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If you have ever watched your enthusiasm for a new undertaking disappear after your own mind threw a bucket of cold water over it, then this course is for you. You will gain new understanding into the dark thoughts and feelings that come to discourage you so they will no longer have the authority over you they once had. Then you can fulfill your highest possibilities and be unstoppable in life.
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In this short talk, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that -- far from being discouraged about what may or may not be happening in our lives -- we are intended to participate in the ceaseless revelation of an ever-present and benevolent order of being within us that never stops expressing itself.
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In this short video, Guy explains that trying to be a spiritual person through any idea about what it means to be awakened will lead to discouragement. Stop trying to be awakened. Instead, start seeing where you are asleep. This is not about living up to an imagined state. It is about dying to the illusion that you are what you imagine yourself to be.
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Every human being has a longing in their heart to transcend their present level of understanding and reach new possibilities. In order to do that, we are all going to meet the giant of discouragement. We become discouraged when we see ourselves not live up to some idea or image we have when a moment comes along and we can't succeed as imagined in that moment...
There is no real reason why our lives should ever seem stale or feel futile because real life, of which we are a part, is always new right now.
Student Talks: 4/17/2020 - Key Lesson: Conscious persistence perfects those who will suffer through the work it takes to discover that discouragement is a lie. Only then is its deception seen for what it is: a lower level of consciousness that wants us to accept its mediocrity as the only possibility.
The more you know, the farther you can see, so take as long as you need with the following Higher Lesson and allow yourself to see something new about the true nature of discouragement. Then watch how a new and greater personal freedom dawns in your life. The only purpose discouraged feelings serve is to keep your thoughts on what you can't do. And with your attention fixed in this fash...
What do you do when every dream you have ever had has been crushed? I have nothing more to live for... (From student correspondence)...
The looming shadow of that dark giant called "discouragement" cannot follow you, let alone punish you whenever you will dare to enter the light of higher self-awareness.
As we all know, there are trying times when states of discouragement literally dog us -- following us around as if they're waiting for us to fall down, never to rise again. On these days, our own lackluster emotions are hounded by thoughts barking at us that nothing is right with our lives. Sound familiar? On these same days, even our smallest wish to part ways with these painful states gets p...
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Persistence of the conscious kind proves discouragement to be a lie. Only in the light of this revelation is the deception of discouragement seen for what it is in reality: the shadow of an unconscious self that protects its life by convincing its host to accept mediocrity as the only possibility.