June 25, 2024 • 35 mins
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What if the way you think about time is holding you back from living your best life? Join me, Nathaniel Heutmaker, as we uncover the powerful illusion of time and its impact on our thoughts and behaviors. We start by challenging the concept of security and exploring a compelling thought experiment about the origins of our thoughts. You'll discover how our memories shape our thinking patterns, trapping us in cycles of past experiences. By focusing on the present moment and adopting the vulnerability and wonder of a child, we can break free from these limiting patterns and create a brighter future.
This episode offers practical strategies to enhance your focus and mindfulness, teaching you how to let go of past resentments and emotional baggage that hinder your happiness. Learn techniques to sharpen your meditative focus, such as concentrating on an external object, and understand the value of holding onto a single joyful thought. By accepting your current situation and releasing the need for control, you can open yourself to new possibilities and improve your well-being. Don't miss out on these insights for cultivating a serene, successful, and love-filled life. Make sure to subscribe and leave a rating for more transformative content!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
News flash to every one of you out there who believe
security can be achieved.
It cannot.
Security is an illusion thathas been constructed by our mind
in order to help protect us,making it so that way we think
that we have any control aboutwhat goes on in the world around
us, when we have nonewhatsoever.
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Thank you.
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Hello and welcome back to theForbidden Knowledge Podcast.
My name is Nathaniel Hoitmacherand I will be your host.
My name is Nathaniel Hoitmacherand I will be your host.
In this episode, we are goingto be going over time and how it
is basically an illusion, aswell as how it holds us back
from achieving our real goalsand whatnot, based upon our
understanding of this illusionand how it takes control over us
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.
I would especially encourageanybody who is new to the
podcast please go back to theprevious episodes and go in
order, so that way you don'tmiss anything.
Each episode builds upon itselfin each season, and it would be
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most beneficial for you to go inorder Doesn't mean you can't
get stuff from this episode orany other episode that you
listen to, even if you listenout of order, but they've been
built in a specific way.
That is done in order to makeit so.
That way, you will gain themost from it if you listen to
all of them in order.
All right, so I want to do athought experiment here and I
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want you to participate in it,and the question is where do
thoughts come from?
Now, I know you might bethinking what the heck does this
have to do with time?
You'll understand in a momentfor what it is.
So just please, I'm going toask the question again when do
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thoughts come from?
Well, most of you right now aretrying to scrabble to come up
with an answer.
Maybe you're talking aboutsomething to do with neurons
firing and whatnot, or maybeyou're even scratching your head
and saying I don't know, orwhatever it is that's going on
inside your mind when you'retrying to search for the answer.
But if we step back and we slowdown the process and we really
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look at what happens when we askthis question, where do
thoughts come from and look atit for what's going on inside of
our mind.
This is what is happening.
When I ask the question wheredo thoughts come from, the
immediate response that you gointo is that you are searching
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for the answer, and you'researching for it in your mind,
to wherever that answer isstored in your head that you are
going to give for what's goingon.
And so this shows us thatthoughts come from a memory bank
, because that's what we'redoing we're searching our
memories in order to come upwith, to come up with where the
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answer to that question is orwhat it was.
So this is important because itteaches us about how our entire
mind works.
If thoughts come from a memorybank and makes it so that way,
that's where we get our thoughtsfrom is from the past and
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things that have been stored inour mind there.
Well then, that says a lotabout us as a species and a lot
about how this can be used totrap us and not be able to live
in the present moment as much aswe should be able to do so.
When we are not in the presentmoment, which is how most of us
are throughout most of the timewith it.
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A lot of the time, we're juston autopilot, which means that,
whatever our thoughts, our mostprominent reoccurring patterns
that have been built into us arein terms of our neurological
pathways, which has to do withus doing the same things over
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and over and over again.
This is what we will do.
We will follow whatever it isthat is our most easiest, most
default, habitual pathway, andit makes us that way.
It comes from our past, whichmeans that our future is already
predetermined, because we'vealready decided what we're going
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to be doing, just like amachine would already do with
its programming.
And so this is one of theproblems when we don't live in
the present moment.
A lot of people, when they'rehaving a conversation, as an
example, they're not listeningto, actually listen to the other
human being that's talking tothem.
They're listening to respond,which means that they already
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are preconceiving their ideasfor where the next stage of the
conversation is going and arealready making that what they're
focused on, rather than whatthe person is talking about, and
by doing so, it makes it so.
That way we may miss something.
Now, I would imagine that almostall of us don't have the life
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that we truly desire and wantwhich, if that is the case with
it, which is truth for everybody, we can always have a better
version of life than what weeven have now, even if we have a
great life is that means thatwe need to change how we think
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in order to make it so.
That way we can change ourfuture, and the only way to do
that is to live in the presentmoment, because the past actions
that we have done haven'tgotten us to where we are and
where we want, have gotten us towhere we are, excuse me, and
hasn't gotten us to where wewant to go.
And so why am I bringing all ofthis up?
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Because this is a huge part ofthe initiate's journey.
It's about being able to makeit so.
That way we can be in thepresent moment, we can truly
experience and be vulnerable toit, much like how we were with
children to the world and how itwas a magical place, in the
sense that we were so vulnerableto everything around us that
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everything was astonishing to us.
But now we've cut ourselves offfrom life in comparison to when
we were a child, thinking thatwe already know everything
that's going to happen.
And while that might be true forcertain aspects of things.
There's a lot of things thatit's not true for, and it makes
it so that way.
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You know, we are victims to ourown mentality about life and
whatnot.
So another aspect of this isthat people, when they live in
the past, they allow any oftheir past traumas that they've
had to control them to make itso that way that, whatever that
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is in terms of their programming, that's happened to their
conditioning from growing up,that it controls the outcome of
where they're going wheneverthey're not living in the
present moment.
Only in the present moment canwe escape from our past fully,
until we've completelytransmuted whatever's happened
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to us in the past and whatnot.
And so there's a reason why wehave this method of doing things
, of projecting on the past.
I mean projecting on the futurefrom the past as well as making
it so that we're constantlyworrying about the future and
that kind of stuff.
And it comes from aself-defense mechanism that we
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will call the ego, which is oursense of identity and self.
The ego was originally designedas a way to differentiate
ourselves from other thingsaround us If we didn't realize
that our body was our body anddidn't belong to somebody else
or to something else, then thatfalling branch that is coming
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down from the tree and whatnotcould kill us, or we could fall
off a cliff, or we could get tooclose to some sort of wild
animal, like a bear, that mightwant to do us harm, or something
along those lines with it.
So the ego was created from anevolutionary standpoint in order
to protect us from ourenvironment, and it needs to
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have very strict definitionsabout what things are, because
if it's wrong about how some ofthese things are, then it makes
it so.
That way, we have huge problemsthat can come into being that
lead to us being maimed orkilled, and so this is why a lot
of conflict occurs betweenpeople who have big, strong egos
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, because they have the need tobe right, and it goes back to a
survival mechanism that is putinto place there for it.
The issue is that it was onlysupposed to be for physical harm
, and it was only supposed to befor our immediate protection in
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the physical world.
It became a tyrant, though, andit has been made to the point,
built up to the point that nowit controls practically every
action that we do and everythought that we have, and so the
ego, which is based upon memory, which is based upon thought
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form, which is based upon whatwe've been experienced and
exposed to in the past, nowdictates practically every
aspect of ourselves, and itmakes it so that way.
We are controlled by it one wayor another.
This is the conditioning, theprogramming and all the other
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stuff that I've brought upearlier in this episode and in
other episodes even, for thatmatter.
For what?
What's going on?
If we don't know where ourthoughts come from, whether
they're our own or not, as I'vementioned in previous episodes,
we can't really determine who'srunning the program, who's
really doing stuff with it.
And since most of us live onautopilot rather than in the
present moment, which is whereall magic can occur, where all
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change can occur, the only placewhere we can create our future,
we need to make it so.
That way we begin to live inthe present moment more, and so
you know, that's part of whatthe whole point of ruining our
attention spans are too.
That has been going on, youknow, in the last 20, 30 years,
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whatever it's been.
If you can't pay attention tothings with it, then you aren't
in the present moment, you goback to being on autopilot, or
you're constantly looking forsomething to give you the mental
stimulus that you're lookingfor and that will make it so.
That way, you seek that out,which is natural because we are
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a rewards-based creature.
The more reward we get fromdoing something, the more we
want to do that thing.
This is true of pretty much allbeings on this planet, so it's
important that we reallyunderstand how this plays out
for ourselves and come to termswith the fact that, by focusing
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on our past and our futures toomuch and worrying about the
future, with all the doubts andanxiety and all the other stuff
that comes from it, none of thathas to do with what's actually
happening in the moment.
All that has to do with is howwe are in fear of what will
happen, are in fear of what willhappen, and so this is
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something else that needs to betouched upon is that in the last
episode, I was talking about alitmus test, about how to know
whether something is being donein a way that's supposed to help
you or something that's beingdone in a way that only hurts
you, and and litmus test isbasically whether it's coming
from a place of love or a placeof fear, and I gave an example
of how that would play out.
Well, our own mind makes it sothat way.
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We live constantly in fearbecause we want security.
But newsflash to every one ofyou out there who believe
security can be achieved itcannot.
Security is an illusion that hasbeen constructed by our mind in
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order to help protect us,making it so that way, we think
that we have any control aboutwhat goes on in the world around
us, when we have nonewhatsoever.
You could have been born withsome sort of defect that makes
it so that way.
You have a brain aneurysm anddrop dead Could happen to me
right now while I'm recordingthis.
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We could all be wiped out fromnuclear war, since that seems to
be, you know, something that ismuch more likely to occur than,
say, it was a decade ago.
We could make it so that waythere's some sort of asteroid or
meteor that comes out ofnowhere and wipes us all out, or
there could be that you justmake a mistake while walking
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down the street and get hit by acar or a bus or some other
vehicle by not looking both wayscarefully or whatever the deal
is.
I mean, there's no such thingas security.
It's an illusion Period.
The moment we let go of thisnotion that we have any say in
what happens to external thingsaround us, that's the moment
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that we can actually begin toget peace of mind back and make
it so.
We're not living in a sphere asmuch, and not living from a
place of wanting to controleverything with it, which is
where the ego comes in, which iswhere our autopilot comes in,
and all these other things thathappen that aren't helping us in
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any way, shape or form.
And so you know, I want tochange myself and help influence
others to want to changethemselves and live in a better
world, of course, too, and sonow I'm going to go over some of
the benefits of living in thepresent moment and what happens
when we truly become vulnerableto it.
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We live in the present moment.
That's where all creativity canbegin, and creativity is where
we gain our power.
This is where we have ourinspiration.
This is where wisdom comes from.
When you have a new thought thatyou've never had before, or an
insight about a situation that'sbeing presented to you and
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whatnot, that's where that comesfrom and your limited mind, and
are pulling from much deeperwell of resources that are there
that make it so.
That way you can do better forthings with it.
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We need to understand that thisinner creativity guides us
along a path.
This is what's made everyaspect of our lives better.
You know, some of usunfortunately need to hit rock
bottom before we really engagethat creative spirit of ours and
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whatnot.
It gives us courage andinspiration and insight, and it
makes us so that way.
It opens doorways where thereweren't any before and removes
roadblocks to things that we haddone with it.
If we really want to change ourfuture, we cannot use the past
to do so, because that is only arecreation of something that's
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already existed before.
You need something new in orderto change your future, which
means you have to take a newthought.
I mean take new action, whichmeans you have to have new
thoughts, and the only way thatcan occur is when you live in
the present moment, to where youare able to let go of
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preconceived notions about whatis possible and what is not
possible, because you know, ifyou think you can do it, then
you will be able to change yourworld, and if you think that you
can't, then you won't.
Either way, you're right, whichis what the ego wants.
It wants to be correct.
It wants to make it so that way.
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Its definition of its sense ofself, aka how it perceives you
and how you perceive yourself,is the most important thing to
it.
From a survival standpoint,which only comes about when
we're in the present moment,it'll probably require you to
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dance with chaos.
It'll make it so.
We have to teach yourself howto laugh as you fumble around
with your steps.
Creativity loves audacity, andyou know, it makes it so that
way.
Those who fail are actuallymaking progress, which is the
exact same opposite of whatwe've been taught.
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In order to succeed, you needto be successful.
Well, in order to succeed, youneed to fail many times for
what's going on, so there's thatside of it too.
In order to reach creativity,though, we need to have
acceptance, which makes it so.
We have to accept what'shappening in the present moment.
We have to accept our lifesituation as it is.
We have to not delude ourselvesinto thinking that things are
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different, and so this is why wehave to go in order of the
steps in the initiate's journey,which is you have to believe in
a higher power.
This was to make it so that waywe can actually know what we can
change and what we can't changein this world.
Because if we think that we'rethe sole arbiters of truth,
that's going to give us lots ofproblems for what's going on.
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It also makes it so.
That way we can determine forourselves what the best course
of action is.
Number two is we have to behonest.
Being honest makes it so.
That way we can truly go in theright direction.
If we're dishonest withourselves and we start lying to
ourselves, then we have a bunchof problems, which, of course,
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is step.
Number three is to stopdreaming, stop having cognitive
dissonance to where you haveissues that make it so.
That way you have falseassumptions and beliefs about
the world that make it so thatway you keep going through the
same cycles over and over again.
Then you need to make it sothat way you are able to know
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how to think instead of what tothink, so that way you can have
critical thinking skills thatallow you to go after your true
goals and life and whatnot.
But the most important step outof all of this is the one we're
talking about now, which is thepresent moment, because if we
are stuck in the past or areclinging on to the future,
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things can go haywire veryquickly.
You know, by holding on to yourresentment and your anger, you
are literally perpetuatingunhappiness, poverty, sickness,
limitation and a lack mentalityin your own life.
Do you really think that any ofthis stuff will help you get
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rich or live a serene life, orhave a life that is successful
to yourself and whatnot, that'sfull of love and the things that
we all claim that we want?
Of course not, so we have tofind a way to transmute this
stuff.
We have to find a way in orderto make that happen.
The more more we live in thepresent moment, the less that's
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going to have an impact on ourlife.
It's the same thing with doubtand worry and fear and anxiety.
It's all about us projectingonto the future, which has to do
with our thoughts of the past.
How many of these things thatyou've worried about or had
anxiety about, or have fearedthat would happen in the future
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have come true?
For the vast majority of us,it's going to be.
Most of it hasn't actuallyhappened.
Imagine all that time that wasspent on something that never
even occurred and all the wastedpotential that could have been
used, had we decided to use thattime to actually create the
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life for ourselves that we wantto create.
All right, this is why it's soimportant to live in the present
moment.
It's the only thing thatactually exists anyway.
Past is gone.
It is gone.
We can't change it.
There's nothing we can do aboutit.
It is simply that which is.
In other words, it's just afact of our life, the truth, a
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story that we tell ourselves andwhatnot.
And if the story that we'retelling ourselves is something
very different from what we wantto be living, well, we're going
to get more of that same crappystory instead of living the one
that we want to.
You know, we need to reallyjust decide that we're worth it,
that we're worth the effort,that it's important for us to
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change and to use the presentmoment as a way of transmuting
our past.
Now you know another likeprinciple I want you to really
think about here, and is thefollowing there is nothing that
stands still.
It either takes me towardswhere I want to go or away from
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where I want to go.
If it isn't helping me, it'shurting me.
I want that to sink in once youreally understand this
principle, once you trulyunderstand this dynamic that I'm
laying out here for you, youwill start taking actions in
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your own life that benefit youand make it so.
That way you can start doingthings better.
You can start doing thingsbetter.
Sometimes it's as simple aswe're stuck.
We feel stuck and we don't knowhow to get out.
The only wrong thing to do inthat situation of getting stuck
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in a rut and not knowing how toget out is to continue doing the
same thing that you are doingnow.
You have to change something.
What that something is, youhave to decide.
It could be something tiny, andit can start compounding and
changing your life hugely.
You never know how those typeof things will play out for you,
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and once you start doinganything differently, it becomes
easier to do other thingsdifferently, and again it builds
on itself just like a muscle,just like discipline does, just
like anything else that happenswith it.
And so this is another, youknow, point of interest for
what's going on.
Imagine you were able tocompletely forgive everybody and
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everything that ever happenedto you.
Imagine you were able to makeit so.
That way you're able to forgiveyourself too.
You can't do that when you'rethinking about the past.
Maybe you can do it whileyou're thinking about the future
.
All my future self can do it,but why wouldn't you want to do
it now?
If you can do it now, whywouldn't you want to make it so?
That way you have that peace ofmind now, rather than wait and
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making it so that way, you haveto have something drastic come
along and change in your lifeand whatnot.
Some people that's what theyneed, unfortunately.
So I'm going to give sometechniques on how to deal with
worry and resentment and how tolive in the present moment a bit
more and that kind of stuff.
Or for some people who need totake maybe a different step of
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making it so that way they havebetter focus, that way they can
even be in the present momentmore.
In general, I'll go over someof that stuff too here.
So, very briefly, one questionI ask myself all the time is am
I being present?
By doing so, by asking thatquestion, I'm putting myself
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back into present state of being, because that is what that
question does in and of itselfand helps me to recenter For
those of you that are focusingon like worry and how to deal
with that and that kind of stuff.
I asked myself the question whatproblem do I have right now and
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what do I have to worry aboutright now?
Okay, so either I'm dealingwith that problem right, because
I'm doing the best I can andactually going actively after
fixing the problem, et cetera,which means there's not much for
me to worry about because I'mtaking care of the problem, or I
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can't do anything about thatproblem, so then I just need to
accept that it is somethingthat's there and deal with it in
that particular matter.
So the question is why do Ineed to worry?
Then it's either being dealtwith or I can't deal with it
because it's outside of mycontrol.
Either way, there's no need forworry.
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Easier said than done, I know.
I'm just trying to explain toyou how this thought process
works, and when you build a bigenough muscle up for it, it
becomes easier, of course.
The other one, of course, is howdo we make it so that way we
deal with we have focus issuesto where we can't even get into
the present moment.
Like some people, you know,maybe they want to meditate,
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which is a great way of gettingus into the present moment, and
really like clearing our mindand helping debug our brain for
a little bit and that kind ofstuff.
But we can't even focus longenough to make that happen.
Well, instead of focusinginternally, focus on something
external.
If you take a coin, say like aquarter, and you put it at eye
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level and you make it so thatway, you try to push the edge of
the coin with your mind.
What will happen is that if youdo this for, say, 15 minutes a
day every day for weeks ormonths, your attention span will
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start going back up.
You are making it so.
That way your right reticularformation, which is part of your
brain that has to do with focus, is being used again and making
it so it gets stronger and thenit'll make it so.
That way you're able to commitmore to the present moment and
focus more on it whenever theopportunity arises for you.
So that's something else thatcan be done in this particular
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instance as well.
Forgiving the past sometimes canbe difficult for people.
The question I ask them andmyself, whenever I find myself
not adhering to living in thepresent moment, because I fall
out of it too sometimes and Ineed to remind myself to get
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back into it is what benefitdoes this give me Thinking about
whatever it is that I'mthinking about.
I'll give examples.
If you resent rich people, howare you ever going to become
rich?
If you resent successful people, how are you ever going to
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become successful?
You don't want to resentyourself.
At least most of us don't.
So because of that, makesgetting to that goal much more
difficult.
I want you to imagine yourworries, your doubts, your
baggage, whatever it is, asliteral luggage, literal baggage
that we're carrying, and youknow we're all going to the same
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destination in the end, whichis death and that kind of thing
with it, and we're on thisjourney called life, and we're
in this airport and we're allgoing on the same plane and
we're all taking the stuff withit.
But on the way to the plane andon the way to traveling to
where we all end up, some of usare carrying so much with us.
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Some of us are, you know,literally have cartfuls and
cartfuls of baggage that we havethat we're struggling to do
anything with that.
If we just put it down, itwould make our life easier,
whereas others are only carryinga briefcase or a day pack or
whatever, and so they'recarrying just enough to make it
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so that way.
It's important to them Enoughto get by and pull from whatever
they need from it, but notenough to make it so.
That way they can't enjoy life.
I've brought this up before, butI think it's a very pertinent
example.
If I'm driving a car, I don'tneed to know how to drive a car
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at any other time except whenI'm doing it, and, honestly, I
don't need to know how to drivea car at any other time except
when I'm doing it, and, honestly, I don't even think about
driving, unless I'm thinkingabout a trip that I'm going on
and planning for it, or if I'mactually driving.
In and of itself, it's a toolthat we use whenever we need to
use that tool.
The issue is, we use the toolin the wrong way, whenever we
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don't necessarily need it, andso one of the biggest ways I've
discovered to determine whetherI have any control over my mind,
my thoughts whatsoever, is tomake it so.
That way I hold one consecutivethought in my mind for 15
seconds without it beinginterrupted by something else.
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If I can't do that, I have zerocontrol over my mind at that
moment, and it's in control ofme.
And so for those of you thatmight struggle with this, which
will be most of us in our modernera, since our attention spans
are eight seconds or less, whichmeans we can't even hold a
thought for eight seconds orless.
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My suggestion is to stoplistening to this podcast.
Go and try to make it so thatway you do that for 15 seconds
and if you can't, then figureout whatever the greatest moment
in your life was, the one thatbrought you the most joy, and
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see if you can't hold that for15 seconds.
And if you can't hold that for15 seconds, you have zero
control over your mind, andthat's what being in the present
moment is.
It's being in control of yourmind.
To make it so that way you canlive here in the now, rather
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than holding on to theresentment, holding on to the
issues of our past or to ourprojection onto the future of
all of our worries, fears anddoubts and anxieties.
Anyway, this is what thisepisode's about.
This is the importance of it.
It needs to be so that way wecan live life to the fullest.
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Making it so that way we arehappier beings and whatnot, that
we're more joyful beings andthat we don't dump our fears
onto other people, either fromprojecting onto the future or
from bringing stuff thathappened to us in the past onto
other people as well.
Inevitably, we're all going todo it to a certain extent.
The point is to mitigate it asmuch as possible until we've
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completely overcome ouranxieties, worries, fears,
doubts, resentments, our anger,our hatred, and making it so
that way we live more beautiful,lighthearted, joyful and
inspired lives.
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Thank you.
News flash to every one of you out there who believe
security can be achieved.
It cannot.
Security is an illusion thathas been constructed by our mind
in order to help protect us,making it so that way we think
that we have any control aboutwhat goes on in the world around
us, when we have nonewhatsoever.
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Thank you.
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Hello and welcome back to theForbidden Knowledge Podcast.
My name is Nathaniel Hoitmacherand I will be your host.
My name is Nathaniel Hoitmacherand I will be your host.
In this episode, we are goingto be going over time and how it
is basically an illusion, aswell as how it holds us back
from achieving our real goalsand whatnot, based upon our
understanding of this illusionand how it takes control over us
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.
I would especially encourageanybody who is new to the
podcast please go back to theprevious episodes and go in
order, so that way you don'tmiss anything.
Each episode builds upon itselfin each season, and it would be
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most beneficial for you to go inorder Doesn't mean you can't
get stuff from this episode orany other episode that you
listen to, even if you listenout of order, but they've been
built in a specific way.
That is done in order to makeit so.
That way, you will gain themost from it if you listen to
all of them in order.
All right, so I want to do athought experiment here and I
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want you to participate in it,and the question is where do
thoughts come from?
Now, I know you might bethinking what the heck does this
have to do with time?
You'll understand in a momentfor what it is.
So just please, I'm going toask the question again when do
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thoughts come from?
Well, most of you right now aretrying to scrabble to come up
with an answer.
Maybe you're talking aboutsomething to do with neurons
firing and whatnot, or maybeyou're even scratching your head
and saying I don't know, orwhatever it is that's going on
inside your mind when you'retrying to search for the answer.
But if we step back and we slowdown the process and we really
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look at what happens when we askthis question, where do
thoughts come from and look atit for what's going on inside of
our mind.
This is what is happening.
When I ask the question wheredo thoughts come from, the
immediate response that you gointo is that you are searching
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for the answer, and you'researching for it in your mind,
to wherever that answer isstored in your head that you are
going to give for what's goingon.
And so this shows us thatthoughts come from a memory bank
, because that's what we'redoing we're searching our
memories in order to come upwith, to come up with where the
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answer to that question is orwhat it was.
So this is important because itteaches us about how our entire
mind works.
If thoughts come from a memorybank and makes it so that way,
that's where we get our thoughtsfrom is from the past and
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things that have been stored inour mind there.
Well then, that says a lotabout us as a species and a lot
about how this can be used totrap us and not be able to live
in the present moment as much aswe should be able to do so.
When we are not in the presentmoment, which is how most of us
are throughout most of the timewith it.
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A lot of the time, we're juston autopilot, which means that,
whatever our thoughts, our mostprominent reoccurring patterns
that have been built into us arein terms of our neurological
pathways, which has to do withus doing the same things over
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and over and over again.
This is what we will do.
We will follow whatever it isthat is our most easiest, most
default, habitual pathway, andit makes us that way.
It comes from our past, whichmeans that our future is already
predetermined, because we'vealready decided what we're going
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to be doing, just like amachine would already do with
its programming.
And so this is one of theproblems when we don't live in
the present moment.
A lot of people, when they'rehaving a conversation, as an
example, they're not listeningto, actually listen to the other
human being that's talking tothem.
They're listening to respond,which means that they already
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are preconceiving their ideasfor where the next stage of the
conversation is going and arealready making that what they're
focused on, rather than whatthe person is talking about, and
by doing so, it makes it so.
That way we may miss something.
Now, I would imagine that almostall of us don't have the life
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that we truly desire and wantwhich, if that is the case with
it, which is truth for everybody, we can always have a better
version of life than what weeven have now, even if we have a
great life is that means thatwe need to change how we think
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in order to make it so.
That way we can change ourfuture, and the only way to do
that is to live in the presentmoment, because the past actions
that we have done haven'tgotten us to where we are and
where we want, have gotten us towhere we are, excuse me, and
hasn't gotten us to where wewant to go.
And so why am I bringing all ofthis up?
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Because this is a huge part ofthe initiate's journey.
It's about being able to makeit so.
That way we can be in thepresent moment, we can truly
experience and be vulnerable toit, much like how we were with
children to the world and how itwas a magical place, in the
sense that we were so vulnerableto everything around us that
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everything was astonishing to us.
But now we've cut ourselves offfrom life in comparison to when
we were a child, thinking thatwe already know everything
that's going to happen.
And while that might be true forcertain aspects of things.
There's a lot of things thatit's not true for, and it makes
it so that way.
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You know, we are victims to ourown mentality about life and
whatnot.
So another aspect of this isthat people, when they live in
the past, they allow any oftheir past traumas that they've
had to control them to make itso that way that, whatever that
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is in terms of their programming, that's happened to their
conditioning from growing up,that it controls the outcome of
where they're going wheneverthey're not living in the
present moment.
Only in the present moment canwe escape from our past fully,
until we've completelytransmuted whatever's happened
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to us in the past and whatnot.
And so there's a reason why wehave this method of doing things
, of projecting on the past.
I mean projecting on the futurefrom the past as well as making
it so that we're constantlyworrying about the future and
that kind of stuff.
And it comes from aself-defense mechanism that we
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will call the ego, which is oursense of identity and self.
The ego was originally designedas a way to differentiate
ourselves from other thingsaround us If we didn't realize
that our body was our body anddidn't belong to somebody else
or to something else, then thatfalling branch that is coming
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down from the tree and whatnotcould kill us, or we could fall
off a cliff, or we could get tooclose to some sort of wild
animal, like a bear, that mightwant to do us harm, or something
along those lines with it.
So the ego was created from anevolutionary standpoint in order
to protect us from ourenvironment, and it needs to
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have very strict definitionsabout what things are, because
if it's wrong about how some ofthese things are, then it makes
it so.
That way, we have huge problemsthat can come into being that
lead to us being maimed orkilled, and so this is why a lot
of conflict occurs betweenpeople who have big, strong egos
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, because they have the need tobe right, and it goes back to a
survival mechanism that is putinto place there for it.
The issue is that it was onlysupposed to be for physical harm
, and it was only supposed to befor our immediate protection in
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the physical world.
It became a tyrant, though, andit has been made to the point,
built up to the point that nowit controls practically every
action that we do and everythought that we have, and so the
ego, which is based upon memory, which is based upon thought
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form, which is based upon whatwe've been experienced and
exposed to in the past, nowdictates practically every
aspect of ourselves, and itmakes it so that way.
We are controlled by it one wayor another.
This is the conditioning, theprogramming and all the other
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stuff that I've brought upearlier in this episode and in
other episodes even, for thatmatter.
For what?
What's going on?
If we don't know where ourthoughts come from, whether
they're our own or not, as I'vementioned in previous episodes,
we can't really determine who'srunning the program, who's
really doing stuff with it.
And since most of us live onautopilot rather than in the
present moment, which is whereall magic can occur, where all
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change can occur, the only placewhere we can create our future,
we need to make it so.
That way we begin to live inthe present moment more, and so
you know, that's part of whatthe whole point of ruining our
attention spans are too.
That has been going on, youknow, in the last 20, 30 years,
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whatever it's been.
If you can't pay attention tothings with it, then you aren't
in the present moment, you goback to being on autopilot, or
you're constantly looking forsomething to give you the mental
stimulus that you're lookingfor and that will make it so.
That way, you seek that out,which is natural because we are
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a rewards-based creature.
The more reward we get fromdoing something, the more we
want to do that thing.
This is true of pretty much allbeings on this planet, so it's
important that we reallyunderstand how this plays out
for ourselves and come to termswith the fact that, by focusing
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on our past and our futures toomuch and worrying about the
future, with all the doubts andanxiety and all the other stuff
that comes from it, none of thathas to do with what's actually
happening in the moment.
All that has to do with is howwe are in fear of what will
happen, are in fear of what willhappen, and so this is
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something else that needs to betouched upon is that in the last
episode, I was talking about alitmus test, about how to know
whether something is being donein a way that's supposed to help
you or something that's beingdone in a way that only hurts
you, and and litmus test isbasically whether it's coming
from a place of love or a placeof fear, and I gave an example
of how that would play out.
Well, our own mind makes it sothat way.
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We live constantly in fearbecause we want security.
But newsflash to every one ofyou out there who believe
security can be achieved itcannot.
Security is an illusion that hasbeen constructed by our mind in
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order to help protect us,making it so that way, we think
that we have any control aboutwhat goes on in the world around
us, when we have nonewhatsoever.
You could have been born withsome sort of defect that makes
it so that way.
You have a brain aneurysm anddrop dead Could happen to me
right now while I'm recordingthis.
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We could all be wiped out fromnuclear war, since that seems to
be, you know, something that ismuch more likely to occur than,
say, it was a decade ago.
We could make it so that waythere's some sort of asteroid or
meteor that comes out ofnowhere and wipes us all out, or
there could be that you justmake a mistake while walking
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down the street and get hit by acar or a bus or some other
vehicle by not looking both wayscarefully or whatever the deal
is.
I mean, there's no such thingas security.
It's an illusion Period.
The moment we let go of thisnotion that we have any say in
what happens to external thingsaround us, that's the moment
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that we can actually begin toget peace of mind back and make
it so.
We're not living in a sphere asmuch, and not living from a
place of wanting to controleverything with it, which is
where the ego comes in, which iswhere our autopilot comes in,
and all these other things thathappen that aren't helping us in
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any way, shape or form.
And so you know, I want tochange myself and help influence
others to want to changethemselves and live in a better
world, of course, too, and sonow I'm going to go over some of
the benefits of living in thepresent moment and what happens
when we truly become vulnerableto it.
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We live in the present moment.
That's where all creativity canbegin, and creativity is where
we gain our power.
This is where we have ourinspiration.
This is where wisdom comes from.
When you have a new thought thatyou've never had before, or an
insight about a situation that'sbeing presented to you and
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whatnot, that's where that comesfrom and your limited mind, and
are pulling from much deeperwell of resources that are there
that make it so.
That way you can do better forthings with it.
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We need to understand that thisinner creativity guides us
along a path.
This is what's made everyaspect of our lives better.
You know, some of usunfortunately need to hit rock
bottom before we really engagethat creative spirit of ours and
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whatnot.
It gives us courage andinspiration and insight, and it
makes us so that way.
It opens doorways where thereweren't any before and removes
roadblocks to things that we haddone with it.
If we really want to change ourfuture, we cannot use the past
to do so, because that is only arecreation of something that's
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already existed before.
You need something new in orderto change your future, which
means you have to take a newthought.
I mean take new action, whichmeans you have to have new
thoughts, and the only way thatcan occur is when you live in
the present moment, to where youare able to let go of
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preconceived notions about whatis possible and what is not
possible, because you know, ifyou think you can do it, then
you will be able to change yourworld, and if you think that you
can't, then you won't.
Either way, you're right, whichis what the ego wants.
It wants to be correct.
It wants to make it so that way.
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Its definition of its sense ofself, aka how it perceives you
and how you perceive yourself,is the most important thing to
it.
From a survival standpoint,which only comes about when
we're in the present moment,it'll probably require you to
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dance with chaos.
It'll make it so.
We have to teach yourself howto laugh as you fumble around
with your steps.
Creativity loves audacity, andyou know, it makes it so that
way.
Those who fail are actuallymaking progress, which is the
exact same opposite of whatwe've been taught.
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In order to succeed, you needto be successful.
Well, in order to succeed, youneed to fail many times for
what's going on, so there's thatside of it too.
In order to reach creativity,though, we need to have
acceptance, which makes it so.
We have to accept what'shappening in the present moment.
We have to accept our lifesituation as it is.
We have to not delude ourselvesinto thinking that things are
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different, and so this is why wehave to go in order of the
steps in the initiate's journey,which is you have to believe in
a higher power.
This was to make it so that waywe can actually know what we can
change and what we can't changein this world.
Because if we think that we'rethe sole arbiters of truth,
that's going to give us lots ofproblems for what's going on.
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It also makes it so.
That way we can determine forourselves what the best course
of action is.
Number two is we have to behonest.
Being honest makes it so.
That way we can truly go in theright direction.
If we're dishonest withourselves and we start lying to
ourselves, then we have a bunchof problems, which, of course,
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is step.
Number three is to stopdreaming, stop having cognitive
dissonance to where you haveissues that make it so.
That way you have falseassumptions and beliefs about
the world that make it so thatway you keep going through the
same cycles over and over again.
Then you need to make it sothat way you are able to know
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how to think instead of what tothink, so that way you can have
critical thinking skills thatallow you to go after your true
goals and life and whatnot.
But the most important step outof all of this is the one we're
talking about now, which is thepresent moment, because if we
are stuck in the past or areclinging on to the future,
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things can go haywire veryquickly.
You know, by holding on to yourresentment and your anger, you
are literally perpetuatingunhappiness, poverty, sickness,
limitation and a lack mentalityin your own life.
Do you really think that any ofthis stuff will help you get
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rich or live a serene life, orhave a life that is successful
to yourself and whatnot, that'sfull of love and the things that
we all claim that we want?
Of course not, so we have tofind a way to transmute this
stuff.
We have to find a way in orderto make that happen.
The more more we live in thepresent moment, the less that's
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going to have an impact on ourlife.
It's the same thing with doubtand worry and fear and anxiety.
It's all about us projectingonto the future, which has to do
with our thoughts of the past.
How many of these things thatyou've worried about or had
anxiety about, or have fearedthat would happen in the future
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have come true?
For the vast majority of us,it's going to be.
Most of it hasn't actuallyhappened.
Imagine all that time that wasspent on something that never
even occurred and all the wastedpotential that could have been
used, had we decided to use thattime to actually create the
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life for ourselves that we wantto create.
All right, this is why it's soimportant to live in the present
moment.
It's the only thing thatactually exists anyway.
Past is gone.
It is gone.
We can't change it.
There's nothing we can do aboutit.
It is simply that which is.
In other words, it's just afact of our life, the truth, a
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story that we tell ourselves andwhatnot.
And if the story that we'retelling ourselves is something
very different from what we wantto be living, well, we're going
to get more of that same crappystory instead of living the one
that we want to.
You know, we need to reallyjust decide that we're worth it,
that we're worth the effort,that it's important for us to
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change and to use the presentmoment as a way of transmuting
our past.
Now you know another likeprinciple I want you to really
think about here, and is thefollowing there is nothing that
stands still.
It either takes me towardswhere I want to go or away from
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where I want to go.
If it isn't helping me, it'shurting me.
I want that to sink in once youreally understand this
principle, once you trulyunderstand this dynamic that I'm
laying out here for you, youwill start taking actions in
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your own life that benefit youand make it so.
That way you can start doingthings better.
You can start doing thingsbetter.
Sometimes it's as simple aswe're stuck.
We feel stuck and we don't knowhow to get out.
The only wrong thing to do inthat situation of getting stuck
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in a rut and not knowing how toget out is to continue doing the
same thing that you are doingnow.
You have to change something.
What that something is, youhave to decide.
It could be something tiny, andit can start compounding and
changing your life hugely.
You never know how those typeof things will play out for you,
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and once you start doinganything differently, it becomes
easier to do other thingsdifferently, and again it builds
on itself just like a muscle,just like discipline does, just
like anything else that happenswith it.
And so this is another, youknow, point of interest for
what's going on.
Imagine you were able tocompletely forgive everybody and
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everything that ever happenedto you.
Imagine you were able to makeit so.
That way you're able to forgiveyourself too.
You can't do that when you'rethinking about the past.
Maybe you can do it whileyou're thinking about the future
.
All my future self can do it,but why wouldn't you want to do
it now?
If you can do it now, whywouldn't you want to make it so?
That way you have that peace ofmind now, rather than wait and
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making it so that way, you haveto have something drastic come
along and change in your lifeand whatnot.
Some people that's what theyneed, unfortunately.
So I'm going to give sometechniques on how to deal with
worry and resentment and how tolive in the present moment a bit
more and that kind of stuff.
Or for some people who need totake maybe a different step of
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making it so that way they havebetter focus, that way they can
even be in the present momentmore.
In general, I'll go over someof that stuff too here.
So, very briefly, one questionI ask myself all the time is am
I being present?
By doing so, by asking thatquestion, I'm putting myself
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back into present state of being, because that is what that
question does in and of itselfand helps me to recenter For
those of you that are focusingon like worry and how to deal
with that and that kind of stuff.
I asked myself the question whatproblem do I have right now and
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what do I have to worry aboutright now?
Okay, so either I'm dealingwith that problem right, because
I'm doing the best I can andactually going actively after
fixing the problem, et cetera,which means there's not much for
me to worry about because I'mtaking care of the problem, or I
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can't do anything about thatproblem, so then I just need to
accept that it is somethingthat's there and deal with it in
that particular matter.
So the question is why do Ineed to worry?
Then it's either being dealtwith or I can't deal with it
because it's outside of mycontrol.
Either way, there's no need forworry.
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Easier said than done, I know.
I'm just trying to explain toyou how this thought process
works, and when you build a bigenough muscle up for it, it
becomes easier, of course.
The other one, of course, is howdo we make it so that way we
deal with we have focus issuesto where we can't even get into
the present moment.
Like some people, you know,maybe they want to meditate,
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which is a great way of gettingus into the present moment, and
really like clearing our mindand helping debug our brain for
a little bit and that kind ofstuff.
But we can't even focus longenough to make that happen.
Well, instead of focusinginternally, focus on something
external.
If you take a coin, say like aquarter, and you put it at eye
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level and you make it so thatway, you try to push the edge of
the coin with your mind.
What will happen is that if youdo this for, say, 15 minutes a
day every day for weeks ormonths, your attention span will
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start going back up.
You are making it so.
That way your right reticularformation, which is part of your
brain that has to do with focus, is being used again and making
it so it gets stronger and thenit'll make it so.
That way you're able to commitmore to the present moment and
focus more on it whenever theopportunity arises for you.
So that's something else thatcan be done in this particular
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instance as well.
Forgiving the past sometimes canbe difficult for people.
The question I ask them andmyself, whenever I find myself
not adhering to living in thepresent moment, because I fall
out of it too sometimes and Ineed to remind myself to get
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back into it is what benefitdoes this give me Thinking about
whatever it is that I'mthinking about.
I'll give examples.
If you resent rich people, howare you ever going to become
rich?
If you resent successful people, how are you ever going to
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become successful?
You don't want to resentyourself.
At least most of us don't.
So because of that, makesgetting to that goal much more
difficult.
I want you to imagine yourworries, your doubts, your
baggage, whatever it is, asliteral luggage, literal baggage
that we're carrying, and youknow we're all going to the same
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destination in the end, whichis death and that kind of thing
with it, and we're on thisjourney called life, and we're
in this airport and we're allgoing on the same plane and
we're all taking the stuff withit.
But on the way to the plane andon the way to traveling to
where we all end up, some of usare carrying so much with us.
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Some of us are, you know,literally have cartfuls and
cartfuls of baggage that we havethat we're struggling to do
anything with that.
If we just put it down, itwould make our life easier,
whereas others are only carryinga briefcase or a day pack or
whatever, and so they'recarrying just enough to make it
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so that way.
It's important to them Enoughto get by and pull from whatever
they need from it, but notenough to make it so.
That way they can't enjoy life.
I've brought this up before, butI think it's a very pertinent
example.
If I'm driving a car, I don'tneed to know how to drive a car
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at any other time except whenI'm doing it, and, honestly, I
don't need to know how to drivea car at any other time except
when I'm doing it, and, honestly, I don't even think about
driving, unless I'm thinkingabout a trip that I'm going on
and planning for it, or if I'mactually driving.
In and of itself, it's a toolthat we use whenever we need to
use that tool.
The issue is, we use the toolin the wrong way, whenever we
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don't necessarily need it, andso one of the biggest ways I've
discovered to determine whetherI have any control over my mind,
my thoughts whatsoever, is tomake it so.
That way I hold one consecutivethought in my mind for 15
seconds without it beinginterrupted by something else.
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If I can't do that, I have zerocontrol over my mind at that
moment, and it's in control ofme.
And so for those of you thatmight struggle with this, which
will be most of us in our modernera, since our attention spans
are eight seconds or less, whichmeans we can't even hold a
thought for eight seconds orless.
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My suggestion is to stoplistening to this podcast.
Go and try to make it so thatway you do that for 15 seconds
and if you can't, then figureout whatever the greatest moment
in your life was, the one thatbrought you the most joy, and
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see if you can't hold that for15 seconds.
And if you can't hold that for15 seconds, you have zero
control over your mind, andthat's what being in the present
moment is.
It's being in control of yourmind.
To make it so that way you canlive here in the now, rather
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than holding on to theresentment, holding on to the
issues of our past or to ourprojection onto the future of
all of our worries, fears anddoubts and anxieties.
Anyway, this is what thisepisode's about.
This is the importance of it.
It needs to be so that way wecan live life to the fullest.
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Making it so that way we arehappier beings and whatnot, that
we're more joyful beings andthat we don't dump our fears
onto other people, either fromprojecting onto the future or
from bringing stuff thathappened to us in the past onto
other people as well.
Inevitably, we're all going todo it to a certain extent.
The point is to mitigate it asmuch as possible until we've
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completely overcome ouranxieties, worries, fears,
doubts, resentments, our anger,our hatred, and making it so
that way we live more beautiful,lighthearted, joyful and
inspired lives.
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