Welcome to the Rebel Buddhist™ Podcast, where I help you free your mind so you can free your life. This podcast is for the rebellious ones. The wild people. I share my stories and what I’ve learned about being a rebel soul who wants to tame her mind…but not her life. It’s led to plenty of adventures and misadventures. I’ve learned tons of tools that combine Buddhist psychology, real-world mindfulness, cognitive coaching, and modern brain science – sort of like if Buddhism and science had a love child. I want to share them with you as we walk this path together. I’m not sharing this as a dharma teacher, but as a fellow practitioner with some street cred. Welcome to my world.
Follow the podcast so you don’t miss an episode
Us humans tend to think that it is only when we finally achieve our goals or dreams that we can feel more confident and happier and experience more self-love…and more worthy. And not before.
But this is actually backwards…and I explain why in this episode.
The other day someone had posted a comment on a FB post I made and she said, “Please unfriend me. We obviously have different beliefs.”
And this really stood out to me because I thought it was so…immature to not want to see differing opinions.
But it’s quite pervasive these days, right?
I have a special treat for you today – after the last few episodes, I have received a LOT of comments and questions about how to not care what other people think about you.
Another way I think of this is how to let people be wrong about you.
And did you know that my podcast episide on exactly this topic was the MOST popular one of 2020? It’s true!
We’ve heard stories of people that have taken prison sentences and transformed them into opportunities of spiritual development, or those who have taken extremely challenging life circumstances like tragic deaths and came out the other end, and people who don’t have the financial freedom to travel or not worry about paying the bills, but who feel joyous and free on the inside.
You know we’re all about Freedom here at the Rebel Buddhist – inside and out.
One of the things I’ve found that we can do to give us the most emotional freedom in the next year is to partake in the courageous act letting go of things that no longer serve us, and one of the most radical acts we can do to let go, one of the things we can do for ourselves that can truly help us feel more light and free…is forgiving.
In last week’s episode I mentioned that I call the process of reflecting on the past year and creating intentions for the new one REVIEW, REFLECT + ALIGN.
Today we dive into the alignment part, because when we are in alignment, if feels damn good.
