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• Look in the Right Direction  (Writing - 2/22/03)

  The answers to all of life's questions can be found WITHIN you. Three ways to start asking the right questions.

• Anxiety (Writing - 2/23/03)

  Seeing through self-destructive anxiety.

• Feeling Overwhelmed (Writing - 2/23/03)

  Learn to see through any anxious condition of feeling overwhelmed.

• Anger Management (Writing - 2/23/03)

  Learn anger management, how to never again be tricked into feeling bad about anything!

• Happiness (Writing - 2/23/03)

  Happiness is seeing all dark states as passing clouds, behind which sits The Sun!

• Blame Game (Writing - 2/23/03)

  There is no profit in blaming your lot in life on other people or an uncaring world. Escape the dark punishing captivity inherent in blame.

• You Can Be Stronger Than Any Dark Spirit (Writing - 11/29/02)

  You Can Be Stronger Than Any Dark Spirit

• Abolish Harmful Inner Voices (Writing - 11/1/02)

  Bring more light into your life by patient inner investigation.

• The Secret of Owning Your Own Life (Writing - 1/17/03)

  Discover ten powerful new ways to begin changing your view of your own life. Plus learn the one power greater than any disturbance.

• Nullify Negative States with New Knowledge (Writing - 9/27/02)

  How to deal with negative states.

• Wake Up and Be Free of Fear and Worries (Writing - 8/30/02)

  Take these steps to make fear and worry disappear

• Three New Choices That Dismiss Dark Conditions (Writing - 2/21/03)

  Learn how you can turn any unwanted moment into a stepping stone toward a higher level of self-command.

• Put Yourself in the Driver's Seat (Writing - 3/30/03)

  A writing by Guy Finley extracted from The Secret of Letting Go revealing the secrets of what it takes to take control of our lives.

• Nullify Negative States with New Knowledge (Writing - 4/27/03)

  An excerpt from Seeker's Guide explaining how to break our relationship with negative states.

• New Answers that Bring a New Life (Writing - 6/29/03)

  Guy Finley shows how our experience of life is a direct result of who and what we are, and how we can begin today to bring about a new experience…[more]

• A Simple Instruction for the Regeneration of the Soul (Writing - 9/21/03)

  In this lesson, Guy Finley illustrates how we can begin to become aware of the unconscious chain of pain and conflict that we pass along to others when we are…[more]

• Dealing with the Darkness We Get from Others (Writing - 10/26/03)

  In this lesson Guy Finley explains how we can either choose to get negative about other people's bad behavior (which doesn't help us), or we can choose a different kind…[more]

• Take This New Attitude Toward Whatever Makes You Ache (Writing - 11/23/03)

  Guy Finley sheds light on the understanding that the lies of negativity and darkness are only powered by our willingness to let them rule us.

• Three New Choices That Dismiss Dark Conditions (Writing - 12/2/03)

  Guy Finley explains how by meeting unwanted moments with negativity we only serve to further cement the darkness within us.

• Step Past Secret Self-Limitations (Writing - 12/8/03)

  In this key lesson Guy Finley encourages us to see through the false nature that would keep us from moving forward through any uncertainty and doubt.

• The Secret Understanding That Makes Painful Events Disappear (Writing - 1/12/04)

  By changing the ingredients of our life recipe from false images and negativity to awareness and understanding, we discover a new sweetness in life.

• Self-Justification (Writing - 3/1/04)

  Guy Finley discusses how to get past justifying weakness and negative states through awareness of our pained condition and surrendering ourselves to a higher strength.

• Never Discourage Over Your Present Location (Writing - 3/27/04)

  Those who choose, explains Guy Finley, to stay the course over staying in negative, painful places find themselves that much closer to True Freedom.

• Cancel the Secret Cause of Self-Captivity (Writing - 4/27/04)

  Learning to question old, negative reactions and feelings, explains Guy Finley, is the first step to breaking out of their dark captivity.

• The One Power Greater Than Any Inner Disturbance (Writing - 5/4/04)

  Choose not to let dark disturbances take hold of you, encourages Guy Finley, but to instead let them pass you by as you would any unwelcome guest.

• Turn Any Dark Condition Into a Healing Light (Writing - 8/3/04)

  When we don't understand our negative states, when we have yet to realize how they trick us into doing their bidding, they have the power to make us jump through…[more]

• Develop the Indomitable Self in You (Writing - 8/10/04)

  In this world that you and I live in, response is request. We can slightly enlarge this idea by restating it this way: The way you respond to life is…[more]

• The Power to be at Peace with Your Life (Writing - 8/31/04)

  The first part of these new lessons in learning to live from your Higher Self and the prayer exercises that attend them is that the next time you feel yourself…[more]

• Negative Imagination (Writing - 12/1/04)

  Guy Finley discusses the draining energy of negative imagination and how images drawn from our memories seem to validate our discouragement.

• Enter the Great Estate of Your True Self (Writing - 2/5/05)

  No one ever feels small in life, explains Guy Finley, who hasn't first been fooled into believing that there is nothing bigger than those small thoughts and feelings through which…[more]

• Attract Positive Life Results with This Powerful Secret Principle (Writing - 3/28/05)

  If we can see, explains Guy Finley, how positive inner states lead to positive life experiences, then we can also see that negative inner states must attract negative results.

• Practicing the Presence of Peacefulness (Writing - 4/4/05)

  Negative states born of nothing other than conflict-filled, comparative thinking, explains Guy Finley, steal into us to squander our peace one hundred times a day.

• Knowledge to Be Stronger Than Whatever Shakes You (Writing - 7/25/05)

  Before we can learn to free ourselves from our own fearful reactions to unwanted events, explains Guy Finley, we must realize just how worthless fear actually is.

• Secrets for Stress-Free Living (Writing - 12/31/05)

  Guy Finley helps us to see that "scary" life-moments are as powerless to punish us as is a make-believe monster on the movie screen.

• Be Careful What You Pray For . . . (Writing - 1/15/06)

  Guy Finley explains that our experience of life moment-to-moment is, in fact, what we have asked for.

• Find New Strength in Awakened Attention (Writing - 1/22/06)

  Guy Finley illustrates that wherever you place your attention, you give life to that seed of thought.

• A Great Lesson in Letting Go (Writing - 1/28/06)

  We must no longer lend ourselves, explains Guy Finley, to the will of any dark state looking to use us as its vehicle.

• Break Out of the Blame Game (Writing - 3/26/06)

  Negative emotions cannot exist, explains Guy Finley, without having something to blame for their punishing presence.

• The Right Choice That Keeps You Safe (Writing - 4/30/06)

  Guy Finley reminds us that no negative state wants what is right for you.

• The Power to Dismiss Discontentment From Your Life (Writing - 10/29/06)

  The discontented nature, explains Guy Finley, always requires that something be wrong in order for it to set it right.

• Rejection (Writing - 11/1/06)

  Guy Finley discusses failure, rejection, and the stress-filled darkness of feeling forsaken or unworthy. Learn what it means to have your own life and to move past the conviction that…[more]

• A New Inner Understanding to Put You in Charge of All Outer Circumstances (Writing - 11/25/06)

  Barring those moments when we find ourselves in real physical danger, conditions, of themselves, have absolutely no authority over us. It's true. No event or circumstance has any power to…[more]

• Step Up and Away from Punishing Feelings (Writing - 12/11/06)

  We punish ourselves with unhappy feelings, explains Guy Finley, because we've been tricked into thinking self-hurt is self-help.

• Go from Storms to Sunny Skies (Writing - 3/5/07)

  Fighting the storm by resisting its winds and rain, explains Guy Finley, will do no good.

• Stand on the Ground of Your True Self (Writing - 4/15/07)

  When you don't -- when you consciously won't -- express some negative state, explains Guy Finley, you are literally asking for awareness of a Higher Self.

• For True Self-Command Just Stop, Look, and Listen (Writing - 5/26/07)

  When the false self throws terrifying shadows, says Guy Finley, you must work to cast Inner Light.

• Free Yourself From False Suffering (Writing - 6/11/07)

  Guy Finley explains how our perception produces what we experience.

• A Winning Solution to Ending Dark Inner Dialogues (Writing - 6/25/07)

  If inner dialogues were left to themselves as they popped into our mind, explains Guy Finley, they'd be as powerless to disturb us as an echo is to change its…[more]

• Loneliness (Writing - 9/1/07)

  Guy Finley provides a deeper understanding of what drives us into loneliness and despair and how we find freedom from these negative states. Learn about growing spiritually by recognizing and…[more]

• The Spiritual Secret that Allows You to Defeat Any Discouragement (Writing - 9/24/07)

  Awareness is a living and intelligent feature, explains Guy Finley, of the ever-present Now within which it dwells.

• Let Go and Grow Beyond Negative States (Writing - 10/15/07)

  Drop whatever would define and limit you, explains Guy Finley, by bringing yourself back into the great and unconditioned Now where all is one.

• Wake Up and Walk Away from Whatever is Pulling You Down (Writing - 10/21/07)

  We are here on earth, explains Guy Finley, to grow beyond the limiting influences of our own unawakened nature.

• Five Great Illusions Keeping You from Letting Go (Writing - 10/27/07)

  Guy Finley urges us to see through false illusions that keep us from letting go.

• Snap Yourself Out of Psychic Slumber (Writing - 11/11/07)

  You may not be able to think your way out of a nagging problem, says Guy Finley, but you can see your way clear of it.

• Rise Above the Negativity of Others (Writing - 11/24/07)

  One of the important aspects of this Work, explains Guy Finley, is beginning to employ its principles in our everyday lives.

• Unmask the Three Thieves of Peace (Writing - 1/21/08)

  One reason why negative states sneak in so easily to steal our peace, explains Guy Finley, is that we have been conditioned to believe in their right to punish us.

• Get to the Bottom of What's Betraying You (Writing - 1/28/08)

  We value negative states, explains Guy Finley, because of the strong sense of self we get from them.

• Never Again Feel Like a Victim! (Writing - 6/9/08)

  Our experience of any passing event -- for the pain or pleasure of it, explains Guy Finley -- is the product of how we see it.

• The Power to Never Feel Powerless Again (Writing - 7/11/08)

  Real power, explains Guy Finley, is knowing we already possess everything we need to succeed in the moment, as we would wish it.

• Uncertainty (Writing - 11/1/08)

  Guy Finley discusses the "Lighter" -- secretly bright -- side of uncertainty, and reveals how our True Nature can lift us above the fear and worry that would pull us…[more]

• Chart a New Course Through Any Dark Moment (Writing - 11/10/08)

  Guy Finley explains that it's what we do inwardly -- with what takes place outwardly -- that alone has the power to transform our lives.

• Take Back Authority Over Your Own Life (Writing - 12/15/08)

  Our purpose in life, explains Guy Finley, should be to challenge and rise above every wrong feeling by finding the higher ground within.

• How You Can Be the Light of the World (Writing - 1/12/09)

  Each of us is created to be the Light of the world, explains Guy Finley.

• Liberate Yourself From Self-Limiting Thoughts and Feelings (Writing - 3/23/09)

  Guy Finley explains that we should do what's in our power and refuse to be discouraged about anything else.

• Start Choosing What You Really Want (Writing - 7/13/09)

  Guy Finley reminds us that you do not have to accept any condition that compromises your happiness.

• Stop Being Tricked into Serving Dark States (Writing - 12/7/09)

  Darkness, in whatever form we experience it, explains Guy Finley, only exists in the absence of light.

• Stand on the Unshakable Ground of Your True Self (Writing - 3/15/10)

  Here is a particularly vital idea for those of us who are tired of finding ourselves a surprised victim of our own actions: in this world of ours *response is…[more]

• Break the Spell of Self-Limiting Negative States (Writing - 4/5/10)

  Your awareness of troubled thoughts and feelings, explains Guy Finley, is the power that keeps their harmful and self-limiting influences from having control over you.

• Stop Nursing Negative States (Writing - 8/6/10)

  Every time we accept a negative state we compromise ourselves and increase the level of conflict for ourselves and everyone we meet.

• Stay Out of Places that Steal Your Happiness (Writing - 8/13/10)

  We have the capacity to stop making ourselves powerless by waking up to having put ourselves where our powers are stolen from us.

• The Strange Non-Life of the False Self (Writing - 8/27/10)

  The sky is forever. And so is your true nature.

• Positive Steps to Drop Negative States (Writing - 11/13/12)

  Meekly submitting to any negative emotion in the hopes it will run its course and leave us alone just invites it to subjugate us again.

• Any Limitation Can Be Transcended (Writing - 2/11/13)

  Actualizing our spiritual right to live without the frustration of fearful limitations is not a question of achieving something new; it begins with choosing to end a relationship with that…[more]

• Learn to Accept What Life Would Teach You (Writing - 4/1/13)

  Ours is the power to choose what we will and will not give our power to.