Part 1: You can neither control, nor change any anxious thought or emotion that rushes in and sweeps you off of your feet because this 'I' -- this sense of yourself suddenly in a struggle to escape a psychological storm -- is itself a part of the squall it now so vigorously resists. Part 2: Every thought, a blockage. Every emotion, a limitation. Every movement, a hindrance to Thee.

Topic: How to Exchange Anxiety and Fear for Endless Freedom (9/9/20 Classroom Talk)

When it comes to your sense of being a captive in life, held helpless there by conditions beyond your control, you may take heart in this spiritual fact -- but only if you follow it all the way to your freedom: a deep illusion has no more reality to it than does a shallow one!...

The following key lessons are taken from 365 Days to Let Go. Use their insights to help reach for and realize the excellent life. Mediocrity is a form of madness, a dream embraced by the masses because it makes just getting by an acceptable -- sometimes applauded -- social art form. What is excellent requires extra effort. To agree to sleep our way through life is to lose everything, becaus...

I'm sure we can all agree that no intelligent, conscious person would ever intentionally hurt themselves. No one would choose to ache. Yet the fact remains that all of us do hurt ourselves every day with bursts of anger or fits of depression or anxiety. Even at the simplest level, there can be no doubt: fear and worry take an immeasurable toll on our health and well-being. So, then, knowing in...

Any part of you... any thought or feeling -- pushing you to express, or otherwise speak these words to another -- "See, I was right!"... Is wrong for you.

Any fear of some troubled tomorrow disappears as quickly as we are willing to remove our sense of self from the dark thought that imagines it.

I'm sure we can all agree that no intelligent, conscious man or woman would ever intentionally hurt him- or herself. No one would choose to ache. Yet the fact remains that all of us do hurt ourselves every day with bursts of anger or fits of depression or anxiety. Even at the simplest level, there can be no doubt: fear and worry take an immeasurable toll on our health and well-being. So, then,...

Any fear of some troubled tomorrow disappears as quickly as we are willing to remove our sense of self from the dark thought that imagines it.

Each time you can awaken yourself from a self-produced nightmare and pull the curtains closed on its performance, you will reclaim your natural confidence and calm.

Topic: Uncover the Unseen Source of Stress, Anxiety and All Other Unhappiness With Your Life (9/14/14 Classroom Talk)...

Topics covered: How do I deal with severe physical tension; Knowledge by itself kills inquiry; What's behind the question "how long do I have to go through this?"; We live from an autonomic level of consciousness; You can't separate what you experience from the consciousness that produces it; What it means to die to yourself; Negative states are ugly but they...