The VysionQuest Podcast with Rick Cowley

What if your soul has rearranged your life and set up this exact period perfectly? Sometimes it looks positive, like a sabbatical or new opportunity. Sometimes there are challenges, like an injury forcing you to slow down. Either way, what if this is your soul making plans and it's done it perfectly? You can't force life-changing moments to happen before their time. But you can be ready for them....

60% of the benefits of tuning in to your deeper self come from just making the time and space to listen. Even if you hear nothing. Because it shows your inner guidance that you're committed. When you were a child, you lived by this guidance. You followed what inspired you, what felt fun. But you may have ignored it for so long that the connection has atrophied. Time to open it back up. Journaling...

Life is an adventure whether you want it to be or not. There's always more unknown than known, and there's always risk in being alive. But there are two kinds of adventures: the inner adventure of discovering who you are and what you're here to do, and the outer adventure of bringing that into the world. The right inner adventure leads to the right outer adventures. Journaling Question: If you saw...

For persistent problems that stick around for months or years, there's often something holding the problem in place. A belief. A viewpoint. Sometimes it's shame about not having solved it yet. The solution starts with awareness and pen to paper. Journaling Questions: First, write down a persistent problem in your life. Something that's been there for months or years. Second, is there a deeper prob...

When unexpected challenges hit and you've done everything you can do, there's only one thing left: surrender. "Surrender everything to God, no matter what." Or to life, the universe, the great flow. In that surrender, there's a spiritual experience available to you. Apologies, this episode is published two days late due to the health emergency I mention in the audio. Journaling Question: If you ha...

If you could see the accumulated hours, days, weeks you've spent scrolling and checking and watching, it would horrify you. But here's what most people miss: you don't know what you're meant to create until you stop distracting yourself from it. Journaling Question: First, write down your favorite distractions. Be honest. What do you reach for when you feel bored or anxious? Second, how many hours...

You live in ridiculous abundance, but often you ignore it. This abundance is everywhere you look, all day, every day. How often do you pause to see it and let it in? Say thank you for what you have, pay it forward, and live that attitude of “thank you”. Journaling Question: Write down ten things that you're grateful for from the last 24 hours. This will probably be relatively easy to do so feel fr...

This session is different. It starts with a trust manifesto. Repeat the lines silently as you listen. You are trustworthy. You build trust breath by breath, action by action. Trust is built in those moments when you feel anxious or weak and step forward anyway. Your state doesn't matter. Trust is built one small courageous action at a time. Journaling Questions: First, write about an area where yo...

What if reality is an ever-changing, liquid reflection of your energy, thoughts, and focus? Scientists tell us we're 99.9999999% empty space. Over time, mountains come and go like waves. We die and don't know where we go. This all sounds like fantasy, but this is the world we live in every day. And it makes you wonder… what if your limitations aren't real? Journaling Questions: First, have you had...

Things get hard and discouraging right when you're about to make real change. The fear wouldn't be screaming so loud if change wasn't about to happen. The fear's job is to make sure nothing changes. But when you're overwhelmed with fear and negativity, that's a sign you're about to make real progress. Just keep going. Journaling Questions: First, write down the negative thoughts and emotions that...

Quest and question both come from the same Latin root: quaerere, "to seek." Questions are at the core of transformation. You don't even have to find the answers. Just writing down questions lifts your energy. Opens doors in your mind, your heart, your soul. Journaling Questions: First, just start asking questions. Take five or ten minutes. Ask questions about your life. About the world. Come at it...

Your spirit can face any feeling, any thought, any life situation. It thrives in the face of challenge. When everything else feels drained, your spirit never gets discouraged. The gift in life's hardest times is that they return you to your spirit. And once you're there, it's a beautiful place to be. Journaling Questions: First, bring your attention to your spirit. Breathe. Describe your experienc...

There are infinite things to complain about and infinite things to appreciate. What determines where you're looking? The default is to look at what feels bad, but that's survival, not thriving. This is about retraining your mind to look at what you love, what excites you, what you're grateful for. That's where your potential lives. Journaling Question: I love my life because... Answer that over an...

This session is different. No reflection. No questions. Just positive affirmations and well wishes for your 2026. Like a prayer. What you focus on creates your world. What you expose yourself to is massive. You're a powerful creator. Receive these well wishes. Let them in. Let them work on you. No journaling questions for this one. But if you're feeling inspired after listening, if your guide insi...

I don't know if you're creating the future or predicting it when you do deep visioning journaling work like today’s session. Maybe they're the same thing. Let go. Visit the future in one year and describe what you see. There is magic in this process. This is the third and final part of the series to wrap up 2025 and welcome 2026. Journaling Question: Imagine it's December 31st, 2026 and write a jo...

Regrets are like gold. An energy source. A gift. They have the power to create change. But we avoid them because they sting. This session is about unwrapping that gift. With self-love, not shame. That's how you tap into hidden power. Journaling Questions: First, what do you regret not changing or not doing in 2025? Second, what do you regret continuing to do in 2025? Third, when you reflect on the...

Your brain is wired to forget the good stuff and remember the problems. So you have to make intentional time to remember what went right this year. This creates a foundation of appreciation for stepping into 2026. And it reaffirms that you are a creator in your life. Journaling Questions: First, scroll through your photos from 2025. What did you forget? What went right that you'd completely forgot...

VysionQuest isn't about teaching you more information. It's about helping you reconnect with the deepest part of you and access the wisdom already inside. Audio is more powerful for this than video. Way more powerful. Here's why. Journaling Questions: First, you've just been listening without looking at a screen. Describe your inner experience right now, whatever it is. What's going on inside of y...

Your soul experiences the world through your body, through your senses. There are moments that bring it to the surface effortlessly. But life gets busy and distracting, and your soul is left waiting for an invitation. What if the stuck areas in your life are stuck because you've been approaching them with no regard for your soul? Journaling Questions: First, what are those moments, places, or expe...

You don't realize how indoctrinated you are. If you don't know who you are, what matters to you, and what your vision is, you'll be trained into being obedient, a consumer, a cog in the machine. Sovereignty starts with self-understanding. Journaling Questions: Look at two areas of your life: your work time and your free time. First, list a few things in each area that you spend a lot of your time...

I saw an old man at the library reading a newspaper. And it hit me: there's going to be a day when your mission is done. When you no longer have big challenges to rise to. That day is coming. What are you doing with the time you have now? Journaling Questions: How would it feel for you to have a clear, meaningful, purpose-driven mission for your life? How would you know that you have one? What wou...

Sometimes life feels like a struggle and you don't even know why. You have more than you need but it still feels heavy. It's okay. You're okay. Right here, right now. Journaling Questions: First, what abundance surrounds you right now? What do you have more than enough of? And second, what do you want to be a channel for today? What good do you want to bring into the world, even in some small way?...

When you pick up your phone and start scrolling, what are you really looking for? What emptiness are you trying to fill? The life-changing wisdom you're seeking can't be found on social media. It has to come from inside. Journaling Questions: Imagine that you’re about to mindlessly pick up your phone and scroll, or check emails, or open YouTube… First, what kind of guidance are you really seeking?...

Everyone has pain. It's part of being human. The real question is: what are you going to do with it? Pain can be power. It can be the catalyst for extraordinary change. Journaling Questions: First, name a pain you're experiencing. You can also name the cause of it, or beliefs about it, but what is the pain itself? And is there pain beneath that pain? Second, what if this pain had a purpose? What c...

Most of what you think is real is just stories. And sometimes life shows you the exact opposite of whatever you're telling yourself, just to remind you that you have no idea what's going on. Journaling Questions: First: What's an area of your life where you've got a strong negative story running? Just let it out. Get it on the page. Second: What if that story isn't true? What if there are glimpses...