No one can be “ready” for a real moment of self-transformation; but we can be awakened, and made aware of its immanent possibility... and then agree, or not, to cooperate with that process.

Classroom Talk: 6/15/2022 - The ever-anxious feeling that life owes us something -- that we're entitled to have our demands met -- creates two problems at once: first, we are unable to see, let alone realize all that Life keeps trying to give us and, at the same time, the more quickly we are to blame life for the pain created by our own impatience.

Classroom Talk: 1/30/2022 - Painful reactions are born of an unseen resistance (to life). This means our suffering isn't created by the situation blamed for it, rather it is the negative effect of identifying with a lower level of consciousness that clings to this painful, mistaken belief: the first thing to do when having to deal with any unwanted moment... is to not want it!

Classroom Talk: 9/22/2021 - Part 1: The real reason for impatience with ourselves, or with any other... has nothing to do with what, or who is blamed for it: impatience -- along with its dark fraternal twin, frustration -- is born of unseen resistance to the sudden appearance of a limitation, including what is required of us to remain conscious (of it) until it's transformed.

Topics Covered: There is another, higher level of consciousness that is present for us in any moment that we are able to observe ourselves; We as human beings are created with the capacity to be aware of the divided level of consciousness that reacts with fight or flight; What we blame for our reaction cannot be separated from the consciousness that is having that reaction...

Topics covered: How patterns in relationships are developed; When the student is ready, the teacher appears; My sense of self in any moment is the product of what I'm attending to; The purpose of relationship is revelation; Love favors those who favor love; Understanding the 'Hulk' nature within us; Exercise: 'I am not this weakness'; The ABC's of Relationship Magic: Anger, Blame, and Coercion...

Guy Finley's monthly call-in radio show, Guy Finley LIVE! Topics covered: Why we blame outside events for feeling stuck; The great hope is in changing our relationship to ourself; Resistance is the root of all negativity; How we respond to the moment of feeling stuck is actually the stuckness itself; Real change begins in recognizing what we are stuck in internally; Fearing unknown inner exper...

Topics explored in this dialogue: There's a disconnect between what we hear in church vs. what our lives are really like day to day; Real forgiveness is found in similarity, when I see you and I are the same; We have become more defined by what we're against than what we're for; I can either continue to blame & hate, or I can wake up to the hater.

Topics explored in this dialogue: Psychological fear is the dark byproduct of negative imagination; It's easier to find things to blame or try to change than it is to deal with an unconscious mind that resists being examined; The reason fear continues is because it's the path of least resistance; There's a correlation between the amount of pain we're in and awakening from the dream that's prod...

Student Talks: 7/21/2023 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Whenever you make someone else's karma your own, you'll always blame them for it. Part 2: An incomplete mind creates incomplete actions; incomplete actions have consequences. Part 3: Word made flesh... or, "war" made flesh; that's the question that sits at the heart of every moment of life, whether it is wanted, or not.

Topics covered: There are three forces that are essential in the action of creation: an active force, a passive force, and a reconciling force; Is there any painful moment in our lives that is not preceded by resistance to something?; There can't be resistance without something in our consciousness that describes the moment and blames its pain on something outside of itself.

Topics Covered: There will never be peace until we each begin to understand the unconscious mechanism that is responsible for the conflict we experience; The consciousness having the negative reaction always blames something for the pain that it is actually responsible for; If we are having a negative reaction, then we must believe that we know the meaning of the moment...