Ep 450: Shaman's Tips For An Amazing 2026, pt.7

The Jim Fortin Podcast

Jim Fortin

Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Start Your Transformation Now In this powerful continuation of the Shaman’s Tips for an Amazing 2026 series, Jim reveals why suffering is never random—and never caused by the world outside of us. Drawing from shamanic teachings, personal stories, and decades of transformational coaching, he explains that suffering always comes from one place: non-acceptance of the present moment. When we resist “what is,” attach to old identities, or expect life to match our internal model of how it should be, we create our own pain. Jim goes deeper into the role of attachment, identity, brain-based patterns, emotional habits, and inherited beliefs. He shows how these unconscious attachments keep people stuck in struggle—while believing the struggle is happening tothem. Through personal anecdotes, reflections on Don Javier’s teachings, and real-life examples, Jim helps listeners see how suffering dissolves the moment they stop resisting what’s here now. If you’re ready for a more peaceful, grounded, and empowered 2026, this episode will help you release the weight you’ve been carrying. When you understand how to accept your now—and consciously create from it—you step into true freedom. What You’ll Discover in This Episode: Why suffering is a choice—even when it doesn’t feel like one (02:52) Jim explains how all suffering comes from attachment and non-acceptance of the present, not from external circumstances. How identity keeps you stuck in old patterns (09:14) You’ll hear why your brain clings to familiar identities—even painful ones—and how this neurological wiring prevents change. Why you keep reliving the stories you grew up with (09:50) Jim breaks down how childhood conditioning around money, struggle, and self-worth becomes an unconscious template you repeat for decades. The real reason people resist change (12:13) Learn why the brain prioritizes predictability over happiness, and how this survival mechanism keeps you attached to what you say you don’t want. Why living in the past or future creates suffering (15:09) Jim shows how perceptions—not events—create emotional pain, especially when we compare the present to a different imagined reality. The freedom of living fully in the now (18:04) Discover shamanic perspectives on presence, including why Don Javier never takes photos—and how presence dissolves suffering instantly. Why “it is what it is” is a spiritual power tool (20:56) Jim explains how acceptance opens the door to creativity, peace, and personal freedom. How to stop fighting life and start creating from the present moment (23:16) You’ll learn how acceptance empowers you to change anything you don’t like—without attachment or emotional resistance. Listen, apply, and enjoy! Transformational Takeaway Suffering doesn’t come from your job, your past, your circumstances, or the world—it comes from resisting the present moment. When you accept your life exactly as it is, without judgment or attachment, you reclaim your power. From that place, you can create anything. Acceptance is not resignation; it is the gateway to transformation. When you stop fighting “what is,” you stop suffering—and you open the door to a wiser, freer, and more authentic version of yourself. Let’s Connect: Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! With gratitude, Jim

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Transform Your Life from the Inside Out podcast.
0:04.2	This is another part in the I don't know how many parts I'm going to do in this series,
0:09.5	but Shaman's Tips for an Amazing 2026.
0:13.0	And the subtopic of this particular episode is suffering and why you choose to suffer.
0:23.6	Now, when I said, I don't know how many episodes I'm going to do in this particular air quote series. I have new music, new format coming. I'm going to start
0:29.2	interviewing people, candidly, just transparently to give myself a break. These episodes are a lot
0:34.3	of work to curate. So if I start doing episodes, every other episode, that gives me a break and brings you a different,
0:42.7	you know, different content as well that I can expand upon from, again, the perspective
0:47.8	of shamanism.
0:49.5	Anyway, so suffering and why you choose to suffer.
0:53.8	No one consciously suffers instead, I suffer because I want to suffer.
0:58.8	And then when I say, you know, you may think, well, Jim, I don't choose to suffer.
1:02.8	Are you kidding me?
1:03.3	I don't want to suffer.
1:04.9	Yeah, you do.
1:06.5	And it's not conscious, but it's unconscious.
1:09.3	I get it because for many, you know, many years ago, when I was much younger, if you ask me what my life was like
1:16.8	in my 20s, financially only, other areas that was great, but financially, it was insufferable.
1:24.8	It was horrible, at least in my mind.
1:27.2	I mean, I was being ridiculous. I had food.
1:29.3	I had shelter. I never went without a meal. I, you know, I was fine. But in my mind, based
1:35.3	upon where I thought life should be, I wasn't accepting life for what it is, it was insufferable
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