Everything Is Better Than You Think

This episode is about self-binding, a practice that is necessary for all of us, but is especially needed when dealing with addiction. Learn more about it in this episode and how it can set you free!

It is our natural tendency to avoid pain, to run from pain, and to sometimes we go to great lengths to try to escape from pain. However, there is a healthy time to run towards pain and knowing this can greatly benefit your life!

In this second episode, the Johns' brothers go deeper with the subject of pain and pleasure and how to balance them in a healthy way in our lives.

A new season begins here with a discussion on pain and pleasure based on Anna Lembke's book Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence. Pain and pleasure are the two basic driving forces in our lives, but new brain research helps us understand how the brain processes them and seeks to find balance.

In this final episode of the season, the Johns' brothers discuss the intersection of gratitude and spirituality.   Ideally, both can compliment each other, but the brothers deal with the topic of what happens when religion creates negative experiences and hinders our gratitude.  Learn how spirituality, if done correctly, can be a tremendous asset to gratitude and how gratitude can greatly benefit...

How do you make gratitude a regular and sustainable practice in your life?  Tune in to this episode to learn how to incorporate gratitude into your life until it just becomes part of who you are.

How do you experience gratitude and its benefits?  You practice it.  Learn six simple, but life changing, gratitude practices you can incorporate into your life in this episode.

Are gratitude and pain incompatible?  If we are practicing gratitude, what do we do in the painful times, in the trials and challenges?  In this podcast the Johns brother discuss the relationship of gratitude and pain.

Much of our identity and self understanding is based on the narrative we tell ourselves about our life.  In this episode, you will be challenged to examine your stories, how you create them and how they impact your quality of life.  One of the most powerful things any human can do is start changing the negative story and start living into a positive one.

The Johns' brothers talk about 3 main barriers to gratitude and how they circumvent our attempts to live in gratitude.  Recognizing these barriers can be huge in helping you move past them and into a healthier and happier mental space.

This is the first episode in this new season on the "superpower" of gratitude.  Learn how your life is actually better than you think (and how that is really the fault of how your mind thinks).  Anxiety, depression, discouragement, sleepless nights, all tied to how how our mind thinks.  Gratitude is the antidote and research shows it can significantly change your life for the better.

Best Thoughts is changing its name to the Everything Is Better Than You Think podcast!  Same brothers, just a new name, and great new content coming soon!

Coming up in Season 7, we talk to Will about his book on gratitude, Everything Is Better Than You Think.

The final two stages in the critical journey are "the journey outward" and "the life of love."  Coming through stage 4, you are a different person and some say that stages 5 and 6 is where real life begins.  Learn more in this final episode about how you can experience the peace and love of these latter stages in the spiritual journey.

This is the second part of the discussion on Stage 4 and what it means to hit the wall and enter the dark night of the soul. This is a time of doubt, fear and losing religion, but somehow it becomes the greatest spiritual blessing to our authentic soul and falling into the Divine.

You never saw this stage coming!  Counter to what we would normally think, there is a stage in the spiritual journey where you feel like you are losing faith and you can no longer believe in what you were taught. Listen to learn more about this counter intuitive stage and how it can be the most spiritually rich stage of your spiritual journey.

Stages 2 and 3 in the Critical Journey are the life of discipleship and the productive life.  Learn more about these first stages in your spiritual journey and what you can expect moving forward.

The Johns' brothers are back for Season 6, this time taking you through the book The Critical Journey.  Learn about the six stages in the spiritual journey that you can expect to encounter as you navigate your way through this thing called "life." And you will be shocked, because these stages are probably not what you expected.

In Season 6 of the Best Thoughts Podcast, the Johns brothers take you through the book, The Critical Journey, which features fascinating research on the spiritual journey and what you can expect as learned from thousands of people who have gone before us.  Spoiler alert, the stages in the spiritual journey are not what you would expect!

How do we learn to prioritize the relationship over the content, to stay connected to people who with disagree with?  It's not easy, but it is necessary to navigate this world and maintain lasting relationships.

In the first of two episodes, the Johns brothers discuss how do we deal with people who are wrong?  It's not easy when you're convinced someone is in the wrong and especially if you have to deal with them regularly!  This episode wrestles with just that challenge.

Bonus Episode!  In this episode we talk with our friend, fitness expert, and personal trainer, Darnyl Allen for a powerful conversation on all things fitness!  It's a great conclusion to our summer fitness series and Darnyl will give you a lot to think about as you seek to be holistically fit! For more information visit our website at www.soulcare.net  

Will power and external factors can motivate us for a while, but any lasting improvement is birthed out of our inner spiritual journey.  Listen to learn how this inner spiritual journey lies at the center of all we truly hope to change and transform in our lives.  There's a Divine power that aids us in the journey and set us free from the habits that entrap us. For more information, visit us at ww...

It's vacation time and family dynamics are on full display this summer.  Family life is a challenge, now more than ever, and in this podcast the Johns brothers discuss the challenges as well as the things that work!  Apply what you learn in this podcast and you can help your family take it to the next level of health and happiness. More information at www.soulcare.net/podcast Email us at bestthoug...

How would you like to improve you financial fitness--to manage your money more effectively and worry less?  Who wouldln't, right?  This episode reminds you of basic financial principles that work and pitfalls to avoid, so that you can be as financially fit as possible!