SHOW INTRODUCTION:
Are you a caregiver, an empath, the one who holds everything together for everyone else, and secretly feel guilty every single time you dare to put yourself first? What if that guilt isn’t wisdom? What if it was installed in you by a tribe, a culture, and a belief system that had a very specific interest in keeping you running on empty?
Michael tackles the teaching he has been circling for over two decades, one he first heard in 2003 and couldn’t fully believe until he lived it: selfishness is the ultimate selfless act. Not the garish, take-what-you-want kind. The quiet, radical, oxygen-mask-first kind. The kind that says: I cannot give you what I don’t have. I cannot light your path if I have extinguished my own flame.
This isn’t about becoming selfish. This is about discovering that choosing yourself first, out of love, out of kindness, out of compassion, is the single most generous thing you will ever do for the people you love most.
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST:
WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW:
BOOKS BY MICHAEL SANDLER:
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B0847TSW4H”]
Key Topics:
- Why “Love thy neighbor as thyself” has been read backwards by almost everyone, and why the whole teaching collapses without the part that comes first.
- The double whammy of self-neglect: why not putting yourself first doesn’t just drain you, it actually lowers your vibration, clouds your thinking, and attracts the exact circumstances you were trying to prevent.
- Why the universe is watching: the law of resonance that says if you don’t put yourself first, the universe takes that as its cue too, and what shifts the moment you change the signal you’re sending.
- The entrainment trap: how years of putting others first actually trains the people around you to expect it, and why starting to come first will feel shocking to them at first, and why that’s okay.
- Why dimming your light to help another never worked in the history of histories, and the simple energetic truth that when you extinguish your own flame, you have nothing left to offer the very person you’re sacrificing it for.
- Michael’s raw admission: the near-death experience that happened because the universe got tired of watching him slay everyone else’s dragons, and what he learned from being cracked in two.
- A breathtaking mirror pool group meditation, gazing at your own reflection in a still pond, locking eyes with your soul, and remembering, maybe for the first time, that the odds of you existing at all are one in a trillion to the 33rd power. You are not ordinary. You never were.
Related Podcasts:
SUPPORT INSPIRE NATION:
Help keep the show going! Every time you shop at Amazon through the link below, we earn a small affiliate commission at no extra cost to you.
Or please consider making a donation through PayPal.
Thank You for being a part of this amazing movement!
SHINE BRIGHT!
Disclosure: Please note that some of the links above are affiliate links, and at no additional cost to you, we will earn a commission if you decide to make a purchase. Please do not spend any money on these products unless you feel you need them or that they will help you achieve your goals.
Leave A Comment