Ep 446: Shaman's Tips For An Amazing 2026, pt.5

Nov 25, 2025

Explore the profound teachings on reclaiming your personal power and the illusions that keep you trapped. Discover how fear and social expectations can lead to a life filled with others' desires instead of your own. Jim emphasizes the need to 'stop your world' to initiate meaningful change. He shares insights on the comfort of familiar pain and how to use daily interruptions as invitations for transformation. With practical tips, you'll learn to silence the inner critic and make choices that align with your true self.

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A Moment That Triggered Change

Jim Fortin recounts sitting with Don Javier and hearing the three-line teaching that triggered deep personal change.
He says that realization hit him emotionally and kicked off a period of crisis and reflection.

INSIGHT

Stop Your World To Transform

True transformation begins by stopping your world and pausing long enough to see how you give your power away.
Jim Fortin reports Don Javier: change your world by changing yourself, and to change yourself you must first stop your world.

INSIGHT

Fear Keeps You Comfortably Stuck

People want change but often refuse the internal changes required, holding onto fear and the safety of the familiar.
Jim Fortin notes most are more comfortable being uncomfortable than uncomfortable enough to evolve their lives.

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Start Your Transformation Now

In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim continues his Shaman’s Tips for an Amazing 2026 series with Part 5, focusing on one of Don Javier’s most powerful teachings: the illusion that keeps you powerless. Building on previous episodes, Jim breaks down how we unknowingly give away our power—bit by bit—to the noise, expectations, and opinions of the world around us.

Jim explains how most people want change but refuse to change themselves, and how true transformation begins when you “stop your world.” Through personal stories, real-life examples, and profound Toltec wisdom, he reveals how fear, external validation, and inherited beliefs create a collage of other people’s expectations—leaving many feeling empty, stuck, or disconnected from their true desires.

If you’re ready to reclaim your intentions, stop living by illusions, and return to your inner power, this episode offers a clear, practical path forward.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

Stopping your world to transform your life (02:10) Jim unpacks Don Javier’s core teaching that all meaningful change begins by pausing long enough to see how you’re giving away your personal power.

Why fear keeps you stuck (05:01) Learn why most people cling to the familiar—even when it’s painful—and how fear of the unknown prevents true evolution.

How you unknowingly give others your power (09:32) Discover the subtle ways you hand over your desires, choices, and direction to the “tribe,” social expectations, and cultural conditioning.

The illusion that shapes your reality (17:28) Jim explains how illusions are nothing more than thoughts—and how invisible, inherited beliefs quietly control your life.

Choice: your greatest spiritual tool (22:44) Explore why choice, not circumstance, determines your freedom, and how remembering this immediately shifts you from victim to creator.

A five-minute practice to reclaim your power (27:40) Jim shares a simple daily exercise for stillness that reconnects you with divine mind, clarity, and your true inner guidance.

Listen, apply, and enjoy!

Transformational Takeaway

To change your world, you must first stop your world. When you pause long enough to see the illusions running your life—old identities, labels, fears, and external expectations—you awaken the power to choose differently. Every moment of silence brings you back to your true self, and from that place, transformation becomes not only possible, but inevitable.

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With gratitude, Jim