Gates Of Power

Take a journey through seven gates. Explore the necessary fundamental elements to discover possibilities of self-healing, self development and self-actualization. Recognize that when you can learn to let your heart speak and listen, you might just find that your truest essence lives there.

Join us and our special guest, Nomi Bachar; Human Potential Expert, Self Actualization Coach, Psychotherapist, Author and Director of The White Cedar Institute.

Tune in for this philosophical conversation at TalkRadio.nyc or watch the Facebook Livestream by clicking here.

Show Notes

Segment 1

Dr.G and Judi begin today’s episode by talking about the mission of the show and tonight’s guest, Nomi Bachar. Nomi has been counseling, coaching, and training individuals for over 25 years. Nomi discusses her journey from acting to coaching. From a young age, her father told her to “stop being so dramatic”, but wouldn’t be stopped. She talks about success in her acting school and career as a shy kid. She came to study in New York, but after a few years, she crashed. After going on audition after audition, she ended up going to therapy and shifting her focus. She discusses how her therapist shifted her view and helped her get into therapy. She moves on to the idea that there is this urge to liberate, one must feel their shackles in order to want to break them. We are taught to turn ourselves into what we feel we should, resisting the urge to look within and find who we are. The fear of rejection often holds us back. She helps artists use their expression to create a safe, vulnerable safe for them to explore their feelings. Many of her clients are shy and timid, but in expressing herself along with them, she helps shy clients to open up.

Segment 2

Coming back from the break, Nomi introduces the seven gates, or seven areas of our lives. Most of these gates are often blocked, as we each have a defensive structure. In her program, Nomi helps clients identify their defensive structures, emotional structures, and expanded structures of their being, helping to balance and heal each. The expanded self needs to lead, only once this self leads can the gates start to be identified and unblocked. This is an awakening to our God center that lives within. Dr. G discusses an anecdote of someone in her life seeking God around the world only to find she/he within. Nomi talks about guiding people to finding their expanded selves. Nomi discusses the gates, starting with the body. She talks about how our body mirrors our emotions. She shares tips for the audience in finding some of this tension and the sources of it.

Segment 3

Next Judi reads a quote of Nomi’s, and Nomi discusses what it means and what it takes for us to accept love. This is a long journey and needs to be taken with the knowledge that there is no judgement, criticism, or right pace to move at. Nomi discusses feeling emotions, actually feeling them, rather than just thinking about them. By identifying where in the body the emotions are, they become possible to process and we can liberate our emotional self. She moves on to the gate of dialogue, discussing the difference between lust and love. Nomi describes lust as looking for something external, but love being internal and a reflection of the relationship between one and themself. After finding love within, we can see other people and show compassion. Judi discusses how most of us don’t feel joy everyday and Nomi relates this to the emotional self, as long as we are locked up, we cannot access that creative, joyful part of ourselves. She talks about the need to play in all things you do rather than just seeking time to play and be joyful on its own. Dr. G talks about the need people find to define themselves and become super knowledgeable in what they do. This takes the fun out of doing things and takes the liberation out of doing things.

Segment 4

Starting the last segment of tonight’s show, Dr. G talks about recognizing that while we are called to joy, we are also called to suffer. The importance of going within is being able to deal with our own and then walk in solidarity with others without carrying them. Nomi talks about helping people to find the mission or direction of their life that their soul needs to go in order to become more whole. Sometimes when listening to our suffering, we can find our mission, this is what happened for Nomi. She moves on to discuss the gate of silence and knowledge, and how they are about connecting with God and joy. Coming towards the closing of the episode, Dr. G asks Nomi to share her takeaways from tonight’s show. Nomi shares the name of her podcast and links where she can be found. Dr. G ends the night in prayer.