This week on SHLTMM Podcast "Finding Your Inner Peace Within Chaos", my guest Jonathan Robinson says "I was blessed with a difficult childhood and having my mid-life crisis by the age of 12. That lead me into self-help, meditation and spirituality by the age of 13." Jonathan's mother's name was Sondra, who is no longer with us but Jonathan says he had a wonderful relationship with her the last twenty years of her life. "She was a very powerful, very intense woman," Jonathan explains. At a young age he learned that he had to pretty much take care of himself.
Sondra was a elementary school teacher and loved by her students but, at home she and her second husband loved to argue. When asked how, at such a young age, did Jonathan have this wisdom and where-with-all about alternative therapies for healing his depression and suicidal tendencies, he mentioned "seeing my very shy sister being hypnotized by my uncle, who was a hypnotist, into thinking she was Mick Jagger." That gave Jonathan great hope for alternative therapies and treatment. "If I could control my mind, I might be able to reduce my suffering and eventually kind of create my own reality, in fact that has happened," continues Robinson.
"If people had the right tools, they could be resilient and survive anything" says Robinson.
Jonathan shares stories of when he was on the Oprah Winfrey show in the 1990's. My guest often reflex back to the significance of his tough years as an adolescent and how crucial those years were to his healing transformation. But he credits Oprah for her intuition and her ability to overcome the horrors of her childhood where "she was gang rapped multiply time by the age of fourteen and had a still born child by 15. " She was able to maintain such a good focus, while being so famous is that the roots go deep, that she really had to find something within herself, that helped guide her for the rest of her life," shares Jonathan.
Jonathan has a very funny story that he shares about his mother and how she eventually came around to appreciating his quest for inner peace and his passion for meditation. Jonathan says he got his curiosity for learning from his mother. And he cherishes his memories of his mom teaching him how to read at three or four years old.
Jonathan's podcast is called "Awareness Explorers" https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/ where you can find many 10 minute best guided meditations from the Dali Lama and more respected healers. Go to the 'meditation' page.
His first book "The Experience Of God" and now with the release of his fourteenth book, "The Enlightenment Project," Jonathan's advice is to "try anything and everything and see what you like and what brings you great peace, then use it. Another great piece of advise is "what you resist persists," be in the moment and relax. Embrace the moment that you're in and embrace that peace."
Jonathan's website: "EnlightenmentProject.net, https://www.theenlightenmentproject.net/
"Humility was a key ingredient to growth and if I ever did not feel that way or grateful for all the help I 'd been given, then I knew I was going off track," is one more parting message from Jonathan.
https://findinghappiness.com/get-to-know-me/