Today the goal is to start discussing the “mature “ego defense mechanisms. There are 8 defined. I have given you the official definitions of them before, so today I will discuss them in a more relatable, pragmatic way and give my take on them, and when possible, present a more honest alternative. I am not going to go through all of the list today, …

Mature mechanisms

I had a great deal of difficulty with this week's episode because the content of my research conflicted with my stated goal of empowering you, the listener, to be the best version of yourself. Per my research, none of the ego defenses listed are considered “normal”. There are some which are considered socially acceptable and adaptive, but only one …

Where do we start? How do we move forward? In this brief episode, I would like to relate our focus on Honesty to today’s reality. Something that was heavily denied for about 3 years was finally acknowledged– the COVID virus originated in a lab. What is the appropriate response? Should we be relieved by this admission? Hmmmm…… “Most men are subjecti…

Hello and welcome to this week’s episode. In continuing our discussion about honesty, we come to that common practice called self-deception. I want to introduce this topic here, because it will allow you to better answer a question posed later – “Who are You?” We all do it (consciously or unconsciously; automatically or with forethought) to some ex…

In this episode, we discuss the connection between self-confidence and food with our very first guest! www.theinnerodyssey.org

This episode, we discuss critical analysis.

In this episode, we dive more into self confidence and it's connection to attention.

Welcome to Season 2 of the Inner Odyssey! In this episode we introduce our next topic for the season - self confidence.

This episode we summarize all the topics we covered during Season 1 .

This episode is a continuation of last episode, on the subject of concentration.

Introduction to the podcast.

This episode is about concentration and going over techniques on how to focus your mind.

This episode is about how the words you use in both your internal and external dialogue shape your reality.

This episode we will discuss how your thoughts create you.

Who are you? You, with all your strengths and weaknesses, your quirks and foibles, your perfect imperfections are like Kintsugi Translated as “golden joinery, it is the ancient Japanese technique of repairing broken pottery. Dating back to the 15th century, and represents the spirit of the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi - seeing the beauty in the…

Today we will continue our discussion about honesty and focus on how to operationalize the principle of honesty. In addition to considering the previous questions, we will focus on how to live honestly……. to eliminate from our experience thoughts, words, and deeds that are without merit, those that are incompatible with your true nature and enterta…

honesty: ……early 14c., "splendor, honor; elegance," later "honorable position; propriety of behavior, good manners; virginity, chastity" (late 14c.), from Old French oneste, honesté "respectability, decency, honorable action" (12c., Modern French uses the variant honnêteté, as if from Latin *honestitatem), from Latin honestatem (nominative honestas…

The very first episode of The Inner Odyssey where we discuss the goals and purpose of the podcast. My goal today is to provide a space to have an open dialog, a conversation, including multiple perspectives, about the nature of things and how to embrace the contradiction that is life/nature. I want to inspire you to think better thoughts; have a mo…