Why You Suffer | The Mindset Mentor Podcast

Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial, and if you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so that you never miss another episode. And if you're out there and you love this podcast and you're working on yourself and you want to get better, go ahead and go to mondayemail.com right now. Once again, it's mondayemail.com and every Monday I will send you an email with tips and tricks on how to improve your mindset and some of the stuff that I'm doing in my life to improve myself. And I'm gonna give you some of that so you can start to use it as well. So once again, it's absolutely free suffering 10 years later from somebody that cheated on them 10 years ago and thinking that they're not good enough 10 years down the road. And so when I say suffering, that's what I mean. And we're gonna talk about the path of a human and the path of growth as a human. And first, we start off being a child, right? And if you think about children, like, I have a lot of children that are in my family. I grew up and, you know, when I go to Christmas, we have 40, 45 of us that are back home. But when I was a kid, there were always children around. Always. You know, we were raised Roman Catholics, so we reproduce like bunnies. And so those you guys that are Irish Catholic all know that Irish Catholic, not Roman Catholic. So when you think about this, though, you think about being a child, and if you ever see a child, children are just free. They're just their truest selves, aren't they? Like, they can get naked in the middle of a target and they don't give a damn what you think about them. They. They don't care. They're just free. They're just their truest selves. And that's the way we come into this world. And then at some point in time, we are taught how to fit in with society, taught how to fit in with our family. We are domesticated, I guess you could say, right? And through the domestication process, we lose our true selves. And so you might be too loud while you're at the grocery store and your parents yell at you. You know, the other day I was at. I was at a restaurant with Dean and his family, and his little 2 year old, I think he had just turned 3, just decides in the middle of a restaurant, nice restaurant, just to scream, like out of nowhere. It came from nowhere. And we're like, what the hell just happened? Right? That's just a child. That's what they do. And they don't care what anybody thinks in their entire restaurant. And so we're all like, shh. You gotta be quiet. So we're telling him not to be as true as self. And it's hard. It's hard to do this, to domesticate. I'm gonna keep using that word, intentionally domesticate a child into fitting in with society and also be like, well, how do I not. How do I not squash their freedom of expression, right? And so then as a child, you're running around in public and you're in the grocery store and you're. You have all of this energy and you're going crazy, and you be. You're yelled at so that you stop running, right? And the average child, because I get it, parents have to reprimand their children to keep them alive. A lot of times. A lot of times they get reprimanded just because the parent doesn't want to have to deal with it. But the average child, statistically, is reprimanded eight times more than they're praised. Let me say this again. For people that are parents or people that want to be parents or people that are grandparents, all of us, the average child is reprimanded eight times more than they're praised. Which means that they are told that their truest self. If we're really taking a step back, their truest self is not acceptable in this moment, Right? They think that they are not enough eight times more than they think that they're enough. Why is it that everybody has some sort of paradigm of I'm not enough? Well, that's why is because we have to be, quote, unquote, domesticated and fit in with society. It's societal pressures to make sure that the children fit in and that they act a certain way and they act a certain way when they go to school. And what happens over time is that we, as humans now, as adults listening to this, we have abandoned our truest self. At some point in time, we learn that our true self does not fit in with society. And so the best way to talk about this and give you this idea of why we suffer and how to get free from suffering is from a Danish theologian and philosopher. His name is Soreness. I'm gonna try to pronounce this, but I'm gonna screw it up. Kirkegaard, I think, is how you say it. He was around in, like, the 1800s. And the best way of thinking of this is, this is what tends to happen with people. And this happens. I see this happen with people all the time when they go on a personal development journey. As they go on a personal development journey and as they start to work on themselves, they realize that there are parts of themselves that they don't like that they want to get rid of. And they start to think that they're worse than normal and they want to fix these things just so they can feel normal. And so the biggest problem from the top, if you can imagine, if, like, we're going to work from the top of a page down, right? The biggest problem is that usually it starts at some point in time with, I wish to be other than I am, to have a different self. And this was the first thing he discovered, is that almost everybody at some point in time in their life thinks to himself, I. I want to be different than I am. Right? We've all been there. I've been there many times. Have you ever been there before? I want to be different than I am, better, richer, whatever it might be, right? I want to be different than I am. I want to be a different self. And so right under that, it flows into. So I try to make myself into someone different. What we do is we tend to abandon our truest selves and try to make ourself into somebody different, into somebody that we are not so that we can fit in, so that we can succeed, so that we can be perceived, that we want the way that we want to be perceived. Whatever it is, the first piece of it is, I want to be different than I am, to have a different self. So I tried to make myself into someone different. And as you try to make yourself into someone different, there's two ways that it could branch off. Either, number one, I fail, and I hate myself in some sort of way because I failed. And I am still the person that I was, but now I still want to change. So that's one side is that I fail, and the other side is that I succeed in changing myself and I abandon my truest nature. So let's dive into each of those, right? I fail at becoming somebody else, and I despise myself for it. Oh, my God, I want to change. I want to be different. I don't have the motivation. I don't have this, this, this, this. And it comes from, I want to be somebody different. And so I'm trying to change myself into someone different. And I despise myself for failing. And I fail, and I despise myself for not being Who I want to be, which is somebody different, right? Following me. Now, on the other side of that is that I succeed at becoming, quote, unquote, quote, unquote, becoming somebody different. I abandon my true self, and I succeed at becoming somebody different, and I become somebody completely different than who I am at my truest self. I lose myself, my true self, in the character that I have to play, you know? And it always brings me back to the spiritual awakening that Eckhart Tolle talks about in the Power of Now, where he was depressed and he was thinking of committing suicide. And he had this awakening when he said to himself, I can no longer live with myself. Right? So let's look at that phrase, I can no longer live with myself. So there is the I that is the true self that we're speaking about and can no longer live with myself, which is the self that we have built ourself into when we become somebody who is not our truest self. And so he realized he didn't need to commit suicide. And this isn't a whole thing about suicide or diving into it. There's a lot of people that go through mental struggles and all this stuff. I'm just talking specifically about Eckhart Tolle, the I can no longer live with myself. He realized he didn't need to kill himself. He needed to change the self and go back to his truest nature, which was the I which is the true self, right? So either way, whether I fail at becoming who I want to be and changing myself from my truest self, either that is one side or the other side of the coin is that I actually succeed and I lose my true self. Either way, I'm losing my true self. And what happens is I get so far away from who I truly am, I don't know who I am anymore. And I don't know about you. I found myself here a few times in my life where I don't know who the fuck I am. And I'm like, I. I don't know. I'm lost. And it's like a dark night of the soul of, like, who am I? What am I? What have I built myself into? You know, there's a lot of very successful people that become successful and then either become depressed or they commit suicide or whatever it is it might be. And a lot of times it's because they have to abandon. Let me say that again. They think that they have to abandon their true self in order to get to the mountaintop, the top of the mountain, and they get to the top of the mountain. And they realize that it didn't do anything for them. They don't feel any different, right? I remember thinking to myself, like, oh, when I am super successful and I become a millionaire, then everything will be fine. And then I got to the quote unquote, top of the mountaintop, and I was like, I don't feel any different. Like, money did not solve anything. The only problems that money solves are money problems. Nothing else. Everything else is exactly the same. And so either way, we lose ourselves. We have to lose our true selves in order to, at some point in time, get in here and start to figure out who we are, who are not all about stuff. I do think that is the natural flow of a human soul is to have to go through all of this stuff because you have to lose yourself to find yourself. Just my belief, I've heard that from a lot of other people as well. But you can take that if you like. But maybe people think to themselves, well, maybe I have to make myself so tough because the world is so tough. And if I'm not tough, the world will beat me up. And we have to become this real tough like a lot of men feel like we have to. I felt this way, had to become really tough and really hardcore. And, you know, I would have to be brash with my words and cut you first so that you didn't cut me. And I had to put up a wall and not let you in. But then really deep down inside, all of us are just soft, emotional beings that just want love. That's it. And so then what happens is we realize whether it is the. The path of failing, of becoming who we wanna be, but we still hate ourselves and we wanna change ourselves or succeeding at changing ourselves. Either way, both of them flow into. I lose my true self. I'm so deep into the whole. I'm so deep into wanting to change myself. I'm so deep into wanting the things to be different that I actually lose myself in the process. My truest self. And as I said earlier, most people do not know who they are. And it can be scary and it's not a fun road to go down. But I think that when you go through that dark night of the soul, you start to realize what you do want, what you don't want, who you are, who you're not. And you start to kind of piece it all together and go back to who you were. So we think, you know, and going back to being successful and getting to the top of the mountaintop and realizing nothing Changes. A lot of people think that by buying the house it'll make us feel better, but nothing changes. By buying the car and make us feel better, but nothing changes. By buying the clothes, you know, if we're going to be so much better and then nothing changes. Having a million dollars in the bank account and then nothing changes, you still feel exactly the same. And then you start to realize as you lose yourself completely, which is the path that you're going to go through. If you're trying to lose, if you're trying to get rid of yourself and you fail or you do abandon yourself and you do succeed, quote, unquote, succeed at that, either way, you lose your true self. And so you find yourself in a place where kind of like despair. I don't know what to do. I don't know where to go from here. And you realize at this point, hopefully if you have this awakening, that nothing you could ever do or nothing you could ever achieve can make you more or less than what you currently are. Like if you Today, let's say you're not a millionaire, right? Let's say you have $12 in your bank account. Let's say in five years you have a million dollars in your bank account in five years, when you have that million dollars in your bank account, are you more of a human in five years with that million dollars in bank account than you are right now? No. You're still the same. You're still a human. It doesn't make you better. Having a million dollars in your bank account doesn't make you a better person. And not having a million dollars in bank account doesn't make you a worse person. Are you more of a human when you buy that Lamborghini and less of a human when you don't have it? Are you more of a human when you have that mansion and less of a human when you don't have it? No. There's nothing that you could do or achieve or say that would add or subtract to who you currently are. And that is what we all need to realize. There's a meditation that I do every once in a while by this guy named mooji. It's on YouTube. And, you know, I'll put him on and do some guided meditations with him every once in a while in the morning. And one of the things that he says during the meditation is he says, you have no pockets. And obviously, like, I'm wearing pants right now. And you might be like, well, I do have pockets. I do have four pockets on my Pants. What he means is your physical human body has no pockets. So he says, you have no pockets. You have no storehouse. There's nothing that you could do or say to make you more than what you currently are. Like, you will. You and I came into this world naked. We will die naked. We will literally leave with what we came in with. Which means that nothing that you could ever do or achieve or have, quote, unquote, have, because you don't really have anything. You know, as soon as you're gone, everything's going to be put back into the system. The money's going to be put back in the system. The house can be put back in the system. The land that you own is going to be put back in the system, which means nothing you could ever make or do would make you more than what you truly are. And so to escape the suffering, to escape the anxiety, to escape the stress, what we need to do is that we need to realize that we have to accept our truest selves. We have to accept ourselves as we are. We need to try to take the path back to who we were as a child, before we were domesticated. And we have to look at ourselves and say, yeah, I do have a scar on my face, but I still love myself. Yeah, I do have a big old butt, but I still love myself. You know, and you look and you start from a place of love versus a place of hate and wanting to change, change, change, because you hate yourself. And you start, you know, looking at yourself and saying, you know what? Maybe I am 15 pounds overweight, but instead of hating myself to lose weight, what if I love my body for all that it's done, all of the shit that I've put it through, the alcohol that I've given it, the drugs I've given it, the bad food that I've given it and still continues to run instead of from a place of hate. Or like, I hate my body. It's like I want to accept and I want to love my body and I want to take care of it because of all the stuff that it's done for me. And the goal is to try to be the self, which is truly 100% integrated with who we truly are. Going back to the phrase, I can no longer live with myself. The self is the character that we have built ourselves into. What we're trying to do and what will actually cause the most happiness and the most joy is to go back to the truest form of you. The I that was here when you were born, before we domesticated. Before we were reprimanded eight times more than we were praised. Before we were told what we should, should not do in every single aspect, before we had our heart broken the first time, before we started seeing advertisements that told us that we weren't good enough until we buy those products, before we were bullied in school, before our parents told us what we should and shouldn't do, all of those things. And we go back to the eye, the truest nature of ourself and realize that in this moment, right now, there's nothing that you could do, say, achieve that would make you more than you currently are right now, ever. You've always been at this level. You will always be at this level. There's nothing that you can do, nothing you can say, there's nothing you can achieve. So the goal to remove suffering and to bring the most happiness into your life is to stop trying to change yourself from a place of wanting to hate yourself, but go back to the truest version of who you are, rediscover who you are, and try to integrate the truest version of yourself into life that you currently have. Now, most people at that point in time will be like, well, Rob, but if I love myself, if I love my life, if I love all these things, I'll lose all of my motivation. I'll never become a millionaire. I'll never become successful. Oh no, no, no, grasshopper. What I've come to find is that when you love yourself more, it makes taking the right action so much easier because you don't have to push yourself. You feel in flow, you feel aligned, you feel like what you're doing is the right thing. And it makes it very easy to start making decisions and start taking actions that are in alignment with your truest self, which allows you to achieve more and makes it so much easier to achieve and become whatever it is that you want to become as your truest version of yourself versus trying to build yourself into someone that you're not. So that's what I got for you for today's episode. If you love this episode, please share this on your Instagram stories and tag me in it. Robdial Jr R O B D I A L J R E and if you want some more of this podcast man, you should follow me on Instagram. Besides Rob Dial Jr. You can go to the Mindset Mentor Podcast on Instagram. We have like 25, 26,000 people that follow us on there right now. 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