Healing At The Edge with RamDev Dale Borglum

RamDev shares tokens of personal wisdom and encourages listeners to evaluate their practice in order to guide themselves and others on the spiritual path.Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev offers wisdom on:Evaluating our practice and giving ourselves advice Helping others on the spiritual path The foundational work of dealing with fear, guilt, and shame Underestimating how attached we are to pleasant mindstates Right effort and sitting with our suffering rather than running awayDoing all things from the mindstate of guru seva versus egoConsidering what we have faith in and if we need heart work or mindfulness workLooking at how constant our practice is and how we can bring practice into daily activity Bare attention and mantra as a resource for continuous mindfulness Being centered as the perfect balance between stress and relaxation Developing spiritual confidence via facing uncomfortable feelings Holding space and being a guide for someone who is averse to spirituality  "Running away from our demons makes them real. One of my main jobs as a guide is to tell people to sit still and be with that demon for a little while. Lean into it. Compassion can only arise after there is direct contact with the quality of suffering. You can't short-circuit that fundamental step. You can't heal something until you can meet it directly, nakedly, intimately."– RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Connecting grief, faith, and devotion, RamDev describes the spiritual price we pay when we ignore the fundamental grief we all experience.Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.In this episode, RamDev explains to listeners:The many forms that grief can come inGrief in our daily lives and feeling subtly separate from God and othersHow deep grief can shatter our faithFaith as an integral motivator for our practiceThe cyclical, positive relationship between faith and devotionHaving an intimate, faith-based relationship with griefOur addiction to grief and becoming lost in our painHow we can consciously work with griefOpening to our own grief in order to be fully compassionate to othersTrusting that we can become vulnerable and awaken to our own true natureNoticing sensations of grief and compassion for grief in our bodiesHaving appropriate boundaries when working with collective grief“Unresolved grief has a numbing effect. These effects tend to accumulate and block our free expressions of the heart. Our goal is not to stop grief, but to help process it in whatever ways it might arise.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ram Dev helps listeners recognize the divine nature and inner light that already exists inside of each one of us.In this episode, RamDev goes over:Incarnations of light as we move through the winter solsticeComing together in community to explore our inner lightNavigating grief through the holidaysThe divine presence that is beyond time and formThe light within us that is waiting to be recognizedA brief practice and visualization of a being of lightAccepting the true nature of reality and merging with the guruEgo death as the fundamental paradox of spiritual lifeHow clinging to the self blinds us from seeing the lightResting in the quiet mind in order to realize non-duality“When we’re talking about divine incarnation, talking about the birth of the light, it’s a moment to moment realization that we are more than our thoughts, our stories, our identities. The light that we seek is not something outside to be accomplished, not something that we need to attain. It is already within us waiting to be recognized.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ramdev teaches us how to adjust our practice and be a warrior of compassion during times of intense political change.This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explores: Non-aggressively confronting injusticeRecognizing when we are distractedNot running away from feelings that are challengingOperating from love rather than being reactiveReclaiming the brain and taking responsibility for our emotionsDevouring suffering with compassionHow the depth of one’s mindfulness determines the depth of one’s compassionRemembering our universal connection and that we are all sufferingOffering self-compassion and treating ourselves generouslyLearning to meet our edge as a path to enlightenmentLooking into the big unknown and the next four years“As long as we’re blaming the environment for how we’re feeling (I’m feeling really lousy because of the election, or there’s too much traffic, or the weather isn’t great), healing isn’t happening. Drive all blames into oneself means you reclaim the blame and take responsibility for how you’re feeling. The election is not making you feel a particular way, your set of conditioning in relationship to the election is creating certain emotions in you.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Explaining relationships as the perfect environment to grow in our practice, Ramdev offers heart-opening wisdom.Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses: Being in the sea of humanity and all the ways we relate to othersRelationships as a mirror for how our practice is goingLessening one’s self-absorptionHow fear, guilt, and shame make it difficult to be in relationshipKeeping our hearts open despite the chaos of the worldBeing with our feelings and not getting lost in the storyAcknowledging when we are running awayUsing relationships to work on our spiritual growthMeeting the messiness of the human conditionSeeing the love within each person“Instead of relationship being only about comfort and enjoyment, and resenting it when it’s not there, use it as the crucible of practice. Use it as the place that is revealing to you where your heart is closing. When your heart is closing to somebody else, really it’s about not loving yourself. If you can love yourself completely, then you can be with everybody.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The discussion revolves around Maharaj-ji's teachings on the unity of God, guru, and self. It emphasizes worshiping God in every form and nurturing love and awareness as a path to spiritual growth. A touching story highlights the deep connections between a spiritual teacher and devotees, especially at life's end. Insights into the complexities of money, truth, and the need for blind faith provide a critical reflection on integrity. The essence of love, service, and the call to remember God resonate throughout the conversation.

Offering listeners a map to the heart, Ramdev explores how loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity interconnect.Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev holds a talk on: The four qualities that lead to the heart (loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity)Finding meaning through connection to self, others, and GodThe path of the heart versus the path of inquiryDying into the heart rather than attempting to find everything outHow on-going, unprocessed grief makes it difficult to open the heartTrusting both the light and the painEquanimity as the foundation of the heartHaving devotion to awareness and the sanghaThe many available paths to consciousnessInvoking that which we feel devotion to during our meditationsIntegrating practice into daily life“In the Bible, it talks about ‘pray without ceasing’, and the only way you can do that is if your practice goes so deep into yourself that it’s happening without you doing it because other times you’re doing other things. The quality of the prayer saturates the cloth of your being, you’re colored by the prayer.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Exploring conscious grief work, speaker Chris Beaudry joins Ramdev to chat about transmuting pain into compassion.Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.In this episode, RamDev and Chris go over: Chris’ spiritual journey through AA and sobrietyHow Chris witnessed a traumatic bus crash full of people he knewSeeking comfort through Ram Dass and ending up in OjaiAllowing oneself to be sad for awhileConscious grief work and working with grief in an embodied wayThe raw sweetness of opening our hearts during painful timesHow community and compassion helps us to healAccepting reality for what it isHow familiarity with impermanence prepares us for the end of lifeThe difficulty in cutting through illusionsThe importance of regular practiceAbout Chris Beaudry:Chris ‘Critter’ Beaudry is a father, farmer, and public speaker who uses his lived experiences as grist for the mill for personal and spiritual growth. Read more about Chris HERE.“Life is hard. You’re not getting out of this one alive. You’re going to grieve, you’re going to lose, that’s the nature of reality. But, that doesn’t mean we have to harden to it. That doesn’t mean we have to be cruel to each other.” – Chris BeaudrySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this conversation, RamDev, a guide on service and awakening, draws wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita. He reveals how selfless service can be the easiest path to spiritual awakening, emphasizing it as an expression of love rather than obligation. RamDev discusses the importance of cultivating compassion and seeing divinity in everyone, using Hanuman as a model of devotion. He also touches on building supportive communities and practicing mindfulness to transform service into joyous acts, highlighting the profound connection between service and personal transformation.

In conversation with listeners, Ramdev explains how prayer unites us with God and prepares us to receive grace.Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev teaches us about: Prayer as the foundation of every religionHaving faith in the boundless qualities of GodLoving God with passionDifferent levels of prayerHow prayer unites us with God and prepares us for receiving graceAdmitting our humanness within our prayersListener perspectives on different styles of prayerPraying for help from our ancestors and for the healing of othersPrayer as an invitation for God to enter the heartHealing from shame and gradually trusting our inner wholeness“Prayer is the action of being able to receive the blessing of the sun. The warmth, the connectedness of the sunshine. We learn not only to pray for ourselves, but for all beings.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.