Inner Work 166: How are you responding to the world?
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
How are you responding to the world around you, and to the things that happen in your life? What are your default, knee-jerk reactions when something unexpected, unpleasant, or challenging happens?
This episode of INNER WORK will help you investigate your unconscious and automatic responses to life, where they originate, and how you can begin to soften them. I cover:
- 5 unconscious ways of responding to life: being constantly jumpy or nervous (i.e., hypervigilance), internalizing, externalizing, freezing up, and hyperproductivity
- why and how these types of responses are developed in the first place
- how these unconscious responses are meant to protect us (even if they are misguided)
- my own struggles with hyperproductivity - and what I do to return to a place of calm, conscious awareness
If this topic resonates and you want more resources, please check out my interviews with Somatic Experiencing practitioner Rachel Hardy and trauma expert MaryCatherine McDonald:
Why the Trauma Response is Never Wrong with MaryCatherine McDonald, PhD
Healing Trauma & Nervous System Regulation with Rachel Hardy
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast, a place to explore spiritual concepts, tools, and practices to deepen your healing and awakening. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm your host, Josephine Hartman, a certified intuitive healer and a Kashik Records practitioner and teacher. |
| 0:25.1 | I'm honored that you're here and happy to serve as a guide and companion on your path for a little while. |
| 0:32.6 | To learn more about how to work with me or study with me, please visit josephinehartman.com. |
| 0:43.8 | Hello, my friend, and welcome to Inner Work. If you've been getting something out of this |
| 0:49.8 | podcast and would like to keep it alive and help it grow, you can do so by donating any amount that works for you, |
| 0:58.1 | and truly, I mean any amount starting at $1 through the link in the show notes. |
| 1:03.9 | Thank you so much for contributing to this content, for tuning in, and for being a listener of the Inner Work podcast. I so appreciate that. |
| 1:16.5 | And I also want to thank you for being willing to do your inner work, for being willing to |
| 1:21.5 | be honest with yourself about where you are in your life right now, for being willing to |
| 1:27.3 | explore some parts of you that might |
| 1:30.1 | need healing or attention, and that are not always pleasant or fun or pretty to look at. |
| 1:37.4 | The parts of you that sometimes weigh you down or make you not like yourself that much, |
| 1:48.4 | or make it challenging to give yourself unconditional love. |
| 1:58.4 | It's not easy to look at these parts of us. It's not always easy to heal. It's not always fun or easy to do the inner work. We are required to do in order to grow and evolve, |
| 2:02.8 | to become the highest versions of ourselves. But you are here listening to this podcast, |
| 2:09.7 | which means that you really care about all of this. And you are committed to healing yourself, |
| 2:15.8 | to learning to love all parts of yourself, |
| 2:19.5 | to becoming the most authentic and evolved version of you while you're here in this lifetime. |
| 2:28.9 | Many people in the world, even people you yourself know, maybe even people in your own family, are just |
| 2:38.6 | never going to get around to doing this kind of inner work, which makes me sad for them |
| 2:45.8 | and makes me sad for all of us, really. But the thing is, we cannot control or force anyone else into doing |
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