Use your mind to affect your physical state
Two weeks ago I wrote the following in a post entitled, “Another major breakthrough is on the horizon”: I now think there is something very important that will come from integrating the ability to stop giving meaning, the almost total absence of stress (which has been implicated in almost every minor and major health problem), experiencing unconditional love for people, the fact that our language and the words we use to objectively describe reality already contain meaning that produces significant changes in the body, being able to access the WAIR? altered state of consciousness at will, and the placebo effect [...]
Am I in denial?
My friend said to me: “I don’t believe you. You are in total denial.” I had been having a conversation with my friend and I had just told him about a “difficult” circumstance in my life that hadn’t upset me. He replied with a bit of righteousness that that circumstance was upsetting and, if I wasn’t upset, I had to be in denial. Most people can’t grasp “no meaning” Most people in the world think that events cause us to have specific feelings. Very few people understand, much less have experienced directly, that events have no inherent meaning and thus [...]
Can you change your behavior and feelings without eliminating beliefs? Yes!
When I first developed the Lefkoe Belief process to eliminate limiting beliefs almost 28 years ago, very few people talked about the importance of beliefs. Today most people in the personal growth field acknowledge that permanent change is really impossible unless you eliminate the beliefs that drive your current behavior and make lasting change almost impossible. In the past couple of years, however, I’ve discovered that beliefs are not the immediate cause of our behavior and feelings. Our occurrings are. As a result, fundamental change is possible without eliminating beliefs, if you know how to dissolve your occurrings. Because very [...]
I was upset today … really upset
As I started to get dressed this morning it hit me. “It” was this overwhelming feeling of unhappiness, heaviness, and upset. I felt miserable. I did not want to go to work. I hadn’t felt this badly in many months. I hadn’t felt this way when I had awakened a couple of hours earlier. I had jumped out of bed when the alarm went off after getting plenty of sleep. I had put on my robe and gone down to my desk as I always do to spend about 45 minutes answering emails and preparing my schedule for the day. [...]
Are you run by your feelings?
Negative emotions like anxiety can be really painful. I know because I felt anxiety and many other negative feelings intensely and frequently for most of my life. My depression seemed to take over my entire mind and body. It seemed to envelope me so completely that I felt as if there were no way to escape it. I also felt as if it would never end. My anxiety and depression was so great in my 20s that I thought about ending my life on many occasions. Based upon the thousands of communications we’ve received in the past few years (and [...]
Increase Your Happiness With One Distinction
Do you know the difference between beliefs and occurrings? They are totally different phenomena. And you need to be able to eliminate both of them to have a truly satisfying life. Do you usually make a distinction between reality and how reality occurs for you? Very few people even realize there is a difference between the two, which leads them to deal with a “reality” that exists only in their mind. Do you know why the ability to make that distinction is crucial to having a truly happy life? Most people have no idea. I was preparing a handout for [...]
