LOVE IS THE ANSWER
21 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -We look for answers to the problems we face within our lives. What if the solution is right within us? What if LOVE is the answer? In each episode, we ask our guests questions related to ordinary life situations, and let them share their experiences with living from love.
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Episode 17: Love Is the Answer 17 | Transformational Power of Play | Guest: Angela Halvorsen Bogo
December 29, 2020 19:47 - 23 minutes - 32.7 MBIn this podcast hosted by A Course of Love facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Angela Halvorsen Bogo responds to the following questions: 1) What is love to you? 2) Let’s begin our discussion about play by attempting to define it. What exactly is play and why is it important to include it in our lives? 3) Describe what is happening with you during play? 4) Because of our current pandemic, our social bubbles have become pretty small. Do we need other people to play with? Can y...
Episode 16: Love Is the Answer 16 | Triggers, Mirrors, and Companioning | Guest: Lan Thi Bray
December 17, 2020 00:00 - 30 minutes - 42.5 MBIn this Podcast, Lan Thi shares her insights and experiences with her current "companioning" approach in holding sacred space ("breaking bread") with others, and ways triggers and mirrors arise in our relational experiences. We also explore: • What deep attunement is and how relationships can be an opportunity into healing • The way the man Jesus (Jeshua) expressed love and healing grace • The current Covid-19 pandemic and how we are being affected both individually and collectivel...
Episode 15: Love Is the Answer 15 | Hypnotherapy as a Spiritual Tool | Guest: Susan Bernardini
December 01, 2020 00:00 - 26 minutes - 37 MBIn this podcast hosted by A Course of Love facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Susan Bernardini responds to the following questions: 1) What is love to you? 2) Let’s begin our discussion about hypnosis with a clarification of what it is. What happens to a person during hypnosis? Why should somebody on a spiritual path be interested in it? 3) In your practice, you offer two approaches to Hypnotherapy: clinical hypnotherapy and transpersonal hypnotherapy. a) Please share a litt...
Love Is the Answer 14 | Righteous Anger | Guest: Ronya Banks
November 17, 2020 00:00 - 29 minutes - 41.4 MBIn this podcast hosted by A Course of Love facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Ronya Banks responds to the following questions: 1) What is love to you? 2) "Righteous anger" is a topic on which you recently spoke. What do you mean by righteous anger? Doesn’t everybody think their anger is righteous? How do I know if my anger is righteous, or is just my point of view? 3) Anger is a tricky subject in Buddhist teachings. Shantideva calls it "the most extreme negative force." Yet ...
Love Is the Answer 13 | Freedom | Guest: John Mark Stroud
November 03, 2020 00:00 - 31 minutes - 43.8 MBIn this podcast hosted by A Course of Love facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, John Mark Stroud responds to the following questions: 1) What is love to you? 2) It’s pretty fascinating that you’re doing this real life experiment with living from freedom. Will you explain why freedom is a priority for you? What have you freed yourself from? What is it that keeps most people bound? 3) a) What would you say is energetically going on within you now - that outwardly shows up as liv...
Love Is the Answer 12 | Balancing Feminine & Masculine Energies | Guest: Georgie Jessup
October 20, 2020 00:00 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MBIn this podcast hosted by A Course of Love facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Georgie Jessup responds to the following questions: 1) What does love mean to you? 2) I want to begin by recognizing that, as a transgender person, you have had a unique relationship with your own masculine and feminine energies. What has your experience taught you about balancing both energies? 3) a) I think most people want to be trans-supportive, but they don’t fully understand the transgender e...
Love Is the Answer 11 | Guidance from the True Self | Guest: Virenia Peeples
October 06, 2020 00:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBIn this podcast hosted by A Course of Love facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Virenia Peeples responds to the following questions: 1) What does love mean to you? 2) I am fascinated that you have had a successful show business career because in spite of all that public approval, you’re more interested in living as love. How has fame affected your spiritual journey? Has it helped or hindered your recognition of your essential Self as something beyond identity? 3) In your Human...
Love Is the Answer 10 | Living and Co-creating in Community | Guest: Suzanne Quinney
September 22, 2020 00:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBIn this podcast hosted by A Course of Love facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Suzanne Quinney responds to the following questions: 1) What does love mean to you? 2) (a) I think a lot of people have heard of Findhorn, the intentional community in Scotland, but I understand that it has evolved beyond its beginnings. Years ago when I heard Peter Caddy speak, I was fascinated by his description of the founders’ work with nature spirits and by their efforts to communicate with th...
Love Is the Answer 09 | Finding the Courage to Love | Guest: Anjula Ram
September 08, 2020 00:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBIn this podcast hosted by A Course of Love facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Anjula Ram answers the following questions: 1) What does love mean to you? 2) I’ve heard you say it takes courage to love. Doesn’t love just happen naturally? Is something else going on here? 3) You talk about integrating the masculine and feminine. Can you talk more about how you work with that? 4) (a) I really liked your short film: “Essays from the Heart: Emergence from Within.” What was that e...
Love Is the Answer 08 | Intuitive Medicine & Our Relationship to the Body | Guest: Dr. Rod
August 25, 2020 00:00 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MBIn this podcast hosted by A Course of Love facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Rod Chelberg, M.D. answers the following questions: 1) What does love mean to you? 2) You tell a lot of amazing stories about how Christ helped you diagnose and treat patients. I’d like to know if we can tune into this kind of wisdom as individuals in order to diagnose and treat our own bodies, and if so, how? 3) (a) You've spoken of quieting the breath, placing your hands over your heart, and sayi...
Love Is the Answer 07 | Letting Ourselves Be Loved | Guest: Mandi Solk
August 12, 2020 00:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBIn this podcast hosted by A Course of Love facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Mandi Solk answers the following questions: 1) What does love mean to you? 2) You talk about letting yourself be loved. What do you mean by that? Who is doing the loving? Who is being loved? 3) In your video, you talk about how our thoughts are nothing. Yet thoughts are our constant companions. How can they be nothing? How can I even function without thoughts? 4) Where do thoughts come from? 5) How...
Love Is the Answer 06 | Coming Home to Who You Are | Guest: Elliott Robertson
July 29, 2020 00:00 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MBIn this podcast hosted by A Course of Love facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Elliott Robertson answers the following questions: 1) What does love mean to you? 2) I understand that the idea of "Coming Home to Who You Are" is one of your favorite subjects. Will you share a little more about this idea? 3) (a) You have recently published a book entitled, Say Yes to Life. Can you share a little about the book’s central messages? (b) In your book, which of the “Seven Keys” - t...
Love Is the Answer 05 | Flexibility on the Spiritual Path | Guest: Amy Torres
July 14, 2020 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBIn this podcast hosted by ACOL facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Amy Torres answers the following questions: 1) What does love mean to you? 2) One reason we wanted to talk with you today is because you seem to be open to multiple teachings in addition to A Course in Miracles. You’ve worked with Mooji, Rupert Spira, and even Yogananda. Tell us how you’ve benefited from working with other teachers and how you might advise others to incorporate other teachings into their own j...
Love Is the Answer | Episode 4 | Guest: Christina Strutt
June 30, 2020 00:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBIn this podcast hosted by ACOL facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Christina Strutt answers the following questions: 1) What does love mean to you? 2) All of your communications end with the same 3 phrases: “The only response is love. The only time is now. And we are the ones.” Can you share what that means to you? 3) Let’s be honest. Life as a human can be really hard. How would you apply your approach to someone who is going through a really tough time? 4) You speak of “living in t...
Love Is the Answer 04 | Living Love During Difficult Times | Guest: Christina Strutt
June 30, 2020 00:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBIn this podcast hosted by ACOL facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Christina Strutt answers the following questions: 1) What does love mean to you? 2) All of your communications end with the same 3 phrases: “The only response is love. The only time is now. And we are the ones.” Can you share what that means to you? 3) Let’s be honest. Life as a human can be really hard. How would you apply your approach to someone who is going through a really tough time? 4) You speak of “liv...
Love Is the Answer | Episode 3 | Guest: Cindy Stroud
June 16, 2020 00:00 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MBIn this podcast hosted by ACOL facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Cindy Stroud answers the following questions: 1) What does love mean to you? 2) When I consider how you are in relationship to your friends and family, what it looks like is that you give your loved ones complete freedom to be as they are, but you also give them your energy and really listen to what’s important to them. Is that what’s happening? Is it intentional? 3) What is the most important thing for you in your pe...
Love Is the Answer 03 | Relationships | Guest: Cindy Stroud
June 16, 2020 00:00 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MBIn this podcast hosted by ACOL facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Cindy Stroud answers the following questions: 1) What does love mean to you? 2) When I consider how you are in relationship to your friends and family, what it looks like is that you give your loved ones complete freedom to be as they are, but you also give them your energy and really listen to what’s important to them. Is that what’s happening? Is it intentional? 3) What is the most important thing for you in...
Love Is the Answer 02 | Feelings and Emotions | Guest: Cole Knazovicky
June 02, 2020 00:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBIn this podcast hosted by ACOL facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Cole Knazovicky answers the following questions: 1) What does love mean to you? 2) Are feelings part of the energy of love? 3) Can we change the habit of pushing our feelings down? 4) Do you see a difference between feelings and emotions? 5) Aren't emotions just extensions of thoughts? 6) Are you saying that emotions are surface reactions to the feelings that are arising? 7) Can you take that technique you use...
Love Is the Answer | Episode 2 | Guest: Cole Knazovicky
June 02, 2020 00:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBIn this podcast hosted by ACOL facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Cole Knazovicky answers the following questions: 1) What does love mean to you? 2) Are feelings part of the energy of love? 3) Can we change the habit of pushing our feelings down? 4) Do you see a difference between feelings and emotions? 5) Aren't emotions just extensions of thoughts? 6) Are you saying that emotions are surface reactions to the feelings that are arising? 7) Can you take that technique you use with yo...
Love Is the Answer 01 | Choose Only Love | Guest: Sebastian Blaksley
May 19, 2020 00:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBIn this podcast hosted by A Course of Love facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Sebastian Blaksley answers the following questions: 1) What does love mean to you? 2) You are not talking about sentimental, romantic love, are you? 3) Would you agree that everyone is love, that love is who we all are? 4) Would you say that love is the energy of creation, of everything, encompassing and permeating everything? 5) Who and where are these beings you are in contact with? 6) Why...
Love Is the Answer | Episode 1 | Guest: Sebastian Blaksley
May 19, 2020 00:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBIn this podcast hosted by A Course of Love facilitators Lynn Kidd and Laurel Elstrom, Sebastian Blaksley answers the following questions: 1) What does love mean to you? 2) You are not talking about sentimental, romantic love, are you? 3) Would you agree that everyone is love, that love is who we all are? 4) Would you say that love is the energy of creation, of everything, encompassing and permeating everything? 5) Who and where are these beings you are in contact with? 6) Why do you ...