82: Awakening to A New Earth Exploring Ego, Consciousness, and Collective Transformation

In this transformative episode of the Mind Body Detox Podcast, Kara Lovehart, Mind-Body Psychic Medium, and Executive Intuitive Coach, teams up with “Preacher of Presence” Matt Suter to explore Eckhart Tolle's profound book, A New Earth. Together, they dive into Tolle’s insights on ego, consciousness, and awakening, examining how these teachings resonate with today’s global challenges and offer a roadmap to a more connected, mindful life.

Episode Highlights:

• The Power of the Present Moment – How living fully in the now can free us from past and future anxieties.
• Understanding Ego and Consciousness – Recognizing and transcending the ego’s grip on our identity.
• Awakening of a New Consciousness – Exploring humanity’s collective shift toward empathy, compassion, and presence.
• Letting Go of Attachment – Practical tips for practicing non-attachment in a validation-seeking world.
• Earth as a Living Entity – Viewing Earth as a conscious being and our role in environmental stewardship.
• Balancing Inner and Outer Reality – How aligning inner peace and awareness transforms our outer experience.

Listener Q&A: Kara and Matt also answer popular listener questions, including:

• What does “awakening” look like in everyday life?
• How can humor be a tool for presence?
• Has the pandemic heightened distractions or awakened us to the present moment?
• How can we use pain and suffering as a path to growth?
• What could a fully awakened world look like in 50 years?

Featuring popular quotes from A New Earth and science-backed insights on mindfulness, this episode is ideal for anyone seeking deeper presence, inner peace, and personal growth. Tune in to begin your journey of awakening with Kara and Matt as your guides!

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Transcript

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 This is the MindBodyDetox podcast,
 
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 where we discuss all things
 
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 integrative health and wellness,
 
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 interviewing folks from all
 
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 over the world,
 
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 sharing insights and wisdom
 
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 for how to live a healthier life in mind,
 
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 body, and spirit.
 
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 Welcome back, everyone,
 
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 to the MindBodyDetox podcast.
 
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 I'm your host, MindBodyMedium,
 
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 Kara Lovehart.
 
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 And today's topic,
 
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 we're going to be diving
 
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 into consciousness.
 
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 We're talking about the ego.
 
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 And we're bringing on my
 
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 partner and preacher of presence,
 
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 Matt Suter.
 
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 And we're discussing
 
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 specifically the topic of
 
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 consciousness and the ego
 
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 around the book by Eckhart Tolle,
 
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 A New Earth.
 
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 So A New Earth is our book
 
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 for November's book club.
 
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 It is awakening to your life's purpose.
 
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 This is the first Eckhart
 
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 Tolle book I ever purchased.
 
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 And I bought it around two
 
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 thousand six when he
 
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 actually probably two
 
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 thousand eight because it
 
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 has Oprah Winfrey's book
 
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 club sticker on it.
 
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 This was published in two thousand six.
 
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 Eckhart Tolle did not become
 
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 famous until two thousand
 
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 eight when she chose his
 
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 book for her book club.
 
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 so if you are not aware of
 
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 who akartole is he had a
 
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 spiritual awakening when he
 
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 was twenty nine he suffered
 
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 from immense depression and
 
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 he started to recognize the
 
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 difference between his mind
 
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 and a deeper sense of
 
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 awareness and this is the
 
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 essence that I talk about
 
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 in my my program and my
 
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 classes the divine us if
 
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 you want to speak uh the
 
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 the thing that is greater than the ego
 
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 And this is really what,
 
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 when people say they have a
 
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 spiritual awakening,
 
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 a lot of them discuss or a
 
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 lot of people who say they
 
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 have a spiritual awakening
 
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 start to have this deeper
 
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 sense of who they are and a
 
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 deeper meaning that comes out from that.
 
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 The book in general,
 
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 if you have not read it,
 
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 it does talk about the
 
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 power of the present moment.
 
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 The Power of Now is Eckhart
 
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 Tolle's other book that is
 
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 a more popular book.
 
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 And he does talk about ego.
 
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 He talks about the evolution
 
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 of consciousness
 
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 And that's specifically what
 
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 I'm curious about as we
 
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 evolve as a species,
 
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 how our consciousness has traversed.
 
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 And especially over COVID,
 
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 we have a lot of people
 
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 who've had their own personal awakenings.
 
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 In the book,
 
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 we also hear a lot of letting go.
 
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 How do we let go of attachment?
 
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 and the concept of inner
 
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 versus outer reality.
 
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 So what is an illusion based
 
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 on the stories we tell
 
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 ourselves or what we think
 
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 about because our
 
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 programming or what we've been told.
 
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 So there's a lot of these
 
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 concepts that are discussed
 
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 in the book and Earth as a
 
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 living entity herself.
 
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 So that's a really cool
 
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 thing that is talked about in the book.
 
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 But today we're going to bring on Matt,
 
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 my partner.
 
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 And we're going to talk about the book,
 
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 A New Earth,
 
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 and our own experiences with
 
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 consciousness,
 
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 evolving our own consciousness,
 
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 and some specific questions
 
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 that people often ask
 
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 around the book and this topic.
 
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 So Matt is an astrologer.
 
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 He is an intuitive coach.
 
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 And he is a minister.
 
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 And he is someone that is a
 
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 student of Eckhart Tolle
 
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 and a preacher of presence,
 
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 as I call him.
 
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 So let's bring Matt on and
 
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 let's chat about A New Earth.
 
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 Hi, Matt.
 
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 Hi there.
 
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 Are you ready to talk about A New Earth?
 
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 Absolutely.
 
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 So first off, my question to you is,
 
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 did you read this book
 
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 after you read The Power of Now?
 
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 I did.
 
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 Yes.
 
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 The Power of Now was the
 
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 first book by Eckhart Tolle
 
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 that I ever read.
 
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 But yes,
 
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 A New Earth was the second one
 
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 that I read.
 
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 Okay, cool.
 
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 So one of the things that I
 
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 will have to say to be honest,
 
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 it's almost like what's
 
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 interesting about this book
 
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 and a lot of Eckhart
 
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 Tolle's books is you don't,
 
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 not everyone resonates with them.
 
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 They might pick it up and go, okay,
 
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 this is such a, everyone loves this book.
 
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 Everyone says I should read
 
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 it and I pick it up and
 
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 it's a snoozer or I can't
 
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 get through it or I'm not
 
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 interested in it at all.
 
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 And I hear that all the time.
 
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 And I feel that when I picked up
 
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 The Power of Now,
 
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 I felt the same way about that book.
 
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 Like I really didn't have
 
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 any interest in it.
 
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 And I'm actually opening the
 
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 book right now because
 
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 there's something that was
 
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 really interesting
 
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 to me that I wanna start
 
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 with and open with about
 
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 this information.
 
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 And it makes sense to me now
 
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 as to why I was not interested in this.
 
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 So if you out there,
 
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 you picked up the book or
 
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 any of Eckhart Tolle's book,
 
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 or you listen to him and you're just like,
 
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 I just can't get into this guy.
 
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 It's a very interesting concept.
 
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 I'm gonna share this right now.
 
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 This is page six.
 
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 This book's main purpose is
 
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 not to add new information
 
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 or beliefs to your mind or
 
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 try to convince you of anything.
 
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 but to bring about a shift
 
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 in consciousness that is to say,
 
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 to awaken.
 
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 So most of the time we're
 
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 used to consuming media,
 
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 maybe even this podcast, books, TV shows,
 
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 to get more mental information, concepts,
 
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 stories,
 
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 things that we want to maybe
 
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 apply and start believing in.
 
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 But the concept of his teachings,
 
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 is not to bring in any new
 
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 beliefs or add new information,
 
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 but to help you awaken from the stories,
 
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 from the constructs of the
 
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 identity of who you think you are,
 
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 which is based on all these
 
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 stories you've collected
 
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 since you were a child,
 
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 since you were born,
 
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 to awaken you from and above that.
 
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 So you can almost...
 
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 evolve or transcend above and beyond that.
 
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 So what do you think about that?
 
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 It's perfectly embodied, in my opinion,
 
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 in some of the Zen sermons
 
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 that the Zen masters used to give,
 
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 where they would simply
 
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 raise a finger to answer a question,
 
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 and everyone would wait
 
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 with bated breath for the
 
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 enlightening answer to come through.
 
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 But
 
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 it was about the silence,
 
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 it was about the stillness,
 
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 it was about understanding
 
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 that everything was already
 
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 here that you needed,
 
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 all the answers had already been given,
 
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 that the only thing that
 
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 was out of harmony with now
 
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 was the story you were
 
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 telling yourself about how
 
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 now was supposed to look.
 
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 And so indeed, Eckhart's books,
 
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 will give you plenty of examples.
 
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 You'll get a lot of
 
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 perspectives and stories,
 
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 and he even pulls from
 
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 familiar theologies of
 
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 Christianity and Buddhism
 
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 and some other folk tales
 
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 of things to illustrate the same concept,
 
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 the idea that by adding information,
 
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 We're only feeding into the
 
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 part of ourselves or what
 
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 we've identified as
 
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 ourselves that we are
 
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 trying to overcome through this process,
 
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 that we're trying to disidentify by,
 
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 that we can be conscious of
 
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 without it becoming a part of who we are.
 
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 So it makes sense, though,
 
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 why if you have a very active identity,
 
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 lots of inner chatter,
 
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 lots of inner dialogue, you go, go, go,
 
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 you're fast paced and you
 
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 don't have your ego and
 
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 identity hasn't been shaken up enough,
 
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 meaning you've had a huge life change.
 
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 You've lost a job.
 
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 You've lost something that
 
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 you've held on to as a
 
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 sense of who you think you are.
 
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 And the rug has been pulled
 
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 out from underneath of you, so to speak.
 
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 If you haven't had that
 
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 experience where there's
 
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 enough of a window or maybe
 
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 a door cracked open to have
 
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 this sense of the awareness
 
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 that's beyond your story.
 
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 Oh,
 
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 just the person that observes without I
 
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 am this old.
 
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 This is my job.
 
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 This is my husband or wife.
 
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 I don't think unless you
 
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 have those experiences,
 
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 that there may be a
 
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 computing what the heck this is.
 
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 The ego and the story is
 
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 just gonna be like, okay, whatever.
 
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 So- Because the moment now
 
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 threatens the ego.
 
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 The ego can't exist in this moment.
 
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 It's essentially like us
 
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 trying to go underwater.
 
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 Like we can be there for a moment,
 
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 but we have to do it with
 
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 an awareness that we need
 
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 to get back up to the surface,
 
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 that we need to get back to
 
 00:08:02.310 --> 00:08:03.992
 the thing that we were in before.
 
 00:08:04.331 --> 00:08:07.415
 The ego can only exist in those stories.
 
 00:08:07.454 --> 00:08:09.817
 So when we bring our awareness to now,
 
 00:08:10.156 --> 00:08:12.259
 there's no information to
 
 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:14.980
 chew on unless we add something to now.
 
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 And for us to say, well,
 
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 I think this is good or I
 
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 think this is bad if we're
 
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 going to add a judgment or, oh, yes,
 
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 I've experienced this before.
 
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 I was with my uncle when I
 
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 did this and that and the other.
 
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 Then all of a sudden we've
 
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 added this life story to it.
 
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 Essentially,
 
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 we're trying to take this and
 
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 personalize it.
 
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 Oh, yes, I know about this.
 
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 Yes, I have experienced it.
 
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 Or this is new to me,
 
 00:08:35.155 --> 00:08:36.336
 or this is scary to me,
 
 00:08:36.397 --> 00:08:37.798
 or this is whatever we do.
 
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 We put the sense of self
 
 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:40.779
 into the whole thing.
 
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 And again, to borrow a Buddhist phrase,
 
 00:08:42.581 --> 00:08:43.601
 no self, no problem.
 
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 And so if we can disidentify
 
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 from those stories,
 
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 then all of a sudden it's
 
 00:08:48.505 --> 00:08:50.366
 not about entertaining ourselves anymore.
 
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 but experiencing what's
 
 00:08:52.650 --> 00:08:54.273
 going on rather than
 
 00:08:54.413 --> 00:08:57.658
 needing more to engage with
 
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 some sense of this hunger
 
 00:09:00.243 --> 00:09:00.943
 essentially within
 
 00:09:00.984 --> 00:09:02.206
 ourselves that our ego has.
 
 00:09:03.788 --> 00:09:04.028
 Well,
 
 00:09:04.269 --> 00:09:06.230
 my ego just went on a weird tangent
 
 00:09:06.331 --> 00:09:07.932
 in my head while you were talking.
 
 00:09:09.293 --> 00:09:11.294
 I was looking at the bookshelf behind you,
 
 00:09:11.495 --> 00:09:12.535
 and I know that's actually
 
 00:09:12.596 --> 00:09:13.456
 not a real bookshelf.
 
 00:09:13.476 --> 00:09:14.878
 You have a green screen behind you.
 
 00:09:14.898 --> 00:09:15.378
 I do.
 
 00:09:15.398 --> 00:09:16.519
 And then I was thinking to myself,
 
 00:09:16.578 --> 00:09:17.960
 is this your real bookshelf
 
 00:09:17.980 --> 00:09:19.221
 that you have upstairs?
 
 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:19.280
 No.
 
 00:09:19.961 --> 00:09:20.741
 Oh, my gosh.
 
 00:09:20.761 --> 00:09:21.403
 Because I was like,
 
 00:09:21.442 --> 00:09:22.803
 some of these books I think you have.
 
 00:09:22.823 --> 00:09:22.943
 Maybe.
 
 00:09:23.043 --> 00:09:23.144
 Maybe.
 
 00:09:24.884 --> 00:09:26.267
 So that's what the ego wants to do.
 
 00:09:26.307 --> 00:09:27.587
 If it's bored with something
 
 00:09:27.888 --> 00:09:28.928
 or something you're telling.
 
 00:09:29.028 --> 00:09:30.009
 And I don't think I was
 
 00:09:30.029 --> 00:09:30.831
 necessarily bored with what
 
 00:09:30.870 --> 00:09:31.571
 you're saying.
 
 00:09:32.011 --> 00:09:32.812
 I actually was just
 
 00:09:32.851 --> 00:09:34.072
 distracted by there's
 
 00:09:34.134 --> 00:09:35.193
 information back there.
 
 00:09:35.214 --> 00:09:35.754
 What is going on?
 
 00:09:35.774 --> 00:09:37.296
 You slipped into unconsciousness.
 
 00:09:37.316 --> 00:09:37.515
 Yes,
 
 00:09:37.557 --> 00:09:38.998
 you slipped in because conscious
 
 00:09:39.057 --> 00:09:40.219
 awareness would be present
 
 00:09:40.239 --> 00:09:41.059
 with what's going on.
 
 00:09:41.100 --> 00:09:42.640
 But the unconscious mind says,
 
 00:09:42.900 --> 00:09:44.001
 what do those books say?
 
 00:09:44.042 --> 00:09:45.243
 Have I read that book before?
 
 00:09:45.283 --> 00:09:46.063
 Has he read that book?
 
 00:09:46.203 --> 00:09:46.565
 before?
 
 00:09:46.865 --> 00:09:48.166
 Is that even his bookshelf?
 
 00:09:48.486 --> 00:09:50.048
 I think that's completely fake.
 
 00:09:50.089 --> 00:09:51.110
 That's not even real.
 
 00:09:52.191 --> 00:09:53.312
 And I know that now.
 
 00:09:53.432 --> 00:09:54.934
 And that makes me better
 
 00:09:54.975 --> 00:09:56.255
 than the situation because
 
 00:09:56.475 --> 00:09:57.076
 I'm in the right.
 
 00:09:57.116 --> 00:09:58.739
 Now that I know what's actually going on,
 
 00:09:59.139 --> 00:10:00.181
 I'm not silly enough to
 
 00:10:00.221 --> 00:10:01.381
 believe that sort of thing.
 
 00:10:01.481 --> 00:10:02.823
 I'm not gullible.
 
 00:10:03.024 --> 00:10:05.086
 The ego wants to personalize the story.
 
 00:10:05.884 --> 00:10:11.452
 Well, so one thing, too, about the book,
 
 00:10:11.913 --> 00:10:12.914
 if you are someone that
 
 00:10:12.955 --> 00:10:13.836
 couldn't read it or you put
 
 00:10:13.875 --> 00:10:15.258
 it down and you're hearing us say, well,
 
 00:10:15.278 --> 00:10:16.320
 you're not going to get it.
 
 00:10:16.740 --> 00:10:18.022
 If you're hearing us say
 
 00:10:18.263 --> 00:10:19.043
 you're not going to get it
 
 00:10:19.063 --> 00:10:20.304
 if your ego is in the driver's seat.
 
 00:10:20.325 --> 00:10:21.726
 Yeah, no, you will get it.
 
 00:10:22.908 --> 00:10:24.669
 But I can hear it now.
 
 00:10:25.289 --> 00:10:26.250
 I can hear it now.
 
 00:10:26.571 --> 00:10:27.591
 Someone's identity saying,
 
 00:10:27.951 --> 00:10:28.932
 what do you mean I'm not
 
 00:10:28.972 --> 00:10:29.732
 awakened enough to
 
 00:10:29.852 --> 00:10:31.533
 understand this information?
 
 00:10:31.855 --> 00:10:34.355
 Like, can you even, that voice,
 
 00:10:34.395 --> 00:10:36.477
 that thought is the actual
 
 00:10:36.577 --> 00:10:37.818
 identity that's keeping you
 
 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:39.158
 away from your true essence
 
 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:39.539
 of who you are.
 
 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:41.820
 And more importantly,
 
 00:10:41.899 --> 00:10:43.620
 your true essence is the
 
 00:10:43.681 --> 00:10:45.041
 thing recognizing it.
 
 00:10:45.461 --> 00:10:48.381
 So give yourself that space to say,
 
 00:10:48.721 --> 00:10:50.022
 here comes that voice again.
 
 00:10:50.142 --> 00:10:51.402
 It's telling me this story
 
 00:10:51.442 --> 00:10:52.902
 because what you're doing
 
 00:10:53.001 --> 00:10:53.783
 is the same thing that
 
 00:10:53.863 --> 00:10:55.062
 Eckhart did when he had
 
 00:10:55.102 --> 00:10:56.562
 this whole awakening where
 
 00:10:56.702 --> 00:10:58.623
 he was so depressed,
 
 00:10:58.643 --> 00:10:59.823
 he was feeling suicidal.
 
 00:11:00.183 --> 00:11:00.943
 And he said,
 
 00:11:01.583 --> 00:11:03.703
 I can't live with myself anymore.
 
 00:11:04.203 --> 00:11:06.485
 And for whatever reason, that phrasing is,
 
 00:11:07.205 --> 00:11:09.365
 queued up the question in his mind, well,
 
 00:11:09.405 --> 00:11:11.187
 who is the me that can't
 
 00:11:11.227 --> 00:11:12.207
 live with myself?
 
 00:11:12.248 --> 00:11:13.308
 That means there must be two
 
 00:11:13.349 --> 00:11:14.068
 versions of me.
 
 00:11:14.370 --> 00:11:15.529
 And that was essentially the
 
 00:11:15.669 --> 00:11:16.770
 disidentification.
 
 00:11:16.971 --> 00:11:18.511
 It only happened momentarily.
 
 00:11:18.552 --> 00:11:20.173
 And he talks about how it's not,
 
 00:11:20.232 --> 00:11:21.433
 it was a gradual process
 
 00:11:21.494 --> 00:11:22.794
 and he still slipped back
 
 00:11:22.815 --> 00:11:25.076
 and forth through the time after that,
 
 00:11:25.115 --> 00:11:25.697
 following that.
 
 00:11:26.157 --> 00:11:27.477
 And so when we
 
 00:11:28.118 --> 00:11:30.158
 Step into these spaces where
 
 00:11:30.219 --> 00:11:32.360
 we can identify the thought
 
 00:11:32.379 --> 00:11:33.721
 pattern that's coming in.
 
 00:11:34.442 --> 00:11:36.263
 At that moment, we are conscious.
 
 00:11:36.702 --> 00:11:37.802
 This thought is coming in.
 
 00:11:37.984 --> 00:11:39.464
 This feeling is coming in.
 
 00:11:39.764 --> 00:11:42.605
 This old pattern is coming up again in me.
 
 00:11:42.966 --> 00:11:44.667
 And see how long you can
 
 00:11:44.746 --> 00:11:47.328
 remain conscious of the pattern,
 
 00:11:47.649 --> 00:11:48.308
 of the thought,
 
 00:11:48.589 --> 00:11:50.490
 of the situation without
 
 00:11:50.610 --> 00:11:52.711
 assuming that it's the same
 
 00:11:52.792 --> 00:11:54.111
 situation as before,
 
 00:11:54.192 --> 00:11:55.413
 the same thought as before,
 
 00:11:55.452 --> 00:11:56.754
 the same feeling as before.
 
 00:11:57.107 --> 00:12:00.408
 You know, we have a habit of saying, oh,
 
 00:12:00.428 --> 00:12:01.909
 I'm feeling sad or I'm
 
 00:12:01.970 --> 00:12:03.590
 feeling happy or we label
 
 00:12:03.610 --> 00:12:05.171
 things with these simple emotions.
 
 00:12:05.431 --> 00:12:06.371
 But ultimately,
 
 00:12:06.412 --> 00:12:07.912
 there's so much complexity
 
 00:12:07.951 --> 00:12:09.072
 that's happening behind the
 
 00:12:09.113 --> 00:12:11.413
 scenes that's evoking that emotion in us.
 
 00:12:11.513 --> 00:12:13.573
 And so when we try to put it into that box,
 
 00:12:13.913 --> 00:12:15.355
 ultimately, we're saying this is mine.
 
 00:12:15.434 --> 00:12:17.515
 I own this and I understand what this is.
 
 00:12:17.816 --> 00:12:19.375
 But if we are open and
 
 00:12:19.416 --> 00:12:21.817
 saying there is sadness in me,
 
 00:12:22.157 --> 00:12:23.238
 there is happiness in me.
 
 00:12:23.697 --> 00:12:25.659
 we are acknowledging that we
 
 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:28.942
 are the container, the vaster openness,
 
 00:12:28.984 --> 00:12:30.705
 the sky in which those
 
 00:12:30.764 --> 00:12:32.267
 clouds pass through,
 
 00:12:32.366 --> 00:12:33.969
 rather than identifying by
 
 00:12:34.009 --> 00:12:35.971
 the cloud and saying, this is me,
 
 00:12:36.030 --> 00:12:37.052
 this is my story.
 
 00:12:38.173 --> 00:12:38.394
 Okay.
 
 00:12:38.433 --> 00:12:39.855
 So let's define the ego,
 
 00:12:39.894 --> 00:12:40.855
 but wait one second.
 
 00:12:40.914 --> 00:12:42.735
 We're going to talk about what the ego is.
 
 00:12:43.216 --> 00:12:44.297
 And trust me guys,
 
 00:12:44.317 --> 00:12:45.538
 the ego is not the enemy.
 
 00:12:45.837 --> 00:12:46.118
 Okay.
 
 00:12:46.337 --> 00:12:48.019
 That is one thing that everyone's like,
 
 00:12:48.099 --> 00:12:48.198
 well,
 
 00:12:48.219 --> 00:12:50.100
 I got to get rid of my ego and now
 
 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:51.440
 I'm going to have no personality.
 
 00:12:51.500 --> 00:12:52.841
 And so like, just,
 
 00:12:52.961 --> 00:12:54.142
 just don't even go there.
 
 00:12:54.261 --> 00:12:55.322
 Don't even go there with your head.
 
 00:12:55.361 --> 00:12:57.202
 It's not about getting rid of it.
 
 00:12:57.523 --> 00:12:58.864
 All of Eckhart's teachers aren't about,
 
 00:12:58.884 --> 00:13:00.225
 we need to beat the ego.
 
 00:13:00.585 --> 00:13:01.804
 That is another story,
 
 00:13:02.125 --> 00:13:02.846
 but we're going to first
 
 00:13:02.865 --> 00:13:04.386
 talk about Eckhart's
 
 00:13:04.466 --> 00:13:06.727
 definition of collective insanity.
 
 00:13:06.888 --> 00:13:07.087
 Okay.
 
 00:13:07.148 --> 00:13:09.168
 OK, I really loved this,
 
 00:13:09.969 --> 00:13:11.168
 especially when he was reading it.
 
 00:13:11.208 --> 00:13:11.850
 I was in the shower.
 
 00:13:11.889 --> 00:13:12.789
 I was like laughing
 
 00:13:12.830 --> 00:13:13.950
 hysterically because this
 
 00:13:14.010 --> 00:13:16.191
 is exactly a really good
 
 00:13:16.230 --> 00:13:17.851
 illustration of what it is.
 
 00:13:17.892 --> 00:13:19.152
 So he talks about collective
 
 00:13:19.172 --> 00:13:20.552
 insanity is really just
 
 00:13:20.852 --> 00:13:21.592
 when we have all these
 
 00:13:21.613 --> 00:13:23.573
 stories running the show, you know,
 
 00:13:23.594 --> 00:13:24.894
 the decisions that are made
 
 00:13:24.933 --> 00:13:26.475
 to kind of protect
 
 00:13:26.534 --> 00:13:27.836
 ourselves or our sense of
 
 00:13:27.895 --> 00:13:29.696
 identity and how the wars
 
 00:13:29.735 --> 00:13:30.616
 and the things that we the
 
 00:13:30.657 --> 00:13:31.317
 things that we do.
 
 00:13:32.076 --> 00:13:33.437
 individually in our lives to
 
 00:13:33.477 --> 00:13:35.559
 people around us, unconsciously,
 
 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:37.681
 and sometimes maybe consciously, right?
 
 00:13:38.522 --> 00:13:39.842
 But it's all still trying to
 
 00:13:39.923 --> 00:13:42.664
 preserve us and our ego.
 
 00:13:42.945 --> 00:13:43.985
 But this also happens
 
 00:13:44.025 --> 00:13:45.187
 collectively with wars and
 
 00:13:45.206 --> 00:13:45.787
 things like that.
 
 00:13:45.886 --> 00:13:48.089
 So I'm going to read what he said here.
 
 00:13:49.048 --> 00:13:50.610
 If the history of humanity
 
 00:13:51.311 --> 00:13:52.892
 were the clinical case
 
 00:13:52.932 --> 00:13:56.794
 history of a single human being,
 
 00:13:56.815 --> 00:13:59.076
 the diagnosis would have to be
 
 00:14:00.418 --> 00:14:05.140
 chronic paranoid delusions a
 
 00:14:05.201 --> 00:14:08.202
 pathological propensity to
 
 00:14:08.222 --> 00:14:09.803
 commit murder and acts of
 
 00:14:09.844 --> 00:14:11.544
 extreme violence and
 
 00:14:11.585 --> 00:14:12.725
 cruelty against his
 
 00:14:12.785 --> 00:14:14.647
 perceived quote-unquote
 
 00:14:14.966 --> 00:14:16.928
 enemies his own
 
 00:14:17.009 --> 00:14:18.769
 unconsciousness projected
 
 00:14:18.990 --> 00:14:21.351
 outward criminally insane
 
 00:14:21.731 --> 00:14:24.433
 with a few brief lucid intervals
 
 00:14:25.259 --> 00:14:26.660
 So let's just talk about
 
 00:14:26.721 --> 00:14:27.542
 that because people might
 
 00:14:27.562 --> 00:14:28.322
 be like thinking,
 
 00:14:29.062 --> 00:14:30.904
 I'm not paranoid delusional.
 
 00:14:31.245 --> 00:14:32.147
 I'm not a pathological,
 
 00:14:32.167 --> 00:14:33.028
 I don't have a pathological
 
 00:14:33.467 --> 00:14:34.809
 propensity to commit murder
 
 00:14:35.169 --> 00:14:36.611
 and acts of extreme violence.
 
 00:14:37.052 --> 00:14:37.852
 What are they talking about?
 
 00:14:37.893 --> 00:14:40.014
 I don't relate to that.
 
 00:14:40.054 --> 00:14:41.897
 So go ahead.
 
 00:14:41.917 --> 00:14:43.298
 So the idea of,
 
 00:14:45.028 --> 00:14:46.250
 Eckhart normally will
 
 00:14:46.890 --> 00:14:48.072
 reference this equation,
 
 00:14:48.331 --> 00:14:49.673
 normal equals insane.
 
 00:14:49.953 --> 00:14:51.134
 And he says that because
 
 00:14:51.335 --> 00:14:53.356
 ultimately what we dictate
 
 00:14:53.477 --> 00:14:55.879
 as normal is the result of
 
 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:57.421
 a collective ego,
 
 00:14:57.701 --> 00:14:59.683
 of a collective illusion
 
 00:14:59.943 --> 00:15:01.826
 that we're saying that ultimately,
 
 00:15:02.066 --> 00:15:04.568
 if you approach someone else, anyone else,
 
 00:15:05.149 --> 00:15:06.250
 and when you meet them,
 
 00:15:08.003 --> 00:15:09.484
 the story about them
 
 00:15:09.644 --> 00:15:12.405
 precedes what's going on with them now,
 
 00:15:12.986 --> 00:15:14.467
 then you've bought into
 
 00:15:14.508 --> 00:15:16.129
 that collective insanity.
 
 00:15:16.349 --> 00:15:18.931
 So if you look into the
 
 00:15:18.951 --> 00:15:21.953
 world at anyone and by someone,
 
 00:15:22.153 --> 00:15:23.033
 the way that they dress,
 
 00:15:23.595 --> 00:15:25.135
 any of the visual cues that
 
 00:15:25.176 --> 00:15:27.677
 we normally depend upon as human animals,
 
 00:15:28.458 --> 00:15:29.799
 if that is our
 
 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:33.039
 point of identification with
 
 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:34.320
 someone else we've bought
 
 00:15:34.419 --> 00:15:35.900
 into that collective insanity.
 
 00:15:35.941 --> 00:15:37.061
 The thing that says you need
 
 00:15:37.081 --> 00:15:37.942
 to watch out for these
 
 00:15:38.001 --> 00:15:39.481
 people because they do this.
 
 00:15:40.123 --> 00:15:41.423
 But whenever they do that,
 
 00:15:41.442 --> 00:15:43.104
 that labeling ultimately
 
 00:15:43.163 --> 00:15:44.403
 negates everything else
 
 00:15:44.423 --> 00:15:46.884
 that they do and only
 
 00:15:46.924 --> 00:15:48.086
 focuses on the thing that
 
 00:15:48.125 --> 00:15:49.086
 is a perceived threat.
 
 00:15:49.706 --> 00:15:51.407
 So I would venture to say
 
 00:15:51.447 --> 00:15:53.888
 that we can only experience
 
 00:15:53.927 --> 00:15:55.729
 that in unconsciousness.
 
 00:15:56.129 --> 00:15:57.470
 Because when we are conscious,
 
 00:15:57.570 --> 00:16:00.251
 we understand the interconnectedness,
 
 00:16:00.552 --> 00:16:03.153
 if not the unification of all things.
 
 00:16:03.614 --> 00:16:04.375
 And therefore,
 
 00:16:04.735 --> 00:16:06.355
 a wrong perpetuated upon you
 
 00:16:06.416 --> 00:16:08.057
 is a wrong perpetuated upon me.
 
 00:16:08.337 --> 00:16:10.239
 But as a collective identity,
 
 00:16:10.418 --> 00:16:11.779
 we are looking for a tribe.
 
 00:16:11.820 --> 00:16:13.461
 We're looking for the bigger group,
 
 00:16:13.500 --> 00:16:15.863
 the people that are going to say, yes,
 
 00:16:15.923 --> 00:16:17.004
 you're right because you
 
 00:16:17.024 --> 00:16:18.144
 believe what I believe.
 
 00:16:18.445 --> 00:16:21.366
 That's the normal equals insane.
 
 00:16:22.644 --> 00:16:24.025
 So we'll talk about my
 
 00:16:24.046 --> 00:16:25.287
 insanity the other day.
 
 00:16:26.268 --> 00:16:27.908
 I was at the mall and
 
 00:16:27.969 --> 00:16:29.571
 normally when I'm in my
 
 00:16:29.750 --> 00:16:31.552
 kind of expanded state of awareness,
 
 00:16:31.792 --> 00:16:33.193
 I see people as an energy.
 
 00:16:33.714 --> 00:16:34.674
 I see them as different
 
 00:16:34.715 --> 00:16:35.796
 colors and everyone has
 
 00:16:35.816 --> 00:16:37.537
 different flavors and it's just, you know,
 
 00:16:37.716 --> 00:16:38.658
 that's how it is, it's beautiful.
 
 00:16:39.278 --> 00:16:40.578
 But when I'm retracted,
 
 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:42.861
 when I'm in a space of more
 
 00:16:42.922 --> 00:16:44.823
 stress or my heightened stress response,
 
 00:16:45.344 --> 00:16:47.706
 that's when my animal brain
 
 00:16:47.785 --> 00:16:50.509
 will start to kick in and the collective,
 
 00:16:51.110 --> 00:16:52.171
 the unconscious starts to
 
 00:16:52.191 --> 00:16:53.351
 step into the driver's seat.
 
 00:16:53.831 --> 00:16:55.594
 And the collective ego and
 
 00:16:55.634 --> 00:16:56.575
 the stereotypes and the
 
 00:16:56.595 --> 00:16:57.956
 things the collective believes,
 
 00:16:58.277 --> 00:16:59.677
 that's when I start to slip into them.
 
 00:16:59.957 --> 00:17:01.259
 And there was a family at the mall
 
 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:02.941
 And for some reason I was
 
 00:17:02.961 --> 00:17:03.801
 looking over in the food
 
 00:17:03.860 --> 00:17:06.663
 court at this family and it was a woman,
 
 00:17:06.742 --> 00:17:07.624
 she was pregnant and her
 
 00:17:07.663 --> 00:17:08.923
 two children walking with
 
 00:17:08.964 --> 00:17:09.964
 her and the husband.
 
 00:17:10.384 --> 00:17:11.586
 And something about the husband,
 
 00:17:11.605 --> 00:17:12.646
 the way he was dressed,
 
 00:17:13.007 --> 00:17:13.807
 the way he was carrying
 
 00:17:13.827 --> 00:17:15.348
 himself and this type of
 
 00:17:15.388 --> 00:17:16.288
 clothing he was wearing,
 
 00:17:16.308 --> 00:17:18.349
 the brand of clothing he was wearing,
 
 00:17:18.671 --> 00:17:21.071
 my unconscious immediately
 
 00:17:21.551 --> 00:17:22.752
 started to retract my body
 
 00:17:22.772 --> 00:17:24.013
 and I didn't feel safe.
 
 00:17:24.213 --> 00:17:24.574
 And I was like,
 
 00:17:24.693 --> 00:17:25.535
 I don't know about that
 
 00:17:25.615 --> 00:17:26.496
 person over there.
 
 00:17:27.355 --> 00:17:28.856
 But then I recognize that I
 
 00:17:28.876 --> 00:17:31.337
 was being unconscious and I go, oh,
 
 00:17:31.397 --> 00:17:32.679
 it's just because I saw
 
 00:17:32.739 --> 00:17:34.180
 these movies that said the
 
 00:17:34.220 --> 00:17:35.340
 character that looks like
 
 00:17:35.381 --> 00:17:36.821
 this and has this type of
 
 00:17:36.862 --> 00:17:38.323
 clothing and brand and also
 
 00:17:38.343 --> 00:17:39.423
 how they're carrying themselves.
 
 00:17:39.702 --> 00:17:41.423
 Now, to be fair,
 
 00:17:41.805 --> 00:17:43.486
 there are actual truths to
 
 00:17:43.526 --> 00:17:45.487
 stereotypes in a lot of ways.
 
 00:17:46.086 --> 00:17:47.388
 In a lot of ways, he's not like,
 
 00:17:47.429 --> 00:17:48.108
 don't listen to your
 
 00:17:48.170 --> 00:17:49.671
 intuition about something,
 
 00:17:50.071 --> 00:17:51.093
 but it's just becoming
 
 00:17:51.153 --> 00:17:52.394
 aware in that moment.
 
 00:17:52.835 --> 00:17:53.996
 Is this actually true?
 
 00:17:54.135 --> 00:17:56.558
 Is my feeling body, my felt sense,
 
 00:17:56.659 --> 00:17:58.221
 my internal intuition
 
 00:17:58.340 --> 00:18:00.083
 really feeling this person
 
 00:18:00.103 --> 00:18:00.983
 isn't safe because it could
 
 00:18:01.003 --> 00:18:02.046
 be the same person.
 
 00:18:02.306 --> 00:18:03.067
 They could look like a
 
 00:18:03.126 --> 00:18:05.789
 stereotypical safe person.
 
 00:18:06.029 --> 00:18:07.733
 you know person's a monk or
 
 00:18:07.794 --> 00:18:09.056
 or whatever and they could
 
 00:18:09.116 --> 00:18:10.680
 still not be a safe person
 
 00:18:10.700 --> 00:18:11.361
 when it comes to our
 
 00:18:11.381 --> 00:18:13.285
 physical safety but it's
 
 00:18:13.325 --> 00:18:14.708
 about determining and
 
 00:18:14.728 --> 00:18:17.093
 stepping into consciousness so I really
 
 00:18:17.790 --> 00:18:19.373
 And also conscious awareness
 
 00:18:19.512 --> 00:18:24.136
 is also not focused on what
 
 00:18:24.156 --> 00:18:25.518
 does this have to do with me?
 
 00:18:25.718 --> 00:18:26.818
 Because your unconscious
 
 00:18:26.878 --> 00:18:28.701
 personalized that situation
 
 00:18:28.961 --> 00:18:30.021
 where you saw that person
 
 00:18:30.041 --> 00:18:31.063
 who was not interacting
 
 00:18:31.103 --> 00:18:32.484
 with you directly and you
 
 00:18:32.525 --> 00:18:33.625
 determined whether or not
 
 00:18:33.665 --> 00:18:35.227
 they were a good guy or a bad guy,
 
 00:18:35.247 --> 00:18:36.248
 whether they were okay or
 
 00:18:36.268 --> 00:18:36.888
 they weren't okay.
 
 00:18:37.209 --> 00:18:38.609
 And while that is okay,
 
 00:18:39.111 --> 00:18:41.232
 don't let that be their identity.
 
 00:18:41.333 --> 00:18:42.413
 That's essentially the role
 
 00:18:42.433 --> 00:18:43.535
 that consciousness plays.
 
 00:18:43.775 --> 00:18:45.836
 that we can be conscious of our bias,
 
 00:18:45.957 --> 00:18:47.778
 and that is indeed our unconscious mind,
 
 00:18:48.018 --> 00:18:48.838
 that we can be conscious
 
 00:18:48.878 --> 00:18:50.380
 that that's there and that
 
 00:18:50.519 --> 00:18:52.281
 it may very well try to
 
 00:18:52.362 --> 00:18:53.362
 influence our decisions.
 
 00:18:53.403 --> 00:18:55.483
 But as long as we keep our awareness on it,
 
 00:18:55.804 --> 00:18:57.846
 it can't pull us into
 
 00:18:57.945 --> 00:18:59.907
 unconsciousness as long as
 
 00:18:59.948 --> 00:19:01.588
 we maintain that centered awareness.
 
 00:19:03.441 --> 00:19:03.601
 Well,
 
 00:19:03.621 --> 00:19:05.061
 I'm going to do a quote here from the
 
 00:19:05.082 --> 00:19:05.301
 book.
 
 00:19:07.064 --> 00:19:07.703
 One quote here is,
 
 00:19:07.963 --> 00:19:09.705
 life will give you whatever
 
 00:19:09.786 --> 00:19:11.007
 experience is the most
 
 00:19:11.047 --> 00:19:12.307
 helpful for the evolution
 
 00:19:12.327 --> 00:19:13.388
 of your consciousness.
 
 00:19:14.210 --> 00:19:16.551
 And if you believe that and
 
 00:19:16.571 --> 00:19:18.093
 you look at the experiences
 
 00:19:18.113 --> 00:19:19.094
 you have in your life from
 
 00:19:19.574 --> 00:19:20.634
 from that lens,
 
 00:19:21.134 --> 00:19:23.015
 I think it's absolutely beautiful.
 
 00:19:23.154 --> 00:19:24.015
 Because then you're taking
 
 00:19:24.075 --> 00:19:26.215
 away this consciousness of victim,
 
 00:19:26.855 --> 00:19:27.516
 being a victim,
 
 00:19:28.176 --> 00:19:29.396
 and looking at how can
 
 00:19:29.436 --> 00:19:30.676
 whatever's happening to you,
 
 00:19:31.057 --> 00:19:32.357
 or whatever's currently happened,
 
 00:19:32.377 --> 00:19:33.097
 you can make a different
 
 00:19:33.157 --> 00:19:34.377
 choice in that present
 
 00:19:34.419 --> 00:19:35.618
 moment to do something different.
 
 00:19:36.798 --> 00:19:37.799
 So what do you have to say about that?
 
 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:39.140
 Anything you want to say about that quote?
 
 00:19:39.576 --> 00:19:39.717
 Yeah,
 
 00:19:39.737 --> 00:19:40.837
 the only time you can make a
 
 00:19:40.897 --> 00:19:41.718
 different choice is when
 
 00:19:41.758 --> 00:19:43.058
 you are conscious because
 
 00:19:43.298 --> 00:19:44.859
 unconsciousness ultimately
 
 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:46.221
 will only repeat itself
 
 00:19:46.760 --> 00:19:48.402
 because its interest is in
 
 00:19:49.021 --> 00:19:50.542
 satiating familiarity.
 
 00:19:50.563 --> 00:19:52.344
 It wants to stick with the
 
 00:19:52.384 --> 00:19:53.384
 devil that it knows,
 
 00:19:53.423 --> 00:19:54.865
 to use another phrase.
 
 00:19:55.204 --> 00:19:56.625
 The idea that that sense of
 
 00:19:56.665 --> 00:19:57.807
 what you know is what
 
 00:19:57.826 --> 00:19:59.207
 you'll keep choosing unless
 
 00:19:59.247 --> 00:20:01.288
 you are aware that, hey, wait a minute,
 
 00:20:01.327 --> 00:20:02.148
 I'm driving through an
 
 00:20:02.189 --> 00:20:03.128
 intersection again.
 
 00:20:03.449 --> 00:20:05.089
 I have the opportunity to turn.
 
 00:20:05.490 --> 00:20:05.770
 And so
 
 00:20:06.550 --> 00:20:06.892
 Again,
 
 00:20:07.071 --> 00:20:09.575
 any moment that you lose consciousness,
 
 00:20:09.615 --> 00:20:10.556
 that you say, oh man,
 
 00:20:10.615 --> 00:20:12.238
 I just blew through that intersection.
 
 00:20:12.577 --> 00:20:14.039
 You've become aware again.
 
 00:20:14.119 --> 00:20:15.442
 Now try and maintain that
 
 00:20:15.481 --> 00:20:16.462
 awareness rather than
 
 00:20:16.502 --> 00:20:17.683
 getting caught in the story
 
 00:20:17.743 --> 00:20:18.684
 of what would have happened
 
 00:20:18.726 --> 00:20:19.747
 if you hadn't blown through
 
 00:20:19.767 --> 00:20:20.667
 that intersection.
 
 00:20:20.708 --> 00:20:20.788
 Yeah.
 
 00:20:21.798 --> 00:20:23.138
 I feel like driving right
 
 00:20:23.199 --> 00:20:26.619
 now is my biggest, um,
 
 00:20:26.660 --> 00:20:29.161
 presence practice because, you know,
 
 00:20:29.201 --> 00:20:30.402
 years and years of doing
 
 00:20:31.041 --> 00:20:32.583
 internal awareness work and
 
 00:20:32.623 --> 00:20:33.742
 continuing to become more
 
 00:20:33.782 --> 00:20:36.084
 aware of my physical body, my essence,
 
 00:20:36.124 --> 00:20:38.164
 who I am getting rid of the stories.
 
 00:20:38.204 --> 00:20:40.185
 I mean, really it's, it's my money detoxes,
 
 00:20:40.205 --> 00:20:41.567
 my lifestyle, the program,
 
 00:20:42.047 --> 00:20:43.107
 and the biggest
 
 00:20:43.147 --> 00:20:44.968
 foundational pivot point
 
 00:20:44.988 --> 00:20:46.588
 for that program in
 
 00:20:47.288 --> 00:20:48.970
 people's lives is the
 
 00:20:49.089 --> 00:20:50.730
 self-awareness tools.
 
 00:20:50.750 --> 00:20:50.790
 Um,
 
 00:20:50.911 --> 00:20:52.511
 so we start to become aware
 
 00:20:52.551 --> 00:20:53.893
 of our programs and then we
 
 00:20:53.932 --> 00:20:55.034
 start to detox them we
 
 00:20:55.074 --> 00:20:55.973
 start to get them out of
 
 00:20:55.993 --> 00:20:58.736
 the way and really that's
 
 00:20:58.776 --> 00:21:00.657
 part of awakening um so the
 
 00:21:00.678 --> 00:21:01.557
 question we kind of have
 
 00:21:01.617 --> 00:21:04.079
 next is what does awakening
 
 00:21:04.259 --> 00:21:05.421
 really mean in practical
 
 00:21:05.461 --> 00:21:06.461
 terms and how can I
 
 00:21:06.500 --> 00:21:07.342
 experience it in my
 
 00:21:07.402 --> 00:21:09.403
 everyday life so my example
 
 00:21:09.462 --> 00:21:10.683
 here is you know years of
 
 00:21:10.723 --> 00:21:11.805
 doing this type of work
 
 00:21:13.356 --> 00:21:15.701
 becoming aware what I'm doing,
 
 00:21:15.721 --> 00:21:16.622
 what I'm saying,
 
 00:21:17.363 --> 00:21:18.483
 and it not being from a
 
 00:21:18.525 --> 00:21:20.547
 sense of trying to protect
 
 00:21:20.586 --> 00:21:22.289
 myself or protect my
 
 00:21:22.369 --> 00:21:24.792
 identity or my reputation
 
 00:21:24.833 --> 00:21:25.595
 or things like that.
 
 00:21:25.674 --> 00:21:26.375
 And not that those things
 
 00:21:26.415 --> 00:21:27.336
 don't still happen,
 
 00:21:27.356 --> 00:21:28.838
 it's just becoming aware of them.
 
 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:30.800
 And for years,
 
 00:21:31.102 --> 00:21:32.383
 I would compare myself to
 
 00:21:32.423 --> 00:21:33.604
 Matt because I'd be like,
 
 00:21:33.663 --> 00:21:36.406
 he is so present, like he's so peaceful.
 
 00:21:36.467 --> 00:21:36.767
 He does.
 
 00:21:37.067 --> 00:21:38.969
 You had a lot more practice than I did.
 
 00:21:39.250 --> 00:21:40.851
 But my ego is still driving
 
 00:21:40.871 --> 00:21:42.211
 me nuts because it's
 
 00:21:42.353 --> 00:21:43.913
 comparing myself and
 
 00:21:43.933 --> 00:21:46.557
 creating suffering and judgment of me,
 
 00:21:46.636 --> 00:21:48.519
 of myself, and that I'm not enough.
 
 00:21:48.999 --> 00:21:50.039
 And I think this happens too
 
 00:21:50.220 --> 00:21:51.662
 often in people who are on
 
 00:21:51.682 --> 00:21:52.563
 a spiritual path,
 
 00:21:52.823 --> 00:21:54.525
 because then there's an end
 
 00:21:54.585 --> 00:21:55.526
 point or some sort of
 
 00:21:55.566 --> 00:21:57.887
 finish line thought form of like,
 
 00:21:58.147 --> 00:21:59.009
 this is the goal.
 
 00:21:59.269 --> 00:22:01.070
 When I'm spiritually to the
 
 00:22:01.431 --> 00:22:03.794
 end or at the best or whatever,
 
 00:22:04.013 --> 00:22:05.295
 it creates this weird thing.
 
 00:22:05.675 --> 00:22:07.616
 But now my main points that
 
 00:22:07.657 --> 00:22:08.198
 pull me into
 
 00:22:08.298 --> 00:22:09.558
 unconsciousness are things
 
 00:22:09.578 --> 00:22:10.840
 that threaten my physical
 
 00:22:10.901 --> 00:22:12.642
 security and safety as a body.
 
 00:22:13.323 --> 00:22:14.903
 Like when I'm driving and
 
 00:22:14.923 --> 00:22:17.025
 someone cuts me off, that's when I'll get,
 
 00:22:17.305 --> 00:22:17.805
 I'll feel it.
 
 00:22:17.825 --> 00:22:19.365
 I'll get heightened in my nervous system,
 
 00:22:19.385 --> 00:22:20.465
 my stress response,
 
 00:22:20.486 --> 00:22:21.586
 my chest will get tight.
 
 00:22:22.027 --> 00:22:23.587
 And then for a quick second, I go,
 
 00:22:23.907 --> 00:22:24.728
 what are they doing?
 
 00:22:24.968 --> 00:22:26.189
 And I start to move into
 
 00:22:26.209 --> 00:22:28.609
 that story and that voice starts to talk.
 
 00:22:29.529 --> 00:22:30.931
 It happened three times to me today.
 
 00:22:30.951 --> 00:22:33.090
 There were people that were pulling out,
 
 00:22:33.830 --> 00:22:35.352
 merging onto Queen Street
 
 00:22:35.412 --> 00:22:36.592
 from the highway when I was
 
 00:22:36.612 --> 00:22:37.672
 going past the bridge to go
 
 00:22:37.692 --> 00:22:38.573
 to Safe and Sweet Keto
 
 00:22:38.593 --> 00:22:40.032
 Bakery right over there.
 
 00:22:40.413 --> 00:22:42.213
 And the person just didn't even stop.
 
 00:22:42.233 --> 00:22:44.054
 They just were getting on as I'm going by.
 
 00:22:44.114 --> 00:22:45.654
 And I was very confused.
 
 00:22:45.674 --> 00:22:48.394
 But what was really cool is
 
 00:22:48.454 --> 00:22:51.155
 that my normal response
 
 00:22:51.635 --> 00:22:53.416
 when I go into unconsciousness is fight.
 
 00:22:54.659 --> 00:22:56.220
 Normally, like, what the heck?
 
 00:22:56.619 --> 00:22:58.121
 Or I'll curse at them in my car.
 
 00:22:58.800 --> 00:23:01.923
 And I, of course, feel guilty about that.
 
 00:23:01.942 --> 00:23:02.663
 And again,
 
 00:23:02.682 --> 00:23:04.304
 the ego is feeling guilty about cursing.
 
 00:23:04.344 --> 00:23:05.105
 Like, that was bad.
 
 00:23:05.144 --> 00:23:06.065
 That was a bad decision
 
 00:23:06.085 --> 00:23:07.185
 versus a good decision, right?
 
 00:23:07.205 --> 00:23:08.205
 Something new to hold on to.
 
 00:23:08.247 --> 00:23:08.886
 Yeah, exactly.
 
 00:23:08.906 --> 00:23:09.567
 Another story,
 
 00:23:09.586 --> 00:23:11.528
 which is another thing to go on.
 
 00:23:11.587 --> 00:23:13.670
 But instead, it was really interesting.
 
 00:23:13.950 --> 00:23:14.930
 I think my nervous system
 
 00:23:14.950 --> 00:23:15.770
 went into freeze.
 
 00:23:16.530 --> 00:23:18.050
 Like, as they kind of went around me,
 
 00:23:18.191 --> 00:23:19.711
 I slowed the car down.
 
 00:23:19.731 --> 00:23:22.092
 And I had gone around them.
 
 00:23:22.132 --> 00:23:23.332
 And my son was in the car.
 
 00:23:23.352 --> 00:23:24.031
 And Orion was like,
 
 00:23:24.553 --> 00:23:25.492
 why are you slowing down?
 
 00:23:25.512 --> 00:23:26.653
 Like, I was going to stop.
 
 00:23:26.873 --> 00:23:27.752
 Because I kept looking at
 
 00:23:27.772 --> 00:23:28.573
 them in the rearview mirror,
 
 00:23:28.833 --> 00:23:30.953
 confused as to what was going on.
 
 00:23:31.294 --> 00:23:32.134
 And then I laughed.
 
 00:23:32.614 --> 00:23:34.173
 I laughed and shook it off.
 
 00:23:34.473 --> 00:23:35.314
 Because that's what happens
 
 00:23:35.394 --> 00:23:37.035
 to your physical nervous system.
 
 00:23:37.375 --> 00:23:38.555
 Because they say that we're
 
 00:23:38.595 --> 00:23:39.654
 spiritual beings having a
 
 00:23:39.694 --> 00:23:40.575
 human experience.
 
 00:23:41.115 --> 00:23:43.435
 I would differ to say that we are human.
 
 00:23:43.635 --> 00:23:44.696
 spiritual beings have an
 
 00:23:44.896 --> 00:23:46.278
 animal experience because
 
 00:23:46.317 --> 00:23:47.338
 we're also animals.
 
 00:23:47.598 --> 00:23:49.681
 Like the animalistic part of our brain,
 
 00:23:49.980 --> 00:23:50.840
 when we're threatened of
 
 00:23:50.881 --> 00:23:52.061
 our physical safety for our
 
 00:23:52.102 --> 00:23:53.682
 lives is going to kick on
 
 00:23:54.084 --> 00:23:56.005
 and you can practice to be
 
 00:23:56.065 --> 00:23:57.506
 present and like martial
 
 00:23:57.566 --> 00:23:58.707
 artists and people do this
 
 00:23:58.747 --> 00:23:59.887
 to get in these extreme
 
 00:23:59.907 --> 00:24:01.009
 situations that you can
 
 00:24:01.229 --> 00:24:02.769
 keep your mind calm and
 
 00:24:02.930 --> 00:24:04.131
 in the base of your life
 
 00:24:04.171 --> 00:24:05.652
 being threatened but there
 
 00:24:05.672 --> 00:24:07.152
 are still anybody to any
 
 00:24:07.211 --> 00:24:08.353
 degree of their spiritual
 
 00:24:08.393 --> 00:24:09.673
 awakening may still get
 
 00:24:09.713 --> 00:24:10.653
 caught in that and that's
 
 00:24:10.733 --> 00:24:12.134
 okay I think it's just
 
 00:24:12.234 --> 00:24:13.135
 that's why I'm learning so
 
 00:24:13.155 --> 00:24:14.336
 many tools to help dan
 
 00:24:14.376 --> 00:24:15.757
 regulate and continue to
 
 00:24:15.797 --> 00:24:16.738
 work on that trauma
 
 00:24:16.778 --> 00:24:18.239
 response which is what I
 
 00:24:18.278 --> 00:24:19.679
 teach and most of most of
 
 00:24:19.699 --> 00:24:20.380
 the course remind body
 
 00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:22.141
 detox is teaching those those tools
 
 00:24:22.780 --> 00:24:24.102
 Eckhart actually talks about
 
 00:24:24.142 --> 00:24:24.902
 that in the book.
 
 00:24:24.942 --> 00:24:26.782
 He speaks about ducks on a pond,
 
 00:24:26.903 --> 00:24:29.063
 the idea that another duck
 
 00:24:29.124 --> 00:24:30.523
 invades that duck's space
 
 00:24:30.864 --> 00:24:32.005
 and then they go at it for
 
 00:24:32.045 --> 00:24:33.724
 a second and then they go
 
 00:24:33.785 --> 00:24:34.965
 separate directions and
 
 00:24:35.006 --> 00:24:36.726
 they shake themselves off
 
 00:24:37.125 --> 00:24:38.146
 and then they just swim
 
 00:24:38.186 --> 00:24:39.547
 around like nothing ever happened,
 
 00:24:39.928 --> 00:24:41.667
 that they've discharged the
 
 00:24:41.728 --> 00:24:42.387
 energy of that
 
 00:24:42.448 --> 00:24:43.828
 confrontation and they've
 
 00:24:43.868 --> 00:24:46.490
 returned back to their existence.
 
 00:24:46.509 --> 00:24:46.609
 Yeah.
 
 00:24:46.815 --> 00:24:47.895
 And that's what I did today.
 
 00:24:48.496 --> 00:24:49.656
 I slowed down.
 
 00:24:49.717 --> 00:24:51.017
 That's how I was going to stop.
 
 00:24:51.436 --> 00:24:52.337
 And I recognized, like,
 
 00:24:52.377 --> 00:24:53.798
 why am I slowing down?
 
 00:24:54.199 --> 00:24:55.640
 And I was like, oh, my gosh.
 
 00:24:55.720 --> 00:24:57.240
 And I laughed so hard because I was like,
 
 00:24:57.580 --> 00:24:58.641
 that's so fun.
 
 00:24:58.681 --> 00:24:58.861
 Like,
 
 00:24:58.901 --> 00:25:01.762
 my autonomic system is just doing it.
 
 00:25:01.782 --> 00:25:02.762
 It takes over.
 
 00:25:03.202 --> 00:25:04.223
 And then when I laughed,
 
 00:25:04.263 --> 00:25:06.005
 it was shaking my nervous system,
 
 00:25:06.085 --> 00:25:07.746
 just like that response,
 
 00:25:07.786 --> 00:25:08.685
 and shaking it off.
 
 00:25:09.106 --> 00:25:10.406
 And then I went about my day.
 
 00:25:10.767 --> 00:25:11.448
 So what...
 
 00:25:12.067 --> 00:25:14.128
 to you because awakening in
 
 00:25:14.189 --> 00:25:15.470
 practical terms,
 
 00:25:15.789 --> 00:25:17.590
 like in everyday day-to-day
 
 00:25:17.651 --> 00:25:20.452
 life experience, what does it look like?
 
 00:25:21.292 --> 00:25:23.413
 It looks the same as someone
 
 00:25:23.453 --> 00:25:24.934
 who has been sleepwalking,
 
 00:25:25.355 --> 00:25:26.715
 waking up and realizing
 
 00:25:26.756 --> 00:25:27.655
 they're standing in the
 
 00:25:27.675 --> 00:25:29.457
 kitchen in the middle of the night,
 
 00:25:29.517 --> 00:25:32.098
 holding an oar and a toilet brush.
 
 00:25:32.459 --> 00:25:33.319
 You know, you can,
 
 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:34.779
 you can find yourself in
 
 00:25:34.819 --> 00:25:37.261
 strange surroundings doing strange things,
 
 00:25:37.781 --> 00:25:38.682
 but the moment that you
 
 00:25:38.741 --> 00:25:41.523
 acknowledge that you're no longer being
 
 00:25:42.388 --> 00:25:44.730
 aware of how you ended up where you are,
 
 00:25:45.550 --> 00:25:47.192
 you have become conscious,
 
 00:25:47.211 --> 00:25:48.893
 you have awoken in that moment.
 
 00:25:49.394 --> 00:25:50.294
 And ultimately,
 
 00:25:50.914 --> 00:25:52.715
 it's something that I like
 
 00:25:52.736 --> 00:25:53.856
 to tell people when it
 
 00:25:53.896 --> 00:25:55.257
 comes to this concept of
 
 00:25:55.298 --> 00:25:57.058
 awakening or enlightenment,
 
 00:25:57.078 --> 00:25:58.779
 that enlightenment is not
 
 00:25:59.160 --> 00:26:00.361
 where you park your car,
 
 00:26:00.401 --> 00:26:02.061
 it's how you drive.
 
 00:26:02.607 --> 00:26:04.509
 It's a constant awareness.
 
 00:26:04.548 --> 00:26:07.070
 It's a constant practice, practice,
 
 00:26:07.111 --> 00:26:08.270
 practice, practice, practice.
 
 00:26:08.550 --> 00:26:10.011
 If I could say a word a billion times,
 
 00:26:10.051 --> 00:26:10.913
 it would be practice
 
 00:26:10.932 --> 00:26:12.653
 because we have this mentality,
 
 00:26:12.693 --> 00:26:14.855
 especially in our culture,
 
 00:26:15.174 --> 00:26:17.276
 that we need to achieve something.
 
 00:26:17.375 --> 00:26:18.957
 And the moment that we achieve it,
 
 00:26:19.196 --> 00:26:21.058
 we move on past it because
 
 00:26:21.199 --> 00:26:23.359
 it no longer provides us with worth.
 
 00:26:24.436 --> 00:26:26.518
 It's almost the achieving
 
 00:26:26.557 --> 00:26:28.419
 process that becomes the value.
 
 00:26:28.798 --> 00:26:30.019
 And if we look a little deeper,
 
 00:26:30.059 --> 00:26:32.421
 we realize that that is the ego.
 
 00:26:32.682 --> 00:26:34.702
 The ego is a story that
 
 00:26:34.742 --> 00:26:36.443
 we've confused for ourselves.
 
 00:26:36.804 --> 00:26:37.544
 So ultimately,
 
 00:26:37.584 --> 00:26:38.904
 when that ego comes up and
 
 00:26:38.944 --> 00:26:40.665
 says you need to continue to move forward,
 
 00:26:40.865 --> 00:26:42.307
 you're you're not awoken yet.
 
 00:26:42.527 --> 00:26:43.728
 You didn't you didn't awaken.
 
 00:26:43.928 --> 00:26:44.347
 You're not.
 
 00:26:44.647 --> 00:26:45.548
 You're not enlightened.
 
 00:26:45.868 --> 00:26:47.369
 You're or I am enlightened.
 
 00:26:47.450 --> 00:26:48.470
 I finally achieved it.
 
 00:26:48.509 --> 00:26:49.691
 And anybody who tells me I'm
 
 00:26:49.730 --> 00:26:50.511
 not enlightened,
 
 00:26:50.771 --> 00:26:51.632
 they just aren't
 
 00:26:51.652 --> 00:26:53.073
 enlightened enough to realize it.
 
 00:26:53.272 --> 00:26:53.554
 You know,
 
 00:26:53.634 --> 00:26:54.933
 they just need to do what I say
 
 00:26:54.973 --> 00:26:55.894
 because I'm enlightened.
 
 00:26:55.954 --> 00:26:56.275
 You know,
 
 00:26:56.315 --> 00:26:57.496
 these are all stories that the
 
 00:26:57.576 --> 00:26:58.476
 ego is telling us.
 
 00:26:58.817 --> 00:27:00.478
 So enlightenment or
 
 00:27:00.577 --> 00:27:01.637
 awakening in this
 
 00:27:01.979 --> 00:27:05.421
 particular terminology has
 
 00:27:05.780 --> 00:27:07.821
 very little to signify
 
 00:27:07.862 --> 00:27:10.384
 what's going on inside, outside,
 
 00:27:10.903 --> 00:27:14.026
 aside from less noise.
 
 00:27:15.592 --> 00:27:16.951
 The more that we awaken,
 
 00:27:17.212 --> 00:27:19.073
 the less we resist what is
 
 00:27:19.113 --> 00:27:20.173
 going on right now.
 
 00:27:20.874 --> 00:27:22.854
 And the more we participate
 
 00:27:23.193 --> 00:27:24.615
 in what is going on right now.
 
 00:27:25.355 --> 00:27:26.134
 That's really,
 
 00:27:26.214 --> 00:27:27.516
 if you wanted to still it down,
 
 00:27:27.675 --> 00:27:28.836
 it's the level of your
 
 00:27:28.875 --> 00:27:30.737
 conscious involvement in
 
 00:27:30.797 --> 00:27:32.336
 what is happening in this moment.
 
 00:27:32.576 --> 00:27:33.978
 That's what awakening looks like.
 
 00:27:35.123 --> 00:27:36.624
 so now I'm just going to say
 
 00:27:36.703 --> 00:27:38.104
 from a place of what does
 
 00:27:38.304 --> 00:27:39.285
 awakening look like in
 
 00:27:39.305 --> 00:27:42.286
 practical terms my example
 
 00:27:42.346 --> 00:27:43.826
 of it is you become more
 
 00:27:43.886 --> 00:27:45.867
 aware of not only yourself
 
 00:27:46.528 --> 00:27:48.169
 but the things around you
 
 00:27:48.769 --> 00:27:50.349
 stripped down from the
 
 00:27:50.369 --> 00:27:51.210
 illusions of what you
 
 00:27:51.250 --> 00:27:53.250
 thought they were and one
 
 00:27:53.290 --> 00:27:54.171
 of those things is our
 
 00:27:54.191 --> 00:27:55.832
 sense of perception now not
 
 00:27:55.951 --> 00:27:57.653
 everybody's awakening journey is
 
 00:27:58.853 --> 00:27:59.653
 it may be not everyone's
 
 00:27:59.673 --> 00:28:00.554
 consciousness has any
 
 00:28:00.794 --> 00:28:02.755
 interest in becoming more intuitive,
 
 00:28:03.276 --> 00:28:04.737
 but intuition to me is just
 
 00:28:04.797 --> 00:28:05.717
 really seeing things for
 
 00:28:05.757 --> 00:28:06.958
 the truth of what they are.
 
 00:28:07.417 --> 00:28:08.719
 Like if you can see someone
 
 00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:09.659
 has a facade up,
 
 00:28:09.679 --> 00:28:10.640
 this is for me as an
 
 00:28:10.680 --> 00:28:12.240
 intuitive and as a clairvoyant,
 
 00:28:12.580 --> 00:28:13.382
 when you see someone's
 
 00:28:13.422 --> 00:28:15.282
 facade up of who they think
 
 00:28:15.303 --> 00:28:16.222
 they are and the identity
 
 00:28:16.242 --> 00:28:17.263
 they're trying to project,
 
 00:28:17.703 --> 00:28:20.965
 basically their ego for most of my life,
 
 00:28:21.006 --> 00:28:22.227
 I was confused because I
 
 00:28:22.646 --> 00:28:24.268
 saw past that and I see who
 
 00:28:24.288 --> 00:28:25.067
 they really are.
 
 00:28:25.769 --> 00:28:25.868
 Um,
 
 00:28:27.028 --> 00:28:27.950
 And, you know,
 
 00:28:27.970 --> 00:28:30.311
 when people tell you this is
 
 00:28:30.352 --> 00:28:31.231
 what I'm doing and this is
 
 00:28:31.251 --> 00:28:32.252
 who I am and it doesn't
 
 00:28:32.313 --> 00:28:34.095
 align up and then you find out later,
 
 00:28:34.454 --> 00:28:35.635
 you know, you were correct.
 
 00:28:36.195 --> 00:28:36.496
 You know,
 
 00:28:36.655 --> 00:28:38.917
 you can get that sense in your body.
 
 00:28:38.978 --> 00:28:40.298
 You can get a sense in your mind.
 
 00:28:40.358 --> 00:28:41.180
 You can get a thought.
 
 00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:42.141
 You can hear a word.
 
 00:28:42.901 --> 00:28:44.182
 I think when you expand your
 
 00:28:44.221 --> 00:28:45.123
 consciousness and your
 
 00:28:45.163 --> 00:28:46.784
 awakening to more of the
 
 00:28:46.844 --> 00:28:48.586
 truth of what's around you
 
 00:28:48.605 --> 00:28:50.346
 and what's in you, right?
 
 00:28:50.606 --> 00:28:52.269
 That, to me, is what consciousness is.
 
 00:28:52.288 --> 00:28:56.031
 And it's not something that's an end, done,
 
 00:28:56.092 --> 00:28:56.692
 be all.
 
 00:28:56.873 --> 00:28:59.434
 As I continue on my journey in my life,
 
 00:29:00.214 --> 00:29:01.836
 I have more of my senses
 
 00:29:01.856 --> 00:29:02.938
 that start to expand.
 
 00:29:03.377 --> 00:29:05.819
 And I love... Eckhart Tolle talks about...
 
 00:29:06.861 --> 00:29:09.082
 that people get lost in the
 
 00:29:09.142 --> 00:29:10.442
 psychic abilities and the
 
 00:29:10.482 --> 00:29:11.383
 healing abilities.
 
 00:29:11.804 --> 00:29:13.223
 Because I've seen that when
 
 00:29:13.444 --> 00:29:14.704
 I was practicing,
 
 00:29:16.066 --> 00:29:17.286
 maybe it's been eight years now,
 
 00:29:17.567 --> 00:29:18.666
 that people would call me
 
 00:29:18.846 --> 00:29:19.867
 and it was weird.
 
 00:29:19.887 --> 00:29:21.147
 They'd call me on the phone
 
 00:29:21.269 --> 00:29:22.989
 to schedule a massage at our clinic.
 
 00:29:23.490 --> 00:29:25.191
 And they just happened to have to say,
 
 00:29:25.490 --> 00:29:26.991
 did you know that I'm my psychic medium?
 
 00:29:27.432 --> 00:29:28.211
 Like there's something
 
 00:29:28.251 --> 00:29:29.192
 really important that I
 
 00:29:29.212 --> 00:29:31.074
 need to know about that for
 
 00:29:31.094 --> 00:29:33.134
 them to see someone for a massage.
 
 00:29:34.035 --> 00:29:34.635
 It's just like someone
 
 00:29:34.675 --> 00:29:36.237
 calling me up to get a massage and saying,
 
 00:29:36.616 --> 00:29:37.477
 oh, by the way,
 
 00:29:37.738 --> 00:29:39.097
 I want to let you know that
 
 00:29:39.699 --> 00:29:40.618
 I'm a school principal.
 
 00:29:41.779 --> 00:29:43.080
 That, okay, well,
 
 00:29:43.101 --> 00:29:44.060
 maybe we could ask you that
 
 00:29:44.080 --> 00:29:44.961
 at your intake paperwork
 
 00:29:44.981 --> 00:29:45.923
 because we want to know what you do.
 
 00:29:45.962 --> 00:29:47.282
 So if it relates to your
 
 00:29:47.323 --> 00:29:48.923
 body and it being used over
 
 00:29:48.964 --> 00:29:50.925
 and over again or injuries, you know,
 
 00:29:51.566 --> 00:29:53.207
 but I noticed that there becomes,
 
 00:29:53.487 --> 00:29:54.428
 and especially now,
 
 00:29:54.867 --> 00:29:56.450
 especially now after twenty
 
 00:29:56.490 --> 00:29:57.912
 twenty this great awakening
 
 00:29:57.932 --> 00:29:59.073
 which I could say the great
 
 00:29:59.113 --> 00:30:00.434
 trauma that caused the
 
 00:30:00.515 --> 00:30:01.355
 identity shifts and
 
 00:30:01.415 --> 00:30:02.757
 identity breaking down the
 
 00:30:02.777 --> 00:30:03.678
 people who they think they
 
 00:30:03.719 --> 00:30:05.240
 were people died they lost
 
 00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:06.561
 their jobs all this stuff
 
 00:30:06.961 --> 00:30:08.784
 perfect recipe for
 
 00:30:08.903 --> 00:30:10.086
 shattering the ego and
 
 00:30:10.165 --> 00:30:11.446
 breaking it apart to pieces
 
 00:30:12.067 --> 00:30:15.113
 But that process isn't done yet.
 
 00:30:15.554 --> 00:30:16.694
 So there is now this
 
 00:30:18.157 --> 00:30:21.823
 re-shifting to people sensing more things,
 
 00:30:22.163 --> 00:30:23.906
 having their intuition get turned on,
 
 00:30:24.386 --> 00:30:25.930
 discovering that they're also a medium.
 
 00:30:28.740 --> 00:30:31.061
 I believe that expanding
 
 00:30:31.082 --> 00:30:31.961
 your consciousness,
 
 00:30:32.301 --> 00:30:33.403
 having those things happen
 
 00:30:33.423 --> 00:30:34.462
 to you are just the natural
 
 00:30:34.482 --> 00:30:35.442
 part of the process.
 
 00:30:36.104 --> 00:30:37.203
 It's not something special
 
 00:30:37.284 --> 00:30:39.085
 or it's something your ego
 
 00:30:39.105 --> 00:30:40.644
 could start to create a label around,
 
 00:30:40.684 --> 00:30:42.306
 and this is special, and I'm so cool,
 
 00:30:42.365 --> 00:30:43.685
 and I'm the highest
 
 00:30:44.465 --> 00:30:45.747
 downloaded information
 
 00:30:45.826 --> 00:30:47.287
 psychic being that there is,
 
 00:30:47.366 --> 00:30:48.407
 or I can heal people.
 
 00:30:48.768 --> 00:30:50.808
 People get really stuck in that story,
 
 00:30:50.848 --> 00:30:51.368
 it seems.
 
 00:30:52.068 --> 00:30:53.871
 And I think for a while it
 
 00:30:53.911 --> 00:30:55.231
 bothered my ego.
 
 00:30:56.432 --> 00:30:58.694
 Like it triggered me because
 
 00:30:58.755 --> 00:31:01.376
 I felt I felt now I'm just like, well,
 
 00:31:01.396 --> 00:31:02.718
 that's part of the process for them.
 
 00:31:03.278 --> 00:31:04.598
 There's something wrong with that.
 
 00:31:04.940 --> 00:31:05.200
 And you.
 
 00:31:05.220 --> 00:31:07.080
 Yeah.
 
 00:31:07.141 --> 00:31:08.461
 It's the universe bringing
 
 00:31:08.501 --> 00:31:10.263
 to you exactly what you need right now.
 
 00:31:10.483 --> 00:31:11.144
 Let's read it again.
 
 00:31:11.464 --> 00:31:12.486
 Life will give you whatever
 
 00:31:12.526 --> 00:31:13.306
 experience is the most
 
 00:31:13.346 --> 00:31:14.287
 helpful for your evolution
 
 00:31:14.307 --> 00:31:15.188
 of your consciousness.
 
 00:31:15.567 --> 00:31:16.588
 Thank you, universe.
 
 00:31:17.309 --> 00:31:18.490
 It really, truly is.
 
 00:31:18.631 --> 00:31:19.611
 I just have love for them.
 
 00:31:19.672 --> 00:31:20.511
 Because ultimately,
 
 00:31:20.791 --> 00:31:22.953
 having two people sitting on a park bench,
 
 00:31:23.094 --> 00:31:25.056
 one who is colorblind, one who is not,
 
 00:31:25.336 --> 00:31:27.238
 perceiving the beauty of the forest,
 
 00:31:27.637 --> 00:31:29.259
 it's irrelevant whether or
 
 00:31:29.298 --> 00:31:30.941
 not they can see those colors.
 
 00:31:31.320 --> 00:31:32.602
 Because if they are truly
 
 00:31:32.662 --> 00:31:33.502
 being present with it,
 
 00:31:33.542 --> 00:31:34.222
 if they are truly
 
 00:31:34.262 --> 00:31:35.443
 experiencing the beauty
 
 00:31:35.644 --> 00:31:36.885
 that is that moment...
 
 00:31:37.846 --> 00:31:39.367
 no matter whether they have
 
 00:31:39.708 --> 00:31:42.471
 one sense or twenty thousand senses,
 
 00:31:43.030 --> 00:31:44.573
 they are still utilizing
 
 00:31:44.593 --> 00:31:46.694
 those senses for that purpose.
 
 00:31:46.795 --> 00:31:48.316
 Anything else is a false
 
 00:31:48.336 --> 00:31:49.257
 sense of self that we've
 
 00:31:49.277 --> 00:31:51.479
 created an ego identity around.
 
 00:31:51.558 --> 00:31:52.400
 Yes, absolutely.
 
 00:31:53.193 --> 00:31:54.934
 And I guess the beauty of
 
 00:31:55.476 --> 00:31:55.996
 expanding your
 
 00:31:56.036 --> 00:31:56.957
 consciousness to having
 
 00:31:56.997 --> 00:31:58.377
 these healing capacities is
 
 00:31:58.417 --> 00:31:59.419
 you really can have your
 
 00:31:59.479 --> 00:32:00.599
 own personal experience of
 
 00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:02.121
 healing because Eckhart
 
 00:32:02.141 --> 00:32:03.842
 Tolle talks about the pain
 
 00:32:03.882 --> 00:32:05.063
 body and different parts of
 
 00:32:05.083 --> 00:32:06.064
 our belief systems.
 
 00:32:06.104 --> 00:32:06.605
 And this could be the
 
 00:32:06.644 --> 00:32:07.766
 mind-body connection that
 
 00:32:07.786 --> 00:32:09.967
 we're a lot more science behind,
 
 00:32:09.987 --> 00:32:10.807
 which science is another
 
 00:32:10.847 --> 00:32:11.888
 construct of the ego that
 
 00:32:11.909 --> 00:32:13.269
 needs to prove something to be real.
 
 00:32:13.509 --> 00:32:14.790
 in our society and it's not
 
 00:32:14.851 --> 00:32:15.991
 real and the science proves it.
 
 00:32:16.353 --> 00:32:17.554
 But if you want that,
 
 00:32:17.614 --> 00:32:19.035
 if your mental body likes that,
 
 00:32:19.174 --> 00:32:20.076
 there is science now to
 
 00:32:20.115 --> 00:32:21.196
 prove the mind body connection.
 
 00:32:21.217 --> 00:32:22.739
 But Eckhart Tolle is talking about,
 
 00:32:23.199 --> 00:32:23.419
 you know,
 
 00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:24.740
 our nervous system and our
 
 00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:25.560
 immune system are so
 
 00:32:25.641 --> 00:32:27.682
 interconnected to the
 
 00:32:27.823 --> 00:32:29.585
 things we're thinking and the stress.
 
 00:32:29.765 --> 00:32:31.145
 And you can have these
 
 00:32:31.406 --> 00:32:32.748
 spontaneous healings or
 
 00:32:32.788 --> 00:32:34.348
 quote unquote miraculous healings.
 
 00:32:34.809 --> 00:32:35.069
 You know,
 
 00:32:35.410 --> 00:32:37.152
 who knows what really miracles are.
 
 00:32:37.172 --> 00:32:38.913
 And if we don't, you know, have,
 
 00:32:39.473 --> 00:32:40.055
 if we have a mental
 
 00:32:40.095 --> 00:32:41.436
 construct around what they are,
 
 00:32:41.477 --> 00:32:42.718
 if they're real or they're not,
 
 00:32:43.138 --> 00:32:44.039
 then you might be limiting
 
 00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:46.262
 the potential truth of
 
 00:32:46.542 --> 00:32:47.884
 actually what that could be
 
 00:32:48.265 --> 00:32:49.266
 or what it maybe isn't.
 
 00:32:49.866 --> 00:32:51.809
 And I think that's really the ticket.
 
 00:32:51.970 --> 00:32:53.592
 This practical awakening in
 
 00:32:53.692 --> 00:32:55.334
 everyday life is...
 
 00:32:56.214 --> 00:32:57.615
 Using the tools that are brought to you,
 
 00:32:57.836 --> 00:32:59.797
 like life brings things to you.
 
 00:32:59.876 --> 00:33:00.676
 It's a flow.
 
 00:33:01.237 --> 00:33:02.518
 And it might start with this
 
 00:33:02.557 --> 00:33:04.679
 particular modality or
 
 00:33:05.038 --> 00:33:06.839
 mindfulness or food.
 
 00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:08.559
 And that's what we work with
 
 00:33:08.579 --> 00:33:09.961
 in the MindBody Detox program.
 
 00:33:09.980 --> 00:33:10.941
 It's like there's so many
 
 00:33:10.980 --> 00:33:13.162
 tools and all of them are
 
 00:33:13.201 --> 00:33:16.743
 to be utilized with where you're at,
 
 00:33:16.903 --> 00:33:17.983
 when you feel called to them,
 
 00:33:18.564 --> 00:33:20.525
 and they help you bring
 
 00:33:20.565 --> 00:33:21.645
 more self-awareness in.
 
 00:33:22.465 --> 00:33:24.186
 So what are your thoughts on
 
 00:33:24.488 --> 00:33:26.128
 the pandemic and that
 
 00:33:26.148 --> 00:33:27.390
 forcing people to wake up?
 
 00:33:27.910 --> 00:33:28.931
 Do you think it's been more
 
 00:33:29.230 --> 00:33:31.393
 of an awakening process with that?
 
 00:33:31.432 --> 00:33:32.252
 Or do you think it's caused
 
 00:33:32.292 --> 00:33:33.213
 even more distraction?
 
 00:33:34.454 --> 00:33:36.135
 I think that we seldom
 
 00:33:36.155 --> 00:33:37.978
 awaken from inside of our comfort zone.
 
 00:33:38.278 --> 00:33:41.740
 And so anything that pushes
 
 00:33:41.820 --> 00:33:44.342
 us into unfamiliar territory
 
 00:33:45.219 --> 00:33:46.401
 presents us with the
 
 00:33:46.520 --> 00:33:49.124
 extraordinary opportunity to be mindful.
 
 00:33:49.403 --> 00:33:50.645
 It's the reason why a lot of
 
 00:33:50.705 --> 00:33:52.107
 people do thrill-seeking
 
 00:33:52.147 --> 00:33:53.229
 things like riding roller
 
 00:33:53.269 --> 00:33:54.369
 coasters or jumping out of
 
 00:33:54.411 --> 00:33:56.272
 airplanes or all those sorts of things.
 
 00:33:56.333 --> 00:33:58.855
 Because when you're in that intense energy,
 
 00:33:59.497 --> 00:34:00.298
 you are
 
 00:34:01.690 --> 00:34:04.411
 primarily conscious of what's going on.
 
 00:34:04.671 --> 00:34:06.652
 You can watch a cat staring
 
 00:34:06.711 --> 00:34:07.932
 at a hole in the wall where
 
 00:34:07.991 --> 00:34:08.931
 the mouse comes out.
 
 00:34:09.532 --> 00:34:11.072
 It's not anticipating, oh,
 
 00:34:11.092 --> 00:34:12.092
 when the mouse comes out,
 
 00:34:12.112 --> 00:34:13.112
 it's going to be so good.
 
 00:34:13.172 --> 00:34:14.014
 I'm going to catch it with
 
 00:34:14.034 --> 00:34:15.434
 my left paw and I'm going
 
 00:34:15.454 --> 00:34:16.134
 to bite its head.
 
 00:34:16.173 --> 00:34:17.434
 And then it's going to be my
 
 00:34:17.474 --> 00:34:18.635
 dinner and my play around with it.
 
 00:34:18.855 --> 00:34:20.056
 It doesn't create a story.
 
 00:34:20.335 --> 00:34:21.335
 It's just watching.
 
 00:34:22.579 --> 00:34:24.661
 And so when the pandemic came around,
 
 00:34:24.722 --> 00:34:26.744
 when people had to stay inside,
 
 00:34:26.784 --> 00:34:28.105
 when they had to disconnect
 
 00:34:28.905 --> 00:34:30.146
 from their routines,
 
 00:34:30.206 --> 00:34:31.987
 from the things that they
 
 00:34:32.047 --> 00:34:33.570
 had identified by,
 
 00:34:33.630 --> 00:34:34.331
 perhaps that they had
 
 00:34:34.371 --> 00:34:38.193
 created this identity around it.
 
 00:34:39.211 --> 00:34:40.713
 pushed some people further
 
 00:34:40.793 --> 00:34:42.074
 into unconsciousness
 
 00:34:42.494 --> 00:34:44.976
 because they ruminated,
 
 00:34:45.056 --> 00:34:47.257
 because they stayed in that space.
 
 00:34:47.538 --> 00:34:48.579
 And that's okay because
 
 00:34:48.739 --> 00:34:50.360
 ultimately that helps to
 
 00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:51.880
 move them towards the
 
 00:34:51.940 --> 00:34:52.842
 potential for them to
 
 00:34:52.882 --> 00:34:53.842
 realize they're blowing
 
 00:34:53.882 --> 00:34:54.804
 through an intersection.
 
 00:34:55.923 --> 00:34:57.105
 And sometimes life has to
 
 00:34:57.144 --> 00:34:58.405
 T-bone you as you blow
 
 00:34:58.425 --> 00:34:59.346
 through that intersection
 
 00:34:59.405 --> 00:35:00.626
 in order for you to realize it.
 
 00:35:00.686 --> 00:35:02.248
 But that's neither here nor there.
 
 00:35:02.327 --> 00:35:03.188
 And then there are other
 
 00:35:03.228 --> 00:35:05.829
 people who also did have
 
 00:35:05.889 --> 00:35:07.349
 that shell get cracked,
 
 00:35:07.489 --> 00:35:10.871
 who did look into that void
 
 00:35:11.231 --> 00:35:12.813
 and understand that they
 
 00:35:12.833 --> 00:35:14.153
 are playing just as much a
 
 00:35:14.233 --> 00:35:15.534
 part in the unfolding of
 
 00:35:15.554 --> 00:35:18.175
 this process as anyone or anything else.
 
 00:35:18.556 --> 00:35:19.976
 And ultimately what it is,
 
 00:35:20.438 --> 00:35:22.438
 is trying to unify and
 
 00:35:22.539 --> 00:35:24.139
 harmonize yourself with
 
 00:35:24.221 --> 00:35:25.340
 what life is doing,
 
 00:35:25.621 --> 00:35:27.163
 rather than trying to get
 
 00:35:27.282 --> 00:35:29.505
 life to conform to your will.
 
 00:35:29.764 --> 00:35:31.106
 This is the eternal battle
 
 00:35:31.146 --> 00:35:33.268
 of the ego that says, no, no, no,
 
 00:35:33.507 --> 00:35:35.630
 this soup isn't hot enough, send it back.
 
 00:35:36.530 --> 00:35:38.271
 As opposed to saying, oh, I'm sorry,
 
 00:35:38.692 --> 00:35:40.353
 could you bring me a bowl of hot soup,
 
 00:35:40.413 --> 00:35:40.793
 please?
 
 00:35:41.434 --> 00:35:43.275
 We have to identify and
 
 00:35:43.335 --> 00:35:44.597
 personalize all of these
 
 00:35:44.657 --> 00:35:47.059
 things in order for the ego to survive.
 
 00:35:47.835 --> 00:35:50.237
 So the less we make it about me,
 
 00:35:50.617 --> 00:35:52.860
 the less we make it about what's going on,
 
 00:35:52.900 --> 00:35:54.322
 how I feel about it or what
 
 00:35:54.541 --> 00:35:56.443
 I think about it or what my opinion is.
 
 00:35:56.702 --> 00:35:57.985
 That's my favorite sports
 
 00:35:58.025 --> 00:35:59.226
 team or that's my favorite
 
 00:35:59.246 --> 00:36:00.045
 political party.
 
 00:36:00.327 --> 00:36:02.527
 The more we identify by these things,
 
 00:36:02.969 --> 00:36:06.351
 we have these opportunities pass us by.
 
 00:36:07.472 --> 00:36:09.913
 but all of it is within our control.
 
 00:36:10.673 --> 00:36:12.335
 The only thing that we can,
 
 00:36:12.574 --> 00:36:14.315
 which is what we pay attention to,
 
 00:36:14.556 --> 00:36:16.097
 where we put our focus.
 
 00:36:16.356 --> 00:36:18.077
 And if we put it on what's going on now,
 
 00:36:18.318 --> 00:36:21.159
 whether it's a traffic jam
 
 00:36:21.659 --> 00:36:22.719
 or another pandemic,
 
 00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:24.920
 we receive the equal
 
 00:36:25.041 --> 00:36:26.681
 opportunity to pay
 
 00:36:26.842 --> 00:36:28.523
 attention to what's going on,
 
 00:36:28.882 --> 00:36:31.364
 to not add anything to this moment.
 
 00:36:31.664 --> 00:36:33.545
 That becomes the practice.
 
 00:36:34.235 --> 00:36:35.396
 How would you experience
 
 00:36:35.436 --> 00:36:37.159
 this moment if you added nothing to it?
 
 00:36:37.579 --> 00:36:38.280
 It's quiet.
 
 00:36:39.161 --> 00:36:39.762
 No one is here.
 
 00:36:39.822 --> 00:36:41.123
 I don't have to go to work today.
 
 00:36:42.045 --> 00:36:43.887
 There's a check coming for me in the mail.
 
 00:36:45.429 --> 00:36:47.351
 I have to do what?
 
 00:36:48.735 --> 00:36:50.315
 go about my business, right?
 
 00:36:50.394 --> 00:36:51.376
 It's a regular day.
 
 00:36:51.476 --> 00:36:52.815
 The sun came up and it'll go
 
 00:36:52.856 --> 00:36:54.657
 down and you can go about your day,
 
 00:36:54.936 --> 00:36:55.817
 even though you can't go
 
 00:36:55.856 --> 00:36:56.617
 about your routine,
 
 00:36:56.637 --> 00:36:57.257
 the things that you're
 
 00:36:57.297 --> 00:36:59.077
 telling yourself you should be doing,
 
 00:36:59.117 --> 00:37:00.257
 you should be able to do.
 
 00:37:00.677 --> 00:37:01.918
 And then I feel bad because
 
 00:37:01.958 --> 00:37:02.599
 I'm not working.
 
 00:37:02.659 --> 00:37:03.818
 And what if this goes on
 
 00:37:03.858 --> 00:37:05.539
 forever and how will I pay for it?
 
 00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:06.940
 And you see the story starts
 
 00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:08.661
 and it pulls us out of what's going on.
 
 00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:10.501
 So regardless of what the
 
 00:37:10.541 --> 00:37:12.621
 situation in the third dimensional world,
 
 00:37:12.942 --> 00:37:13.822
 we have an equal
 
 00:37:13.902 --> 00:37:16.702
 opportunity within that present moment
 
 00:37:17.003 --> 00:37:19.510
 to choose awareness and if
 
 00:37:19.550 --> 00:37:20.574
 we miss it this moment
 
 00:37:20.635 --> 00:37:21.677
 don't worry the next moment
 
 00:37:21.717 --> 00:37:22.701
 is going to present us with
 
 00:37:22.721 --> 00:37:23.784
 that same opportunity
 
 00:37:25.672 --> 00:37:27.253
 So one of the books that we
 
 00:37:27.454 --> 00:37:28.554
 read last year was The
 
 00:37:28.675 --> 00:37:31.097
 Untethered Soul by Michael Singer.
 
 00:37:31.978 --> 00:37:33.179
 And another book that he
 
 00:37:33.199 --> 00:37:34.842
 wrote that I really love,
 
 00:37:35.101 --> 00:37:36.563
 I actually like this book a lot better,
 
 00:37:37.224 --> 00:37:38.626
 is The Surrender Experiment.
 
 00:37:39.126 --> 00:37:40.568
 So in that book,
 
 00:37:40.608 --> 00:37:42.289
 if you have read that or if you haven't,
 
 00:37:42.309 --> 00:37:43.510
 I encourage you to pick it up.
 
 00:37:44.012 --> 00:37:46.173
 He is a living example of
 
 00:37:46.253 --> 00:37:47.496
 what Matt's talking about.
 
 00:37:49.539 --> 00:37:50.840
 He basically just wanted,
 
 00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:52.201
 he experienced bliss
 
 00:37:52.260 --> 00:37:53.882
 through meditation and yoga experience.
 
 00:37:53.902 --> 00:37:55.202
 And he just wanted to go back to that.
 
 00:37:55.222 --> 00:37:56.202
 That was his end goal.
 
 00:37:56.222 --> 00:37:57.182
 Like, I just want that.
 
 00:37:57.563 --> 00:37:58.284
 I don't care if I'm a
 
 00:37:58.344 --> 00:37:59.523
 tenured professor anymore.
 
 00:37:59.824 --> 00:38:00.684
 Like, he didn't care.
 
 00:38:01.005 --> 00:38:02.565
 But life kept bringing him
 
 00:38:02.605 --> 00:38:03.585
 all these opportunities.
 
 00:38:03.626 --> 00:38:04.786
 And he made a commitment to say,
 
 00:38:04.846 --> 00:38:05.746
 I'm just going to let go.
 
 00:38:05.806 --> 00:38:06.626
 And I'm going to surrender.
 
 00:38:07.086 --> 00:38:08.967
 And whatever is brought to me, you know,
 
 00:38:09.007 --> 00:38:09.807
 I'll meditate on it.
 
 00:38:09.847 --> 00:38:12.248
 And if I'm feeling I don't want to do it,
 
 00:38:12.289 --> 00:38:13.230
 I'm still going to do it.
 
 00:38:13.489 --> 00:38:15.853
 Because I'm just surrendering to life.
 
 00:38:16.072 --> 00:38:16.733
 I'm just surrendering.
 
 00:38:17.253 --> 00:38:18.596
 And his whole experience
 
 00:38:18.635 --> 00:38:21.119
 just became this one
 
 00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:22.360
 sequence of events after
 
 00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:24.643
 another that led to him and
 
 00:38:25.083 --> 00:38:27.085
 his life path and how life
 
 00:38:27.105 --> 00:38:28.347
 flowed through him when he
 
 00:38:28.387 --> 00:38:30.208
 let go of his identity was
 
 00:38:30.668 --> 00:38:31.389
 he all of a sudden had a
 
 00:38:31.409 --> 00:38:32.831
 carpentry cut business.
 
 00:38:33.172 --> 00:38:34.273
 And it was doing all this
 
 00:38:34.313 --> 00:38:35.932
 work and big work.
 
 00:38:36.313 --> 00:38:36.954
 And then all of a sudden,
 
 00:38:36.974 --> 00:38:39.454
 he owned a computer tech
 
 00:38:39.494 --> 00:38:40.436
 company all of a sudden.
 
 00:38:40.496 --> 00:38:41.715
 And he didn't ever think he
 
 00:38:41.735 --> 00:38:42.757
 would get into computers.
 
 00:38:42.777 --> 00:38:43.556
 And then he was a
 
 00:38:43.617 --> 00:38:44.878
 multimillion dollar company.
 
 00:38:45.418 --> 00:38:47.378
 And now he has retreats and books.
 
 00:38:47.458 --> 00:38:48.739
 And he's a teacher.
 
 00:38:48.840 --> 00:38:51.041
 And he's not someone that has this...
 
 00:38:52.309 --> 00:38:53.532
 desire to do these things.
 
 00:38:53.592 --> 00:38:53.931
 He's like,
 
 00:38:54.012 --> 00:38:55.293
 all I wanted to do was meditate
 
 00:38:55.313 --> 00:38:56.215
 and be by myself.
 
 00:38:56.635 --> 00:38:57.516
 He was kind of annoyed.
 
 00:38:57.556 --> 00:38:57.717
 He says,
 
 00:38:57.737 --> 00:38:58.438
 there's a part of me that's
 
 00:38:58.478 --> 00:38:59.278
 annoyed by it.
 
 00:38:59.539 --> 00:39:01.161
 That part of his identity is ego,
 
 00:39:01.681 --> 00:39:02.822
 but he still is just
 
 00:39:02.862 --> 00:39:04.844
 letting life happen through him.
 
 00:39:05.065 --> 00:39:05.445
 And yeah,
 
 00:39:07.313 --> 00:39:08.592
 I would say anyone out there
 
 00:39:08.632 --> 00:39:09.893
 that once you finally let go,
 
 00:39:09.974 --> 00:39:11.034
 once you finally surrender,
 
 00:39:11.074 --> 00:39:11.894
 that's what really when
 
 00:39:11.914 --> 00:39:12.855
 things start to go right.
 
 00:39:13.195 --> 00:39:15.476
 So our law of attraction in action class,
 
 00:39:15.496 --> 00:39:16.335
 because everyone loves the
 
 00:39:16.356 --> 00:39:17.356
 law of attraction, right?
 
 00:39:17.735 --> 00:39:19.416
 I teach in that course how
 
 00:39:19.456 --> 00:39:20.918
 to use the chakra system or
 
 00:39:20.938 --> 00:39:21.737
 the energy body.
 
 00:39:22.338 --> 00:39:23.838
 to clear out things like
 
 00:39:23.938 --> 00:39:25.619
 Eckhart Tolle would call it the pain body,
 
 00:39:25.739 --> 00:39:26.539
 because that's a lot of
 
 00:39:26.559 --> 00:39:28.480
 time what's in the way to manifesting.
 
 00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:29.820
 And a lot of times our ego
 
 00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:31.561
 has an idea of what we want to manifest,
 
 00:39:31.641 --> 00:39:31.860
 right?
 
 00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:33.440
 It thinks of this is that,
 
 00:39:34.041 --> 00:39:34.702
 and I'm going to do this
 
 00:39:34.722 --> 00:39:35.702
 because I want to be here or there.
 
 00:39:36.101 --> 00:39:36.561
 In the course,
 
 00:39:36.601 --> 00:39:37.422
 I talk about what is it
 
 00:39:37.461 --> 00:39:38.902
 really your soul wants to manifest?
 
 00:39:38.922 --> 00:39:39.663
 Because that's more
 
 00:39:39.682 --> 00:39:41.143
 fulfilling than anything
 
 00:39:41.184 --> 00:39:42.563
 that your ego could come up with.
 
 00:39:43.023 --> 00:39:44.364
 And so we go through that.
 
 00:39:44.463 --> 00:39:45.764
 And then the final process is,
 
 00:39:46.686 --> 00:39:48.289
 here's the spoiler alert,
 
 00:39:48.510 --> 00:39:49.070
 the biggest thing,
 
 00:39:49.092 --> 00:39:50.032
 if you do all those steps,
 
 00:39:50.052 --> 00:39:51.416
 which is helpful to do all those steps,
 
 00:39:51.715 --> 00:39:53.800
 to help get rid of that,
 
 00:39:55.143 --> 00:39:56.643
 the stories that are
 
 00:39:56.682 --> 00:39:58.103
 blocking your actual true
 
 00:39:58.184 --> 00:39:58.963
 purpose of what you want to
 
 00:39:58.983 --> 00:40:01.344
 be doing um but then it's
 
 00:40:01.385 --> 00:40:03.344
 letting go like you can do
 
 00:40:03.425 --> 00:40:05.065
 all the steps you can map
 
 00:40:05.085 --> 00:40:06.646
 it out you can make vision
 
 00:40:06.666 --> 00:40:08.347
 boards all you all day long
 
 00:40:08.606 --> 00:40:10.007
 you got to let it go just
 
 00:40:10.027 --> 00:40:11.467
 like uh one friend of ours
 
 00:40:11.507 --> 00:40:13.568
 who was dating people and
 
 00:40:13.608 --> 00:40:14.827
 trying to find this right
 
 00:40:14.867 --> 00:40:16.949
 person and they're just like I just
 
 00:40:17.628 --> 00:40:19.349
 just one person after the other.
 
 00:40:19.389 --> 00:40:20.889
 And then they just said, and I said to him,
 
 00:40:20.969 --> 00:40:22.130
 I think once you give up,
 
 00:40:22.150 --> 00:40:23.791
 you're going to find the one.
 
 00:40:23.911 --> 00:40:24.530
 I really do.
 
 00:40:24.670 --> 00:40:25.771
 Cause that's how it works with everything.
 
 00:40:25.791 --> 00:40:27.172
 You've been trying to look for a job.
 
 00:40:27.572 --> 00:40:28.233
 Can't find one.
 
 00:40:28.253 --> 00:40:28.833
 You give up there.
 
 00:40:28.853 --> 00:40:29.632
 The job comes.
 
 00:40:29.932 --> 00:40:30.273
 And, and,
 
 00:40:30.432 --> 00:40:32.273
 and just rightfully so he gave up
 
 00:40:32.313 --> 00:40:33.875
 and then he found the love of his life.
 
 00:40:33.914 --> 00:40:34.934
 And I,
 
 00:40:34.954 --> 00:40:36.175
 that was the best wedding I've ever
 
 00:40:36.215 --> 00:40:37.135
 been to in my life.
 
 00:40:37.175 --> 00:40:38.896
 You were there, you married them.
 
 00:40:39.195 --> 00:40:39.596
 So like,
 
 00:40:40.476 --> 00:40:42.496
 it's crazy to me that that is
 
 00:40:42.657 --> 00:40:43.498
 always the answer.
 
 00:40:44.257 --> 00:40:45.500
 letting go and surrendering.
 
 00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:47.481
 And what are we letting go of?
 
 00:40:48.483 --> 00:40:50.505
 I think that concept is, what do I let go?
 
 00:40:50.565 --> 00:40:51.445
 How do I let go?
 
 00:40:51.485 --> 00:40:52.007
 How do I let go?
 
 00:40:52.027 --> 00:40:55.170
 The mental body, the ego is so, so active.
 
 00:40:55.451 --> 00:40:56.492
 Because ten years ago,
 
 00:40:56.992 --> 00:40:58.054
 when people tell me I need
 
 00:40:58.074 --> 00:40:58.894
 to learn to let go,
 
 00:40:58.914 --> 00:41:01.777
 I could say I'm a recovering type A,
 
 00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:03.019
 hold on to everything.
 
 00:41:04.016 --> 00:41:05.496
 I didn't know how.
 
 00:41:06.077 --> 00:41:08.237
 I kept asking how, how, how.
 
 00:41:08.717 --> 00:41:09.639
 It's like I needed a new
 
 00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:10.938
 thought form to jump into.
 
 00:41:10.978 --> 00:41:12.739
 Because if I'm mad at this person,
 
 00:41:12.780 --> 00:41:13.561
 I need to figure out what
 
 00:41:13.601 --> 00:41:14.561
 else to think so I don't
 
 00:41:14.581 --> 00:41:15.722
 keep thinking that thought.
 
 00:41:16.762 --> 00:41:17.481
 And I don't even know how to
 
 00:41:17.501 --> 00:41:18.123
 let go of it because it
 
 00:41:18.163 --> 00:41:19.182
 keeps coming back to that.
 
 00:41:19.222 --> 00:41:20.264
 And now it's a new story.
 
 00:41:20.583 --> 00:41:21.965
 So then I reverted to, well,
 
 00:41:21.985 --> 00:41:23.264
 if I can't let go and I
 
 00:41:23.304 --> 00:41:24.346
 can't control anything,
 
 00:41:24.646 --> 00:41:26.045
 maybe I'll just control my body.
 
 00:41:26.206 --> 00:41:27.726
 I can totally relax my lungs
 
 00:41:27.847 --> 00:41:29.708
 and collapse my body like a rag doll.
 
 00:41:29.768 --> 00:41:30.849
 That's what I have control over.
 
 00:41:31.289 --> 00:41:33.090
 That was my insanity.
 
 00:41:33.590 --> 00:41:34.951
 process of trying to figure
 
 00:41:35.050 --> 00:41:37.313
 out how to let go.
 
 00:41:37.452 --> 00:41:37.572
 Now,
 
 00:41:37.632 --> 00:41:39.333
 those techniques I find very helpful
 
 00:41:39.474 --> 00:41:40.394
 for clients who are like,
 
 00:41:40.454 --> 00:41:41.114
 I don't know how to let go.
 
 00:41:41.135 --> 00:41:41.335
 I'm like,
 
 00:41:41.956 --> 00:41:43.536
 try just knowing that you have
 
 00:41:43.577 --> 00:41:44.838
 control of your hand right now.
 
 00:41:45.197 --> 00:41:46.119
 You can relax your hand.
 
 00:41:46.498 --> 00:41:48.000
 Because I think what I've
 
 00:41:48.039 --> 00:41:50.041
 found in the practical
 
 00:41:50.121 --> 00:41:52.702
 application of this method,
 
 00:41:53.003 --> 00:41:53.963
 if you want to call it a method,
 
 00:41:54.083 --> 00:41:55.085
 the beingness,
 
 00:41:56.445 --> 00:41:58.567
 I think it's challenging to
 
 00:41:58.606 --> 00:42:00.789
 try to clear your mind and be self-aware
 
 00:42:02.313 --> 00:42:03.713
 when you are in fight, flight,
 
 00:42:03.753 --> 00:42:05.614
 fawn or freeze or trauma response,
 
 00:42:06.074 --> 00:42:07.155
 because just
 
 00:42:07.195 --> 00:42:09.275
 physiologically how the brain works,
 
 00:42:10.757 --> 00:42:11.936
 you're activating this old
 
 00:42:11.976 --> 00:42:13.257
 part of the brain that is
 
 00:42:13.338 --> 00:42:14.898
 helping you try to stay alive.
 
 00:42:14.998 --> 00:42:16.298
 And it's when we perpetuate
 
 00:42:16.318 --> 00:42:17.460
 the story of it,
 
 00:42:18.239 --> 00:42:19.400
 whatever just happened to us
 
 00:42:19.460 --> 00:42:21.061
 that we you know continue
 
 00:42:21.081 --> 00:42:22.722
 to create the suffering but
 
 00:42:22.981 --> 00:42:24.463
 I know so many people and
 
 00:42:24.483 --> 00:42:25.963
 myself for years that
 
 00:42:26.043 --> 00:42:27.523
 struggled you being my
 
 00:42:27.583 --> 00:42:29.005
 measuring stick to my ego
 
 00:42:29.385 --> 00:42:30.346
 I'm trying to find peace
 
 00:42:30.385 --> 00:42:31.885
 like matt you know and
 
 00:42:31.985 --> 00:42:33.367
 honestly until I figured
 
 00:42:33.507 --> 00:42:35.427
 out it's not in my mind
 
 00:42:36.007 --> 00:42:36.648
 I thought I was going to
 
 00:42:36.708 --> 00:42:37.829
 think my way out of it.
 
 00:42:38.208 --> 00:42:39.148
 I was going to find a new
 
 00:42:39.208 --> 00:42:42.230
 book or a new way or method.
 
 00:42:42.449 --> 00:42:42.909
 And of course,
 
 00:42:42.989 --> 00:42:44.911
 MindBodyDetox helped so much.
 
 00:42:45.190 --> 00:42:45.990
 And you know why the
 
 00:42:46.010 --> 00:42:46.990
 difference between that and
 
 00:42:47.110 --> 00:42:49.132
 any other mental process
 
 00:42:49.211 --> 00:42:50.911
 book media out there is
 
 00:42:50.931 --> 00:42:53.273
 because it had tools to
 
 00:42:53.413 --> 00:42:55.273
 actually downregulate the
 
 00:42:55.313 --> 00:42:56.753
 stress response in the body
 
 00:42:57.213 --> 00:42:59.135
 enough so that that thinking mind
 
 00:42:59.934 --> 00:43:01.416
 That could discern the
 
 00:43:01.456 --> 00:43:02.777
 observer that could make a
 
 00:43:02.818 --> 00:43:03.498
 decision and say,
 
 00:43:03.538 --> 00:43:04.458
 I'm not going to choose to
 
 00:43:04.498 --> 00:43:06.139
 think that or I'm going to let that go.
 
 00:43:06.541 --> 00:43:08.603
 That part was so in the background.
 
 00:43:09.342 --> 00:43:09.983
 And I don't think it could
 
 00:43:10.023 --> 00:43:11.324
 come on because the ego,
 
 00:43:11.565 --> 00:43:12.626
 not only the mental body
 
 00:43:12.666 --> 00:43:13.606
 wanted to protect itself,
 
 00:43:13.967 --> 00:43:15.467
 but I think the physical form.
 
 00:43:16.289 --> 00:43:17.769
 The ego in its physical form
 
 00:43:17.789 --> 00:43:19.811
 so it doesn't die was just
 
 00:43:19.851 --> 00:43:21.351
 chronically in this stress, stress,
 
 00:43:21.371 --> 00:43:22.152
 stress, stress, stress.
 
 00:43:22.432 --> 00:43:23.713
 So I feel like I want to say
 
 00:43:23.753 --> 00:43:24.574
 that because some people
 
 00:43:24.594 --> 00:43:26.074
 get so frustrated with
 
 00:43:26.094 --> 00:43:28.315
 themselves of trying to
 
 00:43:28.335 --> 00:43:29.356
 wake up or trying to be
 
 00:43:29.416 --> 00:43:31.077
 present or trying to be peaceful.
 
 00:43:31.797 --> 00:43:32.737
 And I think that they're
 
 00:43:32.797 --> 00:43:34.619
 sometimes going about it in a wrong way.
 
 00:43:34.679 --> 00:43:35.778
 You can't think your way out of it.
 
 00:43:35.798 --> 00:43:37.898
 You might need to use some tool,
 
 00:43:37.978 --> 00:43:38.880
 maybe even someone else
 
 00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:39.900
 giving you body work or
 
 00:43:39.940 --> 00:43:41.559
 Reiki for a period of time.
 
 00:43:41.980 --> 00:43:43.041
 So you have a reference
 
 00:43:43.101 --> 00:43:44.460
 point of what it feels like
 
 00:43:44.501 --> 00:43:45.541
 to be relaxed.
 
 00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:46.481
 Because if you don't have a
 
 00:43:46.541 --> 00:43:47.442
 reference point to be
 
 00:43:47.481 --> 00:43:49.382
 relaxed or be calm or
 
 00:43:50.001 --> 00:43:51.222
 you're not going to be able to meditate,
 
 00:43:51.802 --> 00:43:53.063
 you're going to just, you know.
 
 00:43:53.657 --> 00:43:53.838
 Well,
 
 00:43:53.978 --> 00:43:55.298
 I think that it's important to
 
 00:43:55.358 --> 00:43:57.099
 remember that the intention
 
 00:43:57.219 --> 00:43:58.981
 of being present is not
 
 00:43:59.021 --> 00:44:00.442
 about clearing your mind,
 
 00:44:00.902 --> 00:44:02.882
 but rather identifying the
 
 00:44:02.923 --> 00:44:04.704
 fact that you are not your mind.
 
 00:44:05.105 --> 00:44:06.264
 You are not your thoughts.
 
 00:44:06.606 --> 00:44:07.786
 You are not the things that
 
 00:44:07.985 --> 00:44:09.047
 are telling you whether
 
 00:44:09.086 --> 00:44:10.867
 this is a good moment or a bad moment,
 
 00:44:11.047 --> 00:44:11.688
 whether you're a good
 
 00:44:11.728 --> 00:44:13.190
 meditator or a bad meditator,
 
 00:44:13.210 --> 00:44:14.150
 whether you've achieved it,
 
 00:44:14.190 --> 00:44:14.871
 whether you have to keep
 
 00:44:14.891 --> 00:44:16.130
 your eyes closed and sit
 
 00:44:16.170 --> 00:44:17.351
 like this for another five
 
 00:44:17.391 --> 00:44:18.753
 minutes or whatever the
 
 00:44:18.793 --> 00:44:19.974
 story might be that's going
 
 00:44:20.034 --> 00:44:20.634
 on in your head.
 
 00:44:21.811 --> 00:44:24.152
 However you are experiencing
 
 00:44:24.614 --> 00:44:27.976
 the practice of awakening
 
 00:44:28.235 --> 00:44:29.876
 is exactly right.
 
 00:44:30.297 --> 00:44:31.597
 There is no wrong way.
 
 00:44:32.197 --> 00:44:33.639
 And the more that you can
 
 00:44:33.778 --> 00:44:36.260
 let go of the idea that
 
 00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:37.521
 there is a right way,
 
 00:44:37.541 --> 00:44:38.802
 because ultimately when we
 
 00:44:38.862 --> 00:44:40.021
 talk about letting go,
 
 00:44:40.262 --> 00:44:41.603
 we're talking about letting
 
 00:44:41.682 --> 00:44:43.503
 go of the assumption that
 
 00:44:43.523 --> 00:44:45.545
 you know what's going on right now.
 
 00:44:46.126 --> 00:44:47.106
 Because when you do that,
 
 00:44:47.166 --> 00:44:48.166
 you can approach this
 
 00:44:48.226 --> 00:44:49.967
 moment with curiosity.
 
 00:44:51.536 --> 00:44:53.036
 And that comes when we make
 
 00:44:53.056 --> 00:44:55.476
 the shift of awareness from
 
 00:44:55.697 --> 00:44:57.077
 this physical being,
 
 00:44:57.617 --> 00:44:58.838
 solely this physical being,
 
 00:44:59.137 --> 00:45:01.378
 to understanding the bigger picture,
 
 00:45:01.559 --> 00:45:03.159
 the collective that we're involved with.
 
 00:45:03.458 --> 00:45:06.239
 Then the unknown is no longer scary.
 
 00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:07.019
 It's no longer,
 
 00:45:07.059 --> 00:45:07.920
 I have to figure out what's
 
 00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:08.601
 going on and what
 
 00:45:08.641 --> 00:45:09.880
 everyone's intentions are.
 
 00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:10.521
 Because again,
 
 00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:12.942
 the ego is personalizing all of this.
 
 00:45:13.242 --> 00:45:14.422
 And the pain body that's
 
 00:45:14.461 --> 00:45:16.643
 constantly searching for hunger,
 
 00:45:17.023 --> 00:45:18.324
 this idea that something is
 
 00:45:18.384 --> 00:45:19.724
 wrong and I am in danger
 
 00:45:19.784 --> 00:45:20.585
 and someone's trying to
 
 00:45:20.605 --> 00:45:23.047
 hurt me and they hurt me
 
 00:45:23.086 --> 00:45:24.588
 before and it hurts so bad,
 
 00:45:25.088 --> 00:45:27.010
 that's always looking to
 
 00:45:27.050 --> 00:45:27.989
 perpetuate itself.
 
 00:45:28.570 --> 00:45:30.391
 And so the more that we can be still,
 
 00:45:30.911 --> 00:45:33.213
 that fear can dissipate.
 
 00:45:33.693 --> 00:45:35.375
 Fear cannot withstand the
 
 00:45:35.414 --> 00:45:36.476
 light of presence.
 
 00:45:36.655 --> 00:45:37.536
 If you want to look at
 
 00:45:37.896 --> 00:45:39.538
 awareness being light,
 
 00:45:39.597 --> 00:45:40.518
 like the light bulb going
 
 00:45:40.579 --> 00:45:41.179
 off kind of thing,
 
 00:45:41.518 --> 00:45:44.181
 that fear can only exist in this story.
 
 00:45:44.704 --> 00:45:46.385
 that right now you can be
 
 00:45:46.465 --> 00:45:47.847
 certain of how you are,
 
 00:45:48.088 --> 00:45:49.851
 either in danger or not.
 
 00:45:49.911 --> 00:45:51.052
 If you're in danger,
 
 00:45:51.273 --> 00:45:52.815
 you can remove yourself from danger,
 
 00:45:52.875 --> 00:45:54.157
 but only by paying
 
 00:45:54.177 --> 00:45:55.418
 attention to what's going
 
 00:45:55.539 --> 00:45:56.539
 on in front of you,
 
 00:45:56.599 --> 00:45:57.641
 what's going on with you
 
 00:45:57.902 --> 00:45:58.864
 right here and now.
 
 00:45:59.422 --> 00:46:00.423
 So ultimately,
 
 00:46:00.804 --> 00:46:02.284
 all of that comes down to
 
 00:46:02.304 --> 00:46:03.405
 the stories in your mind.
 
 00:46:03.445 --> 00:46:04.465
 And the thing that we are
 
 00:46:04.485 --> 00:46:06.407
 letting go of is judgment.
 
 00:46:06.786 --> 00:46:08.427
 It's the assumptions that we
 
 00:46:08.527 --> 00:46:10.108
 make about the situations
 
 00:46:10.349 --> 00:46:11.309
 and more importantly,
 
 00:46:11.349 --> 00:46:12.811
 the people that we encounter.
 
 00:46:13.130 --> 00:46:15.271
 That it's not about having
 
 00:46:15.351 --> 00:46:17.253
 amnesia and forgetting all
 
 00:46:17.293 --> 00:46:18.474
 of the things that have happened,
 
 00:46:18.713 --> 00:46:19.875
 including with ourselves,
 
 00:46:19.894 --> 00:46:21.335
 the choices that we have made.
 
 00:46:21.896 --> 00:46:24.297
 But ultimately, when we are unconscious,
 
 00:46:24.396 --> 00:46:25.858
 we have to acknowledge that
 
 00:46:25.898 --> 00:46:27.518
 we will behave out of character.
 
 00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:28.280
 That...
 
 00:46:28.940 --> 00:46:30.041
 We cannot.
 
 00:46:30.701 --> 00:46:31.961
 It's similar to mental health.
 
 00:46:32.182 --> 00:46:33.483
 Mental health is not your fault,
 
 00:46:33.523 --> 00:46:34.925
 but it is your responsibility.
 
 00:46:35.125 --> 00:46:36.865
 Your unconsciousness is not your fault,
 
 00:46:36.905 --> 00:46:38.347
 but it is your responsibility.
 
 00:46:38.646 --> 00:46:40.588
 So sometimes when we make certain choices,
 
 00:46:40.628 --> 00:46:41.730
 when we say certain things,
 
 00:46:42.030 --> 00:46:43.530
 we do have to own up to them.
 
 00:46:43.811 --> 00:46:44.811
 But ultimately,
 
 00:46:45.072 --> 00:46:46.932
 they do not become a part
 
 00:46:46.972 --> 00:46:48.815
 of our identity unless we
 
 00:46:48.974 --> 00:46:50.275
 identify by them.
 
 00:46:51.257 --> 00:46:52.177
 And that just means that
 
 00:46:52.217 --> 00:46:53.097
 we've grabbed onto the
 
 00:46:53.137 --> 00:46:54.659
 thing closest to us rather
 
 00:46:54.679 --> 00:46:56.641
 than what was truly there.
 
 00:46:57.748 --> 00:46:59.668
 We are looking to the finger
 
 00:46:59.708 --> 00:47:01.088
 pointing at the moon rather
 
 00:47:01.108 --> 00:47:01.949
 than the moon itself.
 
 00:47:02.349 --> 00:47:04.010
 We've identified by the label.
 
 00:47:04.389 --> 00:47:07.271
 So the idea of the right way
 
 00:47:07.311 --> 00:47:08.391
 to do something or the
 
 00:47:08.452 --> 00:47:09.711
 wrong way to do something
 
 00:47:10.052 --> 00:47:11.592
 assumes that there is
 
 00:47:11.632 --> 00:47:13.713
 something to achieve.
 
 00:47:13.813 --> 00:47:15.014
 It's not about achieving.
 
 00:47:15.293 --> 00:47:17.255
 It's a perpetual practice.
 
 00:47:17.695 --> 00:47:19.175
 And the more that you practice,
 
 00:47:19.414 --> 00:47:20.755
 the more you gravitate
 
 00:47:20.795 --> 00:47:22.335
 towards paying attention
 
 00:47:22.675 --> 00:47:23.956
 rather than trying to
 
 00:47:23.996 --> 00:47:25.617
 figure out how you feel about it.
 
 00:47:26.538 --> 00:47:27.257
 Yeah.
 
 00:47:28.072 --> 00:47:29.652
 Well,
 
 00:47:29.693 --> 00:47:33.875
 the information that we're talking about,
 
 00:47:34.715 --> 00:47:36.817
 going back to the beginning
 
 00:47:36.856 --> 00:47:37.936
 of the book that says this
 
 00:47:37.996 --> 00:47:39.057
 isn't about information.
 
 00:47:39.418 --> 00:47:40.398
 It's not about trying to
 
 00:47:40.438 --> 00:47:41.539
 convince you of something.
 
 00:47:43.300 --> 00:47:44.240
 It's interesting because we
 
 00:47:44.260 --> 00:47:45.842
 could talk around the topic,
 
 00:47:46.282 --> 00:47:47.862
 trying to point to it like you said.
 
 00:47:49.684 --> 00:47:50.083
 forever.
 
 00:47:50.784 --> 00:47:52.105
 And what's really beautiful
 
 00:47:52.184 --> 00:47:52.864
 is people send you
 
 00:47:52.905 --> 00:47:55.706
 questions specifically about this topic,
 
 00:47:55.726 --> 00:47:58.626
 about how do I find balance
 
 00:47:58.646 --> 00:47:59.606
 between being present or
 
 00:47:59.626 --> 00:48:01.588
 being spiritual in a world
 
 00:48:01.708 --> 00:48:02.547
 that's materialistic?
 
 00:48:02.967 --> 00:48:05.329
 How can I use the tools of
 
 00:48:05.369 --> 00:48:06.509
 mindfulness to help me with
 
 00:48:06.528 --> 00:48:07.489
 my relationships?
 
 00:48:08.028 --> 00:48:08.869
 Or there's a lot of
 
 00:48:08.889 --> 00:48:10.130
 questions that people send.
 
 00:48:10.449 --> 00:48:11.550
 And so I encourage if you
 
 00:48:11.590 --> 00:48:12.690
 have questions around
 
 00:48:13.806 --> 00:48:15.726
 awakening, your own personal awakening.
 
 00:48:15.766 --> 00:48:17.248
 How do I expand my consciousness?
 
 00:48:17.288 --> 00:48:19.730
 How do I be a more peaceful person?
 
 00:48:19.769 --> 00:48:20.590
 How do I invite more
 
 00:48:20.630 --> 00:48:21.690
 presence into my life?
 
 00:48:22.210 --> 00:48:23.512
 Or I'm trying to lose weight
 
 00:48:23.652 --> 00:48:25.172
 and I don't want to judge
 
 00:48:25.253 --> 00:48:26.432
 myself for losing weight
 
 00:48:26.452 --> 00:48:27.273
 because that's the ego.
 
 00:48:27.693 --> 00:48:28.295
 There are all these
 
 00:48:28.355 --> 00:48:29.695
 questions because the ego
 
 00:48:29.735 --> 00:48:30.976
 will create stories and it
 
 00:48:30.996 --> 00:48:32.536
 can be like a mind maze of
 
 00:48:32.597 --> 00:48:33.518
 trying to figure out...
 
 00:48:34.277 --> 00:48:35.619
 Is this actually a story?
 
 00:48:36.619 --> 00:48:37.840
 Am I absorbing myself?
 
 00:48:37.900 --> 00:48:39.840
 Am I still stuck in an unconsciousness?
 
 00:48:40.201 --> 00:48:41.101
 And then people don't trust
 
 00:48:41.121 --> 00:48:42.663
 themselves sometimes on
 
 00:48:42.702 --> 00:48:43.563
 this process till they
 
 00:48:43.643 --> 00:48:44.983
 actually can learn to trust
 
 00:48:45.023 --> 00:48:48.144
 that own essence beyond the identity.
 
 00:48:48.505 --> 00:48:49.746
 Even though that's the ego too.
 
 00:48:49.766 --> 00:48:51.047
 Correct.
 
 00:48:51.266 --> 00:48:53.429
 and I do think that is still
 
 00:48:53.528 --> 00:48:54.929
 nice to have someone point
 
 00:48:55.231 --> 00:48:56.851
 holds the sign here's a
 
 00:48:56.891 --> 00:48:58.293
 question and then you hold
 
 00:48:58.333 --> 00:48:59.393
 the sign up and it points
 
 00:48:59.414 --> 00:49:00.856
 in that direction like okay
 
 00:49:01.195 --> 00:49:02.137
 and then next week here's
 
 00:49:02.177 --> 00:49:03.097
 another question oh here
 
 00:49:03.117 --> 00:49:04.259
 let me pull the sign up and
 
 00:49:04.278 --> 00:49:05.300
 it points in this direction
 
 00:49:05.639 --> 00:49:06.601
 and I find it to be very
 
 00:49:06.641 --> 00:49:08.262
 helpful for our listeners
 
 00:49:08.583 --> 00:49:09.543
 so if you're not already a
 
 00:49:09.603 --> 00:49:10.905
 part of our online community
 
 00:49:11.525 --> 00:49:13.125
 It is amazing.
 
 00:49:13.364 --> 00:49:14.425
 I encourage you to join.
 
 00:49:14.525 --> 00:49:15.326
 I will put the information
 
 00:49:15.346 --> 00:49:16.005
 in the show notes,
 
 00:49:16.385 --> 00:49:17.806
 but send Matt your questions.
 
 00:49:17.905 --> 00:49:19.545
 There is a video archive of
 
 00:49:19.726 --> 00:49:20.947
 all these questions and
 
 00:49:21.027 --> 00:49:22.367
 answers that you have gone through.
 
 00:49:22.947 --> 00:49:24.007
 And you know,
 
 00:49:24.067 --> 00:49:24.746
 one of the questions I'm
 
 00:49:24.786 --> 00:49:25.606
 going to ask here,
 
 00:49:25.927 --> 00:49:26.768
 we have two more questions
 
 00:49:26.807 --> 00:49:28.487
 to kind of wrap up our show.
 
 00:49:29.327 --> 00:49:30.467
 The next question is,
 
 00:49:31.027 --> 00:49:31.827
 and I think this is really
 
 00:49:31.847 --> 00:49:33.369
 important because I think
 
 00:49:33.429 --> 00:49:36.009
 we take spirituality and
 
 00:49:36.068 --> 00:49:37.128
 this topic and the
 
 00:49:37.168 --> 00:49:38.230
 meditating Buddha and the
 
 00:49:38.269 --> 00:49:40.409
 meditating man alone in silence and
 
 00:49:41.010 --> 00:49:42.271
 quiet, serious.
 
 00:49:43.211 --> 00:49:45.833
 How can humor be used as a
 
 00:49:45.893 --> 00:49:47.074
 tool for presence?
 
 00:49:47.454 --> 00:49:48.856
 Because Eckhart Tolle talks
 
 00:49:48.896 --> 00:49:51.778
 about seriousness is a
 
 00:49:51.818 --> 00:49:52.760
 symptom of the ego.
 
 00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:55.061
 So how can laughter help us
 
 00:49:55.181 --> 00:49:56.202
 access consciousness?
 
 00:49:56.543 --> 00:49:57.103
 For me,
 
 00:49:57.884 --> 00:50:00.545
 I found great humor as I learned
 
 00:50:00.565 --> 00:50:03.188
 about space, the universe, astronomy,
 
 00:50:03.407 --> 00:50:04.688
 as opposed to the astrology
 
 00:50:04.949 --> 00:50:05.889
 that I also know about.
 
 00:50:06.050 --> 00:50:08.492
 It's the idea that we are on a rock
 
 00:50:09.175 --> 00:50:10.978
 being hurled through space.
 
 00:50:10.998 --> 00:50:15.608
 And we think that whether or
 
 00:50:15.668 --> 00:50:17.170
 not our coupon is going to
 
 00:50:17.210 --> 00:50:18.994
 work at the self-checkout is important.
 
 00:50:19.721 --> 00:50:21.181
 Right?
 
 00:50:21.202 --> 00:50:22.161
 It's really, really hard.
 
 00:50:22.242 --> 00:50:23.103
 Every time you say that,
 
 00:50:23.143 --> 00:50:24.463
 like I look up at the stars
 
 00:50:24.903 --> 00:50:26.065
 and I look at this and I
 
 00:50:26.105 --> 00:50:26.724
 look at the Hubble
 
 00:50:26.764 --> 00:50:29.045
 telescope and now the Jim, what is it?
 
 00:50:29.085 --> 00:50:30.327
 The James Webb.
 
 00:50:30.666 --> 00:50:31.387
 James Webb.
 
 00:50:31.527 --> 00:50:32.208
 Sorry, it's Jim.
 
 00:50:32.268 --> 00:50:32.949
 Jimmy Webb.
 
 00:50:33.088 --> 00:50:35.110
 Jimmy Webb.
 
 00:50:35.130 --> 00:50:36.630
 We'll call him Jimmy for short.
 
 00:50:37.351 --> 00:50:41.653
 How, I still, I understand it mentally.
 
 00:50:43.052 --> 00:50:44.193
 But I really don't think
 
 00:50:44.233 --> 00:50:45.856
 that it's actually set in
 
 00:50:45.996 --> 00:50:47.458
 as a realization because
 
 00:50:47.478 --> 00:50:49.943
 it's so big for my human
 
 00:50:49.983 --> 00:50:51.264
 consciousness to understand.
 
 00:50:51.672 --> 00:50:52.914
 It's scary for the ego.
 
 00:50:52.994 --> 00:50:53.213
 Yes.
 
 00:50:53.293 --> 00:50:55.775
 It's scary to understand.
 
 00:50:55.795 --> 00:50:56.976
 So I think there might be a block like,
 
 00:50:57.077 --> 00:50:58.498
 I don't really want to look at that.
 
 00:50:58.518 --> 00:50:59.099
 I don't know.
 
 00:50:59.119 --> 00:51:00.139
 I'll look into that deeper.
 
 00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:03.561
 Humor serves a vital role, though.
 
 00:51:03.641 --> 00:51:04.503
 It really does.
 
 00:51:04.543 --> 00:51:05.682
 Humor serves a vital role in
 
 00:51:05.724 --> 00:51:07.204
 awakening because the ego
 
 00:51:07.445 --> 00:51:09.186
 looks at every situation as
 
 00:51:09.266 --> 00:51:11.288
 dire because this is going
 
 00:51:11.367 --> 00:51:12.929
 to be a part of my story.
 
 00:51:13.009 --> 00:51:14.130
 And I have to make sure that
 
 00:51:14.230 --> 00:51:16.170
 I choose what part of the
 
 00:51:16.210 --> 00:51:18.152
 story I construct, right?
 
 00:51:18.353 --> 00:51:20.373
 The one that I grab a hold of and say,
 
 00:51:20.393 --> 00:51:21.114
 this is my now.
 
 00:51:21.434 --> 00:51:23.898
 So you're doing this to me again.
 
 00:51:24.038 --> 00:51:25.159
 My identity is now the
 
 00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:26.121
 victim of the thing that
 
 00:51:26.141 --> 00:51:26.802
 you're doing to me,
 
 00:51:26.902 --> 00:51:28.423
 or I know more than you.
 
 00:51:28.543 --> 00:51:30.186
 And therefore my identity is
 
 00:51:30.226 --> 00:51:31.507
 the person who's smarter
 
 00:51:31.527 --> 00:51:32.688
 than you or wiser than you.
 
 00:51:33.148 --> 00:51:34.230
 All of these things
 
 00:51:34.570 --> 00:51:35.972
 ultimately are done out of
 
 00:51:36.032 --> 00:51:37.193
 great seriousness.
 
 00:51:37.534 --> 00:51:38.916
 But when we realize that
 
 00:51:39.096 --> 00:51:41.036
 The only reason we can hold
 
 00:51:41.197 --> 00:51:42.376
 on to those identities is
 
 00:51:42.416 --> 00:51:43.556
 because we also make the
 
 00:51:43.577 --> 00:51:45.016
 assumption and assume that
 
 00:51:45.157 --> 00:51:46.157
 others will make the
 
 00:51:46.177 --> 00:51:48.358
 assumption about those identities.
 
 00:51:48.478 --> 00:51:48.657
 Right.
 
 00:51:48.978 --> 00:51:49.798
 That, well, no,
 
 00:51:49.838 --> 00:51:50.858
 that's not who I'm trying
 
 00:51:50.878 --> 00:51:52.599
 to be or I'm not that type of person.
 
 00:51:52.619 --> 00:51:53.858
 Why would they say that about me?
 
 00:51:54.159 --> 00:51:55.199
 And all of a sudden our ego
 
 00:51:55.260 --> 00:51:56.519
 is threatened by the
 
 00:51:56.559 --> 00:51:57.980
 perception of others when
 
 00:51:58.039 --> 00:51:59.800
 we can laugh about it.
 
 00:52:00.666 --> 00:52:03.688
 put these moments into ridiculous terms,
 
 00:52:04.028 --> 00:52:05.010
 a phrase that I use with
 
 00:52:05.050 --> 00:52:06.150
 people all the time is that
 
 00:52:06.590 --> 00:52:08.753
 if I were to call you a dolphin,
 
 00:52:08.773 --> 00:52:09.653
 it doesn't make you grow
 
 00:52:09.693 --> 00:52:10.994
 flippers in a blowhole, right?
 
 00:52:11.295 --> 00:52:12.496
 It's the idea that just
 
 00:52:12.536 --> 00:52:13.817
 because I apply a label to
 
 00:52:13.856 --> 00:52:15.798
 you does not turn you into that thing.
 
 00:52:15.838 --> 00:52:17.179
 It's not some magical spell
 
 00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:18.201
 that I'm casting on you
 
 00:52:18.521 --> 00:52:20.101
 unless your ego is involved.
 
 00:52:20.382 --> 00:52:21.864
 And then it is the most
 
 00:52:22.603 --> 00:52:24.626
 archaic and perfect spell
 
 00:52:24.666 --> 00:52:25.686
 for me to cast on you
 
 00:52:26.007 --> 00:52:28.007
 because the ego is looking
 
 00:52:28.068 --> 00:52:28.969
 for those things.
 
 00:52:29.188 --> 00:52:30.730
 The ego is constantly
 
 00:52:30.811 --> 00:52:31.971
 searching for a new
 
 00:52:32.090 --> 00:52:33.331
 identity or something to
 
 00:52:33.532 --> 00:52:34.753
 add to the identity.
 
 00:52:35.054 --> 00:52:36.315
 And so when we can approach
 
 00:52:36.355 --> 00:52:38.817
 the ego with lightheartedness,
 
 00:52:39.097 --> 00:52:40.458
 not laughing at it because
 
 00:52:40.478 --> 00:52:41.559
 the ego will grab a hold of
 
 00:52:41.599 --> 00:52:42.518
 that and turn that into an
 
 00:52:42.599 --> 00:52:44.581
 identity really quick too of, oh,
 
 00:52:44.621 --> 00:52:45.581
 they're just laughing at me.
 
 00:52:45.601 --> 00:52:46.623
 They think they're better than me.
 
 00:52:46.663 --> 00:52:47.722
 They're present all the time,
 
 00:52:47.742 --> 00:52:48.384
 but they're not paying
 
 00:52:48.423 --> 00:52:49.585
 attention to what's going on.
 
 00:52:49.605 --> 00:52:51.085
 They're just in the clouds all the time.
 
 00:52:51.286 --> 00:52:53.047
 They aren't dealing with reality.
 
 00:52:53.327 --> 00:52:54.987
 Reality is hard, right?
 
 00:52:55.268 --> 00:52:57.208
 All of these voices start to talk.
 
 00:52:57.548 --> 00:52:59.289
 But then when we can be still,
 
 00:52:59.610 --> 00:53:01.289
 we can look at that just
 
 00:53:01.349 --> 00:53:04.452
 the same as we watch sports
 
 00:53:04.472 --> 00:53:05.612
 fans in the bleachers.
 
 00:53:07.092 --> 00:53:09.114
 They will literally fight each other.
 
 00:53:10.416 --> 00:53:13.858
 over these guys running around on grass,
 
 00:53:14.018 --> 00:53:15.661
 passing a ball back and forth, right?
 
 00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:18.402
 The people have a sign on
 
 00:53:18.443 --> 00:53:19.903
 their lawn different than
 
 00:53:19.943 --> 00:53:21.126
 the sign on the lawn of the
 
 00:53:21.166 --> 00:53:21.925
 person next to them.
 
 00:53:22.226 --> 00:53:23.547
 They will get into physical
 
 00:53:23.708 --> 00:53:25.489
 altercations with each other over this,
 
 00:53:25.809 --> 00:53:26.030
 right?
 
 00:53:26.449 --> 00:53:28.592
 Because this is serious stuff.
 
 00:53:29.193 --> 00:53:31.815
 My ego needs this identity
 
 00:53:31.894 --> 00:53:33.175
 and I'm willing to fight to
 
 00:53:33.215 --> 00:53:34.097
 the death about it.
 
 00:53:34.637 --> 00:53:35.918
 And many people have.
 
 00:53:36.730 --> 00:53:37.951
 Or they become paranoid
 
 00:53:37.992 --> 00:53:38.711
 because of what they
 
 00:53:38.731 --> 00:53:39.492
 believe in their head.
 
 00:53:39.693 --> 00:53:40.534
 This is the collective
 
 00:53:40.594 --> 00:53:41.896
 insanity that Eckhart Tolle
 
 00:53:41.916 --> 00:53:42.617
 is talking about.
 
 00:53:42.817 --> 00:53:43.257
 Right, right.
 
 00:53:43.318 --> 00:53:44.798
 It's that identification by
 
 00:53:44.858 --> 00:53:46.780
 things that are not your identity.
 
 00:53:47.121 --> 00:53:48.242
 And the collective
 
 00:53:48.362 --> 00:53:49.824
 encouragement to do that,
 
 00:53:50.065 --> 00:53:51.646
 that you need to buy this...
 
 00:53:52.668 --> 00:53:54.429
 These shoes or this watch or
 
 00:53:54.469 --> 00:53:55.690
 these clothes or you need
 
 00:53:55.730 --> 00:53:57.351
 to eat at this place or
 
 00:53:57.371 --> 00:53:58.391
 shop at this store.
 
 00:53:58.791 --> 00:54:00.994
 Otherwise, you are not normal.
 
 00:54:01.333 --> 00:54:02.333
 Something's wrong with you.
 
 00:54:02.373 --> 00:54:02.934
 You're weird.
 
 00:54:02.954 --> 00:54:03.574
 You're strange.
 
 00:54:03.815 --> 00:54:05.396
 You don't you aren't married
 
 00:54:05.416 --> 00:54:06.637
 with two point five kids on
 
 00:54:06.657 --> 00:54:07.458
 a white picket fence.
 
 00:54:07.478 --> 00:54:09.978
 You don't have two jobs that
 
 00:54:09.998 --> 00:54:11.460
 you're supporting yourself by.
 
 00:54:11.661 --> 00:54:12.280
 You don't have.
 
 00:54:12.601 --> 00:54:14.202
 the normal thing for people
 
 00:54:14.222 --> 00:54:15.322
 that they're used to seeing
 
 00:54:15.342 --> 00:54:16.103
 in the world around them.
 
 00:54:16.244 --> 00:54:17.945
 And what that does is it
 
 00:54:18.025 --> 00:54:19.606
 makes people pay attention.
 
 00:54:19.846 --> 00:54:21.067
 Why aren't you the same?
 
 00:54:21.407 --> 00:54:23.228
 And that threatens the ego.
 
 00:54:23.449 --> 00:54:25.130
 The ego comes up in them and says,
 
 00:54:25.469 --> 00:54:26.871
 I can't put you in a box.
 
 00:54:26.931 --> 00:54:28.172
 I can't assume that I know
 
 00:54:28.192 --> 00:54:29.512
 who you are and therefore
 
 00:54:29.532 --> 00:54:30.873
 you're dangerous to me
 
 00:54:31.173 --> 00:54:32.655
 because I can't figure you out.
 
 00:54:33.074 --> 00:54:35.556
 And so when you can step back from that,
 
 00:54:35.956 --> 00:54:37.378
 you can identify that
 
 00:54:37.438 --> 00:54:40.179
 discomfort and realize that
 
 00:54:40.239 --> 00:54:42.800
 you don't need to put them in a box.
 
 00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:44.081
 You only need to pay
 
 00:54:44.101 --> 00:54:45.481
 attention to what they're doing now,
 
 00:54:45.521 --> 00:54:48.483
 because even if this person is dangerous,
 
 00:54:49.063 --> 00:54:50.465
 the only moment in which
 
 00:54:50.505 --> 00:54:52.045
 they can harm you is now.
 
 00:54:53.190 --> 00:54:53.351
 Right.
 
 00:54:53.731 --> 00:54:55.893
 Because if you cannot pay
 
 00:54:55.932 --> 00:54:57.394
 attention to what's going on,
 
 00:54:57.635 --> 00:54:58.956
 you'll be in this story of
 
 00:54:58.996 --> 00:54:59.817
 they're going to do this.
 
 00:54:59.896 --> 00:55:02.239
 And you could be paranoid
 
 00:55:02.298 --> 00:55:04.019
 navigating the aisles of
 
 00:55:04.059 --> 00:55:04.860
 the grocery store,
 
 00:55:04.900 --> 00:55:05.922
 making sure that you don't
 
 00:55:05.961 --> 00:55:07.163
 bump into this person and
 
 00:55:07.202 --> 00:55:09.184
 their cart full of bleach.
 
 00:55:09.605 --> 00:55:10.485
 And you don't because
 
 00:55:10.505 --> 00:55:11.405
 they're definitely there's
 
 00:55:11.425 --> 00:55:12.186
 a body at home.
 
 00:55:12.226 --> 00:55:12.967
 And I know that's what
 
 00:55:13.007 --> 00:55:14.409
 they're doing and they're dangerous.
 
 00:55:14.469 --> 00:55:15.829
 I have to watch out for this person.
 
 00:55:16.170 --> 00:55:16.931
 And lo and behold,
 
 00:55:16.951 --> 00:55:18.211
 they come through with
 
 00:55:18.251 --> 00:55:19.612
 their business card that
 
 00:55:19.652 --> 00:55:20.574
 they run a laundromat.
 
 00:55:20.813 --> 00:55:20.994
 You know,
 
 00:55:21.313 --> 00:55:22.755
 you've created this whole story
 
 00:55:22.775 --> 00:55:23.835
 about this danger and
 
 00:55:23.896 --> 00:55:25.096
 reacted with your
 
 00:55:25.135 --> 00:55:26.396
 environment based upon it,
 
 00:55:26.737 --> 00:55:29.199
 with only the assumptions
 
 00:55:29.239 --> 00:55:31.280
 in your mind based upon the past,
 
 00:55:31.380 --> 00:55:32.661
 the stories that you're telling yourself.
 
 00:55:33.181 --> 00:55:34.601
 But when we come into this moment,
 
 00:55:34.641 --> 00:55:35.442
 when you pay attention to
 
 00:55:35.461 --> 00:55:36.623
 what's going on in front of us,
 
 00:55:36.882 --> 00:55:39.043
 we can step back from this
 
 00:55:39.384 --> 00:55:40.965
 need to identify someone as
 
 00:55:41.065 --> 00:55:42.846
 normal or not dangerous or not.
 
 00:55:43.106 --> 00:55:44.646
 And we can pay attention to
 
 00:55:44.766 --> 00:55:46.088
 everyone equally.
 
 00:55:47.469 --> 00:55:49.271
 without the judgment, without the labeling,
 
 00:55:49.311 --> 00:55:51.295
 without needing to fit them in a box.
 
 00:55:51.534 --> 00:55:52.576
 And it doesn't mean that we
 
 00:55:52.657 --> 00:55:53.938
 sit in this ignorance.
 
 00:55:53.998 --> 00:55:55.139
 It's not about that either.
 
 00:55:55.199 --> 00:55:58.465
 Again, our mind serves the role of a tool.
 
 00:55:58.704 --> 00:56:00.748
 It's there to help us through life,
 
 00:56:01.128 --> 00:56:03.492
 not to navigate us through life.
 
 00:56:04.402 --> 00:56:06.003
 A big difference there of
 
 00:56:06.264 --> 00:56:07.144
 being a part of the
 
 00:56:07.186 --> 00:56:08.527
 decision making versus
 
 00:56:08.706 --> 00:56:09.748
 making the decisions.
 
 00:56:10.047 --> 00:56:10.648
 Big difference.
 
 00:56:11.128 --> 00:56:12.309
 And all we have to do is be
 
 00:56:12.329 --> 00:56:13.431
 the conscious awareness,
 
 00:56:14.251 --> 00:56:15.572
 paying attention to those
 
 00:56:15.612 --> 00:56:16.494
 thought processes,
 
 00:56:16.813 --> 00:56:18.155
 as well as what's going on
 
 00:56:18.215 --> 00:56:19.376
 in our environment for us
 
 00:56:19.456 --> 00:56:20.818
 to make a unified
 
 00:56:21.057 --> 00:56:22.599
 collective decision and
 
 00:56:22.639 --> 00:56:25.101
 move forward in a present, conscious,
 
 00:56:25.201 --> 00:56:25.722
 loving way.
 
 00:56:27.059 --> 00:56:27.998
 When people become more
 
 00:56:28.059 --> 00:56:28.980
 conscious and aware,
 
 00:56:29.119 --> 00:56:30.760
 it does change how they interact.
 
 00:56:30.780 --> 00:56:32.302
 Like you say, from day to day,
 
 00:56:33.081 --> 00:56:34.322
 you might have a hunch to
 
 00:56:34.362 --> 00:56:35.322
 do something or not fill
 
 00:56:35.342 --> 00:56:36.643
 out that paperwork this day,
 
 00:56:36.664 --> 00:56:38.085
 or you end up skipping it.
 
 00:56:38.125 --> 00:56:39.045
 And then because of that,
 
 00:56:39.065 --> 00:56:41.186
 you end up missing fees or something.
 
 00:56:42.067 --> 00:56:43.186
 If you start to trust the
 
 00:56:43.226 --> 00:56:44.367
 process of life and life
 
 00:56:44.407 --> 00:56:45.047
 living through you,
 
 00:56:45.108 --> 00:56:46.349
 you do really start to have
 
 00:56:46.389 --> 00:56:48.028
 things line up and people
 
 00:56:48.070 --> 00:56:48.769
 come in and you...
 
 00:56:49.510 --> 00:56:50.311
 You dodge a bullet.
 
 00:56:50.331 --> 00:56:50.951
 You're like, wow.
 
 00:56:51.331 --> 00:56:52.132
 And you don't really have to
 
 00:56:52.152 --> 00:56:53.052
 think that far ahead.
 
 00:56:53.092 --> 00:56:54.112
 I think it's still important
 
 00:56:54.132 --> 00:56:56.753
 to be strategic in business
 
 00:56:56.813 --> 00:56:58.514
 or in maybe your planning for the future.
 
 00:56:58.554 --> 00:56:59.675
 But when you're doing it in
 
 00:56:59.695 --> 00:57:01.115
 the present moment and
 
 00:57:01.135 --> 00:57:01.916
 you're feeling out what
 
 00:57:01.936 --> 00:57:03.338
 feels good at that moment, then,
 
 00:57:03.378 --> 00:57:04.237
 of course, in the future,
 
 00:57:04.277 --> 00:57:05.418
 things always change and
 
 00:57:05.458 --> 00:57:06.418
 things might need to pivot.
 
 00:57:06.438 --> 00:57:07.400
 But then you change it in
 
 00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:08.599
 that in that moment.
 
 00:57:09.021 --> 00:57:10.820
 So I think, you know,
 
 00:57:10.840 --> 00:57:12.601
 going back to the moment that the.
 
 00:57:13.943 --> 00:57:15.344
 Sentiment of using humor.
 
 00:57:16.065 --> 00:57:18.849
 I think humor to me has been
 
 00:57:18.929 --> 00:57:21.931
 more helpful than the seriousness,
 
 00:57:22.032 --> 00:57:23.353
 especially when it comes to
 
 00:57:23.474 --> 00:57:25.536
 comparing myself to you.
 
 00:57:25.635 --> 00:57:27.878
 Cause I, I of course love you so much.
 
 00:57:27.938 --> 00:57:29.159
 And then there's,
 
 00:57:29.539 --> 00:57:30.762
 we are awakening partners.
 
 00:57:30.802 --> 00:57:31.623
 This is the term that we
 
 00:57:31.663 --> 00:57:32.623
 started calling each other.
 
 00:57:33.284 --> 00:57:34.324
 And it's beautiful because
 
 00:57:35.367 --> 00:57:36.447
 our label for the
 
 00:57:36.467 --> 00:57:37.688
 definition of awakening partners,
 
 00:57:37.708 --> 00:57:38.570
 because everyone in life
 
 00:57:38.750 --> 00:57:40.152
 can be considered an awakening partner,
 
 00:57:40.472 --> 00:57:41.632
 but the partnership is
 
 00:57:41.753 --> 00:57:42.554
 people that you're in close
 
 00:57:42.594 --> 00:57:43.614
 proximity with that you
 
 00:57:43.635 --> 00:57:44.675
 have spent a lot of time
 
 00:57:44.695 --> 00:57:45.918
 with in your life and that
 
 00:57:45.938 --> 00:57:47.298
 make an impact and support
 
 00:57:47.338 --> 00:57:49.161
 your evolution and your consciousness.
 
 00:57:49.300 --> 00:57:50.201
 Life will give you whatever
 
 00:57:50.240 --> 00:57:51.242
 experience is most helpful
 
 00:57:51.262 --> 00:57:52.663
 for the evolution of your consciousness.
 
 00:57:53.123 --> 00:57:54.583
 There it is again, that quote,
 
 00:57:55.043 --> 00:57:56.423
 and that life has given me
 
 00:57:56.463 --> 00:57:58.184
 you and me and me to you.
 
 00:57:58.264 --> 00:57:58.684
 So we,
 
 00:57:58.864 --> 00:58:02.186
 we have been this amazing catalyst
 
 00:58:02.206 --> 00:58:03.306
 for each other over and
 
 00:58:03.367 --> 00:58:04.208
 over and over again to
 
 00:58:04.228 --> 00:58:05.548
 bring more awareness in.
 
 00:58:06.108 --> 00:58:07.148
 And for the years of me
 
 00:58:07.188 --> 00:58:08.010
 comparing myself and
 
 00:58:08.030 --> 00:58:08.769
 getting frustrated with
 
 00:58:08.789 --> 00:58:09.670
 myself and being that
 
 00:58:09.710 --> 00:58:10.710
 perfectionist and being
 
 00:58:10.731 --> 00:58:11.831
 that type A and thinking
 
 00:58:11.871 --> 00:58:12.431
 that there's this,
 
 00:58:12.851 --> 00:58:13.731
 this finish line that I
 
 00:58:13.751 --> 00:58:14.793
 need to get to be a certain
 
 00:58:14.853 --> 00:58:15.193
 perfectionist.
 
 00:58:15.612 --> 00:58:17.494
 space in which I, you know, the,
 
 00:58:17.534 --> 00:58:18.594
 really the truth is my
 
 00:58:18.695 --> 00:58:20.516
 essence is different than who you are.
 
 00:58:21.436 --> 00:58:23.478
 And my expression of
 
 00:58:23.557 --> 00:58:26.420
 presence in my life may
 
 00:58:26.440 --> 00:58:27.440
 look different than the way
 
 00:58:27.500 --> 00:58:28.481
 you are because your
 
 00:58:28.561 --> 00:58:29.862
 essence is not my essence.
 
 00:58:30.661 --> 00:58:31.103
 But, but,
 
 00:58:31.182 --> 00:58:32.282
 and then we still have our ego
 
 00:58:32.362 --> 00:58:32.943
 identities.
 
 00:58:33.123 --> 00:58:33.844
 They're still there.
 
 00:58:34.244 --> 00:58:34.585
 It's not,
 
 00:58:34.625 --> 00:58:36.166
 they're not gone and they still
 
 00:58:36.206 --> 00:58:37.565
 serve a beautiful role and
 
 00:58:37.585 --> 00:58:38.467
 they're fun to play with.
 
 00:58:38.487 --> 00:58:40.648
 We called her Carla the other day, my ego,
 
 00:58:40.688 --> 00:58:42.068
 when she got involved, we were like,
 
 00:58:42.108 --> 00:58:43.349
 let's just call her Carla because
 
 00:58:43.989 --> 00:58:45.710
 Because when I see it there,
 
 00:58:45.751 --> 00:58:46.891
 just like Carla got
 
 00:58:46.972 --> 00:58:48.592
 activated on the road today
 
 00:58:48.612 --> 00:58:49.952
 when someone pulled out in front of her,
 
 00:58:50.273 --> 00:58:51.034
 and then she immediately
 
 00:58:51.074 --> 00:58:52.713
 went for a second, then she froze.
 
 00:58:53.175 --> 00:58:54.454
 It's still identifying and
 
 00:58:54.494 --> 00:58:55.635
 creating as characters
 
 00:58:55.695 --> 00:58:56.576
 separate from yourself,
 
 00:58:56.596 --> 00:58:58.077
 but I think it's one step
 
 00:58:58.297 --> 00:59:00.297
 in the direction of observing.
 
 00:59:00.478 --> 00:59:02.079
 Even if you create these different voices,
 
 00:59:02.858 --> 00:59:03.960
 the guest I had on recently
 
 00:59:03.980 --> 00:59:05.260
 she calls her brain brenda
 
 00:59:05.521 --> 00:59:06.460
 like brenda does all these
 
 00:59:06.481 --> 00:59:07.161
 things she doesn't know
 
 00:59:07.181 --> 00:59:08.262
 when to call off work she
 
 00:59:08.302 --> 00:59:09.844
 does she works overtime and
 
 00:59:09.864 --> 00:59:10.503
 she doesn't know when to
 
 00:59:10.523 --> 00:59:11.724
 stop I thought that was
 
 00:59:11.764 --> 00:59:12.905
 really really good because
 
 00:59:12.945 --> 00:59:15.106
 it's bringing humor in and
 
 00:59:15.507 --> 00:59:17.307
 specifically our humor that
 
 00:59:17.349 --> 00:59:19.389
 we use all the time now is
 
 00:59:19.730 --> 00:59:21.050
 based on a character from
 
 00:59:21.090 --> 00:59:21.992
 that show I think you
 
 00:59:22.012 --> 00:59:23.311
 should leave the one
 
 00:59:23.351 --> 00:59:24.393
 character that drinks all
 
 00:59:24.413 --> 00:59:27.034
 the wine and she has this like
 
 00:59:28.226 --> 00:59:29.545
 I know better than you.
 
 00:59:29.927 --> 00:59:31.867
 I know, I know better than you.
 
 00:59:32.686 --> 00:59:34.947
 So what is the line that she says exactly?
 
 00:59:34.967 --> 00:59:37.148
 She says, she says,
 
 00:59:37.509 --> 00:59:39.548
 I know that I'm not stupid.
 
 00:59:39.909 --> 00:59:41.329
 I'm smarter than you.
 
 00:59:41.650 --> 00:59:41.809
 Yes.
 
 00:59:41.889 --> 00:59:42.090
 Yes.
 
 00:59:42.230 --> 00:59:43.230
 A lot of times we just say,
 
 00:59:43.510 --> 00:59:44.570
 I'm smarter than you.
 
 00:59:44.751 --> 00:59:45.710
 Cause like whenever I get.
 
 00:59:46.130 --> 00:59:47.731
 triggered or you, you don't do it.
 
 00:59:47.771 --> 00:59:49.733
 You just kind of do it where you, you,
 
 00:59:49.773 --> 00:59:51.695
 you make a joke about whatever it is.
 
 00:59:52.155 --> 00:59:53.297
 And then we just start laughing.
 
 00:59:53.317 --> 00:59:54.777
 We're like, yeah, cause a part of me,
 
 00:59:54.858 --> 00:59:55.679
 and this is what happens.
 
 00:59:55.699 --> 00:59:56.579
 You might want to,
 
 00:59:56.599 --> 00:59:57.659
 this might be fun to apply
 
 00:59:57.699 --> 00:59:58.481
 in your relationship.
 
 00:59:58.521 --> 00:59:59.440
 If you're in a conscious
 
 00:59:59.481 --> 01:00:00.842
 relationship with your partner,
 
 01:00:01.342 --> 01:00:03.083
 like you're still going to
 
 01:00:03.143 --> 01:00:04.405
 trigger each other.
 
 01:00:04.605 --> 01:00:04.905
 Right.
 
 01:00:05.226 --> 01:00:06.306
 But if you catch yourself in
 
 01:00:06.347 --> 01:00:07.688
 that trigger and you have
 
 01:00:07.847 --> 01:00:10.048
 some sort of character that you can,
 
 01:00:10.409 --> 01:00:11.250
 instead of like,
 
 01:00:11.771 --> 01:00:12.771
 cause our ego sometimes
 
 01:00:12.791 --> 01:00:14.152
 doesn't want to say sorry right away.
 
 01:00:14.853 --> 01:00:16.172
 you know like oh my god I
 
 01:00:16.193 --> 01:00:17.094
 was so unconscious I was
 
 01:00:17.114 --> 01:00:18.514
 just a you know huge you
 
 01:00:18.534 --> 01:00:19.773
 know jerk and I just said
 
 01:00:19.813 --> 01:00:22.094
 that to you like right away
 
 01:00:22.474 --> 01:00:23.155
 the ego is still holding
 
 01:00:23.195 --> 01:00:24.175
 tight I don't want to
 
 01:00:24.195 --> 01:00:25.135
 apologize to you right in
 
 01:00:25.155 --> 01:00:27.436
 that moment but instead I
 
 01:00:27.476 --> 01:00:29.255
 can jump right to humor I
 
 01:00:29.295 --> 01:00:31.637
 can be like I know that I'm
 
 01:00:31.697 --> 01:00:33.556
 smarter than you and
 
 01:00:33.577 --> 01:00:34.516
 because you know what I'm
 
 01:00:34.556 --> 01:00:35.777
 talking about that's your
 
 01:00:35.818 --> 01:00:37.318
 cue that you knew that I
 
 01:00:37.338 --> 01:00:38.057
 was completely being
 
 01:00:38.117 --> 01:00:39.137
 unconscious and then we
 
 01:00:39.197 --> 01:00:40.918
 laugh about it and and
 
 01:00:41.699 --> 01:00:42.780
 I don't believe that we even
 
 01:00:43.300 --> 01:00:44.400
 need to apologize to each
 
 01:00:44.440 --> 01:00:45.360
 other at that time because
 
 01:00:45.380 --> 01:00:46.141
 it's already known.
 
 01:00:46.902 --> 01:00:47.643
 Like,
 
 01:00:47.722 --> 01:00:49.503
 and sometimes I still do if it's
 
 01:00:49.583 --> 01:00:51.065
 necessary or you do to me,
 
 01:00:51.085 --> 01:00:51.905
 but I don't think it's,
 
 01:00:52.465 --> 01:00:53.226
 I think it's something that
 
 01:00:53.346 --> 01:00:54.507
 I really like that tool.
 
 01:00:55.306 --> 01:00:56.387
 And I think it's something
 
 01:00:56.427 --> 01:00:57.387
 that every couple who's
 
 01:00:57.889 --> 01:00:58.789
 conscious and trying to be
 
 01:00:58.829 --> 01:00:59.869
 aware in their relationship
 
 01:01:00.250 --> 01:01:03.371
 about when their identities
 
 01:01:03.411 --> 01:01:04.172
 take over and
 
 01:01:05.132 --> 01:01:06.112
 unintentionally harm the
 
 01:01:06.152 --> 01:01:08.875
 other or attack the other or whatever.
 
 01:01:08.934 --> 01:01:10.576
 I think it's a really good thing to use.
 
 01:01:11.181 --> 01:01:11.360
 Yeah,
 
 01:01:11.400 --> 01:01:13.443
 and I think consciousness ultimately
 
 01:01:14.262 --> 01:01:15.043
 presents us with the
 
 01:01:15.103 --> 01:01:16.664
 opportunity to dissolve the
 
 01:01:16.684 --> 01:01:17.965
 division of other.
 
 01:01:18.465 --> 01:01:19.586
 The idea that the only
 
 01:01:19.646 --> 01:01:20.447
 reason we had the
 
 01:01:20.586 --> 01:01:21.588
 altercation in the first
 
 01:01:21.628 --> 01:01:23.349
 place was I believe that
 
 01:01:23.409 --> 01:01:25.791
 you were someone different than me,
 
 01:01:25.911 --> 01:01:27.132
 that we're separate,
 
 01:01:27.152 --> 01:01:28.833
 we're not the same in that
 
 01:01:29.213 --> 01:01:30.173
 fundamental sense.
 
 01:01:30.293 --> 01:01:31.293
 And therefore you're the
 
 01:01:31.434 --> 01:01:33.056
 other and I have to protect
 
 01:01:33.096 --> 01:01:34.697
 myself from you or I have
 
 01:01:34.737 --> 01:01:37.137
 to exert dominance or I
 
 01:01:37.177 --> 01:01:40.159
 have to prove myself or all
 
 01:01:40.179 --> 01:01:40.940
 of these sorts of things.
 
 01:01:41.240 --> 01:01:42.782
 And humor helps us to
 
 01:01:42.822 --> 01:01:43.922
 dissolve all of that and to
 
 01:01:43.983 --> 01:01:45.603
 understand it essentially
 
 01:01:45.643 --> 01:01:46.923
 is a way for us to let go
 
 01:01:47.204 --> 01:01:49.144
 of the situation, of us to move on,
 
 01:01:49.184 --> 01:01:49.385
 you know,
 
 01:01:49.626 --> 01:01:51.987
 that it's just pay attention and
 
 01:01:52.027 --> 01:01:53.748
 keep going.
 
 01:01:54.534 --> 01:01:56.574
 Don't get distracted by all
 
 01:01:56.614 --> 01:01:57.875
 of the stuff that your mind
 
 01:01:57.934 --> 01:01:59.275
 is telling you about what's going on,
 
 01:01:59.434 --> 01:02:00.855
 even in those altercations
 
 01:02:01.054 --> 01:02:02.476
 that you can be just like the duck,
 
 01:02:02.695 --> 01:02:04.215
 shake it off and just swim
 
 01:02:04.255 --> 01:02:05.715
 away like nothing ever happened.
 
 01:02:06.056 --> 01:02:07.797
 Unless we have a point of,
 
 01:02:07.836 --> 01:02:08.677
 like I said earlier,
 
 01:02:08.896 --> 01:02:10.496
 that being your responsibility,
 
 01:02:10.697 --> 01:02:11.777
 even though it's not your fault,
 
 01:02:11.956 --> 01:02:13.418
 still taking that responsibility.
 
 01:02:13.458 --> 01:02:14.958
 And if you feel if the other
 
 01:02:14.998 --> 01:02:15.717
 person is hurt,
 
 01:02:16.018 --> 01:02:17.538
 apologize or whatever you
 
 01:02:17.557 --> 01:02:18.318
 feel you need to do.
 
 01:02:18.659 --> 01:02:19.699
 And there's nothing wrong with that.
 
 01:02:20.219 --> 01:02:21.559
 There's nothing any less
 
 01:02:21.639 --> 01:02:23.800
 present about apologizing
 
 01:02:23.840 --> 01:02:25.121
 because ultimately you can
 
 01:02:25.282 --> 01:02:26.802
 only truly apologize to
 
 01:02:26.862 --> 01:02:27.903
 someone when you are
 
 01:02:27.983 --> 01:02:30.385
 conscious of what you are doing now.
 
 01:02:31.887 --> 01:02:32.166
 Yes.
 
 01:02:32.867 --> 01:02:34.307
 So here's another quote from the book.
 
 01:02:34.507 --> 01:02:35.768
 Awareness is the greatest
 
 01:02:35.969 --> 01:02:37.070
 agent for change.
 
 01:02:37.710 --> 01:02:39.311
 And then to recognize one's
 
 01:02:39.590 --> 01:02:41.373
 own insanity is, of course,
 
 01:02:41.773 --> 01:02:43.574
 the arising of sanity.
 
 01:02:44.213 --> 01:02:45.295
 So once you recognize it,
 
 01:02:45.635 --> 01:02:47.175
 your sanity starts to come online.
 
 01:02:47.436 --> 01:02:48.197
 And this is the beginning of
 
 01:02:48.257 --> 01:02:49.418
 healing and transcendence.
 
 01:02:50.150 --> 01:02:52.614
 And then ego is no more than this.
 
 01:02:53.034 --> 01:02:54.476
 Identification would form,
 
 01:02:54.956 --> 01:02:56.938
 which primarily means thought forms.
 
 01:02:57.478 --> 01:02:58.460
 So those are some other
 
 01:02:58.500 --> 01:03:00.141
 quotes that are popular from the book.
 
 01:03:01.103 --> 01:03:02.103
 The last question I want to
 
 01:03:02.123 --> 01:03:05.407
 go into is this book, A New Earth,
 
 01:03:05.447 --> 01:03:06.768
 is talking about as we each
 
 01:03:06.809 --> 01:03:07.811
 individually awaken.
 
 01:03:08.331 --> 01:03:09.130
 And it is a process.
 
 01:03:09.150 --> 01:03:09.972
 It's a practice.
 
 01:03:10.271 --> 01:03:11.393
 We start to collectively
 
 01:03:11.532 --> 01:03:13.193
 impact everyone around us.
 
 01:03:13.293 --> 01:03:14.333
 And it's a ripple effect.
 
 01:03:14.673 --> 01:03:16.414
 And that's why we have, again,
 
 01:03:16.574 --> 01:03:17.635
 our business, Firefly Hollow,
 
 01:03:17.675 --> 01:03:18.916
 is a conscious business.
 
 01:03:19.016 --> 01:03:20.036
 We're very conscious and
 
 01:03:21.117 --> 01:03:22.557
 aware of who we hire and
 
 01:03:22.617 --> 01:03:24.018
 how we lead and how we
 
 01:03:24.358 --> 01:03:25.699
 together want to evolve and
 
 01:03:25.760 --> 01:03:26.920
 do these types of practices
 
 01:03:27.039 --> 01:03:28.240
 as individual practitioners
 
 01:03:28.280 --> 01:03:29.242
 that make a huge ripple
 
 01:03:29.282 --> 01:03:30.521
 effect to the way we show
 
 01:03:30.621 --> 01:03:32.983
 up for our collective business,
 
 01:03:33.204 --> 01:03:34.603
 the way we show up to our clients,
 
 01:03:34.643 --> 01:03:35.445
 and then the way that we
 
 01:03:35.704 --> 01:03:36.664
 show up in our communities
 
 01:03:36.684 --> 01:03:37.545
 when we go home from work.
 
 01:03:38.246 --> 01:03:38.927
 at the end of the day.
 
 01:03:39.306 --> 01:03:40.347
 So same thing with our
 
 01:03:40.367 --> 01:03:41.867
 Conscious Curious Explorers Club.
 
 01:03:42.168 --> 01:03:43.409
 We have wonderful community
 
 01:03:43.429 --> 01:03:44.449
 members that want to be in
 
 01:03:44.489 --> 01:03:45.931
 community together and want
 
 01:03:45.951 --> 01:03:47.072
 to explore all different
 
 01:03:47.112 --> 01:03:48.773
 types of tools that they
 
 01:03:48.793 --> 01:03:50.833
 can continue to crunch on
 
 01:03:50.853 --> 01:03:51.914
 because our egos just don't
 
 01:03:51.934 --> 01:03:53.135
 want to crunch on information.
 
 01:03:53.396 --> 01:03:54.277
 It still wants to buy that
 
 01:03:54.317 --> 01:03:55.938
 next book or try that other class.
 
 01:03:56.217 --> 01:03:58.099
 And that's okay because all
 
 01:03:58.139 --> 01:03:59.820
 these paths lead to home, right?
 
 01:03:59.920 --> 01:04:02.822
 All the roads lead back to awakening.
 
 01:04:02.983 --> 01:04:04.603
 There's no one right or wrong path.
 
 01:04:04.943 --> 01:04:07.465
 So as we collectively awaken,
 
 01:04:08.487 --> 01:04:09.849
 as Eckhart Tolle predicts
 
 01:04:10.670 --> 01:04:11.692
 what would the world look
 
 01:04:11.731 --> 01:04:13.554
 like fifty years from now
 
 01:04:13.936 --> 01:04:14.896
 and what changes do you
 
 01:04:14.916 --> 01:04:17.101
 think we'd see in everyday
 
 01:04:17.141 --> 01:04:19.344
 life and technology anything
 
 01:04:20.077 --> 01:04:21.557
 I think that consciousness
 
 01:04:22.057 --> 01:04:25.059
 inevitably if we begin to
 
 01:04:25.119 --> 01:04:27.780
 choose love over the fear
 
 01:04:27.820 --> 01:04:30.083
 that we have thus far that
 
 01:04:30.623 --> 01:04:33.603
 it would not only move us
 
 01:04:33.664 --> 01:04:35.445
 forward as a civilization
 
 01:04:35.525 --> 01:04:36.166
 but it would move us
 
 01:04:36.206 --> 01:04:38.367
 forward as a species so a
 
 01:04:38.407 --> 01:04:39.608
 civilization meaning
 
 01:04:40.931 --> 01:04:43.211
 all of these primates that
 
 01:04:43.291 --> 01:04:45.012
 have gotten into these
 
 01:04:45.132 --> 01:04:47.153
 groups and decided that
 
 01:04:47.213 --> 01:04:49.034
 this is reality and this is
 
 01:04:49.054 --> 01:04:51.277
 how things go and you need
 
 01:04:51.317 --> 01:04:52.797
 to worry about your lives
 
 01:04:53.077 --> 01:04:55.179
 and you need to continually
 
 01:04:56.333 --> 01:04:57.574
 find the thing that's
 
 01:04:57.614 --> 01:04:59.175
 missing out and we have it
 
 01:04:59.235 --> 01:05:01.757
 it's for sale um and if
 
 01:05:01.777 --> 01:05:02.757
 you've got that coupon you
 
 01:05:02.777 --> 01:05:03.318
 remember that it's
 
 01:05:03.338 --> 01:05:05.059
 self-checkout and so if you
 
 01:05:05.099 --> 01:05:07.601
 can if you can realize that
 
 01:05:07.681 --> 01:05:09.663
 that story in and of itself
 
 01:05:10.242 --> 01:05:11.704
 is the thing that keeps us
 
 01:05:11.824 --> 01:05:14.045
 in fear in stories in our
 
 01:05:14.085 --> 01:05:15.467
 mind trapped in a space of
 
 01:05:15.606 --> 01:05:17.547
 ego that the awareness
 
 01:05:17.628 --> 01:05:20.610
 would liberate us from the
 
 01:05:20.971 --> 01:05:22.371
 rat race as we say in the
 
 01:05:22.692 --> 01:05:24.512
 parlance of our times and
 
 01:05:26.103 --> 01:05:28.105
 then as a species,
 
 01:05:28.585 --> 01:05:31.826
 it would bring us closer together.
 
 01:05:31.846 --> 01:05:32.726
 Because all you have to do
 
 01:05:32.786 --> 01:05:35.447
 is look at how creatures
 
 01:05:35.487 --> 01:05:36.887
 have evolved over the
 
 01:05:36.907 --> 01:05:37.827
 period of time that they
 
 01:05:37.867 --> 01:05:39.068
 too have been flying
 
 01:05:39.108 --> 01:05:40.407
 through space on this rock.
 
 01:05:41.128 --> 01:05:43.708
 And that ultimately what is
 
 01:05:43.768 --> 01:05:48.789
 available determines how we grow.
 
 01:05:48.929 --> 01:05:51.871
 And so if fear is in our environment,
 
 01:05:52.351 --> 01:05:55.012
 we will adapt to fear.
 
 01:05:55.902 --> 01:05:57.802
 we will identify by these
 
 01:05:57.862 --> 01:05:58.862
 groups that give us the
 
 01:05:58.902 --> 01:06:00.543
 illusion of feeling safe,
 
 01:06:00.983 --> 01:06:02.842
 whether that's our political affiliation,
 
 01:06:02.902 --> 01:06:03.684
 our religion,
 
 01:06:03.744 --> 01:06:05.304
 whether it's our sports team,
 
 01:06:05.563 --> 01:06:07.923
 our ethnicity, where we live,
 
 01:06:08.003 --> 01:06:09.744
 what type of place we live.
 
 01:06:10.065 --> 01:06:11.425
 If we have roommates or our
 
 01:06:11.565 --> 01:06:13.264
 own thousand room mansion,
 
 01:06:13.626 --> 01:06:14.786
 we have all of these things
 
 01:06:14.806 --> 01:06:16.206
 that we identify by.
 
 01:06:16.525 --> 01:06:17.346
 And ultimately,
 
 01:06:17.425 --> 01:06:19.186
 if we would realize that
 
 01:06:19.246 --> 01:06:21.407
 those are simply our circumstances,
 
 01:06:21.927 --> 01:06:23.166
 that is simply what's going
 
 01:06:23.327 --> 01:06:25.668
 on on a linear, on a
 
 01:06:26.088 --> 01:06:29.190
 third dimensional plane,
 
 01:06:29.231 --> 01:06:31.693
 we could unify our efforts.
 
 01:06:32.554 --> 01:06:34.375
 We would no longer focus on
 
 01:06:34.454 --> 01:06:36.717
 trying to be the best and
 
 01:06:36.777 --> 01:06:39.340
 realize that the best way
 
 01:06:39.519 --> 01:06:41.501
 for us to continue the
 
 01:06:41.541 --> 01:06:43.463
 process of awakening is not
 
 01:06:43.503 --> 01:06:44.884
 by cursing the darkness,
 
 01:06:45.244 --> 01:06:47.166
 but by creating a light.
 
 01:06:48.067 --> 01:06:49.108
 And when we do that,
 
 01:06:49.128 --> 01:06:51.269
 when we choose that as individuals,
 
 01:06:51.530 --> 01:06:53.791
 we present other people the
 
 01:06:53.931 --> 01:06:56.032
 opportunity to do that themselves.
 
 01:06:56.373 --> 01:06:58.534
 We show other people, hey,
 
 01:06:58.795 --> 01:06:59.996
 I'm going to slow down at
 
 01:07:00.036 --> 01:07:01.538
 this intersection because I
 
 01:07:01.557 --> 01:07:02.619
 want to make a turn here.
 
 01:07:02.898 --> 01:07:04.300
 And maybe the car behind you
 
 01:07:04.340 --> 01:07:05.780
 has to slow down now too.
 
 01:07:06.081 --> 01:07:07.702
 Maybe they aren't going to turn.
 
 01:07:07.742 --> 01:07:08.483
 Maybe they're going to keep
 
 01:07:08.503 --> 01:07:09.184
 going straight.
 
 01:07:09.503 --> 01:07:11.766
 But now they've slowed down to realize,
 
 01:07:11.985 --> 01:07:12.126
 hey,
 
 01:07:12.146 --> 01:07:14.007
 there are roads that go off of the
 
 01:07:14.047 --> 01:07:14.969
 path that I'm on.
 
 01:07:15.588 --> 01:07:17.849
 And I have my hands on the steering wheel,
 
 01:07:17.989 --> 01:07:19.331
 not just the gas pedal.
 
 01:07:20.210 --> 01:07:21.891
 So when we can be conscious
 
 01:07:21.931 --> 01:07:23.592
 that we are in control of
 
 01:07:23.992 --> 01:07:25.634
 doing the same thing when
 
 01:07:25.693 --> 01:07:26.675
 we don't pay attention.
 
 01:07:27.786 --> 01:07:29.128
 Or we can choose it when we're conscious,
 
 01:07:29.188 --> 01:07:30.309
 but more often than not,
 
 01:07:30.489 --> 01:07:31.510
 we choose the same thing
 
 01:07:31.530 --> 01:07:32.652
 when we are not paying attention.
 
 01:07:32.873 --> 01:07:33.233
 But yet,
 
 01:07:33.393 --> 01:07:34.934
 if we bring conscious awareness to
 
 01:07:34.954 --> 01:07:35.635
 a situation,
 
 01:07:35.896 --> 01:07:37.737
 we not only improve our own lives,
 
 01:07:37.958 --> 01:07:39.039
 but the lives of the people
 
 01:07:39.099 --> 01:07:39.860
 in our environment.
 
 01:07:40.001 --> 01:07:42.724
 And that always ripples out into our world,
 
 01:07:43.025 --> 01:07:45.166
 that we as a singular individual
 
 01:07:45.748 --> 01:07:48.429
 play a huge role in the collective,
 
 01:07:48.869 --> 01:07:50.610
 in helping that collective
 
 01:07:50.871 --> 01:07:52.530
 ego that we talked about earlier,
 
 01:07:52.871 --> 01:07:54.612
 that getting a crack in it,
 
 01:07:54.871 --> 01:07:55.992
 that opening up,
 
 01:07:56.132 --> 01:07:57.773
 us realizing the people who
 
 01:07:57.793 --> 01:07:58.773
 have been the cultural
 
 01:07:58.954 --> 01:08:00.635
 outliers that have always
 
 01:08:00.675 --> 01:08:01.396
 been around for,
 
 01:08:02.115 --> 01:08:03.536
 generations and generations,
 
 01:08:03.577 --> 01:08:04.657
 as far back as history goes,
 
 01:08:04.677 --> 01:08:06.117
 there's always the strange person.
 
 01:08:06.637 --> 01:08:08.398
 And ultimately they don't
 
 01:08:08.438 --> 01:08:10.099
 buy into that collective ego.
 
 01:08:10.280 --> 01:08:11.860
 Sometimes their ego becomes
 
 01:08:11.960 --> 01:08:13.101
 the fact that they are not
 
 01:08:13.141 --> 01:08:14.161
 part of the collective ego,
 
 01:08:14.422 --> 01:08:15.802
 but they also have that
 
 01:08:15.842 --> 01:08:17.264
 opportunity to step back
 
 01:08:17.304 --> 01:08:17.984
 from all of that.
 
 01:08:18.484 --> 01:08:19.805
 And really what it's about
 
 01:08:20.104 --> 01:08:21.725
 is it's the beauty and
 
 01:08:21.786 --> 01:08:23.247
 wisdom of listening to
 
 01:08:23.287 --> 01:08:24.507
 people back before we had
 
 01:08:24.807 --> 01:08:27.469
 modern machinery who were clock makers,
 
 01:08:28.149 --> 01:08:31.150
 that they would spend so much time
 
 01:08:31.530 --> 01:08:33.974
 on each individual tooth of
 
 01:08:34.173 --> 01:08:35.636
 each individual gear,
 
 01:08:35.935 --> 01:08:38.139
 knowing that if any of them was off,
 
 01:08:38.458 --> 01:08:39.500
 it would throw the clock
 
 01:08:39.579 --> 01:08:41.903
 off just a little bit and
 
 01:08:41.922 --> 01:08:43.305
 that they might not notice
 
 01:08:43.345 --> 01:08:45.106
 it visually looking at the whole thing.
 
 01:08:46.154 --> 01:08:47.055
 But over time,
 
 01:08:47.296 --> 01:08:48.957
 that clock is going to be wrong, right?
 
 01:08:49.719 --> 01:08:52.100
 We can focus on being the
 
 01:08:52.161 --> 01:08:54.844
 most well-formed conscious tooth,
 
 01:08:55.144 --> 01:08:56.786
 being aware of all of the
 
 01:08:56.826 --> 01:08:58.707
 components of us,
 
 01:08:59.328 --> 01:09:01.730
 and then stepping into the situation.
 
 01:09:01.810 --> 01:09:02.832
 Again, not...
 
 01:09:03.592 --> 01:09:05.493
 Releasing them, not letting them go,
 
 01:09:05.734 --> 01:09:07.194
 not divorcing ourselves from them,
 
 01:09:07.255 --> 01:09:08.654
 not labeling them as bad,
 
 01:09:09.015 --> 01:09:11.055
 being conscious of them,
 
 01:09:11.256 --> 01:09:13.578
 being conscious of who we are right now,
 
 01:09:13.898 --> 01:09:15.918
 even if that means our ego
 
 01:09:16.118 --> 01:09:17.498
 is really pulling on us.
 
 01:09:17.719 --> 01:09:18.619
 Be conscious of it,
 
 01:09:18.939 --> 01:09:20.400
 because if you're aware of where it is,
 
 01:09:20.480 --> 01:09:21.701
 it can't sneak up behind
 
 01:09:21.740 --> 01:09:23.622
 you and convince you that it's you.
 
 01:09:24.002 --> 01:09:26.222
 It cannot become the possessing entity,
 
 01:09:26.523 --> 01:09:27.644
 as Eckhart Tolle puts it.
 
 01:09:28.083 --> 01:09:30.185
 So we can maintain our sovereignty,
 
 01:09:30.284 --> 01:09:31.105
 our awareness,
 
 01:09:31.405 --> 01:09:34.207
 and therefore unify with this moment.
 
 01:09:34.648 --> 01:09:35.868
 It helps us to dissolve the
 
 01:09:35.908 --> 01:09:37.109
 story that we are separate.
 
 01:09:37.350 --> 01:09:38.510
 And suddenly we can start to
 
 01:09:38.550 --> 01:09:39.690
 contemplate the idea that
 
 01:09:39.911 --> 01:09:41.171
 we're made up of molecules,
 
 01:09:41.212 --> 01:09:43.233
 just like all of the air that's around us,
 
 01:09:43.412 --> 01:09:44.394
 just like the chair that
 
 01:09:44.453 --> 01:09:45.474
 I'm sitting on right now
 
 01:09:45.493 --> 01:09:46.534
 and the floor beneath it
 
 01:09:46.795 --> 01:09:48.095
 and the dirt beneath that
 
 01:09:48.176 --> 01:09:49.356
 and the rock beneath that
 
 01:09:49.417 --> 01:09:50.877
 and the molten core beneath that.
 
 01:09:51.158 --> 01:09:54.479
 It's all the identical same stuff.
 
 01:09:55.380 --> 01:09:57.461
 But we say, this is me.
 
 01:09:57.702 --> 01:09:58.681
 This is the chair.
 
 01:09:58.862 --> 01:09:59.823
 That's the floor.
 
 01:09:59.882 --> 01:10:00.802
 That's the ground.
 
 01:10:01.043 --> 01:10:02.904
 That's the molten core of the planet.
 
 01:10:03.345 --> 01:10:04.945
 We put all of this stuff in
 
 01:10:05.025 --> 01:10:06.346
 smaller and smaller boxes.
 
 01:10:06.646 --> 01:10:07.787
 But when we pay attention,
 
 01:10:07.828 --> 01:10:09.368
 we understand we are a
 
 01:10:09.427 --> 01:10:11.009
 component of this moment,
 
 01:10:11.210 --> 01:10:12.390
 a piece of the puzzle.
 
 01:10:12.689 --> 01:10:14.572
 And suddenly we all are
 
 01:10:14.612 --> 01:10:16.432
 participating rather than
 
 01:10:16.493 --> 01:10:19.054
 trying to fight for an
 
 01:10:19.194 --> 01:10:23.157
 identity that we believe to be ourselves.
 
 01:10:23.277 --> 01:10:23.516
 Yes.
 
 01:10:24.733 --> 01:10:26.332
 And I really think that if
 
 01:10:26.393 --> 01:10:29.413
 we allow ourselves to
 
 01:10:29.694 --> 01:10:31.295
 mindfully and consciously
 
 01:10:31.875 --> 01:10:34.534
 observe the ego and giving
 
 01:10:34.595 --> 01:10:39.117
 it space to play out in a safe container,
 
 01:10:39.377 --> 01:10:40.497
 I think that might be really,
 
 01:10:40.556 --> 01:10:41.917
 really interesting to use
 
 01:10:41.936 --> 01:10:43.997
 for humor because we still play,
 
 01:10:44.377 --> 01:10:45.957
 we still have this human
 
 01:10:45.997 --> 01:10:46.878
 desire that I don't think
 
 01:10:46.899 --> 01:10:48.298
 it's gonna go away for stories,
 
 01:10:49.298 --> 01:10:50.819
 That's why we like drama, we like movies,
 
 01:10:50.840 --> 01:10:51.780
 we like sitcoms.
 
 01:10:52.201 --> 01:10:53.822
 And if we can be aware consciously of it,
 
 01:10:53.863 --> 01:10:54.662
 the ego still has a
 
 01:10:54.703 --> 01:10:56.003
 beautiful role to play.
 
 01:10:56.805 --> 01:10:58.645
 So if you guys are
 
 01:10:58.706 --> 01:11:00.346
 interested in joining us for this month,
 
 01:11:00.386 --> 01:11:01.068
 if you're listening to the
 
 01:11:01.108 --> 01:11:02.288
 podcast in November of,
 
 01:11:02.628 --> 01:11:04.569
 we're actually reading this
 
 01:11:04.609 --> 01:11:05.251
 book together.
 
 01:11:05.951 --> 01:11:06.970
 you can get it on audible
 
 01:11:07.051 --> 01:11:07.712
 you can purchase it
 
 01:11:07.771 --> 01:11:10.051
 anywhere look retailer we
 
 01:11:10.091 --> 01:11:11.313
 have it at the uh
 
 01:11:11.332 --> 01:11:12.313
 metaphysical bookstore here
 
 01:11:12.332 --> 01:11:13.212
 in new york pennsylvania
 
 01:11:13.273 --> 01:11:15.054
 new new visions books and
 
 01:11:15.073 --> 01:11:16.073
 gifts you can meet matt
 
 01:11:16.094 --> 01:11:16.934
 there on tuesdays and
 
 01:11:16.974 --> 01:11:18.454
 saturdays sundays tuesday
 
 01:11:18.475 --> 01:11:19.635
 fridays and sundays chat
 
 01:11:19.654 --> 01:11:20.375
 with him ask him your
 
 01:11:20.395 --> 01:11:21.416
 questions about presence
 
 01:11:21.555 --> 01:11:23.155
 correctly mindfulness and
 
 01:11:23.216 --> 01:11:24.296
 actually also about all the
 
 01:11:24.516 --> 01:11:25.296
 occult and magic
 
 01:11:25.636 --> 01:11:27.176
 information you're you are
 
 01:11:27.216 --> 01:11:27.818
 that's why you have all
 
 01:11:27.837 --> 01:11:28.858
 these books behind you to
 
 01:11:28.898 --> 01:11:29.978
 represent all of the
 
 01:11:30.497 --> 01:11:31.679
 information mythology
 
 01:11:31.738 --> 01:11:32.838
 everything you just are a
 
 01:11:33.059 --> 01:11:35.319
 you're the librarian of information
 
 01:11:36.079 --> 01:11:38.280
 I studied it all so I could let it all go.
 
 01:11:38.841 --> 01:11:40.301
 Yes.
 
 01:11:40.402 --> 01:11:41.681
 Anything you were afraid of, you're like,
 
 01:11:41.782 --> 01:11:42.802
 I'm going to learn about that.
 
 01:11:42.962 --> 01:11:43.962
 Because you want to
 
 01:11:44.023 --> 01:11:45.224
 eradicate the fear with the
 
 01:11:45.264 --> 01:11:46.163
 light of consciousness.
 
 01:11:46.184 --> 01:11:47.083
 The light of consciousness.
 
 01:11:47.123 --> 01:11:48.145
 Because ultimately,
 
 01:11:48.185 --> 01:11:50.945
 the ego is always unconscious.
 
 01:11:51.326 --> 01:11:53.226
 The ego cannot be conscious.
 
 01:11:53.606 --> 01:11:54.787
 And if you are conscious,
 
 01:11:54.827 --> 01:11:56.007
 you are not in your ego.
 
 01:11:56.427 --> 01:11:57.507
 If you are unconscious,
 
 01:11:57.668 --> 01:11:59.448
 you are in your ego.
 
 01:11:59.948 --> 01:12:01.630
 And so no matter what
 
 01:12:01.770 --> 01:12:03.150
 ideology you hold to,
 
 01:12:04.271 --> 01:12:05.453
 It's just a perspective.
 
 01:12:05.613 --> 01:12:09.239
 And I had to learn those things that
 
 01:12:11.444 --> 01:12:12.585
 through the process of
 
 01:12:12.645 --> 01:12:14.166
 shining the light into, well,
 
 01:12:14.185 --> 01:12:15.247
 they say this is real.
 
 01:12:15.306 --> 01:12:15.966
 Is that real?
 
 01:12:16.087 --> 01:12:16.346
 Oh, okay.
 
 01:12:16.367 --> 01:12:16.987
 That's the same.
 
 01:12:17.006 --> 01:12:18.427
 That's just the ego.
 
 01:12:18.747 --> 01:12:19.408
 Is this real?
 
 01:12:19.507 --> 01:12:19.728
 Okay.
 
 01:12:19.768 --> 01:12:20.328
 That's the ego.
 
 01:12:20.708 --> 01:12:22.189
 And ultimately I, it,
 
 01:12:22.270 --> 01:12:25.291
 it was summarized for me in
 
 01:12:25.690 --> 01:12:26.570
 the course of miracles,
 
 01:12:26.631 --> 01:12:27.631
 which isn't something I
 
 01:12:27.671 --> 01:12:29.051
 necessarily subscribe to again,
 
 01:12:29.311 --> 01:12:32.033
 just another perspective,
 
 01:12:32.474 --> 01:12:35.255
 but the idea that let's see, it's,
 
 01:12:38.197 --> 01:12:39.356
 nothing real can be
 
 01:12:39.417 --> 01:12:41.557
 threatened nothing unreal
 
 01:12:41.597 --> 01:12:44.257
 exists herein lies the
 
 01:12:44.297 --> 01:12:47.399
 peace of god because
 
 01:12:47.618 --> 01:12:51.079
 ultimately what is cannot
 
 01:12:51.100 --> 01:12:52.199
 be threatened it's already
 
 01:12:52.260 --> 01:12:54.560
 here you're already here
 
 01:12:55.341 --> 01:12:56.081
 what are you going to do
 
 01:12:56.100 --> 01:12:58.921
 with it that's what it's all about
 
 01:12:59.587 --> 01:13:01.548
 What are you going to do with it right now,
 
 01:13:01.829 --> 01:13:02.430
 right here?
 
 01:13:03.551 --> 01:13:04.530
 And the only way you can do
 
 01:13:04.591 --> 01:13:06.172
 something with it is by paying attention.
 
 01:13:07.172 --> 01:13:08.054
 That's what it's all about.
 
 01:13:09.365 --> 01:13:10.367
 Yeah.
 
 01:13:10.787 --> 01:13:11.247
 Well,
 
 01:13:11.268 --> 01:13:12.628
 pay attention to the date on your
 
 01:13:12.649 --> 01:13:13.010
 calendar.
 
 01:13:13.050 --> 01:13:14.331
 If you are listening to this
 
 01:13:14.451 --> 01:13:16.092
 in November of twenty twenty four,
 
 01:13:16.552 --> 01:13:17.493
 you can read the book with us.
 
 01:13:17.634 --> 01:13:18.854
 Join our online community.
 
 01:13:18.895 --> 01:13:19.876
 You can chat about the book
 
 01:13:19.976 --> 01:13:20.817
 in there and then we're
 
 01:13:20.837 --> 01:13:22.458
 going to do a live Q&A about the book.
 
 01:13:23.140 --> 01:13:23.399
 Actually,
 
 01:13:23.420 --> 01:13:24.720
 towards the end of the month in November,
 
 01:13:25.061 --> 01:13:26.042
 you can pop in in there and
 
 01:13:26.082 --> 01:13:27.484
 see that live Q&A only in
 
 01:13:27.503 --> 01:13:28.305
 the online community.
 
 01:13:28.364 --> 01:13:30.266
 And of course, if you join afterwards,
 
 01:13:30.287 --> 01:13:31.448
 there'll be a recording of
 
 01:13:31.467 --> 01:13:32.288
 it will be in there to play.
 
 01:13:32.448 --> 01:13:33.510
 plus all the other archives
 
 01:13:33.550 --> 01:13:35.110
 of all your mindful moments with Matt.
 
 01:13:35.451 --> 01:13:36.051
 Isn't that cute?
 
 01:13:36.091 --> 01:13:37.252
 Mindful moments with Matt.
 
 01:13:37.313 --> 01:13:38.573
 That's what they're, they're adorable.
 
 01:13:38.753 --> 01:13:39.314
 They're amazing.
 
 01:13:39.835 --> 01:13:41.136
 So I encourage you guys to do that.
 
 01:13:41.435 --> 01:13:42.195
 All right, everyone.
 
 01:13:42.356 --> 01:13:44.037
 Thank you again, as always,
 
 01:13:44.158 --> 01:13:46.439
 and be well until next time, my friends.
 
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