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survival mode is supposed to be a phase that
helps save your life.
It is not meant to be how youlive, and I want to welcome you
back to a walk away Wednesdaywhere I hope you have your boots
on and are ready to walk awayfrom survival mode and enter
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into the phase of living, ofthriving.
Yes, come on in and let'sconversate about it, shall we?
And I want to welcome you backto Free, to Just Be the podcast
empowering humanity tocourageously because it takes a
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lot of damn courage to step outof old patterns and all the
matrix programs and give a bigold hug to brand new ways of
being.
And I hope this finds you inthe greatest health, with
vibrant energy today, becauseyou have chosen to accept full
responsibility starts by beingauthentic and transparent and
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brutally honest, especially,especially with yourself, which
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ushers in freedom, and then wecan be aligned with our highest
potentials.
So, once you join me, teresaMarie, your ambassador of chi
and what's chi?
That intrinsic energy thatflows in you and me Join me on
this transformative journey torewrite our narratives and live
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lives of purpose and passion.
Whoop, whoop, it is a walk awayWednesday and I am so happy
that you have decided to honorme with a little bit of your
time today.
I'm so, so grateful, and I justwant nothing more than to bring
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some value to your life.
So, again, thank you forjoining, and if you would be so
kind to just pause for a momentand hit the like button, that
would really help raise thealgorithms.
And then we can be seen byothers and we want to wake the
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world up, don't we?
Don't?
We want to be in a place where,together, we are progressing,
where we are literally becomingmore and more of our true selves
.
Absolutely, I don't know aboutyou, but that's what I want to
do.
So this week we've been talkingabout this week we've been
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talking about what happens whenyou fall off a cliff.
Now I've used the example of myfifth time realizing that I was
involved in an erroneousorganization and the lessons
thereof, and I'm going to referback to my particular situation
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in regards to survival mode.
However, we all seem to live insurvival mode.
If you're not sure what I'mtalking about in survival mode,
let me just refresh your memory.
So you get a major, huge blow.
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Maybe you discover yoursignificant other or your spouse
is cheating, or maybe you havean incredible, daunting
financial setback, maybe youhave abuse on your job, maybe
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you are experiencing a majorhealth issue, but, whatever it
is, it has hit you so hard thatyou go into what we're going to
discuss as our autopilot ofsurvival mode.
Survival mode is very, veryprevalent today.
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I want you to think about howmany advertisements, how many
people, how many podcasts, howmany commercials that you're now
seeing about cortisol, andcortisol is the stress hormone,
and I'm not going to try to eventouch the scientific parts of
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cortisol poisoning or highlevels of cortisol, but we are
literally, especially in theWestern world.
We tend to all seem to have waytoo much cortisol in our life.
Thus we have bloating andinflammation and all these other
maladies that revolve around anincrease in a hormone that
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really is just supposed to beutilized in fight and flight
situations.
And back in the day, I justpicture the cavemen all right,
and there were no guns.
They had rocks, right, andmaybe they were making some very
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basic weapons, and they meet abear or a lion or whatever.
Now you're talking major andmighty fight and flight mode, or
what about those that lived inseverely cold environments like
Alaska?
And when that cold comes, yourbody physiologically goes into
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fight or flight.
We're going to survive.
Okay, we're not there anymore.
We have every comfort availableto us.
We have so much comfort that weare fat and lazy here in the
Western world and we are soaddicted to comfort and to
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convenience and to getting ourway immediately.
It's the microwave concept wewant.
Our dopamine hits over and overagain right now, right now,
right now, we have become a veryimpatient, bloated, impatient,
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bloated want and want it.
Now, society, and because ofthat, everything has shifted.
And now what we're seeing isthe effects of years of this
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matrix programming, ofinstantaneous dopamine.
Right, because our bodies arefreaking, wore out, our bodies
are so tense all the time, ourbodies are not able to fully
relax anymore.
We, we are going and we werepushing the grind way past the
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yin cycle of the day.
We ignore the seridian rhythmsof our body and it's taken a
toll on us.
Thus, we see all these adsabout cortisol, which, of course
, if you're not aware of thematrix, the matrix creates
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problems so that they can comein and rescue us from the
problems, and of course, thatall revolves around creating a
need, supplying the necessaryproduct to get out of the need,
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and of course, it's all, always,always, always about money, and
that is the matrix.
The matrix thinks that it is incontrol of everyone, and there
it is the vice of pride, and itsmain goal has never been to
help people.
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Its main goal is to keep themoney machine moving, moving the
money into their pockets sothat they can live lives of
luxury while the rest of thepopulation suffers.
So again, if you don't feel likeyou fit into this picture, I'm
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going to ask if you have these10 signs that you might be
living in survival mode.
Number one you're experiencingchronic fatigue.
In other words, even if you getto sleep over six hours, you
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never feel like you're rested.
You are chronically tired.
You just feel like you have nooomph in life.
Two you lack focus andconcentration.
If you were A getter doneperson, you're getting jacked on
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now.
Number three you find yourselfreacting to everything.
And guess what, folks, if wejust took that one little iota
of the 10 signs, that'shappening everywhere.
People are pushing the buttonsand others are knee-jerk
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reacting because all of ourtriggers, everything is being
revealed by the illumination oflove and light pouring onto the
planet right now.
So people are reacting toeverything.
Four you're not taking care ofyour basic needs.
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I want you to just look aroundwhere you're at right now.
Maybe you're in your car.
Is your car a nightmare rightnow?
Is your car full of trash?
Has it not been vacuumed in agood amount of time?
Are you in your home a goodamount of time?
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Are you in your home?
Is your home free to walk in?
Maybe your survival skill is tojust shut down the basics of
life and you're living amongst atrash heap and they I love the
proverbial quote unquote theysay that your outer world is a
reflection of your inner world.
Well, that'll take us right intonumber five.
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If your outer world is anightmare right now, it may be
because, number five, you'reconstantly feeling overwhelmed.
Oh, we could do a whole week'sworth of show on overwhelm, and
I have actually done shows onoverwhelm and how we get over
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being overwhelmed.
Number six you don't feelmotivated or inspired Big big
thing here, because when we putall of our energy towards
surviving, we shut down the goodstuff.
Number six oh, excuse me,number seven, you have trouble
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remembering things.
Oh, did I just forget toremember what number I was on?
Ooh, okay, so just be checkingoff the boxes.
If any of these sounds like you, you may be living in survival
mode, and this is not a dirtyword.
This is something that ishappening all around us and to
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us, is happening all around usand to us, so it is worthy of a
conversation, so that maybe wecan walk ourselves hand in hand
out of it.
Number eight everything tends toirritate you.
Oh, buddy, when you're sofocused on just surviving
getting home to your house atthe end of the day, surviving
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getting home to your house atthe end of the day then anything
that is off the track of thatoh, you just got another
assignment put on your desk andit's four o'clock.
Holy shit, I have to stay latenow.
Everything, everythingirritates you.
It's, it's is poking you likeyou were a voodoo doll or
something right.
Number nine you're dealing withphysical health issues joints
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hurt, bloating in your belly,headaches, not being able to
sleep, no desire to move yourbody, depression.
And, number 10, we'll just putthem all in one pile and say you
may be living in survival modeif you feel like a shell of the
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person you used to be, but thatone that one has got a little
bit extra to it, because thetruth is, all of us are
beginning to feel like shells ofthe people we used to be.
Why is this?
Because we are evolving out ofthat shell, kind of like the
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caterpillar, that goes into thatcocoon and then willingly and I
emphasize, willingly, because acaterpillar, without even
realizing it, just automatically, on autopilot, knows that
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they're going to get in thatcocoon and they're going to let
their insides turn to liquid.
Have you ever been there?
Have you ever?
Oh, yes, let's, let's just talkabout the grossness right out
the gates.
Have you ever been somewherevery inconvenient and your
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stomach goes to liquid?
You know what I'm talking about.
Oh, buddy, one day maybe maybenot today, but one day I'm going
to talk about several of thoseepisodes where, if you don't
have a bathroom, it's going tobe, it's going to be messy and
it's going to be stinky and it'sgoing to be bad and it's going
to be bad, and we're talkingprobably the most embarrassing
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situation of your life, right?
Well, that is exactly what it'slike to go through this
evolutionary journey.
On certain days, certain days,you will feel like you are
literally being hammered down sothat your insides are
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completely liquid, just like thecaterpillar.
Now the caterpillar realizesthat, oh baby, it's time I'm
getting in here and I'm going tolet this thing rip and I'm
going to go through thisabsolute uncomfortable situation
.
But I know, on the other end,I'm going to go through this
absolute uncomfortable situation, but I know, on the other end,
I'm going to come out like thisbeautiful monarch butterfly, and
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that's great for the butterfly.
But when you're in the crucibleand you feel like you're living
in survival mode, the lastthing you're thinking about is
freaking flutterbys.
Right, you are thinking abouthow the hell do I get out of
this and when is it going tostop?
Have you ever said to yourselfstop the world, I want to get
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off.
Hello, I think everybodylistening has at least thought
that, if not verbally spoken outof their mouth, at least once,
right, and if not, you're stillprobably very young and, oh baby
, enjoy every moment.
So today I want to talk aboutwhat it's like when you have
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derailed yourself.
Okay, you're going down a pathand maybe you are down the pike,
going down a path, and maybeyou are down the pike of
ascension, of transformation,and a lot of things in your life
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have already been taken care of.
You have recognized about beingthe observer and you're
beginning to wake up to theprograms and the false beliefs.
And you've had a good stretchand suddenly you have one of
those blows that literallyderails you and you are kicked
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back.
Kicked back from the path.
You have fallen on your ass andyou feel like your stomach is
liquid.
Okay, picture that in your mind.
You know those moments Well.
I want you to think about whatit is you do.
What is your go-to?
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What is your go-to when you getknocked off your path?
Do you reach for alcohol Ifyou've had a terrible day and
somebody kicked you in thestomach?
Do you rush home and get PJs onand veg out on Netflix?
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Do you allow yourself to gothrough the drive-thru and get a
double whopper?
Do you call your two bestiesand spend an hour each
complaining about the kick inthe stomach that you just got?
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Because you see, all of us havethese survival techniques when
we get hit with a blow.
We all have these certainhabits, these knee-jerk
reactions that, if you areobservant, if you are aware, if
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you have your little mini-meover your right shoulder we've
talked about this in pastepisodes and if you have gotten
really good at saying, what thehell are you doing down there,
teresa Marie, oh, oh.
I've seen this survival modebefore.
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I wonder where it's coming from, what trigger has been hit?
But if you're not, then youcould spin out for a week a
month or you could be like thosepeople who now have massive
health issues because theyhaven't taken the time to be
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uber conscious of themselves.
The very, very, very first wayof beginning to live out of
survival mode is to become astudent of thyself.
You need to know who you areinside and out.
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Nobody knows you like youexcept God, knows you like you
except God.
And as we begin to wake up andbecome more aware, we begin to
start seeing our programs, ourfalse beliefs, our survival
modes.
And once you know, a lot oftimes it's hindsight.
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Kind of like myself, this lasttime's it's taken me.
I am going into my.
Let's see this.
This friday will be five weekssince I returned home from
florida, from my floridaescapade, my florida episode, my
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florida wake-up call, whateveryou want to call it.
Six, no, five weeks.
Five weeks Now was all fiveweeks in survival mode?
No, was I more aware of livingin survival mode?
Absolutely I was.
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And consciousness, well, thistime it was just like
immediately, immediately, assoon as I hit the road, I knew
that there was going to be whatI would call downtime, where I
was going to have to recalibrate, where I was going to have to
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pick myself up from being kickedin the stomach and feeling like
my belly went to liquid.
Okay, so there's someself-doctoring, so to speak, and
the way that I chose to do itthis time was the first five
days from the moment I leftFlorida.
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I knew that I was going to givemyself five whole days of what?
Of no training of any sort,except, of course, my Lotus
Rising movements.
And yes, that is where I'mheading, with my Qigong
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movements, my moving meditationsthat I have been doing on a
daily basis for four years.
That has come with me out ofthis last four years and I will
ever continue to do thesemovements.
But I have disassociated myselffrom anything to do with that
organization and anything to dowith Tai Chi Gong, and I now am
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an instructor using a sessioncalled Lotus Rising, and it's a
beautiful, beautiful way to live.
But anything else besides mymorning routine, my morning
sadhanas, my meditation, my timewith God, the books I read,
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that was it.
I slept nine hours a day.
I enjoyed my husband.
I walked around my property, Isucked up the love of my fur
babies that I had been apartfrom for 22 months.
I got to know my husband Prettymuch.
That was it.
We just huddled down, kind oflike what you do in a storm you
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can't go out, so you huddle down, and I knew that that's exactly
what I was doing.
Retreat Do you ever retreat whenthings get bad, when you are
living in survival mode?
Retreat from social activity,retreat from answering text?
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Have you ever been the ghoster?
Oh, it's so easy for us to sayoh well, why did you ghost me?
You know, because I can chooseto Do.
You know, I'm going to datemyself.
But there was a day and age Iknow some of you might not know
this, but there was a day andage where we didn't have cell
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phones at all and our phoneswere attached to the wall in our
house by wires, house by wires.
And then there came a day wherevoice recording machines came
out, and so first it used to bethe phone would ring and if you
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choose or you choose, you choseto answer it you could go say
hello, or the phone would justring and then somebody would
either try you again or theywould do the very natural thing
back in the day of maybe comingto visit you and ring your bell
or knock on your door.
This is unheard of.
That's like a danger stranger'syou know safety thing.
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Now, if somebody knocks on yourdoor, you're like who's there,
who's at my door?
Which is absolutely crazy to me.
But going back to the phone, wecould also get a um recording
machine and we could leave avoicemail and even then we had a
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choice as to whether we wouldlisten to the voicemail and
return the phone call.
We had choice.
Now we have phones or iPads orwhatever.
The other modality is that youhave that has us hooked up to
satellites so that we can talkto anybody around the world and
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there's no escape.
And immediately, if you try toescape, you turn off your phone.
You leave your phone in yourcar.
People are immediately sayingwhy are you ghosting me?
You know, I know you have yourphone on you.
I know you can read my text.
Well, that might be the firstthing that you do F the world.
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I am not reaching out orreaching back to anybody.
And all the other vices come inat this point.
Maybe if you smoke cigarettes,maybe you're going to go into a
chain smoking session.
You're going to think so muchand you're going to be so
overwhelmed that you're going tobe so overwhelmed that you're
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going to go out on the porch and, one after the other, you're
going to light them up.
Been there, done that.
I'm very grateful.
I don't do that anymore, butthat was one of my survival
skills, which is really not asurvival skills.
It's more like a kill skill.
Right, you may also abuse food.
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That was one of my go-tos.
It may be food in excess, or itmay be foods that you know are
not good for your body, because,for some weird reason in the
21st century, when we go intosurvival mode, we have been
trained, like Pavlov's dogs, todo self-harm.
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What You're saying what?
Oh yes, oh yes.
Do you think sitting staring ata TV screen for eight-hour
marathons on the weekend becauseyou don't want to face life
isn't detrimental to everythingabout you?
Think again.
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If you don't think eatinghorrible food and making
yourself sick isn't self-abuse,think again.
If you don't think cutting backfrom any kind of socialization,
well, think about it Back whenhomeschooling first came out,
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and these are all things thatput little kernels into your
hopper for you to mull themaround.
Hop them around your mind andyour heart and your spirit and
your soul.
Ponder them, because they willguide you back home, which is
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where we need to go is back hometo who we are.
But all of those things, theself-abuse things that we do,
are really ways for us toself-destruct, and that is a
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marketing ploy of the Matrix aswell.
Oh yeah, back in the day we usedto see nicotine and alcohol
commercials all the time.
We used to see actors andactresses smoking and drinking
because they wanted to dress itup like it was the cat's meow to
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do.
And guess what?
All of us dogs followed Pavlovand did so.
And we became families and yes,my family is one of them that
would drink alcohol at an event.
We would drink alcohol becausethe day at work finished.
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We drank alcohol because it wasFriday.
We smoked pot because thishappened or that happened, or
we're tired or we're lonely orpick what it is.
I'm so sorry I need to turn myphone off before I start
podcasting, but I didn't to turnmy phone off before I start
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podcasting.
But I didn't because maybe Ihad trouble remembering things,
because maybe this survival modeis a program that runs so deep.
So now let's get back home towhat we're going to do.
What we're going to do withthis survival mode, we got the
picture of how it's a knee-jerkreaction.
We get a blow to our life andwe immediately go into survival
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mode, right, which, I'mreminding you, is supposed to be
a phase that helps save yourlife, not something that you and
I create to survive no longerserve us when it's time to
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thrive.
Now, I just shared with youthat I took five days on the
front end after my blow.
Now what the crap has happened.
I had a whole nother month.
Oh yeah, teresa Marie was livingin survival mode.
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I was still spinning, I wasstill looking at the sites and
platforms that caused my demise.
I was wondering about thepeople.
I was praying for the people.
I wondered what other peoplethought which, oh buddy, that is
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a big, big, big tactic of thematrix.
Let's take the focus off of youand worry about everybody else.
Wrong move, wrong move.
All those things were stillhappening.
Right, these are habits that Ideveloped.
Now, a lot of the times itwould happen.
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And then it was the hindsightlike oh wow, I am really
procrastinating.
Here, I found myself scrollinga lot more than I normally did.
Why?
Because I just didn't want tothink about it, I didn't want to
deal with it.
I wanted to walk in my garden,which is part of the reason that
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I am able to do this show today, because I began to walk myself
back to life.
I began to spend more timeoutside and at first I was
bombarded with all the survivalmode thinking what if I made a
mistake again?
What if I'm the fool andeverybody else was right?
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What if my kids think I'm anidiot?
What if, what if, what if I hadto go there?
That's the knee-jerk reaction.
And then, little by little, asI'm walking the property, as I
have my hands in the dirt oh, Iam so incredibly grateful to be
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back on my eight acres, back ongarden duty.
Oh, there's lots of work.
My dear husband, he did a lotof inner work and the outside
maintenance was never his thing,that was my thing, and he let a
lot of it go.
And so I am in reclamation mode, I am in cleanup mode, I am
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reclaiming all of my garden beds, I am reclaiming the yard that
I love so dearly.
Right, and as I walked and justlet everything go and just
focused on Mother Nature,focused on petting my animals.
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All of a sudden I startedthinking about wow, it's really
time to get it moving.
You know, and that is thebiggest, this is the biggest
takeaway for today's show.
Not only does the darkness, akathe matrix, want to literally
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fill up all of your time withnonsense right Any screen time.
If you are not in control ofyour screen time, it is in
control of you and it isnonsensical, time-wasting
distraction.
That is the matrix main goal.
But then, if you wake up to it,then the matrix next tactic is
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to keep you in this survivalmode a little bit longer and
eventually we habits.
If you want to stay in survivalmode, keep replicating the same
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habits.
You know what it is.
Keep doing the same thing overand over again, expecting a
different result.
Is the definition of what.
Come on, you know it, say it,let's say it together Insanity.
And we are not insane in themembrane.
We are not.
We are brothers and sisters ofthe light.
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We are sparks of the creatorGod, and we were destined for
greatness.
We are here with individualpurpose.
We are here to bring each otherback home to that love and
light of God that we are.
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And if you haven't figured thatout yet, then your awakening
journey is just beginning andyou may be completely in
survival mode.
So new habits, new life.
I want you to think for a secondabout how you and I in
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Humanityville probably allalready have PhDs in survival
mode skills.
Now I'm not talking preppersurvival skills, where you know
you learn how to make a fire inthe rain and you have water
purification kits and you have abug out bag, although those are
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very good survival skills and Ihighly suggest you do those as
well.
I'm talking about the way wementally, emotionally and
physically deal with our stress.
And if you want to live a longlife I don't know about you, but
at 64, my minimum minimum is 50more years.
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That's my minimum baseline,right, but if I want that, bad
enough then I need to take thatPhD in survival mode.
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If you want to hang it on awall and say, yep, been there,
done that.
Or maybe you're a t-shirt galor guy and now it's time to say
got the t-shirt, it's going togoodwill, been there, done that,
it's time to move on and we'regoing to shut that door Now I'm
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not going to lie to you and tellyou that when you shut the door
, that there's still not thatcrack underneath the door, and
some of that may like seep outon occasion, but when you keep
the door shut, it's a lot easierto stomp it out, right?
But now it's time for us to stoprunning away and come back home
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and develop new habits.
And develop new habits.
Now that we know that survivalmode is with us, that we don't
need to go there all the time.
All we need to do is developnew habits, life seems a whole
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lot better, a whole lot better.
And tomorrow we're going totalk about what pulls us out of
alignment and some habits thatcan keep us balanced and in
homeostasis Homeostasis, yeah,I'm having a problem talking.
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Today, we're going to talk aboutthe new habits that will pull
us back into alignment.
After we've been knocked offkilter Survival mode, it's time
for you to take a hike.
Today we're going to shut thedoor and walk away from living
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in high cortisol and we're goingto begin to tell ourselves that
we are safe.
So, during survival mode, weoften run so far away that we
completely forget to come backto ourselves.
Now, if you've run that far,that's all right.
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Everybody in Humanityville reachout your hand right now and say
, come on, come on, we got thisTogether.
We're going to return home toourselves because we are safe
now.
We have plenty of comforts, wegot plenty of resources.
And I'm going to ask everybodyin humanityville to come back
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tomorrow and we're going to talkabout some of those new habits
to keep us out of survival modeand get us going with momentum
in to a life of thriving,because that's what we want to
do.
We want to not just survive, weare going to survive, see, see
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that I was just going to saywe're going to survive.
Oh yeah, I've.
I've sung that tune most of mylife.
I'm a survivor, I survive,right.
But no, we're going to helpeach other do more than survive.
We're going to learn how tolive and we're going to learn
how to thrive.
Have yourself a wonder-filledWednesday and I will be in your
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earbuds.
Hopefully, not earbuds,hopefully you're just listening
without anything in your ears.
That's a lot healthier for you.
Love you, humanity, peace out.
survival mode is supposed to be a phase that
helps save your life.
It is not meant to be how youlive, and I want to welcome you
back to a walk away Wednesdaywhere I hope you have your boots
on and are ready to walk awayfrom survival mode and enter
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into the phase of living, ofthriving.
Yes, come on in and let'sconversate about it, shall we?
And I want to welcome you backto Free, to Just Be the podcast
empowering humanity tocourageously because it takes a
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lot of damn courage to step outof old patterns and all the
matrix programs and give a bigold hug to brand new ways of
being.
And I hope this finds you inthe greatest health, with
vibrant energy today, becauseyou have chosen to accept full
responsibility starts by beingauthentic and transparent and
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brutally honest, especially,especially with yourself, which
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ushers in freedom, and then wecan be aligned with our highest
potentials.
So, once you join me, teresaMarie, your ambassador of chi
and what's chi?
That intrinsic energy thatflows in you and me Join me on
this transformative journey torewrite our narratives and live
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lives of purpose and passion.
Whoop, whoop, it is a walk awayWednesday and I am so happy
that you have decided to honorme with a little bit of your
time today.
I'm so, so grateful, and I justwant nothing more than to bring
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some value to your life.
So, again, thank you forjoining, and if you would be so
kind to just pause for a momentand hit the like button, that
would really help raise thealgorithms.
And then we can be seen byothers and we want to wake the
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world up, don't we?
Don't?
We want to be in a place where,together, we are progressing,
where we are literally becomingmore and more of our true selves
.
Absolutely, I don't know aboutyou, but that's what I want to
do.
So this week we've been talkingabout this week we've been
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talking about what happens whenyou fall off a cliff.
Now I've used the example of myfifth time realizing that I was
involved in an erroneousorganization and the lessons
thereof, and I'm going to referback to my particular situation
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in regards to survival mode.
However, we all seem to live insurvival mode.
If you're not sure what I'mtalking about in survival mode,
let me just refresh your memory.
So you get a major, huge blow.
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Maybe you discover yoursignificant other or your spouse
is cheating, or maybe you havean incredible, daunting
financial setback, maybe youhave abuse on your job, maybe
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you are experiencing a majorhealth issue, but, whatever it
is, it has hit you so hard thatyou go into what we're going to
discuss as our autopilot ofsurvival mode.
Survival mode is very, veryprevalent today.
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I want you to think about howmany advertisements, how many
people, how many podcasts, howmany commercials that you're now
seeing about cortisol, andcortisol is the stress hormone,
and I'm not going to try to eventouch the scientific parts of
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cortisol poisoning or highlevels of cortisol, but we are
literally, especially in theWestern world.
We tend to all seem to have waytoo much cortisol in our life.
Thus we have bloating andinflammation and all these other
maladies that revolve around anincrease in a hormone that
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really is just supposed to beutilized in fight and flight
situations.
And back in the day, I justpicture the cavemen all right,
and there were no guns.
They had rocks, right, andmaybe they were making some very
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basic weapons, and they meet abear or a lion or whatever.
Now you're talking major andmighty fight and flight mode, or
what about those that lived inseverely cold environments like
Alaska?
And when that cold comes, yourbody physiologically goes into
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fight or flight.
We're going to survive.
Okay, we're not there anymore.
We have every comfort availableto us.
We have so much comfort that weare fat and lazy here in the
Western world and we are soaddicted to comfort and to
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convenience and to getting ourway immediately.
It's the microwave concept wewant.
Our dopamine hits over and overagain right now, right now,
right now, we have become a veryimpatient, bloated, impatient,
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bloated want and want it.
Now, society, and because ofthat, everything has shifted.
And now what we're seeing isthe effects of years of this
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matrix programming, ofinstantaneous dopamine.
Right, because our bodies arefreaking, wore out, our bodies
are so tense all the time, ourbodies are not able to fully
relax anymore.
We, we are going and we werepushing the grind way past the
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yin cycle of the day.
We ignore the seridian rhythmsof our body and it's taken a
toll on us.
Thus, we see all these adsabout cortisol, which, of course
, if you're not aware of thematrix, the matrix creates
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problems so that they can comein and rescue us from the
problems, and of course, thatall revolves around creating a
need, supplying the necessaryproduct to get out of the need,
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and of course, it's all, always,always, always about money, and
that is the matrix.
The matrix thinks that it is incontrol of everyone, and there
it is the vice of pride, and itsmain goal has never been to
help people.
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Its main goal is to keep themoney machine moving, moving the
money into their pockets sothat they can live lives of
luxury while the rest of thepopulation suffers.
So again, if you don't feel likeyou fit into this picture, I'm
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going to ask if you have these10 signs that you might be
living in survival mode.
Number one you're experiencingchronic fatigue.
In other words, even if you getto sleep over six hours, you
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never feel like you're rested.
You are chronically tired.
You just feel like you have nooomph in life.
Two you lack focus andconcentration.
If you were A getter doneperson, you're getting jacked on
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now.
Number three you find yourselfreacting to everything.
And guess what, folks, if wejust took that one little iota
of the 10 signs, that'shappening everywhere.
People are pushing the buttonsand others are knee-jerk
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reacting because all of ourtriggers, everything is being
revealed by the illumination oflove and light pouring onto the
planet right now.
So people are reacting toeverything.
Four you're not taking care ofyour basic needs.
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I want you to just look aroundwhere you're at right now.
Maybe you're in your car.
Is your car a nightmare rightnow?
Is your car full of trash?
Has it not been vacuumed in agood amount of time?
Are you in your home a goodamount of time?
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Are you in your home?
Is your home free to walk in?
Maybe your survival skill is tojust shut down the basics of
life and you're living amongst atrash heap and they I love the
proverbial quote unquote theysay that your outer world is a
reflection of your inner world.
Well, that'll take us right intonumber five.
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If your outer world is anightmare right now, it may be
because, number five, you'reconstantly feeling overwhelmed.
Oh, we could do a whole week'sworth of show on overwhelm, and
I have actually done shows onoverwhelm and how we get over
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being overwhelmed.
Number six you don't feelmotivated or inspired Big big
thing here, because when we putall of our energy towards
surviving, we shut down the goodstuff.
Number six oh, excuse me,number seven, you have trouble
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remembering things.
Oh, did I just forget toremember what number I was on?
Ooh, okay, so just be checkingoff the boxes.
If any of these sounds like you, you may be living in survival
mode, and this is not a dirtyword.
This is something that ishappening all around us and to
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us, is happening all around usand to us, so it is worthy of a
conversation, so that maybe wecan walk ourselves hand in hand
out of it.
Number eight everything tends toirritate you.
Oh, buddy, when you're sofocused on just surviving
getting home to your house atthe end of the day, surviving
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getting home to your house atthe end of the day then anything
that is off the track of thatoh, you just got another
assignment put on your desk andit's four o'clock.
Holy shit, I have to stay latenow.
Everything, everythingirritates you.
It's, it's is poking you likeyou were a voodoo doll or
something right.
Number nine you're dealing withphysical health issues joints
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hurt, bloating in your belly,headaches, not being able to
sleep, no desire to move yourbody, depression.
And, number 10, we'll just putthem all in one pile and say you
may be living in survival modeif you feel like a shell of the
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person you used to be, but thatone that one has got a little
bit extra to it, because thetruth is, all of us are
beginning to feel like shells ofthe people we used to be.
Why is this?
Because we are evolving out ofthat shell, kind of like the
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caterpillar, that goes into thatcocoon and then willingly and I
emphasize, willingly, because acaterpillar, without even
realizing it, just automatically, on autopilot, knows that
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they're going to get in thatcocoon and they're going to let
their insides turn to liquid.
Have you ever been there?
Have you ever?
Oh, yes, let's, let's just talkabout the grossness right out
the gates.
Have you ever been somewherevery inconvenient and your
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stomach goes to liquid?
You know what I'm talking about.
Oh, buddy, one day maybe maybenot today, but one day I'm going
to talk about several of thoseepisodes where, if you don't
have a bathroom, it's going tobe, it's going to be messy and
it's going to be stinky and it'sgoing to be bad and it's going
to be bad, and we're talkingprobably the most embarrassing
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situation of your life, right?
Well, that is exactly what it'slike to go through this
evolutionary journey.
On certain days, certain days,you will feel like you are
literally being hammered down sothat your insides are
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completely liquid, just like thecaterpillar.
Now the caterpillar realizesthat, oh baby, it's time I'm
getting in here and I'm going tolet this thing rip and I'm
going to go through thisabsolute uncomfortable situation
.
But I know, on the other end,I'm going to go through this
absolute uncomfortable situation, but I know, on the other end,
I'm going to come out like thisbeautiful monarch butterfly, and
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that's great for the butterfly.
But when you're in the crucibleand you feel like you're living
in survival mode, the lastthing you're thinking about is
freaking flutterbys.
Right, you are thinking abouthow the hell do I get out of
this and when is it going tostop?
Have you ever said to yourselfstop the world, I want to get
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off.
Hello, I think everybodylistening has at least thought
that, if not verbally spoken outof their mouth, at least once,
right, and if not, you're stillprobably very young and, oh baby
, enjoy every moment.
So today I want to talk aboutwhat it's like when you have
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derailed yourself.
Okay, you're going down a pathand maybe you are down the pike,
going down a path, and maybeyou are down the pike of
ascension, of transformation,and a lot of things in your life
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have already been taken care of.
You have recognized about beingthe observer and you're
beginning to wake up to theprograms and the false beliefs.
And you've had a good stretchand suddenly you have one of
those blows that literallyderails you and you are kicked
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back.
Kicked back from the path.
You have fallen on your ass andyou feel like your stomach is
liquid.
Okay, picture that in your mind.
You know those moments Well.
I want you to think about whatit is you do.
What is your go-to?
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What is your go-to when you getknocked off your path?
Do you reach for alcohol Ifyou've had a terrible day and
somebody kicked you in thestomach?
Do you rush home and get PJs onand veg out on Netflix?
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Do you allow yourself to gothrough the drive-thru and get a
double whopper?
Do you call your two bestiesand spend an hour each
complaining about the kick inthe stomach that you just got?
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Because you see, all of us havethese survival techniques when
we get hit with a blow.
We all have these certainhabits, these knee-jerk
reactions that, if you areobservant, if you are aware, if
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you have your little mini-meover your right shoulder we've
talked about this in pastepisodes and if you have gotten
really good at saying, what thehell are you doing down there,
teresa Marie, oh, oh.
I've seen this survival modebefore.
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I wonder where it's coming from, what trigger has been hit?
But if you're not, then youcould spin out for a week a
month or you could be like thosepeople who now have massive
health issues because theyhaven't taken the time to be
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uber conscious of themselves.
The very, very, very first wayof beginning to live out of
survival mode is to become astudent of thyself.
You need to know who you areinside and out.
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Nobody knows you like youexcept God, knows you like you
except God.
And as we begin to wake up andbecome more aware, we begin to
start seeing our programs, ourfalse beliefs, our survival
modes.
And once you know, a lot oftimes it's hindsight.
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Kind of like myself, this lasttime's it's taken me.
I am going into my.
Let's see this.
This friday will be five weekssince I returned home from
florida, from my floridaescapade, my florida episode, my
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florida wake-up call, whateveryou want to call it.
Six, no, five weeks.
Five weeks Now was all fiveweeks in survival mode?
No, was I more aware of livingin survival mode?
Absolutely I was.
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And consciousness, well, thistime it was just like
immediately, immediately, assoon as I hit the road, I knew
that there was going to be whatI would call downtime, where I
was going to have to recalibrate, where I was going to have to
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pick myself up from being kickedin the stomach and feeling like
my belly went to liquid.
Okay, so there's someself-doctoring, so to speak, and
the way that I chose to do itthis time was the first five
days from the moment I leftFlorida.
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I knew that I was going to givemyself five whole days of what?
Of no training of any sort,except, of course, my Lotus
Rising movements.
And yes, that is where I'mheading, with my Qigong
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movements, my moving meditationsthat I have been doing on a
daily basis for four years.
That has come with me out ofthis last four years and I will
ever continue to do thesemovements.
But I have disassociated myselffrom anything to do with that
organization and anything to dowith Tai Chi Gong, and I now am
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an instructor using a sessioncalled Lotus Rising, and it's a
beautiful, beautiful way to live.
But anything else besides mymorning routine, my morning
sadhanas, my meditation, my timewith God, the books I read,
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that was it.
I slept nine hours a day.
I enjoyed my husband.
I walked around my property, Isucked up the love of my fur
babies that I had been apartfrom for 22 months.
I got to know my husband Prettymuch.
That was it.
We just huddled down, kind oflike what you do in a storm you
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can't go out, so you huddle down, and I knew that that's exactly
what I was doing.
Retreat Do you ever retreat whenthings get bad, when you are
living in survival mode?
Retreat from social activity,retreat from answering text?
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Have you ever been the ghoster?
Oh, it's so easy for us to sayoh well, why did you ghost me?
You know, because I can chooseto Do.
You know, I'm going to datemyself.
But there was a day and age Iknow some of you might not know
this, but there was a day andage where we didn't have cell
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phones at all and our phoneswere attached to the wall in our
house by wires, house by wires.
And then there came a day wherevoice recording machines came
out, and so first it used to bethe phone would ring and if you
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choose or you choose, you choseto answer it you could go say
hello, or the phone would justring and then somebody would
either try you again or theywould do the very natural thing
back in the day of maybe comingto visit you and ring your bell
or knock on your door.
This is unheard of.
That's like a danger stranger'syou know safety thing.
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Now, if somebody knocks on yourdoor, you're like who's there,
who's at my door?
Which is absolutely crazy to me.
But going back to the phone, wecould also get a um recording
machine and we could leave avoicemail and even then we had a
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choice as to whether we wouldlisten to the voicemail and
return the phone call.
We had choice.
Now we have phones or iPads orwhatever.
The other modality is that youhave that has us hooked up to
satellites so that we can talkto anybody around the world and
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there's no escape.
And immediately, if you try toescape, you turn off your phone.
You leave your phone in yourcar.
People are immediately sayingwhy are you ghosting me?
You know, I know you have yourphone on you.
I know you can read my text.
Well, that might be the firstthing that you do F the world.
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I am not reaching out orreaching back to anybody.
And all the other vices come inat this point.
Maybe if you smoke cigarettes,maybe you're going to go into a
chain smoking session.
You're going to think so muchand you're going to be so
overwhelmed that you're going tobe so overwhelmed that you're
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going to go out on the porch and, one after the other, you're
going to light them up.
Been there, done that.
I'm very grateful.
I don't do that anymore, butthat was one of my survival
skills, which is really not asurvival skills.
It's more like a kill skill.
Right, you may also abuse food.
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That was one of my go-tos.
It may be food in excess, or itmay be foods that you know are
not good for your body, because,for some weird reason in the
21st century, when we go intosurvival mode, we have been
trained, like Pavlov's dogs, todo self-harm.
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What You're saying what?
Oh yes, oh yes.
Do you think sitting staring ata TV screen for eight-hour
marathons on the weekend becauseyou don't want to face life
isn't detrimental to everythingabout you?
Think again.
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If you don't think eatinghorrible food and making
yourself sick isn't self-abuse,think again.
If you don't think cutting backfrom any kind of socialization,
well, think about it Back whenhomeschooling first came out,
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and these are all things thatput little kernels into your
hopper for you to mull themaround.
Hop them around your mind andyour heart and your spirit and
your soul.
Ponder them, because they willguide you back home, which is
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where we need to go is back hometo who we are.
But all of those things, theself-abuse things that we do,
are really ways for us toself-destruct, and that is a
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marketing ploy of the Matrix aswell.
Oh yeah, back in the day we usedto see nicotine and alcohol
commercials all the time.
We used to see actors andactresses smoking and drinking
because they wanted to dress itup like it was the cat's meow to
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do.
And guess what?
All of us dogs followed Pavlovand did so.
And we became families and yes,my family is one of them that
would drink alcohol at an event.
We would drink alcohol becausethe day at work finished.
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We drank alcohol because it wasFriday.
We smoked pot because thishappened or that happened, or
we're tired or we're lonely orpick what it is.
I'm so sorry I need to turn myphone off before I start
podcasting, but I didn't to turnmy phone off before I start
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podcasting.
But I didn't because maybe Ihad trouble remembering things,
because maybe this survival modeis a program that runs so deep.
So now let's get back home towhat we're going to do.
What we're going to do withthis survival mode, we got the
picture of how it's a knee-jerkreaction.
We get a blow to our life andwe immediately go into survival
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mode, right, which, I'mreminding you, is supposed to be
a phase that helps save yourlife, not something that you and
I create to survive no longerserve us when it's time to
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thrive.
Now, I just shared with youthat I took five days on the
front end after my blow.
Now what the crap has happened.
I had a whole nother month.
Oh yeah, teresa Marie was livingin survival mode.
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I was still spinning, I wasstill looking at the sites and
platforms that caused my demise.
I was wondering about thepeople.
I was praying for the people.
I wondered what other peoplethought which, oh buddy, that is
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a big, big, big tactic of thematrix.
Let's take the focus off of youand worry about everybody else.
Wrong move, wrong move.
All those things were stillhappening.
Right, these are habits that Ideveloped.
Now, a lot of the times itwould happen.
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And then it was the hindsightlike oh wow, I am really
procrastinating.
Here, I found myself scrollinga lot more than I normally did.
Why?
Because I just didn't want tothink about it, I didn't want to
deal with it.
I wanted to walk in my garden,which is part of the reason that
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I am able to do this show today, because I began to walk myself
back to life.
I began to spend more timeoutside and at first I was
bombarded with all the survivalmode thinking what if I made a
mistake again?
What if I'm the fool andeverybody else was right?
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What if my kids think I'm anidiot?
What if, what if, what if I hadto go there?
That's the knee-jerk reaction.
And then, little by little, asI'm walking the property, as I
have my hands in the dirt oh, Iam so incredibly grateful to be
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back on my eight acres, back ongarden duty.
Oh, there's lots of work.
My dear husband, he did a lotof inner work and the outside
maintenance was never his thing,that was my thing, and he let a
lot of it go.
And so I am in reclamation mode, I am in cleanup mode, I am
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reclaiming all of my garden beds, I am reclaiming the yard that
I love so dearly.
Right, and as I walked and justlet everything go and just
focused on Mother Nature,focused on petting my animals.
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All of a sudden I startedthinking about wow, it's really
time to get it moving.
You know, and that is thebiggest, this is the biggest
takeaway for today's show.
Not only does the darkness, akathe matrix, want to literally
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fill up all of your time withnonsense right Any screen time.
If you are not in control ofyour screen time, it is in
control of you and it isnonsensical, time-wasting
distraction.
That is the matrix main goal.
But then, if you wake up to it,then the matrix next tactic is
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to keep you in this survivalmode a little bit longer and
eventually we habits.
If you want to stay in survivalmode, keep replicating the same
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habits.
You know what it is.
Keep doing the same thing overand over again, expecting a
different result.
Is the definition of what.
Come on, you know it, say it,let's say it together Insanity.
And we are not insane in themembrane.
We are not.
We are brothers and sisters ofthe light.
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We are sparks of the creatorGod, and we were destined for
greatness.
We are here with individualpurpose.
We are here to bring each otherback home to that love and
light of God that we are.
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And if you haven't figured thatout yet, then your awakening
journey is just beginning andyou may be completely in
survival mode.
So new habits, new life.
I want you to think for a secondabout how you and I in
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Humanityville probably allalready have PhDs in survival
mode skills.
Now I'm not talking preppersurvival skills, where you know
you learn how to make a fire inthe rain and you have water
purification kits and you have abug out bag, although those are
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very good survival skills and Ihighly suggest you do those as
well.
I'm talking about the way wementally, emotionally and
physically deal with our stress.
And if you want to live a longlife I don't know about you, but
at 64, my minimum minimum is 50more years.
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That's my minimum baseline,right, but if I want that, bad
enough then I need to take thatPhD in survival mode.
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If you want to hang it on awall and say, yep, been there,
done that.
Or maybe you're a t-shirt galor guy and now it's time to say
got the t-shirt, it's going togoodwill, been there, done that,
it's time to move on and we'regoing to shut that door Now I'm
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not going to lie to you and tellyou that when you shut the door
, that there's still not thatcrack underneath the door, and
some of that may like seep outon occasion, but when you keep
the door shut, it's a lot easierto stomp it out, right?
But now it's time for us to stoprunning away and come back home
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and develop new habits.
And develop new habits.
Now that we know that survivalmode is with us, that we don't
need to go there all the time.
All we need to do is developnew habits, life seems a whole
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lot better, a whole lot better.
And tomorrow we're going totalk about what pulls us out of
alignment and some habits thatcan keep us balanced and in
homeostasis Homeostasis, yeah,I'm having a problem talking.
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Today, we're going to talk aboutthe new habits that will pull
us back into alignment.
After we've been knocked offkilter Survival mode, it's time
for you to take a hike.
Today we're going to shut thedoor and walk away from living
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in high cortisol and we're goingto begin to tell ourselves that
we are safe.
So, during survival mode, weoften run so far away that we
completely forget to come backto ourselves.
Now, if you've run that far,that's all right.
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Everybody in Humanityville reachout your hand right now and say
, come on, come on, we got thisTogether.
We're going to return home toourselves because we are safe
now.
We have plenty of comforts, wegot plenty of resources.
And I'm going to ask everybodyin humanityville to come back
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tomorrow and we're going to talkabout some of those new habits
to keep us out of survival modeand get us going with momentum
in to a life of thriving,because that's what we want to
do.
We want to not just survive, weare going to survive, see, see
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that I was just going to saywe're going to survive.
Oh yeah, I've.
I've sung that tune most of mylife.
I'm a survivor, I survive,right.
But no, we're going to helpeach other do more than survive.
We're going to learn how tolive and we're going to learn
how to thrive.
Have yourself a wonder-filledWednesday and I will be in your
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earbuds.
Hopefully, not earbuds,hopefully you're just listening
without anything in your ears.
That's a lot healthier for you.
Love you, humanity, peace out.
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