Spiritual Integration LL&L LIVE 7-26-21

In this episode of the Life, Lessons, & Laughter with Glenn Ambrose podcast I discuss integration. I dive into what it is, why it's important, what it looks like and give examples of what we need to be doing to move forward in new ways of Being. Recorded live 7-26-21

Transcript

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Glenn Ambrose.

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So here we are.

Integration people.

Integration,

Integration,

Integration.

This is a big one.

This is a big topic.

This is because it's like a spiritual truth.

So spiritual truths,

Spiderweb and you can come in many different doorways to them and they apply to many different things.

So that's why this is such a big topic.

So integration,

I'm going to try to come at it in a few different ways but the main thing,

The biggest picture I guess of the integration aspect is that's really what we're doing here.

It's what we're doing.

It's kind of the point of everything.

So we are spiritual beings having a human experience and I believe that if we take giant steps back,

We can see the evolution of man and since we are the most dominant creature on the planet,

We'll just say it that way,

Not necessarily saying that we should be but that we are.

We're the most dominant creature on the planet and we are the ones that have free will so it's in alignment to say that this is part of the evolutionary process,

The integration that we're going through and that's the big picture which I'll expand on in a minute but it also goes into the day-to-day lives that we all live of integrating our new ways of being into our lives.

If we don't integrate it,

There's no point.

So those are kind of like the two bookends of this topic.

So to expand on the evolutionary process,

We're on this planet and we were coinciding with nature for a period of time and then we decided to conquer nature which ultimately you can't do but we tried like hell.

So we've been kind of conquering and doing what we want and inventing things and doing all this stuff for many years and since we've been living out of alignment with nature,

We're also living out of alignment with spiritual law because I mean it's just that something is either eternally true or it's not.

It can't be true sometimes or in certain situations but not in others.

That is temporal truth.

That's like the earthly stuff.

So eternal truth,

It's always true.

It was a thousand years ago and it's going to be a thousand years from now.

So with that in mind,

Integration is the point of what we're trying to do.

We cannot deny our human aspects and we cannot continue living out of alignment with nature and or spiritual law which is basically the same thing.

So we need to integrate our spirituality into our humanness.

That's the journey.

That's the evolution that we're going through.

And there's different ideas of what that could look like as we move forward and I think the most common concept is that we're creating a new heaven and a new earth.

This is what has been prophesized about for thousands of years.

So now we're coming into it because we've reached a point where the way we are living just doesn't work anymore.

It's not feasible.

It doesn't work.

So we are creating a new way of being and what we're doing is we're taking our spiritual truth,

Spiritual law,

Our spiritual foundation which we're always connected to and we're bringing that into the earthly dimension.

That's the integration on the large scale that we're doing.

So what does that look like?

Well it raises our vibration which raises the collective vibration and if I'm living peacefully in love and a bunch of other people are living peacefully in the vibration of love and then it mushrooms and more and more people do it because it feels good and it's our evolutionary process and we actually get there,

Well then it would be like we're living in a heaven right here on earth.

You know a utopia and at first that's like wow that's pie in the sky stuff Glenn.

Boy that'd be nice.

It's closer than we think and we've all experienced it.

There are times when you've been interacting,

You've been consumed by something in your life and there's something else outside of what you're consumed by that's right there trying to get our attention.

So I'll give you a realistic example,

We've all seen it with kids but we've all done it ourselves.

We have the ability to lock into a vibration a signal.

It's just like a radio station,

We tune into a specific vibration,

A specific signal and then we hear that music.

We don't hear the music on the other stations.

Well we can do that too and we've all experienced that to some degree.

So when you're sitting there and you're just completely immersed in something,

Sometimes we can get there in meditation,

Sometimes watching tv,

You know all kinds of things and like I said we've seen it with kids and you're going hey hey hey what do you want for dinner?

What do you want for dinner?

Hey what do you want for dinner?

And you don't even know that they're there.

They're standing a foot away calling your name,

Talking to you and you don't know that they're there.

That is your like how can you not if it's just scientific well the vibrations are reaching you from their voice.

You could hear them 10 minutes ago when they're in the other room.

Now they're right next to you and your consciousness is not even aware that they're there.

You're not even conscious that the person is right next to you.

Now we've all experienced this and we shrug it off like it's nothing.

It's something you know we can actually interact in a completely different reality and so that's one example and then the other example that we've all experienced is the aspect of our perspective being our reality.

It's literally our reality I cannot stress this enough.

Every time I say it everybody goes yeah I know what you mean and even me you know I'll throw myself in there with everybody.

Yeah I get it.

I yeah my perspective is my reality and then all of a sudden there's something in your life that that comes in and you're just really mistreated and you're like this is ridiculous and I cannot believe that they treated me like this and it's wrong and I'm gonna tell them and we're all wound up and we believe it to be completely true and somebody goes well that's your perspective and no it's not that's the truth and this is blah blah blah blah.

And then if we calm down and then somebody comes in and explains to us and we go well like what if this person's job was to just get you off the phone as quickly as possible because they have a workload and therefore that's what they're trying to do as opposed to actually solve your problem because that's what their job is and their supervisor was breathing down their neck you know I'm making up some hypothetical thing whatever some alternative perspective to where it wasn't personal they weren't out to get you and you know maybe you could just let it go.

Then all of a sudden you go yeah okay now that I've relaxed a little bit I guess that's possible it could be true.

Yeah this is how it literally dictates our reality.

I mean what's more real than being upset and pissed off that somebody specifically attacked you for no reason and then an hour later after conversation you're like well that probably wasn't personal you know I get it I've had bad days.

Oh my god that's like you're completely at peace from when you were completely angry.

That's your reality you know so we can actually function in a different reality.

I mean I was you know up here in the mountains of the DR resisting some of the changes that I needed to go through and I was unhappy looking at the mountains out my back window and then when I changed my perspective all of a sudden I was looking at the same mountains now all of a sudden I'm happy.

What's the difference?

My perspective changed.

The circumstances didn't change you know so it's literally our reality and this I'm explaining this is to try to explain how big of a deal this integration is.

If we take our spiritual growth,

Our self-help growth,

Our trying to be a better person,

Whatever we want to call it and we integrate it into our lives what we're doing is we're taking the vibration of spirituality of love and we're birthing it into this world through our bodies through our actions through what we do that's integrating our spirituality into our human world and it's integrating the two worlds a new heaven and a new earth.

You see this is this is what we're talking about.

So in the grand scheme of things this is what it is this is this is what this is what enlightenment is.

You know everybody's after enlightenment and they want to wake up and all this stuff.

This is what it actually looks like and I think that one of the best examples is the story of the Buddha.

You know the story of the Buddha is you know he was a he was a prince and then he left everything because he saw some misery that had been hidden from him in his childhood and it was prophesized he was either going to be the conqueror of everything the biggest king ever that was going to conquer the whole I think I forgot I think it was like 13 different areas in India or something and he was going to conquer them all and bring them all together or he was going to be a great holy man.

So his father protected him from everything to try to get him to be a king like he was and he went outside the walls and saw misery it affected him he left everything that he knew to become a holy man and to end suffering that was his whole thing.

So he dove into it hardcore I mean he was an extremist he did everything to to the max so you know aesthetics were big in India at that time which they still you know they still have them to this day the aesthetics believed that the path to enlightenment was denial of the body so you know they they will fast they will starve themselves Buddha was eating a grain of rice a day just to to live they'll torture their bodies in lots of different ways hold their arm in a certain position for years like all kinds of things sleep on beds and nails like all this stuff and it's all denial of the body to try to transcend the body to get into the spiritual realm of enlightenment so that that was their beliefs and Buddha dove in you know he he was doing this stuff and became like the a very I don't know not a leader but very proficient in these skills he you know he ate less than everybody he did you know all this stuff so he was you know very committed to this type of stuff and finally he was like it's not this isn't working I'm not becoming enlightened this is not the path to enlightenment so he ended up stopping and then this is when he went sat under the Bodhi tree and he said I am not moving until I am enlightened until I I wake up so he sat there now what people a lot of people don't realize is you know what that what that looked like oh he just woke up well not really like he was tempted by all his temptations so the way they tell the story is it was well I think I might have wrote down the name Mara so Mara was the kind of like the devil right so he sent all his temptations one after another all his demons after Buddha and Buddha just sat there and then he sent his daughters to seduce him and Buddha just sat there and there may have been more I'm not sure but he he just sat there he did not you know lean into any of these things so the final test was Mara saying who are you who are you to be granted eternal wisdom universal wisdom who are you to be enlightened who testifies for you to be good enough to have access to this divine knowledge and Buddha stood there and put his hand down and touched the ground and the earth shook the earth testified for him this is the integration integrating the earthly with the spiritual that's the integration he did not deny his body he did not deny that he was of earth he became one with it stood in his humanity and entered into the spiritual realm so he didn't have to transcend the human realm to get to the spiritual realm he stood in the human realm and connected with the spiritual realm integration both you see this is this this is what we're talking about here we don't have to deny our body we don't have to deny our humanness we don't have to transcend the earth you know what we need to do is bring our spirituality into our earthly lives this is why integration is so important so that's like the big picture stuff you know let me know what you guys think hey Nancy thanks for joining us yes our vibe does attract our tribe so yeah you know throw me some feedback here peeps so that is the big scale integration the big picture the holy crap this is what it's all about type mentality you know which you know everything that's really true is the same in the microcosm as it is in the macrocosm which this is why a lot of times I try to do this I try to go big and then go small and draw the line because to me like that's kind of everything you know one of the things that I love about spirituality is it's so realistic it's so logical it's so truthful it's so factual I love how not woo woo it is it's not pie in the sky oh I wonder if it's like this it makes perfect sense you know when you look at people who have come before you when you compare does this make sense or and and compare the philosophy that we live compare it with the philosophies that I talk about compare them and see which makes more sense you know does it make sense that that people have been trying to transcend suffering and find enlightenment and peace and love for thousands of years yeah does it make sense that people have actually found it yeah does it make sense that you know the way they finally did it is through integration yeah okay what's the alternative I and I'm probably not even going to go into this because I don't even know what the alternative I don't even know what society teaches against that it doesn't teach that it doesn't teach what I just said it teaches something else so whatever the heck else you think it teaches compare that does that make sense to what society teaches you because what society teaches doesn't make sense it doesn't work it's unsustainable you know society teaches that that you know that we can use the world without replenishing it we can live in non-sustainable ways and it will never come back and bite us in the ass that's something that society teaches is it true does it hold water no it doesn't it's coming to bite us in the ass more and more ways every day so so it doesn't you know this is what I mean just use your logic I'm not asking anybody to to to believe something that some pie in the sky woo-woo mentality it's realistic it just makes sense compared to what they're teaching Ingrid high-end grid it teaches discontentment to make people buy more stuff nicely said yeah that it does do that you know it's trying to make us consumers you know we are numbers we are little notches in a big thing that buys stuff you know it's amazing like over here like you know like my friends made this beautiful sectional for me and they're like you're going to have this for the rest of your life and like at first I had to like I had to wrap my brain around that like do I even want it for the rest of my life like in the States it's not even a conversation you know over here that's a big thing like we're building you something that is so well made that you will have this for the rest of your life wow it's such a foreign concept to to civilized society you know Nicole hey Nicole great story about Buddha yeah and those of you you know I basically I just rewatched something and I basically took it from there although I've read books and stuff too so anybody that's interested in a I think it's a very good story of Buddha it's the PBS version which I just googled story of Buddha Richard Gere narrates and it popped right up I I've watched it before a few times I think it came out in 2010 and I've watched it you know three four five times already and it's just entertaining enough where it pulls me through the story really well so it's nice so yeah check that out it's the PB I just watched it for free on YouTube the other day again Lisa I feel sometimes it's hard for me to accept the craziness out there and I literally have to let it go it makes me sick well right and that this is so the more we integrate this is one of the reasons why you know I'm half well the reasons why I do everything that I do but having this conversation is like that's you know it's if something is really making you sick I mean it it frustrates me of course when I if I look at it that's but it doesn't impact my life and that's what we would have to make sure as we integrate this stuff our our you know what we're learning our self-growth our spiritual ways of living stuff like that as we integrate it like not only does it distance ourself from the dysfunction but what it does is it really gives us hope so now all of a sudden we look at the the dysfunction of society and how warped and messed up it is and we go oh well you know yeah it sucks that it's like that but I mean that's not where we're going that's where we're coming from you know so use that to keep us we need to be hopeful man we need to and the more stuff I watch and learn about that's out there that's already being implemented the more hopeful I get so you know feed yourself some positive food about watch there's tons documentaries out there uplift.

Tv which I think they changed their name they might be uplift.

Love now Gaia TV has some stuff you know and this stuff varies on a level of depth you know some is very deep some is not so deep but whatever learning about seeing all the people that are out there living these sustainable ways of living and implementing these new things it's everywhere guys it's in every dot of the corners of the world it's all over we have a really good foundation set so let's latch on to that and really practice living where we're going instead of being frustrated where we're coming from all that dysfunction that's what we're transcending we're leaving that behind you know so we can let go of it because and and really put our attention on where we're going that's how we manifest you know that's how we create we have to be open to a new way of being and you know have an intention of going there so so you know the integration I mean I talked about it from the big perspective of course but this is something that is probably the most common missing piece in spiritual work and the reason that it or the way it gets forgotten about or not done properly is because we get addicted to learning like when you're exposed to spiritual truth it feels good you're like oh yeah yeah and you know it makes you hopeful and and functional and oh yeah you know and it feels good that's not change you know and then when we understand a concept intellectually we go oh I get it now oh I definitely get it you know how many times especially I could picture this one time years ago especially I was really working on some specific things this was I believe it was when I was at the horse farm maybe when I first got there or something and I was working through things and I would have conversations and I'm a pretty deep guy I understand things pretty well and all this stuff and I'd have these conversations and I'd be like yes that's it and I'm transcending this and then I'd start out and I'd start working and then all of a sudden it just wouldn't it wouldn't take and three months and I don't know when I'd fall off but some point I would fall off and then three months later I'd wake up and I'd be like oh crap I'm doing the same thing I was doing three months ago I thought I was going to transcend this and I did that multiple times and what what I realized is that we don't we pay too much attention on intellectual understanding because that's how what we're so used to here on earth and we have to transcend that you know there's three aspects and I've got a whole podcast on this there's three aspects it's intellectual conceptual and physical so understanding thing intellect understanding something intellectually even in depth fully is not enough it's not going to change your life it might make it a little bit better or it might change it for a little while but it's not really going to change your life so what we need to do is you know slow down slow down slow down and integrate don't get caught up in learning more things and learning more things and going to more teachers and more teachers it's like keep it simple you know a lot I mean I recommend focusing on one to three teachers max at one time you know some people are just listening to to to 10 different teachers like oh I listen to spiritual podcasts all day like how how like when do you when do you integrate the teachings into your life you know exposure you we osmosis only does so much you know we can only expose ourselves to information like that that's it's helpful but I mean it's not going to change your life we have to take this stuff and implement it into our lives we have to contemplate it have conversations with it let it settle in conceptually deeper we have to take action in our physical lives our human lives you know we're again we're not we're not letting go of the fact we're human we're taking the spirituality and bringing it into our human lives we're practicing it in our human life you know that I want to be love I wish it was more love in the world oh you know we need more love in this world like well how are you bringing more love into this world it's your job it's my job it's everybody on here's job it's your neighbor's job and you know what I can't control whether my neighbor does it or whether they don't do it I can't control whether the rest of the world does it or they don't do it but what I can control if I do it it's the only thing I can control so I have to do it so I have to take these things and implement them into my life that's integrating a spiritual concept into a physical world by actually living it you know by actually paying for somebody's coffee at Dunkin Donuts for for my Northeast friends you know by by going and helping somebody by volunteering by by just how you live your life by and even more important like that stuff is all external physical and has to do with other people it's even more important about your self-talk how do you talk to yourself do you talk to yourself lovingly how much do you beat yourself up are you judgmental with yourself you know how much are you getting consumed about the problems in politics and living in fear because of it if you're consumed by it you're living in fear by it you know you you can't be knee-deep in the middle of a a a game of fear and not be playing fear that's like being in the middle of a freaking soccer game and going hey I'm not playing soccer as you kick the ball it's like no you you kind of are you're on a soccer field in the middle of a soccer game everybody's playing soccer and you're kicking a soccer ball that's playing soccer you know so like if you're out there interacting in a fearful world there's work that we can be doing you know if you're caught up in arguments there's something that can be done there right at the argument you know maybe you need to set a boundary for your own self-love maybe you need to speak your truth better and stand in it maybe you who maybe you need to get out of your own head and be more loving to the other person I don't you know I don't know there's many different situations out there but but my point is is that we need to be the change we wish to see in the world and that's by integrating all this I almost swore but I'm trying to keep the rate the the rating of of no swearing here but we have to take that all this spiritual crap that we're learning because that's what it is it's a bunch of spiritual crap until it's implemented this sounds good it looks good on a meme they've been making hallmark cards out of it for years but there's no substance to it you know integrate our the spiritual teachings into our life your teachings thank you Lisa you've been there right from the beginning I've been integrating a lot of what you're talking about also have had an awesome couple of years by keeping it simple well this is this is what you know that's what integrating looks like is keeping it simple it's it's very simple it's just you know we take a teaching and then we go how can I live like like I don't know any real spiritual teaching that isn't practical I mean that's kind of a whole point you know like I mean if there's a spiritual teaching out there that you can't figure out how to bring it into your life email me because that's its purpose it's to bring it into your life it's to birth it into this world you know it's to use to make your life better it's not to think about or contemplate I mean thinking contemplating is good but we do plenty of that you know we think about stuff all the time and we talk about stuff all the time but do we live it that's integration living it we are vibrational beings okay so everything is energy we are energy we have a vibrational rate and everything that we've experienced and every way of being that we are is vibrational it has a vibration there is a vibration to alcoholism there's a vibration to to physical abuse there's a vibration to low self-esteem there's a vibration to self-love there's a vibration to absolutely everything and all those little vibrations that we've experienced make up our vibration so how do we become somebody new how do we actually live a different life a more happy fulfilling life well we have to change our vibration well how do we do that by thinking and talking about stuff nope that's just at a surface level makes us feel good for a little while doesn't really change anything vibrationally nothing deep we have to live it we have to experience it we have to stand in it we have to act in the vibration of it like no like um no I'm not even gonna go down that road um I'm gonna go down a more positive road like we we we cannot we cannot say we love ourselves until we love ourselves you know like I love myself oh that didn't change my life no it's not going to now sometimes so but but people have these practices well look in the mirror and tell yourself you love yourself even if you don't believe it keep doing it every day until you believe it okay so things like this can actually work sometimes sometimes they don't sometimes they do um but that that can work so what happens when it does work why does it work when it works well when it works it's because the person when they look look in their eyes in the mirror and they say that now it starts changing their vibration little by little by little and at first it probably starts making them it be like okay well maybe I could love myself it's possible and then all of a sudden they go oh I think I do love myself a little bit you know and then oh wow I really do love myself and then as when you start when you're able to look at yourself in the eye and say I love myself and have it feel right the reason it feels right is because you shifted your vibration so it's no longer a lie because you know like and the lie is not that big of a deal let's not get carried away on the word uh here but in the beginning when you said it if you say something that you don't believe to be true that's a lie so if in the beginning it feels like a lie that's why it doesn't feel good and you don't believe it but then eventually if you start believing it it's no longer a lie now you actually believe in it so when you say it's because you're vibrationally attuned to that to to be your truth see this is how this is how this stuff works so it's not you know this big mystery of of you know it's not about finding the missing piece of information you know when if you have grown up in a society like we all have or most of us have that's extremely negative extremely dysfunctional right and then all of a sudden now we're in 2021 and there's a spiritual shift going on whether you want to believe it or not it's freaking happening it's here self-help is becoming uh much more popular it's fashionable now you know to work on yourself oh I'm working on myself oh me too you know oh I'm talking with my therapist I'm talking with my life coach it's very fashionable right now to work on yourself because it's picking up steam and this is a good thing but you know some of it is very surfacey but this is what's actually we're in the middle of a spiritual shift that's happening and we're transcending that old way of being so if you inundate yourself with positive self-talk with positive talk with other people maybe hanging around the real negative people less listening to spiritual podcasts reading a spiritual book just doing that stuff you're going to pick up some stuff your life is probably going to get a little bit better and you'll feel a little bit better but that is not it it's not enough this is not what we're this is not what you're seeking nobody nobody wants to not be miserable you know what I mean like the bar is so low now it's like if we're just not ready to commit suicide then that's good enough no it's not good enough like you know we're here to to be happy and to experience love and peace and joy and and to actually enjoy our our time here on this planet I'm not saying that we're going to do it all the time there's going to be ups and downs but as a general rule we need to try us you know holds let's lift the bar up a little bit higher than you know I'm not suicidal maybe I can stop doing my work now you know let's go up and really really strive for the happiness that we deserve and in so doing if you're really striving to change your life and living live a happy existence and have satisfactory and enjoyable relationships with your family and your friends and and your partner and stuff like that if you're really wanting to live a good experience live a good life then you must implement things which that's what integration is it's taking a spiritual integrating into your human life implementing it into your human life and changing thereby changing your vibration to vibrating at a happier and more joyful rate and then you walk through life like you're literally functioning from a different perspective which I talked about earlier is your reality it's literally your reality so when you're walking around going oh no like I got a flat tire and it didn't bother me like that that's exciting man that's really exciting living completely interacting with life differently what's better than that coming from a dysfunctional world you know let's see I'm gonna check in with the comments uh Sarah in my experience following your heart and taking bold steps creates a self-love it happens automatically because self-respect and self-admiration are a direct result of those actions yeah and I would agree with that and you know sometimes it happens it's those three parts intellectual conceptual and physical and you never know what what order they're going to come in a lot of times we get exposed to information intellectually and then that's where we stop we can't stop there we need to contemplate them we need to have conversations with them we need to expose ourselves to the teaching and really you know meditate on it really try to understand the concepts conceptually what does this mean not like oh I get it you know as soon as your brain goes like if you ask yourself a question do I deeply understand this and you can't even finish the saying before your brain spits out an answer you don't get it because that's your ego talking and if your ego is in charge you're not in a spiritual space so if you go oh here's this this uh spiritual teaching about integration do I understand yeah you you get it you understand it maybe maybe you do understand it but it's simply intellectual you need to slow down do do I really understand it do I really really understand it what does it mean then how what are some examples that I can do it in my life do you see when you ask those questions of yourself and you slow down and you go deeper put some attention on your body as you're asking these questions instead of your head and just slow down and really dive into it deeper do I have is there a part of me that doesn't think this is true what is that part you can ask yourself these questions and that's that can help you get it um conceptually and then you have to go live it find a way how can I bring this teaching into my life how can I live this teaching physically live it and then do that you know so a lot of times it happens that way intellectual conceptual physical but it can happen in any order sometimes it's conceptual first sometimes it's physical like that that's what kind of led me in this direction like sarah was saying following your heart and taking bold steps creates self-love see that is taking action first that's physical first and then it creates the conceptual and the intellectual laughter which it can be done like that you know my spiritual awakening was was um you know through the 12 steps sober you know ballpark like three months or so where where everything just kept blowing open and then I kept having smaller ones after that but that first three months I started understanding like all this stuff conceptually and it was amazing and it was profound then it was like wow oh my god but I couldn't integrate it I didn't integrate it because I couldn't integrate it because I didn't understand it intellectually like how to speak it I didn't even I couldn't even tell people what had happened to me like it was just so wow you know but inside I knew all these secrets of the universe but I I didn't know what to do with them so I had to learn how to implement them and stand in them physically in my life and I also read a bunch of books and listened to audios and stuff listening to the books on the audio was mostly my intellect right so I was trying to I was trying to learn about what I knew conceptually intellectually and then when I was learning to live it in my life that was physically standing in it doing it so then that helped me too and then once I got the intellectual conceptual and physical once I had those three pieces about you know most of the big stuff where it was time for me to start teaching and stuff the universe shut the door on me reading because I was reading everything and I'm like how am I reading I hate reading I've never been a reader how am I reading all this stuff I don't know but it feels good so I just accepted it and I kept reading but eventually it got to the point where I it was time for me to teach so all of a sudden my ability to read just shut off I mean I could read but it was like torture so I stopped you know and then I had to take all three of those parts and become a teacher because that's what I was supposed to do with this stuff once I got it you know so it can happen in any order now I'm just going to look over my notes see if there was anything else I want to touch on yeah it's you know just understanding that that you know there are you know why do we have to integrate our spirituality into our into our human world well because that's where we are where we are we're in a world of duality it's where we live welcome you've been here a while you know so the everything is dual here we live in a world of ying and yang we live in a world of two sides to every coin you know there's duality in everything here on earth so there has to be duality in us as well while we're here on earth you know so so there is there's a human side of us and there's a spiritual side of us and as we integrate those two it's alchemy see alchemy is a very ancient word and a very ancient concept which is you know all eternal truths are ancient they're coming back in now so alchemy was the idea of of course most people know it as turning base metals into gold but what's the point of that the point of it is taking rather average materials and making something combining them and making something above average better than its combined parts okay that's the mentality of alchemy and this is what we are doing here on earth is when we integrate our our spirituality with our humanness we become more of ourselves we expand become a better version of ourselves we come you know we have a spiritual part and we have a human part and those two parts are cool but man when we combine them it it becomes a love factory that just emits more love through us into this realm you know and then it then it kind of it starts combining oh the heaven and the earth heaven's vibrating way up here heaven isn't a place by the way like i don't know if you guys know that like i mean no matter what like even if you believe you know like strict um christian teachings about heaven like it's even then it it's not it's not like a location up in the sky it's just it's a different vibration it's a different reality that we go to we transcend our body and go there no matter what your belief system is it's just a different vibration and it's a vibration of love right so what we're doing is we're bringing where we're bringing that high vibration into this realm raising the vibration of our realm so we're we're bridging the gap this is how this all works integration i'm making i'm making weird sounds that's a good sign i consider it a good sign um so yeah i think that's it i think that's um if anybody has a question or comment you can shoot that out because i'm probably going to wrap it up um you're welcome lisa um but the you know that's pretty much it it's integration is so important and it's the big concept to me it's very heartwarming to think of it's like yes okay cool we are heading in the right direction this is a beautiful um evolution of of our species that that we're finally getting to we're finally getting to the good point people stop looking at the bad stuff going oh that sucks that's what change looks like come on you know most people in the world know um an addict or an alcoholic and they're such good examples of of how things work because they're extreme so you know if if i were to say hey you know you have an alcoholic or an addict and they're really hitting bottom or most people know what that means they're really struggling they're really having a bad time their life is not working for them anymore and most people understand the concept of hitting bottom being a good thing because that's how people try to find another way of being right this is why people seek out recovery this is why people do the work of the 12 steps which that ain't easy i've done it it ain't easy so why are you going to do that deeper work because you can't stand living the way you're living anymore that's what change looks like unfortunately for now it doesn't have to but nothing else is snapping us out of this dream that we're in so when you're looking at the world and all its problems don't be so judgmental that's just the world hitting bottom you know we're getting closer and closer to bottom and it's helping us it's bringing in contrast it's helping us see what works and what doesn't work it's getting more and more obvious what works and what doesn't work you know people like global warming you know when did that start 30 years ago 20 years ago global warming and we've been arguing over global warming for for decades right now we're getting to the point where we're transcending that argument we're going you know what doesn't matter it doesn't matter if there's global warming doesn't matter if there isn't global warming what matters is that we are literally destroying the earth we are taking and we are starting to run low on supplies that aren't replenishing that's just fact if you want to say the weather's caused by something else whatever the fact is is the way we're living is not sustainable for the long term and we can actually see that right now so even the people that are profit driven are starting to change and do things differently so they can make profit on a new thing because they're going to run out of the old thing you know and i don't care why people will change i just want to change so so like we are this is evolution man that we are getting closer to the change so don't be too too quick to get caught up in the negativity and be like oh no this sucks look at how horrible it is yeah you know you you want me to tell my story about what my life looked like when i got sober horrible you know really really horrible so you know that's often what it looks like that's what leads to change you know so keep that in mind be the change you wish to see integrate the spiritual teachings you don't have to find 300 spiritual teachings or listen to them all the time what you need to do is find one and then implement it over and over and over until you feel the change until your life changes and then find another one and implement that you know my books filled with them grab my book um down to earth you know you can get that amazon or wherever uh the four agreements is a great book and i'm not going to go into all the books but the four agreements has literally four things pick one implement it until your life changes for the better then pick the next one you know i mean seriously we need to start integrating our spiritual teachings instead of just learning learning doesn't do crap until we implement it so that'll do that'll do and i gotta highlight this one sarah says your book kicks ass with a heart thank you thank you sarah so go out there live it be the change you wish to see integrate integrate integrate understand it in a big conceptual eternal perspective and then bring it into the microcosm of your life and that is what is going to change your life integrating spiritual teachings into your life is what's going to change it the rest isn't all right so thank you everybody thanks for watching thanks for tuning in thank you for listening and um oh i'm going i did some interview today i don't it was a it was a business thing so any of you that are in business uh i'm going to be part of a business summit so keep your eyes open for that um you know i'll share the links when i get it but um i think there's going to be a lot of special you know it's a summit so they're going to get lots of um people who specialize in certain areas but it is focused on business so uh if you're into that you know keep your eyes open i'll be sharing it soon so thank you everybody thanks integrate implement change your life that's how you do it i love you thank you and we will talk with you soon looking for more check out over 200 episodes of life lessons and laughter or click the link in the description of this episode to connect with glenn directly

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