Our Spiritual Life

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

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Our Spiritual Life was honored to be included in the FeedSpot 100 Best Spiritual Podcasts (blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts) in May 2023. 
Please feel free to contact me at any time at [email protected].

I'm a folk singer/songwriter as well as a podcast host, and I begin this episode by singing my new song called Love is Our Way (also the title of a previous episode). I hope you enjoy it. But in the rest of the episode I had a great conversation with my guest Karen Cleveland. She is a spiritual coach who helps people with their connections to everything - the Universe/God, themselves, other people, animals, and the world as a whole. She is also a minister at a Center for Spiritual Living near Seattle. She described how developing a daily spiritual practice changed her life. So Karen and I had an interesting conversation about connectedness, oneness, science of mind, awareness, the law of attraction, communication with animals, and much more. One thing that we absolutely agreed on is that Oneness is central to spiritual awakening, living consciously, and  being happy and in tune with life. One of her key beliefs (and mine also) is that we are not meant to struggle. And if we are struggling or if we are stuck, we can get unstuck. Changing our thinking is part of that, but equally important is to "pay attention to our soul / heart / feelings" and respond to that inner guidance. Science of mind, which is key to New Thought and to the teachings of Centers for Spiritual Living, focuses on having a more structured way of thinking about what we want to create in our lives and using visualization and affirmative prayer. As we were wrapping up our conversation, Karen told us that, whatever is going on in our lives, "There is always hope", and also "The better we can do (in spiritual practice and living consciously), the more we can help others." Very important guidance in these challenging times. She has a podcast called The Connectedness Podcast, and you can learn more about her on her website RevKarenCleveland.com.

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

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Our Spiritual Life was honored to be included in the FeedSpot 100 Best Spiritual Podcasts (blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts) in May 2023. 
Please feel free to contact me at any time at [email protected].

This conversation about transformation, rites of passage, and feminine leadership will be delightfully eye-opening for women - and for empathic men as well - thanks to the insights and knowledge shared by my guest Paula Conroy. Paula is a transformational leader who supports women in transitioning in their life stages in healthier ways in a modern world that is often lacking in that kind of support. She spent many years working her way up in corporate banking in Australia and eventually came to realize just how little the corporate world supports women (and really men as well) in dealing with life in an evolving, holistic, and truly healthy way. Corporate ladders, as many people have observed, tend to be pretty rigid, narrow-minded, and unhealthy... that is my own comment, not hers - but I'm sure she would fully agree. So she set about changing that in her own life, and since October 2020 (in the midst of the global Covid experience) she has been actively supporting women as a leader and coach. She is also a strategy consultant for the Rites of Passage Institute founded by Dr. Arne Rubenstein. We talked about the process of transformation, and especially the Rites of Passage process which she promotes and supports. We talked about "frequency circles" through which she leads groups of women through rites of passage in a safe space and in a nurturing and wise way. And we talked about feminine leadership in a world that so needs greater balance between feminine and masculine principles and greater wholeness in so many other ways. In the future, she will be offering programs (perhaps circles?) for men who want to develop greater "feminine consciousness", and I think that would certainly support healthier and happier marriages. You can learn more about Paula Conroy and what she does by visiting her TheFrequency.global website. And you can learn more about rites of passage at RitesOfPassageInstitute.org.

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

Support the show

Our Spiritual Life was honored to be included in the FeedSpot 100 Best Spiritual Podcasts (blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts) in May 2023. 
Please feel free to contact me at any time at [email protected].

In this episode, I talk about the fact that humanity is slowly awakening and moving toward a new way of being in the world. And I do this in terms of 12 key spiritual lessons I have learned over the last few years. These are lessons that I would hope all human beings are learning at the same time. Here is a summary list, and in the audio I talk about each of these in the time that I have to cover all 12. I give some of these more time and attention than others.

• The world is crying out for change
• The state of the world reflects the level of human consciousness as a whole
• In the last 10 years, we have learned a lot about our true nature
• Humanity needs to awaken!
• "The Return to Wholeness is What We Need Now" - a Deepak Chopra essay
• Pre-announcement of a new private podcast called Humanity Awakening
• We must become more self-aware and choose love and unity
• What does awakening really mean?
• We can choose to awaken right now
• Ideally, we want to move to shared unity consciousness
• We are energy beings and need to be aware of our energy and feelings
• We can be aware of our life purpose by paying attention to our energies/gifts 

All of these lessons can be applied, individually and collectively, to achieving a new way of being in the world. In so doing, we have unlimited potential, and truly can realize "heaven on Earth" if we collectively choose that. 

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

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Our Spiritual Life was honored to be included in the FeedSpot 100 Best Spiritual Podcasts (blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts) in May 2023. 
Please feel free to contact me at any time at [email protected].

My guest today is CK (Kelly) Collins, the author of the book The Swipe Right Effect: The Power to Get Unstuck. In this episode, I talk with Kelly about her book and her powerful story, and she shares a lot of great insights and advice. Basically, she had to deal with a difficult divorce and a  lot of life changes that resulted. Her book title refers to using a dating app and to choosing yourself and loving yourself first before you get into dating and love relationships with others. Her book has ten chapters in which she captured the stories of ten different friends who helped her by providing guidance and advice. Each chapter has an empowerment practice that can make a big difference. The book is all about self-improvement  and how she and her friends all had to deal (at some point in) with getting unstuck from serious life difficulties. In dealing with big life changes and getting unstuck, Kelly took the unusual path of walking the 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago over 38 days and found it to be an incredible, life changing personal/spiritual experience. Near the close of the conversation, Kelly said "It's all about making choices. Your choice to put yourself first is so powerful... It can change your life forever." Choices are about quitting some old things as well as starting/doing new things. Visit her website CKCollins.co to learn more about her and the book. And you can get a free ebook at 10WaysToGetUnstuck.com.

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

Support the show

Our Spiritual Life was honored to be included in the FeedSpot 100 Best Spiritual Podcasts (blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts) in May 2023. 
Please feel free to contact me at any time at [email protected].

Daniel Mirfield is an intuitive healer and author living in New Zealand, and in this episode we had a conversation about people finding inner peace and much more. He talked about overcoming difficult times is his own life to get himself back to the true inner peace he had as a boy in rural England where he had a close relationship to nature. He also described how he channeled his book, titled Seedling: The Journey to Inner Peace, as part of his own healing process. This was a very interesting conversation for me because Daniel told us how, as an intuitive child he "saw" or felt the energies behind peoples' words, and over time he learned that "everything happening in life is a transfer of energy". For most of my life I was not naturally intuitive and I did not have that strong sense of energies in myself and the world, but I have since learned how valuable and helpful that is in our approach to life. Daniel pointed out that there is a powerful energetic shift happening on the planet now, and that the next 2 decades will be critical. He said the world needs all people to shift more to the divine feminine principles of love and nurturing relationships to people and the planet. Near the end of the conversation, he gave us tips about organizing our life in terms of "spaces" for work, home, eating, sleeping, etc., to give us some structure to support our nervous systems and mental health. And he taught us the importance of being in the present moment and other guiding principles for life. You can learn more about him at www.ASagesJourney.com.

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

Support the show

Our Spiritual Life was honored to be included in the FeedSpot 100 Best Spiritual Podcasts (blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts) in May 2023. 
Please feel free to contact me at any time at [email protected].

Pay attention to this episode... It was a breakthrough for me and can be for you too. My guest is Swami Nityananda, an American-born spiritual teacher, who earned her Swami title through many years of studying yogic tradition and demonstrating enlightened wisdom. The message in this episode for all of us is that there is an easier way to awaken and experience a life of joy. And that way begins by accepting that we are already part of a universal consciousness - think of it as divine light - that knows us completely and cares about us deeply. It is a living wholeness that includes all sentient beings, and in fact all of existence. Swami defined awakeness as being in contact with the energy of divine awareness. We can choose to expand our light/spiritual self at any time to allow awareness of that living wholeness. When we do, we shift from the illusion of separation to instead directly experience the divine light, its wholeness, its unlimited goodness, and its joyful beingness. At any time, you can accept the world and its problems as they are AND realize that our spirit is greater than any of the world's problems. You can give yourself permission to see yourself as a child (or being) of light, and you can choose to experience human life in a more enlightened and holistic way. She also talked about the shared unity experience of meditating in community. At the end of our conversation, she told us to "Trust in the Light." Swami Nityananda has a new book out that I highly recommend called Awake: The Yoga of Pure Awareness. The book teaches beautiful insights about living in a state of awakeness. You can learn more about her at AwakeYogaMeditation.org.

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

Support the show

Our Spiritual Life was honored to be included in the FeedSpot 100 Best Spiritual Podcasts (blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts) in May 2023. 
Please feel free to contact me at any time at [email protected].

This episode is an engaging and insightful conversation with Kate Heartsong, a confidence coach and author of two important books: Deeply We Are One and Humanity's Cry for Change. Her books provide valuable insights and ways that you can make a difference in the world today. She spoke about having to overcome the traumas of a difficult childhood, and how that led her to transformations based in spirituality. In coaching people on confidence, she says that she always seeks to empower people to know their own greatness. And one of the simple tools she uses is to have the client write down 3-5 things they can acknowledge about themselves and the good things they have in their lives, and then continue to notice at least 1-2 other things or new things each day. We talked about oneness as it relates to both of her books and the importance of everyone's interconnections to others. We also discussed how critical it is for people to raise their consciousness because that helps raise the collective consciousness, which is the only way the world can heal it's very big problems. At the end, Kate urged listeners to "Recognize the brilliance or goodness of who you are." You can learn more about her at JoyfulRadiance.com.

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

Support the show

Our Spiritual Life was honored to be included in the FeedSpot 100 Best Spiritual Podcasts (blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts) in May 2023. 
Please feel free to contact me at any time at [email protected].

This episode is a fascinating conversation with Blair Abee who has studied meditation and spiritual practices for 45 years, and  over the last 10 years he has authored 6 books about meditation, mindfulness, and manifesting. He tells us about how he shifts into a mode of "soul contact" in his writing by which he connects with his higher consciousness (soul). He described it as feeling very illuminated and which I would say is  very much an awakened flow state. And he practices living from that state most of the time, which he calls HiC (his affectionate nickname for his higher consciousness or soul). Very much in line with all spiritual teachers today, he spoke of the importance of realizing that we are eternal beings, spiritual beings having a human experience, and we can get more fully in touch with that by practicing meditation and awareness in ways that are designed to help us do that. Such as...  what he calls Sacred Senses mindfulness practices that shift our senses to a higher, more spiritual way of being aware of what we are experiencing. He commented that the (human) species is at risk if we don't raise our consciousness, which I agree with. In his HiC meditations, which he does in the morning and at night, he becomes aware of being totally one with the All. And he gave us a tool for manifesting the "best possible outcomes" in direct conversation/prayer with our higher consciousness/soul. You will enjoy this episode! You can learn more about Blair and what he offers, including his books, at HiCMeditation.com, and you can get a free copy of his first book at MindfulnessBook.HiCMeditation.com.

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

Support the show

Our Spiritual Life was honored to be included in the FeedSpot 100 Best Spiritual Podcasts (blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts) in May 2023. 
Please feel free to contact me at any time at [email protected].

This episode is about life purpose and divine energies, and my guest, Bill Heinrich, is an expert on those things, having spent many years of his life studying them in depth. Bill is a life purpose coach and executive business coach, but he teaches people not about business but about becoming happy and fulfilled by knowing their true purpose and how to live in alignment with that purpose. He is also the author of the book The Seven Levels of Truth: A Direct Path to Your Life Purpose. He talks a lot about being very aware of the difference between the two major dimensions of who we are: the physical and the non-physical. In his research, he discovered that we struggle in life because we focus primarily on the physical. But we are actually spiritual beings who have bodies and human experiences. So, our spiritual/non-physical aspects, especially our divine energies, should be given much more attention because they are the  primary drivers of how we experience life and the results we achieve. In our conversation, Heinrich said that “Life purpose is not what you do, it’s the energy you do it with.” This was an eye-opener to me because I had never thought about life and life purpose that way. He talked about not analyzing what those energies are, but instead BEING them in the unfolding of your life. Then it becomes possible to live at our peak potential if we allow our energy to flow with a total absence of resistance and attachment. This episode is a must-listen. You can learn more about Bill Heinrich and what he does at TrueLifePurposeNow.com, and you can speak with him at SpeakToBill.com.

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

Support the show

Our Spiritual Life was honored to be included in the FeedSpot 100 Best Spiritual Podcasts (blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts) in May 2023. 
Please feel free to contact me at any time at [email protected].