#80 What Are We? – An Exploration in Self Awareness

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#80 What Are We? – An Exploration in Self Awareness

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Jul 28, 2023

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As humans we are: Spiritual, Physical Body, Consciousness, Mind, Gender Energy, Emotions and a Soul. Getting all of those energy aspects working together can be quite a process

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Jul 28, 2023

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Feeling Not Good Enough – Beliefs: I wrote an article about feeling not good enough. It relates to issues of insecurity. A big component of feeling insecure is the image of perfection that we create in our mind. When the voice in our head compares us to that image of perfection it conclude by Awareness and Consciousness
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Emotional Reactions: When it comes to stopping or changing emotional reactions people often approach the problem like they are fixing a car. They ask, “How can I change this reaction?” or “How can I stop my jealousy, anger, frustration etc.” The assumption seems to be that by Awareness and Consciousness
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Change Your Life – Interview: You can change your life, but first you have to change your beliefs. Beliefs are those mental constructs that drive our emotions of fear, and sabotaging behavior. In this interview I follow up with Holly who I interviewed in early 2007. She has continu by Awareness and Consciousness
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Finding Your Self: Finding your Self or figuring out who you are is one of those eternal questions. We often struggle with it as teenagers, then again in our thirties, or during a mid life crisis. The struggle to know thy Self is as old as spiritual traditions that attempte by Awareness and Consciousness
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Identify and Change Core Beliefs: What are core beliefs and how do you identify them? That’s what many people are realizing they need to do to change their emotional reactions. The problem is where do you look to find core beliefs? They are in the mind but can be hard to pin down, particu by Awareness and Consciousness
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Fear Doctrine: The Creation of Anger and Agression: Fear is at the core of anger and aggression. Yet we become so busy with the strategy of control and the act of aggression we rarely see the cause. We can see the emotional dynamic at work whether we look at our internal thoughts, relationships, or the by Awareness and Consciousness
65 min listen
Fear and Overcoming Fear: Overcome fear by gaining mastery over your core beliefs. Fear is that emotional force that drives us in a direction away from joy, happiness, and love. Fear can paralyze us to the point that we feel helpless and suffocated. Often fear appears irrational by Awareness and Consciousness
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Self Judgment: Self Judgment is the most common type of abuse. It’s self abuse. No one is more critical of you than the voice in your head. If anyone else talked to you the way the Judge in your mind spoke to you, you would fight back, or walk away from them. We can’t s by Awareness and Consciousness
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Happiness As Choice: Most people spend their whole lives looking for some measure of happiness. Why is it so elusive? What creates happiness? People will tell you that material things or other people won’t make you happy. Experts will advise you that in order to be happy y by Awareness and Consciousness
31 min listen
The Four Agreements and Hidden Assumptions: Of don Miguel Ruiz’s Four Agreements most people will say that the hardest one to keep is Don’t Take Anything Personally. I don’t agree. The most challenging agreement is actually Be Impeccable with Your Word. In taking something personal you take what by Awareness and Consciousness
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Fear of Love and Happiness: It might be hard to believe that we fear love and happiness, but it is a real dynamic that happens in the mind. It is easier to understand if we consider the mind to be a living being with many different aspects. If we attempt to change our beliefs and by Awareness and Consciousness
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Understanding the Spiritual Journey: All self help, personal development, growth, and self awareness work is part of the Spiritual Journey. That’s because Spirit Means Life. And all of these endeavors should have an intent to facilitate greater happiness in your life. The mystery of th by Awareness and Consciousness
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Stop Beating Your Self Up: Due to an internal dialog of negative thoughts you can really beat your self up. If the self berating thoughts are strong enough it can induce feelings of inadequacy, hopelessness, and even depression. People often try to remedy this by willing their ne by Awareness and Consciousness
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Don’t Take Anything Personally: How to Not Take Things Personally In the book, The Four Agreements, Miguel Ruiz outlines a code of conduct for creating love and happiness in your life. One of his Four Agreements is “Don’t Take Anything Personally. In this podcast I describe some of the by Awareness and Consciousness
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Free Will: Do you have free will? Is there even such a thing as Free Will? It is true that we are to some degree products of our environment. Our minds get filled with ideas, beliefs, and emotional patterns as we grow up. We are socialized to become a collection of by Awareness and Consciousness
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Anger Management: I don’t think we should just manage our anger. I believe in eliminating anger. Trying to control triggers, circumstances, and other people so we don’t become angry is too much work. It is much easier to identify and change the core beliefs c by Awareness and Consciousness
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Love Relationships Part I: Understanding Desire and Yearning in Relationships Desires for a relationship come from deep within us. They aren’t desires for a specific person so much as a need for expression and experience of connection and feeling that we can have with another pers by Awareness and Consciousness
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Changing Habits and Overcoming Addictions: Overcoming Addictions and Changing Habits People attempt to change a habit or addiction by going cold turkey. This often raises the expectation too high and can set a person up for failure if they don’t yet have a lot of personal power or discipline. The by Awareness and Consciousness
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Love Relationships Part II: Understanding Conflicting Desires Our body has physical desires, our emotions have a desire to express love, and our mind has a desire to have its beliefs and expectations met. This can create some internal conflict that gets more complicated when we add by Awareness and Consciousness
22 min listen
Overcoming Fear of What Others Think of You: There is a structure of beliefs that support the fear of what others think of you. When you dismantle these beliefs, your fear dissipates, as well as the internal dialog that it drives. In this podcast I guide you through some of the resistance you will p by Awareness and Consciousness
41 min listen
#58: How to Relax: This podcast will guide you through a breathing practice using specific techniques to relax your nervous system and brain. There are reasons that breathing techniques can help you relax. Breathing. When done properly it bypasses your intellect and directs by Awareness and Consciousness
26 min listen
How to Tell If a Relationship Will Work: How can you tell if a relationship will work out? There are specific indicators to tell if your relationship will run into trouble down the road. The signs aren’t found in how much love, romance, or physical attraction there is. Two people can have great by Awareness and Consciousness
38 min listen
The Ego Mind and Consciousness: In a Four Agreements workshop I shared a model for understanding consciousness and the ego mind. I recorded the workshop and part of it makes up this mp3 audio podcast. Understanding the ego mind and understanding consciousness means becoming aware of the by Awareness and Consciousness
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Fear and Origins of the Financial Crisis: I cover how to use awareness to break free of fearful resistance to taking action. Jut for fun I also get into understanding origins of the financial crisis. Credit default swaps, lobbying by banks to lower their equity reserve requirements, and specu by Awareness and Consciousness
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Faith and Personal Power: The Importance of Keeping Your Faith What is Faith? What is a Belief? What is the relationship between your emotions and what you believe? Do thoughts have power? Why it’s not that important to stop your negative thoughts. How can you recover your persona by Awareness and Consciousness
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Miguel Ruiz and The Fifth Agreement: Interview with Miguel Ruiz about The Fifth Agreement in this mp3 audio podcast. Don Miguel Ruiz talks about the book, The Fifth Agreement. It is a follow up and completes the teachings he started in The Four Agreements. In this interview he talks about by Awareness and Consciousness
54 min listen
Overcoming Anger Using the Self Mastery Program: I interviewed Joe who used the Self Mastery course to overcome his anger and anxiety reactions. He’s started to be aware that some of his emotional reactions are completely gone At other times he finds it enjoyable to experience emotions that used to be by Awareness and Consciousness
46 min listen
The Value of a Spiritual Teacher or Mentor: If the emotional quality of your life and relationships were solely dependent on how smart you were then you wouldn’t need a teacher. But that isn’t the case. A book can’t teach or model for you self acceptance, respect, love, or grati by Awareness and Consciousness
39 min listen
Can You Change Your Life: I often get asked if people can really change their life. They want to known if they can overcome fears, stop the judgments, and quiet the voice in their head. The answer is yes. However, when people ask, they usually ask with such fear and doubt that al by Awareness and Consciousness
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The Hero’s Journey: The Hero’s Journey was outlined to me through the works of Joseph Campbell years ago. It is the classic tale often told through movies and stories going back to The Odyssey Homer and many modern versions including Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harr by Awareness and Consciousness
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#87 Changing Beliefs: Changing Beliefs using the Self Mastery Course from PathwayToHappiness.com is explained by Gary van Warmerdam. I outline the beliefs at the root of negative thoughts and emotional reactions affecting behavior. Then I outline how the Self Mastery practice by Awareness and Consciousness
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#86 Beliefs and Attention: When you use your attention to control your beliefs, you can identify the assumptions you live by, and consciously choose another thought, interpretation, belief, or behavior about what is happening. There is a lot of great advice about not letting other by Awareness and Consciousness
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#85 Beliefs are the Key to Change: Changing beliefs will allow you to change your narrative story and emotions. Beliefs are also the foundation for how economic, political, monetary, and social systems work. If you want to understand any one of those aspects, you will need to understand by Awareness and Consciousness
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#82 Journey of the Soul from Fear to Love: We knew how to be happy as children. It was natural for us. We learned to be stressed, judgmental, fearful, and in our head disconnected from the world and others through repetition. To break that partner requires a conscious intent for change. And it c by Awareness and Consciousness
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#79 Why you don’t see reality: You dont see reality. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there, it does not make a sound. Even if someone is there, it still doesnt make a sound. You are the one that creates sound, and the visual images of what you see. Listen and find out w by Awareness and Consciousness
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#77 Relationship Connection the Secret Ingredient: I got listened to and understood in a way that I felt important and valued. What I didnt know was that this wasnt an accident. The person listening to me was doing some very conscious and skillful things in their listening to help me have that experience by Awareness and Consciousness
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#76 Relationship Connection is Possible: we have these strategies of giving a good impression and hiding the stuff we fear they will judge us for. And so our relationship is made "comfortable" in that space of keeping up a false impression and hiding our negative feelings and thoughts. However, by Awareness and Consciousness
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#75 Relationship Connection – The Struggle: I gathered all sorts of habits and false beliefs in my childhood that later led to disconnection, disappointment, frustration, and heartbreak in a relationship. One example was from the fairy tales and movies growing up. They painted a picture of "happi by Awareness and Consciousness
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From Misery to Happiness: Daniel's journey from misery to happiness took a lot of work. There were many ingredients essential to making his transformation happen and he shares it here in this interview with him. The post From Misery to Happiness appeared first on Pathway to Happ by Awareness and Consciousness
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Why am I Unhappy: The narrative story in our mind is what produces those negative thoughts, self-judgments, and emotions. It arises from the core beliefs we acquired earlier in life, and that can be re-programmed with awareness. The post Why am I Unhappy appeared first o by Awareness and Consciousness
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#72 Conscious Dreaming: The mind is dreaming all the time. It is dreaming when you are awake, and when you are asleep. The consciousness process involves waking up from these dreams that run through your head. Most often they appear as narrative stories. What will change your l by Awareness and Consciousness
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#65 Beliefs I’m Broken and Unlovable that Produce Shame: To change a belief sometimes it helps to understand where and how it came to be. When you understand why and how you started to believe your thoughts about being wrong, bad, unlovable, or broken, you have new perspective on those ideas. You can understand by Awareness and Consciousness
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#63 Overcoming Trauma and Living Happy: My interview with Anna and her journey out of trauma reactions using the skills and perspectives she learned in the Self Mastery practices. Combining them with EMDR treatments and other modalities to go from anxiety, depression, anger and suicidal thought by Awareness and Consciousness
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#80 What Are We? – An Exploration in Self Awareness

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