Who we really are doesn't need therapy - it's only the case that when we’re not ourselves that we need all sorts of tricks and gimmicks to help us on our way! When we’re pretending to be who we’re not,...
Continue readingWho we really are doesn't need therapy - it's only the case that when we’re not ourselves that we need all sorts of tricks and gimmicks to help us on our way! When we’re pretending to be who we’re not,...
Continue readingThere are only these two things in life - copying and creativity. There are only these two things and there is nothing in between them. ‘Copying’ is where we build upon what we have already been provided with, whilst ‘creativity’...
Continue readingWho we are really doesn't need to be fixed and so what this means is that if we are trying to fix ourselves then what we're trying to fix isn't us. It's some kind of idea, some kind of a...
Continue readingAll rational-type psychological therapies, without exception, involve making something happen because we want it to happen (or as we should really say, trying to make something happen that we want to happen). That's the whole idea, obviously. If we didn't...
Continue readingHonesty is something that goes far beyond mere conventional morality - what genuine honesty actually entails is a revolutionary shift in how we understand reality and so when we talk about being honest (in the way that we generally do)...
Continue readingOur understanding of what constitutes ‘mental well-being’ is skewed because of the way in which we automatically assume that most of us are – in an essential way - ‘orientated towards the truth’. This might sounds like a reasonable enough...
Continue readingWe can either be driven by the need to turn a profit (which is to say, by ‘the need to obtain the advantageous outcome’) or we can be conscious. We can't be both - it's always got to be either...
Continue readingThe thinking mind is ‘a machine for turning a profit’. It is there for solving problems, in other words. This is very useful at the same time as being (potentially) highly dangerous; it's dangerous because unless there's oversight with regard...
Continue readingOur thoughts distort reality, our ideas distort reality, our beliefs distort reality. This is of course in direct contradiction of what we understand to be the case, which is that our thoughts, ideas, and beliefs tell us about reality. More...
Continue readingThe reason we get super-serious, humourless, stressed out, aggressive, and mechanically driven in life is because our world has become decomplexified so that there is only one way to look at things, only one way to do things, only one...
Continue readingGames are ‘a safe substitute for life’ because they don't involve any risk! This statement doesn't immediately make any sense to us because, when we're playing a game, we perceive it to be the case that games are all about...
Continue readingWe become real by negative action, not by the positive type. Positive action - which is to say, continual straining and striving - causes us to become unreal, not real. The more we try to improve ourselves, develop ourselves, make...
Continue readingTo identify with the mental image that we have of ourselves is to place thought above us, it is to place thought above us because once this image is in place then we can't help having to conform to it....
Continue readingWhenever we encounter anything, aspects of ourselves included, we always judge. Judging is what we do - we slap a label on things and then file them away somewhere in the dusty filing cabinet of the thinking mind. We judge...
Continue readingWe become terribly fond of the patterns which we get trapped in. We get so very fond of these patterns that we think they ARE us. We actually are the repetitive patterns that we fall into, for all practical purposes,...
Continue readingWe live a conceptually-mediated world without knowing that we do. Or to put this another way, we live in a world that is made up of our thoughts whilst imagining the whole time that it is the real world, (which...
Continue readingOur hidden dysfunctionality, if we are willing to admit that there is such a thing, is that we are always trying to fit everything into a model of the world, a theory of the world, that just doesn't have any...
Continue readingWhen we are suffering from ongoing mental pain and distress then the thing to remember is to be aware of our resistance to this pain and distress. If we aren't paying attention to our resistance in this situation then our...
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