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Mindfulness, Self-Discovery, & Inner Peace with James Pierce
RareErth Podcast
The Importance of Awareness
The problem is that all of these things sound good, right? Who could argue with being healthy about eating right, going to the gym? All that stuff sounds fantastic. And because it sounds fantastic, people assume that they want it and they don't question whether or not they're genuine. When you start exploring your desires, you realize that there's a tremendous difference between something that your mind finds tantalizing and something that really stirs the depths of your soul.
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Speaker 1
So
Speaker 2
it boils down to again understanding how our mind functions boils down to again, coming to awareness of that a step one maybe. Yeah. People like to talk about how
Speaker 1
humans are emotional. We're not rational creatures, but when you actually boil things down, when you can give yourself a very clear view of your situation and you can see whether your behavior makes sense or it doesn't, it's very easy to change. The moment it becomes clear to you that whatever you're doing is not effective, it's completely effortless to change because it makes
Speaker 2
sense. But James, I think I don't know that that is the reality because a lot of us are aware that it probably we're not working out. A lot of us are aware that we're not eating right. We are aware we're seeing that we're not doing that. We know the outcome of that is our energy levels are low and we are not
Speaker 1
functioning optimally. We are aware there's enough information, but still we don't act on it. Yeah, that's because people don't care enough. They're not motivated enough. So it's not an absence of information that is the problem there. It's an absence of motivation. The problem is that all of these things sound good, right? Who could argue with being healthy about eating right, going to the gym? All that stuff sounds fantastic. And because it sounds fantastic, people assume that they want it and they don't question whether or not they're genuine. Yes.
Speaker 2
Okay. Okay. That's a very interesting point James. Yeah. So we blindly think because the world says it is good, we should also probably want it, which may not necessarily be the case for that individual, right? Yeah, exactly. Okay. So it ties back to what we spoke earlier that it again goes into the files of our knowledge base, which is like good to know information and we added that.
Speaker 1
Yeah, it stays on a kind of surface level. When you start exploring your desires, you realize that there's a tremendous difference between something that your mind finds tantalizing and something that really stirs the depths of your soul. There's a big difference between that shiny new car that you think would be cool to have and that vision that you have for your future that you'll do anything to achieve. There's a world of difference between those things. Yeah, I understand. Okay.
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