Ramdev teaches us how to adjust our practice and be a warrior of compassion during times of intense political change.

This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explores:

• Non-aggressively confronting injustice
• Recognizing when we are distracted
• Not running away from feelings that are challenging
• Operating from love rather than being reactive
• Reclaiming the brain and taking responsibility for our emotions
• Devouring suffering with compassion
• How the depth of one’s mindfulness determines the depth of one’s compassion
• Remembering our universal connection and that we are all suffering
• Offering self-compassion and treating ourselves generously
• Learning to meet our edge as a path to enlightenment
• Looking into the big unknown and the next four years

“As long as we’re blaming the environment for how we’re feeling (I’m feeling really lousy because of the election, or there’s too much traffic, or the weather isn’t great), healing isn’t happening. Drive all blames into oneself means you reclaim the blame and take responsibility for how you’re feeling. The election is not making you feel a particular way, your set of conditioning in relationship to the election is creating certain emotions in you.” – RamDev

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Explaining relationships as the perfect environment to grow in our practice, Ramdev offers heart-opening wisdom.

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This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses:

• Being in the sea of humanity and all the ways we relate to others
• Relationships as a mirror for how our practice is going
• Lessening one’s self-absorption
• How fear, guilt, and shame make it difficult to be in relationship
• Keeping our hearts open despite the chaos of the world
• Being with our feelings and not getting lost in the story
• Acknowledging when we are running away
• Using relationships to work on our spiritual growth
• Meeting the messiness of the human condition
• Seeing the love within each person

“Instead of relationship being only about comfort and enjoyment, and resenting it when it’s not there, use it as the crucible of practice. Use it as the place that is revealing to you where your heart is closing. When your heart is closing to somebody else, really it’s about not loving yourself. If you can love yourself completely, then you can be with everybody.” – RamDev

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Sharing stories of Maharaj-ji, RamDev discusses living a life of service and remembering that God, guru, and self are one.

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In this episode of the Healing at the Edge podcast, RamDev holds a talk on:

• Worshiping God in every form and through every person
• The guru as the one who brings you to God
• God, guru, and self as one
• Love and awareness as the path to the guru
• The struggle of having blind faith in God
• Lessons on money and truth
• The Tantric teachings of Maharaj-ji
• Sacrificing thought and turning our minds to God
• Similarities between Maharaj-ji and Christ
• Maharaj-ji’s encouragement to do mantra practice
• The sense of pure consciousness that is always there

“Ram Dass actually summarized all of Maharaj-ji’s teachings in three words: love, serve, remember. Love people, serve people, remember God.” – RamDev

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