Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

Letting Go with Guy Finley

Question: When things don’t work out in my life — when I lose someone or something — I am plagued by thoughts over what could have/should have been. How do I pull myself out of this obsessive thinking about what I once had? Answer: The sense of self that any suffering produces is guaranteed to find…

Allowing your mind to dwell on any unwanted moment — anticipating that the more thought you give to finding a solution to that pain — the sooner you’ll be set free from it — is like hoping to escape a prison cell by walking into it and locking the door behind you.

Without your relaxed awareness of some thought or feeling as it courses through your psychic system, you don’t have the choice whether or not to be that thought or feeling.

When the doctor taps your knee and it suddenly jerks, you don’t get upset with your leg for jumping out of control. Why? Because in that moment, you realize your temporary jumpy experience is an involuntary physical reaction. But, how do you view your emotional reactions when they start jerking you around? Not only are…

When it comes to anxiety or any negative state, watch the emotion and let it slowly dissipate. Learn to bear what is revealed…

The door to your mind is never to be left unguarded. The same holds true for the door of your heart. Whomever refuses to mount this interior watch effectively agrees to give his life over to whatever creature walks in and claims the place as its own.

The next time you feel yourself starting to become frustrated, angry or scared, do your best to confirm this vital insight: Negative emotions cannot exist without having something to blame for their punishing presence. The clearer for yourself you can make this spiritual fact — about the dualistic nature of spiritual weakness — the better…

Listen in to an enlightening and entertaining spiritual story about a young woman who gets carried away with “dance partners” (thoughts and feelings) that don’t have her best interests at heart. After being “mugged” three times, she tells one more potential partner, “thanks, but I think I’ll sit this one out.”

All that’s necessary for you to remain spiritually asleep is to leave unchallenged that nature within you that is opposed to consciousness of itself.

Have you ever seen rage in yourself? Generally, we don’t want to see certain states within us because we’ve been conditioned to think of them as being morally “wrong” for us. We don’t understand that these dark states are part of an interior world that can be changed when the light of awareness is shined…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners