We have all had the experience of hell - the helplessness, the hopelessness, the misery. We got ourselves there by persistent thoughts of our lack of value, thoughts that there is something wrong with us, or shame or guilt. Whatever it was that got us there, we did it and we can undo it. Once we understand how to get out of hell, we can do it anytime and we don't have to fear hell anymore.

How do we go about creating a truly wonderful life? In this podcast we use the metaphor of the great French seafood stew, Bouillabaisse, to explore the elements of a rich, satisfying life.

We are all given the breath of life, but too often we block that living vitality. In this episode we explore how we restrict our life energy using my own story and the metaphor of Frankenstein's monster.

There are many things in life that demand our attention and we need to give them some attention to live safely. But without a daily focus on feeling good, we miss the essence of life. And if we want to feel really good, something we might call Heaven, then we need be choosing those feelings throughout our day.

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My next course with Pete Dalton, Changing Reality, starts on March 24, 2025.

It seems that in this busy world of ours that we have lost sight of how valuable and important fun is. There are so many things that seem to need to be done first. Things like duty get priority and we get to have fun if and when there's time. I would suggest that fun is much more important than being last on the to-do list.

While healing is very important to us, is just healing enough? Is there more to a full life than healing? I suggest that we go on beyond healing to full-fledged thriving, thriving in ways that we can barely conceive of right now. What might that look like? In this podcast we take a look at what else might be out there.

There are a great many philosophies that organize our lives around why we are here. Most of them are very disempowered. Suppose we choose to live lives of freedom and choice, seeing what we want to do and exploring those things as an adventure. It's messy and unpredictable, but its true to our nature and we get to become our whole selves this way.

When we decide to be powerful and accept the intensity and responsibility of being powerful it can be an overwhelming experience. In this podcast we look at our internal processes of taking up our power. This is a necessary procedure that often gets overlooked. We make life easier when we know what we're facing.

We all have to decide for ourselves what is real and what is not. That choice may be to agree with some authority, but those of us who choose to think for ourselves must confront the challenge of saying what we're going to accept as real and true. In this podcast I present my response to the question of how do you know what's real. I think this is fundamental to our taking charge of our lives and being responsible for the realities we create.

Very often our mere loving focus goes a long way toward helping us heal. Today we want to send loving attention to our eyes and the other places in our faces that need our help. This is a meditation best done with the eyes closed. Let yourself just relax into the soothing words to encourage your body to heal itself.