Your emotions are messages from your soul. Learn How to Tune In and Listen Here.

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In this episode, Gary Zukav explores one of life’s most common and painful emotions - overwhelm - and reveals how to move beyond it permanently. He explains that true freedom from overwhelm doesn’t come from fixing external problems like money, work, or relationships but from understanding where overwhelm really begins: inside yourself. Through deep emotional awareness, Gary shows that trying to control the outside world for relief is a form of external power, while lasting transformation comes only through authentic power - the conscious choice to look inward.

By examining how emotions are freestanding energies that arise within, Gary helps listeners identify overwhelm as a fear-based part of their personality. The practice of noticing these sensations in your body, experiencing them fully, and responding with healthier qualities like gratitude or patience is how you create authentic power. This inner mastery frees you from being controlled by fear and allows you to consciously shape your own experiences.

When you choose to respond from love - rather than react from fear - you begin to dissolve the causes of your overwhelm. What was once a cycle of stress and avoidance becomes an opportunity for growth, gratitude, and conscious creation.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

(00:02) — The Source of OverwhelmWhy emotions don’t come from external circumstances but originate within you.

(02:45) — Addictions and DistractionsHow workaholism, perfectionism, and other habits are just ways of avoiding painful emotions.

(04:39) — Emotional AwarenessHow to locate overwhelm as physical sensations in the body and recognize its root in fear.

(07:06) — Creating Authentic PowerWhy choosing gratitude, patience, and appreciation dissolves the control of fear.

(09:45) — Mastery and Responsible ChoiceHow responding from love instead of fear transforms every area of your life.

Embrace the Soul Step Challenge

This week, notice moments when you feel overwhelmed. Instead of trying to fix external situations, pause and look inward. Ask yourself: What am I feeling in my body right now? What fear might be underneath this? Then consciously shift your focus to gratitude, patience, or appreciation. Each time you do this, you create authentic power and take one step closer to freedom from overwhelm.

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