Something to Think About: Recent Episodes
Adam Jonathon Saunders
Hi there, I'm Adam J Saunders and my work is grounded in the belief that everyone deserves to discover themselves and lead a purposeful and passionate life.
Hello and welcome to my personal audio blogs • Where I choose to outlet my creative thinking by going on rabbit hole tangents - and honestly it's the most constructive way I've found so far to tackle my mental health by sharing the depths of my experience as both a witness and partisan. Ever since home schooling, I've had to find alternative forms of "friendship." Podcasts and books have been a life saver and I'm incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to learn from the best of friends I could have imagined. Starting with self-development speakers such as Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale, Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins, Gary Vaynerchuck, Les Brown, and so many in between. With the tools to cultivate a heightened self-awareness, I couldn't help but to dive deeper into the meaning of life and to search for clarity and purpose. This led me to listening into more philosophy and spiritual content by Carl Jung, Spirit Science, Rion DeRouen, Alan Watts, Terrance McKenna, Ram Dass, Paul Chek, Aubrey Marcus, and Russel Brand. Now I find myself in a pivoting point, where I realize I've been climbing the wrong ladder for some time now. It's time for a new direction, and I hope to make so many beautiful connections along the way. Articles: https://theempathytree.com/
The golden thread in the labyrinth has helped us for a long time, but do we know the maze well enough?
Identifying the different archetypes within yourself through observation of musical genres.
X-Ray Telescope Photography has provided us with an energetic perspective on the universe🔌.
Think of your being as one energetic unit, and in between bodies there are electrical or energetic tethers linking these dense energies to one another👫.
However, if you consider the aesthetic comparison between your own neural network and an X-Ray photographed image of the universe then you may begin to understand what you have access to within your own being🚪.
So when we meditate, we begin with every beginning - and that is nothingness or void. Now those who have never delved deeper than this void space would be under the impression that there is nothing more to find🧘.
If you search through yourself in a state of surrender, or fearless exploration, it is in these moments that we uncover the unimaginable. You can come across a wide variety of information, images, memories, and doorways🌬️.
Food can have very similar symptoms to drugs, yet we've surrounded destructive diets with normalcy.
The flame of summer is dimming with the changing of the seasons🍂. With this, the natural motivation delivered to us by the spirit of summer will not be as strong and we may feel ourselves drifting into old habits which comfort us. It is important for us to find another source of this flame in our own spaces to reignite the motivation within ourselves as there are many more grey days to come, and staying on course is something most of us want to do🕯️.
The ego is everywhere but here, always playing an unending chess game with self-interest found at the end of every plot🤑.
Those who can love death, rather than fear it would be considered crazy at the least, and dangerous at the most because of how foreign the idea of not being here is to those who’ve never teased themselves enough to consider the benefits, and not with apathy of what already is but imagination of what more could come from it👼.
The interesting point to make is that we tend to be placed in the role of the thinker fairly early on and have been convinced that this thinker is here. We identify with it🎭.
The truth is that this thinker is never here, they are always a few seconds in the future or ten years in the past attempting to dig for more. Period. This is a wanting consciousness.
It is always digging for more of something, in a state of complete self-interest and competition with itself. Although sometimes these plots or illusions can be very enticing and will constantly attempt to convince the Being that the action is at the very best, a compromise of morality.
So when individuals who are dominated by this Thinker, hear of others who’ve decided to opt-out of the chess game, it could not be further from what is considered sensible. How in the world could you honestly be accepting of anything that happens to you at any given moment? 🤷
These individuals are never truly here, because the thinker is elsewhere constantly occupied with placing new protocols and boundaries around it’s valuables (tangible or nontangible).
So in truth, you must learn to die before your time has come in order to truly live without the shackles demonstrated by Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol🔗🔓.
I’ve been hesitant in posting content this week because of a variety of aspects in my life and trying so hard to maintain harmony⚖️. Although in doing so, I realized that I have only been trying to control my circumstance through a state of anxiety by looking at too many variables. Instead, letting go of control allows for the harmony to reveal itself in the relationships between you and your environment.
We tend to focus so much on the future that we forget exactly that; it is the future. It cannot appear in the now until ready, and the only control you have over what you “want” is to be the best of what you currently are with every breath.🔮
Our “wants” are inherently our future selves or what we wish to become which will never come to fruition without moving through the channels of mind > body > soul in that order. Anxiety is being in a state of ignorance for the current circumstances which we each of us have no choice but to address before reaching our higher states of being. 😇
The discomfort that arises when trying to be accountable for what we claim to “want” but are not willing to try for. This is where we will blame those who came before us, in any sense of that statement, which could be our parents, older siblings, religion, or anything and everyone who has been labeled as a “teacher” in respect to the individual. We blame our teachers or teachings for leading us to undesirable circumstances in which nobody can do anything about other than YOU. 🤯