- Most of you guys watching this video are badasses,
and this was one option for you.
You coulda came into life, you coulda had some easy,
flowing thing where you didn't really have
to question things too much.
Most of us, though, this is what we decided.
I'm at this bike trail right now.
There's a more difficult bike path this way,
there's another difficult one that way,
and then there's an easy one this way.
Now, the thing that happened is what most
of us did is most of us took a more initially difficult path
because that led to us becoming more aware of who we are.
And the thing is, is that that was part of the process
and something that we wanted to discover,
going through our life situation.
Was going through different things where we'd go on the path
that we chose, but kinda what happened is we forgot
that we chose to go down some path
because even though we couldn't see all the different twists
and all the different turns, what happened is we knew
that going in, we'd forget who we are.
That's what makes part of this life experience challenging.
Is that we chose a difficult path and we forgot
that we actually chose that because of the growth
that would come from it.
Now, there's a lot of pain that comes when we're
in our life experience and we don't necessarily know
which route the path is going.
We might not know and one of the reasons is
because we chose not to know.
We chose not to know all of it,
but there is something very important I wanted
to share with you.
And that is imagine that at this bike trail place
that I'm at right now, over there there's this peak.
And imagine that over there, you could look down
and see all the different paths, and the only part
that really becomes difficult is that we believe
that we need to know every little twist and turn.
And the reason that's there and that fear is there,
is because we're not trusting our higher selves.
We're not trusting the larger aspect of us.
We've learned to just trust the little ego us
that's in the valley that's on the path
that's a little bit confused.
Like there's this twist, there's this turn,
this one says more difficult, what about this?
What about that?
And energetically, at the top of the hill,
there's our higher self and our higher self is looking down,
and is like, "Yo, it's okay, just trust, just trust."
There's another metaphor of this.
We did plant medicine yesterday (laughs),
just to be completely honest with you guys.
And when I did, I had this realization.
I was talking to a friend and we were talking
about both of us, we have this need
to control different aspects of our life, you know?
I think one thing that I do in my life is that the way
that I try to control my life is I control my business
because it's the one thing.
Controlling different aspects of my business.
But there's a lot of challenges to that.
For example, now, I feel like I have to do everything.
And one of the problems was is that if I have
to do every of the business because I do it to the best way,
that's the ego, then I'm not actually able
to make videos as easily and as fluidly.
Maybe you've noticed that recently,
the videos have been taken up a notch here
where I'm putting more thought and energy into them.
It's because I'm actually offloading and trusting people
to do things that I don't actually enjoy doing anyways,
like the back end part of the business and stuff like that.
But now that I've let that go and I'm trusting other people
to take care of it, and the universe,
these different elements, now I'm able to focus
on what I love which is making videos.
And come up with these these little metaphors
and stuff like that, you know?
But I've realized that it's almost like
because I had no control in my life growing up,
I think 'cause of the abusive step-mom thing
and working a nine to five job I hated for so long,
I think what happened is I gained a lot
of certainty out of having a business.
But the challenge is that sometimes, trusting the unknown,
for me, has been very challenging.
Because who knows what's down there?
And the thing I was working with my friend
is imagine there's like this slide.
And there's this really cool slide that has all these twists
and these turns, kinda like this bike trail.
But imagine what happened is we started clawing our way,
it's almost like the analogy I told my friend. (laughs)
Friend is Leanor, many of you know her,
the analogy I told her is imagine you ever see those TikToks
or something of little kids going down slides,
and they're almost using their baby fats not go down?
Because they're trying to resist the process
of going down that slide because they're afraid.
They don't know if they were to surrender,
they'd probably enjoy themselves, but they don't know that.
They're afraid of the unknown.
And the thing is, is many times in our life,
we are not trusting the flow of this slide.
We're afraid to slide just has a hole
in it somewhere and we're gonna fall through.
And the thing is is we then claw our way, we then suffer,
we then create all this negative energy.
And there's a part of us, though, that set up the slide.
This is the thing that on plant medicine was very powerful
to understand.
Imagine there's a lifeguard on this water slide.
There's this lifeguard thing that has a really high,
pinnacle point of view that can see
and that created the slide to begin with.
And it can see the whole slide and see, "Oh, it's okay.
You just surrender, enjoy the ride,
and you'll go down even smoother and it won't take so long.
It won't be such a resistant slide down."
Well in the same way, that's a very powerful metaphor.
The key to not controlling so much is trusting the slide,
knowing that you set it up and the more that you resist,
the more that you claw your way going down it,
the more you use your own baby fat to keep you
from sliding down, the more resistance you end up creating
and the more painful the ride actually is.
But the thing about this to remember,
is which perspective are you using?
Are you using the little ego's perspective
or are you using the higher self perspective?
Are you remembering that you're an eternal, spiritual being,
having a temporary human experience
and that you set up the slide itself?
What happens is a lot of times, some point in our past,
what happened is there was some type of pain,
and we decided in a moment that our ego had
to control different things in life.
So it's almost like you're going down that slide
and you decided, "I have to control the direction
to which I'm going down and I need to control the process."
And because of the fear of the painful childhood
or whatever it is, whatever we experienced growing up,
we then start to give so much credence
and so much energy over to that of the ego.
And then we get a sense of certainty out of that.
But the part that's important to remember is that
in this process, it is about trusting the higher self,
and it is about remembering that you set up the slide
and that the more you resist is the more
it's gonna be a painful experience. (laughs)
The more it's like you're going down a beautiful slide
and you could just release.
Or you can just enjoy the process of going down your,
you know, and that's another thing you have to commit.
Some of these, even this easy one, this one's easy.
(laughs) I went on the easy one when I first moved here
and I found this trail at this place.
And you have to really commit.
I had to commit to these jumps and stuff
and I didn't really know what to expect,
but are you committed to your life experience?
Are you going through life or are you trying
to resist the process?
Every one of us has probably had some type
of painful experience early on in life where we then learned
and believed that we couldn't trust life experiences,
we couldn't trust ourselves, we couldn't trust the universe.
And that break in trust then caused us
to claw ourselves our way down that slide,
and use our own baby fat to stop the process.
And it's about remembering that we set up the slide
at a higher level, that at a higher level,
our higher selves can allow us to relax
'cause we're on the lifeguards chair.
We're at the top of that pinnacle over there.
And we're looking down and we're like, "Dude, you got this.
It's okay, trust the process."
But I wanna applaud many of you because many of you
that have been through a spiritual awakening,
you did not choose the easiest path.
The easiest path was not the one that appealed to you.
The one that appealed to you was the more difficult ones,
but the reason the more difficult ones appeal
to you is because you knew there'd be more growth.
You forgot that, though.
When you come into this reality, we forget
who we are so that we can go through a process
of remembering who we are, and you forgot
that you chose that, but it doesn't have to be difficult.
It can be fun.
It's like a slide.
It's like oh, that's a difficult slide
because it has all these twists and turns.
No, if you surrender, it just goes.
You go smooth and it's even more fun.
You wanted an exciting life, you didn't want some easy,
boring ass life, you wanted a slide that was fun.
And you chose this lifetime where we're all waking up
to more and more of who we are.
So that's my message for you today.
You chose this, remember that,
and the way you remember that is by trusting.
Trust the universe, trust the higher self.
Realize that as you do, your vibration raises,
you start to be in a more relaxed state.
And then what happens from there is things just happen,
more synchronistically for you anyways.
That's the way it works.
The more we resist is the more we then find experiences
in our life that are equal to that resistance.
The more we allow is the more our vibration raises and then,
the more we are in ideal realities anyway.
So instead of using your baby fat to not go down that slide,
just relax, get a little oil. (laughs)
And then just (mimcs whooshing) go, you go fast as fuck.
Enjoy the process and that makes life way more beautiful.
So if you like this style a videos, like this video.
I know it's a new type of style.
I'm using metaphors in almost every video.
And yeah, I look forward to making more videos for this.
As always, peace, much love, namaste.
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