The Ten Crutches Podcast

While focused on "becoming more present," I found myself getting confused about what's in front of me. Obviously, I need my senses to experience what's in front of me. But what if my eyes/ears are seeing/hearing what is happening 1000s of miles away?

Our technology allows events on the other side of the world to "be in front of us" in real time. How to think about this?

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.

Every parent has (and needs!) a good toolbox, a set of skills to handle each varied situation that manifests while you raise your child. I hope something here can help you.

Time Stamps for the 4 Tips

#1) Use "Mother" and "Father" archetypes (2:47)

#2) Interpret and articulate what your child is saying, so they are as intelligent as you (8:39)

#3) The scooter metaphor (14:23)

#4) Aim for the day you stop being a parent (16:33)

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.

These two words are easily confused. Some people may even consider "eternity" and "forever" to be the same. (Horrors!)

Herein, I express my opinion of how different they are.

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.

Part 2 of a two-part series on ritual. 

Time Stamps

Introduction to the map: 3:05

Trust your intuition! 4:12

Overall view of the map 4:45

Entering the ritual 11:22

Being in the ritual 17:21

Leaving the ritual 22:41

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.

A two-part series about ritual.

Part 1 is about “why?” Why have rituals at all? What reasons might we have to hold a ceremony? Our culture has forgotten many things about how important ritual is.

Part 2 is about how you can create ritual. What are the foundational principles behind creating ritual?

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.

One more way of trying to say we are almost impossibly stuck inside our own personal views. How can we get loosen the grip of our interpretations of the world and exist more deeply in the actual reality?

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.

I imagined a reality TV show where 100,000 people decide together: what should we all do with $10 million? 

If you are interested in manifesting this idea, please see the show notes.

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.

Definitions:

Physical fears: ultimately of annihilation, based on perceived existential threats to actual physical survival.

Mental fears: ultimately of annihilation, based on perceived threats to the mind's centrality in its self-created realm.

A slow-motion view of mental fear shows it's never about what the mind believes it to be about. But it can feel the exact same as a physical fear. Let's take a look.

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.

As a retired hospice nurse, I saw many patients struggle with the process of dying. Many had indeed accepted that they would die. But the slow decline, the gradual loss of abilities, the clear truth that they were not in control: these could be quite difficult to accept.

The Tree Of Acceptance Of Dying is my contribution to help people cultivate acceptance of death and the process of dying.

This is the podcast version of an essay I wrote in 2023.

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.

Also: from the podcast's website you can leave me a voice message or send an email. I would love to hear from you! 

What is happening in your life?

Are you intimately "one," manifesting a unique aspect of this great universe? Are you a separate and existentially lonely individual?

Both?

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.