Speaker 1: Good morning, my love. In a world that is filled
Speaker 1: with so much constant noise, it seems impossible to know
Speaker 1: what's even true anymore, which is why it's never been
Speaker 1: more important for you to know what your truth is. Today,
Speaker 1: let's discover one key path for you to discover what
Speaker 1: your truth is. You found your way here to waking
Speaker 1: up with Ryan. I'm so glad that you pushed play.
Speaker 1: This is the place you and I come to wake
Speaker 1: up together. So let's take a deep breath and begin.
Speaker 1: We live in a post truth era. Everywhere you look,
Speaker 1: someone is telling you something, and they're telling it to
Speaker 1: you as.
Speaker 2: If it is the absolute truth.
Speaker 1: The issue is here, my Love, is that everyone's got
Speaker 1: an agenda. For some their agenda is to tell the truth.
Speaker 1: But I find unfortunately that more often than not, their
Speaker 1: agendas are more focused on convincing you of something for
Speaker 1: their own personal or organizational benefit. That could be a
Speaker 1: government or a politician, that could be a company that's
Speaker 1: selling you something. And you are going to see thousands
Speaker 1: of messages today all in the world around you that
Speaker 1: are intended to get you to believe something is true,
Speaker 1: to get you to take some sort of action, mostly
Speaker 1: to benefit other people.
Speaker 2: That is the truth of the world in which we live.
Speaker 1: So what's really really important for you to know what
Speaker 1: your truth is is that you question everything, and the
Speaker 1: most important thing you question is what you yourself have
Speaker 1: come to believe. The truth is is that your mind
Speaker 1: is like a sponge, and that sponge has absorbed all
Speaker 1: sorts of information, and that information has become a lens
Speaker 1: through which you're looking at reality.
Speaker 2: Moment to moment. You're not really.
Speaker 1: Looking at reality until you have questioned your thinking so
Speaker 1: much that you have wiped clean the lens through which
Speaker 1: you're looking, so that you can see reality as it
Speaker 1: truly is, rather than seeing reality from the lens of
Speaker 1: your opinion, which has been largely and mostly shaped by
Speaker 1: other people. What I want for you is to have
Speaker 1: the courage to question your own thinking about the world,
Speaker 1: about yourself, about money, about work, about purpose, about what's
Speaker 1: possible for you, About what you've come to believe is
Speaker 1: not possible for you, about your body, about how attractive
Speaker 1: you are, about your health. You have millions of thoughts
Speaker 1: that are living between your ears that if they go unquestioned,
Speaker 1: they are literally shaping the world you see.
Speaker 2: Byron Katie said.
Speaker 1: The only thing that can make you suffer is believing
Speaker 1: a thought that you haven't yet questioned. And so the
Speaker 1: breaking free from the prison of your own suffering comes
Speaker 1: from willingness to be wrong. And I wish personally more
Speaker 1: people in the world would be willing to be wrong,
Speaker 1: because when you do that, when you're willing to be wrong,
Speaker 1: when you're willing to have a beginner's mind, when you're
Speaker 1: willing to know that you don't know anything, you put
Speaker 1: yourself in a state of epic presence because you shift
Speaker 1: from believing that you know to the curiosity of a
Speaker 1: willingness to watch and find out.
Speaker 2: And when you move.
Speaker 1: Into curiosity, you start witnessing the world as something more beautiful,
Speaker 1: as something that's literally telling you a story that you
Speaker 1: get to watch. The problem is is that as life
Speaker 1: is telling you a story, your interpretation of the story
Speaker 1: jumps in so quickly that you stop seeing what the
Speaker 1: world is actually showing you. And then and you see
Speaker 1: it in this like fixed way. It's almost like you
Speaker 1: pause the movie of what life is trying to show you,
Speaker 1: because now you're seeing your own movie. But what I
Speaker 1: promise you is that the movie that life is trying
Speaker 1: to play for you, life with a capital L, Divinity,
Speaker 1: the spirit of the universe that's trying to relate to
Speaker 1: you and have a conversation with you.
Speaker 2: In this world.
Speaker 1: That movie is so much more interesting. It's so much deeper,
Speaker 1: it's so much more dramatic and juicy. I don't mean
Speaker 1: that in like a oh it's so dramatic way. I
Speaker 1: mean it in like, it's so much more interesting. Life's
Speaker 1: way of showing you things is so much more interesting
Speaker 1: than your mind's interpretation of what is or isn't happening
Speaker 1: moment to moment, and so in order for you to
Speaker 1: actually know what's true for you, it's important that you question,
Speaker 1: you observe what you're believing moment to moment. You become aware,
Speaker 1: even just become aware that you have a belief about something,
Speaker 1: that it's happening, which is creating your interpretation of it.
Speaker 1: Because if you don't question that belief, you're just gonna
Speaker 1: believe that how you're witnessing things.
Speaker 2: Is it's just the truth, it's just the way it is.
Speaker 1: And that, my friend, turns you into an ultimate victim. Instead,
Speaker 1: you pause, you question what it is that you believe,
Speaker 1: and in that very willingness to question.
Speaker 2: You open up space to be shown.
Speaker 1: So let's today turn ourselves into students of life.
Speaker 2: So let's go into a short practice.
Speaker 1: Okay, so if you're willing and able to close your
Speaker 1: eyes and take a deep breath in through your nose
Speaker 1: an out, let's do that again. Take a deep breath
Speaker 1: in an out, and now see if you can find
Speaker 1: one thought that is informing the way you're seeing this situation,
Speaker 1: one belief. Notice how that one thought is coloring reality.
Speaker 1: Just be with that for a moment, taking some deep
Speaker 1: breaths here. This doesn't mean that thought is wrong. It's
Speaker 1: just valuable to notice how much power a single thought
Speaker 1: can have. And now maybe notice how many other places
Speaker 1: in your life you're thinking is interpreting the way you're
Speaker 1: seeing things. And now let yourself off the hook, because
Speaker 1: in many ways, you're thinking is something that was given
Speaker 1: to you. It's not really something that you necessarily created
Speaker 1: for yourself. It's something that was, for lack of a
Speaker 1: better word, educated.
Speaker 2: Into you.
Speaker 1: Through your environments, through the experiences you witnessed, through the
Speaker 1: words that were told to you, through witnessing the way
Speaker 1: the adults around you were living when you were younger.
Speaker 1: Then you just carried those thoughts and beliefs with you,
Speaker 1: just like everyone else has, not even realizing that they
Speaker 1: were and are informing the way you see life. So
Speaker 1: let's pause there for a moment and take a deep
Speaker 1: breath in now and now, becoming aware of this mind
Speaker 1: of yours that exists between your ears, and recognizing that
Speaker 1: it is like a library filled with endless books, filled
Speaker 1: with thoughts, and in any given moment, one or two
Speaker 1: or five of those thoughts are painting the lens through
Speaker 1: which you're seeing life. So let's take that mind and
Speaker 1: give it to spirit. Let's welcome this universe into your
Speaker 1: mind to help clean it up. And so, if you're
Speaker 1: willing to be joined by the most epic, loving, benevolent
Speaker 1: healer of all, I invite you to repeat after me,
Speaker 1: Dear Universe, I welcome you into my mind to see
Speaker 1: the thoughts that dwell here and to see the way
Speaker 1: they impact how I see the world. Dear Universe, I
Speaker 1: surrender this mind to you. I welcome you to clean
Speaker 1: it up, to transform every thought rooted in fear into love,
Speaker 1: To take from me my judgments about myself and others.
Speaker 1: Dear Universe, help me see the truth. Help me see
Speaker 1: the truth of who I am.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Let's stick a deep
Speaker 2: breath in here.
Speaker 1: And let it go, and when you're ready, blinking your
Speaker 1: eyes open, welcome back.
Speaker 2: So go about your day to day trusting that the universe.
Speaker 1: Is on it here to help you see reality as
Speaker 1: it truly is.
Speaker 2: Loving you from here, Hi, I hope.
Speaker 1: You're feeling even just a little bit more prepared to
Speaker 1: take on the day. But before you go, I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear from you, and you can send me a
Speaker 1: voice note by going to my website Waking Up with
Speaker 1: Ryan dot com, scroll down to the section that's said
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Speaker 1: me a voice message with a question you have, maybe
Speaker 1: a relationship challenge you're having, or a spiritual hang up,
Speaker 1: some kind of an emotional struggle, any topic that you'd
Speaker 1: love for me to address on the podcast.
Speaker 2: I want to hear from you, Loving you from here,