enlightenement

Today I’m talking about creating change; creating the changes you want to see in your life, rather than being subjected to them. Change really is the only constant in the world of form. Change is not only inevitable, it is a spiritual principle. Let’s dive in and create change from a place of love, peace and power! Find out how, right here…

Elizabeth Cantey is the founder of Enlightened Everyday, an organization with the intent to inspire people to live enlightened through spiritual practices integrating Spirit, mind and body. Cantey is an uplifting and inspirational speaker, teacher, and seminar facilitator. She regularly provides transformational talks for both private groups and spiritual centers.

Her new book entitled Living Enlightened—The Joy of Integrating Spirit, Mind and Body, is available now on Amazon: https://a.co/d/1AbI7M2

You can find more information about her along with classes, workshops, and book information on her website: https://elizabethcantey.com/"

Thank you so much for your support - I look forward to hearing from you!

What we discuss:

00:00  Intro

14:10  Is the Universe a friendly place?

17:36  How to create change?

18:35  How did Jesus create?

25:36  Why doesn’t it work???

27:36  Watch your thoughts…

36:40 40 days…

Has the pandemic put you into a depression? Are you feeling frustrated with your lack of freedom, choices and security? Today's Coffee with Colby dives into depression and how you work your way through it while surviving the pandemic. Subscribe to never miss an episode!

In tonight's episode, Colby connects to a woman who has been struggling with anxiety and has been afraid to share her emotions with her friends in fear of judgement. Colby connects the anxiety to a relationship and reminds the caller of the importance of boundaries and to create conversation to help her release her emotions.

Colby also connects to a young woman's mother in Spirit. She talks about the stroking her hair and the memories of sitting by her bed reading her stories. She also mentions the heart necklace that the daughter is wearing at that moment and the stuffed animal she holds close when missing mom. She talks about how the daughter still has one of her shirts and reminds her to live her life with adventure. She makes sure to tell the other girls how much she loves them and wishes her other daughter a happy birthday!

Daniel Ingram, MD is a meditation master (and self-described Arahant, meaning one who has fully awakened) with decades of experience training and teaching around the world.

Daniel wrote Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book, widely regarded as one of the most complete meditation books ever written. In this book, Daniel lays out in very rational terms the exact series of steps that can lead to the profound transformations that he has attained. He also criticizes current western meditation as often “hiding the ball” about awakening and being too caught up in psychological material, rather than practical training.

An emergency room physician, Daniel co-founded the Practical Dharma Movement, with the objective of “stripping away dogma and unhelpful taboos, having people share with others in ways that are down-to-earth, helpful, and pragmatic, and the vision that it can be done, rather than a dharma world that is mysterious, artificially hierarchical, dogmatic, and secretive.” When secular meditation is more mainstream and developed in the West, Daniel will someday be appreciated as a true genius when it comes to training and understanding the mind.

In this episode, we discuss what it feels like to be in this awakened or self-actualized mental state, what's feasible for an everyday meditator in terms of meditation progress, more effortless Dzogchen and Mahamudra techniques, the evolution of meditation teaching, how to pragmatically navigate a meditation world that's full of dogma, and neuroscience studies being done at Harvard on Daniel's brain.

If you're thrown off by the Buddhist terms that get thrown around in this episode, you can think of Buddhism as a meditation system for training the mind. In fact, we talk about the different frameworks for pragmatically understanding the mind in this podcast interview.

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