Your intellect was designed to help you survive, not create a personality that runs your life. Your body can walk, talk, sense, digest, move, and protect itself. It also uses the intellect — a natural built-in tool — to make sense of the world. The intellect interprets what the senses pick up so the organism can do what it needs to do: eat, move, avoid danger, navigate the environment, reproduce, and experience life directly, the way a child does before they learn to overthink. The...

The universe has been unfolding for 13.8 billion years, and not once has it adjusted its course for a single person. So why do we assume everything that happens is about us? Most of us move through life with a strong feeling of being a separate “me” at the centre of it all. When that’s the starting point, everything becomes intensely personal. A bad day feels like a verdict. A comment feels like an attack. A setback feels like a reflection of your worth. Life turns into one long performance...

A simple, experiential guide to moving from mental turbulence to effortless clarity and effective happy living Imagine you can fly.Whether in an airplane, strapped to a jet pack, or with wings of your own. Even though every one of us has the ability to soar high into the open sky, most of us have limited ourselves to flying low—right where the turbulence, gusts, and storms are. This low-altitude zone is what I call the “living in your mind” level .Most of us fly here simply because it’s all...