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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Love Is A Mystery
November 03, 2014 01:38I was at a friends wedding recently and asked to share some words at their ceremony. I was inspired by the love and beauty of the preparations, and their devotion to each other and put together the following. Love is a mystery to me. And yet, Love may very well be the best thing we do. Love doesn’t make any sense. It doesn’t... Read More
#45: The Hero’s journey
April 26, 2013 23:19 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBThe 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 and happiness within our self and our own mind.
#44: Persistence and resistance
May 21, 2012 13:06 - 1 hour - 64 MBWhat 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 change, happiness and unconditional love more than just about anyone I know.
#43: Overcoming insecurity and develop confidence
April 19, 2012 14:51 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBAttempts 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 feelings of insecurity.
#42: Stop beating your self up
February 19, 2012 23:54 - 29 minutes - 27 MBTo 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 "beating yourself up".
#41: Meditation for beginners
January 09, 2012 17:04 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBThis 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 have to be so esoteric.
#40: Self awareness and mindfulness
December 12, 2011 14:08 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBUnderstanding 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.
#39: What is a belief?
November 14, 2011 22:39 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBA 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 illusion in our imagination that seems like reality.
#38: Self Mastery Course results interview
May 17, 2011 14:01 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBDavid 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. In this interview he shares how the Self Mastery course has helped him.
#37: Confusion about love, compassion, hope, integrity and loyalty
April 14, 2011 12:05 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBEven 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.
#36: Anger management
March 22, 2011 19:46 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBI 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.
#35: Sexual performance anxiety
February 03, 2011 16:30 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBAt 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.
#34: Spiritual journey interview
August 25, 2010 14:42 - 28 minutes - 26 MBCarolyn 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 intellectual idea that she reads about in books. It is a tangible way of living life that is now a very real possibility for her life.
#33: Inception and the life of an idea in the mind
August 03, 2010 15:10 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBCareful 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 multiple points of view and tangents.
#32: The most important thing for your happiness
June 23, 2010 15:48 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBSometimes it helps to take a step back and have a sense of humor about the process of overcoming fears, identifying and changing core beliefs.
#31: Miguel Ruiz and The Fifth Agreement
May 12, 2010 19:27 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBAn 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 question your beliefs and other things.
#30: Overcoming anger using the Self Mastery program
March 26, 2010 09:56 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBI 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.
#29: Faith: the power behind your beliefs
February 17, 2010 16:26 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBFaith 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.
#28: Conscious awakening
January 21, 2010 10:52 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBWaking 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.
#27: Reasoning your way out of fear
July 17, 2009 22:05 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBApplying reasoning skills to overcoming fears is an uphill battle. That's because the emotions we feel push us against accepting truthful reasoning. That's because our fictional, or false beliefs often make us feel better emotionally.
#26: Overcoming fear of what others think of you
June 15, 2009 14:47 - 41 minutes - 38 MBThere is a structure of beliefs that support the fear of what others think of you. When you dismantle these beliefs, your fear dissipates, as well as the internal dialog that it drives. In this podcast I guide you through some of the resistance you will probably find when you attempt to overcome your fears.
#25: Overcoming controlling behavior of jealousy and anger
April 06, 2009 14:25 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBDavid started the Self Mastery Course because of emotions and behaviors for jealousy, anger and controlling in relationships. It was difficult to see himself having this problem because David's belief system masked and justified his behavior as "helping people". In his mind he was serving and helping people.
#24: Fear and origins of the financial crisis
February 19, 2009 17:16 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBI cover how to use awareness to break free of fearful resistance to taking action. Jut for fun I also get into understanding origins of the financial crisis. The problem with bubbles, financial, romantic, or otherwise, is that they originate in the mind as illusions.
#23: Dealing with financial fears
January 22, 2009 09:36 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBDealing with and overcoming financial fears isn't a one step process. Those fears can be intertwined with real survival needs for the body like food, shelter, and providing for your children. Financial fears can also be from projected scenarios in the imagination that have nothing to do with reality.
#22: Change your life – interview with Holly
December 12, 2008 17:20 - 34 minutes - 15.9 MBIn this interview I follow up with Holly who I interviewed in early 2007. She has continued to practice the exercises in the Self Mastery Course 1 and added the practices from the Self Mastery Course 2. The result is that she has transformed her emotions from fear to love.
#21: Fear Doctrine: The creation of anger and agression
October 29, 2008 06:46 - 1 hour - 29.5 MBFear is at the core of anger and aggression. Yet we become so busy with the strategy of control and the act of aggression we rarely see the cause. We can see the emotional dynamic at work whether we look at our internal thoughts, relationships or the macro relationships of countries.
#20: The value of a spiritual teacher or mentor
July 25, 2008 14:07 - 39 minutes - 26.4 MBIf the emotional quality of your life and relationships were solely dependent on how smart you were then you wouldn't need a teacher. But that isn't the case. A book can't teach or model for you self acceptance, respect, love or gratitude.
#19: Understanding the spiritual journey
June 26, 2008 14:34 - 43 minutes - 18.1 MBAll self help, personal development, growth, and self awareness work is part of the Spiritual Journey. That's because Spirit means Life. The mystery of the Spiritual Journey is that it happens within the realm of your perceptions, mind, emotions, and consciousness.
#18: Changing habits and overcoming addictions
May 17, 2008 11:26 - 38 minutes - 15.3 MBPeople attempt to change a habit or addiction by going cold turkey. This often raises the expectation too high and can set a person up for failure if they don’t yet have a lot of personal power or discipline. The result is failing and self judgment.
#17: Self Judgment
April 07, 2008 16:21 - 31 minutes - 13.2 MBSelf Judgment is the most common type of abuse. It’s self abuse. No one is more critical of you than the voice in your head. If anyone else talked to you the way the Judge in your mind spoke to you, you would fight back or walk away from them.
#16: Faith and personal power
January 24, 2008 18:33 - 29 minutes - 11.7 MBFaith is a force. It is part of your life force. When you express your faith you are expressing part of your personal power. If you are seeking to develop more personal power, one of the fastest ways is to recover your faith from all the beliefs in your mind you have invested it in.
#15: Finding your self
August 20, 2007 13:07 - 26 minutes - 11.3 MBFinding your self or figuring out who you are is one of those eternal questions. We often struggle with it as teenagers, then again in our thirties, or during a mid life crisis. The struggle to know thy Self is as old as spiritual traditions that attempted to answer the question.
#14: Free will
July 01, 2007 14:02 - 29 minutes - 12.9 MBDo you have free will? Is there even such a thing as free will? It is true that we are to some degree products of our environment. Our minds get filled with ideas, beliefs and emotional patterns as we grow up.
#13: How to tell if a relationship will work
April 11, 2007 20:11 - 38 minutes - 25.3 KBThere are specific indicators to tell if your relationship will run into trouble down the road. The signs aren’t found in how much love, romance or physical attraction there is. Two people can have great chemistry but still not be compatible.
#12: Don’t take anything personally
February 23, 2007 16:07 - 23 minutes - 22 MBIn the book, The Four Agreements, Miguel Ruiz outlines a code of conduct for creating love and happiness in your life. One of his Four Agreements is “Don’t Take Anything Personally". In this episode I describe some of the hidden assumptions that cause us to take things personally.
#11: The ego mind and consciousness
January 28, 2007 11:05 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBUnderstanding the ego mind and consciousness means becoming aware of the way our mind dreams. The ego mind has more than just thoughts and beliefs; it has emotions, memories, visual images and a life of its own. When we believe what our imagination dreams we can get lost in a world of illusions.
#10: Can you change your life
January 01, 2007 01:11 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBI often get asked if people can really change their life. They want to known if they can overcome fears, stop the judgments, and quiet the voice in their head. The answer is yes. However, when people ask, they usually ask with such fear and doubt that almost no amount of words will suffice. Perhaps this interview will help overcome some of those doubts.
#09: Fear of love and happiness
December 01, 2006 04:00 - 29 minutes - 25.3 KBIt might be hard to believe that we fear love and happiness, but it is a real dynamic that happens in the mind. It is easier to understand if we consider the mind to be a living being with many different aspects. We are essentially killing off false self images of our personality.
#08: Fear and overcoming fear
November 15, 2006 17:05 - 29 minutes - 19.9 MBFear is that emotional force that drives us in a direction away from joy, happiness, and love. Fear can paralyze us to the point that we feel helpless and suffocated. Often fear appears irrational, but it only looks this way at the surface.
#07: Identify and change core beliefs
October 31, 2006 11:09 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBWhat are core beliefs and how do you identify them? That’s what many people are realizing they need to do to change their emotional reactions. The problem is where do you look to find core beliefs?
#06: Love relationships part II
October 11, 2006 11:35 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBOur body has physical desires, our emotions have a desire to express love and our mind has a desire to have its beliefs and expectations met. This can create some internal conflict that gets more complicated when we add another person's desires to the mix.
#05: Love relationships part I
September 30, 2006 12:37 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBDesires for a relationship come from deep within us. They aren’t desires for a specific person so much as a need for expression and experience of connection and feeling that we can have with another person. Those desires include the emotion of love, physical affection and sexual satisfaction.
#04: Happiness as choice
September 12, 2006 12:54 - 31 minutes - 14.5 MBExperts will advise you that in order to be happy you first have to make yourself happy. What they usually can’t explain is how to make your self happy. What I try to uncover in my work and in this audio is some of the mystery that surrounds an individual’s happiness.
#03: Emotional reactions
August 22, 2006 11:06 - 28 minutes - 25.3 KBWhen it comes to stopping or changing emotional reactions people often approach the problem like they are fixing a car. The assumption seems to be that if we change one thing the whole problem will go away.
#02: The Four Agreements and hidden assumptions
August 15, 2006 12:28 - 22 minutes - 10.1 MBIn this episode I cover some places that assumptions hide. I do a little poking around to show you what they look like. I also show how they lead us down dark alleys chasing illusions in our mind. Becoming aware of those dark alleys of mental illusions will make it easier to get out.
#01: Feeling not good enough – beliefs
August 11, 2006 09:35 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBA big component of feeling insecure is the image of perfection that we create in our mind. When the voice in our head compares us to that image of perfection it concludes that we are not good enough. Buying into this comparison with an imagined self is what creates the feeling of not being good enough.