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What if the world isn’t the way you think it is?
What if the world isn’t the way you think it is?
One of the first things I notice when I begin working with someone is not their behaviour.
It’s their beliefs.
Because long before we change what we do, we need to understand the invisible map we’re using to navigate life.
Most of us assume that we see the world as it really is. We assume our thoughts, reactions and interpretations are simply “the truth.” Yet modern neuroscience, psychology and evolutionary theory all suggest something rather different. We don’t experience reality directly. We experience our model of reality.
As children, this makes perfect sense. During our early years our brains spend much more time in slower theta brainwave states, allowing us to absorb information rapidly. We learn from our parents, teachers, culture and experiences without questioning very much. Those early patterns become the foundations of our subconscious mind.
The problem is that many of those maps were created by a child trying to make sense of the world. Years later we’re still navigating life with them.
Carl Friston’s Free Energy Principle proposes that living systems continually make predictions about the world, updating those predictions through experience in order to minimise surprise and maintain stability. In other words, your brain isn’t passively observing reality—it’s constantly predicting it.
Donald Hoffman’s work reaches a similarly fascinating conclusion from a different direction. Using mathematical models from evolutionary theory, he argues that natural selection favours perceptions that help us survive, not perceptions that reveal objective reality. From that perspective, seeing the world exactly as it is would offer no evolutionary advantage.
Even without the science, it’s obvious that our experience is limited. We see only a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum. We hear only a narrow band of sound frequencies. Our senses are wonderfully adapted for survival, but they don’t capture the whole picture.
Take the mantis shrimp. While humans typically have three types of colour receptors, mantis shrimp possess around 12 to 16 different photoreceptor types, allowing them to detect aspects of light we cannot even imagine.
Our experience of reality is only one version of what’s available. This matters because it gives us something incredibly valuable.
Choice.
If our experience is constructed through prediction, perception and interpretation, then many of the stories we tell ourselves are not fixed truths. They’re simply the current model our mind has built.
When someone tells me, “I’m not confident,” “I’m not good enough,” “People always reject me,” or “This is just who I am,” I’m less interested in whether it’s true than in asking: According to which map?
Sometimes all it takes is a single thought experiment or a different perspective for an old belief to loosen its grip. The facts haven’t changed. The person has. And from that point, their behaviour often changes naturally. This is where identity becomes so important.
Many people unknowingly confuse identity with habit.
“I am anxious.”
“I am an entrepreneur.”
“I am the responsible one.”
“I am the people pleaser.”
But these are often roles we’ve repeated for so long that they begin to feel permanent. They aren’t.
Identity is far more flexible than most people realise. Once we understand that our internal maps can change, we also discover that who we believe ourselves to be can evolve. We don’t have to remain the person our childhood, our culture or our past experiences taught us to become. We can consciously choose who we want to be in this season of our lives. For me, this also changes how we think about purpose.
I don’t believe purpose is something we have to spend a lifetime searching for. I believe our purpose is wonderfully simple. It is to experience life. The joy. The uncertainty. The relationships. The challenges. The successes. The grief. The wonder.
When we stop mistaking our subconscious maps for reality itself, life opens up. We become more curious than certain. More flexible than rigid. More intentional than automatic. And perhaps that’s where real freedom begins—not by changing the world around us, but by recognising that we have far more choice in how we experience it than we ever imagined.
Learn more about the layers of mind over at my YouTube channel.
∞ Buy my book TURBULENCE
∞ Follow me on YouTube for lots of enlightening conversations.
∞ If you want help in with changing the patterns of your subconscious mind you can explore MindScript. A personalised self hypnosis app developed by me from my clinical framwork.
The Identity Gap After Success
Most founders prepare extensively for the sale. Valuations, structure, legal frameworks, timelines. Very few prepare for what happens psychologically once the deal is done, and how that internal shift begins to ripple outward into every area of life.
That gap in preparation has a name. I call it an identity gap. And it is one of the most significant and least discussed transitions a high-performing person can face.
What Do I Want?
It sounds like the simplest question in the world.
Founders are exceptionally good at knowing what they want. They have spent years proving it. The drive, the build, the exit. These are not the actions of people who lack direction. And yet. When the deal closes, this question arrives in a form that is genuinely unfamiliar. The reason is that it is not one question. It is three. And each one lives at a different level of mind.
The First Level: The Conscious Mind
The conscious mind has an answer ready. It is fast and confident. A new venture. A portfolio. Time with family. Something to move toward. This is the navigator. The strategic, analytical part of the mind that sets direction and executes plans.
Founders are exceptionally skilled here. It is where they have lived for years. The answer at this level feels like clarity. It is often the beginning of the real question.
The Second Level: The Subconscious
Below the conscious mind sit the patterns. The beliefs formed early in life about what success means. What safety looks like. What you have to achieve in order to be enough. Most successful founders build companies through a combination of vision, creativity, intelligence, and ego-driven striving.
The drive to be recognised. To provide. To prove. To get there before someone else does. The ego is a fire starter. It is one of the most powerful motivators a human being has. It builds companies.
The trap is not the ego itself. The trap is the unawareness of it.
Ego wants are conditional. When I have this, I will be satisfied. When I achieve that, I will feel complete. The exit was supposed to deliver that feeling. For many founders it does. For a while. Then the wanting returns. And it is asking something different.
The Third Level: The Deeper Psyche
This deeper psyche does not communicate through language in the way the conscious mind does. It speaks more symbolically. Through synchronicities. Unexpected opportunities. Recurring themes. Intuition. A persistent sense that something deeper is trying to emerge. And when ignored for long enough, often through suffering itself.
The founders who struggle most are often the ones most skilled at overriding these signals and redirecting themselves toward the next objective.
Carl Jung described life as having two halves. The first half is for carving your place in the world. Building. Achieving. Establishing. Earning recognition. Providing for those you love. Most driven people answer that call with everything they have.
The second half of life asks different questions. Purpose speaks louder. Meaning becomes harder to ignore. The external markers of success are still present, but they satisfy differently. Sometimes they do not satisfy at all.
The founders who get into the most difficulty are the ones who try to outrun this shift. Who close the deal and immediately seek the next object for the ego to pursue. Another company. Another acquisition. Another milestone. An endurance fixation.
There is a principle I return to often in this work: “You can never have enough of what you do not need.”
No exit resolves a wanting that was never actually about the exit.
Asked at this third level, “What do I want?” requires a different kind of honesty. And a different kind of preparation.
Damian’s Story
Damian Tunney sold his company and kept moving. He came to me looking for a co-pilot. Someone to sit alongside the transition and make sure that what he said he wanted and what he was actually doing remained the same thing. The wobbles, the blind spots, the productivity distractions that feel entirely reasonable from the inside, part of my job is to mirror those back in a way that resonates and allow space for insight.
Damian was sharp, commercially experienced, and self-aware. He already had a name for what he wanted to build next. The challenge was the gap between knowing and doing. Stepping into the unfamiliar and uncomfortable spaces, physically and psychologically, that the vision required.
What do I want, asked honestly, was present at all three levels. The conscious mind had a clear answer. The subconscious was running patterns that belonged to the previous chapter. And underneath both, a genuine wanting had been present for years, waiting for the right conditions to surface.
Those layers became visible over the months we worked together. The values and qualities that were genuinely his, deal maker, connector, strategist, playful adventurer, became the foundation the next chapter was built from.
Futures Club, the business he is now creating, reflects what life was asking. Not just what the ego had been answering.
Three to six months of work with me is usually enough. The goal is never dependency. When the internal navigation system has been recalibrated, the founder flies their own course.
Damian is doing exactly that.
‘Working with Jo gave me the space most founders never give themselves: to challenge old beliefs, confront the fears underneath success, and consciously design what came next.’ – Damian Tunney, Founder & Strategic Advisor, Futures Club
What Preparation Actually Looks Like
The founders who navigate this transition well do the internal work. If you don’t do the internal work you may just get to learn “the unteachable lesson of life” and that’s a whole different article.
So alongside all the legal preparation and timelines they examine what has been driving the build. What the success was actually for. Which level of mind has been running the show. What the second half of life is beginning to ask that the first half never had to.
This work begins with understanding the levels of mind then bringing awareness to them. It changes the quality of decisions made during the sale process, the clarity available in the aftermath, and the coherence of whatever comes next.
The question “what do I want” is simple. The layers underneath it are what few people actually prepare for.
Learn more about the layers of mind over at my YouTube channel.
∞ Buy my book TURBULENCE
∞ Follow me on YouTube for lots of enlightening conversations.
∞ If you want help in with changing the patterns of your subconscious mind you can explore MindScript. A personalised self hypnosis app developed by me from my clinical framwork.
Why You Don’t Do What You Say You Want To Do
Three years ago I became slightly obsessed with a question. Why do people not do what they say they want to do? Myself included.
Eating better. Drinking less. Exercising. Starting a project. Sometimes just keeping appointments and showing up for things they planned. The intentions were real and I felt committed but then it fizzled.
Before the work I am doing now, a portion of my clinical practice focused on dependencies. Binge eating and alcohol specifically, because I could relate to them. What my patients and my training consistently showed me was this: it was never about what someone was dependent on. Some people eradicated one dependency only to have it replaced by another. The problem was always what sat underneath. What discomfort or pain was being numbed. What was being made bearable.
That became my entry point into the bigger question. To understand what was really driving behaviour, I needed to look beneath the surface, at what was happening subconsciously.
The Navigator, the Maps, and the Territory
I use this metaphor to explain the different levels of mind. The mind operates across layers: conscious awareness, subconscious processes, the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. These are not located in the brain. The brain is the biological interface that processes and transmits signals. It is not the origin of mind.
The conscious mind is the navigator. It decides direction, it is logical and deliberate. The subconscious mind is the maps. Patterns and processes built from experience, belief, social conditioning, and culture, it’s habitual. The non-conscious is the territory itself. The full expanse of what is possible. Autonomous and primordial.
When each level is doing its job and all three are aligned, there is coherence. Action becomes consistent. Resistance drops. Decisions are clearer, even difficult ones. And when that alignment is present, the non-conscious has space to surface, bringing insight and opportunity you could not have manufactured.
Doing what you say you want to do becomes consistent. Not always effortless, but doable and not a battle.
The Trap: Two Kinds of Wanting
Here is where most people get stuck. Myself included.
There are two kinds of wanting and most people cannot tell them apart.
The first comes from the ego. These wants are driven by social pressure, the need for validation, love, acceptance. There is urgency to them. They are usually future-oriented: “when I get this I will be happy” “when I have that I will have enough” “I need to do this now before someone else does”. Ego wants are not inherently bad, they can generate real motivation. They are just not the full picture. Follow them without awareness and life becomes a constant hustle. Because ego wants are not truly yours. They belong to a perceived separate self that believes it is alone and finite and must fight for its place.
The second kind of wanting comes from life itself. It feels intuitive and you are drawn to it like a magnet. It could be the interest that has been with you since childhood, the thing you cannot let go of, the idea that does not make logical sense but when you sit with it, when you allow yourself to entertain it as something you actually can do, it feels like relief, for me it felt like the slow release of a pressure pot, the contraction that gave me decades of digestive issues resulting in two hospital visits expanded. Sometimes “the want” from life itself is so simple and so comfortable that it feels unfamiliar. You want to turn away from it, I couldn’t face mine for a long time. But it stayed and I allowed it in.
These “life wants” are part of why you are here. They are what life has decided it can do through you. From the outside, both can look identical. The same behaviour, the same effort, the same striving but the maps underneath are completely different.
How To Tell The Difference
Ego wants feel hard. Inconsistent. Stressful. When you achieve them they are often unsatisfying, and you find yourself immediately moving to the next target without pause.
Life wants are energising and fulfilling. Supported by synchronicity, by opportunities you could never have planned for. There is satisfaction along the way. Often no defined end goal. You feel nourished in the process itself.
What To Do With This
Pay attention to life. Notice where life is pulling you. What feels stressful, notice what feels exciting. What opportunities are appearing without you forcing them. This is how life communicates.
Bring awareness to what you are doing to please others, what you are doing because you think you should, or what you are doing to keep up with the success you think others are showcasing or what you are doing because you believe it will bring validation. That is ego.
And be careful of the manifesting industry. A billion-dollar machine that has spent decades telling people to visualise harder, affirm louder, and vision-board bigger, without ever asking whether what they are trying to create is actually theirs in the first place.
Where To Start
Awareness first. You now know that two kinds of wanting exist and that the ego can hijack desire while the conscious mind runs with it unchecked. That combination is the recipe for stress, dissatisfaction, and suffering.
Next, understand the layers. Let the conscious mind navigate, knowing that pulls will come from both ego and life. Work on the maps, the subconscious patterns, so they are current and not from childhood and that they reflect what’s actually your true “want”. Question and reframe the beliefs that hold you back.
When your conscious and subconscious minds are aligned, you create space for the non-conscious to move through you. For life to bring insights in a language you can receive. This is where you begin to access clear knowing. Your own claircognizance.
That is when doing what you say you want to do stops being a struggle and starts being natural and you flow with life.
If you’re ready to look at life from a different perspective this is a powerful place to start.
∞ Buy my book TURBULENCE
∞ Follow me on YouTube for lots of enlightening conversations.
∞ If you want help in rewiring the subconscious mind with self hypnosis you might be drawn to MindScript – its revolutionary.
The Realisation That Changed Everything
Our world culture is built on a belief so deeply ingrained that most people never stop to question it. A mind and body confined to the small frame of an individual. Living a short, limited life on a spinning planet.
We’re told that what we see, touch, and feel is real. That it’s all made of matter. Solid, permanent, reliable. But when we believe everything and everyone is confined by space and time, a sense of limitation becomes the default setting. From that perceived limitation, scarcity is born.
Scarcity breeds the need to prove ourselves, to be right, to compete, to hustle. It fuels a world driven by comparison, rivalry, and fear. No wonder we’re exhausted. No wonder the world feels like it’s unravelling. No wonder there is so much conflict and suffering. But what if this individualistic belief isn’t true? What if we’ve misunderstood the nature of reality and we are not separate living things at all. What if there’s another way to live?
When I saw the truth in reality, everything changed
A few years ago, I had a realisation that flipped everything I thought I knew. I saw clearly that I wasn’t a separate self struggling through life. This wasn’t my one shot at being alive. It wasn’t all about achievement, pressure, and what I did between birth and death. Life stopped being something I needed to conquer. It became something I could explore.
To feel. To laugh. To cry.
To rest when I needed to.
To love fully. To be kind to strangers.
To connect deeply with animals, people, and nature.
The challenges didn’t disappear. But I stopped taking them personally and I released the judgement and resistance that I would have once held onto so tightly. Problems stopped defining me. And over time, they lost their power to make me suffer.
Pain is part of life. But suffering? That’s a different story.
Suffering is what we add when we believe the thoughts that tell us we’re broken, unworthy, not safe, or not enough.
Science is catching up with ancient wisdom
For thousands of years, ancient cultures and mystical traditions have pointed to the same truth: We are not what we think we are and there is an underlying connectivity to everyone and everything. Now, in a beautiful full circle, quantum physics is beginning to reveal it too. Matter is neither solid or permanent and there is no “hard problem of consciousness”.
Atoms, the basic building blocks of everything, are 99.999999 percent empty space. What we think of as “solid” is actually energy. Patterns of vibration in invisible fields. Everything we see, touch, and interact with is energy, appearing in a temporary form.
Trillions of atoms come together under the influence of gravity, environment, or a conscious observer, and they form what we call matter. But at the deepest level, it’s not solid. It’s energetic potential and it’s relational.
This means that reality, as we experience it, isn’t fixed. It’s a dynamic dance of perception.
So what does this mean in real life?
It means that everything we experience through our senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell isn’t the full truth. It’s perception. And perception isn’t the same for everyone.
A bat, a bird, a whale, or a frog all experience the same environment completely differently. Even we humans can shift perception dramatically for example, under the influence of psychedelics or altered states.
So if reality is experienced differently, depending on the observer, then what is the world if everything that is experienced is so subjective?
What is it that is constant for all of us? It’s the observer, the awareness of the content of experience.
So, could it be that consciousness isn’t something that arises from the brain, but the field in which all experience happens? “Mind blown?” … I know, stay with me. What if awareness or consciousness is the constant… and everything else arises within it? If that’s true, then we’re not isolated individuals. We are awareness itself, experiencing life through temporary forms. This means we are indeed limitless energetic potential.
That idea may sound vast, but it can be experienced by everyone and have massive positive impact on your everyday life.
When you realise your experience of the world is shaped by your perception, and your perception is not fixed, something powerful opens up. You can question your beliefs!
You can look at the thoughts that have shaped your story and realise they’re not universal truths. They may feel real and that’s ok, feel them, give them space but don’t believe them, don’t let them identify as you.
Beliefs like:
I’m not good enough
I don’t have enough
I’m unlovable
I have to hustle to be worthy
This is my one life to prove myself
When someone dies, I’ve lost them forever
These beliefs are not facts. But we live as though they are. And that illusion keeps us stuck.
Four life changing insights
Living from this new understanding takes time to integrate. But even one glimpse is enough to begin the shift.
Here are four insights that have stayed with me:
Freedom
You are free to question every belief you’ve ever had. And change it.
Meaning
The meaning of life and your purpose becomes simple. It is to experience life. Consciousness experiences itself through form. Through you, through me, through everything. That’s it. You can slow down. Life is not a race. Simply by existing you are fulfilling your life’s purpose.
Limitlessness
You are not a fixed, separate, confined self.
You are not your ego which is a construct of your mind.
The voice of fear, comparison, and shame is not the truth.
And you don’t have to believe it.
Connection
If consciousness is the space in which everything exists, then we are already connected. Not metaphorically, but literally. We are one awareness, appearing in many forms. When you feel that, love becomes the natural response. You don’t have to like everything and everyone. But you can meet life with more compassion, more kindness, more understanding.
This is the realisation that changed everything. And I believe, deep down, it’s one we’re all ready to remember.
If something in you stirred as you read this, trust that.
The journey of self-enquiry doesn’t require you to believe anything blindly. It does not require faith. It simply invites you to look again. To question what you’ve been told. To see what’s actually true, not just for the world, but for you.
My book As Intense As It Gets, It’s Just “Turbulence” offers five practical tools to help you navigate this deeper exploration. One of them, the Awareness Anchor, gently guides you back to your place where enquiry can begin. My book contains a QR code for audio’s that guide you.
If you’re ready to begin, or deepen, your own journey of seeing through the turbulence and returning to your true nature, this is a powerful place to start.
🌀 Buy my book TURBULENCE
And remember:
You don’t need to fix yourself.
You just need to remember who you are.
Overwhelmed By Life’s Turbulence?
Overwhelmed by life’s turbulence? An email arrived today with a question. “What Advice Would You Give to Someone Feeling Overwhelmed by Life’s Challenges and Turbulence Right Now”?
The first thing I would say is: “Welcome to the full spectrum of being human.” There is nothing wrong with you. Nothing lacking. I’m not saying this to be smart or spikey, life for all of us will always be full of challenges and if we don’t have the right awareness, skills and tools we will suffer.
Overwhelm and challenges are not signs of failure. They are part of the human experience, an invitation to growth. Resisting what is happening only amplifies the suffering. Learning to navigate turbulence, however, strengthens you, expands you, and equips you for greater opportunities ahead.
I created A.T.L.A.S specifically for moments like these. A clear set of tools to help you find your way.
1) Awareness Anchor – Expand Your Perspective
Recognise that this is a chapter, not the whole book. Even death is not the end, it’s simply a transition. Whatever you are facing, it will pass. Expand your awareness and notice that your thoughts, feelings, and sensations are transitory. They are not you.
Expand further. Who are you, really. Who are you in deep sleep, when your challenges don’t exist? If they are absent there, they cannot be essential to you. Life has a way of bringing answers in its own time. Trust that, while also staying practical. Use your tools, navigate the turbulence, take small actions, and allow the path to unfold.
2) Thoughts & Feelings – Engage Your Curiosity
Use the power of curiosity to distinguish between thoughts and feelings that serve you and those that don’t. Ask yourself:
• Are these thoughts true? Or are they laced with fear, built on “what ifs” and “if onlys”?
• What would life look like if these thoughts and feelings weren’t true?
• What happens when I set them aside?
Compartmentalise. Let go of what isn’t useful, and move forward with what is.
3) Locus of Control – Own Your Response
Life will throw what it wants at you, but you decide how to respond. We have far more power than we realise to control our inner state. The situation itself is neither good nor bad, it’s the meaning we attach to it that shapes our experience.
Pay attention to where you place blame. Notice what you decide to believe as “truth.” If you want to change your life, you must change the way you think.
Pay attention to where you place blame. Notice what you decide to believe as “truth.” If you want to change your life, you must change the way you think.
4) Adventurous Awakenings – Step Beyond the Known
You are designed to do hard things. You can do hard things.
We’ve all heard stories of people overcoming challenges beyond comprehension; physical, emotional, or psychological. They weren’t superhuman. They were human, just like you. When we step beyond our comfort zone, we discover hidden sources of power we never knew existed. It’s outside our zone of comfort that we expand. Don’t fear the hard things. Embrace them. They are gateways to your next evolution.
We’ve all heard stories of people overcoming challenges beyond comprehension; physical, emotional, or psychological. They weren’t superhuman. They were human, just like you. When we step beyond our comfort zone, we discover hidden sources of power we never knew existed. It’s outside our zone of comfort that we expand. Don’t fear the hard things. Embrace them. They are gateways to your next evolution.
5) Sense of Abundance – Align With What Truly Fulfils You
Your imagination is limitless. You can do anything within your mind, just think of your wildest dreams, or the sensation of flying in a dream. Your mind is infinite.
And yet, you are also housed in a finite human body. The insight? True freedom is found when you integrate both. What if you blended the boundless nature of your mind with the richness of your physical experience? Abundance is not just about what you have, it’s about what you notice.
Ask yourself:
• What does abundance mean to me, right now?
• What truly brings me joy?
• What lights me up?
The more you lean into gratitude for the everyday joys, the magic moments of life, simple interactions, nature, animals, the richness of presence the more freedom and fulfillment you bring into your life.
Final Thoughts
Overwhelm is not a sign of weakness. it’s a sign of growth knocking at your door. By anchoring yourself in awareness, investigating your thoughts, owning your responses, expanding your limits, and aligning with true abundance, you learn to navigate turbulence rather than be consumed by it. And in doing so, you transform not just the moment but yourself.
If this has resonated with you, you may want to grab a copy of my new book: Turbulence – Master The Five Tools Of A.T.L.A.S. It may just transform your LIFE. It transformed mine.
The Root Of All Suffering
To find the answers, you need to know the problem. Most people don’t know the problem.
Most people think the problem is the food, the alcohol, the procrastination, the lack of willpower or determination, the laziness. But these are not the problems—they are the coping mechanisms, the comfort from discomfort.
If we take one step back, we can see that the problem might be the thoughts and feelings we attribute to circumstances. This is a fair assessment because thoughts and feelings are indeed the cause of all psychological suffering. However, we still haven’t landed on the real problem.
Before we unpick this, I’d like to share how I came to realise the importance of knowing the true “problem.” Are you familiar with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams? In the book, a group of super-intelligent beings develop “Deep Thought”, a supercomputer designed to calculate the answer to the ultimate question of life. After 7.5 million years, the computer finally reveals the answer: 42. The problem? Nobody knew the question.
This got me thinking. We can find endless answers to what we think are our problems, but until we know the real problem, the right question to ask, we will spend lifetimes trying to work it out.
So let’s unpick this…
It’s widely recognised in psychology that all psychological suffering is caused by thoughts and feelings. You might disagree when you first hear this, but think about it. Circumstances themselves have no inherent impact, it’s our response to them that carries significance. Even physical pain, though real, is amplified by the thoughts and feelings we attach to it.
For example, after my recent foot surgery, I could choose to focus on the pain: What if it never goes away? What if I can’t run as far as I used to? Or I could acknowledge that my feet are sore, thank them for the hundreds of thousands of miles they’ve carried me, and tell them, We’ll be just fine.
Or let’s revisit March 2020, when COVID halted worldwide travel, putting our travel business in serious financial difficulty. We could have suffered by filling our heads with Why is this happening? This is wrong. The decisions being made are unfair. What if the borders don’t open for 12 months? What if we run out of money and have to close the company? Or we could focus on pivoting the business, finding ways to create value, investing in learning new skills, and helping our community.
You get the drift.
It’s the thoughts and feelings we create that cause the suffering—not life itself. When we don’t process these thoughts and feelings, we repress, suppress, vent, or escape from them. They get stuck in us as energy, leading to disease, dysfunction, and even more suffering.
So we seek solutions. We look for help. We look for answers. Some find temporary relief. Some try a holistic approach—yoga, sound healing, acupuncture, meditation, breathwork, exercise and these can help a great deal. Others turn to medication. Some fall into addiction.
So what’s the answer? How do we end the suffering?
To find the answers, we need to know what question to ask, we need to know the actual problem. People have many problems, all unique, yet the patterns are the same. And underlying all of it is the truth: we have forgotten who we really are.
We misidentify ourselves as separate, finite selves, overlooking that we are infinite, powerful beings – human beings, beings having a human experience. Perceiving ourselves to be limited, we don’t feel safe, we don’t feel equipped to deal with life, we feel isolated.
So, the problem is misidentification and the question to ask is “who am I”.
This is not about spirituality or religion, and you don’t need to believe me. I invite you to conduct your own investigation. Because until you know who you really are, no amount of therapy, therapeutics, medication, or hedonism will satisfy you or end your suffering.
Once you discover who you really are, you finally understand what the problem has been all along. From there, you learn new ways to navigate this human experience. You gently align with your true nature, your purpose. You find yourself suffering less and less. Your family and friends start to notice a difference. You light up from the inside. You feel energised. People and circumstances show up serendipitously at the right time to support and inspire you.
If you’re wondering where to begin this investigation, I invite you to read my book, Turbulence: Master the Five Mind Tools of A.T.L.A.S. to Navigate the Storm. We begin with the problem, giving you an anchor, and move on from there—re-mapping your life toward freedom and fulfilment.
Unleash Your Inner Doctor: The 7 Health Lifestyle Needs
Whilst I am grateful for our “healthcare” system in times of acute need. It’s not “health care” it’s sick care. It responds and treats people for sickness. So let’s explore a revolutionary system that transcends the conventional healthcare model, empowering us to flourish in health way beyond our 70’s and 80’s.
Our prevailing lifestyle often follows a familiar cycle – we live without much thought to our well-being until illness strikes. Then, we turn to the healthcare system for a fix, only to resume our routine until the next health setback. But what if there was a way to break free from this cycle and tune in to our own body intelligence ?
At the heart of many chronic diseases lie dysfunctions that manifest as inflammation. This accumulated inflammation, left unchecked, poses a threat to the weakest links within our body. Yet by tapping into our genetic code, capable of treating and repairing any dysfunction within we can activate our own inner doctor.
About 10,000 years ago, the agricultural revolution transformed our way of life. Fast forward to the industrial revolution, and our lifestyle underwent another seismic shift. These abrupt changes challenged our bodies, pushing them beyond their evolutionary design. To unlock our inner doctor, we must align our lifestyle with our body’s original blueprint and genetic code and learn to communicate with our body intelligence.
The 7 Health Lifestyle Needs
Nutrient Richness:
Ensure your body receives all the essential nutrients it needs to fuel optimal functioning. A well-nourished body is better equipped to combat dysfunctions and inflammation.
Frequent Movement:
Embrace the natural rhythm of your body, which evolved to move consistently. Incorporate regular physical activity into your routine to support overall well-being.
Sound Sleep:
Prioritize sufficient, regular, and high-quality sleep. Sleep is not just a restorative process; it’s a vital component in your body’s ability to heal and rejuvenate.
Inner Stillness:
Practice mindfulness, meditation, or other relaxation techniques to fortify your mental and emotional well-being.
Deep Connection:
Recognize the importance of social connections. Nurture meaningful relationships, as they contribute significantly to your overall health and happiness.
Sync with Nature:
Reconnect with your natural environment. Sunlight, gravity, and other elements play a crucial role in maintaining your physical well-being. Sync your lifestyle with the rhythms of nature.
Sense of Joy:
Discover and nurture your joy. Individuals with a sense of joy for everyday life tend to prioritize self-care, fostering a positive impact on their health.
By incorporating these 7 Health Lifestyle Needs into your daily life, you embark on a journey to unlock your inner doctor.
My Holistic Body Reset & Balance Program will guide you in seamlessly incorporating these needs into your daily lifestyle for long-lasting effects. Amidst the overwhelming information about what we should and shouldn’t do, I advocate for the power of simplicity. If you’re ready to transform your health and fitness, book a Discovery Call with me.
I’m excited to connect with you. Jo x
The Nature Of Reality
As human beings we spend the majority of our lives seeking happiness & contentment but this is a futile search that will end in misery.
Happiness is not something that we will “find”. It’s not out there to be purchased in the form of a new house or car, a holiday, or a new pair of shoes. Granted, these things are pretty awesome, but they will only bring short lived happiness and the search will begin again.
Happiness can not be found in anything external because it’s already inside every one of us. We just need to unveil it, remove the layers of conditioning, materialism and trauma and there we find a place of peace and happiness that we can return to anytime we want.
Getting there could not be simpler. You do not need to spend hours every day in meditation, you don’t need to spend a fortune on self development or manifestation courses. You just need to relax, breathe and take a small trip along the direct path of introspection.
So .. am I saying you just need to sit down, breathe and find happiness within you and you will be happy for the rest of your life? Nope. That would be very boring, it’s lovely for about three minutes but then the bliss ends for me. The power comes in the realization itself, when you unveil your true nature which is happiness and peace you can then approach life from a completely different perspective where you have the tools you need to face anything life throws at you. You also unleash a super power.
Prior to this … lets call it an awakening of your true nature you were resisting nature and the universe you were not flowing with it and allowing nature to flow through you, there were many barriers, tension and a feeling of overall struggle.
When you realize the true nature of reality thats when you flow with it. The vibes of the universe and nature nourish you and provide you with everything required to lead a fulfilled life of purpose. Creativity flourishes, your brain clicks into place and performs effortlessly, your body is energized, ideas appear from nowhere, you meet people that bring great opportunities. It’s like magic !
It doesn’t end there. In time you realize that this super power you discovered within you that’s been with you since you were born, this place of happiness where your true nature lives is actually shared with everyone and everything. It’s an infinite consciousness and when you start to realize it in others a profound change occurs because when we recognize in others a similarity to ourself we feel love and we want to be kind to them.
It was this discovery that gave me hope. If human beings can awaken to the nature of reality, if we can find our own true nature, understand and feel that this is shared with all beings, with our environment and all animals, then this is how we stop the degradation of our planet, stop the exploitation of animals and end the conflict between human beings.
Sure, it will take time. But this is hope. The nature of reality is there for us all to unveil.
If you would like to begin your trip along the direct path of introspection I can highly recommend the teachings of Rupert Spira, he will take you there for free, the best teachings cost nothing but curiosity. You can find out more on his YouTube and website.
Intuition: The Communication With True Self
I learned something new today, in truth i learn something new most days but today was a “ohhhhhh thats fun” kinda new thing …. i learned that intuition means “in tuition” a teaching “tuition” coming from within “in”. Isn’t that cool !!!
Intuitive intelligence is our sixth sense and it’s a feeling we receive through the vibration of energy in our subtle body. Many people call it a “gut feeling” some people when asked to touch the place where they feel these vibrations will put their hand on the heart or on their chest. We can call this feeling whatever we want “vibes” “instincts” “senses” … call them anything thats comfortable. Even the most practical minded, non hippie, non spiritual person will admit to having these feelings, even if they only admit it to themselves.
EVERYBODY has intuition, we are born with it and in fact a child’s intuition is stronger than adults and they are more trusting of it than adults. As adults we have been conditioned to pay more attention and trust our practical thinking mind rather than trust our intuition. This thinking mind conditioning will not bring us to our true purpose in life, however accepting, trusting and following our intuitive guidance will most certainly lead us to live the extraordinary life that was meant for us and live it with purpose.
Intuition is the communication of our true self, our spirit, our soul …. you can name it whatever feels comfortable … the important piece of knowledge that we need to understand is that our true self is ALWAYS right and can cope with ANYTHING that is thrown at us. If we deny or fight against our true self (intentionally or unintentionally) we will be mentally and/or physically sick, usually this takes the form of a chronic sickness or illness that doctors have not been able to properly diagnose & resolve, for example IBS, repeated sore throats, urinary problems, fatigue, lack of motivation, eating disorders, sleeping problems, stress, depression and anxiety.
Our true self is connected to everything and everyone on a sub-conscious level that most of us can’t understand yet, but as science catches up with what the ancients have been teaching for years we are starting to see a clearer picture and understand the the role our energy body plays in our health, happiness and life’s direction.
When you begin or continue the journey of strengthening your connection and trusting your intuition that represents your true self WONDERFUL things happen, things that leave you awe struck and even thinking to yourself “if i hadn’t seen this with my own eyes i would not have believed it” …. thing is you don’t need to see things with your own eyes … believe and trust first, listen to your intuition and then just see what happens.
If you would like to learn more about your sixth sense i can highly recommend the teachings of Sonia Choquette. I adore her wisdom & playfulness.
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