REALITY CHECK
Discover your divine purpose, heal your soul, and awaken to your highest calling.
Join Zachary Phillips on a journey towards living a more examined life with talks delving into the nature of reality, the search for meaning and the pursuit of happiness.
166: Your Mindfulness Toolbox For Daily Living
Introducing my 10 meditation course on insight timer ‘Your Mindfulness Toolbox For Daily Living’.
In this course you will learn a collection of traditional and novel practices, techniques, concepts and strategies to attain mindfulness, and take the benefits of clarity, calm and control off the meditation mat and into every day life.
165: The Questions I Ask Myself To Stay Mentally Healthy
In order to stay functional, I find it necessary to observe the trends. Am I acting, feeling and performing as normal? If not, why not?
By monitoring my warning signs, I can best take preventative action to avoid a catastrophic downturn in my mental health.
164: What Is It Like To Be You?
Is it possible to see the world objectively, to understand events as another does, to truly empathise, and to step outside of ourselves?
We are blinded by our bias; our upbringings, religions, parents, education, gender, age and ethnicity.
These things will dictate what we believe, and how we interoperate new information, and thus how we perceive and act upon the world.
163: Embracing Darkness To Better See The Light
Everybody’s life has unique challenges, but no matter where we find ourselves, there are still positives to embrace, along with the realisation that it could be worse.
In this episode I discuss how contemplating darkness has helped me to better see the light, and how it could help you as well.
162: Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is
Today I am going to share the financial side of my online work, breaking down the profit’s made against hours spent working.
I hope to show you the growing success, as well as highlight how all of what I am doing here is clearly a passion project.
My ongoing hope is to create the resources (books, blogs, podcasts, teachings) that I wish had have existed when I needed it most, and to destigmatise mental illness, trauma and the recovery process.
161: How Do You Get So Much Stuff Done Every Day?
Optimal performance is found in the balance between action and rest.
I have learnt my limits and have come up with an approach that enables me to be hyper-productive, without burn out.
In this episode I breakdown my approach.
160: The Diagnosis Dilemma - Is it BPD, ASD or C-PTSD?
I have long since struggled to find the right diagnosis, as well as with the concept of a diagnosis it self.
Not only can a diagnosis be prescriptive and limiting, it can also be given incorrectly. There is a massive crossover between the symptomologies, and some specialists have a tendency to over diagnose to the affirmative of their area…
159: Using Brutal Honesty To Align Your Actions With Your Purpose
Unless you are completely honest with yourself, your actions will be out of line with your true purpose. By ‘true purpose’ I am not referring to anything religious or spiritual. I am referring to what you as an individual, given your unique set of genetics and environmental influences, is best set up to do.