Authentic Living

Joan Borysenko is back this week for the third time to talk with us about guilt, for guilt can be a major block to our resilience factor. Her latest book, "It's Not the End of the World: Developing Resilience in Times of Change" will be combined with one of her earlier books, "Guilt is the Teacher, Love is the Lesson" in an in-depth discussion of this devilish master craftsman of our lives. In the...

We hear the word "abundant" quite a bit these days. Mostly we think of this word in terms of money. We can't seem to help it. Our world is virtually run by money. When we want something, the first thing we think of is whether or not we can afford it. When we want to go somewhere, the first thing we think of is how we will pay for it. This is the way the world works. But it is not the way abundance...

In our third week of our Countdown to Heaven, we are talking to Bruce Lipton, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief about his latest book, The Honeymoon Effect: The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth. We all understand either the actuality of the honeymoon effect, or the dream of it. But most of us see it as temporary—because we have to get back to "real life." The Honeymoon Effect is a sta...

Do you find yourself doing all manner of things you don't really want to do? Do you often hear yourself saying "I have to…"? Do you find yourself having fantasies of saying what you've always felt about someone who gets your goat just about every time you see them? Do you look back on your yesterdays thinking of the many times when you have been used and/or abused by others? Well, you can get out...

For centuries we have been attempting to fight the good fight, to finally put an end to evil once and for all. Mostly we think that we will accomplish this through government, philanthropy, and the power of wealth in groups of people bound together on a mission to do away with evil. But we also think of it very personally, so that we must go to war within ourselves against the "evil" within. And i...

"What's-a-mattah? Got a guilty conscience?" Remember hearing this as a child? I do. And I remember that having a "guilty conscience" meant that you'd done something wrong. When you put that in reverse, you come to understand that we might not know we've "done wrong" unless we have a "guilty conscience." We were all raised on this notion that guilt is a good thing. It helps us know when we've done...

Today we are so honored to have Iyanla Vanzant here to talk to us about her latest book, Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything. Iyanla Vanzant, NY Times Bestselling author; host of the number one reality show on the OWN network, Iyanla: Fix My Life; and frequent guest on Super Soul Sunday and Oprah's Life Class, is easily one of America's most profound spiritual leaders, who empo...

Isn't that what we all want—to get what we want? And if I told you today that all you would have to do to get what you want is to do A, B and C, you'd probably do it, right? Well, that's what's been happening—with all kinds of strategies, from commercials for toothpaste to marriage proposals, people are always promising to give us what we want. There are two primary problems with this: 1) most of...

There is not one single shred of any endeavor humans ever make that is not touched by the myth of morality. Myth? Why am I calling this a myth? Because the entirety of the good/evil polarity is based on a misperception about who we are. Because we believe that we are separate from the divine, we have devised a plan to be reunited, which involves us being good enough for such a reunion. And of cour...

What is the purpose of your life? Do you know? Do you think you should know? What if you knew that you could not know the purpose of your life until it is over? Would that change your feeling about your life? Your judgments of its value? Many of us have been taught that we must know our life's purpose so that we can get in line with it. The superfluous "they" tell us that there is one specific pur...

Here we are again at another new beginning. At least it is one that most of us recognize as a new beginning. The problem, however, with new beginnings is that we think we have to throw out the old to have the new. We think of it in very black and white, purist terms. But what if you knew that you didn't have to eliminate anything to have something new? Things don't die when new things are born. Ra...

In our third week of our Countdown to Heaven, we are talking to Bruce Lipton, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief about his latest book, The Honeymoon Effect: The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth. We all understand either the actuality of the honeymoon effect, or the dream of it. But most of us see it as temporary—because we have to get back to "real life." The Honeymoon Effect is a sta...

Most of us have been taught that when we meditate, one of the things we might hope to achieve is an altered state of consciousness in which we feel elevated emotional connections such as bliss and ecstasy. And we also know that when we use substances such as alcohol, LSD, cocaine, crack, marijuana, narcotics, benzodiazepines, and others, we will probably experience an altered state of consciousnes...

Neale Donald Walsch is a modern day spiritual messenger whose work continues to touch the world in profound ways. With an early and deeply felt connection to spirituality, Neale spent the majority of his life searching for spiritual meaning before beginning his very public Conversation with God, a NY Times Bestselling series that has touched and inspired millions around the world. In addition, he...

An interesting age-old phenomenon of human psychological/spiritual processing is that we tend to look for the light. Indeed, we look for light even when everything is really dark—often ending up creating an illusion of light, when seeing the dark would be a much smarter thing to do. We fear the dark, assuming that within it are all manner of monsters, even demons who will devour us if we but see t...

Joan Borysenko is back this week for the third time to talk with us about guilt, for guilt can be a major block to our resilience factor. Her latest book, "It's Not the End of the World: Developing Resilience in Times of Change" will be combined with one of her earlier books, "Guilt is the Teacher, Love is the Lesson" in an in-depth discussion of this devilish master craftsman of our lives. In the...

Today we are so honored to have Iyanla Vanzant here to talk to us about her latest book, Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything. Iyanla Vanzant, NY Times Bestselling author; host of the number one reality show on the OWN network, Iyanla: Fix My Life; and frequent guest on Super Soul Sunday and Oprah's Life Class, is easily one of America's most profound spiritual leaders, who empo...

What is it? Your grandest fantasy about your life? What do you want? You might be surprised to learn that a majority of people don't even know what they want. Why is that? Because we've been taught, and have learned, to put our wants, our desires, on the back burner for so long that we've totally repressed our desires. Further, we get the method of attainment mixed up with true desire. And finally...

So, you are stuck in a job, a relationship, an attitude, a life stance. The worst part is that you know you are stuck. You want out, but you don't know what you want to do next. Or you don't know which of a few options would work best. What do you do now? Not knowing is a place just as important as the place of knowing. There are some very real things that can come out of not knowing. This show is...

Okay, so let's talk about that F-bomb, FEAR. Many are telling us that fear is "negative." They tell us that fear is the opposite of love and that it is impossible to have fear and love in the same moment. In fact, they are telling us that fear is something to be feared. We shouldn't have it, they say, for fear brings "negative" things into our lives. Well, that certainly something to be afraid of,...

We're very excited to have Colette Baron-Reid back to the show for the second time to talk about her latest book The Map: Finding the Magic and Meaning in the Story of Your Life. Have you ever experienced a tragedy that just made no sense to you? Have you ever wished that you could make your life more meaningful? In order to do that, you have to know how to look through the lenses of your soul's e...

Overcoming the odds. That's how we typically think of overcoming. It's a competition between us and the odds. Overcoming the enemy is another, and again it's a competition between us and the enemy. But what if overcoming has nothing to do with any competition between us and anything, even ourselves. What if overcoming has nothing to do with "getting rid of ego?" What if it has nothing to do with o...

What do we mean when we talk about transcending? The word, transcendence, has been so used in the New Age, New Thought and Human Potential communities, that it has now been moved to the pop culture. In combination with words and phrases like "out-of-body experience," the word transcendence has come to mean something like living above things. But what if we were to learn that being transcendent mea...

We are fortunate today to have Caroline Myss return for the second time to the Authentic Living show. Caroline is a five-time New York Times bestselling author and internationally renowned speaker in the fields of human consciousness, spirituality and mysticism, health, energy medicine, and the science of medical intuition. After beginning her career as a journalist, she co-founded Stillpoint Publ...

Can you look back on your life and think of some moments, some particular circumstances and decisions that you made that were defining moments? Perhaps now you would like some re-defining moments? Well today we are speaking to award-winning author, Dennis Merritt Jones about his latest book, Your (Re)Defining Moments~Becoming Who You were Born to Be. And who were we born to be? Well, that's the qu...