This article explores how beliefs and emotions shape experience and offers five science-based practices to help readers use the mind’s power to intentionally shape their reality.

Beliefs have huge power to shape our lives, but most of ours are completely unconscious. Chekhov once famously said, "Man is what he believes." It’s an idea you’ll hear repeated ad nauseam across the ...

Charles Colson was President Richard Nixon’s “hatchet man” and “evil genius,” and the first aide imprisoned for Watergate-related crimes. He converted 50 years ago after reading C.S. Lewis’ “Mere ...

The mind can be a great resource. It allows you to read these words, to organize information, to set goals. It can often be a bully, though, when we get into the thought patterns that are negative or ...

It’s not nearly as difficult to make a decision as it is to stand by it and stick with it. To say or think something is one thing; standing by it is quite another. This gets at the bones—and the heart ...