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Lucian Harris-Gallahue
A podcast of self discovery and growth. Exploring what it is to grow as a human Physically-Emotionally-Mentally-Spiritually
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A damaged mind will produce damaged thoughts. The way to get out of a bad place is not to think of solutions from a damaged space.
Put yourself in an arena so that you know how to deal with conflict and are challenged by it everyday. Sharpened.
The different mindsets for each. How to apply yourself and balance in order to show up best and win in life.
Practical, physical, and spiritual. A nice normal healthy discussion about hard work and how it relates to spirituality.
Setting the pace of your life, no matter how you feel. Scheduling rest and recovery but not falling to weakness or low level desires. Finish what you need to finish and then recover.
One of the biggest struggles towards accomplishment is yourself. If you can discipline yourself and master your Physical-Emotional-Mental- and Spiritual, accomplishing your goals becomes easy.
It's been a a challenging summer on this end! A good one, but hard. I talk a little bit about that and what we learned from the challenging ups and downs of attempting childbirth, moving, and many others.
Being fit in all areas for when the challenges arrive. Being a leader, leading alongside others.
Big goals exist with big doubt. The leaders and the money makers win first in their mind.
Breaking down old beliefs to create a bigger vessel. The experience of doing our impossible.
We're all searching for ecstasy. Break the addition and procrastination loops and take responsibility to tap into the deepest levels of life.
Just to be clear, I am documenting my success journey. Tune in for the lessons. I'm extracting everything I'm learning. I work like a dog and and spend great time and effort to make sure I live a balanced life. These are my lessons. I'm working on generating opportunity.
Creating distance from unhealthy upbringing, the western society has many gaps in the system of human development, childhood development etc. One must separate from the space and lean into healing in order for them to come back to those places and uplift them.
1 to 4. That's the equation. You choose pain now or pain later? This is how we start developing self esteem, getting out of trauma, building back our life.
Mastery. The experience of everyday work. Exploration. Discovery. Building. Ecosystem Harmonizing. The 7 year rule.
Engaging life, specifically the lower self of ego, resistance, negative inclination, as a martial combat. A training partner that makes your better. I love this idea!
Accessing energy that already exists. Making ourselves the right vessels. A bit of my personal experience on that.
Discussing context in our lives, the role of growth and leaving our known realities to get to bigger and greater realities - currently unknown. Belief in self helps you get to healthy context - healthy context gets us healthier and into a deeper relationship with self. This the positive loop cycle goes. The critical function...Belief.
Fighting the resistance, learning how to pursue the finish with a balance. A balance of push and pull. Pursuit and recovery. Even within pursuit, learning how to pull back the pressure when needed.
Buildup happens constantly. As a rule of maintenance we need to be taking the trash out at least once a day and we will cease to identify with lower level consiousness's.
Killing laziness and getting proactive across the board in life. It's a baseline nessecity for healthy functioning. Lean in to growth.
Becoming healthy in this world means becoming obsessed with the right things, i.e. self growth. Then sustaining that obsession. There is no other way.
The work of having, deepening, and expanding a garden. The everyday work. The seasonal work. The yearly work.
Self identification. Deeper relationships. The deepest relationship. Self a facilitator for that expanded self, which fuels the greatest relationship. Your soul with it's source.
Working your garden and building something meaningful. The question is, for what purpose does that serve? It's something really deep.
Discovering your natural self from what was under the trash. Now there is a space to see the you that was covered up.
Are we really independent? How does that manifest itself in our lives? In our relationships?
Making space. Once your safe and you feel the safety, the next step is cleaning up. Cultivating the Physical - Emotional - Mental - and Spiritual.
On getting out of trauma and cleaning up our life. First step - Get Safe - Feel that safety
Being present isn't enough. Being present will show you how dirty your room is. Now you need to clean it.
Accepting your piece of responsibility in this that you can't get rid of by projecting or avoiding, owning your pain, and building something beautiful. You human consciousness as we experience it is a vessel that will uplift your soul. Our mission to develop the potential. Pain, work, and ownership are our methods of doing that.
- Direction. 2. Prioritization 3. Effective and consistent work (hard work!) On the task.
Remaining focused on your main arteries of life. Not to get distracted and not to say one thing and do another. Simply invest in your priorities to expand your vessel in depth, width, and potency.
Short circuiting negative patterns we pick up in life and in our day. Forcefully putting oneself into a positive space.
Bubbles are ecosystems. You can't not live in a bubble. Which bubble and how healthy is the question.
Thing has meaning based on it's context. Humans have a spirit. We are spiritual beings with a body. This we need to dig and explore our spiritual context and it will shed light onto all of the actions of our life.
Acceptance breaks down walls, catalyzes desire, and enables hard work. Accepting the yoke of hard work, emotional hard work, can liberate us.
Just like a workout, stretching your capacity to a higher level across life. One of the best ways is through cleanliness and order of your physical and mental space.
Anxiety vs. Control. Physiological reactions. Accuracy in our control. Not being a contributing factor to perpetuating chaos.
Establishing healthy priorities and structures to support them. Often what can happen is people lose their focus and will begin prioritizing the fences. Healthy community is an antidote to this.
Moving up and down the ladder of Physical-Emotional-Mental-Spiritual. Creating Desire from apathy.
What do you have direct affect over and what do you have indirect affect over? How to view yourself as a Gardner and supporter of life.
Understanding our role as humans. We are not G-d, we are limited. Yet we also have a rule over nature - and we are extensions of it. It's up to us to be the good king.
WillPower as the soul penetrating through human consciousness across the planes of Physical-Mental-Emotional-Spiritual. Navigating the planes according to the goals of life.
Having the frame of mind to understand that all of your value is emanating from your space. When working for others you are trading the value you produce for the value they have to offer you. Focus on Doubling down on your value production. Long term mentality. Hard work. Early mornings. Joy and pleasure from building something with your own hands.
Pure life is simple. Unengaged with problems, more available for deeper connection. Requires deep reflection to know where you want to go and who you want to be, then create a clear path to get there.
Not being insulted by being wrong. Letting yourself be sharpened by a high level community. High processing on all levels Physical-Emotional-Mental-Spiritual
Projecting into the future unhealthy character traits, feeling what that will be like, and then making a change. Continued expansion on Vessel in order to have a relationship with the universe.
Is more powerful than sporadic big bursts. What you plant in your garden needs consistency. Your kids need consistency. Anything that you are cultivating requires consistency.
You will never have the farm, garden, or life that you want if you are waking up after the sun rises. It's essential. To do this you need to redefine your relationship with tech and reconnect to the the normal Carcadian rhythm.
Pruning leads to desired and healthy growth. Desired and healthy growth leads to a revealing of good in the world. Good reveals how many parts are all one. The oneness of this world is to be revealed, our job is to do that on ourselves and then to be loving in that space with the rest of the world. Character development is how we get there.
The best practice for energy conservation and long term satisfaction that exists on planet earth.
Expanding your space while enabling others to do the same. These concepts as an idea are cute. In reality they are powerful.
How they work together to create higher level outcomes. How we can fall into the trap of "mental toughness over everything" and hurt ourselves deeper in the process.
How my years of searching led me to Judaism. This podcast starts off like others but then transitions into my story.
Becoming adaptable. Putting yourself into new situations and learning how to adapt. Being adaptable builds self trust and enables a more successive transition from idea to actualization.
Focusing on solution, not problems. One solution will change your life and get rid of lots of darkness. Reorienting your mind to create light as apposed to focus on the darkness or get adjusted to the darkness.
Living between Proactive and Reactive states. How to toggle the line and be living in a state of high production. How to engage with evenings and morning routines.
Working your strengths, complimenting from your weaknesses. Not letting natural talents become trapped in underdevelopment. Depth / Width.
In this life, solving problems is a currency. The need to solve problems will never go away. You have to build the right vessel in order to contain the energy. Being successful doesn't mean being done.
Experiencing problems means your experiencing your limits. We should be actively seeking our limits and looking at them as opportunities.
Trauma. Emotional entrapment. Relational entrapment. Theres a clear Formula. You can clear it and move on with a higher life.
No matter how much money you have you still have to parent your child. A child needs love from their parents. Not money. We have to be obsessed with growth and very clear about what that means. Money is a facilitator.
A relationship with the soul. Identification with something higher. Working on parts of self. Living in the garden.
3 Things to Regulate Performance. 1). WillPower over action 2). WillPower to choose the right emotions 3). Immersing in the right community i.e. Eco-System that will make 1 and 2 easier.
Hitting a "Rock Bottom". Finding a physical vessel that will carry you out of your current rhythm. Phycologists as professional emotional coaches. Context.
A child is like growing a tree as apposed to manufacturing a machine. You don't get to build it according to your specs, you GET to be the facilitator.
Affecting change. How to deal with challenging family. Using influence rather than force.
Short Term Pain - Long Term Pleasure. Enact control over yourself. Influence your surroundings. Dig up your old patterns.
Becoming a wellspring of life. Breaking parasitic bonds. Owning your situation. Accepting a defeat and moving on.
Law of attraction. Self work as a conversation. Actively involved in a healthy and encouraging dialogue with the world, your loved ones, and your family.
Practical lessons to letting go, opening up space and options, and committing to your next stage of growth. Experiencing deeper levels of pressure.
Breaking mental patterning. Action will reinforce mental grooves and mental grooves will reinforce patterns. Use it to your advantage.
Responsibility. Acceptance. Drive. Action plan. Execution. Results. Let failure take you higher. The internal resistance wants you to stay down. Don't let it. Don't ever let it.
Enacting our human ability of rational thought. Being a good operator in life. Fixing ourselves to a goal. Flowing around obstacles to a fixed goal.
External growth is only there for internal growth, then internal growth facilitates external Realities.
Break open your sleep. Activate your desire. Gamify your life. Experience deeper pleasure then low level escapism.
Identifying your areas of weakness and spaces for self work by being with family or with the idea of family (i.e. with a psychologist and trauma specialists etc.)
From Spiritual-Mental-Emotional-Physical there is a life cycle of how things are birthed in your life. Blockages will dwindle the end result of that manifestation.
The seasons of our life, Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall. What they mean for our outer world and inner world.
Focus on the goals, redirect anger and be affective in your pursuit. Don't burn your garden down.
Growth through ignoring something or growth through actively moving through something. How to be effective at both and have them as powerful tools for ourselves as we continue to flip our garden and flip ourselves in deeper growth towards our goals.
How to have empathy. What's the right context for empathy in our lives, what is misplaced empathy? How to be an empathetic leader.
Responsibility is a action and behavior that will both practically and spiritually open up channels of abundance. Learn to be a giver.
In ones hour ey, momentum is a huge factor towards success. As we dover deeper into our maps of self and begin discussing practical work we are doing together, doing actions that accumulate momentum can be the difference between staying in the same spot for 10 years or changing your life this month.
Ideas Vs. Action. Theory Vs. Reality. Applying a plan to reality and being adaptable to change and solutions.
Healthy Soil Life. Communities. Belief Systems. The structures that deliver your sustenance, it's where you get your energy from. Both your nutrients from the soil and the deliverance of water. How is your Earth serving you?
Emotional work. Recycling Energy. Making available what was once occupied space. Enabling growth for the future. Pushing and pulling out way towards success.
Playing the long game. Being Proactive. Being Patient. Being Present. Holding both in your your hand with vision of the horizon and presence of the moment.
Growth Mindset and Expectations. We're taking our first look at intentional growth outside of just cleaning up.
Past just the closet, deeply purifying our life will open up massive doors of clarity and opportunity, happiness and wealth for us in every way physical, relational, and spiritual. This will take a while...but it's worth it.
Level 1 of cleaning up your garden and your entire life. First clean out your closet, we are really cleaning out everything Physical-Emotional-Mental-Spiritual.
Becoming versed in many subjects while becoming a master within one or a few subjects makes one a very dynamic and almost infinitely capable individual.
Polarity and resistance are what bring out the best in you, embrace the resistance sometimes opposites are your enemies and sometimes their your friends, either way, they are going to push you to your limit and force you to evolve.
The greater context for which everything occurs. Just as Earth is the physical vessel, Air is the "Non-physical" vessel.
The intelligent structure that brings about decision and solutions. The mind can be easily manipulated or a driving force, highly maluable the mind and the necessary clarity it brings provides life to the entire system. High level clarity.
Fire is the energy that moves the operation, growth movement drive and change occur through fire.
Earth out of all of the elements is the structure and form that provides support and boundaries for everything else. To draw outside of the lines, there needs to be lines in the first place.
In the high level structure of our discussion and framework of Physical-Emotional-Mental-Spiritual growth, our tactics of discussion is supplemental growth. In the military they would call this flanking; accomplishing a goal from the angle of weakness rather than head on against the strength of resistance.