Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast

Does your life feel like a performance for an audience that is judging your every decision? Are you "putting on a show" to impress people with the clothes you wear, the car you drive, the home you buy, the spiritual retreats you attend, all in a subconsciously desperate attempt to receive external validation in order to give your life meaning? Posturing can get exhausting and expensive while authenticity is effortless and free. Liberate yourself from the confines of conformity, and notice the difference between appreciating validation and depending on it.

Our reactions to life's ups and downs are so disproportionate, we create our own anguish and then blame other people for it. True mastery starts when we recognize that WE are the problem. If other people easily upset you, the problem isn't other people, it's your short fuse. May no-one and no-thing ever disturb your inner-peace.

This is how I personally cope with general anxiety and dismiss intrusive thoughts.

The difference between Sharing and Complaining, Supporting and Enabling, and how we can maintain a calm composure and peace of mind while listening to other people grumbling about one thing or another.

If you wait until you "feel ready" to make some changes in your life, you'll be waiting forever because "ready" is not a feeling, it's a decision. The way to embrace change instead of resisting it, even though we are wired to avoid what is different, is to stop thinking of change as scary or dangerous, and start getting excited about it (because change is going to happen whether you are ready or not).