 Buddy, first of all, of course I have to talk about, well, point this way, my dog is here, Buddy. Buddy the pup. Not so much of a pup anymore, he's already 10 years old, but I still call him Buddy the pup. Anyway, still working on the adjustments of my new-ish office to make sure that when he's here he shows up on camera. Okay, so today's topic I want to just bring back. I've talked about this before, but I think it's always worth bringing back. The topic of a lightness, lightness. It's one of my higher top values, you might say, and the way I approach lightness, the way I approach it is that it is based on deep, deep foundational, spiritual, psychological security. It's based on deep security. I think that's where lightness comes from, for me. For me, anyway, there may be other ways of approaching it, and I look forward to seeing your comments below, but the reason why, for me, it comes from deep security is because when there is a strong foundation, then you can really play. If there was a flimsy foundation, I mean, you could think of it physically, too. If you were standing on a platform and you weren't sure when you're going to fall and hurt yourself, you can't really play or experiment or jump up and down, you know, and just really play. But when you do have a really solid foundation that you know will hold you no matter how much you express, no matter what kinds of mistakes you make, and you jump up and you fall down really hard, you know, the foundation will still be there. Now, let me take one step further and say, imagine this foundation were self-healing, like you jump up and you fall down really hard, but then it heals you. That's the kind of foundation I'm talking about. And so that kind of completely safe, stable foundation allows deep rest and allows the most full, authentic play in this life. So again, I encourage you to return to that foundation of yours, and please feel free to comment below what method do you use to return to your solid, stable, ever-present foundation. Of psychological safety, emotional, deep emotional, spiritual, however you want to call it, mental safety, so that it encourages you again, it resources you again to play this game of life, this very intense game of life with very, very intense emotions, experiences, physical sensations, and a game that has unlimited potential for you. You can turn left, turn right, not turn anywhere. You can make as many mistakes as you want to until the game is over for this particular turn. What is that deep foundational safety for you that then allows the lightness? I know I haven't really gotten to the lightness part of it. I was starting with the lightness as the idea, but then I started talking about this deep foundation again. So I'll say that for me, the way I like to work my way into it is to remember yet again divine love. That to me is the foundation for me is the divine love that is always present, always reaching out and healing you and me and all of us, all beings, always providing this philosophical, psychological safety that all will be well. All will be profoundly, profoundly well, no matter what it might seem like right now. Actually, all is well in another dimension that is even more real than this dimension. All is well no matter what you do or don't do today. All is completely and ever more well. And if you simply spent an entire lifetime bathing in that warm feeling or idea that all is well and however you want to come to it, whether it's by divine love or something else, if you just spent your entire life doing nothing other than feeling it whenever you can, it would be a life well lived. You would have lived a worthwhile life doing nothing other than all this well. And yet you've done many things in your life. At least you've done, you know, your hygiene. You've done, you've had to feed yourself. You've had to, you know, go to work. You've had to help others, help yourself. You've had to make money. You've had to take on hobbies. You've had to clean the house, do the chores, everything. You've done so much already. And of course it sounds so idealistic to say, oh, you know, a life well lived just bathing in divine love, nothing else is required. And yet, and yet our bodies require us to do things. Our bodies are actually remarkably resilient and require remarkably little for us to survive. Right? Like if you just wanted to survive bodily for as long as possible to just bathe in divine love and all as well, you probably could survive for decades. You know, I always bring up whenever I can the example of peace pilgrim, my spiritual hero still to this day. And peace pilgrim, if you've never heard of her story, I highly recommend the audiobook, which is free, right? Nothing's required. It's free audiobook. It always encourages me whenever I listen to it again. You can go online to type in peace pilgrim, audiobook, SoundCloud, and there's the entire free audiobook there. It might even be on YouTube, but at this point I'm not sure. And peace pilgrim is an example of this where, you know, she lived her beginning of her life doing stuff, trying to succeed in the world and then realized, oh, it's so empty. And then she decided, I'm just going to do nothing. Well, so I'll tell you what happened was instead of doing nothing, she she required the most minimal of bodily survival to continue being in love and therefore she was so filled with the love that she just gave it to everyone that she saw. And she lived an entire life walking from one end of the United States to the other end of the United States back and forth. She did that like 30 times in her life. No, she had nothing to her name, owned it, not a single thing. Other than her tunics she wore, you know, walking for peace is what the tunics said. And she had, I think some pamphlets she passed out every now and then she had nothing else other than the clothes she wore and then the pamphlets, I think. And she just walked from one end of the country to the other waiting until someone needed help. She could see someone needed help. She would help them, but she never asked for anything. She never kept any money. And she just waited until someone said, hey, would you like to stay in my home for the night? You look like you don't have anywhere to stay. Would you like something to eat? She never asked, never begged, never asked for anything. She just went around helping people that she saw needed help and then waiting. And oftentimes she would sleep on the concrete on the side of the road. Many nights was like that. Many nights was spent foraging for food, when she got hungry, you know, whatever dumpster berries on the road, on the side of bushes, whatever. It's homeless person basically for 30 years or 30 or 40 years. But everyone who encountered her reports say that she was the most loving person. And thankfully she gave talks and people transcribed those talks and made the audiobook of her life story and her teachings. So that's an example of a life of requiring minimal from the body to survive and yet living in divine love. Now, are you called to that? Most of us are not called to that. I heard of a funny story of someone who tried living the peace pilgrim life and couldn't last for like three days or something like that or maybe three weeks. It was either three days or three weeks, but not 30 years and like ran back to their parents' home and said, I can't do it too hard. It's a funny story, but I'm sure it has been repeated many times, right? Like, but this is the reality is that most of us are not called to that life because we are not built for that kind of hardiness and we want comforts. And so because we want comforts, which are a crutch. I mean, look at Pete's pilgrim, she didn't need it, but because we want comfort, we say, okay, I need to make some money so I can not just have rice and beans, the bare minimum and live in a cardboard box, but I would like to live in more than a cardboard box. I would like to live in an apartment in a particular city where there are amenities, where there's good restaurants, where there are bakeries, where there are, you know, and I would like to look not homeless because I like to keep up a particular self-image. And so I'd like to buy some clothing now and I'd like to go to certain events and to have friends and to connect with other people. Anyway, so we have all these wants, even though those are above the minimum of what's required to survive and just simply live a life bathing in divine love. Because, like I said, most of us aren't called to the homeless life where we are so physically struggling that we can't bathe in divine love. We don't believe all as well because we're cold and hungry and tired. And so we want, we want some comfort so that we can believe that all as well. We want some sense of security for the future so we can believe that all as well. And that's all okay. That's all part of the game that you chose to play, knowing yourself and what you need to feel well. And yet, beyond the minimum wellness, here's what happens. You look at other people and say, oh, they have that. They get to do that. Oh, I want that too. And every time, every single time we have another want, that's above and beyond the minimum physical comfort level that we need, which is relatively cheap. Again, you don't have to live in your city. You don't have to live in pick the New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, you know, London, you know, Sydney, wherever you're living, that's expensive. You don't have to live there. I moved to Mexico. My expenses, it's funny. It's so funny. I actually, I was going to say my expenses are less, but as I live, been looking at my budget, I'm like, how come we're spending just about the same amount of money as we were in San Francisco? Well, we had paid off our home in San Francisco, so we didn't have the mortgage anymore. So that was a big deal. But here we pay rent. I was like, we're not spending barely any less because we have upgraded our lifestyle because now we get to buy more things at a cheaper price. But and so again, I'm looking at my, this is a message for myself, by the way, I'm sorry, I didn't, I didn't mention at the beginning of the video, you don't have to, you don't have to watch anymore. This is, I'm just talking to myself right now. So if you want to keep watching, you're welcome to. It's all optional. And but that's the thing. It's all optional is what we keep forgetting. Because the only thing that's required or that even that's not a requirement, but the only thing that's really needed is basic survival and bathing in divine love. Or basically, however you get to the philosophy and the daily experience, emotionally at the very least, mentally and emotionally, that all is well with the most minimum physical wellness that you need to believe that all is well. Like that is the basic foundation of a life well lived, literally well lived because all this well is what you experience emotionally and mentally. And that's what your thoughts and feelings are at whatever basic level of physical survival that you need, which means, like I said, if you can move to a cheaper place and don't do what I do and increase your lifestyle in the cheaper place so that you're somehow spending the same amount of money. I think we're still working out our re-homing and we need to buy things for our new home. So that's probably why. But I'm hoping by next year I will see that the expenses have gone down quite a lot. Maybe it's inflation, I don't know, but I am generally shocked by the fact that my expenses haven't really gone down. But yes, that's the point is, can you go somewhere, live, move somewhere where your lifestyle expenses are lower, another country perhaps? There are costs to the relocation, but beyond that it's cheaper. Can you in other ways lessen your expenses so that you don't have to, you aren't required to do as much to keep up the living of all as well, to practice your spiritual growth? Or could be that, you know what, you do want to make money, you do want to live at a higher physical standard. That's okay too. That also is completely accepted, not just accepted but celebrated. Every level of choice is not just accepted but celebrated in the bigger reality where all is well. If all is well, then all your choices are well too, no matter if you're choosing virtue so-called or vice so-called. In the greater reality it not only accepts but is able to hold and celebrate and find value in all of it. So if you do want to live at a higher, well I guess that's the choice I've been making up to now apparently. I do want to live at a higher level of physical standard and so I do want to make money, therefore I have to make money to live at a higher level standard. So therefore what I do is I place the all as well filter onto all of my money making activities. So I say okay I want to make a certain amount of money and I'm going to do these things to make the money but even as I'm doing those things all as well and I get to play in experimenting with my money making activities and a lot of times it doesn't work out. This is where the all as well filter is so needed. It's like I have so many experiments I make in my business, some of them don't work out and I could be discouraged and go and try to become desperate and to become more manipulative of other people to try to make money for myself but then and that's okay too. All as well there is also but I try to put the all as well so I don't get desperate. I say well that didn't work out well quickly let me experiment with something else. I don't care if I look like a fool because all as well. I don't care if I look I'm embarrassed by my failure that other people can see and I try something different because all is well. I don't care if I have to experiment a hundred times to find two things that work because all is well and how quickly can I do it knowing that experimentation gives me the information to make different experiments, hopefully better experiments because all is well how quickly can I do it and and if it doesn't and none of it works out all is well also. If none of it works out and I need to decrease my physical lifestyle because I have less money all is well also and so it's okay to play. The foundation is really strong therefore for experimentation, expression and play and growth in that in that kind of game all is well. I hope that my self ramblings here if any one person is watching or listening. I hope that this reminds you again and again and again all is.