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Steve Jobs. "For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself would I want to do what I am about to do today, and whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know that I need to change something."
March 13, 2024 17:56 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MB"For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself if I would want to do what I am about to do today, and whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know that I need to change something." Steve Jobs. If sometime during the day we don't have a smile on our face, we know that something needs to change. Looking in the mirror and letting go of thoughts can bring us to a source, help us re-find our life path, and discover what makes us deligh...
A Sundance Maka Waconi: Circle of Life in South Dakota Jill's journey.
March 07, 2024 18:03 - 26 minutes - 24 MBA Sundance Maka Waconi: Circle of Life in South Dakota Jill and her husband's journey. The power of change and the adventure of transformational experiences. They decided not to follow a map but to follow their senses. They took no freeways or highways, just a sense that guided them. They used their senses and intuition on this fantastic journey. This trip became an empowering and transformational experience. A feeling of freedom comes when we are not afraid of change. We are all in a sta...
Break ups. How to negotiate them and find you.
January 24, 2024 19:11 - 18 minutes - 17 MBRelationship break ups. Relationship break ups. How to move beyond the pain. What can we do? How can we find greater wisdom and peace through this process? How do we navigate relationship break ups, family, or partners? Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? This is a question we must ask ourselves when we face a breakup. It's time to take a walk, a train ride, a bus ride, or a road trip so that we can step. The key is, what was my part in this? We need to step out of the ...
Relationship break ups. How to negotiate them and find you.
January 24, 2024 19:11 - 18 minutes - 17 MBRelationship break ups. Relationship break ups. How to move beyond the pain. What can we do? How can we find greater wisdom and peace through this process? How do we navigate relationship break ups, family, or partners? Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? This is a question we must ask ourselves when we face a breakup. It's time to take a walk, a train ride, a bus ride, or a road trip so that we can step. The key is, what was my part in this? We need to step out of the ...
Success and failure. What is success and what is failure? What brings us happiness?
January 17, 2024 17:51 - 13 minutes - 12 MBWhat is success, and what is failure? Why are we so focused on both? How do we succeed and fail? Does success bring us happiness? When we are dying, it is not about success or failure. We have to stop the comparison. Let's explore what success is in different countries and how success is so different in so many places for so many people. What is success for you? When you are dying what will success be for you? In the end, it's not about what we have, but rather those that we've loved and ...
How to find peace and thrive with dementia.
January 07, 2024 00:02 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBHow to live, thrive, and find peace with dementia. Dementia is a process of losing our rational mind, and yet we can support the individual in moving into places beyond the mind. The person's essence we know is always there, but the person we love and know is often disappearing. How can we support them and find a place of acceptance and ease? Many of those with dementia get fearful as dementia progresses; how can we support individuals in finding meaning and depth in this process? As c...
How to get through the holidays, tips for navigating these times.
December 21, 2023 00:35 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBHow to get through the holidays, tips for navigating these times, and find even more peace and joy. How to maneuver and enjoy the holidays. How do we deal with those we don't want to deal with? How do we enjoy the holidays even if we are alone? We can discover ways to take moments to refind our balance and inner harmony. How to re-balance yourself in these times. The holidays are only a day or a few days; we can make it simple and delightful even though we are alone or with people wh...
Fear. How to become fearless.
December 01, 2023 00:35 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBFear and how we can move beyond to freedom. How does fear control us, and what can we do to clear it? Handling the moment as it comes dispells fear. We release the need for what is happening to be different, we deal with it and then there is no fear. Fear feeds on itself, take the time to use tools to take yourself out "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” ― Jim Morrison Steps to fearlessness. ...
The freedom to change my mind. Why it's so hard to do and how it can change the world.
November 15, 2023 19:03 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBThe freedom to change my mind. We often get stuck in our lives because we think we can't change our minds or don't know how to do it. Let's explore how to change our minds when we get stuck in ideas or concepts that have been layered onto us as children and with which we identify. Perhaps we have become so identified with certain ideas in the view of friends and family that we can't move on. Let's look at the power of changing our minds and how we can do it. How to ponder our thoughts and ...
A particle vibrating due to your sound when you speak can affect a molecule inside a star at the edge of the Universe. Quantum Physics.
November 05, 2023 17:31 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBAccording to quantum physics a particle vibrating due to your sound when you speak can affect a molecule inside a star at the edge of the Universe instantly. This phenomenon is known as quantum entanglement. The greatest illusion then is the illusion of separation. We are all connected, one humanity, alike in so many ways. How can we access the feeling of that connection? it and We can use techniques to share heart energy and let it rain over any violence and confusion. When something h...
It is only heavy because you are deciding over and over again to carry it. Embrace change, loosen up your sense of identity, let yourself walk a new path. . ~ Yung Pueblo
October 06, 2023 16:08 - 25 minutes - 23 MBIt is only heavy because you are deciding over and over again to carry it. Embrace change, loosen up your sense of identity, and let yourself walk a new path. You do not have to ignore or erase the past; you just have to wholeheartedly embrace the present and move on. ~ Yung Pueblo We have our freedom in our hands, when we hold onto who we think we are or who others think we are, we lose our freedom This freedom, our freedom, is who we are, it just gets covered up as we grow into who we fe...
Niger, Travelling with the Toureg through the dunes in the Sahara.
October 05, 2023 16:06 - 26 minutes - 24 MBLeslie Clark travels with the Toureg in the desert. Experiences a wedding, travels with rebels and finds herself alone in the sand dunes miles from anywhere. . A powerful journey. She experiences how the Toureg can travel through the dunes that shift yearly, with no GPS, not maps and with dangers everywhere. They always know how everyone is feeling and have the most extraordinary connections, even though we can't speak the language. They can see into the soul of a person. There are guides...
The pause. How it can change our world.
September 24, 2023 23:51 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBPausing is key to increasing our ability to choose how we respond rather than dropping into robotic reaction. When we don't take a pause between a stimulus and our response we may wind up just reacting which limits our choices. There are so many benefits to taking a pause; it can recharge our energy: help us to gain access to our inner wisdom: and enable us to feel connected and nurtured. Take a pause and free yourself. Practice the pause. Pause before judging; pause before assuming; paus...
Happiness is not a destination; it's the journey
August 05, 2023 18:00 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBHappiness is not a destination; it's the journey. When we are focusing on the end, the thing we want instead of the process or the journey, we suffer because it makes us stressed. We can have happiness anytime when we focus on the journey. When we are focused on the destination, like a car, money, we We only suffer when we react negatively to a situation; it's not what is happening; it's our thoughts. We can find happiness anywhere, anytime. When we are happy and share it, then it's trul...
It's not what happens to us that matters, it's how we react that matters.
July 20, 2023 19:03 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBIt's not what you do but how you react that matters. Often we can't change what is happening, but we can almost always have power over how we react. We chat about ideas and tools that can give us power over our reactions. We, as humans, tend to be robotic in our reactions to what is happening. Push a button, and I'll always react to the same experience.We can discover how to respond rather than react and move through our life with greater ease and peace. The pessimist complains about...
It's not what happens, it's how you react that matters.
July 20, 2023 19:03 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBIt's not what you do but how you react that matters. Often we can't change what is happening, but we can almost always have power over how we react. We chat about ideas and tools that can give us power over our reactions. We, as humans, tend to be robotic in our reactions to what is happening. Push a button, and I'll always react to the same experience.We can discover how to respond rather than react and move through our life with greater ease and peace. The pessimist complains about...
"The world is nothing but my perception of it, I see only through mysel, I hear only through the filter of my story." Byron Katie
June 23, 2023 19:05 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MB"The world is nothing but my perception of it; I see only through myself, I hear only through the filter of my story." Byron Katie, If we want to change our lives, we must change our perception. Let's open up our cage to see how else we can see something. We are not our story, but it does control us. Oor story can limit us or free us, depending upon how we see it and we can move beyond its hold.
Tina Turner mastering life.
June 05, 2023 17:00 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBTina Turner mastered her art and life; she moved beyond her pain and illnesses and accessed an inner world of peace and balance. She built a bridge between her outer life filled with, success, but also suffering and pain and found a way to access an inner world of peace and balance. We explore how she did this nad how she was able to keep this bridge between the world open. Many stars and famous people master the outer world and their art but live a life of confusion, pain, and suffering. ...
Being happy is a very personal thing and it really has nothing to do with anyone else. Abraham Hicks
May 26, 2023 18:00 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBBeing happy is a very personal thing, and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.” Abraham Hicks Happiness lives within us! Being happy is very personal -and totally internal. Appreciation can be a pathway to happiness. Happiness does not come from the outside inward. Let's find our personal inner triggers to happiness, then we can find happiness whenever we remember, wherever we are. Let's open ourselves and be open to happiness. We explore happiness triggers or memories and how...
Why is unlearning so powerful? "Recognize that unlearning is the highest form of learning.”Rumi
April 29, 2023 17:35 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBLearning can be a great gift, and unlearning can be an even greater gift; transformational and freeing. "Recognize that unlearning is the highest form of learning.” Rumi. Why do we feel we need to keep filling ourselves with information? Why do we need so much learning? When we take away the unneeded learning, we become closer to who we are and access our source. Let's begin to ask ourselves, where did I learn this, or from whom did I learn this? Let's discover what we need to unlearn, a...
Dali Lama; putting the record straight. Clarification.
April 18, 2023 00:00 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBDali Lama "Such my thumb." Jill shares the Tibetan perspective. Why do cultural differences matter, and why are they so hard to understand? We share our thoughts and experiences about cultural differences, their power, and why we can so easily misinterpret them. We explore travel and other chances to be in various cultures and their differences. Why are there cultural differences? We look at why this happens and how we can open to and immerse ourselves in other cultures even in our local...
Enlightenment is a destructive process, a removing of what we have collected. "
April 11, 2023 18:00 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MB"Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.” Adyashanti. Enlightenment is not about what we do or achieve or even find. Enlightenment is who we indeed are. We don't have to be someone special or do something special. It's a destructive process of removing what we have covere...
Fearless aging.
April 06, 2023 17:00 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBFearless aging, let's explore how we can age fearlessly. When we are comfortable with who we are everyone else will be comfortable with who we are. Many cultures celebrate life stages, and in those cultures, aging is respected and valued. When you travel you see people eg, the natural indigenous cultures, you see those who are enjoying their life at any stage. We are on a path through life that moves toward death, and many have a hard time facing this. There are stages in our life, bir...
I started to be free when I realized the cage was made of thoughts!
March 29, 2023 19:00 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MB"I started to be free when I realized the cage was made of thoughts!" Unknown. We create cages for ourselves from our robotic thinking, we aren't aware that we are trapped until we become aware of our thoughts and their patterns. We can free ourselves, but how? Do you know what you are thinking right now? Many aren't, but it is that awareness that cuts the cage of robotic reactions that create our cage, that trap us. Most of us are living in a cage of robotic reactions, which just go round...
We don't need to struggle and suffer, we can use our problems to find awakening and joy.
March 27, 2023 07:00 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBWe don't need to suffer, we can use techniques, meditations, and tools, that can enable us to move beyond struggle and suffering, no matter what is happening in our lives. Pema Chodron in her book, "When things fall apart. Heart advise for difficult times," is a great book to sit with. "The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circ...
Creativity, how it can change yoru life and howyou can open it now.
March 20, 2023 23:33 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBOpening to our creativity opens us and empowers us. The artist Picasso said, "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." You can be creative, let's explore and ponder how! Maya Angelou, "We are all creative, but by the time we are three or four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time creative people are ten or twel...
Reincarnation - let's ponder and explore!
March 12, 2023 18:55 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBReincarnation - let's explore. What is it? Is it real? How do we know? We chat about people who have passed over as well as those who have experienced other lives. You can explore reincarnation and discover your own truth about it. We all can explore for ourselves and even try a past life regression. "You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to the memory, to remember." Brian Weiss Many believe different things ...
Travel lightly - ways to stress free travel
March 05, 2023 18:13 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MBTravel lightly, how can we reduce the stressors of travel? We chat about how to avoid the stressors of travel and how to avoid the pitfalls. We share tips, stories, and ideas that can make travel more enjoyable. Often the journey can be the hardest part of travel, particularly in todays world. So what can we do to make it easier? Join us for tips and ideas from our extensive travel experiences.
We're just all walking each other home. Ramm Dass
February 28, 2023 18:00 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MBAfter all, we're just walking each other home." (quote from Ram Dass) We're all going to the same place, and we're all on a path. Sometimes our paths converge. Sometimes they separate, and we can hardly see each other, much less hear each other. But on the good days, we're walking on the same path, close together, and we're walking each other home. We are a part of incredible vast whole, which is a part of an even greater beyond whole. Being born and dying is an infinitesimal part of this w...
How an end can become an adventure
January 12, 2023 20:00 - 20 minutes - 19 MBHow can an end can become an adventure: "Never give up - investigate," the Dalai Lama. What can we do when we seem to be facing an end in our life, the end of a relationship, a job, even death the end of our body? The photo is of her road into the canyon. Jill shares how she is managing the disastrous floods and road washing away in the canyon she lives in and how she and her husband, both in their late seventies, are facing this adventure. Jill realized through this that she isn't dyin...
What is a sweat lodge? Transformational experience.
November 18, 2022 01:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBWhat is a Sweat Lodge? Why is it so transformational? How can I do one, and why is it so powerful? A sweat lodge ceremony is a spiritual and physical cleansing ritual from ancient times. Most Native American or First People Tribes have used a similar procedure for thousands of years in the Americas. This is a place to surrender and to pray in whatever is the most healing and beautiful way for each person. This can be a most powerful and transformational experience when run by an experienced...
Intelligence. I don’t know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn’t make you happy. J.D. Salinger
November 10, 2022 20:00 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBI don’t know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn’t make you happy. J.D. Salinger. Why do is intelligence so edified? There are so many forms of intelligence, which ones make us happy? Intelligence is thinking, reasoning, and understanding instead of just doing things automatically or by instinct. EQ or emotional intelligence is the ability to have some self-awareness and respond instead of reacting robotically. Let's explore different kinds of in...
Hate - Why is there hatred?
October 24, 2022 22:00 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBWhy is there hatred? How can we move beyond that and how can we deal with others hating something about us, our family, or anyone or anything else? How does hate grow and develop? What can we do to change, cope with or transform this hatred in our culture? When we don't know who we are we will polarize and begin to think that our way is the only way. What can we do to find out who we are and move beyond hate? The news adds to this polarization, so perhaps we need to question the news. The...
Do what you love Warren Buffet
October 05, 2022 03:00 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBDo what you love and everything else will follow. Warren Buffet. When we can do what we love, even if it's just in our spare time, it energizes and inspires us. We feel more alive and more present in our lives. So many of us are doing what we feel we have to and as we live our life part of us begins to get covered up with 'I have to. Slowly we forget what we love and who we are, then when we retire, we don't know what we love anymore. Today begin to ponder 'what I love.?' Then incorporate ...
Adjustments in our life and how they empower us
September 20, 2022 19:00 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBAdjustments enable us to live our lives with more balance and harmony. Jill shares how these adjustments are helping her to live her life with ongoing chemo treatments, without feeling angry, lost, or helpless. She shares that adjustments help her to be in tune with herself and the world around her. We explore how to learn to do these adjustments and when to use them in the podcast below. Remember we are available for coaching sessions, both life coaching support in dying coaching. Go to ear...
Choices. How to accept and own the choices we make.
August 12, 2022 19:00 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBWe are making choices almost every minute! Large and small ones, are these our choices, or are they made from programming from our past? How can we realize how to truly make our own choices, free from our past? Let's explore. So often, it's easy to blame others for our choices; let's explore how we can take full responsibility for them without blaming ourselves. We find enormous freedom when we make conscious choices from now, rather than from past programming. In every minute of the day, ...
Expectations. Why do they trap us?
July 29, 2022 19:00 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBExpectations can trap and cripple us. They can make us struggle, break up relationships, and generally make us suffer. So what can we do to move beyond our expectations to find more peace and harmony in our lives? We chat about how we can do this. Join us for a discussion about expectations and freeing us from them. This is what so many wise ones have said about expectations!, The Dali Lama suggests that if we, let go of expectations, we can more readily experience peace. My expectations ...
Everyone dies but not everyone lives.
July 12, 2022 19:05 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBDoctor Malhotra a doctor in palliative care, shares that if we allow it, death can be our greatest teacher. It has a way of putting things into perspective and making us question our priorities. For me, working in palliative care has been a powerful reminder of what really matters in life. I hope that sharing some of the most common regrets of my patient's, it will inspire you to live life with no regrets. Dr Simran Malhotra In hearing about the regrets of her patients, Dr. Malhotra says th...
Fake News, what to do?
June 23, 2022 19:00 - 17 minutes - 24.6 MBFake news is all around us, how do we separate the truth from the untruth? How can we discover how to not be triggered by the news and what might be fake news? What tools can we use to relax through all of this? Let's chat!
Why do we polarize our beliefs and ideas in times of crisis?
August 19, 2021 19:00 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBWhy do we polarize our beliefs and ideas in times of crisis? Rather than getting into arguments, we could honor that, but still do what is right for us. We polarize when we are fearful, and we can be very angry and aggressive in times of crisis. If we are asking someone to be different and thinking that they are wrong...can we be flexible and allow others to have their ways and beliefs and be comfortable in our ideas and beliefs. Let's also look at the difference between my truth and obligat...
Esther Hicks. "Anytime you feel negative emotion, stop and say: Something is important here, otherwise I would not be feeling this negative emotion. What is it that I want?’ And then simply turn your attention to what you DO want.
August 05, 2021 22:00 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBEsther Hicks. "Anytime you feel negative emotion, stop and say: Something is important here, otherwise I would not be feeling this negative emotion. What is it that I want?’ And then simply turn your attention to what you DO want. In the moment that you turn your attention to what you want, the negative attraction will stop, and in the moment the negative attraction stops, the positive attraction will begin. And in that moment, your feelings will change from not feeling good to feeling good....
As you realize that you are responsible for your reactions in any moment others will cease to have any power or control over you. Wayne Dyer
July 19, 2021 20:00 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBAs you realize that you are responsible for your reactions in any moment, others will cease to have any power or control over you. Wayne Dyer How can we take responsibility for our reactions, without feeling that we are wrong, or judging ourselves. It enables us to feel free and unchained. Can we push the pause button and take ownership of ourselves and the best way to do this is to respond rather than react. Why do we react more to this we love? Let's explore how we can do this? Check o...
The guru and wisdom within...we all have it...but how do we find it?
July 01, 2021 00:00 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBComing away from the guru, teacher syndrome into accessing the guru and teacher within. We all have this access, we just have to re-discover how to access this place. Opening up to what we already what we already know. How do we uncover the lightness and wisdom within...everyone can do it... you are capable of opening yourself...to this place within. Let go of everything you thought you should be...and you then go through the door into your place of wisdom within you. Our ego is just s...
Stop trying to impress...it can only make you miserable!
June 14, 2021 22:00 - 24 minutes - 22 MBStop trying to impress...it can only make you miserable! When we try to impress we lose who we are and any possibility of finding happiness. When we stop trying to impress, we become the wisdom and perfection that we are. We are all wise, we just have to drop into who we are to channel the wisdom of the Universe. We need to uncover the true essence of who we are and unwind what we have been told about us. We don't need to impress if we are in who we are...because then we are complete and wh...
"The words you speak become the house you live in," Hafiz.
June 05, 2021 17:00 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MB"The words you speak become the house you live in," Hafiz. Where am I today and how do I walk, with my actions, words and thoughts. Is the violence and hate in the world worse, or has always been there and just covered up? What can we do to change that? Inequality has been here from the beginning of time, we can change our world through becoming conscious of our words and how we use them. When we walk in balance, drop being a victim and blaming others, we can live life in compassion and kin...
"The words you speak becomes the house you live in," Hafiz.
June 05, 2021 17:00 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MB"The words you speak becomes the house you live in," Hafiz. Where am I today and how do I walk, with my actions, words and thoughts. Is the violence and hate in the world worse, or has always been there and just covered up? What can we do to change that? Inequality has been here from the beginning of time, we can change our world through becoming conscious of our words and how we use them. When we walk in balance, drop being a victim and blaming others, we can live life in compassion and ki...
Embracing the unknown.....how can we do it?
May 21, 2021 17:30 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBStepping into and embracing the unknown...how can we do it? We can get stuck in our lives and fearful of the unknown...lets explore ways that enable us to fo that. Take time to do things spontaniously.. it helps us to feel safer with jumping into the unknown.
We are often prisoners in our life, but we have been holding the key all along.
May 16, 2021 04:00 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MB"One of the marvels of the world is the sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand!” ― Rumi. How can we find solutions to what seem insurmountable problems? If I am trapped how can I find the key to my freedom? How do I trap myself...let's look without judgment. Remembering that we always have the key!
Don't speak negatively about yourself even as a joke, you body doesn't know the difference.
May 05, 2021 21:00 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBDon't speak negatively about yourself even as a joke, you body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy and cast spells, that's why it's called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life. Bruce Lee We listen to every word and Naomi Judd says," Your body believes everything you say." When we hear ourselves saying negative things about ourselves, we have to ask ourselves do we want to live and experience this constantly in my life. Because we will. W...
How to start a podcast, why it can be fun and lucrative
April 09, 2021 18:45 - 24 minutes - 22 MBHow to start a podcast and why it can be fun. Let's explore how to make a podcast, the platforms, how to record remotely, how to interview friends and guests. Lets find out how to get photos and music for free and find ideas for recording and how to make it interesting. We need to work out what structure the podcast is, why is this important...research, research other podcasts. So go ahead and share your wisdom with the world.