Life is what we choose

Date 20 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
The emotional solitude path stops us from communicating, being part of something that has the potential to be good. Life is what we choose. When we fail to see what’s in front of us and continue to dwell on how we would like things to be, the picture we paint…
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Practising Mindfulness

Date 18 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Mindfulness is a tool that has become helpful to mental health professionals. Cultivating mindfulness is a powerful practice in therapy. If practised regularly, it’s a tool that can help us understand, stay in control and deal with our emotions in a healthy way. Mindfulness allows us to change our daily…
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Verbal bullying

Date 15 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Do we ever think about the way we respond to what someone says, even if what they’ve said isn’t rude or offensive and yet we still take offence and retaliate? When we use words in a negative way that insults, belittles and pulls people down in a way to gain…
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How karma works

Date 14 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Whether we believe in karma or not, does its theory hold good, irrespective of whether we believe in it or not? The law of nature is that any system will return to its original state of balance, unless a new force holds it at a different level. If and when…
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Experiences Change Us

Date 11 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
I’ve used Lewis Carroll’s quote on The CP Diary before about how we can’t go back to yesterday, because we were different people then. And yet, in many ways, we do. We revisit yesterday not as who we were then, but as ...
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Look for the beauty

Date 10 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
We will never achieve inner beauty if we fail to see the beauty in other things. It’s very easy when we’re busy not to see the world in all its perfection. We spend too much time living in our heads and not enough time soaking in the atmosphere of nature…
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Teaching children right

Date 8 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Children learn by example. If they trust what their parents say and it makes sense, they will want to emulate and do what we their parents do, eventually. If we get the parenting thing right, children should emerge with clear views on the most important values. It’s our value system…
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Choosing to be moral

Date 6 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
As long as we know right from wrong and have a conscience, we will follow a moral compass. Without basic rules surrounding morality, there will always be chaos in our homes and in our lives. We’re not all moral, but we can choose to be moral. It’s all a question…
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Navigating therapy

Date 3 August 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
After much deliberation I chose to go into therapy in my thirties, but I believe therapy may not always work for everyone. It’s not a cure-all, but as I go on to explain here, it does go some way to help. In my view there is always merit in therapy.…
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Dealing with shock

Date 31 July 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Dealing with shock isn’t something I’d like to experience again, but looking back it was helpful to know how shock felt, so that I could recognise the signs again if I needed to, and so that I could deal with any new situation differently. At the time, I didn’t understand…
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Having gratitude

Date 30 July 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
When we’re thankful for being able to experience and appreciate what we have, without a bad word directed at another, not only will we value our experiences more, but we will learn to live with and have gratitude. Gratitude is the quality of being thankful, a readiness for us to…
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Why we're never satisfied

Date 27 July 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
We tend to stretch and adjust our lives as we go along so that we reach our goals, but then inevitably we want more. We’re never satisfied. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons why we’re never satisfied. We can be satisfied, but that very much depends on us changing our perceptions.…
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