 So, David, I'm really excited because Live Your Happy, get out of your own way and find the love within will be out in April, April 22nd, published by New World Library. And I'm really excited about this book because it's all based on the course of miracles. But it's not so heady. It's not so intellectual. It really brings... That's why it's called Live Your Happy because it's really live a course of miracles. But I just say live your happy. It's really bringing the experience of the course into your life experience so that you can live in happiness. One of the chapters that kind of I was thinking about you in my mind because you are so good at really letting go of the ego mind and fear. One of the chapters is called You Are Fearless, which is towards the end. It's one of the end chapters. And I wanted to ask you how being fearless and happiness relates? Well, happiness is the state of mind that's very natural and fear is very unnatural. This is given from our creator, it comes from our source and we could say fear is learned. So all fear is learned. And therefore, if it's been learned, it's a good thing that it could be unlearned. And so we need to be fearless, as your chapter states, to be happy, authentically happy. Because this happiness is not a happiness, it's the superficial happiness that comes from, oh, I got what I wanted in the world or I attained this worldly goal or whatever because I think everybody can relate to those kind of happiness feelings are very temporary. They're very circumstance dependent. And they go away when the circumstance changes. And true happiness, happiness that comes from God is there in our hearts, it just lives forever and ever and ever. It's beyond time and space even. So I think one of the things that for me was one of the first recognitions was I thought I was afraid of so many things in the world. And we're not really accustomed to the idea that we're afraid of our mind's power, that we're afraid of our magnificence or even that we're afraid of love. Some people will talk about it in relationships like a fear of intimacy, but it's not really a fear of sexual intimacy. It's a fear of dropping the mask, dropping the mask of our personalities and being totally absorbed by this wonderful experience of God given love that we were created as just perfect and innocent and free. So that's a big one and I think that's what's so great about your book is it's saying let's look at this in a practical way and let's give a lot of examples of how I thought it was this but it wasn't what I thought it was and thank God it wasn't because there was a miracle that came to take the place. Yeah and what I love about the tone of the book is that it could be playful. You know it could be playful, it doesn't have to be so heavy, it doesn't have to be so dense, we can look at it and bask in the joy and be a happy learner, right? In regards to what do you think is a good tool, a practical tool to let go of the fear voice in our mind, the ego, what's a practical tool for you at every moment to let go and be fearless and to let go of that thought of separation, that thought of that little self or that thought that separates you, that makes you fearful. Well I think it's important to have that point to just stop for a moment or as our friend Mary Lennaham in St. Louis says pause. That pause is really important because instead of just rushing away with thoughts and justifying something or having a case built up, that pause sends us in another direction and you might say it's maybe I could see this differently pause, it's like there's a moment of sanity that's there to say I don't have to continue to look at it the way I did before, I don't have to cling to the past, I could be very open and let's be spontaneous and fresh and that really makes way for the fearlessness which is always there, it's very strong our spiritual presence inside as long as we take that pause, that stop and don't keep going down the line of thinking somehow that we have to justify it or even that the fear is real and we have to try to work our way or analyze our way out of it, that's not going to work. Yeah I feel that what's coming up for me as you're sharing is awareness, you know awareness, discernment of being an observer and watching your mind and where your thoughts are going and what I share in my book is how are you feeling? You know what your gauge is how are you feeling if you're feeling anxious, if you're feeling like a sense of discomfort, of anxiety, you know that your thoughts are being aligned to untruth and then when you feel peaceful that's why you want to take the pause so you come back to that peace because you're not there you know so I feel that it's that's what I love about live your happy because it came from a space of I suffer so much because I didn't understand the way my mind worked like my mind literally has had its way with me I actually felt violated for a long time you know how it's way with me because I didn't know so in live your happy what I do is I really help people to really understand at a maximum capacity of of their mind that were run by two thought systems fear and love and you need to really not need to but it'd be helpful for you to understand the way it works so you can discern and choose spirit again and again and choose spirit again and choose spirit again but many people don't even know they're just trans out on automatic pilot living every day waking up having their coffee checking Facebook you know la la la la and kind of just living these trans out lives and not understanding that they're the creators of their experience moment to moment and they can create such a beautiful experience with Holy Spirit remembering truth again remembering truth again so yeah and I love how that's how spirit gets our attention is through something that's that's simple or direct or practical or has an example that we can relate to that we can individually relate to and I know besides Gary's comments on on the book in mind that Jerry Jampolsky came out years ago with this book love is letting go fear and if you saw yes when that first came out I said it was little caricatures and pulling up an anchor and these characters becoming happy and it's it had little illustrations and again it was the same method the spirit uses is reach people in in cartoons and caricatures and give them some real basic ideas like there's there's two kind of voices in our mind are two forces love and fear and we can learn to choose the love it's actually available we always have a choice and I think live you're happy is really destined to go down that same way is it's destined to reach an audience of and show that there is another way which is what started a course of miracles of Helen and Bill saying there must be a better way is this time it's Maria Felipe saying there must be a better way and I'm not gonna hold on to this kaka way of thinking and using coming through in a way that people can relate to lots of humor as well lots of humor and playful and I just love how you already know like the Maria language in the book because because I do I call the eagle thoughts kaka and I call those false thoughts cuckoo you know cuckoo mine yeah and I love how my publisher New World was so generous and allowed me to use and just keep those Maria isms in there because it makes it so light and so playful and so funny you're talking about Jerry Jompulski because he his book actually Patrick when he did my book proposal he he used Jerry's book as an example of what my book would be like like similar in also length because I think it's a minus about 130 146 pages it's a short book because I wanted it just to be practical I didn't want you know big heavy but I just wanted something very simple and Jerry and I both suffer from dyslexia and we don't like to write often and we don't like to read either so we're like you know what spirits gonna use this but you know let me just give you 146 pages or 150 pages and and we're done yeah you know let's just make it easy so it's so funny to bring him up because he also is kind of relates to me and my in my journey of writing a book because I know Patrick told me that he also struggled with with writing a book as well and it turns out that he gave me a wonderful endorsement as well and as well as yourself and Gary Renard and a lot of other people have given me beautiful endorsement so so thank you I feel that this is going to be really helpful to the course community the course course students and teachers but not only that it's going this book I always say is not my book it's not my book I mean the book came from me drinking Pinot Noir I'm putting a post on Facebook so this is not my book and I feel it's gonna be so helpful for even people that are not course students just to to really come back to their happy place because God's will for us is happiness he says that over and over in the course of miracles so I feel you don't have to be a course of miracles student to even understand this book because it doesn't it speaks to at a whole another level to all walks of life the first chapter so I think I can't remember exactly the way the title goes because I'm so in a touch to the book I don't even remember some of my chapter titles but the first one says something like you're not you're not sinful you're not going to hell yeah you know that's huge people hear that you're not sinful you're not going to hell I mean that's gonna get their attention yeah yeah so I'm excited yeah yeah it's good I take something like that's part of the way Spirit uses things like I think I have a YouTube video it says something like Jesus did not suffer you know something like along the slide that grabs your attention because it's so contradictory to the programming and we're here to find our joy and live our happy so yeah I hope you get a chance to check out Maria's new book check out that chapter too fearless and happiness go together yes thank you David thank you for your work and for your love it's a collaborative effort we're here to raise consciousness together and live in our happy right