Matt Finch takes you on a DEEP Dive Breakdown of the Serenity Prayer in this fascinating episode. You’ll learn how to rewire your brain, optimize your mind, and harness your spiritual power through a process that results in Living the Serenity Prayer and embodying the being-ness of Serenity, Courage, and Wisdom.
Here are the main topics discussed in Episode #321:
- Harnessing the Powers of Acceptance of things we can’t control, Courage to Make Positive and many times difficult Changes, and Wisdom to Discern the difference
- Looking at the Serenity Prayer with fresh eyes while ditching the stigma
- What is Serenity?
- What exactly is meant by accepting things one can’t control or change?
- What is Courage?
- What exactly is meant by gaining and using courage to change things one can?
- What is Wisdom?
- What is exactly meant by gaining and using Wisdom to discern the difference between the two (what we can and can’t change or control)?
- The difference between saying the prayer, saying it with emotion and clarity, and actually Living the Serenity Prayer through embodiment, Unconscious Competence (Neuroplasticity from repetition), Habit, and Personality/Consciousness Embedded-ness
- In my old life, I constantly thought about and obsessed and worried about and stressed about and focused sharply and narrowly on:
- 1) What I had no control or even influence over
- 2) What was lacking from my life according to my subjective and very long list of 99% materialistic and ego-based desires
- Serenity (noun) – the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled
- Acceptance (noun) – 1) the action of consenting to receive or undertake something offered 2) the action or process of being received as adequate or suitable, typically to be admitted into a group
- True acceptance is being able to acknowledge the situation without resistance.
- We don’t have to like, want, choose, or even support the situation.
- We simply recognize that it is what it is.
- What is out of our control and ability to change?
- Other people
- Places
- Things
- The past
- Courage (noun) – the ability to do something that frightens one
- Strength in the face of pain or grief
- The quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear.
- What are things we can use courage to change?
- Our Thoughts, Speech, and Behavior or to put it another way:
- What we think, say, and do
- Our Thoughts, Speech, and Behavior or to put it another way:
- Wisdom (noun) – the ability to make good judgments based on what you have learned from your experience or the knowledge and understanding that gives you this ability
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Disclaimer: This episode is for informational/educational use only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult with your physician if you believe you may have a health condition.
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