Welcome to “Healing From Within” with host Sheryl Glick author of Life Is No Coincidence The Life and Afterlife Connection and The Living Spirit which share stories of spiritual awakening spiritual communication healing energies and miracles which lead us to discover our intuitive nature and ways to know ourselves so we may live in accordance with our life plan and am delighted to welcome Stephen Fulder PhD author of What’s Beyond Mindfulness?: Waking Up To This Precious Life a life changing guide on every aspect of modern life from using mindfulness to heal conflict, age wisely, deal with tiredness, find fulfillment at work and in relationships and make friends with your body heart and mind.As listeners of the show are well aware Sheryl and her guests share intimate experiences and insights into the complex nature of energy, Universal Energy and the seemingly divide or duality of our physical and spiritual essence in order to know ourselves as one with unity to the world in its entirety so we can maneuver and be comfortable in our bodies mind and heart.In today’s episode of “Healing From Within Stephen Fulder PhD will share through the Buddhist practice and philosophy how we may discover that what’s beyond mindfulness are important concepts such as happiness being found in being not having, to the impact of deep listening and sharing our suffering as a way to create empathy and build bridges among war torn groups and finding ways to know peace within and peace for the world begins with each of us learning more about our human and divine aspects and creating a joyful way to walk with our neighbors and find how we are more similar than different and need to respect life our planet and world as the first step to being a conscious citizen of the Universe. Stephen Fulder has spent years teaching healing and peace work in Israel and Palestine and offers a unique way for us to move forward in these changing challenging times in helping ourselves individually and collectively to find well-being.When Stephen is asked to think back to his childhood and remember a person place event or value that may have shown them or others the adult lifestyle and work they would pursue for often in the beginning is the passion for our true destiny in this life Stephen tells us the following: ”When I was a kid I remember sensing that life was one big mystery. I read a lot of fantasy books, my imagination wove vast worlds and I saw magic in everything and every place: the way apples grew on trees, the way both myself and the butterfly enjoyed the spreading aromas of a lilac bush and the way the people walked in the streets of London. I had one serious problem—that I knew that one day I would have to be an adult and the magic would disappear. It was a terrifying thought. Adults it seemed spent most of their lives worrying and stressed, were never satisfied with what they had especially money were busy all day or just worn out from their busyness…. Etc. Now I am an adult.”He goes on to tell us how decision making was hard for him and others and writes, “Sometimes it’s agonizing and usually stressful. We just can’t decide about something. It might be as trivial as what restaurant to go to tonight…..I remember the gut wrenching nights when I was just 15 and the school required that I choose the humanities or science. Faced with the endless possibilities of what might happen in the future, the mind spins one scenario after scenario trying to predict the best outcome. This is what causes stress. The reason that the mind does this is that it is driven by a “me” a “self” which has as its job description the search for the safest and most comfortable outcomes for itself in an unpredictable world. Essentially it cannot be done. The future is unknown. The best we can do is to write possible future scripts based on our experience of the past or who we know ourselves to be.Sheryl responds that we may not know the exact future or even the results from the choices...
