Jim Fortin asks if you identify as spiritual but still worry incessantly about money, health, or relationships.
The episode begins with Jim Fortin posing the question of whether spiritual people worry, noting many listeners identify as spiritual yet worry incessantly about money, health, or relationships. He defines spirituality as about being, not just talk or interest, and criticizes turning non-religious spirituality into dogma. Fortin shares observations from working with a shaman, Don Javier, who noted that many people are spiritually curious but not living from spiritual essence. He introduces the idea that worry is an attempt to control something, which is incompatible with trust and surrender to divine mind. Fortin references a past episode titled 'You Are the Ultimate Power in the Universe' to reinforce that knowing oneself as consciousness eliminates worry. He explains that consciousness has us, not that we have consciousness, using a metaphor of a wave being part of the ocean. Fortin discusses how worry signals a lack of trust in universal mind, effectively telling it that it is insufficient. He mentions Esther Hicks' perspective that worry attracts what you do not want. Fortin advises staying in inspired action while mentally connecting to divine mind, rather than worried action. He emphasizes the importance of being present, as that is where universal mind resides, and suggests sitting in silence to merge with it. The episode wraps up with a transformational takeaway about recognizing one's inherent connection to presence and letting the universe do its job.
