The Next Excuse Roy Masters The way to mental and emotional health lies beyond the next excuse. Every emotional upset produces a behavior that wars with common sense. As if from nowhere, excuses arise to explain away your behavior, and if you fall for those lies, your life is practically over. Under the spell of excuses, imagination play’s […]
Finding Forgiveness
Finding Forgiveness Roy Masters Forgetting Past Sins Resentment toward common circumstance awakens old programmed behaviors. For example, you may resent someone wearing a belt buckle that reminds you of the beating you got from your father, so you become guilty of hating an innocent person — just like your judgmental parent was with you. And […]
Moment of Truth
Roy Masters’ Moment of Truth From the book “Healers, Gurus, and Spiritual Guides,” written by former CBS News Correspondent William Wolff. “If you are for what is truly right,” Roy Masters was telling me, “then everything else that is wrong–but seems like it is right—is shown up in contrast to it.” We were sitting in the […]
Down To Basics
Roy Masters, Faith, Relationships,
A Stillness For All Seasons
A Stillness For All Seasons The following is a chapter from the book “Healers, Gurus, and Spiritual Guides,” written by former CBS News Correspondent William Wolff. This is a profile of Roy Masters at the very beginning of his career. It started out to be a pleasant enough luncheon at the Paramount motion picture studio […]
Mommy Good, Daddy Bad?
Mommy Good, Daddy Bad? Roy Masters It’s Not Always What It Seems! What if Mommy had some unfinished business with her own dad and projected that resentment onto her husband? Then the children would feel what mother feels and end up hating their own father. For one reason or another, women consciously or unconsciously set […]
Reconnecting To The Now
Reconnecting To The Now David Masters The benefits of mindfulness meditation, as taught by FHU since 1965 and increasingly popular in recent years, are many: reduced stress and risk for various diseases, improved well-being, note to mention a rewired brain. A study published in Biological Psychiatry brings scientific thoroughness to mindfulness meditation and, for the […]
De Hypnotize Yourself
De Hypnotize Yourself David Masters TO AROUSE FROM A HYPNOTIC STATE DEhypnosis? Today many unsuspecting people seeking relief from a variety of emotional issues and problems go to a hypnotherapist with the expectation of being hypnotized into freedom from compulsions and destructive impulses. However, you are unknowingly in need of being DE-hypnotized. There are individuals and groups of people who […]
Living Knowledge
Living Knowledge Roy Masters – from the book- Meaning and Happiness There are then two kinds of knowing and learning, which come about through two different kinds of reaction: one based on pride and temptation, the other on humility before God. The kind of living knowledge that is valid in the human experience must spring […]
Inspiring Your Teens
Inspiring Your Teenagers Dianne Masters If you have teenagers, then you are in for either the best time of your parenting life or the worst. I’m not sure at what age your fun-loving kids turn into hormonal blobs in angry, frustrated, adult-sized bodies with no concept of maturity and the mentality of a ten-year-old, but […]