Changeable Podcast

In Episode 224, I talked about a man who had been everywhere and tried everything looking for freedom, except one thing – being in What Is. One hundred and six episodes later, this still feels like perhaps the only thing to see. In this episode, I share several examples of the same – people suffering and The post EP330: The way out is right under your nose: Part 2 appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson...

I want to invite you to join me for a brand new 4-week course called No-Self Realization: A Thorough Search in Direct Experience for the Separate Self.  What exactly are we referring to when we say “I”? What exactly does that pronoun point to? Is there an entity there, separate from life? Where? As Adyashanti says, The post Special Announcement: Join me for a new course: No-Self Realization: A Tho...

Are trust and wisdom needed? Who needs them? Seriously, look. Can you find the entity here who needs to trust or align with wisdom in order to be okay? Where is that entity? Is there anything here lacking wisdom? Where? Really look in immediate experience and see if you can find it. Is there something here to The post EP329: Who needs trust? Who needs wisdom? appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In this episode I revisit the topic of morning anxiety. I experience strong physical energy in the morning at times as well. I actually enjoy it. The strong sensations serve as a way to let attention go straight into What Is. I use this early morning time to explore the sense fields, including watching thought arise The post EP328: Morning anxiety appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

This episode was Inspired by a question from a listener about how doubt seems to be behind her continued OCD behaviors. Her take was that she needs more trust in wisdom and less doubt for her rituals to finally come to an end.  I give another take and explore doubt in a bigger sense. What The post EP327: Doubt  appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Today’s episode is the opening of another The Little School of Big Change call from the recent 6- week course.  You are what’s here. When pain is here, you are pain. When anxiety is here, you are arising as anxiety. When joy is here, what you are is joy. Pain, anxiety, joy, and any other fleeting sensation The post EP326: Nothing happens to you  appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

This saying is very common.  Stay in the conversation and things will begin to land more deeply. Although this seems true at a certain level, it also invites you to fall into the common traps of “waiting, “someday” and “becoming”, which are all thoughts. What can you do beyond simply staying in the conversation? We’ll explore that The post EP325: When “staying in the conversation” is not enough ap...

Life is constantly letting go. You don’t let go. You are let go. Who-you-take-yourself-to-be arises and dissolves as experience in each and every moment. Today’s episode is a portion of a recent call with the LSBC 6-week course where we explore the effortless, always letting go nature of life. ***Join me for a 6-day silent retreat in The post EP324: Always letting go  appeared first on Dr. Amy Joh...

It’s not uncommon that someone might argue, “You say self is a thought, but no-self is also a thought, isn’t it?” Or, “Isn’t nonduality another belief?” Everything is a thought or belief when it’s a thought or belief. So yes, no-self can be a belief exactly like self can be a belief. But what’s between self and The post EP323: Everything is a thought…except what’s not  appeared first on Dr. Amy Jo...

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Thought creates a sense of continuity. It creates a sense of you living your life with your past and your future. All of that – you, your life, your past, your future – only exist in and as thought. This process will happen. But what I discuss in today’s episode is the thought that says it’s The post EP321: Responsibility (It’s okay to not carry things through time) appeared first on Dr. Amy Johns...

Many questions are seeking conceptual answers. The answers to those questions tend to keep the questioner in ideas and concepts. Those are common and innocent, but generally unhelpful. We’ll explore some of the most common unhelpful questions and see what makes them unhelpful, and then look at some helpful questions – which point beyond the conceptual – The post EP320:  Helpful and unhelpful quest...

Let’s have a serious talk. Thoughts are not true. Honestly, how in the world could they be? How could a formless blip of energy with some untouchable, vague images or memories or words, know about ‘you’ or the future? Thought is what creates the imaginary idea of a future. There isn’t a future known by thought. It The post EP319: Stop believing thoughts (and there are no “intrusive” ones) appeared...

In this episode, we explore two definitions of the word fix. There is to fix, as in to correct. We try to correct or fix a problem, or ourselves, or the way life appears to be unfolding. The other is to fix something into place, as in to solidify. Identities, opinions, and problems appear more or The post EP318: Nothing is ever fixed appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In this episode I respond to a question I received from someone who experiences depersonalization and derealization. Specifically, the questioner shared that they don’t believe this is a thinking disorder and do I agree? This sent me on a bit of a nice rant 🙂 I do agree. No thinking is “disordered” in the same way that The post EP317: Are there thinking disorders? Is depersonalization one, or is...

I so often hear people feeling they are making things worse. They say things like, “I’m resisting, which is making these feelings worse” or “This anxiety is making my physical pain worse”.But what if “I’m making it worse” is just a thought? Can one thought really make another thought or sensation worse? Does it have that The post EP316: You’re not making it worse appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson...

In today’s episode, I share an example of someone who experiences “health anxiety” to show how experience is “all conditioning” (EP310) and also how there is no conditioning (EP311).    We explore the related idea that there is something other than what is right here, right now. This is another paradox. I feels like things The post EP315: No secret rooms appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Ana wrote to me saying that she began having social anxiety two years ago. She said she’s ashamed because she wishes she was strong enough to let this go. She went on to talk about how things are for her, but that first statement alone reveals a lot. She’s ashamed of something that has nothing The post EP314: Social anxiety, physical reactions, and knowing better: Questions from a listener appeare...

Today’s episode is a conversation with Sarie Taylor and her Worldwide Wellbeing Community. When the mind is trying to hold onto some shred of perceived control, it often says something like “we have no control over what shows up, but we do have some control over what we do with it/pay attention to”.  But that’s still The post EP313: No choice – Not even in what is given attention appeared first on...

In episode 306, Bill Giruzzi shared his experience and the insights he had during a period of extreme anxiety and suicidal depression. In today’s episode, his wife Lisa shares the incredible insights she had during that same time.  In so many profound ways, Lisa deeply realized that nothing in life is really up to her. When The post EP312: It’s Not Up to Me with Lisa Giruzzi appeared first on Dr....

Last week’s episode was called It’s All Conditioning. And, also, there is no conditioning. Conditioning is an idea that depends on time. It exists only in thought, which means it has no lasting, real existence. It’s an appearance, albeit a persistent, very real-feeling one. Conditioning exists in duality, as a label for a fleeting experience. The unconditioned The post EP311: There is no condition...

All experience, in a sense, is conditioned. It’s all learned. And it can’t be anything other than what it is.  It’s not your conditioning. The you with a life and problems and a past and future IS conditioned thought. It can’t have conditioning or be conditioned. It is a conditioned thought. There is a sense of The post EP310: It’s all conditioning (and it can’t be any other way) appeared first on...

This episode is a guided meditation of sorts…or something like that. We’ll lean together into what’s always here, never changing. What is here between thought and no thought? What’s aware of my voice? What’s wide awake when body and mind feel tired?  The post EP309: Guided meditation: What’s always here? appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In this episode, we explore one of my favorite phrases: Who cares? We’ll look at this in two ways. First, who cares, as in ‘so what?’. Second, who cares as in ‘who is the one apparently experiencing caring? Do you care about the things you’re reactive to? Do you really, or is caring a conditioned The post EP308: Who cares? appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Everything we’re looking for – freedom, realizing your true nature, peace – is about letting go of everything we thought was true and real. It’s a massive letting go. Anything we cling to, or even believe, holds us back. This includes all pointers and all paradigms. Pointers and paradigms are like a flaming arrow. We follow The post EP307: Trust yourself enough to let go of paradigms  appeared fir...