 Visit www.onejourney.net to learn more CLICK HERE to view more videos by Guy Finley |  Letting Go with Guy Finley Take Your Rightful Place in the Kingdom of Heaven Key Lesson: Your true nature is fearless because it lives for one reason only: to be the unflagging instrument -- moment-to-moment -- of whatever love asks it to be. The Peace That Passes All Understanding Key Lesson: Seen properly, the speed with which we move to judge others -- and the pain that pushes us at to that conclusion -- proves the presence and the pressure of those parts within us that want to avoid seeing their similarity at all costs. CLICK HERE to listen to earlier podcasts by Guy Finley |
 087 Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude Rebecca had decided that her best chance of getting hired by a company doing geological survey work in the Alaskan wilderness was to earn a private license to fly twin-engine planes. A few days later she began taking lessons from a wise old bush pilot, highly respected throughout the region for his cool and collected ways of dealing with the worst possible situations. Read the entire article 085 Never Feel Sorry for Yourself One thing that makes it so difficult to drop feeling sorry for ourselves is how real it feels when we are full of self-regret. But any perception of reality that requires us to submit to any such self-centered suffering is always a lie! Read the entire article 083 In God Whom We Trust I recently watched a documentary where a popular singer gave a rousing performance of John Lennon's song "Imagine" at a religious gathering. By the time he brought the song to a climactic end, thousands of people were caught up in a frenzy -- crying out in a unison of heated passion over love and its possibility for bringing peace to a weary world. Read the entire article 081 The Secret of Soul-Remembering Have you ever fought over a parking place? Have you ever jumped up to make a phone call to straighten someone out? Have you ever snapped at a family member? These are moments when you sell your soul. Read the entire article 079 Step Out of the Rush (And into your own life) Before you can step out of the rush and into your own life, you must first see that while anxious, hurried feelings often lend a temporary sense of self-importance, these same racing emotions actually rob you of the power you need to be self-commanding. A brief investigation will confirm this finding. Read the entire article 077 Principles of Invisible Justice We can never hope to be free as long as any part of us struggles with, or suffers over what others are doing, have done, or won’t do with their lives. Read the entire article 075 Let Go and Let a New Life Succeed for You “The task of completing ourselves in this life only really begins with the discovery that our lives belong to a far Greater Story than we can tell ourselves; and it isn't until we find ourselves in this larger Life that our own reveals its secret true proportion.” Read the entire article 073 The Secret of Having Everything You Want Everyone wonders whether or not there is one great secret for truly successful living. There is. And it is not a secret. It has been quietly, steadily telling itself right in front of us all along. Read the entire article 071 The Courage to Be Free Bestselling Author Guy Finley Answers Questions on The Courage to Be Free Question: Guy, the title of your book, The Courage to Be Free, raises an immediate question. Why does it take courage to be free? Read the entire article 069 10 Ways to Make God’s Life Your Own Recognizing the need for God in your life is the beginning of His entrance into it. And, as His is always the initiating action, what may feel like your need is really His secret invitation — announcing itself as a hunger in the heart which nothing in the world can sate. Read the entire article 067 Let the World Inside You Go By A man once awakened to find himself riding through what appeared to be a haunted house. He didn't know exactly where he was. All he did know was that it was very dark and that he was moving along with no choice as to the direction. Read the entire article 065 Empowerment A Question and Answer Forum with Author Guy Finley Read the entire article 063 Reclaim Your Right to be Self-Ruling Whatever it is that we wish to let go of must be something from which we wish to be free. This may be unpleasant or troubling relationships, a problem-filled past or fearful future, any form of addiction, recent painful events -- or any of those disturbing thoughts and feelings about these same troubling things that we no longer want in our lives. Read the entire article 061 The Secret Path to the Summit of Your Self Not too many years ago, there was a party game that involved one person telling another what animal the other person most resembled, either by appearance or by character. Read the entire article 059 Using Your Relationships To Realize Real Life What do we have to do to change the balance sheet of our lives so that for every measure of impatience and intolerance there may be at least an equivalent sum of compassion and consideration? Read the entire article 057 How to Make Fear, Doubt and Worry Disappear Whatever we try to go around in ourselves, guarantees it will come around again, which is why the things we fear in life, and about ourselves, always tend to reappear. Read the entire article 055 Uncover the Fountain of Fresh Starts Hidden in You How often do we tell ourselves that we want a new life? In our minds we see ourselves reclaiming our right to live a life without limitations. Read the entire article 053 Finding the Extraordinary Life I can think of no greater encouragement than the self-evident Truth that there dwells in each of us the opportunity to explore and know the Extraordinary Life. Read the entire article 051 The Gift of Meditation When you go outside on a beautiful day, do you step into the sunlight and try to enjoy the warmth, or isn’t the enjoyment inherent in the experience? Read the entire article 049 How You Can Be the Light of the World Let us turn our attention to how each of us may, every day, help to lift, heal and brighten the world we share — so that through our individual spiritual efforts we do the work that first transforms our lives and then the life of the world itself. Read the entire article 047 New Rules to Rise Above Whatever Is in Your Way Rebecca had decided that her best chance of getting hired by a company doing geological survey work in the Alaskan wilderness was to earn a private license to fly twin-engine planes. Read the entire article 045 The Secret of Success Without Stress Have you ever wondered why success and stress seem to be inseparable companions in our world today? Read the entire article 043 10 Ways Would-Be-Angels Earn Their Wings The Spiritual Life is one great paradox after another. For instance: All things are possible with God... But without Him... nothing Real can be achieved. Read the entire article 041 Happiness: A Question and Answer Forum ...To know true contentment in life only becomes possible as we realize that discontentment in life arises from ignorance of our True Nature, and that this spiritual ignorance cannot act except to promote itself, causing more unrest and unhappiness. Read the entire article 039 Dreams A Question and Answer Forum with Author Guy Finley Read the entire article 037 True Purpose in Life The only real confusion we face at any time is over what our purpose is here on this earth. Please don’t think this an oversimplification of the problem. Read the entire article 035 Escape to Freedom An evil sorcerer once hypnotized a group of captives into believing that whatever he wanted was what they wanted. It was a powerful black spell. Read the entire article 033 The Higher Self-Understanding That Heals All Hurts What do we need to do to rise above the limitations of our present understanding -- limitations that, seen or not, play a role in our daily dose of heartache? The answer may surprise you! Read the entire article 031 Start Being the Light of the World Every journey of genuine self-discovery, and the subsequent changes this process produces in us, must begin somewhere. We begin our journey with a great but unrealized truth: within each of us resides a power that can change the whole world. Read the entire article 029 From Codependent to Independent Have you ever wondered why it is that, with so many people calling out for the need to make positive changes in their lives, so very little actually changes? Read the entire article 027 Go Beyond Thinking and Stop Sinking Too frequently we feel as though our lives are under the power of things outside of us and beyond our ability to deal with them: we are prisoners in one way or another of an unfair social system, impossible work conditions, an unforgiving past, or a failed relationship. Read the entire article 025 Break Through the Illusion of Limitation Here’s a strange paradox of the upward path that runs through Real Life: the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our reality! So, take as long as you need to understand the following special lesson; it sheds much needed light on a certain dark state that stands between us, and the higher freedom for which we long. Read the entire article 023 Find New Strength in Awakened Attention Imagine for a moment a man walking through his office when his boss passes by and gives him a blank look. Suddenly the thought pops into the man’s mind that his boss is criticizing him or doesn’t like him. Now, as he starts to fear this idea a negative picture is produced by his imagination. His mind focuses its attention on this disturbing image. Read the entire article 021 New Freedom from Self-Defeating Behavior An angel has two wings. On each of these wings is written one of these two words: YES and NO. As we are about to learn, these two simple words represent special principles that are the wings of spiritual freedom. Read the entire article 019 Love's Secret Hold on the Human Heart Seated in the center of the heart, as surely as the essence of a tiny seed holds the promise of a towering tree, lives within us the Presence of a Power that can dispel any gathering darkness, and change what is unkind into conscious compassion. What is this great Presence and Power lying latent within us? It is Love. Read the entire article 017 The Secret of Effortless Happiness Have you ever noticed just how unhappy you can get over the fact you are not happy? Unexamined, this behavior seems to make sense. But a closer look at it will reveal that being unhappy over being unhappy is like throwing gasoline on a fire to put it out. Read the entire article 015 Harness the Transformational Power in Self-Reliance Let us investigate what is required of us — what it takes to become New in mind and heart. This true self-transformation requires a new kind of courage to search out and to "stand" in a new place within ourselves. Read the entire article 013 Liberating Lessons in a Tale of Two Selves The scorching heat in the southwestern desert regions can be phenomenal. It has been known to explode rocks, carve the earth, and create thermal lifts that reach tens of thousands of feet into the air. These giant thermal currents can throw a jumbo passenger jet around like a leaf in the wind. This is definite power. All creatures that inhabit this mostly waterless domain either live by its laws or perish. Read the entire article 011 Develop the Power of Patience that Perfects Your Life An essential spiritual force is missing from our lives. We are about to gather ample evidence of this fact, and learn ways to recover this crucial force that we unknowingly give away. Read the entire article 009 ...Personal Freedom in the Principles of Invisible Justice We can never hope to be free as long as any part of us struggles with, or suffers over what others are doing, have done, or won’t do with their lives. If we could remain aware of the often-compromised state of our own character, that is, how we still do those things to others that we don’t want to do, this awakened conscience would stir in us a new need. Read the entire article 007 Liberate Yourself from Limiting Thoughts and Feelings It’s a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life. So, take as long as you need to understand the lesson that follows. It’s intended to shed much-needed light on one of the more deceptive dark states that stands between us and the freedom for which we long. Read the entire article 005 The Power to Change Your Past It may sound strange and improbable, but this short article explains how it’s possible to actually change your past, and let go of any painful experience that wants to haunt you. The secret lies in awakening a little-known skill that every person is given at birth, but that few ever realize they have: the ability to start life over any time we choose. Read the entire article 003 Invite the Light that Shatters Self-Limitation Key Lesson: We are not created to spend our lives in fearful preparation over what may come – but rather to use whatever comes our way, each moment, to help us perfect our understanding that God is good. Read the entire article 001 Just Say “No” to Blaming A big part of our inner work in all of our relationships involves remembering this key idea: Whenever we are not present and properly attentive to ourselves, we may be sure the false self is busy attending to something we'll be paying for in the days ahead. Disconcerting, yes; but there's no denying it: there are unconscious parts of us that feel good about getting us to do wrong! Read the entire article | 088 Step into an Unthinkably Confident Relationship with Life Looking to the past for guidance on how to make a new beginning is like asking an echo to show you where it got started. We do not need to think in order to know the right thing to do in the moment for ourselves, or for others! In fact, quite the opposite is true. Read the entire article 086 The Spiritual Secret that Allows You to Defeat any Discouragement As we all know, there are trying times when states of discouragement literally dog us—following us around as if they’re waiting for us to fall down, never to rise again. On these days, our own lackluster emotions are hounded by thoughts barking at us that nothing is right with our lives. Sound familiar? Read the entire article 084 The Secret Understanding That Makes Painful Events Disappear We may deny that we value our aches, but on the other hand, we think about them all the time. We have yet to recognize the fact that our thinking about any painful event as something real, solid and unavoidable is one of the conditions that perpetuate it. Read the entire article 082 Learn to See What's Right Before You When we do finally learn the lesson, it isn't that the lesson wasn't always there, but that somehow we had been looking somewhere else. All of our lessons are never not evident... what's missing is something in us that is able to perceive these lessons. Read the entire article 080 The Great Balancing Act: Living In and Between Two Worlds I receive many questions concerning how to achieve a proper balance between physical and spiritual longings; how much time should be spent working on one's higher, interior life, versus running around and doing what life demands as a result of being in this world. Read the entire article 078 Discover a New Way of Knowing Yourself Have you ever wondered why our best intentions and the ability to accomplish them seem to live in two different universes? We intend not to do something mean-spirited or otherwise self-defeating. Read the entire article 076 Seven Simple Exercises to Invite the Extraordinary Life can think of no greater encouragement than the self-evident Truth that there dwells in each of us the opportunity to explore and know the Extraordinary Life. Read the entire article 074 The Courage to Stop Suffering Over Mistakes There is a very surprising reason why we tend to suffer over our mistakes as we do. The real source of our pain in these moments --whether we're alone or with others -- is the fear of being seen as less than we've imagined ourselves to be. Read the entire article 072 Step Out of the Rush and Into Relaxed Living A family went to its favorite park for a Saturday picnic lunch. While the three boys, William, Paul, and Michael, played together, running up and down the green rolling hills as fast as they could, Dad put the finishing touches on the meal while Mom put out the paper plates on a checkered picnic tablecloth. Suddenly, they heard the youngest child, William, cry out, as if in pain. Read the entire article 070 Act On What You Know Is True Truthful principles can only act as agents of change for us when we choose to enact them. Their capacity to restore self-command, grant us a mind at peace, or deliver us from fearful dark states is only as great as our willingness to call upon their powers. Read the entire article 068 Let Go and Outgrow What Troubles You An Interview with Guy Finley by psychologist Dr. Ellen Dickstein ED: Guy, people all over the world sense that they're hanging on to something that is hurting them, but they may not even be aware of what it is that they're hanging onto, what it is they need to let go of. Read the entire article 066 The Sure Cure for Whatever Disturbs You Power, who has it and who doesn't, seems to determine in this world who pushes and who gets shoved. And given our preference, if we must choose one, we would rather be doing the pushing. The only problem is that on the level of this field of choices, whether to push or be pushed, everyone loses because push always comes to shove. Read the entire article 064 10 Steps to Detect and Stop Secret Self-Sabotage It's a little known - yet much denied fact - that people treat you the way you secretly ask to be treated. Your unspoken request that determines how others behave toward you is extended to — and received by — everyone you meet. Read the entire article 062 Questions and Answers on Goal Setting Question: Some things I've tried to accomplish in life have been such a struggle, and yet some other things have just "fallen into place," almost without much effort. Read the entire article 060 Practicing the Presence of Peace The short “truth tale” that follows is intended to help us learn two very simple, yet crucial spiritual lessons in letting go. Read it carefully. Within its story is hidden the secret place where peace and stillness reside as one. Read the entire article 058 Seven Ways to Increase Your Spiritual Strength What is spiritual strength? To put it simply, it’s knowing you don’t have to compromise yourself in any way -- with anyone, over anything -- in order to be content, confident, and secure in life. Read the entire article 056 Twelve Secrets to Stress-Free Living 1. Real Success is not measured by what you are driven to achieve, but by what you can quietly understand. Read the entire article 054 Overcoming the Law of Negative Attraction If we can see how positive inner states lead to positive life experiences, then we can also see that negative inner states must attract negative results. Read the entire article 052 Free Your Self From What Confines You Whenever we find ourselves in some "unwanted" part of ourselves, perhaps reliving an old heartache or caught in the throes of some irrepressible anger, old fear, or unyielding worry, part of this unwanted moment includes our certainty that we're trapped in this condition. Read the entire article 050 Questions on Visualization Question: You say to "want what God wants." Do you mean to not visualize what we would like to manifest for ourselves? Is that wrong to do? Is having expectations for a better journey in life an illusion? Read the entire article 048 Hidden Within You is a Gift Too Big to See “Nobility is the effortless and fearless possession of the soul that realizes nothing in the universe can either increase or decrease its God-given estate.” Read the entire article 046 Heal Your Life With Higher Self-Correction Two men who have worked for the same company for years, and who share an office, are having a conversation over lunch. They are in the company cafeteria with other workers around them also eating their meals. Read the entire article 044 A Life of Servitude or Gratitude: The Choice is Yours! This life of ours can either be one of endless servitude or endless gratitude, and we must choose which it is to be. Read the entire article 042 Make the Fear of Being "No One" Fade Away Looking for ourselves in the eyes of others throws us behind the walls of a psychic prison. The door slams shut each time we find ourselves feeling good about ourselves simply because someone has given us a needed nod of approval. Read the entire article 040 Learning to Connect to Inner Peace Question: Why do some people seem to exude peace of mind while I struggle to be calm? What is the source of composure, and how can I work to develop it within myself? Read the entire article 038 Get One Thing Done Never mind how much there may be to do, or how hard some task appears to be. Get one thing done and then take that step again. Consciously brush aside any other concerns. Do what’s in your power. Refuse to deal with what’s not. Read the entire article 036 The Power to Put the Past Behind You It is impossible to change the relationship that you have with the world around you without changing the relationship that you have in yourself, with yourself. This is the secret teaching of the ages, including being the root of Christ's teaching, as it directly relates to the necessity of a new mind. Read the entire article 034 Overcoming Negative Imagination Negative states, all dark energies that enervate us, only succeed at draining us because they are capable of making us see mentally and emotionally charged images of past defeats. These images, drawn from the storehouse of our memories, seem so real that they validate the existence of our negative conclusions. Read the entire article 032 Unmask the Thieves of Peace Have you ever been in the midst of that peace called, “sitting in front of the TV with a nice pizza”? You know what happens next! The phone rings or a neighbor drops by and . . . Boom! One’s slice of heaven is replaced with simmering resentment toward the person or event seen as disturbing it. Read the entire article 030 New Powers to Help You Perfect Your Relationships There is always a moment before a problem starts with another human being where we realize that what we want is not going to happen. Ordinarily we'll say the other person is about to "ruin my day." Read the entire article 028 Develop the Indomitable Self in You In this world that you and I live in, response is request. We can slightly enlarge this idea by restating it this way: The way you respond to life is also a request you make to it. See how the next few examples prove this important discovery. Read the entire article 026 An Exercise for Opening Your Spiritual Eyes There is a universal will that operates twenty-four hours a day that is FOR you, and a will that operates twenty-four hours a day that is AGAINST you. You’re familiar with the will that works against you. It’s that will that drags you into internally and externally unprofitable, self-punishing moments. The will that works for you is that which forever says, “Look up. Read the entire article 024 Giving Yourself (and Others) Room to Grow There is one essential ingredient missing in most of our relationships -- one that is definitely required if we wish to continue in our own development and help others to do the same. What is this powerful catalyst that only we can provide for each other? Room in which to grow. Read the entire article 022 ...Take Yourself to a Higher, Happier Life Level Human beings are a unique creation in the cosmic scheme of things. Unlike the untold billions of other life forms teaming on the Earth -- whose nature is an open and shut case -- human nature is not fixed. What does this mean to you? Only everything! Read the entire article 020 Letting Go a Little Bit at a Time A young man decided to visit a certain part of a distant country known for its community of uniquely gifted artists. In truth, he felt compelled to go. Over the last few years a growing sense of feeling strangely incomplete seemed to stalk him, in spite of his many achievements. Read the entire article 018 Enter Into The Untroubled Now Waking up to ourselves describes a whole new level of being self-aware. We no longer know ourselves simply through the thoughts we have about ourselves, but we can now see these formerly self-defining thoughts as being only one small aspect of who we really are. Read the entire article 016 ...Use the Power of Inner Storms to Live Stress Free A Dialogue between Letting Go author Guy Finley and psychologist Dr. Ellen Dickstein a leading authority on stress and anxiety in today’s busy world and is the co-author with Guy Finley of The Intimate Enemy. Read the entire article 014 Choose to Remember the Light Have you ever had appear in your mind the image of someone who hurt you, or run a whole mental movie about something that didn't work out, so that in recalling the event you actually relived the sense of loss? How does such a painful image seem to stay in the mind, especially given the fact of how much we struggle to make it go away? Read the entire article 012 Ten Causes of Needless Heartaches Our lives are meant to be bright, noble, and ever ascending. This promise of our True Potential is made good in us by the fulfillment of our possibilities, and not through the interminable struggle of trying to do what is impossible. Read the entire article 010 Realize Your True Self in Stillness Key Lesson: “Fearless comes with the birth of this new understanding: the only reason that life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those changes.” Read the entire article 008 You Can Change the World A great secret rests inside the heart of every human being: Each of us is created with the power to change the whole world. Every human being is born into this world with a nascent interior light. We can think of this light as the power of higher conscience by whose compassionate intelligence we learn to discern what is helpful from what is harmful — to intuitively know the difference between what is good and true, and what is dark and destructive. Read the entire article 006 Your True Nature is High There is nothing wrong with being a successful human being. In fact, the purpose of your life is to win. But what if, in your quest for this victory, you were accidentally drawn into a compelling game in which, unknown to you, it was impossible to win no matter how well you performed or religiously followed the “rules?” Read the entire article 004 Uncover the Fountain of Fresh Starts Hidden in You How often do we tell ourselves that we want a new life? In our minds we see ourselves reclaiming our right to live a life without limitations. We see ourselves walking away from destructive relationships and letting go of negative thoughts and feelings. Read the entire article 002 The Power to Never Feel Powerless Again In one way or another, we often feel “trapped” by life. If it weren’t true, we wouldn’t spend as much time as we do trying to “escape” our circumstances. We’re so involved with imagining and swimming to our own Fantasy Island, we never consider this important question: what if the condition we wish to escape were only an illusion that feels real? How would such a realization change our lives? Read the entire article |