Peaceful Mind, Peaceful Life

*Live Lovestream Recording

A peaceful life isn't created by changing everything around us - rather, it begins with the way we relate to what's within. In this Lovestream, we explore how to quiet the mind, release inner noise, and cultivate a deeper sense of calm that carries into every area of our lives.

Transcript

Welcome my friends. Good morning. Let's get into it. Peaceful mind, Peaceful life. This is where we're going today. So just start with thinking about what does this even mean to me? Have I ever experienced a peaceful mind and have I ever lived in a space of a peaceful life? When was that? How did that come about that my mind and my life felt peaceful? So I'd like to first kind of explore this concept of peaceful life and peaceful mind and then we can go into the tools, How to's, You know, The little 12-step program of how to create peaceful mind, Peaceful life. But first let's just see what is it that we even mean by peaceful life. So many people think that a peaceful life is dependent on outside circumstance. That once I have all my ducks in a row I'm gonna have a peaceful life and a peaceful mind. Which often people tie into finances, Career, Finding the love of their life, Having the health that they want, Having the body that they want, Having the social network that they would like, Etc. You can fill in the blank for yourself about what you think that a peaceful life is made of. Most of us think about all these outside extrinsic events, Activities, Things that we need, Money, Health, Good relationships, In order to create a peaceful mind and a peaceful life. And it's not that those things aren't lovely and wonderful, Sure. But if we hang our definition of a peaceful mind and a peaceful life on all of these external factors we're gonna miss out on our life. So the peace that I'm speaking of is really the lack of inner noise. That inner noise that we mistake for reality. You know, Those inner voices, Those thoughts, That inner critic, The perfectionist, The people pleaser, The controller, All of that. All of that that lives inside of us. All of that is what contributes to a non-peaceful life, To the opposite of a peaceful life. So it's when we believe that every thought we're thinking is true. When we believe that every feeling that we're feeling, Every emotion, Is a fact. It just is this way. It's solid, It's absolute. We are not cultivating a peaceful mind, Right? So I'm speaking more so of this inner peace. I'm not talking about no wars on earth as peace. If you think about it, There have been wars since the beginning of time. And there probably, If I had to bet on it, I'm not a gambling woman, But if I had to bet on it, I would put a bet on there will continue to be wars till the end of time. And so really what I'm speaking of is a deep radical acceptance of reality. Because what most of us do is we fight reality. And when we fight reality, Guess who's going to win? Who's going to win? Me and my ego or reality? Well, I got news for you, My friends. Every single time, But only every single time, Reality's going to win that fight. And so the more that we're able to learn to accept reality as it is doesn't mean we don't do things to improve, To change, To feel better. No, Of course. We show up and we are actively engaged in life. But many of us engage in life contrary to the realities. And that creates tremendous suffering. Because if you know anything about the Buddha's teachings, And this is probably the most important thing to know, So even if you read nothing else of his 49 years of teaching, If you just remember this, We suffer because we resist that which we don't want and we cling and attach and hold on to that which we do want, That which gives us pleasure. That's it. That is the cliff notes to the Buddha's teachings. We suffer and suffering is the opposite of a peaceful mind and a peaceful life. We suffer because we push away what we don't want. Maybe it's a new diagnosis that we got. Maybe we have to go through a surgical procedure that we don't want to. Maybe our child is estranged and doesn't talk to us. Maybe our child is leaving, Like mine, Empty nest or coming up, Leaving to college. My youngest is going off soon. So we resist what we don't like. We fight it. No, I don't want this to be happening. And yet, Here it is. It's reality. It's what's happening. Or we suffer because we hang on to, We cling, We attach to what we do like. So maybe we are overly attached to our children or to our partner or to our career or to getting accolades and validation. Our ego needs that constant reassurance. So what happens the minute that reassurance stops? We suffer. Wait a minute. Where did everybody go? Why aren't they reassuring me that I'm the best? That I'm really good? That I'm a good person? That I did a good job? So if you take the flip side of this, How to create a peaceful life and what is a peaceful life and a peaceful mind? It's a life where we don't resist what we don't like. We simply allow it to be as it is because it already is as it is. And we don't cling and attach to what we do like. We're able to just flow with life. I know what you're thinking, My friends. Easier said than done. Yes, I didn't say it was easy. It's simple but not easy. And this is why we come back to practice. We need to practice living and embodying these concepts. Otherwise they just stay floating up here as philosophy, Theorizing, Hypothesizing, Pontificating. But none of that is of any use. Yes, Of course, We need to intellectually, Cognitively understand. That's why we use words and we talk. But once we understand it intellectually, Ah, Now we have to bring it down and make it land in the body and actually live from that space. So we have to release and override old belief systems and the conditioned habits of mind that we've been fostering for our entire lives, Truly. Many of these beliefs are formed in childhood. And we just continue living this way. But it doesn't necessarily serve us. So this is what we're speaking of when we speak of a peaceful mind and a peaceful life. It's that inner noise. Because truly our world, Each of our individual worlds is created in our own mind. So as the saying goes, Be careful what you think. Because what you think creates your reality. Even the simple thing of for example, When I was pregnant, I was pregnant many times, Five times over, All of a sudden I would only see pregnant women. All of a sudden it was like the entire world was pregnant. Or for those of you that own a red car, All of a sudden all you see is red cars, Right? It's that kind of selectivity bias, Right? Whatever it is that you're experiencing that's on your mind, That's what you project into the world and that's what you see. So if you're grasping and holding onto sadness or you're grasping and holding onto grief or anger or impatience or intolerance, That is what you're going to perpetuate in the world. So the question is, What seeds are you planting in your mind garden, My friends? What seeds are you planting? Are you planting seeds of anger, Resentment, Impatience? Or are you planting seeds of love, Compassion, Equanimity? This is where we have choice. But the choice only comes once we take full responsibility. And I mean full responsibility for the good, The bad and the ugly. All of it. Because your spiritual awakening is directly proportional to your level of self-honesty. The more honest you can be with yourself about where you are, What you're feeling, What you're thinking, What's working, What's not working, The more you are awakening to reality. The less honest you are, The deeper you go into La La Land. That's what I call it. I think it's cute. I love La La Land. It's a beautiful place to be. It's just not reality, But it's a lovely place to visit. I just don't live there. Many, Many people live in La La Land. They have their whole lives set up in La La Land. They are completely in denial of the way their relationships are going, Maybe with their partner, Maybe with their family, With their children, With their colleagues. They are completely in denial of the reality of their lives. Total lack of self-awareness. Completely egocentric. That creates a lot of suffering for oneself and for those around you. Ask yourself, My friends, What kind of mind garden do I want to cultivate? What seeds do I want to water in my mind garden? How do I actually do that? If I want seeds of patience and love and compassion and tolerance and generosity, How am I creating all of this in my life? Am I allowing others to love me? Am I showing up with an open-hearted space? Am I allowing myself to deeply love others? Or am I contracted? Am I staying in a closed heart space? If I want to cultivate patience, Am I catching myself in those moments where I am deeply impatient? All of us have those people in our family that talk on and on and really just say nothing. I have a few of those close to me. It is painful for me to sit there and listen but sometimes I feel I do need to. Those are my moments to come back to the breath, To cultivate patience, To cultivate self-compassion and remind myself this is not easy and yet I am choosing to show up from this space of patience because I want to water my seeds of patience. So all of this contributes to a peaceful mind which then contributes to a peaceful life. Some of us might think that this peaceful space is a personality trait. Some people are just naturally calm and naturally peaceful. Do some of you think that? I am just not that kind of peaceful mind person. Maybe you have that belief about yourself. But I am going to challenge you and invite you to consider that this peacefulness is actually not only something that is born within you which means that it is already there, We just need to uncover and access it, But it is also a skill. It is both innate, Meaning everybody has it. You can't just say, That person I know, They are just naturally peaceful and calm. No, No, My friend, You have it too. It is in you too. So not only is it innate in each one of us, This expansive space of peace, But it is also able to be cultivated. It is a skill. It is not a personality trait. It is something that we can practice. We practice it through awareness, Waking up, By being fully honest with ourselves and taking full responsibility for our words, Thoughts and actions. We do it by pausing, Taking micro pauses in our life. We will get a little more deeper into the how to in a moment. And we do it by knowing that we have choice, That we can choose. So for example, If there is somebody that you always find yourself arguing with, It is just inevitable. All conversations end up leading to this negative situation between you. Think about that when you are not in the middle of the argument. And realize that you have choice in how to engage. And if you want to show up differently next time. So cultivating this peaceful mind and peaceful life is something that we build. It is not unique to one of your friends. It is here for all of us. Also, Remember that a lot of the mental chaos that we have comes from trying to control what we cannot control. Any of you resonate with this? My dear controlling friends? Controlling other people. Controlling the timing of life and events. Controlling outcomes. So we can cultivate this peaceful mind when we learn to release control. Does that mean being a lump of mush and doing nothing and not saying anything and not showing up with an opinion or with our stance? No. It doesn't mean being completely passive. Sometimes it means being passive and sometimes it means being active. But the mental chaos is the opposite of a peaceful mind. And so we want to walk towards that which creates peace. Awareness. Pausing. Acknowledging that we have agency in choosing how we show up in our lives. And that pause is that gap that Viktor Frankl spoke of if you know his book, The Meaning of Life. It's that gap between stimulus and response. Where we get to respond rather than to reflexively, Automatically react. There's always a moment however small that moment is there's always a moment between what just happened like somebody said something or I saw something on the news that I didn't like and then how we either respond or react to it. In that gap is where our agency lives. In that gap is where choice lives and in that gap is where peace lives. Because when we rush to react we lose access to it. So if this is not something that you're practicing the slowing down, The sitting in silence, The reflection the self-inquiry, Perhaps journaling about it, Perhaps meeting with a guide with somebody who can support you about it if you're not cultivating and practicing those spaces in the calm times when nothing is really perturbing you, You better believe that you're not going to be able to access that gap when a noxious stimulus comes at you you're going to go into autopilot. You're going to go into what you've done the million times before Why? Because you've practiced it. You've gotten really good at it. If any of you play an instrument let's say the piano when you practice that piece over and over again there is this muscle memory that's built into your nervous system so you can literally sit down and just play the piece. You don't have to think about where your fingers go. It's the same for pickleball and tennis and learning a new language anything that we practice we get good at so we want to practice in the good times when we're calm, When nothing is overly stressing us and challenging us so that way when we enter a moment of stress and challenge and overwhelm or overstimulation then we have access to that breath we have access to come back to regulating our nervous system and calming ourselves so that we can respond from a space of clarity not from a space of reactivity so before we jump into the how-to tools I have a few more to explore with you I just want to kind of close up this examination of that peaceful space within by saying that living with a peaceful mind or peaceful life does not mean that your life is perfect. You don't need a perfect life whatever you believe a perfect life is in order for this peace to be there. That's the whole point the peace already is here the peace already lives in you. We just need to take off the mask, Uncover the veil and tap into that peace that we already are by practicing taking off the veil and meeting ourselves in that space. So the world can be a mess and by the way it already is. That's a part of this reality. Things are pretty messy and yet despite the chaos can I access this space of peaceful mind of peaceful life that is available to all of us in every moment in every moment so we don't have to eliminate every single one of our challenges in order to feel at peace, At ease what happens is we change our relationship to these challenges. So life is still happening but it doesn't shake us up in the same way. So I love the phrase that says life keeps happening how do I show up ask yourself this in this moment life keeps happening you can fill in the blank life is lifing. My health is doing whatever it's doing my body is doing whatever it's doing my aging process is doing whatever it's doing my relationships are where they are my financial status is where it is and yet how do I show up am I able to tap in to the peace and show up into my life make decisions from that space of peace and clarity or do I show up knee jerk, Autopilot, Conditioned mind ego based mind that just reacts, Boom this happens and boom that happens if you think about it that kind of response is like a child, That reactivity is like a child right you step on a child's toe, They scream you step on an adult's toe, They'll probably go take a deep breath and go oh that hurt now I'm not talking about spiritually bypassing I'm not saying don't feel your stubbed toe feel it fully for sure feel it but also show up with agency show up consciously rather than if I take your toy you come back and pull the toy back or hit me over the head that's a child's response right if you come and yell at me, Let's say people with road rage I turn around and yell at you just the other day, 2, 3 days ago I was driving with my daughter who was visiting from college and somebody drove by me me and the car in front of me and gave us the finger for like a whole 30 seconds just boop boop boop boop driving by and giving us the finger and I laughed and I looked at my daughter and I said sweetie did I miss something, Why is this person so upset like what happened I don't know what happened, She said I don't know mom maybe he was supposed to go and you went I didn't think I was cutting anybody off certainly not intentionally but I get to choose how I respond I can honk at that person, I can speed up and give him the finger back so this is what I'm talking about the gap, The pause we practice the pause so that we can show up from that space of clarity, From the space of love and then I told my daughter wow they're carrying a lot of upset right now and my daughter, She's 20, She said to me people are angry now mom, A lot of people are angry so then we ended up having a conversation about that which was fun but we get to choose how to show up let's take three deep conscious breaths in this moment breathing in, I know I am breathing in long exhale, Breathing out I know I am breathing out do it at your own pace ah that was so lovely I can feel my cells and all the atoms just kind of realign ah I like to use the metaphor of the snow globe you know those snow globes they sell in New York and Central Park and in every major city we live like this shaken up snow globe and when we take those breaths and use our breath as the anchor to anchor our busy chaotic mind to our bodies, To this moment to presence we allow all of that snow from that snow globe to just settle down to just settle down that's what it feels like for me thank you for all your beautiful hearts on the screen I see them, We have over a thousand hearts and that's why this is a love stream it's not just a live stream yes we are alive but it's a love stream we share our vulnerable hearts with each other so we're going to continue our talk a little bit just with some focused tools on how to cultivate these beautiful seeds of peaceful mind, Peaceful life so that you can walk away from this love stream with something in your pocket something concrete that you can reach for and use as your practice so here we go the first one that I want to offer to you is the idea that small consistent shifts in our day to day behavior work much better than dramatic overhauls of I'm going to just change my whole life because Dr. Tammy said blah blah blah you're welcome to change your whole life if you'd like no problem, But in my experience the small consistent shifts are really the ones that over time create the groundedness that most of us or maybe all of us are really seeking the groundedness, The happiness the peace and inner calm to live through the challenges of this life because it is challenging, Because being human is not an easy thing and yet it's the biggest privilege to be born in a human body rather than as an anteater or a tarantula no disrespect to anteaters or tarantulas but I don't know, This being human is kind of cool it's challenging, It's not easy but it's kind of cool we're the only being as far as we know that has the ability for metacognition the ability to think about how we think so I have my beautiful puppy Honey some of you met her here on our last love stream she's not with me today, Last time I brought her up on my lap she's a cutie, She's almost a year old and she's a mini poodle, So she's fluffy and soft all over the place I don't think Honey sits around when we're snuggling on the sofa and I'm writing my memoir and she's snuggling on my thigh I don't think she's sitting around thinking wow, I really lucked out I lucked out, I got a great person to live in their house who feeds me, Who buys me all these really cool toys who lets me snuggle with them who loves me I don't think she's sitting around thinking that but we humans, We do we have the ability to think about our thinking and this is both a gift and a curse the curse part is that we overuse our thinking we overthink and we create suffering by overthinking the gift is that we can realize this we have awareness and we can change and we can shift and that's what these tools are about creating this peaceful mind and returning to the peace within that is already built into the hardware of being human takes practice so the first tool I'm going to offer you which I'm mentioning for a second time because I've already touched on it is training your attention learning to be aware learning to be attentive learning to meet our thoughts and get to know our minds that's the essence of what the Buddha taught it's all about understanding our minds and we go through the school system and we learn finger painting we learn algebra some of us learn calculus, Physics useless for most of us well I did like finger painting and I do paint I'm an artist so maybe that served me a little bit but in general we don't learn about how to use our mind and we don't learn about our emotional world so it's never too late, That's the beauty we can begin to cultivate a peaceful mind by training our attention by noticing that our mind will always find something to worry about if we leave our minds unchecked so bringing mindfulness practices mindfulness meditations into our lives where we notice our thoughts, Where we sit in silence and we become aware of oh wow, Look at these thoughts showing up my thoughts are pretty gnarly and I'm getting pulled into them another thought comes and another thought even doing 5 minutes of sitting in silence still your body, We're going to do that in a few moments for those of you that can stay we're going to do a little guided meditation of stilling our body, Sitting in silence and simply observing, Bringing attention to what's coming up the other tool I want to offer you for cultivating a peaceful mind is releasing control control of the clutter the physical clutter, The digital clutter the emotional clutter it all creates this consistent low-grade stress so how do we release control? By reducing our commitments doing less by cleaning up our physical environment by saying no more often so that we don't overburden ourselves and then that peacefulness has room to show up in our lives because we're removing lots of the things that drain us if we are living in the depth of busyness which I did for many years my friends I was superwoman, I was doing everything for everyone running my business caring for my patients and my staff caring for my 5 kids, Running my household I was in a marriage at the time talk about clutter how is there going to be room for the peace to come in if we keep adding things to our lives we keep adding more noise more busyness so we need to remove the things that drain us sometimes it means having an ex-husband not a husband sometimes it means creating boundaries with our children and our relationships and our work so this is another way that we begin to open space for the soil to ripen so that we can plant those seeds of peacefulness within something else which we touched on and I'm just going to reiterate because it's that important it's regulating our bodies to calm our minds you can't think your way into a peaceful mind but you can breathe your way into it you can slow the body down physically enough that it often will quiet the mind with it the quieter the mind the quieter the body the quieter the body the quieter the mind entering more peacefulness a restless body fuels a restless mind this is what we're going to experience in our guided meditation in a moment silence, Stillness perhaps a very slow walking meditation or gentle yoga stretch or what I love which is coming back to the breath as the anchor with a slow breathing technique there are many different breathing techniques all of these can shift our bodies to slow down so that now a resting still body will help cultivate a resting still mind remember my friends you cannot think your way into peace it can start the process like oh there's too much going on I want to feel more peaceful, Great that's the doorway but the peace will not come with continued thinking that's simply setting the intention opening the door to oh yeah, I really want more peace in my life great, That's a really good thought but then you can breathe your way into it you can slow down physically to quiet the mind another tool which goes along with this is to watch what you're consuming mentally what you're exposing yourself to is really important the news, Social media, All of that negativity trains your mind to remain more agitated so try to create intentional quiet zones in your day little micro pauses I call them and it could be that one breath meditation that we took a few minutes ago just moments in your day that are without stimulation so that your mind has the opportunity to reset and respond instead of react otherwise you're just chewing the cud, Regurgitating the cud you're unable to get out of that thought stream it's like the stock market you know how it has that tinker tape constant numbers that's how the mind goes, It's just endless we need to practice acceptance the more we resist the farther away we get from peace the more we accept this is how it is right now it just is how it is right now, You don't have to like it acceptance doesn't mean I like it acceptance simply means being with what is being with reality and then we can release control we can release controlling and then we can act from thoughtful action from clarity and also realizing that our thoughts are mostly not true we only believe they're true because we keep thinking them over and over again most of our thoughts don't deserve our attention and don't deserve our trust because the mind produces fears and judgements and worst case scenario I used to be an olympic medalist in catastrophizing imagine how much fear how much anxiety comes up when we're constantly catastrophizing that's the space I used to live in 20 years ago when I entered the journey of self-discovery but when you begin to observe your thoughts we're back to the A of the ABC's of soul surgery awareness, When you begin to observe your thoughts instead of identifying with them that's when you create space that's when you create freedom to choose differently and then remember to create boundaries that protect your energy we touched on this before as well to be able to be in that peaceful space we need to be very clear about what we allow into our lives and what we don't allow into our lives so you can take a piece of paper today put a line right down the middle and write energizers and drainers for the two columns write down every person, Place activity that you engage in that energizes you like this love stream, Hopefully ends up on the energized column and then on the other side on the drainer column put down every person, Place and activity that drains you you know that person that you talk to and when you finish oh gosh, I'm so glad I'm done with that call that was just exhausting and that list is going to help you create boundaries that protect your energy and creating those boundaries protecting your energy energy helps to foster that inner calm it helps to make it sustainable because if you're constantly bombarded with that draining negativity sucking your energy that inner peace, Inner calm doesn't have space to surface once you create those boundaries you can align your life with that which actually matters to you inner conflict in our minds inner chaos creates mental turbulence so when we calm that inner chaos we calm the inner turbulence we can get closer to aligning our lives and living a life that matters to you maybe you want to save the turtles and go and protect the turtle nests with the eggs maybe you want to sing on a stage maybe you want to do stand-up comedy maybe you want to be a full-time stay-at-home mother or father what matters to you? What actually matters to you? Do you know? Do you know what matters to you? Do you know what your top three things that matter to me are? Not me, You so when we pause and we start sitting in these spaces of quieting the mind, Silencing the mind all of this clarity comes up oh yeah, I didn't realize this is really important to me and this other thing is not maybe you thought money is so important and you were overachieving and then all of a sudden you realized for yourself money is not what most matters to me or maybe the opposite so take time with yourself today to ask yourself what matters most to me? This also helps to foster that peaceful life why? Because it's bringing you more in alignment in alignment with your one wild and precious life and lastly I just want to touch on silence silence as a doorway to peace so some of you know that I go on silent retreats and I love to talk about silence I also love to be in silence I'm a person who loves solitude that's my cocoon to recharge so there's a difference between the absence of noise as silence and that deeper sense of stillness as silence so we can build a relationship with silence we can choose to spend time in intentional silence in a space without distractions without filling up the space with stuff to do or to think and building this relationship with silence helps us to reconnect with something that's more grounded that's closer to the deeper essence that we are rather than thought rather than constantly connecting and identifying with thought so the silent retreats that I go on those are very supportive for silence because you have many people sitting in silence together but you don't have to go and sit at the top of the Himalayas to sit in silence you can create that for yourself and remember we begin with outer silence so maybe we have a room in the house or a time of the day where we can sit for 5 or 10 minutes with outside silence but eventually what you're going to tap into is the inner silence so regardless if you're walking through a chaotic marketplace or you're sitting in a carpool and everybody's honking impatiently or you're sitting at a basketball game and there's tons of noise going on music and noise you can still tap in to that inner silence and stillness within you reconnect with the ground of your being so you can start that with just a few minutes a day and we'll do that in a moment in our guided meditation the beautiful thing is that these moments of intentional silence allow our nervous system to reset it allows us to reset so we're always looking to feel safe feel grounded feel present and that's what the gift of silence offers us so my friends let's take a few moments to do a brief guided meditation to release the words and enter an embodied space of these teachings letting them land more deeply and then we'll close up together so I invite you to close your eyes if that's comfortable for you find a comfortable position in your body wherever it is that you are and return to the breath breathing in I know I am breathing in breathing out I know I am breathing out I know I am home breathing in I know I am breathing in breathing out I know I am in my body I invite you to take these few moments to still your body simply simply noticing your breath bringing the light of your attention back to your breath if the mind wanders into thought simply direct it back gently to the breath noticing the body breathing chest and belly rising on the inhale chest and belly dropping on the exhale notice how you are now you are not breathing it is your body breathing you feel into your body and locate where this peace that we speak of lives do a little body scan finding where this peace lives in you where does it reside is it behind your eyes is it on your lips inside your chest cavity behind your belly button your solar plexus the ends of your fingertips simply noticing what arises peace is this moment without judgment peace is this moment peaceful mind peaceful life is available to each of us right here in this moment not some other time, Some other place life is only happening in this moment peace is this moment deep breath in micro pause at the end of the exhale meeting yourself in peace before noticing the body taking the next inhale give that a try on your next breath take your time deep breath in pausing between the end of your exhale and the next inhale noticing the fullness of that moment the wholeness of that moment nothing is missing nothing is needed life is always caring for us our bodies are always caring for us the next inhale will come unsolicited effortlessly begin to move your arms perhaps neck circles shoulder width stretch and opening your eyes when you're ready coming back into the space if you'd like to write in the chat how you're feeling in this moment how your body feels how your mind feels how your heart space is feeling what is here for you you can offer perhaps three emotions that are here I'm feeling deeply grateful fully present and full of love and we'll close one of my favorite poems from Rumi the 13th century poet and the poem is titled The Breeze at Dawn the breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you don't go back to sleep you must ask for what you really want don't go back to sleep people are going back and forth across the door sill where the two worlds touch the door is round and open don't go back to sleep and let me share the merit that whatever benefit might have come to us today from listening and sharing may it be of benefit not only to ourselves but to everyone we encounter and may it aid in the healing and transformation of our world Om Shanti Shanti Shanti peace in our hearts peace in our minds peace in our world I appreciate you here your sharing whether you write on the chat or not there's an embodied presence that's palpable across the thread that connects each of us. If you feel inspired to offer dana, Dana is the Sanskrit word for generosity, I call it green love, Green energy, I put a donation tab on the screen, You're welcome to send a donation and the teacher, Myself, Will receive it with deep gratitude. Thank you for all the hearts coming across the screen, Almost 2, 000 hearts making this a true love stream. I could feel the love from and for all of you. And I wish you to walk your walk, Your path, As fully as you can, Whatever that means to you. You're always welcome to connect, You can send me a DM, There are other ways to connect, You can see on my bio, And I do offer a one-on-one transformational spiritual guidance where we dive deeply into your individual flavor of this life, Your individual challenges, Opportunities, Invitations. So I'm happy to meet you in this love stream and outside of this love stream, Whatever you would like. Thank you for being here, And I'll see you next time in our talk, Our next Dharma Talk next week, Titled, Do Nothing. I can't wait for that one, It's going to be a good one. And I'll also take into consideration the request for Dharma Talks, You're always welcome to write to me and let me know what topics are close to your heart, Because this is what I'd like to offer. Topics that speak to you, That can support you. So you're welcome to send me a DM, Or you can always put it on the chat here. Okay my friends, I'll see you next time, And remember, Don't go back to sleep. Bye for now.