The Just One Look Method: Complete Instructions

If you do not feed them by paying attention to them, they will starve to death.

You have been conditioned over your lifetime to believe that thoughts are important and that you need to pay attention to them—especially the negative, pessimistic, self‑destructive, and worrisome ones.

Move your attention to the sensation and experience it directly, without naming it or trying to get rid of it.

Can you see that, if what we say is true, then no one is to blame for any of it? Neither you, nor the mind, nor even the fear, really. After all, the fear of life struck of its own accord, accidentally, through the fault of no one.

When we see the actual cause of all the trouble, the almost worshipful relationship we usually have with thoughts and beliefs vanishes. Thoughts and ideas that previously would have been a cause of obsessive concern are then known to be of no consequence.

The fear of life is a psychological autoimmune disease. It seeks to protect us from the perceived danger of being alive by holding life itself at arm’s length. It warps the lens of personal psychology through which we perceive the meaning, validity, and the potential effect of everything that happens to us, within us, and around us. It creates and

It is this conscious act of intentionally directing your attention that counts.

The fear of life is a silent and false assumption that life is untrustworthy and dangerous and it runs in the background of all experience.