Q&A 17 – The Magic Portal to Insight

How do you solve problems? I used to get caught in what I now call a ‘knowledge loop’, which very often wasn’t particularly helpful.

In this episode I talk about where we can go for answers to life’s challenges and how to create our own magic portals to the insights that offer those answers.

You can listen above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch on YouTube. Notes, links, resources and a full transcript are below. 

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

* Dicken Bettinger and his book, co-authored with Natasha Swerdloff, Coming Home

Transcript of episode

Hello explorers and welcome to a Q&A; episode of Unbroken. This is episode 17. I’m your host, Alexandra Amor. 

The Magic Portal to Insight

Today I want to talk about the magic portal to insight. I used that phrase recently with some friends when we were on a zoom call. And what I was referring to was the bathroom. I think specifically the shower. But it also happens, I find, on the toilet. 

What I’m talking about is those magical moments when we’re in the shower or in the bathroom, or out for a walk or doing something where we’re kind of occupied with something physical or mechanical, and insights come to us. For some reason, the shower seems to be a really popular place for this sort of thing to happen. I wonder if it’s partly because it’s early in the morning, at least for me, that’s when I ship tend to shower is when it’s the beginning of the day. 

What I mean by that magic portal to insight is that this is a time and a place when I often find that I’ll get insights. And of course, when we’re looking to solve a problem or a challenge, or find a solution to something in our lives. What we’re learning in this understanding is that it’s it is insight that brings us fresh new thinking, rather than going over the same old things that our minds know that our brains know.

Our Minds Love What They Already Know

I remember years and years ago, a friend who was a life coach, saying to me that she had learned in a class that she was taking that our minds really love what they already know. And over and over again, I find that so to be so true. I’ve got this great quote that

I want to share with you a quote I saw on Dicken Bettinger’s Instagram today. If you haven’t heard of Dicken, or know of him, I definitely recommend you search him out. He has a book called Coming Home, which is about the three principles understanding. And it’s beautiful, co written with Natasha Swerdloff. And he’s just a lovely, lovely human being so wise and gentle.

And so here’s the quote related to our subject today.

The intellect, like a computer, cannot find what lies beyond itself. Beyond the intellect lies a field of creative energy, the unknown, the spiritual. When we align with this energy, we connect with our wholeness.

I love that so much because it speaks to so many things. Those are three sentences, but it just says volumes. And there’s this is the idea that I just wanted to share and talk about today that, that there’s this field,