104. Don’t Be Afraid to Want More: How to Embrace Desire
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Our desires, every single one of them, are gifts from the Creator. They are invitations to follow our unique purpose, clues that lead down the path of our unfolding potential. To deny our desires is to deny ourselves. But why is it so hard to ask for what we truly want? In this mini episode of Spiritually Hungry, Monica and Michael discuss how to communicate our desires so we can cultivate more balance between giving and receiving.
“To claim what we desire, we first have to believe that we are deserving of it.”
– Monica Berg
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| 0:00.0 | Any relationship that's important to you, whether it's with your partner, with your spouse, |
| 0:12.7 | with your children, with your family, with your friends, make sure that it's balanced. |
| 0:20.8 | Welcome to spiritually hungry summer series. Today we're going to talk about it's balanced. |
| 0:23.2 | Welcome to spiritually hungry summer series. |
| 0:25.4 | Today we're going to talk about sugar. |
| 0:26.6 | Oh, I love sugar. |
| 0:27.2 | Actually, we're not. |
| 0:29.4 | We're going to talk about a time I went to the sugar factory. |
| 0:31.6 | You do love sugar. |
| 0:34.2 | Not as much as they used to. |
| 0:36.2 | Listen, well, let's not go off topic. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm sure you have a lot to say. |
| 0:41.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.8 | For me, one of the greatest gifts of having children is getting to experience the world through their eyes. |
| 0:48.8 | So this is a lesson our youngest. |
| 0:50.7 | Abigail taught me not too long ago. |
| 0:53.6 | And it came to be that she taught me what it |
| 0:57.5 | means to set boundaries, how to be in balance with how we give and receive, and that people |
| 1:03.0 | pleasing is an unnecessary and ultimately futile endeavor. She taught me all of that when she was five. |
| 1:09.6 | So I think she's always been like this. She wants others to be |
| 1:13.5 | happy and okay and she wants it for herself as well. And I think most of us, whenever, whenever it's, |
| 1:19.5 | I'm always surprised, whenever, whatever most common phrases is, like we're going to, like yesterday, |
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