we are not forced into a corner by life. Your life is your choice.

Patiently Waiting

Those who wait may well wait forever. There is a time for patience, sometimes we must wait and allow life to go at its own pace. This podcast is not for these times, this is for the times we expect something is going to come to us just because we ask it to, instead of making it happen. We become victims of circumstance, allowing life to happen to us rather than us shaping the world around us. It is time to become an active participant rather than a passive victim of circumstance.

Decisions Decisions

We bare to much weight on how much we are a product of our environment, and not enough on how we are a product of our choices. When we allow ourselves to become victims of life, we strip away our power to shape how we want our experience to be.

Give, Receive, Take.

Three choices of action. To live in peace is to master the balance of all three.

Forgive You, Forgive me

When we can truly begin to accept others, we can accept ourselves and vice versa. It may not be easy, but forgiveness is an act of service to ourselves. The more we can accept in others, an unconditional love for all, the more we can unconditionally love ourselves.

The Difference Between Knowledge and Wisdom

We all have things we know we could do better, changes we have wanted to make and areas we know we should really strengthen. This is where the difference between knowledge and wisdom comes in, knowledge is information that sits in our brain that hasn't been gained through our own experience or we haven't taken action upon yet.
We can use this as a form of avoidance, to continually look for new information, new knowledge, instead of doing what we know needs to be done. It can feel easier to search than it can to confront what we already know to be true.

Anxiety Into Awareness

Anxiety can only occur when you are outside of the present moment. The anxious thoughts use the exact mechanism as your awareness, though awareness is present and anxiety lives in the future. Whenever we are overthinking, worrying or fearing what might happen, we can bring ourselves back to the present moment and be aware of what is happening around us instead of what might happen in the future.