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“You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your own false thoughts.” - Philip Arnold”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“True freedom and lasting happiness are realized through the internal transcendence of wounded themes of consciousness.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“I take accountability for myself. Accountability is my greatest strength. There is no competition. I don't have to prove anything. I am humble. My life is a gift. All progress is a gift. I face my insecurities with courage. My vulnerability is powerful. There is enough for everyone. Others do not need to lose in order for me to win. We can all win. My way is just one way. I don't always need to be right. I am happy for others. I celebrate the success of others. I empower others. I enjoy others’ victories. I use my abilities and talents to support and serve others. I do not need to earn love. I am innately loved. I give love to others. Love is my natural, effortless state. There is no shortage or lack of love. I build others up.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“A healthy and conscious relationship is one in which we know we are entirely accepted, cherished, and wanted, even for the parts of ourselves we once considered unlovable.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work of Relationships: An Invitation to Heal Your Inner Child and Create a Conscious Relationship Together

“Rejection should be seen as a sign of redirection, not a label for self-identification. We must accept accountability for our actions, focusing on behavior rather than questioning intrinsic worth.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work of Relationships: An Invitation to Heal Your Inner Child and Create a Conscious Relationship Together

“It is important to address any wounds of rejection we may be holding onto, no matter how insignificant we may feel they are, because the energy of shame is like a festering sore which slowly decays the soul if left unhealed.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“It's essential for our relationship to become a refuge where each of us can safely be vulnerable.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work of Relationships: An Invitation to Heal Your Inner Child and Create a Conscious Relationship Together

“spent in states of gratitude, love, ease, and trust, the neuron connections for them get stronger as well, and the old pathways begin weakening. Thus through the same processes of expectancy and conscious awareness of which thoughts and emotions we are allowing ourselves to indulge in, we can make happiness a natural, habitual response to life—our original, pure state.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“The truth is that things can actually be better right now if you allow them to, even while you are still in the process of becoming. You don’t have to wait until tomorrow or until some big event transpires to live your dream life and to feel your best.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“However, the most empowering view we can take on our suffering is that it may actually be playing a perfect role in our hero’s journey of awakening.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“Happiness does not come from the consumption of things.” - Thich Nhat Hanh”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“You can’t remove a tree by trimming its leaves; you have to dig out the root. It’s important”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“As a defense mechanism to cope with the overwhelm of life’s tasks, facing consequences, past traumas, shame, or guilt, we may resort to a flat affect, a detachment to life, a lack of care or interest, boredom, and rejection of participation. In this state, we are not necessarily able to make a change, but we also don’t have the energy to keep destroying our life. We just don't care at all.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“True love is not something that we find;
it is something that we consciously create and build together”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work of Relationships: An Invitation to Heal Your Inner Child and Create a Conscious Relationship Together

“However, it is important to point out that your shadows will continue to evolve as you do. So you must always maintain humility and vigilance of any possible new blindspots as you progress. Every stage of human evolution has its own obstacles and temptations to be aware of. Therefore, The Inner Work is a contemplative lifestyle approach, not something to attain or a destination to arrive at.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do, are in harmony.” - Mahatma Ghandi”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“we lost our sense of surprise and wonder and instead developed expectations and an urge to control the world around us. We started to expect our conditions to please us, because well, everything is mine. We then created our identity by means of accumulation. Belongings, appearances, achievements, friends, experiences, and even traumas became “mine” and who we thought we were. Our egos became master collectors in a sense. And because we confused who we were with a world entirely outside of ourselves, our identity was threatened every time life didn’t go the way we wanted it to.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“only way to heal the wound of judgment is to surrender and admit that, as humans, we are not capable of making accurate judgments.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“I am committed and dedicated to goodness. I can handle the responsibilities of life with integrity. God is just. There is enough for everyone. There is no hurry. Arguing doesn’t change anything. The world does just fine without my opinions. I don’t need to get involved. I am talented. I am always doing my best. I enjoy being a great service to others. Life is filled with opportunity for me. Everything is always working out for my benefit. My life is a glorious gift. I forgive others and can appreciate everyone’s uniqueness. Knowledge is power. It is wise to be a loving person. It is rational to seek the betterment of self and others. I am loved and love others easily. I am always supported and guided. I am completely loved and sustained by faith. God loves me unconditionally.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“The phrase "pride before the fall" encapsulates this idea. In our fixation on being praised and admired for only our best qualities, we become blind to our vulnerabilities, leading to denial and an inevitable downfall.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work of Relationships: An Invitation to Heal Your Inner Child and Create a Conscious Relationship Together

“Underneath all those layers of defense mechanisms is an innocent child who is not only eternally worthy of being loved but is yearning for it.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work of Relationships: An Invitation to Heal Your Inner Child and Create a Conscious Relationship Together

“I can’t control my life, at least I can control my resistance to it.” Thus the ego makes things even more difficult than they need to be.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“The amount of suffering or satisfaction we experience daily is completely dependent on our current state of consciousness, which we can”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“if your perspective isn’t rooted in unconditional love, it is not the truth of your full potential. It’s a subjective perspective you are temporarily experiencing that is coming from a wounded theme of consciousness. Your true Self is perfect”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“Aggression and violence being expressed to others can only come from a mind that is aggressive and violent toward itself. True power, security, and love don’t”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“Our belief that we are inherently unlovable or unworthy of commitment becomes deeply ingrained, making it difficult for us to fully accept and internalize expressions of love and care from a healthy partner or compels us to abandon ourselves in order to receive crumbs of affection from unhealthy partners.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work of Relationships: An Invitation to Heal Your Inner Child and Create a Conscious Relationship Together

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― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“Similar to the crystals, a person occupying a wounded theme of consciousness, such as distrust, will create a life that looks and feels like distrust. They will experience thoughts of worry and doubt. Terror will surround them. They will experience feelings of paranoia and distrust. They will perceive enemies, whether physically or mentally. They will feel anxious around other people. Their choice of words will often be full of pessimism or panic. When they look at the world, they will see fearful concerns, instability,”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“There are only three simple steps to The Inner Work process that can be practiced throughout everyday moments: become aware of the trigger, connect them to a root program belief and theme of consciousness, then uproot and replace it with a new narrative of a higher perspective.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“To help someone who is coping with the wound of rejection heal, the most important thing they need is to feel loved, innocent, and accepted even though they have been through trauma and have been acting out of their trauma and creating turmoil in their life to prove they should be rejected. The more intense the trauma, the more they will tend to lash out and the more love and reassurance they need.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work of Relationships: An Invitation to Heal Your Inner Child and Create a Conscious Relationship Together