The Image of God
Alive and Free
A lot has happened in these last 3 months and with one of our first episodes back, we’re going to talk about God. Where he fits in everything we’re doing and in life itself. Have a listen. Highlights: Without realizing it, we are courting death by all these ideas that are prevalent in today’s society. (17:50) Is that how you come to know god? Do you sit with him and just pay attention? (28:10) The more you glimpse who you really are, it automatically frees you from who you think you need to be. (35:00) Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my...
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You Don't Have to Have Issues
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When something happens, there doesn’t always have to be an issue with it. You can let go of the response and control it. We’ll talk about it more today. Have a listen. Highlights: I was leading myself to my own grave because of some teachings that I had likely misinterpreted. (12:15) A lot of people would rather be right and miserable and perpetuate the misery, than dissipate the reactions. (19:35) I want to teach people the skills of having a choice in how they feel. (20:00) I thought I was going to break everything in what I knew, or sensed, was the right way forward. (31:00) Need help...
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I Am... Except When I'm Not
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We have often had people who have a single belief of who and what they are. It’s not that they’re wrong for that, it that they had never tried to challenge it before. People who were “superior” to them had given diagnosis and those were taken to heart. Today we’ll talk about it more. Have a listen. Highlights: A lot of people we encounter had their mom, their teacher, their mentor tell them something and that’s never been challenged. (13:10) Internally, I don’t want to put the keys in the lock that are almost a fit, but to a perfect fit. I’d rather make them on the inside....
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Divine in the Details
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Today, we’re going to take a pretty deep dive into some religious things. Growing up in the mormon church, I had some things indoctrinated in me that were causing me disease. We’ll talk about it more in todays episode. Have a listen. Highlights: Your body is what qualifies you to be alive and when you understand what a magnificent gift it is, t can lead you out of all the things that you’re struggling with. (29:45) I wanted to know what did all these, terms really mean in the context that they were given. (44:25) I started getting these waves of just feeling good to be in my body and...
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Win the War Within
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The main goal is to win the war within you. Not just to beat the symptoms, but the full battle that is causing tensions and stresses in your body. Today, we’re going to talk about it more. Have a listen. Highlights: The body has some way of remembering how it’s reacted in a situation before. (10:10) You are the hardest person you will ever coach. Because you have the same blind spots as the person that you’re coaching. (17:00) We are striving for permanence in an impermanent universe. (20:30) It’s not psychology, but physiology with a psychological impact. (32:45) Need help unlocking...
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Description vs Prescription
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Description; “I feel happy”. Prescription; “I’m doing all of these things so I should be feeling happiness”. Don’t let the prescriptions and “shoulds” in life, run over the descriptions, and the present moment. Today, we’ll talk about this more. Have a listen. Highlights: In a list, you’ll be given prescriptions, not what will become good, natural byproducts of your living experience. (14:30) “Where am I at, where am I headed, and what do I need to shift in order to move in that direction?” (17:00) Take a step back and think, what if everything will just naturally...
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F1 Love
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After the 2024 Miami GP, Lando Norris gains his first win and declares his love to everybody. Now, after a grueling two hour race, he probably felt relieved and wasn’t actually feeling “love”. Today, we’re going to talk about this more. Have a listen. Highlights: In that moment, was he really feeling love? (10:15) Feelings of love and kindness are a direct result of the state that the body is in, in any given moment. (14:20) Like I’ve been saying for a long time, your thoughts and emotions are a byproduct of the body. (20:00) There is a big difference between your senses, and what...
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To the Wives... "It's not you, it's me."
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This one’s for the women. A man’s “addiction” to pornography doesn’t mean that there is something wrong with you or that you need to change. It is just the way that his body has found to cope with his discomfort. We’re going to talk about this more today. Have a listen. Highlights: Because the “addiction” is no longer sexual, we look at; what are they coping with? (15:50) Depression, shame, and guilt are all mechanisms that are engaged in order to solve an ongoing problem. (17:25) It’s a chasing of a sensation all because, the person is unconscious of the way that they have...
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Get Good Help
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If you’re going to get help with something, at least get good help. Ruminating on the problem won’t solve it, so find someone or something that looks at the source, not the symptom. We’ll talk about this more today. Have a listen. Highlights: Do you really want validation on your trauma? (5:20) If you don’t want things to continue down their current path, validation will not get you to another place. (7:20) When bad help becomes the main source, it causes rumination on the symptoms, and not on the causes. (16:50) If you’re going to get help, then get good help. (:) Need help...
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Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier
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Therapy is not really as useful as it seems. In reality, therapy gets you to just ruminate on thoughts and situations that are no longer useful to you. Instead of spending time pouting about it, learn from it and move on. Today, we’re going to talk about that more. Have a listen. Highlights: When going to some form of entertainment, the emotional controls are almost willfully set aside for the enjoyment of another story. (6:05) No doubt, teenagers all over the planet have these hormonal things that show up, and have situations that they have emotions about. But it’s being blown out of...
info_outlineWith all the clamoring voices declaring the latest health fads and superfoods, so many of which seem to be in contradiction to each other, how is one to know what to do? Do we follow the simple advice of Michael Pollan (Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.)? Or do we micro measure every morsel for optimum productivity and neurological function? Lots to discuss, and, as always, with an eye to making things simpler. Have a listen.
Highlights:
- Nowadays you can walk into almost anywhere and see the teenagers have all the signs of being youthful, but there’s something off with their physique. (5:50)
- There are a lot of experts today that claim to know what health is. But when I step back and look at it, it just seems to be that what we’re claiming health is, is really distorted. (9:25)
- People define freedom as the ability to do whatever you want to do, but I’ve suggested the following definition; that freedom is the ability to not do what you don’t want to do. (21:29)
- It doesn’t have so much to do with your genetics, but the way you learned to eat. So if you change the way you eat, you can actually change what the outcomes are. (32:55)
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