Dr. Jeff Karp
speaker
137 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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Somebody did a rap about the hamburger restaurants in Boston. Somebody showed up in a wetsuit and talked about surfing. Somebody played guitar and had slides going behind them. They didn't say anything during their talk. Somebody spoke about this permaculture effort they did in their backyard with hundreds of edible plants.
Somebody talked about a bakery that their family had started and then had to shut down during COVID and they really want to set it up again. And what happened was this created this constellation of energies where people now were... They were learning about other people's curiosity, what other people's interests were.
And when you get people talking, when you get people connecting, it creates this creative energy. This energy just starts to flow. And it's just been unbelievable.
A life ignition tool is a strategy, a way to tap into something that you don't see in this very moment, something that could illuminate not just this moment, but your entire life.
They unlock it and everybody has access to it. These tools allow you to access your evolutionary inheritance. What is my evolutionary inheritance? Your evolutionary inheritance is the biology that you have that's working for you. It's the ability to sense the world, the ability to make decisions, the ability to evolve and to learn and to be inspired and to sense awe and to tap into creativity.
It's what we all have access to. And when we tap into it, not only does it light up our lives, it lights up the lives of everybody around us.
You know, one of the tools that I'm like, is do new because every moment there's limitless possibilities and we don't see those possibilities because of a lot of different reasons. I think one of the major reasons is that When we're younger, everything is new to us. First time crawling, first time walking, every grade is a completely different experience. Every sport, everything's completely new.
But as we get older, we lead these algorithmic lifestyles. We wake up at the same time, we have the same breakfast, we go to work at the same time, we scroll social media at the same time, we go to the same sites. We interact with the same people, same friend group. And so there's not that much new in our lives.
And when you start to infuse new in your life, and we do have this fear, we have this hesitation to do new, but when you start to do it, it just illuminates everything.
There's so many ways that I use this. One example, actually just something I've been practicing recently just to intercept a rumination and to just shift my mind is I visualize, right? And this is just one of many possibilities. Right, but we're gonna do new people.
Okay, put them on and take a look. This is something that is really simple to do new. And again, it's like a mind to shift your mind, to change your frame.
Everything turns into a rainbow.
This is a tool that can help you see your environment in a different way. Like it can get you out of one possibility and into another possibility. And there's so many different tools that we can engage to do that. And I think that there's lots of practices and rituals and all kinds of things that we can engage.
And I think that's one of the limiting things about life is that we stay on one track for for too long. And so when we put on these glasses and now we look at the lights and everything is rainbows, then that ignites our curiosity, right? We start thinking like, oh, well, how does that happen? And if you start turning your head, you can see the rainbows start moving.
Absolutely. It's like, let's say you're walking and you look up at the clouds, it's hard to see them moving. But if you stop and you look up at the clouds, then you can see them moving. And when you notice the moving, it has this awe, this, this, it's like, wow. And you can see them sort of joining with each other. And as kids, kids can look up and see animals, but we can do that too as adults.
And I like to do that because, again, it's a way of getting out of my mind. We always hear like, get into the moment, be authentic. It's like, well, what's the process for doing that? I agree. Right? It's like, what are the steps to get there? And to me, to get into the moment, if we stop walking and look up at the clouds and we start thinking about the clouds, we're totally in the moment.
Yes. Pause is so important. Pressing pause. And we need a tool to slow down. We need a tool to tap into intuitive cues. We need a tool to allow our brains to sync up, to process information and experiences. And so I noticed I was doing these back-to-back-to-back meetings all day long. I get to the end of the day, felt like I'd done maybe two marathons of work.
That felt great, but there was something missing. There was something I couldn't put my finger on it. And being someone who's constantly tinkering with everything...
I started to experiment with, okay, what if I take a break in between my meetings, like five minutes, 10 minutes, and not a social media break or an email break or a texting break, but a true break where I do nothing or I just go for a walk. And I started experimenting with it. And what I noticed was transformational. I would...
basically start thinking about something someone had told me a few weeks before, a few months before, and it would connect to what the person I just met with said. And I'd be like, whoa, we should get together and meet because this could turn into something completely new. I wouldn't have had that thought if I didn't press pause. And so...
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