A New Way of Being

Saying Yes When You Mean No: The Subtle Art of Self-Abandonment.
In this conversation, Simon and his wife Alex unpack the subtle but pervasive pattern of self-abandonment—saying yes when you mean no, overriding your body’s signals, and outsourcing your sense of worth to other people’s approval.
Simon shares how self-abandonment forms in childhood, how it shows up as people-pleasing, overthinking, and numbing behaviours, and why learning to stay with your feelings is the first step to real change. Alex brings her own lived examples of boundaries, guilt, and the “expansion” that follows when you finally honour what you actually want.
They then connect this work directly to spiritual awakening: how stopping the internal battle and saying a loving “yes” to your inner experience opens the door to experiencing oneness, love, and the “frequency of reality” as it really is.

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In this clip from our longer conversation, I speak with neuroscientist Dr Andrew Newberg, author of How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain, about a powerful Kensho experience I had about a year ago.
I describe a two‑week period of bliss, emptiness of self, and a felt oneness with everything – followed by a lasting shift in how “Simon” shows up: far less identification with the personal story, and a difficulty travelling into past and future through the mind in the old way. My question to Andrew is simple:
What actually happened to my brain?
Andrew shares what decades of research into spiritual experiences reveal about:
The difference between a moment of enlightenment and living from an enlightened perspective
Why powerful awakening experiences often create lasting changes in identity, beliefs, and behaviour
The five core elements commonly reported in enlightenment and Kensho experiences
How states of oneness and non‑separation relate to the parietal lobe and our sense of self
The role of the thalamus and wider brain networks in “rewiring” our perception of reality
Why unusual sensations in the body (including in the head) are often part of these shifts

THE SHIFT HAPPENS RETREAT WITH SIMON & ALEX (October 3rd in London): https://shift-happens-retreat.subscribepage.io/

👉 Work with Me - free 15 minute 1:1 consultation: https://calendly.com/simon-wgw/simon-mundie-intro-call
👉 Website for coaching endorsements and retreat info: https://www.simonmundie.com

👉 Free Course on 'Freedom From the Me Mind': https://www.simonmundie.com/courses
👉 My book on Flow and Real uccess: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/champion-thinking-9781526626486/
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What actually changes when you stop abandoning yourself and begin meeting your experience fully?
In this short episode, I step aside and let a few of the people I’ve worked with share—in their own words—what changed for them through our coaching together.
If their experiences resonate, you can find details about working with me, and the upcoming retreat Alex and I are running, in the links below.

THE SHIFT HAPPENS RETREAT WITH SIMON & ALEX (October 3rd in London): https://shift-happens-retreat.subscribepage.io/

👉 Work with Me - free 15 minute 1:1 consultation: https://calendly.com/simon-wgw/simon-mundie-intro-call
👉 Website for coaching endorsements and retreat info: https://www.simonmundie.com

👉 Free Course on 'Freedom From the Me Mind': https://www.simonmundie.com/courses
👉 My book on Flow and Real uccess: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/champion-thinking-9781526626486/
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In this episode, Simon sits down with Dr Eben Alexander, a Harvard-trained neurosurgeon whose dramatic near-death experience – documented in his bestseller Proof of Heaven – overturned his materialist worldview.
Simon shares his own kensho (awakening) from last year and explores a central question with Eben: do an awakening and an NDE point to the same underlying reality?
Together they dive into:
Why both experiences reveal love as the essence of reality
How Eben’s NDE challenged the belief that consciousness comes from the brain
Life reviews, reincarnation and what may happen when we die
The ego as a survival programme – and why “loving it to death” can be more powerful than fighting it
Awakening as a form of inner richness that no amount of money can buy, and Eben’s stark views on hoarding wealth

THE SHIFT HAPPENS RETREAT WITH SIMON & ALEX (October 3rd in London): https://shift-happens-retreat.subscribepage.io/

👉 Work with Me - free 15 minute 1:1 consultation: https://calendly.com/simon-wgw/simon-mundie-intro-call
👉 Website for coaching endorsements and retreat info: https://www.simonmundie.com

👉 Free Course on 'Freedom From the Me Mind': https://www.simonmundie.com/courses
👉 My book on Flow and Real uccess: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/champion-thinking-9781526626486/
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