Analyzing the roots of anxiety, RamDev explains the spiritual and emotional benefits of having a direct experience of emptiness.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowThis week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explains:The fundamental misperception of who we areReality versus delusionForm, solidness, and sense of selfDirectly experiencing emptinessAnxiety produced from separatenessAppreciating the dream-like nature of thingsReadings from The Heart SutraLetting go of the urge to control our livesThe simplicity and complexity of surrendering / trusting GodDifferent types of anxietyEmptiness versus nothingness“Anxiety is telling us that we’re lost in the fundamental delusion of solidness and separateness, that we don’t really get the Buddhist notion of emptiness. A direct experience of emptiness, and then being able to stabilize emptiness, can be a way of working with anxiety.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How can we bring awareness and compassion to our emotions? This week, RamDev looks at how we can grow by forming a close relationship with our emotions.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowOn this episode of the Healing at the Edge Podcast, we explore:Opening to the emptiness of emotionsBeing the lens that frames our experiencesTurning towards the raw energy of our emotions, rather than resisting themThe “egg-laying” breathing method Building the foundation for an open heart through grounding and centering“We liberate our emotions by seeing their empty nature.” – RamDev Dale BorglumSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev dives into cultivating qualities to respond to the artificial intelligence disruption.This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowReflecting on the increase in collective fear that comes with moving into uncertain times, RamDev explores:- The qualities we can cultivate in response to the disruption caused by artificial intelligence- Our interconnected nature and how doing the inner work benefits all beings- The potential benefits and dangers of AI- The balance of wisdom and compassion- Discerning uncertainty from anxiety and working with those emotions- Dharma talks scripted by Chat GPT“By you working with your uncertainty, you’re realizing that so many people are feeling the same poisonous emotion. By you having compassion for that, you’re helping other beings because of our interconnected nature. You’re doing this for all beings.” - RamDev (Dale Borglum)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev reflects on surrendering into suffering and how right effort unfolds in our lives.This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev reflects on:The motivations for our spiritual practiceLooking at how suffering is caused by how we are relating to our environmentSitting with discomfortThe different kinds of lazinessAlleviating suffering for other beingsThe path of working with Kali Remembering our connectedness to God“Right effort is the effort to surrender. It’s not the effort to change, or fix, or do anything. It’s the effort to keep remembering that our true nature is already whole.” – RamDev (Dale Borglum)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Fresh from a trip to Guatemala, RamDev guides us on letting go of separateness and surrendering into wholeness.This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow“Right now we can begin to rest in the wisdom that we are not the body and the personality. To the extent that we really get that, our true nature becomes revealed.” – RamDev (Dale Borglum)Back from his Guatemalan adventure, RamDev returns to answer questions and discuss:Near-death experiences and how he answers the question, “What happens when you die?” Non-duality from the lens of Sri Nisargadatta Trusting the spaciousness of the open, compassionate heart  The friction between grasping and surrendering Compassion as the stepping stone to non-duality and the nature of the open heart-mind Aloneness bringing us closer to onenessSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Exploring practices for embodied mindful awareness, RamDev shines light on the five stages of the journey of awakening. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow“Enlightenment is not something that is achieved. It is the revealing of what has always been here.” – RamDev (Dale Borglum)In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev dives into:The 5 different stages of the path of awakening: motivation, trust, compassion, tantra, and wholenessGrounding as the antidote to fear and anxiety, and a practice for integrating embodied mindfulness Centering as the antidote to guilt and shame, as well as judging and grandiosityBeing with feelings exactly as they are in the body, mind, and heartSeveral practices for playing with non-dualitySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Focusing on truth and awareness, RamDev teaches us how to see the guru in everything and everyone.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this episode RamDev Dale Borglum explores:The formlessness of the GuruThe Guru within the self and othersMaharaj-jiNon-dualistic self-realizationDevotion to truth and awarenessFinding the Guru in all aspects of reality"When we're talking about God or guru or self, it's such a small unimposing word compared to what the self is, compared to what the guru is. God is a nickname for reality. God is a nickname for everything." – RamDev Dale Borglum See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Describing three levels of surrender, RamDev shows us how to receive the blessings of an open heart.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow"The first level of surrender that allows us to receive is giving up a wish that things be different." – RamDev In this episode we hear RamDev Dale Borglum discuss:Transforming pain into cosmic joy Openheartedness and grace Global catastrophe and sufferingAbsolute Goodness and our intrinsic natureEnlightenment and Vulnerability Surrender in the various stages of practiceSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

RamDev dives into the Tantra of delight, wonder, and astonishment to help us surrender with love into our sacred fundamental nature.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow"In this crazy 21st century in which we're living, for me, the most available and exciting practice is this notion of Tantra—of being able to be with anything and immediately go to its fundamental nature." – RamDev Dale BorglumIn this episode RamDev Dale Borglum explores:Wisdom from classic books Zen Flesh Zen Bones by Paul Reps, and The Yoga of Delight, Wonder, and Astonishment, translated by Jai Deva Singh, both on ancient Vijñāna Bhairava—the 112 instructions from Shiva to the Goddess on how to immediately awakenThe connection within Tantra between love, emptiness, self, devotion, and compassionMaharajji's statement that "the best form to worship God is every from" and how everything is graceTantra, the Divine Mother, and devouring and digesting emotionsYoga versus TantraEmbodied mindfulness for transmuting emotion into the sacredGuru Yoga and identifying oneself with God/Deity and mantraSurrendering into love through non-graspingSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Exploring how to open the heartmind, RamDev, offers insight into love, devotion, suffering, boundaries, resistance, and equanimity.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow"In Sanskrit there's not two words for heart and mind, there's one word. The heart is really the depth of the mind; the mind is the surface of the heart." – RamDev Dale BorglumIn this episode RamDev Dale Borglum explores:The inherent connection between heart and mindLoss, grief, embodied mindfulness, trust, and boundariesDevotion and the qualities of an open heartSuffering, resistance, presence, and healingLove, attachment, equanimity, and compassionSpiritual practices for opening the heartA guided meditation on opening the heartmindSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.