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EP 25 | Small Shifts, Big Insights - This episode dives into creating space in spiritual practices to uncover deeper insights. We explore the challenge of capturing the essence of experiences, comparing it to translating "flower" across languages, where true meaning emerges through personal engagement. A vivid moment from the Liturgy of Hermes, with a spontaneous chant of "hua" during a lotus vision, illustrates how focused practice sparks unexpected clarity. We discuss making small, deliberate changes to life’s patterns, like tweaking a molecule, to move toward desired outcomes steadily. The conversation highlights repeated practices, like elemental meditations, which deepen understanding through subtle shifts. Surrendering to challenges, rather than resisting, is key, as shared in a story of overcoming pressure by relaxing into it. We view life as interconnected patterns, where incremental adjustments foster growth without disruptive leaps, emphasizing persistence and openness to non-linear progress.
Highlights from this episode include
- Creating enough “space” in which contact and insights can occur in your meditations and spiritual practices.
- Dustin shares his experience with the elemental journey meditation from Brian’s Four Elements manifestation course. - How intense focus and effort can transition into inner relaxation and surrender. Relaxation is power.
- Looking at your life situation as a pattern, and the situation / experience you want to have as a pattern as well. Seeing how you can transition from one to the other in small increments by changing small aspects of the pattern.
- Overcoming self-importance and why importance induces the balancing forces of nature.
- The evolutionary game of life is the most difficult game to play.
- The value of returning to a practice over and over to deepen your experience of it and the results you get from it. Resources mentioned in this episode include:
⁃ The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali, translated by Chip Hartranft:
https://www.arlingtoncenter.org/Sanskrit-English.pdf
⁃ How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain, by Andrew Newberg
⁃ Reality Transurfing, by Vadim Zeland
