Midlife Crisis

Midlife Transition: Crisis or Opportunity?

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Midlife Crisis Or Midlife Opportunity?
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Colin_Hiles]Colin Hiles

During middle years we can find ourselves experiencing five different ‘wake up’ calls. Each one has the potential to provide its own ‘crisis’.

The five crisis of mid-life are:

1. Cultural
2. Health
3. Relationship
4. Financial/Career
5. Existential

Generally, I refer to midlife as the range from 35 to 60 years, although these life-changing crises can occur before or after these ages. And whilst I’ll explain these crises individually for ease of understanding, it’s worth remembering that they rarely work in isolation. There’s more of an interdependent relationship between them than you might at first realise.

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Follow Your SOUL to Avoid Midlife Crisis

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‘Tis the Set of the Sail — or — One Ship Sails East

Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1916

But to every mind there openeth,
A way, and way, and away,
A high soul climbs the highway,
And the low soul gropes the low,
And in between on the misty flats,
The rest drift to and fro.

But to every man there openeth,
A high way and a low,
And every mind decideth,
The way his soul shall go.

One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
‘Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.

Like the winds of the sea
Are the waves of time,
As we journey along through life,
‘Tis the set of the soul,
That determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife.

Midlife Transition : 5 great books to read

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1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre was the first novel that really moved me and surprised me as a woman. I think this is true for a lot of female readers. Jane Eyre is told from the point of view of a 12-year-old girl in a dreadful situation. She’s an orphan who is adopted by a cruel bunch of people and sent to a horrible boarding school. So it’s about travail, but more importantly, it’s about coming through travail. Jane is a very brave, bold, upstanding girl who always seems able to defend herself, even in terrible situations.

What this book meant to me was that Continue reading “Midlife Transition : 5 great books to read” →

Spiritual transformation instead of ‘midlife crisis’

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“The heart has reasons that reason knows not of”…Blaise Pascal

The soul has plans the mind cannot fathom…

I do believe in mental science – but I have come to understand that that is not the whole picture… well, sort of –
The conscious mind must feed the subconscious – but the subconscious is where the soul dwells and it contains life times of held beliefs that manifest in our lives daily.
It is nearly impossible to ‘get to’ all these beliefs and actually Continue reading “Spiritual transformation instead of ‘midlife crisis’” →