Sharing her views on spiritual healing through toxic relationships, Soul Evolution Coach, Healer, and Reiki Master Jean Atman talks about the difference between pain and suffering, and how suffering is optional. She calls toxic relationships our best teachers...
Blaming and judging seem almost required to play the game of life, but the truth is that if I'm angry with you, the problem is me. Host Johnny G looks at a powerful spiritual axiom: whenever we are upset by the wrongs of another, there is a wrong in us also.
Mahima- just the one name, thank you very much- joins Refractive to encourage listeners to find your GENIUS- and embrace it! Speaker, author, and founder of The Mahima Mindset, Mahima discusses breaking free of the societal programming in Zimbabwe that threatened to keep her life WAY smaller than she deserved, and the decision to step into her full power. She talks about two important forms of purpose (your genius and your mission) that are important to investigate, and a challenge to all of us to check for self-sabotage around abundance. Mahima also reviews the link between beliefs and the beautiful life we manifest for ourselves. Enjoy this extraordinarily rich episode that is chock-full of love, wisdom, and gentle guidance.
We might not realize it for years! If we aren't staying present, pursuing our purpose gets in the way of the full, joyful life we deserve. We can get so caught up in chasing an "ideal" life purpose that sounds good on paper that we never get to actually take steps towards living it out. Daniel Mangena, best-selling author, speaker, and facilitator, reminds us that finding our purpose is pointless if we aren't following our inner guidance all along the way. Dan describes how "purpose" is a static concept that helps us chart a path, but that our spirit, soul, or higher self doesn't subscribe to the idea of a lifelong mission statement. Ultimately, forcing a life to fit a pre-determined or outdated purpose is frustrating, painful, and keeps us out of the flow of life and abundance.
This episode, Spiritual Visions, features Marlon Fixico, at times a reluctant participant in his own fantastic spiritual path. Marlon, born into the Cheyenne and Seminole tribes, recounts the colorful, complicated, seemingly indirect path that led him from Native American spirituality, to Christianity, to a rejection of Christianity, and finally to his own rich formula of spiritual living. Descended from a long line of spiritual leaders and healers, Marlon, an out gay man who wrestled with his rejection by society and religion during the AIDS epidemic, shares his experiences with sweat lodges, visions, auras, alcoholism, prophecies, a near-death experience in which he was reunited with his parents and brother, and his wonderful next chapter in life: becoming a Medicine Man.
Ever since childhood we are taught to follow societal norms at the expense of our intuitive guidance. The impact of this habit is a loss of connection with our intuition- the very guidance that saves animals from tsunamis and that tells babies not to let certain people hold them. While it does take effort, learning to use intuition is not impossible. It's not even difficult. This episode offers practical guidance on how to re-connect with our highest wisdom in order to step into the life we were born to live.
Life can feel so cruel. All that you hope for is often within sight, but seems to be kept just out of reach by fate, God, evil, or any number of other mysterious, powerful forces. It's time to free yourself from limiting beliefs. This episode's guest, Rebecca Wiener McGregor, is ready to spill the hot tea for you on why the life you want is so achingly close and yet so unreachable, and- heads up- you may not like the answer. Rebecca explains that YOU are the cruel tease that keeps your best life out of your grasp, and only you can stop it. You are the hero you've been waiting for! But wait- if you don't even realize you've been doing this to yourself, how can you fix it? This episode explores a simple, but not easy, resolution to this widespread source of pain.
If you feel disconnected from the love of others, or would like to deepen the awareness of your connection to all creation, enjoy this special guided meditation on receiving love from others. It celebrates the infinite flood of love that surrounds you at all times.
To thine own self be true! To find a career that fits, you have to go inside. Career Strategist Keyia Kersey recommends 3 steps for anyone looking to make a career pivot: 1: Assess your true nature, 2: Identify your values, 3: Do a SWOT analysis. Certified in the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment, Keyia presents a strong case for why investigating your beliefs about who you are and what you want is the best insurance against a frustrating career and points you in the perfect direction.
Refractive digs into 5 game-changing teachings from the 12 Steps of Recovery: (1)Design Your God, (2)Shame Lives in Darkness, (3)Life on Life's Terms, (4)Keep Your Side of the Street Clean, and (5)Compare Means Despair. Guest Phil Reese of the Whole Phil Podcast and host Johnny G discuss how these essential, life-changing truths unlock the power of healing and growth for everyone- not just those in recovery.