DR. ZWIG’S SELF-HELP EXERCISES

Always find time to do the things that make you feel happy to be alive! No matter what’s going on make sure to do your soul-nourishing activities. You can also use them to grow and solve problems by studying what they do for you. What state of mind and body do they...

Contemplate your life from the view of the cosmos! As often as you can take a few minutes to look at your life from above. Stand far away and observe yourself in the context of your past, present, and future. You might even want to imagine you’re a wise spirit or...

Mainstream psychology has it backwards; trying to conform to a societal standard of normality doesn’t make us well—it makes us ill! In my decades of clinical practice I’ve rarely seen someone heal and transform their life by trying to be “normal.” I've seen folks...

If you’re like most folks, you get so caught up in daily life you lose contact with what really matters to you. What do you secretly long for? Yes, we all want to get rid of our problems but the absence of a problem still doesn’t connect …

Our problems, including the ones that seem to make no sense, happen for a logical reason. But we usually can’t see or feel this while we’re entangled in them. In order to connect with their underlying meaning we have to engage our imagination. We tend to equate...

There’s a reason we like to do certain things but it’s not just because they give us joy. We’re drawn to these activities because they give us a taste of our higher self. Everyone has something that temporarily frees them from the stress or mundanity of their life and...

We often get stuck in a problem and cycle around it for extended periods. Wouldn’t it be great if you could untie the knot and go free? Here’s a way to begin to do this. Think of a problem you feel stuck in. Is it a mood or state of mind you can’t shake? A...

You can transform your worried state. If you’re anxious, try these simple at-home interventions: 1. Distinguish the facts on the ground from fear-inducing media messages with hypothetical charts and graphs of future doom. Be informed but don’t watch the news all day....

Even though your psyche appears to be one unified system in which “you” think all your thoughts and feel all your feelings, it’s not. The mind is made up of many different parts, or "sub personalities." Self awareness begins with consciousness of these parts. Without...