Episode Details

Black and white thinking keeps you angry, afraid, and feeling helpless, and right now it's everywhere you look. After six months away, I'm back, and I want to talk about why life is a thousand shades of gray.

We're headed into election season, and there's spin for days. I don't watch the news, and when I do look into something, I ask one question: who does this message benefit? Don't worry, this isn't a politics episode. It's about what happens inside you when all or nothing thinking takes over, and what opens up the moment you ask, "Wait a minute. Is there another way of looking at this?"

I share why your peace reaches further than you think, what a 45-second clip about a menopause bill showed me about seeing both sides, and how trusting my intuition led me to walk away from anesthesia 14 years before I planned, once I stopped accepting that it had to be one way or the other.

Chapters:

(00:00) Welcome to Soul Fusion
(02:00) Back after a six-month break
(05:00) How your peace ripples out
(07:00) Why either/or is a trap
(11:00) When your intuition keeps knocking
(13:00) Who said these are the rules?

Resources mentioned:

The Washington, D.C. meditation and violent crime study (1993): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1006978911496

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Soul Fusion is where identity, neuroscience, and consciousness meet. I'm Penny Chiasson, a board-certified hypnotist and identity-shifting expert, and every week we go beyond mindset hacks and willpower so you can stop thinking your way forward and start becoming.