Stress from outside – distress from inside: we all experience such to different degrees. Internal distress can be harder to accept and deal with and the remedies may not be as effective. Think of the distress of severe depression. Think of the mental distress of Spurgeon, Brainerd and Cowper. There is another kind of mental [...]
Ah! How much we learn from others when we listen… I was explaining my usual analogy of “replacing the tape” in our head with another tape and the advantage of this being a song, when the person in front of me said “REPLANT”. This was in the context of ruminating or worrying thought processes (sometimes [...]
Heard recently from an endlessly exploring seven year-old when given the charge of looking after three younger children on the edge of a campsite creek: “It’s all right – I won’t even let anything come into my mind.” Wow! To be so aware of the dichotomy that we all have in making a choice as [...]