Episode Highlights With Joseph
- His amazing story that led to his bestselling book and how great books often come from the author's great pain
- Thoughts vs thinking and why this is important
- The core questions he asked himself were: Who am I? Why am I here? Why do I have so many negative thoughts?
- Learning to question the root of negative thoughts and ask if they're true
- How to separate yourself from the thoughts you have
- Thoughts don’t control us, beliefs do, so thoughts don’t affect us unless we believe them to be true
- Thoughts are neutral observations, thinking is judgment about thoughts
- The real root of suffering and how to shift it- is this true? Is this useful?
- Suffering is resistance to reality
- What is more important… being right or being at peace?
- The idea of letting go and surrendering is present in so many traditions around the world
- Attachments as the roots of suffering and ways to practice letting go throughout the day in small ways
- We are not our thoughts… we are the space between. We are the canvas and not the paint
- Our attention is the architect of our reality
- We live in a perception of reality, not reality ourselves, and where we put our attention shapes our perception
- How would I be if I knew everything would work out? And then operate from there
- How to get your body and your emotions on your side in this journey- they're there to remind us to come back to the present moment
- Fear becomes gratitude, anxiety becomes fuel to show you what is important
- Everything is a reminder and emotions can be guideposts
- We acquire knowledge through information but wisdom can only be obtained through lived experience
- Fear is not in the way… it is the way to the life that you want
- A thought experiment: look back in your life at your best decisions and see how many were rooted in logic and analysis and how many were rooted in a sense of knowing
- Intuition is still, calm, never rushed or urgent
- The cost of making other people happy is your own happiness
- What other people think of you is a reflection of them, not of you
- His 5 step PAUSE process for negative emotions
- When you are fully present, the byproduct is peace
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