Our personal rules become the blueprint for our lives. Some of the rules may no longer serve us, or maybe they never did. But if we don't examine them and change the ones that need to be changed, we will go on shaping our lives in ways that don't quite work of us. This podcast is about the need to review these rules of our personal reality so that we can live more joyous and fulfilling lives.

You probably find that you don't like the feeling of being disoriented. That's quite understandable. But disorientation has its uses. Disorientation forces us to reevaluate where we are and what we think is going on. Yes, it implies change, but that can be a good thing. When we look at disorientation positively we can gain valuable insights and perspectives on what we have previously taken for granted.

Shame is the most crippling emotion we can carry and we don't have to. It's a choice and we don't have to make that choice. In this podcast we look at some of the ways we can counteract feelings of shame. Shame undermines our self-esteem and self-esteem is one of the most important aspects of a healthy life.

Since everything we choose is based on our desire to feel better than we currently do, doesn't it make sense to spend some time looking at what we actually want to feel? Don't we want to choose the very best feelings that we can as we make our way through life? Since we have the power to choose which feeling we're going to experience for the most part, it makes sense for us to adopt the attitude of a connoisseur and examine the relative pleasure of various feelings. In this podcast we'll look at this delicious process.

Not only is overall pleasure the motivation for every choice we make, it is the yardstick by which we judge which action we take. In a miraculous calculation, we quickly imagine what our expected pleasure will likely be with each of our choices and then we pick the one with the most anticipated pleasure attached to it. This is a remarkable process that we will explore in this podcast.

We need trust. It allows us to move about in the world and to rely on our assumptions and expectations. But trust comes from, and only from, our choice to trust. And it order to do it wisely, we need to pay attention to many inner factors. In this podcast we go over many of the aspects of trust that need our review before we trust sensibly.

It's natural to be passionate about the spiritual path and to be excited to explore new worlds within. But there is great wisdom in taking the time to let the process of growth proceed in their own time. We learn from nature and this lesson can be learned effectively from a lobster.

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There are many wonderful techniques for manifesting our desires and they rely on envisioning our desire, energizing it, and allowing it to come to us. But nothing seems to work better that simply loving our desire into being. Trying to manipulate other people doesn't really work, but fulfilling the desire for specific feelings does. And it does especially well when we love it into being.

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Sure, remembering things is important. But so is forgetting things. With so much emphasis on remembering most of us have neglected to fine art of forgetting. There is so much to forget that we usually overlook how critical this process is and even how to do it. In this podcast we go over the skills and importance of forgetting.

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Nobody likes to be criticized. We generally feel bad or worse when we're criticized. But the fear of criticism is an even deeper level of feeling bad. But we don't ever have to fear it again once we know how to deal with that fear.

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