I had fallen into the what's and whys, so many hours spent watching videos instead of actually practising just being. I realised the trap I had gotten myself into at the same time that I found your content. And then today, you confirmed this. You really have helped me more in the past week than all the rest over the past 2 years! I do believe that I didn't just stumble upon you last week. It was the right time. And it seems that many others have found you at this time. That surely can't be a coincidence? 😇 And so everyone, let's stop scrolling and searching and just be in the moment and enjoy the wonderment 🙏 Love to all ❤
Wherever you are and whoever you may be, I wish you good health and a joyful life. Just keep walking forward. My journey began in a monastery, and next month, I will officially become a monk. Though I don’t know what lies ahead, I believe this path will lead me to a deeper sense of gratitude and fulfillment.
I have been overthinking, reading everything, making my search for serenity and peace so congested with other people’s thoughts and beliefs and feeling so strangled with confusion, doubt, and fear of not doing it right. I’ve been coming to an end of all that in the past few months and your message was so refreshing and freeing. FREEDOM! That has been my cry for decades and now I think we are all taking a deeper breath and falling into Love and awakening to ourselves and the beautiful light that is shining brightly within. Thank you for your timely beautiful message. ❤
@@judithsilver4402 What beautiful words, thank you, Judith! 🙏🏻Indeed, we are “falling into Love and awakening to ourselves.” 🥰 What a mercy to see this and to take those deeper breaths that realign you with the peace and freedom within. ♥️♥️♥️
Life truly is kinder than our thoughts about it, and so much of what we perceive as superiority or inferiority is just a construct of our own minds. The more we let go of these comparisons, the freer we become to experience life with gratitude, curiosity, and joy!! keep sharing your light with the world. Thank YOU! Thank you! So much love from Chicago! 🙌🚀💙
@@Ammar_Abdilghanie Thank you so much, Ammar in Chicago! 🙏🏻💜🥰♥️ Yes, freedom really is a matter of letting go. And if we don’t feel we can let go, then we can observe ourselves and, sooner or later, that will result in letting go.
So much gratitude for your work! I have been working through an awakening (maybe several awakenings) since around 2020. The Spiritual Ego is a sneaky one! I also am aware of my mind’s ravenous desire for knowledge! I have lost count of how many metaphysical/spiritual books I have read! I’m attempting to allow the mind to have its fun without becoming attached. What a tightrope walk! What a show! Apologies for rambling! Thank you so much! Blessings 🙏🙏🙏
You're not rambling at all! I'm very interested in your journey and thankful that you're sharing it. 🥰It's wonderful that you recognise these things in yourself without self-judgment. Yes, allow the mind to have its fun. At the end of the day, we have the freedom to do as we please, so let's enjoy this human experience while not losing sight of what is real. 🙏♥
I liked your comment. I too have this insatiable appetite for books and study on Spirituality ; its just what interests me, and quite frankly, preferable to yet another movie, podcast, or infalmmoroy news segment. But yes, sometimes I feel my monkey mind grasping, greedily, for answers and quick fixes. So I then need to pull back from the brink, and go back to "no mind" ; be satisfied with the mystery of not knowing.
@@SIERRATREES And that is the perfect example of letting yourself indulge in your chosen pleasure while having a sense of when it gets too much and coming back into balance. 🙏🏻🥰♥️
You have just confirmed to me why I have been feeling so uncomfortable in myself and unable to relax into sleep at night. I am engaging in things that don’t serve me on the internet, feeling like I need to add a word, an explanation, a defense, for people I suspect don’t understand a situation ….. as if I do? I had decided a few days ago this “reading” things was not so good, even though I felt my motive was honorable. It’s not honorable at all. It’s just my ego thinking I can help set people straight when actually it’s not my place. I’m much more at peace when I am simply here… present, full of love, taking in my day, filling myself with peace. ❤️
It’s easily done when our heart aches for those who seem lost and we feel we have some light to help them on their way. 😌But realising what you have is so valuable, as it sets you free to shine brighter. ♥️ What a mercy and blessing it is to see that we can keep relaxing into Love and trusting the way of things. 🙏🏻Thank you so much for your honest sharing.
“Life is kinder than your thoughts about it” I love it, love you too. This podcast tickled me in parts with the perfect timing of your stare at the end of certain comments 🤣. You tell em Aliki!!!! If anybody leaves you any nasty comments I’m going to get them. You are adorable. Love your content so so much Aliki. Thank God that wasn’t a huge hole as I’d miss these so much ❤
@@lisanathan7336 ♥️Thank goodness that wasn’t a huge hole! 😮 Thanks for your lovely words and for keeping an eye out for me. 🥰Fortunately, unkind comments don’t really bother me. In fact, they probably help my ego deflate a bit. 😁
Thank you Aliki for your wisdom. Hehe ,so funny at the end there was this message from The Light that you are " Be careful to not step into the rabbit holes of your mind and if you do , embrace it and accept it as part of the spiritual path 😊 We learn also by contrast 😊💖🙏🌹🌈✨🤗
Nice advice. I've been a positive person throughout my life. (Well, for the most part) being positive has been a great way to live. I didn't try to be positive it was my nature. But in that nature was a powerful Ego, and my ego played a role in that nature. I used my ego as self-confidence. Even though I wasn't as good as I thought I was, it was helpful for me to adventure into jobs and relationships that I may not have otherwise. But the ego can certainly be harmful. And as I have become old, I no longer need it. It hasn't gone away! But I see it. That's the difference. I know it, I can tell when it's at work and get a rope around its hind quarters! Thanks so much for your voice.
@@tomdorman2486 Thanks for sharing that, Tom. What a blessing to see it! 🥰Don’t expect it to go away though. As long as it’s not running the show, there’s no harm done. Like you said, it can even be helpful at times. ♥️
Your videos are worth their weight in Gold 😊 I am nearly 66 years old and have honestly spent most days of my life in fear and anxiety. It’s been mostly a living nightmare. I was introduced to the spiritual path at the age of 16 by my parents and felt that it could be the answer for me to be free of the fears I was experiencing. It gave me such a lovely feeling when I read the books. First one was by Paramansa Yogananda. Here I am many years later and the fears have grown and the delighted feeling I used to get when reading or hearing about spiritual things mostly gone and replaced with a weary feeling of “ it’s never got me anywhere before so why bother” I have only just found your channel a few days ago but every video has touched my heart and roused my interest again in spiritual matters. I have 3 bookcases of old and newer spiritual books which have been gathering dust because I had lost the original faith that living the spiritual life could help me but listening to you has bought back that original feeling I had when I first heard about it. Thank you 💜
@@wenjo2738 Thank you for sharing your story and for your kind words. 🙏🏻 It warms my heart to know that these videos are guiding you back into your heart after so many years of turmoil. ♥️ Was that An Autobiography of a Yogi that you read? 🥰
Just found your video...and It has helped me so much. I'm a dreadful mind overthinker and I know the soul has the wisdom .. Thank you for your honest humble insights ❤
I'm so pleased it was helpful! Thank you so much for letting me know. 🙏🥰 This one is perfect for overthinking: th-cam.com/video/3AjlskWjb2k/w-d-xo.htmlsi=KSHNWKpxjJrrauVI
❤ There is so much in your video that I could positively reply to.❤😊 I recognize the 3 things you have mentioned. It's true, isn't it? When we keep our thoughts as our focus, we are missing life. The choice is to "keep it simple": slow down, stay connected to the moments, be curious/imagine/allow inspiration, be grateful, connect through mind and body. All of this is "illumination of ourselves." And at my most illuminated state of being, my ego thoughts were not there, and I have been like a baby. Being like a baby isn't meant metaphorically. Life is simple, and rich, but it's our "egoic" thoughts that make it out to be complicated.
I especially love that last line. 🙏🥰Being like a baby is the most beautiful way to be - as though seeing everything for the first time, without all the conditioned learning. When we are fully present, we are like that. ♥♥♥
Hello miss aliki I just found you last week and I just wanted to thank you 🙏 for your service and integrity sending you and your family love and light and gratitude 🙏 and joy 🤩 Namaste 🙏 Blessed Be Stacey Childs
Such a great video and thank you for sharing that! I loved how you were trying to talk about distractions, and you kept becoming distracted by stepping in that hole !! Your laughter is contagious and beautiful !❤
♥Thanks for watching and commenting.🙏LOL, yes, and there were countless other distractions that day from the wind. 🥰Thankfully I was still able to complete the video.
What a joy to listen to your voice and message! I had been recently revisiting my idea of what love is. It seems like love is more like this expandable space that welcomes all that is with deep acceptance. Starting with the things we don’t like about ourselves. I’m not sure if the I who wants to share that is the ego or the deeper self that is expressing a desire for unity with others but regardless it sounds like you are saying it’s okay, and just being aware of that dynamic is enough….. thank you, that feels like love talking!
@@lureup9973 What beautiful words! Thank you so much for sharing this uplifting view of love. ♥️🙏🏻♥️ I’m glad you said “regardless” and didn’t get all caught up in that speculation. 🥰It probably helps that you know your stuff when it comes to lures. 🎣
I loved starting the week with your inspirational video. Letting go .relaxing , breathing and being present appear to be vital to me lately since they keep on coming and popping up. And yes yes, recognise a lot. Especially at #3 , I felt like laughing and crying at the same time. It was like a giant arena-light was switched on and seeing everything so clear … eventhough just for a glimps. A true oneness feeling … So Thank you for shining your light on YT ( and beyond) warm greetings from the netherlands
@@sandra.jeannette Letting go, relaxing, breathing and being present are vital to all of us and the perfect recipe for a fulfilling life❣️Ah, what a mercy to have the giant arena light switched on.🥰Thank you for your delightful comment. 🙏🏻
beautiful! Thank you for sharing! Trusting that our path is always designed for growth brings so much peace and clarity. 🙏 Growth isn’t about force-it’s about flow. 🌟
I have had a very stressful 8 days on a broadband problem and I woke today so ground down by it. I hope I can be mindful today as you describe in my chores because we have rain scheduled all day and I got a bit of a chill fixing a bit of storm damage in my shed. Since September each month has brought stressful situations and I feel exhausted by it all. Sorry Aliki I don't know where all that came from! 😊
@@margaretmcgregor5686 Thank you for open about your struggles, Margaret. I think many people can relate with what you share here so I’d like to reply in the best way - by creating a video. Look out for the next one on Sunday. 🙏🏻♥️🥰 In the meantime, try switching your attention from your thoughts to your breathing.
I have discovered your video's today. Oh how wonderful to learn that is ok to simplify my life and my spiritual life. And the breathing. Thank you for giving me hope again. Blessings from south Africa 😊
Aliki, this is wonderful, many thanks! So much truth in this podcast. The mind continually questions and like you say, takes credit for what it finds. "Letting love lead" is an excellent suggestion for the spiritual ego. Spectacular scenery and images, beautiful quotes in this podcast. I really appreciate these: "whatever appears is the path" and "you are the light of awareness." Though my mind may not agree!
@@ThelmaM123 Thank you, Thelma. 🙏🏻That’s okay, it doesn’t have to agree. We’re letting it do its thing, aren’t we? 🥰 What matters is that your inner wisdom, which is deeper and much more reliable than the mind, has the accurate sense of what’s true. ♥️ I really appreciate you sharing what spoke to you.
Hi Aliki, thank you for your wonderful contents. I found the 3 playlists "Your Spiritual Awakening Journey", "The Wisdom Files" and "A Normal Spiritual Lifestyle" including the Today List to be tremendously helpful. You are definitely achieving your goal of providing more simple contents on this topic. You asked for some suggestions on potential future topics, 2 areas of interest to me are coping with work and supporting a partner to awaken, as well as wondering what is wisdom/intuition. Thanks so much!
Thank you for your lovely comment, Joseph. 🙏🏻🥰And also for your suggestions! I will put them on my list for future content ideas. Can you tell me more about what you mean by coping with work? Also, you may find the answer to your last question in this video: th-cam.com/video/Q3xVvM3b07Y/w-d-xo.html
I love your videos ❤ thankyou p.s your voice is so calming would you ever consider recording a body scan meditation to help with sleep 💤 I know I would listen 👂
Hello Paula, thanks for the suggestion. I do have a couple of meditations on this channel. I feel compelled to create the kind of content only I can create, rather than what others are doing, so I’ll probably leave the body scans to them. 🥰
Excellent… grounded… and the only tell that matters… a bit of a twinkle in the eyes… the humorous predicament we experience as the veil rises is reflected there. Not knowing is a primary knowing. So true, how can one not laugh at the predicament? It appears to be an endless loop without that reference frame to start with… no one knows but everyone knows but you can’t describe it but then how the heck do we fix this thing that isn’t broken but god said, science said… on and on… endless feedback loops, stories and descriptions repeated for thousands of years… I mean really, what could possibly go… weird? 😂
@@paulmoerke437 Oh my goodness, I got dizzy just reading that… 😂Thank you, Paul, for describing the preposterous predicament and for reminding us to laugh. ♥️🙏🏻🥰
Hello Susan 🌺Thank you for sharing so honestly about your journey. 🙏🏻I’m grateful you’re here. Hopefully you can start to find your way again. I recommend you start with the Wisdom Files playlist ♥️ th-cam.com/play/PL9_6MESgZ333dBWefdrMoApKbygcGQXLS.html&si=bAKSuEECR_ciCKKh
Ah yes great point about witnessing your channel grow! Please please please let us gain some insight into the challenges you are sure to experience while growing alongside your channel, coming from a gen z-er, it’s so incredibly easy to get swallowed by one’s internet identity.
@@Tenr540 I appreciate your comment and question. 🙏🏻🥰 I’m actually planning some videos about my content creation journey as I do get asked about it and have a lot to share! Tbh, what you see is who I am, so I’m not any different off camera. ♥️ Is that what you meant? If not, please clarify so I can answer properly.
@ I just mean the tricky ways in which the ego will fight to dominate your attention in regards to this channel and the number of people you reach. I can say from my own personal experience that it was incredibly easy to get swallowed by my online presence, and I’m grateful that I recognized some unhealthy patterns and decided to step away. You seem much stronger and much more aware of the dance than I was at that time, so I look forward to hearing how you observe the stirrings that come with your TH-cam journey. I wish you all the best, your authenticity shines very very brightly ❤️
@ Ah, now I understand. Thanks for explaining it so clearly. 🙏🏻🥰 “Tricky” is a very apt word because the ego is also in the driver’s seat when you try not to get swallowed up. You see, we have concepts about what constitutes spiritual behaviour and what doesn’t. It’s easy to recognise the ego when you feel proud, but forced humility is also not the real you. I have found the most helpful thing is to be in a proper relationship with the ego. Trying to prove it wrong is giving it too much attention and validating it. It’s simply a false sense of self that’s trying to protect you from perceived threats. When you recognised those “unhealthy patterns” did you step away because the wisdom within guiding you or because of fear? ♥️
Hi Aliki, When we wake up to the dance of being aware and being unaware. I had this experience once when i found what looked like a large mushroom growing down from my shed roof. Closer inspection revealed a hole where a Wasp dropped out and flew off out of the shed. In that instant with the buzing and vibrating air, my mind was stunned into how that wasp had made such a marvel. Did it know, was it aware or unaware, but surely something creative was there before me. Maybe I was the only one aware of the marvel ? Isn't sometimes the light before us, in plain sight. We can not wake it from its unawareness, and ask it how it came to be (pun not intended, bee or a Wasp.) But if we could wake the Wasp, would it know the answer. So my question is, if we have awoken, can we answer this question ? This creative outpouring from us and all around us seems to have a purpose hidden even from our awareness.
Hello Paul 🌺Thank you for sharing your experience and the story of the mushroom and the wasp. 🙏🏻Could you please help me to understand your question by putting it more simply?
Yes, I will try to simplify :) Is it through awareness, we can know our destiny, or calling ? Also Check out those mushroom like hanging wasp nests, amazing how the Queen builds it alone until the workers awake and take over, what a calling. I did add a link but TH-cam won't post it ?
@ I believe that we all have the same basic purpose, but that it manifests differently through each one of us. From my personal experience, I have found that knowing and trusting the wisdom within keeps me aligned with that purpose so I know which steps to take and not take. Does this answer your question? I will look up the nests. 🥰🙏🏻♥️
I had fallen into the what's and whys, so many hours spent watching videos instead of actually practising just being.
I realised the trap I had gotten myself into at the same time that I found your content.
And then today, you confirmed this. You really have helped me more in the past week than all the rest over the past 2 years!
I do believe that I didn't just stumble upon you last week.
It was the right time.
And it seems that many others have found you at this time. That surely can't be a coincidence? 😇
And so everyone, let's stop scrolling and searching and just be in the moment and enjoy the wonderment 🙏
Love to all ❤
What beautiful words! Surely there is a time for everything and we are all here at the perfect time to walk each other home. 🥰Thank you🙏🏻♥️
Wherever you are and whoever you may be, I wish you good health and a joyful life. Just keep walking forward. My journey began in a monastery, and next month, I will officially become a monk. Though I don’t know what lies ahead, I believe this path will lead me to a deeper sense of gratitude and fulfillment.
I have been overthinking, reading everything, making my search for serenity and peace so congested with other people’s thoughts and beliefs and feeling so strangled with confusion, doubt, and fear of not doing it right. I’ve been coming to an end of all that in the past few months and your message was so refreshing and freeing. FREEDOM! That has been my cry for decades and now I think we are all taking a deeper breath and falling into Love and awakening to ourselves and the beautiful light that is shining brightly within. Thank you for your timely beautiful message. ❤
@@judithsilver4402 What beautiful words, thank you, Judith! 🙏🏻Indeed, we are “falling into Love and awakening to ourselves.” 🥰 What a mercy to see this and to take those deeper breaths that realign you with the peace and freedom within. ♥️♥️♥️
Life truly is kinder than our thoughts about it, and so much of what we perceive as superiority or inferiority is just a construct of our own minds. The more we let go of these comparisons, the freer we become to experience life with gratitude, curiosity, and joy!! keep sharing your light with the world. Thank YOU! Thank you! So much love from Chicago! 🙌🚀💙
@@Ammar_Abdilghanie Thank you so much, Ammar in Chicago! 🙏🏻💜🥰♥️ Yes, freedom really is a matter of letting go. And if we don’t feel we can let go, then we can observe ourselves and, sooner or later, that will result in letting go.
So much gratitude for your work! I have been working through an awakening (maybe several awakenings) since around 2020. The Spiritual Ego is a sneaky one! I also am aware of my mind’s ravenous desire for knowledge! I have lost count of how many metaphysical/spiritual books I have read! I’m attempting to allow the mind to have its fun without becoming attached. What a tightrope walk! What a show! Apologies for rambling! Thank you so much! Blessings 🙏🙏🙏
You're not rambling at all! I'm very interested in your journey and thankful that you're sharing it. 🥰It's wonderful that you recognise these things in yourself without self-judgment. Yes, allow the mind to have its fun. At the end of the day, we have the freedom to do as we please, so let's enjoy this human experience while not losing sight of what is real. 🙏♥
I liked your comment. I too have this insatiable appetite for books and study on Spirituality ; its just what interests me, and quite frankly, preferable to yet another movie, podcast, or infalmmoroy news segment. But yes, sometimes I feel my monkey mind grasping, greedily, for answers and quick fixes. So I then need to pull back from the brink, and go back to "no mind" ; be satisfied with the mystery of not knowing.
@@SIERRATREES And that is the perfect example of letting yourself indulge in your chosen pleasure while having a sense of when it gets too much and coming back into balance. 🙏🏻🥰♥️
You have just confirmed to me why I have been feeling so uncomfortable in myself and unable to relax into sleep at night. I am engaging in things that don’t serve me on the internet, feeling like I need to add a word, an explanation, a defense, for people I suspect don’t understand a situation ….. as if I do? I had decided a few days ago this “reading” things was not so good, even though I felt my motive was honorable. It’s not honorable at all. It’s just my ego thinking I can help set people straight when actually it’s not my place. I’m much more at peace when I am simply here… present, full of love, taking in my day, filling myself with peace. ❤️
It’s easily done when our heart aches for those who seem lost and we feel we have some light to help them on their way. 😌But realising what you have is so valuable, as it sets you free to shine brighter. ♥️ What a mercy and blessing it is to see that we can keep relaxing into Love and trusting the way of things. 🙏🏻Thank you so much for your honest sharing.
“Life is kinder than your thoughts about it” I love it, love you too. This podcast tickled me in parts with the perfect timing of your stare at the end of certain comments 🤣. You tell em Aliki!!!! If anybody leaves you any nasty comments I’m going to get them. You are adorable. Love your content so so much Aliki. Thank God that wasn’t a huge hole as I’d miss these so much ❤
@@lisanathan7336 ♥️Thank goodness that wasn’t a huge hole! 😮 Thanks for your lovely words and for keeping an eye out for me. 🥰Fortunately, unkind comments don’t really bother me. In fact, they probably help my ego deflate a bit. 😁
Thank you Aliki for your wisdom. Hehe ,so funny at the end there was this message from The Light that you are " Be careful to not step into the rabbit holes of your mind and if you do , embrace it and accept it as part of the spiritual path 😊 We learn also by contrast 😊💖🙏🌹🌈✨🤗
@@morningsunbeam ♥️Indeed we do. 🙏🏻🥰 I wonder if that was a rabbit hole I stepped in…🤔😁
@AlikiReddy 💖🥰🙏😊
Nice advice.
I've been a positive person throughout my life. (Well, for the most part) being positive has been a great way to live. I didn't try to be positive it was my nature. But in that nature was a powerful Ego, and my ego played a role in that nature. I used my ego as self-confidence. Even though I wasn't as good as I thought I was, it was helpful for me to adventure into jobs and relationships that I may not have otherwise. But the ego can certainly be harmful. And as I have become old, I no longer need it. It hasn't gone away! But I see it. That's the difference. I know it, I can tell when it's at work and get a rope around its hind quarters! Thanks so much for your voice.
@@tomdorman2486 Thanks for sharing that, Tom. What a blessing to see it! 🥰Don’t expect it to go away though. As long as it’s not running the show, there’s no harm done. Like you said, it can even be helpful at times. ♥️
Wow, what a VOICE
@@cuttinghedgespecialist 💜😊💜🙏🏻
Your videos are worth their weight in Gold 😊 I am nearly 66 years old and have honestly spent most days of my life in fear and anxiety. It’s been mostly a living nightmare. I was introduced to the spiritual path at the age of 16 by my parents and felt that it could be the answer for me to be free of the fears I was experiencing. It gave me such a lovely feeling when I read the books. First one was by Paramansa Yogananda. Here I am many years later and the fears have grown and the delighted feeling I used to get when reading or hearing about spiritual things mostly gone and replaced with a weary feeling of “ it’s never got me anywhere before so why bother” I have only just found your channel a few days ago but every video has touched my heart and roused my interest again in spiritual matters. I have 3 bookcases of old and newer spiritual books which have been gathering dust because I had lost the original faith that living the spiritual life could help me but listening to you has bought back that original feeling I had when I first heard about it. Thank you 💜
@@wenjo2738 Thank you for sharing your story and for your kind words. 🙏🏻 It warms my heart to know that these videos are guiding you back into your heart after so many years of turmoil. ♥️ Was that An Autobiography of a Yogi that you read? 🥰
Thank you so much for your reply, much appreciated ❤ the book was Man’s eternal Quest which I still have 😊
@ Thank you for letting me know! It’s now on my wish list. 💕
Just found your video...and It has helped me so much. I'm a dreadful mind overthinker and I know the soul has the wisdom ..
Thank you for your honest humble insights ❤
I'm so pleased it was helpful! Thank you so much for letting me know. 🙏🥰 This one is perfect for overthinking: th-cam.com/video/3AjlskWjb2k/w-d-xo.htmlsi=KSHNWKpxjJrrauVI
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There is so much in your video that I could positively reply to.❤😊
I recognize the 3 things you have mentioned.
It's true, isn't it? When we keep our thoughts as our focus, we are missing life. The choice is to "keep it simple": slow down, stay connected to the moments, be curious/imagine/allow inspiration, be grateful, connect through mind and body. All of this is "illumination of ourselves." And at my most illuminated state of being, my ego thoughts were not there, and I have been like a baby. Being like a baby isn't meant metaphorically.
Life is simple, and rich, but it's our "egoic" thoughts that make it out to be complicated.
I especially love that last line. 🙏🥰Being like a baby is the most beautiful way to be - as though seeing everything for the first time, without all the conditioned learning. When we are fully present, we are like that. ♥♥♥
Hello miss aliki I just found you last week and I just wanted to thank you 🙏 for your service and integrity sending you and your family love and light and gratitude 🙏 and joy 🤩 Namaste 🙏 Blessed Be Stacey Childs
@@staceychilds7004 Thank you for your love-filled message, Stacey. 🙏🏻🥰 And for being here now. ♥️
let love lead! The best advice I have ever heard! Thank you Aliki! I love it!
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Such a great video and thank you for sharing that!
I loved how you were trying to talk about distractions, and you kept becoming distracted by stepping in that hole !!
Your laughter is contagious and beautiful !❤
♥Thanks for watching and commenting.🙏LOL, yes, and there were countless other distractions that day from the wind. 🥰Thankfully I was still able to complete the video.
Thank you for this insightful video. I Like your way of explaining things as well as your beautiful contagious smile😅 . Love you 💖
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I have no words to explain how beautiful this video is. You are truly an amazing person . Keep going, keep shining 💕💕💕.
Thank you for your encouraging words. 💜🙏🏻🥰
What a joy to listen to your voice and message!
I had been recently revisiting my idea of what love is. It seems like love is more like this expandable space that welcomes all that is with deep acceptance. Starting with the things we don’t like about ourselves. I’m not sure if the I who wants to share that is the ego or the deeper self that is expressing a desire for unity with others but regardless it sounds like you are saying it’s okay, and just being aware of that dynamic is enough….. thank you, that feels like love talking!
@@lureup9973 What beautiful words! Thank you so much for sharing this uplifting view of love. ♥️🙏🏻♥️ I’m glad you said “regardless” and didn’t get all caught up in that speculation. 🥰It probably helps that you know your stuff when it comes to lures. 🎣
@ ha ha..I enjoy the art of carving a new lure..I’m not sure that helps me understand much of anything important, but I do enjoy it tremendously 😁
I so appreciate the simplicity of your sharings. ❤️
Thank you so much for letting me know❣️🙏🏻🥰
Wow, just what I needed. Thank you ❤
@@AyaSmith-rb2hp You’re welcome, Aya. I’m so glad this week’s video spoke to you. ♥️🙏🏻🥰
I loved starting the week with your inspirational video. Letting go .relaxing , breathing and being present appear to be vital to me lately since they keep on coming and popping up.
And yes yes, recognise a lot. Especially at #3 , I felt like laughing and crying at the same time. It was like a giant arena-light was switched on and seeing everything so clear … eventhough just for a glimps. A true oneness feeling … So Thank you for shining your light on YT ( and beyond) warm greetings from the netherlands
@@sandra.jeannette Letting go, relaxing, breathing and being present are vital to all of us and the perfect recipe for a fulfilling life❣️Ah, what a mercy to have the giant arena light switched on.🥰Thank you for your delightful comment. 🙏🏻
beautiful! Thank you for sharing! Trusting that our path is always designed for growth brings so much peace and clarity. 🙏 Growth isn’t about force-it’s about flow. 🌟
Yes, flow! I appreciate you watching and commenting. Thank you. ♥️🙏🏻🥰
What a great think to remember. Thank you‼️
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Aliki thanks for this channel. It is so refreshing and real. Please keep making videos.
@@MichelleVazquez-t1e ♥️🙏🏻🥰That’s my plan!
Thank you .We love your approach and willingness to share .We love your aliveness .
@@padraighdesmond4834 Thank you♥️🙏🏻🥰
I have had a very stressful 8 days on a broadband problem and I woke today so ground down by it. I hope I can be mindful today as you describe in my chores because we have rain scheduled all day and I got a bit of a chill fixing a bit of storm damage in my shed. Since September each month has brought stressful situations and I feel exhausted by it all. Sorry Aliki I don't know where all that came from! 😊
@@margaretmcgregor5686 Thank you for open about your struggles, Margaret. I think many people can relate with what you share here so I’d like to reply in the best way - by creating a video. Look out for the next one on Sunday. 🙏🏻♥️🥰 In the meantime, try switching your attention from your thoughts to your breathing.
I have discovered your video's today. Oh how wonderful to learn that is ok to simplify my life and my spiritual life. And the breathing. Thank you for giving me hope again. Blessings from south Africa 😊
Welcome to my channel, Santie. 🥰I have just been admiring your beautiful artwork on your channel. ♥️Yes, it’s okay and healthy to simplify.🙏🏻💕
I just discovered your channel and I LOVE YOU! thanks for simplifying it!
@@deniseburke6781 Thank you, Denise. 🙏🏻 I can feel the love. ♥️♥️♥️
Aliki, this is wonderful, many thanks! So much truth in this podcast. The mind continually questions and like you say, takes credit for what it finds. "Letting love lead" is an excellent suggestion for the spiritual ego.
Spectacular scenery and images, beautiful quotes in this podcast. I really appreciate these: "whatever appears is the path" and "you are the light of awareness." Though my mind may not agree!
@@ThelmaM123 Thank you, Thelma. 🙏🏻That’s okay, it doesn’t have to agree. We’re letting it do its thing, aren’t we? 🥰 What matters is that your inner wisdom, which is deeper and much more reliable than the mind, has the accurate sense of what’s true. ♥️ I really appreciate you sharing what spoke to you.
Thanks for keeping me focused 🙏🏻
@@EMPRESSofSALTandLIGHT My pleasure❣️🥰
Thank you, Aliki! ❤
@@amirohassan ♥️🙏🏻🥰Always my pleasure.
Loving your channel. Thank you.
@@clairebusby3858 Thank you, Claire ♥️🙏🏻🥰
Hi Aliki, thank you for your wonderful contents. I found the 3 playlists "Your Spiritual Awakening Journey", "The Wisdom Files" and "A Normal Spiritual Lifestyle" including the Today List to be tremendously helpful. You are definitely achieving your goal of providing more simple contents on this topic. You asked for some suggestions on potential future topics, 2 areas of interest to me are coping with work and supporting a partner to awaken, as well as wondering what is wisdom/intuition. Thanks so much!
Thank you for your lovely comment, Joseph. 🙏🏻🥰And also for your suggestions! I will put them on my list for future content ideas. Can you tell me more about what you mean by coping with work? Also, you may find the answer to your last question in this video:
th-cam.com/video/Q3xVvM3b07Y/w-d-xo.html
I really needed to see this video today at this very moment. Thank you so much.
@@KaliHowel Thank you for letting me know. 🙏🏻I’m grateful you’re here. 🥰♥️
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What a great video to start my day with! Thank you so much! ❤
You’re welcome❣️🙏🏻🥰
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Love ghis video .I totally agree 💯
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I love your videos ❤ thankyou p.s your voice is so calming would you ever consider recording a body scan meditation to help with sleep 💤 I know I would listen 👂
Hello Paula, thanks for the suggestion. I do have a couple of meditations on this channel. I feel compelled to create the kind of content only I can create, rather than what others are doing, so I’ll probably leave the body scans to them. 🥰
Thankyou for another inspiring talk Aliki. Your work reminds me very much of Joan Tollifson.
@@ianm5249 Ooh, thank you for introducing her to me! I will be checking out her videos. 🙏🏻♥️🥰
@@AlikiReddy Joan is a beautiful writer as well. One of her books has a great title "Death. The end of self improvement."
@ That IS a great title! 🙏🏻💕
Thank you so much! 🙏❤️
My pleasure🙏🏻🥰
Wonderful. Thank you from Australia.
💕🙏🏻🥰♥️I do love knowing where you’re tuning in from. Where in Australia?
@ Melbourne
@ I was there once, many years ago. The second largest Greek population I believe.
@@craigc7786 I grew up in Melbourne, Malvern in fact. Now living in US.
❤Wonderful 😅Thank you 😊
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Excellent… grounded… and the only tell that matters… a bit of a twinkle in the eyes… the humorous predicament we experience as the veil rises is reflected there. Not knowing is a primary knowing. So true, how can one not laugh at the predicament? It appears to be an endless loop without that reference frame to start with… no one knows but everyone knows but you can’t describe it but then how the heck do we fix this thing that isn’t broken but god said, science said… on and on… endless feedback loops, stories and descriptions repeated for thousands of years… I mean really, what could possibly go… weird? 😂
@@paulmoerke437 Oh my goodness, I got dizzy just reading that… 😂Thank you, Paul, for describing the preposterous predicament and for reminding us to laugh. ♥️🙏🏻🥰
Thanks. I am lost spiritually because I went down so many rabbit holes and teachers and teachings. Now, I’m just confused. I appreciate this video
Hello Susan 🌺Thank you for sharing so honestly about your journey. 🙏🏻I’m grateful you’re here. Hopefully you can start to find your way again. I recommend you start with the Wisdom Files playlist ♥️ th-cam.com/play/PL9_6MESgZ333dBWefdrMoApKbygcGQXLS.html&si=bAKSuEECR_ciCKKh
patience and breath guys, lets have some fun!
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❤Great lesson this morning happy day😊 watch out for those rabbit holes😂
@@brittweir8844 😂Thanks Britt 🐰
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Thanks for letting me know.🙏🏻🥰
That's the problem. People think we are not going to the same place.
@@DrNinaMGoglucciPsyD Yes, there are all kinds of misconceptions when we don’t know the voice of wisdom.
Ah yes great point about witnessing your channel grow! Please please please let us gain some insight into the challenges you are sure to experience while growing alongside your channel, coming from a gen z-er, it’s so incredibly easy to get swallowed by one’s internet identity.
@@Tenr540 I appreciate your comment and question. 🙏🏻🥰 I’m actually planning some videos about my content creation journey as I do get asked about it and have a lot to share! Tbh, what you see is who I am, so I’m not any different off camera. ♥️ Is that what you meant? If not, please clarify so I can answer properly.
@ I just mean the tricky ways in which the ego will fight to dominate your attention in regards to this channel and the number of people you reach. I can say from my own personal experience that it was incredibly easy to get swallowed by my online presence, and I’m grateful that I recognized some unhealthy patterns and decided to step away. You seem much stronger and much more aware of the dance than I was at that time, so I look forward to hearing how you observe the stirrings that come with your TH-cam journey. I wish you all the best, your authenticity shines very very brightly ❤️
@ Ah, now I understand. Thanks for explaining it so clearly. 🙏🏻🥰 “Tricky” is a very apt word because the ego is also in the driver’s seat when you try not to get swallowed up. You see, we have concepts about what constitutes spiritual behaviour and what doesn’t. It’s easy to recognise the ego when you feel proud, but forced humility is also not the real you.
I have found the most helpful thing is to be in a proper relationship with the ego. Trying to prove it wrong is giving it too much attention and validating it. It’s simply a false sense of self that’s trying to protect you from perceived threats.
When you recognised those “unhealthy patterns” did you step away because the wisdom within guiding you or because of fear? ♥️
Hi Aliki,
When we wake up to the dance of being aware and being unaware.
I had this experience once when i found what looked like a large mushroom growing down from my shed roof.
Closer inspection revealed a hole where a Wasp dropped out and flew off out of the shed. In that instant with the buzing and vibrating air, my mind was stunned into how that wasp had made such a marvel.
Did it know, was it aware or unaware, but surely something creative was there before me.
Maybe I was the only one aware of the marvel ?
Isn't sometimes the light before us, in plain sight.
We can not wake it from its unawareness, and ask it how it came to be (pun not intended, bee or a Wasp.) But if we could wake the Wasp, would it know the answer.
So my question is, if we have awoken, can we answer this question ?
This creative outpouring from us and all around us seems to have a purpose hidden even from our awareness.
Hello Paul 🌺Thank you for sharing your experience and the story of the mushroom and the wasp. 🙏🏻Could you please help me to understand your question by putting it more simply?
Yes, I will try to simplify :)
Is it through awareness, we can know our destiny, or calling ?
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Check out those mushroom like hanging wasp nests, amazing how the Queen builds it alone until the workers awake and take over, what a calling. I did add a link but TH-cam won't post it ?
@ I believe that we all have the same basic purpose, but that it manifests differently through each one of us. From my personal experience, I have found that knowing and trusting the wisdom within keeps me aligned with that purpose so I know which steps to take and not take. Does this answer your question? I will look up the nests. 🥰🙏🏻♥️
@ Wow, that’s does really look like a mushroom. Amazing. 💕
@AlikiReddy Yes, that does answer my question thank you.
I wonder if our gift to co create leads us astray.
Just curious do you have a background in Golden Dawn🙏 Christ Consciousness
@@Magus-db3jn I’ve never heard of it.
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Thank you so much Aliki ❤️🙏💖🌞🪷
@@helenaatessis1253 Always my pleasure❣️🙏🏻🥰