427: Evolving Toward Emotional Enlightenment
Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod
Hal Elrod
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🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean to move from emotional reactivity to Emotional Enlightenment? How do you go from unconsciously allowing outside forces to determine your emotional state to consciously choosing which emotion best serves you in any given moment or situation?
For over 20 years, this has been an area of focus for me. I've learned how to accept what I can't change, to experience painful emotions in a state of peace and extract maximum value from them, and move on as soon as it makes sense to do so.
In this episode, I want to share with you why Emotional Enlightenment matters. I want to talk about the tools and paradigms that helped me take control of my emotional state, teach you how to optimize yours, and give you the opportunity to experience a guided emotional optimization meditation–something I've never done on the podcast before.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Why every painful emotion we've ever experienced is self-created.
- How the five-minute rule and the Can't Change It philosophy led to breakthroughs in my life.
- Why being in a state of peace diminishes our emotional pain and makes tragedy, trauma, and loss easier to navigate.
- How emotional invincibility can become a handicap–and the extraordinary challenge I faced that led me to emotional enlightenment.
- How emotional optimization meditation works, why I love it, and how to do it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake |
| 0:06.1 | up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable |
| 0:14.3 | strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world-class experts |
| 0:19.0 | and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves and we ask them to give you |
| 0:23.9 | a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same. |
| 0:28.1 | Ready? |
| 0:29.2 | Welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast. This is your host, Hal Elrod, and thank you so much |
| 0:41.5 | for tuning in today. Really, really appreciate you being here, taking the time to listen |
| 0:46.0 | and in today's episode, we're going to talk about evolving toward emotional enlightenment. |
| 0:51.5 | What does that mean? Well, I'll explain here in a second. I want to say this first though. |
| 0:55.6 | Today's episode and most of my episodes are the way that I look at this as if you and I were |
| 1:00.8 | having a conversation. Now, I know it's one-sided, but what I mean by that is this is never scripted, |
| 1:06.8 | this isn't designed to be a master class. In fact, I'm often learning and figuring things out as I |
| 1:12.7 | talk through whatever the topic is for the episode. Just like if you and I were sitting down having |
| 1:16.9 | a conversation face to face, right? Whatever comes up is what comes up and just like that conversation, |
| 1:22.6 | I go off on tangents, I share what comes up for me in the moment and in full transparency. When |
| 1:28.2 | I'm done recording almost every single time, I look back and I wish I would have said things |
| 1:33.7 | differently, certain things, right? I don't know if you can relate to this, but I would imagine that |
| 1:37.4 | for most of us with any important conversation, and I of course view every podcast episode to be |
| 1:43.0 | an extremely important conversation, but after I finish recording almost every episode, I think |
| 1:47.9 | back to what I said, and I wish I would have said a hundred things differently. I think to myself, |
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