Sort Yourself Out

I’ve got an inspiring show for you today, as I’m talking to my special guest Chris Rickstrew about how we can level up our lives, find our true purpose and unleash our potential.

Chris is a Transformational Speaker, Master Coach, and founder of a personal development brand called 8 Billion Lions. 

Chris knows all about the path we are on of sorting ourselves out, because when he was 27 years old, he got to where he thought he wanted to be in life... And in his words, it sucked! 

So he downsized his company, gave away all of his stuff, and bought a one-way ticket to Asia. He spent the next 3 years of his life living in Thailand, Bali, and Nepal. During those 3 years of soul searching, Chris discovered his passion and purpose in life, coached thousands of people, and started a business that he absolutely loves. 

Today, he’s on a mission to lead a revolution that changes the world, by bringing people together and helping them unleash their potential so that they can start living a life they love! 

In this episode:

• The struggle between head and heart
• How to rise above the cultural indoctrination that tells us who and how we must be if we want to live a happy and successful life 
• How to live an authentic life as you do what you’re born to do
• How the universe rewards you for following your heart
• The two qualities you need to cultivate to align with your purpose

LINKS:

More about Chris Rickstrew: https://www.8billionlions.com

Get your free 1-on-1 coaching call with Chris: https://www.meetyoursheep.com

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This week we’re discussing the power of forgiveness. This is such an important area in achieving greater well-being. Forgiveness is, at its core, about freedom and moving forward in life, wiser and unencumbered.

Today we’re going to be looking at several different ways that the power of forgiveness can operate in our lives, and thus vastly improve our lives. 

In this episode:

• How we harm ourselves when we won’t forgive
• The way lack of forgiveness manifests in our physical bodies
• How we release victimhood and regain our power
• How the inability to forgive attaches you to the person you won’t forgive
• How forgiveness heals karmic relationships
• How to discern the deeper meaning and potential for growth in the situations requiring forgiveness
• How unforgiveness robs us of the creative potential of the present moment
• How we perpetuate cycles of undesirable circumstances
• How to cultivate the skill to be in the world, but not of it
• How to work in consciousness and with energy to liberate ourselves and heal across time and space

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This week transformation coach and happiness guide Amy Powell is joining me to discuss some of the pitfalls we encounter on the road to happiness, and more importantly, how we can avoid them.

In this episode:

• Events from childhood that cause us to disconnect from our uniqueness.
• Amy’s pivotal 6 month “No buy challenge” that led her to sort herself out.
• The ways consumerism and advertising foster dissatisfaction with our lives.
• Why we lose touch with our happiness over time.
• The importance of embracing our humanity and our path of evolution.
• Amy shares really helpful tips to help us connect more deeply with ourselves.

That’s not all Amy shares as she is offering listeners an amazing opportunity to book a free 1 hour call with her to discover what's holding you back from living your most fulfilled dream life. 

GET IN TOUCH WITH AMY:

Website: https://www.attainable-af.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/attainable_af
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/afpowell

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This week we’re addressing a big question about life on the spiritual path. Should you be vegetarian? Is meat an appropriate food for one seeking enlightenment?

This is a topic that we could argue about all day! Vegetarianism and veganism are often very emotional topics, and people have very strong views.

So I imagine that I am going to be ruffling some feathers in this episode!

There are lots of considerations here, but I want to look more deeply at some of the teachings from the Ageless Wisdom about vegetarianism, so you can decide for yourself where you stand and what’s right for you.

Because here’s the thing, not all paths are right for all people. We are all at different stages in our spiritual unfoldment,  and at different stages of consciousness. So we can’t make blanket statements that everyone should do this or that. And this is true for vegetarianism too.

Resources:

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Janine’s Quick Start Guide to Doable Meditation

Behaving As If the God In All Life Mattered by Machaelle Small Wright

I hope you’re ready to rev up some good vibes and happiness in your life, as today I have a special guest joining us, and she is going to help us all to do just that.

My guest is Deborah Ann Davis. Deborah is an award-winning author, speaker, and coach with over three decades of experience in middle and high school education. 
 
Today I’m going to be picking Deborah’s brains to find out how we can “get our happy on”, because we can all use more happiness!

In this episode:

• How we can take charge of our own happiness
• Proven ways that we can get our happy on
• Simple techniques to generate happy hormones no matter what’s going on
• How parents can help their kids feel more comfortable emotionally during these trying times
• Reframing what’s going on with the world pandemic
• What the heck is the new normal?

LINKS:

• Get your free ebook, How to Get Your Happy On

DEBORAH'S BOOKS:

• How To Keep Your Daughter From Slamming the Door
• Fairly Safe  - A Love of Fairs Tale
• Fairly Certain - A Love of Fairs Tale

CONTACT DEBORAH:

• deborahanndavis.com
• Email: [email protected]

This week we’re discussing how to raise your awareness and how raising your awareness improves the quality of your life.

So first of all, why do we want to raise our awareness and what does it really mean?

Well, it’s about learning what’s going on in our thought life and our emotional life. We want to be aware of the way we are relating to others and ourselves, and the effect that we are having in the world.

The Hermetic injunction, “Man, know thyself” is very important to helping us create a harmonious life, and a harmonious world. It is also vital that we know ourselves if we want to move forward on the spiritual path.

We need to be able to look at our own lives and what’s holding us back, the issues that need resolving, and in the bigger picture, we need to come into the understanding of who we really are.

In raising our awareness, there are widespread implications and benefits, not just for our own well-being and quality of life, but that of the whole, the Allself.

Resources:

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This week we’re discussing a single quality that you can cultivate to totally turn your life around: harmlessness.

This is such a powerful quality because of the universal laws that we live by here on earth. These are the laws of karma, cause and effect, and the law of attraction. These laws are really all one. They apply to us as individualised sparks of divinity in relationship with one another here on the earth plane.

As souls in incarnation we are all on the spiritual path of developing right relations. This means having a right relationship with ourselves, knowing who we are, divine beings, and living our lives as if we really know this.

It also means having right relations with others, treating all other life with love and respect, and creating conditions that are for the good of the whole, and not just our poor little beleaguered egos!

This is where harmlessness comes in. The practice of harmlessness is the ONE THING that is going to help you create right relations as well as satisfying causes and effects, and thus balance your karma and attract good things into your life.

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From The Heart of A Gentle Brother by Bartholomew

Problems of Humanity by Alice Bailey

This week we’re discussing how we can anchor spirituality into our daily existence. That’s what being spiritual is all about, right? Becoming more and more of our spiritual self, and less of the little self, the ego.

Now in the Ageless Wisdom, this is known as spiritual livingness. And this is what we are meant to be doing as people who are consciously treading the spiritual path.

This is about walking the talk and putting our money where our mouth is. It’s about expressing our true values through our life activities.

Now, very often, we, as curious spiritual seekers, absorb enormous quantities of information relating to spiritual growth and enlightenment, but we don’t apply what we learn in our daily lives. 

This can become a negative factor in our lives, that can actually hold us back on the path.

It’s not about simply knowing stuff intellectually, but about bringing what we know into practical expression. This is how knowledge becomes wisdom. 

You’ve heard that bit of advice that’s on everyone’s lips about making change in your life, “fake it till you make it?”

Well, this week we’re discussing a better way than that. A higher way. This is a technique that I have learned through my studies of the Ageless Wisdom.

This technique is called Acting As If.

It’s different to the fake it till you make it idea. “Fake it till you make it” is related to the lower self action in the world, the ego.

Acting As If is related to the soul, as we seek to embody the qualities, purpose and power of the soul in daily life, and to eventually bring that into manifestation on the physical plane.

So we need to get away from the ego level of creation, and begin to trust that it is our divine right as human beings to learn to wield this powerful creative energy. Divine creative energy.

And when we are in touch with that kind of energy we will bring through higher manifestations that are in alignment with our soul’s purpose for this incarnation. And that’s what we’re here to do!

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This week we’re discussing simple ways that you can let go of that persistent feeling of boredom, or even stagnation, and totally refresh your life.

This may sound like a big thing to do. Indeed, if you’re feeling stagnated, you may be feeling like you’re buried under this heavy weight that you can't get out from under.

But fret ye not my friend, as we’re looking at really easy and simple ways that you can make a shift, shake things up, get a fresh perspective, and get the energy flowing again in your life.

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