Hello everybody welcome back to the primal potential podcast we are talking

cheap imitations this is something that I think has probably been unaddressed for too long and it is a big

stumbling block for so many of us and explains a lot of why we wrestle with the same things for so long despite wanting

something totally different. How can we still have this struggle? How come we

still haven't tackled it? And I think a big part of the problem

is cheap imitations, low quality substitutes, and this takes a lot of forms let me give you an example

cheap imitation pleasure is not joy

cheap imitation energy is not being energized.

And we're going for these cheap imitations that can never satisfy,

wondering why it never hits, it's never enough.

We need more, we can't stop. Right, cheap imitation pleasure. Confusing that for joy. I want

something that's

feels good so we go for this cheap imitation pleasure and maybe that is

watching other people's drama unfold on television. That ain't joy. Maybe it's

chocolate or it's alcohol.

And we confuse pleasure with having joy filled lives. We've lost sight of what joy is. We've lost sight of what quality entertainment is and we go for this cheap entertainment that never

fills, that never satisfied, that never really hits. And honestly that's

the least of it. It's so much more damaging than that for so many people.

Think about this. Cheap imitation energy. Gotta have my coffee, gotta have the energy drink, I need some sugar because of that

afternoon crash and we confuse that cheap imitation energy for being energized.

We think that is the solution for this thing that we seek. We want to be

vibrant. We want to have energy. We want to feel like we have vitality in our days and yet we go for this cheap imitations.

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