The importance of this podcast is to put attention on yourself, so you may touch on the most universal needs that are going to benefit your life when challenges arise. When you are able to do this, even some of the time, you will begin to be able to benefit the world as well. It is a common misunderstanding that when we focus on ourselves, this is narcissistic. However, by discovering and accessing our essential needs, it is actually the most generous thing we can do. We can focus on challenges to support ourselves to live and use them to pivot to discovering and activating these essential needs. By recognizing and accepting ourselves as we really are, and not our fictional selves, our social media selves, or our shiniest selves, we can better support ourselves and those around us.

Our desires go awry when we excessively put our focus on success which often excludes interconnectedness, transparency, poverty, and caring for others as we want to be cared for. So of course our self-image can appear shinier and more perfect. Robert offers an invitation for self-inquiry. What has been the greatest desire in your life that has caused the most suffering? Or perhaps even, what desire is causing the most suffering right now? After this reflection, Robert expands our investigation. What happens when desires go awry? Join us for this week's discussion of the self in relation to the desires for power.

Read the transcription and listen to this episode at Awareness That Heals.