Today’s Life Question comes from Ann who’s experiencing heightened anxiety, grief, and fear while caretaking for family members who are ill and wants to know how to release her fears. For practical spiritual insight and encouragement around your relationships, finances, life purpose, or in understanding world events, submit your Life Question of The Week to podcast@michaelbeckwith.com and it may be featured in an upcoming episode! Remember to subscribe/follow and set an alert to receive notifications each Wednesday when new episodes are available! If you are inspired by the Take Back Your Mind podcast, please share it with your friends and family, and give us a 5-star rating! Connect with Michael at his new website – https://michaelbeckwith.com/ – and receive his guided meditation, “Raise Your Vibration and Be Untouchable” when you sign up to receive occasional updates from Michael!  You can also connect with him at https://agapelive.com/. Facebook: @Michael.B.Beckwith https://www.facebook.com/Michael.B.Beckwith IG: @michaelbbeckwith https://www.instagram.com/michaelbbeckwith/ X:  @drmichaelbb https://twitter.com/drmichaelbb YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqMWuqEKXLY4m60gNDsw61w And as always, deep gratitude to the sponsors of the Take Back Your Mind with Michael B. Beckwith podcast: the Agape International Spiritual Center: https://agapelive.com/ and NutriRise, makers of Michael’s AdaptoZen Superfood Greens Powder and Vitamin D3+K2 drops: https://nutririse.com/products/adaptozen-bundle and the new ELEVATE Mushroom Complex: https://nutririse.com/products/elevate-mushroom-complex and ELEVATE+: Organic Fermented Mushrooms: https://nutririse.com/products/elevate-fermented-mushrooms-powder.

It’s no secret that the world seems to be more divided than ever, particularly in the U.S. during this election year. How can we maintain our love and compassion at this time, especially with individuals with whom we disagree?  Today, Michael addresses that and more, including: -Practical steps for cultivating compassion for those who think differently -What it means to "love thy neighbor" in ways that extend beyond our immediate community, given the interconnectedness of our nation and world via the Internet and social media -The role that self-love and compassion play in our ability to love and have compassion for our neighbors, including Michael’s personal revelations about when he wasn’t compassionate enough with himself -How to balance standing up for our values while still being compassionate towards those who oppose them Then, Michael leads a brief guided meditation with a focus on Love.  If you are inspired by the Take Back Your Mind podcast, please share it with your friends and family, and give us a 5-star rating! Remember to subscribe/follow and set an alert to receive notifications each Wednesday when new episodes are available! Connect with Michael at his new website – https://michaelbeckwith.com/ – and receive his guided meditation, “Raise Your Vibration and Be Untouchable” when you sign up to receive occasional updates from Michael! You can also connect with him at https://agapelive.com/.  Facebook: @Michael.B.Beckwith https://www.facebook.com/Michael.B.Beckwith IG: @michaelbbeckwith https://www.instagram.com/michaelbbeckwith/ X:  @drmichaelbb https://twitter.com/drmichaelbb YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqMWuqEKXLY4m60gNDsw61w And as always, deep gratitude to the sponsors of the Take Back Your Mind with Michael B. Beckwith podcast: the Agape International Spiritual Center: https://agapelive.com/ and NutriRise, makers of Michael’s AdaptoZen Superfood Greens Powder and Vitamin D3+K2 drops: https://nutririse.com/products/adaptozen-bundle and the new ELEVATE Mushroom Complex: https://nutririse.com/products/elevate-mushroom-complex and ELEVATE+: Organic Fermented Mushrooms: https://nutririse.com/products/elevate-fermented-mushrooms-powder.

What’s the difference between having a vision for your life and trusting that vs. having a goal and following a plan?  Find out on today’s Life Question of the Week! For practical spiritual insight and encouragement around your relationships, finances, life purpose, or in understanding world events, submit your Life Question of The Week to podcast@michaelbeckwith.com and it may be featured in an upcoming episode! Remember to subscribe/follow and set an alert to receive notifications each Friday when new episodes are available! If you are inspired by the Take Back Your Mind podcast, please share it with your friends and family, and give us a 5-star rating! Connect with Michael at his new website – https://michaelbeckwith.com/ – and receive his guided meditation, “Raise Your Vibration and Be Untouchable” when you sign up to receive occasional updates from Michael! You can also connect with him at https://agapelive.com/. Facebook: @Michael.B.Beckwith https://www.facebook.com/Michael.B.Beckwith IG: @michaelbbeckwith https://www.instagram.com/michaelbbeckwith/ X:  @drmichaelbb https://twitter.com/drmichaelbb YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqMWuqEKXLY4m60gNDsw61w And as always, deep gratitude to the sponsors of the Take Back Your Mind with Michael B. Beckwith podcast: the Agape International Spiritual Center: https://agapelive.com/ and  NutriRise, makers of Michael’s AdaptoZen Superfood Greens Powder and Vitamin D3+K2 drops: https://nutririse.com/products/adaptozen-bundle and the new ELEVATE Mushroom Complex: https://nutririse.com/products/elevate-mushroom-complex and ELEVATE+: Organic Fermented Mushrooms: https://nutririse.com/products/elevate-fermented-mushrooms-powder.

Michael welcomes Alexi Panos, a leader in the Embodied Wisdom movement named one of Forbes’ Top 11 Women Entrepreneurs and INC Magazine’s Top 10 Entrepreneurs Changing the World. Weaving in her expertise in somatics, the nervous system, and trauma into everything she does, Alexi has been one of the top Female Embodiment Coaches for 10-plus years.  Through her Bridge Experience Workshops, she supports students in expanding what’s possible through embodiment, and in her Awaken the Muse program, Alexi helps women worldwide reclaim their embodied feminine essence and unleash their aliveness. She is also the host of the Top 10 Self Improvement Podcast, “Unleashed.” Highlights from Michael and Alexi’s revealing conversation include: -The connection between our nervous system regulation and personal empowerment -What somatic principles and practices are, their benefits, and an example of one of the practices Alexi uses -How building their capacity for inner expansion and embodiment assisted Alexi and her husband, Preston Smiles, in renewing their marital relationship -How somatics supports Alexi’s entrepreneurship and trauma recovery; her go-to practice for restoring inner love; and way, way more! Next, Michael shares one of the breath practices he uses to connect within, leading to a guided meditation. Connect with Alexi here: https://alexi-panos-642e.mykajabi.com/; follow her on Instagram and Facebook; for information on Alexi and Preston’s The Bridge Experience workshops click here: https://thebridgemethod.org/; and for women who want to Master the Art of Receiving, sign up for Alexi’s free masterclass here: https://www.awakenthemuse.com/receive. Remember to subscribe/follow and set an alert to receive notifications each Wednesday when new episodes are available! If you are inspired by the Take Back Your Mind podcast, please share it with your friends and family, and give us a 5-star rating! Connect with Michael at his newly-redesigned website – https://michaelbeckwith.com/ – and receive his guided meditation, “Raise Your Vibration and Be Untouchable” when you sign up to receive occasional updates from Michael!  You can also connect with him at https://agapelive.com/. Facebook: @Michael.B.Beckwith https://www.facebook.com/Michael.B.Beckwith IG: @michaelbbeckwith https://www.instagram.com/michaelbbeckwith/ X:  @drmichaelbb https://twitter.com/drmichaelbb YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqMWuqEKXLY4m60gNDsw61w And as always, deep gratitude to the sponsors of the Take Back Your Mind with Michael B. Beckwith podcast: the Agape International Spiritual Center: https://agapelive.com/ and  NutriRise, makers of Michael’s AdaptoZen Superfood Greens Powder and Vitamin D3+K2 drops: https://nutririse.com/products/adaptozen-bundle and the new ELEVATE Mushroom Complex: https://nutririse.com/products/elevate-mushroom-complex and ELEVATE+: Organic Fermented Mushrooms: https://nutririse.com/products/elevate-fermented-mushrooms-powder.

This week’s Life Question asks, in a world that only seems to care about gaining power over others through control and manipulation, how does one adhere to the tenet that love is the answer and still be powerful and successful?  For practical spiritual insight and encouragement around your relationships, finances, life purpose, or understanding world events, submit your Life Question of The Week to podcast@michaelbeckwith.com and it may be featured in an upcoming episode! Remember to subscribe/follow and set an alert to receive notifications each Friday when new episodes are available! If you are inspired by the Take Back Your Mind podcast, please share it with your friends and family, and give us a 5-star rating! Connect with Michael at his new website – https://michaelbeckwith.com/ – and receive his guided meditation, “Raise Your Vibration and Be Untouchable” when you sign up to receive occasional updates from Michael!  You can also connect with him at https://agapelive.com/. Facebook: @Michael.B.Beckwith https://www.facebook.com/Michael.B.Beckwith IG: @michaelbbeckwith https://www.instagram.com/michaelbbeckwith/ X:  @drmichaelbb https://twitter.com/drmichaelbb YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqMWuqEKXLY4m60gNDsw61w And as always, deep gratitude to the sponsors of the Take Back Your Mind with Michael B. Beckwith podcast: the Agape International Spiritual Center: https://agapelive.com/ and NutriRise, makers of Michael’s AdaptoZen Superfood Greens Powder and Vitamin D3+K2 drops: https://nutririse.com/products/adaptozen-bundle and the new ELEVATE Mushroom Complex: https://nutririse.com/products/elevate-mushroom-complex and ELEVATE+: Organic Fermented Mushrooms: https://nutririse.com/products/elevate-fermented-mushrooms-powder.

Today, Michael welcomes back Kimberly Snyder. Kimberly is a 3-time New York Times best-selling author, holistic wellness expert and nutritionist, international speaker, and meditation teacher. She is the founder of Solluna, a holistic lifestyle brand that offers supplements, meditations, courses, and the HeartAlign System and Meditation, and hosts the top-rated “Feel Good Podcast,” which covers all aspects of holistic wellness. Her latest book, out now, is The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts: Empower Your Thoughts, Balance Your Emotions, and Unlock Vibrant Health and Abundance.  Brief highlights from Kimberly and Michael’s conversation include: –What the Five Hearts are–the Dark Heart, the Propelled Heart, the Steady Heart, the Devoted Heart, and the Clear Heart–and why they’re important –How our Heart Intelligence and Heart Coherence affect our physical health, energy, vitality, emotional well-being, abundance, and success –Why the heart is the “second brain” (or perhaps the ‘first brain’) and the science behind that –The maladaptive ways society has taught us to cope with stress and why it’s unnatural for us to be so stressed all of the time –Kimberly’s work with the HeartMath Institute and how it changed her life; the research and tools Kimberly’s book offers to anchor us through the big emotions quickly; the HeartAlign Meditation Kimberly leads us through—and a lot more! Next, Michael concludes with a brief guided meditation. Get your copy of The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts, watch the Feel Good Podcast, and connect with Kimberly at https://mysolluna.com/ and on Instagram. Subscribe or follow and set an alert to receive notifications each Wednesday when new episodes are available! Connect with Michael at his new website – https://michaelbeckwith.com/ – and receive his guided meditation, “Raise Your Vibration and Be Untouchable” when you sign up to receive occasional updates from Michael!  You can also connect with him at https://agapelive.com/. Facebook: @Michael.B.Beckwith https://www.facebook.com/Michael.B.Beckwith IG: @michaelbbeckwith https://www.instagram.com/michaelbbeckwith/ X:  @drmichaelbb https://twitter.com/drmichaelbb YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqMWuqEKXLY4m60gNDsw61w And as always, deep gratitude to the sponsors of the Take Back Your Mind with Michael B. Beckwith podcast: the Agape International Spiritual Center: https://agapelive.com/ and  NutriRise, makers of Michael’s AdaptoZen Superfood Greens Powder and Vitamin D3+K2 drops: https://nutririse.com/products/adaptozen-bundle and the new ELEVATE Mushroom Complex: https://nutririse.com/products/elevate-mushroom-complex and ELEVATE+: Organic Fermented Mushrooms: https://nutririse.com/products/elevate-fermented-mushrooms-powder.

How do we align our thoughts and emotions? Find out on today’s Life Question of the Week!  For practical spiritual insight and encouragement around your relationships, finances, life purpose, or understanding of world events, submit your Life Question of The Week to podcast@michaelbeckwith.com and it may be featured in an upcoming episode! Remember to subscribe/follow and set an alert to receive notifications each Friday when new episodes are available! If you are inspired by the Take Back Your Mind podcast, please share it with your friends and family, and give us a 5-star rating! Connect with Michael at his new website – https://michaelbeckwith.com/ – and receive his guided meditation, “Raise Your Vibration and Be Untouchable” when you sign up to receive occasional updates from Michael!  You can also connect with him at https://agapelive.com/. Facebook: @Michael.B.Beckwith https://www.facebook.com/Michael.B.Beckwith IG: @michaelbbeckwith https://www.instagram.com/michaelbbeckwith/ X:  @drmichaelbb https://twitter.com/drmichaelbb YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqMWuqEKXLY4m60gNDsw61w

Today, Michael welcomes certified intuitive healer, Akashic Records Practitioner and Teacher, and transformation expert, Dr. Josephine Hardman. In 2017, Josephine left a successful career in academia teaching English Literature to do spiritual work full-time. Her life's mission is to help healers, coaches, and spiritual practitioners heal themselves so they can do their most aligned, most impactful, highest-level work with their clients.  Josephine uses a range of tools including deep self-inquiry, Psychosynthesis, Matrix Energetics, and—primarily—the Akashic Records. She also hosts the weekly podcast “Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast” in which Michael was a guest.  Highlights from Michael and Josephine’s deep-dive conversation include: -Josephine’s career transition and decision to follow her soul's calling to do spiritual work full-time, and the challenges she had along the way  -What the Akashic Records are, how anyone access them, and how they support the healing and evolution of individuals and humanity as a whole -How Josephine uses the Akashic Records in her life and for her business, and how working with them can benefit teams and groups like staff employees, organizations, and even countries -Josephine’s Inner Work Podcast; her free Akashic Records Mini Course (see link below); and so, so much more! Next, Michael leads a brief guided meditation. Catch up with Josephine and sign up for your Free Akashic Mini Course at https://josephinehardman.com/, check out her Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast here https://josephinehardman.com/category/podcast/ and follow her on Instagram.  Remember to subscribe/follow and set an alert to receive notifications each Wednesday when new episodes are available! If you are inspired by the Take Back Your Mind podcast, please share it with your friends and family, and give us a 5-star rating! Connect with Michael at his new website – https://michaelbeckwith.com/ – and receive his guided meditation, “Raise Your Vibration and Be Untouchable” when you sign up to receive occasional updates from Michael! You can also connect with him at https://agapelive.com/. Facebook: @Michael.B.Beckwith https://www.facebook.com/Michael.B.Beckwith IG: @michaelbbeckwith https://www.instagram.com/michaelbbeckwith/ X:  @drmichaelbb https://twitter.com/drmichaelbb YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqMWuqEKXLY4m60gNDsw61w And as always, deep gratitude to the sponsors of the Take Back Your Mind with Michael B. Beckwith podcast: the Agape International Spiritual Center: https://agapelive.com/ and  NutriRise, makers of Michael’s AdaptoZen Superfood Greens Powder and Vitamin D3+K2 drops: https://nutririse.com/products/adaptozen-bundle and the new ELEVATE Mushroom Complex: https://nutririse.com/products/elevate-mushroom-complex and ELEVATE+: Organic Fermented Mushrooms: https://nutririse.com/products/elevate-fermented-mushrooms-powder.

Today’s Life Question comes from someone who has been experiencing major depression and wants to overcome their suicidal thoughts.   **If you are experiencing a mental or emotional crisis, help is available. Contact 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at https://988lifeline.org/ or dial or text 988.**   If you need prayer, contact the Agape Prayer Ministry at (310) 348-1270 or email, prayer@agapelive.com.   For spiritual counseling with an Agape Licensed Spiritual Practitioner, visit https://www.agapepractitioners.com/ or email praccore@agapelive.com.  For practical spiritual insight and encouragement around your relationships, finances, life purpose, or in understanding world events, submit your Life Question of The Week to podcast@michaelbeckwith.com and it may be featured in an upcoming episode! Remember to subscribe/follow and set an alert to receive notifications each Friday when new episodes are available! If you are inspired by the Take Back Your Mind podcast, please share it with your friends and family, and give us a 5-star rating! Connect with Michael at his new website – https://michaelbeckwith.com/ – and receive his guided meditation, “Raise Your Vibration and Be Untouchable” when you sign up to receive occasional updates from Michael!  You can also connect with him at https://agapelive.com/. Facebook: @Michael.B.Beckwith https://www.facebook.com/Michael.B.Beckwith IG: @michaelbbeckwith https://www.instagram.com/michaelbbeckwith/ X:  @drmichaelbb https://twitter.com/drmichaelbb YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqMWuqEKXLY4m60gNDsw61w

Today, Michael welcomes Henry Shukman. Henry is a poet, author, Zen master in the Sanbo Zen lineage, and is the Spiritual Director Emeritus of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His new book, “Original Love: The Four Inns on the Path of Awakening,” about his unique approach to the path of meditation and spiritual awakening, is out now. Henry also created “The Way,” a new, first-of-its-kind meditation app that offers a single, long-term path into the deep end of meditation. Highlights from their conversation include: -Henry’s childhood growing up in a climate of secrecy then learning later that his parents were Cold War spies -How Zen meditation allowed Henry to transcend his pain, trauma, and depression and regularly access a profound sense of oneness and love  -How awakenings from meditation don’t always come as some “big cosmic phenomena,” but rather in small shifts that happen over time until you realize you’ve grown and healed  -Henry’s recent bicycle accident and concussion that made him focus more on his heart because “being in his head” literally hurt too much, and how staying open-hearted is the way to being whole-hearted -The powerful effect of community on healing; the main tenets of his new book, “Original Love” and the ‘Four Inns’ of awakening; his highly-rated new meditation app, The Way; and a whole lot more! Next, Michael concludes with a brief guided meditation.  Connect with Henry, discover his meditation app The Way, and get a free excerpt from his new book, “Original Love” at https://henryshukman.com/ and follow him on Instagram.      Remember to subscribe/follow and set an alert to receive notifications each Wednesday when new episodes are available! If you are inspired by the Take Back Your Mind podcast, please share it with your friends and family, and give us a 5-star rating! Connect with Michael at his new website – https://michaelbeckwith.com/ – and receive his guided meditation, “Raise Your Vibration and Be Untouchable” when you sign up to receive occasional updates from Michael! You can also connect with him at https://agapelive.com/.  Facebook: @Michael.B.Beckwith https://www.facebook.com/Michael.B.Beckwith IG: @michaelbbeckwith https://www.instagram.com/michaelbbeckwith/ X:  @drmichaelbb https://twitter.com/drmichaelbb YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqMWuqEKXLY4m60gNDsw61w And as always, deep gratitude to the sponsors of the Take Back Your Mind with Michael B. Beckwith podcast: the Agape International Spiritual Center: https://agapelive.com/ and NutriRise, makers of Michael’s AdaptoZen Superfood Greens Powder and Vitamin D3+K2 drops: https://nutririse.com/products/adaptozen-bundle and the new ELEVATE Mushroom Complex: https://nutririse.com/products/elevate-mushroom-complex and ELEVATE+: Organic Fermented Mushrooms: https://nutririse.com/products/elevate-fermented-mushrooms-powder.