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His Holiness the Dalai explains how a realistic approach to problems can bring greater peace of mind.

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Have you ever worked with affirmations? How was that for you? So many people try affirmations up to a point and then give up, or have heard about them but couldn’t imagine that they would ever work, so didn’t try. What about reframing? Once again, to many people it sounds like a nice idea but how would it work in practice?

 

“It’s not what you do but the way that you do it,

that’s what gets results”

 

For any technique or spiritual practice to be beneficial we have to apply it, and apply it wholeheartedly…

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Soul Path Coach and Author Ruth Hadikin, specializes in supporting you on your own greatest adventure: as you find and express your purpose, passion, and unique Soul Path through self-exploration.

Life’s Greatest Adventure is the path of your Soul!

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Have you ever wondered what empathy actually is? I recently watched a thought-provoking documentary about empathy by UK Director Alex Gabbay called “Love, Hate and Everything In-Between”.
One of the scientists being interviewed began to make a distinction between cognitive empathy, where we can think or imagine how someone is feeling, and affective empathy where we actually feel what others are feeling…

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Soul Path Coach and Author Ruth Hadikin, specializes in supporting you on your own greatest adventure: as you find and express your purpose, passion, and unique Soul Path through self-exploration.

Life’s Greatest Adventure is the path of your Soul!

Sign up for Ruth’s newsletter “Life’s Greatest Adventure” and receive a free eBook: “So You Think You Can’t Meditate? A Beginners Guide To Meditation”

For personal support with communication and relating skills contact Ruth@RuthHadikin.com

Do You Know How Far You Have Come?

“Sometimes feeling like we’re not getting anywhere, can be a sign of just how far we have come!”

In my last post we started looking at reasons we may doubt ourselves. Another reason is when we feel like a beginner again. We may have arrived at a new level of learning which throws us back into feelings of incompetence, frustration, and basically just ‘not getting it’. In these situations the new level of learning absorbs our focus and we can forget to look back and acknowledge how far we have come.
It’s like a mountain climber who is almost at the peak of Everest and in his frustration begins to feel like he hasn’t achieved anything. Yet one glance down at all the stages beneath him will be a swift reminder of just how far he has come.

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Soul Path Coach and Author Ruth Hadikin, specializes in supporting you on your own greatest adventure: as you find and express your purpose, passion, and unique Soul Path through self-exploration.

Life’s Greatest Adventure is the path of your Soul!

Sign up for Ruth’s newsletter “Life’s Greatest Adventure” and receive a free eBook: “So You Think You Can’t Meditate? A Beginners Guide To Meditation”

For personal support with communication and relating skills contact Ruth@RuthHadikin.com

“Doubt – because doubt is not a sin, it is the sign of your intelligence.” – OSHO

There will be times on our journey of self-exploration when we begin to doubt ourselves. As mentioned in last week’s post, sometimes we might wonder whether we are making any progress at all! So when doubt arises, what do we do? This too can become part of our self-exploration if we are willing to take a closer look at doubt itself.

When does doubt arise and how can we be sure that we are making any progress at all?

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Soul Path Coach and Author Ruth Hadikin, specializes in supporting you on your own greatest adventure: as you find and express your purpose, passion, and unique Soul Path through self-exploration.

Life’s Greatest Adventure is the path of your Soul!

Sign up for Ruth’s newsletter “Life’s Greatest Adventure” and receive a free eBook: “So You Think You Can’t Meditate? A Beginners Guide To Meditation”

For personal support with communication and relating skills contact Ruth@RuthHadikin.com

Sometimes I wonder, with all the years I have invested in personal development and spiritual practice, if anything has changed whatsoever. I’m still restless and fidgety, in and out of meditation. A friend and I attended the November teachings at Kopan monastery in 2007. After sitting through hours of teachings my friend, who had been beside me throughout, turned to me and said “are you aware of how much you fidget?” Oh yes. I am.
My Mother would be the first to tell you that. Even as a baby when she put me in her bed she’d say it was like “sleeping with a worm”. So I have been fidgeting for many years and here I am. Still fidgeting. I would like to be able to sit for 30 minutes in meditation without stretching my legs, pushing my hair out of my eyes or scratching my nose.

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Soul Path Coach and Author Ruth Hadikin, specializes in supporting you on your own greatest adventure: as you find and express your purpose, passion, and unique Soul Path through self-exploration.

Life’s Greatest Adventure is the path of your Soul!

Sign up for Ruth’s newsletter “Life’s Greatest Adventure” and receive a free eBook: “So You Think You Can’t Meditate? A Beginners Guide To Meditation”

For personal support with communication and relating skills contact Ruth@RuthHadikin.com

It brought tears to my eyes as I read about the results of a groundbreaking project that teaches empathy to children in schools by introducing them to babies. Mary Gordon, founder of “Roots of Empathy” didn’t intend to find a solution for bullying yet, as a result of teaching empathy to children, bullying has reduced significantly:

“Sure enough, we know from independent research on Roots of Empathy that its greatest effect is in decreasing aggression among children—a hugely important result, because aggression is the gateway to all other kinds of bad outcomes for children. Many people have applauded the program for combating bullying. I had never intended for it to be an anti-bullying program; it was a happy accident that it did reduce all kinds of bullying.” - Mary Gordon

I have felt so inspired and uplifted ever since reading this article, not only because it is such a powerful and effective program for positive change, but I’m curious how it got started, and how it has managed to spread so widely across the globe…

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Soul Path Coach and Author Ruth Hadikin, specializes in supporting you on your own greatest adventure: as you find and express your purpose, passion, and unique Soul Path through self-exploration.

Life’s Greatest Adventure is the path of your Soul!

Sign up for Ruth’s newsletter “Life’s Greatest Adventure” and receive a free eBook: “So You Think You Can’t Meditate? A Beginners Guide To Meditation”

For personal support with communication and relating skills contact Ruth@RuthHadikin.com

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Emotional intelligence has been described as ‘using emotions to learn information about ourselves’ (BBC Radio 4 ‘Emotional Rollercoaster’ series) There are many ideas about, and definitions of, emotional intelligence but from the point of self-exploration this one is most pertinent. If we really want to go deeper and understand our own true nature, we need emotional awareness. Many spiritual traditions tell us that we are love, but how can we know? Can we see love? Can we taste it? Or hear it? No. The only way to know the truth of the statement ‘we are love’ for ourselves, is to feel it, and feelings are the language of emotions. Unfortunately in our daily lives, we are often required to suppress our feelings, and our emotions…

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Soul Path Coach and Author Ruth Hadikin, specializes in supporting you on your own greatest adventure: as you find and express your purpose, passion, and unique Soul Path through self-exploration.

Life’s Greatest Adventure is the path of your Soul!

Sign up for Ruth’s newsletter “Life’s Greatest Adventure” and receive a free eBook: “So You Think You Can’t Meditate? A Beginners Guide To Meditation”

Following on from last weeks blog about healing, another way of looking at our spiritual journey is that of integrating personality and soul. This idea can seem too esoteric and not relative to our ordinary lives unless we define specifically what we are talking about.

Our personality can be said to be our ego-personality, or our identity. How we think, act, and feel about ourselves on a daily basis, and who we generally believe ourselves to be. The specific ‘set’ of thoughts, ideas, beliefs, skills, talents, strengths and weaknesses that we think of as ‘me’. What we like, what we don’t like, what we can do, what we can’t do, what we will and what we won’t. All are wrapped up in a package that we call ‘me’…

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Soul Path Coach and Author Ruth Hadikin, specializes in supporting you on your own greatest adventure: as you find and express your purpose, passion, and unique Soul Path through self-exploration.

Life’s Greatest Adventure is the path of your Soul!

Sign up for Ruth’s newsletter “Life’s Greatest Adventure” and receive a free eBook: “So You Think You Can’t Meditate? A Beginners Guide To Meditation”

The word heal comes from the same root  as the words whole and holy. In a literal sense then, healing means to return to wholeness. The simplest illustration of this is when we have a cut on our skin. The healing process restores the integrity of the skin and returns it to wholeness again. It has been said that all dis-ease is the result of our living in separation (duality) and that all healing is our journey back to wholeness (non-duality)…

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Soul Path Coach and Author Ruth Hadikin, specializes in supporting you on your own greatest adventure: as you find and express your purpose, passion, and unique Soul Path through self-exploration.

Life’s Greatest Adventure is the path of your Soul!

Sign up for Ruth’s newsletter “Life’s Greatest Adventure” and receive a free eBook: “So You Think You Can’t Meditate? A Beginners Guide To Meditation”