In this episode we examine the very human tendency to get caught up in the machinery of our brain's concept driven rigid business plan of how life is supposed to be. If we follow the brain's conditioned "fear algorithm" it leads down a torturous rabbit hole called suffering. When we point more to our G-d given gift of calm and wellbeing, we see what is possible beyond our noisy brains.

Why are we hypersensitive? Who cares. It just is. It’s our neurotype. 

Maybe our hyper-reactivity sometimes is also wrapped in old conditioning or habitual thought that is never examined. It does not matter. 

We don’t behave this way all the time. We are not hypersensitive all the time. When we are not caught up in emotional reactivity we are calm. Focused. Clear. We are not ADHD all the time. When we are not ADHD we are following our own inner guidance. It’s not found in your brain. It’s in the "fearless now."

We are all blessed with an inner guidance system, an inner GPS that (if we allow it to) gently guides us down the river of life. It is pre-installed original equipment at the factory. It is in all of you. If we pay attention to it more. If we don't get distracted and caught up by the convincing noise of the monkey mind. Noise our brain innocently tries to convince us is true. Then one day we see the ridiculousness of the noise. A ridiculous brain trying to convince you to pay attention to it. Why? Because the brain thinks that the noise will keep you safe and help”

We are all blessed with an inner guidance system, an inner GPS that (if we allow it to) gently guides us down the river of life. It is pre-installed original equipment at the factory. It is in all of you. If we pay attention to it more. If we don't get distracted and caught up by the convincing noise of the monkey mind. Noise our brain innocently tries to convince us is true. Then one day we see the ridiculousness of the noise. A ridiculous brain trying to convince you to pay attention to it. Why? Because the brain thinks that the noise will keep you safe and help you survive. That is great if there is a real physical threat like a saber tooth tiger hiding lurking in the shadows and ready to pounce. The real wisdom is getting curious about the noise. Realizing it is not real. Realizing it is all made up. Once we realize this we can pay attention more to our inner wisdom and less to the noise in our heads.

The great pattern interrupter is that quiet space we all drop into naturally but don't pay enough attention to. We are just one thought away from wellbeing. We all get to see there is a quiet and conscious knowing outside of our "caught-upness" of a low mood if we spend a little more time paying attention to the quiet we are all gifted with.

In this we explore a different way of looking at ADHD.

This episode is about the anxious and catastrophic future fantasy thinking inner narrator that is running in our head sometimes and how to make peace with it.

We all have an inner narrator constantly informing us of our outside world.

In this episode I discuss how liberating it is when we stop believing our anxious and sped up thinking and how liberating it is when we stop trying to manage or "fix," judge, or blame the outside world for our temporary low mood.

What if your inner melodrama called head chatter suddenly disappeared? What if I told you you were just one thought away from mental health? Calm? What if I told you you are more than the sum total of that made up bullshit neural movie your mind is currently making up at this very moment? You would tell me I am crazy. Actually your mind's ego is probably judging all of this as we speak. Perhaps it's time to stop listening to your ego fueled intellect?

What if I told you that getting quiet is all you need to get closer to your true nature? Your true nature, a.k.a. wellbeing and calm? What if I told you that you drop in and out of the present moment all day long yet never pay attention to it?

You don’t need resolutions in 2021. All you need is presence. Presence is all you need.

Then you have a chance to find your next job. Your next love. Your next big idea.

The choice is yours...

Wishing you, you, and you in the nosebleed seats a happy and healthy "present" New Year...

Deep down we know it is there. Yet we get distracted. We get enticed. We get addicted. Addicted to the neural adjenou of stressed out thinking. Judgmental and critical habitual thought. Wrapped up in a neat and fancy Tiffany gift bag called conditioning.

Then one day it hits us. When we see it. We see it in a brief flicker. A sliver of a moment. Presence. Then we see it more. Happening to us more and more everyday. It's Eckhart Thole's: "the power of now." It's the secret spice. It's where all of your inner wisdom and guidance is hidden.

Feeling out our thinking determines the quality of our thinking. When we are in a low mood, anxious, or overwhelmed (in the moment), it is telling us not to trust our current level of thinking.