Category: life change exercises

On the desperate pain of endless seeking

INITIATION? The year was 2004. Blindfolded, knees knocking, heart beating fast, maddening images of terror flashing through my imagination, I sat in the cold lobby, waiting for the initiation to start. It was the first of many I’d undergo. Maybe it was the sense of adventure, or the unfathomable curiosity about the unknown that drove my quest. I…
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This one exercise can give you solutions to your biggest problems

The way you do the exercises is the way you do everything else in your life. If you’re hesitating, look closely at difficult situations in your life. What are you holding back? If you’re forcing the movements, which situations in your life are you bringing too much aggression? Are you trying to force things? It…
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Hypnotized by Facebook? Here’s how to break your trance.

We all know how it goes. One minute you’re sitting there working…and flash forward 5 hours later… And there you sit, hunched over the keyboard or craning your neck like a turtle over the phone, the cool glowing screen painting your face like Halloween (yeah, the sun set at some point) and on and on… The…
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“Am I having a heart attack?”

That’s what I thought after the first time I ever did a full Radical Undoing session.

I must be having a heart attack. I never knew it could feel like this. I never knew it was possible to feel this much life coursing through my body!

That’s what kept running through my head in that cold room in Buffalo, Wyoming 90 minutes after deciding to do a simple “meditation experiment” I’d been meaning to try.

Holy goddamn fuckin shit, was that an experiment! More like an adventure! I forced my small, hardback Moleskine journal open with one fist, and wrote with a pen jammed into the clasped fingers of my other hand.

Buzzing and tingling radiated throughout every inch of my skin and body. I literally thought I could be dying, I was so unfamiliar with that much intense aliveness.

“Dinner’s ready!”

I was at my partner’s parents’ house for Christmas vacation, and the dinner bell rang in the middle of the most intense

It gets more powerful every time you do this.

I’ll keep this short, so you have time right now to try out this exercise. It’s very simple, and you can use it to shake yourself out of bad moods, to relax deeply, to feel more alive, and see things from a new perspective. If you’ve tried any of the exercises I’ve sent out over…
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Your Problems Aren’t the Problem

It’s your focus on what’s wrong. When you learn to let go–and I mean letting go in the most direct, physical way possible–you’ll watch most of your problems fade in the rear view mirror as you race into a radically different life. Captain Jack Sparrow says it best: (click “display images” to see) My handy computer…
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