I write this to help you understand some of the inner landscape of emotional reactions that you might be navigating or perhaps to help you understand someone close to you. Making Sense of the Inner…
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Sources of Emotions
In my book MindWorks, I describe nine sources of emotions. Here, I will explain just two of them and describe how they create conflicts and repressions in our bodies. Sometimes, people notice that some of…
Overwhelmed with Emotions
Overwhelmed With Emotion (& How to Cope) Does anger, sadness, or hopelessness go out of control and take you on a ride of thoughts that makes things worse? Just about every human experiences this. The…
Healing from Trauma
Many people ask me if the Self Mastery course work will help them heal their trauma issues. My answer is Yes, and, you will need to include other resources. The awareness and skills you learn…
The World is a Crazy Place
My client is 25. The other day his mom started yelling at him again. Yes, this is part of a crazy world where adults still do this. What was different was that this time he…
Repressed Anger
Repressed Anger Are you holding it back? At an event last year and I was walking to evening class. I passed Sam and asked him how he was doing. He said he was really angry….
Emotional pain and human suffering
Teachings I learned from Don Miguel Ruiz What I learned from don Miguel Ruiz is more than can be fit into the internet. (Unconditional Love gets lost in the digital translation) Before meeting Miguel, life…
Understanding Relationships and Emotional Drama
It can be difficult to understand a person we are in relationship with especially when sometimes we don’t even understand ourselves. Why do we feel good about ourselves one moment and bad another? Why does…
Why Does the Mind Create Misery
Your mind isn’t designed to make you happy. It developed circuits over millions of years designed to keep you alive, and safe from hurt. As a byproduct, and because of some false belief circuits it…
Why self help doesn’t work at times
When self help techniques don’t work you can feel like a failure There are many wonderful self help suggestions to assist people to change their life and be happy. However it is my experience that…
Avoiding Emotions
There is a line from the movie, Thanks for Sharing. “Feelings are like kids. You don’t want them driving the car, but you don’t want to stuff them in the trunk either.” I mostly write…
Avoiding Emotions
Hello Gary, I got session 9 of the Self Mastery Series last Thursday. I have been listening to the audio, and I noticed something that left me lost. At the beginning of the audio you…
Recapitulation
Recapitulation is a breathwork process for releasing the emotions, energy, negative self talk, and beliefs. It is a method for freeing yourself from the emotional baggage you collected in your past. In the recapitulation process…
Core Beliefs of Anorexia
Anorexia Treatment and Understanding Your Core Beliefs Want to learn more about this anorexia treatment plan? Let me preface by saying, this is not a typical anorexia treatment plan. My new client has had anorexia…
Emotional Healing
Emotional healing is a process. It requires a number of skills. You will need some control over your attention, the ability to be present with the emotions you discover, and the ability to release them….
Projecting Emotions
A woman lived near the forest. She would look at the forest and say to herself that it looks really scary in there. The forest looked like a dark and scary place. It felt like…
Anger Management
The Best Anger Management is Anger Prevention If you are reading this you don’t need to be told how destructive anger can be. You are already motivated to make changes in your emotionally driven behaviors. …
What Causes Anger?
What Causes Anger? What causes anger in a person? Why do we get angry over the smallest things and blow up out of proportion with what is happening? Why do we get angry at the…
Controlling Your Mind
Hi Gary, I’m sorry that I e-mail you again. But I have this big problem that might be hard to explain but I’ll try. Your whole course depends on the belief that you can control…
Repressed Emotions
Repressed Emotions Memories are a kind of informational energy that we can store for years.The physical body has the ability to store energy in the form of emotions as well. These stored emotions can be…