Dr. Paul Conti

But it comes from the lens of fear in us.

And the fear comes from not understanding.

You know, human beings want to understand things.

And if we don't, understandably, we become afraid, we become confused, we become intimidated.

But this idea that we can bring this compassionate curiosity to ourselves, just like we would in a good-spirited way to someone else, and then we can understand.

We don't have to be afraid anymore.

of what we're going to find.

You know, we're not going to look inside and find something awful that tells me I can never have the things that I want.

It's the fear of that that makes us look away and that sometimes creates self-fulfilling prophecies.

You know, if there are negative patterns going on in me over and over again and I don't look at them, it's likely that they'll continue to go on.

Then I say more negative things to myself and then I get more down on myself and I feel more hopeless about myself.

And then at the end of the day, nothing has changed, but I could have changed it all along if I'd been empowered to look at myself and to sort of bring that courage and that compassion and that ingenuity.

Like all of us can think about ourselves and say, how do I bring change?

Because I want the things that I want and I can guide myself in a way that maybe I wasn't even aware of before if I was just kind of hiding away from myself.

I've sort of always thought about this when I sort of say it more now, you know, I work with a group of really good people at Pacific Premier Group in Portland, Oregon, and we all work together and we send people out and people come into us.

And I'm often thinking like, what is it that we're doing?

And it's kind of solidified inside of me that we're in the business of empowerment and

And, and knowledge brings empowerment.

So that's mostly what we're doing is we're, we're, we're being collaborative with someone of, hey, let's sit and think together, right?

In a way that brings our curiosity to bear so that we can help you understand more about yourself and use that understanding to say, okay, what is it that I want?