Teaching Humanity Remotely with Dr. Mindy Shaw

In this brief but powerful episode, Dr. Shaw begins (and ends) by urging the listener to take responsibility for the choices that we make in our lives.  Sometimes it will take someone else to open our eyes to a bad situation... sometimes, and hopefully more often, we can see the road map that we've laid out for ourselves and take control of where we are in life.  When it's someone else guiding us, it might be because we have a blind spot about a certain person or situation.  Her advice is to pay attention to that other pair of eyes.  The other option is to observe ourselves over and over and over because our awareness and the learning gained from observation can steer us to the best possible choice.  Your choices are up to you... your children's choices are up to them... sometimes it may not feel that way, but that's the reality.  Be motived to make the right choices.

In this brief but insightful episode, Dr. Shaw talks about the concept of how we label ourselves and how it impacts our life.  A "label" could be that you say you have anxiety or that you're phobic about something or any number of things.  When we label ourselves we can often limit our options and limit our growth in life.  Dr. Shaw talks here using illustrative examples and she discusses how to move past the limits that our own self-labels might create for ourselves.

In this brief but fascinating episode, Dr. Shaw connects the dots between the way we all suffer as human beings and the way that we all have preferences.  Some of our preferences get satisfied and others don't, and when we suffer disappointment we suffer in life.  Her suggestion here, using some illustrative examples, is to be more neutral about our preferences... not to the point of living a boring life, but in a way that neutralizes our suffering.  It's a lesson for adults and for our children, and it will take some practice, but it's an approach that can truly eliminate much of our emotional pain.

In this meaningful episode, Dr. Shaw walks us through the importance of not just showing up, but HOW we show up... and more importantly, it's important we we remain open and not be reactionary to what's said to us.  We all have the tendency to defend our actions or defend our position in interpersonal relationships.  But perception is reality, and what someone feels is all that matters.  We must respond to circumstances in a way that correctly matches the understanding of others, and checking for understanding is an important principle in getting that done.  It's all about knowing your audience, noting and marking the common reality of the situation and paying attention to that which allows us to learn and evolve.

In this very personal episode, Dr. Shaw shares one of the topics that is very important to her in manifesting her own personal growth, and that topic is the process involved in breaking away from old habits and developing a new "muscle" in order to evolve.  She describes the process as it works for her, and that process begins with self-observation.  In observing ourselves, we see how we are and we can in turn compare that to how we want to be.  That re-set in our mind is so valuable in creating the path to betterment.  Then, in the course of this podcast, Dr. Shaw outlines the road map for personal transformation.... it begins with intention, focuses on attention, and then we can recalibrate if our old patterns that we observe and that we hold onto don't serve us any longer.