Earth Tribe Radio

Leslie Clark travels with the Toureg in the desert. Experiences a wedding, travels with rebels and finds herself alone in the sand dunes miles from anywhere. . A powerful journey. She experiences how the Toureg can travel through the dunes that shift yearly, with no GPS, not maps and with dangers everywhere.  They always know how everyone is feeling and have the most extraordinary connections, even though we can't speak the language. They can see into the soul of a person. There are guides who are Toureg are blind, they are guided by the wind an other  phenomena. ; and they can take 

Pausing is key to increasing our ability to choose how we respond rather than dropping into robotic reaction.  When we don't take a pause between a stimulus and our response we may wind up just reacting which limits our choices. There are so many benefits to taking a pause; it can recharge our energy: help us to gain access to our inner wisdom: and  enable us to feel connected and nurtured.Take a pause and free yourself. Practice the pause. Pause before judging; pause before assuming; pause before accusing; pause whenever you're about react harshly and you'll avoid doing and saying thins you'' regret later. It's a practice that can make our life better.  When we can take a moment for a pause we are empowered, rather than dis-empowered. Help ourselves by practicing taking a pause before we react to someone or something. It gives us a chance to untie the emotional knots within us. Take a little time to practice the pause. Even if we remember after we have reacted, them we can become more conscious for next time

Happiness is not a destination; it's the journey. When we are focusing on the end, the thing we want instead of the process or the journey, we suffer because it makes us stressed. We can have happiness anytime when we focus on the journey.  When we are focused on the destination, like a car,  money, we We only suffer when we react negatively to a situation; it's not what is happening; it's our thoughts. We can find happiness anywhere, anytime. When we are happy and share it, then it's truly ours. The last thing Buddah is said to have said is," Be your own light."Buddha. We are all briightlights, let's discover how to find and be that bright lights.

It's not what you do but how you react that matters. Often we can't change what is happening, but we can almost always have power over how we react. We chat about ideas and tools that can give us power over our reactions. We, as humans, tend to be robotic in our reactions to what is happening. Push a button, and I'll always react to the same experience.We can discover how to respond rather than react and move through our life with greater ease and peace.   The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.William Arthur Ward 

"The world is nothing but my perception of it; I see only through myself, I hear only through the filter of my story." Byron Katie, If we want to change our lives, we must change our perception. Let's open up our cage to see how else we can see something. We are not our story, but it does control us.Oor story can limit us or free us, depending upon how we see it and we can move beyond its hold. 

Tina Turner mastered her art and life; she moved beyond her pain and illnesses and accessed an inner world of peace and balance. She built a bridge between her outer life filled with, success, but also suffering and pain and found a way to access an inner world of peace and balance. We explore how she did this nad how she was able to keep this bridge between the world open. Many stars and famous people master the outer world and their art but live a life of confusion, pain, and suffering. LIke Michael Jackson, Maria Callas, and Elvis. How was she able to move beyond all of this and keep  balance and peace in her life? We explore how she did this and what she needed to do to achieve this. 

  Being happy is a very personal thing, and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.” Abraham HicksHappiness lives within us! Being happy is very personal -and totally internal.Appreciation can be a pathway to happiness. Happiness does not come from the outside inward. Let's find our personal inner triggers to happiness, then we can find happiness whenever we remember, wherever we are. Let's open ourselves and be open to happiness. We explore happiness triggers or memories and how to use them throughout the day. Let's find how we can wake up each day and choose how we want to be that day, it's up to us. 

Learning can be a great gift, and unlearning can be an even greater gift; transformational and freeing. "Recognize that unlearning is the highest form of learning.” Rumi.  Why do we feel we need to keep filling ourselves with information? Why do we need so much learning? When we take away the unneeded learning, we become closer to who we are and access our source. Let's begin to ask ourselves, where did I learn this, or from whom did I learn this? Let's discover what we need to unlearn,  and explore how we can begin to unlearn what we don't need. Exploring our unlearning can enable us to feel free, joyous, and more peaceful. Let's ask ourselves, when we are learning something, is this making us feel light, compassionated easily, or frustrated, angry, and uneasy? Then we know it's probably something we don't need to learn. Let's explore unlearning. 

Dali Lama "Such my thumb." Jill shares the Tibetan perspective.  Why do cultural differences matter, and why are they so hard to understand?  We share our thoughts and experiences about cultural differences, their power, and why we can so easily misinterpret them. We explore travel and other chances to be in various cultures and their differences. Why are there cultural differences? We look at why this happens and how we can open to and immerse ourselves in other cultures even in our local area. Let's jump in and explore different, perspectives. 

"Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.” Adyashanti.  Enlightenment is not about what we do or achieve or even find. Enlightenment is who we indeed are. We don't have to be someone special  or do something special. It's a destructive process of removing what we have covered ourselves with, stuff we are holding. As soon as thought - emotions go, we are in our  natural enlightenment; it gets uncovered when we stop thinking. Destructive means taking away something that is not you in the first place. Enlightenment doesn't have to be a complicated process; it's always within us. We are all enlightened from time to time; let's explore.

Fearless aging, let's explore how we can age fearlessly. When we are comfortable with who we are everyone else will be comfortable with who we are. Many cultures celebrate life stages, and in those cultures, aging is respected and valued. When you travel you see people  eg,  the natural indigenous cultures, you see those who are enjoying their life at any stage. We are on a path through life that moves toward death, and many have a hard time facing this. There are stages in our life, birth, infancy, childhood, etc, most accept a baby moving to toddlerhood, but are terrified to accept aging. We can fearlessly age only when we accept aging and the amazing gifts it brings us We  can still use tools and techniques to keep us strong and vibrant, even use creams, etc to keep our face looking younger.  It's about how we feel about ourselves. When we accept aging, we begin to accept who we are, and we can move without fear, without needing approval or anything to stop us enjoying the peace and joy that comes with agi

"I started to be free when I realized the cage was made of thoughts!" Unknown.  We create cages for ourselves from our robotic thinking, we aren't aware that we are trapped until we become aware of our thoughts and their patterns. We can free ourselves, but how?Do you know what you are thinking right now? Many aren't, but it is that awareness that cuts the cage of robotic reactions that create our cage, that trap us. Most of us are living in a cage of robotic reactions, which just go round and round. Push my button and I will react and think in the same pattern  every time. What can we do to free ourselves and why is it important to the quality of our life? Let's chat!

We don't need to suffer, we can use techniques, meditations, and tools, that can enable us to move beyond struggle and suffering, no matter what is happening in our lives. Pema Chodron in her book, "When things fall apart. Heart advise for difficult times," is a great book to sit with. "The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings.When we resist change, it's called suffering.The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances uncertainty is all we truly have.  "When things fall apart. Heart advice for difficult times." Pema C

Opening to our creativity opens us and empowers us. The artist Picasso said, "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." You can be creative, let's explore and ponder how! Maya Angelou, "We are all creative, but by the time we are three or four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else." When we lose creativity, we lose a vital part of who we truly are.  The artist Picasso said, "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." "The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ” "To draw you must close your eyes and sing." 

Reincarnation - let's explore. What is it? Is it real? How do we know?  We chat about people who have passed over as well as those who have experienced other lives.  You can explore reincarnation and discover your own truth about it. We all can  explore for ourselves and even try a past life regression. "You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to the memory, to remember."Brian WeissMany believe different thingsThe Hindu religion has for thousands of years believed their teachings of reincarnation. "Reincarnation is a key belief within Hinduism. In Hinduism, all life goes through birth, life, death, and rebirth and this is known as the cycle of samsara. According to this belief, all living things have an atman, which is a piece of Brahman, or a spirit or soul. It is the atman that moves on into a new body after death."

Travel lightly, how can we reduce the stressors of travel?  We chat about how to avoid the stressors of travel and how to avoid the pitfalls. We share tips, stories, and ideas that can make travel more enjoyable. Often the journey can be the hardest part of travel, particularly in todays world. So what can we do to make it easier? Join us for tips and ideas from our extensive travel experiences. 

After all, we're just walking each other home." (quote from Ram Dass) We're all going to the same place, and we're all on a path. Sometimes our paths converge. Sometimes they separate, and we can hardly see each other, much less hear each other. But on the good days, we're walking on the same path, close together, and we're walking each other home.We are a part of incredible vast whole, which is a part of an even greater beyond whole. Being born and dying is an infinitesimal part of this whole."If your everyday practice is to open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that — then that will take you as far as you can go. And then you'll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught." Pema Chodron 

How can an  end can become an adventure: "Never give up - investigate," the Dalai Lama.What can we do when we seem to be facing an end in our life, the end of a relationship, a job, even death the end of our body?The photo is of her road into the canyon. Jill shares how she is managing the disastrous floods and road washing away in the canyon she lives in and how she and her husband, both in their late seventies, are facing this adventure. Jill realized through this that she isn't dying from cancer but rather that she is living with cancer. A powerful realization.  Jill also chats about making New Year resolutions and how they can make us despondent when we can't or don't achieve them. So she suggests that rather than making a weight loss resolution eg, resolve to be stronger and healthier.  

What is a Sweat Lodge? Why is it so transformational? How can I do one, and why is it so powerful? A sweat lodge ceremony is a spiritual and physical cleansing ritual from ancient times. Most Native American or First People Tribes have used a similar procedure for thousands of years in the Americas.This is a place to surrender and to pray in whatever is the most healing and beautiful way for each person. This can be a most powerful and transformational experience when run by an experienced and trained individual. Sitting in the covered Sweat Lodge, we energetically enter the center of the earth and can have profound and powerful life changing experiences. life-changing 

I don’t know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn’t make you happy. J.D. Salinger. Why do is intelligence so edified? There are so many forms of intelligence, which ones make us happy? Intelligence is thinking, reasoning, and understanding instead of just doing things automatically or by instinct. EQ or emotional intelligence is the ability to have some self-awareness and respond instead of reacting robotically. Let's explore different kinds of intelligence and how and why we react to them differently. How can we focus on the value of the person without placing values on them according to their IQs?