Acknowledge Your Growth - Life, Lessons, & Laughter LIVE

In this LIVE version of Life, Lessons, & Laughter with Glenn Ambrose, I discuss acknowledging who you are after the work you've done. We must take the time to BE who we are becoming. Slow down and internalize the changes you've made so you can interact with the world from a new place, not as someone who's constantly working on themselves but also as someone who has done work and transcended issues. Give yourself to BE the newer version of yourself. Recorded LIVE on 5/30/22.

Transcript

Welcome to Life,

Lessons,

And Laughter with your host,

Glenn Ambrose.

Hello people.

Happy Monday.

Mindful Monday.

Let's see,

Comments.

Yeah,

Hop on here.

I don't have an official topic.

So now's your chance.

Throw it out there early before I figure out something to talk about.

Let me know what,

Yeah,

Say hi in the comments and let me know what you guys want to talk about.

Otherwise I'll just pick something.

You know I will.

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Who are you?

Talk to me.

So well,

You know,

Of course in the interest of not having dead air I'll start talking about something.

If you guys have a topic that you want to discuss,

Let me know.

Throw it out there.

Throw it out there in the comments.

So yeah,

Today,

Well,

You know,

As you can tell I don't really have a particular topic in mind.

Something popped into my head earlier and then it popped into my head again and what I'm thinking about is kind of,

You know,

Being where we are now.

And what I mean by that is from a spiritual perspective,

You know,

A lot of the,

It's funny when you throw labels around when you're talking about spirituality,

It's awkward because nothing actually describes it,

You know.

So the New Age spiritual movement or the New Age ancient wisdom or whatever,

It's,

You know,

We're always talking about the work and what we need to do and what we need to heal and how we need to heal it and what we need to go through and all this stuff.

And of course there's a lot of truth to that.

But I think it gives us,

Not only can it give a false impression,

But also talking about that makes it sound like it's linear.

It makes it sound like it's like other things that we learn,

Like in school,

You know.

You start off here and then you learn this and then you learn this and then you get there and,

You know,

And they even give you a nice little graduation ceremony and a piece of paper to let you know when you finish.

And you know,

Our spiritual work isn't like that.

So unless we slow down and really look at this and try to understand and incorporate the spirituality into our lives,

Unless we do that,

We're going to fall back into the default of linear thinking.

So I kind of want to talk about that a little bit because is there work we have to do?

Yes.

Is there healing we have to do?

Yes.

Is there things we have to go through?

Yes.

All that stuff,

You know,

This surrender.

There's even non-action we have to do.

We have to allow,

We have to remember our truth,

We need to forget what we are conditioned to believe.

We,

You know,

So there's non-efforting as well as efforting that we need to do.

But we get caught up doing that and there's no graduation and there's almost this implication that we're going to be happy once we're done all this and we're not going to be happy when we're done all this stuff.

There is no happiness down the road.

It's just not possible.

So there isn't anything that's going to transpire or that you're going to wake up and all of a sudden you're happy.

It just doesn't work that way.

So there's,

You know,

Which sounds a little bit daunting.

It sounds like happiness isn't there.

No it's there.

It's everywhere.

It's around us and we can actually choose to accept it and land into it at any point.

Let's see.

And I've got,

Thank you Susan for your comment.

Let's see what it is.

Yes for me it's about not accepting how I actually am.

Instead I go straight into changing myself.

Yeah and it's,

I mean,

You know,

Like I said are there changes that we need to make?

Well sure there are changes we need to make but our happiness can't be contingent on that.

Like we can be happy now like all of us.

Even you know,

Even if we're in difficult circumstances.

I mean peace,

People have found peace on death row.

So like peace comes from within.

Happiness comes from within.

So we can find that no matter where we are.

Is it easy when we're in difficult circumstances?

No.

You know,

So but my point is we don't want to get caught up doing the work,

Doing the work,

Doing the work,

Doing it like there because we'll just always do the work.

You know there's a saying that if you want to ensure that you never find happiness,

Become a seeker of it.

So if you pay attention to that it's talking about,

Like I like describing things in terms of energy.

So it's being a seeker,

Right?

What is a seeker?

What's the energy of a seeker?

The energy of a seeker or the purpose of a seeker or what a seeker does is a seeker seeks something,

Right?

So if you're seeking something and you already have it then you're off.

You know why would you go looking for something that you already have?

You wouldn't,

Right?

Because you have it so you don't have to go looking for it because you already have it.

So this is what is meant by that.

If you're seeking happiness then you're looking outside of yourself for it through circumstances or knowledge or understanding and you don't need any of those.

You know this is the overlap and the dichotomy of spirituality.

People think that they need to understand everything to live spiritually and technically you don't.

I mean you know can learning things and implementing them and you know learning so therefore understanding,

Getting them on deep levels and implementing them,

Can those things help your life?

Yes.

Can they be part of a spiritual journey?

Yes.

But they don't have to be all of it.

Like you can just be happy where you are.

You don't need anything to be different.

Then you can work on yourself and work on things and learn how to attach to that more,

Be in the present moment more,

Maintain that for longer periods of time but you don't have to change anything.

You're not broken.

You know and I think what happens on this spiritual walk is people get too caught up in doing the work because you know by like I said you need to slow down and think this through because otherwise you fall back to your default.

So if you're not happy you know it's you have to go inside find the happiness and if you're caught up doing the work like just stop every once in a while stop doing the work and locate where you are like and I think a lot of people are a lot of you on a spiritual path are going to find that if you just slow down and stop and you look around like where you are and you just come back to the present moment and you become still you're going to find like hey I'm okay you know like I'm good like everything's good I got this I'm good and like believe that like anchor into that.

This is awkward because I'm kind of you know sometimes this happens with spirituality because you're talking about something that is intangible you know you can't see it you can't touch it you can only feel it so it's like how do you put words to that how do you label it you can't you just use pointers towards it so this is just pointing towards it you know a lot of you on the spiritual path like the spiritual people a lot of you have been on this path for quite a while you know and I mean and you know some for 20 30 years some even longer but even for you know five years or two years or something like you've been on this for a while you've if you've leaned in and done some work you should be basically a different person now than you were when you started like literally a different person I was talking about this at dinner the other night with a friend of mine and we're like yeah you know literally you're you're a different person like literally a different person physically none of your cells are the same they're different you know you we regenerate and stuff so physically we're literally standing in a new body than we were before so from a physical standpoint it's different skin cells like every physically we're different emotionally mentally spiritually we're different we've had different experiences we've learned different things we think differently our perspectives have shifted you know what a spiritual awakening is it's just a shift of perspective you're just you used to look at something one way and then you go oh okay maybe you were exposed to it maybe it just came to you whatever but something clicked inside of you and you went oh okay oh all right so I'm gonna interact with life differently like and that's a that's a shift of perspective you used to have this perspective and then it shifted and now you have this perspective so you're looking and interacting with life differently we've all experienced that I mean that like just growing up you do that you know like I mean you know when you're four years old playing with a matchbox car or a doll and then all of a sudden you're 16 years old and playing some advanced video game or and interested in girls or boys your perspective has changed right you're looking at things differently than you used to so just in life we experience these perspective shifts well there's really no difference you know I there's in fact a lot of it is very similar like when I was right after I woke up I was having a conversation well it was probably I don't know maybe a couple of years or something a couple of years after I woke up I was having a conversation with a friend of mine and he had gone through a difficult experience and he was explaining it to me and he was like okay I went through this experience it was difficult I had some negative aspects hey come face watching somebody out the window so she's crying over there come here good girl yeah stay here so my friend was explaining this that he went through a difficult experience and he was like you know I've learned that I need to be more careful with my behaviors in that area because I'm older now and I own a house and I have responsibilities and like if if I were to make a bad choice in this area it could really mess things up for me the trajectory that I'm going I'm going in a good direction and this could throw a wrench into that and make things much more difficult and I and you know and I was listening to him and I went yeah you know how you always asking me like what happened to me you know people used to ask me that a lot because you know they used to know Glenn the old Glenn which was dysfunctional alcoholic now all of a sudden I seem to understand life differently and interact with life differently so people would get curious as to what happened to me and like so he would he had explained that to me and I said this is a good example of what happened to me like you had an experience and you learned from it and it changed your perspective on something and then you you make adjustments in your life and then you move forward like so so that like that's how a lot of people grow up you know and some good some bad but whatever that's how a lot of people learn they grow like most addicts alcoholics what they they stop maturing at the at the age that they really start abusing so like I you know I was abusing like around 16 so like I really stopped it maturing emotionally at that age because I just drank everything away you know like if I felt sad I drank it away if I felt happy I drank to celebrate it if I was mad I drank if like anything was happening I was drinking that was that was my coping mechanism that was what I did to deal with life so after a while like I wasn't maturing so I wasn't experiencing problems shifting my perspective and then growing from it I was kind of emotionally stunted so I said I said do you know how you experience something it changed your perspective and then what you did was you you grew from it you know that's how most people do it I didn't do that I basically didn't really grow emotionally for 20 years and then at 35 when I woke up I like learned everything in three months or six months or a year whatever like I took all like I took all of life's lessons and I just learned them like all at once and from a spiritual perspective which was even better you know that's really wonderful because because then you you learn things on a deep level that you can implement in a lot of different areas so so it's cool but my point is is that it's a change of perspective is your spiritual awakening that's all it is you just see things different you interact with life different and it can happen quickly they can happen over time but life is what happens when you're busy doing other things including spiritual work like if your life is dedicated to spiritual work and that's all you do you're missing your life like what's the point this is how like you know and I'm not trying to say that I do it perfectly I don't but I always try to put things in perspective what's the point what's the point of me doing this spiritual work so I can just work on something for 10 20 30 years and then be happy like that that's not what life is about man life is happening now I want to be happy now I want to acknowledge who I am because of the spiritual work I've done now you know this is something that people don't do I did a podcast a long time ago of called I think be who you're becoming and I've mentioned this to people recently be who you're becoming if you've done some spiritual work then stop and go in and acknowledge the work that you've done notice like we have to we have to slow down man we have to slow down and do this type of stuff because this is the problem is is we don't we just go on to the next thing we're like oh I you know I walked on hot coals that was wonderful oh my god life changing okay cool so what's the next thing a sound bath okay I'll do a sound bath oh my god I felt all this vibrate amazing wonderful healing okay what's the next thing Reiki oh okay I'll do the Reiki oh what's the next thing oh another a drum circle okay we're gonna go do a drum circle oh well I'm gonna get certified and read cards and I got 13 certifications now and I do all this that that is just that's a different addiction like you're just addicted to something else life is what what is happening here so why are we doing all this stuff so we eventually we can graduate there is no graduation you know there isn't a graduation so like what we need to do is take stock and the work that we've done and sit down and and get familiar with it be like oh wow I I used to think like this and now I think like this wow and this way is so much healthier wow you know we have to be the observer of ourselves man so we can absorb what we've done you know you you work through you work so hard to do this spiritual work but do you pat yourself on the back for it do you give yourself the credit that you deserve do you stop and be like stop being a seeker and start being one who found you know most of most of the people that I know quite honestly that are doing this spiritual work are basically awakened beings and very few people refer to themselves as that you know it it sounds like oh who do I think I am you just you just awakened man did did the veil lift a little bit did you see that that there's more to life than chasing a paycheck or getting a bmw or like did did you did you find that's not not a passing thought like like if you ask you know 10,

000 people you know that can you buy happiness is happiness inside of a car they're gonna go no but they live like that all their actions are pointed in the direction that it is so that's not what I'm talking about there's like if you ask somebody unconscious if they're a victim they're probably gonna be like no I'm not a victim I I don't do that victim mentality thing are you responsible for your own life oh my god I'm totally responsible for my own life until anything happens in their world then it's everybody else's fault oh my god you believe the way my boss treated me oh my god that person didn't even say thank you when I held the door for them oh my god I just don't know why my kids talk to me like that oh everything is everybody else's fault so those are not the people that I'm talking about I'm talking about people that have done some spiritual work gone within face some difficult facts taking some radical responsibility for their own lives and taking some action and really done some work to benefit themselves those people you guys are awake are you complete in completely enlightened no very few people on this planet are you know very few people in history have been but that doesn't mean that you're not awake and I think we need to make a difference and and these are just words you know so I mean I'm sure there's other words that that can explain this but I think it's important for us to start viewing ourselves as awakened beings we are awake we are not asleep anymore does that mean we know everything no does that mean we've learned how to implement everything no are we gonna be learning forever yeah probably but that's something that people latch on to too much you go well I'm always growing you know I'm never done it's a lifetime journey don't freaking look at it like that I mean because all that does is it puts off our happiness now now is there some truth to it yeah of course we're gonna constantly be growing and constantly expanding that's our nature nothing sits still like you never you never finish there there isn't a finish line that's why there's no graduation date like so you're and that's what makes it even more important to recognize where you are right now because you're never going to finish so so like if you don't recognize where you are now you're you'll never wreck you you'd just be a work in progress how you doing uh working on it 20 years later how you doing uh working on it oh my god like is that what life's about to be working on it like no it's we need to enjoy life now embrace life now and part of the way we do that is by recognizing the shifts that we made within ourselves and patting on ourselves on the back and actually going like wow look at me you know what I was unhappy before and I did some inner work and I found the happiness that was within me I found the peace that was within me and I feel good and I walk in this I I interact with life in a much healthier way now five years I'll probably be interacting with life in even a healthier way I'm not worried about that what I'm worried about is right now I'm awake the veil has been lifted I understand that there's something bigger than me I understand that that there's these these this spiritual way of looking at life that really fills my soul and makes me feel connected and part of the whole and and it feels good and I like it and I'm experiencing more joy and happiness in my life because of it yes yay me good like you know that we have to look at ourselves like that I'm an awakened being you know and feel that I'm an awakened being look at yourself in the mirror you know every day and just look at yourself in the eyes and go I am an awakened being and don't look away just look do that every day until it starts feeling natural you know because it should because you are because you've done the work like you you like I said there's no finish line so so like like you have to own it now because that's when that that's when you're like oh yeah okay and you start interacting with the world differently even more differently because like otherwise you just since there's no graduation date you you're unconsciously waiting for it and then then you go oh well well am I like you really become a seeker because you haven't recognized that you already found so so you just so you're sitting there one day and you're like oh well am I done well no I'm not done I'm always growing oh okay then I must have to go get another book okay so then you read that one then you finish that book and then you're like am I done no you're always growing oh okay so maybe I need to go on another retreat or listen to another podcast yeah okay now okay now what do I need to do now what do I need to do it's always one more thing to do you never arrive you know you never get there and that's what I want you guys to do I want you to get there I want you to arrive I want you to be like wow I like interacting with life as an awakened being this is much more fun than my old life I like this I'm gonna go enjoy it good do that what brings you joy oh I like doing this good go do that go experience that why as an expression of this joy that you're feeling yes you know your life is your laboratory you need to really implement this stuff which I know I've talked about a lot but when after you implement it give yourself credit for implementing it like own it you know you did this so I'm gonna check out some comments hey Mike in Arizona what's happening thanks for tuning in Jody Lynn now is that nice to see you too I can't really see the picture is small is that the Jody I know from Rhode Island I'm not sure let me know if you're still watching I think anywho so and Michelle from Panama question maybe if there's a danger of that being egotistical I'm a I'm an awakened being well yeah anything's a danger of being in being egotistical thinking the difference is whether you say and then you get if you think of it as in an egotistical way or you think of it as a non egotistical way right like everything is like that it's about the energy in in which you're saying so it's you know like the the the example I I give a lot of times with this was was when I was watching Pink about singing I think it was Bobby McGee and she you know I heard Pink sings Bobby McGee and I'm like oh my god I love that song I gotta check this out so I listened to her and she freaking you know just it was awesome so then it cuts to her talking after with some interview and they're like yeah you know that when you're saying that song Bobby McGee and she just leans back and she's you just kind of see her thinking back to when she recorded that and she goes oh yeah I rock that and I was sitting there watching her and I was paying attention to her energy like I usually do because that tells more than the words and I was like oh my god that was so beautiful because it's so there was no ego in it she did nail it she did slay it she did rock it it was freaking awesome and she owned it she just there was no ego she wasn't like oh yeah I nailed that you know you can tell just the way somebody said oh my god yes that was I was amazing there like oh I nailed that you can say even the exact same words you know like if if she said she rocked it she could be like oh yeah I rock that that's egotistical you can feel it right but she didn't do it like that she was just thinking back going oh yeah I rock that and yeah she freaking did rock it and it was awesome you know it's not about what we say it's about it it's about the energy in which we say it and this is actually a really good comment Michelle I should probably do a whole podcast on this it's this is one of the biggest problems in society it's that we have this fear of being egotistical and it's it's just embedded in us just oh and it and it and we're so scared of it we are so scared of being egotistical that we we we lean away from it so much that it's way over it's my favorite pendulum right well for you guys watching it's the pendulum so like being egotistical is over here we don't want that right so what we do is we go way over here so there's no danger of ever being mistaken for being egotistical which is just as negative because what this is is self-deprecation what this is is not being this is absence of self-love when you come way over here you can't even love yourself because you're afraid that people are going to mistake it for you being egoic that's what we need to stay away from you know I don't know when this started you know I like when I tune into it I kind of get flashes of the of the of the like stock market crash in the 20s and stuff and like where you have this gigantic shift of wealth where you had these people that had millions of dollars which was you know even more money back then and then all of a sudden they lost it all and lots of people had lots of kids back then and they couldn't feed them and they're sending them off to live with relatives and and it was just it was really the depression was it was a major blow in the United States now I think what we're talking about is worldwide so I don't think it necessarily started here but I see symptoms of that and it wasn't that long ago generation wise so I think that that's an aspect that that makes it worse in the United States let me clarify worse than it was not necessarily worse than other places in the world so you know I think what it was was like you know you're you're you're used to just living high on the hog and and just going and doing all these wonderful things and then you see your friends that you just you know like you know whatever the heck those rich people did back then you know throwing thousands of dollars around in a night and then you see your friends and they just ship their kids off to live with their aunt in freaking Ohio on a farm and you and they're like oh how are you and you're like oh wonderful you know we just had one of those nights last night where we just drank all the finest booze and we just partied all night and threw thousands of dollars around and and you know have lobster and it was really a wonderful night how are you and like oh uh that's nice it really sucks because we're broke now and we can't feed our children and life is horrible and and they're like oh maybe I should keep my mouth shut you know because I think I just made them feel bad you know but you take a scenario like that you put it on top of an already dysfunctional society that's already thinking like that and I think it exacerbated it you know so so what it is is we can't play small to make other people feel better you know and it there's nothing wrong with self-love this if you think you're better than other people because of you know I don't know how much money you have or because you're spiritually awakened if you think it just made me laugh saying it out loud if you think you're better than other people because you're spiritually awakened you're not spiritually awakened or you have some specific work you need to do you know I talk about this in a podcast about like uh spiritual snobbery it's like you know like if and I it's natural you know like when you awaken spiritually and you start understanding life in a different way that's much more functional and loving and wonderful like it's it's it's almost hard to remember what you were like before you awaken to this because it's so obvious and it's so clear you're like oh my god this is you know how can people not see this and you're so excited to share it and that you found it and it's just this wonderful thing right so like we have a tendency to look at people and forget that we were just like them six months earlier or five years earlier or 20 years earlier like we were just like them so if you think you're better than somebody because you're spiritually awakened then that's not what I'm talking about because you're not you know we're not better we're all one we're not better than anybody that's egotistical if you think you're an awakened being so here here's the I guess I talked around this to come to the answer here's your answer Michelle I'm an awakened being I'm an awakened being that's just a fact and as I embody it I feel love and goodness and nothing but healthy feelings so there's nothing wrong with that if I say I'm an awakened being therefore I'm better than other people that's egotistical you see that's where the difference is is there's nothing we can be like it took me a while to be able to be like I'm a really good life coach I am I've done it long enough I've helped people I know that I've helped people I know that I know what I'm talking about and I know what I'm talking about helps people so I'm confident in saying that I'm a good life coach now does that make me egotistical no it's just a fact as far as I'm concerned now somebody that doesn't think I'm a good life coach could have a different perspective and they have the right to their perspective I would venture to say that if somebody thinks I'm not a good life coach then what they're doing is they're personalizing it like they might not like what I'm saying or agree with what I say or resonate with the way I say it or what I say and that's fine like you you know that doesn't mean I'm a bad life coach that just means that I'm not I shouldn't be their life coach there's a big difference there you know so I don't think people should be going like no Glenn's a bad life coach because I don't agree with what he says that doesn't make me a bad life coach that makes me not your life coach as far as I'm concerned you know but I'm confident in saying I'm a good life coach I've helped lots of people and my content has helped hundreds of thousands now do now do I think I'm better than other people because of that no no I don't that's why it's not egotistical so the egotistical part see ego causes separation ego thrives on separation it doesn't understand the concept of oneness so this is that's a good way to monitor whether something is egotistical or not if it's egotistical if it creates separation between you and others you know you usually in a way where you're better but it works both ways it doesn't really give a shit if like you because it's a non-thinking entity so it doesn't really make much sense but like you can have people that have locked on to the egotistical view that they are they have the worst life right so if that's their egotistical identity that they're identified with if somebody comes along and goes well let me your life is really bad let me tell you about my life my life is even worse than yours they'll get defensive then they'll be like oh yeah well let me one up you or one down you because they don't want to lose their identity of being the biggest victim so it doesn't it works both ways that's why I say ego creates separation it doesn't matter if it's above or beyond usually it's above but I mean it can definitely go beyond too I mean below so that's that's what the ego does is it creates separation between you and others so like the more if you're spiritually if you're saying I'm an awakened being then part of that awakening is is understanding that like we're all one and we're not better you know we're not better than anybody else I mean I think it's I think it's funny that you know to to think that that you're better than other people because you're spiritual like what then you don't understand the concept of oneness you know so so yeah that's that's really what it is is is if if it makes you if you if it makes you feel unconditional love and love for yourself and love in general love love man love if it makes you feel love then it's love it's self-love if it makes you feel better than or different in some way then that's ego yeah that was a good that was a good question Michelle I like I liked how we went down the the avenue of separation you know this is how you know this is how we know like I look back in ancient history and I'm like boy you know I can tell the ego was in charge because of separation that was created you know look at the caste systems that's separation that's ego manifesting right and you look at you know Christians killing other Christians in the name of in the name of God that says thou shall not kill and then they go kill in the name of the God that said thou shall not kill well how how can you rationalize that I mean how does that make sense it doesn't right so there must be something there must be a different perspective that they saw it from where it did make sense well what is that well it's separation obviously because if I'm a person I can't kill a person because God said not to so that would be against God's law so what what is my perspective need to be for me to go kill another person in the name of God well what I need to do is I need to create separation so I am a believer and they are a non-believer so now we're not two people we I am a believer and they're a non-believer so that creates separation I'm good they're bad well I can kill a bad non-believer I mean that's okay I'm seeing anything in the Bible that says you can't kill a bad non-believer it just says I can't kill a person and when I label them we don't understand how important labels are that's another podcast I can do like labels have meanings when we label something we minimize it into what that we think that word means so in this situation what I'm talking about here is you take a human being and you label them a non-believer people think that that's harmless but they don't understand the unconscious implications that it does it literally strips their humanity away from them well how do you know that Glenn well because they killed each other because of that that's how I know if you go to a bunch of people that that killed a bunch of other people in the name of God and you say well those were people why did you kill them they'd explain it to you they go well no I mean those those they they were dangerous non-believers well yeah but they're still people well yeah technically I understand what you mean they're still people but they're dangerous non-believers like so when you label that that becomes more important than the fact that they're a human that's dehumanizing them and people don't even realize that they're doing this and we still do it you know we just go over to other countries and we kill them and then we just go well they're were the other country they're the bad people it's like they're people yeah but they're bad people though we're good people oh oh well then go slam I mean I didn't realize I didn't realize they were bad because like when I when I went over there I saw them like raising their children and trying to feed them and hugging each other and loving one another like other human beings but you know now I understand that there were bad human beings oh well then go kill them all you know I mean it's ridiculous we we still do this type of thinking so our labels you know and and you know that's obviously the most extreme example but if you know that if you want to know a good way to understand this on a simpler level just go outside and look at a tree or a plant or a flower or an animal and erase the label from your brain just look at it in wonderment just look at it deeply and just take the label away just look at its features like a tree you know you look at a tree and you just go oh look it's you know I'm kind of noticing how tall and grand it is but I'm not using the words to describe tall and grand it's just like and beautiful and the and the colors and the and the oh and look it's like you if if I just take all the words out and I just look I can sense that it's alive there's an aliveness to it and I can feel something it's a it's a sensation of like pleasure or joy or peace or something that I because I think I'm connecting with this thing oh you like you can feel that you can see little kids do it you know when they see a dragonfly for the first time and they don't know what it they don't know what it is oh my god like why are they getting so excited because it's amazing there's no label they can they can connect to the essence the aliveness of what it is it's it's it's more than just a dragon floor fly it's a it's a being it's a living being that has essence that is formed out of love and if you just you can feel it but you got to take away the labels because that just minimizes it into what your brain thinks that that label is oh that's a non-believer oh that's a butterfly oh that's a tree look at a tree well yeah I've seen trees no connect to the tree huh right yeah do that you know you know and I told this before look up into the sky at night and and look at the space between the stars because everybody looks at the stars why because there are things there it's an object and it attracts our attention our attention is attracted to objects why because we can label them then we think we know what it is so don't look at the stars look at the space in between the stars because you don't have a label for it it's it's nothing it's no thing it's not a thing it doesn't have a label you know they used to think that that was empty space and most people still do it's they found actually its energy there is something in the blackness that we don't know like it's it's and there's energy up there you know so so we can connect to that energy and it's easier to connect to that energy because we don't have a label for it yet as soon as we think we know what it is it minimizes it into a thought form so yeah so I think I'm probably gonna wrap up um but yeah so this is what we need to do just start you know you're an awakened being it doesn't mean that you're better than other people it just means that your eyes have opened and you see things differently you know it's does that mean that there's no more work to do no you can like an awakened being so that here's here's a good way I think to wrap up so an awakened being is a label right and we have to be careful what we attach to that label you know so hey Jennifer um so that so the label of an awakened being what you don't want to be is like I am better than other people um I have arrived and there's no more work to do like you don't have to attach all that stuff we have to learn to hold these mindsets looser we have to stop thinking we know everything like just you know what is an awakened being it's somebody that woke up to a new way of being that's all you you awoke to a new way of being a more truthful way of being a more loving way of being cool does that mean you're perfect at it nope it just means that you're awakened but what that does is when you change the way you look at yourself you start interacting with life even more differently because you're like if you're always like oh I really have this work to do on myself then you interact with life as one who has that has constant work to do on themselves so like you're never you never really give yourself permission to be happy and embrace the work that you've already done you it's just just well there's more and there's more like like you don't see people in in 10th grade celebrating their graduation from high school why because they haven't graduated yet that's why right so this is the mindset we're trying to avoid because there is no graduation and if we're not conscious about it we will fall into that mindset we will be like oh I'm a sophomore I'm a sophomore I'm a sophomore I'm a sophomore I'm a sophomore no like you're not you're further than you were before you've awakened to a new way of being oh I have wow okay I do see things differently I interact with life differently right that way you can you can transcend stuff like this is the problem is we never really transcend anything and I think that that's like a big aspect of this one of my favorite words is non-issue you know I say it all the time when something's a non-issue that to me is a sign of freedom that I've transcended when I used to have an issue or a problem and now it's a non-issue that means I've transcended it it's not an issue anymore it's just not why well because I work through it now it's not an issue oh well then then are you finished well no I'm not finished I mean I'll always be growing and expanding but I mean I don't I don't have to walk around like somebody who has all this baggage I've worked through half of it or three quarters of it oh a bunch of it whatever we don't have to quantify it I've worked through a bunch of it so now I'm a person walking through life as one that has transcended a bunch of that baggage so I'm different than the person that was walking around carrying all that baggage so I need to embody that and allow myself to embrace that and feel the joy that comes with that and if you do you'll notice you start interacting with life better you like until you do that it's kind of like you're in a holding pattern you're kind of waiting for somebody to give you permission to be happy because last you knew you had all this work and it seemed like this giant mountain and you don't really know where you are and the work and I don't sometimes I'm happy but uh but then sometimes I'm not so I don't know where I am and you just kind of oscillate like that through life and so just pump the brakes man slow down you did all that stuff so if you trans transcended a bunch of your baggage own it act like it man I transcended a bunch of baggage I'm much happier than I used to be I like this I'm an awakened being cool and I'll even awaken more isn't this wonderful that expression does feel like it creates separation for me I am love taps me in a bit more yeah so and and not that geez uh michelle you are on fire maybe it's all this book writing if you guys haven't checked out michelle's book yet please do um I am not much of a reader so and I I really enjoy it I picked it up the other night I had I had put it down for a while I didn't read anything for a little while but I picked it up again and I read it the other night and I was like wow I really enjoy this book so check out michelle's books um well your first one as up until now um yeah and post the name of it I'll put it up on the screen here michelle uh so so yeah um michelle that's a great point that expression does feel like it creates separation for me I am love taps me in a bit more so that's what you do like this is the choose whatever works for you this is the individuality of our process you know words have meaning and those words differentiate between people you know like like like me saying I'm an awakened being I'm fine with that like I don't I don't feel any separation I don't feel there's any ego attachment to it so therefore I can say it now michelle likes saying I am loved better okay cool then say that you know because the other words feel egoic to her okay then don't say those words right you know that's that's important like I didn't use the word god for years like four or five years maybe longer and those of you watching that's the name of michelle's book heart first a female psychedelic call to adventure it's excellent so go check that out um but yeah so words have meaning and they're not the same for everybody you know that's that's actually a misinterpretation by some people in the spiritual circles they're like somebody gave me a majorly hard time because I said like heck yeah on a post I was excited about something I said heck yeah and they're like could you choose different words words have vibrational rates and heck is a negative word and whether you know it or not you're sending negativity out into the world or into your life or something I forgot what they I'm like no I'm not like heck yeah I feel nothing but excitement and love when I say heck yeah so guess what that's what's attached to it and that's what's coming out words don't have vibrational rates except what's assigned to them by people that's how the vibrational rate is there's not some magic word that like you can say something in love but it means hate because there's some vibrational rate to it like that's not how it works so if a word doesn't resonate with you then don't use it don't you know don't use that word find the words that work for you because we've developed these these unconscious understandings of these words and attach different meanings to them unconsciously throughout our entire lives and you know maybe you know like I'll just use this for an example maybe an awakened being maybe the first time Michelle heard that it was from some egotistical person that was you know saying it in an egotistical way so she got that bad vibe you know and then therefore it kind of lodged into her and it has that meaning to okay cool then if it doesn't resonate just push it aside and use a different word you know so that's that's another good point all right people well I'm gonna wrap this one up and to be honest with you I thought it was gonna be a really short one like like I was actually thinking I'm just gonna pop on for like 30 minutes or something but of course it turned into something something else and I found a I found a line to go down so and thank you for the participation Michelle and everybody else I appreciate you so cool cool I think that will do it yeah enjoy your life you know you guys have made some changes and make sure you give yourself credit for the work that you've done and embodied being the new person that you are because you are a different person even on a physical level but when you grow and expand you are different intellectually you are different emotionally you are different spiritually you vibrate at a different level you are different physically with the cells you are literally a different person in every way shape and form than you were before you know two years ago or five years ago or 20 years ago whatever you're literally a different person so give yourself credit and be like wow I'm a different person this is who I am now and as you acknowledge that you will start interacting with life from the perspective of who you are but you need to slow down and be who you work so hard to become right so and like I said if you want more of this you can go check out that podcast I believe it's be who you are becoming or something along those lines you know do a keyword search on some of these platforms most of the platforms have it and you can do a keyword search through these because you know I think I'm around 300 podcasts or something now so I can't keep track of all of them and that one was I think with might have been in the first couple of years that I did that so check it out hey Tina you're very welcome all right you guys thank you for watching listening and that will do it for now I'm gonna hit my ending and cut out peace have a great week looking for more check out over 200 episodes of life lessons and laughter or click the link in the description of 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