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Maintaining Your Independence · Inspiration and Transformation

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  Welcome to inspiration and transformation from the banks of the Gunga with Sadvi Bagwati Saraswati
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  and American Sanyasi living at the parmarth Nikitan Ashram in Rishikesh, India. Sadvi
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  is President of the Divine Shakti Foundation, a charitable organization bringing education, vocational
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  training, upliftment and empowerment programs to women and children. Sadvi is also Secretary
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  General of the Global Interfaith Wash Alliance and director of the world famous International Yoga
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  Festival. Joined the musings of an American Sanyasi as Sadvi shares the wisdom and
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  teachings of her Guru, His Holiness Pujiaswami Chinnant Saraswatiji. Welcome everyone to inspiration
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  and transformation from the holy banks of the Sacred Gunga River in the land of
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  Rishikesh, India. When we look within to find our Dharma, our path,
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  and when we make choices in life about our path, it's really important
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  to understand what is the foundation from which I am making these decisions. So,
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  for example, one foundation would be I'm making these decisions because this is
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  what my parents have told me to do. They want me to be a
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  doctor. I'm a doctor. They want me to be an engineer. I'm
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  an engineer. They want me to get married to this person at this time
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  and live in this place. I marry this person at that time when I
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  live in this place. That's one way of making decisions, one ground from
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  which we take inspiration to make our decisions. Another one is my parents want
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  me to be a doctor. Therefore I will be anything but a doctor.
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  I absolutely, no matter how much I love medicine, I absolutely refuse to
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  be a doctor because I will not do what they want. My parents love
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  this guy I'm dating. They really want me to marry him. Therefore I'm
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  going to break up next week. Now, in both cases, you'll notice
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  we are making a decision based on what other people want. In the first
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  one, we're doing it because it's what they want. In the second case,
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  we're doing it because it's the opposite of what they want. But in
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  both cases, the very ground from which we are making a decision is that
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  which we are being told to do. Meaning in neither case are we actually
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  looking within for the answers. In neither case are we actually anchoring grounding,
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  checking in with what really feels right. And I mentioned this because there's a
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  lot of times in our life where, especially if we have parents who are
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  particularly determined and vocally determined and very energetically determined, we may find ourselves not
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  doing what they want, not because we really don't want to do it,
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  but just because we don't want to do whatever it is they want us to
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  do. And I notice in the question she's asked, how can I be
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  an independent woman not giving into my family's determination to see me married? Now,
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  Nowhere in the question does it even mention whether she wants to be married
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  or not. What she wants is independence, And it's really it's critical because
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  I think a lot of us, and I certainly know that I did this
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  when I was young. We make decisions that are not actually what deeply we
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  want. They're not deeply what's right for us, but we do them because
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  they're the exact opposite of what we're being told to do. And in our
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  very beautiful yearning for independence, which we all should have, in our yearning
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  to just for once, for God's sakes, make my own decision, we
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  do the opposite of what we're being told. But if you realize we're actually
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  then being just as much of a puppet. We're not actually being independent.
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  We're still being dependent. We're just dependent in rebellion rather than dependent and obedience.
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  But I'm still not really doing what I want. And so what I
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  would say to this presumably, oh yeah, there's a young woman, she
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  said, an independent woman. What I would say to this young woman is
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  for a moment, forget what everyone's telling you to do. Know that you
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  are independent, Know that you do have total free will. What is it
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  aside from what anyone is telling you to do? What is it actually that
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  you want to do? And if deeply what you want is not to be
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  married, well then it's going to take it's going to take some courage to
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  explain that to your family. But that's all right. She sounds like a
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  young woman with courage. She's courageous enough to send in a question in advance
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  for set songs. So there's that opening. Because remember, ultimately, what
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  our parents really want is for us to be happy. That's ultimately the goal
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  of parents is that their children should be happy. Now, typically they want
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  us to be happy according to their agenda, because in their mind, that's
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  what we're supposed to do. And if we do what we're supposed to do,
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  then we'll be happy. But at the end of the day, what
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  I've seen in my own personal life and in so many other people's lives is
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  if you are finding a path that really brings you happiness, that really brings
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  you fulfillment and meaning and joy and peace, even if it's not what your
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  parents had in their agenda, they will support it because it's ultimately what's bringing
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  you joy and peace. And I'm not saying they're going to support it immediately.
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  Let me take them a little time. I know when I first decided
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  I was moving back to India and I was not going to finish my PhD
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  program. And I did eventually finish it, but at the time I didn't
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  know that I would go back and do that. At the time, I
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  was just leaving everything and moving to India and joining an ashram. And I
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  remember I wrote my mom a letter first before I spoke to her, because
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  I knew her first reaction would be no. That was sort of the standard
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  first reaction frequently, so I thought, I want her to get the no
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  out of her system first, let her and my dad have their own between
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  them. How dare she what did she think she's doing conversations and get that
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  out of the way, so that by the time I actually came to a
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  conversation, they had some breathing room, they had time to think about it,
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  and I was able to really present to them why I knew this was
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  my arm, why I knew this was right, and ultimately they supported me,
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  and then they even became super happy about it as the years went by,
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  because they realized, Okay, it's not our agenda, it wasn't what
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  we had thought. But she's so happy, she's in such peace, she's
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  doing such good work, that they became really happy. And I've seen this
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  in so so many cases with people your parents. In most cases, not
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  all the time, but most of the time, there were a lots strong
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  than we may think they are. A lot of us walk on eggshells around
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  our parents lest we don't upset them, but we don't realize that they're actually
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  a lot stronger than we give them credit for, and they're a lot wiser
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  than we may give them credit for, and they know us quite well and
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  quite deeply. And if we go to them and we really explain why right
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  now getting married is not what's right for us, not because I'm rebelling against
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  you, but really because here's all of the other things I want to do
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  before I get married. I think most of them would understand. But just
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  make sure that it's not out of rebellion, that it's not that you're not
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  going to get married simply so you can feel independent, because then you're not
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  independent. Then you're just a rebel against what they say, and that's still
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  dependent. Real independence is the freedom to make a decision that is not affected
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  either way by what the culture says, by what other people say, by
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  all of the different strings and chords that bind us. But that's made in
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  wisdom. Recklessness is not independence. Rebellion is not independence. Independence requires wisdom
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  for me actually to know what the right decision is. So find that real
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  inner wisdom and then present it to them. And once they get over the
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  very first initial reaction, I think they'll actually support you. And if not,
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  well, then you're going to have to find the courage to walk your
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  path even without their support at this moment. A path of love, a
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  path of respect, a path of caring, but a path that also loves
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  and cares and respects your own dharma, that respects them cares for them,
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  loves them, and loves and respects your own path and your own dharma,
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  and a path that holds both of those things together is ultimately the path of
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  independence. Because independence does not mean that I trample all over everybody around me.
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  Doesn't mean I become the elephant in a china shop with a bull in
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  the china shop. Rather, it's not what it's about. The wisdom within
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  independence is a wisdom that takes everything into consideration, the people around me,
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  my own internal sense, mother Earth, all of it. So anchor in
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  and find that wisdom and then walk your path. The truth is a magnet.
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  Truth attracts people, and when you really live your truth, you don't
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  have to shove it down people's throat. You just have to live it,
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  and slowly, slowly, slowly, people will come around parents, especially you're
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  Rain and this station. Welcome back to inspiration and transformation. I'm so glad
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  to have you all back here with me. So anger is something bad afflicts
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  a lot of people, most people, and the dilemma is that we make
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  these very conscious decisions. I'm not going to get angry, but it's not
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  our conscious mind that gets angry. It's our subconscious mind that reacts. When
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  we are fully present in our consciousness, that's not when we react in anger.
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  Those are the moments where the only anger that we might feel is you're
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  reading about the situation of hunger in the world and you feel full of pain
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  and anger that we could have a situation a system in the world in which
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  people are hungry. But that's not the type of anger that makes us shout
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  and scream and punch holes through walls or hit somebody or do something that we
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  later regret. That type of anger comes when we are unconscious. And so
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  this is the dilemma. My conscious mind says, okay, no more anger,
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  But when the anger arises, my conscious mind is nowhere to be found.
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  I'm on subconscious otto pilot, habitual reaction. And this is why the
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  healing needs to take place on a subconscious level. It's also why I need
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  to be more and more conscious, because if I stay conscious, then I
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  prevent myself from acting out in anger. If I am anchored and grounded consciously,
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  then I'm not going to lose myself. When you are conscious, you
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  never do things that you later say, oh my god, how could I
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  have done that? Oh my god, that wasn't me, that wasn't what
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  I meant. We only do that when we are not there, when we
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  are reacting subconsciously, unconsciously So number one way of handling this is make sure
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  you're conscious as much as possible. It's why we meditate. It trains us
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  to stay conscious. It trains us to bring the awareness back. We get
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  distracted, we bring it back. We get distracted, we bring it back,
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  get distracted, bring it back. We keep bringing it back, and
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  that teaches us and trains us in our life that when our consciousness goes off
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  someplace and we end up therefore on this robotic way, this reactionary way,
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  we learned to bring it back to just bring that away and is back.
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  Bring it back, so we stay grounded and anchored. But the other way
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  is to also treat that subconscious programming, which meditation does and which deep healing
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  does. Our anger stems from a sense that I'm not getting what I want
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  joel MEI chat the hoode yea joe chai horde. What I don't want to
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  happen is happening. What I do want to happen is not happening, And
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  so we get angry because there's the sense that somehow we are entitled to the
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  world doing our bidding. And this is where really deep subconscious reprogramming is so
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  important to really help us understand. I don't need this person to act in
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  a certain way, this person to speak in a certain way, the weather
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  to be like this, the traffic to be like that, my employees to
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  behave like this in order for me to be happy. Because that's where we
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  lose ourselves is not only things aren't happening the way we want them to,
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  but we believe deeply that therefore we cannot be happy because what I want isn't
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  happening, and I need it to happen to be happy. But if we're
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  able to tap into a source of joy within us, that's actually our nature.
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  I mean, you look at kids. What do kids need to be
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  happy? Their own toes? Right? I mean, anybody who's ever been
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  a mother or a grandmother, or an older sister or an aunt. You
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  put a kid on the ground and their legs go up in the air,
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  and they are very happy to just keep playing with their toes endlessly. They
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  get a little older, you give them a present. It's in a box,
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  it's wrapped. They're very happy with the box in the wrapping paper.
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  We're always the one saying no, no, no, open it, open
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  it. The presents inside. That's not the present, open it. The
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  kid is great with the box. It's only as we get older and as
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  we develop these very hardened egos, that we come to believe that we need
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  so much in order to be happy, not just the money I want or
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  the items I want, but I actually need everything in the world to go
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  according to my design. Only then I can be happy. And this is
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  why that reprogramming is so important to realize I am joy. I am that
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  same being who was happy with her toes. What would it take to go
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  back to a place where my own toes were all I needed to be happy?
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  Right? A full belly? Kids? Also, you know the thing
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  as they cry about their diapers are full, their bellies are empty. What
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  would it take us to go back to a place we're assuming that our metaphoric
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  diapers are empty and stomach is full, that our own toes are all we
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  need to be happy? And how beautiful is that? How much would we
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  be able to let go of in our lives that we're so attached to thinking
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  it holds within it the answers to our happiness. And that's actually the key
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  on a deep level to helping us move through anger. Because as long as
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  I need so much in order to be happy. When I don't get it,
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  I'm going to be miserable. So either I'm going to be depressed,
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  anger focused inward, or I'm going to be furious pain pointed it outward.
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  But it's that same sense of I'm not getting what I want and the pain
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  of that because I believe that getting what I want is what I need.
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  So if we really could learn that we don't actually need it. Yeah,
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  it's nice when people talk to you nicely. It's nice when they're respectful.
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  It's nice when they keep their word. It's nice when they don't lie and
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  cheat and steal. But actually, the truth is I can be happy even
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  if other people are lying and cheating and stealing and being rude and obnoxious.
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  And if we can realize that that we can be well, then you'll find
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  your anger dissipates. Obviously your joy grows, but you become free of that
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  anger because I no longer need you to stop being obnoxious in order for me
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  to be happy. I no longer need your respect in order for me to
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  be happy, and so I'm able to let up. So that's the work.
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  welcome back. This is Sadvi Bagavati Saraswati with inspiration and transformation. As human
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  beings, we crave connection from the time we're born. We're constantly looking and
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  craving for connection, first of course with the parents, but then we continue
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  to be looking for that that connection with people around us. When we have
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  it, we feel wonderful when we're surrounded by people who love us and appreciate
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  us and speak nicely to us and want to be with us. We feel
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  fantastic when we feel like suddenly they no longer do Suddenly we're being ignored,
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  shut out. In today's social media lingo, we're being ghosted right, We
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  suffer. The problem is that the the solution to that yearning for connection is
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  not actually not actually in our social circle. With an active social with people
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  not ghosting us, with people being engaged and responsive and connected to us,
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  we're able to ignore, deny, not experience the suffering of the lack of
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  connection. But the truth is that it's not It's not from our social circle
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  that actually that deep connection comes. It's not from people online, from whom
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  that real connection comes, which means that no matter how many friends we may
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  have responding to us, inviting us to parties, going for meals, having
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  us come to their weddings, liking our posts, it doesn't actually give us
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  what that deep longing for connection is really about, which is connection with the
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  divine, connection with our true self, our higher self, that divinity within
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  us. That's what the longing is. Our soul is infinite. It's using
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  this body. It's here in this body for this particular go around, this
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  particular incarnation. But the soul is infinite now. When it's in this body,
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  and when we identify in ignorance with this body, we suffer. We
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  feel suffocated, and we're constantly trying to look for ways to expand. So
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  we buy lots of things. We buy them and we feel like I have
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  somehow expanded, like this was me before. Now look at me with all
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  my shopping bags. I've expanded in some way. Or we eat that sense
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  of an overfull stomach filled with typically junk makes us feel expanded. Now,
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  these are obviously not ways that actually get us back in touch with the truth
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  of who we are as that expansive, infinite soul. But when we don't
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  know any better, that's what we do. We're just looking for ways to
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  again feel the truth of the soul, to again feel that expansive self.
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  One of the ways is shopping, one of the ways is eating, and
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  one very big way is by filling our lives with lots of people. See
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  if I feel connected to them, and I feel like I've expanded. See
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  all of these people are now me. So I feel, in some very
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  superficial way, like I've attained that which I'm looking for. Look at all
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  my friends, Look at all the people who showed up at my party,
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  Look at all my followers online. Look at how busy my social calendar is.
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  I've expanded. I'm no longer this separate being over here. But all
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  of these ways, whether it's shopping, whether it's food, whether it's the
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  social connection, they're not actually addressing the core issue, which is I am
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  not connected to the truth of myself. I'm not connected to that expansive truth
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  of myself. I'm not connected to my source, which is infinity, which
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  is constant, infinite expansion. Right it sounds a bit paradoxical. If we're
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  already infinite, how can we keep expanding? But it's true, we are
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  infinite, and yet with our awareness, we actually keep having expanded consciousness.
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  And that's actually what we're looking for on the deepest level. That sense of
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  connection that we're deeply looking for is not with a social circle. It's with
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  the capital as self, that truth of my own being. So there's nothing
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  wrong with social circles. If you have them, wonderful, no problem.
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  Enjoy them. Friends are great. Enjoy them, but recognize that when you
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  feel, as the question, are asked, ignored, shut out, ghosted,
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  not invited to the party, left out, the ache, the pain,
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  the suffering that you experience is not actually do to that person. It's
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  actually due to the fact that, since that person is no longer connected with
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  you in any meaningful way, you are again face to face with the true
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  sense of disconnection, which actually is the source of your suffering, which is
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  the sense of disconnection from yourself. And so rather than trying to figure out
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  how to win them back, how to beg or plead or convince or manipulate
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  or whatever it may be, instead of that, allow yourself to actually sit
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  in that experience of feeling disconnected and recognize that it's not about that friendship,
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  but it's actual least so much deeper, and to really feel that internal pain
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  of separation so that you can then find the right answer, which isn't begging
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  that person to be your friend again, begging them to remember to invite you
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  to the party is and not ignore you, but actually to reconnect with yourself
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  with the divine, with the divine in yourself. And when you have that,
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  then yeah, friends are a bonus. It's beautiful. We've got so
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  much love in our heart why not share it? But the lack of someone
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  to hang out with on Friday night or Saturday night, or the lack of
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  people liking or commenting on your social media posts, lack of invitations to parties
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  no longer bothers you because you're so deeply anchored and connected to your source,
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  to that expansive source, that you don't actually need anything or anyone from outside.
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  So that's what to do when you feel shut out. Rediscover yourself as
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  your own best friend. You know, we think that everyone should want to
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  be our friend, meaning we must be a good person, a good friend.
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  Otherwise, why would we think people would want to be our friends.
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  Well, if we're such a good person to be friends with, that everyone
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  should want to be our friend, why are we so uneager to be our
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  own friends? If everyone else should want to spend time with us, why
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  are we so uneager to spend time with ourselves. It's a very interesting question
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  because we feel so badly when we are alone. And yet if we are
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  half as good a friend as we would like others to think, we are,
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  half as interesting a person as we'd like others to think we are,
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  then we should really learn to enjoy our own company, to take ourselves up
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  on the offer to become our own best friend. So use this as an
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  opportunity to become your own best friend. To find out, really, what
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  is so great about you that so many people love you, that so many
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  people do want to be your friend? What is that beautiful aspect of you?
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  Not just the infinite soul, but even you in this body, in
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  this life, with your karmic journey and package. Are you a good listener?
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  Are you funny? Do you're a good sense of humor? Are you
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  compassionate? Are you wise? What are your qualities? Imagine that you had
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  to write, you know, a personal ad for instead of an online dating
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  app. Imagine it was just an online be my Friend app. What would
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  you put in it? What would you say? Are you loyal? Are
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  you sensitive? You empathetic? Find all of those qualities and then realize how
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  fortunate you are, how blessed you are to not only be able to offer
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  yourself to others as a friend, but to be able to have yourself as
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  your own best friend. So many of us live our entire lives never really
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  getting to know ourselves. The infinite divine self, for sure, but not
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  even our individual here in this karmic incarnation self. We don't even get to
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  know ourselves at all. So take this being ignored and shut out out by
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  someone else as an opportunity to go inward and find the one who will never
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  ignore you, who will never shut you out, who has to take you
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  to every party they're invited to, can't be separate from yourself, and make
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  yourself your own best friend. But then also remember to actually go deeper into
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  the experience of the real, true self, that infinite source, so that
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  you really deeply address that sense of longing for connection, that sense of longing
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  What do you consider to be the most motivating thing, the one thing
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  that will make you change or do something that you don't want or don't think
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  you want to do. I think, I think the most motivating thing.
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  What I've seen in my life personally and in the lives of so many,
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  is that the greatest catalyst, the greatest motivator to change is realizing how stuck
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  you are now. Habits are very sticky. It's very very easy to keep
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  doing that which we've always done. Minds don't like change. There's a fear
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  of the unknown, there's a stress of changing everything. So in order to
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  change ourselves, there's got to be some great motivating factor. And what I've
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  seen is simply having other beings say, ah, you should change. This
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  is better than that isn't really enough to make us change in any kind of
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  a lasting or profound way. But when we know we are stuck, when
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  we know that the way we're doing it doesn't work, eventually we change.
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  It's like if you've ever been driving in a car with someone who's a bit
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  of a stubborn driver, a bit of kind of an ego filled driver in
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  the days before we had Google Maps and GPS, where you would actually have
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  to ask directions, and in India, as you may or may not have
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  noticed, most of the streets don't actually have street signs, and so directions
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  would be things like go ahead a little bit, and then you turn left
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  at a gas station, and then you go ahead a little bit, and
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  then you turn right at the apple tree, and then you go for you
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  know sometime, and then there'll be a tall blue building and you go straight
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  past it. And I can't tell you how many times I've been in cars
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  where the driver's saying, I mean, it's so clear to everybody in the
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  car that we're lost, and the drivers saying no, no, no,
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  I know where I'm going, and everyone in the car is saying just ask,
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  like pull over and just ask the guy on the road where to go,
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  and the driver says no, no, no, I know where I'm
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  going, And eventually different amounts of time based on the personalities of different drivers,
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  but eventually the driver finally realizes there is no way that I'm gonna kid
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  my way through this one and actually has to stop and roll down the window
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  and swallow his or her ego and ask for directions, but only when they've
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  literally done every other thing they can possibly think of, because the ego so
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  much did not want to admit that they didn't know the way, that they
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  couldn't find it on their own, as though somehow that were a sign of
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  weakness, which of course it is. But people see it like that,
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  and I think the same thing is true in life as well, not just
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  driving on the road, that as long as we can keep telling ourselves,
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  yeah, yeah, yeah, everything is fine, just the way it is,
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  yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna make it work. Yeah yeah,
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  yeah, it's okay. I'll get over this. We don't actually deeply
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  change. It's only when we hit what the twelve step programs refer to as
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  the bottom do we actually finally reach out literally or metaphorically and say help,
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  I can't go anywhere. I'm stuck. And I think spiritually it's the same
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  that our egos are so powerful and the power of habit is so powerful that
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  the only thing that's going to shake that that's really going to get us to
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  think in a different way, act in a different way, go completely against
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  our own decades of habitual thinking, habitual living, go against the way that
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  chances are we were raised, because that's probably what created the habits we have
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  in the first place. Is when we realize I'm stuck, nothing I do
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  is going to get me where I want to go. And I think that's
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  the most motivating, motivating experience because it motivates it's real change. If I
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  just see some influencer on social media, you know, doing something, I
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  may be inspired or motivated to do it for a day or try it once
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  so that you know, I can also feel like that person. But in
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  general, it's stuff that doesn't stick until and unless something really shifts within us,
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  a new way of being isn't going to catch. So if you find
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  yourself literally or metaphorically falling, don't worry. It actually can be a good
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  sign because it becomes that which is stronger even than the ego, that's strong
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  enough to say, okay, I am ready to admit I have no idea,
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  no idea, and I need help, and I know for me and
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  so many that I've seen, that's that's that which the catalyzing factor, which
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  really really gets us to change, and gets us to change in a way
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  where it sticks, where we really adopt and embrace a new way of being
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  that actually works, that pulls us out of where we were stuck, no
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  matter how hard it is. Because we've seen the alternative, we know nothing
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  else works. So I can try, for example, to shop my way
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  to happiness. I can try, for example, to eat my way to
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  happiness, to drink or smoke my way to happiness, or to succeed my
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  way to happiness, to earn my way to happiness, to purchase my way
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  to happiness. And we can keep doing that. We can keep buying things.
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  We can keep looking for higher and higher posts and positions and roles and
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  whatnot. We can keep looking to the parties or the food, or the
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  drink, or the drugs or the drama in relationships, thinking that the next
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  wave, the next wave is going to be the one that's not only going
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  to propel me into a very momentary moment of enjoyment only to bring me back
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  down again, but that actually the next time, it's going to propel me
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  into this everlasting happiness. Right, it's the next chocolate cake just around the
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  corner. It's the next job, it's the next relationship, it's the next
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  promotion. And eventually you keep doing that and you realize, oh my god,
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  it's not working. Not that any of these things cannot coexist with happiness.
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  Of course they can. It's beautiful, have happy meals, happy jobs,
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  happy relationships, it's wonderful. It's just these are not the things that
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  actually fill me on the deepest chorust spiritual level on the inside. But I
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  can keep trying until I get to a point where I've hit this metaphoric spiritual
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  bottom of It doesn't work. Not the food, not the drink, not
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  the money, not the sex, not the movies. It doesn't work.
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  And that's when we're finally motivated to actually change. So if you find yourself
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  in a position of saying, my god, you know, I've got everything,
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  but I just find myself sinking into despair. It's actually kind of a
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  good site, a good sign, because it'll mean that at some point you're
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  going to be propelled to find something that's beyond all of that which you have,
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  that's actually who you are, and that becomes the source of that what
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  you're looking for. This brings to a close this hour of inspiration and transformation.
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  Thank you so much for joining me. I'm so glad to be together
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  with you all each week, and I look forward to being together again next
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  Thursday, same time on Home Time's Radio. But it can't be, don't
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  because to be beak ben overkind be it. I can't be Dave Beything.
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  Oh my god.