EP20: Becoming the Captain of Your Own Life

Intrinsic Motivation & Becoming the Captain of Your Own Life

 The Dream World Podcast Book Club:  “New You! Who Knew?” David Edwards
Available on Amazon and www.davidredwards.com.   

David was CEO of a Community Health Center creating the leading integrated, person-focused, primary care center in the country.  He realized that many people are missing core skills that if they had would make their lives so much better.  He left a well-paying job and embarked on researching and writing a book to help regular people learn the principles and skills needed to become the captain of their own life. 

David talks about how he has witnessed and contributed to the evolution of healthcare systems. He saw the need for a health system designed to actually heal. This is one that takes a whole-picture approach, looks at the patient as a whole mind-body & soul, involves nature in the environment, and focuses care around the patient’s needs. Nature has many metaphors that can teach us life lessons, and incorporating it into our healthcare aids healing and alignment. 

He started to teach others how to become the person they want to become by being the captain of their own life and relying less on external motivation or stimuli. He has studied the models of external and internal change and how it affects our thinking patterns and lifestyle. Keeping up with the change around us and in society is necessary to feel free and happy, but it is also important to navigate the change we direct in our own internal person. The person we are becoming evolves every day. Internal motivation goes a long way against obstacles when trying to achieve your life goals. How can we bear healthy fruit in our lives like a cherry tree with strong roots?

Podcast Episode 9 reference: Signs of Reincarnation- The Evidence Based Research & Limitations of Science (With Jim Matlock)

Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. Evaluations of Leary are polarized, ranging from bold oracle to publicity hound. He was "a hero of American consciousness"

10 principles of intrinsic motivation: Values. Awareness. Learning . Intent. Planning. Action. Belief. Self kindness, Mindlessness. Judge less and think more. 

Awareness is an authentic attempt to become conscious of what is within and
around you. It is a relaxed and interested attention to what is happening. The
opposite of being aware is to be ignorant, blind, oblivious, or simply unaware.

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