Love is something that almost everyone wants and yet few of us get in the measure that we expect and hope for. This is largely due to the incredibly vague nature of love added to the fact that most of us make it a need, fulfillable not by ourselves but only by the acts of another person. This is a combination that makes love elusive and easily quashed.

Most of us are conflicted because we deny the truth about our own personal performance. Denial seems bred into us but an awareness of the harm it causes can allow us to overcome it and live more cheerfully and productively

This highly useful attitude involves breaking the mental link to both physical real world objects and also mental interpretations of real world results. By breaking this link through detachment we reduce the chances of experiencing destabilising emotions and we maintain better control of our actions and results.

Responding to negative emotions absorbs an enormous amount of time and energy and this article gives a process that can break you out of that response mode very quickly and get you back on the path of solving problems effectively. This article is 830 words long and will take about 4 to 5-minutes to read.

This article details a quick little technique you can use to stop getting overly absorbed by trivial upsets. This article is 850 words long and will take about 4 to 5-minutes to read.

This article details how we can use painful emotions to gain an insight into the root cause of our problems and how to accept and deal with them whilst removing all of that emotional pain. This article is 1150 words long and will take about 6-minutes to read.

This article describes the powerful effect of imagination upon our emotions and how it can immobilise us if we don’t handle it carefully. This article is 1000 words long and will take about 5-minutes to read.

Passion is an extreme kind of emotion that gets talked of greatly these days. This article details the dangers of accepting the concept of passion as a cure-all for getting things done and doing well in life. This article is 750 words long and will take about 4-minutes to read.

This article is the third in a short series that defines the underlying thinking upon which the ideas, theories, and methods written about in this blog are based. This helps you to understand what makes the content of this blog significantly different from other blogs about self-development. This article is 460 words long and will take about 2 to 3-minutes to read.

Depression occurs when we repeatedly attempt to have or to do the impossible and never make any progress. It can be brought quickly to an end by going back to taking simple actions that put you back in touch with your true capabilities. This article is 1000 words long and will take you about 5 to 6-minutes to read.