A Journey Through Spiritual Work, Healing, & Transformation With Ryan Blair
We've all had adverse experiences that have shaped who we are in the present. Like mud in a vessel, they are hard to remove and scrape off. They block our sight and steer us in the wrong directions. Sadly, not many people are able to carry out the journey towards healing intentionally. But spiritual transformation takes time and conscious effort, and it starts by looking inwards. Once you do, you'll start seeing the light once blocked in your vessel.
In this episode, Ryan Blair joins us to talk about his journey to cultivating his resilience and spirituality. Ryan shares the internal work that led him to the path he walks today. He delves into the concept of removing the mud in the vessel in his spiritual work. Ryan Blair also discusses the spiritual warfare he went through and how it has transformed him. Finally, he shares a miracle he witnessed with his son upon going through spiritual work.
If you want to know how to start your spiritual and healing journey, this episode is for you!
Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:
Discover the experience of stepping in internally in the healing journey.
Understand the long and complex process of spiritual warfare and transformation.
Find out why love should be our end destination.
Resources
Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain by Ryan Blair
Rock Bottom to Rock Star by Ryan Blair
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Episode Highlights
[0:58] Ryan’s Journey to Cultivating Resilience
His resilience is innate and has always been part of his soul’s journey.
He had to figure out how to channel good energy from the difficult situations he has been in.
Ryan approaches entrepreneurship at the same level of intensity as a professional athlete would in their sport.
[5:35] Using External Accomplishments as a Drive
External accomplishments were what drove him as a younger entrepreneur.
Entrepreneurship is similar to a highly competitive sport.
The fulfillment of external things eventually stopped working for Ryan. But it taught him how to understand money, build things, and leverage energy.
[6:57] Stepping in Internally
Ryan Blair had to go internal once the external strategy stopped working.
He walked away from business and investments for two years and went deep into meditation, breathwork, prayer, and nature.
Going through his healing journey made way for the dark parts of himself to surface.
18 hours a day of spiritual practice unburdened him from the darkness of his sins.
He realized he could be of service and help in others' healing once he gets his sins out of his system.
[8:24] The Path Ryan is in Today
Ryan Blair built a company dedicated to learning the modalities and practices he learned.
He has always been on the same path with his spiritual calling. However, he wasn’t tuned in on how to do it with the least amount of friction and suffering.
Ryan was blessed to have enough money saved to go on his spiritual journey.
[10:43] Removing the Mud in the Vessel
We each have a vessel containing light and mud. Ryan Blair went deep into looking for and removing his vessel’s mud in his journey.
Elevating our awareness and consciousness allows us to discover things we didn't create the proper connections to.
He saw spiritual work as a job to do until he reached a place where he could serve others. It took him two years' worth of work.
The mud in his vessel got to the point where he couldn’t walk outside without attracting darkness.
Listen to the full episode to hear how Ryan Blair started expanding and filling his vessel with light!
[14:16] The Role of His Mom in His Healing Journey
Ryan Blair believes that his mom stayed as an angel beside him after she passed away to guide his healing.
Ryan's mom had so much love in her heart for him as her only son. But they never got to have a working relationship because of her trauma.
The love and anger in Ryan started pouring out of him when her mom passed away.
Grief becomes so much different once you get deep into practice.
[17:11] Giving Himself Grace
Acting out on social media attracted many people who wanted to see him fail.
Listen to the episode to learn the events that forced Ryan into a place of isolation!
He didn't have much grace for himself during his fight for custody of his son.
Ryan Blair approached the work as transforming and adding so much light into his life to nullify the dark pointed at him.
[19:34] His Spiritual Warfare Experience
The first six months were a straight war every single day.
He had to learn how to create a new him that was more loving, compassionate, and not reliant on others’ opinions.
Year one was all work. Year two was when things got better and when he started AlterCall.
He's now four years into the journey, and every day just gets better.
[23:26] Healing Journey for People Without a Good Support System
Ryan Blair had to do his journey alone. It was a difficult and messy awakening.
You’re not always where you want to be, but you’re always where you need to be.
The more you do the work, the more you will see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Ryan Blair created a community to create a home for people while going through their transformation.
Some friends are supposed to turn against you for you to turn inward.
[25:50] Transformation is a Process
Transformation takes time.
You will grow as fast as you are capable of growing. You can accelerate this by accelerating your capacity for growth.
The key is getting yourself out of the environment you’re in and connecting to nature, yourself, spirit, etc.
You can meet mentors who will give you some energy during your transformation journey.
[27:40] On the Question of Accessibility
Spiritual inquiry is about getting to a place of humility.
People with resources and means have to strip down much further to get to a spiritual place.
Having no means allows you to get straight to the core.
Your outside is a reflection of your inside. Doing work on the inside will change what’s on the outside.
[29:29] Entrepreneurship as a Skill
Ryan Blair has helped students learn the inside work that would help them become thriving entrepreneurs.
He tells unsuccessful entrepreneurs to go deep inward instead of buying courses and masterminds.
Entrepreneurship is simply a skill. We are all capable of learning skills regardless of age.
Learning the sport and skills of entrepreneurship is key to expanding impact and resources and creating an energetically fulfilling lifestyle.
[31:21] Witnessing a Miracle in His Son
Ryan Blair was deep into his spiritual work when his mom passed away.
His son with autism came over one day. Ryan started sharing his family’s faith with him while giving him a bath.
His son agreed to get baptized. Ryan took him through a spiritual initiation.
He saw his son's eyes change when he came out of the bathwater. He no longer had autism.
Ryan’s son is now a perfectly functioning child. He believes it’s from the light he was attempting to pull in and the channel her mom’s transformation opened.
[31:18] Choosing to Believe
Ryan Blair chooses to believe first then get proven wrong or change his belief.
He has an open mindset. His beliefs in various instruments have aided him.
[38:05] Our Journey to Love and Feeling Radically Loved
There are many paths to the same destination—love.
Our soul came into the world for a journey. We get stuck because we listen to the wrong advice.
Love is innately within us. We only have to remove all the things that block us from it.
Tune in to the full episode to hear how Ryan Blair feels radically loved!
5 Powerful Quotes from This Episode
[06:42] “All strategies—they work until they stop working and then you got to find a new strategy.”
[19:08] “I'm going to transform, and I'm going to add so much light to my in my life that I will not be denied that, that no matter what people say about me, no matter what opinions are out there, criticism is out there—I will shine so much light that it will nullify all the dark pointed at me.”
[30:11] “All of us as humans are capable of learning skills regardless of the age that you're at, I don't care if you're my age 44, you can learn new skills. 54? As long as you're alive, you can learn new skills.”
[33:25] “There is a spiritual force at work that we cannot see, that is available to us. If we learn how to tap into that, they can heal us.”
[42:37] “We were made with love, and we should be in love with ourselves and with everything around us all day long.”
About Ryan
Ryan Blair is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of AlterCall. AlterCall is a company dedicated to helping entrepreneurs activate their mind, body, and soul to boost business and life growth. Ryan founded his first company at the age of 21 and has led ViSalus to $1.6 billion in cumulative sales. Since then, he has created and invested in multiple successful startups and got deemed Ernst & Young's 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year.
Ryan is also the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the books Nothing To Lose, Everything To Gain and Rock Bottom To Rock Star.
You can reach out to Ryan Blair through AlterCall’s website and his Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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