Paradoxes To Live By: Counterintuitive Wisdom For Everyday Life - by Lou Redmond

COURSE

Paradoxes To Live By: Counterintuitive Wisdom For Everyday Life

With Lou Redmond

What if the opposite of what you believe is true? This empowering 7-day course invites you to test six paradoxes that challenge how most of us think about comfort, effort, pain, and growth. Each lesson offers a teaching and a guided meditation, so you can live the counterintuitive wisdom in your day-to-day life. As these shifts take hold, you may find old habits losing their grip, situations you once dreaded becoming easier to face, and a steadier sense of ease settling into your days. By the end, you'll have six shifts in perspective you can return to whenever you feel stuck in the same pattern.


Meet your Teacher

Lou is a transformational coach, meditation teacher, and author of Find Your Truth. He's been leading meditation since 2015 after experiencing a sudden awakening through the practice. His meditations have been streamed over 2 million times, and his courses have enrolled over 80,000 students. His relatable approach offers hope and guidance to those on the path of meditation and self-development. His influences span wisdom traditions, and his teachings focus on empowering others through honesty and vulnerability.

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7 Days

72 students

5.0 stars

12 min / day

Confidence

English


Lesson 1

What If The Opposite Were True?

Sometimes the most powerful shift comes from doing the opposite of what's normal. Using the classic Seinfeld episode where George Costanza turns his life around by doing everything backward, this lesson invites you to question the habits and beliefs that keep you stuck. You'll explore how paradox often points us toward truth, and practice applying "what if the opposite were true?" to a belief that's been holding you back.

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Lesson 2

Structure Brings Freedom

We often equate freedom with having no rules, but too many open choices can leave us overwhelmed and stuck. This lesson flips that idea and shows how true freedom comes from structure, not its absence. You'll explore why the most disciplined lives often produce the most expansive inner states, and how creative constraints can unlock focus rather than limit it. You'll leave with a simple way to bring more structure into your own days, so you can access the freedom you're looking for.

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Lesson 3

Hard Things Makes Life Easy, Easy Things Makes Life Hard

This lesson challenges the cultural pull toward comfort and shows why the right amount of stress leads to growth and fulfillment. You'll explore why relief only feels earned after effort, and why culture's promise of comfort so often leads to the opposite. This lesson will help invite more meaning into your life by exploring the difficult things you’ve already overcome and help you face your current challenges with courage.

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Lesson 4

The Only Way To Free Your Pain Is To Feel Your Pain

This lesson invites you to stop running from your darkness and start moving toward it, trusting that your greatest gifts often lie within your hardest challenges. Drawing on Stoic wisdom that the Obstacle is the Way, you'll learn why facing what we resist, rather than avoiding it, actually frees us. Using the symbol of the yin-yang, the meditation guides you into your own darkness to find the speck of light within it and the gift waiting on the other side.

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Lesson 5

You Are Whole, Perfect & Complete, And Have Work To Do

Self-help culture tells us we're broken and need fixing. This lesson offers a different starting point: you are already whole, and you still have work to do. You'll learn the difference between growing from a place of lack and growing from devotion, and why that distinction changes what the work feels like. Each stage of your life is already enough, even as there's always more to uncover underneath.

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Lesson 6

Give And You Shall Receive

Giving away something valuable, without expecting anything in return, is one of the oldest practices for loosening our grip on what we hold onto. This lesson explores why generosity works as a paradox: the more freely you give, the more you receive. You'll hear how giving away your own work and time has come back to you again and again, and you'll be invited to test this out today with a real act of generosity.

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Lesson 7

The Best Criticism Of The Bad Is The Practice Of The Better

This lesson explores a more powerful way to stand for what you believe in: embodying what you stand for, rather than fighting what you oppose. You'll explore how resistance often creates more of what it opposes, and how staying rooted in your integrity gives you power without needing anyone else to be wrong. You'll leave with a way to hold your convictions while staying at peace.

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Recent Reviews

Roger

Roger

October 28, 2026

Great wisdom wrapped in humility and kindness.

Louise

Louise

October 20, 2026

“Whatever you resist persists” very powerful statement that really summed up the course for me. Thanks Lou as always for guiding me to be aware of my thoughts, words and actions in a more positive way. Love your work!

Kathy

Kathy

October 11, 2026

Thank you Lou for the in-depth look at 7 paradoxes for life. It has been thought provoking and helpful.

KatieG

KatieG

October 6, 2026

Here’s another of Lou’s courses that I very much enjoyed. His approach is fun, engaging and personal while delivering valuable ideas to live by! These paradoxes were not all new to me but all worthy of my time and energy. Thank you 🙏🏼

Priscilla

Priscilla

September 29, 2026

Again so powerful and helpful Lou! Thank you!🙏

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