Exploring conscious grief work, speaker Chris Beaudry joins Ramdev to chat about transmuting pain into compassion.

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In this episode, RamDev and Chris go over:

• Chris’ spiritual journey through AA and sobriety
• How Chris witnessed a traumatic bus crash full of people he knew
• Seeking comfort through Ram Dass and ending up in Ojai
• Allowing oneself to be sad for awhile
• Conscious grief work and working with grief in an embodied way
• The raw sweetness of opening our hearts during painful times
• How community and compassion helps us to heal
• Accepting reality for what it is
• How familiarity with impermanence prepares us for the end of life
• The difficulty in cutting through illusions
• The importance of regular practice

About Chris Beaudry:

Chris ‘Critter’ Beaudry is a father, farmer, and public speaker who uses his lived experiences as grist for the mill for personal and spiritual growth. Read more about Chris HERE.

“Life is hard. You’re not getting out of this one alive. You’re going to grieve, you’re going to lose, that’s the nature of reality. But, that doesn’t mean we have to harden to it. That doesn’t mean we have to be cruel to each other.” – Chris Beaudry

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Explaining service as the easiest path to awakening, RamDev gives tips on developing compassion and selfless action.

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This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev guides listeners through:

• His favorite part of the Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 12)
• Service as the easiest path to awakening
• Hanuman as the aspect of the deity that expresses devotion through selfless service
• Naturally arising compassion and seeing God / the guru in all people
• How suffering comes from having inappropriate boundaries
• Approaching service as an expression of love and joy
• Pity as the near enemy of compassion
• Building communities that support service
• Being of service through full presence and connection
• The many levels of healing and how to support others remotely
• Learning compassion through simple moments of meditation

“Service takes on a different tone, a different feeling quality in our beings, if instead of doing it out of guilt or I need to stay busy or I’m trying to help people, it’s an act of love. It’s your relationship with the beloved, that the homeless person, your partner, even your self, is a manifestation of that which is love. Then, service is transformed. It’s an act of joy, not a responsibility.” – RamDev

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In conversation with listeners, Ramdev explains how prayer unites us with God and prepares us to receive grace.

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This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev teaches us about:

• Prayer as the foundation of every religion
• Having faith in the boundless qualities of God
• Loving God with passion
• Different levels of prayer
• How prayer unites us with God and prepares us for receiving grace
• Admitting our humanness within our prayers
• Listener perspectives on different styles of prayer
• Praying for help from our ancestors and for the healing of others
• Prayer as an invitation for God to enter the heart
• Healing from shame and gradually trusting our inner wholeness

“Prayer is the action of being able to receive the blessing of the sun. The warmth, the connectedness of the sunshine. We learn not only to pray for ourselves, but for all beings.” – RamDev

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