WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:02.279 Hi everyone, and welcome back to another podcast episode. My 2 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:04.879 name is Lisha Gogan, the host of the Globe Secrets podcast, 3 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:07.519 where I help you expand your mind and become more 4 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:09.759 self aware so you can glow up into the best 5 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:14.359 version of yourself. Hello and happy Sunday if you're listening 6 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:18.239 to this on a Sunday. So in today's episode, I 7 00:00:18.280 --> 00:00:21.559 wanted to kind of be like an awakening for all 8 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:24.640 of us, and I want to express some things that 9 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:29.920 I have been thinking about and recently I have been 10 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:35.240 really enjoying summer. Summer is the time that I feel 11 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:38.399 like I am the most alive, I feel the most motivated. 12 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.119 It's just like the best time for most people. I feel, 13 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:45.079 not everyone, but I just love the sun. I thrive 14 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:47.119 in the sun. There's just so much to do. The 15 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:50.640 days feel so long, and I really enjoy it. And 16 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:55.880 I was thinking, how, you know, we're in the middle essentially, 17 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:59.000 kind of like the middle of July already, and how 18 00:00:59.119 --> 00:01:02.799 summer is flying by. And I have really been resting 19 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:05.599 in a lot of gratitude and stillness in my life 20 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:09.840 recently and thinking about how I really do want to 21 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:14.280 not even just capitalize on this season of life, but 22 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:18.079 really be here in this season of life, because one 23 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:21.439 day I'm not gonna have summer, Like at the end 24 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:24.560 of this year, there's gonna be winter again, and things 25 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:27.640 might feel a little bit harder, or the days will 26 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:31.280 in fact feel shorter because the sun won't be out 27 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:34.879 for so long, it will feel colder. And this is 28 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:37.760 not to set myself up for feeling like it's gonna 29 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:40.079 be a dread. You guys know how we've been changing 30 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:43.439 our mindsets around winter. But the reality is there will 31 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:47.400 be change and things that I was thinking about even deeper, 32 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:51.319 which I don't even really want to say, but I 33 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:53.439 actually think it can be helpful for many of us 34 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:56.920 to think about these things, not in an existential crisis 35 00:01:56.920 --> 00:01:59.920 sort of way, but just the reality of life, which is, 36 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:04.159 one day I'm not going to be here. One day 37 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:06.879 I will not have the health that I have right now. 38 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:09.919 One day I will not have THEO. And if you 39 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:13.400 guys are knew here, THEO is my puppy. He's six 40 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:16.520 almost seven months old, but there will be a day 41 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:20.439 where I don't have him my relationship. One day I 42 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:24.759 will not have that relationship, and that's maybe just because 43 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:27.120 we will get old and one of us will leave 44 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:28.599 and then the other one, you know what I mean. 45 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:32.800 Or parents. I lost my mom in the wintertime, and 46 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:36.759 that is the reality of life. I lost my father 47 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:39.960 as well. One day we will not have our parents, 48 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:42.439 or we will not have friends, or things will change, 49 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:45.439 or maybe we won't live in the same place that 50 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:48.000 we once did. Like I live in the city right now, 51 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:50.280 and I feel like I used to kind of resist 52 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:53.199 that because I am not necessarily the biggest city girl. 53 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:56.400 But I've learned to embrace it and be like, I'm 54 00:02:56.439 --> 00:02:59.879 never going to have this moment again when I am 55 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:04.360 twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine living downtown Toronto. There's 56 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:06.639 gonna come a time and a place where I'm gonna 57 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:08.759 move on to another thing, and I'm sure it will 58 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:11.599 be beautiful, but I won't have this time. And I 59 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:14.080 don't want to look back in my life and be like, wow, 60 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:18.120 I just really wished for it to go quicker and faster. 61 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:22.800 And with these realizations, I've been really trying to be 62 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:27.400 present and be grateful and really enjoy what I have 63 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:30.759 in this moment, whether it's spending a lot of time 64 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:34.120 with my dog and really just being there and embracing 65 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:36.840 the fact that I have my puppy right now and 66 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:39.560 I will have many years with him, yes, but right 67 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:42.039 now I have him and that is amazing. Or the 68 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:45.159 relationship that I have. Yes, I'm probably going to have 69 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:48.680 this relationship for many, many, many, many many years. But again, 70 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:50.960 you know that one day when I don't like I 71 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:54.199 wanna be here now, or even when it comes to 72 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:56.960 my health, and I've had many times where my health 73 00:03:57.039 --> 00:03:59.840 was taken away from me, so I already know that feeling. 74 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:04.080 But right now I feel really good and thinking about 75 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:06.520 let's say winter, maybe it's not that I'm going to 76 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:09.000 be sick, but maybe there's gonna be more days where 77 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:12.599 it's gloomy and than not, and the gloominess it does 78 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:14.960 definitely affect me. So I really just want to be 79 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:17.879 here with the sun and so on the weekends when 80 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:21.360 there's things to do, people to see, whether to be enjoyed. 81 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:25.319 I'm really trying to remind myself go out and take 82 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:29.360 on life and embrace it because it will be gone 83 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.319 and maybe it's just for a season and maybe something 84 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:34.480 better will come. We don't always have to, like I said, 85 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:36.360 think about it in the sense of like everything so 86 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:40.480 negative and existential, but the truth is things will absolutely 87 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:45.160 change now going a layer deeper, I was really journaling 88 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:48.079 and sitting with myself and thinking about why is it 89 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:53.040 that we can so easily not be in the present 90 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:57.560 moment right and kind of push off, you know, plans 91 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:01.879 or seeing people or taking things for granted, or wasting 92 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:05.560 our time. We waste so much time and we don't 93 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:07.920 take care of ourselves a lot, and we go into 94 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:09.680 old patterns and things like that, like what are we 95 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:12.000 why are we always doing that? Why is it so 96 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:15.879 easy for us to take these things for granted and forgets? 97 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:17.680 And so this is really what I want to talk 98 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:21.519 about in this episode, is bringing your awareness and like 99 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:24.240 even bringing my awareness to some of the things that 100 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:29.199 will make us forget and really distract us and keep 101 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:33.120 us asleep. Honestly, I feel like when we take things 102 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:37.600 for granted, when we stay small, when we willingly or 103 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:41.839 unwillingly waste our time with things that I'll be talking about, 104 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:44.800 or we just don't go out into the world and 105 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:48.480 expand and evolve, I feel like we are genuinely asleep 106 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:51.240 and we can be so not aware of these things 107 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:53.920 because of all the things that can be put in 108 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:57.000 place that almost like create illusions for us. And I 109 00:05:57.000 --> 00:05:59.959 don't want to go too into like everything's an illusion 110 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:03.160 and oh there's a bunch of conspiracies and things like that, 111 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:04.639 But I think that you guys will resonate to some 112 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:05.839 of the things that I'm going to talk about. So 113 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:09.519 we can talk about one thing, which is our addictions 114 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:14.240 to things. I think genuinely all of us struggle on 115 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:18.000 the spectrum of addiction and in many forms. There's many 116 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:20.319 things that you can be addicted to. Of course, the 117 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:23.040 one we always think about is drugs, but it could 118 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:25.959 be other things, like drugs that aren't like those hard 119 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:28.240 drugs that you see people out in the streets doing, 120 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:32.480 pharmaceutical slash prescription drugs, and it could be for all 121 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:34.680 sorts of things. And I'm not here to say some 122 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:37.720 of these things don't help us in many ways, of course, 123 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:41.000 but many of us can be addicted to those things, 124 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:45.120 or even cannabis or things that are more normalized, or 125 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:47.800 even social drinking and things like that. And again I'm 126 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:52.600 not one to advocate black and white thinking black and 127 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:55.480 white living all or nothing. We need to be one 128 00:06:55.560 --> 00:07:01.040 hundred percent straight, no, like you guys know, But I'm 129 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:03.920 just calling a spade a spade. There's many things or 130 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:07.879 even when it comes to caffeine addiction, food addiction, eating 131 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:11.920 tons of sugar and having crashouts and those unhealthy relationships 132 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:14.879 of food that you typically go in in those cycles 133 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:18.240 when you're in the shackles of those things. Or it 134 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:20.839 could be things like spending, spending a lot of money 135 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:25.720 or insane amount of socializing and partying that is not 136 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:28.639 aligned to maybe you and your deep values. And a 137 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:32.360 big one for a lot of us is our damn phones. 138 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:37.120 Another thing that keeps us asleep. And I want to 139 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:41.560 be very gentle with this because a lot of this 140 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:45.160 is really not our fault, but it's our traumas when 141 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:50.399 we come from relational trauma, whether that's from parents, any 142 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:55.720 sort of caregivers, environments, people around us, like romantic relationships, 143 00:07:56.160 --> 00:07:59.639 especially from the past. Those things they really do keep 144 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:03.079 us in cycles. You know, when we go out in 145 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:07.000 the real world and we want to find love or 146 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:10.680 get into relationships or friendships or even working relationships things 147 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:13.759 like that, a lot of these relationships really mirror what 148 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:17.439 we have been taught about relationships or what we think 149 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:19.360 we deserve based off of what we got in our 150 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:22.480 childhoods and a lot of times we don't come from 151 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:26.040 the best relationships. Not everyone, of course, but a lot 152 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:29.079 of us. We come from a lot of dysfunction, and 153 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:35.000 so we will typically keep matching up with those same cycles, 154 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:39.639 those same relationship wounds, and that keeps us in cycles 155 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:45.559 on healthy relationships, toxic relationships, relationships where we do not grow, codependency, 156 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:49.080 all of those things, and that keeps us stuck. It 157 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:50.759 keeps us away from the things that I'm going to 158 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:55.320 talk about after I continue on. But those things absolutely 159 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:58.039 can keep us asleep the next thing. And I don't 160 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:00.000 want to go too much in here, Okay, I don't. 161 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:02.200 I don't want to open up a huge can of 162 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:04.159 worms here because I don't think that this is my 163 00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:07.919 content in its entirety anyways. But it's good to mention 164 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:14.759 our systems and our structures when it comes to society. Okay. 165 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:20.159 I think that there is a lot of misinformation, a 166 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:24.519 lot of information, a lot of scarcity, a lot of 167 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:30.879 things that are hidden from us and we are being infiltrated. 168 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:32.799 That's not I don't want to even use that word 169 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:35.279 because that seems like a little much. But whatever there is, 170 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:37.879 in my personal opinion, a lot of things that have 171 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:42.559 been fed to us through the media that is not 172 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:47.440 necessarily the truth. That can be propaganda, that can be 173 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:51.600 fear mongering, that can really drive a lot of scarcity 174 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:56.559 and drive us away from what, in my opinion, we 175 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:00.240 should be more connected to. And it keeps us duck 176 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:03.879 once again, when we are afraid, when we are misinformed, 177 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:07.679 we are not growing, we are not healthy, we are 178 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:10.519 not thriving. Another thing that can keep us asleep is 179 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:15.200 our food systems. And again this comes from a lot 180 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:17.639 of misinformation and a lot of things that are being 181 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:20.840 covered up. Well they're really uncovered now, but I'll just 182 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:23.879 give one example of like big pharma. And again I 183 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:30.399 am not a advocate for completely disregarding all medicine and 184 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:33.759 the medical systems can do for us, even in the 185 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:38.559 more like westernized sense of everything, because I've also gone 186 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:40.399 through the healthcare system and I've had a lot of 187 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:43.919 health issues, and for example, i have IBD in the 188 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:48.159 form of ulcrative clitis, and that disease needs to be 189 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:53.759 controlled with medication, but also lifestyle changes and managing your 190 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:57.200 stress and emotional states and eating well and things like that, 191 00:10:57.240 --> 00:10:59.240 and a lot of those things are not pushed when 192 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:02.080 it comes to big pharma and the medical system, and 193 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:03.679 you have to go on your own journey and learn 194 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:04.960 a lot about that. And when you learn a lot 195 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:07.480 about that, you'll actually learn that maybe too much of 196 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:09.080 the big farmer is kind of being pushed on you. 197 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:12.759 But again with something like IBD, like in an autoimmune disease, 198 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:16.759 and honestly a lot of things I do need medication 199 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:20.600 sometimes to help when it comes to aiding in a 200 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:23.320 flare up that would not be able to be controlled 201 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:27.120 with me just going on an emotional journey or deciding 202 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:29.519 that I want to change my diet today, or whatever 203 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:32.320 the case is. I think that there can be a 204 00:11:32.440 --> 00:11:36.480 very symbiotic relationship with those two, but I think not 205 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:39.039 a lot of people are even informed or aware about that. 206 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:42.279 But also outside of the big pharma situation, we have 207 00:11:42.360 --> 00:11:45.159 been told a lot of lies when it comes to 208 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:47.679 what is good for us, when it comes to food 209 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:51.000 and the things that are pushed on us. And again, 210 00:11:51.159 --> 00:11:54.440 I am not somebody who moves through life being a 211 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:58.960 huge conspiracy theorist, thinking that everyone is against me and 212 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:01.200 the devil is coming for me. And this that because 213 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:04.320 I do not think that I will ever be able 214 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:07.120 to be empowered if I'm constantly operating out of fear, 215 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:09.399 because I think that when you are constantly operating out 216 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:12.720 of fear, you actually cannot think clearly and you cannot survive. 217 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:14.879 So you need to think critically and you need to 218 00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:18.159 have discernment, but you need not to be afraid. Do 219 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:20.120 not be afraid, I guess, is what I'm saying, even 220 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:21.360 though I know there's a lot of things to be 221 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:23.279 afraid of in this world, like genuinely I get it, 222 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:27.799 but those things will keep us sick, and it will 223 00:12:27.879 --> 00:12:30.799 keep us stuck and keep us in loops. And when 224 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:34.240 you are sick, when you are constantly having to aid yourself, 225 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:36.279 when you are not eating, well, what is that going 226 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:38.519 to do. It's going to keep you in bed. It's 227 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:41.039 going to not keep you expanding and growing and going 228 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:45.519 outside and living your life and creating and dreaming and 229 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:47.600 doing the things that I personally think that you should 230 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:50.639 be doing outside of being stuck and depressed. Same thing 231 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:52.799 goes with your mental health. And the last thing I'll 232 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:55.120 touch on, and there's many other things right and I 233 00:12:55.159 --> 00:12:57.559 would love to maybe even hear your guys' opinion, but 234 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:02.159 capitalism can really push us into that toxic productivity. And 235 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:05.159 again I actually understand that we just live in a 236 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:08.480 capitalistic society like it is what it is. It is 237 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:10.799 what it is, and I'm not going to cry about that, 238 00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:14.480 but it's to be aware when we are pushed too 239 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:16.879 much to our limits, and when we are operating out 240 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:19.200 of ego and not out of value and not out 241 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:21.960 of love, and those type of things that can be 242 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:25.879 where corruption will kind of form, and there is a 243 00:13:25.879 --> 00:13:29.559 lot of it, unfortunately, And when we are overworking and 244 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:33.039 burning ourselves out and not connecting to ourselves and slowing 245 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:36.840 things down and seeing, you know how we actually only 246 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:40.639 have right now, you know, that really does keep us 247 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:45.000 asleep and keeps us kind of like robotic in a way. Now, 248 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:48.600 in my opinion, what all those things keep us asleep 249 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:53.480 from is a few things. For one, I think it 250 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:59.240 keeps us from understanding how I guess I'll just in 251 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:03.559 this sense you like the universe, how the universe works 252 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:05.879 in more of like a scientific like, some of these 253 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:08.759 things are very science backed, and I know everyone has 254 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:10.799 their different beliefs, so I'm gonna try and be like, 255 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:13.519 I don't know, as open and exclusive as I kind 256 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:17.399 of can. But for this instance, the way the world 257 00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:21.039 can work for us in our favor. And I'm going 258 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:24.919 to use the seven Hermitic principles to explain what I 259 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:28.879 am speaking about. And this is not like my religion, 260 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:33.159 this is not what I even fully believe in entirely, 261 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:36.480 and I will break other things down. And I think 262 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:39.000 that if you come from a religious background, you might 263 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:41.320 not resonate, and that is totally fine, or maybe if 264 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:43.840 you don't come from anything, you just who knows, Like 265 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:45.960 this is just where I'm at right now in my 266 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:49.360 life and what I have learned before even learning about 267 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:53.600 these principles naturally, just moving through life where I actually 268 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:56.720 was not indoctrinated by anything. I also wasn't raised in 269 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:02.000 any form of religious beliefs or anything like that. I 270 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:04.759 was just raised to be, you know, as best as 271 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:07.960 I could and a morally right person, I guess. And 272 00:15:08.399 --> 00:15:11.039 I had a really loving parent that did the best 273 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:13.480 that she could. And even my father he was very 274 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:16.320 much so a dictator and very very hard on me, 275 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:18.679 and he had his own things, but I think that 276 00:15:19.480 --> 00:15:21.759 he just taught me to be as good as I 277 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:24.600 possibly could. And if you're watching on YouTube, THEO is 278 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:28.679 up and doing whatever he wants to do, which is this? Okay, 279 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:31.919 So let's quickly run through the seven hermetic principles and 280 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:34.000 you can look into this yourself if you want. And 281 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:37.080 if you're on YouTube, I don't know. Feel's like if 282 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:39.440 you're listening to audio, his leg is just pointing up 283 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:41.399 to my chest and you can just see his leg 284 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:43.000 in the video. And that's about it. So it says 285 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:46.200 navigating reality through the laws of the universe, and we 286 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:49.159 will talk about spirit and God after this. Okay, guys. 287 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:51.759 So the first law is the principle of mentalism. Everything 288 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:54.559 in the universe is a manifestation of the universal mind, 289 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:58.279 indicating that our thoughts and perceptions shape reality. And I 290 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:03.919 genuinely believe that this is mainly true, and there is 291 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:08.559 a lot of science behind this. If you have a 292 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:12.480 set of beliefs, or if you're convinced of something, you 293 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:16.240 will seek to prove yourself right about those beliefs, and 294 00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:19.559 you will find evidence. If you're looking for negativity or 295 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:22.320 you're looking for positivity, you will find it. If you're 296 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:28.200 looking for opportunities, or if you're looking to have the 297 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:31.879 world show to you that you are a perpetual victim, 298 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:35.440 you will find that evidence you will. And there's something 299 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:38.120 called the reticular activating system, and you can look this 300 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:41.600 up if you want, But essentially, it's this process in 301 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:45.840 our brain that happens when we think about something like 302 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:49.080 prenominantly and we will start to see that out. So 303 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:52.879 if you all of a sudden, I actually I'll give 304 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:56.559 you an example. I am dating a guy who drives 305 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:59.360 a car. Amazing. That's so good that I'm dating a 306 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:02.720 guy who drives car. Aim in to that. Anyways, I'm 307 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:05.200 not going to say which car, but he drives a 308 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:09.359 specific car and I never would see that car, like 309 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:12.400 I never noticed it. But now that I'm with him, 310 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:17.400 I always notice that car driving all the time, all 311 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:19.799 the time, everywhere we go. And that's because it's in 312 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:21.759 the forefront of my head. That is, because it is 313 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:24.200 now in my awareness. I am around it a lot. 314 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:26.400 And that is a part of your brain called the 315 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:30.240 reticular activating system. The next principle is the principle of correspondence, 316 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:34.039 and it says as above, so below, as below so above, 317 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:36.960 which reflects the notion that the macro cosm and the 318 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:41.559 microcosm mirror each other and interstates influence external realities. I 319 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:44.720 think this is very true when it comes to anything 320 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:50.559 to do with projecting your insecurities or your beliefs. Again, 321 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:54.839 you see this a lot in relationships, or when your 322 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:58.839 relationship is mirroring to you things that you are either 323 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:01.640 not comfortable with with within your own self, or that 324 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:07.119 you actually do that you're being hypocritical about, or you 325 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:10.359 have thrown into your shadow, it actually gets reflected out 326 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:12.799 to you. And I think a lot of the times relationships, 327 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:16.920 whether it's romantic or like friendships, whatever, they can be 328 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:19.559 really good mirrors to you for the things that maybe 329 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:22.799 you have like blind spots on that actually reside within 330 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:25.319 you that you have not integrated in yourself. Next principle 331 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:28.039 is called the principle of vibration. Everything in the universe 332 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:31.480 is in constant motion, vibrating at different frequencies, affecting our 333 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:35.480 reality and well being. This is kind of more in 334 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:39.359 the realm of quantum physics, and it's a thing. Everything 335 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:41.599 is vibrating, even though we can't see that, even though 336 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:45.880 it's not necessarily relevant too much to this like three 337 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:47.880 D reality that we live. I don't think we need 338 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:50.720 to hyper focus on the fact that there's different dimensions 339 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:52.839 and there's like a fourth and a fifth one, and 340 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:55.839 we can vibrate and frequencies and things like that, but 341 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:59.160 it is a thing, and it is true that we 342 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:02.759 do vibrate, and there's different frequencies and we are just 343 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:05.799 not fully aware of them all. I guess next is 344 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:09.319 the principle of polarity. Everything has opposites that are actually 345 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:12.000 varying degrees of the same thing, teaching us balance and 346 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:16.240 the ability to transmute energies. I think about this when 347 00:19:16.279 --> 00:19:18.640 it comes to alchemy and turning your pain into power. 348 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:24.160 I think a lot of things are very yin and yang, 349 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:27.440 which I believe is going to be kind of like 350 00:19:27.559 --> 00:19:30.079 the explanation of the rest of the principles in a way. 351 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:33.799 The next is the principle of rhythm, and I think 352 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:36.880 I resonate with this principle the most naturally. It's so 353 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:40.880 like once you grow up, I think, and you really 354 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:43.559 become a woman, you step into womanhood and you step 355 00:19:43.599 --> 00:19:47.000 into really learning about your cycle and really being connected 356 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:49.640 to your body sematically, like you will just understand this. 357 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:53.319 And it says life is cyclical with natural patterns of 358 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:56.319 ebb and flow, teaching us to adapt and maintain equilibrium 359 00:19:56.400 --> 00:20:00.200 ru life's changes. And this is even outside of of 360 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:04.400 a woman's cycle and our bodies and even nature. It's 361 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:07.640 just like seasons of life. Sometimes things are shitty, sometimes 362 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:12.039 things aren't. Sometimes we are in school, sometimes we're not. 363 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:15.160 Sometimes things are good to relationships, and sometimes they're a 364 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:18.920 little bit rocky. But again, you know you, even as 365 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:21.359 a woman, if you are off of birth control and 366 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:26.279 your hormones are quite balanced, then you're going through four 367 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:29.960 cycles every single month, which means your hormones are evering 368 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:32.039 and flowing. There's going to be some days where you 369 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:34.400 feel peak energy and some days you do not. Those 370 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:37.240 type of things and understanding that and moving with the 371 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:41.160 rhythm of life and with the rhythm of nature can 372 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:44.680 really allow us to thrive in this life. But if 373 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:48.519 we don't know that, then we are staying asleep. Anyways, 374 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:50.839 back to it. Next one is principle of cause and effect. 375 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:53.119 I think a lot of us probably learn this in school. 376 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:56.799 Every cause has its effect and vice versa, emphasizing the 377 00:20:56.799 --> 00:21:00.599 importance of intentional actions to shape our lives. Very true. 378 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:02.680 Like when you think of something, you usually will take 379 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:07.160 that action, whether it's good or bad. When you say 380 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:10.319 something positive to somebody, it usually creates an effect. When 381 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:12.880 you say something negative to somebody or even yourself, it 382 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:15.519 will create an effect. When you eat something, it will 383 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:19.039 create a good or a bad response. It's kind of 384 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:21.720 very simple. Now, I will say, it's a little deeper 385 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:25.200 when it comes to cause an effect, because sometimes there's 386 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:28.480 many reasons for that effect and we are here to 387 00:21:28.839 --> 00:21:32.319 understand that and think critically. But that's kind of how 388 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:35.039 things happen in this world. And the last one is 389 00:21:35.079 --> 00:21:39.079 principle of gender. Everything contains masculine and feminine principles suggesting 390 00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:42.839 the need for balance between action and receptiveness for creation 391 00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:45.920 and harmony. And I again, I really live by this. 392 00:21:46.079 --> 00:21:48.480 I think a lot of the world is kind of 393 00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:51.599 like this, and it's really not balanced right now. I 394 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:55.079 think the masculine feminine energy within every single one of us, 395 00:21:55.160 --> 00:21:58.640 regardless of the actual gender or whoever we identify as, 396 00:21:58.920 --> 00:22:01.079 we have within ourselves, and a lot of times it's 397 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:05.000 very not balanced. And what I mean by that is 398 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:09.160 a balance of taking that aligned action but also knowing 399 00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:12.000 when to rest, Like simply those things you even see 400 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:15.240 that reflected in a woman's hormonalcycle. And I'm not saying 401 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:17.680