Liberation101: Recent Episodes
Pooja Rathnakumar
We're in challenging times. But this doesn't mean we can't tap into joy. Into little moments that bring us joy. Doesn't mean we can't take leaps of faith. We learn the best lessons when we are hit hardest. I've been there. The experiences I've been through have altered my core in a big way. But I've always had a choice: do I walk out of this stronger, wiser, and more mindful of life and its everyday realities, or do I let everything take me to places where I don't want to go to? Let's start this mini-journey together and fight our battles together! Cheers!
Are you thinking about taking the next step or making that major transition in your life? Here are some affirmations to inspire you on the path. Stay on the path and keep giving life your best shot!
Learning a new language is an exciting process. But oftentimes we find ourselves frustrated and progress seems elusive. Creating a mindset shift as we work through these barriers can go a long way in helping us stay motivated. Here are some affirmations I hope will help. What new language are you working on mastering today?
A birthday is an exciting magic portal. It is an opportunity to celebrate and be grateful for the life we've lived all this while, while also taking a gentle peek into what lies ahead. Birthdays are an opportune moment. They are a wonderful opportunity for reflection. Hope these questions can get you started! Happy birthday!
How can you savor life's experiences with a deep sense of passion? Here are some ideas!
What if you considered your thoughts to be a treasure hunt today? Why not find out what exactly is on the other side? Will you find a treasure? Or will it be more complicated than that? If so, how would you address it? You got this today! Cheers and best wishes!!!
Difficult situations are an opportunity. To discover the opportunity, we need to ask ourselves some questions. Questions are the gateway to solutions. Answers are on the other end of the questions. Here are 15 questions. 15 questions is 15 answers. Or who knows, there are probably more answers lurking within.
How is your life going? Where is your life going? Not sure of the answer? Let's get started with some questions first!
How different would your inner and outer world be if you alchemised your emotions? Here are some ideas to get you started! I hope everything works out for you :-)
We can never escape change. Change is a beautiful process but can also make us uncomfortable. It is often hard to come to terms with this discomfort and move seamlessly onto what lies ahead. Here are nine steps on how to transition with grace. Thank you for tuning in!
Can we ever always be creative? What about when we're not creative? Are we still creating?
Here are some ideas about finding joy. Listen in and add some joy to your day if you can. Cheers, Pooja
Managing mental health does not have to about moving mountains. Sometimes all it takes is a shift in gear, a change of direction. The mind will respond to you exactly as you direct it. So as you drive the car of your mind today, in which direction are you going to steer it?
Consistency is great. We can all be more consistent with what we do. But what happens when our efforts at establishing a daily practice fail? Listen in as I talk about how to infuse the elements of randomness, play and joy into our lives and onto our wellness practices to add quality to our experiences and still produce results. It's ok not to be perfect. Not to do it every day. What matters is the quality of the experience.
We're channeling a particular mental theme at any given point in time. Some of these are great and we probably want to stay with them more. Some of them are not so great but we'd rather stay with them for a while and process them. Some are not good to stay with at all and we need to transcend them. What's your mental theme like today? Does it call for transcendence?
We all have challenges. But we're always ascribing our own definitions to our challenges. We're ascribing definitions to our challenges with respect to other people's challenges. In this inter-connected world, other people's lives seem just as significant as ours. But sometimes we need to realize that our assignments are singular to us, and look at what we can do with what's on our plate instead. Join me on this stream-of-consciousness podcast to delve deeper into this topic of life's assignments and how we perceive them through the lens of relativity.
Although we would rather go on holiday more often or take a break straight out of our crazy, busy days, it's not always feasible to do so. A busy life does not have to be a cursed life. Listen to this episode where I talk about how you can take out these precious pockets of time in your day to engage in what is truly meaningful to you. It's never really about the quantity of the experience as much as it is about the quality of the experience. It's more important to focus on qualitative time than quantitative time. A little pocket may be all that it takes at the end of the day. What is your time pocket like?
Recurring thought patterns can be hard to challenge but at some point we gotta weed out that negative inner chatter which does not contribute positively to our mental health or life. Hope these suggestions work!
There is a lot going on in the world today that can trigger rage from within. Sometimes the rage can be too much to harbour. I hope these affirmations help you find your center today and place yourself on a lotus of calm.
What does it feel like to picture yourself in the professional situation your heart dearly craves for? Let's do it together. This is part of a new series on my podcast called the "so be it" series where I take you through the process of picturing what you want out of your life and imagining it to be already there to supplement your efforts at manifesting the life situation you would love for yourself to be in, be it health, work, relationships, career, or any life area that you would like to work on! Cheers, Liberation101
Circumstances can shake our faith. Let's look at nine steps through which we can keep our faith and put our faith in perspective regardless of externals. May your faith stay with you through all your challenges and triumphs!
You cannot change the past. But you can change your experience and perception of it. What you choose to see in the past is what repeats in your present. Let me guide you through nine steps through which you can embrace your past and move past it with greater ease no matter how hard it may have been!
We all need a safe space to go into every day, even if for a brief while, to feel like ourselves again and put the luster back on our day and life. Some thoughts on this safe space.
Every relationship in our life is a karmic assignment. There is so much to learn through every encounter. But not all relationships have to be challenging. We can still attract those which support us and help us thrive. We have the capacity to attract and sustain relationships that add significant meaning and purpose to our life. I hope these affirmations will help you get there, while at the same time suffusing in you the ability to transcend even the most challenging assignments in your everyday encounters. Happy listening! Your soul relationships are waiting to heal you!
The past is past. What is it about the past and our continual engagement with it in the now that obstructs our potential for experiencing joy in the current present? Although the past is a treasure trove of experiences to draw from and learn from, dwelling on the negativity that the past once caused blocks our flow and can be highly unproductive for our growth and spiritual unfolding. I hope that by listening to these affirmations, you shift the way you think and feel about the past and become stronger, grounded, and attuned in the present instead of be an imprisoned victim of the past, no matter how hard your story might be to bear or come to terms with. Tough stuff can make us tough. Let's get there one step at a time!
"The new year is an opportunity for me to shed parts of myself that are redundant and to begin anew, because every new year is a turning over, a transformation despite the odds I may be called to fight nevertheless." Tune into many more such affirmations on the latest episode of my podcast. No matter how hard 2021 may have been, we still have a choice to hold onto hope for a better future, and a good new year. I hope these affirmations will help you start 2022 on a refreshing note! Happy new year!!!
When we're dealing with a challenging health condition, it can be very difficult to be open to the possibility of perfect health when we're in the middle of the tunnel and see no opportunity for release. But our perception of our illness and our attitude towards the healing process can go a long way in helping us move forward through the pain. Healing is a process. It takes its time. I hope these affirmations will help you tune into the light and fill you with hope for healing and renewal!
In reality, the experience happens only for a given amount of time. But in our minds, it can happen forever. This is far from healthy. Leaving unpleasant experiences where they happened and not dwelling on them forever is crucial to sustaining our mental health in a challenging, evolving world. On the other hand, we also have the choice to dwell on positive experiences and draw on them to uplift us in the present. What would you rather focus on, right now?
I'm out with a new series aimed at helping my listeners improve their mental health especially if they're struggling with something difficult. I'll be coming out with a series on advice that has worked for me in my life and helped me achieve a good level of emotional mastery within myself. The practice for this episode is aimed at giving you a head-start at feeling better within yourself consistently no matter how challenging things may be. Listen in to find out more!
Much of our suffering and discomfort can be alleviated if only we could center in the present and be deeply mindful of our reality. I hope these affirmations will help soothe your perception of reality and enable you to feel more centered, and as a result, more liberated. Here's to savoring the present moment, if at least for a moment!
We live in a world where we're taught we can get everything we want to lay our hands on. Until we realize the befuddling truth that most things, if not all things, have a mind of their own and happen in their own course of time and space. This does cause a lot of distress to that perfectionist go-getter lurking in us, waiting to claim the world all too impatiently. Sometimes all this perfectionist needs to do is take a stroll in the woods and let things cook on their own. Surrender is a beautiful spritual practice. Let's affirm, one affirmation at a time towards deeper surrender!
Faith is the strongest anchor we have in the most difficult of times. Without this anchor, it can be easy to fall apart or feel lost. Often circumstances in our personal lives and in the world can lead us to question our faith. But sometimes faith is the only choice we have, so we might as well deepen it and allow it to enrich our mood, our life experiences, and life itself. Happy listening! Your faith will reward you, no matter what. Trust the process!
Toxic work environments have become the bane of the day. However, even if we are in one, we always have the choice to take responsibility for how we internalise what's going on around us so we don't come back home every day feeling disempowered. We have the choice to be empowered no matter where we're at. We also have the choice to change our current situation. To start with, let's try and change our perspective. Then everything we need will follow in its own perfect timing! I really hope these affirmations will help you today if you've had a rough day at work. Cheers!
Love is a beautiful emotion. It is everywhere and in everything. Sometimes our subconscious beliefs about love that stem from our experiences in the past and past trauma block us from believing we are truly worthy of love. It is simple. If you are alive you deserve to love and be loved. I hope these affirmations will create that subtle shift in you that will get you closer to the love you seek. Love is possible. Just believe in your potential for it!
Doing the dishes does not have to be a pain anymore! Play these affirmations while you do the dishes and watch your mindset shift!!
Healing cannot happen overnight. It takes its own time and course. Let us stay patient in the unfolding, while also staying committed to the inner work we are currently engaging with to feel better. It is possible to heal the inner child. It is possible to heal the adult self. Let us stay patient and trust the magic of time!
Although we may not like it, although it may look impossible sometimes, life often requires us to get out of the rut and show up for our challenges. What challenge are you struggling with now? I hope these affirmations will put you in a calm place from which you can make your next move. All is well!
We all have that wounded inner child. What can we do to make her heal? Join me in this journey of working through these wounds so our inner child can feel the very joy she deserves to feel, not obscured by the lived experiences of her adult self. All is well, my inner child!
What is it you're finding hard to accept today? What is it that you want to release? Let's affirm together!
Sometimes our greatest failures are our greatest blessings. Let's learn to fail one step at a time with grace and wait for the light to shine on us in moments most unexpected. It's ok to fail!
We all have some trauma or another lodged in our system. Although we are not responsible for most of it, we still need to take ownership of our feelings and experiences. Our inner work is our job, not anybody else's. I hope these affirmations light up your day and help you understand whatever you are going through in a new light, a light that will brighten your world and give you hope for healing.
Through these affirmations, I hope to guide you through a calm space where you can truly feel at peace with yourself. No matter what is going on around you, you have the power to elevate what's going on inside of you, one affirmation at a time.
The pandemic has hugely altered our ability to feel safe. But safety is not outside of us as much as it is inside of us and in how we feel in our core. I hope these affirmations in some way will help you feel more secure, trust the process, and take your hands off the wheel, even if for a moment!
The words we utter have power. We become our very words. So why not use them to engineer our destiny? Let's affirm together in the upcoming podcast episodes.
The pandemic has taken a toll on the way we connect with those around us. But does it have to take a toll on the way we connect with ourselves?
In today's podcast episode, I share a simple exercise with which you can be more at peace and establish a good level of emotional control within yourself. Listen in!
Winters do not always have to be bleak or depressing. Winters are an amazing time for spiritual renewal and personal exploration. Oftentimes winters are hard because we perceive them to be hard. In today's podcast, I walk you through three steps with which you can perceive winters differently and show up for them with more grace, acceptance, and understanding.
To be alive is to be creative. We are always creating, whether we realize it or not. Creativity is not an occasional flamboyant act, or even a product of the inspiration that strikes without announcement. Creativity is in the ordinary as much as it is in our art. How do we attune ourselves to create more fully, and thereby, live more fully? Join me tonight on this thought experiment as I take you through three steps I think are crucial to, well, being more creative with pretty much every aspect of our lives, not just with our art. Because life itself is art.
Stepping away facilitates an opportunity for us to reclaim our personal power. Detachment is a powerful spiritual practice and way of being that helps us reclaim our center regardless of what is going on around us. Detachment brings balance and sets us free. Today, even if for a moment you can remove yourself from that situation, person, or challenge, if not physically, at least in your mind, I believe you will have done yourself a huge favor.
Nobody's perfect. But the truth is, it's all perfect even when it's imperfect. So it doesn't have to be perfect. Allowing ourselves to make mistakes is a way of acknowledging that we are human and honoring the fact that to err is human. Take it easy today and surrender your agenda over and relish in what's going wrong for a change and look for inspiration in the imperfections of the everyday.
We have all been through, or are going through, some measure of trauma in our lives. Although there can be no explanation sometimes for our trials, we can always choose to claim our power in the present moment. The present is powerful, it is liberating. Living for the now will greatly take the sting out of our trials. I hope you can take at least one moment today, no matter how excruciating your pain is, to look to the light and liberate yourself, even if for one second, or one minute. Eventually the seconds become minutes. Minutes, hours. Hours, days. You become someone new.
I've been through some difficult times in my life and I'm finally in a place where I feel liberated and ready to claim my inner power. I want to use stream of consciousness tuning to share with my listeners some food for thought about spirituality, dealing with pain, processing life, and moving forward with grace through it all. I'm only just getting started and figuring the whole thing out so please bear with me! Lots of love, Pooja