Perceptions on our past

Date 9 March 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
Because we’ve not managed to change anything, we continue to hold on to our past and that stops us from moving on. We tend to wait until something changes before we let go. Unfortunately, it’s not always feasible to change the past by correcting something in our present. We can…
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Our cynical world

Date 8 March 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
I grew up in a totally different world where people were more trusting of each other. We had very little reason to be cynical. We in part agreed with other people’s assessment of reality and if we couldn’t agree, we were happy to give them the benefit of the doubt.…
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Living around illness

Date 6 March 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
Hearing about other people’s health issues, gives me something else to cope with. That feeling I had when I first heard the news of my mother’s terminal illness, the feeling of foreboding where I couldn’t go back to where I was before I heard the news, yet the news would…
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Educated advice

Date 5 March 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
Why do some of us seem reluctant to take advice from those who have little education and hold greater sway with the opinion of those with an education? Do people who are more educated really know more than those who aren’t? Is it because we’re stubborn, or is it because…
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Breaking one's trust

Date 3 March 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
Breaking one’s trust would be even harder if that person turned out to be a parent. We assume that what we’re told is the way things are. I don’t believe anyone consciously sets out to break another person’s trust and that when trust is broken it’s often not because we…
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Coming full circle

Date 2 March 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
I’m not sure where I'm at or what I’m doing this morning. My thoughts are all over the place. A problem I’ve been trying to sort out for several weeks is still with me. I feel as though my head’s in a vice, I don't seem to be thinking straight.…
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Thoughts on my health

Date 28 February 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
I don’t feel happy or sad. Feeling indifferent. I’m a little tired. I’ve slowed down, but not to the point of stopping. I can’t seem to motivate myself at all. I’m not feeling totally unwell, but not feeling one hundred per cent. When I begin to look at the bigger…
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Stuck in a rut

Date 27 February 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
Do we even recognise our own character traits? We don’t see our own characters, but others see what we don’t see. We’re either not consciously aware we’re negative, or we’re aware but we don’t know how to change, or we’re just not interested in changing because it’s what we know.…
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Leaving and moving on

Date 24 February 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
Last week was tough and I’m pleased it’s over. There are some people who come into our lives for a short while that we need to walk away from, because they make our lives difficult. We’re taught by our parents to put trust in people because that is considered the…
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Is ignorance bliss?

Date 21 February 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
We often think that not knowing something is more comfortable than knowing, but in some circumstances, ignorance is bliss can paint an altogether different picture, if that something changes our life, or that of someone else. Choosing to ignore something can have far and wide reaching consequences, particularly if what…
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Learning to let go

Date 19 February 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
I just couldn’t let go of the fact that the heels on my shoes would never wear uniformly because I had a difference in leg length. I would constantly hone in on it. It became my biggest bug bear. Why is it that we still can’t seem to let it…
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Our ability to change

Date 18 February 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
The good thing about the human condition is that we have the ability to think, feel, see and understand how to change things, unlike computers that rely on the information we programme them with. In a nutshell computers can’t think for themselves, but as humans we have the ability to…
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