Self Growth

Four Techniques to Help You Achieve Your Goals

Written by: Best of You Today

The four “S” words are simplify, small, short, and slow. As you will see, these concepts are deeply interrelated and flow back and forth into one another. As you develop control of your practicing mind, it is important to work in a fashion that makes staying in the process as easy as possible, and these four techniques, each one basic and straightforward on its own, can help you do just that.

Dieting with a Practicing Mind

Written by: Best of You Today

What’s the first thing we do when we set a dieting goal? We aim at the final destination: “I want to lose 25 pounds.” This immediately sets up a perspective that breeds struggle and beckons failure before we have made that first step onto the treadmill or passed up that first donut. Why?

Creating the Habits We Desire

Written by: Best of You Today

By now, you should notice — or, shall we say, you should be aware of — several themes running through this book. One of these themes is awareness itself. You cannot change what you are unaware of. This truth is nowhere more important than in the world of self-improvement. We need to be more aware of what we are doing, what we are thinking, and what we are intending to accomplish in order to gain control of what we experience in life.

Friday, 30 March 2012 - 12:16pm | Written by: Best of You Today

Mind training is essential to Buddhism. In essence, it is the path the Buddha advocated in his Fourth Noble Truth. And yet, as I’ve said, mind training is not necessarily a religious or spiritual practice. It does not rest on accepting certain religious beliefs or adopting particular terminology.

Four Steps to Your Better Mental Well-Being

Friday, 30 March 2012 - 10:10am | Written by: Best of You Today

In developing our inner potential, we have to cultivate our awareness and mindfulness of what’s going on inside of us. We take the lead in our well-being by being a student of the mind, of our own psychology. The beauty of the ancient approach to understanding our psychology and becoming healthy is that there are as many paths as there are people.

Friday, 30 March 2012 - 9:28am | Written by: Best of You Today

According to the ancient and time-tested theories of Buddhist psychology, we have an inalienable right to be happy. Yet we have very little understanding of what actually makes us happy. We look for happiness in all the wrong places — outside of our own consciousness.

Thursday, 15 March 2012 - 8:57am | Written by: Best of You Today

Your natural state is to be happy, peaceful, joyous, and full of excitement at being alive. In this natural state you wake up each morning eager to start the day. You feel wonderful about yourself and your relationships with the people in your life. You enjoy your work and derive a great sense of satisfaction from making a contribution that makes a difference. Your primary goal should be to organize your life in such a way that this is how you feel most of the time.

7 Decluttering Tips to Feed Your Soul

Monday, 5 March 2012 - 1:31pm | Written by: Best of You Today

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The more junk you continue to tolerate in your life, the more stressed out, irritable, and burdened you will feel. I call this junk we accumulate "Chotchky." Chotchky is anything that crowds, intrudes, clutters, or in any way distracts from our soul's highest purpose.