Living in the Question: How Embracing Uncertainty Deepens Relationships & Fosters Growth with TJ Woodward

Take Back Your Mind

Michael B. Beckwith

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

5 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In a world where division and uncertainty are prevalent, the need for genuine connection has never been more critical. But how can we remain connected when opinions diverge and times are unpredictable? The answer lies in cultivating curiosity by “Living in the question,” according to TJ Woodward. TJ is a bestselling author, inspirational speaker, and revolutionary recovery expert who has helped countless people through his simple yet powerful teachings. He’s a featured thought leader on WholeHearted.org along with Brené Brown, Marianne Williamson, Dr. Gabor Maté, and Mark Lundholm, as well as a featured thought leader in the docuseries, “Addiction Revealed.” Ordained by Michael himself, TJ is also the founder of Agape Bay Area in Oakland, the first satellite community of The Agape International Spiritual Center.

During Michael’s and TJ’s conversation, they cover:

-TJ’s childhood joy, then early trauma, followed by substance use, and his first steps toward sobriety and spiritual awakening

-How recovery and New Thought teachings helped TJ shed false beliefs and return to his essence

-What ‘Living in the Question’ means, and how curiosity expands awareness while judgment restricts it

-The importance of open-ended questions as tools for spiritual growth and social harmony

-How over-identifying with diagnoses or labels reinforces dis-ease vs. focusing on what’s working and feeling the energy shift

-Creating space for healers to experience healing themselves, avoiding burnout, and the “fixer” mentality

-Why true compassion emerges from insight, not from reactive behavior

-How neuroplasticity and epigenetics confirm what mystics have always known: consciousness shifts physiology and thought patterns reshape the brain and gene expression, and more!

Next, Michael leads a meditation with the intention of waking up to our Real nature.

Get TJ’s latest book, “Conscious Creation,” and connect with him at https://www.tjwoodward.com/ and across social media. Learn more about his work with Wholehearted here: https://wholehearted.org/.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Well, simply said, when I think I have the answer, or I believe I am my opinions, or I am that programming, like you said, of course I'm going to see the world through the lens of division, right?
0:11.7	You are different than I am. You are different than me for this reason and for that reason.
0:15.5	And then we start building these coalitions, if you will, of separateness. And the truth is something much greater. So
0:21.8	living in the question is a simple way of saying, stay curious. And as I ask myself open-ended
0:28.3	questions, I start to really question the paradigm. And when I say paradigm, just how I'm viewing
0:33.8	the world. And I love what Carlton said, have a new thought, right? If I still have
0:37.9	the same thought I've always had, I'm going to get the exact same results. It's actually
0:41.9	profoundly simple in so many ways. So to be able to open up to different possibilities,
0:47.6	curiosity opens us up. Judgment restricts. And we are seeing a lot of judgment in the world
0:53.0	right now. And so for those of us who are
0:55.3	conscious beings, we have a role to play in tuning into curiosity and remaining open.
1:01.3	Peace and Rich's blessings. I am Michael B. Beck with the host of Take Back Your Mind. Listen, listen. Feel it, easy,
1:11.6	feeling,
1:12.6	as we're listed up
1:14.6	into the spiritual
1:16.6	amazing,
1:17.6	easy, Peace and blessings, everyone, and welcome to take back your mind.
1:38.8	I am the host, Michael B. Back with the founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center.
1:44.7	And I have the privilege and the honor pretty much on a weekly basis to talk to some very beautiful and insightful individuals who, in their own way, I've taken back their mind.
1:56.5	In other words, their mind is not polluted by the mental garbage of the world.
2:03.6	They've moved themselves away and freed themselves from all of the ways by which there's
2:10.6	what is called nefarious hypnotism that happens in our culture.
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