Once you’re in the Maze, you’re damaging yourself.

The sooner and more frequently you use the tool when something bad happens, the faster you’ll be able to recover.

“Force of Self-Expression.” It has a magical quality: it drives us to reveal ourselves in a truthful, genuine way—without caring at all how other people react. As a consequence, when you’re connected to this force, you speak with unusual intensity and clarity.

The Grateful Flow Pick out things in your life you can be grateful for—particularly things you’d normally take for granted. Say them to yourself silently, slowly enough to feel the value of each one. “I’m grateful for my eyesight; I’m grateful I have hot water,” etc. You should do this until you’ve mentioned at least five items—it takes less than

we weren’t going to argue with this inner critic, we were going to turn it off.

This anger isn’t caused by anything that’s happening in the present. You’re reacting to the memory of something done to you weeks or years ago. If you allow a memory to put you in the Maze, that’s just as damaging as being put there by something that just happened. We all have a powerful tendency to ruminate on past injustices.

When you worry incessantly, regardless of the subject, you’re creating a negative energy that hangs over you like a cloud. The Black Cloud screens out everything positive and creates a sense of impending doom. It makes no difference if the doom comes through natural disaster, disease, or human error.

life will never exempt you from facing more pain. Once you accept this, your goal will no longer be for pain to stop; it will be to increase your tolerance for it—which is exactly what the Reversal of Desire will do for you.

Pain is the universe’s way of demanding that you continue to learn.