Please forgive me listeners for I have sinned. It's been 6 weeks since my last episode.

This is the perfect setup to talk about some of the benefits of forgiveness and how it applies to your spiritual journey.

Forgiving others and forgiving yourself have tremendous power when it comes to silencing your mind. Stop reliving, ranting or plotting revenge. Forgive, forget and move on.

I really hope you're enjoying these episodes. Please let me know if you have any questions or if you'd like me to talk about a specific subject.

Thanks for listening.

Mat Robinson ~ The Gregarious Hermit

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I want to make a big deal and do a shout out to Darren Lucas, "Higher Universal Man". Thank you so much for allowing me to use your amazing creations on my podcast and specifically for the opening intro. I am so incredibly grateful. Check out Darren's wonderful meditation music and guided meditations on spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/1y9o8vMHoReFx2SxV4qxBP or on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@higheruniversalmanguidedme2726

And if you want to check out Mike and AJ's podcast, "Don't Write that Book", you can give it a listen here - https://open.spotify.com/show/2r07COpHp5c03KzMvy9CdY or check out their website - http://www.dwtbpodcast.com/

These two simple steps you can pay attention to when you meditate will make all the difference and supercharge your meditation experience.

These are not mistakes, but people often skip over these things without realizing just how fundamentally important they are. If you start to incorporate them into your daily meditation routine, you will go from meditation frustration to meditation master.

Hope you find this helpful.

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Meditation can be difficult and frustrating for a lot of people, but adopting these two strategies and adding them to your meditation routine will give you that extra little push into something more exciting. The two things are not difficult and you'll probably go "well duh", but usually when I talk to people that are struggling with meditation it's because they skip over this key step. So they spend their entire meditation just sitting with their eyes closed wrestling with their mind instead of floating on could nine in nirvana.

The second tip is not often taught, but reinforcing this idea right after you finish your meditation can help you bring that peace into the real world with you after you're done. And that's the point isn't it. We meditate to experience peace and bliss, but we also want that to spill over into our everyday life. So making this step deliberate and focused helps your evolution move along a little quicker.

Namaste my friends.

I wish you nothing but peace, love and happiness. Oh and deep inner-peace and infinite bliss.

Mat

Driving is probably one of the best ways to observe your mind in action. With my new, "Enlightened Car Rental" service, you can experience a roller coaster mind fudge that will leave you in no doubt that your mind is never talking to you.

When you can start to drop those inner thoughts, you'll start to experience deep inner-peace and infinite bliss.

When you're driving, you'll notice your mind chattering away complaining about the other drivers around you. But this wonderful thought experiment will reveal the true nature of your mind as the "Enlightened Car Rental" process really messes with your mind.

It will both crush and crash your ego. Get ready for the reboot.

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Life is pretty hectic and stressful these days, and this podcast is all about helping people overcome their struggles by regaining control of their awareness and helping them remain mindful and present. This fresh understanding of the mind can radically change your life without you needing to become a shaven headed Buddhist monk or a flower empowered hippy. The information, tips and tricks are beneficial to everyone on the planet but may be especially enlightening to those going through a spiritual awakening themselves,

Don't forget to like and follow so you don't miss an episode. And if you have any questions about spiritual awakenings, enlightenment or simple stress relief, let me know.

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When you get that tingle when you see that special person walking towards you, have you ever asked yourself who is generating that feeling? And have you ever considered what life would be like if you could feel that tingle constantly. When you realize that all those sensations, the butterflies in your stomach are being created by you, then you can radically change your life and generate those feelings all the time.

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Your mind is designed to keep you alive. It's a finely tuned survival machine, but it's operating in an environment for which it was never designed.

So now the airbags keep going off for all the wrong reasons.

Learn how your body responds to stress and how to reprogram this default behavior.

There's no need to have a heart attack because you have a report due in the morning, so stop letting your "woolly mammoth" avoidance system tell you that you have a problem.

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So this primitive system seems to be working just fine. It's doing exactly what it's supposed to do and keeping us alive. Only now it's working in an environment for which it was never designed.

Here's another great analogy. Flippers are great for snorkeling, but they make lousy dance shoes. And your mind is no different. It's great for keeping a safe from immediate existential harm, but it's terrible when it comes to deciding what is a real threat. In the absence of real dangers in our modern world, it seems to get confused and triggered easily by the most trivial of discomforts.

Our ancestors faced imminent death on a daily basis, and so this system of shock therapy worked really well to keep us alive and evolve the species. There were very few things to worry about, lots of things that could kill us. But our world is so different now. There are not so many things that can kill us, but lots of things to worry about.

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If I get mugged on the subway, I become wary of the subway.

And if I’m in a math class and the teacher asks me a question in front of everyone that I can’t answer or I get the answer wrong. If people laugh at me or I feel like they’re judging me, I will develop a fear of judgment.

I’m going to do an entire episode on this subject because I feel like this is the number one problem affecting society these days, and especially the younger generations that were brought up with smartphones and social media.

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So this primitive system seems to be working just fine. It’s doing exactly what it’s supposed to do and keeping us alive. Only now it’s working in an environment for which it was never designed.

Here’s another great analogy. Flippers are great for snorkeling, but they make lousy dance shoes. And your mind is no different. It’s great for keeping a safe from immediate existential harm, but it’s terrible when it comes to deciding what is a real threat. In the absence of real dangers in our modern world, it seems to get confused and triggered easily by the most trivial of discomforts.

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Fear of public speaking is apparently the number one fear. Although I disagree with that, and I’ll show you why in a moment.

So much for a survival of the species. Now, I’m afraid of speaking.

But am I really afraid of speaking? Or am I afraid I’ll say the wrong thing, forget what I’m supposed to say or my pants will fall down?

Okay, well, let’s take that a step further. What if I say the wrong thing? There’s no real danger there. What if I forget what to say? There’s no danger there either. And what if my pants fall down? There’s no danger there.

So let’s take it a step further again. If any of those things happen to me, there’s a chance that you guys will laugh at me and make fun of me. And these days, I could become a meme.

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In a nutshell, stress kills.

Well, the good news is that it’s very easy to reprogram your mind. There are two steps. First, we have to stop reacting to the mind as much as possible.

If the problem remains just a thought and you don’t physically react to it, then your mind will start to understand that you don’t care about that. You don’t feel threatened. So it’s not something it needs to keep warning you about.

A lot of people ask, why does our mind talk to us. It’s a fairly common question. Through my awakening process I was able to observe the mind when it feels superior as well as when it feels inferior. I also got to spend a couple of years with a completely silent mind. But the real, ahaaaaaa, moment came when that voice in my head slowly started talking again.

Then it became plain to see that our mind is reacting to the world around us simply looking for our advantage. What makes us superior. But underneath all this, is the fear that triggers that response.

This episode of the Infinite Bliss podcast unravels this mystery by providing a very simple, thought provoking theory.

This alternative view of what the mind is doing when you "think" it's talking to you is incredibly eye opening.

You'll view that voice in your head very differently after listening to this episode and will be able to take back control and step away from the drama.

That pesky voice in your head is never talking to you. Listen now to find out why.

Thanks for listening.

Mat Robinson ~ The Gregarious Hermit

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There's only one way you can have your expectations met, but an almost unlimited number of ways they can be broken. See how this primitive process that evolved to improve our chances of survival is now one of the main reasons we're unhappy. Also learn what you need to do to rewire this outdated programming.

When we day dream and make plans, we visualize perfection, how we WANT the future to be.

So what happens when our mind notices that we didn't meet those expectations? We didn't get what we wanted? It starts to complain about what was supposed to be, instead of allowing us to enjoy what is.

We should definitely use our mind to make plans, but we should not allow our mind to get upset when those plans fall short. Being unhappy serves no purpose. It doesn't change anything about our situation. All it does is release small amounts of stress hormones into our system

Don't expect this episode to be any good, and you won't be disappointed.

Love everything, and love everybody.

Mat Robinson ~ The Gregarious Hermit

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Supercharge your life and health by making unconditional love your default response to everything and see how quickly your mind becomes silent. No more complaining, no more worrying, just pure love.

The thoughts in your head control your body. Mat demonstrates this connection with practical examples and shows you how you can take advantage of this, to experience pure love no matter what is going on in the world around you.

It's easy to learn, easy to incorporate into your life - you don't want to miss this episode.

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