CONVERSATIONS from the EDGE

In this conversation with Wisdom Channel Linda Lang, we dive into the truth that reality as we experience it is an illusion. There are many layers of this illusion, physicality & the material world itself, the many subjective beliefs and ideas we have an an individual that shift in an out of as we grow, and larger collective illusions like the “reality” of money and national/language-based worldview. The good news is that we don’t need to know the “true” nature of reality in order to transcend individual and collective illusions. Lots of tips and tricks to help you break through illusion in this episode! Plus, these juicy topics: When we believe that reality as we experience it is real, we conform our lives and viewpoints so this “reality” and limit ourselves based on this mis-perception. Humans are likely unable to understand the true nature of reality as the properties of reality would be so foreign to us, but we can still learn to break through the illusion that the “reality” we experience is actually true. It is human nature to get attached to the ideas and beliefs we have about reality, even though we have all let go of ideas and  beliefs in the past. What is possible if you let go of needing to make a new idea or belief “true”? Huge amounts of reality-based information is available in “the field” but our unconscious and conscious minds filter out everything that lies outside our expectations, tailor-making our reality based on what we believe. Softening expectations allows more reality-based information through. Needing to be “right is one of the most reality-limiting beliefs; the brain is designed to make you believe you are right so that you don’t get mired in indecision. How many times were you sure you were “right” but updated your  believe later? Understanding that being “right” is a brain survival strategy helps you soften the need to be right and become more open to what is true. Find all episodes & links at http://ConversationsFromTheEdge.NET   --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kristine-madera/support

You’ve probably heard the ideas “trust your feeling” but that means something very different from trusting your emotions. Feelings and emotions both give information and sensation. Feelings come from intuition and  awareness, and give you a current sense of what is happening and what you need to know in the present. Emotions come from learned opinions and judgments as well as subconscious conditioning and rise with an urgency for action or reaction based on learned triggers from the past. Yet, many people interpret “trust your feeling” as meaning “trust your emotions.” But following the actions and reaction of your emotions can get you into real trouble. In this conversation with Theta Healer Katie Kieffer, learn the critical difference between them and how to use them for a more wisdom-filled life. Plus, these juicy topics: Feelings are ever present, but quiet and you can best hear them when you learn to bring emotions into a state of neutrality. Emotions and thoughts are loud, urgent and compelling, and because they also trigger the body’s hormone and stress system. The information and call to action they give passes once the biochemical reaction fades, so acting on them often feels very good in the moment but often leads to further problems. As we evolve into higher vibrations. we will likely have more harmony between thoughts and emotions, because we will be less reactive and have less urgency and more calm with emotions. You can use healing emotions like compassion to repair the physical damage done by stress-based emotions. Practicing the yes/no guidance of feelings with relaxed things like what outfit to wear or what to have for breakfast can help you begin to recognize feelings and how they differ from emotions, thoughts and opinions. Be kind to yourself as you learn this, we’ve all been taught to ignore feelings and override them with opinions, logic and emotions. This is a new skillset that will serve you well in the emerging era. Find all episodes & links at http://ConversationsFromTheEdge.NET

From an early age we are taught to think our way through life, but thought is limited only to what we have learned, Our inner voice is our connection to our deep wisdom, fresh insight, awareness and true inspiration of something new. Learning how to access it is also the best way to discover new solutions to old problems that come from a higher state of consciousness. In this conversation with Dr. Jenn Phoenix Hatfield, we talk about how to create space to hear your inner voice, why thinking through problems is less effective than tapping into your inner voice, and why being triggered into emotional reactions totally drowns out the inner voice. Plus, these juicy topics: When you are thinking, your thoughts drown out your inner voice, and so spending time in activities that relax thought (like walking in nature) help you hear your inner voice. Thought tends to be logical and sequential in solving problems, where your inner voice tends to bring a complete awareness of what is possible. Space in both your inner world and your outer world set the stage for the inner spaciousness to hear your inner voice more easily. Scheduling time in your day or week for spaciousness or relaxed thought activities helps signal your body and mind that hearing your inner voice is a priority. Habitually listening to your inner voice helps you to re-create your life from higher awareness, which helps the groups, systems and society you are in re-create systems and relationships in this time where change has chosen us. Find all episodes & links at http://ConversationsFromTheEdge.NET  Support the show (https://kristinemadera.com/support-the-show/)

Your Inner Voice has all the insight, awareness and answers you need, if you know how to listen. Learn how in this episode with Dr Jenn Phoenix Hatfield

We’ve all been taught we have free will, but what happens when our personal free will is out of sync with our Soul’s free will? Whaaaaat, a Soul has free will? Of course! You can think of your body and physical self as part of your Soul sort of like a projected image of Soul energy. Since the Soul is timeless, the container of your whole story already exists, and you are living out that story moment by moment in time. You Soul’s free will created you and the container of your life, and it is the Soul level free will that bring you the situations and challenges that provide an opportunity to experience and expand. Your human free will can choose how to respond to what happens, but has little to do with orchestrating the situations for you to respond to. Whew! Plus, these juicy topics: Surrendering your personal free will to your Soul your Soul will orchestrate your most satisfying life, even if it looks different than your human self would imagine. Our human desires are often based on conditioned desires rather than Soul-level desires. When you operate in harmony with your Soul, life is much more flowing and less stressful than when you assert your will, especially if your will is out of sync with your Soul. A primary use of human free will is in how you respond to the situations that arise. Most of life is outside our influence or control, but our response is always within our direct influence and control. A tendency of humans is to assume that God or the Universe wants for you what you want for you, rather than practice the more challenging but more satisfying path of surrender. Surrender is generally the opposite of the “go out and get what you want” that we’ve been taught, but both Katie and Kristine and many others have found that when they pursue the path of achievement, they operate in disharmony with their Soul. Find all episodes & links at http://ConversationsFromTheEdge.NET  Support the show (https://kristinemadera.com/support-the-show/)

Trigger alert! Emotional triggers are everywhere these days. It’s human nature to lash out at the cause of a trigger, especially if it feels socially justified. But triggers are information. They tell you where you have raw emotional wounds or stories/ideas you hold about yourself or others that, when challenged, feel like your emotional survival is threatened.  In this conversation with Dr. Jenn Phoenix Hatfield, we talk about how to identify triggers, how to choose your response and several methods you can use to de-escalate in the moment, dismantle your triggers and heal the cause of raw emotional wounds.  Plus, these juicy topics: When you work through a trauma or emotional trigger you are better able to gain perspective, understanding, deeper peace and even see what responsibility you have in a relationship or situation. Triggers are a spotlight of what to look at when you want to make changes in your life even if the situation or trigger seems to have nothing to do with the change you want to make. Often issues are connected at deep subconscious levels. Currently many triggers are collective issues (justice, race, economics, etc) rather than personal and when you are triggered this way, looking at the story you are telling around the issue will help you find the deep emotional triggers related to them. Several strategies to help identify, dismantle and re-pattern the body/brain neurology around triggers Find all episodes & links at http://ConversationsFromTheEdge.NET  Support the show (https://kristinemadera.com/support-the-show/)

Trigger Alert! Learn how to identify your emotional triggers, how to choose your response and how to dismantle your own triggers in this episode with Dr Jenn Phoenix Hatfield

Your life & body are set in motion though your Soul’s free will. So how does YOUR free will fit on? Find out in this episode with Katie Kieffer!

Energies and ideas are expanding in a wave of what looks like rapid social change, but lasting change comes from shifting the emotional energy around a new idea, not from the idea itself. When you protest or work for social change in any way, the emotional you bring to the activity (and how you respond to any counter-activity) is the energy you are anchoring expanding. Attending to your own emotional experience and reactions is a key part of the process of effective social change.  Plus, these juicy topics: Many people are more effective at working the underlying energy structure of change from the emotional and energetic level. This may look passive, but it is critical and help build a new emotional and energetic structure to support the emerging change. One shift  you can make now is to choose the core value you would like to anchor into the world and begin to align your life with this value and the emotional resonance of this value. Anger is a great catalyst for change, but unless you use it to anchor in a higher level energy, all you are doing is adding to the anger in the world.  When you choose to operate from higher level consciousness you step into greater personal power as well as greater responsibility for your life and your choices. Many people don’t want this level of personal responsibility–do you?  Find all episodes & links at http://ConversationsFromTheEdge.NET  Support the show (https://kristinemadera.com/support-the-show/)

Lasting change comes from shifting your emotional energy around a new idea, not from the idea itself.

Eloheim shares the key personal energetic changes we can make to support profound social change

In this conversations with Veronica Torres and Eloheim, one of the beings she channels, Eloheim shares several key shifts we can make personally to support the social change movements unfolding in the world at this time. Eloheim also reminds us about the difference between operating from personality and operating from awareness, and that all our problems are problems that stem from the survival focus of personality. The greatest gift you can give to the planet is to heal your personality and shift toward awareness, because solutions based in possibility don't come from personality. Plus these juicy topics: How personality is the interaction with life based in limitation and control, while awareness is the unlimited self that is part of all possibility. Awareness is always present, but only accessible when we surrender personality moment by moment. Personality can not know what awareness is, and you can't experience awareness from personality. How "We Are One" is experienced from personality and awareness: Personality sees "we are one" as jeopardy and the need to give up something or give all you have to another. Awareness sees that we are all made from the same subatomic particles in different forms, and sees "me" as a non-ending entity interacting and sharing an experience with the various forms made up by subatomic particles. From awareness, the social justice movements are best supported by continually surrendering into awareness and acting from choiceless choice, of letting go of specific outcomes (which come from personality) then being present together in conversation, collaboration and cooperation to find out path in the unfolding awareness. That you can't change your life or the world without changing yourself and making small, simple changes like rearranging your furniture or a cupboard can help create personal neuroplasticity to embrace changes in the external world. The more each person can increase their personal neuroplasticity the more it supports our collective neuroplasticity and willingness to embrace change. Find all episodes & links at http://ConversationsFromTheEdge.NET  Support the show (https://kristinemadera.com/support-the-show/)

Uncertainty is a great creative force; Learn to us it along with your "Big" Self & "Big" Time to re-create your life!

Right now the talk is all about going “back” to normal (which is, uh, not going to happen) or creating  “new” normal–but how can you create something that you can’t yet imagine, especially in a period of uncertainty that may last for years? In this conversation with Coach and Energy Healer Michė Meizner, we explore the skills we need to create from the unknown, how to navigate using the awareness of the Higher “Big” Self and in the Expansive “Big” now, and how to enjoy the process.  Plus, these juicy topics: The part of “you” that creates your life isn’t the ego or personality, or even your lofty spiritual intentions. It is the larger you that holds the timeless container of your life as you move through it in time. We talk about how to surrender to this timeless higher intelligence and let it guide you through moment-by-moment time. How to use what you would life like to feel like as part of the creative force to guide your life forward into the new normal. Chaos and uncertainty are a much more creative force than the autopilot of “normal” and people who have clarity about what they want in life and how they want life to feel are best able to harness the creativity of uncertainty. The creative moment of NOW takes care of itself, and we our our ideas about how things are supposed to go and the actions we take to try to make what we want to happen, happen, cause interference and get in the way of our higher creative self.  PLUS, Michė shares her process of staying present in the now, focused on self-love and reducing stress as a way to stay in the creative now. Kristine shares her focus on individual and collective well-being as a core value in re-imagining what her life and our collective reality could be in an emerging new normal. Find all episodes & links at http://ConversationsFromTheEdge.NET  Support the show (https://kristinemadera.com/support-the-show/)

Painful emotions like despair, grief and worthlessness are both impersonal because they are part of the human condition, and personal in our experience of them. Learn how to transcend both in this podcast episode.

What's the point? was the despairing feeling that plagued Energy Healer Miché Meizner as she fell asleep each night, despite having a great life. The experience of despair,  dissatisfaction and of feeling that no matter what you do it will never be enough is "up" for lots of people these days. These emotions, as well as "not enoughness" in all forms, feeling like a victim and other common core wounds are part of the human condition at this point in our evolution. In this way they are impersonal, because we all experience them. They are also highly personal because, we each attach our personal story and experience to them when they rise in us. When we learn to allow the emotional experience without getting lost in our personal story, we release the emotion for ourselves as well as humanity.  Plus, these juicy topics: Emotional waves of collective energy are flowing through everyone right now, as part of our collective transformation. Recognizing the impersonal nature of this experience makes it easier to let go of the stories you normally attach to particular emotions. When emotions rise, the tendency is to look for the "cause" but often they arise simply because there is space for them, not a cause. This is an opportunity to experience the emotion without a story and transcend it for yourself and our global community. When we can transform our core human emotional wounds we are better able to re-imagine a society free from the old stories and structures that keep us re-living our collective and individual wounds. You can become addicted to your emotions and the stress hormones they trigger as a way to give yourself "energy" to power you through your day, when in reality you are taxing your health and depressing immune function. Discover several strategies for releasing emotions that work for both the experience of impersonal and personalized emotions and core wounds. When you name or define an experience, you implicitly attach a story or expectation to it that limits the experience in some way. If you allow yourself to have an experience without naming it, you are more open to the possibility available in that experience. Find all episodes & links at http://ConversationsFromTheEdge.NET  Support the show (https://kristinemadera.com/support-the-show/)

Find out what prayer really is, and how it can (consciously or unconsciously) interfere with the Universal Law of free will--harming both the pray-er and the person being prayed for.

Prayer is powerful! It combines the Universal Law of Vibration and the Universal Law of Focus together into a power-packed vision, request or intention. But when we use the power of prayer in a way that infringes on someone else's life, desires health, etc. without their request or permission, then it violates the Universal Law of Free Will.  Those of us that were brought up with prayer were taught that it is always a force for good, but even if your intentions seem good, you can commit prayer malpractice if you use prayer in certain ways. Plus, these juicy topics: How violating the law of free will creates karma or cause and effect in the moment and potentially much longer, and how that cause and effect might show  up.   Prayer is the vibration you radiate in each moment and not just those thoughts or intentions you consciously direct in what we think of as prayer.  How to cultivate the vibrations you want to "pray"  in intentional moments so that you are consistent in your communication with the divine.  How you can pray in ways that do not violate free will, even if you don't have someone's express permission. How prayer supports or interferes with personal sovereignty and ways to amplify your personal sovereignty and authority in ways that align with Universal Law. Find all the CONVERSATIONS from the EDGE episodes on your favorite podcast venue & in this link, where you’ll also get bios, contact and bonus links http://ConversationsFromTheEdge.NET  Support the show (https://kristinemadera.com/support-the-show/)

Your Soul desires experience that expands you. Learn how to do this without disrupting your Zen in this episode.

Your Soul craves experience ~ and has this experience through you! You can think of your Soul as an adventurer that created a body to express this adventure. In this conversation with Theta Healer Katie Kieffer, we dive into how to let your Soul flow through you and give it the experience it desires. ***Please excuse the wonky sound in places; with everyone on Zoom, it messes with the sound. Thanks!*** Plus, these juicy topics: The difference between what the Soul and the body experience and how these two interact in your life. The powerful experience of allowing your Soul to express through you without the filter of human suppression and how to allow this experience. A distinction between becoming comfortable with the discomfort of change and getting comfortable with uncomfortable conditioned emotions as a strategy of avoiding change. The benefit of allowing yourself to have energetic and emotional experiences as a way to expand your energetic capacity--and how that helps you becoming whole. The benefit of breaking the rules and how to decide how and which rules to break--and why. How to understand experience from Soul perspective without the human aspects of judgment, aversion or attachment. Companion meditation: Expand into Wholeness Find all CONVERSATIONS from the EDGE, as well as bios & bonus links at http://ConversationsFromTheEdge.NET Support the show (https://kristinemadera.com/support-the-show/)