Life Mastery Wisdom with David D McLeod

Many of us have difficulty bringing the same level of compassion to ourselves as we can bring to others. Since compassion is a necessary ingredient for healing (especially for ourselves), it’s time to get over that way of thinking and come to recognize that we are just as worthy of love and healing as anyone else is. Listen in to learn a powerful technique for empowering yourself to heal.

Everyone worries about some things some of the time. But some people seem to be worried about something almost constantly. If it’s not one thing, it’s another! This state of almost constant worry can have a debilitating impact—reducing productivity, inhibiting viable decisions, and making life significantly less enjoyable. If you find that you worry more than you think is normal, then listen to this episode for a strategy that will help you to reduce worry.

For many people, life seems like an endless struggle with little or no point to it. Some people, however, find a way to enjoy life almost all the time, regardless of the lemons and curve balls that come their way! How do they do it? What is the secret to having a meaningful life? In this episode, we’ll look at one method that works wonders for most people who try it—and, thankfully, it’s not really that difficult to implement.

Every once in a while, something happens in life that can have a strong enough impact that knocks you away from your emotional center. This can be both disconcerting and disorienting, so much so that you may have difficulty regaining your composure. Sometimes the effect can last quite a while, so what can you do to mitigate the effect and regain your center? In this episode, we talk about one way that can help you to stay true.

Desire is a form of energy that generally supports and sustains life. However, when fear enters the picture, this energy can transform from a gentle affirming motivation into want, need, expectation, compulsion, and even addiction. As Life Masters, our objective is to monitor our desires and to engage in those which serve our greatest good for growth and expansion. In this episode, we discuss ways of doing that.

Do you ever find yourself caught in a cycle of constant comparisons, where you end up deciding that you are not quite measuring up? This cycle of comparison toxicity can be extremely debilitating, and if not addressed, can create such negative thoughts in your mind that you shut down and get completely stuck. If you want to stop this cycle in your life, check out this episode for some great ideas to get you moving again.

Happiness is something that virtually everyone wants, and yet it seems that most people in the world have difficulty getting it. After years of rampant consumerism, fueled by the powerful psychological effects of advertising, we have been conditioned to believe that if we want happiness, we must go out and get it. But it turns out that, while we may experience temporary pleasure by participating in various activities, authentic lasting happiness simply cannot be found outside of ourselves. We must do something much more challenging: get down to the truth of who we really are, and connect to the natural, authentic happiness that is already inside.

Are you the kind of person who goes out of his/her way to be nice to everyone? Do you maybe go a little overboard in being nice? If so, what is it costing you in terms of your own level of satisfaction and fulfillment? In this episode, we look at the idea of niceness in detail, with the objective of raising awareness to a form of over-sensitivity that is becoming almost epidemic in western culture. Learn how you can claim the truth of who you are, meet your own needs, and still treat others with compassion and love.

Anyone who has done any personal growth work has very likely experienced the challenge of dealing with an ego-mind that has gotten so powerful that it seems to have completely taken over. Many spiritual teachers promote the idea that in order to advance in consciousness, you have to quiet, silence, dissolve or eliminate the ego-mind. A few of these teachers even go so far as to advocate killing what they call a toxic ego-mind. But is that the only approach? Perhaps there is a more effective way to tame an over-active ego-mind. Find out how in this episode.

Compassion is one of the most powerful healing methodologies available, and something that is quite natural for most people. However, sometimes we can get so caught up in the objective of helping to reduce someone’s suffering that we inadvertently create a state of disempowerment. By jumping in to solve a problem without first checking in to see if our help is really wanted, we take away the person’s ability to benefit from the struggle, and thus remove what might have been a critical learning opportunity. In this episode, I talk about compassionate empowerment as an alternative approach that is much more uplifting and supportive.