Earth Tribe Radio

The freedom to change my mind. We often get stuck in our lives because we think we can't change our minds or don't know how to do it.  Let's explore how to change our minds when we get stuck in ideas or concepts that have been layered onto us as children and with which we identify. Perhaps we have become so identified with certain ideas in the view of friends and family that we can't move on. Let'...

According to quantum physics a particle vibrating due to your sound when you speak can affect a molecule inside a star at the edge of the Universe instantly. This phenomenon is known as quantum entanglement. The greatest illusion then is the illusion of separation.     We are all connected, one humanity, alike in so many ways. How can we access the feeling of that connection? it and We can use tec...

It is only heavy because you are deciding over and over again to carry it. Embrace change, loosen up your sense of identity, and let yourself walk a new path. You do not have to ignore or erase the past; you just have to wholeheartedly embrace the present and move on. ~ Yung Pueblo We have our freedom in our hands, when we hold onto who we think we are or who others think we are, we lose our freed...

Leslie Clark travels with the Toureg in the desert. Experiences a wedding, travels with rebels and finds herself alone in the sand dunes miles from anywhere. . A powerful journey. She experiences how the Toureg can travel through the dunes that shift yearly, with no GPS, not maps and with dangers everywhere.  They always know how everyone is feeling and have the most extraordinary connections, eve...

Pausing is key to increasing our ability to choose how we respond rather than dropping into robotic reaction.  When we don't take a pause between a stimulus and our response we may wind up just reacting which limits our choices. There are so many benefits to taking a pause; it can recharge our energy: help us to gain access to our inner wisdom: and  enable us to feel connected and nurtured. Take a...

Happiness is not a destination; it's the journey. When we are focusing on the end, the thing we want instead of the process or the journey, we suffer because it makes us stressed. We can have happiness anytime when we focus on the journey.   When we are focused on the destination, like a car,  money, we We only suffer when we react negatively to a situation; it's not what is happening; it's our th...

It's not what you do but how you react that matters. Often we can't change what is happening, but we can almost always have power over how we react. We chat about ideas and tools that can give us power over our reactions.  We, as humans, tend to be robotic in our reactions to what is happening. Push a button, and I'll always react to the same experience. We can discover how to respond rather than...

"The world is nothing but my perception of it; I see only through myself, I hear only through the filter of my story." Byron Katie, If we want to change our lives, we must change our perception. Let's open up our cage to see how else we can see something. We are not our story, but it does control us. Oor story can limit us or free us, depending upon how we see it and we can move beyond its hold. ...

Tina Turner mastered her art and life; she moved beyond her pain and illnesses and accessed an inner world of peace and balance. She built a bridge between her outer life filled with, success, but also suffering and pain and found a way to access an inner world of peace and balance. We explore how she did this nad how she was able to keep this bridge between the world open.  Many stars and famous...

  Being happy is a very personal thing, and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.” Abraham Hicks Happiness lives within us! Being happy is very personal -and totally internal. Appreciation can be a pathway to happiness. Happiness does not come from the outside inward. Let's find our personal inner triggers to happiness, then we can find happiness whenever we remember, wherever we are. Let'...

Learning can be a great gift, and unlearning can be an even greater gift; transformational and freeing. "Recognize that unlearning is the highest form of learning.” Rumi.   Why do we feel we need to keep filling ourselves with information? Why do we need so much learning? When we take away the unneeded learning, we become closer to who we are and access our source. Let's begin to ask ourselves, wh...

Dali Lama "Such my thumb." Jill shares the Tibetan perspective.  Why do cultural differences matter, and why are they so hard to understand?   We share our thoughts and experiences about cultural differences, their power, and why we can so easily misinterpret them. We explore travel and other chances to be in various cultures and their differences. Why are there cultural differences? We look at wh...

"Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.” Adyashanti.   Enlightenment is not about what we do or achieve or even find. Enlightenment is who we indeed are. We don't have to be someo...

Fearless aging, let's explore how we can age fearlessly. When we are comfortable with who we are everyone else will be comfortable with who we are.  Many cultures celebrate life stages, and in those cultures, aging is respected and valued. When you travel you see people  eg,  the natural indigenous cultures, you see those who are enjoying their life at any stage.  We are on a path through life tha...

"I started to be free when I realized the cage was made of thoughts!" Unknown.  We create cages for ourselves from our robotic thinking, we aren't aware that we are trapped until we become aware of our thoughts and their patterns. We can free ourselves, but how? Do you know what you are thinking right now? Many aren't, but it is that awareness that cuts the cage of robotic reactions that create ou...

We don't need to suffer, we can use techniques, meditations, and tools, that can enable us to move beyond struggle and suffering, no matter what is happening in our lives.  Pema Chodron in her book, "When things fall apart. Heart advise for difficult times," is a great book to sit with.  "The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instr...

Opening to our creativity opens us and empowers us. The artist Picasso said, "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." You can be creative, let's explore and ponder how!  Maya Angelou, "We are all creative, but by the time we are three or four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in t...

Reincarnation - let's explore. What is it? Is it real? How do we know?  We chat about people who have passed over as well as those who have experienced other lives.  You can explore reincarnation and discover your own truth about it. We all can  explore for ourselves and even try a past life regression.  "You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you ha...

Travel lightly, how can we reduce the stressors of travel?  We chat about how to avoid the stressors of travel and how to avoid the pitfalls. We share tips, stories, and ideas that can make travel more enjoyable. Often the journey can be the hardest part of travel, particularly in todays world. So what can we do to make it easier? Join us for tips and ideas from our extensive travel experiences. ...

After all, we're just walking each other home." (quote from Ram Dass) We're all going to the same place, and we're all on a path. Sometimes our paths converge. Sometimes they separate, and we can hardly see each other, much less hear each other. But on the good days, we're walking on the same path, close together, and we're walking each other home. We are a part of incredible vast whole, which is...

How can an  end can become an adventure: "Never give up - investigate," the Dalai Lama. What can we do when we seem to be facing an end in our life, the end of a relationship, a job, even death the end of our body? The photo is of her road into the canyon.  Jill shares how she is managing the disastrous floods and road washing away in the canyon she lives in and how she and her husband, both in th...

What is a Sweat Lodge? Why is it so transformational? How can I do one, and why is it so powerful? A sweat lodge ceremony is a spiritual and physical cleansing ritual from ancient times. Most Native American or First People Tribes have used a similar procedure for thousands of years in the Americas. This is a place to surrender and to pray in whatever is the most healing and beautiful way for each...

I don’t know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn’t make you happy. J.D. Salinger. Why do is intelligence so edified? There are so many forms of intelligence, which ones make us happy? Intelligence is thinking, reasoning, and understanding instead of just doing things automatically or by instinct. EQ or emotional intelligence is the ability to have some self-aw...

Why is there hatred? How can we move beyond that and how can we deal with others hating something about us, our family, or anyone or anything else?  How does hate grow and develop? What can we do to change, cope with or transform this hatred in our culture? When we don't know who we are we will polarize and begin to think that our way is the only way. What can we do to find out who we are and move...

Do what you love and everything else will follow. Warren Buffet. When we can do what we love, even if it's just in our spare time, it energizes and inspires us. We feel more alive and more present in our lives.  So many of us are doing what we feel we have to and as we live our life part of us begins to get covered up with 'I have to. Slowly we forget what we love and who we are, then when we reti...