One time I was at a spiritual retreat and I had a conversation with a spiritual practitioner there, and we were talking about how reading books and listening to audios isn’t healing.

It’s healing when we apply what we read, what we learn.

For many years, I was not satisfied. Yet I settled for doing a lot of listening and reading without rigorous application.

The rigorous application is the challenging part.

I know that pattern from the inside.

We read the book. We highlight the passages. We feel the truth resonate. We close the book and feel a little better. Then we go right back to fanning the flames of the same upset we always fan.

The book didn’t fail us.

We didn’t apply it.

Books are tremendous. The teachings are tremendous. The audios and the podcasts are tremendous. Yet none of it heals us by being consumed.

It heals us when we put it into practice.

This is why my Masterful Living Program is structured around active application, week by week, rather than just study. We’re learning A Course in Miracles very deeply because we’re applying it consistently.

Application takes willingness, strength, and courage.

I really applaud the people willing to do the application work.

For a long time in my life, I had a lot of people around me who were spiritual know-it-alls. I could see they weren’t happy. They weren’t really applying it. Yet they were definitely studying it.

I’ve seen that pattern in every tradition. The Vedic tradition. The Buddhist tradition. Christianity. So many spiritual paths.

We study until we can’t be satisfied with it anymore.

It’s not satisfying just to collect information.

The truth is like a book that’s written in our heart. That’s what we get to become familiar with.

If you’d like to take one step from study to application, my FREE Forgiveness Workshops this weekend are free – Saturday and Sunday, June 20-21, Father’s Day weekend. Come and apply something with us.

We’re done collecting information.  We’re ready to experience miracles.

Self-sabotage shows up in so many ways. For some of us it’s procrastination, putting off the very thing that would help us most. For others it’s playing small, holding back our gifts, getting in our own way right when things start going well, or being so hard on ourselves that nothing we do ever feels good enough. And for many of us it’s self-medication, reaching for food, a drink, the phone, or busyness to escape how we’re feeling. The forms are endless, but here’s what I’ve come to know: it’s never really about the behavior, it’s about the beliefs underneath it, and those we can heal at the root. That’s why I’d love for you to join me for my End My Self-Sabotage Challenge, beginning Sunday, June 28. We’ll bring these patterns out of the dark and into the Light together, in a community where there’s no judgment, only Love. The first week is my gift to you, so come and experience it for yourself. Trust your intuition. If it’s right for you right now, you’ll know.

IN-PERSON EVENT – Quantum Counseling Training Intensive in July – If you have an interest in training to be a spiritual counselor or simply doing some dealing work to open up your intuition and improve your relationships, I’ve been offering a professional training intensive for the last 15 years. This year we’re doing the training intensive – open to anyone whether or not you have any interest in becoming a counselor – the Quantum Counseling Training Intensive in Asheville NC Sunday, July 12th to Saturday, July 18th with Jennifer Hadley and Mark Anthony Lord, as well as Guest Teachers Alan Cohen, Jon Mundy and Lisa Natoli joining us online – register soon so you can qualify for early-bird bonuses please click here now for more info.

THIS WEEKEND – 2 Free Forgiveness Workshops, Saturday, June 20th & Sunday, June 21st Father’s Day weekend. Please join me and we’ll have a deep and profound healing together. Feel free to invite friends and loved ones. Save My Spot – Free Forgiveness Workshop

LATEST PODCAST EPISODE:  We Don’t Have to Suffer  For years, I’d say I believed in God, then in the same breath I’d also believe someone was a sinner, or that I was being punished. Many of us do this. We don’t notice the contradiction because everyone we know carries it too. Then we wonder why we feel judged, why joy keeps slipping, why depression sneaks in. This week I sat with A Course in Miracles, Text Chapter 10, the section on the Denial of God. What if the door we’ve been knocking on, we’ve also been holding shut?