Lumen

In this podcast I link our ability to let go with our relationship to uncertainty and our sense of self worth.

1. Where we are in the cycle of 5 elements
2. Uncertainty
3. The nightmare
4. Bringing consciousness to the unconscious
5. Worry
6. Fear and anxiety
7. Becoming present
8. Opening up to possibility
9. Letting go
10. Past Failures, rejections, abandonment
11. Value
12. Good enough
13. Re-defining failing
14. Re-defining winning
15. Kobayashi Maru
16. Open up to next layer of evolution

IN THIS PODCAST I TALK ABOUT:

– Our difficulties are our best teachers, but only if we know how to learn from them.

– Wounding in Childhood, being disliked

– Conscious engagement with our pain

– The heart and the mind

– How to use experience as fodder for the work

– Taking the lessons from our practice out into life

– Resistance, preferences, acceptance, allowance, process & the pillars of practice

– Enduring the long journey

– Opening up to our true nature

NOTE: Near the end of the podcast I talk about two students who are confronting resistance to difficulty. When I listen to myself, I heard irritation in my voice and I took the podcast down, worried they would hear that instead of the passion I have for the pivot point they are in. I took the podcast down to edit it and make it right but through great urging, from those who had a chance to listen, to put it back up, un-edited and raw, I am re-posting it without any edits. I want everyone who listens to know that the moment these two students are in is the moment I live for. It's the pivot point. The tone in my voice is about that passion, it's what gives meaning to my teaching. If you hear irritation or rushing in my voice, it's my own irritation and rushing with myself within this exact moment that I am connecting to, it's the work I have yet to do for myself. Their lesson is my own. I cherish these two as students, friends and fellow travelers who share a commitment and fire for self study that matches my own!

I am re-posting it, unedited and raw, largely because my acupuncturist urged me to put it out there saying that it's my job, as a teacher, to be slightly irritating, that it can bring value, movement, and growth in places of stagnation, if students choose to take it that way.

DISEASE: IT'S AN INSIDE JOB.

In this podcast I talk about realizing that the locus of control is on the inside and how we can affect our health and life through emotions / internal conditions. I explore how we can affect things like cancer, disease, and sickness through emotional processes by linking emotions to cellular health. I explore the importance of developing a practice and a process to develop a relationship with our emotions and the power of that.

In this Podcast:

1. Feelings have a beginning, middle, and an end.
2. Exhaustion can come from a feeling that hasn't been fully felt.
3. Our body is our unconscious, any good practice will reveal what is there.
4. When the unconscious comes up to the surface it is an opportunity for healing.
5. We often experience resistance to feeling this stuff and develop strategies to avoid it.
6. We can also develop a process of being in engagement with the encounter and through that, heal and develop a sense of stability that is not dependent on the outer world of circumstances. This is a special type of strength.
7. Stories to illustrate the transition from resistance into acceptance and allowance. What we resist persists.
8. Developing a process and what a process is.

CRISIS AS OPPORTUNITY:

In this episode I talk about working with resistance in a way that can put us in touch with the feelings that keep us stuck and feeling dead in our lives. These feelings can keep us stuck in suffering or they can be a flood gate into coming alive. Learning to feel things we "don't want to feel" can put us in touch with our truth and living in alignment with ourselves.

In the Chinese language the word for crisis has two meanings, one is crisis and one is opportunity.