You have always believed that the better people feel about you, the better you can feel about yourself. However, you may have never really considered that the opposite of this belief must hold equally and unhappily true, and that is: The less you are approved by others, the more alone and uncertain you feel. This helps to explain why you think you have to please people as well as why you resen...
My mind is a constant racket. The thinking noise never seems to end. Something has to be done about this way of reacting to life that has plagued me for so many years. I have to find a way to remember at the outset of any crisis that God is in charge and that there is no reason for me to leap into anxiety, rage, or violence because I do not realize what is going on nor can I control what is go...
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Topics Covered: Other than practical or creative thought, we don't need to think; The more you think, the more you sink; When we're identified with anything, we're asleep; Don't try to win, don't try to be strong, just watch and see; We suffer because we have forgotten; The worst that can happen if you go into a moment that you fear is that you'll learn something about yourself...
Topics covered: The moment that you start thinking about being in the flow, you are cast out of the flow; Resistance to the disturbance seems to prove that we would be content if it were not for the disturbance; When a dream is interrupted, the dreamer comes up with a plan to get rid of whatever is obstructing the dream; Identification with anything always places a person outside of where the real flow exists.
The only way to leave the world of feeling sorry for yourself is to deliberately leave the world of thought.
There may be no greater self-deception than the false notion that rushing through anything actually helps us in any way whatsoever. After all, if anxious thoughts and feelings had any power to deliver us to a place or time where peace awaits, don't you think we'd have gotten there by now? Let there be no mistake here: *When it comes to being in a hurry, what difference does it make how fast y...
Question from a student: What is a good approach with a supervisor who clocks one's production and applies other pressures? Do what is in your power to do, and refuse to do what is not. Neither ticking clock, nor dominating supervisor is in your power to change; they are what they are...(but not what you think). On the other hand, what is in your power is to KNOW the truth of the first statem...