Anxiety has been a major part of the daily human experience — well, forever it seems. And with everything we’ve done to make ourselves feel better about all of life’s often startling events, it seems we just become more anxious.
But the great sages have always told us a new view of life would show us the deeper source of anxiety and start us on the road to freedom from it. For example, this is what the philosopher Spinoza had to say about it:
I saw that all things which occasioned me any anxiety or fear had in themselves nothing of good or evil, except in so far as the mind was moved by them. — Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
Spinoza is saying life events in and of themselves are not good or evil. They are impersonal. It is the mind of the individual observing the event, with its wants and not wants, its past history, its need for self-protection, that sees the event as something that should cause anxiety. And if that’s true (which it is), a critical step to becoming free of anxiety is to begin to see events as they actually are, and not as the mind has distorted them and their meaning for us.
Imagine how different our lives would be if rather than struggling, endlessly, to change a world that troubles us, we could see that the unseen source of our stressing over it is hidden within the chaos of the conditioned way we think about it. Then, instead of experiencing confusion and dissatisfaction, we could understand and begin to live this beautiful description of life’s higher possibilities that OneJourney founder Guy Finley offers us:
We live in a world that is established for us to succeed in realizing that within us dwells an Intelligence beyond fear. We can let Life, that we have finally found out has a purpose, give us what we need to understand. — Guy Finley (1949)
If this sounds like something you would like to investigate further, then you are invited to attend Guy’s free ongoing livestreamed talks. You will come away from Guy’s talks understanding, and being able to put to practical use, a life-changing program for making all the beautiful pieces of your life fall into place.
The live classes are held every Wednesday evening at 6:00 PM Pacific Time, and every Sunday morning at 9:30 AM Pacific.
And if you can’t join us online for any or all of these free live events, we’ve got you covered! All of Guy’s talks are archived so that you can watch the replays whenever you want.
You’ll be able to go over these enlightening talks again and again to incorporate their wisdom into your daily life. And with each re-hearing you will gain more freedom from anxious thoughts and feelings.
I look forward to seeing you online for all these life-changing events.
Best wishes,
Dr. Ellen Dickstein
The OneJourney Project
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