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The Gathering Room Podcast

The Only Way Forward

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5656 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever try to make forward-thinking plans, but then you get hit with surprises you never saw coming? Martha says it seems to happen to her about once every six months… For example, because of a recent trip to Costa Rica, where she happened to befriend the incredible women of Sleep-Works, she’s now a sound sleeper (and a morning person!) after a lifetime of insomnia. Trying to make plans in a world of escalating change is a challenge, Martha says, because there’s just no way to plan for everything that’s going to happen. In this episode of The Gathering Room, she talks about how to move forward by embracing change and uncertainty—and the delightful surprises that can come your way when you do. Martha’s method is to keep a wide-open mind and throw herself upon the mercy of the universe. If something feels good to her soul (and by “good” she means a feeling of complete peace washing over her) then she moves toward that thing in a very specific way. “In my life,” she says, “I have found that the sense of being pulled by my heart and soul is a kind of yearning mixed with peace—and trust that I'm meant to have what I deeply desire.” That feeling is what has always pulled Martha forward, and it's the reason she started teaching her Wayfinder Life Coach Training program—she wanted to teach people to find their path forward the way she does. As she started getting cohorts of new Wayfinder trainees, she’d ask why they joined the program, and fully 85% would say they had no idea, which filled her with the joy of connection: "Yes! My people! They're out there!" To hear more about how you can work toward perfect integrity, learn to recognize the feeling of pull or push that can guide you to your true yearning, and move toward your next wild and wonderful experience, tune in for the full conversation! This episode also includes Martha’s guided Space, Stillness, and Silence meditation to help you bring your attention off the reasons you do things in the outer world, so you can focus on the field of connection that’s pulling you toward what you're meant to do next.

Transcript

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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.

0:49.3

Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck. Today I have called this episode, this episode of the gathering room,

0:55.5

is called The Only Way Forward. And I have thought of it because I've been trying to make

1:03.0

forward-thinking plans. And there is no way to plan all the things that are going to happen. How do I know this? Because

1:12.6

change is escalating and I've always sort of thrown myself into change. And if I just look at the

1:17.7

last year of my life, about every six months, something happens and I think, I did not see that

1:24.7

coming. And it just turns my life completely around.

1:29.7

Like, for example, I am now a morning person.

1:35.5

I've been a night owl my whole life.

1:39.2

Morning is like, where is my coffee?

1:41.2

Oh, please.

1:43.3

Well, I had a yearning to go to Costa Rica. I went to Costa Rica.

1:48.1

I met the lovely ladies who run sleep underscore works. And they said, we will teach you to sleep.

1:55.3

And I said, you're on, honey, because I've had mega drugs pumped into my system, and I'm like, hello,

2:04.3

nothing works for me. I cannot sleep. They not only taught me to sleep, but I sleep so deeply

2:11.7

that I wake up because I take medication to sleep, but they said that's just sedation is not

2:17.2

real sleep. When I started doing but they said that's just sedation is not real sleep.

2:19.1

When I started doing what they said, wearing different light blocking glasses and

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