New Posts from TCTL: Essays & Poetry About Gratitude | Psychiatric Diagnosis as Smoke and Mirrors
Gratitude: A Deeply Practical Practice
by Robert Augustus Masters
The practice of gratitude is powerful medicine.
It quickly and effectively realigns us with our essential nature, grounding us in reality-unlocking perspectives, relieving us of our self-centered myopia. Call it a soul-centered homing device — unconditional thanksgiving in the heartfelt raw.
Central to the practice of gratitude is practicing it when we least want to, like when we’re tangled up in disillusionment, depression, disappointment, despair, industrial strength shame.
This doesn’t mean glossing over or bypassing the difficult stuff, but bringing heart and deep-cutting perspective to it, gifting ourselves with an instant, more-than-intellectual reminder of what truly matters…
I Love My Wall : A Story of Gratitude
by Alan Cohen
One Saturday after our excursion to Pizza Hut, the mall, and a movie, I drove my ten-year-old goddaughter Samantha to her family’s new residence. As we turned off the highway onto a dirt road that led to her house, my heart dropped to see that she and her parents were living in an old school bus in a field.
As Samantha showed me around her family’s quarters, I began to feel sad that this little girl whom I love so much was growing up in such a shoddy environment. As my eyes painfully fell upon rusted seams on the metal walls, cracked windows, and a leaking roof, I realized that her family had fallen into bare, subsistence living. I wanted to rescue her from such a barren plight…
The Psychiatric Diagnostic Evaluation: Medical Expertise or Smoke And Mirrors?
By Lawrence Kelmenson
November 21, 2023
Psychiatrists used to not put much effort into diagnosing. Instead, they focused on getting to and working on the issues in their clients’ lives that were upsetting them. But all that changed when the 1980 DSM came out. Since then, diagnosing mental disorders has been one of their main focuses (prescribing medicine being the other). People pay huge sums of money for psychiatrists’ expert opinions, and their diagnostic evaluations carry great weight in court, school, the workplace, and disability determinations. But is this truly warranted? Is a doctor really needed to make a psychiatric diagnosis, or can anyone do it?…
Gratitude, a Heaven-Delivered Rose
Poems About Gratitude by Sri Chinmoy
(1)
A gratitude-heart
Is to discover on earth
A Heaven-delivered rose.
(2)
Gratitude can transform
Our life
Sooner than anything else.
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