391. Cindy Teevens - a podcast by Rick Archer

Six years after the suicide of her father, in one moment her own intense suffering was swapped for mind-blowing joy, altering her life permanently. Happiness and peace became her predominant states. Laughter exploded at the simplicity and power of the shift, and tearsof gratitude flowed.

Understandings began to come about how we have been living backwards, how we have mistaken the outside for the inside, and how we have tethered ourselves to the uncontrollable winds of change in the midst of freedom—and how we can return to truth, sanity, and peace.She dropped everything she was doing to show people how to feel good no matter what because when you shift your state, problems dissolve, villains become victims, and compassion kicks in. So much gratitude came with this revelation, she began helping people awaken love and joy in their lives.

Months after discovering joy, one day in the woods she was knocked to her knees by an explosion of love that ended the imaginary separation of self and other, speech fell away, and all she could do was laugh and cry at the cosmic joke.Forty years of self baggage suddenly fell away.  The thinker and speaker she thought she was, was gone. Yet the Self remained. Cindy is writing about that “direct seeing” of Self in a third book she is working on.

She is the author of Alchemy - How to Feel Good No Matter What, and The Happiness Lie: What Generations Have Been Told That Makes You Unhappy.Website: alchemylovejoy.com

Transcript of this interviewInterview recorded 3/11/2017.

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.Chapters:


00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump00:04:17 - The Shift to Joy
00:08:06 - Letting go of Attachments and the Happiness Lie00:12:07 - Shifting Attention and Finding Joy
00:15:56 - Shifting States and Experiencing Bliss00:20:00 - The Source of Happiness
00:23:41 - Shifting from Conceptuality to Experience00:27:52 - The Illusion of Separation
00:32:29 - The End of Duality00:36:50 - Dismantling the False Separate Self
00:41:38 - The Shift to Seeing Everything in Terms of the Self00:46:19 - Falling in Love with Love
00:50:40 - Intensifying the Desire for Love and Realization00:54:37 - Finding the Joy Within
00:58:48 - Narrowing and Opening the Power of Attention01:02:42 - Deepening Awareness through Meditation
01:07:14 - The Universal Experience of Mind Wandering whilst Driving01:11:17 - The End of Questioning
01:15:42 - Rewriting and Integration01:19:49 - The Transition Phase and Settling Down
01:24:07 - The Evolution of Awareness01:28:03 - The Power of Attention and Interest
01:31:49 - The Power of Discernment and the Dream of Suffering01:36:01 - The Power of Authority
01:39:56 - Letting go of the idea that someone is hurting you01:43:12 - The Importance of Reframing Experiences
01:46:32 - Humanity's purpose and the joy of self-realization
01:49:50 - The Importance of Self-Realization01:52:44 - The Freedom and Spaciousness of Being"Natural"01:55:49 - Upcoming Programs and Contact Information
01:59:13 - MusicSave

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