Curiously exploring our lives • The phenomena of being through an existential lens.
How might we find hope through the fog of dread?
How does anxiety shape our reality… or reality shape our anxiety?
How to does the tunnel of Self lead to splitting and projecting?
What happens when we talk about politics without politics? What do we find? What is hidden?
Is AI a mirror of our desire? Can we face the ethics of our desire?
Do we seek compliance to escape the experience of insight?
Do we search for inauthenticity and turn away from authenticity?
Is there strength in vulnerability?
Is talking about nothing something? Does interrupting our repetitions bring us back to the something of nothing?
In this episode I ask… can we question our own habitual thinking?
In this episode I turn the tables upside down and ask: what if doubt is reason and reason is doubt?
Not surprisingly… I'm thinking about new year's resolutions—and the seeking of newness.
How is violence embedded into our ways of relating and what does that say about our capacity to reason?
What I learned thinking about shopping, sales, and the freedom to not have all my choices
What does turning 50 mean and how do the events in our lives create meaning?
In this episode I talk about how the problem is the solution and how we seek freedom from freedom.
In this episode I talk about how holding to rigid ways of understanding our experience can obscure a more holistic outlook.
In this episode I talk about interrupting anxiety and how, paradoxically, we can create more anxiety in an attempt to never feel anxious again.
In this episode I explore how we construct identify and wonder: what's behind the identities we create?
In this episode I talk about “going grey” in conjunction with the recent termination of Canadian CTV New anchor, Lisa LaFlame. I ask, how is it that something we all do; i.e., aging and going grey, can be used to divide us, given it's something we share? This leads to questions of oppression and alienation. Drawing from such writers as Simone de Beauviour, Shoshana Zuboff and Byung-Chulhan Han, I explore how lazy conceptual outs (like saying, “It's a business decision”) reflect the underlying structures of entitlement that lead us to condemn rather than understand.
In this episode I talk with Lesley Mitchell-Clarke about her work as a hypnotherapist. My understanding of hypnotherapy was limited to TV and movies, which is in no way connected to what hypnotherapy is and how helpful it is in people's lives. Lesley talks about how the control is always with the client and how hypnotherapy can interrupt behaviours the client wants to change. You can reach out to Lesley at: https://lightworkhypnosis.com
In this episode I explore the way we may think about violence in relationships, and how avoiding the experiences of others sustains our way of understanding ourselves in the world. Do the shadows we cast create and perpetuate violence? www.jordanoconnor.com
In this episode I explore how we are culturally (and personally) influenced as to what silence is and how we should (or should not) act. Is there more to silence?
In part two, I continue to explore the experience of being overwhelmed. Drawing upon the book “Psychoanalytic Zero: A Decolonizing Study of Therapeutic Dialogues” by Koichi Togashi, I explore the way our perspectives both create our understanding of the world and interrupt our understanding of each other. Is there more to being overwhelmed?
That we are overwhelmed is obvious. That there is too much in our lives to process is also obvious. Given feeling overwhelmed is something that is so ubiquitous in our lives, can we look, not for solutions or reasons, but at the feeling of being overwhelmed itself?
Drawing from the Rumi line about the pot and how it is the space within the pot we use, I explore how choice emerges from our felt—embodied—experience.
In this episode I explore two seemingly unrelated topics and how they are, in fact, very much related.
In this episode I talk about complexity as holism and how some define feminism in reductionistic terms asking: how does reductionism condition our understanding?
In this episode I talk with psychotherapist Laura Notton about Sound Baths and the way healing can be realizing in the formless form of sound.
In this episode I reflect on war. How war is the absence to reason; yet, can our reasons lead us further into the abyss?
In this episode I reflect on different ways boundaries can obscure our attachments.
In this episode I talk with Michel DeQuevedo about his experience with neuroendocrine cancer. He discusses facing the unknown of cancer in the midst of misdiagnosis and limited information. And how his curiosity and humour led the way to choice. Find out more (or reach out to Michel) http://www.micheldqmusic.com http://www.facebook.com/groups/netsmexico
Freedom in a frame… how do we understand freedom? What defines our understanding?
In this episode I talk with artist and Pilates coach, Samantha Clayton about the process healing in our bodies. To find out more about Samantha visit: https://www.pilateswithsamantha.com
What is our relationship to change? How do we experience change and what might we discover about our experience of change?
In this episode I reflect on the passing of bell hooks and how love is authentically expressed through criticism. www.jordanoconnor.com
In this episode I explore how our thoughts and feelings intersect. I then explore how we turn away, to avoid feelings of uncertainty. Can we explore our feelings curiously, unknowingly, lovingly?
If we mediate, get distracted, and think, "I'm doing it wrong" or "I guess meditation is not for me" is there more to the story? What happens when we expand into the silence?
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