THE REALITY OF PRAYER AND OF THE SPIRIT

The Eyres begin this episode by reflecting on their history with Hawaii and the role the islands have played in their family life. Then they turn to the month's theme of How To Live the Second Half of Life Spiritually and focus on their grandson's accident that occurred this week and what it taught them about prayer and spiritual answers. For more detail see Instagram @HTLsecondhalf.

The Eyres are back in their Maui retreat and casting today on the continuation of the January theme of How to Live the Second Half SPIRITUALLY. They suggest that, while people call it many things, most believe is something higher and greater; and that our own spirits, which are more eternal than brain and body, can connect with that vaster Spirit, and they use two poems to illustrate their point.

Within their January focus on How to Live the Second Half Spiritually, the Eyres overview a thought-and-prayer sequence that creates a spiritual paradigm for the day ahead: Relaxed, Remembr, Rethink, Release, Request, Receive, Respond, Rejoice... taking some spelling liberties to create the pattern formed by eight seven-letter words that all start with RE.

Happy New Year 2026! Today the Eyres cast from central Mexico where they are staying with about half of their large family in a historic Hacienda that is conducive to deep conversation and the sharing of New Year's Resolutions or dreams. It is also the beginning of a January focus on a kind of spiritual second-half thinking that Richard and Linda are practicing and teaching.

Reflecting on the Christmas Day just passed, what was the deepest thing you felt? In this week following Christmas, the Eyres talk about tne momentum of Jesus' birthday becoming the catalyst for looking deeply into the coming year. Whatever your religion or lack thereof, all have felt connections to the universe, to the divine, and thinking about those, and how to expand them, can be the key to 2026.

Do you like to be alone with yourself? Are you ever alone with yourself (without your phone)? Do you genuinely like yourself during those alone moments? Enough to crave more of them? How is the best way to feel that secure, inner connection with yourself? Can you, even in this busiest week of the year, pause for a moment, observe, slow time down, feel who you are?

The Eyres are casting from Phoenix today where they are spending time with their daughter Shawni and son Josh, and where Richard is playing in a national tennis tournament. They start by saying that Social second-half thinking is all about relationships that matter and that need thought and work to be preserved and improved. They then share some ideas for doing just that.

In the Autumn of our lives, it's not about how to win friends and influence people or about how many contacts we have or how many friends on social media -- it's about the quality of the relationships that matters most. The Eyres talk today about the most important relationships with family and how to gather, how to set relationship goals, and how to have 5-facet reviews.

The Eyre's having been vacationing in Morocco for the holiday season, so we are revisiting their thoughts from November 2023 on Thanksgiving and Christmas! "This episode (despite the fact that Richard has almost lost his voice from the Thanksgiving revelry) is about Thanksgiving and Christmas family traditions and how these rituals are more than fun little habits--they are the glue that holds families together, and observing them and making a big deal of them is important. And its not a bad idea to modify and create new traditions that teach the values we want our kids to have."

In this episode, Richard and Linda suggest that becoming deliberately and intentionally more thankful (the opposite of "taking for granted") is more than a path to happiness, it IS happiness in its most obtainable form. They share their own history of gratitude journals and thanks-giving traditions and challenge us (and themselves) to center our Thanksgiving holiday around a lasting gratitude list.