Breaking Free to Love What Is // Ep 2

In Flow + On Fire

Strengthening your skills to navigate and work with your own brain and emotions is absolutely crucial for the peaceful life. Doing so truly sets us free, liberating us from being a prisoner of our past and our fears.

In this episode I share a deceptively simple, deeply powerful & life-changing skill to set yourself free & experience peace TODAY.

Yes, that's right... no need to keep trudging through life, or wait for peace once you've finally healed yourself and/or overcome everything (eek!! That's a tough and impossible quest. Been there, done that. No thanks.)

Not only is this skill crazy-simple to learn and apply, it's also completely free.

Now, I know what you're thinking: "it's probably not worth much then."

But that's where you're wrong.

It's all too tempting to believe that the things that will really work are expensive and hard to achieve. We tell ourselves stories about how "if only we had more money, more time, more support, etc." then we'd finally be able to live the life we want and be our best selves.

Spoiler alert: that wouldn't work anyways.

As one of the great Masters alluded to about what actually brings us peace and makes life a lot lighter:

"Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." - Jesus (Matthew 11:28-30)

However, one of the biggest things often missing from western religious experience is actual skills to help us open up to the "lightness" and "easiness" of life.

Why do we need skills?

Because we all arrived here on Earth with these incredibly powerful tools -- like our brain and our body -- and largely have absolutely no idea how to use them. Any competency we have has come mostly from trial and error, as well as what others have told us along the way.

And to make matters even worse, all too often (because it can be pretty intense here) we even start thinking that we ARE our brains and our bodies.

...which just amps up the anxiety, stress & overwhelm even more.

... and makes us think we should do some really crazy, messed up things and shouldn't do some really beautiful, amazing things.

NOOOOOOOO!!!

Think this doesn't apply to you?

Well, let's just ask yourself a little question to see:

What would you be doing right now if you weren't afraid to fail?

... and why aren't you doing that right now? What's holding you back?

You can put the blame on everything and everyone around you, but ultimately, you won't get very far at changing your outer experiences unless you start pointing that finger back around at your own brain.

And YOU, the one who has been believing it.

Our buddy "Webster" defines a skill as:

• The ability to use one's knowledge effectively and readily in execution or performance
• A learned power of doing something competently
• A developed aptitude or ability

One of the most important and life-changing skills we can ever gain here on earth is knowing how to work with our own brains.

>> Enter the incredible work of Byron Katie