Obsessive-compulsive disorder is all about fear; fear of bad things happening beyond our control, fear of our own thoughts and actions; even fear of ridding ourselves of OCD. Fear is unhealthy. It can make life miserable. And whether or not you know that the fear is irrational, it’s still there…

Hiding OCD is practice for duplicity If you hide your obsessive-compulsive disorder, over time you can become a master of deception. I had about fifty years of practice at appearing normal. I worked really hard at it and for the most part I pulled it off. I went to school…

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Resisting an urge to do OCD can feel impossible. But you can turn that discomfort into a motivator. If you work out at a gym, or do any form of exercise, you’re familiar with the discomfort you need to gain strength and endurance. …

If the present moment is “all that is real,” and the present moment vanishes, is anything really real? If the ego isn’t the real, authentic self, is there a self beyond the ego? And if so, how do we come back to it? When we look for that within us…

In my latest video on OCDFreeVideo.com, I share my daily practice of Siddho Sum Kriya, a technique to hand off your anxiety to the universe and free yourself from the false control of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Check it out, and please subscribe to my videos.

Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine having a replica of yourself. Every time an OCD urge arose, you could hand it off to the 2nd you to take care of, freeing you to live your life unencumbered by OCD. Well, it turns out that you can do essentially that, through the…

except life — An eighteenth century French prisoner. Who cares what happened to them on a Tuesday? Nothing matters, except life. Two people arguing about something. About what? It does not matter. Neither will remember the details of the conversation in a few days. So why persist with the argument? How often does…