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Deep Psychology
Deep Psychology Podcast with author and humanistic/existential coach Ross Edwards ○ Get to the root of why you think, feel and act as you do ○ New episodes Wednesday; snippets on Thursday, Sunday and Tuesday ○ Spirit Quest Tours: Save $500 on your next trip with discount code ROSS https://deep-psychology.captivate.fm/spirit-quest-tours ○ Pre-order The Boundless Body https://deep-psychology.com/the-boundless-body/ ○ Explore my 200-episode archive by category…
Episodes
Deep PsychologyThe Symptoms of Repressed Anger (#36)
What are the top 3 symptoms of repressed anger? Knowing these will help you uncover your own repressed anger and begin to heal it. Anger is one of the most…
Deep PsychologyYour Life Calling: How to Find It & Live It (#35)
If you dislike your life and feel that there is a well of untapped potential in you, a life calling might be just what you need. As I said in my last episode…
Deep PsychologyHow to Be Happy: My 5 Keys to Happiness (#34)
I share my five keys to being happy – the five components of my life that make me feel alive and that my life is worth living. If you feel bored, unfulfilled…
Deep PsychologyMy Life-Altering Glimpse of God and Ultimate Reality (#33)
Today I’m going to talk about the deepest spiritual experience I ever had, which was the first time I took acid, and which forever destroyed my scientific…
Deep PsychologyHow Acid Brutally Exposed My Shadows (#32)
Today I share the story of my 2nd acid trip, how it helped me unearth and reintegrate an enormous personal shadow, and the insights I gained into our repressed…
Deep PsychologyWhy I'm Doing 1000 Consecutive Days of Meditation (#31)
Yes, the title is right: I’m committing to doing a meditation streak, doing not 10, not 30, not 60, not 100, but 1000 consecutive days of meditation. When I…
Deep Psychology"Manifesting" Nonsense + How to Really Make Your Dreams Come True (#30)
Let’s talk about manifesting, debunk the BS behind it, and talk about how to really make your dreams come true. I kinda cringe when I hear people talking about…
Deep PsychologyPersonality Masks: What They Are & How to Spot Them (#29)
Today, we talk about personality masks. Often our most salient character traits are a facade erected to conceal who we really are behind it. Learn to…
Deep PsychologySpiritual Ego & How to Dismantle It (#28)
Let’s talk about the spiritual ego and how to dismantle it. Rather than viewing the spiritual ego as a single kind of personality, I see it as a phenomenon…
Deep PsychologyHow Modern Life Makes Us Miserable (#27)
Today we talk about six ways that modern society screws you up, and my six solutions to these issues. On the surface these might seem quite simple, but in…
Deep PsychologyHow Stimulation & Comfort Ruin Your Life (#26)
We have an extraordinary amount of luxury available to us, luxury that our parents and grandparents’ generation couldn’t imagine. And it’s all available very…
Deep PsychologyAvoid Spiritual Abuse & Toxic Gurus (#25)
Today we talk about spiritual abuse: how to see the warning signs in teachers, why it happens, and how to lead a healthy spiritual life. This is based on my…
Deep PsychologyPersistence, Success & Failure – Unscripted & From the Heart (#24)
I explore persistence, failure and success, with no script. I open up and share the challenges I've faced this week, month and year so far. I hope you take…
Deep PsychologyChoiceless Awareness: How-to & Guided Meditation (#23)
Let’s discuss and practice choiceless awareness, a particular meditation state in which we give up control of our attention. This is also a meditation practice…
Deep PsychologyMoving Meditation for Meditative Awareness on Tap (#22)
Let’s talk about walking meditation, how to practice it, why we practice it, and the obstacles involved. If you do meditation for some time, you’ll naturally…
Deep PsychologyThese 5 Limiting Beliefs Are Destroying Your Life (#21)
Limiting beliefs are disempowering views you have about yourself. You tend to strongly hold on to them, and they persistently prevent you from changing…
Deep Psychology5-Minute Sleep Meditation: Relax and Focus (#20)
Welcome to this 5-minute sleep meditation, guided by Ross Edwards BSc DipBSoM. I suggest you do this lying down with a pillow under your head, keeping the body…
Deep PsychologyPracticality v Passion
We’re often presented with a choice: Practical career → money, security, status, but potentially boring. Passionate career → meaningful, exciting, but…
Deep PsychologyMy Best Meditation Tips for Beginners (#19)
I've been practicing meditation consistently for nearly a decade and now teach dozens of meditators every week. What I've found is that beginners tend to come…
Deep PsychologyMy Online 10-Week Mindfulness Coaching: Why Working With Me Is Powerful
MIND is my bespoke 10-week online mindfulness coaching programme that empowers you to bring mindfulness into your day-to-day and have it transform how you face…
Deep PsychologyJean Gebser's Structures of Consciousness (#18)
Jean Gebser's work on the structures of consciousness illuminates the deep emergent structures of human psychology and how they play out in culture, society…
Deep PsychologyKen Wilber's Four Quadrants Applied: Wellbeing, Education, Adult Development (#17)
Ken Wilber’s Four Quadrants sound nice in the abstract, but how do we apply them in practice? Let's discuss some of the on-the-ground applications of this…
Deep PsychologyThe Four Quadrants Explained – Ken Wilber, AQAL and Integral Theory (#16)
We tend to emphasise some perspectives over others. When we do this, we’re blind, we’re biased. We’re not seeing the full picture, the fullness and complexity…
Deep PsychologyThe Pygmalion Effect and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: How Your Thoughts Become Reality (#15)
Let’s talk about the Pygmalion Effect and the self-fulfilling prophecy. The beauty of these concepts is that they reveal the power of thought, belief and…
Deep PsychologyMaster Spiral Dynamics: How Learning This Theory Can Trap You (#14)
Learn about the sneaky snares of Spiral Dynamics that blindside most people. Yes, believe it or not, Spiral Dynamics can TRAP you and make you slide backwards…
Deep PsychologyMindfulness Meditation For Finding Your Life Purpose with Grace (#13)
The connection between mindfulness meditation and life purpose might not be apparent, but when it comes to aligning our career with our authentic passions and…
Deep PsychologyThe Four Levels of Personal Development [Repost] (#12)
Often we see personal development as a sea of people disagreeing and giving advice that seems to be completely disconnected or even contradictory. But it…
Deep PsychologyThe Dark Side of Spiritual Communities & Gurus: 6 Dysfunctions (#11)
I've had some pretty traumatic moments as a member of various spiritual communities, and it's inspired me to share my experiences and expose the dark side of…
Deep PsychologySpiral Dynamics Stage Yellow: From The Inside [With Case Studies] (#10)
Often we talk about Spiral Dynamics from an external point of view, as though observing it in the world and those around us. But here I want to turn the tables…
Deep PsychologySpiral Dynamics Stage Green: The Good & The Bad (#9)
Today we’re going to look at the good and the bad of Spiral Dynamics Stage Green in our personal lives. This is a super practical video packed with insights…
Deep PsychologyThe 8 Stages of Career Development & How to Advance (#8)
The 8 stages of human development in career. What are they? And how do we embody the highest ones, transforming ourselves and our career lives to the benefit…
Deep PsychologySpiritual Awakening and Sacred Spaces – With Inés Isern (#7)
"All of this is God." In this episode I speak with my partner and best friend, Inés Isern, about spirituality, God, spiritual awakening, and her amazing sacred…
Deep PsychologyThe Journey of Meaning: James Fowler and the Stages of Faith (#6)
Let’s look have a comprehensive look at James Fowler’s 7 Stages of Faith Development, which describe how we satisfy our basic need for meaning in ever more…
Deep PsychologyPowerful Habits for a Healthy Mind: Transform Your Inner World (#5)
In this video, we’re going to look at practical habits for maintaining a healthy mind and cover incredible insights into how the mind works. In watching this…
Deep PsychologyYour First Meditation: 20-min Guided Breath Meditation (#4)
If you're a newbie meditator, this breathing meditation is a great practice. That said, this technique works wherever you are in the journey, and it has…
Deep PsychologyHow Your Ego Tricks You: The Truth About Self-Delusion (#3)
What is the ego? Is it real or illusory? If it is illusory, how does it perpetuate itself? We'll explore these questions and more as I take you on a whirlwind…
Deep PsychologySpiral Dynamics Illuminated: The 8 Levels & Keys to The Theory (#2)
Spiral Dynamics is a simple but powerful theory describing how human beings evolve through eight major stages, both historically, individually, and…
Deep PsychologyThe Power of Meditation (#1)
Let’s talk about the subjective benefits of meditation. What I mean is the kind of benefits we can see in our lives, rather than the neurological benefits…