“The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.” - Jim Hightower
We’re born to the world as pure potential – expansive, innocent, untarnished. A blank slate; ready to learn what it means to be human. Without the awareness to fend for ourselves, the next several years are shaped by an external world of hand-me-down belief systems based on the notions of conformity, consumption, compliance, judgment, fear, and indifference. We’re adulterated by beliefs that isolate us from all that matters.
We’re taught to run with the pack, think like the herd, conform to cultural expectations, consume like there’s no tomorrow, and believe everything we’re told by those who perpetuate the status quo.
It’s been said that the indoctrination process is complete by the tender age of five. The unexamined belief systems of a culture in a trance so deeply installed that we become nothing more than the by-products of a consumptive machine. This is the cultural mindset that we’ve collectively normalized. This is status quo. Status quo is a ruthless predator that destroys our souls.
The blind acceptance of what we know in our hearts to be untrue has caused wanton violence, global oppression, rampant greed, rapacious consumption, runaway climate change, dying oceans, and widespread unhappiness.
As we move through life conditioned by parents, teachers, authority figures, religion, media, politics, and culture, our essence is squelched, fragmented, and compartmentalized. We’re taught to hear but not listen; speak but not act; think but not feel. We’re taught to conform, consume, comply. We label, we fear, we judge…we separate.
In a culture with deeply rooted systems that are hell bent on squashing our potential, our greatest life challenge is returning to who we authentically are.
But what if the return to wholeness is easy saying, “no more”? What if, by standing firmly in our truth, we’ve already returned home?
We’re inculcated to believe that life is complex; that we must search for, and create complicated solutions for simple problems. This ensures our demise as we spin around in circles aimlessly searching outside of ourselves for what is desperate to emerge from within. But what if by connecting to our bodies, feeling what is real, telling ourselves the truth, and the simple act of breathing, we’ve made the quantum leap of consciousness that leads us on the path to wholeness?
This week I speak with Naomi Irons and Nancy Hanlon, two powerful women who are passionate about awakening the giant from within each and every one of us. They are both Certified WEL-Systems® CODE Model Coaches™ with a hunger for ongoing expansion.
This week’s conversation is intimate, authentic, wise, and raw. We go deep.
Highlights of this week’s conversation include:
• The ongoing process of reinvention.
• The many versions of our authentic self.
• Fearlessly embracing life.
• Becoming an evolution junkie.
• How heart wisdom and body wisdom are intricately intertwined.
• The differences between female and male power.
• The power in community.
• The 100th monkey effect.
• How the ocean is our connection to life.
• How anger moves mountains.
• Passion is the gateway to courage.
• Action is what leads us out of despair.
• Morning pages (inspired by Julia Cameron).
• How life is best lived with self trust.
• The courage to be different.
• Question everything: the power of critical thought.
• Saying yes to life!
The fires of passion and anger lead us to courage. Never let anyone steal your fire!
SHOW NOTES:
• Roz Savage Coaching website.
• Roz Savage Adventurer website.
• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.
• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron.
• Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan.
• Decloaking and Living Authentically experience November 2-6.
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