Searching for Boring

Re-post from 2013! That's right...I wrote this in January 2013. Nearly 6 years ago. I titled it: "Emotional baggage...From our caveman days." Comments welcome...from my 1-2 readers. And before you dive in...I fully intend on writing an epilogue to this post. A "Where Are They Now" of sorts, wherein, they = me. ------------------------------- JANUARY 14, 2013 Today's post is brought to you by: Lunch Hour:  "The time for eating reheated soup...and blogging!" I have been thinking a lot about emotions recently. Probably because I am reading Dr. David Hawkins' most recent book:  Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender.  It was his final work before he passed away. I have read a lot of his stuff (spoiler alert), and it gets pretty heady and hard to digest. Sometimes I would only be able to read a page or two in one sitting because I thought my head was going to explode. This book is different. It is extremely accessible, readable, and app...

Why in the world is therapy effective? Over the years I have heard many people ponder, sometimes just to themselves, about how therapy works. I too have wondered this, and I am an actual therapist. It really is a seemingly mystical process: you go to into an office with someone you have just met, and you tell them about your struggles with the hope that they will somehow be lessened. There is a South Park episode in which Underpants Gnomes travel the world stealing underpants. When asked why they are stealing underpants, they unveil a diabolical plan that looks like this: Phase 1: Collect Underpants Phase 2: ? Phase 3: PROFIT To me, therapy seems a lot like this plan, with a glaring question mark in the middle. Phase 1: Tell a stranger about my problems Phase 2: ? Phase 3: Healing/change/growth and ultimately feeling better occurs So what happens in Phase 2? Well, that depends on several factors. Therapy is one of the least-uniform processes out there. In the medical ...

Okay. I have to get something off my chest. I believe in reincarnation. I also believe we come here to this human life to evolve our spirit. I think it's possible to evolve enough to not have to come back here, to this human life. For the past eleven years I have been involved in this process of evolution. There have been periods of seriously slow going. There have been sudden leaps where I made great progress. There has been a lot of crazy shit. But before I get into all of that, though, let me say that I think blogging is inherently sort of narcissistic. Like, who really cares what I have to say? I am not trying to be self-deprecating, but come on. I am one of billions of people on this planet. My little opinions on things do not really matter. This is part of why I don't really participate in social media. We have all become so self-obsessed. MYSELF INCLUDED. I am not placing myself above this. OKAY? Soooo... if this is my belief, why would I bother to write? W...