WEBVTT - What's Blocking You From Finding Love?

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<v Speaker 1>You found your way here to waking up with Ryan.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm so glad that you pushed play. This is the

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<v Speaker 1>place you and I come to wake up together. So

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<v Speaker 1>let's take a deep breath and begin Good morning, my love.

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<v Speaker 1>About seventeen or eighteen years ago, there was a book

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<v Speaker 1>that landed on my lap that changed my life forever.

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<v Speaker 1>It was the thing that cracked me open to this

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<v Speaker 1>spiritual journey. And that text is called The Course in Miracles,

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<v Speaker 1>and the Course.

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<v Speaker 2>In the very beginning, there's an intro.

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<v Speaker 1>And it says that this course doesn't aim to teach

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<v Speaker 1>you the meaning of love, because that is beyond what

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<v Speaker 1>can be taught. It does, however, seek to remove the

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<v Speaker 1>blocks that you hold against the awareness of love's presence.

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<v Speaker 2>What does that mean.

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<v Speaker 1>It means that the course is not here to teach

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<v Speaker 1>you what love is. Love is beyond what can be taught,

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<v Speaker 1>because it just is. It is the miraculous, unknowable, ununderstandable,

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<v Speaker 1>unconceivable to the mind. The mind is always wanting to

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<v Speaker 1>categorize things and put them in a box and understand

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<v Speaker 1>things in ways that it can use words to describe.

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<v Speaker 2>But love, another word for love.

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<v Speaker 1>Is God, life, existence, the miraculous is beyond what can

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<v Speaker 1>be put into a box and understood, So it can't

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<v Speaker 1>be taught because it's ust is so the course says

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<v Speaker 1>love it doesn't aim to teach you the meaning of

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<v Speaker 1>love because essentially, instead what it does it seeks to

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<v Speaker 1>help you become aware of where you and I.

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<v Speaker 2>And people hold blocks.

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<v Speaker 1>Against the awareness of love's presence. It helps us become

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<v Speaker 1>aware of where we have internalized beliefs that are setting

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<v Speaker 1>us up with these blocks, so that those are the

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<v Speaker 1>places where we can't see that love is here, that

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<v Speaker 1>miracles are here, that life is here for us. And

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<v Speaker 1>so it sets you on a journey to become aware

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<v Speaker 1>of those blocks, remove those blocks, and as you remove

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<v Speaker 1>those blocks, you become increasingly aware of the miraculous and

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<v Speaker 1>that has absolutely happen and in my life, not by

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<v Speaker 1>trying to become a better person, not by trying to

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<v Speaker 1>reach for love or reach for miracles, but rather by

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<v Speaker 1>simply becoming aware of what are the things that are

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<v Speaker 1>blocking Where am I holding beliefs that are coming from

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<v Speaker 1>a pastive pain that I no longer want to bring

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<v Speaker 1>with me into the future. And A Course in Miracles

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<v Speaker 1>says it's as if We're standing in a super bright

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<v Speaker 1>room with our hands in front of our eyes, complaining

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<v Speaker 1>that it's dark. So what the Course is asking for

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<v Speaker 1>us to do, and what any serious spiritual personal development,

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<v Speaker 1>real psychology journey is trying to get us to do

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<v Speaker 1>is to become aware of the hands in front of

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<v Speaker 1>our eyes so that we can see. Ah, there's blocks

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<v Speaker 1>that I'm holding against the awareness.

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<v Speaker 2>Of Love's presence. Wow. Where I want to go today

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<v Speaker 2>with you.

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<v Speaker 1>Is to prayer, because what I've also found in my

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<v Speaker 1>experience is that this universe has given us a tremendous gift.

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<v Speaker 2>The Course of Miracles calls it the Holy Spirit.

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<v Speaker 1>I wasn't really comfortable with that term when I first

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<v Speaker 1>saw it, just because of its connection to doctrine and religion.

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<v Speaker 1>I've come to be more connected to it as I

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<v Speaker 1>have my own relationship with it now. But you could

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<v Speaker 1>call it whatever you want, but it talks about how

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<v Speaker 1>this universe gifted us a bridge.

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<v Speaker 2>God gifted us a bridge.

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<v Speaker 1>That can completely understand our human thought system, which is

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<v Speaker 1>rooted in really the thought forms of fear that come

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<v Speaker 1>from being in a body needing to survive, believing that

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<v Speaker 1>we are just this person that only lives for a

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<v Speaker 1>certain number of years, and we need to kind of

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<v Speaker 1>get a lot of stuff in in those years, and

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<v Speaker 1>we have to compete with the other billions of people,

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<v Speaker 1>right so that this holy spirit completely understands that whole

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<v Speaker 1>fear based psychology that we have and absorb.

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<v Speaker 2>Like a sponge as humans.

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<v Speaker 1>But it also understands the thought system of love, the

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<v Speaker 1>thought system of miracles, the thought system of divinity of God.

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<v Speaker 1>Beyond our understanding, this beingness that it refers to as

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<v Speaker 1>a Holy Spirit, but you can use whatever term you want.

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<v Speaker 1>Is to be seen like a bridge, like a guide

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<v Speaker 1>that can hold your hand and walk you through the

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<v Speaker 1>dark clouds of dark and scary thoughts, duckness, resentments, judgments

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<v Speaker 1>against yourself and others. It can walk you through that.

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<v Speaker 1>It can take you by the hand and walk you

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<v Speaker 1>on a journey out of the dark clouds and into

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<v Speaker 1>the remembrance that the sun is always shining even when

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<v Speaker 1>the dark clouds are really dark. Another way to say

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<v Speaker 1>this is kind of it can walk us out of

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<v Speaker 1>the compulsive nature or the addictive nature of our very

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<v Speaker 1>human thoughts or thought system to a thought system of love,

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<v Speaker 1>of forgiveness, of kindness, for ourself and others, a way

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<v Speaker 1>to be in the world and see all that's happening

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<v Speaker 1>in our life through a different lens. Another word way

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<v Speaker 1>of saying this is this spirit can guide us to

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<v Speaker 1>become aware of the blocks that we hold against the

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<v Speaker 1>awareness of Love's presence and can help us to alleviate

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<v Speaker 1>remove those blocks so that we can become more aware.

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<v Speaker 2>The miracle that it is to be alive.

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<v Speaker 1>Another way of saying that is so that we can

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<v Speaker 1>remember who we are. Okay, So I'd like for us

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<v Speaker 1>to go into a little practice where we call on

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<v Speaker 1>that presence.

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<v Speaker 2>I will probably use the word holy Spirit.

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<v Speaker 1>Please remember this is not a religious practice or a

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<v Speaker 1>dogmatic practice unless you want it to be.

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<v Speaker 2>But this is a personal practice.

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<v Speaker 1>No one owns the word God, no religion owns the

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<v Speaker 1>word spirit.

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<v Speaker 2>It's for you, okay.

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<v Speaker 1>So we need to take a moment to rest in

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<v Speaker 1>like always and if you can close your eyes, if

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<v Speaker 1>you're somewhere that you can, and just take a moment to.

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<v Speaker 2>Become aware.

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<v Speaker 1>Of the rubs in your life, things that feel like

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<v Speaker 1>the dark clouds that feel stuck or not going the

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<v Speaker 1>way you want them to.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what those are.

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<v Speaker 1>See yourself in those situations, anyone else involved in those situations,

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<v Speaker 1>and remembering that there is this gift if we call

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<v Speaker 1>on it, we must express our willingness for this Holy Spirit,

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<v Speaker 1>for this universe to show up for us, that this gift,

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<v Speaker 1>this presence exists.

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<v Speaker 2>And so right now.

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<v Speaker 1>We call on that Holy Spirit, that wisdom, that spirit,

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<v Speaker 1>that love, that bridge to take us by the hand,

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<v Speaker 1>to help us see and move the blocks, the thoughts,

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<v Speaker 1>the beliefs they keep us stuck. Dear Spirit, we welcome

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<v Speaker 1>you into our mind to see this situation or these

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<v Speaker 1>situations through our eyes and to heal our own thinking

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<v Speaker 1>about them, To dive into our thoughts where we are

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<v Speaker 1>holding on to any fear, any judgment, any resentment, and

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<v Speaker 1>to heal our thinking from fear to love, from resentment

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<v Speaker 1>to forgiveness, from lack to trust. Let's take a deep breath,

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<v Speaker 1>and to this universe we offer our gratitude in the

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<v Speaker 1>knowing that once we express our willingness to be joined,

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<v Speaker 1>once we write that invitation for the universe to be

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<v Speaker 1>this honored guest in our mind, in our heart and

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<v Speaker 1>our body, and in our life, that spirit this universe

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<v Speaker 1>always RSVPs yes, always shows up, is on it Let's

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<v Speaker 1>take a breath, and to this genius, healing, loving spirit,

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<v Speaker 1>we say, together, thank you, thank you for showing up,

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<v Speaker 1>thank you for your power to heal my thoughts. Thank

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<v Speaker 1>you for taking my hand now and guiding me on

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<v Speaker 1>this journey. That all the blocks that I hold against

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<v Speaker 1>the awareness of love presence may fall now, and that

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<v Speaker 1>I may remember who I am completely. Thank you, thank you,

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<v Speaker 1>thank you, thank you, thank you. Together we say, and

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<v Speaker 1>so it is. Let's take a deep breath and letting

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<v Speaker 1>it go when you're ready, blinking your eyes open, loving

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<v Speaker 1>you from right here.

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<v Speaker 2>Have a beautiful day. Hi.

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