Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being

No matter how bad you feel in your relationships, you can remain hopeful because you are always just a thought away from feeling better. You start to trust that you are never stuck forever in any feeling you may have.

still get caught up at times. Everyone does. The difference is that with understanding you become more comfortable with being caught up. You just get better at being relaxed about it and waiting until your thought storm goes away. You continue to have more trust that it will go away, and that wisdom will break through. You don’t have to do anything

In our experience, fundamental change does not require hard work and practice! The essence of transformational change is insight, recognition, or realization. You, like everyone else, already have everything you need for transformational change.

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.

If you look back on your life you can have a sense that who you are has always existed. You sense that what you call “you” was always there having all of the thoughts, feelings, and experiences that you had. Your being has always been here throughout your life.

Everything in the physical or psychological world comes, goes, and changes. Your thoughts come and go. Every feeling you have comes and goes. Your perception of life comes and goes. So, you are living in a thought-created world and the content of your experience is something that comes and goes and changes. It arises — and then it disappears.

Trying to be special, different, or better requires a lot of effort and thinking. It is based on dissatisfaction with your self, and such effortful thinking now adds stress to your dissatisfaction. Realizing the Principles allows you to accept the perfection of how you are at each moment.

In essence, who you are is the awareness of the dance.

How can we stop negative, unwanted thoughts from entering our heads? We can’t.