The 18 Inch Journey

From this inner knowing comes great wisdom of understanding of the truth of your experience and your nature.

When we look into our hearts, we are able to access that deep wisdom and use it to inform our minds with crucial information it does not receive from the outside world.

It is easy to allow the heart to take a backseat because most of us spend a majority of our lives leading with our brains, preoccupied with the immense amount of stimulus coming from the outside (both good and bad).

We must actively remember to check in and to connect with the heart.

We need the hearts wisdom to help guide us through all of the outside stimulus.

So remind yourself daily, hourly, from moment to moment and ask:

• What is my heart telling me or wanting me to know?

Become best friends, because if anyone has your best interests in mind, it’s your heart!

Self-FULL

Many of you know that I, at one time, had 9 other siblings. And of course, from my Mom’s vantage point, the best version of her children were the ones that weren’t going to be selfish. I was loved when I shared.

I hated sharing with my siblings. Having nothing of my own growing up was quite painful. So as much as I learned to share, I preferred to be selfish, at least that’s what I wanted as a little boy.

In therapy one day the idea of better self-care was bandied about by my therapist. “What would it be like to be more selfish”, my well-intended therapist asked.

I remember starting to cry. Through tear filled eyes I said, “I always thought I wasn’t loved by my Mom when I was selfish.”

It was a story I made up when she busted me for not sharing a block of Hershey’s chocolate a friend of my Dad bought for me.

After getting me re-grounded he gently asked, “If there was term or concept that meant you focusing on you, but you didn’t use the term selfish, what would it be?”

As my eyes lifted to meet his, I began to smile. “What about self-FULL? Would that work?”

Like any good therapist worth their salt he asked, “Would that work for you?” “Hell yes!”, I said.

In today’s podcast I want to breathe some energy into the concept of being self-full.

I’ll also share 6 reasons why living “SELF-FULL” is incredibly generous.

BADASS ANCESTORS

James Nasymth shares this wisdom, “Our history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, & our ancestors virtually live in us.”

We are part of a lineage, a stream of intention and creation whose fountain springs from our ancestors.

Their lives have been lived and completed with a beginning-middle-end. And yet, something of them lives within each of us.

I feel compelled to include my ancestors as subject matter for this podcast & in doing so I’m inviting you to call your ancestors forward to listen with you today.

Their forces have had a hand in shaping us. It’s a beautiful idea, to see ourselves as a stream, as a lineage, and important to remember and honor those who came before us.

This podcast is being recorded in Honolulu, Hawaii. I acknowledge that the unceded ‘Āina, or land, in which I live, called Kakaako, is part of the larger territory recognized by Kānaka Maoli, or indigenous Hawaiians. I'm honored and grateful to be a guest of the Hawaiian Kingdom.