Radio Show Archive – December 2025

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Tim then moves into a deeper exploration of regulatory speech as taught by Dr. Ryce. He reflects on his own writing about the word vulnerability and how people often load it with associations of danger. He explains that while the true self cannot be harmed, the human mind generates illusions that feel real, which then require courage to confront. He differentiates between using a word like “vulnerable” in a worksheet to resonate buried fear-based patterns versus consciously choosing new language — like “open” — to reprogram perception. A caller shares her own experience with this exact struggle, leading Tim to unpack how generational trauma, childhood imprinting, and thought disorders create false ideas of danger and separation. He stresses that fear arises not from actuality but from illusions created by the carbon-based memory system, which simply records and regurgitates whatever has been programmed into it.

As the dialogue continues, Tim clarifies the distinction between carbon-based memory and perception. He explains that carbon-based memory is merely storage — like a computer hard drive — while perception is the active process that often distorts experience when it is built on inaccurate data. Negative emotion, he reminds the group, is the built-in guidance alarm showing that perception is “off the mark.” A discussion follows about introversion, authentic openness, and maintaining internal safety even in stimulating environments. Another listener brings up the experience of being overlooked or “chopped liver,” and Tim frames this as an opportunity for self-observation rather than self-judgment.

Tim closes the show with a long reflection on women’s empowerment and historical distortion of women’s intellectual worth. He reads from a powerful article about Antoinette Brown Blackwell, who rebutted Darwin’s sexist claims about female inferiority with scientific rigor so strong that Darwin never responded. Tim connects this to modern patterns of internalized diminishment in women and explains how patriarchal narratives shape self-perception unless consciously dismantled. He encourages the group to continually question inherited beliefs, whether religious, scientific, or cultural, because truth is revealed through inquiry, not authority. As time ends, Tim reminds listeners that we come from Love, we are made of Love, and everything unlike Love is false — and that life consistently works out better than expected when we stay aligned with that truth.

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December 1, 2025 2^nd hour hosted by dr michael ryce opens with Jeanie holding the space while Ryce joins later. She shares updates on holiday preparations, family gift-shipping, and the ongoing work of editing the Why Again book. She expresses gratitude for Susan Bingham’s collaboration, noting that Susan’s feedback on the worksheets led to important structural improvements, especially reorganizing “afterthoughts” so the main worksheet process remains clean and focused. Susan comments that the Forgiveness App’s wake-up sheet template would benefit Ryce himself because it forces attention to a single focus without distractions or self-recrimination. Jeanie agrees, describing how worksheets tend to sprout “hydra heads,” multiplying insights that belong in afterthoughts rather than interrupting the actual process. She also shares that the book publisher encouraged them not to rush editing before Christmas, especially with her upcoming surgery.

The conversation shifts to participants’ personal processing after the recent intensive. Andrea describes dropping deeply into presence since returning home. Deep shifts are unfolding in her children and life, but this very opening is bringing fear to the surface—fear of stepping back into life, fear of letting go of control, and fear rooted in past trauma when opening deeply once led to being blindsided by assault. Jeanie gently reassures her that what surfaces is never more than she is ready to handle and that each new layer appears only when her vitality is strong enough. Susan adds that vulnerability can feel dangerous for people with trauma histories, and references Tim Hayes’ show that explored vulnerability and cognitive dissonance between past beliefs in danger and present reality grounded in Rukha. She encourages Andrea to view fear not as a warning but as content rising for release, and she leads the group in a breath-based butterfly tapping practice—receiving love on the inhale and extending it to the frightened inner child on the exhale.

Ryce then offers mind shifters using his two-number method. Participants choose numbers, and each mind shifter uncannily mirrors the very issues they were discussing: generational fear, guilt, blame, relationship identity, surrender, safety, abundance, and internalized parental voices. Ryce explains how mind shifters work by resonance—like a tuning fork—and how repeated writing increases the energetic “volume,” making unconscious content conscious so it can be healed. He reminds the group that unconsciousness only exists because humans learned to deny and restrict breath, and that mind shifters help restore awareness.

Sally shares that she is on Kauai, attending Dances of Universal Peace, and during the practice she spontaneously dropped into StillPoint, recognizing it because of the intensive. Remarkably, the mind shifter she drew—about releasing danger and resting in the safety of Being—was word-for-word the intention she had set the night before. Ryce and Jeanie reflect with her on Hawaiian history, colonization, and the need for healing in that land, suggesting that breathwork and worksheets may help her navigate what arises there.

The hour closes with a guided StillPoint practice. Ryce leads the group in softening the jaw, relaxing into Breath, inviting the intelligence of Rukha d’Koodsha, and allowing anything resonated by the mind shifters to surface for forgiveness. He reminds everyone that breath is the key, alignment emerges naturally when Breath enters fully, and the community is here to support each person’s deepening into Love.

Notes & MindShifters from chatroom:

Looking Through The Eyes Of Love… https://youtu.be/9NAXgTw3cuM?si=ox-2oDpzi4EMgmHk

Andria:               7:13 Healing Generations section: “I open the generational barriers in my mind and invite _____ to be fully exposed and healed.”

Susan F:            3:7 Creating Abundance section: “My relationship with ____ gives me opportunities to heal guilt and/or _______.”

Jeanie:                 37:12 Healing Generational Power, Shame and Internalized Parental Voices: “I deeply enjoy it when people “diss” me, ignore me, or discount me – I simply see it as an opportunity to breathe and heal.”

Susan B             24:4 A deep dive into relationship: “Every interaction in my relationships has always been for my highest good.”

Terry W:              16:4 Living as Love and Breath: “Every time my mind or body goes into a funk, I enjoy it and inspired to breathe and do whatever inner work is needed to return to Love.”

Sally R:               36:11 Surrender Trust and Being Carried by Love: “I release all thoughts of danger, breathe and rest in the safety of being.” 12 is “Thank you body, thank you life, Thank you Love.”

Michael:            12:12: Healing Blame: “I am innocent and everyone important to me has acknowledged that.”

Cathy:                 25:5 Healing into abundance: “People in my world love to give me money and support me in being wealthy beyond my wildest dreams.”

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The central theme of the day examines bias, especially unconscious bias, and how it silently shapes perception, belief, and behavior. Tim shares reflections from theologian Richard Rohr, David Grutter, Brian McLaren, and Jackie Lewis, reinforcing that every person carries a matrix of learned assumptions and that the real danger lies not in having biases but in mistaking them for truth. He explains how the mind seeks premature certainty for a sense of safety, even when that certainty is pessimistic or inaccurate. True clarity emerges only when one develops the capacity to sit in uncertainty long enough for deeper understanding to surface.

Tim describes working with clients who struggle to process collective cultural patterns—especially those affecting women in patriarchal systems—without collapsing into blame or shame. He stresses that noticing such systems is not about attacking men or identifying victims but about recognizing inherited distortions that shape views of self-worth and potential. Several listeners share realizations about how patriarchal conditioning has influenced their behavior and inner dialogue; one caller reflects on lifelong pressures to prove her value in male-dominated environments and how emotional reactions such as sadness or relief signal areas ready for healing.

A major teaching of the show is that negative emotion signals internal misinformation, not external threat. Tim repeatedly underscores that any emotional state less than calm demands pausing—like stopping a car in a whiteout—until perception clears. Acting while upset is like “driving with a bag over your head.” He also explains that Aramaic grammatical gender (such as the “feminine elemental” description of Rukha d’Koodsha) has nothing to do with human gender but distinguishes between physical, measurable phenomena and internal, experiential realities.

He encourages listeners to dismantle emotional charge before determining what to believe, especially when confronting new perspectives about culture, spirituality, or personal identity. The conversation expands into deeper insights on internalized patriarchal messages, the process of unlearning, and the merging of masculine and feminine qualities within—understood not as gender but as complementary movements, like in-breath and out-breath.

Tim shares personal stories about times in his own life when emotional overwhelm led to profound growth because he allowed waves of feeling to move through without resisting or pathologizing them. He encourages listeners to trust that moving through emotional intensity—while supported and without acting out—opens clarity and transformation.

He closes by recommending the book The Girl Who Baptized Herself and reminding listeners that women throughout history were often taught to carry burdens they didn’t create. The solution is not blame but awareness, inner clearing, and reclaiming personal authority. He ends with his signature reminder that we come from Love, are made of Love, and that life consistently unfolds far better than the mind imagines—when we are willing to stay present and clear our internal blocks.

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December 2, 2025 2^nd hour opens with warm greetings as Dr. Michael Ryce joins the conversation and immediately deepens the exploration of living from revelation rather than from the tiny mental construct of the carbon-based memory mind. Ryce reflects on his early-morning StillPoint practice, emphasizing that humans were never designed to live inside perceptual hallucinations but to function from direct contact with actuality. This sets the tone for a rich discussion on dropping identification with the body and reclaiming the breath-based awareness central to ancient Aramaic teachings.

Jeanie reads from A Course in Miracles, focusing on the lesson “I am not a body, I am free,” and Ryce highlights the persistent mistranslation of “Holy Spirit” as a metaphysical entity. In Aramaic, he explains, the term refers to the breath—Rukha d’Koodsha—not a ghostlike being. Yeshua was teaching breath entrainment, not conferring a supernatural spirit. He stresses shifting from ideas of “immortality,” which literally means “not mortal,” to the accurate recognition that life is eternal.

Participants share breakthroughs. One woman speaks about realizing how patriarchal conditioning shaped her belief that the feminine was inferior, creating lifelong patterns of proving herself in male-dominated spaces. As she uncovers these layers, Ryce points out subtle body language signaling self-silencing and encourages embracing the safety of speaking her truth. The group explores how feminine and masculine energies within the self must come into balance—beyond cultural distortions rooted in power-person dynamics. Ryce notes that when a woman stands in authentic presence, the true masculine doesn’t resist; only unhealed projections do.

Another caller describes returning from an intensive and facing the contrast between high-awareness community and everyday environments filled with generational mind-energy. Using mind shifters, she uncovered ancestral patterns of hiding truth, fear of belonging, and beliefs about being unlovable. Ryce reframes the deeper reality: a person’s value is never about being “lovable” in the world’s terms but awakening to oneself as the presence of Love.

Additional discussion includes the internal masculine/feminine split, societal conditioning, and how projection makes external relationships mirrors for unhealed inner dynamics. Ryce offers new mind shifters for working through self-image, comparison, and the relationship with oneself. Humor and tenderness flow through the exchanges as participants recognize blind spots and receive community support.

Ryce closes with a sweeping teaching on healing as reconnecting with actuality rather than perception. Perception, he says, is always an internal hallucination projected on the inside of the eyeballs. True healing arises when hostility and fear dissolve through breath and forgiveness, allowing the human system to receive direct energetic input from the Creator’s actuality. This is revelation—not mystical visions, but the natural function of a mind aligned with breath, freed from the distortions of carbon-based memory. Prayer, in its Aramaic meaning, is not begging but remembering the state of being through breath. When the breath is active, the screen of awareness can reflect Truth rather than past generational content.

He emphasizes that every ritual or modality built on perception rather than actuality becomes self-deception. Only the felt sense of Love’s presence, the activation of breath-life in tissue, reorganizes physiology into its original design. Holding love as the organizing principle allows healing to become a normal function of daily life. Ryce ends by joining the group in breath and reaffirming commitment to living as the presence of Love.

Notes from chatroom:

Susan F: Just came up with MindShifter for my truth.  “It is safe, easy and healing for me to trust my truth and to speak it in presence of masculine even when it is not fully received”

michael: change the last part to “…..as the masculine joyfully and approvingly receives my truth.”

Susan B: MindShifter: “People have always admired, uplifted and acknowledged me especially those important to me.”

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Tim then shifts into the story of a woman mystery writer whose research corrected major historical misconceptions about King Richard III. He uses the example to illustrate how power structures—academic or otherwise—often invalidate truth when it arises through a marginalized or unexpected voice, particularly when it comes through women. This connects to his broader point: the human mind prefers the familiar, even when the familiar is untrue, and pushes away what threatens its conditioned certainty.

A caller mentions chronic self-blame patterns, which Tim frames as an example of habitual negative thinking masquerading as “truth.” He explains that people raised in environments where familiarity equals safety often defend their conditioning fiercely, even if that conditioning is painful. Tim then opens a major thread for the day: introducing listeners to J. Krishnamurti, the teacher assigned to him in his first Jungian analysis. Tim reads from Commentaries on Living and reflects on Krishnamurti’s central theme—our lives become fragmented and conflicted when we fill the mind with knowledge but disconnect from intuitive openness, creativity, and what Krishnamurti calls “creative happiness.” Childhood reveals this clearly: before educational and social conditioning tighten around them, children naturally access insight, presence, and connection to something beyond the intellect.

Tim reads Krishnamurti’s critique of education as an over-emphasis on the technical mind at the expense of the intuitive, subtle, spiritual dimensions of being. This relates directly to Michael Ryce’s teaching that the nine-bit mind is not the place from which healing, inspiration, or forgiveness arise. Tim reflects that schools often “stuff the upper mind with factoids,” creating a mental warehouse filled with unorganized boxes, while diminishing the child’s natural connection to intuitive wisdom. Krishnamurti’s teaching that conditioning arises from attachment—whether to people, beliefs, work, ideology, or identity—resonates strongly with MindShifters principles. Tim highlights Krishnamurti’s piercing observation: attachment functions as escape from one’s inner emptiness, and all escapes—whether through work, spirituality, alcohol, success, or even “doing good”—are equally forms of conditioning that block awareness.

Tim emphasizes the transformative question Krishnamurti asks repeatedly: Is your question coming from direct experience or merely from words? Thought itself, Krishnamurti argues, is the structure of escape, and the mind quiets not by effort or discipline but only when it realizes that its own activity is the source of its pain. Tim links this to Ryce’s insight that all healing occurs when we “drop out of the mind” and open to inspiration rather than mental control. He closes by reminding listeners that when the mind becomes still, even for a moment, the real can appear—insight beyond thought, intuition beyond conditioning, and the lived experience of the Love that we are. Tim ends the hour with his usual reminders: we come from Love, we are made of Love, we actually are Love, and every time life fails to go “as we think it should,” it ends up unfolding far better than expected.

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December 03, 2025 2^nd hour Dr. Michael Ryce facilitates a deep discussion on healing pre-verbal trauma, the collapse of carbon-based perception, and the experiential difference between the mind’s hallucinations and actuality. Susan shares her mind shifter work and describes dropping into early childhood scenes where she absorbed the belief she was “on her own.” Ryce explains that true healing often happens beneath language because actuality cannot fit inside the nine-bit carbon-based memory system. He shares a recent inner message—“your ears were only made to hear the voice of Love”—emphasizing that human physiology was designed only for Love, not for hostility or fear.

Susan relays her daughter’s meditation image of “paying attention to the bumblebee while it’s buzzing” as a metaphor for staying fully present, even when the world feels chaotic. Ryce notes that presence is the only way to stay rooted in actuality as perception shifts. Dawn then joins the conversation and discusses her traumatic brain injury, overwhelm, and long history of family pain. Ryce recounts his own childhood brain injury and a recent breath-based neurological healing experience, offering it as evidence that deep repair is possible through reconnecting to actuality.

Dawn also shares about rescuing her father from Ecuador, caring for him through cancer, and uncovering family secrecy and generational depression. Ryce frames this through the Aramaic teaching: “Look to the lives of the fathers; ours is but a shadow of theirs upon the earth.” Most of us, he explains, are living out multi-generational carbon-based patterns. Real healing requires us to be “out of our minds,” which is exactly what Aramaic forgiveness accomplishes by collapsing the perceptual outputs of carbon-based memory. He reinterprets the “forty years in the desert” as a metaphor for the unconscious, where the old energetic generation must die off so that true Being can emerge.

Andrea then shares a striking testimony from StillPoint Breathing and a recent intensive. In a vast “cosmic womb” state, she saw her identity as a brain-injured person dissolve as a story that had served its purpose but was now complete. From a field she described as Christ-consciousness, she chose a new identity and now no longer experiences herself as brain-injured. She also sensed collective and ancestral patterns leaving her body like shimmering waves. Ryce validates this as the release of interference patterns and the restoration of original design. Another participant shares a past awakening where her worldview shattered like glass shards—an image Ryce connects to his own desert mirage experience, illustrating how the mind’s projected world collapses when exposed to truth.

The dialogue turns toward healing distortions around the masculine. Andrea shares her current mind shifters on seeing the truth of the masculine rather than generational distortions built from self-hate and trauma. Ryce ties this into Tim Hayes’ earlier reading of Krishnamurti on the nature of thought and escape, reminding listeners that all thought separates us from direct experience, and breath is the doorway back.

The group then holds Sally’s mother in prayer and breath, surrounding her with comfort and Love. Ryce explains the MindShifters & StillPoint Breathing Club structure: 37 themed sections with 13 mind shifters apiece, covering issues like fear, hostility, abundance, intimacy, betrayal, male–female dynamics, illness, and generational patterns. Participants choose a blind mind shifter, write deeply from it, and process it in monthly weekend Zoom sessions. Andrea selects section 3, mind shifter 13 on abundance: “I’m intuitively guided to inspire the decision makers to provide all the support I need,” which perfectly aligns with her current unfolding. Ryce closes by blessing the group and reminding everyone that this can be the best year yet of their eternal lives.

Chatroom: MindShifter Andria: 3:13  “I am intuitively guided to inspire decision makers to provide all the support I need.”

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The main teaching of the day comes through a long, powerful reading from Alan Watts, whose perspective Tim notes aligns with the Way of Mastery, Guy Finley, Abraham-Hicks, and the teachings of Michael Ryce. Watts frames desire not as a flaw but as a compass pointing toward who we truly are. According to this view, the universe responds not to our verbal wishes but to our deeper emotional state—our “frequency.” People often believe they want abundance, love, or peace, yet live emotionally in fear, scarcity, or anticipation of rejection, and the universe mirrors that energetic posture back. Watts explains that life is an “energetic mirror” that reflects identity, not words, and that transformation happens through awareness rather than force. He stresses that inner state precedes outer form, that wanting is ultimately a longing for a feeling rather than an object, and that one must become emotionally aligned with what one hopes to receive.

Tim highlights several lines about the universe “evolving us through our desire,” meaning that challenges are not punishment but preparation—the growth necessary to hold the very reality we say we want. He draws connections to Michael Ryce’s insistence that true healing requires getting “out of your mind,” since thought itself is often built on error. Tim notes that every time a worksheet lowers an upset level, it proves directly that emotion is being generated from the inside, not caused by outside people or events. This becomes the experiential basis for trust.

A caller shares insights from a recent retreat, describing deeper awareness of power-person dynamics, especially around internalized beliefs about the masculine and feminine, and the delusion of needing protection. She describes shifting from head-based living to the felt sense of truth, and Tim affirms how resonance and conditioning shape the automatic response system. He encourages dismantling old internal messages—particularly those inherited from patriarchal culture—so that one’s own judgment can become trustworthy and safe again.

Their dialogue explores how delusions of danger, protection, and distrust dissolve through consistent practice, curiosity, and presence. They reflect on how retreats create powerful energetic containers that allow group resonance and mutual healing. Tim also discusses how different intensives each have unique chemistry, and how every challenge offers the exact lesson needed for the next stage of growth.

Tim closes with the reminder that we are made of Love, that everything unlike Love is false, and that life consistently unfolds better than expected when one aligns internally and releases resistance.

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December 04, 2025 2^nd hour opens with Jeanie welcoming listeners while caring for her grandson, sharing updates on the ongoing project of converting archives and YouTube uploads. She and Ryce note the community’s support and the nearing milestone of YouTube monetization. Kerry then shares deep processing work sparked by the previous night’s mind-shifter: “It is safe, healing, and easy for me to be fully known, appreciated, and cherished.” Her writing uncovers layers of shame, belonging, self-protection, and early marriage trauma involving cultural shaming. She recognizes how vulnerability was used against her, how safety and trust are intertwined, and how patriarchal conditioning contributed to internalized judgments. She explores the grief of never feeling fully known and the realization that belonging must first be restored within. She reflects on privilege, on her activism conducted without mud-slinging, and on how integrity shaped her public work.

Ryce and Susan offer reflections affirming her clarity and courage. They highlight her steady growth, the opportunity to dismantle power-person dynamics, and the importance of claiming her inherent worth: “I am the package.” Susan emphasizes that every aspect of oneself belongs within oneself, and that each person on the call is a privilege to be with because they reflect aspects of one’s own Being. Ryce encourages Kerry to consider grief work tied to early relational losses and to release disapproval absorbed from others.

A question arises about how we know God loves us. Ryce responds with his foundational correction: God does not “love” in the cultural sense. Rather, God is Love, and humans are created as the presence of Love. What we call “love” in the world is often approval-based, conditional, or transactional, whereas true Love is a state of Being. In Aramaic, Yeshua never commands people to “love one another,” but to maintain Rakhma, the frontal-lobe filter that blocks hostility and aligns goals with Love so perception and behavior reflect Being rather than carbon-based memory. This reframes the entire conversation about worthiness and belonging.

Sally reports her mother’s hospitalization and the intense internal work it brought up. Ryce affirms her ability to shift from guilt and fear into Love, noting how her clearing likely impacted her mother’s energetic field. Susan echoes the theme that conscious Presence creates openings for truth.

Susan then shares a profound experience of sensing physiological shifts during Ryce and Dan’s breath practice, describing a transformation in the masculine field and the broader movement of Yeshua’s teachings resurfacing through humanity. Ryce acknowledges the depth and timing of this work.

Cami enters with insights about separation, asking why masculine and feminine are discussed if separation is illusory. Ryce explains that we live in an optical delusion shaped by internalized thoughts of division, and forgiveness dissolves these pictures. The group discusses gender identity, childhood perception, and societal labels. Cami reflects on her niece’s early transition, her own childhood identification with boys, and the complexity of holding love without judgment. Ryce encourages her to release the “what ifs,” support the child with conscious Love, and recognize that alignment with Being—not judgment—invites truth to surface.

The show closes with gratitude, recognition of the deep work unfolding, and shared commitment to walking each other home through breath, awareness, and Love’s presence.

Notes from chatroom:

MindShifter: “My presence and being are enough to inspire approval from my parents, my husband and everyone who is important to me.”

Angelic Presence:       Defining masculine and feminine is part of the collection that occurs in the journey to remembering wholeness as The Divine.

When thoughts of separation are changed to those of Love then the world is “born again”

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A caller shares extensive processing from the previous support group, describing how deep memories of childhood abuse and trauma poured forward—memories involving violence toward her mother, overwhelming fear, and painful inherited messages of being unwanted. She notes how the work has allowed layers of trauma physiology to surface, even without linear memory, and how subsequent dream material continued releasing long-held energies. She also describes how breathing, Rukha d’Koodsha presence, and co-regulation with a facilitator helped her access nurturing support she didn’t receive as a child. Tim Hayes validates her experience, emphasizing gentleness, the necessity of revisiting feelings from the child’s perspective, and the recognition that she survived what once felt impossible. He reinforces that the false beliefs formed in childhood unravel when seen clearly through an adult lens.

The conversation explores generational trauma, with the caller recognizing energetic patterns reaching through her father’s adoption lineage and the masculine side of her family. She acknowledges that staying present in moments of activation—even when wanting to flee—is a portal for transformation. Tim Hayes encourages her to honor her pace, step away when needed, and return only when resourced, noting that emotional work should never replicate past overwhelm. She observes healing accelerating, with old upsets now moving through in hours instead of weeks, which Tim recognizes as the natural fruit of consistent inner work.

A new participant joins and shares her own history of childhood violence, early spiritual sensitivity, and deep involvement with A Course in Miracles. She describes breathwork experiences in which compassion for her mother arose spontaneously, dissolving old resentments. Discovering Dr. Ryce’s integration of ACIM with ancient Aramaic teachings resonated profoundly, helping her release distorted inherited beliefs about sin and punishment. She reflects on recognizing that nothing “out there” is the cause of inner experience, and that her rapid ability to shift perception stems from years of dedicated practice. Tim welcomes her warmly and describes Michael Ryce’s lifetime of work emerging from ACIM and direct Aramaic translation. He affirms her insight that each emotional charge is an invitation to bring presence to energies that once overwhelmed us, awakening us to the indestructible wholeness beneath trauma.

Both callers speak to the increasing gentleness and compassion arising in their lives as false perceptions dissolve. They acknowledge the miracle of discovering that others’ painful actions stem from their own wounding, not from lack of worth in themselves. Tim reiterates foundational principles: canceling goals, softening into the moment, allowing the “clean and open space” for the Christ-mind to enter, and remembering that our true nature of Love remains untouched. He closes by affirming the community, the tools, and the universal truth that everything not aligned with Love is simply false, and that life consistently works out better than the mind’s fearful projections when we surrender our attempts to control it.

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December 05, 2025 2^nd hour hosted by dr michael ryce – The radio show centers on a profoundly emotional and transformative healing process shared within the MindShifters community. Michael Ryce and Jeanie hold space as a caller, Susan, describes being swept into an unexpectedly deep physiological and emotional release that began at a dentist appointment. The right side of her body seized with old anxiety, and she was flooded with overwhelming sadness and memories she hadn’t consciously accessed. She chose to stay present instead of dissociating, using breath, tapping, and the butterfly technique, and later processing further during Tim Hayes’ workshop. In that group, she recognized projections involving her brother and former husband and felt supported enough to continue unraveling layers of ancestral trauma.

Susan recounts a “rolodex” of painful memories surfacing: witnessing her mother being beaten at age six, internalizing the belief that her mother “deserved it,” and remembering her mother telling her she wished she had never been born. She traces these energies into her father’s adoption trauma and the generational imprint of unwantedness locked in the bones. Ryce affirms that these deeper layers—held in tissue, bone, and genetic memory—must surface to heal. He explains the Aramaic understanding of breath as threefold: the ordinary breath of all creatures, the breath of confusion and hostility, and the Breath of Life, the Creator’s presence. Healing comes by consciously reclaiming the Breath of Life rather than the breath shaped by trauma.

Susan describes confusion as she touches the core belief “this cannot be love,” and Ryce reassures her that the breath will dissolve old patterns. He and Jeanie breathe with her, emphasizing that the group is her true family—a community of coherence, safety, and resonance. Ryce recommends the song “Carry Me” by Peter Kater to support the release of hopelessness and overwhelm, and the group agrees to listen together. Susan feels courage growing as she recognizes that she now has enough vitality to meet what is arising.

Additional callers join in, including Celinda and Cami, offering love and acknowledgment. The community affirms that each person’s healing supports all others—that this is a collective transformation, a “leavening” of consciousness. They reflect on how breath serves as the conductor that brings discordant internal energies into harmony, much like a symphony tuning into coherence. Participants celebrate Susan’s upcoming birthday, her courage, and the profound shift from survival to “thrival.” They speak of co-regulation with Rukha, the Breath, as the source of safety that many never received in childhood.

A powerful turning point comes when the group listens to the music together. Susan experiences a vivid inner vision: she witnesses her own birth from a place of Love, meets herself as a precious newborn, and feels a golden Divine Mother energy flow through her crown, through her mother, and into her arrival into the world. The group recognizes this as a sacred rebirth experience—an anchoring of innocence, wantedness, and belonging. The hymn’s translated words about crossing an ocean of suffering with Divine help mirror the shift she experiences. She expresses gratitude for the group holding the container for this depth of healing, noting that this time she does not collapse or stay stuck for days or weeks. Instead, she feels peace growing, “a peace that surpasses understanding.”

Ryce reflects on the significance of these openings and the accelerating movement happening within the community. Everyone acknowledges the shared journey—walking each other home, breathing together, healing across generations, and witnessing the emergence of a new level of vitality and presence.

Note from chatroom: “Carry Me” by Peter Kater and Snatam Kaur

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Tim highlights that such openings happen because she allowed them, and that the nervous system learns safety through lived experience, layer by layer. He also brings forward the cultural programming that shapes women’s internalized doubt, sharing examples from Megan Watterson’s writings about patriarchy, Thecla, Mary Magdala, and the long history of suppressing women’s authority, intelligence, and spiritual autonomy. He notes how deeply such programming embeds itself, and that real healing requires acknowledging it rather than avoiding the topic for fear of “playing victim.”

The caller continues exploring the energetic shift she witnessed in herself and others, describing how the masculine—both internally and externally—drops into rest when the feminine is grounded in Love without performance. Tim reframes this as defensiveness dissolving, allowing the breath to move freely rather than triggering fight-or-flight patterns. Her insights extend into generational healing as she begins love-exchanges with family members, including a brother in a mental hospital, recognizing that true connection comes from the safety within herself.

Another caller, Celinda, shares that her core issue is “disconnect,” and Tim walks her through a full worksheet process centered on grief, pain, and the belief that she cannot connect with those she loves. Through breathing into physical sensations rather than staying in her intellect, she accesses early images from childhood and feels energy releasing from her heart space and body. Tim emphasizes that cancellation of a goal is temporary—only long enough to reveal the unconscious material attached to it—and that reinstituting the goal becomes safe once internal tension resolves. He further explains how those with strong intellectual capacity often rely on thinking rather than sensation, which becomes a barrier to healing, and encourages regulatory speech to shift self-generating fear patterns.

The hour ends with reminders that we come from Love, are made of Love, and are Love—and that every time events fail to go as planned, they inevitably unfold into something better than imagined.

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December 8, 2025 2^nd hour hosted by dr michael ryce opens with Jeanie hosting while Ryce finishes errands and cares for the grandchildren. She shares updates about their son Ryan’s trip to Vanderbilt for his annual post–brain-tumor checkup and reflects on the joy and intensity of having both grandchildren overnight. The show becomes a deeply heartfelt, communal session when Terry reports that his son Ian has been hospitalized after a severe alcohol-related collapse, followed by sedation and time on a ventilator. The group responds with compassion and steady presence, acknowledging both the heartbreak of relapse and the tangible spiritual work required to navigate generational trauma, addiction patterns, and the human tendency to shut down breath—thereby shutting down intelligence—when overwhelmed. A collective Love Exchange is offered for Ian, Terry, and the entire family system, weaving breath, intention, and resonance into the field.

Conversation expands into the spiritual physics of breath as Ryce joins and emphasizes that breath is the sole vehicle of intelligence, life, and alignment with the energy of Love. He recounts the Hawaiian concept of haole — “one who greets without breath” — as a reminder that prayer, presence, and communion are only real when breath is engaged. Prayer, he explains, is not words but alignment: “to set a trap for God,” meaning to orient one’s internal antenna back toward the active presence of Love. This leads seamlessly into newcomer Sarah’s profound inquiry about how to pray after realizing, through Ryce’s teachings, that the “Holy Spirit” is actually the breath of Life, not a separate external entity. Ryce clarifies that true prayer is a state of being — a life lived as openness to Love — and not petitions or repeated phrases. Sarah shares emotional breakthroughs tied to years of internal devotion, A Course in Miracles study, and the relief of finding teachings that integrate Aramaic truth with lived spiritual practice.

The latter part of the show turns toward personal healing work as Cammie shares two important “miracles” from her worksheets. First, she recognizes how expectations and old abandonment patterns shape her reactions. Second, she begins unraveling a lifelong belief that she is a burden, reinforced by family history and relational trauma. Through inquiry with Ryce and Susan Flueck, she discovers that her belief that “friends are too much work” and her reluctance to receive support mirror an internal demand that she always be the one giving. This exposes deeper self-blame tied to the death of a friend and a pattern of self-victimization. Ryce guides her to the core forgiveness target: the goal that others “be there for me also.” When that goal collapses, the energetic burden begins to dissolve. A key mind-shifter arises: “My own attention is enough.” The show closes with shared breath, compassion, and acknowledgment of the profound generational and individual healing unfolding in real time.

Links from chatroom:

https://www.youtube.com/michaelryce_whyagain   lots of videos

Power Point https://youtu.be/HNybssMwyQo

Living, not saying, The Lord’s Prayer: https://youtu.be/UryDQSqPYEc

MindShifter: “My own attention is enough!”

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Tim resumes his reading from Krishnamurti, focusing on a dialogue about the fear of inner solitude. Krishnamurti describes the necessity of “dying” to each moment—letting the past dissolve so renewal can occur. He explains that psychological continuity creates suffering because yesterday generates today’s worries. The woman he is counseling reveals that despite years of spiritual study and social work, she remains unfulfilled and unable to go beyond superficial depth. Krishnamurti guides her to see that her fear of “inner solitude” is not fear of solitude itself but fear generated by the known trying to interpret the unknown. Thought cannot comprehend the unknown because thought is a product of the past; therefore, every attempt to “understand” inner solitude produces fear. True insight arises only when thought stops trying to control experience and one simply observes. Tim weaves in commentary from Guy Finley and Dr. Ryce, reinforcing that the “new” cannot be grasped by old mental habits and that true presence requires letting go of the mind’s dictates.

A caller, Sarah, then shares an intensely emotional experience involving her sister’s traumatic childbirth emergency, her own simultaneous pregnancy loss, and the overwhelming isolation she felt while hemorrhaging alone in the hospital. The story reveals deep layers of shock, responsibility, grief, and fear. Tim gently helps her identify the active thought—“I have to do this all on my own”—and the grief associated with it. Using the worksheet framework, he guides her to uncover the underlying goal: wanting strong, obvious, loving support during crisis. Through the cancellation-of-goals process, softening, and breathing, Sarah accesses a profound physical and emotional shift, describing her heart space opening and a sense of calm replacing the earlier overwhelming pain.

Tim affirms her courage, explains how vitality increases after emotional release, and prepares listeners for the natural cycles of energetic integration following deep work. He reminds her that what surfaced now did so because she finally has enough energetic strength to process it. Sarah acknowledges a powerful sense of relief, and Tim emphasizes hydration, breath, and self-care as she continues healing. The hour closes with the central teaching: we come from Love, we are made of Love, and everything unlike Love is simply the false data of the past. When we let go of the belief that life must match our expectations, events often unfold better than we imagined.

YouTube for 1st hour https://youtu.be/tZkkhAmjDU0 or on our Podetize player at https://whyagain.org/mindshifters-radio-show-player-for-archives/

December 9, 2025 2^nd hour hosted by dr michael ryce, opens with Jeanie welcoming listeners into a space of breath, presence, and renewal as participants settle in for the second hour. A caller shares a powerful shift in her relationship with her brother, who had dismissed her as “crazy” during a discussion about COVID. Instead of reacting from old patterns, she breathed, observed, and recognized the deeper unconscious patterning being mirrored. She began exploring the internal places where she had believed herself “crazy,” uncovering ancestral themes of women being invalidated within patriarchal structures. She notices a dissolving of internal division between her own masculine and feminine energies, and feels physiological movement along her spine as integration deepens. Ryce affirms that hostility and fear themselves are forms of mental illness and that patriarchal traditions often project that illness onto women. He supports her in recognizing that she stepped into true sanity by maintaining presence rather than matching her brother’s distortion.

She continues describing how her worksheet work led her to the realization that sanity exists only in the mind of God, not the illusions of the non-being mind. She experiences a sense of returning from separation into oneness. Ryce highlights that words rooted in hostility create distorted constructs, whereas Yeshua offered words rooted in Love that align the mind with actuality. He emphasizes that most of Yeshua’s language was turned backward through Greek influence, and that part of awakening is reclaiming original meaning.

As Jeanie updates the group on her son’s encouraging medical report and her ongoing foot healing, another layer of conversation unfolds around the inner masculine, the power of breath, and how Love changes relational dynamics. Participants reflect on being present with loved ones and breaking generational patterns. The caller describes using the “love exchange” breathing practice everywhere she goes and how dramatically it shifts people’s responses.

Another participant describes deep breathwork where Ryce appeared in a dream-state offering support during the release of old pain. Ryce uses this to clarify a major shift now occurring in his writing: Yeshua was not primarily a teacher but one who gave tools to collapse perception so people could step into direct revelation. He contrasts the nine-bit perceptual mind with the 20-trillion-bit actuality, explaining that forgiveness collapses the carbon-based structures that block revelation. Breath becomes the key to stepping out of the non-being mind into the state Yeshua called “life.”

Conversation turns to family healing, ancestral heart work, and the role of being resourced enough to support others. Participants discuss the “love exchange,” codependence group, and recent intensive experiences at HeartLand. Ryce describes how the smallest distortions introduced by Greek cosmology—especially the shift from breath to “spirit”—created massive conceptual separation from actuality. He emphasizes that in Aramaic we are breath-beings, not spirit-beings, and the loss of this distinction is one of humanity’s oldest fractures.

A caller asks about Aramaic meanings related to prayer, and Ryce clarifies that prayer means aligning oneself so as to “capture” or resonate with the active presence of Love—not forcing anything. He offers gentler language such as resonance, communion, alignment, or revelation. Discussion moves to primary and secondary purpose, with Ryce explaining that as one aligns with secondary purpose, primary purpose (connection with the Divine) naturally falls into place, just as Rakhma and Kuba interact as mutually supportive filters. Breath becomes the mechanism through which revelation replaces perceptual constructs.

The show ends with more sharing from participants, including gratitude, reflections on children and grandchildren, and the lived experience of Love in everyday relationships. Ryce closes by reminding listeners that we come from Love, are made of Love, and that every collapse of perception brings us nearer to actuality, where the breath reveals what the mind cannot teach.

From Chatroom:

michael ryce: Here is the link to an awesome piece of ancestral work that a woman did in our Codependence to Interdependence /Communication Practicum recently. A powerful opening and healing of generational physical, mental and emotional trauma… https://whyagain.org/letter-to-ancestors/

Link to CoDependence Study group https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86851382107?pwd=qFHBXfqw6sFCNXuapUZXFSglGSNU2A.1 Meeting ID: 868 5138 2107    Passcode: 123456

michael ryce: Facilitated CoDependence is part of the Codependence to Interdependence/Communication Practicum… https://whyagain.org/event/codependence-to-interdependence-and-respons-ability-communication-intensive/

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A caller, Sarah, expressed gratitude for a worksheet session the day before, describing how sauna use and hydration seemed to open deeper physical and emotional detox. She shared an experience of softening into breath, dropping identification with the “I,” and settling into “am-ness” and “is-ness,” where breathing became so subtle it felt nearly absent. Tim affirmed her experience, pointing her to available audio recordings of the verbal release process and reinforcing that such states arise naturally when the mind relaxes into presence. Another caller, Linda, connected Sarah’s experience to the Qigong concept of “embryonic respiration,” where breath becomes so refined that no outer movement is visible. This led to a discussion about natural breath during early life, the subtlety of presence, and how these states are not manufactured but discovered.

Tim returned to the reading from Krishnamurti’s Commentaries on Living—a dialogue in which a seasoned schoolteacher begins to uncover a lifelong undercurrent of hate beneath a persona of kindness. The dialogue explores how thought, which is always rooted in reaction, opposition, and the pursuit of fulfillment, inevitably generates hate when it dominates the heart. Krishnamurti demonstrates that suppression, ideals, pride in self-knowledge, and jealousy all arise from the same mental movement. The woman is startled to see that she has lived from this inner antagonism for decades, yet through simple watching—without judgment—she begins to feel strangely unburdened. Tim highlighted Krishnamurti’s core point: that insight comes not from “doing” but from passive awareness. Attempting to “do something about it” is another movement of thought and only recreates new conflict. Seeing the false as false allows the truth to stand on its own, without effort.

Several listeners responded to the reading with raw honesty. One caller, Susan, identified deeply with the teacher’s confession of hate and described the relief of being “found out.” The group explored how worksheets mirror this recognition by stripping away goals, expectations, and self-images until one encounters essence without pretense. Tim emphasized that this isn’t “nothingness” in the nihilistic sense but presence without the coverings of thought. Celinda spoke to how the removal of the “cloak” reveals raw energy before form. The conversation turned toward how conditioning—praise, punishment, distraction—keeps people from experiencing their own power and essence.

Tim also shared background on Krishnamurti and why he chose Commentaries on Living for the current readings. He described how Krishnamurti dismantled the organization that intended to proclaim him the reincarnation of Jesus and instead delivered the teaching “Truth is a pathless land,” warning that organizing truth destroys it. This tied directly to the show’s ongoing theme: healing and awakening arise from direct experience, not belief systems.

Tim closed with the reminder that we come from Love, we are made of Love, and everything unlike Love is simply false, followed by his observation that every time life didn’t unfold the way he thought it should, it ultimately turned out far better than he imagined.

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December 10, 2025 2^nd hour dr michael ryce and Andria explore the unfolding of her process following the recent intensive. Andria describes feeling more regulated than ever, noticing a surprising sense of ease and presence, which raised the question of whether she was “still doing the work.” As she stayed in deeper states of trust and surrender, she realized that although her system is much calmer, subtle bracing remains in her diaphragm and physiology, signaling layers of fear and body memory still unwinding. She shares an insight about her long-standing hypervigilance—how even in service roles, client work, and ceremony leadership, she has unconsciously relied on intense attunement to others as a mistaken strategy for safety. Becoming aware of this allowed new grief and release to surface, opening refinement in how she engages with others without self-abandonment.

Ryce responds by recalling Richard Bach’s idea that we teach best what we most need to learn, and how unresolved hypervigilance sends a signal that attracts exactly the dynamics one tries to avoid. He acknowledges how quickly Andria has moved into new depth and stability. Ryce also shares a personal healing moment during morning StillPoint breathing in which he revisited the energetic root of a childhood spinal injury. With breath, he accessed a precise residual sliver of held energy in his low back and witnessed it dissolve after decades of work—an example of how breath carries intelligence and completes healing when timing and readiness align.

Celinda comments on the energetic softening she senses in the community and notes Ryce’s voice shifting as deeper layers clear. Ryce reflects on how significant physiological recalibration has been occurring in him recently. Conversation turns toward scriptural language, the Light within, and the insight that Yeshua’s “I am the light of the world” is not exclusive; he simply removes his “bushel basket” and invites others to do the same.

Jeanie joins to discuss the teaching of primary and secondary purpose. A question arises: what about people who seem uninterested in spiritual development? Ryce explains that the primary purpose—developing a viable conscious spiritual body—is inherent in everyone, whether or not they consciously recognize it. Cultural conditioning, trauma, and denial can bury awareness, but the design remains intact. Awakening to this purpose allows alignment, clarity, and personal power to grow. Secondary purpose, he notes, is unique to each person and becomes the joyful expression of one’s gifts once the primary purpose is acknowledged.

Anita celebrates a major breakthrough involving her desire “to be important,” revealing deeper jealousy and fear that surfaced through worksheets. Ryce guides her back to breath, encouraging StillPoint work and revisiting the Purpose, Personal Power, and Commitment teaching. Celinda expands on Ryce’s reframing of “hate” in scripture—not emotional rage, but separation from breath, from Rukha, from intelligence. Ryce explains that denying breath is the true “unforgivable error” described in Greek theology: not because God withholds forgiveness, but because holding the breath blocks intelligence and locks perception in generational error.

Ryce then delivers an extended teaching on breath, explaining that Western theology removed the central Aramaic understanding of Rukha d’Koodsha as the sacred breath—not a ghost or metaphysical being, but an active feminine force that dissolves error, delivers intelligence, and restores revelation. He dismantles the Greek misinterpretation of “Holy Spirit” and clarifies that Yeshua’s healing method was physiological, not doctrinal. Breath dissolves the distortions of carbon-based memory; forgiveness collapses the perceptual lie; revelation appears when the nine-bit mind becomes empty enough for actuality to write directly into awareness. He emphasizes that StillPoint breathing is not a technique but a doorway into the unconscious where generations of emotional residue dissolve. Breath is to trauma what heat is to ice: remove breath and trauma freezes; introduce breath and it melts.

The hour closes with further reflections on thinking, resistance, and true intelligence. Ryce defines real thinking as the ability to keep love conscious, active, and present while breathing—regardless of external circumstances. Everything else is noise generated by carbon-based memory. As more shows are archived on YouTube and Podetize, Jeanie invites listeners to support ongoing distribution costs. Ryce ends by affirming that forgiveness plus breath restores the human system to its intended function, offering revelation and healing to anyone who chooses to breathe.

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A caller, Susan, raises a concern about the previous day’s Krishnamurti reading. She remembered the passage as using the word “evil” frequently and felt troubled, as if Krishnamurti were implying that anyone not in perfect presence or love was fundamentally bad. Tim checks the text and finds the word “evil” does not appear at all; the passage was about hate, not evil. What’s more, it wasn’t Krishnamurti condemning anyone—rather, it was a woman discovering her own long-suppressed hatred, and Krishnamurti inviting her to examine it without judgment. Tim emphasizes that Krishnamurti never taught that people are “rotten to the core.” Instead, he invited people to observe the mechanics of mind, sensation, and thought, and to see how these create the illusion of separation.

Tim reads again from Commentaries on Living, where Krishnamurti explores the nature of hate and the way thought becomes a barrier to love. Krishnamurti describes love as a flame without the smoke of thought, jealousy, or antagonism. Thought is not the enemy, but it is sensation—and when we live in thought, we are not living in direct connection with life or love. Tim highlights the central point: the belief in separation is the core distortion. We are never actually separate from Love or from each other; we only think we are. To believe in separation, therefore, is a kind of mental illness—not a moral failure, but a mistaken perception.

Susan reflects on judgment she received as a child, being called “critical,” and recognizes that much of her self-image grew from interpretations of early experiences rather than truth. Tim encourages her to revisit those memories with new eyes, recognizing that what was labeled “critical” may actually have been intelligence, sensitivity, or awareness. Another caller joins in, connecting this discussion to family trauma and how unconscious hate or resentment moves down through generations. She shares about doing mind shifters revealing deeply buried thought-forms of resentment and violence, and how the Krishnamurti passage helped her understand that these forms are not her essence but residues of separation and belief.

Tim expands on the idea that negative conclusions are always based on false premises. If a thought leads to a negative perception of self or others, it must be rooted in a distortion. Therefore, negative equals false. He also reiterates Michael Ryce’s insight that to heal we must be willing to be “out of our minds”—to step out of the thought-constructed world and into direct presence.

The conversation moves into the nature of education, questioning, and true intelligence. Tim notes that children naturally learn by questioning until schooling conditions them to stop. True education, he says, is educare—drawing out what is within, not pouring information in. This connects to the spiritual task of living in the question rather than seeking fixed answers.

Toward the end of the hour, Susan shares an upsetting email she received from someone blaming her for his suffering. Tim encourages her to hold compassion, recognizing that anyone who attacks must be in pain and projecting their internal distress outward. He reminds listeners of Pierre Pradervand’s “whitebirds and blackbirds” teaching: send out only what you want to receive, and don’t send negative energy—because whatever you send out creates openings for the same to return.

Tim closes by reminding everyone that we come from Love, we are made of Love, and everything unlike Love is a temporary illusion. He repeats his lived observation that whenever life has not gone the way he thought it should, it has always turned out far better than he imagined.

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dr. michael ryce… In this Why is this HAPPENING TO ME…AGAIN?! session we explore the profound relationship between human perception, emotion, and recurring patterns of distress. At its core, the workshop asserts that relative to the human body-mind-nervous system there are two types of energy: integrative and disintegrative. Integrative energies result in well-being, while the disintegrative fosters disease, suffering, and emotional turmoil.

Experiences, embedded in the cellular structure create patterned, repeating feelings, perceptions and behaviors when resonated into activity by life experiences. These patterns, inherited through the genes, cause repeated life challenges, which most blame on circumstances rather than looking within and unresolving life issues at the cause level.

All FELT emotions such as hostility, fear, grief, hate and anger, are reflections of stored cellular energies. The pretense they are externally caused is a result of denial and dissociation from the real source of all suffering which is internal. This denial creates an unnatural condition called the unconscious, which makes, until one has the tools to uncover their own unconscious dynamics, resolution is impossible and the repeating experience of generationally patterned pain inevitable.

“Until the unconscious becomes conscious it will direct our lives and we will call it fate!” Carl Jung

Why, you ask? Unconscious energies, by the act of being denied and hidden are strengthened in their activity! Energy, by definition is motion. All motion creates waves of radiating energy and resonance, the energy exchange produced when matching energies meet, explains why unresolved emotional traumas flat out attract similar situations, with similar people, repeatedly!

People repeatedly find themselves in toxic relationships or negative environments, unaware that their own unresolved issues are both drawing in these experiences and inclining them toward behaviors that perpetuate the insanity. Note: each person involved in a conflict is SURE it is the other person’s fault… AGAIN!

An essential component of this work is the recognition that human beings are designed to function as embodiments of Love. To recapture our natural state we each must face, access and remove the INTERNAL cause of our hidden pain. The ultimate goal of this practice is to shift from being controlled by dissociated, unconscious emotional patterns to being governed by the Conscious, Active Presence of Love. To heal the patterned perceptions shaped by hostility and/or fear to those based clarity, serenity, and connection to one’s True Self.

If you cannot extend Love to your worst enemy YOU have given up your Human Life!

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LEARN HERE, HOW TO COLLAPSE FALSE, UNCONSCIOUSLY DRIVEN PERCEPTIONS, ELIMINATE TRAUMA STORED IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND RETURN TO YOUR ORIGINAL, NATURAL STATE OF SERENITY AND LOVE!

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Tim reflects on a recent exchange with Susan Bingham, who received an angry, venom-filled email from someone she had previously helped. He reiterates a core principle of the work: whatever comes out of another person is always about what is happening inside them, not about the recipient. By practicing this awareness, people can avoid reactive patterns and the futile effort of trying to manage others’ emotions. Susan shares how applying breath and perspective helped her stay centered and how Tim’s reminder about Pierre Pradervand’s Gentle Art of Blessing allowed her to reverse the energetic charge of the situation rather than absorbing it.

The conversation turns to the concept of demons and evil spirits when Susan relays her daughter’s suggestion that the angry man might be “possessed.” Tim states clearly that he does not work from a demon framework and is not an expert in that area. He acknowledges that many intelligent and well-trained people believe in such phenomena and references Emma Bragdon’s work on spiritism and mental health in Brazil, where intuitive and energetic practices are integrated with psychiatry. However, Tim explains that his lived experience consistently points to perception and belief as the primary mechanisms shaping experience. When people believe something outside themselves is causing their suffering, that belief itself organizes perception and behavior. The tools of this work aim to restore personal power by turning attention inward rather than externalizing cause.

Susan shares two personal experiences where she and another person independently felt overwhelming dark energy in specific environments, raising questions about unseen influences. Tim responds that while he cannot explain these phenomena definitively, there is abundant evidence that unconscious emotional patterns and “invisible energies” shape attraction, relationship dynamics, and repeated life patterns. He recounts an example from John Cleese’s group therapy experience in which people nonverbally paired with others who shared similar family-of-origin emotional patterns, illustrating that attraction operates far beyond conscious logic. Healing occurs when these unconscious patterns are brought into awareness and dissolved through inner work.

The dialogue expands into metaphor and insight as Tim describes an image of a vast tapestry, with each human being as a single thread. Zooming in too closely distorts the image, just as focusing too narrowly on self-judgment or comparison distorts perception. The group explores the relief that comes from softening self-criticism, releasing “shoulds,” and learning to chuckle at the mind’s fearful narratives rather than taking them as truth. Tim emphasizes that anger and hostility function as perceptual distortions that block accurate seeing, and their presence is simply an alarm signaling that perception is off the mark.

As the hour closes, Tim encourages gentleness, playfulness, and self-observation as essential qualities of true intelligence. He references teachings from the Way of Mastery and Krishnamurti, noting that separation, judgment, and denial of the shadow cut people off from their own power. The invitation, he says, is always to turn inward, question beliefs, breathe, and allow awareness to restore clarity. He ends with his recurring observation that whenever life has not gone the way he thought it should, it has always turned out far better than he imagined.

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December 12, 2025 2^nd hour hosted by Dr. Michael Ryce, the group explored the lived experience of breath as the primary pathway to healing, awareness, and direct connection with the Creator. The conversation opened with informal check-ins that quickly became a live demonstration of StillPoint Breathing and nervous system regulation, as one participant released a long-held attachment to coffee and immediately experienced physical sensations of energy release, particularly on the right side of the body. This moment became a teaching example of how habitual stimulants can mask deeper emotional and physiological patterns, and how conscious breathing allows suppressed material to surface and integrate.

Dr. Ryce shared recent personal insights arising from extended daily StillPoint practice, describing profound physiological shifts including jaw release, cranial pulses, and what he experienced as ongoing brain detoxification. These experiences led him to a pivotal realization: Y’Shua was not presenting himself as the way to God, but as the one who reveals the way-shower, which is the breath itself. Dr. Ryce emphasized that the Aramaic teachings consistently point to breath, not a disembodied “Holy Spirit,” as the active intelligence that guides, heals, and reveals truth. He explained that later Greek interpretations replaced breath with abstract spirit concepts, disconnecting people from the direct, embodied practice Y’Shua demonstrated.

The discussion deepened into the Aramaic understanding of Rukha d’Qudsha, which Dr. Ryce described as involving a distinct “Qudsha factor” — the breath specifically designed for human physiology. He outlined three breath states recognized in Aramaic thought: basic biological breath shared by all creatures, distorted breath held in fear or hostility, and the clarified human breath that dissolves resistance. When this clarified breath is sustained, resistance collapses, the non-being mind quiets, and awareness shifts from perception to direct revelation of actuality.

Participants explored the limits of language, noting that words like spirit, consciousness, and awareness often obscure direct experience. Several contributors reflected on quantum physics as a bridge language, emphasizing energy rather than dualistic constructs. The group acknowledged that words are only useful insofar as they guide people back to lived experience, and that true understanding arises through sustained breathing practice rather than conceptual agreement. Dr. Ryce reiterated that salvation is not rescue from an external threat but the capacity to remain connected to the breath given at birth.

The hour concluded with reflections on expansion and contraction as natural movements between being and non-being, and the recognition that breath is the narrow gate referenced in ancient teachings. The conversation closed with shared commitment to continued practice, presence, and revelation through breath, affirming that nothing outside the individual can substitute for this direct inner pathway.

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Tim then begins a reflective reading from Commentaries on Living, Series 2 by J. Krishnamurti, focusing on the theme of boredom and the mind’s compulsive drive to acquire. Through vivid imagery and dialogue, the reading explores how boredom arises not from lack of activity, but from the mind’s acquisitive nature—constantly seeking stimulation, satisfaction, or meaning through possession, achievement, knowledge, or experience. Krishnamurti points out that interest fueled by acquisition inevitably collapses into boredom once the object is obtained, creating an endless cycle of wanting, attaining, and weariness.

The discussion deepens as Tim connects this teaching with modern neuroscience, noting how brain activity spikes during anticipation and drops once certainty or acquisition occurs. This reinforces the idea that the mind’s addiction to “figuring things out” or gaining something new dulls sensitivity and presence. Tim relates this directly to Dr. Michael Ryce’s teaching on the non-being mind, explaining that thought is always rooted in past or future and therefore cannot access the living present moment where healing occurs.

As the hour progresses, Tim reflects on Krishnamurti’s insistence that freedom cannot be acquired, disciplined into existence, or achieved through effort. Any attempt to “get” freedom or stillness merely perpetuates the same cycle of acquisition and dissatisfaction. True freedom, he explains, comes from directly experiencing the falseness of the acquisitive process itself. This recognition allows the mind to settle naturally, not through control, but through awareness.

In the latter part of the hour, Tim links these insights to emotional safety, attachment patterns, and grief, particularly the belief that safety or rest depends on being seen or met by others. Through gentle dialogue, he helps illuminate how the belief “I am not safe” originates in thought rather than actuality, and how staying present with bodily sensations—without adding mental narratives—allows old emotional energy to process and release. He introduces the contemplative practice of “not that,” encouraging listeners to question every conceptual label or explanation the mind offers, recognizing that truth is experiential, not verbal.

The hour concludes with a reminder that presence, breath, and awareness—not thought—restore contact with life, love, and wholeness. Tim affirms that we come from love, are made of love, and that every time life unfolds differently than expected, it ultimately unfolds far better than imagined when met without resistance.

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December 15, 2025 2^nd hour hosted by dr michael ryce centers on a deep, experiential exploration of breath as the gateway out of perception, trauma, and separation, and into direct experience of Life, Love, and healing Presence. Michael Ryce, Susan, Kami, and others reflect on the longing to be seen, met, held, and safe, recognizing these desires as early, often generational imprints that cannot be fulfilled externally. Through dialogue and shared reflection, the group repeatedly returns to the understanding that safety, being known, and wholeness arise from within through conscious engagement with the breath, not through relationships, approval, or understanding by others.

Much of the conversation unfolds around the limits of language and cognition. Participants notice how words, thoughts, and even observation itself are layers removed from direct experience. Ryce emphasizes that perception is generated from carbon-based memory and sustained resistance, while truth is accessed only through lived experience beyond thought. Several contributors describe bodily sensations, pulses, and movements arising during breath work that cannot be adequately described, underscoring that healing and knowing occur prior to words. The group recognizes that attempts to “figure it out” intellectually only reinforce the perceptual loop, whereas forgiveness and breath dissolve it.

A major focus of the hour is Ryce’s emerging articulation of what he calls the “d’Qudshā factor,” referring to the largely missing dimension of breath in modern understanding. He explains that breath is not merely oxygen exchange but the living intelligence given at birth—Rukha d’Qudshā—that animates, heals, and restores. Most people, he suggests, function with only a fraction of this breath due to lifelong resistance rooted in fear, hostility, and trauma. Sustained StillPoint breathing allows this deeper breath to engage, overcoming resistance and initiating profound physiological and psychological healing, often described as entering a superconductor or StillPoint state.

Participants share personal experiences of healing through breath, including emotional release, a sense of oneness, spontaneous joy, and even long-term physical recovery such as restored joint mobility. Ryce notes that consistent breath practice breaks addiction to trauma-based perception, though ongoing work remains to unwind accumulated layers. The discussion weaves in Aramaic insights, contrasting breath-centered teachings attributed to Y’Shua with Greek theological distortions that externalized breath into a disembodied “spirit” and introduced fear-based cosmologies of judgment and punishment. Ryce emphasizes that the “kingdom” is not a future realm but a present, embodied state accessed through breath.

The hour closes with reflections on humility, doubt, and wholeness, drawing examples such as John the Baptist to illustrate that transformation requires honesty about one’s unresolved material rather than spiritual posturing. The shared conclusion is that no one is excluded from Life or Love; separation is maintained only by holding the breath. Restoring breath restores Being. Healing, connection, and knowing are not achieved through words or effort, but through allowing the breath to move fully and dissolve what never belonged.

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The discussion centers on recognizing thought as the source of suffering rather than its solution. Drawing from Krishnamurti, Tim explores how emotions like fear, jealousy, depression, and blame arise when memory and conditioning dominate perception. He highlights the distinction between perception filtered through thought and what Michael Ryce calls true perception, an unmediated awareness that emerges only when thought subsides. Several callers share vulnerable personal insights, describing how early trauma, feelings of unsafety, and longing for connection became embedded as bodily patterns and belief systems. Through gentle observation, breath, and presence with sensation, these patterns begin to soften without force or analysis.

A central theme of the hour is the futility of discipline, control, and self-improvement as routes to peace. Using extended passages from Krishnamurti, Tim illustrates how discipline is a subtle form of violence that perpetuates inner conflict by reinforcing the illusion of a separate “thinker” who must control thought. Instead, freedom is described as beginning with passive watchfulness, where thoughts are seen clearly without suppression, judgment, or identification. In this state, the division between thinker and thought dissolves, and the mind naturally becomes still, not through effort, but through understanding.

The hour concludes with a practical experiential emphasis, including reflection on love exchange practices and activities that dissolve the sense of time and self. Tim reminds listeners that intellectual debate about truth cannot replace the lived experience of presence, love, and stillness. He reiterates a core message of the MindShifters work: we come from love, we are made of love, and when thought relaxes its grip, what remains is direct contact with life as it is, whole and undivided.

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December 16, 2025 2^nd hour Michael Ryce opens by inviting listeners to hold the space in breath and care for Susan Bingham as she undergoes hip replacement surgery, framing the show as a living field of support, presence, and intention. He then returns to an interrupted conversation from a prior broadcast and introduces midrash as an ancient Middle Eastern inquiry process rooted in seeking, exploring, and discovering meaning rather than arguing, debating, or proving correctness. Ryce emphasizes that inquiry grounded in unresolved emotional material—especially power-person dynamics—cannot remain true midrash, because projection distorts perception and collapses curiosity into judgment.

Drawing on Kahlil Gibran, A Course in Miracles, and the Aramaic teachings of Y’Shua, Ryce explains that words are “symbols of symbols” and cannot convey truth directly, but can serve as guides toward experience when joined with conscious breath. He contrasts public parables with private teachings, noting that Y’Shua spoke plainly only with those willing to do the internal work required to remove fear- and hostility-based perception. Healing and understanding, Ryce states, never come from words alone, but through forgiveness and breath, which restore intelligence and presence to the human system.

A central theme of the show is the correction of the Greek concept of “spirit” into the Aramaic understanding of breath as the vehicle of life, intelligence, and healing. Ryce reframes Course in Miracles Lesson 222 by replacing “spirit” with “breath,” emphasizing that denial of breath—through fear, hostility, or resistance—is what traps individuals in suffering, not divine punishment or unforgivable sin. Sustained, unrestricted breathing is presented as the physiological mechanism through which pain dissolves and joy naturally emerges.

The conversation then turns relational, as Ryce addresses a moment from the previous show where an inquiry among Susan F, Kerry, and himself was reframed by another participant as an argument about being right. He offers this as an opportunity for deeper healing rather than criticism, naming how power-person dynamics and stress can activate the need to control or teach rather than remain in inquiry. Susan and Kerry reflect that their experience was one of genuine exploration and meaning-making, not debate, and acknowledge both the beauty and fragility of inquiry when unresolved material enters the space.

Participants including Celinda engage openly in reflection, acknowledging ongoing power-person dynamics, resistance to longer worksheets, and the desire to contribute meaningfully without dominance or reactivity. Ryce and others encourage gentle, piece-by-piece engagement with forgiveness tools, emphasizing that all resistance points toward material ready to heal. The show closes with appreciation for honesty, breath-based listening, and the shared commitment to inquiry rooted in presence rather than perception, reinforcing midrash as a living, relational, and healing process when entered with breath and willingness.

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The show centers on an emotionally rich and transparent dialogue among participants reflecting on a recent interaction involving Dr. Michael Ryce, Tim Hayes, and community members. Celinda shares her reflections after revisiting earlier shows, describing how deeper listening revealed her own patterns of over-explaining and seeking connection. Rather than feeling attacked or rejected, she describes recognizing long-standing emotional dynamics rooted in childhood trauma, which surfaced as she applied the worksheet process. This led to insight, emotional release, and a renewed sense of wholeness rather than separation.

Susan Bingham and other callers add perspective, emphasizing how differing perceptions of the same interaction illustrate the core teaching that reality is filtered through personal history and internal states. Susan describes how Celinda’s comments acted as a “pattern interrupter,” helping her move beyond cognitive dissonance into a deeper experiential awareness. The conversation reinforces the idea that no one holds the whole truth and that healing emerges through humility, inquiry, and willingness to look inward rather than defend positions.

As the discussion deepens, themes of responsibility, propriety, power-person dynamics, and attachment to outcomes emerge. Tim reflects on the weight of leadership and the responsibility to serve the community’s well-being while remaining vigilant about his own emotional activations. Participants explore how tension and disagreement, when approached consciously, can become opportunities for growth rather than division. The group repeatedly returns to the principle that whatever is felt belongs to the individual feeling it, and that inquiry is more healing than accusation.

The hour closes with Tim reinforcing the living demonstration of the MindShifters tools in real-time relational challenges. He emphasizes that intellectual understanding alone cannot bring peace when emotional intensity is high, and that practices such as breathing, EFT tapping, journaling, and forgiveness statements are essential for restoring clarity. He reminds listeners that pain indicates mistaken thinking, that repeated application of the tools leads to genuine transformation, and that each person’s work is ultimately inward. Tim ends by reaffirming the core teaching of the work: we come from Love, we are Love, and everything unlike Love is learned and can be unlearned.

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December 17, 2025 2^nd hour hosted by Dr. Michael Ryce with Tim Hayes facilitating, centers on deepening understanding of truth, perception, and inquiry through lived experience rather than dogma. The conversation opens with community updates and care for Susan Bingham following surgery, setting a tone of human connection and compassion. From there, the discussion moves into the concept of Midrash, explained as a gentle, relational form of sacred inquiry rooted in Hebrew tradition, emphasizing exploration, multiple perspectives, and living meaning rather than debate or interrogation. Midrash is contrasted with dogmatic argument, highlighting how curiosity and presence allow truth to unfold without anyone needing to be right.

A central theme emerges around the distinction between “personal truth” and actual truth. Michael Ryce explains that what people often call personal truth is a construct arising from carbon-based memory and perception, limited by past data and emotional filters. Actual truth, by contrast, belongs to the realm of actuality—far beyond what perception alone can grasp. The breath is described as the vehicle that carries the intelligence capable of dissolving false constructs and reorganizing the mind in alignment with truth. Without this breath-based intelligence, perception has no capacity to correct itself and simply reinforces prejudice, fear, and unconscious bias.

The group explores how dogmatic statements shut down meaningful dialogue, particularly around emotionally charged social and political topics. Through real-life examples, the conversation examines how to respond without attack, superiority, or silence that implies agreement. Ryce emphasizes discernment—knowing when to speak, when to inquire, and when to remain quiet—while holding a commitment to treat others with gentleness, respect, and accountability appropriate to the level of harm involved. Accountability is distinguished clearly from punishment, with punishment identified as a root cause of criminality rather than a solution.

Personal stories illustrate how holding rigid “truths” creates internal prisons, while inquiry and forgiveness restore freedom. The discussion returns repeatedly to forgiveness as the removal of internal blockage rather than the correction of others. Community members reflect on the evolving nature of the MindShifters group itself, recognizing a maturation process where participants increasingly embody and share the teachings rather than deferring to authority. The hour closes with reflections on legacy work such as Laws of Living and Emotional Maturity Instruction, honoring Dan MacDougald’s contribution, and concludes with a guided breath meditation emphasizing light, unity, and the dissolving of separation.

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Tim then shares a deeply personal account of a recent intense physical and emotional reaction during the previous day’s show, describing symptoms that mimicked serious medical distress. Drawing on decades of experience with the tools, he explains how he recognized these sensations as the result of unresolved emotional energy rather than a medical emergency. He walks listeners through how repeated worksheet processes gradually reduced the intensity of the upset, even when early worksheets produced little conscious insight. This illustrates how healing often unfolds beneath the level of logic, through persistence and willingness to stay present with uncomfortable sensations.

A breakthrough emerges when Tim connects his present-day visceral reaction to an unresolved incident from his early twenties involving betrayal, accusation, and the drive to please authority figures. He recognizes a long-standing pattern of trying to satisfy everyone and avoid disappointing others, a pattern that created fear, sadness, and physical flooding in both past and present situations. This insight highlights how unprocessed experiences can echo across decades and how the worksheet process can uncover and release those stored energies.

The call-in discussion that follows deepens the theme. Participants describe strong physical reactions such as shaking, dizziness, anxiety, and grief while listening to recent shows or anticipating difficult interactions. Tim gently guides a live worksheet process, helping a caller identify grief rooted in fear of judgment and exclusion. Through breath, forgiveness statements, and body awareness, the emotional charge begins to soften and reorganize, demonstrating how staying present allows old survival patterns to shift into felt safety and openness.

Throughout the conversation, Tim underscores that the work is not about fixing others or managing content, but about dismantling internal processes rooted in power-person dynamics, fear, and the need for approval. He reflects on the importance of practice, likening it to a “Carnegie Hall” level of preparation, where sustained application of the tools builds the capacity to remain present during overwhelm. The show closes with reminders that healing includes mental, emotional, and physical sensations, that harmony and safety are internal states rather than external achievements, and that when one stays aligned with Love, situations often resolve far better than expected.

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December 18, 2025 2^nd hour centered on a deep exploration of breath as the core faculty of human intelligence, healing, and spiritual connection. Dr. Michael Ryce emphasized that what modern culture reduces to “oxygen intake” is only a fraction of what breath truly is, describing breath as the carrier of awareness, vitality, and relational intelligence. Through conversation with participants, the discussion clarified that many religious ideas about a separate “Holy Spirit” originated from Greek distortions and obscured the original Aramaic understanding of breath as the living, indwelling presence of Love itself.

Susan shared her lived experience of how conscious breathing opens space for safety and presence, especially during physical recovery and emotional processing. She described how breath allows her to remain open rather than reactive, helping her access clarity instead of triggers. Michael expanded on this by explaining that humanity has been trained to “greet without breath,” drawing from the Hawaiian term haole, meaning one who approaches life disconnected from breath, compassion, and intelligence. This metaphor was used to describe how fear-based systems, including colonialism and coercive religion, arise when breath is abandoned.

Several participants reflected on trauma surfacing through breathwork, particularly long-held anxiety stored in the body. Susan courageously described recognizing a lifelong pattern of fear-based orientation and dissociation rooted in early experiences of unsafety. Michael and the group held space for this process, emphasizing that such breakthroughs often occur at moments of increased clarity and vitality. Breath was repeatedly framed as the mechanism that allows stored trauma to surface and release without retraumatization.

The conversation also highlighted the Codependence to Interdependence work and the Power Person dynamic, explaining how relationships reveal unconscious patterns and provide opportunities for healing. Michael acknowledged Susan’s leadership in facilitating the self-study group and described how vulnerability, willingness, and breath-centered presence create real transformation within community. Participants expressed gratitude for the depth, patience, and relational honesty present in the work.

Throughout the hour, the theme of humility emerged as essential to healing and teaching. Several speakers noted that true learning occurs when certainty dissolves and breath-based listening replaces judgment. The show concluded with reflections on perception as a construct of the past and a MindShifter reminding listeners that following the intelligence of the breath always leads to a higher outcome. The collective tone was one of compassion, courage, and commitment to walking this work into the world together.

Notes from chatroom

MindShifter: “It is easy for me to stay connected to my breath especially in the spaces where there is conflict and disharmony.”

MindShifter 17:12 section 17 is on Overcoming a Beguiling Ego and #12 is “Perception is nothing more than a replicated construct from my past; listening for and following the intelligence of my breath always results in a higher outcome.”

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Tim revisits a foundational insight from Dr. Michael Ryce’s work: whatever comes out of a person’s mouth only reveals what is happening inside them and says nothing useful about others. From this perspective, advice given to others becomes a mirror, revealing guidance the speaker most needs to apply themselves. When individuals truly realize that they alone generate their emotional experience, they also awaken to the liberating truth that they are not responsible for managing anyone else’s emotions. This recognition fundamentally alters how people relate to conflict, blame, and interpersonal responsibility.

The program then returns to a reading from J. Krishnamurti’s Commentaries on Living, focusing on the nature of conflict, freedom, and relationship. Krishnamurti challenges the culturally conditioned belief that conflict is necessary for growth, exposing how opposition, ideology, ambition, and competition perpetuate cycles of violence and fragmentation. He distinguishes genuine relationship from exploitation, asserting that conflict arises only when people use one another as means to personal ends. True relationship, he explains, exists only between the living, not between one who uses and one who is used.

A central theme that emerges is that all ideals, utopias, and ideological revolutions are projections of thought and therefore cannot produce real transformation. Krishnamurti argues that means and ends are inseparable; violence cannot produce peace, nor can domination give rise to love. The only true revolution is internal: seeing the false as false and releasing attachment to belief systems, identities, and conditioned thought patterns. When the mind becomes quiet—not through discipline or suppression, but through awareness—love naturally comes into conscious experience.

Listener dialogue reinforces these themes, particularly around bodily awareness as a guide to recognizing attachment, striving, and hidden agendas. Participants share how pausing, breathing, and noticing contraction in the body opens access to clarity and healing. A live worksheet process demonstrates how exhaustion, suppressed expression, and long-held beliefs can surface safely when judgment is released. The hour closes with a reminder that observation without resistance dissolves illusion, that love is the core of being, and that life consistently unfolds in ways far better than the mind can imagine when control is surrendered.

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December 19, 2025 2^nd hour hosted by dr michael ryce – explores the nature of true relationship, healing presence, and the deep roots of human conflict through personal sharing, reflective dialogue, and spiritual psychology. The conversation centers on the difference between genuine relating and unconscious agenda, highlighting how unresolved childhood trauma shapes adult behavior, particularly through fawning, rescuing, and the desperate need for connection. Participants describe how these patterns arise from early power-person dynamics in which caregivers lacked the emotional capacity to provide safety, leading children to internalize beliefs of unworthiness and danger in relationship.

Susan shares a profound inner process of reconnecting with a wounded child part rooted in early trauma, including experiences of abandonment, fear, and disconnection from safety. Through conscious presence, breath, and forgiveness, she describes reclaiming this fractured part, offering it protection, and integrating it into present-moment awareness. The group reflects on how healing requires allowing suppressed emotions to surface, recognizing that increased awareness often brings discomfort as unconscious material emerges, a process long recognized by spiritual teachers and mystics.

Michael Ryce emphasizes that many cultural norms—apologizing for receiving care, feeling like a burden, transactional relating, and equating worth with productivity—are expressions of power-person conditioning rather than love-based being. He explains that modern culture reinforces these distortions through profit-driven systems that deprive parents of the support needed to nurture children, resulting in widespread relational trauma. True healing, he notes, requires addressing both personal and collective conditioning through forgiveness, responsibility communication, and conscious breath.

The discussion expands to societal structures, including economic stress, inadequate parental support, and cultural obsession with productivity, illustrating how these forces perpetuate trauma across generations. Participants recognize that personal healing naturally leads to clearer perception of cultural dysfunction and that inner work and social awareness are inseparable. Michael reiterates that perception itself must dissolve for true being to emerge, echoing ancient teachings that liberation comes not from changing the external world, but from restoring love within the human system.

The second half of the show features Terry Bowling, who shares his journey of recovery from deep emotional disconnection and antisocial patterns rooted in early trauma. He discusses his forthcoming book, Why? Why Again?, which chronicles his path through addiction recovery, forgiveness work, and reconnection to human feeling. His story illustrates that even profound emotional shutdown can be healed through sustained inner work, offering hope to those who feel fundamentally broken or excluded from belonging.

The episode concludes with reflections on the physiological nature of joy, the necessity of community, and the power of consistent inner practice. The group affirms that healing is a lifelong process, supported by breath, forgiveness, and authentic presence, and that reclaiming our humanity is both an individual and collective responsibility.

Notes from chatroom:

Susan Flueck: Psalms 23.4 that came to me this morning “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”

“As the light increases, we see ourselves to be worse than we thought. We are amazed at our former blindness as we see issuing forth from the depths of our heart a whole swarm of shameful feelings, like filthy reptiles crawling from a hidden cave. We never could have believed that we had harbored such things, and we stand aghast as we watch them gradually appear. But while our faults diminish, the light by which we see them waxes brighter, and we are filled with horror. Bear in mind, for your comfort, that we only perceive our malady when the cure begins.”   Francois Fenelon (1651 – 1715)

Sally Ramsey: Let the cure begin…..and continue

Kerry Leigh: I just subscribed to Terry Wray Bowling’s Substack

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Tim then makes a significant and heartfelt announcement, he has decided to step away from the program. Throughout the hour, Tim maintains a tone of gratitude and reverence for the impact of the tools and the work itself. He repeatedly affirms that his life has been profoundly improved through their application and that his departure does not diminish their value. He closes by encouraging listeners to focus on the effectiveness of the tools, to continue applying them inwardly, and to trust that each ending creates space for new beginnings rooted in clarity and self-responsibility.

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December 22, 2025 2^nd hour Michael Ryce opens the show by inviting In the second hour, Dr. Michael Ryce continues MindShifters Radio with an emphasis on the tools as lived practice rather than concepts, underscoring how the Reality Management Worksheet/Wake-Up Sheet and the commitment to “keep the love” can transform what someone experiences even when outer circumstances are messy. The dialogue returns repeatedly to personal responsibility for one’s internal state, dropping the “power person” pattern of trying to control others, and letting each upset become a doorway into forgiveness and restored presence.

A caller offers a moving family testimonial involving her grandson Jacob, who has been unstable and paranoid while using weed. She describes how the family has been practicing the work by staying calm, refusing to argue with fear-based stories, picturing him well, and holding steady in love. Over time Jacob begins reaching out, offering apologies for hurtful behavior, and re-engaging in relationship, which she experiences as evidence that consistent inner practice and congruent example can open space for real change.

The conversation then pivots to consciousness and the “thought-made world,” prompted by discussion of technologies that read brain signals and translate them into words or actions. Dr. Ryce frames this through a spirituality-and-physics lens, referencing Max Planck’s view that consciousness is fundamental and matter is derivative, and tying it to the idea that perception is shaped by the mind’s stored content. He suggests that transformation comes from shifting what the mind is tuned to and how it interprets experience, rather than trying to force life to comply with fear-based demands.

Throughout, the practical take-away stays grounded: whether the topic is family crisis, addiction-driven behavior, fear, or metaphysics, the work is to stop defending old thoughts, choose love over reactivity, and apply forgiveness as a process of release that restores clarity and connection. The community tone—supported by Tim Hayes’ facilitation and the ongoing invitation to use the tools daily—reinforces that the aim is not being right, but becoming freer, kinder, and more able to live in Love.

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DR. TIM HAYES has resigned from doing the first hour of the MindShifters Radio Show as of December 22, 2025.
To Dr. Tim: “With deep gratitude, we want to thank you for the many years of walking this path with us, sharing your wisdom, presence, and unwavering support for this work and for us personally. The journey has been richer, deeper, and more meaningful because of you. While we feel genuine sadness that you are leaving the show (will do wake-up sheets on what is triggered), we also honor and respect your choice to follow a new course that feels right for you. May that next chapter be filled with clarity, purpose, and joy. We hold the intention of staying connected as our paths continue to unfold. With love, appreciation, and heartfelt thanks—and wishing you a Merry Christmas and a season filled with peace and renewal. dr michael & Jeanie ryce”

December 23, 2025 In this session, the conversation revolved around several deep concepts related to healing and the use of breath as a tool for transformation. The show began with Dr. Michael Ryce addressing the importance of grace and the disruptions it can bring to our lives, which are ultimately opportunities to embrace our true nature. The idea of “conscientious disruption” was introduced, where life presents us with moments that shake us out of our passive existence and force us to confront deeper truths. The conversation moved toward examining how we can apply the tools of Yeshua in a practical way for real-life healing, with a particular focus on Jeannie’s book, which is presented as one of the first written records of such deep, transformative work being done with the tools of Yeshua.

Ryce emphasized the importance of going beyond mere cognitive understanding and fully embracing the breath and presence as vital elements of our healing journey. In particular, the focus was on recognizing the role of the breath in processing and releasing deep-rooted trauma. Ryce highlighted the powerful work being done by various individuals, including Terry Bowling, who is working on a book about his experience using these tools for personal healing. The idea was put forward that by confronting and clearing old wounds, we make space for a new level of aliveness and connection to our true selves.

The discussion also delved into Ryce’s own process of self-reflection and how he views the disruptions in his life as opportunities for growth. He shared his commitment to continuing his own healing journey and his excitement about the forthcoming books that will document the tools and instructions for healing. The conversation then took a personal turn, with a focus on the relationships between the participants, highlighting how different energies, like those between Ryce and Dr. Tim Hayes, are catalysts for further transformation. Ryce suggested writing books specifically addressing each other’s healing journeys and experiences, contributing to the broader healing literature.

The final part of the conversation revolved around the breath and its crucial role in releasing blockages in the body and mind. Ryce discussed how the breath is more than just a physical process, explaining how it is linked to divine presence and power, with the ability to dissolve limitations and facilitate healing. He invited listeners to engage with the breath as a tool to navigate life’s challenges, embracing it as a path to not just personal healing but also as a vehicle for collective transformation.

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A central theme of the show is the reality that healing is not about feeling good, but about becoming honest and present with what arises. Michael explores how awakening often brings deeper layers of unresolved trauma to the surface, which can feel destabilizing and exhausting. He reflects on why many people awaken briefly and then “go back to sleep,” noting how overwhelming genetic and generational trauma can be when it begins to surface. Healing, he explains, requires sustained support, willingness, and courage to face what has been stored in the body and nervous system for generations.

The discussion turns toward addiction, depression, and family dynamics, especially the delicate line between compassion and enabling. A caller shares concerns about a struggling loved one, prompting a nuanced exploration of how love can be expressed without reinforcing destructive patterns. Michael emphasizes practical, loving boundaries and offers a powerful passage from A Course in Miracles that describes the unforgiving mind as trapped in fear, despair, and confusion. Forgiveness is presented not as excusing behavior, but as releasing the internal prison created by unresolved judgment and pain.

As the show continues, participants explore how being “right,” correcting others, or defending one’s truth can activate old power-person dynamics and escalate conflict. Michael gently redirects the focus away from intellectual clarity and toward breath as the true source of wisdom and regulation. Again and again, he returns to the simplicity of breathing and forgiveness as the doorway out of reactivity. Listeners are reminded that disproportionate emotional responses are signals of unresolved energy asking to be healed, not problems to be analyzed or fixed through logic.

The program closes with reassurance and encouragement. Michael speaks about critical mass, collective awakening, and the slow but unmistakable cultural shift toward healing consciousness. He invites listeners to allow the season’s focus on the Christ Mind to support deeper surrender and renewal, emphasizing that forgiveness and breath are the most practical tools available. The show ends with warmth, humor, and a shared commitment to continue the work, holding space for one another as another layer of healing unfolds.

From chatroom:

https://acim.org/acim/lesson-121/forgiveness-is-the-key-to-happiness/en/s/526

MindShifter: “I love it and am in deep enjoyment when people explain to me everything I am feeling and they are totally in error.”

In my defenselessness my power and safety lies. Stop the defense. That just asks for attack.

Andria: I love what Ryce says, one’s right doesn’t make another wrong.

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A central thread of the conversation explores seasonal symbolism, particularly the winter solstice as both a descent into inner darkness and an ascent back toward light. This is framed as a universal spiral of healing, where stillness and reflection allow unconscious material to surface and integrate. Participants discuss the twelve days following the solstice as a period of internal recalibration, mirroring ancient traditions and aligning with cycles of creation, consciousness, and renewal. The group reflects on how remembering one’s creative capacity restores joy and meaning, even amid collective or personal hardship.

As the conversation deepens, Ryce addresses trauma, grief, and physiological memory, particularly how unprocessed pain resurfaces during family gatherings. He emphasizes that bodily sensations signaling fear, rage, or shutdown are never caused by others in the present, but are activations of unresolved carbon-based memory. The group explores how projection and blame perpetuate suffering, while responsibility, breath, and forgiveness open the path to healing. A participant shares a powerful example of interrupting a generational pattern by recognizing a triggered response, breathing, apologizing, and transforming a family interaction in real time.

Breath is repeatedly highlighted as the agent of change, with Ryce clarifying that depth is less important than connection. Connected, mouth-open breathing dissolves stored trauma by reintroducing intelligence into the physiology. Participants ask practical questions about StillPoint breathing, auricular therapy, muscle testing, and the importance of periodically stepping away from supportive modalities so the body can recalibrate and remain responsive rather than habituated.

The show also includes lighthearted moments, humor, and relational warmth, reinforcing that healing does not require solemnity but thrives in community and shared humanity. Discussions around creativity, self-expression, and conscious choice illustrate how perception shapes reality, likening the mind to an internal AI driven by goals and prompts. Ryce connects this insight to forgiveness as the cancellation of goals rooted in the past, echoing Yeshua’s teaching as a method for collapsing the false reality generated by memory.

The broadcast closes with a guided collective breathing exercise, inviting participants to consciously extend the presence of love to one another across vast geographic distances. Ryce reminds listeners that love is the true nature of human life, easily recognized in a newborn, and that anything less can be gently dissolved through breath and awareness. The group holds the intention that the coming year be the best yet of each person’s eternal life, ending the show in gratitude, coherence, and shared presence.

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A central dialogue focuses on a mother navigating intense emotional eruptions with her adult daughter. The caller describes becoming emotionally numb in the presence of her daughter’s pain, recognizing this as a long-standing power-person dynamic rooted in her own childhood experiences. Dr. Ryce emphasizes that numbness, withdrawal, and projection are learned survival strategies rather than personal failures, and affirms that simply staying physically present—touching, breathing, and offering reassurance—represents a profound interruption of destructive family patterns. Even when words feel hollow or love is not fully embodied, presence itself is framed as transformative.

The discussion deepens into the mechanics of forgiveness, clarifying that forgiveness is not about excusing others, but about reclaiming one’s own power from unconscious blame. Dr. Ryce explains how “big feelings” are the result of cascades of unresolved thought disorders stored at the cellular level, and why the Power Person Worksheet exists as a comprehensive tool for dismantling those layers one at a time. The importance of breath is repeatedly emphasized as the physiological mechanism that allows stored emotional energy to be released from the body, rather than merely expressed or suppressed.

Another thread addresses disillusionment with cultural and religious narratives around Christmas. Rather than debating historical accuracy, the show redirects attention to personal responsibility for emotional responses. Feelings of anger, grief, or betrayal are framed not as reactions to external lies, but as invitations to heal unresolved issues around honesty, conformity, acceptance, and approval. The distinction between thoughts and feelings is reinforced, underscoring that thoughts generate emotional chemistry, and therefore healing must occur internally through awareness, breath, and forgiveness.

The show concludes with a guided breathing meditation, inviting listeners to turn awareness inward, restore the presence of love and light to every cell, and recognize themselves as conduits of healing. The overarching message affirms that holidays—especially those charged with expectation—offer unparalleled opportunities to surface, dismantle, and heal generational trauma. By choosing responsibility over blame and breath over reactivity, participants are encouraged to transform conflict into connection and reclaim their innate capacity to live as love.

From chatroom:

Jeanie: You have choice in what you want to call the holy-days! or any day.

Angelic Presence: To me that’s called flow Cammie

Jeanie: Occam’s Razor the simplest is probably the truth “a problem-solving principle that suggests when faced with competing explanations, the one requiring the fewest assumptions is usually the most likely correct one.”

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December 29, 2025 In this episode of MindShifters Radio, Michael Ryce presents a replay focused on the foundational principle of personal responsibility for thoughts, feelings, and internal states, emphasizing that forgiveness is not about excusing others but about changing what is happening within oneself. He explains that the most common addiction on the planet is the belief that someone outside of us is causing what we feel inside, and that this belief blocks truth and perpetuates hostility and fear. Ryce repeatedly underscores that no one can cause an internal experience that does not already exist within the individual, and that reclaiming responsibility opens the door to healing and change.

Throughout the show, Ryce explores the difference between living in blockage of truth and living in love of truth. He explains that when individuals refuse to look inward, they often adopt blame, control, and defensiveness, which inevitably leads to emotional, verbal, or physical violence. He contrasts this with the presence of true human life, which he describes as inherently nonviolent and grounded in love. Drawing on ideas from Thomas Kuhn and critiques of dogma in science, religion, and culture, Ryce challenges listeners to recognize how belief systems resist truth when power, profit, or control are threatened.

As callers join the conversation, practical applications of forgiveness and worksheet processes are discussed. Participants share personal experiences of choosing non-reactivity, noticing internal triggers, and allowing peace to emerge by disengaging from ego-based responses. Ryce and Dr. Tim Hayes explore how unconscious goals formed in early childhood shape perception, behavior, and defensiveness in adulthood, often without conscious awareness. They emphasize that healing requires becoming aware of these hidden goals and dismantling them through forgiveness and conscious choice.

The discussion expands to relationships, parenting, education, and culture at large, highlighting how stress and fear cause people to revert to power-person dynamics learned in childhood. Ryce invites listeners to imagine families, schools, and communities rooted in love rather than hostility, where forgiveness is the norm and healing is prioritized. He stresses that each individual act of inner healing contributes to collective transformation and benefits generations yet unborn.

The show closes with a relational commitment rooted in truth, gentleness, responsibility, and conscious love. Ryce invites listeners to carry this commitment into their daily lives, emphasizing that real change occurs when individuals choose to release fear and hostility and live as the active presence of love in the world.

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A central theme of the show is the exploration of breath as the revelator and resolver of internal conflict. Participants describe an experiential unfolding in which insight arises not through intellectual effort but through settling attention into the body and allowing breath to restore coherence. Susan shares how remaining in energetic awareness rather than word-space allowed a deeper truth to “unfurl,” while Kerry reflects on how relationship itself mirrors unresolved inner content, making breath the bridge that restores unity without dissolving individuality.

The dialogue challenges Greek theological interpretations that externalized breath into a disembodied “Holy Spirit” and reframed spiritual union as a distant ascent. Ryce suggests that phrases such as “I go to the Father” were originally interior teachings pointing toward returning to breath and presence rather than leaving the body or world behind. Drawing from Aramaic roots and the teachings of the Desert Fathers, the show emphasizes descent into the breath, stillness, and inner quiet as the authentic path to union, healing, and clarity.

As the conversation deepens, participants explore how breath allows one to remain present without projection, enabling boundaries and appropriate action without hostility or judgment. Rather than denying harmful behavior, the group discusses how holding love conscious, active, and present permits responsibility and response without reinforcing fear-based narratives. Examples from legal, social, and relational contexts illustrate how healing arises when action is taken from embodied love rather than reactive perception.

The broadcast concludes with a spoken commitment to relational integrity, emphasizing truth, gentleness, forgiveness, and the maintenance of love over conflict. Ryce frames this commitment as a living personal code for entering the new year, rooted not in ideals but in breath-centered presence. The show closes with gratitude and an invitation to carry this embodied awareness forward as the foundation for co-creating a more humane and loving world.

Notes from chatroom:

michael ryce: “Where to Invade Next” In the 2015 film, Michael Moore “invades” other countries not with military force, but to “steal” their best ideas (like school lunches, worker benefits, and prison systems) to bring back to the United States. https://youtu.be/1C5cYRLiplY?si=Or79DH_FRf61acJu

michael ryce: also watch “McFarland USA” https://youtu.be/DCP6PJ3Uw3Y?si=wETGRgS3GMhsGdtd

michael ryce: My Commitment.

I promise to TRUST you enough to tell you the Truth, to be true to you and always engage in just and fair behavior with you. I commit to always be sweetness in your life, to nurture you daily and treat you LOVlNGLY, Gently and with Respect in my thoughts, words and actions, whether in your presence or not.

In every interaction I commit to affection for you, to look for and acknowledge the highest and best in you and, as I surrender to LOVE, our true nature, I will use only voice tones and language that reflect my deep caring for you.

My connection to Love, our Source, gratitude for my relationship with you and our Serenity will always be more important than any issue. I open my Being to embrace you in my Love, I open my Being to be embraced in your Love.

If anything I have committed to here sounds hollow, or anything unlike LOVE comes up in me, I will hold us in my Heart and listen as I learn to give up any denial and learn speak, experience, be RESPONSE-ABLE for and Forgive my own realities.

I am here for and with you, I promise to speak only Truth to you as I keep communication open and keep LOVE Conscious, Active and Present AS WE HEAL, CELEBRATE LIFE and GROW TOGETHER.

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As listeners join the conversation, the focus shifts into experiential healing through breath and StillPoint work. Susan Flueck shares a powerful account of breathing her nineteen-year-old son, describing physiological releases, ancestral patterns surfacing, and moments of deep StillPoint that brought clarity without emotional overwhelm. Her reflections highlight how healing work often moves through the body beyond conscious memory, and how Love can be present even when it was not well expressed in the past. The conversation reinforces that forgiveness is not about narrative or blame, but about releasing stored energies that distort perception and relationship.

Multiple participants reflect on family dynamics, generational healing, and the challenge of allowing loved ones their own paths without rescuing, advising, or controlling. The group explores how holding goals for others creates perceptual distortion, while relinquishing those goals restores peace. Dr. Ryce underscores that upset always signals an internal goal or demand, and that responsibility for perception is the gateway back to clarity. The discussion emphasizes that defensiveness, explanation, and justification subtly signal unresolved internal conflict, while presence and accountability restore personal power.

The episode also touches on the importance of touch, physiology, and embodied connection, noting how the human body can be used either to reinforce separation or to restore communion. Participants share insights about spiritual codependence, learning to hold Love without imposing change, and recognizing when silence and self-reflection are more truthful than explanation. Throughout, the tone remains warm, candid, and grounded in lived practice rather than theory.

As the year closes, the group reflects on growth, grief, joy, and the cumulative fruit of inner work. There is a shared acknowledgment that clarity unfolds in layers, often after long periods of seeming stagnation, and that compassion for oneself is essential. The episode concludes with an invitation to carry peace into the coming year, to let one’s name be associated with Love in the minds of others, and to trust the ongoing process of awakening one breath at a time.

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