To change your paradigm is simple to understand yet not easy to implement. Why? Because it is hard work and most people become addicted to the unresourceful states and numb…...

Whether you’re cheering for a new year, a sports team, or a birthday, it feels good. Could there be lasting benefits? Such benefits were reported by Nick Hornby in his…...

When you were young, you learned ways to feel better when you were upset. The good feeling of relief built a pathway in your brain that helps you repeat the…...

The truth is that your mind is persistent and will push through ten eternities to bring you what you deeply desire (metaphorically speaking). Your mind does not know defeat or compromise, and it does not surrender.

Anxiety is caused by our own expectations more than we realize. For example, a pothole in the road causes huge anxiety if you drive right into it, but if you see…...

It’s kind of amazing: right now, what you think and feel, enjoy and suffer, is changing your brain. The brain is the organ that learns, designed by evolution to be…...

Truth is survival and your mind is truth-seeking! As humanity evolved, an accurate assessment of current reality was essential to our continued existence. Truth-seeking is instinctual.

Your mind naturally and automatically seeks the knowledge and information it deems important. It is programmed to seek data relevant to your survival.  Since we no longer live in the jungle, relevant is redefined as what is important…...

The title of this practice is a little tongue-in-cheek. What I mean is, most of us – including me – spend time worrying about criticism: past, present, and even future.…...

Does life sometimes seem like a high school cafeteria? It’s not your imagination. Our brain is designed to wire itself in adolescence. Our emotional brain is inherited from earlier mammals…...