Stream of Subconsciousness

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” — Confucius We credit ourselves with our successes. What you're willing to risk may come down to what you lack. If you feel you lack skill, that's what you'll test. If you're uncertain about what you believe, you'll aim for truth....

Pauline Victoria is a podcaster and life coach. She says of herself : I was born into darkness, not having arms and legs, and that circumstance will never change. What can be altered is how I choose to live—in love, in joy and in possibility. That is where my victory and my message is. What makes me unique is using what little I was given to live significantly in my small victories to make a great...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com You will stop sabotaging yourself when you stop asking the same questions. This opens a door to a slew of related behaviors, none of which are simple. By considering these related behaviors we can clarify why self-sabotage is both hard to see and hard to stop. •Understanding Is Valuable, Awareness Is Cri...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com Straight Forward Games Playing a fair game is an expression that can refer to living a balanced life. In the context of an actual game, the expression means recognizing the odds and avoiding preferential outcomes... Not So Simple Life Many of the same expectations and rewards of a fair game apply to life...

I Don’t Think Much, and Neither Do You: We consistently, pervasively overestimate our powers of conscious thought... Mapping Out the Territory" We need a map of events in the world to tell us how things are related and how we’re going to react to them... The Train Dream: I had the following dream... “But I Don’t Dream”: We spend a third of our lives in dreams... Dream Work: The best way to be pres...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com “I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”— Groucho Marx • Clarifying A Basic Confusion• Why So Depressed?• There is a Key• Depression as an Aspect of Your Brain• Depression as an Energy• Retraining For Relief

Rachel’s interest focuses on spirit and healing while mine also includes philosophy and science. She introduces our discussion this way: What happens when a physicist turns inward? In this transformative conversation, psychotherapist and consciousness explorer Lincoln Stoller shares his evolution from the rigid world of analytical science into the vast terrain of inner healing, mysticism, and huma...

“All of this (current world situation) is very familiar to anybody who's lived in a country that has experienced the takeover by a… we used to call them Big Men in Africa. “There was this post-colonial, post-liberation period when these figures, very Trump-like figures, came in. And it served a purpose, which was to give people a sense of comfort that in this rapidly changing world they (The Big M...

A June 2025 conversation between me and Philipp Kobald, a podcaster with a startlingly similar background to my own: business, spirituality, mountaineering, psychology, and education. We talk about all of these things incidentally, but float above them on a layer of spiritual concern. This is as it should be. All things should have spiritual foundations. https://holisticcircle.org/blogs/news/what-...

“ The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” — attributed to Albert Einstein Love On the face of it, love is an immature emotion but there are various kinds, so I must be more specific. There are different things to love and ways to love, and some are more enlightened than others. A person can love from different aspects of their being, and each of us expresses these aspects...

In this deeply layered conversation, quantum physicist and clinical counselor Dr. Lincoln Stoller. joins me to explore the terrain between science, and spirit. From neural training, and anxiety to the unseen forces that shape identity. Lincoln opens up about parenting, failure, and the work of becoming who you are. It's a raw, unscripted look into the psychology of creativity, and what it takes to...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com “ Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.” — Charles Addams Intelligence Quotient IQ is a measure of a person’s mental ability to perform functions considered valuable. The metric was created at a time when eugenics was on the rise, and people were being ranked accordin...

https://youtu.be/1b47iyAJro with Ivan Palomino Transforming Work Culture | Passionate about Human Development | Tech Entrepreneur Join two expats, me a New Yorker in Canada and Ivan a Peruvian in Switzerland, as we explore how one authentically changes. You can choose the benefits and the risks but you cannot choose not to change. To not change is to decay. Ivan writes: The world of self-developme...

Introduction to the Introduction In an effort to broaden my reach, I’m creating short video introductions that I can post freely, which direct you to the original post. Here’s one for the post Consequences of an Inflamed Mind (podcast $) : Exploring the connection between anxiety in the mind and inflammation in the body. If you just want to read the piece, without the audio narration, they click o...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com Anxiety is the mental aspect of stress. A number of things happen when one’s body is under stress. Some of the most notable changes are hormonal, vascular, and muscular. Increased muscle tension, blood pressure, and the release of cortisol, a hormone that increases blood sugar and suppresses digestion an...

Robin writes: "What if everything you think you know about healing, mental health, and spirituality... is just the beginning?" "In this soul-stirring episode, I’m joined by the brilliant Dr. Lincoln Stoller, clinical counselor, hypnotherapist, and expert in the subconscious mind. Together, we dive deep into the unspoken truths behind counseling, the fluid nature of “mental illness,” and how your h...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com “ Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained .” — Arthur Somers Roche , author Rising Violence In conversations with therapists we’ve noticed a recent drop-off in clients bookings. The curve of this decline seems...

In an interview at Bold Journey , Daniel Martinez says, “Finding your purpose is the most beautiful topic I love to talk about in life. I have a deep feeling that it is our life’s purpose to find what that is and to be courageous enough to pursue it.” He’s a musician, I’m a therapist, and we entirely agree. He and I explore this further on his audio and video podcast, Tunez From The Crypt . For th...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com “ We are all multiple personalities, in a sense, and to be healthy mentally, I think, learning what those multiple personalities are and inviting them in your life is really important.” — Sally Field , actress and trauma survivor We think of personalities as people, not just attitudes or presentations. M...

“We always think with the world. So when you go inside your head you’re arranging all those things you have already picked up into some kind of order which makes sense for you. That allows you to see structure in the world you have experienced.”— David Amerland This is the first interview that I’ve hosted but, in fact, it played out similarly to all dialogs I’ve had. It reinforced my view that the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com Fractals: The fractal nature of your personality consists of all the things you think are true, and all the habits you repeat... Resonance: Your personality is a resonance between past associations, actions in the present, and plans for the future... “ My life seemed to be a series of events and accident...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com Moods are more subtle than emotions. You will not commit violence or marriage just because of your mood. In spite of their differences moods and emotions are connected: if you move one, you’ll move the other.

Join psychotherapist Lincoln Stoller as he delves into the intricacies of performance and personal satisfaction in life. Whether you’re a high achiever constantly chasing the next milestone or someone feeling overwhelmed by societal pressures, Lincoln offers profound insights into how we can navigate these challenges. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers o...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com Once you become adept at remembering dreams, you start to have dreams in which you go to places you’ve never been, meet conversants you’ve never before encountered, and receive messages that are unexpected. As a person trained in the hard sciences, I have no trouble accepting things that are completely s...

Let me guide you through my protocol for a Past Life Regression session. You’ll find many steps familiar and the whole project to be free of contrivance and showmanship. I hope it’s something you could explore without embarrassment... This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com/subscribe