There is an old Zen proverb: “Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.” In this episode we talk about what figuratively and practically that means for you in your evolution and path to enlightenment and a greater sense of peace, happiness, and well-being in your life. LIKED THE PODCAST?If you’re …
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EP-24 Getting Your Brain to Slow Down
How do you get your brain to slow down and get rid of the monkey chatter? Do you feel like you are worrying too much, or feel pulled in many different directions? In this episode we share how we slow down our brains and get centered when life seems frenzied. FOR FULL SHOW NOTES AND …
What Literary Character Would You Be?
Do you have a favorite literary character? Someone you respect and admire whether fictional or factional? In this episode we talk about two of ours and transport you to Arthurian England and a dirty old man, to see what we can learn about embracing and embodying these sometimes alter-egos to help us be more authentic …
E332 Lookin’ Out My Back Door
Do you know who the biggest band in the world was in 1969. The answer may surprise you. We discuss learnings from this band, and how locking the front door, lookin’ out your back door, and just spending some time sitting on the porch may be just what the doctor ordered to change your life …
Ep-23 Are Emotions Important to Your Spirituality
Whether you like it or not, we are all incarnated as humans, and humans are emotional beings. Are emotions a good, bad, or ugly thing? If we are feeling an emotion you’d rather not feel, what do you do? In this episode we jump into this an so much more, including some practical practices we …
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Ep-22 Getting Out of a State of Low Frequency
You’ve probably felt “low” at times. You aren’t depressed or sad, but you don’t really feel motivated either. Are you being lazy? Are you doing something wrong? How to you get back to high vibration and frequency? In this episode we share some of our own experiences when we’ve felt this way, how we get …
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Ep-20 Things Happen For You, Not To You
What does everything happens for a reason mean spiritually? What is the difference between good and bad? Maybe it’s just a matter of judgement and perspective. In this episode we discuss how even when we may judge somethings as good or bad, those “bad” things may actually be good for us and a way to …
Ep-19 Your Relationship with Yourself
How do you know if you have a good relationship with yourself? Why your relationship with yourself is so important, and what does it have to do with spirituality? In this episode we discuss why your relationship with yourself is so important to your emotional and spiritual well-being and why being so hard on yourself …
E327 How Long Are You Going to Cry Over Spilled Milk?
You’ve heard “never cry over spilt milk,” but whether you realize it or not you are spilling milk every day of your life. What’s important is what you do when you spill the milk. Do you clean it up, or let it sit there getting sour, stinky, curdled and cry about it or beat yourself …
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Ep-18 Are You Copying or Creating?
“True growth is not growing inside of someone else’s system of values and beliefs… It is finding and discovering your own.” In this episode we take Jason’s first impression about the quote and discuss how true growth really happens when we stop copying others and start authentically creating as an artist… and we just may …
