Spiritual Living Podcast Archive – Détails, épisodes et analyse

The three things that people are most afraid of are death, other people, and their own minds.

The Buddha said this, "All we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thought. It is made up of our thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.

"All we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thought. It is made up of our thought. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."

So if we're miserable, what do we do? If we're unhappy or suffering, what do we do? The answer here is clear.

Motivational guest speaker Elizabeth Manuel speaks today about presence, awareness, and intention.

She considers the question, "What's lurking beneath the threshold of our consciousness?", as she weaves examples of practical spiritual principles into triumphant stories of her life's struggles.

Musician and spiritual hero Amy Bishop moves us with her powerful songs and stories about being awake.

Guest speaker Neil Williams describes how fulfilling it is to think about what would be most meaningful as a remembrance of our lives---how a gift from our estate can support our individual values and passions.

Our conscious participation in all our giving lifts our spirits, feeds our souls, and makes us happier and healthier people. When we leave a charitable gift in our will, we leave an expression of our spiritual nature, a natural extension of our place in our community.

"Life is an eternal givingness, the offering of the cosmic self to the joy of its own fulfillment. We are a part of this joy and we find fulfillment only as this joy passes through us to others... Everything moves in circles. We short-circuit our own good when we refuse to pass it on." -- Ernest Holmes

We are always being guided. Even when it doesn't feel like it. The world is our classroom and other people are our assignments.

When we recognize our problem, condition, or error-belief, we can give it a name. This is the spiritual practice of labelling or noting. It can distance us from the experience. It can release it from being part of our false identity. It gives the mind something to do. It helps us to recognize our patterns. Eventually the experience being noted disappears.

If we look at the thing we are afraid of until we really understand it, it will no longer have any element of fear for us. -- Dr. Ernest Holmes

Feel the feelings that live beneath the old pain. Call on compassion to clear the path.

The way to get rid of fear is through the cultivation of faith---a faith founded on the thought that God is all there is. -- Dr. Ernest Holmes

We are responsible for what we see, because perspective is everything. Things are not what they are; they are what we think they are.

We are not responsible for what our eyes are seeing. We are responsible for how we perceive what they are seeing.

The circumstances of our lives have less to do with our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives. How we frame the circumstances of our lives is so important.

It is the simple, small things that can change everything. To have a radical shift in perception, it can be as simple as perceiving our job with more gratitude. More gratitude, more love. A small change can change us forever.

Divine Abundance is forever manifesting in our affairs. Today, we expect every good thing to come to us. For we know that Divine Abundance is forever manifesting Itself in our affairs. We are keeping our whole mind and thought and expectation open to new experiences, to happier events, to a more complete self-expression. Everything that belongs to Spirit we accept. Everything that partakes of the nature of Divine Reality we claim as our own. We identify with success, and we prosper in everything we do.

We can ask for guidance. What is ours to know here? Insist on the quality of the guidance that is available to us. We can insist on the highest alignment with the greatest good for the best possible outcome.

The Holy Instant is that moment when we surrender our fear to the care of the Universe and accept Its perspective of love. It is an act of faith, that we are not alone.

We are not alone. We are Sons and Daughters of the Universe.

Knowledge is power and self-knowledge is self-empowerment. But as Dr. Joe Dispenza says, "If we use our brain to change our brain, it will only make our brain worse." We must open ourselves to pure consciousness to let go of resistance and make a profound change to our lives.

Make time to connect to the Divine, to surrender to the Great Unknown, and to foster the feeling-tone of gratitude.

Pentatonix video of "Imagine".

In today's talk, lifestyle meditation teacher Mandy Trapp seeks to answer the question, "Who are we?"

Drawing from the teachings of Adi Shankara, an 8th Century teacher in India, Mandy presents his "Layers of Life" as a way of knowing ourselves in a different way. The Layers of Life represent us as three bodies, each composed of three parts. The three bodies are the Physical Body, the Subtle Body, and the Causal Body.

• The Physical Body (environment, body, energy)
• The Subtle Body (mind, intellect, ego)
• The Causal Body (personal soul, collective soul, universal)

Why did we come here? Why did our soul choose to come as us? We came to re-member---to create and have experiences, and to remember Who we belong to.

Ultimately, we only have two desires at the soul level: to be happy and to be free.

We tend to look at prayer as an isolated activity---a tool, a quick fix, or an emergency manoeuvre. We think it's something we do one time and it's done. But that's not how life works. Whether we realize it or not, we are praying continually. Every thought is a prayer, and our thoughts are shaped by our beliefs. We all have beliefs, and what we believe about our lives is what keeps showing up. Our beliefs can add to our life, or limit it. They narrow, guide, expand, limit, and eliminate the happiness in our lives.

When we use affirmative prayer, we want to pray using words that the Universe can say a resounding YES to! Ernest Holmes said, "Feel the prayer. What does conviction about what you are praying for feel like? Faith has a feeling tone. Abundance has a feeling tone. Love has a feeling tone. Feel your prayer. Keep feeling it after the prayer is spoken. Be your prayer. Feel it."

Michael Beckwith said, "We are on the planet to be and express the Divine Love of God, that is alive in every fibre of our being, waiting to be released through us onto our world; living as love is a way of life that brings heaven on Earth."

A Victorious Attitude: To recognize the unlimited power of God brings victory to the soul. All problems begin and end with our own consciousness. We are as miserable or as creative and free as we decide to be. We begin to solve our problems at the point of origin when we are awake in our consciousness.

The Soul's True Nature is Love Awakening: We must welcome our soul to have more love and truth in our lives. We can delay our soul's evolution and emergence but we will never escape its call. Every mind is on a soul's journey.

The Proof is in the Doing: When we apply the principles in our lives---adding in moments of meditation throughout our day, adding mindfulness---we know we are really making a difference and change is possible.