Sean and I are realizing our past approach to parenting may be the effect of unconscious thinking. Doing what has always been done without ever really questioning WHY. Not allowing space for new ideas to emerge, new ways of viewing our children and the role we are playing in their lives.

Maybe our children are here to teach US instead of the other way around. Their ability to show us things about ourselves should be approached with great respect and reverence.

Dr. Shefali Tsabary, author of The Conscious Parent is teaching us how to think outside the box when it comes to parenting. How to stop viewing our children as an extension of us, fueling our ego as we attempt to mold them into the person WE want them to be. Instead recognize them as individual souls who are here to experience life the way THEY want to experience it.

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Eduardo Ballesteros shares his story growing up as a Mormon then choosing a different spiritual path as he began seeking further light and healing.

He is now helping others heal and grow spiritually as a Yoga Instructor and Crystal Bowl Sound Healing Practitioner.

Sound healing relaxes the body, clears the subconscious, calms the mind, and activates your body’s natural healing systems. Resulting in a sense of expanded awareness and wholeness.

These healing vibrations revitalize the mind, body, and spirit, and leave you feeling reborn. Sound Healing influences our emotional bodies as well as our physical bodies. Different sound vibrations interact with our physical and energetic bodies in beneficial ways.

Benefits:
– Emotional balance
– A clear mind with increased focus
– Feel lighter in your body
– Deeper and restful sleep
– Stress relief
– Harmony and flow
– Deep relaxation when other meditation techniques fail

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The conscious mind is only the tip of the iceberg. Below the water exists something so vast and majestic that you can’t help but want to explore it.

I’ve recently gained a new understanding and appreciation for the unconscious mind, the mind that takes over while we sleep.

Have you ever wondered if your dreams have meaning?

In this episode I dive a little deeper into the purpose of dreams and how you can use them to discover new insights, gain clarity, creativity, solutions to your problems, and access inovative ideas.

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This episode is our tribute to Dieter Uchtdorf whom we still love and respect.

We talk about our resolutions to stop suppressing the parts of us we thought were “bad” or irreverent, and embracing our whole selves.

Also our realizations about the purpose of life.

Sadhguru said it so beautifully,

“What is the purpose of life? Never ask why with creation, you just ask how. There are plenty of tools and technologies that can show you how, but if you ask why, there is no why. We can tell you stories.

I can tell you a story that many of you would love to believe. If I speak about something that is not yet in your experience, you have only two choices. Either to believe me or disbelieve me. If you believe me, you will not get any closer to reality. If you desbelieve me, you will not get any closer to reality. It is just you will either have a positive story to tell, or a negative story to tell. Stories are good solace, but never a solution.

You must decide in your life, are you looking for solace, or a solution? If you’re looking for solace I will tell you a nice story. If you’re looking for a solution, then never ask beyond your present level of experience, because you will be forced to believe me or disbelieve me. It will not solve anything for you.

So why creation?

Never ask why. Ask how to navigate through this creation, we will show you many ways. Never ask why because then we will have to go into a detention which will force you to believe or disbelieve.”

~Sadhguru

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About 8 months ago I experienced an intense panic attack, I talked about it in season 1 episode 18. This experience can also be described as the “dark night of the soul”, something I now see as the turning point and most essential part of my growth. My dark night of the soul happened due to my deep desire for spiritual growth. I felt stagnant, and was craving more. Although I was taught that my religion was the one and only way to receive the fulness of blessings in this life and for eternity, I couldn’t help but wonder if I was missing something. Why did I feel so unfulfilled. As I began diving deeper into my beliefs and desire for spiritual growth my sturdy foundation began to unravel before my eyes. I suddenly realized my life long religion was not LITERALLY true. It was similar to the day my mom told me that Santa Claus wasn’t real, except 100 times more devastating. 

Going through this faith crisis has given me many gifts, but mostly it has given empathy and a deeper understanding of how to cope with fear and anxiety. 

It reminds me of the movie Small Foot. There’s a part where the curiosity of a group of Yetis could not be contained anymore and they HAD to know if there was anything below the clouds. They were always taught that what lies below their little “perfect” world, was the great nothingness. Most of the Yetis just trusted that knowledge to be true even though not a single one of them ACTUALLY knew it. 

So one day that little group of curious Yetis got up the courage to explore the “nothingness”. They attempted to safely explore with a rope attached to Migo (the main character), while the others slowly lowered him into the clouds. As they were lowering him, he just kept calling out, “I see nothing… still just clouds”. The length of the rope was beginning to run out and coincidentally they lost their grip of the rope and Migo bagan his long decent deep into the clouds. 

I can 100% relate to that feeling he must have felt as he was falling, not knowing if there was anything below, probably thought he might just continue falling never reaching anything at all.

This is how I would describe my panic attack, or dark night of the soul. Which reminds me of something Brene Brown said,

“Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness, will we discover the infinite power of our light.”

Eventually Migo landed and found himself in a whole new world he never even knew existed. 

So my point here is that as much as we FEAR fear, it can actually be an incredible opportunity for growth and self discovery. As we experience it, we begin to learn how to work WITH it rather than against it.

Another one of my favorite quotes that I mention often is “Fear is excitement without the breath”. I read that in the book called The Big Leap. It was one of the first books I read once I took that leap into the great nothingness. Or what I thought might be nothingness, but couldn’t contain the desire of my soul to explore. I had a deep yearning for further “light and knowledge” and could not satisfy my hunger for spiritual growth within the religion I was a part of. 

“You may lose your sense of false certainty – but you will soon realize that certainty and control are always illusions, and are also the sources of much judgment, arrogance, insensitivity, and even violence.  As your certainty fades, you will find that reality (over false certainty) is a much stronger foundation upon which to build a life.  You will exchange a life based on false certainty for a life based on reality.”

~ John Dehlin (Mormon Stories Podcast)

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