
Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being

I do not ask anyone to ignore their past experiences. This would be denial, and denial is not a healthy state. Instead, seek a clearer understanding of the past; realize that the negative feelings and emotions from past traumatic experiences are no longer true. They are merely memories, a collection of old, stale thoughts.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
As you realize the Principles, you become more accepting of the fact that others will always see and feel life differently. Understanding separate realities can make you curious to learn how others are seeing things, without making them wrong.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
However, if you can see that they are only thoughts and you refuse to put life into them, they are harmless.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
become aware of yourself as a vast being of limitless creativity, awareness, and wisdom.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
Wisdom will bring you the insights that are most helpful to you given who you are and what you are dealing with.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
Love is the very nature of life. It is your very nature to love. It’s built into the very fabric of life for you to be unconditionally generous and giving. It’s only when you get caught up in your thinking that you lose sight of that which is invisibly living you.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
When your mind is relaxed and open, you are primed to have insights. Insights are just subtle shifts of feeling inside you. With these shifts of feeling, things will look better to you. Things will come easier to you. You are more likely to experience these internal shifts if you pause and reflect frequently. To reflect means to set aside all attem
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When you let go of judgmental thinking your spirits lift and you see life with more understanding and compassion.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
After this insight, Syd looked around him and saw people everywhere thinking up unhappiness, and innocently not realizing that it was being created from their own thinking! He realized that feelings were not caused by the past, or by circumstances, by other people, or by anything other than thought. He realized that feelings are always and only gen
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