SELF HELP EXERCISES

Imprinted in our earliest dream or memory is our entire life’s personal growth task. Some of this task is inherited and some comes from our childhood experiences. Working on it can awaken us to the process behind our long-term problems. A simple start: Recall your...

If we want to know our life story, it’s right there in our worst problem. It contains everything happening in our psyche—both our full potential as a human being, and all that prevents it from manifesting. A life problem can make us lose hope, or at least put a...

Your darkness is trying to lead you to the new light! When we go through dark times we want to get back to our old life when things were better. But difficulties happen in order to lead us to a new life, not back to our old life. Suppressing symptoms by medicating...

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...