Best Of: Master Your Emotional Life, Part 1

11/22/16 • 6 min

PSA: This is an older episode, reuploaded to celebrate 100,000 downloads! I've selected 5 of the best Art of Authenticity episodes to release this week. Enjoy :)

Tonglen: the best way to reduce stress. Our basic instinct is to want to push away what doesn’t feel good. We want it out of our bodies, out of our minds. The crushing sense of anxiety in my chest isn’t something I want to make space for, I want to get rid of it. And I want to get rid of it now!

But that isn’t how it works. The harder you push it away either by getting mad at yourself for being stressed or just denying the sensation, the more it persists. Yes, you can go for a run, you can take an anti-anxiety.

PSA: This is an older episode, reuploaded to celebrate 100,000 downloads! I've selected 5 of the best Art of Authenticity episodes to release this week. Enjoy :)

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Mathias Jakobsen: How Flexibility and Clarity Go Hand in Hand

Mathias is somebody who is an executive coach, but he also used to do digital work for The New York Times, Bloomberg, Google, Coca-Cola; all sorts of companies, and working with startup CEO’s and corporate executives. He also has a platform called Think Clearly, but what he really wanted to get across was less about where you worked and what you were doing, and much more about the mindset behind it. He’s really interested in the idea of how flexible people can be, and how they can change, and be and do anything they want. His work really reflects it.

He is super interesting and fascinating. I loved chatting with him. I think you’re going to learn a lot about answering these dreaded questions of, “What do I want? How do I get there? How do I tackle the purpose question and the finance question? What does that look like in real life?” The goal of this show is to really unpack the idea that having passion is great, having financial success is great, but how do you combine the two, and how do you define that for yourself?

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Best Of: Master Your Emotional Life, Part 2

PSA: This is an older episode, reuploaded to celebrate 100,000 downloads! I've selected 5 of the best Art of Authenticity episodes to release this week. Enjoy :)

Tonglen Part 2. Master you emotional life part one was downloaded thousands of times, so I decided to add part two! Here is more on how to reduce anxiety in moments, feel more connected to others, and release the anger that weighs you down!