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A Single Tree Podcast
by Joel Ybarra
Mental health professionals Brandon Jacobs and Joel Ybarra of Real Life Counseling discuss consciousness, contemplation and growth. Find out more about Real Life Counseling at RLCwichita.com.
Episodes
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54 - The Cumulative Effects of Stress and Setting Yourself Free to Heal
We’re another year older and have become more focused on our collective experience of stress and trauma. All of us experience difficulty which has an effect on our bodies over time, even as we are unaware. De-pathologizing our adaptive responses to difficulty and setting ourselves free from blame...
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53 - Trauma As A Portal
Trauma theory is helpful in understanding how our nervous systems respond in stressful situations. We can also learn to navigate the different levels of nervous system activation, even when dangerous and life-threatening events occur. We tend to avoid these difficult things in our lives because…
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52 - Portals to Spiritual Awakening
In his book In An Unspoken Voice, Peter A. Levine identifies four portals to spiritual awakening, as in the Buddhist and Taoist traditions. They are death, mediation, sex and trauma. In these experiences, humans experience profound surrender, and our nervous systems, which normally seek safety…
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51 - A Deeper Sense
There are layers to our human experience – perception, thought, emotion and sensation. It is important to pay attention and understand what is happening at each of these levels, but they, in and of themselves, are not the fullest or deepest experience of existence. There is a deeper sense with...
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50 - Non-Dual Experiencing
Effective teachers are guides which help us find our way to truth, not just dispensing "answers." And when we suspend judgment of everything we do and think, we can experience our inner reality as it is and move toward healing and shaping it.
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49: Non-Dual Perceiving and Becoming
Religion puts forth right belief and right action (morality). If we stay in a dualistic mindset, it will not allow us to explore and know reality and ourselves deeply. We can have practices which allow us to take in what is, and give us better ability to have freedom in shaping behavior.
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48 - The Path to Non-Duality 2 - Beyond Morality and Right Belief
We discuss our belief systems' role giving structure to our morality and ability to know what is true. These are structures that are helpful for a time and then it is helpful for our spirituality to move beyond them, into a non-dual way of knowing and experiencing God and reality.
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Episode 47 - The Path to Non-Duality
We discuss our personal paths to non-duality. We are all raised to think from a dualistic, black-or-white perspective, but inevitably our experiences lead us to a place where that type of thinking no longer works. We must find something larger that helps us interpret our experience and the world...
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46 - Non-Duality is the Goal
Judging everything – our circumstances, our inner experiences and other things and people – is a tendency we all have, and widely accepted as a normal way our brains work. It is a necessary function of our thinking in the first part of our lives, but then it is important for us to take on a...
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45 - Hold Your Identity Loosely
We often want to define ourselves and set ourselves apart from others by identifying ourselves with a category or group and by being the heroes in our own stories. We also seek to establish a sense of comfort and stability at all costs. Life comes along and hands us interruptions, irritants and...
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44 - Expanding Consciousness: Letting in Reality
Growth as human beings means expanding our container to let in more and more reality. We often don’t engage in this type of work because it means we will leave behind comfort, safety and others who are like-minded, but expanding consciousness doesn’t mean we are better than others or that we…
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43 – Preservation and Progress: Nurturing Healthy Growth and Change
There are two seemingly opposing forces at work in all living organisms: the drive to change and the drive to stay the same. The conservative/progressive divide in our culture indicates this dynamic is at work intensely right now. We must continue to talk to one another, believe change is…
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Mental health professionals Brandon Jacobs and Joel Ybarra of Real Life Counseling discuss consciousness, contemplation and growth. Find out more about Real Life Counseling at RLCwichita.com.
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A Single Tree Podcast is created and hosted by Joel Ybarra.
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