Your thoughts are not your own. Many of your most private, most personal thoughts are not actually yours at all.
Think about it: you are no more the creator of your mind than you are of your body. Though you can influence your body’s shape...
Why do you get anxious? Is anxiety just an unpleasant feeling you need to try to shake? Is anxiety merely a dysfunction that randomly takes over some people’s brains and needs to be managed? There is actually a lot more to the story of anxiety....
No one knows how long they’re going to live for. Nonetheless, when I ask almost anyone what age they think they’re going to live to, they give me a number. We act as if we’re going to live to 65, or 85, or 100, and this belief changes...
Have you had any firsts this week? Y’know, firsts: things you’ve never done before, new experiences, new experiments. We’re at the beginning of a new year, a perfect time to remember the importance of firsts.
Firsts help you...
Overcoming oppression is one of the primary things that clients need your help to do. They may not realize it, because they may not understand yet the ways they’ve been hurt and limited by oppression. That makes it all the more important that...
Some things about you set you apart. There are ways you don’t fit in, beliefs and behaviors of yours that are outrageous, ways the world is that have never made sense to you. If you pay attention to these parts, let them lead the way, they will...
It’s easy to lose the path to liberation. How can you ever find it again if you’re busy walking another path in a different direction? Luckily, some disturbances in our lives stop us in our tracks, prevent us from continuing down a path...
We are all, consciously or unconsciously, seeking liberation. We all wish to be free of suffering, to be able to be our true, authentic selves, to be able to clearly see things as they really are.
Disturbances in our lives, like addiction, often...
