Taking it All Off: How I Came to be OK with Going Bare-faced

Editor’s Note: We launched the first Sense-of-Self Help Online course in Fall of 2014. The online course is our attempt to give people an experience of working through the Sense of Self Method. The online course is based on the book, Healthy Sense of Self — How to be true to your Self and make…

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What exactly IS a Healthy Sense of Self?

A Healthy Sense of Self is one’s own felt sense of being one’s own person, separate from others. With a Healthy Sense of Self a person is free to be the unique human being whom he or she was born to be, and allows him or her to effectively become increasingly more independent through each…

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Sport boxer woman in black gloves boxing

SoS! Being a Great Boxer requires a healthy Sense of Self!

“When you take a stance and deliver a punch, the message is: I am accountable for my intent, my fears and my desires.” ~Cappy Kotz, Founder of Cappy’s Boxing Club, Seattle According to Cappy Kotz, who founded Cappy’s Boxing Club in 1999 in the culturally diverse, Central District of Seattle, the popular sport of Amateur…

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Thought of the Day, September 7, 2013

Indirect motivation is a concept that many people have never heard about. Yet, being able to identify it gives you tremendous power to change your life from being its slave into being its master. If you know why you do what you do you have a tool that works miracles. Can you spot the depth…

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Dear Cory Monteith: So what was really going on for you?

It is always a shock to hear about death that initially has no easy explanation. I saw on the stream of a friend on Facebook that a much loved celebrity was found dead and the cause is as of this writing “undetermined.” My daughter and I have been watching “Glee” for years and I loved the…

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Going to the doctor? Consult your Self first!

Next time you consult a doctor and go home with your medication or treatment plan make sure you check in with your Self. Find out if you are truly living to manifest your very own Self or if all you have been doing is being the slave of other people’s rules (parents/caregivers included). It might…

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Announcing: The Pilot Online Course has begun!

Who Wants a Good Night Sleep No Matter What? After several wonderful months of collaborating with the HySoS team, the pilot course of the Online Course: Do you have what it takes to be yourself? has launched! Note: We’re not currently accepting new pilot participants but registered students can access the course here. As of…

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Why do we do what we do? Whose life is it anyway?

Want to take part (for free) in our pilot online program? “Do You Have What It Takes to BE YOURSELF?”  We are launching a 3-week pilot of a self-study course on the Sense of Self Method. This pilot is a complimentary opportunity for a dozen “curious friends of Sense of Self” to experience the material and give…

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Why Are Children So ALIVE?

I’m staring out the window of the HySoS office into the courtyard and atrium where I spend a good amount of time each week. It is Earth Day and the weather in the Greater Seattle area is cooperating. It is a GLORIOUS day. Blue skies. White clouds. Perfect breeze. A clear view of the Olympics…

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Happy Earth Day: Spring is always true to its Self-No matter what!

“April showers bring May flowers.” It’s that time again—despite the “crazy” weather of the past two weeks. In the space of a fifteen minute window it hailed hard and fast, followed by sheets of sideways rain, and then the dark grey clouds dissipated, leaving snowy white clouds hanging in a bright blue sky. And within…

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