Episode 120- The Most Powerful Prayer Ever

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Hi Soulfriends,

It’s Tannaz Hosseinpour, and welcome back to another short solo episode of the Minutes on Growth Podcast. Today, I want to briefly share with you a prayer that I have been reciting every night for the past 5 years.

I feel like before I share what it is and you start practicing it , I need to make a disclaimer and that is.. expect the unexpected.

This prayer is SOOOOO powerful, that it literally landed me in a different country in the most unexpected way possible and it ended my super secure long term relationship.

Now before you freak out and think to yourself “WHY on earth would I want a prayer that will turn my life upside down”, hear me out – looking back on it, what the prayer actually did was remove me from where an environment that no longer served me, where I was no longer growing, and instead move me to a safe environment that fostered growth and expansion.

You see, sometimes we’re unable to recognize how certain situations are harming us – because a- we’re so submerged in it, that it has normalized for us and b- because its not harmful in the traditional sense of the word… here’s what I mean…

looking back, I notice that there was a period of 1-2 years where I was living life from my comfort zone – staying stagnant – and playing small AF.

I will literally killing my soul’s desires and limiting my potential without even realizing it.

I was doing the bare minimum with my career – I kept making up excuses for my lack of action- and not surprisingly, I woke up everyday feeling uninspired and a certain emptiness in my heart. which makes sense because creative energy can’t flow in a idle non moving vessel. now not a lot of people noticed this because from the outside I was in a healthy relationship, I was socializing, I had a career… but I knew, I had this inner knowing that I was consistently showing up at 30-40% of my potential.

I knew I wasn’t showing up but I really couldn’t put my finger on what was creating this resistance or why I was showing up that way.

Until one day, my spiritual teacher shared this prayer with me and told me to practice it without control, and attachment to any particular outcome..

this was hard for me because I loved being in control… growing up I planned everything because it gave me this sense of being in control… control was how I felt safe… now I understand that its an illusion because we’re never fully in control what happens on the outside and only can control our internal responses to it but I had trained my mind to think if I was in control of the outside, I was safe.

& Trust me, never in a million years, did I think I would end up where I am today when I started reciting it every night… but thats what happens when we surrender ourselves to the universe – the universe’s 5D vision is the grandest vision of them all, and always happening for our highest good – but only if, IF in caps lock, we allow it to take the reigns.

& so what is this powerful prayer ?

well its actually simple – repeat after me

“Universe – I surrender. Please take away anything and anyone in my life that is no longer serving my highest good, with ease and grace”

Yes, anything and anyone includes your partner, your career, the country you’re living in, the friends you have… literally everything and anything.

& if the thought of that scares you.. good. it scared me too. its scary to release control, especially control to this extent… but TRUST me when I tell you.. I’ve gone through one of the wildest rides of my life and I now know with certainty that whatever arises from us surrendering is happening FOR us and never to us. I mean my ride was so unexpected that everyone keeps telling me to write a book about it and people would genuinely think its fiction – but thats for another day when I’m ready to share.

For now, I want you to be open to practicing this prayer every night – releasing the reigns and allowing the universe to co-create with you – to protect you, to support you, to have your back.

& BTW I still struggle with releasing control sometimes, because it’s human nature to want to know how a certain story ends… but when we’re so fixated on writing a specific story thats mediocre, we deprive ourselves from experiencing a MAGICAL story, beyond our wildest dreams.

because our 3D vision is limited – thats why I called it mediocre- there are limitations because its based on what we think is possible but the universe’s 5D vision for us is limitless and that’s where the magic happens, that’s where miracles take place

So soul-friends,I hope this prayer serves you as much as it has served me and that you allow yourself to experience the magic of surrender, and you allow the prayer to take away what is no longer serving you, to allow you to step into the energy of expansion and growth and to do all of that with ease and grace,

Thank you for listening,

speak soon

Episode 119 – Tapping on Money with Brad Yates

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Episode 118 – 2024 Cosmic Insights & Beyond : Unraveling Intuition, Fear & Twin Flames with Mary Jo Cranmore

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Episode 117 – How to Deal with Internal Resistance

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Hi soul-friends,

It’s Tannaz hosseinpour and welcome back to another short solo episode of the minutes on growth podcast. today’s episode is centred around a personal experience I had preparing for my 32nd birthday last week.

for as long as I can remember I have always been super extra when it comes to my birthdays. My parents would always go all out for me and then when I was older, I kind of just continued doing that. This year however, I was experiencing major internal resistance when it came to celebrating my birthday. I transformed into the bratty child who would say no to everything. My partner asked me if I wanted to travel, and I would immediately blurt out NO. My mom would ask me if I wanted to throw a party at her house, I blurted out no immediately . My friends asked me if I wanted to plan a dinner, again I would without hesitation blurt out no. Honestly it felt frustrating for me to hear no come out of my mouth that many times, let alone for those around me. I’m sure they were so annoyed by my constant no’s. I too was so annoyed by the fact that I didn’t know where this internal resistance was coming from…

So I decided to take drastic measures and locked myself in my closet with a small mirror. I sat in front the mirror, staring into my own eyes, and asked myself “what is your problem? People want to celebrate you and you keep saying no.”

Nothing came out of my mouth. I just had a blank stare in my face and after a couple of minutes, I noticed I started to tear up, still no words were coming out of my mouth… a few more minutes of staring at myself, and I whispered out loud, “it’s just not what I want right now.”

Finally some words, but it still didn’t make sense to me so I had to look at myself again and ask “well what do you want?”. I don’t know what happened but the moment I asked this question, I started to cry hysterically… I know this was happening between myself and I, but I was really confused at how my inner child was responding. When the crying subsided, I just remember repeating these words over and over again, “I’m not the same person anymore”

I know I’ve mentioned this multiple times but last year was a very emotionally challenging year for me, and as a result many changes look place in terms of my lifestyle and habits – I noticed myself taking a step back from drinking, partying, and entertaining small talk. At first I thought it was a trauma response and perhaps trauma did play a role in it, but over the past couple of months I’ve noticed that as I’m healing and processing the pain, I still don’t want to drink and I still don’t want to entertain conversations that are surface level

And that’s where my resistance to throwing a big party was coming from. I didn’t want to create a space, where I would be pressured into drinking heavily, or with music so loud that you can’t really communicate with each other. Don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t mean that I can’t socialize without alcohol or don’t love music … in fact, a few weeks prior, I was my friends birthday and even though I was sober, I had a lot of fun talking to everyone and catching up with them, but a part of me feels like, people are still expecting the older version of me to show up at my own birthday, and at this moment in time she doesn’t exist anymore… I don’t know what the future will hold but right now, the old me is nonexistent, and I don’t want my birthday to be centred around me having to explain that.

and I also didn’t wanna go away because I AM a social person, and my community and my tribe are important to me and I do appreciate the opportunity to celebrate my birthday with them, and going away felt like I was running away from the resistance which I didn’t want to do -I just wanted to have an experience that looks and feels different, resembling a different version of me, the most current version of me that exists today.

btw we really don’t talk enough about the grief that we feel when we let go of a certain version of ourselves. Personal growth and evolvement are so celebrated that we just assume all the emotions that come with it are uplifting and happy. But there is a part of me that feels sad or even scared that I’m letting that old version of me go. I know she doesn’t serve me anymore but she was with me for so long that there still is attachment there. It’s like letting go of a friendship that has served its time – you know its the right thing to do, but it doesn’t mean you won’t miss them… But I also trust that change is the only constant in life, and as we grow and evolve, the parts of us that no longer resonate must be released, so we can create space for new habits and traits to flourish.

so after deep reflection in my closet room, I decided to host an afternoon brunch with just my girlfriends on my birthday, inviting a wonderful facilitator to conduct a healing sound bath for us all. This was more aligned with where I am in my life today – honouring the divine feminine, honouring deep conversations, honouring silence, nourishing my soul, honouring sisterhood – The moment I visualized what it would look like, my body got so excited, I immediately came out of the room and went on my phone to order the party supplies and to design my invitation card. the excitement and desire to celebrate my birthday with my loved ones was back in my body and all I needed to do to let go of that initial resistance was to get curious with it, to talk to myself to see where my concerns and my resistance were stemming from.

& btw the party was a blast – everyone’s inner child came out to play and we all had the opportunity to deepen our connections to each other and our selves.

It served as a reminder for me that we have extremely smart bodies, so everything we feel and experience has a message for us, if we’re only willing to become silent so that we’re actually able to hear it.

so soul friends this is my message for you today, if you are feeling any form of confusion, resistance, internal unrest, I urge you to create a safe and silent space for yourself to get curious with those sensations, so that you can hear what your mind body and soul are trying to communicate with you. This is actually how we strengthen our intuition… This is how we master understanding our “gut feeling”

Thank you all for listening, speak soon

Episode 115 – 2024 Energy

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Hi Soul-friends,

It’s Tannaz Hosseinpour and welcome to this year’s first podcast episode. I don’t know about you guys but the moment the clock struck midnight, I felt this strong energetic shift, as if this huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders. I mean it could all be in my head, but I’m still so glad that my mind is ready to start fresh and more importantly to let go of the pain and heaviness of 2023.

btw I’m sorry for my raspy voice, I have been sick for the past week and a half, but I’m so grateful, because from a Kabbalistic standpoint, every time we get sick, its the universe, clearing us for a miracle, its like the illness takes place for old energy to be cleared for new energy to take place, something Needs to be manifested through me and hence why the illness is here… which is super aligned with the energy of the year so let’s talk about 2024…

whether you’ve set some resolutions for yourself, or you have certain intentions for the year, it’s important for us look into the energy of the year, and what we need to be looking out for in the coming 12 months.

Well from a numerological standpoint, 2024 is an 8, which is the number of abundance and prosperity. Yay. After all those interest rate hikes, and reports of recession vibes, this is the energy we need!

2023 from a numerological standpoint was a year of introspection, and doing the heavy inner work, going within, a lot of spiritual cleansing — so energetically speaking it was very yin.

2024, however, from an energetic standpoint has now shifted to yang – very action oriented, embodying discipline, confidence, focus, leadership.

This year is about taking action on all the insights that we accumulated the past year. So every thing that we went through last year as always has a purpose. We need to take a moment and reflect on what those lessons were. what every challenge taught us. what the heartbreak brought to the surface. what our mistakes helped us realize. every single of them had a purpose, and the moment we sit with it and accept and even embrace those lessons, it is that moment when we’re ready to use them as a catalyst for growth and evolvement, using them to take inspired action which again is the energy of the year

So this year, the yang energy is about claiming your desires, is stepping into your authentic truth without hesitation, or without doubting yourself and your potential, not playing small anymore. its about you realizing that you deserve to have that vision come to life, and more importantly, you are now ready to confidently walk towards it.

let me paint a picture for you using our 7 chakra system. when an idea comes to you, its coming through your crown chakra, so in that moment you are connect to the creative force of the universe and it feels like the idea suddenly came to you, but in reality, its just that in that moment you were open to receiving it. once the idea is in, we then visualize it using our third eye, and then we speak about it using our throat chakra… we then feel it, and then comes our solar plexus chakra – and this is the action part. when someone has an idea but doesn’t implement it, I always tell them to visualize a fire swirling in their naval area – heating it up – heating you up to stand up and take action … once we take action, then our sacral chakra of creativity is even more activated, and ultimately the feeling of groundedness takes place, because our body, mind and soul feel safe and rooted.

so for the next 12 months, I want you to get super intentional with your days. it doesn’t mean that you need to be burning yourself out, or over working, but rather getting intentional with every moment of every day.

what do I want to create? what idea wants to be birthed through me? how can I use my gifts and my talents and my passions, none of which are a coincidence to better serve humanity and the world that we live in? becoming intentional with even creating space to get these downloads. putting aside time for visualization, for meditation, for prayer. This is what taking action means. it doesn’t mean running around aimlessly, but rather walking at a steady and consistent pace, with clarity and certainty, allowing your soul’s purpose to expand through every movement and action..

Gives me goosebumps just talking about it.. let alone allowing myself to embody it.

Oh and coming back to this year being the year of abundance and prosperity.. all of that is the byproduct of you stepping into your own authority figure… the universe is literally telling us, take the first step, walk the path, and it will lead you, without a doubt, to prosperity but the actionable steps must stem from us.

So Soul-friends, pull out your calendars and give yourself permission to dream big, and to pursue the goals you’ve consistently put on hold in the past. hold yourself accountable or find someone to help you with it because this is not the year of procrastination.

May you all the universe to use you as a vessel to manifest great visions this year

Sending you lots of love,

Speak soon

Episode 114 – BPS Framework

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Hi Soul-Friends,

It’s Tannaz and welcome back to another short solo episode of the minutes on growth podcast. Today I want to share a powerful resource with you and after listening to this episode, your life literally will never be the same again… Here we go : Introducing the BPS framework, a game changer in helping us understand ourselves, and which recently helped me get diagnosed with pcos (& no longer feel confused about my symptoms !)

The BPS framework is the bio-psycho-social framework that therapists sometimes use with their clients. This means that when a client comes in, complaining about anxiety or depression, we don’t just assume that it’s stemming from their thoughts. We look at all three areas: biological, psychological and social.

I’ll use myself as an example. A couple of months ago, I noticed that I was experiencing anxiety more than the usual amount and I was displaying depressive symptoms such as this dissociated feeling from my body and the world around me, this feeling of emptiness, and I was super irritable.

I was literally crying myself to sleep every single night .. and I felt so frustrated that despite doing the work, like daily meditations, practicing mindfulness, avoiding alcohol, when the night time came, this darkness took over my soul.. and it felt so confusing!

As some of you might know, I’m back in school to get licensed in Canada as a clinical psychotherapist and in my studies, we had learn about this framework… and so instead of labeling myself as a depressed person… I applied the framework since I now had the tools to get curious with my symptoms.

To begin, I looked at it through the social lens by examining my relationships. While I’m in a healthy relationship with my significant other, I lost my dog in April after 12 wonderful years. Losing her and that relationship had a huge impact on my life.

Also, I love love travelling, and I tend to travel a few times throughout the year meeting up with my close friends around the world, but this year was the first year that I did not leave the country at all, as I had governmental administrative work that was taking longer than usual. Not being able to have the usual traveling experiences and that quality time with my safe tribe impacted me as well.

I then looked at it through the psycho lens by examining my characteristic patterns of thinking (& identifying any negative ones), looking at my current coping skills (& identifying any deficits), judgment problems, and impaired emotional intelligence (the ability to perceive, understand, and express emotions).

P.S with all that is happening in the Middle East, it’s very normal to be experiencing second hand trauma as well.

Lastly, I called up my doctor and asked him to run some tests. I asked him to look at my thyroid, and my hormones and after weeks of tests, he realized that I have pcos, which got activated once I gained weight after my dog passed away, which then made it harder for me to lose weight, thus exacerbating the issue. It also explained my anxiety, and depression (the two major side effects of pcos) as well as all the other symptoms I was having such as hair loss on my head, and hair growth on my body.

So the point of this episode soul-friends, is to remind you that human beings are multi faceted beings and it’s imperative that we look at symptoms through an integrated and holistic lens, and not just a black or white lens.

Had I not known about the BPS approach, I would have fixated on the psychological side of it, most likely labeling myself, and completely dismissing the role my biology and social dynamics play into how I am feeling, and thus not finding out about my pcos, and finally taking the correct measures to heal from it.

I hope this episode and framework serves you like it has for me, and creates space for you to look at everything that arises through multiple perspectives and angles.

Sending you lots of love,

Speak soon

Episode 112 – Finding “The One”

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Hi Soul friends,

It’s Tannaz and welcome to another short solo episode of the minutes on growth podcast.

Last episode, we briefly talked about the race to finding “the one”, as a result of social media and societal pressures… today I want to talk about the process of finding “the one”

To begin with, does “the one” exist? Disney and hallmark movies have convinced us that they do … but let’s get curious with it..

Let me ask you this … are you the same person you are today as you were 5 or 10 years ago? do you like the same things? think the same way? act the same way? dress the same? you’re most likely thinking to yourself… no I’ve changed over the past decade, and rightfully so.

as human beings, we are constantly growing and evolving especially if we’re being intentional with our personal development and self growth journey, So if that’s the case, would “the one” a decade ago be “the one” today for you? would the same person be “the one” for the 2 different versions of you?

well now it depends… sometimes the answer is yes because couples can grow together but they also can grow apart and we’ve heard this often when couples break up “they’re not the person they once were or we’re no longer compatible”

And that’s my point… “the one” doesn’t exist… “the one right now” definitely exists.

there are over 7 billion people on this planet… the likelihood of us only being right for just 1 person throughout our whole life statistically does not make sense… and in fact is a very disempowering belief too…

Btw this doesn’t mean that you can’t have forever with one person.. you absolutely can, as I mentioned before many couples grow together, but that doesn’t mean if you don’t get to experience that, then you’re doomed.

So who is the one for us right now? & its the person with whom we have a connection, chemistry and compatibility. the 3 magic Cs.

I will definitely get into the 3Cs in a future podcast episode, but today I want to dedicate the next few minutes to the question… “how do I find the one for me right now?”

and the answer is … shifting the way you see and experience dating… so many people want to find the person they can have the 3 magic C’s with, without having to date people who aren’t right for you

But take a moment about it, how do you know who the one for you even is? chances are the experiences you’ve had with other people has helped you recognize what you do want and do not want in a partner.

When we go to the ice cream shop, we ask for samples of different flavours and then we choose the one we like the most… there’s no way for us to definitively know which one flavour is our favourite, if we haven’t tried a few others.

For me personally, every relationship I have ever been in has taught me something about myself… Relationships are perfect opportunities to mirror back to us our strengths, and all the positive attributes we bring to the table as well as our weaknesses, our triggers, and our wounds. Sometimes, our dating experiences teach us that we need healthier boundaries and so that’s an opportunity for us to go learn about boundaries, what they are, how to implement them, how to honour them and so forth.

Sometimes they show us our manipulative tendencies that we need to let go of, sometimes they show us that we need to learn communication skills and how to regulate our emotions during conflict so we don’t shut down or storm out of the room or start yelling… every trigger is an opportunity for self-reflection and growth, if we allow it to be. Btw this process requires mastering the art of non-judgment towards ourselves. If we’re acting a certain way, it means up until this point, this is all that we knew, this was our best. When we know better, we can do better, and relationships give us an opportunity to highlight what we need to proactively work on.

Which is great news because how else can we grow… in one of the earlier episodes of the podcast, I mentioned that from a spiritual perspective, the goal of life is to enter as person A , and leave as Person B, and relationships are the medium through which we can do this.

Also every relationship or dating experience shows us what we desire in a partner.. or what even exists out there. For example, in university, I had this boyfriend who would always show up with flowers or candy on every single date.. we dated for 2 years, and not once did he show up empty handed… sometimes the candy was worth 50 cents, and sometimes the bouquets were huge…so it wasn’t the monetary value but the thought behind it.. . did he have his flaws? absolutely (so did i), but his ability to showcase love through thoughtful gifts (one of the 5 love languages)showed me not only something that I had never experienced before, and now I know that it exists in real life and not just in movies, or books, but also taught me how to do it too. I now receive this feedback often from my friends and family members that I’m a thoughtful gift giver, and it all began with him.

Or the person I dated during my post-graduate studies taught me the importance of self-regulation through his inability to regulation his emotions… I also learned what boundaries were in that relationship… I kept thinking to myself “how can I emotionally protect myself when he is yelling on the phone?” and that lead me to learning about boundaries and learning to say “I want to hear you but if you raise your voice I will leave the conversation”

Or a long-term relationship of mine taught me that having a reciprocated respectful relationship with my partner’s family was a non negotiable for me.. before then I would say it wasn’t important… but that relationship showed me that it was …might not be for everyone but for me it was so after that, I would keep an eye out for that.

Every date, every partner, teaches us something…shows us our desires and non-negotiables through both their positive and negative traits. So without them, we technically would have NO IDEA who the one for us looks like.

And soul-friends, thats the point of today’s podcast episode. it’s embracing the dating journey and not trying to bypass , rush or even hate it, because every date, gives us insight into the right person for us.

so let’s set an intention to shift the way we look at dating, and all our past dating experiences, and honour them for helping us gain clarity.

sending you lots of love,

speak soon.

Episode 111 – Not Enough-ness

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Hi Soul friends,

It’s Tannaz and welcome to another short solo episode of the minutes on growth podcast. today I want to briefly talk about something that I’m noticing with my clients.. and its this feeling of not being or doing enough.

Social media and societal expectations have both created this illusion that our life is incomplete without certain things. for example in middle eastern culture, it has been normalized to ask girls after they’ve finished post-secondary school… “so when are you getting married?”… and then as soon as you get married, its “so when are you having kids?”… and once you have your first child, its “so when are you having the second one?” and so forth…

these questions while well intended, create this belief in the recipient’s life that my life as it is right now is not complete… and if it’s not complete, how can I possibly feel fulfilled or happy?

This is the energy of not enoughness. and in fact, the majority of us tend to operate from this energetic space quiet often…

we wake up in the morning thinking.. oof I didn’t get enough sleep last night.

we go to bed thinking… oof I didn’t get enough done today.

we open up social media and think … oof I don’t have enough.

I mean how many of you have thought, if only I make 20 or 30 percent more than I do right now I’ll have enough… but you already have 20 or 30 percent more now than you did in the past…

you might be nodding your head right now, noticing that you too might have said these sentences a few times in the past.. we all have.

and as a result, we’re operating from a place where this moment as it is isn’t enough… an therefore we’re operating from a lack mindset, a scarcity mindset.. and if the law of attraction has taught us anything, its like like attracts like because thats the energetic frequency we’re operating from…

if I’m operating from this place of… I haven’t done enough.. or I’m not happy enough, as it is, I’m always in chasing mode… seeking the next best thing to fill in the gaps.

But what if we stopped for just a few moments… and shifted our energy… so that we could operate from a place of wholeness… I’m single, and whole. I’m married, and whole. I’m childless and whole. I’m with child, and whole. I’m making x amount and whole… the moment we’re able to let go of the not enoughness, and operate from a place of wholeness, perhaps then we can actually start to be in the present and live our life, able to fully acknowledge and appreciate all the blessings that every different phase of our life brings.

It’s not necessarily what is in our physical realm that gives us this notion of wholeness, but how we feel about what we have. I always tell my clients to meditate on the feeling that they believe their desires will bring .. because the moment we start to feel the feelings associated to having that vision, this sense of calm takes over us, and we become patient with the how and when.. which then ironically actually expedites the manifestation process, and allows us to take quantum leaps.

As the course in miracles beautifully wrote… infinite patience brings immediate results

also this feeling of wholeness brings confidence.. and true confidence is a super attractor. have you ever noticed that when you first enter into a relationship, you’re beaming with so much light, you’re glowing and “coincidently” your ex reaches out or everywhere you go, people are more interested in you? I mean hello where were you when I was single and desperately looking for people? that’s the thing.. when we’re chasing.. we’re exuding the energy of desperation and lack… and when we acknowledge our wholeness which comes from our innate self-worth (btw we’re all worthy and deserving, and there’s nothing you need to go to gain self worth), our aura brings people and opportunities to us.

so soul-friends, this is my tip for you today.. to notice how often your mind wants to operate from not-enoughness, and shift your thoughts and words to stem from a place of enoughness. I am enough, I have enough, I do enough… only then can we liberate ourselves from the chase, and actually fulfill our highest potential. that’s the irony of it all, when we stop chasing, we step into this realm of infinite potential and become super attractors of all that is for our highest good and the highest good of all involved.

Sending you lots of Love,

Speak soon