 is what is behind my mind. Who is the me that is behind my mind? Sounds a bit funny, doesn't it? I'd have a look. Just being present with that. And you'll find that there is presence there, there's awareness, there's something subtle happening there in the background. That is not thoughts. So it's another good question to ask yourself, who am I when I'm not thinking? What is there when I'm not thinking? And you'll find presence, awareness. Something elusive. Something there, it definitely has an awareness. And keep that with you, you open your eyes. But keep that with you and keep awareness around that part of yourself. Because that thing, that expanded awareness state, is surrounding your mind, your thoughts, your emotions, everything that you think you are. And the interesting thing is that we walk around in our mind, like our minds are very amazing things. Like as soon as we focus on something and we define ourselves by that thing, we instantly become that, it becomes our reality. So as soon as we define ourselves as a personality, as a name, or as a goal, or as a title, or as a bunch of material stuff, or as a relationship, bang, it instantly starts to become exactly what we think we are. And one of the hardest things to deal with in life is that everything in the world changes, constantly. There is nothing that's permanent. So the moment that we start to define ourselves by something, it becomes really frustrating when it changes. It becomes really frustrating when it keeps transforming. So how can we deal with that? What do you do to deal with that? Now my solution, or it's not my solution, the solution that has been presented to humanity for thousands of years by wise people, is send to yourself in presence and awareness. Because that does not change. Send to yourself in presence and awareness and then you can observe change. And you can become more capable of creating change from a place of centered calmness and balance. And the deeper you go into that presence, we just touched it for a few moments. The deeper you go into that presence and awareness, the more addictive it becomes. And the more addictive it becomes, the deeper you go into it. And the deeper you go into it, the more everything that you create from yourself is coming from a mysterious, beautiful, and very present place. And guidance starts to show up. Embodiment starts to show up. Intuition, presence, very powerful things will start to happen in your life. And it's effortless. This is a really nice gift to give yourself these days, so many reasons. Because we are in these lives trying to struggle to get things all the time, trying to sort all these things, trying to spin all these plates, trying to be all these things to ourselves. And when you sit in presence, you learn to find the core of what you really are. And you learn to really sit in that place and it starts to nourish and heal the parts of you that have forgotten that. And also what happens is you just get stronger, physically stronger, mentally stronger, energetically stronger. And your capacity and ability to be able to make things happen in your life is so much more easy. And also the things that no longer serve you will automatically start to fall away when you send to yourself in that presence. Because that presence has intelligence. So we explore a little bit more as we go. So this is one of the most astounding things to really get on a deep level. Because we are transformational beings. There is nothing permanent inside you except for your presence. When you align your awareness with your heart and with your actions and with your mind, you get all these parts of yourself working together as one. It's like that's when you're on fire. It's when you make things happen. And it's got to start from presence and awareness in my opinion. Once you get that piece, everything else can flow. Because if you're not present, you're not aware. How can you really make anything happen? So getting present is key. Rule number one. So who here is interested in taking this presence into intending your life a lot more deeper? Who would like to have this ability to be a Jedi? Yeah, this is the entry level of this stuff. This is really owning your presence and awareness to create what you want. So this leads me to my next point. You've got to believe it before you see it. So if you look at Life's a Hero's Journey, you're a creator, you are not what you think you are, you're this amazing presence that's doing its thing. The next thing is how do you then orchestrate and create? How do you build new patterns in your life on the inside so that you can go out and create things on the outside? How do you create the world you want to live in so that you will see that reflected back to you? So to retract something into your life starts with conceptualizing it and feeling worthy of it. Because we only ever have things in our lives that we have value on. And that can be both good and bad. If you have a value on being depressed, you'll do it. If you have a value on being happy, you'll do it. So the question is what are you conceptualizing on a regular basis? What are you thinking about? What are you investing your thoughts into? And what are you investing your feelings into? Because if you look at thoughts and you look at feelings, they're like the masculine and the feminine of our experience. Thoughts are the masculine, feelings are the feminine. When they come together, they have a baby and that's our experience. Yeah? So we want to learn to adjust and work with them together as one. We want to make them lovers. We want to turn them into a beautiful couple. Because when they're not working together, the head tries to kill the heart. And the heart tries to overwhelm the head. And if you're not aligned, you'll experience overwhelming feelings and you can't sort them out with your head as much as you try because it's all just an emotional roller coaster. Or you'll be so stuck in your head that everything's just dry and cut and very logical and you can't feel anything anymore. Maybe you'll be like spinning from one end of the spectrum to the other. And finding that balance point is really key. So we'll look at that, look at how we can bring those two things together. So if you want to create abundance, if you want to create love, if you want to create freedom in your life, then where is that inside you? Where does that live inside you? If you don't have it in you, then how can you have it outside of you? And as much as you try, and I say this so many times over and over again with clients and things that we work with, is like so much of the work that I do and that we do is to give guys new patterns and new energies and new concepts and new possibilities so then they can create it in their lives. And there is action steps for sure, but it's really about owning the energy and owning the possibility inside themselves first. And it's probably one of the most fundamental things. If you can define something for yourself and commit to it and say, yep, this is me, this is who I am, this is what I commit to 100%, that's when magic starts to happen. So let's look at how we can do that. So when we're creating our realities with our thoughts and with our feelings, it can be really difficult to see outside of them sometimes. We get lost in our thoughts and our feelings. And it's really easy to think that our world is everybody's world. It's really easy to think that my thoughts are completely justified, so therefore everybody must be thinking the same thing. This is our war start. People getting really self-righteous and committed to their thoughts and feelings, the illusions of what they think they are, and then getting lost in the negativity of that, getting lost in the dark side of that and not being aware of seeing it as a bubble and seeing how is that bubble really serving them and others? How is that bubble working as a creative manifestation of their presence? So we got to learn to see outside of our bubbles and have a bit of compassion for ourselves and for others. And that's where that presence thing comes in again. It's been a big, huge thing for me and I've seen it over and over again. I've seen it all over the place is that when people get present, they start to have more compassion. They start to realize it's like, oh, shit, my story is really, very similar to everybody else's story. And the things that I love and desire and really want are really similar to everybody else's things that they desire and love and want. And if we're all basically one presence behind our eyes, then maybe we should start working together. Or maybe if I give some good energy to somebody else, I'm actually giving good energy back to myself. Because in giving good energy to somebody else to live their story and live their dreams, we automatically start to get good energy back for ourselves. We start to give ourselves permission to create our own dreams more as well. So this becomes a feedback of giving yourself permission by believing it before you see it. And if you think of things that you've done in your past that you've created, I'll guarantee you if it's something that you've dedicatedly done, like a skill that you've developed, or an experience that you've actually gone out to create, you've had to think of it first. You've had to go through this process. You had to go through the thought, the feeling, the integration, and then the action. And this is universal, universal process. You see it the world over. You can add all kinds of extra baggage to it. You can put spiritual stuff around it. You can put personal development stuff around it. You can put artistic stuff around it. It's the same process.