In this answer to a viewer's question, self-realization author Guy Finley talks about how our own questions about what to do about the anxiety we feel actually perpetuates the very anxiety that we want to get rid of.

In this short talk, bestselling "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that the feeling of being stuck is not actually due to the event that we perceive as being outside of ourselves. What really has us stuck is a mind that perceives life as it does, and then resists its own perception.

Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life. It is an accord on our part with what the present moment tells us about ourselves as it unfolds before us, asking of us what it does. And what is it that Life is asking of us moment to moment? It's simple, really...

The following 7 Golden Rules of True Self-Fulfillment are not the same as the laws that govern this world; nor are they what govern the lives of the vast majority of the men and women who crawl upon it. As is true of all creatures, these individuals have the life they serve; by law, their nature is their experience.

In this video, bestselling inner-life author Guy Finley explains how resisting something is the same as placing your attention on the very thing that you say you don't want.

Topic: Letting Go of All that Troubles You Starts Here (11/17/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Our life is intended to be an infinite series of revelations of higher levels of ourselves; Within us lives not only what is high and light, but what is also low and dark, waiting to be revealed so that it can be healed; As goes my attention, so comes my experience. Attention is connection; To connect with something is to agree, whether conscious or not, to exchange energies with that thing.

Classroom Talk: 11/17/2021 - Part 1: It is inevitable, but nevertheless a truth seldom realized... until too late: any troubled thought that circulates through an unattended mind will eventually run into the outstretched arms of the very suffering it's trying to escape! Part 2: Here's a great paradox, and anyone who can solve its mystery stands on the threshold of self-liberation...

Student Talks: 6/20/2021 - Key Lesson: You cannot protect yourself from psychological pain or disappointment and hope to court the Divine at the same time. The narrow entrance into the heart of heaven is a movement; (it is) an unknowable accord found only where revelation and letting go converge and merge, and from their union give birth to...

Letting go and spiritual growth are as rain is to a field of wildflowers: we blossom as beings only as we release ourselves from what is self-limiting. But why do this kind of work within ourselves? Even though it's obvious, it needs to be stated: we struggle with whatever we do -- with whatever personally compromises us or our contentment in life -- so that we might realize a greater...

Topics Covered: You cannot understand your life through the level of consciousness that is the source of confusion; You can't convince a human being that there is something in them that can't wait to hate its life or feel sorry for itself; The one thing that people won't sell is their hope in things seen. It is the hope in things seen that is the source of fear; The false self doesn't exist...

Classroom Talk: 6/20/2021 - You cannot protect yourself from psychological pain or disappointment and hope to court the Divine at the same time. The narrow entrance into the heart of heaven is a movement; (it is) an unknowable accord found only where revelation and letting go converge and merge, and from their union give birth to a new...