Awareness and Consciousness
196 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 213 ratingsExplore changing beliefs, discovering unconscious beliefs, emotions, and how your mind works. Using conscious awareness to step outside your mind and ego patterns you will have methods of change that were unimaginable.
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You can love and accept yourself without first being perfect
March 20, 2019 14:51Hello Gary, I’m David from Texas. I have gone through both the first and second Self Mastery Course. I was amazed and impressed with your understanding and insight to how miserable a person can be when your thoughts are weighing you down in darkness, and how hard it is to express to yourself or to others. The only way you could have that kind of... Read More The post You can love and accept yourself without first being perfect appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
The Inner Critic can be tamed
February 25, 2019 23:20It would be nice if the Inner Critic, what I call the Judge, would go away in a one step process. That rarely happens. There have been a couple people that might have done it. Eckhart Tolle, or Byron Katie, maybe, but I don’t know their personal process in detail to say. They may have still had extra cleanup work on their mind to do... Read More The post The Inner Critic can be tamed appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Consciousness VS. The Ego
January 04, 2019 13:10What is Consciousness? If you are wondering what consciousness is and how you get there, you are not alone. Asking “what is consciousness?” is like asking what is love? You don’t know what love is by reading, or filling your head with ideas and concepts. That is the mind’s version, or the ego’s version of love. You know what love is because you experience it.... Read More The post Consciousness VS. The Ego appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Damaging Effects of Criticism
January 04, 2019 10:49If you want to change your life, consider this. Criticism is probably one of the most toxic and destructive things a human can do to themselves or another. Criticism and judgments are rejections. These include self-criticism and self-judgments. It tears humans apart inside and destroys relationships. Every expression of negative words comes with emotion, and over time it adds up. Subtract criticism and complaining out of... Read More The post Damaging Effects of Criticism appeared first o...
Emotional pain and human suffering
December 26, 2018 11:13Teachings I learned from Don Miguel Ruiz What I learned from don Miguel Ruiz is more than can be fit into the internet. (Unconditional Love gets lost in the digital translation) Before meeting Miguel, life changing experiences happened only a couple times in my life. With don Miguel profound life changing experiences would often happen several times a week. Most people know Miguel Ruiz through... Read More The post Emotional pain and human suffering appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Feeling Unworthy and Beliefs about Perfection
December 26, 2018 10:53 - 29.6 MBWhat constitutes your image of perfection? Take the judgmental thoughts you have and look at the criteria of expectation that is behind the judgment. In other words, what criteria do you have to attain in order for the Inner Judge to finally say, “Congratulations, you made it.” These hidden beliefs result in thoughts of being a failure and create emotions of unworthiness. By having an... Read More The post Feeling Unworthy and Beliefs about Perfection appeared first on Pathway to Happines...
How To Be Happy
December 26, 2018 10:31How to be happy “How to be happy” Step One: Self Help and Goal Setting Can actually cause a negative affect The process of self improvement often has a destructive impact mentally and and emotionally. If you ask what you “should do” or “should be” you become set up for self rejection. Your mind immediately creates a conceptual image of what you should be and... Read More The post How To Be Happy appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Changing Core Beliefs
December 26, 2018 10:27 - 33.5 MBChanging Core Beliefs Changing a core belief doesn’t happen in a day. It may not happen in a week, month, or year! Everyone goes through the steps of changing core beliefs at a different pace. However, they almost always follow the same process to achieving the end result — changing their core belief. This is no simple task. If changing your core belief is part... Read More The post Changing Core Beliefs appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
How to Identify Core Beliefs
December 26, 2018 10:04Identifying Core Beliefs Why is identifying core beliefs important to our lives? Let’s take a recent client of mine who was trying to lose weight. After some early success she couldn’t figure out why she reverted back to old habits of binging on food that caused her weight loss to plateau. With some investigation she discovered an idea in her mind that she agreed too... Read More The post How to Identify Core Beliefs appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Compassion
December 26, 2018 09:47Accepting Life as it Is Without Sorrow or Emotional Reaction Common definitions of compassion read like the following: a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken with misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering. These definitions create the idea that compassion requires us to join another in their misery. Does this really help anyone? We may need a... Read More The post Compassion appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Challenges and Frustrations in the Workplace
December 26, 2018 09:37How To Handle Workplace Conflict Handling Workplace Conflict Starts with Challenging Our Paradigms in Work and Career Some of our biggest frustrations in life can come from our work environment and any type of workplace conflict. It might be work that is unfulfilling, co-workers that we have difficulty getting along with, or demanding organizational structures that seem to strip us of our time and suffocate... Read More The post Challenges and Frustrations in the Workplace appeared first ...
The Mind Creates Irrational Fears
December 26, 2018 09:26 - 19.9 MBThe Mind Creates Illusions About Money that we React to with Fear People will often refer to their emotions or fears as irrational. But if we learn how emotions are created, we can see that they are not irrational. They are actually the practical result of what the mind and imagination are doing. It is what the mind and imagination are doing that are completely... Read More The post The Mind Creates Irrational Fears appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Overcoming Low Self Esteem and Insecurity
December 26, 2018 09:13 - 29.6 MBWant to know where your low self esteem and insecurities come from? It’s based on emotion, not self-image. To build self confidence and overcome low self esteem is to change how we feel emotionally about ourselves. To change our emotion requires changing two different core beliefs about self image: The first core belief is obvious. It is the belief that we are not good enough.... Read More The post Overcoming Low Self Esteem and Insecurity appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Spiritual Seekers and Finders
December 26, 2018 09:04Begin Your Spiritual Growth Journey Here Want to understand spiritual growth? In the world of spiritual growth and personal development are seekers who take upon a path in their life of self-discovery. It will have a different emphasis for each person, perhaps, Spiritual, Emotional, Mental, Relationship, or Fun. Amongst all the spiritual seekers or personal development workshop takers, there are occasionally “Finders”. Spiritual Finders are... Read More The post Spiritual Seekers and Find...
Self Image
December 26, 2018 07:43Self Confidence and Self Image Your mind can create images, even images of yourself. Some images act like memories and are stored in ways that we are not aware of, or we might call unconscious self-images. Even though they are only mental concepts, we can even identify and believe that these images are us. Since we can believe many things about our self, we can... Read More The post Self Image appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Symbols of Love in Relationships
December 26, 2018 07:29What are the symbols of unconditional love? To find what the symbols of unconditional love are, let’s talk about what love actually is. What is love? What are the symbols of unconditional love? Flowers can be a symbol of love. A song, a gift, or a piece of jewelry can be symbolic of love. A verbal commitment is a symbol. Early on a verbal commitment... Read More The post Symbols of Love in Relationships appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Emotional Safety and Security in Relationships
December 26, 2018 07:14Are You In a Healthy Relationship? Evaluating whether you are in a safe, healthy relationship can be an important step. To love and be loved. Love, acceptance, respect, desire, security, and passion are all things we may want in a relationship. There are certainly others, and each person has specific desires. What I want to focus on here is the aspect of emotional safety in... Read More The post Emotional Safety and Security in Relationships appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Understanding Relationships and Emotional Drama
December 25, 2018 10:22It can be difficult to understand a person we are in relationship with especially when sometimes we don’t even understand ourselves. Why do we feel good about ourselves one moment and bad another? Why does a person change their attitude towards us from one day to the next? Each human is a complex creature whose behavior is driven by emotion, beliefs, point of view, and... Read More The post Understanding Relationships and Emotional Drama appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
What makes you happy in relationships?
December 25, 2018 10:19What makes you unhappy in your relationships? Be aware of the assumptions that your mind offers. Could it be something else? Many of us learned to believe early in life that other people determine our happiness. We might learn to live by this belief before we learn to talk or walk. This is the first false belief we create about our relationships. We can find... Read More The post What makes you happy in relationships? appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
The Pursuit of Happiness
December 25, 2018 09:32In Pursuit of Happiness Being in pursuit of happiness seems to be a big deal. Bookshelves and magazines fill volumes with the topic. Even our founding fathers thought it rated a line in the Declaration of Independence. It is part of our natural instinct to pursue happiness. The same way we seek to experience physical pleasure and avoid physical pain, we seek emotional pleasure, and... Read More The post The Pursuit of Happiness appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Finding Your Power
December 25, 2018 08:48How do you find your personal power? Finding Your Personal Power has the ability to change the direction of your life. A simple example of exercising personal power is changing habits. Changing a habit could be giving up smoking, implementing an exercise routine, or controlling an emotional reaction to a person at work. How quickly and efficiently someone changes a behavior pattern is one way... Read More The post Finding Your Power appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Happiness Test
December 25, 2018 08:23As I principally focus this web site on the topic of happiness I occasionally do some poking around the internet on the subject. I have periodically come across such things as Happiness Tests and Happiness Quiz’s. I took a few of them and decided that I would do something a little different. It seemed that once you took the test they lacked any real tools... Read More The post Happiness Test appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Feeling Deprived
December 15, 2018 12:07Beliefs about Food, Eating and Feeling Deprived When Dieting A common story people face when changing eating habits is the feeling of being deprived. With diets our intent is to make rules about certain foods we “can’t” eat. As you become more aware you realize that there are different parts of the mind and they don’t always agree. One part of the mind makes the... Read More The post Feeling Deprived appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Enlightenment
December 15, 2018 11:39What is enlightenment? Meaning of Enlightenment One of the problems in explaining enlightenment is that we have to use words. Words are only symbols and don’t give the real understanding. The letters of a word are merely a code that the mind translates into meaning. Words only have meaning if you already have an experiential knowledge of what the words mean. If you were blind... Read More The post Enlightenment appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Core Belief Inventory: Anger
December 12, 2018 09:52The process of developing self mastery requires that we be completely honest with our self. One of the tools to assist in this complete honesty is the core belief inventory. By making an inventory you can break through the layers of denial, ego, image projection, and false beliefs. In this way we have an opportunity to be more authentic. Some people think that you will... Read More The post Core Belief Inventory: Anger appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Why Does the Mind Create Misery
December 10, 2018 15:24Your mind isn’t designed to make you happy. It developed circuits over millions of years designed to keep you alive, and safe from hurt. As a byproduct, and because of some false belief circuits it builds, it can distort things and make you miserable. When you understand the mind better you can change the thoughts and beliefs circuits so that it doesn’t create so much... Read More The post Why Does the Mind Create Misery appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
How to Overcome Jealousy
November 23, 2018 09:02How to Overcome Jealousy Overcoming jealousy is like changing any emotional reaction or behavior. It begins with awareness. Awareness allows you to see that the projected stories in your mind are not true. When you have this clarity you no longer react to the scenarios that your mind imagines. Jealousy and anger are emotional reactions to believing scenarios in your mind that are not true.... Read More The post How to Overcome Jealousy appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Why self help doesn’t work at times
November 20, 2018 09:13When self help techniques don’t work you can feel like a failure There are many wonderful self help suggestions to assist people to change their life and be happy. However it is my experience that much of the time the techniques offered aren’t effective in creating lasting change. They also might leave people judging themselves for failing in their efforts when they don’t work. The... Read More The post Why self help doesn’t work at times appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
#57: Critical voice in your head
November 06, 2018 21:16 - 25 minutes - 47.6 MBThe critical voice in your head telling you whether you are succeeding or failing at things is actually pretty stupid. It sounds smart, acts confident, and pretends to be an expert. However, it hasn't actually done any of the things it is criticizing you about.
Avoiding Emotions
October 01, 2018 05:17There is a line from the movie, Thanks for Sharing. “Feelings are like kids. You don’t want them driving the car, but you don’t want to stuff them in the trunk either.” I mostly write about beliefs, but the only reason to do so is because how they affect your happiness, and unhappiness. I always try to tie it to your emotions. In the end,... Read More The post Avoiding Emotions appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Avoiding Emotions
September 29, 2018 05:50Hello Gary, I got session 9 of the Self Mastery Series last Thursday. I have been listening to the audio, and I noticed something that left me lost. At the beginning of the audio you have us do the exercise of creating an emotion. What left me lost is that I could recall a story that would go with the emotion, but I was not... Read More
#56: Social anxiety from unconscious beliefs
August 23, 2018 20:59 - 35 minutes - 65.6 MBA man shares what he discovers as the source of his social anxiety that began when he was in 3rd grade. In this podcast I describe a process to dig into the layers of your unconscious beliefs, and release the emotional beliefs trapped there.
Recapitulation
August 17, 2018 00:10Recapitulation is a breathwork process for releasing the emotions, energy, negative self talk, and beliefs. It is a method for freeing yourself from the emotional baggage you collected in your past. In the recapitulation process you visit emotional memories stored in your mind, discharge their energy, and build new neural pathways so your mind works in a healthier way. Through Recapitulation practices you will reduce... Read More The post Recapitulation appeared first on Pathway to Happin...
Seeking Unconditional Love
August 01, 2018 20:56The Spiritual Journey is for you if you are serious about increasing the amount love and happiness in your lives. Coming to the Spiritual Retreat in Mexico is like coming home to a place you belong. The unconditional acceptance and love is a warm welcoming that keeps giving long after you leave. It isn’t just the consciousness opening experience of what was once a great Spiritual... Read More The post Seeking Unconditional Love appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Conditional Love
August 01, 2018 20:26How We Learned about Conditional Love I’m going to assume you had well adjusted parents. If you didn’t, then just amplify the impact of what you are reading here by the amount of extra drama growing up. Your parents, even if well adjusted, had two important roles in your childhood; They loved you and wanted you to know that you were loved, no matter what,... Read More The post Conditional Love appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Regret
July 08, 2018 19:59Regret is a product of Imagination How We Create Regret Step 1. Consciously or without our awareness our mind imagines a different life of different choices and outcomes. Step 2. Then or mind compares that imagined life experience to our actual life. The choice we didn’t make, the path we didn’t take, the Imagined Life we didn’t live is held in our mind as better... Read More The post Regret appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Self Mastery Failure and Success
June 26, 2018 10:53The exercises in the Self Mastery Course aren’t supposed to be easy. They might be simple, but that doesn’t mean easy. They do get easier with practice. It’s like learning to dance, or play an instrument, or a new language. In the beginning, you can’t put two steps, two notes, or two words together. Later, you can move through a song or conversation without having... Read More The post Self Mastery Failure and Success appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Why Do We Not Get Recognized by Others
June 26, 2018 09:03Recognition Defined | Why Do We Not Get Recognized by Others What kind of recognition do we seek from others? We want the acknowledgement of a job well done, or of something good about our character to be noted to us personally, or publicly. The essential attitude and emotional component of those comments is appreciation and respect. Appreciation and Respect are two common expressions of... Read More The post Why Do We Not Get Recognized by Others appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Why Do We Seek Recognition From Others
June 26, 2018 08:53Recognition Defined “People will work for money, but they will die for recognition,” is the way one business coach described the dynamic. Sometimes we seem to want or need recognition that bad. I was talking with a woman about this issue recently. She remembers being six years old, and deciding she wanted to be an actress. Her logic was that if she was on television... Read More The post Why Do We Seek Recognition From Others appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Core Beliefs of Anorexia
April 13, 2018 03:35Anorexia Treatment and Understanding Your Core Beliefs Want to learn more about this anorexia treatment plan? Let me preface by saying, this is not a typical anorexia treatment plan. My new client has had anorexia for four years. I’m not very far into the inventory of her beliefs yet, but already there have been some interesting discoveries. As I suspected with issues like anorexia, it’s not... Read More The post Core Beliefs of Anorexia appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Emotional Healing
March 05, 2018 06:23Emotional healing is a process. It requires a number of skills. You will need some control over your attention, the ability to be present with the emotions you discover, and the ability to release them. A breath-work exercise is often used. It is helpful, if not required. You will also need the awareness to observe the thoughts in your head and perceive that they are... Read More The post Emotional Healing appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Projecting Emotions
March 05, 2018 06:18A woman lived near the forest. She would look at the forest and say to herself that it looks really scary in there. The forest looked like a dark and scary place. It felt like a dark and scary place to her. She assumed that the fear was coming from what she was looking at. This is projection She would see people go for walks... Read More The post Projecting Emotions appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Why Do We Have Resistance To Change
February 12, 2018 02:15What are the forces of resistance that come up when you try to do what you want, and live the life you want? Sometimes it is that ever ambiguous and elusive thing called resistance. Are you finding it difficult to follow through with your New Year Resolutions? Perhaps you start the year with a commitment to exercise, eat healthier, or meditate regularly. Did it derail... Read More The post Why Do We Have Resistance To Change appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Bad Thoughts
January 10, 2018 02:47Janet has a memory of when she was about 3 years old. She followed her mom into her baby brother’s room. Mom picked up her brother from the crib and laid him on the changing table. In that moment, for reasons that she would not understand until 50 years later, she had the thought, “I hope he falls off the table and dies.” Janet immediately... Read More The post Bad Thoughts appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
The Perfectionist
December 06, 2017 07:15Perfection can Inspire us to a goal, or be a demon in our head that makes us suffer. The Perfectionist is one of the voices in our head. It has the role of pointing out all the ways that we should be perfect, better or different than we are. As a secondary role it also points out how other people should be as well. It might... Read More The post The Perfectionist appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
Anger Management
July 17, 2017 15:00The Best Anger Management is Anger Prevention If you are reading this you don’t need to be told how destructive anger can be. You are already motivated to make changes in your emotionally driven behaviors. You just want to know how and what to do to control or stop your anger. I’ll outline a process for getting rid of your anger in this article. The... Read More The post Anger Management appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
What Causes Anger?
July 12, 2017 13:52What Causes Anger? What causes anger in a person? Why do we get angry over the smallest things and blow up out of proportion with what is happening? Why do we get angry at the people we love and care about? Anger can appear to be irrational but if you learn to look below the surface you will find the real causes of anger. When... Read More The post What Causes Anger? appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
What causes Anger?
July 12, 2017 13:52What makes a person angry? Why do we get angry over the smallest things and blow up out of proportion with what is happening? Why do we get angry at the people we love and care about? Anger can appear to be irrational but if you learn to look below the surface you will find the real causes of anger. When you find the real... Read More
Happiness Is All Made Up
June 11, 2017 20:49Someone kicking the tires on my Self Mastery program asked, “Is being really happy possible? I think this talk about living with love is a bunch of Pollyanna Woo Woo. It might just all be made up.” My answer is, Yes. IT is all made up!!!! That is kind of the point. We are all creators of our own emotions. From nothing we created thoughts... Read More The post Happiness Is All Made Up appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.
False Humility and Self Image
June 11, 2017 20:18I used to think that I knew it all. No. That’s not correct. It was worse than that. I knew that I knew better than other people. I didn’t want to act like I had an ego though. So I downplayed it. I wasn’t one of those arrogant guys that talked a lot. I was quieter but I would pick my places to reveal my... Read More The post False Humility and Self Image appeared first on Pathway to Happiness.