Michael Beckwith delves into the essence of a fulfilled life and how to manifest your soul’s true calling and potential. Beyond the outer conditions we face, he shares practical tools and insights for creating our destiny from the inside out. He opens up about navigating life's complexities, facing criticism, and the value of solitude. Ultimately, he inspires a journey toward service and embracing infinite possibilities for a transformative life.BonCharge Red light therapy:Go to https://BonCharge.com/KnowThyself and use code KNOWTHYSELF to save 15% Andrés Book Recs: https://www.knowthyself.one/books___________0:00 Intro 1:55 Defining a Life Well Lived4:18 Life Visioning Process: Unlocking Your Heart’s Desire11:05 Moving From Lack to Abundance Mentality 17:58 The Gift Hidden in Your Challenges22:27 This Life is a Simulation25:12 Ad: Boncharge Redlight Therapy26:30 Michael shares a Poem31:06 Art as a Vessel for Truth 35:12 Harnessing a Greater Intelligence37:56 Balance of Skill Building & Flowstate40:27 Importance of Deepening Spiritual Practices45:44 Transcending Judgement with Understanding49:23 The Value of Alone Time53:53 Do This Every Night Before Bed59:10 Power of Forgiveness to Transform Your Life1:02:25 There’s Infinite Possibilities: Here’s How to Choose1:07:13 How to Handle Losing Friends as You Grow1:10:20 Navigating Criticism & Praise1:13:30 The Cycles & Seasons of Life1:17:38 Being of Service1:22:18 Conclusion___________Episode Resources: https://www.instagram.com/michaelbbeckwith/https://www.michaelbeckwith.comhttps://www.instagram.com/andreduqum/https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/https://www.youtube.com/@knowthyselfpodcasthttps://www.knowthyself.oneListen to the show:Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4bZMq9lApple: https://apple.co/4iATICX
Chapter 1: What does it mean to live a life well lived?
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.
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.
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.
Chapter 2: How can I unlock my heart's desire?
Well, Michael, it's good to have you back. Thanks for coming back in the studio. Absolutely.
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.
It's my honor, man. It's so good to jam. And our community responded so positively from our last conversation. We touched on a lot of amazing themes from the dark night of the soul to what it means to live a purpose, vision, intentional, you know, driven life. And so let's keep diving in.
We live in a wild time where we're fed so much information and we have so much access to so much, which is incredible. It's easy to fall into the comparative trap of seeing what our life should be based off of what we think is attractive in others.
And I've just found that so much for me in my own personal life of like true joy has come from living in alignment with what my version of a life well lived is. So what is in your opinion for your life and what you feel like what you've seen as a pattern in many people is a life well lived?
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.
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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Chapter 3: What is the importance of moving from lack to abundance?
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?
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.
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.
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
success societally is thought of as just getting what you want out of life. But taking it a step back and knowing what is worth wanting is even more important, right? Because we could spend our whole life going after what we thought we really wanted to come to find out it actually doesn't mean a whole lot to us.
And so when you think of that, you mentioned last time you were on the show that your heart's desire and the divine will are the exact same thing. Absolutely. And so when you think of discovering what it takes to discover what is worth wanting and what our heart's desire and therefore divine will is, what comes to mind in supporting people with that?
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Chapter 4: How can challenges serve as hidden gifts?
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Chapter 5: What does it mean to transcend judgment?
Man, no, it's great. I was just writing this piece the other day about the link between humility and intelligence.
Yes.
And it's a lot of what you're speaking to here, you know, We can look at it in the grosser, denser example of somebody who uses drugs, who is exogenously seeking for the state changes. Failing to recognize we have our own endocannabinoids and these endogenous chemical factory within us that allows the capacity for all of these state experiences naturally.
And so making space for that condition like you spoke to for our natural emergence is one, a just really liberating perspective. And it kind of takes the pressure off of us because it's less of like us. Of course, there will be activity, but it's less us forcing to do something. And it's allowing and accepting something to emerge from within us, which feels way more effortless.
Chapter 6: Why is alone time valuable for personal growth?
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.
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.
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.
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.
It seems as though, especially looking back in hindsight, that the challenges that occur in our life are in many ways designed just sweetly for our own evolution, you know, and it doesn't feel like it often in the moment. Right. But looking back, you really see how this kind of life in this realm on earth is set up in such to where we're going to get
to varying degrees, challenges that really can be viewed as opportunities for growth.
Absolutely.
Yeah, and so what do you, from that perspective, how do you see the challenges that come up in our life? Because everybody who's listening right now has a version of something in their life that is maybe not flowing as effortlessly as they wish it to be. Right, right, right. But I think shifting our perception and what these things can serve change our relationship to it.
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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Chapter 7: How can I navigate criticism and praise?
Yeah, it brings it more into the feeling, you know, like some of those lines, what a scripted abstraction or a lucid dream in that landscape of time, or, you know, there is some, the lines in there that point to like the absolute truth of reality of like what this all is and this lila and this divine play, right?
And I love both sides of it too, because I love having physicists and consciousness researchers on the podcast and get into the, you know, into the nitty gritty of the scientific process of it. But that balance is necessary.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, I think that balance is necessary. And activating those dormant potentials and possibilities within us. I mentioned earlier, I think Howard Gardner has this great framework about, Frames of Mind is one of his books, about the different types of intelligence.
He puts it into eight different categories from kinesthetic, bodily, intelligence, a lot of athletes, to musical, to linguistic, to logical, mathematical, which I think is put a little bit more on a pedestal societally. but it invites how intelligence weaves throughout all of our lives differently.
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Chapter 8: What role does service play in a fulfilling life?
And sometimes the resistance is simply because we haven't discovered and allowed to explore more of what comes naturally to us. You know, no one's going to disagree that Kobe Bryant or Steph Curry, you know, is an incredible form of intelligence, right?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, I would like to get your perspective on that because allowing it to take place sounds really nice and something that I think everybody would want, wants to experience more of in their life. And yet there is this balance of like developing the skills and almost the unconscious competency.
So you, your body knows and you can let the body intelligence, cosmic divine intelligence, whatever word you want to use, take over. And that's where you experience flow. Right. For example, on piano, there's the practicing of scales and different keys and chord progressions and voicings. And then you get out the way and stuff starts happening that emerges in ways you can't comprehend, right?
So what do you feel like the balance is of doing the work, building the skills, and then allowing something greater to take over?
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