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My guest this week is Worthy Stokes, author of The Daily Meditation Book of Healing: 365 Reflections for Positivity, Peace, and Prosperity (affiliate link). I got so much out of this discussion with Worthy. She had a near-death experience a few years ago that opened her eyes to the full reality of who she is. A lot of what I love about her perspective is that she fully values all parts of our experience—our bodies, our minds, our spirits, our souls. The full range of what it means to be a human. We talked about allowing ourselves to be deeply human. We explored ways to manage anxiety. And we thought a lot together about what it means to heal. Does it mean that we have to regain complete physical functioning? Or is there a kind of full healing available even when we continue to struggle with symptoms? Toward the end of our conversation, she offered a simple but powerful listening exercise. Other topics we touched on included: What it means to be a “presence activist” The transformational energy in presence Using mindful presence to harness the creative energy of the mind Not valuing the spiritual above other parts of ourselves and our experience My guest’s near-death experience in 2014 Devaluing our human experience and overvaluing our “soul essence” Spiritual materialism Allowing ourselves to be deeply human The spiritual experience of simply being more fully what we already are The drawbacks in saying that any part of our experience is more important than another Questioning who the “I” is who has experiences The three closely connected spheres of intelligence that Worthy experienced during her NDE: Self as a soul, or the luminous ribbon of consciousness – free of identity, personality, gender, culture Personality, with signatures of feelings, body, gender, cultural shape Her one particular lifetime Richard Brown's teaching that we are mostly made of space See this book: The Healing Power of the Breath (affiliate link) My guest’s views on God How we can recognize the magnitude of what we are Finding calm by diving deep into ourselves How to manage anxiety Remembering that there’s a part of us that is untouched by this life What it means to heal Healing as aligning with our reality, or healing our relationship with this life Giving ourselves permission to let our hearts break The wisdom of doing less A powerful listening exercise that’s easy to do Worthy Stokes is originally from Montana, and divides her time between there and New York City. She is the creator of HeartMind Meditations, which she developed after surviving a nearly fatal brain injury when she was hit by a passenger van. You’ll hear her describe what happened. Worthy beat the odds and survived. Her primary contemplative focus is trauma-competent mindfulness. As a survivor of traumatic brain injury, her rich understanding of posttraumatic growth is informed by her personal experience of debilitating tragedy, and the life-affirming journey of renewal that came after. And yes, “Worthy” is her given name. She was named for her grandfather, Dr. Worthy, who was a gifted physician. Find Worthy online at her website and on Instagram.
Beth Clayton (your host) is a soul-based life coach who loves to help open-hearted people break free from their own self-sabotage, outdated thought patterns, and past pain so they can deepen their relationship with their own soul’s intuition, speak their truth courageously and fulfill their most authentic desires. She knows that creating in our external world is all about going deeper into our internal world and finding our own liberation. She is the creator of multiple group programs, retreats, and transformational workshops, leading hundreds of truth-seekers toward finding freedom and ease in their relationship with themselves, empowerment in their lives, and the ability to take powerful and consistent action toward their dreams. Worthy Stokes is the founder of HeartMind® Meditations and author of The Daily Meditation Book of Healing. She is a polytrauma survivor who lives with life-altering sensory loss since overcoming a complicated traumatic brain injury overseas at the age of 34. Her vivid Near Death Experience, a decade of advanced meditation training that began in 2008 with her introduction to Dzogchen, and her battle to retrieve her very own mind inspired her career of teaching meditation and coaching at the nexus of nondual wisdom, emergent neuroscience, and open awareness. Worthy is endorsed by world-renowned medical doctors teaching at Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and beyond. She is widely known as a healer for the healers among award-winning CEOs, trauma survivors, psychologists, and somatic experts who appreciate her interdisciplinary perspective of meditation. Worthy has spent countless hours with her neurologists reviewing maps of her own brain, she has followed clinical research studies since meeting the late Dr. Candace Pert in 2007, and she directly apprehends the mystical complexity of transformation. She guides online meditation programs and shares her free time with her husband, who is an adult literacy expert; he helps her read and write. Worthy holds a bachelor of arts degree in Journalism, and she is currently writing her second book. And yes, crazy but true, Worthy is her real, given birth name;) In this session, we will dive into: How emotional contagion is surfacing in collective trauma and how we are experiencing it on an individual level. How Worthy’s NDE, polytraumatic brain injury, and sensory loss prepared her to ground herself amidst uncertainty and change. The trauma that can happen in quarantine that is associated with activation and simultaneous entrapment. The gifts present in the time of quarantine and global pandemic. How Worthy learned to start living sixty seconds at a time. Why hitting rock bottom and acceptance of “terrible circumstances” is the first step in liberation. Why denial can be super valuable as we travel toward acceptance. How denial keeps us separate from our intelligence and resourcefulness. Why we always receive the information we need to heal at the exact moment we are strong enough to handle it. The importance of giving ourselves and others grace as we learn and transform. Check Worthy Out: My heart travels with you, Worthy Stokes www.worthystokes.com Instagram: @iamworthystokes Founder of HeartMind® Meditations Author of The Daily Meditation Book of Healing HeartMind® Meditation Teacher on Insight Timer You can find Beth at: @bethclaytoncoach on Instagram www.soulbodylife.com Grab your free e-book, “The Secrets in Your Sabotage” at www.soulbodylife.com/free-stuff Beth’s TedX RIGHT HERE.
My guest this week is Worthy Stokes, author of The Daily Meditation Book of Healing: 365 Reflections for Positivity, Peace, and Prosperity. I got so much out of this discussion with Worthy. She had a near-death experience a few years ago that opened her eyes to the full reality of who she is. A lot of what I love about her perspective is that she fully values all parts of our experience—our bodies, our minds, our spirits, our souls—the full range of what it means to be a human. We talked about allowing ourselves to be deeply human. We explored ways to manage anxiety. And we thought a lot together about what it means to heal. Does it mean that we have to regain complete physical functioning? Or is there a kind of full healing available even when we continue to struggle with symptoms? Toward the end of our conversation, she offered a simple but powerful listening exercise.
In this beautiful and moving conversation with Worthy, I was left with my heart full and my hunger for life affirmed. Worthy's story about her near death experience and her brave heart moved me to tears. I know this episode will help breathe life back into your soul and soma. One of my favourite quotes from Worthy in this episode (so hard to pick just one):"Our bodies and souls are so intelligent that there can be a microscopic spontaneous shift in the fabric at any moment."Worthy Stokes is the founder of HeartMind® Meditations and author of The Daily Meditation Book of Healing. She is a polytrauma survivor who lives with life-altering sensory loss since overcoming a complicated traumatic brain injury overseas at the age of 34. Her vivid Near Death Experience, a decade of advanced meditation training that began in 2008 with her introduction to Dzogchen, and her battle to retrieve her very own mind inspired her career of teaching and coaching at the nexus of nondual wisdom, emergent neuroscience, and healing.Worthy is endorsed by world renowned medical doctors teaching at Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and beyond. She is known as a healer for the healers among award winning CEOs, trauma survivors, psychologists, and somatic experts who appreciate her groundbreaking, interdisciplinary perspective of healing.Worthy has spent countless hours with her neurologists reviewing maps of her own brain, she has followed clinical research since meeting the late Dr. Candace Pert in 2007, and she directly apprehends the mystical complexity of transformation.She shares her free time with her husband, who is an adult literacy expert; he helps her read and write. Worthy holds a bachelor of arts degree in Journalism, and she is currently writing her second book. Worthy is her real, given birth name.Worthy's book you can purchase here: The Daily Meditation Book of Healingwww.worthystokes.comInstagram: @iamworthystokesAuthor of The Daily Meditation Book of HealingHeartMind® Meditation Teacher on Insight TimerQUICK LINK TO JOIN MY CONSCIOUS BODY SUPPORT GROUPSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21191833&fan_landing=true)
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Join me this week as I go really deep with author and NDE amazing being Worthy Stokes as we navigate:Sentient, Spiritual, and Somatic IntelligencesGrowing up spiritual and walking away The deep gift of being aliveUnconditioning ourselves from our beliefs so we can listen, and of course:The power of I don't know.
In this gorgeous episode of RECLAIM, I am honored to be in conversation with Worthy Stokes, a survivor of severe brain trauma who offers her insightful thoughts on what it means to be a spiritual being through the lens of neuroscience. Enjoy! To grab the show notes including all the information on today’s guest, go to www.ThaisSky.com/podcast/88 and please consider supporting this podcast through Patreon at Patreon.com/ThaisSky. If you like what you heard, it would mean the world to me if you took a moment to leave a review and share this podcast with your community. Thank you for your generous attention. XO Thais Socials // Website: www.ThaisSky.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/IamThaisSky Instagram: www.instagram.com/IamThaisSky Patreon: www.Patreon.com/ThaisSky
Episode #4: Worthy Stokes. She Survived Death. Here is What She Learned About Living. Why Worthy is Fiercely Human: Worthy is a near-death experience and polytraumatic brain injury, a survivor. After years of her own spiritual awakening and deepening her understanding of neuroscience and as a devout Buddhist, Worthy was hit by a 15-person passenger van while traveling in Seoul, South Korea and spent 120 minutes outside of her body, going into her near-death experience as a Buddhist and coming out with “no religion.” She shares what she experienced on the other side and why she chose to come back to her body. Worthy has beautifully simple yet profound messages about how to live life powerfully now as a human and from a place of curiosity and what moves us. She is also a gifted meditation teacher with an ability to uplift individuals at the deepest levels of neurological intelligence. Her Heartmind intelligence meditations exude breath-taking awareness in a fresh, secular approach to ancient spiritual truths. Her compassionate insights reflect years of mystical study worldwide. Oh, and don’t put her in a spiritual guru box, because she wants none of that. She is also pragmatic, sexy, super intelligent, funny and bad-ass. This conversation was SO illuminating and fun. I will carry it with me for a long time to come and hope you do too! In this episode, we deep dive into: ● Worthy’s five-year journey of spiritual awakening and mystical studies, including studying neuroscience and become a devout Buddhist practitioner (living with monks and learning from Tenzin Rinpoche (Tibetan Dzogchen) preceding her near-death experience and how it prepared her for it. ● What she experienced in the 120 minutes outside of her body and how that has impacted how she lives now. ● Her experience coming back from death to a broken body and injured brain that resulted in the loss of 2.5 senses. ● What she came to understand when she was unconscious and hemorrhaging (but was actually superconscious). ● The importance of coming to know and understand ourselves before we ask anyone else to understand us. ● The gifts in being able to hold anguish and beauty in our experiences at the same time. ● The liberation in rejecting labels and choosing when to put them only when it works for us at that moment. ● The difficulties of coming back to a world that had no context of the awareness she acquired. ● How her near-death experience affected how she lives every day and why her 95-year-old self is the spirit guide driving her Maserati these days. ● What heart-mind meditation is and how Worthy serves the world these days. Resources mentioned: Molecules of Emotion by Candace Peet Our Town by Thorton Wilder HeartMind Meditation on InsightTimer Where you can Find Worthy: @thisworthylife on Instagram www.thisworthylife.com HeartMind Meditation on Insight Timer-- https://insighttimer.com/WorthyStokes Where you can Find Beth: @bethclaytoncoach www.soulbodylife.com Grab your free e-book, “The Secrets in Your Sabotage)--www.soulbodylife.com/free-stuff Beth’s TedX-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7q5I7_FsfI
Worthy Stokes is a gifted meditation teacher whose experience of trauma and contemplative healing has made her a leader in trauma-informed mindfulness. She guides others into deep mind-body intelligence through her HeartMind Meditations, which weave together neuroscience and ancient spiritual truths. Worthy embodies deep compassion, presence, and the miraculous capacity of our body intelligence to heal and come more fully alive.In our conversation, Worthy and I explore-How true authenticity asks us to be fully present with all of our experiences and emotions-How fatigue after high school led Worthy to work for a year in the wilderness in Montana and embrace the silence and intelligence of nature-How Worthy’s practice of silence and surrender sustained her when she found herself in the ICU recovering from a traumatic brain injury and Near Death Experience-True mindfulness as being tuned in to what’s real and slowly down to greet others-Worthy’s choice to “love what she had left” and honor her mind as her living, thinking, feeling ally-How mainstream mindfulness language around developing “no-mind” and “quieting the mind” is actually violent towards our mind’s beautiful intelligence-Worthy’s exploration of heart intelligence after her cognitive mind was compromised, and how she created HeartMind meditations with devotion and the desire to heal herself-How you can join Worthy on a guided 10-day HeartMind journey into the oracle of youMentioned in the episode:Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of InsightMore from Worthy Stokes:www.thisworthylife.comHeartMind Meditations on Insight TimerFollow Worthy on InstagramWorthy on Spirit Guides RadioWorthy on the Woke and Wired PodcastPlease subscribe, rate, review, and share this episode with a friend!Connect with Lauryn:Instagram @laurynmirandawww.laurynmiranda.comhello@laurynmiranda.com
In 2014 Worthy Stokes was hit by a 15 passenger van in South Korea and nearly hemhorragged to death from a complicated, traumatic brain injury. At the moment of the collision, she immediately transported to the other side of the veil, where she rested and learned in a state of expanding luminosity for 120 minutes.When she sensed her body was about to shut down for good, she chose to return. She miraculously awakened in the ICU, where she says she began the most harrowing journey of her life and discovered new healing abilities.Worthy joins us today on Spirit Guides Radio to inform us of the lessons she learned about living the most out of life from her brush with death—and what she has to say is definitely going to surprise you. This isn’t your typical “love and light” from the other side conversation.Learn more about Worthy at: thisworthylife.comLearn more about Arizona and Morgan at: spiritguidesmagazine.com
Meditation teacher Worthy Stokes miraculously survived a traumatic brain injury and consciously came back from a near-death experience to bring wisdom about consciousness, presence and heart wisdom to all of us. In this episode we discuss: The answers Worthy received to her questions on consciousness and source during her NDE, and how she's bringing it into her work The most powerful part of being a human and being an entrepreneur How to nourish your creative energy A practice you can do anytime to expand your consciousness and sense of connection The underestimated power of presence The surprising etymology of the word “Worth” Joy as a path to more success and fulfillment and how to know what brings you joy How do we access the source? Are we even meant to get there? Creativity and love are as gateways to your potential Living from the HeartMind wisdom How technology can impact our connection with our heart wisdom The importance of trusting your instincts Mentioned in this episode: Insight Timer App (download and search for “Worthy Stokes”) Molecules Of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine book by Candace B. Pert Connect with Worthy Stokes: thisworthylife.com @thisworthylife on Instagram “When we choose to run a business, we choose to bring life into something.” - Worthy Stokes About Worthy: At 34 years old Worthy Stokes was hit by a 15 passenger van in Seoul while out for a morning run and listening to U2; she began to hemorrhage to death. She miraculously awakened 2 hours later from a complex, traumatic brain injury; she used her years of advanced practice with meditation to recover against all odds. She is the executive producer of HeartMind Meditations, which organize your neurological intelligence via the auditory cortex for optimal coherence that lasts. Irrevocably changed by her Death Experience, she applies a sacred, mystical devotion to her private sessions and public talks. She lives with anosmia, ageusia, and acute motion blindness. She is advanced in Deep Frequency Listening since sustaining a complicated sensory loss; her capacity to transform the power of pain into the power of possibility is exceptional, nuanced, and clear. See the episode webpage here. Connect with Woke & Wired: If you enjoyed the podcast, please share it. Rate and review the show on iTunes. Your rating and review help more people discover it. Subscribe on iTunes. New episode drops every Thursday! DM me on Instagram @wokeandwired and let me know your favorite takeaways and show requests.