The Aware Show

Lisa continues her conversation today with best-selling author and spiritual teacher Byron Katie. She talks about questioning our minds as a way to learn our own truth. How do we know if our thoughts are really true? If we can change our thoughts, we can change our lives. Byron asks us to ask 4 simple questions to discover these profound truths. She talks about The Work, which puts the responsibility back into our own hands. She further discusses judgment and ways to forgive. She also walks listeners through the process of The Work. Byron Katie battled depression for years before having a spontaneous awakening and experiencing a profound shift in her perception of reality. She has since developed a process, called The Work, which can help relieve you from chronic suffering on mental, emotional, and physical levels. This is Part 2 of the interview. Info: TheWork.org [http://www.thework.org/].

Do you feel stressful thoughts? Do you sometimes feel gloomy or depressed? There’s power in truth, but what is truth? Is the story you tell about yourself and your circumstances really ‘the truth’? It all starts with our thoughts, but how do you know that your thoughts are true? According to our guest today, best-selling author and spiritual teacher Byron Katie, the truth we tell ourselves is not always the truth. And you can get more clarity about your life and ultimately peace and joy by examining your life and asking 4 very simple questions. Tune in and learn more about The Work and Katie’s book “Loving What Is.” Author and founder of The Work Foundation, Byron Katie battled depression for years before having a spontaneous awakening and experiencing a profound shift in her perception of reality. She has since developed a process that can help relieve you from chronic suffering on mental, emotional, and physical levels. This is Part 1 of the interview. Info: TheWork.org [http://www.thework.org/].

Would you like to work less and earn more? Intrigued? Today Lisa interviews author Rebecca Whitman on her new book,  "How to Make a Six-Figure Income Working Part-Time.”  She’ll share the secrets of how to help you achieve the ever-elusive state of work-life balance by focusing on seven key areas of your life.  An accomplished writer and transformational public speaker, Rebecca graduated with honors from Princeton University. She’s been a record-setting, top producer in all-commission sales, selling business-to-business and consumer goods and services for more than 25 years. She has studied metaphysics and has been on a spiritual path for 30 years.  If you are seeking to feel more empowered in areas of finances, relationships, emotional and physical well-being, this is the interview for you!  Info: www.rebeccaelizabethwhitman.com [http://www.rebeccaelizabethwhitman.com/].

Do you think we are more divided now than ever? Are you tired of conflicts? Do you want to try to get along with others better? Lisa continues the conversation today with our guest James Twyman. James is known as a “Peace Troubadour” as he has united millions of people around the world with his music and messages of peace. He knows that there IS a way to get along. If we can give up the need to be right, we can listen and learn from one another. James is attempting to start a movement to further the idea of communication and peace. He talks about taking a very short survey on www.de-polarize.com [http://www.de-polarize.com/]. Can we be humorous with one another? Laughter also heals and brings people together. The biggest issue is that we don’t listen to one another. Love can bring us together, and that’s not about being “right.” James and Lisa also talk about safety in a conversation and how to navigate, knowing you may get verbally attacked. When we don’t honor one another’s opinions, and get into arguments, it may not feel safe. Yet, we are on the precipice of a wonderful opportunity. We can all become de-polarizing agents by finding ways to creatively communicate. James offers tools and will be teaching classes about peaceful ways to communicate and listen to one another. It’s part of his movement toward peace. It starts with being open and mindful. If we create an open space for dialogue, and listen with love and compassion, others will as well. James also shares his experiences in Iraq and with Saddam Hussein. He held a peace concert and found people coming together in music. He discovered that they had much more in common and could heal their differences.  People around the world were also meditating for peace and miracles occurred. If this can happen in war-torn circumstances, we can learn how to be peaceful toward people with differing beliefs. James is an Episcopal Franciscan and Anglican priest. His latest book is “I Don’t Know, Maybe, I Love You: How to De-Polarize Your Family, Business, Country and the World.” This is Part 2 of the interview. Info: www.worldpeacepulse.com [http://www.worldpeacepulse.com/] and www.de-polarize.com [http://www.de-polarize.com/]

What if your emotions and intentions affected those around you? With all of the scientific research on connectivity and oneness, why do we still live our lives like we are completely separate from one another? If we are truly one, would you like to tap into this worldwide grid? Our guest today is Dr. Dean Radin, Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, where he researches consciousness and psychic phenomenon. He is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Sonoma State University. Dr. Radin explains the study of random number generators and how our intentions can affect the findings. When groups of meditators focus their thoughts on a specific goal, this attention causes the randomness to become orderly. Dr. Radin discusses how mind and matter are related, and when the mind becomes laser-focused on something, it can cause change to occur. For planned events, such a million-person meditation, they have very strong statistical evidence that shows non-random behavior. In these experiments, you can see the nature of “mass mind.” He further explains how mind and matter are linked together. He has researched psychic phenomenon and telepathy. This is some form of interconnectedness, which is now recognized in quantum physics. We can all tap into this powerful connectedness and use it for a force of good. Dr. Radin is the author of “Entangled Minds” and “The Conscious Universe.”  For more than three decades he has been engaged in research on the frontiers of consciousness.  He has held appointments at Princeton University and several Silicon Valley think tanks, including SRI International, where he worked on classified programs investigating psychic phenomena for the U.S. government.  Info: www.deanradin.com [http://www.deanradin.com/]