JGRP 011: Breaking Free from Identity with Oren Harris

Welcome back to The ‘Jason Goldberg is Ruining Podcasting’ Podcast! This week Jason has a conversation with Oren Harris. Oren talks about the process of breaking free from your identity and becoming someone else. Your personality is defined by who you want to be; changing your personality, although not a very quick process, is totally doable. That shift allows other things to happen such as: going into unexpected career directions; diving into your unknown purpose; discovering the abilities you master; and discovering what you’re designed to do in this life.

 

“On a level of mind our beliefs about ourselves, our belief about the world, the perspectives that we are holding can be flow enhancers or flow blockers.” – Oren Harris

 

Oren also talks about how to use your flow to prepare for something important. When we have an event coming (or a new experience, a big decision, a dilemma to solve) it is less beneficial to try to see the outcome and control the process rather than just surrendering. According to Oren, in this moment you should put down the desired outcome and ask yourself: “Why am I doing this?”

 

“Surrender is letting go of control. Not letting go of a goal, of a vision, of what’s essential, of what’s important, of what your intention is.” – Oren Harris

 

To be in this state of flow is to completely let go, including trying to control the flow. When we live in autopilot: always trying to achieve; always doing too much; always attaching ourselves to methods, belief systems and routines, we start to feel limited. There isn’t just one way to do things. So, how do we change this thought process and start allowing the flow to exist? Oren explains that self awareness is the first step: to become familiar with what needs to change is to begin this change.

 

“If you expand your consciousness, expand your mindset, and you become someone new - even if you take a small action in that - the measure of its impact is not the action or just the result of that one action… that action represents an entirely new level of being.” – Oren Harris

 

About Oren Harris

Oren Harris is a life and transformation coach, teacher and speaker. Having worked alongside entrepreneurs, high performing leaders, and creatives of all kinds, Oren bases his life and work in awakening the full potential of people. He does so, either by helping with performance or by igniting their flow.

 

Key Timestamps

[4:04] – Oren talks about the beginning of his career as a life coach;

[19:31] – Oren explains the concepts of preparation and presence;

[32:03] – How to shift from analytical perspective to spiritual perspective;

[35:38] – Definition of flow (Flow enhancer VS. flow blocker);

[54:32] – How Oren handles resistance and creative blocks;

[01:09:20] – How Oren faced surrender on a personal situation;

[01:11:50] – Planning and trying to control the flow is quite the opposite of letting the flow exist;

[01:26:17] – It’s Game Time! #YouAlphabetYoAss;

[01:32:37] – How Oren sees Creativity and Inspiration burnout; 

[01:52:45] – It’s Game Time! # TheMatrixRecasted

[01:59:32] – What Oren wants to ruin from now on;

 

Related Links

The Circle by Oren Harris

 

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