RamDev – Healing At The Edge – Ep. 128 – Grounding & Centering: The Foundation of Awakening

Focusing on grounding practices, RamDev shares spiritual wisdom on how to transform fear, guilt, and shame into love and mercy.

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In this episode, RamDev gives insightful perspectives on:
  • The instability of the heart and how fear, guilt, and shame keep us closed off
  • Why we are so reactive to the chaos of world events and how to respond with wisdom instead
  • Practical ways to work with fear, guilt, and shame so the heart can open moment to moment
  • Embracing our divine nature without denying our humanness
  • The power of grounding and trusting in the body as a source of safety
  • Learning to fully receive the support of the earth and the Divine Mother
  • Living in a third chakra society where power is out of balance
  • Becoming an embodiment of mercy and compassion rather than idolizing power

“Fear, guilt, and shame are the demons of the first, second, and third chakras, respectively, and until we have worked with those emotions in a direct way, it is really impossible for the heart to be open in a stable way.” – RamDev

About Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co­author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life ­threatening illness, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

Photo by Maresa Smith
Listen to more from RamDev Dale Borglum:
RamDev talks about how the current state of the world is uncovering so many opportunities for practice, in Healing at the Edge Ep. 48
RamDev gives a dharma talk about cultivating enough faith to face things as they are, and leads a meditation centered on the power of the grounding breath in Healing at the Edge Ep. 49.
Building a bridge from separation to connection, RamDev offers practices for staying grounded, working with emotions like grief, and transmuting fear into love, in Healing at the Edge Ep. 67.
RamDev shares stories of his time with Ram Dass from the early days of the satsang and reflects on what Ram Dass meant to him as a teacher and friend in Healing at the Edge Ep. 42.
RamDev shares a dharma talk on how we can ease our suffering by offering compassion to our fear, in Healing at the Edge Ep. 46.

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