Often we feel like two or more people, who have sometimes conflicting needs, desires or beliefs. We experience internal conflict. We are not sure what to do which decision to make. This occurs when our “sub-personalities” or “personas” have conflicting needs. Continue reading “A84 Resolving Inner Conflicts: We have differing needs and desires which cause us to be in conflict with ourselves. We can resolve to conflicts”

Are we puppets moved by some divine hand? Is our every thought and act already planned? Or are we independent souls able to make decisions and create our own destiny? Or is the truth found in a merging of these two opposites? In this Chapter we will investigate some possible answers to these questions. Continue reading “A20 Fate and Free Will: Some examples which seek to aid our understanding of the enigma of the simultaneous existence of Free Will and Fate”

When we can free ourselves from our labyrinth of unpleasant emotions and internal conflicts, we will be able to love others more fully and steadily. As this subject is covered in the books THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HAPPINESS, EMEIS and the MIRACLES OF LOVE AND WISDOM, we will present here only a few of the questionnaires which can be used to aid the cultivation of love for others. Continue reading “A37 Loving Others: What are the obstacles towards loving others and how can we overcome them”

We all need relationships. We depend on these relationships for the satisfaction of our emotional, and to some extent, our physical needs. Our happiness depends to a large degree on how harmonious these relationships are. If we cannot get along with our partner, child, or parent, then it is difficult to be happy. Continue reading “A53 Relationships Communication: How to communicate more effectively with love partners”

From the forthcoming book SELF THERAPY

by Robert Najemy

Every one wants to be healthy and full of vitality, but few manage to be so. Why is this so? Each person creates his own health and his own illness with the way he lives, thinks and acts. Continue reading “A69 The Basis Of Self Therapy: How we seek through natural means to restore the flow of divine energy in the body and mind”

Many consider emotions to be an obstacle to our happiness and spiritual growth. We are encouraged to ignore them and some of the older schools of thought encourage us to suppress them, to reject them and perhaps even hate ourselves because we have them. Continue reading “A86 Riding our Emotions to Freedom”

(Although this chapter is also found in the second volume of the book «The Psychology of Happiness», I have included it here because I believe that it is especially important and relative to what we are discussing here.)

Many of us are discontented with our lives, or work, our way of living. But few of us know what it is that we really want to do, and fewer still have the courage to do what they really want in order to find happiness and fulfillment. Continue reading “A21 Finding our Role In Life: Suggestions on how to connect with”

Christ commanded us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves . If we do not love ourselves, how can we love our neighbors? Today, we live in a loveless society. How can each of us liberate the reservoir of love which lies within? In this chapter, we will discuss how we can learn to love ourselves more. In the next, we will discuss how we can love others more. Continue reading “A38 Loving Our Selves – What are the obstacles towards loving ourselves and how can we overcome them”

Having grown up in differing environments, receiving different experiences and messages about ourselves, about others and about life, each of us has developed an unique personality with different needs, desires, beliefs, habits, attachments and roles which we play. Many of the behaviors we have developed can be called defense mechanisms, which means that they are behavioral mechanisms, or ways of thinking and acting, which we hope will protect us from various dangers. Continue reading “A54 Roles Conflicts Celestine Prophecy: How to deal with people who are playing the roles of intimidator, interrogator, victim and aloof”

Everyone wants to have a healthy body. Health is wealth. A healthy body makes a healthy mind. No one likes to be ill, or tired and run down. No one likes pain and illness. A healthy body is an essential toll for living a happy and fulfilled life. Life is beautiful when we feel good and have plenty of energy. Life is dark and negative when we suffer continually from a malfunctioning body. Continue reading “A70 You Can Overcome Illness: We need to pay attention to how we live, think and eat”