SELF HELP EXERCISES

Most of us have experienced at least a few wonderfully happy moments in our lives. We get beyond our everyday troubles and connect with a more expansive sense of life. This experience doesn’t only feel good, it also contains wisdom. But isn’t it gone and in the past?...

If someone wanted me to give them a prescription for getting depressed, I’d say, “Stop dreaming.” Life is a dreaming process. As soon as we literalize our lives by assuming things just are the way they are, we die inside. We assume that we download a preexisting...

What’s your highest dream for yourself? I don’t mean something external like a million dollars or the perfect relationship, although those are great things. I mean what state of Being do you seek? Who do you want to be? How do you want to feel? What do you want to do?...

If we’ve experienced it once we can experience it again. A life problem serves an important purpose: It’s meant to raise our awareness. In fact, each of our issues has a built-in personal growth goal it’s trying to wake us up to. If our aim is simply to get rid of our...

The way we feel—our state of mind and body—tells a story. But it's usually obscured by the story we tell ourselves, especially if it’s a negative feeling: “I feel like this because I’m a bad person. I’m a loser. This other person caused it. I have a mental illness....

Start your week by connecting with the creative power in your problem! Contrary to appearances we don’t download a preexisting reality—we create it. Well, to be more precise, we co-create it. By “co-create,” I don’t just mean we’re dealt our cards in life and we then...

You can’t make deep change without processing your mother / father complexes! Even though we’re much more than the product of our upbringing, our parental complexes sit at the core of our psyches. A complex is the part of your subconscious that organizes your...

What messes up your life is the seed of your wisdom! Use your problems as your guide to your growth. If you feel messed up, take a step back and study yourself, especially the inner stories you spin. Don’t just believe them. Don’t fall under their spell. And don't try...

Start your week by connecting with the big picture of your life! We tend to get engulfed by our routines and life situations to the point of forgetting why we're alive and what we’re meant to do here. We go through the motions but are disconnected from the meaning and...