576 – Quieted in the Midst of Panic
Paralyzing panic that strikes at the root of the will to live is the subject of this conversation. Moving beyond it depends on what we relate to, and John explains.
566 – Unlocking Your Subconscious: The Healing of Your Self
Awakening can make you feel much worse. John explains why that is, and the profound goodness in what seems like chaos.
565 – Beneath Thought and Feeling: The Beingness of Love
Thoughts and old feelings seem to get in the way of the stillness and love this person knows in her heart. Can that be changed, and how?
557 – Dealing with a Difficult Person: Where do I Start?
John explains the misunderstanding that's at work when we're triggered by someone's difficult behaviour, and how quickly that experience can change.
555 – The Truth About Anger: What it Means to Have Real Self-Control
How can I be with painful feelings of anger and fear? John explains what's really happening in even the smallest experience of frustration and how to regain real control.
554 – Awakening to Your Source: The Key to True Happiness
The way that a tree moves through autumn and winter to flourish once more in springtime provides the key to how we can move consciously into the source of real and lasting happiness, within.
548 – Right Side Up: No Longer Taking Your Stress to Heart
The responsibilities that come with working in the world can feel stressful. Is there a way of moving more lightly in it all? John explains how it’s all dependent on what we belong to, within.
547 – Profound Honesty: Being Okay When You Don't Feel Okay
Shame, fear, anger … is it really possible to be okay in any circumstance, even when feeling attacked by others? There is transformative potential, and John explains.
539 – Living the Sweet Vulnerability of True Humanness
Presence and humanness: these two words are opening new depths of vulnerability and aliveness, but how can it be sustained in life, and why was it covered up?
537 – Living Your True Frequency in the Noise of Life
Continuous environmental noise has this person feeling distressed and longing for silence. John shows her how to let go of the fight and enter the intimacy that lies beneath.
528 – The Opening of Your Subconscious: An Internal Climate Change
John reveals the way in which a tiny bit of warmth, openness and softness can bring about inner transformation, even in the midst of an experience of disintegration and vulnerability.
519 – Your Awakening Gives to Existence
Could simply trusting in existence be the key to happiness and peace? Using an analogy from nature, John explains how easy it is draw a false conclusion about the source of awakening and realization.
“My sole purpose is to be, in life, what we are after we’ve died. Through openness and softness of heart and core-splitting honesty at any personal cost, I live as that while actualizing the same in others I meet. I am available as a resource for anyone who recognizes and values this way of being.”
– John de Ruiter
