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For the Pursuit of Happiness, Try a Daily Dose of Non-Judgmental Awareness

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He recommends that each day we review our day and try to consider various events in a non-judgmental way that he refers to as non-judgmental awareness. Sounds easy enough to do, eh?

But how could non-judgmental awareness of the events of the day possibly engender archetypal healing in us?

It most likely engenders in us an openness to our unconscious, which is the repository of our archetypal wounding. But what exactly our unconscious may engender in us will remain to be seen as we continue the practice over a period of time.

For example, the unconscious may engender memorable dreams in us that might provide clues to us to guide our further reflections. Or our unconscious may be prompted by certain events and our behavior to float specific memories from our past up to our conscious memory for further reflection and assimilation. Then again, perhaps nothing will happen for a period of time.

So for the pursuit of happiness, Americans should try a daily dose of non-judgmental awareness about their day.

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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)
 

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