Into The Mirror

Empathy saved me but sympathy was a first part of my progress of allowing myself to feel empathy. Learning what empathy is vs sympathy. I think it's important to learn what they are? Can you have one without the other? Can you have empathy for all? We all struggle to use empathy at times when we feel it's going to hurt. How do we open ourselves but also protect ourselves? How do we learn to see he...

Confidence and virtues?  How do find confidence in the modern age? I mean seriously how do we get some courage to walk through each day? For me(Alexander)I was so over whelmed with trauma and grief I couldn't see the forest from the trees. I lied, cheated, and stole to protect myself but I still hurt people. So I am saying this firmly where do we find it when we have what seems like nothing o...

There is a zen saying out there that says before enlightenment chop wood after enlightenment chop wood. What they mean is there is still daily things to be done even after you find enlightenment. How do we deal with people, places, or things that drain our energy and dim our light? How do we go to work and deal with the evil boss? How do we deal with all those things we just don't get to completel...

Another episode on understanding breathing. How does it help us? Do you breath correctly or are you halfway stuck in flight/fight/freeze all the time? When I went to prison I had to learn some new skills. I had to learn skills that would actually serve me and help me to escape the mind prison first and after that I was able to escape the physical prison as well(legally this time!) With breath and...

Welcome to Into The Mirror ! The power of the breath! We all hear it again and again "find your breath".  What does that even mean? I can tell you that learning to breath better and more harmonized took time and persistence but it is so amazing when you learn how. I found that all the euphoria I sought in drugs was freely and readily available through breathing and movement.  There are l...

What truly is masculinity? What are healthy traits of a well balanced man? Society is in more need of masculine balanced healed by our own inner feminine energy. We have to learn as men or a being of masculine nature how to temper the fire and make it useful. I have seen so many altercations between people who just never learned that they are worthy and how to deal with the fire situations. Most p...

Welcome to the next episode of "Into the Mirror". This morning has been a good morning full of love and great discussions of triggers and phobias. Brody shares a car phobia and we both fear being trapped in a pink dress. Well, maybe? haha. Through addiction and healing you learn about triggers but how do they apply when the drugs are gone? Well, if you're human they probably apply a great deal mor...

Open discussion on vibration and mantra. Its all vibrations and yes this is said from bad ass scientists, ancient wisdom, and pot heads all agree about vibes. What is vibration and how do we use mantras in our life? I learned many many meditations and the power of the spoken word through my own awakening. It is real and you can change anything but first we must find the spot within where we believ...

Its quite simple to live a better healthier life and it starts with acceptance and honesty. Brody and I discuss how perspective and being optimistic is so important and amazing to learn how to shift your view. This doesn't mean blind faith and delusions and each day we have to keep reclaiming our own inner space but as we do we see a huge shift in our world. When you can finally get honest about h...

What is ego and what is homeostasis? Why is it so hard to change our patterns? Today we have an open discussion on what these words mean to us and what they mean to others.  Is ego a bad thing? Is ego a good thing? What is homeostasis and what is it in action? What keeps us in a pattern of consistent bad behavior even knowing we don't like it? How do we break free of the old beliefs and old s...

Video Spotify Test- The golden rule is very simple yet much harder in application. What does it  mean to ''do unto others as you would have done to yourself''? Brody  and I have found the power of this rule even in the most unlikely of  places like the streets, jail, hospitals, prisons, and more. How does  the golden rule and karma(action/reaction) work in our lives? Many of &n...

Do you know that beliefs really do create your reality? If you want to debate it go ahead and reinforce your old and binding belief as you only prove my point. Do you feel unwell if the scale says so even if you feel like you look great? Do you say you're devils advocate. Ha Ha believe me, you don't have to live in the mind prisons of hell you have created for yourself by listening to the sick oth...

Today we have an open discussion about addiction and co-dependency and the concept of tough love. I know that without our moms love and telling the system we can be better and its wrong I wouldn't be here and healthy. In the addiction world the concept of tough love is taught in many of the rehab communities and it has been shown to be deadly. Why are we still repeating all the same garbage as thi...

How do we stay confident in a world that can feel very challenging and sometimes knock the wind out of our sails? How do we persist and stay on task towards a goal? How do we learning to stand in our own sacred heart space with total inner confidence? Learning to be the outlier but with healthy levels of defiant "creativity" as I would like to call it. This topic is a large one and this is just Su...

The power of kindness and don't pretend it isn't powerful. We can sometimes believe its perceived for weakness or is it weakness to not stand up and be kind? Kindness can move mountains if you allow it. How does kindness change the brain? Can we always be kind? I am so grateful to have the courage to be kind and so do you. 

Today we discuss tantrums and how do we deal with them? No I mean with you not others. What do you do when you feel the resistance to what you want? How do you deal with emotions and honor yourself but also respect others? Brody had to deal with an Alexander tantrum today and I Alexander am very grateful for good understanding friends. How do I deal with the shame when I don't respond the way I wa...

Taking from the author Brian Johnson in the book " the philosophers notes" he says in the chapter "Zoloft vs Exercise" how important exercise is and how it compares to just medication. I have learned medication, meditation, and exercise have all been the main points for our awakening but how do we know if a medication or anything is serving our fear or our faith? Learning how to honor our body and...

The fine line between courage, rashness and straight impulsiveness. We discuss how fear works for us and how being honest and courageous can be terrifying but we can always move forward and transmute the fear. We always have the ability to be more courageous than we are afraid. How to set some boundaries and in situations that seem impossible and even dangerous to be honest. Aristotle told Alexand...

Welcome to Into the Mirror. We discuss lots on meditation and what does that actually mean? We don't just mean monks meditating? What happened in the west and now most of the east with the loss of the ability to meditate? Can you sit still without anything? Is that even the goal? What kind of meditation we use and the process that unfolded with our awakening. How do we start meditating? Listen in...

On this podcast we discuss the freedom from frustration and how the planet earth seems to be a little more "frustrated" in the last few years than ever before. We know how hard it can be to exist on earth at times with the delusions they have reinforced into us but it is time to release this and we guarantee you can do it and you can feel so much bliss(shocking to me, bliss is a real non narcotic...

Today we discuss the concept of mental prisons and how the always manifested something physical. We have beliefs and ideas that do keep us stuck and in old prison of our old puritanical thinking. Its time to take an open look at how energy and vibration works through our awakening. Can you create a healthy self heart network and also access the world wide web heart with all its pain and toxic thin...

How much food do you eat? is it too much or too little? Why are we so programmed to consume so much garbage? Is there any debate that we "mainstream" humanity eat garbage and treat our bodies like dump trucks? How does shame and guilt destroy any chances of escaping the food or drug prison. We discuss the similarities between food addiction and substances. Mindful drinking? We go over a whole lo o...

A guest star today and our first! Today we discuss a life of limitation or infinite possibilities with Coach John. Coach John was a way into fitness and the concept "we have to break our bodies and build them back up" which most of us believe and end up harming our bodies just to stay fit but this is not how it is for him anymore. He discusses how he went from competing in the Mr. universe pageant...

We discuss the power of hope and our ability to remain positive and confident in the most challenging situations. Do things get better and does the possibility of a better future and your fear of disappointment keep you stuck in cynicism and non-movement? Healing does happen and all things do work for good if you allow it. Do you know you're priceless and divine? It's time you remember. Please lik...

Why can meditating be so hard when we're just trying to relax and focus? It should be simple right but why is is so dang loud when you start? Why do you think that is? We talk about silence and what it is and what it isn't for us. Thank you for listening please like and share.