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Healing the Heart
by Steven Winn
Heal your own heart... Heal the heart of your family and relationships... Heal the heart of your community and country... And then we can begin to Heal the Heart of the world. We start with healing our own heart, and then the world changes to reflect the harmony of our own hearts. This isn’t a mental process – it takes healing and cultivating the power of our hearts. Join our free weekly meditation series to begin the 16 inch journey from your head to your heart. Most of us live somewhere behind our eyeballs, but we begin to live life in the flow when our presence resides in our hearts. Hosted by Rev. Steven Winn, you will begin to heal personal and collective wounds through the immense power of your heart. You will learn a simple method of meditating with your heart, fostering self-love, emotional healing, and flourishing relationships. Each 45–50 minute session includes heart-centered meditations and then optional o
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Exploring Pain for Spiritual Growth
In this session, Steven Winn delves into the profound nature of pain as a catalyst for spiritual expansion. Contrasting last week's discussion on acceptance, he emphasizes the importance of embracing pain and using it as a tool for personal growth. Through guided breathing exercises and mindful...
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Allowing the World to be Perfect, just the way it is
Allowing the world to be perfect just the way it is ... this is not a willpower process, where we beat ourselves up until we make believe the world is perfect. This is the process of letting go of our judgments, our attachments and aversions/fears, and experience life in the state of Acceptance.…
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Loving our Bodies
What do you like about your body? What don't you like about your body? What can't your body do anymore? What shouldn't your body be doing? In this meditation we move from judging our body to loving our body, and allowing our bodies to be our best friends and allies. Who would you be if you...
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Exploring Tolerance: Apathy and Acceptance
In this session, Steven Winn delves into the concept of tolerance, distinguishing between unconscious tolerance stemming from apathy and conscious tolerance rooted in love and acceptance. He invites participants to explore how these different forms of tolerance impact our relationships and...
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Exploring the Essence of Joy
In this episode, Steven Winn delves into the concept of joy, exploring its significance and the ways we can invite more of it into our lives. He reflects on personal experiences and contrasts joy with other emotions, encouraging listeners to give themselves permission to embrace joy. The session...
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Healing the Energy of Disappointment
In this session, Steven Winn guides listeners through a meditation focused on exploring the energy of disappointment in our lives. By diving into our hearts, we confront the barriers that hold us back from spiritual freedom and unity. The session encourages letting go of past disappointments and...
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America's Spiritual Leadership Birthday Wish
In this episode, Steven Winn reflects on America's upcoming 250th birthday and envisions a transformative shift from political and military dominance to spiritual leadership. Drawing on historical insights and astrological perspectives, he shares a hopeful message for America to embrace its...
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Who do you want to punish? To teach a lesson to?
And, what have we done that we deserve to be punished? Most of us harbor some sense of vengeance, some sense that there are people who should be punished. How is that working for you? Does holding a grudge feel lighter or heavier than forgiving? It's heavier, right? But what about sex…
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Cultivating Divine Inspiration in Our Lives
We all have a subconscious program that says "Don't tell me what to do." At the same time we want influence - really we want to tell other people what to do. There is a better approach - and that is to inspire. This session we explore the process of allowing Divine Inspiration to be our daily…
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Mindful Connections and Spiritual Growth
In this episode, Steven Winn welcomes listeners to a session focused on personal and collective healing. He discusses the importance of spiritual development and invites participants to join ongoing classes aimed at fostering heart-centered growth. The conversation also touches on significant...
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Embracing Generational Differences with Love
In this session, Steven Winn explores the concept of the 'generational field' and how the distinct energies of different generations impact our worldviews and relationships. He encourages participants to reflect on their feelings towards various generations, fostering an atmosphere of…
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Allowing Peace in either Comfort or Discomfort
In this session, Steven Winn explores the energies of comfort and peace, using a vivid dream about refugees to illustrate the tensions between our need for comfort and the ability to find inner peace in challenging situations. He encourages you to feel and experience their own discomforts…
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Navigating Overwhelm with Heart-Centered Focus
In this episode, Steven Winn guides listeners through the process of identifying and managing feelings of overwhelm in their lives. By connecting with our hearts, he emphasizes the importance of prioritizing passions and releasing the burdens that weigh us down. Join him as he shares insights…
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Navigating Overwhelming Life Challenges
In this episode, Steven Winn explores the profound moments when we encounter overwhelming energy and emotions, such as loss, fear, and global crises. He reflects on personal experiences and collective historical traumas that can leave us feeling unable to cope. Listeners are encouraged to...
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Exploring the Power of Our Voices
In this session, Steven Winn delves into the profound connection between voice and vibration, drawing insights from various spiritual traditions. He invites participants to reflect on their feelings about their own voices and speech, uncovering hidden energies associated with self-expression. The...
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Finding Peace in the Middle East at the level of Pure Truth
There is a place deep within each one of us - a place of complete Truth. We can only experience this level of Truth when we let go of all our attachments and aversions, our fears and judgements and self righteousness. In Sanskrit this level of Truth is call Rittam Bhara Pragya - meaning "Truth,...
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Food and Sex: our last attachments
Most people think sex is our last and deepest attachment, but really, it is our attachment to food that is our last attachment to be healed. Imagine a life where food is simply something we eat to survive, rather than living to eat. Can you see how much freedom there is once we let go of our...
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Inquiring about Dharma, Duty and Desires
We explore the energy of Dharma and duty while living in a desire-based world. Do we live to fulfill our desires, or live to fulfill our purpose? If we ask our minds if they know what our purpose is, our minds do not have an answer. Our minds may have theories, but purpose is beyond the scope of...
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War, Violence, and Inner Peace
Why would we ever want to love war? Would you prefer to fear war? To hate war? What comes up when we think about war? How many of us have Righteous Judgement against those who allow war? Are we not at war with them? In this session, we dive into war and violence, and heal our attachments and...
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Journey from Head to Heart
In this session, Steven Winn explores the transformative journey of shifting our awareness from the mind to the heart. Through guided warm-ups and meditative practices, participants learn to confront and embrace old wounds, fostering a deeper connection with their true selves. This process…
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Developing Influence and Power
Do we have more influence on the world, or does the world have more influence on us? Influence is another word for power, and this topic brought up deep wounds, especially in women who have been steamrolled by men and the patriarchal power structure of our culture. More: Who are the influencers…
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Healing our feelings about Government and Power
How do you feel about our government? Or about any government? How do you feel about the power the government has? It's not that government is all bad - we all want roads and fire departments and so many other great things the government provides or helps with. But we all know of the abuses of...
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Romantic Love vs Unconditional Love
Next Saturday is both Valentine's Day (Romantic Love) and Shivaratri, the Hindu celebration of Lord Shiva. Shiva is austere, silent, transcendent, and completely embodies impersonal, unconditional love. The fullness of life calls for both types of love. What keeps us from living in complete...
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Exploring Passion and Desire
In this session, Steven Winn delves into the nuanced relationship between passion and desire, encouraging listeners to differentiate between the two. He prompts reflection on personal experiences of passion and the attachments that may arise from them. Through engaging warm-up exercises,...
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Transformation: the one thing to change in your life that will have the most impact
What is the one thing you could change in your life that would change your life the most? Would this be in your health, your emotions and patterns, your relationships, or especially your awareness? What's keeping you from making that change? Fear, doubt, disbelief? Maybe something else? Would it…
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Exploring Personal vs. Universal Power
In this session, Steven Winn delves into the distinction between personal power and universal power, encouraging participants to reflect on their experiences. The discussion emphasizes the importance of aligning with the heart rather than the mind, fostering a deeper connection to universal will....
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Loving Our Bodies
We know that loving our minds quiets them. When our minds are in reactive mode, we are flooded with thoughts. The same is true of our body - but when our body reacts, we feel sensations, pain, and feelings. Our job is to love the body and all its reactions. This quiets the body, and then we can...
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Who will help you?
How to "tap" into Cosmic Beings and Spiritual guides to assist in fulfilling our goals and intentions. We quickly discover that our connection with the Divine is far more important than the fulfillment of goals. Connection is created through intention, and especially by asking from the deepest...
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New Year's Eve: Deep Longings of our Hearts vs Ego-Driven Resolutions
On New Year's Eve, Steven Winn invites listeners to reflect on the past year while looking forward to new possibilities. He discusses the dual nature of desires, contrasting ego-driven resolutions with deeper longings of the heart. This introspective journey encourages embracing personal growth...
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Attachments and Aversions to Christianity
In this session, Steven Winn invites participants to reflect on their attachments and aversions to Christianity, especially in the context of Christmas Eve. He encourages a heart-centered approach to explore personal beliefs and emotional structures, inviting attendees to release these…
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Winter Solstice: Embracing Light and Darkness
In this session, Steven Winn guides listeners through a reflective journey in preparation for the winter solstice. He emphasizes the importance of resting in darkness while nurturing the rebirth of light, encouraging deep exploration through meditation and breathwork. This practice invites...
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Healing Your Inner Grinch: Navigating Holiday Emotions
In this session, Steven Winn explores the complexities of holiday emotions, revealing the inner conflicts many face during this time of year. He invites listeners to examine their attachments and aversions related to the holidays, encouraging a process of self-reflection and transformation.…
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Healing Family Relationships as a Spiritual Practice
Knowledge is different in different states of consciousness. Truth is also different from the perspective of the personality, the wounds of our hearts, and the pure,loving depth of our hearts. We can use this - along with the elemental energies - to heal our relationships and live from our…
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Gratitude for Our Bodies
In this reflective talk, Steven Winn explores the theme of gratitude, focusing specifically on appreciation for our bodies. He shares personal experiences that highlight the importance of recognizing the functionality and alignment of our physical selves, especially in moments of discomfort or...
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Gratitude for those who trigger us
We've all been triggered, right? We blame the people who trigger us, but that doesn't really help. I encourage us all to use being triggered as a spiritual practice where we own our own responsibility for being triggered, and then look to see where we have triggered other people in our lives. We...
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Connecting with Ancestral Wisdom
In this session, Steven Winn explores the significance of ancestral connections and their impact on our lives. He addresses profound questions regarding the existence and influence of our ancestors, inviting participants to engage in reflective practices that deepen their connections. The episode...
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Letting go of the belief that we must grow old and die
Somehow it feels impossible - even wrong, a violation of Natural Law - to reverse aging and live a healthy, vibrant life no matter how old we are. But virtually every ancient tradition has stories similar to the longevity of the Patriarchs. In this cleanup/meditation, we soften and let go of the...
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Heaven and Hell - Heart and Mind
Heaven and Hell are such wonderfully charged topics. Even if we have dismissed them as stories to instill fear and promote obedience, they still lurk in our subconscious. We invite these concepts to our conscious mind and release them by exploring our attachments and aversions to them. Underneath...
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Do you love being Manipulated?
When have you been manipulated? By a person or by the Media, the Gov't, etc? It happens to all of us, and our reactions are perfectly normal. We say "yes" when we want to say "no", and then blame the other person or organization. How about trying something different? The Path of the Heart gives…
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Seeing your life with the Eyes of your Heart
What has been the best part of your life? The worst part? What is your purpose in life? If we look at life through the eyes of the mind/ego, we get drama and trauma - and sometimes peak experiences that don't last. If we look at life through the Eyes of our Hearts, we can let go of the stories…
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How to Overcome our Resistance to Enlightenment
If we didn't have resistance to becoming enlightened, we'd already be enlightened. If we think of being All-Loving, part of us is afraid people will take advantage of us, or we will become the world's caretaker. If we think of being All Powerful, what resistance comes up for you? If we awaken…
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Shifting from Judgement to Love
We're all good at judging, right? It's easy and natural. But it's just a pattern and we can shift this pattern for the Pattern of Love. The second half of this program is full of breakthroughs!
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Making Friends with Pain
In this session, Steven Winn delves into the nature of pain and its connection to broader societal issues like war, hatred, and poverty. He invites participants to move beyond intellectual understanding and explore these complexities through the heart. The discussion also touches on…
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Love is different in different states of realization.
Consider the pain of not being loved, and the joy of loving. What is the difference in your experience? As we progress on the spiritual path, we move to the experience of loving the Divine ... and then being the Beloved of the One. Love is different in different states of realization. Eventually,...
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The Spiritual Significance of Bones
In this session, Steven Winn explores the often-overlooked significance of bones in our lives, linking them to both physical and spiritual healing. He references cultural narratives and Sufi teachings to illustrate the deeper meaning behind our skeletal structure and its role in vitality. Join…
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Making Friends with Pain and Loss
In this poignant reflection, Steven Winn addresses the duality of grief and celebration following the passing of a dear friend. He delves into the nature of pain, exploring how it can be intertwined with spiritual understanding and acceptance. Through the story of Ramakrishna, he challenges the...
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Divine Accountability rather than mental self-judgement
In this discussion, Steven Winn explores the concept of divine qualities represented by the 99 names of God, particularly focusing on the name Ya Muhsi, which signifies the importance of accountability. He emphasizes the practice of self-reflection, encouraging listeners to review their daily...
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Exploring Behavior and Dharma
In this episode, Steven Winn delves into the purpose of behavior through the lens of different traditions, particularly referencing the Ramayana. He discusses how our behaviors reflect our desires for love, control, and connection, and contrasts these with the heart's aim for unity. This...
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Exploring Destiny and Fate
In this episode, Steven Winn delves into the intriguing concepts of destiny and fate, examining their implications on personal growth and spiritual development. He discusses the dichotomy between believing in predetermined paths versus the ability to change one's course through conscious choice....
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Exploring Genocide Through the Heart's Lens
How do you feel about Genocide? How do we love those who murder millions of souls? Or would you rather continue to hate them? How well has that worked for you and for humanity? Can we have compassion for those who have been murdered simply because they were Armenian (Turks), Ukrainian (Stalin),...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Heal your own heart...
Heal the heart of your family and relationships...
Heal the heart of your community and country...
And then we can begin to Heal the Heart of the world.
We start with healing our own heart, and then the world changes to reflect the harmony of our own hearts. This isn’t a mental process – it takes healing and cultivating the power of our hearts.
Join our free weekly meditation series to begin the 16 inch journey from your head to your heart. Most of us live somewhere behind our eyeballs, but we begin to live life in the flow when our presence resides in our hearts.
Hosted by Rev. Steven Winn, you will begin to heal personal and collective wounds through the immense power of your heart. You will learn a simple method of meditating with your heart, fostering self-love, emotional healing, and flourishing relationships.
Each 45–50 minute session includes heart-centered meditations and then optional o
HOSTED BY
Steven Winn
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Heal your own heart... Heal the heart of your family and relationships... Heal the heart of your community and country... And then we can begin to Heal the Heart of the world. We start with healing our own heart, and then the world changes to reflect the harmony of our own hearts. This isn’t a...
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