So I kno the Holy spirit brought me here today on my healing journey, I've never listened you before jumped in and every fibre knows I'm present in the right moment ❤ appreciate your voice and experience ❤
My gosh, this video was beautifully delivered. It's time to take back your power. To quit allowing feelings of doubt and anxiety be our coaches of life and direction, but also to not be strangers to our emotions, even those we are less welcoming to. Familiarizing myself with the voices is what my self work will be in this next season. Thank you Tarek.
God has a way of leading you to what you need to hear, whether it be quotes posted on Facebook or videos like this. Before I started listening to this video I made a commitment to put my phone on airplane mode for Mon-Tues(Days off) I was in the hospital on 10-30 for palpitations / anxiety attacks/atrial fibrillation/potassium deficiency cause I cannot eat/sleep when I am stressed(am down to 164 lbs from 189 in 6 months) . Something that I have had for years but has surfaced yet again because of the chronic stress I am under. Sir , you are right on time.
I love love love that you've really moved more and more into talking about mental health. I've always felt that you've had that energy to be able to talk about things that weren't easy to talk about like trauma, etc. We need more of this in our community - def feels like you're a pioneer for these challenging conversations. Keep it up
You know Tarek. Ive been following for channel for so many years and has given me the courage to face my depression and anxiety. You are very strong and wise beyond your years. Keep doing what you do. You are helping people out there.
love the message in this video. at 31 i am just now taking the time to actively listen to myself and decipher my voice from the others. For so many years I listened to the voices of others and made decisions based off the opinions of others, and now I am learning to listen to the voice of God and my own. thank you for this video.
Wow, you truly don’t know how important you are Tarek!! This kind of healing and love is something even parents lack! You’re helping to heal the generations of kids that didn’t have that parent or leader in their life! Thank you ❤
I'm starting to think you've got my therapy sessions bugged. man you don't know how spot on this was. you're speaking to things I've literally JUST found the words to even verbalise. this was so, so needed.
Tarek Ali Ahmad, this is insightful and thought-provoking. Gratitude to my life coach Lisa Haisha for recommending your content during her recent retreat here in the Philippines. Your ability to identify and guide through the complexities of the mind and spirit truly showcases your expertise and resonates well with Lisa's teachings.
Tarek I just wanted to say Thank you, I really needed to hear this. Ive been doubting myself so much lately & hearing this podcast really made sense & touched me. ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for following your intuition and making this video. With immense gratitude I ask you to add me to the list of people you have helped. You are on the are on the right path friend 🙏🏾
Babe when you said GOD NEVER TOLD ME IT WAS WRONG I TOLD MYSELF IT WAS WRONG THE WORLD TOLD ME 😢😢 I recorded my journal on my phone as I was talking this made me just realized that I had myself, inner self and hurt self all talking 🤯🤯🤯 I was switching between each one😮😮😮
This is, for sure, the video that resonates with me the most. Even when I'm not (yet) in a place where I can 100% agree with you. Allow me to explain (okey, warning, this might look awkwardly long) : After most of my life chasing what I was supposed to be doing/achieving/wanting, I started to realize that, maybe, I was just obeying these voices. I realized that, maybe, I was trying behave a certain way just because I was told. Or achieve specific career goals. Workout and look a certain way. Dating women... Maybe there's a lot of people in here that can relate with this. I was lucky enough to identify these voices (back in the time) and "detox" from all the external voices. But something else happened: As an example: I used to be very keen on some sort of digital nomad lifestyle, but it started to feel void, as I identified it was something that "I should be doing" based on my IG feed, more than something that I truly wanted for myself. Same happened with career goals, treating myself, career goals, relationship goals. Every pleasant thing was, at the time, something I "supposed to be wanting". I was now in the other side of the rope: If I removed the "external mandate" of the voices to find who's truly me... empty. There was nothing left. No source of joy, inspiration, nor purpose. This nihilistic emptiness was so scary, that I decided two things: Delete my social accounts and start therapy. In my first session, I talked about this and the things you express in this video. I just wanted so much to feel just like you feel in the video, be able to find my own voice talking. My connection with a greater spirit. Able to live without constantly obeying the external voices (I usually describe them as voices, or a big "foucaultian" eye watching me, or a virus injecting DNA into a cell whose membrane is too weak to protect its own core). After some work in therapy (and maybe one or two books like "Brian Lowery - The social creation of you") I had to face the fact that maybe there's no "core", no "me", no "truly authentic, protected and insulated inner child". Or maybe it is, but it's more socially constructed and dynamic that I would like. I'm still struggling between these two poles (feeling pressured to appeal certain identity VS stop obeying and feeling empty and purposeless) but I'm optimistic that soon I will be able to move on. There are two things that helped me a lot to connect with my spiritual self. The first one is to ask WHY. Why I'm so obsessed with X or why do I want Y that much? After a brief chain of "whys" some nasty external voices might appear. Tarek, maybe you have heard them before: "Because you should be doing better than this" "Because this version of you is not enough/ is unacceptable" "Because you are not worth of love" "Because your body is not worth of being desired" etc. The second key thing here is COMPASSION. Compassion for yourself (who is receiving these nasty comments) but also with the voices saying them (as they are part of you as well). It's a long healing journey... and maybe the LONGEST youtube comment ever. I feel a little bit embarrassed talking about this (and this much, and this deep). But there has been some comments in this community (including yours, Tarek) that made me feel seen and motivated to keep working in this path 💪 Once again, thank you so much for these videos. I'm sure that I'm not the only one whose day went a little bit better by hearing your thoughts.
If I may, your comment reveals such a reflective and curious mental posture, and a willingness to take uncomfortable actions. If there is a fundamental core of every person -- which I myself doubt -- then yours must have pushed you to question things, as you have done so much. If there is no core, and we are just what we do, then you are living an examined life, which is a fantastic thing. The goals of working for a financial status and appearance are clear, which help people push through the hard work, but philosophy is nebulous and its greatest reward supposedly comes at death. To work entirely for yourself, and not for others, and to find who that 'self' may be, you may have to think in those terms. Money goes, diseases arise, people's opinions of you change on their whims -- but no external force can rob you of the hours you spent asking, "What exists? What am I? What contributes to my health and happiness now?" The things we think will be inspired by other people -- we are a language-using species because they help us to live -- but they're still yours.
@@fruitygarlic3601 I was really pleased to read the comment. Thank you very much! I really liked this idea of "living an examined life" as a purpose. Because, no matter how many times the question "what contributes to my health and happiness now" arises, no matter how many times the answer feels outdated, imposed, or unauthentic, it seems like the exercise of questioning, finding, and de-constructing and re-evaluating this question feels pretty authentic and less transient. That might describe my nature (even when it's not the happiest or most rewarding thing to do). I've recently read a book in which the author (Camus) evoques this nature comparing it to the Myth of Sysiphus (who has been condemned for eternity to push a rock up a mountain only to watch it roll down again, and again, and again). The overall thesis of this book is that "The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." Which, to me, resembles in some aspects to what you said. Maybe not in terms of happiness, but in terms of authenticity, meaning and purpose (which are closely related).
@@TarekAli Thanks to you! The main reason why I share all of this is because of you and your amazing community, there's lots of profound and inspiring comments that are very nurturing ☀
I’m so glad I came across this video today. Even while watching this video I can hear the voice of God and it brings me so much strength and love of self! Thank you for sharing this perspective 💜✨
I have never been able to reconcile accepting myself for who I am and believing in God. I have always felt it could either be one or the other. That has left me in a perpetual state of conflict with myself.
