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I welcome you to the final episode of A Beautiful Thought.Looking around us, we might notice there are many strange inversions in the world. Things seem to be the exact opposite to what they’re supposed to be.For example, once there were gran
If you’re a verbal thinker, you’re likely a highly linear thinker. That can mean it’s easy for you to get stuck in a thought pattern.One thought leads you to the next, then to the next, and then it leads you back to the first thought. As our b
Often a memory will come to mind, and we get a glimpse of something we did. In that moment we might sense an incongruence.We grasp for a sense of self, an idea that we had about who we were. That leads us to resist what actually happened. The
In Allen Carr’s Easy Way To Quit Smoking, he describes a situation where a recent former smoker has a thought: “I want a cigarette.” Carr informs us that, even though we might literally have the thought telling us we want a cigarette, that does
Our breath is a bridge between our conscious and unconscious minds. At any moment, we can take control of it and start to influence those deeper parts of ourselves.One classic technique is the Nadi Shoshana, or "channel cleansing" breath. The
Matt Welsh is a musician from the United States, creating conscious music intended to bring awakening to the mind of the listener. Matt is known by his stage name “BLUVBU” (“Be love, be you”).In this interview, Matt tells a story of teenage he
Many people receive their view of the world primarily through television and news sites, without putting into context what the media is telling them. They may even have personal experience seeing the media lie about some subject they know well
In Swami Muktananda’s Play of Consciousness, he recounts the story of visiting his guru, Baba Nityananda. Muktananda observes Nityananda fulfilling his morning routine - spending an hour or more worshiping himself.In another part of the book,
When we grow as individuals, we might find ourselves making new classes of error that were previously unimaginable to us. For example, having gained new confidence in speaking with friends and strangers, we make a faux pas and we don’t know how
In this age of information, when we’re curious about something it can be easy to pull out a smartphone and search for what we’d like to know. The ease of access to information means we don’t always have to stop to think any more.There are many
Amina Mara is a conscious dreamer of broad and profound experience, now having lucid dreams as often as 3 times a week - a frequency which is uncommon even among recognized dream practitioners. Amina is also the host of the Dream World Podcast
Going through our lives, we might be able to arrange things so we can have a series of good experiences, maintaining the outside world in a careful balance, so it seems like we are happy.In some ways, this is dysfunctional, and in an extreme c
If you live in Australia or the United States and tell people you’re travelling to Mexico, or Colombia, they might tell you that you’ll be lucky to return alive.Even many Mexicans might tell you they’re scared to go to Michoacán or other beaut
Memories surge in our minds and we cringe, wondering why we had to do that thing which caused us so much shame. On one level, we identify strongly with the past version of ourselves who did it, and on another level, we strongly resist it - not
In Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Quit Smoking, Carr and his students describe how quitting smoking can appear difficult - even being built up as a momentous task by anti-smoking campaigns. However, once one proceeds with correct understanding, the a
Oksana Fajardo is a coach living in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, helping people leave unhealthy relationships and feel secure in themselves.To get there, she had to leave a toxic relationship herself, realizing the nature of the relationship, stud
The man in the hall said “Much of what I do is motivated by a desire to make up for the bad things I did in the past.” Many in the room stood up in the circle to show that they resonated strongly with what he’d said, that they too wanted to hea
In the Lakota tradition, they have this phrase “Wakan Tanka”, which is often translated as “Great Spirit”, meaning God or Divine Nature. However, some scholars suggest that a more literal translation is “Great Mystery”.Many times we might face
When we were children, many of us couldn’t wait to grow up. We wanted to be independent, to be responsible for ourselves, to have the freedom that adulthood would afford us.Now we may be grown, and we think about those carefree days of our you
In many parts of the world, people are charmed by images of the Buddha. They liked to put them on a mantlepiece or in their garden as ornaments, perhaps without thinking about the deeper meaning of these statues.In Thailand, the image of the B
Peter Young is the managing director of the Free Cities Foundation, an organization which seeks to promote economic development by providing greater security than is normally provided by governments, at a price far lower than ordinary taxes.Ye
At certain dark times in our lives, we might begin to wonder if it’s worth going on. We might start to think about taking our own life, and even seriously considering it.If we’re in that position, it can become apparent that we really have not
In Keith Johnstone’s book Impro, he describes a situation where there is a circle of actors improvising in verse. As the circle goes around to one of the actors, he comes up with some incredible rhyme that has the actors gasping and the audienc
We might feel fear about doing something, taking a risk in our careers, traveling to a new place, or taking a workshop that is outside our comfort zone.These fears might make us uncomfortable. However, they are truly an expression of how much
In the movie Concussion we can watch the story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the physician who discovered that many football players in the USA were receiving a form of brain damage known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The repeated blows to the he
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