LifeChanger Hypnosis Blog

A few things to think about ...

1. Anyone who rushes through life always finishes last! This is a truth unseen by the masses, but evident to those weary of going nowhere fast. You race as you do to escape the unhappiness you feel being where we are, running towards what you imagine will free you from that dissatisfaction. But such races are always lost before they begin because you can't outrun yourself!

2. All forms of momentum are mindless, but never more so than when a mind--blinded by desire--runs after what it wants without any awareness of its action.

3. Patience is a great virtue whose cost is paid by becoming painfully conscious of what our impatience does to others.

4. The rush to judgment is a race that nobody wins!

5. Allowing the rushed state of another person to push you into an anxious state of mind is like letting the horse you're about to ride convince you to wear the saddle!

6. You are well on our way to reclaiming your original fearless Self when you find your source of peace and contentment in just being alive.

7. Rushing through life lends the one who habitually hurries the feeling of being "important," but loans such as these come at the high cost of always having to justify one's unkindness--like when we have to convince ourselves that our impatience with others is a necessary evil along the way to that "greater good" towards which we think we run.

8. The main reason it's wise to listen to one's own heart--whenever we can step out of the rush and remember to do so--is because there's much more to be learned from the parts of us that don't "speak" in words . . .than those that do.

9. The most important thing to remember whenever you find yourself in a mad rush is that what you are really trying to get to is a quiet mind . . . a peaceable state of self reached only by realizing there is no place more empowering for you to be than in the present moment.

(Excerpted from The Courage to Be Free, Weiser Books, 2010

Guy Finley is the best-selling author of more than 38 books and audio albums on self-realization. He is the founder and director of Life of Learning Foundation, a nonprofit center for self-study located in southern Oregon where he gives talks four times each week. For more information visit www.guyfinley.org,

posted by LifeChanger Blog @ 4:12 PM