Caffeine For The Soul With Michael Neill

In this week's podcast I share an old Sufi story about a village surrounded by a seemingly infinite, impenetrable wall and what happened when they try to find out what's on the other side. (As it happens, it also points to the limitations of spiritual teaching and sharing and why sometimes the only way out is in.)

This week's podcast explains what Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Connors, and the marriage vows have to do with having a wonderful life. (It makes sense once you listen to it. I think... :-)

This week's podcast explains how it is that changing the outside world can seem to change our inner world, even though it never really works that way.

This week's podcast is an exploration of a couple of the key ingredients in turning possibilities into reality. I also talk about a fire worth tending inside ourselves.

This week's podcast points to the heart of the inside-out understanding and why social media might not be the optimal forum for exploring the deeper nature of reality and the human experience.

In this week's podcast I share one of the core distinctions that makes exploring the principles behind the inside-out understanding different from pretty much any other transformative conversation I've explored in my 30 plus years of spiritual spelunking.

In this week's podcast I explore what's really on offer when we dive deep into the principles behind the inside-out understanding.

In this week's podcast we'll explore going beyond self-concept and discovering who and what we really are.

For this week's podcast I talk about my fascination with people who either have something to say but difficulty saying it or are brilliant at communicating but still struggling to find something authentically worth communicating about.

In this week's podcast I share my reflections on the essence of this understanding and a simple experiment to put it to the test in your own life.

This week's podcast is an exploration of what Agatha Christie and Don Miguel Ruiz have to say about navigating our lives with ease and grace.

This week's podcast is the story of one of my biggest wake up calls since I began in this conversation. It was the first time that I really saw just how made up my personal reality is, and by proxy how much more possibility there is for the future than I'd ever thought possible.

How much more peace and quiet would show up in your world if you didn't feel the need to explain, justify, or defend your experience?

Then in this week's podcast I take on the same idea but this time emphasizing the common sense nature, or "obviousness" of our behavior given the frameworks we are operating inside of.

In this week's podcast I share and expand upon the simple realization that ended my battle with depression and anxiety - the fact that we are all sitting in the middle of mental health, we just don't know it. Our mental health is our spiritual nature; our spiritual nature is our mental health. 

In this week’s podcast, I share some thoughts on the psychological immune system and what I consider to be the two key indicators of true mental health.

In this week’s podcast I share what I’ve been seeing about the relationship between happiness and success and how differently we play the game when we begin with a more helpful end in mind.

This week’s podcast is an exploration of the most significant thing I discovered about money in researching the mindset of "happy millionaires and billionaires".

In this week’s podcast, I talk about why behavioral prescriptions like "stop smoking" or "meditate more" rarely move the needle on our behavior, and how easily change can happen when we understand how it actually works.

This week's podcast is one of my favorites and points to the "always already there" nature of our own thinking. You may not be able to figure out how the trick works, but knowing it's a trick is half the battle won.