#344: Trusting Your Calling and Living It

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This espresso shot solo episode is an excerpt from my recent Masterclass: 2024: Your Breakthrough Year. In this episode, I explore the transformative power of initiations, guided by insights from Francis Weller and James Hillman. I talk about the three parts of initiation: severance from the world you once knew, radical alteration to your sense of identity, and inability to go back to the world you knew. I also discuss the power of community during these personal transformations, the importance of prioritizing our instincts as well as alchemizing our knowledge into action. This episode is an invitation to align our actions and remember that true transformation comes from within. Get the full recording at markgroves.com/2024 —Full Masterclass recording: https://mark-groves.mykajabi.com/Masterclass-2024-sign-up —Follow me on Instagram - @createthelove: https://www.instagram.com/createthelove —Subscribe to my Newsletter: https://mark-groves.mykajabi.com/newsletter —Subscribe to my Substack: https://markgroves.substack.com —Follow me on Facebook - @createthelove: https://www.facebook.com/createthelove —Get My New Book! Liberated Love - Release Codependent Patterns and Create the Love You Desire: https://a.co/d/91ElXvN If you want to dive deeper into my content, search through every episode, find specific topics I've covered, and ask me questions, go to my Dexa page: https://dexa.ai/markgroves Themes: Authenticity, Belonging, Breakups, Relationships, Spirituality, Boundaries, Self-Worth, Self-Love, Codependency, Infidelity, Dating, Transformation, Career, Mental Health, Purpose, Initiations, Community 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:33 Initiations and its Three Parts 0:01:58 Identity Shift: Embracing the Unknown 0:02:35 A Radical Alteration: Severance from the Familiar World 0:03:12 The Distractions from Self 0:03:50 The Screen Report and Lack of Time for Personal Growth 0:04:19 The Power of Community 0:06:09 Trusting Your Instincts and Ignoring Outside Opinions 0:06:37 Pursuing Your Calling as an Imperative 0:07:26 Being Yourself in Relationships 0:09:25 Finding Inner Strength Again 0:10:24 Where You’re Not Liberated 0:10:41 The Mind's Limitations in Understanding Reality 0:11:31 Knowledge vs. Action: The Importance of Living in Integrity Drop us a note at podcast@markgroves.com for sponsor product support, questions, comments, guest suggestions, or just to say hello!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Groves podcast.
0:07.2	Today I'm coming at you with an espresso shot of a solo episode.
0:13.3	In the work of Francis Weller, James Hillman, they talk about initiations.
0:19.2	So an initiation is a transformative experience where you go from who you
0:26.0	were to who you're going to be. Now here's, I'm going to give a little more context to that.
0:32.4	Now there are contained initiations and uncontained initiations.
0:37.9	Contained being that you and I are right now in a conversation,
0:42.0	and we are making commitments and having conversations about the pain you're going through
0:46.0	or the feeling you have that you'd like to create from,
0:49.7	and ideally transform and start, let's say, a business,
0:53.8	but actually start creating, be different in the world, right?
0:58.6	And everything I'm saying to you is things I've been through. So I've not, I've not shared all
1:03.8	this collection of things together. So the first part is that you know that you're in an initiation
1:10.4	and there's three parts of it. So the first part is that you know that you're in an initiation, and there's three parts of it.
1:13.6	So the first part is that there's a severance from the world you once knew.
1:17.6	So think about it in the same context, just so we have a good example of the dragonfly.
1:23.6	The nymph walks outside the water, and there is a severance from the world this nymph once new.
1:31.2	Do you see that?
1:33.2	It's now outside.
1:35.1	It's now on a leaf and it's now not in the water.
1:39.4	Now think of yourself in that context.
1:41.3	When you have an awareness of actively participating in relationships
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