“What you are aware of, you control. And what you're unaware of controls you.” - Don Joseph

Welcome to this episode of Tactical Friday! In today’s episode, Don Joseph brings us to the practical steps we can take in recognizing our triggers, establishing a healthy viewpoint with our emotions, and ultimately, finding our way to fulfillment.

Don Joseph Goewey is the executive director of the Center for Spiritual Exchange, which is the official archive for all the works of Anthony De Mello. Previously, Don directed a human performance firm that consulted with Fortune 100 companies to alleviate employee stress and elevate people’s experience of work and life. He has also managed the department of psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School, and headed an institute that pioneered a psycho-spiritual approach to overcoming catastrophic life events and which in 2005 was awarded the Excellence in Medicine metal by the American Medical Association. Don is the author of the Amazon bestseller, The End of Stress: Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain, which is based on breakthroughs in neuroscience that facilitate the shift in mindset that changes brain structure to quiet stress reactions and amplify the higher brain function that predicts greater success and happiness in life.

[00:01 - 00:41] Opening Segment

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• For the first part of my interview with Don, tune in to last Monday’s episode 

[00:42 - 12:12] Tactical Steps to Getting Unstuck - On the Way to Success

• Getting unstuck
• Recognize how your brain is wired to perceive demands.
• Short-lived satisfaction or suffering
• Ridding the dysfunctional program
• The way there is awareness to establish control.
• Targeting the thoughts and and painful emotions
• Get to know what’s going on inside you to find out what sabotages your happiness and peace.
• Repressing and identifying emotions
• Get past them by going through them. Allow yourself to feel.
• Step back for objectivity
• Do not say I am depressed, fearful, etc.
• Everything passes, especially emotions
• Allowing peace, happiness, and relief
• Feeling the connection is fulfilment that is already within you

[12:31 - 14:36] Closing Segment  

• Connect with Don (links below) 
• Visit his website for more materials, check out his book on Amazon, and more! 
• Closing words 

Key Quote/s: 

“We are programmed to lean into that, to let that fear have its way with us. And you know, when that happens, you expend a whole lot of energy coping with these negative emotions by expanding even more energy by trying to rearrange the world around you.” - Don Joseph

“There you are in the middle of the torment...acknowledging it may not be reality, and watching it as it passes. And when it does pass, you're free. So relax into feeling free, let your mind be quiet. Observe the peace, and the happiness, the joy, the sense of joy, the sense of relief that arises in you all by itself without you having to do anything. Coming up right behind it is this feeling of connection with all that is, that's fulfillment. That's why seeking fulfillment and the outside world doesn't work. It's already in you, you're already fulfilled. It doesn't come from the outside, it's your natural state.” - Don Joseph

Reference

Stop Fixing Yourself: Wake Up, All Is Well by Anthony De Mello

Connect with Don

Visit his website at https://www.demellospirituality.com/. Catch him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DeMelloSpiritualityCenter/. Follow his Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/demellocenter/. 

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