The Transformation Promise

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of the day, it's not about
what you have or even what you've accomplished.

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It's about what you've done with those
accomplishments. It's about who you've lifted

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at, who you've made better.
It's about what you've given back. Denzel

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Washington, welcome to Inspire Vision.
Our sole purpose is to elevate the lives

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of others and to inspire you to
do the same. Laura Bala, Welcome

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to the show. How are you
doing. I am fabulous, Doctor Doug,

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thank you for having me here.
Well, I really appreciate you reaching

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out. I think that the things
that you have to say are just amazing.

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I'd love for you to share with
the audience, give you give them

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a bit of your background, who
you are and how on earth did you

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get to this point in your life, because I know there's been a life

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transition going on here. Yeah,
well, we all have these amazing personal

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stories of how we move through challenges
and tragedies and triumphs, and so many

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of us right bring in the wake
of going into adulthood many experiences from childhood

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that I feel really can either disempower
or empower us. And early on I

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just connected to a mindset of how
to empower the way I thought about the

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world around me and how I really
moved through my experiences every day And always

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give a heartfelt shout out to my
brother Christopher. He actually created this amazing

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formula coming out of the professional world
of gymnastics, part of our US team.

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He was a coach there for many
years, and both he and I

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always had this unique synergy of thinking
we were almost superheroes and we could accomplish

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anything. So we kind of moved
through life always wanting to tap into something

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beyond just what was the daily routine
of the human condition. So we just

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kind of started thinking big. But
years, of course go by, life

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settles in and that childhood dream of
wanting to write a book and wanting to

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empower the world, and all of
how we think we can accomplish these big

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things in life. All of a
sudden, I realized, like whoa life

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is passing fast? And I decided
to start creating the science of Empowerment.

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And I sat down one day to
write this book, really inspired by this

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formula that my brother and I were
using in our training facility. So we

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have a neuromuscular training facility, and
we wanted to really begin working mindset knowledge,

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information and connecting that mind body consciousness
awareness in our daily routine. I

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saw what it did for myself,
my family, my children. Then I

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started just applying it out in the
world when people wouldn't even realize what I

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was doing, and the feedback and
the reaction and the response really was an

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indicator that I was tapping into something
that was needed. And in the beginning

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of writing the book, I had
a pretty severe injury. I was doing

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a backflip over an octagon and I
ended up going into an over year long

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can cost journey and it really kind
of turned my life inside out. I'm

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super strong, I'm very athletic.
Nothing gets me down. I broke my

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leg skiing skied down the hill one
day, so I've got that kind of

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energy in me and this really took
me down. And in that process of

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going through something that was quite debilitating
for me and finding my way through it,

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not just out of it, really
helped create the Science of Empowerment.

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And I was able to tap into
this knowledge and information that I truly feel

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was not my own. I believe
it was coming from a source beyond my

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level of intellect, and tapping into
human potential really allowed me to create something

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that now, of course is helping
you know, thousands of people around the

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world. So I created the book
The Science of Empowerment. Of course,

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coaching, a very unique style of
coaching came out of that. And now

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I'm really moving around the world meeting
wonderful people such as yourself, that are

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creating incredible programs and co collaborating with
other thought leaders on how we can empower

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the human condition and really reach the
masses and start to uplift and elevate how

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we all show up and how we
all interact in this experience. Yes,

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and you know, in the world
today that's so essential, where we're seeing

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such lack of healthy interaction and you
know, and you know, sometimes I

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think I was meditating this morning and
one of the things that came to my

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mind was you know so often,
and I kind of had the sense that

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you had that are and I'm going
to go out and empower, you know,

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and make a difference for millions of
people or whatever. And finally for

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me, it was just like,
you know what, No, if I

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can touch one life, that's going
to make a difference. And so it's

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really fascinating how you're reaching out and
really affecting multiple, multiple, multiple lives.

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And let's talk about it a little
bit. Within the Science of Empowerment,

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you really talk about five empowering principles, and before we get started with

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that, I want you to really
define what you mean by empowering. Yeah,

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thank you. You and I were
talking before we went on to the

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recording, and I had said that
there's a synergy in an alignment, and

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you can feel that when this really
becomes your life. It's not what you

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think about in the sense of oh
I would like to get there, but

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it's how you live and when you
match those energies. And in the book,

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I actually write about that specifically one
person, one transformation, and then

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there are two and now you feel
what it is to really ex size,

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that compassion and that connectedness to another
human being. So touching one life is

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for me like touching a million lives. It has that impact. The really

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beautiful thing that I love about the
word empowering is it really expands perspective for

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the individual. So I may look
at exercise as a form of empowerment.

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Someone else may look at being in
a leadership role as an empowerment movement.

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We can look at faith or religion, we can look at knowledge. So

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what I love about the word empowering
is it is such a unique journey for

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each individual and how they see themselves
showing up in that process of living an

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empowered life. And part of the
beauty of the science of empowerment and the

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book it isn't about me in my
story. It is a language that it

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actually tunes into the reader to remind
them how empowered they can be when they

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choose to awaken to that personal journey. So I think empowerment is self discovery.

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It's how we choose to show up
for ourselves first and foremost, and

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how we can use our journeys,
the highs and the lows, the positive

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and the negative aspects of that and
really be in a role of compassionate leader

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for others. So when we authentically
share who we are and that journey of

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empowerment, there is a natural occurrence
of inspiration sometimes motivation for someone else that's

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listening how they can begin their own
journey. So I think for everyone it's

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an individualized journey. It's an awakening
to tapping into their brilliance, their beauty,

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their genius of how they can truly
live an empowering life. Well,

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and as you talk about that,
what comes to my mind immediately, as

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you were talking about how someone who's
empowered business or so forth, I would

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say, is there a question maybe
is there a difference between what people consider

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power and what people consider empowerment?
Yeah? Excuse me, Yeah, I

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definitely there's to me a world of
difference. Power for me tends to be

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almost a play out of illusion or
disillusionment. Empowering for me is something that

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we tap into in order to evolve
the relationship or the interaction or the experience

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of not only myself but of others. So I think there's a big difference

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there, and we see that in
the political arena, We see that in

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what we think is leadership out in
our world. But deep down in our

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instinct we know that something is not
quite balanced there. So we easily can

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see when power is being used for
self serving and when empowering messaging is being

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applied for the care and consideration of
the masses, and it's much different thing.

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It's something that reflects integrity, kindness, love, thoughtfulness, all of

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those type of things. So let's
talk. You talk about five empowering principles

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in your book, you can.
Let's just go step by step with those.

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Yeah, So this is at the
heart of the J three equals E

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formula. And this is the brilliance
and the beauty of what my brother put

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in place. When you apply these
five principles in order and you move into

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the power seat of choice of energy, now we begin to really create this

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sensation, this connectedness to how we
can empower our own lives. So the

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five principles are awareness, willingness,
accountability, critical thinking, and energy.

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So there's a gentle acramen for a
wake. And then we move into the

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understanding of negative and positive energies.
And as we all know in the quantum

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world, right, those are the
two energies that we have. But we

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play neutral in the middle because we
all need neutrality when we're in a negative

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state of being. We're upset,
we're frustrated, we're scared, we're really

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reacting from patterns. We need a
moment to move into that neutral grounding,

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catch our breath, meditate, take
a walk, you know, pull on

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some tool skill modality to help soften
that negative energy that's in momentum. And

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here in that state of neutrality,
now we can really rely on how we

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can up level into a state of
positive awareness or positive thinking or positive response.

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So let's say there's something going on
in your life, you had to

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fight with your spouse. We move
into asking what am I aware of in

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the moment, and most of us
know this isn't good. This is a

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repeat. I've had this conversation,
this argument a thousand and one times.

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What am I personally willing to do? Stop the blame right, stop projecting,

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stop reacting. I am willing to
look at myself and learn how to

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calm it down for a moment and
start responding. And I do this because

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I become accountable to my choices,
my reaction, my choice of responding to

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the situation rather than being fueled and
just again repeating those patterns. Now we

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move into critical thinking, we take
the emotionality out of it, we stop

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looking at it as a blame game, and again just really continuing this momentum,

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this algorithm of reaction, because we
know when we are reacting from emotionality,

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it's really coming from a wound,
it's coming from some unhealed trauma,

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it's coming from almost the fire,
and really not the calming nature of who

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we can really be when we show
up in a more balanced way. So

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critical thinking is such an or principle
to apply when we're in the middle of

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this reactive situation. Now we go
into energy, the fifth principle. Energy

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is in everything, and we move
into this power seat of choice where we

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understand that we have the ability to
tap into the awareness that this is a

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negative environment, the willingness to neutralize
it. We reinforce our own personal accountability

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in that process of experience. We
take that emotional negative charge out, we

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start to think critical thoughts, become
more of a higher positive thinking individual,

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and we choose neutrality with the intention
of moving into a more positive resolve.

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So listen, let's go into the
awareness. Let's start with the awareness.

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Okay, is I think that I
think one of the biggest challenges that people

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have is the lack of awareness.
And you know, you see it all

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of the time, and we observe
that in many cases where people just are

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living lives that are not comfortable for
them. They hate it, they're miserable,

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and yet for some reason, the
awareness of saying and it goes into

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the second thing too, about the
accountability, but they're really not aware.

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How do you help someone or how
do you suggest someone learn to become more

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aware of what's going on and understanding
that, you know what, this reality

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that I'm experiencing is not necessarily reality, it's what I have chosen to experience.

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How do you help someone to become
aware? Yeah, so what I've

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done, and there's many things that
you can do. But I'll ask someone,

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are you aware of what the weather
is outside? Is it sunny?

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Is it cloudy? Well, of
course I can look out the window.

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So you remind them that there's this
automatic right response system that we all have

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built into the human condition. Now
I'll say, okay, find something that

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maybe you aren't aware of what you
see is there now that you're placing your

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awareness on it. I'm just picking
this because I have a beautiful vision of

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trees outside. Well, the weeds
are changing. Okay, were you aware

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of that this morning? Not really? Just got up, had my coffee,

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got the kids ready, whatever the
story is, okay. So now

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you're starting to tune in a little
bit that when you place your attention just

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on the experience of awareness, you
can see how quickly your awareness moves from

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just oh it's raining, I have
to put a coat on, to wow,

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look at the vibrant orange on that
tree over there. I'll begin to

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bring that awareness into something so simple, so soft, of an expression of

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awareness that you can see in their
mind. They start to realize if I

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take a moment and I just stop
the routine, I stop the pattern,

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right, which is the behavior,
which is the story, which becomes the

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personality, which is what allows us
to not be present in the moment,

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we're just on automatic. They start
to feel like, oh, I can

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notice something different. So that is
a very simple, very gentle way that

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we can use awareness no matter where
we are. So even if we're in

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a car and we're driving down the
same road and we're stressed out and we're

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going to work, and all of
what we know comes up, ask someone

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Okay, I want you to notice
one thing on that drive that you've never

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known before. And then they come
back in right to the next session and

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you start coaching and they're like,
I noticed three things. Ooh, look

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at that. There's your awareness.
You're already connecting to your own awareness and

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your own level. Now you bring
it in deeper. So when you're having

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an argument or there is some kind
of distortion in our environment, now we

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can say, okay, I am
aware that I've been here before. This

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is something that is so automatic to
me. It is on repeat. Hit

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the record, play it out.
Now, tell me when you had that

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disagreement. Something came up with our
teenage kids and we all went into that

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write that repeat of how we know
this plays out? What did you do

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differently? Because you were now aware
of something differently? And it is amazing

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when you open up the space for
someone else to start tuning in to that,

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how were of empowerment in their life? They start to see, oh,

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I thought I was in the power
position. I'm older, I'm wiser,

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I'm smarter. Your fall blame game
and they realized that that was disempowering

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them. Back to the conversation,
we just had around power. Now they

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start to understand that when they move
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empowering themselves, they're actually empowering the
other person. Now we can start dialoguing

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very differently. Yes, and you
know the next step, which is the

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willingness that becomes. And I really
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at this for a couple of years
about writing a book called be Willing,

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you know, be aware, be
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had three you've got five there.
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a lot of people are not necessarily
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It takes a willingness to be able
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I'm actually trying to really stop for
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outside of myself for a minute and
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willingness is something that I think can
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How do you help someone to develop
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like I say, step outside of
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and go, like you say,
you know what, I'm going to become

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more aware of what's really happening here. Yeah, willingness is a challenging principle

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to apply in our life, so
many of us. Again, it's seeded

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almost into the human condition from very
early on, not to really bloom and

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expand what this for me, this
absolute empowering pillar can present. So what

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I do, whether we're talking about
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we're coaching, is asking someone when
they're in that moment of a repeated cycle,

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same conversation, same right outcome,
terrible job, struggling with addiction,

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overweight, whatever this scenario may be, if you stay connected to the unwillingness

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structure, that energy structure of unwillingness, tell me what your life will look

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like in a day, a week, a month, year, let alone

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three, four or five. Tell
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you to go into it deeply and
give me every detail that you can.

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they don't even want to begin the story

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because they already know what it's going
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principle of willingness. We start by
asking them, maybe give me something that

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you're unwilling to do that you've been
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that struggling with weight. They may
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down. So you have to start
going into what is their story around that

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unwillingness to change what actually is causing
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as you know, therapy versus coaching. So I don't go into the

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therapy, but as a coach,
you listen for the cues, and if

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you know that there is some really
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then of course you gently guide them
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If I have someone that I know
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and they're getting ready to peek over
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rest in the out willingness, which
almost all of my clients read the book

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first, so they're already primed for
what we go through in the coaching sessions.

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They're ready. It's just a matter
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experience of unwillingness and the empowering experience
of learning what it is to become willing

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to show up for yourself and your
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And most people, when they understand
that there's an option, an opportunity,

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a pathway for transformation, they will
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rare, and I've met anyone that
has, you know, And it's interesting

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as you talk about therapy versus coaching. You know, there are people that

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can literally do that introspective work and
really manage to heal themselves emotionally, physically,

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whatever that happens to be. There
are others that are just not quite

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there yet, and they cannot be
afraid of therapy. They need to realize

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that, you know what, I
need a little bit of extra help.

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I'm not quite there yet. And
I think that's important for people to understand

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and realize it's okay, It's totally
okay, you know, and you get

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the whole awareness and you know the
willingness, and then you get into the

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accountability. I love that part of
it because in our today's society, you

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blame everybody else for what you're experiencing. And it's rare. I you know,

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it's like, okay, here,
I am upset. Why what is

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it? What triggered within me?
What experiences have I had that I'm allowing

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that to trigger me to the point
of being frustrated, upset, and to

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be willing to take that accountability and
say, you know what, the fact

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is I've worked with sometimes as I
taught one class, it's like I got

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to bring a miriad. Okay,
so you know what, if you're having

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a challenge and you're starting to blame
someone, stop for a minute, grab

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that mirror and put it up in
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It isn't them, it's you.
I just did this with a client

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the other day. They were just
in their stuff and I said, Okay,

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take a moment, take a chair
and just go sit. Take five

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minutes, breathe, calm and go
have a five minute conversation with yourself,

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please, And of course that fits
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It absolutely was transformative. They realized
again, we're going back to the

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story that we believe that we were
a victim. And one thing I always

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say is, first of all,
yes, therapy is one of the most

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important healing modalities we have within the
human experience, and it is important for

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those of us that have gone through
trauma and taking that journey to go through

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it and come out with a sense
of almost accomplishment. Right, so we

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can move from that victimhood and really
empower as we move forward. One of

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the things that I always say,
again it could just be conversation out in

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the world or certainly with clients,
is it is fundamental to honor whatever it

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is we have gone through. It
is important to see it and feel it

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and almost align with this level of
compassion for what we went through. But

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there is a time in a place
where it is empowering to put the story

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down and begin rewriting it, which
is the power of accountability. This brings

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us into unison with our and no
longer going outside of our own skill sets,

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our own tools, our own healing, and looking for answers outside of

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ourself, looking for someone to show
up and make it all better. So

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when we really exercise the third principle
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accountability is a strong empowerment pillar.
It's centered almost in the middle. For

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that reason. Again, it's not
to ignore what was done, or what

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was said, or what we experienced. It's to say that I see it,

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and I have compassion for where I
was, and maybe that person was

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at that time, and whether they
have grown and done the work, that

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is not for me to be accountable
too. How I now choose to move

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forward and create an empowered life.
Now I will take accountability for my healing,

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my journey, and my way forward. And you know what's interesting,

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I find that gratitude can become so
key in that. Because I was just

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talking to a friend today and they
were talking a little bit about some of

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the struggles that they've had for the
last number of years and so forth,

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and I said, you know,
stop for a minute and think about being

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grateful for what you've experienced, because
look what you have become because of those

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experiences. And they actually took those
experiences and became such a higher level of

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goodness and kindness and all of that
type of thing. So I think sometimes

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we forget to realize that whatever we've
experienced in life, even those horrendous trauma,

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you know, we don't have to
be grateful for that at all,

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and recognize also that it has nothing
to do with us, but it has

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to do with somebody else. But
the bottom line is is that allowing it

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to empowers and having that sense of
gratitude that we are becoming even at a

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higher level of who we are because
of those experiences, if, as you

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say, we can take them and
change them from being the victim to being

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the empowered individual that looks at that, analyzes it, recognizes it, and

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can be grateful in some way for
what it has done to help them become

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a better person. I think that's
one of the big challenges is to guide

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others in that again, that awareness
that you can take that relationship, your

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relationship to that event or sometimes for
decades of an event, and use it

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and recalibrate it through to a more
neutral understanding and a more positive I think

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experience for self love. And again
we're talking this through but there is a

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process and there is a journey.
We're not at all looking at anyone saying

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well, if you came out of
this abusive environment, you can just recalibrate

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it and change it into a positive
process. So obviously, you know listeners

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will know that, but we're talking
about this very unique and empowering way of

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knowing. There are opportunities, there
are options, there are pathways, there

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are healing techniques and modalities. Through
a podcast, through a coach, through

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a book, et cetera, where
you can start to expand your perspective on

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just what may be possible for you
to again transform that disempowering story into a

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more empowered present and future life yourself. Yes. Absolutely, And as we

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move forward into the next one,
and you know, as I think about

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awake, I keep thinking, Kay. But we're talking to see here critical.

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Yeah, So tell me a little
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this being critical about things. Yeah. So again, this critical thinking is

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so important because we're human beings and
we're always reacting the high and the low,

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the beauty and the ugliness, right, the love and the hate,

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the good and the bad, the
positive and negative. There's always a reaction

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to everything rather than a response,
and there is such a difference. Most

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of us react from emotion, and
that emotion is tied to an experience that

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already happened, So there's already an
imprint of energy on the experience that we

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are reacting from. Now, obviously
the sun is out and we're at the

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beach and we're just having a beautiful
day and we're in gratitude and appreciating the

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ocean and the warmth, and we're
reacting to that day. That's a positive

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reaction. So we all understand that
when we bring in that fourth principle from

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the J three equals E that critical
thinking, now we can start to move

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towards again a more empowered life because
we begin with that awareness. Right,

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we see, I'm aware that we're
arguing again. I am willing to take

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a step back. I am accountable
no longer for how I react in this.

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Now I'm going to start exercising critical
thought. I'm going to remember that

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I'm reacting from a wound. I'm
reacting from a past story. I'm reacting

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from a thought process that is attached
to something that I once experienced. That

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is not where I am now.
I am thirty seven, i am a

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wife, I'm a businesswoman. I
am not seventeen or seven anymore. Now

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I take the emotional charge out of
that reaction, and I exercise critical thinking,

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and I start to respond from a
more empowered place. I'm not saying

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it would be perfect, but maybe
I've done some therapy, Maybe I have

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had a transformational coach. Maybe I've
read an empowering book that opened up my

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mind to a new skill or a
new awareness. Now I begin to apply

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a higher level of intelligence, and
I reside less in the emotionality of a

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story that does not serve me well
anymore. All right, and beautifully said,

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and beautifully said. And then we
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Energy. Ooh, energy is in
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about this in the book that even
if you don't understand mathematical equations and quantum

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physics and epigenetics and all the new
sciences, I don't. I'm not an

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expert in all of those. There's
no way I could understand all of those.

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But I do know that energy is
in everything because we know what we

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feel all the time. It's an
energy. It's a happy energy, it's

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a frustration energy, it's a scared
energy, it's an excited energy. We

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all know what energy feels like.
So even again, if we don't understand

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that even solid objects are energy objects, they're just condensed, that's okay.

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Put that aside. Let's look at
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comes to energy, negative, positive, neutral, which one are You Ask

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yourself that in all interactions, and
you will start to you up level your

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own intelligence. You will start to
tap into that level what I call that

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internal brilliance, that genius that I
firmly believe is residing within every human being.

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Ask yourself positive, negative, neutral. Now you start to play around

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with why would I choose negative anything? Why I have the power to neutralize

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that negative thought? Actually stand in
the middle. I can see the awareness

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to what was negative. I know
I am now learning how to be an

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empowered being. I can see positive
over there. I may not exactly know

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how to get there. I may
not have all of it lined up,

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but I am now am starting to
think write positive intelligence. I have the

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ability to move out of negative thinking, negative patterns, negative habits and behaviors.

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I can neutralize it with new perspectivetives, new tools, new information,

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gain insight, gain knowledge, become
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Just ask yourself, negative, positive, neutral, which energy am I?

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And in that moment of asking,
you can now begin to run through

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those principles and then at the end
see how an empowered life can go from

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negativity through the neutral for a positive
outcome. And it really does work well.

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And I think it's important for people
to understand that there is this quantum

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field, there's this field outside of
us that we don't always recognize. And

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it takes a lot of meditation to
that type of thing to tap into it.

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But even without doing that, just
recognizing that there's that positive energy that

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you can tap into, and as
you tap into it, it can literally

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start to change your perspective, start
to change your life. I mean,

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we talk so much about joy and
happiness and not realizing that, you know,

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guess what, we can literally create
that joy and happiness for ourselves by

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tapping into that energy that exists a
little bit outside of our awareness. But

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as you say, as we become
more and more aware of that, it

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can make such a difference in our
lives. And it really is, it

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is outside of us when we look
at it from the perspective of universal creation

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or the God force. However,
we look at that power that is really

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at the foundation of why we're here, that's again a unique journey. But

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let's say one night you're stargazing,
just look at that with amazement of how

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were this beautiful blue jewel floating in
the middle of a galaxy tapping into that?

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For me, whoa, and I'm
just this little human walking the planet.

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What can I do? How can
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how does gravity hold us here,
and then we can start engaging in all

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the beauty and all the diversity of
how our mind can start thinking about.

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Okay, I may not understand again
quantum physics, but I know I'm here.

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There's something remarkable about me. I
came into this experience for a reason,

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for a purpose. What is it? Let me become this grand explorer

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of my own potential by tapping into
these forces that yes, are outside of

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us, but really they reside so
deadly in sight side. Absolutely. That's

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what I was going to say,
is so often we don't realize that we

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seek outward when in fact it's within
us. And if we can begin to

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understand that and truly believe it and
recognize that, you know, if we're

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wanting to tap into that energy,
it's within us to be able to do

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so, and I think that becomes
in a wonderful awareness when we can reach

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that point. Yeah. I write
something very quickly about in the book about

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this, like, I'm a firm
believer that how science used to say,

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you know, we had all this
junk DNA, and science now knows it

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is untapped human potential. It is
really awaiting its recognition internally. Right that

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navigation system is in there. Switch
it up, Get creative, have fun

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figuring out what does this look like? What is my potential? What is

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my connection to being an energy being? What is this beautiful mind brain matrix

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that I can enter data in?
Get creative, put data out for positive

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purpose, to create positive causation.
How can I be a human being that

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contributes betterment and goodness and love and
compassion into the human condition? And it

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is so important anyone that ever feels
that, who am I to create any

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ripple effect? I'm here to tell
you that your ripple effect is needed every

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single human being. When they start
to transform from negative thinking, negative patterns

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into that neutral to positive energy,
you actually become more of a beacon of

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light than the dark, than the
shadow. There's so many analogies and poetic

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ways we can express this, but
your presence is needed. And the more

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you heal and the more you become
aware of your personal empowerment journey, now

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we start to create a more collective
vibration of goodness on the entire planet.

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And I couldn't have asked for a
better ending. That's so wonderful to be

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able to sum it up the way
that you just have, So let me

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ask you a question. How do
people find you, Laura? How do

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they reach out and find you if
they have that desire to do so?

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Thank you. Yes, and first
of all, just such an honor and

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a pleasure to be here with you. I really appreciate sharing some moments of

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this lifetime with you, so thank
you and for all the work that you

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do. Www. Dot The Science
of Empowerment dot com. There's a place

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to email me for those who put
a notation that maybe they heard me from

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this conversation. I will sign and
mail a book when they order it via

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the website. I have a small
amount left from the original printing, which

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is really cool. They're becoming collector's
edition everyone else Amazon, of course,

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Laura Brennan ballet The Science of Empowerment. It's on Kindle, all the bookstores,

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et cetera. So yes, please
reach out. I do speaking engagements.

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I show up on virtual stages all
over the world coaching. Read the

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book. It will change your life, I promise you. Wonderful Laura,

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thank you so much for being on
the show. This has just been wonderful,

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and thank you for everything that you're
doing to make a difference in the

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world. In the other people's lives
since folks, thank you for listening today.

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Hope you really enjoyed it, and
please reach out to Laura if it's

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something that you feel can be of
value to you, because I know it

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certainly can be. We look forward
to having you join us again soon.

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Have a wonderful week, and have
a wonderful day.