I talked with Clare Dimond a few weeks ago about this quote from The Little Book of Big Change:“Your habit is not “you” and it is not personal. It is simply your brain doing what it does.”We dissected this quote line by line.Your habit is not “you”. Of course it isn’t. Who or what is
In this conversation, I talk with parenting coach, change coach, and The Little School of Big Change moderator, Jessica Silverman. Jess shares what’s behind impatience, particularly in parenting. We feel impatient when we think things aren’t going the way they should–our children aren’t feeling the way they should, or they aren’t behaving the way we think
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This supposed thing we call a mind isn’t real.That may be obvious.Mind isn’t a thing. It’s just another thought-label used to lump more thought together to give it an apparent source.Like, “This is what my mind says” or “That’s just what minds do”. That sort of thing.Mind may be a helpful shortcut as far as
If you listened to EP181, you heard me speaking to some questions sent by Alice. In today’s episode, I share a portion of a conversation I had with Alice after she heard EP181. Alice says she feels like a prisoner to thoughts and beliefs she couldn’t change. She said that although it sounded nice to
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Our January guest speaker in The Little School of Big Change Graduate Community was Gary Crowley.Gary’s written several books. In one of them, From Here to Here, he talks about how awakening to enlightenment is the direct result of freedom from the illusion of the separate, volitional self.In other words, there is no you making
There’s a good reason I talk about the no-willpower approach to change. There is no such thing as willpower. Well, don’t take my word for it. Explore for yourself, as you listen to this episode. What if there is no such thing as willpower?What if what we call willpower is thought saying “I’m going to
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The search for something that will make us feel complete can literally never be won.I’m not saying it’s difficult, it will run you ragged, or maybe try something else instead.I’m saying it’s impossible.The idea that something can be missing–the seeking itself–is the illusion of separation. It’s the illusion that there is a fragile, needy “me”
Shelly says she used to be overly reactive. She would get defensive at people’s actions and comments, and the feeling that came with this reactivity was overwhelming. After trying so many things to fix her “reactivity problem”, Shelly sees this “problem” in a completely different light now. Shelly shares how reactivity is simply identification with a
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Minds think their survival, which is really the body’s survival, depends on them knowing all they can about you and your weaknesses so they can save you from future failure. One of their favorite tools for knowing the future is comparison.Comparison is how the mind secures its position as “safe” and “enough.” To a mind,
Five years ago this month, The Little Book of Big Change had just been published and I was busy creating The Little School of Big Change. In the story in my mind, things look remarkably simpler, clearer, and deeper today compared to five years ago. But when I looked back at the original LSBC curriculum in
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