Afleveringen
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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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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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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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Have you ever noticed living in a perpetual state of ānoā? Pushing against what we donāt want, declaring we never want this, that or the other to happenā¦ Sometimes we hang onto this belief out of fear that if we let go, everything we arenāt interested in experiencing will rush into our lives right away. This week, weāre having a good look at our To-Not-Do lists and seeing if we really need them to run our lives. And because open means open, we also look at the idea of certain desires or goals being āunspiritualā and the idea that we must get to a place of perfect peace about all life circumstances in order to make a change. Could it be that there are no limitations whatsoever in reality?
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In an exploration of what Tom calls āfeeling the burnā ā the sensation of embarrassment at a memory that disrupts our self-importance ā what comes up is a beautiful inquiry into the treasured story āI am a loser.ā While there is so much pain and self-condemnation in believing that, there is also a significant payout of never having to compete. Join in from wherever you are on the popcorn-style inquiry that ensues as we free ourselves of the notion that life is a competition.
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How do you react when you believe that you have to hold onto somethingāanything? Does it bring peace or stress into your life? In this episode, weāre exploring the mindās tendency to want to hold onto things. Weāre looking at what we think weāre holding onto (a happy life, health, harmony, joy) versus what we really hold onto (fear, scarcity, anxiousness) with this belief. We hold onto this holding on in relation to the future, but when does that future actually arrive? When do we stop forgoing peace now in favor of an imaginary peaceful āsomedayā? Might it be that when we allow the letting go, we allow ourselves to open to the flow of a magical, limitless universe? Letās find out.
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This week weāre looking at not just accepting reality exactly as it is, but welcoming it wholeheartedly. A common argument of the mind against this peaceful way of being is āBut if I love everything as it is, I wonāt ever be motivated to make a change!ā This is especially convincing when looking at the wider scope of the world and all its events. Dive into this meditation on the sense of dependence on anything external (the government, the body, success, relationships, food, approval, etc) for our sense of safety and wellbeing. We have lots of data from experimenting with resistance. Whatās welcoming like?
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In the world of gaining and losing, one of the main things we hold tightly to is the health of the physical body. We believe itās something we can lose if we have it, or something we can strive for if we donāt. Either way, this belief creates an intense experience of fear and not-okayness. One of the sub-questions in The Work is āWhat physical sensations arise when you believe that thought?ā In this weekās exploration of what Tom calls āThe Myth of Death,ā weāre exploring the possibility that health might have nothing to do with the physical body, and everything to do with what we think.
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Come with us into an exploration of the world of opposites. Tom guides an inquiry on what itās like believing in the dualities that present themselves as real guiding stars (unacceptable-acceptable, success-failure, fair-unfair, competent-incompetent). These concepts hold hands and skip together through our experience, often without our realizing they are concepts. This week, weāre having a good look at various opposites and seeing who we might be without them.
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This week weāre looking into the taken-for-reality story of separation. Itās a concept most of us have readily accepted as just the way it is, but what might it look like from the perspective of the Donāt-Know Mind? Does the story of separation as we believe it create peace or stress in our experience? Are we even allowed to question something that seems so obviously true? It just might be that we are, and it just might be that without this story we get to experience the love and harmony weāre looking for.
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