The Healing Insight Podcast

Being Worthy Of Love And Respect

In this session, Sarah and Jez suggest that to be able to love and respect others and to receive love and respect we must first truly love and respect ourselves. They remind us of the importance of going inwards to discover if there is something that needs to be addressed and also to look at if there is a values conflict. They remind us that quiet reflection can help us to feel into whether there is something that we need to deal with, and if there is and we don't deal with it, the universe will find ways of bringing the issues to our attention until we do deal with them. 
They look at how giving and receiving go hand and hand and need to flow, and how when they are in flow there is no expectation. They remind us of the importance of healthy boundaries in all areas of our lives as these are a way of showing others that we love and respect ourselves. 
Learning to love ourselves is a journey of self-discovery and so we need to have an awareness first of all, that change is needed. We can then go inward to look at what we need to change but we need to be truly open and honest with ourselves when we do this, looking at ourselves without judgment so that we can identify where the issues lie and what we need to change. 
They remind us that we are always the best version of ourselves in every moment and that we all have our own perspectives and so we all interpret the world around us differently which doesn't make our interpretation wrong.

Doing The Best We Can

In this episode, Sarah and Jez explore doing the best we can and how, when we accept that we are always doing the best we can, it changes our perspective. They discuss how even as babies we want to please our parents and others around us and that we are taught our parent's values and beliefs because that is what they know. They suggest that we need to focus on what we are good at, i.e. where our gifts lie so that we can get the best out of ourselves and from others. 
They look at how it is important to move into the heart and absorb information rather than learn it in a cognitive way, and how we can all go inward to access the universal knowledge which can help us to grow and develop and move forward. 
They remind us how young children show us how to be truly in our hearts and in the moment. They also suggest that if we are unhappy, we need to look at why we are unhappy and what we can change to make us feel happy again. 
They also discuss how our decisions are based on the knowledge we have in that moment, and so they are always the best decisions that we can make in that moment, even if the outcome of the decision is not as we expected/wanted. They also suggest that success is not linked to other people’s ideals and standards, but is about evolving and growing, and doing what makes our hearts sing. 

WhenThe Going Gets Tough

In this episode, Sarah and Jez discuss how we all experience times in our lives that feel ’tough,’ so it is important to make sure that our persistence in working through those times is for the highest good. They remind us that when we are moving through an intense period it’s easy to question things and go into our heads rather than sit with them in our hearts to gain insight into the way forward. 
They explore how resistance is an indication that we need to look at the situation, go inwards, drop into our hearts and see what needs to be addressed, to enable us to make the correct decisions. They remind us that each of us knows what is right for us, and so we need to listen to ourselves but this needs to be done from the heart.
We can become our biggest critic when we are in our heads but this just chips away at our self-confidence. It is important for us to move out of our comfort zone to be able to grow. They also discuss how sometimes we need to put questions out to the universe or have a discussion with someone without needing answers for the insight to be given to us.  We can use how we are feeling as a barometer as to whether we are in our hearts, knowing that when we have a sense of peace and calm we are in our hearts and when we are stressed or agitated we have moved into our heads. 

Moving Out Of Old Habits

In this session, Sarah and Jez look at how habits are often ingrained in us over a period of time, so we need to find the root cause relating to them to heal, to make it easier to create the change that we feel is for our highest good. They discuss how there may be several things that need to be addressed and how when you look at things energetically, it may be layers of energy that need clearing to assist the process of letting go. Changing old habits is not always straightforward and so we need to be kind to ourselves if things slip back, and recognise that we need to see if something else needs addressing for us to be able to move forward again with that change. We need to break the old pathways and ways of thinking so that the change that is needed can be brought in. 
They also look at the desire to change and how if we want to change, feel it's for our highest good and value the change then it will be a lot easier to put the change in place. They remind us of the importance of being in our hearts when looking at change so that we are doing it for the right reasons. They also remind us that change isn't necessarily about walking away from something but taking the time to go inward, to reflect so that you have awareness and then take the action that feels right for you. They remind us of the importance of not judging ourselves in the situation but just being curious so that we can understand what needs to be addressed. 

Complete Trust In Yourself And Your Approach To life

In this episode, Sarah and Jez explore how having complete trust in yourself might change your approach to life. They look at what having complete trust in yourself means to them and remind us that failing just means that you haven't achieved the expected outcome, which might not be the outcome that you need.
They remind us how it is a lot easier to trust ourselves when we are in our hearts and that when the voice of self-doubt is chatting to us it is there to keep us safe but doesn't always serve us as it can such us onto our heads. They remind us that when we see any situation or experience as a learning it allows us to trust ourselves more fully. They look at how young children can remind us of how it is to be in the moment and to be trusting of ourselves and how we lose that childlike curiosity as we move into adulthood.
When we can see that we are all making progress, we can see that we are all successful and so can fully trust ourselves to bring us the experiences that we need for the growth and learning that we want to have. 

Reframing Challenges

In this episode, Sarah and Jez discuss the importance of reframing a challenge as an opportunity for learning/growth. They discuss how when something feels challenging it can push you into fight or flight physically and so stress levels go up, pushing you into your head. They remind us that the universe sends us more of what we are focusing on so if we see things as a challenge we will find more things coming to us that we see as a challenge until we shift the mindset.
Sarah and Jez look at how, if you go into a state of panic, you can't feel into the situation as you have moved into your head, and that a problem is only a problem if we make it one, and this then comes back to our perception of the situation and whether we are in our head or our heart. They remind us of the importance of letting go of the outcome and trusting that it will be what it needs to be.
They also remind us that we have all the resources within us to help us to deal with any challenge, but we have been programmed to look outside of ourselves. When we break the cycle of stress that a challenge creates and drop back into our hearts and so reconnect with ourselves, we gain clarity and our perception changes so that we can see the situation for what it is, an opportunity for change, for growth, to be able to move forward. 

The Role Of Creativity In Healing

In this session, Sarah and Jez explore the importance of being creative and how it helps you to be in your heart, and so, in the moment. They explore how easy it is to get caught up in 'doing' rather than 'being' and how preschool children can show us how to be creative and 'be' the majority of the time.
They look at how playing with young children and letting them take the lead can help you to be in the moment. They discuss how exploring our creative side can help our healing journey as it allows self-expression. They also discuss how we can be creative without ever showing our drawings, paintings, creative writing etc to anyone else. They remind us that looking after ourselves is very important and that the most important thing is love. 

The Learning Cycle

In this session, Sarah and Jez look at the learning cycle and discuss their perception of it and how learning is a continuous cycle which allows us to grow on many levels. They discuss how for some things we need external knowledge but that we need to go within to take us to that external knowledge that we need for our journey.
As we are presented with information, they suggest the importance of absorbing it with the heart and feeling into it, to see if it resonates with us. What is our truth will be affected by our experiences, beliefs and values and that is ok, as it is part of our journey. They explore the importance of being curious and questioning things, as this shows we are engaged and not just accepting that something is truth, just because we are told it is.
They look at how when we are learning it expands our comfort zone as well as our knowledge and how we cycle through learning something new, feeling a bit uncomfortable as we are pushed out of our comfort zone, then becoming comfortable with the knowledge/skill and so expanding our comfort zone before going on to learn something else that's new and repeating the cycle.

Self-Belief

In this session, Sarah and Jez explore self-belief and where it originates. They look at the learning cycle and how that can affect self-belief. They suggest that we will have all experienced a lack of self-belief at some point in our lives. They remind us of the importance of focusing on positive changes and observing how far we have come during our journey. They remind us that we are exactly where we need to be.
When we are doing what we love and are happy then we build our self-belief and self-confidence. The learnings that we experience can also help to build our self-belief as well. When we find ourselves being moved out of our comfort zone then it can affect our self-belief but if we are to grow then we need to be willing to allow ourselves to be pushed out of our comfort zone.
Sarah and Jez also look at how sometimes we are offered so many choices that decision-making can be difficult and soo this then has a knock-on effect with self-belief and we can find ourselves in a position of if we do nothing then there is no risk, but of course, then there is no learning either.

Success & Failure

In this session, Sarah and Jez look at success and failure and how they go hand in hand. They discuss how failing is not failing but providing us with a way of learning and so moving to success. They remind us that an outcome is just an outcome and when it isn't the outcome we expect then it becomes a learning for us.
They remind us how important it is to focus on the positive and what we have achieved rather than what we feel is negative. We need to learn from our experiences to be able to grow. Everyone's perception of what is success and what is failure is different and is filtered by our experiences and reference points. They also remind us that we are being given opportunities to learn about ourselves and who we truly are from all the experiences that we have.