In this episode spiritual teacher Ayala Gill shares three fundamental questions with which to approach difficult situations life throws our way:

⭐️What can I learn from this moment?

⭐️What’s asking to be loved?

⭐️What can I give in return?

Andrew and Ayala also discuss the nature of suffering, the difference between suffering and pain, animistic cosmology (the inherent luminous intelligence intrinsic to all things), and what it means to “live in sacredness”.

Ayala Gill is a teacher of meditation, yoga and other spiritual practices. She has taught for 25 years, and guides silent retreats in Europe which include yoga, meditation and ceremony. She is currently writing a book that is provisionally titled Living in Sacredness. Her next guided retreat is in October 2023, at Le Moulin de Chaves, France

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This week supporters will hear:

⭐️Turning anger to compassion

⭐️Three things Ayala Gill knows to be true.

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Visit Ayala Gill’s website. 

Next week, June 26-30 2023, Ayala will be teaching a week of daily meditations online with Sangha Live from 7-8am UK time (recordings available later the same day).

Learn more about Ayala Gill’s guided silent retreats 

Read and/or subscribe to Ayala Gill’s Substack 

Follow Ayala Gill on Facebook @ayala.gill

You might also enjoy Andrew’s interviews with Matthew McKay on Loving in the Face of Pain and Paul Gilbert on Compassion and Self-Acceptance.

Read Andrew’s book Wake Up and Change Your Life: How to Survive a Crisis and be Stronger, Wiser and Happier

Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall