Episode 25: Thoughts For The Inner Journey Inner Journey With Dr. Saliha Afridi podcast

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You are feeling painful, difficult, and scary feelings. I want you to close your eyes and see the emotion inside you and then take a deep breath and I want you to expand all the space around it. Breathe in through nose and out through the mouth. Imagine that space growing with every breath. So the emotion stays the same but you expand. Make room for the emotion(s). Expand. You are not your emotions. You have emotions. You are vast. Your spirit indestructible. I know you don’t like these feelings, I don’t like these feelings too. They feel so painful and they feel they are breaking you, but if your heart is capable of feeling them, then you are strong enough to bear them. Soften into the feeling. You can cry… sob… just keep softening with your breath…stay soft.. It’s ok… let your heart break. I promise, it won’t break down. That’s the thing with hearts… the more the break… the bigger and stronger they get… the only way to a resilient heart is to let it feel and let it break.…

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Episode 31: What is Self-Love? 1:00:20

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One of the most complicated relationship we have is the relationship to ourselves and then we wonder why we struggle in our relationship to others…if we can’t even be with ourselves, how and why do we expect others to? Why self-love- you make the world a better place and free the people in your lives when you love yourself. What is *not self-love (hint… it is not selfish) What is self-love…as I see it, it has 5 aspects self-awareness, self-discipline, self-care, self-compassion, self-acceptance. What you can do to cultivate love- cultivate self-awareness, be honest with yourself … for that you will need to learn self-soothing, and be compassionate with yourself… meaning hold your self to the highest standards but support yourself as you make mistakes along the way… Ps. Once… it’s a mistake … twice it’s a mistake… but 3 times it’s a pattern. If you keep making the same mistakes again and again… then you need to understand why and make efforts to change that.…

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Episode 30: Purpose and Passion 1:01:29

2 years ago1:01:29

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So much talk about purpose and passion. What if I work and it isn’t my passion but it feeds my family? How do I find my purpose? Why are relationships so confusing these days? How do I get rid of my anger? how to sit with difficult feelings… I share my experience of sitting with regret. (Yes I cried and yes I am very ok with crying) how do I make my child less angry ? How do I get out of my comfort zone?…

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Episode 29: Trauma part 2 56:14

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Trauma is anything that overwhelms our capacity to cope. It can negatively impact the brain and nervous system. But you also have the power to heal the impact of trauma. Body Emotions Thoughts All need to be part of the treatment and healing of trauma in the mind/body.

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Episode 28: Talking about friendships / relationships 58:42

2 years ago58:42

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This episode is for parents and children but really for all people who want to know what it takes to have healthy relationships in today's world. The skills needed for healthy adult relationships are cultivated in childhood… but even as adults you can start cultivating some of these skills if you struggle with relationships.…

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Episode 27: Relationships Part 1 1:03:48

2 years ago1:03:48

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Relationships are not easy, and they are not always painful or difficult either. In this episode I talk about how something’s that we hear and see can really mess up our ideas about what a ‘perfect relationship’ is and what can we expect from a long-term relationship.

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Episode 26: Integrating our Anger/Aggressive Instinct 51:51

2 years ago51:51

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Integrating our anger/aggressive instinct does not mean you act aggressively- on the contrary, people who have worked on and are working on integrating their anger are often the most assertive, kind, confident, honest, and courageous people you will meet.

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Episode 25: Thoughts For the Inner Journey 58:41

2 years ago58:41

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Healing journey / therapy journey/ inner work/ psychospiritual development / self-awareness … Call it what you want… here I share a few thoughts from having walked the path with people as well as walking my own path over the last 18 years… Things to keep in mind … what you may encounter on the path… what you may need to make the journey/experience safer ……

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Episode 24: What is 'self-love'? 57:50

2 years ago57:50

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One of the most complicated relationship we have is the relationship to ourselves and then we wonder why we struggle in our relationship to others…if we can’t even be with ourselves, how and why do we expect others to? Why self-love- you make the world a better place and free the people in your lives when you love yourself. What is *not self-love (hint… it is not selfish) What is self-love…as I see it, it has 5 aspects self-awareness, self-discipline, self-care, self-compassion, self-acceptance What you can do to cultivate love- cultivate self-awareness, be honest with yourself … for that you will need to learn self-soothing, and be compassionate with yourself… meaning hold your self to the highest standards but support yourself as you make mistakes along the way… Ps. Once… it’s a mistake … twice it’s a mistake… but 3 times it’s a pattern. If you keep making the same mistakes again and again… then you need to understand why and make efforts to change that.…

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Episode 23: Generosity 1:04:42

2 years ago1:04:42

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What does it mean to have generosity of spirit and having greatness of spirit? What can you give/be generous with? You are a custodian of everything you have/nothing you have belongs to you (time/money/love/belongings/talent/education) What is *not generosity? If you expect anything in return- you have lost the benefits of that -do it for your karmic account /God/Higher self account How can you BEcome more generous? you are what you repeatedly do - do generosity to be generous I also answered some questions about “boundaries” and “toxic generosity” (not sure what that is but I answered it accordingly)…

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Episode 22: Forgiveness .. it’s so hard… 57:48

2 years ago57:48

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If ‘forgiveness’ is hard for you, try saying the word ‘compassion’ or try saying ‘I want to heal’ What is it and what is not Why should we do it What the journey is like What is pseudo-forgiveness It has been a long journey for me to come to the place where I see the value of this ongoing act for my own self… Forgiveness is an act of self love It is a practice of a generous heart It is freeing It is in service of an open and tender heart that loves and lives deeply What you practice gets stronger What you feed will grow What feelings and thoughts are you practicing and growing?…

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Episode 21: Grief, loneliness, trauma- we are all feeling it… we all know it… 1:03:26

2 years ago1:03:26

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I share the framework of Francis Wellers gates of grief - all the grief in us that we have not acknowledged or processed - it’s in all of us We will all lose someone and something we love. This scares us and we run from acknowledging this. If we soften into it- we might know the depths of love. We all have parts that have never known love. If we grieve the times and experiences where we lost these parts, and show them love and bring these parts to the light of love, we might know integrity and wholeheartedness. We all are grieving the sorrows of the world. What humans are doing to each other, the planet, to animals, to the oceans… if we feel this grief, we might know what it means to be connected. We all are grieving the loss of what we expected but did not recieve. This longing for a ‘home’, this need for belonging- it’s our inheritance and coded into our cellular and spiritual memory. If we tend to this grief we might know the duty we have to each other. We all have an ancestral grief. We are not just a sum of our childhoods, but all the ancestors that came before us. If we acknowledge this grief, we might know that we have the power to heal the world.…

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Episode 20: Scarcity Vs Abundance Mindset 1:00:39

2 years ago1:00:39

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scarcity vs abundance mindset (love, money, time) I briefly touch on un-integrated shadow of money - limiting beliefs you have (I will do a seoerste live on this another day) why does it still hurt when i have done so much work on healing how hope is keeping you stuck and full acceptance of an event or experience means giving up the hope of it being different…

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Episode 15: How intuition shows up for us 7:08

2 years ago7:08

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I wanted to share a story with you guys today as to how intuition sometimes shows up in our lives. It can show up as a song, it can show up as the sun shining down in a specific moment, and even in the dreams of those close to us (also called Dream Tending). How has intuition shown up for you? InnerJourney #intuition #dreams…

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Episode 14: Breathing for 11 minutes - How & Why 8:00

2 years ago8:00

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Many of you have seen my stories about breathing for eleven minutes and have asked me to share more details, so I want to share with you the full practice that I have built up to. The practice is done with intention and devotion, a place for me to connect with myself and my spirit, a place where I ask and open myself up to recieve. I know that it’s a bit hard to commit these minutes to ourselves, but really keep at it…I promise you it’s worth the struggle. InnerJourney #breathwork #meditationpractice…

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Episode 2: Befriending your nervous system part 1 1:00:30

3 years ago1:00:30

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Widening the Window of Tolerance and healing the mindbody (Part 1 of 2)

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Episode 1: When do you know that a relationship is actually very unhealthy...? 6:00

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