HJ: We can be so hard on ourselves.  But remember, you are doing the best you can with the tools you have. If what you are doing is not getting you the results you want, it’s not YOU, it’s the tools!  It’s the programming.

You are infinite and infinitely capable!  You are a powerful creator being in a human body.  So top judging yourself and start learning how to harness your incredible power.

This article will give you a powerful tool to begin doing that in a most unconventional, but profound and effective way.

- Truth

A Change That Leads to Unconditional Self-Confidence

By Alison Breen | Tiny Buddha | Becoming Superfluid

Bernardo Kastrup, Reality Sandwich
Waking Times

The following is excerpted from Meaning in Absurdity: what bizarre phenomena can tell us about the nature of reality, published by Iff Books.

We are incessantly, relentlessly, tirelessly telling ourselves stories; constantly attempting to categorize and match everything we experience against some (coherent) storyline playing out in our minds. Well, at least I am like that, and I seem to observe others doing the same. That is why certain forms of meditation prove so challenging: there, the idea is to stop the story-telling. It turns out many of us require instruction, the learning of techniques developed over centuries or millennia, and years of training to have a chance to momentarily pause the story-telling; so inborn it seems to be. Some people even feel they need to isolate themselves completely, in mountains or monasteries, for years at a time, to stop telling themselves what is or might be going on.

Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness

Sometimes, we reach a point where we want to feel more connected with the Christ within; more connected with our essence, and when this happens, we might have to ask ourselves a few essential questions.

One of them is if we’re making choices throughout our day that are in alignment with our wish to be more connected. Are we helping ourselves live a lifestyle that’s truly inspired by spirit, or does the idea of staying connected only sound good at the surface?

Oftentimes, we’ll find when we take a serious, discerning look at ourselves that even though we think we want to be more connected, we still aren’t making choices that help us stay aligned. We’ll find that continuing to falter in some areas of life is what causes us to feel distant from love or spirit.