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Our guest this week Monday, Sept 20th is Andrew Seaton author of Spiritual Awakening Made Simple. We discuss the Soul of You – spiritual awakening and how it’s simple, we address grief, and other emotions affecting our perceptions. Check out this informative interview.

Andrew Seaton is a spiritual author, teacher, counselor, and mentor for spiritual awakening. For more than four decades, he delved deeply into educational philosophy and psychology; old wisdom and new science; reports of higher consciousness; and a wide range of personal development, holistic wellness, and spiritual awareness practices.

As Andrew experienced all the personal ups and downs of his life, his working life was quite varied, but mostly in education. He had many different roles in that field, most of them relating to education of the whole person. His Ph.D. thesis was titled “Investing in Intelligence: An Inquiry into Educational Paradigm Change.” Andrew came to see that in our world we are generally making some deeply flawed assumptions about knowledge, human nature, and quality of life. In 2006, he resigned from a two-year stint as an education academic in order to focus on unlearning his education and other conditioning, and on awakening, the fuller functioning that he had come to see so clearly is possible and desirable.

Listen to it on the Poetic Resurrection Podcast and PoeticResurrection.com

Awakening Made Simple (on Amazon)

Andrew’s website is at AwakeningMadeSimple.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AndrewSeaton101

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCau8nH_QV9fGPnZopgzkDrg

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewseaton101

 

In this week’s episode, the Soul of Giving,  we have Sammy Ashe II. He performs a reading of his song “Enemy” sung by Fanesha Fabre. We listen to her singing it and find out what prompted him to write the song, This is an entertaining conversation about everything from music, the Ashe Academy, and how our experiences teach us to help ourselves and others.

Samuel Jonathan Ashe II, better known as Sammy Ashe is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Ashe Academy, a nonprofit focused on addressing the access and opportunity gap for Students of Color pursuing the Arts & STEM fields through mentorship, annual scholarships, and parental engagement. He is also a Marketing Strategist with a passion for Filmmaking, Podcasting, and Songwriting.

In his music career, he has worked with artists like Fanesha Fabre, Stephen James, Cortex Accelera, Danielle Parente, and Mike Georgia to name a few on projects involving songwriting, composing, and producing.

Website: www.theasheacademy.org

Listen to Episode Here

This week we discuss why thoughts contradict affirmations. They contradict because we state them but our subconscious mind isn’t believing it. i.e., I am wealthy – my bank account states differently. This is because our negative self-talks are repeated over and over.

EX: Someone annoys you – there will be a thought & an emotion associated with it and we usually repeat something like “I can’t believe they did that” and now you have created an affirmation.

We usually read off affirmations like a list with no emotion.  I am wealthy, I am safe, I am prosperous, I am healthy, I am loved. No emotion, just going through a list.

Affirmations can be difficult to state especially if it’s contradicting an emotional experience

With affirmations and if needed support, you can change your thoughts.

It’s okay to take your time with them.

Taking deep breaths and exhaling slowly helps.

Visualizing being a calm place – the beach, forest, meadow, or bed.

Think of someone or something you love: your family, your friends, a loved one, a pet, your home. Feel that emotion of love.

You’re using affirmations to help change long-standing patterns and beliefs. A good way to bring this change about is to act as if you’ve already succeeded.

Affirmations are effective if stated in the present.

Adding I feel to them – ex: I am wealthy – I feel wealthy, I am loved – I feel loved.

It’s easier to make a change when an emotion is associated with it. Emotions are energy – which helps us with a change.

Thoughts Contradict Affirmations on Insight Timer

Thoughts Contradict Affirmations on Podbean

Listen to this episode and the last nine here

Rick White wrote Before & Beyond Understanding in hopes to have a positive impact on the reader’s life. From his being in the army to dealing with chronic illness he put his heart into sharing the lessons that have helped him along his personal path.

Rick White – A simple guy with sometimes hard-won and sometimes spiritually provided wisdom – shares what he’s learned in a way we can all understand.

From being murderously angry in his youth to talking people down from bad trips at concerts during the years surrounding Woodstock…

From working with friends to get through severe tragedy to profound interactions with those afflicted with homelessness…

The lessons contained in this book are not born of theory and concept… These ideas are from the depths of the experience of a man whose search for meaning, humanity, and profundity never ends. Some he discovered on his own, some he received through mentoring, all changed his life.

His only hope is to be able to pay forward the insights and understandings he’s received to as many people as he possibly can.

Listen to his episode here

Get a copy of his book here – Before & Beyond Understanding