The Upper Limit is the One Problem: How to Make Friends With It w/Gay Hendricks

In the journey towards our most expansive, genius self, one thing likes to trip us up - our upper limit. You'll see it in every culture, no one goes unscathed. If you've ever noticed how your big mess ups happen after something good happens - you might have an upper limit problem.   Anytime we grow, a loud alarm goes off in our subconscious. Our job is to integrate our "more-ness" so we can truly experience our own lovability, wholeness, and essence.   We have the wonderful treasure of becoming tuned in to our inner landscape, and that can help with the upper limit problem. Like a sophisticated heist crew, we can learn to move and expand without tripping that upper limit alarm.   How do we identify our upper limit problem and make changes without tripping it? How do we let go of our superficial seeing-ness so we can identify energies in people?   In this episode, we're joined by Gay Hendricks, and we talk about his new book "Your Big Leap Year", how to deal with the Upper Limit Problem, and the beautiful story of how he and Katie met!   The upper limit is our ability to handle more and more things going well. -Katie Hendricks    Three Things You'll Learn In This Episode    -How to identify an expanded essence How do we learn to read energy and get that real-time human data from the people we meet?   -A physical upper limit problem  We often use things like our weight to hide or buttress ourselves against the world and store our genius. How do we know when we're no longer hiding behind those facades?    -Sneak expansion in  How do we create slivers of creativity small enough so that we can expand without tripping the upper limit?   Guest Bio   Gay Hendricks has served for more than 30 years as one of the major contributors to the fields of relationship transformation and bodymind therapies. Along with his wife, Dr. Kate Hendricks, Gay is the author of many bestsellers, including Conscious Loving, At The Speed Of Life, The Big Leap, and the New York Times bestseller, Five Wishes. Dr. Hendricks received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Stanford in 1974. After a twenty-one-year career as a professor at University Colorado, he founded The Hendricks Institute, and later co-founded its charitable organization, Foundation for Conscious Living. He was also the founder of a virtual learning center for transformation and a publishing company, and was a co-founder of a conscious entertainment company. Throughout his career he has done executive coaching with more than 800 executives, including the top management at such firms as Dell Computer, Hewlett Packard, Motorola and KLM. His book, The Corporate Mystic, is used widely to train management in combining business skills and personal development tools. Gay is also a mystery novelist, with a series of five books featuring the Tibetan-Buddhist private detective, Tenzing Norbu. In recent years he has co-created a popular podcast called The Big Leap with Gay Hendricks and Mike Koenigs. He has appeared on more than 500 radio and television shows, including OPRAH, CNN, CNBC, 48 HOURS and others. Buy your copy of Your Big Leap Year here.