The Union Path John Coleman

Redeeming the Past: Finding Opportunities for a Positive Future
We have the choice to either accept or resist life's flow, but it is still always moving. Negative events can lead to a desire for revenge, but this sets us up for difficulty in life. We can strive to create a better future without undoing our past.
We often try to "undo" our past by pushing against it, but this only locks us into repetitive patterns, keeps the past alive, and often leads to our worst fears being realized. We become bonded to our past and carry it into the future, but this approach can be automatic and reflexive, rather than helping us break away. We often try to control our lives to prevent the same things from happening again, but this prevents us from fully inhabiting our present.
Instead of pushing against our past, we can work to redeem it and find the positivity in it, so that we can live our ideal future with the less ideal parts of our past included. We have the choice to accept our past and learn to transmute the pain and suffering into something positive. We can flow with life, instead of fighting against it, striving for redemption instead of revenge.
No matter what happens to us, there is always an opportunity to make something good out of something bad. We can resolve our conflicts with the past by looking for the opportunities to redeem them, seeing the good and the positive in them. We can move on when these experiences have fulfilled their purpose and said all they need to say.
Asking ourselves how we can redeem our past experiences can help us find the positive and allow us to move forward.
Key Lessons

We have the choice to either accept or resist life’s flow.
Rather than trying to undo the past, we can strive to redeem it by looking for opportunities to make something positive out of it.
By allowing our experiences to fulfill their purpose and say all they need to say, we can move on to our ideal future.
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Working with Fear: Balancing Fear in Life to Pursue Dreams
Fear is an unavoidable part of life and the best way to cope is to understand it and learn to work with it. Fear often wants failure and stagnation, but we can renegotiate our fear and use it to help us grow, change, and be creative. Fear can be very uncomfortable and intense, but it does not have to be the primary emotion that dictates our lives.
We can find ways to work with fear and balance its presence in our lives rather than letting it take over. By being aware of our feelings and fact-checking the stories fear tells us, we can live fuller lives while still recognizing that pain and loss are unavoidable parts of life. Life can be full of growth, change, risk, pain, pleasure, and loss, but it's necessary in order to live a fulfilling life.
Fear can prevent us from wanting what we desire and can create a sense of stagnation, but we should interpret our feelings and discern their deeper message. Embracing change requires a dance with fear. Fear is not bad; it can be used to gain clarity and understanding.
Fear can also help guide our decisions and inform our self-awareness. We can use fear to create big changes in our lives without having to take multiple steps or take a lot of time. Fear can often lead us to make things more complicated than they need to be, separating us from our dreams and desires.
However, we can learn to feel fear and still move forward, slowly revoking the power fear has over us. We don't have to let fear stop us from living the life we want. We can learn to feel and integrate our fear, and then let it go so that we can move beyond it and achieve our goals.
We can pursue our dreams without fear by connecting with the fullest version of them, understanding and accepting what we truly want, and using that energy to propel us forward. We get to choose how fully we express ourselves and endeavor after what we really want.
Key Lessons

We can use fear to gain clarity and understanding.
We don't have to let fear stop us from living the life we want.
We can learn to feel and integrate our fear, and then let it go.
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The Data Dance: Balancing Facts and Feelings for a Richer Life
We live in an age of unprecedented access to data, but an over-reliance on facts and information can lead to a life of only thinking and diminish our intuitive and feeling side. To find the truth, we must balance our thinking and feeling and not be limited by facts and information. We often rely too heavily on data and evidence to craft our story, rather than trusting our internal knowing, leading to an imbalance between internal and external influences.
We can sabotage our own ability to change by over-relying on data and evidence of the present. We need to maintain a balance between awareness of what is and what could be in order to have hope. We have the freedom to choose how to use data and evidence and create our own stories.
We often rely on data to guide us, but it's important to remember that data is just data and feelings are just feelings. To find our way to truth, we need to listen to and integrate all parts of ourselves to find balance and synergy. We should pay more attention to our feelings and less to the evidence.
We can develop trust and understanding of ourselves by balancing our data and evidence with our feelings, intuition, and thinking. This integration of all our parts allows us to live a deep, meaningful and fulfilling life.
Key Lessons

We should not rely too heavily on data and evidence to craft our story and should instead trust our internal knowing.
We need to listen to and integrate all parts of ourselves, including our feelings, intuition, and thinking.
We should maintain a balance between internal and external influences to have hope and live a meaningful life.
Full episode transcript available at: https://theunionpath.com/episodes

Shift From Living a Life You Have To to Living a Life You Get To

Manifesting your desires, how to create change through awareness and alignment. Learning to know the difference between manifesting something and actually living with it, through actually being it.

Using dormancy to reflect and gain clarity on what matters most. Using times in our life when desire feels absent to get clarity on what we really want, from a place of who we really are and what really matters to us.