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Bitesize Wisdom For Busy People

Bitesize Wisdom For Busy People

By Ivan Campuzano

"Extraordinary insights for Life, Work, and Travel."

Hello and welcome to my channel. My name is Ivan and I like sharing transformative ideas rooted in the Wisdom Traditions in a simple down to earth way while working to evolve them further.
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Where Attention Goes Energy Flows (Bitesize Wisdom #162)

Bitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleAug 29, 2022

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Where Attention Goes Energy Flows (Bitesize Wisdom #162)

Where Attention Goes Energy Flows (Bitesize Wisdom #162)

#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization #nondualawareness #nonduality #advaita 

To read my self-development articles please visit my site here:http://freedomfromtheknown.com

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/bitesizewisdom

Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bitesizewisdom

Hello, I'm Ivan: travel junkie, blogger, teacher, a student of life. Welcome to my little home on the net, where I hope to share ideas and insights to help you lead a deeply fulfilling life.  

This is a journey of discovering both inner and outer freedom. Will you join me on this quest towards ultimate freedom? I write and talk about my experiences in: self-development, psychology, traveling full-time, living abroad, location independence, meditation, yoga, lucid dreaming, entrepreneurship, lifestyle business, language learning, and how to be in the now.

Aug 29, 202202:05
Learning To Be More Considerate - The Wisdom of Sir Francis Bacon (Bitesize Wisdom #161)

Learning To Be More Considerate - The Wisdom of Sir Francis Bacon (Bitesize Wisdom #161)

#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealizationToday's quote is by Sir Francis Bacon, “In charity, there is no excess”  

If you are on a self-development or spiritual journey, much of that journey at times can seem selfish as you are mainly focused on yourself. This can be ok because in order to truly help others we must be able to help ourselves first. 

This will also help us to relate to other people’s struggles and then we can be in a better position to help by having some personal experience and insight into their situation.  

To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com 

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/bitesizewisdom 

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Oct 18, 202105:03
Finding Your Key To Happiness (Bitesize Wisdom #160​)

Finding Your Key To Happiness (Bitesize Wisdom #160​)

#selfdevelopment#conciousness#spirituality#selfrealization

​I think it’s safe to say that most of us will spend our whole lives searching. Searching for love, money, happiness, success, and many other worldly desires.  

This search takes place mainly in our external world, a search that leads us further away from what we actually want and from who we really are. We feel that once we attain these worldly desires that life will be grand, everything will be ok, that we will be deeply fulfilled.  

I think that many of us deep down know that things like money, becoming famous, becoming powerful, will be really nice but that ultimately it will not give us the peace of mind and deep fulfillment that we crave.  

To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com​ 

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/bitesizewisdom​ 

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Mar 26, 202106:39
How To Become a Leader: What Donald Trump Taught The World (Bitesize Wisdom #159)

How To Become a Leader: What Donald Trump Taught The World (Bitesize Wisdom #159)

#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization 

The title of today’s video is “How To Become a Leader: What Trump Taught The World”, but it’s actually based on an article I wrote a long time ago, which was “How To Become a Leader: What Hitler Taught The World”. It’s not my intent to discuss politics here, but if Donald Trump has done anything well, I think many of us will agree that he did a great job of implementing the main ideas that I discuss in the post.  

The purpose of this video is to raise some awareness among people who would like to be a leader of some sort, to make you aware of the responsibility you will have, and to question what your true motives are and the possible consequences of your message. To possibly re-think what it means to be a leader. Do you even need to be a leader?   

To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com 

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/bitesizewisdom 

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Jan 08, 202109:26
How To See Like a Genius (Bitesize Wisdom #158)

How To See Like a Genius (Bitesize Wisdom #158)

#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization

Today's quote is by William James, “Genius...means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitable way.” If you have watched some of my videos you will know how much I stress and talk about the faculty of attention. If you are new to my channel check out my video where I give an overview of the 3 levels of attention. I’ll put some helpful links in the description box below.  

Understanding The Three Levels of Attention For Our Self-Development: https://youtu.be/n-cTUil01Bg 

How To Really Understand Yourself Through Proper Self-observation: https://youtu.be/2fmLjPpOZAM 

To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com 

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/bitesizewisdom 

Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bitesizewisdom

Jan 04, 202104:01
Developing Presence 103: Learning To Recognize and Increase Sensitive Energy (Bitesize Wisdom #157)
Nov 20, 202009:29
Developing Presence 102: Relaxing The Body and Releasing Its Tensions Further (Bitesize Wisdom #156)

Developing Presence 102: Relaxing The Body and Releasing Its Tensions Further (Bitesize Wisdom #156)

Living From Presence: How To Really Enter The Present Moment: https://youtu.be/-Px1k1XLJ2A

Developing Presence 101: Relaxing The Body and Releasing Its Tensions: https://youtu.be/Yj6x1VzN874 

Recently I made a couple of videos about living from presence, If you haven’t checked them out, I'll put the links in the description box. In the first video, I talked about the importance of grounding our attention in the raw sensation of the body, in the 2nd video I talked about the next step of learning to relax the entire body to get our energies flowing more freely, today we’ll talk about furthering our ability to calm our body.  

Once we have gotten acquainted with learning to use our attention to progressively relax our whole body, we will try to go into a more thorough deeper relaxation. Our self-development journey is one where we learn to go from the gross to the very subtle.  

The tensions at the coarser physical level of our body are usually the easiest for us to identify and to let go of. The next more subtle and deeper level of tensions that we need to relax is that of our thoughts, emotions, and will.  

To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com 

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/bitesizewisdom 

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Oct 12, 202004:05
Life Advice From The Stoic Epictetus To Overcome Fear and Agitation (Bitesize Wisdom #155)
Sep 19, 202003:14
Cultivating Patience: The Key To a Happy and Blissful Life (Bitesize Wisdom #154)
Sep 01, 202001:57
Developing Presence 101: Relaxing The Body and Releasing Its Tensions (Bitesize Wisdom #153)

Developing Presence 101: Relaxing The Body and Releasing Its Tensions (Bitesize Wisdom #153)

Recently I made a video about living from presence, If you haven’t checked it out here: https://youtu.be/-Px1k1XLJ2A  In that video, I gave a brief overview of how our spiritual journey is one where we go from the gross to the very subtle, and the importance of learning to ground our attention in the energy of sensation in our bodies in order to grow and feed our presence.  

Today I’ll get a little bit into discussing the initial stage of developing contact with our body, with our body presence which is an essential beginning foundation to help us go deeper and higher into the subtle energies of our inner space. Developing our inner energy body of sensation will act as a container to attract and hold the next higher energy of consciousness.  

To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com  

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/bitesizewisdom  

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Aug 24, 202005:59
Spreading Joy: How To Cheer Yourself Up (Bitesize Wisdom #152)

Spreading Joy: How To Cheer Yourself Up (Bitesize Wisdom #152)

Today's quote is by Mark Twain, “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”  

We're living in crazy times right now, and we all could use a little cheering up. Unfortunately, modern life in many parts of the world has encouraged more selfish ways of living, of being. It’s a dog eat dog kind of world out there. Which has become a big source for stress and unhappiness for many. 

To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com  

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/bitesizewisdom  

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Aug 10, 202003:46
Living From Presence: How To Really Enter The Present Moment (Bitesize Wisdom #151)
Jul 31, 202015:38
The Importance of Being Thankful During a Pandemic/Crisis (Bitesize Wisdom #150)
Jul 14, 202003:39
Living More Consciously: The Importance of Right Aim and Mastering Attention (Bitesize Wisdom #149)

Living More Consciously: The Importance of Right Aim and Mastering Attention (Bitesize Wisdom #149)

#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization 

I have spoken before on the importance of making an aim for oneself in respect to our self-development work. Our aim is what keeps us on the right track. After careful and sincere self-observation, of being objectively mindful of our behavior we should be able to identify areas that we need to work on in order to progress on our journey of becoming more conscious. This data helps us to formulate an aim for our self-development work. For example, you may discover that feelings of jealousy are especially damaging to you, so your aim is to understand and overcome them. Today we will talk a little bit about understanding where our aim comes from and that it can come from a right or wrong place within ourselves.  

We need to have a deep and clear comprehension of our aim, of ourselves, of our attention because we may have an aim that is right but be coming from a wrong place or we may have an aim that is wrong but be coming from a right place in us.  

In order to understand where our aim is coming from we need to have an intimate relationship with our attention and how it relates to the main centers in our body.   

Recommended videos: 

1. Balancing and Understanding Our Intellectual, Emotional, Instinctive Brains: https://youtu.be/WePYyrVbFQU 

2. Increasing Self-Awareness of Our Three Brains: Head, Heart, and Gut: https://youtu.be/dyIX9_wBxss 

3. How To Not Be A Smartphone Zombie: Increasing Awareness and Expanding Consciousness: https://youtu.be/f9H1p6IW3gs 

4. Understanding The Three Levels of Attention For Our Self-Development: https://youtu.be/n-cTUil01Bg  

To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com

Jun 09, 202010:18
Living Like You Really Mean It: Being Present Here And Now (Bitesize Wisdom #148)

Living Like You Really Mean It: Being Present Here And Now (Bitesize Wisdom #148)

#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization

All of us have heard the importance of learning to be present, of living in the now, but how many of us are actually really living it, how many of us really understand what that means or how to do it…  

Today I’ll briefly touch upon this by emphasizing that we need to live like we really mean it.  It means we need to learn to identify the silent presence behind all experiences and to live by having our intention in whatever it is that we may be doing. Living from a place of presence we do not let life just happen to us, or to let this present moment go by unnoticed. We are here in an integrated way, fully and vividly as our attention and intention. We are in our life living it as it unfolds.  

To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com

May 06, 202005:18
It's Your Choice To Be Negative or Not (Bitesize Wisdom #147)

It's Your Choice To Be Negative or Not (Bitesize Wisdom #147)

#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization

Today we will continue our discussion on negative emotions, specifically that you have the choice or right to not be negative.  

To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com

May 04, 202004:43
The Art of Manifesting: How To Pray For Better Days (Bitesize Wisdom #146)
Apr 04, 202007:35
Purifying Our Emotions To Raise The Level of Our Being (Bitesize Wisdom #145)
Mar 04, 202005:29
How You Can Use Your Habits To Become More Conscious and Live In The Now (Bitesize Wisdom #144)
Feb 21, 202005:16
Energy Breathing: A Simple Exercise To Grow Your Energy Body and Presence (Bitesize Wisdom #143)
Feb 19, 202005:47
Simple Exercise To Think On a Higher Scale and Activate Your Higher Mind (Bitesize Wisdom #142)
Feb 03, 202004:11
Developing Real Patience With Ourselves And The World (Bitesize Wisdom #141)

Developing Real Patience With Ourselves And The World (Bitesize Wisdom #141)

#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization

Today's quote is by Saadi Shirazi, “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.”   

In a world that seems to be exponentially moving faster, developing real patience will help us to navigate life much more intelligently.  

How can we develop real patience? Real patience can be a by-product of our sincere self-development work like our meditation practices and our active self-observation. On my channel, you always hear me talking about learning to objectively observe ourselves. Where the goal is simply learning to observe and witness the contents of the mind in a more objective manner. This entails learning not to react to our unconscious tendencies.  

Check out this video for a more thorough description on what I mean by self-observation: https://youtu.be/f9H1p6IW3gs 

To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com

Dec 29, 201904:54
The Importance of Being Kind To Yourself and Others (Bitesize Wisdom #140)
Dec 27, 201903:39
Thought = Time: Discovering Our Timeless Source (Bitesize Wisdom #139)

Thought = Time: Discovering Our Timeless Source (Bitesize Wisdom #139)

#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization

We live in a world that is dominated by thought. Thought has allowed us to create a materially comfortable world. It’s allowed some amazing inventions to come to life, but at the same time has enslaved us as evidenced by the levels of unhappiness and depression that people deal with despite that the common man has more wealth then even Kings had not long ago.  On the quest towards inner freedom, it is essential that we come to an intimate understanding of thought. That we question it. It’s very difficult for many of us because thought is so close and invisible to us that we just take it for granted. We just know we have it, we get so wrapped up in it, that we end up deriving a majority of our sense of self, of our identity from it.  

To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com

Dec 01, 201904:23
Love Yourself First And Everything Else Falls Into Place (Bitesize Wisdom #138)
Nov 19, 201903:32
Uncovering And Breaking Unconscious Tendencies That Keep Us Stuck (Bitesize Wisdom #137)
Oct 21, 201904:43
 Pursue Goals That Touch Your Mind, Body, And Spirit (Bitesize Wisdom #87)
Oct 11, 201904:22
Learning To Appreciate The Simple Things In Life (Bitesize Wisdom #136)

Learning To Appreciate The Simple Things In Life (Bitesize Wisdom #136)

#selfrealization #selfdevelopment #enlightenment #conciousness #spirituality #nonduality

Today's quote is a Chinese Proverb. The proverb is “The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.”  One of the big ironies of life is that most of us seem to go on missing what’s right in front of us, right under our noses. We are all chasing something which we deem more satisfying, more pleasurable, then our current moment to moment experience.  To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com

Oct 08, 201902:47
How To Really Increase Awareness of Your Body: Start By Setting Small Goals (Bitesize Wisdom #135)
Sep 10, 201905:15
The Law of Three: The 3 Forces of Manifestation (Bitesize Wisdom #134)
Aug 21, 201909:10
Learning How To Make Good Decisions In Life (Bitesize Wisdom #133)
Aug 03, 201904:45
Reconnecting With Old Friends And Reconnecting With Our True Selves (Bitesize Wisdom #132)
Jun 25, 201905:12
The Importance of Making Effort on The Spiritual and Self-development Path (Bitesize Wisdom #131)
Jun 16, 201904:35
Learning To Follow The Wisdom of The Heart: Activating Your Real Intuition (Bitesize Wisdom #130)
May 26, 201904:05
Transform The World By Transforming Yourself (Bitesize Wisdom #129)
May 24, 201902:33
Learning To Love Your Real Self: Going Beyond Who You Think You Are (Bitesize Wisdom #128)

Learning To Love Your Real Self: Going Beyond Who You Think You Are (Bitesize Wisdom #128)

Today's quote is “I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.”  Most people understand that unless you love yourself, you cannot really love anyone else. If we don’t have a loving relationship with our very own self, we will project any of our own weaknesses unto the other person and end up sabotaging and limiting our relationship with another.  

It seems basic, that we should learn to love our own selves and on the surface many people believe or think they love themselves but their behavior will show otherwise. And what most people call love is a superficial identification with a conceptual “me” which just makes us more egoistic and separate from others. We can be sure that Donald Trump is in love with Donald Trump.  

So what keeps us from loving ourselves? The short answer is ignorance. We simply don’t have a deep and proper understanding of who or what we are. We only know who we think we are. Thought is memory, and our memories are conditioned through our experiences with life. Our identity becomes an object to us. We then derive our sense of identity from our thinking conscious mind. But who are really are is the silent subject of all experiencing, that from which thought arises, the space like awareness from which all the content of the mind arises. We get caught up and lost in the minds content losing sight of the subject.  

 To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com 

May 18, 201905:44
How To Stop Drifting Through Life By Making Conscious Efforts (Bitesize Wisdom #127)
May 17, 201905:04
How To Be The King of Your Inner Castle (Bitesize Wisdom #126)

How To Be The King of Your Inner Castle (Bitesize Wisdom #126)

In order to have this higher point of view, we need to learn to recognize and become established in our thought-free awareness. Much like the King in our story, being established in our presence is like we are at the peak of a mountain.

From this vantage point, we look down and can see everything below us. We can see our thoughts, emotions, feelings, running around bumping into each other causing all sorts of problems. Being above them we remain unaffected. 

Also as our understanding of our inner landscape becomes more refined we are then able to communicate a higher wisdom to our friends below. We can help them also reach the peak in a harmonious fashion.

From pure awareness, we have the clarity to see things as they are.

To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com





May 14, 201903:51
How We Can Use Sleep To Discover Our True Self (Bitesize Wisdom #125)

How We Can Use Sleep To Discover Our True Self (Bitesize Wisdom #125)

Today our topic is on how we can use sleep to help us realize our true nature. On my channel, you always hear me talking about being present, being aware, being conscious, etc.

Learning to let go of all that is false in order to discover what we really are. 

The problem for most of us is that we are too identified with our thoughts, emotions, bodies and invested into a conceptual story we call “me” that we miss that obviousness of the basic nature of reality.

Many spiritual practices aimed at helping us quiet our minds so that we may eventually clearly see what we really are. The timeless presence or global awareness that is the background to all our experiences. It is the only constant which all apparent objects both physical and subtle rise and subside within this invisible presence. So here we can take advantage of the sleeping process to get better acquainted with our true nature.

To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com

May 04, 201904:22
How Life Can Become The Ultimate Teacher: No Attachments No Aversions (Bitesize Wisdom #124)
Apr 26, 201904:12
How Negative Emotions Spoil Everything And Distort Reality (Bitesize Wisdom #123)
Apr 13, 201904:31
Generating New Ideas By Contacting Your Inner Stillness (Bitesize Wisdom #122)
Mar 30, 201903:24
Things Don't Change Until We Change: How To See A New Reality (Bitesize Wisdom #121)
Mar 19, 201904:01
Releasing Fear And Anxiety To Live Happy Fulfilling Lives (Bitesize Wisdom #120)
Mar 08, 201904:05
Finding Inner and Outer Balance In Life (Bitesize Wisdom #119)
Feb 27, 201904:10
Finding Your True Self: What's Your Original Face? Understanding Your Persona (Bitesize Wisdom #118)
Feb 23, 201906:30
Quote of The Day To Have A Great Day! Wisdom by GK Chesterton (Bitesize Wisdom #117)
Feb 21, 201902:31
Balancing and Understanding Our Intellectual, Emotional, Instinctive Brains (Bitesize Wisdom #116)
Feb 20, 201907:08
How To Be Consciously Creative In Art: Reclaiming Your Childlike Creativity (Bitesize Wisdom #115)
Feb 15, 201906:51
How To Deal With People You Don't Like: Seeing Yourself In Others (Bitesize Wisdom #114)
Feb 13, 201908:08