"One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.  He said "My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all.  One is Evil.  It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.  The other is Good.  It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith."  The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf wins?"  The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed." "


Posts tagged with 'mindfulness'

Recent research: articles from spring 2015 journals

29th June 2015

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - Endnote - which currently contains over 22,000 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant icon …

Recent research: articles from early 2015 journals

28th April 2015

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - Endnote - which currently contains over 21,800 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant icon …

Recent research: articles from winter journals

24th February 2015

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - Endnote - which currently contains over 21,600 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant icon …

Recent research: articles from autumn journals

10th December 2014

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - Endnote - which currently contains over 21,400 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant icon …

Practising "being": remembering to wake up, appreciate & be open to surprise

24th September 2014

In her wonderful poem "The summer day", Mary Oliver wrote: Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean - the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my …

Peer residential group, first full day: pain, challenge, sunshine, love & dancing (2nd post)

7th September 2014

After a rather inauspicious start on Friday (see yesterday's post), the next day - Saturday, the first full day of the group - was, for me, deeply wonderful. One of the really special days of my life. An ocean of a day, so much happened. A bit like a lifetime …

Recent research: articles from late summer journals

3rd September 2014

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - Endnote - which currently contains over 21,200 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant icon …

Recent research: articles from summer journals

10th August 2014

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 21,000 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant icon …

BABCP spring meeting: CBASP & chronic depression, therapist support, mindfulness & health anxiety, and intrusions & control

5th May 2013

In the last few days I have written a series of posts about the BABCP Spring Conference & Workshops in Belfast - the most recent being "BABCP spring meeting: Arnoud Arntz on schema therapy for personality disorders". Besides Arntz's presentations, the two highlights of this Belfast meeting for me were …

A day spent "idle & blessed": revisiting an experiment - savouring & "positive state mindfulness"

20th April 2013

Last September I went back to Cambridge for a reunion ... the first time I'd ever been back to school or university for such a thing. It was an experiment in "emotional archaeology" and I wrote a series of blog posts about it. At one stage I experimented with a …