How to Feel Better and Better Every Year

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekChildren, parenting, and family lifeTimeHealth, rest, and lifestyleCHChildrenAnxiety, stress, and inner calm

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00How can you feel better?
• 01:18Hope for life in the future?
• 05:24The opposite: how can you live without things getting worse?
• 06:44The subjective perception of “better.” What is a state of observation?
• 12:52The most important thing for improving your state
• 20:51Why people don't do what they say. When words and actions diverge
• 21:21What is “better,” after all? How can you get there?
• 25:09My conversation with a doctor: “What are you breathing?”
• 27:36Continual improvement and perception of life

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• 04:13

  No. When we talk about a better state here, we mean there is development all the time, all the time, all the time, all the time, all the time.

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• 04:48

  Every subject I focus on—professional growth, children, family, health, your personal inner state, spiritual development—concerns your growth as a human being and as an individual.

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• 12:23

  “Why do I need it to get better and better?” Look, there are people who say, “I want to move to Thailand in three years. I want things to get better for me.”

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• 12:55

  I said earlier that the most important thing you need to do for things to get better is to recognize the fact itself.

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• 13:04

  We'll get to some actions shortly, but recognize the fact itself. It is very important to recognize that “better” means expanding your perception of what is happening.

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• 14:05

  It takes strength to honestly tell yourself and set this goal: “I want things to get better so that I can perceive more.”

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• 14:56

  If we take “better” to mean getting our child into a good school, or owning a home, or having a lot of money, or our wife not getting hysterical, then we will arrive at actions aimed at those events.

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• 18:04

  Or many people say, “We feel good,” but they feel good because they have various forms of support in their circumstances at that moment.

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• 23:03

  That is why you so often don't take the various actions recommended by people outside your life—mentors, coaches in programs, books, psychotherapy, whatever it may be, various teachers—because your spiritual being understands that you shouldn't follow that advice.

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• 28:10

  That is a huge lock keeping a person stuck, because they want things to get better.

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