While there's no question this talk contains ground-breaking information on the topics of fear and worry, it is truly earth-shattering for the picture it paints about what it is that's stealing your possibilities in life... what it is that keeps you from changing. In this program Guy Finley addresses the twin problems of spiritual inaction and spiritual forgetfulness. Together these two m...
In our quest to win freedom from the ties that bind, we spend most of our lives struggling to overcome vague foes that fade in and out, like the shadows that move across the forest floor each time the sun moves behind a cloud. Yet, for all of these battles engaged and won, for all the changes we've made in our lifestyles and relationships, one thing remains basically the same. We still feel...
Topics Covered: Genuine change is not something that we can imagine. "Our hopes must not be in things seen"; What we imagine will bring an end to our tension is in fact inseparable from the cause of it. The things that we imagine will free us from stress turn out to be prisons; All psychologically rooted tension has its beginning in resistance; The real root of continual, chronic tension...
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...
Don't try to be free -- for this sets you against any movement of life that doesn't line up with your ideas about the nature of freedom. Better than trying to be free, learn instead to freely explore all of your moments. For instance, be free to wonder about your worries instead of feverishly working to resolve them according to your present ideas about a worry-free life. Then perhaps y...
To be able to see any life event -- good or bad -- as a vehicle to help transport us from our present level of understanding to a higher one requires that we develop a new relationship with these unwanted events in our lives. Instead of trying to protect ourselves from them, we must become willing to see what they are revealing to us about ourselves in that same moment. The difference between these two paths and their attending possibilities...
Topics Covered: The importance of not embodying the state you speak of; Creation is the gradual formation of matter from free energy; Energy into principle into matter; Any form of resistance cements what is resisted; You have to get to the point where you're no longer interested in not wanting to be you; God never punishes the human being who makes an attempt to see what they are shown; You d...
I've come to a place in me a few times where I know I need to let go of something, but seem unable to... then I realize that I'm trying to let go by "doing," and that being identified with whatever it is in me that is trying to let go is what is keeping me from letting go. Does that make sense?...
I have had serious medical issues that have resulted in me having to sell all of my belongings. I am essentially destitute and must lie in bed all day. I am praying that you will help give me a reason to go on... because it's real hard to figure out a reason to do so. (From student correspondence)...
The only way to be free of whatever it is that troubles you about someone else is to be free of that trouble within yourself.