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The dizziness of freedom

Philosopher Soren Kierkegaard said ‘Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom’ as he explains how in Genesis 2 Adam and Eve can eat of all this fruit, but this one fruit. Anxiety slipped itself into our lives with freedom to choose to obey or not obey, we can call it the genesis of anxiety in our lives. We […]

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Autopilot

It is my observation that in our generation we are not governed by conscious awareness of God, our minds tend to run on autopilot. But freedom depends on levels of consciousness. We who are not conscious simply have no freedom. We may believe we do, but we do not make decisions. The decisions are made for us, […]

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Bravery and fear

It is the amygdala that activates 4 pathways when it senses a threat, the startle response, the sympathetic nervous system releases adrenaline, the parasympathetic shut down all activaties including digestion tissue repair and growth and the HPA axis releases cortisol which is your flight or fight system which shuts down the adrenaline. Surprisingly, a state of intense fear […]

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Resilience

Professor Carey Cooper who is the leading UK Researcher in wellbeing in the workplace says ‘People who are either trained to be or are naturally more resilient, show much high productivity levels. People have been talking about it for a while. ‘The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you […]

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In praise of uncertainty

You really do need to dismiss issues of certainty when talking about knowledge for you can be certain and wrong and uncertain and right! Certainty is not a good guide to knowledge or faith but we have emphasised certainty and we have in our generation of Christianity have said that we are saved by faith and if you […]

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Fear of Success

We talk a lot about fear of failure but not so much about fear of success which might be described as the better we do the better we have to do. There are incessant demands to live up to those standards and subconsciously we may hold ourselves back because we may think we are not […]

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Upset

The upset that I am feeling is nothing other than a replay of something I made up long ago. The purpose for the upset is to take you back to the belief. The belief is a contradiction to who you are. Discomfort is only aroused to bring the need for correction to awareness. Treat it […]

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