loving what is

In this week's episode, Tom makes a radical proposition: Could it be that everything you experience as "a problem" really boils down to one problem? The experience of a lack of love. Follow along as participants share their own powerful examples and we dive deep into the nature of reality, love, and freedom. Remember you never, ever have to love, accept, or welcome anyone or anything. These meditations are invitations for self-inquiry and you are unconditionally welcome to participate or not. 

Until love is satisfied by Caroline Corcoran | Awakening by Jimmy Stofer

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When we identify and follow an uncomfortable sensation  in the body, it often reveals a painful story we've been holding onto. As we welcome the accompanying feeling that goes along with it, we can then begin to ask ourselves what we've made this mean. With time we start to see how it is not the event itself that causes us pain but the conclusions we've made about the event. This week a participant explores her story, "there isn't a place for me here."  With Tom's loving guidance, she begins to open up to the possibility that not only does she have a place - but that her place here may be unconditional. 

Until love is satisfied by Caroline Corcoran | Awakening by Jimmy Stofer | Could it be that it's time? by Andreas Henze, vocals by Eleni, Laeticia, Leeanne, Andreas

Byron Katie (she goes by Katie) has changed my life, and you'll find out why and how in this interview! I can't think of a cooler or better interview with which to launch the LIBE podcast; she's my favorite author and spiritual teacher.

Eckhart Tolle loves her. Martha Beck loves her. Liz Gilbert loves her. YOU will love her too!

I've personally worked with a "The Work of Byron Katie" certified coach for YEARS. I tell my coach that if The Work were a superpower, it would be called the "problem dissolver."

I've never done The Work and NOT worked out a problem. I go from stressed to almost saintly, and my problem no longer causes me stress after using Byron Katie's method.

The Work is simply four questions that enable you to see what is troubling you in an entirely different light when applied to a specific problem.

THEY ARE MAGIC!

The four questions are:

1. Is it true?
2. Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?
4. Who would you be without the thought? 

The next step of The Work, the turnarounds, are a way of experiencing the opposite of the thought that one is believing. For example, the thought "My husband should listen to me" can be turned around to "I should listen to my husband," OR "I should listen to myself."

How can all advice to others be self-advice? How can so much of what we believe NOT be true? You'll find out in this interview!

In 1986, Byron Katie was 43 with three children, unhappily married and suffering from depression, agoraphobia, overeating, and addiction to codeine and alcohol. This led her to live in a halfway house. She was lying on the floor (because she didn't feel worthy enough to sleep in a bed), and a cockroach crawled over her foot.

When she opened her eyes, she said, "It was as if something else had woken up. It opened its eyes. It was looking through Katie's eyes."

At that moment, the four questions appeared in her consciousness. It woke her up. She had the epiphany that only our thoughts and beliefs cause our stress and suffering - and nothing external. Nothing. NO thing.

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Licensed mental health counselor and author Jill Sylvester discusses strategies and tips, along with trusting your own inner voice, to live your very best life.   
Today's discussion: Crossing Over to a New Space

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Joyfully Cricket is a Certified ACC Life and Spiritual Coach, who helps people break through their blocks and develop the tools they need to discover and pursue their soul’s calling.

Cricket began her journey of transformation at the age of 20 when she lost her first husband to a drug overdose. She made the choice to allow this tragedy to propel her into a life of spiritual and personal growth, to make meaning of the loss. Through her grieving, Cricket used songwriting as a way to process the pain of losing her husband and the toxic relationship they experienced prior to his death.

After years of self-healing using her songwriting and spiritual tools, Cricket started to channel her transformation into her songs and began writing and performing inspirational folk music. Her new style of music carried themes of joy, life purpose, manifestation, and transformation. This new writing style and mission to uplift people with her music, led to her becoming a Life Coach in 2018 and a Spiritual Coach in 2020. In 2021, Cricket received her ICF ACC and continues to grow her coaching toolkit in a variety of modalities, such as breathwork, meditation, EFT, and The Work by Byron Katie. 

Cricket now blends the gift of her music with her passion for personal and spiritual growth as a Life and Spiritual Coach, by helping her clients transform their lives and live their Joyful Purpose.

Website: https://www.joyfulpurposecoaching.com/

Fall is the season of change and a lot of us have gone through and are still experiencing some difficult changes in the last two years. I know personally, things have been tough for me. And I found myself going back to a wonderful book called Loving What Is by Byron Katie.

This is one of those life-changer books that I think everyone should read. I'll put a link to the book in the show notes. But seriously Peeps, if you can wrap your head around the principles she teaches in this book, you will be able to find a higher level of peace and self-confidence that you might not have believed possible.

Join Emily Romrell on The Vibrant Life Podcast as she continues to explore inspiring stories and insightful conversations that empower you to live a life full of purpose and joy. Tune in for weekly doses of positivity and practical wisdom to help you create your own vibrant and fulfilling journey. Check out emilyromrell.com for more!

Episode 15: Kender du det ikke at føle at du er nok? Vi har alle brug for at føle os elsket og det begynder med selvkærlige tanker, fordi det man tænker,  det finder man bevis for, så kærligheden skal komme indefra for at kunne modtages udefra - og vice versa. I denne episode taler vi om selvkærlighed og om at se det, der sker for en, for hvad det er. Byron Katie’s metode, 'The work', er omdrejningspunktet for vores snak. Hendes hack til løbske tanker er at spørge sig selv ‘Hvad ville du være uden denne tanke?’

Musik: Yuiliana Wijaya fra Yuliana Music Studio
Reference:

• Byron Katie: Loving What Is

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It’s my 35th birthday today! To celebrate I’m giving you the biggest gift, how to love exactly where you are. This past year, all of my circumstances were not what I hoped for. The moment I began rewiring my perfectionist brain everything go easier.  And I stopped feeling like sh*t all the time and actually beat the birthday blues! If you're ready to take complete control of your life, you gotta check out my 1-1 coaching for perfectionists The Accelerator

When you join The Accelerator, you’ll get instant access to rich resource library of neuroscience-backed tools designed to help you triple your progress in half the time, create time for what YOU WANT to do and relax sans guilt, with on-demand masterclasses, private podcasts, journaling exercises, playbooks, meditations and more!

Perfect for the busy high-achiever on the go: concierge text coaching, dynamic scheduling and one-on-one private sessions, you'll always be supported.

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The neuroscience of resistance, how to overcome it and questions you can ask yourself to dissolve resistance. 

If want to go from resisting to being resilient, you gotta check out my 1-1 coaching for perfectionists The Accelerator

When you join The Accelerator, you’ll get instant access to rich resource library of neuroscience-backed tools designed to help you triple your progress in half the time, leverage your strengths for more presence and get out of your own way, with on-demand masterclasses, private podcasts, journaling exercises, playbooks, meditations and more!

Plus, with concierge text coaching and one-on-one private sessions, you'll never feel alone in your extraordinary pursuit of excellence.

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Could it be that the only thing we know for sure is our direct experience and the rest is just a theory? Our direct experience is what helps us answer question one and two of The Work: "Is it true?" and "Can you absolutely know it's true?" In this episode, we look at identification, concept, and the meanings we put onto our personal experience that move us away from directly experiencing what is true in this moment. As we loosen up our identification with feelings, thoughts, images, and concepts, everything is free to come and go. As we drop the story that "it means something about me," we are finally free to be.

Until love is satisfied by Caroline Corcoran |  Awakening by Jimmy Stofer

"I don't ever want to experience physical pain, the body becoming unattractive, or the death of myself and loved ones." … Can you relate? This week's group meditation takes an interactive look at the saying, "what you resist persists." Or as Tom puts it, what it's like to live life with the soundtrack "I'm not open to that" playing in the background. When we hold onto this position, we're actually in constant relationship with what we don't want. So what happens when we are open and willing for all of it to happen? It could be that's who we are and what freedom is.

Until love is satisfied by Caroline Corcoran | Awakening by Jimmy Stofer 

There are endless sayings and quotes that speak to the power of acceptance. But what about when it comes to the things that we don't want in this world?  To the mind, total acceptance gets all too close to condoning. And most of us are completely clear that we don't condone things like discrimination, poverty, or violence. How can we utterly allow and welcome all things as they are? Is the utter allowance of reality a stamp of approval from God? Join us as we look at "I don't want it to be this way" and discover for yourself if there is a kinder, more intelligent way to create the positive change you desire. 

Until love is satisfied by Caroline Corcoran | Awakening by Jimmy Stofer 

In the following episode of The Immeasurable Podcast, we interview Byron Katie.

Byron Katie is a well-known author and teacher. TIME describes her as "a spiritual innovator for the 21st century." For more information on Byron Katie and "The Work", click here.

In this episode, Jaap Sluijter and Leah Luong explore Byron Katie's work and how it relates to the teachings of J. Krishnamurti:

• Introduction by Jaap Sluijter (:25)
• Jaap introduces a new book, Unconditionally Free (2:06)
• Byron Katie says this mission, "to set mankind unconditionally free" is the mission of all human beings (3:07)
• Katie says an open mind is a questioned mind (4:40)
• Katie talks about "loving what is" and points to inquiry as essential to this natural discovery (5:50)
• Leah Luong asks Katie about attachment (6:57)
• Leah asks about what insight means in particular to Katie's life experience (8:47)
• Katie talks about a transformational insight in her past (9:51)
• Jaap continues to ask about Katie's transformational insight (13:59)
• Katie describes "The Work" briefly (23:47)
• Leah asks about specific aspects of "The Work"  (26:31)
• Katie goes on to talk about the nature of images and love (29:36)
• Jaap asks Katie about calming the suffering vs. ending suffering and introduces time is the enemy of man" a quote from J. Krishnamurti and invites Katie to comment (31: 43)
• Katie says Krishnamurti is pointing to the fact that time is an illusion (32:58)
• Leah asks about negation, doubt, time, and concepts (37:26)
• Katie talks about guilt and love and says our true nature can't be controlled  (40:03)
• Katie talks about "first-generation thinking"  (43:35)
• Jaap mentions Katie's line in Loving What Is "I was being thought" and asks her what that means (46:26)
• Jaap, Leah, and Katie say their goodbyes (48:05)

Visit https://theimmeasurable.org/

Until love is satisfied by Caroline Corcoran | Awakening by Jimmy Stofer

Veronica, this month's 1:1 session winner, works with a relatable fear: being rejected in romantic relationship. With Tom's support, she explores some of the underlying meanings being put on the possibility that "he might not feel the same way I do." By identifying a painful decision made long ago and exploring being "not interested" in it now, Veronica opens up to the beauty of what she feels for this man and to loving beyond all fearful limits.