Spirit of the Deal

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Brandon Handley 0:00 Hey there spiritual dope and welcome back to Are you ready to succeed? We're doing some deep dives on each of these chapters with primarily just because I love doing it, right. I love doing I love going through this book. This, like I said, about my fourth time going through the book. And each time I go through it, it's a little bit different. And I learned, I realized that I've learned something new, right? Because it's not that it's not so much that I think I've talked about this and one of these pieces, it's not so much what the book is teaching you about what you know, it's about your ability to grasp the concepts, as your knowledge has changed throughout time. So and also in other news, man, you know, super excited again, I love this book. I love the author, I love his TED Talk. And I've been able to book him for the podcast, I don't know how, how exciting is that? It's not really something that I really saw coming ahead. But you know, what, there was a, you know, a couple days a couple weeks ago, just kind of on a whim, reached out to him, I reached out to this PM, and I was able to secure a podcast interview with him. So How exciting is that? I guess, you know, kind of how you'd know nothing happens if you don't ask right, guys. So this, this chapter that we're gonna be working on is called, it ain't real. And what he's going to walk through here with us in this one is mental models. It's kind of like what what is a mental model? And, you know, where are they employed? The deal is that, you know, you've got, you've got mental models for what's true, you've got mental models for reality, you've got mental models for like, these are the facts, right. And you also have mental models for work, love and family. And basically, you know, you put a model up for just all kinds of different ways that how what, how is truth proceed? what is reality? How do you discern what the facts are, right? You've got a specific way that work looks for you. And your, your view is going to be different than mine. Same thing with love. And likewise, with family, it's definitely something that I learned while doing fatherhood. For the rest of us podcast, everybody's got a different view on on how the family is supposed to work. Right. But in general, they all kind of work. In, in the book, he gives a couple of different sample models. And kind of like these stories, one of them is the idea of, hey, you're not a part of the fast track crowd and you don't fit in and you're at work, right? I and then eventually you go through this kind of mental model, it builds kind of spirals down. And in the end you you decide that you're just not going to put in the effort, because you don't fit into this crowd. And you're just gonna look to the next best thing, right? That was one of the models, it's definitely more detailed in the book. And then another one of the mental models that he's got there is what men what women think, men find attractive. And then, you know, she goes in this in this model, it's a woman and she goes through the whole idea. And she's like, Well, you know, I just don't fit that criteria. So finally, I'm just like, you know what, I'm not qualified. I'm gonna die alone in old spinster. Right? And, you know, that type of thing, and that kind of that kind of mental thinking. So, you know, if you've got that type of thinking, you know, what, second, what's that? Gonna? Eventually, you know, how's that gonna play out? Right? You're not going to act on something, if that's your model. Another another one, this one's actually it reminds me of the other model reminds me of kind of like a Wayne Dyer story. And he's talking to a lady that's getting ready to move to Chicago. And she's like, Well, what do you think it's gonna be like there. And Wayne Dyer goes, well, what's it like? Where do people you know where you are now. And she goes, Well, the people are great. They're really kind and generous and all these other things. And she goes, Yeah, that's that's pretty much what you'll find there. And then another lady comes up to them, and she's moving to, you know, some different spaces as well as wage because hey, Wayne, what's it going to be like, when I moved there? She's like, he goes, boop. How are the people where you are now? And he's like, She's like, they're, they're bitter. They're angry. They, they never help out the room, because that's pretty much what you're going to find when you get there. You know, what? The deal is?

Brandon Handley 4:57 where you are, right? It's like, wherever Whatever it is, like where you are now, it's gonna be like that when you get there. It's like, you're taking that with you. And that's a model, right? you've kind of got it got that built in. So he presents some different models that you can go ahead and employ in your mind as you go through this book. And it's better to ask, right, if when you're presented with a new model, it's better to ask yourself is, does this new model work better for me than the one that I'm currently using? If you come from the background of, you know, how can you reframe that, right? It's really kind of like, you know, your model is real similar to the story that you tell yourself that you are, why you are where you are today because of XYZ, right? That's the story you've been telling yourself. But is it possible if that story is not quite right, so what happens if you decide to rewrite your story, right? Try a new model out for a while rewrite your story. And then if it still isn't a fit, then drop it, I love it. Because so many of us, we want to hang on to this story, you know, we're so emotionally invested in this story that we've created for ourselves that we've got to keep it. And he's like, if it's not a fit, if, if this is working for you, if this isn't working for you, then drop it, find a new one, find a new model, and use only what works for you. You know, these are my these are essentially models. And we'll get to the idea is like these aren't real, it ain't real, right. So it doesn't really matter which one you pick, but pick one that is working for you. The he gives you he gives you a mental model exercise. You know, I don't think this is really fair for me to go ahead and list out the entire thing or, or even share out like all of the individual stories, aside from the kind of give you maybe a synopsis of them, or give you an idea of what some of these are, right? But the first one is my mental models, right? This is write out your mental models in different areas. And you know, he goes to some of the some of these exercises, as you're going through them, you're gonna see your mental models, right. And you're going to make some changes in your mind as you're going through them. Because now you realize that you actually have that ability, you realize now that you have the ability to make a shift, to change some of your mental models, when that moment happens. And this is another thing that I love about this book, this is the very first book that I recall, that instructed you to stop reading, stop reading for a moment, and stop trying to push past that moment and savor it. Savor that moment and enjoy and relish in those new thoughts or revelations that you've just had. This is my own note right here. If you're not willing to do these exercises, if you're not willing to do the exercise, any book that you read, if you're not willing to do the exercises, when you get to the exercise, I think it's I think it's really fair for you to put the book down, because that's an indicator that says, Would you get the book for right? If you're not willing to try it out? Then Then if you're not willing to take action on some of those nuanced, not, you know, some of those new exercises and new ways of being that the maybe not now, maybe don't do it right now put the book down. This is just me talking. Because I, I know that I've gone through many books and done it and haven't done the exercises haven't followed through, haven't gone through it. And I do know that I have with this book and a couple others and each time that I actually follow through with the exercises, my life is changed. And any it's funny because I don't know, if you're listening on the podcast, and I've been able to see inside of the book at the exercise, you know, says, you know, when you're tempted not to do an exercise, resist the urge you only get out what you put in. And you know, I think one of the one of the years I did, it's like I'm doing this now, like I stopped and I you know wrote in the book, I'm doing this now and I stopped to do it again this year. Alright, we had to take a break for a second there, but we are back.

Brandon Handley 9:44 It was dinnertime. I think I think we'll keep going here. So again, if you're not if you're not willing to do these exercises, I don't think that you're just not. You're not ready right now. And that's okay, too. But you're in luck, you could only just go ahead and read the book. I'm not saying don't, um, you may, you may find an exercise past this one that you're able to do, and then realize just how just how much these, these doing these exercises does help. So it's not real, I love this, you know, he talks about the whole idea is that you cannot unlearn an idea that has taken root. And that's really, really why we got to be careful about what does go into our minds and what we really think about because once we once that thing kind of gets in there and seeps in there, it's it's almost impossible to to unlearn that idea, that concept, it's in there forever. Everyone perceives the world differently. This is what what he says here in a book that is the the bedrock of effective negotiation is to understand here that somebody else is going to perceive the world differently, and try and figure out what that difference is, so that you can effectively negotiate. This is a universal truth. The fact is that everybody is going to see the world differently. foundations of a worldview can change when we look inwards. When we recognize the whole idea, the whole idea, then is when we recognize that someone or anyone has different views, we also realize that we have the capability to change our own as well. So we can change our models, we can change the foundation of our own worldview. Once again, we get in there and we make it and make it seated. Look, we got people out there that did a to have a flat Flat Earth view, right? Who really truly believed this, because, you know, because somebody has been able to spell it out in some way that is, that makes sense to them. And that's really all you got to do is figure out a way to where it makes sense for you. And ultimately, your your whole worldview will change as well. So our worldview isn't even really knew. The deal is that we've made it out of mental models. And then once we create these mental models that we discuss, we live within those constraints, we create something based off of our perceptions, you know, what it is that we think that we're seeing based off of what we know. And then we live within those constraints, we are making our own prison the most, or, you know, or, or we're creating our own freedom. So it's merely a construct, you have dozens of models, that you stitch together to create the fabric of your very own reality. I love the concept. And the idea that he puts in here is each each one of these models that you put together is like the facet of a geo disc home. And the deal is if one of those facets isn't real, then maybe none of them are, maybe none of them are therefore, therefore, this son of a bi T, therefore, your life is not real. And never has been because you base it off of these concepts, these ideas, these constraints, your perceptions. Right, and so that part, so I remember reading that for the first time, and it blew my mind, too. So the deal is you made the construct, you live in the construct, and there are equal parts of that construct that they're real and unreal, but you made it, you live in it. And then this piece right here is kind of the next one that would, you know, just kind of blows the lid off. The life you are living is a reality. The life you are living is a reality. He says your mistake is thinking that it is the reality. All right. I mean, when you think about it, when we think about how do you even envision your future, or you're sitting there and you're like it could go this way that way or the other way. You're thinking about all of those multiple possibilities, all those multiple realities that

Brandon Handley 14:41 that could actually come forth. We'll pause it here on this part, and this would be long enough and they're about 15 minute mark and we'll finish it up. So this is going to be the It ain't real. This will be the end of it. A real CHAPTER TWO OF sukumar. Rouse, are you ready to succeed? And we'll pick it up here we go.

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Teanna is like the sister I never had, a ton of fun and spot on with her gangster like approach to manifestation...

This podcast is for the person who wants to learn how to manifest but is sick of all the crackadoos out there who are super soft spoken and scared to admit that they don't know how it all works.

Teanna Campbell drops some real dope bombs to this podcast and I am thrilled that she was able to find some time and hop on as we also got to chat about a few of my favorite authors Neville Goddard & Florence Schoville Schinn.

If you are looking for a manifestation coach that knows their shit, reach out to Teanna, she is legit!

Places you can connect with Teanna: Youtube Channel

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Brandon Handley 0:00 4321 Hey there spiritual dope. This is Brandon Handley, as if you didn't already know my name. I am on today with Teanna Campbell. She is a manifestation mindset, money and magic coach, she has one goal, and it's her favorite. She wants to give you the tools and support you need to release your mind magic, reject your bullshit. And ignite your healing so that you can live life unfucked and stuff your bank account with cash and fill your life with everything you've ever wanted. I'm so happy to have you on today, what's happening?

Teanna Campbell 0:39 That was even better than I could have done. Good job. I'm just out here with you. I'm excited.

Brandon Handley 0:45 What about you, I'm excited as well, we've been kind of going back and forth, we stumbled upon each other on Instagram. And, you know, I'm a fan. And so I was like, hey, without let's let's have this conversation, you have a great brand. with just your delivery, you're entertaining, you are clear with your, with your delivery. And, um, you don't fit the same mold as everybody else to which is great. But as everybody else is kind of doing it like this kind of this, there's, there's like a certain way all this has to be done right? And like, you're not doing it that way. Like I'm like, Thank God and this is it's refreshing. So happy to have you on super excited. And one of the things I usually like to start us off with is, you know, creative energy source energy speaks through us, right? And it's kind of like we were talking about before we even got started, like the people that are looking for you just kind of show up. Right? Well, right, that says that you're, you know, that people are going to hear us talk about today is going to be for them explicitly. And it's going to come through you right now. So sources saying what to you to that one person listening right now?

Teanna Campbell 2:08 Oh, God, be you I think being authentic is really preached a lot in this industry without being celebrated or necessarily tolerated. Like you said, I don't really fit the mold. I teach this shit a different way. which some people don't enjoy. But it is authentic to me. So I just think actually follow the advice of staying who you are. And if other people aren't doing it your way, then fuck is the effort allowed on here?

Brandon Handley 2:48 I think we started it with that. I mean, it was part of the introduction. So

Unknown Speaker 2:51 you know,

Brandon Handley 2:52 I said you can live your life on Fox. And so you can follow my lead or do what you want to do.

Teanna Campbell 2:57 I mean, I say it all the time I drop it. So I just don't want to but I think that's just really the big thing. Fuck them if they don't accept it, because all of this is meant to be a very personal practice. It's not a one size fits all there is not a secret formula that someone has unlocked. It's very personal to each person, and it should be celebrated that you do it individually. So I think that is something important for everybody to remember.

Brandon Handley 3:30 Yeah, so it's like be authentic, let it go. But be truly authentic too. Right? Not just this not this authentic that everybody else thinks you should be

Teanna Campbell 3:43 different. everybody's like, be authentic, but do it this way.

Brandon Handley 3:46 Right. Right. Here's how you be authentic. And if there's a recipe for it, that's not necessarily authentic. No. Right. So, um,

Unknown Speaker 3:57 what do I think that you should have on a shirt?

Teanna Campbell 4:02 Now the bitch I was actually just designing it like five minutes ago, honestly.

Brandon Handley 4:06 Well, that's because and now also say this because you open up one of your YouTubes with that, right? And you're like, you know, people may know me as or say, I'm a mouthy, bitch. I'm like I'm like I love it. Right and I all I see is that on a shirt for you? Because your graphics are great, right? You do a great job. Who does your graphics? do you do that? You work yourself?

Teanna Campbell 4:26 I do it. Yeah,

Brandon Handley 4:28 yeah. So I love guys if you're not following, john, I'd like just go check her out. It's fun. You do a good job with the designs and the branding. And so your current brand is a manifestation gangster, is that right? Yes, it is. Let's talk about it. So tell us a little bit about if I'm checking out manifestation gangster What am I getting myself involved with?

Teanna Campbell 4:55 Um, wow. A lot of fuck bombs. And a lot of nevel teachings mixed in with the fog bombs. People have a big problem with that for some reason. I don't know why, but they get very offended and say never would have never said that. And I'm like, he's not alive right now, you know? No.

Brandon Handley 5:17 No, it doesn't. It doesn't matter whether or not never would have said it. It's how you're teaching it. But would have been funny to hear him talk that way, though. Because what this clip like Anglo Saxon, like, you know, nevel was, I mean, just how would never have told you to get fucked.

Teanna Campbell 5:38 Right? It would have been so interesting. And I just, I don't know, when I listened to him. I can actually imagine it. Like, you can hear it sometimes in the tonality of his speeches. He kind of wants to. He wants to tell people, I've told you the same thing for 20 years. It shouldn't be this fucking hard.

Brandon Handley 5:56 Right? I think i think i think if i hear him saying it, he's got the one where he's talking about getting the clams or something in New York, right? He's there with his crew. And he goes, and he gets like, he orders it for breakfast. Or he wanted clams for breakfast. Right? And he's like, he could just see it. He sauced like it like, I don't know, 9am or something on a Sunday morning. It's like, he's just tore up drinking martinis, and he's going out with his crew. And it's like, I order the clams. Right? He's just so you know, he's so funny, but you could hear him saying, like, give me the fucking clams.

Teanna Campbell 6:34 Right? Right. Like you can hear him he? I am convinced he would approve, but the very strict nashvillians don't enjoy it, avoid it. Alright,

Brandon Handley 6:46 for those uninitiated without neville goddard, what's the what's the history on him?

Unknown Speaker 6:52 So

Teanna Campbell 6:55 honestly, all, I preach a lot of neville goddard. But it's not from a place of knowing an intense amount about him, I was only introduced to nevel. It's been less than a year, because I got so excited that I had figured out this whole key to manifestation and I was teaching it to people about how it's about your feelings and your vibrations that you put out into the universe. And it has nothing to do with your words. It's all the feelings, all the feelings. And somebody came to me one day, and they were talking about neville goddard. And I'm like, Who the fuck is that? And they're like, well, that's what you teach. And I'm like, no, it's no one's not I made the shit up. I discovered this, I'm gonna be famous. And they're like, you need to go check out neville goddard. Right. And I did, and I was heartbroken. Oh,

Brandon Handley 7:48 that's the worst, right? You're like, well, I can't believe this has been done before.

Teanna Campbell 7:52 That's exactly. So then I ordered every novel book, I could find neville goddard is a manifestation teacher. He's dead. Now. This he was around. What in the 30s 50s? somewhere? I don't know, a long time ago, we were not alive when he was around, right. And he taught it almost like he had books published. But it was more underground. It wasn't like common knowledge that everybody talked about. It wasn't like Napoleon Hill and the secret to getting rich. His was like seminars that he did. And he would just go and tell people about manifestation I take him he wasn't really in it for the money. He was like, here's everything I know. So he has crap everywhere. He will just need to read it. Because I didn't make it up.

Brandon Handley 8:45 This time, the this time last year, it was totally me. Um, so I'll throw on the one of the reasons he didn't need to do it for money. It was like it came from a wealthy family. Right. So he had a super wealthy family. And while he was not relying on that, it gave him the confidence to say whatever the fuck you want to say. Because one of the things that is interesting is that if this is all you do, it can be a challenge. Right? Some sometimes you'll you'll may fall out. So lots of good word phrase sell out. Sure. So so an Alan Watts talks about that too. You know, watts fan.

Teanna Campbell 9:37 He, I don't know who that is.

Brandon Handley 9:40 So real similar with Alan Watts, right. So he's another guy like kind of they're, they're around the same era. Both kind of beat Nicky, you know, weird ways of talking, but similar space. But what he says is like when you do these things, and you have to do it as your only thing there's a certain sense Stress behind it right? A certain like this happen a certain restriction of yourself right? Not being often Sure, right? Like you're you lose some sense of authenticity because you're like, ah, but people won't buy it because it's fucking crazy. Right? But like, you also go back to the idea of like, yeah, 50% of the people hate you, no matter what you do. And 50% of people love you. So so it's like, you know, tell me get back. So you're doing the devil, you're doing the nevel f bomb gig. So, yeah, you got into it, though, kind of on your own. So how did you get into this space?

Teanna Campbell 10:42 So I taught manifestation. Before that's been my gig, I became a hypnotist. And then I got really into manifestation and using hypnosis for manifestation. And through my own trial and error and practice and working with clients, I was like, holy shit, this has nothing to do with the words and the affirmations, necessarily. affirmations are helpful, but they're not like the key to everything you've ever wanted. And so just through working through all of that for a couple years, I was like, Oh, my God, it's the feeling. It's the feeling. Right? And I was so proud. But it just started with I taught manifestation. And I was tired of traditional manifestation like, I will reference abraham hicks sometimes because I think there's some good quotes in there. But there are definitely a lot of people who have heard me say, I hate abraham hicks.

Teanna Campbell 11:48 I hate the way it's taught.

Teanna Campbell 11:52 And so just through getting frustrated with people not seeing results, doing it the abraham hicks way. I took it and figured out what worked and what didn't. And it happens to be the same stuff that neville goddard

Teanna Campbell 12:08 teaches about. Okay.

Brandon Handley 12:11 Would you so abraham hicks is a all law of attraction? Would you consider Neville Goddard's teaching law of attraction? Or would you consider manifestation? Because I think it sounds like there's a little bit of a discerning, right.

Teanna Campbell 12:28 I think neville goddard actually had a really good understanding of all 12 of the spiritual laws, he doesn't make references to each specific one. But if you study the 12 spiritual laws, or the 12 laws of the universe, each one you can pinpoint to different level teachings. So I think he just had a really good understanding of all of it. So there is law of attraction in there, because it's one of the laws, but he goes over all of that, which is probably why I enjoy his work more. I it's not all law of attraction.

Brandon Handley 13:12 Okay. No, I mean, it's interesting, right? Because that my, again, my perception is he's different than just your strict like law of attraction people and, you know, right, positive and positive thinking and all this other stuff. He's in a different different sphere, different space. And so I think it's interesting that that's kind of who you you gravitated towards and, and run through. So you did the hypnosis, right? For manifestation, and then, you know, you came across the feeling part, right? So Where, where, where did that epiphany come from for you?

Teanna Campbell 13:54 It's so cliche, but I was literally just driving in my car one day, I do all of my best thinking in my car. I am convinced if I ever write a book, it will be thoughts I've had in a car. And it just popped into my head. I don't know if I was talking with a client. I have a really bad habit of doing voice talking with clients over the phone while I'm driving. Um, so I don't know if I was talking with a client or what it was. But I remember sitting at the stoplight waiting for it to turn green. And I was just like, oh my god, it's about vibrations. And right there in this split second of it wasn't a split second, it was like 10 seconds. I had already planned out this entire course about how manifestation is vibrations and how to tune into it. And while I was launching and working with people, somebody told me about nubble It all happened very quickly, but it was just in my car.

Brandon Handley 14:52 Yeah, that's great. It's great. I think I think that is is huge right where emotion and feeling right is about big part of it when and it's also tied to the visualization aspect right? And if you tie that right to a your feelings and emotions, right, you don't know, tell me what happens there.

Teanna Campbell 15:14 Well, I will I've never actually heard him talk about it, but I am convinced neville goddard evil either was a hypnotist or had a really good understanding of hypnosis. Because everything he talks about the state akin to sleep in the visualization with the feelings, that's hypnosis, when he mentions getting really relaxed so that the images go into your subconscious mind. That is hypnosis. So essentially, in all of his books, when he's telling people how to visualize and how to relax, he's just telling everyone how to self hypnotize. And I think that's a big part of why it is so effective because hypnosis is sending messages straight to your subconscious mind, which is then what you experience in reality.

Brandon Handley 16:06 He calls the subconscious does he call it a subconscious? So he calls right

Teanna Campbell 16:11 mind more often. But I don't like to say unconscious mind. Just that's it. That just feels wrong to me since I was trained as a hypnotist first, okay, so I call it the subconscious. But he does have a few books where he also just straight out refers to it as the subconscious mind, the subconscious mind.

Brandon Handley 16:32 So I think that one of your first when we first connected you were calling it the God the God, what was it the God? God manifestation? God state God state, that's what Yeah, which is very novel, too, though, right?

Teanna Campbell 16:51 That was, so it's funny talking about authenticity. My brand is quirky and bright colors, and not like other people. And I had a friend who was kind of an Instagram goddess, she has, like 400,000 followers on Instagram, she's built up a ton of accounts to hundreds of thousands of people. And she didn't agree with my branding on either of my businesses. And so I changed it to be Instagram friendly. And she's the one who was like God state because that's what people will search for when they search for nevel stuff. And you need to go plain with black and white, maybe a little bit of gold because people respond to that. So I took everything and made it so boring. And our friendship and I

Brandon Handley 17:46 really liked it by the way, I liked your golden black. And I was like I was like it's very well done. So right. So you know, maybe that's okay.

Teanna Campbell 17:56 Just wasn't you,

Teanna Campbell 18:00 me. Our friendship ended up like not working out it is what it is whatever you know, girls do when they get together. And with time, I was like, well, this is who I really want to be. Right. So I changed it to how it was before her and probably confused the crap out of everybody. But that was authentic. So God's state was actually like the brainchild of someone else that I came up with the name, but it was with the encouragement of other people.

Brandon Handley 18:34 I hear you, I hear you. I've done many things with the encouragement of other people that I should. So let's talk about let's talk about your brand now like I mean, you've got manifestation gangster, it's a lot of fun, it is bright, it is vibrant. And you know what type of people you working with.

Teanna Campbell 18:56 Um, it's funny because I get kind of I work pretty much just with women, a lot of women business owners and a lot of the single mom kind of women I you attract a lot of what you are so because I've had healing around all of the stuff I've had to work through, the majority of people I work with and attract are actually in the same place I was in years ago. So that's almost exclusively, who I end up working with.

Brandon Handley 19:36 Now, it's interesting, and I've definitely found that to I mean, some of my first interviews were with like, you know, people with not necessarily daddy issues, but like, you know, had, you know, weird dad backstories that were almost identical to mine, right? Like my dad died of like everyone overdose, right? And like, maybe like three out of 10 people that I interviewed, they had their dad's

Unknown Speaker 20:00 I'd like heroin overdose.

Teanna Campbell 20:01 Have a beer dad that story. See? See, look?

Brandon Handley 20:07 Maybe this is more common than we thought. What's your what's the weird dad backstory?

Unknown Speaker 20:15 Um,

Teanna Campbell 20:18 wow. My dad was never involved. And I learned when I was like six or seven that my dad didn't want me and so the dad I had was actually an adoptive dad. Because he married my mom when I was like one. And then he left and then I met my bio dad, it was just like a shit show all through my teen years. The weirdest and now I haven't talked to him in 20 years.

Brandon Handley 20:50 That fucking

Teanna Campbell 20:54 No, I'm sure that you are great one. So we're not gonna say

Brandon Handley 20:58 no, that's totally true. I'm talking about the rest of them. I kid I just um, so what else is fun in this space? I mean, what is your favorite nevel like so here's another part of this podcast, right? This podcast is really about leaning into that authenticity. What did it take for you to start working in this space? Because it's not one that I would say is super socially acceptable and easy to break into? Is that what do you think

Teanna Campbell 21:29 neville goddard space

Brandon Handley 21:30 neville goddard law of attraction and manifestation coaching you know that you've got 90% of the people that you've run into relate with that's woo woo is, you know, all this other stuff. So what was it like jumping into this space and kind of leading from there?

Unknown Speaker 21:47 Um,

Teanna Campbell 21:49 I honestly didn't really have problems with it. Before I really jumped into neville goddard. I was mostly exclusively a mindset coach, like, that's why I learned about hypnosis. So I was already talking mindset stuff. I was already talking about the subconscious mind, I was already kind of in that space. And then it just kind of slowly evolved, I think, into what it is now. And because it was slow. The audience that I had built up over the years just followed with me, they evolved with me as well. So for me, it was actually a really easy transition. I didn't have a difficult time with it at all. I don't I'm not part. So there's a lot of the really big like nevel teachers, I've never talked to any of them I haven't like broken into

Brandon Handley 22:45 circle

Teanna Campbell 22:46 their circle, right. So it's just kind of me doing my own thing, but I like it that way. So I just hang out and do what I want to do.

Brandon Handley 22:58 What I'm so if I was to call for coaching with you, what's our What's our first call like?

Teanna Campbell 23:06 I just do very open. Caught like a call would kind of just start with the bullshitting. What are you working on bullshitting? It's important stuff, but what are you working on? What are you manifesting? How are you feeling about it? What are you currently doing what, and then we just break it down into what's standing in their way if they're having consistent, focused thoughts on why it's not there, or what is missing or how it's not coming. And then we just let it evolve naturally, I'm a very free flowing person, I don't have a lot of the super structure in my calls, or my coaching packages or my businesses. Nobody is built the same kind of like how we talked about in the very beginning of this, it's a very personal journey to everyone. And one type of ritual, I call them rituals, that's kind of Woo. But one kind of ritual or technique doesn't work for everybody. So I take the time to really get to know people so that it actually does work for them. So the calls there's not really a big structure to it. It's let's get to know you and see where you are. And then we just break through that shit.

Brandon Handley 24:25 No, absolutely. Right. So tailor made. Right, right.

Teanna Campbell 24:30 100% no call is ever the same.

Unknown Speaker 24:36 Could couldn't be if you tried.

Brandon Handley 24:40 And let's talk about doing doing this kind of as a parent to are you I know you said your son's at the game, right? Right now or practice, right

Teanna Campbell 24:49 doctor? I have two daughters. The one plays football so that's what

Brandon Handley 24:54 Yeah, so do teach your children and stuff.

Teanna Campbell 24:58 Yeah, yeah. My kids are like my coach when I get stuck, and I'm focusing on the wrong shit. And I'm like, Oh my god, everything is going wrong. My kids will jump in and they'll be like, Mom, what you focus on grows? And I'm like, Oh, snap. Okay.

Unknown Speaker 25:18 Well,

Teanna Campbell 25:20 thanks.

Teanna Campbell 25:22 My kids know probably as much about it as I do. I let them listen in on coaching calls. They listen to when I do trainings, there's probably the one listening in her room the next door right now. They listen to all of it, they are constantly immersed in devil in manifestation and mindset all the time. And they talk just like me.

Unknown Speaker 25:45 So, clearly,

Teanna Campbell 25:47 clearly, it's great conversation with their school teachers.

Brandon Handley 25:53 Do they? Do they bring it up at school? Have you ever gotten a call from schools and ask them what's going on with the manifestation or anything like that?

Teanna Campbell 26:00 The only time I've gotten calls from schools is when they drop bombs.

Brandon Handley 26:06 And bring out the good, that's what you focus on grows? Don't you tell them that?

Unknown Speaker 26:10 Right? That's cool.

Teanna Campbell 26:13 Just let them be just let them be? No. But they will tell their friends. My daughter had a birthday party at our house a couple weeks ago, and all of her friends came over. And it's a bunch of little 13 year old girls who wanted to be hypnotized and have their cards read. And it was I did not hypnotize them. That would be slightly unethical. But I did read cards and ship for them. So it's actually kids are really open to this stuff. And if parents were open about what they were learning and what they were teaching, and what they were evolving through, I think the kids would grow up to be even more adept at it than we are.

Brandon Handley 26:54 What I mean by that

Teanna Campbell 26:56 it's easier for them. But kids, my kids have I've been explaining this to them since they were seven or eight years old. And they have an amazing handle just intuitively on what manifestation is and how to use their mind. And they, I mean, if they want to snow day, because they don't want to go to school, they just go to bed and they say, we're not going to go to school tomorrow. And it's a snow day. Like my kids can manifest and do whatever the hell they want. And I think it's really beautiful.

Unknown Speaker 27:30 Um,

Brandon Handley 27:33 I love that I love that they love they are in that space. I think that it is very intuitive. I mean, once you kind of cross over certain thresholds. Is there any going back to the way you used to be?

Teanna Campbell 27:47 Not comfortably? Right.

Brandon Handley 27:50 You know, it's kind of it's very, you know, matrix II, right? There is no going back to you take that pill, there's kind of no going back. And if you're if you're not a fan of Abraham Hicks is like, there's there's no going back. She always says that, right? She says there's no going back.

Unknown Speaker 28:06 Right?

Brandon Handley 28:08 And it becomes, I mean, how does it feel? Does it feel it feels 100% natural to be in that state of being? Is that fair to say? Would you say that?

Unknown Speaker 28:19 Yeah. Yeah.

Brandon Handley 28:23 And would you say that it's, it just becomes intuitive, and once you kind of discovered is, it's like, it's almost like you've always known that it was there.

Teanna Campbell 28:33 Right? For sure. And I think breaking through to that side can be uncomfortable. Like, there's a lot of releasing the victim mode, and a lot of that stuff that we're taught through society, but like my kids, I've never heard them blame a problem on somebody else ever. It's always, like, they know how to take responsibility for what they've created. It's not just that somebody at school is mean to them, or that they got picked on by someone or that football practice was too hard. And their coach was mean, like they understand creating their reality, and that it's a mindset shift that they need to make. And because of that, I don't think like my children will ever be in that place of being a victim of anything, they will take control of it. For forever From now on, and I think kids are really, really good at that. If they're taught that from a young age.

Brandon Handley 29:35 Yeah, no, I agree. What, um, and I love that they take like, 100% of responsibility and that they create that space. I mean, let's talk about what it means to create that space. What is it? What do you mean by they create that space?

Teanna Campbell 29:53 I think that anytime anything happens that is undesirable, right. There's a lesson in How we kind of took part in that. And I, I do like to make a disclaimer, when I say that I don't mean the really big, bad, terrible life experiences like death. I don't include in that I don't think people manifest death at all, ever. I think that was already determined before we came here. But other things like the way that people treat you, or the results that you get either from something or from another person, it's never just something that happens to you, there's a lesson to be learned as to why that happened. If your mind was focused on, I'm not going to be good enough, or I never succeeded anything, or I never get hitched first, or people like other people, if you have those kinds of thoughts, then the result you got was a result of those thoughts. So I don't think any, that any of this stuff just happens to you. It's something that you can evaluate where in your mind, you attracted this results, and hold the space for yourself to create better beliefs and better thoughts. So that you get better results?

Brandon Handley 31:23 Is it easy for someone to change their beliefs?

Teanna Campbell 31:27 That's what hypnosis is for? Yes.

Brandon Handley 31:32 What is so can you do hypnosis? Like over over zoom? Or a phone call?

Teanna Campbell 31:40 Yeah, 99.9% of all my clients are over the phone,

Brandon Handley 31:45 or just audios and hypnosis as part of it. So you talked about earlier to like, you know, hypnosis is basically sending messages or beliefs directly to the subconscious. That's what you said. Yep. How like, I mean,

Unknown Speaker 32:04 right. So how,

Brandon Handley 32:08 how am I preventing things from getting to the subconscious? Without hypnosis?

Teanna Campbell 32:15 Um, how are you preventing things from getting your subconscious?

Brandon Handley 32:20 Yeah, like, I mean, why is it what makes it what makes hypnosis able to do that?

Teanna Campbell 32:26 So hypnosis, what it does, you spend a bit of time getting relaxed, right? So like Neville talks about that too, you get relaxed before you do the visualization. The reason you get relaxed or why your hypnotherapist will relax you is because when you physically relaxed, your conscious mind gets really bored. And it checks out. When your conscious mind isn't there anymore as your gatekeeper, your subconscious mind is accessible. And that's how you just put the messages straight in, you can put stuff through to your subconscious without being hypnotized. You just have to repeat it a lot. You have to put the conscious effort into it, you have to make sure that you're focused on it and not allowing other beliefs said. So it's you you can it's just like taking a long road I prefer just getting shit done really fast.

Brandon Handley 33:24 know for sure so but so what you're saying then is the conscious is acting as a gatekeeper. Um, and yeah, if you're trying to put new stuff in. Like if I try to put new stuff in my brain, my conscience would be like, No, no, no, no new stuff, because we've got all this other stuff here that we're so good with. Right?

Teanna Campbell 33:46 Right, right, or this other stuff we have contradicts what you're trying to put in there. Like if you have a belief that you were born into a broke family, and that you're always going to be broke, that money is hard to come by money doesn't grow on trees, etc, etc. If you have those beliefs really ingrained in yourself or in your subconscious mind, and you're trying to affirm over and over again, I am rich money flows to me money sticks to me, your subconscious mind and your gatekeeper. Like we already have these other beliefs that are different than that. So you either have to get rid of the old ones, or repeat the new ones a lot.

Brandon Handley 34:33 And each time, each time I'm repeating these affirmations, though, my subconscious is like,

Teanna Campbell 34:38 no, right? Right. Like you're just reminding yourself over and over again, like No, that's not true.

Unknown Speaker 34:47 So, you know,

Brandon Handley 34:51 I was talking with somebody else earlier this week and and the idea of, they call it the quantum question. I don't know if you've seen that when the quantum question or Have you seen Noah St. John's? Oh hell, what does he do? AV formations? Oh, yeah, yeah.

Teanna Campbell 35:11 Yeah. Asking questions.

Brandon Handley 35:13 So is that like ordinations? So is that like, so I just heard this weekend, there's some other dude out there doing the exact same thing. So he's calling it the quantum question. Because quantum, because everything is quantum right now.

Teanna Campbell 35:27 It's the new authentic, trendy thing.

Brandon Handley 35:30 Right, right. Quantum quantum authenticity. But I think that that's a trick for the subconscious right to bypass the subconscious. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So is that similar?

Teanna Campbell 35:43 Yeah. So like, you were just saying, if you have grown up and been raised really poor, do you have that super strong, subconscious belief? And you're trying to affirm over and over again, I am rich, your subconscious mind is like, No, you're not. But if you're asking it in the form of a question, your subconscious mind starts to go, hey, what? And you kind of trick it and so it starts to figure out how to make it true. So I wouldn't say affirmations, affirmations, I wish you would have named it something else that was more distinguishable. But affirmations are definitely a better tool, especially when you're starting then regular affirmations that everybody preaches.

Brandon Handley 36:32 Yeah, no. Absolutely feels like feels like feels like a nice trick, right? I feel like, you know, the brain, the mind, whatever you feel like calling it has to close a loop. Right? So if you ask it those questions, it's like, it just wants to close that loop. It doesn't really care. Just Just like, well, he asked, right, I need to find answers. So um, what is like one of your life? So? I love man, like I save like, all kinds of like the neville goddard ones. So the coin I haven't, I think is one of my favorites. Right? Do you listen to his speeches when he's talking? Or Geez. So yeah, do you have a favorite a nevel YouTube video?

Teanna Campbell 37:19 Oh, I kind of knew you were gonna ask something like this. And I was not prepared. I don't have a favorite nevel YouTube. But there's a book and it is his last book that was ever released. And I cannot remember the name of it because it's on my phone. But it's basically and you can only get it on Audible. Um, it's a collection of a book he was working on before he died. And then some random speeches that were never like published anywhere else.

Brandon Handley 37:56 Okay. The full reader? No. Who's got that one? Right. The full readers a one of those ones.

Teanna Campbell 38:06 Yeah, not a whole lot of his books together. This is something

Brandon Handley 38:09 something else. Well, I've got one audible credit. I am going to use

Teanna Campbell 38:15 telethon. Hold on. I have. I'm tricky. I have two phones. So give me such a burner and ridiculous.

Teanna Campbell 38:24 Yeah, no.

Unknown Speaker 38:28 No.

Brandon Handley 38:34 While you're looking that up, I mean, do you see the space is, you know, growing becoming more acceptable. versing The, the you know, the conservatives base? Like, what are your thoughts on kind of where this is going? manifestation or mindset training and just kind of being in the space?

Teanna Campbell 38:59 I think that people are getting more and more. Um,

Teanna Campbell 39:10 it's just becoming more accepted. And I think that by hearing your friends talk about it, or I'm hearing it talked about more on things like Instagram or YouTube or whatever it is. People are becoming more inclined to pay attention to it and to accept it. So I think it's it's making a big I hear more and more people talk about it all the time. Or people come to me and they're like, Oh, yeah, I've actually heard about that. And I'm like,

Brandon Handley 39:52 say What? Get out of my spigot.

Teanna Campbell 39:54 It's not this big secret anymore.

Unknown Speaker 39:56 Right right. Now I hear you. I hear you. And then I

Brandon Handley 40:04 was so I'm kind of waiting on you to to get your novel guy.

Teanna Campbell 40:08 No, I don't know what my phone is doing. I want it. I think it might be this one called the infinite potential, but I'm not. It's like 400 an hour. It's not really 400. Yeah, infinite potential.

Unknown Speaker 40:24 Yeah. And what do you love about it?

Teanna Campbell 40:28 It's not the typical

Teanna Campbell 40:32 stuff that you hear about nevel because it's not, it wasn't. It's not one of his big books like feeling is the secret or any of those. So it's not the same regurgitated stuff. This is like his, it's more advanced level, but he also doesn't speak quite so biblically. In some of it like he does in his previous works. It's just a different vibe. And I'm sad. He never like actually finished all of the stuff he was working on. There is one book in there that is basically like taken straight out of the Bible. It's not my favorite one. But it still has a lot of really good points to it.

Brandon Handley 41:20 Right. So I think it's interesting, too. And I don't think that we mentioned that yet that most of his stuff is out of the Bible. Right, like, right, you're like, but when he talks about it, he talks about it in a way that I know I'd never heard about it. The Bible talks about that way. Right? Because if it was like, I still remember, the first time I heard I was listening to one of his books driving from North Carolina to New Jersey. And he's talking, I got excited. I was like, this is it. I'm driving by myself like, right. Right. This is awesome. I mean, I was like, Why? Why? I was like that this book is now this book is cool.

Teanna Campbell 42:09 Right now this dude's legit. Right? I'll let him Yeah, I do. I love how he takes the Bible. I grew up in a very, very religious LDS household. What does that mean?

Brandon Handley 42:24 Oh, god. What LDS mean, okay. I don't put it okay. Yeah.

Teanna Campbell 42:29 The Mormons. Have you ever heard of those

Brandon Handley 42:31 people? Yeah, they're they're out there. What is LDS stand for Latter Day Saints? That's what it is. Okay.

Teanna Campbell 42:39 Yes, Latter Day Saints. I forget not everyone lives in Idaho, where there's a mormon church on every corner. But we grew up I grew up super Mormon, and I never identified with it. So I was kind of like the black sheep of my family because I wasn't all up in the

Unknown Speaker 43:02 Mormon.

Teanna Campbell 43:04 Hold version of shit. And they all use the scriptures all the time to harp on the way you should be. And so when Neville started using the Bible and explaining that it's a guide for manifestation, and it's not this historical book that we're supposed to, like, emulate, I was like, Oh my god, I love this guy so much.

Brandon Handley 43:30 I love to try to get anybody in your family to listen to

Teanna Campbell 43:34 my immediate family, my mom and my sisters, my brother, they have all actually like crossed over to my side a bit more. Yeah. They are not Mormon II at all. And they will talk about manifestation and they will talk about the feeling and the focus, and I think it's really fucking awesome.

Brandon Handley 43:56 I love it. Yeah. What would you say manifestation is when I'm manifesting? What am I?

Teanna Campbell 44:06 You are

Teanna Campbell 44:09 programming.

Teanna Campbell 44:12 Oh, there's so many different ways. You can describe it in so many ways. But you're programming your desired reality into your subconscious mind so that it manifests on the 3d physical plane.

Brandon Handley 44:24 You're saying my brain is a 3d printer?

Teanna Campbell 44:27 Yes. Yes. Oh, that's beautiful.

Teanna Campbell 44:33 Yeah, brain is a 3d printer.

Brandon Handley 44:35 That's awesome. That's awesome. Who else do you really love in this space? Um, outside of nevel that you kind of teach about,

Teanna Campbell 44:43 and Lauren so Val shin. She's the mom. I love her so much.

Brandon Handley 44:49 Haha. She is awesome. She's awesome.

Teanna Campbell 44:52 I don't know how she is not preached everywhere. Like I don't know where people decided. Abraham Hicks was Gonna be the one that everyone relied on but they are missing out on so much. Yeah, by not having Florence plastered everywhere, which and it's

Brandon Handley 45:13 Hi, favorite affirmations from Florence Give me one or two. Because she's she's an affirmation queen. She's a great affirmation queen.

Teanna Campbell 45:21 I don't use hers.

Brandon Handley 45:24 All right, no, no, no worries. I gotta look one up because I

Teanna Campbell 45:26 have basically one affirmation that I use. Okay, and it's not hers. What is it? Oh, it's there's nothing I can do to fuck this up. Who? I love it.

Brandon Handley 45:41 Love it. Nothing is as yours or do you have somebody you want

Teanna Campbell 45:48 I heard something similar from a YouTuber Her name is Jasmine. She teaches about like how to manifest this was a specific person, which I don't really get into because I don't give a shit about it. Um, but she said something similar to that. And I took it and adapted it to my language. And now it's just basically the only one I use

Brandon Handley 46:12 a

Teanna Campbell 46:13 lot. What were you pulling up by Florida?

Brandon Handley 46:16 Like it's like I love them all. So the thing that I love about forest is that hers like so she was an artist. So when she's writes, he does a really good job of painting the picture, which is what you're supposed to when you write but not everybody does it with the visuals that she can do. She's got one that's like talks about Here it is. Here's one that I really like, I am harmonious happy and divinely magnetic and now draw to me my ships over comm See, that's not the one I love, though.

Teanna Campbell 46:44 Like, I just like that one. I don't love it.

Brandon Handley 46:46 Yeah, but she's got so many and a couple of them. When I know when I was listening to her, like all times always listening to, you know, the game of life and how to play it and your word is your wand. Right? And one of them's like, you know, I see lines in my path, and I walk up to them realize that they're friendly. airedales, which is a type of dog, right? I didn't know what airedales were for a while, but I finally was like their dog. Uh, but it's true, right? You're, the things that you are afraid of that are on your path. If you don't walk up to them, you know, you, you're always afraid of them. But when you walk up to them, you see that, you know, they probably provide more benefit than other another thing that between I was listening to her nevel all the time. And it was the idea of just giving all your worries over to God but I also translated God into my subconscious because of, of nevel right and I was like, God all makes fucking sense as like if I just if I just give it over to like the 95% that pumps my you know, pumps my blood grows my hair grows my nails and does a bunch of other shit that even if I didn't know how to do it, I wouldn't be able to do it any better than it already does. Right? Why don't I just go ahead and let that part of me do that.

Teanna Campbell 48:10 That's where mine comes from. There's nothing I can do to fuck this up. Like I if my subconscious or my god self, whatever you want to call it is handling it. My little mere human pimply body like can't mess it up. So it's exactly the same thing. Hello. I love them. I love them. I love them. Right.

Brandon Handley 48:35 Right. And I agree, right? If you're if you're out there, and if you're in manifestation land, and you haven't checked, either one of them out nevel is is different, highly. I personally, I mean, I don't know about you, Tiana. Like I love how he talks like there's nothing better than like kind of driving down the road and listening to Neville talk.

Teanna Campbell 48:58 Right? Except you do have to be careful. There was one book I got from Audible, and the narrator was terrible. And I just listened to the whole thing. And I'm like, that is not what the fuck never would say like, I knew it was his words. It was not his tonality or his voice and I was so traumatized.

Brandon Handley 49:22 There's a guy out there, just I have Brant that reads a lot of his stuff. And he does a good job, but he's still you can't so the recommendation here is if you go find some nevel on YouTube, do not you must you must listen to him deliver it in person because his cadence is, was that a lilt to his voice right? Like he's just very, very, you know, Barbados. Just I love it. Right.

Unknown Speaker 49:51 And yeah,

Brandon Handley 49:52 yeah, check out some forums. What else do you love about Florence?

Teanna Campbell 49:58 Why do you have it She's just straight to the point. I think that's really that's how I teach. I don't do a lot of the fluff and the pomp and circumstance that like Abraham Hicks throws into it. Um, I like it very direct and to the point, and that is exactly how far it's like if you've ever looked at her books or books or this small. Yeah, it's because she's not about

Unknown Speaker 50:26 God want more, right?

Teanna Campbell 50:26 She's like, this is it. This is what you need to know. Go do. That's it. And I love that about. Yeah,

Brandon Handley 50:33 that's cool. It's perfect. What are you like, I just love her. Like I said, she paints great pictures. She has good affirmations. She's very clear, succinct. And it just all makes sense, right? Once in once you kind of get into this the flow and the pattern of this space. She's simple. It's easy, right? Keep it simple, stupid, right? And that's what she does. She keeps it simple. She doesn't try to like you said add anything to it. I think

Teanna Campbell 51:05 she has a quote as she starts one of her books by basically saying keep it simple, stupid, but she doesn't say stupid. She said something else. But that's how she starts her book. She's like, keep it simple.

Brandon Handley 51:16 Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't have to be. It doesn't have to be everything else. Right. One question for you. Right? Be if I've got a, you know, money block, right? If I'm having a problem with getting over that in my life, what's the quickest way I can get over that?

Teanna Campbell 51:37 evaluate your relationship with yourself? I mean,

Teanna Campbell 51:44 yes. Oh, every time it's when somebody has a money blog, it usually has to do with the way they feel about themselves. It has almost never really that much to do with the money. It has to do with they don't like the way they look. They don't like that they didn't graduate high school. They don't like that. They haven't had a lasting relationship. They don't whatever it is, they don't like about themselves. They're translating it over into their bank account. By healing your relationship with yourself. The money heals on its own. Pretty much every time.

Brandon Handley 52:25 keepin it simple. I love it. Where should people go to find you?

Teanna Campbell 52:32 I'm Tiana Campbell on YouTube.

Brandon Handley 52:36 You're blowing up? They're blowing up there. I know.

Unknown Speaker 52:42 Why yes, I am. Alright, Tana Campbell over on YouTube. Thank you, Brandon. Yeah, thank you for being on today.

Teanna Campbell 52:50 It was really fun. I appreciate it. Thank you.

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Brandon Handley 0:00 So as we we continue on literally chapter one is is not even that big right? I think it's all of Was it 19 it's like 15 pages. And it's a it's a 10 minute read, but this is this is what you take away. So what are some obstacles? What are some obstacles in chapter one? to this ideal life that we're talking about what you know, who do you want to become? What kind of life do you want to have? Do you want to have that fulfillment? Do you want life to be? Oh, humming, I know, I want to be humming, right, I want to just be a beautiful state of harmony and resonance. Um, maybe at some point, I'll share this a meditation where you can find the harmony and resonance within your own heart. to to to feel what to feel that to feel that resonance that I'm talking about. At least my again, this is all coming from my place of understanding at this current place time. And that's always growing. So obstacles to that ideal life obstacles are this right? You're gonna, you're gonna run into many books and authorities that tell you to be a good human so that you can profit. Ideally, you already behave this way. You treat people right? Because it's the right thing to do. You do think you do well, to be good, not just because of profit, and then attempting to link your values with external measures, like profit, cheap it and just credit your actions. Guys, I've gone down this path. And I know this to be true. Right? I've gone down this path, simply because I was just following, you know, some of those authorities, right? I was just following some of that. And if you do it for for expected gains, and then they don't happen, you're like, why isn't it happening? And you're attached to it? And, and again, it cheapens it like, you mean, you were only doing this so that this could happen? Yeah, I'm not proud of that. But at the same time I am, because I'm aware of what it's like to go through that. And I'm aware of what it's like to, you know, kind of, you know, follow this path, so that so that I could profit, right. I always tell people, I recently this recent interview, or somebody asked me how I get along this path of healing I was that wasn't on purpose. You know, when I went into it with the wrong intentions, I went into it, you know, to be a good human, so I could profit right, I wasn't for the right intention. But I've since grown out of that, right, I've since had a change of heart, I've since had a change of being. And it's it's it's powerful transformation. And again, that this book is a big part of it, a big part of it. So we're and this is a quote from Woodrow Wilson, which I think is super powerful. We are not here merely to earn a living and create value for our shareholders. We are here to enrich the world and make it a fire place to live. We will impoverish ourselves if we fail to do so this is exactly what we're talking about here. The current society is greed driven, has been driven by untested sciences and economics and also untested behavior models to justify actions. I don't have any specifics in front of me right now. But if we look back, I mean, the look and look at right now, we're going through, hey, let's just infuse it with cash. Let's, let's, uh, we look at I'm in the technology industry, where, you know, we're shutting Huawei out of like, all different types of networks. And when I say we, I mean, the United States of America. And again, to me, this looks more like, this looks more like it's to make America great again, versus the idea of, you know, a global, a global purpose, right? You know, the Euro, right, creating the Euro, all these things that are done to all these things that are done to propagate consumerism, right, and, and whatnot. This is driven by greed versus again, you becoming all of who you should become.

Brandon Handley 4:52 You don't have to take my word for it. Take a look at yourself as what's been done, for you to become the best of who you are. In Sreekumar, says, hey, these would otherwise be considered repeated activities. And I think that if you look deep enough, and, and and tightly enough, you'll you'll find the same, you'll find it to be true for yourself. Companies are changing for the better, there's a B corpse ought to look for some more of them, but one of them that I know of is Ben and Jerry's ice cream. And then we've also got the

Unknown Speaker 5:31 oposite.

Brandon Handley 5:37 So we've talked about the different companies, the B corpse, and how they're changing it to be a humane business paradigm, the company that I'm with is is one, I believe, where they put the people first people's growth burst, and how can they come in and contribute to the company as a whole? And how can they protect their people and make it so that they are not concerned so much about the need for survival. Because once you once you put that into somebody's mind, how am I going to survive, you begin to diminish that person's ability to create to operate, you diminish that person's ability to operate from a place of not abundance, a person's ability to operate from abundance. If you take that away from a person like that, we freak the fuck out. Alright, they are going to be they're going to be looking at a ways that they can make ends meet, they're going to be looking for different things that they're going to focus on survival just spoke about, and Maslow's hierarchy of needs. When you look at your survival needs, you are not able to focus on growth and thriving spaces, because if something's missing in their survival Foundation, you will focus on that until it has been resolved most cases, most cases, see change where you are, you know, so you don't have to, you're able to, you're able to go out and look for or create a company that you can align with, you will enjoy work more, you'll you'll be in harmony with your either your own values, or that company's values, and they exist, and you can create that. Or you can create that and you will find, again, if you can align with a company's values. And if they are working, and from the position of going to humane business paradigms. It's going to be that much more, right you're going to get you're going to have that kind of fulfillment in your life. I believe that we can go ahead and we can jump into the final piece of chapter one of the ideal life. And you can we will jump into the quest for more. The idea, the myth that is that more, makes you happier. Right. And and as we go, we look back at some of these other ones I'm trying to think of, yeah, obstacles to an ideal life, you know, powerful Institute's are driving this powerful Institute's drive marketing companies, you know, the companies that are strictly looking forward to going back to even the Woodrow Wilson quote, right.

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Brandon Handley 9:05 You're not here just to make shareholders happy, okay. And know that so they're powerful Institute's driving that kind of economy, our current economy, our focuses and fosters consumption only. One of our key metrics that is posed as a benefit is our per capita consumption. How's that? Yeah. We're great consumers. And this, this key metric proves it right? Is that something to be proud of? And it goes, goes back to kind of a attachment to outcomes. A, you go for more because you believe having more of that. Versus more of what you already are and have will make you happier. is funny because more of anything and everything will make you happier. That's a myth. More money, cars, houses friendships, freedom, leisure. Ironically, more of less, I want I want simplicity. I want minimalism. renunciation more, more more of all these things that you know, versus what you already have, you don't need more. To make you happier. You simply, you know, you kind of, it's okay. It's okay. It's okay want more for sure. But do not connect having more with your happiness, okay? You do not need to struggle to find happiness srikumar Rao says, Hey, you know, you do the work in this book, that it will come unbidden that the you do the work in this book, and it will well you'll find happiness well up Within You Without making that a struggle without putting happiness, you know, as the goal without happiness. It's funny because happening at the word just like happenstance, you are reacting into relation to something happenstance that something that is without you that really is are the external conditions. Going through this book, a portion of what you will find is I found, at least as I have found, you will find that happiness is with you at all times, will find that happiness is with you at all times. So that's been chapter one, an ideal life of Are you ready to succeed, the plan is to go ahead and continue with this, I don't know, I don't have a specific goal. For how long this is going to take, I do know that the plan is simply to complete it. And the idea is almost that remove time, from how long these things are going to take, right? If I rush this again, then it's going to take me longer, right? If I stop for a moment, as I did, as I have done as the book recommends, when something hits you stop for a second, be with it, feel it, let it be you know, a certain line or is still every time again, guys, girls, any fucking body. The idea is, you know, when something hits you stop and be with it, feel it. So this has been chapter one. I think there's you know, 910 chapters, I forget, it's been a while but I'm gonna go through them all, I plan to share them all out with you. And let me know if you're if you'd like to a you know, join join up with the group that I've got going for this right now. If you'd like to participate, because again, going through this book by yourself while it can be you can do it and it's great. It's much nicer to kind of go through it with the community and with others. And and you'll be able to kind of bounce ideas off of each other right? The will have a diversity of minds, as it were as we approach it together. So guys, take it easy. Be on the lookout for many more interviews coming up. Many other solo podcasts coming up and again, this little little journey that we're going through. Are you ready to succeed?

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Brandon Handley 0:00 Now we will go on to chapter one ideal life. This chapter is really only like it takes you 1015 minutes maybe to read, right? These are all of my takeaways, as I'm going through this as I'm reading it as I'm engaging with it. So, are you ready to succeed? chapter one, the third ripple, which is societal change, he Sreekumar calls leadership

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Brandon Handley 0:25 Shots fired. The truth is he made there are very few leaders out there, there are many who have hierarchical, hierarchical, hierarchical positions, right? Many people who have authority out there and they can they can all put you in a good or bad place. But the deal is Oh, yeah, and and the idea is to that neither one of those, they don't really care if you achieve your potential, all that they really care about is whether or not you feel the potential you feel the need for the role that you do to reach the level of productivity that you need to underneath of them. Okay. Also, the most of these people use they haven't been trained. Alright, maybe they haven't been they haven't been trained. They don't. They may not be here and I love this not able to manifest the life force that wins dedicated commerce to their vision. First of all, you got no vision. What do you what do you personally manifesting lifeforce for right that's why did the podcast on vision that's why vision is so important. It is to help you to manifest that lifeforce. This guy to dedicate converts, you know, to your vision. What is your life? You know, what would it What is your vision? If you don't have a vision, it's very difficult to be a leader. True Self interests, teaches selflessness. Now, again, that may seem kind of oxymoronic. But the idea of being a leader is to do things in service of others. How can How can you lead others to their own greatness? Right? How can you help someone to find out the best of who they are? Right here enlightened leadership is service. So what does it What does that look like for you? Have you been in the presence of a leader? Have you been in the presence of someone who can spell out their vision and you can just, you can feel it with them, and you want to be a part of that? And they come over you? And they're like, Well, you know, how would you like to contribute? You're like, ah, I don't fucking know. Nobody's ever asked me what I'd like to do to help you, you know, help, you know, be a part of this. They've always told me what I need to do. And you know, so leadership says, Hey, you, how would you like to do today? Do you like this? Can you see this vision? Are you a part of this vision? What would you like to do to help make this vision come true?

Unknown Speaker 3:16 And how can how can

Brandon Handley 3:19 I as a leader, you help you become who you want to become? Right? throughout this process? That's the true self interest. That's the well being of all, you know, again, the vision about the well being of self alone. Yeah, sure. I could have a great life. And again, go back to just following the instructions and doing the thing and have a have a life that doesn't require or incorporate any of this. But that's hollow. That's tinny? That's Yeah, I mean, so there's, there's, there's, that's a me lacks fulfillment. Leadership is a state of being not a skill.

Unknown Speaker 4:10 I love that. So

Brandon Handley 4:10 you have to go through today. And again, going back to the idea that let's let's take, let's take Facebook, let's take marketing, let's take, you know, all these 10 x your XYZ and you know, become this person, do these things, follow these steps, and this will happen for you. It's no good to study those specific styles, right? What is it about that person? Really, what is their intention? What reflect on the deeper qualities of that person, their style of leadership? What are they really doing what they do and this reminds me of Bob Proctor right. When he started the beginning, he would go up on stage and present and you know, you I could take I could take someone's scripts, I could take the words that somebody says and go through all those things, and I could do that. The things that would not have their results would not have their results just by doing the things that they did taking those actions, that's not going to get me there. I might have some source, I might, I might have something there, but I'm not, I'm not going to have those specific results, because I'm trying to apply these like skills, I'm trying to apply these tactics, and there's no intention in there for me, and chances are that I'm doing those things out of more more of a self interest of just unify me only me, me, me, me centered, versus how can? What is it that I'm doing that is bringing you both spiritual and material growth? Right? How am I helping you by showing up today? And it's once once we once we see kind of like, you know, these deeper qualities, you know, not even just you what's beyond you, you know, what's that grand vision for the world, the universe that I live in, where, whereby my helping you helps to bring up all of humanity. All right. So then, you know, different styles of leadership and methods of awareness appear to apply to all people all situate once you get this shit, once you get this stuff, man, once you get even just the beginning of this stuff, you start to build momentum, you start to see this applied, you sit at home, you know, I always always start at home, especially when I was doing fatherhood for the rest of us. Once you apply this at home,

Unknown Speaker 6:52 with your family with you,

Brandon Handley 6:57 that will do you'll see that apply in your community that will apply at work that will apply everywhere you go.

Brandon Handley 7:05 So you'll see it in all situations is it does it again, once you've once you get it, once you understand how this stuff works, it'll start you'll start to see it everywhere you go, you can't not you are a creature, you know that that seeks and creates your own types of patterns. Once you recognize a couple of these patterns and things quite literally, almost with a noisy clump, fall into position, you can't help but see, again, the jobs quote as you can't connect the dots going forward. But as you look back, you will be able to see that this does indeed apply everywhere all the time. And if that's the case, again, copy successors, there are you'll recognize where you've been successful and where somebody else has been successful, and you're able to see the parallels, and you'll be able to apply that going forward. And again, not not just for your own success, but for the success of all people involved. Right. And so leaders, because the leader, again, once you recognize this stuff, because the leader sees clearly they can shed light on others. To me, this is the idea of seeing divinity within themselves, they can see it and others reflect it back to them. And for the greater whole, you see everything as a miracle, right? You see everything as as divine, that everything, you know, that changes the way you see thinks. And leaders, you know, eventually, you know, they can see the bigger picture because they've gone beyond themselves, they see how it's all going to interact, and they see how to apply these patterns. So the idea of organizational change, to motivate, you know, to get you just to go do something is kind of demeaning and demotivating, right, like, if I look at you as a unit and I'm like oh what if I motivate you with this and then judge you're just more productive? For me? That's kind of demotivating right and the meaning because I'm just trying to get you to do what I want you to do under me as a management and as a greater level of productivity looking at you as a productivity unit in an industrial sense in an industry and sure we all want to be industrious um but again that's for me not view my job or a leaders job again is to find out what is it that is d motivating you? What is it that if I look at the book, glad right here I think no standout 2.0 right. Wait, wait. I'm so skilled, gives a shit about your weaknesses, right? If you play together as a team, and I put you in To where you're strongest at, you play your strengths. If you're playing to your strengths, chances are you're going to be much more motivated than if I come over to you and say, you know, you know, you didn't get your TPS report done. Right? And and maybe that's just not your thing. All right, find out what it is this demotivating, you remove the demotivator, remove the op, you're not, I'm not removing obstacles, so much as an A leader isn't so much removing an obstacle so much as they are helping you to navigate. I recently had a coaching session. And I told the coach, I said, Listen, let me just keep going kind of along my own way. And I'll reach out to you if I hit a wall. And he goes, Well, what about not hitting that wall at all? Right? What if I can, since as a leader, since I've been in the year, your situation, your space before, a point out where a couple of walls are held you meet or not even you physically point them out, but just help you to navigate them so that they never

Unknown Speaker 11:15 appear?

Brandon Handley 11:17 Right? He goes, yes. What happens if I make it so you never have to hit the wall? Like Well, that's, that's great. Right? How much time is saved that? So I love it, right? He's obviously Sreekumar Rouse obviously got like a kind of a thing for like the incipit imitator, right? The exercise in this book will help you become an authentic leader, instead of turning you into an insipid imitator, right. And I think that it's a line from Sherman, I'm flipping through the book real quick here, because I've got, you need to command the souls of others as well as their bodies. And you do this at first. But by working on yourself, right, he goes, uh, commands the soul of his men, right? You got to command the soul of men, that's from William Sherman, I'm guessing from you know, back in the day that the tank leader, but you do that by working on yourself first, I can't, I can't change anybody else, the only thing I do is change myself. And then once you start changing yourself, you begin to see the change in others. I know that sounds again, you know, kind of paradoxical, but it but it is true. In addition, leadership is inclusive of your family roles. And to me, once you start doing these things at your home first, if you have the opportunity to to work on yourself

Unknown Speaker 12:47 at home,

Brandon Handley 12:48 Imagine being able to do it around those that you know, love and trust with your family, then you are able to it really it's really a great place to practice, right. And it's a good place to implement leadership, how can I help my wife You know, become who she wants to become How can I help my boys become who they want to become not who I want them to become? Who do they want to become? Right. So, leadership in the family sense. So cut it there on the third chapter are on the third, third ripple. And as you can see, you know, once once you know individual organizational and into an opportunity as you grow. If you have the opportunity to become a leader in a certain space, then you can have the most impact, a greater impact and you can become that super strong ripple.

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Brandon Handley 0:00 So as we continue through the book, are you ready to succeed. And as we continue on to the second ripple, which is organizational change, we're gonna we're gonna look at how we can, you know, we can look at the idea of how we connect, and how that determines our lives. And then we also look at the idea of, how do we how do we determine how do we differentiate between a pure network contact,

Brandon Handley 0:30 which are cultivated for connections and positions and and all this other stuff? Right? We go after the Hey, what do you do? Oh, man, you could really help me what I do, and let me see how I can use you. And your role for for my gain my company's gain, right versus a true contact, right? Which is gonna change our intention, how can I? How can I How can I help you out? What is it that you do? How can I help you close a gap? We look at Zig Ziglar. And his old saying, which was, you know, the more you help others to get what they need, the more you can get what you know, help others get what they want, so that you can get what you want type of thing. So that type of intention, and I love that srikumar Rao has in here, whatever you are trying to do, must bring spiritual and material growth to others, right? How can I help you to grow spiritually, and materially, because live that we we live in those two different worlds, and that's okay. And that is what's going to begin your organizational change, you know, to change how you connect, how do you connect, let go of the idea that you person or body that you are the orchestrator of the events, it goes back into kind of creating the serendipitous events, how we don't even know how we are here in existence, let go of the idea that you are the specific orchestrator of events. When when you know, so again, that also goes back to the idea of control what you can control. That's just kind of like your thoughts and emotions and reactions, responses, that type of thing. Everything outside of that. It's beyond your control. And again, this is this is this is coming at this with my current level of understanding. Okay, so second ripple, organizational change, when you have the right mixture of passion and detachment, as well as the acceptance of what really happens. So, look, I'm super excited to be involved with some of the technology that I'm involved with, and some of the ideas that I'm working on. But I'm not

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Brandon Handley 3:07 to the outcome, being what I believe it needs to be right. So I think it should come out like this, or even a relationship or dinner, anything, right? I go out at night and get a flat tire, we should go out. I remember one night that Meg and I, you know, went out how to Uber and, you know, the, the date night, we hit a deer on the way home Buber driver hitting you know that that was you know, if I was would have been attached to a certain outcome, that outcome, that wouldn't have been the outcome, right. And I could have gotten angry or upset that that happened, right? I could have gotten angry the doober driver, you didn't dodge it or whatever. But I accepted it. We accepted it of what really happened. And again, in technology, or, you know, in the sales business, wherever you are, you know, you've got a great idea I made this video, this is what I'm creating. I'd love for it to have thousands and millions of views. Maybe maybe one maybe get zero views and and that's got to be okay, I'm not doing it just for the likes, or the or any of it. I'm doing it because I enjoy it. I'm doing it because I believe that there's value for you to go through it as well. I believe there's value in these concepts and ideas. And the more that I learned about them, the more that I put them into my own mind, the more that I could bring bring into the world with them, if that makes sense. All right. So also think about the idea and like he says, you know, in an army, you know, you create these different connections, right you can, you've gone through this organizational change, and army will show up to support you the moment that you need it. You ever, you know, once you realize that you're not the person that needs to To create and do it all, soon as you realize that you're a member of a team, and you're willing to be a supporter in that team. This is something that I, you know, eight years working at Cisco, I think taught me. So I went in there and I just wanted to help and

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Brandon Handley 5:20 do well with others and help them along. And, and the idea is that it wasn't for just six, I just wanted to help. That's wanted to make sure that the work that I was doing, was helping another person, get their sales, again, helping them to get what they need, so that I get what I wanted type of thing. But not even that wasn't even even wasn't even done with that intent. I just wanted to do the work. And I want to do it because these were good people. And, and they showed it all the time, I they would turn back around, and they would support me all the time. How but it also reminds me to have the idea of an army of angels that I had an interview with like a Mar, the deal is like, Listen, whatever you're putting out there, as long as you're putting out there, like good stuff, you're supporting others and trying to help others. The moment you need them, the moment you need that army of angels, they are going to show up and support you. In the in the chapter of an ideal life under organizational change, he's got a James Allen quote, about the golden opportunities that will present themselves on your path. And honestly, this is always happening, going back up to the idea that there's going to be obstacles in your way, those obstacles. Man, I really, I still don't like the book. But you know, the obstacle is the way that obstacle, that challenge is, is the golden opportunity. What is it that's in there, if there's an obstacle in there, it's going to take some type of growth out from you from your team, from your ability to change perspectives, you simply need to identify it as such, and move forward on that, can I make this larger, let me make this larger. On the screen that is so that's that James Allen, quote, golden opportunities present themselves on your path. As you continue through, going through this, this change, right books and other aids, will, that you need, will come to you unsought. also understand that the books for reflect

Unknown Speaker 7:27 your current

Brandon Handley 7:28 level of understanding, and often contains the keys that you seek. I think of this in the terms of, look, I went through my awakening or conscious change, you know, that was a pretty dramatic, I don't, I didn't, I didn't understand the language that I needed to use, I couldn't understand it, because I hadn't been exposed to it before. I had no understanding. And I needed I need to these books that again, this is one of the books that came to, to my, to my aid, so that I could go ahead and I could grow in it, and could learn. So as we've got the, you know, the different levels of understanding that you're going to get from these books. You know, again, you're you've already got kind of queries in your mind, right? You've already got thought thoughts and ideas of how things are working, you've already got different ways of understanding. And what you're looking for is how do you teach that to others? How can you share that out? Right? I can't tell you the number of books that have just, that just continue to pop up in my life for the past like three, three and a half, four years that have helped me to understand

Unknown Speaker 8:58 me,

Brandon Handley 8:58 right, who've helped me to understand all of all, all of what I'm going through with you right now. In Are you ready to succeed? And, you know, movies, anything really once once you once you kind of develop this, this idea of any you don't even notice it right? Really, this is kind of looking forward if you haven't already seen this for yourself. So Steve Jobs quote is you you can only connect the dots going backwards. Another interesting just kind of a tidbit here, my kids read this book, Deuteronomy Stilton. And what was interesting and I thought that it was cool that they did this they they needed keys to the crystal cavern or something like that. And and there was a crystal key that they have to find within the book. Right that that seed is planted in their mind that the keys are within the book, right? They had to find these images of the the key Within the book, and you know, they don't see it that way right now I guarantee it, right. But my current level of understanding is, Wow, that's really cool that they put actual keys within the book that would help them to unlock different different things. And that's probably not the way the author intends it. But it could be wrong. This book will help you to powerfully connect in ways so that you are in harmony with your values. And to me it has, and I believe, I believe for you that it could otherwise otherwise I wouldn't be taken this much effort to to share it all out with you. If your current level of connecting is, you know, how can that person benefit me in my life? How can I go to network to you know, climb a ladder type of mentality? Can you get there and that way? Yes. How will you feel in the end? You know, can you get there? And what's that going to look like? That's a you know, that's just a question that I've got for you versus, you know, we talked about the different ways that we connect right and how to differentiate that become a light that intersects with other lights creating a unified and brighter spot the ideas of like different spotlights on the stage, the idea of you being a light spotlighting somebody else. And what's great for them out there. When you know, you're driving up a vehicle, car, when you have the headlights go they they are they are set so that they they they intersect each other in a brighter space in front of the vehicle. So they will you know, you could do you have to manually adjust them, at least you did at one point so that they face is called light alignment. And you need to adjust those headlights so that they intersect at a certain place where the beams will intersect facing down in front of you. And where they intersect. They create a brighter light and they work together as a team. So if you're working again as a team and not as an individual, as a part of the greater whole, as a part of the all then you you will create that stronger ripple that was discussed.

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Brandon Handley 0:01 Have chapter one ideal life on both podcasts and the video. So part two, we're going to go into the first ripple, which is individual change. And, you know, the first ripple is, you know, be you want to be so involved with work that you that you love so much that the time flies and to me, that brings up the idea of the book and the concept of flow by Matt Haley, and I don't have his last name in front of me, but but my Hayley, and, you know, the idea is that you continue to grow each time you continue to learn and you continue to expand on what you already know and love and and converge on. And, you know, when you do that time will fly. That's part of the first ripple of individual change. A penetrating awareness of the course that you are creating, what what, where do you want it? Where do you see yourself right? What exactly is it that you are creating, and when you become aware of the choices that you are making and what you are doing with your life and your goal for life, then then the course becomes, develops more clarity. Alright, so again, here are a couple that come in here a clear knowledge of your place in the scheme of the universe. That's, that's something that, that you'll recognize in this and that also aligns with vision, you've got a vision, you may not know how to get to that end. But as you chart that course, that we're talking about, in the course of creating the becomes becomes clear as you work along.

Unknown Speaker 1:53 The work that you do,

Brandon Handley 1:56 feeds and brings you great contentment and peace you're getting this is the idea that you are getting what you put into the universe if you're if you're doing this work to serve others and to help them come along themselves and to bring them along. And it's not just for you. Um, that's you literally you get what you attract, right? That's the idea is to concept in my mind, again, this current level of understanding, you will face obstacles, those obstacles are not designed for frustration. those obstacles are designed to bring out the best in you, they help you to create a strong, sharp edge going back up the flow. And the idea is you're on the ever expanding edge of the universe. And you have to keep in mind that we are approaching all of this as though the universe really only wants what is best for you because you are a part of the universe and the universe is put you here for some reason and purpose and it wants to see you succeed so the universe is in full support of your endeavors and this is just a mindset that you create within your individual change in your individual change as you go through this lock doors will open mysteriously you don't need to know how some of these things are going to happen. You simply have to believe that they can and that they will and I can tell you from personal experience that this happens you put the vision out there and you put it out there with the intent with a with your purpose and and you take the first couple steps towards that and and things begin to open up and it's a it's this kind of indescribable but it happens you essentially your personal life becomes more fulfilling right? And to be to be honest with you looking for how the question should be how do I have a more fulfilling life To me it's not your why your why it's weaksauce your why it's cool, it's a sure it's a it's a it's a cool, it's like a pebble in the bottom of the lake. Right? Um, to me, the bigger piece this is your What is it that's going to bring you ultimate fulfillment in your life. I also love that he hits on the idea is if you're a parent as I am, and if you are understand that you know in this individual change that child or children will bring you great satisfaction also know that they will chart their own path and that you will not be able to To see their path,

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Brandon Handley 5:04 if you will be their springboard and know that and to know that that's the case, to me that that brings me very much satisfaction. Being a parent and seeing it, I mean, see right now, I was working with Liam, my youngest to go, you know, create a video or do something he wants to do him my vision, my path, start his path, I can give him the ideas, he can give me his ideas, and I can try and help him and enact those. And however he decides to do it is up to him each day, and the individual change is going to be a, it's going to be an improvement over the day before, each one day more perfect than the day before. If you can imagine it. Maybe you don't think that the day before you today was perfect, but who knows. Just talking to I just had an interview, I just recently had an interview and the Word Perfect means that you don't need anything else, right? don't need any more to to to get through the day or two to get through life. So if you look at yesterday, did you have everything that you needed? In sometimes Did you have everything that you wanted in that day? It's neat, but like, did you have everything that you needed in order to have a successful day, and if that's the case, and you had a perfect day. So know that today, maybe and probably is more perfect than the day before. You will feel an infinite amount of gratitude. And this gratitude is tough. Gratitude is tough because most of us, especially as men are going through life in an A, in what we're going through it and a analytical mind first kind of thing. And as men in Western society, we've been taught to shut down or remote odds, shut that shit down. Right. So everything's by thought, everything's by analytics. Everything's by logic, everything's linear. And that's just that's just, that's just not the case. So the feeling of gratitude is something that we need to implement. And once we begin to get in contact, touch our feelings and understand what those feelings are. We can begin to feel gratitude. And as we think and feel gratitude at the same time. We are we are then tuning it in, right we are then we're then tuning ourselves to gratitude, mentally, with feeling and we are pulling that into our lives. You will recognize throughout all this process, right? This is again, this is the first individual change you will recognize all this is is the cosmic principle, which according to this book is the merger or emerging of spirit, body and mind.

Unknown Speaker 8:21 Ultimately,

Brandon Handley 8:22 sensation and feeling is really indescribable. I've done a podcast called I've done a podcast based on word called numinous with Carl Jung, and Theodore auto where whereby you have tried to capture some of what that cosmic principle looks and feels like. There's other ways to go through it and feel that but that's one way to recognize it. So this type of life is your birthright. There's nothing like this. It's nothing. This isn't entitlement. This is open to everyone. And it doesn't matter how old or young you are. Sure, birth rate. I mean, God I had a conversation the other day with my wife and I love her death. And she goes, you know, I'm not special. Nobody special. We're not you know, we're not a bunch of special snowflakes out there. Yes and no. Yes. And everybody is special and everybody's looking for a way to express themselves. The thing is, is that you've been taught not to express yourself to the fullest of who you are. You've been taught to express yourself in an industrial age into what you know, what is it about you that is most productive in an industrial environment. We are not industrial beings. We are fucking human beings. So what you got to do is convert back If you are, and understand that this is, indeed, your birthright, and as we go through this book, you'll understand that this is this is a process a way to achieve it. And so during the first ripple of individual change, you will also recognize that you must desire this desperately, you must want this with all of your being all of who you are. But you must also be okay with the dot happening. It like what the hell man? And this is what a Sreekumar calls the desire, paradox desire issues a paradox. And he also because because all paradoxes are resolved with greater understanding, and we can look at, we can look at, you know, what are some things that you wanted, when you were younger? What are some things that you wanted, when you were younger, you desired it, desperately, but they didn't happen. And, you know, sometimes, sometimes I can tell you with myself sometimes, like, for example of, you know, I partied way too hard back in the day, and what would have happened if I had been, you know, super rich, or had access to a lot of money in party that same way, I would have bought, like, more more jobs or more of these things, and those things that I desired at that time. Maybe they might have killed me, right, and we go scroll back up, and we're gonna say, all right, well, let's not forget that the universe, a universe is really kind of got my back on this right. In the universe's, like, he may not deliver on that. Because that's not in my best interest. That could be, you know, something that kills me. And so thank you universe for not delivering on some of those. That sub desire pirate paradox, again, the best that the greater understanding is, you know, then I'm like, Man, I'm pissed and upset that this didn't happen. today. I'm grateful and thankful, as I continue to go through life and learn and grow more, and can deliver some of these messages as I have a different level of understanding. As it says, as we've talked about, and the story of the you know, kind of like the layman and the master, right, attempting to rush this will double the time to achieve and impede progress. Again, imagine, if I put up a wall I put up, you know, even if it's an energetic wall, I create something and I put something in the way of allowing something in I am impeding progress by trying to go harder, faster, I'm not going to recognize I'm not going to see things because I'm too focused on my personal desire,

Brandon Handley 13:14 versus what may truly be better for me. So again, nature like a vacuum. Soon, as soon as you remove any energy or substance from an area, nature will replace it with another universe like, you know, likely result that you are seeking. And you can do something you can do with like half the effort. Right? Imagine, imagine that and I'm sure that you've, you've tried to open a jar of whatever. And, and sometimes you're turning, you're turning, you're suing you putting all this effort in one way. But if you almost like if you loosen the grip a little bit and turn it like with a little less effort, it finally releases. So that's going to be the first ripple of individual change. I'm going to cut it here as well.

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Brandon Handley 0:00 Alright guys, what is going on? Welcome a spiritual dopers working with a small group. And I figured I'd share on the podcast to the book is called Are you ready to succeed? This is about the third or fourth time I've gone through this book, it's very powerful. I'm gonna be working on chapter one today, and one of the things I'm working on is do a vine map of this. So you may want to check out the video, you may want to just listen to podcasts nanji, May, you may just want to reach out to me. But that that's what today is about. Yeah, so we're gonna be we're gonna be sharing some of that with you. The book is again, are you ready to succeed streak Kumar Rao. Great book, I found it when going through, you know, my Ted bench fees. And he's got a video a TED talk called, you know, you are hardwired for happiness. that inspired me quite a bit, pick up the book. And when I first got the book, in the beginning of the book, it basically tells you, you need to commit to this, you need to be ready to go through it, you should have a group to do it and all these other other pieces. And I thought that was pretty cool. But I wasn't ready at the time took me a year to even decide to pick up the book. And then I went ahead and I decided that I would also I would also create a group to do it with and I did that. And this is I think the third or fourth year that diet each year I get a little bit different takes from it. And each year I grow a little bit more and come at it from a different angle. And just just wanting to share some of it with you. This is the first year that I've gone as deep as I've gone. Where I mean, I've got notes written I'm holding up on hold up the video, but i've you know, I've already highlighted it for the past couple of years. But this year, you know, I've got I've got new highlights, I've got new underlines. I've got notes in the I've got notes in the actual book, where are you? What are these things making me think of? All right, what is one of my takeaways? What's my level of understanding as I approached this book, this year, and this time, so this year, and this time, I will be recording, like I said, the this mind map that I'm using an app called x mind, I got this idea from God, gosh, man, what's the guy's name Rodriguez, he does some amazing videos over on YouTube. And I saw him going through his ex map, an ex mine and sharing out some other books that he's done. And I figured, hey, let's try that out for just myself as a way to again further ingrain some of this stuff and really embody it. The knowledge so I'm gonna go ahead and I'm going to pop over into I'm doing this in a video, like I said, I'm gonna pop over to x mind. The book is going to be rd rates succeed. The first chapter that we're dealing with here is his ideal life, right talks about what does it look like to build out your ideal life? And you know, because he has some questions in there, he says, Hey, are you you know, do you feel he sets the whole thing up? Right? Do you feel stagnant is uh, do you have low Connections is it you know, as you feel like life is short, and talk through it, because again, look every day, this this is some of the stuff makes you crazy writing every day that you're not radiantly alive and brimming with cheer is a day wasted, which is to me, like an uppercut into the soul. It takes your breath away. All right. Um, he also talks about the idea that there's a nonlinear relationship between the work that you do and the results. And he also ties that into a story

Brandon Handley 4:16 of like a Zen master. Right? So it turns into like a story of a Zen master the uses to, you know, illustrate this and basically, you know, let's say a monk or a lay person comes up to a Zen master or just a person who has mastery and goes, Well, how long is it going to take me? Master to get to your level, or at least a level of mastery? Because if you work at it now, it'll take 10 years. A guy goes bad 10 years. Well, what happens if you're at it? 24 seven, if all I do is is this? And his intent is to cut the time in half and in his mind is And this took me five years. And the master goes, if you double your efforts, instead of taking 10 years now will take you 20, it will take you 20. And when you think about it, you just think about all the efforts that you put into everything. And in my mind, it kind of brought up this this idea of if you're also again, this comes from a level of understanding all the other stuff that I've got my mind. So it comes up with the idea of all the imagine, you know, nature abhors a vacuum, that's, that's the line that I'm working with here. And maybe instead of putting all my energy into a space, I create the space and let nature fill that vacuum. And so what's that look like? It means again, if I'm putting all my effort, if I'm doubling my efforts, I'm not allowing anything else to get in. To my space, i'm not i'm not i'm putting all my energy versus letting some other energy or ideas into it, I think, you know, right now, my current level of understanding, that's how I that's how I see that. So in the ideal life section, it also talks about learning to create serendipitous moments. If you keep doing what you've always done and acting in the way that you've always acted, you can pretty much and thinking the way you've always thought you can pretty much expect to have the same results. So what does it look like to create a serendipitous moment, maybe you're inspired to go volunteer somewhere, you're there because you simply want to be there. And, you know, you run into some other people who believe in the same cause, and, and, and they, you know, they're in the spirit of giving their opening, giving and the happy to be there. And they know that their efforts are meaningful, and you create a connection with that person, then that person and you connect and then further further on throughout life and you know, eventually create something together. That would have never happened if you didn't leave your house because you are inspired to go volunteer, go do something, it doesn't have to be a volunteer activity. But that does it does look like acting on your inspiration or inspired moments in order to create those serendipitous moments. And that's right there be moved by deep inner conviction and you What do you believe in what is powerful for you? Right. I believe in this pledge believe in this. I believe in this book, I believe in you know, caring for my children, I believe in things for my family. For before like, career, all right. I believe that you know, I want to see what happens here or or even within right? If you look at the motto, I think I was Keller Williams for a little bit. It's God family, career, God family work, right. And as as we kind of come along this path and if you're a fan of Vedanta, or you know any other religion, they all tell you kind of focus on God first, but what does that mean? That's going to be you know, something that's up to you. So, you know, your ideal life again, you there's something in that you deserve, right? You deserve to wake up and have a brilliant and beautiful life that's filled with joy. So, how do you know that this book would be a fit for you? He goes through this book and it says, Hey, you know, how do you know this book would be be for you? Well, it basically this was the line of the book that that I knew that it was for me. Do you have the nagging sense that there's a great deal that you have to accomplish in this somehow? You are not living up to even a fraction? even a fraction

Brandon Handley 9:20 of your potential?

Brandon Handley 9:26 That's it That's a hell yeah, for me it was a hell yes. Every time I read that line, it's a hell yeah. Is this is comfort, strong and growing again, that's a big Hell yeah. A big Hell yeah. Are you willing to make the effort to Know thyself every time? What who is thy self goes back into that deep inner convictions. Right? Who? Who are you?

Unknown Speaker 9:52 Right?

Brandon Handley 9:54 That's where we kind of get into you're not living up to even a fraction of your potential. Where's your connection who With right, according to his book, you know, these are these are just a couple of the the key indicators that you are indeed a fine fit to we pick up this book and check it out why change matters, right? You know shifts of consciousness can occur with started startling rapidity. When I first picked up this book, I think that I was in I was in just a, you know, follow these steps, and these are the things that will happen for you. kind of mentality, it was very external. It was very, I guess, career externally motivated. And is somewhere in between reading this book and, and, and the first and second time, it has some massive shifts in consciousness. And it's hard not to say that the part of that didn't because it wasn't because of this book, or in part because of it. So where are a couple of areas that need to change, you know, where, where change will need to occur. So that's individual change. And I think that that's, that's fairly self explanatory. It goes on to so there's three levels of it. So the individual, organizational and societal individual fairly self explanatory. Organizational. goes over says, look, the old command and control hierarchies are unsuited to our current era. Right? That and, and some of the change mechanisms that are out there, they're, they're really literally just just band aids. Right. And I love the visual that sukumar puts out there is that band aids cannot cope with a severe artery, right? She shouldn't need surgical, high level medical assistance, you know, a complete and total, you need the doctor, right? He's somebody who can really come in and help with that. So that's an organizational change, right? And then under societal value changes, better leaders will only emerge when we change what we honor. Right now, we honor a lot of this material, external success only at the detriment to the detriment often, of the internal personal self, to the family to too many other things. And it doesn't have to be that way. God, I love this line Tuesday of spreading ripples from a stone tossed into a pond. And this is under societal, right spreading ripples from a stone and toss it upon with ripples growing stronger instead of attenuating. Let's take a look at it in this in this one way. We can look at it in in kind of a social network kind of way. Or if you're from the finance world, one at one of the things that they'll have you look at and finance when you're going through it. Business Finance and and you know, who's kind of like the most likely to pay? Or, you know, be engaged with you? Is it the person that has, you know, kind of put the most money in? Or is the person who's paid last I mean, that's, that's one of the that's one way to look at it. Right? Generally speaking, it's going to be the person who's engaged last with you. Versus, you know, over time, so who the one closest and most recently engaged is going to be your stronger ripple. Another way to look at it as kind of as, as you speak your truth, as you engage others, the ripple you know, you know, attenuate it means that it gets, you know, kind of weaker as it goes out there. Instead, it's going to grow stronger. And we're going to talk a little bit about that as we get into the third report societal change, and you'll see how and why that can happen. But again, imagine, imagine that, you know, it's weak from the center and it's not until later that that, that that, that that ripple finally grows into a tsunami

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Take a listen to our conversation to learn what it means to be love in motion as Shannah and I cover a variety of topics such as energy, relationships and becoming superhuman.

Brandon Handley 0:00

4321 Hey, there's spiritual dope and welcome back to another interview session with. I'm here today with channel wave. She is a super humanity coach. at Sacred reality his sacred reality is an organization that is making the mystical, practical. And what they're doing there is they're giving, helping you to create a paradigm of natural giving from an inner sense of wholeness, real intimacy, peace and freedom to be off in authentic and relationships, ease of self expression and communication, confidence and gentleness, sensitivity to love, within an inner guidance system for appropriate harmless action, and joyful alignment between inner purpose and one's work within the community. And Shana, her coaching focus is on practical skills of mine that enable you to connect with your own inner spiritual resources by which you can naturally blossom in a wholesome sense of self worth, peace, joy, and freedom to be yourself and be in love with your life. This work heals your relationship with the self, which is the basis for all healing, and all other relationships. The foundation of the self awareness practice is summed up by coming to experientially understand all aspects of the following morning meditation, which I'm not going to read about that. How are you today?

Shannah White 1:35

I just have to make one correction. It's Shauna,

Brandon Handley 1:38

Shauna, you know, it's so funny. It's so funny. I totally ignored intuition. When I was like, I asked her This is Shana or Shan Shan. Hundred percent, not not even not even a lie. Like I was like, let's just kick it off. So you got a shout out. Thank you so much for for being here today. And I love I love I love the I love the piece about super humanity. Let's Um, so I'd like to start this off with the idea that source speaks to us, right? divine energy, we are conduits for the universe. And the idea is that you are speaking to somebody who is listening today. This message only flew for them through universal source. What does that message?

Shannah White 2:28

Oh, what is that message today was a message we have right

Brandon Handley 2:31

now what's called source?

Shannah White 2:33

Aha, thank you.

Shannah White 2:36

Gosh, well, I suppose messages that you are loved in motion. And yet, I understand that you may not know how to experience that in yourself. But it's simpler than you think. It's not as far away or as complicated as we make things with the complexity of our thought process and the way we tie our emotions into our thought process.

Shannah White 3:07

It's really

Shannah White 3:10

giving yourself permission to relax completely out of thinking. And there can be fear involved in doing that. But if you can open up a space where you can relax, and let your thoughts also relax. And then move your feelings and sport. Actually, you know, there's a transition from thinking to feeling because we even think in order to experience ourselves, we experience ourselves through imaging. So it's really like, the step is to turn off the imaging. Maybe you notice how you feel yourself where your sense of self is, like, I'm familiar with feeling my sense of self behind my eyes, if I'm in my head if I'm thinking and then shifting out of that place, turning off the visual processing, and moving that awareness and feeling into the body. Like for me below the jaw, maybe I start with back my head, let him move down into my being and just become curious what there is to feel in this space. And this is already the beginning of peace possibly mean really depends on who. Well, people can have challenges you might have emotional energy builds up in your fields. So that might be the first thing that you notice that you feel when you get yourself to To just feel. But as we go deeper in this experience of just feeling without thinking, and breathing, allowing the breath to be the navigation device for our feeling,

Shannah White 5:18

which means for instance,

Shannah White 5:22

I can breathe right now and feel like

Shannah White 5:27

everything in letting the breath, open up my middle back and feeling what my middle back feels like. But I'm not just feeling the physical quality of my middle back, I'm also feeling the kind of emotional or energetic quality in that space in my being. So and then just being with what I feel, noticing it being curious, and being so something magical happens just from us showing up to witness what we feel. And emotion can clear just from being with that process. So that's the beginning and stop, where I'm ultimately looking to end up. There's no end really, but where I'm looking to go is deeper inside the center of my chest with this feeling quality. So after I feel a sense of ease in the hole of my body, then I will pull myself deeper inside or bring my focus, look inside with my feeling, not with my visual, but look inside with my feeling into the center and my chest. Now just keep going deeper and deeper and deeper into that center. So it's, it's kind of deeper, like the center is maybe four inches in or whatever. But I'll go deeper than those four inches into that very center. And I just keep going deeper until this warm energy ignites of its own accord.

Brandon Handley 7:08

So this is kind of a description of love and motion, right, you are loving motion. And that's kind of the journey to and through it. And some of the experiences that you'll feel throughout that process.

Shannah White 7:18

This is the description of how to connect with love energy. The to become loving motion is, you know, every time we move, okay to become loving motion is to listen to the energy of love, to find our movement to inspire our movement. In every moment, we're listening to a voice inside us, that is telling us what to do. And that's either the voice of our history, the way we've learned to process it through our personal reality, which is unfamiliar calling that the ego. Or we're listening to the voice of spirit, the voice of the heart, this love energy that comes from the center of our core, but we have to be available to hear it. When we're all busy in our head. and pulling from our history and getting emotionally involved in the way we're thinking about things. Our attention is all in the outer sphere of our being and on the material plane. Our attention is like a spotlight. So if you've ever noticed that, perhaps you've gotten a bruise and you don't know where you got it from.

Shannah White 8:39

All the time, all the time.

Shannah White 8:42

Well, for me, that's proof that my attention is like a spotlight and my attention was so exclusive on something else that I didn't even notice that I hurt myself that is on there.

Brandon Handley 8:54

That's all like that. I like that. Yeah, so God.

Shannah White 8:57

Yeah. So when we're our attention is all focused up in here. We're looking away from and not listening from, we're looking away from our feeling sense. And yet our feeling says comes back around and becomes full of our emotional reactions to what we're thinking. So there's another layer of distraction. So this way, we have this kind of unplug the thinking and let the feeling sense clear. It's like all the ripples on the water just settle out in the water becomes still and then in the stillness. Now we can start to hear like heart music

Shannah White 9:36

in the center.

Shannah White 9:39

So it's a

Shannah White 9:43

it's a listening skill, inner listening skill. But then when we can listen and actually start to feel that love energy. Then we have somebody to work with for how do I move in This moment as when when we go to do something, the first thing is going to happen is we're going to go back up here because we have a whole library of ideas that we chest of how to handle different situations. So we reach for typically, we reach for the easiest thing that we know how to do, right? So it takes patience and practice, but we can learn, we can rewrite our choices about what we trust, for how to move. So here's a really great way to think about it actually. It's whether we reach for the known, or for the unknown. Because the unknown is basically like we reach for something from memory could be a belief, well, I don't know what else it would be actually, because we started because we believe that we thought, Hey, this is good, I'll use this again, right. But the place, the alternative to that is a place where we are hanging out in the inner and I call the inner unknown, where we are choosing not to go for what we know from before. And instead, we're allowing ourselves to say, Hi, this is a completely new moment. And I do not know, based on history, I do not know, let me feel what do I feel right now.

Shannah White 11:22

Jeff becomes our

Shannah White 11:25

vehicle for discernment.

Shannah White 11:30

So but then also, when we practice feeling that love energy in our center, and then we choose to move to our day, with the patience to wait in the unknown before we move. And to wonder what our What are feeling sense has to tell us about this moment, then we start to find that we can move in alignment with love energy.

Brandon Handley 11:57

I like the idea of feeling sense. All right, what does that what does that mean? Right? And what is what is feeling sense? Because, you know, I get the feeling and I sent something, right? Is this an internal external feeling? You know, just to expand a little bit on what you mean by feeling sense?

Shannah White 12:17

Sure. Okay. So the feeling sense is our intuitive sense, it's our ability to read energy.

Shannah White 12:28

And

Shannah White 12:30

our feeling sense, is also where our emotions register. I think of emotions as the energetic feedback from our thoughts. So when so it's like an instrument, this feeling senses like an instrument. And I feel it from my jaw, to my belly button, in a sphere. So I also also actually feel like I feel sometimes I feel like I feel energy kind of behind and below my arms. So it's not limited to the body. I do feel like in order to use my feeling sense, I have to bring my attention inward. If I look outward, thinking, I'm going to feel something out there. I lose my feeling sensitivity. And the energetic sense that, you know, emotion can just come and find you.

Shannah White 13:29

Where you are. Right?

Brandon Handley 13:32

Well, you know, I'm a little caught up in the idea of the Taurus right now. Like there's a toroidal field. Right? And, and so, you know, if you're looking anywhere outside of yourself, you're kind of fumbling and signals may be weaker, whereas when they come into your core, that's your receiver. Right? So I mean, to me, like, you know, that's, that's where the, that's where the signals being sent, it's a matter of tuning yourself to, to signal, right, and especially if you're not familiar with this space, if you've never been taught how to tune in the first couple times, you start to tune in, it's gonna be real weak, right? I mean, just like, again, is eerie and funny as it was at the beginning of our conversation, I had an inner sense that I should ask you, how should I pronounce your name? Right? And I totally ignored it. But now I'm like, right. And so it's when we it's, it's these small recognitions of catching those moments and jotting them down and remembering that that just happened, that you begin to develop that ability to tune in more and more often, and that's going to come to the inside though. Does that sound fair?

Shannah White 14:52

Yes. But I think so part of what's going on in what you're talking about when you say writing it down. You You're taking the time to process what happened, which allows you to, to actually incrementally increase your trust in that. And then you're like, Oh, I can trust that. So then next time, you might be more interested in listening. And the other thing is that there's a Would you agree that there's an element of do blow right past, like do rush to be rush past the intuitive hits? versus exercise in patience in the unknown? And say, Wait, I just felt something that would you say, that's part of the,

Brandon Handley 15:41

you know, I am, I am so bad at waiting on anything. So, patience, as I was growing up, I was always taught patience is a virtue. I given to the idea of of letting things unfold. Right. I love the Buddhist, you know, one of the sayings is the flower blossom thing, right? If you're trying to squeeze the bud of a flower to accelerate it blooming, that doesn't, that doesn't do it, right. So you can't squeeze that you got to let it unfold on its own. So I agree with you that it's just a matter of stop doing right start being

Shannah White 16:20

and allowing the sign and waiting like that, right, I will either move slow enough that I can process it and say, wait a minute, I just heard something, right? Or I won't. And I'll be like, Nope, sorry, I'm reaching for the nearest file and made a structure for this one.

Brandon Handley 16:41

Right, right. No. And I think that that comes that comes with time, and I love I love the idea of,

Unknown Speaker 16:49

we don't have to

Brandon Handley 16:49

slow down, we need to calm down, right? And just let the things come to us again, instead of trying to accelerate anything. We were actors in this whole thing, right? We are, you know, our lines are given to us or coming to us and and we're kind of acting them out. And we're following our intuition. But if we can slow down a little bit, we can enjoy it a little bit more,

Unknown Speaker 17:17

right?

Brandon Handley 17:18

And we can allow for it to blossom. And I don't even like that I don't like evolve anymore. I don't like leveling up anymore. Words like that. To me. That's just Where are you? Right? Where are you not above or higher than anybody else? You're just you are becoming more aware of what already is? So that's right. I mean, there's everything, you know, everything already exists. It's just what's our awareness of it.

Shannah White 17:47

That's true. That's true. What do you mean by work? factors? Enter? Right?

Brandon Handley 17:54

Yeah, I don't know. I'm just, you know, just kind of throw stuff out there. Again, like, so, you know, when we started this things off, right? Like, what's coming through us isn't sometimes even necessarily for us. Right? The acts that we do and given sometimes we're like, Why don't just do that. And I'll use an example. Like, I wrote something out last week and shared it and like, I didn't, didn't honestly put much effort into it social media posting, like, Oh, my God, I got to get a post out today, because I'm on a schedule, my train is going to be late, that kind of thing. Um, so anyway, I put a post out there. And yeah, I put some thought into it. But again, just nothing crazy. And somebody reached out to me, a friend of my friend of my wife's, she goes, she goes, can I use the words that you wrote there? I was looking for something to you know, say it. My mother's wake about my mother. And this was, this was it and this is like a day or two before and she'd been struggling find these these words. I was like, by all means, right. I was like, obviously, that wasn't for me.

Unknown Speaker 18:59

Right.

Brandon Handley 19:00

And it's like, the only you know, one or two people that saw or liked the posts. And, you know, that's what that was for. So we're kind of actors where we are receivers. And it's kind of like, um, we can act on our intuition or we can ignore it. Right. And I find that when we act on it, we tend to be doing somebody else outside of ourself. Some good

Shannah White 19:28

right? Right. I was talking about this with someone today that I feel like we could think about I don't mind the word God, but could be universe could be love of capital L could be whatever. Sure. Um, but

Shannah White 19:44

I was thinking about that.

Shannah White 19:48

Loving motion is actually God's thoughts coming to be expressed sure that it's not just us that we're, you know, are you I think from my perspective, so that looks like one person. We're all in this ocean of thoughts moving. And we can either like stick your head out of the ocean and be like, I'm gonna think my thoughts, my little thoughts, you

Unknown Speaker 20:10

know, be the wave, right?

Shannah White 20:12

Go library, right? Or I could just ride slow flow in this ocean and be part of a dance that includes everyone who's willing to relax, and also feel the flow and flow in the flow. Yeah. And then things like that happen. Which is beautiful. That's beautiful.

Brandon Handley 20:34

Yeah, when it open, when it opens up, it's great, right? And that's just the, the constant awareness, developing an awareness, being open to it. And all of that fun jazz, I want to talk about you and your super humanity coaching, let's talk about, let's talk about what it means to be a super humanity, coach, give me a one to know all about it.

Shannah White 21:01

Okay, so first of all, what we were just talking about actually does touch a little bit on what I'm indicating, by the word, super humanity. where, you know, it's natural for the human being to be an extension of love, or to be loved in motion. But we are not taught how to use our minds to enable this way that we're indoctrinated in, in a when we're young, I think from our head, and to distressed, shuts down our capacity to, to experience the energy of love in our center. And we're also taught that all the following ways you become an expert is by consuming information outside yourself, and then get a badge that says, Look, I consumed all this information outside of myself, I am now authorized to regurgitate it to you and you have to listen because now I'm an expert.

Brandon Handley 21:58

Right? I think and we were talking about this before, right? How annoying is it? Like you have to you have to run around you have to go pick up a certificate for from somebody or somebody be like, Listen, I can do this because I I consumed all this stuff guy Kiko.

Shannah White 22:10

Right, right, where there's this whole other level of authority and knowledge that comes from within, you can't get by consuming from without. So this is where this is where super humanity comes in. Because it's our heart center is a portal to connect with the divine. And that is beyond the definition of human that has been created by the mundane materialistic focused world, the the outside in focus world. So super humanity calls to, for calls out this experience of being human that is beyond what the world has defined as human and humanity. Where it's about letting go of your beliefs, getting out of the belief, emotion, dynamic of personal reality. And actually, walking in service to love energy, it really feels like walking in service, because it's not about what I want from a little I place. It's about feeling letting this energy come in and, and move you but what's really wild, okay, is that before experiencing this, it feels like, Oh, no, I'm going to give up my self, I'm going to give up my will. I'm going to be I'm going to sacrifice myself to be in service. But when you actually experience it, it doesn't feel like that. It feels like oh my god, I feel so aligned, and peaceful and relaxed in myself. And I feel fullness from my wants instead of wanting in a way that I feel empty and needy. And these wants become like, Oh, this is what I'm creating. This is what I'm becoming.

Brandon Handley 24:13

So I love I love that. Right. So I mean, a big key of this is you're working to teach other people how to create. Yes, yeah. Look, I used to listen to a YouTube channel all the time called you are creators. Right? You are creators. I mean, what else are you right? If we're here and live, let's use the Bible since everybody else using it. You know, you are made in His image. And you know, what does he do? He creates,

Unknown Speaker 24:42

right, right.

Brandon Handley 24:44

So what do you do? And you know, we've been taught to consume, right? Yes. But then if we look at Maslow's hierarchy of needs, right, the top the pinnacle of that is to self Express right to self reliance, self reliance, which is the suffix Which is to create something that will, you know, expression is that what, what's within you? Right? So and let that out and create something, bring it to reality. And that's self realization is to bring yourself to the to reality. And how do you do that yourself is inside of you, right?

Shannah White 25:23

Yes. Right? Well, so there can be self confusion because we identify with whatever we experience. Mm hmm. So, and that's where it gets tricky, because people can feel like they're expressing themselves when they're throwing a temper tantrum. temper temper tantrum because they didn't get what they want.

Brandon Handley 25:42

Sure, sure. There's definitely so there's self expression. And then there's, there's there's a emotional outburst?

Shannah White 25:51

Yes. Right. So it's the question of what is the self? And who? Who do I think I am in this moment? Am I feeling identified with a sense of perception that's based on my history, and my emotional definitions of comfort? Or have I surrendered that sense of self, and I'm grounded in feeling that love energy and the clarity that comes from that love energy, which could be called truth. And that, and then I'm feeling like, these things that are coming through me through my core, instead of from my head? Through my core, are myself. Right,

Brandon Handley 26:35

your energetic self? Is that you know, the term does that, what would you would say?

Shannah White 26:41

Yes, it's definitely energetic.

Brandon Handley 26:43

Versus versus the egoic. Self, right? Like, I don't, I'm not really good with, I'm discerning between, like, you know, you know, because to me, the the mind is, I guess, the ego itself, right? That's the piece. It's like, latching on to everything and things that, you know, again, that, that it's a part that it's what's doing all the things, right. But the mind is a tool, right? And anything that you can observe is outside of you. And if you can observe the mind, then, right? I mean,

Shannah White 27:16

right, that's true, you can observe the mind you are not the mind.

Brandon Handley 27:20

But yeah,

Shannah White 27:21

I do consider the mind to be the entire chakra system, okay. And so I think of the ego as a mode of using the mind number one, it's a mode, okay. And number two, it's also the library of files that we stored, while using the mind in that mode. Okay, so in that mode, we're not feeling love. So we're storing beliefs about about a, an experience of self and the world that doesn't have love in it. And this is why it becomes scary, to let those ideas go and becomes scary to do something else. Because we think, Oh, this is a scary world. This is a loveless world is a scary world. And we store these beliefs, because these beliefs are part of our survival strategy in this loveless world. So if someone comes along and says, You don't need to keep those beliefs anymore, yeah, kind of like, I'm not sure I believe you

Brandon Handley 28:27

will take away my things, right? Don't take away my stuff, I worked really hard to get all this crap to I like to carry around. And you know, it's very important to me that, you know, when I go down this alley, I'm scared and terrified. Right?

Shannah White 28:42

So, so yeah, it takes a while. We've also learned in that state of mind to trust ourselves are, in other words, trust our ego self. Which is a feeling like I trust myself, and I just trust everything else. But when we're looking to switch modes of mind, so that we're not functioning from memory and imagination, and pulling from ego files, and instead, we're hanging out in the unknown, not going for me to files, and then feeling and then trusting the voice of love, to give us discernment. That voice of love is we have a relationship, we are never the voice of love, we are in relationship with the voice of love. So and it changes the quality of our sense of self. But there is a requirement of trust in order to be in that relationship. When we're in the ego mode, we are not required to trust. So when we're used to not trusting, transitioning to Okay, I'm not going to pick up any of my stuff that I've accumulated for survival, and instead I'm going to trust this other voice. That's not me. It's bigger than me. Not mean,

Shannah White 30:02

that's that takes courage to do that.

Brandon Handley 30:06

use that word courage to? Because I've been reading force versus power. Are you familiar with that book? power? So that topic. So have you ever seen the, the the map of consciousness map? right you're seeing that now. Okay so David deep dives Dr. David Hawkins I think I'm saying the guy's name right. And and it talks about the the map of consciousness and basically the different levels from like, you know, feeling like you know, total crap and worthlessness, right, and how it registers it, like, you know, sub 200. And all the things that are under like, 200 consciousness map goes up to 1000, all the things that are under 200 are the things that kind of eat away, chew and tear away at you, right?

Unknown Speaker 30:55

But 200

Brandon Handley 30:58

is the tipping point towards, you know, getting you into a more involved and more integrated sense of being in love and life and all that other stuff. But the tipping point is courage. Right? So 200 is courage and courage. lets you step into your greatness, right? Your sweat your super humanity self. Right? So, okay, that's why I love the word courage. So thank you please go on. Will Tell me tell me what, you know, if I, if I'm doing a super humanity coaching session, what's that look like?

Shannah White 31:37

Okay, well. So, in my mind, there are two categories of what people need. On the one hand, they need education. And on the other hand, they need

Shannah White 31:51

company on their journey.

Shannah White 31:54

So I do work with people. In both capacities. I work with some people just in one on one sessions, that are focused on timeline traveling with them with whatever their questions are. And I'm helping them to understand their self experience, within the model of self, that we are a vessel to express love. And that when we are not connected with that, we suffer from many stresses in the mind, and many illusions of how we understand things, or is this relationship trying to have a romantic partnership, when you don't feel your heart? You You were designed to be in partnership with love. So we try to be in partnership with love with that person. And we try to see love out there. And then what happens is because we are in our head, and we're thinking and we're feeling around our thinking, and we like this person, that's what we're thinking. And we're feeling them that we're not actually feeling our own movement. So our source of joy is not internal. It's not balanced, it's out there. Now we're leaving on this person. And leaning on this person accidentally produces control dynamics, control dynamics, now you have a friction of will, between two people. Either this person wants to be in the box that you're making for them, or they don't at some point, they're probably not going to want to be exactly in the box the way they imagined it. And, but when they don't want to be because this is totally tied to your sense of self worth, and your idea of love and all that kind of thing. Now, you can't just have a conversation about Hey, that boxes the wrong shape. It's, it's, oh, Ouch, that hurts. You don't love me. So there's emotional layers, there's will friction and it all comes back to the fact that this person is not actually feeling their heart. So their sense of their definition of love is skewed. And

Shannah White 34:13

so then, how do we correct that?

Shannah White 34:18

As a super humanity coach, I will give people exercises also to help them make transitions in their self awareness, to access that love energy inside. And a person can understand the difference. But it doesn't do it to just understand that you actually have to feel that love energy and then suddenly you come back into balance. Suddenly your perception of what's going on with you and your partner changes. Suddenly, the you know, the misunderstanding that was huge, becomes just one tiny little question that you might want to ask them and otherwise it's no big deal. Right. So

Brandon Handley 35:03

if what you know, what are one or two of your favorite tools in this space that you like to use? If you don't mind?

Shannah White 35:11

tools as an exercise? Yo, so

Brandon Handley 35:13

yeah, exercise What? So I would like to know, what's an exercise that I could do? Well,

Shannah White 35:22

the, the first exercise that I would suggest working with that I always suggest working with actually is relaxing into a feeling place. So shifting out of thinking and into feeling. And I can do this with you right now, if you want to what I do with people is they investigate where they're at, with how they can express themselves in those terms. And then I will make tailored suggestions for them. So let's go. Okay, so how? What does your energy feel like to you and a sense of give a sense of where you were sitting? If you use your body as in that? Do you have a sense of where you're sitting in your body?

Shannah White 36:10

Yes. Where is it?

Brandon Handley 36:14

Like, right below my belly button?

Shannah White 36:20

Okay, so do you have a feeling like you're looking out at the world from inside?

Unknown Speaker 36:27

Yes.

Shannah White 36:29

And where are you looking at the world from?

Brandon Handley 36:32

My shoulders?

Shannah White 36:33

That's interesting.

Shannah White 36:36

Okay, so um,

Shannah White 36:40

do you feel like that feeling of looking at the world?

Shannah White 36:47

Is

Shannah White 36:51

instead of feeling or is it a feeling quality?

Brandon Handley 36:58

Study feeling or a feeling quality is a

Shannah White 37:01

kind of instead of feeling like, looking instead of feeling? Or does it feel like it has a feeling?

Brandon Handley 37:09

Gotcha. Is it got like? I don't think that. I don't know, I'd say less of a feeling quality.

Shannah White 37:22

Okay, so can you then turn off the looking quality? And kind of bring our attention behind that, that behind it into the inner space of your body? And just notice, in First of all, can you turn off the looking quality and shift to Yeah,

Brandon Handley 37:48

absolutely. I mean, yeah, I'm doing it right now as we're talking.

Shannah White 37:51

Okay. Great. So then.

Shannah White 37:54

So then, what do you notice? was just with curiosity? I don't know if it matters if you if you tell me.

Brandon Handley 38:02

Yeah, I mean, so I think something I notice is just immediately, more, more centered feeling right? Less scattered, more calmness and to get togetherness, right. So feeling versus this kind of like, um, wolf feel pulled out right now. It's just kind of

Unknown Speaker 38:30

centered.

Shannah White 38:31

Right. So, um,

Shannah White 38:38

is that exactly easy to maintain?

Brandon Handley 38:45

I don't know. Because this is really the first time I've experienced it. Right. So so as you know, and this is part of, I think, the whole journey, right? Like and coming to somebody like you say, and we've talked about the awarenesses this is something I'd never been, has been never been brought to my attention. Mm hmm. Right. And you and it's really hard to put your finger on something, if you're not aware of it. Yes. So I'm feeling it. Right. And I think that there's like some pulsating, like, urge to be like, uh, but my energy's always all over here versus here. Right. So now I'm just paying attention to it. So I don't know. Nice.

Shannah White 39:29

So probably what I would do is I would say, Okay, we'll play with that for a few days. And meanwhile, we would be talking about any thing, any of your experiences you have questions about.

Shannah White 39:44

And then

Shannah White 39:47

I, so I can either just see somebody in a session, or here's somebody a session, we do it on the phone, or I do also work with people in a different format where there's where you have private sessions like that. On the phone or in person, and then text availability, between sessions, and then also supportive educational materials that are tailored for what somebody is working on. So and if we were working in that format, then I'd be like, okay, play with that for a few days. And, you know, let me know a couple days how that's going, right. And then depending on what you text me, I might tweak it, or suggest the next step, as I would recommend it. So, um, my

Brandon Handley 40:31

comments was to have like, a videos too, sometimes, or just like, any type of supporting materials type of thing.

Shannah White 40:37

Sporting materials of this player are written, I do have an interest in producing video. They are usually, like, for instance,

Shannah White 40:50

a three page

Shannah White 40:54

very nice. So that I

Brandon Handley 40:57

know, I know that sometimes what I'll do, I mean, just, from my, from what I'll do is like, you know, similar to you, right? If somebody is going through in a different space, and like, hey, how's that going, like, Oh, I'm feeling this way or that way. And I'm like, oh, then, you know, try out this, you know, dispenza video, or Yo, you need this Alan Watts video, or, you know, this clip, or something of that type of thing like

Shannah White 41:19

that, except that I just write it on the spot.

Brandon Handley 41:22

Okay, I love that. I love that. And, you know, I want to highlight something here that we haven't really talked about, is that you've been in this space, your entire life. Right? Like, you know, you kind of grew up in like this, you know, spirituality space. And, you know, you've been involved with it, I think, head on for how many years now? Like, I mean,

Shannah White 41:47

25 years with sacred reality.

Brandon Handley 41:49

Right? So I mean, you know, and I like to throw that out there for like, you know, the the authority of sense so that somebody doesn't go like, What if she started yesterday and got a, you know, got a certificate? Because, yes, listen, and there's nothing wrong with that. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. But I want people to understand that. You're not dabbling in this.

Shannah White 42:09

Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, I was, I guess it would be 31 years ago that I started with a course in miracles. And then, five years ago that I started the secret.

Brandon Handley 42:20

Are you still having into Of course, a miracle? So you think you got

Shannah White 42:24

I was writing about innocence. And I wanted to really cool, pull out all the nuances of my own understanding. Yeah. So. So I wanted to read about it. And I actually tried to find something out there in the world. But I found out that people actually have a surprising perception of innocence out in the world, it's very much like, innocence is that beautiful, blissful, untainted state of childhood that then you lose it, and you can never get it back. And, and not only that, you wouldn't want it back. Because people will just take advantage of you like it's a weakness thing. And like, really, that's what people think about innocence. Yeah. But I anyway, so I want to go off with

Brandon Handley 43:12

that. Where'd you land on innocence?

Shannah White 43:15

Oh, wow. So innocence.

Shannah White 43:18

Innocence is that place where it is, it's the untainted state of mind. And children have it because they haven't learned this trust yet. Until they do learn to this trust, and then their, their state of mind is chained to the lead of the show. So they taught to this trust. Well, they might have an experience they don't understand that's painful. And so they can learn to distress from that itself. But then there are people in their life to guide them. And it could be that people guide them in a way that he also does trust. But that's not really going on, because our culture is not educated deeply enough. With with the wisdom that I think the word spiritual or super humanity stands for, to actually help a child fully resolved.

Brandon Handley 44:15

For instance, with a lot we lost half of that we got we got hold give me once. I'm going to pause this for a second record resumed. All right, awesome. So we lost two disconnected on the idea of, um, you know, the children experiencing trauma or something like that right? To?

Shannah White 44:38

Oh, okay. Okay. Right. So that you were saying that children don't have to distressed and so I was saying that they can have a painful experience, and experience distress naturally from that. But parent or guardian, if they, if a parent or guardian can hold a space of innocence themselves. And show a child through understanding how to heal what happened for them in that painful experience, then innocence we maintain trust can be maintained. But here's the other thing that's really interesting is that childhood innocence tends to give trust away easily. Whereas the innocence of that we know we earn through discipline is the trust. It's a trusting state of mind. When we give that trust to the inner voice of love, which a child doesn't know how to do, yet, it takes

Shannah White 45:43

take something learn how to do that. Sure.

Shannah White 45:47

So So innocence is actually a strength when you can allow your mind to become peaceful and untainted. In other words, unguarded and not biased by beliefs. Just open. But, but it's not open in a way that's honorable, it's open in a way that's invulnerable. Because you're listening inside. For that voice of love, which is state of innocence allows to happen, you actually have to practice innocence in order to discover your super humanity.

Brandon Handley 46:26

would you would you? Would you say that, um, it's kind of like a non attachment and judgment free sense of being?

Shannah White 46:35

Definitely.

Brandon Handley 46:36

Right. I mean, that the innocence isn't and then you know, again, being love emotion. No labels, no attachments, and no judgment is a kind of a state of innocence.

Shannah White 46:51

Right? Yes. Okay. Yeah,

Brandon Handley 46:55

that's great. So

Shannah White 46:56

actually, is also allowing the voice of truth to tell you what something is.

Shannah White 47:03

Does that make sense?

Brandon Handley 47:04

Yeah. I mean, you give me an example of that. What was that? What's that look like to you?

Unknown Speaker 47:08

Um,

Shannah White 47:10

well, what comes to mind is a very, very tiny example. Sure. I just went by really quick example. But in that moment, when you have that feeling to ask me how to grasp my name, but not in innocence would just trust that in books,

Brandon Handley 47:31

right. Yeah, sure. Yeah. I like it. Like, it's so funny, though. It's so funny how that happened. But yeah,

Shannah White 47:38

this this was just an example. Yeah,

Brandon Handley 47:40

like that. You're right. Right. And it says what trust, you know, trust? And, you know, follow that up. That's great. No, that's perfect, right?

Shannah White 47:50

Yes. And if I might just answer your question from a few minutes ago. Um, so as part of my rumination on innocence, I did go look in A Course in Miracles which, which is an old friend, but I don't, I have no, you know, phases where I don't pick it up. And then I pick it up later. And oh, my God, it's such a good book. Like, every time I go back to it, I actually get more out of it, because of the growth that I've experienced in between, has allowed me to come back to it and see it deeper. And then I'm like, Man, this is

Brandon Handley 48:19

good. Where was this? 20 years ago? Do you know so? Are you do you have like the the big one that's got all three of the books? And it was it got the it's got the text, the lessons, the daily, the daily lessons, and then it's got the teacher mode in there as well as that, right? Yeah. So do I've only read it and done the lessons and by the way, like anybody that's ever listened to this listen to this never ticked off course for articles, I highly recommend that you go through it's one year worth of like, daily, you know, kind of lessons, really, there's more of like, just this kind of moment to self reflect or take something in, right, just those daily lessons, but I'd have not read the or dug into the teachers aspect of it all. Do you find value in that

Shannah White 49:08

part? of book? I do? I do. I wouldn't say I have it all committed to memory. But one thing that's very interesting in that section is levels of trust, which has already come up in our conversation, because that's really, what you're what the journey is one measure of the journey. And and since you could if you could put the journey on one metric. It's going to be the metric of what do you trust? And how is your transition of trusting the ego to trusting the voice of love going?

Brandon Handley 49:43

That's great. That's great. I love I love using trust as a metric. That's cool. Very cool. So let's talk about you know, a little bit about you know, making the mystical practical, right and Sacred reality lists, you know, what are a couple things that you do? Because that's a big part of this podcast. Right? It's bringing the the mystical and making it practical, right? How can you How can you take these kind of thoughts and ways of being and apply them to your daily life and have a more fulfilling life? Right. So let's talk about a little bit of a couple of ways that you might be doing that sacred reality.

Shannah White 50:29

Okay, well, let's see. Um, yesterday, I spent time with someone in India, he is an India. And I'm here in the United States, in New York. And this was our third chat, they were just chatting as friends, but I'm always ready to be a beginner choose, the opportunity arises. And I actually thought you might enjoy being on my email list. So I invited him to my email list. And he said that he didn't want to be on the email list, because he was enjoying just the feeling of our organic conversation in the Facebook Messenger space. But the fact that he had this response, opened up a kind of honesty in our conversation that set a tone in his space. And so we continue to talk about things life, like dynamics and rst. But

Shannah White 51:41

I'll actually here's what it was, he told me.

Shannah White 51:46

He told me, we have a whole email, man email conversation, and it wasn't a big deal. But he wanted to make sure I understood that because he didn't want to reject me, you want me to feel rejected? And so I was explaining I feel understood. And he's like, you know, I think I'm just weird today, because I'm feeling kind of off. I'm like, What do you mean? And he said, Well, I'm feeling like, I don't know what I want to do. I don't know what I don't want to do. And I said, Would you like a suggestion? And so I, and he said, Yes. And I suggested, very much similar to what I had just guided you through. And I was focusing with him, I was focusing on the breath as the navigating agent for the feeling. And she didn't want to do it, actually, because he could feel that there was going to be a bunch of emotion underneath the surface. So then, okay, fine. You don't have to do it. But our conversation continued, and a little bit later in the conversation. Oh, yeah, that's right. So he said, You know, I will say one thing, which is, I experienced you like a candle in the darkness. Why is that? And so I started to talk about I asked him some questions. But I also started to talk about holding the space of truth, energy, because that's my understanding. That's my feeling of what he's feeling. And, and then, so as we're just exploring this topic, then he comes back around, and he says, and as far as that breathing, feeling, exercise goes, it feels to me like holding your hand and going to sleep in this deep peace.

Shannah White 53:46

And

Shannah White 53:49

he felt he has not felt, in fact, our entire relationship started because I posted about innocence. And he wanted to talk to me about it. And he said, I I lost innocence, and I will never have it again. So that's what are Are those the beginning of our relationship some weeks ago, but here in this moment together, just being really honest about what's coming up between us. She actually found a place where he felt the peace of God or the peace of truth for the first time. And he did not expect to ever feel that or anything like that.

Brandon Handley 54:29

And that's also like the the space of innocence. Right? So it was talking about, okay,

Shannah White 54:35

yes. And he felt it very briefly that he said that it was deep and real. And so why is this mystical? Right. I didn't talk to him even though I was sharing with him about the energy that I'm that I'm holding that he's feeling. The reason that he felt it is because I was holding So we were having a conversation that's bringing his understanding along. But the actual the actual communication that allowed him to experience that level of peace was the fact that I was holding a frequency. And as he's talking to me, his intuition, which is our intuition is always operating, even if we don't know how to do it on purpose, right? his intuition is picking up this frequency of truth from my energy field, even though we're seven or 8000 miles apart. And he allowed himself in that moment, after talking, he got to feel like okay, I can trust to just feel this for this moment. And, and then he felt it. So this is the beginning. I mean, that's what of course, miracles calls miracle is when love enter someone's perception and changes it. And in fact, of course, in miracles says that that is a huge time saver.

Shannah White 56:09

Sure, alters time. Right.

Brandon Handley 56:12

All right. That's all just matter of perception. Right? So that's awesome. So this is what you do. Right? This is this is kind of a, you know, you're out there creating super humanity, people. And you're helping others out there making the mystical, practical. And I think that, you know, seems like you're doing a great job, you seems like you're, you're happy with what you do, right? And this way, like, I still remember when we first we first connected, we talked to Matt, this is a life that you've always led. And I love that, too, because because it's, um, you always hear somebody say, well make sure you didn't put your ladder up against the wrong wall. Or a ladder in life. And here, you know, in my humble opinion, you know, you put your ladder up against a great wall, right? Because at the end of the day, you know, you're out there and you're being of service, but you're, you know, not being a servant. Right. Like, you know, there's, I think there's a big difference in that. And I think that that's also a challenge

Unknown Speaker 57:21

for another

Brandon Handley 57:22

another day, but, you know, for when you come into this space, you talked about, you know, letting go of all the things and giving all the things away and wanting to be of service, but like, you still need to be of service to yourself. Right? It's Jerry,

Shannah White 57:38

actually say two things that come to mind based on what you just said. One is that, absolutely, I have to stay in my own alignment. So if I'm feeling like I need to go to sleep, and someone wants to be talking to me on Facebook Messenger, the thing I need to do is go to sleep, because if I don't, I'm actually going to a won't be able to hold the space that I bought for them, I will start to feel resentful. subtly, but nonetheless resentful, because why? Because I'm not respecting myself. So it does start with a very solid foundation of listening inside and respecting what I hear, which includes time of asleep.

Unknown Speaker 58:25

Oh,

Shannah White 58:26

yeah. And I will say also, that is not just, it's not just the energy space that I hold, which is not a property of my own. It's also that listening. That's what that's what the energy is, actually if I stopped listening, then the my energy will go flat. Hmm. So it's the fact that he writes something. And then I feel inside myself. What my responses? And if I think it, it's going to come out flat. Sure. So So yes, has to take care of itself. And here's the other thing that I find really interesting and important. I did run across on Facebook, a they call it some kind of association for spiritual ethics. And they have an interesting and potentially worthwhile mission, which is that they want to get I guess, there's some people who can find themselves in an inappropriate relationship with someone who was a spiritual guide for them and and then they feel like you're hurt, whatever is going on out there. That's what they're trying to protect people from and they want to give guidelines like this is the way it should look. So it looks different than this. Maybe you need to reconsider. And sure people need help processing contrast to make healthier choices in their experiences. That's totally fine. Fine. But one of the features of this organization is that someone who serves the public in a spiritual capacity could become certified by this ethics Association, which means that they answer to that ethics Association. And I thought to myself immediately, I said, No, no, no, I don't answer to anyone but God. Like, I'm listening to love inside. And I will say and do as love directs me to do, I'm not going to sign up with some human run rulebook. completely the opposite of what it means to be in the flow, even though the character of love matches what they're trying to resemble. With their roots.

Brandon Handley 1:00:53

For me, I listen, it's not a soft, the worst thing, right? Because, you know, you and, and I could feel that way. You know, I operate out of a place of love. Whereas, you know, there's, there are the people out there that take advantage of others, and use this way of being in somehow, right, in a malicious way. Right, in a way that self serving and, and, you know, we talked a little bit, just a moment ago about, you know, a lot, you know, aligning ourselves and whatnot, but not to the detriment of others. Right. When you and I are talking about, you know, becoming into alignment with self, we're talking about how do I, you know, you know, spend time in my love being whatever that looks like to you, right, you know, love and motion as it were versus You know, this this kind of morphic space where you can create it, and you can have everybody inviting, get all this sense of being, but then, you know, basically, you're creating a cult, right, and you're like, hey, follow me, this is the only way to be you can't deviate from what I've just told you. And you know, and you're sucked in, right? And you're sucked in. And so that, to me, you know, if somebody's got a certificate, at least, like, burned by this before, I'm not doing it again, right type of thing comes from it sounds like it's not the worst thing.

Shannah White 1:02:25

It's, it comes from a good intention, for sure. It might help some people out there

Brandon Handley 1:02:30

that are upset. I know how you said to is it resonates with love, right? Just you know, from a place of love, but

Shannah White 1:02:37

it's also true that, that anyone who is hoping to grow spiritually into actualize super humanity and their self experience, the authority is within. So a mentor, such as myself, and I understand that you mentor people as well. is a is a guide. Right? But if you give, whether that guide is acting in a holy fashion or an unholy fashion, whether they, you know, morph themselves into an ego picture of spirituality, and they're acting that out for themselves in their own karmic cycle, we still have to, or whether they're acting like Jesus, we still have to, as someone who's being mentored, we still have to look within this, like, you know, we have to feel what's right. So if something doesn't feel right, and then the other person says, No, no, it is right. You gotta just leave. Yeah.

Brandon Handley 1:03:44

Yeah. And but it can be tough, right? It can be it can be really tough again, you know, we, you know, go back to the beginning of, you know, losing that son, you know, losing that selfishness sense of, of, you know, too many variables. Right. And that's the thing, too many variables. And if you have never experienced, even trusting yourself, right, that's, again, that's that that point that's that that's that tilting point that I was talking about in the in the book, Foursquare's power, of coming to courage, right, because everything under courage is is doubt, fear, all these other things because you haven't stepped into and realized your true potential. You're, you know, birthright as it were, all those things.

Shannah White 1:04:34

That's true. I have another thing to add, actually, because then this connects to what we were talking about before, like creating. And I can speak from my own experience this way too, because I had a relationship not with a spiritual mentor, but I had a relationship that before, before I really came home to prioritizing voice of love inside myself. There was this relationship with Were love was outside. And even though I was trying to work everything in a spiritual way, like really work hard at my life and in spiritual ways, but I still had this perception of love outside myself. And, and I attracted to myself, the perfect partner to act out a painful experience. Right, right. And so even when we're not relaxing and flowing in the ocean of God's creative thoughts, we're still creating because we are created in likeness and image. So our mind is creative, when we have a thought that connects with a feeling gets impressed in the magnetic component of our mind, and then that starts to magnetize something to us. So I hope if, if my desire can bless anyone, I hope that people who have found themselves in a harmful relationship of any kind, whether it's with a spiritual mentor, or not a spiritual mentor, that they find the presence of self reflection, to use the opportunity that's given to them, that where they're resonating with something that they become attracted to, and they've attracted to themselves. And if they can recognize that they can take the opportunity to become empowered through growing through that experience, rather than disempowered thinking you're a victim of it.

Brandon Handley 1:06:35

Yeah, I mean, that's not that's all along the path. Right. That's all the quote that that's the quote unquote, the process,

Unknown Speaker 1:06:41

right? Yes. Yes. That's

Brandon Handley 1:06:42

the process. So when people are talking, I always ask people that because they'll say what's the process? trust the process? was, I mean to you? Right, because I think it can mean a lot of different things. I think you just described the process fairly well. So where can we send people to connect with you?

Shannah White 1:06:59

Um, people can go to sacred reality.org and my coaching profiles on there and because send an email through the contact form.

Shannah White 1:07:10

I could also give my email address. Does that make sense?

Unknown Speaker 1:07:15

If you want to Yeah.

Shannah White 1:07:16

Okay, great. Anyway, you want people to connect with you? Very good. That's Shama s h a n n. h. at Sacred reality. Work is my email address and I'm also on Facebook. I'm Shawna dot white that three

Brandon Handley 1:07:33

nice way. I just want to say thank you so much for hopping on today. Love the conversation. I think this is a one where we could go for hours right type of conversations. So I appreciate the depth of your knowledge and you know, the things that you shared with us today and hope that the people that are listening out there they they took something away from this guy, thank you, you offer quite a lot. So thank you.

Shannah White 1:07:57

Thank you so much for having

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Brandon Handley 0:00 321 Hey, there's spiritual dope, and thanks for joining me today I have with me, Christian Bradley West, the country clairvoyant. Um, first of all, I just loved the name. Right. And I think that that's one of the reasons why we connected um, you know, obviously he's a clairvoyant in the spirituality space artists, textile artists,

Unknown Speaker 0:28 author

Brandon Handley 0:30 podcaster and Instagram influencer. So, you know, a couple of things that you write in here, right is a, you know, dedicated to facilitate and clear vision with within others, so that they are no longer wandering in the wilderness asking the question is, how did I get here? What am I doing? What is my purpose? Who am I? And you know, you're like, Hey, I'll spare you all the brain science focuses on patterns and behaviors. And I'll let you know, until you I know exactly how you got to where you are patterns and behaviors, right? And then, you know, you kind of say, Hey, I'm more like a spirit guide and a meat suit. Right. So this is a spirit guide me suit. What more do you need to know? Right? You know what, and so thanks for being here today. Appreciate it.

Christian Bradley West 1:19 Thank you. Thank you. And I have to say, I'm one of many. You are here, as well. We're all booty. Buddhists. They were all Buddhists. Right? We're all we're all gods. So we're all bad in some fashion. Some of us just, I've picked up the the staff, I suppose the staff are found in the wilderness and decided to go forward with Sure. Sure. No, I love that. Right.

Brandon Handley 1:41 I think that i think that that's another part where the word awareness kind of gets tossed in and out, right, like, everybody is

Unknown Speaker 1:49 Buddha.

Brandon Handley 1:50 Right? Yeah. But it's like whether or not you decide to be aware of it or not acknowledgement even. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, so what I like to start these off with is, you know, source speaks through us, right. And certain conditions and what this microphone is, right, is an amplifier. Right? Yeah. So, sources speaking through you today to specific people that listen to this podcast. What's it saying? What's the message that you're here to deliver today?

Christian Bradley West 2:23 Ah, wow, he put me on the spot. Let's see what's coming through. Okay. So one thing that's been coming through just recently is there's there's a lot Okay, let's go here. There's a lot of conspiracy theories out there. There's a lot of there's a lot of information, right. We live in the information age, there's a lot of it, right. And there's any number of different facets. There's the truth, there's the lies, there's all those different things. And of course, people could say, oh, truth is relative, so forth, all that we get into all that talk, but we won't right now. But we could say all of that. So. But what I will point to is that none of that matters. And you're like, well, Krishna, of course, it matters. This information, we need this information to live to survive, what is it? What are you What is it? Why does it matter? And I say that because what only matters is the individual, you taking care of you. So there's could be all that shit swirling around in the world. And it is not directly impacting you on a day to day basis. If it is not speaking to your own practice of awareness, then then really the focus I want now I feel like in my message period is I want people to focus on their own individual awareness, their own individual growth, and their own choices, because that is what drives the collective right. That's what drives all of the other things. Because each of us is a piece of the whole and whole as a piece. Right. So, so, so that's been showing up a lot in talks with friends, family, other people. And and I always want to point back to the consciousness of the individual. And yes, there are many things going on. But if we don't have the facts and figures, then we probably want to just redirect our focus to what is true within us, and how we can participate with that. And instead of worrying about what's going on in the rest of the world, although to be conscious of it is completely okay. And and to some degree necessary. Not not ignoring any of it, but also realizing what we can do in our daily life in order to contribute without getting caught up in all theories and conspiracies and all of those things.

Brandon Handley 4:49 Yeah, I love it. Yeah, there's a there's a lot of conspiracy theory shit out there right now. It's just like yeah, it's it's like 2020 is a perfect storm for Yeah,

Christian Bradley West 5:01 movements around into cue non movement, there's, there are literally, it feels like we're living in a, in a, in a an apocalyptic novel, you know like science fiction it really feels that way to me sometimes it's a little scary and entertaining at the same

Brandon Handley 5:19 time. I know that when it hit right I know I heard you said like you were all packed up and ready to go, right? You're like, Hey, I did I did my supply shopping. But

Unknown Speaker 5:27 yeah,

Brandon Handley 5:28 when when we started seeing reports, my wife and I started seeing reports of like, you know, shipping rationed at the grocery store. I was like, Alright, we got to go online, we got to order, like we're hitting up like restaurants, stores in order and stuff. And mind you, like we would have only lived like maybe six or seven days longer than anybody else. Right, but but we have the toilet

Unknown Speaker 5:51 paper.

Brandon Handley 5:53 But it seems like, you know, very apocalyptic. And at the same time, it's, I think that I think it's kind of great, because this is like that, that break that the world kind of needed, right? The disruption, like, you know, hey, everybody's been asking for disruption. Like, we need to disrupt this that the other thing and yeah, you just got disrupted like massively. So you got what you asked for?

Christian Bradley West 6:19 Yeah, right. We were building to it. I mean, technology has been remarkably, art and science has been disruptive, throughout all of human history. And in the 20th century, of course, it essentially came to a certain head and in and it's still doing, especially technology. Now, it is the primary disrupter. So and now we have, as you just mentioned, the these other impinging. Yeah, and what do we what do we do with it? How do we how do we essentially take the wildfire and use it to benefit? Well, I mean, I

Brandon Handley 6:59 love how you hit on that, you know, let's, uh, you know, that talks a little bit. So like, I think your outcome is optimizing. Right? Yeah. And let's talk about that a little bit. But um, let's give people a little bit of backstory, right. concha clairvoyant. How did he come into existence?

Christian Bradley West 7:17 Well, and this is one incarnation, I'll say, I don't know if I will stay here, but it's one of the titles I always joke. I'm like, Khaleesi, Mother of Dragons, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's like I have 1000 titles in this life already. And, and I'm at the end of it, it's just I am just Christian by the West. But how that came to be, was I oddly enough, without meaning to I had had this dream about being Native American. And then a week later, I found out that I actually had that in my bloodline through my father. And but what also happened is I did a soul retrieval because I grew up on power, the power 10 Nation property in Virginia, which is course related to Pocahontas. I literally live just miles down from Pocahontas State Park. So I grew up on that land. And, um, and had a lot of weird circumstances I always was had, I guess you could say psychic, aware, medium. And so what I did is I came back actually that week, without knowing having the dream I was coming back to Virginia from Georgia, with a dear dear friend who's also an astrologer psychic, medium person. And he tuned in and he's like, Oh, yeah, you died on that property. And we went through the whole thing. And so I went back there. And then on the drive back to Atlanta, I had the country live with me, which actually was an idea six months before, but I thought it was a distraction. I was like, oh, whatever, it's much bullshit. And then like, but the voice was in my head, like, you have to do this. And here's the interesting thing is that if I would not have started it about two and a half years ago, I would not know what I would be doing to make a living now, I don't know what I would be doing. Because my books that I had then had been rejected, like, nothing was coming through like, this was the thing. And I'd started account previous, that took me six months to maybe get 1000 followers, and in the first month with this account with the Instagram account, for those that are listening, I had almost 4000 followers. So Beginner's luck, essentially. And I was like, Okay, I guess this is what I'm doing now. And then it was like, okay, just start doing readings, which I had always done for friends and family, but then it was like, Okay, do this now. And I was like, Oh, shit. So,

Brandon Handley 9:29 so intuition. Intuition was saying,

Christian Bradley West 9:32 Yeah, there's no Yeah, yeah. Just I, I jokingly say, people could easily probably call me schizophrenia. I'm not, but that they're like, Oh, you hear voices? And I'm like, absolutely.

Brandon Handley 9:44 We kind of hit on that though, too. Right. Like, I mean, could I listen, my grandmother was schizophrenia, you know, but I went there for the diagnosis. But you know, could it have been? You know, intuition, could it have bad mediumship Couldn't have been one or any of all these other things. Absolute just improperly received.

Christian Bradley West 10:06 Yeah. And I absolutely think that I sometimes I think there's a direct line of mental illness with this work. Um, I've struggled with it periodically. Because I think when you're, when you're walking the margins of society in any way, shape or form, in your thought process, you definitely feel like an outsider. And if you're getting information, and it's coming in a quote, unquote, weird way, or odd way, it can definitely be that way. But we not only hear the positive, we hear potentially the negative as well. And sometimes you can get very consumed in those negative voices. And as we know, the collective is full of those voices going back to conspiracy theories and so forth. For so it's hard to discern. So I think sometimes the mental illness gets augmented as bad or negative, because no one is there to cultivate the listening and how to discern between what's coming through.

Brandon Handley 11:01 Right, right. And being able to, you know, tune in or tune out, right.

Christian Bradley West 11:08 Exactly. Filter weather, what radio station, yeah, what radio station and my tuning into, sometimes that dial is just all over the place, especially for people who are empathic, and I'm like, okay, the point is to learn what station you want to turn into and where they're different stations. And that takes a tremendous amount of practice, and self awareness.

Brandon Handley 11:28 Yeah. So so you know, you're headed back to Georgia, you decide the country clairvoyant, you spin up the Instagram account. You've got 4000 followers in a month, and people are probably like, how did you do that? But you basically just spun it up, and you were being your authentic self?

Christian Bradley West 11:46 Yeah, I decided that with his account, I was just gonna throw everything at the wall and see what stuck. Like, I just was like, This is who I am. I feel like I've had to learn and modify things within this space, not modify it in a negative sense, but but essentially almost like carving out a sculpture. There's like, Okay, this, this works, this doesn't work. And how and really what it is, is same with my writing is how do I refine how I use my voice? What am I saying? What do I want to say? Where do I want to direct this and become more strategic in my awareness of my own message? And it's, it's slowly evolving, I decided this will be just a meme account right now. Because I like that a lot of people go in, they change it like, Hey, this is a meme account. And now it's gonna be a personal account. I don't know. I kind of like it being little.

Brandon Handley 12:36 Right, right. Right. Yeah. No. So I mean, it is a meme. And it's entertaining. Right. Lots of entertainment on there. And, you know, I think that, you know, from, from my perspective, and where I'm coming from, I was looking for kind of spiritual accounts that weren't your everyday spiritual accounts. Yeah. I mean, look, there's a lot of them out there.

Unknown Speaker 12:57 Yeah. And, and they're great.

Brandon Handley 12:59 They're great. But like, there's, you know, spirituality isn't all, you know, like, the beads. It's not all like that, that that stupid dress that every hippie has. Yeah. And yeah, and all that. Right. Yeah. And that's why I started following some of what you're putting out there. Right. Yeah. Because I enjoyed it. It's authentic. It's real. And it Yeah, it is spiritual. The stuff that you're saying is like, it's legit, right? I know, because I got a book of what's legit and what's not behind me.

Christian Bradley West 13:33 Call your intuition. Right. Like, it's

Brandon Handley 13:39 like, yeah, look, it's you know, I try not to be like an elitist. But sometimes, like, You got it, you got to know where to cut the shit, right? Like, you know, this is like, you can tell some, some things apart from others. And that's just it.

Christian Bradley West 13:52 It's about the editing and the curating. And to me, I like to be very practical, to me, spirituality is simply rewiring the brain for more awareness, more openness to to the, to the perceived unknown anyway. And, and, and not getting so stuck in the mire of what have been right and thinking we know already. And we call it spirituality and the you know, if you look back at Hinduism, the Vedas, if you look all the way back to some of the very early spiritual texts, they all talk about, essentially changing your perspective and which which rewires the brain and the more you practice the different perspectives or the different thoughts, or it could be taken even further to live and no thought and allow things to arise from that. Then your life changes, your brain chemistry changes, your body chemistry changes, everything changes, and of course, the way that they taught me Kriya Yoga, the way you accelerate that practice is through your breath work, which is a Kriya Yoga, very separate from hatha because hot is great but Kriya Really is my favorite, because it really displaces it's a disrupter, that breathwork is a disrupter. And literally, the thoughts, it forces the thoughts to stop. And then you just see them floating up there. And you're like, Okay, and kind of like a tree you can pluck when you want, you know,

Brandon Handley 15:18 I love that. I love that. So I mean, I love the idea of no thought, Would you say that's similar to surrender?

Christian Bradley West 15:28 Gosh, yes, I can definitely be an aspect of that. Because the mind very much so wants to assume and judge and categorize and label and detail and, and do all those things, which is a great tool. Again, though, it's a tool. So either we're using a hammer and the hammer is using us. So yeah, at some point in time, to essentially surrender the need to be thinking all the time, they need to be figuring out like, last night, I had this emotional state come over me where I was very angry. And I was like, let's figure this out. And then I thought for a second, I was like, No, Christian, you can't think your way through this. Let's breathe our way through this. Let's accept it to your point. Let's surrender. Not to the circumstance, but let's surrender to the awareness of the circumstance.

Brandon Handley 16:18 Right, right now, hundred percent hundred percent. Yeah. You know, in a situation where you're angry, you know, you're restricting the possibilities, right? Because you've got like this pinpoint, you know, thing or like, Scott, I have in this way, God dammit.

Christian Bradley West 16:35 Right. Or it didn't happen that way. So God damn right.

Brandon Handley 16:38 Right. Right. Right. So like, like I had, I had, like, you know, the whole universe, and it's got a it's got land on this time. And if it doesn't, I'm pissed as hell. And you're not open or open to what are all these other possibilities? Right. And yeah, just literally kind of letting that flow through you.

Christian Bradley West 16:56 Yeah, absolutely. It's good way to put it. Absolutely.

Brandon Handley 17:00 Well, you know, look, I mean, we're, we are energy, energy currents, right, like, and just this body, the meatsuit. Right. Yeah. And the mind acts as a dam for that stuff, right? We're like, well, like, I guess I'm just gonna have to stop it. It's all gonna stay right here. And this is like, yeah, honey type flow. And you they again, you're just restricted to this, like tiny space. Otherwise, you know, we've got the rest of the we've got the rest of the universe to work with. And we're not even trying.

Christian Bradley West 17:27 No, well, and there's something so there's two things, the shamans, shamans are often called the hollow bones, right. So they're the vessel that folds the spirit, whatever you want to say. And then, and then you also have, the way you're talking about to me and an astrology thing is very Saturn nine way of looking at things from two different sides, which is, there's a great book that I loved when I was young artists called the power of limits, and it talks about pie and proportion. And and how this this number definitely had a structure to it. But the structure was potentially infinite in its incarnations. And I always love that because to me, it's like, yes, we're in the meatsuit. But what how do we maximize the potential of this meatsuit? And and through adversity through potentially, which could be potentially very much so be suffering and certain challenges in life, we begin to recognize what we're capable of beyond our conditioning beyond the domestication beyond the agreements, we were handed as children. And go Wait, But wait, there's more. Right? But But how do we do that while maintaining an open space? I jokingly say we're all walking vaginas for spirit.

Brandon Handley 18:45 Because the receive,

Christian Bradley West 18:46 right, right, because sometimes, we're definitely there's a structure to us. But there's definitely something else and what people don't realize the spirit isn't outside. We are spirit, hopefully. Yeah. Yeah. So so it's like when we surrender, we're not surrendering to something as much as we are, which is the way it looks to people. What we're ultimately doing is we're just allowing for our authentic nature without all the voices without allies without their old, old, old the past to get in the way of how we want to be now.

Brandon Handley 19:19 So how did you stumble on that for yourself? Ask me that again. How did I what I'll just stumble on that for yourself. You know,

Christian Bradley West 19:26 was it was it something I yeah, so when I started very young, I always was I was always drawn to this stuff, which again, astrological look at my chart, it's like, oh, yeah, you are spiritual as fuck and, and it's true. I always was. I was always interested in all these weird things like the angels fairies and fantasy dragons, so forth, whatever. And then when I was when I was when I was 14, I started to realize I was gay. And that was very difficult because I was this devote Christian set. Baptist and had chosen that through actually my grandparents who were my archetype of unconditional love in my life. So I was like, of course, like, they're showing me the way, so I'm going to do the church thing. Sure. And then the other aspect to it was that created so much stress, we all actually moved to Atlanta, at 16. So middle of high school, so I had to leave all my friends. And I developed Crohn's disease as a child. So those two things kind of coming together. Like a

Brandon Handley 20:32 hydron Collider, right? Yes,

Christian Bradley West 20:33 it was. So those they end also dealing with parental abuse, as well as, as a child and as a teenager, mental, emotional, and physical, became all of those things created such intense suffering for me that I just essentially, that was my initial collapse. And at that point, time, if you want to call them angels, or whatever, showed up, I didn't know who they were. But I was having these dreams with these beings and these feelings that I was having. And, and so a door open then and then I met started meeting through doing herbs and essential oils and my healing and things like that, because I got off the steroids. I was just done with the anti inflammatories they had me on went completely to herbs. So in those shops, I started to meet people that was like, Oh, I want to I want to get to know these people. What's going on here? So yeah, so that was the beginning of it all.

Brandon Handley 21:31 So it's a whole nother space. And so, you know, it's funny, because you mentioned you're gay. And and also, you know, you're doing this clairvoyance. And you're in the south.

Unknown Speaker 21:45 Yeah.

Christian Bradley West 21:47 Hence the country clairvoyant.

Brandon Handley 21:49 Right. Right. So so for, you know, for for people tuning in, you know, if you're not from the south, and if you haven't ventured to the south, I hate to say it, you know, there's a lot of parts in the south that really haven't changed in the past 30 to 40 years. So for you to be in the position that you're in doing what you're doing, I'd say that's brave, right, you know, in one sense of the word. But in the other side of that, there must have been, you know, this kind of fear stacked on fear. And I think I talked about it before, like, you know, what happens we like, not only are you gay, you've already you're in the south, but now you're like, I'm gonna be doing tarot readings. And, boy, and I'm psychic, who wants to hang out? Right? All right. So let's talk about stepping into that space and what that was like for you.

Christian Bradley West 22:40 So to your point, very much so that I, for anyone that doesn't know and the ones that listen in probably don't, um, I come from a fear space and everywhere, so that you may say, like, you walk the path of love or fear, whatever the conscious or unconscious, I always come from the fear. And what I also realize I do is I do everything anyway. So if I feel very compelled and inspired to seek something out or to participate in some way, then I will do it, and nothing will stop me. Nothing. I will, I will go, Okay, this is what I'm doing now. And it's interesting, because I haven't dealt even being gay, I haven't dealt with outside of high school, there hasn't been any prejudice in my life. There's never I've never stumbled. I also have dated very country, alpha boys a lot, they have tend to find me. And I have I was country boy, myself. So um, you know, inside, there's, there's one of those inside of me. So, um, so you know, it's true. And so I've kind of, it's odd how it's all worked out. It's, it's, it's strange, I really, I always say, I'm 50% country, 50% city. And so I just I go wherever I'm called. And I find those people, whether they're in the country, or in the cut, you know, one way to say it, or, or if or if they're actually, you know, in more urban areas, it's funny, I feel very binary in that way that I kind of flow between the two. And the fear. Of course, in the beginning, it's always the, you know, the strongest in the beginning, but I've just, I keep pushing past that. And when I started to do this, the fear was, oh my god, I'm gonna be in front of people talking and talking about my my philosophies, my, my own perspectives, and that felt very vulnerable, so that I've had to work through that a lot, as well. So have you found it to be empowering,

Brandon Handley 24:45 kind of facing those fears and and stepping into them?

Christian Bradley West 24:48 Absolutely. My perception is it's always empowering for us because if we don't turn around and look at what scares us, then we will Stay, what we resist persists. As they say, I find that to be very true. And it's of great value, that we, that we dive deep, I still dive deep, I still, one thing I'm struggling with recently is wanting to be accepted by the group. I still feel that way sometimes. And if I'm still wanting that, then there's still ego and be attached to some form of outcome. And so and so and afraid that I won't get the love and approval that apparently some part of me desperately still wants

Brandon Handley 25:32 a madman No, I get it, I get it. And, you know, this is this is something I actually just did a transformational kind of session last week or the week before with the very same thing, like, you know, yeah, like, what's your, you know, what's your hang up? I'm like, it's belonging, right. Like, it's just, and that was in the session I did was it was great, right. But you know, just saying, I get the whole belonging part, right. And and so, you know, what do you do with that, right? And it sounds to me, like, Look, you just kind of keep stepping towards it, right? Like, that's it,

Christian Bradley West 26:05 that's it, you, you acknowledge the fear, and you go, and this, and I go, fuck you, you do not get to drive the car, right? And sometimes you don't even get to sit in the backseat, sometimes you have to get in the trunk. And I just say, no, we're not doing this, I really, I really have to have that conversation with myself. That's not what I'm doing now.

Brandon Handley 26:27 That's great. Now that we're at now, where do you find that kind of impacting what it is that you do, and like, how you getting you know,

Christian Bradley West 26:35 so I show up, I participate. Because otherwise, if we feel ashamed, and we feel like what we don't have to offer is a value to people. And shame being not I feel bad, but that I am bad, right? There is something wrong with me isn't how I define shame. Um, and so if we feel any of that, and we're essentially judging what we have to offer, then we're doing a disservice to ourselves, but also to other people that might be seeking it. And right now, there's this explosion of amazing people, like you and so many other people out there who are wanting to provide information to people that can help them on their journey. And if we're not doing that, then we're we're essentially we're allowing our, the junk to get in the way, and potentially being very selfish because of that, because we want to protect ourselves, right? So stepping into that space of vulnerability to me very consciously, I call becoming available. So I value being available. So I choose the availability and what it's teaching me is to show up every day, because my inclination has been to go run in my room and hide sure the ad and become very introverted. Sure. And go, No, I don't want to do that. And what if I get judged for it? And what if people don't like it? And what? What if I fuck up? You know?

Brandon Handley 28:01 Yeah, no, look, I agree, right? I love that too. What if you fuck up? So what is your life? Right? Like, anyways? Like, you know,

Christian Bradley West 28:09 I cannot is that even true? Because as I as as one of my dearest friends on the planet says, you have to be every bend to be where you are.

Brandon Handley 28:16 Right? Well, I mean, it was funny. We're getting ready for this podcast. And, you know, we're working on the lighting and, and getting the video all set up. Right. And, and I didn't say it, but like, you know, the deal is like it you worked a whole life to get to this point, you know, this is the best you've ever loved today,

Unknown Speaker 28:33 right now.

Brandon Handley 28:34 Right? So so I'm not gonna look any better today than you look right now. So, I love that, um, what if I called up so if I call you up for a session, you know, what, what type of sessions am I calling up for like,

Christian Bradley West 28:52 so there there is. There's really two I I did put on my website, multiple options, but I find it doesn't matter what you choose, because we will always get to the nitty gritty, we'll always get to the source of whatever, whatever information is needed. Right now, the tools are different. Some people are more comfortable with astrology, so I can do that. Some people are more comfortable with Tarot. So I do that some people want Oracle cards, or some people don't care. They just go you have information for me. You can help me clarify something. Let's do it. Let's go have a party together. So we do for like an hour and we we talk we throw cards. I always start off with numbers numerology, I don't know why I'm terrible at math. And the universe is like, Oh, hey, we're gonna have to do numerology in order to tune into this person. And it is it's kind of like you giving me your passcode to the Wi Fi or your computer that we get in there. And it's like, Okay, I see this happen. Like, it's really,

Brandon Handley 29:54 yeah, it's an it's interesting process. That's cool and use, I think I heard you say like, most of the people, a lot of people are calling about relationships and whatnot,

Christian Bradley West 30:04 relationships tends to be one of the primary, um, one of the primary discussions, one of the primary readings that people want. And it is a primary way that we learn, we, we learn relationally everything in this world is in relationship you're in, we're in relationship with our microphones right now with our, with our recording devices, with whatever. So, um, but human relationship tends to cause the most amount of drama, because it is so nuanced, and so and instigate the triggers, sure, that require our attention in any given moment, for our healing, which, from my perspective, the root of the word healing is just hope. So it's whatever is going to lead us into more homes. Sure. Sure. Yeah.

Brandon Handley 30:58 Yeah. No, and I love that right. When your relationship with someone over time they get to know all your triggers, right. Yeah. And, you know, they keep pushing them and to balance with you, you know, that's where we learn how, where our points are that need to be fixed, right? That's what yeah, it's not them. It's like these are these are your triggers. They're not

Christian Bradley West 31:18 their triggers? No. Well, and and if you are conscious enough, then you'll choose someone who's not going to do it on purpose, or, or maliciously, because some people do that some people will weaponize the triggers, and general use them in order to manipulate or do whatever. And I've experienced that in my life. And I'll and I'll be like, Okay, this is, you know, you're operating in this fashion. Can we discuss about this? And, and how can I change it out also in this, like, what's going on here. And for me, what I realized is a lot of those relationships I had to step away from, because if someone was unaware of their own triggers as well. And, and, and also triggering other people to say, if you, if you don't heal your wounds, you'll bleed on others. So it's important. It's really important to understand who we are, and then also look at our partners and understand them so that we can be of service to their own process. Yeah, so hopefully, that happens. I don't see that a lot. But I do see it changing. There are a lot of people out there who are ready to come together. We talk about unconscious coupling, our conscious uncoupling, but most of it is unconscious coupled instead. Right? Right, right.

Brandon Handley 32:37 Absolutely. I mean, look, I can't I can't say that. I can't save the relationship that I'm in now that it was like a, it was a conscious decision.

Christian Bradley West 32:46 No, but it can become that it becomes that like over

Brandon Handley 32:50 Yeah, right. Like, absolutely. And as you kind of, I don't want to say evolve, like, I don't like the words evolve. I don't like the, you know, leveling up or any of that shit. Like, it's, again, I struggle

Christian Bradley West 33:00 with it to

Brandon Handley 33:02 remembering who you are getting back to your true sense of self, right? Like, because

Christian Bradley West 33:09 we'll frame it in the way of the physical realm, it appears that we're expanding or leveling up, it appears that way. But if we're coming from a space of wholeness, and spirit, and in that spirit of wholeness already, then you already recognize the entirety exists. So you're not trying to grab something in order to expand or level up, you're just going, Okay, it already exists. And I'm going through the motions here, of this experience and this physical reality. So it appears that things expand and contract here, but of course, when you're looking at it from a different perspective, everything already exists. And already is and its wholeness.

Brandon Handley 33:47 Right, so everything already exists. You just got Yeah, I'm aware of it. Right. Like that's the that's Yes, the line. That's the line. What, um, all right, look, I love it. Right. Um, let's see what else I have for you today. We talked about alkalizing your stuff, right? I pulled that out of one of the podcasts that you kind of mentioned. If someone's not familiar with a, you know, alchemy beyond transmuting gold, you know, lead into gold added to gold. Yeah, from back in the day. You know, let's talk a little bit about what does it mean to optimize?

Christian Bradley West 34:18 Yeah, so it's I also in my very country way, other way I do it is using manure to grow wild flowers. So it's taking your life's shit, right? And then consciously applying it going, Okay, what's the lesson throwing it on the garden? You know, and of course, everyone knows if anyone's ever had a garden it requires tremendous tending, right because the deer come and eat things or other critters and you have any insects and all that stuff. So you have to tend to it that way. And you have to fertilize it. You have to decide some soils need extra things in order to PR certain plants to grow and you know, so It really it's about becoming aware of what happened. What was the trauma? What was the junk mean going, how can I use this, for instance, speaking about my relationships, one relationship in particular, the person had been molested and was an alcoholic. And it I started to research more about shame, I started to research more about what healthy relationships look like, as well. I started to research all these things. And it gave me a whole nother set of tools that I wasn't using. And so yes, that relationship was very painful and heart wrenching, and very difficult to go through. Sure. And I left it with all this information. And now I work with a lot of people who have struggled with those same things either within themselves or within relationships with their partners. And now I say, Okay, here are some tools that I have to try that. So that's one way outcome is it it's like, okay, don't focus on the negative aspects of it. Although acknowledge it, don't bypass it. Okay, that was painful. That hurt like crap. But but then attend to it and go, Okay, well, well, how can I? What did I learn? what's the takeaway? What's that? So in alchemy, of course, you have the fire, right? And the fire burns away everything that isn't the gold, and you're left with the gold. And so the alchemy to me is really a process of recognizing the value in every circumstance, and taking that gold and turning into something else. And I also say, from grid into gold, so it's like, we take it and and we make it our own. But alchemy is the process that we're responsible for. We also another aspect of alchemy is applying meaning to your own life, and not allowing another person place or thing, some authority outside of you to apply the meaning. You get to decide what that relationship meant, what that circumstance meant, what that event meant to you. And no one else can decide that for you. And in that way, you're optimizing it.

Brandon Handley 36:59 Yeah, no, I mean, and I think in that situation, too, you become the true creator of your own life. Right? Like, yeah, and you've got all the pieces, the bits and pieces and the parts, but at some point, you realize that you are designing your own life, and you've got your own meaning your own purpose, your own. Yeah, you know, set of logic that makes it all happen, right? Yeah. And I saw, I love that there was another piece he said to talk about, like linearity, right? None of this is like not linear, right? None of this is linear. So anybody who says like, Listen, all you got to do is go or point A, at the left over here at point B, and you should arrive here at C, as you know, that's the direction you go linear. What did you mean? Yeah, what do you mean by that, like?

Christian Bradley West 37:45 So I, one way that I, that I described it that I love is if anyone seen the seed of life, in anyone, google it if you if you're listening, and you don't know it, so it's a set of seven circles, right? But they can expand into multiple more circles. And then if you really, if you look at it from a different perspective, it becomes a spiral. So you go around one circle, but then you hit on another circle and sons go around that circle, then you go around that circle, then you are on that circle, and then you go around that circle, then you go around that circle, and then you kind of sometimes hit on some of the things from that you've already learned, but then you go around it again. And so it's, it's not this straight. It's not this, what I call vector consciousness, it doesn't run on a straight line, no consciousness runs on a straight line. That's essentially also what I would call in computer terms in AI as well, like a current AI is running on one terms, but of course, in AI talk, there's also something called panoramic AI, which can see the whole picture, it's not running on a vector anymore. And our consciousness is kind of like that. We start off with this linearity with this vector, okay, it's one line. And then once we awaken, we start to realize we become panoramic, our vision becomes panoramic, when you start to see all these different circles, all these different things and to your point, um, you stop going, there's just a dime, you go. There's so many times there's so many options. There's so many ways of going about this. And, and sometimes, like in my healing of my body, I've had to target it from multiple ways through exercise, through herbs, through Central oils, sometimes through baths through eating certain foods through things like that. I haven't healed my gut from just choosing Okay, I'm going to take this one medicine, and it's going to fix everything, because there is no silver bullet usually. So in the linearity comes the exploration of the experience that

Brandon Handley 39:38 I love that dude, um, you know, just just while you're talking about you know, healing the gut, right. Did you go through like I Vedic, uh, you know, how did you

Christian Bradley West 39:47 I try that early on. And what what I what has worked. Actually I've recently changed it up what has worked recently because I had another bout because I took a lot of animals For a tooth and jaw infection earlier this year, and was disrupted again. And what work this time is I have flooded myself with multiple strains of probiotics or different non dairy because I can't do dairy. I'm non dairy yogurts, also taking certain probiotics, and also just really monitoring what is going into my body, I don't eat really greasy food, I tend to do my best to stay away from refined sugars, and just allow anything that could potentially promote inflammation I stay away from, and then anything like herbs like marshmallow and slippery elm that kind of helped the mucosal lining, and we're gonna sciency in that in that zone to help rebuild it, because the antibiotics kill is good bacteria that kind of helped keep that. So what I want to do is create an environment it was like, Okay, if I killed them all off, right? How do I support their regeneration? Right. Um, and before though, in the past, it's been just like, bombarding myself with herbs. But, um, but this go round, I was like, I want to be more dynamic. So even in my practice of my life, I'm choosing to operate in that dynamic space, which again, the non linearity has benefited me greatly. And I'm, I say, I'm in the trenches with everyone. I'm over here do.

Brandon Handley 41:34 Right, right. I mean, I mean, none, I don't think anybody's like, perfect with all this stuff. Right. And they caught That's why they call it that's why I call it practice, right? Like, this is this is your practice, right? This is what you do. And these are the things that you're doing. These are the habits that you created yourself. Um, yeah. And, you know, they serve you today, like, in a week, they could all fall apart. None of it's working anymore. Right? Exactly.

Christian Bradley West 41:57 Oh, which has happened, which is happened.

Brandon Handley 42:01 Tanya, so I, you know, one of the things, you know, we see out there, at least, that's what I see, you know, in this motivational, entrepreneurial, all this other stuff, right, like, stay the course, just keep with it, keep sticking with it, and you'll make it or whatever. And you know, or don't deviate, there's discipline, you got to stick with it, the rigor, yada, yada, yada. And so that can make it difficult to let go of some of the habits that you've created, or some of the things that you've done. So talk about, like breaking the habits that aren't serving you anymore, and recognizing that they're not serving you anymore.

Christian Bradley West 42:33 This is a couple of things here, I say keep going does not mean doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. So keep going and staying consistent does not mean that you don't adapt, you consistently adapt. So that's what you bring into the fold there. At least that's been my lesson. And then the other part of it is research shows because I've done a lot of research, I've researched this a lot myself, research shows that we don't break habits. So we have these grooves in our brains, right, we create this neural pathway. And what ends up happening is we choose differently. So that old neural pathway essentially grows over and starts to disintegrate as we start using a new one. And I struggle with the term habit, because any habit to me feels unconscious. So the only habit I think anyone needs is to be present and do everything on purpose. Because if you are it breaks the pattern of I have to do it the right way. Because the linearity comes through with the right way I have to do this, I have to learn as you said, You know, I have to follow this structure, I have to do it this way. Well, if that structure is not working anymore, then you become curious about it. And you go, Okay, is there a different structure, and then you start to research and then you start to find that there's other options. There's other ways of doing it. And so, And to me, that's living on purpose. It's and then connecting it to what we talked about earlier with conspiracy theories is is I say, be a researcher ask questions, because that is going to forward our momentum, with our consciousness and with anything we do. So if for whatever reason you quote unquote, as they say, gets stuck, then the next thing to do is go Okay, am I operating out of out of a habitual mode? And can I change that so again, the and they may be the only habit. The other habit is when you're operating on purpose in the present is that you're also adapting. So each moment has its own set of circumstances that are very individual and as unique as the individual approaching them. So it's of great value for us to recognize what's useful there because what it's like another example I use for being very linear is going okay, I've been using the screwdriver, you know, to to drew screws, but now it's time to use a nail. Well, if you try and hammer The nail with the screwdriver, that's going to be really difficult. So get the damn hammer and stop trying to use the screwdriver and go kind of stuff this isn't working, it's like, No, just fine, adapt and locate the tool become aware of the tool that's going to support you through the process.

Brandon Handley 45:19 Yeah, I mean, I like that a lot. Because, you know, be aware that you don't have the tool that you need for the process right then and there. Right? Like being being aware that this, this tool doesn't serve this process. What is the tool that you need? Right?

Christian Bradley West 45:34 Well, and so like I say, on my website, if you can't see the forest for the trees, then maybe you need to listen to the forest. Maybe you need to feel the forest, maybe there's a different way of moving through the circumstance that you're not aware of. Because maybe you're not supposed to see the forest through the trees. Maybe that's not the point. Then you then you stop doing that you go, Okay, I need to close my eyes and just feel out what to do.

Brandon Handley 45:58 Yeah, yeah. I love that. There's another there's another piece that I've seen a lot too is like cleaning your energies by leaning up on a tree, right? type? Yeah. But I mean, there's so many, you know, so many different places to go with that. You know, you also mentioned, you know, just asking the different questions, right. I've recently read a book called, asking a more beautiful question. Right, and just talking about it, but and it gotten to the one point and really what I loved is, you know, talking about when you decided to become like the clairvoyant and really lean into the space, you could have done this, that or you could have chosen another path, right. And one of the questions that he had in the book, and I love it is, you know, which one of these makes a better story, you know, at the end of the day, right? Which, which one of these, which one of these motions do I take in life is going to make a better story? And he's, like, always choose the one that's going to have the better story,

Christian Bradley West 46:55 right? Oh, God, I think I have done that my whole life. I think I chose to do that when I was very young and have been devastated by it, but in the best possible.

Brandon Handley 47:05 I mean, you know, I'll throw it out there. Like, uh, you know, sometimes I'll pick like, some hotels or motels that I probably shouldn't, right. But I'm more interested in the outcome, right, like, what happened what's gonna happen with it when I went to one where there was like, a Stanley Steamer, you know, vacuum van in there, and it looks like there's probably a murder getting cleaned up. Right. And, and, and when I got up into my hotel room, like the the frame of the hotel door, solid steel, and there was like, dense in there. I was like, this is just a bad idea. And I stayed there anyways. But um, you know, I was showing and sharing pictures with other people are like, Yeah, no,

Christian Bradley West 47:43 you know, I actually, I stayed in a hotel in New York, I stayed in a room that had a murder. I and I, and I had nowhere to go. I had to stay there that night. And I went downstairs and said, I need extra sheets, because somehow the bed sheet had come apart. And there was no bed cover. And the and I knew exactly what it was because I'd seen it enough. The entire mattress was soaked with blood. Kidding me it No, it was it was and it was before I had a camera phone. So it was a while ago. And But yeah, I pulled it back. And somehow and I was like, This is soaked. I say this is soaked through it. But somebody died here. somebody died on this mattress, and they did not get rid of it. Yeah, so anyway, interesting story that I really tell but you

Unknown Speaker 48:36 know, tell stories. Just say

Christian Bradley West 48:39 I was downstairs and I was like, I need to change rooms. Or we need it. I need more linens. I need something to not be so close to this mat dead mattress. And there was no other place to go. And I didn't want to change hotels and it was too late. So yeah, cuz I'd gotten in like way early in the morning. So yeah, so anyway, so it was an interesting experience. I was like, Oh, crap, someone died on in this bed.

Brandon Handley 49:06 So so you chose the better story like I did with the good out? No, it could have gone somewhere else anything else could happen? And you'll be like, I was bloody I left but no, you bloody

Unknown Speaker 49:19 does that you do. Um, and that's,

Brandon Handley 49:21 that's that's I mean, that's to me. I think that's kind of like that. That's what makes life kind of fun, though. You know, making this choice. Yeah, like, you know, I could totally go stay at the nice place and that's okay. Yeah, this is something else like there's life yeah, there's life in this place right in this space.

Christian Bradley West 49:37 Try with follow your intuition people. Something says don't go there. Don't

Brandon Handley 49:43 know. Are you are you a follow your bliss kind of guy or you know, where do you stand with that?

Christian Bradley West 49:48 Um, I think that gets really tricky because bliss can come from judgment, sometimes what I think is better or best or superior. Sometimes people go Oh, This is better than that. And so yes and no, what I am is follow your intuition. Follow, get very grounded in your own being, and your own authenticity and your values, what works for you, I like to make it very practical, because otherwise follow your bliss can be running from one thing of happiness to the other. And I don't subscribe. I don't like the word happiness, happiness, to me, points to the ephemeral pleasures that we experience in this life. And that's not to say you can't enjoy them was to say, though, is is to constantly be chasing it is like, is like trying to constantly chase the butterfly, you will never ever get it once you do get it What then? You know. So to me, it's about creating your bliss, not following it. So you want to create it. And there are tools, which was to do that.

Unknown Speaker 50:51 What's your favorite one?

Christian Bradley West 50:53 Um, well, we talked about the Four Agreements earlier from what I do. Every time I got your precise moment. I think whatever works, that works for me very early on, I'm actually rereading it. What I like the most about it is I think we only need one agreement with ourselves, which is to be honest with ourselves to be and to frame it in his way to be impeccable with your word. So be aware of the stories that we tell ourselves. So to your point, I'll say, I've made the agreement to be honest with myself no matter what. So if there's if I feel a certain way, or I'm thinking a certain way, oftentimes, I'll stop like last night when I felt angry. And so there's a narrative here, there's a story, I'm not being honest with myself, there's a lie living in me, and I want to confront it, and move through it. And record. And usually the lie for me is, you are not a value, your voice is not a value. You weren't valued and recognized by people and as a child, or you were bullied or whatever. And I still feel very viscerally that way, even though the circumstances sometimes are not there. And sometimes you can be triggered by this lawless thing. And, and some days, I don't feel it at all. And other days I do. So I just recognize the story. And then I decide to drop it and I go, you know what, I'm the author or authority of my life, right, which has the word author in it. I'm writing this, and I want to write a more peaceful story here. And this doesn't, this doesn't. This doesn't add up. This doesn't compute anymore. And I say Thank you Next.

Brandon Handley 52:24 Nice. Yeah. So so you kind of you confront it, right? You acknowledge it, and you determine whether or not it's serving you or not. Yeah. And if not, you're like, you know, what is my desired outcome? Right? Peace. What

Christian Bradley West 52:38 do I want to do now? Yeah, what do I want to do now? And I wouldn't even call it a desired outcome. Because desiring peace, to me is the antithesis of having peace, but I just choose it, right? I just say, Okay, this is I'm gonna choose this now, and not even let another story get in the way.

Brandon Handley 52:52 Right, right. What is it? The whole the lady that goes up to Buddha was like, you know, I want happiness or something like that. He's, like, removed the I removed the want and, you know, just be, you know, happiness or whatever.

Christian Bradley West 53:05 Yeah, exactly. So

Unknown Speaker 53:07 and

Brandon Handley 53:08 then you've got, you've got some books in process, right, let's talk a minute or two about the

Christian Bradley West 53:14 lineup, right? Well, my mentor says they're all the same book. Um, so the one that's almost finished is is called Zora and the songs of singularity, and it's about a dog that becomes conscious through nanotechnology, or humans disappear. And she realizes that it's happened because, and militant AI has destroyed the planet or created an apocalypse. And she has to confront the AI in order to save her humans. So she was like, but just a dog for him. Yeah, kind of exactly. which I love. He said that because today, I was like, Oh, I kind of want to watch the matrix again. So I love you said that. So kind of, yeah, it's kind of a cry. It's kind of a doggy matrix. You know, Neuromancer, if anyone has read William Gibson's Neuromancer, which, by the way, inspired the matrix, and then we'll crosskeys won't deny it. And then the other than to the graphic

Brandon Handley 54:07 was that the

Christian Bradley West 54:08 graphic novel or that it was turned into a graphic novel, but it was originally I think, published in 1986. by William Gibson, it's a wonderful book for anyone's to read it, it really it was, it was where cyberspace was coined, he really did. And it's about confronting an AI. But really confronting the people that want to stop it, but it's an interesting read for those sci fi people out there. But, um, so that that book is forthcoming. Um, I'm finishing this other draft, it started in 2011. Just keep sitting it down and sending it out, and it just keeps getting rejected. So we'll see if it's different this time because I reframed it as a young adult, because my other two books are for adults. And I said, Well, why not have it? And as always, it has a spiritual bands. It's about becoming conscious. And then once you become conscious, how do you use that consciousness? And then the other book, which I'm starting out as a podcast, is called here on purpose. And the podcast name is called, you're here on purpose. And that's the spirituality book. It's just point blank, what my philosophy is, and I, my philosophy being that everything is on purpose. And we get to, but we get to decide that purpose ultimately, within the framework of, of all the other purpose. And so what what is a value at any given moment? And how do we embrace our own value and the significance of the now? Yeah, no, no? Yeah. Yeah. So those are the two and then I have a memoir that's solely about my own story, because for some reason, I have to get that out of me. I don't know. I don't know if anything will come of that. But I've already I'm already a fourth of the way done. So I love it. And I think that, you know, you talked about before, like, it's ultimately it's about self expression. Right. expressing yourself. Always. That is I love it. Yes. That's my word. Yes. It's always about. You know, Rumi said, it's, it's not about finding the love, but I think it was me that said it but removing the blocks to it. And I feel like ultimately, what we call love is also just just expression, pure, utter, authentic expression, and we am moving toward that in her life and dropping everything that blocks that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Brandon Handley 56:22 Let me get rid of the stuff that's not serving you. Right. Yeah. So the podcast is coming out when

Christian Bradley West 56:30 the plan is October. And like I said, it's it's a devotional kind of daily or weekly. It's not very long. I it's just it's just me. And some meanderings that I see people might might enjoy just thought provoking, just getting people to ask questions that you can easily listen to and 10 to 15 minutes and go about your day. Yeah. Yeah. Does that Thunder?

Brandon Handley 56:59 One of my children? Ah ha ha. like thunder, but different. Um,

Unknown Speaker 57:09 and then, uh, you know, where can people connect with you?

Christian Bradley West 57:12 So you can find me on the country clairvoyant.com my website or Christian be West? And hold on a second apparently. There's I if I disappeared. phone call was coming through. I'm back. Yeah, so sorry, guys. So yeah, Christian be West, or the country, February's calm Hussein website, or on Instagram, the country clairvoyant.com or if you Google or look up Christian Bradley West, you can find me very easily on every platform. Um, I'm also on Twitter. I don't do a lot there yet. I'm kind of in love with Instagram. Mostly. Sometimes it annoys me, but I think our social medias go Yeah, I feel like

Brandon Handley 57:56 that's a more of a authentic kind of nature to it. Right? I don't know.

Christian Bradley West 58:00 Yeah, well, people face it, Facebook will stop messing with it. But yeah. Fair enough.

Unknown Speaker 58:08 Fair enough. Um,

Brandon Handley 58:09 any, any parting words, anything that, uh, that we didn't cover that you feel like should have came out on this podcast,

Christian Bradley West 58:19 the source of all abundance, and is going to be gratitude. If people we didn't talk about abundance, or the law of attraction, or any of those things there's a lot of people get into or want to know about, and I just say, grateful, I am completely grateful we've had this talk is just delightful. I love doing this. And, and, and from my perspective, maintaining a state of gratitude is serves us

Brandon Handley 58:46 could talk about the word I mean, talk about that, though, is that a feeling? Is it a thought?

Christian Bradley West 58:51 It can be it can be instigated as by thought. My practice is for people. And this is a great place to end on is put your hand on your heart. And then you can think of something that you're grateful for. But then drop that in, simply feel into the gratitude. And don't make it contingent on something that you think you need for your happiness. simply move into it, there was a great story of a Japanese a Japanese wise woman and and and a man went to her and said I need to know how to be enlightened. And she gave him this one word that said, Thank you, I have no complaints. And he went throughout the whole way. He went throughout the whole year on this journey and it comes back to a year later and he goes I still am still not enlightened. And I've been saying what you've been saying every day. I've been practicing it. And she said thank you. I had no complaints and he got it. Hmm gratitude disrupts the complainer within us and and opens the way for any number of experiences to present it. Are life.

Brandon Handley 1:00:01 Awesome. Thank you so much for being on today.

Christian Bradley West 1:00:04 Thank you my friend. Oh, it was so great. Thank you. Thank you.

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What would you do if you could experience perfection?

Even if it was just for one moment?

Take a listen to Dr. Benjamin Chambers as he shares with you how to connect with source and experience moments beyond magnificence.

Connect with Ben here: axiscw.com

And check out his podcast here: Your Essential Nature Podcast

Insights & Takeaways:

• Brandon's Intro: "I'm on with Dr. Ben Chambers and it's his life purpose to bring people into their optimal state of health and wellness."
• 2:03 Dr. Ben's message is about "Tapping into what you are, as opposed to what other people perceive you as… We wear many different masks in life, many different personas."
  • This relates directly to the unconscious personas and archetypes that Carl Jung discussed. It begs the question: Who am I really, behind these masks? Who am I truly when I am not portraying a persona?
  • Dr. Ben indicates that the masks/personas are not our real identities, "not really who you are at your deepest level."
    • Dr. Ben believes that when we step away from these personas and into the present moment which is "already perfect. There's nothing to fix, there's nothing to perfect upon… you actually get to experience the perfection of simply being."
• 3:58 Dr. Ben refers to a Shakespearean quote from Hamlet which he loves: "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
  • Dr Ben speaks of a patient who left a note in his office one day which stated simply "Love is." This also reminds him of a friend that has recently passed who once said, "We are beings of Love and Light."
    • Dr. Ben says that when we don't receive love and light that it creates pain within us that we store as trauma and emotion. He says, "The only thing that can unlock the trauma and emotion we're carrying is going back to love."
• 7:25 Dr. Ben discusses the semantics of whatever individuals call their path or journey
  • "I'm not here to define that for you… whether you call it consciousness, or you call it spirit, whether you call it soul, whether you call it God, whether you call it Divine Universe, it doesn't matter. We are all on a spiritual path and everything we do is energy. You know, on a quantum level, we're vibrating packets of light."
• 19:19 Responding to Brandon's questions about what it was like when Dr. Ben began to integrate energy work holistically into his practice with patients, Dr. Ben responds:
  • "This gets into like, fulfilling archetypal roles." He goes on to explain how the word "Doctor" is derived from a word meaning "to teach." Where doctors in his field of Chiropractics typically see around 100 people a day he isn't called to spend a mere few minutes with each person and send them off. He might see closer to around 20 patients per day instead. For him it isn't about the cash cow of having these patients return again and again as is typical with much of modern healthcare. It is about teaching them to heal and stay healed holistically.
    • "...it's the outcome that you get, you get tired of trying to sell people a system that you in your heart believe is not complete… as a chiropractor, you can get into the fear model: 'I got to keep this person sick so that they can continue coming in to see me. Our whole medical system is predicated on the idea of disease care, rather than healthcare… as soon as you cure them you have lost a patient. So with me, I'm happy to lose patients. I'm happy for them not to come in, because there are a lot of sick people in the world… Everyone I get to work on, I get to teach, right?"

Spiritual Dope Eureka Moments!

• 27:30 "You can't get anywhere by being inauthentic and you can't get anywhere by just following a map of what someone else did or being the same as a guy across the street."

• 28:15 & 28:53 "One of my favorite things to do, it's called an 'open secret.' Do you ever see the halos over a saint's head? Like the golden light around Christ or around Buddha? That's an open secret… the halo was not a fancy hat, it was an opening of the Crown Chakra. So the trick is, and this is one of my favorite things to do… I focus on my heart and I say the words 'Thank you." That opens the Heart Chakra. So focus on your heart. You can tap it if you want to as well, and just think of the words 'Thank you.' Then you focus on your crown, say 'Thank you' and then focus inside your head and say 'Thank you.' What you'll feel is a tingling along the top of your head…"
  • "If you pay attention to the center of your head, you'll actually feel your pineal gland. The fastest way to be able to reach your spiritual side is gratitude. So when you say thank you with your heart, it opens up your heart. When you say thank you with your crown, it opens up your crown. Have you ever seen the lotus flower before? The lotus flower is a depiction of the crown chakra opening, right and enlightenment, right? So heart opens, thank you. Crown opens, thank you, and then that golden light that you see within those religious images, it happens to you."

49:30 "When you're playing a role, rather than being who you really are, you'll never feel whole and complete. And you'll always look for something outside of yourself to fix it, or you'll blame someone outside or something outside of yourself for why things are the way they are."

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Brandon Handley 0:00 4321 Hey, there's spiritual dope. This is Brandon Handley and I am on with Dr. Ben chambers and it's his life purpose to bring people into their optimal state of health and wellness chicken with illness in his early 20s. He found he was outside found hope outside of conventional medicine. At the age of 22. He was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, which relegated him to a life spent at home, unable to work or attend school. While he was seeking medical treatment by some of the area's experts, he was told to, quote unquote, join a support group and learn to live with this chronic illness. He could not accept this dismissal sentence. Through changes in exercise, diet, lifestyle and regular chiropractic visits, he was able to overcome insurmountable fatigue, recurrent illness and pain, and he began to rebuild his life. This journey defined his passion for health and propelled him into the field of chiropractic and functional medicine, graduating from Cleveland chiropractic in 2009. And he wants you to know that health and living pain free is within reach for all of us. However, achieving true health can be a mystery with the flood of information and Miss information present in our chiropractic energy, healer, speaker and pass it misinformation present and that he is also a chiropractor, energy healer, speaker and he is passionate about helping people to connect with deeper aspects of their being. Dr. Ben, thanks for being here today. How are you?

Dr Ben Chambers 1:29 It's an honor and a pleasure to be here. Thank you. Yeah, man, I'm doing great doing great.

Brandon Handley 1:34 Yeah, loving life, loving life. So I love to start these off with the idea that we are conduits for creative energy source energy. And that you and I, while we're having a great conversation, somebody else is out there that's listening to this podcast. And there's a message coming through you. For them today. What is that message?

Dr Ben Chambers 2:00 Well, the message would be

Dr Ben Chambers 2:03 tapping into tapping into what you are, as opposed to what other people perceive you as what you perceive yourself, as we wear many different masks within life. Many different personas, you know, you you we talked on the phone while back, you know, you're a father, you're an entrepreneur, you're a podcaster. And these are all just like hats that you wear for a period of time. But it's not really your true identity or your your your essential nature, like it's not really who you are your deepest level. But getting a chance to step away and be in the present moment, in the present moments already perfect. There's nothing to fix, there's nothing to perfect upon. So when you step away from all these roles, and all these identities and all these ideas of perfection, you actually get to experience the perfection of simply being and when you're in that state of being, there's nothing else to really fix or impress upon life begins to slow down and you feel well, you feel authentic, you feel who you really are on your deepest level.

Brandon Handley 3:04 I love that feeling, you know, being something that I was I was on a podcaster this week on you know, my buddy Jeremy, who has a positive side podcasts, he was asking me kind of what it was that I was doing to get in touch with source and how what that look like to be. And I was talking about being in love, right? And that was my meditation. My meditation was about sitting with and being in love, like literally immersed in it, emanating it and just being a love being right, what else do you need to be, you know, in that moment, and you don't need to go anywhere to find it. It's already within you. Right? You are limitless potential of all things. And so that goes to Shakespeare's To be or not to be. And the question is, what do you choose to be?

Dr Ben Chambers 3:58 Right? Yeah, when we choose that we choose that from moment to moment. There's another quote from Shakespeare I like it is things are neither good nor bad, but the mind makes it so I'm a huge fan of that line

Brandon Handley 4:10 and love that line. Yeah.

Dr Ben Chambers 4:11 But But I have a patient who is in his 80s and he's just like, he's a giant teddy bear. He reminds me of like Winnie the Pooh or something like that. And he's just he's so still that he makes me feel not still myself like I'm very still but he's like, he's like a lake that doesn't move. And he wrote down on a piece of paper my room one day just just in a calm state just wrote down on piece of paper and left it on my desk. He wrote love is and that's it. He just wrote the words love is nothing more. Yeah. And and you know, the mind goes with love is what love is that and another friend of mine passed away last year. He said, We are beings made of love and light, per se. I like to add an addendum to that we're beings made of love and light. So that's why when If we don't receive love and light, creates pain within us, hmm. And we store it as trauma and emotion. And the only thing that can unlock the trauma and emotion we're carrying is going back to love. So, you know, you think about when you go to a therapist or you pay good money for someone to work on you, really what you're paying for is care. Hmm. And then they hold the space for them to, for you to receive the love that you didn't receive a long time ago. Hmm. And then that's what actually transmutes the pain that we're holding, it's just having still moment in time where there's no past or future. And you can take love it actually bring it liberally all throughout the body. And that's, that's what that's the catalyst for healing.

Brandon Handley 5:44 I love that I love that just being able to release that pent up energy, right, that trauma, right? Because it's kind of like deeply love within you and you're saying like, no kind of loves the key to let that go right and or be in be in that space. And you talk about like a therapist or something like that this is somebody that's specializes in that abilities the same way that an energy worker like yourself or coach would do right where they they excel in being able to coax a love coach and coax right that greatness out of you right? And let you realize that right now, just like you started this off with you are great, just right. Now as you are right. I was listening to Swami one of the Swamis earlier Yeah, this week, and he was talking about you are that right? You are that right? You know, Tommasi. Right? You are that not you are becoming that not you're going to be that you are right now that, just like you were saying, so let's rewind here and stop there for a second. Because we, you know, I've listened to some of your other podcasts that you're doing. And I know that we could do this all day. What I want to share with the people that are listening with whoever's listening today to is this, this, let's talk about, you know, you stepped into becoming a chiropractor, and going about it also with this energy work that you do. And what I want to find out from you is, what was it like? And is it like leading from a spiritual space? Right, versus just your versus simply clinical?

Dr Ben Chambers 7:25 Yeah, and that's, that's an interesting, the interesting paradox of, of getting into the healing arts, or anything for that matter. Is, is I think you can you can turn the world into a binary, the binary is, people that know they're on the spiritual path. And people who don't know how you define that is uniquely you. And I'm not here to define that for you. But what do you call it consciousness, we call it spirit, whether you call it soul, when you call it God, when you call it divine universe, it doesn't matter. We're all on a spiritual path. And everything we do is energy. You know, on a quantum level, we're vibrating packets of love, we're vibrating packets of light on a quantum level. So when we're in school, it is this idea of making everything clinical, somebody comes in who's sick, and you give them a label, and they become that identity. But that also becomes a prison. As long as you're looking at somebody as imperfect or broken, they're going to present as imperfect and broken. So if you understand that, on their deepest level, they are the universe they're not, as Alan Watts says, they're not a drop of the ocean, their entire ocean in one drop. They contain within them to see to perfection. And if you sit across in them and see the perfection, it's already within rapid healing happens. But as soon as you get overly clinical, and you go, Well, they've got this malady, you're seeing them is broken, and so they present is broken. It was, um, eric erickson, the one of the pioneers of psychology, I thought it was being clever because I thought whenever I work on someone, I see them as perfect. I see them as that light. And then and then healing is very rapid, very rapid. So I thought, How clever Am I to think of this? Well, he thought of it well before me, and I'm sure Christ and I'm sure Buddha, and I'm sure others got to that Well, before I did, too. There are no unique ideas in the world. We're mining them from the field of collective consciousness. And when you're sitting across from somebody, if you see them in perfection, what will present is perfection. If you see them as broken, mobile present is Zin breaking, if you want to heal them, you have to effectively create an open space where they can step into their perfection. It's like you talked about Shakespeare, you you you project the stage like for them to step on stage and shine. And then through Free Will they have the choice whether they step into that light or not.

Brandon Handley 9:34 Now, so a lot in that, that. I would love to kind of touch on one of those. One of those pieces is the idea. And I don't have the book right here with me. There's a book called off. Power versus force.

Dr Ben Chambers 9:50 Oh, yeah. Dr. Hawkins.

Brandon Handley 9:51 Yes, it's good stuff. Right. So it's kind of kind of touching on what you're talking about there. I actually have another friend who is a therapist out in California. Talking about exactly what you're saying here. Not only are you a practitioner and you know the physical sense of being, but when you have a mindful awareness that you aren't necessarily healing that person, you are seeing that person as whole. Right? That that accelerates the healing, because the energy that you're bringing to it and the vision of that person that you see, is that, is that fair? Is that kind of how I'm understanding it?

Dr Ben Chambers 10:28 Oh, right. Yeah, it's the idea that

Dr Ben Chambers 10:32 you know, who we are is already a perfected state.

Dr Ben Chambers 10:37 Healing is, you've heard this before for the placebo effect before, right? placebo effective effectively is, is giving yourself the belief that you're going to heal, and then you're receptive to the idea of healing. I have a lot of people who will schedule and they will start to heal before they come in. So they already start the process of healing Well, before they even come into the space. Sure, they know that it's the you know, and this is actually a common phenomenon. But, but when someone's driving off to the hospital, or the doctor's office, the body already begins to heal before you've even gotten there.

Brandon Handley 11:14 I'd like to I'd like to I love that. Right. So placebo is tends to be what around 30%? Is that? Is that right? Is was that a rough

Dr Ben Chambers 11:21 number? 35%. Somewhere there abouts? Yeah.

Brandon Handley 11:24 So that that means that these are the people that kind of have an optimist approach to it knowing feeling and knowing in some sense of the way that it whatever they're about to interact with, is working right and will work for them. Right? It is, you know, it's a mental game,

Unknown Speaker 11:43 right? But what we don't talk about,

Brandon Handley 11:47 there's the 35% of the people who believe in the placebo, what we don't talk about are the people who have like, I think I heard dispenza saying it one day like a no CBOE, right. Like, there's there's got to be X amount of people that have the mental belief that it won't work for them. Right. And those people I think are right, um, I think that they're lost in the shuffle, right, like so. of the 30 of the 100%. You've got the 35% that have placebo they've got what do they call that? What type of what? Archie's what type of healing? Is it? You know, that just that they can't account for? Right that you know, so?

Dr Ben Chambers 12:28 Oh, give me a seat, right?

Brandon Handley 12:30 Yeah. Right. So they've got the spontaneous healing. And, you know, that you can't point a picture to as a matter of fact, I've I know, of two people recently, one, whose older son just recently cleared out brain cancer at the age of like, 21. Dude, like, I mean, yeah, fucking real. Unreal, dude, like me. Right? And like he would they were going out and doing things. He was on his way to die. Yeah. And they were doing things like last minute shit, because they want to make the mess that most of their life. Yeah. cleared his fucking shit up to you. I'm so sorry. Like, I can't I can't I can't be anything but excited about that. Right, right, though. So but then. So there's the 35% of the placebo that are documented, spontaneous healing type things. Where's the documentation of the people were like, Nah, that's just not gonna work. Because that's got to be X number.

Dr Ben Chambers 13:17 Right? Oh, totally. And Bruce Lipton talks about the nocebo effect

Brandon Handley 13:21 that's separate. It's okay. Yeah,

Dr Ben Chambers 13:23 yeah, yeah. And that's but we're already living it. You know, there's only a small percentage of the population are willing to see me as a chiropractor. The irony is I'm not really a chiropractor. I'll do for lack of better word energy healing, I'll do nutrition, I'll do functional medicine. I'll do whatever the person holistic healing, holistic healing Right, right, which is ancient, this is not new Chinese medicine is 5000 plus years old. This is not a new science, right. But the person's receptivity to it makes a difference. Yeah. And if someone you know, it's, it's, there's a quote from Henry Ford, whether you believe you can or whether you believe you can't You're right. So people will enter into it with a closed mind. Right, we're closed disposition and just leave them the openness to heal. We have a family friend right now, who has stomach issues and ulcers through functional medicine and through things I've seen within the Office, I've seen people time and again, he'll you modify the diet you can use to quit rated licorice, you can use aloe vera juice, you can use slippery elm, etc, etc. And, and you can do meditation and things to lower stress. Now, if he took that integrative approach, he would likely he'll work rapidly from his from his ulcer. But his lack of being open to this prevents them from seeing that as an opportunity or possibility. I hear this all the time. With the mention somebody having spontaneous recovery from brain cancer. I've had many patients who've recovered from cancer, through hands on healing or other modes. I've actually touched tumors on people before and you can feel the melting underneath your hand. Wow. But the thing is, that's not crazy. Everything is an energy. Everything's a frequency through. I haven't learned Reiki that a lot of what I do is self taught or I've taken A few courses to kind of hone hone skills. But in Reiki, they talk about bio magnetic fields in the bio magnetic field is everything has its own oscillatory field, right? And when something falls out of rhythm, it's almost like having a concert where you know the horns are coming in late or, or, you know, the flutes or the clarinets are not playing the same song as the rest of the rest of the orchestra. If you can throw it through bringing frequency or bringing energy or bringing bringing integration back into the body, get them all into concert, then the body can fall back into rhythm and healing can happen. It's it's got What is his name?

Dr Ben Chambers 15:37 Oh, so he's got

Dr Ben Chambers 15:40 he's one of the talking heads with an alternative health but he had a video where he Gregg Gregg Braden Gregg Braden. Yeah, he has a video where? Yeah, it's got Yeah, it's got a video where he's got these these Chinese healers working on a lady and they have an ultrasound. Have you seen that before? Yeah. Got and you can see the tumor shrinking in real time. Yeah, I know, if I was skeptical, I wouldn't believe it. But I personally witnessed that, and I've had so many patients who've witnessed the same thing.

Brandon Handley 16:10 You know, it's, it's the idea of, either everything's a miracle or nothing's a miracle.

Dr Ben Chambers 16:14 Einstein, right.

Brandon Handley 16:16 But I mean, even even, you know, this past year for me, it's been a lot of time spent with Hinduism and Vedanta. You know, and, and the same premises, like, either everything is God or nothing is God. Right? So, same principle, either everything is or everything is not

Dr Ben Chambers 16:40 the loser? Yeah, for a second, my internet connection is not the best.

Brandon Handley 16:44 So you know what? So it's funny that you bring up the idea of, you know, people are receptive to something or not, I mean, I mean, there are receptor cells, right. I mean, again, the biochemic, our own biochemistry mimics kind of the outside, same thing, you know, if there's somebody that's, you know, mentally prepared themselves not to receive, you know, there's there's a, I'm guessing, you know, there's a bubbling out versus like a kind of receptor field, you know, being created totally, but they just won't let that in.

Dr Ben Chambers 17:15 Well, you've heard of chakras before, right?

Brandon Handley 17:17 Yeah, not too deep on Shockers, but you know, I am familiar with them.

Dr Ben Chambers 17:20 Yeah. So So, you ever get like a pit in your stomach before? Hmm. Now, the pit in your stomach is the solar plexus chakra. Okay. And chakra can be thought of as like Windows, right? So imagine, imagine, each chakra was a room to a part of your body. Okay. And you didn't open up the windows, so the air became stagnant. Hmm. You know, or otherwise, when people close off their chakra or their energy body, it's not allowing certain things in. And it's not allowing a flow of energy within those systems. I had chronic fatigue for a long time. And so my stomach always felt tight or knotted up. And as I've gotten, as I've, as I've healed over the years, and as I've actually improved my energy, my stomach, my solar plexus, my body's very open, I feel very loose and very, very open and free. Why bring that up is when people are closed, their mid back or their chest will tighten, or parts of their body will tighten. They literally become like a rock or stone. Right? And, and I look at it like a turtle going back in it show, huh? You know, like, it just kind of closes out from the world and blocks anything else from coming in. And you can tell because when you're inspired, you're breathing in deeply. And when you're not, you're not breathing in very much at all. So when you're in the flow rhythm of life, your body relaxes you breathe, and you you're actually connected. And when you're not, you'll drink you'll smoke, you'll you'll do something to like occupy your mind. So you can be somewhere else,

Brandon Handley 18:40 right? disengaged? Yeah. disengage, disengage. So, so you're in this business. Now let's talk about what what was it like for you? What is it like for you, you know, when you started with kind of leading holistically with the energy space? Did you start there? Or was it did you start with being a chiropractor being very doctory? Right, doctor, Dr. Ben, total doctor until least, you know, stiff, and then opening up into the space and talk about what how that changed for life for you a little bit in your practice for you.

Dr Ben Chambers 19:19 This gets into like, fulfilling archetypal roles. You know, like we have this idea of what the we have this idea of what the ideal is, hmm. So the ideal chiropractor is someone that sees 100 people a day, spends three minutes with each person, you know, cranks on their neck, pizza tarda them insane. Often they come back a week later. You know, that's the archetypal form. But I didn't, I didn't like that. It wasn't fulfilling and I never saw I'd never seen more than 20 people a day. I mean, take a chance to know them. Right? You don't get really chance, a chance to connect with them. Right? But working physically with people. I found So I started working nutritionally, that would only take them so far, right. And then I started doing more of the hands on healing work and everything else. And you start to get a clear idea of why people hurt. But it's about outcomes that you get, you get tired of trying to sell people, a system that you and your heart believe is not complete. And you go like a spiritual seeker, you keep on seeking until you get a clear idea of what that might be. So it's the idea that, that, that you don't receive healing from someone else that you are healing. And you learn how to carry that with you every day. And then hopefully, as a society, we teach each other how to be healthy and whole and balanced. Like the Buddha, the Eightfold Path of, of, of harmony, or enlightenment, is just an idea of being harmonized with everything that we do. Linda case of the patient, as a chiropractor, you can get into the fear model, I got to keep this person sick so that they can continue coming in to see me. Our whole medical system is predicated on the idea of disease care, rather than healthcare. You identify with an illness, you treat someone for the rest of their life for that illness. And, and you have a patient for life. As soon as you cure them, you've lost a patient. So with me, I'm happy to lose patients, I'm happy for them not to come in. Because there's a lot of sick people in the world. They refer people that they know and I get to work with them too. But everyone I work on, I get to teach, right? And then they get to take that into their lives. And that becomes each one teach one or or the idea that what the word doctor truly means. Is teacher.

Brandon Handley 21:35 Okay, okay. Yeah, never, I never even did not know that. The doctor meant teacher. So I love that. Yeah, kind of lines back into the discipline, which is a disciple, which is like education, right to learn, right? So I love kind of, I love that thought process. The other thing I want to know you're talking in there, you know, you've got these people that are walking around who think that they're sick. And again, I'm just I'm not a doctor myself, but but like this, to me, just like these are replicator cells, right? Like, everywhere they go, like, in the body of humanity. These are replicator cells. These are people anywhere they go, they look at you, and they say, I say doctor bad. I'm sick. And and, you know, you're like, Oh, yes, you're sick as a replicator cell, right? And the next person that you look over to you like that person, you know, over, they're sick, because you're a replication of what somebody's telling you. In essence, right? So what you're able to do is you're able to see them as whole and look back at them be like, no, you're, you are whole. Right? And then, you know, you're kind of reverse that reversing that replication back to them. Does that make sense? Right,

Dr Ben Chambers 22:40 yeah, you're in training them to the field?

Brandon Handley 22:42 Mm hmm. Yeah, that's another part. So that's another. I love it. So that's another part of the force versus power, right? Power sports. I forget the name of the book, The Dr. Atkins, right. Dr. Boyce? Yeah. Um, so when you first set people set the person's, like, verbally told somebody, you were doing energy work on them? You know, what was that? Like? What was it like to step into that space?

Dr Ben Chambers 23:08 Well, it's actually more of a recent endeavor, because we're not to be fair, we're always doing energy work.

Brandon Handley 23:15 So but when you when you like, you know, you're like, hold up a banner and be like, right? They were doing energy work? Right, right, somebody who's just walking into a chiropractor's office, and, you know, you've got the people who are not receptive to it. Right. Totally. I mean, there's got to be a little bit of a fear with leading with that,

Dr Ben Chambers 23:31 right. And the thing about it is, it's, it's, you can make something esoteric, exoteric, you can make it known to people. It's just like, you know, if you never had a mirror, you know, and I was like, You got hair on your head, you know, and you'd be like, well, prove it to me, and I'm like, well, raise your hand up and feel it. I'll say things to people, like, if you've ever had a child scrape his knee, you know, and then you hug and hold them and they feel better, or you've gotten a hug. And that that hug makes you feel better, right? Or, you know, you're out in traffic and you hold your hand up like this, or you point at somebody, this is all energy, right? And it's just understanding that emotion is energy. One of my favorite things to show people I think I have it in this drawer. Actually, this is this is good timing. Is this chart. Funny that I would have it here. This is a thermographic scan of the body.

Brandon Handley 24:22 Hmm. I love that. That's great.

Dr Ben Chambers 24:23 Yeah. And what it shows is with with somebody who has depression, their body is blue. Hmm. You know, under the heat under the wave, when they're angry. There's heat rising up to their head. They're a hothead. Right? But when they're in a state of happiness, or love, right, their whole body is warm. Hmm. And that's, that's just the movement of energy within the body. That's

Brandon Handley 24:45 energy that's lighting up. They're lighting up, they're becoming enlightened. I mean, is that fair to say?

Dr Ben Chambers 24:49 Oh, no. And that's the idea behind enlightenment. Enlightenment is a very simple term, it means that you've actually taken all of your trauma, and anything that does not cause you to vibrate with love and light and you've moved it into A state where it's all of enlightened become an empty container to hold more light. Hmm. And you think about that, then the whole body on a scan would just be light. Right? It would be the energy because because because the the heat, or the lack of heat. What I love here, though, right is the science

Brandon Handley 25:15 is proving out what's already been stated for many, many years, right? You're feeling blue, there's literally a picture and a graphic that corresponds to that. Right? Right. You are You are in loving presence, you are enlightened, there's literally now a scientific thermal graphic that

Unknown Speaker 25:32 can show that, right. So totally, I love that.

Dr Ben Chambers 25:36 I love that. And the thing is science and religion, were unpaired because of not to get spiritual, but because of the church A long time ago, you know, Galileo was on house arrest for the last 20 years of his life, right? You know, Copernicus, Kepler and others who were challenging geo centricity, you know, that idea that the Earth was the center of the universe. Were castigated. You know, they didn't they want to, they don't want to put themselves out there. So there was a natural split between the church and in science, but Einstein, Newton, other great thinkers, they were mystics, right? Right. They were tapping into something when Einstein will come up with his theorems. It would be in the twilight hours of night, he was in a deep meditative state, where he was getting these visions, right. So it's

Dr Ben Chambers 26:22 essential.

Brandon Handley 26:23 If we, if we look at if we like the idea of again, the idea of like constriction, or tightening up, right, or being ultra focus versus the idea of opening up and being receptive to other things that we simply have no idea of, right? We are we are receptive to new ideas, right? You don't know everything? And that's okay. Right, obviously, and then, you know, there are going to be pieces that finally just kind of fall out of the ether and click together. I mean, those are the eureka moments, right? You know, what, what was that when I forget, you know, who that was? Who said it, but you know, running through that, you know, the light has gone off, there's an epiphany happening, wrong. And so, you stepped into this, you're stepping into this space, what I want to kind of hammer home for some people is that, you know, has you you felt Have you felt more fulfillment, with leading from this energy space than a strictly clinical space? And has your business kind of grown in a way that you didn't think was possible because of it?

Dr Ben Chambers 27:30 Well, it can, it gets into this idea that you'll never, not that it's about separating, because it's ideally we're all unifying, right? We're unifying through the heart. But one you can't get anywhere by being inauthentic. And to you can't get anywhere by by just following a map of what someone else did. Or being the same as a guy across the street. If you feel so compelled to push things forward, push it forward. But I'm occupying space that I feel like needs to be occupied, and I feel authentic in doing so. And people. Generally speaking, people do not. They do not attack you when they can sense that what you're saying is true to your core, right? Or when you can show them aspects of themselves that they didn't know existed.

Brandon Handley 28:12 Right. So what's an example of that? I'd love to hear that.

Dr Ben Chambers 28:15 Oh, yeah. Yeah, totally. Um, and maybe we can play around with this at some point. But one of my favorite things to do is it's called an open secret. But do you ever see the halos over a saints head? Yes. And unlike the golden light around like Christ around Buddha around it, that's an open

Brandon Handley 28:30 graphic. I mean, that's, that's literally part of my, that's part of my, my logo, right? My awesome visual dope logos, right, I've got behind, you know, set, I've got a Jesus piece where he's got the he's holding up and he's got a heart on his head. And that's where the lights coming out of. And then I've got a Buddha where the hearts like, you know, with the lights coming out of and so the idea got, though, so.

Dr Ben Chambers 28:53 But that's, that's it right there. These are called Open secrets. And the halo was not a fancy hat, it was an opening of the crown chakra. So the trick is, and this is my favorite thing to do, we can do it right now if you want to. So you do and you know, and anyone listening to this right now pay attention, because you'll feel it as well. That's the amazing thing is whatever you're watching, you're getting programmed to, and you'll feel it energetically. So what I do is I focus on my heart. And I say the word Thank you. Okay, and that opens up the heart chakra. So focus on your heart. You can tap it if you want to as well. And and just think the word. Thank you. Thank you. And then focus about a foot above your head and say the word Thank you. Thank you. Thank you,

Brandon Handley 29:35 like, rubbing my belly. And yeah, thank you.

Dr Ben Chambers 29:39 Yeah, but just focus your heart. Thank you focus on your crown, say thank you, and then focus inside of your head and say thank you. Thank you. And what you'll feel is a tingling along the top of your head. And you'll feel Yeah, you don't have to tap anymore. But you'll feel a tingling on top of your head. Right? And if you pay attention to the center of your head, you'll actually feel your pineal gland. And the fastest way to be able to reach a spiritual side is gratitude. So when you say thank you with your heart, it opens up your heart when you say thank you for your crown, it opens up your credit ever seen the lotus flower before the lotus flower is a depiction of the crown chakra opening, right and enlightenment, right? So heart opens, thank you. Crown opens, thank you, and then that that golden light that you see within those religious images, it happens to you. Right? You know, I'm not saying it happens the same degree as Christ or Buddha. But you actually tap into your consciousness, your soul, your essence, we have

Brandon Handley 30:36 to think though, everybody has to know that they didn't start that way on day one. Right? I mean, it didn't start like that that way. On day one, this is, you know, you're in a medical and a spiritual and a life practice. Versus right, nobody calls this a life done or a meditation done, right? meditation, perfection, it's always a practice of always, you know, not not necessarily getting better at it, simply practicing it, right. I mean, it's even, um, you know, when So, my idea or thought process about the lotus flower is also the very idea that it is and it is naturally unfolding, right? It's naturally blossoming. You know, these are these are naturally unfolding essences of yourself that kind of, if you think about the heart, mind connection, right? Like you just did there right connecting both of those, but also kind of that welling energy without that just simply unfolds. Right? Totally blossoms.

Dr Ben Chambers 31:42 Yeah. Well into your point. It is it is a process, you can reach spontaneously as spontaneous enlightenment. That's what the Buddha was said to have done under the under the forget what kind of a tree Bodhi tree Yeah, yeah, Bodhi tree. But within within the chakra theory in this is more Hindu belief. And by the way, I'm not I'm not any particular religion, I just I listen to truth, and I take it in, but they talk about like, Governor's like, almost like on a car. Right? And how, as you develop spiritually, certain centers open up more and more and more. So for some people, the wide open for other people, it's a gradual unfolding, right. And it develops, and then they're able to tap in with with greater and greater ease. Now, I love it. I love it. So um,

Brandon Handley 32:36 yeah, dude. I mean, so do you feel now kind of more in alignment with all that you're doing? And kind of like this, this greater universe is opening up for you. experience.

Dr Ben Chambers 32:51 And you're, where you're at? Right?

Dr Ben Chambers 32:55 Right. It's about trust. And it's about authenticity. And so if you're, you think about it this way, the universe is a mirror. And if you make faces in front of the mirror, it makes faces back at you, right? You know, if you yell, someone was likely gonna yell at you. But if you constantly project authenticity, what comes back is authenticity. So whenever you feel your core, you have to express if that's your truth, and then meeting into trust, like you've heard of yin and yang before, right? You know, Yin would be the the flowing of the river, and Yang would be moving away from the branches that are in the river, so you don't get hit. Right. And there's a balance between the two, there's a time for action and time for inaction. Right. And if you're floating down the river, then the river is already doing all the work for you. Right, right. Yeah. But you have to be discerning enough to know when it's time to act. Yeah. And so when you're in a state of flow, or rhythm, in a state of harmony, and you're grounded, you don't really have to use a lot of energy or effort you just kind of float through life and everything comes to you because you become the attractor field for what it is you're trying to bring in. And the more you that you are, the more you get back exactly what it is you want

Brandon Handley 34:14 with like the attractor field and with the action Do you feel like there's some type of does action um, amplify the attractor field right does like you know, so yeah, this is kind of like a you know, Dr. Ben thinks it and he does it the universe revise right? You think it you say universe knows now that this is your accordance that you think it say do it universes like Well, shit, I better open up the way because every time you know, Dr. Ben says he thinks that he does it. This is a pattern. You know, again, does do the actions amplify this kind of attractor field?

Dr Ben Chambers 34:54 Oh, most definitely. Most definitely. It's it's the idea that was Energy you're putting out there is what you're amplifying. And and how you say it. Like there's there's a guy who's he does this relationship series, I'm gonna bleep myself a little bit, but it's life is either fps or F No. Right. And, and with that, it's like, if you don't feel that with anything you're doing, then don't do it is this point? Yeah, you know, bring 100% of yourself into whatever you're doing, and it'll come back. 100%. But people, you know, we talked about the nocebo effect before, people will think the thoughts that they don't want, thus attracting them. Because what they're saying like, let's say for instance, you come into my office and you want health, right? You know, what you might be saying is I'm sick, right? I'm sick, I'm sick. I'm sick. Right? And that's what I did for a long time. When I was sick, I would, I would, I would meet you. And I'd say, you know, Brandon, I'm on chronic fatigue syndrome. Sherry, nice to meet you. Alright. But now I think I'm healthy. And I feel it to my core. And what reflects back is health. But yeah, your thoughts and your actions are creating. And if you think about God in this way, I'm not I'm not saying like, you have to subscribe to this. But if the kingdom of heaven lies within, then it means God is interwoven into everything. Yeah, you guys everything or nothing. Right? God is everything. Right? So from that perspective, every thought you have in every word you say is a prayer. And God is interwoven into all things. So you are basically speaking to the field all the time. Now working with working with patients is fascinating. As soon as I think something, I feel it inside their body. If I think the thought for to clear a release it releases. That's how fast the field responds. Right. But we are swimming in we are swimming in the ocean of God, one of our receptionist who's an energy worker known, right? She said, she's watching a documentary on sharks. And she realized that the shark wasn't swimming in the ocean. But the ocean was swimming the shark.

Brandon Handley 36:52 That's cute. Yeah, I mean, right. It's I mean, the ocean is what's moving the shark around. Right. Exactly. And creating the space for it and and allowing and allowing for, you know, you mentioned the field. You know, For the uninitiated, I don't know who's made it that far through this podcast, it wouldn't be the uninitiated, but

Unknown Speaker 37:10 Sure. uninitiated, what do you mean by the field?

Dr Ben Chambers 37:14 Right? Well, let's say that.

Dr Ben Chambers 37:18 Let's say that we're all swimming in the ocean, right? If I were to take my arm and I was to push water, he would create a wave, right? And that wave might create a splash that affects you in some way. Or maybe a child is in the pool and peas or something like that. It's warmer in one area. Sure. kind of disgusting. But eventually it spreads out everywhere, right? So if you think of like the world as as basically swimming in an ocean of water, and that what you're doing is creating a wave. And that wave is rippling out further and further. That is the field. Okay? We don't think of our thoughts as something that carry out but our thoughts are actually matter that take up space and actually have an energy of their own. Right. So when you're having a thought, or you're thinking something, you're actually like, splashing a wave into the ocean, right? You know, are you making a little ripple? Are you making a tide? Are you splashing a wave? That's going to bring back good things to you? Are you going splashing a wave, it's actually going to cause you to drown?

Brandon Handley 38:15 Well, this is so this is on, and I love it. Right? So thank you, right? And this is, to me, this is where I'd love your thought process on it. This is where emotion and mind Connect. Right? This is where the heart mind connection comes from. This is where your emotion amplifies your thoughts, right? You can have a thought of gratitude you were talking about earlier, right? It's one thing to mentally think I'm grateful for this. I'm grateful for that snippety Snap, snap snap, versus feeling it right and emanating it. And as we think about that feeling of emanation. I mean, you've talked a lot about the attractor field, you've talked about, you know, the crown chakra, we've talked about energy talked about being the central point, I think about two things, I think about the tourist field, like being being you know, you're a core of the tourist. Right? You're like you're you're that middle of the vortex there. And then also think about, um, we are electromagnetic fields, we are no different then Planet Earth, where if you look out there, right there, okay, that's a tourist field. Again, you've got energy fields, you've got the North Pole, which we all know if you play with magnets, that you know, the north and south, you know, they attract each other, but that's the same field kind of going out there it emanates. And it keeps circulating, right, I mean, that that energy field keeps moving. So, again, you know, your emotions, amplify your thoughts, without connecting your heart and mind which was a Buddhist thing that I got, you know, talking about Alan Watts earlier, when he first talked about the heart mind that the Buddhism talks about, I lost my mind as I What is it? I had to I had to track it down. Right. And it was Gregg Braden who brought it home for me and his Thomas, you know, move mountains. thing, right? So Gregg Braden has got one on that, but what what are your thoughts on that? And how do you feel like you came to that space? If you did at all?

Dr Ben Chambers 40:12 Yeah. So we're talking about like emotions in the attractor field and, and, and the spin how it actually plays with the universe itself?

Brandon Handley 40:20 Well, so Connect. So, um, we talked about emotional mastery, right? That's the idea that, you know, you either, you know, depends on your where you come from on this too, but like, you know, your thoughts and your emotions working in unison, right to totally create that yield, right? Because your emotions are what? And electromagnetic field? Is that true or fine?

Dr Ben Chambers 40:45 No, no, it's true. It's it's creating, yeah, it's creating a wave, it has its own frequency. What I'd like to add to anyone listening, because this is an important point, too, is if you're feeling anger, feeling anger, if you're feeling sadness, feel sadness. You can watch it, or feel where it's located inside of your body. Like, as soon as you have a thought, I'd like to say as soon as you have a thought. It's only happening because of the energy you're holding inside of yourself, or the trauma, right? If you can go to where you're holding it inside of yourself, maybe you feel heaviness within your chest, maybe you feel a tightness along your stomach, maybe you're having a hard time breathing. But if you just feel it, the thought will go away, because that was the fuel behind the thought. So why I want to delineate that is because people think that just thinking positive thoughts is the answer. But if you have to sneeze, sneeze, if you have to burp, burp, right, don't it's no less spiritual, for getting angry or for being sad, right. And in fact, as your as your light as you're leveling up, getting more conscious and becoming more aware and feeling more connected, more things are going to come to the surface. Because you think about it, like all the things you haven't healed from right, are looking for an opportunity to find the healing once you're in a place to do so. It's all going to rise up. When you say becoming more conscious. You know, I believe what you're saying is of your anger, your emotions, right, and catching that and feeling it is that what you're saying? it's twofold. It's it's the path of enlightenment. So it's a path of feeling more connection to God, divine universe source, and your spirit, your consciousness, your energy field, whatever you want to call that. As you become more aware of these of the whole apparatus, right? You feel more stillness, you feel more connection, you feel more love around you, you see your connection to all things around you, as opposed to being separate from the world. You feel lighter, because you're not carrying as much heaviness It was like weighing you down. For sure. That kind of conscious, but then also being conscious of what you're feeling inside. A lot of us live inside of our head, and we're not feeling all the things we've been holding on to for most of our life. Right? And you think about it, like how much have you stored in your body over the course of however many years you're alive a lifetime, a lifetime, right? And, and it all wants one thing at all wants to have love understanding compassion, forgiveness, a god day, etc. And once that in order to be free, people think that they can just, you know, get rid of this for me. You have to love it into integration, not push it away from you.

Brandon Handley 43:12 That's the idea of Shadow Work. Right?

Dr Ben Chambers 43:14 Shadow Work. Exactly. Yeah, the Shadow Work is the shadow.

Dr Ben Chambers 43:21 What What is it? It's it's recognizing, it's recognizing that just because the clouds are out that the sun is still there. Mm hmm. So you may have darkness or shadow or anger or something inside of you. It doesn't make you any less spiritual.

Dr Ben Chambers 43:47 But recognize it, hear it, listen to it, and it will integrate. There's a Japanese artwork called kansui. And consumers where they break pottery, and then they meld it with gold to fix it, but the idea is, you're already whole you're already complete. The fact that you've forgotten that is

Unknown Speaker 44:22 I think I'm getting a bit of a lag.

Brandon Handley 44:23 Yeah, we got a little bit of lag. I love kansui I love the idea of you're already hold that you're presenting another way that I somebody shared it with me not too long ago as well. It's just, you know, it takes some it's hard to it's hard to do my incorrect in that like And so, in being able to connect pottery with gold. There's an artistry to it, right? Is that is that true or false? Oh yeah, most definitely. And then It's it's almost as that is almost as though that piece looks better because of what has been done the broken pieces being put back together with those with that goal. Right with. Yeah. So it's almost it's almost better off that that has happened. So I love I love that, um,

Dr Ben Chambers 45:23 I know gold makes everything better. Right?

Brandon Handley 45:27 Gold makes everything better,

Dr Ben Chambers 45:28 but some gold on it, it'll immediately make it. It's like Jim gaffigan said, if you want to make anything better add bacon. Right, right. But the others also pretty nice.

Brandon Handley 45:36 Yeah, it doesn't hurt it. You know, I think one of the other things too, when we talk about talk about being bodies of light. I just recently saw just kind of how we literally are made from stars. Right, everything that we are, right. So you know how, you know, I don't know, play with it a little bit, kick that around for something.

Unknown Speaker 46:01 What what do you what are your thoughts on that?

Dr Ben Chambers 46:04 Well, Carl Sagan said, we're all made of stars. Hmm. So so to the atheist when I was an atheist for a while, I would say it's we're all one. So whether we're all one and unified from the Big Bang, or while one unified from stars, the universe, but the universe translates. And you may already know this, it universe means one song, universe, one song. So we're all one, whether you call it an old man in the sky, whether you call it the you know, the the singularity or the Big Bang, where we all become quantumly entangled, we're all one. And so being all made from stars just means that we all come from the same cosmic soup. And a real abstraction, and this is going to be probably over a few people's heads is if we're all one, then as you climb the ladder, higher and higher, you dance with God. You dance with with what we are on our highest level, right? With that, and you know, you would say a Christ figure or Buddha figure merged.

Brandon Handley 47:10 I love it. And then there's a there's the idea that ourselves, you know, kind of regenerate right. I also recently saw how, just what you're saying there, right, Christ and Buddhist merging, but the cells that were in Christ and Buddha, if they were ever really true people, there's thousands of theirselves in your in you right now, as we speak. Oh, right. I mean, quite literally, yourselves. Right? Like, I mean, so quite literally, right now. You know, there are pieces of Jesus and Buddha in all of us.

Dr Ben Chambers 47:49 Right? Well, in that goes back to the kingdom of heaven lies within. You know, it's this idea that heaven and hell are our actual states outside of us. But their dimensional states that we exist in all the time, and more physical you become the more earthly that is, the more hell you're gonna experience. If you become q astral, you'll become unrelatable to anybody. Yeah, but but the idea is, is that there is a cosmic seed that lies within all of us. And I actually believe as many people do that the idea of the Second Coming is really Christ consciousness, or universal consciousness and all of us. Right, right.

Brandon Handley 48:28 I mean, I mean, right? I mean, let's do it. Right? I mean, what? Why not? Yeah. So listen, the idea, again, I think for this is for this podcasts is to have people like yourself who are leading from this space, and doing it with intention, doing it with purpose, and overcoming the fear of not, you know, not being your authentic self, like we kind of talked about before, what would you know, so let's say somebody is on the precipice of taking that, you know, Neo leap, right, or whatever, you know, into themselves. And finally, you know, connecting with God connecting with source and leading with that, what would you tell somebody who's been running a traditional business? What would be some guidance for them?

Dr Ben Chambers 49:26 Well, it gets back into that idea before that.

Dr Ben Chambers 49:30 That what you are is what you attract. So if you are scarcity, and if you're fear, you're going to attract more of it. So if you begin to lean into, like, for me I was when I was atheist, I started reading the Tao de Ching, or Taoism, and Taoism didn't promise heaven or hell. All it did was talk about how we fall into a universal flow. And now all things are in rhythm together. You know, business entrepreneurs talk about flow states. It's the idea that that as long as you're being anything but authentic, as long as you're living a life that isn't really who you are, you're going to suffer. And when you're playing a role, rather than being who you really are, you'll never feel whole and complete. And you'll always look for something outside of yourself to fix it, or you'll blame someone outside or something outside of yourself for why things are the way they are. So think about it. The life of the party is only the life of the party, because they create such a powerful attractor field that everyone wants to be around them, right. It's like how the sun collapses spacetime. And planets begin to orbit, right? So if you become that if you become the most authentic form of who you are, you're always rewarded. The universe always rewards authenticity. And people can tell when you're being fake and dishonest. So whatever your song is, I like to say, this is like, Kahlil Gibran, the prophet. He said, We're like instruments of God, you know, and God's winds blow through us and we play a beautiful melody. But your song may be different than my song. And your instrument may be different than mine. And we may make beautiful music, but may we may sound different.

Brandon Handley 51:08 Hundred percent, right? Yeah, that's how you have harmony. Right? That's, that's where the symphony comes into play. Right? That's where all these you know, courses come into play. It's to hear one note over and over and over. While it may be beautiful on its own, if it's, you know, accompanied in a true harmonic way, on a true harmonizing way. And symphonic it's, it's beautiful. Right. And, and so I feel like that's what you're saying.

Dr Ben Chambers 51:43 Oh, totally. And that's what makes up the spectrum. Like,

Dr Ben Chambers 51:47 another way I like to look at it as if God the universe is light. Do you ever, ever see a light play through a prism? And it makes a rainbow? Hundred percent? Yeah, we are the rainbow. And God, the universe is the light. Hmm. So when God the universe plays into the spectrum of this physical realm, we get all these different colors. And that's what we see as differentiation. That's what we see a separation. That's what we hear is different, different tunes in different notes. But it's really just that one light being broken up into different pieces. Right. And when we when we recognize that all those pieces joining together, make that one light, we have an appreciation for the diversity that's out there.

Brandon Handley 52:31 I love that, you know, celebrate each other's diversity, right? Yeah, celebrate, celebrate each other's differences, because that's what makes the whole?

Dr Ben Chambers 52:41 Well, and it's interesting, because for someone to have a position, there has to be an opposition. So for you to have a viewpoint or a belief, there has to be something that opposes it more often than not, you know, when it comes to love, there's nothing that opposes love. Hmm, I look at what

Brandon Handley 52:54 it is, is 100%. Right. All the way back to beginning where you got the client that right side on the paper, right? Love is. So

Dr Ben Chambers 53:04 yeah, in fact, in fact, it's funny, because I have that here, too.

Brandon Handley 53:11 That's awesome. Right? That's, that's just great. It's got a client. And it's great to be able to have clients that are willing to leave that behind for you. How great is that? as we as we kind of wind down here. What you know, I love the idea of spiritual dope, right? The idea kind of comes from taking those hits of spirituality and getting your life highs, right, your spirituality highs versus Look, I you know, I listened to your podcast with with your quartet. Right, and I enjoy it a lot. And I remember hearing a couple of them talking about like raves and the rave scene. Right. And that was something for me back in the day running around, you know, just taking everything that would like, you know, whatever, whatever I could ingest. And I'm lucky to admit it, made it out made it out there on skates, but Yeah, me too. To be able to feel even better than that. Through this connection with source or whatever you want to call it. Um, is that's my idea of kind of a spiritual ness, my spiritual dope, right? That's it. Yeah. What is the what is what is something that you do? That gives you that feeling?

Dr Ben Chambers 54:29 Whether there's aspects of meditation where you reach high levels, right, and and to talk about the spiritual dope. in some circles, they say that drugs actually open up those centers temporarily. They force them open, but you don't know how to keep them open or keep them connected. That's one thing I like to do is like to commune with nature. I love doing work with people. I love. I love working in the healing arts. But when I meditate, I'll meditate with my heart and my crown and I'll feel in Hinduism Nicola. Ananda, which means divine bliss. And I'll feel this immense divine bliss coming through. And what I realized is that divine bliss is there for me and for everyone else. Mm hmm. When you realize that at the door knocking, wanting to come in is this love that is like drinking from a firehose, hmm, then you don't have to seek anywhere else. You don't have to seek outside of yourself with relationships or anything else, you'll create relationships, but they'll be relationships that are healthy and whole, and mutual. But when you make that connection, like you're saying, with the spiritual dope, it is such a sublime feeling that requires nothing more than connecting in with what we already are. That it's, it's like, I believe that the Buddha in Christ took us to the sunset, and then man tried to describe it. But when you actually experience the sunset for yourself, it's sublime.

Brandon Handley 55:50 Right now, that's perfect. That's perfect. And, you know, I alluded to Alan Watts a lot simply because, um, he was there when I came into this space, right? Like, this is kind of how my entry into the into the space was through a ton of Alan Watts.

Dr Ben Chambers 56:05 I love Alan Watts.

Brandon Handley 56:06 Yeah. But the idea is that words are clumsy and can never truly capture the the totality of the experience that you just express. Right? You said sublime. But you know, what is that? You know? So, you know, if you haven't experienced that before, I know that I've mentioned it before that it's a lot like getting into that flow state. Right. But even greater, right, and kind of like a nicer, nicer way of being. So. Thank you for that. I really appreciate it. And then what you know, look, again, I feel like you and I could probably do this for like a week straight, easily. easily. What, where should I send people to connect with you? And you know, who would be your ideal client as somebody who's reached out to you from, you know, across the pond, right? digitally?

Dr Ben Chambers 56:59 Yeah. So I do distance sessions with people. And what I do is, I believe everyone's empathic, right, but we've forgotten how to feel inside. So like, when I'm talking to somebody, I can feel what's going on inside their body. And I'll do distance Healing Sessions where I'm just having them think thoughts, or going back to an emotion or feeling, I'll show them where it's located inside their body. And then I'll help them to move it. And it only takes a second. But when you can teach people that they can move, what they're holding inside of themselves very rapidly. My website is is access CW so x is CW calm. And we're on we're on Facebook, as well as access chiropractic. And we're in Lee's Summit, Missouri. I have a podcast, which is called your essential nature. And the essential nature podcast is on Facebook. But the idea behind that is is it's like it's like a cousin of of your podcast where spiritual dope where we're just having conversations from our perspective, because like we were saying before, we didn't get here overnight, we've had to take each individual step to get there. There's a song from from Atlas sound and Leticia Sadie a. It's about 10 years old now. But one of the lines within it is I thought saints were born saints. But then I realized I grew into it. You know, I one of my one of my boys is St. Francis, I just love him because he would he would pray to Him to sermonize with the animals. And when I do energy work, that the whole back area of my office will fill with birds, we had 40 doves come the other day, nature knows what's up. But the idea is we are on this this path is trajectory. And if we're patient with ourselves eventually we reach really, really amazing heights of spirituality and connection. But yeah, that's what that's what our podcasts and that's what my life is about.

Brandon Handley 58:49 So who should reach out to

Dr Ben Chambers 58:53 everyone?

Dr Ben Chambers 58:55 No, no it people that are people that are wanting to go deeper people that are wanting to know deeper aspects of themselves. People are ready to really look at their their pain discomforts, things they've been holding inside of themselves. Not everyone wants to do that. You know, some people aren't ready to do that. But people who are ready to go deeper and have a deeper understanding of what's going on inside their, their internal world and then also how to learn how to connect on a deeper mystical or spiritual level. And they could take that into whatever belief system they have. It's not it's not specific to a particular religion. What you find is Christian mysticism, Jewish mysticism, Hindu Hindu, mysticism boot is etc. It's all the same teaching. It's just different. Different teachers. They're all saying the same thing.

Brandon Handley 59:44 Yeah, hundred percent. Yeah, there's a guy Edwin Bryan, who just tell he says, you know, look, you can you can study all of them in the end, just you're gonna have to you got to pick one up and just go with it. Yeah, right. So just

Dr Ben Chambers 59:58 get a picture of like Jesus in the swimming Dude like he's my pinup for this month.

Brandon Handley 1:00:01 That's it. That's it. I want to go with it. So thank you, Dr. Ben, so much for coming on today. I enjoyed this conversation and thanks for sharing out with people, different ways that they can kind of step into their greatness and what it's like to be able to lead a business from this space and the authenticity the way that you do it. So thank you.

Dr Ben Chambers 1:00:23 Yeah, it's been a pleasure. I really enjoyed it and Blessings to you.

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