On Purpose with Jay Shetty

I love the name of the new book, like Gut Feelings.

If you don't have that book yet, I want you to go and order right now, Gut Feelings.

We are going to put the link in the show notes. Make sure you grab a copy as you're listening right now or watching.

And what I explore with my patients and what I get to talk about in Gut Feelings is these missing physiological and psychological missing links to what is keeping you stuck at that plateau.

And I also get to have in this book and Gut Feelings is the fact that mental health is not separate from physical health.

And his new book is right here. It's called The Greatness Mindset. Unlock the power of your mind and live your best life today.

And now we're here on another book launch day. And five years to write a book, like five years to be thinking about a book, five years to not...

And I wanted to start with... I definitely want to dive into certain elements of the book, because I think what you do in this book so well is you remove blocks for people.

Lewis, that was special, man. That was really beautiful. I want everyone who's listening and watching right now to go and grab a copy of this book, The Greatness Mindset, Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today.

Where would you like them to get it from apart from obviously Barnes & Noble, Amazon? Anyway, yeah, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, wherever.

You should check out Wayne Dyer's work. His books are unbelievable. He's one of the godfathers of, I mean, he was somebody that really made an impact.

However, I have a book called Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, which is a program each week, you know, you do something like you start by walking 10 minutes a day and each week you add, you know, five minutes to that.

Could you tell us a bit about the book and then about the story?

It's a very good book. It's still in print. And the main point of it, which enraged some people, was that there are no good and bad drugs.

There are just good and bad relationships with drugs.

And I very firmly believe that. I mean, there are no drugs that have inherent good or horrible qualities.

But there is a new book on the way as well. So these are two great starters and look out for Andrew's new book, which I'm sure he'll be back on the show to talk about.

And I have seen very powerfully that you can change external reality by changing internal reality.

And, you know, I really, the title of the book I am working on is Psychedelics Can Save the World.

And I really believe that.

And I think it may be the only thing out there that has that possibility because, you know, we are clearly headed for disaster.

And when I got to Harvard, I had the very good fortune to become associated with Richard Evans Schultes, who was the director of the Harvard Botanical Museum.

And he had been one of the great explorers of the Amazon and discovered a lot of hallucinogenic plants down there.

So he really, through him, I became very interested in psychedelic plants.

I came across Aldous Huxley's book, The Doors of Perception, which had been written a few years before.

The new book is called The Sunshine Mind, 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want by Tanya Radd and Raquel Stephens.

I love what you've done with this book. And I just want to show it to everyone who's listening or watching wherever you are in the world, uh, how this book is structured because it's rare that two friends to come together to write a book together, like that doesn't happen very often.

I want you to go order it right now. You're going to love this book and you're going to love this conversation.

I hope that there are tangible things that people can take away, you know, and we wrote in there like live life through hope colored glasses because I think oftentimes it's easier to look at the negative and go down a dark path.

And I'm putting out there too, I think this book would make a great book club book.

He writes in his book Soulmates, relationships are not meant to provide us with unending happiness.

When we focus our attention on the soul of the relationship instead of on its interpersonal mechanics, a different set of values come to the foreground.

like the little pastor that's in your head, that's telling you right from wrong, the voice that isn't yours yet, the voice that is probably society's or your family's, that is there to guide you.

I want you to go and grab a copy of this book right now, order it right now.

The book is called How to Be Loved by Humble the Poet, Simple Truths for Going Easier on Yourself, Embracing Imperfection and Loving Your Way to a Better Life.

I highly recommend this book.

I'm going to be picking it as one of my books of the month for my genius community as well.

Go and grab your copy right now.

And the third one, this interview, we're talking about his new journal called My Principles.

I've been flicking through this over the past few days since I've had it, and it has given me so much self-awareness that I already believe I have, but the opportunity to reflect on it again and again consistently makes a huge difference.

I highly recommend that you grab a copy of the journal, My Principles.

But at the same time, the history of democracy in cycles. Plato in his book, The Republic, tells about these cycles over and over again.

I was a young kid in Malaysia. And I decided to try a form of meditation that I learned from a book called The Silva Method, a really old 1960s, 1970s book.

Now, the book captivated me because it spoke about how the mind can heal the body.

What was happening with me back then is I was having a really horrible skin problem. My face was covered in acne. I had very little confidence. I considered myself ugly.

So I tried practicing, nothing happened. I continued practicing, nothing happened. And there was very little results.

When it clicked, in five weeks, I completely healed my skin. Five years of skin disease healed in five weeks.