{"podcast":{"title":"Finding Harmony Podcast","slug":"finding-harmony-podcast-125064","podcast_index_feed_id":125064,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/thefindingharmonypodcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://thefindingharmonypodcast.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/18167070/3769263-1667846698776-616990054b452.jpg","author":"Harmony Slater","episode_count":330,"summary":"What is a spiritual practice? How does it work? How will it improve my life? How will deepening my self-care transform me? What strategies can I use to improve my life, increase my health, and create wellness? How can craft a life that I love? The Finding Harmony Podcast gets to the root of all these questions. Each episode is full of inspiration, humour, honest observations, and actionable steps that you can integrate to enhance your experience of self-love, develop a connection to Spirit, and create a life you truly love.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T18:17:17.737464+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/finding-harmony-podcast-125064"},"episode":{"title":"3 Root Causes of All Human Suffering and The Power of Presence","slug":"3-root-causes-of-all-human-suffering-and-the-power-of-presence","published_at":"2026-03-10T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/finding-harmony-podcast-125064/3-root-causes-of-all-human-suffering-and-the-power-of-presence","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/finding-harmony-podcast-125064","url":"https://thefindingharmonypodcast.podbean.com/e/3-root-causes-of-all-human-suffering-and-the-power-of-presence/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/sp4rbef4ucawfcfm/FHP_Ep307_Power_of_Now_Group_FINE_AND_SWEET_AUDIO9d682.mp3","summary":"What if everything you've been told about enlightenment is wrong? What if presence isn't something you achieve — it's something you already are? In this special episode, Harmony opens the doors to her Inner Circle community and invites you to sit in on the first session of a year-long study of one of the most transformative books in modern spiritual literature: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. Chapter One centers on one of the most radical ideas in all of spiritual teaching: You are not your mind. The thoughts, the planning, the remembering, the judging — that's not you. You are the one who observes all of it. And the moment you truly understand that? Something begins to shift. This episode references and reads selections from The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library, 1999). All quoted material remains the property of the author and publisher and is used here for educational discussion purposes. In this episode, you'll explore: Why yoga philosophy and The Power of Now are pointing at the same truth How attachment to psychological time (past and future) creates suffering The difference between enlightenment as a superhuman goal and your most natural state What it means to 'watch the thinker' — and what opens up when you do Why the body is always a truthful reflection of the mind Emotions as energy: why bypassing them keeps you stuck The three root baskets of human pain: safety, belonging, and enoughness How the Anandamaya Kosha (the bliss body) maps to Tolle's 'radiant joy of being' Real-life stories from community members practicing presence with teenagers, island power outages, and sick kids Your homework: How to watch your thoughts this month This conversation weaves together the Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, Sankhya ph…","meta_description":"What if everything you've been told about enlightenment is wrong? What if presence isn't something you achieve — it's something you already are? In this s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3842,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/finding-harmony-podcast-125064/episodes/3-root-causes-of-all-human-suffering-and-the-power-of-presence/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/finding-harmony-podcast-125064/3-root-causes-of-all-human-suffering-and-the-power-of-presence.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}