Welcome to my self help, recovery, and personal growth blog. A blog that focuses on self help, recovery, personal growth, motivation and inspiration along with mental health issues, spirituality, enlightenment, my opinions on all kinds of things and much more. This blog also features my “Soul’s Thought of the Day” (and no there isn’t one every day but it’s a title you know and I add them when I can) and my Soul Philosophy Audio Podcast to which I will be contributing more regularly.

Please be patient here at the moment because I have just imported over 100 posts from another blog of mine that I’m moving over here and so many posts need to neatened up. I’ll get to that just as soon as I can :)

Self help is one of the main elements available to anyone who is seeking healing, recovery, change, or self improvement and personal growth in his or her life.

Self Help gives the seeker a new found freedom. With this freedom comes much responsibility. We must be careful as we seek to enhance our lives through healthy change that we don’t become too dependent on others. So much of the most important change you need in your life has to come from within you and cannot come from medications or therapists.

There are many different challenges that benefit from medication and therapy. However, there is a great deal of truth to be realized when it comes to helping one’s self. Why? Simply, put, because all the pills and all the therapy in the world can’t cure or fix everything or everyone or even leave a person “whole”.

Self help creates and implements an element of your own personal style, philosophy, and personal creativity that you can bring to whatever it is that you seek to know more about, heal or recover from, and/or change in your life in a way that opens up increased opportunity for a more personal experience. An experience that you can craft in ways that enhance the freedom you have to explore and examine within the framework of your own personal journey. A journey at the centre of which lies your own personal choices.

Optimal thinking is required if one hopes to achieve being his or her “best self”. If we want to know who we are, we have to know what we are thinking. Too often in life we can react without thinking. When we fail to be in tune, get in tune or stay in tune with our feelings, more often than not, our reactions will come from thoughts, based on feelings (we often deny or aren’t aware of) that make our actions seem so foreign to us.

It is only through “Optimal Thinking” that we can set ourselves free from lives of being stuck with having to constantly compromise what we know we want, need and deserve along with having to substitute pieces of the joy and happiness, the fullness of life that we long to feel and experience.

Challenge yourself to help yourself through self help and challenge the way that you think. Challenge your understanding of yourself. You can help bring about the change that you want and need in your life.

“Be the change that you want to see in the world” (Ghandi) and remember “Perfect speed is just being there” (Richard Bach)

© A.J. Mahari