love and peace to you all

x Andy (in England)

I discovered your podcasts in August. I have listened to them all in succession for the past 2 months! I am so glad to have found someone who clearly understands and can guide people to bring themselves peace. I have been working on shifting my conciousness for 3 years now, have changed many things within myself! BUT I am glad to be able to hear your clear reminders on how to flow through the various challenges life can bring. Thank you so much..waiting eagerly for the next! Oh! and I hope the classes in D.C. are going well.
A Big Hug from Berlin

Blessings to you and thank you for your kind words. The music you hear is the Native American flute. I have been playing it for about 14 years now. It’s a very healing and haunting sound.

Yours in service

-r

In-Spirit,
Pramod.

I’m very curious to know what your definition of spirituality would be? I’ve learnt a lot from you, thank you. A friend said to me the other day, and I think you could really use this…”count your blessings”, isn’t that just wonderfull, stop thinking about what we haven’t got and count the things we have, all the simply things that are in reality the ‘only’ things.

Vanessa

Don’t quit! I’ve found that if you stay with this and work on not beating yourself up you can succeed in the long run. It’s just a habit to beat yourself up and you can over come this by observation. As in the podcasts we have talked about the silent observer and how we can learn to watch and be aware of our action without condemning ourselves. The cycle of activity can change and perseverance is a real key factor in dropping and old habit for a new one. If you want I can e-mail you some daily reminders that can help. Let me know if you would like that.

namaste

robert

I was wondering if you have been listening to the podcasts or just reading blog entries?

thanks,

robert

I have been following your blog for some time and did a fair amount of yoga and meditation last year but stopped.

Today, I have a drinking problem. I drink so I can stop beating myself up for things I did in the past. It helps to shut down that little voice in my head saying ‘look what you did!’

I think I have aquired enough knowledge to deal with the issue but I keep failing to do so under the excuse of ‘I don’t have the energy to fight, even if it’s good for me’.

any tips?

Thanks for being out there.

Tom

Hehe!

PS: Great podcast as usual.

I think that your idea about doing a podcast on how to deal with people who are “bad influences” is a great idea. I’m going to focus the next podcast around this.

Thanks for the inspiration.

namaste

robert

Thanks so much for listening and supporting the podcast! I sent you an e-mail with the new contact info:)

Blessing to you and yours.

r

Trying to get back in touch… email me!

–matt

Thanks for the wonderful post! The more I observe life, the more I seem to experience that all things are connected and that there is no coincidence at all:)

Happy to have you with us!
Great use of the Ipod too.

robert

Thank you for listening and I’m very happy to be of service to you in this context. Remember to see the beauty in falling down as well as getting up:)

Namaste

robert

Thanks
Malcolm

In the traffic example, I have been exemplary as recently as today, I’d rather not be spontaneous. And in a work situation today, I was able to not react to a situation but to come home and question myself about why I felt uncomfortable. The answer was illuminating. In these cases the high ground is good ground. In other cases, a delayed response seems like detachment.

Thanks for your insight, I greatly appreciate it.

Craig

Thank you for the wonderful work you do here. You have made a real difference. I stopped smoking on July 4 — Independence Day! Two things made the difference. First, I finally decided to quit. I had been smoking outside the house for years, so my smoking might have been initiated unconsciously, but was practiced consciously. Once I decided to stop, I consciously could think about it.

At this time of decision re the next cigarette, your suggestion made all the difference in quitting. “I allow this body to be nicotine free!” When I reframed the decision to be one in which I was allowing my body to do what it wanted to do, quitting became much simpler.

Thank you
Craig

When “the moment” occurs…when habits are about to take hold due to stress/etc…and my habitual escapism is about to occur, it can be very difficult at that moment to remember and invoke thoughts/techniques we’ve been discussing (due to years of reinforcement). When this moment occurs in my life…when the reaching for drugs or alcohol is about to happen…would you please re-iterate something(s) I can immediately do…a mantra or something…to bridge my mind to these wonderful suggestions..? I welcome input from anyone, really..

~ Mark

be well and live!

robert

I meant to post this comment long time ago, but never had the time to do so.
First, thanks very much for what you do to the whole community.
I stopped smoking 3 years ago and, from my perspective, the only thing that helped me to enforce my will to do so, was the fact that I started observing myself in this habit:
When leaving the house in the morning on the way to the bus stop, at the bus stop, when other people were smoking (especially women :o) etc.
Coming from there, it’s very funny and interesting to listen to this podcast series about addiction.

Thanks again and god bless.

Eric