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Chasing the Carrot
What if the real answer to your situation is that there was never a problem? I mean that with things as small as “he took my toy” and as big as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and the like. It’s the radical, all-in-a-moment shift in perception that makes just about every problem vanish as quickly as it appeared.
Without that, you end up endlessly chasing the next carrot and building an unpaid career in healing that never promises retirement. Nearly two decades training and teaching kung fu taught me about chasing the carrot.
From lengthy sequences of movements to small little death points, there’s always something else that you need to master or some ancient technique that was “long forgotten”. But those are for the black belts. Or the next belt. And if you don’t keep at it, you’ll miss out. Major FOMO.
Same thing happens with the latest new-fangled healing modality or whizbang medical breakthrough. You need this, or you must have that. But do you really?
The answer to that lies in looking at your situation again and seeing through all the competing voices to what’s really going on. Do that, and all the unnecessary carrots vanish like the mirages they are.
Today, we get to explore that a bit more. Have a listen.
Highlights:
- In order to keep you going, the industry had to keep you aware that there was more. (6:55)
- In order to make you feel like you need something, advertising corporations show you something that makes you think your life is miserable. (11:36)
- If you can’t be happy when you aren’t married then you’re never going to be truly happy when you are married. In fact, that makes it worse (12:12)
- What is the life that is within me asking for? Not, “What does everyone say it should have?” (20:25)
- If you can’t explain it to a six year old then you don’t understand it yourself (34:40)
- The chase ends not when you solve the problem or fix yourself, but when you realize you were never broken in the first place. (35:55)
Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my new book, Built for Freedom: Adventures Through Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma, Pain, and Our Body’s Innate Ability to Leave Them All Behind on Amazon (or Audible) here: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Freedom-Adventures-Depression-Addiction/dp/B0BS79GMYN
Or head over to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/ and book a call where we can look at your unique situation and give you the roadmap you’ve been missing.
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What if the real answer to your situation is that there was never a problem? I mean that with things as small as “he took my toy” and as big as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and the like. It’s the radical, all-in-a-moment shift in perception that makes just about every problem vanish as quickly as it appeared.
Without that, you end up endlessly chasing the next carrot and building an unpaid career in healing that never promises retirement. Nearly two decades training and teaching kung fu taught me about chasing the carrot.
From lengthy sequences of movements to small little death points, there’s always something else that you need to master or some ancient technique that was “long forgotten”. But those are for the black belts. Or the next belt. And if you don’t keep at it, you’ll miss out. Major FOMO.
Same thing happens with the latest new-fangled healing modality or whizbang medical breakthrough. You need this, or you must have that. But do you really?
The answer to that lies in looking at your situation again and seeing through all the competing voices to what’s really going on. Do that, and all the unnecessary carrots vanish like the mirages they are.
Today, we get to explore that a bit more. Have a listen.
Highlights:
- In order to keep you going, the industry had to keep you aware that there was more. (6:55)
- In order to make you feel like you need something, advertising corporations show you something that makes you think your life is miserable. (11:36)
- If you can’t be happy when you aren’t married then you’re never going to be truly happy when you are married. In fact, that makes it worse (12:12)
- What is the life that is within me asking for? Not, “What does everyone say it should have?” (20:25)
- If you can’t explain it to a six year old then you don’t understand it yourself (34:40)
- The chase ends not when you solve the problem or fix yourself, but when you realize you were never broken in the first place. (35:55)
Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my new book, Built for Freedom: Adventures Through Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma, Pain, and Our Body’s Innate Ability to Leave Them All Behind on Amazon (or Audible) here: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Freedom-Adventures-Depression-Addiction/dp/B0BS79GMYN
Or head over to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/ and book a call where we can look at your unique situation and give you the roadmap you’ve been missing.