In this episode of The Living Conversation, we continue our conversation with Banya Lim—a spiritual acupuncturist and energy coach—about how emotions become energetic blockages in the body, and how healing starts with awareness rather than self-judgment.

Banya explains how repeated thoughts can “feed” sensations in the body past the famous 90-second window, why blockages aren’t enemies (they’re trying to help), and her four pitfalls that keep patterns stuck: identifying, judging, suppressing, and trying to get rid of the thought/emotion.

We also explore a practical grounding technique for anxiety and public speaking: bring attention to the hara / dantian (chihai)—and even place a hand there, press, or tap to gather energy and settle the system. Finally, Banya connects the Five Elements to house directions and emotional clearing—like cleansing the east side for wood/liver/anger—as a simple way to “move energy” in daily life.

Guest: Banya Lim (Spiritual Acupuncture + Energy Coaching)

Website: banyalim.com

Offer: Free clarity session for listeners (via her website)

00:00 Energy coaching + “no accidents”

01:05 Emotions → blockages → the body “speaks louder”

03:00 Awareness first, then build a new relationship with the blockage

05:25 The “four things” that keep thoughts stuck

06:10 The 90-second emotion principle (and why humans keep re-feeding it)

10:25 “Blockages have a zip code” in the body

12:20 Clearing space + beginning-of-year energy

14:20 Five Elements + directions in the home (east/wood/anger etc.)

16:40 Forgiveness + rephrasing the inner story

21:05 Public speaking anxiety: ground in the hara/dantian (chihai)

24:00 Final takeaway: body tells truth + body helps dreams

1. Energy coaching + acupuncture meridians
2. Somatic therapy + stored “energetic packages”
3. Thought loops and emotional reinforcement
4. Forgiveness as an energetic practice
5. Five Elements + emotions + directions in the home
6. Hara/dantian grounding for anxiety and performance

spiritual acupuncture, energy coaching, traditional Chinese medicine, five elements, meridians, emotional blockages, somatic therapy, forgiveness practice, dantian, hara, chihai, grounding technique, anxiety relief, public speaking nerves

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Note: This episode is for educational purposes and is not medical advice.

In this episode of The Living Conversation, we’re joined by Banya Lim—a spiritual acupuncturist and energy coach based in Sedona—who bridges Traditional Chinese Medicine with a more holistic view of healing: body, mind, and soul.

We explore why symptoms often return when the deeper pattern underneath them hasn’t changed, and how the Five Element theory maps emotions to organs (like fear and the kidneys, anger and the liver/gallbladder, sadness and the lungs). Banya shares how intuition can be felt in the body (not just thought in the head), how food/color/taste cravings can be energetic signals, and why “going within” matters when the outside world feels loud.

We also talk about desire—not as something to crush, but something to understand—by tracing the feeling behind what we think we want, and learning how inner alignment becomes outer change.

Guest: Banya Lim (Spiritual Acupuncture + Energy Coaching)

Website: banyalim.com

Free clarity session: available via her website

Topics include: spiritual acupuncture, energy coaching, Traditional Chinese Medicine, yin-yang, five elements, meridians, emotions + organs, intuition vs desire, mindfulness without forcing meditation, inner peace.

In this episode of The Living Conversation, we’re joined by Dean Graves, who shares a framework drawn from his ongoing contact with a non-incarnate teacher described as a social memory complex. We explore the Law of One (“all is one”), the idea that consciousness is “creativeness intoxicated with free will,” and how the spiritual path is a gradual sobering back into unity.

We also move into practical terrain: emotional baggage as “unfinished lessons,” why meditation is the inversion of awareness, and how to take the meditative mind “back into the village” — real life, relationships, and responsibility.

Guest: Dean Graves

Website: deangraves.org (DeanGraves.org)

1. What a social memory complex is, and how “individuality” changes as consciousness evolves
2. The Law of One and why “all of consciousness is conceptual”
3. “Free will intoxication” (the whiskey metaphor) and the enlightenment path as sobering up
4. A provocative take on emotion: one spectrum (like/dislike), applied thought-by-thought
5. Awakening as turning awareness inward and seeing how the “false self” perpetuates unhappiness
6. Service to others vs service to self as a critical evolutionary choice
7. Why meditation works, why it’s hard, and how motivation shifts from “running from the stick” to “chasing the apple”
8. Bringing practice back into the village: maintaining inner freedom while living ordinary life
9. Closing takeaway: “Be the change you want to see in the world.”

1. 00:00 Intro + Dean’s ongoing contact with his teacher
2. 01:05 Social memory complex + archetypes / structure of the universe
3. 05:20 “Intoxicated with free will” + Creator / subject-object framing
4. 10:03 Emotional baggage + what “emotion” is
5. 12:07 Awakening = inverting awareness inward
6. 15:46 Service-to-others vs service-to-self (polarization)
7. 20:46 Meditation + “bite of the apple” + healing
8. 23:11 Bringing meditation “back into the village”
9. 25:39 One thing to practice: Gandhi / be the change

Law of One, social memory complex, free will, consciousness, meditation, mindfulness, awakening,...