In Our Nature

In the first ever episode of the Inner Peace & Other Cool Shit podcast, we're jumping straight into an exploration of how us humans experience life

Have you ever wondered how you experience life? Like, what even is our experience and where does it come from? Are we just at the mercy of whatever crap is thrown at us? Huh? Good news - no we are not.

Come and explore: 

• Why understanding how something wor...

Our lives are a constant stream of thinking.  It could be a good idea to understand the nature of thought, right? In this episode we're looking at the huuuuuge misunderstanding about thoughts which is keeping many of us stuck and miserable. 

Come and explore: 

• How our whole life is made entirely of thought 
• How we think thought works: how it behaves, what it means  
• The true nature of thought is not what we think at all 
• Why un...

Hot news! Feelings are not the complicated phenomena we need to manage,  control, process, heal, or any of that. Feelings are very simple and totally awesome. 

Come and explore: 

• The relationship between our thoughts and our feelings 
• What we think our feelings mean and what we do with them as a result 
• The true meaning of feelings....which is much, much, much simpler and way better for navigating this human life 
• Why understan...

Inner peace. Ahhhh. Sounds nice, huh? Want some? Think you need to do a ton of stuff to get there? Good news: inner peace is already inside, waiting to be rediscovered, and there's nothing for you to DO. But there is something to SEE. 

Come and explore: 

• Where inner peace actually is (um, the clue is in the 'inner', by the way)
• What's in the way of experiencing more peace 
• How we can all experience abo...

Ever heard that little voice inside tell you to do (or not do) something? I bet you ignored it, right? Yep. Me too. Well we need to stop doing that because we all have a cool guidance system to help us traverse life. And we aren't using it, dammit.   

Come and explore: 

• How Every Single Person has an inner guidance system 
• Why so few of us believe or use this (does it sound too woo?) 
• How to get over our hesitation a...

Insight is a brand new, totally fresh experience of thought...and life. They are big and small and loud and quiet and hard and soft and everything in between. They transform the shit out of everything. 

Come and explore: 

• What is insight and why is it so darn awesome? 
• We've all had a billion insights already but probably didn't recognise them 
• How does insight help with anxiety, stress, worry and overthinking? 
• How can we...

If you experience a ton of negative thinking,  catastrophising, ruminating and unwanted comparison and judgement, then congratulations! You have a healthy human brain.

Come and explore: 

• The normal ways a brain behaves 
• Why a brain being a brain is not a problem to be solved 
• How understanding this can transform our relationship to anxiety, worrying and overthinking
• What does Anxious Alice think about a brain being a brain? Is she e...

Hot news: our human minds are designed to settle on their own, completely naturally. But, unfortunately, we mistakenly keep our minds all stirred up and rarely experience this self-calming awesomeness.  

Aren't we silly?

Come and explore: 

• Why it makes perfect sense that a mind calms itself 
• The misunderstandings that stand in our way from experiencing this 
• How to see through these misunderstandings to experience mor...

We all experience low moods. All of us. A lot! But a rubbish mood isn't all that rubbish when we know what's going on 

Come and explore: 

• How low or bad moods are common, totally normal, and don't mean a thing about you 
• The misunderstandings about moods that cause extra suffering 
• How to see moods in a new way to experience more ease 
• We get a peek into Anxious Alice's bad mood 
• Also, come and ride a heavily pumm...

Everything is always changing: out there in the world and inside you. Our thoughts, feelings, moods, perspectives, ideas, emotions, opinions and everything else are constantly on the move. 

Come and explore: 

• Why it SEEMS like we are stuck in life, and how it's actually impossible to actually BE stuck
• How seeing the constantly changing nature of ....every f*cking thing ever!....helps us relate to anxiety, panic and overwhelm ...

Ever heard or read that 'everything you need is inside you' and thought it was a load of crap? Same! But it's actually true. You are full of cool shit. 

Come and explore: 

• How - whaat?! - we actually do have everything we need inside us already
• The pesky misunderstanding that keeps us from seeing this 
• How we can uncover the incredible cool shit that lives within us all by looking at thoughts and feelings in a new w...

If you are like: "yeah, I kinda see anxiety and worry is just a speedy mind but what about when a Real Life Bad Thing Happens?"...then this is the episode for you. 

Come and explore: 

• Bad Things are part of being human and we'll all feel pain (sorry)...but we don't have to suffer 
• What even is a Bad Thing?
• How do we innocently make a thing Bad?
• How to see the nature of experience in a new way to help navigate ti...

Tried all the things to calm your frantic mind but you're still not fixed? Are you earnestly on the lookout for the next tool, technique, strategy or program to be a less f*cked-up human?

Stop! There's nothing you need to do. 

I'm doggy-sitting for this one and you'll hear some considerable tail-thumps. If you're ok with that, then...

Come and explore: 

• Why a tool, technique or strategy looks really compell...

Thought is so much more than our personal, me-me-me thinking. Thought creates our life and understanding this incredible ....energy....thingy....means we can use it to our advantage to have a life of more peace and ease, and less anxiety and stress. 

Sound good?

Come and explore: 

• How - yep! - thought is creating every darn thing 
• How seeing thought on a bigger, more expansive level can help us understand what's going on 
• Learn...

I answer a few of your questions about the stuff we're talking about on the podcast. Y'know, stuff like seeing thoughts and feelings in a new way and how this helps with anxiety and uncovering inner peace and all that. Right?

Come and explore the answers to...

• "But what about when thoughts are true...?
• "I don't have time to let my mind settle"
• "My life sucks!"
• "I'm still not taking a...

If your brain is always hurling itself toward the Worst Possible Outcome with no regard for likelihood, reason or reality, then HIGH FIVE my friend! You have a healthy, normal brain.

Come and explore: 

• How predicting the worst possible thing was a key driver in the evolution of our entire species 
• Catastrophising and doom-forecasting are normal....but totally suck
• Learn about the amazing way us humans are designed to suf...

Gosh, it sure looks like those other humans can make life hard sometimes. It's because of them that we get upset, angry, anxious and annoyed. If they were different, we'd be happier. Right?

Erm, nope. We got that wrong. 

Let's take a fresh look at our relationships and interactions and see if we can all have a nicer time co-existing on Earth. 

Come and explore: 

• The ways in which ALL humans are exactly the ...

Do you suffer from repetitive, ultra-distressing, shit-feeling thoughts? You're not alone, friend. Today we're talking about those peace-stealing intrusive thoughts.  Join me. 

Come and explore: 

• Why we get intrusive thoughts  
• How we innocently keep them in place by adding extra meaning to them (again, innocently)
• How to see intrusive thoughts in a fresh way and find a new freedom
• What a hologram hedge maze and BBQ-fork-w...

If you like the sound of not having to believe your crappy, hurtful, mean and scary thoughts but you want to know for sure that it works this way, or you need 'proof', then this episode is for you. 

Come and explore: 

• How do we know that our shitty thoughts can't be trusted?
• Where's the proof?
• Come to think of it, what is proof?
• The enormous difference that our relationship with our thinking makes in our life 
• How...