You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brookestio episode number 341.

Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast, where it's all about real clients, real problems, and real coaching.

And now your host, Master Coach Instructor Brookestio.

Well, hello, my beautiful friends.

I'm excited about today's topic, desire.

I've talked a lot about desire in the past in many different ways, but I'm going to try and pull the whole concept together into one podcast.

So we can kind of evaluate it from all the different angles.

First, I want to tell you that from my perception, our desires are very, very important.

Our desires are the map to follow to our best life.

Paying attention to what we truly desire is a very good practice.

It's a very good hobby.

It's a very great thing to do.

The issue with it is that often what we think are our truest desires, often what we think we want, is convoluted by societal expectations and family member expectations and programming.

So it's not a simple practice to simply ask yourself what you want and listen for the first answer, because often that first answer is that false desire.

So I want to review some terminology before we get started that I documented and created based on the work that I have done that I think will be useful for many of you.

Desire, I put it in the offline.

It's an emotion.

It's something that you feel.

It's that longing.

It's that awakening for more for something.

A lot of times when I've read the philosophies that I really enjoy the Eastern philosophies, then a lot of what they talk about there is the desire that causes pain,

the desire to be anywhere other than where you are to have anything other than what you have to be attached to something.

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