Spiritual Immersion: Taking the Plunge

The 11 Big Take-Away's from Spiritual Immersion These 100 podcasts have revealed so much to me. Here are the top 11 take aways, that at least for me, are the ones that will stay with me. Thank you for your #presence and your listening. I hope you have gained insight into your own personal spiritual immersion through these podcasts! Tune in and then please share your biggest take-away's with me on my Facebook page! - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com

Life is a Who-Done-It Mystery Over and Over Again Every circumstance is an opportunity to attend to the clues available always and everywhere. These clues have been placed there for your own discovery - so that you may stumble upon them and experience revelations and truths. Where you initially may ignore them or deny their existence, inevitably you will begin to slow down and take stock of all the elements of the situation. Like Sherlock Holmes, as you train yourself to see and let go of what you are afraid to lose, intuitively you become more #conscious of sensations that are caused by triggering thoughts. You can sleuth your way back to the source of the calamity and realize that you are the one! Tune in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! #spiritualimmersion #consciousliving #spirituality #spiritualityawake #Spirituality101 #spiritualitycoach #spiritualityteacher - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com

Is My Life Experience the Chicken or the Egg? Over my lifetime, did my beliefs and perceptions cause my experience - which reinforced my beliefs, or did the experiences create my beliefs? We have to cultivate greater degrees of #awareness of the source of our thoughts and the source of our experiences. Only through the practice of mindfully discovering and revealing the beliefs that are the catalyst for our experiences can we #elevateourselves, our vibrations, and the optimum realization of our potential. Tune in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! #spiritualimmersion #consciousliving #spirituality #spiritualityawake #Spirituality101 #spiritualitycoach #spiritualityteacher #realizeyourpotential #realizemypotential #bemindful - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com

Cultivating Awareness of How We Create Limits to Our #FullPotential More and more often, I am aware of the times when I trigger #anxiousness and worry. Do you see how I owned that I triggered it? I then become aware of the thought that is habitual, which is founded on the belief that something is wrong and needs to be fixed - and that that something that is wrong is caused by me - and I need to try and control what I broke or what I caused to break or be wrong. In the middle of the night, when I have a #triggeringthought after hours of peaceful sleep, I have trained myself to be able to be aware of what just transpired, of what took me from #peacefulpresence to anxiousness, as well as to be more responsive to it in the moment. What happens is that I have a thought, and I follow that thought into my worst fears - more thoughts! Because I’ve been training myself over and over again to be #mindful and #aware of what thoughts cause restless, irritable discontent, I’m able now to stop that trajectory of thought. I’m able to pivot, or to switch my thinking pattern to that which I now know to be my highest truth and knowing - that nowhere in my list of spiritual principles is there any mention of the value of anxiousness, worry, or fear. They don’t live within my spiritual truth. At this point of #awareness, I can choose to remove myself from that old line of thinking, "disappearing" the anxiousness all together. A few months ago I began a new hobby of keeping fish. As any new fish keeper will tell you, fish get stressed easily and can die. Sure enough, I experienced this, losing all of my tiny blue shrimp and a couple of my fish. I was in anguish and despair. I felt totally responsible for their demise, and totally helpless to do anything about it. I continually study good fish keeping practices and have become somewhat more confident. And, yet, my fish are developing issues that, although normal for the hobby, still cause the fish and me a lot of stress. But I’m no longer triggering myself into anguish and despair. Though I’m concerned and am being responsible as best I can, I now choose to take a different perspective of myself and this hobby. I realized that I need to respond with confidence, respecting that I am being responsible and doing the best I can. I can drive myself crazy if I continue to pummel myself with thoughts of "pathetic, inept loser." Instead, I'm learning to see myself and my fish differently, so I can derive more joy from the experience. This is also true with my dog Gracie, who is going through a few days of digestion problems. I can be responsible and calm without worry and guilt. I'm trusting that I'm doing the best I can with all the resources available to me. These are practices that train me to continually come back to the #spiritualprinciples that can guide me towards #freedom and #liberation from that mindset of limitations that was the only reality for most of my life. Hallelujah! Tune in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! #spiritualimmersion #spirituality #spiritualcoach #spiritualteacher #spirituality101 #mindfullyaware #consciousliving #beherenow #bepresent #cultivateawareness - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com

When Will I Arrive? Lao Tzu, the great Chinese philosopher said, "The Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." What I want you to know is, with each step, there is an arrival. With each step you are somewhere you've never been before. With each step you have the opportunity to #experiencelifeanew. Something is different within you, that you can come to notice and recognize the you that has just arrived. Over and over again, you will arrive! Tune in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! #spiritualimmersion #consciousliving #spirituality #spiritualityawake #Spirituality101 #spiritualitycoach #spiritualityteacher #realizeyourpotential #realizemypotential #bemindful #spiritualpodcast #drrosiekuhn #rosiekuhn - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com

What's Really Happening When Nothing Seems to Be Happening What else can be happening when nothing seems to be happening? Perhaps we are expanding our capacity for #patience, #tolerance, and our ability to #surrendercontrol and righteousness. Perhaps we are learning to be with "what is" with Patience - no waiting, just being. Perhaps we are building reliance. Perhaps we are discovering what it is like to live outside the paradigm of control, right and wrong, productivity and stress. Perhaps we've arrived at a level where nothing matters, and what if it did? Tune in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com #spiritualimmersion #consciousliving #spirituality #spiritualityawake #Spirituality101 #spiritualitycoach #spiritualityteacher #bemindful #spiritualpodcast #drrosiekuhn #rosiekuhn

Trials and Tribulations of #BecomingEnlightened We tend to imagine that with #enlightenment comes pure bliss, #nirvana, joy and #love. This is mostly true, but sometimes, more often than not, we are still challenged to witness ourselves enmeshed in the trials and tribulations of having our human experiences. Tune in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com #spiritualimmersion #consciousliving #spirituality #spiritualityawake #Spirituality101 #spiritualitycoach #spiritualityteacher #bemindful #spiritualpodcast #drrosiekuhn #rosiekuhn #enlightenedliving

Dis-Identifying with My Past is Hard Work! I’m not what I do. I’m not what I accomplish. I’m not the outcome that results from my actions. I’m none of it! With the nearing completion of my intended 100 episodes of these Spiritual Immersion: Taking the Plunge podcast episodes, as it was with the previous podcast series, Aging Like a Guru - Who Me?, as well as with the completion of my most recent book, I’ve Arrived! Well, Sort Of: 101 Discoveries and Revelations Stumbled Upon While on the Sacred Path to Who Knows Where, truthfully, I am at a loss. On the one hand, I have an intention that my work reaches and inspires a lot of people. On the other hand, I train myself to dis-identify with the outcome of my work. It’s a challenge to hold both! Can you relate? Tune in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com #spiritualimmersion #consciousliving #spirituality #spiritualityawake #Spirituality101 #spiritualitycoach #spiritualityteacher #spiritualpodcast #drrosiekuhn #rosiekuhn

Looking to the Evidence of the Past - NOT!!! Looking at the evidence of my past history reinforces me to not trust anything -- not my intuition, not God, and certainly not people. At almost every crossroads I’ve come to, I’ve been required to choose to either follow the belief of my past (aka, not to trust), or to voluntarily suspend my beliefs in the past and experiment with Faith-Leaping. Let me tell you, #FaithLeaping is getting to be so much more fun. Try it!! You'll like it!! Tune in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com #spiritualimmersion #consciousliving #spirituality #spiritualityawake #Spirituality101 #spiritualitycoach #spiritualityteacher #spiritualpodcast #drrosiekuhn #rosiekuhn #paradigmshifts #leapoffaith #shiftyourperspective #trust

Revealing Yourself One Layer at a Time Throughout this spiritual immersion process, it often feels as though you are covering the same ground over and over again. It can feel as if you aren't make progress whatsoever! Yet if you were to really acknowledge how you have changed over the course of this lifetime, in relation to any particular situation, you will view yourself in a way that allows you to see how you have changed, and how you have grown wiser, more mature. Taking the time to truly acknowledge the ways in which you've changed and matured will reward you with a strong sense of #confidence, #selftrust, and #selfrespect. These are valuable gifts that you can give to yourself with this simple practice. Tune in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com #spiritualimmersion #consciousliving #spirituality #spiritualityawake #Spirituality101 #spiritualitycoach #spiritualityteacher #spiritualpodcast #drrosiekuhn #rosiekuhn #growingwiser #acknowledgeyourself

Leaning into #Limitlessness - How Fun!! One side effect of the spiritual immersion process is that it allows for the expansion of our awareness and of our experiences to include what is #limitless and what is infinitely pleasing. Are you excited yet?! Tune in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com #spiritualimmersion #consciousliving #spirituality #spiritualityawake #Spirituality101 #spiritualitycoach #spiritualityteacher #spiritualpodcast #drrosiekuhn #rosiekuhn #awarenessexpansion #expandyourawareness #belimitless #paradigmshifts

Excuses and Justifications Slow You Down! You might not enjoy hearing this, but excuses and justifications quite often keep up from being in alignment with our highest good and our highest truth. Tune in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com #spiritualimmersion #consciousliving #spirituality #spiritualityawake #Spirituality101 #spiritualitycoach #spiritualityteacher #spiritualpodcast #drrosiekuhn #rosiekuhn #growingwiser #nomoreexcuses

Faster! Easier!! We don’t like the pain. We don’t like the emotions. We don’t like the uncertainty. So we want to do what we can to control what we believe we can control. Unfortunately, the more you experience the need to try to control the situation, the tougher it will be on you! There's a reason for the saying, "what you resist persists!" Tune in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com #spiritualimmersion #consciousliving #spirituality #spiritualityawake #Spirituality101 #spiritualitycoach #spiritualityteacher #spiritualpodcast #drrosiekuhn #rosiekuhn #growingwiser #letgo #letgoofcontrol #surrender #allow

The God Forsaken Crucible Called Grief The previous podcasts revealed those moments where we not only begin to question reality, but we also begin to choose to choose something other than pain and suffering. With these choices, what inevitably arises is deep #grief for the losses incurred. We begin to let go of what we were truly afraid to lose all along. However, with #courage and #selfempowerment, we can learn to comfort and support ourselves through this deep grief release. And, it is also the time that we are ready to choose to receive support from recovery fellowships, spiritual groups, coaches or therapists. The journey, in earnest, has begun! Tune in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com #spiritualimmersion #consciousliving #spirituality #spiritualityawake #Spirituality101 #spiritualitycoach #spiritualityteacher #spiritualpodcast #drrosiekuhn #rosiekuhn #growingwiser #spiritualgroups #recovery #griefhealing #spiritualhealing #questionreality #griefrelease #therapy

Now is the Time to Choose Something Other than Pain and Suffering - or Not! In the previous podcast I spoke about the moment when you begin to question reality. Inevitably, the profound moment arises when you also choose to choose something other than pain and suffering. You begin to #empoweryourself to truly listen to your own truth, and to begin choosing from that place from now on. This is a profound moment in your life! Congratulations!!! Tune in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com #spiritualimmersion #consciousliving #spirituality #spiritualityawake #Spirituality101 #spiritualitycoach #spiritualityteacher #spiritualpodcast #drrosiekuhn #rosiekuhn #growingwiser #consciouschoice #consciouschoosing #intentionalliving #truth

Questioning Reality - Which Reality? There comes a point in every human's life where nothing makes sense anymore. This is the moment when each of us questions the reality we believed to be THE REALITY. And, for many, it is a time to begin the process of creating the reality that is manifested from deep within your being! Tune in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com #spiritualimmersion #consciousliving #spirituality #spiritualityawake #Spirituality101 #spiritualitycoach #spiritualityteacher #spiritualpodcast #drrosiekuhn #rosiekuhn #growingwiser #consciouschoice #consciouschoosing #intentionalliving #questionreality #spiritualcoaching

Ghosts, Possessions and .... Our Western Civilization debunks the presence of ghosts and any other unseen presences. Yet these presences often wreak havoc in one's life. Tune in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com #spiritualimmersion #consciousliving #spirituality #spiritualityawake #Spirituality101 #spiritualitycoach #spiritualityteacher #spiritualpodcast #drrosiekuhn #rosiekuhn #growingwiser #consciouschoice #consciouschoosing #intentionalliving #spiritualcoaching #ghosts #unseenpresence

Death by Meditation I mentioned in previous podcasts that I’ve been #meditating using Joe Dispenza’s 55-minute long #guidedmeditation. And you know what I've discovered? There is a part of me that fears death through #meditation. I remember that I experienced this fear of death through meditation with Gangaji too. Anticipating the annihilation of self is part of the process of any spiritual path. It’s when you know that the suffering you’ve engaged in all along was manufactured through your own belief system. And, you realize that even though it may feel like a death, it really isn’t. It’s just growing one’s capacity to live in the truth of the sovereignty on one’s true essential nature. I’m no longer attached the the stories I’ve believed to be the truth of me. So surrendering those stories sometimes feels like a death. Taking on or creating a new belief system feels insane. However, the more I do this practice, the more emancipated I feel. I experience greater strength, courage, and excitement. The fear and anxiousness have transmuted into excitement - mostly! I also experience a willingness to step into the unknown, anticipating good things rather than bad things. I begin to experience a quickening - a gestation - like a fetus developing in the womb. I become more mindful of self-defeating thoughts and beliefs that previously seemed normal. Now they seem dumb!!! Why would I want to continue to oppress myself the way I have when this causes me suffering and angst? Why not instead go for the #extraordinary ?! Listen in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com #spiritualimmersion #consciousliving #spirituality #spiritualityawake #Spirituality101 #spiritualitycoach #spiritualityteacher #spiritualpodcast #drrosiekuhn #rosiekuhn #growingwiser #consciouschoice #consciouschoosing #intentionalliving #spiritualcoaching #extraordinarylife

Expecting Failure Shifting the patterns of how we perceive ourselves is probably the most challenging practice there is. I anticipate problems. I anticipate failure. I anticipate things going wrong. So I procrastinate doing things I’ve never done before! Even the simplest things, like gluing a plant to a rock in my aquarium. I watch YouTube videos, and following the how-to’s could be easier. However I’m sure, in my mind, that I’ll blow it! I’ve come far enough on my path to be conscious of these patterns and to train myself to ask the question: Do you really want to continue this way when you know you have a choice? Coming to greater degrees of the awareness that I have choice and then to exercise choice takes courage and strength. It brings to me certain underlying truths that I’ve been living with and that keep me stuck in where I’m at, such as: It’s better to do things wrong or half-assed and anticipate failure than to do things correctly and still anticipate failure! Humiliation for never being able to get it right - even when it’s right! Where ever you are on your path, you will inevitably be required to do the heavy lifting of changing your beliefs -- especially those beliefs that you think are just 'who you are!' Listen in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com #spiritualimmersion #consciousliving #spirituality #spiritualityawake #Spirituality101 #spiritualitycoach #spiritualityteacher #spiritualpodcast #drrosiekuhn #rosiekuhn #growingwiser #consciouschoice #consciouschoosing #intentionalliving #spiritualcoaching #paradigmshifts #selfperception

Positive Emotions Arising! YES!! Truly exploring who I am inside this experience is the most fascinating adventure I've ever been on. When least expected, the unexpected arises! Listen in and then please share your perspective with me on my Facebook page! - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com #spiritualimmersion #consciousliving #spirituality #spiritualityawake #Spirituality101 #spiritualitycoach #spiritualityteacher #spiritualpodcast #drrosiekuhn #rosiekuhn #growingwiser #consciouschoice #consciouschoosing #intentionalliving #spiritualcoaching #paradigmshifts #positiveemotions #selfexploration