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Welcome to the High Existence podcast, where we ponder, explore and expand this wondrous experience called life. Visit HighExistence.com for a daily boost to your consciousness!
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The HighExistence Podcast - Jon's System For Healing Anxiety

Jon's System For Healing Anxiety

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08/17/22 • 46 min

Anxiety Rewired goes live on Sunday, August 21st. Get a text the moment it becomes available here: https://rewired.ju.mp
"The aim of Anxiety Rewired is to reframe the pursuit of working on our anxiety as a path to mastery. As something that is epic and challenging and fun, and extremely fulfilling and rewarding. That's what it's been for me and that's what I would really like it to be for you too."

In this final chapter of our 3 part series on overcoming anxiety, Jon and Mike dissect the remaining parts of Jon's history with anxiety, extracting massive amounts of wisdom, tools and techniques that allowed Jon to go from being crippled with multiple forms of anxiety, to hosting workshops for thousands of people on how to overcome them all.
We also flesh out our course, Anxiety Rewired, in a way that leaves no stones unturned.
By the end of this video, you will have a clear idea of what the next best step is for you on your journey to overcome whatever specific strain of anxiety you're struggling with at the moment.
IN THIS EPISODE:
00:00 Who is Anxiety Rewired Designed for?
00:30 Welcome
01:50 Jon shares his deepest experience of being stuck in an anxiety rut
08:40 Other manifestations of anxiety in Jon’s life
11:10 How to heal from panic attacks
18:20 What doors opened up for Jon as he started to overcome his anxiety
22:25 The story of how this course came to be
25:55 What makes Anxiety Rewired unique?
27:26 The 4 maps that we’ll use to overcome anxiety
33:06 The magic that happens when you combine practices with insights from the leading research
36:00 What’s included in the course?
43:39 A word from Jon for those sitting on the fence
Please leave a review if you enjoy The HighExistence podcast.

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“Whenever you say ‘I can’t find ideas,’ what you’re really saying is, ‘the world is perfect and it needs nothing.’”

-MJ DeMarco, HEx Podcast #57



There’s a lot of terrible advice out there. Maybe you’ve noticed this the last time you were outside. People will say things like, “Just follow your passion!” or, “Money doesn’t matter!” or, perhaps even worse, “Only 40 more years until retirement, and then you’ll be a millionaire!”

Some of the people that proffer this advice actually do want the best for you, and they’re honestly trying to help. The problem is that they’ve never learned how money actually works, how wealth is actually created, and how entrepreneurs can solve the problems that are pervasive in society and reap a financial windfall by doing so.

Our guest on the podcast today, author MJ DeMarco, has taken aim at all the bad advice out there and has consistently proven the truth of his principles in the process of building out his own businesses and helping tens of thousands of entrepreneurs achieve their financial goals - including me.

He reveals the fallacy behind the idea that following your passion will pay your bills; he shows how, in some contexts, money can buy happiness, and how it can also remove some of the sources of unhappiness; and this whole thing about retirement? What people don’t tell you is that in 40 years, you’ll be 40 years older, and unable to enjoy your money to the degree that you would have been able to while you’re young. As he says, wheelchairs, don’t fit inside the trunks of Lamborghinis.

But his wisdom goes deeper than that. Much deeper. Business can be an incredible source of personal fulfillment, and if you’re willing to put your heart and soul (and brain and hands) into something for 10 years, you can win the financial game. You can have it when you’re relatively young, and you’ll never have to wonder, “What would have happened if I really went for it?”



What We Cover:

  • How the level of access to knowledge is unprecedented right now, and how tapping into it can change the trajectory of your life
  • MJ’s “C-E-N-T-S” framework for coming up with high-velocity business ideas (featuring the Commandments of Control, Entry, Need, Time, and Scale)
  • How to increase the magnitude of your contribution and accelerate your profits
  • The timelessness of great books and podcasts
  • Nassim Taleb’s concept of “antifragility” and how it can help prepare you for any external event that could threaten your safety and security
  • The Great Rat Race Escape, MJ’s newest book, a business book/novel hybrid that follows one couple’s personal journey from financial slavery to financial freedom
  • ”Value skews” and how you can develop them in order to walk over your competition
  • ”Superior Unexpected Customer Service” (SUCS) and why it’s so much easier today for your business to stand out
  • ”Expected Value” and why you should always aim for “Excellent” instead of just “Good”
  • The latest redefinition of “financial freedom” and why it’s just financial slavery in a different form
  • Why investing in your health will improve your life in every other area
  • When you should begin your child’s financial education and how to avoid the mediocrity narrative

Please leave a review if you enjoy The HighExistence podcast.

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The HighExistence Podcast - Stoicism is a Martial Art for the Mind (#56)
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03/01/22 • 11 min

Stoicism is often thought of as a collection of theoretical concepts and ideas that one learns by reading books and consuming Stoic content.
In this solocast, Jon Brooks proposes that a true Stoic is more like a Martial Artist. To become undefeatable, we need to practice and refine our skills so that we are ready for the real battles when they come.
If you’re ready to put down the book and step into the arena, sign up for Askesis: our 10 week Online Stoic Bootcamp.

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Read all of Matt's books breakdowns and join his weekly High Existence newsletter, Stairway to Wisdom here

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

— Frederick Douglass

Matt Karamazov has already accomplished multiple lifetime's worths of achievements.

You’d think the topic of this conversation would be about his experience as a world heavyweight boxer, a natural bodybuilder, nightclub bouncer, professional writer, or successful music label owner...

But no... On top of all that, Matt decided that he would take on the mammoth task of reading 1000 books!

And he doesn’t just read them. He makes detailed notes on them too.

Since this episode was recorded, he has accomplished this goal and extended it to 10,000. With an average of 7 hours a day spent reading, Matt has mastered the art of focusing for long periods of time in pursuit of an aim, and he has joined us on the High Existence Podcast to share key insights and tips for turning our own lofty ambitions into fully realized goals.

This conversation expands way beyond reading into the depths of a mind that has downloaded 1000 of the greatest pieces of content of all time.

In this Episode:

  • Matt’s history with High Existence
  • Why he decided to read 1000 books
  • How to stay focused for 7 hours a day
  • Can you be mindful while reading?
  • The secret to retaining what you read
  • Is optimism the privilege of someone who hasn’t experienced true difficulty?
  • The futility and utility of envy
  • Why you should read more fiction
  • How reading can improve your creative writing and communication skills
  • The importance of enjoying the moment to moment process of working towards the goal
  • How to read 5 books a month
  • Why you should have a 100-year plan if you’re under 50
  • MUCH MORE...

💌 LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR NEW PREMIUM NEWSLETTER “THE STAIRWAY TO WISDOM”

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The HighExistence Podcast - The Mind Illuminated: The Ultimate Meditation Manuscript (#47)
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04/25/21 • 64 min

Have you been struggling to keep a consistent meditation practice?

Switching around between different types, trying to find the right one for so long that you eventually forgot why you were even doing it in the first place?

This is a common complaint many aspiring meditators face.

Without a clear understanding of why we are doing what we are doing and a way to know that we are doing it right, we are destined to fall off track.

In comes The Mind Illuminated by Culadasa (John Yates, PhD).

The Mind Illuminated is the result of 50,000 hours of meditation and decades of neuroscience study.

This book is arguably the clearest, most systematic, and well-researched meditation manual ever written.

In this episode of the HighExistence podcast, Jon Brooks and Eric Brown discuss the 6 steps Culadasa recommends in the book to prepare the mind for practice.

But these 6 steps, as you'll see, have far reaching applications beyond just meditation.

“This stuff is not separate. The lessons you learn in mediation are lessons that apply to life. The stuff going on in your life will carry on into your mediation practice.”

— Eric Brown, HEx Podcast #47

IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:

  • Why you should meditate
  • Culadasa’s 6 steps for preparation for meditation
  • How TMI has impacted not only Eric’s meditation practice, but his life
  • Is enlightenment actually possible? What does it take to get there?
  • Meditation as a tool for tragedy
  • How to find and renew the motivation to do anything
  • The first 3 stages of the meditation journey
  • Meditation as a microcosm for life
  • The importance of posture
  • How showing up is all you need to do
  • The value of taking a moment to clarify intent before starting anything
  • MUCH MORE...

(Please remember to leave a review because it helps us improve the podcast!)

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The HighExistence Podcast - Jules Evans — Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency (#40)
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06/26/20 • 78 min

Jules Evans appeared on the podcast last time to discuss his two previous books: Philosophy For Life And Other Dangerous Situations and The Art of Losing Control.

In that episode, we talked at length about the benefits of Stoicism, and also where reason-based philosophical frameworks might be lacking if one wishes to experience a rich, integrated human life.

We dove into topics like meditation, eastern philosophy, and psychedelics as useful additions in our psychological toolkit.

When I asked Jules what he was working on next, he explained that he was in the process of co-editing a book with psychiatry expert Tim Read all about spiritual emergencies.

Considering I am involved in the psychedelic and spirituality space, I was surprised to find that I knew very little about this important topic.

30, years ago Stanislav Grof and his wife Christina wrote a book called Spiritual Emergency where they defined this phenomenon as follows:

One of the most important implications... is the realization that many of the conditions, which are currently diagnosed as psychotic and indiscriminately treated by suppressive medication, are actually difficult stages of a radical personality transformation and of spiritual opening. If they are correctly understood and supported, these psychospiritual crises can result in emotional and psychosomatic healing, remarkable psychological transformation, and consciousness evolution.

With the resurgence of psychedelics and increased popularity of spiritual practices, information on how one might recognise and navigate their way through a spiritual emergency has never been more important.

In this episode of the HighExistence Podcast, Jules and I discuss the book he edited on this topic Breaking Open: Finding Your Way Through a Spiritual Emergency.

I have read the book, and I can't express how important I found it. If you are in any way interested in pursuing spiritual transformation, this book book is indispensable.

To learn more about Breaking Open and the topic of spiritual emergencies, my conversation here with Jules is a perfect place to begin.

WHAT WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:

  • What is a spiritual emergency?
  • Tips for dealing with difficult spiritual experiences
  • The creative process behind the book Breaking Open
  • Jules' own spiritual emergency and ayahuasca experience
  • Useful guidelines for attending psychedelic retreats
  • Psychosis vs. spiritual emergency
  • Psychedelic intergration
  • The usefulness of psychotherapy
  • The dark side of spirituality
  • MUCH MORE...
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We're opening the doors to our accelerated learning course with Justin soon. Add yourself to the early access list here.


What does living in alignment really look like?

How do you define the goals, virtues, and morals that will guide your life? And how do you act them out in your daily life?

This is just one of the many topics we explore today on the latest HighExistence Dialogues – with learning expert Justin Noppé with us.

We explore the systems and techniques of unlocking yourself, living up to the potential you have inside of you, and explore how your culture shapes a lot of this early on and what you can do about it now.

Whether it's new skill acquisition, changing your personality and disposition, or getting a deeper understanding of how to connect with others — this conversation goes into all of that and a lot more.

Justin is already the creator of our Accelerated Learning course, so you can dive in behind-the-scenes as we riff on these topics. To learn more about the course, check out the link at the top of this description.

WHAT WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Overcoming agreeableness and cultural divisions
  • Navigating interpersonal dynamics with expertise
  • What an 'aligned human' looks like
  • Become anything and anybody you want
  • Building a sturdy foundation for the rest of your life
  • Hard skills vs. soft skills
  • Becoming an interesting person and owning it
  • Deconstructing yourself with real-world results
  • MUCH MORE...
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What would life be like if we could transcend the ordinary?

Now this journey isn’t for the faint of heart. This is a Hero’s Journey of cataclysmic proportions.

Undoing, overriding, and re-learning decades of distilled and conditioned socio-cultural programming is no small feat.

But on the other side awaits beauty, wonder, and experiences far beyond our present imagining.

This is why HighExistence came into being. To serve as a portal, through which the initiates pass, into a world of wisdom and wonder.

As we take an evolutionary step forward with HighExistence, we riff on what it means to transcend the ordinary and become the creators of our own reality.

Won’t you come along with us?

WHAT WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:

  • What it means to transcend the ordinary
  • The next evolutionary step for HighExistence
  • How to modify and amplify the lenses of perception
  • The mythological meaning of I.M M.Y.T.H.
  • Seeking Truth as the ultimate Hero's Journey
  • Courage and wonder in the face of the mundane
  • What does it really mean to create your own reality?
  • Myth-busting common cultural constructs
  • The awe-inspiring wonder of inter-subjective existence
  • MUCH MORE...
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The HighExistence Podcast - Learning The Ultimate Meta-Skill and Bending Reality (Dialogues #3)
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04/09/20 • 120 min

Important note:

The HighExistence dialogues are where the three creators Jon Brooks, Eric Brown, and Mike Slavin come together to discuss life, the universe, and everything in between.

But if you'd like to follow up with us individually, be sure to subscribe to our new YouTube channels. Here are some places you can find out more...


When’s the last time you learned something for the first time?

It might have been a while.

For many, education stops the moment school is finished. Should it continue to be this way? How we can learn new skills so that we can stay sovereignty and adaptable to a future that is constantly in flux?

Learning is the ultimate meta-skill.

It is the foundation of acquiring any other skill. It is the foundation that resilient humans are built upon.

To this end, there are a number of techniques, mindsets, and teachers that can be instrumental in helping us move towards mastery.

In the latest instalment of the HEx Dialogues, we dive into the nuance and opportunity present in learning, bending reality, and picking up the pace of skills acquisition.

If you find yourself wanting to become more adaptable, to level up quickly and consistently, this is a blueprint to doing exactly that.

WHAT WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:

  • The great teachers and allies along the path
  • A massive list of recommended readings and resources
  • Jon, Mike, and Eric's take on what we're learning right now
  • The fundamentals of skills acquisition and learning
  • Is accelerated learning real? The potential and pitfalls
  • The shortcomings of the current educational matrix
  • How to bend reality and the journey to being superhuman
  • The long and short road to mastery
  • MUCH MORE...

See the Full Show Notes and Recommendations Here

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The HighExistence Podcast - Hamilton Souther - The Path to Plant Medicine Facilitation
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02/20/23 • 71 min

Do you feel the call to serve plant medicine?

Or to become a coach, healer, or helper of human flourishing in any way?

Navigating this path can be tricky terrain.

For myself, it brings many questions up:

  • Is this coming from my ego or my soul?
  • What path should I follow? And who are my teachers?
  • How often should I work with medicine?
  • Do I have what it takes?

I could think of no better person than Maestro Hamilton Souther to help me answer them.

Hamilton is a Master Shaman currently working out of Peru, working primarily with Ayahuasca. He founded BlueMorpho Tours, one of the most reputable Ayahuasca centres in the world, and was one of the first westerners to be initiated into an indigenous lineage in the Amazon over 20 years ago.

In This Episode:

  • The incredible story of Hamilton’s calling
  • How to follow your life's calling
  • Navigating ego along the way
  • What comes after healing on the path to become an Ayahuasquero?
  • Space Holders vs Shamans
  • Blue Morpho's at-home dieta experiences and what's currently exciting Hamilton most at the moment

Links:

Hamilton's Projects

HighExistence Presents: Apotheosis - The Ultimate Spiritual-Psychedelic Retreat

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How many episodes does The HighExistence Podcast have?

The HighExistence Podcast currently has 84 episodes available.

What topics does The HighExistence Podcast cover?

The podcast is about Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on The HighExistence Podcast?

The episode title 'The Hero100 Challenge: Our Recipe For Identity-Level Transformation' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The HighExistence Podcast?

The average episode length on The HighExistence Podcast is 82 minutes.

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Episodes of The HighExistence Podcast are typically released every 20 days, 1 hour.

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The first episode of The HighExistence Podcast was released on Nov 27, 2014.

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