In this season finale, the Johns' brothers discuss pain, pleasure, and spirituality. How do we find the balance with pain and pleasure on the spiritual journey?

Truth-telling is a powerful part of living in the healthy balance of pain and pleasure. Learn why you need to pay more attention to this powerful practice.

This episode is about self-binding, a practice that is necessary for all of us, but is especially needed when dealing with addiction. Learn more about it in this episode and how it can set you free!

It is our natural tendency to avoid pain, to run from pain, and to sometimes we go to great lengths to try to escape from pain. However, there is a healthy time to run towards pain and knowing this can greatly benefit your life!

In this second episode, the Johns' brothers go deeper with the subject of pain and pleasure and how to balance them in a healthy way in our lives.

A new season begins here with a discussion on pain and pleasure based on Anna Lembke's book Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence. Pain and pleasure are the two basic driving forces in our lives, but new brain research helps us understand how the brain processes them and seeks to find balance.

In this final episode of the season, the Johns' brothers discuss the intersection of gratitude and spirituality.   Ideally, both can compliment each other, but the brothers deal with the topic of what happens when religion creates negative experiences and hinders our gratitude.  Learn how spirituality, if done correctly, can be a tremendous asset to gratitude and how gratitude can greatly benefit our spiritual journey.

How do you make gratitude a regular and sustainable practice in your life?  Tune in to this episode to learn how to incorporate gratitude into your life until it just becomes part of who you are.

How do you experience gratitude and its benefits?  You practice it.  Learn six simple, but life changing, gratitude practices you can incorporate into your life in this episode.

Are gratitude and pain incompatible?  If we are practicing gratitude, what do we do in the painful times, in the trials and challenges?  In this podcast the Johns brother discuss the relationship of gratitude and pain.