Solving the Puzzles of Our Lives

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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"Martha says one reason we humans are a strange species is because we love to make jigsaw puzzles—beautiful pictures that we cut up into tiny pieces and disassemble, and then put back together. And we don’t like them to be too easy! In this episode of The Gathering Room: Solving the Puzzles of Our Lives, Martha talks about the way problems in our lives are like puzzles, and how it often can be more joyful to have a puzzle than not to have one. These puzzles are the life situations given to us by circumstance. “If we can get into a state of relative relaxation,” Martha says, “and then look at even a very scary problem in our own lives, we can start to appreciate the kind of puzzles our brains like to solve.” To learn how to approach the problems in your own life like a jigsaw puzzle—and solve them in a way that supports your awakening and can help transform the world—tune in for the full episode. It also includes Martha’s guided Space, Stillness, and Silence meditation."

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0:00.0	Hello, the lovely peoples. This is Marty, Martha, inviting you to a free masterclass that I have made called
0:08.0	Five Paths to Your Purpose. Probably the most common question I get from people is, how do I find my purpose?
0:14.7	Why don't I feel that I'm on purpose? Well, it turns out there are certain things you have to do to find your purpose, and I broke
0:22.0	them down into five, and I made a little masterclass about it. So if you'd like to see it, just go to
0:28.3	marthabeck.com slash purpose, and you will be able to watch it without any charge at all.
0:49.0	Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.
0:50.5	I'm Martha Beck.
0:52.0	Hi, everyone.
0:53.7	How you doing?
1:00.1	It is another rough week in the world. Not so much for me. I've had a fine week. I went to Austin. I came back. It was wonderful. But whenever you're
1:07.3	watching this, I think we're going to be able to say, yeah, it's been a really rough week in the
1:10.6	world. If I look back when we started doing the gathering room and all the way
1:15.1	through to now, it feels as if the weeks that are hard are getting harder and harder. It feels like
1:21.4	there's some kind of a push toward more intensity of wonderful things and terrible things. So that's why I love coming here
1:32.2	to be with you and I love you for joining me. Now let's start out with our little beginning
1:38.5	meditation this time. Thinking about events in the world and again I'm not'm not supposed to, like, fascinate to world events
1:45.7	because this could be watched at any time. But thinking about whatever's going on in the world right now
1:52.3	in your time, I know what's going on in mine, and it is, the newspapers are full of stuff that
1:59.2	absolutely staggers me every morning.
2:02.8	I open the New York Times go and read enough of it to kind of know what's going on
2:09.3	and then immediately have to go into a meditation to bring myself back into regulation, as they
2:17.0	call it.
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