https://www.spreaker.com/show/a-single-tree-podcastenSociety & CultureCopyright Joel Ybarrahttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/63dda6a29ba26c4457d847cbfd149a73.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/show/a-single-tree-podcastWed, 26 Apr 2023 17:19:44 +0000Joel YbarraJoel Ybarrafeeds@spreaker.comMental health professionals Brandon Jacobs and Joel Ybarra of Real Life Counseling discuss consciousness, contemplation and growth. Find out more about Real Life Counseling at RLCwichita.com.cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/user/asingletree/episode-57-passivity-as-a-means-to-healitag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1500801454Wed, 26 Apr 2023 16:36:43 +0000Joel YbarraWe are used to needing to push forward and produce or “work on” things, even in therapy. Healing, however, occurs when we become passive. It is something we receive, rather than being something we make happen. In order to become passive, we have to...2431cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/asingletree/episode-56-therapy-as-a-collective-medittag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1459602784Thu, 02 Mar 2023 12:25:37 +0000Joel YbarraSilence/contemplation/meditation are paths to healing. Our organisms (bodies) are usually bent on helping us avoid difficulty and keep us feeling “put together” in our environment. If we become “meta” to ourselves and the responses, then we have...3165cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/asingletree/55-we-are-who-we-are-in-response-to-our-tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1452745246Wed, 22 Feb 2023 02:42:00 +0000Joel YbarraAs organisms (bodies), we respond to our environment automatically without conscious awareness. The ways we do this make up various parts of our experience as humans and even form elements of what we think of as our personalities. We tend to think of...3705cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/asingletree/54-the-cumulative-effects-of-stress-and-tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1437807109Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:20:02 +0000Joel YbarraWe’re another year older and have become more focused on our collective experience of stress and trauma. All of us experience difficulty which has an effect on our bodies over time, even as we are unaware. De-pathologizing our adaptive responses to...3532cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/asingletree/53-trauma-as-a-portaltag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1099998076Wed, 04 Aug 2021 15:04:20 +0000Joel YbarraTrauma theory is helpful in understanding how our nervous systems respond in stressful situations. We can also learn to navigate the different levels of nervous system activation, even when dangerous and life-threatening events occur. We tend to avoid...3020cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/asingletree/52-portals-to-spiritual-awakeningtag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1060584046Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:25:28 +0000Joel YbarraIn his book In An Unspoken Voice, Peter A. Levine identifies four portals to spiritual awakening, as in the Buddhist and Taoist traditions. They are death, mediation, sex and trauma. In these experiences, humans experience profound surrender, and our...3479cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/asingletree/51-a-deeper-sensetag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1047075700Tue, 11 May 2021 18:54:59 +0000Joel YbarraThere are layers to our human experience – perception, thought, emotion and sensation. It is important to pay attention and understand what is happening at each of these levels, but they, in and of themselves, are not the fullest or deepest experience...3781cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/asingletree/50-non-dual-experiencingtag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1038553309Wed, 28 Apr 2021 17:19:57 +0000Joel YbarraEffective teachers are guides which help us find our way to truth, not just dispensing "answers." And when we suspend judgment of everything we do and think, we can experience our inner reality as it is and move toward healing and shaping it.3564cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/asingletree/49-non-dual-perceiving-and-becomingtag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1030249168Thu, 15 Apr 2021 17:36:49 +0000Joel YbarraReligion puts forth right belief and right action (morality). If we stay in a dualistic mindset, it will not allow us to explore and know reality and ourselves deeply. We can have practices which allow us to take in what is, and give us better ability...3416cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/asingletree/48-the-path-to-non-duality-2-beyond-moratag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1020300799Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:14:46 +0000Joel YbarraWe discuss our belief systems' role giving structure to our morality and ability to know what is true. These are structures that are helpful for a time and then it is helpful for our spirituality to move beyond them, into a non-dual way of knowing and...3455cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/asingletree/episode-47-the-path-to-non-dualitytag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1004755177Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:11:12 +0000Joel YbarraWe discuss our personal paths to non-duality. We are all raised to think from a dualistic, black-or-white perspective, but inevitably our experiences lead us to a place where that type of thinking no longer works. We must find something larger that...3331cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/asingletree/46-non-duality-is-the-goaltag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/987467899Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:15:54 +0000Joel YbarraJudging everything – our circumstances, our inner experiences and other things and people – is a tendency we all have, and widely accepted as a normal way our brains work. It is a necessary function of our thinking in the first part of our lives, but...3911cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/asingletree/45-hold-your-identity-looselytag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/960405643Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:58:55 +0000Joel YbarraWe often want to define ourselves and set ourselves apart from others by identifying ourselves with a category or group and by being the heroes in our own stories. We also seek to establish a sense of comfort and stability at all costs. Life comes...3031cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/asingletree/44-expanding-consciousness-letting-in-retag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/954938689Sun, 27 Dec 2020 17:16:05 +0000Joel YbarraGrowth as human beings means expanding our container to let in more and more reality. We often don’t engage in this type of work because it means we will leave behind comfort, safety and others who are like-minded, but expanding consciousness doesn’t...3376cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/asingletree/43-preservation-and-progress-nurturing-htag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/943977097Tue, 08 Dec 2020 23:53:04 +0000Joel YbarraThere are two seemingly opposing forces at work in all living organisms: the drive to change and the drive to stay the same. The conservative/progressive divide in our culture indicates this dynamic is at work intensely right now. We must continue to...3638cleanfull