July 2, 2024 • 25 mins
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Can living in the present moment truly transform your life? On this thought-provoking episode of the Forbidden Knowledge Podcast, we embark on the Initiate's journey to uncover the deep significance of embracing the now. I share compelling examples from childhood play, intimate connections, and the transcendent power of music and dance to illustrate how being fully present can bring peace and a mini-reset for the self. By shedding preconceived notions and past programming, you can experience a richer, more emotionally authentic life.
We'll also explore the power of chanting and repetitive sounds from various traditions as tools to focus the mind and achieve a state of 'no mind,' where thoughts are minimal and clarity is maximized. Confront the "monkey mind" and unlock the stillness within to gain meta-awareness and make meaningful changes in your life. Learn why acceptance and letting go of control are crucial for living in the moment and how this practice can significantly enhance your overall well-being. Tune in to discover how living in the present can pave the way for personal growth and a more fulfilling life.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome to the Forbidden Knowledge Podcast.
My name is Nathaniel Hoitmacherand I will be your host Today.
We'll be continuing on with theInitiate's journey and we will
be doing Episode 2 of Living inthe Present Moment and why it is
important, how to do so,benefits of doing so, how to
(00:20):
know whether you're in it or not.
Thank you.
(01:17):
Living in the present momentmeans that you have to commit to
that moment, you have to becompletely open and vulnerable
to it, you have to allow it intoyourself and whatnot.
And in order to do this, youhave to become like an empty
vessel to a certain extent anddrop your preconceived notions
(01:40):
about what's going on in thepresent moment, what your
expectations are, and making itso that way, you have a mini
taste of death, if you will,when it comes into this.
And what I mean by this is thatthe pre-programming that you
have based upon the things thathave happened into your past, to
(02:02):
you in your past, excuse,excuse me make it so that way,
all that is dropped completelyand you have a potential for
something new to come into beingfrom this.
You might be thinking what thehell are you talking about here?
To a certain extent.
(02:22):
And well, we all have hadmoments like this for what's
going on.
We can do this, especially whenwe're kids and we're playing
games and whatnot.
We talk about how the timeflies and doesn't feel like it's
even been, whatever the amountof time that it is with it.
You know, when we're havingloads of fun doing something,
that's because we're committingto that moment.
We're enjoying the moment,we're doing everything we can to
(02:43):
partake and participate in thatmoment, rather than running
away from it, rather than tryingto control what's going to be
happening with it.
We're just along for the ride,uh, and and that's important to
a certain extent, for what'shappening.
This is what happens when, um,you make it so that way, you
know you have sex with partnerand whatnot, someone you care
(03:07):
about and love, and then theorgasm that comes from that and
that particular moment, theamount of pleasure that comes
from that, and the commitmentthat it takes to get to that
level of things with it andletting it consume you and take
over, makes it so that way.
Everything else just disappearsfor that particular instance,
for what's going on, and bydoing so it makes it so.
(03:32):
That way you are completelycommitted to that moment, and so
commitment to that moment,commitment to what's going on,
to making sure that youunderstand and have everything
around you and whatnot, is whatallows you to be in the present
moment, and it makes it so thatway your sense of self dies
(03:55):
temporarily and you kind of getthis mini reset that's inside of
you by doing so and you canbring in something that you know
in the Eastern traditions theymight call no mind, where there
are no real thoughts present.
Remember how last time I showedyou that where thoughts come
(04:17):
from is from our own memory bankand therefore it comes
literally from the past, andwe're using that to project onto
the future.
But if you have no mind, if youhave to, where the space in
between thoughts you make it sothat way you have a much more
capacity to just be in thepresence of life, to experience
(04:42):
it deeply, to make it so thatway you feel emotions that you
maybe you haven't felt before,or have thoughts that you
haven't, uh, felt before, oreven just to be at peace instead
, and making it so that way, allthe struggles that you melt
away from you and whatnot.
(05:06):
This is the importance of it.
It makes it so that way we areno longer controlled by our past
, we are no longer thinkingabout our futures and all the
fears and worries and doubts andanxiety that might come from
(05:27):
that, when we are truly in thehere and now.
It makes it so that way wearen't fighting life and instead
are living in tune with it andto our own needs and just having
a blast and a lot of sense withit, or peace and some sort of
(05:51):
serenity maybe, or whatever itis that's going on at that
particular moment.
Sometimes it can be even anegative emotion that you're
feeling, but you're committingto it and you're allowing it to
actually be felt and to deeplysit with it, rather than to make
it so.
That way you kind of gloss overit, and so the autopilot that
(06:13):
we have that runs in our mindmost of the time, that makes us
that way.
We're not actually living, isactually living.
This is when we live our life.
This is when we, you know, feelpassionate about something,
something with, with, like music, and we get dancing, dancing
and hearing it and get consumedby it and get into this rhythmic
(06:36):
state, uh, and and whatnot, andit puts our mind into a
different space than it normallyis and we get to make it so.
That way we see thingsdifferently or that it's not
really there and we're just kindof in this rhythmic state that
we get into and it's acompletely different style of
(06:59):
being.
And we don't do this oftenenough with ourselves.
We get trapped in kind of theleft brain prison of logical,
linear thinking too much, andthis imbalance in our life, at
least for most of us.
So some people are too much inthe present moment and don't
(07:19):
have enough of the other sidehere with it, but in this
instance it's we're talkingabout living in the present
moment, so that's what I'm goingto be focusing on.
You know, it makes it so.
That way we get to understandthings that we normally don't
understand, and we have thissilent partner that's kind of
(07:42):
there all the time with it thatwe can pull from, and that's
what's amazing about it.
You know, we have two parts ofour brain technically three we
have that are major parts andwhatnot.
But we have the left side withthe right side.
We have other aspects to it, ofcourse, and whatnot, and this
(08:04):
is an oversimplification.
I'm not trying to make thisabout neuroscience or whatever
the deal is, but it's like wehave two personalities inside of
us, two different people evenone that thinks linearly, one
that's wants to put the orderinto everything, have
explanations for everything withit, and the other one that's
intuitive, that's creative, thatgives you the insights that you
(08:26):
have with it, and what we'retrying to do is we're trying to
tap in more into the secondarymode, because most of us are
almost always in this primarymode of thinking linearly
thinking where we're doing withour analytical mind and because
we've been trained to do sosince birth by our education
(08:49):
system and, you know, thinkingrationally and all these other
things that are going on with itthat they want us to do, and
this makes it so.
That way we are able to livemore as holistic beings, by
being able to switch modalitieswhenever we need to, because on
(09:18):
the one side of things is, it islike our conscious mind, and
the other side is ourunconscious and everything that
we've ever consumed, things thathave nothing to do with us as
an individual, even some of ithaving to do with primal, deep
seated, you know, things thatare true of all human beings,
and insights that are true ofall times, and and insights that
are true of all times andplaces that come into being from
it, that we can use and callupon and help us become what we
(09:44):
want to become or go after agoal that we want to go after.
We need both sides tocomplement one another and not
be in a fighting one another allthe time with it.
This is the point of being ableto be in a fighting one another
all the time with it.
This is the point of being ableto be in the present moment.
This is also the point of beingable to control your mind well
enough to be able to get to thisstate and make it so.
(10:05):
That way you can even bring inno mind we talked about before.
Making it so that way, you haveto where you can control your
mind for 15 seconds, and if youcan't do that, then you don't
have control over your mind.
Your mind controls you, and youare in a state of being to
where you literally are justletting the programming, meaning
(10:28):
the thoughts that are the mostpowerful, the habits that are
ingrained into you, dictate yourlife.
You are not able to break freeof the patterns and
conditionings that have happenedto you, and the only way that
that can be done is by activelytrying to change and by actively
living in the present momentand coming up with new ways of
(10:49):
thinking than what you didbefore, because otherwise you're
just going to get the exactsame results.
And so too many people don'tunderstand the power that the
present moment has and theydon't fully appreciate it and
have gratitude towards it, andwe've been taught to kind of
(11:13):
ignore this other part ofourselves, and the western world
especially, and to only focuson external results and to only
focus on, you know, making it sothat way.
Everything is constructed insuch a way that it has to be
linear rather than cyclical, orfrom no time at all, and it
(11:39):
makes it so that way, with theseparticular notions and ideas
that are going on there, that weneed to throw some of them out
sometimes and make it so thatway we can, you know, get to the
hidden nuggets that are deeperinside of us, that are maybe
harder to find when we are onlyusing one part of ourselves.
(12:01):
Many cultures throughout timeand space have developed many
different techniques in order tohelp get people into the
present moment.
This goes back way before thereare written records of anything
for some of the stuff.
Other things are more, you know, closer to our time period, I
(12:22):
guess you could say, and whatnot?
We have meditation, which isancient and goes back far before
buddhism or hinduism oranything like that.
We have to wear rhythmicdancing and that kind of stuff.
You see this with, like theSufis, as a tradition that they
do in order to become closer toGod and their tradition.
(12:44):
We have it to wear.
Just dancing regularly here inthe, you know, in various
different parts of the Westernworld, even without a religious
context, puts us into thepresent moment.
It makes us similar.
We're enjoying ourselves more.
We have music.
Of course, same thing.
That's something that's alwaysbeen there, especially if it's
like a repeating type thing,that's a rhythmic thing, like a
(13:07):
drum beating over and over againor something like that makes us
that way.
It can put us in a differentstate of being that helps us be
here now rather than thinkingabout something else.
Of course, too, a lot of great,a lot of different traditions
use some form of chanting tomake that happen, make it so
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that way.
Again, it's a repetitive typeof chant or a repetitive type of
noise that's being done with itto put the mind, to be able to
focus on the one thing, toeventually get to where there is
no thing that you're focusingon at all.
So a lot of traditions make itso.
That way you have the one thingthat you focus on to get to the
nothing, on to get to thenothing, and only in the nothing
(13:53):
, only in the now, the thingthat exists in the now, can we
really get something out of lifeCan we really get something new
?
When we have an epiphany, whenwe have this light bulb moment
that you know, sometimes shownin cartoons or in movies or TV
shows or whatever.
When that happens to you,that's when you yourself have
(14:16):
had a thought that has occurred,that has springs up from this
well that I'm talking about andwhatnot, that pulls from the
unconscious that we can tap intoand make it so.
That way we have this intuitiveunderstanding of things and and
(14:38):
.
When we are vulnerable to thismoment, when we commit to it,
when we empty ourselves out ofthis stuff, that's when we can
touch the inexplicable much moreeasily.
For the initiate's journey,because they were going to have
(15:00):
to be able to go after and tryto understand a higher power
than themselves, as mentionedway back in the first couple of
episodes about how importanthaving the knowledge and
understanding that there issomething that is outside of our
control and that humanity isnot the highest power on this
(15:23):
planet or this plane ofexistence, and kind of trying to
conform to the dictates of that.
This is why shamanic journeyswere done by various different
people and various differenttime periods, in order to make
it so that way they couldcommune with the things around
them and live more in the momentand get answers and the unseen
(15:50):
planes of existence.
And that's what we're tappinginto whenever we live in the
present moment.
We're tapping into these unseenplanes of existence, these
areas that we don't have mappedout, because if we did, then we
would make it so that way it'sjust part of our regular daily
existence.
We wouldn't need to go try tolive in the present moment in
(16:12):
order to gain wisdom from it orto try to change ourselves or
whatever we hope to do by livingin the present moment more.
And this is something that maynot be easy for a lot of people.
Some people, living in thepresent moment is extremely
difficult.
A lot of people's minds runaround ragged inside of it, like
(16:40):
a chicken, with their head cutoff.
Uh, different traditions havehad different things that they
use as metaphors to explain that.
They call it the monkey mind incertain traditions and some
other ones.
It's the incessant noise that,like a rooster or a chicken,
makes the constant clucking andmoving around and all these
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other things that do with it.
It's this deep seated stillnessinside of us that we can pull
from and it is always there.
That's the important part aboutall this it's always there,
even if we ignore it, we canalways tap into it and it's kind
of like this room inside of ourmind that allows us to have
(17:26):
meta-awareness of what's goingon within ourselves and the
world around us and be able toreally it, so that way we can
truly see what's going on andtruly understand what's
happening and then be able tomake changes from there.
(17:49):
And that's what the real pointof all this is, at least, for
why I'm bringing it up is tomake it so.
That way we can learn how toget into this modality and how
to get into this room so we canactually actively take control
of our lives.
To make it so we can activelystart really changing things for
ourselves and do what needs tobe done to live the lives that
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we truly want to live, of course, when we're in there.
Live, of course, when we're inthere, when we're living in the
present moment.
It makes it so.
That way, nothing else matters.
The past is gone, the future isgone, it's just the here and
now and newsflash.
That's always the case.
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The only question is is how ourpresent moment is going to be
and what we choose to feel andwhat we choose to think during
this time period.
We can't ever escape thepresent moment.
It's always here with us.
The only thing we can do is tryto ignore it and make it so
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that way we don't commit to it,and by doing so, we make it so
that we cut ourselves off frompotentially the best aspects of
life.
By making it so that way, wefocus too much on things that
may not actually matter in anyway, shape or form.
I know for a fact for me thingsthat I worried about when I was
(19:21):
younger.
Most of it never happened.
Most of it never came true.
Most of it was completely andutterly nonsensical for what my
doubts were, for what my worrieswere, for what I was anxious
about and whatnot.
And eventually I even learnedto remove these particular
thought patterns within myselfthat were not benefiting me in
(19:45):
any way, shape or form, and totruly come to terms with the
fact that why should I worryabout stuff with it?
And we've you know I've broughtthis up before, but I'm going
to just bring it up again.
You know, if you're doing thebest that you can, and you've
literally done everything thatyou can in order to stop doing
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things and stop things that youdon't want from happening,
prevent them from happening,then you've done everything you
can and there's nothing else youcan do, and you need to let it
go, because that's whereacceptance comes from.
This is what living in thepresent moment is about.
It's about acceptance of whathas occurred.
We are not the controllers ofour fate.
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We can only influence it bymaking proper choices.
But there's other people thatmake other choices, that dictate
what happened to us as well,and we cannot dictate what
happens to them.
We cannot control thoseindividuals.
There's stuff that neither oneof us can control.
I mean either us as individualsor the people around us might
be able to influence certainthings as a group, collectively,
(20:52):
but we still can't controleverything with it.
We never will be able tocontrol everything with it.
And once we accept these thingswith it, it makes it easier to
live in the present moment.
It makes us so.
That way we are not letting ourprogramming get in the way
anywhere near as much.
And it makes it very difficultto actually not get what you
(21:14):
want out of life when you'reable to step into this room of
meta-awareness that I've talkedabout.
And so, wherever we put ourattention onto things.
Wherever we focus on, whateverwe make it so, that way, our
awareness is mainly put towards.
That is where things are goingto occur.
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You know, if we focus on thewrong things, we're going to get
the wrong results.
If we focus on the correctthings, we're going to get the
wrong results.
If we focus on the correctthings, we're going to get the
correct results.
So, anyway, I think that thishas been enough in terms of how
this episode is going to playout in terms of the present
moment.
Um, if there's any questions,you can leave it for me in the
(21:57):
comment sections on YouTube oryou can make it so that way you
go and reach out to me on, youknow, various other platforms
that I have to where you canjust talk to me.
You can even sign up for anemail address and send me an
email if you want variousdifferent techniques or various
different help on living in thepresent moment and that kind of
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thing with it.
I don't want to go and beatthis over the head too much with
it, mainly because you know thepoint is is to go out and
actually do it.
You know you're listening kindof to a description of, say,
like having a cheeseburger orsomething like that, rather than
actually eating thecheeseburger for yourself, and
I'd much rather have people goand do that than listen to me
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talk about what the presentmoment is and whatnot.
It's something that has to beexperienced directly, and it has
to be something that'sunderstood on an intimate level,
not something that can behanded to you.
Unfortunately, a lot of thingsare in life like this that you
have to experience directly inorder to fully understand it,
and that's the point of thepresent moment is to truly,
(23:09):
deeply experience life for whatit truly actually is, instead of
what our projections of what itis are, and that's a very
important thing that most peopledon't understand is the wisdom
that comes from making it so.
(23:31):
That way, you just live life tothe fullest by committing to
life, by committing to theradical acceptance of it and
being graced by the presence ofwhat's happening around you
right then and there, becausethere are no such thing as
ordinary moments, no matter howmuch your mind might try to
(23:54):
convince you that there is,there's always something
extraordinary going on, justthat we typically tune it out.
Thank you for listening to thispodcast episode.
I hope that you got somethingfrom it.
I look forward to seeing youall in the next episode.
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Please like and subscribecomment if you wish, and y'all
have a very great day, thank you.
Hello and welcome to the Forbidden Knowledge Podcast.
My name is Nathaniel Hoitmacherand I will be your host Today.
We'll be continuing on with theInitiate's journey and we will
be doing Episode 2 of Living inthe Present Moment and why it is
important, how to do so,benefits of doing so, how to
(00:20):
know whether you're in it or not.
Thank you.
(01:17):
Living in the present momentmeans that you have to commit to
that moment, you have to becompletely open and vulnerable
to it, you have to allow it intoyourself and whatnot.
And in order to do this, youhave to become like an empty
vessel to a certain extent anddrop your preconceived notions
(01:40):
about what's going on in thepresent moment, what your
expectations are, and making itso that way, you have a mini
taste of death, if you will,when it comes into this.
And what I mean by this is thatthe pre-programming that you
have based upon the things thathave happened into your past, to
(02:02):
you in your past, excuse,excuse me make it so that way,
all that is dropped completelyand you have a potential for
something new to come into beingfrom this.
You might be thinking what thehell are you talking about here?
To a certain extent.
(02:22):
And well, we all have hadmoments like this for what's
going on.
We can do this, especially whenwe're kids and we're playing
games and whatnot.
We talk about how the timeflies and doesn't feel like it's
even been, whatever the amountof time that it is with it.
You know, when we're havingloads of fun doing something,
that's because we're committingto that moment.
We're enjoying the moment,we're doing everything we can to
(02:43):
partake and participate in thatmoment, rather than running
away from it, rather than tryingto control what's going to be
happening with it.
We're just along for the ride,uh, and and that's important to
a certain extent, for what'shappening.
This is what happens when, um,you make it so that way, you
know you have sex with partnerand whatnot, someone you care
(03:07):
about and love, and then theorgasm that comes from that and
that particular moment, theamount of pleasure that comes
from that, and the commitmentthat it takes to get to that
level of things with it andletting it consume you and take
over, makes it so that way.
Everything else just disappearsfor that particular instance,
for what's going on, and bydoing so it makes it so.
(03:32):
That way you are completelycommitted to that moment, and so
commitment to that moment,commitment to what's going on,
to making sure that youunderstand and have everything
around you and whatnot, is whatallows you to be in the present
moment, and it makes it so thatway your sense of self dies
(03:55):
temporarily and you kind of getthis mini reset that's inside of
you by doing so and you canbring in something that you know
in the Eastern traditions theymight call no mind, where there
are no real thoughts present.
Remember how last time I showedyou that where thoughts come
(04:17):
from is from our own memory bankand therefore it comes
literally from the past, andwe're using that to project onto
the future.
But if you have no mind, if youhave to, where the space in
between thoughts you make it sothat way you have a much more
capacity to just be in thepresence of life, to experience
(04:42):
it deeply, to make it so thatway you feel emotions that you
maybe you haven't felt before,or have thoughts that you
haven't, uh, felt before, oreven just to be at peace instead
, and making it so that way, allthe struggles that you melt
away from you and whatnot.
(05:06):
This is the importance of it.
It makes it so that way we areno longer controlled by our past
, we are no longer thinkingabout our futures and all the
fears and worries and doubts andanxiety that might come from
(05:27):
that, when we are truly in thehere and now.
It makes it so that way wearen't fighting life and instead
are living in tune with it andto our own needs and just having
a blast and a lot of sense withit, or peace and some sort of
(05:51):
serenity maybe, or whatever itis that's going on at that
particular moment.
Sometimes it can be even anegative emotion that you're
feeling, but you're committingto it and you're allowing it to
actually be felt and to deeplysit with it, rather than to make
it so.
That way you kind of gloss overit, and so the autopilot that
(06:13):
we have that runs in our mindmost of the time, that makes us
that way.
We're not actually living, isactually living.
This is when we live our life.
This is when we, you know, feelpassionate about something,
something with, with, like music, and we get dancing, dancing
and hearing it and get consumedby it and get into this rhythmic
(06:36):
state, uh, and and whatnot, andit puts our mind into a
different space than it normallyis and we get to make it so.
That way we see thingsdifferently or that it's not
really there and we're just kindof in this rhythmic state that
we get into and it's acompletely different style of
(06:59):
being.
And we don't do this oftenenough with ourselves.
We get trapped in kind of theleft brain prison of logical,
linear thinking too much, andthis imbalance in our life, at
least for most of us.
So some people are too much inthe present moment and don't
(07:19):
have enough of the other sidehere with it, but in this
instance it's we're talkingabout living in the present
moment, so that's what I'm goingto be focusing on.
You know, it makes it so.
That way we get to understandthings that we normally don't
understand, and we have thissilent partner that's kind of
(07:42):
there all the time with it thatwe can pull from, and that's
what's amazing about it.
You know, we have two parts ofour brain technically three we
have that are major parts andwhatnot.
But we have the left side withthe right side.
We have other aspects to it, ofcourse, and whatnot, and this
(08:04):
is an oversimplification.
I'm not trying to make thisabout neuroscience or whatever
the deal is, but it's like wehave two personalities inside of
us, two different people evenone that thinks linearly, one
that's wants to put the orderinto everything, have
explanations for everything withit, and the other one that's
intuitive, that's creative, thatgives you the insights that you
(08:26):
have with it, and what we'retrying to do is we're trying to
tap in more into the secondarymode, because most of us are
almost always in this primarymode of thinking linearly
thinking where we're doing withour analytical mind and because
we've been trained to do sosince birth by our education
(08:49):
system and, you know, thinkingrationally and all these other
things that are going on with itthat they want us to do, and
this makes it so.
That way we are able to livemore as holistic beings, by
being able to switch modalitieswhenever we need to, because on
(09:18):
the one side of things is, it islike our conscious mind, and
the other side is ourunconscious and everything that
we've ever consumed, things thathave nothing to do with us as
an individual, even some of ithaving to do with primal, deep
seated, you know, things thatare true of all human beings,
and insights that are true ofall times, and and insights that
are true of all times andplaces that come into being from
it, that we can use and callupon and help us become what we
(09:44):
want to become or go after agoal that we want to go after.
We need both sides tocomplement one another and not
be in a fighting one another allthe time with it.
This is the point of being ableto be in a fighting one another
all the time with it.
This is the point of being ableto be in the present moment.
This is also the point of beingable to control your mind well
enough to be able to get to thisstate and make it so.
(10:05):
That way you can even bring inno mind we talked about before.
Making it so that way, you haveto where you can control your
mind for 15 seconds, and if youcan't do that, then you don't
have control over your mind.
Your mind controls you, and youare in a state of being to
where you literally are justletting the programming, meaning
(10:28):
the thoughts that are the mostpowerful, the habits that are
ingrained into you, dictate yourlife.
You are not able to break freeof the patterns and
conditionings that have happenedto you, and the only way that
that can be done is by activelytrying to change and by actively
living in the present momentand coming up with new ways of
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thinking than what you didbefore, because otherwise you're
just going to get the exactsame results.
And so too many people don'tunderstand the power that the
present moment has and theydon't fully appreciate it and
have gratitude towards it, andwe've been taught to kind of
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ignore this other part ofourselves, and the western world
especially, and to only focuson external results and to only
focus on, you know, making it sothat way.
Everything is constructed insuch a way that it has to be
linear rather than cyclical, orfrom no time at all, and it
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makes it so that way, with theseparticular notions and ideas
that are going on there, that weneed to throw some of them out
sometimes and make it so thatway we can, you know, get to the
hidden nuggets that are deeperinside of us, that are maybe
harder to find when we are onlyusing one part of ourselves.
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Many cultures throughout timeand space have developed many
different techniques in order tohelp get people into the
present moment.
This goes back way before thereare written records of anything
for some of the stuff.
Other things are more, you know, closer to our time period, I
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guess you could say, and whatnot?
We have meditation, which isancient and goes back far before
buddhism or hinduism oranything like that.
We have to wear rhythmicdancing and that kind of stuff.
You see this with, like theSufis, as a tradition that they
do in order to become closer toGod and their tradition.
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We have it to wear.
Just dancing regularly here inthe, you know, in various
different parts of the Westernworld, even without a religious
context, puts us into thepresent moment.
It makes us similar.
We're enjoying ourselves more.
We have music.
Of course, same thing.
That's something that's alwaysbeen there, especially if it's
like a repeating type thing,that's a rhythmic thing, like a
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drum beating over and over againor something like that makes us
that way.
It can put us in a differentstate of being that helps us be
here now rather than thinkingabout something else.
Of course, too, a lot of great,a lot of different traditions
use some form of chanting tomake that happen, make it so
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that way.
Again, it's a repetitive typeof chant or a repetitive type of
noise that's being done with itto put the mind, to be able to
focus on the one thing, toeventually get to where there is
no thing that you're focusingon at all.
So a lot of traditions make itso.
That way you have the one thingthat you focus on to get to the
nothing, on to get to thenothing, and only in the nothing
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, only in the now, the thingthat exists in the now, can we
really get something out of lifeCan we really get something new
?
When we have an epiphany, whenwe have this light bulb moment
that you know, sometimes shownin cartoons or in movies or TV
shows or whatever.
When that happens to you,that's when you yourself have
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had a thought that has occurred,that has springs up from this
well that I'm talking about andwhatnot, that pulls from the
unconscious that we can tap intoand make it so.
That way we have this intuitiveunderstanding of things and and
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.
When we are vulnerable to thismoment, when we commit to it,
when we empty ourselves out ofthis stuff, that's when we can
touch the inexplicable much moreeasily.
For the initiate's journey,because they were going to have
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to be able to go after and tryto understand a higher power
than themselves, as mentionedway back in the first couple of
episodes about how importanthaving the knowledge and
understanding that there issomething that is outside of our
control and that humanity isnot the highest power on this
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planet or this plane ofexistence, and kind of trying to
conform to the dictates of that.
This is why shamanic journeyswere done by various different
people and various differenttime periods, in order to make
it so that way they couldcommune with the things around
them and live more in the momentand get answers and the unseen
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planes of existence.
And that's what we're tappinginto whenever we live in the
present moment.
We're tapping into these unseenplanes of existence, these
areas that we don't have mappedout, because if we did, then we
would make it so that way it'sjust part of our regular daily
existence.
We wouldn't need to go try tolive in the present moment in
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order to gain wisdom from it orto try to change ourselves or
whatever we hope to do by livingin the present moment more.
And this is something that maynot be easy for a lot of people.
Some people, living in thepresent moment is extremely
difficult.
A lot of people's minds runaround ragged inside of it, like
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a chicken, with their head cutoff.
Uh, different traditions havehad different things that they
use as metaphors to explain that.
They call it the monkey mind incertain traditions and some
other ones.
It's the incessant noise that,like a rooster or a chicken,
makes the constant clucking andmoving around and all these
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other things that do with it.
It's this deep seated stillnessinside of us that we can pull
from and it is always there.
That's the important part aboutall this it's always there,
even if we ignore it, we canalways tap into it and it's kind
of like this room inside of ourmind that allows us to have
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meta-awareness of what's goingon within ourselves and the
world around us and be able toreally it, so that way we can
truly see what's going on andtruly understand what's
happening and then be able tomake changes from there.
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And that's what the real pointof all this is, at least, for
why I'm bringing it up is tomake it so.
That way we can learn how toget into this modality and how
to get into this room so we canactually actively take control
of our lives.
To make it so we can activelystart really changing things for
ourselves and do what needs tobe done to live the lives that
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we truly want to live, of course, when we're in there.
Live, of course, when we're inthere, when we're living in the
present moment.
It makes it so.
That way, nothing else matters.
The past is gone, the future isgone, it's just the here and
now and newsflash.
That's always the case.
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The only question is is how ourpresent moment is going to be
and what we choose to feel andwhat we choose to think during
this time period.
We can't ever escape thepresent moment.
It's always here with us.
The only thing we can do is tryto ignore it and make it so
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that way we don't commit to it,and by doing so, we make it so
that we cut ourselves off frompotentially the best aspects of
life.
By making it so that way, wefocus too much on things that
may not actually matter in anyway, shape or form.
I know for a fact for me thingsthat I worried about when I was
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younger.
Most of it never happened.
Most of it never came true.
Most of it was completely andutterly nonsensical for what my
doubts were, for what my worrieswere, for what I was anxious
about and whatnot.
And eventually I even learnedto remove these particular
thought patterns within myselfthat were not benefiting me in
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any way, shape or form, and totruly come to terms with the
fact that why should I worryabout stuff with it?
And we've you know I've broughtthis up before, but I'm going
to just bring it up again.
You know, if you're doing thebest that you can, and you've
literally done everything thatyou can in order to stop doing
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things and stop things that youdon't want from happening,
prevent them from happening,then you've done everything you
can and there's nothing else youcan do, and you need to let it
go, because that's whereacceptance comes from.
This is what living in thepresent moment is about.
It's about acceptance of whathas occurred.
We are not the controllers ofour fate.
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We can only influence it bymaking proper choices.
But there's other people thatmake other choices, that dictate
what happened to us as well,and we cannot dictate what
happens to them.
We cannot control thoseindividuals.
There's stuff that neither oneof us can control.
I mean either us as individualsor the people around us might
be able to influence certainthings as a group, collectively,
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but we still can't controleverything with it.
We never will be able tocontrol everything with it.
And once we accept these thingswith it, it makes it easier to
live in the present moment.
It makes us so.
That way we are not letting ourprogramming get in the way
anywhere near as much.
And it makes it very difficultto actually not get what you
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want out of life when you'reable to step into this room of
meta-awareness that I've talkedabout.
And so, wherever we put ourattention onto things.
Wherever we focus on, whateverwe make it so, that way, our
awareness is mainly put towards.
That is where things are goingto occur.
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You know, if we focus on thewrong things, we're going to get
the wrong results.
If we focus on the correctthings, we're going to get the
wrong results.
If we focus on the correctthings, we're going to get the
correct results.
So, anyway, I think that thishas been enough in terms of how
this episode is going to playout in terms of the present
moment.
Um, if there's any questions,you can leave it for me in the
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comment sections on YouTube oryou can make it so that way you
go and reach out to me on, youknow, various other platforms
that I have to where you canjust talk to me.
You can even sign up for anemail address and send me an
email if you want variousdifferent techniques or various
different help on living in thepresent moment and that kind of
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thing with it.
I don't want to go and beatthis over the head too much with
it, mainly because you know thepoint is is to go out and
actually do it.
You know you're listening kindof to a description of, say,
like having a cheeseburger orsomething like that, rather than
actually eating thecheeseburger for yourself, and
I'd much rather have people goand do that than listen to me
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talk about what the presentmoment is and whatnot.
It's something that has to beexperienced directly, and it has
to be something that'sunderstood on an intimate level,
not something that can behanded to you.
Unfortunately, a lot of thingsare in life like this that you
have to experience directly inorder to fully understand it,
and that's the point of thepresent moment is to truly,
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deeply experience life for whatit truly actually is, instead of
what our projections of what itis are, and that's a very
important thing that most peopledon't understand is the wisdom
that comes from making it so.
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That way, you just live life tothe fullest by committing to
life, by committing to theradical acceptance of it and
being graced by the presence ofwhat's happening around you
right then and there, becausethere are no such thing as
ordinary moments, no matter howmuch your mind might try to
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convince you that there is,there's always something
extraordinary going on, justthat we typically tune it out.
Thank you for listening to thispodcast episode.
I hope that you got somethingfrom it.
I look forward to seeing youall in the next episode.
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Please like and subscribecomment if you wish, and y'all
have a very great day, thank you.
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