Latest Tom compton Podcast Episodes
196. Stressing about time
Love is the power podcast - April 23, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour“There’s not enough time,” “there’s too much to do,” “you won’t get another chance — you’ve blown it.” These are just some of the many stressful stories we tell about the non-existent past and future we call ‘time.’ This week’s powerful group meditation utilizes ‘The Work’ to question the concep...
195. Welcome the unloving in you
Love is the power podcast - April 16, 2024 13:00 - 1 hourIf you ever find yourself wondering why there is so much violence on the planet — and can’t identify your part in it — this episode is the support you’ve been looking for! We all have our circumstances where we are willing to use force and resistance in the name of ‘justice’ or ‘the common good....
194. I'm being treated unfairly
Love is the power podcast - April 09, 2024 13:00 - 1 hourWhat is your relationship to your own negative reactions? Do you criticize yourself like a harsh parent? Or perhaps you fight against others and the world? Do you try to justify and defend your case? Or do you simply stuff the negative feelings down until you implode? Whatever your go-to strateg...
193. Being dissatisfied
Love is the power podcast - April 02, 2024 13:00 - 1 hourDo we really need to be dissatisfied with people, situations, and circumstances for them to improve? Or could it be that dissatisfaction can only breed more dissatisfaction? This week we circle back to the mistaken belief that if I’m satisfied with everything the way it is - things won’t change ...
192. An inquiry into victimhood
Love is the power podcast - March 26, 2024 13:00 - 1 hourThis week we bring the four questions to the topic of victimhood. We invite you to follow along as best you can with your own related experience. When there is an opening, engaging in ‘The Work’ can serve as a powerful invitation out of suffering and into freedom. However, ‘The Work’ has no agen...
191. Who am I? Meditation
Love is the power podcast - March 19, 2024 13:00 - 34 minutesJust like a tree is choicelessly and effortlessly a tree — there are qualities of who and what we are that are effortless and choiceless. This week’s meditation invites us to notice what can often go unnoticed about the truth of who we really are. Open, allowing, room for everything just the way...
190. If you don’t suffer, it doesn’t count
Love is the power podcast - March 12, 2024 13:00 - 1 hourOn the path of self-discovery, there are a lot of stories we hear that glorify suffering. It’s as if the things that come easy can't be trusted. But do you know for sure that suffering is a requirement for self-realization? That it can’t come from love, enthusiasm and interest in the truth -- it...
189. When people are suffering
Love is the power podcast - March 05, 2024 08:00 - 1 hourCould it be that suffering is an inherent part of the human experience and one of our many freedoms? Rather than a flaw in the design that needs to be fixed or something you need to feel bad for. While we can never know for sure what suffering is and why it’s here, we can always know how we show...
188. It's wrong to be happy when others are not
Love is the power podcast - February 27, 2024 14:00 - 30 minutesDo you allow yourself to be peaceful and happy even when it appears other people are suffering? Or have you put other people’s experience between you and your happiness? Cultural programming tells us that it’s insensitive, uncaring, and selfish to go straight for our own peace and happiness. But...
187. I have to pay for it
Love is the power podcast - February 20, 2024 14:00 - 1 hourWhen we notice, question, and meet our stories with understanding, we say ‘yes’ to life. The deep relaxation, ease, and openness that occurs when this happens can feel ‘too good to be true,’ because we’ve been taught that struggle, suffering, and difficulty is what is real in life and easy, effo...
186. Happening to me vs. happening for me
Love is the power podcast - February 13, 2024 14:00 - 1 hourWhat if living Life is like following a route in google maps? You have unlimited attempts to get to where you’re going and no matter which direction you take the navigation system knows exactly where you are and directs you from there. When you make a ‘wrong turn,’ the navigator doesn’t criticiz...
185. I'm missing something
Love is the power podcast - February 06, 2024 14:00 - 1 hourCould it be that everything we need to meet the next moment is here now? Imagine meeting every moment from the perspective that “nothing is missing.” Quite different from our habitual mental vantage point — there is definitely something missing. This week’s inquiry is quite a relieving one! If y...
184. An effective approach to positive change?
Love is the power podcast - December 19, 2023 14:00 - 1 hourMost of us can relate to wanting the best for ourselves, for others, for the world. But how can we be certain of what that ‘best thing’ is? And then if we do feel clear about it - what is actually effective for bringing about that positive change we’re wanting? This week we look at the primary h...
183. Only untruth needs to be maintained
Love is the power podcast - December 12, 2023 14:00 - 1 hourIs it possible to be separate from Life? Or is there only one reality? Often we experience ourselves as “in here” and the world is “out there.” But what does our direct experience show us? When we experience ourselves as separate from the intelligence of the universe, we call certain things natu...
182. Wanting the best for the ones we love
Love is the power podcast - December 05, 2023 14:00 - 39 minutesDoing ‘The Work’ is not just an inquiry process to discover what’s true — it is an uncovering of the most effective ways to meet Life in all of its expressions. This week’s episode explores how we show up in a moment of crisis. What is the most supportive stance to take when someone we love is g...
181. Allowing vs. controlling
Love is the power podcast - November 28, 2023 14:00 - 52 minutesWhile there’s no way to know if everything happens for a reason — what we can know is that things don’t need a reason in order to happen. Perhaps, ‘reasons’ are just a story we tell to make ourselves feel like we have some sense of what’s going on here on planet earth. When in reality, we have a...
180. I have to keep it together
Love is the power podcast - November 21, 2023 14:00 - 1 hourDo we really have to hold it all together? So many of us walk around with the pressure to contain, maintain, manage life without ever stopping to inquire about whether we actually have that power in the first place. When believing this story, we have to imagine a future where something terrible ...
179. I need to control myself
Love is the power podcast - November 14, 2023 14:00 - 1 hourWe have the mistaken understanding that if we give ourselves the freedom to be as we are — especially when we’re feeling or desiring something ‘negative’ — that we will have to act out on it. But is that actually how it works? Giving ourselves full permission to be is like giving ourselves unlim...
178. On happiness
Love is the power podcast - November 07, 2023 14:00 - 1 hourThe promise of happiness is one of the greatest ‘motivators’ we hold for ourselves, our children, our partnerships, the world. But where does happiness actually come from and what is its nature? Is it actually sourced from relationships, objects, jobs, money, experiences going a certain way? Or ...
177. A new definition of perfection
Love is the power podcast - October 31, 2023 13:00 - 1 hourCould it be that everything that happens within you and without you is unfolding in utter perfection? If you’re suffering, you’re suffering perfectly. If you’re pushing yourself, you’re pushing yourself perfectly. If there’s war, it’s warring perfectly. When there are no shoulds, no shouldn’ts, ...
176. Life is against me
Love is the power podcast - October 24, 2023 13:00 - 1 hourSome beliefs are so subtle that when we first inquire into them we may have a hard time relating. We may think, ‘I don’t have that going on in my world,’ only to discover that it is impacting us in a much greater way than we had anticipated. This is exactly what happened for a majority of partic...
175. That which is real
Love is the power podcast - October 17, 2023 13:00 - 1 hourThis week’s episode invites you to let in that you don’t know for sure that you are separate from everything that exists. If what you are has no beginning or end and who you are is not dependent on a body, or your name, or the events of your life; then couldn’t it be true that the reality of YOU...
174. I am not good
Love is the power podcast - October 10, 2023 13:00 - 39 minutesIf you are a regular listener of this podcast then it’s likely you are open to the possibility that who-and-what-you-are is good. It’s also quite possible that after a glimmer of this truth, the insight has become a wish or a hope rather than an embodied knowing. This is what Byron Katie refers ...
173. Be the seeing
Love is the power podcast - October 03, 2023 13:00 - 44 minutesCould it be that our habit of making a loss, a sickness, an accident - ‘wrong,’ ‘bad,’ or a ‘tragedy’ - goes hand-in-hand with our habit of identifying? When we see ourselves as someone, going somewhere, doing something we have no choice but to focus on whatever legitimizes our identity and we’...
172. I'm a human - is that true?
Love is the power podcast - September 26, 2023 13:00 - 1 hourThis week’s meditation is an inquiry into being human. What is our actual experience when it comes to being alive and knowing that we’re here? Tom guides us into a powerful examination of the most common assumptions related to the underlying belief in separation and body dependence. Through expl...
171. Everyone is here to please me
Love is the power podcast - September 19, 2023 13:00 - 1 hourAre you living as if the world is here to please you? Look at your children, your partner, your family, even strangers - is it really their life purpose to please you? Follow along for a humbling investigation filled with relatable examples, laughter, and powerful insights into the utter ridicul...
170. Am I ever not safe?
Love is the power podcast - September 12, 2023 13:00 - 42 minutesCould it be that lack of safety is just a sensation in the body? And that in reality, there’s never been a moment where we weren’t safe? Even in the midst of great emotional and physical pain, is it possible that we are still safe? So often we hold onto painful stories and images of the past as ...
169. There's a limit to how good life can be
Love is the power podcast - September 05, 2023 13:00 - 47 minutesWe’ve been convinced that lack and fear and desire is what causes life to improve - but all it does is cause misery, with a few breaks. (Granted, those breaks can be quite ecstatic depending on the depth of the misery!) Imagine allowing yourself to genuinely want what is, to love what is in ever...
168. I've lost something
Love is the power podcast - August 29, 2023 13:00 - 1 hourThis week’s episode focuses on the concept of loss - loss of resources, the body, one’s potential, a loved one. Yet, when we’re fully present, without holding on to past and future, what is it that we actually have to lose? Could it be that what we call loss is ultimately a habitual way of delin...
167. Wanting & It's just not for me
Love is the power podcast - August 22, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourAre there things you would like to experience, yet secretly believe are just ‘not for you?’ A type of lifestyle, the way your body looks, acknowledgement from others etc. This week’s episode meanders through our wanting, the proof we hold onto, the stories we tell, and the habits we engage with ...
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