Spiritual Awakening: The Ground of Love

Olivia Frazao

This podcast is in the top 5% most popular podcast shows globally (ranked by Listen Score). You're dedicated to spiritual awakening, healing, and being an emanation of Love for the world. This podcast is for advanced spiritual practitioners. We’re here to jump off the deep end together and explore what it means to truly live a life of love, multidimensional awareness, and embodied spirituality. Click "Follow" to get a new episode weekly. All lineages are welcome. We meet beyond culture and dogma, at the esoteric core that exists in the center of all lineages: Divinity as the One. This podcast is your spiritual sangha through the fields. An invitation back into your center, and to what matters to you most. The philosophical friend in your ear as you go through your day. And the warm hug when you need it. Together we build the courage, trust, and resilience for true spiritual surrender, and to show up fully for all that Life is asking of us and offering us. We are here for the real deal. * * *  YOUR HOST Olivia Frazao is a healer and spiritual guide with deep training in spiritual healing work, energy healing, meditation, clinical psychology, family constellations, and multi-lineage mysticism. This podcast is inspired by the Yogic tradition, Advaita Vedanta, Tibetan Buddhism, Esoteric Christianity, Daoism, and Indigenous wisdom traditions. *** EPISODE TOPICS: Spiritual awakening: Ego death and surrender. Divine union, true nature. Mysticism and esoteric teachings. Meditation. Energy healing and spiritual healing.  Multidimensional reality: Living multidimensionally. Cosmic consciousness. Relationship with spiritual guides, Masters, angels, Deities, ancestors. Love and relationship on the soul level. Embodiment:  "Landing the spaceship": Integration of peak experiences / mystical experiences into daily life. Groundedness. Life purpose, dedication, and service.  Healing: Trauma healing, deconditioning, holistic healing, somatic healing. Self-inquiry, contemplation, self-care, and personal growth. Spiritual lineages: Yoga, bhakti (devotion), jnana (knowledge), Christ Consciousness, Indigenous wisdom traditions, Buddhism. Spiritual pitfalls: Spiritual ego, spiritual materialism, and spiritual bypass. What is the true guru or enlightened spiritual teacher vs not? Spirituality and social change: How culture, patriarchy, and colonialism distorted spirituality and the New Age movement. Queerness and spirituality beyond heteronormativity, and masculine and feminine polarities. Advanced work: Advanced meditation and self-healing. Leading spiritual groups, meditations, and healing circles. Doing healing work for others.  *** THE VIBE Each episode holds a unique vibe and energetic transmission. Every episode is an invitation Home. Find what matches your mood in the moment. *** A special bow to Ron Young, Hilda Charlton, Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi), Lorraine DeLear, and all the teachers and masters who make this possible. *** FOLLOW Click "Follow" to get a new episode weekly. Please leave a rating/review, and share this with a friend!

  1. 3d ago

    Conflict Resolution: Mapping Realities and Empathy (EP 63)

    For private healing sessions and meditations visit www.thegroundoflove.com *** Conflict Resolution Isn't About Communication — It's About Your Map of Reality Most conflict resolution advice starts in the wrong place. In this episode of The Ground of Love, we go beneath communication techniques and non-violent communication scripts to the real root of every disagreement: two people operating from two completely different worldviews, each convinced they're standing on the same shared ground. Using the simple metaphor of two people looking at two different maps — one seeing the vast distance across the United States, the other seeing the much shorter span of the Iberian Peninsula — this episode illustrates why arguments spiral into judgment, hurt feelings, and "why are they being so weird?" confusion. The answer is almost never that someone is wrong. It's that nobody checked what map the other person was actually looking at. And it introduces a distinction most people never make: emotional empathy (feeling what someone feels) versus empathy of perspective (seeing what someone sees). You'll hear why feeling someone's sadness or anger isn't enough if you don't understand the worldview generating it — and why well-meaning advice so often falls flat when it's built on your reality instead of theirs. You'll learn how to: Spot when an argument is really a mismatch of unspoken premises, not a disagreement over factsStop taking other people's reactions personally by recognizing you're relating to their projection of you, not to youAsk the deeper questions — "What does this mean to you? What are you assuming?" — that get past behavior and conclusions to the actual rootHold equanimity and even compassion for people whose worldview leads them to act in ways that feel confusing or hurtfulBring genuine curiosity back into relationships, family dynamics, and hard conversationsWhether you're navigating tension with a partner, a family member, a friend, or a coworker, this episode offers a practical spiritual framework for conflict resolution, deep empathy, and authentic connection — one rooted not in who's right, but in finally seeing each other's maps. *** This podcast show is for people dedicated to spiritual awakening, spiritual practice, psychology, healing work, collective healing and awakening, and global positive social change.  To send me a message directly, click here www.thegroundoflove.com

  2. Sep 15

    Visiting Sacred Sites: How to Connect with Sacred Spaces and Receive Their Spiritual Transmissions (EP62, 2/2)

    For one-on-one healing sessions and group membership, visit www.thegroundoflove.com. Part two of this sacred sites series moves from why we visit sacred places into how — how to enter with reverence, attune to the energy that lives there, and carry that transmission forward into your own healing and daily life.  What's Covered Setting a clean intention before you arrive — learning, healing, connection — held with the caveat "if it is in the highest and best for all"Pausing at the threshold to ground, breathe, and quiet the mind before stepping into the spaceAsking permission and attuning to the field, treating each site as a living consciousness with its own guardians and lineageHonoring the space and its caretakers — through a bow, an offering, a prayer, or simply an open heart — and acknowledging the seen and unseen beings who tend itSafety and discernment, including how to recognize an energetically "messy" space and the simple rule: when in doubt, get outThe three-step process of receiving transmission — attunement, energetic healing/alchemy, and integrating the frequency as a kind of spiritual "muscle memory"Leaving with gratitude, releasing what isn't yours, and resisting the urge to immediately flatten the experience into wordsStaying connected after you leave, since every sacred site is also a doorway to its non-physical essence that can be revisited through memory and feeling*** 20:56 - Q #1 - Connecting to Energies 24:58 - Q #2 Healing + Awareness 29:32 - Q #3 Energetic Imprint and Integration *** This episode is for anyone drawn to sacred travel, energy healing, conscious pilgrimage, or deepening a personal spiritual practice. Every sacred site, regardless of lineage or location, is a portal back to the same truth: oneness, love, and the heart. The greatest safety and the deepest connection are always found the same way — by walking through, and sitting within, every space in your own heart. *** This podcast show is for people dedicated to spiritual awakening, spiritual practice, psychology, healing work, collective healing and awakening, and global positive social change. To send me a message directly, click here www.thegroundoflove.com

  3. Sep 9

    Visiting Sacred Sites: How to Avoid the Traps That Block Sacred Energy (EP 61, 1/2)

    Join the newsletter for free meditations and other offerings at www.thegroundoflove.com This episode explores what actually makes a place "sacred" — and the quiet traps that keep even deeply spiritual travelers from ever feeling it. Sharing experiences from our recent retreat in Assisi, a little-known temple hidden inside a church in Umbria, and a tiny goddess shrine in Brazil, this episode unpacks what is a sacred site, how to clarify your intention before you arrive, and the invisible ways we block ourselves from receiving a place's transmission — and how to get more deeply connected instead. If you've ever stood in a beautiful, historic, or holy place and wanted a deeper connection there, this episode is for you. This episode gets us out of the traps... next week's episode, Part 2, will get us into the transmissions. What You'll Learn & Episode Highlights What Actually Makes a Site "Sacred" — beyond fame or history, it's coherent energy, wisdom, and loveSetting Your Intention Before You Arrive — learning, healing, or spiritual awakening, and why it changes everythingThe Camera Trap — why taking a photo can quietly replace real presence, and what a "somatic photo" looks like insteadThe Guidebook Trap — why learning a place's history is valuable, but isn't the same as receiving its transmissionFame Isn't the Same as Transmission — why a tiny, unknown temple can hold a stronger energy than a famous, crowded cathedralEvery Sacred Object Is Relational — how devotion and honoring can turn a statue or shrine into a living portalMoving Past Dogma (and Resistance to It) — how to honor a culture's beliefs without needing to agree with them, and why resisting dogma can be its own trapEvery Place Has Layers — learning to attune past the surface to the deeper transmission underneathThis podcast show is for people dedicated to spiritual awakening, spiritual practice, psychology, healing work, collective healing and awakening, and global positive social change. For free meditations, private sessions, and the Ground of Love Healing School, see www.thegroundoflove.com To send me a message directly, click here www.thegroundoflove.com

  4. Sep 1

    Energetic Boundaries for Empaths: Exercises to Free Yourself From the Victim Role & Savior Role (EP 60 4/4)

    For free meditations and other online offerings: www.thegroundoflove.com This episode guides empaths and highly sensitive people through four powerful meditative exercises for setting energetic boundaries and healing codependent relationship patterns. Building on earlier episodes (Ep. 57, 58, 59), this practice-focused session helps you recognize and release both the savior complex and the victim mentality that so often show up in enmeshed or emotionally draining relationships. What you'll learn: How to identify when you've slipped into a savior role — over-giving, over-responsibility, and disempowering the people you loveA guided visualization for handing someone back to their own sovereign path and their own relationship with the divineWhy resentment often signals a boundary you've overridden in yourselfThree practices for exiting the victim stance: reclaiming your relationship with yourself, opening to mutual relationships with others, and trusting in support from spirit, guides, and the divineGrounding phrases and mantras you can use anytime you feel entangled, drained, or unseen in a relationshipThis episode is ideal for empaths, highly sensitive people, people-pleasers, and anyone doing deep spiritual and emotional healing work around codependency, self-worth, and energetic protection.  03:20 - Q #1 - Savior Role Exercise 19:02 - Q #2 - Victim Role Exercises *** This podcast show explores meditation, mindfulness, consciousness, spiritual awakening, and spiritual growth, with a strong focus on personal healing, trauma healing, emotional healing, and somatic healing. We dive into nonduality, embodied spirituality, the true self, life purpose, and spiritual practice, while also addressing shadow and integration themes like spiritual bypass, ego-death, root causes, and holistic healing.  *** To send me a message directly, click here www.thegroundoflove.com

  5. Aug 25

    Energetic Boundaries for Empaths: Cord Cutting Style Exercise to Get Your Sovereignty Back (EP 59, 3/4)

    For one-on-one healing sessions and group membership, visit www.thegroundoflove.com. This episode offers a guided "giving back and taking back" meditation — a gentler alternative to cord cutting — that helps empaths and highly sensitive people release energy, thoughts, and emotions that belong to someone else, while calling their own energy back home. Rather than assigning blame, the practice is rooted in neutrality and unconditional love: you see the other person soul-to-soul, set an intention for the highest good, then release what's theirs and reclaim what's yours. The exercise has two possible styles: one focused on a specific relationship (a partner, parent, friend, or coworker you feel entangled with), and a second, broader version for releasing and reclaiming energy connected to everyone in your life at once. The practice isn't about creating distance — clearing entanglement can actually deepen connection by allowing relationships to come from a grounded, sovereign place. Because it's a deep energetic practice, listeners are encouraged to do it seated and undistracted, rather than during driving or other multitasking. It builds on Episode 57 (boundaries explained) and Episode 58 (daily grounding), with more exercises coming in Episode 60. *** 11:47 - Giving Back to Someone  30:49 - Receiving Back from Someone  35:50 - Giving and Receiving to Everyone *** Click "Follow" to receive future episodes, released weekly.  *** This podcast show is for people dedicated to spiritual awakening, spiritual practice, psychology, healing work, collective healing and awakening, and global positive social change.  For free meditations, private sessions, and the Ground of Love Healing School, see www.thegroundoflove.com *** This podcast show explores meditation, mindfulness, consciousness, spiritual awakening, and spiritual growth, with a strong focus on personal healing, trauma healing, emotional healing, and somatic healing. We dive into nonduality, embodied spirituality, the true self, life purpose, and spiritual practice, while also addressing shadow and integration themes like spiritual bypass, ego-death, root causes, and holistic healing.  To send me a message directly, click here www.thegroundoflove.com

  6. Aug 18

    Energetic Boundaries for Empaths: Grounding and Centering Exercises & Meditations to Improve Your Boundaries (EP58, 2/4)

    For more meditations visit www.thegroundoflove.com. Energetic boundaries exercises for empaths, highly sensitive people, and anyone who feels other people's emotions too easily: this episode walks you through guided grounding and centering meditations to help you reclaim your energy field and come back into your own body. In this episode of The Ground of Love, host Olivia Frazao continues the Energetic Boundaries series (following Episode 57, which covers what energetic boundaries are and why empaths merge with other people's energy) with practical, repeatable exercises: a grounding meditation using earth energy and golden light to root you from your feet to your heart center, a centering exercise to find your vertical alignment and central channel, a back-body awareness practice to stop energetically "leaning forward" into other people's space, and truth and values journaling prompts to reconnect with your own identity instead of people-pleasing or over-merging. Rooted in the constellation-work principle "I am here, you are there" (Bert Hellinger), these practices are designed as a daily spiritual habit — like reps at the gym for your energy field — so you can hold steady, grounded boundaries even in emotionally intense situations. **In this episode:** - Why embodiment is the real foundation of healthy energetic boundaries - A guided earth-energy grounding meditation (roots, feet, legs, pelvis, heart center) - How to find your center line and central channel for verticality and alignment - Back-body awareness techniques to stop over-extending your energy toward others - Values and truth-finding prompts to reconnect with your authentic self - Why judgment is often an unconscious attempt at creating a boundary Continue the series with Episode 59 for more energetic boundaries exercises. *** 4:13 - What We're Doing and Why It Works 13:09 - Exercise for Grounding 23:28 - Exercise for Centering and Back Body 34:08 - Exercise for Finding Our Truth *** Click "Follow" to receive future episodes, released weekly.  *** This podcast show is for people dedicated to spiritual awakening, spiritual practice, psychology, healing work, collective healing and awakening, and global positive social change.  For free meditations, private sessions, and the Ground of Love Healing School, see www.thegroundoflove.com *** This podcast show explores meditation, mindfulness, consciousness, spiritual awakening, and spiritual growth, with a strong focus on personal healing, trauma healing, emotional healing, and somatic healing. We dive into nonduality, embodied spirituality, the true self, life purpose, and spiritual practice, while also addressing shadow and integration themes like spiritual bypass, ego-death, root causes, and holistic healing.  To send me a message directly, click here www.thegroundoflove.com

  7. Aug 11

    Energetic Boundaries for Empaths: Why You Feel Everyone Else's Emotions And How to Stop (EP57, 1/4)

    For private healing sessions and meditations visit www.thegroundoflove.com If you're an empath who feels like other people's moods move right into your body — even when they haven't said a word — this episode is for you. It breaks down what energetic boundaries actually are, why empaths struggle to hold them, and the subtle nervous-system and belief-level patterns that keep sensitive people merged with the emotions of everyone around them. This is part one of a two-part series. This episode lays the groundwork here — what's happening and why — and the next episode will offer guided meditations and practical exercises for building stronger energetic boundaries. What You'll Learn in This Episode What an energetic boundary actually is — a non-physical, non-verbal boundary rooted in your personal energy field, as distinct from a spoken or action-based boundaryWhat it really means to be an empath — going beyond ordinary empathy into absorbing other people's unspoken internal states, like silent resentment or brooding energyWhy some people are more porous than others — the link between grounding, nervous system regulation, felt safety, and how easily you "merge" with someone else's fieldThe Victim/Savior/Perpetrator triangle, applied specifically to empaths and their relationshipsTwo hidden limiting beliefs driving poor energetic boundaries: "I am responsible for you" and "You are responsible for me"The "crustacean" boundary pattern — why some people build rigid, wall-like boundaries on the outside while feeling soft and undefined on the inside, and what a genuinely healthy boundary looks like instead (hint: it's a skeleton, not a shell)The real root of healing: nervous system regulation, embodiment, and learning to "come home" to your own body instead of hosting everyone else's energyWho This Episode Is For Empaths and highly sensitive people who feel drained, overwhelmed, or "invaded" by others' emotionsAnyone in a codependent dynamic with a parent, partner, or friendPeople-pleasers who notice they're constantly managing someone else's feelings to feel okay themselvesListeners working on nervous system regulation, somatic healing, or spiritual self-development*** This podcast show is for people dedicated to spiritual awakening, spiritual practice, psychology, healing work, collective healing and awakening, and global positive social change.  *** To send me a message directly, click here www.thegroundoflove.com

  8. Aug 4

    Beyond the Small Self: Oneness, Unity Consciousness & The Power of Spiritual Community (EP56, 4/4)

    For private and group offerings, see www.thegroundoflove.com In this fourth and final installment of The Ground of Love's anniversary series, we gather the podcast's most resonant teachings on oneness, unity consciousness, and spiritual community into one guided journey — exploring who we are beyond the egoic self, and what happens when we remember that truth together. Setting a sacred intention for presence and remembrance (Ep. 1)Finding "home" everywhere — sacred sites and traditions worldwide as portals to the same divine source (Ep. 25)From egoic self to non-dual oneness (Ep. 47)Group meditation as a felt experience of unity consciousness (Ep. 48)Why awakening is a collective act — how shared purpose ripples out to heal the world (Ep. 27)Voices from the Ground of Love community on belonging to a multi-lineage, heart-centered group (Ep. 50)*** Key Themes: Oneness · Unity consciousness · Ego vs. true self · Spiritual community · Collective awakening · Sacred connection · Group meditation *** 03:04 - Q #1 EP1 - Intention 05:48 -Q #2 EP25 - Home is All Over the World 13:43 - Q #3 EP47 - Three Levels of Self 21:34 - Q #4 EP48 - Meditating Together 24:42 - Q #5 EP27 - We are Stronger Together 29:57 - Q #6 EP50 - Testimonials *** This podcast show is for people dedicated to spiritual awakening, spiritual practice, psychology, healing work, collective healing and awakening, and global positive social change.  *** For free meditations, private sessions, and the Ground of Love Healing School, see www.thegroundoflove.com To send me a message directly, click here www.thegroundoflove.com

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This podcast is in the top 5% most popular podcast shows globally (ranked by Listen Score). You're dedicated to spiritual awakening, healing, and being an emanation of Love for the world. This podcast is for advanced spiritual practitioners. We’re here to jump off the deep end together and explore what it means to truly live a life of love, multidimensional awareness, and embodied spirituality. Click "Follow" to get a new episode weekly. All lineages are welcome. We meet beyond culture and dogma, at the esoteric core that exists in the center of all lineages: Divinity as the One. This podcast is your spiritual sangha through the fields. An invitation back into your center, and to what matters to you most. The philosophical friend in your ear as you go through your day. And the warm hug when you need it. Together we build the courage, trust, and resilience for true spiritual surrender, and to show up fully for all that Life is asking of us and offering us. We are here for the real deal. * * *  YOUR HOST Olivia Frazao is a healer and spiritual guide with deep training in spiritual healing work, energy healing, meditation, clinical psychology, family constellations, and multi-lineage mysticism. This podcast is inspired by the Yogic tradition, Advaita Vedanta, Tibetan Buddhism, Esoteric Christianity, Daoism, and Indigenous wisdom traditions. *** EPISODE TOPICS: Spiritual awakening: Ego death and surrender. Divine union, true nature. Mysticism and esoteric teachings. Meditation. Energy healing and spiritual healing.  Multidimensional reality: Living multidimensionally. Cosmic consciousness. Relationship with spiritual guides, Masters, angels, Deities, ancestors. Love and relationship on the soul level. Embodiment:  "Landing the spaceship": Integration of peak experiences / mystical experiences into daily life. Groundedness. Life purpose, dedication, and service.  Healing: Trauma healing, deconditioning, holistic healing, somatic healing. Self-inquiry, contemplation, self-care, and personal growth. Spiritual lineages: Yoga, bhakti (devotion), jnana (knowledge), Christ Consciousness, Indigenous wisdom traditions, Buddhism. Spiritual pitfalls: Spiritual ego, spiritual materialism, and spiritual bypass. What is the true guru or enlightened spiritual teacher vs not? Spirituality and social change: How culture, patriarchy, and colonialism distorted spirituality and the New Age movement. Queerness and spirituality beyond heteronormativity, and masculine and feminine polarities. Advanced work: Advanced meditation and self-healing. Leading spiritual groups, meditations, and healing circles. Doing healing work for others.  *** THE VIBE Each episode holds a unique vibe and energetic transmission. Every episode is an invitation Home. Find what matches your mood in the moment. *** A special bow to Ron Young, Hilda Charlton, Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi), Lorraine DeLear, and all the teachers and masters who make this possible. *** FOLLOW Click "Follow" to get a new episode weekly. Please leave a rating/review, and share this with a friend!