Topic: Stop Getting Worked Over by Anxious Thoughts and Feelings (Classroom Talk 2/7/24)

Topics covered: A sleeping human being is anyone who has made peace with the pain that promises to leave them alone in a future time to come when conditions finally change in their favor; When you have pain in your life, you turn to yourself because you do not know what else to turn to, and your solution provides a temporary consolation at best; The part of you that tells you what to do about the conditions or people that are bullying you around...

Classroom Talk: 2/7/2024 - Either we have command over our negative reactions or -- without ever knowing so -- our reactions take command of us, making us little more than unwitting servants of whatever painful thought or feeling we've empowered to push us around.

Topic: Step Out of the Anxious Rush and Into Your Real Life (Classroom Talk 1/17/24)

Classroom Talk: 1/17/2024 - The endless -- and futile effort -- to complete yourself in a time to come is as hopeless as trying to free yourself from a pressing hunger pain by believing the more time you spend reading the menu of your favorite restaurant, the fuller you're going to feel.

Topic: Stop Being Bullied by Your Own Stressful Thoughts and Feelings (Classroom Talk 12/6/23)

Topics covered: We are bullied all the time by something within ourselves that we do not recognize as a bully. In fact, we often look to this inner bully for guidance; What makes us the favorite of any bully? The answer is that weakness always pounces on weakness. The bully does not exist without something to bully; We are bullied inwardly by fear, anxiety, anger, worry, depression, or any other negative state that we are not aware of...