If you want to improve your life, the first step is to become aware of your weaknesses and how they may be holding you back. These could be things like a need for security, a tendency to escape into fantasy, a hunger for approval, a longing for the past, or a fear of the future. You might also have investment systems which are holding you back. If you want to change these things, then the first step is to become aware of them.

Amy Brenneman

Amy Brenneman has developed a fairly radical philosophy which challenges traditional systems of knowledge. In fact, many people shun her as an eccentric trying to spread subversive ideas. She is fairly nervous and impatient and finds it difficult to concentrate on one subject for very long. As a result, she does not always take the time to express her ideas in a practical or tangible way. She is fascinated by novelty and is likely to find the field of communications most rewarding for the total freedom it gives to her need for expression and her innovative, revolutionary spirit. Gradually, as she learns to control her intellectual and nervous energies, she will be able to express her innovative ideas about traditional structures and lifestyles in a more effective way. Her ability to channel her energies and lead groups of followers into unexplored ideological territory will improve.

Amy Brenneman’s emotions are fluctuating and unstable. Although she has the ability to detach herself from her emotions to analyze and observe them, this tendency sometimes prevents her from truly engaging herself in emotional terms and may act as a defense against any emotional impact. This is the reason why she subject all her feelings to an intellectual interpretation rather than yielding to them. It is also the reason why she might falter, hesitate, contradict herself and seem to say both yes and no when she has an opportunity to commit herself emotionally. She should make a conscious effort to overcome this unconscious conditioning which may be related to her childhood. She must first learn to observe and assimilate other people’s feelings instead of rejecting them. This exercise will teach her to understand her own reactions and affects better.

Amy Brenneman often gets too tense and irritable to stick to a task for long. She is easily bored and distracted, and her bouts of inattention usually keeps her from engaging in any action totally. She tends to start a multitude of projects, but rarely finishes them, because meanwhile she has started some new enterprises. It might be advisable for her to learn to coordinate her energies and actions, if she wants to avoid exhausting her vitality.

To trust yourself better and gain self-assurance, the first thing you must do is learn to say no. Once you are capable of saying no to others, you can say yes to life. You must develop your awareness of all the good things in your life and all the changes you hope to make in order to enjoy life more. This is the foundation that will support you, the inexhaustible source and center of the transformation of your personality. Infantile anxieties which arose in childhood when you were helpless may be obstacles to your evolution. Sometimes they actually prevent you from daring to confront challenges you would be altogether capable of assuming now! One of the reasons you yield to these childhood fears so readily is that they procure a feeling so familiar to you that, although it is negative, it is a reassuring part of your identity. However, the more often you reinforce this complex by yielding to that feeling, the more unaware you become of your true emotional state. The irrational childhood fears have also reinforced your pessimistic tendencies. It is difficult for you to believe in the sunny side of life because of the pernicious little voice inside you that claims you don’t really deserve all this goodness. This side of you could undermine your vitality and force you to compensate or flee from reality. In doing so, you limit your power to bring about a positive change in yourself or your life. It’s a vicious cycle, and to free yourself, the first step is to free yourself from the fears which prevent you from taking full advantage of life. You can succeed if you arrange a relaxed, positive environment for yourself, establish sincere relations with one or two special people, and, if possible, find a setting – perhaps a yoga class – in which you can practice relaxation exercises.