Our attention connects us to life; it establishes our relationships with all that unfolds around and within us.
It's a simple, beautiful truth: Resentment hurts. Forgiveness heals. In all cases. No matter what. The problem is that sometimes it's really hard to forgive. There is a part of our mind that loves to hold on to painful thoughts and feelings -- even though they aren't good for us. It's not our fault that our minds have been conditioned to work this way, but now that we know what's g...
Question: Your teachings say that making demands and having expectations just sets us up for trouble. I know it's true. I always plan how other people should act and how things should turn out, but they never do what I expect, and then I become angry and disappointed. I sense that I am causing all my own pain. If I could just learn to want for myself what life wants for me maybe I wouldn't...
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Topics covered: Whenever are carried away by a fear, regret, worry, or any other negative state, we are being swept away by the past. We are swept away by the past because, presently, we live in its realm; Within the realm of the past are all of the imaginings of better a time to come; We see the present moment we are in through the shadow of the past. We see the present moment through the eyes of the past.
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Topics covered: Discussion of the live-streamed series on Authentic Change; How can I stay on track with projects; Can psychological irritation cause physical problems; Trying to find a peaceful place after my husband passed away; Should I move on from my relationship; I have regrets about how I treated someone who has since passed away; I don't feel much love for anything and wish to open mys...
Starting life over again is the key to a new you. Never mind all of those thoughts and feelings that may be telling you this is impossible -- those inner whisperings that either deny the need for this self-newness or that scoff at its possibility. Brush them away with the following helpful insight: self-defeat in the past does not prove that self-victory doesn't exist. Defeat of any kind in li...
Add your own fly-by “I’s” to this list, or make your own. For extra benefit draw connecting lines between the various “I’s” that correspond to one or another, or that tend to show up in support of each other.
Each day we hear a knock on our psychological door, and when we open it a pushy person enters and begins to bark out orders: "Worry about this." "Remember and regret that." "Work harder!" Is it little wonder we experience only the most fleeting feelings of love, kindness or relaxation? We are all the time being pushed along by something that calls itself an authority, and without ever questi...
Until the peace and pleasure found within us is equal to -- or greater than any consolation found outside of ourselves -- then our power to be patient, loving, and profitable in every moment is, at best, conditional...
We cannot “make” things whole any more than the moon makes itself full by its own light. Rather our work is to serve as a witness to life’s ceaseless, concurrent appearance of fullness and emptiness and...
I want to let go of my familiar painful thoughts and feelings, but fear what will happen next. Who will I be without all of my usual feelings? My problem is letting go. I'm always offering myself solutions, and I don't know how to stop. They make so much sense at the time, but then I end up in more trouble than before. How can I move beyond a painful regret?...