The Wisdom of the Moment with Alex Linares

Alex Linares describes herself as a lifelong seeker. She has always been curious about how life works and what it means. When she stumbled across the Three Principles she realized that there was no more need for seeking, or even for self-help.Alex Linares is a scientist and lifelong seeker; curious to understand life, purpose and meaning. After decades of searching for behavior modification methods to rid herself of unwanted habits, three insights changed the trajectory of her life. This opened up a vast space of possibility and wonder in Alex’s life and a resolute drive to help others find the space in themselves that is free of those things we have misunderstood as our identity.You can find Alex Linares at CanaimaCoaching.com and on Instagram @alexcanaimacoaching.You can listen above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch on YouTube. Notes, links, resources and a full transcript are below. Show Notes* On the dawning realization that we are not our thoughts * If we are not our thoughts, feelings, or behaviours what are we? * On the sense of loss we can experience as we explore this * Thought as a function of memory * How liberating it is to know we can’t get life ‘right’ * What does life need us to be? * Playing with letting go in places where the stakes are lowResources Mentioned in this Episode * Alex’s podcast with Amanda Jones, The Wonder Land, available wherever you get your podcastsTranscript of Interview with Alex LinaresAlexandra: Alex Linares. Welcome to Unbroken.Alex: Thank you. So happy to be here.Alexandra: Thank you, thank you for being here with me.Why don’t you tell us a little bit about your background? And how you heard about the three principles?Alex: I love reflecting on this question, because it changes every time that I kind of look back there. And see, how did how did I get here.I am a scientist professionally, been in research for a very long time. And just have always been a really curious person. Since my earliest memories was always around just finding out how things worked, and where things came from, and just really trying to understand. I think that kind of translated into my professional life looking into the scientific world moving in that direction, but also into this seeking side that started really early on for me from the earliest years of being in Sunday school.That religious learning, it wasn’t a passive thing. For me, it was a very active interaction that I had with that knowledge and the information that was being provided and really questioning what was coming my way and kind of looking around and realizing that not a lot of people that were six, seven years old, were doing that. So yeah, it was just really interesting that it became a really big identity for me really early on that I feel like I need to know more. I feel like others are okay with a certain threshold and of knowing, and they’re happy with that. I never really felt like I reached that. So I think it’s kind of permeated my whole my whole history.And in that same kind of path I went through the religious and path and looking at different types of religions. Kind of comparing and contrasting that we do a lot when we look at the Western religions, or the Eastern religions, and through that a lot of the philosophies and a lot of the things that kept coming up, the same themes were so interesting to me. It seemed like we were all pointing at the same thing. And we had different life experiences and words and histories.As the beauty of seeing the similarities across all of that just became something really fascinating and very unifying for me....