Articles
Written reflections from Robert Strock and the Awareness That Heals community.
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Embrace Fear to Unlock Courage: Your Key to Resilience
Fear and Courage: Unlikely Bedfellows In the aftermath of the recent election, I found myself grappling with a profound sense of fear and anxiety. It was as though the very fabric of our country was unraveling, and I couldn’t shake the nagging fear that we might be veering dangerously close to a dictatorship. As I
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The Election, Empathy, and the Elephant in the Room
https://www.awarenessthatheals.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Election-Empathy-And-The-Elephant-In-The-Room-Article-By-Robert-Strock.mp4 Psychologist Robert Strock examines how our relationship with wealth and power shapes political dynamics and influences societal division ahead of the US Elections. While it is true that both sides in the US election currently lack some key elements in psychology, economics, and general world concerns, it’s also important to note that this election
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Developing Humility and Awareness to Recognize Your Greatest Challenges
How can becoming aware of your feelings help you? When you accept what you’re feeling and learn to identify your feelings (rather than rejecting or ignoring them), they can actually become guideposts to show you what you need. Today, let’s talk more about how developing a sense of humility and an awareness of your negative
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How to Develop Self-Caring & Wisdom When Dealing With Fear
“Would you try to feel worse than you already do?” I ask this (seemingly) absurd question whenever a friend, a client, or even I am experiencing and feeling deep suffering. I ask them this question to help them understand their current attitude about their suffering — and that there’s potential for them to learn and
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When Our Greatest Strength is Also Our Greatest Weakness
Most of us have an area of our life that we give a dominant part of our energy where we might be most gifted. We could dominantly like to interact with people, devote ourselves to our work, or do something centering on the arts, nature, academics, family, pleasure, success, fitness, beauty, or being likable and
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How to Gracefully Ask For Help in Times of Need
Almost half the people I’ve met in my life, whether as a therapist, family, or friend, have great difficulty asking for help. You might be similar to them when it comes to seeking help, or you may be good at asking for help when you need it. Still, I would venture that there are certain
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How Facing Mortality Can Be A Source of Inspiration
It seems like an incredible opportunity lost to not include education about death and mortality from our early childhood. It is clear that curiosity about this naturally arises for most of us when we’re between the ages of 4-8. Innocent questions about death from kids at that age can be met initially in many ways
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The Immense Benefits of Following the Adage: “No Performance, No Pressure”
There is immense value in learning how to respond to life situations where you are natural when you don’t have to perform. This requires being in touch with what you feel and also being open to seeing your experience with acceptance and clarity. This is not something you can learn in a day or short
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Embracing Not-Knowing Is a Key Element of a Meaningful Life
In our culture, it’s significantly more desirable and respectable to know vs. not know about something. Our society has continually supported the importance of knowing what we’re talking about — there’s little room for uncertainty and not-knowing. As we explore this prejudice, it will become more obvious that the more we stay on the superficial
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How Overcoming Our Excessive Need for Private Awareness Can Help Us Take Care of Ourselves
Take a look at what you know about yourself emotionally. Especially the things that you don’t share with others or at least with almost no one. You very likely believe that this is something that you take care of on your own or that even if you don’t, these are aspects you would rather not