Guy Finley

Self-Realization Author & Teacher

We have within us a certain kind of higher vantage point that when we are present to it, we enjoy its peace, regardless of what is going on around us or within us. This yet-to-be realized state of ourselves can be called "conscious self-awareness." Through its power, instead of being pulled down into painful identification with each passing shadow of life, we discover a life that is in the light of a peace that lives far above the reach of any fearful shadow. For information about Guy Finley and his Life of Learning Foundation, visit www.guyfinley.org

"Conscious self-awareness" allows us to find peace regardless of external circumstances and avoid getting pulled into painful identification with life's shadows.

Four Insights Into Perfect Silence

Struggling to save ourselves from a torrent of thoughts and feelings by adding more to them doesn't just diminish our chances to be free... Rather, it ensures we will only be swept further along by the very thing that we reach out to save us. If we can see the truth of this, then the solution to our struggle, as surprising as it may seem at first, is before our eyes: We must do nothing. For information about Guy Finley and his Life of Learning Foundation, visit www.guyfinley.org

Adding more thoughts and feelings to save ourselves only makes us more lost, the solution is to do nothing. (136 characters)

The Secret Of Being Inwardly Still

Meditation is to be able to practice within ourselves the presence of a completely different order of mind, to be in a conscious relationship with a quiet, compassionate intelligence that is aware of all that is going on around you, and all that is going through you at the same time. It is a unified state of being that sees and knows all things as an expression of itself, and yet without being identified with any one of these expressions. For information about Guy Finley and his Life of Learning Foundation, visit www.guyfinley.org

Meditation cultivates a conscious relationship with a compassionate intelligence that sees all things as part of a unified state of being.

Meditation: An Introduction

We all have ideas about silence, but we don't know that it is a part of ourselves. We see silence as something to be gained or avoided, all of which turns it into something that appears to exist outside of us, in a world apart from ourselves. But silence doesn't dwell outside of us, any more than the ocean lives apart from its waves. The silence was there at the beginning of all things, and it's always here with us as part of the living Now. For information about Guy Finley and his Life of Learning Foundation, visit www.guyfinley.org

Silence is a part of ourselves that we often misunderstand as something outside of us, when it is always present within us as part of the living Now.

The Strength Of A Silent Mind

The mystery, calm, and majesty of a truly meditative life begin with seeing the river of thoughts and feelings for what they are (distractions) and then choosing not to jump in its currents. The one thing that can't be carried off downstream is stillness. Choose stillness instead of one more bumpy ride down the river of thought. We are meant to be observers and not participants with these thoughts and feelings that continually rush by. If you would like to learn more about Guy Finley and his nonprofit center for self-study, Life of Learning Foundation, visit www.guyfinley.org

Choose stillness over the rush of thoughts & feelings. Guy Finley's nonprofit center, Life of Learning Foundation, teaches observation over participation.

The Secret Of A Quiet Mind

We cannot hope to let go of any pain without letting go of the level of self in which that pain lives. If we want to have real forgiveness, if we want to be free of our past, then it begins with giving ourselves up each and every time some old past event, that old echo, sounds again and tries to press its will upon our own. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org

Letting go of pain requires releasing the level of self it lives in, which involves giving up old past events and echoes, according to author Guy Finley.

Release The Pain Of Your Past

We're constantly being pushed along inwardly by something that calls itself an authority, and pretty much without question, we accept it as being one. A voice in our head comes in and orders us to get negative toward a person, or a situation. And pretty much without question, we obey it, not even really aware of that voice, let alone what it's making us do or say. That's why we need a more informed view, one that reveals to us that neither the negative state nor the hatred of that dark mood is natural. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org

We blindly obey the negative voice in our head as an authority, but need an informed view to realize that negativity and hatred is not natural.

Kick Dark Moods Out The Door

Do you ever wonder why there are times when you feel so bad about life or about yourself, or why events you experience are so disturbing? Most of us do, and most of us also believe that we suffer in this way emotionally because the conditions that we meet within ourselves or in the world around us are actually punishing us. But the fact is that the conditions in our lives do not have the power to punish us as we think they do. The true cause of our emotional pain is that we've forgotten that the higher intelligence that powers this entire universe is good. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org

Our emotional pain stems from forgetting that the higher intelligence powering the universe is good, not from conditions punishing us as we believe.

Your Right To Be Emotionally Free

The power to possess ourselves cannot be granted by anyone or anything outside of us. All powers of the worldly order are powerless to grant us what our heart of hearts wants more than anything else, which is to quietly be in charge of our own heart and our own mind. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

We must possess ourselves as no external power can grant us the control we desire over our hearts and minds, according to Guy Finley's "Secret of Letting Go."

Enter The Place Of Power Within

We are going to talk about something that so many of us feel so often but don't know how to handle. Let's talk about the sense of feeling inadequate to the challenge of the moment. After all, what is feeling powerless if not facing something that seems greater than our ability to deal with it? We are going look at how we can transcend that terrible feeling of suddenly finding ourselves not knowing what to do -- or who we are, or where to go -- and instead ground ourselves in something that gives us everything we need at that moment to be a completely different human being, empowered by something altogether new and different within ourselves. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Learn how to overcome feelings of inadequacy and powerlessness, and empower yourself to face challenges through Guy Finley's "Secret of Letting Go."

Never Feel Inadequate Again

It's a little-known secret that our experience of life in any given moment is a direct reflection of what we actually value in that same moment. Nothing in the universe can make us choose to act against ourselves, such as when we consort with self-compromising negative states. Living in sorrow, in anger, awash with regrets -- or that constant sense of feeling inadequate because some challenge seems to be greater than our ability to deal with it -- living with those kinds of negative states is a consensual affair. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Our experience of life reflects our values in that moment; negative states are a consensual affair. Guy Finley's "Secret of Letting Go" offers insight.

Take Full Possession Of Yourself

Uncover the truth about spiritual rebirth and how to outgrow and transcend your present level of self. Hear about how seeds of higher self-knowledge can turn into new actions that lead to awakening. Learn about four principles that will safely guide you on your Divine Journey. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Learn how to achieve spiritual rebirth and transcend your current self-level with four guiding principles from "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley.

4 Simple Steps To Spiritual Rebirth

Discover the basis of your own immortality, and how to use life's events to discover your innermost Self. Learn about amazing self-realization that frees you of regret, endows you with patience and compassion, and grants you the knowledge that death is not the end of life. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

"Discover the Secret of Letting Go with Guy Finley's teachings on achieving self-realization and accepting death as not the end of life."

Polish The Divine Mirror

Realize how to enter another order of yourself. Discover your true responsibility to help manifest the will of Heaven on earth in order to reach a higher order of unconditional love and compassion. Awaken the divine possibilities that wait within you. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Discover your true responsibility to manifest Heaven's will on earth, awaken divine possibilities within and learn more with "Secret of Letting Go" by Guy Finley.

Give Yourself The Greatest Prize Of All

Is it possible that you have forgotten something critical for your happiness? Here is a simple exercise to help you remember what you truly love. And meet your greatest Friend in life... that already lives within you. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Recall what you love with an exercise and meet your greatest friend within you according to Guy Finley's "Secret of Letting Go". Visit www.guyfinley.org for more.

Remember To Put First Things First

Prove to yourself that, thanks to what you've learned so far in this Divine Journey series, you're already seeing the world with new eyes. Learn how to use even your darkest moments to touch a peace that passes all understanding. And realize that you were created to make the Divine Journey, and all of your sincere efforts will be rewarded with new possibilities. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Guy Finley's Divine Journey series teaches how to see the world differently, find peace in dark times, and be rewarded with new possibilities.

Walking The Path To A Never-Ending Peace

Are you asking for what you really want? If not, here's how. Learn the three stages of self-realization through which every sincere spiritual aspirant must pass (and how to speed your progress through them). Discover also how to reach the beautiful point where you realize that nothing can stand in the way of your Divine Journey. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Learn to ask for what you really want and progress through the three stages of self-realization with author Guy Finley's "Secret of Letting Go."

How To Open The Door To A Divine Life

Understand a simple new action that puts you in touch with timeless innocence and beauty. Learn how to enter into stillness and step into the spiritual ground that sits at the center of your being. Remember four words that will help you come into contact with a living Presence that grants you true fearlessness. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Learn to enter stillness and connect with your spiritual center, discover timeless innocence and beauty, and become fearlessly empowered with Guy Finley's "Secret of Letting Go." Visit www.guyfinley.org.

Awaken The Fearless Self And Be Free

The more we’re willing to understand and work with these principles and bring their light into our life, the more we awaken to a kind of incorruptible reality that awaits within us, a life that is a safe haven on earth wherein full and final freedom from stress and anxiety is already our own. We're learning otherwise. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Understanding and applying certain principles can awaken an incorruptible reality within us, leading to freedom from stress and anxiety.

Walking Through Life Stress-Free

To amplify anything is to increase it, but in this study of the mechanisms of stress, we're discovering that the only thing that is truly being amplified when we're anxious and worried is our misperception of the event that is being blamed for the stress. Add to this mistaken view our subsequent certainty that we are also a captive of that condition, and what happens other than that our feeling of stress strengthens? To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Study finds that anxiety amplifies misperception of stressful events, leading to stronger feelings of stress. Learn more from Guy Finley at guyfinley.org.

Cancel The Stress Amplifier

What we're going to do in this session is put together all that we have studied so far, and by embracing all that we have learned, come upon a new understanding of ourselves and those moments that we formerly believed were necessary, where the pain of stress seemed to prove to us that we had no choice but to submit to it. We're learning otherwise. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

In this session, we'll combine what we've learned to gain new understanding of ourselves and stress, as taught by Guy Finley in "Secret of Letting Go."

Invite The Light That Liberates

We're going to learn what it means to reach for an entirely new place within ourselves - a place that we can find within our own hearts and our own minds where it is possible to see that our present thoughts and feelings reveal only a fraction of the whole of our possible experience. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Author Guy Finley helps readers discover a new place within themselves, where they can experience more than their current thoughts and feelings.

Breaking Up The Cycle of Stress

We're going to look at how there is within us a part of us that is actually attracted to stressful situations. If we're honest with ourselves, where does our mind go at any particular moment when something isn't the way we want it to be? We are drawn to think about that condition, and then try to resolve it from the same level of our consciousness that went to visit the place that makes us feel anxious. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

We are attracted to stressful situations, drawn to think about them and try to resolve them from the same level of consciousness, says author Guy Finley.

End Painful Negative Attraction

We are going to look at how, just as the separation principle that we looked at works by taking one passing event and enlarging it until it effectively becomes the whole world for us, that same internal action of separation produces isolation, a sense of being alone with the stress that we are experiencing. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Separation principle leads to isolation and feeling alone with stress, according to "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley. Visit www.guyfinley.org for more.

The Dark Illusion Of Isolation

Take just a moment and bring your full attention to all the parts of yourself as best you can see, feel, and sense them. This kind of awareness is inclusive. It is a unifying witnessing of the whole of ourselves at the moment. The cancellation of the painful circle of stress begins with entering into the circle of awareness that shows you the truth about yourself and your situation at that moment. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Practice inclusive awareness to cancel the painful circle of stress and witness the truth about yourself and your situation, according to author Guy Finley.

Step Outside The Circle Of Stress

We're never a victim of what life brings to us. We're a victim of a misunderstanding. We have failed to see our own complicity in taking events and turning them into huge problems. This session is a simple story that's packed with important insights and principles to get us going in the right direction. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

We are not victims of life, but of our own misunderstandings. Guy Finley's "Secret of Letting Go" offers insights to help us navigate challenges.

Getting Started Being Stress-Free

When our attention is locked onto one small thing, and subsequently we see our lives through that tiny psychic pinhole, everything in our life for that moment serves to feed that particular false view of life, as well as the stress it creates within us. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Focusing on one small thing distorts our view of life, causing stress, according to author Guy Finley. Visit www.guyfinley.org for more information.

The Unseen Mechanics Of Stress

What we actually need is not new forms of relief from these perceived stressful places in our life... but rather to be released from our own unconscious nature that is secretly creating the situation we have been blaming all along as being responsible for the stress that we feel. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

To eliminate stress, we must overcome our own unconscious nature instead of seeking relief from external factors. Visit www.guyfinley.org for more.

The Secret Of Self-Release

In this session, we're going to discover how we can begin to separate from stressful states and those parts of ourselves that are, in fact, drawn into that kind of fearfully anxious world. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Learn to separate from stressful states and fearful parts of ourselves with Guy Finley's "Secret of Letting Go." Visit www.guyfinley.org for more.

Separating From Stressful States

When we understand that there's no such thing as something that can't be done, rather there's something in us that doesn't want to do it, then we can begin to meet the "want" of that unconscious nature with a new want of our own that always has authority over it. When you realize this, then nothing can stop you from taking the first step in dropping discouraging thoughts and feelings. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Overcome discouraging thoughts and feelings by acknowledging that reluctance comes from within, and replace it with a new want of your own.

How To Drop Discouraging Thoughts

So much rests upon our willingness to understand the following: Any discouraging thoughts or feelings that want to threaten or somehow darken our aspirations for a higher, happier life, are like sharp thorns on the stem of a fragrant rose. Their only power to cause us pain is if and when we carelessly close our hands around them. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Discouraging thoughts can only cause us pain if we hold onto them. Guy Finley's "Secret of Letting Go" explores this concept. Visit guyfinley.org for more.

Conquering Discouragement: Introduction

Imagine for a moment that you knew it was impossible for you to fail. Our purpose as human being is not to prove to ourselves or others that we are as we imagine ourselves to be. In fact, quite the opposite is true. One of the main reasons for being a human being is to discover that we are already part of a higher order of life that has no failure in it. Real life is ceaselessly perfecting itself, and we are invited to play a part in that process. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Being human is not about proving ourselves but discovering that we are already part of a higher order of life that has no failure in it.

Three Facts That Prove Failure Is False

We’re going to look at something together that will give us the power to break free from those parts of ourselves that are so busy spinning and weaving feelings of discouragement that they will no longer have the authority over us that they’ve always had. This means that we’ll be free to try new things, to experiment with hopes and wishes that maybe we were never willing to try before, and to find out that the whole idea of failure is a lie. To learn more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Learn to break free from discouraging thoughts and try new things with "Secret of Letting Go" by Guy Finley. Visit www.guyfinley.org for more info.

A Discouragement-Busting Truth

To successfully walk away from those negative thoughts and feelings that seem to follow us all the time, we need to carry a special kind of wisdom with us. And if we can find this wisdom and act from it, then we will see discouragement and the dark inner voices that accompany it fall away. So let's learn more about this wisdom together. To find out more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Carrying a special kind of wisdom can help us walk away from negative thoughts and feelings, leading to discouragement and dark inner voices falling away.

How To Walk Away From Dark Inner Voices

When it comes to dealing with others who have failed to meet our expectations, let us never forget the following: whatever their choices in the past that may have caused them - caused us - that kind of pain, that ought never blindly to determine how we treat them in the present moment. After all, if the Divine decided to judge us "once and for all" - for even a small portion of our poorly made, self-centered decisions - surely It would have given up on us a long time ago. To find out more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Don't let others' past mistakes influence how we treat them now; Guy Finley's "Secret of Letting Go" offers more insight.

Step Down As Judge And Be The Witness

There is no way to realize, let alone discover, the hidden depths of our still latent spiritual strength without a willingness to witness its corresponding weakness. This means that strength and weakness are NOT opposing forces, but they are complementary in nature. To see the truth of this is the same as ending our fear of feeling powerless in the face of any perceived limitation. To find out more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Strength and weakness are complementary, not opposing forces; acknowledging both is necessary to realize our spiritual strength. Check out Guy Finley's work.

Take The Step You're Sure You Can't

These practices that we're going to look at together are just one angle, one view, one possibility out of an infinite number of promising discoveries that you can make. And that's why it should be made clear at the outset: You need to take these practices and make them your own. Don't just listen and follow. Freedom - the kind that comes with learning to welcome every revelation, as we're about to discover - is intimately connected with you using your own experience to validate the truths that you're hearing. To find out more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

The author advises readers to make their own discoveries by using their experience to validate the truths they hear from the practices discussed.

Welcome Every Revelation

When it comes to a choice in meals, deals, and even making plans, one can afford to make certain mistakes; these decisions, including their delay, are generally not irreparable. But this isn't so when it comes to the interior work required to develop the nascent soul. The choice and eventual cost of delaying, or otherwise ignoring its needs, is to lose a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to realize your highest possibilities. To find out more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

Ignoring the need to develop the soul is a costly mistake, with irreversible consequences, unlike mistakes in meals or plans. Guy Finley explains more.

Take Time To Nourish Your True Self

When it comes to realizing our highest spiritual possibilities - if it's our hope to discover and reclaim them - then we must place ourselves where they are continually being revealed - and, by agreement, enter into a conscious relationship with the ever-changing conditions within which these profound and transformative possibilities continue to unfold. To find out more about "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley, visit www.guyfinley.org.

To attain spiritual growth, one must enter into a conscious relationship with ever-changing conditions and discover possibilities through revelation.

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