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Show Notes:

Notes from interview:

How to bounce back from emotional shock

Ego perception

a. Ego reality

b. Victim mode

i. Baseball center of stadium – we are the stadium

c. choices made from this context

3. Why someone else can get to us – push our buttons

4. 3 brains

5. Amygdala hijack

a. Shuts off communication with thinking brain

b. lasts 8-10 seconds

Offset – count to 10, take a breath

Slow down breath

Heart has to slow down

Begin to relax

Buy some time

Activate thinking brain

Tools

We have to own our part

Get honest

Don’t take things personally

Filtered with past experiences

Be the eye of the storm – choose how to engage

Respond rather than react

Focus on the breath

Others trigger us because:

We don’t feel seen

We don’t feel respected

Flatten the button so that no one can press it

Reacting does not mean we are bad people, we are hard wired to react

Blaming others or situations means we are giving our power away

Our choice is how we respond to situations

This pops us out of victim mode

Viktor Frankl – left with the ability of how to respond

Preventative maintenance

Presence – watching ourselves

Take a breath

meditation

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Ep54 Kai and Dan Shockley on his Journey of Being a Hereditary Colon Cancer Warrior

Today's show is an interview with Dan Shockley. He is a Colon Cancer Survivor who shares his resilience, overall super attitude and positive mindset in the face of an overwhelming diagnosis.

I invite you to hear the story of a great story of dealing with adversity. Dan offers numerous tools for all of us to increase the quality of our life.

Here are the links to his organizations.

https://coloncancerpreventionproject.org/ (https://coloncancerpreventionproject.org/)

https://www.ostomy.org/ (https://www.ostomy.org/)

He also offers his contact info if you would like to contact him.

~Peace

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Ep53 What…Bacteria Affects my Mood?

Hello and Welcome to the Way of the Emotional Warrior Podcast. My name is Kai Ehnes and today we will be answering the question…

Can bacteria really affect my mood?

Have you ever wondered why your mood can shift instantly? I mean here you are, moving right along in your day to day and out of nowhere your mood shifts. Often, it is a bad mood vs a good one.

So why does this happen? One possible cause apparently is bacteria. Specifically, your gut bacteria. Your gut is a biome and usually is healthy and diverse with good and bad bacteria. Somehow, these little passengers can affect various parts of our system, including our moods. Science is showing that they impact neurodegenerative disease, depression, among others.

Have you ever had a gut feeling or that you felt punched in the gut by something someone said? The gut has neurons, cells similar to those in our brain. These neurons are why the gut is often called the little brain. Interestingly, it “thinks” acts/reacts faster than the brain in between our ears.

A study conducted at Kyushu University in Japan, investigated “psychobiotics” or mood microbes to see if they could alter, more likely improve mental health.

Reserachers use mice and the ones who were “germ free” produced two times the amount of stress hormones when under stress than normal mice.

Let’s put this into perspective. Science has shown that a healthy gut biome allows us to deal not only better with stress but that altering the gut biome can help with the treatment of mental health.

This obviously has numerous parts for people. Think about the impact of diet, nutrition, exercise, feelings and emotions we push into our gut by nor processing them correctly. Think about it, whether food or feelings they have to be processed somewhere. If not, they get stored.

The research suggests that the vagus nereve, an information superhighway connecting the brain and gut gets impacted. Fiber is not properly broken down. Even the immune system can get impacted as well as mRNA which impacts how your DNA functions.

Why is any of this important?

Emotional Warriors can control their moods. Of course mood shifts, even swings, but emotional mastery leads one to understand how to deal with it in order to not get pulled out of balance to varying extremes.

If one of the culprits of our mood imbalance is the gut biome then it makes sense to take the necessary steps to maintain a healthy gut environment. Part of the issue is that we have become afraid of germs and therefore do what we can to minimize them but it turns out that we need germs to maintain a healthy gut biome.

According to Professor Ted Dinan at Cork University Hoispital. Diets low in fiber can have a negative impact on gut health.

I think that is amazing that more complex mental issues and simple mood swings can be affected by the state of our gut. Scientists are finding that patients with diseases such as Parkinson’s and depression have unique biomes that are out of balance. They even transplanted samples of these biomes to mice and found that the behavior transferred right with it.

Part of the life of emotional mastery is to know what impacts our emotions. It certainly makes sense that if our gut biome is that important to our well being, we owe it to ourselves to take a look.

Do some research to what foods and supplements help to maintain a healthy gut biome. Not only you but those around you will thank you.

Eat your fiber😊

Good luck.

~Peace

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Hello and Welcome to the Way of the Emotional Warrior Podcast. My name is Kai Ehnes and today I would like to celebrate with all of you my 1 year podcast anniversary. Woop woop😊)))))))))))

It is hard to believe that we have created 52 episodes. I realize that there are people that do that within a few weeks but one thing that has become abundantly clear for me over the past few years is that you have to believe in yourself. This podcast concept has been the fruit of intention and love. My goal was to share some ideas that I thought would be helpful to other people. The original intention was to talk about insights that would be backed up by neuroscience, philosophy and psychology resulting in an ever expanding set of tools for people to be able to uplevel their lives.

As with anything, one has to be ready for changes, some resulting from opportunities and others simple resulting from personal shifts. What has happened in 1 year of podcasting for me is the following:

1. I kept a promise I made with myself and my wife that I would put together a show every single week and that I would do so for the period of 1 year.

a. Done…I am so happy about that. There were weeks where the publishing deadline was encroaching so fast and I could barely get it done in time. Only once did I push it literally until 1 hour prior to publication. Eventually, it all became part of my life and Monday – Tuesday have become podcast days.

2. The different topics I write about have simply been an amazing topic for myself. Having to create an episode means to sift through what’s out there, let truth, science, and common sense pave the way. So, each discussion topic is an area that I have worked with in my own life.

a. Done

3. Reciprocity – My main social media hub in Facebook. Today we achieved a milestone of 6000 followers for the Way of The Emotional Warrior. Some weeks have had more social interaction than others and the lean times certainly made me question if I should continue. However, over the past week, I have begun to set up interviews for the podcast. I am starting to meet amazing people with amazing stories of emotional perseverance and authenticity. I am super excited to see what these interviews will yield.

a. Btw…if any of you feel so inclined, if you have good story about your emotional resilience, send me an email at [email protected]

4. Thank you – I am truly grateful to you for listening to my episodes.

a. My career as a teacher and professor always had people assigned to me. There was always an immediate audience. This is quite different. I had questions if anybody would listen. How would they find me? Are they getting any value from what I am doing? Let’s face it, there is a lot of content online. Why this podcast? Why this man’s ideas?

b. So, Thank you for participating. Due to the internet, this podcast has a global reach. When I look at the metrics, people are joining in from all over the world. That is simply amazing.

5. Promise continued – I will continue creating weekly shows for the next year. With new people jumping in with interviews, the scope of the ideas will get wider and deeper. I am honored and humbled to be able to put forth the Way of the Emotional Warrior.

6. I truly believe that people can live more and more amazing lives with more purpose and more fulfilment. Quality is the name of the game in an authentic life.

I hope you have enjoyed the past year and I look forward to what the next 12 months will bring.

~Peace

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Ep51 Groovy Grooves

Hello and Welcome to the Way of the Emotional Warrior Podcast. My name is Kai Ehnes and today we will be answering the question of:

Are grooves good for us?

Here we go. I heard the following statement: Grooves eventually build walls. These walls will box us in.

Let’s dive into this a little deeper. Grooves happen when we develop patterns. At first the patterns serve us because they create a repetitive set of actions and behaviors that allow us to gain control over our environment. Let’s say that you do the same 10 things every morning before you go to work. Not only do you do the same 10 things but you do them in the same order. Again, it helps us to organize. This way we don’t leave our home forgetting phone, wallet or keys. Oh wait…gotta make sure have our coffee mug filled with its great elixir😊

This may work for a while in terms of repetition giving us the idea that we have control over our environment but eventually you probably feel the following. First, you don’t really want the coffee mug every day or maybe for a day you want to just leave your phone behind. But then this little voice jumps in that says you better not change anything because without saying it, it means that you might lose some of that coveted control. This is how superstitions come into play in our lives.

Here comes the problem…we live in a reality where change is the one constant that is ever present. So, creating a system of repetition that does not take into account change is an inappropriate fit. Of course, every person starts with seeking out constancy but novelty or change have to have room to exist otherwise that incompatibility will create issues with one’s mind.

So back to the grooves quote. If we make those grooves bigger and better then they will create walls. Those walls box us in and we get stunted and live unfulfilled lives.

We have between 60 to 70 thousand thoughts per day and over 90% of those thoughts are repeated every day. This repetition serves us for a while but we can’t grow.

Let’s use the analogy of a staircase. Let’s say there are 20 steps then there is a landing, then it takes a turn and there are 20 more steps yielding another landing. For our situation, the landings are where we are making and expanding our grooves. The stairs are our growth and development. Can you see that there are more stairs than landings and therefore we should spend mor time expanding with novelties and less time on the landings creating grooves that eventually blind us to looking for the next set of ascending steps?

When I was younger I firmly believed in the creation of grooves in my life. Repetition let me become ok with overwhelming environments. For a while I believed that was the pinnacle of it all. The perfectly executed set of tasks in a week made for an amazing week. But as with everything in life, I found myself bored. I would wake up and know what I had to do. It was all planned out and made sense. Heck it was my own plan. Why would I be bored with my own plan? Answer, I had no clue how the ways and laws of the universe actually operated. I had studied people who knew how to create and execute amazing plans. I got really good at executing those successful plans. But something was missing. I felt ridiculous about how that played out. I was fortunate to have the plans in place how dare I be bored at some level?

I realized on some plane that life could blow up all my plans rather easily and if did not want things to blow up and disintegrate then I had to make forward moving plans. So, I embraced the fact that there is change. It was quite difficult.

However, with time allowing for change and embracing it gave me new insight into the process. I learned that I could steer some of the change instead of waiting for things to get crazy. This little bit of steering change is lawful and has allowed me to climb some new steps on the never ending staircase. Don’t get me wrong, the landings...

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Ep50 What’s Your State?

Hello and Welcome to the Way of the Emotional Warrior Podcast. My name is Kai Ehnes and today we will be answering the question of: What’s exactly is your state?

What am I talking about when I say state? It is your current state of consciousness. What are you thinking, what are you feeling, what are you experiencing? All of these make up your state of consciousness.

Let’s set the context, as I have said in previous episodes, our brain is hard wired for our survival. It has a large portion of its centers dedicated to noticing and sending awareness signals of changes in the environment that could cause us harm.

Having said that, it means that our brain can quite often determine our state of consciousness by focusing on a narrow sector of information. This causes a massive reaction in our system to respond to that danger signal. We respond with fear, anxiety, concern, confusion etc…

A perfect example of this was the book/movie War of the Worlds. A perceived attack by invaders from Mars caused a mass panic reaction by people who believed the radio program. It turns out that it was a made up story but that was only after people had heard about it and responded to it. Those who reacted thought it was probably their last day to live and made their perceptions into reactions. Come to find out the next day that it was all a hoax.

Point of this is that people lost their grip. Panic and mayhem ensued. The environment took over peoples’ minds and reactions.

When it comes to our own state of consciousness, you can see that it can get hijacked rather quickly with fear and anxiety based on the events in our environment. So what can we do about it? How can we be emotional warriors?

Let’s look at the 3 parts of our consciousness. There is a subconscious, conscious, and superconscious. Each has its own purpose, yet all 3 happen at the same time inside or of our being. The subconscious is like an engine. Think of your car, the engine runs and performs but without any direction. Then we have the conscious mind. Its job is to see the present. Of course that is usually problem based. Poverty, war, disease, economic issues etc…

This means that if the subconscious needs direction, you probably don’t want those orders coming from the conscious mind. Then from where should they come? Well, there is the superconscious mind. It is your own internal higher intelligence. It can be called divine intelligence, connection to source etc…point is, you have access to it. This is the place from where you are a creator. Imagine for a second that your state of consciousness becomes one of creation and those become the directives for that massive subconscious engine.

It becomes a bypass of the craziness we see every day. Of course you will still monitor the present so that you can function but you are pulled out of the same old same old routine that minimizes our life experience into one of creation and excitement.

So let’s look at this state mentioned earlier. How do you access it when we so entangled in the news of the day?

Picture the following: you are in your usual state of mind and your phone rings. You are told that you won a million dollars. You are instantly excited, nervous, start to do the happy dance etc..

Amazing right?

Can you see how altered your state of consciousness in an instant? Yes, there was a change in the environment but you did the changing internally. That is how you change your state. You can practice this through visualizations, meditation, mind practice anything that let’s you fully experience a shift in your state. You have to be in that state. So in reality it becomes a state of being.

It is in this state that you get to create. You get to practice being in a state that is actually something you desire. Let’s say you want to lose 5 lbs. You have to become that weight in your mind. If and only if every negative thought that is an interference is removed will you actually be in

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Ep49 Say It Isn’t So

Hello and Welcome to the Way of the Emotional Warrior Podcast. My name is Kai Ehnes and today we will be answering the question of: Do most people really Not want to be Happy?

When I first saw this, I thought I simply read too fast and made a mistake. After double checking, the statement really said People Do Not want to be happy…well time to take a deeper look.

On a podcast episode by economist Tyler Cowen, he interviewed the 2002 Nobel Prize winner in economics, Cognitive Psychologist Daniel Kahneman. He contends that happiness and satisfaction are uniquely different. Happiness is a momentary experience that comes about impromptu and is temporary. Meanwhile, satisfaction lasts longer rooted in achieving goals and building the life you are proud of.

Ok…I can see that. In either case these are feelings or emotions. If we pursue everyday, the feel-good or happy emotions then that will set a certain set of priorities into motion. Maybe you skip work and go and do some things that feel good in that moment. Maybe you simply go shopping online because it allows you to temporarily feel good because of mundane repetition in a job that pays the bills. In either case, what you find is that the happiness you thought was yours, disappears as fast as it came. Now you have to go back to your baseline. This means that you sort of live a drab non stimulating life unless you inject moments of happiness. Wow…was Kierkegaard right?

According to Kahneman, “Altogether, I don’t think that people maximize happiness in that sense…this doesn’t seem to be what people want to do. They actually want to maximize their satisfaction with themselves and with their lives. And that leads in completely different directions than the maximization of happiness.”

Instead, he argues that satisfaction is based mostly on comparisons. “Life satisfaction is connected to a large degree to social yardsticks–achieving goals, meeting expectations.”

What about money? “He says it has a significant influence on life satisfaction, whereas happiness is affected by money only when funds are lacking. The lack creates suffering, but once you have above a certain income level that satisfies our basic needs, wealth doesn’t increase happiness. The graph is surprisingly flat”

Kahneman adds that memory is important in this process. Happiness is elusive because a lot of it simply never gets registered in long term memory.

Have you ever experienced a great moment and wish you could somehow preserve it? Maybe you run to get your camera but by the time you get it, the moment is over. Maybe it simply can not be captured by the camera the way your consciousness does.

Satisfaction on the other hand is the ongoing story of our lives. We add pieces to the story ongoing. We tell our story to ourselves and others throughout our entire life. Of course we tell the story quite often to elicit some sort of response. How often do you tell about an event in order to get sympathy? Do you notice that you slightly tell the story a different way to get noticed?

So when do we feel this elusive happiness? We feel happiness primarily in the company of others, Kahneman argues. So back to that wonderful moment you were experiencing. If no one else is around simply enjoy how special it is. Don’t do anything other than absorb it, soak it in, enjoy it. Then if you want, you can tell someone about it. Both moments will let you feel happy.

Enough happy moments will let you build a life that works for you and now your life’s story adds experiences of satisfaction. You will become way more fun to be around which means better interactions with others which leads to more life satisfaction.

Good luck with your journey.

~Peace

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Ep48 Let Go My Ego

Hello and Welcome to the Way of the Emotional Warrior Podcast. My name is Kai Ehnes and today we will be answering the question of: Are you doing things in your life because of Ego?

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you had a plan. You thought it through and it not only makes sense but is aligned for you in all areas of your life. You are fully ready to proceed. Maybe you even get started.

Let’s assume for a second that you have already worked your way through the “doubts” phase where you had to truly muster all of your power to fight your way through the self doubt and external criticism from others. As if that wasn’t difficult enough you get something coming out of nowhere. Maybe its an offer or simply an opportunity that seems and sounds absolutely incredible. Its as if someone studied your personality and tailor fit an invitation for you. Now you are tempted or might I even say hooked. The new situation reels you in like a fish on a hook. You simply can’t help yourself, it seems oh so right and now all your energies get hijacked and you are off to doing something very different than th plan and track you were on just recently.

So, you deep dive into the new adventure. Your ego or self feels so good. Maybe it’s a certain title that would make you feel like you are better than before. Maybe its more money or some sort of materialistic treasure. You can paint your own version of this.

The problem is that your ego got the best of the entire you. Now you get dragged in all kinds of directions and said and done, you are back to where you were before you found yourself and made your own great plan. In the brain, the feel good centers get activated and you feel so good that you almost become entranced.

The neuroscience on this is varied. Some claim there is a self that is not so much a thing but moreso a process. Others say that the entire idea of self is simply not real. For example:

Jerome Kagan, Ph.D., professor emeritus of psychology at Harvard says, "Ego doesn't exist in the brain," What does exist, he explains, is a brain circuit that controls the intrusiveness of feelings of self-doubt and anxiety, which can modulate self-confidence.”

Antonio Damasio, an eminent neuroscientist, says in his book, Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain: “The answers are unequivocal. There is indeed a self, but it is a process, not a thing, and the process is present at all times when we are presumed to be conscious. We can consider the self process from two vantage points. One is the vantage point of an observer appreciating a dynamic object … The other vantage point is that of the self as knower”

Time to be an Emotional Warrior. Was your original plan heart based and created by you? Let’s go with yes. Was your plan about happiness, growth and fulfillment? Yes. Did you work through the process of taking the ego out of the question which is why your plan was true and authentic for you? Yes. Were you happy doing what you were doing? Yes. The list probably goes on and on.

So if there are all these yes answers, how did you get hijacked so easily by something that approached your ego?

The ego, may not exist as a thing but it is linked to our survival brain. Time to transcend and live like a warrior that knows how to be present and move their energy forward becoming a creator of their own future.

Until you get comfortable with the process, ask yourself a lot whether something is ego or authentically you. As time passes you will become stronger in your stance and become that heart based and resilient Emotional Warrior.

Good luck.

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Ep47 Who Am I…I Am

Hello and Welcome to the Way of the Emotional Warrior Podcast. My name is Kai Ehnes and today we will be answering the question of: How can I know who I am?

There two states we find ourselves in. The doubting state is when we ask Who am I? It is a state of discovery, questioning, wanting to expand and explore. It is an expanding state of consciousness and being. It certainly makes sense that when we challenge ourselves that we have to get out of the circle and rhythm of what we know. So we stop, it may be out of boredom or actual curiosity but we stop and send out a beckoning to call to the universe, please tell me or help me figure out who I am.

Of course now comes the issue of the answer that we get. It becomes clear what the answer is when you find yourself being able to say “I am” this, that, or the other. The answer will be a resounding spiritual awareness of a new part of yourself. It is spiritual and not material. Take the statement I am rich. This is less about material wealth as much as it is about spiritual wealth.

There will be an energy that is a part of this resounding “I am” which is the emotional component. Think of it as boost in energy. This new energy is the new vibrational level you get to experience. This boost in energy is what is needed for you to live your new life.

Consider how amazing it is that we have this built in system. Many people live very repetitive lives of repetition and become staunch defenders of the status quo. For those of us who like growth and expansion, we find ourselves with a built in mechanism that allows us to send the energetic question of Who am I and are guaranteed an answer that can help us to make conscious our true purpose for being here. This is a very large part of the human experience, to not only find our purpose but to manifest our participation into this world. Of course, with some time, a new twist or even altogether new purpose will emerge, but we can only work through so much at any given time.

So how do we know that the answer has come our way? It requires you to be aware. There is constant communication between the spirit plane and you. Just quiet down a bit. Maybe put down all the electronics and just observe. Like a lightbulb, all of the sudden your awareness will switch on. Once you notice it, you will find that it becomes part of who you are. Now, can you see that you have a new version of the “I am…”

We learn in state of neutrality. When you asl the question, Who am I/ you enter this neutrality. You have left the victim mindset and want to move forward. It is guaranteed by spiritual law that you will be answered. The only thing left is to open yourself up to receive the input.

Emotional Warriors understand this. They do not spend a long amount of time in darkness because that is not where they learn. They aim for neutrality so that they can work on their new level of consciousness. Its really not about controlling emotions but rather to use the energy to enlighten the heart and mind.

If you want a tool to help to facilitate this, do the breathing for heart mind coherence. With your grid in coherence you will adjust your system to notice the answers you are seeking.

I wish you the best with this process. It is truly wonderful to be able to know and shout the answer to your personal Who am I?

Good luck.

~Peace

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Ep46 Frontier Pragmatism

Hello and Welcome to the Way of the Emotional Warrior Podcast. My name is Kai Ehnes and today we will be answering the question of: Is it worth being a Frontier Pragmatist?

Pragmatic…Probably a term you have heard of at some point. There is quite a bit of debate over what it ultimately means but I think one way to look at pragmatism is as being practical, in the here and now. One explanation is that words and thoughts are not in themselves an exact version of reality. That means that words and thoughts moreso are a tool to be used to get something done. Let’s try an example. You do something the best that you can. Someone you respect tells you that you did a “good Job.” On one hand this could mean that there is a clear cut definition and standard of what a good job is. Of your performance matched or exceeded that then you actually did a “good job. Pragmatists would use the word for several purposes. Of course it would mean that your performance was acceptable. But it also probably means that the person who is evaluating your performance wants to support you and entice you to improve. So, the idea of “good job” means, you did well, and you can find some places to improve and there fore carries an emotional intention that serves expediency in the moment.

I realize that this is wordy but let me transition to the Way of the Emotional Warrior. A Frontier Pragmatist is someone who sees the world as it is and not how they want it to be. Its about getting something done now. It gets forward moving action and energy flowing. The other side to this idea is living in the world of ideals. Don’t misunderstand this subtle point here. There is great merit to idealism, there is beauty in the pure ideals of something absolute. The difficulty is that it can lead to stuck or stalled out energy. Example: How can you really know that you have found absolute truth? The search may never end. However, it doesn’t help to give up. Idealism is a wonderful part of how you view the world.

The Frontier Pragmatist thinks in the Now. The added term of Frontier to Pragmatist leads to the idea of self-reliance. The great U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes embraced this thinking in his view of Common Law decisions. Holmes meant it as the name for everything that arises out of the interaction of the human organism with the environment: beliefs, sentiments, customs, values, prejudices--what he called "the felt necessities of the time."

If a law is so absolute that it does not serve the decency of the community then what good is it?

Think of common sense. For the best of the community.

One of the Emotional Warrior pillars is neuroscience and this case it not so much about the workings of the brain but moreso the prospects of a neuroscientifically-informed pragmatism and a pragmatically-informed neuroscience on issues ranging from the nature of mental life to the implications of neuroscience for education and ethics.

How does this help us as Emotional Warriors?

As we uplevel our emotional vibration we have to consider that we will need to reevaluate the ethics and education that are necessary for human interaction on those new levels. Think of this way, there is the letter of the law and then there is the spirit of the law. Frontier Pragmatists operate on behalf of the spirit of the community and the environment we all live in. It’s a combination of both sides. Emotional Warriors become Cutting Edge Pragmatists. They use their ideals to set the direction of their life compass and then live their day to day seeing their world the way it actually is in order to get things done in the Now.

To me this means that we have to think and live sustainably. Guiding principles include: balance, perspective and fairness. We work together to exist the best way we can with each other and within the laws of the world we live in.

Are there any tools we can glean from this topic? We can look to those people that