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Wellness + Wisdom Podcast

Self-Sabotage is a Lie: The Hidden Duality Keeping You Stuck | Dr. John Demartini

Wellness + Wisdom Podcast

Josh Trent

Education, Self-improvement

4.8913 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Is self-sabotage the result of rejecting one side of your own duality?

Josh Trent welcomes Dr. John Demartini to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 803, to dismantle the myth of self sabotage, reveal how duality governs perception and destiny, unpack why pride and shame distort authenticity, explore the hidden order behind chaos and so called evil, and show how integrating opposites through the right questions unlocks gratitude, fulfillment, and true self mastery.


In This Episode, Dr. John Demartini Uncovers:

  • (01:15) Self-Sabotage Is a Myth
  • (05:00) Mastery Happens Through The Opposites
  • (09:25) Perception Changes Absolutely Everything
  • (14:40) Values Hierarchy
  • (19:50) Pride VS Gratitude
  • (27:15) You Can't Get Rid of The Ego
  • (31:45) What Stops Your Growth
  • (34:35) What Is God?
  • (40:10) The Purpose of Evil
  • (46:25) The Illusion of Morality
  • (51:55) Teach Your Children Accountability
  • (58:10) Good and Bad Don't Exist
  • (01:00:50) Your Values Define You
  • (01:07:45) Synthesis + Synchronicity
  • (01:10:35) You're Part of The Matrix
  • (01:14:40) Ask The Right Questions
  • (01:17:25) Love + Gratitude Are The Key

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Self-sabotage is a myth.

0:02.0

It's not really sabotage, it's feedback to let you know you're pursuing something that's not really the very highest priority.

0:08.0

Because if you strive for that which is unobtainable and try to avoid that which is unavoidable,

0:13.0

you're going to feel disempowered because you can't do it.

0:16.0

The polarities are feedback mechanisms guiding us back to authenticity.

0:20.0

True self-worth is the synthesis and

0:22.0

synchronicity of the elevated and depressed self-esteem, the pride and the shames, the success

0:26.7

and the failures dictate your perception, decisions, and actions, and your identity revolves

0:31.9

around what you value most. You only react to people on the outside that represent a part

0:37.4

of you on the inside that you haven't owned.

0:39.3

And you only resent them because they're reminding you of something you feel ashamed about,

0:43.3

that you're hiding from yourself, and they're coming into your life to help you see it.

0:46.3

They're your teacher, not your enemy.

0:48.3

They're actually a guide for you to uncover the part of you that you haven't loved yet.

0:52.3

But we don't see it because we're trapped

0:54.2

in the moral hypocrisies and the polarities of the amygdala. At the level of the essence of the soul, nothing's missing. So I'm a whole being and I don't need to get rid of any part of myself or I don't need to find some part that I think is missing. It's not. It's there. Ryan Holidayiday has a book. Ego is the enemy. I disagree.

1:12.4

But what are your thoughts on the integration of the ego rather than the demonization of the ego?

1:20.0

If self-sabotage is a myth and we don't really sabotage ourselves, what is self-sabotage in your own vernacular?

1:28.3

Each individual lives by a set of priorities, a set of values, things that are most

1:35.3

the least important into it. Whenever they set goals and objectives that are aligned and

1:40.6

congruent with what they value most, which is their most intrinsic value.

1:46.4

They spontaneously act.

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