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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori with
Speaker 2: you this Thanksgiving Night with Joseph Gallenberger. Joseph, it's only
Speaker 2: fitting to have you on this Thanksgiving to talk about gratitude.
Speaker 2: What exactly is gratitude, Well, George.
Speaker 3: I think for me, it's a feeling and an expression
Speaker 3: of appreciation, feelings of thankfulness that open one's heart energy up,
Speaker 3: increase awareness of the good that we're receiving, and when
Speaker 3: we do that, we get ourselves ready for even more
Speaker 3: blessings to flow to us. There's a phrase the attitude
Speaker 3: of gratitude creates the space for grace. I think that's
Speaker 3: a good shorthand way to put this. When they look
Speaker 3: at this, consistently feeling happiness, gratitude, other positive emotions tends
Speaker 3: to bring us positive experience, meanie, he said, Gratitude unlocks
Speaker 3: the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough.
Speaker 3: It can turn a stranger into a friend. So I
Speaker 3: think that's most people understand. And Thanksgiving the course of
Speaker 3: the holiday we even have in the year for this.
Speaker 3: It's really interesting to me because we don't have a
Speaker 3: Happiness Day or other kind of days where we do
Speaker 3: have a day of Thanksgiving, and it's a very social
Speaker 3: holiday when families usually gather if available. My kids and
Speaker 3: grandkids were here with us today and just seeing them
Speaker 3: from four years old and nine years old and how
Speaker 3: they're approaching life just adds to the richness and opens
Speaker 3: your heart and makes you feel grateful. So we've had
Speaker 3: some very interesting experience lately with gratitude here in North Carolina.
Speaker 3: Would you like me to talk about that.
Speaker 2: A bit, Yeah, I'd love to hear it.
Speaker 3: Go ahead. Yeah. So this is in the aftermath the
Speaker 3: Hurricane Hallen most people have heard hit the North Carolina
Speaker 3: Mountains devastating Yeah. Yeah, So in fact, that was six
Speaker 3: weeks ago the hurricane came through. But the whole city
Speaker 3: of Ashvill, which is a good sized city, just got
Speaker 3: drinkable water a few days ago. And talk about feeling
Speaker 3: grateful for things to usually take for granted. We many
Speaker 3: of us are out of power for forty days, or
Speaker 3: internet or water or all three and just the basics
Speaker 3: coming back. There's been a feeling of gratitude. But the
Speaker 3: most powerful one has done people worldwide and particularly in
Speaker 3: the US and Canada have been helping the mountain community
Speaker 3: here and it feels so different George, that you know,
Speaker 3: say the animal shelter here one to name brother Wolf.
Speaker 3: If they got a check from the federal government, let's
Speaker 3: say for twenty grand, it would feel different than the
Speaker 3: five dollars from each little person coming along. The little gifts,
Speaker 3: not the people aren't little, the gifts are smaller, and
Speaker 3: it says to the community that everybody's thinking about is
Speaker 3: and carrying. And so we have this weird mix right
Speaker 3: now of sadness about loss of life and property damage
Speaker 3: a little bits and worries of how towns will be rebuilt,
Speaker 3: and in that there's this great light of thankfulness that
Speaker 3: we're seeing so much loving kindness and so much positivity
Speaker 3: and so much help from the world. And that's changing
Speaker 3: the community. It's bringing the whole community together, and so
Speaker 3: it's weird. It's like bridges are being built again across
Speaker 3: the rivers, Bridges are being built between people, and it's
Speaker 3: spanning political and cultural barriers. You know, we had a
Speaker 3: US election during this time of the hurricane, and and
Speaker 3: on my road we were blocked both ways off the
Speaker 3: mountain immediately after the hurricane, neighbors got out with skid
Speaker 3: steers and front end loaders and taint saws, and they
Speaker 3: might have a Trunk sign in their yard or a
Speaker 3: Harris sign in their yard. They may go to different churches,
Speaker 3: whatever it would be. And we all worked side by
Speaker 3: side and took care of each other and made sure
Speaker 3: everybody has food and water. And if there was somebody
Speaker 3: we weren't sure of, somebody got on horseback and went
Speaker 3: up up the mountain to find out if they are
Speaker 3: still okay. And so it's really built some bridges of
Speaker 3: the community across the divides that have been dividing culture
Speaker 3: right now and through this whole thing has been through
Speaker 3: woven gratitude. I think it's such a positive emotion that
Speaker 3: it helps with healing greatly.
Speaker 2: Where are some people born, though, Joseph, they just don't
Speaker 2: show gratitude when they grow up.
Speaker 3: Well, as you know, Georgia. You know we've see in
Speaker 3: the paper. Sometimes some people's upbringing is really really rough,
Speaker 3: maybe even abusive or intellectual. They may be told that,
Speaker 3: you know, survival of the fittests, that's our big cultural thing.
Speaker 3: And so it's the stronger you are, and you have
Speaker 3: to compete and you have to watch out for yourself.
Speaker 3: But the newest information in biology, from say Bruce Lipton's work,
Speaker 3: is the prime directive of nature is really not survival
Speaker 3: of the fittest. It's for the good of all. And
Speaker 3: we can come to that by this explosion of knowledge
Speaker 3: and biology in the last twenty years, showing genetic sharing
Speaker 3: of information one species to another, those kind of things.
Speaker 3: So if you go to society on for good of all,
Speaker 3: you'd have more gratitude if you would ben if it's
Speaker 3: survival of the fitest. So when we're triggered into that
Speaker 3: either be eaten kind of survival mode, it's hard to
Speaker 3: feel that kind of gratitude as easily.
Speaker 2: Tell us your procedure with going to Vegas with your
Speaker 2: groups and how you divide them, what you tell them,
Speaker 2: and some of the results.
Speaker 3: Sure, well, when we have the workshop there, we first
Speaker 3: send out a preparation manual that talks about some of this.
Speaker 3: Wanting to have a really good attitude out there, to
Speaker 3: be responsible for your own feelings. So say you're having
Speaker 3: trouble finding a place, rather than blame it on that
Speaker 3: quest or something, you take responsibility. Maybe you didn't prepare
Speaker 3: quite well enough or whatever it would be. Once out there,
Speaker 3: we start meditating using headphones that have meditations. We used
Speaker 3: to is the name through my Meryl Institute of Hemi Sink.
Speaker 3: Now it's called Monroe Down Science and it allows people
Speaker 3: to really move into deep meditative states within ten minutes
Speaker 3: and relax and let go of fear. So we do
Speaker 3: that together. We talk about the games we've been in
Speaker 3: the practice in a suite our room before we ever
Speaker 3: go to the casino, and we practice, giving each other
Speaker 3: one percent support, all having the same goal, say it's
Speaker 3: to roll doubles. And then we get down to the casino.
Speaker 3: We have tables reserved just for ourselves and with our
Speaker 3: goal of doubles, of course, we bet on those and
Speaker 3: when they come in, they come in and we get
Speaker 3: some money going and statistically it's pretty strong. We do
Speaker 3: some workshops around the world virtually on zoom and we
Speaker 3: will roll doubles. Everybody roll ten times and we can
Speaker 3: know once in six should be double, and we might
Speaker 3: say eighteen should happen in that group, and we'll get
Speaker 3: thirty eight doubles. So we can see statistically that it
Speaker 3: has effect. In Vegas won we do that, of course,
Speaker 3: when you get paid with fullttle money. We only got
Speaker 3: small avouts. Everybody gets excited and that adds to the
Speaker 3: energy and so you can keep going on a really
Speaker 3: nice long run. Seven is the most common number in
Speaker 3: dice and comes out once in every six times, and
Speaker 3: that kills the game the way we play it. And
Speaker 3: so one of the last times we did the workshop,
Speaker 3: we had a lady roll forty eight numbers in a
Speaker 3: row with no seven.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Devise odds and logic, yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah both. So as we do that, we're feeling, you know,
Speaker 3: really good and spontaneous healings happen in the physical body.
Speaker 3: We've had people wake up pain free from post polio
Speaker 3: syndrome first time in twenty years. On the second day
Speaker 3: of the workshop. We get all this positive energy flowing
Speaker 3: and has a lot of good effect.
Speaker 2: Do you remember the movie The Cooler with William Macy?
Speaker 3: Yes, I do, Yes, I do.
Speaker 2: Classic Just for folks who that don't know what the
Speaker 2: movie's about. He works for a Las Vegas casino and
Speaker 2: he's so negative about life that anytime he just stands
Speaker 2: by a winning person, the winning person loses because William
Speaker 2: Macy is so bad and they call him the cooler is,
Speaker 2: do you think that's real?
Speaker 3: I think you know, one person's moves can definitely affect another.
Speaker 3: And when we do groups, we want people to be
Speaker 3: all in a good mood, but it has to be genuine,
Speaker 3: you know, you can't just sake that. That said, it
Speaker 3: seems like positive moods are more the negative ones. So
Speaker 3: if you went, oh, even in a store, and you
Speaker 3: smile at the person checking out your items, if they're
Speaker 3: in a slightly negative that smile and genuine how you
Speaker 3: doing today, you can probably shift their mood to being
Speaker 3: a little better. And so it's important, you know, if
Speaker 3: we're if we're in a bad mood, we don't affect
Speaker 3: just ourselves. We affect our kids, are relatives, or our partner,
Speaker 3: or people we interact with a little bit. If they're
Speaker 3: in a super good mood, they'll probably be able to
Speaker 3: hold that. But if too many people are in a
Speaker 3: rough mood, like you know, I'll be understressed in them
Speaker 3: all shopping for Christmas as the time is only one
Speaker 3: or two days left or something, that's more likely. But
Speaker 3: you can, you can, you can swim within that and
Speaker 3: not accumulate the move. I had a friend of mine
Speaker 3: who had a million miles with Delta Airlines, and he
Speaker 3: goes through airports and end up in a better mood
Speaker 3: when he got out the other side than when he
Speaker 3: went in. He by looking around who he could help,
Speaker 3: you know, the person that seemed a little lost because
Speaker 3: he was very familiar with the airports, or help with
Speaker 3: the luggage or whatever it would be. And most people
Speaker 3: go in and think, oh, it is my flight going
Speaker 3: to be on time? I hope I'm not laid. I
Speaker 3: hope there's no changes, and they're worried and fearful, and
Speaker 3: they kind of get in a negative root in the
Speaker 3: airport drains them. But if you want, you can consciously
Speaker 3: say no, I'm going to hold my own center here
Speaker 3: and I'm going to get my energy directly from source soever.
Speaker 3: You just find that as God or beauty of nature
Speaker 3: or whatever, and you let that energy stream into you.
Speaker 3: You can hold your center when people around you. If
Speaker 3: anybody was a cooler, you would either not notice them,
Speaker 3: or if you notice them, you would just have a
Speaker 3: genuine feeling like that's that foot, poor fella, and you
Speaker 3: wouldn't resonate with them like a tuning fork. But if
Speaker 3: you're unconscious about your own energies. Then it's likely that
Speaker 3: somebody it tends to be something we have a lot
Speaker 3: of and we may not even be aware of. So
Speaker 3: you start with being aware of the abundance you already have.
Speaker 3: I have a meditation called abundance waterfall. We imagine being
Speaker 3: in a waterfall, just coming and cascading around you, and
Speaker 3: that might be the pets in your life, the beautiful
Speaker 3: things you've seen in nature, beauty of music, people who
Speaker 3: love you, all kinds of basics, not just money, right,
Speaker 3: And so within that abundance, hopefully of health as well,
Speaker 3: And then if there's other things you would like, they
Speaker 3: become the cherry on top of the sun day of
Speaker 3: abundance he already have. So if you feel abundant, it's
Speaker 3: easier to create more abundance. And so if you want
Speaker 3: to your cherry on top of being a better job
Speaker 3: or a more beautiful place to live, or better friendships
Speaker 3: or whatever, it might be. The way to approach that
Speaker 3: is to be aware of if you're alive and kicking,
Speaker 3: you already have some abundance around you, and appreciate that.
Speaker 3: We go back to the thanksgiving part. So if you
Speaker 3: can genuinely honor what you already have, it's easier to
Speaker 3: create more. Does that make sense? It does?
Speaker 2: And Joseph, is this theory coming out of the brain
Speaker 2: or are we tapping into something outside of the brain.
Speaker 3: Well, for you know the different opinions many people now
Speaker 3: are feeling. My brain is more of a transducer like
Speaker 3: your local laptop or your desktop is. And yet it's
Speaker 3: accessing lots of information on the web, right, so consciousness
Speaker 3: may not be in the brain itself. We are feeling
Speaker 3: like there's a big center of intelligence in the heart
Speaker 3: and also in the gut. So we have a gut
Speaker 3: brain and a heart brain and the one in our head,
Speaker 3: if you will. And it does seem like again that
Speaker 3: creates intention awareness, but within that it's a dance between
Speaker 3: that and our energies of emotions, so particularly the positive
Speaker 3: ones like eyest love, appreciation, happiness. When those things are
Speaker 3: firing on all sales cylinders, that tends to be when
Speaker 3: you'd see the abundance of the positive manifestations. Thinking about
Speaker 3: it just isn't quite enough. And you know, there's been
Speaker 3: movies out that say, oh, think about it and it'll
Speaker 3: be so yeah, maybe, but you have to look at
Speaker 3: the shadow too. If you're deep inside thinking things like
Speaker 3: nothing good comes easy, no pay, no game, then things
Speaker 3: become more difficult. So you have to watch your thinking.
Speaker 3: A lot of people I see, I'll ask them what's
Speaker 3: their main stance in life, and they'll say, I'm a
Speaker 3: seeker of truth, a seeker of spiritual enlightenment, whatever it is.
Speaker 3: And I say, wouldn't you rather be a finder? It's
Speaker 3: a different energy than seeker, And so we look at
Speaker 3: even the underlying attitudes which are in the mind of
Speaker 3: defining yourself as a seeker or a finder. You're going
Speaker 3: to have a different kind of life whichever win of
Speaker 3: those two you pick.
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