When Spiritual Awakening Feels Distant: Reconnecting With Presence, Joy & Consciousness
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What happens when your spiritual awakening goes quiet?

In this deeply personal solo episode, Will does something different; recording his thoughts while walking, right in the middle of a season where spirituality felt distant, joy felt muted, and life felt heavy. No studio. No script. Just an honest exploration of what happens when modern spirituality collides with real-world challenges.

From family health struggles and burnout, to surrender, presence, and an unexpected moment of reconnection, this episode is a reminder that spiritual growth isn’t a straight line...it’s a spiral. And sometimes, feeling disconnected is not failure… it’s part of the process.

More importantly, Will doesn’t just share the story, he offers practical, grounded steps you can take to reconnect with:

  • Presence
  • Joy
  • Consciousness
  • And your own sense of spiritual awakening
Whether you’re actively exploring intuition development, navigating a spiritual plateau, or simply trying to feel something again, this episode meets you exactly where you are, without pressure, performance, or spiritual bypassing.

In This Episode, You’ll Explore:
  • Why trying to “feel spiritual” often pushes presence further away
  • How surrender can unlock healing when control fails
  • The role environment and energy play in consciousness and emotional well-being
  • Why joy is usually quiet, subtle, and easy to miss
  • A powerful reframe for spiritual awakening when life feels heavy
  • Simple, realistic practices to reconnect with yourself, even when motivation is low
This is an episode for anyone navigating spiritual growth in real life, not just in theory.

Why This Episode Matters
If you’ve ever questioned your soul purpose, doubted your path, or wondered why intuition and connection suddenly feel muted, this conversation will remind you that nothing has gone wrong.
Sometimes, awakening isn’t about rising higher. Sometimes, it’s about coming back to the moment you’re already in.

Listener Invitation / CTA
How have you been feeling lately? What challenges have shaped your spiritual journey this year?
We’d love to hear from you. Leave a review, send us a message, or share your experience... because this show has always been about community, not perfection.

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Hey there, Welcome to a new episode of The Skeptic

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Meant Physicians. This one's a little different because I'm not

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sure if you can hear the people all around me

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or not. I'm gonna see if I can do some

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audio magic to make it sound the best I can.

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But the fact is, I'm outside walking this time while

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I'm recording this for you, because I had some thoughts

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that all of a sudden I was pushed to share

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with you. So that's what this episode is going to

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be about. It's probably going to be pretty raw and

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pretty revealing about me in certain ways, So bear with

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me if things get a little weird. All right, You're

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probably wondering what's on my mind? Right? What was so

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important that I had to go out for a walk

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to record this for you. Well, it is December thirtieth,

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I believe, or twenty ninth, I don't know. It's getting

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close to New Year's Eve as i'm recording this. When

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you hear this, you will already have probably listened to

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our New Year's Eve episode where I actually took some

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time to sit down and write my thoughts down on

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paper before recording the episode. This was gonna be a

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little different. This one is just me walking and speaking

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to you. So that's why I say it might get

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a little wild and woolye for a little bit, So

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bear with me, all right. So it is as I'm

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taping this, as I'm recording this is just a day

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or two or three before New Year's Eve, and we

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are visiting family in Florida, and I gotta be honest

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with you guys. The last I don't know how many months,

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I just have not been feeling it, like, I've not

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been feeling spiritual at all, certainly going through the motions.

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I'm doing the interviews and following through on everything and

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refreshing the page on New Reality TV, releasing all the

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new episodes that we have available for you, creating a newsletter,

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sending it out so people know what shows our new

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this particular week, things like that. However, I have not

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really been feeling the spiritualness of it all for quite

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a while, and I was starting to get really really

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bummed about it. The genesis of this bummed out ness,

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I would say it comes very strictly, probably from the

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three D world. Not a lot of the people know

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about this, but we've been dealing with some challenges as

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a family, and not just the immediate family, but our

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extended family as well. I'll share some of those with

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you here, but some of them aren't my story to tell,

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so I'm going to be a little big about some

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of the things, so again, bear with me. He seems

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to be the theme of this episode for a while.

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Some of you might not already know, my dad has

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been battling dementia for a while. He's in his eighties,

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and he's super stubborn and refuses to believe that anything

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is wrong with him, which then leads, unfortunately, my mother

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to be the caretaker that has to fight and argue

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with him to let him know that things aren't going

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as well as he's thinking they are. I don't want

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to go to too many details, but long story short,

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we try to get him into a place. My mother

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couldn't handle the way that my father was not happy

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about what we're trying to do, so she caved and

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brought him home, and ever since since, she has been

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the sole caretaker of my dad. Not because of any

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other reason other than we live very far away from

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each other. I live in Florida, who live in Virginia.

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But she's also in her eighties and very spry, lots

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of energy and joyfulness she was. I always remember my

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mom being very joyful, but I don't see her that

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way anymore, sadly, because as my father deteriorates, my mother

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gets the brunt of that deterioration, and her joy of

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life has been all but snuffed out, which makes me

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endlessly sad to see the changes in her. So that's

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one thing that's happening. On Karen's side of the family.

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We're having some issues as well with the patriarch of

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the family. Again, like I said, it's not my sort

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of tell, but gets some ideas that had some challenges there.

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Then some of you might know about my challenges with

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cancer a while back. Thankfully everything is with that, but

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we've had some issues. But Karen ran into some health

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issues that she had to deal with, some fairly serious

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issues that we have been battling for the last few months.

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I get not my sword to tell, but it is

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definitely something that's not not been fun. It's been a

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lot of doctor's visits and treatments and just things that

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are way way less than ideal. On top of that,

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things at work have been very weird I've just pretty

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much waiting period where it just feels like I don't

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bring any value to my work, so I throw myself

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into other things. But it seems like every time we

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try to do something, it backfires in some way. It

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brings us back to square one, or sometimes even further back.

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I'm only sharing a couple of things with you just

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because I don't want to make this all about woe

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is me. That's not the point of this recording, but

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I wanted to give you some baseline as to why

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I think how I may be where I am at

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the moment. The crux of it is that I find

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myself driving to Florida any rented jeep. Oh, that's right.

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I forgot a very important thing about a week before Christmas,

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I had to undergo some unexpected oral surgery. I had

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to have a bone graft put in in anticipation of

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two implants. And if you've ever had to go through

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a bone graph procedure, well, it's not really for the

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faint of heart. It's not a lot of fun. And

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it being a week before Christmas. Of course, after being

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put under entirely under general anesthesia for the bone graph procedure,

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I was in quite a bit of pain. And now

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I find myself driving to Flora up in anticipation of

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a Christmas dinner with the family, in which Karen always

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makes my most favorite meal of the year. She only

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makes it once, and that's a Christmas She makes beef Wellington.

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And I'm telling you you have not had a Christmas

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dinner more amazing than Karen's beef Wellington. And if you

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don't know what that is, look it up, because it is. Oh,

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it's so good. But anyway, I look forward to it

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every year. It is served once a year, only at

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Christmas time. And here I am with a brand new

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starter bone graft in my mouth, knowing that likelihood is

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that I probably won't be able to eat the beef Wellington.

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I know, Oh, poor baby, that's so sad. You have

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so many troubles in your life. That's so terrible. I

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understand it's super petty. I totally get it. But I

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always tell my daughter the issues, the problems, the challenges

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that we run into are very big to us, even

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if they're very little in the grand scheme of things.

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In the grand scheme of things, when you think about it,

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all problems that we are obsessed with are really no

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big deal in the great grand scheme of things. Now.

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Don't get me wrong, I know there are far, far,

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far bigger challenges than me not being able to keep

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me willington at Christmas time. But when it comes to

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the grandness of it all, when you think about the

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fact that we are just tiny specks standing, sitting, laying

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living on a dirt ball, hurling at thousands and thousands

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of miles an hour through space in the middle of

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a vast cosmos that dwarfs anything, we could possibly even

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imagine the fact that I can't have be willing today

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Christmas time. It seems a little minute of a problem,

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and it is. It's a very minute problem, but compounded

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with everything else going on, it just led to a boohoo.

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I do not feel like Christmas, and quite frankly, it's

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kind of how I felt for the last few Christmases.

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Last year. Karen got sick during Christmas. She was very

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badly sick. She had the flu I think it was,

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and we had my brother and his kids with us,

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so we were hoping to have a really nice Christmas,

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only to find that it was not a very nice

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Christmas because it was just us, and we're not that

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good at entertaining ourselves or following the traditions that we

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have for Christmas. Really, Karen has always been the heart

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of the family and she is no longer available. So

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we did what we could. We made the best of it.

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It was a nice time, but it could have been

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much much better, right, It just seemed like it's always that,

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It's always a story. You could always be just a

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little bit better or the way it was. And so

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now back to the car. I'm finding myself in the

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car getting down to Florida to spend Christmas with a family,

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knowing that I'm just not feeling it. I haven't really

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been meditating because I just haven't been feeling it the

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oral surgery. Out Right before the oral surgery, I had bronchitis,

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so I didn't have the energy to go work out.

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I didn't have the energy to do much of anything.

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So I had stopped meditating for a couple of weeks,

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and things just things just oh, it was just ah.

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And here I am about to go to Saint Augustine, Florida. Now,

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I grew up in Connecticut, and in Connecticut, Christmases are

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magical at least in the mind of a twelve, thirteen, fourteen,

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fifteen year old kid, when you wake up in the

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morning Christmas morning and you see all the presents under

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the tree. You look out the window and it's maybe

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three inches or four inches of snow on the ground,

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and we really are enjoying what is truly known as

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the magic of Christmas, right, the white Christmas and the cool,

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chill air and the beauty of it all. And here

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was going to Saint Augustine, Florida, the oldest continuously occupied

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city in the United States, and it was seventy five

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degrees and so I wasn't feeling it. Long story short,

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I was not feeling it. We get to our airbnb

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in Saint Augustine and we unpacked the car, and I

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start dealing with a bad migraine because the pain in

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my jaw is radiating into my neck, which then triggers

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in migraine. So it's just a lot of bad things happening.

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And that's just seems to be the way the life

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has been going these days, just one challenge after another

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after another after another. And I decided that instead of

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fighting my way through this holiday season, I'm just going

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to surrender allow the universe to show me what I'm

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supposed to experience, and go through whatever it is I'm

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supposed to go through, and just try to roll with

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whatever the universe is giving me. That seems to be

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the theme of our trip this time around. Well, that night,

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my sister in law had gotten us reservations at a

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really beautiful little restaurant in an inn in Saint Augustine, Florida,

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followed by a trolley ride in downtown Saint Augustine. They

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call it the Night of Lights, where the entire city

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is just lit up for Christmas with Christmas lights and

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all that kind of stuff. We had dinner and night

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of course had soup because I can't really eat anything

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that's too hard, but it was delicious soup. It was amazing.

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The food was great, the company was wonderful. We went

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into the trolley. We started, actually we started walking towards

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the trolley through downtown Saint Augustine, and the energy was magical.

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Everyone around us was laughing and smiling and really just

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enjoying themselves. And I thought, wow, this, this does not

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seem like the Saint Augustine that I remember when I

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when I was a kid. I came to visit when

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I was a kid. We get to the trolley, we

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get on it and there's apple cider there, and there's

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sugar cookies and elves and people dressed up as Santa,

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and all kinds of jolly cheer happening. And we get

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on the trolley and we're going through the little tiny

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cobblestone streets of Saint Augustine, Florida, with this beautiful light

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everywhere around you. They gave us these like three D glasses,

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but instead of three D glasses, they made all the

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lights the halos run the lights, they made them look

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like snowflakes. And as we're going through the trolley, the

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trolley he's playing Christmas carols and the drivers encouraging us

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to sing along with the Christmas carols and yelling out

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Merry Christmas. The people who were driving by, and there

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was a ton of people on the streets walking everywhere.

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were on the trolley or on the sidewalks as we

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were passing by. They just there was this this feeling

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of joy, of magic everywhere he went. And suddenly it

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hit me that it was a choice. It was a

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total choice, that every one of these people were just

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choosing to enjoy themselves, enjoy the atmosphere, the environment, the

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Christmas lights, the Christmas carols, the good cheer. Everyone was

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laughing and smiling. People would give high fives to each

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other from the t to the sidewalking back. It was

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just unbelievable. It was a type of joy that is

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super contagious. And before I knew it, that contagion who

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I kind of started overcoming me and I started to

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smile and to feel the joy and the feel of

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Christmas came over me like it hasn't done in years.

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to me, and then to my other side where my

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daughter was sitting next to me, and I could not

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imagine a better place to be at that particular point

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in time. And I'm not saying it's easy to do,

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you know, it's not. Every day is Christmas. You can't

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go somewhere where everyone is full of joy and happiness

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and Christmas cheer. But what you can do is to

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try to surround yourself with people who are feeling how

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you want to feel. We have been surrounded by known

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on just ourselves we're trying to try to nurture ourselves

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back to health from all the challenges that we were experiencing,

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all the three D challenges that we're honest we've been

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trying to deal with those that we kind of lost

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our sense of community. They always say that if you

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want to be rich, you should be hanging out with

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rich people, and the people that you surround yourself are

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the people that are going to influence who you are

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and who you become. Well, I find that to be

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so very very true, and in spirituality it's really no different.

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all energy and as energy, and how many times have

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you heard and when you are in a group of

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people you come home, you should protect yourself or release

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the energy that you brought home with you because it

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might not be yours. Well, energy tends to commingle a lot,

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so the energy surrounding you is what is going to

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determine the energy inside you. And so my suggestion can't

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say it's advice, because who might give advice to anybody?

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bring you joy, that bring you peace, and allow yourself

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to put your phone down, put your computer down, and

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live in the moment. I know it's easier said than done.

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as we speak. But if you g're able to live

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in the moment, truly live in the moment and allow

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yourself to experience the energy coming to you from your

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loved one sitting next to you, or your friends, or

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even just yourself, the universe. Going outside in nature, the tree,

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the plants, the grass, the animals, everything around you has

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a unique joy in presence to it that will lend

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you their energy, because, after all, we all all here

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to help each other, including nature, including Mother Earth. When

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we got home from that trolley ride, things were different,

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completely different. Just so happens. I brought a book, a

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random book to read while I was on vacation. Happened

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to be a book by Radley Valentine. I think it's

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called Manifesting Your Magical Life or something like that, And

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as I was going to bed that night, I cracked

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it open for the first time. I started reading and

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was immediately struck with how appropriate and pertinent it was

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at that precise moment for me to read the words

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that Radley Valentine had written in that book. And so

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the next morning I woke up and Yep, you guessed it.

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I meditated for the first time in so many weeks,

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and it was wonderful. I've found myself back in a

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place where I've always wanted to be, in a place

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where I am reconnected with spirit. In fact, we had

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a long conversation at dinner, just Karen, my mother in law,

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and I. My daughter was not there, And my mother

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in law is very spiritual and she looks at life

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in a philosophical sense, and she and I have had

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these really deep conversations about meaning of life, and this

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one was no different. And I suddenly found myself talking

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about the importance of living in the moment and experiencing joy,

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including those things that are a challenge to you. Our

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health challenges are work challenges, are three D challenges are

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all part of it. If we can find a way

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to remove ourselves from the angst the suffering that comes

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with challenges and instead see them as a way to

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serve us enjoy, we will live much happier lives again,

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much much easier said than done. Believe me, I truly understand.

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But that's what the practice is all about. It's all

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about coming back again and again and working on being

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more present, being more in the moment, being more in

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touch with joy, being less attached, surrendering to the universe.

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I as always have been expecting spirituality to be a

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straight line. Hey, I've made it a certain level. There's

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no need for me to go down below that. I'm

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always going to feel at least this level, if not more.

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That's not the truth. The truth is spirituality is more

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like a spiral, right. That's what we talked about on

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the show a few times. And it just so happens

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that I've been stuck in the bottom end of that spiral.

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But thankfully now I'm coming back up again. All right,

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So here's some some practical steps after all this, some

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practical steps that will help you reconnect with presence or spirituality,

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joy or whatever you want to call it. Okay, Step one,

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stop trying to feel spiritual. So let's get this out

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of the way first. If you're trying to feel spiritual, well,

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you've already lost. Presence isn't something you can just call

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up whenever you want it. It's something that it's going

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to show up whenever it is that you stop resisting

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what's already happening. So if you find yourself feeling numb

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or distracted or cynical, hired or frustrated because you're just

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not feeling it like I wasn't feeling it, well, the

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important part is not to label it as a failure

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like I did. Maybe you could just label it as

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like it's just the bottom of the spiritual spiral. Say

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this to yourself, this is where I am right now.

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It's not wrong. I'm just here that the single sentence

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lets your subconscious mind know that you know that you're

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not in the highest vibration you could be in, but

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also that you're not fighting it either that you're surrendering

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to the feeling you are currently mired in. It removes resistance,

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and resistance is actually what disconnects us from spirit faster

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than anything else. Actually, all right, Step two, choose surrender

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over control. Most of our suffering isn't from the pain

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that we're experiencing. It's from arguing with that pain. So

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when I stopped trying to fix the holiday, the timing,

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my mood, my body, my circumstances, whatever, remember what I

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did was I chose to surrender I chose to say

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the universe, Okay, let's give it a shot. Let's see

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what you got. Because what I'm doing now doesn't work.

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Nothing I've done has worked. So maybe surrender is the

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best option. Doesn't mean that you're giving up. It means saying, Okay,

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I'm going to stop fighting and instead that you show

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me what you have for me to learn or to experience.

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My friend, when you turn your focus on tonight or

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on this walk, or on this breath, that is where

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you're going to find presence. At least that's where I

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found it, all right. Step three, change your environment before

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you find yourself having to change yourself. Most of us

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don't want to admit this, but we're not failing at spirituality.

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We're just, I don't know, environmentally misaligned or something. Energy

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is what we are, and it's contagious, right, mood, it's contagious.

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Joy is contagious. And if you surround yourself with with

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people who are always exhausted or stressed or illness isolation,

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that's going to become your internal weather system. So instead

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of asking yourself, why don't I feel spiritual? Maybe what

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we should be asking ourselves is am I finding myself

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in the right environment every day. Am I surrounding myself

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with the right people every day? And then I suggest

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you make one deliberate shift. Go where people are laughing,

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walk where nature is alive. Sit near someone who feels

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how you want to feel. You don't have to be

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joyful to feel joy, you just have to stand near

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it long enough. Trust me, it was the whole Saint

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Augustine trolley thing was so magical, it was so incredible.

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It shifted everything for me. All right. Step four, put

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the phone down. Let the moment that you're in reach you.

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It can't reach you if you're on your phone. There's

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just no way that presence can compete with the constant

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stimulation that we're all just bombarded with on a daily basis.

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Right now, I promise you are not going to just

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scroll your way into joy, and there's no way to

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multitask your way into meaning having a meaningful life. So

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here's what I'm going to challenge you with. Minutes a day,

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just ten minutes. Put your phone down, turn off the TV,

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stop listening to that podcast, do everything you can to

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be as unproductive as possible, and don't try to fix anything.

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Just be yourself. Just sit there in the quiet presence

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and notice what it is that you notice. Notice what

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you hear or what you see, Notice what your body

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feels like. Guy's presence isn't dramatic. It's it's actually really quiet.

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was looking for it to rock my world or something

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to make a huge dramatic entrance, and it did it,

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just it just didn't do it with that I thought

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it would. When I found that, I found it in

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the joy and abandoned none of the responsibilities or entertainment,

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but in the experience or joy from other people, something

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that was all around me all the time, the entire time.

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I just failed to notice it because I don't know.

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My phone was too far in my phone, or my

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job or my podcast or my responsibilities. I just didn't

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bother to take the time to sit and be and notice.

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I Step five. Let joy be small and unimpressive through

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one of your blind spots. And I'm calling it out

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because it's my exact blind spot too. Is expecting joy

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to get to you as a big spiritual moment. That's

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just not something that does. The way joy actually shows

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up is usually simple as like you shared laugh, a

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warm drink, a beautiful street, someone singing badly and not caring.

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What they all have in common is that we might

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have missed it if we hadn't stopped and paid attention

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to it. So if you're waiting for joy to feel worthy,

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you're going to overlook it every time. Step six return

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to one simple practice, not all of them. Like I

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shared at the beginning of this little rant to fill

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like life had been collapsing for me for a bit.

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And when that happens, when life felt like a struggle,

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all my spiritual routines they all collapsed. Two, I didn't

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feel like doing any of them. I didn't feel like

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I believe in any of them. I think the mistake

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is thinking we have to restart everything. I don't think

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we do. I think what actually helps is to I

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don't just take it one step at a time. Choose

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one meditation or one walk, or a book or a

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breath practice. Just choose one thing, because at the end

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of the day, spiritual momentum it doesn't have to come

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from intensity. It actually comes from returning to presence. The

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single focus right and step seven frame the spiral. I

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think this might be the most important step. Actually, try

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to remember what I said earlier about spirituality not being

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a ladder, about it being a spiral. Being low doesn't

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mean you're regressing. It means you're going to be circling

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back eventually with more awareness that spirituality is a spiral.

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So if you find yourself at the bottom right now,

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give yourself the grace that you deserve. Don't be like me.

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Don't feel like you have to give it all up.

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I mean, I felt like this is all crap. Everything

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I believed in is bull crap. What's even the point

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of it? All? Right? I was really really stuck, and

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it really sucks to be there, believe me. Just try

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to remember that you're you're not broken when this happens,

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when you're feeling this, You're not behind, you're not failing,

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You're not broken. What you are doing is you're gaining contrast.

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So the next rise in that spiral actually means it's

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going to be even more wonderful for you now. I

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once told a friend of mine who found herself at

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the probably one of the lowest points of her life,

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of her entire life, that you always need to crouch

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before taking a huge leap right, you always have to

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crouch down before you bounce out and take that big leap,

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and says, I know this person really well, I know

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how amazing what person she is. I knew, I knew

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that this situation she found herself in was just temporary.

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I knew that she was just gathering her momentum to

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catapult herself into the amazing ness, the greatness that was

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right around the corner for her. And sure enough, it's

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exactly what it was. She had to circle the wagons

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and make herself a little bit more humble so that

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when the opportunity that was meant for her came, it

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was just glorious. So do this. Whenever things feel heavy

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for you, just say this to yourself. This moment isn't

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here to punish me. It's here to teach me something

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that I could not learn any other way. I'm telling

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you that simple statement alone can pull you back into

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presence if you let it. So, if you, my friend,

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are finding yourself at the bottom of the spiral of spirituality,

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don't get discouraged. Know that it is part of it,

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because when you come back up to the top of

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the spiral, you're going to find that your spirituality is

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that much sweeter. Like how many times have we gone

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through something and then later looked back and gone, oooh,

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that was a terrible thing I had to go through,

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but it was the best thing at the end of

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the day because it really made me who I am. Well,

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that was ironic. I just walked by someone who was

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watching or listening to something on their phone as they're

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walking and as I just said that, she was watching

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something about catastrophic floodings in California or something like that.

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And yeah, even that is a part of what makes us,

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what makes this human experience special, because we're here to

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experience everything because we can't experience it where we're going.

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Where we're going, we don't have performances of music by

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an orchestra, or catastrophic floods in California, or the taste

483
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of beautiful once a year meals like beef Wellington. We

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don't have things like that. So we come here specifically

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to experience these things so that we can go back

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home with the experience having had more learned by having

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had them. So if you find yourself at the bottom

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of the spiritual spiral, don't get discouraged. It's all part

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of the plan. When you come back up to the

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top of the spiral, you will find that it is

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so much sweeter, so much better for you having gone

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through what you went through. And that is ultimately the

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point of the things that are challenging to us that

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we go through, is to experience them, learn from them,

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and don't be too attached to the outcome of them.

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Don't be too attached to the pain that comes along

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with them, because it is just temporary. This oral surgery

498
00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:51.119
that I'm dealing with right now, this pain in my

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00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:56.400
jaw is just temporary. My body will heal and eventually

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00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:58.960
I will no longer feel this pain, and I will

501
00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:01.240
go for a very very long time without having any

502
00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:05.920
of this job pain again. But I will be better

503
00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:08.639
by it because I will be able to eat better.

504
00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:11.079
I will actually have these implants that will allow me

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00:34:11.159 --> 00:34:14.960
to fully chew my food the right way and enjoy

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it without pain, without new suffering. It's going to be wonderful.

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And now I'm committed to going back to my reading,

508
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going back to my meditations, and taking the time to

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go out for a walk and record something that I

510
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find spectacular that I feel I want to share with

511
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you because at the end of the day. You who

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are listening to this right now, well, I consider you

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00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:45.280
part of my family. You are my community, and as

514
00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:50.159
part of my community, sharing my experiences with you brings

515
00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:54.639
me a tremendous amount of joy and satisfaction. And now

516
00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:59.679
it's your turn. How are your holidays? How have you

517
00:34:59.719 --> 00:35:03.760
been what challenges have you been experiencing, what have you

518
00:35:03.920 --> 00:35:08.519
found allows you to get through them? Or what lessons

519
00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:12.000
have you learned over the last year. This has always

520
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been meant to be more of a collaborative space, So

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I invite you to reach out to us. Send us

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00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:22.079
an email, write us a review, leave us a voicemail.

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00:35:22.679 --> 00:35:25.039
If you do that, you might we might read your

524
00:35:25.079 --> 00:35:28.199
email on the air, We might hear your voice on

525
00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:32.400
the air. But the most important thing is to reach out,

526
00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:35.920
connect with us. Let us know how you're feeling, what

527
00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:38.280
we can do to help, What topics would you like

528
00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:42.880
to hear in this new year? And most importantly, how

529
00:35:42.920 --> 00:35:46.599
can we be of service to you and your family?

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And by your family, I mean your way, extended family,

531
00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:57.199
way beyond just your blood relations. Right, that went a

532
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lot long as I expected it to go. I'm sorry

533
00:35:59.639 --> 00:36:02.880
if I meandered a little bit, but I actually did

534
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the entire walk and now I'm back sitting in front

535
00:36:05.079 --> 00:36:08.280
of my mother in law's house about to go back inside,

536
00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:10.360
and I think it's probably time for me to wrap

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this up. I love you very much. Please don't be

538
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a stranger, Please say hello. We are looking into creating

539
00:36:18.679 --> 00:36:23.119
new things this year, like new meetups with our listeners

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00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:25.320
all were on the New Reality Sorry, We're gonna be

541
00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:29.159
doing weekly healings. We're doing more workshops and seminars. So

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if you've not joined that New Reality TV community, I

543
00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:35.239
invite you to do that. To connect with Karen and

544
00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:38.800
I on this show, just go to Skepticmanaphosition dot com

545
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and if you want to join the New Reality tvcommunity,

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00:36:41.280 --> 00:36:46.960
where you have well over forty different shows from a

547
00:36:47.159 --> 00:36:52.840
wide variety of practitioners and teachers, spiritual guides that are

548
00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:58.079
helping those raizor consciousness on a weekly basis, we would

549
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love to have you over there. That's NewTV dot com

550
00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:05.639
as well, and we invite you to connect with us

551
00:37:05.719 --> 00:37:08.960
and all the spiritual guides and teachers that are on

552
00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:13.639
New Reality TV. Okay, I hope you have a wonderful

553
00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:17.440
twenty twenty six and we really look forward to seeing

554
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what this new year brings to us, because I've got

555
00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:22.920
a really good feeling all right. I'll see you in

556
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the next episode of The Skeptical Physicians. Until then, take

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really good care of yourself. Bye bye,