Healing

S2 EP 9. Devon Kerns: Releasing The Need For Control

In this week’s episode of Stay Grounded, host Raj Jana explores the journey of surrender and flow with serial entrepreneur, executive coach, and consciousness explorer Devon Kerns.

With over 25 years in business and over 11,000 hours of experience logged coaching and consulting for political leaders and fortune 500 executives while diving deep into his own spiritual practices, Devon shares his wisdom on releasing attachment, trusting intuitive guidance, and embodying our divine nature.

Key topics include:

  • Devon’s mystical experience at age 15 that set him on the spiritual path
  • Using the heart’s intelligence versus the thinking mind
  • Recognizing we are receivers, not doers in the flow of life
  • Releasing control and the need to “try”
  • Honoring all of life’s experiences as part of the divine dance
  • Integration versus evangelism – respecting each soul’s journey
  • Devon’s daily spiritual practice keeps him anchored in presence

Devon offers illuminating perspectives from his own unfolding journey of self-realization. Tune in for profound insights on moving through life with grace and ease instead of struggle.This expansive dialogue provides tools to release attachments, judgments and the need for control.

Timestamps:

0:00 – Introduction

4:00 – Devon’s story

9:00 – The experience of the now

19:00 – The sense of impermanence

22:00 – The power of “No Thought”

34:00 – The knowing that you can.

38:00 – How aware can you be in all moments?

46:00 – Surrendering to the gratitude of life.

54:00 – We are already whole.

1:11:00 – What does it mean to stay grounded?

Disclaimer: The hosts and guests are not medical or mental health professionals, and their advice should not be a substitute for seeking professional help.

Connect with Devon:

Website

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Connect with Raj:

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iTunes

Spotify

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If you are on the path of emotional healing and self-discovery and would like to know how Liber8 can support your journey, head to www.rajjana.com/liber8.

EP 258. Panache Desai: Unraveling The Truth Of Who You Are

The last time I was with Panache was right before the COVID lockdowns. The time I spent with him as he launched his book, You Are Enough – Revealing the Soul to Discover Your Power, Potential, and Possibility, changed my life profoundly. Thanks to his spiritual wisdom and loving support, he inspired the courage to look at the parts of myself I was afraid to look at and dive deeper into my own spiritual journey. 

Panache Desai is a visionary thought leader and a life catalyst in the area of human development. This incredible human has appeared on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday, he’s collaborated with Deepak Chopra and has worked with everyone from Neale Donald Walsh to Joe Dispenza, Brian Weiss, Ram Dass, James Redfield, and other luminaries in the fields of spiritual and personal development. 

When Panache called me out of the blue a few months back and proposed we record another episode together, I said yes in a heartbeat. And after we finished recording the episode, I knew why he called. When the student is ready, the teacher appears. His perspectives were the messages I needed to hear. It was a reminder of infinite possibilities and to trust in a greater unfolding. It was a reminder to surrender deeply into the flow of life and create from a space of deep knowing. 

This conversation is almost 1.5 hours long (twice the length of our normal episodes) and FULL of gold. I hope you guys enjoy listening to this episode as much as I did recording it. 

Key takeaways:

  • Discovering the truth of who you are. 
  • Do we really have free will. 
  • Why choice itself is an illusion.
  • Learning to value yourself. 
  • Why we’re so obsessed with personal growth. 
  • Why rejection leads to self-censoring. 
  • If you don’t like something in someone else, resolve it in yourself. 
  • Through acceptance, we can become aware of ourselves. 
  • How self-awareness creates space for trauma to rise and release. 
  • The hierarchy of consciousness. 
  • Why awareness equates to freedom. 
  • Why freedom & liberation is the North Star. 
  • Understanding the root of suffering. 
  • Why comparison is impossible. 

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EP 257. Loka Pandya: How To Connect With Childlike Joy

“I realized that joy is about working through your emotions, releasing your emotions, and also being intentional about your joy.”

Loka Pandya is a motivational speaker, serial entrepreneur, a DeLorean collector, and a passionate life enthusiast who’s dedicated to deep healing work. 

In his work, Loka is on a mission to awaken the inner child joy that lies within all of us. Loka’s passion for igniting joy began after his mother died when he was 13. Almost overnight, Loka transformed from a highly competitive, ambitious teen into a young man who wanted to help others feel better. 

Over time, his overgiving character put him on a rollercoaster of extreme highs and deep lows. The pattern was exhausting. Loka succeeded in making the world happy, but inside, he was sad. In response, Loka threw the kitchen sink at his healing journey, trying every tool and modality he could get his hands on. 

This inner journey taught Loka that healing depended on his ability to feel his true emotions. He also learned you could intentionally trigger joy and choose how to feel. 

Today, Loka empowers people to tap into their childlike joy so they can experience more love and happiness. This episode is a heartwarming dive into Loka’s personal journey of healing, along with tools and tips for igniting joy and reconnecting with your inner child.

Key takeaways:

  • Exploring your relationship with receiving.
  • What happens when the high highs and low lows become exhausting? 
  • Loka’s “folder of joy.” 
  • Reframing triggers into initiations. 
  • Pausing to create space for a response. 
  • Reclaiming control of your power to choose. 
  • The power of healing through baby steps. 
  • Doing the one thing each day that helps you heal. 
  • Staying grounded through a routine. 

 

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EP 252. Gina Worful: Releasing The Shame Around Your Emotions

“Doing the work is the journey of questioning. Once you question and you become aware, it’s making choices.”

Over the last four years, I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of hours on my inner work journey. I chose to turn myself into my own research project, and this time in my life has been a period of massive growth, reflection, and expansion. 

In this episode, I’ve paired up with my beautiful life partner Gina to open up about the rock bottom experiences that brought us to our knees, and how we used those experiences as catalysts to shift the way we lived our lives.

The journey of increasing awareness is potent, powerful, and profound. Eventually, you uncover the underlying factors that are unconsciously creating your reality. It’s the work that returns you to your personal power. It’s a rich inquiry that elevates your ability to choose differently and shift the course of your life for good.

I hope this week’s episode is a glimpse of the ecstatic level of fulfillment possible when you choose to face your fears and lean into the wisdom of what wants to be shown.

Key takeaways:

  • Why hormonal imbalance became a gateway for Gina to go inwards. 
  • When stress-relieving techniques aren’t effective
  • We’ve normalized living with chronic stress. 
  • How compartmentalizing is a coping strategy. 
  • Looking inward to discover hidden beliefs. 
  • The ego death from coming clean to my ex
  • Why the secret to healing is to understand your nervous system responses. 
  • Creating the space for a proactive response. 
  • The liberation that comes from looking at discomfort. 
  • Information about a LIVE group healing experience. 
  • And more… 

If you’re interested in being supported by myself and a team of veterans as you learn to do the inner work in a safe community setting, join our October Cohort of Precision Emotional Healing.

Head to www.liber8.health/

 

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EP 247. Nick Onken: Tapping Into Your Inner, Creative Genius

“I think identity alchemy is finding who you are at the core.”

How do you identify and define yourself when you have multiple interests, multiple talents, multiple ways you see yourself interacting with the world? 

For Nick Onken, the answer is Identity Alchemy – the creative art of deconstructing who you are [and who you’ve been] so you can discover the essence that sits at your core.    

This episode’s guest is Nick Onken – a creative alchemist who dances between the roles of photographer, hat designer, podcaster, artist, and entrepreneur. He’s lived a creative life where his curiosity has guided him to shed identities and redefine himself as his work and life have shifted and evolved.  

In this episode, Nick and I explore the creative power we can all access – to unleash our inner genius.

Nick Onken has been commissioned by top tier brands such as Nike, Coca Cola, Adidas and publishers such as Cosmopolitan, Conde Nast Traveller and Marie Claire. His portfolio of photographed personalities include Justin Bieber, Usher, Tom Hanks, Jessica Alba and Tony Robbins, to name a few. Nick also supports, and photographs for Pencils of Promise, a reputable non-profit organization using education as the most powerful tool to change the world.

In this beautiful episode, Nick and I explore: 

  1. What does identity alchemy mean? 
  2. The power of personal brands 
  3. The creative force of connecting to the energy of the moment. 
  4. Creation as a tool to pull yourself into your truth. 
  5. Intentionality and creating your moments. 
  6. Dancing between masculine and feminine energies to let the magic flow. 
  7. What it means to deconstruct and what secrets this opens up? 
  8. Curiosity, exploring the world of possibilities, and creating for the pure joy of it. 
  9. And more…

Nick’s on a mission to raise consciousness through the art he creates in the world – no matter what art form that is. He believes everyone is a creator with the ability to explore and express their inner genius – and in this episode he shows you how. 

Contact Info:

  • INSTAGRAM.COM/NICKONKEN
  • FACEBOOK.COM/NICKONKENINC
  • LINKEDIN.COM/IN/NICKONKEN

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EP 245. Craig Villani: How To Hold Space For Transformation

“The process of enlightenment may be realizing that reality in life exists for us and that we have the capacity to transform it and our relationship to it just by perspective alone.”

Craig Villani has been in the yoga space for decades. A teacher since 1999, Craig has guided thousands of facilitators and instructors through one of the world’s most challenging hatha yoga teacher training programs. 

For Craig, yoga is about creating space for transformation, connection, exploring oneness, and knowing self. In this episode, Craig shares how the gift of witnessing and participating in human transformation empowered him to “midwife it, facilitate it, and assist it.” 

Craig’s insights about transformation, combined with his lived experience, make him a must-hear guest. I’m rarely blown away by people because of the amount of work they’ve done on themselves. Craig is the exception.

Key takeaways:

  • Why is the word ALLOW so powerful.
  • What is bliss?
  • Witnessing humans in transformation.
  • The layered definition of yoga.
  • Exploring the different aspects of self.
  • Why we choose to forget.
  • The role of death on the path to liberation.
  • The gift of holding space.
  • Unfolding the veil that separates our selves.
  • Experiencing wholeness and fulfillment in our lives.

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