I Am Not A Monk

Today's episode includes Chapter 15: "Do Organizations Get to Wake Up Too?" and the "Acknowledgments." In Chapter 15 we discuss why ideals fail an awakening organization, and the three key hallmarks of an awakened organization.Click Here and Listen - I Am Not A Monk Chapter 15(OR TO DOWNLOAD: Right Click. Mac: Click "Save Link As." PC: Click "Download" and "Save Link As")Enjoy! I'd love to hear your questions and insights. Please post a comment on this page, on my Illuminated Wisdom Facebook Page or email me at sonya@illuminatedwisdom.com.Thank you for going on this incredible journey with me! I hope you will continue to keep in touch and share your personal (and business!) awakening with me. Blessings!

Chapter 14: "The Foundation: Attending to Awakening" discusses how to use your own inner guru as a compass for choosing the right path, practices, and teachers for you on an awakening journey!Click Here and Listen - I Am Not A Monk Chapter 14 (OR TO DOWNLOAD: Right Click. Mac: Click "Save Link As." PC: Click "Download" and "Save Link As")Enjoy! I'd love to hear your questions and insights. Please post a comment on this page, on my Illuminated Wisdom Facebook Page or email me at sonya@illuminatedwisdom.com.Next week we'll feature Chapter 15: "Do Organizations Wake Up Too?" - tune in to hear about some unique perspectives about the evolution of organizations!

Chapter 13: "You're Not the Boss of Me: Stepping Into True Authority," brings clarity to our false ideas and illusions about authority so we can be free to step into True Authority of Oneness - and heal our conflicts with authority! Click Here And Listen - I Am Not A Monk Chapter 13 (OR TO DOWNLOAD: Right Click. Mac: Click "Save Link As." PC: Click "Download" and "Save Link As")Enjoy! I'd love to hear your questions and insights. Please post a comment on this page, on my Illuminated Wisdom Facebook Page or email me at sonya@illuminatedwisdom.com.Next week we'll feature Chapter 14: "The Foundation: Attending to Awakening" - tune in to hear about some unique perspectives about the awakening path, and how you can best serve your awakening!

Chapter 12: "Your Pain In the Ass Colleague: An Opportunity," takes the challenges of relationship conflict and turns them into new doorways for our evolution. Our most difficult relationships can illuminate unresolved parts of our psyche and bring us to new levels of Big Love and Awakened Awareness!Click Here and Listen - I Am Not A Monk Chapter 12(OR TO DOWNLOAD: Right Click. Mac: Click "Save Link As." PC: Click "Download" and "Save Link As")Enjoy! I'd love to hear your questions and insights. Please post a comment on this page, on my Illuminated Wisdom Facebook Page or email me at sonya@illuminatedwisdom.com.Next week we'll unravel our illusions of authority in Chapter 13: "You're Not the Boss of Me: Stepping Into True Authority." Find out how to live the truth that the Formless Vastness if the only, ultimate, true authority!

Chapter 11: "Deeper Wounds" opens the doorway for healing our deepest emotions, and thus creating freedom in work and life. Clearing our subconscious and unconscious emotional motivations also helps us to integrate and embody the awakening dawning within us!Click Here and Listen - I Am Not A Monk Chapter 11 (OR TO DOWNLOAD: Right Click. Mac: Click "Save Link As." PC: Click "Download" and "Save Link As")Enjoy! I'd love to hear your questions and insights. Please post a comment on this page, on my Illuminated Wisdom Facebook Page or email me at sonya@illuminatedwisdom.com.Next week we'll take the deeper wounds discussion into an exploration of our relationship dynamics at work in Chapter 12: "Your Pain In the Ass Colleague: An Opportunity."  See how conflict can actually help us wake up!

Chapter 10: "The Death of Personal Passion (And Other Things That Fall Away)" is a personal story about ego death and its sometimes disruptive impact on work and life! Read this to support your own ego surrender.Click Here and Listen - I Am Not A Monk Chapter 10 (OR TO DOWNLOAD: Right Click. Mac: Click "Save Link As." PC: Click "Download" and "Save Link As")Enjoy! I'd love to hear your questions and insights. Please post a comment on this page, on my Illuminated Wisdom Facebook Page or email me at sonya@illuminatedwisdom.com.Next week, in Chapter 11: "Deeper Wounds" we will illuminate the role unconscious, unresolved emotions can have in awakening and work - and how we can heal and free those emotions! Tune in for this intimate healing chapter.

Chapter 9: "Social Change, Doing Good, Being in Service" liberates our understanding of service and over-giving, bringing us into the perfect harmony of selfless service and effortless giving and receiving.Click Here and Listen - I Am Not A Monk Chapter 9(OR TO DOWNLOAD: Right Click. Mac: Click "Save Link As." PC: Click "Download" and "Save Link As")Enjoy! I'd love to hear your questions and insights. Please post a comment on this page, on my Illuminated Wisdom Facebook Page or email me at sonya@illuminatedwisdom.com. Next week we will discuss the strange territory of ego death in Chapter 10: "The Death of Personal Passion (And Other Things That Fall Away"). Hope you will join us!

Chapter 8: "Take Off Your Parachute: Your Career Calling" explores what it's like to selflessly follow God's call and simply do what is most true and express your gifts naturally and fully. This chapter dives into the specifics of how to navigate through other people's advice along with our own dreams and preferences to find the nugget of truth and wisdom deep within. Click Here and Listen - I Am Not A Monk Chapter 8 (OR TO DOWNLOAD: Right Click. Mac: Click "Save Link As." PC: Click "Download" and "Save Link As")Enjoy! I'd love to hear your questions and insights. Please post a comment on this page, on my Illuminated Wisdom Facebook Page or email me at sonya@illuminatedwisdom.com.Next week in Chapter 9: "Social Change, Doing Good, Being in Service" we specifically discuss true selfless service and how to see through the illusion of "doing good" vs simply doing what's true and (Big) Loving.

Chapter 7: "Accepting Your True Gifts: A Surprisingly Self-Less Path" embraces our true gifts and inner dumbass with true humility (not ego humility). This allows us to stop blocking the natural flow of Creation and accept All That Is - formless and form.Click Here and Listen - I Am Not A Monk Chapter 7 OR TO DOWNLOAD: Right Click. Mac: Click "Save Link As." PC: Click "Download" and "Save Link As")Enjoy! I'd love to hear your questions and insights. Please post a comment on this page, on my Illuminated Wisdom Facebook Page or email me at sonya@illuminatedwisdom.com.Next week in Chapter 8: "Take Off Your Parachute: Your Career Calling" we continue the discussion about finding a true career as part of effortlessly allowing God to move through you, as you.

Chapter 6: "Time Un-Management" explores how re-orienting our relationship with Time (and our task list) brings our awareness to the Vastness every day. BONUS: Today's post also includes a special treat - a new enlightenment rap by Premanator called The Territory Unknown. Let the words, rhythms, and energy transform you!Click Here and Listen: I Am Not A Monk Chapter 6(OR TO DOWNLOAD: Right Click. Mac: Click "Save Link As." PC: Click "Download" and "Save Link As")Enjoy! I'd love to hear your questions and insights. Please post a comment on this page, on my Illuminated Wisdom Facebook Page or email me at sonya@illuminatedwisdom.com. Want to hear more of Prema's music? Want to check out recordings of Sonya's past classes? Listen to free samples of both here: DharmaTunes.com.  Up Next Week: we'll switch gears and activate your true potential in Chapter 7: "Accepting Your True Gifts - A Surprisingly Selfless Path."

Chapter 5: "STRESSSSS" illuminates our ego relationship with stress, and how it can become a gateway to awakening to Oneness.Click Here and Listen: I AM NOT A MONK CHAPTER 5(OR TO DOWNLOAD: Right Click. Mac: Click "Save Link As." PC: Click "Download" and "Save Link As")Enjoy! I'd love to hear your questions and insights. Please post a comment on this page, on my Illuminated Wisdom Facebook Page or email me at sonya@illuminatedwisdom.com.   Stay tuned for next week's post, a continuation of this week's discussion - Chapter 6: Time Un-Management.

In Chapter 4: "Find Out Who Is Driving the Bus" we explore different facets of the mind, including the "inner doer," and their role in awakening. We also offer a fresh perspective on success and failure from awakened awareness!Click Here and Listen: I AM NOT A MONK CHAPTER 4(OR TO DOWNLOAD: Right Click. Mac: Click "Save Link As." PC: Click "Download" and "Save Link As")Enjoy! I'd love to hear your questions and insights. Please post a comment on this page, on my Illuminated Wisdom Facebook Page or email me at sonya@illuminatedwisdom.com.   Stay tuned for next week's post - Chapter 5: Stressssss.

In Chapter 3: "Don't Barf When I Say I Love You" we explore the role of love in business; the impersonal Big Love; and Big Love's true partners - Truth and Wisdom.Click Here and Listen: I AM NOT A MONK CHAPTER 3.(OR TO DOWNLOAD: Right Click. Mac: Click "Save Link As." PC: Click "Download" and "Save Link As")Enjoy! I'd love to hear your questions and insights. Please post a comment on this page, on my Illuminated Wisdom Facebook Page or email me at sonya@illuminatedwisdom.com.   Stay tuned for next week's post - Chapter 4: "Find Out Who Is Driving the Bus."

In Chapter 1: "Don't Believe Everything You Think" and Chapter 2: "Focus On the Cake" we will illuminate our ego beliefs about work, our value and self-worth. Enjoy!Click Here and Listen: I AM NOT A MONK Chapters 1 & 2.(OR TO DOWNLOAD: Right Click. Mac: Click "Save Link As." PC: Click "Download" and "Save Link As")Enjoy! I'd love to hear your questions and insights. Please post a comment on this page, on my Illuminated Wisdom Facebook Page or email me at sonya@illuminatedwisdom.com.   Stay tuned for next week's post - "Chapter 3: Don't Barf When I Say I Love You."

Welcome! Preface: "When I Say God, I Mean..." and Intro: "How Can Work Be a Portal to Awakening?"Click Here And Listen - I Am Not A Monk - Preface & Intro(OR TO DOWNLOAD: Right Click. Mac: Click "Save Link As." PC: Click "Download" and "Save Link As")Enjoy! I'd love to hear your questions and insights. Please post a comment on this page, on my Illuminated Wisdom Facebook Page or email me at sonya@illuminatedwisdom.com.   Stay tuned for next week's post - "Chapter 1: Don't Believe Everything You Think" and "Chapter 2: Focus On the Cake."