Insights with Joe Pane

In Episode 43 of Insights, Joe talks about how to reset our perspective. He explores some insights on near-death experiences and how to use them as a vehicle to reset our perspective. “… There are two people that I follow in the near-death experience research space. One of them is a fellow called Dr. Kenneth ring, who is a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Connecticut… and Raym...

In Episode 42 of Insights, Joe talks about the difference between feelings and emotions. "So the difference between emotions and feelings is that emotions come from our experiences, and our feelings come from our thoughts. emotions come from our experiences. And our feelings come from our thoughts..." " Life is not how it is... Life is how you and I are. So we are an accumulation of all the though...

In episode 41 of Insights, Joe shares the second part of "The power of our narrative". "...The question needs to be, Who am I growing into becoming? What am I becoming? And who am I becoming? Am I liking what I'm becoming? Am I connecting with who I am becoming? Am I enjoying who I'm becoming? Because a big part of who we are being and who we are evolving into, I believe, and as far as this mindse...

In episode 40, Joe shares a very organic conversation about the power of our narrative...  "...what is your narrative?  is bringing you joy or is it bringing you hell? is your narrative bringing you flow?  does it  bring you disruption or does your narrative bring you fulfillment?..." "...We all need a story! We can't live without a narrative of some kind, because that's where...

In episode 39 Joe talks about becoming a professional human being and the gap between the inner and outer worlds.  "... the journey to becoming what I call a professional human being is to close this gap between these two worlds..." "...Our outer world is something that we do. It's a way that we behave, a behaviour that we do in order to be accepted to fit in, whereas our inner world is our e...

In Episode 38 of insights, Joe talks about the needs of the ego.   Joe talks about how using our ego in an 'unhealthy way' can hurt people and brings up the importance of recognising 'healthy ways' to use our ego. "...I define the ego as fundamentally as a survival mechanism designed to make us feel safe, to feel secure to feel good..." "...whenever we're coming from fear of any kind, we're c...

In episode 37, Joe shares his insights around al quote he came across by the novelist Wendell Berry:  "...when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work. And when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey..." "...we can't see beyond the choice that we haven't made..." Enjoy!

In Episode 36, Joe talks about how the centrepiece of emotional fitness, the core of emotional fitness is having a healthy identity, a healthy self-concept, a healthy view of how we see ourselves in the world. “… there are five points that flow one after the other: #1 identity which influences #2 perspective, which directly influences #3 our thoughts and what we focus on, which directly affects #4...

In Episode 35 Joe talks about something he loves... and it's the difference between a virtue and a value. Joe talks about 6 virtues and dives deep into the meaning and aspects of how we can experience them: The virtue of wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, transcendence...  "...these six core virtues are wonderful. I love these. They're wonderful standards of living they wonderful...

In Episode 34 of Insights, Joe talks about how all perception is a projection and expands on how it happens. "...the purpose of our lives is to be ourselves. But first of all, we have to reclaim all the aspects of ourselves that we dumped..." "...next time you notice something that triggers you ... whatever you adore and whatever you hate, those extremes that trigger you next time... bring an insa...

In Episode 33 of Insights, Joe talks about the wisdom of quitting. "...how do we know when it's right to quit something? How do we know when it's wrong?  when we're just defining ourselves? How do we know if we're tempted to quit on a dream or career or relationship?  How do we know if that reaction is fear-based versus y based in true wisdom? ..." "...The fundamental prerequisite or gro...

In episode 32, Joe continues diving deeper into the distinctions about values. "...The first type whether your careers based driven person or a relationship, driven person..." "...Secondly, there are fundamentally two groups of values, extrinsic based values. And then there are intrinsic values, which is the true compass that exists within us. Then within intrinsic values, there are three groups o...

In episode 31, Joe continues the conversation about the distinctions he has identified about values.  "...another way of looking at our values is that our values are our deepest desires, their emotional states that matter to us the most..." "...that's why the word inspiration comes to mind when I think of values in spiritus. to breathe to come from within, in spirit inside us..." "...just bec...

In the 30th episode of Insights, Joe explores the ultimate emotional compass, which is our values. Joe has about 20-30 key distinctions of what values are and what they're not and he is sharing his insights about this emotional compass in two parts. Some insights from this episode: "I believe that this journey of life is a journey of values..." "The purpose of our values is to bring some kind of o...

In episode 29 of Insights, Joe talks about the relation between value perception based on context.  Joe shares a very interesting social experiment about perception and talks about his own 'night club' experience. "...The power of the company that we keep the power of the people who we share our soul with the power of the connection of the right people that we share, who we are with, mak...

In episode 28 of Insights, Joe talks about the doorway to growth and what it means to be an emotional adult. "The moment that we think we've arrived is the moment where begins to end..." "...Everything in nature is either green and growing or ripe, and rotting..." "...We are expanding our own world, through the language that we use to label our experience of that world..." Enjoy!

In episode 27 of Insights, Joe talks about the commemoration of ANZAC Day.  He shares some insights about the contrast between what we are living in the present time compared to what was experienced in 1919. Some insights from the episode: "...When we make our lives about others when we're contributing, doing something for somebody else, unconditionally with no expectation of return when we'r...

In episode 26 of Insights, Joe talks about conformity being the opposite of courage. Some insights from this episode: "...the opposite of courage is not fear, the opposite of courage is not cowardice. The opposite of courage is conformity..." "...to have the courage to be you. We all need to be prepared to be misunderstood. Because the more we live, the more loyal we are to our own values to our o...

In episode 25 Joe talks about the current situation and the importance of demonstrating compassion towards other humans. Joe asks: What if everything was happening for us instead of to us? "...to each day comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the choice or the chance to do a very special thing unique to them and fitted to their talen...

In episode 24 Joe explores the concepts of positive psychology and talks about the antidote to stress.  "...what's been interesting is that there was a research from the University of Michigan that actually showed that having the intention and trying to relax in the midst of stress doesn't seem to work that well..." "...do yourself a favour... go and learn something new..." "...Expand yoursel...

In episode 23 Joe continues the conversation about the current global situation and the uncertainty about uncertainty. "...we are experiencing uncertainty within a timeline that is uncertain..." "...we're gonna have all these micro-moments, these micro-moments have something to look forward to. It's really, really important..." "...if you find yourself getting anxious again, bring yourself back to...

In Episode 22, Joe continues the conversation about the current Global situation and the importance of staying not only 'safe' but also 'sane'. "...Uncertainty has always been part of our life. The only difference at the moment is that we are experiencing an acute dose of it..." "...most emotional stress is actually experienced in our imagination. That is, it's being experienced in our future time...

In Episode 21 Joe talks about the white elephant in the room... except this white elephant is different because everyone is talking about it….the virus. "Extreme situations bring out the extremes in people. In extreme situations, the masks fall away and we see the truth of people’s characters..." "The health of our perspective is inspired by what we make things mean. What we make things mean influ...

In Episode 20, Joe talks about the Most Powerful Force in Human Behaviour. Joe dives deep into the concept of 'Identity' and the 'vehicles' to express it. He also shares the importance of finding different ways to express this identity and he says "find the things in life that lights you up" Some quotes from Episode 20: "...Identity is the most powerful force in the human conditional in human beha...

In Episode 19 Joe talks about a new distinction he has found when defining freedom. Joe shares his definition of freedom and compares it to what is the most common definition of it and the sustainability of that approach. "...the most typical definition of freedom is to be able to do whatever I want, whenever I want. And I just want to ask you if you could open your mind up even more than normal,...