Hello and welcome back to Unleash Your Peace.
My name is Ellie Shoja.
I'm your host.
I'm a positive mindset coach,
A personal transformation expert,
And a deliberate creator.
You are a spiritual being and if you want to release the weight of the unwanted pain you're carrying and you want to tap into that lasting internal peace and live your best life yet,
You are in the right place.
This is exactly what this podcast is about.
Every single week we explore different aspects of the internal world in an effort to understand it a little bit more deeply and connect with our higher and greater selves so that we can live from this place of joy and peace which is the natural state of our being.
Because when we do this,
When we do live from this place of joy and peace,
Our lives get a major upgrade.
We don't just incrementally improve the quality of our lives.
We actually exponentially innovate every aspect of our physical experiences on this physical plane which is quite wonderful.
This is what gives us the opportunity to become our whole beautiful,
Powerful selves and live the potential that is within us and this is my wish for you.
Now let's get started.
This week's topic is the quality versus the quantity of your life.
In yesterday's episode,
We talked about how the quantity of your life is linked to your physical experiences.
So everything that you can explain and describe in such a way that somebody else can understand makes the quantity of your life.
Now the quality of your life,
We said,
Is linked to your connection to that non-physical,
Infinite potential part of yourself,
Your higher self,
Your inner being,
Your soul,
Your spirit,
Whatever you want to call it.
It's that part of you that doesn't have a form and cannot even be contained by these tiny bodies that we inhabit for such a short amount of time.
Now some of you might be asking,
You know,
Ellie,
I can buy into this concept of us being part physical and part metaphysical but I don't understand this quality versus quantity business because I really think that if I have more things,
I am going to be happier.
If I get that promotion,
I am going to be happier.
If I'm eating the food I love,
I am going to be happier.
So in another way,
You are perpetuating this idea that you need to get what you don't have in order to find happiness.
Now let's look at this for a moment in this episode.
Let's take the example of you going into your favorite restaurant.
If you can imagine that right now,
You're going into your favorite restaurant,
You're sitting down and you are ordering your favorite dish.
Now you can tell me every detail of this restaurant.
You can tell me every detail of this food you're eating and quantitatively,
I can understand,
You know,
What the ambiance is,
How much you're enjoying it and I can maybe even retell the story of you going to this restaurant and eating this food to somebody else.
However,
Can you describe to me the flavors in your mouth in such a way that I taste the food as well?
Can you tell me about your enjoyment of this dish in such a way that I experience the same enjoyment?
If something tragic happened right as you were waiting for your dish,
Somebody broke up with you,
You got news of a loved one getting into a car accident,
You lost that promotion that you're counting on,
What happens to your enjoyment of that dish?
Let's take love for example.
If you have never been in love,
Can you watch a movie or read a book about it and experience love?
Do you not think that people who are in love are insane until you fall in love and you act insanely?
If you don't have faith,
If you don't believe in God,
Can somebody tell you about God in such a way that you become a believer?
The quantity of your life is easy to teach because it is linked to your physical experiences.
It's linked to the things that you touch and taste and see and smell and so all of those things you can communicate in such a way that somebody else might at least intellectually be able to understand and retell and share with someone else.
They are learnable and they are teachable.
However,
The things in our lives that require a connection with and an understanding of the metaphysical part of ourselves are nearly impossible to communicate.
Unless somebody has experienced the connection with the divine,
It is impossible to teach them what that experience feels like through explanations,
Through reasoning,
Through logic.
Unless someone has felt in love,
It is impossible to explain love to them.
So what happens when we do ask these questions?
So I think we are safe in saying that all of those things that make up the quality of your life cannot be taught.
They have to be felt.
They have to be experientially learned by us.
So then can we logic our way into a better feeling life?
The answer to that is no.
And when we are asking questions like that and when we are trying to intellectualize and bring logic into our pursuit of happiness,
What we're doing is we're clinging to our physicality.
We're clinging to our humanness and that is not where our happiness comes from.
That is not where our connection with our divine self comes from.
That's where our connection with our physical experience is and that is never going to make us happy.
So now I have a question for you.
Knowing that an intellectual mental pursuit of happiness cannot bring you closer to happiness,
That you have to feel your way into a happier life,
Are you not willing to let go of logic and dive into the realm of your emotions and understand your emotions and use your emotions as guides?
Because we don't go into this intellectual path in order to find a metaphysical solution.
So in the next three episodes we have left this week together.
We are going to dive a little bit more deeply into what this actually means.
But in this episode I simply want to leave you with this thought that the mind thinks and the heart feels.
Your mind connects you to this physical plane.
It translates everything into understandable terminology and understandable action and this is necessary.
We absolutely need the mind to do this because we absolutely need to function in the physical world.
However,
Our emotions,
Our heart,
Is what will determine our level of connectedness with our non-physical infinite selves.
If we truly want happiness,
If we truly want peace,
If we truly want joy and a better quality of life,
We have to learn to pay attention to the heart and open our hearts and feel our emotions.
And not only that,
But use our emotions as guides to help us live better lives.
