This podcast episode is a compilation of "Ask Abdi" questions submitted via the website.

This podcast episode was recorded in response to the many requests I’ve received on how to deal with the terror and anxiety surrounding the pandemic.

The first part of this podcast episode discusses some of the questions that were recently submitted regarding the difficulties that can arise in the awakening process. The second part covers the emerging communication with our inner voice in the spiritual process.

Deeper than caretaking, some of us, because of our early childhood wounding, get this deep desire, this unconscious and unhealthy desire to fix people out of their pain, out of their suffering, out of whatever we deem something that is not comfortable for us to tolerate in somebody else.

This podcast episode discusses the issues that can arise when we are faced with serious illness of another person.

This podcast episode discusses the issue of "fixing” others. This is a deeper level of unhealthy caretaking that negatively affects both parties.

This podcast episode discusses the peddling of spiritual practices to prop up our idealized self-image.

This podcast episode discusses some of the misunderstandings that one can have when dealing with the spiritual process as well as the teachers one encounters.

This podcast episode discusses the concept of target fixation - a behavior in which one becomes so focused on an object that they head towards it unconsciously.

In this podcast episode, we discuss issues around food and diet in a body-obsessed culture.

This podcast episode discusses the unconscious, automatic, and habitual programming that can exist in our psyche.

This podcast episode continues the discussion of softening and surrendering the over-identification with “I” and the ego’s story.

In this podcast episode, we discuss the anxiety and fear that invariably will arise as we delve into our spiritual path.

In this podcast episode, we discuss the loneliness that can occur on the spiritual path as we progress and release outgrown relationships.

In this podcast episode, we discuss the current state of affairs.

In this podcast episode, we discuss the topic of judgment. An unexamined and reflexive behavior, judgment of others has tangible negative consequences.

In this podcast episode, we discuss some pointers on the issue of helplessness.

In this podcast episode, we discuss the seismic shift that is affecting all aspects of our lives.

In this podcast episode, we discuss spiritual bypass and the use of spiritual practice as a substitute for doing psychological work.

In this podcast episode, we discuss the ways and places we hold emotional and physical stress, the ways we can release them, and inhabiting our body as a direct spiritual path.