Awakened Conscious Conversations
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Many of our guests have overcome significant obstacles and transformed their lives.
Rich with deep talks and solo endeavours, often offering tips on living a more conscious life.
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Awakened Conscious Conversations
Bitesize Summer Episode: Soul Sovereignty in the Digital Age
What does it mean to maintain the sovereignty of your soul in an increasingly digital world? Celebrating five years of the Awakened Conscious Conversations podcast, this episode delves into the complex relationship between modern pressures, technological advancement, and our authentic selves.
Many of us feel crushed beneath societal expectations to achieve specific milestones by certain ages. When life doesn't unfold according to plan, we're left feeling like failures. Financial strains only compound this pressure, making spiritual practices feel impossible during difficult periods. As shared by wise 80-year-olds, perhaps our greatest illusion is believing life should follow a predictable timeline when it rarely does.
The episode concludes with a powerful guided meditation helping listeners visualise themselves flying above their problems, gaining much-needed perspective on life's challenges. Ready to reconnect with your soul? Listen now, and don't forget to share your experiences with our community!
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Hello everybody, I'm your host, the Gentle Yoga Warrior, and this is Awakened Conscious Conversations podcast. We are gladly in our fifth year, and to make it to five years in podcasting is a magnificent thing. Unfortunately, most new podcast episodes don't make it past a few episodes, or most new podcast shows, rather, don't make it past a few episodes. I don't know why that is. I'm guessing it is quite hard and it takes dedication and love of the thing to do and we've all tried things that we thought we'd like and then we don't. I have I've done things because it I thought I ought to and when I was younger because it was fashionable, and then the reality was never the same. But there's some courses that I did in the past and I have no desire to to to carry on working in the way that these courses said. And then there's some courses that I've done which I find of value.
Speaker 1:But today's episode isn't about any of that we're going to talk about when it gets really kind of gritty and bumpy and when we get to a certain age. If we haven't got that life, then it's kind of we're seen as a failure, and I can't talk from the point of view from other countries, but I know kind of in in the UK it's a lot of pressure at the moment. People financially are pushed to their limits. It just seems to be like the the big rich companies are getting richer and everyone else from all walks of life is really kind of struggling and it just seems to be that way and it's quite easy to get sucked down the drain of despair and and disconnection from our soul, because the more we feel unhappy and struggling we feel disconnected from our soul and I completely understand it. Sometimes it can feel so hard to turn up on that meditation mat or go for or do something holistic for yourself when you're feeling either not 100% yourself, low energy. There's pressures there could be like, say, family anniversaries coming up which aren't so good. It could be that your finances aren't in the way that you want them to be. Maybe you're looking around and seeing all these joyful holidaying families and you're thinking, why isn't my life that way? But I just I've just let you know something and I've learned this from people older than me and they've said that the biggest kind of mist that we kind of have in front of our vision on life is to think that we have to be a certain place, by a certain age or a failure, and I've had like 80 year olds tell me that actually life seldom works out how we expect it to be, so there's going to be all those things that provoke you. There's things that provoke me, like there's someone camping out on the road kind of facing a house, sitting there all day, kind of facing our house, and then kind of you think, why are they doing that? We live in a world where Everything is changing so rapidly. They reckon by 2027, this is what I've read. I don't know if it's 100% true, it's just what I've read that half of our jobs are going to be gone to AI. I strongly hope not.
Speaker 1:And really do we really want art or things created by by machines? I don't think we do. Like I know there's, there's things like chat, gp and things like that which can help people when they're writing something that's a bit boring. But do we really want doctors etc. Having passed their exam by using ai? Or do we do we really want artists creating paintings that are being purely made by ai?
Speaker 1:Because where, when we kind of I think our creative side and our ability to learn is the sovereignty of our soul, and when we surrender that fully to machines. And I'm not saying I don't use technology because I do. You know I find it very helpful. I've always found Apple really helpful. I've used them for decades because it helps me with my dyslexia, because I could play back what I typed.
Speaker 1:So I'm not saying all technology is wrong, but I think why we're feeling so disconnected from our being and why we're feeling so disconnected from our soul is because we've lost the ability to create from a place of just loving to do it or just being ourselves. And you know the blue, all the blue light from looking at screens and that it's just like I think it should be in moderation. And yes, we all need to make a living and a lot of us spend the time in front of computers and stuff. But it's about balancing it out and then creating something from the sovereignty of your soul. And just because we can do things doesn't mean that we should, and we shouldn't live in a pace from fear either. So maybe the world is going in a way where it's disconnecting us more from our souls.
Speaker 1:But what is the antidote to that, dear listener? It's to find a deeper connection with what makes our soul sing, and the first step is to sit quietly and meditate, connect with nature, do the things that we love. And it is going to be bumpy sometimes and it's definitely not going to be plain sailing and there's going to be days that feel easier than other days. But our true self, our true being, comes from the sovereignty of our soul and we do that by creating, exploring things ourselves and seeing things with eyes outside, in nature and just life and away from it all. And away from it all. So it's like finding that that way and, oh gosh, some days, I'm sure, can feel like really difficult. Another day is so joyful and the best bit of advice I could give you is to tap in and tune into yourself and try not to see things as good or bad in your day, but rather this was an experience. How can I learn from it? Or this made me feel elevated, what does that say to me and how can I find that? And instead of chasing happiness, I would say chase realness, authenticity, the moment, the present, and accepting unconditional love towards yourself, accepting the humanness of yourself and how things aren't always going to be plain sailing, but how one can navigate through this life and find the snippets of the things that kind of raise our vibration, like good quality music or colours, like being out in nature, the beautiful colours of the nature that you have out there, and all those things that can help you. So I hope this was of value, this bite-sized edition.
Speaker 1:We have guests coming on in September, august. You've got wonderful me, and if there's any specific thing that you wish us to cover on the show, then do let me know. And, as always, here is a meditation inspired by today's show. Top tips for the meditation is either sit nice and cross-legged on the floor with a nice straight back always nice to sit on a block or a cushion, although that's not available for you. You sit in a chair with the back nice and straight. The important thing is you're not slouching and if you're doing something that requires your concentration, all you need to do is just pause this and you can reconvene the meditation at a time that is good for you. If you're doing the meditation, let's begin. So, dear listener, we have a meditation.
Speaker 1:Imagine just for a moment that you can float and walk in the sky.
Speaker 1:This is in your imagination only, but just imagine that you are able to kind of walk and fly.
Speaker 1:And if you were to fly somewhere, what bird would you be as you look down at all the people below?
Speaker 1:Would that somehow make all these big problems that we have in our mind smaller?
Speaker 1:As we take in the view of the landscape, the colours, the textures, and even if the landscape feels less pretty, where are the snippets of beauty that you can tap into?
Speaker 1:Seeing the world is half full rather than half empty?
Speaker 1:Where is it that one can travel to and see this beautiful place and, in your imagination, just go there now as you fly and soar and fly, fly, fly. Where is this perfect paradise that you see below you? What details sticks out the most? Can you find a sense of ease and calmness as you breathe slowly and delicately into the joyous moment of living? And in this beautiful place you find a seat to sit down and for the next few minutes, in this beautiful place, you're just going to breathe slowly and calmly, at a rhythm that's right for you, and no matter how the mind wanders, don't judge it, but just steer yourself back to the breath. All right, so, ever so gently. Now, thank the surroundings, thank this bird's eye view of the world which you have been able to see, and next time you feel you've got a big problem. Imagine yourself soaring above, seeing the bigger picture of everything around you. So thank you for listening, dear listener, and, as always, if you wish to sponsor the show, please go to our website for further details.
