 Hi everybody, so I received a wonderful comment from one of the viewers of these videos and I wanted to I'll go ahead and share the comment below but basically They were reflecting on My previous video. You don't have to have watched that one, but it was about temptation management Meaning, you know, we are tempted to do things in our life be certain behaviors that we want to Get rid of That we don't Find is good for us going forward. Maybe we've been dealing battling with that behavior for a long time and we want to change and I was talking in a previous video about You know some thoughts about managing the temptations and I also asked all of you Does that word temptation makes sense to you do you like it do you Does it doesn't resonate with you or do you do you want to use a different word or different phrase? So The person who commented I really like what they said about how they they prefer the framing of What is I'm gonna go ahead and read it read it here The temptation has a moral connotation. They wrote a negative judgment about us for doing the action and You know, I want to say this is interesting because in our post-modern world we might say You know, there's if you haven't heard of the I really like spiral dynamics this idea of how culture cultures go through different stages of development and You know in the pre-modern world It was like it was like the authority figure the the priest the shaman the king would tell The people what is right? What is wrong, right? And that's just that's the law and that's the you know law of the land or the spiritual law or whatever You want to break the laws and then the modern world the pre-modern world, you know And then the modern world by the way, these are all you know different cultures are in pre-modern modern and post-modern So it's not like there are no longer pre-modern cultures that some of them still exist and it could be like a Particular family or her or or a nation, you know anyway, so modern is much more scientifically minded and There is still idea of doing right doing wrong, but it's more like, you know Going by the scientific Right wrong etc. And then the post-modern world which is much of the West now is where There is no right and wrong There is no right and wrong. It's just personal preference. It's just personal style and I Think it's interesting because I of course have some of that influence myself. I like to think of Negative and positive judgment kind of like a tool to play with so I kind of have some Post-modern influence obviously some modern and even some pre-modern influence. I like to think of it as a tool like Judgment isn't necessarily bad judgment Funny thing is bad if we say bad bad judgment is bad. Well, we've just We've just used bad judgment on bad judgment We we've we're judging bad judgment as being a bad thing and And so I like to think of judgment as a tool It's just a tool for us to use like I choose at this time to judge this thing as bad because I'm trying to shake myself in a certain way and I and and yes, it might it might not be a good thing. Well, if we judging if we say, oh, if I'm judging someone else If I'm judging somebody else, that's a bad thing. I shouldn't I shouldn't be doing I shouldn't be judging other people then we're using Negative judgments on ourselves for doing the J. J Anyway, it's kind of the circular thing when we when we judge judgment and so it's I feel like ultimately I don't know. I just use it as a tool. It's like well, I don't know if we can get it get around dualistic thinking in this life When we have a left and right brain when we went when anyway I'm not that enlightened. So maybe I'm not non. I'm not I'm not non-dual enlightened yet I don't I don't I non-dual thinking doesn't come naturally to me yet Beyond the beyond the right and wrong there's a field and I will meet you there But wait, isn't that also judging the fact that there are two parts of the field? Anyway This whole non-dual thing confuses the heck out of me because non-dual is essentially a judgment on dual But anyway, it's so I use it as a tool. I use it. I use dual dualistic thinking and judgment as a tool To say no and and it's true like if we get too fixated on the tool itself, then maybe You know, it's not as helpful, right? And so So, yes, I appreciate what this person wrote that it's reminding me to use it as a tool to not get so fixated on it not to be so Self-punishing maybe about The judgment just oh, that's it. That's a tool. Okay, okay. That's right. Okay I don't want to go there right now I want to go here instead right and so what they wrote is I like words like Getting pulled away from aligning with our intention Getting pulled away from aligning with our intention because it's just what life does and I really like that. It's true Just living life Right with so many other influences in a daily life we get pulled away from What we what intention we set in the morning or at the beginning of the hour or whatever may be or the beginning of the year easily get pulled away from the intention and What this person wrote is that for them to to Get back aligned with intention so this person wrote that they were a heavy smoker for for many years and For several years. It was really hard to get out of you know for the final few years of the smoking was very hard But what would help them was to find something good to replace with the bad habit and it's brilliant, right? It's like it's they they they found yoga they started doing yoga regularly instead of the smoking and then they also had to do some inner work of the relationship they had with their with their mother and and finding that they can that that they can love themselves and how to love themselves and Yeah, so I really appreciate that comment and how each of us as we The so-called managed temptations or find alignment from our intention with our behavior again We do it in different ways for some of us it's Particular mantra for others. It's you know journaling for others. It's Meditation for others. It's yoga for others. It's finding some positive behavior to replace. I think that's generally a good Scientifically proven method of habit change, right? It's finding something good to replace the previous habit you want to get away from But but like I said a lot of us may have you know, I May probably all of us have some past influences past traumas some Baggage you might say emotional baggage to unpack and to Find a way through That's healthier and that's more loving of ourselves and of the whole and that may really shift Our ability to behave in a way that we want to behave going forward So Yeah, I I really I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate that comment and this this idea of aligning Alignment, you know might even say alignment therapy I Aligning ourselves back to our intention because getting pulled away isn't normal So the question I guess to as to end this video for you is How do you How might you need what might you need to work with maybe some therapy some? inner Emotional baggage unpacking Some replacement behavior. What do you need to work with? To effectively realign Your behavior with your intentions or to manage your temptations Whatever way you want to say it. What do you need to do? What's unique to you that you that is that you believe will be effective for you to realign your behavior again with your intention So that you can live your values so they can live more purposefully so they can live more in tune with the God source that is the source of your spiritual destiny So with that, thank you so much for watching and I hope this is helpful in some way