 And it happens a lot. So the more you take responsibility for driving your own bus, the more that you own your ability to create the life that you want, you conversely get to step out of the forces that are manipulating your life. Because there's this statement here, the degree that you reject or your unconscious of your empowerment is the degree to which you're going to be influenced by external forces. And if you look at self-actualized people, as in people that have a sense of empowerment and a sense of completion in certain areas of their lives, one of the defining factors is that they have a really powerful ability to own their own influence and change inside their own life. They're not living as victims of the world, they're living as creators inside the world. It brings me to my next point. We are all creative beings that can change the world. So we are a really weird species. Human beings are a very strange thing. We're the only species on the planet that can conceptualize things and think of things and then manifest them into reality. Like you look at all this stuff around you now, everything that you see started in someone's mind as a concept. From concept, you know, it came into thought, became planned, came through emotions, came through actions, was communicated and through a process was manifested. No other species on the planet can do that, lots of degree that we do it anyway. So that is an amazing skill, something very special to acknowledge inside yourself. And we take it for granted. And that's a shame because, you know, we're basically like God's manifest. So we can use this ability to shape ourselves as well and that's even weirder. We can take our ability to create and change the world around us and start to turn it into ourselves to shape and shift who we are and what we want to be and how we want to live our lives. And this is fundamental to in a game, like the whole process of in a game, because in a game is a really big field, a lot of different aspects to it. But if the fundamental rule that you take is that you are changing, you are creator and you get to change your reality and that you can learn how to do that through owning these different principles, then the world becomes a very open and free place. There's a lot of possibilities that you can explore. And we all collectively come together and create these experiences together. So right now we're collectively coming together to create the experience of the 21 convention. You walk outside and people are collectively creating the experience of Melbourne City. You know, there's people collectively creating experiences of all kinds of things in their lives all the time. So when we understand that, then we can start to see that, you know, we're taking part in a story, a big story that's going on. And a lot of that story is actually based on previous preconceived regurgitated ideas, you know, like memes or just passed down philosophies and ideas that have come from ancestral culture. So lots of things that don't really serve us get carried in our lives all the time. We carry a lot of redundant thoughts and belief systems about, you know, old previous religious ideals, you know, moralisms that don't necessarily have to exist to shame and guilt about being a sexual man, for example. Or fear of being empowered in ourselves, you know, because we wouldn't want to, like, have our own power. That would be really scary. We might be hurting somebody or doing something wrong. You know, ideas about, you know, wealth creation and power as well. Like there's a lot of manipulation or not even manipulation. There's a lot of old ideas that no longer serve us that are manipulating us that we've picked up probably from becoming, you know, maybe ancestral lineages of working class that life needs to be hard, that it's not easy to make things happen. Now, or conversely, some people have issues with money because they come from wealthy ancestral backgrounds. And they're worried about people taking their power away or worried about being judged for being too wealthy. So it's like we can't win with these things sometimes because these stories can, you know, really cripple us. And to the degree that we're unconscious of them, they're creating our lives. So these stories of who we think we are just unconsciously keep creating our lives on a daily basis unless we bring awareness and consciousness into them. So I'll talk to you about that in a moment. So really one of our greatest tasks in life is to look at what is no longer relevant and how can we update it with awareness? How can we choose different programs? How can we choose different options, possibilities, directions and freedom in our lives? These are some examples. You know, romantic ideals. That's a big one I wanted to talk about, like the idea of, like this Disneyland fantasy of finding the perfect partner that someone's going to complete you that will make you happy. This thing outside yourself that is this golden illusion of this perfect woman that is going to make your heart complete. Doesn't exist. And even if it did exist, if it could create it, because we can create illusions and we can step into them for a short period of time, it's going to get taken away at some stage. And when it does, we have a big crash. Everything becomes hell. So if you see it as a romantic illusion, then you can see it for what it is. And you can experience golden moments with women. And you can have amazing fantasies together, but you can recognize that this is just a fantasy as well and that you can claim your empowerment and your completeness inside yourself. So you're not dependent on her outside yourself. You're not dependent on the relationship. You're not dependent on needing a relationship and trying to fulfill this idealistic romantic ideal, which has been passed down from our ancestry and projected onto us by media, et cetera. We talked about the fear of wealth creation. And social rules is another one as well. So we're going to see this, you guys will see this a lot. If you guys are out there wanting to evolve your lives and wanting to change and transform, particularly when it comes to developing social skills and approaching women, you come up against all the old rules around, so you can't talk to strangers. That's bad. You can't just go and say hello to somebody. That might feel awkward and then they might feel offended or you might be disrupting their time. Where those ideas come from? It's all these old little robotic programs that we picked up along the way. So you've got to actively see them and choose to not live by them if they no longer serve you. So there's morphias for us. So now we're going to look at the self. What's going on with this self? So we've looked at the hero's journey. You guys are on a hero's journey. We've looked at your creative beings. You create your lives and you're responsible for that. And if you don't, you're basically going to be under the influence of old redundant thought forms and ways of being that are just around you and in you all the time anyway. And the last thing, the next thing I want to talk about is looking at what is yourself? You are not yourself. This is something I do a lot of contemplation on a regular basis. It's a very slippery thing and I really love to get my mind into the ideas of it and also then experience my mind not being involved with it as well, which we'll give you guys an experience of in a moment. It's a one way of looking at the concept of ourselves is that we are not a self. We have a self. And this is thrown around a lot, the ideas of awareness and presence and things like that. And the truth is you are not only your mind. We'll test that in a moment. There's something more elusive and powerful going on behind the mind. And it's a very, very powerful thing to be connected with. It taps us into intuition, it taps us into our hearts, it taps us into our embodiment, it taps us into the environment around us. And the mind is operating within us to serve us, but it is not the totality of our being as much as we live in it so much in our society. So we'll do a little exercise now. Just close your eyes for a moment and I want you guys to ask yourself a few questions and we'll just explore what is this concept of self? So begin with the question, what is myself? What evidence do I have of myself? Where does my self exist? And have a real look, not just with your mind, like don't just go to the straight, the first mental answer that pops up, like really look and feel. What is my self? Where is my self? And you may notice there's something, there's a bit of an expansion going on. You may notice that there's a search for something. Ideas can pop up to the mind and you can really ask them as well, you know, what is the next step? Like is the self the mind? Is the self the body? Is it some combination of those things? Is it something else? Now ask the next question. The next question is, what is this concept of self that you're experiencing happening within? So what I mean by that is what is outside of your mind? What do you sense is beyond your mind? Another question you can ask.