In this episode, we explore two definitions of the word fix. There is to fix, as in to correct. We try to correct or fix a problem, or ourselves, or the way life appears to be unfolding. The other is to fix something into place, as in to solidify. Identities, opinions, and problems appear more or
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In this episode I respond to a question I received from someone who experiences depersonalization and derealization. Specifically, the questioner shared that they don’t believe this is a thinking disorder and do I agree? This sent me on a bit of a nice rant 🙂 I do agree. No thinking is “disordered” in the same way that
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I so often hear people feeling they are making things worse. They say things like, “I’m resisting, which is making these feelings worse” or “This anxiety is making my physical pain worse”.But what if “I’m making it worse” is just a thought?Can one thought really make another thought or sensation worse? Does it have that
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In today’s episode, I share an example of someone who experiences “health anxiety” to show how experience is “all conditioning” (EP310) and also how there is no conditioning (EP311). We explore the related idea that there is something other than what is right here, right now. This is another paradox. I feels like things
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Ana wrote to me saying that she began having social anxiety two years ago. She said she’s ashamed because she wishes she was strong enough to let this go. She went on to talk about how things are for her, but that first statement alone reveals a lot. She’s ashamed of something that has nothing
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Today’s episode is a conversation with Sarie Taylor and her Worldwide Wellbeing Community. When the mind is trying to hold onto some shred of perceived control, it often says something like “we have no control over what shows up, but we do have some control over what we do with it/pay attention to”. But that’s still
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In episode 306, Bill Giruzzi shared his experience and the insights he had during a period of extreme anxiety and suicidal depression. In today’s episode, his wife Lisa shares the incredible insights she had during that same time. In so many profound ways, Lisa deeply realized that nothing in life is really up to her. When
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Last week’s episode was called It’s All Conditioning. And, also, there is no conditioning. Conditioning is an idea that depends on time. It exists only in thought, which means it has no lasting, real existence. It’s an appearance, albeit a persistent, very real-feeling one. Conditioning exists in duality, as a label for a fleeting experience. The unconditioned
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All experience, in a sense, is conditioned. It’s all learned. And it can’t be anything other than what it is. It’s not your conditioning. The you with a life and problems and a past and future IS conditioned thought. It can’t have conditioning or be conditioned. It is a conditioned thought. There is a sense of
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This episode is a guided meditation of sorts…or something like that. We’ll lean together into what’s always here, never changing. What is here between thought and no thought?What’s aware of my voice?What’s wide awake when body and mind feel tired?
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