Category: Podcast

EP394: The mystical nature of relationships

Changeable is back and I have a co-host! Dan Kelso and I explore the mystical nature of relationships and unveil our ideas for a new set of dialogues exploring the intersection of identity and relationship. Please email me at support@dramyjohnson.com with your feedback and suggestions about this episode. We would love to hear what you

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EP392: Breaking Habits and Ending Self-Doubt: My episode on Gifted with ADHD

This week’s episode is a conversation with Juliet O’Rourke for her brand new podcast, Gifted with ADHD.  Gifted with ADHD brings together mental health, wellbeing, and a big-picture spiritual understanding of how the mind works, particularly an ADHD mind. In our conversation, we go deep into the role of thought and emotion, particularly experiences like boredom,

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EP391: Pruning life so attention can go where you want it to go

In this episode we’ll look at where attention naturally wants to go…and where attention might be going in ways that are unwanted. The more we have in our lives and around us that demand attention, the less free attention there is for exploring direct experience. ***I will be leading a Silent Retreat in Taos, New Mexico,

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EP390: Open and closed

This episode explores what it means to be energetically open versus closed, why and how we open and close, and what being open (versus closed) does for our vitality, wellbeing, and relationships. ***I will be leading a Silent Retreat in Taos, New Mexico, February 22-27. The retreat will provide a supportive space for you to steep

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EP389: More on patterns

I’ll explore how to look at, and ultimately change, patterns in more detail.  I discuss how and why to reflect on patterns, how and why to communicate what’s arising, and how and why to examine identity as part of this exploration. ***I will be leading a Silent Retreat in Taos, New Mexico, February 22-27. The retreat

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EP388: Beliefs you live by but didn’t choose

In this episode, I strongly encourage you to look at the beliefs you’re living by. There may be conflicting beliefs. You may believe things you swear you don’t believe. The only way to know – and for those beliefs to change – is to honestly and eagerly look and be willing to see what’s there. ***I

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EP386: Special Rebroadcast: Unraveling Ego at the Feeling Level

There’s a progression that seems to happen. You might say it’s from gross to subtle. Where attention shifts from being absorbed in abstractions, thoughts, representations, and relationships…to attention moving to much more subtle energies like sensations, sensory input, and maybe something like intuition or perception.Identity is viewed in these different ways. From gross thought and

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EP385: Special Rebroadcast: Noise is Silence Shouting

Being in silence is not about suppressing anything.  It’s also not about creating anything, such as an environment of peace or thoughtlessness or anything like that. It’s the exact opposite, actually. It’s about leaving everything alone to simply be exactly what it is.“What it is” is constantly changing. It is totally unknowable. It’s far too fluid

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