The challenge, as a person who wants to grow and experience the best and most effective life they can, is to remember: You can change your habits. Even the habits that you learned at three or four months old.

I am learning to appreciate the pain in seeing the world fall apart. Because in its own way... It is beautiful. In its existence, in its persistence, in the way it creates a tension that will eventually break... The world would not function without pain to counterbalance the pleasure, to give it a sort of solid nature or palpability.

To begin a journey, you need more than just two legs; you need the will to start walking.

“This blog post, while mainly being an explanation of what live hypnosis looks like in a session and how it might feel, is also intended to put you into a slight hypnotic trance. Perhaps you might even go kind of deep.”

“I want to share My view of The Universe, I want others to see the beauty and power and peace that I've seen, that I witness and keep mindfully witnessing.”

“Beginner’s mind is removing yourself from your past knowledge, your past experiences, leaving yourself open to seeing the world as a fresh experience, every moment.”

Drawing that into the more modern age, Gestalt Psychology says that the human mind perceives things as wholes rather than just the parts that make them up.

Do you remember how you felt the first time you listened? I cannot speak for your experience, of course, but I'd venture to guess that it was more than just a sexual excitement.

One of the first things I learned about back in Psych 101 was self-actualization in Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. If you're...