In this enlightening interview, Marianne Williamson explains to Greg Sherwood why becoming involved with politics is the natural evolution of a spiritual path. She reminds us that the concerns of poverty and hunger, for example, are not separate from the concerns of the “spiritual world” because there is only one world, which we are all part of. She calls upon us to have the courage to face not only the darkness within ourselves, but also the darkness out in society. A true spiritual journey, she says, means addressing the suffering of others—and the way to fix the wrong-headed policies and heal the ideological strife that are causing so much suffering is through getting involved with our government and electing the right people. Love is the bottom line; to care about others is to also care for yourself, because all are a part of you.

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Consciousness and Politics - Marianne Williamson

At seventeen, Denise Linn had a dramatic near-death experience, after which she “literally saw and heard the world in a different way”; she would see light and hear sound coming out of every part of nature. Understanding from that point on that the world is in fact deeply and profoundly connected, despite the separation many in modern Western culture experience, Denise set out on a personal odyssey to find her ancestry and explore the native way. The native practices of our ancestors, she emphasizes, are not outside of us, but passed through the generations—including intuition, which is not a remote talent but part of our ancestors’ natural skills to survive. By simply going out into nature and emulating natural cycles, we begin to exponentially expand our intuition, and the richer our realm becomes. Join Denise as she explores the incredible healing power of nature, vision quests, creating and using medicine wheels, and astral travel, and leads two powerful exercises of guided astral travel and finding your true name.

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Learn to Astral Travel, Find Your True Spirit Name: Ignite Your Native Spirit! - Denise Linn

Pioneer in women’s health and New York Times best-selling author Dr. Christiane Northrup chats with Jessica Ortner about how to feel young every day—regardless of your age. Through her own experience, Christiane discovered the importance of having a deep connection with your divine, ageless self. From this place, you can learn to change your negative conversation about aging and understand that old age is not a time of loneliness and uselessness. Rather, it’s a time of great joy, purpose, and fulfillment during which you can look forward with excitement to what the future holds. In addition to advice about how to change this conversation, Christiane recommends fortifying your body with the optimal amount of nutrients, such as vitamin D, iodine, and magnesium, for energy and clarity. Finally she opens up about how important it is to embrace new beginnings. This essential part of life will help ensure that your best years are yet to come!

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Goddesses Never Age: How to Grow Older Without Aging - Dr. Christiane Northrup

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer is known as “the father of motivation,” and in this lively discussion with Hay House CEO Reid Tracy, it’s easy to see why. Over the course of a very enlightening and entertaining hour, Wayne expands on some of his favorite topics, such as Divine love; shares many of the insights he gained while writing his latest bestseller, I Can See Clearly Now; and imparts wisdom from a few of the great teachers he has learned from over the years, as well as some fun takeaways from recent books and movies. But the real highlight of the conversation comes when Wayne reveals the latest source of inspiration in his life—the one leading him to what he calls “the next step.” Wayne is always empowering others to live their best possible life, and after you listen to this interview, you’ll be motivated to take your own next step into a glorious future!

The Next Step - Dr. Wayne Dyer with Reid Tracy

Louise and Reid speak with many listeners about how the Hay House World Summit has changed their lives! This is the full audio recording from the Live call.

World Summit 2014 - Hay Foundation Day: Interview with Louise Hay & Reid Tracy

Reviewed April 2017

Stress and your physical body.  I know, I know, we always hear, oh, it’s stress, it’s stress.  Stress is kind of a wastebasket term, isn’t it?  It doesn’t really refer to anything.  I want to tell you what stress does.  We need some stress in our lives.  You need stress on your bones, vertical vectors of force on your bones to keep bringing in the calcium and other minerals that build bone.  And we need stresses on the brain, routinely, in order to learn new things.  And every time you lift weights, you get stronger, because you’re putting stress on the muscle, which brings in more amino acids and so on and builds a stronger muscle over time.  So stress is not necessarily bad.  
	The kind of stress that gets all of us into trouble is the unremitting stress that says, there’s no escape, there’s no way out, there’s nothing you can possibly do.  This is the kind of stress that will cause women to miss their periods, have their hair fall out, gain weight.  
Now how does this happen?  When you’re under stress, your cortisol levels rise and you go into what’s called fight or flight.  Now, as Dr. Pam Peeke points out, when your cortisol levels rise, it is to prepare you to exercise, to run away from something that is scary and that could harm you.  So 15 minutes, 10-15 minutes of walking will eat up excess cortisol, a stress hormone, and that’s really all you need to do.  That’s why exercise is so good for decreasing stress. 
When you don’t exercise and the cortisol goes up, what happens?  You want to eat more, because the cortisol suggests burn calories, do something, I need more calories, and then you actually want to eat more.  Have any of you ever been on any of those steroid inhalers, and after you’re on the steroid inhaler, let’s say for asthma or whatever it is, you’re desperate to eat Pop-Tarts?  It’s because the cortisol, the prednisone, that’s another name for cortisol, it’s a drug, it actually forces you to want to eat more.  So the more cortisol, the higher the desire to eat, and the higher the intake of sugar, and then the higher the intake of insulin, or the blood produces more insulin, and that stores fat in your cells, and it’s a vicious cycle.
So it all starts with some way to stop that vicious cycle of stress.  One way to do it is to simply visualize a stop sign, and then when you’re doing it to yourself, you go, stop, and then you take one full deep breath in through your nose, and out through your nose, and that in itself will stop the vicious cycle of stress, because when you breathe deeply through your nose, the lower lobes of the lungs will expand, and the vagus nerve, the main nerve of the parasympathetic rest and restore nervous system goes right through there, and it will be triggered.  It will instantly lower your blood pressure, and lower your heart rate, and begin to gobble up stress hormones.
Let me give you the other big stress hormone gobbler, sleep.  Sleep is, without a doubt, the best way to digest excess stress hormones that there is.  Of course, and then you want to stop the stressful things in the first place, and that requires mindfulness.  Changing the story you tell yourself about what’s stressing you.  
So let me give you this final thought.  There is no situation that is hopeless, there is nothing that you can’t escape from, but what you have to do is engage your higher power, the nonphysical part of you that knows a lot more than the part of you that is stressed out.  Sometimes that involves getting down on your knees.  I can’t tell you the number of people who have a change in their life, simply when they’re brought to their knees and they surrender.  Okay, all right, I’ve had it.  I can’t figure it out myself.  Tell me what to do.  That, alone, will stop the vicious cycle of stress, most of which is in your head.

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The Effects of Stress

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