Andrews story is an amazing story of transformation through the power of meditation. Andrew adopted a meditation routine maintaining 15 minutes every morning before he started his day. This meditation technique allowed him to start the day being present and in the moment. Meditation allows us to quiet the chatter of the day. The chat can be expectations, roles and personas that we are associated with and allows us to focus in on what really matters even if it’s only for 15 minutes in the morning. Andrew said that he would also often meditate for 15 minutes in the evening before bed. This nightly meditation would allow him to end his day on a mindful note and set the intention for the dream state. By doing this it helped Andrew to stay mindful of his goals which was to lose weight which requires mindfulness, i.e. being mindful about what he put into his body. Since this time Andrew has applied these meditation techniques and mindfulness to every area of his life and is on the road to fulfilling his dreams and living in his destiny. Mindfulness is being present and thankful within the journey instead of projecting your consciousness weeks, months or even years down the road. With mindfulness, we keep with our goal in mind yet remain present.
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Mindfulness and Meditation To Achieve Anything You Want! | Andrew Waldowski YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bic-r3dmCdw Transcript source: YouTube captions we live at you think ah mortal to the paranormal esoteric and all being spiritual and now your host truth seeker yo what's up ladies and gentlemen this is the true seeker podcast I'm true seeker we're gonna get it in we're gonna talk be talking about all things spiritual got an awesome guest lined up for you guys today we're gonna get it in this is what we're doing we'll be talking about meditation mindfulness achieving your dreams achieving your goals by using meditation mindfulness essentially the power of the now moment the now moment that's why the power is this the only thing that we have something that exists we're gonna be talking about that good friend of Mines gonna be joining me here within the next few minutes I can't go any further without saying a huge thank you to everybody who supported my work via patreon 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work together there's so many cool people in our circle and you're one of them your story and just you you know you don't end knowing you for about a year and just knowing your story and seeing the progress man it yes it's amazing so we have a lot of cool people and you're part of that dude welcome to the podcast thanks man I definitely appreciate it you have been listening for about a year so yeah it's hard to believe that time flies by doesn't it you know and yeah just starting into the spiritual path you know it's only been about two years since I started so it was like you know eight months roughly when I found you and then you know now another year so we're almost a to the two year mark of opening up to all things spiritual seeking the truth you know and I found a lot of interesting things in that two-year period of time as I've just stubbed in and studied and learned and taken what served and what and you know let go of what hasn't so I think you know the the place to begin is now because that's where we are right and that's what Alan Watts said and that's that's uh that's one of my main teachers is Alan Watts and then Wayne Dyer both of them I think brought the philosophy of the East of taoism and merged it with the philosophy of Christianity in the West and you know they're great teachers great speakers and have that hold that essence that power and so I think out of everything I listen to and kind of incorporate into my life those two teachers stand out the most to me you know as as as a resource I always fall back to that I always continue to listen to and I always find new stuff too they have so much content I think wait that Wayne Dyer has like a hundred bucks man so I mean there's so much stuff to look to learn and understand just from those two but those are work out of my beginners and those are who I fall back to right now as well so a lot of information out there yeah man I guess I'll just start with my story right like growing up and all that seems to be the trend so you know growing up I had it very well I was brought up in Northern Virginia and upper-middle middle-class family you know my dad was airforce military my mom was at home with us so we had that connection with my mom and then you know my dad being there Forrest - financially but also you know having the benefits of the military to take leave take vacations we we just had a good we got to go to a lot of cool places growing up I remember travel a lot you know we got to go to like Walt Disney World and that was a big deal because not a lot of people did that you know and I went to Niagara Falls and I didn't know this about Niagara Falls but it's the lowest Aion place in the world right now so all these cell towers increase the ions and the energy and Niagara Falls because of the water dropping down it's like one of the most healthy places so there's all these health centers there now and stuff and going there I think was kind of like my most centered spot of all the places I travel I felt most centered in that in that boat on the water going up to the Falls so I definitely remember that trip but we got to travel all over we went to Mexico California Southern California you know we just got all over the place being in the military so we were lucky in that aspect but also we were lucky that we didn't have to move my dad was at the Pentagon in DC so we got to just be right there in Northern Virginia we had the access to DC and the bill to go you know see the monument see the museums and learn and then you know I had a big interest and still do in art so I really enjoyed like the art galleries and and be different you know aspects of growing up as I you know got in through elementary school you know I had that normal story of connection with people I started very young like probably first second grade I started really connecting with people connecting with like girls and just really making a lot of friends and then having like girlfriends I even remember like through third fourth fifth sixth grade you know and just as I progressed through that I you know learned a lot made a lot of solid connections with people made a lot of really good friends and in fifth grade I had discovered the talent and ability to write so I started writing and there was a contest to go to a camp so I wrote this story and the camp was called nature camp and it's still there and and it's been there for like almost 100 years and it's just this little camp in southern Virginia and I wrote a story sent it off like there's 200 entries and I won so I won a free trip to this nature camp so I went off for a week and when you get there you kind of choose what you want to learn about so you could choose learn about my ecology and mushroom so you could learn about botany in plants or you could go into like a wilderness survival situation and learn how to build a fort and then sleep in it in the middle of the night so it was really cool like as a fifth grader I'm like immersed in this you know and being in nature being in touch again you know that was cool too so I get there and I choose the wilderness survival I choose to learn to build the fort I do it and I stay the night in it and I'm I'm hooked man so I go back several years and you know just really start to learn that being in nature is where I belong you know I've just learned to tune and tap in and just absorb that energy and I think energy is one of the main things we'll talk about today you know just we're all energy and when you get into the energy of nature it's just it's just so pure when you go through a walk for a walk in the woods you feel good well when you're out there and there's just nothing around especially back in the mid-90s when there was no cell towers there was none of this crazy heightened energy we got now you know it was just it was it was amazing so that was kind of my childhood then I you start to get into my adolescence and you know we start getting into what 6th 7th 8th grade and that's when things shift so I say everybody changes in middle school everybody changes again in high school I mean we really changed all the time but in middle school I made some major shifts made some you know different friends started incorporating myself with high school kids in middle school and started getting influenced by people that had the influence of the high school and you know at this time too my parents were kind of having some struggles I feel like and and just didn't have a focus on me so they're like you know we're in a safe neighborhood we were in upscale community go ride your bike do whatever you want and that was safe that was fine I wasn't in any real danger but I did get you know too much freedom to where I could just go off be with whoever I want and then took the peer pressure that negative influence to kind of explore venture out you know I started smoking weed at 12 years old and then also drinking at that age as well so 12 years old you know my brain is still developing I'm not even a team yet and I'm starting to mess with it by incorporating substances and then we started mixing in some nicotine stealing cigarettes from my friend's parents and then as 13 and 14 come we start doing this more and more it's becoming our our trend or lifestyle so some of us went off to sports and that's kind of where I wanted to go some of us went off to drugs and I didn't want to go there somebody's my centers like go go to sports go try out for football so I try out for this football team in seventh grade and I barely missed the cut because I missed a tryout and there that's what their excuse was so I really begged and pleaded because I really wanted to make this cut I didn't make the cut and then they've tried to make another excuse all we don't have enough you form Southwest my dad's like I'll buy the uniforms for the whole team if if you just let him you know and then they just made another excuse so that kind of affected me that was a trigger off point that I'm like you know maybe I'm not good enough so I had a limiting belief instilled right there and then I went off and did more drugs I started smoking more you know smoking more weed smoking more cigarettes drinking more often so we had access to alcohol from so we could take beers from my friend's parents but we also had some adults in our lives that just would buy us alcohol and stuff to it growing up in this in this neighborhood so that influence came in pretty heavily went into my freshman year in high school as a quote/unquote stoner that was my persona and I wanted to be popular force like all the other kids and I was seeing the kids that were popular stoners you know being being really really cool so I tried to make that persona really mimicked a lot of people if that makes sense I really just like took on the personalities of other people and kind of lost not who I was during this time because I was taking on personalities of other people I'm trying to be other people to look cool and then I'm doing things to didn't necessarily resonate like doing the drugs and their cigarettes and alcohol newly knowing my inner being didn't want that you know affecting my health but just not that letting that ego I would say take over and do that so I did that and then the major shift happened at 15 my parents went through the divorce went through the you know split up and then the major change came well do a Stanford junior or my mom wanted to move to to Missouri where I am now and so I'm like well I guess I want to go with my mom cuz she was always there you know so I go with my mom we make the change and then you know I kind of hit this major you know major block it's how I put it it was just everything was different all my friends were gone I come to this new place and I go to this new school so in Northern Virginia they just built the high schools and state-of-the-art doors locked if you smoked in it cameras on every single corner I mean the first day of school they have the whole Sheriff's Department they're running drug dogs through the buses I get to this new school in Missouri it was built in 1956 right no AC first day on there is in May and it's a hundred and two degrees no a/c in this place and I'm like is this for real right now and then as I start to incorporate and mingle with the people of the city or of the school you know I start to realize these are all totally different people you know and I being a STONER and Michael where's the weed at everywhere you know what I mean you know I just had to go me the kiddos locker and boom you could do it right there in the hallway there's no camera no nothing so it was a total shift and as I did that my first week here I just got in trouble with my parents my mom found out that I was smoking weed because I had gotten caught there and that was kind of her wake-up call like well we need to rein this in so she didn't know what to do she's calling my dad what do we do and they're like well let's put them in a psych ward and see what happens so they do that so my first week here I go to this weird school I can't drugs and then I go to a psych ward and I get more drugs but these are the bad kind right they give me the prozac they give me some depakote okay shoot me up with Thorazine as I'm resisting and I get crazy right two weeks into this place I meet some of the most insane people that I had ever met in my whole life up to that point like these people just had serious problems they were huffing gasoline smoking embalming fluid taking ketamine just doing crazy stuff with these 14 year old kids Naima and they're smoking weed and I'm like what is going on you know and and I get out and three days later I make the mistake and smoke weed in my house again acaba my mom again so she sends me right back so I go two more weeks this time in a more intensive program at the psych ward and they're like you know basically just done with me at this point now I'm done with them so I make it through insurance runs out I knew it so I just start freaking out right at the end when I know I'm going home and they end up shooting me up with so much Thorazine which is a sedative like a horse tranquilizer that I'm out for three days straight I mean out they put me in a wheelchair to get me home they put me in the wheelchair to get me in my house I was in my bed for two days before I moved and then when I moved I just wanted water and I drank and drank and drank water and I didn't eat for the three days man it was it was insane so I come out of that and summer's here so I I had met a few friends we found out we live next to each other and I start you know going into my friendships and everything here in Missouri i I do pretty well through high school past that sophomore year goes well I do well I get good grades even smoking weed through the time I'm not doing it every day at that time but I'm doing it pretty regularly I get good grades I make it through a junior year comes up and I have a major relationship a year long relationship with the girl ends it and a depression kicks in it so I started kicking up the drugs well I get caught a middle school with the drugs and I get involved with the law got thrown on probation get thrown into another rehab this time it's four months I'm in the rehab and you know basically man it was just a huge eye-opening experience I went in there for just smoking weed and drinking and found out about all kinds of drugs and what these other kids experiences were so I was of course piqued I mean they're talking about psilocybin mushrooms and doing LSD and doing all this stuff and I just am like well what is this you know what is that like what is this like how do I find this is it possible and so I'm like let me get through the system I'm gonna do my thing and it was like a six-month thing to get out of it and I did and then I'm like well after learning all that I do kind of wanna stay clean and sober but I do want to also venture and explore so I stayed clean for a little bit and then click back with my old friends and started smoking weed and then found some mushrooms and then sure enough you know I I started delving into other things getting into some hard is how we'll put it and I get to the age of 18 I'm doing hard drugs my 18th birthday happens in October and I get arrested for a pot pipe and I'm in the adult system I'm in the adult jail this time for 20 hours and I'm like uh you know maybe I'm making some bad choices maybe I'm taking the wrong road start to really think and re assess myself at this point and I get to 18 and then the new year seems to be a reflection time for me a lot of people and I set the resolution no more hard drugs I'm done and no more we eat either so I quit it I drink every now and then because they can't test for that but I'm I'm done with substances at that point my wife at 18 and I go through court and I get hit pretty heavy for what I had I got you know pretty heavy fine a lot of community service and all that I do all that I make it through two years of probation no problems I stay away from the old friends I got a good job and everything's going great in my life and then kind of a same situation happened I was with in a relationship and the girl left and I went to a depression I had found video games worked really well at that point to numb so I started playing games heavily and then as I started getting into the gaming community and finding out I like MLG through Halo and and started getting really good I started finding friends to smoke weed again and I started to smoke weed again and drink again and this time it went heavy I went to a daily use right off the bat because that's what they were doing that's what gamers smoke a lot of weed right they do they do yeah that whole community I mean you get on and this was I'm talking like 2006 so this was like 13 years ago and yeah they do and so we're going to these LAN parties we're setting up you know projectors next to flat-screen tvs next to box tvs I mean we're setting up these things and then just getting blasted I mean completely messed up on drugs and alcohol I'm not mostly weed and alcohol and I'm doing this through my mid-20s and I'm drinking more and more and more and my early 20s 22 and drinking more and more and more and I start to realize I'm slipping a lot of waste my sleep is messed up everything's messed up and I finally lose the good job I had and that really sets the depression in because I'm like well that was where all my friends were I still have my gamer friends I go over to their house you know but I'm kind of bothering them now because I don't have the money you know what I mean I don't have the resources coming in bringing all that weed and buying everybody dinners and stuff like I was doing when I had a good job in no bills so I start to dissociate from people I start to go ahead and switched from halo to oblivion and Oblivion is a role-playing game where I just am in my own world and I would chat with my friends while I'm in my own world but I was pretty dissociated I didn't really talk to people at all as I played that game and I i got immersed in that game pretty heavily and then found another game called a fantasy star which is like a MMORPG it's like World of Warcraft but it was on a platform 360 so I played that and I found friends I found a community I found a group and that was what I was after I was looking for connection so that's when the video game addiction hit hard and alcohol kind of quit dissipated out during that time but I was still smoking still eating so unhealthy you know sitting around 10 12 14 hours a day and then during those days I would just like devour like 3,000 calories of Wendy's McDonald's and pizza I mean seriously bad food bad choices that was what it was bro it was McDonald's for breakfast Wendy's for lunch Pizza Hut for dinner and then Pizza Hut for the next morning's breakfast bro it was bad and I was doing that day in day out months years at a time probably two years I stayed in to to the illusion of the fantasy start universe world and you know started to come out of that when I realized I'm out of money I'm not a free everything I need to get a job so I go get a job and the first job I get back in the real world out of video game world is sketchy bro it's selling fake toner cartridges so we're not even mailing anything to businesses just taking credit card money's I mean straight stealing and I I do it for about two days and I'm like you I can't do it and and they're like well why not you're good at it you cuz I was selling them and I was like yeah I could talk but I'm not doing it you know I'm out and they're what if we promote you and we do this and that I'm like a mouse so I left that day I went to another job I found online applied before it and got hired on the spot so I start working there and there I'm selling on the phone again telemarketing again but this time it's legit I'm selling newspaper ads so I'm like alright cool I'm doing this legit job I'm there for about two weeks I'm doing okay it's not bad I'm I'm like working half a day and that could go play my video game so it was working out and I was building up some money and then a girl comes in to the job and she had she had worked there before and I'm like whoa what's that what's up you know and I'm and I'm like oh I need some social dynamic skills because I haven't talked to like a real girl and a few years when you go back and look at it I'm like oh what's up so I actually get her to chat with me online cuz that's my comfort zone right I get her to chat with me on yahoo chat or yahoo messenger and we start talking and then as we started talking we you know just clicked we started vibing we found a lot of common interests we found a lot of things that we just shared and this is my wife I'm talking about and and we basically just clicked we hit it off and so we go on a date and then we start to get together and before I know it I'm staying at her house every night you know I'm starting to just really vibe with her I'm you know running my house back over on the one side of town and running over to her house helping her on the other side of town and we're just hitting it off and as I'm doing this I'm getting up super early in the morning to manage two houses and I'm you know starting to find responsibilities and things like that because she had a baby at the time which is now my adopted son who a six-month-old baby when we met then you know I started to gain this responsibility this new insight to life I'm like whoa I could have a family I could have this connection with this girl I could have these things so I was laying the wake-up call started to happen which is almost 11 years ago so I quit alcohol completely I was still smoking weed every now and then but I quit the daily habit and then long story short with Amy and I my wife and I we basically you know just headed off for a while we did well we had a breaking point about a year in I had that depression again and went back to the same habits videogames and wheat and two months later I decided you know what I'm not doing this I'm making a shift I'm gonna change I go to college and I'm like alright I'm in college I'm just gonna text Amy and see what she's doing you know and kind of check in on her and so I text her I tell her what I'm doing with my life that I have plans that we're gonna I'm gonna do big things and we get together again and we just hit it right back off right where we left off and and the stories you know history cents so about five years ago we had Jerry my youngest son and then about seven years ago we adopted I adopted Hogan as my son and we told him you know the story of his life and yeah it's just been it's been a great process to have the kids to be a parent to be a father it's really woken me up to okay this is what I did I took this dark road to grow up and but now I'm learning I know that responsibility is key that staying present in the moment is key and that everything is energy and then two years ago no it was three years ago this month I decided to lose weight so my mom was a diabetic my family had a history of diabetes and we basically just had a lot of health problems in our family well I go to the doctor three years ago and they tell me okay we you you're pretty diabetic you're at a very high risk for high blood pressure and I waited almost 300 pounds so I'm like okay that's cool you know I'll do something about it I'll try this I'll try that so I did I tried a little diet here I tried to cut back on my eating here but every time 9 o'clock at night I would find myself in the kitchen getting into the box of cheez-its or opening a carton of Ben & Jerry's and then half of it gone I mean I have some bad bad eating habits and then one day I was just like you know what forget it I'm gonna I'm gonna study this diet called keto and I'm gonna try so I read everything I could read about keto I got on Google I got on reddit I read the forums I looked at progress pictures I mean I I did everything and then a month after doing that I just jumped off and I said alright I'm not eating sugar anymore I'm not eating carbs anymore whatever you want to make for dinner is fine but I got to make chicken and green beans for dinner every night for the week and so I did that for a week and man after a week I lost like 10 pounds and I feel better I was clear I was like more and you know just with it and that was just cutting sugar out of my life and then I'm not then I lost 35 pounds so I'm like well what's this you know and I felt good I felt healthy I wasn't like depriving myself I was eating you know I was eating like bacon and eggs every single day I was eating like a nice big salad every day for lunch and then a good dinner like steak and asparagus or steak and green bean so I mean I wasn't depriving myself in any way I was eating like you know abundantly and basically I do this for 10 months and I lose over a hundred pounds and everybody's like oh Romney is like what would you do but how did you do it what's going on I go to the dentist they don't even recognize me there are cou are you know that's not the picture we have what what what did you do you know like that's amazing so I started you know sure than my story with that and just my experience with that and then into last year I just you know continued on I started working out I started to get healthy I started to be up early in the morning I started to just really be on that health kick like look look what I did you know I lost all this weight I'm on this health kick I've got all this knowledge I'm ready to just boost it forward so I did I started working out started doing great things and then I had a major death happen in the family and I kind of stepped me back got into a depression never really had a major death that I dealt with yet so I was like whoa what's going on so I go back to the depression but unlike before I didn't have a number I didn't go to video games I didn't go to alcohol I didn't go to drugs I stayed sober I tried to get it out at the gym but that just didn't work and I tried to get it out by you know listening to different music and drawing and doing art those were ways I coped before but that that wasn't working either I was seeking something more so I started to delve in and research like how do you remove depression how do you get out of this state and I started to find spirituality I found the book called The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz and I read it and I read it again I was like whoa and then I read it a third time and I started to study in the knowledge like this guy has an idea this guy has a concept from ancient Toltecs that really whoa that makes sense like don't let me don't take anything personally and that's such a big thing that so many people do and that was just one of the agreements so I started to follow The Four Agreements assorted to stop taking everything personally I started to live my life with more compassion and love and just a more present in the now and you know just that was my kicking off point from there I found Abraham Hicks and started to study Abraham Hicks work which is Esther and Jerry Hicks as a couple Esther channels Abraham and Abraham is supposedly a spirit or soul that comes through Esther when she goes into a trance and the messages I was hearing from Esther or Abraham were just so profound to me they were so full of love and light they made a lot of sense that there was two parts of you there's the source energy part of you and there's the part of you that's the ego or the self and you know that one follows the other you know there's one talks the other is quiet you know and stuff like that and so I started to really study and then hearing Abraham she was talking about doing meditation to get to this state so that kids that trance State and I'm like okay well I could probably meditate for 15 minutes every day and let's let's try that and I tried it in the middle of the summer it was hard you know we were busy things were going on so I tried to do as a woke up but I couldn't really quiet my mind was what I thought I needed to do in meditation I didn't get there so I just said you know what forget it I can't quiet my mind so I'm just I can't do it and then all of a sudden I get this sharp pain one morning I find out I have a hernia and I'm in emergency surgery I mean most pain I've ever felt for eight hours straight like near-death experience type of pain and just blacking out starting to go in and out kind of thing and then I have a two-month recovery window right after that so I'll make it through that I have a two-month recovery window and I really started to wake up I'm like alright well in these two months I'm gonna really justify myself to the meditation I'm gonna apply myself to gain all the knowledge I can and take what serviced me and let go of what doesn't and I found God and the Bible served me I found praying during the day praying before my meals helped me helped me just get transcendental help me get closer to my source as Abraham would call it and started to follow that process of prayer and I was brought up in like the Church of Christ so we had learned prayer you know through the church and we had learned about God and all the Bible stories you know we learned his kids so I was brought up with that Western view over the Bible and in church and everything so I kind of went back to that well as I was doing that I was like well what what's this guy Deepak Chopra saying like he he talks about meditation but he's from the east what's he got to say so I start reading his stuff I start listening to his stuff I start listening to his meditations and I start getting deep and then I started learning about yoga and then our ubaydah and then all of the other Eastern traditions and I found out they're calling spirit Shakti in yoga they have the same name for what Western Christianity had I'm like well okay so we have the holy spirit here we have shocked you here and then I found out is them through Alan Watts um Emily and Eyre and they're calling it Qi and I'm like whoa what's this it's the same thing again you know and so I'm like alright well these are all lining up everything is just lined up and then as you you know research there's like what forty-five thousand different gods and VIPs ranging from a crawfish to a man you know and it just is a matter of what you pick and choose so I started to do that I started to pick and choose and I'm like yeah I like the Taoism philosophy I like the data chain easy to read great philosophy the philosophers that learned it and study it Wayne Dyer now and watch I resonate well with so yeah let's let's go with that and then I started listening to Eckhart Tolle and his book the power of now and getting into the now moment and then just found book after book after book about spirituality and they all said the same thing we are not our thoughts right we have thoughts but who's thinking those thoughts and what happens when you start to think about thinking and what happens when you start to think about your thinking and then you go in and you go in and you go in until you're just stopped and when you go into meditation I think the deepest form of meditation is when you start thinking about thinking and then you get focused on what happens naturally your breath and that's your connection to spirit that's your connection to your soul is your breath and so as you put your focus on your connection to your your soul you know you get deeper and deeper and deeper and that's why you see you know Buddhists on their way to enlightenment sit for eight hours a day in a cave you know to try and gain that connections gain that insight gain that knowledge and I don't think it takes eight hours a day so I started a daily meditation practice started with guided meditations like I was saying with Deepak Chopra's guided meditations and then Esther Hicks had one I listened to hers there's so many and I just I really found some that work some that didn't some that really helped but all of them were calming me down all of them were helping me deal with the anxiety deal with stress deal with the stories I was telling myself and then stories I kept reliving from my childhood you know that we're making me upset or making me angry and so I was finding I was getting more and more calm and less and less angry I was doing a completely naturally just by following my breath taking ten minutes to close my eyes and just focus on my breath of course I think during that time so sometimes it would be two breaths I would go and then two minutes I would go into some thought about what color of car I'm gonna see today and then it leads off you know and then I come right back and I'm like oh yeah I need to think about my breath and I'll do two more breaths and then two more minutes of thinking and then two more breaths and then two more minutes of thinking by the end of the ten minutes if I've spent a total of thirty seconds on my breath I can feel so much more calm and relaxed even though I spent nine and a half minutes think so it's fun I think the thing about meditation is you know everybody's like oh you gotta quiet your mind you've got to stay focused on one point or it doesn't work I think that's such a misconception and then I also think that you know we're all energy we're all here full of emotions and full of actions and things that we do and and then the thoughts we think you know and they say we think about sixty to eighty thousand thoughts a day and what ninety-five percent of those thoughts were from yesterday unless you're learning a lot much absorbing a lot of new content ninety-five percent of what you thought yesterday is going on right now you know and so we're constantly just machines thinking machines from the time we wake up to the time we go to bed and I think when we take that time to just set in get into a space focus on your breath and slow that process down of thinking all the time by focusing on one point we start to counteract and we start to improve and they and science has proved it I mean they show meditation you know has reduced stress but also reduced aging and illness and all all other things I got a question so I've got can you turn me down a little bit we're trying to get that feedback now why not yeah yeah yeah yeah so I got a picture of you pulled up here on okay green that I'm gonna show you said that people didn't recognize you whenever you came to dentist or whatever how big were you this person doesn't look like you in this picture here I still won't with you and your wife you have the before and after that you have on your profile yeah yeah yeah how I mean how big did you get before you start losing all that weight you know I didn't hop on a scale during the whole video game time when it was at its worst so if I had to guess maybe 300 pounds when I did hop on the scale at the doctor to be told I was pre-diabetic I was 285 is what the medical record shows so I got the I got the paper still in a folder that shows the medical record I'm pre-diabetic when my test results work because I kept it all I wanted to see what my test results were before keto and after keto and because everybody's like all your cholesterol is gonna go way up eating that bacon every day I literally ate bacon every day for the 10 months almost I mean there's a few days on this day but what about your wife man she like she looks like she lost a lot of weight too same thing yeah so she did keto to weight wise can't really say for sure but she's that like she's that a healthy weight now and definitely is maintaining it so she did the same thing she did keto for about five six months and lost it all and then we just kind of switched our diet off of keto because we were dealing with what's called lazy keto where you eat keto through the week keto for an overview is 20 carbs a day or less so when you look at a gram of sugar that's a car when you look at a mountain Dew that's 56 carbs the 12 ounce can so like sugar is everywhere in every food you go to the gas station to try and get something to eat you're not getting anything to eat without carbs unless you go to meat like beef jerky or cheese so that's basically what kita was was meat and cheese and then I found a newfound love for vegetables so I found out that I liked broccoli that I liked cauliflower that I liked spaghetti squash asparagus I've never tried any of these things but or that diet I was I was scared to it like if he told me to try guacamole I wouldn't because it was green I mean it was just like and but I tried it and I was like oh I like how I can cuacamole what's an avocado tastes like oh I like avocados those are keto friendly let's let's do it so that's what all we did we just made a shift in our perception of what food was so food to us before like when we were in that picture on that airplane we were eating like I said fast food all the time and if we didn't eat fast food guess where our dinner came from the freezer bro every time like we would just give that Stouffer's lasagna pop it in there and eat that you know or we would eat just something out of the freezer it would that seemed to be what we did we never made anything fresh we never bought really fresh produce unless it was fruit we never really brought you know brought in anything that was that healthy and like I said man I had a box of cheez-its on hand all the time I had I had a bag of Doritos on hand all the time and this time of year we we get them the biggest temptation Girl Scout cookies and man I would eat a whole sleeve of those there man I got man I got a buddy man I'm not gonna say his name but he's got stomach issues right he's got that uh what's that disease whatever you going to the bathroom all the time or whatever bs IBS or whatever and you know they telling them what they eat and stuff he's like yeah my stomach's all jacked up like would you have for breakfast he's like well I went into the fridge and I grab the pizza he pulls them the meat and cheese off of it so he eats the meat and cheese and in a whole sleeve of Oreos and it's out my eyes stomachs all jacked up and you know he got to go to the doctor or like bro what are you doing you doing with your life man yeah it's crazy so yeah that was like my my really made the big transformation Crohn's disease so uh so you so you were faithful with the the you know 15 minutes every day of um say meditation some people think well if you got to go in it's got to be an hour it's got to be 30 minutes I don't have time for that 15 minutes just get that well I try to set that as today standard so I started November 9th 2017 so over a year ago on a daily practice and when I started on that day my goal was to just do 15 minutes when I woke up and 15 minutes of bed kind of like a bookend to my day mm-hmm and so I I did that I would sit upright in bed and I'd pick up my phone just to push play because I'd have it ready the night before you know I push play on a guided meditation and it could be any guided meditation I don't remember in particular what I picked but just something to kind of help my attention stay focused and come back to my breath and come back in so there's a style of a meditation called Vipassana meditation that really sat well and that was one that I kind of went to all the time often where I would just it would start you off and say okay you're gonna pay attention to breathing in and the sensations that come and breathing out and the sensations that come you don't try to control your breath you just breathe in breathe out naturally but you're paying attention to it and that's that's a hard feat for some people in general just coming right off the bat when I say breathe consciously you change from automatic to manual breathing just by following that instruction so when you say breathe consciously but don't control your breath it's a hard thing to do if you've never done it before so that in itself takes practice because as you put your attention on it you you automatically start to breathe deeper and then you're I can well I'm not controlling it cuz I'm breathing deeper or am i breathing deeper because I'm putting attention on it and it's kind of a way out on how that works but yeah once you get to that state you can pay attention to your breath without consciously controlling it then you're kinda in that mode of of connection and then as you do that more and more often that's why they call it a practice you get better at it and as you get better at it you go deeper into a meditation so some of them when 15 minutes is a good time for me because my attention span after 15 minutes I'm like I'm done you know but I've gone into cell number 20 I've done yoga classes where there's a 30 minute meditation afterward and I've sat through the 30 minutes but I definitely lost my train you know well before the bell rang you know and it was way off into thought you know or whatever even sitting quietly so they it doesn't have to be a set time I say you know even if you can take one minute there had been so many times when I started this practice I would get stressed I get anxious and I'm like well I need to meditate but I only got a minute so I would just I would straight up go somewhere where I could sit on the floor give my spine aligned in a cross-legged position and I'd play a one-minute meditation and I would just sit for one minute having some a talk about the women of meditation that they do because there's so many guided ones out there you can pick one two three minutes what do you got you got four minutes do a four-minute meditation and yeah some of those are work I wouldn't say a waste of time they weren't so beneficial but some of them in four minutes I had a total shift to my day yeah I had things changed completely around from anxiety and getting nervous - yeah yeah and getting overwhelmed - hey what's up you know and they're like what what just happened to you bro you know you were all messed up just a minute ago and I'm like yeah I'm good now I'm good you know and then what do we got but we gotta get taken care of because I mean right now I work in high-pressure you know I'm a customer service rep so I have to provide the service and in a timely manner to get things sorted and in this day and age what do we expect okay Google what's the what's the answer well that's what they expect with service to and and basically you know that's what people expect now they want the Syria the Google or Alexa at their fingertips to solve their problem and if you aren't there and available to do that then you know people get upset at quick so yeah I've got I have that high-pressure job and so there are some situations I find myself in where I really need to go on meditate at the job I need to just get away from the screams get away from the phone's ringing in my ears and all the people and all the stressing out I will and I have a spot that I can just go and get away so your meditations good I remember before I knew anything about the breath or would have taken a minute like I would I would just I would walk off by myself and just start praying lose nun praying just kind of getting that connection clear between you and God or you and source or whatever you know if I can over your day whether your feel uneasy in your body and your mind the chatter you know people go through some weird stuff psychologically and the stress of the job and being talked down to bosses and stuff like that you know so you kind of get away just to find that few moments of I like to do them together prayer and meditation they kind of go hand in hand for me I say definitely the Bears let me talk to God meditations where God talks to you essentially right here let me ask you this man this may be kind of a hard question or at least a hard answer and I want to be careful how I preface this not to offend anybody really but um where does spirituality and obesity meet right I have this weird not just being overweight not being out of shape right but obesity from someone who like is it hard to receive from that person because like I remember going to some churches back in the day and there was a whole family they led revivals and stuff like that and everybody loved them but they weren't just overweight they were like obese like the kids everybody was just like really big and it was hard to me to kind of to take them seriously about spirituality about God obviously discipline comes in the Bible talks about self-control if you're a spiritual person walking in the spirit you're gonna have self-control you're not just gonna be slamming stuff in your mouth you're not just gonna have these addictions or whatever where you can't stop them these unhealthy addictions what does that come into play with you I mean because that was just you know a spiritual practice or whatever just losing weight is it just discipline what is it where does that come into play with them yeah so I'll come at you with this I think we all have our conditions in our life and we have these we have these programs and patterns we all work in patterns and programs and as we get programmed with even one limiting belief our whole perception can change so I shared the story of not making the football team I had the limiting belief I'm not good enough to play and then what happened in my consciousness was I was a healthy kid I could run the mile in five minutes in 50 seconds I could I could ride a bike for 15 miles and not stop I mean I was healthy I was more than capable of being on a football team and running football and I played football all the time you know and because I put that limiting belief in my head at 13 years old I began to not care you know as much and that's why I think the drugs and alcohol and the other health things like smoking I would have never smoked if I was on a football team you right because smoking is such a bad habit it's it messes with your breathing one what do you got to do to play sports you got to breathe - it's you know injecting your system with drugs so you know that messes you up but to circle back to the question I think that if you have just even one limiting belief that you can get in into a pattern that just messes you up and as you tell yourself the same story I'm not good enough with my story you can fall into the pattern of the drugs or food can be a drug McDonald's can be a drug I know people that are new people and I was one that would go there every day and used it as a pill to kind of just solve my own issue when I was working the good job I actually worked late at night this is an interesting story I would get off work at 2:30 McDonald's started serving breakfast at 3:00 and I would go and wait in McDonald's parking lot to get in the drive-through the very first person so that three o'clock hit I could order my sausage biscuit with cheese and two hash browns every day I did that for over a year yeah and that was my that was my meal and so I likes I took that as a pill cuz I was depressed I was sad I was angry I had limiting beliefs I had things going on in my head that weren't there and I had kind of abandoned all hope at that time I abandon spirituality and all that so the question of being in the church while being obese I think can be very prevalent because you can hold the belief in God you can hold the belief in the Bible because I feel like religion gives us a purpose right so we hold our purpose in religion but we also hold our purpose that we aren't good enough to do or whatever the belief is that's causing the behavior that we don't truly desire I mean most people in this country that are getting obese getting overweight dealing with this epidemic of eating unhealthy aren't doing it consciously they're doing it subconsciously they're doing it because of an underlying experience and so as I've started to learn meditation I've learned like I said breath work but I've also learned about health and vitality and wellness and through health and vitality and wellness you start to pay attention to a lot of things your heart has a pattern and they've developed a strategy called heart math that you can follow and track your heart with this monitor and you can put yourself in transcendental states and meditation just by using that heart math your sleep patterns are so important if you don't sleep right you can fall into you know trying to eat food chug down coffee and just get yourself full of energy drinks and what an energy drink stop - sugar I mean so you know there's that aspect of it and every year I think we get like 15 new companies making energy drinks so it's growing people are not deterring from that at all and then also going back to meditation I've started to you know put it in kind of a self-hypnosis process into myself you know to kind of change my belief on certain things so the first thing I did was quit smoking over five years ago and the cigarettes was so hard because he and I had just gone to it and smoking for me was like a form of meditation I would get away from people and what do you do when you smoke you breathe and I didn't realize this but I thought cigarettes were relaxing me I found out cigarette wasn't relaxing me it was pumping me full of this drug called nicotine which is the stimulant I was relaxed because I was breathing deeply yeah and my breath work through the smoking cigarette break yeah the constant smoking I was I was relaxing myself through breath unconsciously and so I I tied ok smoking relaxes me I can't quit smoking as soon as I changed that belief and I changed the other belief that if I become a nonsmoker I'm gonna be jealous of all the smokers I was set so the way I did that was I'll just give a plug guy named alan carr wrote a book called the easy way to quit smoking and he was hypnotized to find this method by a by a hypnotherapist and he wrote this book and tells his experience with the hypnotherapist and the method that he discovered through his subconscious mind and hypnotherapy and the method is in a nutshell you just have to believe a story so the story I told myself was if I see somebody smoking in a car next to me I'm envious of them because I don't get to smoke yeah as I'm quoting smoking well I changed that story to okay I see somebody in the car smoking next to me now I get to pity them I get to say oh how sad for you you have to sit there in that car while it's ten degrees outside with all your windows up and now you're gonna smoke smoke all day so I changed my perception maybe maybe that's judgmental of me but that's what I had to do to get my mind wrapped around the idea to know I didn't need it that I didn't eat I didn't need to be that person and so I applied that to everything else I started to apply it to the weight loss and I was like you know what sure it I'm at this restaurant and I have to choose a salad with ranch dressing and no toppings because that's all they have well this person next to me gets fish and chips this person next to me gets a pizza whatever but always I would just take that same concept like oh how sad you know you guys have to eat that greasy food and feel awful in the bathroom for 20 chapter that was the story I told myself to get through those harder times where when it was easy to cheat when it was easy to say yeah I could go off the diet I can have a pizza this just this once I didn't do that I just stayed and I stayed focused and stayed determined abuses too at the same time cuz you you've mined steadily coming up with excuses why you can I remember when I was trying to do the vegetarian diet and I'd be doing really good and I'd be tempted with McDonald's I'd be tempted with Burger King or what Taco Bell in my in my mind the excuse that I will come up with was it's not real meat anyway sorry I can get a burger it's not it's not even real me it's soy I'm not eating me weird justifications to do something so you kind of have to kind of because we're all subconsciously you know responding to our beliefs stories and what we've been told whether it's religion whether it's how you eat your diet or whatever you're doing it subconsciously so why not actively do it why not actively retrain the mind because we can do it and it works because don't you I'm saying look at somebody who's doing that and you're like man I want to do that to you like know what I don't want to do it because it leads to this and it leads to that and I'm gonna be you know so every time you see it it reminds you of the bad stuff and that's that's good I mean this will happen to a lot of people in religion right they they throw off their sins or even vegans or whatever the case is they throw off their sins and their bad habits and they're introduce them to some new truth and then they just run crazy with it telling everybody right because it reminds them of the person they used to be or the pitfalls that they were once in and so they want to go out and tell everybody they're excited about it but they had to retrain their thinking you know and it reminds them of something bad you know if I see you doing that this is what happens that's exactly it and so it really comes down to our thoughts and as you meditate I think you start to slow your thoughts down and as you slow your thoughts down like a Buddhist does and you think the same patterns over and over to train them toward something productive with your life then you start to retrain yourself just mind you start to change those limiting beliefs so I've gotten rid of that story of I'm not worthy or I'm not good enough in so many areas the football story is one thing but look at all the time you spend in childhood that you're told no well you know there is so many limiting beliefs that people hang on to from that childhood that carries on as a as an adult and so I think that's why you know hypnosis and meditation which is basically the same thing and prayer all work simultaneously to help you tell yourself a new story to retrain the subconscious mind because once the subconscious mind and the conscious mind work together then you start to see the shift then you start to see the change that's why I'm a nonsmoker almost six years this year that's why I'm still at a healthy weight after three years of making the conscious change of being almost diabetic almost myself because of the food choices that's why you know you pick the addiction I've kind of overcome it I quit alcohol the beginning of 2018 didn't drink a drop of alcohol in 2018 and just did it just to do it just to see how would I feel if I quit drinking how would my life be different and on this spiritual path that's kind of one of those things that people take special yoga and that which is kind of the direction I've gone is yoga and Eastern tradition no alcohol so Buddhists will say you know take a five-year vow to not drink alcohol now I've heard that story and I was like well I'll just take one year and see what I do and Here I am almost ten percent in to 2019 I still haven't drank I've had the temptation I've had the offer but I feel better on my sleep patterns they're better I feel like renewed I mean there are some times when yeah sure I'd love to go have a drink to kind of numb a situation or just don't even have that social aspect that drinking provides but I use that same concept that I used with everything else just tell myself the new story I don't need it and I'll be a better person without is is my personal opinion I don't I don't don't judge other people they drink my wife still will drink you know my friends will still drinking I'm okay with that you know brain the alcohol in the house come and have a drink come and have fun I just don't choose to participate because I'm on this path and I wanted to I want to you know do my own thing and then a vegetarian diet to same type of deal so my order brother I don't really contact that much he's a lot older of me he's almost 15 years older than me and my mom had passed last year and he showed up and we connected and and we reminisce and kind of went through some stories and he had been a vegetarian for 10 years and I didn't know that or I think I did know it but I've forgotten it and I was like well why did you go vegetarian you know being on the spiritual path I hang out with a lot of vegans and yoga and stuff like that my whole why'd you go and he's like I just meet never really sets out well with me it doesn't really do much for my body and I function better without it I feel like and I'm like well that's interesting and so like the very next week I'm I'm eating a lot of me eating a lot anyway just coping you know cuz I was still a coping mechanism still going to food but the week after that I was like you know what I'm gonna try vegetarian diet just see what happens if I cut out meat and at first I wanted to do what's called pescetarian I wanted to do seafood only yeah and cuz I really liked some seafood man but I was like no you know I'll just do a week of vegetarian and then my mindset changed after seven days even of telling myself the story of you don't eat meat you're not a mediator you're not eating me you eat vegetables and and then it changed I was shifted into this okay I'm a vegetarian now and nine months in now I'm like you know do I go back to me or do I stay vegetarian cuz I'm doing well on it I'm doing how I'm eating healthy I feel good I have energy everybody's like where'd you get your protein from I'm like I don't know I don't track it but I'm I'm healthy I could lift weights up I can do yoga I can you know do these exercises just fine it's not hurting me so I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with it it's it's making me feel successful and it also kind of puts me in a temporary discomfort which I kind of thrive on anyway so just going a little bit like stoicism is a philosophy from the ancient Greeks Marcus Aurelius and I as I studied you know mindfulness meditation I found a book called meditations by Marcus Aurelius who's a stoic and I studied the stoic philosophy and the stoic philosophy in a nutshell is just putting yourself in discomfort on purpose to make yourself ready for those major discomforts that hit us right like I ruined or I backed into a car the other the other week and I handled it totally different than I would have five years ago you know because it was it was in it it was a nice car in Nice neighborhood and and I felt really bad about it but I handled it so much differently because I had done these stoic practices so like Stella sysm if you look it up um a lot of Stoics are people that follow the stoicism will do things like take cold showers or sleep on the floor at night some nights or just to open window in the winter and turn the heat off to sixty and get cold and just feel that cold while you're sleeping I love and waking up to it just getting your feet on the ground walking out and so just doing those kinds of practices have helped me become stronger I don't do them regularly enough to be like completely ins that's especially like opening the window and sleeping on the floor but I have done them and I feel like they've made me stronger so I think that that kind of came into play too with breaking addictions and just changing patterns with eating and changing from one thing to the next to the next is because you are in a temporary discomfort but that temporary discomfort in the long run is gonna help you be strong it's gonna help you grow and it's gonna help you you know be a a better person yeah anytime you're dealing with those instant gratification man it gets a kiddin yeah it can get way out of control yeah which I mean no I'm saying food is definitely one of those I remember when I was driving a truck and I didn't I didn't want to be there right I'm going to do this job and it was long days like some days was 17 hour days you know nineteen holidays crazy stuff and I would just I hate being there but one thing that would help like I would reward myself with like crazy fast food you don't I would do that too while I was driving and then I would learn on my route the different restaurants and the different gas stations that had really good chicken in her pizza whatever the case is mm-hmm and whenever I drop dropped by him I would stop there cuz I knew I had four-hour drive ahead of me or whatever and to kind of help me get away I would just like be like rewarded myself with instant gratification and that's the whole thing was doing doing drugs eating any of those diction's pornography is the instant gratification occasion in like the more I study and uh you know the further I get along it's like you find out that those that's where the danger is because you got to work for that stuff you don't deserve to be happy you have to work to be happy you don't deserve a good relationship you have to work for a good relationship right all of this stuff for like a nice body you don't deserve a nice body you have to work for that body you don't deserve a nice platform you have to build it and work for your platform or whatever the case is everything is done with hard work and just one day at a time and also the instant gratification we look at that and we can kind of get deeper to find out what those triggers are like how did it get there why am I doing this all the time why am I looking at pornography why am i slamming cheeseburgers every chance I get find out why I didn't change the narrative tell yourself something different that's gonna help you you know not do it right or to do the things that you know you're supposed to be doing why you should do it retrain your mind you know guys I mean um sense it's it's happening anyway they're the reason that you're doing doing these harmful addictions or these harmful at home in your body or whatever the case is you know you've been trained some some way whether it was some type of trauma or you don't saying sexual frustration or whatever the case is that kind of given who makes you want to seek after those instant gratification you got to undo it you got a almost you know reverse the curse even right yeah you really do and it's that you put it so well there river the curse and instant reward you know because I think the instant reward factor of like would think if you're talking about pornography there's an instant reward you know it can help you achieve that goal instantly or you can eat a great in-n-out burger with greasy fries you can get that in ten minutes and it tastes so so good and afterward it sets well and you just feel good for the next 20 minutes because you've got all those especially at McDonald's or anything like that but you've got all those some good chemicals running through the endorphins getting released from eating that food and then you know what did you achieve you just ingested 2,500 calories they're like whoa well what you know maybe I don't feel so good and so you feel good in that in that time in that short time afterward and gives you that instant gratification but you know at the same time that numbness starts to go away and you look for the next source of numbness you look for the next addiction and coming from addiction to addiction to addiction I definitely understand this well there's a guy named Gabor Mattei or Gabor maté and I don't know if you've heard Tim Ferriss podcast yeah yeah the Tim Ferriss podcast and Tim Ferriss set up a special podcast just for this guy the wink that were in twenty two and a half hours and man it that podcast just by itself if you get a chance to listen to this guy has so much insight and knowledge but for me I've been interested in addictions not only to handle my own and kill my own but to help others as I've overcome so many and gob or goes into you know his own addictions but he has so much profound knowledge and techniques to help others like he fills up auditoriums with people because he's a really smart guy about it so he's definitely worth checking out when it comes to if you're looking for help for addictions you're watching this you're you're like man they're talking about right what I'm doing I'm eating McDonald's every day I'm watching porn every single day and I'm smoking cigarettes and I'm drinking alcohol like how did he do this you know I'm I'm stuck check into the resources for help look at that book alencar rather and look at this guy Gabaldon yeah and just these guys you know have the yeah it's there and all subjects right you know we want to learn something we can learn it I mean I heard you talk about the spirit Science Channel the other day you want to learn about spirit you can watch 12 episodes of that and you because I'm pretty enlightened they're pretty aware of spirit just in a nutshell from you know a couple hours worth of it we go to miss guy's book because he just demonstrates it so well he uses visuals and props and the right works oh well it helps you learn and so we have those resources available to us in this day that just makes it a lot easier to overcome if your intention is set to to overcome you know anything that you want to whether that be sleep patterns successful thinking you wanna learn about the stoicism and delayed gratification to help achieve higher goals and deal with discomfort as it comes I mean you want to learn about hypnosis and how to change your you know beliefs through a trance-like state there is so much stuff out there you know it really is incredible how much I you can learn on all of this stuff you know I'm saying the weight loss achieving your goals all of this stuff for you has came out of meditation is that something you deal with or wrestle with or put the energy out there to achieve through meditation like coming like knowing that that's the place I go to the now moment to kind of birth this stuff or whatever how does that work for you yeah so I mean so many experts say it takes three weeks to make a change or 30 days to make a change or you just ask a stranger on the street how many days does it take to stop smoking how many days does it stop - stop eating unhealthy and they'll give you 30 days they'll give you three weeks but really it comes in an instant it comes in the moment that you choose to cheat to make the changes it's the moment we change our belief on something so through our life we hold thoughts thoughts that we think repeatedly the 95% a day the thoughts of you know whatever it is that you've got so let's say you're eating McDonald's every day you're holding the thought that I need my McDonald's this morning to feel good so as you change the belief I no longer need my McDonald's to feel good I could replace it with just an egg and a piece of bacon then you've changed the thought you've changed the belief right in that instant as you believe that and you start to think that over and over and over again you've created this new reality this new paradigm and through my journey with the smoking and so I I do a daily practice over a year but I had meditated over ten years I had gone in and out of different guided meditations and just knew to follow my breath to kind of Center myself and then also I knew probably 15 or 20 years ago is when I learned about the breath being the relaxer in smoking so as I learned that I would start deep breathing exercises and I'd get work stressed at work when I was when I first started not be breathing deep not knowing how to breathe and shoot my boss to be like what's wrong with you what's going on and why are you breathing like that I'm like that's how I know how to relax his breathing so I never really put it and incorporated it all together you know I was looking crazy but I I do believe yeah meditation or some form of hypnosis however you want to word that is what you got to put yourself in a technique I learned recently is called breathing through the eyes so just teaching this to people you can look up and then look down as he breathes down and as you breathe down you let everything down and as you look up you breathe in and as you look down you let everything down you do that about 10 times and that's a way to get yourself into self-hypnosis and I just learned that and it really works so the goal is to write down three intentions so let's say you have an addiction and it's to cigarettes so one you want to be a nonsmoker as your first intention to you are no longer buying cigarettes and three you're no longer jealous of people who smoke you write those three intentions down you do that and then you set a time limit in your mind most so you can do it in any order you can write the intention set the time limit okay I'm gonna do this for 10 minutes and set the timer for 20 if you go into a trance do that breathing about 10 times and then just set you should be in kind of a floaty state and just sit and breathe and start thinking think and then just try to remember to come back to your breath of you and seriously that right there will make a shift in your paradigm it'll make a shift in your your life and and change right there and you know I think through this you know I've learned about life coaching and I've learned about successful people like Andrew Carnegie like how did he get so successful in Henry Ford how did he get so successful and I started to read about these guys and I found a guy named Napoleon Hill who wrote a book called Think and Grow Rich which a lot of people know of uhm it's I mean it's sold like 80 million copies and as I read that book he talks about all this stuff in the 1930s he's talking about breathwork he's talking about you know hypnosis he's talking about setting intentions and setting goals and the fears and limiting beliefs that we hold and getting rid of those and it's really interesting because right after he wrote that book he wrote another book called outwitting the devil and this book is a conversation with him and the devil now whether that's the devil in his mind which I think we all have or what he has this interview with him and he goes back and forth in this interview of ok devil how do you get me to smoke cigarettes how are you so good wrapping all the people into smoking your cigarettes because the devil actually talks about smoking and this is in the 1930s when it just became a big boom and he interviews the devil about smoking and it's just really interesting how it unfolds then the devil gives these detailed responses and they also evasion of hey I'm not going to answer that because if you get this knowledge you'll help millions of people quit smoking and hey I'm not gonna answer and he like plays this whole story out and I listen to it on audiobook and the way the audio book runs is you have the nice guy Napoleon Hill we have the devil and a totally different voice a dark deep voice and it's that book I listen to it before I read Think and Grow Rich and that book like train changed my life I was like what what is this like how did this guy know all this stuff and he goes into all kinds of topics like the public education system that we're seeing needs a makeover and I grew up in it you know look at the lemon he believes it put on me and and so you know I agree with that too and so it's just like just so profound as I stepped onto this journey of the different things I found not just in spirituality but self-help and self-improvement with Bob Proctor and Napoleon Hill with Marcus Aurelius and the other Stoics and you know then getting into like kind of more woowoo stuff like yoga Shakti chakras and then Taoism Chi and Ben and more real life stuff with the heart math I was talking about and NLP and hypnotherapy those are all real things too that are you know prevalent that are growing trends among society and they've been around since the 70s fifties even I mean hypnosis has been around since the 19th century when they started to document it I mean who knows how long people have been hypnotized by other people talking words to them in a particular order so yeah it's really really interesting all the stuff that I found but I think as we wrap this up that yoga and chanting like chanting ohm and chanting ROM mom the chakra sounds I think those really have shown me the most power and I think that what we are living for is that connection to spirit as Michael see you I think is his name wrote a book called the in tethered soul and in his book he talks about our connection to spirit just being that stillness and that awareness that you're the thinking mind and the knowing mind he also talks about having a voice inside your head like before I got on this podcast and I quote there's a room look good enough to I'm not actually saying there's something inside my head was saying this while I'm thinking you know you know whatever and then I was like wait who's talking am i talking or you know and then as you start to become aware of that and you start to really focus on that that's really the deepest level of meditation and so yeah I think there's just so much knowledge and insight out there that does serve and so I think it's really like an alchemist did back in the time to make gold you had to try different techniques different combinations and I think in this day and age with all of the information readily available about spirit about what's true with the pyramid and all of the ancient philosophies and traditions you have to really take what serves you from those ancient texts from the Bible from God from all of the stories we were taught as kids and let go of what doesn't and I think that letting go as soon as you let go of the story and you realize you're in this moment now and this moment now is gonna be your new story you make the shift you make the change so it all comes down to those two words letting go letting God you know and I think after all of this journey after all my profound shifts and weight loss and everything that's what I go back to why am i angry because I'm holding on to this but I think oh wait I'm not angry anymore I've let that go why am i anxious right now what am I worried about oh my gosh I'll read about that from a week ago what that it's over I got this moment right now look at all the things I have to be grateful for and that's another great way to get right into it you just write down for 10 minutes at a time or write down everything you're grateful for saying I am grateful for my house my car my life my health and you just go ten minutes as many things as you can think of and trust me you'll think of things for 10 minutes that you can be grateful for so I like to see I like to see everybody succeed right I want to see everybody achieve their dreams that's not gonna happen you know but there's there's things you can do to kind of take steps in that direction to do what you love for a living which is a big one for me but I love to see when people who I consider my tribe start stepping out and just start to see them especially when there's some time there so I try to take I wouldn't say I take you under my wing but I try to help you and give you the game and hey this works just don't work I mean I do this on the podcast for everybody but it's something about those people who are connected to me whether it's who believe in me a joint through patreon or disk or just people who are in my life I guess we'll say that so and there's a bunch of them a bunch of you guys you're one of them I mean I could just start a name and most of them are in chat right now okay yeah we go on now we got Nicole Chris I mean we keep going I mean oh yeah and it's good it's good to see I mean in their setbacks there's triumphs but I've watched them and I've tried to you know walk with them essentially right that's what we're supposed to do and seeing people make strides and and I'm helping people and stuff like that and and I've been telling you for some time because I know what you want to do most people who you know are led to my work a lot of people just inwardly they want to do what I'm doing or something similar that they want to pursue their passions for a living and get paid for it right I'm trying to help people figure out ways to do that and then the same time I'm trying to figure out other ways to do it right different ways to monetize your platform and you know do what you love for a living versus you know going to work and doing what you hate for a living if you love your job if you love your job cool you know but if you hate or you loathe like I can't believe I got to do this I would rather be fishing well let's learn how to fish for a living whatever the case is you know so I see you in your story man and we've been hanging out on you know a lot and you show up for school of the Mystics every Thursday you share your truth and stuff like that so and I've been sharing with you you know what you should do hey you know I see a lot of healers doing this I see a lot of people who practice Reiki going live in chat rooms and booking sessions and stuff like that on Facebook and stuff and I remember it just encouraging you to do it and and you're like okay it's coming man I'm getting ready so just kind of lining things up you kind of know in your own heart which you got to kind of get out the way before you step into that most people didn't know that I was having a bad day man a couple two weeks ago three weeks ago but it's just a weird day I don't know why just the Energy's feeling depressed everyday just hit it's it's on you sometimes just hard to get off from up under and I'm trying to get out from under it for that day and and trying to you know say positive affirmations and stuff but I remember I got an alert that you you went live in a Facebook group and I think it was for the first time and you were getting readings for people and ah yeah yeah we're winning baby we're doing this when I seen you'd go live and start doing that and now it just washed over me I'm like ah it's working man we're helping people changing I thought that raising people up and doing it man for you stepping out that's what that's something that you want to do full-time right you want to coach people you want to share some of the things that have helped you and some of the things that are working for you meditation reiki yoga all of these have to be able to impart that to people through private consultations and stuff and you started doing that talk a little bit about that man where you headed and yeah yeah I mean just going back to going back to our story you know I found you on Spotify by typing in Abraham Hicks you had that you have the track on their ghost and man I fell in love with it I was like what is this because it has not only a picks on it but it has he's been on the podcast and Hope Medford know well you have that track too but no it's maybe it's not as good that commitment from coast to coast James Gilligan - yeah yeah and so I heard that and I heard James Gilligan talking to this guy speaking in alien language and I'm like what is this man because I grew up on coast to coast so I really dubbed into all your discography and and your tracks and I'm like man all this I can listen to the sky all day like three oh man I just I at one track after another after another I fell in love with it so that kind of set me off and then I started to find out you had the podcast and I was just getting into podcast so I started to listen to your guests and I was like whoa he's interviewing some really cool people talking about some really cool topics so I was like yeah I got to get in and yeah then joining the school of Mystics getting on the patreon all that man just is just falling in to this path and man you've been a great inspiration as far as doing what you're doing with this podcasts and getting the truth out there giving us more knowledge to take what serves us but also just being there as a mentor as a support to a lot of us that are dealing with the real life struggles so we're all going through working we're working hard you know to try and make a buck and dealing with emotional turmoil in between we're trying to raise families we're trying to do these things so having the community having a tribe to fall back to having that discord to go back into and say what's going on in here I look at this there's something funny to look at something to make you smile man there were so many times that as I took this path you know friends just pardon the way well crazy you're doing loose stuff you know whatever and they just they didn't resonate like attracts like right so I just I I kinda went off on my own and then as I found you guys I found a connection again I found laughter I found you know that and I think they say kids laugh something like 300 times a day and what adults only do it 20 and it's sad sad statistic but I mean laughter is what we need joy is what we're here to do right so I think you know just having that connection with you guys that's been great but as far as what my goals are I mean I I'm in the in-between point where I like my job but I don't love my job you know what I mean I do well I'm successful in my area for the job that I have so I'm in the illusion is how I'll put it of yeah I working on two five I've got my own parking spot I've got dental I've got health care you know I've got a 401k reimbursement I've got a good but I'm also in between point where look at these successful people would Henry Ford I've created the Ford Motor Company by working in the nine-to-five like I'm doing Wade Napoleon Hill have been as successful with this book if he didn't go out and do his own thing and study all the people that he studied would Bob Proctor be where he's at if he had just settled for a nine-to-five because he had a parking spot gentlemen a 401k match and then when I asked myself these are all questions I get real answers and I'm like well no and then I asked you know even deeper questions well what do I love what do I love to do I like to help people what are my core beliefs what are my core strengths I'm come I'm carrying I'm kind so yeah I'm definitely right there where I want to you know and as I've done this stuff discovery I've done this what they call shadow work uncovered my shadow self and I've uncovered my my true core beliefs and done that work and that's a delayed gratification that takes some time that takes some energy that took two years of delving into different topics and learning I've discovered yeah I I have this path I want to help people I have this innate psychic ability that I think everybody carries to where I can use tools like it you know tarot cards or whatever and I can transfer translate those messages to people's lives and help so that's what you're talking about going live I was just reading some tarot cards off for people now I just you know ask them hey tell me a question I've read the answer off the card you know and they're all that makes so much sense that makes so much sense I didn't get one comment out of like three lives instead that doesn't make any sense everybody is like that makes sense so I'm like alright well let's go with the booster that's cool I'm good with that you know I'm just one day guide and help you know any way I can but I think my end goal in this path is to be a coach to people be a mentor to people and just help people understand the shortcuts are available you don't have to take this hard road that I took you don't have to go through years of McDonald's three years of alcohol addiction three years of cigarette addiction before you realize you can be healthy and successful you just have to know the right thought patterns the right techniques and just apply yourself and I think that I'm getting closer and closer to fully understanding that for myself and as I do understand it for myself and I do make it through days and weeks and months at a time without anxiety without worry without frustration because I'm human too you know I'm dealing with these emotions daily too as I start to heal myself even further and I start to really get more centered then yeah I'm definitely right there to start up a life coaching program start up like a hypnotherapy situation where I can use certain words to let people enter that trance state and then I can use other word to help heal a lot quicker heal the subconscious mind in a trance by saying you know that limiting belief no longer serves you you are now empowered to do whatever you want when you see the color blue which is your favorite color you're gonna realize how empowered you are just stuff like that just simple words simple sentences can transform people and make them find and and follow God that's their belief it can help them find and follow the pasta and meditation if that's their belief it can help them you know incorporate breath work into any stressful situation so there's so much that can be incorporated to help people so yeah I think my end goal is to do that to start a coaching program get people some advice get people on the right track with a certain plan that may have worked for me or that I found that worked for others and then just you know help be there as a support to people Wow to kind of just relay you know hey this works for me I had that struggle too or I had a struggle similar to that you know and it's it's okay you relapsed it's okay you gave into that cheesecake walker doing Aikido just next choice now is the moment - all right well too bad I had cheesecake yesterday time to eat a salad with ranch dressing three days in a row got to go back in the keto so keto is a good one because when you go into keto it changes your whole physiology from what using carbs to fat for energy so for three days you're using carbs for energy and on day three is what the average is you use fat and if you get into what's called ketosis which is called kita wise Cal keto then you're using fat for energy which is why I burned 110 pounds in 10 months because I was burning off all my excess fat and if you eat more than 20 carbs in the day or if you eat even like 30 or 40 or you eat just that one piece of bread or you have that one drink of a coke then it can throw you out of ketosis it can throw you back to carbs and then you have to start the whole process over so I think that helps too with that particular diet but it's all things if I take one drag of a cigarette guess what I must hooker again even one drag if I get in the car accident I deal with some traumatic event trust me I've dealt with them in the last five years and I've wanted to smoke that cigarette I've wanted to grab one and light it up and you're just rude consciously no I'm not gonna take that drag knocking it I'm not gonna take that cigarette being offered I'm not gonna do it you know and that that's what you gotta do you gotta train your mind you gotta train your thoughts so awesome brother well if somebody wants to hit you up for a private session or follow your work on social media what'd you do what was the best place to send them uh I'd say Instagram I try to keep that up to date I like to just throw out photos and my family and my my stuff and then I I have a link tied to like a blog and a website that I'm running there that offered a few services so my Instagram is waldowski in so my name is in there it's instagram / waldowski and so wal do w s ki aan and you could check me out there it's just a public Instagram with some photos and some of my my kids photos and stuff like that just see it and inside didn't my wife over the last couple years and then like I said I have a link to connect with me there on a deeper level to do a web page and to just you know find out more about me find out more about what I do but definitely just if you have any questions about my wife or just feel like you need some help or guidance in any area just message me you know and I'm I'm happy to reach back out and and talk to you and see you know if I can offer any advice so good stuff brother well um Fred Lynch has a comment here he says Andrew you'll be amazing as a coach your compassion and knowledge is felt and appreciated do you think thanks man I appreciate that sir I think keep it up brother love you man and thank you for coming on podcast that will do it again man all right thanks man all right peace peace Andrew what aus key ladies and gentlemen oh man it's good stuff I love to see my people doing good man every single one of them whether they're starting out already in something embracing something everybody's in different places and just to see them I check up on people I'll see what they're doing they're looking at the formula that works you know and I'm we're just trying to be open and honest so that you can do that right with everything why hide anything right so like I said I could just go down the chat right now here and on YouTube and name everybody's name who's just been here they're supporting and you know it's something I don't want to be like I don't want to be like uh you only have so many hours in a day I'll help those who help themselves and I help those who help me my tribe I'll make sure that we do in it but you can listen you can listen to this podcast and never link in and learn so much you know but uh but it's something about those people who were in your circle man your inner circle that we're gonna win every single one of us we're gonna win we're gonna make it happen we're gonna create it we're gonna breathe upon it I'm gonna manifest that stuff whatever it is whatever your dreams are whatever the Spirit is calling you to great and mighty things it's attainable and we've had the people on the show and some of these people like I said like the pool of people who were in our tribe there's a bunch of them and I've and I've been able to see the progress in their life you know I've been able to see them take those first steps you know go live for the first time and it does something every single one of them like us I can name them Ali Adam Christy folks man flu man I just have to keep keep scrolling here man and just Santiago man everybody corner everybody stepping out making the impossible possible creating that stuff you could do it every single one of you and it's you know it's very much about that we talked about rewiring the brain right having these belief systems reforming those belief systems help making them up as you go and it becomes your truth making it up whatever it is tell yourself this this becomes your truth so many people are doing it anyway believe in lies believing in stuff that's hurting them believing in stuff that's making them depress watching the news which is well scripted stuff to keep you in this needy state fierce state right move out of that turn that crap off garbage in garbage out rewire the brain retrain the mind the Bible talks about renewing the mind I talked about Christ consciousness and how we are to walk with the same consciousness that Christ walked in it's possible we can do it if you believe it nothing shall by any means be impossible for you even that the way I do it a big part of it I look at scripture for me it's very spiritual it's like a universal law right and I just quoted a scripture that's my truth if you believe it you will receive it my expectation brings about my manifestation what you believe in whatever there's so many even in the scriptures man looking at the stories about how the placebo effect in how when people believed it it was rendered unto them by faith because they believed it by faith they were able to receive it the woman with the issue of blood that I know if I get if I can just get close enough to him and touch the hem of his garment if I can reach my hand through their touch to him him of his garment I'll be healed the other guy he had such faith there was a great multitude people listening to Jesus speak inside of a house they needed to get close to him to touch them they brought their paraplegic friend upon the roof and tore through the roof they looked up and these people were coming through the roof because they wanted to get close to Christ you know if he if he could just touch him if he could just see him he'll be healed and it was rendered unto them because of their faith Jesus would go into other cities they would doubt him especially in his hometown because they knew him well your dude your your Jesus man Oh your prophet you wasn't a prophet you know six months ago he wasn't a prophet a year ago ten years ago you're you as a carpenter he was out there so you were a carpenter you were mechanic you were a truck driver you and but now you're a prophet really they didn't believe him Jesus was rendered powerless in his own hometown because of the placebo effect this is so-called God in the flesh this is the Messiah he couldn't heal nobody he would go into cities and he couldn't heal him because they his renown preceded him they knew who he was but when he would go into other cities where they heard about him hey there's this miracle worker man he's healing people people just look at him and he's healing him he just point at him he come and meet a man who told me everything about my life everything I've ever done there's a guy out there he's healing people and so it just builds up the expectation it's the placebo effect it didn't change whether he was had power where he didn't it was the belief that who do you say that I am Chris Garner and Chad says by your faith you'll notice that's a trend throughout the scriptures because of your faith your son is healed because of not because of my face because of your faith and I try to by the works that I do you will be able to believe because of the works and then by the works I do that greater things shall you do is what Jesus said greater things the placebo effect is something us man your expectation brings about your manifestation or the opposite you know what I'm saying whether you just doubt I never do it my time has passed me up too many people I stutter man I'm a candidate for that man it's hard for me sometimes to formulate a sentence I stutter you should hurt my early stuff some of you have and it's I've come a long way I've worked at it right but um that and in doing guided meditations you know and and feeling like that I'm not qualified to do that that I don't have such a soothing voice and some you know even Freddie's like Fred uh in chat he's like true thing I could tell you get oh man you're ghetto comes out every now and then so you're doing like God meditations by this ghetto rapper you know I'm saying so for me inwardly if I was to look at that stuff like math that's for somebody else somebody who's more well-spoken somebody's more soothing voice but I would tell those I would try to limit myself you know what I know the power of my voice I know the power of belief I know the power of placebo I know the power of an encounter with God let me take that what I've done with my music it's been pre-recorded and it's been polished let me try to create an encounter with God through a guided meditation see what happens oh my god I did it they're available changing people's lives the feedback that I'm getting is amazing it's awesome Fred says us ghetto folks need need to get a voice you know shalom be yushua peace and Jesus much love thank you for the super chat Bret Stacy Bret Stacy just donated 50 bucks man thank you so much for that it means a lot it really does but you got a prophesy over yourself man this big the promises that the Bible says the promises of God are yes the name and yes and amen is gonna happen essentially that's universal law yes the universe responds to whatever you put out there I'm always gonna be broke man I'm always gonna live in this trailer I'm always gonna be depressed I'm always gonna be overweight I'm all you just accepted you speak it out you think about it you create it you God the universe responds with yes and amen yep you are you are gonna be fat you're all gonna be over the way you're always gonna be alone you're always gonna be this you're always going to be that because you're creating it you're speaking it out you're thinking those thoughts thoughts or frequencies they come back to you try to reverse the curse what's the opposite you have to do a little work it's just not gonna just not for everybody if you do the work the universe lines up with you you line up with the will of God for your life start speaking those positive affirmations trust me we all it happens to the best of us like we all have those days weeks months years whatever it is you just get into this loathing until you finally just say look I got to do something I got to make something happen and if it's a day if I feel it coming on I put on positive music I put on worship music the Bible talks about beats to sing in Psalms and spiritual songs over yourself begin to sing over yourself create that atmosphere and that's what you're doing when you're when you're quoting the scriptures write that for me that's universal law on the head and not the tail I'm more than a conqueror I could do all things through Christ who is my strength those aren't maybes those are facts that's a matter of fact I have to retrain my mind having a bad day I'm always gonna be broke I'm never gonna be able to fulfill my dreams my family it's cursed I've never you know just weird things that come up in your mind it's like hold on I gotta i'm blessed beyond the curse the scripture says that i'm blessed just simply because i believe I'm blessed all of these positive affirmations I quote them over myself man I have to retrain my mind the scripture says that if there be anything true if there be anything Noble anything pure think about these things that's why I try not to get caught up in watching conspiracy theories and debates and stuff like that sometimes I'll click on them I'm sitting here working online and YouTube's up and I'm checking the comments in there but I'm gonna pop up and I'll click on I have to cut mine and I can't watch that I can't watch that it think about these things there's a reason garbage in garbage out I have made a covenant with my eyes that I may not be hold the evil thing making a covenant with your eyes and the eyes and the ears are the windows to the soul it's big the meditations speaking those positive affirmations of yourself when you begin to look at things differently when you begin to change the way that you look at things the things that you're looking at change especially in your own life will it to happen prayer so powerful it's more and to me prayers is more powerful than just asking God or hoping that God will show up I understand the power of prayer and the power of spoken word just in general from a metaphysical level even the power of spoken word the power vibration when we break this stuff down so as I'm praying I'm prophesying for the most part I'm not asking any more I'm one with the Father I understand his heart I understand his vision now there's times where we have to we have to go I go within to kind of get that vision right I'll go within to make sure I'm on the right path to make sure that the steps of the righteous are ordered by the Lord make sure that I'm righteous man that I made right with God by faith I'm justified by faith through Christ that's my belief so I go in to do that in the secret place with God and so there there's a conversation there's a relationship but outside of that I have to take that with me he says you can't you go then get into the secret place get into the quiet place I'll tell you things that you don't know and can't find out by any other means no matter how many YouTube videos you watch no matter how many books you read I've got some things that are reserved that if you come within if you come and meet with me in the secret place I'll tell them to you I'll let you shout them from the rooftops go in there get that bring it out how do we create how do we manifest we begin to prophesy over ourselves of our situations not just ourselves that's kind of selfish if you keep it to yourself share it with others prophesy over your your friends your loved ones teach people how to do it I can help you I can you know I'm have to keep helping you but let me show you if you give a man a fish you feed him for the day if you teach a man to fish you feed him for a lifetime let me teach you these principles man that have helped me that's all I can I could only give you what's helping me I can't give you what's helped another person I mean we can look at them and learn obviously in this those principles too but my truth that's what's helped me what's you know physically manifested in my life through experience prophesy the power of prayer the power of spoken word and just speaking that stuff over yourself look up Bible promises I remember when I first came to Christ man I bought it it was the DC Talk Bible promise book DC talk made a version and it was a good one man there was some good scriptures but anything that you were dealing with there were scriptures on it there were scriptures on it a headache anxiety fear self-control and you have all these scriptures on inside and this is truth the thy Word is truth true let me speak it over myself see what happens you find a change you find a peace that comes upon you instead of looking at the situation we changed the situation we changed the vibration when he's talking them about Christ in the scriptures they were on the disciples were on them on a boat and if storms were coming the winds and the waves we're all on this boat together we face the winds and waves of life the trials and tribulation the bills that's a pretty strong wind at Tom taxes like there's a bunch of different winds and waves that we have to deal with the loss of a loved one anxiety obesity whatever like there's winds and waves that come against our ship and it looks like it's about to flip over you have two instances one way that where Jesus is asleep on the ship where they're traveling with him they're like wow is he sleeping in the midst of these this storm wake up help us help us throw some water out basically what can we do so Jesus wakes up looks around at them he's first he rebukes and they say why are you freaking out y'all this is just wind and rain why are you freaking out we're okay we got a higher calling this isn't how our story ends you this isn't how your story ends this is just the beginning it's not how it ends so Jesus wakes up and he just speaks to the wind and rain and he silences it ah quit freaking out Shh eventually you learn how to do that as a believer as a person of faith as a person with power and authority you you learn to speak to the winds and waves in your own life and in the lives of those around you prophesy prophesy to the four winds look that up the scriptures it uses that a lot prophesying to the wind the four winds Jesus woke up and they say who is this who is this man who has that even the winds and waves obey Him and that's symbolic about the winds and waves in your life you have to be able to prophesy sometimes you don't feel like it sometimes you don't know if you're gonna where your next meal is coming from but you've always been taken care of so going through that stuff you learn not to freak out it takes a couple a couple times going through it until you learn you learn by repetition repetition reduces resistance you start seeing the same trials coming up you see the same wind you know it's like a calm before the storm you can feel it it just fit the atmosphere it feels different and you know what to do okay first thing I know to do the first goal is not to freak out don't freak out that's the test and the father's like do you really trust me do you really believe me you've been telling everybody all this stuff but do you really believe me let me test you there's a test that comes a trial that comes you pass it you keep that principle it becomes a law a universal law not just for you but for everyone when in doubt do this do that it begins to work you add that to your arsenal new levels new Devils greater victories bigger Giants slaying the Giants in your own life the Giants of whatever alcoholism pornography addiction mocking God mocking your callin the Giants in the land you see where you're supposed to go but there's a giant in in-between and there's like no way that you can defeat him on your own because he's too big he's a giant enough alum how do I get there because I'm supposed to be on the other side I got to get past them how do I do it what have you been doing what does God are already given giving you what you love to do would it would is God given you not what is God given me or God has given Abraham Hicks Oh God whoever but what has God given you what is God raised or put within you David was the only one scared the only one who wasn't scared enough to go and face the giant who was mocking their God the God of Israel's nothing he's a laughingstock of all the other gods you know they're mocking their gods and everybody's scared to tell them to stand up against them Davis I hold on y'all gonna let this big ogre talk about my god you don't know what he's done for me you don't know where he's brought me through you don't know okay I bet you he won't say that to me Betsy he won't ok David since you you know you want to go take him out take my Omer I've got some new armor I've never used it so that little David you know they put the armor on him and give him a big old sword he's got this big old clinky armors like I'm a little fight the Giant he put him his head look this ain't mean this ain't me I can't I came I can't even move around I don't feel comfortable I'm putting on your clothing that's symbolic what is God giving you not what God has given me not what God has given somebody else but what has God given you whereas he brought you from he's gonna send you back to it it's already within you he takes the armor off and he grabs a slingshot his slinging his stone that's what he had he was really good with a slingshot how would you gonna kill a giant with a slingshot with a little satchel and a stone he's killed all kind of other animals with it he's been practicing you got a practice to get to the Giants he practiced by watching over the sheep that's what he did he was a shepherd and so anytime a wolf would come to try to get the sheep he practice on that wolf coyotes pie-yah foxes trying to get that sheep a lion bears getting bigger bigger or giant okay that's next level I can take a giant out and he's cursing my god okay let me take this sling in my stone I'm gonna do it he goes up all the nations are watching it goes up slings it he's getting ready get ready so it throws the rock throws a stone hits the giant in the forehead kills him instantly with the rock right in his forehead what God has already given him not some something new but what was already there been cultivating it your whole life it's different for everybody what is that he goes up to the Giant he picks up his sword it's big sword picks it up and he just finishes them off cuts his head off with his own sword and holds the head up in victory and it was able to go into and possess the promised land so in between where you are and into your promised land that's gonna be a giant in the midst of the wilderness is gonna be a golden calf idolatry little shiny things that kind of catch your attention takes you off focus for some time don't worship it don't stay too long it's a test other things are gonna come - there's gonna be other Giants there's gonna be other idols there's gonna be other people it's gonna be other people who do with certain ways but you have to stand for your truth and what God has given you you can't do me got do you you can't we're so in it was talking about earlier in the chat like how when we're young were influenced by a lot of people and and Andrew was talking about how you know he would see people and he would try to act like them the stoners the whatever they call people groups and stuff you want to fit in so it's okay I got to start talking like this after look like I just have to wear these clothing to fit in he someone doing as a kid and somebody in the chat saying you know I think was home sauce or he says you know we all do that as kids we want to fit in as people who do that as adults you get around people and you start acting like them you're trying to fit in you're like a chameleon you say what you say things because you know that they'll like it you want to fit in maybe it's gossip maybe when you get around these people you saw it gossiping about other people because you know that they don't like them check yourself gossip and backbiting that's a big deal it's a really big deal don't do it I know they don't like him so let me act like I don't like him it's deep know thyself don't you and you can feel it I felt it you're like a chameleon why when I get around these people always want to smoke weed why want to get around these people I want to dream well I'm gonna get around these people I curse it's different for everybody but I believe you show me your friends I'll show you your future find you some good people man get around them let them influence you let good people influence you and I believe that spending time in the presence of God I believe in spending time with Christ through the Holy Spirit spending time with them you'd be a chameleon as well you begin to talk like Jesus they're beginning to look like Jesus smell like Jesus like the things that he likes hate the things that he hates all you been hanging with Christ okay now you're talking like Jesus now you you know what I'm saying and I believe it man that the scripture says that these signs shall follow them that believe if you believe if you're walking in the spirit you're gonna have self-control you're going to carry those fruits that's how we judge it don't cast off restraint man keep your standards up make something happen quote them scriptures over yourself man it's powerful it positive affirmations whether the scriptures are not I mean that's how it works retraining the mine retraining the brains and the nodes in the mind um so we just saw released our app it's still in the early development phases right now it's a it's a meditation app and still it's still very early but it's available if you want it and one of my prop one of my meditations on that right now I'm working with a buddy of mine Kenneth and him and his wife are working on it but uh it's a meditation app and I'm going to be putting a lot of meditations on there it's called presence p r e s ze NCE prayers in Zins what is e presence the presence app i'll put a link in the description of stuff y'all check that out so hopefully that does good things we've been working on that for a while but it's still early on and it's only for Android right now they're getting it ready for the iPhone Chris bars is comment he wants to iPhone version so that's something that we're working on also too if you guys missed it I was on the podcast with John Santiago I was on his I did his show earlier this week it was really good we had a great conversation so you got to make sure y'all subscribe to his channel and go check out his work too and so he's one of the Brethren so make sure you go check that out we had a good talk also tonight I'm going to be doing another podcast here tonight after the school of the Mystics probably only do an hour of the school of the Mystics and I'm supposed to be interviewing Bill beam tonight so Bill beam was supposed to go live a Tuesday night but something came up we had to deliver instead he had to go take care of and fly out of town so we're gonna do that tonight bill beam will be on the show tonight so that's gonna be good I was talking about earlier like I posted something on on Facebook just about uh going down rabbit trails right you're watching a video on YouTube you're watching weight training videos or workout videos and then it leads some some thumbnail some title clickbait or whatever you click on a video and then you go down this rabbit hole watching 17 videos about whatever the weird thing is right 17 true psycho podcast 17 whatever I mean some of you guys that's how you found this podcast right but it's kind of weird like what are some of the weird things that that you've you know went down those holes watching Flat Earth it's um it's um that consumes people it watch one Flat Earth video and they're consumed sometimes if you're not careful ma'am watching those little videos and change your change your life either for good or bad you know I remember clicking there may be the first time clicking on a Hebrew Israelite video back in the time I was looking for something like that I found it I was hooked for a couple years it like I converted essentially like I started you know I'm saying they won won me over but with their videos and sort of going down those weird rabbit holes I watched another rabbit hole video essentially it pulled me in that I didn't I didn't care about this stuff until I clicked the video then I'm watching seven eight videos I'm like what am i doing watching all these videos one of them was um I don't know it's last name Chris something but he killed his uh wife and kids so for some reason there was like a two-minute video I clicked it there hears him this is how we caught him oh yeah let me why not watch it for a minute and then there's all these other videos here's the footage of him lying to police here's this and here's that and here's what he was doing I'm sorry to watch I'm like man I'm I'm eight eight videos in you know this thing grabbed me you know there's always those things on YouTube and they're suggesting the weirdest videos like it's so weird how they're doing with the algorithms ma'am with that being said make sure y'all click notifications on the YouTube videos for those of you watching live or if you're listening on the podcast app subscribe to me on youtube and click that notification bell because I think that's how it works now you they don't even show you the people you subscribe to like they've changed up so much that you can have a million subscribers they don't care they have a trending page your default YouTube landing page is their recommended videos for you and for some reason in my recommended videos they recommended me watching a dog training video of this guy filming him going into was like a dog whisperer but they're just filming themselves and I'm watching this guy wrestle pit bulls and and stuff and train them and try to get them to be better dogs and my wife's in here with me and she's like what are you watching I don't know it's just it's interesting you know and you find yourself going down these little rabbit hole for an hour two hour days months years watching certain types of videos or whatever it's insane but the whole thing with YouTube shifting has led me down another rabbit hole and I'm gonna talk about this cuz uh this weird rabbit hole just maybe since yesterday I know who he is I've had a couple interactions with them but the Vigilant Christian a lot of I think a lot of people in my audience check out some of his stuff and they know who he is there's a bunch of aspects with this guy the Vigilant Christian because YouTube's change the algorithms and just because you have a lot of subscribers doesn't mean you're gonna get those views anymore I can upload a video and it gets like 60 views a hundred views I've got almost 10,000 subscribers now on YouTube they're not getting alerts I don't think that I out of that like a hundred as much as people interact and stuff there's something what's going on with that and I could just see it going on but he's feeling that the vigil at Christmas somebody who's got you know hundreds of thousands at this point of subscribers and he got big off of you know making exposed videos in the early days of YouTube and Christianity that was a big thing and obviously it still is people love to kick people when they're down it's what happens but the Vigilant Christian he's in some weird place right now but he got big by exposing people or showing why you're not a you're not Christian enough in and anything that was trending anything that was in the news he would do a video and show you how they were in the Illuminati and it's just it's really sad like I've done it you know years ago and I think I paid for that karma I think that all that stuff came back to bite me on the butt some years later when I got into the Illuminati or I got into understanding what false prophets were in the Bible and in pointing out false prophets and calling out names and say hey stay away from this guy stay away from this pastor like we used to were really bad with that stuff back in the day calling out names and Street preach and you know call out names and stuff and I feel like when I went through my awakening I became the guy that people started pointing at from the Christian perspective like hey watch out for true sigue he's he's the devil worshiper now he's uh he's listening to Masons you know all kind of stuff late night Manley P Hall and it's cuz people have done interview you know videos on Jordan Maxwell Manley P Hall Michael dis Aryan there's a video about anybody out there with a platform exposing them anybody who has the platform I guarantee you you can find an exposed video and if you can't hit me up cuz brother Wayne will make one I'll get brother Wayne to make an expose video nobody nobody gets a pass there's exposed videos on everybody once you get a platform it just comes with the territory but I've seen what happened to the Vigilant Christian right now just because I've clicked on a video I don't like follow his work but I clicked on the video that says he's going through some stuff he's like breaking down and you do YouTube's algorithm so it was like causing him to like I mean that's his livelihood he's gonna be able to make a a great living off of youtube videos cuz he caught caught the wave early then it became like a beacon or whatever of exposing people I mean he's exposed anybody you could think of that's in he's probably got a video on all of them Queen Yelawolf any rapper he just any actress actor he expose and he does very well something in people love to kick somebody when they're down misery loves company and so many people are miserable with their life miserable with their marriage miserable with their job that they just want to know that somebody is doing worse to them be worse than them because it makes them feel better so vigilant Christian I feel like he's getting a taste of his own medicine now he's came out about using drugs and there's some stuff about homosexuality that he was dealing with and all types of weird stuff and it's usually I'll tell you this it's usually the ones who are really vigilant even in the name the vigilant Christian those who are really vigilant about pointing out other people's flaws is usually because they're they have their own skeletons in the closet or they have their own insecurities that someone's gonna find out that that they're gay or whatever the case is like I'm not gay see I expose gay people or I'm not a drug addict see I expose drug addicts or whatever the case is and so but you put that energy out there it's going to come back it's only a matter of time what you what you sow you shall also reap you're gonna reap it it's gonna stack up against you that's why I make sure that when you're moving forward you're blessing people you're blessing your enemies you're helping those who need help and in their time of need when somebody needs help oh just a hair you know more power to you do what you can to help them cuz in due time you're gonna come back if you're helping people man when if you're being a friend to those who need a friend when when the tables turn it's going to come back so don't you be found wanting man when I was going through that stuff you know and he called me a devil worshiper like everybody reneged and all my Christian friends or whatever it was a very dark and lonely time I've been open about that and I've seen what happened to me and then there was another time like during that in that same like right after we're a close friend of of ours we found out that he was a he was a gay porn star and he was we've been in Christian uh Christian metal bands with this guy we've done music he was a friend he had kind of grown distant so over the years I mean that's what happens but he's still a friend mutual friend everybody knows them and it became it became this big laughingstock and people would send videos hey you know this guy and like I don't why you sending me this they like no look at the face like oh my god like that so close friend of mine nobody we knew he was a model we knew he was bodybuilding we didn't know that he was doing gay porn and it was all of these like a gay porn so I wouldn't even know it a close friend and it came out everybody knew about it I mean people you hadn't talked to in 10 years were calling and messaging you sending you the pictures of him and videos and say hey have you heard about them and they got the gossip he's doing worse than us telling everybody right and it shocked me I was home oh my god couldn't believe it but um I remember talking to a bunch of my Christian friends in church people who we came up with this guy and they're like if I see him in public I'm just gonna turn my back on him I'm not even gonna look him in the face I seen him and I tried to hide my face I didn't even want to talk to him that's okay and then there was a bunch of people who kept saying that oh if I see him I'm not even gonna that is disgusting I can't believe he did that and how does this wife feel how does this daughter feel you know in all this oh wow I got to make sure that I don't do that I need to go out of my way to reach out to this person like there's a bunch of shame there's a bunch of guilt now everybody knows something that you've been trying to hide and be secretive with it because you're in the Bible Belt and you're a gay porn star and you come from the church realm or whatever the case is I had to make sure let me hit this guy up man so I made sure that I did that only because I had the empathy because I went through the dark night I know what it feels like to be all alone or have people talk about you or be the butt of jokes and gossip and you know all of this kind of stuff so when you going through something God rewards those men you're gonna get it back the law of the universe is yes and amen the promises of God whatever you're putting back is gonna come if you're exposing people and gossiping about people don't get mad when people start exposing you gossiping about you finding out about the things that you didn't want them to know don't get mad expect it it's coming don't don't get mad at that stuff the scripture when it talks about that it says that don't be the scripture says that you're gonna be justified not by your faith now about what you believe but by your works what did you do don't just say you believe or say you know I believe in you or whatever the case is do the works man help help those people makers when you're going through it you know you're gonna need somebody there I found that and that's universal though when you get ready to step out and do what you love for a living when you begin to create something you have meetings you have a podcast you have videos whatever it is and you you want support were you supporting people that's one of the principles that like the people who support me I'll make sure that I'm there in their life I'll make sure whatever it is when they when they create something when they release something it was to like or retweet or reshare hey y'all check out his podcast I check out his show why because that's why it's deep but to see all of that stuff comes back to you man no good deed goes overlooked no bad deed goes unpunished you might not be able to see it but it's there so to see the vigilant Christian like I went down that rabbit hole because now he has all these people like making videos about him exposing him laughing doing commentary and it's getting a lot of views they love it people love it oh yeah I never did like him pray for that guy he's going through some weird stuff right now just because you have a platform doesn't mean that you're you have the character to to maintain it you can manifest it you can build it he caught it at the right time but how do you keep it don't let your talent take you someplace that your character can't keep you you have to be careful you really do you can manifest it but can you keep it that's what I want to see how's your consistency you built some beautiful stuff you've built something really cool but I think you've built it upon sand you didn't build it upon a firm foundation you didn't why because when the rain came it crumbled and fell over don't let that be you make sure they whatever you're building whatever you're doing that you got a word from heaven that you're working with God versus working against God make sure because we're in it in an instant you can ruin it all in an instant we see a lot of people doing that Mario the Vigilant Christian he reached out to me well I've reseting him some time ago it's been a couple years now but I've you know hit him up and you know tried to show him some of my music and stuff like that but um after having Brandon bar upon my show the Vigilant Christian scene that interview you know the crazy cult leader brand the bar throw up had him on my show originally Chris Messina said hey I want to come on your show and I want to I want to do a debate with this guy I want to debate him and so I said no you're not I don't do debates on this show if you would caught me several years ago maybe we could've did it but debate no you need to do it get him to get on do a debate I want to do it on your show and he said if you don't I'm gonna make a video about him exposing him anyway so just to see that khana it's like everybody who don't agree with you you're gonna make a video exposing them that's fun that's good but what are you gonna do when that karma comes back when the pendulum swings back in your direction when people may not you crying now you got people making videos of you and you're crying you bit off more than you can chew maybe you didn't know it there's grace there submit yourselves to God there's grace there you didn't know it it's okay repent have a change of heart have a change of mind return to your first love do the first works again there's grace you can be restored anybody any of you you could be restored there's hope everybody needs it even if you have a big platform but just to see that whole process man I just I clicked on a video and just started seeing all these people making videos exposing him but then I was I was I jumped into a world or a subculture that I didn't even know existed that it was a thing that he was going through this stuff and he was doing that and people were making videos or whatever the case is I'm like I didn't even know that but I cooked on one random video and watched three or four but pray for that guy Mario because he's got a lot of people who watch him it's a lot less people now and he's going live crying about it like it's showing some really weird manic sides of him and narcissistic sides that just because you got you know 300,000 subscribers you're getting a thousand views on a video now like that's when you're big like we just see what the foundation is you know what I'm saying um it's weird but pray for that guy you know because he had a big platform or kind of still does so word says back to the yes and we remain true it's back to the essence word mr. lyric back to the essence I know it sounds like yes back to the yes M remain true see it's back to the essence back to the essence remain true I decide for the truth will my mom renew with the chosen few yeah so I wanted to talk about that this is sometimes I don't have nothing to talk about but it's about coming back to the now moment that's where the power is that's where you create stuff you do that through meditation you do that through mindfulness we're talking about that and I believe that's how the majority of the stuff is created going there to get to get a game plan into the now moment Jesus said that to be anxious for nothing because when you are you put your consciousness outside of yourself outside of the present moment and you're living in a reality that doesn't exist yet and you can put put the awareness out there the consciousness out there speak it expect it but to manifest that you have to come back to the now moment you have to be in your body you can't just be thinking about this weekend or thinking about next month or whatever you got coming up while I'm live right here I'm gonna um somebody's asking me for to pull a card for them and I'm just gonna form this card I don't have to tell you what card this is but I'm just gonna pray for you that's just for um for anybody who's dealing with this one I'm gonna specifically Christie folks good friend of mine she's asking for a card reading or a pool and I used these uh these terror of the most high cards I think they're beautiful they're really cool I want to make my own very soon so I'm gonna I'm gonna pray us out over this whole thing and I'm going to just speak this blessing over Christy and her family to so anybody who just needs to touch in your body right now wherever you are man just uh do what Andrew said just taking that deep breath through the nostrils right now breathe in that peace exhale the doubt the worry the fear breathe it in again peace exhale fear doubt worry stress just let it all go peace of God that surpasses all understanding right now this is your inheritance believe it it's not lack its abundance that you will be the lender and not the borrower everywhere you go you're not just gonna have your handout asking for something you can be known as a giver that you give you're gonna be known for what you're for rather than what you're against you're for grace you're for true see for righteousness you're for restoration before beauty you're for love receive that even with this next breath receive it deep breath release and this is the this is the now moment this is where we go within peace of God just to rest upon you all that uneasiness the questions right now being removed grace being restored again you just need to be reminded this is your daily reminder peace God receive and receive and receive wherever you are no matter what you're doing let your thoughts be continuously upon him for he cares for you cast your cares upon him free cash for you why not we try to hold it because you can it's not good enough release it let go of what you're holding so that you can receive what God has for you you have to let go of what you're holding what you're trying to build when you're doing a good job but just let it go let go of what's good great ideas let it go in order to receive what's great great grace right now just flowing from the throne of heaven right now to you receive it right now according to your faith receive it receive it receive it believe it my expectation brings about my manifestation retrain your mind know it believe it testing and see that he won't open up the windows of heaven about point your life blast right now any negative thoughts any addictions that you need to let go of right now we just loose it in the name of Christ thank you for your love for your peace that's coming in like a flood when the enemy comes in like a flood the Lord comes in a racist of a standard moon higher lofty thoughts creating a reality creating this life for yourself you see it has given you the vision it's not to taunt you about to tempt you it's not to hold hold it over your head in disbelief but is to reach out and grab it to embrace this life peace be upon you peace be restored the years that the enemies tried to take away peace be restored then it'd be your possession with each breath releasing right now just the righteousness being restored unto you Christy whoever needs righteousness being made right with God through the work that Christ has already done let go of the reins like all the steering wheel jesus take the wheel let it go you just received the grace right now like a flow righteousness being restored in a sense being restored peace peace peace receive amen in Jesus name Amen good stuff y'all amen Love Wins Ali says peace and joy oh good stuff love you guys Chris bars I see your comments bro I will see you this weekend and I will watch that Lady Gaga movie with you man Ali says God we pray for clarity in the dealings with people in our life we pray for your plans for our life to come into fruition we pray for peace about the decisions we make every day lead us Oh God amen and amen love you guys man let's do this let's make it happen great things are ahead love each and every one of y'all and uh but obviously peace of Shalom god bless that does it for this episode folks you hear more episodes of the truth seeker podcast head over to juicy become and if you're wanting to support the show and get rewards go to our patreon page at patreon.com forward slash truth seeker


