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Bypass the common anxiety traps, pursue the meaningful path to healing, and understand the step-by-step process for overcoming chronic worrying and day-to-day anxiety. [Learn more here.](​ 🧘‍♀️ Teeny Breaks: When you open a new tab, Teeny Breaks displays a mindfulness tip so you can make the most of your break. [Get it here.](​ 😰 How To Stop Overthinking: Grappling with your thoughts will leave you even more entangled in worry. Use metacognitive strategies to break free. [Read more here.]()​ 🎇 Image of The Week ​ I love sharing unique art forms and this work from the experienced branchbender, Patrick Dougherty, is truly spellbinding. He weaves these human-sized nest houses out of living, growing trees. Would you spend the night in one? ▶️ Upcoming Anxiety Masterclass We're going to be releasing a premium anxiety masterclass for FREE in the coming weeks. Want to get on the list so you don't miss it when it's released? Go to [anxietymasterclass.net](. Here's just some of what we'll cover... - The 3 common traps that keep people stuck in anxious patterns (and how to bypass them) - How to overcome mind blank in conversations (so you never run out of things to say) - The holistic approach to moving beyond anxiety (and finding deep meaning along the way) - The step-by-step process you can apply to transform your relationship to anxiety - Plus a lot more This has been many months in the making and we're very excited to share it with you. If you struggle with anxiety and want tools to overcome it, [this is for you.](​ 🌳 What Life Does Enjoy these powerful words from Bert Hellinger: "Life disappoints you so you stop living with illusions and see reality. Life destroys everything superfluous until only the important remains. Life doesn't leave you in peace, so you stop blaming yourself and accept everything as "is". Life will take what you have, until you stop complaining and start being thankful. Life sends conflicting people to heal you, so that you stop looking outside and start reflecting who you are inside. Life allows you to fall again and again, until you decide to learn the lesson. Life takes you off the path and presents you with crossroads, until you stop wanting to control everything and flow like a river. Life puts your enemies on the road, until you stop “reacting”. Life scares you and will scare you as many times as necessary, until you lose your fear and regain your faith. Life distances you from the people you love, until you understand that we are not that body, but the soul that contains. Life laughs at you many, many times, until you stop taking everything so seriously and you can laugh at yourself. Life breaks you into as many parts as necessary, for light to penetrate you. Life faces you rebels, until you stop trying to control. Life repeats the same message, if necessary with shouting and tapas, until you finally hear it. Life sends lightning and storms, to awaken. Life humbles you and sometimes defeats you again and again until you decide to let your ego die. Life denies you goods and greatness until you stop wanting goods and greatness and begin serving. Life cuts your wings and prunes your roots, until you need no wings or roots, just disappear into the forms and your being flies. Life denies you miracles, until you understand that everything is a miracle. Life shortens your time, so you hurry to learn to live. Life ridicules you until you become nothing, nobody, so that then it becomes everything. Life doesn't give you what you want, but what you need to evolve. Life hurts and torments you until you let go of your whims and tantrums and appreciate breathing. Life hides treasures from you until you learn to go out and look for them. Life denies you God, until you see Him in everyone and everything. Life wakes you up, prunes you, breaks you, lets you down.. but trust me, that's for your best self to manifest.. until only love abides in you.” 🤓 Learn This Word Unividual: an individual who experiences a greater sense of unity with other human beings, the natural world, and the whole of the cosmos without losing touch with their individuality. ⏳ From The Archives A hand-picked classic HighExistence article. ​[Carl Jung and Culture War: How Our Shadow Creates a World of Enemies](​ “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” Evil is not a force to be destroyed in the external world. Each waking moment, evil is closer to us than our own beating hearts. No honest human being could deny the voice within that is an unseemly double, the whispering “no” to oppose our every conscious affirmation of life. In Christian mysticism, two is an unseemly number – it reflects how truly split our consciousness really is. Our adversary, our antichrist, is just a mythologization of that split psyche. The problem with Christianity, for Carl Jung, was its attempt to hide the reality of the shadow. In Aion, Jung describes the shadow as “the face of absolute evil”, the projections and emotions which constitute all the “dark aspects of the personality”. Early Christianity, in an attempt to banish evil from its cosmology, defined evil as the mere absence of good. Augustine and the Early Church fathers believed that evil, unlike God, has no real substance. Jung found this definition to be a comforting illusion. Evil asserts itself endlessly across the landscape of human thought and history. It is wishful thinking to suppose that evil has a lesser place in the cosmos in relation to the good. In 1951, an elderly Jung published Aion, a flawed and difficult book that nevertheless contains insights that remain luminous seventy years after they were written: ​[Continue Reading](​ 🙂 Happiness is Our Natural State On Friday we'll release the latest issue of [Stairway To Wisdom](=) including a breakdown of Awareness, by Anthony de Mello. Here's a taste of what's inside: “Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture. To acquire happiness you don't have to do anything, because happiness cannot be acquired. Does anybody know why? Because we have it already. How can you acquire what you already have? Then why don't you experience it? Because you've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. Do you know where these things come from? From having identified with all kinds of labels!” Stairway To Wisdom A library of insights & actions steps from brilliant books sent in a growth-inducing weekly newsletter. ​ [Sign Up Now](=) 🎬 Endnote We hope you enjoyed this issue of Down The Rabbit Hole. Feel free to reply and tell us what you think. Want to help us spread the word? We love sharing these gems of wisdom and wonder with you each week. If you love receiving them and want to help us spread the word, here is one quick way you can do that: Forward this email to one friend. That's it. It will take 5 seconds and will help us spread the good vibes and reach more people. We appreciate you. With Wonder, Mike Slavin & The HighExistence Team P.S. Did a friend forward you this email? 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