I grew up in a small upstate New York town in the afterglow of WWII when the US was economically flourishing. I had the good fortune to live in a peaceful neighborhood, with loving parents and a stable home environment.
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Most of us struggle to change habit patterns that cause us pain and confusion. It’s often a “one step forward, two steps back” process. Whether we’re trying to quit smoking or lose weight, end a drug, alcohol or sex addiction, or recover from trauma, we often feel helpless and demoralized when these patterns seem to take over.
Why do states of depression and anxiety come up again and again, despite our best efforts? At their root, these obstacles arise primarily from how we relate to our minds, not from external causes.
We are all familiar with procrastinating. However, procrastination can be very subtle and difficult to address. It may even seem innocent. Has it occurred to you that being satisfied with “knowing intellectually (but it doesn’t help)” is procrastination?
We are all familiar with procrastinating. We may even consider procrastination to be a problem we really need to address. If we are fortunate to not have an obvious addiction, we may not see the link between procrastination and subtle unconscious addictive patterns such as substance addiction, disordered eating, porn, or other compulsive habits.
Most of us think we are living in the real world, when actually we are living in a cocoon of fearful, limited beliefs about the world.
What is a sanity-free zone? It’s an area of our mind and life that is controlled by unexamined beliefs, attitudes, and expectations that cause us unnecessary pain and hardship.
Do you ever feel overwhelmed by life’s challenges? Do you sometimes feel small and weak, believing you can’t change things? In this webinar, Jack Elias will teach you how to understand and use 2 transformative insights: 1) The recognition that you have all your freedom and all your power, all the time!
We are so used to living with inner conflict, we often do not recognize what a profound energy drain it is. The struggle between conflicted states not only creates stress, it tires us out and steals our enthusiasm for life.
Many of us are listening to too many negative messages all day long – and I’m not talking about the online stories we’re scrolling through. I’m talking about the messages we hear in our head!