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Posted by Irene S. Roth on March 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Karen Casey’s book, Cultivating Hope, is a wonderful and hopeful book about how an individual can live a life that is fearless and meaningful at a time when such virtues are so difficult to find. We live in a very troubled time, socially, personally and financially. This is why Casey’s book is so important for us today. Casey also comes from a troubled background. All she really wanted out of life was for others to change. This, she thought, would ensure her security. However, she later discovered that she was the one who had to change. Although this was difficult for her to accept at first, she did keep trying to open up to the idea that if she didn’t change, nothing else would either.
Posted by Irene S. Roth on March 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The media is versed at making us feel so inadequate that we start doubting our beliefs and values after a while. This is really detrimental since we already have such a difficult time to think for ourselves and to assert ourselves. So what the media does is to keep eroding our already vulnerable and, in some cases, fragmented self.
Filed under Culture, Media · Tagged with beliefs, Culture, Dialectic Magazine, fragmented self, internal validation vs external validation, Media, mindlessness and media, Personal Growth, personal philosophy, Self Help, self knowledge, sound byte society, values
Posted by Carol Bremner on January 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Learning is a life-long process that you can benefit from continuing to engage. Learning raises self-esteem and self-worth. Learning is part of how each one of us continues to evolve as a person. You are never too old to learn something new. Learning keeps each person in touch with his or her passion.
Posted by Irene S. Roth on January 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The hallmark of any philosophical venture and the living philosophically is to think critically about your own beliefs and values and to determine what you care about the most. Once you figure out what your beliefs and values are, you will be able to act and make authentic decisions. But one may ask, why is [...]
Filed under Dialectic Eclectic, Philosophy · Tagged with authenticity, decision making, develop your goals and beliefs, Dialectic Magazine, living philosophically, Personal Growth, philosophy, rational thinking, self help philosophy, Self Improvement, thinking authentically
Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Adhering to the paradox of the quest to air “Dirty Laundry” while at the same time sweeping the past and its pain under the proverbial rug is a sure-fire way to deny your own individual evolution – your own personal enlightenment. It is not an authentic way to live your life. It is a painful and limiting way to live your life. It is a paradox that if not resolved, more often than not, results in a polarization that does not promote mental health or healthy relationship styles.
Filed under Culture, Self Improvement · Tagged with A.J. Mahari life coach, authentic self, codependence, Dialectic Magazine, healing, healing childhood pain, Mental Health, narcissism, paradox, personal change, personal enlightenment, Personal Growth, recovery, Self Improvement, wellness
Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Self Improvement, self growth, and getting to know more about who you authentically are require a willingness to learn more on a conscious level. The seeking of more understanding needs to be a conscious choice to embrace more awareness. Awareness that will unfold to you on this journey through the mystery of all that you might not yet fully understand about your self. Do you find that there are aspects of your life that just seem to defy your understanding in actual and purposefully consciously aware ways? Are you a seeker of more personal enlightenment when it comes to aspects of your relationships, your attitude, your moods, and your over-all choices in your life?
Filed under Culture, Self Improvement · Tagged with A.J. Mahari, choice in life, culture of personal awareness, Dialectic Magazine, integrity, mystery of understanding, paradox, Personal Growth, personal responsibility, power of now, radical acceptance, Self Help
Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Enlightenment is many things. It is even more specifically many different things to each and every individual. Awakening to your own personal enlightenment involves choosing to actively seek to expand and nurture a growing awareness. An awareness that seeks to breathe within and from the rich paradox of serendipitous synchronicity.
Filed under Mental Health, Self Help · Tagged with abandonment, abandonment trauma, aj mahari, balance, begins with the serendipity of paradox, bpd, change. enlightenment, Dialectic Magazine, Enlightenment for the individual, evolving, healing abandonment, life coach, making sense out of life, Mental Health, Mental Illness, mentor, pain as a teacher, pain is a gift, paradox of life, Personal Growth, Psychology, radical acceptance, serendipity of life lessons, spirituality, Stress, synchronicity, the quest for understanding, yin yang
Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment
What is on your mind, that is to say, what you focus on, is what will shape and justify your experience of yourself, of others, and of life.
More people are becoming increasingly aware that how and what they think creates their experience. However, for many who are in great emotional pain the connection might not be so apparent. For those with a personality disorder, or other form of mental illness, it can be much more difficult to make the connection between patterns of thought and their correlation to experience.
Filed under Mental Health, Self Help · Tagged with aj mahari life coach, cause and effect, change, consequences of negative attitude, Dialectic Magazine, healing, importance of a positive attitude, mindfulness, Personal Growth, personal philosophy, recovery, self help psychology, suffering is a choice, thinking, thinking and experience, thoughts and experience
Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Welcome to Dialectic Magazine. This is a new online magazine that will have a wide ranging focus on the endless interaction of conflicting ideas that make up the rich paradoxical nature of experience.
There are many types of paradox. In and through each and every paradox what is being sought after, found, processed, or realized is some measure of what is true. The more we can bring an awareness of what is true in our lives, what is authentic, the more we can enrich our intellectual, psychological, and spiritual experience of the here and now.
Articles, essays, interviews, poetry, prose, fiction and non-fiction will provide an eclectic blend of information, food for thought, and entertainment.
As Sir Frances Bacon once said, “Knowledge is power”.
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Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Dialectic Magazine will be providing information, people’s experiences, and opinions on the subject of mental health. Contained within the scope of mental health is both all that comprises and supports mental health, wellness, and a balanced emotional approach to life along with understanding more about the challenges faced when one has a mental illness.
Filed under Mental Health · Tagged with A.J. Mahari, Anxiety, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dialectic Magazine, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Personal Growth, Psychology, Self Help, Sexual Abuse, Stress, wellness
