I’m doing it again. I feel bad when I worry. I need to stop at this moment. The future is unknown. Worrying about it is pointless. I’m doing myself no good.

Pushing yourself over the smallest hump urges the brain to give up an old pattern for a new one. You are actually expanding your awareness when you let in fresh impulses from the source, which is the real you.

Try the following exercise: Look at the palm of your hand. Feel it as you look. Now imagine that it is getting warmer. Keep looking and focus on it getting warmer; see the color becoming redder. If you maintain focus on this intention, your palm will in fact grow warm and red. Tibetan Buddhist monks use this simple biofeedback loop (an advanced

Value yourself. Don’t wait for the approval of others to validate you. Instead of desiring external validation, strive to help others.

In order to get over your fear of being anxious, you need to cultivate thoughts like the following: I am not going to die, no matter how scary this is. I need to face my exaggerated sense of danger. Since I know I can survive, I can risk not running away from my fear. I can face fear and still do things that scare me. The more I face fear, the more

most people are too quick to blame the brain. What they should be looking at is habit, behavior, attention, enthusiasm, and focus, all of which are primarily mental.

Connecting with the natural world Being useful Exercising your body Finding work that satisfies Fulfilling your life purpose Aiming beyond your limited ego-self

You can put a few harmless spiders on someone who is deathly afraid of them, and their panic may induce a heart attack. What’s stronger than reality? Knowing that you are the reality

Don’t regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.