Hello, fellow awakening being!
I'm Nik Jones, welcome to my humble virtual home. My mission is to help you find back to your natural peaceful state in order to access your inner strength and live a life with less resistance.

If you can relate to this, you are in the right place.

By teaching you how to become more self-aware, I will help you discover the authentic version of yourself so you can begin to live the life you were always meant to live.

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How To Live A Happy Life
5 minute read
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. The quote above is by Albert Einstein and it is perhaps one of my favorite quotes by him. It implies that in order to live a joyful and fulfilling life, you need something beyond what you can hold in your hands, such as purpose and direction. When life feels unsatisfying, it is...
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Dealing With Compulsive Thinking
3 minute read
Far more important than fixing all the problems you are constantly worried about is dealing directly with compulsive thinking, which is what makes all of your problems seem worse than they really are. When you come to the realization that it is your own mind you are suffering more so than the circumstance you are in, you are already well on your way to reco...
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Returning To A State Of Presence
4 minute read
One of the diseases that has perhaps caused more harm than any other disease, is the disease of compulsive thinking. It steals both our time here on earth and our well-being. By keeping us in an elevated survival mode, compulsive thinking effectively sustains an overload on our nervous system thus constantly pulling us away from living our life here and now....
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Freeing Yourself: The Path Through Fear
6 minute read
Don't just explore it inspite that it scares you. Explore it BECAUSE it scares you. One of the things that can feel truly liberating, is awakening to the reality that nothing holds power over us but ourselves. This, in fact, is one of the first big steps in the direction of awakening to the empowered and free self. But as you may already have realize...
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Your Purpose Is To Be Happy
4 minute read
Life does not work in favor of your plans, goals, and dreams. It works in favor of showing you what you have built against your own happiness. It may only seem logical that happiness is the ultimate purpose of life since it hides at the end of every decision we make. Even when our decisions intuitively seem to go against this observation, they still have...
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The Direct Path To Letting Go
5 minute read
Underneath all the layers of doubt, expectations, desires, and sorrows lies the true peaceful self ever-present waiting to be re-discovered. When we arrive at a place on our journey where we want to let go of something, it's because we, on some level, have become aware that what we are currently experiencing in our body and mind is no longer serving u...
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Creating Tolerance
2 minute read
To love someone means to set them free. But before we can do that, we must learn to free ourselves. Only when we recognize that only we are responsible for whatever we bring with us out into the world, can we meet it without expectation. We must see that it is our responsibility to actively set boundaries and do what we desire and not the job of the world...
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Understanding Self Esteem
4 minute read
What binds us to self-esteem is our identification with the limited conceptual self. It is a product of a temporary surrendering to the illusion that there are certain universal laws that we should live up to. When we are somehow reminded to measure ourselves against these laws and find ourselves inadequate in comparison, we enter a state of fear. We all ha...
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The Key To Manifesting
5 minute read
The secret to unlocking your full potential is knowing that you can never truly become aligned with anything other than how you feel. If you are like most, you have probably experienced feeling excited about a new goal you have decided on, and feeling convinced that this time you have finally found the motivation that was missing all along just to throw i...
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The Secret To Happiness
4 minute read
"If you aren't happy, you are worrying." We like to tell ourselves that when we don't feel happy it's because things aren't going our way. But then again, when we are happy it often feels like things can only go our way and nothing can bring us down. Well at least until something does... Why is it that it can sometimes feel lik...
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Understanding Stress
5 minute read
Worrying is not only the number one cause of stress. It's also the only cause of stress. If you control your worrying, you control your stress. Stress is only here to serve your worrying and nothing else. Stress is of course a natural thing to experience for all of us since it is simply our natural response to a perceived threat. When we are escaping...
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Breaking Free From The Past
5 minute read
Life does not work in favor of your plans, goals, and dreams. It works in favor of showing you what limitations you have built against yourself. One of the big pains in life is feeling that our destiny is based on our history. We tend to get into this feeling when we imagine a certain future or present situation having an outcome similar to a situation th...
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— Selected quotes —
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If you take your thoughts and emotions too seriously, they become the only thing you can see.
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The more precise you are with your request, the more precise the universe will be with your delivery.
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Now and then, learning something new and valuable comes disguised as taking a step backward.
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Life does not work in favor of your plans, goals, and dreams. It works in favor of showing what you have built against your own happiness.
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When working on yourself, don't look for perfection, look for progress.
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When you study yourself closely enough, you get to know everyone else too.
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Realizing that you aren't perfect and that it doesn't mean there is anything wrong with you, is a good place to be in life.
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A problem is neither a situation nor an obstacle. It's a feeling. If you calm the feeling, the problem becomes manageable or even ceases to exist.
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When you choose to act with patience instead of anger, you get to experience peace instead of regret.
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Move in the direction of peace, and everything you were looking for will find you.
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If you aren't happy, you are worrying.
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To help others shine, all you have to do is show them your own light.
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Everything that makes life worth living is already inside of you.
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I'm learning to be more kind to myself so that I can be more kind to the world. And I'm learning to be more kind to the world so that I can be more kind to myself.
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The fastest way to solve a problem is by changing the lens you are looking through.
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More is lost by trying to fit in than by being rejected.
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Principles left unchecked become limitations.
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We do not become free of our problems when we have fixed them all, but when we stop creating them.
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Living happily and peacefully must simply be a choice and not depend upon a measurement against one's expectations.
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Treat EVERYTHING as imagination and then learn to control what you feed it.
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In order to make a change, we must learn to do what is challenging instead of what is tempting.
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Conflicts don't care what we feed them as long as we feed them.
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Making progress is not a matter of doing a thousand things once, but doing one thing a thousand times.
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Attachment is when you need something else to bring you peace. Love is when you bring your own.
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We are never in the wrong place, but sometimes we look in the wrong direction.