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A viewer asks: “According to psychologist Laura L. Carstensen later-life couples often prioritize stability in their relationship over disagreement; they communicate gently and avoid overt conflict. They prioritize emotional closeness and positivity in interactions and tend to minimize negative exchanges. But this reduction in visible conflict can mean grievances and resentments are unresolved and can become a pattern of indefinite avoidance. When important concerns are unresolved, partners may feel unheard, isolated, or disconnected, even within long-standing relationships. Is this a wise recognition of time being finite and reaching for love or a shortcoming in addressing problems? Is talking enough?”
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A viewer asks: “Many families have a “conspiracy of silence,” where airing upsets is seen as disloyal. Men are expected to absorb pain and appear strong; women to maintain family harmony. This can lead to resentment, passive-aggression, emotional withdrawal, or illness. Fear of distress or abandonment often motivates a withdrawn silence. Talking about problems is the pop-psychology remedy but with dubious success as it often backfires. Perhaps changing the “conspiracy” seems to requires self-differentiation, boundaries, emotional regulation, and additional support before opening up. Is it wiser to build these qualities first, perhaps requesting divine support in doing so, before airing grievances?”
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A viewer asks: “‘You create your own reality’ has become a New Age mantra. It’s really though referring to a person’s inner experience, not an outside situation or circumstances. However, there do seem to be some leverage points on creating the inner experience and on intentional action. Perception depends on: what is selected for attention (based on threats, rewards, goal-relevant cues), questioning first impressions as final truth, moderation of strong emotional reactions (defensiveness, overreaction, etc.), cognitive appraisal (based on beliefs and past experiences), and then a story that integrates it all. To what extent can a person influence this process of constructing their inner reality for the better?” What is Creator’s perspective?
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A viewer asks: “Many people struggle with setting personal emotional or opinion and perspective boundaries. They fear rejection, worry about appearing selfish, or grew up in environments where boundaries weren’t modeled. It’s common to feel guilty initially when enforcing new limits, even though boundaries are fundamentally about self-respect. Is one aspect of Divine Principle for living #7 (…meet your responsibility to be your soul’s guardian, and take care of its safety and protection from harm) to be bold in holding the line, even when it feels uncomfortable, without being blunt, cold, or confrontational? Is this about practicing self-love through behavior, not over-accommodating or over-sacrificing?”
ClosedNicola asked 3 months ago • 
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A viewer asks: “Married couples often think, “If we just love each other more everything will work out.” Humanity, though, identifies specific sources of difficulties and solutions. Psychological approaches focus on personality traits, attachment styles, and emotional patterns. Sociological approaches focus on social structures, norms, and inequalities. Therapeutic approaches focus on communication, conflict resolution, and repair. Behavioral approaches focus on marriage as a set of changeable behaviors. Given the high levels of ignorance of the karmic causes of relationship troubles, and the weaknesses and variable effectiveness of the main approaches, how can “be more loving,” even the divine principles version, be enough?” What is Creator’s perspective?
ClosedNicola asked 5 months ago • 
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A viewer asks: “Would the techniques of releasing trapped emotions, as expressed in Dr. Bradley Nelson’s book The Emotion Code be of benefit for conscious healing processes? Dr. Nelson claims that his procedure reaches the subconscious and interacts with it in clearing trapped emotions.”
ClosedNicola asked 6 months ago • 
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A viewer asks: “Many people assume the self is mostly fixed, defined by circumstances, something to “find,” not something you shape or choose. But modern psychology sees the self as constructed, context-sensitive, and changeable. Some philosophers and New Age advocates also claim we can choose who we become. We seem to have part of us that defines an “automatic experience of reality” that decides what becomes “real” for us but we also seem to have a capacity to choose a new “intentional reality” as a story we choose and create by changing how we interpret things via our beliefs and biases. Can Creator give a brief tutorial to explain this dilemma to help us intentionally create better versions of ourselves?” What can Creator tell us?
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A viewer asks: “Richard J. Davidson, author of “The Emotional Life of Your Brain”, says understanding the brain increases agency over emotional reactions. He claims you can train the brain to respond differently to challenges and that with the right mental exercises, and habits, it’s possible to reshape neural pathways, enhance resilience, attention, and overall emotional well-being. For example, he claims that naming an emotion activates the prefrontal cortex, which helps regulate the brain’s fear-and-stress center. He says the prefrontal cortex can also regulate other emotion-generating regions (amygdala, insula, hippocampus). How effective are these suggestions in gaining agency over emotional reaction?”
ClosedNicola asked 6 months ago • 
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A viewer asks: “The classical view of emotions is they “happen to you” – regulation means managing reactions after they occur (e.g., calming down when angry). Lisa Feldman Barrett’s Theory of Constructed Emotion however argues that emotions are constructed (based on context, past learning, and bodily input) rather than hardwired biological and universal responses. If correct, practices like increasing body awareness, expanding emotional vocabulary, and reframing experiences can change the way we build emotions in real time. How well can this framework be used to turn emotional reactions into something we can consciously shape, meaning we have agency over how we feel, rather than just endure?”
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A viewer asks: “In the past my mother has talked about our forefathers worshipping some kind of a forest deity who seems to bless people with good fortune if proper respects are paid to it but also bring misfortune if the ritual isn’t performed properly. Her claim is that since our family hasn’t been able to perform the ritual properly since my grandfather became ill, it is responsible for bringing troubles and misfortunes in our family lineage. She wants to find a solution where we could either resume its worship again or sever all ties with this deity. She also claims a witch cursed my grandfather and family. Is there any truth to her claims? if true what specific requests can I make in my sessions?”
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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For the sake of clarification, is it the case that humans have two distinct and separate intuitive gateways; one that reaches the deep subconscious and is blocked from conscious awareness, and one that we can use instinctively to reach out beyond the self to explore the universe around us, but which is greatly diminished in most people?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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If the deep subconscious is not located in the brain, where does it reside? Is it in a separate location from our conscious self?
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If our consciousness is not located in the brain, but simply experienced by the brain to allow our experiencing it, what about cellular consciousness? Is that also not located in the cells of the body but linked to and experienced by the cells? Where is cellular consciousness housed?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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A viewer asks: “I have another question and it is in regards to any curses or spells put on by Freemasonry association and agreement in the family line. Do you know much about this topic? I would like to rebuke any association with Freemasonry in my bloodline or my husband’s bloodline. I’m not sure if there’s a way we can check for that. I know that we were Jehovah’s Witnesses growing up and I was baptized Jehovah’s Witness, and I’ve come to understand that they are part of a Freemason group, please advise.” What can we tell her?
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A viewer asks: “A few months ago my closest friend, who is interested in the paranormal and has had many uncanny experiences happen to her, went on a vicious rant against me via text message saying anything she could think of to hurt me. This included threatening psychic attack. The strangest part is that this all came out of nowhere. A few days later she apologized and said she didn’t know what came over her. Although I miss my friend, this wasn’t the first time that she had lashed out at me unfairly, and while I forgive her, I decided I can’t be close to her and we haven’t spoken. This evening I came home and found a book she had given me had fallen off the shelf. What does this signify?”
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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