The Paradise Paradox Aaron Battle & Kurt Robinson

In the last few months, many people around have been feeling an increase in their anxiety, and may not even know the cause. If you're nervous, your mind can run away trying to find justifications, and that can lead to a downward spiral - nerves leading to fear, combining into anxiety, imagining awkward situations, and so on.



You don't always need to know the causes to feel anxiety, and as it turns out, many times you don't need to know the causes to solve it either. In this episode, Kurt goes through some perspectives and techniques to help you address, overcome and start to transmute your anxiety and other emotional problems into something beneficial.



Topics discussed include:

Pranayama or breathing exercises

The importance of being open-minded

Dropping anxiety like a weight

Coping mechanisms and thriving strategies

Tech detox

Meditation - mindfulness, seated, walking

The way you think

The power of language over your state of mind

Black and white thinking

How to stick with a habit

How resistance to anxiety causes you to become more anxious; and

Having a little faith



Hatha Yoga Pradipika

https://jivamuktiyoga.com/fotm/hatha-yoga-pradipika-0/

Does the Earth's Magnetic Field Cause Suicides? New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13769-does-the-earths-magnetic-field-cause-suicides/

Meta-Health and EFT Tapping with Sam Neffendorf

https://theparadiseparadox.com/205

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

https://amzn.to/2ofx2T1

Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/everything-we-know-about-facebooks-secret-mood-manipulation-experiment/373648/

Practicing the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

https://amzn.to/334mSDE

Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins

https://amzn.to/2M8XV32

 Karla Urbina is a painter living in Guadalajara, creating wonderful and unusual artworks that often portray personal and societal struggles, questions about well-being and progress in society. Karla is also an entrepreneur and co-founder of a streetwear company, Existing Is Hard.

In this episode, Kurt interviews Karla about her creative process, how she comes up with the ideas for her artworks, her methods of interpreting the world to influence creativity, how looking at clouds or stains on a ceiling can provide inspiration, what it's like to provide the artwork for a graphic novel, and what it's like to start a company in Mexico.



Karla on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karlathemonster/

In a sense, our genetic code holds the wisdom of every generation that has come before us - the keys to millions of years of survival, and even some of prosperity. Is it possible that we can tap into that knowledge? Perhaps even tap into knowledge that is hidden on a spiritual level?



According to Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson, every human being and brain has the ability to access that ancient wisdom, using their own "morphogenetic circuit".



In this episode, Kurt discusses some techniques that people might use to achieve this wisdom, including some from R.A. Wilson's book "Prometheus Rising", Carlos Castaneda, The Secret, and the Dimensional Jumping subreddit.



Find the wisdom and power within in this exciting episode of... The Paradise Paradox!



Owner's manual to the human brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwmDGfIkiks

Transcendental circuits of consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjV19sV0z2Y

Dimensional Jumping: https://www.reddit.com/r/DimensionJumping/

According to the case made in the book "The Sovereign Individual", the nation state rose to power as a natural consequence of the conditions of the industrial age.



Gunpowder made obsolete the old technology such as armed cavalry, and castles. That set the stage for the efficient smelting of iron, which lead to factories.



Factories are very centralised - making them vulnerable to vandalism and also to taxation. The factory owners needed the protective watch of governments to maintain their properties.



Now we are moving into the information age, and it is much more common to have digital property, in the form of websites and cryptocurrency. In many ways, the nation state is powerless to protect these new forms of property, and in many cases it is powerless to tax them.



Still the belief in the authority of the nation state remains. How long will it hold up? Kurt explores that question and more in this episode of The Paradise Paradox!

A lot of people have been feeling anxious lately. It's hard to say exactly why, but whatever the cause, we all have to find a way to deal with it.



In this video, Kurt explains five tips you can use to improve your state of mind:



1. A yogic alternate breathing exercise.

2. How giving in to your anxiety can help your anxiety.

3. Using a journal to gain a healthy distance from your problems.

4. Being aware of your body and your surroundings to stay centred.

5. How identity affects your emotional state.

I didn't think I'd be welcomed into the USA by being interrogated and stuck in a small room for 48 hours, but that's life.



Arriving to O'Hare airport, I was told to wait so they could ask me a few more questions. I was detained for hours and finally told I would not be allowed to enter the USA on the ESTA visa waiver program, due to my deportation from Mexico two years prior, and as a perpetual traveller, it wasn't clear where my home was.



I sat and meditated quite a lot during those couple of days, looking for reasons to be grateful. It's funny, because in good times I don't always think too much about how to be happy. But in tough times, I always put in the extra effort, so paradoxically I can be happier in the face of adversity. And so, despite external factors, I must proclaim my visit to the USA as a success.



A one-time home to liberty, then people could arrive in the US by Ellis Island as ship crew, passenger or even stowaway and receive an immigration visa. Now, that is certainly not the case. At least I know there are plenty of places in the world that will treat me more kindly.