 Hi, this is Debbie Daschinger from Dare to Dream Radio, TV and Books, also MediaMastery.com and MyBestSellerBook.com Wow, so I'm going to ask you a question and it's kind of serious and I mean it from my heart. I know I love to joke and maybe I'll joke somewhere in here but I'm really asking a serious question. Why? Because I'm asking myself this question. In fact, I'm journaling about this right now so I'm going to ask you to take a heartfelt look inside and just keep this real. Between us. Right? Is that safe? What are you a slave to? What are you a slave to? Keeping it real, right? Is it food? Are you over? Maybe you're under eating, over eating. Do you think about food all the time, your body, your weight, to exhaustion? The fact that it keeps cycling over and over and over again and actually never gets resolved in your life? Maybe you lose weight, gain weight, go right back, craving. What else are you a slave to? Or what are you a slave to? Fear? Worrying? Anxiety? Can you eradicate your life or run it? Your thoughts? Are you a slave to overspending? I'm asking you these questions because you can fill in the blank. Maybe none of what I just said as an example even fits for you and maybe it's something so different but so real for you and such a repetitive, painful experience that again doesn't get resolved because you are in bondage. Cigarettes, alcohol, relationships, sex, gambling, money, what is it? Here's what I know when I'm really exploring right now. Slavery. I mean slavery. Think about what we think about slavery. Some of the horrific things we have done to other people on this planet, right? Hundreds of people, horrific, unthinkable and we do it to ourselves with things outside of ourselves so we claim to have no power over and maybe we're not even claiming it but we're living it. We're not able to get out from under and God we go back into our head and we think maybe I need to try this, maybe I need to try that, maybe that'll get me out. We try something else but the same bloody thing happens over and over and over again. Discouraging, disappointing, disillusioning and then we come up with thoughts about who and what we are because we can't stop being a slave to this craving that when it comes on takes over and causes us to do the very thing we swore we weren't going to do anymore, right? So I really don't want you to feel bad. In fact, it makes me want to cry a little bit because we all, I believe, have something, something you fill in the blank that makes us do this. It makes me want to cry because not only do we hurt ourselves with this thing that we can't stop craving and doing but after hurting ourselves we then hurt ourselves and say terrible things about who we think we must be because we can't stop doing this thing. So I know I'm ready to stop being a slave and the only way I know to get out is through. Acceptance is the answer to all my problems for today. So I accept that in my life I have this in certain areas and so what I'm doing is journaling and I'm going to ask you, if you're willing to join me, will you start journaling about the slavery you're experiencing and just write it out, the pain, the behavior, what causes it, what it feels like, what it feels like after, what the items are, what's calling to you and then there's something underneath this detrimental behavior because what's really interesting and here I am, right? I teach dreams, I teach creating dreams and what I'm really finding in unearthing is these cravings actually are stopping the biggest dreams I have because if I'm busy overspending over here, I don't have the money for world travel, which I say I want to do. If I'm busy overspending over here, gosh, I can't take that course. Now it's a blind spot because I don't see that, all I see is I can't do this. It's a blind spot because I'm not realizing that every little penny that's going over here is dwindling away the possibility of what really should be going there because that's where my heart is. This other stuff, it's piddly, it's not important, not life changing, not at all. It's very painful. It's very detrimental and I am deeply grateful to be enlightened right now and feeling a lot of illumination about this and so I'm talking to you about it because rather than continuing a lifelong cycle and never getting out from under, God knows I'm not going to end my life this way, I'm not. So what's contrary with journaling? What else is contrary? So it happens. The craving comes up and what else is possible? I'll give you some options. I said journaling, do it done, second, set up a special bank account, 10% goes to it no matter what. That's on top of other 10, 20% I have already going somewhere but already I can put money somewhere and that is specifically for really creating my big dreams. Craving comes up. Boom. I can speak, speak out loud no matter where I am, I can go somewhere private and just start speaking. I'm not alone, the universe is always there, my highest self is always there, my soul is there. Four, I can make a video that nobody sees. I can grab my phone and just start speaking my pain and the solution and anything else that comes up but just keep it real. Five, talk to God, just say it. What else? If you know any healing work, you could access that right away. Just do some energy, clearings, anything that is there for you. And next you could hold on. You could say what would happen if I just didn't give in to this craving? What would happen if I just breathed through this? Just an experiment. I don't have to do this for the rest of my life but just once, just once, I'm going to breathe and just sit with, what does it feel like to feel this overwhelming have to need to right now, fill in the blank for whatever it is for you. And if instead I just be with this, a craving ain't a dream. A craving ain't the real thing. A craving ain't going to get us any of us where we really want to be and do. So I love you. It's Debbie Dashinger, d-a-c-h-i-n-g-e-r dot com. And if you're ready to really move forward in your life this year and boy we're being called to move forward. What are you a slave to? What are you in total bondage to? And if you're ready to get out, do the writing, do the admitting, do everything it takes to take contrary action, on the other side is your dream come true. Freedom. Freedom.