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Overcoming anxiety is the adventure of a lifetime. 

On this adventure, you will become someone your previous self would never have been able to recognise. 

And perhaps it is this journey, and the one you become, rather than the endpoint, that matters most.

That being said, what does this journey look like? Where do we even take the first step? What techniques have the highest hit rate for your particular type of anxiety? 

In this episode, Jon and Mike answer all of these questions and explain how to gamify the battle with your inner demons.

In this episode:

01:12 Welcome 

02:45 How most people deal with anxiety

04:30 The one size fits all STRATEGY to overcome anxiety

06:00 The problem with the magic bullet approach

08:26 Recap on the 3 traps that keep you stuck in anxiety

13:15 Overcoming anxiety is the most epic adventure of your life

17:16 The many beneficial side-effects that arise on the path to overcoming anxiety

20:55 Anxiety is a dream killer

25:42 How going through this journey has made Jon the parent he is today

27:27 How healing our anxiety affects those around us and the space that we hold

29:59 Why should you watch this next video?

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The Anxiety Masterclass is HERE! 🎊

In this episode, we present to you part 1 of the 3-part series hosted by Mike Slavin and Jon Brooks.

Sign up here for the full 3-part training 💥

These videos are for you if...

- Anxiety paralyzes you, robbing you of your joy, curiosity, and vitality.
- You’re losing your future by missing out on opportunities because of anxiety...
- You struggle to be truly authentic with people and it stops you from building meaningful relationships
- It prevents you from making more money and getting the freedom you want.
- You’re fed up with the chokehold anxiety has on your life and emotions…
- It blocks you from fully supporting your family & friends, and giving your love.
- The fear of failure shuts off your productivity and creative expression.

Here's what's included in this episode:

00:00 Welcome
02:11  What we are going to cover in this Masterclass
02:38 What is anxiety?
11:02 What is possible on the other side of anxiety?
14:23  The pressure to say the "right" things
16:30 The Personal Failing Trap: "Something's wrong with me."
21:47 The Avoidance Trap: "Stay away from triggering situations."
28:29 The Elimination Trap: "I just need to get my anxiety to stop."
33:31 Can you really heal your anxiety?
36:25 Overcome mind blank for effortless conversations
44:16 What's coming in the next video

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Order a copy of Verissimus here

In our 3rd interview with Stoic author, philosopher and cognitive behavioural therapist, Donald Robertson, we discuss his brand new graphic novel, VERISSIMUS. 

This is the most epic philosophical project that I am aware of to date. 

If Ridley Scott's Gladiator had a baby with Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, you’d get Verissimus.

As you’ll hear in this interview, this project was a massive undertaking, taking nearly 3 years to complete. Detailing the life, times, and philosophy of Marcus Aurelius, the book acts as a historically accurate, action-packed entry point into the Stoic landscape.

In this episode, we cover:

• The process of creating this book
• Why Donald decided to make a graphic novel
• Why many Romans actually opposed Marcus Aurelius
• Marcus’ mission to cultivate natural compassion towards all human beings, even his worst enemies
• The absurdity of Stoicism’s most popular criticism 
• Stoicism’s deep influence on early Christianity
• The relationship between intuition and reason
• Jon’s single favourite chapter on Stoicism

Links to Donald's Work:

 Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius, by Donald Robertson 

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, by Donald Robertson

Donald’s website

Modern Stoicism

Cris Beasley has become a profoundly influential force in my life.

Her ability to go directly to the places where we are hiding, playing it small, and not owning the raw realities of our human experience is remarkable.

Her path from the tech world to being CEO of an AI company, to psychedelic facilitator, medicine woman, and oracle creator is as vibrant and rich as her personality.

Cris has several amazing achievements under her belt:

• Working with Mozilla to shape the open internet.
• The trials and tribulations of being a CEO.
• Creating the ‘Cult of Busyness’ immersive workshop experience
• Psychedelic facilitation and retreat work
• Creating the Becoming Dragon oracle deck
• Her new microdosing experience
• + much more

Cris is as emotionally attuned as she is wise. As witty as she is serious. It’s been an incredible process to watch her grow, evolve, and continue to execute with a combination of quality, speed, vigour, and grace. 

Bridging the shamanic and the scientific, the emotional and the intellectual, Cris is a deeply strong, powerful, and loving voice in the space of emotional intelligence, personal healing, and experience design. 

You can find her at:

• Becoming Dragon
• Substack
• Microdosing Experience

Enjoy this episode of the HighExistence podcast with Cris Beasley!

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“You can move past these obstacles. You probably relate to them as obstacles right now, but they’re actually a part of the path, right?”

-Mike Slavin (HEx Podcast #61)

In today’s solo cast, Mike leads us down a rabbit hole of discombobulate selves, where we find the true source of our procrastinative tendencies.

He reminds us that we procrastinate, not because we are cursed, but because a part of ourselves doesn’t want us to go where we are trying to go. 

Resistance is not an external force, but rather a part of YOU that is not yet on board with the mission yet.

Instead of slaying the procrastodragon, have you tried communicating with it? Listening to it, and harmonizing with it until it shrinks, or joins forces with you, so you can ride it into the ever-expanding horizon of your dreams 🌅

If you feel like you are being pulled in two directions at the same time, not quite able to actually move in any of them, this one is for you. Enjoy 🙇🏻‍♂️

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For more where this came from, take a dive Down The Rabbit Hole, where you'll find Mike and his magic being dispensed in the form of a weekly newsletter, filled with bite-sized chunks of wisdom and wonder, just like this episode. 🧙🏼‍♂️

Steve Sims 

Our guest on the podcast today should never have been able to succeed in business or in life. Growing up as a bricklayer in London, England, all the odds were against him achieving the kind of outlandish success he’s been able to claim so far, but it’s clear that the universe didn’t expect someone with Steve Sims’ heart, ingenuity, and initiative to appear and to turn traditional forms of networking on their heads. 

I first came across Steve Sims in his absurdly motivating book, Bluefishing, which tells the story of his company that makes seemingly unreasonable requests come true. The company is called Bluefish, and they’re who you call if you want to sing on stage with Journey, eat dinner in front of Michelangelo’s David, or visit the undersea wreckage of the Titanic. He’s orchestrated all of these experiences for his clients and many more besides. 

Steve is just an absolute magician when it comes to making the impossible possible, so listen to today’s episode if you’re open to receiving a ton of inspiration to get out there and make big things happen. 

He teaches that there is a password for every door, a weak spot in every wall, and if we would only stop selling ourselves short and start taking massive action, we might just be able to make that wall come down. 

Especially important to understand, moreover, is that in today’s business environment, mean guys finish last. A new, longer-term, more generous form of networking is making the old, manipulative kind of networking obsolete, and Steve Sims is helping to lead the way. 

I hope that you finish this episode just brimming with inspiration and courage, and leave with the understanding that you can get pretty much anything you want in life, so long as you help enough other people get what they want.

What We Cover: 

• What makes an entrepreneur an entrepreneur?
• The most important skills for futureproofing yourself
• How to break away from the rest and make yourself memorable
• Why being you is the most powerful marketing tactic there is
• Communicating your message clearly, without dilution
• The importance of surrounding yourself with people who are further along than you

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You’ve gone Down The Rabbit Hole. Now it’s time to walk up The Stairway to Wisdom.

Introducing a brand new weekly newsletter from the minds at HighExistence.

Over the past year, we’ve been publishing the wonder-inducing weekly email known as “Down The Rabbit Hole,” and now we’re taking it a step further.

We want our readers not only to feel a deep sense of enchantment towards the world around them but also to apply deep teachings to their daily life so they can experience the life-transforming benefits of wisdom-in-action.

The Stairway to Wisdom is a premium weekly newsletter for those who are ready to dive deeper. We’ve partnered with independent researcher and knowledge connoisseur, Matt Karamazov, who has taken sharp, meticulous notes on over 1000 books so that he could share the most inspiring pearls of wisdom with the world.

Learn more here

Jake Kobrin (HEx Podcast #59)

Magick has always been a concept that I've brushed aside as another overly esoteric, new-age fad that I assumed would reveal itself to be built on faulty foundations if I ever actually decided to dig into it.

After listening to this episode, I realize that those assumptions couldn't be further from the truth. Magick is thousands of years older than western psychology. Its' roots run deep and its implications far and wide.

The most controversial magician of the 20th century, Aleister Crowley, defined it as “the science and art of causing change in conformity with our Will”. 

In other words, this is a long-standing tradition that has mastered the art of manifesting the life that is the fullest and most accurate expression of your innermost being (aka the True Will). As you’ll hear in this episode, there is an endless list of techniques that can aid and accelerate this process. 

Eric Brown (HEx Podcast #59)

And that's only one portion of this conversation...

What We Cover: 

• What it means to be a visionary artist 
• Practical examples of how to use language to shape your reality
• An introduction to Magick
• The concepts of The True Will and The Great Work
• Ceremonial Magick as initiatory processes
• Sigil Magick
• A run through the Magickal toolbox 
• The sacredness of desires
• The refreshing sincerity of sex dungeons
• Cryptocurrency, NFT's and Virtual Reality

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Psychedelics can cause harm. 

Don’t get me wrong, I love psychedelics. But I also acknowledge their potential to bring about profoundly unwanted changes in the psyche.

Yet, with the ever-more abundant influx of news focussing on the life-changing benefits of these substances, the very real risks that pose are getting drowned out, leaving us with only one-half of the full picture.

The way that our information channels are structured these days, if we don’t want to hear about something, we usually don’t. We also tend to be over-eager to find The Solution to all our problems. Psychedelics, for many, are taking on this projection. It’s not uncommon to hear people talking about the psychedelic renaissance as though it were the second coming. 

Ed Prideaux is on a mission to stop some of this psychedelic naivety in its tracks, by speaking up about his experience with hallucinogen persisting perception disorder (HPPD). 

Remember those LSD horror stories that your mum told you, about that guy who took LSD and never stopped tripping? Well, this is sort of like that (although HPPD is not the same as ‘permatripping’, as you’ll hear Ed clarify) except this is no horror story. The week after Ed’s fourth LSD trip, he noticed that the carpets were sparkling and the walls were melting. These effects, along with a handful of others, have not totally left him, 6 years on.

This phenomenon is far more common than you might think. A recent study of 2455 psychedelic users reported that a quarter of participants said that they experienced lingering perceptual changes days and weeks after a psychedelic experience and that 1 in 25 found these changes to be so distressing that they considered seeking clinical help.

The conversation that Ed brings to the table goes far beyond just HPPD. It extends into an axiom-altering exploration of the narratives around ‘really bad trips’, the fundamental flaws of the current mental health framework, and the fluid nature of reality itself. 

What We Cover: 

• What is HPPD?
• Ed’s personal experience with HPPD
• The connection between anxiety and perception
• Advice for someone who thinks they might have HPPD
• The problem with overidentifying with a particular form of suffering
• Can you use psychedelics again if you have HPPD?
• The gifts of neurodiversity
• Stan Grof’s controversial treatment for HPPD
• How to make a psychedelic experience as well-held as possible
• The fundamental skill to have in the psychedelic experience
• The intersection of this psychedelic moment with the metaverse
• Psychedelic narcissism 

DIVE DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE and get 5+ mind-blowing ideas, tools, or quotes sent to you every Wednesday.

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• How the level of access to knowledge is unprecedented right now, and how tapping into it can change the trajectory of your life
• MJ’s “C-E-N-T-S” framework for coming up with high-velocity business ideas (featuring the Commandments of Control, Entry, Need, Time, and Scale)
• How to increase the magnitude of your contribution and accelerate your profits
• The timelessness of great books and podcasts
• Nassim Taleb’s concept of “antifragility” and how it can help prepare you for any external event that could threaten your safety and security
• The Great Rat Race Escape, MJ’s newest book, a business book/novel hybrid that follows one couple’s personal journey from financial slavery to financial freedom
• ”Value skews” and how you can develop them in order to walk over your competition
• ”Superior Unexpected Customer Service” (SUCS) and why it’s so much easier today for your business to stand out
• ”Expected Value” and why you should always aim for “Excellent” instead of just “Good”
• The latest redefinition of “financial freedom” and why it’s just financial slavery in a different form
• Why investing in your health will improve your life in every other area
• When you should begin your child’s financial education and how to avoid the mediocrity narrative

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