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Episode 27: How to Regain Trust When Life Has Betrayed You

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In this episode Gia begins by sharing Something Positive: a program in an elementary school in Baltimore that teaches children breath work and meditation instead of sending them to detention. They send a misbehaving child to a “Mindful Moment” room for reflection and some calming meditation. This program has yielded very positive results for the school – well done!

Next Gia and Karen talk about how to regain trust after you’ve been betrayed by another person or by life itself. It’s important to learn some recovery skills so that betrayals don’t cause us to spiral down into victimhood or fear. The conversation includes:

  • betrayal is a normal part of life – everyone is just human, trying to do the best they can
  • ultimately our trust should be in ourselves and our own Divinity rather than in people or things outside of ourselves
  • if we truly trust ourselves and our higher power then we don’t need anyone else in our lives to be totally trustworthy
  • betrayal can cause us to contract in fear and make ourselves small for self-protection if we don’t learn how to cope with it
  • even if we’ve healed the past we have to be open to betrayal happening again – have equanimity and compassion for others who are just being human
  • be able to take the Galaxy view and recognize that life has no guarantees and offers us many different opportunities to learn our lessons
  • betrayal is one of the biggest lessons we each must learn – so accept from the outset that life is going to bring this experience
  • we can allow others to be who they are when we place our trust within – we don’t require others to be perfect for us
  • we can become bitter if we expect our God to always prevent “bad” things from happening to us – this is a misunderstanding of what life is all about
  • Tips for regaining trust:
    • turn to prayer and meditation when you feel hurt or betrayed
    • accept your feelings rather than judging them
    • trace your own life journey and recognize all of the unexpected things that have happened, both surprises and disappointments; look for patterns in the ups and downs and recognize how life is teaching you certain lessons
    • consider that your current betrayals may be pointing you toward old wounds that still need to be healed
    • focus on loving yourself even more, especially when you feel fear
    • know that you have the power to take care of yourself and to make the highest choices for yourself

Remember: It’s Just Life! with all its crazy ups and downs – the more your emotions rise to the surface the faster you are growing and evolving! Be a Spirit Warrior and a Change Pioneer – join our community and help us forge new territory in life!

Links for this episode:

Gia’s website: www.divinelygia.com

Gia’s YouTube channel (check out her awesome meditation videos): https://www.youtube.com/user/divinelyalign

Karen’s website: www.karenwyattmd.com

As always we love you and send you tons of joy! Thanks for sharing this journey with us! Leave us your comments and go to iTunes to post reviews for this podcast. See you next time!

Gia and Karen

xoxo

 

Episode 18: Impermanence – Nothing lasts and everything changes

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Today Gia and Karen start the podcast with a new weekly feature: Something Positive. Today’s positive story is about a woman in Philadelphia who learned that her Uber driver had a son competing in the Olympics but couldn’t afford to travel to Rio to watch his performance. So she gathered her friends together and raised the money to pay his expenses and that Dad is on his way to Rio to cheer for his son! We need more people like that woman who take the time to listen to other people’s stories and act with compassion and generosity.

The subject for today is Impermanence and the discussion includes all of the normal changes we experience as we grow through life. These “little deaths” help shape who we are and occur to gradually break down our attachments and prepare for our ultimate death.  But Westerners are resistant to change in general and thoughts of death. We talk about:

  • The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche and how Buddhists prepare for death throughout their adult lives
  • The need to let suffering change us as we journey through life
  • The challenges of change for the ego which clings to self-identity
  • The importance of seeing the Galaxy view to help us through the ego’s struggles in the Garden
  • The best mindset for coping with change and impermanence
  • Karen’s new book: The Tao of Death – an adaptation of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching from the perspective of Death; the book can be used as a daily guide for contemplating death and impermanence – a Companion Journal is available with prompts for daily journaling.

Read more about The Tao of Death here.

Get the book on Amazon here.

Get the Companion Journal here.

We love you and send you all our support for your journey through change and impermanence! Be sure to leave reviews for us on iTunes and share our podcast with your friends! Until next week take care!

Gia and Karen

xoxo

Episode 17: Balancing Masculine and Feminine Energies in the New Era

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In today’s episode Gia and Karen welcome their first guest, Dr. Larry George, who is Gia’s Dad and Karen’s husband. Dr. George is a family physician who recently retired from practice and is a student of Integral Theory, particularly the work of Ken Wilber. The trio discusses masculine and feminine energies, what happens when they are out of balance, and some ideas for getting into balance. The conversation includes:

  • The difference between male/female designations and masculine/feminine and why it’s important to understand
  • How patriarchy began for practical, survival reasons
  • That testosterone is the driver of primitive male behaviors for procreation and protection (“f*** it or kill it”)
  • How societal violence leads to fear and more violence
  • Why there is currently a clash of civilizations on the planet due to the existence of many different levels of socio-cultural evolution at the same time
  • Tips for helping male consciousness evolve and controlling testosterone-driven behaviors:
    • education
    • spiritual practice
    • nurturing relationships
  • Why higher consciousness is needed to help quell violence on the planet
  • Why compassion and forgiveness are important as we all seek to evolve (rather than blame and judgement)
  • The importance of finding our own inner balance of masculine and feminine energies

Link for this episode: Gia’s YouTube Channel (Check out her meditation videos!)

As always we love you and support you in your own process of spiritual growth! Send us your questions and concerns. Visit iTunes to write a review if you feel inspired and share our podcasts with others who might benefit from them!

Gia and Karen

xoxo

Episode 2: How to Bounce Back From a Downturn

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Gia and Karen discuss the inevitable downturns of life and how they get through them. They reveal some of their own struggles with disappointment and emotional letdowns and their recognition that these events are a normal and necessary part of life. You will learn:

  • How to prepare for downturns so that you can experience more equanimity
  • What you can learn from times of darkness
  • Why  you need your own “toolkit” to help you raise your energy again after experiencing a downturn
  • Cool tips and tools for getting out of a slump and back to higher consciousness
  • Why life provides us with more questions than answers

Remember, you are not alone if your are currently struggling in a downturn of life–we are right there with you! Check out these resources mentioned in this podcast:

Karen’s book: What Really Matters

Gia’s Meditation Videos:   Two Steps to Hear Your Soul       Eyes Above the Storm

Jessica’s Daily Affirmation Video

Buddha on the Train Video

Click here to get a copy of the Rilke poem we read to you!

We love you! Join us for the next episode!