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Being Peace vs. Being Peaceful: The Present Moment Awareness Shift with Billy Mandarino · The Purpose and Progress Podcast Show

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Billy Mandarino:: Don't analyze your thoughts. Don't follow your
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thoughts. Find the thinker and the mind dissolves. I was
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analyzing thoughts. I was following these practices. And
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even the meditations in my book are great, they help you. But
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when you can learn to be peace, which means you surrender to all
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of it, and you can get your mind out of the way, and you can
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enter that peaceful, now that present moment, that present
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moment that's so full of everything that you need get the
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mind out and stop thinking, just be peace. Avalanches of
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abundance show up in your life emotionally, socially,
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spiritually, financially, physically. It's amazing. So,
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that's been the recent shift to say, it doesn't seem sexy, it
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doesn't seem credible. But being peace instead of trying to be
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peaceful has been the quantum shift in my life.
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Jim Price:: Hello, I'm Dr. Jim Price, and welcome to The
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Purpose and Progress Podcast. This is the place where we
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explore how purpose can guide our actions, and how growth can
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become a part of our everyday lives. On the show, I talk with
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amazing guests, from educators and creators to everyday people
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with extraordinary stories about the challenges they face, the
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lessons they've learned, and how to keep moving forward. My goal
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is to share conversations that inspire you to live
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intentionally, embrace growth, and take meaningful steps to
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your own purpose. Let's get started.
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Hello, welcome to The Progress and Podcast Show. I'm your host,
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Dr. Jim Price, where we share inspirational stories of
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fabulous people from all over the world, for sharing their
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stories. People see the success, and they don't always know the
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backdrop to how people got to where they're at. So we like to
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have this show be a part of sharing that journey of
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understanding how people got to where they're at, and there's
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always a beginning story to everyone's story. Here, we want
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to use those stories as motivation and inspiration
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toward the viewers and audience that are watching today. We have
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another fabulous guest today. He's the author of the hit book,
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The Nowist: Teaching People About Present Moment Awareness
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to Attract Abundance, and he's a producer and a speaker. I'm so
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glad to have on the show Billy Mandarino. I'm so happy to have
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you on the show, Billy. How are you doing today?
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Billy Mandarino:: Another day in paradise, Dr. Jim. Thank you so
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much for having me. It's my honor to be of service to your
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audience. We're all connected in this world, in this life. I'm
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just about, how can I serve people on a higher level?
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Jim Price:: Absolutely. We were just talking before we started
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having a similar purpose, wanted to inspire others through
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positive change, inspiring others to heal, inspire others
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to look at themselves in a way where they can think about
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themselves in a positive light and progress toward that, or
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whatever their goals and aspirations to know that you can
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achieve those goals if you put yourself in a position where
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you're feeling good about yourself and understanding
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deeper levels of yourself instead of the surface level
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stuff. Sometimes, it takes going within to really understand
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yourself personally. So we were just talking about that before,
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how that aligns in terms of my purpose, how your purpose aligns
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with helping others and having people see a different dimension
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to themselves, and stuff like that. I definitely would love
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the work that you're doing, Billy.
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Billy Mandarino:: Thank you so much.
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Jim Price:: We're going to get into some of these questions. I
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think the first thing we want to know is, when do you feel that
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your journey started? What influenced that in that way?
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Billy Mandarino:: We all run into challenges in this life.
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I've heard this analogy said many times. It says, you want to
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grow physically, you have to press up against a lot of
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resistance. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Guinness
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Book of World Records, has him as the most incredible human
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physique in the history of the world. And he had to press up
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against a lot of resistance with those muscles to get him shaped
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just that way. So all of us in our life press up against
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resistance, but so many people circle away from it. They shrink
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to it, and they let it overwhelm them, and they just don't rise
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to the challenge. Well, same thing happened to me. I was
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overwhelmed in this world as, probably a 20 year old man
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having my first existential life craze crisis. Come from a
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divorced family, six kids. How to sit in front of a judge and
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pick which one I wanted to live with at 7 years old. A tough
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divorce for all of us kids. It's really tough. I always follow a
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spiritual path. I've always been a devout spiritual seeker. Being
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raised Christian, Catholic Mormon, I've had all these
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different types of religions in my life. But the truth was I was
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always seeking for not just the one but the oneness of it all. I
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realized that to connect with that oneness in the stress of my
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life, in the overwhelming times of my life, very early at 7,
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then at 20, another life-changing experience
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happened with an accident that changed everything in my life.
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Not that long ago, 5 years ago, I was paralized and hard to walk
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again. I got Guillain-Barré syndrome from Covid. It almost
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took me out. I think about all those collectively because time,
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as Einstein said, is an illusion. I think about the
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beginning, but this illusion that we live in, this time-bound
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illusion, I try to overcome that illusion. That's my focus. So
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living as a now-ist, that came to me early in my 20s, that very
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first, while I was old enough to know like, hey, stress is
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overtaking my life. My focus is living in that rearview mirror.
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I don't know about you, Jim, if you're driving your car and
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you're looking in that rearview mirror, you're gonna crash your
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car every time. Well, I find most people spend their life
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that way. They're driving forward, and they're always
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looking back. And no wonder that there's so much stress,
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overwhelm, heart disease and all these terrible illnesses that
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affect people because they haven't figured out how to
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master the present moment. My book is all about teaching
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people how to live in the present moment as a way of life,
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as a practice. So through all the stresses and overwhelms of
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my life, I've found that the present moment is the most
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powerful part of our daily life that we don't spend a lot of
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time with, but that's where the change is the awareness of the
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present moment. And from that is born out so much of the power
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that you need to go on to get over driving forward, looking in
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that rearview mirror, being focused, being aware, being
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connected to the power that you are in this moment, being
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connected to God in this moment, and that's truly the power that
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has inspired this book. The book is a spiritual memoir. It's how
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I found the Nowist to be the most powerful part of my living,
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living these principles, living this way. And it's not a
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religion, it's a practice. It connects to God, but it's a
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practice of living this way consistently.
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Jim Price:: I love that you talk about the spirituality connected
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to everything you do. You've been through a lot of dramatic
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things in your life, and to have to overcome a lot of those
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things, and have bring awareness to yourself through those
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obstacles and stuff that you faced in life, that speaks true
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to the idea of spirituality that you speak of. I'm definitely one
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to be connected with spirituality. I always say, I
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pray. I incorporate prayer to every project I do, with the
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books, animation, podcasting, like we're doing here. I always
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incorporate prayer as a part of that overall package of
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everything I do because I feel when you do those things, you
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open up the opportunity and doors for good things to happen.
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Sometimes, I always say to people to pray. But the
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important thing is not always just pray when things are bad.
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Pray when things are good too. Sometimes, people will just pray
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when things are going bad, and then they forget to say thanks
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afterwards. And I think that's what I think that spirituality
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really spoke volumes to me.
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Billy Mandarino:: Amen. Jim, I love that you spoke about
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prayer. Because before, I've been on hundreds of podcasts.
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And every time before I get on a podcast, I pray. I open myself
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up, not for my words to come through, but for the words to
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come through that someone might be watching or listening to this
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10 years from now. Who knows, 100 years from now. But in this
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moment, getting out of the egoic construct of what I want to say
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and what I want, instead of just being open to what's supposed to
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come through, I think people with prayer, they lose that
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connection with the feeling. And if you look back to the Dead Sea
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Scrolls and those caves in Afghanistan in 1947, those Dead
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Sea Scrolls were mostly the book of Isaiah. And the book of
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Isaiah was talking about prayer as a feeling. I think we missed
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that in our prayers. We get caught up in the words. We
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repeat it, it's a mantra. We constantly get caught up in the
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repetition, but we forget about the feeling of the prayer.
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That's the energy, that's the vacuum that brings God, that
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brings that universal spiritual connection back to source to
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help us overcome these tough things in our life. It the
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prayer as a feeling that's most important.
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Jim Price:: Absolutely. I think a lot of people, they lose sight
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of that. How important that can be to your life when you
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incorporate those things. And that's all part of self care
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too. When you talk about the ideas of prayer that consists of
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the self care too, you pray, you do the self care things to bring
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more awareness to yourself and understanding to yourself. Those
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things are so important. You've already talked about a lot of
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obstacles that you face in your journey of success. Out of all
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those experiences, what's the biggest obstacle that you could
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say, well, that's the actual biggest obstacle. I know you
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mentioned the COVID. But for you, personally, what probably
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was the biggest obstacle that really had you look at things in
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a different perspective?
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Billy Mandarino:: Yeah, definitely. I had some
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challenges in my life. But in 2021, going through that
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Guillain-Barré syndrome, that full paralysis and being in a
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hospital for 21 days, and been studying all of this, and
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teaching this, and done live events, and then spoke all over
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the world, and audio books, and the book, and the courses, but
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God put me in this situation and I learned so much. And to answer
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your question fully and from the highest part of me that serves
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your audience, the truth is in that obstacle, in that
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confinement. I mean, I'm claustrophobic. And when I was
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fully paralyzed, my wife and daughter had to carry me down
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the stairs, put me in the car, and it was COVID. I don't know
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if you remember, everything was locked down. They basically put
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my flopping body in a wheelchair, and I had to sit
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there in the rain. There's 90 COVID patients in this COVID
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ward of this hospital here in Santa Barbara. And eventually,
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they get me inside and put me in an MRI tube for four and a half
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hours because they did not know what was wrong with me. And
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Jim Price:: where to go. They have no answers, and they hope,
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that's what it takes in case anybody ever gets an MRI. It
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takes four and a half hours, that's how much time it takes to
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get every picture of your body. And so in that time, I had to
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learn how to pray, chant, sing, visualize. I went quantum. I
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literally was out of my body. And I learned that through
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meditation, through prayer, through connecting to the
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highest part of me, that God realized self in me. That's how
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I could get out of that claustrophobic state. I was also
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terrified because I was paralyzed, and I didn't know
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what was wrong with me. The doctors didn't know what was
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wrong with me. But in that paralysis, the biggest takeaway,
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the biggest shift that I had is I realized that this is not
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happening to me. I'm going to use this experience. I'm going
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to make this my spiritual practice. I made that the
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paralysis, that tragic overwhelming opportunity I had
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to change my life for the better, and to use this as a
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spiritual practice. And the next day, I woke up from this long,
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long night, and I am still paralyzed. But there were these
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two doctors in the bottom of my bed, and they both said, hey, we
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don't know what's wrong with you. We think you have COVID.
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Guillain-Barré syndrome caused by COVID, not from a vaccine,
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because vaccines didn't exist at this time. They spinal tapped me
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to prove it, and I said, okay, now they know what they're going
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to do. I'm going to use this spiritual experience, a
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spiritual journey that I'm going to go on this test, and I'm
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going to serve everybody that serves me first. So the doctors
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would come, and I can't move, my arms can't move. I would ask
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them how they're doing, how's their relationships going, how
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are their finances doing? And the doctors, the nurses, the
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physical therapists, the recreational therapist, the
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speech therapist, they would all play the game with me. And by
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serving other people, I got better faster, and that was the
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biggest takeaway. Not the victim mentality, but how can I serve,
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not what's in it for me.
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and all this stuff. You're definitely a living testimony of
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overcoming.
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Billy Mandarino:: And I'm not saying that was easy. It was not
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easy. But I did recognize, and this is the key for any change.
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You've probably known this for years, that awareness is step
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one. I was aware that this was happening for me, not to me. And
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I've done so much practice, spiritual work, just work on a
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higher part of myself, a higher dimension that I knew that this
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was not going to take.. I'm not going out this way. I'm going to
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use this as a spiritual practice to serve others. So ultimately,
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that takeaway, and I got better faster. I had some miraculous
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healings. I got out of there after 21 days. I was walking
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with the cane. Six weeks later, I was back into my life when the
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doctors thought it would be about a year. Because
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Guillain-Barré syndrome means that you're the myelin that
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covers your nerves is all eaten, because my immune system
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attacked itself. So that has to grow like her fingernail, but it
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grew fast. I was back, and so I knew that it was connected to
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part of that awareness that I had. That this is what's going
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to take to heal. And the mind-body connection is not just
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a woo woo science thing, or a spiritual pseudoscience thing.
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My mind and my body connected and healed in a quantum speed.
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Jim Price:: Wow, that's an amazing story. And thanks for
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being open like that to share that aspect of what your
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experiences have been through. And people see the success, and
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like I say, people don't always know the story and the journey
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behind the success. They only see the glamor, the glory, all
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the lights and everything else, but they don't ever really see
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the backdrop of how, what the steps to get to that point, the
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things, the obstacles that were overcome, the hurdles in life
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that were overcome, the things that were endured during the
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process of getting to the next stage, thinking to the next
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part, into that next step, and everything. So that's such a
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tremendous story right there. So yes, that definitely answered
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everything. And it's a blessing to be able to share this and be
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with you, and see you motivating others, and using your platform
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to be able to inspire others to make it through those hurdles
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and obstacles that they face in their lives too. It's definitely
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inspirational, Billy.
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Billy Mandarino:: Thank you, Jim.
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Jim Price:: I also want to know, the audience wants to know too,
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what probably would you feel your greatest achievement that's
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really been dear to you in terms of your journey to get where you
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are. Maybe achievement that you feel connected to the most that
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really brings you pride and joy, and helping in terms of helping
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others.
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Billy Mandarino:: Do you know what it's so weird? Is that's a
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great question. I don't always answer it this way. But what
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I've found recently, I've been studying this. The book came out
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almost 10 years. I started working on this about 10 years
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ago. Book came out in 2018. But prior to that, I was still
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speaking, talking and doing events, and just serving people,
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and trying to convince them, and cajole them, and inspire them
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into this idea of spending time in the present moment. Not so
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much in linearity, but in the vertical. And when that past,
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future time meets the vertical divine timeline where those
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cross, that's the now. And what's happened to me just six
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months ago, it's so interesting. It comes down to this simple
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thing, but I had a quantum shift in the Zen tradition. They call
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it a satori. They call it an epiphany. Had another one, and
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it just happened a few months ago, and it's simple. And the
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audience, everybody might miss it. It's so simple, it seems so
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obvious, but I learned that being peaceful, we try to be
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peaceful. We have prayer, we go to church, we meditate, we go to
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our ashrams, we have our mantras, our mudras, we get into
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these peaceful states. But how often are you being at peace?
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What has shifted for me in the last few months is I've learned
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for the first time in my life what it's like to be peace, not
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to be peaceful. That is honestly out of all these years of
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studying and working. I'm 58 years old, and all my life I've
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been a spiritual seeker. I've had the spiritual hunger that's
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never satisfied. I feel like we're always growing. We're here
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in this earth school to learn and to bring glory to God, and
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to be more like God. But what I've realized is I was doing the
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things to be peaceful. But now I've learned how to be peace,
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and it's such a huge shift when you think about it. Because
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peace being peace means that you can get out of your thinking
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mind. This great teacher from the East said, don't analyze
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your thoughts. Don't follow your thoughts, find the thinker and
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the mind dissolves. I was analyzing thoughts. I was
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following these practices. And even in the meditations in my
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book are great, they help you. But when you can learn to be
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peace, which means you surrender to all of it, you can get your
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mind out of the way, and you can enter that peaceful now. That
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present moment. That present moment that's so full of
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everything that you need, but we get the mind down and stop
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thinking, just be peace. Avalanches of abundance show up
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in your life, emotionally, socially, spiritually,
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financially, physically. I mean, it's amazing. So that's been the
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late, the recent shift to say, it doesn't seem sexy, it doesn't
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seem credible. But being peace instead of trying to be peaceful
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has been the quantum shift in my life.
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Absolutely. I resonate with that. The peace, people
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sometimes don't have a lot of peace in their lives. It brings
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a lot of turmoil and chaos to be able to understand themselves to
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get to that point of having true peace within themselves, and
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true peace in their lives. It just branches off into every
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aspect of your life when you have real true peace within
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yourself. It's almost contagiously just branches off
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into everything else. And all of a sudden, you're having all
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these things happening, doors opening, and opportunities
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presenting themselves. You're like, wow. And that is all about
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that inner peace.
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Billy Mandarino:: It is that inner peace. And that's what we
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all search for. In one on one clients that I work with, we
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have this 12 week program called Becoming Your Infinite Self. And
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at the end of the 12 weeks, that's usually the focus. Can
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the client and the student can find the inner peace as a part
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of their day? And not just this 20 minute, 30 minute, 2 hour
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meditation they could do in the morning, the night. But can you
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find it throughout your day? That's why being a Nowist to me
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is so important. Because to do that means you're doing it
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consistently. You're being peace consistently, which means you're
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out of linearity. You're out of chronological time, you're in
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that divine time. That prostification is the now.
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You're entering that more consistently throughout your
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life. Which means when you put your attention on something,
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when you are being peace instead of trying to be peaceful, then
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you put your intention on, hey, I want to crack, detract a
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relationship in my life. I want some financial abundance. I'm
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ready to be healed of this disease. And you attach yourself
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to this present moment like it's a detachment and an attachment
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at the same time, because you are just being peace. You
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surrender almost like you're in water. How do you experience
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water? You can't grasp the water to try and swim. You have to be
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one with it. You have to glide with it. So being peace is very
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much like that.
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Jim Price:: Oh, my goodness. You're dropping some real gems.
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It's just so wonderful. The audience definitely can resonate
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with this, and connect with this, and be inspired by the
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story that you're sharing, and how you are connecting it to the
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ideas of peace. Everything like that is so wonderful in that
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way. We also want to know what are your future projects that
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you're getting yourself into? Future projects and things like
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that.
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Billy Mandarino:: Well, I am so fired up, inspired, excited. I
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don't believe in motivation. I think motivation is like, I got
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a goal. I don't believe in goals either, by the way. I got this
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thing, I want to do it, and it's going to take this long. I got
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to raise this much money. I have this much time, and I got to get
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done by this date. I believe in what's called thinking from the
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end instead of about the end. So we're working on our first
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feature-length film, and it's a movie about getting out of
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unrealized trauma. Two thirds of the planet, Dr. Jim, have an
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unrealized trauma. Mostly childhood traumas, that they
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don't even know they have because it's in their
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subconscious mind, it's dissociated. Get it showing up
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as cancer, divorce, bankruptcy, all these terrible situations
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that show up other people's life, because this unrealized
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trauma is in the background sabotaging their opportunities
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in their life. The movie's about this character who's coming
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through this trauma. His wife is running for the mayor of Santa
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Barbara. He's a local real estate professional. He's got a
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16 year old daughter, and she's running for mayor, and he's
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getting emerged. This trial is a serial killer in the
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neighborhood. He's becoming aware of this, but he doesn't
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know what it is. It's that trauma that's in the background
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of most people's life. So if you can tell a compelling story,
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Steve Jobs, one of his most famous quotes is the
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storytellers are the most powerful people on the planet.
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They set the trends, and they set the culture. So we're
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looking to tell a compelling story, so much so that it'll
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help people awaken to this trauma and want to do the work
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so they can bring it to the light. And it's about shining
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light on this unrealized trauma in the world.
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Jim Price:: Oh, my goodness, that's gonna be an inspirational
22:04
movie. I always loved material like that, that's inspirational.
22:07
And to have you can look at things from a different
22:10
perspective, and go through the ideas of how to overcome trauma
22:13
and things of that nature, I'm definitely gonna be looking
22:16
forward to that. And thanks for sharing that. Our audience is
22:20
definitely going to be looking forward to that too. I know it
22:23
does take time for a lot of those things, so it does.
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Billy Mandarino:: We've got a pretty big budget. We've raised
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some funds already. And if you go to my website, which is
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billymandarino.com, that's the main that links out to all our
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social media. We've got 600 free videos on our YouTube channel,
22:39
which, if you go to billymandarino.com, that links
22:41
out. But you also can click on For Now Film, which is a tab on
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billymandarino.com and you can look at a trailer. You can see
22:48
the song that my band has produced, which is the trailer
22:50
song. It gives people an idea what we're doing. People can
22:53
support this. This is really a movie/mission, not just a movie.
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Jim Price:: Wow. You are really running all cylinders with that.
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Billy Mandarino:: I tell you, this one, this project has got
23:05
everything. I'm so inspired by it. My wife and daughter,
23:09
they're on board. Because crazy, crazy dad, he's just got another
23:12
idea to help people in this world and help people on a
23:15
bigger scale. We've done live events. My band's crews produced
23:19
music, we've performed, we've inspired people and got
23:23
communities together. But if you can tell a compelling story, get
23:26
on the big screen and the small screen, you can change a lot of
23:29
lives and serve a lot of people. I'm all about what's the biggest
23:32
impact I can make, and I feel like this movie is the next
23:35
thing.
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Jim Price:: Wow. Such a compelling and inspirational
23:39
story all around. This has definitely been a fabulous
23:41
conversation, in terms of healing, dealing with trauma and
23:45
understanding trauma, connecting to prayer, spirituality. This
23:49
conversation has left with real inspirational motivational tools
23:54
that the audience can really gravitate to, and use in their
23:56
lives to be able to inspire and improve their lives, and move
24:00
toward in whatever stage that they try to move toward in terms
24:03
of their inspirations and goals, and whatever else they're trying
24:06
to do. So Billy, this has been tremendous conversation. I
24:10
definitely want to make sure I reiterate to the audience how to
24:13
get that kind of, I know you have the book as well, and we
24:16
just want to know, as the audience, just repeat the
24:20
contact.
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Billy Mandarino:: Please go to my name. It's Billy Mandarino.
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It's spelled like the Mandarin orange with the O on the end,
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Mandarino. billymandarino.com, and it links out to everything:
24:32
LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, social, YouTube channel. But our
24:36
YouTube channel has really got a powerful series of videos. We
24:40
got almost 19,000 subscribers to our YouTube channel, and it's
24:43
serving the world, it's serving people, giving them these
24:45
concepts, giving them stories, ideas and practices, and ways to
24:49
get out of stress, overwhelm and anxiety, just to really, a new
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spark in your life. It can happen, it all happens in the
24:55
present moment.
24:56
Jim Price:: Wow, that is fabulous. I'm sure our audience
24:59
have enjoyed this conversation, as I have too. We're just going
25:04
to always push forward to be positive, mindful people
25:08
thinking about the best things we can do with our lives to
25:10
improve our lives any way we can. And that's going to
25:13
continue to be our mission to bring guests that are
25:16
inspirational, just like Billy and his story shared with us.
25:20
It's always a blessing to have guests who understand about the
25:22
healing journey, and try and motivate it to have other people
25:25
want to heal themselves, and motivate themselves in that way.
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So thank you for today, Billy.
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Billy Mandarino:: I'm blessed by you, Dr. Jim. I appreciate your
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audience. I appreciate you so much, my friend. And it's just
25:35
an honor to get this message out to more people. And I appreciate
25:38
you having me on your show today.
25:39
Jim Price:: Absolutely. All those watching this podcast,
25:42
please subscribe to the channel. We're going to continue to push
25:46
purpose and prayer, and all the things necessary to take the
25:49
next step in your life. So in the meantime, this is The
25:52
Purpose and Progress Podcast Show, which I host, Dr. Price.
25:55
We'll see you next time. Stay blessed.
25:59
Thank you for joining me on this episode of The Purpose in
26:02
Progress Podcast. I hope today's conversation gave you insight,
26:06
inspiration, or a fresh perspective to help you move
26:09
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