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SEASON THREE: INNER MASTERY. We are turning our attention to inner mastery. We are going to make the case that your highest leverage point for creating growth and change for yourself and in the world is through mastering your inner world. Inner mastery means that you are free from habitual reactions that end up keeping you stuck and cycling around the same dilemmas at work and in life, so you are more present to assess what comes to meet you with new wisdom and clarity. This becomes especially important when you want to live a life of purpose and meaning as a leader, change-maker or visionary. How you show up as a leader is going to be amplified across your organization or community — both your shadow and your light. Others depend upon you taking responsibility for your faults and weaknesses, and for the quality and clarity of the pictures and concepts you carry. You need to become good at skills such as clear and specific communication, 100% responsibility for your projections, inspiring high performance, and creative capacity for strategy and problem solving. One way we describe this is “what you believe appears around you.” And this is also why we say that the highest leverage point you have as someone wanting to make change, is through mastery of your own inner life. We want to see you achieve the freedom that mastery brings so you can respond to the demands of a meaningful and purposeful life with inner agency, outer discipline, and real capacity. SEASON TWO: THE ART OF MENTAL HEALTH — In this season the Magenta team come back to discuss mental health and wellness. We’ll draw from our own experiences with healing, and from our work helping others drawn from our research into little known fields of inner development. We’re going to go between the phenomena we can observe about the inner life and its healing, and specific challenges such as generalized anxiety disorder, depression, and trauma. We’ll bring practical concepts that might sometimes seem outrageously different from the prevailing understanding of mental health, share insights about a different way to work with common issues, and talk about the need for an anatomy of the inner life that can help guide us toward genuine and effective paths of healing — and put the power and agency to heal back in our own hands. SEASON ONE: THE ART OF RELATIONSHIPS —We live in a social world. No matter what we do, our lives involve people. MagentaFM brings you stories, teachings, and contemplations about the invisible spaces between us that shape our lives and can make or break our joy, prosperity, and health. What gets in the way of fruitful collaboration? Why do we tolerate unhealthy, even toxic, behavior? And how can we work with people confidently, even creatively? In the inaugural season we focused on the art of relationships. All relationships. With a spouse, family, colleagues, bosses and employees, the principles are the same. And how you do one thing is how you do everything so you'll likely see the same patterns showing up in many areas of your life. We look at real-life stories, share honestly about topics that are vulnerable and typically taboo, and explore these phenomena from a western esoteric perspective. How do you solve conflict? How can you collaborate better with colleagues? What should you do about a toxic work culture? Why are bullies or narcissists showing up in your life? How can you have a healthier marriage? How to have a healthier relationship with friends and family? What to do about dysfunctional family? Learn how to transform the dynamics we get embroiled in, and elevate the interactions we have with others.

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SEASON THREE: INNER MASTERY. We are turning our attention to inner mastery. We are going to make the case that your highest leverage point for creating growth and change for yourself and in the world is through mastering your inner world. Inner mastery means that you are free from habitual reactions that end up keeping you stuck and cycling around the same dilemmas at work and in life, so you are more present to assess what comes to meet you with new wisdom and clarity. This becomes especially important when you want to live a life of purpose and meaning as a leader, change-maker or visionary. How you show up as a leader is going to be amplified across your organization or community — both your shadow and your light. Others depend upon you taking responsibility for your faults and weaknesses, and for the quality and clarity of the pictures and concepts you carry. You need to become good at skills such as clear and specific communication, 100% responsibility for your projections, inspiring high performance, and creative capacity for strategy and problem solving. One way we describe this is “what you believe appears around you.” And this is also why we say that the highest leverage point you have as someone wanting to make change, is through mastery of your own inner life. We want to see you achieve the freedom that mastery brings so you can respond to the demands of a meaningful and purposeful life with inner agency, outer discipline, and real capacity. SEASON TWO: THE ART OF MENTAL HEALTH — In this season the Magenta team come back to discuss mental health and wellness. We’ll draw from our own experiences with healing, and from our work helping others drawn from our research into little known fields of inner development. We’re going to go between the phenomena we can observe about the inner life and its healing, and specific challenges such as generalized anxiety disorder, depression, and trauma. We’ll bring practical concepts that might sometimes seem outrageously different from the prevailing understanding of mental health, share insights about a different way to work with common issues, and talk about the need for an anatomy of the inner life that can help guide us toward genuine and effective paths of healing — and put the power and agency to heal back in our own hands. SEASON ONE: THE ART OF RELATIONSHIPS —We live in a social world. No matter what we do, our lives involve people. MagentaFM brings you stories, teachings, and contemplations about the invisible spaces between us that shape our lives and can make or break our joy, prosperity, and health. What gets in the way of fruitful collaboration? Why do we tolerate unhealthy, even toxic, behavior? And how can we work with people confidently, even creatively? In the inaugural season we focused on the art of relationships. All relationships. With a spouse, family, colleagues, bosses and employees, the principles are the same. And how you do one thing is how you do everything so you'll likely see the same patterns showing up in many areas of your life. We look at real-life stories, share honestly about topics that are vulnerable and typically taboo, and explore these phenomena from a western esoteric perspective. How do you solve conflict? How can you collaborate better with colleagues? What should you do about a toxic work culture? Why are bullies or narcissists showing up in your life? How can you have a healthier marriage? How to have a healthier relationship with friends and family? What to do about dysfunctional family? Learn how to transform the dynamics we get embroiled in, and elevate the interactions we have with others.

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S3 E6: The Inner Game of Leadership; What is Coming To You is Coming From You

4/22/2024
This week Magenta dives into the inner game of leadership. Another way to talk about this is the oft-used term: mindset. What IS mindset, and how can we better understand it, work with it, and transform it? And how could our inner world of mindset actually shape our outer world? We break it down with some real-life examples. “What you think appears around you” and “what is coming to you is actually coming from you” are two challenging assertions that we have found to be true in our own lives and work. We’ll get into why this is and how we can use this phenomenon to our advantage. How can we help shape and influence the mindset of those we are leading? We offer some “left field ideas” to inspire a more creative approach to getting teams and groups on board with your vision. Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:00:54:20

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S3 E5: The Unexpected Secret to Good Boundaries

3/26/2024
Magenta FM returns from a hiatus to take on the important topic of boundaries. As always, we have a unique take on the topic. We focus less on what one should say or how to assert yourself. Instead, we go upstream and discuss energetic boundaries and how creating strong internal energetic boundaries can eliminate most, if not all, boundary violations. We give lots of examples of places where you could have issues with boundaries that you may not recognize, including resentment, conflict avoidance, guilt, codependency, and doubt. We’re going to talk about the energetics of setting boundaries where you focus on the right foundations for boundary setting so it's already in place. Another way to describe this is nipping bad boundary setting or violations in the bud, before they have a chance to even happen. We get to the heart of the issue — and the unexpected secret — when it comes to boundaries and that is: self-esteem. Strong self-esteem means strong personal boundaries. Ones that you don’t have to enforce in an aggressive way, but are clear and firm to yourself and to the world. We offer practical steps to strengthen your self-esteem in surprising and achievable ways! Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:01:14:58

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S3 E4: Is Radical Acceptance really a good idea???

11/14/2023
Radical acceptance is a term that seems to be growing in popularity. Is radical acceptance really a good idea? Where should we apply this idea? And where might it cause more problems? When one is striving for inner mastery, won’t radical acceptance keep us short of our highest potential? The Magenta team look at radical acceptance in three different contexts: of reality, of the circumstances of our lives, and of the parts of ourselves that are not easy to like or accept. Within each of these contexts, we offer our thoughts on when and how radical acceptance can help us get further toward our goal of inner mastery, when it can help us heal. We share some stories about weaknesses that we struggle with and where radical acceptance can fit into the healing of those. Such as difficulty finding our voice when we are leading a team or a project, and facing our own inner fears and doubts. Do we just accept our fear as our fate and stay small? Or do we go to battle with the fear? And can we even win a battle against part of our own self? If so, how? Lastly, we dive into a juicy personal story of jealousy. This story illustrates how the shame and embarrassment we may feel about the weak or unlikable parts of ourselves can make radical acceptance even more difficult. We discuss the difficult line of having compassion for our shadow while not letting it hijack us. Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:00:53:14

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S3 E3: Meditation revealed - both the fruits, and the huge dangers that no one is talking about!

10/20/2023
Magenta dives into the topic of meditation and sheds light on what can actually happen within your inner life through certain practices of meditation. We also explore the dangers of popular styles of meditation that can have serious consequences for one’s mental health, spiritual development, and for our ailing world. Meditation, as Magenta teaches it, is all about consciousness and working with the very practical realms of the soul: thinking, feeling, and willing. We get into the practice of concentration, which can seem on the surface boring and prosaic, but within concentration lies the opportunity for rich discovery and development. Not just for the sake of focusing better or being more productive in life, but for aims much higher and more purposeful. We discuss several popular meditation techniques and why within some of them lie real danger, particularly with neuroscience brain-wave techniques. We also explore manifesting meditations and techniques, how they actually can work but why we caution against them. Lastly we discuss the limitations of meditations that use breathing or breathwork as well as guided meditations. Sign up now for the Elevated Presence Masterclass, a 21-day journey into the magic of a practice to build presence. Magenta.fm/elevatedpresence Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:00:59:56

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S3 E2: How To Take On Your Personal Development with Intense Efficiency

9/28/2023
How can you approach your personal development work with intense efficiency? And why would someone want to take a more rigorous approach to their healing and capacity building? In this latest episode, we’ll talk about why we need to shift our mindsets from self-help junkies to young Jedis. Because if you want to level up and reach your full potential, this is going to require a degree of effort and work that you might not be accustomed to. We get into some good reasons why you should consider it. Wouldn’t it be awesome if all the confusion, searching, and failed attempts at solving and healing your issues was made more efficient and effective? And imagine if you were able to develop capacities and abilities that you don’t yet possess, but need in order to bring your visions and ambitions to reality. This is what a path toward mastery is for: to become capable and strong. We dive into some tenets of rigorous practice. How can we sustain a consistent training of our inner life? What are the dangers of shortcuts and “magic pills”? And finally, where should one begin? If you want to make significant changes to yourself and the stakes are too high to stay small, this is for you. Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:00:39:26

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S3 E1: Why The Path To Your Destiny Is A Spiritual Journey

9/1/2023
Are you longing for more purpose? If you want to make more meaningful contributions to the world, and connect more deeply to your purpose, this episode is for you. Louisa and Rachel kick off Season Three by answering the question, “Why is spiritual development essential for connecting to our purpose?” It is understandable why we look to our outer circumstances as the place to make changes in our lives and in the world. But our inner world actually shapes our outer world. At every scale. We explore the phenomena of inner world shaping outer world and what the implications are for us as human beings wanting to help heal our world in crisis. And why is healing our soul an essential step on our journey to fulfilling our destiny? Moral integrity enters into the conversation in a big way. Through developing a solid moral compass, we find inner freedom from our compulsions and hidden motives, and we can learn to dialogue with the spiritual realities wanting to guide and help us, IF we know how to ask the right questions. We discuss these and other issues around moral development. And lastly we address the doubting questions so many people carry: is my destiny even practical? Does the world value what I have to offer? What about the economy? What about the political machine that is stacked against me? 00:00 Introduction to Season 3: The Art of Spiritual Development 07:53 Healing - what it has to do with fulfilling our life’s work 9:51 Thinking as a soul capacity and how it is integral to our purpose 10:34 Feelings and the role they play in our cognition or lack thereof 11:47 Mastering your Will 12:29 Strengthening our Light 16:41 Your inner world shapes your outer world 22:27 Attention is the gold currency in life and in the spiritual worlds 26:03 The importance of Moral development 26:59 the Moral universe 29:57 transparent motives 32:44 Morality leads to greater sensitivity to the messages of the spiritual world 36:34 What about the practical challenges of doing meaningful work in our time? (economics, politics, etc) 45:18 the inner game of manifestation 50:37 Episode recap Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:00:56:30

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S2E10: The Central Issue of Mental Health, Part Two: Rethinking Consciousness

8/2/2023
In this season finale, the Art of Mental Health Part Two, we bring some concepts and ideas that open up whole new vistas for us in preparation for our third season: The Art of Spiritual Development. There is a common assumption that the brain is the source of consciousness, and consequently our interventions are typically about fixing the brain – either through “rewiring” or drugs or other brain-based interventions. Instead, we’d like to propose that consciousness does not come from the brain, but that the brain is the instrument, the mirror, of consciousness. Why does this matter? Because if we detach the source of consciousness from the brain, we are forced to consider the nature of our consciousness as something other than a product of chemistry, chance, or biology. This is very empowering actually, because then we are not slaves to our biology as we might previously have believed. This discussion sets us up to introduce an important idea that is also a controversial topic: we need to include the light of our superconsciousness in order to heal our subconsciousness — the realm of our “finished worlds” and of the shadow — and if we don’t, mental health issues will continue to rise. Moreover, the world will fall into more and more social, political, and environmental chaos. We introduce a new anatomy of consciousness that can help us better understand the nature of healing, and also help us design better interventions, methods, and tools for healing our inner worlds. DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice. Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:00:51:03

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S2 E9: The central issue of mental health (Part 1)

7/13/2023
This week, we talk about what we call “the finished world creations of our mind” and why that is at the heart of what we experience in mental health challenges. In this part one of two concluding episodes to our mental health season, we are going to talk about what lies at the heart of inner development when you really boil it down. And that is getting to know and transforming or healing the finished worlds we create. The addictive, compulsive nature of the finished world is what we are up against when it comes to mental health/mental illness. No wonder we have such difficulty healing ourselves! We think it worth laying all this out so we can understand the forces that are actually going on in our soul life, why mental illness can seem so pathological, and why society tries to approach it in a medically informed way. The stakes are very high as we all know. In this first part, we begin with laying out our definition of what we call the finished world creations, and in part two we will dig deeper into the implications, which include studying the spiritual nature of these types of creations and how they play out in our lives. This is essential to understand so we can adjust accordingly our approaches to healing and transformation. DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice. Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:00:47:16

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S2 E8: Soul addictions - why we all are addicted and what we can do about it

6/28/2023
In this episode we get into an important subject in our work in Magenta: addiction. However we don’t talk about the much more common types of chemical addictions and substance abuse, nor do we get into other types of addiction such as to porn, adrenaline, shopping, and other examples of non-chemical-based addictions. Instead, we talk about a little known phenomenon of the soul where we become addicted to the ways we see things, the conclusions we draw, and the beliefs we hold about ourselves and the world that come from a wounded place. Not in ALL things are we addicted; we mean something like having a hair trigger toward rage, or easily succumbing to depressive-style emotions, or tending to get easily offended. These are deeply entrenched habits where we would rather fight to the death than let them go. We usually have strategies that are firmly in place to act out on these addictions, such as flying off the handle around certain triggers, or dissociating when confronted with something that triggers our shame, or protective mechanisms we use for avoidance, defense, or to cope. Soul addiction is central to Magenta’s lexicon, and we think it needs to be brought into more awareness because it has a big implications on the path of healing and emancipation from soul wounds. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:57 What is addiction? 05:14 Magenta’s broader definition of Addiction – soul and shadow 07:21 How to know what is an addiction–in phone use, for instance 09:38 We are in love with our wounds 11:40 We are all addicted 12:29 Working on addiction is spiritual work 14:23 Addiction and self-fulfilling prophecy 15:30 Edifice of constructs–personality constructs and otherwise 16:55 Wanting safety in our crazy world 18:24 Why take on the very difficult work of healing addiction? 21:18 Connecting to spiritual realities 23:13 Dissolving the “finished world” 27:35 Being motivated by an addiction to self-recognition and the problems that leads to 30:25 The difference between need and strategy 32:02 Becoming free so you can be of actual service to the world in need 33:49 Creating a healthier world 37:04 How to begin to face your addiction 40:32 The shadow and addiction long for healing 43:29 The healing power of love 45:37 Episode re-cap DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice. Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:00:50:02

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S2 E7: How to attune to your inner life and why it matters for your growth and healing

6/14/2023
This week we dive into the topic of: attunement. How do we tune in to our inner life and why is that important? Attunement is important for our inner development because to grow and transform we must follow the ubiquitous precept: “know thyself.” And how can we know ourselves if we are not tuned in to our inner world, specifically our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Attunement is something that we should experience as children from our caretakers and their attunement to our needs and experience. Sadly, this is often not the case. And while we don’t encourage blame or judgment to ourselves, our parents or our ancestors, we do take responsibility for learning how to attune to ourselves if we didn’t learn this process via osmosis from our parents. Louisa and Rachel get into some practical strategies for attuning to your inner life. Not to become self-centered or self-absorbed, but to better know what you need and what needs healing. 00:00 Welcome and introduction to Attunement 02:20 Attunement in terms of inner development and thinking, feeling, and willing 02:40 Attunement to our Thinking 04:08 Attunement to the Feeling realm 07:39 Attunement to the Will or Behaviors 12:40 Parents learning to Attune to their children, what that means and how to do that 18:06 Clues to help you see if you have difficulty attuning to your inner life 20:35 Suggestions for Attuning better to your own Thinking 27:50 Dialogue with your physical body and physical pain as a means to attune to what beliefs you are holding 29:32 Suggestions for Attuning to your Feeling life 33:01 Suggestions for Attuning to your habits, behaviors and will 34:49 The Witness and its role in Attunement 38:39 “Know Thyself” and why this precept is essential to inner development and what does it have to do with attunement 39:41 Parents’ ability to do repair after not having been well attuned to their child (whether their child is still a child or whether they are a full-grown adult) 41:13 The invisible and unforeseen impacts of our healing journey DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice. Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:00:42:20

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S2 E6: Before you do inner work, you must know this

5/29/2023
In this episode, we delve into the topic of inner development and explore what it really means. As a school for inner development, Magenta believes that it's important to clarify this concept because understanding the terrain of our inner life and its development can make any intervention towards healing and transformation more powerful and effective. Our consciousness is key to the healing process, and having a better understanding of the nature of our inner life can help us achieve transformation. We discuss the three main aspects that make up our soul and inner life: our thinking or mind, our feelings and emotions, and our behaviors and the impulses that drive them. Through numerous examples, we lay out the terrain of the inner world in a simple and easy-to-understand way. We hope that this episode will inspire listeners to explore and engage in the important process of inner development for personal growth and transformation. Chapters with timestamp: 00:00 Introduction to inner development 3:09 What is inner development or inner work 10:03 Three areas of the soul which comprise what we are working with when we do inner work: mind, heart, and behavior. 15:11 The mind or thinking, how to work with this area of the soul within inner work and why we start here 21:18 How it is easy to dismiss the significance of beliefs but there are repercussions if we choose to do so 22:46 How the evidence we have for our beliefs may be misleading us 27:19 The heart or feeling life, the second realm of the soul to work on with inner development 30:48 How the feelings are associated with what we believe 35:56 The hero in us. How it is what we do with what is given to us that really counts. 37:53 Triggers and how they show up in the feeling life 41:14 Feelings are always in reaction to something. Beliefs and/or unmet needs. 47:42 The realm of behaviors or the “will” and how it is the hardest place to intervene 48:56 Addiction and what it can teach us about the will and behavior 56:09 Rhythm and how it supports the strengthening of the will 1:02:09 Inner development and what it has to do with life purpose and destiny 1:06:21 Doing inner development in community DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice. Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:01:09:18

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S2 E5: How We Heal. The Archetypal Stages on the Path of Healing.

5/17/2023
In this episode, we get into the alchemy of healing our soul wounds. We explain the four archetypal stages of healing we go through when we put the work in to heal and overcome all that keeps us stuck, cycling, disempowered, and in pain. If we understand what those archetypal phases are, then we have a navigational tool for where we need to go, and what healing actually entails. We’ve got to have some kind of ability to read the terrain, or read the stars, on our path of healing. Often, we assess ourselves and look at what we expect to have happen from a place of wound - but we don’t know it. And thus our expectations for outcomes are very low, or fatalistic, or wrong in some other way. For instance, we analyse what is wrong with us and because we’re looking at ourselves from a place of wound and weakness that is all we can see. The four archetypal stages on the path of healing can help us know where we need to go, what needs to happen next, and this knowledge can help us learn when we are projecting. DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice. Resources mentioned in this episode: “Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder” by Gabor Mate “Seven Arrows” by Hyemeyohsts Storm Youtube video: Take These Broken Wings -- Healing from Schizophrenia, Cure without Medication. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPfKc-TknWU Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:01:18:45

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S2 E4: Depression: how we understand it and how we heal it.

5/4/2023
In this episode we do a deep dive into depression, exploring it in our typical unconventional style. We get personal with Louisa sharing her story of healing from dysthymia (a mild but chronic form of depression). And finally we lay out the path that Louisa used to heal herself. We also cover the two main aspects of depression: how depression comes about via our creation of a “finished world” and then how depression is sustained via the “being nature” of depression that takes on a life of its own, and can, at times, take over. We explain these mysterious-sounding concepts in more detail. Lastly, we get into the 7 main practices that Louisa used on her path of healing. We have found each of these aspects of healing to be essential on our own personal paths. In what order or how much of each is needed may vary from person to person. We are not presenting this as a prescription because we ourselves are not therapists or medical professionals; we are sharing our hard-earned first-hand knowledge from our own healing journeys. We see the healing journey as more of an art-form than a science, hence our season’s title: The Art of Mental Health. These steps represent a very unusual approach to healing; we depart pretty radically from conventional ideas about what it takes to heal from depression and bring some fresh new insights to the topic. DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice. Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:01:27:08

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S2 E3: The dangers of therapy and what you must know for healing yourself and the world

4/20/2023
In this episode we’re going to talk about the biggest danger in conventional approaches to inner work and therapy. We get into three main areas in conventional therapy practice that are problematic, and what we should consider instead. We also get into an aspect of our nature that is completely spiritual, and in our age of reductionist materialism this is going to be very controversial for some people. We are going to be dismissed and ignored for saying things that don’t have any traction yet in conventional culture, science or medicine — except for the fact that for most of the existence of humanity our spiritual nature was so well established that it was taken for granted, and it's only in this short time period in the whole of humanity’s evolutionary journey that we are so completely cut off from our true nature. We’re going to dive into the “I” or higher self and that it’s the only force in the universe that truly heals. We touch on why if we continue to deny the existence of our higher self and its function in our healing and further growth we will see more chaos and disaster playing out in the near future, and what each of us can do to contribute to a future we would prefer to see. DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice. Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:01:21:49

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S2 E2: How To Heal From Anxiety

4/6/2023
Anxiety. It’s a huge issue, especially for young people. This week Louisa and Rachel dissect the phenomena of anxiety and where it originates. Whether you suffer from occasional anxious states or full-blown general anxiety disorder, you may find some of the information shared here helpful. We discuss the nature of thinking, and outline how we create a mental picture that, coupled with accompanying emotions, forms a finished product that is extremely difficult to shift. We get into why this is the case, and explain the compulsive, persistent nature of the powerful combination that mental pictures and emotions create. Fortunately, there is a way to intervene in this process and liberate yourself from the chains of anxiety. It requires the intervention of the higher self and our power of cognition. We detail how that works and lay out the process of intervention. We also go into how parenting and modern education contribute to the anxiety epidemic. We also discuss other interventions that can be helpful and supportive for your healing journey. Need a daily practice to help with anxiety? Sign up for our Elevated Presence Masterclass and get on a 21 day program to help you find greater presence and mastery over your inner life: www.magenta.fm/elevatedpresence A couple of texts that we mention in today’s episode: “Philosophy of Freedom” by Rudolf Steiner “From Normal to Healthy” by Georg Kuhlewind DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice. Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:01:24:40

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S2 E1: Four places to intervene in mental health that are often ignored

3/23/2023
In this first episode of Season Two: The Art of Mental Health, we describe in detail what a holistic human being REALLY is. We discuss why this matters and what society excludes in most, if not all, discussions about mental health. We get into the 4 main aspects of the holistic human being, and that we are so much more than just a physical body. We also talk about how each domain influences and effects the others, and why in our healing interventions we must include an understanding of each domain, otherwise our interventions will likely be insufficient. We also talk about where most of the drama of life takes place, the terrain of the “soul”, and how that impacts everything else, including our physical health. We continue to discuss from yet another angle, the reality and necessity of the higher “I” or self as our own best healer in issues of mental health. This episode is a further build on discussions about the anatomy of the human being that we began in season one. Show notes: Dr. Gabor Mate, expert in addiction, trauma, ADHD, stress, and child development https://drgabormate.com/ Dr. Zach Bush on the mental health and gut microbiome interconnection and how toxins, including herbicides and pesticides, play a significant role https://zachbushmd.com/mental-health-page-2/ Dr. Kelly Brogan, psychiatrist on the problems with psychiatric drugs https://kellybroganmd.mykajabi.com/blog?tag=psychiatric+medications NIH paper on the ketogenic diet for treatment of schizophrenia https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7387764/ NIH paper on earthing https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3265077/ Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:01:13:46

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Ep. 10: Four reasons why we stay in dead end relationships

3/8/2023
This is our last episode of Season 1: The Art of Relationships. So if you have any lingering questions about how to have the kinds of relationships you long for, now is the time to tune in. And if you are wondering how to know if your relationship is a dead-end, this is the episode for you. First of all, we answer the question of what makes a relationship suck. Or, to put it more positively, what you can learn to get in touch with so that you can navigate all of your relationships with clarity of mind and heart. Then we dive into the deep roots of unhealthy relationships and tips and warnings for excavating there. And lastly, we look at how YOU need to look at your own culpability in the dynamic. Ouch, we know. But ultimately it will set you free. We hope you enjoy this final episode of the season! (We're excited about season 2 coming up very soon so stay tuned) Here is the free resource mentioned in the episode: https://magenta.fm/forbidden-needs-guidebook/ Subscribe here: / @magentafm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MagentaFM TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:00:56:31

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Ep 9: Understand your Feelings Like You Never Have Before

2/20/2023
We are always feeling but seldom do we actually pay attention to what’s happening in our feeling life. This week, we outline a path for developing our feeling life from what is normal to something truly healthy. Drawing from the work of Georg Kuhlewind, we outline two categories of feelings: cognitive feelings and non-cognitive feelings (also referred to at Magenta as “feelings” vs “emotions”). We describe the kinds of feelings that we all have that have us stuck, disconnected from the world, projecting onto others, and wallowing in our habitual ways of feeling. No shame or judgment, we all do it. It’s all about learning how to not get stuck there and cultivating feelings that are actually generative, serve our intuition, and have us in a connected dialogue with the world around us, including those whom we love and/or are in conflict with. That takes us to cognitive feelings. We describe the kinds of feeling we can have, though we seldom do. Feelings that connect us to THE truth, not just OUR truth. Feelings like those that nature evokes in us. We talk about the role that feelings play in making art, and also in the kind of art that Joseph Beuys described as “the social sculpture” where each person is seen as an artist, contributing to the creation of the social organism which we all inhabit together. What role do feelings play in issues of injustice and activism? When do they get in the way of the greater good and what options do we have besides suppression or explosion? Feelings inform us. About what we like and dislike, of course, but they can actually inform us about the world around us, in the same way that animals use their feelings to tune into their surroundings and the state of their humans. We are excited to open up this conversation with you and hear what comes up for you when you listen. For a list of feelings words mentioned in the episode, visit magenta.fm/feelings As always, please be in touch! Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:01:08:10

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Ep 8: Rebuilding trust, why we need what we need, and what to do if you are in a toxic relationship

1/31/2023
Today we revisit the topics of NEEDS but this time we explore what actually drives our needs and what to do if we are facing a “Black Hole” of needs—needs that just never feel fully met! We share a useful tool for tracing the issues that are triggering you in your life and relationships, down to the feelings, needs, and even below that to beliefs and worldviews driving them. And what does one do if they see that the worldview they are carrying is not what they want? What if your worldview has been colored by trauma or childhood wounds? What if your worldview is one that is distrusting and guarded? How can we intervene? Trust is such a big issue for so many. Trusting others, trusting romantic relationships or spouses, or just distrusting the world through a persistent low-level anxiety. What do we do if we struggle with trust? Do we just force it with sheer will power? Live out the rest of our lives guarded, anxious, and vigilant? Or is there another way? Lastly, we just touch on some concepts and tools for those who are in truly toxic relationships. Though we caution those who have trust issues to REALLY interrogate whether the issue is the other person or if they are just the world mirroring back to you the assumptions and beliefs that you already hold. Hope lies in the fact that often when we see why we are entangled in a particular dynamic and learn to unhook our part in it, a lot of magic can happen, including surprising outcomes that don’t always include separation. Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:01:03:31

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Ep. 7 Own your voice: why we struggle with speaking our truth and what we can do about it

1/17/2023
In this episode we get into a bigger definition of voice, where we tell Louisa's story of her struggle to find her voice, all the way down to her physical vocal cords, and what that looked like in daily life and relationship. We talk about why it's so important to free your voice from shadow, and how it impacts the rest of your life if you don't. We go into the three main areas where we get stuck in the full expression of our voice, and the consequences of not being able to speak our truth, or use our voice to its fullest potential. We also touch on what accessing our voice can do for us, and how it helps us find our way to our life purpose because of the medicine we forge for others via the work we do to emancipate our voice from the shadow's grip. Get a taste of How To Do Soul Work with our FREE 5-day Challenge. Get Started NOW at Magenta.fm/HowToDoSoulWork Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPzRRkahAk8... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magenta.fm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magentafm DISCLAIMER: This podcast and youtube show represents the opinions of Rachel and Louisa. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professionals for any medical advice.

Duration:01:07:24