At times it is difficult to barely tolerate our experience when we are in situations or emotions that are challenging, which can trigger us to go into fight or flight mode. Join Robert and Dave as they explore common real-life situations that can be difficult and how to take better care of ourselves in the moment or close to it. Money or personal insecurity, anxiety about the state of the world, or health issues are all topics covered in the podcast. Robert helps us navigate back to the trail of internal caring to reach our best selves and not be frozen or blindly reactive inside when challenging feelings bubble up. We can all too often get stuck in our emotions and not realize that the next hour is important and the next day is important to find ways to be resilient. If we are repeatedly stewing or caught in an emotion, we do not get to the next simple needs, thoughts, actions or qualities that will support us.
When you are facing a terrible situation or even a frustrating inconvenience, how many times are you looking for how to best take care of yourself? How many times does that even come into your awareness or your thoughts? Robert offers an accessible framework to meet difficult situations in the most caring and realistic way possible. What this takes is not only being aware of what we feel but what we need. For anyone new to the show, we invite you to go to AwarenessThatHeals.org and look at The Introspective Guides to help begin to identify your most challenging feelings and beneficial needs. The key is to become more literate to identify your internal experience both what is difficult and what helps. This is an invitation to be exactly as you are in your depths and to be rooting for yourself even though we have been trained to be emotional reactors based on our conditioning in the world. It is such a benefit to realize you can always guide yourself when you remember to ask, "How can I best take care of myself?" This episode will give you guidance to do just that and more.
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