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Healing Connections

Max & Liana

21 episodes

3 months ago

In this short (10 min) guided practice Apostol leads a meditation on Joy inspired from the social meditation practices that he has been facilitating for the past 18 months in the Buddhist Geeks network and beyond. While this guided meditation is focused on the simple cultivation of Joyful mind states, in a broader context Joy is connected to the concept of Mudita in Buddhism, which is one of the Four Immeasurables. Instructions start at the beginning and guided practice starts at around the...

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In this short (10 min) guided practice Apostol leads a meditation on Joy inspired from the social meditation practices that he has been facilitating for the past 18 months in the Buddhist Geeks network and beyond. While this guided meditation is focused on the simple cultivation of Joyful mind states, in a broader context Joy is connected to the concept of Mudita in Buddhism, which is one of the Four Immeasurables. Instructions start at the beginning and guided practice starts at around the...

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Health & Fitness,

Alternative Health

Episodes (20/21)

Healing Connections

#21 - Guided practice on cultivating Joy

In this short (10 min) guided practice Apostol leads a meditation on Joy inspired from the social meditation practices that he has been facilitating for the past 18 months in the Buddhist Geeks network and beyond. While this guided meditation is focused on the simple cultivation of Joyful mind states, in a broader context Joy is connected to the concept of Mudita in Buddhism, which is one of the Four Immeasurables. Instructions start at the beginning and guided practice starts at around the...

2 years ago

16 minutes

Healing Connections

#20 - Journeying with Ayahuasca

Apostol & Max talk about the different aspects of South American Ayahuasca shamanism. Ayahuasca is a tea which is prepared by the mixture of the Ayahuasca vine (Banisteriopsis Caapi) and the Chacruna plant (Psychotria viridis) which together enable a multi-hour DMT journey. In the amazon jungle, various tribes have used it for many generations for shamanism and healing. In the past years ayahuasca has gained popularity in the west for it's potential for healing chronic illness, trau...

2 years ago

1 hour 13 minutes

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#19 - Journeying with Huachuma (San Pedro) the Grandfather Medicine

Apostol and Max talk about the Huachma which is also called San Pedro and is referred to the grandfather medicine (compared to Ayahuasca being the grandmother). Max shares his recent experience of a 2-week Huachuma retreat in Peru and Apostol shares his one-time initiatiory experience involving Huachuma and a Temazcal (swedge lodge). They extensively talk about ancestoral trauma and how to work with it using plant medicine. At the end Max shares his comparison between MDMA and Huachuma as two...

2 years ago

1 hour 1 minute

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#18 - Healing through journeying with MDMA

In this episode Max and Apostol talk about the healing effect and power of MDMA. Max shares his personal experience of discovering MDMA and subsequently having a very profound and powerful healing experience on it. He shares how he felt afterwards and also his experience with two other journeys. Apostol also shares his own single healing journey with MDMA that happened recently. They talk briefly about safety and dosage. Resources: MAPS Treatment Manual MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD ...

2 years ago

57 minutes

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#17 - Preparation and Safety in Psychedelic and Shamanic Journeying

Max and Apostol talk about the Secular and Shamanic approach to journeying with psychedelics and sacred plant medicines for the benefit of psychospiritual healing and growth. They go into their personal experience and recommendations on how to approach these medicines. They discuss reasons and intent for working with them, research and preparation, sourcing, preparation of the mind, body and physical space and some tips on integration and working with 'bad trips'. All of this with the strong ...

2 years ago

1 hour 37 minutes

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#16 - Multidimensional Meditation Practice On Inner Adulthood

This episode is an invitation to practice together with Liana and Max. Liana introduces and explains the social mediation practice they chose to share. Together they will demonstrate a Multidimensional Meditation on Inner Adulthood as an extension of the previous episode. This is an invitation for a social inquiry and an opportunity for attunement to mature curiosity.

2 years ago

20 minutes

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#15 - Exploration of the Inner Adulthood

Liana and Max are candidly discussing what inner adulthood means for each of them. They talk about strong resistance to adulting, challenges with finding a healthy balance between maturity and carefree energy that is typically associated with childhood, self-agency and relating to self from different perspectives, and how 13 specific qualities of Self from IFS ( Internal Family System) model gives an inspiring list of traits for an aspiring well-functioning adult. Join them...

2 years ago

42 minutes

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#14 - Worthiness and how to find it in the body

Max continues to explore the topic of worthiness and how to find a physical manifestation of it in the body. He shares how feelings of not-good-enough and guilt showed up in his body. At the end he offers a guided meditation aimed to rediscover a physical sensation of worthiness in your body.

2 years ago

24 minutes

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#13 - Worthiness and how we learned to forget about it

Max continues his exploration of worthiness. He shares his views on how we loose our sense of worthiness and what the mechanisms are that teach us that worthiness is not welcomed. The second half again offers a social meditaiton practice to the listeners.

2 years ago

17 minutes

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#12 - Worthiness and how to rediscover it

Max explores the topic of worthiness in this first solo episode. He explains what worthiness means to him and how it was his antidote of feelings of insufficiency, not feeling good enough, not feeling loveable. Common variations of insufficiency are explored and how worthiness is something unconditional and inherent for all of us. The second half of the episode offers a social meditation practice for the listeners to join in to explore the topic of worthiness for themselves.

2 years ago

17 minutes

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#11 - Shameless Joy and Healing

In this episode, Liana and Max dive into the critical role joy played in their healing journeys. Liana talks about discovering "ordinary" joy after being inspired by Rick Hanson's work on rewiring the "survival" brain. She talks about making conscious choices in shifting from a heavily dominant negative focus to including and growing positive and pleasant experiences. She talks about untangling joy from shame and some of the burdens of that pairing. Max talks about the...

2 years ago

37 minutes

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#10 - Attachment Styles and Burdened Relationships

Max and Liana really dive deep into attachment trauma and the ways we can heal it with awareness. Max goes right into it by giving a great overview of the different attachment styles and their effects on our relationships. He ties his learnings and personal experience and shares how he was able to bring a repair to his system. Liana talks about burdened and unburdened attachments and makes a pretty good case for the role society has in the way we form and maintain our import...

2 years ago

51 minutes

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#9 - Working with Fear

In this episode, Max and Liana dive into fear as an evolutionary tool for survival, talk about the connection between increased fearful response and trauma, discuss the dangers of suppressing fear, and share ways of working with it in a healing way. Liana talks about her experience of changing her relationship with fear, gives several real-life accounts of overcoming challenges such as reoccurring nightmares and fear of in-flight turbulence. Max shares his experiences of wor...

2 years ago

37 minutes

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#8 - Roads to Embodied Self-Compassion and Heartfulness

In this episode, Max and Liana talk about the significance of practicing self-compassion in their healing journeys. Max shares about finding an ever-expanding capacity for compassion, overcoming challenges he had with receiving compassion, relating to heartful practices as “the missing salt in the childhood soup” and coming out on the other side. Liana talks about the road of mindfulness and self-acceptance that she took in going from self-aversion and zero capacity for self-compa...

2 years ago

39 minutes

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#7 - The Body's Gravestones

Max and Liana continue their conversation about the body and the special role it plays in healing. They touch on the body and its capacities to remember and store trauma as well as can serve as a means to release it. Max explains the gravestones metaphor in relation to the body. The topic of a trauma-sensitive approach is briefly discussed as well as several practical tools on how to deal with strong or overwhelming emotions or a freaked-out mind. Liana shares what led...

2 years ago

34 minutes

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#6 - Befriending the Body

In this episode Max and Liana talk about befriending our body as an essential step in the healing process, taking us on a journey from relating to a body as a head taxi to it being a portal to wellness. Together they explore the difference between controlled breath and body breathing itself as examples of conscious and unconscious co-existing in the same process. Spreading the love far and wide, they share some of their favorite techniques of embodiment and some resources that we...

2 years ago

33 minutes

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#5 - Shadow Work and Acceptance

Max and Liana continue their conversation and further exploration of what healing means to them. Max shares about creating conditions and circumstances to safely experience emotions, seeing himself for who he is, and accepting it all, especially the dark parts, appreciating beauty in the scars. They touch on individual and collective healing, the benefits and challenges, and how we can best help each other in the process. Finally, a topic of authenticity and bravery wraps it up ni...

2 years ago

31 minutes

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#4 - Finding Lost True Self and Practicing Self-Compassion

After a short inquiry mediation, Max and Liana reflect on what healing means to them. Liana talks about her understanding of the trauma, the repair work, and shares some learnings from her experience with it such as giving up victimhood, finding the lost true self, importance of practicing kind attention and self-compassion, building self-trust and inner parent. Max shares about attention economy and surprises on the way of his recovery. Resources: Gabor Mate: The Myth of Norma...

2 years ago

33 minutes

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#3 - Meet Our Hosts: Liana and Her Bucket of Legos

In this episode, you get a front seat to a mini-life review as Liana puts it herself. She starts by introducing her eclectic "WE" identity, opens up about some of the challenges that she faced in her life, including rock bottom which started her conscious healing journey, and gives us a snapshot of where she is today. You get to meet Liana’s vibrant inner child and learn about her genius survival strategy. She wraps it up with her take on the “Who am I?” question as a practi...

2 years ago

41 minutes

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#2 - Meet Our Hosts: Max and His Healing Journey

In this episode, you will learn more about Max as he shares details about his healing journey. In this intimate close up he opens up about what life was like before the journey started, the specific circumstances of his dramatic discovery of the childhood trauma, his approach to healing, and the changes that occurred because of this work. Max also shares his inspiration behind this podcast project and how his quest for self-love led to it.

2 years ago

42 minutes