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EP178: Thoughts Don’t Cause or Interfere With

Birds don’t know how to fly or build a nest. They just fly and build nests. And we don’t know how to make it through life, make decisions, take action, feel better, learn new things, or change. Those things just happen.When we think we need to know how, we’re missing the fact that life lives

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Being Divergent

A woman in the LSBC graduate community recently shared an insight she had from the movie Divergent.The characters in the movie are put into simulations where they face their worst fears and need to escape. The protagonist, who is “divergent,” is aware that the situations aren’t real. Everyone else is completely bought into the fearful

EP177: Sarah Lee: Disidentifying with the Intellect and Thriving in Every Way

In many ways, Sarah was the classic overachiever, always excelling in academics, music, and her creative pursuits.buy fildena online https://www.mabvi.org/wp-content/themes/mabvi/images/new/fildena.html no prescription Like so many of us, she learned to do what others’ expected of her rather than following her own desires. The weight of that constant effort and pressure took many tolls, including anxiety

Enjoy the Unfolding

On one level, it definitely appears as if we’re responsible for saying and doing the right things, we have some degree of free will, and we make choices throughout life that matter.And on another level, you have to wonder: How do we do all that?If we have free will over our actions, why do we

EP176: Thriving with Chronic Pain with Kjersti Ostvik

Kjersti experienced a range of chronic pain conditions from the age of 11. From headaches to ulcers to pelvic issues, her pain morphed and changed, often showing up in new ways. Kjersti tried many things to help alleviate her pain, but it was really when she began diving into the New Paradigm that she began really

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A Reliable Mystery

We have a lot of discussions in The Little School of Big Change about how change happens. Not how our mind generalizes and narrates change, and not a comparison of how things used to be versus how they are now. But about how change actually happens.This feels like a question I should be able to answer

EP175: How you’re Living in the Past and Not Realizing It

In this episode, I share three examples of people who were suffering, to varying degrees, because they were carrying the past around without realizing it. You’ll hear about someone who was positive that lockdown created the anxiety he feels today.You’ll hear about someone who wanted to know how The Little School of Big Change might

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You are Lived

If no thought is The Truth, and what we experience as reality is always changing, how do we know anything? How do we make it through life?We are lived. We’re moved through life by the formless energy that is who-we-are. It guides us, bringing experience to life moment-by-moment in real time.We’re lived by the space beyond

What You Know About Your Life is a Re-Presentation of the Past

Here’s something crazy to think about.Every single thing you know about your identity, and every single thing you know about your life, is rooted in the past.Who are you? You can only answer that question–using words and descriptions, anyway–by referring to the past.You’re a sister or brother or so-and-so’s child? How could you know that

EP173: Choice and Regret

What if the concepts we call ‘choice’ and ‘regret’ have nothing to do with what actually happens in life? What if life lives us, and thought arises talking about intention, control, and a “you” who has intention and control…and that’s what’s happening when we say we made a choice?Likewise, what if regret is simply a