Soul Sessions by CreativeMind

So, we are on the verge of entering a new decade. New beginnings, a new chapter in our lives so we thought it would be great to talk about the idea of reincarnation because we all want to “reinvent” ourselves each new year. About 20% of the world population believe in reincarnation, but there are different perspectives as to what part of us actually gets born again. In this episode we discuss what is reincarnation and why it is important to ask ourselves these deeper questions about life.

We discuss:

• The Eastern and Western beliefs about reincarnation
• Does science examine this idea of reincarnation and how does it seek evidence of this?
• Examining the different paradigms of materialistic universe or a conscious universe and how does that relate to what we believe about past and future lives
• How the wisdom traditions are important to study for discovering our purpose here in this life and what does it mean to be alive.

Episode Exercise: Debra takes you through a quick exercise to discover a past life experience. Start with focusing on a feeling and do this active imagination.  

Debra and Rob take an eye opening look at emotions that are triggered by jealousy and what being jealous says about you and your unconscious mind. We'll discuss why we get jealous and also how to deal with jealousy based on the biological, psycho-social and spiritual aspects of emotion.

Empathy is what makes us human and a natural part of our experience in relationships. In this episode of Creative Mind Living, we discuss emotional empathy in the biological, psycho-social and spiritual aspects including:

• What is empathy?
• The theory of mind and mirror neurons and how they work
• The spectrum of empathy from anxious to uncaring and how to balance in the middle
• A spiritual solution to working with your emotions that helps you empathize with others without being controlled by others’ feelings

Creative Mind Exercise:  Debra introduces a powerful question to ask yourself when you are emotionally-charged to help you bring wisdom into the situation and feel in control of your life.

Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense other people's emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling. Learn more about the power of emotions in our free online course, Embracing Your 'Negative' Emotions for Positive Change. 

In this free series of teachings, Debra and Rob will introduce you to the benefits of embracing so-called 'negative' emotions for your greater good and well being. You will learn...

• How the core emotions of guilt, shame and anger are not really negative. How to work with emotions in a powerful way. 
• The Emotional Management Strategies that you learned early on and how they are still controlling your life unconsciously. 
• How to feel all emotions and have more joy and lightness in your life.

The series consists of 3 video presentations covering the basic emotions of Anger, Guilt, Shame and Fear, along with an overarching audio talk about the power of embracing ALL emotions for the positive. 

This free series of teachings on Emotions also serves as an introduction to our Emotional Wisdom for Self Empowerment workshop.

We continue our Emotions series of podcast episodes with the profound, befuddling, powerful, inspiring, and exasperating emotion of Love! We view Love as a powerful emotion that has many facets — romantic love being one of them. In this episode, globally recognized Love and Relationship experts Debra Berndt Maldonado and Robert Maldonado, PhD explore aspects of romantic love based on the Greek philosophy.  

This is a great episode to listen to and discuss with your friends. You'll learn about:

• The three different levels of love according to the Greeks
• How most people do not get beyond the physical level and how to cultivate higher states of love
• Eros and Ludus - physical and playful love
• Philia/Pragma - higher form of loving with the mind
• Agape - the spiritual, selfless unconditional love

Episode Exercise:  Rob introduces three steps to become aware of your love experience and how to cultivate higher forms to create a bond that incorporates all levels for lasting partnership.

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Join our private Facebook Group to participate in free group life coaching teachings for women and learn more about Emotional Wisdom from the Creative Mind Coaching perspective. 

Life Coaching Experts and Founders of Creative Mind Coaching, Debra Berndt Maldonado and Robert Maldonado, PhD, guide smart, dynamic, and spiritually-ambitious women through a proven process to uncover the authentic Self and live in true purpose, success and fulfillment. Our private Facebook group is a safe space for women to experience life coaching based in an alchemy of higher consciousness practices from Eastern Wisdom, Jungian Psychology, and Brain Science. 

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In popular self-help, the mantra is that fear is bad and love is good. Fear is one of our core emotions and we need it to survive, but how is fear holding you back from moving toward what you want in life - relationships, success and making a difference?

Are you afraid of heartbreak? Do you fear failure? Do you avoid putting yourself out there for fear of criticism or rejection? If so, this is the training for you!

In this episode, we talk about the new neuroscience of emotion based on our Emotional Wisdom process. You will learn:

• Why fear is not to be feared
• How fear can catapult your creativity and transformation
• Tips on how to make friends with fear so you can use it energy to break through barriers to creating change in your life

Episode Exercise:  Rob gives three principles to work with fear (or any emotion) to stop giving it so much power and to use its power instead in a creative way.

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Join our private Facebook Group to participate in free group life coaching teachings for women and learn more about Emotional Wisdom from the Creative Mind Coaching perspective. 

Life Coaching Experts and Founders of Creative Mind Coaching, Debra Berndt Maldonado and Robert Maldonado, PhD, guide smart, dynamic, and spiritually-ambitious women through a proven process to uncover the authentic Self and live in true purpose, success and fulfillment. Our private Facebook group is a safe space for women to experience life coaching based in an alchemy of higher consciousness practices from Eastern Wisdom, Jungian Psychology, and Brain Science. 

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The holidays are around the corner and that often brings a lot of Guilt or even Shame to the forefront of our thoughts. This is actually the perfect time of year to face the emotions guilt and shame — especially when dealing with or being around family. In this episode we discuss ways you can deal with and even get empowered from feelings of guilt and shame. You'll discover:

• The difference between Guilt & Shame
• Why they are an important part of our human experience
• How we use guilt and shame to regulate our behavior (but it has an adverse effect)
• A new way to work with motivation and creating change that feels much more empowering for you and others

Episode Exercise: Learn a meditation that you can use to manage stressful situations without assuming a guilt load about it!

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Join our private Facebook Group to participate in free group life coaching teachings for women and learn more about Emotional Wisdom from the Creative Mind Coaching perspective. 

Life Coaching Experts and Founders of Creative Mind Coaching, Debra Berndt Maldonado and Robert Maldonado, PhD, guide smart, dynamic, and spiritually-ambitious women through a proven process to uncover the authentic Self and live in true purpose, success and fulfillment. Our private Facebook group is a safe space for women to experience life coaching based in an alchemy of higher consciousness practices from Eastern Wisdom, Jungian Psychology, and Brain Science. 

Like and follow us on Facebook to learn more about the group and Creative Mind Coaching:

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Have you ever felt angry but held back from expressing it? Do you walk on eggshells around angry people? Are you proud of the fact that you never allow yourself to get angry?

In this episode we talk about Anger and why this emotion gets a bad wrap in social and religious circles. Robert explains the three levels of emotions - biological, psychological-social and spiritual aspects. We explore:

• Why having a “pleasing personality” can lead to suppression of anger
• How going along to get along can really hurt you in the long run
• How can we work with anger in a useful way instead of out-dated and proven ineffective techniques such as pounding pillows and screaming at walls
• Anger as “unexpressed passion” and how to harness the power of anger in a creative way
• Why the #metoo movement needs to be more self-aware of their own anger and make it constructive rather than destructive

Episode Exercise: Robert explains how to work with Anger using the meta-consciousness and by examining the moments the emotion.

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Join our private Facebook Group to participate in free group life coaching teachings for women and learn more about Emotional Wisdom from the Creative Mind Coaching perspective. 

Life Coaching Experts and Founders of Creative Mind Coaching, Debra Berndt Maldonado and Robert Maldonado, PhD, guide smart, dynamic, and spiritually-ambitious women through a proven process to uncover the authentic Self and live in true purpose, success and fulfillment. Our private Facebook group is a safe space for women to experience life coaching based in an alchemy of higher consciousness practices from Eastern Wisdom, Jungian Psychology, and Brain Science. 

Like and follow us on Facebook to learn more about the group and Creative Mind Coaching:

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Do you find that some emotions are easier to deal with than others? In the personal development space there are two ways to deal with emotions. First, they may tell you to reframe the story or use your ‘emotional intelligence’ to deal with them. Or, you may hear that you should get rid of your negative emotions through healing or clearing them away.

Recently, Debra heard an expert talk about emotions and giving the advice to not feel them, just ignore them and feel good. Just stop feeling bad! This type of glib advice can be very harmful long-term for your personal development. After all, life is about feeling a range of emotions.

In this episode we talk about:

• The core emotions of guilt, shame and anger and how they are not negative
• How to work with emotions in a powerful way
• The Emotional Management Strategies that you learned early on and how they are still controlling your life unconsciously
• How to feel all emotions and have more joy and lightness in your life

Episode Exercise:  Debra talks you through 'digesting' emotions by neutrally examining and experiencing them. 

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Join our private Facebook Group to participate in free group life coaching teachings for women and learn more about Emotional Wisdom from the Creative Mind Coaching perspective. 

Life Coaching Experts and Founders of Creative Mind Coaching, Debra Berndt Maldonado and Robert Maldonado, PhD, guide smart, dynamic, and spiritually-ambitious women through a proven process to uncover the authentic Self and live in true purpose, success and fulfillment. Our private Facebook group is a safe space for women to experience life coaching based in an alchemy of higher consciousness practices from Eastern Wisdom, Jungian Psychology, and Brain Science. 

Like and follow us on Facebook to learn more about the group and Creative Mind Coaching:

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Debra and Robert are broadcasting live from Athens just after finishing their Dreams and Archetypes Retreat. Get ready to join them in a post retreat wrap up as they explain:

• The benefits of exploring your dreams in a retreat setting, especially in mystical places like Athens, Greece.
• The difference between Freudian and Jungian Dream Interpretation and some interesting facts about Freud and Jung’s journey in exploring and defining the unconscious and psyche.
• How dreams reflect the human myths past and present.
• How archetypes influence our behavior much more than our personal history.
• What choice do we have in this world if the archetypes are playing out in culture, religion and humanity?

Our purpose is tied to an archetypal pattern and if we do not choose to activate it, it remains dormant in the psyche and is unrealized potential. Understand how dreams help us become aware of our true selves so we can express that potential.

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Join our private Facebook group to participate in free life coaching teachings for women. Life Coaching Experts and Founders of Creative Mind Coaching, Debra Berndt Maldonado and Robert Maldonado, PhD, guide smart, dynamic, and spiritually ambitious women through a proven process to uncover the authentic Self and live in true purpose, success and fulfillment. Our private Facebook group is a safe space for women to experience life coaching based in an alchemy of higher consciousness practices from Eastern Wisdom, Jungian Psychology, and Brain Science. Like and follow us on Facebook to learn more about the group and Creative Mind Coaching:
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Are we living in a computer-driven simulation? That seems like an impossible hypothesis to prove. But let's just look at how impossible that really is. For some machine to be able to conjure up our whole reality, it needs to be amazingly powerful, able to keep track of an incalculable number of variables. Consider the course of just one human lifetime, with all of the events it entails, all the materials, ideas and people that one interacts with throughout an average lifespan. Then multiply that by about a hundred billion souls that have graced this planet with their presence so far. The interactions between all these people, as well as the interactions between all the animals, plants, bacterium, planetary bodies, really all the elements we know and don't know to be a part of this world, is what constitutes the reality you encounter today.

If you think this proposal sounds plausible, you would not be alone. Elon Musk and many others are fairly convinced we are just sophisticated self-aware computer programs or maybe even video games. 

Journalist PAUL RATNER wrote this about Reality vs. Simulation for BigThink. Debra and Rob take the subject further, exploring the concept from ancient and global spiritual and philosophical perspectives, including: 

• The ancient teaching of Maya (the idea that the external world is an illusion) which translates to movement and magic and the impermanence of this reality. 
• What is the apparent reality, the phenomenal universe, and the absolute reality. 
• What is the difference between materialism of science and mysticism.

Grab a cup of tea, open your mind and join us for a deep conversation on the nature of reality.

Episode Exercise:  Pure Awareness. Debra takes you through a simple exercise you can do to access the true nature of who you are, the unchanging spirit.

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Join our private Facebook group to participate in free life coaching teachings for women. Life Coaching Experts and Founders of Creative Mind Coaching, Debra Berndt Maldonado and Robert Maldonado, PhD, guide smart, dynamic, and spiritually ambitious women through a proven process to uncover the authentic Self and live in true purpose, success and fulfillment. Our private Facebook group is a safe space for women to experience life coaching based in an alchemy of higher consciousness practices from Eastern Wisdom, Jungian Psychology, and Brain Science. Like and follow us on Facebook to learn more about the group and Creative Mind Coaching:
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Explore Creative Mind's on-demand programs: https://creativemindmthod.com/our-programs