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At the end of the day, it's not about what
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you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what
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you've done with those accomplishments. It's about who you've lifted up,
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who you've made better. It's about what you've given back.
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Denzel Washington, welcome to Inspire Vision. Our sole purpose is
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to elevate the lives of others and to inspire you
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to do the same.
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Gabriel, welcome to the show.
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Thank you so much. Doug, it's great to be here.
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And hello to listeners.
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Oh yes, and where you where you at at this
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point in time? Where are you living?
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I am in Sydney, Australia, the best city in the world.
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We've just come up. We are just shameless plug for Sydney.
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We've just come out of two and a half weeks
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of torrential rain and the sun has been shining since yesterday.
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So it's really really great, how wonderful.
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You know that rain can be really tough in in Asia,
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in that area, and I know that. So for those
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that are watching this versus listening to it, you you've
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got a bunch of elephants behind you.
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I do, and that's because it's an I'm not actually
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in Africa, though I grew up. I was born in
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Africa and grew up in Africa, so that that's saying there,
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that quote the African problem is something that really touches
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my heart. Having you know, once you've been in Africa,
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stays in your blood.
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Yes, and a good leader was once a good follower.
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I like that saying. So what I'd love for you
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to do is share with the audience how you got
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to the point you are, because you've gone through a
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lot of different things. And it's fascinating to me as
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we go through our lives and we have our professions
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and so forth, and there's a story behind why all
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of a sudden or not maybe even an of a sudden,
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maybe that's just a transition. We reach a point in
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our lives where we're doing, what we're doing presently. I'd
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love for you to share with the audience your story.
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Thank you, thanks so much for that. Well you set.
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I've been through a lot of I've done a lot
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of different things. It's actually I had a really steady
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career for about twenty five years. What happened was, you know,
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as a young child, I was always interested in two things.
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I was interested in psychology and I was interested in spirituality.
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And you know, my father passed away when I was
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it got a lot of questions. I was asking a
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lot of existential questions. At one point I said to
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my mum, I'd like to go and see a medium.
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She said, absolutely, no way.
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And so what.
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Happened after that was I just followed the psychology route,
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and when it came to going to university, no brainer.
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I studied psychology and I had a really great career
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for a long time. For over two decades, I worked
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in organizational psychology big corporates, and I thrived. It was
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a huge part of my identity. And what happened was
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in about I don't know, twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, things
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started to shift. The career that once really lit me
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up started to fade, and I felt a sense of disconnect.
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Was not so much what I was doing, but the environment,
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the corporate environment started to really trip me up, and
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I started to see the dark underbeling of corporate life.
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And it was interesting because I'd been aware of it
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and privy to it, but I'd never really felt affected
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by it, and so there were questions floating around in
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my mind, what do I do? What's happening here? And
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then in twenty twenty, I had that inflection point where
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I was in a senior leadership role in a bank
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of all places, and I was depressed. I was depressed.
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I was highly anxious, and I woke up on Sunday
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morning and I had this terrible pit in my stomach
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and that pit took me on a walk, a bushwalk,
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listened to a podcast friendly Enough, and that was my awakening.
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I realized I no longer wanted it, change, actually had
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to change. And so that was the inflection point. And
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a short while later, you know, I had an advert
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in my Instagram feed and I attended a three day
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extended can workshop on energy and the rest is history.
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So it was, in many ways, there was an inflection
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point that it had been building for quite some time,
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but you know, I needed a catalyst which was hitting
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rock bottom for me to make this change. And so
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I've kind of come full circle. I'm now keeping my
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psych practice. You bring that very strongly into my work,
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but I throw in the world of energy, which gives
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a nice spiritual tone to it.
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And are you doing more on a personal level now
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or are you still doing corporate level? Okay, to show
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you you moved into the personal.
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Level, I really have, and I've never really done that.
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I've done individual coaching in a corporate setting. They've been
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corporate clients and then their leaders have come to me
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for coaching, but I've never actually worked with individuals like
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ordinary citizens. And that's what I'm doing, though I still
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do some facilitation in the corporate world because I'm not facilitating,
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but I'm not in it. And yeah, I'm working with
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human beings, people like you and I who are stuck
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as I was, and who are wanting to put it
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and make some really big changes that they just don't
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know how to.
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Well. As you combine psychology and your reference to spirituality,
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define for the audience what you mean, what your perception
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is of spirituality?
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Well, for me, it's about consciousness. My spiritual journey has
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been about expanding my consciousness, and not from a psychological
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perspective that's just getting to know yourself better, but spiritually,
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what that means is being able to really tap into
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the fact that we are actually not separated. Humanity is
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totally interconnected, and I'm able to tap into different sources
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of wisdom now than I was before. So, for example,
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my intuition is deeply, deeply honed. Having studied the energy
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for eighteen months, I've been through the process. My internal
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GPS is on, so I've activated my spiritual gift of intuition.
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And so what that's done is it has allowed me
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to really tap into higher source knowledge. When I'm at
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my own inflection points, when I'm working with my clients
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and I'm quite sure where to go next, there's a
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different wellspread that I can draw from to move myself
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or the other person in a different direction. So expanded
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consciousness that's how I would define it.
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Does that become a you know, you're working with a client,
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something comes up and you know you're saying, they're going, okay,
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where do we need to go with there? Is it
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a conscious tapping into a deeper level or is it
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just naturally come.
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Well, it's interesting, it's such a great question you've askedcause
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in the beginning I used to go like where like, oh,
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I feel stuck. I can't leave this person's energy. What
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does this mean? But now it's much more unconscious, because
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you know, as we develop skills, we become unconsciously competent.
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So we're just drawing on things we now know that
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part of us. And that's the same with my intuition.
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It's like, what's actually happened when I'm working with someone
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who's I feel almost like I've stepped back from the
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process and my higher self, that wisdom that I have
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that's not in my conscious you know, being that part
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of me has taken over and is doing the work
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for me. It's difficult to explain, but it's a little
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bit of an altered state in that you are.
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It's unconscious, okay, And you talk about your higher self.
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I know there are many people that talk about quantum
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physics and getting into the quantum field and so forth,
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and I don't know do you do you go to
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in that direction? Nulled Doy, you talk about the quantum field,
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I actually do.
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I do. I tap into other sources of wisdom. I
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just if you're open to talking about that, then I'm
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happy to talk about it. I usually just get my
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cue from the podcast host as to how far I
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can take this into I tap into? Can I go there? Yeah?
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You know what? Yes? Because I think for people, you know,
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people talk about their higher self, and I think for
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some people that's very difficult to understand. For those that
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can envision, you know, the quantum field, there's some scientific
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basis behind that, and I think that people need to
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understand that there are ways in which they can tap
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into quote their higher self and really gain that inspiration,
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that wisdom. For some it may be from a really
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just perspective of you know, whether they're Christians or their
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Buddhists or whatever that happens to be. But I'd love
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for you too, Yes, get into it. That's what this
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is all about.
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That's great, Okay. So really, the way that I define
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our higher self is by thinking that we've got different
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versions of ourselves that exist in any point in time.
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We've got our present self, which we're aware of. I'm
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sitting here with you in a podcast conversation. I think
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you know, we've also got our past selves. We draw
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on that when we know our memories come to the fall.
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When we're doing personal work in therapy, we're going back
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to our past self and we're taking experiences and lessons.
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So that version of ourselves exists, and there are multiple
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versions of that. There's the version of us that you know,
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it's a toddler version of us at school. There are
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so many multi dimensions, and then there is also a
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future self. But we can go to that at a
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later point if you want. But this version of ourself
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that exists, that has transcended the three D reality, it
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exists in a realm where we've actually it's sorted out
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the problems. It knows intuitively the how to solve the
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problems that we're facing in our current reality. It's the
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part of us that's got the answers. Now that's the
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mystical way of saying. But if I just said to you,
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you know, can you tap into yourself? There is a
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part of you deep down that knows how to work
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through the problem you're facing. That's what I'm talking about.
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And the way that I help people access it, which
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is not a little bit more mainstream, is working through dreams,
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because your dreams contain your unconscious and they in Actually
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it's more than that. When we dream, we travel, and
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we can access the frequency of these different versions of
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ourselves to heal ourselves in our sleep. So that's the
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way that I teach people how to access that intuitive
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voice of wisdom, which is by really building a relationship
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with your dream state and working through stuff in your dreams.
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Okay, I don't dream very often, So what's the challenge.
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Well, at first, see, I would challenge you, dag, and
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I'd say, you probably do. You do dream probably very often.
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The challenge is probably weak. All you know, you're probably
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not remembering your dreams, and that's common.
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Well, and yeah, I woke up the other the other
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morning and I just had such a crazy dream and
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I know what it was exactly about and why it
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was triggered, but it was like, okay, and then you know,
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I to myself, all right, was is there any meaning
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to this dream other than the fact that, you know whatever?
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And I wear a seapap okay, and I was dreaming
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that I just needed to get it off, needed to
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get it off. And you know, I woke up and
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I did, but I thought to myself, all right, what's
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what's the deeper meaning that I need to get the
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seapap off my face?
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Well, we could go there. We could spain the rest
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of the podcast talking about that if you want. But
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you know it's crazy. It's so you know, if I
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said to you, if we all dream, okay, and what
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you've just described is that crazy experience we go to
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in another altered state. Well, and that's often a doorway
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into spirituality for me, because if I if you didn't dream,
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and I told you what happened in my dreams, you
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think I was mad? Right, my mother? I activated my
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mother's ability to remember her dreams inadvertent keys. She never
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remembered to sing.
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Dream.
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Now every day she's telling me, you know, and they
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are crazy. My dreams are crazy. They're all crazy. This
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is are This is the beauty of being able to
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access different parts of ourselves.
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Okay, So I'm going to have two questions, so I apologize.
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I always ask more than one question, which is really
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tough for nothing. So first question is how many times
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when someone is watching, you know, a TV show at
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night before they go to sleep. I know that that