http://www.michaelcasteel.com Your Path to Radical Wholeness Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:49:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?"  If the Universe asked you this question,  how would you answer? Walking out of the movie theater after seeing “Eat, Pray Love” with Leslie on Friday night, I found myself thinking about the main characters unique journey of heartbreak and discovery as ... http://www.michaelcasteel.com/537/whats-one-thing-you-would-do-if-you-knew-you-could/ This blog post outlines a process for gaining emotional mastery, really!  I know this well because it has been the essence of my own path both personally and professionally. Learning to not resist contracting emotional states has been the most difficult AND most valuable thing I've learned on my path ... http://www.michaelcasteel.com/526/just-feel-it/ What is a conscious-loving relationship?  Simply put, a relationship that recognizes  and acts upon the awareness that  you came together for a sacred purpose and that purpose is to help each other become more whole. Yet so often the opposite seems more true.  Why is this?  The answer lies in the ... http://www.michaelcasteel.com/409/conscious-relationship-do-we-hide-from-what-we-most-seek/ The past is only the past when we become present to it. Happy Independence Day! During this time of celebration of our country's freedom from the tyranny of dictatorship, let us begin to cultivate an inner state of independence by freeing ourselves from the tyranny of the pain body and celebrating ... http://www.michaelcasteel.com/523/presence-and-healing-the-pain-body/ The Enneagram is one of the most profound transformational tools available to assist us in uncovering our deepest motivations and fears that lie at the core of our ego personality or “false self” and transcend to Essence or the “true self”. It’s a psycho-spiritual tool that provides much more than ... http://www.michaelcasteel.com/258/the-enneagram-another-tool-for-transformation/ AUM. You've heard it, chanted it or meditated to it. Yet, do you know what the sound really means? The oldest known spiritual text, the Upanishads from ancient India, says that AUM is the sound of God. That's a pretty bold statement, isn't it? The ancient text goes on to explain ... http://www.michaelcasteel.com/282/the-meaning-of-the-sound-aum/ The Why and the How of Making the Shift from Ego to Essence "It is the best of times and the worst of times." These are the familiar words of Charles Dickens from the novel A Tale Of Two Cities. Seems fitting in today's times. With the financial melt down, ... http://www.michaelcasteel.com/511/making-the-shift/ Last Friday evening I attended a unique spiritual process called Sozo. Sozo is Greek word meaning "to make whole." Being the wholeness nerd that I am, I had to check it out. The two hour process was a powerful experience for me and ended with a ... http://www.michaelcasteel.com/506/sozo-to-make-whole/ Here's are two audio clips  inspired by my interview with Mary Simpson, founder of Docho International, about the ego to essence to Radical Wholeness work that I feel so passionate about. First clip is a somewhat choppy six minute clip and provides a brief explanation of what I call Radical Wholeness. Second clip is about ... http://www.michaelcasteel.com/473/audio-clip-what-is-radical-wholeness/ With Anger, the Joke's In You! It took me several years to figure this out: Blame and anger is Life's way of saying "April Fools!" Every time I got angry or blamed some else, the joke was on me. One day I woke up to the realization that my happiness and peace ... http://www.michaelcasteel.com/462/angeris-lifes-april-fools-joke-on-you/