David Ghiyam
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The Science Of Manifestation: How To Transform Your Energy To Change Your Reality
Fear. What type of fear? Well, it's insecurity. It's shame. And this results in you limiting your beliefs. And so in some ways, what we're talking about here actually is a decision between fear and love, right? And when you're fearful, this stimulates your sympathetic nervous system with all the negative aspects of it.
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When you love, you're open, you're generous, you're thoughtful, you're kind because you've engaged the parasympathetic nervous system. And you have a choice. This is like, if you look at Stoic philosophers, like somebody like Epictetus, who was a slave. He says, I cannot control my external environment. What I can control is how I react to my environment, right?
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So you meet people, I'm sure, who say, my life's miserable, my life's horrible. While you meet other people who go, well, it's tough right now, but I'm optimistic it's going to get better. Or I know if I do this, it's going to get better. These are completely different. oppositional attitudes that have a profound, profound effect, depending on what you're believing.
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Well, I can't sit here and say, you do this and your life's going to be perfect. There's some situations either because of, as an example, structural racism that's built into the system. or chronic poverty, because throughout the world, and even in America, the ability to overcome poverty, for most, it's highly unlikely that's going to happen.
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So yes, you do have power, but it's not necessarily, I'm gonna change it, and everything's gonna be perfect for me. And I'm sure things are not perfect for you, right? And no matter how much you try or want, well, externally, things may look fantastic, It's not perfect. And it's not the way you necessarily want. And I have to say the same thing.
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But there are people who, yeah, no matter how hard they're going to work, it's going to be very challenging. That being said, what we do know is there are certain practices and rules
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And if you are going to get out of something or if you are going to change things, then the best way to do that, which has the highest likelihood of success, is to go through some of the things that we're talking about here. And one of those is that, as an example, there is a tendency for us to want to achieve, right? And if you're an athlete, you have a goal you set there.
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Well, goals are fine, but if you focus only on the goal and have no concern about any of the other things that are going on. The process. Yeah. Then you reach the goal and there's nothing there.
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yet what we do know the greatest cause of suffering is what it's attachment and craving desires yeah yeah and and the thing is when that is your absolute focus and we can't all get these things you're going to be highly disappointed and you've ignored all the people in your life as you focus solely on that
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And unfortunately, many people learn that lesson far along after they've destroyed their families, they've been through multiple marriages, their kids don't like them, right?
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Yeah, because again, as I was saying even about myself, I thought, well, if I just do this, You know, my shame and insecurity will go away. I'll be loved by everybody and my life will be perfect. Yet at every one of those peaks, all I had was disappointment.
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And while everyone told me life was great, I did not feel that inside because I had not understood that I was the only one who had the key to the self-created prison. And until you realize that, you're on a very difficult path.
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Well, you end up the way I did, which is you have everything and you're incredibly unhappy.
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That attracted that, right?
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How To Manifest ABUNDANCE With The Universal Laws For WEALTH | David Ghiyam
So if there's 20% of you that does not want to be wealthier, if there's 20% of you that does not want to be in a relationship because you're afraid it's going to control you or you're afraid they're going to hurt you or you're afraid that you're going to lose your freedom because you want to be with more people,
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that 20% is going to clash with the 80% of you that does want love, the 80% of you that does want success. So your worst enemy becomes yourself.
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There's either a limited belief or a competing belief. A limited belief would be, I don't deserve this money. A competing belief would be, you know, I want this success and prosperity. I feel my soul is meant for it. You know, we feel on a soul level. I'm meant to be successful.
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and then there's another belief that says uh if i am wealthy i will uh be sad because i saw other wealthy people become sad one of the beliefs i had in the first 10 years from the age of 20 to actually 32 where i had no money whatsoever and my life was dedicated to just helping other people which i thought was a noble thing and it was and it helped a lot of people but Why didn't I receive wealth?
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Why didn't the creator give me wealth? Because I saw in the first five years dealing with celebrities and very successful people.
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That wealth broke them. Yes. That wealth, especially generational wealth, especially wealth that was not fully earned, caused a level of shame, drug use, depression, suicide. And I saw these families literally fall apart. And so you're like, you're like, I don't want that subconsciously.
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I didn't really realize it at the time, but later on I saw that I was always living kind of like this immigrant consciousness. And usually people who are immigrants like my generation before me was, there is a mentality of scarcity. There's a mentality of you have to protect everything.
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I was the guy that kept turning off the air conditioning all day long even after I had money because I was so afraid always of going broke. It's funny. So there's all of these complicated either generational or things you saw, experienced, or felt or you brought from past life that is causing you to have limited beliefs or competing beliefs around what you can receive.
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Once I realized that having money doesn't mean having a broken family, Having money actually is a blessing and you can have it all. I kept telling myself that. You can have it all. You can have amazing children, healthy children, and have success and prosperity. And I started to reprogram my belief system about that. Then the gates opened immediately and the energy came, comes in.
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So I would tell everybody listening, hey, if there's an area you're stuck, it always starts with one thing, your belief about what would happen if it wasn't stuck. So there is some part of you that actually likes, enjoys, appreciates, or feels comfortable with the current situation.
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Uh-huh. It has to be painful. It has to be a struggle. I have to suffer to make money. If you believe that to be true, then your soul is going to make a different calculus, which is, do I want to suffer or not? Your soul is going to say, no, I don't want to suffer. So what you're going to do that day is not manifest the reality of wealth. So this is probably the biggest belief system I see.
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You must suffer to be successful. That's number one. Another one would be, I am not deserving of it for whatever reason. I'm not deserving of it. Why? Because maybe something shameful I did in my past. Maybe because I don't want to make the people around me feel uncomfortable. For example, there's one woman who told me she realized after studying Kabbalah that she's not married.
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at the age of like 35 because her 37-year-old sister is not married. So she was subconsciously sabotaging, meaning men, because she didn't want to embarrass her sister.
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And it was such a subconscious thing. But that little bit of a subconscious desire will sabotage the process. And men will feel that when they approach her.
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So in business, it's very much the same thing. We have these subconscious desires and feelings and relationship with money. We might think money is bad. We might think money is evil. We might look at the 1% and say, look at what they're doing. We might look at people who don't pay their taxes or have such a complicated view of money. But it's shaping and forming our belief system.
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And it's causing all these blockages. Because the creator wants you to receive endlessly. Because the creator is endless, created a vessel to receive endlessly. we are the only ones that are limiting it. This energy of abundance has already been given since the time of creation and it has your name on it. There's an amount of wealth that belongs to you.
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It might be held right now by somebody else, holding it for you until your vessel is ready. What happens if people make money before they're ready for the money to come? What happens if someone makes money before they're ready for the money to come? Let's say, for example, a good example of that would be theft. Why does the Bible say someone should not steal? Is it wrong? Is it moral?
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Is it religiously an issue? Kabbalists say no. A person should not steal for one reason. When you steal something, you are taking the energy of it without the vessel. You did not earn that money, so you don't have a spiritual vessel for it. So this money that you took is basically like bringing 1,000 watts of energy to a 60-watt bulb. It will cause chaos for you. That's the only reason.
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Not because society would shame me or I could go to jail. That's how a lot of people think. Because if there were no laws and nobody knew, and you could just take whatever you want, how many people would do it? A lot of people would do it.
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But if I knew I could steal and nobody would know about it, I know energetically I'm taking energy, but I don't have the vessel to hold it, and it's going to cause me chaos. So actually, I don't want to ever bring energy that does not belong to me. And here's something else that's really powerful. One of the things I always ask the creator is, I only want the wealth that is meant for me this year.
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I do not want a penny more. I don't want a penny less because both will cause chaos. If I try to take wealth from someone else or someplace else that does not belong to me or is not part of my vessel, then I have an overflow of energy and I'll have chaos. If I do not take what is mine, I take less, then I'm going against the thought of creation, which is the creator wants me to be fulfilled.
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In both cases, this is a short circuit. So we have to all align and stop trying to just make things happen or make business happen or make wealth happen and connect to, wait a minute, what is actually meant for me? Dating, same thing. Just because you're attracted to a woman doesn't mean she's yours. Just because you feel something doesn't mean it's part of your vessel.
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So Kabbalah says you pause and you ask. You ask the universe and say, hey, is this person meant for me? If you still feel after the asking that there is an energy there that you can pursue, but making that first pause actually involves creation as opposed to me coming from my own lack, my own issues, and my own fears to try to engage.
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The greatest way to break a limited belief around receiving abundance is to spend time with people who have already broken it. And the person that I married 13 years ago, Mary Ruth. I learned she did not have this belief. And the first time I saw it- Which belief? That- Scarcity belief? Scarcity belief. She didn't have it. She did not have it. And I'll tell you the first example of it.
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When we were in debt, and I shared this in the last podcast, we were in debt and we had no money, six months behind in rent. And like literally like sleeping on the floor, no income, debt, all these things. She came to me and said, I want to start nutrition. And I said, what do you mean you want to start nutrition? She's like, I love health and wellness.
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I'm going to leave being a real estate agent, which she was doing well. She'll make $30,000, $40,000 a month in just enough to pay off the debt payments that we had that she inherited from her family after the debts of her brother and father and her mom getting sick. So she's like, I'm going to leave my career making $34,000 a month. I'm going to do nutrition consulting.
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I said, I get that's your passion, but this is absurd. She's like, no, don't worry. I have complete certainty it's going to work out. So she's created a program for $3,000, and then she just basically told everybody, I'm going to give you one free session for an hour, and if you like it, sign up for my program. She had 11 sessions a day. She always signed up one person and boom, boom, boom.
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And that was the genesis of Mary Ruth Organics because it actually started as a health and wellness coaching program. Then when she became fully booked, it became a video program. And then when that was kind of like realizing there's a limit there, we created a product. And then we changed the name of the company from Million Dollar Lunchbox to Married with Organics.
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That was the original name of the... She called it Million Dollar Lunchbox because she had this belief that if you want to be very successful in life, you should always carry a lunchbox around so you always have the food that you need then you'll have the energy you need and you'll have the consciousness you need so you can manifest something. That's interesting. Cute name.
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Right. So then the second thing she did a year later, she's like, when we still had no money, she's like, I'm going to go get an office. We worked back then. It was Regis. I said, you're going to get an office? She's like, yeah, it's $5,000 a month. And I'm just going to go get it because once we get the office, the energy will open up and the business will go to its next level.
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I said, that's ridiculous. And she said, I'm going to go do it. And she went and did that. And then the next thing she said is, we're going to move to L.A. because that's closer to our factory. I said, we don't have the money for that. She's like, don't worry. I got a loan. I'm like, you got a loan? She's like, yeah, I got a loan for 22%. I said, you got a high interest loan to move us to L.A.?
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She's like, we got to think that way. We just got to go. She took the loan. She moved the family. And then that was one of the best things that happened. And then she kept... doing things over and over. She's like, we're going to get you a nice car. I said, we can't afford a nice car. She's like, I need you to be comfortable. I need you to be focused.
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I need you to not have something that's going to break down because I need you to be that way. So you're the scarcity mindset. I was completely the scarcity mindset. She was abundant mindset. Always. So she always, and the lesson here is, obviously spend time with people who don't have it. You know, who your romantic partner is, who your friends are. You are inheriting
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their belief systems at every moment. Every moment you spend with them, you're inheriting it. I have become, and I know you're the same way, I have become so sensitive to, if I spend 20 minutes with somebody, I am learning that I am taking on their vessel. And so we have to be extra cautious of who we're spending time with and who we depend on for energy because
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The energy transfer happens on a soul level when you depend on someone. Because I was coaching all day long, meeting people who had challenges and problems, and people were like, well, aren't you inheriting their belief systems and vessels? Only when you depend on them, meaning a friend, a romantic partner, a client that you absolutely need for your wealth or your... That's a... Livelihood, yeah.
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Yeah, livelihood. You never want to be in a position where you need someone because then you begin to inherit their negativity and inherit their belief systems. So I've learned like when I spend time with you or when I spend time with other people who are successful financially or even a successful father or a successful... Like someone who's really good at fathering.
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I'll spend time with them and my vessel will expand. My empathy for my children will expand. My belief system of love will improve. And it's so interesting because we are now, science is showing us that when you kiss someone, you inherit their microbiome.
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So people don't understand spiritually, the moment you kiss someone, because Kabbalah explains that the breath is a platform for the soul. So the breath and the soul are intertwined.
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And so when you kiss someone and the breath has exchanged, the souls begin to intermingle, which means the belief systems begin to intermingle, which means the desires begin to intermingle, and you begin to inherit the essence of who they are. So you could kiss a random person and then all of a sudden be angry for the next two hours and not know why. Interesting.
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You've kind of taken upon a little bit of their generational trauma. They're what we call tikkun, their soul's correction. And it stays and it goes and there's ways to remove it. But every sexual partner we've ever had, we are inheriting a piece of who they are and they're inheriting a piece of ours. which is very fascinating. Wow.
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So yeah, so on a physical level, we're interchanging belief systems and desires, but we're also doing it on a spiritual level. So that's the number one thing. Spend time with people.
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Only at 35 did I finally realize this is, despite 15 years of Kabbalah, despite thousands and thousands of teaching, when it's your issue, it's never that easy. When it's your ego, your soul's correction, it takes time. And we have to be empathetic to that. Because I think a lot of times people judge, you know, Can a doctor get sick? Sure. Can a comedian be depressed? Absolutely.
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Can a spiritual leader or a thought leader or a speaker go through a tough time and not know how to break free for a long time? Absolutely, yes. Because when it's you, It's very different. When it's somebody else, we're channels. But for ourselves, we have to actually earn that gateway to be open.
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So it was about five years ago, when I was 35, I realized I just decided to take the plunge and stop doing everything I did that was limiting me.
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I remember the day when one of my friends called me and said, there's a seminar down in San Diego. I want you to come with me. I said, all right, well, that's a three-hour drive. What's it cost? And he's like, it's $10,000 for the day. I said, $10,000? I'm like, why would I pay $10,000 for a one-day seminar? It sounds like it's too much money. What was the seminar? I'm curious.
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It was something around e-com. It was like an e-com Amazon thing because we had just started the company and we're big on Amazons.
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Yeah, it was a seminar on how to master Amazon, right? And he said to me, come on. I said to him, I said, look. It's too much money. It's three hours away. It's a whole day. After that whole calculation, he looked at me and he said, look, you know this better than I do. If you learn one thing that inspires you, that's worth to your company hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Do you know that you're going to learn one thing? I said, absolutely. I'm going to learn probably 40 things. He's like, so what's the calculus here? signed up right away and I went. And what's interesting is within the first hour, I got an idea that was so amazing, I left the seminar. I actually didn't stay for the rest of the seven hours. I need to go do this now. I need to go do this now.
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Because we can talk about this either in this episode or the next. One of the things I have learned over time is when that idea comes, I have to manifest it in 24 hours. Otherwise, it's gone. It's gone. Energetically, the negative side comes in. Momentum is gone. And so if I can push it
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Like without any space, without any laziness, without any doubt, just invest as much time and energy in those first 24 hours. That's the seed level. You create a spiritual flywheel energetically that just breaks open the doors and things manifest. When you take time. Once the creator gives you an idea and you take time and you put it off and all of a sudden space comes in, time comes in.
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These are all qualities not of the light of the creator but of this physical world. And now you have left the world of miracles. You have left the world of manifestation. You're entered into the world of what we call the tree of knowledge and logic, which is just up and down, chaos, darkness, pain, and suffering. Wow. So five years ago, it started to switch.
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It started to switch, and then once that switched, every decision I made was, this as a function of my time, is it going to be, is this worth my time to manifest more or not? So that was the first calculus I used. So that was the question you would ask yourself. All the time. Say it again. Is this going to be worth it as a function of my time? Because what is- How do you know?
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Well, what is the biggest mistake all founders make? I want to say mistake, but limitation that all founders have once they build a company that's doing well. The ability to delegate. Because all of us, myself included, the first thought we have, which is a limited belief, who's going to do this better than me? I don't trust someone else to give it the love, the care.
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This belief system will make you attract employees. who sabotage as well. But I met a guy. He had 20 employees when I had only two. And he said to me, I have 20. And ever since I hired these right people, the best things happen. And they're doing it better than I am. I said, they're doing it better than you are. I can't imagine hiring somebody that's going to do something better than I am.
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So I'm like, look how much care and love. No one's going to do it better than the founder. So David, it's a little bit of belief. He said, you need to believe from this moment that there are people who can do it better than you. I said, done. He gave me his spiritual microbiome at that moment. It's a belief system. I said, I'm going to believe this. Wow. I used the mantra over and over again.
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I prayed to the creator to instill in me this consciousness. So there's like a little Kabbalah meditation that I do over and over again. And then I told myself, there is somebody out there who is going to be better at this than I am. And I kid you not, if you want to know what happened... Right after that, we started to need help because we had a kid and we needed somebody to help.
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So we called a company and they said, look, there's people who can come part-time and wash your dishes. It was like – it's called Runaround Betty or something. So this girl comes. She's like 26 years old. She comes to our house. She's just cleaning dishes. And just hopping around the house. And then I walk in, you know, Meredith, everybody's there. And I'm like, what's your name?
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She said, her name. I said, what did you do before this? Like, you're doing dishes now. She said, oh, I was a project manager at a big company. I said, you're a project manager at a big company and you're washing dishes now? She's like, yeah. I got so burned out. I said, you know what? I just want to relax and just do things that are fun. And I said, okay.
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So we watched her for a couple weeks just come in. She did obviously the best job you can imagine, cleaning the house, organizing things. I said to Meredith, I said, she's unbelievable. Like, she became our first employee in the company. Wow. And... three years later, she became the COO of our company. No way. Yeah. That's cool. She pretty much ran the whole company. Wow. Crazy.
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And she did it phenomenally for those years, right? And it was all after just changing the belief system. How do we manifest this? She came through a dishwashing service who then ended up becoming a C-level executive at a unicorn brand. And to see that, to watch that, realizing that all the limitations we have in our company always come from the consciousness of the founder.
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If I look at any company and I look at your org chart and I sit and I interview your executives, your vice presidents, your managers. I will learn everything about you even if I never met you. Each person will be a fraction of who you are. The part of you that is anxious will be one C-level. The part of you that is excited and thinks unlimited, there'll be another department executive.
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You can see the amalgamation of a person's consciousness spread out amongst their executives, their directors, their managers, so on and so forth. So how powerful this is that as founders, we need to spiritually work on ourselves, expand our consciousness, remove our limited beliefs, work on our fears, go in a deep soul level, clean it all out. And it's amazing.
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Either the employees will elevate to that or the employees will leave. Like they'll just quit.
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What a pleasure. I say this mantra all the time. I pause. What do I pause? I pause the part of me. that wants to fix the problem and look for some form of instant gratification to numb my pain or I need certainty about something, right? So your question was, what do I say to myself or what is my mantra or my affirmation when something goes wrong?
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How To Manifest ABUNDANCE With The Universal Laws For WEALTH | David Ghiyam
That's different than when everything's going right. So when something goes wrong, I feel pain on a soul level, on a body level. Where do you feel it? Throat, chest, stomach? I usually feel it in my stomach. Head? I feel it in my stomach. I feel it in my neck, in my shoulders. And the famous example, I've shared this before, is when my CFO called me one day.
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And I remember where I was because when there's some traumatic thing that happens, you always remember where you are. I was in my basement of my home. He calls in the morning and said, we have a problem. I said, what's the problem? And he said, we have been a victim of wire fraud. I said, okay, what does that mean? He said, well, we just lost one point. I said, what happened?
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He's like, well, somebody hacked our system, spoofed an email, pretended to be one of our manufacturers, requested an invoice to be paid, and changed the bank account. I said, well, we have protocols. You always call to confirm when a bank change has been made. He said, I know. I did not do that. I said, okay. Now, every emotion you can imagine. 1.1 million taken from you. Stolen.
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Disappeared into the ether. Oh, my God. What were the feelings I felt? Anger. Frustration. Rage. Fear. Like, are we going to make our months? Like, how is this going to affect our valuation? Like, there was a thousand things running through my mind. If I didn't know Kabbalah and I didn't know spirituality, at that moment, what would I have done? I would have screamed at him.
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I would say, call the FBI. Call our lawyers. We need to fix this problem immediately. Like, I would go off. I would go off on my kids. I would go off on Mary Ruth. I would go off, and the whole day I would be in a bad mood. Now, I felt all those emotions, and I was in a horrible mood at that moment. And then I remembered, this test has come from the Creator. And I know something.
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One thing Kabbalah has taught me. Every time you desire to go to your next level, and the month before, the business was doing well, but it wasn't doing as well as I wanted. And I started to walk in the streets of Los Angeles and pray to the creator and to the universe and say, show me how to expand my vessel. See, prayer is not, God, you need to change. You need to...
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Stop doing what you're doing and change everything about my situation to make me comfortable. A lot of times that's what prayer is. It's bribing God. Give me something. Please help me. Give me more energy because I'm lacking. The Creator said, why are you yelling at me? I've already given all the energy. You need to expand the vessel to receive it.
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How To Manifest ABUNDANCE With The Universal Laws For WEALTH | David Ghiyam
So the prayer needs to be, give me the strength to expand my vessel. So I made a prayer that said, what do I need to expand my vessel? What do I need to clean out about my limited beliefs? What limiting beliefs do I even have? Show them to me, reveal them to me, because I want to get to the next level of the company. And as a co-founder, I am the sole person that is limiting this company.
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Okay, if there's a problem with an employer, if there's a problem with the economy, or there's a problem with inflation, or there's a problem with a product, that is all a function of my consciousness. Nothing else. What, inflation is my fault? Inflation is an illusion from the point of view.
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How To Manifest ABUNDANCE With The Universal Laws For WEALTH | David Ghiyam
If I believe that I can have everything and I've cleared myself of my negativity and my selfishness and my fears and my soul's correction, inflation can't touch me. The wrong economy or the bad economy can't touch you. No negativity can touch you. You will manifest what your soul is meant to have. Even if 8 billion people try to stop you from it, you will get there.
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How To Manifest ABUNDANCE With The Universal Laws For WEALTH | David Ghiyam
There's this famous meme that showed Elon Musk, I don't know if it was 2019, he was on the verge of bankruptcy. And then five years later, he's the wealthiest man in the world. It's like, how did he go? Everybody was against him that time. I don't know if you remember, like, Everybody was like – they were like selling his stocks. It was the Ponzi scheme. They were shorting him.
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And it was like the pressure and he needed the money. I forgot exactly what the details were. But I remember whatever he did, whatever consciousness belief system he had, he transcended time and he was able to manifest that reality because most people would buckle under the pressure. So going back to that moment in time, Kabbalah taught me. This is an illusion. This is a test to expand my vessel.
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And it's connected and correlated with the prayer I made 30 days ago. I asked the creator for my next level. I asked for 1,000 watts of energy. The creator said, okay, but I see 60 watt bulb. Are you going to be with me here? Because we're about to expand you to 1,000. How do I expand to 1,000? I need to see the parts of me that are limited. Well, how can I see that? I need something to test me.
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Nothing would test me. I need a breakdown. I need to be broken down. Temporarily.
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Not forever. It's not going to be forever. The Creator only wants good. So the illusion of a breakdown is happening so that I see the parts of me that are dormant, that I've stuffed down, that I never wanted to look at, so I can cleanse it out and expand my spiritual vessel to bring the wealth in.
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Dirty that you need to clean out. Let's see what came out. Blame, anger, my control issues came up. My scarcity mindset, oh, my God, what's going to happen? I remember at Conor Merrill's, I'm like, this happened. She's like, that sounds horrible. She's like, when I made a sandwich or something. She's like, I got to go. We can talk about this later. And I said, what are you talking about?
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And it was another level of my scarcity mindset. And it was so powerful because I went to your— Summit of Greatness? Summit of Greatness. It was my first time I ever met you. And somebody invited me and said, you're going to come to this. And Joe Dispenza was talking. It was the first three hours. And I always wanted to see him too. And I sat there. And you know what I did?
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It's the same thing I did. Once I heard the one thing you and he said— Then I left. I got it. I got the one thing that opened my mind. And he gave the example. I might butcher it a little bit. He gave the example when he was in New York and he was meeting with some very wealthy person and he had gone to his office and it was like the worst day of his life. He lost all his money or something.
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And he was just sitting there like having... Like a hamburger or a sandwich. I don't remember.
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And the guy was just like, oh, let's go have lunch and have a sandwich. Yeah. And he's like, I'm always wealthy. Like there's no, it was a total illusion that I lost a billion dollars. Like I am wealth. He said, I am wealth. I am wealth. And he's eating a hamburger with ketchup all over his face. Cool as a cucumber.
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And I have seen people who, when something happens, they just already know their essence, their energy, right? The money comes and the money goes in a moment. And it reminded me of an example. When I was in the Hamptons, I was visiting, somebody invited me to their beautiful home in the Hamptons, like gorgeous. And he was a young guy, like 38. And he had manifested all this wealth.
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And he was sitting there and he was having like a soda. And I said to him, I said, you know, I have a question for you. You know, you made all of this money so quickly. Like, Do you ever get worried? Like, what if you lost it all? What if something happened to the company just kind of like, maybe you bought this beautiful home, but what if the company didn't do well?
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You're sitting there just like, I was making back. Wow. And I said, this guy, because he's already there. There's certainty. Because of that certainty, and he's already like, whether I have the physical money or I don't, I know I'm wealthy. And I know this is my essence. And I know that I am wealth. he will not be tested in this department.
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You're only tested where you have a weaker limited belief system. So because I had still to cleanse out the scarcity mindset, I needed the money to be stolen. You needed the money to be stolen. Stolen to awaken my scarcity fear so I could cleanse it.
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How To Manifest ABUNDANCE With The Universal Laws For WEALTH | David Ghiyam
And this is the first session I teach in my master class. The first thing you need to do in those first few minutes, even seconds, is the most powerful time to transform your soul. It's the reason why your soul came to this world. And it is how you expand your spiritual vessel to let the next level in. What I did is I put the phone down. I said, I'm going to call you right back.
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Put the phone down. I'm feeling every negative emotion you can imagine. It's come up to the surface. I'd be screaming at that point. I wanted to. I wanted to. But my Kabbalah mindset, my spiritual mindset, started to kick in a little bit and said, OK, you've been waiting for this moment. We've been waiting for this moment. Wow. We've been waiting.
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And do you remember you prayed for this 30 years ago? Oh, my gosh. And do you remember that really all there is is your consciousness and the way you react to everything? And do you know that this is all an illusion, that if you expand your vessel right now, all that money will come back plus more? And my consciousness was telling me that, but my body was...
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my body was like telling my consciousness you know shut the f up yeah yeah of course this is screw you screw you and there's this war this is the real world this is not a consciousness world this is money my money is taken exactly because it's all nice and spiritual yeah yeah yeah i love the creator i love him mindset well yes i am well that's all great until you're tested and you're tested until you're tested and and oh my gosh and and
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This war was happening. I was watching it happen. And I said, OK, body, we need to get you under control. So the way I do it is I just come up with the mantra that will break the body's limited belief. And I will say it over and over again. And if that doesn't work, I will jog around the room to get my body moving.
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And eventually what I did is I started to sing out loud the mantra and dance all around the room like a crazy person. That's what I did. Because I needed to get mind, body, and soul into this. And I was like, I love this. I kept saying, what a pleasure. I love this. This is amazing. I love that I lost a million dollars. This is the most amazing thing that's ever happened. Creator, I love you.
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I love, this is perfect. That's the best thing. I love this. I wish it was more. I said I wish it was more. You are supposed to. By the way, people think this is not the right thing to do. Spiritually, when you are in pain, you should say, give me more pain. Why? Because you are now energetically... completely instilling the certainty that pain is good.
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When you say, give me more pain, if you have a headache and you say, my teacher taught me this. His name is Rob Burke. He said, when you have a headache, you ask for more headache. That's how the headache goes away. When you have a toothache, you ask for more toothache. You don't ask for it when things aren't good because then you're actually drawing in that reality.
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You don't say, man, I'm in a great place. Give me pain right now. No. No, no, no.
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No, you don't want to call in pain. No, because then that is feeding your belief system that you don't deserve happiness. Yeah, or peace or all these things. Or love. Correct. But when the money's been stolen, you say, my money's been stolen. I wish all my money was stolen. Oh, yeah. When you do that, you're basically feeding the belief system that you have certainty.
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It doesn't matter because I'm going to get it back anyways. Correct. I am wealth. I am wealth. And if this pain needs to happen for my spiritual process, allow it to happen. I trust the creator. So if it's a million, if it's five million, if it's 20 million, I wish for it all to happen the way it needs to.
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I would be okay with it. And I would tell the creator, I'd say, look, you took a million, but maybe you wanted to take two, but you didn't think I could handle it. I'm telling you I can handle it. If I need it to be taken, I can handle it.
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So a person says, I want money. Okay. I want wealth. Okay. You will be given the exact specific dynamic you need to expand and build your vessel to get wealth. The only reason you haven't manifested it is because when those opportunities came, you did not transform.
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That instead of running away from the pain, running away from the fear, you need to do two things. You need to, at that moment, act like God. You need to pause your reactive behavior. Reactive behavior, by definition... is any thought, word or action which comes from lack or fear in order to connect to instant gratification.
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You are now opposite the vibration of the creator and you are now disconnecting from the realm of light and miracles. When you pause and you do not need that part of you, you starve it essentially. This is what transforms it. And then you become in the vibration of the creator. Instant gratification would have been screaming at my CFO. Running around like a maniac trying to fix the problem.
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For most people, instant gratification is trying to fix the problem right away.
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It took me about 15 to 20 minutes. These types of things used to take me days. It took me 15 to 20 minutes to get to a place where I'm like, all right, this is great. I don't care about the million. I had to let go of my attachment of the small vessel to the big vessel. You often have to sacrifice the small-minded thinking, the small conscious, the small vessel.
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The universe will always take something away from you in order to break open to give you the bigger thing. And so... Once I felt that, then I called my CFO back. I said, hey, call the FBI. Call my lawyer. Mobilize the team. We're going to have a discussion about how to fix the problem. You should try to go to fix the problem.
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Well, yeah, just to have the background for people and the transition I went through, because I think it could be helpful to know. When I was 14, I made my first million dollars simply by having a lot of passion and energy. School was boring for me, and I started to look into the stock market, learn about it, got a little bit of money, and it worked out great.
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And those words that I said would have been the exact same words I would have said 20 minutes prior when I was acting later. But what's the difference? The first scenario, I would have come from the world that disconnected from miracles. In the second scenario, I am now God, like God. At that moment, I'm on the vibration of God. So now God is part of the meeting. God will be there.
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The Creator will be there with the FBI. The Creator will be there because I've created a vessel for the Creator. The Creator is everywhere but only where there's a vessel to reveal him because if he was revealed, it would be the bread of shame. It would be not earned. So we asked the Creator to conceal his energy so that we could create a vessel to reveal it.
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Because if something is revealed without my free will, this is the worst pain that there is. This is why children who are just born to wealthy families have shame and go to drugs because there's all this energy but they didn't create it and choose it. And so it overwhelms them and then it creates more darkness. Wow. And so – It's the same words, but it's a different consciousness.
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And now, you want to know how the story ends? Yes. So I'm now thinking. I'm in the world of miracles. This is it. We're going to get the money back. Seven days later, the CFO calls me and says, okay. I talk with the bank. They tracked where the money was. This is amazing news. He said, yeah, but it's gone. You can't get it back. Yeah, you can't get it back. That was the second test.
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Because when a lot of people are going to hear this podcast, they're going to be, like, so jazzed up. And they're going to be like, I can't wait to go love the pain, certainty, pleasure. Like, what a pleasure. This is great. And they're going to go out there and try what we're talking about. And if the prize is really big, there's going to be actually several levels to this test.
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So then what's going to happen is you're going to do all this and then something's going to go completely the opposite of what you wanted. And you're going to be like, this stuff that David Lewis was talking about is complete shit. This doesn't work. This doesn't work. There is no creator. That's the second test. So then when the money didn't hit... Another level of doubt.
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Another layer of doubt and scarcity came up. I'm like... Oh, my God, what a pleasure. I didn't know that this layer was in there, too. Let's go. So it came up again, and I said, by the way, just bring it all out. Like, who lost? So it was another dance. You're like, I've been broke before. Who cares? Exactly.
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I'm like, everything is in the hands of the creator anyways, and I just want to expand my vessel. Money, no money. Like, if this is expanding me, I want it. Because once I'm expanded, once the vessel has become the proper vessel, it's a guarantee that the energy comes in. Do not ask how. Do not ask from where. Do not manipulate. Do not look over your shoulder to see if it's coming.
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Another test is you also have to have certainty to let go of how it's going to come. And when. And when. Because these are all spiritual lessons that Kabbalah explains. I'm giving them piece by piece. Having the certainty of letting go of when and how and from whom and acknowledging the negativity that comes up and getting excited about it.
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All of this is the part of building this incredible vessel that you want. You've asked for since your birth. So then that happens. Did we get the money? No, we didn't. But I let it go. I said, you know what? I built the vessel. The energy is going to come. I'm not worried about when. I think it was a month later. we had some miraculous thing happen.
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In those six months, it took six months to make that million. That's crazy. Yeah, it was a crazy time. Because you're paranoid.
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Something went viral, like a piece of content, something happened that like lifted sales to a level that we just, we never had broken through before. And a new momentum was created. This is about five years ago, or is this about? Oh, this was like two years ago. When the money was stolen. When the money was stolen. Wow. This was... Yeah. Then I remember we slaughtered the budget at that point.
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It was like every year our company has grown an average of 50-60 percent. Wow. After we broke the 100 million revenue mark, I think four years ago, everyone said, hey, Companies don't grow at 50% a year. You should look at 20. These are all the Harvard grads, all the mathematicians, all my friends. They're like 20% of what you should aim for.
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your parents gave you the money dad parents always believed in me because they knew i was a smart kid they knew that i i had certain desires and it was plain play money it was like probably twenty thirty thousand dollars like here you go um but it manifested into a million dollars twenty thousand dollars into a A million in six months?
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Investors, a lot of PE firms, like this is the gold standard, right? Grow 20% revenue and have 20% EBITDA. It's kind of the gold standard for the highest valuation. So they're like, that should be your goal. And I'm like, that should be my goal. Let me consult with my boss. So I went to the creator and I said, I said, you know, these very brilliant people are very smart.
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They keep saying that our budget should be and our goal should be 20%. But what is my soul? What is our soul meant to do? What is my soul meant to do? Like we're the founders. Like, what do you feel? And I would go for a walk and I would just keep asking this question. So this question, when I ask it vibrationally, it changes my spiritual vessel, and then the answer can come in.
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Because the universal GPS, the creator already knows past, present, and future, knows every possible destiny, that is the greatest consultants to have. And I believe religion has done so many beautiful things, but I think religion has also made us lose the appreciation for this energy. And even Kabbalah, a lot of people are like, well, what is Kabbalah? Kabbalah, and I'm not sure what it is.
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Kabbalah is just your relationship with this infinite energy, and it's just teaching you how to build a vessel. Forget about religion. Moses, Abraham, Jesus, none of them even know what religion is. You go to Moses and say, are you Jewish? He'd be like, what's Jewish? You go to Jesus and say, are you Christian? He'd be like, what's Christian?
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You go to Abraham and say, he'd be like, what are you talking about? These were spiritual people who understood the laws and secrets of our universe. They were Kabbalists. They knew how to create a vessel. So they created, they brought down the wisdom of spirituality to the whole world and exists until today. The best selling book of all time is right after Make Money Easy is the Bible.
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because they encapsulated the spiritual wisdom in the Bible, but it's very coded. If you read the Bible literally, it makes no sense. So the decodification of this book actually reveals all of the spiritualism. So going now back To what I was talking about, so I went for a one or two-hour walk. I do this all the time, and I've always learned this is the best two hours. Do not fill your schedule.
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Walk and talk and ask. Connect to the universal GPS. The wisdom will come down, and you'll be shown what to do. And I've had three... I've had a couple of major ideas come in those walks that then manifested into $100 million revenue streams, which we can talk about also later. But on that walk, the number kept coming. It's 50% to 60% growth. You should push the team on that.
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it was such a fight i went to the board and i was like you know i went to the investors i'm a touring executives i'm like guys we can do 50 to 60 percent and everyone's hoeing and hawing and saying no it's not possible where is it going to come from how is it going to happen like there's no pipeline here and i said i like i don't know you guys are all smarter than me but
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I, you know, what do I know? I didn't go to business school. You're on with the business school. You have 30, 40 years experience. I'm just a guy teaching some classes here. But I spoke with the big man. And he said. And he said it's 50, 60%. So call me a crazy founder. I went to Mary Ruth. Mary Ruth is like, listen. If you believe it, I believe it too. In fact, she's like, why can't it be 200%?
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It was also a time when the market was doing well, so I give credit to the market also. But yes, it exploded. And I also think spiritually my soul went through that process because Kabbalah explains this, that your soul goes through a process to ultimately help you become the most perfect version of yourself so that you can build the vessel to receive everything that's meant for you.
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I said, I agree. So I said, but let's not, let's not, let's not, you know, I don't think the team's ready to hear that. So I went back and eventually we kept pushing it. I think we agreed to something in the middle. And what happened was. As a goal to reaching for the next year.
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Because we always make the budget a few months before the next calendar year. Next quarter, next year, yeah. That's right. So I think we set on like maybe 35% or something. Yeah. So we just closed the year and it came out to like 56% growth. Like literally right in the middle of what the creator had said. And I was at the board meeting. This was two weeks ago.
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And I looked at all the executives and I said, all right, guys, what's the budget for next year?
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Present time. Yeah, because we just had 56%. They're like, all right, it's 20% growth. I'm like, guys, are we doing this again? I said, we just had 56%. And so one guy's like, well, we got lucky. I said, what do you mean we got lucky? I said, well, we didn't anticipate TikTok was going to do so well, and TikTok came. And we became one of the number one brands on TikTok.
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And then I said, well, last year... what happened when we had 60% growth? It was something else. So we got lucky then too. I said, what happened? He said, something happened with Whole Foods. One of the competitors like ran out of stock. And then all of a sudden I said- The shelf space opened up. Yeah, the shelf space opened up. I said, okay, so what happened the year before?
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I said, guys, for 10 years in a row, We're getting lucky.
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We're getting lucky. And it's not easy for me to try to bring a spiritual concepts to a board meeting of like 15 really smart people. But I said, and this is kind of like where Marowith and I are just always laughing because together we're such a team and we have so much respect and love and appreciation. Like anything Marowith has ever said
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Even if I think it's like totally a bad idea and everybody challenges her, investors. And she's, I have learned in 10 years, if she comes up with it, it is always true. It is always worked out. And so I've learned to trust her and she's learned to trust me. And that's why we make a great team.
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And that is why this year we actually bought back our company because we realized that three years ago we sold the minority stake. And then we said, wait a minute, And they were the best partners. They were such good partners.
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But we realized if we could take back full control and just put fully our consciousness on the cap table, because whoever's on your cap table, you are dealing with their soul correction as well. Every investor karmically is now tied to your company, and their energy is affecting it. Wow. So clean up your cap table. And basically, we told the board this that week, let's go for more.
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And we're actually currently talking about it.
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And I, looking back, realized that I needed – to go through a process of having that kind of money at a young age in order for me to see the things that I needed to change about myself, the limited beliefs I had to work on, which also set me up for the next part of the story of what I'm gonna say. So I made that money and I realized, that was the first point I realized,
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But I agree. Because by agreeing, I go on your vibration, and that's how I understand it. People want to understand, then agree.
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And third step is asking, why is this in my movie? What do I need to cleanse? So then later on after I have to see my anger, my control, all these fears came up. And then I literally write that down and I make it a point to work through those issues because it's one thing not being reactive.
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If you ask that out loud, you will then, the universe will rearrange itself to show you immediately. It might come through your children. It might come through... You know what's interesting? Before I came here, the last time for our podcast, I was like, okay, I was in my car praying. I said, help me be a messenger for our audience. Help me not speak from my brain.
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And I really wanted to be a channel... Because you've seen, we go all over the place. We have all these questions. We often don't even get to them. And I think I got like 500 questions from my Instagram stories when I asked them, what should I talk to Lewis about? So I was like thinking about what should I talk about? And I said, no, no, no, no.
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I need that the creator will come and help the channel. As soon as I asked for that, I got a text. I got a text without getting into the details of what this text was. It was from someone I had spoken to a long time. And it was a text that got me so angry, so upset. Today? No, this was the first podcast.
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First talk on the relationship side. Yes. So I was, I looked at it as I was driving and I said, oh my God. It all came up. And the first thing I wanted to do was respond. be defensive and try to solve the problem. I'm like, wow, after 25 years of this wisdom, after 10 minutes ago, I asked the creator to expand my vessel to help bring as much energy as we can into this.
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The creator sent this person, like awakened this person, text me at that moment. What are the odds? I haven't spoke to this person forever. And they send something and they're like this and that. I'm upset about this and all these things. And I'm like, wait, this is a misunderstanding. This is not right. This person is now going to go create a whole problem. Yeah, they don't understand me.
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this isn't making me actually happy. And if anything, it was causing me to have more addictive behavior, which got me into gambling, poker. Fun fact that I've probably told nobody that I'm going to tell you now, I'm actually banned from 16 different casinos in Nevada. What? Because at a young age, I used to just walk into these casinos and start playing.
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They don't understand me, which is a big soul correction for people. When you feel not understood. This is actually something your soul brought into this world to cleanse and change because you were looking for validation. We all want to be understood, but when you need it to be happy, it's a whole different ball. So I looked at this person's text and I said, okay, wait one second.
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Here it is again. This is a test to expand who I am. I did not respond. I put it down. And the rest of the drive, it was about 10 minutes to get this entry. I said, creator, these things are coming up. Thank you. I love this. I will work on this. I will go through the process. I love that this happens. I want to be on your vibration. I agree that it happens.
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And I will take responsibility for the feelings that are coming up. after the podcast, because right now we need to be focused. That shifted me to a whole other level in order to kind of be what we need to be. So every time something important is about to happen, you most likely will have something that will come in to mess you up and to bring it up.
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So if you are asking the creator to see your limited beliefs, might come from your children, might come from your relationship, might come from your business, something will trigger you to show you the parts of you and the vibrations of you that are unlike the Creator.
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The creator is powerful.
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Because every time we're upset, the small vessel will emerge and try to take control. And then you'll be in the same destiny in the same movie.
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And then at one point, they're like, hey, you're underage. It was a whole thing. This was like my life as a teenager. However, I did really well in school. I was always a straight-A kid, perfect scores on my testing, and I took a lot of college credits because I just wanted to run through it. I found Kabbalah 15. I'm like, wow, this spiritual wisdom is explaining the secrets of the world.
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And if I learn Kabbalah, I will learn to have everything. Because you weren't happy at the time. You're making money, but you weren't happy. Right. And my uncle, who did study Kabbalah, recognized this in me and said, hey, come learn some spirituality. I thought it was religion at first. I was like, I don't want to touch that. But he's like, no, it's spiritual wisdom and you're going to love it.
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So I went to one seminar. I was 15 and everyone else in the room was like 30, 40, 50. But I saw it like I saw and felt spirituality. the truth of what was being said, I asked a thousand annoying questions, everything was answered and I said, well, I want to learn more about this. My mentality is also anything I'm passionate about,
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go all in to an extreme, which is also another business lesson that we can talk about because I've also learned if you don't manifest something fully till its end, even if it's the wrong thing, you will have never finished that process, learned its wisdom, and achieved the level of certainty. So certainty is so powerful. So I'm going to save this lesson in a tangent.
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Certainty is so powerful that you should do everything in your power to achieve this consciousness. And the Greatest way to achieve certainty is to finish something. So when you finish something, you either see it makes you happy, blessed, and successful, or you see that it was the wrong thing. But you have certainty.
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Correct. Because they're listening to everyone else's certainty. Your mom tells you, hey, this isn't going to be good for you. So you're living off of her certainty. It's not yours. In the Kabbalah, we call that actually the bread of shame, meaning when I'm not the cause of my life, I have not earned spiritually a vessel to receive abundance. I'm borrowing everyone else's vessel.
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I'm borrowing other people's opinions. I'm living vicariously through everyone else's life. This is actually the greatest cause of sadness and and shame and sorrow. And people usually wake up 10, 20, 30, 40 years later realizing, I live somebody else's life. And I listen to people because I'm a people pleaser, I have my own self-worth issues, so on and so forth.
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So I would say right now, you should know that the greatest thing you can do for yourself is to try things and to go all the way with them. Someone asked me, how do I know this relationship is the right one? I said, the only way you're going to know is to go all in at that stage that you're in. Because everyone's thinking, I only want to go all in if I'm meant to marry that person.
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I'm not saying when you're just dating someone and you don't know. I'm saying when you're kind of like, you invest a lot of time and you're wondering, what do I do here? You're kind of in a limbo. Whenever you're stuck, just go all the way because you'll either realize it was meant to be or not and you'll get certainty.
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And once you have certainty, your vessel now expands and more light can come in. More of the universal energy of creation comes in and it opens a new door for you. However, a lot of people are trying to always anticipate what the future is going to look like. And so they're like, well, what's going to happen when I go all in? How am I going to know? These questions we cannot ask.
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We must go all in. The door will open. The wisdom will be revealed and the clarity will come. So then going back to my life, I started studying Kabbalah. It was unbelievable. I went all in, graduated college, and at 20, I said, I'm going to do this for no money for a nonprofit.
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Traveled the world, gave thousands of seminars, did coaching, met the most amazing people in the world, learned how they were living their lives, learned how Fortune 500 CEOs lived their life. I learned founders, learned celebrities. There was a big celebrity period early 2000s that I was part of, and I got to witness their lives. I got to witness the pain. I got to witness what fame did to them.
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I got to witness what their children were going through, which was really painful. I got to witness almost there was this one very wealthy family, a very wealthy family, and they called it the curse of the last name of the family. There's like a curse almost every year because there was so much money and wealth passed down. It's really interesting.
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And they asked me, he asked me, he was probably 40 years old at the time, a billionaire, but wealth that was passed down generationally. Many movies meet about that. Passed down from his parents to him. His parents, his grandparents, his grandparents. It's a very well-known, generationally wealthy family.
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And he said, you know, I feel like my family has a curse because in every generation, this problem, it's a problem. Children who go through difficulties and sickness and Mental illness and all these things. And drug overdose or whatever. Drugs was a big one too. So he said, what's going on spiritually? When he learned Kabbalah, he learned that light and vessel have to match up.
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Meaning we all want a lot of energy, but we're not being conscious of the vessel that holds that energy. For example, if I have a 60-watt bulb, I can only hold 60 watts of energy. If I try to funnel in 1,000 watts of energy, I'm going to have a short circuit. I'm going to have an explosion. Interestingly, this explosion will be a flash of light that's beautiful
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But then there's darkness right after. And you can't use it again. And you can't use it again. So this is how most people live their lives. No one taught us how to expand the vessel. No one taught us how do I get from a 60-watt bulb to a 1,000-watt bulb. Everyone out there, including the best marketers, they're trying to tell you, hey, here's 1,000 watts of energy.
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You should take this into your vessel. You're going to love this product. You're going to love this food. You're going to love this relationship. Look at all these beautiful models. There's pornography. There's all of these unrealistic energies. And when you bring it into your vessel, you short circuit it. Someone asked me once, is there a problem if I do cocaine? If I do drugs?
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This is a question I get all the time. Really? Yeah. And they say a drug's bad. And come out and we learn there's no such thing as good or bad. It's light and vessel, energy and the capacity to hold that energy. Is it serving your vessels should be the question. That is the question. Because if you go good, bad, you're going to destroy this planet. You're going to destroy each other.
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Because we're all like, you're good, you're bad.
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Is this in service to my vessel so that I can receive and manifest and harness the light that is already there waiting to come in?
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Every vessel has components that make up that vessel. So the most important part of you that makes your vessel Is your belief system about receiving? I gave this example once before. I had someone who I knew who I coached, and every time he would build a company, very easily he could scale it to about $10 million of revenue.
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And every time he hit that 10 million mark, there would be problems and there would be chaos. Either employees, there would be issues with employees. There would be issues legally. There would be issues with the technology. There would be issues that kind of cause everything to be stuck. Several companies he built, each time the ability to scale to 10 million was effortless.
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But that moment of 10 million, something would happen. When he started to study Kabbalah, he asked me, what's going on spiritually? It's a great question to always ask.
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And what we discovered is he has a belief system that anything over 10 million, for whatever reason, is something that he does not deserve or it's something that will be too much responsibility, will be something that will cause too much chaos. And so what he does subconsciously is sabotage his company at that mark. Now, let's expand upon that.
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How any part of any one of us who is experiencing chaos in any part of our lives relationships, in health, and in business, especially about manifesting money. The chaos comes at the moment my belief system about receiving is limited at that moment. Because we are such powerful manifestors. All of us are manifesting all day long.
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Whatever you're experiencing in your life, whatever you see, is what you are manifesting at that moment through your thoughts, your words, your actions, your desires. This is the world you're manifesting. So it's not about complaining, why isn't this happening or why isn't this person doing something for me? You are creating this reality at this moment.
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So let's get there in three hours. This would be akin to the path of miracles in our lives, which is the most direct path. If I decide to have doubts, literally I'm reprogramming the GPS to take a very long route and to go through a lot of windy streets. And eventually I get to San Diego in 19 hours. I will get to that destination.
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So even people who don't operate on the vibration of the Creator, who don't do spiritual work, who always have doubts or who do negative things in this world, there is another circuit breaker, some backstop that will make sure that even those people transform at some point. But they will transform through pain and suffering, the roundabout way.
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So a lot of things will happen to eventually break them down. to become a spiritual being, either in this lifetime or the next. Some people are very stubborn and they still choose not to transform and they still choose to blame everybody else or blame their circumstances. These are the people that it's painful, but unfortunately, they will always attract
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chaos and drama because more is required to break them down. Because if we can't get rid of that cancer, the doctors are going to try, the spiritual doctors are going to inject more chemo, more radiation, break it down, break it down until the cancer disappears. So it behooves all of us to surrender the negativity as soon as possible or it will be forcibly taken away from us. Yes.
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So this is the spiritual quadrant to start with. This is the spiritual quadrant. And the last thing I'll say is there's two ways for a person to stop smoking. One, if they want to stop smoking, one is we know and I'm sure everybody can agree that Smoking is not good for your health. Okay, I'm not saying it's bad if a person smokes, but I'm sure even a smoker knows this is probably not the best.
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No one's thinking smoking is making you live longer. So you can either choose proactively to break it, and it's very hard, and it's a very difficult addiction, but there's ways you can proactively push yourself to do it. Or there's a second way, which is lung cancer could come up. And then you go to the doctor and the doctor says, you have lung cancer and I need to stop smoking.
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So what happened was you have two different scenarios lead to the same outcome. One was you're forcing the universe to push you to change. The other one was proactively changing. We are often shown and told mercifully through the people around us and through just inspiration, the things that we need to change.
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And if you are sensitive to that, you will take heed and you will learn and you will grow. Oftentimes the people closest to us, especially immediate family, the creator is telling them to tell you or to awaken in you what you need to change. Yes.
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If we ignore them or we say it's their problem or we say, I don't like the way you're telling me, I don't like your tone, you got trauma, this is your issue. Even if all that's true, you're still missing the fact that the creed is trying to tell you in a very merciful way. Even if the messenger is not a good person, it's still a messenger.
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If your ex tells you something really bad about you that you don't agree with, but it feels painful, it means there's truth there. So take maybe 5% of you is like that. If your ex says you're a horrible person or a narcissist, you're like, I'm not a narcissist. But it bothers you. And as long as it bothers you, it means there's a piece of you that's in it.
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So I would say, okay, so maybe there's 5% of me that is, and let me explore that. Only so that I can release it and not have to have another relationship show it to me or have another chaotic situation come up.
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The second one we already talked about, which is certainty. Certainty is a whole bucket in and of itself because... None of the other quadrants become activated without certainty.
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Certainty is everything. It is the consciousness that removes all the dark forces, all the negativity. It is the consciousness that creates happiness. It is the consciousness that creates joy. It is the consciousness that vibrates infinite universes. Every moment of certainty creates positive forces in this world that go out into this world and fight for you.
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They're blocking, yes, they're blocking the ability to create the vessel that can hold all of those things. Now, someone's saying right now, Well, I know a lot of people who are wealthy who don't have certainty. They have doubts and anxiety all day long. So what's going on there? These people have a different process.
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Oftentimes, the creator will give somebody wealth and that's the beginning of their spiritual process. And it's not that this wealth was something they earned through their spiritual work that they can enjoy. In fact, that was their starting point of their spiritual path. And the fact is, until they do that spiritual work with the wealth, they're not even enjoying it.
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Yes. So that is true. You would shift from one form of temporary pain, and then you will be shifting into another form of temporary pain, and that's what will come. Because you won't be ready for it. You won't be ready for it. You won't have the vessel for it. But here's what's interesting. Whoever's listening, you have the free will to do that.
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You could actually tell the universe, hey, look, I'd rather be... Have money. Rich and miserable. Yeah, and poor and miserable. And poor and miserable. And that may shift in that direction. And you'll stay miserable. And the miserable, you'll still be lacking the fulfillment. And in fact, they're actually... And it might be more painful.
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Because you have so much more energy around you, i.e. more money, you must have a bigger vessel to hold that so you actually 100 extra challenges as well. So maybe you're miserable and broke now, but your kids are good, your marriage is good, but you're just kind of miserable because you can't make ends meet.
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In this other scenario, if you are the same exact person, but you have more money, all of a sudden you'll see not just problems in the business, but problems with the kids and problems in the relationship.
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Because this is such a beautiful, true statement, and I think it's very powerful when people hear the why behind it, because now you understand how we're making this, not just how it is. The reason why money amplifies problems is because money is this infusion of energy that
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that then comes towards you, and this energy wants to be revealed in its full potential, but it sees that your vessel can't hold it. So this energy starts to press upon you, and Kabbalah is called the surrounding light. It's a light that surrounds you, and says, hey, I want to be revealed. And in order for me to be revealed, I'm going to put pressure on you to change who you are and expand.
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And so that is when people feel stress. Stress is when you have energy that's trying to be revealed, but you're not changing fast enough to let it in. You're not overcoming old belief systems, limited belief systems, this thing that your spouse told you that you're being very selfish, or you're not being focused, or you're being very angry, like you're just not dealing with it.
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So then, but what are you doing? You're making more money. So the money's coming in saying, I'm energy and your wife, I sent your wife to you two weeks ago to tell you about something you need to change because I'm coming and you haven't made space for me. So now I'm gonna become chaos. When energy comes to a vessel that can't hold it, we have chaos.
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If a waiter came right now and poured a gallon of water, which is, water's a great thing, into my cup, We have chaos. Yes. I need a bigger cup. I need a bigger vessel to hold all of that. And so it's the same reason why we don't just, I remember when we had to do our trusts and like, what are we going to give our children when they grow up or when we pass on?
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Like, is there a big danger to passing wealth on to children who haven't worked for it? So, you know, we created a beautiful structure where it basically said for every dollar they make, maybe they get 50 cents of what we make. But until then, it is not given to them.
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So energetically, because I understand vessels, like if I give my, I don't know, if one of my kids is 25 and God forbid I'm no longer here, if I give him an infusion of cash, I destroy him. It's a lightning bolt of energy and we all know this is what happens. There's no child, no kid, no 19-year-old, 20-year-old, 25-year-old, 30-year-old, where you can hand them
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$1 million, $5 million, $10 million, $100 million, who says, you know what? All right, this is good. I'm not going to let this affect me in any way whatsoever. I'm going to be more responsible.
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No. You're going to buy a house. You're going to buy a car. It's gone. You're going to go spend it on your friends. It's gone. Spend it on women. And the chaos begins.
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So you say that out loud. That prayer will draw the energy of $5 million to you. And by the way, that's a great thing. Every year I say to the creator, I would love to have, here's my new goal, which is much more than I have today. So then that energy comes towards me. The pressure builds. It detoxes my soul's negativity. And I begin the process of seeing that.
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When you ask for $5 million, you're going to get 5 million problems. But that's a good thing. because these problems are showing you what you need to change. So I'm with you. Nobody wants to be broke. Nobody wants to be alone. Nobody wants to be sad. We should have all these things.
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But I've learned, and I really just want to share, that there is a process that goes from where you're at to where you want to be. And that process is a very spiritual process. You're just going to see your limitations.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
We all have certainty when things are okay.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
You see the money in the bank. I have certainty. It feels good. Yeah. Because when it goes wrong, you have doubt. You realize you never had certainty. You borrowed the certainty that the money gave you.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
In my prosperity seminars, I talk about five different concepts of how to manifest prosperity. The first one is the limited beliefs about building your vessel. Another one is simply the power of oneness and focus. One of the things that the negative side does as you aim to be successful, are successful, is to dilute your focus and work on many things.
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I have learned that there are only two things I ever want to focus on. One is my brand, as long as I have it, and one is my spiritual platform. These are two things. Now, how many opportunities come to me? Someone comes to me and says, oh, you should invest in Bitcoin or crypto. I said, look, maybe, but I'm not. Here's a huge opportunity to invest in something.
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Here's a board of a company you should be on. Here's a this and here's a that. And by the way, they're all very lucrative potentially. And some of them are guaranteed wins. In fact. It's the guaranteed wins that are the most dangerous because you're like, well, I'll do that too. And what the negative side does is divide and conquer.
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Once your attention is divided, everything becomes less of the vibration and state of manifestation. So I have learned to find one, maybe two things. And there are some people who can handle more. But for the majority of us, we need one or two things. And to go very deep, deep, deep, deep, deep and pull our energy into it because...
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Someone asked me, if you had to build a vitamin company today, how would you do it? One is I have seen why other people can't do it is because 100% of their attention and focus is not on that. I said, you want to compete with me? Right. Good luck. My attention is 100% on this. Obsessed. And I'm obsessed. Now, if you're doing six other things...
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it's going to be very hard to energetically shift and move and open those gates. So the person who is the most focused wins. So if you're trying to break into a new industry, the focus is the only way that's really going to work, right? Starting point.
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Now, the question I think your audience is asking or that you said you think they're asking is, well, how do I know of these 10 different options I have, which one to do? And this is true. This is a good question. I have all these passions. I have all these things that excite me. Yeah. And I want to do all of them. And I don't know which one's the right one. How would I deal with that?
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One, I would acknowledge this is not bad. The creator is showing me 10 options. That alone is good. Because when you say something is bad, you will never understand it. When you say this relationship is bad or the situation is bad or the fact that I don't know what to do is bad, you already aren't on the vibration to understand what needs to be done. So you have to first say it's good.
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Just even if you don't mean it, say it over and over again. This is good that I don't know what to do. Now that you said it's good, you've established a connection to the miraculous realm of the light of the creator. Now this light will illuminate what you should do. If I didn't know what I should do, I'd do nothing. And I continue with prayer. I will walk all around Los Angeles like I always do.
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And I will say, show me. Show me what is the right thing for my soul. And... Here is my spiritual peace offering. I'm also going to work on my negativity, that spiritual quadrant, because that will then expand my vessel to get the answer. If you don't know what to do, it means you haven't merited the answer. You haven't earned the answer from the universe. Well, how do I earn an answer?
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You have to build your vessel for the answer. So certainty, spiritual work, and these other two quadrants, which I'm going to say, which is the third one is prayer, which I just mentioned. Prayer is the third quadrant. is all building the vessel even to get an answer. These four quadrants can be used to manifest anything, even an answer.
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You need an answer about something and you're not getting it? Well, the answer is there because the answer comes before the question. What came first? God? Or the vessel? God. So what came first, the light or the vessel? The answer. The answer comes before the question. Not the knowledge, the wisdom. Correct. The only reason there is a question is because there was an answer before that.
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If you have a question, it means the answer is already there. Well, why isn't it revealed to me? Because your vessel hasn't been built for it. So let's build it. Is that prayer? The third quadrant is prayer.
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Spirituality is the concept that I have a soul, and my soul has a purpose, and I am now going to learn about that purpose in order for my soul to receive everything that it is meant to receive. This is the definition of spirituality. This is why everybody says they're spiritual. I ask someone, are you religious? They say, no, no, we're spiritual.
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It's like a great, people love saying it because they resonate with this idea. Yeah, I'm a soul and I'm meant to receive everything. So I'm spiritual. Now, certainty is a concept, is a vibration, is a quality of the creator that I must inhabit in order to be on a spiritual path. So a spiritual person is also a certain person. Prayer. Prayer. Oh, was it prayer that you said? Yeah, yeah.
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So, prayer. Okay, I'm sorry. I thought it was certainty. So, prayer, same thing. Prayer is another technology by which I can best transform my vessel. Because every time I pray... My vessel vibrationally changes and everything becomes clear and expands and the energy can come in. What does prayer look like for you? Depends on what I'm asking for. So let's say I don't feel enough certainty.
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I'll just keep asking for certainty in my own language over and over again.
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Give me certainty. That's it. Give me certainty. I am certain. I want certainty. I have certainty in this. I have certainty in my happiness. I have certainty that this thing is good. And I'll actually go through every problem in my life and say, I have certainty that this is good. And I have certainty that this is good. And I have certainty that this is good.
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So I'll start to inject the light force of certainty in everything that is currently not working. Because if I don't proactively do that, subconsciously, your mind thinks it's a bad thing. So you're blocking the energy. If you don't pray, the default is that you think something is bad. That doesn't go your way. That's just how we're built.
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So you actually have to reprogram your body and mind every morning and point to everything that's not working and say, I have certainty. I have certainty this is working or this will work or... All of them work. I have certainty that this is good. I have certainty that it will work. It's actually more powerful to say, I have certainty that it is already done.
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I've already reached the level of manifestation. It's actually a higher vibration. Okay. Wow. But I let people kind of comfortably find what works for them. Gotcha. Because sometimes just saying one thing may not be appealing to someone and you need some baby steps along the way.
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99% of my day needs to be prayer. And even now... 99% of your day is prayer. Is prayer. So even now, we're praying. This is prayer for you. Well, what maybe the audience doesn't see is that every pause I'm taking or when you're talking, in my mind, I'm like, Creator... Please make sure that the next word that comes out is the right word. So I'll be praying for that.
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Or when I'm drinking the water, I'm saying, I want that the light in this water is what I connect to, not the physicality of the water. Because everything also has light in vessel. And if your intention when you drink or eat is, I'm just hungry. So you're feeding... Yeah. You're feeding... The pain. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, you're feeding the body consciousness, which is the doubts, the fears, and negativity. So Kabbalists have this whole thing about how to eat food, how to chew food. Say if you chew food until it's liquid... Actually, science says the same thing. Chew food until it's liquid, what you're doing, the mastication of food, is separating the physical from the spiritual.
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And so by doing that, you're elevating... the negative coarser part of the food out and you're elevating the light that's in it. So what will happen is your consciousness will be elevated. But if you just kind of eat and just shove it in your mouth and you're like, I'm hungry, your intention here is to feed and empower your body consciousness
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which is the selfishness, the insecurity, the neediness, the lust of the body, the need for power of the body. So even food is a technology, if used in the right way, to elevate your consciousness of certainty.
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Yes. Now, if I did all of this and I just sat on my couch, there's a problem. Because while we spiritually need to earn everything, the body also needs to move. The body needs to earn itself. This is why the gym is important. This is why exercise is important. Exercise is actually very spiritual. Kabbalists say that when you sweat... the sweat is actually the breaking of negativity as well.
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And that's why almost every time you sweat, you feel good because you're cleansing negativity. I sweat all the time, so I must have negativity that needs to come out of me. You sweat very well, right? So it's a great feeling when you sweat when you're pushing, when you're proactively pushing yourself. Yeah. So the body's cleansing itself when it sweats. And that's what sweat is.
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It's the cleansing of the body, consciousness. So, and sleep, by the way, what sleep does is, spiritually is the soul is so pure that when it's inundated with all the negativity of this world and the limited consciousness and the fears and not just of you, but everybody around you, the soul needs to recharge and cleanse itself.
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Science even says our body rejuvenates itself, so why do we need to sleep? Sleep is actually a spiritual process that the body benefits from. The soul leaves at night And the body experiences actually a little bit of death. And that's why it starts to cleanse itself. And, you know, a person wakes up in the morning, they have bad breath, they have this, they have that.
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They need to like kind of clean themselves. They need to use the restroom. It's because when the soul leaves, it's kind of pushing. The soul leaves, it recharges, comes back, and it pushes out of the body like the negativity. So there's a cleansing happening every time we sleep. That's why when we sleep well... We have higher consciousness. We have more certainty. We have more happiness.
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We have more joy. So sleep is also a spiritual process that enhances these four quadrants. So the physical work is so important in terms of the way you eat, the way you sleep, the way you exercise, all for the sake of uniting yourself with the Creator, not to impress someone or because you're insecure, shift it to, I want to be like the Creator. And...
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Actually working in your company, in your business, you actually have to put the time in. Elon Musk didn't just say, I have certainty and did everything. He actually was sitting in his factories working really hard as well. So when hard work, when a person is just physically working hard, the reason why it's not working is because they're missing the other three quadrants.
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And that is why it feels like nothing's moving.
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Correct. And the truth is, each quadrant, I could probably give 10 to 20 classes and seminars on like how to go deeper and what it really means. And all of this is in my master class as well. But this is kind of like the headline of it. Sure. But there's depths of it. And if you go deeper into each one, you will be a manifestation powerhouse. Wow.
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Everywhere you go, you can open any gate and then you collapse time as well. You do it much quicker.
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I would say in the spiritual category, at this stage, things have moved so quickly for me lately. I mean... so much has come in that it's kind of the negative side is using it as a way to distract me.
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I think that I got to a place I was so methodical about my spiritual work and step by step and how do I break through and then things open. So as long as things go methodically for me, I'm good. And they go slowly and patiently. Like I'm very structured. But now it's like abundantly flowing to you. So the creator and the negative side got together and said, okay, how do we really test them?
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Let's give him so much momentum that it actually distracts him. Really? Yeah. So what I've kind of learned now is to not fall into that. I'm trying to anyways. I'm trying not to fall into that and constantly rebalance because there's so many shiny objects. There's so many ways and opportunities and like, what do we do and how do we do it? That very easily I could lose myself.
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And I have, by the way. I'm not sitting here saying, guys, I got this. I am in the same seat as everybody else. Not a perfect man. Just a different level. Yeah, yeah. Just different levels. I hate to even say that because it's kind of like we're all so different in so many different ways. But I can just tell you the same mistakes you make, I make. The same fears you have, I have.
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The same problems you have, I deal with on a daily basis. The same pain, it's all the same. And in my case, I am just learning that I can very easily get lost in the momentum of things. And I need to always remember what's important. What is important for me that I'm reminding myself is my family, is the spiritual work that got me here.
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Because now he's like, oh, look, I got all this manifestation. Whatever this happened, that happened. And you forget because my teacher, one of my teachers, Karen Berg, said whatever miracle you're having today is because of seeds you planted six months ago.
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Six years ago. So if you want to have miracles again in six months or in six years or in six days, plant the same seeds now that you did before. The greatest seed you can plant for miracles is when you are so broken, so at the bottom, so confused, so like hopeless, but you inject happiness, certainty, and you do those four quadrants.
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When you're at the bottom, it's the greatest light that can be revealed. So I know that a lot of the great things that are happening in my life today, are from, let me think about it. It was probably from one of the most painful times of my life. I mean, a lot of painful things happened last year, the transition of obviously, you know, family and relationship.
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A very painful thing happened four years ago, which was like one of the worst things. Like every four years, something crazy happens. And then I know that either a year or two or three years later, there's a huge blessing that comes as well. So I'll tell people if you're going through that now, That darkness, that broken, that like, I don't even know what to do. And it's, I'm so scared.
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If you apply these four quadrants right now, it's the greatest soil to plant this seed.
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And you can ask for it.
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Well, here's what's amazing. When you do these four things, you are connected on such a vibration where you start to have divine inspiration. So the divine ideas and thoughts become to a person who's doing these four things. We know that when a person is happy, they receive messages. When a person is sad, they don't receive messages. And why? Because it's a vibration of energy.
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Happiness is in line with the light of the creator. So you're receiving divine inspiration. You're receiving visions of the future. You're receiving the right words at the right time. You're actually finding yourself in the right place at the right time. And it's all working out when you're on that vibration. When you're not on that vibration and you have sadness or there's laziness or
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or there's this being stubborn and not listening, then it's like the thoughts are blocked, the ideas are blocked. You could be saying the right things, but people don't feel you. I've heard this so many times. They'll be like, I hear you saying all the right things, but it's like... The energy's off. The energy's off. Or they hear something totally different because everybody feels our energy.
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They're not listening to our words. This is a very powerful thing that I've also learned because when I started to, like, want to put content out there, one of the mistakes I knew I could have made was, how do I make really the content unique? And I was talking to somebody else recently, and she's like, I haven't found my niche to put out new, unique content.
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I don't want to be like every other influencer. And I said, look, if you're trying to solve this in the physical realm... This is a niche. This is my niche. You'll get far. But the world is looking for something very different. And I actually think content... for our next generation, what the audience will really appreciate. I call it content 2.0.
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It's less about the hacks of life and, you know, hey, like, like we said before, like if you're in a breakup, block them for 30 days and like respect yourself. Like all of these things are like really great, but we've heard it a lot. The 2.0 is amazing. The energy you transmit through the content. The certainty you transmit through the content.
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The spirituality through the work you've done on yourself that you transmit through the content. This will be the new era of influencers. Because people are now... People see through the BS. People see through the... I'm telling you what I think is... great to hear. But they don't believe it or they don't have certainty around it or something.
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Or they're turning off the camera and going back and screaming at their kids or cheating on their wife or whatever it is that's going on. So they're saying one thing but doing another, right? And by the way, we're all... We're all like inauthentic in some way. Whatever I say to you, am I living it perfectly? Absolutely not. The question becomes, what is your desire?
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If your desire is to always reach that level, it is as if you have reached that level. But if you're really just living two different lives and you're like, I know this is what the world wants to hear and this is actually what I want to do. that polarity is going to be shut down and not rewarded, I believe, in the next five to 10 years.
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So you do not have to be perfect, but you have to have a desire to want to grow these four quadrants. The desire itself is the immunity and the protection, and your audience will feel it. And I really want to emphasize that. Don't try to be perfect. I've tried this and it has backfired tremendously. I've tried to look perfect.
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I've tried to say, oh my God, if I'm on a spiritual platform, I can't make any mistakes. I used to not leave my house for fear that I would make a mistake and ruin my reputation. It was that bad. That was why I said in the last podcast, I didn't even date a woman.
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From the age of 20 to 29 until the day I got married because I was so afraid... Of making a mistake or... Hurting somebody, having a bad reputation, somebody calling me an asshole, somebody calling me a creep, somebody calling me whatever. And then I realized I was actually avoiding very much what my probably spiritual work was at the time, which was, you know, need for approval, let's say.
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I feel like I would be... If I had to get on a stage and say something and feel that when I got off of it I did the exact opposite intentionally, it I would die inside. Like, I would feel like I could not. And I think most people cannot do that. Like, you cannot get on and talk when you know you're doing something else. Yeah, it's not authentic.
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I think in some of my most recent walks and meditations and prayer, and I ask like, what is my soul meant to do? And I see, I see like a future. I see a vision of something I know I would love to do and a desire to do and believe I'm meant to do. Let's say, for example, it's an audience. Cause again, I only started this like half a year ago, eight months ago. I, if I want to reach people,
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if I want to be of service to, let's say, 100 million people, that they learn this wisdom of the Creator. Not my wisdom, like, totally be clear about that. This is not my wisdom. This is not my content. This is all stuff I've learned from my teachers, I've learned it from their teachers, thousands of years, and I love that we can have access to it.
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And I would love to be part of that process of bringing it to the world. But how would I ask my question? How would I sabotage that? Because if I'm a vessel for that, the question's going to be, what do I need to do to expand the vessel to fit that energy through to 100 million people? I don't know.
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If my audience is a couple million now, I would have to become a completely different person to service 100 million people or a billion people and not fall. There's a lot of times we can get to those numbers and then there's a crash that happens. I'm always asking myself, what do I need to do to the best of my ability to expand my vessel to service those souls if I feel that's my purpose?
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One of the things that's come up, and I'll just be vulnerable about it, is that I think the most dangerous thing we all face, and I have it real big, is the need for validation. We all love being validated. We love when people message us and say, You're amazing. You're awesome. Every time somebody says, that was the best podcast with you and Lewis, I'm like sending it to you right away.
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Did you see that? And the truth is, it's great to receive thank yous and compliments and validation. But I ask myself, what's going to happen when... You give a seminar for 1,000 people. I came to your seminar. You have 4,000 or 5,000 people there. And I asked myself, if I was on the stage, I would be like, wow, look at me.
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And the fact that that would affect me and change me means I'm not ready for it.
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So I remember when I was 24 years old, I started at 20 teaching seminars. At 24, I went on tour and I went to four different cities a week for a year. Wow. So I don't know what it was. I did like 200 something seminars. And so I would go to Phoenix, there'd be like 300 people there. I would go to San Francisco, there was 700 people there. I went. And I went.
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I went with like a group of five people. I was staying at the great hotels. I was eating great food. I'm like, this is like rock star. I felt so great. People come up to you after the speech and you're amazing and you're changing my life and thank you. So new for me. I'm like, this is amazing. You feel like you're changing the world. You feel like you're doing something spiritual. And
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I think after the 30th one, and it's the same seminar over and over again, I was exhausted. I'm like, I don't want to do this anymore. I don't want to see people anymore. I remember vomiting in the airport, sleeping enough, flight after flight after flight. And I'm like, I didn't want it at all. And I didn't want to go to another city.
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And at some point, people coming up to you and saying that was great becomes the opposite. It's more like you feel like they're taking energy from you.
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Before it was like, wow, look, they want my energy. Now it's like, oh my God, they want my energy. Right, right, right. So I remember calling my mentor at the time and I said to him, so why? Like probably one of the wisest spiritual teachers ever. his name is Michael Berg. And I said to him, I said, I said, I don't want to do this anymore. Like I'm exhausted. I want to come back to LA.
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I want to sleep in my bed. I want to like just teach there. And he said to me something I'll never forget. One of the most profound things he ever said. He said, you need to know everything you've done up to this point actually was no revelation of light because you were the taker. You went to San Francisco and you took validation from them. I know it looked like you gave them.
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But you took from them. But you did it because you were excited about the validation. You were good. And so, yes, they look like they were inspired. But to the extent of the taking is they're not going to be left with the blessing and the miracle. They're not going to remember the wisdom. The reason why we still, there's the major religions of Christianity and Buddhism and Islam and Judaism.
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The reason why these words, these great sages still continue until today It's because they perfected their need for approval. They perfected their vessel to truly be pure channels. And so their words became immortal. Wow.
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And the reason why most people just forget about us after a certain point is because our words are not immortal because we are really like we're mixing some purity with a lot of selfishness as well.
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And I thought to myself, to the extent of my need for validation is to the extent that not only will my words not carry, not only will the message not carry, but I will not be able to reach that group of people. So he said to me, he said, from this moment on, everything you do will actually be giving because you don't want to do it anymore. You're not even enjoying it.
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You look at someone approaching you, you're like, oh God. And then when you look them in the eye and you talk to them, this is, you are now God. Because you don't have any desire to receive for yourself.
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You are now asking the most powerful question, and... From this moment on, if I answer it, we're actually now studying Kabbalah. Because everything before this was like pre-Kabbalah. It was like scrimmage. Because I didn't... It was JV. I rarely... Yeah, it was JV. Now we're on the varsity. If you want to hear the answer to this, because...
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
And for the audience that's going to hear it, it's going to sound contradictory and it's going to bend your mind a little bit, but you're going to feel the energy of it. Because Kabbalah is so powerful and advanced and I almost never on a podcast format would go into it. I'll do it in my master classes because we have time. But here's the thing. There are two vessels inside of you to receive.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
One is called a linear vessel and one is called a circular vessel. What do we know about a linear vessel? It has a beginning and an end. Meaning, if you feed that vessel, you're always going to feel good and then it's going to be gone. And this is how most people feel. I got validation. I feel amazing. And then tomorrow, I need it again. Okay? Most people are operating in a linear vessel.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
When you get to that point where you no longer enjoy the giving... And you still push through with the intention of, I'm doing this to become one with the Creator. Because I just want to fit into your form. You now shift to a circular vessel. The circular vessel is endless. And no chaos can come in this. And now you can receive endlessly.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
Because what happens when you don't care anymore, but you still give? I can give you a million dollars. I can give you a hundred million dollars. I can have a million people say you're amazing. It won't affect you because you're serving now. You're looking for validation from the creator. And you can only get to that second phase when you no longer are in the mood to give.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
And then you shift through that darkness.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
99% of this spiritual work is just wanting it. So what I hope from this podcast is, Everyone hearing is, hey, we're all in the same boat. We all want validation. We want everyone to love us. Like, we want to be the man or the woman. We want to be it. Let's admit that that's our problem. Yes.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
And then let's pray, ask, and desire and say, I want to get to this circular place where I don't need it at all and I can truly serve and be a giver and I receive only the validation of the Creator. I invoice the Creator. I don't invoice the people. Right. I have learned that when I do a favor for someone, immediately I write an invoice to the creator.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
I do not, otherwise I will look for something from the person. I did something for them, why aren't they doing something for me? There is nothing more powerful than invoicing the Creator.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
When it's coming to you, you have to pause constantly and say, okay, one second. What is this doing to me? Is this inflating my ego? Is this making me feel a certain way? How do I recalibrate myself back to becoming the vessel that creates miracles? How do I get back to being the cause? Because as soon as somebody validates you, you become the effect. Now they are controlling my mood.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
I am no longer in the vibration of God and the creator. And I am now actually not planting any more seeds. Now, that doesn't mean we shouldn't compliment people.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
Never say that to them. You always say thank you to them. You never say, oh, no, no, it's not me. Because you're also now rejecting their ability to shine their light. You're blocking their gift. Exactly. So it's the constant calibration of... This is why slow and steady wins the race. And if you get too successful too fast. So true. Yeah. You get too famous too fast.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
It's almost impossible to recalibrate your consciousness. You almost have to fall. And then the recalibration happens, which by the way, it happened to me many times. I've fallen. And then I had to recalibrate. I'm learning now, if I want to go at this momentum, I need to like pray more. I need to like ground myself more. I need to spend time with people who have achieved this. I went to dinner.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
I was in Miami. I went to dinner with someone. I had two options. To go somewhere really fun or go to this dinner. And I went to the dinner. It was three people. And I'm trying to see if I am allowed to... You know what? I'm going to say his name because I think that he would appreciate it. And it would be context of the story. Do you remember Adam Newman from... Yeah, we were. We were, right?
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
Well, first, very flattered by everything you said. And thank you for having me back. And yes, I think our connection, our chemistry, and every time I'm with you, the gates open. There's so much that comes. So I just love the time that we have together. If I was broke today, if I had nothing... What would I do? Yeah. What's the step-by-step process? And what is hard work?
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
Yeah. So he's got a great story, right? So Adam...
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
I love that. We had dinner with him. So I met Adam for the first time before he had work. And I was teaching privately in someone's home. And he... Before he had WeWork, you met him. Before he had WeWork. Wow. He had his other company. Before he was at it. Like, there was no... And he was learning Kabbalah in this home. Interesting. Yeah. It was a private thing. So, I've known him all these years.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
And he has been an incredible... He and Rebecca have been incredible friends, mentors, guides in so many different ways. Like, when you get to know who they are and the love they have and what they want to give, like...
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
I just heard about the school in Miami. She was just telling me about it. I'm like, oh my God, I want this in LA. I would love for my kids to be in LA. So I went to this dinner and he said to me, he said, look, I see what's happening to you. I see what's happening to your platform. I see what's happening to your business. Yeah. And it was a four-hour conversation. And what I got from that was...
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
Basically the energy of we hope we never want you to crash. Here are the things you should do.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
So that it doesn't happen. What do you say? Okay. So the biggest thing was the validation. You have to be, from a validation point of view, you have to make sure that you do not allow this to take you from the core of who you are and from everything you did to get to this point. Reconnect with your spirituality deeper and deeper than ever.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
Reconnect with your mentors and teachers and the ones who were there for you more deeper and deeper than ever before. He also has something very interesting. They have a great relationship together. And he said, you know, being in a relationship, being in a healthy relationship, a romantic relationship, whatever, like this is also a very important thing. It makes you choose wisely.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
The greatest thing that ever happened to me in my life is my relationship, partnership with Mary Ruth, a female figure in my life who undoubtedly without her, I would not be anywhere that I am today. Like I owe everything to her. And so whoever that partner is in your life, The way Mary Ruth took me from who I was to where I am today and whatever that next chapter of my life is.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
This, they said, was so valuable because that is who you're spending the most time with. That is who is affecting your consciousness. That's who is affecting your belief systems. And so this is a very important thing as well. And the third thing they said, remember the intention of why you are teaching this wisdom.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
And it is only about the light of the creator and helping people connect with the light of the creator, know the creator and not know you. Because one of the things I struggled with is as a marketer by trade, What's the smartest way to bring this wisdom out? Personal brand.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
I think those are two beautiful questions. One, hard work is essential. But let's define what hard work is. A lot of people think... A lot of people are investing their energy in hard work and in the physical world. So it's the amount of hours I spend doing something. It's the amount of effort I exert in doing something. And one of the ways of looking at it is...
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
What? I don't know yet because I'm just going to be honest. I don't fully know because I'm going through it. And I also believe I'm failing, by the way. I remind myself every day, most likely you're failing this. Because that will actually position me better to not be delusional. So most likely I'm failing. I've got it all figured out. I'm doing perfect. Yeah.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
It is so scary to me because it's happened to me and I've seen it happen to people very close to me. So I almost always assume that I'm not doing it right. So do I know how to do that? I'm struggling with it. I am praying every day. And I think this is probably the answer. I know my heart's in the right, I believe my heart's in the right place. I know my intention is I want to be pure.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
I don't want to be corrupted. I don't want to fall to this. I do see my negativity come up regularly. And this is new negativity, right? Because I've never been in this position before. So, like, I'm so human. Like, I always want to, like, let the world know, like, I am human. Like, know that I'm going to disappoint you.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
And I am doing right now the best I can do is just pray and ask and just be around good people who I know will call me out. Yes. So, and they called me out for, like, four hours.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
Yeah. And the first thing, and I felt, I felt, I felt my soul. Yeah. And I left, and then I texted him the next day. I said, I need to hear that more often, and I want to have that. Because it's not the words they said. Remember, they've gone through it.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
And one of the things I asked, I said, what's the one thing that really did it? It's those covers of the magazines they said. I mean, can you imagine being on the cover of Forbes, cover of Times? I can't, I, I know if I, if that happened to me, you mean it got his validation too big or it's just like how all the energy happened, right? Like once all of that happens, right.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
And I, and I, I really hope it's okay. I shared this. I believe that they would want this message to be out there. Um, I know if I was on the cover of Forbes, my pride be demolished. My soul would probably rot at that point. Really? Level of ego that would really, and, and, and, But if someone is, so how then? Me, I'm not saying other people. I'm saying for me.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
The Kabbalists kind of explain, and I've simplified it in four quadrants. There are four things that we need to do and do very well in order to manifest A miracle. What is that? In order to manifest the miracle of abundance, wealth, love, whatever it is you're looking for.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
That is the question.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
And that is, I think, the only solution. I need to ask myself that question every day.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
Yes. The momentum is there. Yeah. There are things that I see and that I feel, which means it's destined to happen either in this lifetime or next. Yeah. That's my free will. When? Time will be the free will of when it happens.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
This is why I love spending time with you because you ask me these questions all the time. So I'm trying to take myself out of my body and ask if the creator was asking me. Or what is the creator telling you? You know, there's a, It's harder for me to describe in words, but I can describe in feelings. There's a feeling I have.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
I know when I've been broken and like what that broken feeling is and I still go out there. That feeling is a very powerful place to be. That it's like you're broken, but you're appreciative. You're broken, but you're happy. That's the only protection. And I have to always try to connect to that energy and duplicate that so that crashing doesn't do that.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
And just as you're saying it, I think I would need to take even more time out of my day instead of manifesting things, instead of working, instead of trying to make more money. I need to work on building that feeling and that consciousness because that vessel is what's going to be able to hold that future that you just talked about.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
And I think what I'm actually realizing as I'm talking to you is the negative side, this dark force that we all have an opponent, this opponent could very well be giving me so much good things so that I don't spend any time or I just don't have the time to reconnect to that consciousness of a broken vessel.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
And often the reason why people are working so hard but not seeing the miracle is they might only be focused on one of those four quadrants and investing all their energy in that one but ignoring the other three. or maybe just three out of the four. It's when you hit all four that the gates open.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
All of this is coming, it's coming. Right. So all these things I'm doing will draw in the energy, but I'm actually not taking the time To build the vessel that will hold it when it comes, that's the danger.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
That is the scariest thing here. When you get so busy and the day is stacked because the good things are happening, you then forget the spiritual things. and the spiritual things you did to get there.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
Wow, what a discipline.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
I think what you just said is so many people talk about how to make it. Very few people talk about how to hold it.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
And every time I've given this seminar, I ask everybody in the room, how many people are four out of four? Nobody ever, including myself. When you're four out of four, the gates open immediately. When you're not four out of four, things take time. They become a struggle. They become harder. And then the universe has to compensate for the quadrant you're not working on.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
We don't talk about it enough.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
I, after you said it and that's what I, that's what came up for you. That's what came up for me to make the time. Yeah. or even take the time off to always recalibrate and get to that one feeling I had before that I knew that was the perfect vessel. That was the circular vessel.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
When you're broken and you're crushed and you feel rejected and you feel like humiliated, you don't even want to walk outside, but you still show up, then you're just a giver.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
it's not about you anymore but then everybody loves you again and then it's a problem right and the kawasaki say that because when you do when you're broken you go out there and you give then the miracles come and then everybody loves you so you keep you keep there's manifestation and then you need to recreate the vessel the question is do you recreate it proactively which is very hard or do you wait for the universe to crush you to build it yeah
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
Only looking for validation from the creator. Only looking for validation from the creator.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
Invoicing the creator.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
So when you do a service for someone, then you send them an invoice and say, here's what you have to pay for my services, right? And one of the ways I've learned to kind of let go of resentment
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
is i will do something for someone i'll give them time maybe money maybe energy and maybe they don't appreciate maybe they do nothing with it but i know that that energy is not lost so i go to the creator and i say creator i'm now invoicing you you have to pay this bill wow that's cool yeah so you pay the bill through any way you want and then i'm i'm not resenting the person anymore
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
You trust and you also basically say, hey, look, this is my services. This is how much energy I use. This is my vessel I created. And this is a bond. Pay me for my service. Pay me for my services. Well, you obviously have to let go about when and how it happens.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
You should never look to take from the people. You should only look to receive from the Creator. Now, the Creator may send the people to give to you, but your intention should never be, because otherwise that's when we get upset with people.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
So I'm going to get into those four quadrants in a moment. But what does it mean the universe has to compensate? The universe then has to push us or cause some form of pain and suffering to awaken us in that quadrant.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
Oh, my gosh. That's so powerful.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
People are programmed not to give you something that you are looking for from them. That's what's interesting. People like to give to people who don't feel entitled to it in any way, or not even expecting it.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
And so when you talk to the creator, and you still feel you deserve, but from the creator, you say, creator, I trust the way you will manifest it with people, then your energy is very whole and complete, and the people actually want to give to you more, and that's when they actually come to you. It's very fascinating.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
He'll send the people and the people will have no choice, but they'll come to you like, I don't even know why, but I got to do this for you.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
Correct, because our attention often only flows to where there's pain. Now, if you can proactively put your attention somewhere, then the universe does not need to get involved. then there is no signal sent to send somebody toxic to you, to make you fall in love with them, to then break your heart, to learn a lesson.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
There is no need for someone to come in to steal from you or to sue you or to sabotage your business in some way. There's just no need. There's no need for your family to be destructive all of a sudden and cause problems and drama. All of these things happen because a signal is being sent to pay attention to something. So what are the four quadrants? Spiritual work, which I'll define.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
There's physical work. Certainty. And prayer. This is all technology. And when people hear this, I want to make sure you know, I am not a religious person. I do not... ascribed to, let's say, a dogma or a specific path.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
Everything I'm sharing is what the great sages and Kabbalists who understand the energy of our world, understand light and vessel, have explained how you can build the vessel to hold this energy and light of creation. Some people call it God. Some people call it the Creator. that exists and is waiting to come into your life.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
Because our birthright is to be happy, to be fulfilled, and to have everything. This is what we are meant to receive, every soul in this world. And all of creation is actually pushing us towards this point where we can receive all that. So what is this technology? What is max spiritual work? We talk a lot about this in Kabbalah, and there is a whole step-by-step process to it.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
But in essence, spiritual work is my soul came to this world, with certain spiritual baggage, fears, limitations, and I am meant to transform them to get to a place of wholeness, which is the vibration of the Creator. That means that if I have a fear of abandonment, I'm transforming this. That means if I have anger issues, I'm transforming it.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
That means that if I'm a judgmental, sarcastic person, or a person who's always seeing the bad, or a person who... is feeling that they don't deserve. These are all qualities that don't exist in the Creator. The Creator does not have weakness. The Creator does not have fear. The Creator does not have jealousy. The Creator does not have these limitations.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
And so... Why do we have these things if the Creator doesn't? Because... This is a very deep question. I'll try to answer it as simply as I can. We were created with this darkness in order to have the free will to choose to remove it. For example, if I got my five-year-old a puzzle for his birthday and I said to him, I said, Elliot, can you wait right here?
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
I'm going to show you something really amazing. And I go and I make this 1,000-piece puzzle for him. And then I bring it to him. I said, okay, I brought you a gift. And I made the puzzle for you. Is he going to be like, dad, wow, you know, thank... Not only did you buy me a puzzle, but you also made it. Like, I love you so much. This is why you're my dad. Like, no, he's going to look at it.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
He's going to be angry. He's going to be upset. He's going to be like, I don't care for this. He's not going to feel fulfilled. He needs a broken puzzle so that he can make it. Now, I will help him make it. And that feeling, and when he puts that last piece himself, the joy he has that he completed something is like no other.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
There's a difference between if you built a company or you took over your dad's company or your mom's company. There's a whole different level of feeling. So we asked to have this level of darkness so that we could transform it and then finish the creation this way. The creator didn't need that. We asked for it so that we could have the feeling of wholeness.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
So that's the first quadrant, spiritual work. And every single person right now, no matter what your spiritual beliefs are, no matter where you are in your life, something has been revealed to you, at least one quality that you can transform, that you need to transform in order to create the miracle. So at every given moment, we are being shown one negative quality, at least. How?
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
There are people who are literally triggering you and bringing stuff out. You may feel like a victim in certain things. You may feel that something is unfair. You may feel bitter. You may feel resentful. These are all feelings and emotions that are indicative of something that we need to transform. Yeah, but he did that to me. Yeah, but they took something from me.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
Yeah, but I gave them two years of my life and they cheated on me. All of this is a test. since the time of creation that your soul asked for. This person that gave you two years of his life and your life and then left, your soul asked for this in order to have all these emotions and feelings come up so you can transform them. And there was no other way to do it.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
There was no other way for you to see what needs to be transformed without this person coming. And so every single person right now is feeling something and going through some kind of fear or emotion or darkness that Kabbalah explains. And that is highly correlated in this place of trying to make a miracle. Okay.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
So if someone says, I'm trying to make more money, the first question I'm asking them is, what fear are you feeling right now? And it could be in a totally unrelated part of life. but it is correlated to the miracle. Really? That's the first quadrant.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
I would say the most common fear and or quality that comes up for people when they're trying to manifest a miracle is doubt. They doubt themselves. They doubt themselves. They doubt that they will be happy. They doubt that their current situation is good. They doubt that there's a creator or universal force that is looking out for them.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
And doubt is a quality that does not exist in the vibration of the creator. So as long as you have doubts, you cannot enter the miracle zone. Like imagine there's a gate and there's a guard at the gate. And only people who have certainty can walk in. So they look at you and they see, but you have doubts. You are not allowed to enter the room of miracles. So you could be an amazing person.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
You could be a sharing person. You could be a kind person, a spiritual person. You could be a person who only does good for people. But if you have doubts, you cannot enter the world of miracles. So doubt is the key card. It's the VIP access to miracles. Okay. So what does it mean to have certainty?
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
It's not certainty that this will work out or certainty that this person's my soulmate or certainty that it's certainty that everything is good. Everything is from the creator and I feel whole and complete right now. despite what I see, feel, and hear, I know it's an illusion and everything is whole.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
Like we said before, I am wealth, I am love, I am all of these amazing things, and I trust in the light of the Creator. All the variations of what I just said is certainty.
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4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam
They enter a different destiny. So imagine you need to travel to San Diego from Los Angeles. You put it in Waze. Waze will give you the fastest path there, also understanding the traffic. Let's say it takes about two hours. This is the path of miracles. The most direct.
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The #1 Cause of Breakups & The Spiritual Secret To Attracting Healthy Love | David Ghiyam
At that moment, if you act like God, if you act like the creator, and Kabbalah teaches how you do that, if you transform your nature at that moment, and I can give a tool practically for people how to do that, you shift to a new destiny, which is already pre-programmed, but better than the first. So for example.
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The #1 Cause of Breakups & The Spiritual Secret To Attracting Healthy Love | David Ghiyam
You elevate to a new destiny, which is already, it's better, but it's also pre-programmed as well.
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The #1 Cause of Breakups & The Spiritual Secret To Attracting Healthy Love | David Ghiyam
There's infinite parallels.
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The #1 Cause of Breakups & The Spiritual Secret To Attracting Healthy Love | David Ghiyam
And just talk about all the narcissists in that destiny all day long. By the way, I agree. In this life you have, there's probably five or six toxic and narcissistic men and women that are going to approach you.
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The #1 Cause of Breakups & The Spiritual Secret To Attracting Healthy Love | David Ghiyam
Right. And what happens, you know, I saw this beautiful thing. I think you did it with Mel Robbins. It's like she was talking about should you block or not block? someone after a relationship. And somebody asked me the same question. I said, whether you block or don't block is not even a question that I desire to answer. You may need to, you may not need to.
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The #1 Cause of Breakups & The Spiritual Secret To Attracting Healthy Love | David Ghiyam
But if you block narcissist number one, indestiny number one, You will be forced to meet narcissist number two within destiny number one. It's not a matter of blocking or not blocking. I want to know why your soul from the beginning of time requested him or her to come. Attracted them. You attracted them for a reason.
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The #1 Cause of Breakups & The Spiritual Secret To Attracting Healthy Love | David Ghiyam
Often narcissists are attracted to the part of you that doesn't feel you deserve to receive love. We all have shame around receiving. I've seen this. I know we'll do a whole business thing. We'll do a whole prosperity thing. People
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The #1 Cause of Breakups & The Spiritual Secret To Attracting Healthy Love | David Ghiyam
are many of the most brilliant people aren't manifesting the wealth that is meant for them because they are subconsciously pushing it away because they feel they don't deserve. So when you feel you don't deserve something, you will attract people who will point that out and they will tell you and they will gaslight you and they will make you feel up and then down. And if all you do is blame them,
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The #1 Cause of Breakups & The Spiritual Secret To Attracting Healthy Love | David Ghiyam
If all you do is commiserate about them to your friends. Gossip about them. Or gossip about them.
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The #1 Cause of Breakups & The Spiritual Secret To Attracting Healthy Love | David Ghiyam
Can you believe that they did this? Correct. You stay in that same destiny. But there's a good backup plan. The creator and the universe has a good backup plan. They knew that you might just blame them. So they had a backup number two, three, four, five, and six. Until you learn the lesson. Until you learn the lesson. Now, some people say, you know what? I'm done with men. I'm done with women.
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I've heard women say that now they're dating only women because all men are this way or all women are that way. I've heard it all. I've done 25, 30,000 hours of coaching meeting every single kind of personality.
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So the creator has created a backup plan for that as well to make sure that you reach your perfection. So either you will find, let's say you actually find a woman who is actually great and you decided now to date women. And this woman is actually great and beautiful and nurturing all these things. And then you decide to have a child with this woman. Your child will be the narcissist.
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The #1 Cause of Breakups & The Spiritual Secret To Attracting Healthy Love | David Ghiyam
Somehow, and here's what's interesting.
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The #1 Cause of Breakups & The Spiritual Secret To Attracting Healthy Love | David Ghiyam
You've got to face it. The creator's backup plan is children and health. So eventually, your children will be the ones who will, because you can't disown them. Now, there are some wealthy people who also. Who disown them or send them away. Exactly. But the one thing you can't disown is your body.
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The #1 Cause of Breakups & The Spiritual Secret To Attracting Healthy Love | David Ghiyam
So I know many, many very, you know, people who are in very powerful positions and situations with all the money in the world and all the doctors in the world. It's very painful because now there's something that's developing inside their body and then they can't ignore it. And many times I meet those people after some form of sickness or loss, right? Some kind of death or something happened.
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It breaks their ego. They realize they have a soul. They realize there's a bigger picture. They realize everything they've done in their life hasn't actually gotten them the feeling that they're looking for. And so they start to ask questions. And these questions are, what is the purpose of why I'm here? Why is my soul here? Why did this happen to me?
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Not from a victim point of view, but because they want to know. They don't want to repeat that pain again. So I always tell people, here is a spiritual law. If you think your ex or your last relationship was toxic, and you believe it, and you begin to tell people about it, you must repeat it. If you say your ex is toxic, you're saying the creator is toxic.
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Because nothing happens without the creator's infinite supervision.
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If your ex is toxic and you believe it and you're telling everyone, then you're saying that the creator is toxic. And when you say that, you're basically disconnecting from all of creation, obviously. So then energetically, it plunges you into a whole new process of having to actually go through more and more challenges to course correct you back into your most miraculous path.
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Now, what's really powerful is, and this is how I'm really trying to focus on this in my own life every day. I just want to be on the highest vibration possible. And that includes what? That includes certainty. Always be in a place of certainty. Certainty that everything is good. Certainty that everything will be good. Certainty that everything's coming from the creator and is good.
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And your phone falls on the floor and cracks, you say this is good. And if someone is speaking poorly about you, you say this is good. If all of a sudden you have a headache, you say this is good. If you find out someone's cheating on you or taking your money or giving you a hard time, or a court case is not going your way. You say this is good.
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I'm not saying you just say this is good and you do nothing else, but in the beginning, you must accept. Because when you accept,
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and to the degree of your happiness in your acceptance, which also takes work, you vibrate on the level of godliness, because the Creator is a vibration of acceptance, which means you reveal the light of the Creator, then the darkness goes away, and then the most miraculous path is created for you. If you don't vibrate on this level, then you enter into a different pathway,
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That includes many more challenges to force you to the path of certainty again. So why not save the time and the trouble and just go straight to the certainty? Straight to the appreciation? And the third one is you always want to be giving more value than you receive because that's the Creator. The Creator is giving.
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As soon as you become a taker, you disconnect from the vibration of the Creator, which means you disconnect from the realm of miracles. And part of our spiritual work also is it looks like we're giving, But if we have an agenda, we're actually still taking.
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The #1 Cause of Breakups & The Spiritual Secret To Attracting Healthy Love | David Ghiyam
Yeah. So if I, I don't know, if I do you a favor, but in my mind, my consciousness.
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I have an ask later on or whatever. At that moment, the energy actually shifts to the vibration of taking. And there's a lot of people out there. They're like, I'm giving so much. I'm doing so much. Why am I not seeing miracles? There's one or two reasons. You're expecting something in return. Well, exactly. There's one or two reasons.
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The first is you're expecting something in return that you're not aware of. It could even be validation. If somebody asks me, how are you going to get to your dream of reaching, let's say, 100 million people to bring Kabbalah in? There's really only one way I can get there.
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it's not the best marketing or the best content, it's I have to get to a place, which I'm not there, I'll be honest, I'm not there, that I don't need the validation of my audience in any way whatsoever. Meaning, if they told me I am the worst human being, or if they told me I'm the greatest human being, it would be the same. Then, I'm not taking from my audience anymore.
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Yeah, it's one thing that I don't monetize my content, I'm not asking people to do this and do that for me, that's one level of not taking.
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But the highest level for all of us, content creators, or if we're on a stage, when you have thousands of people saying, rah, rah, rah, you're the best, and you feel good, and if you went home and a thousand people said you're the worst and you feel bad, it means you're still taking from the audience.
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The #1 Cause of Breakups & The Spiritual Secret To Attracting Healthy Love | David Ghiyam
Ah, okay.
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The #1 Cause of Breakups & The Spiritual Secret To Attracting Healthy Love | David Ghiyam
If I need you to be happy, I'm taking. Yeah. If I'm receiving from you, it's actually very powerful because one of the greatest forms of giving is to receive without needing.
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Yeah, what does that look like? How many times has someone come up to you and wanted to do you a favor, but you didn't need the favor? And you actually, it's actually kind of a waste of time.
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I don't need this. Right. That's part of it. So imagine you say, you know what? I will receive this gift. I receive whatever in order to give pleasure to the giver.
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So now you're actually hurting the person. And you're blocking your abundance, probably. Correct. There's a lot of people, and I've learned this early on, someone's going to come to you and give you a compliment. If you say, no, no, no, no, no, no, please, that's not me, or you block it, you're actually hurting the person.
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The greatest thing you can do when someone gives you a compliment is just say, thank you very much. Like, I really appreciate it. And after the compliment is made, don't let that feed that part of you that has the abandonment issue. The ego in you. The ego in you, or the lack in you, or the pain in you, or the thing that your mom didn't give you, your dad didn't give you.
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So Kabbalah kind of goes into those murky places of the soul to clean it up, because then you can go around town, you can do everything without taking from the people, without using the people. You can just show up as a giver. But as long as you need the approval for whatever you haven't healed or corrected, there's always going to be an element of taking in your giving.
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Because from the age of 15 when I learned Kabbalah, so I'm 40 now, from the age of 15 I learned Kabbalah. At the age of 19, I... I left school, I graduated school, and I went to full-time volunteering teaching. So from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., I met people one-on-one. And from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., I would give one or two seminars. And I was in a position of how do I just add value to the world?
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And it was the most powerful thing I did, and I do that till today, except the last 10 years also I have a business. I was put in a mode of how do I just take care of every single person. You call me until I am, I'm picking up the phone. Anywhere I went, there was an opportunity to take care of somebody. Give, give, give, give.
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Just give, and by the give in a way that you really help them, like care for them, whatever. However, and I know, you know, and I feel like one of the things I learned, especially when I got married, and you know, my marriage, we separated two years ago, We are best friends today. And we are like, there's no one in the world I love more than her. No one in the world.
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And we have an incredible relationship now. And you have four kids. And we have four kids. And you have a business. And we have a business together. We co-parent together. We own a business fully together. We are best friends. We talk about everything. There's no one I respect more in the world than her.
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One of the things I've learned in relationships and in dating is I totally shut down the part of me that needed to learn what I wanted and what makes me happy. I found happiness in vicariously living through everyone else's success. It's part of why I was broke from 20 to 32. I didn't have a penny. I couldn't afford a wedding ring.
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I had to buy a $100 plastic piece of wedding ring from Mary Ruth because we had no money. We were in debt. But part of it was my own belief system that I don't deserve to receive anything. I'm here for the public. I'm here for humanity. I'm here for whatever. And I was trained to think in Kabbalah. Here's the thing. Kabbalah taught me how to stop focusing on myself. I shouldn't be a giver.
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But there's something else Kabbalah teaches which I totally ignored. Which is, I also need to... Receive, right? The word Kabbalah means to receive. Really? It comes from the Hebrew word l'kabel, which means to receive.
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Because there are two parts to the spiritual path. One is to become like the Creator, you need to become the giver. However, there's a second part. And the second part I ignored for whatever reason. I ignored the, okay, now... When you're in that vibration of giving, you need to create a vessel, a desire. You need to know what you are. You need to know who you are.
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You need to know what you stand for. You need to know what makes you happy. You need to know what boundaries to put and what boundaries not to put in order to receive from the world. Because the Creator can't be revealed unless we receive. The creator created the creation to reveal the creator. But if we don't receive, we are literally shutting down creation.
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So this has been one of the hardest things for me to deprogram. And I have my Kabbalah colleagues I talk to regularly. I have coaches. I have mentors. I talk to you. I'm learning how to develop that part of me even as I date or as I kind of move on.
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From the age of 20 until the day I got married, I didn't date. I didn't even look at one. Nothing. I didn't even kiss a woman. Come on. I'm telling you. Come on. You kissed someone. I didn't kiss one. For 10 years? Not until the night of my wedding. No, come on, dude. No way. That's it. 10 years. 10 years. Why? You didn't kiss one woman. Not one. Not even like a peck on the lips? No. Come on, man.
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Really? Not even a peck. Why? Now, that's extreme. I don't say, I don't think anybody else. You were monk mode. You were like, I'm in service, I'm a monk. Part of it, because I have an extreme personality, and I really wanted to be the best at whatever I do. Not until your wedding night? Not until my wedding night. Come on, dude. I never said this publicly, so let's see how this is going to go.
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I mean, it's powerful. I don't know what kind of backlash I'm going to get after this, but what was my mindset? My mindset was, I have a spiritual platform. I've seen many people in my position fall. Abuse it or. Abuse it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Obviously I was surrounded by, you know, you're surrounded by.
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Correct. And then there's transfer, because you're there for them. There's transference. There's all these things that happen. And I just said the simplest thing for me to do, and I told the creator, I said, creator, when I'm ready for my soulmate, She will live here. And I do not want to think about dating. I don't want to even turn on that part of me. And look, did it work for me?
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It did work for me because I met the most incredible woman in the world and we're born on the same day, same year. I'm two hours older. February 11th, 1984. Our moms were in labor at the same time, two different parts of the world. And we attracted each other vibrationally because we were meant to come together and to create everything we've created.
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And I knew on day one when I met her, she's the one, end of story. I didn't care about anything else. And that was it. We got married.
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In a romantic way, yes. However, she... Here's the thing about soulmates. There are many versions of soulmates. There are many aspects to soulmates. There are many parts of our soul that must match up with other souls. I think everyone's focused on the one, or the this, or the that. I like to shift my focus to I am the one.
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I have to focus on I am the one because the only reason I'm here is to transform myself and to create a vessel for the light of the Creator which manifests as prosperity and love and all the beautiful things of this world. And we will meet people for whatever karmic reason and whatever past life reason and whatever this life reason to help us become the best version of ourselves.
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For whatever reason, You know, and obviously I want to be careful because we're talking about other souls and I want to also respect their privacy, but for whatever reason, it was, we felt, it was deemed that our souls, in order to elevate to its next level, had to elevate in this way.
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And this is why our relationship today is, I mean, it's almost like strange for a lot of people because the love that we have, like if she needed a kidney, I would be first in line. Wow. Right?
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Absolutely. And by the way, when I date, I make that clear on day one. Not that... What do you say? I say, look, the most important person in my life is the mother of my children. Right. Because I've seen this. If you look at the mother of your children as your children, this is the highest vibration, I believe. Because all the reasons why we don't
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And I don't want to put a, like, this is how it is for everyone. I want to be very sensitive because everyone has very different situations. There's so many difficult, painful situations. And I'm really sensitive to that and I've seen it and felt it. But the goal should be, the desire should be, if I had no ego and I had no fears and I had no personal issues,
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How would I treat the mother of my children and the father of my children? It goes both ways. So many separations and divorces I see because maybe one person's hurt or one person got rejected. Then there's a power play. Then they want to hurt back.
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You know, there's a situation I know where like they're prolonging the divorce and making sure that they don't get the money because she stopped loving him and she loved somebody else. So he wants to teach her a lesson. Like all of these things, it's all. And I get it. By the way, when you're in it, it's very painful because now what's happening?
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The #1 Cause of Breakups & The Spiritual Secret To Attracting Healthy Love | David Ghiyam
but your soul came to this world to correct and cleanse and heal betrayal. Your soul saw that at the age of 25, you were asked for this woman to come in, and at the age of 38, she had to be taken away from you just so you could finally experience betrayal and transform it. But in a past life when this happened, what you did was you prolonged the divorce, You hurt her.
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You told the children that she's not a good person. You played games. So when your soul left this world, in the upper world, they made the calculation. They said, hey, listen, you only came to this world to heal betrayal and to love this other person unconditionally, even after she hurt you. When your soul leaves your body, it sees everything. There's no ego.
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So the soul says, oh my God, I can't believe I spent the last 80 years. I totally didn't get it. All I did is hurt her, all I did is run after other forms of instant gratification, I ran after another relationship just to numb the pain, and I didn't work on my soul's correction. That's considered hell. Hell is the soul seeing All the missed opportunity. What does the soul do?
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The soul says, please, put me back into this world. So I can correct it. I can correct it. I want to be back with her again. Oh, man. I want to be back with her again. I want this whole situation. I want it to be exactly the way it was. Oh, by the way, that guy that she cheated on with, make sure he's there exactly the way he is. Oh, no. So I can correct it. So I can correct it. Oh, my gosh.
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Oh, my God. Because the soul also sees that if he were to correct it, this world that's waiting for him, this new soulmate, this new wealth, this new everything, the wisdom. He saw all of it. He's like, oh my God, like if any part of the challenge was diminished, so would the reward be diminished. And he would not want that. And the soul begs to come back in, and then the process starts over.
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And then there's an astrological date where the soul comes in, and then based on that time and that place and that unique, exactly spiritual vortex, the soul is attracted to exactly the astrological influences that match its soul's correction. That's why that soul came at that moment, and then there's certain parents involved, and the whole thing starts over. Wow.
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This also, I don't know why I feel called to say this, but I'm just going to say it because maybe somebody needs to hear it. Say it. And every time I've shared this, for the last 20 years, there's always been at least one person that came up to me and said, because they heard this, they transformed their way of thinking about committing suicide.
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I don't know why I'm sharing it, but I'm sharing it now. Suicide. is the complete shutdown of the desire to receive. It's basically saying, I do not want to receive anything, which we have now learned the whole purpose of creation is to receive. So when a person takes their life, it creates such a soul correction that the soul has to come back.
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So what's happening here is when a really great soul, an elevated soul, has a lot of karmic debt, as a result of being a great soul. They will go through certain periods of darkness, it could be mental illness, it could be many things, circumstances that will make them feel there's no escape, there's no way out, there's no hope.
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Correct. And it gets to a place where they start to contemplate suicide. Those thoughts, those feelings, those desires, there's nothing to be ashamed of. We have to know that your soul is so powerful, it's meant to do so many great things, but you're not allowed to see it. Because if you could see it, you wouldn't pass the test.
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What is the biggest mistake people make when they try to manifest healthy love? Well, first off, When I'm sharing these spiritual concepts, which is based on the wisdom of Kabbalah, Kabbalah is explaining what's happening on a soul level. Why our soul comes to this world. What is the karmic debt and spiritual baggage we're bringing into this world? The soul is then choosing
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It's actually, when a person is contemplating death, it's actually because of the highness of their soul and what they're meant to do, which they are not allowed to be shown. However, what they need to know is, At that moment, if they do take their life, let's say at the age of 36, in two months, two weeks, at 2 p.m., they have this intense desire to leave this world.
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It is because in a past life, in the exact same moments, they had this desire and they took it. Then the soul leaves and says, oh my God, if I had just waited an hour, a day, a week, if I had just pushed through, Every problem was about to be solved. Everything, the soul sees it.
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And again, it begs to come back and it begs to go through the same painful, torturous, traumatic process up until the age of 36. And I always tell people, if you're thinking about this, you must know that you've been in this situation maybe hundreds or thousands of times before. This is the moment you can actually break the cycle.
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And you must know that if it's this dark, this bad, that is equivalent to the greatness that will come. One time I shared this. In one of my classes, a woman came up to me and said, I need to tell you something. This is the end of a 10-week course. She said that about 15 weeks ago, she was very overweight. She had a lot of problems. She was being bullied. I think she was in her early 20s.
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She said, I decided that I didn't want to live in this world anymore. I went into my room. And I was kind of talking out loud to the creator, to the world. I think she was Christian, she was spiritual. And she saw a book on her shelf. And it was a book that her late father had given her because he saw that she was struggling. And it was actually a Kabbalah book. It's called Power of Kabbalah.
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What's it called? Power of Kabbalah. So she's drawn to the book because she remembers her father gave it to her. She never read it. She took the book out and she started reading a few pages and she felt like there's some soul connection to it. And then she looked, flipped to the back of the page and saw like, where is there, you know, Kabbalah seminars.
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And then she saw that I was opening one a week later. She said, you know what? My father gave me this book. Maybe my father's speaking to me. I'm going to take, I'm going to go to this. But then she put in her calendar after the 10 weeks, she was going to end her life. She, she comes out to me at the end of the 10 weeks. She actually told me this and she got up in the class and said it.
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She said, look, tonight is the night I was supposed to take my life. Holy cow. But I've gone through this journey and now I see that I'm meant for great things. Even though I was bullied, even though I'm overweight, even though I can't find a healthy relationship, even though I feel not loved. Is she with her the whole thing? Beyond my logical mind, I am choosing love.
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to know that I am a vessel for great things, even though I cannot see it. She ended up becoming such a miraculous woman, doing incredible things, so much so that at an event we had with 3,000 people, she got up there, she had lost the weight, she had a relationship, so many things happened, and she got up and she told the story. And she's living her best life. And it's so powerful.
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So I don't know why we're talking about it, but whoever needs to hear it needs to know, no matter what your situation is, to the extent of the darkness you're going through, to the extent of the confusion you have, and to the extent you cannot see the future, it's to the extent of the greatness that is waiting for you. And you've been in the situation before.
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parents that align vibrationally with whatever it is I need to go through in order to become the greatest version of myself. So I don't know if I mentioned this last time, but if my soul brings this spiritual baggage of a fear of abandonment,
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When the soul came to this world, it asked for an opponent. And we all have an opponent. It's an energetic force. It's actually a positive force disguised as a negative one whose only job is to, at our level, challenge us, make us feel doubts, worries and fears. So for example- So that's supposed to happen for everyone. That happens on everyone on their spiritual level.
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As you grow spiritually, so does your opponent because of the bread of shame in order to earn everything, right? So people ask me, because I make mistakes. I make mistakes every day. People are like, wait, you've been studying Kabbalah for 25 years. Should life's work? The first thing they said is, how did your marriage not work? I said, no one should ever say their marriage did not work. Nobody.
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And in order for me to create miracles in my life and miracles in the area of sustenance, in love, in health and healing, in wisdom, just to have peace of mind and joy, in order for me to create those miracles, the Kabbalists explain that I have to transform the negativity that my soul came to the world with. But the only way to do that is actually to be put in situations that bring that out.
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Forget about me. Nobody should say that. Nobody should say that that last relationship didn't work because then you're basically saying the creator made a mistake. Everything worked as it should have. The only thing we need to focus on is what we can do to transform our vessel. Some people may need to have five marriages. I don't know. Some people may need to only have one.
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Sometimes they say the soulmate or the, you know, a different level of soulmate comes in the second marriage. There's many different opinions and spiritual writings. But what we know for sure is you are here. It is only you in the light of the Creator. Everything else is there designed for your greatness. So every time you say something, it was a waste of time.
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Every time you say something, it was a mistake. Every time you say he is toxic, she is toxic, he's a bad person, all you're doing is shrinking your vessel and delaying your wedding date. Let's say you just got out of a relationship that you found to be painful. Every day that you tell people That was toxic. That, I wish I never got into it. I wish I never met him.
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He or she robbed me of my best. Every word that you say on that vibration delays the meeting of your soulmate by another hour. Imagine that. Imagine that. So instead, choose today to bless this person, to love this person, to reach out. I mean, look, there's work involved here, right? I'm saying the headline, but there's work involved.
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This is a very horrible thing. It's a very painful thing. I hope that no one has to go through this. I hope that my children, maybe my children went through this. horrible thing. We must acknowledge that that is a painful thing, that is a horrible thing. And by the way, if someone came to me and said that, I wouldn't be like, well, everything's from the creator and you need to see it as good.
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Absolutely not. We need to be there for people and feel their pain and empathize with them and go down into the mud and the disgusting, painful situation with them. And we cannot judge them for it. That's number one. Now, if you're asking me,
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How do I get to the ultimate results where I will be happy and I will have my greatest life and I will have miracles and I will have success and I will find my soulmate quickly? I would say if you could at least start with the desire and the prayer to the universe and say, look, I'm not there. I'm angry. I'm frustrated. I am in pain. I feel like garbage. I feel so betrayed and hurt.
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Really? Yeah. A therapist might tell you, hey, look, you have abandonment issues because you had parents who divorced when you were young, causing you to have these fears and have these avoidant issues. Kabbalah says the opposite.
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I am at the bottom. But I desire to not be there. I desire to be on the vibration of love. I don't know how I'm going to get there, but you start there. It says that the universe remobilizes all the forces in this world to support you to get there. You will always be led by your desire. If you desire, for example, to rob a bank, the creator will show you how to do it. You will be sent thieves.
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You will be sent other people who are on that vibration who want to steal from the bank. And you will manifest it. A thief, a very good thief, could also be a very good businessman and a very good husband because he knows how to manifest his desire. His desire is to steal. Now imagine you take that desire And you shift it to something positive.
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When I was 14 years old, I started playing poker like eight, nine hours a day. I was trading in the stock market. I was addicted to gambling. At 14? At 14, 15. How do you have money to do these things? Well, I mean, at 15, I made my first million dollars because I was obsessed. I had all this energy. I didn't know what to do with it. How did you make a million dollars at 15? It was...
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I asked my father for a little bit. My parents really believed in me. I said, look, you give me a little bit of money, I will bring it back 24th. So he's like, all right, fine. Trade in this account. And I had fun with it. So it was through the stock market. It was through the stock market. And I went to casinos. It was a very interesting time. So I brought all of this kind of...
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which is really interesting because I did a Kabbalistic chart reading when I was like 16 years old when I first came to study Kabbalah. I said nothing. I sat there. She said, based on the time, the place, everything, and there's also intuition involved because people feel your soul. People feel things. They see things. She said, she looked at it. She said, past life gambler. I said, what?
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She said, based on your chart, you have an addictive personality, past life gambler, and it's one of the things you need to correct in this life. And you were already starting it as a teenager. She had no clue. I'm 16 years old. I think she's thinking, hey, be careful when you get older. She said to me, she said, for you to fulfill your correction, I would avoid casinos. What's interesting, yeah.
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So after I heard that, I realized, oh my God, this desire I have, which I've been channeling through gambling, And addictive behavior, if I could channel all of this desire and energy into helping people, it's the same methodology. It's just desire. And then the creator will help me with that. So then I'm like, well, what's the greatest thing I can put my energy into to be successful?
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Kabbalah says your soul already had these issues that brought from past life, and you are now choosing parents that will be conducive to awaken what's already inside you.
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I always wanted to be a billionaire when I was young. That's why my parents were like, you're doing what? I graduated UCLA top of my class. I had a perfect score in my SATs. I had everything going for me. I was supposed to go to Ivy League school. I was supposed to be their golden child. My brother's a physician. Everybody loves him. I'm from a Persian family in Los Angeles.
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And I told my parents, I want to join a nonprofit and teach Kabbalah. They said, you want to do what? They said, how much money are you gonna make? I said, no, no, you don't make money. Yeah, you pay. Yeah, exactly. They're like, wait, what? How are you gonna live? I said, no, they pay for my housing and my food and I get to focus on the people.
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They're like, well, how are you gonna raise your family? I don't know. How are you gonna, what woman's ever gonna wanna be with you? I said, I don't know. I said, all I know is, I believe that if I can channel my energy to help other people find their soulmate and other people find their wealth and other people, according to the spiritual laws, I will get everything.
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I don't know how it's going to happen. They lost their mind. But they totally lost their mind for a couple of years. But my mom always told me, she said, look, I always knew that you'd figure things out. So we didn't totally freak out. My parents trusted the process. My brother trusted the process.
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Correct. And they thought it was very noble, but they're like, can you just do it a couple hours a week?
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Can you make money doing it? Can you make money? I mean, you had made money and you have the potential and they're thinking like parents. How are you gonna live? Who's gonna take care of you? I remember when I got married, I had a couple thousand dollars in my bank account from birthday money I had saved up. And you never kissed anyone? Never kissed anyone. I made experience.
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And I didn't have a credit card and have credit. I remember we had to sign a lease. And I'm like, I don't have any credit. What's credit? I didn't even know what was going on. And I mean, we'll talk about this probably in the business podcast, because that began my business. That began the most miraculous thing
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journey of miracle after miracle to create, you know, what's today married with organics. That was the moment. So the first 10 years of my life, it was about how to just create that spiritual vessel. And I believe, you know, I don't know how many people, in the millions of people I got to connect with and touch and whatever. And also not having received for myself, I think helped tremendously.
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It helps to become pure because you're not thinking about well, what am I going to take from this person? Or how much are you going to pay me? It was really a beautiful thing. I do believe without a shadow of a doubt, those 10 years created the vessel for the- For abundance. For the vessel of abundance that came through Mary Woods, which we'll talk about in the next part. That's powerful.
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How do we get in the vibration of love to be able to get the love all we want to receive? First thing that comes to mind is you can only receive what you believe you deserve to receive. That's the first question I would ask all of us, because you could read all of the books about love and dating and relationships. You could be on all the apps. You could have the best photos.
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You could have the best profile. You could have a matchmaker out there scouring the earth to find your soulmate. You could have a beautiful physique and have amazing personality. However, your belief system about receiving is your capacity to receive. This goes for financial well-being, but especially love. And I ask this question to myself and I tell everyone to ask it to themselves.
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What do you believe? you deserve to receive. And it's very interesting because if you really look deep down inside, it's not just like one answer. It's a pie chart. If I take this pie chart, there's probably 50% that believes I deserve to be in a healthy relationship. There's probably 20% that you're not aware of that believes you should be in an abusive one.
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Maybe they did something shameful in their life. that they're not aware of consciously. And what do we do with shame? We hide and we diminish ourselves. So we subconsciously want someone to diminish us in order to not feel guilty about the shame. So the way we say it is 20% that kind of desire. 50% could just be a really healthy desire for love. Then there is maybe 20% that I want my freedom.
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And I have a belief system that relationships equal a loss of freedom.
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Correct. Maybe there's another 10% that believes that relationships are a really beautiful thing to help you grow spiritually, which is a very positive desire. You look at this pie chart, you will see that this pie chart represents your entire dating life.
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you will see that maybe the 50%, because it's the bigger part of the pie, you go in these relationships that last three to six months and they're very healthy, but then the 20% of I don't deserve kicks in, or the 20% of I need my freedom kicks in. And when that desire kicks in, you start to self-sabotage. You're not aware of it. So you start to become avoidant.
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You start to do things that are not in line with what you were before. And here's the thing, it's not about judging anyone. I tell people, I'm very curious always, if someone was loving you for three to six months and then all of a sudden they're not present and they're avoidant, they're not a narcissist. They're not, oh, he love-bombed me and he manipulated me.
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No, that's not what, I get that's what we say to try to understand our pain, But if you really look at it on a soul level, everything is happening commensurate with the desires of the person that they came to heal, that you both chose to find each other for in order to do it.
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Correct. And they are not allowed to enter your orbit unless your soul gave permission. You cannot get into the king's chamber. There are so many guards around the king and walls. If someone got into your life, into the king's chamber, if they're sitting at dinner with you and you're having a conversation, you start dating, Do you know how much permission must have been given spiritually?
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Isn't it crazy to think? It's unbelievable. It's profound. It makes me feel like, wow, this world is so big and so vast and so amazing how small we are, but we get into our, I know what's going on. And then here's the thing, the social media algorithm knows what we're going through, so they just validate it and paint.
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Yeah. It's not like if I am trying to find out about abusive relationships, I just keep getting videos that acknowledge the abuse and makes it harder for me to actually do my sole correction. My vessel shrinks more and more. My vibration drops. And I will have to go through a very painful situation to restart that whole process.
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100%.
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Because any other school of thought would always put you as the effect, and you will then always be looking on the outside who to blame.
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Before you continue, people should know you and I, Lewis messages me all day long, look at this comment, look at this question. What do you think of this? We are reading everything. We're reading it all. We're sharing it with each other. So this isn't like bots or our team. Lewis and I have a text. Look at this, look at this, look at this, look at this.
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And I will have a really powerful example for you when we do the next show. It just came to me. I'm going to share that example of how I've seen a man change overnight because a woman took some spiritual advice and shifted her consciousness. She literally... woke up the next day and said, I didn't recognize my husband. Wow. So how you can shift your partner in a powerful way.
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Don't try to change your partner, but how do you shift to a destiny where your partner You're like, wait, that's not the same human I even married.
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And it's not the highest vibration. But I always tell people, It's not about you need to believe that you had a soul contract. I always say like I'm gonna share this content, which is not my content. It's from thousands of years of ancient spiritual wisdom of all the sages and all the different religions actually that were very spiritual in its original intention and become more religious.
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Now, I always share like this wisdom has been there to show us that we are in control and that it is our birthright to have the absolute greatest life in every area. The Creator wants to give us even more than we want to receive. And it says that the Creator wants to give us endlessly more energy than even we know. But it looks like things are being deprived from us.
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It looks like the world is a very dark place and people are against me and Certain circumstances aren't fair and people are born in different situations that aren't fair. And it does look like that, but the truth is every single soul has a pathway to the greatest miracles that they could ever possibly imagine. Every soul has a pathway towards their soulmate, even if it looks like they don't.
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Every soul has a pathway towards having financial freedom, even if it looks dark and impossible and you don't know where it's going to come from. There is a pathway. The fact that you don't see it, there's a spiritual reason. It's because our soul asked not to see it. Our soul asked not to be born with our soulmate. Our soul asked not to be born knowing our purpose.
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Our soul asked to be put in a world of darkness so that we could activate our God gene and earn all of this fulfillment. So it shouldn't just be given to us. Anything that is just given to us makes us feel shame and we resent it. Because when you give someone something they have not earned, they feel the opposite. They feel they received less.
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So a lot of times people who don't appreciate us, it's not because we didn't give them enough, it's because we gave them too much. And so they keep thinking, I'm not getting. But it's not that they're not getting. It's that we're giving them so much, we're flooding their vessel. And too much light becomes darkness. Really? Yeah.
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When you're giving, not understanding what the vessel can hold, appreciate, and use. Which vessel? Yours or the other person? Other person's vessel. This is the number one thing in relationships that's causing breakups to happen or resentment to happen. Let's say, and I have an example of this. I remember coaching this couple. This guy basically said, I found this amazing girl. We've been dating.
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And it's finally. Like, I am so, I found my dream girl. I'm so in love. And this is amazing. It's been like three weeks. And I said, amazing, what are you guys doing? He's like, I'm taking her here. I'm doing this. I'm introducing her to my family, all that. I'm giving her the world. Giving her the world. And I said, wow, that's amazing. He's like, yeah. I said, I would love to meet her.
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I met her, and she had this beautiful Rolex watch, but it was like a male. It wasn't a female watch. I said, that's a beautiful watch. It was kind of big on her wrist. It was kind of big on her wrist. She's like, hey, Brandon got it for you. In three weeks of knowing her. Yeah, so that for me, I looked at it and I said, oh, that's so generous of him.
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Later on, I found that he also gave her a credit card and said, hey, look, this is whatever you need. Because he wanted to make her feel comfortable. Of course. He wanted to show her how much he loved her. He wanted her to... He understood her love language was gifts and acts of service, like I want to give that to her. Yeah, and he wanted her to feel safe and wow her or woo her as well. Correct.
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So I know, kabbalistically, what happens to a soul when you give them too much energy, you give them too much of something that they have not earned or don't have the capacity to receive or are using it for their own lack and need. So this girl figured out how to get him to give to her gifts, love, expression to fill her needs.
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Then I went to Brandon and I said, Brandon, you need to know something. I've seen this before. I know you're excited about this relationship. I know you don't, want to lose it. But because you're so afraid of losing it, you're over giving and you're literally pouring 16 ounces of water in an eight ounce glass.
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You're 100% correct because he thinks he's giving, but he is destroying. So he's actually taking from her by giving or what he thinks is giving.
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This is great.
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I've met with thousands of women, one-on-one. Maybe 20% of them have been in this situation. The way this usually ends up, if there isn't a spiritual course correct, is she leaves him. Why? She doesn't respect him. And this is what she says to her friends. And the friends say, you're with the perfect guy. I know. Something's missing. The spiritual connection is missing.
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The emotional connection is missing. The chemistry is missing. Something is missing. Because when you flood the vessel and you don't actually think from the consciousness of what's really good for the soul of this person. Because sometimes giving is setting a boundary.
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Sometimes giving is sharing how you feel, not from a reactive place, but explaining to her, hey, listen, these are needs that I have that aren't being met and I want to have a conversation about it. That's also giving. But if you're always just pacifying somebody, if you're not really thinking about how to grow their soul or to help them or inspire them, you're hurting them.
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And eventually she will look for something else because it's not making her feel good on a soul level. This concept in Kabbalah is called the bread of shame. The bread of shame is a feeling you get when you receive something you have not either physically or spiritually earned. The number one way you know you have a bread of shame is when you feel frustrated, impatient, and judgmental.
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When you feel very judgmental, you think it's because you're not getting what you want. It's actually because you're getting so much in your life, but you're not working for it. You're not breaking your fears and spiritually earning it. You're not pushing yourself to expand your vessel. So it's another case of there's so much light, you perceive it as darkness.
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Think of the people who are not judgmental or appreciative. They are the people who are working the hardest. They are the people who are breaking through stuff. They are the people who are like, what's the next thing I can, way I can give or I can transform? These people aren't sitting around judging and speaking evil speech. Judgment and evil speech is always a result of
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of not living up to your soul's potential and being stagnant spiritually. So you feel emptiness and then you want temporary energy. And the highest form of temporary energy is evil speech and complaining because it's so easy. It's right there. It's like it's addictive. It's a drug. So the darkness people feel is not because they're not getting what they want.
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It's because there's too much energy, too much light, and they haven't built their vessel to hold that energy. Kabbalah is all about how do I build my vessel? We are too consumed with trying to find out how do I get more light? How do I get more energy? How do I get more relationships? How do I get more dates? How do I get more people to love me? How do I get better looking?
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How do I get all these things? And less focused on how do I build my spiritual vessel to hold the energy that is already there? That's the only thing that matters. And when you think that way, then you look at every relationship as an opportunity to build my vessel. Oh, I attracted a narcissist. I attracted somebody who's toxic.
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In order for people not to experience the energy of death and darkness and eventually to have to leave this world and come back and fix it again, everyone is spiritually designed to come to us to activate the parts of us that are the weakest. So a narcissist or a toxic relationship is the very beautiful thing, your soul, pre-programmed and predestined. Now, how do you avoid it?
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Well, we have free will. So Kabbalah explains there is destiny and there's free will and they both coexist. So what is the destiny? On the day you are born, your entire life's destiny is already pre-programmed, meaning every sneeze you have, every relationship you have, every heartbreak you have, how much money you're going to make, A to Z is already pre-programmed. So what's my free will?
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Parallel to this destiny, there are infinite destinies. Each of them look the same. It's like parallel realities. And each one that goes higher is a better destiny and a more fulfilling one. The only way to shift up a destiny or down a destiny is to go through a period of darkness Because in periods of darkness, you see the weakness. You see what's called the soul's correction.
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The #1 Cause of Breakups & The Spiritual Secret To Attracting Healthy Love | David Ghiyam
You see your garbage. You see your anger issues. You see your control issues. You see your abandonment issues. You see how you're not actually the nicest person. You see your savior issues. You see your people pleasing issues. And they all come to the surface when things aren't going our way. That is the moment of free will. You only have free will when you're in pain.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
I think it's really important that people understand that Alzheimer's itself is the number three cause of death in America. It kills people. The rate of increase of Alzheimer's is far beyond the fact that our population is aging. One would expect that as the population ages, we would see an increase, but the rate of increase far exceeds that.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
so it all date it all dates back to or gets back to the issue with metabolic and the threat that is evident when someone is obese or hypertensive or has elevated blood sugar because they're insulin resistant it's an indication that their metabolism is dysfunctional that is a clear and present danger to the brain so
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What happens if you take one of these GLP-1 agonist drugs, like semaglutide, like ozempic, or liraglutide, and lose the weight? What's happening? Is that a good thing or is it a bad thing? That's what your question is, isn't it? Yes. And you're expecting a particular answer from you. I'm not expecting any answer. I'm curious of your response.
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And I think you're going to be surprised by where we go with this. Because what these drugs have been shown to do is... Nothing short of remarkable in terms of metabolism. So they were originally developed to help people lower their blood sugar to improve the way we're able to control our blood sugar.
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And it was almost as a side effect initially that people noticed that their weight was going down. And now, of course, they've been repurposed and subsequently approved for weight loss. But there is a lot going on with metabolism as a consequence of GLP agonist drugs.
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And I am not... You know, generally my mission in life is not pharmacocentric.
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You know, I want to allow people, and we're going to morph back to that in just a moment, but the reason we're going to unpack this GLP-1 agonist drug and why it's having positive effects in the brain is because it will subsequently, again, allow us to circle back to the primacy of metabolic issues as it relates to brain health. Here's a powerful validation.
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So the GLP-1 drugs do far more than help us control our blood sugar and lose weight. They focus on metabolism. They actually enhance mitochondrial function. Really? Can you believe it? I mean, most of the work has been done in diabetic patients.
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but showing reduced free radical formation, increased oxygen consumption, in other words, an improvement in mitochondrial function, which requires oxygen for the burning of the fuel, and various other metabolic markers that are improved in diabetic patients who have been prescribed these medications.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
In the New England Journal of Medicine in the spring of this year, well, let me go back a little bit. So Alzheimer's, as I've indicated, is primarily a metabolic issue. It's a mitochondrial issue. You fix the mitochondria, you fix the brain health. Yes, and if you damage the mitochondria, you set the stage for Alzheimer's. You set the stage for neurons to undergo suicide.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
Yes. There's a lot we're gonna have to unpack here. So we'll do this maybe in the fourth hour. But to sidetrack on that answer real quick, I will say that yes, we have a huge opportunity to replace effective mitochondria with fully functioning, better functioning mitochondria.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
We do that through scavenging dysfunctional mitochondria through a process called mitophagy, and we can grow new mitochondria through mitochondrial biogenesis, and we'll talk about how we can make that happen. But therapy for the brain and improvement in Alzheimer's patients or at least slowing their decline and Parkinson's as well focuses on dealing with the dysfunction of the mitochondria.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
That's where we need to be in this epidemic that you opened our discussion with today. I do want to tease the audience a little bit with the notion that we've always focused on the brain cell. One would think that's where the action is, the neuron, because it's so active from an energy perspective, i.e. the mitochondria.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
I indicated earlier that a neuron may have as many as a thousand mitochondria. But it turns out where we are in the latest research is really exciting because it's shining the spotlight not on the neuron itself, but on the caretakers of the neuron. We're going upstream of the neuron. The neuron's a worker bee doing what it can do.
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Hopefully, the environment's going to be one that is salubrious in terms of how the neuron does what it needs to do. transmit information, connect to another neuron through a synapse, and allow the networks to function. But the caretakers of the neurons are the brain's immune cells called the microglia. So these microglia make up about 10 to 12% of all the cells in the brain.
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And they are immune cells. They're part of the innate immune system. but they do a heck of a lot more. So when you think of immune cells, you think of, well, how it's able to fight off bacteria, viruses, fungi, et cetera, how it protects us. We think of immunity in terms of our body's ability to take care of these confrontations. People are interested in a robust immune-ish function.
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Now that COVID has let us recognize that those individuals whose immune systems are not up to snuff were and remain at higher risk for complications from COVID and even long COVID. Who are those individuals? These are individuals with diabetes, obesity, hypertension, three of the big players in metabolic diseases. So what I'm saying then is,
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
is there's this powerful then relationship between our metabolic health and our immune health to the extent that there's now been defined an area of medicine called immunometabolism, immunometabolism. In my area of interest, the immunometabolism conversation takes us to the brain's immune cells called the microglia.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
Lots of good questions. And let's take a step back. Those statistics are worrisome. They are staggering. And they don't encompass the real issue, which is well beyond that Alzheimer's patient. And that is what does this incredible increase in Alzheimer's do to family members and loved ones and caregivers? What is the economic impact of the loss of brain function of the population in general?
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The microglia are wholly dependent upon their mitochondrial energy producing function.
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The ability of the mitochondria in these microglia to do their job and allow the microglia to nurture our brain cells, to nurture our synapses, to create chemicals that allow us to grow new brain cells and to shore up what is called the blood brain barrier is fully dependent upon their metabolism, their mitochondrial function. When mitochondrial function is threatened,
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These wonderful, loving, nurturing cells shift to become the evil twin. The same cell now destroys our neurons, activates pathways in neurons to undergo apoptosis or pre-programmed cell death. It threatens and damages and destroys ultimately the synapses where communication takes place. It reduces the formation of this chemical to grow new brain cells.
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It increases the production of beta amyloid and ultimately threatens the integrity of the blood brain barrier. Same cell, two types, the nurturing M2 phenotype and the evil twin, the M1 phenotype.
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and the microglia can go back and forth and their ability to go back and forth and what motivates them to change from being the helpful twin to the evil twin are changes in their mitochondrial function and it is reversible. Really?
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so we can go back to a wonderful nurturing brain that allows more synapses to to form that allows new brain cells to generate in the brain who wouldn't want that especially in the brain's memory center and really creates an environment that's nurturing for you on brain but is it possible if dementia has gone too far into alzheimer's and
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Well, the duration of the issue is less important as how aggressive it is. So, as one would expect, as one would see with other degenerative conditions or even cancer, some people get attacked more aggressively and decline more quickly based upon their metabolic health and others don't. Can it be reversed? Yes.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
Are there new studies demonstrating that targeting metabolism has a dramatic effect on the brain in an existing Alzheimer's patient? Yes. And this gets back to our GLP-1 agonist story.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
So let me run through the dots, because this will be on the quiz. Why we want to target metabolism, why the GLP-1 drugs have such an opportunity to be game changers. And again, my focus has never been medication, but my commitment has been to never take anything off the table. under the doctrine of above all do no harm and looking at things like risk-benefit ratio.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
What I'm saying is that metabolism is the central focus. This is one avenue that seems to target metabolism and does so aggressively. Long term, how might that play out? We don't know yet.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
But a poster presentation that was at the American, rather the Alzheimer's Association International Conference about two and a half months ago revealed a one-year study in which the actual Alzheimer's patients over a one-year period compared to control, their rate of brain shrinkage receiving a GLP-1 agonist drug was reduced by 50%, the rate of shrinkage of their brain.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
Their cognitive decline was dramatically reduced in comparison to control. Published in the New England Journal of Medicine in, I believe, March of this year, was a three-year study giving a GLP-1 agonist drug to patients who already had Parkinson's disease, a disease for which we have no treatment whatsoever.
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Some of your viewers are going to raise their eyebrows saying, well, I know of drugs that treat Parkinson's, and I, as a neurologist, have treated patients with drugs for 30 years. But they didn't solve something. They just kind of minimized something, right? Exactly. This is symptomatic management. And I'm not derogating it.
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And the fact that the rate of increase of Alzheimer's is far beyond the fact that our population is aging. One would expect that as the population ages, we would see an increase, but the rate of increase far exceeds that. So we know that there's something operating in the background, and the fact that it's changing, i.e. increasing, indicates that it is not genetic.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
I mean, there's really a very important benefit to patients to reducing their tremor, to improving their ability to walk and reducing their rigidity. That's for sure.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
Any Parkinson's patient or family member right now watching this will recognize that the drugs that their mother or father may be taking are really designed to treat symptoms, which I think is very valuable, but we're treating the smoke, but not the fire. Treat the smoke. That's important. The root cause. Let's look at the fire.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
There's a 41% increased risk of Parkinson's in diabetics, a metabolic challenge. Oh, man. Because of that, A study was undertaken to determine, well, if we treat Parkinson's patients with a diabetes drug, in this case a GLP-1 agonist drug, how might that affect their time course?
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
So Parkinson's patients are rated on a functionality score called the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale, kind of a common way that we look at Parkinson's patients over time. How quickly are you deteriorating? And we expect over a three-year period to be a moderate decline in functionality.
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And in the control group of this study, indeed, there was a decline, a worsening, a higher number on that scale. The patients treated with the GLP-1 ozempic-like drug not only stabilized in terms of that scale, but had a small improvement. Really? Can you imagine? I've never seen that before, but that is finally treating the fire. Wow. That's big. Yeah.
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Yes. So you as a consumer or the caregiver of that individual should be given information to look at that metric, that risk benefit ratio. What are the downsides and what are the potential upsides? As related to the Parkinson's interventional trial, about 40% of the people receiving the drug had pretty significant gastrointestinal issues.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, etc. They lost weight though and they had better memory They had better memory. No, it wasn't even looked at. What they had was they did not decline in terms of their ability to carry out what are called activities of daily living, self-care, mobility, the things that decline in the Parkinson's.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
I just finished making a slide. It actually improved a tiny bit. Wow.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
If it were genetic, it'd be static. The genes wouldn't suddenly become more prevalent in the population. So we take a step back and ask ourselves, well, what is really going on? Where are we in the understanding of what in the heck is going on? And let's look at health in general, and then we'll focus on Alzheimer's because general health and Alzheimer's are not disparate issues.
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Less than 1%.
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That's better than declining every day. Yeah, but even a reduction in the rate of decline would have been game-changing. That's what was observed in the Alzheimer's patients. Wow. Their rate of decline, they continue to decline, but their rate of decline was markedly reduced, far more so than in the drugs that have become FDA approved that target beta amyloid.
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That number is probably around 75%. Wow. Is that diabetic or pre-diabetic? Both.
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Really, it depends on the blood sugar measurement, where the cutoff is specifically for diabetes, which is a marker, not only measures blood sugar, but also looks at something called the hemoglobin A1C.
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Pre-diabetic or diabetic. And I think that it's unfortunate that we use that terminology because we get to the discussion of, you know, when you go to the doctor and look at your blood sugar or look at yourself, if you have a continuous glucose monitor, you know what your blood sugar is and you're going to ask yourself, well, what's normal?
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And I think in healthcare, we've been looking at what's so-called normal range, what's in the normal range for a long time. And I think that doesn't really serve the notion of optimal health very well. Normal may not be healthy still. Normal is what's common, basically. You take a large number of people, you see what is normal? Our population isn't normal.
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Our population, as we discussed earlier, is not healthy. We should define what is optimal. And so, you know, typically a doctor would say, well, your blood sugar is a hundred or 105 and everything's fine. We'll see in next year and check again, a very static measurement of your blood sugar fasting that you'll probably train for a little bit. So you can get a good number.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
And I really want to know what is your worst blood sugar? What is the level of blood sugar at its worst and how long does it stay elevated after carbohydrate challenge? What is, as we talked about off camera, what is over time the area under the curve? In other words, when we look at the level of blood sugar over time, it defines an area.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
And that's really a very valuable metric in terms of understanding the dynamics of blood sugar and how insulin is working in your body which is one of the fundamentals for metabolic health. Because the brain by and large powers itself with glucose.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
The higher the glucose over time, the less the brain is able to use it because the brain becomes, many parts of the brain depend upon insulin to allow the glucose to be used as fuel. As we threaten the function of insulin by virtue of the fact that our blood sugar remains elevated over time, we threaten the brain. We threaten the mitochondria.
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We get back to the change between the good and the bad microglia, and that threatens neurons.
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The same issues that are affecting the general health of the global population are at play in terms of undermining what's going on in the brain, making a good brain go bad, and it is In a word, metabolism. Metabolism is the main thing making a brain go bad. That's right. And it's not, it is not, I'll say it maybe three times, the accumulation of this protein called beta amyloid.
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he's saying the research is showing more of that now i don't know if that's 100 what he was talking about or something well i think that what he's saying is that there's more research coming out indicating that the period of uh fasting doesn't need to be as great so this is um you know not uh i i would say that this is really more of a discussion of what is called time restricted eating as opposed to specifically fasting
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you know those are kind of a bit nebulous terms when you say time restricted eating how much time when you say fasting is it three days is it 12 hours and i think it's kind of an analog scale i i to that probably 16 to 18 hours is going to be better than 12 hours but there's benefit to a 12-hour fast.
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And that is, or at least restricting your consumption of calories or other parameters as it relates to food, anything but water. There's been a discussion, well, is the morning coffee, even if it's black, did you break your fast? Right.
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No, nothing. I'm still on the clock. Yeah, yeah. But that said, this remains in evolution, and I think that there's more to come.
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And it's really quite exciting that we have researchers like Valter Longo who are looking at the implications of these types of interventions, which are fairly simple to employ, not only as it relates to longevity parameters, but also in his work as it relates to even the immune system vis-a-vis cancer.
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So we're learning a lot that immunometabolism relates not only to these chronic metabolic diseases, Alzheimer's, but the function of the immune system as it relates to its ability to seek out and destroy cancer cells, for example.
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Well, let me take a step back then, Lewis, if I could, because let's ask ourselves, how did we get to the GLP-1 discussion in the first place? Right.
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Yeah, and it was through the lens of wanting to really unpack the fundamental role of metabolism in brain health. Yes, which metabolism is linked to mitochondria health. Right, mitochondria health. And I used the GLP-1 drugs as a way of really kind of supporting the notion that it's all about metabolic health.
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Because these results are, for me, being at this for quite some time, I use the word astounding because they are. It is really the first time we're targeting the fire and not just the smoke.
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that is treating the fire by preventing the fire correct yeah what a notion i mean people don't talk about it but alzheimer's prevention i mean we are led to believe to get back to the various commercials that you watch when you're watching the evening news pretty much and look at the people in those commercials just look at the actors and who they are designed to target
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So what makes up a metabolism for a human being? Cells use energy and the progressive problems with our metabolic health are the number one cause of death on planet Earth. Really? Not COVID, not any other infectious disease, not war.
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So we're kind of led to believe that we should live our lives however we want, come what may, and that modern medical science will fix our ails.
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Yeah. And I'm not being disparaging. I'm simply saying this is a marketing ploy. But again, I want to get to the belief part of it that we believe that, hey, modern science is going to fix my fill in the blank. Take a drug and it's fixed. My ozempic for my obesity, my Alzheimer's. Now that we've heard this new exciting research. So what the heck? Why should I worry?
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I'm going to do whatever I want, eat whatever I want. Stay up late. I don't really like to exercise. Do all the things that feel good. Truthfully, they're called comfort foods for a reason because we all love them. They taste great. Our brains are programmed to seek out sweet and fat and salt. And these are things that threaten metabolic health.
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As it relates to fat, we know there are good fats and bad fats. But by and large, we're programmed to seek out foods that are fatty. Why? Because they're calorie dense. They are survival mechanistic that causes us to seek them out. Sweet. What does it mean? It means that food is ripe. It means it is safe. And when does fruit ripen?
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It ripens at the end of the summer and the early fall as a clue to our physiology to make our body make more fat to allow us to survive winter, a time of caloric scarcity when we were hunter-gatherers. So we are deeply programmed to love sweet. You know, when I lecture, I say, and I ask the audience, how many of you think you have a sweet tooth? Don't raise your hands. Answer is every one of you.
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We do. We all have a sweet tooth. So, but these are, you know, deeply seated mechanisms that did us good, allowed us to survive so we could have a conversation today. The issue, though, is that when we gravitate now to those foods in excess, there's hell to pay.
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There's a downside, and that's what is leading to these metabolic challenges that are really quite central to not only what you described at the opening of our time together, these incredible rates of increase of neurodegenerative conditions well beyond Alzheimer's, but the other metabolic conditions as well. Rates of diabetes soaring well beyond what was predicted in 1990.
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Obesity becoming a global problem. As the global diet, as we used to say, people adopt the American diet, it became then the Western diet, faces now the global diet. Even in the Mediterranean, we talk about the Mediterranean diet. People around the Mediterranean basin are eating this same stuff. They're getting bigger, right? They're getting bigger.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
They're getting diabetes at ever-increasing rates. It's happening globally.
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It is the progressive loss of metabolic function that underlies our chronic degenerative conditions like diabetes and various forms of cancer and heart disease and yes, Alzheimer's as well.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
I'm going to give you the short answer and then I'm going to unpack it. Yes. It's because of the food they eat in the first place. The very foods that we are eating are rewiring our brains away from making better decisions.
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So let me simplify. We may have touched upon this before. I think we did a couple of years ago. And that is that let's say we have two main decision making parts of our brain, the five year old and the adult in the room, the five year old, the amygdala. I want the cake now. I'm staying up late.
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uh i'm not doing my homework i deserve it all the things the adult says um you know uh this is what you should be eating and i think you need to go to bed now and um you know these are your instructions this is what is good for you in the long run that's the prefrontal cortex So we have these two important decision-making parts of the brain that influence what we ultimately do.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
The amygdala, the short-term gratification part of the brain. That's in the front? Which is the short-term gratification, and then the prefrontal cortex, the adult in the room. When the amygdala is in charge, we think only of ourselves. We don't think of other people. We think of immediate gratification. We do not think of long-term consequences.
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Gotcha.
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So what happens as we mature is that with time we establish a connection, a better connection, whereby the adult in the room can be more influential. So these areas are interacting. And we call this top-down control, where the adult says to the amygdala, yeah, I know you want it.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
do what you want to do but here's what you should do and here's why so you're able to recruit all of this wonderful information that is now part of your experience base and explains to your decision making process why you don't want to eat what you think you want to eat as an expert in this field someone leading the research and been doing this for many decades where's the biggest challenge you face personally
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
One study demonstrated that there's a profound relationship between the number of sugary beverages and Alzheimer's risk and actual shrinkage of the brain. Really? The reality is that the metabolic defects of the brain begin 20 to 30 years prior to the clinical manifestations.
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Well, I'm a lot older than you, so I've had to tighten up quite a bit. Really? Oh, of course. I mean, you know, I think you asked me last time if I could have my 30-year-old self inform me. I think the answer was stay out of the sun as much as I did and floss my teeth more often. But having said that, what are my biggest challenges, I think? And I don't really labor over sweets.
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I think I could drink less. I think that, you know, I've been saying one to two glasses of wine a day and I might have more. And I have to admit that I should be more probably disciplined in that regard, but I don't mind how I feel.
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There's no benefit to brain health chemically, but as my son pointed out on a podcast to me, he said, there may be a benefit to the socialization that then happens when you're with people and you have that third glass of wine, which I'm guilty of. Sure, sure, sure.
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It doesn't help mitochondria. No, it doesn't.
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And I would say that on occasion I stay up too late. When I get to a place of being deeply involved in research, I can't turn it off. Yeah, it's hard. I cannot turn it off. And I know I should go to bed, and my wife tells me I need to go to bed because she is... Remember, you just said this on a podcast. Yeah, it's like...
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I know, but sometimes I'm so close to discovering something and pulling things in, I just can't lose the thread.
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Well, I think that tends to generalize. We do know that there are some individuals who are able to sleep five to six hours and do quite well. And again, there's no magic of the eight hours. We know that Alzheimer's risk is increased in people who have shorter duration of sleep and who have longer duration of sleep as well.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
That once we get north of nine hours of sleep, Alzheimer's risk goes back up. So it's a bit of a U-shaped curve. But I think that what the data, what Matthew Walker has talked about in his really wonderful book, Why We Sleep, is there are a variety of issues.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
I mean, one thing that we see when we don't sleep enough that I think is really fundamental is that inflammatory chemicals, cytokines, seem to increase. The very next morning, we've lit up the amygdala the impulsive fear mongering part of the brain, the child in the room, the poor decision maker and as such our decision making is threatened dramatically. Wow.
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Such that when you look at the type of food choices a person will make when he or she is deprived of sleep for a night, it's dramatic. The caloric consumption that happens and the quality of the food that people will consume and even
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Other measurements of decision-making quality in studies, which are correlated, interestingly, with functional MRI evaluation of the activity of their brain's amygdala, the fear center, the poor decision maker. So that's something people don't really talk about. I mean, what people are really talking about these days is the activation in the brain. And this is important.
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Totally glad that you asked that question. I feel like I scripted you to ask, and I'm going to respond to the nine-year-old. Because we all know that our cells are doing things. They're making proteins. They're clearing away waste products, etc.
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I don't mean to minimize it. of basically the ability of the brain to clear itself out. The brain has a lymphatic system as well called the glymphatic system, and it's during sleep, during deep sleep, that our brains are able to rid themselves of accumulated things that happen during the course of the day or through our exposure. So that's certainly very important.
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So, you know, the other thing that happens, I think there's really very relevant gets back to dead center to our conversation is with repeated lack of restorative sleep. It's a powerful threat to metabolism and mitochondrial function.
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And this then... Caused obesity, inflammation... And directly threatens the mitochondria and therefore allows us to understand why people who chronically don't get enough quality sleep, i.e. length and quality are important, are at a significantly increased risk for Alzheimer's.
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And, you know, it is what the science is saying. And It is something that night shift workers need to be aware of. I mean, by and large, they don't get as much sleep if you were to measure the quantity as people who have a daytime job, number one. Number two. And probably a lot of quality either, right?
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Good luck getting your room to be dark and quiet during the day, especially if you live in a city. So they are at significant increase for a variety of issues, including neurocognitive decline and including various forms of cancer. So it's anything but ideal. Wow.
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Every cell does something different in the human body, but to carry out any work, we have to have a fuel source and use that fuel to power the engine that allows the cell to do its thing. A car goes nowhere unless it has a battery pack or it uses gasoline. So it's the process of using fuel to carry out the various functions of the cell that we call metabolism.
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in any way I don't have no clue if it does or not well there these are very separate issues first let's talk about Botox there is evidence that this botulinum toxin is able to migrate down nerve pathways and may in fact make its way into the brain so really well that's been well described
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Unclear. We don't have the research yet. The notion of that happening, I think a toxin is something that we should be considering. Now, gosh, I was, I think, the second person neurologist in Florida to undergo botulinum, Botox training. Really? Yeah. So I was using Botox, not for a cosmetic reason, but to treat people who had various types of... Facial spasms, neck spasms, eye closures, etc.
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To relax the space. Yeah, people would have what's called blepharospasm where the eye would close and we could inject the orbicularis oculus muscle so that their eye would relax a little bit. And it was very helpful. And when they had spasmodic torticollis and their neck would turn, we would inject the cernicotomastoid muscle and they would get benefit for a period of a couple of months.
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When was this when you got trained? Gosh, this must have been at least 25 years ago.
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Oh, it was already being used for cosmetic reasons in my office because in those days, the many members of my office staff would notice if I had any Botox left over after I treated a patient. Do a little on their forehead. No, and I would, I have to admit. But having said that, I think we have to watch this data and
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I think that the scientific community, medical community is well aware of that as a potential risk. Really? As it relates to the fillers, I think the biggest issue would be that this is a foreign chemical put in the body by and large. Some of the collagen-based injections are really not that foreign, but I think what you can see are allergic reactions.
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And whenever there's an allergic reaction, it's amping up the immune system. creating inflammatory chemicals, what that does in the long term may not be good.
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Yeah, I think it's an interesting area to explore. I'm not sure even that, you know, I can't quote you research that's ongoing as it relates to that. But I think it's interesting.
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I guess go with all this well here's where I'm gonna go with it and that is it doesn't need to be injected so that opens the door to topicals and the risk of toxicity in the human body from what we are exposing us ourselves to with anything that's put on topically whether we think we're doing the right thing by using sunscreen or moisturizers this is well beyond the notion of
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hair dye and all of that type of stuff, which clearly represented a danger. In fact... How dangerous is hair dye? Well, originally, the original work on hair dye was done by Dr. Bruce Ames. So Dr. Ames, decades ago, was able to identify certain chemicals in hair dyes that were carcinogenic and developed a bacterial test using a type of bacteria, I think it was streptococcal,
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Now, if your car's metabolism is not working well, if for some reason, for example, you mixed your fuel with water or something, then the car is going to sputter and come to a screeching halt because it's metabolically compromised. That's what we are doing to the human brain. We are giving threats to the human brain that are compromising its ability to use fuel appropriately.
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that could be used globally to evaluate various chemicals in terms of their carcinogenicity. Could they cause cancer? And so he was able to identify certain components of hair dye that were indeed quite threatening.
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The question then arises in terms of have they been thoroughly vetted? And that is worrisome because Most of these products haven't really undergone rigorous human trials or even animal trials that are still sold in stores that may well be threatening. There's really no review process for these products.
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It's entering through the skin, your scalp. But interestingly, the part of the system that is alive is, of course, the cells in the skin that manufacture and color your hair. So the cells, the melanocytes that are involved in giving your hair color decline in function over time as their mitochondria begin to fail.
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So as their mitochondria begin to fail, they're less able to create the color of your hair and your hair turns gray. So the more you color your hair, you're weakening the mitochondria. No, no, I didn't say that. Okay.
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What I'm saying is the more these cells that are involved in keeping your hair colored are declining in terms of their functionality, the less able they are to impart color into the hair and your hair turns gray. And that's your total health, that's your environment, the foods you're eating, your sleep. To some degree, there's certainly a lot of heredity involved in it as well.
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But these cells become what's called senescent, which means they lose their ability to divide, they lose their ability to function. And the fact that they are senescent oftentimes allows them to create certain chemicals that causes the next cell adjacent to them to also become senescent and less functional. It's why people develop a patch of gray hair in certain areas and it tends to spread.
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Yeah, I've got a little bit of that. A little bit here. Can you reverse gray hair? It's a good question. I've wondered, and this is not a pitch, but I've wondered if either NAD or urolithin might help reverse gray hair. NAD. NAD. NAD perhaps. Not NAD per se, but NAD NMN or NR, nicotinamide mononucleotide or nicotinamide riboside, the precursors for NAD in the human body.
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I wonder if that or perhaps urolithin A may contribute to lessening of gray hair. We don't have the research on this yet?
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Suddenly over here, all growing black hair. Come on. Yeah. Really? And I pointed out to my wife, I said, you know, I'm not using just for men. What is that stuff? Yeah, yeah. You're not dyeing your hair? I'm getting these black hairs or dark hairs. Really? So who knows? Interesting. But I think that if you target mitochondrial function, there are so many things that we could be talking about.
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That might happen. I don't know for sure. But next time I come on your show. Let me know if you have all black hair over here. I'll be like, yeah. Just for men.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
It's tough to say because there are... how many types of hair dye that are out there. So that's not a, that's not how science works. Science works at one, generally assessing one variable that's now being challenged, which I'm grateful for. So it might be one hair dye or more importantly, one chemical in a hair dye.
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Let's see what that does over a period of time in laboratory animals and then perhaps in an interventional trial. Okay.
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Now, by and large, the fuel is glucose. which is a good thing. Can the brain use fats? Can it use ketones for fuel? Yes, it can. So we really need to drill down on what's going on that allows the brain to use glucose. And where is the furnace? Where is it burning this glucose to produce energy? And it's doing so in parts of the cell organelles that are called Mitochondria.
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We've covered a lot of water. I know. This is good though.
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Hard to say because inherent in the ability to dye hair is first stripping it and allowing so that the dye then is more able to penetrate the hair. Is that necessarily good for hair? I tend to think that it is not. Got it. Okay. So, you know, we've gone from inside the head to outside the head.
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No.
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Yes. So does the child enter the world through the vagina or through an incision in the mother's belly, basically, a cesarean section? And those are very different experiences for that newborn.
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we have to recognize that a cesarean section is a life-saving, wonderful procedure now done in a hospital sterile environment such that, quasi-sterile environment, we'll get to that in just a moment, such that a child can be saved and mother can be saved as well if in fact this pregnancy is threatening to mother. So there's a time and a place, that's for sure.
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As we sit here right now, about 30% of births in America is delivered via C-section. Which is an exceedingly high number. What was that 30 years ago? It's been pretty consistent over the past 30 years.
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And I'm going to say that some of the reason it happens, with all due respect, is not because there's a threat in terms of the newborn, or the fetus rather, or mother's health, but because of convenience.
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I think to be fair to mothers and fathers, parents to be, that a full explanation as to potential downside risks of a C-section aside from a scar or any other complication to the mother in terms of a general anesthetic and surgery and an antibiotic being administered should include what are now the well-understood risks to that newborn. And here is what they are.
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When a child passes through the birth canal in a normal vaginal delivery, that child is anointed, anointed with the seeds the bacterial seeds, the viral seeds of his or her future microbiome. The bacteria, the viruses, the other organisms that invest that child and determine various functions of that child when he's an adult or she's an adult. Really?
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The set point of immune reactivity, for example. That the immune system receives a significant degree of programming from the gut bacteria And the differences in the bacteria in the gut between a C-section born child and a vaginally delivered child are significant.
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To a significant degree, yes. And mitochondria is in the brain? So mitochondria are little tiny organelles that live within the brain cells. Each brain cell may have, even though you see a diagram, here's the mitochondria, here are the ribosomes, here's the nucleus. Typically, a brain cell may have as many as a thousand mitochondria each cell.
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We know that changes in the array, the functionality, and diversity of the gut organisms relate to things like diabetes, obesity, and even risk for autoimmune conditions. Having said that, what the science reveals is there's a pretty significant increased risk of autoimmune conditions in children born by cesarean section. There's a dramatic increased risk of autism.
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ADHD, and autoimmune conditions like celiac disease and type 1 diabetes in C-section born children as opposed to children born vaginally. And the research is out there on this? Research has been published for at least 15 years.
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Now, are there other things that happen in terms of physical compression of that child at the time it passes through a tight canal versus being just liberated in the C-section? Perhaps it's playing a role, but I think much of the research, most of it, is focused on the anointing of that child with a specific type of bacterial array, viral array,
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in the birth canal that invests that child's eyes, ears, nose, mouth, especially, and then serves as the seed for his or her upcoming gut microbiome, as opposed to forming that gut microbiome based upon whatever bacteria happens to be on the surgeon's glove, gown, or in the operating room. The good news, in fact, there's two bits of good news.
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First, that there is a pretty significant normalization of the toddler's gut microbiome with time as he or she is exposed to the world, the similar world as the other child. But the other bit of research I think is really very exciting being done mostly at NYU is the idea of prior to doing a C-section,
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taking a vaginal swab, keeping that swab in a warm, moist environment, deliver the child by C-section, and then implant that bacterial component into the child's mouth, nose, and face. Ears, eyes, kind of all over the place, right? Yeah, basically wipe the face of that child. That research is early, but it's being done. And I think that we will see that the results will...
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No, they were around in autoimmune conditions. Again, type 1 diabetes, celiac disease, lupus, all the various autoimmune conditions were around, but we're seeing that they're skyrocketing. And why? It gets back to one single term that we've talked about today called immunometabolism.
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the relationship between the balanced response of the immune system and our metabolic health, the control of our blood sugar, our blood pressure, whether we're obese or not. Those things are skyrocketing and threatening the balance of the immune system. Beyond that, though,
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The array and diversity and functionality of the gut bacteria is changing quite rapidly over time, primarily based upon the change in the human diet. That has a direct role to play in the balance of the response of the immune system. It should be not too high, not too low, the Goldilocks zone. Not enough immune function, we develop risk for infection.
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One cell. So how many mitochondria do we have in our brain? It's a number that is incalculable.
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Too much immune function, we react to things, even react against ourselves. Hence, explaining and providing the answer to your question, why are we seeing such a rise in allergies to nuts and other things and autoimmune conditions as well? Let me tell you something before I forget.
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Yeah. My wife and I are in a lodge just in the northern part of Patagonia in Chile. And I'm watching TV. It's in Spanish, of course. And there's my interview, your interview with me. Really? On Chilean television. in really good Spanish that was lining up with our mouths. It was perfect. That's great.
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Trillions. Trillions of mitochondria. Throughout the human body as well. In fact, virtually every cell in the body does contain mitochondria with the exception, for example, the red blood cell. So the issue then is recognizing the brain is a hugely energy-hungry organ, using a lot of energy day in and day out. The brain, truthfully, never rests. When we sleep, the brain isn't going to sleep.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
Well, I will explore that with you further off camera because I think I would love to do that with my podcast because, again, you know, the mission is to get the information out. So.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
It was on TV. Now, it may have been on YouTube, but I think it might have been on network.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
Well, I think the relationship of our consumption of sugar, and I'll need to kind of define what that means, what is sugar, is profoundly related to Alzheimer's risk and Alzheimer's progression. One study demonstrated that there's a profound relationship between the number of sugary beverages each day and Alzheimer's risk and actual shrinkage of the brain, even more profound.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
And sugary beverages, we're thinking soda, etc., includes fruit juice. So let's be clear. Orange juice, lemonade, apple juice. Cranberry juice. That the sugar content of these juices is equal to drinking a Coke or Pepsi. Perhaps Mountain Dew's really got a lot of sugar. But, you know, we're talking... 36 grams of sugar in a 12 ounce or 16 ounce can or glass.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
So having said that, it's a clear and present danger. And mechanistically, we've already covered why it happens because we're threatening mitochondria. We're threatening to change those wonderful supportive immune cells to becoming the evil twin and destroying brain cells. And, you know, it all comes together. We are now connecting these dots.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
My colleague, Dr. Robert Lustig, has really gone a long way to really defining the biochemistry in terms of how this is happening. And then what are then these relationships between these dietary trends and brain health decline? But yet, we're seeing ever-increasing amounts of other information kind of leading us to believe that, well, there are bad sugars and good sugars.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
And the reality is that the most threatening sugar of all is not glucose. What is it? It is fructose. By far and away. What's the difference between glucose and fructose? So they are totally different molecules in terms of the number of carbon atoms. And importantly, in table sugar, it's both. It's 50% fructose and 50% glucose. They are bonded together.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
We consume that table sugar and then we, in the intestine with an enzyme called sucrase, we break it up into fructose and glucose. Fructose doesn't require insulin for its metabolism, and as we may have talked about before, immediately is metabolized into something called uric acid, which is a profound threat to our metabolism. Glucose is absorbed and is used as fuel.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
Fructose is a powerful mitochondrial toxin. Toxin. Mitochondrial toxin. Fructose. Fruit sugar, fructose. Now, having said that table sugar is 50% fructose, recognize that there exists something out there called high fructose corn syrup, which has an even higher percentage of fructose that is cheap and really, really sweet.
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It's actually diverting its tasks to cleaning things up and getting ready for the next day. While other parts of your body, your muscles, etc., are resting at night, your heart is resting at night. But that said, the brain is very energy hungry, and as such, problems with metabolism, how it creates the energy, would be very obvious then in the brain. And it's really the first place to suffer.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
which is why it's the go-to sweetener for about 60 to 70% of grocery store shelf packaged products contain at least some added sweetener. By and large, it's high fructose corn syrup or a derivative thereof. Fructose is a powerful threat to our immune function, a powerful threat to mitochondrial health. That's why it threatens our immune function.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
and clearly a clear and present danger as it relates to brain health and Alzheimer's risk. So let me take us back, let me wind the clock back a little bit to when we started today. You presented some very sobering statistics about not just where we are in Alzheimer's, but where we're going.
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I think you talked about 2050 with tripling of the prevalence of Alzheimer's at that time, far outstripping the aging of our population. And I think the query was, why is it happening? And my response to you was, because of the changes in our metabolic health. The number one threat to our metabolic health, and I believe I said it before, is our fructose consumption.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
And indeed, humans consume fruit sugar. It goes by the name of fructose. That's where the name comes from. And we can handle at any given time about five grams of fructose. That's an apple. One apple a day? No, at a time. At a time.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
You can have a couple of apples in a day, but you don't want to load your body, you don't want to load your digestive system quickly with any more than about five grams of fructose.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
So the issue isn't necessarily the amount of fructose that a particular fruit contains. Bananas are about midway. Melons are higher. Watermelon, honeydew melon, cantaloupe are higher. There's a scale in terms of fructose consumption. One doesn't eat as many by mass, wouldn't eat as many blueberries perhaps as a big apple.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
But having said that, our small intestine can handle about five grams of fructose at a time. Time is an important operative word. Why? Because when you're chugging a glass of orange juice or Dr. Pibb or whatever it may be, you're bombarding your digestive system with a huge fructose load, far more than it can handle. Like a rush of it. That's right, a rush.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
And it's far more than your small intestine can process, which is about five grams at any given moment. You don't eat all the fructose or consume all the fructose in an apple You don't chug an apple. Right. It takes time. You've got to chew it. You've got to swallow it. But you do drink a glass of orange juice or apple juice quickly.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
Not only that, but an apple contains fiber that slows the release, the absorption of fructose. It also contains vitamin C, which is relevant because the downstream consequence of ingesting higher amounts of fructose is the creation of uric acid, which affects your metabolic state in a negative way. But vitamin C helps to offset that by augmenting your ability to excrete uric acid.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
So eat the apple or two a day, keep the doctor away, but don't drink the apple juice. Or if you do, water it down.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
Well, it's not ideal. Is it better than processed fruit or sugars, though? I would say yes for the reasons that you delineated. The fiber, the vitamin C, the other nutrients, the bioflavonoids, the polyphenols, you name it. But if you're going to do that, then pace yourself, eat it slowly.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
The reality is that the metabolic defects of the brain that presage to the development of Alzheimer's disease begin 20 to 30 years prior to the clinical manifestations, in other words, the changing in memory, the issues with carrying out purposeful activities, where suddenly now, though the problem began two decades ago when we could have paid attention,
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This morning with my breakfast, I asked for a bowl of fruit and the hotel brought, it was massive, this bowl of fruit. And at the end, the waiter asked me, well, do you want to box this up? Because you left two thirds of it. I said, no, I didn't really want to do that. So what did I have for breakfast this morning?
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
I had three eggs over easy, a garden salad for breakfast, who knew, with a side order of olive oil. A lot of fiber. A lot of fiber, a lot of good fat, and what turned out to be a very small bowl of fruit because I didn't eat it. And two cups of black coffee with allulose sugar in it, which acts as a GLP-1 agonist.
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It means it stimulates the GLP-1 receptor in a positive way, as the natural GLP-1 produced in the body from the L cells in the small intestine would do. acts in a similar way as the GLP-1 ozempic-like drugs. They're all considered GLP-1 agonists. What is GLP-1?
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
So this is a hormone that regulates things like appetite, regulates the emptying of the stomach, acts centrally in the brain to regulate how much food we consume, and even has a role in terms of how insulin does its job in the body as well.
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That may happen, but I think that eating sugar actually immediately stimulates the body to produce GLP-1, as does fat and fiber.
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So this glucagon-like peptide, is when we're eating, there's a lot of signaling going on in the body that suddenly there's a big change about to occur. We're gonna load the body up with who knows what and how are we going to deal with it and how much should we be consuming and why don't we just keep eating? So this is a way of regulating appetite that's built into our physiology.
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that now starts to metricize what we're eating in terms of quantity and quality, in terms of calories derived from fat versus carbohydrate, so that we're going to eat an appropriate amount of food. Other hormones are involved, like ghrelin and leptin as well. With time, we can become less sensitive to these chemicals.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
We certainly become less sensitive to leptin, which also regulates our appetite. Like we can become insulin resistant, we can become leptin resistant as we constantly bombard our bodies with foods that challenge the production of leptin, we become resistant. So we become less sensitive to the signaling of leptin and therefore we might eat too much.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
I mean, there was an attempt in the past to give people leptin as a way of curbing their appetites, didn't seem to work.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
but clearly the glp-1 agonists are working i mean um people aren't just taking these drugs because they're uh you know they're being the celebrities are talking about them they're working uh extremely effectively in terms of weight loss and in control of blood sugar as well in the new york times this morning was a fascinating article
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talking about addiction and the effectiveness of GLP-1 agonist drugs in terms of addiction, even things like alcohol consumption.
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Actually, they slow gastric emptying so that that food will be around longer and will then be available for digestion perhaps longer. But I think the former is probably much more a reason that we just, our appetites are curbed and we're eating less food.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
Now that mom or dad or husband or wife is beginning to have issues remembering the grandchildren's name, the Wi-Fi codes, how to use their iPhone, getting lost, now we take notice and begin to think about, well, what drug can we use now that it's fourth and long?
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Yeah, and the stomach, because it's not emptying, becomes more distended, and that is an electrical event. We sense that the stomach is becoming distended, and as such, it sends a signal to the brain that we should stop eating.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
In days gone by, a procedure was done called a gastric sleeve, where the outflow of the stomach was compressed with a device, and as such, the stomach would then distend more, and that would send signals to the brain doing the same type of thing.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
Well, what's been done is called gastric bypass operation, whereby the outflow of the stomach is diverted. such that again and the stomach is comp is made smaller as well really with the same goal in mind and interesting there are some pretty profound metabolic changes that happen from that like better insulin functionality really You don't want to go there.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
It's kind of hard to admit because I think it's an aggressive procedure, but that's what the data shows. Similarly, again, I didn't want to spend an inordinate amount of time talking about these drugs, but I think people are really interested. I think it needs to be talked about. That's interesting. Because I think we should look at upsides and downsides of everything that's available.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
I think that is correct. I think the more physiologic we can be in terms of interventions and recommendations, the better. One of the feared complications of these GLP-1 agonist drugs is something called gastroparesis or paresis. which means basically a total paralysis of the stomach, and that can be life threatening. So it's not common.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
It is described as one of the concerns of using these types of medications. And as we talked about earlier, in the interventional trial for Parkinson's patients, gastrointestinal issues were very, very common.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
The point I'm trying to make is an important mission is to emphasize that our brain function, our health of the brain, the brain's ability to resist degeneration is dependent upon metabolism and we need to begin paying attention to that metabolism 20, 30, 40 years prior to when the typical medical intervention is then implemented to deal with a problem.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
Let me first characterize the use of a continuous glucose monitor. Let's maybe not call it a medical intervention. It's an assessment tool. Yeah, that I am very grateful is now available non-prescription, i.e., it's a way that people can really gain a fundamentally important metric about their physiology.
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And the reason I, you know, again, it's like a bathroom scale to me, which anyone can have and should have. You're learning about your body weight, you should learn about your blood sugar. Mm-hmm. So what then is this ideal diet that Dr. Perlmutter is now going to describe to your audience? And I think that we should consider the question as more along the lines of what's the ideal diet for you?
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Personalized. Right? And I don't know how to answer that question. I do know the broad strokes, and we can talk about the broad strokes, but I think ultimately, to me, an ideal diet is one that keeps your blood sugar under tight control.
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Well, if your blood sugar spikes to 160 after a carbohydrate meal, you might think that's a high number of 160, 180, but it's not really that important because it's going to. And I think that what we look at in looking at these measurements, it's not the spike, but how quickly it returns to baseline. Interesting.
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how long it stays elevated, and again gets back to, if it comes back to baseline very quickly, then the area under that curve is pretty reduced. If it spikes and stays elevated for a longer period of time, then we have a larger area under the curve that translates to poor control of blood sugar, threatens insulin sensitivity, that becomes a powerful threat to brain health.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
But you were pretty healthy before you used a glucose monitor yourself, right? Well, when I started using the glucose monitor, I was very pleased with my results. But I can't be one of those do as I say, not as I do individual. A, B, my dad died of Alzheimer's and it was awful. And I don't want that to happen to me. But more importantly, I don't want my family to go through that again.
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So I think it's important for me to stand as an individual who practices what he preaches.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
and so therefore when i started using a cgm the continuous glucose monitor i was happy with the results but i think you know this is something you have to do day in and day after the rest of your life you begin to develop a sense as to what your blood sugar does when you do or don't exercise when you do or don't get a good night's sleep and fundamentally how do your food choices relate and how do your supplements relate as a matter of fact interesting
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
as well, and how do other things you mentioned, we talked about allulose, relate to blood sugar? And I think people using a CGM are going to be surprised by what they learn about themselves. The broad strokes, avoiding ultra-processed foods would be on the top of the list. Number two on that list would be avoid ultra-processed foods, probably gonna be three through five. Really? Yeah.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
Beyond that is ultra processed foods. It's such an issue. Packaged foods, processed carbs, green processed grains are ubiquitous. And I don't care if, you know, they're organic. They were made this or that, you know, a company that has a great vegan, non GMO, everything. Yeah. Great startup. I want to be supportive of these people.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
It's the processing of these foods that leads to the fact that they're predigested basically. And when they are consumed, your blood sugar goes up. So what about like protein bars and things like that as well? It's not a natural food. And, um, I think that for me, I've done my best to avoid those types of packaged foods.
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I mean, you know, is there a time if you're at a conference sitting in a conference all day? Yeah, not really. You know, the truth of the matter is fast a little bit. And your brain's going to work pretty well. Have a good breakfast. Go to the conference. You know, maybe there is a good luncheon or not. So I don't really see a time and a place.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
As John Kennedy said, the time to fix a roof is when the sun is shining. So we really need to start getting the word out that Our brain depends upon good metabolism.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
If you're going to be on the trail hiking and you need to have something in your backpack, you could put an apple in your backpack in a bag of mixed nuts just as easily as you can put a protein bar. Could there be a protein bar that is acceptable? There are, and there are a few of them out there that are not too bad. You've got to watch the sugar component.
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You've really got to watch what kinds of fats go into it because there are, again, processed fats that are threatening and good fats that are not just good for you but fundamental for your health.
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Well, dried versus smoked I think is really important. I think the process of smoking may introduce chemicals that are not necessarily going to be good for you. Interesting. Dried, basically dehydrated, I don't think is a significant risk. That does contain a lot of purines ounce for ounce. Purines are metabolized into uric acid, which is something else we can monitor.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
We can monitor our own uric acid with going online and buying a uric acid monitor. That requires a finger stick, unlike the continuous glucose monitor, but we'll see what the future holds.
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Neurologist: The Shocking ROOT CAUSE of Alzheimer’s - How To Prevent & REVERSE Damage To Your Brain | Dr. David Perlmutter
Yeah, there are, in fact. You know, there's a couple that really stand out. There's one minimally processed type of buckwheat called Himalayan tartary buckwheat, HTB. Yeah. Who's the person who works on that? Dr. Jeffrey Bland. Oh, man, I can't remember. Yeah, Dr. Jeffrey Bland. Yeah, okay. Oddly enough, Dr. Austin Perlmutter. Who knew?
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So they have just published a report looking at changes in what are called methylation patterns, looking at the changes in the markers on human trial, human DNA over time in people who are consuming this HTB, Himalayan Tartary Buckwheat. And really some phenomenal results. Interesting.
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No. My father was one of the main reasons. Without question. I mean, you know, it was, I think, pretty much in the book that I was going to be a physician. And for a number of reasons. I mean, my first choice was meteorologist, specifically a hurricane specialist.
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When I was in fifth grade, I used to ride my bike to the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables, and they had all these displays about what... How does a hurricane form? And they used to chart hurricanes. They used to give lat and lon, the latitude and longitude of the hurricane, so that you at home could chart the progress of this hurricane on your home hurricane map.
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The answer is absolutely.
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They don't use that anymore. But anyway... I decided I wouldn't do that because as I got older, I realized, oh, you had to study chemistry and math, which turned out to be my favorite subject. But anyway, so to become a doctor.
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But I think the main thing that two main things that spurred me on were his compassion towards his patients and my curiosity with just medicine and how the human body works.
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No, he was a neurosurgeon. But it was always about the brain. I mean, when I was 11 years old at the dinner table, he would say, well, David, what is Marsha Fava Bignami syndrome? Marsha Fava Bignami syndrome. And I'd say, well, I don't know. He said, that's what Italian men get who drink too much red wine.
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and i would never forget and when you're young you can remember stuff like that so um wow yeah it was it then as i became like in my early teens 13 14 i used to be able to go in those days you know less of a risk i'd go into the operating room i would scrub in wow with your dad and with my dad yeah wow what was that like when he was doing like brain surgeries or doing brain surgery.
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When I was 14 years old, I was in the operating room holding retractors while my dad was taking up brain tumors. Come on, really? Yeah. How many brain surgeries did your dad do? Oh my gosh. You know, several a week. But he did a lot of back work too. Hundreds or thousands? Thousands, yeah. He was a wonderful surgeon.
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Well, anything that threatens the mitochondria then is going to threaten not only how the brain works moment to moment, but set that brain up for a future decay.
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And when you couple that ability with compassion, you know, because it was not always good news after the fact. Sure. And I watched him do that. You know, I watched him interface with families. And I remember in particular one night he woke me up. He said, I got to go out to the emergency room at South Miami Hospital. And we went out. It was one o'clock in the morning.
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And a man had dove off a wall drunk in the Keys, Florida Keys, broken his neck, brought him up to South Miami Hospital. And my dad had to put tongs, like ice tongs, in his skull. Ice tongs connected to a rope, connected to a pulley, connected to a weight to pull the neck up. To keep him from moving his neck further prior to him being able to go in and then stabilize the fracture.
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So I watched him do that in the emergency room. And then the man's mother and father showed up. and uh i'll never forget the uh interaction that he had with that mother and father i was you know in my early teens and he explained that he had broken his neck and i remember the mother literally almost fell over to the extent that my dad had helped her into a chair and she grabbed her heart
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But the way he dealt with that situation was a horrible situation for the parents to find out. And his son was still drunk, so he was kind of still out of it. I won't forget that. And I won't forget one other moment of compassion.
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we were fishing and he caught a small fish that we weren't fishing for and he unhooked it and threw it back in the water and the fish was not doing well and he watched that fish for probably 20 minutes and kept talking to it and saying you can do it you know go back and sometimes when you catch a fish it doesn't do well and I stopped fishing and watched him and heard him.
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And finally the fish fluttered and went down. And just that level of compassion, you know, really just had an imprint on me at a time in life when you are imprintable. And I think it's a Dan Fogelberg song that I quoted at his eulogy. I want to go off just for a second. Go ahead. Sorry. Go ahead. So the Dan Vogelberg song in it, it's called the leader of the band.
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Yes. So to answer your question then, what hurts the mitochondria? Well, we know that a powerful threat to mitochondria, a direct clear and present danger to mitochondria are certain foods like ultra processed foods. We know that fructose is a dramatic threat to mitochondrial function. We put a paper out on that topic in February of 2021. Certainly many environmental issues need to be considered.
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And he says, my life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man. I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band. And I let that one hang on the audience. Because I've kind of lived my life trying to live up to that. Really? Yeah, I really have. He wasn't perfect, nobody was, but like your father, as you describe in your book, set the bar pretty high. Luckily for us, they did.
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And that wasn't their mission, but they did by example.
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The notion of noblesse oblige that John Kennedy talked about. It basically means that if you're gifted and we all are, whatever that gift is, you're obligated to use that gift in a way that serves humanity. You know, I get the message that I'm pretty clever about certain things. I know that at this stage of life.
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I'm going to be 70, so I can say that I've understood that over the years that I have a pretty good brain and it has allowed me to do the things that I've done, to accomplish the things I have accomplished. But to accomplish things for accomplishment's sake is one thing, but to accomplish things that fulfill your obligation to others, we are obligated.
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I think is a task that he charged me with by letting me know about that notion. That stands right up there. That is part of compassion. To be compassionate to others is to use your skill set to benefit them like you do with this podcast. It's all about giving back. And we talked about, you know, why do you have your podcast translated in Spanish?
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Because they need the wonderful information that you're giving them. It's not a moneymaker, face it. But that's our obligation. Absolutely. How long, you say your dad died of Alzheimer's, is that right? Alzheimer's killed him. And I think it's really important that people understand that Alzheimer's itself is the number three cause of death in America. It kills people.
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Now, to be clear, Alzheimer's patients generally have quite a few other diseases going on because they're metabolically compromised, heart disease, diabetes, etc. Becoming a type 2 diabetic is associated with about a four-fold increased risk of Alzheimer's. So these things ride together, but it was clearly the Alzheimer's that took his life.
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Well, how long had he had the clinical manifestations? Probably about seven years. But vis-a-vis our earlier discussions, it likely started 20, 25 years earlier than that.
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Well, I diagnosed it. Wow. And I remember the moment I diagnosed it. And at that moment, I said to myself, how could I have ignored this as a neurologist? And of course I would ignore it. It's my father for crying out loud. But it's my work. I did it every day. I made that diagnosis countless times every single day in my medical practice.
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You don't want to see that with your father, so maybe you're not looking. I didn't want to see it. I couldn't see it. I kept myself from seeing it. But finally, in one statement that he made, I was about to argue with him that he was wrong, that dad, no, as a matter of fact it was a different way when I finally got it and I said, wow, this is where we are.
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Wow.
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You'd think I was the oldest. I get that all the time. You know, you must be.
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Yeah.
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And get to work. Get to work. So, yeah, you know, I've devoted myself to this notion. And we're living in a world that, again, wants us to believe that our lifestyle choices don't matter. They're everything. They're everything. This disease is not caused primarily by an accumulation of beta amyloid.
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It's the targeting of beta-amyloid that is the focus of all these wonderful new drugs that are being FDA approved. They aren't working. It's a metabolic issue. That's what I yell from the mountaintop. And we've got to rein in our metabolism to help keep the brain healthy and resistant to the problem in the first place. And also as a therapeutic intervention.
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Anything that increases inflammation in the human body increases the threat to the mitochondria and as such sets the stage for brain decline. So with that understanding then,
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Yeah, and I think it really stems from our beliefs. There's a long difficult quote from Mahatma Gandhi that says, our beliefs become our thoughts, our thoughts become our words, our words become our actions, our actions become our habits, our actions, our habits ultimately become our destiny. and i.e. our beliefs become our destiny.
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Our beliefs, if we believe that we can live our lives and that medicine's gonna save us, will be our destiny. That we will be destined to these diseases that we so fear. People fear Alzheimer's more than any other situation at the end of their lives. The ability or the lack of their ability for self-care. and becoming a burden to others. And relying on other people for everything.
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Robert Kennedy said, some men see things as they are and say, why others see things as they could be and say, why not? I think these days it should be some people. Let's make it politically correct. The point is, how it could be is no Alzheimer's. It could be eradicated. Or we could cut it in half. We could absolutely cut it in half if this messaging could be worked into policy.
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The idea of developing therapies for people in whom Alzheimer's is now beginning to raise its ugly head, focusing simply on the accumulation of this protein beta amyloid is myopic and has proven ineffective and beyond that has proven threatening. A fascinating
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Well, we've gotten really away from our Paleolithic ancestry, which is basically genetically who we are. We're still Paleolithic individuals and we are still, you know, our whole physiology via our genetics is designed to express itself in a way that keeps us healthy, provided it receives the external environmental signaling, i.e. food, etc., that is in alignment with our genetics, and it is not.
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Well, what is lifespan? And when you talk about the lifespan of our population, if you were to determine the lifespan of the population, look at in 1900, you take a thousand people and ask yourself, how long did they live? And then you make the average. Well, in those days, there was a lot of childhood death. There was a lot of infant mortality. There was a lot of death around childbirth.
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And that shortened lifespan. There was a lot of death from trauma, a lot of death from infection. And those things, paying attention to those things, improved our lifespan. And you're right. Lifespan did increase over time. But interestingly now, in the past four years, for the first time in human history, lifespan is declining.
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So it's finally caught up with us. Really? We've really kind of... What is the lifespan for men and women in America currently? So we're in the mid-70s now for men and late 70s for women. And... We can do so much better than that. And what's killing people now? It's not as much the infectious diseases.
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What's killing people, I mentioned it earlier, according to the World Health Organization, number one cause are chronic degenerative conditions that rob us of our ability not just to live a long life, but to have a longer health span so we live a healthier life. And these are conditions caused by disruption of our metabolism. We'd close the circle.
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And these are influenced by our lifestyle choices, moment to moment.
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Well, I have to admit, I certainly don't dwell on the fact that I'm where I am on the chronological clock. I do know that my biological clock puts me in the low 60s. That's certainly a good thing. That's great. Yeah.
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Well, I'm not there yet. I've got a couple months to go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I'm not middle-aged. I mean, if we're going to die at 75, so 37 and a half is the peak, right? So that's middle. I'm well beyond middle age. I have to admit, I don't think about it. But, you know, James Taylor wrote a song called The Secret of Life. And the secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
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A study appeared in the New York Times yesterday, it was reviewed in the New York Times yesterday, talking about how the most popular drug that targets this beta amyloid that accumulates in the brain is quite threatening, that about 28% of people given the drug have small brain hemorrhages.
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Any fool can do it. There ain't nothing to it. Einstein said he could never understand it all. The planets suspended through space, the smile upon your face. So I think it's just really enjoying recognizing that time is passing and enjoying the various phases of the moment. It's a good way to live.
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I play a lot of pickleball, and the people I play pickleball with or that are playing pickleball where I play pickleball, I'm about the middle of the age of those individuals. So there are people a lot older than I am playing pickleball, so that's encouraging.
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That's right. And especially, and I'm really excited that outside your studio, there's a table talk, which is great because things happen so quickly. You've got to think very, very quickly. And pickleball is the same thing. But you're moving a lot. So you play a lot more doubles then, huh? It's all doubles that we play. And I think that's becoming much more popular. But
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You know, I have been, you have to be a little bit more careful at this stage of the game. You don't want to hurt yourself. A, you don't want to have the injury. And B, if you're injured, then you can't exercise. You don't want to stop exercising. Exactly. Exercising is, I think, the most important tonic for the brain.
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In multiple studies, if you want to enhance the growth of new brain cells and nurture those good-sided microglial cells that are there to help you and love you, that's what exercise does. So rein in your diet and make sure that you exercise every single day.
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Gee, that's a good question. I'd say, Yeah. Look at the information I'm putting out. Think about it. And, you know, recognize that there are two sides to every story. and be open-minded that some of the things you may be hearing reference your health may not necessarily have your interest at heart. How does it serve me?
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It makes me happy to think that there are some people who are going to hear my message and will be better off for that, and that's the goal. I appreciate that very much. That's great.
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My last book was called Drop Acid that has to do with uric acid. My next book is tentatively called Brain Wars. And Brain Wars deals with the war in your brain between the good and the bad microglial cells and how we can absolutely affect the outcome of this confrontation. Brain Wars.
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but that people who carry a certain genetic predisposition for Alzheimer's are at a significantly increased risk for these bleeds in their brain. And what the New York Times article reported yesterday is that the company knew it. Wow. And went ahead with the research.
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Well, I don't know what I answered last time, but what resonates with me right now is be as compassionate as you can to everyone in your life, everyone you interact with. We need that more than ever. Number two is be a good listener. And number three is express your gratitude.
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Well, and I want to say to you that I think we have a very special connection. And the reason I say that is because I don't know how many years ago it was that I sat in this chair and we spoke, but I feel like I never left. I feel like we're just continuing on where we left off. And that's very, very special.
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Greatness is using the gifts that you have for the betterment of our planet. And I believe that's pretty similar to what I said last time. I don't know. We'll check. Oh, you're going to check. We'll check and make sure. We'll see. Check GPT. Exactly. What did you say last time?
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So, you know, it to me violates the most important doctrine of medicine, above all, do no harm.
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That's right, so you were distracted by all of those graphics. All the video that's really showing this person now resuming their life, they can wear a bathing suit because their skin is cleared up. And it lowers your risk of, I mean, increases your risk of infection, including tuberculosis. And in fact, you may even die. You're right.
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But you're looking at this person who could finally take off his shirt. And, you know, it looks great to me.
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Lewis, respectfully, it may not be the mission. I mean, I think oftentimes what we see is more interest in shareholders than stakeholders, basically that focus on the bottom line. And there was a resounding rejection of the approval process of a certain so-called Alzheimer's drug called Lekembe, still being, you know, editorials are written, why was this drug approved?
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Because its clinical effectiveness after 18 months is minimal at best, and the side effect profile is very scary. So as we look at the risk-benefit ratio, it doesn't add up.
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I'd say it's close to 70 to 80% are either overweight or obese. Really? In fact, north of 90% of Americans have at least one component of metabolic dysfunction. And obesity is a big... Obesity, overweight, obesity is one of them. Certainly hypertension, elevated blood sugar, insulin resistance. These are all things that we consider. I add elevated uric acid to the equation as well.
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This lipidemia or problems, abnormal lab studies as relates to our blood lipids. But having said that, only one or less than one in 10 individuals is metabolically intact in America today. And it's these metabolic issues that set the stage for all the things we don't want to get, including Alzheimer's disease.
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You mean of using the drug?
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I'm going to challenge you a little bit here. Okay. And because it challenged me quite a bit as well. So You know, obesity is not just an accumulation of body fat. There's a lot going on with obesity in terms of letting us understand that metabolism is really in disarray. Obesity is really kind of the outward manifestation of what I call metabolic mayhem.
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There's a lot going on with obesity beyond just the presence of body fat. We know that mitochondria are threatened. We know that inflammation markers are skyrocketing. We know that there's an increased leakiness of the bowel. We know that risk for neurodegenerative conditions is going up. Diabetes, of course.
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Whatever your desires are, it means you are meant to receive them at some point. Don't question that.
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Correct. It's all about service. It's all about the customer, all about service. And when you have that mindset, everything opens up and grows.
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That's a great question. One of the things I've learned is it doesn't matter how long you've been spiritual or you've been working on something or what your past experience has been. Every test you go through is is sent to you by the universe that is exactly on your level. The challenge of your opponent is exactly equal to where you're at in order to get you to your next level.
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And the only reason the next level isn't comfortable is because it's not your current level. It's a level that you're not familiar with. So of course you don't see it. Of course it's illogical. Of course it's dark. And so what I've realized in this year, this has been probably one of my most transformational years, is that I am... such a perfectionist. I'm sure maybe you can relate.
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You look perfect, man.
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You look good. Oh, thank you. I am such a perfectionist that everything I do, I've always felt has to be the best. And this was the year I realized that part of why I'm trying to always be the best is is I don't want to let other people down. I have to kind of give off this persona because I'm representing spirituality, and I don't want to make spirituality look bad.
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I think there's a prevailing belief system that we need to suffer to be successful. And that's incorrect.
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So I have to have everything put together.
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Correct. I can't be sloppy externally or internally. But what I realized was that what that was causing was a lot of guilt and shame every time I fell short of the mark I needed to be at or the expectations I put on myself. And then what was happening was the guilt and the shame was creating much more negativity than all the things I was trying to prefer.
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So guilt and shame lowers your vibration more than any other mistake you make. People make mistakes like, I don't know, let's say you're in a relationship and you say something to your spouse or to your girlfriend or boyfriend that hurts them or upsets them and you feel bad about it. That was one moment in time where you created a little negative energy.
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But the guilt and shame that we carry after making a mistake is... A million times the negative energy because it's constant. Every second you hold on to guilt and shame is another moment you're injecting negative energy. So the test isn't the mistake you make. It's the guilt and shame you have afterwards. So how do you remedy that? And this was my biggest lesson.
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It was taking the pressure off of myself of trying to appear as someone that's perfect and spiritual. And allowing myself just to be myself everywhere I went. And I can't tell you how freeing that was. But at the same time, it created so much instability in other people because everyone's like, wait a minute, this was the David we knew. And now what's this?
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I said, no, this is today a little bit more of the real me. And now I'm actually building a new foundation in my life that's much more authentic to who I am. How so? There are people whose approval I wanted so badly. And I would, I know, I mean, look, I connected with your energy and I feel like we share so many similar qualities. I know exactly what somebody needs to hear to feel comfortable.
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Sure. I know what buttons to stay away from. I know how to talk to them in a way that can just make them feel really good and comfortable. And I learned that many times I'm killing myself or sacrificing myself or I'm being inauthentic to just make them feel comfortable. Mm-hmm.
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So now I'm just learning to be me and still be a giver, but to be in the way that maybe makes them uncomfortable in the moment, but I'm being true to myself. And these examples have been happening more and more. It happens with my parents. It happens with my friends. It happens with business partners and colleagues. I'm just learning to just show up as me versus who I think they want me to be.
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I think there's a prevailing belief system that we need to suffer to be successful. then that's incorrect. I think there's so much grind culture that's being thrown out there. And by the way, you do have to work hard and you do have to work consistently. But 99% of it is your belief system about what it takes to manifest.
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If you believe you must suffer to be successful, then that is the destiny you are creating. You will be successful, but you will only do it after you suffer. Elon Musk has the same hours in the day as we do. He thinks it's easy to colonize Mars. He thinks it's as easy to colonize Mars as we do, you know, maybe preparing a cup of coffee.
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Because he thinks it's easy to colonize Mars, that consciousness creates a vessel that draws in the right engineers, that draws in the right ideas, that draws in the right lawmakers to change the laws to satisfy him. Of course, there are challenges, but he's loving even the challenges to an extent where it all seems easy.
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Well, in order to understand what's stunting people's growth and vibration, it's good for people to know what they're made up of because we as souls are vessels of energy. So in the same way that a 60-watt bulb can hold 60 watts of energy, If I want to be able to draw a thousand watts of energy via a soulmate, via prosperity, via healing, right? This is all energy that I want to draw into.
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If I think something is hard or impossible, then I literally call in the entire universe to create a movie for me that makes it hard and impossible. There are people who every relationship they're in is a drama. It's difficult. It's hard. Every city I go to, I ask them, is dating hard in this city. They all say yes. They say, I say, which city is the hardest? They say, oh my God, I'm in New York.
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It's so hard to date here. I'm sure it's easier in Los Angeles. People in Los Angeles say, it's impossible to date here. I'm sure it's easier in New York. Everyone always says it's harder wherever they're at. Why is that? Because... Because they haven't been successful yet in their own city. They haven't been successful in their own city. And if I say it's hard to date, then...
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I don't have, it doesn't reflect poorly upon me the fact that I'm single. So I will tell everybody this narrative, it's hard to date, so that they don't judge me and I don't judge myself, then I can't find a man or woman. It's not me, it's everyone else. Everyone else, it's the city. It's the energy here. Everyone in LA is so superficial.
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But the truth is, even if everyone in LA was superficial, if you earned your soulmate, that one person would appear right at your door. Think about it. There are serial killers in prison who are married. Crazy. They found their soulmate. If someone in a maximum security prison who has a reputation of a serial killer can find their soulmate, I'm sure you can too in Los Angeles.
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When your consciousness and belief systems and energy is in the right place, then you will be guided. Your legs will start moving in the right direction. Your profile on a dating app algorithmically will change. People will feel your energy. People will find your profile at the right time and feel called to match with you. All of that comes from your vibration.
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I talk about products on a shelf, right? So one of the things that we talk about in our company is that the energy of the founders
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So Mary Ruth and I, our consciousness, down to the executives, down to the directors, to the managers, and to the associates, all of us, our energy needs to be of such a high vibration, of an unlimited mindset, in order for energy to flow from the creator through us to the product. And then people feel that product on the shelf and they don't know why they like it.
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They just say it's good branding, right? But they feel something in the bottle. And then that's what they should feel when they consume it, when they take it, and then the energy shifts. And here's the thing. In your company, if you have one person who's toxic or you have one person who has a limited mindset, they are clogging the pipes of energy flowing down to the product level.
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So one of the things that I do, I have very little business experience, but from the spiritual side, I'm always checking in with the employees. Where's their mindset at? I once went to my head of sales and I said, hey, in my walk this morning, so every morning I walk and I talk out loud to the universe in the form of prayer. Prayer is just a technology to expand your vessel.
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People think prayer is something you do to bribe God to make you more comfortable. But there's no bribing God. God is a perfect force. Prayer is a technology to transform our vessel spiritually. to increase the frequency to allow more energy in. So every morning I'll talk out loud to the universe. And what's the best way to pray for miracles or abundance in our life?
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Any way that makes you comfortable. The way I do it is I walk and I talk out loud in the morning before everyone's awake. Some people like to be still. Some people like to do it in their head. I like to talk out loud, something very powerful about it. In the first five minutes of prayer, all these negative forces will attack you to try to distract you not to do it.
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And you'll think it's not working. You'll want to get to your phone and you'll want to quit. I always say you got to go past the first five minutes and then you break through kind of a miracle zone. And then when you talk out loud to the universe, your words become a vessel for energy to come in. And so ideas, my best ideas, best product ideas have come on these walks.
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I have to realize that it's not just the function of how do I grab more energy or how do I get more things? I have to transform my spiritual vessel to be able to hold this energy. So then in my spiritual practice, which is Kabbalah, it's universal ancient wisdom. All Kabbalah explains is how I can become the spiritual vessel, the perfect vessel to manifest all these blessings.
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And I will talk out loud and these ideas will come. And I had an idea and a vision for a revenue number for my head of sales. I went to him. This guy's got 40 years experience. I said, hey, I think we can get whatever it was, 100 products into Whole Foods. This was right when we first got into Whole Foods. 100 SKUs? 100 SKUs. Holy cow. We had 100. Oh, wow. I said, I think we can get all 100.
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Today, we have about 300. But I said, we can get all 100 into Whole Foods. And he looked at me. He started laughing. He's like, 40 years experience. I said, we need to aim for two this year to get into Whole Foods. And that's how it works. And we can get to four next year, whatever. That's a limiting belief, though.
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Based on statistics and history, which is what most people use to form their belief systems. Most people aren't going to Mars also based on history. Exactly. The people who are changing this world are people who are not looking at history as a way to forge their belief systems. They're looking at something bigger, more divine, which is endless.
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And they're drawing these belief systems from a higher place. So I said, look, you have the experience. I don't. But as a founder... You know, in the last eight years, we've been doing this together. As a founder, I do get ideas. And thankfully, you know, we do control this company. So I want you to really be open to this idea. And we had this back and forth. So I know it's impossible.
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I said to him, I said, listen, I want you just to be open to it. He's like, OK, we'll be open to it. Something happened on a call at Whole Foods, and they said one of their brands wasn't doing well. Manufacturing started to malfunction, and a whole shelf became open. Lo and behold, that year, I think we got 75 products in. Wow. Never happened before in the history of Whole Foods.
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We shot up to be one of their number one brands. And I think today, we're at almost 120 or 130, somewhere up there. And this all happened in one year. And every year I go back to the team and I say, guys, and this happens in every department. Remember what we thought could happen. Remember what we saw visually. And if we saw it and we feel it, it means it exists. And we have to be open to it.
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You just opened up their mind to bypass their old limited belief system. That's a great way of framing it.
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So I made all this money in the stock market early on because I had a lot of desire, a lot of energy. I just didn't know where to put it. And so I started to trade and it started to do really well. But that's when my life started to get out of control as a teenager. And I became a gambler. I started to- Really? Oh, yeah.
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Until 4 a.m. Sometimes I'd go into a casino on like a Sunday and come out on a Tuesday. Oh, man. And you wouldn't see daylight. I was like playing like $15 hands with my college buddies. Not casino life, but yeah. With that, I mean, it's never enough. So casino life was the next thing, right? Yeah.
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And so I was doing that and I realized why am I like, I just kept feeling more and more drained, right? You got the highs and then you feel low. And once I started to learn Kabbalah, I started to realize that the highs and the lows were, I was drawing energy, but I didn't create the vessel to hold this energy. Gambling, drugs, alcohol, sex, all of these things draw energy. You're drawing God.
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You're drawing the universal force of creation. The reason why it ends up causing chaos is there's no vessel to hold this energy. So you short circuit. And what does a short circuit look like? There's a flash of light and then there's darkness. But the flash is very bright. That flash is very addictive. So most people...
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They draw energy, but there's no vessel to hold it, which we can explain what that means, the creative vessel. There's no vessel to hold it. They feel this flash, and then there's darkness. There's emptiness. There's addiction. Because they may not know spiritual laws, they'll go right back to more flashes to feed the addiction.
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The blessings want to come in. People think like, you know, how will I ever find love? Or is this meant for me? Or will I ever find my purpose? If you desire it, it means that this energy exists causing you to desire it. You will never want something that doesn't already exist waiting for you to manifest it. But we have spiritual laws.
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The way we draw energy to us is first... to be clear about your belief system of what you deserve to receive and what you're meant to receive.
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Whatever your desires are, it means you are meant to receive them at some point. Don't question that. So if you actually had to write down all your desires, these desires, the Creator gave you these desires, so you go out and manifest them.
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So this is what I tell people. I say all of these things that are given to us, drinking, gambling, drugs, sex, these are all, for example, let's say if you go to Costco. Costco has samples. And you eat a sample and you like the sample. But if you like the sample, you need to go buy the full product. Nobody goes to Costco all day long and they just eat samples.
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You don't just sit by the sample station all day long to fill your belly with the samples that they give you. Well, if you're poor. I've done that when I was broke. People who just eat samples all the time. So when a person does a drug, what do they feel like? They feel like God. They feel this euphoria. This is a sample. to eventually inspire you to buy the full product.
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The full product is to realize you can feel that if you unlock the power of your soul. Without the drug. Without the drug.
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Because no one's told them that they have the power inside of them that is nuclear. You have this power inside of you that is millions of times greater than any drug you're taking. But we've been told that we need to keep taking the drug to feel that way.
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And it's true. It has unlocked more than they've ever experienced. So I don't ever tell people, don't do this plant. Don't do this drug. When people tell me, I love sex. I'm having sex with everybody. Is there a problem with that? I say, that's fine. You can have sex with everybody you want. You can have all the drugs you want. I have, but I do want you to know
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that you have something greater inside of you that will give you even more pleasure and more euphoria. If you're open to it, we can talk.
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In the same way we have physical laws of like the science explains it. Gravity is a physical law of the universe. Everybody has to abide by it. You can't choose not to. There are spiritual laws of consciousness, spiritual laws of finding your soulmate, spiritual laws of finding your purpose or healing.
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See, that's the thing. You actually begin to shrink the vessel. How do we know? Because every time you take the drug, it's never as potent the next time. You need more. You need more frequently. You need it more frequently. So you actually begin to shrink your capacity until you experience death.
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And then there's some kind of death or painful scenario that breaks your vessel open again, and then you start that process over. The only way to really expand your vessel spiritually is is a concept, is a spiritual law that is certainty beyond logic.
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You have to be put in a dark situation, a difficult situation, where you do not see any logical way of getting out of it, and then choose to have certainty that you can. Even if you have to fake that certainty, but you have certainty beyond your logical mind, this breaks open the vessel and allows the next level of your soul to come in to hold this energy.
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Pain is the circuit breaker. So pain is the final thing that the universe sends you to get you back on track.
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Yeah. So what happens is the minute you actually have a desire to be successful in your life, you speed up the process. And what happens is then pain comes really quickly to break you open to get you there. So it always starts with a desire.
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Known as the leading speakers for teaching Kabbalah. David Kiem. We are destined to have abundance in every part of our lives, not just one. If you earned your soulmate, that one person would appear right at your door. Ooh. When your consciousness and belief systems and energy is in the right place, then you will be guided. Your legs will start moving in the right direction.
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If a person has no desire to receive anything in their life, they also will never go through any pain and they will always stay at that low level vibration of kind of nothing really happening. But the moment you say, hey Luis, I'm ready to get married. I'm ready to have a child. I'm ready to find my passion. I'm ready to heal. I'm ready to be better.
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then all of a sudden all of these challenges come to awaken and show you the negativity that your soul came to the world with that's blocking your vessel. And that's a good thing. So our job here is to show people you're in pain. That's a good thing. You see your garbage. That's a good thing. You're more angry than ever before. It's a great thing. People are speaking badly about you.
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There are universal spiritual laws that if we abide by them, we create the vessel to draw that energy in. So every day there are things that we are doing
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This is a good sign. All of this is a good sign to show that your vessel is now cleaning itself out. Cleansing. Cleansing. You have to see your negativity in order to cleanse it. Everyone sometimes feels like I'm at my lowest point. I can't, everything is going wrong. I'm seeing all my garbage. I feel like I'm not good enough. And I tell people, phenomenal.
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Now we are at the stage when we can start to build our vessel because you can see your negativity. And the moment you see the negativity and you embrace it, you say, I love my negativity, it goes away. Because light overcomes darkness. If you see darkness, just turn on the light. How do I turn on the light? Act like the creator. What does that mean? What does the creator act like?
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The creator is a giving force. The creator is a force of certainty. The creator is a force of consistency. The creator is a force of love. Well, what does that mean? Just start to do all of those things in small ways. Mm-hmm. Start to just say you have certainty. Call your mom and tell her you're a lover. Look at people on the street, give them a smile. It's all the little things we talk about.
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It sounds cliche, but if you act like the creator, you turn on the light, the darkness goes away. Well, people say, well, how do I know that's going to happen? I don't know where the darkness goes. I just know when you act like the creator, that vibration removes the darkness.
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that are either getting us closer to becoming that 1,000-watt bulb, or that 5,000-watt bulb, or there are things that we're doing that's shrinking our vessel, causing us to not be able to have the capacity to hold the blessings that we crave and desire. And often when we're not getting those blessings, we start to blame.
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That's right.
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And the creator will always show you one pathway by which to do that. I always ask people, is there one thing that comes to mind that you could do that would embody the light of the creator? Always, they said, yeah. And I said, that's a message for you. You just have to turn on that little pilot light, and the universe will keep giving you more and more opportunities.
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That's a great question. So one of the things we learned in Kabbalah is that the way you were raised and the way people treated you did not create the fears and wounds you have, but rather your soul came to this lifetime with spiritual baggage. We call this baggage tikkun, that literally means the correction of the soul. You came with this baggage.
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So let's say you came to this world with the fear of abandonment. Then your soul will choose to come down to parents Oh, I'm abandoning you. Abandoning you. Avoid it. That are going to get divorced. Actually, the soul sees this and says, these parents are actually perfect for me.
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Not that they're creating the wound, but they're now bringing up to the surface the very thing that you need to see to transform, to align yourself with the vibration of the creator and receive all the miracles in your life.
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Why can't it just be easy? The Creator wants to give us everything. From the Creator's point of view, it's like a parent to a child. We want to give our children everything. We don't want them to suffer at all. The Creator wants to give you everything. But here's what's interesting. The souls have a celestial contract with the Creator.
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The souls basically said, if you give me everything, I'm going to feel shame. I'm guilty. I'm going to feel guilty. And we learned this. Because everyone else is suffering. Everyone else is suffering. I have it easy. Yeah, I feel good. I have it good. But what's the greatest shame that we all feel when we don't feel that we are the creator of something?
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things outside of ourselves, other people, our circumstances, family members, the economy, politics. And every time we blame anything outside of ourselves, we shrink our vessel even more. And then that spiral takes over.
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These children who are getting wealth handed to them by their parents become the most depressed children. They feel shame because the parents took away their free will to become a creator. their free will to become like God. So the soul said, I want 100% fulfillment. The only way I can have 100% fulfillment, creator, is if I become like you. So put me in a world of darkness.
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Make sure I'm not born with my soulmate. Make sure I don't know what my purpose is. Make sure I have people and challenges that I must go through. And then I choose... in the darkness, in the illogical situations, in the pain to become like you. And then all the miracles come. We asked for it. The creator wants to give us everything. The creator is not, he had no problem.
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We are the ones that asked. It's like the 19 year old told his dad, take your credit card back. I'm not going to go to where you went to school. I don't want any favors from you or the company. I want to go build my own. And that is much more fulfilling than just taking everything from your parents.
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And then there is a circuit breaker, spiritual circuit breaker that when a person keeps doing negative actions and negative vibrations and they get lower and lower, there's something that's called pain. Pain is the circuit breaker. Pain comes in to cleanse a person of negativity and expands their vessel again.
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Boone.
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So either you can expand yourself through all the things that you talk about, all the things that you teach, all the things that your guests talk about, expanding their consciousness, expanding their vessel, or pain and suffering can also get you there.
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Wow. So, again. You said something. This was so powerful. You said something. You said two weeks before, you felt something. It's like your soul knew that there was a celestial contract that was about to be fulfilled. It was crazy. Your soul had chosen your father knowing this was something his soul needed to go through for whatever reason. We don't know his entire soul's journey.
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Yeah, some type of cleansing. Some type of cleansing. Or he had maybe finished his correction in his lifetime. And often when people go through accidents, especially in the coma state, there is a clinical death that happens and a new soul comes in.
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And almost like a reincarnation. Because they're not the same person anymore. It was completely different. Yeah. It sounds like your father had actually completed his soul's correction. And then from a different place supported you finally get to your destiny. Yeah.
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Three things I would say that lower our vibration from manifesting more. Probably the top of the list. It has to do with limited belief systems and competing belief systems. So what's a limited belief system? And I interact with people on a daily basis who, when they talk with you, they eventually reveal what their limited belief systems are. So for example, a limited belief system. I had a guy.
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That was a defining moment, a huge defining moment. In the last 20 years of stories I've heard, the ones that had the most traumatic and painful stories of sudden death, of trauma, of loss, of bankruptcy, and then they made a decision to create light out of that darkness ended up being the most successful people that I know today. And here's what's interesting.
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How they got there, they say that it was not even logical. There was almost another force that took them there because all they had to do was make the decision that I want to be light. That's all we need to do. People always go, well, how am I going to get there? You don't need to know how to get there. You just need to make that decision. It's the decision you made. And then the rest took shape.
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Like all of this, like miracle after miracle, there's a force that pushes you to get there. But I always tell people like the darkest, the darker the period you've been through is the greater the vessel you have. And it means you're a high soul.
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And interesting, if you go towards the darkness and even if a person commits suicide, I've, every time I've given my course every year for the last 20 years, I've given the class on suicide and death and why it happens and what it means for the soul. I've always had at least one person, at least one person every time come to me and say, I've been thinking about it and what you just shared.
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is what actually inspired me not to do it. And what is the lesson? I was just speaking to somebody yesterday about it. They messaged me on Instagram. They say, I don't think there's any reason for me to live anymore. I don't see a purpose. Nothing's working out for me. I'm in my late 40s and divorced and I can't find love. I can't find happiness. I think it's time for me to take my life.
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She literally messaged me this yesterday. And so what I shared with her and what I always share when this feeling comes up for someone, I say, this feeling you have right now to take your life, let's say right now you're 34 years old, two months on a Tuesday at 10 a.m. you've had this exact moment in a past life and a life before where you had the choice to either take your life or push through.
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And even though you can't see it, you are inches away from a miraculous reality, but you're not allowed to see it because of the greatness that's coming. And if you do take your life now, you will have to come back and experience the exact same feeling at 34 years old, two months, on a Tuesday at 10 a.m. So if you want to repeat this all over again, that is your free will.
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However, you must know that the darkness you feel is the vessel, and it is by design that you will have something great to achieve, but you need to push through.
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Correct. And as we said before, like they feel something, even if they, I've had people who don't believe in reincarnation. They're like, I don't believe in reincarnation, but.
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Do you want me to come back and do this again? There's a slightest chance that this might happen. I'm not going to do it again. But what I've learned, and I felt this when I came to your event, people feel something. When you speak to them, they feel it because at that moment, the same way you got a premonition about your father, you collapsed time, space, and motion.
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You saw something in two weeks as if it was happening now. And science says time is an illusion, right? So the future is happening now. The past is happening now. It's only our limited perception that time is happening. And when you talk to someone about their past life or something that's happened before, they will feel something because it's happening at that moment. Like time is an illusion.
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And you felt it. You felt it about your father. It's not logical. Someone was like, Lewis, what are you talking about? You saw the future. How could you see that? Mm-hmm. It is because the future is happening right now. And obviously the greatest speakers are talking about that.
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who had a business, several businesses, and he's able to scale his company to a certain amount of revenue, let's say whatever it was, like 10 million in revenue. Each company can easily scale to that point. But something always happened at 10 million in revenue.
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And this is why investing our consciousness in the now both cleanses the past and any negativity you've done in the past, you can cleanse all of it just by deciding to be a different person today. And you also forge this incredible future because you're creating it at this very moment with your consciousness.
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All right, so we talked about examine your limited belief system. So you can literally write down, what do you believe about love? What do you believe about prosperity? What do you believe? And just write stuff down. As you write stuff down, you will see where the limitations are.
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And you can actually show that to someone who has achieved something you haven't and ask them, what do you believe about this? I've sat with people who are wildly more successful than I am. And I say, here's how I'm running my business. Here's how I'm doing everything. And they'll look at me and they'll be like, they'll literally make me feel like I'm failing in every way.
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Like, wait, forget all that. What about this? Why can't you get here? It's so easy. And I'm like... I'm like, you're right. You're right. It is easy, isn't it? I'm like, I just want to grow 20% a year. They're like, well, why don't you want to grow 2,000% a year? And they're like, I'm like, I guess you're right.
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So spending time with people who don't have those limited beliefs, I went on a walk with someone who's a great father. He has four kids. He's a phenomenal dad. He's a great businessman, too. I didn't ask him one business question. I said, tell me what you do that makes you a great father. Give me your top four tips about being a great dad. And he told me things that changed my life.
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One thing he told me, until today, I think about it every day when I'm with my kids. He says, instead of trying to get the kids to do what you love to do, Get on the floor, sit with them, and become passionate about what they love to do. You will build this bond and this trust with them that will make them love you and then come to do whatever you want to do later on in life.
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Lawsuits would come in, employees would leave, chaos, challenges, government issues, and it was a repeated pattern in each of his companies. What this means is as the founder that controls the energy of the company, there's something that's limited in his consciousness and his belief system that gets triggered at the 10 million mark.
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But we're always trying to make our kids become more like us and what's comfortable for us and what we believe is right. Sit with them and build the trust.
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That was something I just got on the walk. So we talked about the limited beliefs. The other thing is certainty. Everything is good. Everything is good. Even if it's bad. Even if it's bad, it's good.
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Such a great question. The only... When you choose to say something is good, it comes from your choice. You transform darkness to light. When you are passively just driving and a negative thought comes to you from the outside... and you think about it and you entertain it, that's when you manifest a negative reality.
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When you say, for example, one day I remember my CFO called me and said, I got bad news. I said, what is it? He said, we just fell for wire fraud. Somebody just stole $1.1 million. And I said, you fell means someone on your team paid it. Someone basically changed the accounting and wiring information. And we wired what was supposed to go to a manufacturer to, I believe, someone offshore somewhere.
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Oh, man. And we have protocols in place. And somehow we fell through. So I hear this on the call. And by the way, this is right after I had that week said, I can't wait for my company to go to the next level. I set goals higher and higher in my prayers and meditations. I'm like, this is where we get to. I get this phone call. I say to them, I say, okay, there's a lot I wanted to say.
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I wanted to be upset. I wanted to say who did this. I can't believe the system's broke. Did you call the FBI? Let's call the way. All these things. I said, all right, give me one second. I'm going to call you back. I put it down. And I was in my house in the downstairs part of the house. And I started to walk around and say, thank you. I said, this is amazing. I kept saying, thank you, creator.
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Every part of me was angry and upset and asking questions. But I said, this came from the creator. Therefore, it must be good. I don't know how it's going to be good. But if everything comes from a good source, means the seed level of it's good. The reason it appears dark to me is this is my free will, my test to become like God. I asked for this before my soul came to this world.
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So I said, this is good. I love this. I started to dance around the room for 10 minutes like a crazy person. So I love it. I love wire fraud. I love that I lost a million dollars. This is the best thing that could happen. I called Miriam. I said, I have great news. She's like, what is it? She said, I just fell for wire fraud. She's like, what? I said, yeah, it's amazing.
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I'll call you back with all the details. We just lost $1.1 million. And I hang up the phone and I get so excited. I get my body to get so excited about it to the point that I realize it's all energy. What is money? It's all energy. And if I'm meant to have it, I will have it. If I'm not meant to have it, I won't. But at least my free will is my consciousness of certainty.
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One of the things could be, for example, here's a belief system that people who are too wealthy or successful actually it's not a good thing or that money becomes evil after a certain point. So for him, he had a deserving issue. He realized he didn't deserve to have wealth beyond that amount. And so there's a part of him that started to sabotage subconsciously the company at the 10 million mark.
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And I got so excited about it. And then I called them back and I said, okay, make sure you call the FBI. Make sure you call the lawyer. Make sure you follow the protocols. Make sure you create a process that this never happens again. Let me know what happens. Same thing I would have said With more anger. With more anger for your position. But the difference was now I elevated my consciousness.
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I literally got a new soul that can hold 1,000, 10,000 watts of energy. And now the company is going to benefit from this new soul and draw in more wealth in the future. How? I don't know and it's not my business. Lo and behold, two, three months later... People asked, did you get the money back? We didn't get the money back. We lost that money.
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But two to three months later, the company broke open and a whole new, a video went viral that like resulted in like 10 million of revenue, like stuff you cannot create yourself. And then the company went on a whole new trajectory.
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And that's what I've always learned right before a new level comes, you must be tested with something that is equally going to freak you out, make you sad, make you angry, make you want to blame. And I realized it's all an illusion. The whole thing was just between me and the creator. The company is my energy and Meru's energy. So if our consciousness is high, This is what she tells me every day.
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Every day she goes, she has a rebounder. She rebounds every day. And I'm sitting- Mary Ruth. Mary Ruth, yeah. And I'm stretching and she says to me- I'm visualizing now everyone in the company. I'm putting a golden bubble around every employee. She goes to each employee, says their name, says, I'm putting a golden bubble. I'm putting a golden bubble around you. I'm putting certainty.
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I'm injecting certainty to each employee. And like, she's sending energy and the vibration to just open up everyone's vessel. It's all vessels. We're all just vessels for energy. And when we're complaining and when we're this and we're that, even when we eat poorly and we become sluggish, all of this stuff is just taking our energy, shrinking the vessel.
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And this is why sometimes when you fire your toxic employees or employees that just don't want to be there or their mind is somewhere else, if their mind is somewhere else, it's because their vessel is somewhere else. And this Netflix talked about this when they fired like a third of their B-level and C-level employees, like revenue shot up 30%.
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It is so important who is your network of people and what is their consciousness, especially in your company. Sure.
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So I'm going to round out that last topic, which is everything is good, meaning you will be tested to be reactive. Reactive means any thought, reactive behavior is any thought, word, or action which comes from lack or fear in order to connect to instant gratification.
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Whatever it might be. So anything you do from lack or fear is drawing energy temporarily, which you will then lose because it was reactive. So right before your next level, you will be tempted with something that makes you scared or something that brings up your lack.
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Like right before you meet your soulmate, you'll be tempted by someone who you know is not good for you, but is feeding your neediness and lack in some way. You have to say no. You have to say no. Because what you're doing when you're saying yes to this temporary energy is you're clogging the vessel and you're telling the universe that you're trying to expand your vessel for soulmate energy.
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So you'll be tested by something that by saying no to, that resistance expands who you are. And then that's when the soulmate comes in. So we see this in everything, in all competitions. Everything will first be, you'll be tested to be reactive. And if you push through, then you get the prize. Then the second thing, the third thing that we're talking about is the adding value part.
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I had another person that I used to work with. She has 20 employees, maybe a company that's 5 million in revenue. And she's asking, why can't I grow this company? It's been stagnant for years. So I asked her a question. I said, what do you not like about your business? She said, I don't really like managing employees. I think they're a pain. I think there's always issues. There's entitlement.
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Everything that you do must be of the consciousness of I am giving and not taking. What's the number one reason why there's a fear of public speaking? I learned this 20 years ago. My mentors told me if you're scared when you get on a stage, it's because you're trying to take from them and not give to them.
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said if you went on the stage and said your only job was to tell everybody, everybody here gets $10,000. Remember when Oprah went on stage and said, everybody here gets $10,000. If you go up on stage and say, I ain't here just to tell you all, then I'm personally writing you a check, each of you for $10,000.
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You could get in front of a billion people and have no fear telling them that you want to give them $10,000. But if I said, hey, go in front of a billion people and talk about a topic that you like, you're going to be scared. Why? Because you're looking to take something from the audience. You want their approval. You want them to like you. You want to look good.
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In life, all fear comes from when we're trying to take. When we're actually giving, there's no fear because we're God. We become like God and there's no fear in God. There's no fear in the creator. And that is why every time I'm scared or I'm nervous, I remind myself, I'm looking for something here. I'm looking to take something.
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And I have to then change my consciousness that I'm coming to be a giver. Now, sometimes we don't feel like we're a giver because we didn't really invest in our product. If you don't have a good product and you know you're kind of tricking the audience, you will always feel inauthentic and you'll feel scared and feel anxious.
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And part of like, we were talking about it before the show, the more you work on your craft, the more you become good at it. You know, one time I was, Anthony Hopkins came to one of my classes and this is public. He came and he shared the story. I sat with him privately and I asked him, he actually showed me a room in his house. He said, I want to show you this room. I said, what's in this room?
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So Anthony Hopkins took me to the room and he's like, I want to tell you about this room. Every time I get a script, I sit in this room and I read the script 300 times until it becomes seared in my mind and my soul and it becomes every part of me. And then when I'm filming, I can be a channel. I can be my essence.
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So what's interesting is he put in the work before so that he could then go and be a giver. If you're overthinking when you're on the stage or you're trying to think about what should I say, what should I not say, it's all about you. You're trying too hard. You're blocking yourself from the infinite. We should never be talking to people from our brain, from our knowledge, from our experience.
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The only reason he read the script 300 times is so that he could just be done with it and not think about the script anymore and be a force of energy. And that's what we feel from one of the greatest actors of all time. And so, yeah, you got to put in the work. You got to do the practice so that you can show up and be in the zone and be in flow and not overthink and be in your head.
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I absolutely, it drains me all day long. I hate dealing with employees. So I told her, I said, when you're on a Zoom call trying to close a new client that will bring you a million dollars of revenue, do you realize that you are subconsciously hoping that she does not sign up with you because it means you're going to have to hire five more employees to service her account?
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Well, yeah, the company started when I was 30, and the company was doing well, but we were still broke till about 37.
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I asked this question to my mentors once. One of my mentors was very wise and spiritual. I said to him, I said, why did I go through 17 years of poverty? Literally, I remember one time asking Meredith, what's your biggest fear? And she said that we'll come home one day and the locks will be changed because we haven't paid our rent in six months. I'm like, wow.
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And so he said to me, he said, you know, you're so blessed that the way the creator designed your life, some people get successful, then they seek out spirituality, and they don't have the tools to handle the fame, the wealth, this energy that's rushing in, it just shatters their vessel.
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And the Creator blessed you by giving you the first three quarters of your life to be very difficult, to not have money, to live vicariously through the lives of other people and learn lessons through their life. So many lessons I learned about marriage, about relationships, about building a business. And now that energy does start coming in, you won't take it as seriously.
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Because the secret to everything in life is when something comes in, if it controls you, you're going to end up losing it. If you depend on something, you must lose it. Anything you depend on in life will eventually leave you in order to teach you how to become your own creator. I remember Joe Dispenza said this in your last summit, and I had a similar example.
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I was in the Hamptons once talking to this very wealthy man. I was in his Hamptons home, beautiful, beautiful home. He was a young guy, probably in his early 30s. And I said to him, I said, why do you have a beautiful home? I said, you know, he's an executive and founder of one of the biggest companies in the world. It was his first company. I said to him, what would happen if you lost all this?
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Like you have a wife, you have kids, you have a lot going on. I remember the whole, he had like a can of soda. He opened it up and he took a sip. He's like, have I lost all of it? I guess I would just make it all back. And he was so casual about it. He was so nonchalant about it. I realized to him, none of it controlled him. And because it didn't control him, he was a channel of it.
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Anything that we take too personally or so seriously or we're afraid if we have it or afraid if we don't and we're thinking about it, it means it's part of our soul's correction. And so we will always have a difficult relationship with it. It will not flow.
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Once you have certainty that you'll be wealthy no matter what, or you'll be certain that you're loved no matter what, or you are wealth, or you are love, once you're certain about it, then the universe just gives it to you endlessly. And you never have to think about it again.
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So there is a part of her that wants the growth. And then there's another part of her that subconsciously is sending out a vibration saying, I hope I don't grow. So that's a competing belief system. So we have limited ones, which usually are around deserving. And then there's competing ones. And we see this in relationships all the time.
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I started to have certainty about my ability to create wealth for other people. You could impact others to unlock their abundance. Oh my God. I remember my father told me that they were broke until the day I was born and then wealth came. And I always remember that. I remembered, I said, you know what?
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I'm the guy that I could, if I'm with you on something, if I'm your friend, if I walk into a room, like I know blessings will come to you. But I was not certain that I could do it for myself. Why not?
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It's such a good question because early on in my life, I was taught life is all about being a channel for other people. You got to get out of the way. So one of the first things I learned is to delete myself from the equation. Now, that's what I needed to learn in the first part of my life. But what I also learned spiritually is that the point of creation is that the creator wants us to receive.
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The word Kabbalah means to receive. So if I'm giving all day long and I'm not in the end receiving for the sake of sharing, I'm also going against the laws of creation. And I learned that in the second half of my life, which is, wait a minute. I am not receiving. And that is the biggest short circuit. And it's blocking your abundance.
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Blocking my abundance and blocking my ability to give to the world. Really? Yeah, because if I don't have money, I have to depend on other people to buy me stuff. If I do have wealth and status, people are coming to my classes, taking my teachings. I'm talking about building wealth and I don't have money. And I remember talking to the creator once and saying, creator, this is making you look bad.
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I said, I don't know. Stay broke. you look bad because I'm talking about how people can connect with this universal energy. And meanwhile, I can't put food on the table. And I remember it was kind of a joke.
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It's almost like a funny conversation I had with the creator, but it's actually one that works because if it was all about like me, me, me, you block the energy because you don't have affinity or form with the laws of creation, with the energy of creation. But I told the creator, I said, look, give me what I need to play the part that makes you look good. And the truth is,
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Your profile on a dating app algorithmically will change.
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So many doors opened for me only after I built a business. Because people are like, well, I guess there is something here. Let me learn more about this Kabbalah stuff or this spiritual. It made you more credible. It brought more credibility to my platform. Which people need credibility.
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Correct. And we are destined to have abundance in every part of our lives, not just one. And that's what I mean. Everywhere I go, I want everybody to know, and I'm not there yet, and I'm not perfect, and I have so much more that I need to work on. But what I do know and what I've been taught And I know it's the truth.
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We are meant to have the highest levels of joy, happiness, fulfillment, abundance in every part of our lives. Every part. And we don't have to suffer. Suffering does not have to be the norm. It should be the exception. Life is beautiful. The Creator wants to give us everything. And yes, like the darkness that you went through and the darkness that I went through, we have challenges.
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A person, I remember once teaching a group of women, 15 really type A personalities, great souls. And they're in their mid-30s to early 40s, all single. And they're like, we want you to teach us the secrets of how we can find our soulmate. So I said here, I said, well, what do you all share in common? You're all very successful. You all know how to manifest. Why can't you manifest a relationship?
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any darkness you're going through, I promise you, I promise you, I promise you, this is the vessel for something great. And you're not allowed to see it yet.
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What we realized at the end of the session was, There's a big part of them that wants love, wants companionship. But they're afraid of it too. They're afraid of it too. There's another part of them that's hidden. They don't talk about, they love being single. They love their autonomy. They don't want to lose their bodies to having children. They don't want somebody telling them what to do.
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Wow. You just said something so beautiful. The number one thing that causes a vessel to stay small is the need for approval. And it is a universal spiritual law that we all crave everyone else's approval. As soon as somebody walks into the room, we immediately think, how do we look? How do I stand? How is this person going to view me? Immediately. Why do we do that? The reason is because
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You know, I look at the wall here. We are all meant to be great. And that approval needs to come from the creator, ultimately. And the way we practice learning how to love our soul, love the creator, is that we practice with people. And so people in the beginning are the ones that interact with us And kind of teach us how to have a relationship.
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But ultimately, in order to really give to people, people can't be your primer, your number one. The creator has to be your number one. Your soul connection to the creator needs to be your number one. Then you stop taking from the people. In the beginning, yeah, we look for our mother and father's approval. We come out into this world and we need, we depend on other people for energy.
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But as we get older, and Kabbalah says around the age of 13 is the soul shifts, and your direct connection ultimately needs to be with the Creator, and then you need to start giving to the people. But if you're using people to feel good, you're using people to feel that you are successful, You're using your audience. It's one of the things I learned.
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If you use your audience to feel good about yourself, you're taking from your audience. Eventually, your audience will turn against you. So you have to look for your approval from a higher source and then never use the people for your validation.
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They don't want to share a bathroom. They associate a relationship with limitation. And so what happens by the third or fourth date, they begin to sabotage or look for what's wrong.
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And so everyone who's listening, if there's a part of your life that keeps getting stuck, it means there's either a limited belief system around deserving or a competing belief system where you are causing some form of subconscious sabotage to happen. It's like you have the parking brake on, but your foot's also on the gas and you're wondering why the car's not moving.
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Yeah.
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And that is game over. That's peace of mind. That's happiness. Because, I mean, you and I know all these people who are wealthy and they have so many things and the anxiety and the stress of losing it every day. Yeah, and the stress of it.
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Well, one thing that just came to my mind, there's a spiritual law that you will not be judged by the people if you don't judge them. So the minute we judge someone, we have to go through the same thing. So for example, if I judge someone that they're overweight, at that exact moment, my metabolism slows down. Spiritually, I will end up going through whatever I judge someone else for.
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Well, why is that a spiritual law? Because I need to ultimately, my highest vessel is to have empathy for all of mankind because we're all one soul. So when I'm judging someone, I'm really hurting a part of myself. And if I want to get to my perfected state, I have to get to a place where I can feel the pain of people as opposed to judging them.
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And this is huge, and I tell this to people all the time. If you're looking at someone, even a political figure, even someone on TV, or you're speaking negatively about them, you will at some point have to go through the same exact thing. Wow. Someone's like, oh, look at this person. They can't even ever keep a relationship. You know, they're always going from one relationship to another.
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Three weeks later, problems in her relationship. It's always going to be like this. And one of the things I've learned is to protect the business, to protect our employees, to protect our customers, because anything can happen at any moment.
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I've learned not to judge my competitors, not to judge other people who are going through stuff, like really try to understand and feel the pain of even our competitors. It's an energy intelligence. Yes, it's an energy. And actually, I'm friends with most of my competitors.
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One of my competitors just wrote to me, like direct competitor, wrote to me, do you know of any good employees that I can hire for this part of my company? He knows that he can come to me for that. And I will help him find someone who will be so good to compete against me. Wow. And I just know at the end of the day, if I... Because what's the forever one? Oh, there's endless.
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And what's mine is mine. And what's yours is yours. And no one can take what's yours. The only way someone takes what's yours is if you shrink your vessel by being so reactive, so doubtful, so negative, you shrink your vessel. So your competitor takes what's yours and holds onto it for safekeeping until you elevate your consciousness again. Wow.
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Someone could be with your soulmate right now only because your consciousness isn't ready. You're not ready for it. You're not ready for it. You're going to destroy her or him if you were with them. So yeah, someone's with your soulmate right now and they're having a great time. You need to elevate your spiritual game. You need to transform your negativity, and then that person must come to you.
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Or you're still doing it. So when I was 15 years old, I had made my first million dollars in the stock market. And then I found spirituality at 15. It totally changed my life. Where were you living? I was living in Los Angeles at the time. I went to UCLA. I graduated when I was 15. Well, I went to UCLA when I was 18.
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That's so beautiful. Instead of praying for your problems to go away, instead of praying to find your soulmate, pray to have the right vessel to be able to hold all of it. Because if you draw in something you're not ready for, it will destroy you and you will destroy it. And that's exactly what you just said about Martha. Everyone's praying to draw stuff in. That stuff wants to come.
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You don't have to pray for it.
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And that means you have to keep transforming. Pray for certainty. Pray for empathy. Pray for love. Pray to get over your resentment issues. If you have resentment for anyone in this world, it's pushing your wedding date back three months. Wow. You're pushing your soulmate away because your soulmate's a higher soul. You have to elevate your soul to that level.
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If you have resentment for someone or anger or you're harboring some kind of guilt... your soulmate can't come to you and will be with someone else until you let go of those things. Often it's pain that releases it. Or they can listen to one of your podcasts, be inspired to release it. That's a merciful way of transforming who they are. And here's another question people always ask.
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What if I'm married or in a relationship, but I don't think it's my soulmate? What do we do with that stuff? So one of the things I've learned is a soulmate is a soul, not a body, which means that if you do enough, and I've seen this, if you do enough spiritual work, you could wake up one day and the soul of your soulmate enters the man or woman you're with and they become a different person.
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I have seen people who do such intense spiritual work. They come home one day and they go, I don't even recognize my husband. It's a different person. You actually drew a different soul into their body because you've now earned that. You don't have to divorce the person. The relationship doesn't have to end. You just have to do your work. I promise you, you'll get everything that is yours. Wow.
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Yes. I didn't put that clip up yet.
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I graduated at 19 just because I just had a belief system that I wanted to blaze through college because I wanted to do spiritual work full time. I joined a spiritual organization just teaching all around the world. I wanted to do that. So I graduated. Did you have a lot of AP classes in high school? Yeah. I did all of it. High school, summer.
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So when there is a kiss, the breath creates a soul connection, right? Everyone's saying, I'm looking for a soul connection. Well, here it is. Your souls connect and your soul is carrying these positive and negative spiritual baggages and qualities from past life. And so when we are intimate with intercourse, it says actually you draw to the person a
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all of the spiritual baggage of their past partners as well. And this is why, you know, once sex is in the equation, there's a lot of energy, there's a lot of influence, a lot of emotions. You just have to feel things that almost aren't you at times because you are carrying now a heavier weight. The way to protect yourself from that
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is in that beginning period, you do things in order, just like you said. You get to know them. And this creates a protection that eventually, when sex for the right reason and the love is there, that connection happens. then the negativity dissipates and there's more of a positive connection. You're not bringing in the spiritual baggage from someone else.
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Getting to know process is an immunity. It's a protective layer to prepare your vessel for the highest level of energy, which is sex. Because sex is, you know, one of the two hardest things for people to resist in this world. It's the two areas that create or sustain life. The mouth is used to sustain life because we eat and the sexual organ creates life.
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And it's the place where the negative side, this negative forces of this world can trust themselves. Wow. And that's why evil speech creates the most destruction in the world. And there's about 10 different kinds of evil speech.
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And every negative word that we say, we can go through the categories, every negative word we say creates a negative force in this world that is blocking another level of your fulfillment. Oh, what is that? So let's say, I don't know what the exact number is. Let's say we say 10,000 words in a day. And let's assume 95% of them are negative. What are the categories? Complaining.
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lying, brown nosing, meaning every word I say to look for someone's approval, gossip that's true, gossip that's false, two separate categories, saying words that are unnecessary, just talking and everyone's like, stop talking. Like there's no value to what you're saying is also negative speech as well.
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So by my first year, I already had a year under my belt. And then I just put all the credits on to like, that's all I did is school. Just, I wanted to graduate. I wanted to get my diploma and I wanted to move forward. I didn't want to drop out. And then after that, I devoted 24-7 my time to teaching and coaching people all around the world. And I did it for no pay.
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So these are the main categories.
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Every word is a negative force or a negative angel. So if you can imagine, you surround yourself with 10,000 negative forces and angels, and each of them are fighting and making everything difficult for you. So let's say you drop your phone on the floor and it cracks. That's, you know, a hundred of these forces who manifested that for you.
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Let's say there's a car accident or a parking ticket or all of a sudden you get sick. Sickness happens to cleanse all those forces. And that's why people feel enlightened after a sickness or they feel more spiritual. They feel like clearer things open up because there's a cleansing of these negative forces. I always tell people, you want to be successful? Shut your mouth.
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Just don't talk because then you're not creating any more negative forces. That's why I listen and do this interview. You know, when you're listening, people who listen, the quiet people are always the more successful ones.
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And also, never talk about what you're working on for the first 40 to 90 days because you draw other people's jealousy and evil eye, which begins to energetically sabotage what you're doing. People who prosper in silence prosper quicker. As soon as you start telling people about your ideas... even people you think love you.
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If it awakens lack in someone, it begins to steal energy from what you're doing. For example, pregnancy takes about 90 days for the soul of the child to come into the embryo. And those 90 days are very vulnerable. And so there's a spiritual law that you should not tell anyone unless it's a need-to-know basis, like your partner, obviously, and a doctor. But if you tell, for example, a sibling,
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a brother or a sister. And let's say they don't have children. And they go, they're happy you have a child. But they're like, you know, I wish I had a child. It's creating lack, jealousy, envy. It's passive evil eye. That lack begins to draw and siphon energy from the baby, even a little. Wow. And it could disturb the soul coming down.
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One of the main reasons behind a miscarriage can be the disturbance of other people's energy.
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We had four. Four miscarriages before we had four children.
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I remember Mary Ruth was working so hard at the time. She used to have one-on-one sessions all day long because we were so broke that we had to find a way to make money. She would meet people from 9 in the morning to 11 at night.
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Well, there is the physical component to it where if you're stressed and you're working hard, you're not creating the physical environment for the child to come. The vessel to be, yeah. Well, you really have to think about the spiritual side of it and the consciousness, which is we were working so hard. We were so broke. It was such a difficult time.
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So I did it all for charity for the first nine years. And here's what's interesting. In the very beginning, in the first four years here in Los Angeles, a lot of the people that I was guiding and coaching were wealthy individuals or there were celebrities. It was a lot of Hollywood. And at the time, you know, go to their homes and they would learn spirituality and everybody needs spirituality.
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There could have been a part of us that subconsciously said we are not ready for children.
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Correct. And we knew that every child brings blessings. But there was also part of us that we just knew we weren't ready. And I often tell people who are having trouble getting pregnant, really just make sure that all your desires are outlined because there could be a subconscious problem. part of you that is saying, I don't want this child. That's the exact moment.
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That's the competing belief right there. Exactly. Interesting. And by the way, those four miscarriages in the toughest time of our life was also, okay, when it happened, you know, I remember one time she had a miscarriage in a meeting with someone. She went, it's a painful story. She went to the bathroom, had the miscarriage, came back and took six more meetings. Come on. She just knew.
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She's like, I have to take care of my family. And she came home that night and she told me about it. And I was like, why did you take the rest of the day off? She said, I knew I couldn't. We had to pay our bills.
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No one's ever asked me this question and you really just touched upon something that was one of my biggest pain points and insecurities because I was teaching spirituality in the world, not getting paid for it for a nonprofit. But that was how I was bringing my light to the world and my masculine energy. However, I wasn't making any money. And when I saw that, that was the day.
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I remember after that miscarriage, I went to her. I said, I'm leaving what I'm doing. Wow. And I'm going to go get a job. And I'm going to find a way to make more money to support our situation. She looked at me and she said, you are destined in this world to do what you're doing. I do not want you to leave what you're doing. You have to stay. and we will figure out another way to make money.
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Because she believed in me and she trusted the way I bring light to the world, weeks later we came up with the idea for Merit with her. Holy cow. I tell this to people and their partners. Never put down the way you know your partner brings light to the world. Shines. When they shine, don't. She could have easily said, yeah, go get a job.
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That's why Merit Organics was built between the hours of 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. every night for the first two, three years. Wow. She would go to sleep at 10 to be up for her clients. I would stay up from 10 to 2. I slept on the floor in the living room for the first two years because I didn't want to disturb her. And I was Googling how to do Amazon and manufacturing, design, marketing.
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And I learned in those four hours. And I do believe that I got to spend a day helping humanity and helping people, volunteering my time. that the creator created that blessing for us that in the night I could help run the business. Wow. And we didn't have any employees for the first five years.
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The first $10 million of revenue was just Mary Ruth, myself, and my mother-in-law, Colleen, and we were a unit. We were a team and we did everything together. First five years. First five years.
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This was in 2005.
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Back into product, back into quality, back into it. And Mary Ruth used to say all the time, profit equals the freedom to give back more to our employees ultimately and the products, just make their products better and better. She just said, keep making the products better and better and people will feel that energy. So we just put the money all back there.
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Yeah. That's crazy, man. And there's a limited ability. People think that they need to raise all this money in the beginning and hire all this talent. We are so talented. There's so much inside of us. And with the right consciousness, we can create miracles. We don't need all these other energies getting involved.
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From the age of 20 to 24, which is interesting because I was young. I didn't have that much experience. But what was powerful was, and this is a whole other concept that I learned, which is when I learned to remove myself from the equation and not teach from a place of experience, but teach from a place of really feeling people.
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So there's a course I've been teaching for the last 20 years called Kabbalah 1. And it's interesting. I had a guy take this course probably like eight, nine years ago. It changed his life, made him into a billionaire, literally. The content he learned spiritually changed his consciousness, helped him build several successful businesses. and had three successful exits in a row.
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He came to me, donated $2 million to create a masterclass of this course. And we created it. It's called Kabbalah1.com. And people can pay whatever they want for it, $1, $50. It's all that goes to charity. And this is the course that people from all around the world are taking. My whole page, none of it's monetized for me. All of it is to give back to charity. What's the site?
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The site is Kabbalah1.com, K-A-B-B-A-L-A-H-O-N-E. And it's a beautifully produced masterclass that goes step-by-step through all the spiritual laws of our soul, why we're here, how to create prosperity, the laws of relationships, consciousness, healing. Any question you have about life is addressed in that course. And it's been the most popular thing ever.
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The last five years, it's gone to everyone.
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You know, I... My... My life, the greatest joy that I get is from bringing this wisdom to the world. You know, running a business, making money, I think it's nice. It brings the, it engages my creative side for sure. But the most passionate thing for me is finding a way to make God look good. I always say like, what would make, God has a bad name.
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It's like religion kind of gave it a bad name, you know, religiosity, dogma. And I think I want the world to know that in the way my life has been blessed from learning this wisdom and applying it, And the God is very good. Like this creation is very good. The world is good. People are very, very good. I've had some of the quote unquote worst people come to me.
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And when I've talked with them, like everyone has a soul and everyone has a heart somewhere deep down behind all that negativity. And just having that certainty that there is a life waiting for all of us and we can have everything that we want. And then just to spread that message more and more and just, it's all I want.
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And the endless creator has infinite wisdom and knows all the souls of this universe. If we learn how to be a channel, we can connect to what people need and say things that touch their soul, regardless of how old we are, what our experience is. So we all have this gift, as you know.
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You know, I don't have a product to sell and the content that I put out in the world, it's just, it's for the people. And so that's what means a lot to me. People learn the content and then just be an example of that everywhere they go. Yeah. Make God shine. Make God shine. Make God look good. Make God look good. God is sexy. You know, it's like being one with the creator is very, it's cool.
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It's like you get everything. The creator controls everything. Like you can have everything. Who doesn't want to have everything? Even becoming the president of a country, it's so limited. It's like, okay, you get a little, you have a little power. You control a hundred million people. The Creator influences the entire universe.
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Every tree, every plant, every blade of grass, the oceans, all the angels, all the forces of this world, every human. It's like become one with that. It's like a universal GPS. You plug into it. It's like Waze. You just tell your destination and Waze tells you where to go. And even when you make a mistake, this is how God works. Course corrects. Course corrects.
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It says recalculating with no judgment. Every time you make a spiritual mistake or you fail or you go backwards, don't worry. The creator just says, recalculating. I will get you there. And if you want to, on purpose, go against it and keep making the wrong left turn, ways just keeps us recalculating. It might take you longer to get there. It might take you longer. But there's no judgment.
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There's no guilt. There's no shame. There's no fear. Creator loves you.
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I mean, we were talking backstage, and the things you were sharing with me were so spiritually aligned with everything that I've ever learned. And so I did have fear of, like, what are these people going to think? Like, are they going to learn anything from me? And then my mentor said, you have to not teach from your brain. You have to teach from your soul.
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The first lesson would be every single thing is good. And the uglier, darker it looks, even this is good because it all comes from the creator. The second thing I would say is don't judge anyone because there is a reason why everyone does what they do.
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And if you were in their shoes and you had their baggage and you had their past life and you had their soul's correction, you would be going through the same thing.
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And the third thing is to know that the Creator wants to give you everything, unlimited. The amount that you as a parent would want to give to your child, the Creator wants to give you millions of times more. And you deserve it. And you will have it. You're guaranteed to have it. How long it takes is our only free will. And can I say one thing that I learned from you? Sure.
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You know, I obviously heard a lot about you coming here. I heard so many amazing things, but we, I think we spent a good hour back there. You were kind of telling me your story and I love hearing people's story about how they build.
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And obviously most people don't know this because you give me the behind the scenes information, but I learned just how patient you are with everything that you do and the energy of authenticity I felt because you've said no. And the audience probably does know this, but you've said no to so many things that could have probably generated more wealth or
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or more fame, and instead you stuck to what was authentic and valuable for you and your audience. The second thing I noticed, because you just did it for me on the show too, is you were always giving more value to people than you're asking for from them, which I've noticed to be the success formula of every successful person I've ever met. And yeah, you have a huge platform.
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And the energy will flow through, and they will feel it. And that's what happened. But in that time that I was mentoring wealthy people, I realized – and this was a subconscious thing that I ended up taking upon myself, that the wealthier they were, the more dysfunctional their families were. Really? That was a belief system I started to cultivate.
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You're giving people your audience that you've built for your whole life. And you're not really asking for much. And I've seen it. And I know it from people who've come on your show. So there are a couple of valuable lessons for me there. And it's just the patience and the authenticity. Mm. Because I'm the kind of person that always thinks, so how do I get farther ahead? Sure.
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And I think it's very valuable. Slow and steady wins the race.
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Everywhere you go, people can be blessed because of you. And just by your presence or your words, you create greatness. You create miracles. You create healing. People's consciousness goes up because you walked into their room. Even if you don't have to say anything because of your vibration or because of the work you did when nobody was looking.
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I think there's no greater gift that we can give to mankind. And I know that's what fuels me. It's all the stuff that we do when nobody's looking. That's what greatness is for me.
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Well, I didn't know that until I got married when I was 29. And we were in debt and we were broke. And I was spending years trying to make money. And nothing was working. And I actually became a victim about it. I'm like, I'm helping thousands of people around the world. I'm helping them become wealthy. I'm helping them break through to all their hopes and dreams. And I had nothing to show for it.
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And I remember walking down New York City. I was living there at the time. And I said, I was kind of a victim. I'm like, I was talking to the universe. I'm like, why can't I get my break? And then I realized, why am I screaming at God? This energy called God or the creator is endless, infinite, and wants to give me everything. I need to change my vessel.
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So then I had to look inside myself and find where the sabotaging belief system was. And what I found was wealth equals dysfunction. Wealth equals kids who go to drugs. Wealth equals kids who want to commit suicide. Wealth creates people who take advantage of you.
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Oh, my god. I can't tell you how many calls I got. My kid is in drugs. He doesn't want to leave his room. He's suicidal. I'm like, you are a type A person that doesn't make anything happen. You would think that your children will feel that vibration. and want to be like you, be with you. But what I was realizing was the exact opposite.
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Now, this limited belief system was causing me to subconsciously push wealth away. Once I realized that, I started to walk the streets of New York and just say the mantra, which would reverse that belief system, which is the creator wants me to have everything. The creator wants me to have wealth and beautiful children and a healthy lifestyle and all of it's possible.
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There is no limitation because the creator is infinite. We're meant to become like the creator. That's our spiritual birthright. So I'm the one that's limiting this energy from coming in.
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That's a beautiful question. How does somebody believe something is possible when they haven't created it for themselves?
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Number one, people think that it's very difficult to get there and it's actually much easier. Your body and your mind and your soul are very compliant. If you say something over and over again, and it's so simple, I don't want to overcomplicate spirituality. If you say something, a mantra over and over again, even if you're faking it in the beginning,
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your body, your mind and your soul will comply with that vibration. And then you will do actions that will be closer to that vibration and they will reinforce each other. So what I do literally every day is I just ask myself, what is the highest vibration I need to get to? I see the Delta of where I'm at now and where I need to get to.
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And I just keep hitting that point over and over and over again. incessantly until all of me complies with it. And it happens every time. How do you hit that point when you're feeling depressed or depleted or down? That brings me to the second thing.
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Every single week, I try to find people who have already achieved what I'm trying to achieve and spend time with them, add value to them, and serve them. Because Kabbalah explains there's a universal law. If you add value to someone or serve them in a way that makes their life better, You draw from them their positive qualities, traits, and vibration.
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So there's something that I want from Lewis, meaning what do I want? All I want from you is the consciousness you've already created. I want the vibration you've already achieved in your life. I want the real wisdom. Because wisdom and consciousness is the one thing I can take from you that doesn't take away from you, but adds to you. That doesn't ask of me. It adds to me. It does.
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Because if I become one more person that learns from you, the universe then replenishes you with even more wisdom and energy. So as you grow your audience, your wisdom increases because your audience craves more through you. And so the creator bestows upon you much more wisdom and energy. And that's the value of growing your audience.
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And I'll tell people on social media, people are growing their audience because they think, well, that's how I monetize. Or that's how I become famous. And the ego gets in. The only intention you should have for growing your audience is you now have all these mini vessels which are craving your wisdom.
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So what happens is it forces the creator to give you more wisdom and you become a greater channel. And that should be our intention for growing our audience.
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I've been doing it for the last 20 some years of my life.
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20 some years. No, 20 some years of my life. Every day you work out. So I used to take one day off a week.
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I used to take one day off a week.
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But that one day off was an active recovery day where I would get on a trainer and ride for like two hours. Wow. But at a zone one heart rate, very low heart rate. And I replaced the carbohydrates in my body while I rode because the best way to recover for me is to do something at a very low heart rate, because therefore your blood's flowing through your body.
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As your blood's flowing through your body, refuel it with the nutrients, because then your blood's flowing, the nutrients is going through all your cells in your body. All that glycogen is now flowing at a low heart rate. So it's not burning it, it's refueling it. So every Sunday used to be that. And it kind of snowballed into, as human beings,
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We believe, like so many people, before I give them a workout plan, they're talking about recovery. Everybody that hears me speak, they want to go straight to recovery. Workout first. Work out first before you talk to me about recovery. How to recover, yeah. Work out first.
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We are always looking for, like, whenever I talk to people, people take my words and they put it in a way to where they want to feel comfortable. This guy, you know, they want to put you in a box. They want to put a title on you. No, you're putting a title on me to make yourself feel better about yourself. If you read this book of mine and you see where I came from, this person was not built.
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This person was not made by God. This person, sorry, this person was built. I made this person. I made this person by diving in to the insecurities that life gave me. Because now they're yours. They're yours to own. If you're not smart... Call yourself dumb. It's okay. Because you are. But take that not as you're putting yourself down. If you're fat, call yourself fat. I used to be 300 pounds.
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We want to talk so soft to ourselves. We're looking for that recovery day. And that recovery day is everything in your life. Everything in your life is a recovery day. We're looking for it. It's not coming. It's not coming. Get over that recovery day. And that's the mentality I took with me. And what happened through that process was all the frivolous things of life started to float away.
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I had to tell people lies so they would like me. Because I was so insecure. When you start to build yourself up and start to have the one thing that we don't have is confidence. Real, authentic confidence from hard work. Everything else goes away. You no longer look to other people for your self-esteem.
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You now know. I walk in a room now and I know the hours and years and decades I put into David Goggins. That's something, it's not on the wall. It's not a trophy on the wall. It's not a medal around your neck. It is actually a feeling in your heart. And people go, why don't you ever smile? I don't have to. Yeah, I do have a stoic look on my face. I'm a very focused person.
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But the feeling I have in my soul and in my heart, that's why I need to smile. I don't need to smile. I don't need you to look at me and say, oh my God, you look happy. Because half of us aren't happy. We're giving you something that we think you want to see. I don't do that anymore. I don't care how you perceive David Goggins. Because through my journey, I figured out the one piece I was missing.
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I thought it was cars. I thought it was women. I thought it was money. I thought it was everything. The one piece I was missing was me having the courage to face myself. And once you do that on a daily basis, it's not about the running. People are going to be, you have to start working out. Where I got my work ethic from, was the hours I had to spend learning this.
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When you sit down and you're not smart, and you have a disability, and you still wanna be at the top of your class, I didn't wanna just get by. When I realized that I can learn through hard work, and I can beat the valedictorian in school, but I got put in 10 hours more a day than he does. You know what kind of strength comes from that?
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When you're sitting down, that guy, that valedictorian study for an hour, and you know, I caught you. I caught you. And I am dumb. But I have the work ethic to catch you. That's where David Goggins got really invented. Was at a kitchen table with 20 spiral notebooks that were empty. And then three months later, they were full. And when you can go through that, I still have them in my storage unit.
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You go through these spiral notebooks of your life and you realize this is how I learned. This is unbelievable. There's no miles. It's not about the miles. It's that, having a discipline every day to say, for me to learn this one math problem, it's gonna take me 10 hours. And that's where, and you realize through hard work, you can outwork anybody, no matter how bad they are.
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but that's the part people don't wanna dive into.
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It starts with yourself, man. You gotta start diving into those things that you are afraid of. You don't gain confidence by going to the spot that makes you feel good. It's gonna be a false reality. And the second life gives you that challenge, all you wanna do is go back to what made you confidence or what gave you confidence. It's that happy spot.
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No, what gives you confidence, what gave me confidence was spending years at a kitchen table trying to learn how to read and write on my own, realizing I can't learn the way you learn. I can't. But I can learn. What gives you confidence, not being afraid, is overcoming the fear. I used to stutter severely bad. So right now, I don't know how many people are gonna watch this.
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You know what gives me confidence? Is knowing I no longer care if I sit here and start stuttering to you. That's what gives me confidence, is facing these things, overcoming them. And maybe not overcoming them every day, but facing them, and facing them, and facing them. Pretty soon like this, you know what man, this is where it's at. It's not in that comfort zone.
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It's in the discomfort zone is where my confidence is getting built. That's where it's getting built. But people, they want an easier answer. There has to be an easier way. There's not. I'm sorry, I searched for it my entire life. I did. I lied, I did everything. And I still felt empty. I coach a lot of people nowadays, billionaires.
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who called me on the phone and said, man, I'm still missing something. It's because they did what they were good at. And they had this beautiful family, two, three houses, cars, everything. Has everything to work. On the outside looking in, like, my God, man, how can you be unhappy? I walk around with a backpack with all my stuff in it and no car. And I walk around, happiest person in the world.
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Have nothing. Happy as hell. It's because... I found out the whole key to life. It's not in all that. You have to face yourself. So many people live to be a hundred years old and they die miserable having everything because they never examined. I call it my live autopsy. You never examine this. Happiness, peace, Enlighten it. It's all up here, man. It's all up here.
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If I start talking like this, people go, man, you know, I don't know. It's the truth, man.
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You just got to be willing to go and face it. And that's the hard part.
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Not to be arrogant. I don't have one.
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The last one I had was probably still me. Me, still living, because I always talk about, I pay rent. So we used to live in a $7 a month place when I was growing up.
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This is in Indiana. So we had a lot of money in Buffalo. And when my mom left my dad, we went to nothing for a period of time before she got on her feet. And that $7 a month place used to be, it was my, it was who I was. I was no one. I was in the sewer. My mom went there. I had nothing. And you always feel like you have nothing. I achieved so much. I was a Navy SEAL.
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I've gone through ranger school. I've gone through Delta Force selection training. I've done so much. I run 200 miles, pull up records, everything. Learned to read and write, became pretty intelligent. And I still was like, man, what is wrong with me? It wasn't until I got real sick. And I talked about in the last chapter of that book, I got real sick and I was about 38 years old. I'm 43 now.
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And my life got real quiet. I went from running 205 miles in 39 hours to couldn't get out of bed. The doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. But once again, it was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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In that moment when my whole life changed, I went from a guy who worked out every day, trained every day, to a guy who couldn't get out of bed. My life was taken from me. The one thing that kept me going was my training.
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And that's when I realized I hadn't thought, hadn't taken time to think about what I'd done in my life.
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I hadn't reflected. I'd done all these things, but there was no finish line. I still believe that, but you must have time to reflect. I was just going. I finished a race of life and I wouldn't even receive my medal. I go on.
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Most people sit around and that's what they like. They need the ceremony if I accomplished something. Validation. I haven't done anything. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
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I'm just getting started. That's right. When I started figuring out life, that I was leaving so much in the tank. I call it my 40% rule. I was leaving so much in the tank. Once I realized, my God, man, I was this dumb, fat kid being bullied, and now I'm a 180-pound person who lost 106 pounds in less than three months. Learn to read, learn to do this, learn to do that. I was like, I need more.
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I was fueling my mind with everything. And I never took time to say, my God, you came from this hell, and you're here. So those insecurities... And this is how I explain it the best way. SEAL training became pretty hard and a lot of guys weren't getting through it. So they designed a SEAL prep program.
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That's right. And it was two months. In my last two years before I retired from the military, they sent me there to train these kids to get ready for buds. 18, 19, 20-year-olds. Yeah, young kids. So when they get to Navy SEAL training, man, they were physical studs. They were running, swimming. I mean, they were hybrids. But they'd get to buds and the same amount of people would quit.
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This is why. We were training bigger, stronger, faster quitters. It's not about... Not the mind. That's right. We weren't diving into the sewer. Everybody's got a story. We don't share it on social media. We share our nice life on social media. We all have a dungeon. I'm just willing to talk about mine. Most of us aren't willing to talk about it. I'm gonna talk about my dungeon.
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I wasn't getting into the dungeon of these guys' minds. I wasn't building that so-called mental toughness. Mental toughness isn't something that you sample. It's something that you live in every day. So when something hard would happen to these kids, like in Hell Week, it would draw on something that made them very insecure. And they look for comfort.
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Whenever hardness comes, and you don't know what it is, it may be different for you than it is for me, but you go back to your insecurities. And then when you go back to your insecurities, you then look for comfort within those insecurities. And we all look for that cookie that your mom used to give you when you were sad, when you were sick. We look for our wife or our husband, we look for comfort.
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It's in those moments you must retrain your mind to think differently in hell. I wasn't training them to do that.
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I wasn't training myself to do that because at that time I was doing what I was told. These guys need to meet a standard. Physical standard. A physical standard. The physical standard is not what they need to meet. It's a mental standard you must meet in life. So going back to when I was sick, I was hitting the physical standards. I wasn't meeting the mental standard.
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The mental standard is you must know how far you've come. Wow. I had come 8,000 miles from where I started. But if you never know that, you're still in the $7 a month place. When I was sick, I was able to slow it down. and reflect back on my entire life. And in that bed, and I thought I was dying, because that story is long. That sick portion of my life is long. I didn't care if I died or lived.
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Because I was, for the first time in my life, happy and at peace. Because I reflected back on where I started. You said, wow, I have come a long way. That's right. And no one saved me. It wasn't like someone came down here and guided me through life.
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When you figure this out on your own, the amount of pride and dignity and self-respect you have, that's why I walk around the streets with a backpack and just like, I don't need anything else. You figure it out by going inside yourself, by callousing over the victim's mentality. You're always a victim.
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Even if you have everything in life until you realize what you've achieved, you have to first realize what you've achieved. And my mom has accomplished so much in her life since my father, but she hasn't done that one step.
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She continues to go back to the dungeon of her past life. And live in that space. And live in that space versus living in the space that she's in now and reflecting back on, my God, this is what I've done with my life. So.
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We talk about it all the time. And you have to be willing to go there. You have to be willing to really go there. Not surface. I don't live on the surface of anything.
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Surface is what got me where I was at. It got me from 175 pounds to 300 pounds. Telling everybody I'm good. I don't give a ****. I'm good. No, they're hollow words. A lot of us speak in hollow words. I used to speak in hollow words. I don't do it anymore. Everything that comes out of my mouth has substance. It's real. And we all have these feelings in our bodies, in our minds, in our souls.
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I act on mine. A lot of us who are afraid of something, we allow our minds to choose the path of least resistance so we go a different route. When I'm afraid of something, it's telling me, you must conquer that. You must do that. You have to go that way. And most of us don't understand that mentality. we go left and we wonder why we haven't fulfilled something in our lives.
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It's because we continue to take the journey that is mapped out. And how I look at it is I talk in life like, A lot of us in life want to take the four lane highway that has roadmaps and all this other stuff on it, man. Tells you where to go, gas stations. The next 10 miles up, you're gonna see a McDonald's or Cracker Barrel. It's the easy route. Very few of us want to go to the right side.
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It's all about it, man.
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Meaning behind it.