The Strong Within Affirmation Podcast

June 12th-#163 Mindful Mondays

A healthy body begins with a healthy mind. I surround myself on thoughts that build me up.

Let’s face it…It feels good to feel good. And a good portion of the time we are being unhealthy in every aspect of our lives because of where we allow our mind to wander off to.

We seem to find it hanging out smoking in the boys room, or girls room for you ladies, with the bad kinds of thoughts…selfishness, anger, jealousy, greed, complacency and slothfulness, self criticism and judging, hate, and everyone’s favorite internal nagging.

It’s great to put our attention on what type of thoughts we focus on, but it’s also crucial that we pay attention to what we surrounding ourselves with. What types of TV shows are you watching, what type of music are you listening to, who are you hanging out with, and what are you reading and spending your time on?

It's not that you have to be so focused on being a goody two shoes, but it’s about understanding that what you surround yourself with is what you become.  I won’t single out any type of music, but I no longer listen to negative music that is cussing, focusing on the frivolous things in life, degrading ceratin types of people or groups…even if in that music they feel it’s accepted. 

For tv now, Yes… I do watch programs that can be dark, but I also work to guard my mind from them. I love detective shows probably because I’m always interested in why killers or murders think the way they do. I also love how detectives solve a mystery.

When I watch these programs I work to not just go into zombie mode, but rather into processing mode. I work to not allow my mind be warped into the negativity and darkness of the show, and I work to keep asking myself why am I watching this? And for me it’s about solving mysteries and learning more about human behaviors.

I’m not telling you to cut out things that you enjoy, but what I am challenging you to look at…is if what you are surrounding yourself with…is really making a positive impact in your life?  We waste so much time on things we think that have no influence on us, but in the end I want to have the best thoughts I can, and I want to surround myself with the best things I can.

My mind is a beautiful gift. I work to keep it functioning towards the beautiful and amazing parts of life.

A healthy body begins with a healthy mind. I surround myself on thoughts that build me up.

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247

Music by: Basematic-Zest
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee USA but available worldwide
Podcast: The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast

June 11th-#162 Smiling Sundays

I am constantly evolving.

I will always find a way to do things better. I don’t just try to get by, or to survive…I work to be engaged fully in my life. Life is a beautiful journey that people are missing out on by trying to fit in with people they don’t like, and doing things that really don’t make them happy in the end.

Are you a trailblazer, are you a person who cares so much about your life that you’re constantly evolving to make it better? Are you refining your processes every day to fine tune and help you enjoy the moments more?

You see it’s not about being anal and always working, but it’s about working smarter so you can get more done, so you can be more accomplished, which in turn will give you more mental energy and time to do the things that truly matter to you.

I’m not a caveman, I’m constantly evolving in my life because it changes everything in my life.

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Chris O'Hearn

Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247

Music by: Basematic-Zest

June 10th-#161 Synergy Saturdays

I open my heart to great possibilities.

I have missed out on some of the greatest relationships, opportunities, or self-development due to having a closed heart. I teach constantly that we don’t get what we want, we get what we focus on.  And if we are focusing on what we fear then we find more of the fear that we are trying to avoid.

I know in relationships I have purposefully sabotaged them due to the fear of being left. I didn’t consciously do it, but looking back I now see that I ruined things that were good in my life.  We attract what we put out, so if we are putting out that we are emotionally unavailable, guess what??? You’re going to attract emotionally unavailable people.

One of the greatest things you can do is to open your heart. Giving love returns 1,000 fold what you put out. So when you stop guarding your heart from all the pain and hurt that could happen, you begin opening it to the amazing possibilities that you have been blocking before.

Yes, there are people out there who will hurt us, but wouldn’t you rather put your heart out to see the best of what could happen, rather than closing yourself off because of the things you fear that won’t always happen.  Some of the greatest things in my life happened because I took a leap and opened my heart instead of focusing on what might go wrong.

I open my heart to great possibilities.

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247

Music by: Basematic-Zest
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee USA but available worldwide

June 9th-#160 Fantastic Fridays

I love and respect myself, which then helps me to love and respect others like they deserve.

People can be cruel in this world. And yes we will make mistakes and people will punish us for our mistakes over and over again. But it’s not about seeing this person as the villain, hateful, or broken…but it’s about understanding that sometimes their anger has nothing to do with us.

I want you to take a deep look at how you treat people. Ask yourself, “How kind am I to people, do I really share my best self with those around me, do I work to be empathetic and aware of what people are going through…or am I stuck in my own mind, anxiety, fears, anger, or negative emotions that I don’t really give people the respect and compassion that we all deserve?  Am I living out of fear of being rejected, hurt, or betrayed that I act in ways that are not in alignment with who I truly want to be?”

We cannot control anyone else, and when we take the time to not judge them but maybe to understand their story…we begin to have more compassion for them and it might even change them. The energy we put out is what people return to us. Have you ever found that when you are around someone you dislike that you’re always on alert around them because they irritate you?

What if you were to NOT… try to change who they are, but to love them silently through their pain…because underneath the anger or their defense mechanisms is something deeper such as hurt, fear, abandonment issues, or what have you.

When we love ourselves, we begin to love others differently, and we begin sending out different energies. Yes, you may never change that person, but by your thinking differently, you might just find that your uneasiness around those people dissipate…and your day and life becomes so much better.

I love and respect myself, which then helps me to love and respect others like they deserve.

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247

Music by: Basematic-Zest
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee USA but available worldwide

June 8th-#159 Thoughtful Thursdays

When I see what I want, I go towards it confidently.

I am meant to have the things that align with me. I am meant to have the things I want, and I will put all my attention on obtaining those things with deliberate intent and a focused mindset. I know that everything I’ve received in my life…was how I focused on the end goal.  When I’m deliberate and purposeful in my life the things I desire find their way to me easier.

The things you are seeking are seeking you.  Are you a wall builder, or are you a gate maker?  Wall builders erect their structures to keep out what they are afraid of. Gate makers open up their walls to understand what they are afraid of. When we get to know what we fear, we find out that it isn’t what we thought it was.  We find out that the unknown is only a place we haven’t been before, and we find out that it’s a beautiful and exciting place to live.

So… are you dictating how you live your life by what you fear, or are you focusing on what you truly desire for your life?

When I see what I want, I go towards it confidently.

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247

Music by: Basematic-Zest
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee USA but available worldwide

June 7th- #158 Wisdom Wednesdays

Success is about emotions. I will focus on obtaining the feeling… rather than solely getting the “thing.”

We as a society tend to look at success by what you own or what you do.  Think about every time you interact with someone new and you’ve gotten all the scripted responses of how’s the weather or how are today out of the way…what is usually the most common thing we ask them?  “So…what do you do for a living.”

It’s a harmless question, but a lot of times we are asking that question to gauge if we think that person is worthy enough to chat with.  I have a friend who is a record producer, who has worked with some very famous artists, and he talks about he usually doesn’t tell people what he does because once they know… they get very curious and treat him differently. He’s not saying it’s a bad thing, it’s great that people are curious about what he does, but they put him into a category of being important and they try harder to get him to like them, and maybe to see if they can get something from him.  And so he can never tell who real friends and people are around him.

I’m not saying to never again…ask someone what they do, but maybe to change the way you interact with people. Maybe to find more creative questions to ask, maybe to find more creative ways to answer what you do, and to truly try to connect with people based upon their souls not upon their so-called worldly successes.

And if you think about it, if a homeless person is fulfilled with living on the street and enjoys what they have in their life, does that not make them successful because it is not our definition of success?

We’ve heard it a million times, and we understand it logically, but sometimes I think we forget emotionally and spiritually what success is.  What if you were to stop looking at things as a measure of your success, but look towards working to feel the successful emotions you want to feel every day.  The reason we do anything, is not to get something, but actually to feel something. The root of that thing you want is to feel good, to feel successful, to feel happy, to feel accomplished or what have you.  The thing wasn’t the answer...the feeling was what you truly sought.

When you begin looking at achieving the emotions instead of the thing, you might just find that the things you wished for in your life find a way to you more naturally because you stopped focusing on things and you began focusing on the emotions that made you feel successful.

Success is about emotions, I will focus on obtaining the feeling rather than solely getting the “thing.”

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247

Music by: Basematic-Zest
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee USA but available worldwide

June 6th-#157 Tag Me Tuesdays

I focus on feeling good when I eat.

We as a society are lustful in many manners. Sex is in our face wherever you look; all the cool things you can buy that will make you cooler, smarter, prettier, or more successful are plastered in ads everywhere; and food we’re tempted by every day through all the marketing schemes that can be done in the modern age.

I don’t get what we are so excited about food for, yes I love good food as much as the next person, but we have this crazy addiction to go bonkers when we hear about good food.  Think about it like this, when you hear there is free food… do you get excited to go grab some, are you ever at a party and you are like I HAVE to try this, or to overfill your plate and then say I can’t let this good food go to waste?

I definitely am not telling you to waste food, but why do we have to overfill our plates, why do we have to eat till we are stuffed instead of until we are FULFILLED, why do we have to lose our minds when we hear about free food or some amazing delicatessen we need to try?

I don’t want you to feel bad listening to this podcast… if you do this, this is more to help you become aware of the thoughts that you are going through around food.  When I am working with my clients in my personal training programs, I don’t focus on calories. I focus on them becoming aware of how they feel.  How they feel before they eat, how they feel during their eating, and how they feel after.  Do they know that spot, or feeling, in their body that says if I take another bite it will be too much.  Do they know how they eat?  Such as if they might feel upset or out of control in their life, so they look for ways to distract themselves from feeling that way and so they gravitate towards food…or rejecting food in other manners of self torture?

Eating good food is an amazing thing, but are we paying attention to how we’re eating.  When you focus on feeling good when you eat, not masking what you are feeling when you eat, you will find that your body will transition and that your problems won’t be buried anymore. You will find better ways to solve your problems instead of hiding them behind food.

I focus on feeling good when I eat.

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247

Music by: Basematic-Zest
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee USA but available worldwide

June 5th-#156 Mindful Mondays

Everything I’ve lost was the chance for me to gain something better.

We can look at loss as a sad moment in our lives, as everything in this life is not permanent.  That doesn’t have to be a sad thought though…if you think about it, it just means there will always be something to replace whatever you’ve lost.

Losing things can be good…you could lose negative thoughts as you focus more towards more positive thinking, you could lose your way in life so you get another perspective to find out what’s really important to you, or you could lose connection with people as you find other people who bring another value to your life.

I’m not trying to be excited about losing things, but when we understand that with every loss is the chance to gain something, it’s a basis for behavior that is more joyous, profitable, and wonderful than defining ourselves as people of loss or losers in the game.

And at times we consider ourselves victims from the people who have come and gone, or the things that have slipped through our fingers, and anything else that we’ve had the misfortune of losing.  But when we think that way, we give control over to what we consider to be the unknown aspects of life. We make ourselves the miserable victims instead of understanding that everything we have or don’t have in our life was from how we decided what we were worthy of keeping or not keeping.

Yes there are certain things we don’t have control over, such as someone dying in our life or a breakup by a partners choice and leaving us, but we do have the choice of how we move on from that instance. Whether we decide to live in pain, misery, and hurt…or to love the times we had and continue living in the present moment, choosing to keep moving. 

It’s not that the death or loss of a loved one won’t affect us, but rather that it helped us to know there still is something more for us to continue towards…because we have chosen our hearts to keep beating, to keep breathing, our brain to keep working…and no I am not talking about suicide, but I’m talking about the subconscious choice that we make every day to keep our physical body functioning as we are the driver deciding in every moment to keep our heart moving within the present moment.

Every loss I went through, while I had hard time going through it, I found ways to make it to the other side of sadness to joy all while experiencing good and bad times.  And the reason I stayed sad or stuck in the loss for a long time, was that I decided to live in the past, instead of appreciating the love I had and the beautiful moments I was given by the present moment. So while I will feel pain and sadness, I will work to not stay stuck in the past, but learn why something happened so I can be alive and not asleep in the present.

Everything I’ve lost was the chance for me to gain something better.

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247

Music by: Basematic-Zest
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee USA but available worldwide

June 4th-#155 Smiling Sundays

Thoughts create things, so I will visualize what I want consistently

Everything in this world is from a vibration. Atoms vibrate at certain frequencies to create things.  The same thing happens with our thoughts.  The higher vibrational frequency the more positive the thought, and the higher vibration we put our thoughts upon the greater chance we have of making our great wishes a reality.

It’s not that there are good and bad thoughts, but there are more powerful thoughts.  Everything happens twice in this life. It happens first in our mind, and then our thoughts will create that thing…or uncreate it.

That’s why I work not to have negating words or thoughts corrupting my higher vibrational thoughts.  When we use weak or negating words they dull the power of the possibility of our highest most fruitful thoughts.  Everything is possible with the right focus.  It’s not that I’m saying you can have everything, but that you can have everything that you deliberately focus on.

I know my wants sometimes aren’t as evolved, as I focus with my ego only on the surface level.  I work to be purposeful and collaborate with the higher power of God and the Universe.  I don’t just look for what I want, I speak what I want, but I open myself up… to all possibilities. I open myself up to collaborate with my Higher Power and create something much better than I could’ve ever done solo.

We are our mind, we are our soul, we are our body…so when we visualize purposefully with our utmost might to focusing on higher vibrational energies and thoughts we make our dreams our realities.  Every little thought, action, or purposeful energy movement… matters.

Thoughts create things, so I will visualize what I want consistently.

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247

Music by: Basematic-Zest
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee USA but available worldwide

June 3rd- #154 Synergy Saturdays

I am always finding ways to work smarter.

Everything I want in my life, I look at as a wonderful challenge. Not that I look at it and say this will be hard to achieve, but that I know that all the things that have mattered to me took time and intentional work to make it mine.

Life can be a complicated terrain to navigate, but that’s when we forget that every step, every turn, and every so called u-turn was a pathway leading us to who we are meant to be. 

So when you say…I am getting closer, I will never give up. I am just finding ways to work smarter;  I made all those so called mistakes in my life, so I could learn the things I am meant to.  And through mistakes they helped to engrain in my memory the lessons I needed to learn so I would never have to come back to the places I wasn’t meant to be.

Let’s look at obstacles not as roadblocks, but ways for us to flex our creativity muscles.  Roadblocks are exciting checkpoints in our lives to challenge the best parts of ourselves.  Because when we remember that every so-called stopping point was a place for us to think and question ourselves by asking, “what do I really want…do I want to give in and give up, or do I want to say how can I find a way around, through, or under this obstacle.” 

So instead of seeing the obstacle as a roadblock, what if you were to say, “my goals are important enough that I will always find a way to achieving it.”

I am always finding ways to work smarter.

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247

Music by: Basematic-Zest
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee USA but available worldwide