For all our self-knowledge, for all our inherent ability to solve problems, for all our intuition, for all our desire to move to a new state of mind, most people remain stuck thinking within a set of constraints about what’s really possible or what they just have to live with.

Take yourself, and how you’re ‘coping‘ right now.

When confronted by a difficult problem, is staying in your own head usually the best way to solve it?

For you, it might be; in which case you might be someone who wouldn’t value this approach to changing your life.

But for the vast majority of people, having tools to help them voice their challenges, their attempts to deal with them, their beliefs and assumptions around them and what they might do differently moving forward is the beginning of real change.

“Fine”, you might say, “I’ll talk to my family, my friends, my colleagues.”

That could work.

But again, experience shows that often the people you are nearest most often are stuck thinking in the same way as you – they’re part of the same circle of social, intellectual and behavioral influences.