“The primary experience of being a man is being inadequate.” Robert Bly And then working so hard at a job, relationship, and success to overcome that feeling. We are a culture where grown men spend…
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Overcoming Fear of Losing Money
Fear of Losing Money As you learn to live a happier life one of the things that will change is the quality of communication. Probably one of the most fearfully corrupt areas of communication is…
#26: Overcoming fear of what others think of you
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There is a structure of beliefs that support the fear of what others think of you. When you dismantle these beliefs, your fear dissipates, as well as the internal dialog that it drives. In this podcast I guide you through some of the resistance you will probably find when you attempt to overcome your fears.
Stop Negative Thinking
A Problem with Self Help Bob decides to adopt some self help strategies in order to be happier in his life and relationships. In order to improve himself and his life, Bob decides to think…
Beliefs and Motivation
Should you take the band aid off slow or fast? Dan Ariely shares an interesting story of whether you should take the band aid off slow, or fast. If you do it slow, the…
Understanding Emotions
Where do your emotions come from? Some people are under the assumption that your emotions come from your thoughts. That would be wrong. It is a bit more involved than that. It’s not just what…
Insecurity
Why we feel insecure In our mind we develop images of who we are. Our imagination develops a story of our self and we imagine our self in different roles. Those images and story roles…
Happiness and the Myth of Success
We are inundated since childhood with the philosophy to create happiness through successful achievement of our goals. Often this approach continues into adulthood. If we are offered another strategy for happiness later it isn’t nurtured…
Secrets of Happiness
Happiness is the emotional experience created by you expressing the emotion of love. In every moment of joy and peace in your life you were creating love and expressing it. Feeling different qualities of happiness…
Can Compulsive Liars Change?
Compulsive Liars and how to deal with them The most important aspect to master when dealing with a liar is your emotional reactions. You can’t always change the behavior of a liar, but you can…
#14: Free will
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Do you have free will? Is there even such a thing as free will? It is true that we are to some degree products of our environment. Our minds get filled with ideas, beliefs and emotional patterns as we grow up.
Self Mastery – Course Feedback
Hi Gary, Thank you so much for the wonderful workshop on Saturday. I did not come expecting an epiphany, but there it was. The course has been helping, in ways that are dramatic when I…
Not Ready to Heal Emotionally
You don’t need to be ready to heal emotionally in order to heal. I often witness people who don’t feel ready to heal emotionally. They come up to the edge of taking action to free…
Two Paths to Happiness
There are basically two ways to approach being happy in your life. The first way to be happy is to practice doing all the things that bring you to happiness. This might seem to be…
How to Change Beliefs
A course subscriber sent me this email about ten weeks after starting the Self Mastery Course. From Steven and his wife M. I don’t know where to begin in telling you how the audio sessions…
Core Beliefs About Your Body
How do beliefs about food and our body affect our emotions? I’ll use one woman’s story about her relationship with her body to illustrate the affect beliefs in the mind can have. Shelly wanted to…
The Law of Attraction Is Not Enough
Outside Factors that can affect the Law of Attraction Here is another case of specialized knowledge that affects the law of attraction. It has to do with outside factors that affect your ability to attract…
Self Awareness
As you develop self awareness you are able to make changes in the thoughts and interpretations you make in your mind. Changing the interpretations in your mind allows you to change your emotions. Self awareness is one of the attributes of Emotional Intelligence and an important factor in achieving success.