Tag: Dr. Thomas Maples
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Rediscover Your Inner Passion
A Passion for Love & Wisdom Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin A New Years Blessing Out with the old…
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A Guiding Light Meditation: Personal Growth 4 the Soul
Finding Your Inner Wellbeing Transcript Hello. I am Dr. Maples and welcome to our guided meditation and affirmation that Honors the Inner Voice. I am grateful that you joined me here today, and I hope this brief exploration of your inner voice can help bring the light of healing to your body, mind, and spirit.…
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A Glorious Secret: Belief 4 Inner Growth
Inspirational VLOG Words of Wisdom Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. ~ William James Belief and Inner Wisdom Practicing psychology, I often surround myself with a continual drive to explore the tenets of personal development. However, I have often noticed that the road forks, especially when ideals…
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Personal Development: 2 Choose Adventure Now
Inspirational Words of Wisdom The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. Joseph Campbell A Philosophy for Personal Development Even in my youngest years, I craved adventure and the wonder of the lessons it provides. As a psychotherapist, I understand just how much potential…
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A Healing Meditation 4 Honoring That Bandaged Space
A Meditation for Healing Hello. I am Dr. Maples, and welcome to our guided meditation and affirmation, Honoring the Bandaged Place. I am grateful that you joined me here today, and hope this brief exploration of an inner wound can help bring the light of healing to your body, mind, and spirit. Let us begin. …
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The Bandaged Place of Light
Find Your Sacred Space Words of Inspiration “Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.” ~Rumi Mindfulness is more than a strategy to calm down and relax. Practicing mindfulness helps create a rhythm; it balances body, mind, and spiritual well-being. But frequently, we need to pay more…
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Siddhartha: A Depth Psychology 4 Finding Light in the Shadow
Siddhartha and The Sacred Journey “In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahman, the young falcon, together with his friend Govinda, son of…
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Teaching the Next Generation: Lessons 4 Successful Parenting
Teaching Respect and Positive Parenting A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. Billy Graham I often hear the word respect thrown around as if one is entitled to something. The sad fact is that 99.9% of the time I hear this term used, it…
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Practical Psychology: How 2 Deal with the Negative Skew of News and Social Media
A Sacred Journey Podcast Faith and Practical Psychology With so much media buying for our attention, how can we develop that desperately needed inner sense of peace? This is especially true as it relates to the negative bias most sources of information used to play upon the strengths of the autonomic nervous system that will…
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Practical Parenting: Let Go of Past Hurts 4 New Beginnings
Parenting Wisdom “The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!” ~Louise Hart “The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” O. A. Battista A Psychology of Parenting If we have had parents, we have…
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Practical Parenting 4 a Positive Future Generation
A Philosophy for Parenting Instilling Responsibility, Hope, and Honoring Childhood Bliss Parenting is a collective affair. I started my professional journey long ago, teaching the next generation in a kindergarten classroom. While I have practiced psychology for two decades now, I cannot help but see some atrocities at play in the one place parents should…
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A Shadow 4 Consciousness: Create Your Wellbeing
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ~ Carl Jung Consciousness & Inner Light Have you ever told the story of…