Authentic Living

It is hard enough to have one overwhelming emotion take over our thoughts and behaviors. But it is even more difficult for most of us to have two or three very opposite emotions. Our thoughts tell us that we should argue for these positions so that one of the emotions “wins.” But is that really what is the most effective plan? Is it possible that conflicted emotions can help us to heal, even help us to plan our lives in some way? Well, today we are going to be talking to Relationship Strategist and Emotional Fitness coach Jennifer Williams to answer some of these questions. If you have ever experience conflicted feelings, this show is for you. Don’t miss it.

There are so many self-help books, seminars and conferences out there which provide us with a technique, or two or three, meant to be used to heal us, and bring us happiness. But the real keys to healing and happiness are found right here inside of us. Through her own inner journey of healing, Trish Bishop has come to understand this concept and present it to others through her new book, “The Question Journey,” in a way that allows them, not to come to the experts for answers, but to find their own answers. We do seem to resist this—we really do want others to be held accountable for our lives. But the truth is that no one is accountable but us, because no one can take the journey but us. Further, there is no journey outward, for only the one inward is real. Trish’s new mission, after serving as an IT consultant for Fortune 500 companies, is to educate and inspire others to wake up and choose to live consciously. Don’t miss this opportunity to begin or enhance your inner journey.

No one wants to feel sorrow. It is the emotion we most avoid, for it makes us vulnerable to the onslaughts of deep emotional and psychic shifts. We live in a world in which the social pressures and rigid schedules of life forbid our sorrow. Yet sorrow changes us, allows us into the closets where we have hidden the authentic Self. Our guest today is going to talk to us about sorrow and how we might facilitate a deeper soulful journey through sorrow. Author of “The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief,” Frances Weller is a Psychotherapist, writer and soul activist, who has founded “The Wisdom Bridge” to provide educational programs to bring together wisdom from indigenous cultures and the Western culture. His special gift is synthesizing and integrating psychology, anthropology, mythology, alchemy, indigenous cultures and poetic traditions. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the gift of sorrow.

How do we enhance the possibility of awakening more and more to the power of our own souls while we are still in the body? Obviously there are many paths, but one that is getting more and more attention is regression therapy and hypnosis. Today we are talking to Dr. Linda Backman, licensed psychologist and regression therapist, and author of Bringing Your Soul to Light. Linda has been in private practice for more than 35 years and is committed to guiding regression clients, as well as speaking, writing, and training others in soul regression hypnotherapy, both in the US and abroad. She and her husband started The Ravenheart Center in 1997, a Mystery School in Boulder, Colorado, dedicated to guiding individuals to discover their soul path. Linda’s second book, The Evolving Soul, will be published by Llewellyn Worldwide this year. Are you in the process of awakening? Do you want to learn how to help others awaken? This show is for you.

There is definitely a shift taking place on a global level, a shift in which people are beginning to look inward for the answers to life’s basic and profound questions. Our guest today, Beverly Lanzetta, PhD, will help us all understand this emerging consciousness. Author of six books, including, “Emerging Heart: Global Spirituality and the Sacred” and “Radical Wisdom: A Feminist Mystical Theology” she has a unique and beautiful understanding of this global consciousness. Professor of Religious Studies at several liberal arts colleges, and ordained Interfaith Minister and monastic, Beverly has spent the last 30 years guiding individuals from diverse backgrounds and spiritual orientations in the contemplative live. Her own contemplative journey has led her to a deep understanding from which we will all today benefit. We are all together experiencing this shift in consciousness. If you’d like to understand what’s happening to you in this regard, don’t miss this show!

Dr. Joan Borysenko appears, for the second time, on the Authentic Living Show today to discuss her latest book, “It’s not the End of the World: Developing Resilience in Times of Change.” One of the most popular and sought after speakers in the field of health, healing and spirituality, Joan is world-renowned for her expertise in the field of Mind/Body medicine. A three-time graduate of Harvard Medical School, with a Doctorate in Medicine (MD) and two post-doctoral fellowships in behavioral medicine and psychoneuroimmunology, her brilliance is uniquely matched by her warmth and inspirational presentations. She is the author of several best-selling books, including her first, “Minding the Body, Mending the Mind,” “Inner Peace for Busy People,” and the topic of last year’s Authentic Living show, “Your Soul’s Compass.” You know, if we are forced to endure these tough times, we might as well get something out of it. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn the art of resilience from Dr. Joan.

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.

What does it mean to “first, know thyself?” Does it just mean that we know the list of habits and the sum total of all the ways we act and think and believe? Or is there something deeper? Avikal Costantino talks with us today about what it’s like to live without a mask, for he is the author of two books, Freedom to Be Yourself: Mastering the Inner Judge and Without a Mask: Discovering Your Authentic Self. Where does the mundane fit into your life, mediocrity or the ordinary? And what is your hope of transcending mediocrity and the ordinary? Is that need to transcend just a mask? Or is it the real you? What about conflict? Where do we put it in the scheme of things? Should we always avoid it in order to say we are good people? How does goodness define us? How can you tell the difference between the mask and the real? These are just a few of the questions we will ask and answer on this show, talking with Australian author and owner of the Institute of Integral Being. Don’t miss it.

The world was moved a few years back when Cherie Carter-Scott published her bestselling book, If Life is a Game, These are the Rules. It is a simple, but profound rendition of what we can expect on the journey. Not knowing the simplified rendition of why we are here, and what we can expect can keep us running into the walls we find everywhere in our consciousness. But Carter-Scott’s book provides us with a template for living that will not soon be forgotten once it is absorbed. And we are going to be talking with her today about these rules for the game of life. So, if you are wondering what the heck is going on—tune in. You are not going to want to miss this exciting and powerful show.

Carol Bowman, internationally known pioneer in reincarnation studies, is our guest this week. Carol is the author of “Children’s Past Lives” and “Return from Heaven” both of which are now classics in the reincarnation field. Her research on spontaneous past-life remembrances in children has profoundly impacted her field and authenticated the whole idea of reincarnation. She has also been practicing past-life regression therapy with adults for almost twenty years. Often invited to be a guest on TV and radio, she has appeared as a reincarnation expert on Oprah, Good Morning America, Unsolved Mysteries, A&E, Discovery Channel, ABC Primetime, the BBC in England, and on The Art Bell Show. She just returned from lecturing in Brazil at an international conference and has also lectured in other countries around the world and in national educational institutions. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from a world-renowned expert on reincarnation.

Are you looking for more joy, more passion, more depth? Caroline Myss, a practicing mystic and our guest for today, offers an open door to the Castle that is your own soul. Caroline started her career as a nurse through which service she slowly came to accept her innate ability as a medical intuitive. And through her practice as a medical intuitive she began to write bestselling books, including but definitely not limited to: “Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can,” “Anatomy of the Spirit,” “Sacred Contracts,” and the topic of discussion today, “Entering the Castle.” The mystical experience we have when entering our own souls is the beginning of real life. Based on St. Teresa of Ávila’s metaphor of the interior castle, Entering the Castle helps us to explore the seven mansions of that Castle and each room in each mansion, in order to become more attuned to our own souls, our inner Divine nature—our true Selves.

We don’t generally think of awakening as a process of accepting what is. But our guest today has been working in Great Britain to awaken a generation of spiritual inquirers to the experience of abiding presence and peace in our ever-shifting world through that very process. Jeff Foster answers questions like “How can we find an effortless ‘yes’ to this moment?” “How do we stop running from ‘the mess of life’—our predicaments, our frustrations, even our search for liberation—and start flowing with all of it?” With his book, The Deepest Acceptance, Jeff invites us to discover the ocean of who we are: an awareness that has already allowed every wave of emotion and experience to arrive. We all know that these things are beyond words, and yet, on our show today we will talk, and what we will talk about is how to stop trying to make acceptance and “nowness” happen and start falling in love with what, according to Jeff, has already been allowed.

For some in the Western world considering the divine as feminine not only seems impossible, so engrained have we become with the masculine archetypal God, but for some is thought to be blasphemy. But in the history of sacred wisdom the divine is often found in the feminine archetype. Our guest today, Meghan Don, is the author of The New Divine Feminine, in which she describes several methods, several stories, and many meditations for accessing the divine feminine. Why would we need to do that? One answer is that wisdom itself, found in the sacred texts as Sophia, is feminine in nature. Another is that the feminine archetype leads us inward to find our deepest authentic selves. If you are seeking a deeper union with the divine, this show is for you.

Today we are so honored to have Iyanla Vanzant here to talk to us about her latest book, Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything. Iyanla Vanzant, NY Times Bestselling author; host of the number one reality show on the OWN network, Iyanla: Fix My Life; and frequent guest on Super Soul Sunday and Oprah’s Life Class, is easily one of America’s most profound spiritual leaders, who empowers individuals all across the globe to live into the truest self. Her body of work spans over three decades and includes CDs, television, radio and on stage performances, 15 published books, and 5 New York Times Bestsellers, which have been translated into 23 languages. Iyanla’s no nonsense approach to helping others to live healthy and whole demonstrates her clear capacity for delivering the absolute truth with love. She warms our hearts while pushing us to grow. Today we are going to get to talk with her about the purpose, the power and the freedom of forgiveness. Do NOT miss this show!

When pigs fly, right? The reason why we don’t consider this a real possibility is not because we are inherently evil people who are striving to be good, but can’t quite pull it off. It’s because we believe we are separate from the Divine. We sit around blaming the Divine for the way things are, praying for the Divine to fix it, when we ARE the Divine! We’ve been taught that it is blasphemy to consider ourselves Divine. And this belief has built our churches to Babel heights. But what if we’ve never really been separate from the Divine? What if the only real blasphemy is in ignoring our inherently Divine nature? Tune in and find out how to wake up, be born to your own “Christ” nature this Christmas.

Today we are so honored to have Gary Zukav and Linda Francis here to talk to us about how we can create our own authentic power. For years now, Gary Zukav has helped us all to see the most complex insights through his use of a language we can all understand. Author of four consecutive NY Times Bestsellers, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, The Seat of the Soul, Soul Stories, as well as The Heart of the Soul and The Mind of the Soul, co-authored by our guest Linda Francis, both of which also became NY Times bestsellers. Gary and Linda’s spiritual partnership has been on-going for sixteen years and they have, through that partnership, impacted the lives of millions of people, through several means including their many workshops and conferences, his many appearances on the Oprah show and the co-founding of the Seat of the Soul Institute, dedicated to assisting people in aligning the personality with the soul, which is the creation of authentic power. Don’t even think about missing this show!

During the past two live episodes, we began to look into the specific root language in the earliest parts of the sacred text Christians know as the Bible. What we have learned is that some of the most basic concepts utilized by the leaders of what I am calling the Mistaken Christianity—the literalistic teachings of fundamentalism—are based in mistranslations of that text and turn out, therefore, to be false. Today we will continue and finalize that discussion moving into what has come to be known as the New Testament to look at the root language of some of the most basic concepts of modern-day Christianity. The root language turns out to be very different from what these teachers are teaching. Don’t miss it.

Last week we began to look into the specific root language in the ancient book we know of today as the book of Genesis. What we learned was that some of the most basic concepts in the Mistaken Christianity—the literalistic teachings of fundamentalism—are based in mistranslations of that text. Today we will continue that discussion adding more to our understanding of what we are actually being told in the sacred text of the Christian Bible about being spiritual beings having a human experience. Don’t miss it.

On another show in the past we discussed an overall summary of some of the mistakes made even by well-intended Christians because of the mistranslations passed down to us. Today we are going to begin a process of getting more specific about some of these mistranslations. What has happened is that fundamentalism—or what many today are calling Evangelical Christianity—is based in these mistakes in translation. If we are going to consider sacred text as a viable source of wisdom and guidance, we need to be careful about how we are translating it. Be here for this—you are not going to want to miss it.

Today we are talking to Dr. Don St. John, author of the book “Healing the Wounds of Childhood,” as this is one of the most important of all of the subjects we could discuss. Very often it is these wounds that keep us trapped, even as we are striving to get past them in some kind of way. How do we grow into our full potential while these wounds remain yet unhealed? How do we increase our ability to receive and absorb love, enjoy more life-giving love connections, deal more effectively with stress and improve our resilience and health all while expanding our sense of who we are? These questions and more will be answered during today’s show. Don’t miss it.