Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 26, 2014. There is no tension, anxiety, or dissatisfaction inherent in being watchful, while stress of every kind imaginable is inherent in the illusion that it's possible for you to be in more than one place at a time.

Conquer the giants of anxiety, fear, anger and despair. Join best-selling author Guy Finley for this special half hour as he exposes the negative states that hold us captive for being the powerless punishers they really are. Learn how to overcome whatever you have been running from!...

Reach for the higher understanding you need to transform whatever troubles you into the fuel of a whole new kind of success! Noted human potential author Guy Finley explains how to use the golden keys of clarity and understanding to rise above all forms of stress, anxiety, and fear.

Two men stroll down a leaf-covered wood-lot path on a clear, brisk Autumn morning. Jeff and Mark have been friends for years. They enjoy their Saturday morning walks and talks together. Yet, something's different about Mark today. Jeff senses there's a problem. But he says nothing. Two minutes later Mark stops walking, and turns to Jeff. His eyes are searching for a place to begin. Then, foll...

Classroom Talk: 12/1/2019 - It’s never Life’s lessons (themselves) that are painful: here’s the real reason why we continue to experience the fear, anger, or anxiety that always seems to attend the appearance of unwanted moments: an unconscious part of us keeps resisting the (spiritual) lessons that are inseparable from the...

The more we imagine a fearless life created by conditions outside of us, the more compelled we feel to try and control those same conditions. Our fear being that any change in them will return us back where we started: searching for a way to be fearless. Yet, the more we resist change, the more afraid we become of it. We find ourselves applying more and more pressure to life in order to escape...

Classroom Talk: 3/29/2020 - The soul that best navigates this world is not the one who seems to "arrive" where 'X' marks the spot... but rather the one who departs from all places known: for that soul knows it's created to sail the wide-open seas where there's nothing to be claimed -- or lost -- because all found therein... is free.

Topics covered: The world inside of us is revealed by the world outside of us; Life is a ceaseless process of revelation; Living to escape a sense of inadequacy; We become the servant of an image; Pursuit of something outside of ourselves is futile; Enlightenment is the moment in time when timelessness is expressed; Truth belongs to another order of being; The gates of heaven have heel marks i...

Hoping that you can rush out of one place -- in a hurry to get somewhere else -- and arrive there having left your anxiety behind you is like believing it's possible to kill a swarm of stinging thoughts by spraying yourself with insecticide.

ED: Hello. I'm Dr. Ellen Dickstein. Welcome to a Fireside Chat with bestselling inner life author, Guy Finley. During a number of our chats, we've talked about negative emotions, and I thought that this time we would hone in on a particular emotion that is a great problem to many people, if not everyone, and that is fear. Guy, there are many different types of fear, and people react in differe...

Topics covered:  Spiritual wisdom is in discovering the mastery of God. Within us lives this mastery; Every time someone does not agree with you, you experience the fear of death. Anxiety is the avoidance of the fear of death. Anger hides the fear of death; Behind every form of psychological resistance is the fear of death.

Topics Covered: What is the difference between little "I's" and the whole of the divine; I've battled with anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder since my late teens and don't know how to practice the higher ideas I learn; How do I help a young student in my classroom who is rude and hateful; Is conscience a conduit of truth.