WEBVTT - What Is Your Truth?

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, my love. In a world that is filled

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<v Speaker 1>with so much constant noise, it seems impossible to know

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<v Speaker 1>what's even true anymore, which is why it's never been

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<v Speaker 1>more important for you to know what your truth is. Today,

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<v Speaker 1>let's discover one key path for you to discover what

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<v Speaker 1>your truth is. You found your way here to waking

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<v Speaker 1>up with Ryan. I'm so glad that you pushed play.

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<v Speaker 1>This is the place you and I come to wake

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<v Speaker 1>up together. So let's take a deep breath and begin.

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<v Speaker 1>We live in a post truth era. Everywhere you look,

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<v Speaker 1>someone is telling you something, and they're telling it to

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<v Speaker 1>you as.

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<v Speaker 2>If it is the absolute truth.

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<v Speaker 1>The issue is here, my Love, is that everyone's got

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<v Speaker 1>an agenda. For some their agenda is to tell the truth.

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<v Speaker 1>But I find unfortunately that more often than not, their

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<v Speaker 1>agendas are more focused on convincing you of something for

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<v Speaker 1>their own personal or organizational benefit. That could be a

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<v Speaker 1>government or a politician, that could be a company that's

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<v Speaker 1>selling you something. And you are going to see thousands

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<v Speaker 1>of messages today all in the world around you that

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<v Speaker 1>are intended to get you to believe something is true,

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<v Speaker 1>to get you to take some sort of action, mostly

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<v Speaker 1>to benefit other people.

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<v Speaker 2>That is the truth of the world in which we live.

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<v Speaker 1>So what's really really important for you to know what

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<v Speaker 1>your truth is is that you question everything, and the

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<v Speaker 1>most important thing you question is what you yourself have

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<v Speaker 1>come to believe. The truth is is that your mind

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<v Speaker 1>is like a sponge, and that sponge has absorbed all

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<v Speaker 1>sorts of information, and that information has become a lens

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<v Speaker 1>through which you're looking at reality.

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<v Speaker 2>Moment to moment. You're not really.

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<v Speaker 1>Looking at reality until you have questioned your thinking so

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<v Speaker 1>much that you have wiped clean the lens through which

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<v Speaker 1>you're looking, so that you can see reality as it

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<v Speaker 1>truly is, rather than seeing reality from the lens of

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<v Speaker 1>your opinion, which has been largely and mostly shaped by

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<v Speaker 1>other people. What I want for you is to have

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<v Speaker 1>the courage to question your own thinking about the world,

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<v Speaker 1>about yourself, about money, about work, about purpose, about what's

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<v Speaker 1>possible for you, About what you've come to believe is

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<v Speaker 1>not possible for you, about your body, about how attractive

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<v Speaker 1>you are, about your health. You have millions of thoughts

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<v Speaker 1>that are living between your ears that if they go unquestioned,

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<v Speaker 1>they are literally shaping the world you see.

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<v Speaker 2>Byron Katie said.

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<v Speaker 1>The only thing that can make you suffer is believing

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<v Speaker 1>a thought that you haven't yet questioned. And so the

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<v Speaker 1>breaking free from the prison of your own suffering comes

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<v Speaker 1>from willingness to be wrong. And I wish personally more

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<v Speaker 1>people in the world would be willing to be wrong,

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<v Speaker 1>because when you do that, when you're willing to be wrong,

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<v Speaker 1>when you're willing to have a beginner's mind, when you're

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<v Speaker 1>willing to know that you don't know anything, you put

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<v Speaker 1>yourself in a state of epic presence because you shift

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<v Speaker 1>from believing that you know to the curiosity of a

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<v Speaker 1>willingness to watch and find out.

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<v Speaker 2>And when you move.

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<v Speaker 1>Into curiosity, you start witnessing the world as something more beautiful,

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<v Speaker 1>as something that's literally telling you a story that you

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<v Speaker 1>get to watch. The problem is is that as life

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<v Speaker 1>is telling you a story, your interpretation of the story

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<v Speaker 1>jumps in so quickly that you stop seeing what the

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<v Speaker 1>world is actually showing you. And then and you see

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<v Speaker 1>it in this like fixed way. It's almost like you

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<v Speaker 1>pause the movie of what life is trying to show you,

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<v Speaker 1>because now you're seeing your own movie. But what I

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<v Speaker 1>promise you is that the movie that life is trying

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<v Speaker 1>to play for you, life with a capital L, Divinity,

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<v Speaker 1>the spirit of the universe that's trying to relate to

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<v Speaker 1>you and have a conversation with you.

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<v Speaker 2>In this world.

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<v Speaker 1>That movie is so much more interesting. It's so much deeper,

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<v Speaker 1>it's so much more dramatic and juicy. I don't mean

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<v Speaker 1>that in like a oh it's so dramatic way. I

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<v Speaker 1>mean it in like, it's so much more interesting. Life's

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<v Speaker 1>way of showing you things is so much more interesting

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<v Speaker 1>than your mind's interpretation of what is or isn't happening

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<v Speaker 1>moment to moment, and so in order for you to

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<v Speaker 1>actually know what's true for you, it's important that you question,

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<v Speaker 1>you observe what you're believing moment to moment. You become aware,

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<v Speaker 1>even just become aware that you have a belief about something,

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<v Speaker 1>that it's happening, which is creating your interpretation of it.

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<v Speaker 1>Because if you don't question that belief, you're just gonna

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<v Speaker 1>believe that how you're witnessing things.

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<v Speaker 2>Is it's just the truth, it's just the way it is.

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<v Speaker 1>And that, my friend, turns you into an ultimate victim. Instead,

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<v Speaker 1>you pause, you question what it is that you believe,

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<v Speaker 1>and in that very willingness to question.

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<v Speaker 2>You open up space to be shown.

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<v Speaker 1>So let's today turn ourselves into students of life.

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<v Speaker 2>So let's go into a short practice.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, so if you're willing and able to close your

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<v Speaker 1>eyes and take a deep breath in through your nose

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<v Speaker 1>an out, let's do that again. Take a deep breath

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<v Speaker 1>in an out, and now see if you can find

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<v Speaker 1>one thought that is informing the way you're seeing this situation,

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<v Speaker 1>one belief. Notice how that one thought is coloring reality.

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<v Speaker 1>Just be with that for a moment, taking some deep

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<v Speaker 1>breaths here. This doesn't mean that thought is wrong. It's

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<v Speaker 1>just valuable to notice how much power a single thought

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<v Speaker 1>can have. And now maybe notice how many other places

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<v Speaker 1>in your life you're thinking is interpreting the way you're

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<v Speaker 1>seeing things. And now let yourself off the hook, because

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<v Speaker 1>in many ways, you're thinking is something that was given

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<v Speaker 1>to you. It's not really something that you necessarily created

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<v Speaker 1>for yourself. It's something that was, for lack of a

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<v Speaker 1>better word, educated.

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<v Speaker 2>Into you.

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<v Speaker 1>Through your environments, through the experiences you witnessed, through the

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<v Speaker 1>words that were told to you, through witnessing the way

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<v Speaker 1>the adults around you were living when you were younger.

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<v Speaker 1>Then you just carried those thoughts and beliefs with you,

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<v Speaker 1>just like everyone else has, not even realizing that they

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<v Speaker 1>were and are informing the way you see life. So

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<v Speaker 1>let's pause there for a moment and take a deep

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<v Speaker 1>breath in now and now, becoming aware of this mind

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<v Speaker 1>of yours that exists between your ears, and recognizing that

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<v Speaker 1>it is like a library filled with endless books, filled

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<v Speaker 1>with thoughts, and in any given moment, one or two

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<v Speaker 1>or five of those thoughts are painting the lens through

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<v Speaker 1>which you're seeing life. So let's take that mind and

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<v Speaker 1>give it to spirit. Let's welcome this universe into your

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<v Speaker 1>mind to help clean it up. And so, if you're

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<v Speaker 1>willing to be joined by the most epic, loving, benevolent

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<v Speaker 1>healer of all, I invite you to repeat after me,

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<v Speaker 1>Dear Universe, I welcome you into my mind to see

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<v Speaker 1>the thoughts that dwell here and to see the way

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<v Speaker 1>they impact how I see the world. Dear Universe, I

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<v Speaker 1>surrender this mind to you. I welcome you to clean

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<v Speaker 1>it up, to transform every thought rooted in fear into love,

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<v Speaker 1>To take from me my judgments about myself and others.

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<v Speaker 1>Dear Universe, help me see the truth. Help me see

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<v Speaker 1>the truth of who I am.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you, thank you, thank you. Let's stick a deep

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<v Speaker 2>breath in here.

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<v Speaker 1>And let it go, and when you're ready, blinking your

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<v Speaker 1>eyes open, welcome back.

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<v Speaker 2>So go about your day to day trusting that the universe.

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<v Speaker 1>Is on it here to help you see reality as

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<v Speaker 1>it truly is.

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<v Speaker 2>Loving you from here, Hi, I hope.

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<v Speaker 1>You're feeling even just a little bit more prepared to

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<v Speaker 1>take on the day. But before you go, I'd love

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