The Reality Check Podcast Zachary Phillips

Yesterday, a friend asked me how to meditate, that talk inspired this episode. Here is my guidance for absolute beginners:
1: sit comfortably (no pain or sleepiness)2: set a timer for 5 minutes3: pick a meditation object (breath, vision, sound)4: when you notice a wandering kind, bring it back to focus. A successful session is one that you complete, ideally every day!
For further instruction on how to meditate, check out my book ‘Mindfulness, A Guidebook To The Present Moment’.
Current offerings:- Hunt Your Own Shadow: free 12 week email course- Insight Timer: guided audio courses & free meditations- Skillshare: video courses on personal development- How To Get Your Sh!t Together: the last self-help book you will ever read- Bound To The Wings of a Butterfly: best selling poetry collection- How To Write Evocative Poetry: a guidebook for unlocking creativity- Work With Me: 1 on 1 Mentoring & Coaching
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When you dedicate yourself to one thing, the lessons learnt begin to help you with everything.
In this episode I discuss the quote by Miyamoto Musashi 'If you know the way broadly you will see it in all things' - applying the lessons I have learnt in martial arts, poetry, meditation, chess and life to one another, discussing the intersection between them all, as well as some of the implications and takeaways of 'knowing the way'.
I also discuss how there is a silver lining to be found in setback, injury, and illness - if we know how to look for it.
Current offerings:- Hunt Your Own Shadow: free 12 week email course- Insight Timer: guided audio courses & free meditations- Skillshare: video courses on personal development- How To Get Your Sh!t Together: the last self-help book you will ever read- Bound To The Wings of a Butterfly: best selling poetry collection- How To Write Evocative Poetry: a guidebook for unlocking creativity- Work With Me: 1 on 1 Mentoring & Coaching
Web: zachary-phillips.comSocial: @zacpphillips

Two weeks ago I began transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to treat my depression, anxiety and PTSD.
10 sessions in and I am starting to see significant progress.
In this episode I share my experiences of the process and my hopes for the future.
Current offerings:- Hunt Your Own Shadow: free 12 week email course- Insight Timer: guided audio courses & free meditations- Skillshare: video courses on personal development- How To Get Your Sh!t Together: the last self-help book you will ever read- Bound To The Wings of a Butterfly: best selling poetry collection- How To Write Evocative Poetry: a guidebook for unlocking creativity- Work With Me: 1 on 1 Mentoring & Coaching
Web: zachary-phillips.comSocial: @zacpphillips

The moment we label something, it is limited. The label isn’t the truth, it is a representation of, it’s a finger pointing to the moon, it is a suggestion of possibility that always falls short of reality.
In this episode I share the following poem and muse about its implications, leaving you with the spiritual practice of looking beyond the label, to see what it is pointing to, pulling it all the way back to the core, to consciousness.
all labelsare an abstractionof form
baring one;consciousness
Current offerings:- Hunt Your Own Shadow: free 12 week email course- Insight Timer: guided audio courses & free meditations- Skillshare: video courses on personal development- How To Get Your Sh!t Together: the last self-help book you will ever read- Bound To The Wings of a Butterfly: best selling poetry collection- How To Write Evocative Poetry: a guidebook for unlocking creativity- Work With Me: 1 on 1 Mentoring & Coaching
Web: zachary-phillips.comSocial: @zacpphillips

In this session I share the audio from my presentation in the Breaking Boxes ‘Power Of Connection Summit’, where I joined seven other presenters over two days to talk on all things connection.My talk was titled ‘Connection From Within The Darkness’ - I talk about the disconnect we often feel to ourselves and the world following trauma and how we can being healing from it.This session begins with a brief introduction of myself and my work, followed by a long form guided meditation/introspection, were we look inwards and begin to heal, reconnect and integrate with parts of ourselves that may have been impacted by trauma.Warning: this session may be challenging to some listeners, so please sure your supports and self-care is in place prior to listening.You can check out Breaking Boxes here.‘Hunt Your Own Shadow’ is my free 12 week email course that will help you to identify and release the limiting beliefs that no longer serve you.
It features 12 exclusive guided audio tracts, introspective contemplations, expansion challenges, and email coaching - you can read more about the course and sign up here.

Identify and release the limiting beliefs that no longer serve you with this free 12 week email course.
Featuring exclusive guided audio tracks, introspective contemplations, expansion challenges, and email coaching - this course will act as a guide, offering insights, prompts and suggestions that will help you to identify and release the limiting beliefs that no longer serve you.
To sign up, just put your email here and I will send you an introduction email and week one’s content. You can also read more about the course here.
I look forward to seeing you in the course!