SELF HELP EXERCISES

Life has a way of disempowering people. But our power doesn’t disappear. Shut out of consciousness, it slinks around in in the shadows of our subconscious. Then it bursts forth in depression, anxiety, attention deficit, physical symptoms and illness, and in extreme...

Solving a life problem is difficult because no matter how objective we think we are, we get entangled in our subjective interpretations. So, where can we find objective information about ourself? Our body. Beyond all our “theories" about who we are is an objective...

Goals are more than visions of future accomplishments. They’re states of mind that exist right now in your subconscious. Instead of thinking of them as external challenges (which they may very well be), focus on them as inner states of mind, body, and spirit. This is...

Close your eyes and come into the present moment. Gently scan your feelings and notice what you experience. Then scan for a more subtle feeling—an almost imperceptible, non-obvious, microscopic sense of something you can’t really put your finger on. It could be...

At the most fundamental level of the universe everything is interconnected. Our bodies really ARE made of stardust. Our psyches are part of the environment too—individual expressions of the grand intelligence behind nature. A hugely important theory in physics called...

In these stressful times, anxiety and worry have become so commonplace we’ve normalized them. Whether it’s full fledged panic attacks or just a chronic, subtle background sense of apprehension, we’ve gotten used to it. Here’s a simple exercise to prevent you from...

We all have at least one ongoing problem in our life that defines us in some way. It persists over time and becomes part of our identity. We experience it has having a certain power over us which we can’t seem to overcome. But this seemingly intractable issue persists...

It’s hard to get out of old patterns. This is because the direction we need to move is hidden from our consciousness. It’s there but we don’t see it. We can’t feel it. How do we connect with something we can’t see or feel? By engaging with our imagination. Imagination...

There are two main elements of personal growth. The first, involves connecting with the changes that need to happen. We must transcend our habitual way of experiencing and interpreting life. We have to "exit the system" so-to-speak, get outside of what we know in...