Authentic Living

The word “power” is fraught with all kind of connotation, including “control,” “manipulation,” “abuse,” “bullying” and yes, even the word “help.” But these are all externalized views of that word. From an internal perspective power can be seen as the attainment of an authentic stand with and for your Self. Fear, on the other hand, is the foundation from which most of us live our daily lives—whether we admit it or not. Not so long ago many of us were touting the word “fearless,” and claiming our rights to climb the tallest mountain and kayak the fiercest river. But fearlessness is not the same as power, when power is attained internally. In fact, from the internal perspective fear is a springboard for power. This week we are going to be talking all about power, and not just personal power, but something that could more accurately be described as transpersonal power. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about your own power.

We’ve heard it again and again recently, teen suicides based on bullying, particularly the bullying of someone who is or is perceived to be gay. And then we heard Joel Burns, openly gay City Councilman from Ft. Worth, Texas, in his passionate and tearful plea to gay and lesbian teens to hold on to life—don’t let bullies drive you to suicide—because it’s going to get better. Why are these children bullied? Because we don’t know yet how to receive and accept differentness. This week, we are going to be talking with someone who has struggled with and overcome issues of differentness through his own coming out process—the first openly gay member of the American Psychological Association, and the author of the book “Loving Someone Gay,” now in its 5th Edition. Don Clark has much to say to us about this acceptance process—one that is going to be essential to our culture if we are to survive. So, don’t miss this one.

Though much of what we hear and see in media tells us differently, the only way to live a meaningful life is to live in poignant touch with the soul. Thomas Moore, our guest for today, is an expert on the soul. With 3 videos, 10 audio recordings and 18 books, including his original bestseller, “Care of the Soul,” and others such as “Dark Night of the Soul,” and “The Original Self,” Thomas Moore has enchanted us all. While he does not paint a pretty picture of happy-ever-after proportions, he urges us to consider the depth of existence, to be faithful to our original and unvarnished Selves, to love deeply and with care for the soul. In his latest book, “Care of the Soul in Medicine” he teaches both healthcare workers and patients to participate in matters of the soul as a part of the co-creative endeavor of healing and helping. If you are or know someone in the field of medicine or receiving medical care, this show is for you. Come listen to Thomas and glimpse again your own soul.

When do we say enough is enough? In this day in which our economic crisis seems to be swallowing huge chucks of what we have previously valued, we are ramping up our schedules and our stress levels trying to get back to how it used to be. And in the process we are forgetting all about our earlier plans to pursue happiness and peace. Wayne Muller, bestselling author of Sabbath, as well as three other books: Legacy of the Heart; How, Then, Shall We Live?; and Learning to Pray, is going to challenge us with the question: What if we already have enough? His latest book, A Life of Being, Having and Doing Enough is the topic of our conversation this week and presents that very same challenge. At some point, rest, retreat and reflection become the answer. At some point we have to say, Enough already! Is today your day?

How did we come to this place in our collective psychology in which we value image more than authenticity? What do we fear our bodies can do to us—in terms of our social value? Are other people’s images of us so very important that we will kill ourselves to maintain a higher image in their eyes? How did they get to be more important than we are? Our guest today has lived through and overcome her own body image issues and now lives a happy and fulfilling life. In her book, “Love Your Body, Love Your Life, Sarah Maria outlines a five-step process designed to help people break free from Negative Body Obsession and discover the beauty that they already have inside of them. From there, they can learn to create the life and the body they want. Don’t miss this important opportunity to learn how to put an end to body image issues.

What is your mythology? Do you know? Or, are you living it out as if? There are many different mythologies by which we run our lives, by which we run our economy, by which we run our politics, our religions, our fates. Even our desires are very often based in our mythologies. Could it even be that our mental/spiritual/physical/emotional health is based in our mythologies? How can we activate principles that seem to be applicable for all of us if both our cultures and we as individuals are living a myth? How do we know what is real and what isn't? If I am interpreting life events and my own identity according to a myth, then how do I actualize my truest Self? This week we are going to spend some time together exploring the variant mythologies by which we run the world. And we are going to expose the real truth beneath the mythologies. Don't miss this one! It might just make the difference.

There are many out there today who call themselves healers. Some are truly gifted; some are, to put it bluntly, charlatans. Dr. Eric Pearl ran a successful chiropractic practice for 12 years when his patients started feeling his hands on them even when he wasn't touching them. He started receiving reports from them that they had been healed from devastating diseases. His work has elicited great interest from top doctors and medical researchers at hospitals and universities worldwide, and he has documented his patient's healings in six books, including the bestselling The Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself soon to be printed in its 33rd language. He speaks internationally, has appeared on many television programs and has spoken by invitation at the United Nations. His seminars are featured in various publications including The New York Times. We are going to be talking to Dr. Pearl on Authentic Living giving you a chance to decide for yourself. Is it real? Tune in to find out.

Dr. Larry Dossey, is back for the second time to talk about his latest book, “The Science of Premonition: How Knowing the Future Can Help Us Avoid Danger, Maximize Opportunities and Create a Better Life.” Now not only do we find that premonitions are common, but we can learn of the science behind them. Dr. Dossey is known around the world for his keen ability to bring scientific understanding to spirituality and for his advocacy for the role of spirituality in healthcare and wellness. He is the author of eleven books, including the New York Times Bestseller “Healing Words,” During his distinguished career as a practitioner of integrative medicine, he helped establish the Dallas Diagnostic Association, served as Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital, and served on Hillary Clinton’s Task Force on Health Care Reform in 1993. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how the mind reaches beyond time.

Dr. Christiane Northrup is recognized both nationally and internationally as the veritable guru of women’s health. A visionary pioneer who recognizes the connection between mind, body and spirit, she has brought that connection to the world of medicine in a way that no one else has yet been able to do. She is an OB/GYN physician and author of two New York Times bestselling books, “Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom” and “The Wisdom of Menopause.” Her third book, “Mother-Daughter Wisdom,” was a 2005 Quill Award nominee and voted Amazon’s #1 book of the year in both parenting and mind-body health in 2005. She has hosted seven highly successful television specials and her own radio show, and has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, The View, and several other prominent shows. We are honored to get the opportunity to talk with her today about her newly revised edition of “Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing.”

We tend to look at healthiness as a product of good nutrition, and a healthy dose of exercise, in combination with good genes, good medicine and good luck. Most recently, we’ve added low stress to that combination. What this means is that we are basically looking to the externals to bring us to good health. But Ivan Rados has a different take on it. Author of the book, “Health: It’s All About Consciousness,” Ivan believes that health and sickness are a reflection of our essential being. In fact, he believes that when we restore consciousness to the flow of Oneness, we restore our body’s natural healthy state. From his perspective then, the body is a part of the plan here—not the workhorse or the enemy. If you would like to live in tip-top condition, tune in.

There are so many of you out there right now conspiring with your fantasies to write that book. You think about it and you wish for it and maybe you’ve even written some of it. But you are still uncertain. Your fears, your dreams and your obligations all line up for the midnight arguments with your soul. You feel that you were meant to write it, but well, you are stuck. This show and the upcoming event put on my Linda Joy and Lisa Tener are for you. Linda is the publisher of the women’s magazine “Aspire” and Lisa is a Writing Coach, and they have joined forces to help you bring your book to fruition. And I want to help them help you. So, get out your pens, your laptops and your courage, and let’s do this thing.

Nash Mourad is a coach, corporate facilitator and trainer, who has written a book called “How to be Right About Everything: An Awakening Journey into Unlearning.” And this week we are talking to him about what it is that we are unlearning and why. He and his partner developed a firm called, Emergent Awareness through which he has served as an executive management consultant for a variety of Fortune 100 companies and government agencies. Nash wants to teach how we can improve our lives by fully accepting others. Further he believes that we choose our experiences and that recognition of this fact offers us peace. In today’s world where relationship with others and personal awareness is going to be key to success, this show going to be vital to understanding how to live it with grace. Don’t miss it.

Back for the second time, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD is here to talk with us about her upcoming online series called “The Dangerous Old Woman: The Power of the Crone: Myths and Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype.” World renowned author of “Women Who Run With the Wolves,” which was on the NY Times bestseller list for 145 weeks, she is an internationally acclaimed poet, Diplomat Jungian psychoanalyst, post-trauma specialist, award-winning social activist and writer, as well as a cantadora, (keeper of the old stories in the Latina tradition). Dr. E, as she is affectionately called by her followers, offers great depth of insight through her storytelling, written works and audio tapes, including: “Warming the Stone Child,” “The Faithful Gardener,” “The Creative Fire,” “The Radiant Coat,” “Mother Night” and several others. Her upcoming event can be found on SoundsTrue.com and will offer six weekly sessions. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about the inner terrain of wisdom.

This whole business of relationship is pivotal point in our history. Not only are we looking at primary relationship in a whole new light as we create new ground rules for a new way of relating from love and intimacy rather than security needs, but we are also looking at all of our relationships differently. Work relationships, friendships, race relations, and issues of sexual orientation are all factoring into our new understanding of relationships. Gary Zukav’s latest book “Spiritual Partnership: The Path to Authentic Power” might just pave the way to an entirely new way of relating. According to Zukav, “Spiritual Partnership is partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. It is dramatically different from all previous forms of relationship and serves a different purpose. Spiritual partnerships are vehicles that multisensory individuals use to create authentic power and support one another.” You are not going to want to miss this one.

Joan Borysenko is back this week for the third time to talk with us about guilt, for guilt can be a major block to our resilience factor. Her latest book, “It’s Not the End of the World: Developing Resilience in Times of Change” will be combined with one of her earlier books, “Guilt is the Teacher, Love is the Lesson” in an in-depth discussion of this devilish master craftsman of our lives. In the extreme, many of us live whole lifetimes driven by guilt and responsibility for other people’s stuff. But most of us worry over guilt at least some of the time. It works us over and compels us at times to do things that are not only unnecessary but often come down to downright interference with other people’s lives. And it eats at us from the inside out, through that niggling little voice that just won’t seem to let go until we finally give into it. Well this week, we are going to help it let go. Don’t miss this important discussion.

Like any new thought, humanity has had to experiment with the law of attraction for a while to see if it is really effective. And we have mixed reviews on that front. Some are saying that the law of attraction has brought them excellent results. But others are saying that they struggle and struggle to think so-called “positive” thoughts and eliminate all “negative” energy, but without much change. While this show will not debunk the law of attraction, we might need to think about it from a different angle in order to get consistent results. The show is based on the book, coming out in 2011, currently titled “The Law of Attraction: The Unadulterated Truth About Why it isn’t Working and How it Can” by the show’s host, Andrea Mathews. Don’t miss this opportunity to rethink our current understanding of this law and to find out how a new view of it can help you turn possibility into probability.

This thing about staying young has become quite an important topic today, with many visiting their doctors regularly to keep up with their Botox shots and many others seeking facial change, and launching body work, vitamin and nutrition programs—all in an effort to sustain the grace of youth. But our guest today tells us that the body already knows how to stay young. She is Caroline Sutherland a medical intuitive who has written several books in a series called “The Body Knows,” the latest of these and the topic of today’s discussion called “The Body Knows How to Stay Young.” She has answers for the chronic degenerative breakdown that leads to mobility issues, decrease in hearing and vision, osteoporosis, arthritis and memory loss. And she offers four components of a vibrant-aging program that demonstrate the body’s wisdom and capacity to self-repair. You don’t want to miss this show!

We are fortunate today to have Caroline Myss return for the second time to the Authentic Living show. Caroline is a five-time New York Times bestselling author and internationally renowned speaker in the fields of human consciousness, spirituality and mysticism, health, energy medicine, and the science of medical intuition. After beginning her career as a journalist, she co-founded Stillpoint Publishing, and simultaneously began her career as a medical intuitive working with Dr. Norman Shealy. Over the years she honed her skills to the point that by knowing only the patient’s name and age, she can profile the physical, psychological, emotional and family history. Based on her extensive research she developed the field of Energy Anatomy, a science that correlates specific stress patterns with diseases. Caroline continues to impact the worlds of consciousness and spirituality and to publish bestselling books, the most recent of which is the subject of our talk today Defy Gravity.

It’s in those darkest of moments when we wonder what the heck is going on that we are actually changing in such an alchemical way that we just don’t recognize it until later. Regina Brett has been there and back. She wrote a column on her life’s lessons that by popular demand became a book. God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life’s Little Detours is an inspirational collection of essays and stories about life’s lessons based on a column she wrote after turning 50 about her own life’s lessons. These lessons have now traveled the world from Austin to Australia. One car dealer in Cincinnati hands the lessons out to customers. A Cancer care agency gives them out with every wig. Teachers share them with students. Essentially they have taken on a life of their own. And now, we are going to get to hear all about them. Tune in and see what you might be learning just now.

We generally define faith as a kind of knowing—we believe strongly and therefore trust. Some of us were raised in traditional religious backgrounds in which that kind of faith was considered to be essential to our final post-life ascendance into heaven. And that kind of elegant influence has been around for so many centuries now that it is archetypal—it impacts us in deep unconscious ways that we may not even understand. Further, even when we begin to wonder if that definition of faith is really true, it still nags at us, as if that understanding of faith has somehow become cellular. Mostly this means that mystery has the power to shatter our grounding so that our first response to it is to try to define and explain it. But, what if we were to learn that it is leaning into the mystery that is actually faithful? What if we began to settle into the deeper regions of ourselves only when we can acknowledge what we don’t know? Tune in to learn how to have faith in mystery.