Awakened Conscious Conversations
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Awakened Conscious Conversations
Finding Steady Faith in a Unsteady World: How Grace Helps Us Navigate Anxiety, Judgment, and Change
The wind was fierce, branches snapped, and yet the trees offered a lesson: let go with dignity and trust the season. That image sparked a conversation about grace—not as niceness or passive compliance, but as elegant strength and a workable alternative to judgment, outrage, and control. We share why grace is the heartbeat of the soul, how anxiety hijacks our best intentions, and what it looks like to “show, don’t tell” your values when the world is loud.
We talk about the difference between dogma and lived faith, why the most grounded people rarely need to persuade, and how trust in a larger pattern can steady you without making you naive. From the corrosive pull of manipulation to the subtle freedoms of humility, we examine how grace changes the tone of a room, lowers defenses, and opens space for real change. You’ll hear practical ways to cultivate presence—brief pauses, thoughtful speech, and boundary-setting without contempt—so your responses match your deepest intentions.
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Hello, everybody. I'm your host, the Gentle Yoga Warrior, and this is Awakened Conscious Conversations Podcast. And I'm joining you on a blustery day. The wind has been blowing, and it even blew down some branches on some of my favourite trees when I went for a walk earlier. But there's the colour of the leaves are so beautiful as they kind of turn from that green to that red, and it's like the swan song of the tree before it hibernates before winter. And something very lovely to observe, and it got me to thinking about grace and the grace of the trees as they kind of like surrender into this next stage of their life where they kind of just allow and be, and sometimes occasionally I noticing religious people who have gone beyond the dogma and the judging and all that, and I see that they have a grace about them where there's less judgment. For I always think if someone's really happy or really kind of in what they believe, they would not have to judge other people or kind of use violence or anything unsavoury like that to get people to believe their way of thinking. So someone who really embodies their faith, I think, has grace, and grace is getting and having faith, no matter how one is feeling. Grace is the heartbeat of the soul, and things that kind of stop us from having that grace is you know, this the world is such a strange place, very strange place these days, and I never thought I'd say that, but with each decade, it just gets more weirder, in my opinion. I just feel that the world has changed. Obviously, there's a lot of things that have changed for the good, but there's so many things that have changed for the bad, and it's very easy to get sucked into that where we kind of now live in a country where we don't have any right to express ourselves or and where we're not listened to, and unfortunately, I feel where the people in power just do not care about the everyday person, and it's all about lining one's pocket with money and kind of manipulating people. As I I speak about this, of course, anxiety is like an undercurrent, and what I've realized anxiety is a powerful emotion that can sometimes make us forget who we really are. And the thing is, I remember talking to an elderly relative in the 80s, and she said she said to me, She said, It's never going to change, like even when she was young, there was like corruption and evil in the world, and if we keep looking at corruption and evil, that's all we will see. Whereas we can remember our grace, and grace reminds us to trust, but not just in life, but the but in the greater picture, and sometimes things are played out in a way that we don't fully understand or appreciate why it's happening that way, but beyond that, there is something it's like the universe has got our back, even though some of the things that are happening do not feel like it has got our back, and that faith and that grace, and I I I see it in some people that the lady that recently joined with the lady with the gorillas, Jane, is it Jane Goodall or something? She had a grace about her, and people with real grace have no need to kind of shout, persuade, or try and convince people to think their way, and they they show instead of tell. And there's one thing when I was doing my writing course many many years ago, it was all about showing and not telling, but there's so many ways in which people who think all different ways of thinking try and tell other people how to be, and yeah, it's just it has got a kind of a very mixed-up world these days, but the grace is what's gonna help us sail through it. So maybe there is all these evil people in the world that are running the countries and have kind of switched off the love from their soul in search of power and materialism, but then I think there's so many people that have that grace and that beauty, and we can all tap into it, and it's quite a difficult thing to explain in many ways, but then it isn't, it's a sense of kind of knowing, being and having that trust and faith where one has I'd say classy responses to things instead of hatred and anger and judgment and control, as the world seems to be pivoting stronger and stronger into these days, and instead that grace comes from that calmness, that peace and that ability to be. It's about being really thoughtful, but not to the detriment of oneself, of course, but having a kind of thoughtfulness and an intelligence rather than dogma. Anyone who's enlightened, they have this smoothness and elegance and this kind of politeness, but not fake, but it's this kind of God's grace and joy, but also accepting the beauty, and it's a freedom that comes knowing that regardless of what's happening all around us, all the bad stuff that might be happening in the world as we speak, the bad people running the countries, the bad decisions, the deaths, the sadness, that there is also this great prevailing life force that loves us all so very dearly and equally, and that surrender into trusting into that, regardless of what your religious beliefs are. Some people will have opposite beliefs to other people, but what whatever you believe is the kind of creator of this world, it's it's kind of trusting that, but without the need to control or manipulate or hurt other people. And what a beautiful, a beautiful thing, that grace that you see sometimes in people, and it's not something that can be faked, it's something that's real and translucent in many ways, but also soft and humble, and in many ways it's about rising above all the rubbish that is happening in either our minds, in the world, etc., and believing in this great prevailing light force, which ultimately veins are made of love and acceptance and wanting to do good for the world, but again without trying to manipulate or control others, and such a beautiful, beautiful place to be. My top tips for having more grace in life is to have that moments of stillness, peace, faith, and to work on oneself, not from a point of view that we are broken, but to see like God's light in whatever form that is for you, and if you're an atheist, to see the light within you, and to just feel that light, and know that when you work on yourself, like all the mental things that get in the way of us being so gracious and and having faith. So when we work on ourselves and we release and surrender to our grace through our faith, then I feel we inspire others to do the same. So let's shouting, I am here, be here, be in your presence, be in your now, and don't compromise who you are, but at the same time let go of the need to be always right or to persuade others of your point of view. For I deeply feel that if we were all meant to think, feel, and be the same, then we would ultimately we are all one, but we are different kind of angles of that light, and our our unique angle of light and the way we shine into the world is that it has the ability to change and make things beautiful. So, dear ones, let's just do a meditation just for a few moments to help us bring this all in together. 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, or 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 little 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 as you close your eyes, you imagine that you are looking up in your imagination with to the sun. It's a low, almost end-of-day sun, so it isn't too bright, but some beautiful colours cascade across the skies, and within you start to feel this wonderful, beautiful sense of inner knowing. And the waves of our thought come backwards and forth, kind of steering us away from what we are meant to do, meant to be. Instead, just allow them to be there, but feel the warmth of the sun, for that sun symbolizes your inner grace, and whenever you wish to, you can kind of sit still and tap into that and feel that grace is this beautiful presence, this beautiful way to be this strength and resistance, but softness and flow. Can you just allow yourself to just be in that grace more often and allow yourself to surrender but also grow to know what feels right within and trust your instinct. Know that's people who are kind and authentic and rise above to be a politician where you kind of persuade and manipulate, for that is no place in love. Instead, allow yourself to be who you are, you beautiful person, you beautiful, kind hearted person. That grace and that light, you can tap into it whenever you need. So slowly take some calm deep breaths as you come back into the moment, come back into the now, knowing that you are grace.
