Reflective Awareness: Embracing Our Shadow Through What We Judge in Others - Dr John Demartini
A New Way of Being
Simon Mundie
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This conversation starts with a truly eye-opening insight: our judgments of others often reveal traits in ourselves that we haven’t fully recognised and owned. Internationally renowned behaviour expert Dr John Demartini identified 4,628 different human behavioural traits, and recognised that we all possess both all of them - positive and negative. This is about what he calls reflective awareness – that we are simply being shown by others what we aren’t loving in ourselves, which keeps us from wholeness.
We also talk about
- What emotional intelligence and authenticity really are.
- Why aligning our actions with our core values is key.
- Recognising the interconnectedness of all life.
- How acknowledging and embracing both sides of existence—like peace and conflict—helps us return to wholeness.
- Recognising hat success is deeply personal, defined by our own values, and that living in alignment with those values is what brings true fulfillment.
- How resisting what is creates all psychological suffering, and what to do instead
'The desire to seek that which is unobtainable, and the desire to avoid that which is unavoidable, is the source of human suffering'. - The Buddha
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| 0:00.0 | The Buddhist said it really nicely. |
| 0:01.9 | The desire to seek that which is unobtainable |
| 0:04.3 | and the desire to avoid that which is unavoidable is a source of human suffering. |
| 0:14.2 | Hello, welcome back. |
| 0:16.0 | This conversation starts with a truly eye-opening insight. |
| 0:20.6 | Our judgments of other people just reveal |
| 0:23.1 | traits in ourselves that we haven't fully recognised and owned. The internationally renowned |
| 0:29.0 | behaviour expert, Dr John Dermartini, identified 4,628 different human behavioural traits and recognised that we all possess each and every one of them, |
| 0:41.1 | positive and negative. So this is about what he calls reflective awareness. We are simply being |
| 0:47.3 | shown by others what we aren't loving in ourselves, which keeps us from wholeness. |
| 0:52.5 | Now, Dr. de Martini talks about how important emotional |
| 0:55.8 | intelligence and authenticity are in this conversation and what they are and why aligning our |
| 1:00.6 | actions with our core values is key. We also explore the interconnectedness of all life and how |
| 1:07.5 | acknowledging and embracing both sides of existence, like peace and conflict, |
| 1:12.6 | helps us return to wholeness. Ultimately, he explains success is deeply personal, |
| 1:17.7 | is defined by our own values, and that living in alignment with those values is what brings true fulfillment. |
| 1:24.1 | I love this conversation. It really was enlightening, and I hope you get as much out of it as I did. |
| 1:33.9 | Let's dive straight in. I've been watching a lot of your work recently, really enjoying it. And one |
| 1:40.6 | thing that you said has leapt out at me, and I think it's been said more clearly than |
| 1:47.0 | I've heard before, which is that what we judge in others is what we secretly or unknowingly |
| 1:55.0 | reject in ourselves, which is such a profound comment that needs explanation. |
| 2:01.4 | Well, thank you. |
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