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If You Can’t Make Decisions, Feel Stuck & Can’t Move Forward WATCH THIS

Jay Shetty PodcastJune 12, 20261h 17m
In a Nutshell

The core message is that inner peace isn't found by escaping chaos but by learning to stay still within it—through daily practices like seeds-and-weeds decision-making, breath alignment, visualization, and mantra meditation. These tools help override societal conditioning, ego-driven choices, and reactivity so you can consistently operate from your highest self. Lasting fulfillment comes from giving fully in service of others while building relationships rooted in non-judgment, acceptance, and mutual growth rather than control.

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Most people do not struggle to find peace but struggle to slow down long enough to feel it. In a chaotic world filled with constant energy and noise, such as sirens in New York City, the ability to drop into oneself is essential for building and blossoming. The core challenge many face is finding inner peace within themselves.

The seed of inner peace came from a mother's love. A mother's love can serve as the greatest shield against challenges, stresses, pains, and pressures that a child experiences growing up. Despite a difficult childhood, the protective nature of maternal love left no visible scars or battle wounds. This realization also acknowledges that the mother may have absorbed some of those wounds herself. As one grows older, the desire for loved ones to experience similar peace, love, and joy becomes tempered by the understanding that one cannot always control that outcome. Everything good is attributed to how the mother raised the individual, and her love continues to be felt today.

The mother was the hardest worker known, waking earlier than the children to do morning prayers. Spirituality and religion at home appeared ritualistic, practiced on particular days without deep meaning or spirit from an outside perspective. The individual observed the mother working hard: making fresh breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily, dropping off and picking up from school, and going back out to work. She was the breadwinner who did everything. This work ethic was absorbed by watching her navigate life without favors, optimal opportunities, or things lining up, without complaints or making a big deal out of difficulties.

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