Our guest is Don Joseph Goewey. Don Joseph Goewey is the director of the Center for Spiritual Exchange, the official archive for the works of Anthony De Mello, regarded as one of the great spiritual minds of the 20th century, influencing the likes of Eckhart Tolle and Thomas Moore. Don Goewey recently edited a new book published by Simon & Schuster entitled Stop Fixing Yourself / Wake Up, All is Well, based on Anthony DeMello’s practical spirituality. He is also the author of the Amazon bestseller, The End of Stress/Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain. He has committed his life to help people understand and quiet stress and anxiety, navigate life’s challenges more creatively and live happier, more fulfilled lives.
In this episode we discuss:
- Who was Anthony DeMello and his impact on some of the major contemplative thinkers of our time?
- The discovery that revolutionized DeMello‘s life
- The reasons why we are unhappy and unfulfilled
- How change happens
- How working with DeMello‘s approach to things impacted his life and helped him with his fear of dread.
- Awareness and psychotherapy and how they work together to help us.
- An awareness process for dealing with stress and our difficult feelings and emotions
- Why it’s OK to try to stop fixing ourselves
- Watch little children. When we watch children we are observing our nature
- How very few people are actually happy
- How the ultimate problem facing us is fear
- The importance of not identifying with our negative feelings and suffering.
- Stop making your happiness depend on the material world.
See more at https://www.hintsofgladness.com/you-re-okay-stop-trying-to-fix-yourself
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