Couverture de The Layer Underneath

The Layer Underneath

The Layer Underneath

Écouter gratuitement

Voir les détails

À propos de ce contenu audio

 Guest: Juliana Sloane — hypnotherapist, depth hypnosis practitioner, shamanic counselor, and Buddhist meditation teacherConnect with Juliana: Website | Meditation Classes & Retreats | Guided Meditations on Insight Timer | Instagram🌿 April 30–May 3 — Women's Glamping Retreat in Northern California: Deep Rest RetreatTopics covered: Depth hypnosis, shamanic journey work, plant medicine integration, Buddhist practice, silent retreat, anxiety, trance states, evidence-based healing, spiritual emergence🎵 Music credit: Intro and outro music: Madre Ayahuasca by ArkawaUsed with permission. More at arkawamusic.com🌐 Visit www.goddessintraining.online for more tools to support your intuitive journey.There is a version of healing most of us know well. You talk. You trace the thread. You gain insight into why you are the way you are. And the insight is real — it matters. But sometimes you get back in the car, drive home, and the pattern is still there. You understand it now. But understanding hasn’t moved it.This is exactly where my conversation with Juliana Sloane begins.Juliana works in the space beneath conscious thought — through depth hypnosis, shamanic journey work, and Buddhist meditation. She calls her approach evidence-based magic, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about that phrase. These are ancient practices now being studied in fMRI machines and controlled trials, and researchers keep finding what the lineages have always known: they reach something talk-based approaches often circle around without ever quite touching.It’s said that 95% of our habits and beliefs are subconscious. We wouldn’t build a house with only 5% of our tools. But that’s more or less how most of us approach healing.What struck me most in this conversation was how Juliana described the role of silence — of actually stopping. She referenced a 2009 study showing Americans were already consuming the equivalent of a quarter of War and Peace daily in information, before smartphones, before the scroll. Her teacher once told her before a two-month retreat: you don’t know what will happen in your life. This may be the only time you can sit like this. She took that advice. It changed everything.So many of us are running fast precisely because stopping feels dangerous. But as Juliana said so gently — the pause isn’t standing between you and your healing. The pause is the healing.We also ended somewhere unexpected: a real conversation about the world right now. Juliana brought in the Buddhist understanding that this human realm needs just the right balance of suffering and joy — enough friction to keep us motivated to wake up. And then she said quietly: I wonder if the balance has tipped. She’s not someone who traffics in despair. But she’s not someone who looks away either. Her answer kept returning to the personal — our own healing, our own practice, our own commitment to being a compassionate presence from wherever we stand.We are on a ride right now, she said. This is serious business. And also: there is still hope.Both things are true. That is, perhaps, its own kind of evidence-based magic.You can find Juliana at julianasloane.com. Her meditation classes are largely donation-based and available online. And if a few days of silence in nature is calling you, her April 30–May 3 Women’s Glamping Retreat in Northern California might be exactly what your nervous system needs. Find her guided meditations on Insight Timer and follow her on Instagram.If this conversation moved something in you, I’d love to know. And if you’ve been finding value in this space, consider becoming a paid subscriber or leaving a one-time cacao offering as energy exchange. It keeps this work alive.With love, SarahGoddess in Training is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Goddess in Training at goddessintraining.substack.com/subscribe
Aucun commentaire pour le moment