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A Spiritual Take on Broken Hearts and Unrequited Love
From Chris Curran | Part of the The Mystic Show series | 36:30
On the human level, feeling like your heart is broken is very upsetting. We’ve all been there to some degree. It IS a real experience, and perhaps it’s actually a blessing to go through it.
Some of what Chris says is logical and your mind will understand logically, but your emotions may absolutely not accept it.
Here’s the definition of unrequited: (of a feeling, especially love) not returned or reciprocated.
“Expect not, for thou shalt be disappointed.” If you’re expecting something back it’s not love – it’s a transaction. Does the sun ever say, “You know, after sustaining you humans for millions of years, you have given me nothing back, so now I’m gonna shut myself down?” A person feels a broken heart due to selfish desire (ego).
To step back and make an important distinction: Worldly love is not love, it is affection. It is natural to feel the need for human companionship, in the form of a mate, a family, friends, etc.
Marriage today is almost always a transaction between two people. “If I’m not receiving what I believe is owed to me, I’m gone.” Modern humans are spiritual weaklings – not able to follow through on what their heart knows is right. A broken heart is when we mistake carnal love for divine love, and fool ourselves into thinking that because our 5 senses and our desires are satisfied by a significant other for a while, that means it’s true love.
Perspective: Everything has it’s place in life, but when we give undue importance to things that are relatively less important, we end up disappointed.
Now on the other hand, divine love, spiritual love is eternal, it is always flowing in us, around us and through us. And something happens when you focus on divine love, and begin to find it inside yourself after some period of meditation and spiritual practice – the fleetingness of carnal love is understood. Big picture – this lifetime for you is but a blink in relation to your existence.
Remember, this show is all about you going beyond what you currently believe and understand about spirituality.
Logically, how do you know it’s not a blessing to lose that relationship? If you’re truthful, you’ll admit that you don’t know. Nature gives us the situations we NEED to grow spiritually. Pain is something we have to learn to handle – by looking beyond it!
If you truly love someone, beyond the ego level of desire and fear, you may feel their absence occasionally but when you remember them you won’t have any emotional effect. LOVE = no expectation, no idea of I or mine, no fear of loss and no concept of loss or gain.
How to Avoid Worry and Anxiety so They Don’t Impede Your Spiritual Progress
From Chris Curran | Part of the The Mystic Show series | 42:12
Life is wonderful, but inevitably our physical and mental faculties degrade. That’s why it’s SO important to practice meditation while we still have the ability and energy to do it.
The Insight Timer app may help you become more regular in your meditation practice.
Getting Things Done – the book Chris just started reading. It’s not a spiritual book per se but indirectly it can help your spiritual progress a lot. Basically the general idea is that when you get all of the ideas and tasks out of your head and into a reliable collection system, then you won’t spend extra energy thinking (worrying) about them. The reason is because when you KNOW that all your to-do’s are in a 100% reliable system, you can relax (your mind mostly). Then you’ll be able to live from a stress-free state and get more done in every area of your life.
The difference between sensual/emotional happiness and spiritual happiness.
The article titled 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy, According to Neuroscience, from TIME.
Helping others – you can only do so much. If they have to go through something difficult, you can’t remove that obstacle for them, and if you do then nature will put a different obstacle in front of them. We can support others best by being present and listening. Maybe the most effective and available way of helping others is to pray that they be relieved of their stress, worry and anxiety. And that God will do with them as He will.
The story, No Mind, No Mirror
How to Avoid Worry and Anxiety so They Don’t Impede Your Spiritual Progress
From Chris Curran | Part of the The Mystic Show series | 42:12
Life is wonderful, but inevitably our physical and mental faculties degrade. That’s why it’s SO important to practice meditation while we still have the ability and energy to do it.
The Insight Timer app may help you become more regular in your meditation practice.
Getting Things Done – the book Chris just started reading. It’s not a spiritual book per se but indirectly it can help your spiritual progress a lot. Basically the general idea is that when you get all of the ideas and tasks out of your head and into a reliable collection system, then you won’t spend extra energy thinking (worrying) about them. The reason is because when you KNOW that all your to-do’s are in a 100% reliable system, you can relax (your mind mostly). Then you’ll be able to live from a stress-free state and get more done in every area of your life.
The difference between sensual/emotional happiness and spiritual happiness.
The article titled 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy, According to Neuroscience, from TIME.
Helping others – you can only do so much. If they have to go through something difficult, you can’t remove that obstacle for them, and if you do then nature will put a different obstacle in front of them. We can support others best by being present and listening. Maybe the most effective and available way of helping others is to pray that they be relieved of their stress, worry and anxiety. And that God will do with them as He will.
The story, No Mind, No Mirror
Australian Chickens and Unscrambled Armies
From Chris Curran | Part of the Social Media Unscrambled series | 44:11
Welcome to the return of Social Media Unscrambled! We show you how to use social media effectively. Not only are we talking about social media, we are building a community called The Unscrambled Army where we will all help each other use social media effectively.
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Amber Osborne, aka Miss Destructo, shared on Facebook a story about an Australian fast food restaurant that is using a chicken pecking on a keyboard to compose tweets. The results were hilarious and are worth checking out: https://twitter.com/ChickenTreat …enjoy
Chris Curran then talked about how he used TribeBoost to actually generate a high quality lead for his business – a business author and former Disney executive. TribeBoost had connected with the woman on Twitter on behalf of Chris, so she followed Chris back, then checked out his website and called him! How cool is that? Also, David offered the following tip: DON’T SEND AUTO DIRECT MESSAGES ON TWITTER! They are annoying. Just don’t do it.
Chris followed-up with an interesting story about how he is getting involved in voice-overs in part because of his amazing audio equipment. He signed up for a webinar based on his contacts’ referral (Jared Easley). Chris enjoyed the webinar presentation but forgot the woman’s name (which, it turns out, is Carrie Olsen), at which point David made the declaration that “Nobody cares about you.” Chris remembered the content from the webinar, not who delivered it. So when we go on social media, we have to remember that nobody cares about us and we should keep our audience in mind.
After a series of weird transitions, David spoke about the stupid girl in Florida who used Periscope to boast about her drunk driving (LIVE while she was doing it) and was later arrested. Note to friends: DON’T BOAST ABOUT DRUNK DRIVING ON SOCIAL MEDIA EVER!
About 20 years ago Chris Curran was working as a music engineer in NYC. One studio where he worked, Soundtrack NY, became like family but everyone lost touch. Recently he got re-friended on Facebook by someone at the studio who began organizing a reunion party! After being added to a Facebook group to discuss the reunion, Chris got so many notifications that he turned off the notifications, and sadly and mistakenly keeps forgetting to check that group discussion. Deep question: How to minimize notifications but not lose track of the discussion?…?
David also belongs to a bunch of Facebook groups including the Social Media Managers group. Recently David got onto a thread where a woman insisted that LinkedIn was useless. After a bit of back and forth David ended the conversation with the idiotic woman. But then, a woman from New Zealand, Jenny Wilmshurst (He said Willburn on the episode, sorry!!!) actually jumped into the argument on David’s behalf. David and Jenny later had a few Skype conversations and began exploring ways to work together.
Chris then talked about how he is looking to expand his national Meetup group (Pause Your Life) from 3 cities to many more. Apparently Meetup is slowly rolling out “Meetup Pro” which allows an organizer to have unlimited Meetups groups as well as advanced communication tools. It is for far more flexibility, although for businesses it costs a fair bit ($35/month/group). Interesting inside scoop!
Then Chris mentioned a community radio station in Colorado Springs (KCMJ) where he will be volunteering a bit. He may even host a local live show there. He is also going to meet the volunteers who are managing the stations social media accounts and see what magic they are performing using social media. David chimed in and wanted to know if terrestrial radio relevant.
David smoothly transitioned to talk about his friend, a Los Angeles-based attorney named Gregory Rutchik, posted on Facebook about a recent complex transaction he executed for a family office. (A family office is a company which is exclusively designed to preserve the wealth of very wealthy families.) David called Gregory out of the blue and offered to connect him with some people he knew who also work with family offices. This led to more conversations and Gregory ended up sending two good leads to David in return. So it goes to show you that giving first is the best way to use social media, and that paying attention to what other people say on social can benefit them and you.