It’s so funny that I refer to these conversations we have here as an “understanding”. That’s not what it is at all, really. It’s before understanding. Way before. It’s so close, so immediate, so oozy that we overlook it. A mind and it’s concepts and stories look right “over” it. It’s this aliveness that is everything far
In this episode, I share a quote that deeply spoke to me about how the objectifying mind is “nothing other than it’s own movement”. How it will “arrange and rearrange its collection of ideas onto a nest and settle down for a little while, but some unexplainable restlessness will prompt it to keep looking for
There are many concepts and ideas that have been incredibly helpful to me. Things like wisdom, empowerment, hope…From a place of feeling completely immersed in the story of me-and-my-life, going from feeling like life is up to me to seeing that there is something called “wisdom” leading the way was unbelievably helpful.Same with hope. From
Today’s episode is based on a question I received from a listener. The gist of her question was this: “If our thoughts are not real and they’re just making up stories, then how would you explain childhood abuse? Are my thoughts and feelings not true? Is my mind just making this up?”It’s an excellent question,
The mind isn’t a real thing. It’s a concept. As a concept, it implies some solidity and some continuity. There’s a story about me-and-my-mind that can’t help but arise.My mind appears to be an entity with some solid qualities. I can like what it does or dislike what it does. I can try to change
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
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
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
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
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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