Peace arises when the mind harmonizes with things as they are. When you argue with what is, conflict arises, and that confusion is suffering. The only thing that argues with what is is your thinking. A thought arises, you believe it, and peace seems to disappear. When you believe your thoughts, you suffer, and when you don't get wrapped up in the narrative of your thoughts, life is simple. You are in resistance to what is simply by believing the thought; this creates a war within your mind. Peace is who you are without a story.
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This forms the foundation for understanding Clarity and Creativity.

The body is a localization in the form of all that we are, and the body is our vehicle to operate and navigate in this world, experiencing everything that life has to offer. The body is constantly in reality, telling us through emotions when the mind departs from reality and takes falsehoods as truth. When we start to see the body as the amazing computer and GPS that it is, we can live in harmony with whatever emotions arise – no matter how daunting they may feel.

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This forms the foundation for understanding Presence and Inner Peace.

We often think of "self"-identity as our personality, our small quirks, our body, in other words, how we see and define ourselves. However, "self"-identity extends far beyond this idea of who we are to all kinds of external concepts and objects such as our roles, our home, our friends, our jobs, and our lifestyle. Problems arise because this "self" we so identify with does not exist - it is a mental construct and is the cause of all mental suffering.

This forms the foundation for understanding Conflict Resolution.

Just like "self"-identity, personality is also a mental construction, created from birth through our environment, our conditioning, interpretation and beliefs we have simply acquired through time. Our personality is a story. It is an imaginary idea of "how" we are as a person created in the mind . We take this "story" as an absolute truth about who we are, but it is only relative to the moment to what is being believed. The personality is not fixed and it constantly changes depending on a number of factors. Factors that also constantly change.
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This forms the foundation for understanding Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence.

When we think of survival, we most often consider the survival of the physical body. What we may not see is that thoughts are the daily struggle to protect and defend a "self" that exists no more than in our thoughts. Until we engage in a conversation like this. Through direct experience we can discover that what we are constantly defending and protecting is the survival of our identity, the aspect of ourselves that we call "I" or "me."
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This forms the foundation for truly understanding Stress Management.

It is through our relationships with others that we learn the most about ourselves. When we begin to understand our true nature, we can transfer that knowledge to better understand other people, our relationships, and the gift they represent. Instead of seeing others as separate individuals we must protect ourselves from, validate ourselves through, or assert ourselves over, they become a mirror for us to reflect back our own beliefs and conditioned concepts about the image we have of ourselves.
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This forms the foundation for understanding genuine Empathy and Compassion.

The "self" we claim to have the free will is entirely built of thought, it is a mental contstruct and as long as we think that this "self" has volition or choice outside of its' own conditioning there is no possibility of having free will. As long as we are unaware of our conditioning and continue to believe that we could have acted differently under precisely the same circumstances, with precisely the same thoughts and understanding of the situation, we will never be free. 
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This forms the foundation for understanding Potential

This forms the foundation for understanding Communication and Integrity.

We come into this world naked and empty-handed and we cannot take anything with us when we go. We are helpless at the beginning and at the end of our lives. So, what is the point of it all? And what is our purpose?
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This forms the foundation for understanding Purpose and Meaning.