August 21, 2023 • 23 mins
What if you could transform your life into a captivating video game, with you as the main character? This thought-provoking idea is the essence of our conversation today. With this intriguing concept, we draw parallels between life and video games, and examine how internal dynamics shape external realities. Understanding life as a video game can be challenging, mainly because it implies a radical shift in our perception of reality. Yet, as we delve deeper, we realise the empowering potential of this idea. Embrace this exciting journey with us and witness how your world view transforms.
Imagine taking absolute responsibility for your life, reclaiming your sovereignty, and emerging as a blank slate. Sounds liberating, right? That's what we explore in this episode. We discuss the concept of being actors in our own video game-like reality, capable of stepping into different characters in various situations. This radical responsibility paves the way for profound personal transformation, allowing us to break free from the old paradigms and belief systems, and create a fun and engaging reality.
Lastly, we focus on how to create your personal video game - this involves taking complete responsibility for your life, and creating a reality that's exciting, and not overly serious. We examine how discarding conditioned beliefs and external needs can set the stage for creating from a purer place. Our discussion also highlights the importance of finding joy in the simple things and maintaining consistency in them. So, gear up for an episode that promises to challenge your perception of reality, and leave you with a newfound appreciation for the power of intention and focus.
About Nina
Nina is an author, artist, musician, Human Design Specialist, and podcast host of Receptive Impact. Open & curious to adventure and change, Nina Elise navigates the path of self-discovery, inviting you to explore the boundless opportunities that arise when we step out of our comfort zones.
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Nina Elise (00:02):
Welcome to the Receptive Impact Podcast.
I'm your host, nina Elise,hello, and thank you for tuning
in to today's episode.
So I have got a fun episodeplanned, well topic planned to
discuss, and it may be a littlecontroversial or may cause you
to be like what the hell?
(00:23):
Are you okay, nina?
Is this how you're truly livingyour life and you can think
whatever you want?
But this is a concept that Ihave been actually exploring for
the last, I would say, three orfour years, and so it's
something that I feelcomfortable talking about and
sharing, because I have playedaround with this idea and this
concept and what that is is whatif life was a video game?
(00:47):
I know that sounds maybe outthere for some people, but for
me, I completely love the ideaof this, and when this concept
was first introduced to me atfirst I was like wait, how is
that true?
And I think at the time I wasso disempowered and had given so
much of my power away to somany external things that I
(01:09):
didn't truly believe that Icould be a character in a video
game that was actually creatingmy reality.
And when I say creating myreality as a video game
character, it's like whatever isgoing on internally is going to
be reflected in your externalreality.
And it was like at that time itwas a hard concept for me to
understand because I was like,well, what do you mean?
(01:30):
I'm causing this in thecollective and I'm caught.
There's these wars and there'sthis and there's these shitty
presidents, and this is going on.
And it's like what do you mean?
That's my fault, that's myresponsibility.
And I think that's like a reallydifficult thing for people to
come to terms with, tounderstand that, like everything
that is going on internally,every belief system, like every
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other thing, idea, like yourself worth, and like just inner
conflicts that you're judgingand all the shadow aspects of
yourself that is being reflectedback to you in the external
world, and the external worldwill continue to have that
control over you if you thinkthat it is something that is
separate than you and it'sreally not.
And when you start to explorethe possibility of this being a
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potential truth, it can justcompletely radically change how
you approach life.
And so when I first learnedabout this concept, I was like,
oh yeah, haha, this is so funny.
Like, yeah, what if this istrue?
And then, over time, the morethat I explored plant medicines
and different modalities andtools that kind of took me into
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this other dimension and reallyexpanded my consciousness and
helped shift the way that Iperceived the world.
It was something that becamemore easily acceptable for me,
and so I think it was in like2020 or no, 2021 where something
happened and I completelyshattered what I thought was
reality, because I had put somuch emotion and stake in
(03:02):
something happening and then,when it didn't, it shook me to
my core and I like literallywalked around in a daze for like
a week or two, being like howis this not true?
How did how come?
I invested all of this, all ofmy energy and time into this,
and it wasn't true.
And at the time I didn'tunderstand or realize, but it
was because I was basicallyputting my power outside of me
(03:23):
and saying that, oh, this eventhappened when you know, and it
didn't make sense to me, but itwas something within myself that
needed, like it needed tohappen and the way that it did
for me to start to question,like how I was viewing reality,
how I was showing it fromreality, what I was giving my
attention to, what I was givingmy power away from.
And in the years following thatit became more of like OK, well
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, what if this is a video game?
And instead of being fearful ofthat, I started to kind of
explore that with neutrality,without any emotions attached to
that, and just say what if thisis a possibility?
And so, you know, as time wentby, it's like, you know, I would
be driving down the road and Iwould look outside and there'd
be like a person walking downthe street and I'd be like huh,
(04:06):
well, that's just like anon-player character, that's
just in my game and it's almostlike this Truman Show type
mentality.
It's like, oh, that person'sjust a background character in
my game and I put him there tofill the space and to be a part
of my backdrop.
And when you start to look atit from that perspective, it's
like really funny, becauseyou're like wow, these are some
(04:28):
really interesting charactersthat I'm putting here.
And sometimes I'll see likeglitches in the Matrix or
glitches in the video game,where I'm like you know, I live
in Florida and it'll be 90degrees outside and they'll be.
You know, I'll be driving downthe road in the middle of like a
place where there's like noestablishment, nothing.
There's a guy in a businesssuit, that's barefoot, that's
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walking just randomly, walkingin the 90 degree heat, and I'm
like, who put you there?
I put you there and then youjust kind of like laugh about it
.
So if you're like totally lostand you're like you know what
the hell, like what is going onin your mind all the time, well,
this is it, this is how, how Ihave kind of like shifted my
idea of like how reality reallyworks and there's so much out
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there from a quantum physicsperspective that actually really
validates the potentiality ofthis idea.
Because when you go into thisquantum space, if you're
familiar with like Joe Dispenzaand how you can go into these
meditations and reach thesestates where you come to like
basically a place of nothingnessand from there you can kind of
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shorten the timeline of whatyou're imagining and trying to
do and create that reality fromthat space.
And I think that is somethingthat we have forgotten or that
we're not aware that we can do,because we are putting our power
outside of ourselves andblaming everything outside of
ourselves for how our reality is, when in reality, we actually
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need to go inward and we need tolook at those shadows and we
need to take ownership of theexternal reality, because that
is what we are creating.
So if you stick with me hereand you're opening up to the
idea that hey, what if life wasa video game Not that there's
like someone holding acontroller outside of here,
outside of earth and space, orsomething that's like you know
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saying, move this foot and thenmove this foot it's like no,
we're just like consciousness inthis body and we have chosen
this character and we canliterally be whoever we want,
whatever we want, and there's nogood or bad, there's just
complete neutrality toeverything.
And everything in our lives isneutral and it only is what it
is because we give meaning to it.
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And I think that's a reallydifficult concept for people to
understand or to grasp, becauseit takes away from the meaning
of life and it takes away fromour addiction to these highs and
these lows of emotions and ittakes away, like, the meaning
that we give to something.
And if we don't have meaning orwe don't have purpose in our
life, then what is left?
And I think that is a verydifficult place for people to be
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in, because when you come tothat, that point zero, that
place of nothingness, it'sterrifying.
And it's also terrifying tolook at the parts of yourself
that we previously judged aslike shadows or dark aspects of
ourselves.
And when we start to reallyexplore that inner world and we
start to grasp this concept oflike our external world is a
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reflection of our inner world,we go deeper and deeper into
that and we start to take onmore responsibility for who we
are and how we are showing up inlife and we start to realize,
like, how important it is to beintentional in the way that we
show up and the way that wecreate our lives.
And I reached that point earlierthis year.
(07:38):
I basically went through likethis.
I called it a spiritualawakening last year, but
basically it was like I wasslapped in the face all at once
with every single shadow,everything I ever did wrong, how
I hurt people and like how totake radical responsibility for
like everything in my life.
And basically it was likeliving at my dad's house for a
couple of months, like reallyjust learning, like integrating
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all of that and like sittingwith all of that and coming to
terms with it and being likeokay, like once you face all of
that stuff and you're like, okay, I'm taking responsibility for
my life.
It's almost like you have thisblank slate in front of you when
everything around you hascrumbled and all the meaning has
like gone to the ground andyou've let go of things and you
have faced your biggest fears.
It's like what are you leftwith when you have faced highs
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and lows in your life and you'rejust like okay, well, what's
next?
And you start to take radicalresponsibility and step more
into that sovereignty of like.
Okay, I'm in a video game andI'm the main character.
What is it that I want tocreate?
Like, how do I even do that?
And it starts with getting likevery radically honest with
yourself about like, why do I dothe things that I do?
(08:43):
Why am I choosing to go hangout with Suzy instead of this
person over here?
It's because there's like anattraction to them in some way,
energetically, and maybe there'skarma you need to work out or
whatever.
But it's kind of exploring thatand saying, okay, I'm going to
go and spend time with thisperson, I'm going to cultivate
this, and when I give myattention to this person, that's
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where I'm gonna be operatingvibrationally and this is the
path that my life is gonna godown.
Well, if you don't like thepath that your life is going on,
that is when you need to justbring everything back in and you
need to come back to groundzero and say, okay, I wanna
start over and I wanna createsomething different in my life.
And when you look at yourselffrom that perspective, as like
you have a blank slate, youyourself are a blank slate.
(09:26):
You are a video game characterthat you can build and you can
add different accessories to andyou can be different
personalities.
And it's like you know Romdosstalks about, like he's in this
meat suit and he's talked aboutin his book, about, you know,
like he showed up as a characterbecause he put on this clothes
and he put on a business suit,so he was a businessman and that
was the character that he wasfor that day.
(09:47):
And then the next day he showedup somewhere else and he was in
his full on like meditationgarb and that was like the
character that he showed up asand in that moment, in that day.
And it's like so freeing andlike really funny at the end of
the day when you think about it,because we're all just actors
in this video game and we can bewhoever we want and some people
may struggle with that conceptor that idea.
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But it's not just like, oh, I'mgonna snap my fingers and I'm
gonna be that person Like Ithink when you get to a certain
level in this like video game,that it becomes easier and
easier for you to set more intodifferent characters.
But when you first start out,you're like where do I even
start?
How do I even do this?
It's like, okay, like how do Iwant my external reality look
like?
And yeah, you can say like, oh,I wanna live in a mansion and I
(10:32):
wanna do this and I wanna have10 babies and be a billionaire
or whatever it is, and that'sall fun and great and that's
definitely an experience to have.
For me personally, it was like,okay, well, why do I want those
things?
Am I really at ground zero if Ihave these underlying wants and
needs for these external things?
And when I went through this,like spiritual waking of the
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past year, basically likeeverything crumbled to the
ground for me, where I hadnothing left, everything I loved
, everything I thought I loved.
I didn't have anywhere to live,I didn't have a job, I had lost
, like my best friend and likeone of the most important
relationships in my life hadjust completely crumbled to the
ground and it left me, likequestioning everything for the
past seven years of my life, andit was like, after the
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crumbling of that relationshipand not having anything else, it
was like, okay, well, what isit that I truly want?
Like if I had all these things,and now I don't have them, and
I'm in this place and I learnedhow to be okay with being in
that like place where, you know,I basically had nothing, or my
ego thought I had nothing, andso it became less of a place
(11:37):
that I was afraid of and more oflike a place of curiosity to be
in, and so, when I reached thatplace, it was easier for me to
be like okay, like I'm going toquestion what I truly want and
what I truly, you know, want toexperience in life.
And there are so many differentways that you can approach this.
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If you are looking at your lifeas a video game, like you can
look at your life as this blankslate and you have, like you
know, this huge controller infront of you and you're like, if
I push this button incombination with this button and
turn it just slightly here.
It's going to set me on thistimeline and this path, and when
you realize that, like what youput your focus and your
intention on and how you'reshowing up in your life and the
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decisions that you're making canput you on a different timeline
and there are an infiniteamount of timelines and that can
feel very overwhelming.
It can feel scary becausethat's a lot of responsibility
to put on yourself to createthis reality, but it's also
incredibly liberating because itdoes, it puts the power in your
hands and you can choose to godown this life.
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You can choose to sit here andbe a happy Buddha on a rock and
do that Like there's literallyno right or wrong.
And so when we take again, takeaway the emotions and how we
think things should be becausethat's ultimately driven by our
conditioning and by externalforces that have created belief
systems within us we can startto create from a more pure place
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and we can actually have funwith it and not take things so
seriously, and life can be somuch more joyful.
And again, this isn't somethingthat you know necessarily
happens overnight, but it issomething that you can sit with
and become more comfortable withover time.
So as like the main characterin your game, whether you're
coming from conditioned beliefsor you're coming from like a
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place of purification whereyou're like, okay, I have no
wants or needs.
So then how am I really gonnalive my life?
What choices am I gonna maketoday?
It becomes more of a game.
It literally becomes a game foryou and it takes away the
seriousness of things, becauseif everyone around you is just a
player in your game and theimportance or lack of importance
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that in the meaning that yougive to a person, that is how
they are going to show up inyour reality.
So it's like you cannot blameanyone for anything, like you
are just taking fullresponsibility for everything in
your life, even the people thatare around you, because they
are just reflecting back what isinside of you and you have
chosen for them to show up inyour video game based on what's
happening internally, which islike the biggest joke ever to me
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and just makes me laugh,because when I get caught up and
like kind of like fall asleepin the video game, where I'm
like, oh, this person did thisand I'm like, come on, nina, and
then I go and I sit with myselfand I say, okay, what is this
fear that's inside of me?
Or where am I projecting thisonto this person?
And it's just like this,constantly like peeling back
layers to purify yourself sothat you can come from a place
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of authenticity to build outyour video game.
And so there's a lot of trialand erroring when you get to
this like ground zero placewhere you're like, okay, what
controller am I gonna turn today?
And so my process with all ofthis was once I kind of got to
that place and I was like, okay,well, I can just start with
anything at this point.
And so I was like, okay, well,you know, what things do I do
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that bring me joy inside, thataren't based on external
validation or anything externalor things from my past or
whatever.
And it was like I picked simplethings.
Like you know, I love the ocean, so I started working with
nonprofits in the area that hadto do with helping the ecosystem
and sea turtles and like doingbeach cleanups and stuff, and I
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like really enjoyed doing thatand giving my time towards that,
because I really love the ocean, I love being around it, it's
like my favorite place to be inthe world and I love the town
that I live in, and so that waslike kind of a pillar that I
built for myself of like, okay,this is where I'm gonna be
intentional with my time and myenergy.
And another thing was learningSpanish, and so I was like, okay
, I'm gonna be intentional withmy time in the way that I, you
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know, put my attention, and so,you know, I take a Spanish class
every week and I study everysingle day and I practice with
people and I practice withfriends, and it's something that
is fun and it's challenging,but it's something that I'm
deciding and choosing to beconsistent with, because my
long-term goal is based off oflike, I just wanna know another
language, I wanna be able totravel and, at the core of it,
intuitively, I feel like this issomething that is gonna be very
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beneficial for me and from aphilanthropic standpoint of how
I'm gonna be interacting andworking with people in the
future.
So this is something that I'mdedicating my time and my energy
to.
And so there are a couple otherpillars that I have that I put
my time and attention to, and Iwas just like you know what,
these can shift and these canchange over time, and I took
that pressure off of being likethis is my life goal now and
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these are the things that I needto put my attention on and be
so serious with.
And it was just more like, okay, I'm gonna go explore this and
see how this feels and if I havefun with this.
And as I'm going through thisjourney of like doing my inner
work and peeling back all ofthese layers, those things, some
of those things are fallingaway, Some of my goals are
falling away and I'm like, oh,maybe that's just not the
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direction I'm gonna go in, but Ihad to set that as a goal in
order to go do things, in orderto meet certain people that were
gonna guide me to somethingelse which has happened in the
process.
And so you learn how to trustthe unknown and the uncertainty
without, like, attaching anymeaning to it or attaching, like
your joy or your happiness toanything external and saying
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this is how it has to be, andjust trust that you're always
being guided to something bigger, without taking any of it
seriously, because it's allabout having the experience and
what you're here to learn andwhat you're here to learn about
yourself.
And if you think about from likea video game perspective, that
is how it goes.
As you go through the game, youhave these challenges where you
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get to proceed to the nextlevel, but it's not an easy
thing.
Like you've got to explore thevideo game, you've got to learn
different things about yourself,you get to unlock superpowers,
and then you go and you fightsome like crazy demon in order
to go to the next level andadvance to the next floor of the
castle and to explore differentthings.
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And so when you look at thatfrom the perspective of, like
this is how our life is, to mepersonally, it just makes so
much sense.
And so the more that I explorethis, the more that I'm like
holy shit, like this is actuallyso much fun and it takes away
the seriousness of life.
And some people might be like oh, this is completely delusional.
Or you're like living in thisfantasy world, and it's like am
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I?
Am I really living in thisfantasy world?
Like, you know, how are youliving your life?
Are you going to your nine tofive job that is sucking your
soul, when you hate it, and youare constantly complaining about
how your health doesn't feelgood and how you're not making
enough money because you'reblaming your employer for making
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you miserable when, in reality,you're just completely
disempowering yourself andyou're putting your happiness in
the hands of other people andnot taking responsibility and
taking action to do somethingdifferent with your own life.
And that is where I feel likethe concept of living life in a
video game really comes intoplay, because it puts the power
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back into your hands to dosomething different.
And I'm going to tell you, it isnot easy, like especially at
first.
Over time it does get easier,because you know you have to
shed all of these old paradigmsand all these old ideas and
belief systems about how realityactually works.
And when you start to shiftthat and you start to put the
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power back into your hands,there's going to be that time
period where you're like is thisright, is this working, can I
trust this?
Can I trust myself?
And you just experiment and youfeel like some days you're
going two steps back, eventhough you've, you know, put one
step forward, and it can justfeel like you're completely lost
or you're losing your mind, butin reality you're just
completely crumbling all ofthese old belief systems and
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you're teaching yourself tocreate a reality that is fun for
you, that you get to explore.
So, if you think about it, it'slike you were just plopped down
on this earth at birth with noconditioning, nothing, and then,
over the years, you were justconditioned and programmed by
external things outside of you.
And then it's like you reachthis point where you're like
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wait, I don't think this is howI want to live my life.
I don't have to be, you know,controlled by other people,
because in reality you're nevercontrolled by any people.
It's just you become aware ofthe fact that you are allowing
yourself to stay small and be ina place of disempowerment by
placing blame on everythingexternal.
And so that is my journey, withthis idea of what if life was a
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video game.
Because, even though it soundsto some people maybe like this
crazy concept, there's so muchhappening right now that people
are looking at and they're like,hey, there's aliens, okay, cool
, yeah, I know there's aliens.
Or like these totally out there.
Things are happening and peopleare calling them like glitches
in the matrix or you knowwhatever, and it's like you're
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starting to see that thingsreally aren't the way that we
thought they were.
It's literally like waking upin the Truman Show and being
like, oh my God, I'm Jim Carrey,like this is my reality, is not
what I thought it was, and thenyou get to change the narrative
, you get to do somethingdifferent, but it is.
It is a process, because youmight literally lose your mind
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if it goes too fast, and so youneed to trust the process of
deconstructing everything thatyou thought that you knew, and
then coming to that ground zeroand then rebuilding it, and that
can take years and that's okay,but that is.
Like you know, we came here toexperience like a multitude of
different things, and in thattime period, you can decide to
be a circus performer and then,once you've had that experience,
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you can be like hmm, you knowwhat I think?
I'm like I want to go be anauthor and I'm going to go write
a book, and so you figure outand you break some codes and
figure out how to become anauthor, and so you go down that
path.
And when you have you have thisbelief system that you are the
creator of your reality and thatyou actually can do these
things, it becomes easier andeasier to step into these
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different characters and to bethese different things in life
and to experience differentthings.
And if that isn't a video game,I don't know what is.
So that is what I have to sayabout life being a video game,
and I'm curious what yourthoughts are on this.
I would love to hear from all ofyou.
So feel free to send me a noteat hello at neena-alisecom, or
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I know your time is veryprecious because we are all
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Bye.
Welcome to the Receptive Impact Podcast.
I'm your host, nina Elise,hello, and thank you for tuning
in to today's episode.
So I have got a fun episodeplanned, well topic planned to
discuss, and it may be a littlecontroversial or may cause you
to be like what the hell?
(00:23):
Are you okay, nina?
Is this how you're truly livingyour life and you can think
whatever you want?
But this is a concept that Ihave been actually exploring for
the last, I would say, three orfour years, and so it's
something that I feelcomfortable talking about and
sharing, because I have playedaround with this idea and this
concept and what that is is whatif life was a video game?
(00:47):
I know that sounds maybe outthere for some people, but for
me, I completely love the ideaof this, and when this concept
was first introduced to me atfirst I was like wait, how is
that true?
And I think at the time I wasso disempowered and had given so
much of my power away to somany external things that I
(01:09):
didn't truly believe that Icould be a character in a video
game that was actually creatingmy reality.
And when I say creating myreality as a video game
character, it's like whatever isgoing on internally is going to
be reflected in your externalreality.
And it was like at that time itwas a hard concept for me to
understand because I was like,well, what do you mean?
(01:30):
I'm causing this in thecollective and I'm caught.
There's these wars and there'sthis and there's these shitty
presidents, and this is going on.
And it's like what do you mean?
That's my fault, that's myresponsibility.
And I think that's like a reallydifficult thing for people to
come to terms with, tounderstand that, like everything
that is going on internally,every belief system, like every
(01:51):
other thing, idea, like yourself worth, and like just inner
conflicts that you're judgingand all the shadow aspects of
yourself that is being reflectedback to you in the external
world, and the external worldwill continue to have that
control over you if you thinkthat it is something that is
separate than you and it'sreally not.
And when you start to explorethe possibility of this being a
(02:17):
potential truth, it can justcompletely radically change how
you approach life.
And so when I first learnedabout this concept, I was like,
oh yeah, haha, this is so funny.
Like, yeah, what if this istrue?
And then, over time, the morethat I explored plant medicines
and different modalities andtools that kind of took me into
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this other dimension and reallyexpanded my consciousness and
helped shift the way that Iperceived the world.
It was something that becamemore easily acceptable for me,
and so I think it was in like2020 or no, 2021 where something
happened and I completelyshattered what I thought was
reality, because I had put somuch emotion and stake in
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something happening and then,when it didn't, it shook me to
my core and I like literallywalked around in a daze for like
a week or two, being like howis this not true?
How did how come?
I invested all of this, all ofmy energy and time into this,
and it wasn't true.
And at the time I didn'tunderstand or realize, but it
was because I was basicallyputting my power outside of me
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and saying that, oh, this eventhappened when you know, and it
didn't make sense to me, but itwas something within myself that
needed, like it needed tohappen and the way that it did
for me to start to question,like how I was viewing reality,
how I was showing it fromreality, what I was giving my
attention to, what I was givingmy power away from.
And in the years following thatit became more of like OK, well
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, what if this is a video game?
And instead of being fearful ofthat, I started to kind of
explore that with neutrality,without any emotions attached to
that, and just say what if thisis a possibility?
And so, you know, as time wentby, it's like, you know, I would
be driving down the road and Iwould look outside and there'd
be like a person walking downthe street and I'd be like huh,
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well, that's just like anon-player character, that's
just in my game and it's almostlike this Truman Show type
mentality.
It's like, oh, that person'sjust a background character in
my game and I put him there tofill the space and to be a part
of my backdrop.
And when you start to look atit from that perspective, it's
like really funny, becauseyou're like wow, these are some
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really interesting charactersthat I'm putting here.
And sometimes I'll see likeglitches in the Matrix or
glitches in the video game,where I'm like you know, I live
in Florida and it'll be 90degrees outside and they'll be.
You know, I'll be driving downthe road in the middle of like a
place where there's like noestablishment, nothing.
There's a guy in a businesssuit, that's barefoot, that's
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walking just randomly, walkingin the 90 degree heat, and I'm
like, who put you there?
I put you there and then youjust kind of like laugh about it
.
So if you're like totally lostand you're like you know what
the hell, like what is going onin your mind all the time, well,
this is it, this is how, how Ihave kind of like shifted my
idea of like how reality reallyworks and there's so much out
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there from a quantum physicsperspective that actually really
validates the potentiality ofthis idea.
Because when you go into thisquantum space, if you're
familiar with like Joe Dispenzaand how you can go into these
meditations and reach thesestates where you come to like
basically a place of nothingnessand from there you can kind of
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shorten the timeline of whatyou're imagining and trying to
do and create that reality fromthat space.
And I think that is somethingthat we have forgotten or that
we're not aware that we can do,because we are putting our power
outside of ourselves andblaming everything outside of
ourselves for how our reality is, when in reality, we actually
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need to go inward and we need tolook at those shadows and we
need to take ownership of theexternal reality, because that
is what we are creating.
So if you stick with me hereand you're opening up to the
idea that hey, what if life wasa video game Not that there's
like someone holding acontroller outside of here,
outside of earth and space, orsomething that's like you know
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saying, move this foot and thenmove this foot it's like no,
we're just like consciousness inthis body and we have chosen
this character and we canliterally be whoever we want,
whatever we want, and there's nogood or bad, there's just
complete neutrality toeverything.
And everything in our lives isneutral and it only is what it
is because we give meaning to it.
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And I think that's a reallydifficult concept for people to
understand or to grasp, becauseit takes away from the meaning
of life and it takes away fromour addiction to these highs and
these lows of emotions and ittakes away, like, the meaning
that we give to something.
And if we don't have meaning orwe don't have purpose in our
life, then what is left?
And I think that is a verydifficult place for people to be
(06:56):
in, because when you come tothat, that point zero, that
place of nothingness, it'sterrifying.
And it's also terrifying tolook at the parts of yourself
that we previously judged aslike shadows or dark aspects of
ourselves.
And when we start to reallyexplore that inner world and we
start to grasp this concept oflike our external world is a
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reflection of our inner world,we go deeper and deeper into
that and we start to take onmore responsibility for who we
are and how we are showing up inlife and we start to realize,
like, how important it is to beintentional in the way that we
show up and the way that wecreate our lives.
And I reached that point earlierthis year.
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I basically went through likethis.
I called it a spiritualawakening last year, but
basically it was like I wasslapped in the face all at once
with every single shadow,everything I ever did wrong, how
I hurt people and like how totake radical responsibility for
like everything in my life.
And basically it was likeliving at my dad's house for a
couple of months, like reallyjust learning, like integrating
(07:59):
all of that and like sittingwith all of that and coming to
terms with it and being likeokay, like once you face all of
that stuff and you're like, okay, I'm taking responsibility for
my life.
It's almost like you have thisblank slate in front of you when
everything around you hascrumbled and all the meaning has
like gone to the ground andyou've let go of things and you
have faced your biggest fears.
It's like what are you leftwith when you have faced highs
(08:22):
and lows in your life and you'rejust like okay, well, what's
next?
And you start to take radicalresponsibility and step more
into that sovereignty of like.
Okay, I'm in a video game andI'm the main character.
What is it that I want tocreate?
Like, how do I even do that?
And it starts with getting likevery radically honest with
yourself about like, why do I dothe things that I do?
(08:43):
Why am I choosing to go hangout with Suzy instead of this
person over here?
It's because there's like anattraction to them in some way,
energetically, and maybe there'skarma you need to work out or
whatever.
But it's kind of exploring thatand saying, okay, I'm going to
go and spend time with thisperson, I'm going to cultivate
this, and when I give myattention to this person, that's
(09:04):
where I'm gonna be operatingvibrationally and this is the
path that my life is gonna godown.
Well, if you don't like thepath that your life is going on,
that is when you need to justbring everything back in and you
need to come back to groundzero and say, okay, I wanna
start over and I wanna createsomething different in my life.
And when you look at yourselffrom that perspective, as like
you have a blank slate, youyourself are a blank slate.
(09:26):
You are a video game characterthat you can build and you can
add different accessories to andyou can be different
personalities.
And it's like you know Romdosstalks about, like he's in this
meat suit and he's talked aboutin his book, about, you know,
like he showed up as a characterbecause he put on this clothes
and he put on a business suit,so he was a businessman and that
was the character that he wasfor that day.
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And then the next day he showedup somewhere else and he was in
his full on like meditationgarb and that was like the
character that he showed up asand in that moment, in that day.
And it's like so freeing andlike really funny at the end of
the day when you think about it,because we're all just actors
in this video game and we can bewhoever we want and some people
may struggle with that conceptor that idea.
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But it's not just like, oh, I'mgonna snap my fingers and I'm
gonna be that person Like Ithink when you get to a certain
level in this like video game,that it becomes easier and
easier for you to set more intodifferent characters.
But when you first start out,you're like where do I even
start?
How do I even do this?
It's like, okay, like how do Iwant my external reality look
like?
And yeah, you can say like, oh,I wanna live in a mansion and I
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wanna do this and I wanna have10 babies and be a billionaire
or whatever it is, and that'sall fun and great and that's
definitely an experience to have.
For me personally, it was like,okay, well, why do I want those
things?
Am I really at ground zero if Ihave these underlying wants and
needs for these external things?
And when I went through this,like spiritual waking of the
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past year, basically likeeverything crumbled to the
ground for me, where I hadnothing left, everything I loved
, everything I thought I loved.
I didn't have anywhere to live,I didn't have a job, I had lost
, like my best friend and likeone of the most important
relationships in my life hadjust completely crumbled to the
ground and it left me, likequestioning everything for the
past seven years of my life, andit was like, after the
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crumbling of that relationshipand not having anything else, it
was like, okay, well, what isit that I truly want?
Like if I had all these things,and now I don't have them, and
I'm in this place and I learnedhow to be okay with being in
that like place where, you know,I basically had nothing, or my
ego thought I had nothing, andso it became less of a place
(11:37):
that I was afraid of and more oflike a place of curiosity to be
in, and so, when I reached thatplace, it was easier for me to
be like okay, like I'm going toquestion what I truly want and
what I truly, you know, want toexperience in life.
And there are so many differentways that you can approach this.
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If you are looking at your lifeas a video game, like you can
look at your life as this blankslate and you have, like you
know, this huge controller infront of you and you're like, if
I push this button incombination with this button and
turn it just slightly here.
It's going to set me on thistimeline and this path, and when
you realize that, like what youput your focus and your
intention on and how you'reshowing up in your life and the
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decisions that you're making canput you on a different timeline
and there are an infiniteamount of timelines and that can
feel very overwhelming.
It can feel scary becausethat's a lot of responsibility
to put on yourself to createthis reality, but it's also
incredibly liberating because itdoes, it puts the power in your
hands and you can choose to godown this life.
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You can choose to sit here andbe a happy Buddha on a rock and
do that Like there's literallyno right or wrong.
And so when we take again, takeaway the emotions and how we
think things should be becausethat's ultimately driven by our
conditioning and by externalforces that have created belief
systems within us we can startto create from a more pure place
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and we can actually have funwith it and not take things so
seriously, and life can be somuch more joyful.
And again, this isn't somethingthat you know necessarily
happens overnight, but it issomething that you can sit with
and become more comfortable withover time.
So as like the main characterin your game, whether you're
coming from conditioned beliefsor you're coming from like a
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place of purification whereyou're like, okay, I have no
wants or needs.
So then how am I really gonnalive my life?
What choices am I gonna maketoday?
It becomes more of a game.
It literally becomes a game foryou and it takes away the
seriousness of things, becauseif everyone around you is just a
player in your game and theimportance or lack of importance
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that in the meaning that yougive to a person, that is how
they are going to show up inyour reality.
So it's like you cannot blameanyone for anything, like you
are just taking fullresponsibility for everything in
your life, even the people thatare around you, because they
are just reflecting back what isinside of you and you have
chosen for them to show up inyour video game based on what's
happening internally, which islike the biggest joke ever to me
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and just makes me laugh,because when I get caught up and
like kind of like fall asleepin the video game, where I'm
like, oh, this person did thisand I'm like, come on, nina, and
then I go and I sit with myselfand I say, okay, what is this
fear that's inside of me?
Or where am I projecting thisonto this person?
And it's just like this,constantly like peeling back
layers to purify yourself sothat you can come from a place
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of authenticity to build outyour video game.
And so there's a lot of trialand erroring when you get to
this like ground zero placewhere you're like, okay, what
controller am I gonna turn today?
And so my process with all ofthis was once I kind of got to
that place and I was like, okay,well, I can just start with
anything at this point.
And so I was like, okay, well,you know, what things do I do
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that bring me joy inside, thataren't based on external
validation or anything externalor things from my past or
whatever.
And it was like I picked simplethings.
Like you know, I love the ocean, so I started working with
nonprofits in the area that hadto do with helping the ecosystem
and sea turtles and like doingbeach cleanups and stuff, and I
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like really enjoyed doing thatand giving my time towards that,
because I really love the ocean, I love being around it, it's
like my favorite place to be inthe world and I love the town
that I live in, and so that waslike kind of a pillar that I
built for myself of like, okay,this is where I'm gonna be
intentional with my time and myenergy.
And another thing was learningSpanish, and so I was like, okay
, I'm gonna be intentional withmy time in the way that I, you
(15:37):
know, put my attention, and so,you know, I take a Spanish class
every week and I study everysingle day and I practice with
people and I practice withfriends, and it's something that
is fun and it's challenging,but it's something that I'm
deciding and choosing to beconsistent with, because my
long-term goal is based off oflike, I just wanna know another
language, I wanna be able totravel and, at the core of it,
intuitively, I feel like this issomething that is gonna be very
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beneficial for me and from aphilanthropic standpoint of how
I'm gonna be interacting andworking with people in the
future.
So this is something that I'mdedicating my time and my energy
to.
And so there are a couple otherpillars that I have that I put
my time and attention to, and Iwas just like you know what,
these can shift and these canchange over time, and I took
that pressure off of being likethis is my life goal now and
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these are the things that I needto put my attention on and be
so serious with.
And it was just more like, okay, I'm gonna go explore this and
see how this feels and if I havefun with this.
And as I'm going through thisjourney of like doing my inner
work and peeling back all ofthese layers, those things, some
of those things are fallingaway, Some of my goals are
falling away and I'm like, oh,maybe that's just not the
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direction I'm gonna go in, but Ihad to set that as a goal in
order to go do things, in orderto meet certain people that were
gonna guide me to somethingelse which has happened in the
process.
And so you learn how to trustthe unknown and the uncertainty
without, like, attaching anymeaning to it or attaching, like
your joy or your happiness toanything external and saying
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this is how it has to be, andjust trust that you're always
being guided to something bigger, without taking any of it
seriously, because it's allabout having the experience and
what you're here to learn andwhat you're here to learn about
yourself.
And if you think about from likea video game perspective, that
is how it goes.
As you go through the game, youhave these challenges where you
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get to proceed to the nextlevel, but it's not an easy
thing.
Like you've got to explore thevideo game, you've got to learn
different things about yourself,you get to unlock superpowers,
and then you go and you fightsome like crazy demon in order
to go to the next level andadvance to the next floor of the
castle and to explore differentthings.
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And so when you look at thatfrom the perspective of, like
this is how our life is, to mepersonally, it just makes so
much sense.
And so the more that I explorethis, the more that I'm like
holy shit, like this is actuallyso much fun and it takes away
the seriousness of life.
And some people might be like oh, this is completely delusional.
Or you're like living in thisfantasy world, and it's like am
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I?
Am I really living in thisfantasy world?
Like, you know, how are youliving your life?
Are you going to your nine tofive job that is sucking your
soul, when you hate it, and youare constantly complaining about
how your health doesn't feelgood and how you're not making
enough money because you'reblaming your employer for making
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you miserable when, in reality,you're just completely
disempowering yourself andyou're putting your happiness in
the hands of other people andnot taking responsibility and
taking action to do somethingdifferent with your own life.
And that is where I feel likethe concept of living life in a
video game really comes intoplay, because it puts the power
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back into your hands to dosomething different.
And I'm going to tell you, it isnot easy, like especially at
first.
Over time it does get easier,because you know you have to
shed all of these old paradigmsand all these old ideas and
belief systems about how realityactually works.
And when you start to shiftthat and you start to put the
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power back into your hands,there's going to be that time
period where you're like is thisright, is this working, can I
trust this?
Can I trust myself?
And you just experiment and youfeel like some days you're
going two steps back, eventhough you've, you know, put one
step forward, and it can justfeel like you're completely lost
or you're losing your mind, butin reality you're just
completely crumbling all ofthese old belief systems and
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you're teaching yourself tocreate a reality that is fun for
you, that you get to explore.
So, if you think about it, it'slike you were just plopped down
on this earth at birth with noconditioning, nothing, and then,
over the years, you were justconditioned and programmed by
external things outside of you.
And then it's like you reachthis point where you're like
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wait, I don't think this is howI want to live my life.
I don't have to be, you know,controlled by other people,
because in reality you're nevercontrolled by any people.
It's just you become aware ofthe fact that you are allowing
yourself to stay small and be ina place of disempowerment by
placing blame on everythingexternal.
And so that is my journey, withthis idea of what if life was a
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video game.
Because, even though it soundsto some people maybe like this
crazy concept, there's so muchhappening right now that people
are looking at and they're like,hey, there's aliens, okay, cool
, yeah, I know there's aliens.
Or like these totally out there.
Things are happening and peopleare calling them like glitches
in the matrix or you knowwhatever, and it's like you're
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starting to see that thingsreally aren't the way that we
thought they were.
It's literally like waking upin the Truman Show and being
like, oh my God, I'm Jim Carrey,like this is my reality, is not
what I thought it was, and thenyou get to change the narrative
, you get to do somethingdifferent, but it is.
It is a process, because youmight literally lose your mind
(21:13):
if it goes too fast, and so youneed to trust the process of
deconstructing everything thatyou thought that you knew, and
then coming to that ground zeroand then rebuilding it, and that
can take years and that's okay,but that is.
Like you know, we came here toexperience like a multitude of
different things, and in thattime period, you can decide to
be a circus performer and then,once you've had that experience,
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you can be like hmm, you knowwhat I think?
I'm like I want to go be anauthor and I'm going to go write
a book, and so you figure outand you break some codes and
figure out how to become anauthor, and so you go down that
path.
And when you have you have thisbelief system that you are the
creator of your reality and thatyou actually can do these
things, it becomes easier andeasier to step into these
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different characters and to bethese different things in life
and to experience differentthings.
And if that isn't a video game,I don't know what is.
So that is what I have to sayabout life being a video game,
and I'm curious what yourthoughts are on this.
I would love to hear from all ofyou.
So feel free to send me a noteat hello at neena-alisecom, or
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you can reach out to me on mywebsite at neena-alisecom.
If you love this episode and youfelt like something stuck with
you, feel free to share it withyour friends or your family, or
leave a review if you haven'talready.
Just sharing like maybe,something that really stuck with
you or kind of shifted yourbelief system or caused you to
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think about things in adifferent way.
It really helps to boost mypodcast so that other people can
have more access to seeing thisand listening to my episodes,
and it really means a lot to meif you guys go out and do that.
I really appreciate your timeand sitting here and listening
to me talk for 15, 20, 30minutes.
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I know your time is veryprecious because we are all
bombarded with a lot of thingsin our lives, but I hope that
this episode has been helpfuland maybe even just planting a
seed or seeing your reality,your life, in a different way or
a different perspective thatyou haven't before.
So again, thank you so much fortuning in and I will see you
guys in the next episode.
Bye.
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