Contemplating suicide, I held the loaded 357 magnum revolver in my hand. I reluctantly put the gun down. I determined to find lasting joy whatever it took. After many years, I found the wellspring of Joy. And I want to tell you how to get lasting Joy in your life too.

God's Peace is pressing in on us from every side. Learn how to stop pushing God's Peace away in your mind. The key is changing your perception of yourself and others. The effects are monumental. God's recipe for Peace.

End your resistance to today.

I discuss: the most unused fringe benefit from God, how to feel right and be right today no matter what happens, are you experiencing all the benefits of the kingdom of God today? our overwhelming rightness from God, God’s high view of you, are you sinning against Christ by having a low opinion about yourself? and why other people's opinion of you is none of your business.

How to begin seeing others the way God sees them. Do one simple spiritual exercise and watch how much it changes how you see other people. But, it's better than that, because it will also help improve other people's self image, and help them to actually change themselves. The power of perception, allowing God to see out of our eyes, the way God sees people, how to create circles of blessing, what God sees on your personal highlight reel, how to use your faith when perceiving others.

Would you like to know a practical way to get over yourself, enlarge your consciousness, to stop being triggered by others, to become less reactive, to handle criticism better and to experience a little piece of Heaven right now? Get over yourself. I'll show you how. St. Francis of Assisi, the ego, the egoic mind, reactive mind, Michael Singer, accepting others for where they are.

The Christian Church often recites the Lord's Prayer verbatim. People have it memorized. But few people actually pray the way Jesus tells us to pray in the Lord's Prayer. Jesus was and is a revolutionary. And in the Lord's Prayer, Jesus teaches us a revolutionary way to pray that few Christians practice.  revolutionary, revolution, spiritual revolution, radical thinking, eastern monism, passion, zeal, courage, agitation, disruption, persistence, idealism, grassroots organizing, charisma, sacrifice, rejecting limitations, agents of change, God's will, how not to pray, one way to hallow God's name.

When we stop reaching out to others, we pay a price that's much bigger than we could realize. Here are the last 11 ways we damage ourselves when we become an emotional island. Dropping off the social grid, losing connection with others, the price of detachment from others, becoming isolated, healing effects of community, A Man Called Otto, Tom Hanks, the clearly defined benefits of connectedness.

I discuss more proof that connecting more with others has surprising benefits. Take it from a lifelong introvert like me, I do much better when I make small efforts to connect with everyone I encounter during my day. And science now shows proof of socializing and human happiness. Plus, a story that might help cure you of more-itis. How to be happier, introvers, extroverts, benefits of socializing.

As a pop bottle will explode in foam when shaken, so do we all explode in anger when we are shaken by life events. Science says a very simple way exists to vent the emotional pressure we all feel at times, so we become less volatile in our temperment. I neglected doing this for 30 years, and paid the price. Listen as I share something that has helped me tremendously. UCLA study, how to calm your brain, Wayne Dyer, healthy way to vent anger.

18 good things will happen to you if you connect with the right people. And the sooner you do, the sooner you'll receive what you need. Don't wait! I'll discuss who the right people are, and I'll go over the first two of these 18 good things in this podcast.

It's now a scientific fact that loneliness will kill you. We can't make it through life alone. We need other people. I was a loner all my life until I learned the Power of Connection with others.