Risin Shine: Recent Episodes
Jeremy Risin
-Developing a trust in life as an antidote to fear
-The difference between desiring out of lack v. abundance
-Trust leading to temporary inaction until a new driving force begins to move you
-Explaining my notion of God and how we came to form an intimate relationship
-How trust spawns creativity and opens up possibilities we couldn't have imagined
-Feeling deeply betrayed by God and releasing intense levels of sadness and anger
-My injury as a final exam in unconditional love and trust
-How the elusive nature of gratitude was highlighted during my recovery
-Gratitude as an antidote to bring us back to the present moment
-Why a gratitude journal didn't work for me and an alternative practice
-Choosing the right objects of gratitude
-How intense suffering puts all your lessons and growth to the test
-How overcoming suffering reduces fear and enhances a sense of freedom
-Why not all near-death experiences lead to the new beautiful perspective on life one would hope for
-Taking the middle path and the nature of life to always bring things back into balance
-Introduction to the technique of "Direct-Inquiry" or "Self-Inquiry"
-Demonstration and insights from my own practice
-Why I've found investigating core existential questions to be the most practical use of my time
-Lucid dreaming as a metaphor for the new way of being that can arise as a result
-Tips for where to start your own investigation
-Understanding the different types of beliefs
-How beliefs literally create our experience of reality
-The defense mechanisms that keep our current beliefs in place
-The foundational beliefs that we would never even think of as beliefs
-Recognizing how everything we know, even science, is ultimately based on trust
-Recognizing the "destruction phase" and moving with it instead of against it
-Recognizing the "limbo phase" and releasing judgement so you can take full advantage of it
-Recognizing the "reconstruction phase" and replacing limitation and obligation with trust and courage
-Zooming out to see the higher purpose and wisdom behind your life transition
-Why desire has become "the 'D' word" of spirituality
-Why some desires seem to remain perpetually out of reach
-Differentiating between authentic and egoic desires
-Recognizing and overcoming the ulterior motives that sabotage you
-Aligning what you want out of life with what life wants out of you
-Pursuing desires as a way to transcend them
-Focusing on the energy behind your actions instead the results
-Creating out of excitement and love instead of scarcity and obligation
-Using "thought-stream" journaling to determine which internal voices really have your best interest in mind
-Muscle testing, pendulums, and tapping into the body's innate intelligence to gain more clarity
-Quieting the mind instead of using the mind to allow spontaneous insight to arise
-Shifting from analytical reasoning to intuitive discernment for better decisions and more presence
-Recognizing the limitations of your rational mind in making good decisions
-Tapping into a higher intelligence, beyond the mind, to navigate through life
-Developing progressively deeper levels of trust to reduce excessive thinking
-Understanding the role of signs, what they are, and how to notice and interpret them
-How to discover the hidden lies you tell yourself
-How to know when you've truly healed
-A technique for healing without waiting for life to kick your butt
-The trap of personal development and trying to be more spiritual
-The critical role of suffering in personal and collective evolution
-The role of suffering in the greater hide and seek game we are all playing
-Using suffering as an invitation to unlock more freedom, joy, and inner peace
-How to overcome diversions and change your relationship to suffering
-A technique to accept and release negative emotions
-Why you create problems and seeing through their illusory nature
-Why taking immediate action is the worst way to solve a problem
-Understanding how your life is an adult education course
-Taking 100% responsibility and opening up to infinite possibilities
-Finding your compass and navigating out of the dream to experience it more fully
-How to go with the current of life instead of against it
-How to balance between pushing forward and allowing things to unfold on their own
-The reason why obstacles continue to arise and the ideal attitude to have toward life
-What is the purpose of life?
-What is the purpose of my life?
-How to know tell between the truth and a lie
-The core desire behind the creation of the universe
-A new paradigm of reality, which happens to be shared by quantum physics and all the great religions
-The error you make every morning that keeps you from being the unlimited being you are
-How you create your own universe and all the people in it
-How your beliefs create the fabric and rules by which your entire reality exists
-How time, death, and the physical world don't exist
-Discontentment in life as an invitation to go deeper
-Recontexualizing all of your goals as spiritual growth
-Deprioritizing outcome, reprioritizing your state of being
-Passing life's test, rejecting the big opportunity, and moving onto your next phase
-The answer arises when you stop trying to figure it out
-Coming to the "fuck it" moment and making healing first priority
-Facing fear and receiving the unimaginable gift behind my life's curse
-My reservations for creating these recordings and why I decided to do so anyway
-When taking a brake and not simply pushing forward is the bravest thing you can do
-The immense gift of everything falling apart
-About me and my mission of creating technology that elevates human consciousness
-My journey struggling with panic attacks related to a fear of death, eternity, and meaninglessness
-Why achieving the goals I was sold wasn't helping
-Society's vision for happiness versus creating your own
-Why having hero's keeps happiness forever at bay