An Ancient Recommendation
Know Thyself! — Socrates Subjective experience is a strange subject. Studying your own experience is a different kind of challenge than is researching subjects such as chemistry or physics. When …
Is it Better to be Gullible or Skeptical?
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. — Bertrand Russell An ancient school …
Editing Your Fictions
Most people walk through the world in a trance of disempowerment. Our work is to transform that into a trance of empowerment — Milton Erickson The Personal Research Tool identifies …
Suggestion Can Enhance Will
From our birth to our death we are all slaves of suggestions — Emile Coue Hypnotic Suggestion is a direct and powerful method to intentionally influence your subjective reality. The …
The Study of Experience. . . From the Inside
Who looks outside, dreams Who looks inside, awakens — Carl Jung As remarkable and complex a structure as a neuron is, it does not possess consciousness. Consciousness requires a complex …
Popular Thinking Errors
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau You make the same mistake again and again because it does not seem like a …
The Space Between Stimulus and Response
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. — Viktor E. …
Doing Personal Research
We don’t receive wisdom. We must discover it for ourselves after a journey than no one can take for us nor spare us. — Marcel Proust Some general principles to …