Misunderstandings of the Mind: Recent Episodes
Jason Shiers
An insightful conversation with Angela about the human experience, what conscious relating is and how healing occurs in the present moment, this is a super insightful conversation shining a light where many practitioners are confused on conditioning, trauma, spirituality and somatic healing, Angela has some very clear explanations, I suggest a pen and paper to write a few notes.
Below are the nuggets I heard while listening:
- A moment of pure presence shared
- Osho’s influence
- The power of presence
- Exploring spirituality
- The process of awakening
- We are not a tiny mind trapped in a body
- Finding Safety
- Spiritual bypassing
- The role of the body
- Relative vs Absolute
- Spirituality in the present moment
- Escapism
- Is it the body or the mind
- Understanding projection
- The body pulls you into the present moment
- Only the present moment is a direct experience
- Coming to you via sensations
- The value of meditation
- Levels of consciousness explained
- What do we mean by healing
- Processing somatic reactions
- Contraction/Reaction is intelligent
- Love & Compassion is what’s needed
- Staying present to be of use
You can find Angela at her website here https://angelaharrison.uk/
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A beautiful conversation about trauma and how we block ourselves from love, connection and everything we want with unconscious beliefs, we unpick what gets in the way of seeing our own beauty and allowing ourselves to be loved, from the mind to the body, a fully inclusive conversation, through the lens of 3p, non duality, somatic healing and meditation. Below are some of the insights I got when listening back:
- What is it like to receive love
- What happens in the body
- Do you allow yourself to feel?
- have the walls of unworthiness come down?
- Do we have to do anything to be worthy?
- Where does the idea of unworthiness come from?
- It’s felt as an experience of the body (contraction)
- The nervous system (flight mode) is activated by love
- It can show up as anger/doubt towards the giver
- Or the desire to run away
- Allowing love to filter in, can be very touching
- Living with a tender heart
- Putting the story aside and meeting yourself
- Well-being is innate
- No one bullies us as much as we do ourselves
- We can only guess – but the body knows
- We have been programmed not to feel
- Stay out of the story and be with what is
- Feeling yourself as energy – not matter
- You are not your body
- We’re not victims
- Don’t be afraid of your own feelings
- There is nothing wrong with your feelings
- Your ego cannot be enlightened
- There is nowhere other than here
- There is no escape from now
- The body keeps the score
You can find Angelica at her website here https://angelicaalmqvist.com/
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This conversation with Rupert was recorded almost a couple of years ago, when I had just started really going to non dual retreats and wanting to be directly involved experientially, the reason I sat on it so long is on the audio before it starts, it turned out to be a great conversation covering so many subjects around the spectrum of experience, from suffering through to awakening and what happens on that journey for people including healing from trauma, what actually is trauma and how we might point people who are suffering to their true nature. Below are some of my insights from listening back:
- All reality is not made of thought
- What is the space between thought
- Thoughts are like subtitles
- Thoughts do not describe reality
- We give thoughts and perceptions power
- The goal is to bring the mind to the end
- Seeking = Agitation
- We experience happiness when seeking ends
- Once the promise of fulfilment starts, the mind ends
- why searching for true nature will not end addiction
- Detox is sometimes required
- Habits are very strong
- Distraction with energy usage is valuable
- Seeing the role of thought in suffering
- The recognition of true nature
- In between 2 thoughts I remain
- Finding out what we are not is a start
- Recognition of true nature takes further curiosity
- what’s left after awakening
- The contractions of the body are stuck beliefs
- You cant separate the mind and body
- There is work to be done to realign the body
- Allowing buried feelings to be exposed
- This is not a requirement to awakening
- There is a process of allowing in vedantic tradition
- Trauma is buried layer of feelings that needs dissolving
- You need an experiential journey of the body
- Trying to bridge the gap from suffering to awakening
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This great conversation with Rudi & Jules goes from relationship triggers, to prison violence, from spiritual bypassing to embodying the essence of who you are it was great to dig into all these subjects with a sincere depth and quality of really seeing experience for what it is without being wedded to a concept or idea.
- Trauma responses can be elusive
- Is it the body or the mind
- Love can be a threat to the body
- The body leads the way
- Breaking out of spiritual conditioning
- Going to the body brings powerful results
- The body can numb itself and dissociate
- Suffering leads to hope for bliss
- Spiritual sharing becoming dogmatic
- Are you open to something you dont know
- Do you react when other people share differently?
- Can we listen to other peoples understanding?
- Openness is a gateway to God/Universal Mind
- The truths of the universe are not in thought
- Including the body is life changing
- Communicating with the body is expansive
- The body is the bridge between form and formless
- The body perceives safety before cognition
- No body no experience
- We begin with the essence
- People are too comfortable in beliefs
- Life beats us into a state of reasonableness
- Parts stay at a young age
- Your body heroically keeps you safe
- Adopt and attitude of curiosity towards parts
- Trauma is an energetic signature
- High alert / HSP is a trauma response
- We will react until something helps us see
- How to find safety and healing
- Misunderstood spirituality can mess you up
- Destroy spiritual concepts and beliefs
- You are the answer to everything
- Skip the middle man it takes you away
- You’ll know an experience of peace like never before
To find Rudi & Jules you can look on their website here
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A great conversation with Rohini Ross that looks at how relationships are beautiful containers for healing when you see what is really playing out, embodying the struggles and leaning into the intelligence of all experience.
- We long for things we run away from
- Picking loveless relationships for safety
- The intelligence of the nervous system
- bodily reactions that are not created in the mind
- When we are willing to be vulnerable we can learn
- Relationships are a catalyst for revealing blindspots
- the present moment activates hidden beliefs
- This is a gift
- It doesn’t mean we need to stay in abuse
- Being present to experience we gain insight
- We stop identifying with the misunderstandings
- Compassion for our partner can bring healing
- Seeing what’s really true clears misunderstanding
- What’s the issue? ‘Things’ can lose their power
- Relationships are a beautiful container for healing
- It’s not just your thinking
- Experience is of the body not the head
- We can increase our capacity for presence
- There’s health in all human experience
- Becoming more embodied, breath work, somatics
- Follow your own inner guidance
- The power of psychedelics with trauma
- Softening the defences to be with experience
- There is no way, only your own direct experience
- The power is never in the form/technique
- Direct experience is the only teacher
You can find Rohini at her website https://www.therewilders.org/
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An in depth look with June Jackson at trauma, beliefs contained in the body's reactions to stimulus and the difference in spiritual pursuits and somatic investigations to find the roots of trauma beyond what the mind can see.
Ok, everything is a concept but in this wonderful conversation with Clare Dimond we explore what is actually happening, in the body, right now, in our experience, we discussed spiritualising away your every day moment to moment experience, with innocent attempts to stabilise an identity where it is never possible, trauma being the origin and maintainer of the identity that I think I am, even when I sharing spiritual shit that sounds great. This conversation really shines a light on what is happening, how and where to look, and most importantly, it’s all ok.
- Seeing beyond your identity
- Thought is the messenger
- Innocent attempts to stabilise identity
- There’s still a body
- What is really going on here
- Don’t pretend you’re fine!
- Spiritual bypassing
- Having an embodied experience
- The universe exists within us
- Using the mind to avoid the body
- Escaping ourselves with spirituality
- Escaping the present moment with words
- Trauma is the origin of identity
- Trauma is the maintainer of identity
- Exploring trauma from a place of grounding
- The relief from finding the 3 Principles
- It’s still from the perspective of separation
- Everyone else is a creation of me
- The present moment is the teacher
- The therapist identity – confusion
- Seeing beyond the dream
- The only purpose of life is to wake up
- You can never get enough of what you don’t want
- Life will keep pointing you inwardly
- Non-duality as a shot of heroin
- 3p as a glass of whiskey
- You can’t argue with the truth, but
- Disembodied spiritual sharing
- Spiritualising contractions away
- What is really going on!
You can find Clare at her website here
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In this conversation with Sunitha Sandeep we discuss how the understandings of Buddhism, 3p and non-duality do not exempt you from trauma, that the body-mind is just 1 system that functions perfectly. How the experience of trauma in adulthood is only ever pointing you home, like all suffering. Spiritual bypassing, and more.
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A beautiful conversation with Marnix Pauwels on the experience of loss, and being present to witness the sadness, the joy, the confusion the pure love that is inside all of us. We explored many things including the impact of losing someone as a child and how that shows up in life, the loss of love, to the creation of love and beautiful experiences of opening our hearts.
- Life Death and Loss and all its wonders
- Feeling emotions and the beauty of them
- Coming out of spiritual bypass to the present
- How the body keeps the score
- Is spirituality really about becoming feelingless
- Embracing the humanness and all its quirks
- Creating in the world riding the roller coaster
For anyone who wants to find Marnix, you can go to www.marnix.nl to find out more.
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Pete felt tired and worthless during his struggles with alcohol, trying his best to stay sober just was not working. Holding down a job but struggling inside with the battle not to drink every day. He came across the understanding of true nature and the inside out nature of life that transformed everything while trying to take his own life by jumping from a bridge. Saved by a passing soul in the form of a police officer Pete serendipitously found his way to freedom via the work of Sydney Banks.
An interesting conversation with Linda Pransky on the misunderstandings of psychology. We each share snippets from our own journey what looked true and what changed, how it looks different now, and simplicity of discovering our true nature, seeing whats beyond our thinking and what we need to experience transformation.
An insightful conversation with Rachel Singleton about the natural system within the body, how our health is always pointing us home back to the natural equilibrium of the system. You don't wan't to miss this one, if you have ever suffered with ill physical health, there is so much wisdom here.
When you see beyond the illusion of a self that can be developed, you realise that there is only one source of self esteem, all that you are.
A beautiful sharing of the simplicity of the human condition and our innate mental health by David Hill around the subject of post traumatic stress. It is such a well debated touchy subject, and easy to get lost in complicated solutions (which we talk about in the podcast). When you just see the relationship between thought and experience, things looks completely different. Enjoy
A wonderful conversation with Dr Giles p Croft on understanding the source of true happiness, it's not what you think, or maybe it is. When we get beyond our own efforts to create happiness we see that it's always there and there is nothing to do to get it.
This really was an eye opening conversation with Dominic who speaks so clearly to our attempts in the human experience to create in the world vs just allowing creation to flow through us. Upon listening for the 3rd time I hear new things and see things differently each time, he has a very clear way of expressing our true nature as creators.
A beautiful conversation with Judy about understanding our true nature, what is beyond the psychological symptoms and psychiatric diagnosis
A powerful and insightful conversation with Dr Linda Pettit who has been influential on my own journey in so many ways. This discussion with Linda highlights the common misunderstandings about listening, highlights what we are listening for, and what is always true.
A wonderful conversation with Sandra about the creation of business and what holds us up and gets in the way of our brilliance shining through. What is true for all of us and what is possible when you come from that place, how effortless life can be.
A fun conversation with Dr Thomas Kelley on how a simple understanding of how the mind works, free's people from their thinking about themselves. I often get taken by the simplicity of the conversations on the podcast and this one was no different.
A rich conversation with Lili which really highlights the difference between purpose we make up in order to get somewhere in the world of form that seems somehow a representation of our created self image vs the purpose of being alive, and just being present to the moment.
A wonderful conversation with Cathy Casey about our innate resilience, how its always there yet we just don't know or see it.
This was a real eye opener for me being a parent and seeing what shows up for me on a daily basis, Erika has a real simple and powerful way of sharing and seeing the roles we take on as parents, and pointing to what is true for everyone, even our children.
Such a simple and peaceful conversation with the wonderful Mavis Karn, exploring the misunderstanding of fear and worry, and how it can be different.
A very calming listen to Dicken Bettinger, who talks about inner peace, where it comes from and how we experience more of it when we are not caught up in our stories about the imaginary self.
A great episode with Maggie Gilewicz around the misunderstanding of awakening, how we think we should show up vs being full human and embracing it.
Caught out by the simplicity of what we share I was reminded how simple, yet life changing the 3 principles understanding is.
A really cool, simple conversation with Aaron Turner breaking down what look like the complexities of loving relationships, where love exists in all of us, and how to experience more of it
A conversation with a beautiful feeling with Chip Chipman, how change works and the illusion that we get caught up in our humanity of what looks like it needs to change.
A deep dive into the misunderstanding that we call self help with Nicole Barton, who after a lifetime of struggling and trying everything found freedom
A cool conversation with John El-Mokadem about the misunderstanding of intelligence. How there is an intelligence behind life that is always guiding us.
An eye opening conversation on understanding our creative potential, how it flows through us, and what is really on offer when we get out of our own way.
A great conversation with Jack Pransky looking at how human beings are at their best, and how to bring out the best in others, from parenting to business.
A life changing conversation for anyone who struggles with chronic pain, migraines, skin conditions that are affected by stress.
Listen in to Christian McNeill and myself share about common misunderstandings of recovery from addiction, this was a cool conversations talking about how misunderstandings come about, and seeing beyond the diagnosis of addiction.
Listen in to Del Adey-Jones 3 principles practitioner talk about her experience with shame and how we make up stories, a great conversation with some real nuggets of wisdom.
A great conversation with Rohini Ross on the misunderstanding of conflict & commitment in relationships, discussing the common misunderstandings most people struggle with and how they try to resolve them, and seeing our true nature, and how relationships really work when we are not caught up in our thinking of how they should be.
Charli shares her amazing story of uncovering her innate wisdom and recovering from years of grief and trauma, addictions and PTSD after the loss of her close family in a momentary tragedy.
If you have been in the personal development world for some time, this episode my shed some light on why it seems a never ending loop of trying to improve the self
A great conversation with Dr Amy Johnson on the subject of habits, compulsive eating and behaviours. This conversation really clearly highlights the misunderstanding of compulsive eating, where we spend a lifetime dealing with our thinking, what looks like the problem, and that we are all way bigger than that.
Covering everything from how mental health is diagnosed to the true source of mental well-being that is within all of us, Dr Petit shares a great understanding of our on board alarm systems and how we misunderstand what they are, and all of us are sitting in the middle of mental health.
A great conversation with Stef Cybichowski Master Transformative Coach about relationships, love and connection. We talk about all different types of relationships, with family through to romantic relationships and the stories we fall in love with.
A great conversation with Jacqueline Hollows from Beyond Recovery who works with some awesome guys in the prison system in the UK on a misunderstanding of Freedom. Listening it's clear that it gives Jacqueline a great perspective on the word free, which leads to a wonderful conversation on the perspective of life that makes such a difference and regardless of whether you are physically incarcerated or living your life, you can be in prison if you don't see how your experience is created.
A profound conversation about the nature of connection, and the illusory image that we create of ourselves and then try to play out in life. Connection is only available without the story, but we all sell our souls for a beautiful story.
In this conversation we explore how people grow up with a belief that they are not creative and just follow that their whole lives, how people who are 'naturally talented' got that way + so much more about the nature of the creative force within all of us.
This was a great thought provoking conversation on the nature of addiction with Greg. We covered so many points for loved ones, and for people who maybe struggling or trying to make sense of addiction, and want a different perspective.
In the introduction I share my life experience about how I overcame adversity in all shapes and forms and completely recovered from multiple diagnosis's, and thrived in life with peace of mind, freedom, happiness and contentment.
I had much fun in this conversation with Nicola about our true nature, who we really are and how we create our experience of anxiety. It looks so real in the moment and yet it can fall so easily when we see how it is created in the mind.
In this episode with Master Transformative coach Claire Shutes we discuss the creation of our human experience here, how all good feelings arise, and how most of humanity suffer with a misunderstanding of how the mind works, once seeing just a glimpse of this, lives change unrecognisably in a short moment.
A great conversation with Wyn Morgan about what leadership is and isnt, how there are so many misunderstandings and concepts as well as beliefs from people. We explore different ideas about what is useful for people and how the understanding of how the mind works helps business leadership.