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Jay Shetty PodcastEVERYTHING You've Been Taught About Manifesting IS WRONG! | Rhonda Byrne & Jay Shetty
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Rhonda Byrne Reveals The Greatest Secret: You Are Awareness, Not Mind
- Rhonda Byrne says the belief that we are a limited, separate body and mind is what blocks people from the greatest secret, which she describes as our true nature as infinite, eternal awareness.
- She recounts a decade-plus search through religions, spiritual traditions and thousands of books, a realization in 2016, and years in which her reactions and judgments gradually dissolved.
- She offers practical tools: welcoming rather than resisting negative emotions, a three-step practice of asking 'Am I aware?', noticing awareness, and staying as awareness, and a peeling-away exercise that sets aside body, story and mind.
- She argues that success and happiness come effortlessly when living from awareness rather than ego, and that even a fulfilled dream will not bring lasting happiness if we don't know who we are.
- Jay Shetty draws on his monastic training, sharing the Post-it note practice 'I am awareness', the fish-out-of-water analogy and the 'my body, my mind' language point, while the pair close with a rapid-fire round.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasThe core block is the belief that we are a limited individual.
Byrne says most people identify with their body, mind, name and life story, and that this belief, reinforced by thoughts and the world, keeps us from knowing we are infinite and eternal.
Welcome negative emotions instead of resisting them.
Byrne says to notice a feeling without focusing into it and to embrace it, like greeting an old friend; she says it weakens each time and eventually dissolves, giving a flash of who you really are.
You are not the mind, because you are aware of thoughts.
Byrne argues the mind is made only of thought, yet you are present before a thought arrives and after it leaves, so what is aware of thoughts must be who you are.
A simple three-step practice shifts awareness to the foreground.
Byrne describes asking 'Am I aware?' many times a day, then automatically noticing awareness, then staying as awareness, so the mind becomes a tool used when needed.
Lasting safety and happiness can't be found outside.
Byrne says the world is always changing, so security can't come from it, and that a dream coming true shows happiness from outside doesn't last. Jay Shetty adds the fish-out-of-water analogy.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesThe only problem comes with the mind is when we think it is who we are.
— Rhonda Byrne
The opposite to resistance is to welcome. So resist is push away, and welcome is to pull in.
— Rhonda Byrne
We will never find safety and security in the world. And the reason we won't is it's always changing. But we are the only safety and security in existence. We're it.
— Rhonda Byrne
The best thing that could happen to everybody is that their greatest dream comes true. Because when your greatest dream comes true, you will realize that there is something missing, and that happiness that you thought you would have doesn't last.
— Rhonda Byrne
There is nothing greater than knowing who you are. There will never be anything greater than that. A thousand years from now, 10,000 years from now, nothing will be greater than knowing who you are and being who you are.
— Rhonda Byrne
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SPEAKERS
Rhonda Byrne
guestAuthor and manifestation teacher best known for “The Secret” and “The Greatest Secret.”
Jay Shetty
hostHost of “On Purpose,” former monk and author of “Think Like a Monk.”
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