Speaker 1: Welcome to Shine Delusion Shine, the radical art of dreaming
Speaker 1: beyond boundaries. I am Vicki Todd, and together with doctor Pat,
Speaker 1: we will learn to push the boundaries of our minds,
Speaker 1: to think delusionally and create fertile ground for our big
Speaker 1: dreams to seed, grow, and manifest. Each episode, we will
Speaker 1: gain more ability to think delusionally and cultivate beyond boundaries,
Speaker 1: faith that we can accomplish dreams which seem unreachable. Shine
Speaker 1: Delusion Shine is a springboard to believing, dreaming and thinking
Speaker 1: beyond the ordinary, and a catalyst to living a more fulfilling,
Speaker 1: destiny driven life. You were born with dreams, gifts and
Speaker 1: talents you are meant to use to make this world brighter.
Speaker 1: Let your delusional dreams shine. It all starts now.
Speaker 2: Wow, Hey everybody, I am doctor Pat and I get
Speaker 2: to take this amazing journey with the most incredible artist, entrepreneur, coach,
Speaker 2: author and beyond. Today. This is a really important one
Speaker 2: because we ask for a lot, we really do. I mean,
Speaker 2: how many of you have already asked for something today?
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying just ask got loud, but how
Speaker 2: many like you're right, like you ask for something? Do
Speaker 2: you know, you're even asking what is the magic formula
Speaker 2: that some people seem to have where they ask and
Speaker 2: then they receive. Well, today Vicky is going to walk
Speaker 2: us through what it means to be ready to receive.
Speaker 2: Because think about the universe. It knows when you're just
Speaker 2: kidding about receiving and when you're dead serious. Vicky, Right,
Speaker 2: that's the truth.
Speaker 3: The universe knows them all.
Speaker 2: But let's talk about this because beliefs are core. And
Speaker 2: you know, there are many people in the world and
Speaker 2: I'm not one of them that say, oh, your beliefs
Speaker 2: are solid, your your core values are solid. But I
Speaker 2: have seen in my own life, and I've seen in
Speaker 2: many other places where values change and beliefs change. I
Speaker 2: think Bruce Lipten wrote an entire book on the biology
Speaker 2: of beliefs, right, But we don't tie them into whether
Speaker 2: or not what we're asking for we're actually going to get.
Speaker 2: So what is it about this that showed up in
Speaker 2: your life to really get you to thinking I'm going
Speaker 2: to talk about this journey of receiving.
Speaker 1: Well, it's amazing because I had already experienced some things
Speaker 1: in my life just in the recent couple of weeks
Speaker 1: and then I happened to watch an OPRAH podcast with
Speaker 1: author Sean Aker, who is one of the happiness researchers,
Speaker 1: and it just blended into.
Speaker 3: My experiences and I was like, Oh, this is important.
Speaker 3: This is the show.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to start out with the painting that
Speaker 1: we have to symbolize today's theme. This is a big one,
Speaker 1: and so three ft three foot by four foot, it's
Speaker 1: called she Appeared on a Journey. And I had painted
Speaker 1: this the month after I moved to Santa Fe, which
Speaker 1: was kind of my threshold into my true artist's life.
Speaker 1: And so she kind of symbolizes to me, as you're
Speaker 1: going along this journey, you meet a new version of yourself,
Speaker 1: the leveled up version of your true self that you're
Speaker 1: not quite there yet, but you can see her, so
Speaker 1: you know that that's in your future.
Speaker 3: And I had taken it to my aunt's.
Speaker 1: House in Texas, excuse me, and the first thing she
Speaker 1: said was, Oh, I really like it, but she seems
Speaker 1: to have fear in her eyes. And my first thought was, oh,
Speaker 1: my gosh, what is my aunt Ruth seeing in me
Speaker 1: that I'm not seeing it myself, you know? And I
Speaker 1: thought about it, and I thought, you know as a
Speaker 1: memoir artist, my emails and what's happening with me tends
Speaker 1: to bubble up in my artwork. And I thought, well,
Speaker 1: you know, this is part of that journey is fear.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought she had had this contemplation look
Speaker 1: on her face, But it is fear to think, where
Speaker 1: am I going? Do I know how to do this?
Speaker 3: What do I.
Speaker 1: Believe I'm capable of? What is my potential? And how
Speaker 1: is that going to guide me forward? So the thing
Speaker 1: that really hit me in the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: you know, Sean Aker was talking about that our beliefs
Speaker 1: don't just set what we're doing right now today, but
Speaker 1: they predict our future.
Speaker 3: And you know we've talked about that.
Speaker 1: The words we speak, you know that I am, statements
Speaker 1: we say predict our future. But if you kind of
Speaker 1: roll that back your thoughts. Your words are set on
Speaker 1: your thoughts, and your thoughts are set on beliefs, and
Speaker 1: those can be so ingrained and in there some of
Speaker 1: these beliefs are so deeply set that they can kind
Speaker 1: of surprise you. And is that, like you said, really
Speaker 1: where you want to go? Really what you want to believe?
Speaker 1: And how is that restricting? You from receiving and so
Speaker 1: you know, I had recently received the five wonderful endorsements
Speaker 1: from you and some other ladies for my book, and
Speaker 1: they're wonderful endorsements.
Speaker 3: But when I first.
Speaker 1: Started getting them in, I literally pat I was reading
Speaker 1: the first one on the email and it was like
Speaker 1: a brick wall was in front of my face. I
Speaker 1: could not see the words. I could not see the
Speaker 1: positive words, and I thought, what in the world is
Speaker 1: going on? And I talked to my publisher about it,
Speaker 1: and she said, that's totally normal. You know, authors sometimes
Speaker 1: tend to think, well, I don't want anything bad to
Speaker 1: be said about my work and this new baby that
Speaker 1: I'm putting out into the world.
Speaker 3: So then I put up a wall so I don't
Speaker 3: see anything.
Speaker 1: But I realized that and I actually did this motion
Speaker 1: when I was talking to her on zoom. I said,
Speaker 1: it is so deeply in grained in me, all the
Speaker 1: years of my mom telling me that no one wants
Speaker 1: your artwork, You're going to fail. You know, I'm so
Speaker 1: embarrassed of you. When I quit my professor job, and
Speaker 1: that was eleven years ago. But you know, quote unquote
Speaker 1: some friends or romantic partners that have also kind of
Speaker 1: done the same thing. I've been living like this with
Speaker 1: my boxing gloves up, and if you just look at
Speaker 1: that motion, it's shrunk back.
Speaker 3: And so I.
Speaker 1: Thought, whoa, that's such a deeply ingrained belief in my system.
Speaker 1: I have got to get rid of that and you know,
Speaker 1: have more of a receiving, an open attitude and not
Speaker 1: this for this book to succeed. And that is so sneaky.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't realize you think that. Okay, I've
Speaker 1: gotten over that, but that was still so strong.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And you know, I was just talking to somebody
Speaker 2: this morning, and you know in the conversation what I
Speaker 2: said to her, and she was studying, she's she's in
Speaker 2: the process of healing, so she's studying all these people, right,
Speaker 2: which we should do. But I set something to her
Speaker 2: and I said, you know, you can study all you want, yeah,
Speaker 2: but you must start with your mind and your mindset. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And I said, it's I'm talking more than a few
Speaker 2: affirmations mindset.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That think about those two words. You set your mind
Speaker 2: to a particular focus on a particular thing. You just
Speaker 2: described a mindset, right, You just described something that was
Speaker 2: going on. You caught it. And so once you catch it,
Speaker 2: then isn't a true VICKI then we can really do
Speaker 2: something about it.
Speaker 1: Right, And I think sometimes you've got to fake it
Speaker 1: till you make it.
Speaker 2: Oh you got to oh come on, yeah, because you
Speaker 2: know you.
Speaker 3: Can't just say, okay, well I see that.
Speaker 1: That is a really deeply ingrained, years long negative belief pattern,
Speaker 1: So okay, I'm just going to change it and it
Speaker 1: will be done. You can't do that, and so, you know,
Speaker 1: to me, that's where the I am statements come in.
Speaker 1: You know, I am a powerful artist. I'm a powerful writer.
Speaker 3: What I do.
Speaker 1: You know, my book, the podcast, everything is going to
Speaker 1: you know, feed the world and so eventually it will
Speaker 1: start getting into your system. But some of these things
Speaker 1: are so ingrained, you know, especially if you've had it
Speaker 1: since childhood, it's hard to get those out and so
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, kind of plucking splinters out of
Speaker 1: your skin really and so but yeah, acknowledging, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, with a lot of things in life, that's
Speaker 1: the first step. But then you know, just working, working,
Speaker 1: working to say okay, I still kind of feel this,
Speaker 1: but I need to change it. And it's a process
Speaker 1: and so be gentle with yourself along the way, but
Speaker 1: don't give up on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's a funny story. I was attending doctor Jen Houston.
Speaker 2: Her passing was so sad for me, but I attended
Speaker 2: her first leadership thing. She had everybody there, doctor Angeli's
Speaker 2: Air and Donna Eden, I mean just everybody. That was
Speaker 2: every woman teaching what Jean thought we needed to learn
Speaker 2: about leadership. And we had to bring in a little
Speaker 2: clip affirmation. So all these people brought in these clips,
Speaker 2: like and this is when I was just starting, like
Speaker 2: two thousand and four or something, right, so you have
Speaker 2: to put me back there. And so everybody wrote in
Speaker 2: these cool clips and they were ohms and mantras and songs.
Speaker 2: I bring in a three minute clip of Muhammad Ali. Wow,
Speaker 2: because that's the way my brain works, you know, And
Speaker 2: I played it. Now, some people knew who I played,
Speaker 2: They knew who he was. Other people didn't. But from
Speaker 2: the get go, that man annoyed a lot of people
Speaker 2: with one phrase, I am the greatest. Yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 2: he was, Well, isn't that the Chicken and Eggs story?
Speaker 2: Was he the greatest? Or by saying I am the greatest?
Speaker 2: Did his action and her behaviors get him to that. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm not here to answer that question, but that's what
Speaker 2: we're talking about. That's speaking it till you make it big.
Speaker 3: Time, absolutely, and that reminds me.
Speaker 1: I was listening to a podcast last night on fresh Air,
Speaker 1: and I can't remember the man's full name, but he
Speaker 1: is an eighty year old Broadway actor who's been doing
Speaker 1: this forever, and you know, he's won several Tonys. And
Speaker 1: she was asking him, you know, he's African American. He
Speaker 1: contracted AIDS in nineteen ninety one, and she said, did
Speaker 1: you see yourself at that time becoming at eighty, you know,
Speaker 1: this major Broadway personality, an Tony Award winner, And she
Speaker 1: was thinking that he would say, oh no, I never
Speaker 1: saw myself like that, and he said absolutely, And so
Speaker 1: you know, he just had it in him that this
Speaker 1: is my destiny. I may not be there yet, may
Speaker 1: have a lot of these roadblocks in front of me,
Speaker 1: but he said, I just kept moving toward it, and
Speaker 1: I knew that would happen. And I thought, wow, you know,
Speaker 1: good for you. So we all need that kind of mindset, and.
Speaker 2: You know, part of this is what you bring to
Speaker 2: the conversation today. You're mentioning the publisher, you're mentioning the book.
Speaker 2: And you know, here's the thing. When we ask people
Speaker 2: for feedback, we're not always going to get what we
Speaker 2: think we want or deserve. But you see, we're at
Speaker 2: a choice point. If we don't get what we want
Speaker 2: or what we think we should deserve, you just dismiss it.
Speaker 2: See this is my thinking. People say, why you throw
Speaker 2: it away? I throw it away because you know, whatever
Speaker 2: that was said right there, that is not the truth
Speaker 2: to me. Yeah, I did you know that is not
Speaker 2: I'm not going to put that in. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to include that feedback. That's not what I believe. But yet,
Speaker 2: the laws of the universe, the universe, the God of
Speaker 2: your understand, I don't care what you call it. It's
Speaker 2: always a test, that's what I find.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 2: There's one test after another. And you know, it was
Speaker 2: so funny because it starts to show up in our
Speaker 2: everyday life. So where are we with this? Because some
Speaker 2: people think beliefs have ceilings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they may not know what that meaning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well they may not know that they have the ceiling.
Speaker 1: And the reason I put that down that was one
Speaker 1: of the comments that Oprah may during the podcast, yeah,
Speaker 1: what is the ceiling of your beliefs? And I thought, oh, well,
Speaker 1: there's a good question, right, And so basically what I
Speaker 1: took from that with the theme of this show, whatever
Speaker 1: your ceiling is of what your beliefs are. I can
Speaker 1: only go this far. I only have this much potential
Speaker 1: and talent. That's going to limit what you receive, that's
Speaker 1: gonna limit what you ask for. And so that really
Speaker 1: reminded me of that story from the Old Testament about
Speaker 1: the widow woman that her husband had died. He left
Speaker 1: her with a bunch of debts. She had two small boys,
Speaker 1: and so the creditors are saying, we'll take them as
Speaker 1: slaves for you to pay off these debts. And so,
Speaker 1: you know, they were they were in, you know, this
Speaker 1: tragic time, and the prophet Elisha came along and he
Speaker 1: asked her a very simple question, what do you have
Speaker 1: in your house? And so the undercurrent, the subtext of
Speaker 1: this whole story is we have more.
Speaker 3: Than what we think. It may seem itty bitty, but
Speaker 3: you have more what you think.
Speaker 1: And she said, all I have is this small jar
Speaker 1: of oil. And he said, perfect, go out to your
Speaker 1: friends neighbors, strangers, and just gather as many jars, vessels,
Speaker 1: whatever to you know, we'll put the oil into. Well,
Speaker 1: that sounds really outlandish and stupid. If I have this
Speaker 1: small jar of oil and you're telling me together all
Speaker 1: of these vessels and jars and pots, and he actually
Speaker 1: said borrow, not a few. Well, I don't remember the story.
Speaker 1: They tell tell us how many vessels and pots and
Speaker 1: jars that she borrowed. But everything that she gathered in
Speaker 1: the oil, they kept pouring and pouring and pouring the
Speaker 1: small amount of her little jar into these larger vessels,
Speaker 1: and miraculously every jar was filled, and that was enough
Speaker 1: for them to live off of and pay the debts.
Speaker 1: And so there's so many levels to this story. But
Speaker 1: if she had gathered more, more would have been filled.
Speaker 1: If she had gathered like, oh, you know it's gonna work.
Speaker 1: I'm only going to gather too, then they would have
Speaker 1: had two. And so that reminds me. I remember when,
Speaker 1: especially when I first went to college in nineteen eighty four,
Speaker 1: from Happy, Texas, the town without her Frown. There's a billboard,
Speaker 1: say so, and it's only six hundred and some odd
Speaker 1: people farming, ranching and When I got to school, I
Speaker 1: went to Texas Tech and at the time it was
Speaker 1: twenty six thousand students. I only graduated with a few eleven.
Speaker 1: So I was thrilled to only be a social Security
Speaker 1: number and not be known and everybody knows what you're doing.
Speaker 1: And I was so embarrassed of being from Happy Texas.
Speaker 1: I would lie and say I'm from Dallas. I'm from Dallas.
Speaker 1: I'm a city girl. And so you know, that kind
Speaker 1: of went on throughout my life.
Speaker 3: Well here I am with this book.
Speaker 1: You know, Shine, Happy Shine, That's what the happy is,
Speaker 1: and the whole thing is about growing up in Happy
Speaker 1: Texas and how that affected me and my mom and
Speaker 1: our relationship. So that is such a small jar of
Speaker 1: oil that I'm now recognizing the value of and using
Speaker 1: it to hopefully, you know, feed the world in some way.
Speaker 1: So you know, we don't know exactly what we have,
Speaker 1: and it may seem so insignificant, but check it. You know,
Speaker 1: you may that may be your little gift in there
Speaker 1: that you can grow.
Speaker 2: But you know, this is a that's first of all,
Speaker 2: that's a great story. Let's break it down for a minute,
Speaker 2: because it is the same Muhammed Ali I am the
Speaker 2: greatest idea because think about that woman, right, think about that,
Speaker 2: because I can't remember part of that story was her
Speaker 2: to create something for him to eat. I'm probably mixing
Speaker 2: him up. But here's the point. That's a different widow.
Speaker 2: Ye these poor widows in the Bible. But in this
Speaker 2: particular case, she had to believe.
Speaker 3: Yes she did.
Speaker 2: She had to believe at the get go to go
Speaker 2: gather as many vessels let's call him that as she
Speaker 2: gathered to bring back and the wood and the oil
Speaker 2: did not stop, right, But she had to believe. And
Speaker 2: you see, that's where the breakdown is for a lot
Speaker 2: of us. And it's not that we're not going to
Speaker 2: get outside sources telling us. I mean, we don't know
Speaker 2: what the people that you got the vessels from said
Speaker 2: to her, Like seriously, what a joke. I mean I
Speaker 2: can only imagine, right, you're going out in your neighborhood
Speaker 2: and say, hey, I need a vessel because I got
Speaker 2: I got like a half a cup of oil that's
Speaker 2: going to fill all these vessels.
Speaker 1: Okay, she would be like, well, I get my tupperware
Speaker 1: back from you.
Speaker 2: But there's something that's hidden in that story. This is
Speaker 2: what I think is hidden. I'm not sure she told everybody. See,
Speaker 2: it's never revealed. She may or may not have. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but Catherine Ponder said it better than anybody. Don't dilute
Speaker 2: your idea by outside opinions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't water it down.
Speaker 2: Don't water it down. And yet you and I are
Speaker 2: public and what we do, and yet we have to
Speaker 2: learn these things because we don't know. But positive thinkers,
Speaker 2: let's get to that. Because I imagine this woman as
Speaker 2: a widow that is a positive thinker. I just have
Speaker 2: to imagine that I have.
Speaker 1: So that's what I want to Her circumstance was so bad, right,
Speaker 1: bad for this man to come in. He's basically, you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of the reflection of our higher power, you know, God,
Speaker 1: the universe, whoever your.
Speaker 3: Higher power is.
Speaker 1: She's trusting this prophet, and so it's trusting this higher
Speaker 1: power to tell you what to do, and you blindly
Speaker 1: go do it, you know, that childlike faith. And so
Speaker 1: I hope that she was a positive thinker and gathered
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of them. But one thing that Sean
Speaker 1: Aker said in his book, He said that neuroscience has
Speaker 1: shown that people who are positive thinkers and belief that
Speaker 1: good is around the corner, something great is going to happen.
Speaker 1: Then it's almost like the universal algorithm that more of
Speaker 1: that is going to pop into their lives. And so
Speaker 1: your brain is scanning for these things. Negative thinkers think, em,
Speaker 1: you know, that's not going to happen, and so they
Speaker 1: kind of just skip over it. And so I'm like you,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping this was a positive thinker and gathered a
Speaker 1: whole bunch. But he referenced this study from the UK
Speaker 1: and it was literally count the photos in a newspaper story,
Speaker 1: which sounds really simple. Well, positive thinkers, they were flipping
Speaker 1: through there, and you know, since their brain is scanning
Speaker 1: for positive things.
Speaker 3: On page two they saw a thing.
Speaker 1: That was not a photo, but it was a little
Speaker 1: like ad that said stop now and collect double. They
Speaker 1: were supposed to get five pounds if they, you know,
Speaker 1: accomplish this task, and so oh, page two, I'll stop.
Speaker 1: I get ten pounds. Well, the negative thinkers are like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know this isn't going to really work. Who cares,
Speaker 1: you know, to flip flip flip the paper And they
Speaker 1: skipped over that, and so they finished the task, but
Speaker 1: they got half of the pay, And so my thing
Speaker 1: was with combining these two. What if we're not asking,
Speaker 1: why if we're not looking for enough pots gathering enough pots,
Speaker 1: or what if we're skipping over wonderful things because our
Speaker 1: brains are so tunnel visioned on. Oh, I don't have
Speaker 1: the potential. My gifts are not good enough. I have
Speaker 1: nothing to offer, and that's not receiving.
Speaker 3: You know, I have to receive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know. I'm working with Indira who's hosting a show,
Speaker 2: and she's a mind step mindset mastery okay, but she
Speaker 2: pulls no punches. So here's the dilemma that we have
Speaker 2: in our thinking about I'm an optimist. I've always been
Speaker 2: an optimist, you know, when they asked me the critical question.
Speaker 2: I actually brought this up on a show and I
Speaker 2: was corrected, and I never bought into the correction. I
Speaker 2: just moved on. But I was always get asked the
Speaker 2: assessment question, especially if you're in HR. It's a glass
Speaker 2: and half empty or half full. And I remember looking
Speaker 2: at high paid consultant twenty five k a day. We
Speaker 2: hired this person to come in and I just looked
Speaker 2: at them with my boss, doctor ross doctor standing there.
Speaker 2: She hated me, and I said, what a ridiculous question.
Speaker 2: This is me. I'm like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Who fills the glass halfway? I don't do that? Do
Speaker 2: you do that? I said? When I take a cup
Speaker 2: of coffee, I take a full cup of coffee. When
Speaker 2: I take a glass of milk, it's milk and soda.
Speaker 2: I've gotta pull it. Sometimes it goes over the top.
Speaker 2: I don't understand your question. Well, boy, did I get
Speaker 2: dinged for that?
Speaker 3: Oh wow?
Speaker 2: But my brain truly works like that. Now when I
Speaker 2: get asked that question again, I still answer it that way.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's a stupid question today. But then
Speaker 2: I said, that's the most ridiculous question anybody is. I
Speaker 2: really did, and it became problematic for my company. But
Speaker 2: the point is this, let's talk about it because there
Speaker 2: is a misconception that all optimists are pollyannas. See I've
Speaker 2: been called Pollyanna Patty. That is not true. You can
Speaker 2: be an optimist and when you draw a line in
Speaker 2: the sand, you are standing up for yourself. Yes, I
Speaker 2: mean I think people like Oprah, which I think. I
Speaker 2: think Oprah is an optimist. I don't know. I'm no
Speaker 2: coaching Oprah. But my assessment is she is, but she's
Speaker 2: not afraid to take on whatever issues are coming up
Speaker 2: for her. You find more and more people I think
Speaker 2: you're an optimist. I mean people may not see them,
Speaker 2: but you're not Susan Denay, who I love how to phrase?
Speaker 2: Are you a doormat or a bulldozer?
Speaker 3: Oh no, that's a good one. Doormat.
Speaker 2: We could do a whole show on that. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: what happens is people think those are the only two choices.
Speaker 2: That's not what Susan's saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right right.
Speaker 2: There are ranges in between. But if there's something close
Speaker 2: to your heart, you will become a bulldozer to defend
Speaker 2: it and still can be an optimist, you see what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like, you will have every right to stick
Speaker 2: up for yourself, to fight for whatever title of your book,
Speaker 2: to have a painting behind you that some people won't like. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you're not going to let people smear your good name.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: And also I think that part of that, to me,
Speaker 1: there's like baby Bear Porridge with that. You know, there's
Speaker 1: a tight If somebody's trying to mirror my good name,
Speaker 1: you know your instinct, My instinct does I want to
Speaker 1: get in there and fight and you know, post back
Speaker 1: and you know, tell.
Speaker 3: Him what's what.
Speaker 1: But you know, in my faith, what we're told is
Speaker 1: let go of that. Let God handle your battles. He's
Speaker 1: the vindicator and protector and defender.
Speaker 3: And that's hard to do sometimes.
Speaker 1: But you know, I think it's a fine line of
Speaker 1: what inspired divine actions should I take versus just I'm
Speaker 1: going to just get in there and you know, punch
Speaker 1: somebody out.
Speaker 3: So that's kind of hard.
Speaker 1: But that's one thing that Sean Aker had talked about
Speaker 1: because he has I think seven or nine beliefs in
Speaker 1: the book that really affect our lives, and one of
Speaker 1: them is what we do, our actions matter, and that
Speaker 1: you do have something to give. And so that really
Speaker 1: hit me because in this whole process of getting the
Speaker 1: edits done, which hallelujah, they are done. But the lady
Speaker 1: who I've never met, she was doing the edits for
Speaker 1: my book, and I got a message from her through
Speaker 1: the publisher. She had finished it, finished editing my book
Speaker 1: right before her father died, and she said, I'm so
Speaker 1: glad that I got it finished. Well, at first, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking she's glad she finished the task that she can
Speaker 1: move on and deal with that, the grief, the funeral
Speaker 1: and all that. That's not necessarily what she meant in full.
Speaker 1: It was that she felt that the universe had used
Speaker 1: my story about my difficult mother with delusional dementia to
Speaker 1: prepare her for her father, who was also a negative
Speaker 1: parent with dementia or a difficult parent with dementia. And
Speaker 1: I read that and I just immediately started crying. It's
Speaker 1: one of those I had to get up before I
Speaker 1: responded to say, WHOA. So my point with this is
Speaker 1: whatever little jar of oil you have, whatever gift that
Speaker 1: you think is I don't, that's not really anything. That's
Speaker 1: not a big deal. Cultivated that action of cultivating your gift,
Speaker 1: your delusional dreams, that action and believing that that has
Speaker 1: worth and power, even if you don't see the outcome,
Speaker 1: that can be a gift.
Speaker 3: To others, whether it's one person, whether it's the whole world.
Speaker 1: And so that's the point of receiving, is saying I
Speaker 1: have something of worth. It may be small, it may
Speaker 1: not be fully developed, but I'm going to take the
Speaker 1: action of getting this to grow.
Speaker 3: And you know, I've read, you know in the.
Speaker 1: Bible that when you make, when you go towards your gifts,
Speaker 1: they will make room for you.
Speaker 3: And I did I never really understood what that meant.
Speaker 3: I'm understanding what that means.
Speaker 1: I think that means it gives you the capacity to
Speaker 1: receive more. And that's not selfish, you know, it would
Speaker 1: be selfish. You were saying, Oh, I want to sell
Speaker 1: this book, so I want to make a lot of
Speaker 1: money and buy a huge house and have a really
Speaker 1: expensive car. I'm not meaning that type of receiving. I'm
Speaker 1: meaning I want to grow my gifts so it can
Speaker 1: be more of a positive influence, you know, of a
Speaker 1: gift to the world. And the more I'm willing to receive,
Speaker 1: the bigger my gift will grow, the more it will
Speaker 1: take off, and the more people you know you can help.
Speaker 1: And so that's the point of receiving today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, billionaire mindsets include it all. See. The thing that
Speaker 2: we have about money is just so ridiculously harmful for us,
Speaker 2: because if you're a person that grew up in poverty,
Speaker 2: it is okay for you to ask for the big house,
Speaker 2: you see, because if you don't ask for it, every
Speaker 2: don't that we put out in the universe, or every can't.
Speaker 2: The universe heals that. But what you're saying today is
Speaker 2: you're creating an energy that is all inclusive for all
Speaker 2: the goodies that are available to you, and that is
Speaker 2: to take away from here because receiving you have to
Speaker 2: be willing to receive it all. The other thing is
Speaker 2: you have to be able to receive it, maybe in
Speaker 2: a different form.
Speaker 3: Yes, right.
Speaker 2: You know if that woman would have filled all of
Speaker 2: those charts, if she'd have brought the oil and instead
Speaker 2: of oil got read, I wonder she'd to say, I
Speaker 2: don't want that, take that back. But the point is
Speaker 2: today you're bringing to light that we have that power. Vicky.
Speaker 2: How do people find out more about you? Thank you
Speaker 2: for today?
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you. You can go to My book website
Speaker 1: is Shine Haappyshine dot com. We know it will be
Speaker 1: published in fall twenty twenty six. This fall, I'm getting
Speaker 1: closer to knowing the exact date. My art website is
Speaker 1: vickiworld art dot com. You can find me on Facebook
Speaker 1: and Instagram at Vikiworld Art. So don't clip.
Speaker 3: Your wings and receive more. You can do more with
Speaker 3: your delusional dreams.
Speaker 2: I love it, you know. Thank you for today. Thank
Speaker 2: you for the reminder and for all of you out there,
Speaker 2: there's so much you can listen to. Doesn't matter what
Speaker 2: your spiritual philosophy is, you're gonna find, you know, the
Speaker 2: tip of positivity out there, and by real are you
Speaker 2: taking that in, bringing it in, inviting it in. You may
Speaker 2: not change overnight, but you will change. Thank you, Vicki,
Speaker 2: Thank you everybody.
Speaker 3: Thanks.
Speaker 2: We'll see y'all next time.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to Shine, Delusion, Shine, the radical
Speaker 1: art of dreaming beyond boundaries. I am Vicki Todd with
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Speaker 3: We invite you to tap into.
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