Spiritual Ecstasy Inherent in New Family Life

My name is Dr. Gabriel Cousens. I’m known as the Physician of the Soul. I’m a spiritual teacher, holistic physician, psychiatrist, and family therapist. Father of two children, grandfather of three. So I’m not speaking theoretically here, okay? I’m also the author of 13 books and the director of the Tree of Life Foundation, a nonprofit humanitarian foundation that has programs all over the world.

My life focus is helping people wake up to the ecstatic truth of who they are. And it isn’t simply just meditation, which is also very good, but it really has to do with helping people reconnect to the joy, passion, and spiritual ecstasy inherent in everyday life. Inherent in everyday life. That’s the key because most people, including myself, have in everyday lives that we’re living whether it’s about eating food or turning it into a sacred meal, or raising a family as an ongoing, sacred evolutionary process. That’s what we’re talking about. So my point is to help people move from a mundane view of what they’re doing into an act of love, and compassion, and deepen their spiritual awareness.

I have a variety of programs that I’ve been teaching all over the world for the last 48 years including Spiritual Nutrition, There Is A Cure For Diabetes, Spiritual fasting, and Conscious Eating, and different psycho-spiritual developmental programs. I can be reached treeoflife.mn.co or simply drcousens.com.

So today we’re going to look at a very important issue that, again, does get discussed that much, and it’s creating a new family and how do we turn that, which is usually a stressful time, how do we turn it into a wonderful spiritual, evolutionary time of spiritual growth for both parents, and of course indirectly, the baby. How do we do that? And that’s the very deep challenge that we’re talking about. We go from first being individuals to our own ego structure. And these days, a lot of people don’t want to move beyond that. And so relationship rates, marriage rates, and actual creation of children have dropped 20% in the last 15 years from 2007 to 2022. I mean, it shows in society. In fact, it is unsustainable, those statistics, okay?

And so we go from the individual, which is comfortable to a certain extent. Now we got a couple who is on a spiritual path on their own and has complications. And finally, to the creation of a new family. And particularly the first child is the big shift in the story. Now, when we get back from the break in a moment, we will go into that in-depth, because that’s really the heart of the story here and the teaching that’s there for us of how we can go spiritually. But just to remind you, my name’s Dr. Gabriel Cousens, physician of the soul, family therapist, psychiatrist, and holistic physician. This program is called Spiritual Ecstasy. Our title is The Spiritual Ecstasy of Creating a New Family. And you can reach me at treeoflife.mn.co or drcousens.com. We’ll take a short break.