Life Question of the Week: 5.1.26
Take Back Your Mind
Michael B. Beckwith
5.0 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Today, our first letter comes from Yamil in Seattle, WA: Yamil feels called in two powerful directions—serving others through spiritual awakening alongside his wife, and expressing the music flowing through him. He asks how to honor both callings while balancing family life, responsibility, and timing.
Our next letter comes from Amy in Boston, MA: After an upsetting incident, Amy finds herself stuck in a loop of replaying it and feeling like she's failed. She asks how to interrupt negative thought cycles and return to presence, peace, and self-compassion.
Finally, Michael leads a guided meditation on expanding our awareness of the beauty, love, grace, and essence of God that is everywhere.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Peace and Rich's blessings. I am Michael B. Beck with the host of Take Back Your Mind. Blessings to one in all. |
| 0:42.6 | Thank you for tuning in to take back your mind, |
| 0:44.4 | life question of the week. |
| 0:46.2 | And all of you who are writing in and asking questions, |
| 0:49.8 | thank you for your participation. |
| 0:51.7 | And thank you for basically sharing your spiritual family with other folks. |
| 0:57.0 | First question comes from Yarmil, from Seattle, Washington. |
| 1:02.0 | He says, I am a father and a husband. |
| 1:06.0 | My wife and I share a vision of inspiring and serving others in their awakening and in living their |
| 1:13.0 | fullest potential. However, I feel pulled by two very important visions within me. One is to be |
| 1:20.1 | a force for inspiring awakening, working alongside my wife, the other to express the music I |
| 1:26.8 | receive from the universe. |
| 1:28.7 | There's always something coming through me musically and feels like it needs to be expressed. |
| 1:34.3 | But often I feel I cannot truly honor that because my household responsibilities and daily |
| 1:42.2 | demands, which frustrates and confuses me because I feel the music |
| 1:47.5 | calling deeply. Yet at the same time, it feels like it might not be the right time. |
| 1:53.6 | Music requires solitude, practice, continued learning. Just as my spiritual practice does. With these two passions being so strong, |
| 2:06.2 | how can I find clarity? What are the right questions for me to ask in my spiritual practice |
| 2:12.7 | regarding this? What a great question. If there's something gurgling within you to be released, that gift of |
| 2:21.5 | music, it's not going to let you go until you begin to release it at least a little bit at a time. |
| 2:29.3 | If you release the gift, it creates a pathway for you to go deeper and further in your practice and in your life. If you don't release the gift, it creates a pathway for you to go deeper and further in your practice and in your |
| 2:36.3 | life. If you don't release the gift, it will create a blockage and there'll be other obstacles |
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