Radio Show Archive – June 2014

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June 2, 2014 hosted by Dr. Michael Ryce and Jeanie Ryce are joined again by Suzanne Tucker of Genmindful.com/pages/our-story, Dr. Tim Hayes, and teacher Julie H for their ongoing Monday series, “Parent-Teacher Talk Radio.” This episode centers on the crucial role of building emotional safety in parenting and education. Suzanne begins by highlighting how a parent’s or teacher’s own healing journey is key to creating a secure environment for children. She references Dr. Ryce’s teachings about removing fear, hostility, and guilt from relationships in order to embody love, which is foundational for emotional safety.

Dr. Ryce expands on the distinction between safety and survival, stating that true safety isn’t just the absence of physical threat but the presence of love and trust. He explains that most people operate from survival mode, conditioned by trauma and fear, which causes them to see strength in control or punishment. However, real strength comes from staying grounded in presence and choosing love even when old patterns are triggered. This, he says, is only possible when parents and teachers do their own inner work to dismantle generational patterns of fear and power-over dynamics.

Julie shares a story about a preschool student who had a history of explosive behavior. By consistently offering him loving structure and emotional safety, he eventually began to self-regulate. She describes how the child even supported another student through a tough moment, mirroring the compassionate environment modeled for him. This underscores the show’s theme that children thrive when surrounded by adults who are willing to heal themselves and teach through love rather than fear.

Suzanne reiterates that parenting and teaching are spiritual journeys, and the work is not about controlling the child but about transforming the adult. She explains that emotional safety involves being present, validating children’s feelings, and responding rather than reacting. Her approach includes conscious discipline and awareness practices that help adults recognize when they’ve been triggered and how to return to a state of love. She emphasizes the importance of self-forgiveness and not shaming oneself for old patterns but instead using those moments as cues for deeper healing.

Dr. Tim Hayes brings in the therapeutic perspective, stating that children are often barometers for the unhealed emotional energy in their environment. He explains that unless parents and teachers become conscious of their own unresolved pain, they will continue to unconsciously recreate it with the children in their care. He advocates for the practice of emotional awareness and forgiveness as daily disciplines, affirming that emotional safety is not a technique but a way of being.

The show concludes with all participants agreeing that when adults build safety within themselves through healing, they naturally extend it to children. They preview that the next episode will continue exploring tools and practices that cultivate trust and emotional security in relationships.

YouTube https://youtu.be/s_fH3ENYhz4 or on our Podetize player at https://whyagain.org/mindshifters-radio-show-player-for-archives/

• Dr. Ryce shares an open letter about abusive, objectifying, and throw away relationships…
• Radical thoughts about the status of men and women from a variety of sources…
• Responsibility (rather than blame), and accountability for abuse…
• Sustained incoherence (David Boehm) and holding onto errors…
• The epidemic proportions of sex trade around the world and in America…
• Having the courage to accept our own part in our sexual abuse so that we can heal our pain…
• Jeanie’s workshop for women on Saturday in Bristol, TN – check the schedule on www.whyagain.org for details…
• A caller shares how powerful Jeanie’s “Women Healing Women” workshop in FL was, and encourages female listeners to attend on Saturday…
• Mary Anne from Spartanburg, SC shares her original “I’m out of here” experience with Heartland and the Forgiveness tools…
• Teaching what we need to learn…

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June 6, 2014 – Capturing Aramaic Teachings Through Everyday Moments
Dr. Michael Ryce and Jeanie begin the show by celebrating the success of a recent workshop in Asheville. They reflect on the importance of not only sharing structured teachings but also capturing the raw, unscripted moments that reveal the heart of Aramaic healing work. Dale Allen Hoffman joins the conversation to share his vision of producing video content that documents real-life applications of forgiveness, including family interactions and healing conversations. Dale emphasizes the value of showing people how the work is lived rather than merely taught—such as demonstrating worksheet usage in emotional moments or working with children. The conversation explores how the spiritual ego often interferes with healing by masking pain under the guise of spiritual language. Dale and Ryce encourage listeners to drop the need to appear perfect and instead embrace authenticity, which opens the door to true presence and transformation. This episode bridges the ancient principles with modern storytelling, pointing to a future of real-time Aramaic wisdom in action.

YouTube https://youtu.be/y4ob2FB8VLE or on our Podetize player at https://whyagain.org/mindshifters-radio-show-player-for-archives/

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June 9, 2014 MindShifters Radio episode, part of the “Parent Teacher Monday” series, features Dr. Michael Ryce, Jeanie Ryce, Suzanne Tucker, Julie, and Dr. Tim Hayes in a deep, wide-ranging conversation about the significance of rituals in parenting and teaching. The discussion centers around how rituals create a sense of safety, predictability, and structure, especially for children navigating seasonal transitions, such as the shift into summer. Suzanne introduces the idea that even simple, everyday activities—like the way a family gets in the car or sits for dinner—are powerful rituals that help children feel secure. Predictability, she explains, engages the brain’s higher functions, fostering learning and growth, whereas unpredictability can trigger fear responses like fight, flight, or freeze.

The conversation highlights how rituals used in early childhood classrooms—such as consistent routines, songs, and structure—help children feel safe and function independently. Michael Ryce recounts his son Michael Jay’s traumatic experience in a Steiner school, where his natural self-direction was punished for violating rigid protocols, leading to long-term resistance to learning. The group emphasizes that rituals should be supportive rather than rigid or punitive. A ritual should be a tool for connection, not control, and when met with resistance, caregivers are invited to look inward and heal what might be triggered in themselves rather than blaming the child.

Julie and Suzanne explore how teachers and parents alike must find balance between structure and flow, and they emphasize the importance of honoring a child’s unique nature and developmental needs, including those with sensory processing challenges. Suzanne, drawing on her background as a physical therapist, explains how some children seek heightened sensory input while others are overwhelmed by it—misunderstandings that are often mislabeled as behavioral problems. Dr. Tim Hayes and Julie support this view by stressing the importance of consistency, empathy, and attunement to a child’s nervous system, especially when behavior seems “off.”

The discussion also touches on attachment rituals, such as babywearing, bedtime songs, and shared meals, and how they promote safety and bonding even during periods of change. Michael Ryce stresses how a parent’s modeling of calm adaptability teaches children that change is not dangerous. They also highlight the importance of parental presence in the classroom and family life, noting how parents volunteering at school—even just once a week—can be transformative for both the child and the educational environment.

Later, the group addresses the impact of poor nutrition and environmental toxicity on behavior, including artificial food additives and the dismissive attitudes of some medical professionals toward holistic or nutritional approaches. Suzanne shares a personal story of how magnesium supplementation resolved her daughter’s debilitating migraines after conventional medicine dismissed nutritional connections.

Finally, they return to the dinner table as a place for meaningful ritual. Families are encouraged to create positive mealtime traditions, such as sitting together, turning off devices, and sharing gratitude—what Suzanne’s children call “thank you fours.” These simple yet powerful rituals are opportunities to connect, reflect, and model love and presence. They underscore that ritual is not about control but about relationship, intention, and fostering resilience in both child and parent.

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Additional Notes:

• The “power of rituals” as they relate to feeling safe and children’s behavior…
• Wherever there is a struggle, can ritual be added?
• An example of how a little incident in a child’s life can have far reaching effects…
• A discussion about the safety and relaxation that comes with ritual and how it can help a child handle change…
• How the nature of each child affects their reaction to ritual, change, and different sensory needs…
• Autism, head-banging, and other disregulation within the nervous system of some children…
• An excellent example of how to maintain a loving experience for children and the eventual effects…
• The power tools of parenting: holding Love present and empathy provide the child with a sense of connection and personal power…
• A discussion about how nutrition can and does affect children and adults…
• Making mealtime a ritual of togetherness with an example of “thank you fors”…

• Dr. Michael Ryce and Co-Host Dr. Tim Hayes
• Using the tool of Aramaic Forgiveness, for the removal of the things we keep hidden, and our suffering with regard to them…
• The triggering power of energies I carry within myself – can be dismantled and removed when we are willing to be restored to whole knowledge…
• Re-writing the contents of our mind…
• Research on Prayer…
• In the Greek culture, there was no concept of forgiveness…
• A caller shares the positive results of using the tools in her relationship with her husband…
• A caller shares about holding the space of love for dissolving the traumas of combat…
• A caller asks “Are Rookha d’ Koodsha, Rahkhma and Kooba, all feminine elemental forces?”
• What is Heaven?
• Reference to Dale Allen Hoffman, a former student of Michael’s, at daleallenhoffman.com who also has devoted his life to researching and to teaching the Aramaic translation of the teachings of Yeshua…
• Tune in (on this blog radio show) to Aramaic Fridays with Dale Allan Hoffman every Friday this year!
• A caller shares her knowledge of Aramaic translations…

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June 13, 2014 – Children as Mirrors and the Importance of Presence
In this episode, Dr. Ryce and Dale explore how children reflect the unconscious wounds and unresolved emotional energies of the adults around them. They share stories of recent workshops where children were present and how their presence illuminated the inner work adults still needed to address. Dale recounts the vibrant light in his daughter and how children often embody the active presence of love until conditioned otherwise. The conversation touches on how the cultural suppression of emotion begins early in life and how healing requires reestablishing safety for emotional expression. They critique how even spiritual communities often silence emotional authenticity in the name of order or reverence. Dr. Ryce reinforces that forgiveness involves allowing emotions to surface and consciously removing what does not belong in our system. The presence of children in healing work is not a distraction, but a direct invitation to deeper self-awareness.

YouTube https://youtu.be/8BF9RVjtG_g or on our Podetize player at https://whyagain.org/mindshifters-radio-show-player-for-archives/

• ARAMAIC FRIDAY: Special Guest, Dale Allen Hoffman
• The subject of children being “seen and not heard” is discussed…
• Dale shares his process with finishing his first book and beyond…
• A discussion about the concept of Jesus dying for our sins, which was several hundred years removed from the life of Jesus…
• A historical discussion of John 3:16 with detail about the original Aramaic words…
• The power of removing rather than forgiving…
• “This upset has run my whole life”…
• A discussion about the gender of Rahkma and Khooba …
• Matthew 5 versus 33 and 34 in Aramaic detail…
• Deep discussion about various words in the Bible that were translated incorrectly…

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June 16, 2014 episode of MindShifters Radio, hosted by Dr. Michael Ryce and co-hosted by Michelle Pischea, centers on the societal and generational impact of materialism and the distortions caused by the cultural pursuit of wealth. This “Parent Teacher Monday” show opens with Dr. Ryce reflecting on his time in St. Louis, visiting his daughter Christa and granddaughter Adeline, and experiencing firsthand the immense pressure placed on young families. He uses this as a springboard to critique the widespread influence of Napoleon Hill’s book Think and Grow Rich, asserting that its fixation on wealth has steered generations toward valuing money above family, community, and love. He proposes rewriting the book as Think and Grow Loving, or Think and Grow Family, to redirect the mental focus of society.

Dr. Ryce highlights how Hill’s success-driven narrative has shaped not only political and business leaders but entire cultural norms, often at the expense of emotional well-being and familial connection. He contrasts this with the Aramaic Beatitudes, which encourage the individual to look deeply into their “errors in thought” and to mourn those errors in order to heal. He connects the widespread depression, stress, and disconnection in society—including among the wealthy—to a deep-rooted cultural lie: that money will bring fulfillment. He illustrates this with a real-life example of a millionaire blues artist who, despite his material success, lives in deep depression. Ryce maintains that many emotional burdens and generational wounds begin in childhood and are passed along through unexamined thought patterns, urging parents to look at their own mental errors and cultural conditioning.

Jeanie Ryce joins the conversation remotely, and Dr. Tim Hayes and Julie H also offer their perspectives. Dr. Tim echoes Ryce’s concerns about distorted focus and emphasizes that joy and creativity stem from emotional balance, not wealth. Julie shares how Think and Grow Rich influenced her positively when taught as a tool for focusing the mind—not for acquiring money—but she agrees with Michael’s concerns about its broader cultural misuse. Together they discuss the dangers of obsessive materialism and the spiritual importance of aligning with love, connection, and creativity as primary goals.

Later in the episode, Suzanne joins with insights from her experience as a parent and therapist. Michael shares personal stories, including one about giving away his last $100 during a financially tight time as a way to shift his unconscious beliefs around abundance. This act of surrender and trust opened a new chapter in his financial and spiritual life. The conversation continues with reflections on how unconscious belief systems—especially those formed in family systems—shape financial and emotional outcomes. The importance of generational healing, forgiveness, and choosing love over fear is emphasized throughout.

The show also references other influential writings, including Spiritual Economics by Eric Butterworth and teachings from A Course in Miracles. There is discussion about rewriting Think and Grow Rich with a more spiritually focused vocabulary to make its universal principles more accessible and applicable to a life rooted in love, community, and peace.

YouTube https://youtu.be/B78wcNCe8ck or on our Podetize player at https://whyagain.org/mindshifters-radio-show-player-for-archives/

Additional Notes:

• Dr. Ryce discusses the accumulation of wealth, the book “Think and Grow Rich”, depression in the midst of abundant money, and how to use the Forgiveness tools to realign with peace, Love, and joy…
• Another viewpoint on “Think and Grow Rich” and the principles that are taught which  go far beyond money, and the possibility of Michael rewriting the book so that it can be a guide to wealth in Love, health, family strength, etc…
• A caller shares her own experience with “Think and Grow Rich” and the possibility of renaming the book to omit the word “think” because of the limitations that word imposes…
• A caller offers another book, “Spiritual Economics” and asks what to do to find the unconscious part of her mind that creates her poverty consciousness…
• “Still waiting for your ship to come in?  Which one did you send out?”
• A true story of creating abundance, giving away what is in our hand, and being able to receive…
• Everything in our life is exactly the way we want  it to be from our subconscious rather than what we are asking for…
• When life presents something to me that brings up something other than Love, that is my next piece of Forgiveness work…
• Workshops in St. Louis , MO this week…

• A Lively Discussion about Money
• Our culture’s programming about money, abundance and well being, both constructive and destructive
• References to the book, “Think and Grow Rich,'” by Napoleon Hill
• Possibly re-writing the book with focus to further areas in our lives, such as family
• Has this book caused an effect or an influence?
• Coloring of interpretation and the distinction between cause and effect with regard to money
• Has the book “created” the destructive direction that our world is going, due to the “goal” of growing rich?
• Coming forward with the passion of addressing how we’ve been conned, defrauded, mis-educated on the “growing” of “money”
• Distinction between emotion and passion 
• Intensity coloring the impact of the words I receive
• Can passion be devoid of emotion?
• Role I play is to get things moving for people!
• A Caller says, “Money is Energy and is a system of measuring our Creator energy, devised to grow itself
• Energy is neutral. Money is a by-product. Emotions layered onto money can either be positive or negative
• The safety and honoring of differing realities is the beauty of the forgiveness work and our community
• Sharing concerns, listening, responsibly and doing our own work around our triggers
• Opening the space for clarity and the discovery of new pieces of learning – all are gifts
• Appreciation for the show’s format of refining of the teachings as we keep learning and growing
• Michael’s final statement with Dr. Tim: There has been huge, destructive impact in people’s lives from this book; it is just there, to be addressed
• Tim’s final point of clarification: agrees there has been an inordinate and unbalanced focus on money and greed, rather than love, compassion and relationship, which has had negative influence, though perhaps the book itself has not created that influence
• A second caller speaks about money as energy and how we use money, depends on our relationship to money; In this conversation today, we are looking at how money is used in our culture, and THAT relationship
• Our values are now shifting from measuring success by money as the only factor
• Y’eshua taught, “Seek first the community of Love”

• Dr. Ryce shares how exciting it was for someone who has felt nothing all his life, to be able to feel and even cry by doing his personal Forgiveness work using these tools…
• “Indra and the Ants” – an ancient story about ego told by Dr. Tim Hayes…
• An explanation of the purpose of this Forgiveness work and how to find the FREE tools and instructions on www.whyagain.org .
• A detailed discussion of purpose with the example of bird song and plant growth…
• Key Point: What we think someone else’s behavior means really tells us what it would mean if we did or said it…
• Pardoning is different from forgiveness which really means removing rather than letting someone or ourselves off the hook…
• A report on Jeanie’s workshops in TN…
• Rex shares yesterday’s events before and during the prison classes on “The Laws of Living” and the evening support group…
• How important it is to vitalize our bodies with good nutrition to help us readily move through the deep layers of our pain… 

• Dr. Ryce introduces the ancient Aramaic tool of Forgiveness and how it can be used to remove the pain that we may not even know we have…
• Information about the workshops Jeanie will be doing in the Bristol, TN area…
• An invitation for listeners to help support the work by doing the notes for this show on occasion and acknowledgement of Susan Pelke and Julie Matthews for their help…
• A caller shares all of the positive details of this week’s support group and his process since then…
• The belief of being disgusting to women and the self-fulfilling  prophecy…
• A discussion about the unconscious beliefs and patterns that children learn from parents and the blind continuation of those patterns even though they now see that they are  illogical…
• A caller shares how a 3 year old thought she wasn’t “brave” enough to fix theproblems between the adults in her life and how her bedwetting was resolved…

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June 20, 2014 – Reclaiming Aramaic Meaning Beyond Greek Distortion
This Aramaic Friday broadcast features a passionate conversation between Dr. Ryce, Jeanie, and Dale Allen Hoffman about the massive distortion of original Aramaic teachings by Greek and later English translators. Dr. Ryce shares a metaphor about idioms to show how literal translation can obscure meaning, such as how saying someone is “cool” in English doesn’t translate to “low body temperature” in meaning. The group discusses how ancient Aramaic teachings, when correctly understood, offer a pathway to align with love, while Greek interpretations often introduced fear-based theology. Dale shares his excitement about completing the draft of his first book and receiving strong support from a publishing consultant. They reiterate the core message that Yeshua’s teachings are about returning to the active presence of love through inner resonance and release of false beliefs. The broadcast highlights the challenge of moving past inherited religious constructs and encourages listeners to gain “eyes to see and ears to hear” from within.

YouTube https://youtu.be/fXTHI_A5jXU or on our Podetize player at https://whyagain.org/mindshifters-radio-show-player-for-archives/

Additional Notes:

• Dale Allen Hoffman has finished his book and shares some details.
• Requirements for translating Aramaic to have true understanding.
• The feminine and masculine in the Aramaic language.
• What experience is the human form designed to have?
• The source from which the greatest scientific advances come.
• Scholars and mystics can support each other in deeper understanding.
• Learning from Buddhism and the Lakota culture.
• The difference between the moon and the finger pointing at the moon.
• What Yeshua (Jesus) invites us to taste in life.
• Caller gives a personal example of how she is experiencing the theme of the show.
• Inner work is similar to untying a knot. 

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June 23, 2014 episode of MindShifters Radio, part of the “Parent Teacher Monday” series, features a rich discussion with Dr. Michael Ryce, Jeanie Ryce, Dr. Tim Hayes, and Michelle Pischea, alongside returning guests Suzanne Tucker and Julie H. The focus of the conversation is the profound impact of emotional regulation and internal state awareness in parenting and education. Suzanne opens the dialogue by describing how behavior is always a communication of internal states, not a reflection of a child’s worth or intent. She emphasizes that when children act out, they are often overwhelmed, scared, or dysregulated—not “bad.” This insight guides parents and teachers to look past behavior and support the child’s nervous system, rather than punish or control.

Michael Ryce adds a spiritual dimension to the conversation, noting that we are made of love and must be the active presence of love when relating to children. He discusses the concept of “response-ability,” the capacity to respond with love rather than react from pain. When adults are unconscious of their own pain and triggers, they tend to project them onto children, perpetuating intergenerational trauma. He links this to the Aramaic understanding of forgiveness—not about letting someone off the hook, but about removing one’s own internal blocks to love. He underscores that healing the internal world is essential for effective and compassionate parenting and teaching.

Julie and Suzanne discuss how essential it is to teach children how to process feelings in healthy ways. Rather than dismissing, distracting from, or punishing emotional expression, adults should help children name and move through their feelings. Michelle Pischea shares insights from her experience as a mother, including how her daughter internalized the belief that she had to be “perfect” and “good” to be loved, revealing how even well-intentioned parenting can lead to subconscious distortions in children. Dr. Tim Hayes elaborates on the importance of allowing children to experience the full spectrum of emotions and how this sets the foundation for emotional intelligence and resilience.

Jeanie Ryce contributes by affirming the role of language in shaping experience. She notes how words and tones used in times of stress leave lasting imprints, and how being mindful of language—especially toward children—can transform relationships. The team explores the dangers of using shame or power-over dynamics, urging instead for presence, empathy, and regulation on the part of the adult. They touch on neuroplasticity and how the brain is always capable of healing and rewiring when supported with love and safety.

The group reflects on how discipline, when rooted in fear or control, teaches avoidance or suppression rather than accountability. True discipline, they argue, should mean “to teach,” and it begins with modeling regulation and self-awareness. They also stress that healing does not require “perfection,” but rather the willingness to be honest, present, and committed to growth. Through inner work, including forgiveness and releasing false beliefs, parents and teachers can become safe containers for the emotional development of children, ultimately breaking the cycles of generational wounding.

YouTube https://youtu.be/ldkx2Y5QipQ or on our Podetize player at https://whyagain.org/mindshifters-radio-show-player-for-archives/

Additional Notes:

• Special Guests Suzanne Tucker, Julie H, Dr. Tim Hayes and Magda Preston join Michael Ryce 
• A discussion about how PRAISE HONORS THE CHILD’S PURPOSE
• “Educare” Latin Root means to “draw out” what is innately there, rather than to “put in”, which is how our culture tends to direct education
• Forming the language that empowers the child
• Movie: The World’s Fastest Indian A man fulfills a childhood goal 
• How to guide through errors and trials so that the child to listens inside, even while taking others into consideration
• The terror of making mistakes – how to move through and persevere
• “The LIttle Engine That Could” book teaches to keep the dream, even when there are obstacles
• Asking more questions helps to “Draw a person out” …stimulating them to think.
• Extrinsic Praise v.s. intrinsic Praise
• Preventing over-correctin and self-deprication
• Definition of humble: True humility – a mental quality of being able to see and cooperate with the good desires of others; to look for the highest and best in others and to acknowledge and speak of that, rather than the lowest and worst 
• Setting up a COOPERATIVE ATTITUDE with one’s self
• Do “People Praising Puppets” create “People Pleasing Puppets”?
• Michael recites, “Each Moment” – to empower the choice that a child has in each moment, is a useful model in a teaching environment
• Julie Haverstick’s book, “Healing Children, Loving Children” in it’s new edition, now available to order at the website, whyagain.org  or call Julie at (417) 273-4060. She has about 8 copies available right now
• Julie mentions the tendency of parents and teachers for projecting or imposing onto children our desire for them to BE A CERTAIN WAY
• A Video is mentioned by Suzanne, which uses a story of an eagle, to invite us to “SEE THE CHILD FOR WHO THEY ARE, INSPIRE THEIR GIFTS AND DESIRES, ALLOW THEM TO SHINE, AND SOAR IN THE BEING OF WHO THEY ARE……..” 
• Julie reads, “I AM…” as a support of this changed reality 

• The upcoming July “Fun, Food, and Forgiveness” workshop at Heartland with Chef Ari’s new vegetarian and raw food recipes…
• Dr. Tim shares his process of discovery around an sppressed  issue from his childhood…
• The Aramaic suffix, “ute”- unconscious beliefs that shade our awareness and perception…
• The “power person dynamic” and how we respond when under stress…
• A caller shares about his combat vet’s support group and his own processing around blood and gore…
• “I know what to do but I’m not doing it” and Michael’s response…
• Using movies to bring up suppressed and denied issues…
• Confusion is a sign of healing…
• We each have a personal code – our set of rules that we follow when in certain circumstances…
• Changing the rules in our personal code one by one through each worksheet…

• Movie alert – “When God Gave Up on Us” – a documentary that follows thousands of young men who walked to safety from genocide and what happened to their community of Love when they got to America…
• Love, the essence of a newborn…
• “I’ve been in prison long enough. I’m not going to stay in the prison of hating the people who put me there.”
• How the mind in hostility twists and distorts and keeps us in pain…
• Service, the cost of being on Earth…
• A caller shares the impact of listening to last Monday’s (6/23/14) Parent/Teacher Talk…
• It’s all smoke and mirrors when we are in our fear, hostility, denial, and dissociation…
• Rex and Michele share what happened in thus week’s prison visit…
• Power Person Dynamics

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June 27, 2014 – Healing Chronic Pain Through Emotional Release
On this powerful episode, Dr. Ryce, Jeanie, Dr. Tim Hayes, and Dale Allen Hoffman welcome Jim Farmer to share his personal story of healing from spinal stenosis. Jim had been experiencing chronic back pain and was walking with a cane. After committing to forgiveness worksheets at Heartland and accessing repressed rage—what Dr. Ryce refers to as an underlying energetic cause of back pain—he experienced a sudden ability to walk upright without pain. However, when he remembered he had forgotten his cane, the pain returned. This profound moment illustrated how perception and unconscious belief can manifest physical symptoms. Jim’s experience is used as a case study to demonstrate how healing requires accessing and releasing deeply buried emotional trauma. Dr. Ryce reinforces the mind-body connection and how thoughts rooted in past pain create physical limitations. This episode also introduces research on multiple personality disorder and how physical conditions can shift instantly depending on the dominant personality state, supporting the idea that healing begins in consciousness.

YouTube https://youtu.be/V7_0Avvt6Fc or on our Podetize player at https://whyagain.org/mindshifters-radio-show-player-for-archives/

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June 30, 2014 episode of MindShifters Radio, Dr. Michael Ryce and Jeanie Ryce hosted Parent-Teacher Monday and offered a profound discussion on how the first-century Aramaic forgiveness process can be used as a transformative tool in parenting and education. The episode opened with a story about a young child using a forgiveness worksheet, demonstrating that even a four-year-old can engage meaningfully in this work. Michael emphasized that the Aramaic process of forgiveness is not merely an intellectual tool but a practical technology of the mind that enables individuals of any age to shift out of emotional pain and live from a foundation of love, or Rakhma.

Julie H joined the conversation and shared reflections from her classroom experiences, where kindergartners managed themselves with remarkable maturity and order in her absence—an outcome she attributed to having taught them how to manage their own minds. This reinforced the show’s core message: children thrive when they are taught self-awareness and inner regulation from a young age. Julie also criticized common adult behaviors like talking down to children or disregarding their presence, explaining that children internalize these dynamics and often carry limiting beliefs into adulthood.

The conversation deepened as Dr. Ryce spoke about the profound impact of labeling and the destructive power of false beliefs implanted by authority figures. He explained that the Aramaic translation of scripture offers a radically different insight into human development—specifically that “in the beginning was the mind energy and the mind energy became flesh.” This means that thoughts, particularly from influential figures like parents, shape a child’s emotional and even physical development at the cellular level. He cited research by Bruce Lipton to support this, noting that fetal development is influenced by the mother’s thoughts and feelings, which are biochemically transferred to the child.

Dr. Tim Hayes joined the discussion and echoed the theme of fear-based parenting. He emphasized that much of the anger directed at children is a defense against unresolved fear in the parent. Instead of addressing their internal fears, parents often project them onto their children, using anger and control as tools. Both Tim and Michael highlighted the damage caused by guilt and shame, debunking the myth that guilt is a necessary motivator for moral behavior. Tim explained that guilt often leads to self-sabotage and addiction cycles, and that breaking free from this requires dismantling internalized negative beliefs, not reinforcing them.

Jeanie added insight about the structure of the mind—conscious, subconscious, and unconscious—and how unresolved trauma stored in the unconscious continues to influence behavior until it is brought into awareness and released. She described mindshifters and worksheets as tools for surfacing these buried patterns. The conversation also explored the concept of the “power person,” the one who had the most power over an individual at any given time, typically in childhood. The dynamics created in these relationships often become default behavior patterns under stress. Recognizing and forgiving these patterns is essential to healing.

The show wrapped up with a powerful reminder that forgiveness is not about pardoning others, but about accessing and changing the internal dynamics that keep us stuck in repeating painful patterns. Michael encouraged listeners to explore the tools on the website www.whyagain.org, especially the forgiveness worksheets and the upcoming intensives that provide deep immersion into this life-changing work. The show emphasized that when parents do their own inner work, they not only transform their own lives but also set the foundation for healthier, more conscious children.

YouTube https://youtu.be/obMunem04CQ or on our Podetize player at https://whyagain.org/mindshifters-radio-show-player-for-archives/