Learn how letting go of what troubles you is the same as freeing yourself from its grip on you. Best-selling human potential author Guy Finley shows us how to unlock the doors of our consciousness and open our hearts and minds to a life free from fear, stress, and pain.

If you watch animals in the wild, one thing is obvious: The nature of an animal and its natural experience of life are indivisibly related. For example, deer attract biting flies. In the high heat of summer you won't see one without the other, and I have seen deer driven nearly crazy by these pests. They have no choice but to suffer this seasonal torment. An animal's nature attracts to it the...

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.

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.

Student Talks: 11/24/2023 - Key Lesson: 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.

Classroom Talk: 2/7/2003 - The stress we feel over our possessions or in our relationships -- that sneaks in to steal our contentment -- is never because of the way in which these things (themselves) are made to turn, but it is the dark effect of how tightly we cling to the idea that our desires have the power to grant us peace.

No anxious state exists apart from the illusion that the security, happiness, and wholeness you long for exists somewhere outside of you -- "in a time to come." Then why do we go on embracing anxious thoughts and feelings that do nothing but steal from us our love of life? The surprising answer to this question is the same as opening the door to a life free of anxious thoughts and feelings. W...

Before we can experience the truth of a higher state of consciousness, before we can stand on the ground of ourselves that is the secret stuff of Reality, we are asked to quietly be who and what we are in the Now. To do this we must learn to let go of those parts of our present nature that are never quite pleased with what is. After all, doesn't it seem that we are always in some sort...

The more clearly we can see that it's impossible to reach a place of rest by rushing to get there, the sooner we'll arrive at the true solutions that allow us to relax, slow down, and realize the relaxed pace of an inwardly liberated life.

Spiritual awakening is the realization of one's (own) consciousness becoming aware of itself; where self-integration is the same as transcending the suffering born of the temptation to identify with "one side, or the other" of every passing event. This level of consciousness can't be deceived into seeing any opposite as "good," or -- its other side -- as "evil"... because it knows, without tak...

To see that what makes unwanted moments feel so important to us can’t be separated from a powerful, but false sense of self provided by these same painful feelings... begins the process of separating ourselves from an unconscious self...

When life falls apart, or threatens to come unglued, it seems almost natural to carry around some desperate, stressed, or depressed emotional state. But why cling to something that makes us ache? The answer is surprising, but evident, once we're aware of what's actually taking place within us.