Podcasts about Wholeness

We are back for the second half of our deep-dive review into the straight-sex hockey show that had us laughing, groaning, and hitting pause to jump under the sheets; Amazon Prime's Off-Campus! Lauren and Trey are continuing the conversation by looking past the cringey storyboard edits to examine the surprisingly mature, brave male conversations hidden inside this season.Lauren and Trey use a pivotal plot line from the show to roleplay exactly how to communicate a shift from a casual fling to a deeper romantic craving without violating your partner's boundaries. They tackle the massive cultural myth that finding a partner means your personal growth work is "done" and explore the deep reality of responsive desire, revealing why watching softcore smut together might just be the best erotic life hack for your relationship container.Key Takeaways & Tools ExploredBravery in the "Third Domain": Lauren breaks down a beautiful conversation from Off-Campus where the male characters encourage each other to be vulnerable and state their desires clearly. She explains the therapeutic concept of putting your wants out into the "third domain"; the shared space between two people, without projecting expectations or demands onto the other person's reality.Live Roleplay: Lauren and Trey step into a real-time somatic exercise based on the show's dynamic. They roleplay a scenario where one partner's feelings change during a casual hookup arrangement, demonstrating how to update a partner on internal changes while completely respecting their autonomy and their right to say "no".The Responsive Desire Pleasure Hack: Lauren sheds light on the biological reality of responsive desire, which is incredibly common in female bodies. While some bodies experience spontaneous desire, others require a sexy context to activate. Lauren highly recommends watching shows like Off-Campus or reading smut with your partner as an excellent biological trigger to send attraction-plus-obstacle cues straight to the brain.Are you ready to stop using your partner as a validation machine and step into your sovereign wholeness? Request your free 15-minute consult at sexedforyou.com/freeconsult.About ThemLauren and Trey are partners living in Central Virginia, where Lauren owns and operates Sex Ed for You. She provides comprehensive sexuality education and embodied coaching to individuals, partners, and parents.Through a biopsychosocial approach, Sex Ed for You works to restore positive and respectful approaches to sexuality and sexual relationships, while increasing the possibility of pleasurable and safe sexual experiences, free of coercion, discrimination, and violence (World Health Organization).Sexual health is fundamental to the overall health and well-being of individuals, couples, and families, as well as to the social and economic development of communities and countries (World Health Organization). When individuals are blocked from sexual health, they are often stunted in their ability to develop sensual play, embodied connection, and enjoyment.Learn More & ConnectLearn more about Sex Ed for You: ⁠https://www.sexedforyou.com⁠Schedule a FREE CONSULT with Lauren: ⁠https://www.sexedforyou.com/freeconsult⁠Learn more about partnered communication and relational education on Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/sex_ed_for_you/⁠Subscribe to the YouTube channel for conversations about sex, partnership, communication, and love: ⁠https://youtube.com/@thepartnershippodcast⁠Important RemindersThis is not a “how to” podcast, but rather a “how they” podcast. Lauren and Trey share personal experiences, perspectives, and reflections, inviting listeners to learn from what resonates, question what doesn't, and decide what feels aligned for their own lives.Lauren is not a therapist. She is a Certified Holistic Sexuality Educator and Embodied Intimacy and Relationship Coach.

LESSON 166I Am Entrusted With The Gifts Of God.All things are given you. God's trust in you is limitless. He knows His Son. He gives without exception, holding nothing back that can contribute to your happiness. And yet, unless your will is one with His, His gifts are not received. But what would make you think there is another will than His?Here is the paradox that underlies the making of the world. This world is not the Will of God, and so it is not real. Yet those who think it real must still believe there is another will, and one that leads to opposite effects from those He wills. Impossible indeed; but every mind that looks upon the world and judges it as certain, solid, trustworthy and true believes in two creators; or in one, himself alone. But never in one God.The gifts of God are not acceptable to anyone who holds such strange beliefs. He must believe that to accept God's gifts, however evident they may become, however urgently he may be called to claim them as his own, is to be pressed to treachery against himself. He must deny their presence, contradict the truth, and suffer to preserve the world he made.Here is the only home he thinks he knows. Here is the only safety he believes that he can find. Without the world he made is he an outcast; homeless and afraid. He does not realize that it is here he is afraid indeed, and homeless, too; an outcast wandering so far from home, so long away, he does not realize he has forgotten where he came from, where he goes, and even who he really is.Yet in his lonely, senseless wanderings, God's gifts go with him, all unknown to him. He cannot lose them. But he will not look at what is given him. He wanders on, aware of the futility he sees about him everywhere, perceiving how his little lot but dwindles, as he goes ahead to nowhere. Still he wanders on in misery and poverty, alone though God is with him, and a treasure his so great that everything the world contains is valueless before its magnitude.He seems a sorry figure; weary, worn, in threadbare clothing, and with feet that bleed a little from the rocky road he walks. No one but has identified with him, for everyone who comes here has pursued the path he follows, and has felt defeat and hopelessness as he is feeling them. Yet is he really tragic, when you see that he is following the way he chose, and need but realize Who walks with him and open up his treasures to be free?This is your chosen self, the one you made as a replacement for reality. This is the self you savagely defend against all reason, every evidence, and all the witnesses with proof to show this is not you. You heed them not. You go on your appointed way, with eyes cast down lest you might catch a glimpse of truth, and be released from self-deception and set free.You cower fearfully lest you should feel Christ's touch upon your shoulder, and perceive His gentle hand directing you to look upon your gifts. How could you then proclaim your poverty in exile? He would make you laugh at this perception of yourself. Where is self-pity then? And what becomes of all the tragedy you sought to make for him whom God intended only joy?Your ancient fear has come upon you now, and justice has caught up with you at last. Christ's hand has touched your shoulder, and you feel that you are not alone. You even think the miserable self you thought was you may not be your Identity. Perhaps God's Word is truer than your own. Perhaps His gifts to you are real. Perhaps He has not wholly been outwitted by your plan to keep His Son in deep oblivion, and go the way you chose without your Self.God's Will does not oppose. It merely is. It is not God you have imprisoned in your plan to lose your Self. He does not know about a plan so alien to His Will. There was a need He did not understand, to which He gave an Answer. That is all. And you who have this Answer given you have need no more of anything but This.Now do we live, for now we cannot die. The wish for death is answered, and the sight that looked upon it now has been replaced by vision which perceives that you are not what you pretend to be. One walks with you Who gently answers all your fears with this one merciful reply, “It is not so.” He points to all the gifts you have each time the thought of poverty oppresses you, and speaks of His Companionship when you perceive yourself as lonely and afraid.Yet He reminds you still of one thing more you had forgotten. For His touch on you has made you like Himself. The gifts you have are not for you alone. What He has come to offer you, you now must learn to give. This is the lesson that His giving holds, for He has saved you from the solitude you sought to make in which to hide from God. He has reminded you of all the gifts that God has given you. He speaks as well of what becomes your will when you accept these gifts, and recognize they are your own.The gifts are yours, entrusted to your care, to give to all who chose the lonely road you have escaped. They do not understand they but pursue their wishes. It is you who teach them now. For you have learned of Christ there is another way for them to walk. Teach them by showing them the happiness that comes to those who feel the touch of Christ, and recognize God's gifts. Let sorrow not tempt you to be unfaithful to your trust.Your sighs will now betray the hopes of those who look to you for their release. Your tears are theirs. If you are sick, you but withhold their healing. What you fear but teaches them their fears are justified. Your hand becomes the giver of Christ's touch; your change of mind becomes the proof that who accepts God's gifts can never suffer anything. You are entrusted with the world's release from pain.Betray it not. Become the living proof of what Christ's touch can offer everyone. God has entrusted all His gifts to you. Be witness in your happiness to how transformed the mind becomes which chooses to accept His gifts, and feel the touch of Christ. Such is your mission now. For God entrusts the giving of His gifts to all who have received them. He has shared His joy with you. And now you go to share it with the world.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

In this final installment, clinical hypnotherapist Martin Hewlett guides you through the ultimate goal of relationship healing: maintaining your "wholeness" while staying deeply connected to another. Anxiety often suggests that love requires you to hand over your entire "flame" to someone else for safekeeping. This session uses guided visualization to help you reclaim your own light, ensuring it burns steadily from within, independent of your relationship's status. If you have ever felt you had to shrink to make love feel safe, this episode will help you stand tall in your own worth. In This Finale, We Explore:The Two Flames Visualization: Understanding healthy proximity vs. unhealthy dependence. Internal Resilience: Recognizing the light within you that no relationship can extinguish. The Power of Repair: Why healthy relationships aren't perfect, but are defined by how we return to one another. Vagus Nerve Breathwork: A practical 6-second tool to choose connection over reaction. Episode Time Chapters00:00 – Reflection: What it means to complete this journey. 01:55 – Settling the Body: Why we start with the nervous system. 02:44 – The 4-2-6 Breath: Signaling safety to the mind. 04:12 – Guided Visualization: The side-by-side flames. 05:53 – Reclaiming Your Flame: Burning steady and self-contained. 07:30 – Affirmations for Wholeness and Connection. 08:52 – 3 Daily Caring Tips for Relationship Integration. 10:45 – Closing: You are human, you are healing, and you are worth the risk. Affirmations for WholenessRepeat these to integrate your sense of self with your capacity to love:"I am home, and I choose to share that wholeness." "I love fully, and I remain myself." "I do not have to shrink to make love feel safe." "I am enough to love and be loved exactly as I am right now." 3 Daily Caring TipsKeep One Thing for Yourself: Maintain a practice, interest, or friendship that is uniquely yours to protect your "wick." Believe in the Repair: Understand that the rupture is not the end—the repair is the love. The Vagus Nerve Pause: Take one full 6-second breath before responding to a trigger. Choosing the pause is choosing the relationship. Support & SubscribeIf this series has helped you, please Subscribe and Share it with a friend. Your engagement helps us continue providing these free daily sessions. Go Ad-Free: Join our Supporters Club for just $5 a month to listen without interruptions.Deepen Your Healing: Visit calminganxiety.fm for more resources. Be kind to yourself today. You've done the hard work; now allow yourself to rest in it.

We don't want us to think about healing and wholeness as something reserved for a few special people or a few dramatic moments. We have been built to encounter His love, experience His transforming power, and then learn how to extend the miraculous to those around us. This is our mission, as a church! As Christians, we are called to partner with the love and power of Jesus in a broken world. Part of that invitation is to give away what we have received. So this awakening is two-fold – healing for us, and healing through us. In the same way that doctors practice medicine and lawyers practice law, Christians are invited to practice healing. We like to say it this way – What God does in you, He wants to do through you!

Do you pray about your family planning intentions? What are the moments when you feel drawn to offer up prayer to God? Is it when you really hope you *aren't* pregnant? Or when you truly pray that you *are*? Or can prayer offer more to us than just an opportunity to put in a "special request"? In today's episode, fellow FCP Laura Ducote and Caitlin talk about the role of prayer and discernment in natural family planning and how formative it can be for you, your marriage, and your children. Developing a prayerful family planning mentality doesn't happen instantly, but we talk through some things you can do today to begin welcoming God into this area of your life.GUEST BIO: Laura Ducote is a Family Nurse Practitioner with training in NaProTechnology and is currently a FertilityCare Practitioner at Woven Natural Fertility Care. NOTE: This episode talks about discernment in family planning and intimacy, so it does include wording related to those topics. SHOW NOTES:**Pre-order Woven Well: A Christian Woman's Guide for Reproductive Health, Fertility, and Wholeness here: https://www.wovenfertility.com/pre-order-woven-wellEp. 38: Prayer Guide for the Female BodyEp. 29: Should we think theologically about fertility? with Dr. Cameron JorgensonEp. 213: Stewarding Your Cycles & Fertility as a Gift with Laura Ducote, FCP, FNPSend Us a Text!Support the showOther great ways to connect with Woven Natural Fertility Care: Learn the Creighton Model System with us! Register here!Get our monthly newsletter: Get the updates!Chat about issues of fertility + faith: Substack Follow us on Instagram: @wovenfertilityWatch our episodes on YouTube: @wovenfertilityLove the content? The biggest gift you could give is to click a 5 star review and write why it was so meaningful! This podcast is provided for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute providing medical advice or professional services. The information provided should not be used for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, and those seeking personal medical advice should consult with a licensed physician. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health provider regarding a medical condition. If you think you may have a medical emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room immediately. Neither Woven nor its staff, nor any contributor to this podcast, makes any representations, exp...

За последние годы количество женщин на топ-позициях выросло, а в некоторых сферах они и вовсе занимают больше половины руководящих должностей. В малом бизнесе, только по официальным данным, почти каждое второе ИП в России открыто женщинами.Внешних барьеров для развития женщин в бизнесе и менеджменте становится меньше, а вот внутренних, человеческих, — все еще много. Слово «должна», которое женщина говорит сама себе, ограничивает жестче любого «стеклянного потолка». К примеру, быть идеальным руководителем, суперуспешным предпринимателем, хорошей матерью и женой — и все это «должен» один человек.Как женщине «разбудить» себя? Что нужно сделать, чтобы примириться с иллюзией идеальности? Какие культурные и общественные барьеры мешают развиваться и расти женщинам-лидерам? Как пробить «стеклянный потолок» и «стену», в которую уперлась? И чем полезны женские сообщества, где каждая — «зеркало» других участниц?Обсуждаем с проректором по образовательным программам Школы управления СКОЛКОВО, академическим директором программы «Следующий шаг. Лидерская программа для женщин руководителей и предпринимателей» Мариной Карбан.Подробнее о программе Следующий шаг (FLOW - Female Leadership Opportunities and Wholeness) — по ссылке.В выпуске:00:00 — вступление01:40 — кто такой лидер и что особенного в женщинах-лидерах05:08 — лидеры 2000-х и лидеры сейчас: в чем разница08:44 — как меняется роль женщин в российском бизнесе последние 25 лет15:33 — барьеры на пути женщин-лидеров16:14 — почему самые жесткие требования женщина предъявляет себе сама20:39 — что должен делать лидер, чтобы приближать изменения26:04 — женские сообщества как зеркало35:16 — главный барьер для женщин в корпорациях41:17 — что происходит внутри женских сообществ46:29 — кейсы выпускниц «Сколково»—Ведущие: Маруся Миронова и Глеб СилкоПродюсер: Глеб СилкоРекламаМОСКОВСКАЯ ШКОЛА УПРАВЛЕНИЯ «СКОЛКОВО»

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In this episode, Rocky sits down with restaurateur and creative Olivia Constance for a deeply honest conversation about what it looks like to keep going: through divorce, through a pandemic, through building three restaurants and raising two boys all at the same time. Olivia opens up about the six weeks between opening Fount Board & Table and COVID shutting the world down, and what it taught her about working beside fear instead of waiting for it to leave.Together they dig into why healing isn't a finish line, why bravery isn't something you acquire but something you access, and what it really means to move through every room as one integrated person. This episode is an invitation to stop chasing the version of wholeness that means no more wounds, and to find belonging in the mess of being fully, honestly human.Episode Highlights with Timestamps:00:03 – The Gift of Feelings: Why blocking emotions prevents us from receiving the gift they're trying to give00:37 – Modeling for Children: How parents who avoid processing ruptures teach their kids avoidance by default01:50 – Integrating Motherhood and Work: Why Olivia's roles as mother and business owner can't be compartmentalized — and why she stopped trying07:45 – Opening Fount Board & Table: Six weeks before COVID, one-year-old at home, and the decision to plan for 18 months when everyone else planned for two weeks10:51 – Finding Connection in Crisis: Handwriting notes of love between strangers during the pandemic and what it revealed about the human tether13:12 – Healing as a Process: The shift from viewing healing as an endpoint to understanding it as something woven into the ongoing story16:12 – Accessing Bravery: What Olivia told her son about inner strength — it's not something you acquire, it's something you access20:17 – Moving as One Person: Finding a low center of gravity and showing up as Olivia everywhere — not nine versions of her, just one28:28 – Working with Fear: The lesson COVID handed her — you either don't do the thing, or you do it scared. That's it.41:45 – Wholeness and the Human Experience: Being whole isn't being without gaps. It's knowing the gaps exist, and choosing to show up anyway.About Our GuestOlivia Constance is a restaurateur and creative based in Texas, where she owns and operates Fount Board & Table, Little Blue Bistro, and Seegars. Her work is rooted in hospitality as devotion to beauty not separate from daily life but built into the small things inside of it. Dedicated to nourishment, gathering, and to the quiet rituals that make people feel alive. Olivia creates spaces that feel both timeless and deeply personal. Her restaurants are shaped by memory, seasonality, premium vibes, conversation, and the kind of love that is a soup simmering somewhere. Much of her life is spent moving between kitchens, farms, dining rooms, and home with her two boys, building a life centered around meaning, creativity, and the ministry of presence.Follow Olivia onInstagramFount Board and Table Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fountboardandtable/ Little Blue Bistro Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/littlebluedallas/ Seegars Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seegarsdeli/ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oliviaconstance/ Websitehttps://www.fountboardandtable.com/https://littlebluebistro.com/ https://seegarsdeli.com/ Join Rocky, LIVE on Zoom, in conversation about leadership, humanity, and everything in between: http://rockygarza.com/confidence

LESSON 160I Am At Home. Fear Is The Stranger Here.Fear is a stranger to the ways of love. Identify with fear, and you will be a stranger to yourself. And thus you are unknown to you. What is your Self remains an alien to the part of you which thinks that it is real, but different from yourself. Who could be sane in such a circumstance? Who but a madman could believe he is what he is not, and judge against himself?There is a stranger in our midst, who comes from an idea so foreign to the truth he speaks a different language, looks upon a world truth does not know, and understands what truth regards as senseless. Stranger yet, he does not recognize to whom he comes, and yet maintains his home belongs to him, while he is alien now who is at home. And yet, how easy it would be to say, “This is my home. Here I belong, and will not leave because a madman says I must.”What reason is there for not saying this? What could the reason be except that you had asked this stranger in to take your place, and let you be a stranger to yourself? No one would let himself be dispossessed so needlessly, unless he thought there were another home more suited to his tastes.Who is the stranger? Is it fear or you who are unsuited to the home which God provided for His Son? Is fear His Own, created in His likeness? Is it fear that love completes, and is completed by? There is no home can shelter love and fear. They cannot coexist. If you are real, then fear must be illusion. And if fear is real, then you do not exist at all.How simply, then, the question is resolved. Who fears has but denied himself and said, “I am the stranger here. And so I leave my home to one more like me than myself, and give him all I thought belonged to me.” Now is he exiled of necessity, not knowing who he is, uncertain of all things but this; that he is not himself, and that his home has been denied to him.What does he search for now? What can he find? A stranger to himself can find no home wherever he may look, for he has made return impossible. His way is lost, except a miracle will search him out and show him that he is no stranger now. The miracle will come. For in his home his Self remains. It asked no stranger in, and took no alien thought to be Itself. And It will call Its Own unto Itself in recognition of what is Its Own.Who is the stranger? Is he not the one your Self calls not? You are unable now to recognize this stranger in your midst, for you have given him your rightful place. Yet is your Self as certain of Its Own as God is of His Son. He cannot be confused about creation. He is sure of what belongs to Him. No stranger can be interposed between His knowledge and His Son's reality. He does not know of strangers. He is certain of His Son.God's certainty suffices. Who He knows to be His Son belongs where He has set His Son forever. He has answered you who ask, “Who is the stranger?” Hear His Voice assure you, quietly and sure, that you are not a stranger to your Father, nor is your Creator stranger made to you. Whom God has joined remain forever one, at home in Him, no stranger to Himself.Today we offer thanks that Christ has come to search the world for what belongs to Him. His vision sees no strangers, but beholds His Own and joyously unites with them. They see Him as a stranger, for they do not recognize themselves. Yet as they give Him welcome, they remember. And He leads them gently home again, where they belong.Not one does Christ forget. Not one He fails to give you to remember, that your home may be complete and perfect as it was established. He has not forgotten you. But you will not remember Him until you look on all as He does. Who denies his brother is denying Him, and thus refusing to accept the gift of sight by which his Self is clearly recognized, his home remembered and salvation come.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

Episode: 3379 A look at the overarching meaning of the word “Gestalt.”  Today, a curious word: Gestalt.

Did you know that the more Jesus makes you whole, the more like Him you will become? Sanctification is a gift from the God of all peace, as we continue to surrender to Him. His gift of shalom, of wholeness, of safety, of unbroken wellbeing leads you and me ever deeper into sharing in His holiness. By His wounds, the wounds of our hearts are healed.

In this episode of Hunger for Wholeness, Ilia Delio continues her conversation with neurotheologian Shaleen Kendrick on the practical meaning of Christogenesis, wholeness, and adaptive evolution. Shaleen reflects on what she calls “evolutionary mismatch,” the gap between our rapidly changing world and the neurobiological capacities we need to meet it with wisdom, compassion, and creativity.Together, Ilia and Shaleen explore how spirituality can become a lived practice of integration: not simply what we believe about God, but who we are and what we do each day. Drawing on neuroscience, process theology, epigenetics, and the image of living systems, Shaleen invites us to imagine people less as machines to be optimized and more as plants to be cultivated toward wholeness.Later in the episode, the conversation turns to Christianity in transition, the need for new systems, and the possibility of “wholeness-making” as a guiding concern for families, institutions, and the planet. Shaleen also shares the metaphor of jazz as a way to understand harmony, difference, and the creative work of becoming whole in real time.ABOUT SHALEEN KENDRICKRev. Dr. Shaleen Kendrick, ThD, is an emerging neurotheologian who developed the Neuro-Relational Integration™ (NRI) model—demonstrating how conscious integration across Mind–Body–Spirit neural systems can facilitate rapid adaptive evolution in how we think, act, and relate to ourselves, others, and the challenges of our time. NRI integrates neuroscience with liberation theology to show that through daily wholeness-making practices we can expand our human capacity and create new abilities that nurture not just individual flourishing but transform the systems we live in. She serves companies, practitioners, and faith communities, translating evolutionary spirituality into embodied practice—because the world needs humans who can evolve as quickly as our challenges emerge. This is Human Evolution in Practice. Join us for the Center's 10th Anniversary Conference, November 9–11 in Villanova, Pennsylvania, with a virtual option available. In a time of deep political, social, ecological, and spiritual division, this gathering explores how love can become a compass for transformation. Learn more and register at christogenesis.org/conference. We are currently in the midst of our summer fundraiser, From Fear to Hope: Change and the Perpetual Growth of Life. As the Center marks its tenth anniversary, your support sustains our conferences, webinars, publications, and emerging global learning platform. Please consider making a generous contribution at christogenesis.org/donate.Support the showA huge thank you to all of you who subscribe and support our show! Support for A Hunger for Wholeness comes from the Fetzer Institute. Fetzer supports a movement of organizations who are applying spiritual solutions to society's toughest problems. Get involved at fetzer.org.Visit the Center for Christogenesis' website at christogenesis.org/podcast to browse all Hunger for Wholeness episodes and read more from Ilia Delio.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for episode releases and other updates.

Have we received Christ's Vision of our innocence? Do we maintain our Life free of problems? Or... are we giving reality to our imposed limitations? No One can give what he has not received, but what bloks us from receiving God's Infinite Love and Supply? We can be receiving and giving simultaneously. The more Peace we receive the more we give it away. The more Healing we receive the more Wholeness and Grace we give to others. Giving and eceiving are one in truth. Christ's Vision pictures Heaven. What God created perfect can be reflected in our world in that "Heavenly State of Being." We receive this Vision and then Give it. Our Sinlessness is guaranteed by Christ's Vision.

Dianne shares personal stories and revelation concerning faith, trust and healing, as well as important principles listed below. These are foundations that Holy Spirit laid, that still remain a part of the Vineyard Church of Central Illinois.- JESUS WILL ALWAYS BE THE HERO. HE IS THE HEALER.- We will always believe the incredible truth that our God is a God of healing. He wants us whole in every way, and He wants us to give that away to others.- We will always welcome and honor the Holy Spirit and His fresh infilling.- We will always make God's Word our top priority for studying, meditating, confessing, and believing.- We will always make faith a priority — trusting God through difficult times, persevering, worshiping and praising, and hanging on no matter what.- We will always believe in the power of prayer.- We will always be hungry, humble, and teachable and stay committed to doing life in community--the church family.

This week Dan continues our series The Gift and the gifts by exploring one of the most beautiful, hopeful, and complex gifts of the Holy Spirit: healing. Healing is one of the places where hope and disappointment often meet. Many of us carry stories of God's surprising power breaking in, and many of us also carry stories of waiting, groaning, and unanswered prayer. So why do we still pray for healing? In this talk, Dan explores healing through the Vineyard lens of the Kingdom of God — the now and the not yet — where Jesus' ministry reveals God's future wholeness breaking into the present. Every healing is a signpost of resurrection, a glimpse of the world as God intends it to be, and a foretaste of the day when all things will be made new. The talk also looks at the gift of faith, the gift of healing, and the simple Vineyard five-step model for praying for the sick. It finishes with an invitation to be a church who pray with expectation and humility, asking the Holy Spirit to give us a taste of God's future wholeness now. To watch the Vineyard USA "5 Step Healing Prayer" video, do so here.

The story of Zacchaeus reveals that wholeness begins when we trust Jesus' authority, leave what binds us, and respond to His call. Seven coordinating blogs begin here: https://lightofchristjourney.com/?p=22300 A video of the story can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/HPHk2gV8o8A

Hello, Beautiful...I'm so grateful you're here with me. Tonight, take a gentle journey inward and reconnect with every part of yourself — the strong pieces, the tender pieces, and the parts still healing. This guided meditation for women is designed to support self-acceptance, emotional healing, inner peace, and deep self-love as you release judgment and embrace your whole self with compassion. If you've been feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, or not enough, this calming meditation offers a safe space to feel grounded, whole, loved, and beautifully human again. Love,

"Purity culture is a system that tells women to carry the moral weight of male desire." How is that healthy or fair? Joni Menard, an occasional guest on The God Journey, helps other women discover how to live deeply loved by God. She joins Wayne and Kyle for a conversation about patriarchy, purity culture, and gender differences, and how our religious systems often negatively shape the way men and women see themselves, their bodies, their desires, and each other. Patriarchy wounds men as well as women, and shame distorts the beauty of human desire. This podcast covers vulnerability, privilege, parenting, and the long journey of learning to listen, honor, and love without fear or control. Podcast Notes: Sorry, there is no video version of this podcast. (Due to FB policy, this link is only good for thirty days from the date of posting.) A JUST LOVE Meet-up in Kansas City The post Joni shared Get your copy of Just Love The post Patriarchy, Purity Culture, and Wholeness (#1038) first appeared on The God Journey.

Prayer: I Decree Wholeness and Health!“Jesus himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” 1 Peter 2:24Heavenly Father, today I come before You with a heart full of gratitude. I thank You for the breath of life, for every beat of my heart, and the gift of family and friends who walk beside me. Just as the woman with the issue of blood pressed through the crowd to touch the hem of Your garment, I reach out to You today, longing for wholeness and health in every area of my life.Lord, I speak healing into my body, my family, my friends, my business, and my ministry. I declare over every cell, organ, and system: return to perfect health! As 1 Peter 2:24 reminds us, "By His stripes, we are healed." I invoke the restorative power of Your love and grace to flow freely, bringing life to my brain, heart, lungs, and every vital organ.Jeremiah 30:17 says, For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, this is Zion, whom no man seeks after.I ask for strength for my daily assignments, Lord. Strengthen my heart as it pumps life-giving blood, empowering my every endeavor. May my lungs breathe in Your peace, and may my liver cleanse and detoxify as I walk in Your light. I commit to healthy habits and discipline, trusting Jeremiah 30:17, which says, "I will restore health to you and heal your wounds."Father, wrap my mind and body in Your perfect peace. Let my stomach and intestines digest not only food but also Your Word, absorbing the nutrients of Your wisdom. Protect my skin, eyes, and ears as I navigate each day, experiencing the beauty of Your creation and the joy of Your presence.In this moment, I declare that wholeness flows through me now. I surrender all worries and fears, embracing Your promise of health and healing. Amen. Psalm 103:2-5 says, "Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all his benefits— who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's." Amen.https://maglife.org

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LESSON 155I Will Step Back And Let Him Lead The Way.There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before.The world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. What other choice is really theirs to make? To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.This is the simple choice we make today. The mad illusion will remain awhile in evidence, for those to look upon who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice. They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. And so they need a Teacher Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.If truth demanded they give up the world, it would appear to them as if it asked the sacrifice of something that is real. Many have chosen to renounce the world while still believing its reality. And they have suffered from a sense of loss, and have not been released accordingly. Others have chosen nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still deeper, which they did not understand.Between these paths there is another road that leads away from loss of every kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. This is the way appointed for you now. You walk this path as others walk, nor do you seem to be distinct from them, although you are indeed. Thus can you serve them while you serve yourself, and set their footsteps on the way that God has opened up to you, and them through you.Illusion still appears to cling to you, that you may reach them. Yet it has stepped back. And it is not illusion that they hear you speak of, nor illusion that you bring their eyes to look on and their minds to grasp. Nor can the truth, which walks ahead of you, speak to them through illusions, for the road leads past illusion now, while on the way you call to them, that they may follow you.All roads will lead to this one in the end. For sacrifice and deprivation are paths that lead nowhere, choices for defeat, and aims that will remain impossible. All this steps back as truth comes forth in you, to lead your brothers from the ways of death, and set them on the way to happiness. Their suffering is but illusion. Yet they need a guide to lead them out of it, for they mistake illusion for the truth.Such is salvation's call, and nothing more. It asks that you accept the truth, and let it go before you, lighting up the path of ransom from illusion. It is not a ransom with a price. There is no cost, but only gain. Illusion can but seem to hold in chains the holy Son of God. It is but from illusions he is saved. As they step back, he finds himself again.Walk safely now, yet carefully, because this path is new to you. And you may find that you are tempted still to walk ahead of truth, and let illusions be your guide. Your holy brothers have been given you, to follow in your footsteps as you walk with certainty of purpose to the truth. It goes before you now, that they may see something with which they can identify; something they understand to lead the way.Yet at the journey's ending there will be no gap, no distance between truth and you. And all illusions walking in the way you travelled will be gone from you as well, with nothing left to keep the truth apart from God's completion, holy as Himself. Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.When dreams are over, time has closed the door on all the things that pass and miracles are purposeless, the holy Son of God will make no journeys. There will be no wish to be illusion rather than the truth. And we step forth toward this, as we progress along the way that truth points out to us. This is our final journey, which we make for everyone. We must not lose our way. For as truth goes before us, so it goes before our brothers who will follow us.We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this. Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent? What way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the holy Son of God? We walk to God. The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been. What way but this could be a path that you would choose instead?Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God. Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere. Dreams are not a worthy guide for you who are God's Son. Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His Trust that you are worthy of His Trust in you. He cannot be deceived. His Trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure. You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.And now He asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His Trust; how limitless His Love. In your name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:I will step back and let Him lead the way,For I would walk along the road to Him.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

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What happens when the career you've worked so hard to build no longer energizes you? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Bela Shah, a former attorney and ICF-certified coach. Bela shares how feelings of disconnection, burnout, and a lack of alignment ultimately led her to leave a successful legal career and step into coaching. Drawing on her experiences as a first-generation South Asian immigrant, meditation practitioner, and leadership mentor, Bela offers a powerful perspective on self-trust, purpose, and navigating major life transitions.  This conversation is a reminder that leadership begins within and that sometimes the greatest act of courage is trusting yourself enough to create a new path.   What You Will Learn: How to recognize when your work is no longer energizing you. Why self-trust is the foundation of authentic leadership. The signs that may indicate it's time to leave a career that no longer aligns with your values. How small and big leaps of faith contribute to meaningful life transitions. Why rest, reflection, and pauses are essential for making aligned decisions. How meditation and mindfulness can support personal and professional growth. The connection between perfectionism, self-doubt, and the feeling of "not enough." Why community and support systems are critical during periods of change. How coaching helps individuals uncover their own wisdom and insights. The importance of moving from self-sacrifice to self-trust in leadership.   Connect with Bela Shah Wisdom Leadership https://www.wisdomleadership.com/ Connect with Wickedly Smart Women® Wickedly Smart Women Wickedly Smart Women on X Wickedly Smart Women on Instagram Wickedly Smart Women Facebook Community Wickedly Smart Women Store on TeePublic [5X Award-Winning Book] Wickedly Smart Women: Trusting Intuition, Taking Action, Transforming Worlds Email: listeners@wickedlysmartwomen.com  

LESSON 154I Am Among The Ministers Of God.Let us today be neither arrogant nor falsely humble. We have gone beyond such foolishness. We cannot judge ourselves, nor need we do so. These are but attempts to hold decision off, and to delay commitment to our function. It is not our part to judge our worth, nor can we know what role is best for us; what we can do within a larger plan we cannot see in its entirety. Our part is cast in Heaven, not in hell. And what we think is weakness can be strength; what we believe to be our strength is often arrogance.Whatever your appointed role may be, it was selected by the Voice for God, Whose function is to speak for you as well. Seeing your strengths exactly as they are, and equally aware of where they can be best applied, for what, to whom and when, He chooses and accepts your part for you. He does not work without your own consent. But He is not deceived in what you are, and listens only to His Voice in you.It is through His ability to hear one Voice Which is His Own that you become aware at last there is one Voice in you. And that one Voice appoints your function, and relays it to you, giving you the strength to understand it, do what it entails, and to succeed in everything you do that is related to it. God has joined His Son in this, and thus His Son becomes His messenger of unity with Him.It is this joining, through the Voice for God, of Father and of Son, that sets apart salvation from the world. It is this Voice Which speaks of laws the world does not obey; Which promises salvation from all sin, with guilt abolished in the mind that God created sinless. Now this mind becomes aware again of Who created it, and of His lasting union with itself. So is its Self the one reality in Which its will and that of God are joined.A messenger is not the one who writes the message he delivers. Nor does he question the right of him who does, nor ask why he has chosen those who will receive the message that he brings. It is enough that he accept it, give it to the ones for whom it is intended, and fulfill his role in its delivery. If he determines what the messages should be, or what their purpose is, or where they should be carried, he is failing to perform his proper part as bringer of the Word.There is one major difference in the role of Heaven's messengers, which sets them off from those the world appoints. The messages that they deliver are intended first for them. And it is only as they can accept them for themselves that they become able to bring them further, and to give them everywhere that they were meant to be. Like earthly messengers, they did not write the messages they bear, but they become their first receivers in the truest sense, receiving to prepare themselves to give.An earthly messenger fulfills his role by giving all his messages away. The messengers of God perform their part by their acceptance of His messages as for themselves, and show they understand the messages by giving them away. They choose no roles that are not given them by His authority. And so they gain by every message that they give away.Would you receive the messages of God? For thus do you become His messenger. You are appointed now. And yet you wait to give the messages you have received. And so you do not know that they are yours, and do not recognize them. No one can receive and understand he has received until he gives. For in the giving is his own acceptance of what he received.You who are now the messengers of God, receive His messages. For that is part of your appointed role. God has not failed to offer what you need, nor has it been left unaccepted. Yet another part of your appointed task is yet to be accomplished. He Who has received for you the messages of God would have them be received by you as well. For thus do you identify with Him and claim your own.It is this joining that we undertake to recognize today. We will not seek to keep our minds apart from Him Who speaks for us, for it is but our voice we hear as we attend Him. He alone can speak to us and for us, joining in one Voice the getting and the giving of God's Word; the giving and receiving of His Will.We practice giving Him what He would have, that we may recognize His gifts to us. He needs our voice that He may speak through us. He needs our hands to hold His messages, and carry them to those whom He appoints. He needs our feet to bring us where He wills, that those who wait in misery may be at last delivered. And He needs our will united with His Own, that we may be the true receivers of the gifts He gives.Let us but learn this lesson for today: We will not recognize what we receive until we give it. You have heard this said a hundred ways, a hundred times, and yet belief is lacking still. But this is sure; until belief is given it, you will receive a thousand miracles and then receive a thousand more, but will not know that God Himself has left no gift beyond what you already have; nor has denied the tiniest of blessings to His Son. What can this mean to you, until you have identified with Him and with His Own?Our lesson for today is stated thus:I am among the ministers of God, and I am grateful thatI have the means by which to recognize that I am free.The world recedes as we light up our minds, and realize these holy words are true. They are the message sent to us today from our Creator. Now we demonstrate how they have changed our minds about ourselves, and what our function is. For as we prove that we accept no will we do not share, our many gifts from our Creator will spring to our sight and leap into our hands, and we will recognize what we received.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

What if you are already whole, just as you are? In this episode, host Elizabeth Mintun shares a very personal story of her painful divorce, navigating the complexities of a blended family, and spending years immersed in self-development. She talks about how nature, forest bathing, qigong, and simple mindfulness practices helped me move from striving toward wholeness to recognize that wholeness was already present. Key TakeawaysInsight alone isn't enough. Understanding your patterns can be transformative and yet, intellectual awareness is different from embodying compassion, presence, and self-acceptance in everyday life. Consistent practices that reconnect us with our breath, our bodies, and the present moment are so simple and yet powerfully transformative. Nature invites presence. The natural world invites us into relationship, rhythm and connection with the present moment. Wholeness doesn't mean perfection. Recognizing your wholeness doesn't deny pain, wounds, or growth. Recognizing your wholeness means that you already have value and beauty, just as you are. Resources The Sacred Pause Half-Day Retreat in Clintonville (Columbus, OH):

This episode Claire Pedrick hears from Rochelle Trow about what happened as she left corporate success and began to get more self-aware. Rochelle shares how unmasking her true self led to healing, resilience, and being real.   Hear some practical tools to foster inner understanding without expensive coaching and why knowing yourself is essential before changing jobs.   Here's the episode we talked about where Claire spoke with Elaine Lin Herring: https://thecoachinginn.podbean.com/e/s5-episode-9-unlearning-silence-a-journey-to-finding-your-voice-with-elaine-lin-hering/   Books:  Awakening to Wholeness https://amzn.to/3PBoySY Anchored https://amzn.to/4tTGVR2 Contact: Contact Rochelle through Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/executivecoachhr/  rochelletrow.com  Contact Claire by emailing info@3dcoaching.com  or join our coaching community where you can talk with other listeners. Further Information: Subscribe or follow The Coaching Inn on your podcast platform or our YouTube Channel to hear or see new episodes as they drop. Find out more about 3D Coaching and get new ideas and offers in our weekly email. Keywords: unmasking, leadership, personal fulfillment, burnout, self-awareness, corporate success, vulnerability, authenticity, childhood beliefs, self-compassion, accountability, resilience, emotional depth, transformation, self-identity, inner understanding, democratize self-awareness, healing, introspection, self-worth   We love having a variety of guests join us! Please remember that inviting someone to participate does not mean we necessarily endorse their views or opinions. We believe in open conversation and sharing different perspectives.

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LESSON 150Review of Lessons 139 - 140My Mind Holds Only What I Think With God.(139) I will accept Atonement for myself.(140) Only salvation can be said to cure.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

The Outer Realm welcomes Adventurer and Author Dami Roelse Date: May 28th, 2026 EP: 728 TOPIC - Tonight I welcome Author and Adventurer Dami Roelse who will be discussing her new book “ Body and Grace: A Woman's Hike to Wholeness on the Pacific Crest Trail.” After losing her husband, Dami embarked on an Odyssey of Wilderness Therapy/ Her journey was one of healing, transformation and wholeness. She has had some amazing encounters and experiences, some which were considered to be in the realms of high strangeness, while others were very profound and most certainly life changing. Contact for the show - theouterrealmcontact@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/michelledesrochers_ Please support us by Liking, Subscribing, Sharing and Commenting. Thank you !!! About Dami: Dami Roelse, now living in the U.S, was born and raised in Holland. She has travelled extensively around the world, lived on different continents, and studied with various spiritual teachers. Dami has used her passion for long-distance hiking and backpacking to deepen her connection with nature and the universe. Her inner spiritual journey has evolved alongside her outer journey. About The Book: Body and Grace: A Woman's Hike to Wholeness on the Pacific Crest Trail After losing her husband, a transformational 2650-mile hike helps the author find wholeness. Body and Grace follows this author's journey over a period of 10 years to completion of the Pacific Crest Trail. The reader will travel through snowfields, deserts, and fires, as well as nights alone in the woods, getting lost, and finding beauty that transcends. The inner journey of becoming whole after the loss of her life partner is woven through these trail stories. AMAZON: https://a.co/d/0aJVkGTZ If you enjoy the content on the channel, please support us by subscribing: Thank you All A formal disclosure: The opinions and information presented or expressed by guests on The Outer Realm Radio and Beyond The Outer Realm are not necessarily those of the TOR, BTOR Hosts, Sponsors, or the United Public Radio Network and its producers. Although the content may be interesting, it is deemed "For Entertainment Purposes" . We are always be respectful and courteous to all involved. Thank you, we appreciate you all!

LESSON 148Review of Lessons 135 - 136My Mind Holds Only What I Think With God.(135) If I defend myself I am attacked.(136) Sickness is a defense against the truth.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

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LESSON 146Review of Lessons 131 - 132My Mind Holds Only What I Think With God.(131) No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.(132) I loose the world from all I thought it was- Jesus Christ in ACIM 

In this episode of Hunger for Wholeness, Ilia Delio speaks with neurotheologian Shaleen Kendrick about neuroscience, contemplative practice, and the biology of spiritual experience. Shaleen shares her journey from conservative evangelical ministry through deconstruction, suffering, and contemplative prayer into the emerging field of neurotheology.Together, Ilia and Shaleen explore how religious experience is not separate from the body but mediated through it. They consider how God-language, belief, prayer, trauma, neuroplasticity, and contemplative practice all shape the brain and body—and how changing our images of God can change the very neural pathways through which we experience reality.Later in the episode, they discuss the resistance many theologians have to locating spiritual experience in neurobiology, the promise and complexity of psychedelics and healing, and the growing scientific evidence that spirituality is an innate human capacity. Rather than reducing God to biology, this conversation asks what becomes possible when we understand the body as the living temple of divine encounter.ABOUT SHALEEN KENDRICKRev. Dr. Shaleen Kendrick, ThD, is an emerging neurotheologian who developed the Neuro-Relational Integration™ (NRI) model—demonstrating how conscious integration across Mind–Body–Spirit neural systems can facilitate rapid adaptive evolution in how we think, act, and relate to ourselves, others, and the challenges of our time. NRI integrates neuroscience with liberation theology to show that through daily wholeness-making practices we can expand our human capacity and create new abilities that nurture not just individual flourishing but transform the systems we live in. She serves companies, practitioners, and faith communities, translating evolutionary spirituality into embodied practice—because the world needs humans who can evolve as quickly as our challenges emerge. This is Human Evolution in Practice. Join us for the Center's 10th Anniversary Conference, November 9–11 in Villanova, Pennsylvania, with a virtual option available. In a time of deep political, social, ecological, and spiritual division, this gathering explores how love can become a compass for transformation. Learn more and register at christogenesis.org/conference. We are currently in the midst of our summer fundraiser, From Fear to Hope: Change and the Perpetual Growth of Life. As the Center marks its tenth anniversary, your support sustains our conferences, webinars, publications, and emerging global learning platform. Please consider making a generous contribution at christogenesis.org/donate.Support the showA huge thank you to all of you who subscribe and support our show! Support for A Hunger for Wholeness comes from the Fetzer Institute. Fetzer supports a movement of organizations who are applying spiritual solutions to society's toughest problems. Get involved at fetzer.org.Visit the Center for Christogenesis' website at christogenesis.org/podcast to browse all Hunger for Wholeness episodes and read more from Ilia Delio.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for episode releases and other updates.

It's time for Somatic Integration. We are "stacking" our mental and physical tools—combining rhythmic breathing, structural alignment, and focused awareness—to create a unified state of peak mental clarity. This layered approach helps anchor high-performance calm directly into your nervous system, turning fleeting focus into a lasting daily trait. A Message for Your Heart You may have to switch hats throughout the day—managing work, navigating complex decisions, organizing family, and steering a big creative vision. It is incredibly easy to feel fragmented, like you are a collection of roles and tasks rather than a whole soul. Today, give you rself permission to come back together. You don't have to wait for your to-do list to be blank to feel whole. Wholeness lives in the immediate present, right here in the rhythm of your own breath. By taking these few minutes to integrate your energy, you are gathering your power back to your center. Let the affirmation 'I am sharp, steady, and entirely present' be your anchor as you navigate the rest of your day. You are doing an extraordinary job. This is day 6 of a 7-day meditation series, "Stop Procrastinating: Meditations for Overwhelm and Focus" episodes 2720-2726. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION JOURNEY Welcome to Stop Procrastinating: Meditations for Overwhelm & Focus. If you are arriving here today feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated by a task you've been avoiding, take a deep breath and let the pressure go. There is no shame here. True mindfulness teaches us that procrastination isn't a lack of discipline; it's how our nervous system freezes when a task feels too heavy or the anxiety of perfectionism takes over. In this series, we aren't here to force or push our way into productivity. Instead, we are creating a quiet space to soften the stress, calm the inner critic, and gently untangle the mental blocks keeping you stuck. You don't need to feel perfectly ready to begin—you just need to find the stillness to take one single, intentional step. Right now, the pressure is entirely off. For the next few minutes, give yourself permission to just be here, exactly as you are. Take a deep, clearing breath in… and let it settle. Now is your time. YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE You're Invited To Take Part In an Emotional Regulation Quest Notice your emotional response to stressors. Begin to identify and name the emotions you experience the most when you're under stress. This is a great week to keep a Journal of your emotions. MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Day 1: Visualization  Day 2: Affirmation Day 3: Breathing Technique Day 4: Mudra Technique Day 5: Chakra Technique Day 6: Layer Meditation Techniques Day 7: Reflection + Introspection SHARE YOUR MEDITATION JOURNEY WITH YOUR FELLOW MEDITATORS Let's connect and inspire each other! Please share a little about how meditation has helped you by reaching out to me at Mary@SipandOm.com or better yet -- direct message me on https://www.instagram.com/sip.and.om. We'd love to hear about your meditation ritual! WAYS TO SUPPORT THE DAILY MEDITATION PODCAST SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss a single episode. Consistency is the KEY to a successful meditation ritual. SHARE the podcast with someone who could use a little extra support. I'd be honored if you left me a podcast review. If you do, please email me at Mary@sipandom.com and let me know a little about yourself and how meditation has helped you. I'd love to share your journey to inspire fellow meditators on the podcast! All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to Mary@sipandom.com. FOR DAILY EXTRA SUPPORT OUTSIDE THE PODCAST Each day's meditation techniques are shared at: sip.and.om Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sip.and.om/ sip and om Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SipandOm/ SIP AND OM MEDITATION APP Looking for a little more support? If you're ready for a more in-depth meditation experience, allow Mary to guide you in daily 30-minute guided meditations on the Sip and Om meditation app. Give it a whirl for 7-days free! Receive access to 3,000+ 30-minute guided meditations customized around a weekly theme to help you manage emotions. Receive a Clarity Journal and a Slow Down Guide customized for each weekly theme. 2-Week's Free Access on iOS https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sip-and-om/id1216664612?platform=iphone&preserveScrollPosition=true#platform/iphone All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to Mary@sipandom.com.Let go of repetitive negative thoughts. Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com, and also by musician Greg Keller.

What is beauty? Why is beauty important? How is beauty distorted? Listen to understand beauty through a new and impactful perspective."A strange thing to me is that God has not just been highlighting His beauty or general beauty but my beauty.  I said to Him, 'I'll believe you, but I don't understand why it matters.' To which He responded, 'If you don't think you are beautiful what does that make Me? You have been made to image Me.' As I pondered this, I realized just how much the enemy and this world has attacked beauty and love in general and my beauty and my love specifically." -Ruth Paton-WillettListen to the previous episode mentioned. Ep.15: FREEDOM through Wholeness for Survivors of Sex Trafficking, with LCSW Chelsea Van EssenWant to learn more? Visit our websites:The Freedom Challenge US: thefreedomchallenge.comOperation Mobilization USA: omusa.org

In a world that teaches us to push through everything, this conversation is an invitation to slow down and pay attention to what's happening within you. In this episode, of Eat Don't Compete is an honest conversation about mental health, emotional overwhelm, therapy, spiritual wholeness, and what it actually means to feed your soul. Episode 87 is a reflection on why mental health is often overlooked soul-feeding rhythms and routines therapy and emotional healing overwhelm and control spiritual completeness how Scripture speaks to the soul, mind, and body why pain can sometimes blind us to purpose This conversation also explores how our relationship with God shapes the condition of our soul and why intentional care matters spiritually, emotionally, and mentally. Scriptures Mentioned: 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Psalm 51:5 Authors/Theologians Mentioned: Dallas Willard Thomas à Kempis David Guzik If this episode encouraged you, challenged you, or made you reflect, share it with someone else and leave a comment about what feeds your soul. More conversations like this please subscribe to this channel and help us grow by sharing this video #MentalHealth #ChristianPodcast #SpiritualGrowth #MentalHealthAwareness #ChristianYouTube #FaithBasedPodcast #DallasWillard #TherapyAndFaith #ChristianWomen #Wholeness  

We all know our four vital signs and how to take our heart rate, but what about reproductive vital signs? Are there any? YES and they're called reproductive biomarkers. Today's episode lays out the key biomarkers that you can use in your daily life for family planning and health diagnosis (as well as bonus ones that may be more specific to you).Looking for help finding the right method of tracking reproductive biomarkers for you? Our new book, Woven Well: A Christian Woman's Guide for Reproductive Health, Fertility, and Wholeness is here to help! You can pre-order the book now through these links or call your local book store to request it!NOTE: This episode is appropriate for most audiences but does refer to sex education and uses the word 'libido.'SHOW NOTES: **Pre-order Woven Well: A Christian Woman's Guide for Reproductive Health, Fertility, and Wholeness here: https://www.wovenfertility.com/pre-order-woven-wellJoin us for an upcoming Intro Session Ep. 212: Traditional Chinese Medicine explains period blood clots, with guest Emily Keuntz, M.S., L.Ac.Send Us a Text!Support the showOther great ways to connect with Woven Natural Fertility Care: Learn the Creighton Model System with us! Register here!Get our monthly newsletter: Get the updates!Chat about issues of fertility + faith: Substack Follow us on Instagram: @wovenfertilityWatch our episodes on YouTube: @wovenfertilityLove the content? The biggest gift you could give is to click a 5 star review and write why it was so meaningful! This podcast is provided for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute providing medical advice or professional services. The information provided should not be used for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, and those seeking personal medical advice should consult with a licensed physician. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health provider regarding a medical condition. If you think you may have a medical emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room immediately. Neither Woven nor its staff, nor any contributor to this podcast, makes any representations, exp...

It's overwhelming to exist in this time, when the line between access and disparity feels both so thin and so wide. But we're all asking the same question: Can we craft something for us NOW that doesn't have compounding harm for the folks who will be here THEN? And who will carry the weight of that inconvenience and harm?This conversation with my girl, Stephanie Ghoston Paul (@stephanieghostonpaul on IG), feels like a step forward in those explorations. She is the founder of Cultivated Sense, a platform dedicated to practicing what it means to be a Living Ancestor is beyond brilliant. She is a living, breathing wise woman who is preparing us to do the work NOW so we're mindful about the inheritance we will leave behindChapters00:00 The Excitement of Capturing Conversations04:11 The Journey of a Living Ancestor07:19 Understanding Multi-Hyphenates and Identity09:57 The Role of Motherhood in Shaping Legacy13:21 The Importance of Remembering Our Past16:08 Legacy and Inheritance: A Living Ancestor's Perspective19:03 The Balance of Acceptance and Accountability22:10 The Power of Freedom, Wholeness, and Enoughness37:42 The Journey of Motherhood and Affirmations40:57 Living Ancestors and Intergenerational Wisdom43:47 Reparenting and the Role of Affirmations47:17 The Complex Dynamics of Grandparenting52:40 Redefining Family Roles and Relationships57:56 Therapy, Healing, and Generational Patterns01:02:50 Navigating Mother-Daughter Relationships01:08:21 Dreaming into the Future and Documenting ExistenceLearn more about Stephanie:WATCH. HER. TED. TALKhttps://stephanieghoston.com/Follow her IG: @Cultivated SenseExplore her PatreonCheck out her LinkedInListen to her Podcast: Take Nothing When I Die

Review Lessons 141-150IntroductionNow we review again, this time aware we are preparing for the second part of learning how the truth can be applied. Today we will begin to concentrate on readiness for what will follow next. Such is our aim for this review, and for the lessons following. Thus, we review the recent lessons and their central thoughts in such a way as will facilitate the readiness that we would now achieve.There is a central theme that unifies each step in the review we undertake, which can be simply stated in these words:My mind holds only what I think with God.That is a fact, and represents the truth of What you are and What your Father is. It is this thought by which the Father gave creation to the Son, establishing the Son as cocreator with Himself. It is this thought that fully guarantees salvation to the Son. For in his mind no thoughts can dwell but those his Father shares. Lack of forgiveness blocks this thought from his awareness. Yet it is forever true.Let us begin our preparation with some understanding of the many forms in which the lack of true forgiveness may be carefully concealed. Because they are illusions, they are not perceived to be but what they are; defenses that protect your unforgiving thoughts from being seen and recognized. Their purpose is to show you something else, and hold correction off through self-deceptions made to take its place.And yet, your mind holds only what you think with God. Your self-deceptions cannot take the place of truth. No more than can a child who throws a stick into the ocean change the coming and the going of the tides, the warming of the water by the sun, the silver of the moon on it by night. So do we start each practice period in this review with readying our minds to understand the lessons that we read, and see the meaning that they offer us.Begin each day with time devoted to the preparation of your mind to learn what each idea you will review that day can offer you in freedom and in peace. Open your mind, and clear it of all thoughts that would deceive, and let this thought alone engage it fully, and remove the rest:My mind holds only what I think with God.Five minutes with this thought will be enough to set the day along the lines which God appointed, and to place His Mind in charge of all the thoughts you will receive that day.They will not come from you alone, for they will all be shared with Him. And so each one will bring the message of His Love to you, returning messages of yours to Him. So will communion with the Lord of Hosts be yours, as He Himself has willed it be. And as His Own completion joins with Him, so will He join with you who are complete as you unite with Him, and He with you.After your preparation, merely read each of the two ideas assigned to you to be reviewed that day. Then close your eyes, and say them slowly to yourself. There is no hurry now, for you are using time for its intended purpose. Let each word shine with the meaning God has given it, as it was given to you through His Voice. Let each idea which you review that day give you the gift that He has laid in it for you to have of Him. And we will use no format for our practicing but this:Each hour of the day, bring to your mind the thought with which the day began, and spend a quiet moment with it. Then repeat the two ideas you practice for the day unhurriedly, with time enough to see the gifts that they contain for you, and let them be received where they were meant to be.We add no other thoughts, but let these be the messages they are. We need no more than this to give us happiness and rest, and endless quiet, perfect certainty, and all our Father wills that we receive as the inheritance we have of Him. Each day of practicing, as we review, we close as we began, repeating first the thought that made the day a special time of blessing and of happiness for us; and through our faithfulness restored the world from darkness to the light, from grief to joy, from pain to peace, from sin to holiness.God offers thanks to you who practice thus the keeping of His Word. And as you give your mind to the ideas for the day again before you sleep, His gratitude surrounds you in the peace wherein He wills you be forever, and are learning now to claim again as your inheritance.LESSON 141Review of Lessons 121 -122My Mind Holds Only What I Think With God.(121) Forgiveness is the key to happiness.(122) Forgiveness offers everything I want.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

Barry offers a challenge to men stuck in directionless wandering to confront and name their wounded hearts. There's no move from confusion to purpose without healing. He describes wandering as a pattern fueled by five father wounds. Try Journey to Wholeness: https://www.j2wholeness.org/ Join the FatherSeekers community! https://www.skool.com/fatherseekersFS FacebookFS InstagramFS YouTubeAsk Barry a question: barry@fatherseekers.orgCHAPTERS00:00 Wounded Heart Wakeup01:40 Healing Ends Wandering03:17 Why Men Wander04:36 Name The Wound05:53 Get Help Not Alone08:07 Replace False Identity09:28 Wonder With God15:06 Hidden Hurt Fallout17:59 Take Responsibility19:44 Marks Of Healing22:56 Reform With Truth25:00 Join the Community!--FatherSeekers helps fatherless fathers become better fathers.Get discussion guides, devotionals, and more at FS Website

LESSON 139I Will Accept Atonement For Myself.Here is the end of choice. For here we come to a decision to accept ourselves as God created us. And what is choice except uncertainty of what we are? There is no doubt that is not rooted here. There is no question but reflects this one. There is no conflict that does not entail the single, simple question, “What am I?”Yet who could ask this question except one who has refused to recognize himself? Only refusal to accept yourself could make the question seem to be sincere. The only thing that can be surely known by any living thing is what it is. From this one point of certainty, it looks on other things as certain as itself.Uncertainty about what you must be is self-deception on a scale so vast, its magnitude can hardly be conceived. To be alive and not to know yourself is to believe that you are really dead. For what is life except to be yourself, and what but you can be alive instead? Who is the doubter? What is it he doubts? Whom does he question? Who can answer him?He merely states that he is not himself, and therefore, being something else, becomes a questioner of what that something is. Yet he could never be alive at all unless he knew the answer. If he asks as if he does not know, it merely shows he does not want to be the thing he is. He has accepted it because he lives; has judged against it and denied its worth, and has decided that he does not know the only certainty by which he lives.Thus he becomes uncertain of his life, for what it is has been denied by him. It is for this denial that you need Atonement. Your denial made no change in what you are. But you have split your mind into what knows and does not know the truth. You are yourself. There is no doubt of this. And yet you doubt it. But you do not ask what part of you can really doubt yourself. It cannot really be a part of you that asks this question. For it asks of one who knows the answer. Were it part of you, then certainty would be impossible.Atonement remedies the strange idea that it is possible to doubt yourself, and be unsure of what you really are. This is the depth of madness. Yet it is the universal question of the world. What does this mean except the world is mad? Why share its madness in the sad belief that what is universal here is true?Nothing the world believes is true. It is a place whose purpose is to be a home where those who claim they do not know themselves can come to question what it is they are.And they will come again until the time Atonement is accepted, and they learn it is impossible to doubt yourself, and not to be aware of what you are.Only acceptance can be asked of you, for what you are is certain. It is set forever in the holy Mind of God, and in your own. It is so far beyond all doubt and question that to ask what it must be is all the proof you need to show that you believe the contradiction that you know not what you cannot fail to know. Is this a question, or a statement which denies itself in statement? Let us not allow our holy minds to occupy themselves with senseless musings such as this.We have a mission here. We did not come to reinforce the madness that we once believed in. Let us not forget the goal that we accepted. It is more than just our happiness alone we came to gain. What we accept as what we are proclaims what everyone must be, along with us. Fail not your brothers, or you fail yourself. Look lovingly on them, that they may know that they are part of you, and you of them.This does Atonement teach, and demonstrates the oneness of God's Son is unassailed by his belief he knows not what he is. Today accept Atonement, not to change reality, but merely to accept the truth about yourself, and go your way rejoicing in the endless Love of God. It is but this that we are asked to do. It is but this that we will do today.Five minutes in the morning and at night we will devote to dedicate our minds to our assignment for today. We start with this review of what our mission is:I will accept Atonement for myself, For I remain as God created me.We have not lost the knowledge that God gave to us when He created us like Him. We can remember it for everyone, for in creation are all minds as one. And in our memory is the recall how dear our brothers are to us in truth, how much a part of us is every mind, how faithful they have really been to us, and how our Father's Love contains them all.In thanks for all creation, in the Name of its Creator and His Oneness with all aspects of creation, we repeat our dedication to our cause today each hour, as we lay aside all thoughts that would distract us from our holy aim. For several minutes let your mind be cleared of all the foolish cobwebs which the world would weave around the holy Son of God. And learn the fragile nature of the chains that seem to keep the knowledge of yourself apart from your awareness, as you say:I will accept Atonement for myself, for I remain as God created me.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

What if the thing you've been praying for requires the response you've been avoiding? In this powerful message, we dive into John 5 and the story of the man at the Pool of Bethesda—a man who had been stuck for 38 years, waiting for change but bound by excuses, disappointment, and patterns. When Jesus asks him a seemingly simple question—“Do you want to get well?”—everything shifts. In this episode, Christine Caine unpacks the deeper meaning behind Jesus' question and challenges us to confront the areas where we may be choosing comfort over transformation. With biblical truth and personal insight, she reveals how healing often requires participation, obedience, and the courage to let go of the past. If you're tired of feeling stuck, defined by your past, or limited by your circumstances—this message will stir your faith and call you forward. ✨ If you've ever asked questions like: ● Why do I feel stuck even though I want change? ● What's actually holding me back from healing? ● How do I move past my past? ● Why does God ask me to do things that feel impossible? ● Am I unknowingly choosing comfort over breakthrough?

What if the illness that took everything from you, your career, your identity, your ability to bake a birthday cake, turned out to be the thing that finally saved your life? In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K sits down with Cara Pacific Campbell, patient advocate and author of Upspiraling, to trace her journey from high-powered corporate executive to bedridden with Lyme disease, 36 co-infections, and dementia-like symptoms, all missed for months by conventional medicine. Cara opens up about the nosebleed that stopped her life cold, the functional medicine breakthrough that finally named what was happening, and the road back through treatment, somatic trauma work, and a complete identity overhaul. If you're navigating a Lyme diagnosis, living with chronic illness, or just quietly running on empty, this one maps a way forward. Not just to survival, but to something truer on the other side. Key Takeaways: 0:00 Introduction 1:13 Lyme saved my life: when burnout breaks the body 7:00 The nosebleed that changed everything 9:11 36 co-infections and what conventional medicine missed 17:43 70 pills a day and blind faith 20:37 The mental health toll no one talks about 25:00 The mindset shift that turned illness into initiation 31:49 What actually moved the needle: IVs, somatics, and coaching 36:28 Childhood trauma and the Type A-Lyme connection 39:22 Upspiraling: suffering to make a map for others Schedule a Free 15-Min Cancer/Lyme Consultation at The Karlfeldt Center: 208-338-8902 Resources: Upspiraling: The Ancient Path to Wholeness — https://a.co/d/06g6CRPW Medical Disclaimer: This content is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or replace professional medical advice. Always consult your physician or qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical condition or treatment decisions. This content is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or replace professional medical advice. Always consult your physician or qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical condition or treatment decisions. ____________________________________WORK WITH DR. KARLFELDT:The Karlfeldt Center offers the most cutting-edge and comprehensive Lyme therapies available. To schedule a Free 15-Minute Discovery Call with a Lyme Literate Naturopathic Doctor, contact us at:

LESSON 137When I Am Healed I Am Not Healed Alone.Today's idea remains the central thought on which salvation rests. For healing is the opposite of all the world's ideas which dwell on sickness and on separate states. Sickness is a retreat from others, and a shutting off of joining. It becomes a door that closes on a separate self, and keeps it isolated and alone.Sickness is isolation. For it seems to keep one self apart from all the rest, to suffer what the others do not feel. It gives the body final power to make the separation real, and keep the mind in solitary prison, split apart and held in pieces by a solid wall of sickened flesh, which it can not surmount.The world obeys the laws that sickness serves, but healing operates apart from them. It is impossible that anyone be healed alone. In sickness must he be apart and separate. But healing is his own decision to be one again, and to accept his Self with all Its parts intact and unassailed. In sickness does his Self appear to be dismembered, and without the unity that gives It life. But healing is accomplished as he sees the body has no power to attack the universal oneness of God's Son.Sickness would prove that lies must be the truth. But healing demonstrates that truth is true. The separation sickness would impose has never really happened. To be healed is merely to accept what always was the simple truth, and always will remain exactly as it has forever been. Yet eyes accustomed to illusions must be shown that what they look upon is false. So healing, never needed by the truth, must demonstrate that sickness is not real.Healing might thus be called a counter-dream, which cancels out the dream of sickness in the name of truth, but not in truth itself. Just as forgiveness overlooks all sins that never were accomplished, healing but removes illusions that have not occurred. Just as the real world will arise to take the place of what has never been at all, healing but offers restitution for imagined states and false ideas which dreams embroider into pictures of the truth.Yet think not healing is unworthy of your function here. For anti-Christ becomes more powerful than Christ to those who dream the world is real. The body seems to be more solid and more stable than the mind. And love becomes a dream, while fear remains the one reality that can be seen and justified and fully understood.Just as forgiveness shines away all sin and the real world will occupy the place of what you made, so healing must replace the fantasies of sickness which you hold before the simple truth. When sickness has been seen to disappear in spite of all the laws that hold it cannot but be real, then questions have been answered. And the laws can be no longer cherished nor obeyed.Healing is freedom. For it demonstrates that dreams will not prevail against the truth. Healing is shared. And by this attribute it proves that laws unlike the ones which hold that sickness is inevitable are more potent than their sickly opposites. Healing is strength. For by its gentle hand is weakness overcome, and minds that were walled off within a body free to join with other minds, to be forever strong.Healing, forgiveness, and the glad exchange of all the world of sorrow for a world where sadness cannot enter, are the means by which the Holy Spirit urges you to follow Him. His gentle lessons teach how easily salvation can be yours; how little practice you need undertake to let His laws replace the ones you made to hold yourself a prisoner to death. His life becomes your own, as you extend the little help He asks in freeing you from everything that ever caused you pain.And as you let yourself be healed, you see all those around you, or who cross your mind, or whom you touch, or those who seem to have no contact with you, healed along with you. Perhaps you will not recognize them all, nor realize how great your offering to all the world, when you let healing come to you. But you are never healed alone. And legions upon legions will receive the gift that you receive when you are healed.Those who are healed become the instruments of healing. Nor does time elapse between the instant they are healed, and all the grace of healing it is given them to give. What is opposed to God does not exist, and who accepts it not within his mind becomes a haven where the weary can remain to rest. For here is truth bestowed, and here are all illusions brought to truth.Would you not offer shelter to God's Will? You but invite your Self to be at home. And can this invitation be refused? Ask the inevitable to occur, and you will never fail. The other choice is but to ask what cannot be to be, and this can not succeed. Today we ask that only truth will occupy our minds; that thoughts of healing will this day go forth from what is healed to what must yet be healed, aware that they will both occur as one.We will remember, as the hour strikes, our function is to let our minds be healed, that we may carry healing to the world, exchanging curse for blessing, pain for joy, and separation for the peace of God. Is not a minute of the hour worth the giving to receive a gift like this? Is not a little time a small expense to offer for the gift of everything?Yet must we be prepared for such a gift. And so we will begin the day with this, and give ten minutes to these thoughts with which we will conclude today at night as well:When I am healed I am not healed alone.And I would share my healing with the world,that sickness may be banished from the mind of God's one Son,Who is my only Self.Let healing be through you this very day. And as you rest in quiet, be prepared to give as you receive, to hold but what you give, and to receive the Word of God to take the place of all the foolish thoughts that ever were imagined. Now we come together to make well all that was sick, and offer blessing where there was attack. Nor will we let this function be forgot as every hour of the day slips by, remembering our purpose with this thought:When I am healed I am not healed alone.And I would bless my brothers, for I would be healed with them,as they are healed with me.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

The Mira Hormone Monitor is a part of a growing Femtech movement designed to make reproductive hormone data available to women in an at-home setting. It promises a lot, but it's not cheap, so many women have some questions before they're ready to buy: How does Mira work? What will it require of the user? What kind of data does it actually provide? Does it work for every cycle type and every reproductive intention? Can it confirm ovulation? How? Can it be used with fertility awareness methods? To answer these questions and more, Caitlin invited Rose Mackenzie, Clinical Manager at Mira and FABM coach to talk about Mira and offer some special promotions to our listeners. Why special promotions? Because Mira is one of our sponsors for the upcoming book promotion of Caitlin's new book: Woven Well: A Christian Woman's Guide to Reproductive Health, Fertility, and Wholeness. More info below! NOTE: This episode is appropriate for all audiences.GUEST BIO: As the Clinical Manager at Mira, Rose assists healthcare professionals and providers in successfully using Mira with their patients. With over 10 years of experience as a natural family planning instructor trained in the Marquette Method and Sympto-Thermal Method, Rose has extensive experience assisting women using the Mira monitor for hormone monitoring and health promotion including women tracking their hormones in regular cycles, irregular cycles, postpartum amenorrhea, perimenopause, and chemo-induced menopause.SHOW NOTES:ALL pre-orders for Woven Well: A Christian Women's Guide to Reproductive Health, Fertility, and Wholeness are entered to win a Mira Hormone Monitor and Ultra4 Wand Kit! (Value of $250+) What does this mean for you? See below.#1. Pre-order the book here or here or your favorite book retailer. #2. Upload your receipt info here. Congrats! You're entered to win!* Want to order a Mira now? *Remember: Clients of Woven Natural Fertility Care receive a discount! Reach out to Caitlin for the code!Send Us a Text!Support the showOther great ways to connect with Woven Natural Fertility Care: Learn the Creighton Model System with us! Register here!Get our monthly newsletter: Get the updates!Chat about issues of fertility + faith: Substack Follow us on Instagram: @wovenfertilityWatch our episodes on YouTube: @wovenfertilityLove the content? The biggest gift you could give is to click a 5 star review and write why it was so meaningful! This podcast is provided for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute providing medical advice or professional services. The information provided should not be used for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, and those seeking personal medical advice should consult with a licensed physician. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health provider regarding a medical condition. If you think you may have a medical emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room immediately. Neither Woven nor its staff, nor any contributor to this podcast, makes any representations, exp...

LESSON 135 If I Defend Myself I Am Attacked. Who would defend himself unless he thought he were attacked, that the attack were real, and that his own defense could save himself? And herein lies the folly of defense; it gives illusions full reality, and then attempts to handle them as real. It adds illusions to illusions, thus making correction doubly difficult. And it is this you do when you attempt to plan the future, activate the past, or organize the present as you wish.You operate from the belief you must protect yourself from what is happening because it must contain what threatens you. A sense of threat is an acknowledgment of an inherent weakness; a belief that there is danger which has power to call on you to make appropriate defense. The world is based on this insane belief. And all its structures, all its thoughts and doubts, its penalties and heavy armaments, its legal definitions and its codes, its ethics and its leaders and its gods, all serve but to preserve its sense of threat. For no one walks the world in armature but must have terror striking at his heart.Defense is frightening. It stems from fear, increasing fear as each defense is made. You think it offers safety. Yet it speaks of fear made real and terror justified. Is it not strange you do not pause to ask, as you elaborate your plans and make your armor thicker and your locks more tight, what you defend, and how, and against what?Let us consider first what you defend. It must be something that is very weak and easily assaulted. It must be something made easy prey, unable to protect itself and needing your defense. What but the body has such frailty that constant care and watchful, deep concern are needful to protect its little life? What but the body falters and must fail to serve the Son of God as worthy host?Yet it is not the body that can fear, nor be a thing of fear. It has no needs but those which you assign to it. It needs no complicated structures of defense, no health-inducing medicine, no care and no concern at all. Defend its life, or give it gifts to make it beautiful or walls to make it safe, and you but say your home is open to the thief of time, corruptible and crumbling, so unsafe it must be guarded with your very life.Is not this picture fearful? Can you be at peace with such a concept of your home? Yet what endowed the body with the right to serve you thus except your own belief? It is your mind which gave the body all the functions that you see in it, and set its value far beyond a little pile of dust and water. Who would make defense of something that he recognized as this?The body is in need of no defense. This cannot be too often emphasized. It will be strong and healthy if the mind does not abuse it by assigning it to roles it cannot fill, to purposes beyond its scope, and to exalted aims which it cannot accomplish. Such attempts, ridiculous yet deeply cherished, are the sources for the many mad attacks you make upon it. For it seems to fail your hopes, your needs, your values and your dreams.The “self” that needs protection is not real. The body, valueless and hardly worth the least defense, need merely be perceived as quite apart from you, and it becomes a healthy, serviceable instrument through which the mind can operate until its usefulness is over. Who would want to keep it when its usefulness is done?Defend the body and you have attacked your mind. For you have seen in it the faults, the weaknesses, the limits and the lacks from which you think the body must be saved. You will not see the mind as separate from bodily conditions. And you will impose upon the body all the pain that comes from the conception of the mind as limited and fragile, and apart from other minds and separate from its Source.These are the thoughts in need of healing, and the body will respond with health when they have been corrected and replaced with truth. This is the body's only real defense. Yet is this where you look for its defense? You offer it protection of a kind from which it gains no benefit at all, but merely adds to your distress of mind. You do not heal, but merely take away the hope of healing, for you fail to see where hope must lie if it be meaningful.A healed mind does not plan. It carries out the plans that it receives through listening to Wisdom that is not its own. It waits until it has been taught what should be done, and then proceeds to do it. It does not depend upon itself for anything except its adequacy to fulfill the plans assigned to it. It is secure in certainty that obstacles can not impede its progress to accomplishment of any goal that serves the greater plan established for the good of everyone.A healed mind is relieved of the belief that it must plan, although it cannot know the outcome which is best, the means by which it is achieved, nor how to recognize the problem that the plan is made to solve. It must misuse the body in its plans until it recognizes this is so. But when it has accepted this as true, then is it healed, and lets the body go.Enslavement of the body to the plans the unhealed mind sets up to save itself must make the body sick. It is not free to be the means of helping in a plan which far exceeds its own protection, and which needs its service for a little while. In this capacity is health assured. For everything the mind employs for this will function flawlessly, and with the strength that has been given it and cannot fail.It is, perhaps, not easy to perceive that self-initiated plans are but defenses, with the purpose all of them were made to realize. They are the means by which a frightened mind would undertake its own protection, at the cost of truth. This is not difficult to realize in some forms which these self-deceptions take, where the denial of reality is very obvious. Yet planning is not often recognized as a defense.The mind engaged in planning for itself is occupied in setting up control of future happenings. It does not think that it will be provided for, unless it makes its own provisions. Time becomes a future emphasis, to be controlled by learning and experience obtained from past events and previous beliefs. It overlooks the present, for it rests on the idea the past has taught enough to let the mind direct its future course.The mind that plans is thus refusing to allow for change. What it has learned before becomes the basis for its future goals. Its past experience directs its choice of what will happen. And it does not see that here and now is everything it needs to guarantee a future quite unlike the past, without a continuity of any old ideas and sick beliefs. Anticipation plays no part at all, for present confidence directs the way.Defenses are the plans you undertake to make against the truth. Their aim is to select what you approve, and disregard what you consider incompatible with your beliefs of your reality. Yet what remains is meaningless indeed. For it is your reality that is the “threat” which your defenses would attack, obscure, and take apart and crucify.What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good? Perhaps you have misunderstood His plan, for He would never offer pain to you. But your defenses did not let you see His loving blessing shine in every step you ever took. While you made plans for death, He led you gently to eternal life.Your present trust in Him is the defense that promises a future undisturbed, without a trace of sorrow, and with joy that constantly increases, as this life becomes a holy instant, set in time, but heeding only immortality. Let no defenses but your present trust direct the future, and this life becomes a meaningful encounter with the truth that only your defenses would conceal.Without defenses, you become a light which Heaven gratefully acknowledges to be its own. And it will lead you on in ways appointed for your happiness according to the ancient plan, begun when time was born. Your followers will join their light with yours, and it will be increased until the world is lighted up with joy. And gladly will our brothers lay aside their cumbersome defenses, which availed them nothing and could only terrify.We will anticipate that time today with present confidence, for this is part of what was planned for us. We will be sure that everything we need is given us for our accomplishment of this today. We make no plans for how it will be done, but realize that our defenselessness is all that is required for the truth to dawn upon our minds with certainty.For fifteen minutes twice today we rest from senseless planning, and from every thought that blocks the truth from entering our minds. Today we will receive instead of plan, that we may give instead of organize. And we are given truly, as we say:If I defend myself I am attacked.But in defenselessness I will be strong, and I will learn what my defenses hide.Nothing but that. If there are plans to make, you will be told of them. They may not be the plans you thought were needed, nor indeed the answers to the problems which you thought confronted you. But they are answers to another kind of question, which remains unanswered yet in need of answering until the Answer comes to you at last.All your defenses have been aimed at not receiving what you will receive today. And in the light and joy of simple trust, you will but wonder why you ever thought that you must be defended from release. Heaven asks nothing. It is hell that makes extravagant demands for sacrifice. You give up nothing in these times today when, undefended, you present yourself to your Creator as you really are.He has remembered you. Today we will remember Him. For this is Eastertime in your salvation. And you rise again from what was seeming death and hopelessness. Now is the light of hope reborn in you, for now you come without defense, to learn the part for you within the plan of God....

Join Dan and Stephanie Burke as they continuing speak with Bernhard Streisselberger on the pathway to spiritual maturity, how to grow in self-knowledge, and finding wholeness in God! Resources: Thresh Mountains Coaching & Counseling - website Spiritual Warfare and Discernment of Spirits - video series Discernment of Spirits for Beginners - Dr. Mary Ruth Hackett & Dan Burke Into the Deep - video series Finding Peace in the Storm - Dan Burke Into the Deep – Dan Burke Spiritual Warfare and the Discernment of Spirits - Dan Burke The Contemplative Rosary - Dan Burke and Connie Rossini A Catholic Guide to Mindfulness - Susan Brinkmann OCDS SpiritualDirection.com/Events - website Avila Institute for Spiritual Formation EWTN Religious Catalogue – online

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