🎧 EPISODE 3: Spiritual Tools That Actually Work
How do you reconnect with your spirit when your mind just won’t quiet down?

In this episode of The Human Experience (THE) Podcast, Supna Doshi and Dr. Carlos Garcia get real about the messy middle of spiritual growth—when you know the tools, but still feel stuck. Together, they explore what it actually takes to stay aligned, grounded, and connected when life feels overwhelming or uncertain.

From the power of breath and presence to the role of spiritual community and sacred teachers, this conversation offers real, relatable practices that bridge the gap between who we are and who we’re becoming.

🛠️ “You can’t force your way into alignment—you have to surrender to it.”
💡 “Even spiritual tools need spiritual patience.”

Whether you’re deep on your path or just starting to question the noise of your mind, this episode is a heartfelt reminder: You’re not broken. You’re becoming. And there are tools that can help.

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Tools for Bridging the Mind & Spirit Transcript:

[00:00:00 ] Dr. Carlos Garcia: Welcome to the podcast, the Human Experience Podcast, where we explore the depths of spirituality and our own personal journeys and experiences. I'm Dr. Carlos Garcia. 

[00:00:11 ] Supna Doshi: And I'm Supna Doshi. In this space, we'll reflect on the wisdom of some of the most profound spiritual teachers from Eckhart Toi to Ramdas Wayne Dyer, Michael Singer.

[00:00:23 ] Supna Doshi: Together we'll dive into their teachings and share our own insights that have guided us on our own paths of self-discovery. [00:00:30 ] 

[00:00:30 ] Dr. Carlos Garcia: Each episode will feature inspiring clips from these masters, weaving them into our own reflections and conversations on how spirituality has enriched our daily lives, deepened our understanding of ourselves, and led us to a more meaningful experience.

[00:00:47 ] Supna Doshi: So take a deep breath, open your heart, and join us on this journey of exploration. Welcome to the podcast, the Human Experience Podcast. [00:01:00 ] Thank God for tools. Yeah. 'cause it's the only way that I can bridge the gap for myself between that spirit and the mind. They call it so many different things like mindfulness and meditation and all of the, all of these different terms.

[00:01:17 ] Supna Doshi: But for me, if it, it's a practice, like it's a way of life, but the same ones don't work all the time. It depends on, what I'm going through, where I am, and then [00:01:30 ] sometimes none of them work. And then I call Carlos and I'm like, okay, Carlos, let me some of your tool bag, two tool bags, because none of mine are working.

[00:01:39 ] Supna Doshi: Like I'm just in my head and I can't get out and I can observe it and be aware of it. But stopping that, from thinking it to action, like stopping that piece can be, has been very challenging recently for me. 

[00:01:54 ] Dr. Carlos Garcia: Yeah. I wonder if it would be helpful for [00:02:00 ] listeners to like, have this sort of contextual framework for what is happening in that space in between.

[00:02:08 ] Dr. Carlos Garcia: Where again, where we can say we're getting lost or where we're forgetting. 

[00:02:13 ] Wayne Dyer: If you took the tiny little spark that began you and tried to find its origination point and reduced it down to its smallest, tiniest fragment, and ultimately put it into a, what we call a particle accelerator and revved it up as fast as you can, rev it up and collided it and tried [00:02:30 ] to find out what was the basis, what is the spark that began you, what did it look like?

[00:02:34 ] Wayne Dyer: You open up that particle accelerator, you look inside and there's nothing there. You came from energy. Then you were, you were in your parents' womb, your mother's womb for this nine months, and in the nine months of being inside of your mother's womb, everything that you needed for the physical journey and for the entire journey was taken care of.

[00:02:59 ] Wayne Dyer: It was [00:03:00 ] all handled for you. There was nothing for you to do. In the D it says you are doing nothing. You're just being done. Have you ever had that awareness? You ever look in the mirror and realize that this has nothing to do with anything that you're doing, you're just being done. Things that start happening, 

[00:03:24 ] Dr. Carlos Garcia: That, that distance, yeah, that, that feels like very like my daily work, [00:03:30 ] right? Ev ever since having this sort of profound awakening moment. I've heard it also described as integration. 

[00:03:39 ] Dr. Carlos Garcia: Like how do you come back into daily life and all of the ways that you've been wired with and integrate this thing that you've now experienced within your being.

[00:03:50 ] Supna Doshi: There's such a great, segment I heard from Ramdas where he talks, talked about how he was in India and on that spiritual journey. And then he came [00:04:00 ] home and his dad just asked him, do you have a job? And like that he was back. 

[00:04:06 ] Dr. Carlos Garcia: Yeah. If you think you're enlightened, go home and spend a week with your parents.

[00:04:10 ] Dr. Carlos Garcia: Two, two really powerful things that happened this week that I feel are relevant and can maybe give, an understanding. So one is this. Man that I work with, and he's, not even 20 yet, but has a father that's introduced the da de ching to him very early on in his life.

[00:04:27 ] Dr. Carlos Garcia: And so he's like very [00:04:30 ] aware. He's very, he's a very conscious, 19-year-old. And, part of our work together is sharing of how frustrating it is the path, right? We don't call it that, but we'll jump on a call and I'm just so frustrated, and why do I feel this way?

[00:04:46 ] Dr. Carlos Garcia: And I'm feeling depressed and I'm feeling disconnected. And then you could just tell over the course of our hour together, some of that starts to just come off. Fade away. And we arrive back at that place of oh, how it all [00:05:00 ] is. And then there's a shift in mood.

[00:05:02 ] Dr. Carlos Garcia: There's a shift in, in his energy and it's oh, yeah. We just keep forgetting. 

[00:05:09 ] Dr. Carlos Garcia: And by the end of the call, he's I got it. And I was like, okay. So I'll see you next week when you've forgotten again and you're kicking and screaming. Like, why does it have to be this way? 

[00:05:18 ] Supna Doshi: And I feel like to a degree, like as communities, I have this sense that we used to do that before with each other.

[00:05:28 ] Supna Doshi: Yeah. I have this sense [00:05:30 ] that our community. Was where we turned to when we forgot and they were there to remind us. And I feel, personally, I feel completely isolated and don't, besides my therapist on speed dial, those are the people that I go to be reminded now. And so it just made me think like the more we can have these.[00:06:00 ] 

[00:06:00 ] Supna Doshi: Conversations with each other on an, normalizing these conversations with each othe