What you are seeing is how people try to control their surroundings in order to feel safe. When you as a human feel fear, your first thought is to try to control your outside reality. You try to control other people, and you try to control the physical…
What does “being completely honest” mean? What is truth? Honesty, for yourself, is to say and do what feels true to you. If you feel sad, to express that, or not try to hide it behind a smile, is honest. To be honest, is to live what feels…
The only thing you can do is to accept the pain. When you resist the pain you are creating more pain. If you can accept that it is there, that it might be there for a while, it will help ease the resistance that is creating the pain…
Picture that who you really are is someone sitting on the sofa, watching a movie. The movie is your life, your reality, and the main character is the role you play in this life, who you believe you are. So the real you is the observer. What you’re…
Q: My grandson is misbehaving, and his mother does not know how to handle him. How do I deal with this? Laurel’s answer: So you would like your grandson to change and be more like you want him to be? That he should change so life gets easier…
TRANSCRIPTED FROM LAUREL’S GROUP SESSION Isabelle: Is that why you say fear is nonexistent? LAUREL: Fear is part of love. Fear is a nuance of love. Everything that exists is love. So fear is a nuance of love, just like acceptance is a nuance of love. Hatred is…
Q: We often hear the importance of love and acceptance. Some spiritual leaders say that love simply means acceptance….like you don’t love your post person…you accept them. So why the two terms then? In your opinions what is the difference between love and acceptance and when do we…
You believe you are not good enough. You believe you should be different. You believe that what you can do and can’t do (well enough) means something about who you are. You believe that how you perform in certain activities means something about who you ARE. You believe…