Comments for Spiritual Inquiry . com http://spiritualinquiry.com Open-Minded Inquiry About Spirituality and Self-Improvement Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:57:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Less thinking leads to better decisions… by Shaheen Lakhan http://spiritualinquiry.com/articles/less-thinking-leads-to-better-decisions/#comment-632 Shaheen Lakhan Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:36:49 +0000 http://spiritualinquiry.com/blog/2008/03/11/less-thinking-leads-to-better-decisions/#comment-632 Thanks for submitting this post to our blog carnival. We just published the <a href="http://brainblogger.com/2008/07/26/brain-blogging-thirty-seventh-edition/" rel="nofollow">37th edition</a> of Brain Blogging and your article was featured! Thank you. Sincerely, Shaheen Thanks for submitting this post to our blog carnival. We just published the 37th edition of Brain Blogging and your article was featured!

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Shaheen

]]> Comment on Less thinking leads to better decisions… by Brain Blogging, Thirty-Seventh Edition | Brain Blogger http://spiritualinquiry.com/articles/less-thinking-leads-to-better-decisions/#comment-631 Brain Blogging, Thirty-Seventh Edition | Brain Blogger Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:25:50 +0000 http://spiritualinquiry.com/blog/2008/03/11/less-thinking-leads-to-better-decisions/#comment-631 [...] Inquiry writes Less thinking leads to better decisions: How much thought should go into our decisions? How long should we wait? It is a commonly held [...] [...] Inquiry writes Less thinking leads to better decisions: How much thought should go into our decisions? How long should we wait? It is a commonly held [...]

]]> Comment on Don’t be afraid of loneliness by Dealing with loneliness http://spiritualinquiry.com/articles/dont-be-afraid-of-loneliness/#comment-630 Dealing with loneliness Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:01:23 +0000 http://spiritualinquiry.com/blog/2007/10/15/dont-be-afraid-of-loneliness/#comment-630 [...] Loneliness results from a sense of lack. Usually, we make the mistake of believing that some specific condition is necessary to relieve it. Thus we have thoughts such as “I am lonely because I do not have friends”, “I am lonely because so-and-so doesn’t like me”, or “I am lonely because my husband doesn’t spend enough time with me”. The more that we focus on the perceived cause of our loneliness, the more that we amplify this sense of lack. For example, if we constantly focus on the fact that we do not have a partner, then we are constantly telling ourselves that something is missing. In this way, the loneliness is escalated. We make it seems like a bigger deal than it really is (see Don’t be afraid of loneliness). [...] [...] Loneliness results from a sense of lack. Usually, we make the mistake of believing that some specific condition is necessary to relieve it. Thus we have thoughts such as “I am lonely because I do not have friends”, “I am lonely because so-and-so doesn’t like me”, or “I am lonely because my husband doesn’t spend enough time with me”. The more that we focus on the perceived cause of our loneliness, the more that we amplify this sense of lack. For example, if we constantly focus on the fact that we do not have a partner, then we are constantly telling ourselves that something is missing. In this way, the loneliness is escalated. We make it seems like a bigger deal than it really is (see Don’t be afraid of loneliness). [...]

]]> Comment on Love and need by Obsessive relationships http://spiritualinquiry.com/articles/love-and-need/#comment-629 Obsessive relationships Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:52:13 +0000 http://spiritualinquiry.com/blog/2008/02/29/love-and-need/#comment-629 [...] the absence of need. Love is an unselfish and open state, which is quite the opposite of need (see Love and need). When a relationship is based on attachment, we have problems such as selfishness, possessiveness, [...] [...] the absence of need. Love is an unselfish and open state, which is quite the opposite of need (see Love and need). When a relationship is based on attachment, we have problems such as selfishness, possessiveness, [...]

]]> Comment on Can we be open-minded in organized religion? by The importance of questioning http://spiritualinquiry.com/articles/can-we-be-open-minded-in-organized-religion/#comment-628 The importance of questioning Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:31:02 +0000 http://spiritualinquiry.com/blog/2007/12/12/can-we-be-open-minded-in-organized-religion/#comment-628 [...] beliefs threatens this security. In same cases, our religion may discourage such challenges (see Can we be open-minded in organized religion?). However, unless we do question, we will never find the security we seek, because if we are not [...] [...] beliefs threatens this security. In same cases, our religion may discourage such challenges (see Can we be open-minded in organized religion?). However, unless we do question, we will never find the security we seek, because if we are not [...]

]]> Comment on The importance of questioning by PhillyChief http://spiritualinquiry.com/articles/the-importance-of-questioning/#comment-627 PhillyChief Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:45:31 +0000 http://spiritualinquiry.com/blog/2007/03/24/the-importance-of-questioning/#comment-627 I wholeheartedly agree! I'm here via a link from the Humanist Symposium I wholeheartedly agree!

I’m here via a link from the Humanist Symposium

]]> Comment on Loneliness is in the mind by ImprovedLife.ca http://spiritualinquiry.com/articles/loneliness-is-in-the-mind/#comment-626 ImprovedLife.ca Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:23:43 +0000 http://spiritualinquiry.com/?p=434#comment-626 <strong>Seventeenth Edition of the Carnival of Improving Life...</strong> ... Seventeenth Edition of the Carnival of Improving Life…

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]]> Comment on Less thinking leads to better decisions… by Trust your intuition: don’t think about love! http://spiritualinquiry.com/articles/less-thinking-leads-to-better-decisions/#comment-625 Trust your intuition: don’t think about love! Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:51:55 +0000 http://spiritualinquiry.com/blog/2008/03/11/less-thinking-leads-to-better-decisions/#comment-625 [...] later. This demonstrates that our intuition can outperform our ability to verbally reason. See Less thinking leads to better decisions for more [...] [...] later. This demonstrates that our intuition can outperform our ability to verbally reason. See Less thinking leads to better decisions for more [...]

]]> Comment on How to enjoy life’s hardships by John http://spiritualinquiry.com/articles/how-to-enjoy-lifes-hardships/#comment-617 John Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:37:43 +0000 http://spiritualinquiry.com/?p=435#comment-617 Wonderful thoughts yet again, and very relevant to my life right now. Wonderful thoughts yet again, and very relevant to my life right now.

]]> Comment on How can we deal with chronic pain? by ranjith raj http://spiritualinquiry.com/articles/how-can-we-deal-with-chronic-pain/#comment-610 ranjith raj Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:46:32 +0000 http://spiritualinquiry.com/blog/2008/02/18/how-can-we-deal-with-chronic-pain/#comment-610 wonderful thoughts.... witnessing physical pain as a detached observer really helps.... or else we can passivate the pain by allowing it unto death... may sound strange... but practise regularly and see for urself... wonderful thoughts….

witnessing physical pain as a detached observer really helps….

or else we can passivate the pain by allowing it unto death… may sound strange… but practise regularly and see for urself…

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