Welcome to the Art of Accomplishment, where we explore how deepening connection with ourselves and others leads to creating the life we want with enjoyment and ease.

My name is Brett Kistler, and I'm here with my co-host, Joe Hudson.

Good morning. Good morning, Brett. How are you doing?

Yeah, doing well. I just got back from an experience that I found very fascinating.

There was a, I want to kind of keep the details sort of general here, but there was sort of a personal development, like, event that I went to a retreat that I found very fascinating fascinating and I really loved a lot of what was

being taught. And there was also some aspect of it, some component that just sort of rubbed me the

wrong way. And in this particular case, the flavor of it was, you know, these teachings

are, you know, these are the ways that we can free ourselves, and

the world needs this.

The world needs us to free ourselves from our constraints so that we can heal the world

by healing ourselves.

But there was a little bit of pressure pressure in it and i sat with that

through the entire retreat yeah with this juxtaposition of there's so much goodness here yeah and also

there's this feeling of pressure yeah and i could feel it in the people around me like buying it like yes

this is needed.

And it just, yeah, it brought up this topic for me of, you know, there's so much out there

that people can explore on whether it's a spiritual path or meditation practice or whether

it's a self-development workshop or some psychedelic facilitator they might sit

with or or simply just a meditation app or a church or in a group. You know, there's there's so much

out there. And that was one particular example of something that I see common in many of them. And I just wanted to sort of have a conversation about what are some of the signs of where a teacher or a path or a practice where there might be something you want to look into here. I don't even want to use the

word red flag, but just what are some of the dynamics that can occur? I would say that there

is like some red flags and there is some also humanity. And I think those get confused often.

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