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

    The Expansion Trap: Why Success Never Feels Like Enough EP 147
    2026/08/27
    Episode GuideThe Expansion Trap: Why Success Never Feels Like EnoughYou 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 timeKey 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.KeywordsKeywords: 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 PodcastConnectMichael Perryhttps://www.facebook.com/michael.perry.18400700/Justin Gateshttps://www.facebook.com/JustinVGatesTikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@justinvgatesNew Ashlahttps://newashla.com
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    36 分
  • Wake Up From the Lie: Breaking the Spell of False Beliefs EP 146

    Wake Up From the Lie: Breaking the Spell of False Beliefs EP 146
    2026/08/20

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    In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Justin V. Gates and Michael Perry explore how false beliefs shape identity, limit potential, and quietly control the way we see ourselves, our relationships, our worth, and what we believe is possible.

    Some of the limits we live under were never truly ours. Someone said something. Something happened. We failed once. We were rejected, judged, compared, shamed, criticized, or told who we were before we understood who we could become. Over time, the suggestion became belief. The belief became identity. The identity became a prison.

    Drawing from the teachings of Ashla, Justin and Michael discuss what it means to “wake up from the lie” and de-hypnotize yourself from limiting beliefs that were planted through pain, conditioning, comparison, trauma, rejection, failure, family systems, culture, religion, or repeated suggestion.

    This conversation explores how false beliefs become a trance. A lie does not have to be true to shape your life. It only has to be believed deeply enough. Once accepted, the belief becomes a lens through which life is interpreted. A person may begin acting in ways that confirm the belief, not because the belief is true, but because the belief is quietly guiding perception, behavior, confidence, and self-image.

    Through Ashla, this becomes the sacred work of recognition. Before you can break free of negative or improper influences, you must first recognize them. The Light of awareness reveals the lie so the greater self can stop bowing to it.

    Justin and Michael also explore how false beliefs block expression. Many people do not lack ability. They are living under a self-image that refuses permission. A person may have intelligence, creativity, leadership, strength, love, or deep capacity within them, but the old belief says, “That is not for you.” Over time, “I can’t” becomes more than a thought. It becomes an inner command.

    The episode also examines how comparison creates false standards. Modern life constantly invites us to compare our real path to someone else’s curated image. Highlight reels, filtered bodies, success clips, spiritual performance, and artificial standards can make people feel behind, broken, inadequate, or unworthy. But someone else’s path is not the measure of your soul.

    The deeper work is not only recognizing the lie, but replacing it with lived truth. Removing a false belief is not enough. A truer belief must be cultivated, repeated, and embodied through action. Affirmations matter, but the deeper mind also needs evidence. One honest sentence, one wise decision, one completed task, one act of courage, one boundary, one moment of self-respect can begin to teach the inner world that the old story is not the only story.

    This episode is for anyone who has struggled with limiting beliefs, low self-worth, self-doubt, comparison, fear of failure, imposter syndrome, negative self-image, inherited conditioning, or the feeling that they are living beneath their true capacity.


    Keywords

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    37 分
  • You Are the Key: Stop Looking Outside for What Begins Within EP 145

    You Are the Key: Stop Looking Outside for What Begins Within EP 145
    2026/08/18

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    In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Justin V. Gates and Michael Perry explore one of the most powerful truths in spiritual growth and self-mastery: you are the key.

    So many people spend their lives searching outside themselves for the thing that will finally unlock their peace, purpose, healing, confidence, identity, or connection to the Divine. They search for the right teacher, the right system, the right method, the right sign, the right breakthrough, or the right external solution. But what if the key was never outside of you?

    Drawing from Three Magic Words, self-image work, and the teachings of Ashla, this conversation looks at the deeper Self beneath the masks, roles, labels, wounds, fears, and conditioned identities we have learned to defend. You are not merely your name, job, body, past, personality, or pain. Beneath all of that is the aware Self, the “I am” within you, the part capable of recognizing truth, choosing alignment, and walking in right relationship with the Force.

    Through Ashla, this becomes the sacred work of awareness. The outer path matters, but no teacher, book, system, or guide can walk the path for you. They can point. They can support. They can awaken something within you. But the door opens from the inside.

    Justin and Michael explore how the self-image becomes the lock, how old beliefs and false identities keep people trapped, and how awareness begins to turn the key. The listener is invited to stop searching endlessly outside themselves and begin returning to the inner temple, where truth, Light, and the greater self are waiting to be recognized and embodied.

    You are not finding the key.

    You are remembering that you are the key.

    Know thyself. Step into awareness. Step into truth.

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    47 分
  • Stoicism, Taoism, and the Art of Letting Go EP 144

    Stoicism, Taoism, and the Art of Letting Go EP 144
    2026/08/13

    Episode Guide

    You can rehearse the conversation, plan for every outcome, check the message again, and try to keep everyone happy. But at some point, preparation becomes gripping, and the tighter you hold, the less peace you actually have.

    In this episode, Michael Perry and Justin Gates explore the paradox of control through psychology, Stoicism, Taoism, and the Path of Ashla. They look at why control often disguises itself as responsibility, love, high standards, or preparedness, and why fear and distrust can quietly sit underneath all of them.

    The goal is not to stop caring, stop planning, or become passive. It is to recognize what is actually yours to influence, act fully where your power exists, and release the outcomes that were never yours to command.

    In this episode:
    • Why control can look like responsibility, preparedness, discipline, or love
    • How fear and uncertainty can drive the need to manage outcomes
    • Rehearsing conversations, checking messages, tracking packages, and other subtle forms of gripping
    • The difference between control, influence, and responsibility
    • Why managing how other people see you can become another form of control
    • The Stoic practice of separating what belongs to you from what does not
    • Taoist wu wei, effortless action and effort without force
    • Trading prediction for presence
    • Why surrender does not mean passivity
    • How releasing external control can strengthen self-trust and personal agency
    • Justin’s Axioms of Light on acceptance, influence, power, and surrender

    Key takeaways:
    • Trying to control what was never yours to control can create the anxiety and exhaustion you were trying to prevent.
    • Your actions, effort, responses, character, and integrity belong to you. Other people, outcomes, reactions, and timing do not.
    • Surrender is not giving up. You can act fully while releasing your demand for a particular outcome.
    • Learning to tolerate uncertainty gives you more room to respond to reality instead of constantly trying to predict it.
    • When you stop managing every possible future, you recover energy, honesty, presence, and trust in your ability to meet what comes.

    Try this:
    Choose one situation currently creating stress in your life and draw a line down the middle of a piece of paper. On one side, write everything that is actually within your control: your actions, words, effort, boundaries, and choices. On the other, write what is outside your control: the outcome, other people’s reactions, their choices, and the timing.

    When you are finished, look at the side containing what you cannot control. Take a breath and cross the entire column out. Then choose one thing from the side you can control, act on it fully, and when it is done, let it be done.

    Affirmations:
    • I control my effort, not my outcomes.
    • I act fully and release completely.
    • Uncertainty is not a threat. It is where my life happens.
    • I trust myself to meet whatever comes.
    • My grip does not keep me safe. My presence does.

    Journal prompts:
    • What am I holding so tightly that my hands are too full to receive anything else?
    • Whose approval, outcome, or timeline am I trying to control right now, and what am I afraid happens if I stop?
    • Write about a time something slipped completely out of your control and turned out to be a doorway. What does that memory ask you to trust now?

    This episode also includes an announcement about Justin’s upcoming podcast, The Light Within with Justin V Gates, a deeper exploration of spiritual philosophy, sacred wisdom, and the Way of Ashla.

    Keywords: control and anxiety, letting go of control, surrender, Stoicism, Taoism, wu wei, uncertainty, self trust, personal growth, emotional regulation, presence, fear and control, acceptance, self mastery, New Ashla

    Connect: Michael Perry | Justin Gates
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    51 分
  • The Habit of Happiness: Training the Mind to Receive Joy EP143

    The Habit of Happiness: Training the Mind to Receive Joy EP143
    2026/08/11
    Episode Companion here!In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Justin V. Gates and Michael Perry explore The Habit of Happiness, and why joy must be practiced, cultivated, and received rather than passively waited for.Most people think happiness will arrive when life finally gets better. When the money is right. When the relationship is right. When the body is right. When the work is right. When the world finally gives them a reason to feel at peace. But what if happiness is not only the result of circumstances? What if happiness is also a habit?Drawing from the teachings of Ashla, this episode looks at how the mind, nervous system, subconscious, and self-image can be trained toward either misery or joy. Many people do not realize they are practicing unhappiness every day. They rehearse resentment, return to old wounds, expect disappointment, scan for what is missing, identify with stress, and prepare for the next problem before they have even received the present blessing.Justin and Michael discuss how emotional states become familiar through repetition, why calm can feel unsafe to someone trained in stress, and how suffering can become part of the self-image. If someone believes they are broken, cursed, unlucky, unwanted, or destined to struggle, happiness may feel temporary, suspicious, or undeserved.Through Ashla, this becomes the sacred discipline of training the mind to receive the Light. Joy is not forced. Forced happiness becomes performance. True joy is cultivated through attention, gratitude, meaning, connection, service, stillness, right action, hope, and grace.This conversation is not about denying suffering or pretending pain is not real. It is about refusing to let pain be the only thing that feels real. The Light can still be received in imperfect circumstances. Peace can become familiar. Gratitude can be practiced. Hope can be strengthened. Grace can be cultivated.Happiness is not weakness, denial, or luck. It can become a sacred practice.Get the book here!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://a.co/d/4ADHZyA⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/NewAshla⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/JustinVGates⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@justinvgates?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@KnightsofAwakening⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@TemplumLumis⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.newashla.com⁠Keywordsthe habit of happiness, habit of happiness, training the mind to receive the Light, happiness is a habit, joy must be practiced, practicing happiness, cultivate joy, how to cultivate joy, stop rehearsing misery, practicing unhappiness, emotional habits, happiness and self image, joy and self image, nervous system and happiness, subconscious mind and happiness, subconscious programming, New Psycho-Cybernetics, Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics happiness, happiness as a discipline, spiritual happiness, spiritual joy, joy is not denial, forced positivity, toxic positivity, real joy, gratitude practice, gratitude and happiness, hope and grace, cultivate hope, cultivate grace, inner orientation, emotional healing, spiritual growth, self mastery, personal transformation, shadow work, healing resentment, healing bitterness, healing stress, healing self image, peace is safe, calm is safe, receiving goodness, receiving joy, learning to receive, joy and nervous system healing, emotional regulation, daily spiritual practice, stillness practice, service and meaning, meaningful life, New Ashla Podcast, Justin V Gates, Michael Perry, Ashla, the Light, the Force, Luminari, greater self, lesser self, alignment with the Light, Ad Lucem
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    36 分
  • Self Sabotage is Self Protection EP142

    Self Sabotage is Self Protection EP142
    2026/08/06

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    Why You Crash Your Own Success and What It’s Trying to Keep Safe

    Why do we procrastinate, shrink, pick fights, or retreat just when life begins moving in the direction we wanted?

    In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Michael and Justin explore self-sabotage as a protective response rather than a character flaw. They discuss why unfamiliar success can feel threatening, how old coping mechanisms disguise themselves as reasonable thoughts, and why understanding a pattern is not the same as changing it.

    Through personal stories involving procrastination, addiction, social anxiety, health, and rebuilding self-trust, they offer a more compassionate path forward: recognize the protection, understand the need beneath it, and take a step small enough for your nervous system to learn that growth is safe.

    TOPICS COVERED

    • Why self-sabotage belongs in the “safety column”

    • How unfamiliar success can register as danger

    • The difference between insight and integration

    • Procrastination disguised as preparation

    • Imposter syndrome and shrinking your accomplishments

    • The upper-limit crash that can follow progress

    • Negotiation and all-or-nothing thinking in addiction

    • Meeting the need beneath a protective behavior

    • Rebuilding self-trust through manageable actions

    • Grieving unmet needs and former versions of yourself

    • Outgrowing old protection without shaming yourself

    KEY TAKEAWAYS

    • Self-sabotage is often a protection strategy, not proof that something is wrong with you.

    • The nervous system frequently reaches for what is familiar before what is healthy.

    • “What am I protecting?” creates more useful information than “What is wrong with me?”

    • Sabotaging thoughts can sound reasonable because they are trying to create immediate safety.

    • Self-trust grows when you consciously choose your next step instead of letting the pattern choose for you.

    • You do not have to defeat the protective version of yourself. You can appreciate what it did and gradually outgrow it.

    LISTENER EXERCISE

    The next time you feel the pull to delay, withdraw, pick a fight, or make yourself smaller:

    • Stop and place one hand on your chest.

    • Take one slow breath.

    • Say: “This is protection, not truth. I’m safe, and this is just new.”

    • Choose the smallest honest step forward—or intentionally decide to step back.

    Both choices are allowed. The important part is that you make the choice consciously instead of allowing the pattern to make it for you.

    AFFIRMATIONS

    • I am safe in my own success.

    • My growth does not require my punishment.

    • I can honor my need for safety and still move forward.

    • Familiar is not the same as good.

    • I am becoming someone my success can trust.

    JOURNALING PROMPTS

    • Where in my life do I reach the edge of what I want, and what do I consistently do next?

    • What is my sabotage trying to protect me from feeling, and when did I first learn to fear that feeling?

    • If success were completely safe, who would I let myself become?

    REFERENCES

    • The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest

    • The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

    • Twelve-step recovery principles

    • The Path of Ashla and the Axioms of Light

    Keywords: self-sabotage, self-protection, nervous system regulation, self-trust, procrastination, imposter syndrome, fear of success, addiction recovery, emotional healing, trauma-informed growth, comfort zone, personal development, grief, shadow work, Path of Ashla

    Connect: Michael Perry | Justin Gates

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    38 分
  • Surrender Is Not Giving Up: How to be in Alignment Without using Force EP 141

    Surrender Is Not Giving Up: How to be in Alignment Without using Force EP 141
    2026/08/04
    Episode Companion here!In this episode of The New Ashla Coaching and Self-mastery Podcast, Justin V. Gates and Michael Perry explore why forcing, overthinking, and gripping outcomes can block the very clarity and transformation we are trying to create.Sometimes the harder we push, the further the answer seemsto move away. We think harder, analyze longer, replay every possibility, and try to control every outcome. But instead of clarity, we find tension. Instead of movement, we find resistance. Instead of alignment, we find exhaustion.Drawing from the teachings of Ashla, this episode examines the difference between true effort and fear-basedforce. Effort is aligned movement. Forcing is fear trying to control the outcome. When the body tightens, the mind narrows, and the nervous system braces, what feels like responsibility may actually be anxiety pretending to bewisdom.Justin and Michael discuss how the inner system needs aclear aim, honest action, and then space to work. The mind must define the problem, gather what it knows, and choose the desired direction, but endless worry does not improve the process. Often, the next answer comes when we stopstrangling the question.Through Ashla, surrender is not giving up. It is not passivity. It is not avoidance. True surrender is active trust. It means doingyour part with clarity and integrity, then releasing what is not yours to control. It means learning to stop forcing the path and start walking in coherence.This conversation explores overthinking, decision fatigue,control, fear, relaxation, alignment, trust, and the spiritual discipline of releasing attachment to outcome. The Force moves through coherence, not strain. The Light does not require panic to guide you.Get the book here!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://a.co/d/4ADHZyA⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/NewAshla⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/JustinVGates⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@justinvgates?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@KnightsofAwakening⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@TemplumLumis⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.newashla.com⁠Keywordssurrender is not giving up, how alignment works without force, stop forcing it, relaxation and surrender, active surrender,active trust, spiritual surrender, letting go of control, overthinking,overthinking and anxiety, decision fatigue, release the outcome, stop forcing clarity, New Ashla Podcast, Justin V Gates, Michael Perry, Ashla, the Light, the Force, Luminari, self mastery, spiritual growth, emotional healing, inner alignment, spiritual alignment, coherence not strain, the Force moves through coherence,Psycho-Cybernetics, Maxwell Maltz, New Psycho-Cybernetics, automatic successmechanism, inner mechanism, goal seeking mind, subconscious mind, clarity and surrender, fear based control, anxiety and control, relaxation response, trust the process, trust the path, surrender and alignment, release attachment,release control, aligned action, right action, spiritual psychology, personal transformation, emotional regulation, nervous system healing, stop overthinking, faith and action, effort vs force, discipline without strain, surrender into the path, Ad Lucem
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  • The Greater Self vs. the Fear-Based Self: Learning Which Voice to Trust. EP 140

    The Greater Self vs. the Fear-Based Self: Learning Which Voice to Trust. EP 140
    2026/07/30
    Episode Guide here!In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Justin V. Gates and Michael Perry explore the inner battle between the Greater Self and the fear-based self, the voice of truth versus the voice of fear, limitation, old wounds, and conditioning.There are moments when you can feel two selves inside you. One says, “I can’t.” The other says, “You can.” One says, “Stay where it is safe.” The other says, “Step forward.” One reacts from fear, insecurity, survival patterns, and past pain. The other remembers truth, courage, wisdom, and Light.Drawing from Joseph Murphy’s teaching on the “Big Me” and the “Little Me” in The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Justin and Michael discuss how the fearful self can become loud, convincing, and familiar, but that does not mean it is wise. Panic is not guidance. Fear is not always truth. Familiarity is not alignment.Through the teachings of Ashla, this becomes the sacred work of self-mastery: recognizing when the lesser self is speaking, understanding what it is trying to protect, and returning authority to the greater self. The goal is not to hate the fearful part of you. The goal is to stop letting it sit on the throne.This conversation explores the higher self, the lower self, fear-based thinking, subconscious programming, limiting beliefs, inner conflict, self-sabotage, emotional reactions, spiritual alignment, and the practice of letting wisdom lead fear. Justin and Michael also discuss how stillness, reflection, prayer, affirmation, and right action help train the greater self to become the voice you trust.The Little Me may speak, but it does not have to lead. Fear may rise, but it does not have to rule. The greater self remembers what the lesser self forgets: you are more than your fear, more than your past, and more than the story that told you to stay small.Let the greater self rise. Let the Light lead. Walk in truth.Ad Lucem.Get the book here!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://a.co/d/4ADHZyA⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/NewAshla⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/JustinVGates⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@justinvgates?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@KnightsofAwakening⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@TemplumLumis⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.newashla.com⁠Keywordsgreater self vs fear based self, greater self, lesser self, higher self, lower self, fear based self, Big Me and Little Me, Big Me Little Me, Joseph Murphy Big Me Little Me, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, subconscious mind, subconscious programming, inner voice, which voice to trust, fear and wisdom, voice of fear, voice of truth, fear based thinking, limiting beliefs, old patterns, survival patterns, emotional reactions, self mastery, spiritual self mastery, inner conflict, inner authority, self sabotage, fear is not wisdom, fear may speak but wisdom must lead, New Ashla Podcast, Justin V Gates, Michael Perry, Ashla, the Light, the Force, Luminari, greater self and lesser self, higher self awakening, spiritual growth, emotional healing, shadow work, healing fear, overcoming fear, overcoming self doubt, self doubt, insecurity, conditioning, identity healing, spiritual alignment, inner alignment, right action, mindfulness, meditation, prayer, affirmations, truth and courage, wisdom leads fear, return to truth, let the Light lead, Ad Lucem
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    49 分