Collective Consciousness Live 7-13-21

We are all part of a collective consciousness which is why we each must be part of the solution in our own lives. I show how our personal lives are reflected in the collective and how as we change, the world changes. This LIVE version of Life, Lessons, & Laughter with Glenn Ambrose was recorded on 7-13-21

Transcript

Welcome to Life,

Lessons,

And Laughter with your host,

Glenn Ambrose.

Hello,

Hello,

Hello everybody.

So I am going to edit my privacy on my account.

I may have,

Ben may have taught me how to do this.

So I'm trying that now.

So that was easy I believe.

So how's everybody doing today?

Go on into my comments and say hello.

Hey Nicole,

How are you?

Thank you for joining me.

I'm also just going on to my business page,

Glenn Ambrose Life Coaching.

I'm going to just check my settings there.

While we have a couple more people hop on.

We're in contract for our first house,

We close next month.

I am so excited.

That's awesome.

So I'm not necessarily the energy of excitement up going all the time.

We can't just be like,

Oh,

Like for a month.

We can't just feel that gratitude.

Just feel that gratitude that we can experience on a daily basis forever.

And also,

It's times like this,

I love to learn from successes.

I'm going to announce the topic in a minute,

But I'm going to touch on this since it's in my face.

Hey Lisa.

Learn from our successes.

So in the external world,

We would call being in contract for your first house and closing next month a victory,

A good time in life.

So learn from the good times in life too.

So from now and then,

When you don't have the let down and the disappointment and the frustration of something that didn't work out for you,

You can kind of back door your lesson so you can come in through another door and just be like,

Okay,

I did get what I wanted.

But is that what it's about?

Is that really what it's about?

Am I going to be a better person or a happier person because I got this house?

Or am I just filling with gratitude for all the wonderful things that come into my life,

Including this house?

And this house is an expression of the joy that's within me,

Expressing itself out into material form.

Like if we can practice this type of stuff from our successes while we're going through them,

And it's a little bit easier because we're not fighting the letdown of not getting something that we wanted.

Right.

So then maybe when something then when we're like heading in the direction of something that we think we want,

We don't get so attached to the outcome.

We understand that life is good anyway.

And if this does come,

Well,

It's going to be an expression of our love,

An expression of our joy.

It's not going to be the source of our love.

It's not going to be the source of our joy.

Right.

So this is,

You know,

Even though you're getting what you want,

It doesn't mean that like,

You know,

It can be a good time to work on the clarity of the energy in which you're putting forth.

You know,

Like I said,

I think it's a more enjoyable time to do my work.

You know,

When I'm in a great mood and somebody goes,

Hey,

Do you want to practice gratitude?

I'm like,

Yeah.

And when I'm in a crappy mood and things aren't going away that I want,

Somebody says,

Hey,

Do you want to practice gratitude?

I'm like,

Not really.

I'm not really feeling it right now.

You know,

So it's harder then.

So this is,

You know,

You can just kind of fine tune your the energy you're putting out when things are going your way.

So that,

You know,

That was a little sidebar that that's what happens when you go live.

So today,

Man,

I don't know.

This feels good.

This feels like a good show.

I had no idea what I was going to do 20 minutes ago.

And I started looking over my notes.

Sometimes I'll take notes when things are hitting me in a good way during especially during sessions,

Because that's when I'm in the flow.

You know,

So a while ago and other times when I'm in the flow.

Well,

I don't know.

A couple of weeks ago or something,

I took some notes and I and I went through several of them and I looked at this one and I'm like,

Damn,

This is good.

This is like this is a great podcast.

So.

Basically,

The premise is collective consciousness.

It's understanding the collective consciousness.

It's understanding we are part of a whole at some point in our spiritual journey.

We need to embrace this reality.

Otherwise,

It's going to block our spiritual growth.

I mean,

You know,

It's like anything like if you have a resentment towards,

You know,

Some of us,

Including me,

I had a resentment towards God.

I had a resentment towards the Catholic Church that I was raised in and any other types of resentments against groups of people or people like we cannot walk around with hate or resentments,

Especially large ones within our framework and expect that to not block our spiritual growth.

We're going to hit a ceiling there.

So,

You know,

So that's why I had worked through this.

And the collective consciousness,

The we are all one mentality is really difficult to grasp,

In my opinion,

Because it's so large.

And it's there's so many things on our daily basis that makes it look like we are individuals and we are not connected.

So,

You know,

Our senses,

Our sight and our touch and our hearing and our taste all makes us think on a human level that we are separate from another,

But we're not because it's,

You know,

I mean,

There's other ways too that might be.

There are different doorways,

But I'm standing in this one.

Collectively,

We are all part of one gigantic energy field in the universe,

And then you bring that into smaller.

And we are part of one collective energy field on Earth.

You know,

That's obviously a lot smaller than the universe.

It's still large,

Of course,

But we are part of one collective energy field here.

And we have to start understanding that and acting as if that's true.

Completely dismissing the fact that we are separate,

Not the fact,

The idea that we are separate from each other is difficult.

Walking through life on a daily basis,

Just with the full mentality that we are all one and acting that way.

That's a tall order,

Man.

That is not an easy thing to do.

So as I kind of was hearing this stuff come through me,

I started seeing how this way that I'm about to explain is a really good way of coming in.

It's a way that we're able to grasp and implement into our lives,

Hopefully.

And it's a really good way to gain perspective about what this concept entails and how it affects our life on a daily basis.

So what I'm talking,

So I'm going to go right into the explanation.

It is,

You know,

Since we are all part of one energy field,

Everything that is within us is affecting that which is without,

Outside of us.

Right.

As is in the microcosm is in the macrocosm.

This is basically the mentality that society is not a thing.

Society is made up of things,

Made up of people specifically within that society.

So we look at societal problems as if they're outside of us.

You know,

We're like,

Oh my God,

We're killing the earth.

Isn't this horrible?

Yeah,

But you know,

Where does it,

Like who's killing the earth?

People.

Well,

Not me.

Well,

Kind of.

And this is what I'm going to get into in an empowering way,

Not in a blaming way,

In an empowering way.

This is,

You know,

Keep your mind open.

That's such an important aspect of spirituality.

There is no blame.

There is no bad.

There is no good.

It just is.

And there is no blame.

So what it is,

Is as we open our minds and absorb these concepts,

All of a sudden the solutions start becoming clearer.

And that's,

You know,

That's what I'm about,

Is the solution.

So if I say a little something that triggers you or goes,

Oh,

I'm not part of a problem or something like that.

Relax,

Man.

This isn't personal.

This is,

You know,

I don't know you and how you're living your life on a daily basis.

I'm just talking,

You know,

As a societal thing and I'm drawing lines into the smaller pieces of that society.

OK,

So what happens within us is a reflection of what happens outside of us.

And this,

Maybe this will help lower some defence mechanisms,

Is even if,

Like,

Let's say that you are living your life basically perfectly.

Like you recycle everything.

Your carbon footprint is like a millimetre.

Like you do everything wonderful for the earth.

You never gossip.

You meditate,

Walk in stillness,

Peace and love every day of your life.

You are just one of the most wonderful things on this planet right now.

Just that's great.

Right.

But if there is at some point,

If we're interacting in society in a general way,

Like in a general way,

What happens is there has to be a lowering of self-love to some degree.

I shouldn't say that has to be.

Most times there's a lowering of self-love.

Most people,

Including me,

We all have to work on our self-love.

I mean,

Being part of this society beats the self-love out of you.

Oftentimes it beats the self-esteem out of you.

Oftentimes people who are viewed from a distance at having large self-esteem or large self-love are covered.

That's just a mask.

That's an egoic mask that they're using.

They act overly confident.

We've all heard that story.

I think most people kind of understand now.

If somebody is acting way,

Way,

Way overly confident,

A lot of times that's not self-esteem.

That's actually lack of self-esteem and they're overcompensating.

I'm talking about as a collective,

We have a lack of self-esteem as a collective.

We have a lack of self-love as a collective.

How do I know that?

There's lots of reasons,

But for the sake of this conversation,

The way I know that is because of the stuff that we put up with in higher levels of society.

What I mean by that is governmentally,

In the large corporate worlds,

In the pharmaceutical industries.

The stuff that we put up with as a society says that we lack self-esteem.

That's what it says about us as a group because we would not put up with this if we had good self-esteem.

We just wouldn't.

It's like being in a crappy relationship.

If you're being mentally,

Emotionally abused and you have high self-esteem,

You're like,

Hell no.

You do that again,

There's a door,

It's over.

Or you just walk out and it's over right then.

That is somebody with high self-esteem,

High self-love.

You do not put up with things.

What you put up with and what you don't put up with is directly proportional to your self-esteem.

If everybody around you in your life is treating you like crap,

That's your problem because you're putting up with it.

Because they don't treat everybody like crap.

The people who set boundaries and go,

Hell no,

You're not going to do that to me.

They don't do that to them.

And one of two things happens.

Either they're not in their life anymore or they treat them better.

One of two,

Those are the only two options.

But putting up with it is not an option.

That is a sign of high self-esteem,

High self-love.

We as a society are not reflecting that.

So the way this works is,

And I would love,

You know,

As always,

Some feedback and input on some of this stuff.

And if you leave a comment,

You know,

It might take me a little bit to see it.

So I know this isn't possible always,

But try to give me a little context to get my brain back to what I was saying when you were leaving a comment.

If possible.

If not,

Whatever.

We'll try to figure it out.

So what's going on inside of us is a reflection.

What's going on outside there is a reflection.

So as we start to change within,

As we work on ourselves and we raise our self-love and we raise our self-esteem.

And hey,

Sure,

You know,

We can bring in some of the external stuff too.

As we start doing that,

Taking better care of the universe in our own special ways.

You know,

If we're not using paper plates and we go through the trouble of washing a plate instead of using paper plates,

You know,

That's a step in the right direction.

Being more conscious of where you shop and is it worth spending 50 cents extra per pound to support a local business as opposed to the things.

You know,

All just little things and you can pick what's close to your heart and let go of what's not.

You know,

There's no judgment here.

But if we start doing it,

Most of it is internal anyway.

Those are some external ways.

But even those add up.

If we just do,

Just tweak little things here and there,

Even just when it's convenient.

I'm not asking you to change your life.

Like I said,

Most of what I'm talking about is internal.

But if you want to tweak some external stuff too,

Cool,

Absolutely.

But working on ourselves,

This is why working on ourselves,

It's not just about working on ourselves.

When our self-esteem raises,

The collective self-esteem raises,

What we will put up with as a society will raise.

So like,

You know,

When some of the political stuff was happening,

I don't remember when it was like five years ago or two years ago or whatever.

You know,

It's been a political melee for the last five,

Six years.

But a while ago,

I was noticing,

You know,

It was everywhere,

So I was noticing some of the topics and subjects.

And what I found was that it was absurd,

The stuff that we're talking about.

The things that are discussed on the political realm,

It's silly to me.

Why would we have a discussion?

Like,

Why would we wonder if an elected official was going to pass a bill that would help the planet?

Like,

Why would we even wonder about that?

Why would we even wonder,

Like,

How he would vote for something like that or how she would vote for something like that?

Like,

That to me is a sign of how low our self-esteem is.

So if you bring that into your personal life,

That's like,

Kind of like some of the stuff that we accept as normal collectively is kind of like,

You know,

Being married and wondering if your spouse is like and you put all your money into a collective fund for the household bills and you're and then and he makes or she makes more money than you do.

And when it's payday,

You wonder if they're going to put any money in or if they're just going to keep it for themselves.

Like,

You're just like,

Oh,

I wonder what's going to happen.

I wonder.

Oh,

Darn it.

They didn't put it in this week.

Oh,

OK.

Well,

We're going to have to struggle and scrape,

I guess.

Like,

What type of person would you be to be in a relationship like that?

You would be somebody that needs to work on your self-esteem.

Non-judgment,

It's just a fact you if you're accepting you doing all and your partner not doing any,

That's low self-esteem,

Because anybody with high self-esteem would not be in that relationship.

You know,

And you as you can tell,

I'm using some pull it out of the air hypothetical situation,

Make up your own hypothetical,

You know,

Use your own life as your laboratory,

Come up with your own option.

But it's if you are living in a relationship where the other part of that relationship just blatantly ignores you and doesn't give a crap about you or what you think and you accept that,

That's low self-esteem.

Well,

This is what we're doing collectively.

Collectively,

We are putting up with treatment that is unsatisfactory.

It's not okay.

You know,

The rich just keep getting richer.

The planet keeps getting destroyed.

Our lives keep getting tougher and we're standing there waiting for them to fix it.

That's like waiting for the abuser to fix the abuse.

Why would that?

Why would they change anything?

Well,

Because they should.

Why?

Why should they?

They are living high in the heart.

They are getting whatever they want,

However they want.

If my life didn't get more difficult,

I wouldn't have gotten sober.

If I was running around drinking alcohol every day,

Just partying and having a blast and there were no consequences,

I would never have gotten sober.

Never.

I had lots of years that were really fun where I did that stuff and I was not interested in getting sober.

I got sober when my life started sucking.

Well,

Many years after it sucked.

But I got sober when alcohol no longer worked.

It wasn't because I was a wonderful person and I had this moment of clarity.

No,

My life sucked ass.

That's why I got sober.

So,

You know,

People don't change their lives when it's working for them.

So they are treating us in an abusive fashion and we are putting up with it.

And we're wondering what to do.

Oh my God.

What to do?

All these people,

They're so bad.

They are so bad.

They're doing the wrong thing.

Look at those government officials.

Oh my God.

They're not in control of us.

They're not.

They are completely not in control of us.

We are in control of them.

We are the masses.

We do not have to live in fear.

We don't have to live wondering what they're going to do to us.

We are the masters of our own domain.

We have the voice.

We have the power.

We have the strength.

The only time the few can control the many is when the many think they can.

And that's a lack of self-esteem.

You know?

Oh no,

These people can control it.

No,

They can't.

No,

They can't.

They're just people.

They have no power except the power that we give them.

So this is why we need to dive into us and do our work.

And those of you,

Which everybody I see here listening,

Nicole and Lisa and Sandy.

Hi Sandy.

Sarah.

Hi Sarah.

Yes,

It's been a little bit.

So yeah,

All you guys and everybody else listening to this is working on yourselves.

I think it's helpful to understand why you're working on yourselves.

The magnitude of what you're actually doing.

You know,

We are ushering in a new reality and we're doing it one person at a time.

Which is the way all change happens.

It's grassroots.

It's not a big thing.

It's not a powerful.

.

.

Like the women's movement didn't bring in women's rights.

That's not what happened.

The woman's movement was a manifestation of all the women that were going,

This is a load of crap.

I'm not going to live like this anymore.

Self-esteem started rising.

What was okay 10 years ago,

They started going,

I don't think it should be this way.

That's a collective change of consciousness.

Women and men during that time were awakening to a new consciousness that what was okay before is not okay anymore.

And the self-esteem rises.

So what we put up with is a direct correlation to us.

As soon as we drew a line with slavery,

It ended.

As soon as we drew a line with equal rights,

There was huge progress made.

Of course,

We're still not all the way.

As soon as we drew a line with women's rights,

Huge progress was made.

As soon as we drew a line with gay and lesbian rights,

Huge progress was made.

And I forget all the initials,

There's too many now.

I'm sorry.

No disrespect.

But as soon as we draw a line as to what we will allow,

What abuse we will allow and what we will not allow,

It changes.

That's a collective consciousness thing.

The movement that actually might get a bill passed is a manifestation of the collective consciousness.

But it's the collective consciousness that actually changes things.

So the more we work on ourselves,

The more it's going to affect everything around us.

You know,

That's how important you are.

You are the light of the universe.

You are.

You know,

I mean,

If you take,

You know,

For a visual,

If everybody lights a torch on fire,

Right?

And you get a fire and it's like this big and it goes up,

The light goes out.

And you can,

You know,

You can see like a big circle around you.

And then if you take 100,

000 people with these torches and you all throw it on a bonfire,

Like the Bayou Lisa.

I think Lisa might be the only one from Gardner that's listening right now.

We're used to party in the woods all the time.

If you throw all those torches on a big bonfire,

You know how much light that puts out?

This is collective consciousness.

And speaking of Lisa,

She just posted something.

Everything is energy.

Being creative is key to so many things.

Positivity.

We reflect that energy.

We are.

Now look inside yourself.

Yes.

Gaia.

Yeah,

Gaia TV and Gaia the Earth.

You know,

So,

You know,

We,

Everything is energy.

And the energy that we put out,

Like we can sit there and go,

I want good things to happen in this world.

Like that.

Most people want the right stuff.

Like if you lowered everybody's defenses and you just had a conversation with them.

I mean,

I'm talking about everybody around the entire globe.

Like,

What do you want?

They just want peace.

They want happiness.

They want to raise their families that they love in the best way possible.

They don't want to suffer.

They don't want to struggle.

It's just we all want the same things.

You know,

So there's not a big differentiation between what we want and what anybody else wants.

We all basically want the same things.

So where's the disconnect?

Well,

Wanting doesn't really do anything.

We have to be it.

We have to be the change we wish to see.

So do you see how what I'm talking about?

This is why I love that Gandhi thing.

I mean,

Some of these quotes that are out there are literally mind boggling.

It's just the depth in which and a lot of times it's the quotes.

And I'm not talking about a freaking mean.

That sounds cute.

Most of those don't make a damn bit of sense.

It's.

Yeah.

Me memes can be tough.

There's so many.

It means that are catchy when you say them and they trigger a little aspect of your ego and they don't even and people don't even know it.

And then they pass it around.

And then after a while,

Because so many people resonate with it egoically,

They think that there's actually truth to it.

And they think it's a wise statement.

It's not.

It's a mean.

A lot of times some of the memes are good.

But,

You know,

Just because something said a lot and it resonates with a part of you doesn't mean that it's actually healthy or a good way to think.

You know,

I a lot of times I use the example with these with the parents raising the kids,

You know,

These kids like,

Oh,

I wish they'd stop growing.

And everybody thinks that's so cute.

That's and everybody says it.

So many people say that.

So many people put it on their Facebook posts and they are pictured.

Oh,

Please stop growing.

Oh,

I wish they wouldn't grow up like that.

Think about what you're saying.

Like,

That's kind of warped and selfish and not in the best interest of your child.

Yeah,

But it sounds cute.

It sounds cute.

Yeah,

But it's not.

It's not cute.

It's dysfunctional.

And it's unhealthy.

So if you're saying that,

Please don't say that.

Or at least think about it.

Think about the repercussions.

If you actually got what you want.

Think about the energy you're putting out.

You know,

So we have to be more responsible for our energy.

Like Lisa was saying.

We have to be the change we wish to see.

And collectively that does it.

This is this is this is the good news.

That does it.

Hey,

Kelly.

You know,

The.

Being the change we wish to see will literally change the world.

And it works in in our lives.

It helps us.

You know,

It's a very profound statement.

So,

I mean,

Depending on how you it has multiple layers.

So depending on how you look at it,

Be the change you wish to see.

Oh,

I should focus on myself and not the other people.

Yes.

OK,

Cool.

That's a good little lesson.

But I'm taking it here.

And I'm going like that.

It will literally change the world.

That is literally what has changed the world since the beginning of time.

Collective consciousness.

Collective energy.

That's what changes.

Society.

That's what changes the world.

That's what causes social change.

So this is how important we are.

We you're not just doing the internal work for your own peace,

Love and happiness.

But hey,

What a nice side piece that you get out of it.

You get to live.

So how can you bring more love into the world?

People like we need more love into this world.

We need more love.

So bring it.

Be love.

And then you get to walk around in love,

Which feels good.

The people around you get to experience that love,

Which feels good.

So your little bubble inside this collective consciousness gets immensely better,

Happier and healthier.

And you actually affect the group conscious.

The collective consciousness you are affecting.

And that little example that I just gave,

Not only are you affecting it,

But the people inside your little bubble that you're affecting them and then it's affecting it.

So that right there you see it start to mushroom.

Mushrooming is just huge.

It's a huge effect.

Just check in.

Sarah,

I love it when you call out dysfunctional BS.

Yeah,

There's plenty of it,

You know.

But this is what a state we're in.

It's not,

You know,

This is nobody's fault.

We just fell asleep and we've been lulled to sleep for thousands of years,

Literally.

We've been being driven by egoic mentality for thousands,

Probably tens of thousands of years.

So this has been going on for a long time,

But it's going full circle.

So,

You know,

I'm talking about global change.

I'm talking about universal change.

So what's happening is,

You know,

There was a time when we were on the planet and we were not destroying it.

There was a time when we,

It supported us and we supported it.

We were part of it.

We were part of nature and we coincided with that nature and everything was beautiful.

There was a time when human beings were on this planet that everything was OK.

And then all of a sudden,

You know,

The ego started taking over one person and another person,

Another person.

And they started harboring,

Like going after material things like,

I want all the meat.

I'm the best hunter.

I want all the meat and you guys got to come to me.

Why should I give you my meat while you sit around and you can't hunt?

Oh,

OK.

Now all of a sudden he becomes the head of the tribe.

And it starts shifting the dynamic of everything.

Now all of a sudden people are like,

Well,

If I want meat,

I should act like him.

And if I want,

Like he has power and whatever,

You know,

Whatever currency,

He gets to do whatever he wants because he has the stuff,

Because he hoards it.

Well,

I need to stop hoarding,

You know,

And then it spread like wildfire.

And eventually,

You know,

It's taken thousands of years to get where we are.

But like we're so picture it like we're good with nature.

Right.

And then it starts getting dysfunctional and then it gets really dysfunctional.

Now,

The world is a very big place.

The earth is big.

So,

You know,

We have to we've taken tens of thousands of years to completely immerse the dysfunctional reality in every corner of the earth as much as humanly possible and destroy everything within our power.

And then in the name of egoic gain.

And then now also we get over here and it's like it starts backfiring on us.

Why?

Because it was never sustainable.

It was never a way that was actually coinciding with nature and never was going to work.

Eventually,

We're going to run out of assets.

Eventually,

This stuff was going to lash back at us.

Our behaviors are our collective conscious karma.

Oh,

There's a new term collective conscious karma that's going to come back.

And here it is.

That's where we are.

And we're like,

Oh,

My God,

This doesn't work.

We have to change.

We have to change.

We have to change.

And as we do the change,

We're going to come full circle and we're going to get back to healthy,

Coinciding with nature,

Living in a peaceful thing.

That's been the whole journey.

It's been taking us thousands and thousands of years to get here.

And every one of you are some of the bravest souls in the history of planet Earth that have chosen to come down here during this time and usher this new way in because it ain't easy.

It's simple,

But it ain't easy.

So this is this is what we are on.

This is the path we are on.

Collective conscious karma,

Bing,

Bing,

Bing,

New term.

Hi,

Rose.

As we journey on things change as our perspectives do so different philosophies controlling our thoughts and taking the time to speak or not get involved or not.

Is it your calling or the guy?

The other guys?

I'm not sure if I'm following that properly,

But what I'm getting out of that is that,

Like,

Yes,

We need to shift our perspectives.

But if this they can be,

You know,

They can be a bunch.

We don't have to worry about everybody else.

You know,

That's the point.

We just have to worry about ourselves.

We as a species are very good.

We are good,

But we have to stop thinking we're bad.

We're not bad.

Whereby nature,

We are good.

By nature,

We are loved.

And we just need to fall back to that.

And we can.

And it's less work than you think because it's all spiritual words which imply non-action,

Spiritual terms implying non-action.

It's letting go.

It's allowing.

It's remembering your truth.

It's forgetting what has been told to you.

Any of those terms,

You can't go in a corner and try real hard.

Go try to remember.

Go try to forget.

Go try to allow.

You can't do it.

You can't put effort towards spirituality.

You have to allow it.

You have to fall into it.

You have to be it.

And this is what I'm talking about.

So I'll draw a few lines here.

So if internally we lack self-love,

Then externally there will be a lack of love for others.

And that's a tough one because people think,

A lot of people who have low self-esteem,

They give a lot to others,

Right?

They're very big-hearted loving people.

So when you say,

When you tell big-hearted loving people that because they can't love themselves properly,

They're not loving other people properly.

They get very upset.

That triggers a defense mechanism because their whole identity is based on being a good person.

That's why they give and give and give to make themselves feel better.

And usually they give too much and allow people to crap on them.

If you are giving too much and you are allowing people to crap on you,

That does not mean that you are a good person.

That means that you have low self-esteem.

That is not benefiting the world.

That is not bringing love into this world.

That's bringing egoic,

I'm a good person into this world.

And that's a big problem because we all,

You know,

Everybody on a spiritual path has these big hearts and they run around and they give and they give to others and they give to others and then they get crapped on and they get crapped on.

They go poor at me and they fall into a martyr or victim mentality.

And you're misunderstanding me.

Why are there so many bad people out there treating me poorly?

It's not about them.

It's about you.

If people are treating you poorly,

It's your responsibility to stop it.

That's what self-love is.

And when you stop other people from crapping on you and you stop other people from sapping off of you and you stop enabling other people,

Most often,

All of a sudden they do the work that they need to do.

Enabling people emotionally,

Financially or whatever is not good.

We have to stop doing that in the name of being a good person because it's not.

It doesn't help you and it doesn't help them.

It enables them to not do their work because they don't feel the consequences of their own actions.

So work on loving yourself.

Stop giving everything to other people and work on yourself.

So now if we have a lack of self-love,

So therefore there's a lack of love for others.

And I mean true,

Open-hearted,

Unconditional love.

Unconditional is the key word here because when you give to other people in an unhealthy way,

You get very angry when they don't give back to you and it's your turn,

Right?

Yeah,

That's because you're giving conditionally.

You can go back and listen to my other podcast many years ago about that.

You're giving conditionally and you don't even have the decency to tell them you expect something in return.

They say,

Can I have this?

You go,

Yes,

Because I'm a wonderful person.

And then you're like,

Oh my God,

I gave too much.

I'm broke.

I don't have any.

I need help.

I need help.

Will you help me?

And they're like,

No.

They're like,

You're a bad person.

Well,

Wait a minute.

So you were giving to them so they would give back to you?

No.

Well,

Then why are they a bad person?

Because they didn't give to me.

So you want them to give to you?

Yes?

Do you see?

You see how that goes?

So it's real unconditional love that I'm talking about.

So if we lack unconditional love for ourselves,

We don't have unconditional love for others.

So that's internal to external.

How does that manifest?

War.

That's how that manifests.

When you have a society filled with people that don't love themselves and they're not capable of loving other people unconditionally,

Then all of a sudden when a government comes in and says,

Hey,

We need to go kill those people because they're bad.

We go,

Yeah,

All right.

I guess.

Why?

Because we're not walking in love.

Somebody that's walking in love and somebody says,

Hey,

We'd like your support.

We're going to go kill those people in your name.

No.

If somebody comes up to me and says,

Hey,

Like,

I'm going to we're going to go kill some people to help you out.

Well,

It'd be like,

That's cool.

Like,

I don't think I need that type of help.

You know,

So this is how it manifests in our own hearts to external to other people.

To collective societal.

That's what I'm doing.

That's this is the process that I'm going through right now.

So inside,

If we have a lack of understanding with about ourselves,

We're going to have a lack of understanding about other people.

If we have a lack of understanding about other people,

We're going to argue with them.

If we have if we are judgmental about ourselves,

We are going to judge other people.

I say that we don't.

We do judgment.

I found this out personally.

You cannot separate self judgment from external judgment.

Judgment is judgment.

If you are a judgmental person,

If you are judging yourself,

You judge the people out there.

You might think that you're not.

But look closely.

I guarantee you that you are.

If you are judgment,

If you are judging,

You are judging.

Period.

And it will apply to you as well as others.

Maybe you're nice about it and maybe you don't say it to their face,

But in your head you're judging.

So if I judge myself,

I'm going to judge other people.

If I judge other people,

That causes separation within a society.

If I'm confused within myself,

I'm going to be confused with other people.

What does that cause?

Fear.

Fear in society.

If I have a resistance to the reality of things that are going on in my life,

If I'm resisting the facts of what's happening in my life,

And we all do this too,

This is called suffering.

Whenever we are emotionally suffering,

We are resisting the reality of what is happening in our lives.

My car shouldn't break down.

I can't believe my car broke down.

Why?

It just did.

Sometimes stuff happens.

Yeah,

But it's a brand new car.

So no machine ever on the planet ever has a glitch in it.

Or nobody on an assembly line ever makes a mistake ever.

But if they do,

They don't do it to yours.

But I mean,

It just doesn't make sense.

A lot of the stuff we complain about.

We're resisting reality.

So if I am resisting the reality that's happening in my own life,

I'm resisting the reality that's happening with other people too.

And if I resist it in my life,

That causes suffering.

If I resist it in other people's lives,

It causes suffering.

But what does that cause in a collective society?

Suffering.

So if you had to look at society as a whole,

You know,

Either your country,

The entire planet,

Maybe your city or town,

Whatever,

If you're going to look at society,

Would you say that society,

As a general rule,

There is a lot of suffering,

Fear,

Separation,

Arguing and war?

That's rhetorical.

Yes,

There is.

I just described the world in which we live.

There's a whole bunch of suffering,

Fear,

Separation,

Arguing and war.

How?

How does this occur?

It draws a line all the way back to the individual.

That's how it occurs.

This is why if we raise our self-esteem,

If we do the work and learn to understand ourselves,

If we stop judging others,

If we clear away the confusion and simplify our lives,

If we stop resisting the reality that's happening in our own lives,

Now all of a sudden,

If you do it and somebody else does it,

Somebody else does it,

Somebody else does it,

Now all of a sudden we change the collective consciousness.

And this is how we usher in a new reality based on love.

And it's happening.

And don't worry about the other eight billion people on the planet.

None of you are concerned.

Do what you can where you are in your own life.

When your work is done or at least half done or three quarters done,

People will be coming out of the woodwork.

Most like for most people.

Some people are just supposed to be a beacon all by themselves,

A beacon of love,

Just exuding love.

And if that's your calling,

If you're just sitting there exuding light and love,

You're cool,

Man.

You're doing your part.

Thank you.

A lot of people,

Though,

There's a change coming.

So a lot of people are going to be drawn to us when we're doing that.

My neighbor up here said that yesterday.

He's like,

He's like,

I get it.

You know,

Sometimes I need some downtime.

He's like,

But,

You know,

We,

We in our little five person community up here,

We attract people because of the energy that we have.

We have good energy and that attracts people.

So people come.

It's OK.

You know,

That's good.

That's part of it.

You know,

We can be an example of the change that we're trying to see.

And you can do that,

Too.

But we have to remember,

I learned this in recovery.

It's attraction rather than promotion.

Do not go out trying to convince people of this.

The way I talk,

It sounds like I'm trying to convince people.

And it's because I'm passionate.

But if you notice,

I'm in my own little house.

And you have to tune in to listen to me.

So if somebody like sometimes people listen to me and they'll be like,

I disagree with you,

That's wrong.

OK.

So,

So don't listen to me.

You know,

I mean,

Only listen to me if it resonates.

If it doesn't resonate,

Stop listening.

I'm not trying to change anybody.

I'm not worried about the people who disagree with me.

And believe me,

There's plenty of them.

Good.

Fine.

Go disagree.

I can try to change you.

But if it does resonate,

Cool.

You know,

That's my job.

I'm a teacher.

This is what this is what I'm here for.

So this is how we can be the change.

Attraction rather than promotion.

Be the light.

Walk around in the light.

You don't have to talk to Susie at the freaking water cooler and try to help her find Jesus or whatever else you believe in.

Like,

Let them alone.

Just be the light.

You know,

The ones that are looking for change,

The ones that are curious,

The ones that are open to change.

They come after like a lot of times they keep their distance a little bit because time helps.

It's like,

Is this for real?

They seem really happy.

This is kind of weird.

And then after a while,

They're like,

Wait a minute.

They just seem happy.

I want to be happy.

Maybe there is something to it.

Maybe they're full of crap.

But maybe they're happy.

So,

I just had a flash of it almost it starts almost the same way.

And it has for almost 18 years.

You know,

When somebody's been watching me from a distance and they're not really saying anything and then they finally decide to come up to me.

It always starts with something like,

So,

So like I'm kind of not sure about this,

But like,

Are you saying that if you look stuff like this,

Like maybe just might be happier?

Is that kind of,

You know,

They're very,

Very cautious when they approach me because they're not ready to swan dive in.

They just can't.

They're just curious,

You know,

And they don't want me to go.

Yes.

And you have to do this.

You know,

They don't want that.

So,

Let people come to you.

Be the change.

Be the magnet for those who are looking for change.

You don't have to go try to change people.

Put it out there.

You know,

When the students ready,

The teacher will appear.

And when the teacher is ready,

The student will appear.

That's a part that a lot of people don't realize.

And that's a very important part.

This is why we do not go running around trying to promote this.

Because then you just look like somebody else with a mindset that's trying to manipulate somebody else into thinking what you're thinking.

Which,

By the way,

Energetically,

That is what you're doing energetically.

You can be preaching love and all this stuff.

But if you're trying to change somebody,

Even if your energy is good,

Even if it's,

Yeah,

But I'm just talking,

I just want to be loving people.

Yeah,

But they don't want to be a loving person.

If you're trying to make somebody change,

Even if it's for the good,

That doesn't want to change,

That's manipulation.

So,

That's why it's so important.

Just be the change.

If you are meant to teach this stuff,

Then the students will start coming to you.

People will start going,

Hey,

Why don't you teach this stuff?

They'll just appear.

I mean,

Going into a professional teaching,

Like being a professional where it's your career,

Well,

Then you can cross that bridge when you come to it.

I'm just talking about in life,

Being the light.

And then what does it look like when you really do enough work on yourself?

What does that look like?

What it looks like is you are peaceful,

You are happy,

You are light,

You are love,

And other people start reflecting it back to you in your inner circle.

And all of a sudden your conversations change.

People go,

You really helped me.

We just had a little conversation the other day.

I wasn't trying to help.

I was just sharing what I found that seems to be true.

That really helped you?

Yeah.

That's what it looks like.

So,

We don't have to go out there and change the world.

We have to change ourselves and then we be the change.

And as collectively we be the change,

Collectively we live in unconditional love,

Collectively we stop judging,

Collectively we start connecting,

Collectively we stop getting lost in the details and the confusion of the BS society that has us all in a dream world.

And we start just getting to the simplicity of living our best life and our happiness through love.

When we get there,

There we go.

And the more our life is better,

The collective life is better,

And I'm telling you this is what,

As you know,

We'll see big groups come up into the surface and institute some sort of changes on a political scale.

We'll see some of that stuff here and there.

But that is not the driving force.

We are the driving force.

And the more you open up to the love and peace,

The more your world is going to change for the better.

And that should be a large enough promise to get you to do the work.

Because it's a promise.

It will happen.

Your life does get better when you lean into love.

I promise.

And then the lives of people around you will,

If they're open,

And there might be somebody like a child of yours or a parent or a sister or brother that you love tremendously,

And you want a close connection with them,

You want them to be happy and they are not ready.

You can't change them.

And the more you push them and the more you promote this stuff,

The less chance they have of changing.

Let them be.

That's what love does.

This is why we have free will.

God knows it.

God knows,

You know what,

Glenn would be better off if I took him over here and I put him over here.

And not only would he be better off,

But he would be better able to teach all these people.

And the world would be better.

And God knows that stuff.

And you know what God does not do?

God does not move Glenn from here to there.

Why?

Because that's control and it's not love.

That's why the foundation of the universe is based on free will.

We have to choose it.

That's what love does.

So don't try to change anybody.

That's not love.

Just be the change and then just watch.

It will be manifesting in so many ways in your life.

It will capture all your attention.

You won't have to go find people to try to change.

Your life will be full on many levels.

So that's it.

We are coming up on an hour yet again.

I don't know myself.

I just love this one.

So I just think it's wonderful.

It gives me so much hope for the future because I know how many good people there are out there.

It's just such a wonderful thing.

So be the change you wish to see.

More work,

More work.

Just keep going within.

Keep going within.

Keep going within.

And as your attention gets distracted by the without,

Keep going within.

And just breathe that love,

Peace,

Happiness,

No matter where you are.

People on death row have spiritual awakenings are in perpetual bliss sitting on death row waiting to die in a cage.

And they are perpetually happy.

It can be done.

Don't worry about your external circumstances.

If you keep working on self-love,

That stuff will change too.

That's what love does.

It purifies.

So do it,

Do it,

Do it.

I'm excited about our future people.

And thank you,

Sarah.

And the rest of you,

Rose,

Lisa,

And Nicole,

And the other Lisa.

Well,

Maybe there's one Lisa.

I know,

Marasi.

Yeah,

There's,

I'm sorry,

There's only one.

But there's bound to be another Lisa out there listening.

Thank you,

Ladies and gentlemen for listening.

Be the change.

There's so much hope for us right now.

It's a beautiful thing.

So thank you.

And I am out.

Peace.

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