André Duqum

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Know Thyself · E207 - Jim George: Stillness Expert: “How To Not Miss Your Life” · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

what are you really doing with your body your mind your breath so you just relax the body breathe and more importantly hey guys andre from the future here i think you're gonna absolutely love this podcast with tim george i am not in the studio right now and that's because i forgot to record this so i'm putting it in now matched

I just wanted to say that we have an amazing retreat upcoming next month, September 11th through the 13th in Los Angeles. Three days in nature, six workshops, live music, shared meals, all of the in-between magic moments. I'm really excited to be with you. It's going to be 70 of us. And if you want to learn more information, just head to the link in the description or on screen. And I hope to see you there. I'm so excited. This is the first of many. Enjoy the episode with Tim George. matched

Hey everyone, welcome back to the Know Thyself podcast. Our guest today is an ex-animator and stillness coach. Descriptions, I feel, often reduce people down into a set of words, but I've known this man as somebody who emanates stillness, love, compassion, and after a life filled with inquiry, wisdom. Jim George, thank you for being here. Andre, thank you. I, I, uh, matched

I absolutely love what you're doing from top to bottom and bottom up. I genuinely do. It's an honor to be here. Thank you. It's truly an honor to have you. We just wrapped up a community call with the Self Collective before this. And you guided us all through a meditation and it was a beautiful conversation within everybody. We'll leave a link if people want to get a snippet of that in the description. What a great group. matched

It's cool to see and connect with everyone, you know? It is. Instead of these cameras in the room, you know, it's like it makes it more real. Yeah. So I love getting to share that space. Yeah. To set the framework, you know, you were one of the first podcast guests I ever had on the show way back when, almost four years ago now? Yeah. Yeah, back in Venice. Yes. Yeah. And this podcast and this format has opened my eyes up to so much. matched

I try to return back to what's most essential, what I'm most curious about, and what I feel like will serve people the most in their life. I love the way that you describe practical spirituality. And I thought that we could start with just asking, what is the cost of normalizing spirituality? matched

a level of internal noise in our life. What does that cost us when we are preoccupied with the mental dramas and the noise, and that becomes just the way we live? First of all, thank you for asking that question. It's an incredibly important question. The cost, in a nutshell, you're not there. You aren't in each present moment. matched

So if living present through your life allows you to arrive at your deathbed with a sense of completion, not living your life present would then therefore mean you might live up until the point when you're about to die and feel a sense of remorse or regret for not having been there truly to witness to your life. Yes. What is that noise made up of? matched

The functions of desire and our own imperative tied to our evolutionary limbic design. Yes. I heard you say once that status is an artifact of a behavioral strategy that was adopted by a species that was going extinct. Yes. matched

And so if we don't want to live our life just like a brutish animal that is trying to survive moment to moment, and we instead want to live in the childlike state, how does one go about doing that and having that reference point of stillness? Yes. First, let me elaborate on what you said, because you did such a beautiful job of consolidating that very dense idea of matched

It can be shocking as you start to excavate and discover all of these mimetic forces, the survival adaptations, behavioral compensations, all of these things we carry within us because we are hardwired to survive. Yes. That is one component on an individual level that contributes to so much of the internal drama and identification with thoughts and emotions and noise we carry through. matched

have we are hyper vigilant to degrees we are unaware of right so this is the noise we're speaking to the mental drama the survival-based fear that we have yes and at a very basic level the voice in our head that we've become identified with as a source of truth yes yeah now matched

anyone who wants to live a life well-lived, where they can end up at their deathbed and say, I was present and witness to my life, surely has to go on a journey of just examining this phenomenon that's playing out. Now, matched

You and your meditation sometimes have done this thing where like the noisy generator comes on in the background. Maybe we can put it in this episode. You know, it starts to... And maybe people have had this experience where they hear a fridge or an AC unit running, humming at that cycle. And then that moment when you snap, it stops. Yes, yes. And that contrast of experience gives you insight into how noisy and dysregulated you were prior. Yes. Now... matched

I want to speak about that difference and then what becomes available and what we use the term as spirituality. And I want to make it very practical and very easy to connect with for everybody listening right now. Yeah. So that contrast of experience between noise and stillness. Yes. Let's dig into that a little bit. Good. So let's consider the phenomenon of normalization. matched

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and five free sachets. That's im8health.com slash knowtheself. I hope you enjoy. Back to the show. It's a really great question, I think, for us all to contemplate because I think oftentimes our nervous system is in this sympathetic state where we're under the presumption that being intense, being intense, tension within is ideal for coming conflict. Yes. And matched

a great example of this. It was like, I was 18 back in Michigan. My friends and I were walking down the crosswalk on a street. My friend got hit by a car. Wow. And matched

almost everyone just kind of like lost their mind. And it was totally not useful to what the moment needed. Yes. I'm thankful for whatever reason I was able to take action into what was the necessary course of actions that were needed in the moment. Yeah. And if that wasn't there, who knows what would have happened, you know? And so I think it's a really refreshing reminder that stillness will improve every single aspect of life and interpersonal dynamics. Yes. matched

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