90. JP Sears: I Am Your Guru. How To Be Ultra Spiritual & Humbly Superior

The Life Stylist

Luke Storey

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Spirituality, Alternative Health, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2017

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Can making fun of yourself (and everyone else) who's into health & wellness, spirituality, and yoga get you to enlightenment? Today’s guest, JP Sears, thinks you can. Base on this interview, he might just be there already himself.

But who is JP Sears anyway? You’ll most likely know him for his hilarious, and consistently viral videos on health, various diets, biohacking, and for being 'ultra-spiritual.'

In this interview, we discover how JP uses satire and humor as a trojan horse by which to infiltrate the minds and spirits of his viewers, in order to usher in a deeper, more meaningful understanding of life.

Self-awareness is a powerful tool by which we can objectively see ourselves as we really are. But how well can we accurately do that? We people are creatures of habit, and often need another set of eyes to reflect reality back to us. JP Sears and his message are that reflection.

You'll walk away from this episode with some very powerful spiritual practices that you can start using right away. One of JP's top recommendations is to stop taking ourselves so seriously, and to learn how to stay more connected to the people you love.

This is not only a funny and lighthearted show, but it also issues a challenge to each listener: To be willing to honestly and humbly explore their own humanity, and have copious amounts of fun with that process along the way.

Do you know one person who loves to poke fun at their own silly habits and personality traits? Of course you do! Please to us all a favor and share this interview with them.

Thanks for tuning into the show. We’re creeping up on 1 Million downloads, largely thanks to thoughtful people like you sharing with friends and family. Please continue to do so. It really helps!

Luke

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Topics Discussed on today's Episode:

The sillyness of biohacking practices, and how his videos make fun of everything i do on a daily basis
How to recognize approval seeking in your life and on social media, and how to break the habit
We examine the massive amount of energy we typically waste on the hyper vigilance of seeking approval
Where does the desperate need to be liked come from?
We discuss the fact that the more you try to get people to like you, the more they are repelled by you
Learning how to overcome shame and own your weirdness
How to be truly authentic and find your real identity and personality
Where being healthy ends and being obsessive compulsive begins, and how to find a balance
How health practices are often used as a distraction from doing the more important inner personal growth work
Why spiritual biohacks like human connection, gratitude and love work better than all of the technology-based practices we all use to feel good
The power of self-awareness and surrendering to the discomforts of life
The new era of transparent advertising and marketing
Walking the fine line between effective marketing and being creepy and manipulative
Who JP used his humor to stay humble, and help others to awaken

Transcript

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0:00.0	The Lifestylist, Episode 90, featuring J.P. Sears.
0:28.3	I'm Luke Story, a former celebrity fashion stylist and founder of School of Style.
0:39.6	For the past 20 years, I've been relentlessly dedicated to my deepest passion, designing the ultimate lifestyle based on the most powerful principles of health and spirituality.
0:47.2	The Lifestyleist Podcast is a show dedicated to sharing my discoveries and the experts behind them with you.
1:13.5	What's up? It's Luke. I'm back with another episode of the Lifestyleist podcast. Today, my guest is none other than the esteemed YouTube and comedic sensation, J.P. Sears, of whom I'm a massive fan. I got all starstruck in this interview. So I was like, dude, this guy is so funny. And all of his work essentially makes fun of every single thing I do in my personal and professional life. So if you haven't seen his videos,
1:19.1	you could possibly have been living under a rock for the past couple years, or you just don't
1:23.8	have any really good friends with the sense of humor that send you his stuff like I do. I've had a few friends that have forwarded me his videos over the years and been like,
1:31.7	ah, ha, ha, he's making fun of you. Well, it turns out he's making fun of a lot of people,
1:35.7	but it's done with a lot of consciousness and heart. And that's why I had such a great time
1:40.0	doing this interview slash conversation with JP. So some of the things we covered in this here episode are as follows.
1:48.3	The silliness of biohacking practices and how his videos make fun of literally everything I do on a daily basis
1:54.0	and how that keeps me hopefully a little bit humble.
1:57.4	How to recognize approval seeking in your life and on social media and how to break the habit.
2:01.6	Then we examine the massive amount of energy people typically waste on the hypervigilance of approval seeking.
2:07.6	And where does this desperate need to be liked actually come from?
2:10.6	We discussed the fact that the more you try to get people to like you, the more they are repelled by you,
2:16.6	sort of a spiritual axiom of the universe that tends to backfire on us when we're trying to be popular.
2:22.4	Learning how to overcome the shame of your own weirdness and individuality.
2:27.4	How to be truly authentic and find your real identity and personality.
2:31.5	Then where being healthy ends and being obsessive-compulsive begins and how to
2:36.1	find balance in your life and how health practices are often used as a distraction from doing the
2:41.3	more important inner personal growth work. Why spiritual biohacks like human connection,
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