The New Ashla Coaching and Self-Mastery Podcast

Justin V Gates and Michael Perry
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The New Ashla Coaching and Self-Mastery Podcast explores consciousness, inner work, and spiritual discipline as foundations of emotional healing and personal authority. Through grounded conversations on awareness, identity, unconscious patterns, and attention, we examine how inner training shapes character and behavior. Rooted in Jungian psychology and the Path of Ashla, this season offers a serious psycho-spiritual path toward self-mastery, integration, and embodied change without shortcuts or illusion.

  1. 21h ago

    Are You Chasing the Wrong Life? Divine Design, Ego, and the Life That Actually Fits! EP152

    Episode Guide What if the life you have been working so hard to build is not actually yours? In Are You Chasing the Wrong Life?, we explore the difference between a life shaped by calling, truth, values, and authentic self expression, and a life shaped by approval, comparison, fear, status, and inherited expectations. Many people reach the career, income, relationship, lifestyle, or level of success they were taught to want, only to arrive and feel strangely empty. That emptiness does not always mean you need more. Sometimes it is a signal that you have been chasing goals that never truly belonged to you. Through the lens of psychology, Florence Scovel Shinn’s idea of Divine Design, and the teachings of Ashla, we examine intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation, identity based goals, the Greater Self, Calling, service, and the Sacred Ethos of Love, Truth, Integrity, Connection, and Sanctity of Life. The deeper question is not simply: “What do I want?” It is: “Where did I learn to want it, and does the life I am building actually fit who I am becoming?” This episode is an invitation to stop measuring your life by what looks successful from the outside and begin creating one that feels true, aligned, meaningful, and alive from within. Keywords Are You Chasing the Wrong Life, Divine Design, Ego Design, life purpose, finding your purpose, finding your calling, authentic self, authenticity, personal values, spiritual alignment, Greater Self, self expression, perfect self expression, Florence Scovel Shinn, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, identity based goals, self determination theory, purpose driven life, meaningful life, success and emptiness, achievement and happiness, spiritual purpose, spiritual growth, personal growth, self discovery, conscious living, life alignment, ego driven goals, inherited goals, social conditioning, comparison, self worth, approval seeking, authenticity and purpose, vocation, right vocation, service, calling, New Ashla, Way of Ashla, Sacred Ethos, Love, Truth, Integrity, Connection, Sanctity of Life, the Force, self mastery, aligned goals, finding meaning, living authentically, spiritual coaching Keywords

    Are You Chasing the Wrong Life? Divine Design, Ego, and the Life That Actually Fits! EP152

  2. 5d ago

    Life is a Cycle; Embrace the Ebb and Flow (Thursday Replay)

    In case you missed this powerful episode on the natural cycle and flow of the universe! Inspired by the book⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ "The Light Within: A Journey through the Axioms of Ashla." ⁠In this episode of the New Ashla Podcast, Justin Gates and Michael Perry delve into the Axioms of Light, exploring themes of spiritual living, simplicity, and the importance of living in harmony with nature. They discuss the significance of grounding oneself, the heart's role in meditation, and the necessity of integrity in relationships. The conversation emphasizes the journey of introspection, the cycles of life, and the transformative power of pain into purpose. Ultimately, they encourage listeners to embrace authenticity and live in accordance with the natural world. Get the book here!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://a.co/d/4ADHZyA⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/NewAshla⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/JustinVGates⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@justinvgates?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Youtube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@KnightsofAwakening⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Youtube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@TemplumLumis⁠ #NewAshla, #JustinVGates, #MichaelPerry, #Ashla, #AxiomsofLight, #spiritualliving, #simplicity, #harmony, #meditation, #integrity, #authenticity, #nature, #introspection, #personalgrowth, #emotionalhealing Takeaways Peace is found in flowing with life, not fixing everything.Living close to the land fosters connection and grounding.Meditation should focus on descending into the heart.Integrity in relationships is crucial; your word is your bond.Radical honesty leads to deeper connections with others.Life is a cycle; embrace the ebb and flow.Pain can be a catalyst for personal growth.Introspection and stillness are essential for clarity.Living authentically aligns you with your true self.Nature teaches us to trust the cycles of life.

    Life is a Cycle; Embrace the Ebb and Flow (Thursday Replay)

  3. 6d ago

    Inspiration Exposure: Microdosing Awe When Life Feels Heavy EP151

    Episode companion When life gets heavy, we're often told to push through, stay positive, or find the silver lining. But sometimes that just teaches us to ignore what we actually feel. In this episode, Michael Perry and Justin Gates explore Inspiration Exposure: intentionally creating small, repeatable encounters with beauty, wonder, presence, and awe. They unpack how stress, grief, responsibility, and constant productivity can make life feel smaller, why stimulation is not the same as inspiration, and how practices like music, nature, movement, stillness, and simple mindfulness can help us reconnect with life without pretending everything is okay. In this episode • Why toxic positivity can become another form of avoidance• How prolonged stress narrows our experience of life• The difference between stimulation and genuine inspiration• Why constant productivity can disconnect us from presence• How awe, gratitude, and mindfulness become daily practices• Why small moments of beauty can build emotional resilience Key takeaways • Pain and beauty can exist at the same time.• When life becomes only work, problems, and survival, that narrow experience can start feeling like the whole truth.• Inspiration is different from stimulation. More content does not always mean more connection.• Small, repeatable moments of presence can matter more than waiting for one dramatic breakthrough.• Build your relationship with awe before crisis hits, so you have something familiar to return to when life gets hard. Try this If life feels stagnant, notice three small moments each day that move you, even slightly. If you feel lost or depleted, write down three things you are genuinely grateful for each day. If you are in crisis, reach for appropriate support first. Then try setting three alarms during the day. When one goes off, use it as a cue to return to the present moment and notice something stable, supportive, or good that exists right now. Affirmations • I give myself permission to seek beauty even when I'm in pain.• I am not avoiding my grief, I am tending to myself inside it.• My nervous system heals when I let myself be moved.• I build resilience by turning to wonder, not by pushing harder.• I am someone who tends to my inner environment with intention. Journal prompts When was the last time something genuinely stopped you? What did it feel like? Where are you pushing through something instead of feeling it? What would it mean to actively tend to your relationship with beauty? Keywords Inspiration exposure, microdosing awe, mindfulness, gratitude, emotional resilience, burnout, grief, finding joy again, toxic positivity, stress, self mastery, personal growth, New Ashla Podcast Connect Michael Perry: https://www.facebook.com/michael.perry.18400700/ Justin Gates: https://www.facebook.com/JustinVGates TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@justinvgates New Ashla: https://newashla.com

    Inspiration Exposure: Microdosing Awe When Life Feels Heavy EP151

  4. Sep 15

    Why Willpower Fails: The Problem Is Not Effort, It Is Identity EP150

    Episode Companion Why do we keep returning to the same habits, patterns, and choices even when we genuinely want to change? The problem may not be a lack of discipline. It may be that you are trying to create a new life while still carrying an old identity. In this episode, Justin and Michael explore the hidden conflict between behavior and self image, why familiar patterns can feel safer than unfamiliar growth, and how shame, relapse, procrastination, people pleasing, and self sabotage can all become ways of returning to the person we already believe ourselves to be. Through psychology and the teachings of Ashla, we examine the difference between forcing change and becoming aligned with it. Lasting transformation begins when thought, motive, identity, and action stop pulling in opposite directions. You do not need to spend the rest of your life fighting yourself into becoming someone different. You need to discover which version of yourself you are still protecting, decide whether that identity is actually true, and begin giving yourself new evidence of who you are becoming. Because eventually, transformation stops being something you force. It becomes something you embody. You can force a behavior for a while. But lasting change begins when the new behavior becomes an expression of who you are. Keywords Why willpower fails, willpower, identity change, identity based habits, self image, self concept, behavior change, lasting change, personal transformation, self sabotage, habit change, discipline, motivation, self discipline, mindset, identity and behavior, breaking old patterns, limiting beliefs, subconscious patterns, emotional patterns, inner conflict, self mastery, personal growth, spiritual growth, psychological growth, alignment, living in alignment, Greater Self, lesser self, New Ashla, Way of Ashla, Sacred Ethos, Truth, Integrity, self awareness, self discovery, becoming your best self, transformation through identity, change your identity, change your life, why habits fail, why motivation fails, why discipline fails, psychology of habits, spiritual transformation, aligned action, authenticity, self worth, self belief, inner healing, conscious change

    Why Willpower Fails: The Problem Is Not Effort, It Is Identity EP150

  5. Sep 10

    Wheels of Light: How Chakras Shape Our Inner World (Thursday Replay)

    In case you missed it, here is a throwback to our conversation on Chakras! In this conversation, Michael Perry and Justin Gates explore the intricate relationship between the energetic and physical aspects of healing, focusing on the chakras as key components in understanding our emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. They delve into each chakra's unique functions, the importance of balance, and how trauma can manifest in our bodies. The discussion emphasizes the significance of self-awareness, grounding, and the power of self-expression in achieving harmony within ourselves. They explore the interconnectedness of kindness, service, mindfulness, and the relationship between the chakras and the nervous system. They discuss practical techniques for emotional healing, including breathwork, mindfulness, and the use of crystals, while emphasizing the importance of emotional honesty and self-awareness in personal growth. The dialogue highlights the significance of nature and community in fostering well-being and the necessity of integrating mind, body, and spirit for holistic health. Facebook:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/NewAshla⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/JustinVGates⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@justinvgates?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@KnightsofAwakening⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@TemplumLumis⁠ Takeaways The nervous system and chakras are interconnected in healing.Chakras serve as energy centers that influence our well-being.Grounding practices can enhance our sense of security.Creativity and sensuality are vital for emotional health.Personal power is cultivated through self-trust and boundaries.The heart chakra is essential for love and compassion.Self-expression is crucial for authenticity and truth.Intuition is developed through awareness and perception.Spiritual connection transcends the ego and fosters unity.Each chakra has affirmations that can aid in healing and balance. Leaving a positive imprint on others is essential.Service to others fosters personal growth and fulfillment.Mindfulness practices can help regulate the nervous system.Chakras and the nervous system are deeply interconnected.Breathwork is crucial for calming the mind and body.Nature has healing properties that benefit mental health.Crystals can be used for energy alignment and healing.Emotional honesty is vital for processing past traumas.Visualization techniques can aid in emotional healing.Integration of mind, body, and spirit is key to overall well-being. chakras, healing, energy, trauma, personal growth, spirituality, self-expression, intuition, mindfulness, wellness, kindness, service, mindfulness, chakras, nervous system, emotional healing, breathwork, nature, crystals, self-care

    Wheels of Light: How Chakras Shape Our Inner World (Thursday Replay)

  6. Sep 9

    When Your Wounds Become Your Identity: What Are They Still Paying You? EP149

    Episode guide Your pain is real, but what if the story built around it is now keeping you stuck? In this episode, Michael and Justin explore the quiet payoff of staying wounded: the sympathy, safety, lowered expectations, and avoidance that can come from identifying with old pain. They talk about scorekeeping, martyrdom, rehearsed stories, nervous-system resistance, and the difference between blame and responsibility. This conversation is about honoring what happened without letting it define who you are, so you can stop living from the past and start authoring what comes next. In this episode • How wounds can become identity, armor, and leverage • The hidden payoff behind staying stuck in an old story • Why responsibility is not the same as blame • How the lesser self clings to pain while the greater self chooses freedom Key takeaways • A wound can be real without needing to remain your identity. • Every stuck pattern is often giving you something, and naming the payoff helps loosen its grip. • Responsibility is how you reclaim power, not how you punish yourself. • Awareness only creates change when it leads to action. Try this: Write down one story from your past that you keep retelling. Then answer three questions: What does it cost you? What does it give you? Where this week can you choose not to reach for it? Affirmations: My wound is real, and it is not my ruler. I can honor my past without living in it. Responsibility is my power, not my punishment. I release the payoff of staying small. I am the author, not the evidence. Journal prompts: What has staying hurt protected me from having to do, risk, or feel? Who would I have to become if I stopped telling my oldest story? Where in my life am I asking to be rescued when I’m actually ready to walk? Keywords Keywords: healing from trauma, victim identity, shadow work, personal responsibility, emotional healing, letting go of resentment, nervous system, self mastery, personal growth, New Ashla Connect Connect: Michael Perry | Justin Gates Follow: TikTok | New Ashla

    When Your Wounds Become Your Identity: What Are They Still Paying You? EP149

  7. Sep 8

    Emotional Scars: When You are Still Wearing the Past as Your Face! EP 148

    Get the Episode Companion here! In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Justin V. Gates and Michael Perry explore emotional scars, the hidden wounds from the past that still shape the face we show the world. Many people think they have moved on from old pain because the event is over. The relationship ended. The childhood is gone. The betrayal passed. The rejection happened years ago. But the body remembers. The nervous system remembers. The self-image remembers. And sometimes the past is no longer happening around us, but it is still expressing itself through us. It shows up in the way we react. The way we protect ourselves. The way we avoid vulnerability. The way we push people away, overexplain, shut down, people-please, distrust love, expect rejection, or wear a mask so no one sees the wound underneath. This conversation is about the difference between healing a wound and simply learning how to hide it better. Emotional scars can become part of our identity when we never bring them into awareness. We may start believing, “This is just who I am,” when really, it is who we became in response to pain. Through Ashla, this becomes the sacred work of allowing the Light to reveal what the past has marked. Not to shame us. Not to condemn us. But to help us return to truth. The wound may explain the mask, but it does not have to remain the face. Justin and Michael discuss how old emotional wounds shape self-image, relationships, trust, attachment, confidence, reactions, and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. They explore how the greater self can begin to recognize the scar, understand its origin, and choose a new way of being that is no longer ruled by old pain. Takeaways Our wounds often shape our personality and worldview.Bringing wounds into awareness is essential for healing.Schemas are internal blueprints formed by traumatic experiences.Healing involves integrating wounds with love, truth, and integrity.The nervous system plays a key role in emotional reactions.Keywords emotional scars, emotional wounds, healing emotional scars, trauma healing, inner wounds, childhood wounds, past trauma, healing the past, shadow work, inner work, self-image, false self, mask, emotional mask, survival patterns, trauma responses, nervous system healing, triggers, emotional triggers, attachment wounds, relationship wounds, fear of vulnerability, fear of rejection, people pleasing, emotional shutdown, guarded heart, self-protection, healing journey, personal growth, spiritual growth, spiritual healing, psychospiritual healing, self-mastery, greater self, lesser self, Ashla, New Ashla Podcast, Justin V Gates, Michael Perry, emotional healing podcast, trauma healing podcast, shadow work podcast, spiritual podcast, self-help podcast, healing identity, reclaiming the self, Light, inner transformation, emotional resilience

    Emotional Scars: When You are Still Wearing the Past as Your Face! EP 148

  8. Aug 27

    The Expansion Trap: Why Success Never Feels Like Enough EP 147

    Episode Guide The Expansion Trap: Why Success Never Feels Like Enough You hit the goal. You finished the project. You got the promotion, lost the weight, earned the degree, built the thing, or finally reached the milestone you had been chasing. It felt good for about half a second. Then the bar moved. A new target appeared. Yesterday’s achievement became today’s baseline, and instead of arriving, your mind immediately asked, “What’s next?” In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Michael Perry and Justin Gates explore what Michael calls “the expansion trap,” the cycle where growth, ambition, and productivity become so constant that we never actually allow ourselves to experience what we have accomplished. The problem is not wanting more. Human beings are built to grow, learn, create, and expand. The problem begins when we never complete the cycle. We reach, achieve, and immediately reach again without giving ourselves the space to integrate what the experience required of us, what it taught us, and who we became along the way. Michael gets especially personal about how this has shown up in his own life. After years of using gaming, television, and distraction to escape difficult feelings, he began recognizing that relentless productivity can sometimes become a more socially acceptable version of the same mechanism. Building, creating, learning, and accomplishing can all be genuinely meaningful while still becoming a way to avoid being present with ourselves. Justin connects this pattern to the Path of Ashla and several Axioms of Light, especially the importance of allowing a lull, accepting where we are, and recognizing that contentment and growth are not enemies. You can want more without rejecting what already exists. You can celebrate an accomplishment without becoming complacent. You can rest without becoming stagnant. And sometimes the healthiest thing you can do before your next takeoff is actually learn how to land. In this episode • Why reaching a goal can immediately create another goal instead of satisfaction• How achievements quietly become your new baseline• Why ambitious people often confuse contentment with stagnation• The difference between healthy expansion and using productivity as an escape• How intellectualizing emotions can keep us disconnected from actually feeling them• Why constantly moving the goalpost can prevent you from building real confidence in your own capabilities• The importance of completing the cycle of beginning, effort, completion, rest, integration, and beginning again• How Justin’s Axioms of Light apply differently depending on where you are in your life• Why endings sometimes need to remain endings long enough for something new to genuinely begin• How appreciation and ambition can exist at the same time Key takeaways • Growth is not the problem. The inability to arrive is. • When every achievement immediately becomes the new minimum, you lose the opportunity to internalize evidence of your own capability. • Productivity can be meaningful and still function as an escape. Radical honesty means being willing to examine both truths at once. • Contentment does not require giving up ambition. You can appreciate where you are while still choosing where you want to go. • Integration matters as much as accumulation. The lessons, skills, resilience, and identity built through an experience need space to settle. • An ending deserves to become an ending before it becomes the foundation of another beginning. Keywords Keywords: expansion trap, moving goalposts, personal growth, self worth, ambition, productivity, burnout, contentment, self acceptance, achievement, nervous system, radical honesty, emotional avoidance, personal development, New Ashla Podcast Connect Michael Perryhttps://www.facebook.com/michael.perry.18400700/ Justin Gateshttps://www.facebook.com/JustinVGates TikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@justinvgates New Ashlahttps://newashla.com

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The New Ashla Coaching and Self-Mastery Podcast explores consciousness, inner work, and spiritual discipline as foundations of emotional healing and personal authority. Through grounded conversations on awareness, identity, unconscious patterns, and attention, we examine how inner training shapes character and behavior. Rooted in Jungian psychology and the Path of Ashla, this season offers a serious psycho-spiritual path toward self-mastery, integration, and embodied change without shortcuts or illusion.

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