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Food for Thought: A Weekly Column from Peter Vajda, PhD.
The Gulf – a healing perspective - Jul 16, 2010 - 7:58:39 AM
Videos, articles, conversations, arguments and analyses – mostly expressing blame and anger – constitute the vast majority of what we're reading and hearing about the Gulf oil spill- wrapped in the emotions of tragedy, horror, sadness, anger, fear, frustration and despair.
What I'd like to suggest here is another way to approach this experience - from a higher, meta, perspective: a healing perspective that involves loving kindness and visualizing the long-term healing of the area and the individuals involved in this tragedy.
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Food for Thought: A Weekly Column from Peter Vajda, PhD.
Summer Vacation - A Time When You Go to Work? - May 28, 2010 - 11:55:50 AM
So, Memorial Day, the onset of summer and visions of "getting away from it all." Really? So, truthfully, when you intend to get away from it all - for a day, weekend or, now, summer vacation - how often will work blend into your "away time?" How often will you choose to allow your work to carry over into your leisure time? How often will you feel incapable - yes, incapable - of separating work and play?
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Food for Thought: A Weekly Column from Peter Vajda, PhD.
Intersubjectivity - The Essence of Real Interactions - May 21, 2010 - 12:31:30 PM
I don't get many cold calls these days. Today, I did. Two, in fact - about five minutes apart. What struck me, as do most of these calls, is the perfunctory, scripted, energetically flat, "How are you doing today?" immediately after the caller states their name and company.
In my mind, those four words are the kiss of death? Why? They communicate to me (1) it's not about me and (2) the caller is basically feigning interest and unconsciously jumping through a requisite hoop to get to the pitch, and, hopefully, a sale. It's all about them; not really about me. So, I hang up immediately.
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Food for Thought: A Weekly Column from Peter Vajda, PhD.
Attachment and Aversion -The Root Case of Pain and Suffering - May 14, 2010 - 2:58:14 PM
Many spiritual traditions, like Buddhism, tell us pain and suffering - mental, emotional, physical, spiritual and psychological - arise from attachments and aversions.One of the ego's main beliefs is that we are separate from everyone else. The ego lives from a zero-sum, survival-of-the-fittest perspective. So, to survive, our ego is driven to nurture more and more attachments (and aversions) to people, places, things, possessions, ideas, beliefs, relationships and the like. Fearing loss (even loss of a belief, premise, idea or life itself) is a threat to the survival of our ego. From the egos perspective, competition, and self-interest are absolutely necessary to maintain survival. And attachments feed our obsession with surviving.
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Food for Thought: A Weekly Column from Peter Vajda, PhD.
Living Harmoniously - May 7, 2010 - 6:47:16 PM
Each of us is a work in progress. No one is "there;" no one has "arrived." Each of us is the composer of the music of our own life. It happens to all of us that from time to time our music does not reflect the notes on the page. When this occurs, it's because we are out of balance, out of harmony, with our Self - in our life at work, at home, at play or in relationship.
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