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Healing Addictions with Inner Bonding®

Posted on : 02-07-2010 | By : Margaret | In : Addictions, Self Improvement & Personal Growth, Spiritual Growth

Tags: Addictions, healing addictions, I feel empty, Inner Bonding, inner emptiness, Margaret Paul, self-abandonment, spiritual connection

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Addictions are a way of filling the inner emptiness that comes from self-abandonment and a lack of spiritual connection. Discover how the practice of Inner Bonding® is the ultimate way of healing addictions.

Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is a best-selling author of 8 books, relationship expert, and co-creator of the powerful Inner Bonding® process – featured on Oprah. Are you are ready to heal your pain and discover addiction-free joy? Click here for a FREE Inner Bonding Course: http://www.innerbonding.com/welcome/addiction_help.html, and visit our website at http://www.innerbonding.com for more articles and help. Phone Sessions Available. Join the thousands we have already helped and visit us now!

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How do you Define Success?

Posted on : 09-03-2010 | By : Margaret | In : Addictions, Relationships, Self Improvement & Personal Growth, Spiritual Growth

Tags: addiction, compassion, emotional freedom, I feel empty, Inner Bonding, kindness, love, Margaret Paul, self worth, sexual addiction, substance abuse, success

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Take a moment to go inside and see how you define success. Is your success defined by:

How much money you have?
Having a big house and an expensive car?
How expensive your clothes are?
Traveling first class on airlines?
How attractive you are?
How attractive your partner is?
How famous you are?
Winning or being the best at something?
How many beautiful people want to have sex with you?
How many friends you have?
How much attention and approval you get?

Unfortunately, the media often supports defining success in many of the above ways.

But are you successful just because you have a lot of money, even if you had to use others to get it? What if you made millions and others suffered as a result of your choices? What if you live in a big house and drive an expensive car but find it difficult to be loving to your partner or your children – or to yourself?

What if you defined success by how much to you contribute to another or to society? What if you define success by how kind you are to yourself and to others and by what you contribute to the world? What if success is not defined by how many widgets you sell, but by how many people you help and how joyful you are?

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Safety With an Open Heart

Posted on : 04-02-2010 | By : Margaret | In : Relationships, Self Improvement & Personal Growth, Spiritual Growth

Tags: closed heart, heartbreak, I feel empty, Inner Bonding, intent to learn, intent to protect, love, loving adult, Margaret Paul, open heart, rejection, spiritual connection, spiritual guidance, spirituality, wounded self

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Do you live your life with your heart mostly open or mostly closed? Do you spend most of your time protecting against rejection or being taken advantage of, or most of your time open to sharing love with others?

As children, many people had very heartbreaking experiences that caused them to close their heart. What experiences led to you closing your heart?

* Various forms of physical and/or sexual abuse
* Various forms of emotional abuse, such as criticism, judgment, blame, ridicule, or sarcasm
* Being neglected, ignored, discounted, unseen
* Being engulfed and smothered by a parent – pulled on and used to fill up their emptiness
* Rejection by parents, siblings, and/or peers
* Loss of a parent through divorce or death
* Loss of a beloved sibling, friend, or relative
* Physical defects that created limitation

As children, when you experienced any of these and other very challenging situations, and there was no one there to lovingly help you through the pain, the heartbreak may have been too intense for you to manage and you might have closed your heart to survive. You may have learned to be in your head rather than your heart.

However, now, as adults, keeping your heart closed has many negative consequences. While it was necessary for your survival as a child, now it is causing you a lot of pain. As adults, we all need to learn to lovingly manage our heartbreak without closing down.

What Happens Now When You Keep Your Heart Closed?

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