Michael Beckwith
Appearances
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
So they're saying to the universe, I don't have this. I don't have this. So they're misusing the law. They're not praying aright. So you have to pray believing. This is what the teacher said. Pray believing that ye have. that you may receive. So all prayer is to move you into the state of believing and feeling that you already have it.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
And then you walk, and then the universal law responds to that frequency. Serendipity happens. Coincidences take place. You start to see things and opportunities that you didn't see before because your perceptual windows are getting clearer and cleaner.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Right. That's why we call it new thought, ageless wisdom. It's nothing new. The only thing that makes it new is when people begin to practice it and then it becomes new to them. And if it's complicated, it's probably not truth because the truth is simple. It's very simple. If a person is bringing a whole lot of complications to it, it probably means they don't know it at the depth.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Because when you know it at the depth, it's very, very simple. What's difficult is practice and the consistency of practicing until I coined a word a number of years ago back in the 90s, and the word is blissipline. What happens is your discipline then becomes a bliss-a-plain. You actually love to practice. You love to become still. You love to pray affirmatively. You love it.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
It's not like, oh, I've got to do it. I should do it. Make yourself guilty because you didn't do it. No, no, no. You have a little bit of discipline every day. It doesn't have to be a lot, just a little bit. And then something happens, and it's like you can't live without it. And it's joyful. It's like, oh, I get to connect with reality.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Before I go out into this fitful world with all these different kinds of experiences out here, I get to connect with the real presence and then walk out. in the world, but of this higher frequency. And then when that occurs, you want to practice every day. That's when it becomes a discipline.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Well, two things. One, as you begin to practice immediately and have an intention, the moment you do that, there's an immediate result in terms of your body chemistry changes. Your immune system becomes more enhanced. You slow down the aging process. The condition for disease begins to disintegrate. That happens immediately.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
The moment you establish a new intention and sit within a level of joy and gratitude, that right there the body chemistry changes the tonic chemicals begin to flow and the toxic chemicals from worry doubt fear hate resentment unforgiveness they begin to stop being produced by the body temple so there's an immediate effect if if somebody were to take your blood
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
and analyze it pre and post meditation and prayer, they'd be different. Or if someone put you and measured your brain waves, your brain waves would show a difference based on your meditation. So there's an immediate in terms of your physicality, in terms of your chemistry. And then your life experience and the world that we see
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
is a condensation of thoughts, beliefs, perceptions, points of view, positionalities that have condensed themselves into the world that we see and the experiences that we're having. So that begins to unravel. So that takes a little bit more time. You know, you may change right now and you'll have immediate effects on the physical body. And then the experience will begin to change as well.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Sometimes it's dramatic for people. I mean, I've met with people and they had dramatic change and others, they call it like a slow burn. It just slowly, the life slowly starts to change. And then they start to realize, wow, my life is different. I'm noticing more opportunities. I have a deeper sense of peace. I have a deeper sense of inner resiliency and regeneration is taking place.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
So there's immediate and then there's long-term changes that show up in your real world, in your experience. Yeah.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Yeah. Well, everything affects you. I mean, everything has energy. Everything has an energetic field. And so if you have a house that's full of clutter, then there's a hindrance in the flow of the chi of your house. So vibrational feng shui is important, you know, to have an environment that has a flowing of energy.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
I mean, I've watched research where even homes built like on a dead end, the women that live there have a high rate of breast cancer because the dead end is stagnant energy. So this feng shui in your home, this feng shui in how houses are built, what direction they're built in, whether there's a dead end or whether there's a flow of energy.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Obviously, there are ways of neutralizing that with water fountains and certain crystals and things of that particular nature. But definitely the mindset is important. And then you want to have an environment that has flowing energy. And people like Marie Diamond, they're geniuses in that area.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
You know, one of my offices that I had, we had a feng shui expert come in and found out I needed to have certain metal in one corner of the office and then a flowing water fountain in another part because the way the building was structured, it was creating a lot of stagnant energy. So we had to neutralize that with feng shui. Now, your consciousness is the most important thing.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
It's like you can have all the feng shui, you can have everything and be helpful. But if you're not changing your mental mindset and expanding your awareness, then you're getting limited results from the other things you're doing. So consciousness is first. Your consciousness precedes form. See, this is how I describe it. We are awareness, pure awareness, in a field of infinite consciousness.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Our real identity is awareness. Our real identity is not our body. It's not what we own. It's not experiences that we've had. Our real identity is that we are pure consciousness, and we could actually think independent of a condition or a circumstance and make new choices. That's who we are.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
And so as our awareness expands and becomes more and more purified, then we have a different relationship to the universal presence and the universal law that's matching who we think we are. If I'm walking around saying, oh, I'm unworthy, I'm not good enough, no one likes me, then I'm identifying myself as someone who is less than.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
I can do all kinds of things in the world to become successful and liked and all of that. But if inwardly I'm thinking to myself, I'm unworthy, I'm not good enough, then the law matches that vibration and keeps feeding that back to you. And you can try really, really, really hard, but you can never outrun the content in your consciousness that you haven't transcended. So consciousness is primary.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
You have to shift your awareness, expand it into coming to an awareness that you are good. What light being! You're magnificent! What the universe has created is so beautiful! You know, going back to what you said earlier about this is all found in Scripture, I mean, the teacher said, who by taking thought can add one cubit to their stature? You can't add anything to this perfect self.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
All you're doing is eliminating the false beliefs. So that the perfect self that's already been created can begin to shine unencumbered, you see? So your mental attitude is important. The thoughts you're thinking are important. Your perception changes. Your intention is important. And all of this coupled with a little bit of meditation goes a long way.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Right. Well, one of the key allies we have is our own breathing. You know, you can actually. When you're nervous, when you're scared or whatever the case may be, you can actually ask yourself, where am I feeling this? And you can place your attention right there and just begin to breathe into it. And you're observing it and breathing. So what's happening?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Subatomic level, you're changing the energy based on observation. You're breathing. The energy is keeping it moving. And you have an intention to wake up from that intoxicated dream. You can do that immediately. And there's different kinds of pramayana, different kinds of ways to breathe to do that.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Yesterday was just with Sue Mortar last night, Sue Mortar and Shawn Stevenson, and we had a masterclass. And Sue was reminding us about the power of that in her particular presentation. That's true. I mean, before I speak anywhere, I sit down and I do connected rapid breaths, just connected, clean out the psychic energy. go speak. The other way of doing that, you can actually ask a question.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
This is one of the things that I teach that came through me years ago. Behind every problem, there's a question trying to ask itself. Behind every question, answer trying to reveal itself. Behind every answer, there is an action trying to be taken And behind every action, there's a way of life trying to be born.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
So if a person is stuck in a problem, that problem is inviting us to ask a different question. So say a person is having issues with money, finances. That's the problem. The universe is wanting you to ask a question like, What is the nature of prosperity? Sincerely, what is the nature of prosperity and abundance? You ask that question sincerely, an answer will start to come.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
The nature of prosperity is that you're surrounded by abundance. You have to find a way to give something and share something and to be of service to get things circulating in your life so you don't have bad feng shui in your mind and in your heart. And as you begin to give, you know, opportunities open up because the hands of the givers are
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Heather, thank you so much for the invitation. I'm just sitting here in joy just being with you. Life is good.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
are never empty and then that puts you into that's the answer then it puts you into an action you begin to ask what can i give today not how can i get what can i give and then maybe give a smile maybe you're going to help somebody if you don't have any money but you're in the energy flow now of giving and then that becomes a way of life and then opportunities for prosperity show up i'm just using prosperity as an example
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Behind every problem, there's a question. Behind every question, there's an answer. Behind every answer, there's an action. Behind every action, there's a way of life trying to be born. So again, these are spiritual practices that, when done sincerely, change your life. They literally change how you identify yourself.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
It doesn't mean you become all highfalutin and you're so spiritual you're not earthly good. It just means you're becoming more yourself. You're more comfortable with yourself. You're more at ease with yourself because it's the real you. It's not the mask of trying to fit in or hope people like you or trying to manipulate people to give you what you think they should give you.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
No, it's none of that. You're not into that. You're being yourself. And the universal law matches that. Blessings show up.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Well, you know, a good part of my backstory is, I'm going to keep it really brief. I could extend this, but I won't. While I was attending USC, I was a psychobiology major there on a trek to go to med school, actually. And I was having a series of inner experiences that I labeled at the time pathological, because I was seeing visions, I was hearing voices, I was leaving my body and traveling.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
I have a podcast called Take Back Your Mind because I'm reminding people that their mind has been hijacked. It's been hijacked by the news media and that whole spinning out of negative narratives about the world. So individuals are living in this world that is not really real, but it's experienced. What do I mean by that? Just because you experience something doesn't mean it's real.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
And I'm going to break this down. When I was attending Morehouse College before I went to S.C., We used to do a practical joke. I don't know why we called it a practical joke, but it was a joke. We would take a book of matches, strike a match, be hot, blow it out, and then we would touch a person with a cold match.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
They're thinking we're touching with a hot match, and they would create a heat blister on their hand. And they'd get mad, and we'd say, no, no, we touched you with a cold match. Follow me. Then we'd go to the next person, light the match, blow it out, quickly change it with a cold match, touch the person, and they'd burn themselves. So they were experiencing something that wasn't real.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
What were they experiencing? their thoughts. So the world has taken a nightmare pill. Lack, limitation, fear, doubt, worry, scarcity, wars, rumors of wars, hate, bigotry, homophobia, racism, you know, anti-Semitism, you know. The world is experiencing something that's not real. So the average person is living in fear, anxiety, anxiousness, worry, doubt.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
And the average person has normalized those perceptions. And because they've normalized it, they experience it on some level. And then they have to figure out a way to have a recess from it. So there's pharmaceutical drugs, there's other drugs, there's overindulging in whatever, name whatever it is, just to have a moment of not feeling these emotions. But when in fact, your mind has been hijacked.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Now, at the time, I didn't have any spiritual practice, so I didn't know about astral travel and soul traveling and... all of that. But it was happening to me spontaneously and to the point where I sometimes would leave and go see my mom. And I would come back to my body and call her and say, listen, do you have on a blue dress? She would say, yes. Are you cooking some chicken right now? Yes.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
So we're inviting people to take their mind back through very simple spiritual practices, intentions, so they begin to witness the world, but they're not participating in it. The same way that you can witness crazy thoughts in your mind, but you're just looking at them. That's an interesting thought. I don't believe that thought. That's interesting thought. That's not me.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Where did that thought come from? And so little by little, you're changing your inner world and you become a part of the energy, energetic field that's changing the outer world. We are vibrational beings. We're more than flesh and blood. Everything is energy. Everything is energy condensed or speeded up. If it's speeded up really fast, you can't see it. If it's condensed, it looks like matter.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
But it's all energy. And so when enough people are vibrating at a higher level, it actually changes the world. Just as there's been many experiences about people like the Transcendental Meditation people have gone into places and meditated. The crime rate has gone down. Other people have done Vipassana meditation, same thing.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
People coming together in large groups and establishing, like Lynn McTaggart, a good friend of mine, You know, does intention experiments where she gives large groups of people to establish an intention for a certain part of the world. Violence goes down. So these things today are now corroborated by science, whereas 40 years ago was woo-woo. You know what I mean?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
The stuff I was teaching 40 years ago, it was like, ooh, that's weird. Today, it's proven. Epigenetics, quantum physics, biofeedback, brain feedback, heart coherence. Now all the science is showing these very same things. But we need a little bit of intention and a little bit of practice. So you don't have to go into the mountains and sit there for 40 days and 40 nights.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
You can just wake up in the morning.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Establish an intention or just be grateful for your life. Establish an intention to have a beautiful day and just sit for five minutes in the silence.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Obviously that will grow because you start to love it more and you'll be six minutes and eight minutes and 10 minutes, but you just have a little bit of practice. It'll change the trajectory of your life instead of going down the path that fear, anxiety, and worry will take you.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Now you're going down a path where peace and love, and these are the most powerful forces on the planet, even though when you say those words, people think, oh, that's not it. That's just love. That's just peace. No. Peace is the dynamic of harmonizing good. It's a power. Love is a total givingness without any sense of withhold. That's a power.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
So when you desire to be peaceful or loving, you're having a desire to be so confident, not in your little self, but in the power that's around us. You become powerful. Mahatma Gandhi wasn't a weak guy. You know what I mean? He was powerful in his peacemaking. And so we all don't have to be that, but in our own individual lives, we can make a big difference.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
So I knew what was going on was real, but I had no context for it. So the first thing I did at that time, I stopped smoking weed. I stopped smoking cannabis sativas because I thought that was contributing to this, whatever was going on within me. But the experience is intensified to the point where I had a lucid dream every single night. And in this dream, these three men were chasing me.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Well, it is getting better. We're just not reported. When a person is on the news, they are reporting from an old paradigm. You and your program and people who have podcasts like this, we are reporting from the emerging paradigm. So the things we see on television, that's an old paradigm. So things are getting better, but you're not going to see that on television. What are you going to see?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
The latest assassination, the latest bombing, the drought, the hurricane, the tsunamis, political backstabbing, people being arrested for all kinds of nefarious crimes. You're basically going to be inundated by the most negative, lowest common denominator of the human experience. And every now and then you get a little joy thing. Oh, here's a puppy. You know what I mean?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Oh, so-and-so rescued their cat. Isn't that sweet? You know what I mean? But 99% of it's going to be inundation of negativity. We're not seeing the remissions of cancer. We're not seeing the truces that are being made. We're not seeing people who are making amends. We're not seeing people who are growing and developing and unfolding and changing their lives. If we were to spotlight that thing,
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Every single day, how many remissions did we have today of cancer? How many people spontaneously healed their diabetes? How many people actually fell in love with or did deep forgiveness and with their family members or friends or so-called enemies?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
If that was focused on, if the news was actually the news and not the olds, because it's actually the olds, same thing every day just happening to different people, the world would change rapidly. Because where our attention goes is where our energy flows.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
So if we were all focused on all these great things that are happening, like right now on this planet, right this second, not in the future, we have everything necessary to handle every issue. Right now. It all exists. Now, technologically, we just don't have the will and the consciousness to bring it into expression. Those things are repressed so that the powers that be can continue to profit us
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
offer an old way of being on the planet. We have technology to clean up the water. There's no water shortage. We have technology to have free energy. There's no energy shortage. All these things already exist, but the powers that be don't let that emerge. So if we pay attention to a world that works for the highest and best within us all, we will create the vibrational condition for it to emerge.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
As Victor Hugo once said, you cannot stop an idea as time has come. So when this becomes saturated in our awareness, the new ways of being in the world, which are ageless, by the way, will emerge. And I see that. I've been carrying a vision and be carried by a vision for years. So I stay joyfully optimistic. An optimistic is not a person that doesn't believe in problems or challenges.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
An optimist is simply a person that knows that there is a solution to every issue. And so I know that. So that's where I live.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
And every night they got a little bit closer to the point where one night I could see the outline of their face. I looked to my right and there was a small tent with thousands of people trying to fit into the small tent. I knew every single being in line. So I said to myself, they can't hurt me. I have all of my friends with me.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Right. You do a simple practice of finding one thing to be grateful for. You just wake up. Like when I wake up in the morning, I put my feet on the ground. I just say something along these lines. I'm so grateful for my life. I'm grateful that I exist. And what happens is if you come into a feeling of gratitude, your perception and your perceptual windows become clearer.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
And now you're able to see opportunities. If you don't believe in possibilities, the mind can't see opportunities. So when you open yourself up to gratitude, you start to see opportunities. You start to see things differently. Then that develops momentum and you become a grateful person, a grateful being, which then you begin to see things you've never seen before.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
You know, I remember years ago, I was moved to become a vegetarian. So I'm driving down Crenshaw Boulevard. There's a store, I think it was Lindbergh store, a health food store back in the day. And I passed by, I said, oh, wow, a health food store. I wonder how long it's been there because I've never seen it before.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
So I go in, it's been there over 20 years, but I never noticed it because my attention, that wasn't important to me, eating good food. I never noticed it. It's been there in my neighborhood all these years, but I've never seen it. So once our perceptual windows get clear based on gratitude and high intention, we start to see things we've never seen before.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
We start to see people we've never noticed before. There's an old statement that when the pickpocket sees the Buddha, all he sees is his pockets. He can't even notice that he's the Buddha, that he's carrying enlightenment. because he's only interested in the pockets.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
So when we start to become grateful and look for something to be grateful for, we start to notice a different world that's hidden in plain sight. And yes, the news will still be going on, but after a while, we're able to look at it And what I teach people what to do with that is if a friend of yours calls you and says, oh, my God, I have a backache. I have this bad diagnosis.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
And then one by one, everyone standing in line turned their back on me. Two of the men held me down, and the other plunged a knife into my heart, a serrated knife. The pain was excruciating, physically and emotionally, and I died. And when I woke up, I could see differently. I mean, even now, if I start talking about it, it becomes very spiritually emotional for me.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
Would you pray for me? You would say, yes, of course, I'll pray for you. And you're going to go inside and you're going to see the best about them and hold. So the news is a collective prayer from our society. It's a society saying we can't see clearly right now. We're in war. We're in hate. We're in scarcity. We're in lack. That's the diagnosis.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How Your REALITY Mirrors Your MINDSET with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister & Founder
So whenever I teach practitioners here at Agape that when you're watching the news, you're actually watching a societal prayer request. And just like you would pray for your friend if they had a diagnosis of some kind, negative, it's to call you into a deeper sense of gratitude and prayer. You're not caught up in it. You're doing something about it vibrationally. Does that make sense there?
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It's called Awake and Activate. It's going to be shining right here from Agape International Spiritual Center. They can go to agapelive.com to register. I'm doing a five-week class, and the reason it's called Awake and Activate Because I'm going to teach these universal spiritual principles, but it's also going to carry some inner experiences to activate the knowledge that's within us.
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Because it's one thing to like read a book and to have an intellectual understanding of what you're reading. It's another thing for that information to become activated within you. to have some level of embodiment. So we're not just walking filing cabinets of information, but we actually have the feeling tone of the information.
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In the five weeks, I'm going to teach, but I'm also going to activate so that individuals at the end of those five weeks, they'll be able to see a noticeable difference in their own life, their own emotional life, their own mental life. So it's about transformation, not just academic learning about something, but actually being transformed. So that's at Agape, agapelive.com, and we can activate.
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Just go on the website and register for it. It'll be Zoomed because people all over the world, like we had a master class the week before. to prepare people for the class. It doesn't matter whether you got the masterclass or not, you can still take the class. But we had about 3,700 people on there holding this strong field for awakening and for activation.
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And many of them have already registered for the class. So it's gonna be on Zoom. It's gonna be powerful. You're gonna be with people from all over the world. that are tuning in. There are many people that keep taking it. I teach it a little bit different every time because I'm different every time, but there are people who take it a lot, who just keep taking.
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And there are other classes in our university as well that people can sign up for.
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Absolutely. The feeling provides the healing and the feeling provides the revealing of the truth that's within us. I used to have a teacher that used to say, it don't mean a thing if you don't have that feeling. It's a feeling universe. You can have all kinds of words, that's important, but it's the feeling and the energy behind the word that's really, really matters.
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So yeah, I'm gonna have exercises that actually coax people into the feeling tone. I'm gonna have them being coaxed into the feeling tone of what does abundance feel like? What does prosperity feel like? You see, what does joy feel like? And then we'll learn to stabilize that So you're living in that. And then you start to see demonstrations of that in your life by law. It's not accidental.
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It's repeatable results based on your inner feeling. So it's good to have the knowledge, but you have to have the knowledge with the feeling that produces more viable results.
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I could see 360 degrees, the presence of God, the love, the beauty was everywhere. The love that poured into my being was so profound. And I was just a part of everything. I would breathe in and out. The universe would just kind of move like that. I was one. And so when I came out of that, everything around me was glowing with luminosity. The lint on the rug was alive. Everything was alive.
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Absolutely. And that's why I was prompted to start a community, Agape International, because what I teach is an authentic spiritual community grants you immunity from the lower frequencies of life. So when you're with a group of people celebrating and praying and chanting and listening to a message and having good music...
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that creates a field all to itself that neutralizes negative energy for thousands and thousands of people that aren't even in the assembly of people. You know, because a field can't be contained by a wall. You know, it's everywhere.
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And so absolutely, when you're in a community or taking a class with a group of people, what happens is you start to vibrate at the highest level of whatever insight anyone has had. So that if someone's having an insight and there's an aha about something and they're starting to feel it, it affects the whole class. The whole class starts to vibrate at that level. The highest vibration wins.
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And so taking a class with a group of people, being an authentic spiritual community that's dogma-free, you know, it's not about dogma, you know, it's not about capitulating to some man-made rules, but it's about actually having a direct encounter with the presence of God or love and beauty within you. You're in that kind of a community of celebration, celebrating what's already being given.
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Yeah, it goes a long way. I mean, solitude and silence and being alone is important. And community and being with people like the 3,700 plus people that were in this masterclass, that's important. It's important. You know, can you imagine if we were to take these Super Bowls?
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And all these great concerts that people have with thousands of people, 18,000 people, 60,000 people showing up to see a person kick a field goal. You know, it's sweet. It's wonderful. I don't put any of that down. But, you know, they're pulling for their team and, you know, yeah.
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But, you know, we get all these people, you know, like next year we're going to have a big moment of pulling all the spiritual teachers together to have a moment of silence and conviction and a dynamic sense of world peace for the world. But we bring that many people to really focus. on what's possible for the planet, it makes a big difference.
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They can go to agapelive.com, A-G-A-P-E-L-I-V-E.com. That's the Agape website. And then within the Agape website is the Agape University, and that's where the class is being given from. So you just sign up for the class there. You can also... See me speaking every single Sunday.
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If you're not in the LA area, you can just watch it on our YouTube channel, my personal YouTube channel, or Agape's YouTube channel, or Agape's Facebook page, or my Facebook page, or straight from the agapelive.com website. You can watch me speak every Sunday. I do a way of meditation service at 6.45 a.m., I do another service at 9 a.m. and then another service at 11.30 a.m.
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So people all over the world are waking up at different time zones and tuning in to different services based on when they're waking up. But it's also archived. So if you miss it, you can just go to agapilive.com and just watch the service because it's right there. Take Back Your Mind is the name of my podcast. And that's on all the platforms. It's new. So we just hit like 3 million downloads.
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Because I have a guest every week. And then sometimes I do solo shows, just teaching. So that's a wonderful thing. I love being of service that way.
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It is my joy.
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And I could never get back in that box again. Everything changed for me. And I began to go on a research to find out what had happened to me. And that's when I bumped into all of the mystical teachings of Gautama the Buddha, Jesus the Christ, Zoroaster, Walter Russell, Emanuel Swedenborg.
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There was a lot of beings that had similar experiences that gave me an awareness that I wasn't crazy, that I actually was having some kind of an awakening. That was the beginning of me going deep into meditation. Now, this is years ago. I had no conscious desire to be like a public person. to teach or anything like that. I was just so in love with this presence.
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At the time, I didn't call it God because I had come from a church and the word God meant a man in the sky that was dictating rules and sending people to hell and heaven and all that stuff. So I knew that wasn't real. So the word that I used was love beauty. Because the love that I was immersed in was beyond anything I'd ever experienced humanly.
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And the beauty was beyond anything I could describe. So my definition of the presence of God was love beauty. And later on, it became love beauty intelligence. And then later on, well, after that, I started using the word God again. But it has a different meaning. I call it the presence that's never in absence, always here. Life, capital L, life and God are synonymous.
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So anyway, that began my trek to discover what had happened. And then there's been a constant over the years, an emergence of the real Michael from the revelation that I had over 40 years ago. And it continues. It's not like one and done. It's a continued unfolding. And so I've been immersed in light. I've been taught by beings on the other side, teachers from the other side.
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All of this was a part of my schooling and my education. That number of years later, I eventually started Agape International Spiritual Center in November of 1986. So we're in our 38th year right now. And that came with a lot of resistance. I didn't want to do that. At the time, I was a spiritual counselor. I saw six to eight people every single day. I did my own private seminars.
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I was a director of training of a prayer ministry. I liked my life. But there was an inner compulsion to start a community. And I was told that the work I was doing at that time, I was only doing my work halfway and that I'd made a promise before I came here to do this. And that if I didn't do it, They would have no more reason for me to be on the planet. This is the ancestors talking to me.
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And so my life shrunk, forced me into some deep introspection. I had a vision about agape, and I started a vision group and began our vision group in late 2000. 1985, beginning of 1986. We met every Thursday for months to become the vibrational frequency of the vision of Agape. That's the story in brief. There's a lot of stuff in between there. So most of what I do is basically...
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direct from source, you know, and then I could pick up a book and I can say, oh, that's true. You know, it validates. Or I can say, that's not really true. It's almost true, you know. So that's Michael. I like the guy, you know. He always has great intentions. And I've watched him grow and unfold to become more of himself over the years, you know.
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Yes, yes, there are a number of us. One of my great friends, Dr. Sue Mortar, who you may want to meet one day, had a similar cosmic awakening like that in meditation and changed her life. And when we met each other, it was like we met each other and we knew, you know, because she's been there. You know, she's had that very expanded cosmic awareness.
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Then I met other people who have had near-death experiences and come back. And when we meet, like my friend Anita Morgiani and, you know, people like that, you can tell that they've seen something else, not just something they've read about that they've actually had an experience of. And I think, you know, people don't have to have that kind of experience.
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Basically, if you have a little bit of a spiritual practice and good intentions, an intention to wake up, and then you practice meditation on a regular basis, you will incrementally dissolve the blockages from seeing reality. Most people don't see reality. They only see their thoughts about reality, and they experience their thoughts about reality.
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But reality with a capital R is beautiful, infinite potential, infinite possibilities everywhere. There's just so much beauty everywhere that's real. But what most people experience is just a sliver of reality, you know, and they think that's the reality, but it's not. It's just that the perception is small.
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But when you meditate, when you affirmatively pray, you're expanding your perception, expanding your awareness into this infinite field of consciousness, and you start to see life differently. Life really is good. So when I say that, I'm not talking about people's experience of life because people are only experiencing their perceptions, but life, capital L, life is beautiful. It's magnificent.
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I'm super charged with it all the time.
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Affirmative prayer.
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Absolutely. Meditation is key. It's foundational. Meditation, I call it paying undistractable attention to reality. Basically, training yourself. First of all, the way I teach it, there's millions of ways to meditate because there are millions of people. And every technique is probably good. It's probably good for something. So I teach you have an intention.
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You establish an intention when you sit down. So let's say your intention is, my intention is to wake up. to my glorious nature. Because most people are sleepwalking. They don't know it. I wrote a song one time, and one of the lyric is, we're dreaming we're awake. We're walking asleep, dreaming we're awake. That's the average person. They're walking asleep, dreaming that they are awake.
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So you establish an intention to wake up. Then you take your attention, and you place your attention on your intention. My intention is I'm sitting to wake up to my glorious nature. After a while, that intention begins to have a feeling within you. You could actually put your attention on your intention. Then when you sit, you realize you go into a deep listening. I don't mean with ears.
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Behind every problem, there's a question. Behind every question, there's an answer. Behind every answer, there's an action. Behind every action, there's a way of life trying to be born. So again, these are spiritual practices that when done sincerely, change your life. They literally change how you identify yourself.
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You're listening with your entire being because there's a broadcast of let there be light, let there be beauty. This broadcast is happening everywhere through all creation. So you're sitting with a deep sense of listening, You're placing your attention on your intention. You're saying to yourself, this is the first time I've ever meditated, whether you are a veteran or whether you are a newbie.
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This is my very first time. I'm in beginner's mind. I'm like a child. And so now I sit and I can place my attention on my breath. Why? Because you can't breathe in the future and you can't breathe in the past. This breath is happening presently. And so now my attention, I'm present. with my intention, my deep listening, and my beginning consciousness. And now I'm available to what?
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Insight, revelation from my intention, because that's what I'm interested in, that will wake me up from my limited paradigm. In that, it's a combination of the pasta meditation and how I've designed it as Beckwith. And so then if something comes up, you observe it, but you don't try to get rid of it or enhance it.
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Like if an emotion comes up, a sensation in the body, crazy thoughts, you learn how to watch it because you're not those thoughts. You're the awareness watching the thoughts. And then after a while, what you're watching changes on a subatomic level based on your observation. The scientists call that the observer effect.
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Anything you observe changes on a subatomic level simply because you observe it. If you observe yourself with the intention to wake up, you're putting the observer effect on steroids. So you're literally giving yourself spiritual therapy. and waking up. And then sometimes there's a dramatic opening.
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Sometimes it's just little by little by little, you're eliminating the false beliefs, perceptions from your perceptual window. And then you notice after a period of time that you've changed. But you may not know when you change because it may not come with lights and cameras. You just notice, hmm, that used to bother me. It doesn't bother me anymore.
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I still don't like it, but I'm not bothered by it. What happened? But what happened is you become more yourself. You become unbothered and unbotherable. So this meditation is key. And then what we call affirmative prayer is a prayer that you're not begging a God out there. Because as Ralph Waldo Emerson taught, the innermost God and the uppermost God is the same God.
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You know, that which is within you is the same presence that's around you. And so you're not reaching out there because you're losing your power. If you reach out there to God, now you're sending your power away. So when you pray, you're basically recognizing there's a presence everywhere. You start off with a deep sense of gratitude that you are alive, you're awake.
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And then you recognize there's a presence everywhere. You feel yourself one with this presence. And then you speak your word. From that sense of oneness, you can say something like, even as I'm speaking this very word, something magnificent is happening in my life. All of my needs are met. My body temple can heal anything. You begin to speak the word from the sense of unity.
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It doesn't mean you become all highfalutin and you're so spiritual you're not earthly good. It just means you're becoming more yourself. You're more comfortable with yourself. You're more at ease with yourself because it's the real you.
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Then you give thanks that it's already done. Then you release it and go on about your business. So that's just a modicum of what affirmative prayer is. Because a lot of people are begging and beseeching a reluctant deity. And so they're actually putting out into the universe that they don't have what they're praying for. Please give me this. Please give me this.
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So it's funny, like when you go on a hike, right, Andrea, just imagine any of us going on a hike or a walk, you can only see what you can see, right? So at the bottom of the hike, you see the parking lot or you see kind of like the little shrubs I'm thinking about in California where we live. And then as you start to go along the walk, the view changes, right?
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This is sort of like, I think about the awakening of the heart and the five heart stages, right? your perceptions of life radically change. So it's like you're living in a different reality. And so because you're in a different reality, because you are different, you also start to change your life. So I'll give you a more concrete example.
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When I think about the periods when I was in the dark heart, I think about how hard life seemed. And the only little lift I could get would be, you know, I used to drink quite heavily and had these partying times. I also think about the relationships that I was in. Because there was so much fear, I chose really nice relationships.
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but really safe guys that loved me a lot more than I loved them because there was a fear of abandonment from my childhood. So I didn't want to be abandoned. So the fear predominated. So that's what I was creating in my life. And it was also just, you could just see there was limitations in my work and what I was creating.
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And then when a lot of my life, to be honest, was in the propelled heart, perfectionism, perfectionism, always needing to be number one in the class and always needing to get more and more in the planning and everything. And then it's like, there's so little peace at this stage for most of us. It's like these little ups and downs, the dopamine rush.
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It's like, oh, look how many people loved this post or this thing did really well. But then there's the big downs. We let the ups in and we let the downs in. Like, oh, like this didn't do as well as I wanted. Or, you know, this person didn't ask me out on a second date on... you know, whatever Bumble or whatever dating app you're on.
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And so the relationships I chose in that stage were fitting into the plan. Like my ex, right? We knew the same people. We went to the same event. It was like also, you know, fun and, fancy and just kind of fit in. But there wasn't that deep connection. There was this still trying to fill. There wasn't that fulfillment, right? And so we see it in our lives play out.
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And so as we start to go into the steady heart and beyond, your life really does radically change in a way that you can't see yet from the earlier fields. Another thing I think maybe we might mention before we go into the other heart fields is the heart field. Can I show you here in the book, Andre? We still have the galley here.
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So this was one of the first ways I started to learn about the power of the heart. And for anyone struggling, I start to realize.
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Yeah, there is even right now when we're sitting, there's a Taurus field coming out of the heart and it's going beyond our skin where we think we end eight to 10 feet and it's going out and around and it's a hundred times stronger than the brain. So it's really amazing about this heart awakening work. And we talk about coherence. It means your personal field becomes more harmonious and strong.
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This literally means, Andre, from a scientific perspective, that you become more magnetic. So it means people start to come to you like, hey, what are you up to? You're just, I don't know, how can I help you? I want to be part of what you're doing. You know, just things naturally start to come. More
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Synchronicities, I talk about, you know, when I was in a clear heart moment in the book, I talk about how I ran into Deepak Chopra on the street after he'd reviewed one of my books, but I had never met him in person. And from that one meeting, we met for coffee. We decided to write a book together, which later became a New York Times bestseller. These are things that the mind can't plan.
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Energy doesn't lie. So when you're in the dark heart and the propelled heart, And you're just feeling like you're hustling all the time and that you can't quite get to that success that you want. You're not meeting the right partner. You really want a family. You really want love. You start to work on this incredible heart resonance, this intelligence inside of you. And then all of a sudden,
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things start to shift and change on the outside. And this has been my personal experience. This has been the experience of all the people I've been bringing this to.
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It's so amazing, Andre, because again, the perception from the dark and the propelled heart is like, gotta work harder, more self-help books, more motivational talks, like just more stuff versus, oh, there's this energy that I can start to work with inside of me.
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And it's- One of my favorite texts.
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Because your perceptions change as your heart awakens, your thoughts change. And that also means incredible creativity and incredible, this creative power awakens, which leads you to inspired action. So it's not that you sit back and you're like, oh, my heart's awake and everything's going to come to me. What it does mean is that you start to do things in a very different way.
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You don't have to go about the same arduous uphill. Like the mind is very step by step. I have to do this. Then I'm going to be promoted to this stage or I have to go on 50 dates statistically before I meet my partner or whatever it is. Pfft. The heart is nonlinear and dynamic. There is a force that comes through.
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So the other thing, Andre, in our culture, in the Western world in general, there's this idea of like, you know, this is where a lot of the motivational ideas thinking talks and programs comes from, which can be helpful for some people, but it's often like, I have to awaken, you know, me. Like, you know, the movies, like the Die Hard movies, it's like, I have the power.
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I woke up, like I can save the planet or like I could save the building. It's like me, my power. Whereas the awakening heart starts to realize more and more, the clear heart, that there's a power moving through me. The Tao is like allowing this force to move through you. So it's non-specific and it's not personal. There's more ego in it. Like, oh, I'm so awakened. I'm so enlightened. Me, me, me.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
Versus we're all in this. This is moving through me. That heart field I showed you, it's like, oh, I'm tapping into a different energy field. So it's not like, oh, I'm the source of these miracles and synchronicities. It's that we're operating at a different frequency where things like that tend to happen for anyone who chooses to operate at that frequency. So we can all tap in.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
And that's what's really exciting about this work as well.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
People have more power than they can even imagine. We look at nature and we see when everything is in the right condition, then the potential emerges. Now, the difference between us and a tree is that we have to consciously participate in that emergence. Now, many people will look to the world and say, oh, this is a bad time. But we create our own condition.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
When you're trying to make something happen, oftentimes the energy of trying to make something happen is, I don't have it, so I'm going to make it happen. And that's a stage of development. It's not a bad stage. It's just a stage. But again, you run the risk of one, becoming addicted to manifesting. And two, you run the risk of even when you get it, you're still not happy.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
You still think something's missing. But when it starts to be activated through allowance, it's a part of your being. This is who I am. I'm not trying to get abundance. I am abundance. I'm not trying to get joy. I am joy. You see, it's a whole different identification that begins to be activated.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Yeah, that's the key thing, shifting your perspective. and perception, I often say that the challenges are actually our gifts and work clothes. So they're actually coming to actually activate potential that's latent, that cannot be activated without a challenge.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Because sometimes people become lazy, you know, they're like, not lethargic necessarily, but they're not really activating potential because everything seems to be going okay. But when there's a challenge, what do we have to do? We have to go in. We have to activate potential.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
And we end up discovering things about ourselves or activating things about ourselves that before may have just been a belief, but now it becomes active. You know, there's a seed in the forest, some kind of pine tree that when these seeds fall into the soil, they never germinate, except when there's a forest fire. They just stay there for 50, 60, 70, 80 years.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
But a forest fire is the only thing that's hot enough to make the seed open, and then it becomes the new trees for the next iteration of that forest. And I think there's qualities within us that are there. But the challenge becomes like a fire that breaks it open. And suddenly we discover things about ourselves and powers and energies that we didn't even know we had until that challenge came.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
So I think challenges are built in for the soul's edification. And so we're not here. Teaching to live a challenge-free life. We're here to learn how to navigate and to transcend and transmute challenges so that we become the next great vision and version of ourselves. We're here to constantly grow. And the universe is so progressive that if we get too comfortable, the...
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
We get kicked in the butt a little bit. Yeah. You know, wake up. Yeah. You're not activating your potential, you know. It could be a symptom. It could be a financial thing. It could be a relationship thing. But the universe is always expanding and moving us forward. Mm-hmm.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
A life we'll live is a life of service. It's that being of service to humanity, being of service to your own soul evolution keeps you at a baseline of joy and happiness. And as you've indicated, there are people living on the planet and they get pulled by celebrity, fame, comparison of how much money a person has and things of that particular nature. And as we know, comparison is suicidal.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
That's great. That's good. Yeah. You use the word weight. You know, I often like to say that imagine you're just in a big weight room. You're in density, time, gravity. You're here lifting weights. Yeah. You know, and this is, you got time and space, things that don't really exist. They're abstract mental concepts. They're not like forever, you know.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
But while you're in time and space, this is a weight room and it's actually a canvas by which you get to paint with the colors of your soul. And so you're here lifting weights. You know, sometimes you have to lift weights around love and forgiveness. Sometimes you have to lift weights around contribution and generosity or whatever quality that seems to be lacking.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
You actually have to go in and lift that weight. You have to actually perceive it. You have to actually shift your perception. You have to actually change your conversation around it. And until that weight becomes easy, it's like, oh yeah. So I think that's a great analogy.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Because it's the condensation of thoughts, beliefs, perceptions, opinions, points of view that have condensed itself into a world of appearances. You know, it's always changing. And once you, like you say, when you pop up and you see that your dream, you're having a dream of separation, but you're never separated from the divine. It's an impossibility, but we dream we are.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
And then the world of appearances, the collective belief impacts us. So we have a whole collective superstitious belief about separation. Then you have all these religions, right? that have their point of view, and oftentimes religiosity takes over that locks people into a religion rather than into the transcendent.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
So people end up fighting about being a certain religion, which the religion itself was to take you beyond religion. It just becomes a whole dynamic of superstitious thought that creates a simulation of separation. Doesn't even exist. It's not even real. When I mean real, it's not eternal. Yeah. Yeah.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Yeah, and that's why healing, it's like in a moment of real healing, It just simply means that that which has never been hurt, it's a revelation, it's a revealing of that which has never hurt. So then the body changes or the mental body changes. And then that's, I've had an opportunity to be a part of that a lot where it's like, you know, how did that happen?
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
You know, if you compare yourself to other people, you're committing kind of an inner suicide or you're providing a context for your baseline of joy to go down. But if you're living a life of, you know, how much can I give? How much can I serve? You come on what I call the right side of the law, meaning as spiritual beings, right? We've took an incarnation and arrived with everything.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Well, you dreamt about this disease, you know, but now you woke up to the fact that there's a part of you that can't even ever be diseased. Yeah. Yeah.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Yeah, in the month of March, I didn't speak at Agape. I still had some work things to do, but every March I tried to take off. And so it was Women's History Month, so I just had all my women ministers just speak. Ministresses? They killed it. Yeah. And so thus I stopped shaving, as you can see. And I was sitting down.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
And since I didn't have what was beautiful about it, since I didn't have appointments to go to most of the time, I had moments of longer periods of meditation. I didn't have to like, okay, I only got 22 minutes here. I got a half hour. I could just sit as long as I wanted to. And so I sat and I started laughing because I was thinking about people going into virtual realities.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
and then not realizing they're already in one. So they're in a simulation, they're in a virtual reality of time and space and constriction. And then they put something on and they go into another simulation. It just made me, it was funny to me. And I don't put down VR because you can use it to develop skills. You know, it has some very powerful benefits.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
So I sat down and started writing this, you know, about the simulated dream. It took me two days. I mean, I wrote And then I had to go somewhere. Then when I came back, like three or four or five days later, I wrote the second half of it. And it was, you want to hear some of it?
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
You want to share? Sure, I'd love it. I used to write poetry a lot back in the day, and then I kind of got busy. Yeah. So it's called The Simulated Dream.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Yeah, one of my assistants bought this for my birthday.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
So I started it on 3-26. Great. And I completed it on April 4th. Amazing. So it says, it's called The Simulated Dream. Oh, beloved traveler, seeker of the stars, do you not see the cage within which you play? A theater of mirrors reflecting who you think you are. Yet the essence of you lies beyond the fray. This world, this simulation, this grand illusion is shaped
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
by beliefs, perceptions, and imprints of the past. A mosaic of stories, a web of delusion, where shadows of truth are cast and recast. You've built a game within the greater game, virtual worlds to escape, which seems mundane. But how ironic, this digital distraction, when you already dwell in a scripted abstraction.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Every thought, every fear, every fleeting desire weaves the matrix of the life you perceive. But deep within, there's a soul on fire, whispering the truths the mind cannot conceive. Ah, dissimulation is not the prison. It's the teacher, a framework of lessons, a sacred disguise. Its purpose is not to bind, but to feature. the path to awakening, the opening of eyes.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
No one is missing anything. I mean, I'm not talking about materialism. The qualities of the spirit, we have them all. So we're here to unpack that. We're here to activate that. We're here to express that. We're here to give, share, shine, radiate that. So if you ask, you know, what do I have to give today? How can I contribute? How can I share?
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
For the ultimate game is not to win or achieve, but to wake up, beloved, to the eternal and the real, to shed the mask that your mind weaves and embrace the truth that no illusion can conceal. You are not the avatar, the role or the name, not the stories you tell or the titles you claim. You are the witness, the light, the eternal flame, the harbinger of love in this temporal game. So play.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Yes, play. But play with awareness, knowing that the stage is but a fleeting projection. Be the presence, the stillness, the boundless fairness, a beacon of truth in a world of reflection. For when you awaken, the simulation transforms. The false falls away and the real takes form. You're not here to escape, but to create, to anchor eternity in the tides of fate. Beloved, rise.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Be the harbinger of the divine, a lucid dreamer in the landscape of time. For the game was never to lose or to win, but to remember the truth that has always been.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Love that, man. That was great. Yeah, I felt good because I was like, when I was a little boy, I used to write in journals a lot when I was in elementary school. No one told me to do that. It's just something that kind of emerged as a kid. And I had stacks of them. So one day my mother found them under my bed, and she asked me what was wrong, if something was wrong with me.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
I said, nothing's wrong. I'm just writing my emotions. And about two weeks later, they had me in sport. I was in baseball, did football, track. It was like, you know. And I can remember kind of cutting that part of myself off. So then I'm a senior at USC, and I have this spiritual awakening. And then a few years after that, there was something agonizing inside of my being. It was jittery.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
I couldn't be comfortable. And I went to a place where I started writing. And this emergence of poetry just flowed out of me. I mean, volumes, volumes, volumes. So that which I had dammed up when I was a kid, and went into the masculine sport thing, you know, track and all of that, it got opened up again.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
And so then I wrote a lot of music and then, you know, I've been doing Agape now for 39, on 39th year. And so you get busy. So being off, I just sat and as it started coming out again,
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Yeah. The only challenge with it as I had to, doing it again, I had to see what my handwriting said. That word weaves, I was trying to read it for a while. I said, what was I trying to say? Then it finally came, oh, mine weaves. Because my handwriting should have been a doctor. I think...
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Right. Yeah, poetry, music, directly heart connection. You know, it transcends the logical mind so people can actually feel something without having to tear it apart and think about it.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
And then that seed of divinity within us starts to emerge. You live in a field of infinite possibilities. Why don't you choose a good one? People will say, what are some of the advanced teachings? And I'll say, well, not magic. It's just practice. We all know about visualization.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Now you're on the right side of the universal law that will provide for you activate your own gifts of potentiality to share and to give. So you find yourself in joy more often than not.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
It reminded me that when I first woke up years ago, you know, I was balancing between this mystical awareness and science because UCLA at that time had a parapsychology department. And so like Mitchell May and Judith Orloff, a lot of those people and a lot of friends of mine were going through that because in this society they were deemed weird, you know.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
So I was studying a lot of the science of mysticism. And so I was very aware of vibration frequency, non-local healing, things of that particular nature while I was exploring in my own consciousness. And that particular department doesn't exist anymore at UCLA. You know, they were way ahead of the game years ago. But now, from what I understand, it's not there anymore.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
But in my own upbringing, I was always balancing between now what we call quantum physics and quantum entanglement and things like that and the mysticism. It was always a nice, nice bridge for me.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
But if a person is living in this field of social media comparison, and as you indicated, they're being bombarded with all this information, you know, there's a difference between information that informs and information that transforms. And most of the information flowing in social media is just information, somebody's opinion.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
It's just different. Yeah. Because you see them, you see the intuition, you see the physical prowess, you see the non-thinking. suddenly doing something that they never planned before, you know?
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
I remember the guard, Nate Archibald, I think, New York Knicks, you know, he was going down the court, and there were three people guarding him, and he did some kind of weird move and turned around and went up 360 and laid it in to win the game. And when the announcer asked him, how did you know to do that move? He said, I didn't.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
He said, that move took me over because it was the only move that could happen to get through three people. So it was an intuitive intelligence that took him over, the zone, the flow. So yeah, I know we're surrounded by divine intelligence. not divine intellect, but divine intelligence.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
And it uses the intellect, uses the physical body, uses the mind to weave through whatever's going on to reveal a healing, a destiny, a slam dunk, a poem, a medical incision. A doctor, I was reading about a doctor who had to do a very intricate surgery on an infant's heart. And he said he prayed. And it was, the procedure took hours. What he said for him was like five minutes.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
And they were patting him down, you know, with that sweat. But he said he felt something on his hand guiding him. And he was able to do this surgery. So whether it's that or a slam dunk, you know, there's this intelligence of love just flowing through us if we allow it to take place, you know.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
You have to have the practice on whatever you're working on. So the body is already in tune to that, and then something takes over. You know, and there are people that have natural ability to say natural ability. Yeah, like more savants. Yeah. But a lot of times people who have natural ability don't develop their highest capacity because it's come so easy for them.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
You know, I had a friend years ago who's, he was a natural athlete. He is a natural yogi, but he never would like do the practice, right? So as years went on, you know, I became better at, I wasn't naturally flexible. You know, he's taller than me, so he was naturally faster. But as we went on in our life, you know, I ran varsity track. I was undefeated on my mildly relay leg.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
but if you start to ask how can i serve you become available to what is called inspiration that's not coming from time and space that's coming directly from the heart mind of the infinite it's a whole different flow of information yeah so i want you to walk us through a little bit of your life visioning process because you've been supporting people really get clear on on this you know i think
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
You know, I became very flexible in yoga. And he stayed pretty much the same. He was a natural, but he didn't develop the practice to actually activate his potential. So I think that whatever skill we're trying to develop, you have to practice it. I like to practice meditation. I do have a certain gift of I can open myself up and I can go speak.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
I can open myself up and I have this access to certain levels of wisdom and knowledge that's within me. But I'm not going to skip my meditation. You know what I mean? I want to go, I want to activate that. I want to be in tune with that on a regular basis. So I'd rather give up doing eating something at that moment, I'd rather sit, you know, and get in tune, you know, eat later.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
But the word practice, I think, is important. I think... That devotion to it? Yeah. It's like... like people will say, you know, what are some of the advanced teachings? And I'll say, well, theory is beginning, practice is advanced. So you study all the stuff, read all the good books, you read the Bhagavad Gita, you read the Dhammapada, you read all the stuff, you learn the mystical teachings.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
That's beginning. The advance is actually trying to practice that. Sitting, you know, having some level of practice where it dawns on your awareness. You have an aha. You have an insight. It's like, oh, I've heard that a million times. But now when I sat... I understood it at a whole nother level. But you don't get that without the practice. You have to have a moment where you think not.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
The actual encounter. Yeah. You have to have an encounter. You have to have your own personal revelation of what you believe. You can hear a million speakers and you say, oh, that's beautiful. I believe that. Ooh, yeah, I'm inspired. But you have to have a personal revelation of that. And that's what you get. You can be walking on the beach. You can look at the ocean. You can be still.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
And then suddenly, oh my God, I know that now. I actually feel that. That's absolutely true. I'm actually at one with that wave. I'm actually at one with the tree. I'm actually at one with all of life. Of course, before you may have believed it. Right. You know, you read the quantum physics. You're at one with everything. Right.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Absolutely. And we live in a world where we, as you said, put on a pedestal the intellectual understanding of something. rather than actually having the encounter with it. And I used to have a teacher that would say, he called it the consciousness. He would tell this parable of fish swimming in the ocean. And when it turns, they all kind of do that.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
And then a big wave comes and knocks one of the fish on the sand. And he sees a beach ball, and he sees people having a picnic, and he sees all this stuff. He has no language for this. And he's looking, he's looking, he's looking, and the wave knocks him back into the water. And the other fish say, what did you see? And he says, he can't describe it. Because he had no reference to what he saw.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
And so, you know, when we begin to open up, we go into that space where we don't really have the language for it. You know, then later on when we use language, it's the same words we used to use, but they mean something different. Because the context has changed. And so we want to throw ourselves over the cliff, jump in the water, so we're living in our own.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
I don't really know how to describe this, but it's real.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
But you can't talk about what it is because then that word right there is separating from the is-ness of it. You just have to just be quiet and let your light so shine. Oh, that's good, man. It's sweet. I was thinking, I was in the store the other day and the woman was so rude and just, you know, it was like giving me no energy. I'm buying stuff, no energy. It was like,
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
And part of my mind said, this person really shouldn't be with the public. She should be in the back room working, but she shouldn't be out here. And then I changed. I said, you know what? I don't know what's happened to this woman. She may have gotten a bad phone call, may have had some trouble with her kids at home. I just started just thinking. And then I started having compassion.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
It's like, she's having a bad day. I'm good. And then all of a sudden, she's changed right in front of my face. She started smiling and becoming really polite and extra helpful. So I think there was like this connection with us on the invisible side. And when I saw her as human, you know, and maybe just having a bad day and got curious as to why she was acting this way, she changed.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
So then I thought about the fact that, you know, I was in a conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brouse recently, and we were talking about the fact that tyranny and tyrants cannot exist in the field of love, right? That it can only happen if people are separated from each other and have polarization and hate and live in their opinions.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
And so what if we all just started thinking about people who don't like us, but become curious as to why. Why are they acting like this? Why don't they like me? You know, why don't these men like women? Why don't these people like, don't like people with a lot of melanin? And you start to have a level of compassion as to what happened to them. that would forge such a limited perception.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
And then in that moment of compassion, we start to develop a whole nother energy on the planet of which tyranny cannot invade because we're all in love.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Once you go to the depth of it, you can see any things that impacted people, traumas, dramas, unhealed issues, and that's what's running them. And rather than judge it, you can become a... a place of healing. I teach the practitioners at Agape that when you see a lot of calamity going on in the world, whether it's war, hate, whatever the case may be, that is the world inviting you for prayer.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Well, there's wanting and there's immature wanting. And the immature wanting oftentimes comes from what society gears us to want through the vast commercialism, commercials, marketing. There's all manner of things that people grow up in and they say, I want this, I want that. But they have no idea where that desire is even coming from. Is it coming from their soul?
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
If somebody comes to you and says, I have a diagnosis of some kind, can you hold me in prayer? You're going to say, yes, of course. So when you see all this stuff erupting on the world, that's the world inviting us into prayer rather than judgment. Like a planetary disease. Yeah, it's like wars and rumors of wars and hate. It's like, oh, cancer. Let me go into prayer rather than judgment.
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Because if everybody's in judgment, there's not going to be any healing. There's not going to be any forward movement.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
I have said over the period of time that if you're not in love with yourself when you're by yourself, you're going to be hell with other people because you're going to become an emotional stalker. You're going to try to make that other person make you happy.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
So you have to learn how to be alone, not lonely, but you have to learn how to be alone and actually love this person and actually self-reflect even on the areas that you don't like. to actually look at them square in the face, embrace it, and be willing for that energy to change.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
So you have to like yourself with your by yourself or you're not going to like yourself in relationship because you'll manipulate that relationship in some kind of way to make yourself feel better. But at the end of the day, if you don't like yourself when you're by yourself, it's going to be a problem in the world. So it's inner work. So it's a wise thing to...
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
to spend a period of time by yourself. I love my alone time. I love it. There's certain things that I do every day in which I do alone. I don't have to respond to anybody. I don't have to react. I don't have to make sure that person's okay. I don't want them to make sure I'm okay. I love being by myself. But then I'm better with people. Yep.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
You know, and I've told people, I was making a joke the other day. I was in an all-day workshop and the person that was facilitating it, I was saying, well, normally at this time, I would have been at the gym working out, thanking my hydration, my water, my smoothie, meditation, then come here. But since you start the workshop so early, psychologically, if I get mad today, it ain't your fault.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
I'm just joking around. I just didn't get my alone time. But I have to have it. Yeah. Yeah.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Absolutely. Most of it is. It's like without authentic self-love and appreciation, not egotism, but authentic self-love and appreciation, we set up energies that we project onto the world. We project our unhealed energies onto the screen of life, and we end up bumping into our lack of self-love. Now, we may put it on somebody.
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Or is it coming from society hypnotizing? I call it nefarious hypnotism, hypnotizing people into thinking they want this. I saw a recent meme that showed they were asking kids what they wanted. And one person was saying, I want a Lamborghini. I want a million dollars. Somebody said, I want a billion dollars. Then they asked people in poorer countries what they wanted.
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But it's actually, we're creating our own hindrance, our own obstructions, our own delays. And so being able to sit and to work through without denying and embrace and actually like this person, that's what we carry into the world. We end up liking people that don't like us. It becomes a whole other vibe.
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It's like, because you don't take as many things personally, you know, because you're able to separate, oh, that doesn't really belong to me, you know.
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That's so very important. When you go to sleep at night, first of all, there's a level of forgiveness of the day, petty annoyances. You don't want to go to sleep with any of that. You don't want that to be a part of your subconscious mind. And why? Because it will create momentum of that perception. Faster.
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And then become a part of your mood, your attitude, and your greater perception. So I like to like scan and forgive. Mm-hmm. And then... When you say scan, you mean like a body scan? Yes, scan my day. Okay. You know, so that I'm not holding on to what this person said or what I think they've said or what I think they meant. So it's just like a forgiveness. Now, oftentimes people will talk about
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at the end of your life doing that. I say, do it every day. Don't wait until the end of your life and forgive all these people. You know what I mean? Just don't allow it to accumulate. Just forgive everything, every single day. And then, you know, a lot of times when I go to sleep, I will close my eyes and I will choose... A timeline of a life that I want to live. The feeling tone of it.
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I choose it. I choose it that is happening now. And then I go to sleep in it. Or... If I'm dealing with something, I need an answer. You know, I will choose. It's not the future, but I'm choosing that the answer and the issue is already solved. What do I feel like? And then what happens is like it retrofit itself.
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It will give me a level of guidance when I wake up in the morning as to how to approach that situation. Now, when I wake up, it's the same thing. You're still in a hypnagogic state. So I wake up and I consciously go into a state of gratitude that I exist. It's not attached to I'm grateful that I have this. I'm grateful that I have that. I'm just grateful that I exist.
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Visioning is getting in touch with your soul and asking, what is it that's within you that really wants to be expressed? It's the difference between making something happen with your mind to going to making something welcome, because it already exists. And what happens? You bump into self-love and appreciation.
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And the little kid said, I'd like to see my father again. You know, I would love to have a taste of meat. I haven't had it in a long time. You know, I would love to have a quiet place to read a book. It was totally different based on the culture that the people came from and the experiences they had in life.
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And then I will get out of bed. And I'll stand and I'll do this. I'm so grateful to be alive, awake, and aware. And then I do this. I surrender to life. Sometimes I'll use the word God or love or peace. And then I open myself up and I'll say, I'm available to the energy and the strength to handle anything that comes into my life today, my assignments for today.
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Because I know I have assignments on my to-do list. And then there are things that are going to come that I don't know they're going to come. Somebody's going to call. I'm going to have to respond to this. So I ask and make myself available to the energy of that. And because I've done it so long, I don't even think about it.
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It's like I'm able to articulate it to you now because you asked me a question. But I'm not really thinking about it. It's just like, I'm so grateful. I surrender.
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You know, like that. And so when you're in those states, it goes deeper into your subconscious. And then what happens is you have less worry. You know, people suffer from worry. They suffer from anxiety, anxiousness. They're projecting their worst-case scenario onto what they call the future. And they're actually living in those chemicals without the thing even happening. You know what I mean?
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So it's happening for them right now, physically, chemically, on the immune system. But it hasn't even happened. The thing hasn't even happened. But the body doesn't know it. So, you know, I like people to learn that they're a sovereign being and they can determine their own perception. It's not magic. It's just practice, you know.
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Forgiveness is one, all forgiveness, 100% is self-forgiveness. You are releasing the toxicity of resentment, animosity, blame, projecting it onto another person. Now, you're not denying that a person may have gossiped about you or stole something from you or did something. You're not denying that. Or you perceive they did something. But the animosity and the resentment is in you.
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So when you talk about the life visioning process, you know, we all know about visualization. You can use visualization to basically manifest things you want. Visioning is basically getting in touch with your soul and asking, what is it that you've come to deliver? What is it that's within you that really wants to be expressed?
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That's festering. That's speeding up the aging process. That's creating the immune system to not function as properly as it could. So you're doing this to yourself. So when you forgive another, you're actually releasing the toxicity from your own self. So you're actually cutting the cord, the emotional cord that you have with that being. You're not condoning what they did, if they did something.
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But you're not connected to it anymore. So if an individual is living in a state of forgiveness, you know, they're staying inside, they're staying clean and clear. And again, it's a practice, you know, and it's, you know, every path of heart has forgiveness in it. Every religion has forgiveness in it. Why? Because it works, you know. Yeah.
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You go to the next step. And giving forth is, I am going to radiate love. I'm going to radiate peace. It's like there's an individual that I've known for a number of years that I thought did something very heinous to me. It was just really weird. And so I know their birthday. And so whenever I notice that particular date as a time on my phone or something, I send them a prayer.
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You know, it's just like, I think, just bless them. I hope they're living a beautiful life. I hope he's absolutely doing something magnificent. So I just give forth. Instead of saying, oh, that person stole that money from me, I just say, I just hope they're living a very beautiful life. So forgiveness, I am giving forth an affirmative energy rather than a negative energy. Yeah.
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It's mainly the energy. It's like we live in a field of infinite possibilities. So I'll tell people to choose the possibility you want to live in. So, you know, oftentimes I go to sleep, infinite possibilities. So I'm going to choose this possibility of my life. And that's a filling tone of abundance. It's a filling tone of right action.
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And sometimes there are scenarios there if I'm working on a particular project, but the primary choice that I'm making is a feeling tone. And then the feeling tone within our picture as whatever that's to look like, I'm not going to limit it by my visualization. Mm-hmm.
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visualization may be a start, but ultimately the feeling is going to determine the outcome, not what I think I want, because I may be limiting it. Yeah. Does that make sense?
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So field of infinite possibility. I tell people, you live in a field of infinite possibilities. Why don't you choose a good one? Yeah. And see what that feels like and live there long enough until that becomes your dominant feeling. But it takes work. Yeah. Yeah.
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So at the end of your time on earth, you're not lamenting the fact that, okay, you got six cars, but did you actually hit your potential? Did you actually give the gift you said you were going to give? I firmly believe that Before we took the incarnation, we made a promise to ourself. The promise was we would come here, we'd wake up, and we would contribute and distribute our gifts.
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I use Soak, S-O-A-A-K dot com. And they have 32 different frequencies. Oh, cool. You know, they have anti-anxiety, lack stress. They have... Whatever you think, they have the frequency of it. And I'll just, and now they have a really, their main frequency is sleep because people seem to have difficulty going to sleep.
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So they have these little energetic things. You can just put it on. So I'll put one of those on and put my legs up and just, it's the frequency just wipes over me and I'll go to sleep.
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I think it's really important to kinesthetically write things The idea that's trying to emerge in your life, you just, you know, use your own, not type, actually write it with your name and then read and say it out loud so that you're actually physically writing, you're actually reading it, you're actually saying it and hearing it.
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So you're using all the senses to say, I, Michael, am living a powerful, magnificent life.
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Yeah, there you go. And then just lick it. What does that taste like? Get some good honey in your mouth, you know. Yeah. And then I think you write it three ways. I, you talk to yourself. You talk about yourself. He, So you're hitting the voices. There are some voices where you're talking bad about yourself. There's some voices where you imagine other people are talking bad about you.
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And then there's the voice where you're talking to yourself. So I like to tell people, right, I, he, you, or I, she, you. you. And whatever feeling tone you want to have in your life, right? It doesn't have to be, don't write paragraphs. Just a short, pithy statement. Feel your way into it.
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And so you're getting the kinesthetics, you're getting the eyesight, you're getting the voice, you're getting the listening, and it'll start to change your subconscious tendencies.
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Yeah. Well, that's the good news and the bad news. I always tell people it's the good news and the bad news. The bad news, it appears, is that you lose relationships or structures in your life change. Mm-hmm. But the good news is that they build back up based on who you are now.
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And so I invite people to keep your heart open so you don't let people out of your heart, even though they may have moved from a friend to an acquaintance. You know, the structure may have changed. They may have been a friend for a while, but now they're acquaintance. You don't put them out of your heart. They're still in your heart. They've been a part of your life. You know, quantum entanglement.
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You're still connected. You're still affecting each other.
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But now you have somebody in your life that's more coherent with the frequency you're holding now. So therefore, when you understand that's a part of the process, you don't demone the fate that you grew out of some shoes. They don't fit anymore. You've grown. Your body's bigger. Clothes have changed. So these are clothes. These are external arraignment of who you used to be.
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Now, in any destination, you bump into turbulence. You fly from here to Seattle, New York, Chicago. The plane always hits a little turbulence. Then you land, hopefully, most of the time. So when you come to the earth plane, you come into turbulence. Societal milieus, beliefs, perceptions, superstitions. You move through the turbulence and the world that that turbulence is creating.
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And now you're different. The thing about it is they may come back later. You know, I can remember there was a guy I used to run with in college, you know, and so I had this awakening, and I always remember this. I could see it so distinctly. He comes by my house one day, and he opens the door. I open the door. I see him, and we look at each other, and we had nothing in common.
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We're not the same people that would go to parties together, and we went to SC together, and we did this and that. We looked at each other, and it was like, And he said, hey, man, I'll see you later. I said, okay, man, I'll see you later. He didn't even come in my house. It was just like we both knew that we were on a different frequency. Didn't hate each other. It was not a fight.
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It was none of that. He went on with his life. I went on with my life. So about 25 years later, his cousin wants to bring him to this spiritual community because he was suffering from lung cancer. And she says, you got to come to this community. I think it'd be very beneficial to you. So he comes in, he waits in line to see me. And it's him. I ain't seen him in 20 something years.
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And he sees me and we look at each other and, you know, we just hug. And then he kind of came into the community and took classes and got his body together. But it was like he came back into my life, but at a different vibration.
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In one of my books, Spiritual Liberation, I write about the fact that there are two imposters. praise and criticism. They're imposters. And so you treat them both the same. If somebody's praising you a lot, thank you very much, but you don't get too much into it. If somebody's criticizing you very much, thank you very much. There might be a lesson in there.
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Maybe there's some place you need to grow. Maybe there's some real critique there. You know, but I don't let either one of them get me. I'm not, because I'm not out here trying to get praise, nor am I out here trying to run from criticism. You know, the depth of me just wants to be of service. And I'm living my dharma, you know.
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And my dharma, I didn't choose this from my ego, you know, because I tried to run away from it. I resisted being a public person, but that was part of the activation of my potential. I'm called to do it. So praise, criticism. I'll sometimes see stuff online and kind of just laugh at it. I say, oh, this guy, they don't know me. I just say, oh, they don't know me. They don't know me.
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It's not even true.
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Absolutely. Right, that's right. You cannot be offended. It's like you become spacious. So it's like, it kind of just makes me laugh, you know, because I'm on all that every Sunday. You know, sometimes people will say certain things and somebody would tell me, I just, really? Wow, that's funny. You know, it becomes humorous. And oftentimes I'm not even interested. It's like...
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I'm delivering a message. You know, if that's what you're getting out of the message, then, you know, keep listening. Yeah. It's just fun. It's just funny.
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But ultimately, through some kind of way, you start to wake up. If somebody's listening to us right now, that means something is pulling them to be at this particular podcast. to wake up, to know themselves. So at some point you wake up and you realize, oh, I've been going through the turbulence. I've had some drama, had some trauma. I've had these belief systems.
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Yeah, well, I think there's two levels to look at. At the metal level, at the absolute, there's just is. There's no cycle. When you come down into the manifest realm, there's cycles. And you learn through nature, you know, when it is time to be still, when it's time to plant, when it's time to harvest, when it's time to prune.
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You learn that to the best of your ability without judging what cycle you might be in. And as you're saying, I think after a while, you just learn it. Now, at the beginning, as we were speaking, we were talking about the fact that in society, there's a whole movement towards us being successful according to however that's defined, prosperous however that's defined.
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After a while, you pull yourself out of that. and you are aware of what I call is harmonizing prosperity, all legitimate needs can be met if you're living your dharma. So you don't get pulled into all of that as much. And you can look at it and you can say, wow, that guy is really being pulled into something. At this stage of my development, I'm just happy most of the time.
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And I live in what I call a get-to. I get to do certain things. I get to come here and be with you. I get to fly to Canada and speak at this conference. I get to go to India and speak at this conference. I get to do these things. So whenever there is an underlying... A lot of stuff's on my calendar. I switch it immediately. I remember a time when nobody knew me.
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I would never have gotten to do any of this. I said, whoops, I get to do this, you know. So it just changes all the energy of it. But I think we should honor cycles, their body. We have to know when to fast. when to release, when to detox, when to eat, when to drink, you know? And then there's a time when you get alone and you go beyond the cycles into a state of homeostasis and harmony.
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So I think it's a balance between both.
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I had this religiosity, but now I want to wake up. And now I can begin to ask the question, what is it that's within me that really wants to emerge? What gift do I have that needs to be activated and expressed? Now, if I ask those questions sincerely in meditation, I am going to activate my spiritual faculty that may have been dormant because I've been caught up in the world.
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Absolutely. That's the definition of hell. God giving us everything we want. Yeah. I wanted that. Oh, no. I mean, can you imagine if you got what your 16-year-old wanted? You know, he just showed up. Oh, I don't want that now. Yeah. Yeah.
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Basically, the way it's set up is that every legitimate question you ask is answered. Every liberating, you know, we have to learn to ask liberating questions. So if we ask how to be of service, or if we just wake up and say, what is it that I have? Then our perception changes and we start to see that we have way more than what the limited perception would say we don't have.
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Now we can just be of service. What do I have to give today? What do I have to share today? You know, in scripture, it says, to he or she who has, more is given. So if I ask that question, I'm going to get more energy. I'm going to get more insights. I'm going to get more revelations. He or she who has not, even that which they have, is taken away.
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So if you're living in, if you're more focused on what you don't have, I don't have enough time. I don't have enough money. I don't have enough of this. Then that's what's amplified. So if we're in service, obviously, It means we're living from an overflow of having and service breaks down the separation between you and me. I'm only serving myself as you.
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We're not, as you said earlier, we're not separate. We are one emanating from the same source of all creation. So I get to grow and having more energy. I get to break down the boundary of separation. I get to live in heaven now just by saying, how can I be of service? Now, I remember catching that when I was a little boy.
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My neighbor took me to, I think we were feeding the homeless or something, and I was maybe like eight or nine years old. And their family was going, so I went with them. And I remember I got so high. being of service. And when I came home and the lady was telling my mother, you know, what I had the opportunity to do, it just shifted my perspective of life. I just want to be of service.
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And that's kind of where I live.
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In karma yoga, more energy flows through you and then the sense of separation dissolves. I am you, you are me.
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It is my joy. I had a reflection a few days ago. When I first woke up, most of my teachers were dead teachers. You know, and in my lucid dreaming and in my astral traveling and things like that, I was in contact with these people. You know, Walter Russell, different folks. They were very real to me. We were talking and things like that. And now... A lot of my friends have passed over.
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I haven't been using my intuition. I've just been using my rational mind, my logical mind. I've just been using, you know, ways to survive. I start to get little glimpses and glimmers and intuitions and hunches about what is it within me that I really want? You know, I do an exercise with people sometimes in which I'll put them into a meditative state.
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A lot of other teachers that I've known, they're on the other side. So in the beginning, most of my people were on the other side. And now again, a lot of my great friends and people I've run with, different spiritual teachers, they're on the other side. So I have this relationship with them. They're invisible. So I just had that reflection a few days ago.
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I said, wow, when I first started out, everybody was on the other side. Now most of my friends are on the other side. I'm still here. I'm happy about it, you know. But I do have really powerful relationships with the invisibles, people that are invisible. And they're just as real as you and I having this conversation.
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Life is good. What's next?
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Oh yeah, that's going to emerge. It got unplugged again.
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Well, you know, I've always invited people to watch my podcast, Take Back Your Mind. And wherever they are in the world, they can tune in to Agape, agapelive.com, and see me speak every Sunday. And there are classes at the university. And they'll also, if they go to michaelbeckwith.com, they'll see where I'm traveling around the world.
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You bump into the awareness that you have everything you need, but you activate it and start to walk in that direction, and life changes.
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And in this meditative state, they feel that all of their needs are met. They're healthy. They have harmonizing prosperity, ideal employment, right mate, all the stuff. And then from that space, I'll say, okay, what do you want? And now they have everything. What do you want? And if they stay in that long enough,
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They won't ask for a car or another house or whatever because they already have it in the feeling tone. Now we start to emerge as what they really want, what their soul wants. What are they to contribute? What gift are they to activate within themselves that they are to express? Now they're living from, as you just indicated, their heart's desire and the divine will. It's the same thing.
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The divine will is a greater expression of life. A heart's desire is our unique way that we're to express the divine will. Because everyone's different. There's no one on the planet exactly the same. even though powers that be hate the word diversity, it's built into the program. It's nothing but diversity. Everybody's unique. And so that's what I'm seeking to help people get to, you know.
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And what happens? You bump into self-love and appreciation. You bump into the awareness that you have everything you need, legitimate needs. But you activate it and start to walk in that direction. And life changes. Yeah. And you still get the stuff of the world. Yeah. Whatever culture you're living in, you know, you still have what I call, I call it harmonizing prosperity. It's not just gluttony.
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Yeah. You know, it's your legitimate needs.
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It's lack. Oftentimes people are asking that from a state of lack, like they don't have something. Yeah. And so then when they get it, they're still operating from lack, even though they have the thing, there's still a lack within them. Which is why we see many people with a lot of stuff, a lot of money, but still acting as if they don't have. Greedy, manipulative, dominating people.
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When I found that I was coming, I had a smile on my face. I didn't know what my schedule was going to be. And they said, no, that's us come this week. I said, oh yeah, I like that.
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Because they manifested from the consciousness of lack rather than from the consciousness of overflow and connection. So that's a very good point. Where are you asking from? Right. Yeah. Yeah.
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Well, I think biomimicry is great, you know, because we look at nature and we see, as you just indicated, when everything is in the right condition, then the potential emerges. Now, the difference between us and a tree is that we have to consciously participate in that emergence. A tree, you just put it in the right condition, leave it alone. It has water, it has sunshine, it has all it needs.
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There's no no in it. There's no maybe, oh, I want to be a daffodil. You know, it just... We have more agency to go in the opposite direction. Absolutely. That's why we're the image and likeness of God, because we have that kind of agency. So the inner work that we do is to participate in that activation of potential. I like to say we're not anticipants. We are participating in an energetic flow.
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What does that mean? Ralph Waldo Emerson had a word called endogenous. which means that, you know, indigenous means that certain things grow in a particular environment. Palm tree is not going to grow in snow. You know, it's indigenous to warm weather. There's exogenous, that which is outside of us. Endogenous means we create our own environment. We become the ripe condition.
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E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
So if we're participating with our own visioning process, our own meditation, our own high intention, et cetera, et cetera, we become a condition for the emergence of our potential. And it doesn't matter about the external conditions of the world. The economy can be up or down. Stocks can be up or down. Presidents can be in or out. That's not our condition. We create our own condition.
Know Thyself
E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
And then that seed of divinity within us starts to emerge because we are the condition. Now, many people will look to the world and say, oh, this is a bad time for X, Y, and Z. So they're living from an exogenous point of view. That is determining my destiny. But when we go within, we create our own condition. Potential is activated.
Know Thyself
E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
There's many people being healthy and successful in all the stuff that's going on in the world. Being happy. It doesn't mean you deny what's happening, but you still create your own condition. So I always try to offer people an understanding that you get to create your own condition. You know, not what's on the news, not what's in your social media, but you.
Know Thyself
E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
And when the condition is right, emergence happens. When you have a right state, then the next stage emerges. If you don't have the state, you don't have the next stage. So the state has to be normalized. So you have to, obviously people go up and down. Some days are better than others. But if you have a level of practice, you have that state most of the time.
Know Thyself
E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
And then there's a natural stage that unfolds for that individual. People have more power. than they can even imagine. They could just see themselves.
Know Thyself
E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
Absolutely. It's like, it's a difference between in what I call stage two, when you're learning how to manifest, making something happen with your mind to going to making something welcome. It's when you make something welcome, that's more feminine, it's more allowing, it's more letting. And that is what happens when you become the right condition.
Know Thyself
E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live
You're making something welcome because it already exists. Peace, love, joy, wisdom, harmony, abundance. You don't make that stuff. You don't make those qualities. Those qualities already exist. You're making them welcome to be the activity of your awareness.