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Love Your Love Muscle - Finding Your Way Back to Yourself · Transformational Meditation Podcast

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Wonderful.
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Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Love Your Love Muscle, our
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bi-weekly podcast, produced by the Transformational Meditation
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Group, a group of people and meditation teachers, self-regulation
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teachers that, work for better health,
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stress management. Living from the heart is what we are all
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about. Uh, yeah, you know the drill.
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And as you can see, I'm not outside today.
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I'm at the office, which often means that we have a guest, and
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today we have Christina here from, Health for Life,
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and, we're going to talk about her organization very soon.
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I will let you, let her introduce herself also very
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soon. But first, before we get started, and out of respect for our
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guest, we're going to do a little self-regulation
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session. As you might know, I am not very fond of
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how short people's attention span is nowadays.
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And again, out of respect for our guest, I want to do a little self-regulation
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technique with you that teaches you how to focus and
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gives you better focus as well, because our guest has lots of
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information, good information that you don't want to miss out
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on. Uh, and it will be a shame if you, like, after one minute
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already go to another website or another social,
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social, media
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platform to check out on other things.
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So you go, you miss out on so many useful
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information. So I want you all to just sit down and
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relax,
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and just start by taking a nice deep inhale through your nose
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and exhale through your mouth. And then you lower your shoulders, you
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loosen your jaw, and just let the day go. Be more present.
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Settle down with us. Settle down with Christina and
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me. Breathe calmly
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and deeply. And if you want to close your eyes for a moment, you
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can do that.
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And on the next out breath, relax even more.
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Let more of the day go and become more present in this
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moment.
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And I want to invite you to put a hand on your heart space, on your chest
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right there where your heart is,
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and just set the intention for yourself that
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this time you're going to focus and sit down with us and
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absorb all the useful and wonderful information
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our guest today, Christina, has to offer to
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us.
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And just breathe
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calmly and deeply.
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All right. Beautiful. So get back again.
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Open your eyes if you had them closed, and just notice how that feels,
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right? Just notice how that short self-regulation
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technique just hijacked you from going to
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another social media site and
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checking on other things. And if you notice, if you, if you don't
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have time for the whole episode, know that we also have the
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recording. If you are a paying Patreon member of our,
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our website, you'll get, the video
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recording. You can always watch the video recording,
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afterwards. And if you're watching live, you of course, you already see the
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video. Uh, but we also release the recording as an
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audio podcast on all the platforms, a week
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later from now. So don't worry. But,
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yeah, I hope you'll
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sit this through and, enjoy all the wonderful information
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Christina has to offer. Uh, like I said, Christina,
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has an organization or a business called Health for
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Life, but she's also the founder of an organization
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called, Way to Yourself,
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which was very interesting. We just talked about it, but I want
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to, I want you to, to listen to how she explains it herself.
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What is this organization, Christina?
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And welcome, of course.
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Yeah. First of all, thank you so much for welcoming me here
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today. I'm very glad to, to be there.
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And, of course, I can give some insight in, the
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organization, in the work what we are doing.
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Um, so already many years back, there was the idea
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to, to establish something which, can
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be the help for many people, which brings
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me, which brings, like a lot of effect,
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in the life of each, person who is open for
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this. And so we started the found- the foundation,
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the organization, to share the ancient
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knowledge. The name of the organization is called Way to
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Yourself,
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because we are living right now in a very special time,
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people facing a lot of challenges, and,
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as well asking them- themselves, "So what I have to do
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basically in my life? What is my purpose?
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Uh, where I really can find, my, my
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purpose, my mission? Where I can find, my
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knowledge for health? What I have to do to be successful
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in life? What I have to do to find the right
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partner, to be able to have a good
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relationship, to have a good family, to raise up happy,
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healthy children?" Um, we are living in a quite
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modern time, but it looks like that we lost a lot of the
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knowledge which, which we need for our
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life.And, as well, very
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often right now comes in, like, people,
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to, to my life who asking about the, the topic,
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"You know, I don't know what I have to believe," or, "What is the
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faith about?" And, more and more there comes
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also the question, what do we believe in?
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Because we are surrounded from social media, we have the
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technology, we are developing very
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fast, but somehow we are losing the connection to
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ourself, and that's why Way to Yourself was
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established, and, with the purpose to share the ancient
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knowledge that people can really use, for their, for their own
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life, to have a big, benefit from it.
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When they really understand the knowledge and can use it, the
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life will change. Immediately the things are changing,
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and not only life will change, you also feel this, inner
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satisfaction. I don't know, maybe you understand what I'm talking
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about, when I talk about this, like, inner
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feeling. This is something
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you cannot find from your social media, you cannot fri- find from
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computers. Uh, you really have to go outside maybe
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to nature, to,
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to, to a natural place without all the technical things.
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And when you have the knowledge, when you really understand what to do,
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you feel this deep inner feeling, and this is something
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amazing. It touched me long time ago very
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deeply, and I like it so much to share.
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That's why Way to Yourself was, founded, and,
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we are sharing in the workshops and seminars,
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and, even have now another, big topic
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which is also coming to, yeah, to the
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organization. I don't know if you want to tell
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something in between or if I just continue.
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I wa- I want to say one thing before you continue.
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Yeah.
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Like, because this resonates so enormously with me and,
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and, and my life experience, and I think many of the listeners
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and watch- viewers as well. Because, as you know,
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my, from, we talked before a long time ago about
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what we do. Um, my mission is
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making people whole again, connecting people's heart to their
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brains-
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Mm-hmm
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... and thereby getting that, finding that way to
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yourself, basically. Because
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the moment I started doing that, the moment I dist- I, I
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connected my heart to my brain again, I felt
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whole. I felt like n- okay, so this is what it is
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about to be a human being, and things came more natural.
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And like you said, you don't need the computer or anything.
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Like, it becomes irrelevant because you are satisfied and happy with yourself
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and who you are. Uh, and that c- for me, that came
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from h- heart-brain coherence techniques, basically.
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This is also something, we teach in the Transformational Meditation
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Group. And
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the, the, the focus is mainly with, with, with my work and our work
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is connecting the heart to the brain, and in that way
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feeling and becoming more acquainted with themselves.
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Finding the Way to Yourself is, is beautiful name for that organization
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when it comes to that. And,
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yeah, really getting flow in
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life as well. Like, just be in nature.
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We do nature meditations in the summer with our organization in
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Norway. Uh, I have my podcast recordings
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recently actually moved completely to nature, which we, we record everything
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outside in, in Norwegian nature. Uh, and it
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is, the whole thing becomes so much
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better. The, the, the, the people are,
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love it. I make spatial videos,
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of the record, of the, of the situation we are in, so people can
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watch in 3D glasses and have surround sound as well, and really be
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observed in nature if they haven't the possibility to be there.
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Uh, but yeah. D- does, does, Way to,
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Way to Yourself focus on heart as well, on the
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heart-brain connection, or do the, do you use other techniques and
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other knowledge, ancient knowledge?
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Thank you so much for this questions.
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Basically, it's a very, very important question.
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Uh, we are focusing a lot about the heart-
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Mm-hmm
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... because, when you work with the heart, you really find
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a connection to yourself. And not only this, because when you are able
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to open your heart, your life is much more
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easy. And, I just was thinking now when you
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explained, you help, like, to connect the heart to the
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brain. I was thinking Way to Yourself probably is now,
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the, the second part what you are doing, because we try to
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connect people from the heart to some higher power.
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Mm.
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Uh, as, as I told before, people ask a lot about
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belief, about faith, and, we cannot
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find belief and faith in our technical things, not in the
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computer, not in the mobile phone.
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And, sometimes it's really question,
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yeah, what, what matters really in life.
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And, some people, they believe in the, the force, in the
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guidance of the universe, some talking even
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about, other higher power. And so
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maybe we have, have to find a connection from our heart to this
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higher powers again, because then truly our life
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change. Then really everything is possible and,
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this is a very, very beautiful feeling, and
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our life starts to blossom. So this is, I think,
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the effect what happens automatically in our work when we
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are sharing this ancient teachings, this ancient
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knowledge, and, people find this connection
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again.When you are really truly connected, then you, you
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see how, the things are start
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moving in your life. Maybe you know often we have
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situations in our life,
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it's like, you want to move with the car, you want to drive with your car,
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but, somehow it's d- difficult because, there
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are still the, the brake, like, which is not
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released.
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Mm-hmm.
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And so you try to, to drive, but the brake is,
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holding the car. And sometimes we have situations in our life like
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this, and really when you find this connection and when you
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have the ancient knowledge, then it's changing.
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You are releasing immediately the brake, and you feel that things are
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moving in the right direction. So basically this is something
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what we are doing. And,
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yeah. Uh, we, we are there, we are
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here.
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Mm-hmm.
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And, even,
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as well, we are ready to,
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to spread it a- around,
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not only in our country, but we are ready to spread it
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where people are open for this, where people are
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searching for it. Uh, after some time,
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basically not, not even two years ago, there came a-
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another big part, to our
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organization. Um, it's the help of
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orphans, the, the children without parents.
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And, it's a big topic because in reality
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we have a lot of children without parents, and really who
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are in a big need in other countries that we cannot even
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imagine that, such things exist.
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Uh, but we started, to support them, to, to give
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them a future, to help them with the basic
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needs, with food, with education, with
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medical care. And moreover, there is now
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the, the goal and the vision, to help,
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to build up a school or even some,
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some whole village of children. We need to see what the future brings
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because we need a lot of helping hands, a lot of people who
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are following this, this idea as well.
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And, yeah, I, I have
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a vision that when we are working together, like
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hand-in-hand, we can achieve a lot of,
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positive changes in our world, and,
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not only in the world of course, also in our families and in our
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life.
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Is, is there a, um... Because that came forward out of
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that, out of your org- out of the Way to Your Self
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organization. Do you, you
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set up schools? Do you also educate with the ancient
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knowledge
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to the Ugandan people?
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Yes.
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Yeah?
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It's a good question. Thank you so much. I started already.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, and not only about ancient knowledge.
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Basically these people, they are lacking a lot because,
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education is, some,
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very precious,
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lu- luxury tool I would say. Um, it's not,
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possible for everybody to get education.
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There existing a lot of people, without,
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without knowledge, without
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school. Uh, they are not able to read, not eba- not
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even able to write,
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the grown-ups. And, this is very
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difficult situation in reality. And so we started to
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teach them, like, very simple things for their daily
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life, but of course as well the ancient
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knowledge, which helps of course even
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more. Yeah. We started spreading it in the
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country and, in different congresses
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even, which is very, very nice and beautiful.
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You talked about, the brakes of a car, like people going through
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life
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driving their car basically, but having the, their one foot on the
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brake. What, what do you s- what do you
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see is an analogy for that, for that brake?
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Is it, people not trust- trusting
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themselves or is it basically lack of
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knowledge? Is it not wanting to let go of something?
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Uh, not, not able to,
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to accept that you don't have control over things?
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What, what, what does the brake stand for, stand for in, in your
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eyes?
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Thank you so much for this question.
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It's a very wise question basically,
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and, it's not so easy to answer because we have a different,
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like, a lot of different influences.
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Uh, sometimes really comes from our, in modern
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language we talk about the mindset,
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what we have, the program in our mind.
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Uh, a lot is coming from our childhood, from education,
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like from parents,
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after from kindergarten, from schools,
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like, wherever you are learning, from
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university, from your, working
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place. And, of course, as well
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we have influence from
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the society.
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Mm-hmm.
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The society have a own program and most of the people
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follow this, program and the rules.
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And as well we have a lot of influence coming from our own
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ancestors, from our family
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lineage.
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Mm-hmm.
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And, sometimes even we carry, the
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problems in our relationships, we carry the problems
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in our own health which is coming from our ancestor
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lineage. And so we can-See it, we can
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start working with this and using, of course, the knowledge as
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well, and then our life starts slowly,
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slowly by slowly to change.
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It resonates a lot with what we do with the transformational meditation
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group as well. It's the whole package basically what you say.
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Uh, in my courses, I call it for the confirmistic filter, which basically
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is some place in our brain that says, "This is the world according to
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me," but that according to me is based on, for example, like you
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mentioned, genetic memory even, like from
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generations, passed from, from, from our
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ancestors, but also our culture, our society, our religion, our belief
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system, things that we are being told f- at
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school, like the w- the world is like this, which doesn't have to
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be correct at all and, and, and is
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basically, it, it colors
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our, our perception
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and, our belief system, and especially what we
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think is possible and not possible.
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And when you remove those, when you put your foot off the
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brake and let go, what you can, for example, do with
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ancient knowledge and what we do with deep meditation is just peel
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away all those layers that the brake con- the, the,
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con- that the brake, consists of, and,
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and that freedom
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that you get
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and the results that you experience afterwards,
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like, well, what, what I often hear f-
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I, I hope you hear the same from your clients or, or, or course members
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or... That, that they say, "Oi, all of a sudden life
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flows more. I have-- I can think about
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something, and I've naturally things
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happen," or, "What I focus on, I
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get... The, the area I focus on, I get more possibilities to actually make
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that, that dream or that wish or whatever I want to have
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as a goal, make that come true." Do you experience
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the same things with yourself and your clients?
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Yeah, sure. Sure. We have, like the
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starting, point really in our mind,
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because, we only see the things are very, very
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limited because-
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Mm-hmm
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... different reasons. And, when we are able to,
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break through these, limitations, a lot more is
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possible. Uh, you, you attract different things to your
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life, different situations can immediately
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change, and you come really to the point when you feel this
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inner harmony, like the state which, you cannot find
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nowhere. It's really something very, very deep inside of
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ourself. And,
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yeah, so this is a
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recommendation from me coming really to, to
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use ancient knowledge, for their own life and
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to, to break, through these limitations because,
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then really our life change.
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Mm-hmm.
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That's the beautiful part of our work, like we use ancient
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knowledge, and we refer to it a lot and also
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package it in, in a more modern language so it's more
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understandable. Um, th- there's one thing that is
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often bothers me, people coming to me like, "Yeah, I'm
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changing, but it's affecting my
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relationship."
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Yeah.
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What do you say-- What, yeah, what do you say to that?
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Because, like, I always, I'm like, "Why doesn't your
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partner come along with you and experience the same benefits as
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you have?" But yeah, how do you, how do you, deal with that when somebody
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comes to you and says, "Yeah, this is affecting my relationship," and,
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maybe that's something that therefore they want to quit doing the work.
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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It's a good question.
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I know the situations basically also a lot,
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moreover because, women are very open for the ancient knowledge.
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They start to develop themselves, they get new
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experiences, and so they bringing it home.
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And of course, the husband, the partner reacts on it.
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And, some, they experience it as a very,
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a good, how to say, like a good moment in
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their life, because they get more harmony.
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Even the partner starts to develop, to get interested, to do
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something. And so both are changing, which really
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gives, gives a good, impact in their relationship.
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But of course, there existing also the couples, when women, for
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example, they develop and the partner is not interested at
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all. And then of course, there can be coming
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some, like, difficult moment, maybe even some
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conflicts. And, you were telling it with
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a, with good words already. So when, when it's giving
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something positive in your life, why your partner don't want to use it
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and, don't, don't want to change things for the better?
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This is a first question. But, really there
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existing, people and
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relationships, they are not open.
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They are not ready for, changes, for good changes.
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They already so used to their everyday life.
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Uh, they are okay with it, and they, they don't want to
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change. But of course, it can be a big,
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topic when one person is changing, another person not.
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And, for the future, the couple need to see if they
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can, yeah, can,
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consist or not. Maybe they, get separated
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even.
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We never know what will be the, the, the end.
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Uh, but in reality, our relationships are
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alive. Alive means, every day is
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different. Um, nothing is, should be stuck.
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We always develop, because we are learning a lot from
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each other.Each person is different.
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Um, we, we can improve the relationship.
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Basically, it's something like flower.
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When you have a flower, you have to take care about it, right?
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You have to, to bring the water, to, to take care,
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to give this flow- flower even the love,
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to nourish it,
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and sometimes, people forget that the relationship is
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basically the same. Every day you need to work on
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it. Otherwise, it's not blossoming,
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and, when it's getting stuck, some people, they
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try to escape, like they really want to get out because they
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feel, "I'm not comfortable anymore.
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Uh, I'm moving in a circle. Um, I need to do something
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different," and that's why they want to, yeah, to get
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out. But, when both are in harmony, then,
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they develop themselves together.
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Ba-
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I agree.
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Uh-huh.
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It, it's also, like,
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it's also part of you have to give each other the room to grow-
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Mm-hmm
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... and actually be excited. Why, why aren't you
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excited about your partner,
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growing, getting more involved,
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getting more, getting to know herself or himself
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better
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and, and
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succeed in life? I mean, that, that must be...
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I think this, it's mostly a beautiful thing to, to, to be a part of,
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right? But somehow some people don't accept it.
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It's... I always find interesting, like, oh, my partner
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is, is, is embracing the ancient knowledge, and I
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see it has effect. She's more positive, or he's more
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positive, and, op- opportunities
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come, without, any,
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strangles or stre- what I want to call it, and,
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and, and you, you should be happy about that, right?
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If you see your partner, being, experience so
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much positivity and, and, and so much, good stuff in
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life, and somehow some people don't accept it, and I've always
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think, "Hmm, is that a, is that a, is that a good
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relationship then?" And like you say, sometimes it ends up in a
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divorce or anything like that, a breakup. Yeah.
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Unfortunately, but maybe also, maybe also a good thing
27:08
sometimes, like, to, in order to-
27:12
Mm
27:12
... to, to, to become
27:15
even more whole, and you have to let go
27:18
of people that aren't,
27:21
yeah, that don't fit in, in that picture anymore, or are
27:25
maybe, are maybe becoming the brake.
27:29
Mm.
27:29
Hmm.
27:30
It's, it's really true. I agree with this,
27:34
totally. That's why one of my favorite teachings
27:37
really is, the, the situation and the
27:41
understanding that we truly lost, the knowledge
27:45
about how to choose the right partner.
27:48
Hmm.
27:48
How can I understand, like, what partner I need for my
27:52
life to have a good and harmonious
27:55
relationship? Our modern world is
27:58
based, I think, even
28:01
in a lot of other countries, too, I'm just, know now,
28:05
like, a lot of, things from my own country.
28:08
I don't know about other European countries or even outside who are
28:12
looking maybe now. Um, we are living in a
28:16
time when people, they choose a partner from the outside.
28:19
Like, they want to have a partner who looks good, who is
28:23
nice-looking. I don't know. I want a partner with brown
28:26
hair, with blue eyes, whatever, and, need to
28:30
be slim and tall, and a lot, a lot of different
28:34
marks. Uh, but then they have a partner like this, and the
28:38
trouble starts. Because in reality, they, they don't, do not
28:42
fit together. They do, they do not understand really
28:45
what, they need in a partner that the
28:49
relationship really, really wants, like, to, to develop
28:53
and to bring a benefit, and the partner is not
28:57
really, um... Sometimes I have this picture in my
29:00
mind, people think the partner is like a
29:04
furniture. You bring it home, and you put it somewhere.
29:08
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
29:10
But it, it's not like this.
29:12
No.
29:12
Uh, the partner is life. Every day the situation's
29:15
changing.
29:17
The mood is changing. And so
29:21
sometimes people forget about this, but we need to work with
29:25
it, right?
29:26
Yeah.
29:27
Yeah.
29:28
It, it's, it's, it's one of the things I see as well as a, as an
29:32
issue or challenge in Western society, especially where
29:35
people and, and, and living beings become objects-
29:40
Yeah.
29:41
... instead of, instead of, an, an energy, an
29:44
emotion, a, a human being, a living
29:48
thing, right? I, I don't want to call it a thing even.
29:50
A living human being-
29:52
Yeah
29:52
... with all their, all their, all their beautiful
29:56
aspects. I mean, and ever-changing, which is, I think,
30:00
which is the,
30:03
the most important thing, like, having a partner that, that grows
30:07
with you
30:08
together.
30:09
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
30:10
Uh, that's the... A- and, and
30:12
can... Um, and it, it's absolutely true.
30:15
We, we, we have... It's, it's our upbringing, and one of
30:19
those elements of the brake, I like to call...
30:21
Get back to the, the, the car brakes.
30:23
One of the elements in the, in the brake, I guess, as well, where we have been
30:27
conditioned to think,
30:30
exterior. To think how things look,
30:34
right? Especially, oh, this looks good, or this sounds good,
30:37
or whatever like that, but we never go deeper inside.
30:40
What's under, what's behind that exterior?
30:42
What's in that exterior? Uh,
30:46
because-And that's also a thing I find interesting
30:50
because the, the people that are
30:54
beautiful on the inside, that have find themselves in a hole, that have,
30:59
found their way to theirself, to themselves, they are often
31:03
radiant and beautiful
31:05
automatically in nature. Their confidence, they radiate.
31:09
That's confidence outside.
31:12
Um, often tend to be more compassionate,
31:16
more caring, undest- understanding, more
31:20
balanced. Um, and
31:23
that should naturally attract people who are the same,
31:27
right? And that's also maybe why some relationships
31:30
where one of the partners becomes that better
31:34
version of themselves, becomes more radiant, more
31:38
holistic, more everything, more a human being,
31:42
why, why some relationships stop because the other, the other
31:45
partner, doesn't resonate with that
31:49
quite yet.
31:51
Mm-hmm.
31:51
Yeah. But yeah, absolutely, it's,
31:55
the, the, those are the challenges.
31:57
Can we, can we... We, we were talking about, schools
32:01
in Uganda, but can we learn something from the, the culture in
32:05
Uganda as well, which would, benefit the
32:09
Western society especially?
32:12
We can learn a lot. Really, really a lot.
32:15
And, every time when I come back to my, home country,
32:19
immediately I want to go back to Uganda because, I'm
32:23
missing it here a lot.
32:25
Uh, this is, the topic of, um...
32:28
Basically, there are different topics. I need to start with one point.
32:32
Um, the people there, they have a lot of needs because, in
32:36
reality this country is very poor.
32:39
Mm.
32:39
It means, people, they suffer a lot in one point, but in
32:43
the other point they are laughing a lot.
32:46
They are just happy. They are happy even they have the biggest
32:50
disasters in their life, they are deeply happy
32:53
from, from the inside. And, moreover, they are very,
32:57
very grateful for everything they have.
33:00
Even if it is only very, very little, they are very
33:03
grateful. And,
33:06
what, impressed me a lot was when I came to the orphanage
33:11
and, people ask me, "Ah, you, you can help
33:15
now to share the food with children.
33:18
You can, like, sit down and, give the children also some
33:22
food." And I just, like, did like this other helper
33:25
did. Uh, we were working together hand-in-hand,
33:30
and then each child came, took the plate, and was
33:34
kneeling down. And I thought, "Oh, my God. What is this?
33:38
Why these children are kneeling down?" And then after
33:41
I, I was asking, basically I
33:45
realized now when they ate their food, the plate was
33:48
empty, and before they go to clean their plate, they come
33:52
back, like, to the person who gave the food, and
33:56
kneeling down again and, thanking for the food and for the
34:00
cooking.
34:02
And then I ask, "Please let me know," because I'm not used for
34:06
this, that children comes and really kneeling down.
34:10
Uh, for me it's something completely new.
34:12
And they told, "You know, this is really African tradition.
34:16
This is a sign of respect, and,
34:19
gratitude." They coming back thanking that, they
34:23
got the food, and it's a deep respect to the person who
34:27
helps them, to, yeah, to ta- to care.
34:31
And I realized this even, when you're moving in the
34:34
village, when you go to a city, when people in
34:38
our age, so our... I think we are maybe the,
34:42
the very similar age.
34:44
Uh, when you're on the streets meeting people who are older, the
34:48
generation of our parents, for example,
34:52
we would even kneel down to give them the hand and to greet.
34:56
I saw this, and I was also very deeply impressed.
34:59
And I told, "What are you doing? What is this about?" And they
35:03
told, "You know, this is a sign of, respect, especially for
35:07
the age."
35:08
Mm.
35:08
All the, the older people, they have deep respect
35:12
because they, they living more years.
35:15
They have more experience.
35:17
Mm.
35:17
They always can share something. They can, teach you
35:21
different things
35:23
maybe you never experienced in your life.
35:26
And, this was something really it impressed me a lot.
35:30
And when I come back here to the European countries,
35:34
I'm missing it a lot.
35:36
Yeah.
35:37
Um, more, like, first of all, the people in my
35:40
country, they are not so joyful. They are not
35:44
laughing so, so often. I don't know about
35:47
Norway, how it's there. Um.
35:49
Mm.
35:50
Uh, and, so I'm missing this joy, this,
35:54
really, this deep happiness inside, and as well
35:58
how people communicate with each other, like, with this big
36:01
respect. And even when they have some
36:05
meeting, like physical meeting or online
36:08
not so much existing because, still internet is difficult there.
36:12
But, they have a lot of physical meetings.
36:16
They have a lot of respect for the people who organizing
36:19
it, who really is the leader, who can,
36:23
share something, who can teach something.
36:27
It's very, very diff- different, than to the most of the
36:31
European countries here. And, I think it's
36:35
a big, big difference from the Western
36:39
to some- somehow, like Western countries to other countries,
36:43
let's say, where we really can learn a lot.
36:46
Yeah.
36:48
I think that's so important. And also one of the-Most wonderful
36:52
things of living on this planet and with the way we are able to
36:56
travel all over the place now instead of,
37:01
like I often think like especially the Western world and I've
37:05
talked about it often as well, like it's almost like
37:08
we, want to dominate
37:13
other countries that we see as lesser than us.
37:17
And we have seen that through history with colonization, et cetera.
37:20
And there's so much
37:23
we could have and still can learn
37:26
from those other cultures that, that
37:30
if we just had integrated that in our life and, and
37:34
instead of dominating other people with our race, but integrated their
37:38
ways into our race as well, that we would become a more
37:42
coherent, human society as a
37:46
whole on this planet. Because everybody, like you
37:50
say, with respect for the elders especially, they have so much life
37:54
knowledge, so much knowledge from life, from their own
37:57
experiences. Uh, it's, it's a shame that we,
38:01
when people get elderly, that we put them away in an elderly home
38:05
and, and go and visit them once a month.
38:07
You know, that's like
38:09
all that knowledge, all those, all the things you can learn from
38:12
our, our senior m- citizens,
38:17
that, that basically can, can stop us from
38:20
going into the same, er- doing the same errors over and
38:24
over again, right? We can learn from, from their mistakes and not, don't,
38:28
don't repeat them. I mean, there's so much we, yeah, we
38:32
can learn from, from like you say, from the people from
38:35
Uganda, with, okay, show respect to your
38:38
elders and, and learn from them, learn from their, their
38:42
experiences
38:44
and be grateful. Gratitude is so important.
38:47
Gra- gratitude, universal key to manifestation.
38:49
If you're grateful for something, you get more.
38:52
And I guess the Ugandan people understand that as, as,
38:56
as no other. Like the more gratitude you show, the more
39:00
you, you be in a, you are in a state of gratitude.
39:03
The, the opportunities to become more grateful open
39:07
up. Uh, so yeah, absolutely.
39:10
Beautiful. Very important. All
39:13
right. Um-
39:17
I, I have an example if I can share.
39:19
Yeah. Yeah.
39:21
Yeah. I, was today in a school, as well, like teaching
39:25
the children in my country about, the schools in other
39:29
countries, about like bringing some connection
39:33
even like from one country to another country, like different
39:36
topics. And really, I love children so much.
39:40
It's so amazing to work with them, but I see so much the
39:43
differences.
39:45
Mm-hmm.
39:45
Like when you look to the different countries, how children
39:48
behave, how when they are already like more in the
39:52
teenager age, how they behave.
39:56
And sometimes I'm even,
40:00
surprised that the children, they, they lost the
40:04
respect, in front of their teachers.
40:07
Mm.
40:07
Like I see the teacher in the class, in the school, and how they, they
40:11
behave towards them. Uh, I feel, I feel sad
40:15
myself. Uh, I, I'm always thinking about the children in
40:18
Africa, how they behave, because even like when you,
40:23
see them, when they are studying in school,
40:26
it's very different. Really, they have, so much,
40:29
uh... Oh yeah, it's a deep respect
40:33
and, like a good behavior. Good behavior.
40:37
They are getting teach from, the childhood like this.
40:41
Even me, I remember I was also teach like this, but
40:45
somehow, through the generation it got, got
40:48
somehow maybe lost or they are looking
40:52
for other values maybe now. I don't know.
40:56
But, it's something what, what is like touching me very,
41:00
very deeply.
41:03
Uh,
41:04
I think that's a subtopic we can talk about another time, but I want to tie
41:07
into that a bit, the schools and education.
41:10
Mm-hmm.
41:10
Because there's huge differences, in, in Norway as well,
41:14
and in the type of school. Um, like,
41:19
in Norway we have, something called the Steiner School, which
41:22
is the equivalent to Waldorf schools.
41:24
I guess you know that in Germany especially.
41:28
Uh, and when you see the difference in how, the
41:32
education is in Waldorf schools and in public
41:35
schools, it's, it's, it's a world of difference.
41:39
Uh, in Waldorf schools, they, they,
41:44
they greet the teacher in the morning, and that is a form
41:48
of respect, right?
41:50
Mm-hmm.
41:50
And, at, at the schools my kids go to, my kids went to a Steiner
41:54
school,
41:56
they eat together, they make food together.
41:59
Mm-hmm.
42:00
Uh, so they have, lunch together with the whole class.
42:03
They share things. Uh, and their education
42:07
form is more practical, which, which makes it also that
42:11
the kids are more interested because they're doing more.
42:14
They, they're learning, but they're also doing more. Kids want to play.
42:17
Kids want to make things, right? They want to, to work
42:21
with their hands. They want to run around,
42:25
and they want to also see the theory of, for example,
42:28
mathematics. Yeah, what, what does this do in practice?
42:31
What can I do with it? Well, you use it in the kitchen to measure how
42:35
many liters of milk you have to use for this cake, for
42:38
example, and they learn to calculate and use mathematics in a
42:42
practical way. And it, it inspires kids much more
42:46
than sitting in a school bench listening to some dumb teacher just
42:50
reading from a book, right? And, and you have to try to, to
42:54
remember everything for your next exam.So you did, the evening
42:58
before your exam, you're sitting and thinking, "Okay," trying to remember
43:01
everything, and when your exam is done, you forget everything right away because
43:05
sh- yeah, you never use it again.
43:09
Mm-hmm.
43:09
So that's, that's, I think, I think for the, it would be,
43:13
beneficial for very often public schools
43:16
to look at the private schools, like Waldorf schools,
43:21
and see, hey,
43:23
even though they,
43:25
they say
43:27
their educational system is, like, already over 100 years
43:30
old, it doesn't matter. There's still a lot
43:33
to, to learn from it and the way they teach chi-
43:37
children. And at the school my kids went
43:40
to, they got problem kids from the public schools. Ki- ...
43:44
Oh, this kid has a problem, you know?
43:47
The kid didn't have a problem. That kid had a problem with the system, the
43:51
school system, the public school, because the moment they started at the, at the
43:55
Waldorf school,
43:56
that wasn't, that wasn't a problem kid at all.
43:59
Mm.
43:59
It was the most fun kid to hang out with, right?
44:02
And just because the system is different around them.
44:06
Mm.
44:06
Mm.
44:07
Understand very good, very clearly. Yeah.
44:10
Mm-hmm.
44:11
But that's a topic for another
44:14
another-
44:15
It's true
44:15
... episode maybe. Yeah.
44:17
We could-
44:17
So
44:17
... continue probably many hours more.
44:20
Oh, yeah. Uh-
44:22
Okay
44:22
... I would like to wrap, to wrap it up because, and though we, we did an
44:26
exercise with our listeners to stay focused-
44:29
Uh-huh
44:29
... I don't expect them to stay focused for over an hour,
44:32
so.
44:34
I understand. I'm sur-
44:36
No, this is, this is ... Yeah, go ahead.
44:39
I'm surprised to hear that you have in Norway, Waldorf
44:42
schools.
44:43
Yeah.
44:43
Basically, we have them also here in Germany, and I'm really
44:47
surprised to hear that you also have them.
44:50
That probably you are adop- adopted the system or the, yeah, the
44:54
schools itself. Yeah.
44:56
They're, they're all over Europe.
44:57
Uh-
44:58
Okay.
44:59
Yeah, many countries have them.
45:00
Mm-hmm.
45:01
So, for those that are in Europe and listening in, if you're, if you have kids
45:04
that are, and you're planning to send them to school,
45:08
try, try to see if you have a Waldorf-type school or a
45:12
Steiner school, Rudolf Steiner school in your area.
45:15
Mm-hmm.
45:16
And, and, go and visit them and, and learn,
45:20
maybe something
45:22
that, your kids can benefit from. It's not for everybody.
45:25
I mean, and that's the beautiful thing, that we have private schools and different
45:28
education systems.
45:30
Yeah.
45:30
There's always, there's always a, a fit for something.
45:33
But I always want to, want
45:37
to say to people, don't always go with what everybody else do.
45:41
Think for yourself and listen to your heart what feels
45:45
good when you are exploring, right?
45:48
It's true.
45:48
Okay. Uh, Christina, thank you so much for this
45:52
conversation.
45:53
Mm-hmm.
45:54
Uh, learned so much, and, I want to know,
45:58
the websites and links to especially,
46:02
your project in Uganda.
46:04
Mm-hmm.
46:04
How can, how can our listeners and viewers contribute to that and, and
46:08
follow along with it, help out with it?
46:10
But I guess you take donations as well.
46:13
Uh, haven't talked about that, but I guess you, you, you take
46:17
donations and everything like that as well.
46:19
And of course,
46:21
the, the, the, the rest of the organization, w- A Way to
46:24
Life.
46:26
Mm-hmm.
46:26
Uh, would love to, to get more information on that so I can put it in the
46:29
description underneath this, this podcast and
46:32
video.
46:33
Mm.
46:33
Okay.
46:35
Yeah. Thank you so much, yeah, for being a part today.
46:38
Uh-
46:38
Uh, I will give you, of course, all the necessary information, and, you
46:42
are right, we are taking donations.
46:44
Um, as well, we are looking very much for sponsors for
46:48
children.
46:49
Ah.
46:50
We still need, like, around, I think, 47
46:54
sponsors are missing for, the 40, 47 children lacking the,
46:58
the sponsor. Uh, so if somebody have a call to support a
47:02
child, you're very welcome, and, I'm very glad
47:05
to see messages of you.
47:08
Thank you so much.
47:09
And can, can organizations and companies also sponsor?
47:13
Of course. Yeah.
47:14
Yeah. Yeah.
47:15
Yeah.
47:15
Cool.
47:15
We can give the, the donation receipts-
47:18
Mm-hmm
47:18
... so this is not a problem, and, everybody is welcome.
47:22
Yeah.
47:23
Beautiful. All right. Thank you so much, Christina,
47:27
and, well, hopefully we'll see you back again
47:30
for more information later.
47:32
Mm-hmm.
47:32
How it's going in Uganda, how it's going with, Way to Life,
47:36
way to yourself. Oh.
47:41
Yeah.
47:42
Oh.
47:42
Yeah. Thank you so much.
47:43
Mm-hmm. Thank you.
47:43
I would be very happy to come back as well.
47:45
Okay. And thank you everybody for listening in, and for those that are watching
47:49
live, thank you so much for joining in.
47:51
And for those that watching the recording, thank you as well for your attention.
47:55
And, yeah, I hope to see you back next time again for another
47:58
episode of Love Your Lifema. So take care, everyone.
48:01
Be safe, and namaste. Bye-bye, Christina.
48:05
Bye-bye. Thank you so
48:06
much.