Sometimes I feel as though something has a hold of me and is stealing from me my life! For instance, I find myself drawn to hang out with people I don't really want to be with, or for that matter, I think thoughts that punish me, and I don't understand what is happening. Can you shed some light on this darkness I seem to be in?...

I am a minister and find your writing very true and helpful. The "toxic" person you speak of is truly damaging to healthy minds and bodies. This is my idea of one of the manifestations of "evil." I have tried to deal with this all my life with an older brother who is like a storm cloud on a beautiful day. He is so blasted negative! He comes around and sows doubt, despair, and hopelessness. He...

Topics covered: Your hope lies in seeing that you have no hope; The instinctual part of you does not communicate through thought; When personality no longer has the energy required to suppress itself, it runs amok; You can never help anyone you're afraid of; Unnaturalness always creates unnaturalness; If people understood Christ's teachings there would be no Christianity; The true meaning of l...

Any condition we meet that is unwanted, such as a rude person, is not the cause of our stress. All conditions simply offer a momentary mirror for us in which it is possible to begin seeing what we have brought with us, within ourselves, into that moment.

In this question and answer session, Guy talks about how the first thing we must realize about any toxic relationship is that we are at least one-half of the equation, and that we refuse to let go of the relationship because there is something that we want from it.

Why do I stay in a bad relationship with someone who gaslights me? We all want to know when to let go of a love relationship that is toxic. Guy Finley answers what is going on "within us" when we can't let go and stay involved in a bad relationship.

Topics Covered: How do I handle my judgmental feelings about my son; Can I still grow while in a toxic relationship or should I leave; How can one heal and free themselves after a sexual assault; Nothing in me loves the truth anymore; When I’m tired and I listen to a talk I’m suddenly reenergized; How does the universe know what's best for you; I’m resentful and angry...

In this answer to a viewer's question, Guy explains how healing from something bad that happened to us in the past begins with observing and letting go of the part of us that finds a peculiar thrill in reliving the event.

In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that what we don't like about other people is what we want from them. If we didn't want something, then there would be no problem with another person's bad behavior. The task is to see that we have lived unconsciously from a nature that rejects anything that doesn't meet its approval.

Student Talks: 3/15/2020 - Key Lesson: There is only one reason why we become emotionally negative, let alone surrender ourselves to embrace its dark and debilitating embrace: We have forgotten that we have a choice as to what we love, and whose company we keep, accordingly.

When we look out at the world and don't like what we see, is it really the world we see that is making us sick? Or is the sickness we see in the world the result of the same old reactions that a hundred million human beings have had a hundred million times? The sickness is in this consciousness that has made the world into what it is.

Guy Finley concisely reveals in this short talk the proper way to spiritually fight for ourselves, which involves seeing the truth about the parts of ourselves that want to drag us down.