Absolute Motivation - Overcoming Pain: Lessons for Personal Growth

Episode Date: January 1, 2025

Discover how transforming pain into a learning experience can fuel your journey towards self-improvement. This motivational episode features inspiring speakers who offer insights to help you elevate your life. Stay informed and stay motivated as you explore the paths to personal growth. #motivation #personalgrowth #self-improvement #lifelessons #paintransformation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Because I wouldn't assemble the story that my past equals my future. The past only equals your future if you live there. If you're using a rearview mirror to guide yourself, you're going to crash. So what you've been through is horrific. What you've been through is unjust. I'm on your side. But if you hang on to it, you have no future. And you have no one to blame but yourself.

Free yourself from the chains of your past. In other words, the minute you begin to get external in your life, worrying about what other people think about you, right? You've lost all control, and it never fills you up. People's admiration, people's gratitude towards you will never fill you up. It's your own. It's your own inside. You have a lot of potential as a child, but none of that is capable of manifesting itself as freedom

before you become disciplined. And discipline is a matter of the imposition of order, and the order is necessary, especially for people who are hopeless and nihilistic. And lots of people are hopeless and nihilistic. way more people than you think. And part of that is because no one's ever really encouraged them. You're a life, you're probably never going to exceed your identity. Your identity is the thoughts and concepts that you believe to hold really to be true about yourself.

It is so easy to get lost in the day-to-day grind of what you do, what any of us do, if at the core eyeing you is a deep and unending why for what you're doing, you've got something. Now you've got a chance to transcend what you're doing. Because if you want joy, happiness and freedom, and extraordinary life, it will not come from Blake. Never.

There's no pride that comes from blank. Self-esteem does not come from what people say about you. Self-esteem comes from what you experience about yourself. It's a complete dynamic dance between what the Vedic tradition would call fate and free will. So fate is what is already created for you. created for you and a good example would be the place you were born. The type of family you grew up in, the socioeconomic background you had.

It was already there when you walked into the world. But within that you had choices where your free will came about. You had the choice to either do what everyone in your neighborhood did or to do something different. You had the choice to have a relationship with a particular person or not. So what happens is that we're constant. creating new spaces from which we have another choice. And so you kind of see as this dynamic dance between, okay, now I'm in this situation,

and now what is my choice in this situation? So I would say, I'm not saying it's equal, I'm saying it's a dynamic balance and a switching process where you're constantly creating a new level and then now in that level you have a next choice. You're in service to something higher, and you begin to ask yourself because you've been given every

You're a composite spiritual idea that carries the infinite and ways beyond your wildness imagining. You have to live in the inquiry of what can I give, what can I share, how can I shine, how can I radiate. You have to give up the thought of what can I get from the world. The world has nothing for you at all. There is nothing the world has for you other than an opportunity for you to give, for you to share, for you to serve, for you to radiate, for you to activate your potential. But if you just do your vision every single day, putting one foot in front of the other, committed to your desires. Instead of lack, limitation, fear, doubt, worry, separation, not enoughness, your narrative becomes, I have everything that I need within me. I am surrendered to something larger than my little self.

I am in service to it. That flows through me. Your fear is physical. You feel your throat to your gut. So it's courage. Courage isn't mean you're not afraid. It just means you're strong enough you push through in spite of the fear, right? And courage feels different in the body. So when you go lift or you go for a sprint or a strong run or you jump back to freezing water,

when you push your mind, you go beyond that's comfortable, you feel a strength inside you and that strength will help you to change your body, your emotions, and there's lots of different purposes as you go through your life. But most of you're trying to get that. They haven't even figured out what the hell they're going to do that. They don't even figure out enjoy their life. Your purpose will unfold if you do the right things. It's a hard one for people because we grow up believing that we're not good enough and nothing is right.

When you talk about loving yourself, a lot of people think that that's vanity. If you can recognize that you are a being that has self-worth, if you can really recognize your own worth, then you see, start to treat yourself differently and I think that's what's so very important about loving yourself is you stop beating yourself up you stop making yourself wrong you stop talking about how awful you are and you start to treat yourself with a certain amount of respect and this makes an enormous difference because what you give out in life is what comes back to you so if you're giving out a feeling of I'm okay I'm good enough as I am and I am a acceptable and I love life and I love me and you start having gratitude for yourself and for life

then life treats you differently.