Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat
Can you hear yourself through the noise?
Tue Oct 12 2021Description
Acast powers the world's best podcasts. Katie Oven and Jasmine Pack host a podcast called Bike Club for Tasty, where they discuss food topics and create rankings of their favorite foods. Prem Rowart is the host of the Life's Essentials podcast and in episode 21, he answers audience questions from Spanish TV personality Ighati Boru. Prem Rowart's new book called Hear Yourself explores different perspectives on life and wisdom gathered from his experiences. The book took two years to write and aims to bring about different perspectives on how everything should be in life. The book focuses on important aspects of life that are common to all of us.
Insights
Priorities and Being Alive
Being happy is important in order to help others be happy. Putting on the oxygen mask of life should bring us the breath of being alive. Jumping from being attached to our mother to being independent is a significant transition.
Writing Our Own Story
The present moment takes a bit of the future and converts it, shaping our lives. We should be writing our own story instead of letting others write it for us. If we live with fear, our future will be forged from fear.
Finding Peace and Changing Preferences
We often lose our true identity and become consumed by wants instead of needs. It is important for every human being to actively engage in their own future and forge peace in their lives. We can't change our physical appearance, but we can change our preferences and focus on the joy and courage within ourselves.
The Power of Being Human
We should value and respect being human. The speaker has seen both pain and desperation, as well as hope and transformation in people's lives. Letting go of expectations makes life fun, while holding onto them makes it tedious.
Creating Peace and Pursuing Gifts
In many prisons, the rate of people returning to prison after release has dropped from 85% to 2% due to a message that encourages them not to go back. Everyone has a gift and should find it and pursue it.
Chapters
- Acast powers the world's best podcasts
- Priorities and the Breath of Being Alive
- Writing Our Own Story
- Finding Peace and Changing Preferences
- The Power of Being Human
- Creating Peace and Pursuing Gifts
Acast powers the world's best podcasts
00:02 - 08:41
- Katie Oven and Jasmine Pack host a podcast called Bike Club for Tasty, where they discuss food topics and create rankings of their favorite foods
- Prem Rowart is the host of the Life's Essentials podcast and in episode 21, he answers audience questions from Spanish TV personality Ighati Boru
- Prem Rowart's new book called Hear Yourself explores different perspectives on life and wisdom gathered from his experiences
- The book took two years to write and aims to bring about different perspectives on how everything should be in life
- The book focuses on important aspects of life that are common to all of us
Priorities and the Breath of Being Alive
08:17 - 17:40
- Priorities that are basic to being alive are often forgotten
- Being happy is important in order to help others be happy
- We like people who are helpful, kind, and happy
- Putting on the oxygen mask of life should bring us the breath of being alive
- The past and future are unknown at birth, but the process of emerging is incredible
- Jumping from being attached to our mother to being independent is a significant transition
Writing Our Own Story
17:15 - 27:04
- Transition from being attached to mother to being independent is like jumping across 18 grand canyons
- The present moment takes a bit of the future and converts it, shaping our lives
- We are all headed towards two walls - one we came out of and one we will disappear into
- In between those two walls is our life, our story
- We should be writing our own story instead of letting others write it for us
- If we live with fear, our future will be forged from fear
- We need to pay attention to the good things that happened in the past, not just the bad things
- Don't compare your life by your dreams, look at it honestly
- Many products we want are not necessary needs
- Human beings haven't changed much over time
Finding Peace and Changing Preferences
26:37 - 37:04
- In different decades, people still feel pain, anger, desperation, and the need for love
- People have been trying to express love in different ways throughout history
- We often lose our true identity and become consumed by wants instead of needs
- The App Store Lessons are built into products that stop working after a few years
- It is important for every human being to actively engage in their own future and forge peace in their lives
- We are all responsible for creating a kinder world
- Empathy is lacking in society; we should strive to understand others' viewpoints
- We can't change our physical appearance, but we can change our preferences and focus on the joy and courage within ourselves
The Power of Being Human
36:37 - 47:48
- Being human is incredibly important and powerful
- Gods in Hindu religion come to earth as humans
- We should value and respect being human
- Governments treat humans differently than businesses or married individuals
- The speaker is writing a new book about changing preferences and learning about oneself
- Life started with amazing memories of watching the sunrise and listening to music
- The speaker has seen both pain and desperation, as well as hope and transformation in people's lives
- Letting go of expectations makes life fun, while holding onto them makes it tedious
- The speaker has tried to change the world by touching lives in prisons, with homeless individuals, and war veterans
Creating Peace and Pursuing Gifts
47:22 - 52:02
- In many prisons, the rate of people returning to prison after release has dropped from 85% to 2% due to a message that encourages them not to go back
- Everyone has a gift and should find it and pursue it
- Prem Rowart offers an online course called Peak for personal peace
- Prem's new book, 'Hear Yourself: How to Find Peace in a Noisy World,' is now available