Eva Beronius's guest appearances

Eva Beronius

On and Off Your Mat Yoga Podcast

Mind the Shift

Sharon Salzberg

Tommy Rosen

Jill Miller

Elena Brower

Jules Mitchell

Danni Pomplun

Judith Hanson Lasater

Anodea Judith

Janet Stone

Kia Miller

Tara Stiles

Sally Kempton

Kelly Smith

Peter Walters

Jessica Cox

OwlTail

”The Self Mastery work was what shifted my life after years of therapy, stress management and a feeling of hopelessness”, Eva Beronius tells me before this interview. ”I changed my internal world from a state of depression, PTSD and panic attacks to joy, peace and excitement about life. And a brain and heart in coherence.” Today, years later, Eva is herself a transformational teacher and guides others who want to go through this shift. So, what is Self Mastery? Well, it is not about control. It is rather about letting go of control. ”We think we want to control our thoughts and emotions. To me that is coming from the protector part of our ego mind, which says ’these emotions and thoughts are what is causing me to suffer, so I need to change them’. But we need to embrace them and meet with them”, Eva says. ”When I think of Self Mastery, I think of a skillful artist, like someone who masters the piano. It’s about practicing. It is about being here and being human.” What are we doing most wrong? ”That we believe the lies we tell ourselves. They come from societal conditioning, upbringing and avoidance of certain emotions. It’s not until you take those inner lies apart you can see the lies from the outside as well.” (And, by the way, even the concept of right and wrong is a belief.) Attention is a force, a superpower, Eva explains. ”Think of yourself as the sun, and the rays are your attention. Things appear when you put your attention on them. When you realize that, you can start using that, questioning your bullshit.” There are several practices one can use to stop believing the programmed lies inside. Eva recommends journaling. ”And you should do it in third person. That makes it easier to see your programming.” We talk about masculine and feminine energies and the misconceptions that surround those archetypes versus what is actually there. Eva is just now complementing her healing community with a sister community called fembodiment, which is about embodying our feminine energy. On sexuality, she says: ”It’s important to understand that it’s there for you. We tend to give it away. We think it’s about performing, something we do for someone else. When you shed that, you start to experience sexual energy as a force. We are living in an orgasmic universe. It’s everywhere. I mean, thermonuclear reaction in the sun, what is that?” Eva has a very special relationship with the Toltec spiritual tradition in Mexico in general and the ancient site Teotihuacán in particular. ”My first visit to Teotihuacán was like coming home. That was where I had my first awakening, in a sense. It all came out of necessity. I was suffering.” Teotihuacán was a spiritual university, a place where men and women came to wake up from the dream and realize their divinity. ”When you visit the place today, it’s like it is alive, and it wants to play with you”, Eva says. She arranges power journeys to the site in October every year. At the core of the Toltec spiritual tradition is the art of dreaming: to be dreamt or to be the dreamer. ”In the world there is a dream of suffering, a dream rooted in fear. That dream is what is dreaming you if you are not a conscious dreamer. Right now, the majority of people are being dreamt by this dream.” ”When you shed that dream of fear, you don’t need to learn how to love, because love is where you came from. Love is the force that created everything, and it is inside you”, Eva says. Eva’s podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1eCcU4XLdZzBbIaOslrPtH Eva’s website: ⁠https://selfmasteryandbeyond.com/⁠ Eva’s Instagram: @evaberonius

”The Self Mastery work was what shifted my life after years of therapy, stress management and a feeling of hopelessness”, Eva Beronius tells me before this interview. ”I changed my internal world from a state of depression, PTSD and panic attacks to joy, peace and excitement about life. And a brain and heart in coherence.” Today, years later, Eva is herself a transformational teacher and guides others who want to go through this shift. So, what is Self Mastery? Well, it is not about control. It is rather about letting go of control. ”We think we want to control our thoughts and emotions. To me that is coming from the protector part of our ego mind, which says ’these emotions and thoughts are what is causing me to suffer, so I need to change them’. But we need to embrace them and meet with them”, Eva says. ”When I think of Self Mastery, I think of a skillful artist, like someone who masters the piano. It’s about practicing. It is about being here and being human.” What are we doing most wrong? ”That we believe the lies we tell ourselves. They come from societal conditioning, upbringing and avoidance of certain emotions. It’s not until you take those inner lies apart you can see the lies from the outside as well.” (And, by the way, even the concept of right and wrong is a belief.) Attention is a force, a superpower, Eva explains. ”Think of yourself as the sun, and the rays are your attention. Things appear when you put your attention on them. When you realize that, you can start using that, questioning your bullshit.” There are several practices one can use to stop believing the programmed lies inside. Eva recommends journaling. ”And you should do it in third person. That makes it easier to see your programming.” We talk about masculine and feminine energies and the misconceptions that surround those archetypes versus what is actually there. Eva is just now complementing her healing community with a sister community called fembodiment, which is about embodying our feminine energy. On sexuality, she says: ”It’s important to understand that it’s there for you. We tend to give it away. We think it’s about performing, something we do for someone else. When you shed that, you start to experience sexual energy as a force. We are living in an orgasmic universe. It’s everywhere. I mean, thermonuclear reaction in the sun, what is that?” Eva has a very special relationship with the Toltec spiritual tradition in Mexico in general and the ancient site Teotihuacán in particular. ”My first visit to Teotihuacán was like coming home. That was where I had my first awakening, in a sense. It all came out of necessity. I was suffering.” Teotihuacán was a spiritual university, a place where men and women came to wake up from the dream and realize their divinity. ”When you visit the place today, it’s like it is alive, and it wants to play with you”, Eva says. She arranges power journeys to the site in October every year. At the core of the Toltec spiritual tradition is the art of dreaming: to be dreamt or to be the dreamer. ”In the world there is a dream of suffering, a dream rooted in fear. That dream is what is dreaming you if you are not a conscious dreamer. Right now, the majority of people are being dreamt by this dream.” ”When you shed that dream of fear, you don’t need to learn how to love, because love is where you came from. Love is the force that created everything, and it is inside you”, Eva says. Eva’s podcast:<a href="⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/1eCcU4XLdZzBbIaOslrPtH⁠" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank"> https://open.spotify.com/show/1eCcU4XLdZzBbIaOslrPtH</a> Eva’s website:<a href="⁠https://selfmasteryandbeyond.com/⁠" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank"> ⁠https://selfmasteryandbeyond.com/⁠</a> Eva’s Instagram: @evaberonius

105. The True Art of Self Mastery – Eva Beronius

Do you ever long for a deeper understanding of yourself that leads to transformation?  If so, this episode is for you.I sat down with Eva Beronius. Eva is the founder of Self Mastery and Beyond and the highly praised online meditation course Beyond the Mind. Her own journey has included transforming a state of PTSD and anxiety with symptoms like panic attacks, depression and trust-issues into a thriving life and peaceful mind. She has experience with various techniques in trauma therapy and personal growth as well as a spiritual foundation in the Toltec tradition. She is passionate about how we can access change by bypassing the rational mind.MY 5 BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:1- Even considering that our unconscious beliefs about ourselves drive 80% to 90% of our thoughts and emotional reactions, real change is absolutely possible. The very step towards transformation is to release your stress. In a stressed brain, there's no space for anything else but survival, for fight or flight. 2- The cycle starts with a painful emotion that we carry. Then, we create a belief linked with the events that led to the creation of that painful emotion. Eventually, something happens that activates this beliefs and we latch onto a protective mechanism that has helped us in the past to avoid feeling that emotion pain. We avoid, distract, manage, pretend...3- Our protective mechanism can push us intro overly strong reactions and make us project our past experience onto our present situation. By reliving the same situation or emotional reaction, your mind is trying to solve the painful situation, to create a different outcome so it can get to a resolution. It will be repeated again and again until you move forward and make a different choice in your reaction.4- The first step in self-mastery is self-awareness; the capacity to observe yourself by directing your attention. In the second step, to help you step into the observer, you can journal at the 3rd person to help create some distance to disidentify from the situation and your reaction and gain a more neutral perspective. Step 3 is mapping, dividing your reactions into characters, versions of yourself, or archetypes. Once you have identify those, you can start noticing them throughout your day, how they are layered, structured and interacting together, and which emotions each character carries, what does their world consist of?, What do they believe? That way you can create a new relationship with your emotions, step into your subconscious and start releasing the emotions and changing your inner world, your programming. 5- Find a way to break down your "old house" while building your "new house". if you only work on building the new parts of yourself, you create disconnect, shame, rejection of an other part of yourself.QUESTIONS SHE ANSWERED DURING THIS EPISODE:What was going on in your life for you to want to make a change?What is the structure hidden under our reactions?What kind of beliefs drive our emotional reactions?How do we know if our protective mechanism are still serving us?What are some tools to reflect on our protective mechanism? How does the process looks like?How do we start to move away from suffering, break our cycles?SUBSCRIBE, RATE &amp; REVIEW!DONATE OR BECOME AN EXCLUSIVE MEMBER TODAY. Thank you so much for listening and being part of our 67th episode! If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe, rate and review anywhere you listen. As always, I really appreciate your support with this podcast whether it’s through reviews or through Patreon. With even a small donation of $5/month you can get access to more content, exclusive episodes, tutorials, guided meditations. on September 1st, you got an episode on self-care, on what is it, why it's important and how to practice it. You can also have access to some or all the classes we’ve recorded on zoom and continue to record during this shelter-in-place. If you’d like to have access to all this and/or support me in the creation of this podcast, please visit www.patreon.com/onandoffyourmat and become a PREMIUM member on the tier of your choice. ABOUT OUR GUESTEva Beronius is the founder of Self Mastery and Beyond and the highly praised online meditation course Beyond the Mind. Her own journey has included transforming a state of PTSD and anxiety with symptoms like panic attacks, depression and trust-issues into a thriving life and peaceful mind. She has experience with various techniques in trauma therapy and personal growth as well as a spiritual foundation in the Toltec tradition. She is passionate about how we can access change by bypassing the rational mind.Today she is teaching workshops and retreats around the world, hosting online courses and working with individual clients. She believes one of the most important pieces to healing is connection – with yourself, with others and with life itself – and her coaching is signified by presence, non-judgement, compassion and truth.Her website : https://selfmasteryandbeyond.comIG : @evaberonius Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do you ever long for a deeper understanding of yourself that leads to transformation?  If so, this episode is for you.I sat down with Eva Beronius. Eva is the founder of Self Mastery and Beyond and the highly praised online meditation course Beyond the Mind. Her own journey has included transforming a state of PTSD and anxiety with symptoms like panic attacks, depression and trust-issues into a thriving life and peaceful mind. She has experience with various techniques in trauma therapy and personal growth as well as a spiritual foundation in the Toltec tradition. She is passionate about how we can access change by bypassing the rational mind. <h2>MY 5 BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:</h2> 1- Even considering that our unconscious beliefs about ourselves drive 80% to 90% of our thoughts and emotional reactions, real change is absolutely possible. The very step towards transformation is to release your stress. In a stressed brain, there's no space for anything else but survival, for fight or flight. 2- The cycle starts with a painful emotion that we carry. Then, we create a belief linked with the events that led to the creation of that painful emotion. Eventually, something happens that activates this beliefs and we latch onto a protective mechanism that has helped us in the past to avoid feeling that emotion pain. We avoid, distract, manage, pretend...3- Our protective mechanism can push us intro overly strong reactions and make us project our past experience onto our present situation. By reliving the same situation or emotional reaction, your mind is trying to solve the painful situation, to create a different outcome so it can get to a resolution. It will be repeated again and again until you move forward and make a different choice in your reaction.4- The first step in self-mastery is self-awareness; the capacity to observe yourself by directing your attention. In the second step, to help you step into the observer, you can journal at the 3rd person to help create some distance to disidentify from the situation and your reaction and gain a more neutral perspective. Step 3 is mapping, dividing your reactions into characters, versions of yourself, or archetypes. Once you have identify those, you can start noticing them throughout your day, how they are layered, structured and interacting together, and which emotions each character carries, what does their world consist of?, What do they believe? That way you can create a new relationship with your emotions, step into your subconscious and start releasing the emotions and changing your inner world, your programming. 5- Find a way to break down your "old house" while building your "new house". if you only work on building the new parts of yourself, you create disconnect, shame, rejection of an other part of yourself. <h2>QUESTIONS SHE ANSWERED DURING THIS EPISODE:</h2> <ul><li>What was going on in your life for you to want to make a change?</li><li>What is the structure hidden under our reactions?</li><li>What kind of beliefs drive our emotional reactions?</li><li>How do we know if our protective mechanism are still serving us?</li><li>What are some tools to reflect on our protective mechanism? How does the process looks like?</li><li>How do we start to move away from suffering, break our cycles?</li></ul> <h2>SUBSCRIBE, RATE &amp; REVIEW!</h2><h2>DONATE OR BECOME AN EXCLUSIVE MEMBER TODAY.</h2> Thank you so much for listening and being part of our 67th episode! If you enjoy this podcast, please <a href="http://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-and-off-your-mat/id1335221698?mt=2#episodeGuid=5b4f7535798c84be3dc347c9" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">subscribe, rate and review</a> anywhere you listen. As always, I really appreciate your support with this podcast whether it’s through reviews or through Patreon. With even a small donation of $5/month you can get access to more content, exclusive episodes, tutorials, guided meditations. on September 1st, you got an episode on self-care, on what is it, why it's important and how to practice it. You can also have access to some or all the classes we’ve recorded on zoom and continue to record during this shelter-in-place. If you’d like to have access to all this and/or support me in the creation of this podcast, please visit <a href="http://www.patreon.com/onandoffyourmat" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">www.patreon.com/onandoffyourma</a>t and become a PREMIUM member on the tier of your choice. <h2>ABOUT OUR GUEST</h2> Eva Beronius is the founder of Self Mastery and Beyond and the highly praised online meditation course Beyond the Mind. Her own journey has included transforming a state of PTSD and anxiety with symptoms like panic attacks, depression and trust-issues into a thriving life and peaceful mind. She has experience with various techniques in trauma therapy and personal growth as well as a spiritual foundation in the Toltec tradition. She is passionate about how we can access change by bypassing the rational mind.Today she is teaching workshops and retreats around the world, hosting online courses and working with individual clients. She believes one of the most important pieces to healing is connection – with yourself, with others and with life itself – and her coaching is signified by presence, non-judgement, compassion and truth.Her website : <a href="https://selfmasteryandbeyond.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://selfmasteryandbeyond.com</a>IG : <a href="https://www.instagram.com/evaberonius/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@evaberonius</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Self-Mastery, wit Eva Beronius