Awareness and Consciousness
Self Awareness is the Pathway to Happiness. the means to identify and change core beliefs, stop emotional reactions, and develop love and happiness in your relationships.
- Update frequency
- every 40 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 87
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2024
#47: Reality, projections and illusions
Once you realize that the mind that is distorting things is at the beginning of our perception and interpretation of events, you become aware that perceiving reality is much more difficult.
00:32:18 |
Thu 10 Dec 2015
#46: Affirmations can backfire
Sometimes people get poor results with affirmations. When they say positive things about themselves the dialogue of thoughts in their head pushes back with harsh negative comments.
00:19:26 |
Mon 16 Nov 2015
#45: The Hero’s journey
The hero's journey is the classic tale often told through movies and stories going back to The Odyssey by Homer and many modern versions. It's appeal is that it represents our journey to create peace…
01:10:39 |
Fri 26 Apr 2013
#44: Persistence and resistance
What does resistance look like and how do you navigate around it to make changes in your self? Jamie is one of the most persistent people at doing personal change work that I know. She also resists c…
01:09:51 |
Mon 21 May 2012
#43: Overcoming insecurity and develop confidence
Attempts to develop confidence often fail because they revolve around projecting a positive self image or achieving success. Unfortunately these two things don't eliminate other beliefs causing feeli…
00:30:28 |
Thu 19 Apr 2012
#42: Stop beating your self up
To effectively change the thoughts and beliefs we beat our self up with it is important to look at the problem differently. That's what I do in this episode on what specifically happens when you are …
00:29:25 |
Sun 19 Feb 2012
#41: Meditation for beginners
This simple meditation lets anyone begin to enter into a state of mindfulness using a very common sense practical approach. What our mind construes as a deeply mystical thing like meditation doesn't …
00:38:03 |
Mon 09 Jan 2012
#40: Self awareness and mindfulness
Understanding how your mind creates emotional reactions is key to making personal change. This understanding of the mind is done through mindfulness, also know as Self Awareness.
00:33:10 |
Mon 12 Dec 2011
#39: What is a belief?
A belief begins as a conceptual idea in our mind. Then our imagination turns it into something like a dream, or virtual reality. A belief, particularly a false belief, has the capacity to create an i…
00:36:30 |
Mon 14 Nov 2011
#38: Self Mastery Course results interview
David served in the Army and National Guard. After responding to the World Trade Center and Afghanistan he came home and discovered that his emotional reactions were out of control and inappropriate.…
00:41:53 |
Tue 17 May 2011
#37: Confusion about love, compassion, hope, integrity and loyalty
Even the basic building blocks of language such as words can be distorted and made confusing by how the mind alters their meaning when we are not aware.
00:26:58 |
Thu 14 Apr 2011
#36: 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.
00:38:31 |
Tue 22 Mar 2011
#35: Sexual performance anxiety
At the core of sexual performance anxiety are fear of failure, rejection from our partner and self rejection. These expressions take place in our mind and affect our emotions.
00:37:00 |
Thu 03 Feb 2011
#34: Spiritual journey interview
Carolyn comes to a seven day intensive and discovers what it is like to shed fear based self judgments from her childhood and embrace the experience of unconditional love. It's no longer an intellect…
00:28:23 |
Wed 25 Aug 2010
#33: Inception and the life of an idea in the mind
Careful observation reveals that ideas, thoughts, and beliefs behave as if they are alive in the mind. When ideas grow and link together with other ideas they become big stories and can have multipl…
00:33:58 |
Tue 03 Aug 2010
#32: The most important thing for your happiness
Sometimes it helps to take a step back and have a sense of humor about the process of overcoming fears, identifying and changing core beliefs.
00:38:38 |
Wed 23 Jun 2010
#31: Miguel Ruiz and The Fifth Agreement
An interview with Miguel Ruiz about his book that is written with his son Jose Ruiz. We also talk about how the belief system creates a virtual reality, how we distort love, how to use doubt to quest…
00:54:10 |
Wed 12 May 2010
#30: 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.
00:46:26 |
Fri 26 Mar 2010
#29: Faith: the power behind your beliefs
Faith is more than a set of beliefs there is no evidence for or a doctrine of religious beliefs. Faith is a force. It is an aspect of your personal will power that you can use in various ways.
00:26:32 |
Wed 17 Feb 2010
#28: Conscious awakening
Waking up to the unconscious beliefs in your mind is an uncomfortable and disconcerting realization. In this episode I outline what is happening so you can keep the process in a larger perspective.
00:51:11 |
Thu 21 Jan 2010
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