2 steps to finally moving out of anxiety

So this podcast is about anxiety, but I'd like to say first a word from our sponsor. No, I'm kidding. We don't have a sponsor yet. I'd like to explain why I didn't post a new show. a new episode these past two weeks. I planned on doing two a week and that didn't happen. Why? The answer is that I tried. I wrote it out. I planned it out. I scoped it out and then I tried to record and it wasn't good enough. And I kept on throwing it out and starting over, throwing it out and starting over.

And I forgot the lesson that I learned right when I started this. And that was that done is better than perfect. And when you shoot for excellence, it never works out. So I was actually shooting for perfection. And I was going over it and listening to my own voice and hearing the imperfections and hearing where I can improve. And I started going for a perfect. And then nothing was produced. Nothing happened. Nothing was coming out of me.

I just relearned the lesson of done is better than perfect and just go for it and do it. And then things just work out and you don't have to rate everything. Nothing has to be 100%.

And that's my own lesson that I'm sharing with you. So, to anxiety. Anxiety is a disease known to the people who suffer it as debilitating. It ruins every aspect of your life. It makes your life painful. It makes you suffer. It makes bright things dark. It makes beautiful times and beautiful events horrible, dark, struggle. There's no joy when you have anxiety. People don't realize how much...

Other people suffer with anxiety. It turns every bright moment into darkness. You can be on a private jet drinking a cocktail. You can be at a Sunday football game. You can be vacationing in a tropical... fairy tale wonderland with every possible amenity and you will be miserable because you are anxious and you aren't even there. You are not even experiencing where you are because you're not present. That means you aren't there.

For all practical intents and purposes. You are where your mind is. If you're mentally not there, you're not there. So what's it all worth? What's life all worth? What's a beautiful home worth? What's a beautiful life worth? What's wealth worth? What's anything worth if you're not there? Anxiety is a painful and dark disease that people, many people, labor under for all their lives potentially.

and never recover from it. Many people in the mental health field will tell you there is no healing for anxiety. There's only dealing with it. This is who you are. This is how you are. You don't get better. That's not a word. There's no healing for this.

They'll put you on meds. And now I'm not condemning the mental health field. I'm simply saying many people in that world have a very limited perspective of what's possible. They don't believe in healing from anxiety. Not everyone. Some. And if you've been... unfortunate enough to be under the guidance of a person like that. They've steered you into a very, very dark room where in addition to anxiety, you now have despair. So...

I'd like to present healing from anxiety in a number of steps and bear with me. Go out on a limb, consider that maybe there's a different direction you can take and maybe you've taken every direction but this. Maybe you'll see that you haven't done this yet because you so focused on the other things that haven't worked.

If you have had anxiety and you are now healed from anxiety, then reach out. I'd like to talk to you. And I will give an email address at the end of this episode that you can reach out to. Anxiety is the recipe for a... painful, dark, unsuccessful life. A cruelty presented by anxiety often is that exactly what you're afraid of will happen and exactly what you're so trying to push away.

It will happen. What you're trying to get so desperately will not happen. And the reason for that is this. If you're trying to accomplish something great in life, Say you're trying to run a marathon or you're trying to bike the Tour de France. I happen to be a biker. An aspiring runner. The best way to ensure that you cannot do it... is to pin your life on the result.

Because that makes the thing do or die and adds such a component of terror and weight and heaviness to the process. You succeed at things when you're free, when you're powerful, when you're all in, when there's nothing stopping you. There's joy.

There's positive. You're shooting for something wonderful and big. And yes, it may be intimidating, but you power through that. But when this means the world to you, you have to accomplish, you have to get there, that weight actually doesn't let you get there. And the same thing in the flip side. If somebody is so afraid of something happening, the holding it in mind will actually subconsciously

lay the foundation for that event to happen to them. Like somebody once said, unfortunately, most of what you're afraid of will happen to you. And the reason is that you're afraid of it. You're holding it so in mind, and the mind is where everything starts. Intelligent businessmen will tell you, mindset is success. People who've gone from failure to success will say, what changed mindset, beliefs, in the head starts everything. So when somebody...

goes through their lives and lives in a certain space of fear of something, they're actually bringing that thing into reality. Anxiety goes through many phases that are totally unrelated to each other. Anxiety pops up in this situation, and it pops up in this situation. It shows up in this area of your life, in this area of your life, and they look totally different. But the common thread between them is that you're anxious.

and that you're terrified. Anxiety is a chameleon that constantly changes its shape. It changes its form, but it always shows up in every area. Imagine the opposite of anxiety. Have you ever done that? What is the opposite of anxiety? What does it mean to live without anxiety? It means life is fresh and beautiful. It's peaceful. It's strong.

You go through life not running from things, but running toward things. You go through life not in fear of some terrible thing happening, but with a joyful... purposeful walk forward. I'd like to do something in this life. I want to do something great, something wonderful to me. I am free to pursue things. I'm not weighed down by this baggage of anxiety. Anxiety ruins every aspect of our lives and it also destroys any shot at success in anything.

Maybe you've tried therapy. Maybe you've tried psychedelics, meditation, gurus, spirituality, 12 steps. Maybe you've done something else. And maybe nothing's worked. Because maybe, and here is the key, maybe everything you've done... Bear With Me has been a fight against anxiety. Maybe everything you've done has been battling your own state of anxiety.

Maybe the meditation was to beat the anxiety. Maybe the psychedelics were finally to beat that thing out of you. Maybe the therapy was to beat the thing out of you and it didn't work. Maybe the 12 steps were an attempt at beating that stubborn... Part of you out of existence are forcing it to cooperate. Now the thing is that nothing works when you're fighting.

Nothing works by resistance. Fighting a part of you will not get that part of you away. Instead, it will bring all your attention and focus to it and grow it. And grow it. And grow it. To no end. The more focus, the more growth. What you focus on grows. Where energy flows, focus goes. No, sorry. Where focus goes, energy flows. So you want to grow something? Focus on it. If your child misbehaves and suddenly they're getting all the attention in the world,

That little smart child will say, hey, this works. And if they get attention for being great and being good and following the rules, we all know, that's where they will put their focus. Now let's take this a little deeper. Maybe your whole life... Your entire approach to this struggling, painful part of yourself has been a battle. And you have to sit with yourself quietly to ask this question. Have you been battling this always?

Has it always been a fight? Most people would say, well, yes, but they haven't seen any other option. But that hasn't worked. Is there another way to go about this, to solve this, to deal with this? to relate to this without fighting it, because fighting it and resistance just makes it bigger and worse. And if you want proof, look at your life. Anything you fight, anything you resist, anything you try to beat...

just intensifies. So maybe the reason you're so despondent over just being in anxiety being stuck here is because you haven't tried anything else but battling it. Now, you've battled it in many different ways. Maybe it's been battled with all kinds of things, with spirituality, with mental health, with this, with that, with the other thing, with medication.

But have you ever thought about laying down your sword, laying down your battle, and learning a different way, a different way to approach this, a different way to deal with this? And maybe we can consider...

An alternate path, because the first one has not worked. What I'm talking about is understanding, admitting, honestly facing it. And this is the first step. to really getting anywhere. If you're ready to finally get rid of anxiety, be open to admitting what you're anxious about. Admitting. What is really going on in your system? Instead of just coping, just managing, just fighting the thing again, day in, day out, forever. Can we sit quietly with ourselves and ask, what is really going on?

The key word here is admit. The key word here is honesty. I've been struggling with this forever, but now I'm going to sit down and ask, what's really going on? What am I really afraid of? I'm afraid of this. What am I really anxious about this? Why? Because of this. This process is slow. I'm saying it quick, but it's slow. There's no time frame on it. Admit.

the truth of what's happening. This is the opposite of what you've been doing your whole life, fighting in many different sophisticated ways. You can fight things with hobbies. I'm going to go enjoy my life with a hobby. But really all you're doing is trying to beat out that bad negative mind thing. Can we admit what we're dealing with? Admit what is happening. Admit why you're dealing with it.

Admission is a big deal. This isn't trivial. This is something that we've never done. We've been aware that we're anxious and we don't feel good and life's miserable. But to admit... I'm running here and doing this, unable to stop, unable to sit, unable to enjoy, because I'm anxious about this. What are you anxious about? Start with the simplicity. Sit with yourself as long as you need to unearth what are you feeling, why.

What is it? Admit, I am anxious because I need them to like me. I'm anxious about this because I need approval. It's just an example. It's a common example. Or I feel like I'm garbage. I'm ugly. I'm this and that. Admit it and say, where did it come from? Admit the things about you. Admit them and admit them and go deeper. Until admission becomes, you admit that I'm holding on to it.

I admit that I'm responsible for this. This is real admission. And this is the other way. This is the second path. The first path that took 30 years was anxiety, fighting, battling, fixing, healing. Let's stop healing. I once wanted to write a book called Healing from Healing. Let's stop healing and start admitting. Healing has very negative connotations. It implies that you're wrapped up in the thing and you're fixing it.

It's not actually how this works. We'll get into that next. Let's stop healing. Stop healing. There's nothing to heal. All there is, is admitting. Let's admit. Let's be honest. honest with ourselves for the first time in their lives. What is really going on here? There's a little child that needs something? Let's be honest and admit, once you see things with clarity, you're empowered to heal them, to fix them, to really, really get past them.

Nothing has worked. We're at the point of despair. We're just going to other people to heal us. Nobody else can heal us. Nobody else can do anything for us. They can advise. They can open clarity. But we got to do it.

Admit what's going on. Allow yourself to really speak it out. If you need to talk to God, then admit it to God. Admit it to the fresh air. Admit it to yourself. Layer by layer, slowly. Gently. This can take an hour. This can take a week. This can take a month. This can take a year. It doesn't matter. When you admit you have relief, you want relief from anxiety? Admit it.

Admit what's going on. This is the shortest path and the surest path to relief. You cannot be anxious about something when you really see it. This is the first step to genuine healing. from anxiety even though i don't like the word healing it's the first path to genuinely recovering moving out of anxiety when i say healing from healing means

You've always been healing. How far has it gotten you? Nowhere. You're always really in your heart. No, you're still there. You may have cut off the sharpest edges of it. But are you still there? Are you really out of it? True recovery starts with admitting the truth about things. Honesty will set us free. The truth really does have a power to heal everything.

and to move us out of these painful places. Admit what you're anxious about gently, slowly. Ask the question, when did I start being anxious about this? What's really going on? Admit that you've been blaming others in your life. And finally, ultimately admit, I am holding on to this. It's me. That final admission of taking responsibility. is monumental, maybe the greatest thing you've ever done in your life. This is a great humble step toward an anxiety-free life.

It only takes a few minutes to say, but this is a change in your very, very, very life. And this can take as long as it needs to take. Do not rush this. Sit with yourself for as long as possible. Don't have a phone on you. Go to a private place and be with yourself and admit what's going on. That's the first step toward healing from anxiety. Now, there's another step.

Are you ready? Every time this comes up, every time and every turn in your life, the anxiety comes back. For whatever reason, it's triggered. Before you go into your coping mechanisms, before you go into your resistance, in your learned and ingrained habits, for one moment, remember the admitting. Admit. Yes, I'm feeling anxious. Just grab that moment. Oh, it's back. Notice it. Spend a minute with it. Admit it again and make it a habit of a quick admission every time it comes.

And this will reduce its power over you. And when you've really admitted, you're going to feel a certain relief. You're going to feel... that now I am not completely dominated and owned and powerless against this anxiety. Rather, I'm dealing with it. There is a certain camaraderie. It's like me and the anxiety. It's me and it.

It's still there, but you've gotten to know it a little. You've stopped wrestling with it, being bound up with it, hopeless. Now you've seen it. Maybe you've shed some tears. It's very possible and very common.

There's a next level here. The next level is imagination. Imagination is the most powerful tool God gave to man. imagination when we're young is very active it imagines all kinds of things kids love fairy tales kids love their imaginations kids love falling asleep imagining things they watch movies behind their closed eyes Imagination is a wonderful, beautiful, incredible thing. And yet, it's childish. Adults don't have imaginations, we say. Imagination is...

It's fake. It's not real. What's the point of imagining? It's not reality. Imagination is something we don't really have a handle on. It's something that we silently ridicule. Adults don't seem to have it anymore. Kids do. That's why they're lost in non-reality. But can we question this? Is imagination dead? Is imagination useless? I will posit that imagination is the single most effective tool in healing and changing and transformation. that exists. And bear with me as we go into why.

When you've been living with something for a very long time, you've identified with it. You've become it. You know yourself as this. This is who I am. I am anxious. You know so well how you relate to life in this mode. There's no other possibility eventually. You lose touch with other options. The reason we're stuck... It's not just anxiety, and anxiety, and depression, and hatred, and shame, and guilt, if anything. The reason we're stuck is because we've lost the ideas that there's another way.

So we automatically go to what's familiar and what's comfortable. You wake up every day and fall right back into the groove. Adults are grooves. You've just dug a groove. You're in there for good. There's no getting out of the loop. You're automatically programmed to just do it again and do it again and do it again. And no matter what you do, you're doing it in a certain flavor, in a certain style that you're just digging in again.

That's why people repeat their lives infinitely. They repeat everything in their lives. It might look different. It might be a different career, but the same pattern will manifest. The same relationship. will manifest in every relationship because we're grooved. We're in a certain loop and groove and everything we do, because we're mentally so programmed in a certain way...

Everything we'll do will just be reinforcing the pattern. And there's no getting out of this until you do. So we're so used to ourselves that we...

We're just stuck. There is no hope. But there's only one hope, and that's imagination. It's your mind. Your mind can take you anywhere. Friends, when the mind takes you somewhere, your reality follows. The main hardest thing to do for someone that's stuck in a certain state, for example, anxiety, is to imagine. Imagine a place without anxiety. Close your eyes and spend time and smell the flowers. Imagine yourself out of your current state. And if you truly do this, you will find...

That you've exited your state. Because the mind is really where you are. You're not in a physical place per se. You're in your mental state. If you can imagine up. a new reality, a different place. You now have the power to be there and to go there and to do the things that that place would entail. So let's say you've been wrapped up in your...

anxiety for two decades, right? And now you suddenly became aware that admitting is the first step to stepping away from it. So you admit to it and you admit to it and finally you're... kind of on equal footing with it. You can see it. You're not just blind to it. And now, time to use your imagination. Imagine. And this is going to be hard.

Imagine life without anxiety. Imagine what it would feel like for a moment. Imagine what you would do without anxiety. Can you even imagine what you would do if you woke up without anxiety? What would your life look like? What would you do today if you woke up without anxiety? What would you pursue in your life? Would you keep your job?

The options are infinite. What would life look like if you actually enjoyed everything? Because you weren't anxious about it. Once you can pull yourself out of this state mentally, you are truly... truly in a new reality already. This is not a technique. This is moving into a different reality. Because when your mind moves out of something, you move out of it.

It's not a sequence you have already left. The second you can actually encapsulate some measure of some other state, you have actually gone there. So, back to imagination. What power... Does the imagination present to us the power to go anywhere and do anything, become anything? Because everything is a projection of the mind. That's going very hippie spiritual. So let's just say that...

The reality follows the mind. We'll say it a little tempered. So put your mind somewhere. And you've got to really put your mind to this because we haven't used our imagination in forever. So learn to use the imagination again and let it pull you to a place of flowers where you can smell, where you can jump, where you can breathe. Imagine the joy. And this is hard to do.

Imagine how it feels. Imagine that feeling. Walk yourself through waking up in the morning. Every time you do this, you are leaving the state of learned... patterned grooves that you've been in for so very long and that you'll learn when you admit that you're clinging to. And this gets to the hardest part of this. The hardest part of this is that when you really admit...

you realize it's nobody else. It's just me. Trauma is something that I reacted to and I created some way of being to cope with that trauma. And now, it doesn't matter who traumatized me. It doesn't matter what happened to me. What matters is that I am maintaining this state. The benefit of realizing that I'm maintaining a state is that I can now decide I'm done maintaining this. I've suffered enough. I don't want to stay here anymore. We get very comfortable.

in our miserable states of being. And we are not miserable people. We are godly. We are whole. We are spiritual. We are souls. The real nature of the human is... a beautiful ethereal experience that's impossible for anybody to encapsulate in words, even those who've experienced it, the true state. All the suffering is states that are learned.

Mental abstractions. We're connected to something. They're attachments. They're not our true state. We're not aware of our true state because our focus is so heavily... in the anxiety, in the depression, in the this, in the that, in the things we need in life, in the hunt for happiness. But if we'd really pull back from all those things, we'd find the true self, which is infinitely beautiful, perfect, whole, complete, done.

home. There's no need for anything. All we need is ourselves. There was a guru named Osho. He was an interesting character who loved attention, had 69 Rolls Royces. and was considered to be enlightened. And I watched the video of him almost in tears. He was speaking to people and he was begging them. And he said, you have so many things, you have so much in your life, you just don't have yourselves. What he was saying was that there's nothing, nothing that is anything like yourself.

When you suffer, that's because you don't have yourself. That's because your focus is not in yourself. Your focus is somewhere else. What is anxiety? A mental connection, attachment to something. And thereby you do not experience your own true nature. You're stuck there. You're stuck in the what ifs. You're stuck in the I hope nots. You're stuck in the...

never-ending, extremely powerful pursuit of staving off some disaster or getting some benefit that you need to survive. If we admit what's going on, And then we imagine ourselves out of it. We will be free, but this is hard. The reason it's hard is because we love our suffering. We want to stay. We are comfortable. And admitting will bring this out.

When you really admit to what's going on, you will see that we appreciate what our suffering does for us. We want to stay in one sense. We also want to leave in one sense. That's why we're having this conversation. But to fully admit means you're on par with everything that's going on. Then you're empowered to imagine a different reality. And once you've done that, you are really free. And you're going to ask,

In that imagined state of freedom, what will I do? What will I do? And when you have the answer, bear with me. Go do that. Be free. Have the audacity to say, I am already free. My mind has freed me. I imagined a different reality. That's the reality. This old groove stuff is not. Now bear in mind that this takes time.

And it has infinite shades. You always fall back in certain ways. It's a rocky road, but it is the road. When you can imagine a different reality, you can ask, what would I do in that reality? Who am I? What do I want? Assuming I'm healed, what do I want? What will I do? Assuming I loved myself, how would I treat myself? Assuming I wasn't depressed, what would I do?

Assuming I wasn't anxious, well, how would my day look? Assuming I am not full of guilt, what would I undertake? Assuming I was not full of shame, how would I express myself? Get yourself to a place where you can imagine being healed. This takes audacity. This takes courage. This takes everything you've got. But if you want it, this is the way.

There's no other way. And the reason is we're so grooved. We're so in our ropes. We're so used to being who we are that until we can imagine, until the mind can be free, you can be assured. that you will never be. The only way is that the mind becomes free. And then you are out of it. It is, though, conditioned on admitting first where you are, because you cannot...

Imagine being out of a place you haven't identified as being in. First, you need to identify where you are and then pull yourself out of it by imagining a different reality. Every second you're imagining a different reality successfully, you are traveling into that reality more and more completely. That is a two-step process for moving out of anxiety permanently.

Now, when I say permanently, this means this becomes a way of life. A way of life is to identify things. The mind doesn't change in a heartbeat. This takes time. This takes dedication. This takes willingness. You have to be willing to travel somewhere you don't know yet. Imagining a different reality is, well, a different reality. You haven't been there yet. It's hard. But it's so rewarding because it's so real.

When you'll find that the mind really can take you out of your state. That's so real. That's so happy. That's so fulfilling. That's so hopeful. You can't actually get out of depression. by imagining a life filled with light. You can actually imagine a life with serenity by imagining a life without anxiety. We are the only ones keeping ourselves captive.

We are the only ones keeping ourselves in chains. We are the only ones in the way of our own destiny. And that we learn by admitting. I'd like to speak about what anxiety is. Because you're not crazy. You aren't miswired. Your system isn't making a mistake. You're not anxious for no reason, even though the reality is that you're not in any danger and you probably have an income. You've probably had one for many years, even though you're anxious about it.

And it isn't aligned with reality. You're still not crazy. And the reason is this. Well, let's ask the question, what is anxiety? What is anxiety? It's a simple question. Many people, millions of people struggle with this. What is it? And again, if you ask certain voices in the mental health world, they would say, it's a traumatized mind that does not know how to be anywhere in any way else. And this is just how it is.

But what really is it? Because hope demands that you look at things from the perspective of the human is complete and whole and perfect. So then what is anxiety? Anxiety is the need for the human to get their basic needs met. And when there has been an event that threatens... to their perspective that basic need their system will go into overdrive to try to get that need met so essentially

The reason you have anxiety is not because you're messed up, but because you're healthy. And healthy beings know their needs, even when they're very, very young. And they will develop mechanisms to get them. tweak is that the system doesn't know when to stop applying the mechanism. So you can be safe already for 30 years but still be anxious because the system hasn't gotten the green light to stop. You have to actually make that decision.

So this really applies to any trauma, but let's talk about anxiety. If love was scarce when I was young, I'm going to dedicate my life to getting it. And then when I don't get it or when it's threatened or any situation in my life, which presents the opportunity to not be loved. will be anxiety-ridden for me. You think you're anxious about your job, but what you're actually anxious about is love. Love is a big deal. It's actually what we're made out of. So anxiety has to do with...

deeper things than just the scenario we're dealing with. In any scenario, you can dig down and find that the anxiety is actually about something deeper. Usually, it's love. Even shame and guilt, these things, the reason they exist is because they present to me the perspective that I am not loved or I will not be loved or I'm not lovable. So therefore...

There is a great sense of anxiety, how to be lovable, because I need love. Anxiety is a mechanism that the human puts forth to ensure that its basic needs are met. So you're not crazy. You're actually very normal, very healthy. That's why you have anxiety. But we cannot live with anxiety any longer. It ruins our lives. It makes it dark. unenjoyable, impossible, painful, it makes us fail. It makes us just get by, barely exist, rely on doctors and gurus and therapists and the rest of them.

Some of these people can be great people, but if we're depending on them to heal us and to get us through life, we're not okay. The first step... to dealing with this is admitting what's really going on, seeing the truth slowly, calmly, kindly. The second step is imagining life without this. And when you can successfully do that, and it's a work in progress, every little bit is a little bit, then you are truly out of the state. Because where your imagination and mind are,

You are. So to end off, I'd like to tell a story that I've heard. And the story touched me very deeply, and it touched everyone who heard it. And the story goes like this. There's a person in Israel. His last name is Margalit. I forget his first name. He had polio when he was younger. And he struggled a lot in life.

And he came out pretty strong and healthy and successful and rich and all that. And he traveled around working with people, etc. Became a successful businessman. Mediated a lot of divorces and arguments and helped people get back together. etc. He was invited to a school where he noticed he was speaking. He noticed there was a boy who looked very, very depressed and down. He called that boy onto the stage. And this poor...

Kid was shaking, was white, was terrified. And he made the kid sit down. And he asked him about his life. Eventually, he blindfolded the kid. And he asked him to imagine. Something he wanted. He didn't know any background of this child, this boy, this teenager, whatever he was. And the kid laid out... His vision. He started to express what he wanted. And then he probed it further and further until he was telling the kid, smell the food. Walk into that building. What does it look like?

And this kid painted an enormous goal that he would give his life to. He would love that. It would be his dream. And he was there. He was at the end of the road already. He was smelling the flowers. He was feeling it with all five senses. He was there. He actually kind of hypnotized the kid into the end zone, into the end goal. And when the kid took off his blindfold, everyone saw he'd been crying the whole time.

This was an enormously powerful event. And then Margulit left. It was over. And a few years later, he met that person, or he got an invitation to something, and it turns out that that kid... had actually succeeded at this enormous undertaking that he had accepted upon himself when he had visited the final result of that in his mind.

So he had imagined it in all five senses, and he had actually done the work necessary to get there. And it was a tremendous undertaking. The kid asked to speak privately with Margulit. I don't remember his first name. And he told him the backstory. He said, when you had called me up onto the stage, you didn't realize that my family was falling apart. You didn't realize that my brothers were all deeply at risk.

You didn't realize that I was the last one that was on the straight and narrow and nobody had any hope for me. My family life was shot. My parents were unhappy, struggling. Everybody was in a very dark place. You saw that and you called me onto the stage and I imagined up the greatest salvation possible when you forced me to. And then you made me imagine it and I was there. And I want you to know that I went to work and every single day I did...

enormously hard things for myself and I took steps toward this goal. And I never wavered. I had never been a committed person before, but I never wavered because I had already smelled the flowers at the end of the road. I'd already gone there. I knew it already. I sensed it. I was there already. And that gave me the strength to go every day. And my entire family was pulled along in the wake of my own success. My parents

came back to a more functional life. My brothers started to change. Everybody followed my own success. And today, when I'm celebrating the great moment of me having reached this enormous goal, My whole family is happy, healthy, and here with me. And this story is not a fantasy. It's not a fairy tale. This is really how it works. If you'd like to go somewhere, anywhere in life,

Imagine it. I would say greatly successful people utilize the power of the imagination without realizing it. They already imagined the end of the road success and now it's a simple matter of charting the road to get there. I once wrote an article, and I wrote, Elon Musk, Tesla, Edison, these great inventors, they were not so brilliant. They just had the courage.

They just had the audacity to imagine the end of the road. And now it's a simple matter of writing a map and developing a compass because I know where to go already. Going somewhere without having imagined the destination is worthless. You'll never get anywhere. You'll struggle and get nowhere. Imagination is the wonderful, amazing tool to change everything, to bring us out of our deeply learned...

grooved states, to free us finally from the curse of anxiety or the blessing of anxiety. I'd like to wish us all the very best in learning to move forward. move out of whatever suffering we're in and to really believe and really truly bring to life the reality, the hope that we can really be our true selves.

And we're starting something new. I would like to ask you, invite you, offer you the opportunity to bring up any single question about anything at all related to anything we talked about or not. And send that question to howtobehappyagainpodcast at gmail.com. And I will be excited to talk about that on another podcast.