Know Thyself
E197 - Compilation: 9 Great Thinkers on the Inner Work That Frees You (Special Announcement!)
02 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
What's up, everyone? Welcome back to the podcast.
Chapter 2: What insights does Shi Heng Yi share about mastering oneself?
Today's episode is a little bit different. I've pulled together some of the most rewatched, most resonant moments from the last couple dozen episodes into one continuous conversation. First, you'll hear from Shi-Heng Yi on mastering yourself before the world. Dr. Sue Mortar on the hidden truth behind your triggers.
I could be present with anything and not be triggered.
Emily McDonald on living from feeling states rather than chasing outcomes. Joe Hudson on the single question that dissolves your judgment of others. Sadhguru on the simple practice of quieting a racing mind. The most important discipline that you have to bring into your life is
Chapter 3: How can understanding triggers lead to personal growth?
Henry Shookman on tasting awakening for yourself. Dr. Nicole Lepera on the childhood patterns that are shaping your relationships. Lucy Hale on accepting your own timeline. And Wim Hof on why it's time for your soul to play. Before we dive in, I have an exciting announcement. I am so elated to share that we have just launched the Know Thyself Collective.
Over the past few years, this humble podcast has grown into a global community of people asking the deepest questions about life, consciousness, healing, and what it means to be human. And for a while now, I have felt like there's this deeper call to dive deeper with you all beyond the episodes, beyond the comment section, somewhere where we can actually meet on the other side of it.
Chapter 4: What does Emily McDonald mean by living from feeling states?
So here's what it is. Here's what's inside. Live monthly calls with guest teachers where we can study together, learn practices, take questions in real time. A beautifully designed episode companion every single week for these podcast episodes with key ideas, journal prompts, and a full transcript.
And last but certainly not least, the real reason I'm creating this is to cultivate the community itself.
Chapter 5: Why is vulnerability important according to Joe Hudson?
curated discussions early access to the in-person retreats and events we're planning and so if any of this calls to you head to the link in the description or know thyselfcollective.com to watch the full video and join us on the inside i'll see you there enjoy the episode conceptually i understood very very early there is no way in trying to change the ideas of my parents
There is no way in even trying to invest my energy and trying to figure out what people in my surrounding are expecting from me or having ideas what am I supposed to do with my life. In that field of stress management, I also realized very, very quickly people getting stressed by the phone calls they receive. People getting stressed by the emails they receive.
And so I just felt like all the time. So I wake up in the morning, have a very great day. Then I just look at that phone.
Chapter 6: What practices does Sadhguru suggest for quieting the mind?
I just open like my laptop, read something and suddenly my life quality, my great day is gone. And I just felt like... That just doesn't make sense. This is not the way of how I imagine to live my life, being so dependent upon what type of impulses
I am exposed to, like meaning whatever is happening there on the outside, I don't want to be so much influenced that all these things can take away my well-being eventually. And so that means very clearly I cannot rely my own well-being the way of how I feel based on what is happening on the outside. First of all, I can't fix it. So, very rationally thinking, there was only one solution.
It has something to do about me. I need to somehow find the key to regulate myself, to be able and learn to cope with everything that this world is throwing at me. Don't need to look for a master, a teacher outside of you. You have the key. It's literally like we all have our own master sitting inside of us. He just needs to be cultivated.
We just need to nourish him, give him the proper thoughts, give him the proper energy, give him the proper training, then that master comes out. Yes. And that means taking your life in your own hands again.
Chapter 7: How can childhood beliefs impact adult relationships?
Stop relying too much on the outside. This is your life. That's why you need to be responsible for it. That is the whole idea behind it.
It feels like so much of the path is this progression from unconsciousness to consciousness, from compulsivity and reactiveness to responding to choice. And if we're to have any shot at, so to speak, unlocking the master within us, um,
there is this saying or phrase about qi follows yi that I would love for you to speak to because it seems like right now we're giving our energy, our life, our attention to so many things externally and not giving self the opportunity it has to be examined, to inquire about it, and to grow awareness in it. And so what does that mean?
So in the field of martial arts, especially when it comes to the field of so-called nowadays so-called internal martial arts, which means you are having different methods, you have different practices that are aiming in cultivating something very, I would call it refined about yourself. So refined.
that sometimes we call it even you're at the level of qi, so sensing the bioelectricity of your body. And this bioelectricity or the energies of the body, it is said qi follows yi.
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Chapter 8: What does Lucy Hale say about accepting your own timeline?
Yi in that sense meaning attention or intention. Attention, intention, meaning thought. Energy follows your thoughts. Now just keep that in mind and we make a little jump into some Buddhist teachings that also has a very nice line up. It says, watch your thoughts because they will become your words. Watch your words because they will become your action.
Watch your actions because they will become your behavior. Watch your behavior because they will become your habits. Watch your habits because it will become your character. Watch the character because it will become your destiny. Putting now that long chain of what I just said together with the idea of energy follows intention, there is some similarity.
If something in this world you want to create, creation needs energy. So ultimately, where does this energy come from? It comes ultimately from thought. So now we have to ask ourselves, first of all, are you at all times aware of what are you thinking? This is number one.
This is where in all the traditional ancient teachings you have the practices that are aiming in finding a space or being in a space where you can literally see your own thoughts. And that means it's already one step ahead of what is happening nowadays in the world. What is happening is you think and that's why What you are thinking, you think that's you. So you think you are your thoughts.
A thought is popping up, so that's what I'm supposed to do. Blindly following the thought. Now the problem with this is that you have no power. What type of thought is popping up? It is an everlasting experiment in trying to figure out what is going to be the next thought that is going to pop up now in 10 seconds. You can't predict what type of thought is coming up.
And therefore, in the ancient teachings, there is one, let's call it, one method, which just says like this. Number one, distance yourself from the idea that you are your thoughts. This is where it comes from. You are not your thoughts. Even if right now for many people it might be a concept, I'm not talking about concept, but you can still use it. You are not your thoughts.
In the moment you are able to tap into this reality, then you can let thoughts come and at the same time you can see thoughts go. That means you are at the space that at all times is just unmoving. Now, thoughts, energy, creation. This taking it back also meaning on whichever thought you are getting hooked on, this is what you create.
And this is why to be aware and conscious whether you are willingly by your own, how I say it, if you are consciously choosing a thought or if you are by habit being hooked by a thought, is a big difference.
And this is how it then ultimately translates into why is it that some people, let's say, get things done in a proper way and other people, let's say, try and try and try but somehow seem to get lost. It's exactly because you cannot trust all thoughts that come every day into your mind. Because it's not your choice.
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