WEBVTT - Remember Who You Are 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:07.640 You found your way here to waking up with Ryan. 0:00:08.619 --> 0:00:12.940 I'm so glad that you pushed play. This is the 0:00:12.980 --> 0:00:16.940 place you and I come to wake up together. So 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:21.979 let's take a deep breath and begin. Good morning, love. 0:00:24.340 --> 0:00:28.210 Five podcasts a week means lots of content focusing on 0:00:28.350 --> 0:00:32.170 all sorts of different subjects. Whether we're here talking about 0:00:32.210 --> 0:00:36.810 your relationships or money or purpose or work or health. 0:00:37.310 --> 0:00:40.970 But the purpose of this show, which is the purpose 0:00:41.030 --> 0:00:49.700 of any serious path of awakening, is one thing. No 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.680 matter what topic I may be talking about on any 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:58.340 given day, the intention is always the same, which is 0:00:59.020 --> 0:01:05.110 to support you and me in waking up in remembering 0:01:05.170 --> 0:01:08.889 who you are. There's lots of life things to talk about, 0:01:10.790 --> 0:01:17.000 but from my experience, every single thing in life that 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.459 you are dealing with is to be dealt with as 0:01:20.500 --> 0:01:26.009 an opportunity to continue to wake up. And this is very, 0:01:26.090 --> 0:01:29.490 very different from how you've been trained and taught and raised, 0:01:29.550 --> 0:01:33.490 just like me. You think the purpose of your work 0:01:34.310 --> 0:01:39.350 is to make money, provide for your family. That's true. 0:01:39.470 --> 0:01:43.250 It's just not the deepest truth that's available to you 0:01:43.370 --> 0:01:50.220 to make that work really meaningful. You may think that 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:56.180 the purpose of your relationships are companionship and connection and 0:01:56.340 --> 0:02:00.220 joy and to not feel alone and lonely in this 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.820 world and have a team. And all that's true. But 0:02:04.860 --> 0:02:11.919 the deepest purpose of your relationships is your continued awakening. 0:02:14.020 --> 0:02:16.730 This is also true for the relationship with your body. 0:02:17.450 --> 0:02:23.950 Your body has many purposes to move, to make, to procreate, 0:02:24.910 --> 0:02:31.650 to run, to lift weights, to carry you through the world. 0:02:33.669 --> 0:02:39.850 But in the deepest truth, in the deepest way to 0:02:39.889 --> 0:02:47.010 relate to your body is a vehicle to experience and 0:02:47.060 --> 0:02:52.340 allow to unfold your continued awakening. Awakening is a big word, 0:02:52.380 --> 0:02:56.660 but it's actually a very simple thing, which is just 0:02:56.700 --> 0:03:00.540 to remember who you are, not to find who you are, 0:03:02.270 --> 0:03:06.090 Because how can you find what you already are? As 0:03:06.150 --> 0:03:11.330 soon as you try to find something, you're inherently moving 0:03:11.450 --> 0:03:14.450 away from where you are right now to go find it. 0:03:16.610 --> 0:03:19.660 That's the trick of the ego, remember? It seeks but 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.900 it never finds because what it's trying to get you 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.100 to believe is that it's looking for something that isn't 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.260 already here. And so you go out there into your 0:03:28.300 --> 0:03:34.200 life to try to have an experience that's literally already here. 0:03:34.300 --> 0:03:37.000 And I remember hearing teachers say this to me for years. 0:03:37.580 --> 0:03:41.240 While it made sense, still the programming in my mind 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:42.840 was like, no, I still have to do the work 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:48.550 to find myself because there's supposed to be this glorious 0:03:50.130 --> 0:03:53.010 manifestation of the best version of me with the best 0:03:53.190 --> 0:03:56.250 life that I've always wanted. And then I came to 0:03:56.350 --> 0:04:03.890 find that what was happening was The ego, the mind, 0:04:04.690 --> 0:04:10.240 is using a vision of your future self, the best 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:16.160 version of you that you think you can become, as 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:20.740 a way to get you to identify still as, what 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:26.170 A Course in Miracles would reference, a small-s self. Still 0:04:26.250 --> 0:04:29.029 trying to get you to believe that you are this body, 0:04:29.070 --> 0:04:31.490 that you are this name, that you are this personality, 0:04:31.529 --> 0:04:34.150 that you're only here for a limited number of years 0:04:34.190 --> 0:04:35.930 and you better get it all in and get all 0:04:35.950 --> 0:04:37.990 the success and all the joy and all the experiences 0:04:38.010 --> 0:04:40.270 that you possibly can in this short amount of time. 0:04:40.330 --> 0:04:46.080 And the ego is like, go. While spirit and truth 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:50.080 is like, hey, babe, you're here for one thing and 0:04:50.180 --> 0:04:53.960 one thing only. which is you came here so that 0:04:53.980 --> 0:04:56.280 you could walk a journey of forgetting who you are, 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.670 so that you could remember who you are. The truth, 0:05:01.810 --> 0:05:05.190 the truthiest truth, the deepest truth is that you never forgot. 0:05:05.550 --> 0:05:09.770 You can't forget. You can only get distracted. The truth 0:05:09.970 --> 0:05:14.589 is all. The truth is everywhere. It's only waiting for 0:05:14.650 --> 0:05:19.390 you to relax enough to see it, to peel back 0:05:19.430 --> 0:05:26.200 the layers. to scrub off the layers of identification. You 0:05:26.220 --> 0:05:30.080 can almost imagine getting like a body scrub. Like you 0:05:30.140 --> 0:05:36.110 come into this world as this awareness. Before you came 0:05:36.150 --> 0:05:38.890 into this body, just pure awareness with no physical form, 0:05:38.930 --> 0:05:44.830 just existing as the light, as the eternal piece of love. 0:05:48.180 --> 0:05:50.960 And then you come into a body and then you 0:05:51.020 --> 0:05:54.880 identify as that body and these layers of kind of 0:05:55.760 --> 0:06:00.500 skin and dirt and gunk, they stick to you, right? 0:06:01.460 --> 0:06:03.860 People start telling you when you're really young, you are, 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.020 and they say your name, you are this body, you 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.320 are this personality, and then expectations build, and then you 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:14.220 experience hurts, and oh, life hurts, and I'm not good 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.580 at this, and I can't do that, and I really 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:21.850 want this, and I, I, I, I, the I, this 0:06:22.010 --> 0:06:26.430 perceived sense of yourself builds layer by layer of personality, 0:06:26.490 --> 0:06:29.990 which is really just beliefs in your own mind. And 0:06:30.290 --> 0:06:36.289 all of those layers kind of put a thick wall 0:06:36.310 --> 0:06:39.860 around who you really are. But who you really are 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.100 never went anywhere. It's still here. It just has become 0:06:43.140 --> 0:06:49.200 blocked from your vision because you've become more fixated, more 0:06:49.339 --> 0:06:53.020 aware of yourself as a personality, as a separate self, 0:06:53.110 --> 0:06:55.969 as a human, as a body. All of us do this. 0:06:58.290 --> 0:07:03.229 So the path to remembering, to awakening is one in 0:07:03.310 --> 0:07:10.650 which you let the layers drop. You see every experience 0:07:10.690 --> 0:07:13.470 that is happening, whether you enjoy the experience or whether 0:07:13.490 --> 0:07:17.530 the experience is painful, you see it as a situation 0:07:17.590 --> 0:07:22.500 that is giving you an opportunity to ask, where am 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:27.960 I identified as a small separate person here? And can 0:07:28.020 --> 0:07:31.910 I open to that which is simply aware of the situation, 0:07:32.410 --> 0:07:35.070 aware of this body, aware of this problem, aware of 0:07:35.110 --> 0:07:38.830 this relationship, aware of the concern that's going through my mind, 0:07:38.910 --> 0:07:45.290 aware of the thought I am the awareness. We practice 0:07:45.370 --> 0:07:49.100 being aware of how we feel, of what we think, 0:07:49.740 --> 0:07:54.390 of the things that are happening in the world. You 0:07:54.510 --> 0:07:59.990 practice being aware of those things so that you can 0:08:00.070 --> 0:08:07.120 come into the remembering that you are awareness itself. And 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:12.720 so I come into your life, hopefully every morning during 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.420 the week, talking about whatever I'm talking about, but for 0:08:16.540 --> 0:08:21.040 one central purpose, which is to just give a little... 0:08:21.990 --> 0:08:25.400 pin a little hole in all those layers. Just if 0:08:25.500 --> 0:08:28.880 I can take a little scrub and just scrub a 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:33.219 little layer off and bit by bit by bit, as 0:08:33.260 --> 0:08:36.780 you wake up every morning and choose to relax back 0:08:36.820 --> 0:08:40.110 into yourself every day, a layer comes off, a layer 0:08:40.150 --> 0:08:42.089 comes off. And by the way, sometimes when those layers 0:08:42.150 --> 0:08:44.450 come off, it's like skin peeling off of you. It hurts. 0:08:45.370 --> 0:08:49.060 It hurts. And you surrender to the pain. You go, oh, Ooh, 0:08:49.110 --> 0:08:51.230 it really hurts when that friend just broke my heart 0:08:51.270 --> 0:08:53.869 and betrayed me and I tried to communicate about it 0:08:54.090 --> 0:08:57.140 and they responded in a way where they were gaslighting 0:08:57.179 --> 0:09:01.020 me and why is this happening in my life? Oh, right. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.440 This is happening because another layer is coming off and 0:09:05.460 --> 0:09:08.920 I'm being given an opportunity to ask, how do I 0:09:08.970 --> 0:09:12.430 want to be from the truest sense of myself? Am 0:09:12.470 --> 0:09:14.290 I going to be ruled by the fear of my 0:09:14.370 --> 0:09:16.510 separate sense of self that believes I need to keep 0:09:16.550 --> 0:09:20.459 this person safe? Am I going to remember that I 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.640 am the light of love and divinity itself and that 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:29.980 I choose to remain in contact with that, to feel 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.560 the pain of what is happening and allow that part 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:38.080 of me that has this unconscious attachment or need to 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:42.200 be here, to be felt. And this is how the 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:49.660 layers come off. So, Let's have a short couple minute practice. 0:09:51.710 --> 0:09:59.199 Very simple. Very simple to remember. So I invite you. 0:10:00.370 --> 0:10:07.150 if you wish, to close your eyes. And let's start 0:10:07.170 --> 0:10:09.410 with a few deep breaths in through the nose and 0:10:09.470 --> 0:10:13.110 out through the nose if you can. Expanding the belly, 0:10:13.210 --> 0:10:18.270 the chest, dropping the shoulders, relaxing the face as you're 0:10:18.370 --> 0:10:33.530 inhaling and exhaling. I want you to remember that waking 0:10:33.650 --> 0:10:37.630 up to who you truly are is the opposite of 0:10:37.740 --> 0:10:48.660 hard work. It's the opposite of work at all. It's 0:10:48.700 --> 0:10:54.250 the opposite of effort. It's only the mind that says, 0:10:55.130 --> 0:11:00.620 if I do more insert the spiritual practice, Then I 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.679 will wake up. I will remember who I am. I'll 0:11:04.700 --> 0:11:08.620 be more in connection with the divine. Only the mind 0:11:08.700 --> 0:11:13.720 says that because the truth says who you really are 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:24.850 is everything, including the you who forgets who you really are, 0:11:24.990 --> 0:11:30.340 holds all experience, And all there is to do is 0:11:30.380 --> 0:11:35.620 to rest back into that presence, which is right here, 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:49.870 right now, always. Allowing your breath to move with ease. 0:11:54.230 --> 0:12:05.339 Allowing your mind to Do whatever it's doing. Just simply anchoring, 0:12:05.500 --> 0:12:17.910 falling back into awareness itself. Let's take a deep breath together. 0:12:33.770 --> 0:12:37.730 And we say together, I am willing to remember who 0:12:37.809 --> 0:12:46.300 I am. I am willing to let go of who 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:56.819 I think I am. I am willing to remember who 0:12:56.900 --> 0:13:05.480 I am. Let's take a deep breath. And let it go. 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:14.000 And one last time, I am willing to remember who 0:13:14.220 --> 0:13:22.020 I am. And to this universe that hears our willingness, 0:13:22.110 --> 0:13:24.949 we say thank you. Let's say that together. Thank you. 0:13:26.890 --> 0:13:30.830 Thank you. Thank you for aiding me in the process. 0:13:33.470 --> 0:13:38.290 Guiding me into the remembering of who I am right here, 0:13:39.710 --> 0:13:45.800 right now, and always. In closing, let's say, I am awake. 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:59.030 I remember. And so it is. When you're ready, blinking 0:13:59.050 --> 0:14:05.840 your eyes open, loving you from right here. Hi. I 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.360 hope you're feeling even just a little bit more prepared 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.780 to take on the day. But before you go, I 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.400 want to share a few quick things with you. 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