1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,839 Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say 2 00:00:03,919 --> 00:00:07,360 yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes. 3 00:00:07,639 --> 00:00:10,519 So turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,160 stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is in 5 00:00:14,199 --> 00:00:18,480 your present now. To get there requires practice. Each day, 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,280 I take one sheet of paper. Just ten minutes you 7 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,280 write about whatever is moving through your moment of what 8 00:00:24,399 --> 00:00:29,920 is right now, with absolutely no judgment. Stream thinking sharpens 9 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,159 your skills as a listener, as a communicator, and as 10 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:37,560 an activator. Learning how to trust what is right now. 11 00:00:38,039 --> 00:00:41,439 This is stream thinking today. We're reading from June twenty fifth, 12 00:00:41,439 --> 00:00:44,759 twenty twenty three. A little deep, A little deep, and 13 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:48,280 you may get lost, but that's why we have replay. 14 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,679 But it does go into an area of thought that's 15 00:00:51,719 --> 00:00:54,520 going to challenge your beliefs in what is right now 16 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,679 versus what you have been before this moment of now, 17 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:05,840 locating the visibility of what's invisible, Locating the visibility of 18 00:01:05,879 --> 00:01:10,319 what's invisible God for an example, I constantly hear people say, well, 19 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,760 if I don't see him or her, there cannot be now. 20 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,200 There's no judgment here. Remember no judgment to see him 21 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,719 or her is but a wish to identify. See I 22 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:23,239 live in a forest blessed with beautiful trees and all 23 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:27,400 other living things. You know, deer, snakes, rabbits, hawks, and owls. 24 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:32,200 To watch them is very spiritual to me. It's a 25 00:01:32,239 --> 00:01:36,200 gift that I see by way of identity. It builds 26 00:01:36,239 --> 00:01:39,200 strength in my ability to believe without having to see. 27 00:01:39,719 --> 00:01:44,519 You know, knowing versus not knowing the words in a book, 28 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:49,079 something that tells a story. Think of it as an identity. 29 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,000 Does it really have to be seen to make an 30 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,840 impact on our paths? Have you ever walked on rice paper? 31 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:00,359 The weight of your being will rip that stuff toads. 32 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,640 You see through identity in the ways that you can 33 00:02:04,719 --> 00:02:08,599 reteach the way you step in other words, do you 34 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,159 have to see it to believe it? I think that's 35 00:02:11,159 --> 00:02:13,520 one of the reasons why I'm a daily writer, because 36 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,120 I have to be able to see my emotions on 37 00:02:16,199 --> 00:02:19,479 that page every single morning before the world starts, and 38 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,639 then I'm able to take those steps forward. It's helped me. 39 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,360 If you look at your life as being that of 40 00:02:25,439 --> 00:02:29,879 rice paper or concrete or granite rock, and you think that, oh, well, 41 00:02:29,879 --> 00:02:32,639 nothing's going to hit me, then it probably will hit you, 42 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,479 and then when it does, then you're gonna start watching 43 00:02:35,759 --> 00:02:39,599 your steps. A life changer for me was July twenty first, 44 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:42,400 two thousand and nine, a heart attack at the age 45 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,319 of forty seven. I didn't see it coming, neither did 46 00:02:45,319 --> 00:02:47,680 anybody else. I was getting ready for my third degree 47 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,599 black belt test, and all of a sudden, I stepped 48 00:02:50,599 --> 00:02:54,280 on rice paper and my steps rip that rice paper 49 00:02:54,439 --> 00:02:59,080 to shreds. Getting the identity is cool. It makes you 50 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,800 feel confident and you have that security inside of you 51 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:05,919 saying I got this. But it's those moments where you 52 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:08,759 step on that rice paper and you hear the shredding. 53 00:03:09,479 --> 00:03:12,680 Then you think, where do I go next? How do 54 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,800 I grow next? Let me revert back to my past 55 00:03:16,319 --> 00:03:19,280 because I know how it played out. And that's one 56 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,120 of the reasons why people don't like to grow forward, 57 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:26,400 because they're afraid in their own way of reaching newer 58 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,439 levels of self, or it's the people around them that 59 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,520 don't want to see the change that happens every day 60 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,719 by way of weight loss programs. Oh, I'd like to 61 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,919 better when we could have ice cream? Oh? Come on, man, 62 00:03:39,199 --> 00:03:42,039 can't you just give yourself a forgiveness day? Just one time? 63 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,240 Give into it just for a moment, and then it 64 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:48,960 starts all over again. In fact, Ozzy Osbourne's wife Sharon, 65 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,000 she lost so much weight because of these pills that 66 00:03:53,039 --> 00:03:57,639 everybody is taking. But she openly admits, I've got to stop, 67 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:01,840 and I know once I do, I'm going to gain 68 00:04:01,879 --> 00:04:05,840 the weight back rice paper. What kind of steps are 69 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:09,759 you taking today? And will you shred that rice paper? Now, 70 00:04:09,759 --> 00:04:14,000 as a martial artist, we learn to walk on rice paper, 71 00:04:14,599 --> 00:04:16,959 But do you have the time and do you have 72 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:21,600 the decades to invest in such a step. I'm MARYL 73 00:04:21,639 --> 00:04:22,680 and that's stream thinking.