The next time that you find yourself in a stew, regardless of how practical it seems, just quietly note and ask yourself, why is there negativity involved in a practical decision? What does negativity have to do with what I need to do? If you just ask yourself that question, you'll start to see that there is always something at the bottom of what it calls practical that's pushing you to get something reconciled in your life.

In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains that it is not enough to simply say that you are no longer going to be deceived by negative states such as fear and anger. If you ever want to be free and in command of your own mind, then you must begin to taste the bitterness inherent in those poisonous negative states...

In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley talks about the imperative to observe the nature of negativity itself instead of complying with whatever the negativity is telling you to do.

In this answer to a viewer's question, Guy explains that the task for us is not to try to suppress negativity through our own effort. Instead, the task is to watch, to be aware of the negativity so that its actual harmful nature can be revealed. Awareness already knows what to do with negativity without us having to think about it.

Classroom Talk: 9/13/2023 - Trying to change any unwanted condition without first awakening to, and then realizing the nature of the consciousness responsible for creating it... is like blaming a mirror for what you don't like seeing (in it).

Classroom Talk: 8/3/2022 - Our need to change, to be made new, is constant; however, so is our resistance to change. The former is inseparable from the freedom it heralds, while the latter ensures the continuation of patterns that imprison the soul. Choose the latter, and living becomes dying, but choose the former and see how dying leads to Life.

Classroom Talk: 3/17/2021 - Fearful, negative reactions see only what they need to see in order to run away with our life. But, we have another set of eyes that - once opened - can see right through these painful shadows of unwanted moments trapped in the past. Only sometimes, as when we first walk into a dark room, there are times...

Classroom Talk: 5/31/2020 - Part 1: Most of us struggle under a pervasive and ultimately punishing belief that we must do something to enlarge and enhance the world in which we live... When what we really need to do is to awaken from the pain of this illusion by realizing this self-liberating Truth: it's impossible for us to have more...

Classroom Talk: 2/23/2020 - The more (we) mistakenly open a door to any negative reaction that comes knock-knock-knocking there, the more it will come back around - bringing "relatives" with it - until there's neither place nor peace left in our Home that we can call our own.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 23, 2018. If attending to, and then surrendering oneself to the will of the Divine fulfills the highest possible purpose of one's real life -- and one works inwardly, as faithfully as one can to live this understanding -- then slowly, but surely appears a new kind of freedom...

Topics covered: Something in me wants to keep me in fear and humiliation; Why do I feel more negative during the holidays; Feeling like a fake; Resisting unwanted moments; How do I take the high road and forgive someone who hurt me; I want to help my family cope with the death of a loved one...