EP 655: How to Prioritize Awareness Over Winning (And why it's better than it sounds!)

I’m very grateful for the opportunity to record the rare Sunday episode! I feel like I saw a rare bird or something. Yesterday, we covered the concept that Alan Watts spoke about in his quote: “Stop measuring your days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.” Today, someone left a comment that she’d been ‘fighting’ with this all morning. And that notion of fighting our internal conflicts inspired me to make this episode today. In short, fighting, which demands there be a winner AND a loser, makes us operate from fear and causes stress, moves us further away from the present moment. But it is also important to recognize that before anything can be changed, we must first bring awareness to the problem or issue. And in many cases, it is the awareness alone that facilitates, or at least initiates, the change we seek. I go into all this in great detail in today’s episode: If you’d like to check out one of my Wednesday evening meditations, click here: https://www.meetup.com/learning-to-surf-talks-on-buddhism-meditation-mindfulness/ You can also find me on Instagram and TikTok And if you’d like to experience 1:1 coaching, you can claim your free sample session here: https://calendly.com/artburns/45-min-coaching-session If you’d like to support my work, please consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/artburns