By Jon Bernie
Inspired Aliveness with Jon Bernie
What is it that we really need to happy and peaceful? Recorded April 13, 2024.
In order to listen to the pain, fear, aversion, or whatever is rising in this moment, compassion is essential. This means allowing and being one with these feelings, so they may be truly heard and felt in a space of...
It’s too easy to demand perfection of ourselves and others. However, as you begin to allow yourself to be the flawed human that you are, you learn to give yourself the compassion, tenderness, and support that you need to truly...
No matter what is going on in your life, the realm of peace and equanimity is always available. All it takes is to simply stop, relax, and open. Recorded December 2nd, 2023.
Vulnerability is the feeling that you aren’t safe – the survival, egoic program. You aren’t going to get rid of it or transcend it. However, if you begin to truly allow it, you may find that you feel more alive,...
When is it enough? When is it not enough? As with all things, finding out how much to practice is all about finding balance. Recorded October 7, 2023.
As you learn to get out of the way more and more, you begin to align with that which has been guiding you all along. It’s not how you think it should be, or how you want it to be,...
When you begin to learn to take care of yourself in a way that you’ve always needed, your nervous system will calm, your body will soften, and your heart will begin to open and radiate the love that you intrinsically...
Our lives can be so hectic and busy that we can naturally take this “doer” perspective into our practice. It’s important to simply relax, drop the effort, and allow yourself to open to the natural stillness and simplicity that is...
Just like you can’t make a plant grow, you can’t make yourself become transformed, healed, or integrated. Instead, learn to get out of the way and allow the intuitive guidance system to show you the way. Recorded June 17, 2023.
It’s so easy to be focused on what you don’t have, how it isn’t, and what you want. However, gratitude is essential for your healing, transformation, and integration. Give yourself some gratitude for what it took to be here today,...
The journey is not easy, and you may not like it, but you ultimately have no choice. Thankfully, you already have all that you need. As you surrender more and more to this consciousness that you are, things open up,...
You and your existence are the ultimate mystery. It is impossible to understand, so instead simply learn to allow the mysterious force of your existence to guide your own unique way. Recorded March 11, 2023.
If you are struggling to understand, simply relax into effortless “not knowing” and let the power and wisdom of your life-force guide you. Recorded Jan 21, 2023.
You don’t need to look to any external authority or reference to find the truth that is already within you. All it takes is the courage and willingness to simply stop, be still, and listen to that which is already...
It’s important to continually learn to take care of your garden – the garden of your body, mind, and heart. Although gardening is not an easy job, and requires much work as we travel through this life, the light of...
It’s okay to be human, and it’s okay to ask for what you want or need. However, this type of true asking is something you offer up into the space with your whole being without any expectation. Recorded Sep 3,...
When true practice is happening, you aren’t in the way. When your attention isn’t muddled by effort or person will, true clarity arises. (Recording taken from an online Satsang with Jon Bernie on November 12, 2022.)
Returning home allows us to begin to welcome and embrace all parts of ourselves, even those parts that have been marginalized, forgotten about, or that have been in pain. Recorded Oct 8, 2022.
What’s the difference between productive suffering and unproductive suffering? With productive suffering, you aren’t fighting against what is by trying to stay in control, but you’re simply being honest about how you feel.
Do you know what the downside to thinking you know is? It’s that you might be wrong. Instead, allow the vulnerability of not knowing, so that you may truly find out.
It’s not something that is earned through effort. It is not something achieved through achieved via willpower. Yet, it requires our discipline and attention. Keep returning and allowing the natural healing process that you are to show you the way.
You already are that which you are looking for, but how do you open to that possibility when the one wants to surrender is also the one who is in the way? What works is dropping yourself — dropping who...
It can be difficult to stop and become available for what you don’t want to feel. However, by learning how to simply be here for yourself, you may find that things begin to bloom all on their own. Recorded 3/22/2022...
The way of healing and transformation is not something that you can achieve or understand, yet it is revealed as you relax and simply get out of the way. Recorded 12/18/2022 in San Francisco.
You honor yourself by being here. It’s a gift that you give yourself, to show up and be present. Recorded 1/8/2022 in San Francisco.
True surrender is enlivening. It’s energizing. It’s empowering. Because you’re letting go of being who you think you are, as awareness slowly, over time, becomes more embodied in your tissue, in your mind, in your heart. That’s the purpose of...
Authentic, unique inner guidance is available to each one and every of us, all of the time. The question how often are we really aligned with it? How often are we authentically listening, seeing, feeling, and deeply, intuitively knowing that?
Awakening is the beginning of understanding what practice is. As you bring attention to what is, and you’re not in the way, then naturally, miraculously, consciousness merges into matter and you become more and more radiant, more free, and your...
Beliefs are the cause of all suffering. So pay close attention to what you believe. A useful belief might get you to where you are, just don’t let it be the prison of your eternal unhappiness, but rather the gateway...
Keep your mind open and free of any conclusions. Ask deeply within yourself, or into your true connectedness: “May I be open and clear to receive what is being given.” When you are filled and touched with grace, with presence,...
When you sit, stop, and tune in, you’re entering an infinite realm of discovery and possibility. So what you think about it, the beliefs you have about it, what you’ve heard about it – all that can go into the...
The secret way to freedom is to allow yourself to become intimate with the unconscious struggle that is programmed into you. It’s a struggle you don’t even necessarily know you have until you stop, eliminate as many distractions as possible,...
Enlightenment and awareness are happening naturally. That’s what brought you here, that movement within you. Natural healing is nothing more than the process of awakening and becoming liberated. A flower growing in a garden has its own wisdom that produces...
It’s important to remind yourself to not get caught in that force field of struggle, of worry and concern, but rather to bring more attention to and just be present with what’s arising, whatever it is, so that it can...
I want to wish you a very happy and healthy new year. I know we’ve had one of the hardest years in history, but here we are. We’re still here. So just allow yourself to be here, right now. As...
Give yourself appreciation for all the hard work you’re doing to be who you are, and to face the life that you have each moment. Give yourself some gratitude for your effort, some loving kindness and compassion for your struggle,...
Practice is the art of refinement of life. Right now, are you here, or are you thinking about something? Are you aware of your whole body right now? Are you aware of your breath right now? Every moment is completely...
This is a powerful, powerful time for us as a human species. Faced with these incredible challenges, we have the opportunity to learn how to really be present, and to allow that learning to continually evolve. So the question I...
Rather than looking outside ourselves, we begin to see that every moment is another opportunity to receive the unique teaching that is being freely offered. This podcast on self discovery was recorded at the Santa Cruz, CA. satsang on 09-14-2019....
Let yourself discover the space that allows for any and all perspectives. This podcast on self discovery was recorded at the San Francisco, CA. satsang on 09-23-2019. Hear other satsang talks on mindful living, spiritual healing and finding happiness by...
Being here is the point and everything else is extra. This podcast on self discovery was recorded at the Santa Cruz, CA. satsang on 02-09-2020. Hear other satsang talks on mindful living, spiritual healing and finding happiness by subscribing to...
You are starting to develop a healthy, intimate relationship with yourself which heals and reveals the beauty that you are. This podcast on self discovery was recorded at the Santa Cruz, CA. satsang on 12-07-2019. Hear other satsang talks on...
Since it’s a new year, we need a fresh start, internally and externally. And what we are always discovering on this journey is that a fresh start is really what this path is about. Recorded 1/6/2020 in San Francisco.
You really do have to like a good challenge for this journey, this exploration, this discovery; because it is challenging. Doesn’t it force you to face what you didn’t want to feel? What you didn’t want to be aware of?...
To receive the truth, you must become empty. So we learn to allow the emptying of the vessel of our conditioning, until the vessel itself dissolves into light, into presence, connection, being — and we surrender to that. We realize...
We are continually learning to return back to presence regardless of where we get stuck. This podcast on self discovery was recorded in San Francisco, CA. on 09-09-2019. Find calm and healing in this relaxing, mindful living Podcast by...
Find calm and healing in this relaxing, mindful living Podcast by Adyashanti-lineage teacher Jon Bernie. Let go of living in the mind and be happy! This podcast on self discovery was recorded at the San Francisco, California satsang on October...
Find peace and healing in this relaxing, mindful Podcast by Adyashanti-lineage teacher Jon Bernie. Let go of living in the mind and be happy! This podcast on spiritual healing and self reflection was recorded at the San Francisco, California satsang...
Find calm and healing in this relaxing, mindful living Podcast by Adyashanti-lineage teacher Jon Bernie. Let go of living in the mind and be happy! This podcast on spiritual healing and mindful living was recorded at the San Francisco, California...
