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166. Find Your Calm: Steps to Serenity in a Chaotic World
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Find your calm amidst the noise—what would it feel like to live from your soul, not your screen?
In this episode of the Spiritual Fitness Podcast, Eric Bigger explores how nature and contemplation can help you reconnect with your soul and step away from the noise of AI and social media. Drawing on personal stories and insights from The Art of Contemplation by Richard Rudd, Eric shares simple practices to help you slow down, access inner wisdom, and realign with your true purpose.
Tune in now and begin your journey back to center.
This episode breaks down:
- The power of slowing down in a tech-driven world
- Finding clarity without chasing outcomes
- Letting insight unfold through stillness
- Living with purpose and inner guidance
- Using nature to expand awareness and grow spiritually
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Introduction to Spiritual Fitness Podcast
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Welcome to the Spiritual Fitness Podcast. I'm your host, Eric Bigger. And each week, we will explore powerful practices, inspiring stories, and expert insights to guide you on your path to holistic health.
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By blending spirituality and physical wellness, we support you in strengthening your body and soul. Whether you're a seasoned spiritual seeker or just beginning your journey, the Spiritual Fitness Podcast is here to help you unlock your inner potential and live your most vibrant, purposeful life.
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It's miracle season.
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Spiritual Fitness, Spiritual Fitness Podcast. I'm your host, Eric Bigger, and I'm back again with another
Contemplation and Technology
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episode. And today, I'm excited to talk to you about the art of contemplation within nature but without no outcome.
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But before I get started, I want to talk about the intentions of this episode as AI, technology, technology. is like advancing in the world. Social media is speeding us up. Life is so fast. So much is happening at once. I mean, we're like seven months in the year, 2025.
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And guess what's happening? We're not catching a hold of ourselves. We're moving with the frequency. We're moving with the energy. Which is fine, but what's happening because of these devices, technology, AI, always say, when you shortcut life, we get cut off. So life is speeding up, and so we're taking shortcuts to stay afloat, to catch up, to be with life, but we're cutting ourselves off from our divine self, our heart space, our connectivity, our soul's essence, our soul's purpose is because we're trying to combat or compete compete.
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Be one with the cosmos, the energetics of life. And that's fine. But to get in true alignment, you have to connect to your heart. You have to connect to your soul.
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You have to get back into your body and not so much in your mind and so much in social media, the outer world. You got to get into the inner world of yourself.
Acknowledgment of Simplify Impact
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So Brace Yourself is going to be a phenomenal episode.
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But yeah, let's get into the episode.
Lessons from 'The Art of Contemplation'
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So the art of contemplation. How did we get here? So this is a book. The Art of Contemplation by Richard Rudd. This book is so incredible. It's changed my life.
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Literally, I recommend get this book. This is like timeless, deep wisdom that's relatable, that's understanding. And after reading a book, I started to experience contemplation, like really contemplating life in nature.
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So this past week, I was in nature and I said, you know what? I'm just go walk. in a park and contemplate with no outcome. Like I'm not looking to find anything. i'm just want to contemplate. i just want to be present. I want to pause.
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I just want to be connected to earth, nature, and want to be in my body. I took some books to read. like that book, Course in Miracles. Another book called Nonviolent Communication because I'm always trying to amplify my knowledge and my expertise in the line of work I do.
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So if you're looking for a coach or a spiritual mentor, check the show notes, sign up for Intentions Call. And if we're in alignment,
Tech Distractions and Wisdom
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Let's work together. So I'm probably in a park a good two hours and I walk like three laps. Then I kind of like grounded in nature and I just sat in the grass, walked.
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And what came to me was several things. So the number one thing that I realized about myself was And I think this is me comparing AI technology and life to how I process life.
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I have a lot of energy. Sometimes I can speak fast. Sometimes I can speak too much. And I was like, it's all great because these are assets to who I am and my personality.
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But what I realized, all the information that we're getting now in social media and the world, AI, is really a distraction because the information is not valuable if we don't understand it for once. Also, the information becomes knowledge. But then if you're staying busy and you're going with the pace of life, that knowledge can't turn into wisdom because you're speeding up. So for me, I'm getting all this knowledge, all this knowledge. Let's go, let's go, let's go. Big energy, big energy, right?
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And I'm always up here in my crown chakra. So I'm not really fully present in my body within life because I'm going with the care of the universe. You know, social media, people, these are all distractions.
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So this is what I'm getting to as I'm in nature and I'm contemplating without no outcomes. These these things are coming to me. So was like, oh, expansion requires me, us, we to slow down.
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Wisdom comes when you're still in your present, not when you're busy and you have all this knowledge or your big energy, high energy. like, oh, so what's happening in my life is I have a lot going on that's exciting, but I'm going so fast that I can't catch anything because I'm not grounded in my body. I'm not grounded in my presence to really get the wisdom my soul needs to help others help the world or the world I serve a better place, especially my clients and the people I get to work with, right?
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So then I transferred it into life. I like, oh, we're all distracted from social media. We got the war going on. we got politics, celebrity gossip, like all this stuff is distracting us from our higher consciousness, our wealth within, our God within, our God essence, our God frequency.
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Because the more the world can be distorted, distracted, meaning the world of people, humanity, confused, overwhelmed, and fear, then we're easy to control.
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We're easy to manipulate. We're easy to take advantage of. But you have to know in this day and age, as things speed up, you, us, we, we must slow down if we want a better world.
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Think about it. Anything that requires you to take your time actually is better. When you learn a dance for the first time, you don't speed through the dance lesson.
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You take your time to learn it. When you're riding a bike, you take your time to learn it. um When you're writing a book, you take your time to write the book. When you're getting to know someone, you know, hopefully most of us, we're not rushing to get to know them. We're taking the time so they eventually open up
Slowing Down for Inner Peace
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to us.
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What I'm saying is that in this day and age, as life is speeding us up, we got to find methods To slow us down. So this podcast, this is what this is about. So I'm telling you, the way to really slow yourself down in life is one, get in nature.
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Because nature is our natural state, is our natural existence. Naturally, we're all abundant. Because that's our natural state. Only time we don't feel abundant is when we're confused and distracted from the ego, the mind.
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The mind, the ego wants to control, keep us safe, put us in fear to control us, to confuse us, just like social media. Life, it's kind of like the ego wants to speed us up because look at all these things you get to see on social media. You get to travel here. So people...
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Number one thing you need to catch yourself, to get back connected to your heart, to tap into that dot essence and that frequency, get in nature. Nature needs your essence, your presence. And when you're in nature, go for a walk.
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And when you go for a walk, want you to contemplate. What is contemplation? Contemplation to me is when you're in a moment, you could be pensive, but you're not looking for anything, but you're just kind of open to something.
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It's kind of like you're listening for whatever's supposed to come up. You're listening, whatever your spirit needs to hear. Maybe you have a problem that you're trying to figure out and you don't have the answer. I feel like nature gives you that space for the answer to come through through walking in the space of nature, the energetics of nature.
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So get in nature, walk and contemplate and just let life intelligence come through the contemplation. and Don't try to force something to come through. Don't try to think it to come through. Allow it to come through.
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You ever put on a nice outfit and someone gave you a compliment which you wasn't looking for versus you putting on an outfit because you know it looks good and like they're gonna like this and then no one ever compliment you? I want you to do the first.
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Not look for anything, but just be present for anything that might come through to help you tap into your soul's essence so you can slow down to speed up. Because we're in a day and age where, know, technology and AI is taking over.
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People are losing jobs. People are running out of money or looking for money. People are wanting to leave their relationships or leave a marriage or leave a job or transition. I have several clients right now are in the transitional phase.
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And these clients have a lot of money. What is not about the money is about the fear that they're feeling in their body because they're not allowing themselves to be fully present because life has programmed all of us, including them,
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to always be busy.
Aligning with Soul and Purpose
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I'm talking about to a point when they do get time alone, they're still busy. They're still on their phones. They're still talking to someone. They're not allowing themselves to be quiet, to be sirens, to be in solitude, to listen to their soul, give them insight, downloads, guidance, wisdom, so they can live a fulfilling life. They can be more in alignment of their soul's assignment.
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And that's what I believe. The soul's assignment is alignment. That's it. And when you can get into alignment, your life is more expansive, you're more open, you feel more free, and you can be yourself.
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A lot of us are in jobs, careers, relationships, spaces, locations that we do not like, we're not comfortable in, we feel a lot of fear, we're anxious, we're overwhelmed, and we don't know what to do.
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Want know why? Because we are afraid to pause ourselves. And slow down. You got to slow down. And when you slow down, you'll know how to speed up. So people, this episode is dedicated to you, for me, through you, for us, for we.
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When you're getting overwhelmed, when you're distracted, when you're feeling lost, you don't know what to do. Go to nature. Walk. Contemplate. Slow down. Because when you slow down, wisdom comes in.
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And when the wisdom comes in, because you're slowing down, you're able to expand yourself, expand your essence. You're able to mature your life, mature your knowledge. And you want to be grounded in your body. See, we're so outside of our bodies because we're always looking outside of us.
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We're enticed by looks and things and people and money. And then you get it or you get around it and you're not happy and you wonder why. Because those are false things that appear fulfilling and then you get them. It's like a weak, low dopamine.
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So get back into your heart space. Get back into your body. I want to encourage people listening. Get in your body. The body keeps the score. The body holds all the wisdom. The body knows. That's why they say the brain, your gut is your first brain.
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Get into your body and listen to the listening. And that's sound wisdom for wherever you are in your life. And look, your life might be incredible. You might be making a lot of money.
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You might be having love of your life with you and your dream. I'm not knocking that. But dedicate some time a few times, a few days a week. Spend some time in nature. Contemplate to get wisdom. I want you to get wisdom. This podcast episode, how do we get wisdom to slow down our life, to put our life in alignment for our soul's assignment so we can live out our design and not keep doing things for money or doing things because we want to be like, we want to be loved, or doing things because of a trend or we want to be cool.
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Because when a trend is over, when a cool is over, or the money's not around, that love is not around, who do you have?
Trusting Life's Flow and Engagement
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Yourself. And you owe it to yourself to know how to connect to yourself when you need to make a decision, when you need answers, when you need to find the truth.
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And a lot of it comes to getting present, getting in your body, having faith and having certainty, and trust your God flow, your God frequency, your God essence. But trust life.
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I call it life intelligence. Life knows more than we know. I don't know what's going to happen 10 hours from now or 10 minutes from now. Life does. But if I try to control the next 10 minutes or 10 hours, I'm missing out on all the little things that I'm going from being in nature, walking, and contemplating.
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Get it? So that's how it works. But people... That's it for this episode. Comment, share, like, subscribe to the YouTube, subscribe to the podcast. DM me on Instagram. Follow me at Eric Bigger.
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Don't be shy. Get to know me. I want to connect with all of you. We cannot do this life thing alone. We got to create content. Content is currency. Content is king. Content is queen.
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Create content. Post. Speak. As the world changes, you have to change. You have to become a brand. We have to help people that can help you, help them, help the world. We got to come together.
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We can't just be out the way because of fear. Get back into your body. Get in nature. Contemplate. Walk. Subscribe to Spiritual Fitness Podcast. Subscribe to the YouTube. I love you guys. Love yourself.
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And do not be afraid to be yourself. out. Peace and love.
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Thank you for joining us on the Spiritual Fitness Podcast. We hope today's episode has inspired you and provided valuable insights for your holistic health journey. By blended spirituality and physical wellness, you can strengthen your body, mind, and soul.
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If you enjoyed today's episode, please subscribe, rate, and leave a review. Until next time, stay strong, stay inspired, and remember, it's miracle season.