Stop Making Yourself Miserable

April of 1965 was a relatively uneventful month in western culture. If you research it, you'll see that nothing particularly critical happened during those thirty days. However, even though it never showed up on any of society's radar screens, one event did take place that was to change the entire world. John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles went to dinner at their dentist's home and unbe...

As I mentioned in a few previous episodes, from the age of six through thirteen, I was given a rather extensive religious education, primarily in Judaism, with a focus on the Orthodox version.  During those years, I was averaging about ten hours of training a week and as you can imagine, I got exposed to quite a bit of material.           It was long ago and as you can also imagine; I've forgotten...

In the last episode, we looked at some of the basics of the Higher Mind Training and we observed that our intelligence can be divided into two components – our Ordinary Mind and our Higher Mind.           We also looked at the famous NASA study from the early 90s that showed that an astounding 98% of us are born geniuses and we stay that way through the age of five. Then it starts to wane and by a...

As I mentioned in an earlier episode, I am currently in the process of producing an awareness enhancement program called the Higher Mind Training. Its goal is to provide everyday people with some simple understandings and techniques that they can use to expand their consciousness, enabling them to realize their highest potential as a human being, which is far more than we currently know.          ...

As I've mentioned in previous episodes, there have been times during my childhood when I came across a concept or an idea that unexpectedly buried itself deeply within my mind and I've gone back to it on a regular basis throughout the course of my life. Each time I reconsider it, I derive more value from it, which makes sense, because I keep seeing it from the new perspective of a different stage...

In the last episode, I told the story of what happened when I was standing on the platform of a train station with a large group of commuters and we suddenly realized that the well-dressed, mid-forty-year-old woman who was about to get off the train was blind. The woman was a professional, going about her business on a normal weekday morning, just like the rest of us who were standing there.  Exce...

As I've mentioned earlier, I'm currently working on a project called Higher Mind Training, and some people who listen to the podcasts have written in asking for some information about it, so I thought I would present an overview of some of its basics for you to consider. I'd like to start out by describing something that happened to me about four or five years ago. It was a very brief moment in ti...

As I've mentioned a few times in previous podcasts I'm always amazed whenever I come across significant wisdom in unexpected places. You can run into it almost anywhere and the sports world is certainly no exception. In basketball Phil Jackson is a former NBA player who became a coach and won more NBA titles than any other coach in the history of the game, eleven championship titles in all, which...

As many of us know, we are multifaceted beings with many different levels of consciousness and understanding within us, many of which haven't manifested yet. One of these inner aspects we each have is an amazingly heroic part of ourselves filled with bravery, strength and inner courage. It is often surprising in its power and its emergence can be completely unexpected. But whenever it makes itself...

Welcome to Episode One of Season Two of the Stop Making Yourself Miserable podcast. I had to take a slightly longer hiatus because I'm now working on something called Higher Mind Training which will be the next release of the Better Angels Publishing company.           The basic concept of Higher Mind Training is that we each have an enormous amount of potential within our consciousness and most o...

Hello and I hope all is well with you. As I mentioned in my original Hiatus Announcement, I am going to reach out every few weeks, just to say hello, give some updates and leave you with a very short message for you to consider.             Regarding updates, I continue to be deeply involved in working on my next book, Stop Making Yourself Miserable, along with introducing an executive training pr...

Hello and I hope all is well with you. As I mentioned in my original Hiatus Announcement, I am going to reach out every few weeks, just to say hello, give some updates and leave you with a very short message for you to consider. Regarding updates, I am deeply involved in working on my next book, Stop Making Yourself Miserable, along with introducing an executive training program to help people enh...

Following 43 consecutive weekly podcast programs with over 2,500 downloads, I am happy to announce that the Stop Making Yourself Miserable podcast will be taking a summer hiatus beginning this week. I want to thank everyone for your continued support and your inspiring feed-back. I will give you updates every few weeks and we expect to return for our fall season beginning on September 13, 2022.  T...

It always surprises me when I run into a random piece of information that doesn't seem like much when I first see or hear it, but somehow, it stays with me and grows into something much more important later. It can be much later. Like many years later. This is something that's happened to me many times and I've learned that you never know when you're about to stumble upon something that may have d...

This is the third episode about Walter Russell, one of the most accomplished people in American history. Episode 40, called Self-Bestowed Genius, gave an overview of Russell's life including some of his major accomplishments. It also described the incredible claim that Russel made that he was in touch with an infinite fountain of wisdom within himself that was the source of all his success in life...

In the last episode, I discussed some of the research I've on Walter Russell. As I mentioned, a chance encounter with a stranger led me down this unexpected path. I had never heard of Russell before and I was completely amazed by what I found. Not only was he one of the most accomplished people in American history, a self-made millionaire, master painter, sculptor and musician, architect and build...

I have found that every once in a while, some unexpected information can come from an unexpected source and make an unexpectedly major change in your outlook on life. Something like that happened to me a few years ago.             I was in the pool behind our condo and a stranger came over and introduced himself to me.  We struck up an informal conversation with one random topic casually leading t...

At this point in world events, it's not hard to see that the evolution of human consciousness is critical to our survival as a species. We just have to grow up. And the way things are going, it seems like we better get moving.           Over the years, one of the biggest problems we've faced is the simple fact that our technology always grows at a much faster pace than our character does. It's alw...

Human Beings are primates, closely related to monkeys, lemurs and apes. We have all evolved from a common ancestor, beginning about 60 million years ago, and incredibly, when it comes to genetics, we are all amazingly alike. On average, human DNA is 96% identical to the DNA of our most distant primate cousins, and nearly 99% identical to our closest relative, the chimpanzee.           The fact tha...

Ever since the old caveman days, when we sat around fires shooting the evening breeze, human beings have always loved stories. They do something specific for us. Besides giving us a great chance to be entertained while we hang out together, they give us the opportunity to learn and grow in a most efficient way. We can get the lesson of the story without having to go through the experience that's a...

This episode marks the end of the series entitled, "It's Just a Gimmick." In the last episode, two things helped provide some welcomed validation for the seemingly metaphysical events I had   experienced around the sudden death of my father.           By chance, I had run into my old high school friend who confirmed to me that I had told him about the dream that I had about my father's death the n...

In the last episode, I'd had a dream where my father appeared to me, told me he never really died and had me give him back his ring, then a few hours later, after my first period gym class, the ring had mysteriously disappeared from my locker.  The event was totally mystifying because there was absolutely no logical way that it could have happened the way it had. My grandfather, who was a religiou...

The last episode ended with a dream that I had where my father appeared to me. He looked fantastic and told me that he had never died, that death isn't real, it's just a gimmick, a public relations stunt that God does to get people to think about him. At the end of the dream, he told me that he didn't want me to wear his star sapphire ring anymore and had me give it back to him.           As we st...

Hi – this is David Richman with a short message to all of our podcast listeners who are not on our mailing list. First, I just want to say thank you for being a regular listener. We continue to get a lot of encouraging feedback about the programs and I'm so glad that so many people are enjoying them.         Now, I'd like to take just a few moments to let you know about the crowdfunding campaign t...

In the last episode, after going through some of the difficulties I had experienced as I returned to school after my father's sudden death, I mentioned three things that had helped me start to return to my normal life – the birth of my brother's son, just six weeks after my father's death, the mysterious resolution of my aunt's missing money, and my grandfather's remarkable transformation while le...