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Relief And Release From Anxiety With Maryse Godet Copans

May 1, 2019 By Alexandra Amor

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“ReliefMaryse Godet Copans is a recent graduate of Michael Niell’s SuperCoach Academy and, as she said to me after we finished recording this episode, she LOVES connecting with people. And it shows. I had such a good time chatting with Maryse about her experience with anxiety, traumatic brain injury, and how the Inside-Out understanding has dramatically changed her life for the better, in a way that nothing else has.

In the introduction, I also mention a little dip in energy and enthusiasm that I’m going through at the moment and my thoughts on how transformative these kinds of experiences can be. And also how natural I think they are. I also wrote about this experience in this week’s blog post.

Maryse Godet Copans

Maryse Godet Copans was born and raised in Brussels, Belgium and has been living in New York for the last 25 years. She is a translator by trade, coach and writer by heart these days.

She exprienced a 14 year struggle with anxiety and its many symptoms: lightheadedness, trouble sleeping, hyper sensitivity to noise, dizziness. A long quest to find a peaceful way to be led to trying therapy, yoga, biofeedback, JinShinDo, Emotional Freedom Technique, Somatic experiencing, acupuncture, self-help and spiritual books and programs. It all helped but life became very limited anyway.

In May 2017, Maryse was introduction to the Three Principles and Nicola Bird’s A Little Peace of Mind program. Understanding the transient nature of the human experience and the innate resilience and wisdom at our core has changed everything. Maryse is about to be certified as a transformative coach through Michael Neill’s Supercoach Academy. Life has reopened in amazing ways.

You can find Maryse at Flow-erpower.com

You can listen above or on iTunes or your favorite podcast app or watch the video here. Highlights, notes, resources and full transcript below.

Show Notes

  • The opening up of Maryse’s life since finding the Principles
  • On what causes suffering
  • The difference between accepting anxiety and knowing its temporary nature
  • Maryse’s experience with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and how that has been affected by the Principles
  • The flexibility that comes with the awareness that thought is temporary

Resources mentioned in this episdoe

  • Maryse’s blog post on the shifts in her life
  • Nicola Bird’s A Little Peace of Mind program
  • Website about Sydney Banks
  • Michael Neill’s Supercoach Academy
  • We don’t mention it, but Michael’s book SuperCoach is also great
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Creating Those Around Us Through the Lens of Thought with Jill Whalen

April 17, 2019 By Alexandra Amor

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“doingJill Whalen is an author and coach who explores the Inside Out understanding. In this wide-ranging interview we talk about her book about anxiety and its relation to being innocently caught up in our thinking, as well as how Jill’s relationships to those around her changed as she learned more about the 3 Principles. Her website is a treasure trove of articles and information about this understanding and I highly recommend you check that out.

In the introduction, I mention the wildly creative and beautiful videos that Kate E. Stokes has done about this understanding. They are such an inventive way to explore the inside-out nature of thought. You can learn more and find those videos here. (See if you recognize the voice of the caterpillar in the third video. He might sound familiar.) 😉

And I also share a personal story about my exploration of this understanding as it relates to a situation in my family and my reflections on what the Principles can mean to us during challenging times.

Jill Whalen is the author of the book, Victim of Thought: Seeing Through the Illusion of Anxiety, as well as an inspirational blogger at whatdidyoudowithjill.com. She also has many transformative videos on her YouTube channel, which is YouTube/jillwhalen, and she’s happy to speak with anyone seeking more overall peace of mind.

You can find Jill at whatdidyoudowithjill.com

You can listen above or on iTunes or your favorite podcast app or watch the video here. Below are the show highlights, resources we mention, and full transcript.

Show notes

  • Exploring how our identity changes and how that’s possible
  • On the personal insights that occur when we’re exploring the principles
  • Reflections on addiction around relationships and the insights that changed that
  • How we create an idea of the people in our lives through our thoughts
  • How the principles help the caregivers of those with mental illness

Resources mentioned in this episode

Victim of Thought
  • Jill’s book, Victim of Thought
  • Hay House Radio
  • The 3 Principles movie site
  • The Primal Happiness podcast
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Problem Solving With Less Thinking

April 15, 2019 By Alexandra Amor

When you have a problem that’s bothering you, do you let your thinking get in the way of finding a solution?

“doingI was looking at a post in a Facebook group recently and someone asked a question about a decision she was trying to make. The poster’s husband was going on a trip to a faraway land and he had asked her to go with him. As someone who has been dealing with anxiety for a long time, she wasn’t sure if she should go. The idea of the flight was anxiety-inducing, not to mention the smells, sounds, and chaos of the country they’d be visiting.

She’d been mulling over whether to go or not for some time. Some moments her mind thought it was a good idea; it would stretch her out of her comfort zone, she’d be able to practice traveling with less anxiety. She had been learning about the inside out understanding and knew that her experiences, including anxiety, did not come from circumstances or experiences outside herself. She was also learning that every thought (and resultant feeling) is temporary and that she didn’t need to latch onto them. So maybe it would be a good idea to go on this trip. After all, she’d love to have the adventure with her spouse.

At other moments her mind thought the trip was a terrible idea. She was still dealing with anxiety about driving on highways; a multiple hour flight could potentially make her very uncomfortable. Travel is filled with uncertainty, and this also was anxiety producing for her. What if she had a panic attack on the flight? What if she spoiled her husband’s experience by being nervous about everything he wanted to do?

After grappling with this for a while, her mind going back and forth between how the trip was a good idea and how it contained certain doom, she asked the group for their thoughts on whether she should go or not. 

When I saw her question I thought, “She’s adding more salt to an already salted stew.”

Here’s what I mean by that.

Adding more thinking to a problem doesn’t solve it.

Just like adding more salt to an already salted dish doesn’t make it taste better. But it’s such an easy trap for all of us to fall into.

We all have problem-solving brains, and one mistake we innocently make so often is over using our thinking to solve problems. Adding more thinking to a problem you’ve already thought about from every angle is not going to help fix it. 

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This is where the salted dish metaphor comes in. If you’ve got a dish that you’ve already salted enough (maybe a little too much) adding more salt isn’t going to bring the flavors of that dish into balance.

If you’ve got a problem you’ve already thought about until your head is spinning, adding more thinking isn’t going to solve that problem.

So how do we solve problems?

What if you had access to a completely reliable source where you could always ask your questions and find answers?

Actually, you do have that source. 

At any moment, you have access to the wisdom that flows through everything, the intelligence behind life. Access that your mind tries to convince you it has, but usually it’s just trying to sound smart. 

The next time you’ve got a dilemma, like the one about travel in the example above, try this: set the problem aside. 

The wisdom that you have access to doesn’t come via your stirred up thinking about all the pros and cons and potential benefits or drawbacks.

You’ll know you’re overthinking a problem when your answer or choice doesn’t come with a feeling of peace and you change your mind several times, never feeling like you’ve landed on the right answer. 

Wisdom comes with that feeling of ‘I just know’.

We’ve all had that experience where we ‘just knew’ deep in our gut about a choice we needed to make or the solution to a problem. We’ve all had those moments in the shower when suddenly things seem clear. 

Yet we often innocently persist layering thoughts upon thoughts to try to come up with a solution. And then, sometimes we ask for others’ opinions, as in the travel example above, and this only adds more confusion to the mix. More salt to the already over-salted stew.

Try this the next time you’ve got a choice between A and B, or a problem you don’t know the answer to. Let it go. Your mind might continue to chew on it, and that’s perfectly fine. That’s what minds do. Let it rattle on, like coins in a dryer, knowing that when you know what to do, you’ll know. And if you don’t know what to do yet, don’t do anything. 

Your access to wisdom is always there, 100% of the time. Your thinking will simply try to convince you otherwise. 

Have you had the experience of recognizing the solution to a problem in a moment where your mind is calm or distracted? Please leave your thoughts below and join the conversation.

[Spices and spoons image courtesy Callum Lewis and Unsplash. Stew image courtesy Steve Zeng and Unsplash.]

Uncovery from Eating Disorders, Anxiety and Depression with Amanda Jones

April 10, 2019 By Alexandra Amor

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What if our suffering is pointing us toward a deeper truth about how life works?

“UncoveryAmanda Jones has lived a life! She was a dancer from a young age, but also suffered with eating disorders, anxiety and depression. She’s now a coach and the author of the book Uncovery, which is a beautiful examination of the very human process of recovery from suffering by understanding how thought works. I was thrilled to have a one-on-one coaching call with Amanda in late 2017 when I enrolled in The Little School of Big Change. It was a delight to talk to her again and learn more about her journey.
Amanda Jones

Amanda Jones is a former dancer, current coach and an author who explores a deep understanding of how our experience works. The implications of this understanding uncovered freedom from eating disorders, depression, and anxiety after 25 years. Looking at what is behind the curtain of our experiences has proven to be the end of a lifelong search and Amanda shares this exploration with others to help uncover their true nature.

You can listen above or on iTunes or your favorite podcast app or watch the video here. Highlights, notes, resources and full transcript below.

You can find Amanda at UncoverySpace.com

Show notes

Uncovery by Amanda Jones
  • On what ‘Uncovery’ means to Amanda
  • In recovery, waiting for the other shoe to drop OR feeling finally at peace
  • On how what we think is triggering us, actually isn’t
  • The difference between correlation and causation when it comes to our thoughts
  • How events don’t cause the spiritual energy of thought

Resources mention in this episode

  • Amanda’s book, Uncovery
  • Dr. Amy Johnson
  • The Little School of Big Change
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