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Siddhartha Gautama, also known as the Buddha said, “Life is suffering” and this has become a basic tenet of those who follow him.

“Life is suffering,” kind of a negative perspective, right?

Let’s explore the liberating truth behind this quote from the Buddha and, more importantly, how we can experience the pain of life, let it go, and minimize suffering.

It all comes down to what we ruminate over so join me and we’ll unpack what a cow’s stomach and your mind have in common and how to suffer less starting now.

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What frightens, you?

We all have stuff that scares us and I’m not talking necessarily about an extreme phobia.

I’m talking about little fears that limit you; fears that keep you from living the life you desire.

Today we’re going to talk about the ONLY way to cure phobias, which is also a great way for us to begin to melt away those fears that hold us back.

If you’re ready to face and eliminate your fears, let’s get started now!

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6 months ago, I was feeling lonely and isolated living in a community where less than 10% of owners are full-time residents so I downloaded a dating app to my phone.

I was really nervous and uncertain but I began to open the app and view images and read the bios of women in the age range and lifestyle group I was looking for.

I wasn’t really taking the whole thing very seriously -- certainly not looking to fall in love, so I added another app, and then another, and another….

What I noticed is that most of the women said they were looking for a man with a “good sense of humor” but little do they know…

Being funny is a great attribute but it is also often spawned from having an abusive and/or neglectful childhood.

Humor is a defense mechanism that hides very real wounds.

We all have such mutations -- superpowers that also have a dark side.

Today, let’s stop focussing on the side-effects of your own mutation and begin to celebrate your superpower.

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When you apply for a job you hand (or more likely email) your prospective employer a recap of all your business accomplishments making sure that everything you did is presented in the best light.

This is natural -- it’s just putting your best foot forward.

If you, like most people, struggle with worry or anxiety then I invite you to create a very different kind of resume -- a listing of every BAD thing that’s happened to you.

Then--and this is critical, write out how you handled (or are handling) the major problem.

Writing out your own Life Challenge Resume reminds you of just how powerful, capable, supported, and resourceful you are because you’ve already faced, handled, and moved past things you thought were impossible.

And with that knowledge you realize that there’s really nothing to worry about.

Because whatever shows up, you got it!

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Gertrude Stein famously said words to the effect of, “When you get there, there is no there, there.”

This saying has become so much a part of our culture that I recently heard of a band named No There There.

Have you ever heard this quote?

To me it says that when you live something you anticipate, either something you perceive to be good or you perceive to be bad, it is never quite what you expect.

Moreover, your very presence shifts the dynamic of the experience.

Today, let’s draw comfort from the fact that we change our environment and that nothing is ever as bad as we fear it might be.

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I realized recently that most of my life was spent in anxiety, fear, and worry because I held a negative vision of my future that drove me like mule.

Over time, I began to release my concerns when my focus shifted to being pulled forward by a future that excited rather than taunted me.

If you’re ready to drop your anxiety and worry then this JumpStart will tell you how.

It’s simple, but it’s not easy.

And I have faith in you that you can do it!

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Yesterday's JumpStart received so much engagement I wanted to keep the conversation about anger going because right now there are more angry people than ever before.

In this JumpStart, we explore how anger can show up in many forms including aggressive anger, passive aggressive anger, sadness, and even depression.

The EMOTION of anger is normal; the STATE of anger is not.

Anger is the emotion associated with death AND it's a habitual response in many people.

Discover how to dial back your anger and release the anger sensations in your body.

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Today I want to get personal and talk about this emotion that for so many years ruined my life.

Many of us his children felt our very survival threatened and as a result we have grown up as angry adults.

I thought I was a helpless victim to my own anger not realizing that I could “master the gap.“

There is a gap between an action in your reaction and if you can learn to choose a new reaction you can change your life.

Recognizing the gap is the hard part but once you do you’ll find that you have ample opportunities to make new and better choices.

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I use a commercial photo library called BigStock.

 

It provides me with photographs that I can use in various marketing purposes and what I find interesting is that whenever I put in the word “God“ what is most often presented is the sun breaking through clouds.

 

I get the sun but I don’t understand the clouds.

 

Perhaps, we need darkness to experience light, pain to know healing, and breakdowns so we can have breakthroughs.

 

Today let’s unpack this universal image of God as sunlight breaking through clouds and how we can apply this powerfully to our lives.

 

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A woman I know sent me an email that said, “I’m sorry for all the mean and hurtful things I said to you in the past but I can’t help it, I’m Irish.”

It’s easy to blame our ethnicity, our upbringing, our circumstances, and ANYTHING other than ourselves when we become aggressively angry.

In reality, there is a dial inside each of us that we can control although many of us gave over the management of that dial to our reactive mind long ago.

Today, let’s talk about a two-part strategy for not overreacting in difficult situations:

Mentally talking yourself down off the ledgeBody awareness to experience, breathe through, and release physical sensations

Learn how to dial down your emotions so that you become more e

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