Speaker 1: Hi everyone, and welcome back to another podcast episode. My
Speaker 1: name is Lisha Gogan, the host of the Globe Secrets podcast,
Speaker 1: where I help you expand your mind and become more
Speaker 1: self aware so you can glow up into the best
Speaker 1: version of yourself. Hello and happy Sunday if you're listening
Speaker 1: to this on a Sunday. So in today's episode, I
Speaker 1: wanted to kind of be like an awakening for all
Speaker 1: of us, and I want to express some things that
Speaker 1: I have been thinking about and recently I have been
Speaker 1: really enjoying summer. Summer is the time that I feel
Speaker 1: like I am the most alive, I feel the most motivated.
Speaker 1: It's just like the best time for most people. I feel,
Speaker 1: not everyone, but I just love the sun. I thrive
Speaker 1: in the sun. There's just so much to do. The
Speaker 1: days feel so long, and I really enjoy it. And
Speaker 1: I was thinking, how, you know, we're in the middle essentially,
Speaker 1: kind of like the middle of July already, and how
Speaker 1: summer is flying by. And I have really been resting
Speaker 1: in a lot of gratitude and stillness in my life
Speaker 1: recently and thinking about how I really do want to
Speaker 1: not even just capitalize on this season of life, but
Speaker 1: really be here in this season of life, because one
Speaker 1: day I'm not gonna have summer, Like at the end
Speaker 1: of this year, there's gonna be winter again, and things
Speaker 1: might feel a little bit harder, or the days will
Speaker 1: in fact feel shorter because the sun won't be out
Speaker 1: for so long, it will feel colder. And this is
Speaker 1: not to set myself up for feeling like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a dread. You guys know how we've been changing
Speaker 1: our mindsets around winter. But the reality is there will
Speaker 1: be change and things that I was thinking about even deeper,
Speaker 1: which I don't even really want to say, but I
Speaker 1: actually think it can be helpful for many of us
Speaker 1: to think about these things, not in an existential crisis
Speaker 1: sort of way, but just the reality of life, which is,
Speaker 1: one day I'm not going to be here. One day
Speaker 1: I will not have the health that I have right now.
Speaker 1: One day I will not have THEO. And if you
Speaker 1: guys are knew here, THEO is my puppy. He's six
Speaker 1: almost seven months old, but there will be a day
Speaker 1: where I don't have him my relationship. One day I
Speaker 1: will not have that relationship, and that's maybe just because
Speaker 1: we will get old and one of us will leave
Speaker 1: and then the other one, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Or parents. I lost my mom in the wintertime, and
Speaker 1: that is the reality of life. I lost my father
Speaker 1: as well. One day we will not have our parents,
Speaker 1: or we will not have friends, or things will change,
Speaker 1: or maybe we won't live in the same place that
Speaker 1: we once did. Like I live in the city right now,
Speaker 1: and I feel like I used to kind of resist
Speaker 1: that because I am not necessarily the biggest city girl.
Speaker 1: But I've learned to embrace it and be like, I'm
Speaker 1: never going to have this moment again when I am
Speaker 1: twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine living downtown Toronto. There's
Speaker 1: gonna come a time and a place where I'm gonna
Speaker 1: move on to another thing, and I'm sure it will
Speaker 1: be beautiful, but I won't have this time. And I
Speaker 1: don't want to look back in my life and be like, wow,
Speaker 1: I just really wished for it to go quicker and faster.
Speaker 1: And with these realizations, I've been really trying to be
Speaker 1: present and be grateful and really enjoy what I have
Speaker 1: in this moment, whether it's spending a lot of time
Speaker 1: with my dog and really just being there and embracing
Speaker 1: the fact that I have my puppy right now and
Speaker 1: I will have many years with him, yes, but right
Speaker 1: now I have him and that is amazing. Or the
Speaker 1: relationship that I have. Yes, I'm probably going to have
Speaker 1: this relationship for many, many, many, many many years. But again,
Speaker 1: you know that one day when I don't like I
Speaker 1: wanna be here now, or even when it comes to
Speaker 1: my health, and I've had many times where my health
Speaker 1: was taken away from me, so I already know that feeling.
Speaker 1: But right now I feel really good and thinking about
Speaker 1: let's say winter, maybe it's not that I'm going to
Speaker 1: be sick, but maybe there's gonna be more days where
Speaker 1: it's gloomy and than not, and the gloominess it does
Speaker 1: definitely affect me. So I really just want to be
Speaker 1: here with the sun and so on the weekends when
Speaker 1: there's things to do, people to see, whether to be enjoyed.
Speaker 1: I'm really trying to remind myself go out and take
Speaker 1: on life and embrace it because it will be gone
Speaker 1: and maybe it's just for a season and maybe something
Speaker 1: better will come. We don't always have to, like I said,
Speaker 1: think about it in the sense of like everything so
Speaker 1: negative and existential, but the truth is things will absolutely
Speaker 1: change now going a layer deeper, I was really journaling
Speaker 1: and sitting with myself and thinking about why is it
Speaker 1: that we can so easily not be in the present
Speaker 1: moment right and kind of push off, you know, plans
Speaker 1: or seeing people or taking things for granted, or wasting
Speaker 1: our time. We waste so much time and we don't
Speaker 1: take care of ourselves a lot, and we go into
Speaker 1: old patterns and things like that, like what are we
Speaker 1: why are we always doing that? Why is it so
Speaker 1: easy for us to take these things for granted and forgets?
Speaker 1: And so this is really what I want to talk
Speaker 1: about in this episode, is bringing your awareness and like
Speaker 1: even bringing my awareness to some of the things that
Speaker 1: will make us forget and really distract us and keep
Speaker 1: us asleep. Honestly, I feel like when we take things
Speaker 1: for granted, when we stay small, when we willingly or
Speaker 1: unwillingly waste our time with things that I'll be talking about,
Speaker 1: or we just don't go out into the world and
Speaker 1: expand and evolve, I feel like we are genuinely asleep
Speaker 1: and we can be so not aware of these things
Speaker 1: because of all the things that can be put in
Speaker 1: place that almost like create illusions for us. And I
Speaker 1: don't want to go too into like everything's an illusion
Speaker 1: and oh there's a bunch of conspiracies and things like that,
Speaker 1: But I think that you guys will resonate to some
Speaker 1: of the things that I'm going to talk about. So
Speaker 1: we can talk about one thing, which is our addictions
Speaker 1: to things. I think genuinely all of us struggle on
Speaker 1: the spectrum of addiction and in many forms. There's many
Speaker 1: things that you can be addicted to. Of course, the
Speaker 1: one we always think about is drugs, but it could
Speaker 1: be other things, like drugs that aren't like those hard
Speaker 1: drugs that you see people out in the streets doing,
Speaker 1: pharmaceutical slash prescription drugs, and it could be for all
Speaker 1: sorts of things. And I'm not here to say some
Speaker 1: of these things don't help us in many ways, of course,
Speaker 1: but many of us can be addicted to those things,
Speaker 1: or even cannabis or things that are more normalized, or
Speaker 1: even social drinking and things like that. And again I'm
Speaker 1: not one to advocate black and white thinking black and
Speaker 1: white living all or nothing. We need to be one
Speaker 1: hundred percent straight, no, like you guys know, But I'm
Speaker 1: just calling a spade a spade. There's many things or
Speaker 1: even when it comes to caffeine addiction, food addiction, eating
Speaker 1: tons of sugar and having crashouts and those unhealthy relationships
Speaker 1: of food that you typically go in in those cycles
Speaker 1: when you're in the shackles of those things. Or it
Speaker 1: could be things like spending, spending a lot of money
Speaker 1: or insane amount of socializing and partying that is not
Speaker 1: aligned to maybe you and your deep values. And a
Speaker 1: big one for a lot of us is our damn phones.
Speaker 1: Another thing that keeps us asleep. And I want to
Speaker 1: be very gentle with this because a lot of this
Speaker 1: is really not our fault, but it's our traumas when
Speaker 1: we come from relational trauma, whether that's from parents, any
Speaker 1: sort of caregivers, environments, people around us, like romantic relationships,
Speaker 1: especially from the past. Those things they really do keep
Speaker 1: us in cycles. You know, when we go out in
Speaker 1: the real world and we want to find love or
Speaker 1: get into relationships or friendships or even working relationships things
Speaker 1: like that, a lot of these relationships really mirror what
Speaker 1: we have been taught about relationships or what we think
Speaker 1: we deserve based off of what we got in our
Speaker 1: childhoods and a lot of times we don't come from
Speaker 1: the best relationships. Not everyone, of course, but a lot
Speaker 1: of us. We come from a lot of dysfunction, and
Speaker 1: so we will typically keep matching up with those same cycles,
Speaker 1: those same relationship wounds, and that keeps us in cycles
Speaker 1: on healthy relationships, toxic relationships, relationships where we do not grow, codependency,
Speaker 1: all of those things, and that keeps us stuck. It
Speaker 1: keeps us away from the things that I'm going to
Speaker 1: talk about after I continue on. But those things absolutely
Speaker 1: can keep us asleep the next thing. And I don't
Speaker 1: want to go too much in here, Okay, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want to open up a huge can of
Speaker 1: worms here because I don't think that this is my
Speaker 1: content in its entirety anyways. But it's good to mention
Speaker 1: our systems and our structures when it comes to society. Okay.
Speaker 1: I think that there is a lot of misinformation, a
Speaker 1: lot of information, a lot of scarcity, a lot of
Speaker 1: things that are hidden from us and we are being infiltrated.
Speaker 1: That's not I don't want to even use that word
Speaker 1: because that seems like a little much. But whatever there is,
Speaker 1: in my personal opinion, a lot of things that have
Speaker 1: been fed to us through the media that is not
Speaker 1: necessarily the truth. That can be propaganda, that can be
Speaker 1: fear mongering, that can really drive a lot of scarcity
Speaker 1: and drive us away from what, in my opinion, we
Speaker 1: should be more connected to. And it keeps us duck
Speaker 1: once again, when we are afraid, when we are misinformed,
Speaker 1: we are not growing, we are not healthy, we are
Speaker 1: not thriving. Another thing that can keep us asleep is
Speaker 1: our food systems. And again this comes from a lot
Speaker 1: of misinformation and a lot of things that are being
Speaker 1: covered up. Well they're really uncovered now, but I'll just
Speaker 1: give one example of like big pharma. And again I
Speaker 1: am not a advocate for completely disregarding all medicine and
Speaker 1: the medical systems can do for us, even in the
Speaker 1: more like westernized sense of everything, because I've also gone
Speaker 1: through the healthcare system and I've had a lot of
Speaker 1: health issues, and for example, i have IBD in the
Speaker 1: form of ulcrative clitis, and that disease needs to be
Speaker 1: controlled with medication, but also lifestyle changes and managing your
Speaker 1: stress and emotional states and eating well and things like that,
Speaker 1: and a lot of those things are not pushed when
Speaker 1: it comes to big pharma and the medical system, and
Speaker 1: you have to go on your own journey and learn
Speaker 1: a lot about that. And when you learn a lot
Speaker 1: about that, you'll actually learn that maybe too much of
Speaker 1: the big farmer is kind of being pushed on you.
Speaker 1: But again with something like IBD, like in an autoimmune disease,
Speaker 1: and honestly a lot of things I do need medication
Speaker 1: sometimes to help when it comes to aiding in a
Speaker 1: flare up that would not be able to be controlled
Speaker 1: with me just going on an emotional journey or deciding
Speaker 1: that I want to change my diet today, or whatever
Speaker 1: the case is. I think that there can be a
Speaker 1: very symbiotic relationship with those two, but I think not
Speaker 1: a lot of people are even informed or aware about that.
Speaker 1: But also outside of the big pharma situation, we have
Speaker 1: been told a lot of lies when it comes to
Speaker 1: what is good for us, when it comes to food
Speaker 1: and the things that are pushed on us. And again,
Speaker 1: I am not somebody who moves through life being a
Speaker 1: huge conspiracy theorist, thinking that everyone is against me and
Speaker 1: the devil is coming for me. And this that because
Speaker 1: I do not think that I will ever be able
Speaker 1: to be empowered if I'm constantly operating out of fear,
Speaker 1: because I think that when you are constantly operating out
Speaker 1: of fear, you actually cannot think clearly and you cannot survive.
Speaker 1: So you need to think critically and you need to
Speaker 1: have discernment, but you need not to be afraid. Do
Speaker 1: not be afraid, I guess, is what I'm saying, even
Speaker 1: though I know there's a lot of things to be
Speaker 1: afraid of in this world, like genuinely I get it,
Speaker 1: but those things will keep us sick, and it will
Speaker 1: keep us stuck and keep us in loops. And when
Speaker 1: you are sick, when you are constantly having to aid yourself,
Speaker 1: when you are not eating, well, what is that going
Speaker 1: to do. It's going to keep you in bed. It's
Speaker 1: going to not keep you expanding and growing and going
Speaker 1: outside and living your life and creating and dreaming and
Speaker 1: doing the things that I personally think that you should
Speaker 1: be doing outside of being stuck and depressed. Same thing
Speaker 1: goes with your mental health. And the last thing I'll
Speaker 1: touch on, and there's many other things right and I
Speaker 1: would love to maybe even hear your guys' opinion, but
Speaker 1: capitalism can really push us into that toxic productivity. And
Speaker 1: again I actually understand that we just live in a
Speaker 1: capitalistic society like it is what it is. It is
Speaker 1: what it is, and I'm not going to cry about that,
Speaker 1: but it's to be aware when we are pushed too
Speaker 1: much to our limits, and when we are operating out
Speaker 1: of ego and not out of value and not out
Speaker 1: of love, and those type of things that can be
Speaker 1: where corruption will kind of form, and there is a
Speaker 1: lot of it, unfortunately, And when we are overworking and
Speaker 1: burning ourselves out and not connecting to ourselves and slowing
Speaker 1: things down and seeing, you know how we actually only
Speaker 1: have right now, you know, that really does keep us
Speaker 1: asleep and keeps us kind of like robotic in a way. Now,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, what all those things keep us asleep
Speaker 1: from is a few things. For one, I think it
Speaker 1: keeps us from understanding how I guess I'll just in
Speaker 1: this sense you like the universe, how the universe works
Speaker 1: in more of like a scientific like, some of these
Speaker 1: things are very science backed, and I know everyone has
Speaker 1: their different beliefs, so I'm gonna try and be like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, as open and exclusive as I kind
Speaker 1: of can. But for this instance, the way the world
Speaker 1: can work for us in our favor. And I'm going
Speaker 1: to use the seven Hermitic principles to explain what I
Speaker 1: am speaking about. And this is not like my religion,
Speaker 1: this is not what I even fully believe in entirely,
Speaker 1: and I will break other things down. And I think
Speaker 1: that if you come from a religious background, you might
Speaker 1: not resonate, and that is totally fine, or maybe if
Speaker 1: you don't come from anything, you just who knows, Like
Speaker 1: this is just where I'm at right now in my
Speaker 1: life and what I have learned before even learning about
Speaker 1: these principles naturally, just moving through life where I actually
Speaker 1: was not indoctrinated by anything. I also wasn't raised in
Speaker 1: any form of religious beliefs or anything like that. I
Speaker 1: was just raised to be, you know, as best as
Speaker 1: I could and a morally right person, I guess. And
Speaker 1: I had a really loving parent that did the best
Speaker 1: that she could. And even my father he was very
Speaker 1: much so a dictator and very very hard on me,
Speaker 1: and he had his own things, but I think that
Speaker 1: he just taught me to be as good as I
Speaker 1: possibly could. And if you're watching on YouTube, THEO is
Speaker 1: up and doing whatever he wants to do, which is this? Okay,
Speaker 1: So let's quickly run through the seven hermetic principles and
Speaker 1: you can look into this yourself if you want. And
Speaker 1: if you're on YouTube, I don't know. Feel's like if
Speaker 1: you're listening to audio, his leg is just pointing up
Speaker 1: to my chest and you can just see his leg
Speaker 1: in the video. And that's about it. So it says
Speaker 1: navigating reality through the laws of the universe, and we
Speaker 1: will talk about spirit and God after this. Okay, guys.
Speaker 1: So the first law is the principle of mentalism. Everything
Speaker 1: in the universe is a manifestation of the universal mind,
Speaker 1: indicating that our thoughts and perceptions shape reality. And I
Speaker 1: genuinely believe that this is mainly true, and there is
Speaker 1: a lot of science behind this. If you have a
Speaker 1: set of beliefs, or if you're convinced of something, you
Speaker 1: will seek to prove yourself right about those beliefs, and
Speaker 1: you will find evidence. If you're looking for negativity or
Speaker 1: you're looking for positivity, you will find it. If you're
Speaker 1: looking for opportunities, or if you're looking to have the
Speaker 1: world show to you that you are a perpetual victim,
Speaker 1: you will find that evidence you will. And there's something
Speaker 1: called the reticular activating system, and you can look this
Speaker 1: up if you want, But essentially, it's this process in
Speaker 1: our brain that happens when we think about something like
Speaker 1: prenominantly and we will start to see that out. So
Speaker 1: if you all of a sudden, I actually I'll give
Speaker 1: you an example. I am dating a guy who drives
Speaker 1: a car. Amazing. That's so good that I'm dating a
Speaker 1: guy who drives car. Aim in to that. Anyways, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to say which car, but he drives a
Speaker 1: specific car and I never would see that car, like
Speaker 1: I never noticed it. But now that I'm with him,
Speaker 1: I always notice that car driving all the time, all
Speaker 1: the time, everywhere we go. And that's because it's in
Speaker 1: the forefront of my head. That is, because it is
Speaker 1: now in my awareness. I am around it a lot.
Speaker 1: And that is a part of your brain called the
Speaker 1: reticular activating system. The next principle is the principle of correspondence,
Speaker 1: and it says as above, so below, as below so above,
Speaker 1: which reflects the notion that the macro cosm and the
Speaker 1: microcosm mirror each other and interstates influence external realities. I
Speaker 1: think this is very true when it comes to anything
Speaker 1: to do with projecting your insecurities or your beliefs. Again,
Speaker 1: you see this a lot in relationships, or when your
Speaker 1: relationship is mirroring to you things that you are either
Speaker 1: not comfortable with with within your own self, or that
Speaker 1: you actually do that you're being hypocritical about, or you
Speaker 1: have thrown into your shadow, it actually gets reflected out
Speaker 1: to you. And I think a lot of the times relationships,
Speaker 1: whether it's romantic or like friendships, whatever, they can be
Speaker 1: really good mirrors to you for the things that maybe
Speaker 1: you have like blind spots on that actually reside within
Speaker 1: you that you have not integrated in yourself. Next principle
Speaker 1: is called the principle of vibration. Everything in the universe
Speaker 1: is in constant motion, vibrating at different frequencies, affecting our
Speaker 1: reality and well being. This is kind of more in
Speaker 1: the realm of quantum physics, and it's a thing. Everything
Speaker 1: is vibrating, even though we can't see that, even though
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily relevant too much to this like three
Speaker 1: D reality that we live. I don't think we need
Speaker 1: to hyper focus on the fact that there's different dimensions
Speaker 1: and there's like a fourth and a fifth one, and
Speaker 1: we can vibrate and frequencies and things like that, but
Speaker 1: it is a thing, and it is true that we
Speaker 1: do vibrate, and there's different frequencies and we are just
Speaker 1: not fully aware of them all. I guess next is
Speaker 1: the principle of polarity. Everything has opposites that are actually
Speaker 1: varying degrees of the same thing, teaching us balance and
Speaker 1: the ability to transmute energies. I think about this when
Speaker 1: it comes to alchemy and turning your pain into power.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of things are very yin and yang,
Speaker 1: which I believe is going to be kind of like
Speaker 1: the explanation of the rest of the principles in a way.
Speaker 1: The next is the principle of rhythm, and I think
Speaker 1: I resonate with this principle the most naturally. It's so
Speaker 1: like once you grow up, I think, and you really
Speaker 1: become a woman, you step into womanhood and you step
Speaker 1: into really learning about your cycle and really being connected
Speaker 1: to your body sematically, like you will just understand this.
Speaker 1: And it says life is cyclical with natural patterns of
Speaker 1: ebb and flow, teaching us to adapt and maintain equilibrium
Speaker 1: ru life's changes. And this is even outside of of
Speaker 1: a woman's cycle and our bodies and even nature. It's
Speaker 1: just like seasons of life. Sometimes things are shitty, sometimes
Speaker 1: things aren't. Sometimes we are in school, sometimes we're not.
Speaker 1: Sometimes things are good to relationships, and sometimes they're a
Speaker 1: little bit rocky. But again, you know you, even as
Speaker 1: a woman, if you are off of birth control and
Speaker 1: your hormones are quite balanced, then you're going through four
Speaker 1: cycles every single month, which means your hormones are evering
Speaker 1: and flowing. There's going to be some days where you
Speaker 1: feel peak energy and some days you do not. Those
Speaker 1: type of things and understanding that and moving with the
Speaker 1: rhythm of life and with the rhythm of nature can
Speaker 1: really allow us to thrive in this life. But if
Speaker 1: we don't know that, then we are staying asleep. Anyways,
Speaker 1: back to it. Next one is principle of cause and effect.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of us probably learn this in school.
Speaker 1: Every cause has its effect and vice versa, emphasizing the
Speaker 1: importance of intentional actions to shape our lives. Very true.
Speaker 1: Like when you think of something, you usually will take
Speaker 1: that action, whether it's good or bad. When you say
Speaker 1: something positive to somebody, it usually creates an effect. When
Speaker 1: you say something negative to somebody or even yourself, it
Speaker 1: will create an effect. When you eat something, it will
Speaker 1: create a good or a bad response. It's kind of
Speaker 1: very simple. Now, I will say, it's a little deeper
Speaker 1: when it comes to cause an effect, because sometimes there's
Speaker 1: many reasons for that effect and we are here to
Speaker 1: understand that and think critically. But that's kind of how
Speaker 1: things happen in this world. And the last one is
Speaker 1: principle of gender. Everything contains masculine and feminine principles suggesting
Speaker 1: the need for balance between action and receptiveness for creation
Speaker 1: and harmony. And I again, I really live by this.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of the world is kind of
Speaker 1: like this, and it's really not balanced right now. I
Speaker 1: think the masculine feminine energy within every single one of us,
Speaker 1: regardless of the actual gender or whoever we identify as,
Speaker 1: we have within ourselves, and a lot of times it's
Speaker 1: very not balanced. And what I mean by that is
Speaker 1: a balance of taking that aligned action but also knowing
Speaker 1: when to rest, Like simply those things you even see
Speaker 1: that reflected in a woman's hormonalcycle. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that men don't have both. Mathuline feminine. But I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: for this example, the receptiveness and the slowing down and
Speaker 1: the taking a break, that's more of the ludeal going
Speaker 1: into the menstrual, and then you got the follicular and
Speaker 1: the ovulation that's more spring summer. You're going into action,
Speaker 1: you're forward moving. You have literally you have your hormones
Speaker 1: peeking and allowing you to do such thing like take
Speaker 1: action and be productive. So bringing it back to the
Speaker 1: things that keep us asleep, like our traumas, our bad habits, addictions,
Speaker 1: societal programming, you know, a big pharma and a food
Speaker 1: systems and all of those like misinformation, all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. It can keep us asleep to the fact
Speaker 1: that if you want to believe in this, these principles
Speaker 1: absolutely govern kind of like the world on a more
Speaker 1: like biological natural way of life and moving. And I
Speaker 1: think when we actually understand and move more, let's save
Speaker 1: one of the principles moving within the rhythm of life,
Speaker 1: we gain so much. We actually become the best versions
Speaker 1: of ourselves when we learn how to slow down, when
Speaker 1: we learn how to take forward action in a way
Speaker 1: that's helpful for us and society. Also, it's a great
Speaker 1: tool to understand that what's within me will be projected outwards.
Speaker 1: So if I do not like what I am seeing people, places,
Speaker 1: and things and consistent cycles that keep happening, the same
Speaker 1: person that keeps coming into my life in different forms
Speaker 1: and different fonts and treating me this way, or I
Speaker 1: never get what I want or life is shitty, Well,
Speaker 1: can I look within and can I see maybe is
Speaker 1: there something within me that I am projecting out beliefs
Speaker 1: or actions that I'm not taking. And I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to say we blame ourselves. Coming back to you, a
Speaker 1: lot of the things aren't really even our faults, but
Speaker 1: we need to be awakened to that. But once we
Speaker 1: awaken do let's say, in this example, the hermetic principles
Speaker 1: or at least some of them, you can use that
Speaker 1: as a tool, right, Okay, So what I'm really experiencing
Speaker 1: in my day to day life is more so a
Speaker 1: reflection of what I am believing and the actions that
Speaker 1: I am taking and the things that I'm feeding myself.
Speaker 1: What happens if I change the things that I'm feeding myself,
Speaker 1: or like the information I'm in taking or the things
Speaker 1: that I'm telling myself about what I can have in
Speaker 1: this world and where my focus is all of those things,
Speaker 1: and what happens when I do that and I change,
Speaker 1: and I also maybe move in the rhythm of life
Speaker 1: and all those things, my reality starts to change. And
Speaker 1: that is what has happened for me and many people.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure some of you guys can see in
Speaker 1: your own life in different ways. Maybe you're not there yet,
Speaker 1: but whatever, I think genuinely, that is a huge thing
Speaker 1: that would allow us to be awakened and to be
Speaker 1: bigger than we are now and to connect to something
Speaker 1: that is much deeper than even the laws of the universe,
Speaker 1: which is God, source, Spirit, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: And I think that again, coming to the things that
Speaker 1: will keep us stuck and asleep and sick and depressed,
Speaker 1: all of those things disconnect us from ourselves and God
Speaker 1: in spirit universe, I'm going to kind of put them
Speaker 1: all into one right. So for me, this is kind
Speaker 1: of how I look at it. I look at like
Speaker 1: the universe and those hermetic principles. I don't live by them,
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, Like the way that
Speaker 1: the universe kind of is operating from what I've experienced
Speaker 1: as tools in a way that I'm going to move
Speaker 1: through this world. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I also do believe that there is some sort of
Speaker 1: higher consciousness, whether it's God sometimes I call it the universe,
Speaker 1: but God. And if you don't believe in any of that,
Speaker 1: and if it feels weird, but maybe you can even
Speaker 1: think about it as just like like your highest self,
Speaker 1: the one that really knows the way or is more
Speaker 1: connected to love and light. And I think that at
Speaker 1: the core of who we are before all this shit
Speaker 1: was put on us, is humans who move with the
Speaker 1: rhythm of life, but also are connected to unconditional love
Speaker 1: and peace and harmony and serenity, and can see the
Speaker 1: lessons and the wisdom in life and move ourselves forward
Speaker 1: but also enjoy the present moment. I think that that
Speaker 1: is what God wants for us, or Spirit wants for us,
Speaker 1: or our higher selves. And I think when we are
Speaker 1: connected to something bigger than ourselves, when we are connected
Speaker 1: to love, when we move from a place of love
Speaker 1: and not fear, when we understand that we have a
Speaker 1: lot of value, and there might have been things that
Speaker 1: have been placed on us that have made us forget that.
Speaker 1: But when we do understand that we can live out
Speaker 1: what our specific path is supposed to be in this world.
Speaker 1: And whether you want to believe that God created that
Speaker 1: path or whoever did, I do think that each and
Speaker 1: every one of us are here for a reason. And
Speaker 1: when we quiet the noise and we wake up, we
Speaker 1: can get connected to what we are meant to do
Speaker 1: here and the wisdom and the lessons of life or
Speaker 1: what God is speaking to us through and go do
Speaker 1: those things and enjoy that life. And I think a
Speaker 1: way in which that we can also navigate this life
Speaker 1: and to be enjoyable, and for us to get to
Speaker 1: that path, which maybe we'll never really know, is to
Speaker 1: use things like the hermetic principles right understanding, Well, maybe
Speaker 1: this is actually how the world works in the sense
Speaker 1: of laws of rhythm and correspondence and mirroring and things
Speaker 1: like that. So I want to say this to you
Speaker 1: guys and to myself because I always have things that
Speaker 1: I need to wake up to. But we really do
Speaker 1: need to not only wake up to our own suffering
Speaker 1: and the ways that we keep ourselves stuck, but also
Speaker 1: the sometimes lies or misinformation or simply just blind spots
Speaker 1: that we will always face. In life that will keep
Speaker 1: us disconnected from ourselves, from God, from the understanding that
Speaker 1: we know right now, if you want to believe in it,
Speaker 1: of how the world can really work in our favor,
Speaker 1: which will then allow us to help others and help
Speaker 1: ourselves and be here now and listen. I just don't
Speaker 1: believe that we come here or we came here to
Speaker 1: be in consistent suffering. And if that is where you're at,
Speaker 1: and that is what you're convinced of, then I just
Speaker 1: pray and I hope that one day you will be
Speaker 1: able to see that there is more to life. And
Speaker 1: I'm saying this from a place of experience. I have
Speaker 1: been through many, many challenging hard times, whether it was sickness,
Speaker 1: loss of parents, being around attics, being around hardship. I've
Speaker 1: also lived in a mind where it was filled with
Speaker 1: limiting beliefs and self hate and perfectionism and dictatorship essentially,
Speaker 1: and misinformation. And this is what I do in my podcast.
Speaker 1: I help you guys move through these things because I
Speaker 1: have and I still am, like I am never going
Speaker 1: to be perfect, and there's always going to be things
Speaker 1: for me to work on, but I have come a
Speaker 1: very far away and these are some of the things
Speaker 1: that naturally I've learned. I have learned that I need
Speaker 1: to critically think, and I need to ask questions, and
Speaker 1: I need to be an advocate, and I need to
Speaker 1: change my mindset about being a victim and no longer
Speaker 1: moving out of scarcity because that is not going to
Speaker 1: keep me alive. It is not going to keep me
Speaker 1: living a fulfilled life or joyful life. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to to get the things that I want and even
Speaker 1: become better and do better for other people by staying stuck.
Speaker 1: So if you don't even know where to start when
Speaker 1: it comes to waking up, or maybe you have been
Speaker 1: like a little wake and you resonate to some of
Speaker 1: the things that I'm saying and you're like, this is
Speaker 1: actually overwhelming because there's so many things to learn, and
Speaker 1: there's so many things to dive deep in, and what
Speaker 1: do I do? Where are my blind spots and listen
Speaker 1: for one, Like I said, You're always gonna have blind
Speaker 1: spots and it's okay, and you can live an amazing,
Speaker 1: prosperous life and you can do good in this world.
Speaker 1: You can do good for yourself with having these blind spots.
Speaker 1: Like if there was no blind spots. If there was
Speaker 1: no like you being asleep, then like what would we
Speaker 1: be doing in life? I do think that's a part
Speaker 1: of our journey, whatever we end up doing here or
Speaker 1: whatever God's path is for us. I do think it's
Speaker 1: about discovering and rediscovering and things like that. But something
Speaker 1: that you can do, and I would really, really really
Speaker 1: pray and hope that you do this. Let's say tomorrow,
Speaker 1: but one thing that you can do, and it's almost
Speaker 1: so simple that again, what's gonna happen is you're going
Speaker 1: to have a part of you that is trained to
Speaker 1: believe that you need to do and be more or
Speaker 1: things need to be harder than they need to be.
Speaker 1: And so like, maybe this is just not gonna be
Speaker 1: the thing, but just try it out. Is tomorrow or
Speaker 1: whenever you have the next morning, I want you to
Speaker 1: just wake up and I want you to create space.
Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is no podcast, no music,
Speaker 1: no texting or being on your phone or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I just want you to feel how it feels to
Speaker 1: be in silence. And this doesn't mean you need to
Speaker 1: sit in meditation or not do the things that you
Speaker 1: typically do, but it's to start doing more of even
Speaker 1: your daily practices that you do in silence, because when
Speaker 1: you quiet your mind and you stop infiltrating it with
Speaker 1: all the things that you think that you should be
Speaker 1: listening to, or things that you need to do you
Speaker 1: or whatever the case is, you will start to connect
Speaker 1: deeper to what you already know and what's already living
Speaker 1: in your soul and what is already connected to spirit,
Speaker 1: if that's what you believe. I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people right now, I think, especially in this like
Speaker 1: younger generation, that feel very lost and scared, and they're
Speaker 1: constantly looking outside of themselves for the answers, and they're
Speaker 1: feeling unstable. And I'm saying like they, but also like
Speaker 1: me too, Like I've definitely experienced this as well. But
Speaker 1: every time I come inwards is when I actually feel
Speaker 1: the most safe. And I understand that slowing down can
Speaker 1: feel unsafe for some people, and there's many reasons for that,
Speaker 1: but I do think the just whole idea of clearing
Speaker 1: your mind and creating a little bit more stillness in
Speaker 1: your mourning will really allow you to see some of
Speaker 1: your blind spots. Like in ste you will start to
Speaker 1: experience what it feels like to not live in constant scarcity.
Speaker 1: When your mind is more quiet. It doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: you won't have intuesive thoughts or limiting beliefs or things
Speaker 1: coming up, or to do this and to do that.
Speaker 1: But I promise you the simple act of quieting your
Speaker 1: mind in the morning, when you wake up and just
Speaker 1: going about your day with nothing in your mind, you
Speaker 1: will start to have things pop up. I even do
Speaker 1: this when I'm going on my walk with my dog
Speaker 1: in the morning. I don't listen to a podcast. I
Speaker 1: don't even like. I bring my phone, just like to
Speaker 1: have it for safety, but I don't go on it,
Speaker 1: and I just roam. And the more that I roam,
Speaker 1: and the more that I walk around, and the more
Speaker 1: that I am taking in nature and people and this,
Speaker 1: that naturally ideas will flow to me. Naturally, I'll start
Speaker 1: connecting to my mom naturally, the feeling of what it
Speaker 1: feels like in the morning, when it's really quiet and
Speaker 1: the sun is out and the are chirping, and maybe
Speaker 1: there's people around. I live in the city, so sometimes
Speaker 1: it's not super quiet, but my memory goes to specific
Speaker 1: times in my life or awarenesses that maybe I have.
Speaker 1: It unlocked for a long time, or I need to
Speaker 1: and these are all pieces to the puzzle. These are
Speaker 1: all things that guide me in a way that I
Speaker 1: know is healthy for me. And instead of doing these
Speaker 1: types of practices, what we do is we constantly look
Speaker 1: outside of ourselves and we allow people to infiltrate our minds.
Speaker 1: And you need to do this practice or that thing
Speaker 1: or this information over here, and now you're scared, and
Speaker 1: now you're afraid, and now you have a million things
Speaker 1: to do on your to do list, and you feel
Speaker 1: disconnected from yourself and your body, and you're wondering why
Speaker 1: you're depressed, why you're anxious. Why we have one hundred
Speaker 1: million mental health issues and chronic health issues, And same
Speaker 1: thing goes with your body. Okay. I find when I
Speaker 1: am mens treating, and also anytime that I feel a
Speaker 1: little bit sick, maybe if I'm having a little bit
Speaker 1: of a colder flu, because my body basically forces me
Speaker 1: to slow down when it comes to maybe not eating
Speaker 1: as much. Because let's say, if I'm sick, like typically
Speaker 1: maybe you lose your appetite or you have to sleep
Speaker 1: a lot or whatever. I will typically go into a
Speaker 1: very awakened state because it's like I'm slowing down and
Speaker 1: I'm connecting more to myself, even though sometimes it might
Speaker 1: be a little bit struggling, you know, like maybe you're
Speaker 1: in a little bit of pain, like I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about sometimes those times are really hard. But sometimes when
Speaker 1: I'm in those states, the loudness of life and all
Speaker 1: the things that play a role in keeping me asleep,
Speaker 1: they're kind of no longer there for a moment, and
Speaker 1: I can see clearly, and I can hear clearly, and
Speaker 1: I can connect to source clearly, and the best insights
Speaker 1: come from that. Knowledge comes from that, an idea will
Speaker 1: come from that. A feeling of I want to go
Speaker 1: in this direction in my life life comes from that,
Speaker 1: or this is what I want to do when I
Speaker 1: feel better comes from that. And that's all from you
Speaker 1: and not from everyone else in doctrinating you or telling
Speaker 1: you what to do or you should do this and
Speaker 1: that and the third. And that's good information for you
Speaker 1: to continue to move forward. And it's not always going
Speaker 1: to be like that. We're not always going to operate
Speaker 1: from that place. And I think it's good to have
Speaker 1: some influence sometimes from people outside of ourselves, because I
Speaker 1: think sometimes also we can get very delusional, and we
Speaker 1: can even operate out of our ego sometimes when we
Speaker 1: are so introspective and only doing things for ourselves and
Speaker 1: by ourselves. Sometimes that's not healthy. But I think that
Speaker 1: we are very as a society disconnected to our innate wisdom,
Speaker 1: and we are disconnected from our biology and how the
Speaker 1: world works. And I know it's hard to understand how
Speaker 1: the world works, because who really even knows. And even
Speaker 1: when it comes to like the Hermitic principles, the laws
Speaker 1: of rhythm, some people don't believe in that. Some people
Speaker 1: don't see it like that. But I just know what
Speaker 1: to be true for also my own body, and especially
Speaker 1: when it comes to cycles thinking, I think that that's
Speaker 1: a big piece that just really helps me. But anytime
Speaker 1: I go into meditation, anytime I move my body, anytime
Speaker 1: I clear my mind and I am peaceful, and I
Speaker 1: go and I sit in a journal and I don't
Speaker 1: listen to the world, I have some great wisdom that
Speaker 1: comes out of that, and I feel really good, and
Speaker 1: I don't feel the need to constantly overproduce and do more,
Speaker 1: and I don't feel a sense of inadequacy and feeling
Speaker 1: like I'm not enough for this world. So I think
Speaker 1: that that is a very good practice to do, is
Speaker 1: to quiet your mind in the morning and see where
Speaker 1: it takes you. That's it. You don't have to do
Speaker 1: anything else. But I will say this, if you wake
Speaker 1: up in the morning and you already kind of do
Speaker 1: things very quiet and this, that potentially have a journal practice.
Speaker 1: And this is kind of like the second piece of
Speaker 1: this is start writing right to God, talk to your
Speaker 1: higher self, talk to your inner self, your your parts
Speaker 1: of you that have been screaming for you to listen,
Speaker 1: let things out, let your emotions out, let your real
Speaker 1: feelings about life out, and see where that takes you,
Speaker 1: because you will take yourself a long and far away.
Speaker 1: And I feel like we underestimate that, and we don't
Speaker 1: give ourselves enough credit for what's in our minds and
Speaker 1: our bodies. And it's not really our fault because we're
Speaker 1: disconnected and there's a million things that keep us asleep
Speaker 1: from that. But when you cultivate and you take some
Speaker 1: time to connect with yourself, you will see that you
Speaker 1: have so much wisdom that can lead you a far
Speaker 1: away and it will give you a sense of safety
Speaker 1: that nothing else can. And I think in my hardest times.
Speaker 1: I have always done this, and this is why I
Speaker 1: feel like I am not operating out of a lot
Speaker 1: of fear anymore in my life and scarcity, because I
Speaker 1: have myself and I know I can connect to myself,
Speaker 1: I can connect to my mom, I can connect to God.
Speaker 1: I will always come back to the fundamentals of life
Speaker 1: and my biology and how things typically work when it
Speaker 1: comes to nature and their rhythm and things. You know.
Speaker 1: I think over the years, when you get older, you
Speaker 1: will understand and you will you'll pick up patterns of
Speaker 1: life and what seems to be true and what doesn't.
Speaker 1: And I think that everyone has their own ways of
Speaker 1: moving through life. So I'm not saying that the way
Speaker 1: that I move through life or the way I believe
Speaker 1: is the right way, but I'm just saying it works
Speaker 1: for me. So when things do feel scary, I come
Speaker 1: back to myself and I learn to navigate these hard
Speaker 1: times with the understanding that this is a part of life.
Speaker 1: There will be hard times. Is their lessons, is their wisdom?
Speaker 1: And how can I be with myself the best way
Speaker 1: that I possibly can as I'm going through that, which
Speaker 1: means how can I support my health and my wellness
Speaker 1: and being gentle with myself sometimes and you know, allowing
Speaker 1: grace and allowing myself to move through emotions because I
Speaker 1: am human? How do I do more of those things?
Speaker 1: That's how I think that we are kind of meant
Speaker 1: to live, in my opinion. But also when you quiet
Speaker 1: your mind and you connect more to yourself and maybe
Speaker 1: some sort of higher consciousness, you'll be able to start
Speaker 1: to be aware of what you truly value in life
Speaker 1: and what doesn't matter. And so when you go out
Speaker 1: into the world work, relationships, friendship, social everything, you will
Speaker 1: be able to see when things come into your life
Speaker 1: and it's a no, and it doesn't resonate with your
Speaker 1: values of you know, deep connection or health or what
Speaker 1: you know to be true about life and how it works.
Speaker 1: You know, whatever your beliefs are, things will come at
Speaker 1: you and you'll be like, no, thank you, not in
Speaker 1: just I'm going on to the next thing. But when
Speaker 1: we aren't stable and grounded in values or anything or ourselves,
Speaker 1: you best believe that your mind will be infiltrated by
Speaker 1: all the things that I talked about, and you will
Speaker 1: continue to be asleep, and then you will wake up
Speaker 1: one day and you will wonder why you're not happy
Speaker 1: or why your life panned out to be this way. Now,
Speaker 1: one thing that you can ask and for me, I
Speaker 1: did this this year, and I ask God. I simply
Speaker 1: just ask God to allow me to be clear minded
Speaker 1: and for me to see all the ways that I
Speaker 1: get in my own way, all the ways that external
Speaker 1: things keep me stuck, and simply just to allow me
Speaker 1: to see those things in the forefront of my mind.
Speaker 1: And this is kind of why I asked it like this.
Speaker 1: Once I'm able to see myself clearly, I will be
Speaker 1: able to get myself out of these cycles. But I
Speaker 1: need to be aware of the ways that I keep
Speaker 1: myself stuck, the ways that I stay in victim mentality
Speaker 1: or scarcity, or the ways that my perfectionists part of
Speaker 1: me will come up, or the controlling part of me
Speaker 1: that will come up. I need to be so aware
Speaker 1: of when all of these parts of me are playing
Speaker 1: a role, and anything that I want to try for
Speaker 1: the first time, or I want to go into new
Speaker 1: relationship or whatever, I want to see myself clearly, and
Speaker 1: I want to see how all of these things are
Speaker 1: coming from fear or ego and to understand that this
Speaker 1: is not for the highest good of me, and to
Speaker 1: ask God for the strength to allow me to learn
Speaker 1: the lessons and find the wisdom and to move through
Speaker 1: these things and always keep me awake and reminded to
Speaker 1: the fact that I did not come here to be
Speaker 1: stuck in a sleep in those things, and how he
Speaker 1: spirit whatever doesn't want that for me. And these are
Speaker 1: things that are simply here to help me grow and evolve,
Speaker 1: but also to allow me to stay connected to what
Speaker 1: I came from, which is love and joy and light
Speaker 1: and abundance, which is in my personal opinion, like God
Speaker 1: in a way, you know. So that was kind of deep,
Speaker 1: But I just really want to reiterate this idea that
Speaker 1: we have a lot more wisdom and knowledge and the
Speaker 1: ability to think clearly than we have been shown or taught,
Speaker 1: and the way that we are going to connect deeper
Speaker 1: to that and feel that sense of I know myself
Speaker 1: and you know, I can navigate this world and whatever
Speaker 1: is by first quieting our minds. But yeah, anyways, I
Speaker 1: think that's all I'm going to say. I think that
Speaker 1: is it. I hope this episode resonated with you. This
Speaker 1: episode is not meant to push anything or like I'm
Speaker 1: standing firm and anything. This is kind of just where
Speaker 1: I'm at in my life and how I move. And
Speaker 1: I'll say this, I have the best ideas. I feel
Speaker 1: the best about myself when I am more clear minded
Speaker 1: and I am not indulging in habits that do not
Speaker 1: serve me, when I see myself clearly and I am
Speaker 1: self aware, and I work on my traumas and I
Speaker 1: do that deep inner work, and I do my best
Speaker 1: to operate more out of love than fear, and understanding
Speaker 1: for others and grace for others and myself. And yes,
Speaker 1: I still need to have boundaries, and yes I screw
Speaker 1: up sometimes, but that's all part of the process that
Speaker 1: typically leads me, not typically that has led me to
Speaker 1: a very good life, and I believe that moving forward
Speaker 1: it will. So anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed. Please
Speaker 1: let me know if anything resonated with you in the comments,
Speaker 1: and I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye.