September 18, 2025 • 30 mins
What if you could completely transform your experience of life by simply changing the lens through which you view the world? That's the profound question at the heart of this transformative episode.
Through powerful personal stories and examples, I explore how our perspectives literally create our reality. You'll hear how my husband evolved from rigid "my way or the highway" thinking to embracing new possibilities, simply by adjusting his viewpoint. Once unable to consider shopping anywhere but Walmart or traveling beyond our hometown, he's now enjoying weekend adventures and considering new experiences—a transformation that seemed impossible just two years ago.
The lens metaphor extends beyond individual growth to our collective experience. Consider how a baby sees bright colors and shapes while an elderly person notices subtle details; how someone raised in Uganda experiences reality differently than a Hollywood celebrity; how our political views often consist of borrowed opinions rather than authentic personal truth. These differences explain so much of our societal division—we're literally not seeing the same world.
I share a powerful exercise in perspective-shifting: imagining how life appears through different eyes, even contemplating the view through the eyes of God, where all humanity is connected through love. Notice how your body physically responds to seeing through love versus judgment. The tension in your shoulders when witnessing rage contrasts sharply with the openness you feel when viewing others with compassion.
In these challenging times, as light reveals darkness across our world, we have a choice in how we respond. Other people serve as mirrors reflecting aspects of ourselves needing healing. By consciously choosing to look through the lens of love rather than judgment, we not only transform our personal experience but contribute to a collective shift toward greater peace and understanding. As Bryant McGill said, "Those who see the world through the lens of love are true visionaries." What will you choose to see today?
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
There is only one way to see things until someone
shows us how to look at themwith different eyes is a quote
by Pablo Picasso.
And mayhaps today, on today'sepisode of Free to Just Be, we
(00:21):
can conversate about the lenseswe wear through life.
And I welcome you back to Freeto Just Be, the podcast
empowering humanity tocourageously step out of old
patterns and matrix programmingand give a big old hug to a new
(00:42):
way of being.
And I hope this finds you inthe greatest health today, with
vibrant energy, because you havechosen to accept the full
responsibility for your body,mind and soul.
Here on Free To Just Be, yourhost that'd be me.
Teresa Marie, the ambassador ofChi will try to inspire you to
(01:07):
truly be who you came here to beauthentic, free and aligned
with your highest potential.
So join me on thistransformative journey, because
we're all on it, folks, and weare trying to rewrite our
narratives and live our truelives of purpose and passion.
(01:29):
And I do welcome you on thistremendous Thursday and I want
to talk to you about seeingthrough different lenses today.
You know we see the worldthrough the lens of all of our
experiences.
That is a fundamental part ofbeing a human being.
(01:51):
So we have to keep in mind thateverybody has a different view,
coming out of their peepers,you coming out of their peepers,
and I'd like to spend a littletime talking about the different
lenses that we use.
(02:12):
Take, for example, yourself.
Okay, when we're lookingthrough a lens of past
experiences, it can be hard tosee through what's right in
front of you.
But once you see things througha lens of possibility, you'll
wonder why you didn't see itsooner.
(02:33):
Let me give you some concreteexamples.
For example, my husband is aone on the Enneagram, so he's
very detail orientated.
He wants to do everythingrotely, very disciplined, and
for many, many years most of hislife in fact he's only broke
(02:56):
out of that cage about two yearsago when I walked away for a
season, and it was always well,my way is the right way and
therefore my way is, it's my wayor the highway, and that was
one of his very narcissistictendencies.
But now, having recognized, oh,that's my archetype.
(03:18):
My archetype wants order, wantsthings to be logically done,
and so now let me bring thatinto real life.
So for the last 22 months, as Iwas gone, he would, you know,
he was forced to do his owngrocery shopping, which is
something that I always used todo for the 17 years that we've
(03:40):
been as a couple.
And he began in Walmart.
And what did my archetype onehusband do?
Well, he plotted out everyaisle in Walmart so he would
create his list, so that hewould walk in the door and know
(04:00):
exactly the path that he wasgoing to take and know exactly
where to find things.
Well, recently, I was in adifferent store picking up a
delivery and I suggested to himhey, babe, why don't we try Food
Lion?
They have a really good meatsection and their vegetables are
(04:23):
far fresher looking thanWalmart.
What?
Well?
Well, and he sat and ponderedit.
Now my old husband would havesaid no, we're going to Walmart,
that's that's where you know,that's where I've always gone,
that's where we're going to go.
And instead, after a fewminutes pause, he said yeah, but
I know exactly where everythingis in Walmart and it's easier
(04:47):
for me.
But maybe I can try a differentstore.
You know, I might find thatit's better.
And I told him I said, hey,it's a smaller store, there's
less people to deal with,there's more room and space to
make choices and often theprices are better.
And he was like, huh, okay, sohe's considering it.
(05:10):
He put on a different set oflenses.
I give you another real-timeexample, using my husband we
can't travel, we can't afford totravel.
Who's going to watch the pets?
No, no, no, no, I can't be awayfrom the home for 48 hours.
No, I don't know what you'rethinking.
That was the old Roger.
The new Roger, with a new setof lenses, traveled with me to
(05:36):
Kentucky to a primitive campingtrip a couple of hours from home
and all the way to Tybee Island, georgia, three weekends in a
row this past month.
Talk about seeing things from adifferent lens, a different
perspective, and if you thinkthat you can't change simply by
(05:59):
changing your view of life, Ijust proved you wrong, didn't I?
So now let's move to how weinterpret the world.
You know we must look at thelens through which we see the
world, as well as the world thatwe're looking at, and then we
need to recognize that the lens,the set of glasses themselves,
(06:26):
shapes how we interpret theworld, because, as I just
explained, for years it wasthrough one lens.
We do it this way.
We do it this way.
So let me give you a fewexamples of that.
What if you were raised to livevery frugally and that stuff?
(06:48):
You know, maybe you were aminimalist and you know you had
two sets of shoes, a summer pairand a winter pair, cold weather
and warm weather, right, andthat was it.
That's what you were raisedwith, that's what you were
comfortable with and you don'tsee any logical reason why you
(07:09):
should have 70 pairs of shoesversus the person who was raised
with the ability to buy,receive or have anything they
wanted.
So they have closets of clothesand closets of choices and
shoes.
And then we come into real lifeand you're at a job and you
(07:32):
walk in with your pair of tennisshoes and maybe there's a
little tiny bit of dirt on them,not anything that you're
concerned with and the personyou work with and this I'm
telling you, this literallyhappened to me in the last year
and they look down at your shoes, like, why are you wearing
those shoes?
Because that's their lenses,you know.
(07:55):
But if you are looking throughsomeone else's eyes, someone
else's eyes, the lens that youlook through will determine what
you see, right, and we have tobe careful there, because if
you're looking through, you know, in my example I saw my shoes
(08:17):
now through that other personthat I work with's eyes of
condescension andincredulousness why are you
wearing those shoes again?
Don't you have any other shoes?
And it kind of messed my day up.
Why?
Because I wasn't lookingthrough my own lens.
(08:37):
So now let's imagine for aminute.
Imagine that we see the worldthrough the lenses of all of our
experiences.
All right, so just take alittle imagination station trip
with me.
We're going in to a big visionstore, okay, we're going in to a
(09:02):
store that has cases and casesof different eyeglasses and
we're going to experience whatit's like with different people.
Imagine, for example, a baby whosees things with just color,
and things are blurry and newand exciting and stimulating and
(09:26):
you know, everything just makestheir body move and they're
just you know.
You know what happens with ababy that's overstimulated they
begin to cry and they need to goin a quiet, dark place to just
settle their body back down,because so much newness is
coming through their eye gatesthat they can't fully cope with
(09:49):
it.
All right, and everything'sbright and shiny and new, versus
a senior citizen in their 80swho are now seeing things much
less vibrant and what they do is, instead of seeing, just shapes
and colors.
They're very acutely aware ofall the details and they admire
(10:14):
the wrinkles in people and theylook with joy at a baby's soft
skin and imagine when there was.
Do you see the difference?
Here's another one.
I imagine my friend Paul inUganda, who starts his day in an
eight by eight hut and wakes upto the sound of nature and
(10:37):
spends his day toiling in thesoil and going to hisage, as
compared to a movie star wholives in a mansion, who is very
disconnected from nature and hasevery bell and whistle imagined
.
Can you see the difference?
What about someone who wasraised with their grandparents
(11:01):
that were married over 50 yearsand then their parents were
married over 50 years and nowthey're married over 50 years,
versus Teresa Marie here who'sbeen married four times?
They may see different thingsbecause of their lens
perspective.
(11:21):
What about if you were raisedin a religion and you were in
your church or temple orwherever you met to worship
three times a week, as comparedto an atheist who looks through
the lens of science and logic?
And if you really want to takethis, if you want to resurrect
(11:43):
inquisition in your own life,then I highly suggest you have a
10-minute little fun sessionwith AI.
You know, if you're on Google,you can use Gemini and just ask
Google to show you thedifference.
What would it be like to lookthrough the eyes of XYZ, and
you'll be amazed at the thingsthat they come up with.
(12:04):
It really behooves us to playwith this a little bit, because
even entering these thoughtsinto our thought process could
really really change everything.
So, like my husband, who onlysaw through his past experiences
(12:24):
and now is beginning to seepossibilities because he's
opening himself up to tryingthings, it's really imperative
for us to open our eyes,especially in what's happening
in the world today, with so muchhate and so much division.
Wouldn't it be so much betterto look at the lens through
(12:49):
which we see the world, as wellas what we're looking at on the
TV, because that lens is goingto shape how we interpret the
world.
So now let's move up to whathappens.
If we stay stuck in the past,we can't move forward.
All we can do is repeat, repeat, repeat.
(13:15):
So it's very important that wesee life through our own eyes
and not through the lens ofothers, others being the
propaganda, the programming, thefalse beliefs, all you know,
facebook is not real folks.
Do you understand that peopleeither choose their best
(13:39):
pictures or they Photoshop theirpictures, and many even use AI?
We live in an illusion and ifwe begin to think that our lives
should look like the illusion,we're going to have a struggle
through our whole life.
So it's very important as wellthat we take into consideration
(14:04):
the opinions of others, simplybecause we all look at the world
through different lenses, right?
And how can we judge?
How can we judge another personon the street, for example,
that we have no idea what theywere going through, how they
(14:28):
were raised, what set of lensesthey have on, right?
So it's very, very important tounderstand these concepts
because, baby, it shapeseverything.
It shapes everything that we do, everything that we see.
Now I want to take you through abrand new process, maybe for
(14:52):
you and in the remembrance, ofspeaking about lenses and how
the lens we look through willdetermine what we see, as shown
in the examples of the baby andthe senior citizen, and my
husband and his past and now hispresent.
(15:14):
Because that lens determineseverything, and I want you to,
for a minute, go with me on alittle journey and look through
the eyes of God, who would beable to perceive the world with
complete and absoluteunderstanding, transcending the
limitations of human experience.
(15:35):
It would involve seeing all oftime past, present and future as
a single unified moment, whichis really true reality.
We just don't realize it.
And we would be able toperceive the
interconnection-ness of allthings, from the smallest
(15:56):
subatomic particle to the mostdistant galaxy, and we would
understand the intricate causeand effect relationships that
govern the universe.
And it would be one of totalknowledge, love and impartiality
, free from bias andimperfections that color human
(16:18):
vision.
That, my dear brothers andsisters in Humanityville, that
was what AI told me.
It would be like to lookthrough the lens of God.
Now I ask you, wouldn't it beso much fun to play with that
and just ask him what would itbe like to look through the eyes
of a conservative?
(16:39):
What would it be like to lookthrough the eyes of a liberal?
What would it be like to lookthrough the eyes of somebody
living in China or India?
Do you see where I'm going withthis?
You know, when I was a kidgrowing up in Queens, new York,
one of the most profound lessonsit still stays with me was the
(17:03):
art lesson about living in NewYork City, the melting pot of
the world.
And it was true.
I went to school with kids ofevery nationality.
So I never I was colorblind.
I'm still colorblind, and yetthere are those around me in the
South.
I was absolutely appalled thefirst time I went into a
(17:27):
restaurant in Tennessee.
I can't remember exactly whereit was, but it was definitely a
podunk town.
No offense to podunk towns, butthere are some towns that are
still, you know, banjo locations, where you know there are
people that literally still haveincestual relationships and
(17:49):
live in the backwoods and youwalk into a cafe and there's
segregation still and most folksof color don't come into towns
like that.
I was appalled at that because,you see, I never had a lens of
color.
Some of us who were raised byour friend group, for example,
(18:14):
or went to college, or didn'thave parents that spoke freely
about politics, for example,have now on their faces a lens
of political views that aresimply nothing more than the
views of a conglomeration ofother people's opinions.
(18:37):
And most of these folks,especially the ones that are
very outspoken and very racistand very dyed in the wool it's
this way, and you know and I'mthis because this is what I
believe are skewed becausethey've never actually asked
(19:01):
themselves what do I believe.
So they have this multicoloredlens not talking about race, I'm
just talking.
They have amulti-conglomeration of all
these other people's opinionsand they are now wearing this
(19:22):
set of glasses that they believeare theirs.
But sometimes you can't seeyourself clearly until you see
yourself through the eyes ofothers, and this is when life
becomes difficult.
And that's where we are rightnow on the planet in this
ascension journey.
The light is flooding theplanet so much that it's
(19:43):
illuminating every corner ofdarkness.
If you don't recognize that yet, then take off your colored
lenses and start looking at theworld as it is.
It is a show, it is an illusion, it is a play, and you are an
actor in the play.
(20:03):
And everybody is beginning, inwhatever level they're at, to
recognize this that others haveformulated the way we view the
world, especially in America.
The programming is so thick andso deep and so old, centuries
old.
There are rulers of the planetfor centuries that wanted to
(20:28):
conquer America, and they aredoing it.
That wanted to conquer America,and they are doing it.
One little increment of heatunder the boiling frog pot at a
time.
They have been very, verypatient.
And now where we're at is whatI view, as you know.
You can call it we're gettingpert near a boil under, you know
(20:49):
, in the pot of frogs, or we aregetting close to the literal
Armageddon.
I believe Armageddon ishappening right now with all the
violence and all I mean peopleare.
It's this way, no, it's thatway, and it's the tug of war.
And if people just let go of therope and reached up and took
(21:12):
off their lens of perspectiveand began to recognize, like
what happened after 9-11 andwhat happened after the Charlie
Kirk tragedy, you see goodpeople, see the good and bring
out the best in other people.
And that's what happens whenthere's big, massive tragedies.
(21:35):
We are reduced down to thesimpleness of being human, where
it's nothing but love, folks,and we are that spark of God.
So if the lens we look throughdetermines what we see, if the
lens we look through determineswhat we see, then those who see
(21:55):
the world through the lens oflove are true visionaries, which
is a quote by Bryant McGill.
And if more of us began to lookthrough the lens of God and saw
everybody imagine for a minutethat the person before you,
online in the car in front ofyou, or maybe the car behind you
, or the person that you sitacross in the cafeteria, or the
(22:20):
person that cuts your hair, orwhoever it is.
Imagine if you would just closeyour eyes for a minute and open
your eyes and pretend you'reGod.
Can you feel your body justsoftening?
Can you feel your arms wantingto wrap around that person?
Can you see the joy in his eyeat seeing your birth?
(22:43):
Can you feel the love wellingup in his heart at your rebirth
when you recognize that you arelove and light, just like him?
Can you feel in your body thedifference of seeing everybody
through the lens of love, which,of course, love is God and
(23:05):
humanity.
Have we forgotten that we arelove and light sparks of our
creator, God?
So, in closing, please takeinto consideration the lens that
you choose today, because thelens you choose transforms the
way we look at things.
I just gave you an example ofwhat it would feel like to look
(23:30):
through a lens of love.
Now let's look at the opposite.
And you're out in public andyou watch somebody get cut off
and that person that got cut offstops at a red light and jumps
out of his car and goes over andpounds on the door and is
flipping the bird and sayingwhat the F is wrong with you?
(23:52):
And the person inside the caris rolling their window up and
they're scared and you can seethe fear in their face.
And this other person iscontinues to rage and says you
need to get off the road and youdon't deserve a license.
And I want you to notice thetenseness in your body.
I want you to notice how, allof a sudden, everything starts
(24:14):
to boil within you.
And maybe it's rage at theperson that's raging, and maybe
it's righteous indignation forthe person in the car who's now
scared, or maybe it's justabsolute overwhelm at why is
this even happening?
And I think the latter is wherewe all are.
(24:37):
We're overwhelmed at thecoldness and the lack of
humanity.
So today, remember this littleshow about the colored lenses
you look out of and picturethose heart-shaped lenses that
(24:59):
so often you see kids wear, orthe lenses of red, white and
blue flags, and remind yourselfthat every person you look at
through your peepers came fromthe source, which is God, and
God is love.
And also they all have redblood.
(25:20):
And if you can look out at theworld through love, your whole
day will change.
I'll give you a closing example.
You know, many of you know thatI am refusing to step back into
a job where I have to punch aclock.
I refuse to go back fully intothe matrix.
Now I am on the seesaw, halfwayin and halfway out.
(25:43):
I'm not quite an entrepreneuryet where I have passive lines
of income working for me, but Iam working towards that and so
my step, my final step away frompunching a clock was when I
began my door dashing, andthat's been about two years now.
And you know, this process isoften slow and I think that we
(26:07):
often get confused and thinkthat the people that are doing
well as entrepreneurs and arefree to travel and you see
people like that all the timeand we think, well, you know,
they did it, I want to do it tooand we think that just
overnight it's going to happen.
And no, it takes hard work andI think the hardest work is the
(26:27):
changing of perspective.
I can speak personally aboutthat because my perspective has
always been one of lack andscarcity.
That's where I was always goingto stay and I just was going to
settle, for you know the waylife was and I know that that's
not true and I know that I am asmy higher self and I'm not
(26:52):
fully stepped into her yet, butI'm getting there.
I am helping humanity and atthe same time, I'm making a wage
that helps me live comfortablyand in a way that I can continue
to give some of those fundsback, whether it's into my own
mission or into missions ofothers.
(27:12):
That's going to happen, but weforget where we came from and we
forget how other people alsotoiled and worked and sacrificed
and had to get through theirown war between their ears in
order to become entrepreneurs.
So, as we look through rightlenses today, as Sharon Jane
(27:35):
said, when we look through theright lenses, we can have joy,
even in difficult situations.
So let's take that right to thepoint of the situation that
we're in.
We're in a massive explosion oflight on the planet that is
peeling back the darkness forall of us to see.
(27:58):
We saw heinous things rightbefore our eyes that were not in
the movies.
We saw people's reactions, andthe Word of God tells us that
out of our heart, our mouthspeaks.
So there are people that havesome very dark things that they
have to begin to look at, andthose of us that find ourselves,
(28:22):
quote-unquote, triggered and weall get triggered every single
day and we want to, just, youknow, get away from these people
, and we neglect to see thatwe're seeing ourselves through
another lens.
We're viewing our own shite.
The light is going to revealeverything, folks.
(28:45):
So my suggestion to us is, if webegin ourselves to look deep
inside, what do we believe?
How are we viewing life?
Where did those beliefs andthoughts come from?
Do I want to be raging?
Do I want to hate anotherperson for their opinion?
(29:06):
Is this how I want to live mylife?
And then it's very important,as you ask these questions, to
feel your body.
The matrix doesn't want you tofeel your body, because your
body will not lie to you.
Just as we experienced in thisepisode, you could feel the joy
and the openness and how yourbody relaxed when we spoke about
(29:31):
looking through others with thelens of God.
And then we could feel thetension when we spoke about the
raging person who got cut off intraffic.
Choose how you want to be.
You make those choices up frontbefore you are confronted with
a mirror, because other peopleare our mirrors, folks, and as
(29:55):
difficult as it is to sit infront of a mirror and speak your
truth and see how your bodylanguage looks.
Are you militant, are youclosed?
Because God, in his grace andin his mercy, is going to
continue to confront you overand over and over again with the
(30:16):
very darkness that we stillhave within ourselves, to give
us the free will choice todecide how we want to live going
forward.
So remember, as Renee Swopesaid, the lens we look through
will determine what we see.
(30:37):
What will you see today,humanity?
I hope it's peace and love andharmony, because if more of us
see that, and as the collectivebegins to do that more and more,
it will come to fruition.
I wish you peace and I love youso much.
Have a glorious day.
There is only one way to see things until someone
shows us how to look at themwith different eyes is a quote
by Pablo Picasso.
And mayhaps today, on today'sepisode of Free to Just Be, we
(00:21):
can conversate about the lenseswe wear through life.
And I welcome you back to Freeto Just Be, the podcast
empowering humanity tocourageously step out of old
patterns and matrix programmingand give a big old hug to a new
(00:42):
way of being.
And I hope this finds you inthe greatest health today, with
vibrant energy, because you havechosen to accept the full
responsibility for your body,mind and soul.
Here on Free To Just Be, yourhost that'd be me.
Teresa Marie, the ambassador ofChi will try to inspire you to
(01:07):
truly be who you came here to beauthentic, free and aligned
with your highest potential.
So join me on thistransformative journey, because
we're all on it, folks, and weare trying to rewrite our
narratives and live our truelives of purpose and passion.
(01:29):
And I do welcome you on thistremendous Thursday and I want
to talk to you about seeingthrough different lenses today.
You know we see the worldthrough the lens of all of our
experiences.
That is a fundamental part ofbeing a human being.
(01:51):
So we have to keep in mind thateverybody has a different view,
coming out of their peepers,you coming out of their peepers,
and I'd like to spend a littletime talking about the different
lenses that we use.
(02:12):
Take, for example, yourself.
Okay, when we're lookingthrough a lens of past
experiences, it can be hard tosee through what's right in
front of you.
But once you see things througha lens of possibility, you'll
wonder why you didn't see itsooner.
(02:33):
Let me give you some concreteexamples.
For example, my husband is aone on the Enneagram, so he's
very detail orientated.
He wants to do everythingrotely, very disciplined, and
for many, many years most of hislife in fact he's only broke
(02:56):
out of that cage about two yearsago when I walked away for a
season, and it was always well,my way is the right way and
therefore my way is, it's my wayor the highway, and that was
one of his very narcissistictendencies.
But now, having recognized, oh,that's my archetype.
(03:18):
My archetype wants order, wantsthings to be logically done,
and so now let me bring thatinto real life.
So for the last 22 months, as Iwas gone, he would, you know,
he was forced to do his owngrocery shopping, which is
something that I always used todo for the 17 years that we've
(03:40):
been as a couple.
And he began in Walmart.
And what did my archetype onehusband do?
Well, he plotted out everyaisle in Walmart so he would
create his list, so that hewould walk in the door and know
(04:00):
exactly the path that he wasgoing to take and know exactly
where to find things.
Well, recently, I was in adifferent store picking up a
delivery and I suggested to himhey, babe, why don't we try Food
Lion?
They have a really good meatsection and their vegetables are
(04:23):
far fresher looking thanWalmart.
What?
Well?
Well, and he sat and ponderedit.
Now my old husband would havesaid no, we're going to Walmart,
that's that's where you know,that's where I've always gone,
that's where we're going to go.
And instead, after a fewminutes pause, he said yeah, but
I know exactly where everythingis in Walmart and it's easier
(04:47):
for me.
But maybe I can try a differentstore.
You know, I might find thatit's better.
And I told him I said, hey,it's a smaller store, there's
less people to deal with,there's more room and space to
make choices and often theprices are better.
And he was like, huh, okay, sohe's considering it.
(05:10):
He put on a different set oflenses.
I give you another real-timeexample, using my husband we
can't travel, we can't afford totravel.
Who's going to watch the pets?
No, no, no, no, I can't be awayfrom the home for 48 hours.
No, I don't know what you'rethinking.
That was the old Roger.
The new Roger, with a new setof lenses, traveled with me to
(05:36):
Kentucky to a primitive campingtrip a couple of hours from home
and all the way to Tybee Island, georgia, three weekends in a
row this past month.
Talk about seeing things from adifferent lens, a different
perspective, and if you thinkthat you can't change simply by
(05:59):
changing your view of life, Ijust proved you wrong, didn't I?
So now let's move to how weinterpret the world.
You know we must look at thelens through which we see the
world, as well as the world thatwe're looking at, and then we
need to recognize that the lens,the set of glasses themselves,
(06:26):
shapes how we interpret theworld, because, as I just
explained, for years it wasthrough one lens.
We do it this way.
We do it this way.
So let me give you a fewexamples of that.
What if you were raised to livevery frugally and that stuff?
(06:48):
You know, maybe you were aminimalist and you know you had
two sets of shoes, a summer pairand a winter pair, cold weather
and warm weather, right, andthat was it.
That's what you were raisedwith, that's what you were
comfortable with and you don'tsee any logical reason why you
(07:09):
should have 70 pairs of shoesversus the person who was raised
with the ability to buy,receive or have anything they
wanted.
So they have closets of clothesand closets of choices and
shoes.
And then we come into real lifeand you're at a job and you
(07:32):
walk in with your pair of tennisshoes and maybe there's a
little tiny bit of dirt on them,not anything that you're
concerned with and the personyou work with and this I'm
telling you, this literallyhappened to me in the last year
and they look down at your shoes, like, why are you wearing
those shoes?
Because that's their lenses,you know.
(07:55):
But if you are looking throughsomeone else's eyes, someone
else's eyes, the lens that youlook through will determine what
you see, right, and we have tobe careful there, because if
you're looking through, you know, in my example I saw my shoes
(08:17):
now through that other personthat I work with's eyes of
condescension andincredulousness why are you
wearing those shoes again?
Don't you have any other shoes?
And it kind of messed my day up.
Why?
Because I wasn't lookingthrough my own lens.
(08:37):
So now let's imagine for aminute.
Imagine that we see the worldthrough the lenses of all of our
experiences.
All right, so just take alittle imagination station trip
with me.
We're going in to a big visionstore, okay, we're going in to a
(09:02):
store that has cases and casesof different eyeglasses and
we're going to experience whatit's like with different people.
Imagine, for example, a baby whosees things with just color,
and things are blurry and newand exciting and stimulating and
(09:26):
you know, everything just makestheir body move and they're
just you know.
You know what happens with ababy that's overstimulated they
begin to cry and they need to goin a quiet, dark place to just
settle their body back down,because so much newness is
coming through their eye gatesthat they can't fully cope with
(09:49):
it.
All right, and everything'sbright and shiny and new, versus
a senior citizen in their 80swho are now seeing things much
less vibrant and what they do is, instead of seeing, just shapes
and colors.
They're very acutely aware ofall the details and they admire
(10:14):
the wrinkles in people and theylook with joy at a baby's soft
skin and imagine when there was.
Do you see the difference?
Here's another one.
I imagine my friend Paul inUganda, who starts his day in an
eight by eight hut and wakes upto the sound of nature and
(10:37):
spends his day toiling in thesoil and going to hisage, as
compared to a movie star wholives in a mansion, who is very
disconnected from nature and hasevery bell and whistle imagined
.
Can you see the difference?
What about someone who wasraised with their grandparents
(11:01):
that were married over 50 yearsand then their parents were
married over 50 years and nowthey're married over 50 years,
versus Teresa Marie here who'sbeen married four times?
They may see different thingsbecause of their lens
perspective.
(11:21):
What about if you were raisedin a religion and you were in
your church or temple orwherever you met to worship
three times a week, as comparedto an atheist who looks through
the lens of science and logic?
And if you really want to takethis, if you want to resurrect
(11:43):
inquisition in your own life,then I highly suggest you have a
10-minute little fun sessionwith AI.
You know, if you're on Google,you can use Gemini and just ask
Google to show you thedifference.
What would it be like to lookthrough the eyes of XYZ, and
you'll be amazed at the thingsthat they come up with.
(12:04):
It really behooves us to playwith this a little bit, because
even entering these thoughtsinto our thought process could
really really change everything.
So, like my husband, who onlysaw through his past experiences
(12:24):
and now is beginning to seepossibilities because he's
opening himself up to tryingthings, it's really imperative
for us to open our eyes,especially in what's happening
in the world today, with so muchhate and so much division.
Wouldn't it be so much betterto look at the lens through
(12:49):
which we see the world, as wellas what we're looking at on the
TV, because that lens is goingto shape how we interpret the
world.
So now let's move up to whathappens.
If we stay stuck in the past,we can't move forward.
All we can do is repeat, repeat, repeat.
(13:15):
So it's very important that wesee life through our own eyes
and not through the lens ofothers, others being the
propaganda, the programming, thefalse beliefs, all you know,
facebook is not real folks.
Do you understand that peopleeither choose their best
(13:39):
pictures or they Photoshop theirpictures, and many even use AI?
We live in an illusion and ifwe begin to think that our lives
should look like the illusion,we're going to have a struggle
through our whole life.
So it's very important as wellthat we take into consideration
(14:04):
the opinions of others, simplybecause we all look at the world
through different lenses, right?
And how can we judge?
How can we judge another personon the street, for example,
that we have no idea what theywere going through, how they
(14:28):
were raised, what set of lensesthey have on, right?
So it's very, very important tounderstand these concepts
because, baby, it shapeseverything.
It shapes everything that we do, everything that we see.
Now I want to take you through abrand new process, maybe for
(14:52):
you and in the remembrance, ofspeaking about lenses and how
the lens we look through willdetermine what we see, as shown
in the examples of the baby andthe senior citizen, and my
husband and his past and now hispresent.
(15:14):
Because that lens determineseverything, and I want you to,
for a minute, go with me on alittle journey and look through
the eyes of God, who would beable to perceive the world with
complete and absoluteunderstanding, transcending the
limitations of human experience.
(15:35):
It would involve seeing all oftime past, present and future as
a single unified moment, whichis really true reality.
We just don't realize it.
And we would be able toperceive the
interconnection-ness of allthings, from the smallest
(15:56):
subatomic particle to the mostdistant galaxy, and we would
understand the intricate causeand effect relationships that
govern the universe.
And it would be one of totalknowledge, love and impartiality
, free from bias andimperfections that color human
(16:18):
vision.
That, my dear brothers andsisters in Humanityville, that
was what AI told me.
It would be like to lookthrough the lens of God.
Now I ask you, wouldn't it beso much fun to play with that
and just ask him what would itbe like to look through the eyes
of a conservative?
(16:39):
What would it be like to lookthrough the eyes of a liberal?
What would it be like to lookthrough the eyes of somebody
living in China or India?
Do you see where I'm going withthis?
You know, when I was a kidgrowing up in Queens, new York,
one of the most profound lessonsit still stays with me was the
(17:03):
art lesson about living in NewYork City, the melting pot of
the world.
And it was true.
I went to school with kids ofevery nationality.
So I never I was colorblind.
I'm still colorblind, and yetthere are those around me in the
South.
I was absolutely appalled thefirst time I went into a
(17:27):
restaurant in Tennessee.
I can't remember exactly whereit was, but it was definitely a
podunk town.
No offense to podunk towns, butthere are some towns that are
still, you know, banjo locations, where you know there are
people that literally still haveincestual relationships and
(17:49):
live in the backwoods and youwalk into a cafe and there's
segregation still and most folksof color don't come into towns
like that.
I was appalled at that because,you see, I never had a lens of
color.
Some of us who were raised byour friend group, for example,
(18:14):
or went to college, or didn'thave parents that spoke freely
about politics, for example,have now on their faces a lens
of political views that aresimply nothing more than the
views of a conglomeration ofother people's opinions.
(18:37):
And most of these folks,especially the ones that are
very outspoken and very racistand very dyed in the wool it's
this way, and you know and I'mthis because this is what I
believe are skewed becausethey've never actually asked
(19:01):
themselves what do I believe.
So they have this multicoloredlens not talking about race, I'm
just talking.
They have amulti-conglomeration of all
these other people's opinionsand they are now wearing this
(19:22):
set of glasses that they believeare theirs.
But sometimes you can't seeyourself clearly until you see
yourself through the eyes ofothers, and this is when life
becomes difficult.
And that's where we are rightnow on the planet in this
ascension journey.
The light is flooding theplanet so much that it's
(19:43):
illuminating every corner ofdarkness.
If you don't recognize that yet, then take off your colored
lenses and start looking at theworld as it is.
It is a show, it is an illusion, it is a play, and you are an
actor in the play.
(20:03):
And everybody is beginning, inwhatever level they're at, to
recognize this that others haveformulated the way we view the
world, especially in America.
The programming is so thick andso deep and so old, centuries
old.
There are rulers of the planetfor centuries that wanted to
(20:28):
conquer America, and they aredoing it.
That wanted to conquer America,and they are doing it.
One little increment of heatunder the boiling frog pot at a
time.
They have been very, verypatient.
And now where we're at is whatI view, as you know.
You can call it we're gettingpert near a boil under, you know
(20:49):
, in the pot of frogs, or we aregetting close to the literal
Armageddon.
I believe Armageddon ishappening right now with all the
violence and all I mean peopleare.
It's this way, no, it's thatway, and it's the tug of war.
And if people just let go of therope and reached up and took
(21:12):
off their lens of perspectiveand began to recognize, like
what happened after 9-11 andwhat happened after the Charlie
Kirk tragedy, you see goodpeople, see the good and bring
out the best in other people.
And that's what happens whenthere's big, massive tragedies.
(21:35):
We are reduced down to thesimpleness of being human, where
it's nothing but love, folks,and we are that spark of God.
So if the lens we look throughdetermines what we see, if the
lens we look through determineswhat we see, then those who see
(21:55):
the world through the lens oflove are true visionaries, which
is a quote by Bryant McGill.
And if more of us began to lookthrough the lens of God and saw
everybody imagine for a minutethat the person before you,
online in the car in front ofyou, or maybe the car behind you
, or the person that you sitacross in the cafeteria, or the
(22:20):
person that cuts your hair, orwhoever it is.
Imagine if you would just closeyour eyes for a minute and open
your eyes and pretend you'reGod.
Can you feel your body justsoftening?
Can you feel your arms wantingto wrap around that person?
Can you see the joy in his eyeat seeing your birth?
(22:43):
Can you feel the love wellingup in his heart at your rebirth
when you recognize that you arelove and light, just like him?
Can you feel in your body thedifference of seeing everybody
through the lens of love, which,of course, love is God and
(23:05):
humanity.
Have we forgotten that we arelove and light sparks of our
creator, God?
So, in closing, please takeinto consideration the lens that
you choose today, because thelens you choose transforms the
way we look at things.
I just gave you an example ofwhat it would feel like to look
(23:30):
through a lens of love.
Now let's look at the opposite.
And you're out in public andyou watch somebody get cut off
and that person that got cut offstops at a red light and jumps
out of his car and goes over andpounds on the door and is
flipping the bird and sayingwhat the F is wrong with you?
(23:52):
And the person inside the caris rolling their window up and
they're scared and you can seethe fear in their face.
And this other person iscontinues to rage and says you
need to get off the road and youdon't deserve a license.
And I want you to notice thetenseness in your body.
I want you to notice how, allof a sudden, everything starts
(24:14):
to boil within you.
And maybe it's rage at theperson that's raging, and maybe
it's righteous indignation forthe person in the car who's now
scared, or maybe it's justabsolute overwhelm at why is
this even happening?
And I think the latter is wherewe all are.
(24:37):
We're overwhelmed at thecoldness and the lack of
humanity.
So today, remember this littleshow about the colored lenses
you look out of and picturethose heart-shaped lenses that
(24:59):
so often you see kids wear, orthe lenses of red, white and
blue flags, and remind yourselfthat every person you look at
through your peepers came fromthe source, which is God, and
God is love.
And also they all have redblood.
(25:20):
And if you can look out at theworld through love, your whole
day will change.
I'll give you a closing example.
You know, many of you know thatI am refusing to step back into
a job where I have to punch aclock.
I refuse to go back fully intothe matrix.
Now I am on the seesaw, halfwayin and halfway out.
(25:43):
I'm not quite an entrepreneuryet where I have passive lines
of income working for me, but Iam working towards that and so
my step, my final step away frompunching a clock was when I
began my door dashing, andthat's been about two years now.
And you know, this process isoften slow and I think that we
(26:07):
often get confused and thinkthat the people that are doing
well as entrepreneurs and arefree to travel and you see
people like that all the timeand we think, well, you know,
they did it, I want to do it tooand we think that just
overnight it's going to happen.
And no, it takes hard work andI think the hardest work is the
(26:27):
changing of perspective.
I can speak personally aboutthat because my perspective has
always been one of lack andscarcity.
That's where I was always goingto stay and I just was going to
settle, for you know the waylife was and I know that that's
not true and I know that I am asmy higher self and I'm not
(26:52):
fully stepped into her yet, butI'm getting there.
I am helping humanity and atthe same time, I'm making a wage
that helps me live comfortablyand in a way that I can continue
to give some of those fundsback, whether it's into my own
mission or into missions ofothers.
(27:12):
That's going to happen, but weforget where we came from and we
forget how other people alsotoiled and worked and sacrificed
and had to get through theirown war between their ears in
order to become entrepreneurs.
So, as we look through rightlenses today, as Sharon Jane
(27:35):
said, when we look through theright lenses, we can have joy,
even in difficult situations.
So let's take that right to thepoint of the situation that
we're in.
We're in a massive explosion oflight on the planet that is
peeling back the darkness forall of us to see.
(27:58):
We saw heinous things rightbefore our eyes that were not in
the movies.
We saw people's reactions, andthe Word of God tells us that
out of our heart, our mouthspeaks.
So there are people that havesome very dark things that they
have to begin to look at, andthose of us that find ourselves,
(28:22):
quote-unquote, triggered and weall get triggered every single
day and we want to, just, youknow, get away from these people
, and we neglect to see thatwe're seeing ourselves through
another lens.
We're viewing our own shite.
The light is going to revealeverything, folks.
(28:45):
So my suggestion to us is, if webegin ourselves to look deep
inside, what do we believe?
How are we viewing life?
Where did those beliefs andthoughts come from?
Do I want to be raging?
Do I want to hate anotherperson for their opinion?
(29:06):
Is this how I want to live mylife?
And then it's very important,as you ask these questions, to
feel your body.
The matrix doesn't want you tofeel your body, because your
body will not lie to you.
Just as we experienced in thisepisode, you could feel the joy
and the openness and how yourbody relaxed when we spoke about
(29:31):
looking through others with thelens of God.
And then we could feel thetension when we spoke about the
raging person who got cut off intraffic.
Choose how you want to be.
You make those choices up frontbefore you are confronted with
a mirror, because other peopleare our mirrors, folks, and as
(29:55):
difficult as it is to sit infront of a mirror and speak your
truth and see how your bodylanguage looks.
Are you militant, are youclosed?
Because God, in his grace andin his mercy, is going to
continue to confront you overand over and over again with the
(30:16):
very darkness that we stillhave within ourselves, to give
us the free will choice todecide how we want to live going
forward.
So remember, as Renee Swopesaid, the lens we look through
will determine what we see.
(30:37):
What will you see today,humanity?
I hope it's peace and love andharmony, because if more of us
see that, and as the collectivebegins to do that more and more,
it will come to fruition.
I wish you peace and I love youso much.
Have a glorious day.
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.