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Judith A. Sedgeman, EdD

Insecurity

Is It Easy to Be Happy?

Posted on April 15, 2015
in innate health, Insecurity, Memory, Mental Health Education, Mind and Consciousness and Thought, Peace of Mind, Spiritual, State of Mind, Sydney Banks, Three Principles
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Recently I saw a new client who sobbed at the outset, "I don't see how I will ever be happy again!" An hour later, as she left, she was laughing. "I've sure been a big drama queen with all that serious thinking, haven't I?" she said. How does a shift like that happen? In the simplest terms, it is the natural outcome of what Principles practitioners do that is new to treatment. We don't take unhappiness seriously. We point people to the true, constant, unfailing, spiritual source of human happiness that nothing can touch....

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Common Sense or Fear? Our choice.

Posted on October 16, 2014
in Consciousness, innate health, Insecurity, Mental Health, Mind, Mind and Consciousness and Thought, Peace of Mind, resiliency, Security, State of Mind, Sydney Banks, Thought, Three Principles
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Every time we get new information, we have a choice what to make of it. That choice has nothing to do with the information. It has to do with whether we understand how we bring our own thinking to life as reality. We don't choose the first thought that comes to mind. But every subsequent related thought and what we make of it is strictly up to us. The more deeply we understand our own spiritual nature, that we are generating our life experience by bringing thoughts to mind and then taking them more...

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No need to fix everything!

Posted on October 2, 2014
in Consciousness, innate health, Insecurity, Mental Health, Mind and Consciousness and Thought, resiliency, Three Principles
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Lately I've talked with several clients who are sure that "fixing" something in their circumstances will bring them happiness. One is determined to find a job in a bigger city, where she thinks it will be "more fun" to live. One is trying to find a new set of room-mates and a new apartment because she thinks she needs to be with people who are nicer to her to be comfortable at home. Another is worried about the danger of living within 100 miles of a major US military installation and wants to move...

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“What’s wrong with me?”

Posted on September 5, 2014
in Depression, innate health, Insecurity, Mental Health, Mind and Consciousness and Thought, Peace of Mind, Three Principles
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Since I have begun seeing clients one-on-one as a Mental Health Mentor, the most frequent questions they ask in the first session are: "What's wrong with me? How did  this happen? Why can't  anyone explain to me what happened to my mind?" For the most part, they've had a lot of therapy. And they've been given diagnoses. But  diagnoses do not explain. Diagnoses describe and label symptom sets. What's eating at people are the WHY? questions. Why can't I just be OK again? How did I go wrong? How do people get chemical...

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Smarter? or Wiser?

Posted on March 24, 2014
in Consciousness, innate health, Insecurity, Mind, Mind and Consciousness and Thought, Peace of Mind, Security, State of Mind, Thought, Three Principles
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I've been involved in many situations where leaders were smarter than most of the people they were trying to influence, but were oblivious to the fact they were no wiser. That doesn't  work out very well. Being "the smartest person in the room" creates an opportunity for the leader to find the humility that enters hand-in-hand with wisdom. First of all, wisdom is the great equalizer.  All human beings have access to wisdom; no one person is innately wiser than another. It's always possible to sort people out by "smartness", but...

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Seriously?

Posted on March 17, 2014
in Consciousness, innate health, Insecurity, Mind and Consciousness and Thought, Peace of Mind
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Consider this story: Not long ago, I was meeting with a person who started our conversation in tears, feeling hopeless because of a family situation that was outside of her control, but involved her children in a way that she could not think about without more tears and more pain. As she tried to explain it to me in gasps between the sobs, she grasped her head in her hands and said, "This is so serious. Sometimes I just want to kill myself. I can't do anything about it." Before I...

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