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Scent of Light Episode

by Ken Norton

Mental Freedom

Original Broadcast July 28, 2019

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The audio file above is the spoken word recording without background music provided to Radio KOWS 92.5 FM broadcast of the Scent of Light episode for insert into the Radio Spotlight Magazine with host Andre Marc.

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In this episode on the Scent of Light I will speak on mental freedom, the freedom from the no exit feeling of resignation and despair, the freedom from doubting that positive change is possible in your life.

I met a neighbor walking in front of my house a couple of days ago and we stopped to talk. He had been through a medical emergency for a tumor in his brain recently and has been ordered by his doctor not to work anymore, to go on disability. My neighbor, weighing the bills that were coming in, decided to continue working for his brother, something in the construction trade that he has been doing for three decades employed by his brother.

I told him that I would have thought that was a good thing, having an understanding relation employing him aware of his condition. He shook his head with a sad look and said, “He has not given me a raise in 20 years and had me work on repairing some diesel engines, at which such repairman get paid much more. I asked him for a raise and he said that would look into it, but I don't think he cares.”
I remembered how, after the first bout of dizzying symptoms struck my neighbor six months ago, he had vowed at that time to leave his brother's employ. But now I hear he decided to stay with his brother's company. I asked him why. He shrugged his shoulders and said, “What can I do? I need he money. I tire out much quicker since this tumor showed up, and I cannot do anything else.”
I said that it appeared to me that he was very unhappy working for his elder brother who did not respect him, and that the tumor was probably an expression of his dismay at how his life was unfolding, and that his healing could well be dependent on his breaking free from this state of servitude to his brother. I suggested that he pray to the God or Higher Power that he believes in and ask for three signs on where to make his first step toward change. This would attuned his mind to be aware of the appearance of such signs as coincidences tied to his asking. This puts him into solution mode and will lift him out of despair and helplessness. I asked him if he ever experienced a miraculous event or set of events in his life, and he nodded with a smile. I told him that such events are not limited to the past or to a location but always available.
“You feeling that you deserve to be guided is important,” I said, “and you can do that by recognizing that you are loved by your wife and others in your life. So you are the Beloved, deserving of guidance to a better life.
“Once you have received the first guidance on the change you want,” I continued, “you from this new position ask again for guidance and keep asking and receiving until you have a clear goal to pursue for the change you want.”
“I will try this out, Ken,” he replied. I have to do something.

The hardest step is the first step out of despair. At this point we thoroughly understand our need to a change but are in the dark on how to proceed, given the story we tell of ourselves. The story teller within is our usually our emotionally fueled intellect, which needs to be stilled as the solution is engaged that bypasses it to work with synchronicity and intuition, that taps a more unified holistic view of ourselves coursing through the universe working and existing along side a myriad of forces beyond the ken of our intellectual speculations.

This is Ken Norton on the Scent Of Light. You can contact me via Ken at KennethENorton.com. The Scent of Light episodes are archived on the web at kennethenorton.com. Thanks for listening.

About the Author and Producer

Ken Norton earned his master's degree in Materials Science from Stanford University as the Vietnam War was ending. During that time Ken served as the personal assistant to a poet/sociologist Dr. William Hermanns as he prepared his writings for publication, exposing Ken to not only the sciences but also the humanities and comparative religion for making conscious and conscionable choices.

Ken is a regular contributor to Radio Spotlight Magazine with his episodes on the Scent of Light.