Tag: Surrender

• June 29, 2011

  How the World Gets Small

  Have you ever noticed how quickly your whole world can shrink to the size of your current problem? One financial worry, one difficult relationship, one piece of bad news —…

• June 25, 2011

  What the Unaided Will Cannot Do

  One of the most counterintuitive discoveries a person can make is that self-confidence — the thing we are told to build more of, to protect, to project — can actually…

• June 24, 2011

  The Double-Edged Sword of Negative Thought Patterns

  Most people understand that certain substances can trigger an allergic reaction in the body. What far fewer people understand is that negative thoughts — anger, worry, self-pity, depression — can…

• June 14, 2011

  When Emotional Pain Becomes a Demand

  In Part 1 we explored how the three primary instincts — security, sex, and society — operate below the level of consciousness and trigger the four signs of emotional insecurity:…

• June 6, 2011

  The Process of Inversion

  To change is to create art. Every genuine, lasting transformation works exactly the way learning a musical instrument works — the movements that feel foreign and effortful at first become,…