Conversations with Cinthia

Fear: Stop Playing It Safe

What risk do you know you need to take, and what gets in the way? Cinthia asserts that God can handle our mistakes and wants us to live with courage, finding ourselves in Him and trusting Him out on the edge.

Happiness, Part 10: Value Systems As Psychological Structures

The word "values" can bring up all kinds of images, feelings, political and religious ideas, etc.  Are your values defined?  Growing?  Cinthia explains that our value systems are like psychological and spiritual structures for our psyches, much like the frameworks of houses.  What are the values that are part of you, and how do they affect your happiness?

Happiness, Part 9: Fear-based Living

Today, Cinthia continues looking at habits that can impact our happiness.  These include being unwilling to take risks, over-censoring ourselves to the point of inauthenticity, living not to fail, neglecting constructive action, filling time with busy-work, assuming that problems will not happen, and living on auto-pilot.  If these sound reasonable but also easier-acknowledged-than-changed, get Cinthia's always-helpful and unique perspective on each of these and find yourself a place to start.

Happiness, Part 8: Managing Our Real Lives

If you've been listening to this series, you've probably already identified some habits you can address to improve your own happiness.  Keep listening, though, because today we have more to consider!  How can you deal with working a job you hate if your bills and responsibilities seem to require it, at least for now?  How can we be positively open-minded and discerning at the same time?  What about mainstream media: is it making you happier and healthier, or do you need some parameters around its influence over you?  Can you accept limitations, or are you living at a pace that outstrips your peace?

Happiness, Part 7: Mind Your Own Time

Today's show continues the look at habits that enhance our happiness.  With whom do you spend the bulk of your time?  How carefully do you evaluate your own thinking and self-talk?  What assumptions do you make about your own value?  Do you have a sense of your own calling?  Do you perform your occupation solely for the paycheck?  These things can powerfully influence our happiness levels.

Happiness, Part 6: Misguided Grasping

A week was not enough to look at something as big as happiness, so this week continues the exploration.  Cinthia continues today by looking at happiness habits related to living in a body, balancing risk, assuming more time on earth than we have, grasping the past, and trying to be perfect.

Happiness, Part 5: Replacement Habits

Isn't it amazing how many ways humans have of sabotaging our own happiness?  Today we add some positive habits to the things we're letting go, like replacing endless complaining with two minutes of venting, followed by focusing on gratitude, or focusing on caring for our bodies instead of hating them.  Also, if you struggle with self-hatred, this episode includes some crucial thoughts on the topic.

Happiness, Part 4: Releasing

Cinthia continues looking at things we may need to release in order to embrace happiness.  Today, Cinthia looks at releasing our rights to a critical spirit (not the same as critical thinking), resistance to change, unhelpful labels, excuses, and other hang-ups that can sabotage happiness.

Happiness, Part 3: Letting Go

How much would you pay to be truly happy?  Everything you have?  A portion?  What if what you had to give up for happiness wasn't money, but something less tangible... like being right or being in control?  Cinthia explores things we may need to release in order to embrace happiness.

Happiness, Part 2: Smiling Through

Maybe you understand the facts in the last episode regarding smiling and the brain-body connection.  But how do we smile when we are genuinely distressed?  Does smiling really help?  Cinthia discusses how to begin integrating joy into our lives.