{"id":1034,"date":"2011-07-21T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/\/new\/\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2015-07-15T12:48:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T19:48:31","slug":"721-are-you-too-obsessed-about-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/721-are-you-too-obsessed-about-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Lusting after just one more bite out of life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Ragini-20034.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1035\" title=\"Ragini-2003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Ragini-20034-116x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ragini-20034\" width=\"116\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>You know.\u00a0 I know it.\u00a0 There are just some things in live that are just so darn bad for you, but that\u00a0 you can&#8217;t stop obsessing about.\u00a0 Maybe, it&#8217;s the salted chocolate carmels, or the bad boy that lives next door. \u00a0 What happens when these &#8220;things&#8221; that we lust and desperately want\u00a0overcome our every waking thoughts?\u00a0\u00a0Just one small bite can&#8217;t hurt you.\u00a0 Can it? \u00a0Greed, jealousy, and envy seem so harmless, but can be crippling to our general well being and mental health. \u00a0Listen to some simple strategies you can use next time you are at Gucci, the Apple Store, or wherever and you are tempted by all those &#8220;things&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Ragini Elizabeth Michaels, <\/em>author and certified Trainer of NLP and Ericksonian Hypnosis for over 30 years, consistently receives international acclaim for her elegant style and professional expertise. She is also recognized for Facticity Six Step Process (Paradox Management) \u2013 designed to accelerate your ability to surf the spiritual-psychological interface in daily life. Ragini offered The Facticity Wisdom School in Seattle (2000-2009), as well as Paradox Soirees for past students and Paradox Salons for interested beginners. Her work has taken her beyond America to Canada, India, England, Scotland, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Switzerland. She runs a successful private practice in Seattle, has published two books on the psychology of paradox, and eight meditation\/hypnosis CD\u2019s. Her third book \u2013 working title <em>The Wisdom Of Your Discontent<\/em> \u2013 will be available next spring (Conari Press, 2011).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Show Highlights: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are the true needs that jealousy and envy mask?<\/li>\n<li>How can we be more aware\u00a0that jealousy has arise?<\/li>\n<li>How can we move from a sense of\u00a0emptiness an filling our gaps with stuff to a place of spaciousness?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Resources: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ragini\u2019s website: www.facticity.com<\/li>\n<li>Ragini\u2019s books: http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lions-Wait-Ragini-Elizabeth-Michaels\/dp\/0962868612 and http:\/\/www.facticity.com\/content\/Bookandcds\/books.asp<\/li>\n<li>CD\u2019s: http:\/\/www.facticity.com\/content\/Bookandcds\/cds.asp<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know.\u00a0 I know it.\u00a0 There are just some things in live that are just so darn bad for you, but that\u00a0 you can&#8217;t stop obsessing about.\u00a0 Maybe, it&#8217;s the salted chocolate carmels, or the bad boy that lives next door. \u00a0 What happens when these &#8220;things&#8221; that we lust and desperately want\u00a0overcome our every<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,509,56],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2740,1958,2003,3167,3030,3169,2995,3166,3165,1661,1473,1804,1475,3032,1480,3168,1185],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-self-awareness","category-self-love","category-show-archives"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ragini-2003-116x150-compressed.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21766,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/21766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}