Why does life exist? Is it for us to reproduce and die and leave something behind, or is it something much bigger than that?
Sebastian discusses this in detail
Why do we humans get into relationships and then end up in pain?
Why is there such pain where all of this should be fun and joy?
What is true love which can really take your pain away?
Sebastian Lyall discusses this in this episode.
We discuss the issue that many of us face today - how do we deal with the monotony of life? Why does everything feel incomplete and not full of joy?
The answer is in how you mind is programmed to respond to life.
Sebastian Lyall
Meditation is akin to peace in many ways.
Find out how you inner journey can lead to peace in your house, in your neighbourhood and in your world.
Is there free will in the world of thought or is everything is decided for you already?
It depends on the source of thought and the nature of the decision maker.
Dive in to discover more
Understand and realise why your mind is stuck in the future and not here.
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Has everything already been defined for you? The very thing you came to experience and be in awe of, is it all boxed up in your mind?
We discuss.
In response to a question posted on one of the episodes, I thought it would be a good time to record an explanation of some concepts and practices which we will talk about repeatedly in this show.
Comments welcome
Thank you
Sebastian Lyall
Is happiness something you can achieve or claim?
Is it always here to be realised or is it linked to your goals and aims?
Why is the West unhappier in a way than the East?
What is our brain's happiness versus ours.
I talk about all of this in this Episode.
I hope you enjoy
Sebastian Lyall
We talk about bliss and happiness. How is that achieved in this world of change, chaos and madness? It’s a bit tricky, isn’t it? We all want to be happy but it's not that easy in this world of form. So let’s investigate and dive into why the brain/body or this person, you, is not at peace.
We are not happy simply because we are not allowing life to be as it is. We are not allowing thoughts, emotions and sensations to rise, live and die. We are not allowing anything really but by letting everything that is happening to you, happen, around you, to you, you are literary letting life happen as it should happen. Know that this moment is happening to you is part of a picture of connected events. Billions and trillions of things and events need to happen for you to feel pain or love. All what you see and feel has a reason and the reason is in the past. Step back and make friends with whatever is happening to you. There is no other way life was going to happen or no where else you could have been. Let life happen to you and let come to you as it wants to.
These words are beautiful. You must have heard these plenty of times. Social media, influencers, coaches, mental health therapists, parents, teachers and god damn everyone! Are they happy themselves? Are they in bliss themselves? I feel and understand that now, but I can hear someone saying “easier said than done, mate”. Yes I agree. I remember those times very vividly. Time when I tried suicide. Five years of continuous wish to just die. So yes, I remember that and its very hard to come out of that.
Why is it so hard to understand and achieve peace with oneself. Why can’t our brains accept what is happening and be content? Why is there is friction and non acceptance to all that is happening now?
The brain is generally not at rest. It’s anxious and always thinking about the future and the past. Its job is to think. However it is overworked it is in conflict with a few personalities which it stores in its memory. A- the person you think you are (Sebastian). B- the person Sebastian wants to become. Better and happier Sebastian and C- your brain also has the knowledge of perhaps of the soul, god, energy… which is essentially you.
The brain fundamental job is to think about survival in the now. So that is one job. Then it also has to worry about this personality Sebastian and all his baggage and memory. His ideas of the future, which the brain is not capable to respond to. It’s not been to the future. It also has to continually think about the happier Sebastian and how to achieve that. All the expectations of family, culture and himself. All of this, the brain has to think about too. And finally it also has a guilt or a memory of you. That it needs to serve your needs too. Your needs of living, expression and creation to show love and compassion. Those are your only true needs.
Your brain is doing all of this work right now and of course it is not at ease. In essence the only thing the brain needs to do is listen to you and be here for you when needed, while it does its normal survival duties. In my example, I realise that Sebastian is causing all the problems for me. It is because of him that I can’t live a life of bliss. In fact, he is not causing the problem.
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In this video episode, we discuss how memory is represented in the brain as pathways. We discuss how humans get conditioned and what is the true nature of our existence.
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Sebastian
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We discuss trauma, childhood, relationships and how we can manage these aspects. Is there a way to forget trauma?
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You want good in life? Sure. Let’s explore.
This life is full of paradoxes and one of them which we will explore today sits at the heart of our physical existence and thought.
The human brain has learnt to define things over the course of its evolution. It has identified many concepts and understood what to do and what not to do for its survival. That the brain’s job and it does that very well. Bravo!
During this process of translations and definitions, the brain describes an arrival of “something” in their body as a feeling or a sensation. Due to an event or an action or another feeling. The brain calls whatever happens in the brain a “thought”. Our brain has defined its own workings as well. It is defining everything even when you are just looking at something and while doing this, it is also identifying all these thoughts, sensations and feelings as pleasant or not pleasant. Good or not good. Purely based on the data it already has. Memory of what’s good and what not good. Hence the world comes into existence. Our world.
All events in this world, in a way, happen on a cosmic level. We don’t really know what actually happens when we feel sad or happy. However we define them to understand them based on our memory, conditioning and previous experience. This definition is what creates the paradox which we are investigating.
For example, a thought, action or sensation may be defined as a “good” happening by one person, but by another the same could be defined as “bad”. We do this on a daily basis as we judge everything and every event. If we lose money because of an event, we define the event as bad. However the money itself is not lost. Someone, somewhere made that money and for them this event which led to this, is good. This is happening all the time in our lives.
It is that “good” we humans focus on all our lives. We try and find good in everything. At work, in love, in health and in life. Good which was defined by memory and conditioning. We chase good so much, that it ends up becoming a personality which sits as another memory in our brain. All the good gets automatically amalgamated into a person which is our inspiration. We want to be just like them. We want to be always good. The brain carries this all the time. Just observe it yourself. Don’t you have a very clear what is good for you?
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When one looks at these big, thick clouds. Perhaps by a waterfall. Or at night on a backdrop of moonlight. When one sees them move. The marvel of these structures. What beauty! Merging with each other. Spreading out. Dancing.
One thinks, realises and agrees that all of this is how it looks because of how my mind perceives it. In 21st century, this is basic science. Nothing special. How an image. A movie. All these marvellous clouds are happening inside me. My brain, which is part of this body. In unity.
Then one looks around and sees other things, people, stars, the moon or the sun. You must then also agree that all of these objects exists in your minds. They are imprinted in your minds. Without your mind, you won’t be able to view these images and videos of the world. All what you see. So for you they won’t exists. Nothing will exist. If this is the case for one person or a being, then it must be true for all life. Everything that can view things.
That means if everyone, and by that I mean everyone and everybeing, had their eyes removed, there would be no seeing. Hence nothing to see. No concept of anything to do with seeing.
A creature which doesn’t have eyes, would have no concept of space and hence things and objects. If we remove all senses to explore the nature of reality objectively, there won’t be anything to smell, touch, feel, taste or see.
So if there were no eyes (or other senses) and brain to support the eyes viewing, then what? Nothing? Maybe. But that is not what we are establishing here. The fact is that lots of us creatures have eyes and that has bigger implications for all of us.
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In his thought-provoking and analytical book and podcast, "What Are You? Sebastian takes readers and listeners on an introspective journey, challenging the very foundations of human existence and understanding of life.
Through a captivating storytelling approach, Sebastian explores the profound questions that have perplexed generations of thinkers, artists, and individuals seeking the true purpose of life. Drawing from personal experiences after an awakening and realisation what we are beyond this body and mind, Seb invites readers to dive deep into their own consciousness, uncovering the hidden truths that reside within. By detaching ourselves from the data-driven mind and the limitations of our bodies, we can experience life with unconditioned freedom, discovering peace, harmony, and absolute joy.
Together, with the audience, Sebastian investigates the true nature of our existence and the workings of the Human Design. Seb calls this Logical Humanism, not spirituality. The book and this podcast invite readers to understand the workings of their brains and bodies, by coming out of it via meditation and other practices. He wants people to finally meet themselves and understand what they are made of. Discussed in this TRAILER/Intro episode: Instead of accepting that two people might simply have different paths in life, our brains crave logic and reasoning. By creating a strong sense of self and hence another, the brain finds it easier to demonise the latter. This sets off a chain reaction of thoughts that support the process of demonization. If we repeatedly feed the same thought to our brains, it becomes our reality.
Two beautiful beings who loved each other end up despising each other overnight. The contemplation of my relationship led me down that path too. Everything I thought about her became my reality, a fact in my mind. We broke up, and I left her to return to London.
Our brains have the power to turn thoughts into reality. If we constantly dwell on something, it will eventually manifest as our brains take the necessary actions to make it happen.
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So if thoughts are simply a representation of the past experience and the environment, then how do we stop compulsive thoughts? If thinking is what the brain does and it keeps on thinking about a particular thing or event. How do we stop it? We are going to discover this together. Let’s unpack this and understand what is actually happening. Compulsive thoughts are thoughts which lead to other thoughts. They are like a thinker of the other thoughts. The thoughts which create agitation, frustration, anger or fear. No one has a choice of stopping these thoughts or any thought or decision for that matter. Thoughts come and go and you can experience the whole movement of them. But no one wants to live in a state of continuous thinking - yet we all do. A brain which is thinking about a good thing for itself is perhaps fine and is in peace with itself. A brain which thinks about a “bad” thought for itself is the problem. When this loop of thoughts start, there is no end to it. The brain is almost always thinking. Perhaps it gets a little break when you sleep. But the thought process continues. All thoughts are just thoughts. A chemical reaction. An energy flow. It’s just that the brain has been fed information about what thoughts are good and what are bad and what they mean. The brain creates this concept of duality when experiencing a thought, hence some thoughts are pleasant and others are not. This idea of preferring one thought over another. This is also highly subjective. A thought for one person is good and the same thought for another is bad. So there is no good or bad thought. It is just a thought. You will also notice that sometimes we get addicted to thoughts. We, as in our brains. The brain gets addicted to it. Even if they are not pleasant. Why is that then? If the brain knows very well what thought is good and what is bad, why does it go into continuous autopilot of bad thoughts, leading to suffering, sadness and desperation and depression? Let’s discover this together. It is natural for the brain to think. That is its job. It won’t stop doing that. Now, thinking includes all thoughts. A thought arises from some activity in the brain, without warning. No one has any control over thoughts. They come and they go. The reason a thought arises could be attributed to trillions of events which happen inside and outside of the body. The weather, the environment, the stomach, the sleep pattern, the neighbour, culture, history, education… you name it. It is rather very elaborate why a single thought may arise. We won’t go into that now though! Once an unpleasant thought arises, there is instantly another thought which follows. That I, the person, thought that thought or made a decision. My friends, the decision was purely made by the brain based on its knowledge. ~The next thought is perhaps that you made the decision, reinforcing the fact that you as a person exist!There is there another thought about this person who you think you are. You think is the thinker. A thought rooted deep in our culture. A thought of not wanting to think. A thought of always wanting to be ok. A thought of resistance for the other thought - and then the drama of thoughts starts. It’s not the first thought which is the problem. It is the thought, the continuous thought, and the reminder from our society and family that everything should be ok all the time. It is a reminder humans have built themselves by defining and saving a memory of what is good. Who doesn't want to be good all the time? Yes, me and you! But is that possible, no! In a quest to be better, feel better, do better and be a better person, we forget who we actually are. We forget to accept what is. Life around us is a constant reminder to be better. All the time. For the rest, please listen to the podcast
Love is something which we need to look at without human definition. How do we find true love? How do we find happiness?
From my upcoming book:
What are you, not the person you think you are!
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