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Sunday Aug 09, 2020
Sunday Aug 09, 2020
Compassion IS LOVE
The WISDOM podcast Season 2 Episode 16
TIMESTAMPS:
Podcast Intro: 0-2:08 | An Introduction to this Episode: Part Three in a Series of Six of Beautiful Guided Meditations: 2:14 | An Introduction to Compassion: 3:13 | Kindness and Love is so Powerful: 4:09 | When You Offer Yourself Compassion... 4:28 | There are Many Reasons to Practice Compassion: 5:23 | A Prose Meditation on Compassion 9:56 | Podcast Outro: 35:56
In this part three of a six-part series of beautiful guided meditations, I invite you to open your heart and your mind; to witness yourself and the world in ways that remind you of how kind and peaceful your presence can be; how soothing and comforting your actions are for yourself and others, when you choose to walk in your life with greater presence of what it means to hold compassion; to be compassionate towards yourself and all others, for this is how you are 'love in action'.
Special for this series, I have written a new meditation on the practice of compassion; and of how you may instinctively be of compassion to yourself and others.
There is no greater offering when someone is less fortunate or suffering than to be compassionate; to feel for them and their situation because this is how you offer care and kindness.
Compassion is love. It is in being compassionate that others are able to feel your genuine concern for their well being; and to hold even for a few moments, the space and the opportunity for them to know that they are not alone.
Your kindness and love is so powerful. It is this sacred action of compassion that allows others to rise up, to be heard, to heal, to take the right action for themselves.
When you offer yourself compassion, you breathe in giving yourself patience to recognize where you are in your life; and you choose to offer unto yourself this gift of kind reverence; of patience and comfort, of understanding, of reassurance that you are not alone; that you will feel better; that kindness directed within is how you help move yourself into a state of peace, responsibility to what is needed and comfort in the knowing of your presence.
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*Check out this audio on Self-Compassion in THE WISDOM BLOG: Self-Compassion IS Self-Love
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Podcast Theme Music: 'Aura' from the Album, Illuvia by Eternell www.eternell.net/album/illuvia
Accompanying Music: Illuvia - Past Lives & Inner Worlds - Drupad
Sunday Aug 02, 2020
Sunday Aug 02, 2020
This IS a Self-Love Movement
Season 2 Episode 15 of The WISDOM podcast
with Dorothy Ratusny
In this episode, I've been inspired to share what I am naming The Self-Love Movement; because we all need to reclaim self-love; we need to understand what it means and we need to live it - as one solution for growing our confidence and self-worth and for being willing to live self-sustainably and of our ‘truth’; and in the present moment because this is how we witness our innate happiness.
Here’s an important secret: All of us face the same challenges. You might suspect that our common challenge is related to finances, or whether we are loved; or if we have the right job, or if we have chosen the best partner?
These are also challenges of the physical world that we may have made our reality.
Here’s the thing: Innate happiness is not attached to any ‘thing’. Rather it’s what you feel as you live of the present moment + this feeling is perpetuated as you make a commitment to yourself to live with your heart open, free in giving of your kindness and love to others and to yourself.
Happiness is not attached to a thing, or a person, or to you bank account; to what you own, to what you child says or does; its about acknowledging who you are; and living and loving the being that you are.
This is why we choose to do the work – the inner work – of our self. It’s to free us from harbouring pain and hurt of the past; to make peace with what is; to practice acceptance of what has already happened, and to decide how we will choose to be now and in our future.
If you want to put yourself in a state of happiness, of peace, of joy; if you want to eliminate anxiety, fear, self-doubt – to feel truly alive and to honour your choices and decisions; if you really want to live "heaven on earth"; you must begin here; with what you tell yourself each day and also to make the conscious choice to be happy; among the obligations, the decision-making, of what you may have less control over, and to wake each day deciding to be grateful, to feel happy, practising living present moment awareness and awake to all of the experiences of your life and of knowing what will allow you to be in a state of self-love – for example opening your heart by choice. Because being love is also a choice.
How does being love relate to self-love? As you choose to live in a state of love, gratitude, and happiness; it becomes a natural outpouring of this state to be loving and kind; directed towards yourself.
You may think about self-love as taking care of your needs, of honouring and respecting yourself; of practising loving-kindness directed within and using encouraging self-talk; but when you live in a state of love; your consciousness rises; you live in an enlightened state. The state of love allows for you to instantly experience the feelings and the mindset of pure presence; of consciousness. It is an example of being fully in the now.
This state is what best supports you to freely feel innate happiness. This inspires every other decision and action that you make; all towards living with your heart open and of love.
Join me in this episode as I walk you through a beautiful experience of accessing this state of awareness; a state of love that will empower you to live true to yourself, and mobilize you to have the best outcomes because you are in the right mindset; you are happy, peaceful, content and grateful. This is a practice of being loving, directed towards yourself. Namaste!! xo
* The link to the VIDEO of 'This IS a Self-Love Movement' is here: https://youtu.be/TKXRISWlvoQ
Please check it out! Namaste! xo
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Podcast Theme Music: 'Aura' from the Album, Illuvia by Eternell www.eternell.net/album/illuvia
Accompanying Music: Eternell, 'Kalimba', 'Floating', 'Haven' & 'Spring Light'
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
Peace Unto Me: A Guided Prose Meditation
Season 2 Episode 14 of The WISDOM podcast
Sometimes the feeling of compassion can cause you to well up with emotion to feel incredible sadness and sorrow; but it is in those moments that you also fill your heart with infinite love for another or for a situation.
Please don't shy away from evoking compassion. We all need to feel one another's compassion.
For the next six weeks, join me in a series of guided meditations that will guide you into yourself; into peace, self-love, compassion, forgiveness, hope and inspiration.
You will need each of these as you hold presence unto yourself in this brave new world and as you call upon a gentle witnessing of your heart - here in the moments now that will determine for you a most blissful and certain life.
I invite you to close your eyes with me for a short time and take in this experience; each meditation is delivered in a 'prose' format which makes it simple to take in my words; you don't need to have any experience in meditation to feel the effects of this practice. Simply allow the words you hear to find their way into your heart.
Let them fill you with love and support.
Join me for this first prose meditation: 'PEACE UNTO ME'.
I will leave a link for you here, to where you can experience this meditation unto itself.
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Podcast Theme Music: 'Aura' from the Album, Illuvia by Eternell www.eternell.net/album/illuvia
Accompanying Music: Eternell 'Dancing With Wind'
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
The Story of Gratitude: My Story
Season 2 Episode 13 of The WISDOM podcast
with Dorothy Ratusny
This is a story of gratitude. This is my story. I hope that in sharing it with you it inspires you to see the world through eyes of hope, love; and with forgiveness and acceptance of what is, and of course gratitude for the many blessings that life offers you as you choose to forgo the labels of right or wrong; good or bad and to instead consider each experience as important and of meaning. This will help you to find deeper significance and meaning in it this way.
This part is the story is the part of acceptance; of allowing for what has already happened; without blame and finger pointing; without the need to have answers, but instead to seek to understand from a perspective of what choices you now have as you comprehend what is most important now.
I chose to hold gratitude for what I had control over; that is what I would be able to do from that moment forward. I chose to heal completely; to have gratitude for my life and for being here; and for choosing to experience what my life is now; as important and meaningful. I chose to learn from this experience; to decide what I was being shown to look at and change; to be the best version of myself possible.
My life has forever changed since this story; everything has been for the better; to remind myself that the life I lived up until that moment was no longer the same life. When we focus only on what is in front of us, we can lose sight of what we are still manifesting and we become distracted and discouraged.
As I took each step forward, there were many opportunities to be grateful. Gratitude reminds us of what good we can pay attention to that we might otherwise take for granted. Without gratitude there can be a tendency to wallow, to disapprove, to be a victim. This does not help your capacity for what is most wanted.
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Podcast Theme Music: 'Aura' from the Album, Illuvia by Eternell www.eternell.net/album/illuvia
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Accompanying Music: Eternell 'Begin Again' and Purl ' Terra Lumina'
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
Unleash Yourself
Season 2 Episode 11 of The WISDOM podcast
with Dorothy Ratusny
It is most fitting at this time to share this - this prose. It was written two years to the day that I am recording. It fits beautifully with what we are all called to do at this time; to awaken our senses; to step into a greater consciousness that we might uphold for every decision, every action, every thought that we hold. It is each one of us that chooses whether we will live from our heart and with this to embrace all of our perfect nature; to rise up; to meet our self in this perfect state as pureness of thought, without the conditions that we have once placed onto our self and with using our free will to always choose from our heart, of what is right and true - to live a bountiful and beautiful heaven on earth, here and now.
For wherever you are on your path at this time and as you continue to uphold the most sacred values; let this message inspire your journey, now and always... Namaste!
TRUTH SERUM: To 'unleash' yourself is to allow yourself the freedom of self-expression through creativity, love, kindness and compassion. It is to never hold yourself back from life's constant outpouring.
A-HA MOMENTS: Embrace the power you hold within; go into this power - this truth - this security - this comfort; it exists within you; find it as love, find it as inner strength, find it in the deliberate calling of your nature - what you are. When we make time to embrace our inner being we feel comforted in the knowledge that we are not alone; that we are never without knowledge and true wisdom that guides us in every moment. Unleash this knowledge, this inner knowing as you fill yourself - your heart - your being - with this beautiful truth.
PRACTICAL WISDOM: Follow the inner yearning of your soul - unleash your truth - be inspired by what you find and step forward into this. this is your life's path unfolding; be on it - enjoy it - trust it wholly.
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Podcast Theme Music: 'Aura' from the Album, Illuvia by Eternell www.eternell.net/album/illuvia
Accompanying Music: Eternell 'Imagined Distances'
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
Self-Reliance IS Sustainability.
“It’s what you must think of now.”
Season 2 Episode 12 of The WISDOM podcast
with Dorothy Ratusny
Self-reliance is having confidence in and exercising one's own powers or judgment. In fact, that is how we all need to live.
Sustainability refers to a lifestyle that involves the use of sustainable methods / of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource (and this resource could be ourselves), that is not depleted or permanently damaged.
TRUTH SERUM: “There will continue to be uncertainty. You must become certain about what you want and how you wish to live your life. This time is a time of freedom – freedom from what has held you hostage from yourself. What you will choose to be a new set of practices and beliefs that you will hold; will allow you to rebirth yourself into something more, something better. You need this time to awaken; to set in motion this new stage of your life. You already have everything that you need for this.”
A-HA MOMENTS: In this brave new world we are living in, we are being challenged to examine what has been a pattern of reliance on structures, protocol, process, of external powers and condolences and of continuing to do what civilization has done since the industrial revolution. We have followed a model that has not always been self-sustaining nor healthy for ourselves and for the planet.
PRACTICAL WISDOM: Yes, you have every right to have what you want in life; but are your desires to have more and better based on an ego-driven response and fuelled by competition, power and privilege; or are you making decisions that take into consideration your needs based on sustainability, conscientious and thoughtful decisions, humane, ethical, and kind practices?
For a PDF list of the questions I ask in this episode: please click here:
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Podcast Theme Music: 'Aura' from the Album, Illuvia by Eternell www.eternell.net/album/illuvia
Accompanying Music: Eternell 'Gray Havens' and 'Dancing with Wind' from the Album: Imagined Distances
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
TIMESTAMPS:
Podcast Intro: 0-1:32 | Definition of Abuse: 1:34 | Episode highlights including my client 'Beth' and the 4 Strategies You Need to Know to Help You Leave An Abusive Relationship: 1:55 | Why We Stay: 3:11 | The Real Life Client Story of 'Beth': 12:13 | How Does Someone Find Themselves in An Abusive Relationship? 24:36 | What Self-Worth Is: 28:29 | The Four Best Strategies to Help You Leave and Also, Keep You Out of an Abusive Relationship: 33:30 | Final Guidance and Words of Wisdom: 47:35 | Podcast Outro: 50:22
In this episode I want to remind you of the power that you hold to choose for yourself the right and best relationship, and how you can stay clear of relationships that are damaging and abusive.
I also wish to illustrate how living with abuse, perpetuates a cycle of dependency and the eradicating of one's self-worth and sense of self; and I will share the story of my client 'Beth', and the four strategies to prevent you from finding yourself in an abusive relationship and enable you to leave.
TRUTH SERUM: There are many forms of abuse. Abuse is, by definition, the mistreatment of another; whether intentional or as a facet of one's consistent actions that one may not be self-aware of.
A-HA MOMENTS: Abuse in the traditional variant forms that we categorize as physical, emotional, and psychological all originate with one's thoughts and beliefs; that is what one tells one's self and justifies in being discriminating, hurtful, and disrespectful towards another, and how one's misguided intentions can lead into a situation and a relationship that is both damaging and abusive.
PRACTICAL WISDOM: We know that relationships that are unhealthy and abusive are also complex and complicated. We stay in these relationships for different reasons; whether because we have convinced ourselves that there is something of benefit to us in staying; or we anticipate the enormous effort it will take to execute our decision to leave. We stay because we tell our self that the "relationship is really not that bad"; that maybe "we deserve how we are being mistreated"; and in some cases, we may tell ourselves "we don't care."
For whatever the reasons you may have found yourself with an abusive partner, know that by continuing to remain in the relationship, you continue to sacrifice yourself; emotionally, spiritually, physically, and cognitively or mentally.
If you are listening to this episode because something deep within you is yearning for help, guidance, and perhaps validation of what you know but have been afraid to believe, I hope that in listening, you will allow your inner voice to become louder, to rely on it for what you know is true and to be willing to care for yourself first with the knowledge that you are not alone, that you will get through this; that you will feel better, happier, and stronger; and that if and when you choose it, you can and will find the right partner and the love that you truly want.
Here, is a link to download a PDF with episode notes and the questions that I encourage you to ask, that will help you to mobilize yourself to take action. 💜
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Podcast Theme Music: 'Aura' from the Album, Illuvia by Eternell www.eternell.net/album/illuvia
Accompanying Music: Eternell 'Melting While Falling' and 'Home'
A generous 'thank you' to Audio Engineer, Pavel Kirpikau for your incredible help! https://platosound.com/
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
Your Life and How You Live Begins Now
The WISDOM podcast Season 2 Episode 8
TIMESTAMPS:
Podcast Intro: 0-2:10 | An Introduction to this Episode: 2:13 | Part One: 11:56 | Part Two: 20:58 | Podcast Outro: 27:56
This is our global awakening; this is our new world. This is your opportunity, your time, your free will that will choose what will be. When you feel uncertain; and there is much that is still unknown, remember to decide what is in your power to choose; to reclaim, to live awake, because in this time everything that you have ever wanted and desired now is before you. It is of your choosing.
Only you can choose this.
You are not alone, everyone has their own path to walk forward in. The life that you once lived is forever changed. You embrace the present. You may witness all of the moments of your life as you look forward and feel grateful of these many joys that are possible because you choose this. Everything becomes significant. Everything becomes a possibility and something worth asking for. Your life and what you live begins now. Choose your life. Live in peace. Begin this now.
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Podcast Theme Music: 'Aura' from the Album, Illuvia by Eternell www.eternell.net/album/illuvia
Accompanying Music: Eternell 'Melting While Falling' and 'Home'
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Sunday Jun 07, 2020
Sunday Jun 07, 2020
Kindness As Love: A Tribute to George Floyd + A Prose Meditation
The WISDOM podcast Season 2 Episode 7
with Dorothy Ratusny
TIMESTAMPS:
Podcast Intro: 0-1:33 | There Is Something More: 2:05 | When We Learn How To Treat Ourselves Kindly... 2:43 | Beneath The Colour Of Our Skin... 3:37 | A Global Pandemic Of A Different Nature: 4:19 | Practice Kindness Unto Yourself First 6:33 | Every Thought Is Powerful: 7:33 | George Floyd will... 7:57 | How Best to Experience A Prose Meditation: 8:41 | Prose Meditation - Kindness As Love: 10:09 | Podcast Outro: 29:40
There is something else that we must look at now. Now as we continue to navigate life; as we return to some of what has been absent; finding our way to a new and better way of life even as some aspects of this may take time to become what we are used to. There is something more that we are being called to examine; to change if these beliefs conflict with what we know to be the right choice.
Right now in a world torn by differing beliefs; beliefs that have been taught to us by those who also did not have all of the right information; those who may have been living in fear, unknowing of what it truly means to live with your heart open and to be of kindness first and foremost unto yourself.
Because when we learn how to treat ourselves kindly; how to change the thoughts that we want to hold that are remarkable; that instill within us the examples of love and compassion; of resiliency; and inner strength; of teaching ourselves and our children how to live as our inherent goodness and to always do the right thing.
Then we become a home, a community, a nation and a planet in which amongst our differences we share the commodity of loving grace; of treating each other with dignity, respect, kindness - for beneath the color of our skin, the clothes we wear, beneath the thoughts that we might hold or our learned beliefs; we are all of the same physical structure; our hearts beat - we walk and run, we can use our hands to form the universal symbol of peace or to disrespect another.
We can build gardens, playgrounds, places to meet; to laugh, to gather, to share our talents or we can build walls that divide and separate.
What we are reminded of in the world at this time is a global pandemic of a different nature and one that is equally important. We are reminded of how intolerance, rage, suffering, violence... spreads. It is a disease - a virus of its own nature, if allowed to persist.
This brave new world that we are being thrust forward into is a world that must be founded on the protection of love and kindness. Kindness is Love.
When you practice this, when you hold kindness for yourself; when you make this your first choice; our honor every living being because you cannot be kind and loving unto yourself without extending this outward.
The expression and nature of kindness is all consuming. When we as a planet decide how we must treat others, we need to begin here with our self; with our internal language, our inner dialogue; the messages and beliefs that we hold as individuals and understanding of this; if we are unkind, unloving, critical, hurtful; in our words spoken inward or aloud to our self, then we must first change this.
We cannot hold love in our heart to another living being when we are distraught, angered, resentful; if we are judging another; if we o not allow someone the same rights and privileges that we want for our self.
You must practice kindness unto yourself first if you are to nurture the kind of relationships that are of love with all others.
Regardless of what you have been taught; regardless of what you have known because your experiences have continued to shape your existing perspective, you must be willing to stand ground to this.
To make kindness and love your first and only choices if you are to live a life of peace and immense joy and to see the world as it is; as heaven on earth. You decide this. You live based on your inner perceptions projected outward. Every thought is powerful. Every choice that you make holds the distinct line of what will be your liberation and freedom or what holds you back; what limits your world view; what causes your own suffering.
George Floyd will forever be a reminder of this. You may choose kindness and love above all else. You may choose it as dignity and grace unto yourself and towards all others because this is our new liberation; our new hope; our new normal. Kindness as love directed first unto yourself and then towards all other living beings. This too is what we all must choose now.
As you listen to the prose meditation that follows, let yourself close your eyes. Feel the words. Let their meaning fill you with hope and promise of a new normal that you may choose for yourself. For all others. Namaste! xo
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Additional Resources:
What I Need to Heal: An Inspirational Prose Meditation
A Meditation for Radiating Kindness
Podcast Theme Music: 'Aura' from the Album, Illuvia by Eternell www.eternell.net/album/illuvia
Accompanying Music: 1. Hammock - I Could Hear the Water at the Edge of All Things 2. Eternell - 'Elysia'
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Sunday May 31, 2020
Sunday May 31, 2020
Why You Need To Unplug From Technology For A Day: The Science of How A Digital Detox Improves Your Life
The WISDOM podcast Season 2 Episode 6
TIMESTAMPS:
Podcast Intro: 0-2:10 | An Introduction to this Episode: 2:11 | How To Unplug: 6:05 | What is One Thing That You Discovered During Your Digital Detox? 20:19 | Podcast Outro: 20:46
You may have thought about it; or even attempted it; but have you ever completely unplugged from technology for o n e d a y? This means not reaching for your phone or tablet as one of your first habits of the morning; choosing instead to contemplate what you are most aware of; what thoughts you want to hold - and how you want to feel? - even as your senses may be highly acute - and yearning for a deliberate dose of something. But what? - comfort? meaningful connection? curiosity? validation? escape?
What is the experience of a day in your life - best enjoyed - without the comfort and luxury of the internet, phone calls, emails, texts, and anything else that keeps you tightly enmeshed in the matrix? How will you live off the grid for an entire 24 hours? Why would you want to?
TRUTH SERUM: One of the greatest contributors to our global levels of worry, stress, and sadness is the result of not having time alone; whether in a solitude activity of regular inner contemplation and reflection. Doing do, you may initially experience a degree of discomfort that you soon find released; soothed from, as you choose to use your unplugged time to be with you - and to establish a nourishing and positive relationship with your inner self.
A-HA MOMENTS: The advent of personal cellular devices and our increasing reliance on being 'plugged in' has many benefits. However, your 'technology free' day may be an important step in seeking to know yourself better - and to question some of the perpetual habits that may keep you in a cycle of choices that do not serve you.
PRACTICAL WISDOM: Notice what you discover about yourself; your desires, and what reminds you of the importance of unplugging regularly. 20 minutes a day might be perfect - to be with yourself - to identify and nourish your needs and perhaps to know what greater meaning is revealed here - in the present - away from any need to 'do' or 'accomplish' - instead holding attention, patience, and love - directed inward.
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Accompanying Music: Illuvia - Past Lives & Inner Worlds - Drupad
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Sunday May 24, 2020
Sunday May 24, 2020
Hope For Each One of Us
The WISDOM podcast Season 2 Episode 5
with Dorothy Ratusny
TIMESTAMPS:
Podcast Intro: 0-2:09 | Episode Intro and a Little About My Experience and Training of Meditation: 2:13 | Hope For The New Conditions of Our Lives and This Prose Meditation: 4:15 | HOPE Meditation: 6:46 | Podcast Outro: 17:36
In this week's episode, I wish to share with you a special meditation on hope. Hope for the new conditions of our lives that will move us into a kinder and more compassionate world; hope for each one of us as we surge forward, our lives ultimately changed and that we may embrace what change can be for the better, to lead us deeper into our selves and to the oneness of our beautiful nature as love in action.
Hope that as you are guided through this prose meditation; and as you settle in to a comfortable posture, let yourself be guided by my words and notice what impressions and insights arise for you.
A-HA MOMENTS: Our lives are always meant to be of grace; of wonder; of the most privilege because this is our inherent state.
PRACTICAL WISDOM: As much change as we are all experiencing right now, and during this time of a global pandemic; this meditation reminds us that hope needs to be present for the deliberate teachings of our heart; stirring, rising up; to be the messages that we honour for our new lives; for our lives always.
TRUTH SERUM: Breathe in new life, new choices, new reasons for choosing to live in harmony with each other and the planet. It is always possible to find peace; to choose what will sustain us.
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Podcast Theme Music: 'Aura' from the Album, Illuvia by Eternell www.eternell.net/album/illuvia
Accompanying Music: Eternell: 'The Winds and the Wonder' and 'Zahara'
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Sunday May 17, 2020
Sunday May 17, 2020
Reclaim Your Life: The Path to Living Awakened
The WISDOM podcast Season 2 Episode 4
"Each time that you make a conscious effort to look for and see what 'is' (true), you shift yourself into present moment awareness; that is, you become awake and aware - mindful - for as long as you choose to live in this state." - dzj
TIMESTAMPS:
Podcast Intro: 0-2:10 | Introducing This Episode and The Secret to Reclaim Your Life: 2:11 | How We All Have "Aha" Moments: 4:21 | My Client Mackenzie: 5:24 | What Happens When You Are Not Fully Awake: 6:33 | The Questions That Instantly Bring You Back Into The Present Moment: 9:34 | How To Experience Your 'Flash of Light' Like Mackenzie: 11:29 | Podcast Outro: 15:50
There are not only single moments that you awaken to. You live awake and aware as you live of the present moment and willing to live in your truth.
In this episode of the wisdom podcast, I share with you one client's story that speaks to the remarkable way in which we all have 'aha' moments ~ moments of awakening to what is true and we also have a choice in those moments.
We may choose how we will live - awake and aware, or in denial and avoidance, ignoring, not wanting to know; deliberating, telling our self whatever will help us to feel better temporarily even if it is not accurate.
I'd like you to listen to my client: Mackenzie's story, as she came to the liberating and powerful realization that her awakened state was more than a single moment and that she - like you, can choose a path of living awake and reclaiming life.
A-HA MOMENTS: We are now encouraged as a planet to question everything; to return to what we know to be true and right and we can apply this awakened state of being to how we will live the rest of our life.
PRACTICAL WISDOM: We are rediscovering what it means to direct the course of our life, to no longer live on automatic pilot doing what were told we should do by others who were also told this.
TRUTH SERUM: In today's brave new world, we are surrounded by the ability to choose with awareness ~ with living awake to our experiences and to what it means to choose consciously, mindfully and deliberate because living awake is also the precursor for living in your truth.
When you begin to ask questions of your inner nature; your highest self (your truth), and then to listen and acknowledge the answers that come ~ with some patience, you will likely also experience a flash of light, an ‘aha moment’, something similar to what Mackenzie described that marks your awakened state, and the freedom to choose how you will now live your life.
This gateway into truth is completely yours to decide. You may not approve of everything that you see with eyes wide open. Perhaps like Mackenzie and others, who go through a myriad of emotions including sadness and regret for living so much of their life in a habitual way that rarely honored their own needs and desires, you too may feel remorse or self-loathing for what you are now discovering.
If you would like my help as you open yourself to living awake and to the ongoing commitment of being self-honest and wholly truthful, please reach out to me. Let me help. You can find me at: dorothyratusny.com
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Podcast Theme Music: 'Aura' from the Album, Illuvia by Eternell
Accompanying Music: Eternell 'Inner Song'
A generous 'thank you' to Audio Engineer, Pavel Kirpikau for your incredible help!
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
The WISDOM podcast - Season Two Trailer with Dorothy Ratusny
Highlighting some of the most listened to episodes from Season One and sharing what is to come in this new season as we step it up; dedicating each episode to all that you need right now to support you in your decision to thrive; and to live as your best self in each moment of each day, with ease and confidence.
Excel in life by your definition as you live with certainty of all that you desire most; and with the knowledge of how to make your desires - your lived reality.
I can't wait to share all of this brand new season of The WISDOM podcast with you!
Each episode is released; always on Sunday at 8pm EST and always with love; from me to you...
Namaste!
Podcast Theme Music: 'Aura' from the Album, Illuvia by Eternell www.eternell.net/album/illuvia
A generous 'thank you' to Audio Engineer, Pavel Kirpikau for your incredible help!
Monday Apr 06, 2020
Monday Apr 06, 2020
From Fear to Love: Three Best Practices
The WISDOM podcast Season 1 Bonus Episode 3
with Dorothy Zennuriye Juno
TIMESTAMPS:
Podcast Intro: 0-2:10 | Episode Dedication: 2:14 | When You Live In Fear, This is What Happens: 3:39 | The First Best Practice to Alleviate Fear: 5:42 | Questions to Ask Yourself to Bring You Into the Present Moment: 8:53 | The Second Best Practice to Alleviate Fear 13:53 | The Third Best Practice to Alleviate Fear: 16:43 | What it Feels Like to Feel Love: 18:06 | How to Live As Love as Your State of Being - A Meditative Practice: 20:38 | Podcast Outro: 26:11
It is only when you are fixated on a problem that worries surface: your mind directed towards what is unwanted and what causes you to suffer.
TRUTH SERUM: Fear keeps you locked in feelings of powerlessness; your worry of the future causes you to ultimately lose your life in the present moment; unaware of the power that you have to focus on what is wanted.
A-HA MOMENTS: I want to show you how to alleviate fear; and to explain how you may move from a place of fear about anything, into one of knowledge, truth, and a focus on what is desired and wanted, and then to build upon this further into a state of love; of calm, knowing right action, and perseverance (of a plan and the steps that are needed to help you stay on course towards what you desire and to feel confidence (as you mobilize yourself and take right action), and of purpose (of accomplishing constructive behaviors and feeling the relief of fear). This is possible for each one of us – of all ages; to do for our self.
PRACTICAL WISDOM: This is not about conquering your fear. We need to feel fear because it has a purpose if experienced for the right reasons. The ‘right’ reasons include a real threat that then allows you to mobilize yourself in safety and care. Perceived or imagined fears are psychological and are not necessarily based in real and factual information. When you experience the feeling of fear based upon your worries of a future moment that has not yet or may never happen; the feeling is real, although the fear is not based in absolute truth. And there is a difference.
In fear, you have lost control; you have let go of the threads that weave together your life so beautifully; this intricate and necessary tapestry that supports you in all of the moments of your life; – evades you when you are in fear.
When you are in fear, you do not notice the love in the eyes of your partner, you miss out on the feeling of love that is present in the hug that your child gives eagerly; you see the robin scanning the path in front of you as it runs hurriedly over the earth before lifting its wings in flight, easing itself upward to sit on a branch of a tree; but you are not able to give any of this your full attention because you are trapped inside your mind, dwelling on what keeps you locked in worry and fear.
1. Your first step to alleviate fear; fear of this present global health crisis or any fear that you are consumed by, is akin to the analogy that you must cast yourself a life buoy and then observe intently as you are securely pulled to safety. Your life buoy is a metaphor for your ability to pull yourself into the present moment.
This is not about conquering your fear. We need to feel fear because it has a purpose if experienced for the right reasons. The ‘right’ reasons include a real threat that then allows you to mobilize yourself in safety and care. Perceived or imagined fears are psychological and are not necessarily based in real and factual information. When you experience the feeling of fear based upon your worries of a future moment that has not yet or may never happen; the feeling is real, although the fear is not based in absolute truth. And there is a difference.
In this health pandemic, there is a lot of information that can heighten your fear; the overloading of information some of it inaccurate, some of it truthful; can still cause you to feel fearful when you have not previously.
Sometimes, as you seek to have all of the right knowledge and information; focusing on the finding and having of facts can cause hypervigilance - acute focus on this problem even if your facts can now offer ideas for what you need to do. It is only when you are fixated on a problem that worries surface: your mind directed towards what is unwanted and what causes you to suffer.
I want to show you how to alleviate fear; and to explain how you may move from a place of fear about anything, into one of knowledge, truth, and a focus on what is desired and wanted, and then to build upon this further into a state of love; of calm, knowing right action, and perseverance (of a plan and the steps that are needed to help you stay on course towards what you desire and to feel confidence (as you mobilize yourself and take right action), and of purpose (of accomplishing constructive behaviours and feeling the relief of fear). This is possible for each one of us – of all ages; to do for our self.
The first best practice is to move yourself into the present moment. A way to define the present is to ask of yourself, “What do I need in this moment?” This is a profoundly important question because it brings your attention from wherever your mind is focused into now; because you need to be able to assess yourself from the present moment to know what you need. This is how you direct your brain to focus in the present.
Another question that brings your attention into the present is to ask: “How Do I Want to Feel Now?” With either answer in mind, you continue by next asking, “For what I need, how can I give this to myself now?” Or in the case of the second question, for how I want to feel, “What thoughts will allow me to feel this feeling?” and then, decide what those thoughts are, and write them. Return to these thoughts when your mind becomes focused again onto what is less helpful.
For whatever you need and for how you want to feel; as you focus your mind in the present moment, you will be able to provide for yourself what is wanted. Here, it is important to follow through; to answer your questions and then to act on these as it keeps you engaged in the presence of your life. For example, What are the thoughts that will allow me to feel calm? Then to write these, and to say your thoughts aloud so that you can hear your own voice comforting you as you observe your desired feelings of calm rise up. For example, “I am beginning to feel calm”, “I am working towards calm now”, and “I am calm.”
The emotion of fear is felt whenever you recall and focus on a past situation in which you experienced fear. Fear is most likely to surface when you are anticipating a future unwanted moment that has not yet or may never happen.
2. The second strategy or best practice for alleviating fear is to focus on taking action based on what is wanted. You remain in the feeling of fear when you are focused on an undesired outcome. If you think about what you don’t want; what you are fearful of, what worries you of the future; your attention and focus is going to be entirely on the very thing that you do not want.
"Fear lies in the future unknown. It is extinguished when you are of this moment." - dorothy zennuriye juno
To eliminate fear, you must focus on having factual information that educates and then mobilizes you to take the right action towards what you desire; to best protect yourself and your family, to avoid others as much as possible through social distancing, and to be self-disciplined in the need for self-quarantine or self-isolation if you have travelled, or if you have flu-like symptoms until you feel well again.
Rather than hold thoughts that cause you worry, focus on what positive action you will take and do this. Assertive action will cause you to feel encouraged, relief, reassured, empowered, and even calm and happy.
When you focus on what is not wanted or a worse case scenario, you will feel anxiety, fear and even panic. It isn’t that you can’t think about you fears, its simply that doing so is not going to help you. Your best decision is to use the accurate information that you have gathered to make proactive and wise decisions for yourself and your family. And then to take action and continue this positive action towards what is desired.
This includes problem solving, choosing to hold reassuring thoughts and to speak these with others. What can you tell yourself and say out loud in the presence of others that will be reassuring and uplifting? You may also want to write these and to remind yourself of what is most helpful.
3. Finally, let me show you how to move out of fear into love:
You know how fear feels. We all have felt it. Fear of something imagined or real (such as this global health crisis) remains your reality for as long as you choose to focus on the future worse case outcome rather than focus on the present moment and what you are doing now to achieve what is your ideal or desired outcome.
Remember the strategies we’ve just discussed and the first best practice: to focus on how you want to feel and then to decide what you need to think or do to feel this – now. You can also identify what you need in this moment to feel calm, secure, safe or any other desired feeling; and then seek this out, whether to calm yourself, to enjoy an activity in the present moment, to learn, to laugh, to enjoy being with your family, and to do your best to remain healthy; to take every precaution that you can, and to have faith and belief in a global positive outcome for all of us.
You also know how it feels to feel love. Try it with me now. Close your eyes. Say it for yourself. What do I love? What simple joys, pleasures do you love? Who do I love? Notice what feelings rise up. Choose to focus for a little longer, here, in the space of what love feels like. Allow yourself to enjoy this feeling, to notice where in your body you feel the energy of love; to live in this feeling; to describe to yourself what the feeling of love feels like.
As you make the decision to live more of your life in the space of feeling the feelings of love; whether by thinking about those that you love, or what you love and feel appreciation for; what allows you to feel joy; and to witness the feeling of love and joy felt throughout your being. You can also begin to evoke love as a state that you live in of being as you live as and to live from your heart more of the time, to step out of the busy nature of your mind and to live intuitively – in the present moment, and of your heart. Let me show you how you can live as love as a way of being. It’s a simple heart opening meditative practice that will allow you to feel full with love.
As you close your eyes, imagine a beautiful light in your heart centre (use image). Give this light a colour. What colour best represents for you the colour of light and the energy of love? See this colour glowing in your heart center.
As you give this light you attention, you realize that it is always present, always a part of you in all moments. Maybe before now you were not conscious of it but it has always been with you. Now when you wish to deliberately live out of your heart – see, imagine, and visualize this light within glowing, and expansive. You may also begin to witness it filling the area of your chest and expanding outward, filling your entire body. Notice the vibration of energy that you feel as you see and imagine the energy of your heart moving outward.
This is your reminder of the energy of love that you hold within and that you allow yourself to be by choice. As you hold this image and the feeling of this energy, you witness it as a sacred part of you. Remember this energy – and the feeling of love as it rises up – expansive and throughout your being. Come back to it in all moments that you want to feel this love. This is what you are.
At this time in our lives, we all need to make the decision from where we will live; whether in a state of love, where we can share our loving nature with others by choice; through loving words and actions and as we choose to make responsible, educated decisions (and as you do so, to do so) out of love and the desire for what is wanted, as you hold faith and belief that your actions guided in the right way, will allow you to achieve all of what is most desired.
If you would like to have more practice in experiencing yourself in a state of love – please have a look at the links I’ll leave for you here, (in the transcript notes) for additional guided practices, specific meditations and further audio recordings of love from me to you.
*Resources for Activating Love From Within: (From Me to You 💜)
I AM Love in All Moments: A Prose Meditation
A Meditation for Living with Your Heart Open
3 Self-Love Practices that You Need to Know
A generous 'thank you' to Audio Engineer, Pavel Kirpikau for your incredible help! radioplato
Podcast Theme Music: 'Aura' from the Album, Illuvia by Eternell www.eternell.net/album/illuvia
Accompanying Music: Eternell, 'Elevation'