A deep dive into the misunderstanding that we call self help with Nicole Barton, who after a lifetime of struggling and trying everything discovered the simple understanding of how the mind really works, and experienced a profound sense of freedom.

Some of the points that stood out are:

Being somewhere other than here
Constantly striving to be more
We are not broken
Why self help makes you feel more of a failure
Theres nothing to do to overcome things that don’t exist
Seeing beyond the illusion of our humanity
Self help is only ever a plaster
Good feelings only ever come from within
The answers always come in a state of calm
No effort is needed, just quiet
Analysing thoughts is adding more thinking
Why typical journaling keeps you stuck
We are conditioned to talk about our problems
The answers are not in the past
The past doesn’t exist anymore
How Self help innocently keeps us stuck
Who we really are beyond our ideas
Whats beyond our conditioning
We’re always in the unknown
We’ve created a solution to the problem we’ve created
Everything is always going our way
Principles vs self help ideas
Concepts vs an explanation of how things work

You can contact Nicole at her website here

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Princeton University's 254th Commencement, June 5, 2001