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The Overflow Principle- How Giving Fills Your Soul · Spiritual Sense: Practical wisdom to quiet an overthinking mind and recharge your soul

• 0:01
  What if the secret to feeling full and content and satisfied is actually to pour yourself out, to empty yourself of what you have to actually help others?
• 0:15
  What if the more you give your light, the brighter it actually becomes?
• 0:21
  Today we're exploring this strange divine mathematics of the soul where less truly does become more.
• 0:33
  I was connecting with a friend of mine today who is a writer and author, Mike George, and he was talking about this concept of emptying yourself in order to feel fulfilled. It's a very strange, paradoxical thing if you think about it.
• 0:52
  Imagine a time where you gave from your heart in, in the right way, from your heart, and you helped someone, you shared and they got the value. And you offered your gifts, you offered some wisdom, or you smiled at someone, or you gave someone love and blessings and then you felt better afterwards, right?
• 1:14
  Can you think of it? I mean, I've had millions of examples, hundreds of thousands I don't know of doing this, where even, for example, when I'm teaching students, sometimes I might have a headache or I'm not feeling well, you know, occasionally I'm not feeling on my best form for various health reasons or whatever.
• 1:32
  And then I show up to do a session, even though I don't feel like it because I've agreed to do it.
• 1:38
  And by the end of the session, the headache's gone away and my energy's returned. Everything's great, right?
• 1:45
  And so when we are giving to others, it comes back. And in addiction programs, this is recommended in the 12 steps. The 12th step of addiction programs is to serve others, to be of service in order to maintain your own sanity and sobriety and well being.
• 2:04
  Whereas in our modern society we tend to be just taking, taking, taking, consuming, consuming, consuming, getting, getting, getting, eating, eating, eating, drinking, drinking, drinking. And many, many people are very, very depressed because we have to express, we have to share, we have to allow that which we have to be shined and shared forth in order to experience ourselves and in order to fill up. And I remember when I was Starting meditation about 28 years ago now, I was doing meditation initially for myself.
• 2:42
  Just here's my practice, trying to connect with God and feel the power, feel the light, which was fine. And then I remember someone saying, well, why don't you receive God's light in order to shine it out? There's a concept of giving sakash, which means a current of light.
• 3:01
  And that is where we absorb spiritual energy.
• 3:07
  And then we radiate it out to all around us, through our body, and out into the world to other people.
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  So the energy is coming in and it's being shined all around.
• 3:24
  Let's just practice that now for a moment. Imagine there is beautiful energy filling you up, spiritual light shining down.
• 3:34
  And just breathe into that and relax.
• 3:40
  Imagine there is a current of beautiful, healing, pure energy filling you up as you breathe in and as you breathe out, just send those good vibrations all around you.
• 3:58
  And again, just filling up and sharing it through your whole being all around you to everyone in the world, to the planet earth, to nature.
• 4:13
  And just do that a few more times right now.
• 4:29
  Ah, yes.
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  Doesn't that feel good? Just let it come in and shine it out. May everyone be happy. May everyone be healthy. May the whole world be healed.
• 4:40
  You're just having that good wishes, pure feelings, blessings.
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  May everyone be healthy.
• 4:49
  May everyone be wealthy.
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  May everyone be happy and safe and relaxed.
• 5:00
  And smile on the world if you like. Big smile, good smile on the world.
• 5:07
  And there it is. Ah, yes.
• 5:14
  Because we are naturally bestowers. We're naturally here to give to each other. We're here to experience, to the joys of life, to receive and also, of course, to give.
• 5:25
  Our life purpose, our dharma is to be of service, and that's what brings us joy. And if we're not being of service, then we will feel dead on the inside, because so much can be expressed through us. And as it does, it creates space for more goodness to come to fill us up.
• 5:49
  So just think about this today. How can you be of service to the greatest number of people from your heart? And remember, true service doesn't drain you, it gives you back. So if you're doing something and you feel like you're being drained or being taken advantage of, then stop doing that and find another way of doing it.
• 6:08
  When we share from our heart selflessly with love, when we are receiving from a higher power, from an energy that is unlimited, and we're shining through there, sharing through there, then we end up with more.
• 6:24
  Most things in life, if you give something to someone, let's say I have a pen in my hand now, if I give someone this pen, it means I don't have this pen anymore physically, right?
• 6:36
  But with knowledge and with good wishes and pure feelings, when you share doesn't disappear, it actually amplifies. If you share something with someone else, a wisdom, an idea, a smile, love, it gets bigger. It doubles, triples, 10x.
• 6:56
  So life is about figuring out ways of giving in such a way that it comes back more and automatically.
• 7:06
  When we share in the right way from our hearts, instantly we get the benefit, instant happiness.
• 7:15
  So how can you share your love, share your smiles, share your blessings, share some wisdom, some kindness, listening, share your presence and as you empty yourself you will be fulfilled.
• 7:33
  Thank you so much for being here.
• 7:36
  Enjoy enjoy enjoy and also we're going to be doing Q and A sessions on this podcast so if you have any questions or you'd like to share something we have a link in the description and we'd love to hear from you and if there's anything that we can do to help, any topics that you'd love us to talk about, more meditations, just let us know. We're here to serve you and to enjoy our own happiness doing it as well of course.
• 8:05
  Ah yes. So thank you for being here. May you enjoy your beautiful life, beautiful smiles, your precious divine spiritual energy, one of a kind and I look forward to connecting with you soon. Much love and many many blessings.