Episode # 20: Finding Fulfillment is an Inside Job - a podcast by Frank Anderson MD MPH and Lisa Barry

Episode # 20 Finding Fulfillment is an Inside Job

In this episode Frank and Lisa explore the word “fulfillment”, and provide methods as to how we can connect with the sense of fulfillment. The word can have different meanings depending on your mindset. Feeling fulfilled may come from achieving something that you have striven for- a material item, a relationship, a vacation, a job- or feeling fulfilled can come from a deeper place that comes from an inner voice that may be telling you something else. This inner voice is your home, it might seem difficult to do - but it’s within your power to find your home and fulfillment wherever you are and whatever is happening. Transform any issue by exercising the full potential of your fullest humanity and bring these things to awareness and then rest as awareness – being freed from swimming in the chaos results in a feeling of fulfillment. It’s easy to say -and sounds good- but the philosophy of our podcast is to discuss the “how” so that anyone can have a method to connect to the deepest sense of fulfillment.

Since you can’t think your way through this, we provide another guided meditation - as you practice mindful awareness in meditation and in daily life, the feeling of fulfillment will naturally arise and you will notice, kind-of in retrospect, that life is more fulfilling. Ultimately its your choice- once you meditate and find your authentic self -you’re home- and those things you thought would fulfill you may not have the same urgency. When you are fulfilled you might just move in the world to help other people feel fulfilled. Someone who is fulfilled with themselves is going to be a very different partner than someone who is looking to their partner for their fulfillment. If you are a parent, or in any community, the dynamic completely changes when you yourself are fulfilled and not relying on your friends, you partner or your co-workers for your fulfillment.

Nagging creates a sense that love or acceptance is conditioned on acting a certain way. So many of the ways of interacting that we were taught creates tension or problems of unmet expectations. Creating a community of Love from a sense of fulfillment is much more satisfying then depending on others to meet our expectations – the very expectations that came from the false sense of fulfillment to begin with.

The paradox in all of this is that you will get what you want, if what you want is coming from the place you find when you explore awareness.

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