Afleveringen
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This weekās episode took a turn from an exploration about money to the concept, āI need a reason toā¦ā (fill in the blank). It took that turn for no apparent reason, although we think it did make for a pretty sweet episode. Tune in now to inquire into the assumption that everything we do needs a good reason behind it. A good reason to have the goals we have, a good reason to follow through on them, a good reason to say no, a good reason to say yesā¦ Is any of that true? (You get to ask YOU.)
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This weekās episode centers around the feeling many of us experience as the worst possible fate: getting in trouble. Have you ever, as a kid or a grown-up, experienced someone being upset with you? Can you find the drop in the pit of your stomach when you believe that their anger means youāve gotten āin trouble?ā Some peopleās response to this thought is to yell back, some run away at the first chance, while others go numb and end up feeling like they abandoned themselves. Can you relate to these? What other reactions do you notice to the thought? And what might you notice if you didnāt believe it? Pick a moment where you feel like you got in trouble and follow along in this real-world situation inquiry.
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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This weekās episode is on trusting. Whether itās distrust in ourselves or in life, how do we react when we believe either one canāt be trusted? Could it be that one belief is not so different from the other? As Tom puts it, at some point we got convinced that we canāt trust ourselves and that we need threats of negative consequences in order to live intelligently. Is that true? Follow along with your own experience or simply listen and soak in the fresh-air feeling of inquiry.
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Welcome back and happy new year! This week weāre looking at the ups and downs (mostly downs) of believing the thought āI could lose support.ā This might be something youāll relate to if your holidays consisted of either: A) relaxation and a sense of permission to just be that you now feel slipping away as the world spins back into its usual belief in āthe grindā or B) a rushed, overwhelming time of feeling like everyoneās enjoyment depended on you. Both experiences can be the results of believing itās true that you could lose support, so together letās dp the work and find out if you ever truly can.
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This week weāre looking at the concept of āme time.ā The coveted, elusive space that exists just for us, without obligations, roles, and responsibilities weighing us down. But could it be that āme timeā is actually just a thought? A thought that, when we believe it, gives us a strong sense of being misused, undervalued, underappreciated and overworked? As Tom points out, itās a world of poverty we live in when we believe we have to carve out and protect our personal time. What if itās all my time? Would that make it easier to give an honest āYesā and āNoā to invitations? We invite you to follow along in this inquiry if itās an honest yes for you.
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This weekās episode is exploring the two halves of holding on. Specifically, holding onto opposing what we would not like to experience in life, and also holding onto what we would. What kind of creation do we live in when thatās the belief weāre operating from? Life becomes a tug-of-war of grasping and clutching at what we want, and resisting everything we want to avoid. Enjoy this weekās group meditation as we notice what itās like to live these thoughts, and what possibilities lie beyond them.
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This week Tom posed the question, āCan you absolutely know itās true that you are undeserving of a happy, wonderful life?ā In the ensuing meditation, he also points out the possibility that our current individual lives and their events (whether we happen to be enjoying them or not) are exactly within our comfort zone, which is dictated by our sense of worthiness. Itās when the vast majority of people believed the Earth is flat. It didnāt make it true, but it did make the entire world feel limited and scary. It did make those who believed it live as if it were true. Perhaps we do the same thing when we think we know what weāre worthy of ā we give ourselves false limitations. Do you notice this in your own life? Follow along as we inquire into the concept of worthiness.
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Love Is The Power listeners, join us this week for a powerful inquiry of a fearful mind. Tom guides a brave, beautiful share through The Work on the thought, āI canāt trust life with the outcome of this situation.ā If you can relate to ever feeling afraid (of loss of time, money, agency, freedom, or anything else), this weekās episode is for you!
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This week weāre looking at the thought, āI have to survive.ā To the mind, this is a concept that would be unthinkable to question. Of course we have to survive! But weāre meeting that seeming certainty with an āIs it true?ā As Katie says, everything is questionable. Even things that feel so obvious, like needing to stay alive. How do you react? What happens when you believe that?
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In this short but sweet part II from last weekās episode, the āour true nature is not beautifulā inquiry is expanding to hold, āI am not beautiful.ā In a world obsessed with physical beauty, this thought is so painful for those of us who believe it. Enjoy this precious, brave exploration of that concept, and find out if itās really true.
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This weekās episode is an inquiry into the nature of humans. Is it true that who we are, deep down, is not beautiful? Even ugly? Do you notice a part of you that has that sneaking suspicion? Join us as we look at people, in all their ways of being, and see for yourself the true nature of humanity.
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This weekās episode is a hilariously relatable vignette of how we can sometimes be in such a great place, letting go off all sorts of large-scale problems in the world, feeling very accomplished in our practice of meditation or inquiry or whatever peace-creating habit is our favoriteā¦and then it all comes crashing down because of one tiny thing that isnāt how we want it to be. A chip in a chair thatās not supposed to be there, for example. How do you react when you believe the thought, āI have to hold on to how wrong this isā? Whatever the āthisā may be. Listen in on the inquiry and follow along with your own version of the chipped chair for some pretty amazing insights.
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Can anyone relate to being afraid of being selfish? Accidentally hurting someone because you dared to explore what genuinely feels good to you? In this weekās episode, we look at the world of the concept, āWhatās good for me will be bad for someone else,ā that comes from a deeper belief in a win-lose world. (As in, if someoneās winning, or experiencing something good for them, someone else must be losing and experiencing something thatās bad for them.) What might happen if we give ourselves full permission to explore what feels good to us? Could it be just as good for the rest of the universe?
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This weekās episode is a continuation of the conversation that started last week about needing other people to show up differently. As Tom points out, when we make something wrong, we automatically go to work on it, whatever it is. When other people show up a certain way that we declare āwrong,ā we work on it by arguing with them (even internally). But we also declare things we notice about ourselves wrong. And we work on them too. We even declare our thinking that someone else has wronged usā¦ um, wrong. Could it be that life is not actually about what Tom refers to as one of the āmain religionsā of the world ā right and wrong?
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Is there someone in your life you notice unlovingness towards? This weekās episode is an open-minded conversation and mediation on the experience of withholding love from the people we feel need to be different for the sake of our happiness. Whatās it like being dependent on what someone else does or doesnāt do? As Tom puts it, everyone on the planet is fighting a righteous war. Everyone is on the side of right, as in all actions feel justified to the doer in some way. Could this be true? If it is, might the intelligent response be an openness to the world exactly as it is?
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This weekās episode takes a look at the stories we have about stories. Sometimes, in its precious eagerness to āget it rightā the mind jumps ahead and asks, āIsnāt the turnaround just another story?ā And sometimes we believe that and become obsessed with what Byron Katie calls pretending ourselves beyond our own evolution. We assume that we should be constantly living in the blissed-out, meditative, formless perfection that we so often get to experience in question four of The Work. But in this episode we explore that idea and its accompanying implication, āLife is a race.ā
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This weekās episode is an inquiry into the thought, āI need to keep myself alive.ā Something thatās easy to believe, and something we react to in small and large ways. From obsessively feeding the body to attempting to protect ourselves from emotions like disappointment or fear (ironically by living in constant pre-emptive fear), weāre unearthing what the life experience is like when we assume keeping ourselves alive is just part of the job description in this life. This entrenched belief can come from a fear of not existing, and cause us to hold on for dear life to a āwho I am,ā but could it be that itās enough to just notice ~that~ we are? And where might that experience lead?
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This week weāre exploring the thought, āI could do or be Me wrong.ā What happens when we believe this? Does it give rise to self-condemnation, worry, and defence? A sense of having to constantly prove that Iām not doing āmeā wrong? It could be that this belief is a major player in a lot of scary stories we tell about ourselves. And what is it like without this thought? What do you notice as you follow along?
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In this weekās episode, we revisit a group inquiry into the thought, āI can wasteā¦[fill in the blank].ā Itās a popular belief held by most of us in one way or another. We believe we can waste time, energy, money, food, resources and a litany of other things, but as Tom puts it: what if the nature of the Universe is limitless? Meaning āwastingā could be a non-issue. Sound like a fantasy? Letās find out.
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This week Tom leads a simple yet powerful exploration: What are some of the stressful stories you tell about yourself? āIām not good enough.ā āI donāt fit in.ā āIām just an anxious person.ā āIām too much, too intense.ā And why not open it up to life? āLife is too difficult.ā āLife is out to get me.ā āLife is short (and therefore I can get it wrong).ā How can we believe these stories without experiencing ourselves as limited and defective, and life as cruel and punishing? As Tom puts it, āNotice how perfectly you live whatever youāre believing.ā What kind of world might we experience if weāre open to new ways of seeing ourselves and life?
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