Radio Show Archive – April 2022

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April 1, 2022: Michael Ryce continues the discussion of the Power Person Dynamic, using the recent Will Smith–Chris Rock Oscars incident as a vivid example of how unresolved childhood patterns can reappear automatically under stress. Ryce points to Smith’s earlier account of witnessing his father strike his mother and suggests that the later behavior at the Oscars illustrates how a person can eventually reproduce the very behavior of a power person that was once hated. The discussion moves into denial, dissociation, projection, and personal responsibility. Denial is defined as thinking or speaking as though something outside oneself is causing what is moving internally, which then separates a person from the internal material available for healing. Ryce contrasts Smith’s reaction with Chris Rock’s response, praising Rock for remaining composed and describing processing as the ability to hold Love conscious, active, and present when something unlike Love arises. Forgiveness is presented as a repeatable tool for accessing and removing underlying painful patterns rather than waiting to stumble into healing accidentally. Later, a caller’s distress about a large IRS tax bill becomes a practical example of using a MindShifter to uncover goals and reactions around money, abundance, authority, and rules. Jeanie shares an earlier IRS experience in which she kept breathing through intense fear until discovering that the bill she had received was an error, summarizing the lesson as “breathing is better than believing.” Ryce closes by explaining the MindShifter process as deliberately presenting the mind with a provocative statement, recording everything it brings up without censorship, and then applying the appropriate forgiveness, communication, or commitment tools to what surfaces.

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April 4, 2022: Ryce explores the first-century Aramaic meaning of Law, describing it as a practical description or “recipe” for how Creation works rather than a command imposed by a superior authority. Central to the discussion is Rakhma, which he presents as the inner condition or filter that permits Human Life—Love—to function through the human form. He argues that a major distortion occurred when the original instruction to function as Love became the familiar directive to “love” another person as though Love were something one does externally. What people frequently call love, he says, is actually approval dependent upon another person meeting a goal. Life then becomes a continual opportunity for hidden hostility, fear, sadness, rage, guilt, and grief to surface so they can be healed. This leads into a detailed distinction between responsibility language—recognizing that an event brought something up within oneself—and denial language such as “you made me angry.” Ryce describes the “desert” of scripture as the unconscious and forgiveness as the means of coming out of unconscious repetition. He also distinguishes dissociation, in which internal content is hidden from conscious access and projected into perception, from disassociation, which he describes as a broader separation from one’s experience of Life. Susan’s live work moves into childhood punishment, self-punishment, jaw and head tension, her relationship with her mother, and the generational transmission of destructive patterns. Ryce contrasts the mindset of Rakhma—care, gentleness, respect, and Love—with the mindset of hostility, fear, punishment, and vengeance, while also discussing parasympathetic restoration and the AVACEN device from his naturopathic perspective.

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Additional Notes:

Not Dr Feelgood to go through dealing with what is in there – from your life and your generations Letter to Ancestors https://whyagain.org/letter-to-ancestors/

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April 5, 2022: The show begins with the continuing exploration of perception and how forgiveness can collapse a perception based in pain, giving access to the underlying material that needs to be processed. Susan describes her daughter being one of four finalists to become Bishop of Connecticut while also having meaningful work in her current cathedral parish. Ryce recommends the Purpose exercise as a way of clarifying direction by looking at what a person genuinely enjoys, does well, and envisions contributing to the world, rather than trying to decide solely through external advantages and disadvantages. From there the conversation deepens into goals as drivers of stress and perception. Ryce explains that when another person violates a goal held for them, stored emotional material can be activated; canceling the active goal is presented as the mechanism that collapses the painful perceptual construction and opens access to the deeper material. Once that material has been processed, a person is free to establish a new, conscious goal without the old pain attached to it. The callers explore family dynamics, safety, childhood conditioning, and the Power Person Dynamic, including the way chronic alertness can become part of a person’s learned way of navigating the world. Ryce repeatedly returns to the importance of moving beyond intellectual analysis into the actual experience of forgiveness, Breath, and present awareness. The emphasis is that purpose, goals, and personal power become clearer as unconscious material is released rather than when the perceptual mind simply tries harder to figure life out.

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April 6, 2022: Ryce challenges the tendency to substitute study for transformation. Using A Course in Miracles as an example, he notes that people may spend years reading lessons and discussing concepts while giving little attention to the actual work of forgiveness. Since Truth cannot be contained in words, he argues, collecting more information cannot by itself remove inherited or acquired patterns of hostility and fear. The purpose of teaching is to provide directions toward an experience, and forgiveness is the practical process of removing the barriers that obscure conscious Love. A caller’s processing illustrates what Ryce calls a healing crisis. A childhood memory involving spilling hot coffee opens into the deeper belief that “I always screw things up,” with the possibility that similar material may also be embedded in family patterns. Ryce explains that when a forgiveness process collapses a painful perception, material previously dissociated from awareness can become directly available. This can be experienced through physical symptoms, painful emotions, difficult thoughts, fatigue, confusion, or repeated memories. Rather than interpreting those experiences as failure, he presents them as evidence that deeper material has become available for processing. The work may require repeated worksheets until the old issue no longer produces the previous reaction. The conversation also touches on StillPoint, generational and ancestral material, the limitations of words, and the importance of allowing active, present Love and Breath to remain available while deeper unconscious content surfaces.

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Additional Notes:

ACIM introduction says “A theoretical foundation such as the text provides is necessary as a framework to make the exercises in this workbook meaningful. ²Yet it is doing the exercises that will make the goal of the course possible.”

ACIM lesson 164, Now are we one with Him Who is our Source, para. 8 8. “Open the curtain in your practicing by merely letting go all things you think you want. ²Your trifling treasures put away, and leave a clean and open space within your mind where Christ can come.”

ACIM lesson 184, The Name of God is My Inheritance, para. 9 & 10
“9. It would indeed be strange if you were asked to go beyond all symbols of the world, forgetting them forever; yet were asked to take a teaching function. ²You have need to use the symbols of the world a while. ³But be you not deceived by them as well. ⁴They do not stand for anything at all, and in your practicing it is this thought that will release you from them. ⁵They become but means by which you can communicate in ways the world can understand, but which you recognize is not the unity where true communication can be found.
10. Thus what you need are intervals each day in which the learning of the world becomes a transitory phase; a prison house from which you go into the sunlight and forget the darkness. ²Here you understand the Word, the Name which God has given you; the one Identity which all things share; the one acknowledgment of what is true. ³And then step back to darkness, not because you think it real, but only to proclaim its unreality in terms which still have meaning in the world that darkness rules.”

Watch michael ryce YouTube video “What Is The World” 39 min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFPn8heN21Q&t=13s

Healing Crisis – What’s the difference in dis-ease process and a healing crisis? https://whyagain.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Symptoms_of_Healing.pdf
Listen to excerpts from April 2020 radio show MP3 where michael explains a Healing Crisis https://whyagain.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/HealingCrisis_April222020_add.mp3
and additional info on MP3 of May 4, 2020. https://whyagain.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/HealingCrisis_part3.mp3
Also, about thoughts and emotions becoming physical radioshow October 22, 2020 MP3. https://whyagain.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/ThoughtsBecomePhysical.mp3
Another discussion on healing through past (even generational) issues and focusing on healing not symptoms January 27, 2021 MP3. https://whyagain.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/January272021Show.mp3

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April 7, 2022: Ryce presents the body-mind as an energetic system continually shaped by the qualities of energy in which a person participates. He contrasts what he calls integrative energies with disintegrative energies, placing Love, health, and wholeness on one side and hostility, fear, grief, rage, anger, jealousy, revenge, and similar states on the other. Within his framework, the body is highly plastic and is continually being influenced by recurring mental and emotional patterns, including patterns inherited through generations. The central psychological discussion concerns denial, dissociation, and projection. An outside event can trigger or intensify an energy already present, but Ryce stresses that the outside event did not create that internal energy. When a person says, “You made me mad,” the mind must hide the internal source of the anger in order to sustain that explanation. Ryce says this is more accurately understood as dissociation rather than simple suppression: the person loses conscious access to the internal material and then uses it to construct a perception in which the external person appears to be the cause. He uses the recurring observation that if the same painful experience has occurred with many different people, the individual experiencing it is the common element. Life’s repeated triggers are therefore presented as invitations to retrieve and heal what has been dissociated. Forgiveness, responsibility, goal cancellation, and Breath become the means of reversing that cycle so that perception can collapse and the underlying energy can be brought into conscious awareness rather than continually projected into the world.

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April 8, 2022: After reviewing the many practical tools available through the work—including Responsibility Communication, the Commitment, Forgiveness Worksheets, Mind Goal Management, Purpose/Personal Power/Commitment, and Codependence to Interdependence—the show turns to a caller’s question about resurrection. Dusty asks whether the Aramaic teachings offer a meaning beyond the conventional idea of a dead body returning to life. Ryce interprets resurrection as awakening while physically alive: returning from a condition dominated by hostility, fear, grief, rage, pain, drama, and trauma into conscious awareness of oneself as Human Life and Love. He describes losing awareness of one’s true nature as a kind of “first death” and bodily death as a second, framing resurrection as restoration to conscious Life. Dusty connects this with stopping in the present moment, breathing, and rediscovering the essential nature of Love—a small resurrection available again and again. Ryce adds that forgiveness removes the internal patterns that repeatedly pull awareness out of the Present. The discussion expands into sympathetic survival states versus rest, digest, and thrive states, the development of higher brain functions, Breathwork, aging beliefs, and inner listening. Another caller seeks a MindShifter for her response to war and violence, and Ryce offers the idea that the more violence she perceives externally, the more deeply it can call her to examine incoherence within herself. Historical dramas such as Outlander, Versailles, Call the Midwife, and Heartland are discussed as mirrors for examining violence, integrity, family patterns, culture, and forgiveness.

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April 11, 2022: Jeanie begins with updates about the global book club, the website, the AVACEN material, and ongoing revisions to the HeartLand Aramaic Forgiveness app. Ryce then discusses the financial and practical resources required to keep the radio show, website, app, workshops, and HeartLand infrastructure available, inviting people who have benefited from the work to support it through money, time, skills, or service. The conversation then broadens to domination, violence, war, and the desire to control other human beings. Referencing reports of wartime sexual violence in Ukraine, Ryce uses the phrase “inner rapist” in a broader metaphorical sense for the impulse to control, possess, dominate, or take what belongs to another, arguing that the roots of violence must also be recognized and healed within individuals. He emphasizes gentleness toward oneself when one discovers that present behavior falls short of one’s ideals, describing self-condemnation itself as another repetition of the Power Person Dynamic. A discussion of inherited habits moves into food, vegetarianism, veganism, and the question of how many behaviors are accepted simply because previous generations treated them as normal. Ryce reads and discusses the revised Commitment, emphasizing truth, justice, fairness, gentleness, respect, affection, open communication, serenity, personal responsibility, forgiveness, and keeping Love conscious, active, and present in relationships. He describes “second nature” as learned or inherited conditioning rather than one’s original nature and presents forgiveness as the process for removing those behavioral prompts. Caller Bob in Australia adds the themes “what I radiate, I create” and “love is enough to do what matters.” The show closes with concern about highly processed foods after Jeanie describes Aria becoming ill following a meal that included Lucky Charms, using the experience as an invitation to greater awareness of what is being put into the body.

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Additional Notes:

“The desire to inflict harm – to exercise unjustified power over others – is what draws people to embrace the absurd.” unknown

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire

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April 12, 2022: Jeanie and Ryce begin with the growing international book club, the monthly MindShifters and StillPoint work, the Codependence self-study program, and their spring garden. Fresh lettuce, kale, chard, herbs, potatoes, tomatoes, buckwheat cover crops, local farmers, organic food, and home hydroponics become examples of participation in one’s own nourishment and of recognizing the abundance that comes directly from the earth. The deeper conversation turns to the question of how long healing takes. Ryce explains that people often want a concise intellectual answer, yet the perceptual mind cannot adequately describe the experience of transformation. Words can point toward the tools, but the work itself occurs when perception collapses and something previously hidden becomes available in the presence of conscious Love. Rather than measuring healing by how many years one has been “doing the work,” the emphasis is on each present opportunity to remove another barrier. The show revisits forgiveness as a process that cannot be completed merely by thinking differently; the person participates by identifying and canceling the goal driving a painful perception and remaining available to the deeper shift. Later, the discussion again connects mental-emotional healing with physiology, contrasting chronic survival-oriented sympathetic dominance with the restorative state Ryce describes as rest, digest, and thrive. He discusses microcirculation and the AVACEN device as a physiological complement to forgiveness, sometimes calling it “physical forgiveness,” while continuing to emphasize Breath, relaxation, and movement toward greater vitality.

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April 13, 2022: A caller asks Ryce about Y’Shua’s crucifixion and whether the Creator actually intended or required it. Ryce carefully says he is answering from his own experience and understanding of the Creator as Love rather than claiming an answer based solely on Aramaic scholarship. From that standpoint, he rejects the idea that Love would deliberately plan the brutal murder of a son, while allowing that Love can remain present within an atrocity and bring something useful or life-giving from what occurred. This opens a broader examination of sacrifice, punishment, vengeance, and religious images of God. Ryce revisits the Abraham-and-Isaac story, suggesting that the demand for sacrifice arose from human conditioning rather than from the nature of the Creator and portraying the interruption of the sacrifice as movement away from that mindset. The discussion repeatedly contrasts an inherited picture of a punishing deity with Rakhma and the experience of the Creator as Love. Ryce argues that punishment and fear perpetuate the very consciousness from which violence arises, whereas healing requires discovering and removing the internal patterns that produce suffering. The work of Y’Shua is therefore framed less as a theology of punishment and sacrifice and more as a pathway toward the end of suffering through forgiveness, responsibility, Breath, and restoration to Love. The conversation also emphasizes how difficult this shift can be for a perceptual mind trained through generations to interpret pain, justice, religion, and human behavior through punishment.

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April 14, 2022: The primary focus is the autonomic nervous system, sympathetic and parasympathetic balance, microcirculation, and the AVACEN device. Ryce explains that his experience with the device led him to study microcirculation more deeply and describes changes he had observed in Jeanie’s father, who had diabetic neuropathy and was able, according to the account given on the show, to sit much longer without needing to get up because of discomfort after using the device. Ryce describes the autonomic nervous system as a continuum rather than two disconnected systems. The sympathetic state serves survival by shifting circulation, heart rate, breathing, and energy toward fighting, fleeing, freezing, or dealing with danger, while chronic sympathetic dominance is presented as a problem when the emergency state becomes an everyday condition. He uses the image of a clear river becoming a stagnant swamp when its flow is blocked to explain his model of restricted microcirculation. He discusses precapillary sphincters as tiny muscular gatekeepers regulating blood flow to capillaries and describes the AVACEN’s warming action as helping muscles relax and circulation increase. Throughout the show, Ryce links this physiological model with the emotional work discussed throughout the month: hostility, fear, unresolved stress, and Power Person conditioning are associated in his framework with survival physiology, while forgiveness, Breath, relaxation, safety, and conscious Love support movement toward a restorative state. The larger message is that mental, emotional, energetic, and physiological healing are interconnected and that inner forgiveness work and physical support can be approached as complementary parts of restoring wholeness.

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April 15, 2022: Jeanie opens with updates on the HeartLand Aramaic Forgiveness app, the growing international book club, the Codependence to Interdependence self-study, and MindShifters/StillPoint support sessions. Michael Ryce reflects on a book-club participant who became overwhelmed by many interconnected issues and emphasizes a central practical lesson: when the mind says, “I don’t know what to do,” the confusion itself can become the subject of a forgiveness worksheet. Every behavior is driven by a goal, and working with the goal can open access to deeper material beneath sadness, rage, fear, or confusion. Ryce then explores sympathetic versus parasympathetic nervous-system dominance, describing chronic fear, hostility, and pain as keeping the body in survival mode and offering breathing and gentle head-and-eye exercises intended to support parasympathetic activation. He also discusses the AVACEN circulation device and his understanding of its effects on capillary blood flow. A caller’s difficulty with exhaling and panic develops into an exploration of childhood power-person dynamics, the need for personal space, fear of standing up for oneself, and the difference between strength and genuine personal power. The show repeatedly returns to Breath, MindShifters, forgiveness worksheets, and responsibility as practical ways of moving from survival patterns toward healing.

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NO SHOWS ON WEEK-ENDS. SEE YOU MONDAY.

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April 18, 2022: Michael Ryce develops an extended distinction between happiness and joy. Happiness, in the framework presented on the show, follows the achievement of a goal and produces a temporary dopamine-driven reward, while joy is described as the natural experience arising from awareness of the Creator’s Presence and of oneself as Love. Ryce connects modern culture’s pursuit of possessions, status, money, power, and other forms of “stuff” with repeated attempts to obtain another short-lived reward, contrasting this with the deeper fulfillment of connection. The discussion expands through a caller into serotonin, oxytocin, satisfaction, contentment, community, and the importance of accurate definitions of words. Forgiveness is presented as the removal of goals, thought patterns, and internal barriers that obscure the natural experience of Love and joy, with Ryce again encouraging intensive worksheet practice—five worksheets a day for forty days—as a journey into the “desert,” understood as the unconscious. The callers also explore Aramaic language, the difference between knowledge and understanding, guardian-angel imagery, protection versus creative living, and darkness as an absence rather than an opposing power, paralleling fear as an absence of conscious Love.

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Additional Notes:

Listen to the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic

https://open.spotify.com/track/4EdcbsbFBsxt1ehNu8l7J8?si=P1RwiPKDSe2QFbreAvWpBg&utm_source=native-share-menu

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April 19, 2022: Ryce examines A Course in Miracles through the lens of first-century Aramaic forgiveness, arguing that the purpose of the teaching is the practice of forgiveness rather than the accumulation of more words about Truth. Using Michelangelo’s image of David already present within the marble, he describes forgiveness as removing what does not belong rather than adding something to the Being. The central insight of the program is, “What’s happening inside of me is happening inside of me.” Blame creates denial; denial requires dissociation from the internal source of pain; and dissociated material is then projected into the mind’s image of another person or circumstance. Ryce describes perception as an internally constructed image based on past material rather than direct Reality. The practical key is the goal: when a goal driving a painful perception is canceled, perception can collapse and expose the deeper unconscious energy for healing in the presence of Love and Breath. Callers explore these ideas personally, including the relationship between recurring emotional reactions, grief, sugar, health, shopping, dopamine, and unconscious family patterns. The show strongly emphasizes responsibility, goal cancellation, forgiveness, and the distinction between pardoning another person and healing what is active within oneself.

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Additional Notes:

Michelangelo was asked how he did the statue of David. He replied that David was always there he just removed what was not David. Example of forgiveness…remove what does not belong. Conflict, fear, strife are all barriers to keep us from experiencing who we are.

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April 20, 2022: Beginning with Jeanie’s comparison between computer source code and human creation, the show examines how people may consciously say they want one result while unconscious goals and energetic patterns are generating something very different. Ryce develops this into a detailed exploration of blame, calling it a habitual strategy of the non-being mind that disconnects a person from the internal material that can actually be healed. He recommends worksheets around people and situations one has blamed and encourages recognizing feelings as internally generated rather than attributing them to someone outside oneself. Susan’s live processing becomes the heart of the program. She examines flashes of rage, criticism, a traffic incident, childhood whippings, unresolved grief, expectations of respect and support, and the pain of what “should have been.” Ryce stresses that deeper trauma cannot be forced into awareness; the body-mind releases material as sufficient vitality and willingness develop. Nutrition, community, detoxification, Breath, StillPoint, forgiveness, and patience are discussed as factors that may support vitality. The conversation also touches on greens, coconut oil, Alzheimer’s/type-three-diabetes theories, allergies, and whole foods, presented as Ryce’s naturopathic perspectives and experiences.

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April 21, 2022: In the program, Jeanie discusses the challenges surrounding her father’s declining mobility, physical therapy, assisted living, and her responsibilities as a daughter and caregiver. Susan then enters an unusually deep live process involving dreams, rage, hidden pain, childhood messages, self-condemnation, and generational patterns. A striking dream of a guru, a vast mouth filled with symbolic imagery, and a wounded bear becomes a doorway into themes of becoming real, self-exposure, suppressed vulnerability, and the belief that one deserves punishment. Ryce encourages her to observe her own words as clues to unconscious material and offers the MindShifter that self-exposure, especially to oneself, is safe and pleasurable. Memories involving her mother’s hidden tears and her grandfather’s suspicion of her lead into questions of honesty, worth, shame, and inherited patterns. The show emphasizes Breath, willingness, forty days of worksheet practice, trusting Rukha rather than trying to intellectually “figure out” healing, and allowing unconscious material to surface when the system is ready.

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April 22, 2022: Jeanie shares openly about her father’s condition, his increasing physical limitations, questions surrounding future care, and the emotional load of caregiving. The conversation then becomes a live demonstration of healing work as Susan describes a dream involving a spiritual teacher, feelings of being false or performative, and a severely wounded bear. Ryce connects the imagery with hidden pain beneath rage, the longing to become authentic, and the possibility that old family messages taught her to conceal vulnerability. Memories of her mother secretly crying and of being regarded as dishonest by her grandfather reveal deeper themes of shame, punishment, trust, integrity, and generational transmission. Ryce repeatedly redirects the process away from intellectual interpretation and toward Breath, self-observation, forgiveness, and willingness, suggesting five worksheets a day for forty days as a deeper journey into the unconscious “wilderness.” Caregiver self-care also becomes important when Jeanie acknowledges taking one day each week away from visiting her father while working with the guilt that arises. Near the end, Ryce returns to perception, describing the brain as a converter that builds an internal picture from incoming information and stored content; forgiveness, in this model, collapses the painful perceptual construction so the underlying material can meet conscious, active, present Love.

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Additional Notes:

MindShifter: “Self exposure, especially to myself, is totally safe and pleasurable.”
MindShifter: “As a child, the more I lied the more everyone cherished and honored me.”

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April 25, 2022: Ryce focuses on the meaning of Love, arguing that Love is fundamentally a state of Being rather than a behavior one performs toward another person. He contrasts conventional English formulations with his understanding of Y’Shua’s Aramaic teaching and Rakhma, emphasizing that the work is to function as Love and remove whatever within the mind is unlike it. He applies this distinction to criminal justice through stories about Judge Asa D. Kelly, describing confinement as potentially serving community safety without becoming punishment and discussing the Laws of Living program. Ryce then explains the power-person dynamic: at low stress people repeat behaviors that helped them get along with the childhood authority figure; at greater stress they repeat behaviors used to resist that figure; and under extreme stress they may reproduce the very behavior of the power person that they once hated. Susan reports doing five forgiveness worksheets each day and discusses the advantages of writing or dictating them rather than doing them solely in her head. Ryce also explains that a useful worksheet can sometimes take only minutes because canceling the goal is the pivotal action. The latter part of the show ranges into nutrition, celery juice, coconut and MCT oil, diabetes theories, avocados, cucumbers, beets, bananas, gardening, and whole-food nourishment.

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Additional Notes:

MindShifter: “The more I partake of the things I find distasteful, the better I like it.”

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April 26, 2022: A caller describes moving from anxiety into serenity while driving and then witnessing a potentially dangerous traffic situation without falling into her previous pattern of fear or reaction. Ryce uses her language to refine the definition of denial: saying that one feels a certain way “because of” an external event conceals the fact that the event merely activated content already present within the mind. The objective is to become the thinker apart from the thought, the feeler apart from the feeling, and the observer capable of recognizing what has been triggered. Susan reports doing multiple worksheets each day and experiencing increased vitality and a sense that old internal knots are loosening. Ryce emphasizes Shakespeare’s idea that words reveal the thoughts beneath them and summarizes the principle by saying that our words are autobiographical; language spoken in hostility or fear can expose the next material ready for healing. Gardening and nourishment become another major theme, with discussion of soil organisms, worm farms, fresh greens, self-sufficiency, and “busyness” as a cultural drug that consumes time otherwise available for self-care. Callers also discuss religious heritage, safety, sympathetic and parasympathetic states, the pineal gland, and learning to bless one’s past while using reactions to it as material for forgiveness.

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April 27, 2022: After Jeanie shares Aria’s spontaneous use of Orthobionomy and Breath with a toy horse and the family’s expanding garden, Ryce speaks about conscious, active, present Love as an eternally available Presence rather than something that must be summoned. Forgiveness is described as removing whatever within us obstructs awareness of that Presence. He explores perception as the ego’s prized construction, based in accumulated past material, and explains why a process capable of collapsing perception can feel threatening to the ego. A caller uses physics metaphors—kinetic energy, inertia, and motion—to explore how old thought patterns continue until something interrupts them. The discussion moves into relationships, where Ryce emphasizes that saying “I love you” differs from actually being the active Presence of Love with another person. A caller traces disappointment in her current relationship to patterns observed in her mother and is encouraged to ask what she herself can do differently, cancel the goal driving the pained perception, and even work a worksheet from her mother’s perspective. Ryce defines processing as maintaining conscious, active, present Love when something unlike Love arises. The conversation culminates in Rukha as the Breath through which letting go and receiving occur, followed by reflections on StillPoint and David Bohm’s “sustained incoherence”—repeating internal patterns while believing the cause is outside oneself.

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Additional Notes:

MindShifter: “It is safe and healing and I deeply enjoy it when people reject me and want me to do better.” when I think I am doing my best. Ask myself, how can I do this differently?
The ACIM says, you can’t do forgiveness, your part is to return your mind to the point at which the original occurrence happened. Not a function of memory but a function of forgiveness.
Processing is the ability to hold conscious, active, present Love when something less than love comes up. Either holding to Love yourself or someone in your space does it for you.
Rukha undoes the effects of our errors and teaches us the truth. Julie said she is ‘Staying’ myself – the pain of crucifixion and suffering, now real-lease myself to the truth of breathing resurrection. Being available to presence that teaches.
It is safe and healing to allow the holy instant ….

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April 28, 2022: The program opens with natural healing, Orthobionomy, gardening, nourishment, and Jeanie’s updates before caller Rex raises a detailed question about canceling goals before sleep: if breathing is a behavior, why does canceling goals not cancel breathing? Ryce distinguishes consciously goal-driven activity from autonomic nervous-system functions such as breathing, heartbeat, digestion, circulation, and detoxification, recommending a single sleep goal of deep, restful, regenerative sleep. The larger teaching then becomes the importance of doing healing work consistently rather than waiting for illness, relationship crisis, financial problems, or overwhelming pain to force action. Ryce recommends “tithing” TIME—Time, Intelligence, Money, and Energy—to one’s development, with particular emphasis on regular daily investment in healing, awareness, and inner guidance. Caller Dusty expands the discussion into comfort zones, Breath practices, busyness, cultural conditioning, and narrowed perception. They examine education as either externally imposed conditioning or, from the root educare as they discuss it, drawing out the capacities already present in a child. Aria’s self-directed learning becomes an example, leading into Montessori education, purpose, personal power, and Ryce’s definition of personal power as the ability to remain aware of and function from one’s highest guidance.

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April 29, 2022: Jeanie opens with updates on the newly distributed newsletter, “Now Is the Time to Be Transformed. Get Involved. Be the Change You Wish to See,” the HeartLand Aramaic Forgiveness app, the Global Book Club, and the ongoing MindShifters and StillPoint Breathing sessions. Ryce returns to the foundational question of identity, describing the essence experienced in a newborn as the active Presence of Love and presenting the purpose of the work as removing whatever obscures awareness and expression of that original Human Life. He contrasts first-century Aramaic forgiveness with the later Greek idea of pardoning another person, emphasizing forgiveness as the removal of internal material that does not belong rather than excusing someone believed to have caused one’s pain.

A major portion of the show becomes a live exploration with Susan, who reports doing one forgiveness worksheet after another as dreams, childhood memories, family patterns, self-judgments, and resistance continue surfacing. Her difficulty with StillPoint Breathing leads to an extensive discussion of connected breathing, the relaxed jaw, vitality, and the tendency to hold or restrict energy. Ryce encourages her to move away from trying intellectually to “figure out” everything that is arising and instead soften, observe the thoughts, and allow the Breath to carry the process. He identifies Rukha d’Qudsha with the Breath in the Creation account—the direct link through which deeply energized thought patterns can lose their grip and become available for release.

Ryce recounts experiences that helped shape his understanding of StillPoint, including a period in India when he combined fasting, silence, a blindfold, and earplugs and experienced his mind opening “like a volcano,” with enormous amounts of material rapidly surfacing. He also recalls sensory-deprivation float-tank experiences and emphasizes willingness rather than courage as the central quality that permits deeper material to emerge. Susan recognizes recurring childhood messages that she was a liar, a cheat, bad, unsafe, or likely to be punished, along with her fear of being watched while breathing. Jeanie’s offer to sit physically with her during Breathwork unexpectedly opens Susan to memories of longing for her mother’s touch and the expectation that someone observing her will be critical or withholding. Ryce reframes “this is scary” into awareness that fear is arising internally, restoring the possibility of working with and changing it. He suggests worksheets around childhood experiences of adults deliberately or inadvertently creating fear, with goals involving being cared for, safe, honored, cherished, and protected.

The conversation then provides one of the month’s most detailed historical accounts of the discovery of StillPoint. Ryce recalls breathing alone roughly forty years earlier when he suddenly realized he was no longer breathing and yet felt extraordinary well-being. In the background he perceived something like a tape recorder running at high speed, accompanied by an awareness that internal material was being shifted and released. When he attempted to slow the experience down intellectually, he was drawn back toward simply allowing the process to occur. Years later, learning the Aramaic understanding of Rukha d’Qudsha—described in the show as “She who undoes the effects of our errors and teaches us the Truth”—gave him a conceptual framework for what he had experienced. He links this with Y’Shua’s baptism in Rukha/Breath, interpreting true baptism as an experiential cleansing of “sin,” understood as energies that are off the mark, rather than merely a symbolic application of water.

Ryce further describes intense physical sensations that can arise during deep Breathwork and relates them to energetic blocks becoming available for movement. He contrasts his interpretation with the Eastern concept of Kundalini and presents StillPoint as, in his experience, a consistent way of allowing locked energetic patterns to move through the body. The central requirement is willingness: willingness to allow whatever is ready to arise without needing to understand, control, or conceal it. Susan’s resistance to having Tim or Jeanie support her reveals fears of being burdensome, embarrassing, rejected, disliked, or abandoned if another person sees what is inside her. Ryce reverses the situation by asking how she would respond if Tim asked her to hold a space of Love while he processed difficult material; she immediately recognizes that she would remain present and supportive. This exposes her feared rejection as a perceptual construction rather than a necessary outcome. The show closes with Susan recognizing Power Person material turning against herself and Ryce encouraging her to treat each resurfacing pattern as temporary material now available for forgiveness rather than as an identity. Breath, willingness, loving support, goal-focused forgiveness, and Rukha d’Qudsha are woven together as pathways through resistance into greater freedom.

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