The Empowered Catholic Podcast

Do you want to change how you show up in a major area of life like spirituality, family, personal growth, or physical health? Or would it be better to simply keep running life like an obstacle course, jumping, ducking, and more or less weaving around the problems until you get to the end? There are FOUR requirements for any kind or REAL change in your life. The kind of change that takes more than a bit of mental effort. The kind of change that makes an actual big huge difference in your life. Listen to the podcast for the details. Let's go! See you there.

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Your unconscious mind is always listening to what you have to say and will work to make things turn out the way you say. Do you like achievement? Accomplishing things? Improving? Then using positivity in your language is a big help for you! LISTEN to yourself this week. You might be surprised by what you hear. We discuss the possibilities and some limitations of being positive. Get your rational optimist glasses on and prime your brain with sweet, clean, positive speech and emotion for the win! The people around you will say THANK YOU!

Resources:

Robert B.Cialdini, Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

Curtis's one-line summary: Lots of fun research. Mostly about the psychology of sales and persuasion.

Sean Achor, The Happiness Advantage

Curtis's line summary: Positivity is a winner for achievement—the advantages of rational optimism, positive speech, and positive emotion. They are mostly directed to business.

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What have we been talking about? The last several episodes have been about the Disciplines of a master. We discuss why these are important, give examples from our own lives, and do some wrapping-up of the whole discipline topic. You could pick one and spend a week working with it, how cool could that be??

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We can be tempted to think of religion as a personal project of seeking holiness. That's our age of individualism breaking everything down to me: my role, my task, my burden, my initiative. In this age of individualism and atomization, we can easily forget the importance of seeking connection with other people, nature, and our own inner lights. Yet being CONNECTED is crucial to being human, to thriving, and to getting anything done in the real world. What are the signs of a loss of connection with others? With creation? With yourself?

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Confidence energy. When you remove fears that are useless and put some trust into the process (remember that episode?), confidence energy can start to show up. Decide to choose it. It's about the power you have to create the change - you believe that YOU have the power to create the change. It's the CRUCIAL difference. It does not look at the problem, it sees opportunities and solutions. It focuses on how YOU are showing up at the moment. Your PERSPECTIVE pans out to see the bigger picture when you have confidence energy. When fears are not your primary counselors, then you will SEE possibilities, and you start to have confidence. Why wouldn't there be a win there? And I can win there. An inner certainty that YOU can go forward with life, hand-in-hand, and work things out. Big things. Small things. Sure it takes trust in God's providence and His future for you. It takes HOPE. It's your job to HOPE and to trust, to seek. Ask for these spiritual gifts and you will receive them. Yes, you can.

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Fear is natural. It's a natural emotion. [00:14:10] Why, then, do we have this emphasis on fearlessness? There are things that naturally come up in life that are always going to give rise to fear. And In those situations, probably what's needed is courage. The courage to act in the face of feeling fear and doing the right thing. Fearlessness is different and addresses all the rest of the fears we have. Fears that are actually meant to be released and not to be overcome. So courage is feeling your fear and overcoming it. Fearlessness is releasing the fears that you don't really need to have and that are not serving you in any way whatsoever and are just the result of your unconscious processes that you've adopted over the years. In that case, the goal isn't courage; it's getting to a place of fearlessness. Remember what St. Paul tells us. He says that when your love is complete, there is no fear; it's driven out. Did we mention that releasing that kind of baggage, including but not limited to useless fears, is one of our specialties? Email us if you are curious or book a consult on our website. And this is our goal. This is what God wants for us, is to be people who do not dwell in fear, but dwell in love.

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God made you. So live your life. It's YOUR job. If you are living a version of your life only because it's the version that someone else thinks is what you should do, you will feel it in your bones. It will sap your power, meaning that sense of agency that creates energy to live your life. Authenticity looks like Acting from your core; doing/saying/showing up from your beliefs, values, choices, perspectives, and talents; being true to yourself, and living with integrity. Being authentic means being emotionally honest, clear about your experience of the world, and free of pretense. Being real. It's a virtue needed for humility, which is indispensable for coping with life. A lack of authenticity leads to disconnection from yourself, from God, and from those around you. Brene Brown says "Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are." Be more of what God created you to be; that, my friends, is a beautiful thing.

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So often, we're looking ahead. We're looking to the future. We're waiting until something happens or until we get to the next place, or to the next milestone. Or we're worried and anxious about what might happen in the future. That's living in the future and not living in the present where we're meant to be. Our power is in the present and it is where God meets us. Learning how to trust the process of your own life, and in the events of your life, requires confidence in God's providence, a release of the desire to control, and a willingness to focus more on what you can learn instead of what you can get.

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We often think we are making choices, but really it's our past, our worries and fears, our habits, our trigger behaviors, or our doubts that are making the choices for us. We are hijacked by our past without us even realizing it. Because when we make choices, we are always filtering them through our past experiences. What we learn from those experiences tends to create what the "facts" are for us. Sometimes in coaching, we call this the YOU-Bag. It's like a backpacking bag on your back: you can't see what's in it but you feel it. Often others can see some things in there that you can't. We have a pack full of unconscious beliefs that drive our behavior. It's helpful to bring them up to our full awareness so we can see if these drivers need to be updated or replaced. Learn more about conscious choice and the illusion of choice by listening to this week's podcast!

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Awareness is a discipline, meaning a kind of excellence that you could cultivate, that shows up in a few different contexts. Awareness is the ability to know "what is". It's the ability to discern what's actually happening from your mind's interpretation of what's happening. In a sense, it means being present versus seeing a situation from the past. We have a catalog of past experiences and those can dominate our minds to the point where we don't "see" what's in front of us. Awareness includes the ability to sense what's driving your behavior in a given situation, realizing that our unconscious and semi-conscious thoughts are often taking the lead role in our behavior. The Examen is a great Catholic tradition that can help us bring awareness to our lives if we are asking good questions.

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