http://www.massdensity.com A Way of Being Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:04:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This simple meditation lets anyone begin to enter into a state of mindfulness using a very common sense practical approach. What our mind construes as a deeply mystical thing like meditation doesn’t have to be so esoteric. Meditation for Beginners free mp3 audio 37 minutes ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PathwayToHappiness/~3/55MsraRO6V0/ Understanding how your mind creates emotional reactions is key to making personal change.  This understanding of the mind is done through mindfulness, also know as Self Awareness.  In a basic level of awareness you might notice how someone’s mood changes.  A deeper level of awareness allows you notice your own ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PathwayToHappiness/~3/CTAmwiR2Z8s/ Avoiding Your Near Enemy Any good tool, technique, practice, or philosophy, can help you out of suffering and into greater happiness and love. And when that tool, technique, practice, or philosophy is taken too far, it can become a dogmatic trap that creates unhappiness and suffering. That dual edged sword applies ... http://www.pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2011/12/12/near-enemy/ The holidays are coming up.   For many people that means a joyous time of added stress.  What causes stress?  A number of things can do it, but basically it comes down to a difference between our projected image of the world, and the real world. When we have a vision ... http://www.pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2011/11/16/holiday-stress-reducer/ Hi Gary! I have been enjoying the Self Mastery Audio Series and am currently on Session 9: Emotions.  Thank you for making such a wonderful program available. The  Judging voice in my head  has a question: I understand how we can accept other people and things as they are in most circumstances, and ... http://www.pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2011/11/16/judgement-what-is-it-good-for/ “What Wrong With Me?”,   is a question I get quite often. Honestly,,, nothing.  In truth you are fine.   There really is nothing wrong with you.  That’s my perspective with everyone I talk to.  And I talk to a lot of people because I do this professionally.  The next ... http://www.pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2011/11/15/what-is-wrong-with-me/ A belief begins as a conceptual idea in our mind.  Then our imagination turns it into something like a dream, or virtual reality.  A belief, particularly a false belief, has the capacity to create an illusion in our imagination that seems like reality.  We then react to that illusion emotionally ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PathwayToHappiness/~3/Fu3667vqqY8/ What are you looking for? Often inside of us there is a feeling that things just aren’t right or complete.  Perhaps we get that feeling when we look at the world and people and things just don’t make sense. Something isn’t quite right and we feel it.  Some people see something ... http://www.pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2011/09/06/what-are-you-looking-for/ Some say that this personal transformation work is like peeling layers of an onion.  That might be because it can cause you to cry a lot. Instead I liken it to cleaning.  Big cleaning, like a road or driveway after a flood. (Think of it as a Pathway if you want.) ... http://www.pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2011/08/15/peeling-layers-onion/ Sam had the realization that he was having two very different emotional reactions to the same comment when two different people said it.  It made him curious as to why he would react so differently to the same comment.  What he discovered was different layers of his belief system were ... http://www.pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2011/08/04/two-different-emotional-reactions/