The Story of Me with Amarjit Singh

Today on the show Amarjit is joined by Mia Ganda to discuss intimacy and emotional connection. Mia is a professional coach, focusing on emotional awareness and connection. She coaches founders, CEO’s and high-performing individuals who work in fast-paced, high pressure environments, specifically in tech, finance and media. Mia shares her journey of going from fashion model to Sports Management and Private Banking, to professional coach. She then shares her insight into intimacy.   Visit thestoryofmepodcast.com for complete show notes, to submit your questions, and a link to the podcast Facebook group.   Full show notes: https://www.thestoryofmepodcast.com/intimacy-with-mia-ganda   Submit your questions: https://www.thestoryofmepodcast.com/contact/   Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thestoryofmepodcast/   Donate to the podcast:   Mia Ganda: https://www.miaganda.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/miagandaofficial/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/miagandaofficial   Visit our sponsors: https://www.singhflutes.com/   Music courtesy of http://www.aykanna.com/

Today on the show Amarjit answers questions that were posted in the podcast Facebook Group by three listeners. The listeners responded to the question – what is your biggest challenge in finding your path? While the responses were all different, the theme was similar – how do you know? Amarjit talks about what it means to “know”, and the three different ways of knowing. He goes on to talk about how to connect to your intuition. He also provides ways to train yourself to be present, which is the key to knowing. Amarjit goes on to talk about how he realized his path through removing the resistance to his self-expression and connecting to his true nature.   Visit thestoryofmepodcast.com for complete show notes, to submit your questions, and a link to the podcast Facebook group.   Full show notes: https://www.thestoryofmepodcast.com/how-do-you-know   Submit your questions: https://www.thestoryofmepodcast.com/contact/   Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thestoryofmepodcast/   Visit our sponsors: https://www.singhflutes.com/   Music courtesy of http://www.aykanna.com/

Amarjit begins the podcast talking about how habit patterns, illness and disease are created. He talks about how all illness begins with the psychological. He goes on to explain how the psychological then effects the physiological, which is then confirmed, and perpetuated by the behavioral. He continues with how understanding the relationship with these three aspects can help you heal yourself. After going through these aspects and explaining how to better understand them within yourself, he shares the experience that taught him how to cure himself from a chronic disease. Visit thestoryofmepodcast.com for complete show notes, to submit your questions, and a link to the podcast Facebook group. Full show notes: https://www.thestoryofmepodcast.com/how-to-heal-yourself-from-habit-patterns-illness-and-disease Submit your questions: https://www.thestoryofmepodcast.com/contact/ Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thestoryofmepodcast/ Visit our sponsors: https://www.singhflutes.com/ Music courtesy of http://www.aykanna.com/

Amarjit discusses why people have difficulty making decisions. He talks about how some people are stuck in their mind, while others may be too emotionally impulsive. He then talks about emotional awareness and its relationship to decision making. He continues with a discussion on how to use the emotions for self-awareness of your habit patterns. Then how these emotions effect your decision making process. He goes on to explain that it is necessary to incorporate the emotions in making decisions. He draws a distinction between experiencing emotions and reacting to emotions. He concludes the discussion by talking about how the emotions and mind are both necessary in making decisions. Amarjit explains the proper way to make decisions is with the clarity of the mind, the awareness of the emotions, and the love of the heart. Visit thestoryofmepodcast.com for complete show notes, to submit your questions, and a link to the podcast Facebook group. Full show notes: https://www.thestoryofmepodcast.com/how-to-make-decisions-and-emotional-awareness/ Submit your questions: https://www.thestoryofmepodcast.com/contact/ Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thestoryofmepodcast/ Visit our sponsors: https://www.singhflutes.com/ Music courtesy of http://www.aykanna.com/

Amarjit discusses the importance of authentic and effective communications. He talks about the 3 components of communications and how to understand and improve your capacity to be authentic and effective when communicating: 1) Listening - the most important aspect of communications and where most communication falters. He goes on to inform the listener what is faulty listening and how to properly listen.  2) Processing - taking what has been communicated and observing the reaction within. He talks about faulty processing and how to create awareness and to use this stage to be more authentic and improve your capacity to understand habit patterns. Amarjit shares an experience from his first vipassana retreat in Bodh Gaya, India that helped him understand problems with his own communications at this stage. 3) Speaking – communicating with non-violent communication and with proper intention. He discusses how to use this stage to connect to others without judgment. At the end of the show, Amarjit shares an experience that happened while sitting under the famous Bodhi Tree, where Siddhartha Gautama became Buddha. Visit thestoryofmepodcast.com for complete show notes, to submit your questions, and a link to the podcast Facebook group.   Full show notes: https://www.thestoryofmepodcast.com/effective-communications-and-the-bodhi-tree Submit your questions: https://www.thestoryofmepodcast.com/contact/ Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thestoryofmepodcast/ Visit our sponsors: https://www.singhflutes.com/ Music courtesy of http://www.aykanna.com/

Amarjit continues his talk from the last episode introducing the next part - your life lesson. He begins the discussion talking about how your life purpose and life lesson are related. He also talks about how your life purpose and life lesson are the foundation for every experience in your life. Each experience is designed to help you fulfill your life purpose and learn your life lesson. He then discusses how if you are not working on your life lesson, your life purpose will not flourish. In the second part of the discussion he lays out possible life purpose and life lesson qualities for the listener to take an inventory to see which ones they relate to so they can determine their own life purpose and life lesson (the complete list of these qualities can be found in the show notes on the podcast website).   Visit thestoryofmepodcast.com for complete show notes, to submit your questions, and a link to the podcast Facebook group.   Full show notes: https://www.thestoryofmepodcast.com/learning-your-life-lesson/   Submit your questions: https://www.thestoryofmepodcast.com/contact/   Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thestoryofmepodcast/   Visit our sponsors: https://www.singhflutes.com/   Music courtesy of http://www.aykanna.com/

In this episode, Amarjit talks about finding your life purpose. He begins the discussion with the importance of living your life purpose. He talks about how when we are not engaged in our life purpose we feel lost and without direction in life. He then defines what your life purpose is. He describes two aspects of your life purpose. First, the big life purpose that we all share. Second, the individual life purpose that we have. Then he describes how they are related, and how the individual purpose is the path to the bigger purpose that we all share. The discussion goes on to give methods to help you discover your own individual purpose.   Visit thestoryofmepodcast.com for complete show notes, to submit your questions, and a link to the podcast Facebook group.   Full show notes: https://www.thestoryofmepodcast.com/finding-your-life-purpose/   Submit your questions: https://www.thestoryofmepodcast.com/contact/   Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thestoryofmepodcast/   Visit our sponsors: https://www.singhflutes.com/   Music courtesy of http://www.aykanna.com/

Amarjit dedicates the entire episode to the topic of depression. He discusses how depression is a serious topic that is often misunderstood. He answers the question – what is depression? He makes a distinction between depression caused by physiological reasons, such as head trauma and other physical traumas, and the typical depression we encounter as a result of the experience of life. He defines depression as a growing pain that is a signal of false identifications that no longer works for you. He does this with an explanation of how depression is caused by attachments to aspects of the ego. Then he defines the ego. He then gives methods for elevating yourself from depression. Amarjit also shares a poem that he wrote in his deepest depression.   Visit thestoryofmepodcast.com for complete show notes, to submit your questions, and a link to the podcast Facebook group.   Full show notes: https://www.thestoryofmepodcast.com/how-to-elevate-yourself-from-depression/   Submit your questions: https://www.thestoryofmepodcast.com/contact/   Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thestoryofmepodcast/   Visit our sponsors: https://www.singhflutes.com/   Music courtesy of http://www.aykanna.com/  

Amarjit goes deeper into the question – Who am I? Since he found his way to this question in every episode, he decided it was time to explain how to understand this question better. Before he explores this question, he clarifies what it means to “know” something. Amarjit then gives a method to help you get closer to answering the question - Who am I? He explains 3 ways to approach life/yoga through an experience he had at a White Tantric workshop in France at the European Kundalini Yoga Festival. The third approach is a method for experiencing the true self, beyond the mind/body vehicle. In the second part of the show, Amarjit interviews Bhakti Flow Yoga Teacher and kirtan practitioner, Peter Walters. After talk about a funny incident when they met in India, Peter talks about how he made it to yoga and the challenges that he has encountered along the path. Visit thestoryofmepodcast.com for complete show notes, to submit your questions, and a link to the podcast Facebook group.Peter Walters: Website: peteryoga.com Facebook: peterwaltersyoga Instagram: peterwaltersyoga ----As mentioned on the show – White Tantric Yoga Visit our sponsors: Singh Flutes Music courtesy of Aykanna

Amarjit talks about how to view and define your path. He explains how your path relates to self-realization. He also clears up a common misunderstanding of the spiritual path.  While discussing how to recognize and understand the subtle within, he shares a couple stories about interviewing for jobs while he was in graduate school working on his MBA. Amarjit then answers a listener question – how do you deal with fear and insecurity? His advice includes both mental and physical ways to overcome these habit patterns. He gives yoga postures which can be found on the podcast website in the show notes, and on the Facebook group.   Visit www.thestoryofmepodcast.com for complete show notes, to submit your questions, and a link to the podcast Facebook group.   Submit your questions for the show!   Join the Podcast Facebook Group to continue the conversation!   Visit our sponsor: Singh Flutes   Music courtesy of Aykanna

Amarjit presents an introduction to the theme and format of the podcast. He explains what it means to live your potential, and what true freedom is. While discussing the framework of the show he clarifies a common question - what is yoga psychology?  He then describes the process of how it will be used in the podcast to help liberate you from the habit patterns that are holding you back from achieving your potential. Amarjit then answers a listener question: What is anger? Visit www.thestoryofmepodcast.com for full show notes.Music courtesy of Aykanna

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