Ira Israel, psychotherapist, counselor, and author of the book How To Survive Your Childhood Now That You’re An Adult, joins our show in this special episode of the Elite Man Podcast! In today’s episode Ira talks about how to truly be authentic and obtain happiness and love through your authenticity. He shares with us the 5 tools to becoming more authentic and how to utilize them as quickly as possible. He also dives into how our childhood shapes who we are today, even more than we realize, and how we can get past many of the negative conditioning aspects we carry with us. If you’re wondering how you can be truly authentic in all aspects of your life and how this can help you obtain true happiness, check this episode out now!

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In our episode we go over:

• The one way to truly find happiness in life
• Being authentic and what this really means in terms of connecting with others
• Why we are programmed at an early age to not show our authentic selves to the world and how this effects us later in life
• The defense mechanisms from our childhoods that become a part of our personalities and the maladaptive qualities they carry
• How Ira Israel uses his diverse background in psychology, meditiation, Buddhism, producing, acting, and more to help others in his work today
• Why he helps people find their callings in life
• The 5 tools you need to be truly authentic
• How authentic you should be when you first meet other people
• Why we are living in such a confusing time when it comes to interacting with others
• Why adults face resentment and how forgiving others can get you past this
• Having low self-esteem as a man and how to get past this
• Why your mind creates long-term solutions for short term problems
• Understanding attachment and how mastering this can help you become more authentic
• Using atonement to get past pain and suffering in your life and how this improves your authenticity
• The power of atunement and really connecting with other people in person
• The correct way to reflectively listen to someone else
• The best way to use meditation and how this can help you step into your authentic side
• Being congruent in your actions to match your ideals and values
• Why being authentic is the one true way to get past your childhood problems
• Why children blame themselves for all the problems they face when they are young

Check out Ira on: Website: iraisrael.com Book: amazon.com/how-to-survive-childhood-book

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