Our lives are meant to be bright, noble, and ever ascending. This promise of our true potential is made good in us by fulfilling our possibilities and not through the interminable struggle of trying to prove what is impossible. Most of our sorrows are the stressful offspring of trying to be something we have no real need to be; they are born for attempting to do...

The real reason we stress ourselves over the way others behave -- and are so quick to judge them for their irritating behavior -- is as follows: by blaming others for how we feel in the moment then our negative state is always the fault of someone else.

Truth wants you to know that it is never in your best interest to unconsciously suffer, no matter how inwardly convincing it may feel to you that you will be betraying yourself or someone else if you don't. The only way that any suffering feeling can prove to you that you need it is to hypnotize you with a flood of itself. Step back from yourself. Learn instead to listen to the quiet stream of...

When an unwanted moment comes along - there's a stress, a strain, somebody's definitely being negative -- aren't you positive that the reason you're in pain and resisting the condition is because of "what they are"? I'm telling you, that's not the case. They are revealing to you something in your consciousness that you don't know is there! And the only way it stays there, and hidden from you...

There is no tension, anxiety, or dissatisfaction inherent in being watchful, while stresses of all makes and models are inherent in the illusion that it's possible for you to be in more than one place at a time, doing more than one thing at a time.

Classroom Talk: 11/19/2023 - The single greatest unseen cause of premature aging, stress-related health issues, and ultimately of death is... the deeply mistaken, agonizing idea that somehow our constant struggle to control the outcome of any moment we fear will one day free us from these moments we fear.

Part 1: To pause in the face of a challenge -- and measure there the possibility of our success by considering the odds against it -- not only keeps us from taking direct intuitive action, but such delays actually serve to make us captives of the same fear that we have taken as our council and guide. Part 2: The secret of higher success is to make impersonal those times and places where we s...

Noted author Guy Finley and Dr. Ellen Dickstein, PhD., have an illuminating discussion on what prohibits us from knowing more peace in our lives. Learn the little known secrets of what you can do, on a daily basis, to disarm stressful states, and step into a more peaceful life.

Classroom Talk: 6/1/2022 - Trying to assess, and then assign blame to the stress that exists between you and whatever you may be struggling with in life... is like trying to judge which side of the rope in a tug-of-war is to be blamed for the tension (in it).

Part 1: The pretense of kindness, of being loving, does not make those qualities real in us any more than an actor who plays the role of a talking tree in a play by Shakespeare is endowed with the strength of an oak! Part 2: When we finally understand that we can not "prove" ourselves in this world without having first compared ourselves to it -- and that this kind of comparison is the unseen...

Author Guy Finley and Dr. Ellen Dickstein, PhD., discuss how to turn the tables on stress and anxiety by discovering a whole new way to reconcile self-wrecking negative states. Learn to use troubling thoughts and feelings by transforming their energy into new and positive powers.

Student Talks: 4/19/2019 - Key Lesson: Trying to assign blame to the stress between you and the one with whom you are in a struggle... is like trying to judge which side of the rope in a tug-of-war is to be blamed for the tension (in it).