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Buddhists say that our mind is like a drunken monkey stung by a bee--a frenzied, wild, uncontrolled force, the source of all our unhappiness. Meditation teaches us to focus our awareness and direct it onto an object. This can be our breath, a phrase, word or image. Doing this connects u… Continue

Self-Hypnosis

Before we go into what self-hypnosis is, we need to look first at what it is not. If you use a cd or a tape to achieve a hypnotized state, this is hypnosis, not self-hypnosis. Anytime you tune into the words of someone else you are being hypnotized by that 'someone els… Continue

Everyone in the apartment complex I lived in knew who Ugly was. Ugly was the resident tomcat. Ugly loved three things in this world: fighting, eating garbage, and, shall we say, love. The combination of these things combined with a life spent outside had their effect on Ugly. To start with, he had only one eye, and where the other should have been, there was a hole. He was also missing his ear on the same side. His left foot appeared to have been badly broken at one time and had healed at an unn… Continue