The Soul Horizon

In this episode we're talking about how to identify and claim our Super-Powered Purpose. If you've found yourself waffling or wavering in your life or career in recent times or in search of deeper meaning, this episode is for you. Listen on for an honest and heart-centered approach to find your way back to yourself and back to the soul work that fulfills you.

Continued Reading + Sources

Starwynn, D., & Morter, S. (2022). *Awakening the avatar within: A roadmap to uncover your superpowers, upgrade your body and uplift humanity. Desert Heart Press.

Pressfield, S. (2003). *The War of Art. Orion.

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Today, we'll be leveraging the wisdom from last week's conversation to offer a variety of practical, applicable ways to shatter the glass ceiling of happiness and boost our happiness set point. We'll also discuss the importance of returning to happiness' humble beginnings in the midst of modern life.

Shows Notes, Quotes + Sources

Cohen, J. D., Dunbar, K., & McClelland, J. L. (1990). On the control of automatic processes: A parallel distributed account of the Stroop effect. Psychological Review, 97(3), 332.

Ford, T., Lappi, S., & Holden, C. (2016). Personality, Humor Styles and Happiness: Happy People Have Positive Humor Styles. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 12(3), 320-337.

Fredrickson, B. L., Cohn, M. A., Coffey, K. A., Pek, J., & Finkel, S. M. (2008). Open hearts build lives: Positive emotions, induced through loving-kindness meditation, build consequential personal resources. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 1045-1062.

Ghosh, S. (2018). Happy Hormones at Work: Applying the Learnings from Neuroscience to Improve and Sustain Workplace Happiness. NHRD Network Journal, 11(4), 83-92.

Gschwandtner, A., Jewell, S., & Kambhampati, U. (2022). Lifestyle and life satisfaction: The role of delayed gratification. Journal of Happiness Studies, 23(3), 1043-1072.

Maltby, J., Day, L., & Barber, L. (2004). Forgiveness and happiness: The differing contexts of forgiveness using the distinction between hedonic and eudaimonic happiness. Journal of Happiness Studies, 6(1), 1-13.

Polak, E. & McCullough, M. (2005). Is gratitude an alternative to materialism?. Journal of Happiness Studies, 7(3), 343-360.

Zhang, Z., & Chen, W. (2018). A Systematic Review of the Relationship Between Physical Activity and Happiness. Journal of Happiness Studies, 20(4), 1305–1322.

Continued Reading + Resources

Follow along with me on my website ashleymelillo.com or on instagram. 

Organization: Happiness Research Institute 

Meditation: Berkeley's Loving Kindness Meditation 

Article: Flow and Happiness

Article: Choice or Chance—The Answer Can Change Your Whole Story (on bi-local expectancy)

Article: This Loving Kindness Meditation is a Radical Act of Love

Article: How to Hear Divine Messages

Website: The How of Happiness

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We all want to be happy. In fact, you could say that almost everything we do is motivated by the desire to move ourselves closer to happiness. And yet happiness is elusive. Tricky to grasp... like holding water within our hands. What is happiness? Is happiness malleable—meaning, can our efforts to increase happiness have a lasting effect? What are the most common barriers to happiness? We'll answer all these questions and more in this episode.

Continued Reading + Sources

Helliwell, J., Shiplett, H., & Bonikowska, A. (2020). Migration as a test of the happiness set‐point hypothesis: Evidence from immigration to Canada and the United Kingdom. Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue Canadienne D'économique, 53(4), 1618-1641.

Polak, E., & McCullough, M. (2005). Is gratitude an alternative to materialism?  Journal of Happiness Studies, 7(3), 343-360.

Article: The Scientist at the Easel

Article: The Hedonic Treadmill—Are We Forever Chasing Rainbows?

Article: Is Happiness Genetic + What Causes It?

Article: The three elements of happiness

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By the time we're 35 years old, 95% of who we believe we are is merely a memorized pattern of beliefs, behaviors, and emotions. This is why real, lasting change is so difficult. The thing is though, we're entirely capable of awe-inspiring changes and shifts at any age. But we've got to know what we're working with first. We need to know what stands in our way. In other words, we must know the enemy before we can determine the best course of action in becoming our own hero. 

The truth is...

Most of us hit the age of 35 and from that point forward, simply become an increasingly concentrated version of whoever we were then.

But it's not by choice. It's by repetition.

And knowing the cause is the key to reversing it.

Sources
Dispenza, J. (2018). *Breaking the habit of being yourself: How to lose your mind and create a new one. Hay House.

Proctor, B. (2021). *Change Your Paradigm, Change Your Life. Gildan Media.

Swart, T. (2019). *The Source: The Secrets of the Universe, the Science of the Brain. HarperOne.

Article: Releasing Limiting Beliefs with Rutilated Quartz
Article: The Science Behind Solfeggio Frequencies

Releasing Limiting Belief Meditations + Visualizations
Subconscious Mind Meditation (11 minutes) by Dr. Joe Dispenza
Covellite Meditation by Maureen St. Germain
Transforming Fear-Based Limiting Beliefs (11 minutes)
Heal Your Inner Child (10 minutes)
Overcoming Limiting Beliefs (20 minutes)
Visualize Your Ideal Future Self (20 minutes)

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Manifestation is the idea that we're capable of creating our reality through our thoughts and feelings. You might know it as Law of Attraction or 'The Secret'. The Secret, though, mostly zeroed in on manifesting material gain—money, houses, shiny objects. It oversimplifies the concept and orients it around the physical, three-dimensional world. In this episode, we're dissolving the myth that everything that happens in life—good or bad—is a result of manifestation. There are two caveats to manifestation. Becoming aware of these caveats offers us a fresh perspective on manifestation and removes the common New Age shame and guilt that is typically associated with the New Age understanding of Law of Attraction.

We also dig below the surface to examine the interplay between quantum mechanics and manifestation, and how to create a signal so clear, so concise that it reaches into the quantum field and pulls our desires into physical reality before our eyes.

Sources
Dispenza, J. (2018). *Breaking the habit of being yourself: How to lose your mind and create a new one. Hay House.

Lipton, B. (2005). *The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles. Hay House.

Swart, T. (2019). *The Source: The Secrets of the Universe, the Science of the Brain. HarperOne.

Continued Reading + Resources.

Chart: Dr. Bruce H. Lipton Information Flow Newtonian vs. Quantum

Chart: Dr. Joe Dispenza—movement from thought to energy to matter.

Article: Why is Quantum Biology Still Being Ignored by Conventional Medicine?

Article: Relativity versus quantum mechanics: the battle for the universe

Article: Timeline: the history of gravity

Article: How Einstein's general theory of relativity killed off common-sense physics

Article: Quantum vs. Classical

Article: This is Why Quantum Field Theory is More Fundamental than Quantum Mechanics

Post: Getting Beyond the Self

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Triggers have gotten a bad rap in recent times. We're terrified of being triggered and we're scared of triggering others. We tiptoe across eggshells in our interactions. In return, we expect others to do the same. To mind themselves to avoid ruffling our feathers or crushing those fragile eggshells that surround our deepest wounds. Today we're going to flip this perception—the one that vilifies triggers—on its head. We'll explore why welcoming emotional triggers is a necessary step in the process of deep healing. And how the things and people that trigger us serve as messengers and as tour guides, leading us to the areas that need to be healed.


EPISODE LINKS
Blog post: The Ego's Greatest Lie + The Pain Body
Article: Calming Your Brain During Conflict

EPISODE SOURCES
Goleman, D. (2020). *Emotional intelligence. Bantam Books.

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In this episode we're talking about the process commonly known as a spiritual awakening. Specifically, we'll be talking about why there's a mass spiritual awakening unfolding on earth at this time as well as the various stages of spiritual awakening, including 19 of the most common signs and symptoms as well as potential hiccups in the process.

Resources + Readings for Awakening Souls

Articles
Stokke, Christian & Rodriguez, Mira. (2021). Spiritual Awakening Experiences: A Phenomenological Study in Transpersonal Psychology. Self & Society. 49. 9-25. 

Our Universe May Have a Fifth Dimension that Would Change Everything We Know About Physics

The Age of Aquarius

Websites
Loner Wolf

Books
*A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
*You're Not Dying, You're Just Waking Up by Elizabeth April

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Have you ever felt like you're moving through life in a haze of repetition? Life becomes a blur of chores, to-do's, monotonous habits...

Eat, complete daily duties, sleep, repeat.

You're caught in the moment and yet you're numb to its presence. Always needing to react to the next demand or to-do. It's as if someone's clicked the 'zoom in' button on your life a few too many times and now all you can see is what's directly in front of your face.

Life's become a haze of three-dimensional distractions. And while there's comfort in routine, your soul craves something more.

You've got dreams, aspirations, and a vision of the you you plan to be in the future. But you're so caught up in reacting to life that it feels like you're not really living it.

This is life on autopilot. Give this episode a listen if you'd like to know more about what it means to be stuck on autopilot and why we're all on autopilot... until we're not.

Helpful Reads + Resources

*A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

*The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz 

*You're Not Dying You're Just Waking Up by Elizabeth April

*Waking up in 5D by Maureen St. Germain

Article: Parents, Be Mindful of Your Words

Article: Understanding the Brain Waves of Your Children

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Descriptive Words

Life on autopilot: three-dimensional; reactive; disempowered; chaotic; unaware; asleep; routine; comfort-oriented; dazed; passive; mundane; unquestioning; trapped; rigid; clinging; dis-integrated; seeks external validation of truth; obedient; self-critical; overly materialistic or vain; uses the zoom lens on life; controlled through fear (whether external or ego-derived); limiting; illusion; untruths

Life off autopilot: fifth-dimensional; intentional; empowered; proactive; free; lighter; purposeful; growth mindset; integrated—ego + higher self; awake; self-reliant; internal validation of truth; discerning; creative; self-directed; spiritual; driven by a higher purpose; wide angle life lens; knowledge; light; wisdom; pursuit of self-mastery

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In this episode, we're talking about how giving ourselves the permission to be ordinary leads to more fulfillment, joy, and internal feelings of success. And ironically, how by allowing ourselves to be ordinary, we actually end up moving closer to extraordinary.

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We give aspects of ourselves away or hide them away for many reasons—others' expectations, traumatic experiences, societal or cultural expectations, etc. However, to harness our authentic power, we must work to reclaim these lost aspects of self. In this episode, we discuss the what, why, and how of self-reclamation.

Journal Prompt Questions

• Who or what do you tell yourself you are?
• Who or what do you tell yourself you're not?
• What are the boundaries your mind has used to define and limit you? To keep you small and unobtrusive.
• How does your internal critic limit your life and your potential?
• In what ways do I compromise myself and my authentic truth to please others?
  What patterns or beliefs limit my ability to be fully authentic in my actions, words, behaviors, and endeavors? 
• Who is the person I present to the world?
• Who is the person I truly desire to be and know I am at my core?
• What expectations do you feel the need to uphold to maintain the version of yourself you and others "know"?
• What identities are you protecting that no longer serve you?
• What aspects of myself do I hide from others?
• What characteristics of myself do I hide away that I wish I had the freedom to share with others?
• What higher purpose awaits me if I reclaim these lost or missing or hidden aspects of myself?

Links to Mentioned Resources

Fear-apy podcast episode
Mirrors of Perception Blog Post
Meditation to Release Limiting Beliefs


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