Authentic Living

Is it possible to be authentic while simultaneously utilizing the law of attraction as we've come to understand it? I don't think so. For that law of attraction tells us we must consistently think so-called "positive" thoughts SO THAT we can attract our dreams—dreams of wealth, free time and romance. In other words, it tells us to bargain with the universe like this: IF I think positive, work my affirmations, and my vision boards, THEN the universe will give me what I want. Do we really imagine that the universe needs our puny little bargains? But it IS possible to be authentic and simultaneously utilize the tenets of the new revised version of the law of attraction—for that one does not encourage us to have a bargaining relationship with the divine or with the universe. That one is the one that the ancient sacred texts from several different religions tell us about. That one brings us to conscious awareness of who we really are. Want to know more? Don't miss this show.

What does your voice sound like to you? What do you hear when you speak, or are you even listening? There is so much hype out there right now about "being you," but most of us think that that means wearing the kind of clothes you like to wear and getting a tat to assert your individuality. But who speaks when you talk? Is it really you, or is there some other identity in there who speaks when you talk? Do you have a strong assertive voice in some situations and a weak frightened voice in others? Do you wonder if people even hear you when you talk? And when you talk, do people often seem to find difficulty understanding what you mean? Do you find that people either dismiss what you say or even avoid listening to you at all? Finding our own voice is essential to coming into the body of our own authenticity. But how do we do it? This show is going to tell you how. Don't miss it.

Relationships are the singular most powerful, potent and potentially life changing experiences we can have—and not just those primary relationships such as spouses or partners. All of our relationships have the power to offer us potent information, and the potential to change our lives. In fact, we have a relationship with everything else in our lives: with time, with objects, with our emotions, with our thoughts, and yes, with other people. How do we turn these relationships into authentic relationships? How does one have an authentic relationship with time? And how can we develop an authentic relationship with that spouse or partner. This show is going to answer those questions. So, tune in. You don't want to miss it.

Who is your best self? What does it mean to have a best self? How do we find and begin to live from that self? Today, we are going to be talking to Sara Wiseman—for her third time on the show—about this concept of becoming a "best self." Spiritual teacher and intuitive Sara Wiseman is the author of Becoming Your Best Self, Writing the Divine and Your Psychic Child. A popular presenter, she is a featured columnist for Retailing Insight, top contributor to DailyOM, and hosts her radio show, Ask Sara. She has released four healing music CDs with her band Martyrs of Sound. And she also provides private psychic consults. There's a lot of talk out there about working to toward "excellence" and "higher self" and "self-improvement." What does all this mean to you? Tune in to find out.

The Sanskrit word for it is shaktipata, and it means "bestowing the energy" or "lighting the lamp." In Buddhism, we learn from the Udâna of "an unborn, an unbecome, an unmade, an uncompounded" which provides us an escape from all that is "born, become, made and compounded." From there we can learn that to the Buddhist, perhaps grace is transcendence. In the Christian faith it is more or less defined as the unearned mercy and love of the divine. I love the Sanskrit definition because it gives us a working image. Grace allows room for the soul to have a say in our lives. It gives us a sense of life that runs deeper than that sense of it we get from the stories we tell of our lives, our suffering and our victories. Somehow, from somewhere comes this lighting of the lamp, this bestowing of energy and we are alive, if even for a moment, in a whole new way. What does this mean? And is there a way to access this "it" more readily? Want to know more? Don't miss this show.

You cannot read a paragraph of New Age or New Thought information without finding the word Ego in there somewhere. The Ego is thought—by so many teachers, even master teachers—to be the enemy. It is that part of us that wants us to fail, that wants us to be unloving, unkind and inconsiderate, to be afraid and to live inauthentically. In that way that old Ego sounds a whole lot like that old devil, Beelzebub, Iblis, Shaitan, the Dragon, the Serpent, Abaddon, Belial, the father of this world, the god of all lies, Lucifer, etc. This idea of the Ego has us believing that we must fight against it. But wouldn't this mean that Ego fights Ego? Surely the divine doesn't need to fight, right? What if we've misunderstood? What if the Ego is just a liaison between the inner and outer worlds? Wouldn't fighting it then mean losing that liaison? Is it possible that this view of Ego is but another dualistic stance serving only to keep us unaware of our true nature? Don't miss this life-changing show.

There's so much talk out there about emotions and what we should do about them. Some say we should just avoid the so-called "negative" ones and others say those are some of the juiciest in terms of what they have to tell us about life, ourselves and the divine. What do you say? Well today out guest is going to give us his own wealth of knowledge about emotions. He is Raphael Cushnir, author of six books, including the topic of our discussion today and his latest, The One Thing Holding Your Back: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Connection. Cushnir is a leading voice in emotional connection and present moment awareness and has shared his unique approach on O, the Oprah Magazine, Beliefnet, Spirituality and Health Magazine, Psychology Today and the Huffington Post. On faculty at the Esalen Institute, the Omega Institute and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, he also couches individuals, groups and organizations. So, if you are wondering what to do with your emotions, don't miss it.

Dr. Brian Weiss comes to the Authentic Living Show this week to help us find new levels of healing with regard to past life regression. He'll be appearing at the upcoming I Can Do It Conference in Atlanta, GA to discuss this same topic and today we are fortunate to have him come here to give us a preview and to help us understand past-life regression and why it helps us heal and grow. Dr. Weiss is best known for his best-selling book Many Lives, Many Masters, and his scientific exploration of a topic, which in the field of psychiatry is still considered by many to be bogus. His work is considered by most to be earth-shattering in that it changes the entire view of who we are and what we are doing here. So, you are not going to want to miss this show.

How do we know who to follow? Too often we choose our leaders because they appeal to an unmet need rather than because they are true leaders and we end up used, abused and even, in some cases, dead. Unfortunately there are still too many of us willing to fall into line behind the others ahead of us, without ever questioning why. We see this in politics, with the current propaganda of fear encouraging followers to line up to vote their fear. We see it in religions that respond to their members with control rather than compassion. We see it in the false prophet, or charlatan who tells us who to be instead of encouraging our own self-exploration. How do we recognize these false prophets? And even if it's not a false prophet or a charlatan, how do we know if a teacher is teaching us something that isn't really true, or isn't true for us? This show is intended to boldly enable us to choose our leaders wisely. You are not going to want to miss this one.

One of the places in our lives where we are least encouraged to be true to our own authenticity is at work. In fact, people who are honest and forthright at work are often considered to be naïve or even self-destructive. So, how can we be authentic and yet protect ourselves from the sharks that are always circling the waters? Authenticity doesn't mean that you lose your wisdom, give away information that needs to be kept private or even sacred, or allow people to walk on you or take advantage of you. Rather it means that you make the rather radical shift of taking integral responsibility for your days, hours, and minutes at work. Authentic Leadership is one of the areas of Corporate Training that Andrea offers on a consultative as well as training level. We all know, however, that it's really bloody at the top, so how does one become an Authentic Leader? If you are having trouble at work or even if you'd like to prepare for the trouble that is inevitable at work, don't miss this show.