To half-ass something is to do it with little effort or care. People who are excellent, never half-ass anything they do, no matter what it is and no matter if it is something they feel minimal motivation to do. Either they give it their best or they don’t do it at all. And the sense of pride they feel as a result, is a form of self-esteem that no one can give to them and no one can take away from them.
Take your power back! What does this mean? There are situations in life where you feel disempowered and at the mercy of others. In times like this, it's infuriating to hear other people say: 'You've given away too much of your power.' This doesn't make automatic sense to most people. After all, you didn't consciously give something away. That's why you have to realize first that you have power and once you've realized that, you can get your sense of power back.
What is your relationship to Authority? When we perceive someone or something has an element of power or control over us, such as government, police, parental figures or experts we call this Authority. This relationship is dictated by the relationship we had with our primary caregivers, but often the awareness of our authority patterns are stuffed deep in the subconscious.
Placation is an integral aspect of human social psychology. It has been used throughout human history to maintain order and balance. But many have turned this social tool into a way of relating, losing themselves in the process. They are now trapped in relationships where placation comes before honesty and authenticity. Teal Swan helps bring awareness to this relationship pattern so you can live a more authentic life.
We enter relationships with an idea of what it will be like, thinking that we know the person we are with. This excitement often overshadows incompatibilities that are present in the relationship. Our desperation to belong, causes us to modify ourselves. We attempt to modify ourselves in order to ‘fit’ together or we try to get the other person to ‘fit’ to us. Teal explains this relationship tendency in-depth so that you can recognize it when you or someone else is stuck in it.
As Social Creatures and Social Beings, Rejection is one of the most difficult facets of life that humans can experience. If we are rejected within our social system or relationships it usually indicates unwanted behavior. Often we turn the idea that our own behavior is what needs to change and this can lead to the damaging rejection of ourselves if we feel powerless to change. Perhaps you don't need to change your behavior but your environment?
The COVID-19 (Corona Virus) Outbreak is spreading throughout the world, but what is spreading faster is the fear and panic surrounding it. You have fear within yourself and you have the power to take care of your fear so that it does not ruin your life. Teal Swan speaks on the Corona Virus, Covid-19.
In General the Spiritual Field can be divided into two camps. One that uses spirituality to Feel Better and one that uses Spirituality to gain more awareness. Often we project onto others why we are into Spirituality and this creates conflict and misunderstanding. If you are watching this video to feel better, I suggest you click away.
Gaslighting is form of intimidation or psychological abuse, sometimes called Ambient Abuse where false information is presented to the victim, making them doubt their own memory, perception and quite often, their sanity. What can we do when someone is gaslighting us or can we discover if we are gaslighting others? Teal dives into this psychological technique to create awareness around the manipulation that may be present in our lives.
Self Sacrifice is often idolized in our society. Jesus sacrificed himself for our sins. A mother sacrifices herself for her children. But is this Self Sacrifice or is it Self Centeredness? Teal takes us in depth into motivation and what drives us.
There are many lies that parents tell themselves about why they have or want children. This is not an exercise in shame, it is for awareness so that our parenting and relationships with children can be the best and most pure.
The Value Realization examines in depth what Value inherently is. Value has a conditional and subjective existence. Values' existence is based upon the needs of the person who perceives the value.
Teal breaks down a component of her success for you here. This barrier to success actually lies at the heart of a grand design of our societal disfunction. Somewhere along the line we started valuing our time instead of valuing our results.
Many of us live in a dichotomous world where we are told we can create whatever we want from our lives, choose any profession, live any life, yet we find ourselves saying “I have to do this” all the time. This video helps you either change or reframe those “I Have To’s” into “I Want To’s”...
Today, I’m going to explain to you what parts work is as well as offer you one of my simple methods for how to do it. Parts Work is widely known throughout the Spiritual and Psychology / Therapy community. In general it refers in integrating the fragmented aspects of ourselves. I’m excited to show you this today.
The Freedom Vs Connection Split within Humanity can first be recognized any time we feel torn between our need for (fill in the blank) and our need for closeness/connection with someone. In this episode, Teal Swan helps us recognize this epidemic pattern within ourselves.
In this Ask Teal, we are taken through an exercise in AND Consciousness. What your Parents did right is a video in which Teal Swan asks us to draw from the positive aspects that we inherited, learned or were taught by them that make up the positive aspects of our personalities today.
Throwing out the Baby with the Bathwater refers to an english phrase that means be careful not to get rid of the good things in your life while in the act of clearing out the bad. Teal breaks this down within relationships and how some are prone to clearing people in their lives that are harmful in some respects but could serve needs in others.
If you hate Christmas or have painful memories associated with Birthdays or Valentine's day etc. this video is for you. Re-thinking Holidays and taking control of your own experience can be your path to enjoying holidays instead. In this episode on how to enjoy the holidays, Teal Swan teaches techniques to empower yourself and experience a love of holidays.
The 'suffer so I can feel loved' relationship dynamic is often a subconscious toxic dynamic in relationships where the security in the relationship is based on how much pain one party or both will withstand in order to be together. In this episode, Teal Swan explains this pattern in detail.
Productivity is essentially our effectiveness when it comes to making, causing, providing or creating something. There are definite things that cause a decrease in our productivity and definite things that cause an increase in it. Today, I’m going to share with you some of my top secrets about what makes people productive.
Whens someone wont see the truth, it can be frustrating/infuriating. We all say we want the truth, but if seeing the truth means accepting a painful reality, you can bet that you will meet resistance. This is why we need to work with the resistance. Teal Swan explains that by working directly with resistance you can get to the vulnerable place that truth resides.
"Novocaine Spirituality" is a phrase coined by Teal Swan that describes practices within spirituality that provide temporary relief rather than long term solutions and are therefore more akin to a coping mechanism or painkiller like “novocaine”. The tricky thing about Novocaine Spirituality is that many of the practices provide relief in the short term and on their own can indeed cause awakening, they just need to be used in the right ways at the right times to ensure that they aren't being used...
The Soul Star Chakra is not part of the most widely known 7 Chakra System. This chakra exists 'outside' the physical body and links the temporal self with the united, eternal, non-physical 'self'. Teal Swan explains how this chakra fits into the larger chakra system and what we can do to strengthen and connect to the Soul Star Chakra.
The problem with “what resonates with you” is that when something resonates with you, you are saying that it holds the same frequency as you currently do. This implies agreement instead of discordance. And you know that discordance does not always imply that something is false or wrong..
This mutual caretaking of each other’s best interests is ultimately what creates trust in a relationship. But even people who understand this can fall into a damaging pattern in their relationships; a pattern that can be prevented if you see it clearly.
Attraction is arguably one of the greatest elements of unconscious human behavior, even amongst the most conscious people. It is like a two-sided coin. On one side, it can be a feeling state of the highest blissful excitement. On the other it can induce a feeling state of the lowest desperate suffering.
Motivational Videos and Advice these days revolves around pumping yourself up, pushing through and focusing on your inspirations. What happens when you are doing things that don't inspire you. Can you maintain your motivation through these times? Teal gives this priceless motivational tip for finding the self serving motive even in those tasks that we despise.
The relationship between men and women today is turbulent. From the feminist movement came many positive changes in equality but the pendulum swung too far to the other side. Now women are having to become men because of the passivity that is instilled in men. Teal explains the psychology of men, what they really want and how to communicate with them in a clear manner to make both of your lives better.
The Media - both the conscious and shadow side can be quite the ominous force to a lot of us, being moved by big money and shadowy figures that most of us have little to no connection towards. Two things that bring can bring The Media down from the untouchable heights are the consciousness that it is a business and that it is run by actual human beings who also have shadow sides. Teal Swan enlightens us on the some of the trauma’s people experience that put people into careers of journalism and ...
