Changeable Podcast

Today’s episode is the replay of a webinar I recently held with Rohini Ross on how the way we work with people and the way we mentor others to work with people is rooted in awakening from the illusion of the separate self rather than bettering things for who we take ourselves to be. I The post EP282: Coaching and the Illusion of the Separate Self  appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Do you ever feel like you hate yourself?  And do you sense the stigma around that feeling? When people share with me that they hate themselves, they often lower their voice and look around as if they are about to be hauled away. But who is this self that’s hated and who is the hater? What if The post EP281: Inauthenticity and self-hatred appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

It seems that much of our experience is based on unquestioned assumptions. For example, it “seems like” we’re a separate self carrying ourselves through time and space. It “seems like” we have insecurity issues, or a history of addiction, or that conversation we just had didn’t go well. But what makes it “seem like” that? What The post EP280: Nothing is hidden appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

I’ll share how I’ve been doing something I call “feeling my way through life” rather than “thinking my way through life”, and how this seems to coincide with a massive downward shift in energy and attention from the head space and mental constructs, to the body/heart/physically felt space. From this deeper sense of living from The post EP279: Feeling your way through life appeared first on Dr. Amy...

In this episode, Betty returns to Changeable for another coaching session. Betty was coached in episode 266 around her urges to over-exercise and her beliefs that she must constantly be moving in order to be healthy.  Due to health issues related to under-nourishing and over-exercising for so long, Betty is not exercising at all right The post EP278: A coaching session on restlessness, aimlessness...

Today’s episode of Changeable is a portion of the last LSBC call in this fall’s 6-week course.  In this call, I talk about the difference between reality and imagination. Every “reality” is a point of perspective, and I share how the explorations they’ve been doing as part of this course has simply opened up more The post EP277: Perspective appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In this episode, Change Coach Chiara McHale shares some of the insights she’s had in her romantic relationship, and how the things she’s seen have led to a completely different relationship than she had in the past. This is a fascinating conversation about how a relationship can look when one or both people have a The post EP276: Grounded Relationships with Chiara McHale appeared first on Dr. Amy...

Where’s the problem when everything is always changing? Can you find it? Can you find it outside of thought? Really look at that…we can easily find things that need changing within thought, as thought. Do they exist anywhere else? Can you hold onto the problem? Can you hold onto anything? When we can’t hold onto anything, what The post EP275: Where’s the problem when everything is always changing?...

It can look like there are things in our lives we need to accept. Acceptance is a concept, in this case. We have an idea of what acceptance is and what it looks like, and we’re told it’s a good idea if we don’t want to suffer. When we can’t accept (how do we even do The post EP274: Acceptance, Resignation, and “The Way Things Are”  appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In this episode, we’ll explore the difference between thinking and looking.  Thinking is taking what’s said as another concept to go back and ponder. It’s adding more thought to what is already a lot of thought. Looking is looking into what’s here now, before labels and concepts. It looks like curiosity rather than pondering. There may be The post EP273: Thinking versus Looking appeared first on D...

Chris Neibauer is the author of No Self, No Problem. Chris talks about how the left brain interpreter, narrative-self, works and how we easily mistake that narration for who we are.  This is a beautiful, deep conversation that goes far beyond neuroscience. His way of explaining how and why we become mind-identifying is so helpful. You The post EP272: Beyond the Interpreter appeared first on Dr. Am...

A vague, ill-defined feeling of uneasiness is behind so much of what we do.  Look for yourself and see–is something we might label “restlessness” there in the background? Is it what gets you up from the couch, doing something “productive” rather than rest? Is it what runs you around from rest to the refrigerator, to The post EP271: Restlessness appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

I often hear parents say these things to their children about emotion:  “You decide how you feel.” “You choose your reactions.” “What other people say has no meaning except the meaning you give it.”We can ask ourselves: Are these things we heard somewhere that seem helpful, or are they our direct experience? Do you–mom or The post EP270: What we teach young people about emotion appeared first on D...

Today’s episode is taken from a recent guest speaker call with The Little School of Big Change graduate community with Violet Synergy.  Violet talks about looking toward the mysteries in life (and how everything is a mystery, really), leaning into what’s arising and the most obvious thing we can do, meeting life from a place The post EP269: Looking toward the mysterious with Violet Synergy appeare...

This episode is an excerpt from a The Little School of Big Change 6-week course call that took place in March of 2023.  I talk about how this–what’s being experienced right this very moment–is all there is. There is no better place to find or arrive at. What you’re looking for is so much closer than The post EP268: This is all there is (from LSBC Spring 2023) appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Are you examining the nature of experience in order to see through the illusion of you as a separate, limited self?  Are you trying to “smoke the veil” that has you feeling separate from life? I’ll talk about the ways we do that, plus share a couple stories of how my husband successfully “smoked the The post EP267: Smoking the Veil appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

A listener asks:  “My family and work colleagues describe me as a ‘speedy’ person and many times I get asked to chill out or calm down. I try to calm myself but I’m still not getting to the root reason why I can’t seem to slow myself down!  …I’m wondering if I am avoiding something The post EP266: Why is my bodymind so sped up? A question from a listener. appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In this episode, Change Coach Samantha Miller shares her nearly lifelong experience with OCD and how it has changed over the years, especially in recent years. If you have experienced OCD in any form or duration, I know you’ll relate to so much that Samantha shares. And if you would like some support around OCD from The post EP265: Freedom from OCD with Samantha Miller appeared first on Dr. Amy Jo...

A listener asked to hear more about “welcoming the unknown”. What does that mean? How do we do it? It seems that an important first step is looking at what we think we do know, and considering that perhaps knowing isn’t all the mind makes it out to be. Thinking we know feels safe…but is it? The post EP264: What do you mean by “welcome the unknown?” A question from a listener appeared first on Dr....

When faced with death…whether it’s the death of the physical body or the “death” of the dream of being a separate me…the mind will grab for something, anything, to hold onto.  It often grabs at false identities, trying to solidify a sense of ‘me’. It does this by clinging to personal identities, group identities, and The post EP263: Terror Management  appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In truth, nothing is carried through time.  Because there is no time. Time is a thought. In the thought-world, everything refers to time. There is clear and obvious continuity, a clear and obvious past and future for a clear and obvious ‘me’. When thought is not projecting this world, there is none of that. Zilch. Not even The post EP262: Nothing is Continuous appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In this conversation with the amazing Razmik Sargsyan, we discuss how what’s true must always be true. If it’s true that we are okay in any experience, that must always be true. In the East and in the West, for people in luxury and comfort as well as for people in the middle of war. The post EP261: What’s true must be always true with Razmik Sargsyan appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

I am a guest on a lot of podcasts and I’m not always inspired to share those conversations here.  But this conversation with Razmik Sargsyan for his podcast Brand New Thought felt like one that I wanted more people to hear. Part “the basics” and part pushing the edge, we covered a lot of ground. I The post EP260: My conversation with Razmik on the Brand New Thought podcast appeared first on Dr. Am...

What do you really know? You think you know your name, that you love your dog, that you’re thinking, that there is a quiet, still space within…Look again. How do you know? What are those things you think you know made of? What is that quiet, still space? What is love for your dog? What’s it The post EP259: Do you really know anything? appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Andrea says she can easily see other people’s thinking for what it is. She can even see some of her own thinking as thinking, and she can see how being identified with thought led her into past habits.  So why can’t she see this now with regard to her current habit? She says, “I don’t know The post EP258: I see thinking for what it is for everyone but myself. A question from a listener appeared fi...