Giving Your Fullness Will Take You Where You Need To Go with Justine Willis Toms, DHL

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Justine Willis Toms shares principles that lead to a more useful and fulfilling life. She asks the question: is worry fruitful and will it lead to an effective outcome? She also encourages us to create circles of friends who support us in our fullness. She shares the lessons of the caterpillar and the butterfly as she exhorts us to get out into the corridors of life and contribute our gifts. As we do so, we become part of a collective of imaginal cells for a better world for all. She says, “If we get out and circulate, if we stay curious about the future, if we tap into hope about the future, but not attach ourselves to how it’s going to look, then we’ll find synchronicities coming to our lives. We will start to see things out of the corner of our eye, people will show up, and a momentum of creativity will begin to build.” (hosted Molly Rowan Leach)

Bio

Since 1973, Justine Willis Toms has been exploring personal, social and spiritual transformation through her work as an electronic journalist, editor and writer. She is co-founder, executive director and host of New Dimensions Radio. She is a founding convener of The Millionth Circle Initiative and has been actively involved in circle work since 1980. She serves on the board of World Prayers as well as Women’s Perspective. In June 2004, she was one of 30 people in the world invited to participate in The Synthesis Dialogues with his holiness the Dalai Lama. She was inducted into the Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2011.

Justine Willis Toms is the author of:

• True Work: Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do (co-author Michael Toms) (Harmony Books 1999)
• Small Pleasures: Finding Grace in a Chaotic World (Hampton Roads 2008)

To learn more about the work of Justine Willis Toms go to www.newdimensions.org.

Topics Explored in This Dialogue

• What were the mythological beginnings of New Dimensions
• What is the lesson of the caterpillar changing into a butterfly
• Why hope needs to include activism
• Why optimism is a biological necessity
• Why we need to work with what is close to us
• How Tom Greenaway made a difference in a small community
• Why we need to follow our joy
• What are the four keys for thriving in chaotic times
• Why optimism is an antidote to worry
• How a circle of “friends of the heart” can support you in your fullness
• What the Dalai Lama says about worry
• How giving our fullness to our actions will take us where we need to go
• How the practice of gratitude is helpful to interrupt our litany of worry

Host: Molly Rowan Leach     Interview Date: 12/16/2015     Program Number: 3567

Music Playlist

From Album: Alex De Grassi, a Windham Hill Retrospective
Artist: Alex de Grassi
2010 Windham Hill E2-VWH-21011

Opening Essay: Track 01 Overland
Music Break 1: Track 12 Turning: Turning Back
Music Break 2: Track 09 A Momentary Change of Heart
Music Break 3: Track 04 Window