Inner Journey with Greg Friedman welcomes GRATITUDE

nner Journey with Greg Friedman HAPPILY, WHOLE HEARTEDLY WELCOMES GRATITUDE!!!!
In these weird and wonderful times it is more imperitive than ever before to welcome to be grateful for what is, and in that celebrate, accept and grow our abundance.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hi, this is Greg Braden, Jack Canfield, Mariam Williamson, James
Van Prod.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hi everyone, this is Neil Donald Walsh, and I'm happy
to tell you that you're listening to Inner Journey with
Greg Friedman. Stick Around. Your life will change any minute.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
You heard the man stick around. Your life can change
at any minute. You are listening to Inner Journey with
Greg Friedman on k x F M one O four seven,
broadcast from Laguna Beach, California. For Laguna Beach, California and
for the world you'll know the gig Sex, Relationships, Dream Interpretation.

(00:46):
We talk about it all. We don't tell you what
to do, and we don't tell you how to do it,
and there's a very good reason for that. Our freaking lives.
It's your life. That means it's your choice, it's your power,
it's your freedom, it's your celebration. It's your trials, it's

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your tribulations, it's your triumphs. Choose the day, choose the
day's divinity. It's up to you. We do one thing
with this program and one thing alone to help you
understand you are the magic, and we just get to

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help you realize it.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
I want every about to get up out of your seat,
Come on, come on your hands together and give it
some of that old soul.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
But thank you elect did, but you didn't understand.

Speaker 6 (02:03):
I thank you.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
You just can love so where he goes, I wouldn't
know where it need to be.

Speaker 7 (02:12):
Luck to dead.

Speaker 8 (02:14):
You made me.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
Feel like a new felt. She's just so good. I
have the hall of for help. Did not speaking like
you be, but.

Speaker 8 (02:25):
You did did?

Speaker 9 (02:28):
God?

Speaker 7 (02:29):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
They're not the homie like you did, but nen did.

Speaker 6 (02:36):
God thank you.

Speaker 10 (02:38):
Let me say that there was something.

Speaker 11 (02:43):
You could with your father. You shall thanks to just
so you can't keep up to shake it like you did,
but you did and you did.

Speaker 6 (03:01):
I thank you.

Speaker 8 (03:03):
Don't not for magnet. Thank you did what you did?

Speaker 12 (03:07):
You did?

Speaker 6 (03:09):
I thank you.

Speaker 8 (03:12):
My love. I can such her.

Speaker 13 (03:16):
But that's all been a fire shame.

Speaker 10 (03:20):
No fuck fellow been telling you about when they said,
that's you being turned out on the fact you thank
you made oh man, thank you my man good enough

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to love actity what she did and you did.

Speaker 14 (03:54):
I thank you.

Speaker 8 (03:57):
Don't enough for all you did.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Alright, here we go. You are listening to in a
Journey with Greg Friedman on k x F M one
O four seven. You know, I can't begin to tell
you how many people I have spoken to in the
last three or four days and they are hung over

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from Thanksgiving, sometimes because of booze. But I'm not talking
about just kind of of booze, just kind because of booze.
I'm talking about their hungover because of family. They're hungover
because of eating too much. I know people today, I

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mean literally, I spoke to somebody not that long ago
that said they were still stuffed and they couldn't get
over it.

Speaker 13 (05:22):
And I think we miss the point.

Speaker 15 (05:29):
You know.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
I remember when my uncle was alive, he used to
talk about how much he loved Thanksgiving because it wasn't
a holiday with presents. It wasn't a holiday of doing
anything but gathering with family that he loved to celebrate

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one another. Know if he was the only one that
felt that way, but looking around, it sure seems that way.
Thanksgiving is about an attitude of gratitude. It's not about
celebrating Columbus coming in and wanting to create genocide. It

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wasn't about anybody's genocide.

Speaker 12 (06:18):
It was.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Is an opportunity, an opportunity to be grateful, and that's
what this program is about. All evening because in my estimation, somewhere, somehow,
some way, we have lost or inhibited our ability to

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be grateful, to have gratitude, to be thankful for who
we are as we are. So often I hear people saying, well,
you know, when I achieve this, then I'm going to
be happy.

Speaker 12 (07:00):
Do this.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
I'm gonna be happy when I have a mansion, a millionaire.
I'm a millionaire, I have a car, I have a house,
I have whatever it is. And baby, right here, right
now is the time, is the opportunity. Because in my life,
grateful people are happy people, and it's really really tough,

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maybe impossible to be happy without being grateful.

Speaker 13 (07:34):
And there's so much to be grateful for.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
That's there is no mistake as to why I end
this show every single week saying thank you. There are
so many things that I do in my life. I
want to make sure that I have the opportunity not
only to express it, but to internally express it as well.

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I am blessed I get to live in a beautiful place.
I have tough times, man, I have really tough times,
and I have wonderful times, and I don't segment them.
I am grateful for my life as it is, not
when it becomes something else. So tonight's show is going

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to be all about different ways to first about talk
about the importance of gratitude, and then some steps, some
different tools that we could do, because it ain't always easy,
especially if you're in it, especially if you feel like
you're inundated or overwhelmed or just or just underwater. And

(08:54):
I know a lot of y'all feel that way, and
I promise the best lifeline you have is just gratitude.
Everything else will follow, and we'll be back with more
inner journey and our evening of an attitude of gratitude

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right after this.

Speaker 12 (09:35):
Evening.

Speaker 14 (09:36):
Not loved like you did, but you did, but you did,
And I thank you. Then, my loved man, I get dead,
but you dead, but you dead, And I thank you
by your love With someone else, I wouldn't know what

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it meant it me love you did.

Speaker 11 (10:02):
You made me feel like I na I felt get
her fund I had no hard for help.

Speaker 14 (10:10):
You didn't not to.

Speaker 8 (10:11):
Squeeze, but you did, but you did, but you didn't, And.

Speaker 14 (10:17):
I thank you You did love to hold it but
you did, but you did, but you did.

Speaker 16 (10:25):
And I think it.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
Nay were something you put on your back and you're
fine to do.

Speaker 6 (10:37):
You gotta try do things too.

Speaker 8 (10:41):
Just whet up with you. You didn't have to shake

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you kid, but you did. But you did, but you did,
and I thank you.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
You did not mag it like you did, but you did,
but you did. And I thank you.

Speaker 6 (11:20):
All my life.

Speaker 14 (11:22):
I've been show change without children of beaming.

Speaker 8 (11:26):
It's a cry and shame.

Speaker 14 (11:29):
And now I know what the fellow a song of
about when they say that they did turn out.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
I wanna thank you.

Speaker 7 (11:41):
I want to thank you.

Speaker 8 (11:45):
I wanna thank you. Yes, I want to thank you.

Speaker 17 (12:21):
My d is on me get risk. And it's great
to be with j Greg and with everybody IF's listening
to us, and to have the opportunity to share my ideas.
It's a great pleasure once again to be just show
oh my love to.

Speaker 14 (12:35):
All of you.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
All right. Social media is in her journey with Greg Friedman,
and the website is Gregfriedman dot com. Tonight, we are
talking about gratitude because I am telling you I looked
around at Thanksgiving and there wasn't a whole lot of
people that were expressing a whole lot of thanks you,

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and over and over and over Tonight, we're going to
talk about different pathways to it, different reasons for it,
different motivations, inspirations, and tools.

Speaker 13 (13:12):
So why don't we kick it off with Denzel. Say
thank you for.

Speaker 18 (13:18):
Grace, thank you for mercy, thank you for understanding, thank
you for wisdom, Thank you for parents. Thank you for love,
thank you for kindness, thank you for humility, thank you
for peace, thank you for prosperity. Say thank you in
advance for what's already yours.

Speaker 8 (13:40):
It's how I live my life. That's why I am.

Speaker 13 (13:42):
One of the reasons why I am today.

Speaker 18 (13:45):
Say thank you in advance for what is already yours.

Speaker 8 (13:49):
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you for this day.
Thank you for every moment that led to this day.

Speaker 15 (14:01):
Thank you for the hard times they made me appreciate
the good times. Thank you for the lessons they were
needed for my development. Thank you for my eyes that
get to witness the miracles of today and tomorrow. Thank
you for everything I take for granted. Thank you for
all of my blessings. Thank you for my drive. Thank

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you for my spirit. Thank you for my strength. Thank
you for giving me the courage to fight through the
hard times. Thank you for the people in my life,
those I love and those I learn from.

Speaker 8 (14:37):
Thank you for it all. Thank you, Thank you.

Speaker 15 (14:44):
It's the key that opens the door to instant happiness,
unlocks the door to everything we are really seeking.

Speaker 8 (14:50):
In life, happiness and contentment.

Speaker 15 (14:52):
Think about no matter what you say you want money, riches, health,
to help others, why do you you really want it?

Speaker 8 (15:02):
When you drill deep down, the only.

Speaker 15 (15:04):
Reason anyone wants anything is the feeling we believe we
will get from having it. That all boils down to
happiness and contentment. And the truth is we can have
it now if we are grateful. And if you get quiet,
get away from the noise of the world and think
for a moment about what you could be grateful for.

Speaker 8 (15:27):
I'm sure you could find plenty.

Speaker 15 (15:31):
Be grateful there's food on the table, airing your lungs,
life in your body. Get grateful that you have opportunity,
opportunity to take your life to a whole nother level,
to the side right now, that you are going to
live your dreams and never settle until you do. Get
grateful for the mental strength you've been given to survive

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the hard times. Get grateful for your limbs. If you
haven't many are not so blessed.

Speaker 12 (16:00):
You have it.

Speaker 15 (16:01):
Many are not so blessed you're hearing if you have it.
Many are not so blessed the health you do. Add
many are in worse positions. Get grateful for that one
person that has had an impact in your life, or
many people.

Speaker 8 (16:17):
If you are so blessed, then get grateful.

Speaker 15 (16:20):
You can choose to be that person for someone else,
that one that makes a difference in someone else's.

Speaker 8 (16:26):
Life, no matter how small.

Speaker 15 (16:29):
Get grateful you get to experience this magical universe today.

Speaker 13 (16:34):
Look for miracles.

Speaker 15 (16:36):
I guarantee if you are looking, you will see them.
There are unlimited things to.

Speaker 13 (16:41):
Be grateful for.

Speaker 15 (16:43):
Open your eyes, unlock your amazing life. It's ready for
you right now.

Speaker 19 (16:54):
Thank you for this day, whatever it brings, whether a challenge,
I need to grow a lineup to teach me patience,
an unexpected blessing, every moment of joy, whatever today brings,
Thank you, whatever it brings. I pray I have enough
presence in each moment to know that no circumstance is

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my life, no high or low, no event, no thing
is my life. Life is energy, and I know I'm
so much more than my physical body. Thank you for
my ability to love, to give to others my authentic
love and kindness without expecting anything in return.

Speaker 16 (17:35):
Thank you for my strength, thank you for my presence.

Speaker 19 (17:39):
Thank you for my ability to attract only the things
and people that are in harmony with.

Speaker 13 (17:44):
What I needed in my life.

Speaker 8 (17:47):
Thank you, thank you, Thank you for this day, whatever
it brings.

Speaker 13 (18:04):
Welcome back.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
You think that's silly, I'll tell you this. A long
time ago I went to a place called Magic Castle.
If you live in southern California, you know it. It's
a private club where literally all of the greatest musicians
magicians from all over the world have become members and

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are honored there.

Speaker 13 (18:30):
And it was a very very strange event.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
I went with a high priest from the Dagara tribe,
a medicine man from the Yackey tribe, and a future rabbi.

Speaker 12 (18:45):
And me.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
And I remember at one point we are all sitting
around having an odd conversation to be having in that
environment about life, about gratitude, and then all of a sudden,
Io stood up and Io said, every five minutes you
said say, you should say thank you God, thank you God.

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And if you don't think that's going to have an
impact on your life, call me out. Try it for
not even a week, Try it for three days. To
the best of your abilities, every single time you can
remember to say thank you, five minutes, ten minutes, whatever

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it is, preferably five minutes internally externally see it, say it,
and then tell me if I'm lying, because as far
as I'm concerned, it works.

Speaker 13 (19:50):
Thank you.

Speaker 20 (19:52):
Do you realize that every day you thought you wasn't
gonna make it? Do you remember them days what you
thought it was absolutely un bearable and you thought you
wasn't gonna endure it that one?

Speaker 8 (20:03):
Do you know that your.

Speaker 20 (20:04):
Survival rate for every last one of them bad days
is one hundred percent.

Speaker 8 (20:11):
You your track record for.

Speaker 20 (20:13):
Surviving bad days is one hundred percent. That's a fact.
Your track record you battening the fouls. You have survived
every funking day you ever had. You survived, every hater,
you survived, all the evictions, you've survived, the firings you survived,

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all the tell you norwe a hind. You survived all
the trouble.

Speaker 8 (20:41):
You've ever been in. Your survival rate is one hundred percent,
one hundred percent.

Speaker 20 (20:51):
All you got to do is start changing the way
you think it's as simple as it's not a magic trick.
You can protect yourself from negativity, and that's what stops
most people negative thoughts. You can coate your mind from negativity.
It's a real simple exercise to do. I do it
every morning before I walk out the door, so I

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walk out as a positive person.

Speaker 8 (21:14):
You know, I get tired sometimes.

Speaker 20 (21:17):
That's different from being negative because I get mentally drained
from my job at times. But to coat your mind
from negativity, the way you can put a coding around
your mind is with one simple thing, gratitude. Gratitude erasist negativity.
I'm gonna show you how this works. If you wake

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up in the morning you start having negative thoughts, Man,
this ain't my day.

Speaker 8 (21:41):
I woke up on the wrong side of bed. I'm tripping.

Speaker 20 (21:44):
I just don't feel myself every time you feel in
the middle of the day, if you feel yourself doing.

Speaker 8 (21:49):
That, stop, just stop for a second and start going
over in your.

Speaker 20 (21:54):
Mind everything you have to be grateful for, not everything
you want, everything you already.

Speaker 8 (22:01):
Have, because what you have is substantial.

Speaker 20 (22:04):
You just haven't gone over the list and taken inventory
in a long time. But the fact that you can
walk that's a blessing. The fact that you woke up,
that's another blessing. The fact that you can see, think, reason,
that's another blessing. The fact that you can go somewhere
and get yourself something to eat, that's another blessing. The
fact that you can go and turn the key and

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call someplace hold, that's another blessing.

Speaker 8 (22:28):
The ability to dream is a blessing.

Speaker 20 (22:33):
The fact that you have an opportunity to get it
right is another blessing. The fact that you're beautiful, that's
another blessing. The fact that you have any measure of health,
that's another blessing.

Speaker 8 (22:44):
And I'm just talking to you. I don't even know you.

Speaker 20 (22:47):
I could give you fifty things you ought to be
grateful for right now, I don't even know you. Start
coding your mind with gratitude. It'll change everything for you.
I'm in the only profession there is no school for.
You can't go to school for comedy. There's nothing nothing

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available for comedy. You either born this way or you're not.
But you could go take lessons and then you know,
you just gotta get around the scene out here. It's hard.

Speaker 8 (23:17):
It takes a long young people.

Speaker 20 (23:19):
You just gotta understand it take a long time make
a lot of money quick thinking you finna just hit it.
That's not how this work. It takes a long time
to make a lot of money. It took me a
long time, man. But there's joy in the process too. See,
you gotta enjoy the process.

Speaker 8 (23:34):
You got.

Speaker 20 (23:35):
You gotta be grateful when you make in fifty thousand,
Then you gotta be grateful when you get to seventy
five thousand.

Speaker 8 (23:42):
You gotta be grateful at eighty thousand.

Speaker 20 (23:44):
A lot of people stay pissed off because they ain't
a millionaire. But I got news for you. If you
pissed off where you are right now, you'll never be
a millionaire. You want me to tell you why, because
there is a principle of success that God requires our
great The more you're grateful for, the more God will
give you to be grateful for. God he real smart.

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He got this system set up, real smart, so you
can immediately increase your life by being grateful instead of
complaining about what's going on. Man, I got to go
to work today, Man, I got these kids. See you
ask for all this, though, Remember when you wanted a job,
Remember when you wanted a baby, Remember when you wanted

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to get the new car, Well, the new car come
with some bills. Well, remember when you wanted to get
you a bigger place. You got the bigger place.

Speaker 8 (24:40):
It costs more money.

Speaker 6 (24:42):
You know what I learned.

Speaker 20 (24:43):
You can't cry about what's on your plate when your
whole gold was to eat. And if the moment you
start showing God more gratitude, he'll give you more stuff
because he's such a fair god. You know what he
do is he not gonna keep giving you stuff if
what you got you you can't handle already, So he
ain't gonna put no more on you than you can bear.

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So why are you tripping about all you got to do?
He said, Well, let me quit giving him stuff to
do because he already can't handle this. Here, you kill
more blessings by not being grateful.

Speaker 8 (25:14):
That's the number one blessing blocker, lack of gratitude.

Speaker 20 (25:21):
That's the number one reason I have what I have,
And that's the number one reason why I'm going to
get more, because I just stay grateful for what I have.
And I'm busy, man, But I oh, last year I
was complaining a lot, and I couldn't understand why these
few deals wasn't closing.

Speaker 8 (25:39):
I was on vacation this year. I was sitting on
the boat. I was looking out over the water, and
and God just he just showed it to me.

Speaker 20 (25:47):
He said, well, Steve, you've been complaining a lot about
your workload, about how much you got. I can't give
you no more because I don't wanna. I don't want
to tax you. I don't want to overburden you. I
came back, told my wife that we finished up the vacation.
I came back, I changed everything. I wake up every

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morning with nothing but gratitude, and I became more efficioucy,
And I'm telling you right now.

Speaker 8 (26:15):
Two of them deals. I signed one yesterday.

Speaker 20 (26:18):
The cool thing about it is it don't take God
a long time to bless you. He starts immediately. Man,
I listen to me. Y'all, wake up every day and
start being grateful. Wake up every day. Don't check your
phone first, don't check your text and messages. Wake up
every morning and just start thanking him for just your life,

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your kids, your job, your house, your food, your clothes,
your money, your car.

Speaker 8 (26:50):
Your husband, your boyfriend.

Speaker 20 (26:52):
And then immediately after that you'll have a better day
and then watch he started giving you more stuff.

Speaker 8 (26:58):
It's really not a magic trick to get rich, man.
You just have to learn the principles of success.

Speaker 20 (27:11):
What I'm gonna share with you took me years and
years and years to really understand it. But if you
can wrap your mind around it, you can grab this
concept and master it in three days. Like you said,
if you little slow, if any little extra convince it
is what I mean by that, then probably a couple

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of weeks and then the rest of you just won't
get this at all. And I understand that there's a
scripture that says the poor will always be amongst us.
One of the reasons he put that in there is
because he knew in a lot of people's shortcomings and
the way they were gonna think that they.

Speaker 8 (27:51):
Wasn't gonna buy into the belief system.

Speaker 20 (27:53):
That they wasn't gonna buy into the fact that if
he came, he came to give you life more abundantly,
that they were gonna buy into the fact that miracles
can happen for them too. They're not gonna buy into
the fact that if that if that these people with
these wonderful lives, that that can apply to them I
think God knew that. I'm not saying I know that,

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but I think that scripture in there the poor will
always be amongst us. It's because I just I don't know. Man.
Maybe he knew all of us wasn't gonna believe, all
of us wasn't gonna receive, and all of us wasn't
gonna think it was possible. So maybe it's in there
for that. But he covers everything. Now Here's Here's the
thing that took me a long time to wrap my

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mind around. It is the concept of gratitude. All right,
let me tell you what I come to, came to
the understanding so you can begin the process today.

Speaker 8 (28:47):
Gratitude and the lack of it.

Speaker 20 (28:52):
Okay, you listening, Gratitude and the lack of it is
one of the biggest blessing blockers there is.

Speaker 8 (29:04):
Listen to me.

Speaker 20 (29:05):
It took me years and years and years to come
to this realization. I'm gonna give it to you. And
if you're smart, you can really wrap your mind around
this thing in a matter of days if you focus
on it, and in two weeks you could have this
thing mastered. But gratitude and the lack of it is
one of the biggest blessing blockers there is.

Speaker 8 (29:26):
Now, Gratitude is just what it is.

Speaker 20 (29:29):
It's being thankful or grateful for something or someone and
some event that's an occurrence in your life.

Speaker 8 (29:38):
It's just having the overall attitude of.

Speaker 20 (29:41):
Gratefulness, thankfulness, thankfulness, gratitude.

Speaker 16 (29:49):
For what you have.

Speaker 20 (29:52):
If you can become extremely grateful and thankful for what
you have, you then open up the lanes for you
to receive more. But your lack of gratitude sometimes and
our lack of gratitude, causes the blessings that could flow

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our way to be blocked. Here's how you block your blessings.
This the cold part man, Here the part that I
didn't get. If you are not thankful for what you have,
if you are not grateful for what you have, why

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listens let me This is just common sense. Now, Why
would God give you some more stuff for you then
not to be grateful, thankful and appreciative of Why would
he do that?

Speaker 12 (30:55):
What?

Speaker 8 (30:56):
It does not make any sense.

Speaker 20 (30:58):
It goes against him, go against the law of attraction,
It goes against everything that makes sense.

Speaker 8 (31:06):
You cannot push your way something and attract it. It
don't work.

Speaker 20 (31:13):
You either pushing or you pull it. You either given
or you receiving. What which one you're doing here? You
either run in your mouth or you quiet humming. Humming
counts as humming doesn't count as quiet. But I close
my mouth and I hum, that don't count as quiet. See,

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so stop looking for the loopholes. The lack of gratitude
is one of the biggest blessing blockers that there is. Man,
why would God give you some more stuff to not
be grateful for? Have you ever just looked at it
that a way? Maybe you don't have any more than

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you have because you're not really really thankful and appreciative
or show gratitude for what you have had. How do
you show gratitude when you don't have all you want?
This is very simple. You show the gratitude, the appreciation,
and the thankfulness not for what you want, for what

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you have. Then, if you really master the concept, when
you ask God for something, you thank him in advance
for sending it to you, so you can sit over
here and had a cold ability to receive. Man, this
thing is not a magic treat. It's a mental adjustment
that we have to make in order to get what

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we want. Look, man, the lack of gratitude is one
of the biggest blessing blockers that is.

Speaker 8 (32:50):
Think about it for a second. Think about it.

Speaker 20 (32:52):
If you don't have all you want when the last
time you thanked him for all you have? I mean,
really to inventory of your life and really thank him
for the ability to speak, your mind, walking healing, for friendship,

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for your family, for keeping angels camped around, for watching over.

Speaker 8 (33:18):
Your children, for your parents still being here.

Speaker 20 (33:22):
Man, for even having the parents, even if you lost them,
for the things they taught you. For being able to
see the sun every day it's cats locked away, man,
don't even get to see the sun. You ain't even
grateful for that. But then if you locked the way,
ain't you grateful that you still here? Come on, man,
everybody got something to be grateful for. Because all the
dirt I did, I should be in the worst position

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than I am. But even if you locked up all
you did, you could be worse off. Now, think about it.
Everybody got something to be grateful for.

Speaker 8 (33:54):
But if you and that old woe is me? Mindset
the old Lord. I just can't seem to get it together.

Speaker 20 (34:00):
And these bills keep coming, Yeah, they keep coming because
you keep attracting them. Lord, Lord, I'm so sick of
this deck. Lord, help me get out of debt. Well,
you just attracted some more debt to get out of.
You keep speaking stuff out into space in the universe,
and you keep speaking stuff into existence in your life.

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I can't ever seem to find a all me and
as dogs will, here come another one. I can't find
nobody to treat me right. Here come another one. Ain't
gonna treat you right when? You're gonna change the way
you think? When you when will we change the way
we put out what we put out into space? Man,

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the lack of gratitude is one of the biggest blessing
blockers that there is.

Speaker 8 (34:48):
Man, You've got to show gratitude for every little thing
you have.

Speaker 12 (34:55):
Man.

Speaker 20 (34:55):
The homeless man under the bridge got to be thankful
if he get a box to shield from the wind sometimes,
but if not, there you'll stay. I'm sorry, man, this
ain't steve you know, coming over and on this?

Speaker 8 (35:08):
Why you over here?

Speaker 14 (35:10):
You are?

Speaker 8 (35:10):
Why where you are?

Speaker 20 (35:11):
Because you thought yourself there, You thought yourself there, you
attracted things to you.

Speaker 8 (35:19):
You didn't listen. We don't listen to God.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
In a journey with Greg Friedman kx FM one O
four seven.

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You attracted.

Speaker 21 (35:34):
To you.

Speaker 13 (35:36):
Now, I'm gonna tell you.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
There's a couple of ways that he expresses himself. That
was Steve Harvey that I'm not all that crazy about.
You know, people get hung up on the word God,
call it whatever the heck you want. Frequency, universal energy, universe,
source energy, what. I just don't care how you name it.

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There is a palpable, there is something out there.

Speaker 13 (36:07):
What that is.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
I'm not so arrogant as the name, but I'll tell
you this. The universe responds musically, puts something out and
you are going to get an echo into the universe
or from the universe. And it's entirely your choice if
you want that to be a sweet note or a

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sour note.

Speaker 13 (36:31):
And another thing that.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
Steve Harvey talked about that I'm not crazy about. He
talked about gratitude a lot in terms of material things.
I'm gonna tell you, we all live in Laguna Beach.
Laguna Beach is amazing, and thirty million dollars fifty million
dollar homes are not out of the question. However, I've

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been close enough to those homes. I've been in those homes.
I don't own one of those homes. But I'll tell
you this, those people that own those homes that I've
been exposed to, for the most part, are not really happy.
Imagine having all of this abundance and not figuring out

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how to appreciate it, how to be grateful for it,
how to enjoy it, how to enjoy yourself, how to
enjoy one another, how to love.

Speaker 22 (38:00):
Sun refuse to shine, I would still be loving you.

Speaker 8 (38:11):
One mountain scrumble to the sea.

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There will still be you and me.

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A woman A give your man, have your mar ming.

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And jumps the ray, whisper of.

Speaker 6 (38:42):
The pain, to suppose last in the days, not lie.

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Mystrive the rest round Together we shall go until we die.

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My mind.

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Inspirations.

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But you are to me.

Speaker 22 (39:09):
Inspiration say, and so today my world its smiles.

Speaker 8 (39:58):
You're handing my We walk the miles thanks to you.
It will be done.

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For you.

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To me.

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I loved the.

Speaker 14 (40:19):
Happiness.

Speaker 8 (40:21):
No more be said.

Speaker 6 (40:25):
Happiness.

Speaker 22 (40:35):
If the sun refused to shine, I would still.

Speaker 6 (40:43):
Be loving you.

Speaker 8 (40:47):
Mountains crumble to see.

Speaker 12 (40:54):
There we still be here.

Speaker 24 (40:57):
And the.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
Social media is inner journey with Greg Friedman in the
website Gregfriedman dot Com. Tonight we are talking about an
attitude of gratitude, and we are going to shift a
little bit, because unless you can accept what is for
what it is, you ain't going to be grateful. You're

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always going to be trying to make what is into
something else, and that ain't no way to appreciate the
gift of the divinity of the day.

Speaker 21 (42:25):
Some experiences weigh on us like a heavy cross that's
almost impossible to bear. They paralyze us with guilt or
make us hide in shame, and in other cases they
leave us with an immense amount of pain for us
to process. Many people either fight or stick their heads
in the sand and never come to terms with how
things are. But there's a way to move forward, and

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it starts with accepting reality for what it is, which
in some cases is an act of radicalism. Imagine that
someone sticks you with a knife. There are several things

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you can do. You can ignore it, or you can
try to fight it and resist the fact that it happened.
But the only thing that eventually leads to healing is
the acceptance that this event, regardless of its brutality, took place.
I know this is kind of a harsh example, but
moving forward in any situation, and also finding ways to
truly process it is done by acceptance. Now, this doesn't

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mean that we condone or approve of anything. It means
that we honestly acknowledge what's going on in our environment
and in ourselves. Many people often look at acceptance as
a form of giving in. They see it as a weakness.
But is there anything weaker than refusing to observe things
how they really are and to purposefully live in a

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state of blissful ignorance simply because we don't want to
be confronted.

Speaker 8 (43:57):
With the harsh reality.

Speaker 21 (43:59):
It's no surprise that human beings often engage in the
most creative ways of sugarcoating, down playing, ignoring, and denying.
We push trauma into the shadow, We drink away our pain,
or even create a complete web of lies that protects
us from realizing what's truly going on. These are just
coping mechanisms in order to stay away from the ugliness

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of truth. People get stuck for many years, in some
cases for a lifetime because they refuse to confront what
they've been running from. A lifetime of denial can eat
someone from the inside out. It creates cognitive dissonance from
silently sticking one's head in the sand to violently lashing
out as a defense mechanism. When we find ourselves in

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a position of pain, no matter how horrendous it is,
the only way not to get stuck is acceptance. And
when the pain is overwhelming and the reality seems too
heavy to bear, then the act of acceptance becomes radical,
especially when we've been lying to ourselves for such a
long time and our minds have become pressure cookers that

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are about to explode, and also when the things we
accept are in conflict with our ideas and believes about
how life ought to be. Radical acceptance means that we
acknowledge the stuff that's excruciatingly painful, things like parental abuse,
characteristics about ourselves that we hate, the fact that we
are suffering an illness, perhaps a lethal one, or crimes

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that we've committed in the past, and the guilt that
comes from that. It's necessary to finally let go and
get past the things we've been resisting for so long,
because what we resist persists, and what we accept we
move beyond. It's vital to make the stoic distinction between
the things that are up to us any things that
are not up to us. We can't control the outside world.

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We can't change the past. We have no certainties about
the future. However, we do control the position we take
towards life. As servant gelk Guard stated, life can only
be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Speaker 13 (46:04):
So what are we going to do?

Speaker 21 (46:06):
Are we going to hide from the truth or fight reality?

Speaker 13 (46:09):
Live in the past?

Speaker 21 (46:10):
Or will we muster the courage to accept the present
and everything in it so we can move forward and
mold the ugliness of this moment into a better future.
We cannot change things for the better when we don't
acknowledge them. We won't put bandage on a wound if
we deny its existence in the first place. And if
we live life ignorantly based on lies, we might try

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to change a false reality, which is kind of insane
and also counterproductive. Radical acceptance is a powerful act. It
means that we take a deep breath, stand up straight
with our shoulders back, and look the abyss straight in
the eye. It sends a message to the outside world
that we are willing to embrace it and that we
don't cower away from the consequences of doing so that

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we're confident that we'll find a way to deal with it.
Thank you for watching.

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I love you love me jump in your game?

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Hello, I love you.

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Won't you tell me you Dad?

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Hello, I love you, love me?

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Jump in your game.

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She's walking down the street lying to where I see
me in.

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The other thing.

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your game. Their whole sirl.

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Is so.

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Like a style shoe in the sky. But arms are
wicked and her legs along.

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When she moved my brain scream on their sound.

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Wat crump tains at her face like a dog, bad face,
or something sweet.

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To your home to make her see you do your
hope to like this dusky jewel that loud, that loud.

Speaker 6 (48:57):
Hello.

Speaker 26 (49:23):
I'm going to talk to you about some things that
I've learned in my journey, most from experience. Some of
them are heard in passing. Many of them I'm still practicing.
But all of them I do believe are true.

Speaker 25 (49:33):
Life is not easy.

Speaker 24 (49:34):
It is not.

Speaker 26 (49:35):
Don't try to make it that way. Life's not fair,
it never was, it isn't now, and it won't ever be.
Do not fall into the trap, the entitlement trap, a
feeling like you're a victim. You are not Get over it,
get on you. So the question that we've got to
ask ourselves is what success is to us? What success

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is to you?

Speaker 25 (49:58):
Is it more money? That's fine, I got the I
think it's money. Maybe it's a healthy family, maybe it's.

Speaker 13 (50:04):
A happy marriage.

Speaker 26 (50:04):
Maybe it's to help others, to be famous, to be
spiritually sound, to leave the world a little bit better
place than you found.

Speaker 25 (50:12):
Continue to ask yourself that question.

Speaker 26 (50:15):
Now your answer may change over time, and that's fine,
but do yourself this favor. Whatever your answer is, don't
choose anything that will jeopardize yourself. Prioritize who you are,
who you want to be, and don't spend time with
anything that antagonizes your character. Be brave, take the hill,

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but first answer that question, what's my hell.

Speaker 24 (50:45):
For?

Speaker 25 (50:46):
First we have to define.

Speaker 26 (50:48):
Success for ourselves, and then we have to put in
the work to maintain take that daily talent, tend our guard,
keep the things that are important to us in good shit.
Where you are not is as important as where you are.
It is just as important where we are not as
it is where we are. Look, the first step that

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leads to our identity of life is usually not I
know who I am.

Speaker 13 (51:19):
I know who I am.

Speaker 25 (51:20):
That's not the first step.

Speaker 13 (51:21):
The first steps usually I know who.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
I am not.

Speaker 26 (51:25):
The process of elimination, defining ourselves by what we are
not is the first step that leads us to really
know and who we are.

Speaker 25 (51:35):
You know, that group of friends that you hang out with,
they really might not.

Speaker 8 (51:38):
Bring out the best in you.

Speaker 26 (51:40):
You know, they gossip too.

Speaker 25 (51:41):
Much or kind of shady.

Speaker 13 (51:43):
They really aren't going to.

Speaker 15 (51:44):
Be there for you in a pension.

Speaker 26 (51:47):
Or how about that bar we keep going to that
we always seem to have the worst angle from. Or
that computer screen right the computer screen that keeps giving
us an excuse not to get out of the house
and engage with the world and get some real human interaction.

Speaker 12 (52:04):
All right?

Speaker 26 (52:04):
About that food that would keep eat, stuff that tastes
so good going down it makes us feel like craft.
The next week, we'd feel up gargic and keep putting
on weight. Well, those people, those places, those things. Stop
giving them your time and energy. Just don't go there,
I mean put them down. And when you do this,
when you do put them down.

Speaker 16 (52:24):
When you could built in there, you couldn't give them.

Speaker 13 (52:27):
In your time.

Speaker 25 (52:28):
When you inadvertently finds yourself spending more time and in
more places that are health before you, that.

Speaker 26 (52:36):
Bring you more joy. Why because you just eliminated the who's,
the whears, the ons, and the winds that.

Speaker 25 (52:42):
Were keeping you from your identity.

Speaker 26 (52:45):
Trust me, too many options, I promise that too many
options will make a.

Speaker 25 (52:49):
Tyrant of us. All all right, So get rid of
the excess wasted time, decrease your options. If you do this,
you will have accidentally, almost innocently, put in front of
you what is important to you my process of elimination.

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Knowing who we are is hard. It's hard.

Speaker 13 (53:14):
Give yourself a break.

Speaker 25 (53:15):
Eliminate who you are not first, and you're gonna find
yourself where you need to be.

Speaker 26 (53:23):
Instead of creating outcomes that take from us, let's create
more outcomes that pay us back, fill us up, keep
your fire lit, turn you on for the most amount
of time in your future.

Speaker 25 (53:35):
We try our best, we don't always do our best
architecture as a verb as well.

Speaker 26 (53:42):
And since we are the architects of our own lives,
let's study the habits, the practices, the routines that we
have that lead to and feed our success, our joy,
our honest pain, our laughter, our earned tears.

Speaker 25 (53:55):
Let's dissect that and give thanks for those things. And
when we do that, guess what happens? We get better
at them and we have more to dissect.

Speaker 28 (54:07):
Be discerning.

Speaker 25 (54:08):
Choose it because you want it, Do it because you
want to. We're gonna make mistakes. You got to own them.
Then you've got to make amends, and then you've got
to move on. Guilt and regret kills many a man
before their time to turn the page. Get off the ride.

Speaker 29 (54:31):
You are the author.

Speaker 8 (54:36):
In a time when the world is searching for enlightenment.
One man. I am his holiness, the gurupica.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
My goal is to get you to say, gee, you
are you GM He's in a position to help.

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In your journey with Greg Friedman, how can you realize
and make real the life of your choosing.

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KX ninety three five FM Community.

Speaker 30 (55:09):
I think the relationship between joy and gratitude was one
of the most important things I found I found in
the research. I wasn't expecting it. But what I found,
you know, twelve years of research, eleven thousand pieces of data,
I did not interview in all that time a person
who would describe themselves as joyful or described their's lives

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as joyous, who did not actively practice gratitude. And for me,
it was very counterintuitive because I kind of went into
the research thinking that the relationship between joy and gratitude
was if you're joyful, then you should be grateful.

Speaker 8 (55:52):
But it wasn't that way at all.

Speaker 30 (55:53):
It was really that practicing gratitude invites joy into our lives.
And when I say practice, I think this is the
part that really changed my life. It changed my family
and the way we live every day. When I say
practice gratitude, I don't mean kind of like the attitude
of gratitude or feeling grateful. I mean practicing gratitude. These

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folks shared in common a tangible gratitude practice. They either
kept gratitude journals, some of them did interesting things like
at one, two, three four, like at twelve thirty four,
every day they said something out loud that they were
grateful for. They one of the things that we do,
like we say grace at dinner, and so now after
grace we go around and everyone and my family says

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something they're grateful for.

Speaker 12 (56:36):
I mean.

Speaker 30 (56:36):
And what's interesting is when we first started, I have
a first grader, a first grade son, Charlie, an eighth
grade daughter Alan, And at first I thought, and we've
been doing it for a couple of years now, like
they're like, oh god, mom, And there was a little
like this.

Speaker 12 (56:49):
Is you know, are you experimenting on us?

Speaker 13 (56:51):
It was a little bit of that.

Speaker 30 (56:53):
But now what's interesting, even after we did it for
like a couple of weeks that on those crazy busy
nights where we're trying to like to soccer and piano
and homework, and Steve and I are just like we
see we say a quick prayer, we start eating. My
kids are like, whoa, what are you grateful for? And
it's been extraordinary because not only absolutely does it invite

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more joy into our house, it also is such a
soulful window into what's going on in my.

Speaker 8 (57:22):
Kids' lives, you know.

Speaker 30 (57:23):
So there are some days where my eighth grade will
be like, I'm joyful that there's a huge thick wall
between my room and my brother's room, you know, something
just very you know, honest. But there are other day
she'll say, you know, she had a friend whose mother
recently died, and she said, you know, for a month
she would say, I'm just so grateful that y'all are
healthy right now, you know. And so not only did

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it make us all more aware of what we had
and more willing to slow down and really be thankful
for the joyful moments we had, but let me know
where she was emotionally in her life, you know. And
my son is always, you know, grateful for bugs.

Speaker 12 (58:00):
I'm grateful for frogs.

Speaker 30 (58:02):
But sometimes he'll say, you know, I'm grateful that you
picked me up early, or you know, I'm grateful that
I finally understand adjectives, you know.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
So it's.

Speaker 6 (58:12):
There's a great quote.

Speaker 30 (58:15):
That says, it's not gratitude, it's not joy that makes
us grateful, it's gratitude that makes us joyful. And it's
by a Jesuit brother, a Jesuit priest, and I guess
I was just amazed to find that bubble up so
strongly in the research.

Speaker 8 (58:32):
It's life changing.

Speaker 3 (58:37):
In case you haven't figured it out, or just jumping
in right now, we are talking about gratitude because I
just experienced a Thanksgiving that was beautiful and I am
grateful for and was about as unconventional as you can get.

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And I also looked around and saw a whole bunch
of people do on the traditional route, you know, fantastic,
and they were mostly unhappy. They were mostly talking about
how much they ate, how much they drank, how much
they suffered through themselves and their family, or something else.
And then there was a great morose that came over.

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So we are going to talk about gratitude. We're going
to talk about the ways to embody gratitude and how
it is key acceptance, gratitude, happiness.

Speaker 13 (59:35):
It's a heck of a trio.

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My name is Greg Friedman, modern version of those that
have existed in every culture.

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I am a guide.

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For years, I have taken people all over the world
to work with indigenous elders and exotic locations, only to
show you that you are the magic, and we just
help you realize it. It could be terrifying to look
at our fears and sometimes even more so to look
at our strangers. I take you out into the wild,

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into the unknown, foreign innerant journey.

Speaker 31 (01:00:50):
Hey, family, welcome again to the Lisa Nichols Show, where
my desire is to share with you the tools that
you need to really transform your life, elevate your life
to the life that you want, the life that makes
you super, super excited. I'm so excited about some of
the comments you.

Speaker 28 (01:01:07):
Guys are on Faia not fire Faiya.

Speaker 31 (01:01:12):
Tyrone, Oh my god, Tyrone wrote, showing what loving me
looks like is an eye opener. So what I talked
about in that particular episode was that it's our job to.

Speaker 28 (01:01:21):
Show other people what loving us looks like.

Speaker 31 (01:01:24):
People are waiting for our example of how to love us,
and it's our job to give the world the best
example of how they're to treat us and love us. So, Tyrone,
my brother, I appreciate your comment, and isn't that an
eye opener.

Speaker 28 (01:01:37):
That people are waiting for you to show them how
to treat you. We go through life hoping that people are.

Speaker 31 (01:01:43):
Going to treat us well, treat us kind, treat us, loving,
appreciate us, and we're not necessarily loving on ourselves or
being kind to ourselves.

Speaker 28 (01:01:51):
So I'm excited about that that particular breakthrough, Tyrone.

Speaker 31 (01:01:54):
If you just walk through the next ninety days, the
next six months showing the world how to love Tyrone,
it gets sweeter, it gets greater later and Chambra, Oh
my god, I love your bol Breakthrough out Loud, y'all
know when you get a breakthrough, put a bol in
your comments. Break Through out Loud, you talked about the
way that I emphasized relay sunship. A relationship is a

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relay sunship. It's a relaybel between two people. That you
said that you love that, and you talked about the
way I explained care frontation that we get to have
care frontation instead of confrontation.

Speaker 28 (01:02:34):
You said that it.

Speaker 31 (01:02:34):
Truly ignited an even more eye opening approach to both
of those things, to carefrontation and to relationships. So I'm
super excited because when you get that, all of a sudden,
your encounters with people, your experience with people, just get sweeter.
You can navigate through the terrain called relationships that much easier,
even when they become a little challenging and you have

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to have a little care frontation. So I just can't
get enough of you commenting and sharing, and yes we
are reading them, not just me, but me and my
team are reading.

Speaker 28 (01:03:07):
Them super excited.

Speaker 31 (01:03:15):
When you're really looking at how can you practice gratitude
in the midst of challenging times? And I don't want
to make anything sound like it's super easy. You can
do it anytime.

Speaker 28 (01:03:27):
There's no hiccups, because life is life.

Speaker 31 (01:03:30):
Things happen, like so many times, you're on your path
and then somewhere a monkey rich is thrown in, someone
dies unexpectedly, a relationship hits a speed bump, and you
want to make sure that speed bump doesn't become a
stop sign.

Speaker 28 (01:03:49):
Or you look up and.

Speaker 31 (01:03:50):
Your children or your siblings, the engagement, the exchange with
them just gets funky.

Speaker 28 (01:03:58):
I can't call it anything other that feels uncomfortable. It's
brinding you.

Speaker 31 (01:04:05):
Or you look up in your body like mine did
years ago, morphs into something that you did not see
coming it.

Speaker 28 (01:04:13):
You have illegal mergers everywhere.

Speaker 31 (01:04:16):
I'd like to call it like things happen, and in
those moments, our humanity wants to run and hide. Our
humanity wants to complain. Our humanity wants to ask the
question why me. First of all, let me just be
very clear, the last question you ever wanna ask is

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why me, because you might just get the answer why you.
The quality of your answer is determined by the quality
of your question.

Speaker 28 (01:04:52):
Ask a more empowering question. When you're going through something difficult.
Don't ever ask why me. Here are the questions you
you want to ask. You might want to write these down.

Speaker 31 (01:05:03):
Now, what character what part of my characteristic is being
strengthened in this moment, in this situation? Another question, what
lesson am I supposed to learn while I'm going through
this challenge? What lesson am I supposed to learn? You

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want to give yourself permission to be pulled through the experience.
Now let's talk about gratitude. Why are you're going through
I'm not expecting why you're going through something to be like, yes,
I am so excited that I have no money in
my account. No, let's be realistic, that doesn't happen. But
you can say, what part of my character what characteristics

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am I displaying? That's causing me to end up here
at broke again, because it's probably not the first.

Speaker 28 (01:05:54):
Time that you've been in a situation like this.

Speaker 31 (01:05:58):
Now, when you look at gratitude, gratitude becomes the doorway,
Gratitude becomes the It becomes the soil for something new
to grow. That Oftentimes when people go through a challenge,
they contract. Well, all you do is increase. Energy grows
where energy goes. Energy grows where energy goes. When you

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contract and you focus on the problem, the energy around
the problem grows, the energy, the feeling all every time
you relive the experience that you've had, when you don't
like the experience, or when it's been traumatic, your body
relives it again. But if you can move to gratitude,
what lesson am I supposed to get? How am I
going to be stronger? What does the other side get
to look like?

Speaker 28 (01:06:41):
On my best day?

Speaker 31 (01:06:43):
All of a sudden, energy grows where energy goes, and
then there's just this force. And I'm not saying a
magical This is not magical. Sprinkle faery does potion lotion
and wands. I am not speaking like that, cause you
need to get up and be in action about transforming
your life. You are your own rescue.

Speaker 28 (01:07:00):
That will always be the truth. But if you can
start the journey, start the journey.

Speaker 31 (01:07:06):
I'm not saying get up and run, but I am saying,
if you can lift up your head and say I'm grateful.

Speaker 28 (01:07:16):
That I can hear the words coming out of her
mouth right now.

Speaker 31 (01:07:22):
I'm grateful that I have the wherewithal to even look
for something to inspire me. I'm grateful for the opportunity
to prove my strength again. I'm grateful for the opportunity
to forgive the perceivingly unforgivable. I'm grateful for the opportunity

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to love the perceivingly unlovable. I'm grateful that, even though
I don't know how, I don't know when I'm gonna
get through this, I'm grateful that I know, like I know,
like I know, like I know.

Speaker 28 (01:07:58):
See, you have to have un wavering faith I know
I'm gonna get through this. When you do that, you
can feel the energy. You probably feel it as you're
listening to me.

Speaker 31 (01:08:07):
There's something that occurs, there's a biological shift in your
being that says, hold on, I am not driving through
this chaos from the back seat.

Speaker 28 (01:08:16):
I'm not even driving through this chaos.

Speaker 31 (01:08:18):
From the passenger seat, I'm sliding over to the driver's
seat and I am in this mess.

Speaker 28 (01:08:24):
It doesn't feel good, but I am driving right through
and like we.

Speaker 31 (01:08:28):
Do a California do a California stop at the stop sign,
don't even really stop in the stuff, just keep right
on going. See most of us, when we forget the
gratitude in the moment, in the middle of the cast,
all of a sudden, you find yourself doing a lease option,
by doing a rent to own, taking out real estate
in the middle of the chaos, because you never found

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the gratitude. You never It's like the ignition what's gonna
turn you on to get you through? Gratitude, Gratitude for
the ability to think about the solution, Gratitude for the
lesson that you're learning right now.

Speaker 28 (01:09:05):
Some of your best lessons are not gonna come rap
with a ball.

Speaker 31 (01:09:07):
We already talked about that your best lesson gonna come
rap right there in that situation where you get humbled out. Now,
if you can get the lesson, get up and get going,
you got one more piece of information, one more piece
of experience in your arsenal to be the extraordinary man,
the phenomenal woman that you've always been meant to me.

Speaker 28 (01:09:30):
Now, remember, family, this is not just a monologue. I'm
not just here to talk to you.

Speaker 31 (01:09:37):
I'm not just here to preach it you.

Speaker 28 (01:09:38):
I'm not just here to teach you.

Speaker 31 (01:09:40):
This is a dialogue. This is a conversation between you,
I and some other magnificent family members in the world.

Speaker 28 (01:09:50):
I would love to hear from you.

Speaker 31 (01:09:53):
What's the biggest insight, what's the biggest takeaway from today's episode,
today's conversation that you have. What's an area in your life.
What's a better conversation, what's that thing you're going through?
And then what's the question that you want to ask
to help get you through it? What's that muscle?

Speaker 28 (01:10:10):
This is one I really want to hear from you.

Speaker 31 (01:10:12):
What's the muscle in your character that's being developed right now?
Or what's the primary lesson that the Divine God, the universe,
whatever you want to call it, is giving you right
now based on what you're experiencing your life.

Speaker 28 (01:10:28):
I want you to leave a comment below.

Speaker 13 (01:10:30):
Please all right to you, guys. She's right. I can't
even begin to.

Speaker 3 (01:10:35):
Tell you how many amazing emails I get. And there's
never a dumb question, there's never a problem ask because
if there's anything here that's between you and gratitude, it's
also between you and acceptance. It's also between you and

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happiness and abundance and flourishing because because on some level,
they're all family, and we're all family. So if you
are struggling getting there by yourself, reach out. It's inner journey.
Greg Friedman at Gmail. Just drop me a line. It's

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all good because I'd rather be happy, because when you're happy,
that becomes contagious, and then somebody else gets happy happy
not happity, and another person and another person and another person,
And it's entirely up to us.

Speaker 8 (01:11:35):
What are you willing to do?

Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
Are you willing to shed that bolder you've been carrying around,
because the other part of acceptance is letting go, And
that's what we're about to jump into.

Speaker 31 (01:11:58):
Personal growth, helping you read, realize, and make real the
life of your choosing. I just want to let you
know that even though this was a difficult experience, I
really learned a lot.

Speaker 24 (01:12:11):
That that.

Speaker 30 (01:12:16):
That that.

Speaker 31 (01:12:36):
That that.

Speaker 12 (01:13:13):
That stuck U saying thank you, that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
That mad.

Speaker 9 (01:15:57):
That I'm a Buddhist, I'm a Muslim, I'm a Christian.

(01:16:32):
I'm whatever you want me to be. It all comes
down to the same thing. You're in a loving place
or you're in an unloving place. I just want to
be myself. If I lose, if you bring people who
can't deal with the fact that there's other forces in
the world.

Speaker 13 (01:16:45):
That's okay with me. The meaning of life? You want
to know what it is, I love yourself.

Speaker 23 (01:16:51):
Jim Carrey is loved by many, known for his rules
in Dumb and Dumber, The Mask, Ace Ventura, and many more.
He's made a name as one of the funniest people
on earth, although for decades there's been a spiritual sided
Jim that's often overlooked or misinterpreted. In two thousand and nine,
he told a story about a mystical experience he had
which pushed him down a path of spiritual awakening.

Speaker 1 (01:17:15):
A few months ago, after knowing Ecker totally for a
while and studying the books, I woke up and I
suddenly got it. I understood suddenly how fought was just

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an illusory thing, and how thought is responsible for, if
not all, most of the suffering we experience.

Speaker 31 (01:17:57):
And then.

Speaker 1 (01:17:59):
I suddenly felt like I was looking at these thoughts
from another perspective, and I wondered, who is it that's
aware that I'm thinking? And suddenly I was thrown into
this expansive, amazing feeling of freedom from myself, from my problems.

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I saw that I was bigger than what I do.
I was bigger than my body. I was everything and everyone.
I was no longer a fragment of the universe. I
was the universe.

Speaker 16 (01:18:44):
And ever since that day, I've been trying to get
back there.

Speaker 13 (01:18:51):
It's like riding a wave.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
Sometimes I'm on, sometimes I'm off, but at least I
know where I want to go, and that I want
to take as many people with me as I possibly can.
Because the feeling is amazing. You know, it's our intention.
Our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it.

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Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention.
So I started thinking about my life, and I started
thinking about this conference and what we're about.

Speaker 16 (01:19:27):
And I looked back and I thought, well, I was
two people.

Speaker 8 (01:19:31):
My whole life.

Speaker 1 (01:19:32):
I was in the living room, entertaining people, being a monkey,
you know, doing my thing for the company, and trying
to relieve my mother who was suffering. She had amatoidaphritis
and aphovitis and everything everything under the sun that was
nagging at her. And she was depressed, and I wanted

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her to be free, and I wanted her to realize
that her life was worth something, because she gave birth
to someone who's worth something. And then I would go
into my room.

Speaker 16 (01:20:11):
And I would sit with a legal pad. I was
a little kid. I would sit there and I would
try to figure out what it meant, what it was
all about.

Speaker 8 (01:20:24):
Why are we here?

Speaker 13 (01:20:26):
What is this?

Speaker 23 (01:20:29):
Jim describes that he once read from Buddha that all
spirituality is relieving from suffering. Similarly, Buddha summarized the reality
of suffering in the Four Truths. One our lives are
pervaded by suffering, both obvious and subtle. Two, there is
an identifiable cause of our suffering. Three because we know

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its cause, we can free ourselves from suffering. And four
there is a specific path we can follow to end suffering,
which consists of meditation, wisdom, and ethical living. Buddha's teachings
on suffering resonated with Jim as he realized that he
was trying to relieve his mother from suffering all along.

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
One day I read something from Buddha that said that
all spirituality is about relieving suffering, and I suddenly realized
that's what I'm doing in the other room, and I'm aligned,

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you know, my purpose is aligned with this. So I
felt incredibly lucky. I lose sight of that all the time.
I get caught up in different concerns and ego concerns.
But I'm so lucky to be a part of this
community and to do something that is a value.

Speaker 23 (01:21:53):
And he's relieved more than just his mother from suffering.
With countless timeless performances, there's something for everyone to find
us gape from their own life strife, one of which
being his portrayal of Andy Kaufman in the nineteen ninety
nine film Man on the Moon. Following the film, he
had another awakening experience what he saw through his ego.

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
It was definitely an important moment in the process where
I found myself subjugating Jim Carrey for Andy Kaufman and
Tony Clifton, and then and then at the end of
it looking for Jim Carrey again and having trouble finding him,
And at a certain point I realized, hey, wait a second.

Speaker 13 (01:22:34):
You know, if it's so easy to lose Jim Carrey.
Who the hell is Jim Carrey?

Speaker 1 (01:22:38):
Or I was kind of watching from another place. And
there's been a series of kind of awakenings I've had
in my life. And you know, people chalk it up
to depression all that stuff. I think that, you know,
grief and sadness and all those things are are the
ticket home to nothing. I think that that was a

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part of the process. There's been several other awakenings and
and and yet still I I have a lot of
ego at attachments that that pull my attention and focus.

Speaker 23 (01:23:13):
This experience suggests that the distinction between Jim Carrey and
his iconic rules can become blurred. However, Jim has an
interesting perspective on this notion.

Speaker 29 (01:23:22):
You said, you've kind of disassociated yourself with with Jim Carrey.

Speaker 13 (01:23:25):
But does it?

Speaker 29 (01:23:26):
You know, everyone we see your face, there's so many
iconic roles and so many of our favorite movies from
Eternal Sunshine, tem and Dumber and everything. Because that has
nothing to do with Jim Carrey, That has nothing to
do with Jim Carret, nothing.

Speaker 13 (01:23:38):
At all to do with Jim Carrey. That's just that's
just what happened. And and it was.

Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
It is wonderful and h there's insane gratitude around it
and wonder around it.

Speaker 13 (01:23:54):
How did it happen?

Speaker 1 (01:23:55):
And and uh fulfillment from it, and it's I look
back at it and I see something beautiful that that
rose out of nothing and happened for no.

Speaker 29 (01:24:08):
One, you know, it just it just was like it
was almost like every six months to a year we
saw this, like huge Jim Carrey comedy.

Speaker 8 (01:24:18):
Do you miss that?

Speaker 12 (01:24:19):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:24:19):
I honestly, there's nothing but this.

Speaker 13 (01:24:22):
You're my universe, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:24:24):
So I'm not looking forward and I'm not looking backward,
and I'm not you know, the aspect of this that's
backward to me is like a contemporary thing. What's what's
what's good about this movie? It's not a look back,
It's it's a temporary concept. It's what's happening right now.
Inside everybody is they're going, who am I? And they're depressed,

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you know a lot.

Speaker 16 (01:24:45):
Of people because they're trying to hold up an image
in the world.

Speaker 1 (01:24:49):
And that's what depression is.

Speaker 13 (01:24:50):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:24:50):
People go like, oh, Jim's been depressed and stuff. Well, yeah,
I was depressed when I was trying to be the
Wizard of Oz instead of a sweaty guy behind.

Speaker 13 (01:25:00):
And the curtain.

Speaker 1 (01:25:01):
But now I know that Oz is a character, you know,
and uh, and you know, I think everybody deals with that.
Everybody walks around and they go like, why am I depressed? Wells,
because you're trying to be something for the world, you know,
And as soon as you let that go better things
happen because they're just happening.

Speaker 13 (01:25:23):
It's not you know, now, it's the sadness, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:25:26):
Sadness comes, happiness comes to whether the lies by this guy.
It doesn't sit on you long enough to drown you,
you know.

Speaker 23 (01:25:36):
As mentioned, Jim has struggled with depression. He previously mentioned
depression as his body needing deep rest from putting on
an act. Here he takes us further into that journey.

Speaker 24 (01:25:46):
I've read a couple of places where you said you've
had you struggle with depression from time to time.

Speaker 32 (01:25:51):
Some prozact for a long time, yep, some prozac for
a long time, and I I'm not sure. I mean,
have helped me out of a jam for a little bit.
But people stay on it forever.

Speaker 8 (01:26:04):
You know.

Speaker 32 (01:26:05):
I had to get off at a certain point because
I realized that you know, everything's just okay.

Speaker 13 (01:26:11):
No takes some valves.

Speaker 32 (01:26:13):
There are peaks, there are values, but they're all kind
of card and smoothed out, and it feels like a low.

Speaker 13 (01:26:22):
Level of despair.

Speaker 32 (01:26:24):
You live in where you're not getting any answers, but
you're living okay, and you can smile at the office,
you know, but it's a low level of despair, and
you don't take any of them. I don't take anything nothing.
I don't take anything. I rarely drink coffee. I'm very
serious about no alcohol, no drugs. I just life is

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too beautiful. After talking to you for a couple of hours, I.

Speaker 24 (01:26:49):
Mean, I just I get this sense you are a
big bundle of inflicting emotions. Really don't you get that
sense for me? Well, I think you're very emotional about
a lot of things. It's all very close to the serpent.

Speaker 13 (01:27:02):
Yeah it is. I'm decided to be there. I only
act in the movies.

Speaker 23 (01:27:08):
And his level of authenticity is a parent in these interviews.
Perhaps it's because he's able to detach from his psyche
and see a bigger picture.

Speaker 1 (01:27:17):
I think that we're all, you know, we're all trying
to add things to ourselves so that we can finally
define our define ourselves, and then everybody will get us
and they'll go, okay, that this is what you are.
And then if you actually get there, you will find
it so empty that you'll realize that's really not what
it's about. It's it's about not only you know, just

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going with the flow, but it's about not taking it personally.

Speaker 31 (01:27:44):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
It's like the difference between how a house and my
house is a world of difference, and it's the my
that's the problem. You know. So you can do all
this without the mie involved, you know, you can do
it in a way that it's not life. Isn't happening
to you, is happening for you know, for the good
of everyone. It's just a it's like a it's a play,

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it's a it's a it's a giant, you know, field
of consciousness dancing for itself and you're here to make
me happy, and you're to kind of it's making itself happy.

Speaker 12 (01:28:16):
You know.

Speaker 13 (01:28:17):
It's like one soul.

Speaker 8 (01:28:18):
That's how I feel.

Speaker 1 (01:28:19):
I feel like, you know, people say, well I have
a soul. You don't have a soul, there's no you,
But I feel like there is a soul and it
includes everything. And when you wake up in the morning
and you feel like I'm the universe, you don't have
to reach for the stars.

Speaker 16 (01:28:34):
You know, you can just let life happen and walk
through the doors.

Speaker 3 (01:28:38):
And that is the point. You are the universe, You
are source energy, incarnate. You are the living embodiment of
that that is no more, no less. And if you
can't be grateful for that, this whole show tonight is

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about gratitude, and I think it's incredibly apt considering we
just had Thanksgiving with a whole bunch of people that
didn't feel as though they were all that grateful for
who they had, what they had, where they had it,
and when they had it. And these are the people

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and this is the time, so be love.

Speaker 13 (01:29:28):
If you can.

Speaker 7 (01:29:35):
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best acclam says oh j tortuous baby hairs.

Speaker 6 (01:29:55):
Wishaying haircu.

Speaker 8 (01:29:59):
Holitude And at the sound of goodbye.

Speaker 7 (01:30:04):
And wordestly watching heels falling and wonders.

Speaker 6 (01:30:16):
At the empty place inside.

Speaker 7 (01:30:21):
Hearnestly held being himself to a bad dreams and lobbies.

Speaker 28 (01:30:28):
Did he hear y goodbye?

Speaker 14 (01:30:31):
I ah e there.

Speaker 12 (01:30:36):
Hello.

Speaker 6 (01:30:39):
The one person they had.

Speaker 7 (01:30:43):
To HeLa own, They had to be together, they had
fall for each other.

Speaker 8 (01:30:59):
Stand let's stairway.

Speaker 6 (01:31:02):
See something that tend to tell.

Speaker 28 (01:31:05):
You Confusion has its cost.

Speaker 7 (01:31:11):
Love isn't writ itsels in alingers say shas.

Speaker 3 (01:31:23):
And choking.

Speaker 12 (01:31:26):
On.

Speaker 6 (01:31:26):
Hello, the one person they had to.

Speaker 12 (01:31:35):
Own, they had three together, They hurt for.

Speaker 6 (01:31:41):
For each other.

Speaker 16 (01:31:51):
Wow again.

Speaker 2 (01:31:57):
All everyone, this is Neil Donald Walsh, and I'm happy
to tell you that you're listening to Inner Journey with
great treatment. Stick around your life could cheat.

Speaker 13 (01:32:06):
The next principle I call giving up your personal history.
And I learned it from a man named Carlos Costaneda,
who once said that one day he said, I finally
realized that I no longer needed a personal history, and
just like drinking, he said, I gave it up, and

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that and only that has made all the difference in
the world.

Speaker 12 (01:32:33):
You know.

Speaker 13 (01:32:33):
The nice thing about giving up your personal history is
that if you don't have a story, you don't have
to live up to it. All of us have these
bags manure that we carry around with us called our past.
And the people who have done things to us, and
the events and the circumstances all of this stuff that

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we use and we bond to, and we bond ourselves
to these wounds of our past and sanify ourselves on
the basis of these wounds. And every once in a
while we set it down and we reach in there
and we smear it all over ourselves, and then we wonder,
why does my life smell so bad? I don't understand this,
when in fact, the now, this moment, merging yourself into

(01:33:16):
the now, means that you may have been in a relationship.
I had a woman from Holland who came over to
see me whose husband had left her after twenty five years.
She had four children, and she just had been on
the verge of suicide and she was losing weight and
she was depressed, and she was taking all kinds of
drugs for it, and she was getting sicker and sicker
because she just couldn't get over it. And she came

(01:33:39):
to a book signing that I was doing at a
bookstore down in Florida, and she said, you've got to
say something to me. You've got to say something to
me that will help me to get over this. And
I told her this line. I said, give up your
personal history, merge yourself here into this moment, and those

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twenty five years are something. If you want to understand
how to do it, think of your past as oh,
this hat and this is your past.

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
Now.

Speaker 13 (01:34:14):
You can't just set this thing down over here and
walk away from it and give up your personal history,
because you'll always have it there to look back at.
What you do is you pick up your past and
you embrace it. You understand it, you accept it as

(01:34:34):
I had to go through these things that I had
to go through in order for me to get to
this place today, and the evidence for that is that
I did. You don't need any more evidence. You did.
And then you toss it. You toss it, you embrace it,
and you toss it and you merge into the now

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by giving up your attachment. And some of you have
heard me use the metaphor Alan Watts talked about. The
wake is not what drives the boat. The wake is
just a trail that is left behind. That's all it is.
And so is the wake of your life. And the
wake doesn't make the boat go, and neither does the
wake of your life the reason why your life is

(01:35:16):
going in the direction that it is. The wake is
a trail that is left behind, and it's an illusion
to believe that it is the cause of your suffering,
or your struggles, or your difficulty. Give it up, let
it go, embrace it, understand it, get help doing that
if you must, and then move into the now. The

(01:35:37):
next principle I call it's from a line of Albert Einstein.
He said, you can't solve a problem with the same
mind that created it. In order to work at solving
these things called problems in your life, you have to

(01:36:00):
change your mind. It is your mind where they live.
It is your mind that created them. They there is
where you experience them. They're all illusions. You must change
your mind, literally, rewrite your agreement with reality. One of
the things I had said earlier is that one of
the most difficult things to do in the world is
to admit that you were wrong. Admitting that you were

(01:36:24):
wrong is nothing more than saying, I have been making
choices with my mind that have created things in my
life that are not working, and I no longer intend
to continue making those choices.

Speaker 8 (01:36:42):
I was wrong.

Speaker 13 (01:36:45):
You don't have to make a declaration of it. You
don't have to go out and feel guilty about it.
You just simply say it. Didn't work the relationship that
I was in. Before I behaved in these ways, I
didn't realize that it wasn't working for me. Now I do,
and this is where I choose to be Now. The
secret of a successful relationship is to me understanding that

(01:37:10):
you put your attention and your energy in a person
on what you love rather than what you don't love.
Robert Frost said it so beautifully. We love the things
we love for what they are, for what they are,
not for what they ought to be, not for what
they used to be, but for what they are. So
when you look into the eyes of the person you're

(01:37:32):
in a relationship with, whether it's your children, you catch
them doing things right as much as you possibly can.
That's oftentam takes a lot of hunting, but you'll find it.
And when you think that my relationship isn't working, remember
it's in my mind. What am I thinking about that person?
And if I could just change my mind and put

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my thoughts on what I love about this person and
keep them there, that makes the relationship flourish. There are
people who go through their entire relationship history with no anger,
no hatred, no bitterness, and only love. The next principle
is I call it treating yourself as if you already

(01:38:15):
were what you would like to become. In other words,
you get out in front of your life and you
see yourself as having already what you know you'd like
to have and deserve to have. My children know how
to do this perfectly. I have a daughter who wanted
a prom dress, and the prom desk was way outside

(01:38:35):
the budget that I thought a prom desk should be. Well,
I thought, a problem dess shouldn't cost over twenty dollars,
so I do have a problem, right, But I upped
it to somewhere around two hundred and fifty I don't
know how much whatever. To me, it was still more
than I paid for my first house. Okay, But anyway,
she called and said, Dad, this is the only problem

(01:38:56):
desk this is. I've got to wear this prom dess.
If I don't wear this prom desk, on and on
and on with this wonderful and I've got to I
saw a wonderful book about how to raise teenage daughters.
The title of it is get out of My life,
but first drive me and Cheryl to the mall. All right,
that's the actual title. It's a good book, and so

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I told Serena. I said, it's just beyond the budget.
I've got a certain amount of money that I'm willing
to put for it. And she said, but I've already
seen myself wearing it.

Speaker 8 (01:39:24):
I've already tried it on.

Speaker 13 (01:39:25):
I have a picture of myself in the dress in
my living room and I've already showed it to the
guy who was taking me to the problem. I mean,
it was this whole thing about and she already saw
herself in it. I said, well, if you see yourself
in it, then you're going to have to also see
yourself as earning the difference between what I'm willing to pay.
And she drew up a contract. She went on to

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the computer, and on the background of the computer, you
know where they have these little background things they put on,
there was five hundred pictures of the dress, all right,
And she signed a contract and said, I'll babysit. I'll
do this, I'll do that, and i will pay the difference.
And she did, and she the dress because she understood
that you treat yourself as if you already are what
you'd like to become. There's a genius in you. You

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have to treat yourself as if you already were that genius.
There's something you're completely capable of. See yourself as already there.
Then you'll act upon those thoughts, because the ancestor to
every action, said Emerson, is a thought. The next principle
is called treasuring your divinity. Treasuring your divinity, there's a

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wonderful observation that I saw from Emerson in self reliance.
It's about trusting your divinity, knowing that you are connected
to your source, knowing that you are a divine creation,
and that there are no accidents. He said, A man
should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light

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which flashes across his mind from within, more than the
luster of the firmament of and sages. Yet he dismisses
without notice his own thought, because it's his own. In
every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts.

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They come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
We often reject our thoughts, and we see the things
that we think of as grand and as genius, and
we reject them because they are our own. Treasuring our
divinity instead of being terrified of it, knowing that I
am always connected to my source. There is no way

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that I cannot because it is in you, and I
am in you, and you are in me, and you
can never be separated from it. There is no place
that this source is not. It grows everybody's fingernails, it
beats everybody's hearts, it digests everybody's foods, it opens all
the flowers, and you're always connected to it. And finally,

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the last principle I call wisdom is avoiding all thoughts
which weaken you. You know, every thought has an energy,
just like everything else in the universe. And if you
have a thought of shame, it will weaken your muscles.
And what is your heart but a muscle. If you
raise a child to believe in shame and feel ashamed

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of themselves, every time they think that shameful thought, they
will be weakened. And if you have a thought of fear,
and if you have a thought of stress, and you
have a thought of anguish and anxiety, all of these
thoughts and many more are the thoughts that will always
weaken you. When you are having a thought that you know,
is it disempowering, you shifted shifted to one that is

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empowering rather than disempowering and the thoughts that empower our
thoughts of neutrality and willingness and love, and ultimately thoughts
of divinity. And when you see a troubled person who
is out there struggling at the highest level of unity
consciousness or God consciousness or spiritual consciousness, you recognize yourself

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in all that you see there. But for the grace
of God, go I and I am connected to that person,
changing your thoughts. I appeared on the Tonight Show many
years ago, several times, quite a few times, and I
remember coming home from the Tonight Show and I was

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walking along the beach and they had taped the show
the night before, and I was out for a walk
and a woman who lived in the northeast stopped me
and she said, didn't I see you last night on
that How could you be here? I said, well, I
flew the Red Eye and I was walking along and
she said, you know, we're moving down here. She said,

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what are the people like here? What's it like? And
I said to her, I said, well, what are they
like where you live? She said, well, she said, I
live in a very big city. And she said they're
very pushy, and people are not very kind, and they
don't have time for you, and she said, it's really
not very pleasant. She said, that's one of the reasons
I'm leaving there. I said, well, that's pretty much what

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you're going to find here. That's basically what the people
are like here. On the way back on the same day,
someone else who had seen me the night before on
the Tonight show, who had lived in the Midwest, stopped
me and asked me almost the same question. She said,
you live here. I said yes. She said, well, my
husband and I are moving here and we're looking for

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a school. She said, what are the people like here?
What's it like here? I said, what are they like
in Chicago where you live? She said, oh, she said,
it's the Midwest. She said. People are very friendly, they're open,
they open their homes to you, They're very loving, they're
very kind. She said, it's a wonderful place. She said,
I love them. I'm going to really miss that. I said,
that's pretty much what you're going to find here. It's

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what you expect. It's what you think about that expands.
It's what Emerson taught us. The ancestor to every action
is a thought. Change your thoughts and you change your world,
change your expectations, and you change around what you begin
to manifest and see showing up in your life.

Speaker 3 (01:45:21):
Inter journey with Greg Friedman and Greg Friedman dot Com.
You are listening to k x F M one O
four seven from Laguna Beach, for Laguna Beach and for
the entire universe. This whole show tonight has been about.

Speaker 13 (01:45:46):
Gratitude.

Speaker 3 (01:45:48):
Can we choose the day and choose the divinity? Can
we accept what is and be grateful? Can we accept
what is is and recognize how bountiful we are, how
much we flourish. I don't care if you're living under
a bridge or living in a fifty million dollar home.

Speaker 13 (01:46:12):
It's not about what you have.

Speaker 3 (01:46:15):
I've seen kids in some really disgusting looking water playing
in poverty stricken India and they were ecstatically joyous and happy.
And I've seen people in gazillion dollar homes that were

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awfully miserable. And this show, every single week ends by
me saying thank you, because I know that I'm grateful
to be able to do this, to be able to
live the life that I live, to be able to

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have the people in it that I have. I know
that I'm blessed. It doesn't mean that it ain't hard.
Maybe it's hard a lot of days. It means that
it's better because I'm grateful, and I say this every
single week. Tons of people work their behinds off in

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order to put this show on for you. Thank you,
and most of all, thank you to you, the listening audience.
This show does not exist without your participation. For that,
and so so much more, I am hugely grateful. Thank

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you you've been listening to In a Journey with Greg Friedman.

Speaker 13 (01:47:49):
Good Night,