Podcasts about Capital T

Stories are what make the world go ‘round. From selling a product, service, or podcast like this one, to dating, raising kids, and building friendships, the stories you tell yourself and others are going to either unlock doors and open opportunities…or close the doors before you even had to chance to see them there. Donald Miller is an expert storyteller and an expert and helping other people articulate and share theirs. Today, we talk about why humans are so interested in storytelling, what foundational elements make a good story, the importance of a “story loop,” to get other to buy-in to what you're sharing by making them part of the story. Whether you're a marketing professional or just want to help your son deal with his first bully at school, this podcast is for you. SHOW HIGHLIGHTS 00:00 - Introduction 00:22 - Hobbies and Interests 00:53 - Fly Fishing Buddies 01:15 - Nashville and Culture 02:26 - Why Move to Nashville? 03:06 - Are People Really that Kind? 03:23 - Population Growth in Nashville 04:27 - Concerns about Assimilation 05:51 - Portland Used to be a Great City 07:44 - Austin is a Great City, too 08:40 - The Power of Stories 09:34 - Why are Stories so Powerful? 10:30 - Stories as an Attention Device 11:06 - Stories in the Bible 12:12 - Truth and Stories 12:17 - Stories Equip Us for Threats 13:03 - Stories Shape Identity 14:19 - What Sort of Stories Work? 14:28 - Braveheart and the Writer 15:39 - Cultures Shaped by Stories 16:52 - Personal Stories in Church 18:10 - Opening Story Loops 18:51 - Rom-Com Story Loops 20:11 - How to Open Story Loops 20:38 - Leadership and Story 23:05 - Casting a Vision 24:55 - Catastrophic Failure 25:23 - What is Your Family Against? 26:17 - A Structure for Family Life 27:21 - What is Your Family For? 28:11 - The Vibe of Your Family 28:50 - Sound Bites and Repetition 30:02 - Shaping Identity 31:18 - Context is Key 32:15 - Truth with a Capital "T" 33:09 - Hitler and Churchill 33:59 - Hitler's Narrative 35:18 - Territorial Sovereignty 36:19 - Xi Jinping's Narrative 37:54 - Moral Responsibility 38:50 - Don's Core Belief 40:17 - Israel and Palestine 41:20 - Missing Christ in the Israeli-Palestinian Narrative 41:54 - What Makes a Compelling Story? 42:18 - Compelling Story Elements 44:23 - External and Internal Journeys 45:04 - External, Internal, and Philosophical Conflict 48:04 - The Hero is Transformed 49:23 - Affirmation from Mentors 51:15 - The Market in Men 51:55 - John Eldridge 52:32 - Answering the Internal Struggle 52:59 - Separation from God 54:57 - God's Love is Immovable 55:41 - Human Love Needs Human Meriting 56:46 - Nancy Duarte 56:51 - Story of Bullying 58:50 - Bullies and Evil 59:17 - StoryBrandAI 01:00:59 - Telling Stories About Core Values 01:02:02 - The Power of AI in Storytelling 01:02:53 - Jocko Willink and Tough Narratives 01:03:24 - Conclusion and Where to Connect Battle Planners: Pick yours up today! Order Ryan's new book, The Masculinity Manifesto. For more information on the Iron Council brotherhood. Want maximum health, wealth, relationships, and abundance in your life? Sign up for our free course, 30 Days to Battle Ready

“Top 100 Songs Of 2024” , programi traditë i ditës së fundit të vitit rikthehet edhe këtë herë dhe ndoshta ky është një nga momentet më të shumëpritura për të gjithë ju. E si mund të mbyllet ndryshe ky vit, përveç se nën tingujt e muzikës më të mirë të 2024 dhe me të ftuar mjaft të veçantë. Një mesazh zanor ka ardhur nga artisti i njohur Capital T.

One of my favorite devotions is “The Way” by Stanley Jones. Working in places where his Christian mission was not afforded ‘most privileged religion' status he pointed to the “Capital T” truths that are invested into the eternal and foundational Creation of God. Beyond philosophy and theology it is the immutable truths to which we are all subject working to point to Him. Truths seemingly working outside of the flawed human realm. Not subject to our culture or prejudice. (Psalm 19 and Romans 1 style) What happens when we realize that we are working on behalf of these higher Truths. That we are living out the results of obeying and then pointing people to THE WAY. 

It's time for another @EchoChamberFP https://www.instagram.com/echochamberfp/ podcast!!! And this week, DLNQNT has a thriller, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures & Amblin Entertainment get windy, while Elysian bring a classic back to the BIG screen, plus Lionsgate have a true tale for us! AND, thanks to Marvel Studios, Maximum Effort, 21 Laps Entertainment & Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures we're back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) for the 34th time!!! In 'Part One' we have: Jericho Ridge Watch Review: Here. https://youtu.be/gcuilI1k6PA Galway Film Fleadh, World Premiere: 14th July 2023 UK Theatrical Release Date: 25th April 2024 US Digital Release Date: 30th June 2023 US Digital Release Date: 2nd February 2024 UK Digital Release Date: 29th April 2024 Director: Will Gilbey Cast: Nikki Amuka-Bird, Zack Morris, Olivia Chenery, Philipp Christopher, Solly McLeod, Zachary Hart, Aidan Kelly, Simon Kunz, Michael Socha, Capital T, Alex Tate, Pippa Winslow, Running Time: 88 min Cert: 15 Trailer: Here. https://youtu.be/9k9_Oi1d9D4 ---------------- Twisters Watch Review: Here. https://youtu.be/h9JYHi2fR2M Cineworld Leicester Square, London, World Premiere: 8th July 2024 US Theatrical Release Date: 19th July 2024 UK Theatrical Release Date: 17th July 2024 Director: Lee Isaac Chung Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, Harry Hadden-Paton, Sasha Lane, Daryl McCormack, Kiernan Shipka, Nik Dodani, David Corenswet, Tunde Adebimpe, Katy O'Brian, David Born, Paul Scheer, Stephen Oyoung Running Time: 122 min Cert: 15 Trailer: Here. https://youtu.be/Jm27YjLnPHc?si=S8vfkIRiaa5aHQnw Website: Here. https://www.twisters-movie.com/home/ ---------------- My Neighbour Totoro Watch Review: Here. https://youtu.be/jSzJPtbtrQo Tokyo International Film Festival, World Premiere: 19th September 1989 US Theatrical Release Date: 13th July 1988 UK Theatrical Release Date: 24th May 2013 UK Theatrical Re-Release Date: 2nd August 2024 Digital Release Date: 17th December 2019 Director: Hayao Miyazaki Cast: Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning, Tim Daley, Pat Caroll, Lea Salonga, Frank Welker and Paul Butcher Running Time: 86 min Cert: U Trailer: Here. https://youtu.be/N1L80AtQ0Zg Website: Here. https://www.elysianfilmgroup.com/movie/my-neighbour-totoro-tonari-no-totoro ---------------- Boneyard Watch Review: Here. https://youtu.be/MJ7Edl8PvS4 US Theatrical Release Date: 5th June 2024 US Digital Release Date: 2nd July 2024 UK Digital Release Date: 22nd July 2024 UK Digital Release Date: 5th August 2024 Director: Asif Akbar Cast: Mel Gibson, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Brian Van Holt, Nora Zehetner, Weston Cage, Deena Bacon, Courtney Akbar, Randall J. Bacon, Lilo Baier, Xavier Beloved, Camille Collard, Angelica DeChavez, James Di Giacomo, Kesia Elwin, Ramon Ford Running Time: 96 min Cert: 15 Trailer: Here. https://youtu.be/mpinS51UjZo Website: Here. https://www.lionsgate.com/movies/boneyard ---------------- Deadpool & Wolverine Watch Review: Here. https://youtu.be/AlIdgoygg0g David H. Koch Theater, World Premiere: 22nd July 2024 US Theatrical Release Date: 26th July 2024 UK Theatrical Release Date: 25th July 2024 Director: Shawn Levy Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Aaron Stanford, Matthew Macfadyen, Karan Soni, Brianna Hildebrand, Shioli Kutsuna, Stefan Kapičić, Randal Reeder, Lewis Tan, Dafne Keen, Jennifer Garner Running Time: 128 min Cert: 18 Trailer: Here. https://youtu.be/73_1biulkYk?si=W14QPgEPmJ9Njmuc Website: Here. https://www.marvel.com/movies/deadpool-3 --------------- *(Music) 'Da Joint' (Instrumental) by EPMD - 2020

And now for something rather different... we're stepping out of the Changeling canon and into the wonderful world of late 90s/early 00s homebrew with Changeling: the Celtic Cycle. Written by three World of Darkness authors, CtCC radically re-imagines the world of Changeling: no Glamour and Banality, no Dreamers to cultivate, no Dreaming separate from the Umbra. Instead, the fae in this version of the game are directly inspired by Celtic mythology and epic. The supplement was released in three installments as part of a zine, in all its early-days-of-desktop-publishing glory, and is as much an interesting historical artifact for that context as for its contents. But the authors also went on to be involved in Book of Lost of Houses, Dark Ages: Fae, and Changeling: the Lost, with all of which we see a few subtle connections... The text is findable online, but we'll also have it available in our Discord (link below!). Some other links include: A few homebrew books by Pooka that poke at a couple of these themes are mentioned in this episode, which you can snag at https://www.storytellersvault.com/product/381967?affiliate_id=3063731, https://www.storytellersvault.com/product/418295?affiliate_id=3063731, or https://www.storytellersvault.com/product/412055?affiliate_id=3063731. While the links provided in the notes at the end of the supplement are mostly defunct or broken, a couple of them have stood the test of time... we would point you in particular to https://pantheon.org/, the Encyclopedia Mythica (a one-stop source for many a folkloric tidbit before Wikipedia was a thing), and https://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/, a hefty collection of Irish myth in particular. Need some Irish curses on the spot? Take your pick from https://www3.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/donncha/focal/features/mallacht (the modern one) or https://www3.smo.uhi.ac.uk/sengoidelc/donncha/maldacht (Old Irish). As always, our own passel of social media links: Discord: https://discord.me/ctp Email: podcast@changelingthepodcast.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082973960699 Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@ChangelingPod Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/changelingthepodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChangelingThePodcast your hosts Josh Hillerup (any pronoun) went looking for Changeling: the Danish Cycle, but only found a kith that could shapechange into flaky pastries. Pooka G (any pronoun/they) favors the Branch of Rhiannon, for which one sympathy is to wear a full-on Stevie Nicks ensemble. High on the mountain stands a boat But are they gods or real folk? We can't see the fire but we smell the smoke Who'll take the plough? Who'll be the yoke? –Horslips, "Trouble with a Capital T"

On this episode, Alan dives deeper into the "Beyond Tired" series with a focus on actionable changes to reverse the tiredness cycle. Building on the first episode, listeners are reminded of the importance of knowing their tiredness level and are then guided on how to take next right steps. Alan shares his personal journey, revealing how he landed in "Capital T tiredness" and the strategic plan he developed to regain energy and balance. By leveraging a straightforward yet effective grid, Alan encourages listeners to decide on three critical actions: What will you START doing to invigorate your life What will you STOP doing to eliminate energy-drainers What will you KEEP doing to maintain beneficial habits. Alan shares a few personal choices, from walking daily and prioritizing peace at home to reducing caffeine intake, serve as relatable examples. By the episode's end, listeners are prompted to dedicate time to journaling and making firm declarations in these three pivotal areas. So, listeners must ask themselves: What activities or habits should they START, STOP, and KEEP?

Capital T, Capital S

Capital T is a Kosovo-Albanian rapper, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. On this episode we talk about his experience growing up through the war, his musical rise, and his dislike for fame.

My approach to goal setting and productivity have changed in a big way based on what you're about to hear. Listener favorite Tara McMullin is back on Rebel Therapist Podcast, talking about a huge pivot she's made in her work life. She's also sharing her new book, What Works, A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting. A bit more about her: Tara McMullin is a podcast host, writer, and speaker who's been making business make sense for small business owners for over 12 years. She's the host of What Works, a podcast about entrepreneurship for humans that's been downloaded over 4 million times. She's also the co-founder of YellowHouse.Media, a podcast production agency. Tara brings a unique perspective to business thinking informed by her background in theology, interests in endurance training and critical theory, and strengths as an autistic creator. Also, Tara was my business coach/strategist for as long as she WAS a business coach/strategist. Here's some of what we talked about: Making a big pivot by leaving her role as the leader of the large and thriving business community she'd built Why acknowledging our limits and depleted reserves is powerful Leaving behind big-G Goal setting on the path to becoming self-transforming subjects with agency Annie's sabbatical and how it set her up perfectly for this book and an overhaul of her goal-setting practices How the Positive Thinking movement (Capital P, Capital T) has been harming us and how to resist it How to recognize when you're in the Validation Spiral and move out of it What Tara's working on now and how she manages her capacity One thing you can do to increase your sense of agency starting today Show notes at https://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/187

The Sound Chaser Progressive Rock Podcast is on the air. On the show this time I have plenty of classic-era prog, new music from Marillion and Djam Karet, the Symphonic Zone, plus news of tours and releases. All that, on Sound Chaser. Playlist1. Premiata Forneria Marconi - The World Became the World, form The World Became the World2. Steve Hillage - Light in the Sky, from Düssuldorf 28.3.793. Horslips - Furniture, from Rollback [bonus disc]4. Horslips - The Musical Priest / High Reel, from Rollback [bonus disc]5. Horslips - Trouble (With a Capital T), from Rollback [bonus disc]6. The Henry Kaiser Band - Dark Star, from Heart's Desire7. The Henry Kaiser Band - River's Edge, from Heart's Desire8. Santana - Singing Winds, Crying Rain, from Abraxas9. Santana - Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen, from Abraxas10. Amon Düül II - Las Vegas, from Utopia11. SAWCE - Sleep Tight, from Audiotree LiveTHE SYMPHONIC ZONE12. Ange - Le Cimetière Des Arlequins, from Tome 8713. M-Opus - 2048 Numbers, from Origins14. Karmakanic - Travelling Minds, from Dot15. Karmakanic - God the universe and everything else no one really cares about – Part II, from Dot16. The Enid - Humoresque, from Touch Me17. Pendragon - The Haunting, from Kowtow18. Marillion - Sierra Leone, from An Hour Before It's DarkLEAVING THE SYMPHONIC ZONE19. Djam Karet - The Continuum, from Island in the Red Night Sky20. Tangerine Dream - Alchemy of the Heart, from Tyger21. Eddie Jobson - Green Face, from Zinc (The Green Album)22. Eddie Jobson - Who My Friends..., from Zinc (The Green Album)23. Eddie Jobson - Colour Code, from Zinc (The Green Album)24. Eddie Jobson - Listen to Reason, from Zinc (The Green Album)25. Eddie Jobson - Through the Glass, from Zinc (The Green Album)26. Eddie Jobson - Transporter II, from Zinc (The Green Album)27. Don McLean - Till Tomorrow, from American Pie28. Mitch Michelle - Four, from One Last Voyage29. Moraz & Bruford - Galatéa, from Music for Piano and Drums30. Supertramp - Aries, from Indelibly Stamped

We build the scaffolding of who we are based on how we come to know our lives & that can only take us so far.  Eventually, you need to break it down to rebuild. You have to challenge your reality to uncover the truth. Speaking of truth, what matters more...the ideals of Capital T truth or the subjective reality of small t truth?Ask Us A Question and we'll answer on air - TAP HERE TO ASKEpisode HighlightsOur weaknesses don't go away, you just learn to work with them 1:50Productivity driven by low self-worth vs self-motivation 3:32Rebuilding your world view for dedication to the truth 7:13Asking yourself “how could this be true” 12:05It's not your responsibility to change somebody's beliefs 14:41Capital T vs lowercase t truth, ideals vs reality…what actually matters? 20:31Different pathways to the divine through Christ & Buddha consciousness 27:44Making a decision or setting an intention that creates an instant reaction in your life, energy, and mind  32:24Coming back to love 36:15Give yourself the space and patience you need & let go of self-judgment 39:02Check Us OutZach  @justzachkaufmanGet a reading w/ Zach by emailing - zelikaufman125@gmail.comNeil  @neildisyFollow Neil's poetry on medium @ https://medium.com/@neildisyaContactHeartsoulhuman@gmail.comCreditsMusic-Max Van Soest @ max_fly5

Being a mother is always hard work, and often very thankless. That can lead to plenty of internal struggles that moms deal with on a daily basis. Fighting these battles can feel like you're trying to slay a dragon! Slay Like a Mother is the title of the book written by today's guest Katherine Wintsch. In addition to being an author, Katherine is the founder and CEO of The Mom Complex, a consulting company working with some of the world's biggest brands (such as Walmart, J&J and Chobani) to create better products and services for mothers. Katherine's sought after research on women and mothers has been featured by the Today Show, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Working Mother Magazine. Katherine Wintsch joins host Nesha Pai to talk about where and when you find your dragon, and how you slay it. Katherine also discusses the many traumas mothers face (both "Capital T" and "Lowercase T"), why they're valid and what to do about them. Find out more about Katherine: https://www.facebook.com/SlayLikeaMother/ https://www.slaylikeamother.com https://momcomplex.com/team/ https://www.instagram.com/slaylikeamother/ https://katherinewintschblog.com

Als je het hebt over innovatie en de nieuwe wereld, dan gebeurt het in de start-up scene. Cruciaal zijn de investeerders zelf, zij bepalen immers welke jonge bedrijven het geld krijgen en welke harder kunnen groeien. Of welke nooit het levenslicht zullen zien… Investeren en "het wereldje van investeren". We spreken in deze podcast niet alleen over hoe jij kunt investeren, maar ook hoe deze wereld eruit ziet en waarom het er helaas nog ontbreekt aan diversiteit. Waarom is het zo ontzettend belangrijk dat juist in deze wereld er meer diversiteit komt. Niet alleen onder de investeerders zelf, maar ook onder de fondsmanagers en de teams van start-ups. In deze podcast spreken we met Jacqueline van den Ende, CEO en co-founder van Carbon Equity en @demol_eva, partner en co-founder van Capital T. Samen met Jacqueline en Eva bespreken we hun eigen ervaringen als investeerder en hoe zij soms worstelen met enerzijds de conventionele wereld van het het oude geld versus de mogelijkheden van de nieuwe wereld. GRATIS! De maanden juni en juli staan in het teken van finance en hoofdsponsor van deze maanden is Nextory; dé streamingsdienst met meer dan 350.000 luisterboeken en ebooks, waaronder ook veel boeken over alles wat met geld en financiën te maken heeft. En het mooie is dat wij jullie 60 dagen gratis toegang tot Nextory mogen geven! Hoe dit werkt? Heel simpel: ga naar www.nextory.nl/newfemaleleaders, gebruik de campagnecode ‘newfemaleleaders' en de rest wijst voor zich. WINACTIE! Tot slot geven we 3 exemplaren van ons boek ‘New Female Leader' weg. Maak hiervoor een printscreen van deze podcast en tag ons en dan delen wij het ook weer met onze community. Doe dit voor 31 augustus 2022! P.S. Heb jij onze podcast al beoordeeld op Spotify? We zouden het te gek vinden als je ons een rating wil geven! ⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯ ▶ Luister gratis 60 dagen naar heel veel boeken via Nextory! www.nextory.nl/newfemaleleaders ⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯ ✔ Bestel het NEW FEMALE LEADER boek bit.ly/2P3vPLF ⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯ ✔ Download het gratis NEW FEMALE LEADER ebook www.newfemaleleaders.org/ebook ⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯ ▶ Volg Eva LinkedIn: eva-de-mol Instagram: demol_eva Capital T: capitaltvc.com ⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯ ▶ Volg Jacqueline LinkedIn: jlvdende Carbon Equity: carbonequity.com ⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯ ▶ JOIN OUR MOVEMENT Website: www.newfemaleleaders.org Instagram: www.instagram.com/lorenza.jula/ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/newfemaleleaders ⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯

The Sound Chaser Progressive Rock Podcast is in the ether once more. The show this time is the third in the continuing series of Damian's picks. He's the voice of the transitions, and a bit of a prog rock fan. He has made the selections for music on this show. It's an exciting mix of prog through the decades.Playlist1. Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood, from Songs from the Wood2. Gentle Giant - On Reflection, from Free Hand3. Ciccada - Who's to Decide?, from Harvest4. Penguin Café Orchestra - The Ecstasy of Dancing Fleas, from Penguin Café Orchestra5. Anthony Phillips - God If I Saw Her Now, from The Geese and the Ghost6. Van der Graaf Generator - My Room (Waiting for Wonderland), from Still Life7. SBB - Ze Slowem Biegne Do Ciebie, from Ze Slowem Biegne Do Ciebie8. The Mothers of Invention - Big Leg Emma, from Absolutely Free9. Kate Bush - The Big Sky, from Hounds of Love10. The Flower Kings - For Those About to Drown, from Banks of EdenTHE SYMPHONIC ZONE11. Renaissance - Black Flame, from Tales of 1001 Nights Vol. 1 [retrospective]12.  Moon Safari - Lover's End Part 1, from Lover's End13. Moon Safari - A Kid Called Panic, from Lover's End14. Big Big Train - Telling the Bees, from Folklore15. IQ - Ocean, from Live on the Road of Bones16. IQ - Ryker Skies, from Live on the Road of Bones17. Änglagård - Jordrök, from Buried Alive18. Camel - Lady Fantasy, from MirageLEAVING THE SYMPHONIC ZONE19. The Who - Baba O'Riley, from Who's Next20. Mahavishnu Orchestra - I Wonder, from The Lost Trident Sessions21. Gong - Ooby-Scooby Doomsday or The D-Day DJ's Got the D.D.T. Blues, from Angel's Egg22. iamthemorning - Libretto Horror, from Lighthouse23. Dead Can Dance - Cantara, from Within the Realm of a Dying Sun24. Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - Ozark, from As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls25. Horslips - March into Trouble, from The Book of Invasions26. Horslips - Trouble (with a Capital "T"), from The Book of Invasions27. King Crimson - One More Red Nightmare, from Red28. Black Sabbath - War Pigs / Luke's Wall, from Paranoid29. Porcupine Tree - Trains, from In Absentia30. Dream Theater - Space Dye-Vest, from Awake31. echolyn - One Voice, from Suffocating the Bloom32. Harmonium - Dixie, from Si On Avait Besoin D'une Cinquième Saison 

00:00.00 mikebledsoe Welcome to Monday morning with Mike and max and today we're gonna be talking about ancient wisdom with modern technology because if you don't hold both of these at the same time really well in the year Twenty Twenty Two you're probably gonna have a hard. Time thanks for joining us max. 00:22.25 Max Shank Well, thanks for having me in the year Twenty Twenty two since we started counting because if you look at how long homo sapiens have been in this current form. We've been around a really long time and depend to you ask. Roughly two hundred thousand years does that sound correct to you I believe as homo sapiens. Okay, so it's ah it's really hard to actually imagine timelines that long it's. 00:46.53 mikebledsoe Ah sure why not? That's what they said on Discovery channel. 00:59.40 Max Shank Almost impossible to truly hold in your mind. The fact that ancient egypt was 3 to eight thousand years ago 3 to seven thousand years ago and what's interesting is a lot of the questions that people ask today and a lot of the. Ideas that people feel are unique Today have been asked and answered thousands and thousands of times both spoken and written over the years and I think considering a the fact that we are animals. Who basically look for survival sex and supremacy more or less in that order even without the spoken and written word is an important foundational point for this so human nature which is really animal nature has not. 01:50.34 mikebledsoe Um. 01:55.91 Max Shank Changed really at all in thousands and thousands tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of years but the technology has changed dramatically in that amount of time. 02:09.16 mikebledsoe Yeah, it's um I as we start talking about this I think about there's a ah 30 hour presentation on Youtube by John Vervaki Dr. john vervaki and it's called awakening from the meaning crisis Highly recommend it if you're a philosophical nerd. You're going to love it. Um, and so what he does is he walks you through the stages of human consciousness and really ah you know. Our written history is very short compared to that 200000 year span that max is just talking about and he basically is able to start ah a in-depth conversation about the development of consciousness with the jewish people. Hebrew people and then how it then makes it over to the greeks and the the way the greeks start making sense of things and I but I believe there was either socrates or aristotle who started talking about what makes us. Human is our ability to use logic and to be able to plan ahead of time to be human is to be rational and that is to have that self-awareness and then ask questions and to develop. Wisdom your job as a human being if you want to become more human he talks about developing wisdom which we're going to get into and also getting in greater touch greater contact with reality and in order to develop wisdom. You have to get into greater contact. With reality and so ah in in order to get in greater contact. We have to become more accurate with what is and this is why max and I get really likely notice that we get really deep into semantics because. Words matter because ah, each word creates a distinction of reality you know and if you have a limited vocabulary your ability to interact with other humans in a way and and with your own mind in a way that puts you in touch with reality can become very very difficult. So um. 04:38.86 Max Shank Well not only that not only that but the content of your thoughts determines your reality big time. 04:40.41 mikebledsoe I Think about. 04:46.19 mikebledsoe Absolutely yeah, you're you're projecting most of what's going on in what you would consider your reality as a projection of of the mind. Um, that's why 2 people can be sitting at the same event and. Have a completely different reporting of those events happens all the time in courtrooms and and then if we're if we're talking about anything beyond the current moment if we're talking about the past there has been a lot of research to show that people. Remember things. Not only do they remember things differently from person to person but they remember them differently over time and one of the studies that really stand out to me in regard to this is they did ah they researched people's ability to what did they report to the police. Ah, right? after a crime versus what did they say once they got on the stand and and then also what kind of impact did the questions that the police officers were asking the people how does that impact their memory of it and so. 05:53.99 Max Shank The. 06:02.50 mikebledsoe Um, I'm very wary of relying on my own memory or other people's memories to ah in order to be in contact with reality because I know that that simply may not be the case. Um, and so. Man Why am I talking about memories. Yeah, your your perception does does create a reality and how you remember things in the past paint how you're gonna behave now and so ah. 06:32.81 Max Shank Well I meant from a very practical standpoint. It started with it. It started with semantics right? And the reason we go through these semantics so much is if you hold the word depressed. 06:39.30 mikebledsoe Yes, yes. 06:50.10 Max Shank In your mind as meaning a certain thing or even worse as something with a very nebulous meaning you might attach a certain word to your identity and there will be a domino effect to your entire psyche which is going to have a domino effect to your entire life and so just. Being able to ah clean, the slate and have ah an emptiness that you can put stuff back into rather than being saddled down with all of these destructive half ideas. That aren't really fully formed so you don't have a grasp of what's going on in your own mind and it's this very circular destructive cycle if you're not very conscious about the words that you use with yourself and with other people. 07:40.38 mikebledsoe Yeah, well let's dig into because we're talking about ancient wisdom and and modern technology and in speaking of semantics. Let's Define wisdom max. What's your definition. 07:55.55 Max Shank Knowing yourself and acting accordingly. 08:00.30 mikebledsoe I Like that the um, the way I think about wisdom is that you um, you, you're aware of cause and effect you're watching when I do this. This happens when when other people do this this happens. You don't wisdom doesn't necessarily have to be all based on your own mistakes of her Failures. You can watch other people's mistakes and Failures. So I think that wisdom is largely. Um. 08:29.10 Max Shank Then. 08:37.80 mikebledsoe Built upon taking personal responsibility for the things that are going on in your world and because if you are if you ever look out at the world and or you look at your own life and you blame somebody else for the way something is turned out in your life. You're robbing yourself of wisdom and you're robbing your ability to see how the impact of your actions thoughts all these behaviors how they have created the current situation and so somebody who is wise typically people who are wise you look at them and go wow they made a lot of mistakes earlier in their lut in there. And their life and now they they now know what? like yeah you got the old guy in the corner going hey little Johnny you may not want to do that and I was like why not and then does it anyway and then gets fucked up. You go? Oh ah so the the wisdom is. A lot of times people will associate age with wisdom but it really has to do with you know where are you paying attention and were you were you looking for? What was my role in creating any situation that's happening so when I think about wisdom I look at it like that. There's. Individual wisdom that's developed and then obviously the the collective wisdom and looking at ah yeah, and this is where like these buddhist monks that get together and they all meditate together and and they're very scientific in a way they're studying you know. 09:56.62 Max Shank The. 10:10.97 mikebledsoe But when we do this? What's the result we get happens in yoga as well and there the collective wisdom is when you get a lot of agreement. It's like oh we all did this 1 thing together and we all got this result and there's ah, there's ah, a collaboration and then we write it down in a book. And that gets passed down and so this is this is where I I really do enjoy reading what would be considered ancient wisdom ancient text because there's so much. Um, there is a lot of wisdom in there and it can help you avoid a lot of painful mistakes. 10:48.49 Max Shank Yeah I think when you say wisdom to me that's knowledge because I think knowledge is knowing what to do and wisdom is doing what you know pretty much so the way I see it. There's a slight difference. But. 10:49.48 mikebledsoe As you move forward. 11:05.60 mikebledsoe Um. 11:07.81 Max Shank I Can also perfectly understand the logic to your definition too. 11:10.30 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, so so we've got wisdom. We got a couple to you know knowledge Wisdom Ah, let's define. 11:20.60 Max Shank They all, they're answering ancient questions. Let's just put it that way a lot of questions have been asked since the beginning of human history where did we come from that's creation. What do we do while we're here. How do we balance out life and live life and then what happens after life death or destruction and basically every culture in the world has different myths or different stories. Ah, it's Funny. A myth is just ah. The the news a long time ago, right? So we asked the question hey where did we come From. How did we get here? How did everything get here. There are all these creation myths and there are a lot of similarities and differences we have How does how is balance. 11:59.35 mikebledsoe Yeah. 12:16.60 Max Shank Ah maintained. How should we live our lives and then what happens after we die and usually the way balance is maintained in our lives is there's a carrot or a stick upon our death that says if you lived a good life. You go to heaven if you lived a bad life. You go to? hell. And that is a very common thread in many different cultural fabrics so to speak you have the traditional heaven and hell you have ancient Egypt you have your heart weighed against a feather to see if you get to go. Ah, to the good place or suffer a second death. So a lot of these questions have been asked for many thousands of years of what to do with your life and what do you think? Mike? What should we do with our lives. 13:11.10 mikebledsoe I think it's I think we should I think one of the pieces of wisdom that I've adopted over the years is looking at what's useful versus true and i. 13:13.51 Max Shank According to wisdom. 13:27.81 mikebledsoe When we talked about oh where did we come from what was the origin of the the world where what happens after you die and of course every tradition has their stories and I think what you're getting at you got the the heaven and health Piece. What is the Utility. Of believing that you're there's ah, a heaven or a hell at the end of the lifetime and that is to get people to behave a certain way and and so the utility for society to adopt a religion is to to help create order. 13:55.20 Max Shank No doubt. 14:06.71 mikebledsoe And ah this is where a lot of Western spirituality goes is you know? Well we're preparing for something later. Not right now and so which does create order and then if you go to the east and you look at. 14:17.20 Max Shank Ah. 14:25.41 mikebledsoe A lot of those traditions and how they came about which um, ah, a bigger I think both have their their utility and in the east it's more of yeah, you're creating your own heaven or hell and in every moment and. Everything that's happening is a complete There's no progress so in western philosophy spirituality there's a beginning and an end and in eastern philosophy it tends to be circular like now there's no beginning and an end. It's just it's there's seasons and cycles. It's winter spring summer fall. They call that some sorrow and the ah I mean the truth is that that both exist. Yes, there is a progression of humanity over time. Ah, if you look at the universe. It's spiraling in a direction. There's an expansion happening. But it's also moving in a spiral. It's moving. There are seasons and cycles. So there are aspects of it that are predictable and then there are aspects of it that are not predictable so when I think about what's true if you talk to an eastern philosopher. They go. Well, you know it's just a season and cycle. It's not that important what's important is that you just maintain the quality of your own mind in this moment and create heaven on earth in this moment and then yeah, the the west says who gives a fuck about what's happening right? now go blow yourself up. For for allah and you'll get 72 virgins and so these these are extreme. Yeah, well, it's it's ah yeah, ah Hebrew um, yeah, well, it's it's not necessarily. 16:00.82 Max Shank They're they're they're from the west. Um I believe Middle East not to be a stickler for geography. 16:14.51 mikebledsoe It's east us. But when we but well when we look at. 16:16.90 Max Shank It's all relative right? There are different cultures and they have different ideas of how you achieve some sort of Nirvana or happiness or peace or fulfillment right. 16:21.40 mikebledsoe Or the. Yeah, well the origin of these philosophies that christianity came from which is what our culture is largely based off of based off judaism which is the same thing as based off of Islam. They're all come from. They're all considered western ah philosophy is is where it spring from so it went from. Ah, judaism hebrew to Greece and then came over whereas you had a completely different track going on in the east and that's why I talk about these 2 things. But then yeah, there's utility to both. So um, I really think about let's not get too attached to what's true or not. Because that is what happens as people get way too caught up on what's true instead of recognizing what's useful and so what I find to be useful is to say yeah, both of these things are true like we have no idea what's going to happen when we die and we. Have an opportunity to ah to create heaven on earth in this very moment. So why don't we just do both. Why don't we have a nice life while we're here in this moment and do well and help each other out and find peace in our own mind and let's also make some progress and see if we can. Make a better tomorrow than than what we have today. So I have no idea how I got to that point. What's that. 17:49.21 Max Shank So so productivity pretty much do so Productivity is the is the way to live. It doesn't matter what is true just do what is productive and make up your own goals. 17:58.99 mikebledsoe Yeah, well you look at I think it was up was it socrates you know, true, good and beautiful if you pursue those 3 things life is gonna be pretty good. Do what's true. Do what's good and do what's beautiful and i. 18:10.32 Max Shank That's a great way to go. 18:17.24 mikebledsoe When I hear true I think of being in contact with reality not necessarily like a and I when I think about the Capital T truth I Think about that. That's my simple. That's what I in my own but personal wisdom says the Capital T truth is. Simply what is is right here reality right? now anything outside of that is got a ah degree of bullshit in it. 18:43.73 Max Shank Man we could go down that rabbit hole big time. But I'm gonna for once. Keep this ship steered in the singular direction because you you decide for yourself. What's important in life. Unless you get it from somewhere else and I think that's where intuition can come into play a lot now. Intuition is a little different than instinctual desire for pleasure because. You can go down the path of 7 deadly sins total excess that sort of deal and you may not find the joy or fulfillment that you're looking for and in fact, more likely than going to actual hell. When you die for overindulging in these 7 deadly sins. It's more likely that it's a metaphor for creating a hell or an uncomfortable experience within your own life by overindulging in certain things. So I think. Coming back to intuition is very valuable and that's how the scientific method starts anyway is with observation and intuition you you go with your intuition to determine what kind of experiment you'd like to carry out. In the first place to see how that feels for you and this is how I like to connect it with the idea of identity because people get so trapped in different identities. It's like oh I'm a red t-shirt but guy I'm a blue t-shirt guy I'm a. But. I'm a white or I'm a black or I'm a man or I'm a woman and it's very it's very limiting when you're a creative creator so you have all of this potential to create things as a creature but we limit ourselves with this identity. When in fact, we would be so much better off using our intuition and our powers of observation to see what we find intrinsically enjoyable beyond some external result. It's sort of like putting the cart before the horse. If you do something just because you absolutely love doing it. The result is going to be way better and way more fulfilling than if you do something just because of the result that you may get so I think starting with intuition. 21:37.20 Max Shank And observation to I guess observation and then intuition to figure out what feels intrinsically good that gives you an unfair advantage about any against anyone who's gonna do the same thing as you because you're gonna love every second of it and it's not gonna feel. Difficult at all because the whole concept of easy and difficult to me is you know there are things that are difficult like doing 10 backflips off of a cliff and landing on your feet but more practically difficult just means anything you don't want to do. 22:13.86 mikebledsoe Yeah I Think that's a that's a really. Yeah,, there's there's doing something you don't want to do or or doing something that you may want to do that gets you a poor result that's also worth worth Noting. We won't go down that we talked about the marshmallow test before ah but ah, but. 22:34.70 Max Shank Yeah. 22:38.56 mikebledsoe But I what I think of when you're talking about that is the the 2 modes that people may operate from when when seeking happiness and 1 is having and the other one is being and if if you're caught up in the having mode. Of being and in creating happiness. There's never enough and you're gonna run out of runway and some days there's gonna be plenty and other days there won't and ah there there will never be enough and then the being which is thing if we look at. 23:02.10 Max Shank There's never enough. 23:18.90 mikebledsoe A lot of the new age Community. At this point, a lot of them. You know one of the things they do well is there is this focus on how are you being and then that attracting all these other things. Um the the pitfall with that is if you are trying to change your being so that you can have. Already fucked up. It's like oh I want I'm going to use the secret I'm going to use the law of attraction to get that lamborghini. Yeah, and you'll see how enlightened I am by the size of my house and at the beach. 23:45.49 Max Shank To win an enlightenment contest. 23:53.20 Max Shank Right. 23:56.46 mikebledsoe And so the ah because I'll be able to attract more whatever and so. 24:00.99 Max Shank That goes back to our earlier thing of survival sex and status right? and status is really about sex. Anyway, we were talking about the very beginning Beyond language or even deeper than language even other animals. 24:08.76 mikebledsoe Remind me. 24:19.64 mikebledsoe E. 24:20.13 Max Shank They're going for survival first and foremost then they're going for sex which is typically a factor of your status and so the way we explore status now is glittery tits and ferrari's more more or less. 24:28.26 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 24:36.40 mikebledsoe Through. 24:37.90 Max Shank I mean I don't want to put too fine a point on it. There are other ways to gain status some people like to gain actual power over other people like having political clout. But you know largely it has to do with a man's ability to provide. Into the future because women have gotten more and more intelligent or calculated with their discernment So now. Ah you know a mongo type of giant man who's dumb can't provide as well as a frail nerd who. Knows how to create value and wealth and security long-term. 25:19.31 mikebledsoe Yeah, absolutely so going going back to having versus being modes. Um I think that what what you were alluding to before is if you if you don't. Have the being part nailed down, you're gonna be It's gonna be easy to convince you to do a bunch of shit. You don't actually want to do so you can have all the stuff that you think is gonna create happiness and if you're operating from that place and then we introduce. Technology these technology is yeah, it's tools and it's ways of leveraging our own minds and bodies to be able to accomplish more with less effort and so if you're adding a lot of you know if you're if you're on a ship and. All of a sudden I you know we're going the wrong way. But we're going fifty knots if we're going really fast then you know some people are so excited that you're going fast but have no idea what direction they're going in and ah. That's what happens with technology. It's like oh I've got this iphone in front of me and I've got this laptop and I've got you know a 4 our-wheel drive truck that can go anywhere you you give these things you give these ah you give these things guns. 26:45.57 Max Shank I Feel attacked. 26:55.39 mikebledsoe Guns are a great technology. Um Blockchain is ah is a fantastic technology that's emerged ah all of these things in the wrong hands in the in the hands of idiots will cause death destruction and and. It's it's not ah, a good look. But you put this in the hands of people who are you know who've already figured their own shit out and they can create some really cool stuff. You can live a really good life. You can you can do a lot of good for other people. And you you also get to fucking enjoy it which is very very rare I I hang out with a lot of the entrepreneurial community people that have money and are very successful and yada yada yada and I don't think there are any more. Um, a lot of them are any more happy than than someone who's working a tip old 9 to 5 making you know a quarter of the money. 27:58.75 Max Shank I Think there's a big distinction I would like to make between you mentioned the being and the having and I think there's also the doing which is a little different than being. 28:09.40 mikebledsoe Um. 28:15.10 mikebledsoe Yeah. 28:17.70 Max Shank And clearing your being so that you're as empty as space as fluid as water not to sound too. Ah fruity language over here is X I. 28:31.93 mikebledsoe He's a fruit cake folks. 28:36.77 Max Shank Um, definitely I have some homosexual tendencies when it comes to just I don't know I like nice things I like to use flowery language sometimes I don't know I'm a simple creature. No. 28:49.15 mikebledsoe You you heard you heard it here first folks? um. 28:55.35 Max Shank No one's a hundred percent straight I mean back when I was watching pornography I I liked there to be at least 1 penis in there even if there were 2 ladies so I guess I was like 33% homosexual in my preference there. 29:13.21 mikebledsoe Welllthough this are you is ah I mean the whole it's ah it's a manmade concept. Ah the that there's a really cool mental model that everybody every everybody. 29:21.80 Max Shank I know you think I'm sexy Mike you can just come right out and say it. 29:29.46 mikebledsoe Why do you think I was over at your house all the time. Ah,, there's this really cool mental model that everybody uses. It's used early on in textbooks. It's hard to miss and it's the spectrum. It's There's this thing on the left and there's this the opposite of it is on the right. And ah, you can be somewhere in the middle and you go from left to right? and ah, it's It's so and interesting to watch people put things like sexual preference on this scale. 30:06.48 Max Shank Where it's binary. 30:07.57 mikebledsoe Of Ah, yeah, it's binary exactly and so it's It's really really interesting to watch people do that I mean I've done it I Still do I I Love the spectrum it. 30:19.89 Max Shank Spectrums Spectrums make labeling difficult which is what our whole culture is in love with we love putting a very precise label on something and that's why we often miss the nuance. 30:34.60 mikebledsoe Yeah, so I mean so you have the linear spectrum but I like to think about a more 3 dimensional spectrum which would be let's let's have a ball. Let's have a sphere and and there's a lot of things in the middle. Um. 30:34.89 Max Shank And the context. 30:44.70 Max Shank Right. 30:50.91 mikebledsoe Why am I bringing that up man I'm bringing up a lot of show on the show that I'm losing track of where I was at I cut back My new tropics Max What's the problem. 30:53.24 Max Shank Well I think it's important I think it's important to understand that the problem you're having right now in this conversation is the same problem of focusing too much. On the definition of your being. The last thing you want to do is be proud to be a man or proud to be white or proud to be a woman or proud to be a you know fairy godmother. Whatever it really is so silly and you don't want to get stuck too much. 31:11.77 mikebledsoe You know. 31:29.68 Max Shank In trying to define your being being should just be enjoying where you're at it shouldn't be thinking about who you are too much. It should be recognizing that you are not a fixed State. You are a dynamic changing growth. It's classic. Growth Mindset versus Fix Mindset and even though the the book flow is really a challenging read for the reader. It's got some good information in there and that is where I come in with the idea of the doing. Rather than just the being like if you spend too much time in the being it can be entertaining to wax philosophical. But if you spend too much time there you become like a prisoner in your own mind instead of enjoying the emptiness. Of your being and focusing on the intrinsic joy of doing and getting into that flow state and that's where you become like an animal traversing the terrain or a big cat hunting their prey you become focused. You become the task. Instead of being focused on yourself I can't think of a worse psychological prison than being focused on the definition of yourself so much and that's one of the biggest emphases of our very sick culture right now is what are you.? Are you a blue t-shirt guy. Are you a red t-shirt guy. Are you a lady? are you you a she are you a they are.. It's what's a worse prison than that. So I say instead of that. Go back to the intuition and the observation to figure out the doing. Where you become the task and that is something that we've known about for a long time. That's chopwood Carry water. That's um, you know the yeah Boom tying it all back. 33:25.82 mikebledsoe Yeah, ancient. Wisdom yeah that there's um I brought up this this video I saw on Instagram yesterday I followed a lot of the teachings of a Christian and Murty are you familiar. 33:42.41 Max Shank So one of Bruce Lee's main influences. 33:46.16 mikebledsoe Yeah I think so and he he was talking about when you when you identify with an organization a group a religion or a race or a gender when you identify with any of these things. You are isolating yourself and a lot of time he was saying you know what? if you lived a life where you did not identify with any particular group whatsoever and at the first thought of that a lot of people would respond to him with. You know? Well, you'd be I You would be checking out of Society. You would not be participating and he would say no, it's the Opposite. You're open to the the all of humanity the moment that you identify with a group. 34:31.63 Max Shank You have a more open connection with everybody. 34:43.23 mikebledsoe You have just cut yourself off from and and you've isolated yourself to a very ah small small portion of humanity and ah and and the truth and and you're even isolating yourselves from people in that group because you're all in agreement about. 34:52.96 Max Shank It's horrible. 35:02.46 mikebledsoe 1 aspect of the entire universe and can potentially miss who that person is outside of that 1 thing and so you know I get some conversations with people around. You know, ah race and gender and the victimhood and and all of these things and I get frustrated at times and they're like are you frustrated because that ah that and I got I'm frustrated because the only I'm I'm trying to help you and. You're not even willing to help yourself. You're so caught up in this argument I can't there's nothing that I can do I can't I can't hand you any amount of money I can't include you any more than you're already included in and to participate in whatever it is that we're doing until you let go of the identity. As long as you hold on to that identity. It's it's you're inflicting this on yourself all the way now if you give that up and then you're being inflicted upon then now we have violence. There's a there's a real problem with that. But when we look at society as a whole right now. What I think. What most of us are witnessing is this this heavy identification with an organization group. Whatever it is and it's ah it yeah, it's creating massive isolation and isolation creates suffering. 36:30.44 Max Shank And it's just ah, perpetuating this us and them mentality that this this whole idea that you should define yourself by 1 variable of your being is insane. You know. White pride black pride. These are just racist ideas. They're stupid like why would you? Why would you be proud of that. It's because you're so desperate to be part of a group because you can get status within that group. It's like a kid joining a gang because they have no family right. And if you don't have anything to offer yourself as an individual. You'll think oh gosh I can get some status even if I provide no value by just saying like I'm I'm part of this crew essentially so it's a part of our deep desire for community. 37:18.92 mikebledsoe Yeah. 37:26.88 Max Shank And when you have someone isolated like that It is much easier to get them jump in to some ah sick fractured part of a community. Oh big time. 37:36.57 mikebledsoe Very easy to control very easy. Can I mean you I mean it's very easy to I like using politics as ah as just ah, an example because ah, no matter what political party you're looking at there is a. Oh are you? This are you? This are you? This have you checked these boxes. Well you you would be you would you wouldn't really be that if you didn't do this that you're not with how many um how many black leaders have been called white supremacists in the last couple years. 37:56.92 Max Shank Us and them. 38:13.99 Max Shank That That's a pretty funny one. That's that's a pretty that is a pretty funny one I mean some of the stuff I see is so outrageous. That's one of the things where I'm like this black guy is the black face of white supremacy and I was like huh. 38:14.94 mikebledsoe Because they didn't go with. They didn't agree with Blm um, and it the. 38:29.70 mikebledsoe Well I remember it happened it happened 1 time it happened with the guy that was running for the governor of ah ah of ah California and well well and and I and I was like oh that's interesting. But then I watched it happen over and i. 38:32.22 Max Shank Okay. 38:36.77 Max Shank Oh God here we go. 38:49.40 mikebledsoe I think I've witnessed it over a dozen times at this point it's it's kind of like the boy who cried wolf though. Yeah I. 38:55.20 Max Shank It's rhetoric and it's effective rhetoric if you know remember if I ever run for office. All my opponents are racist pedophiles. That's all I Got to say they're bad I'm good and they're bad I help nuns cross the street I work at the orphanage I. 39:04.21 mikebledsoe I. 39:12.91 Max Shank Have a rainbow flag in my front yard and those guys are racist pedophiles. It's It's such a classic ah appeal to Authority ad Hominem attack which takes us right back to heaven and hell God The Devil These are not new ideas. There's a bad guy and there's a good guy. And if you can make people believe that a guy is bad. They will blindly ignore any rational thing that person might say and if you can make people believe. That one guy is good or God then they will blindly trust anything that guy says this is not new stuff and that's why it's so important to start with your gut and then you were talking about Aristotleian logic. It's really important. To have the tools to determine if something is reasonable, rational and true and it is difficult because most things the answer is not enough information and in fact, that's a ah, really valuable thing to. Notice is that when you have a true false question. There are usually 3 answers True false or not enough information to answer the question and most of the time there's not enough information to answer the question. 40:42.29 mikebledsoe Yeah I think you said something really brilliant there and I I want to I want to zero in on just one piece of it which is the I think the the. Primary technology that needs to be mastered in order to use all other technology in a very useful way that's going to benefit yourself and others is the technology of language and you're you're talking about rhetorical fallacies and. Understanding language to a degree in which you can see when people are being manipulative with their language when I when I watch ah politics when I watch ah when I'm at the airport and I look at a Tv and I see. Advertising and commercials and I for for different goods and services and when I stumble across stuff on the internet I I get a good chuckle out of it because I can see the the Nlp the neuralistic programming I can see the manipulation. It's ah and it's interesting and and I think I have ah a very a somewhat unique perspective to be able to spot these things for a while I I thought it was insane that everyone couldn't see these things but there's there's 2 things that I've identified that I've done that that uniquely. Qualifies me and I bet there's hundreds of other people that that have done these 2 things and 1 is I used to have a top secret clearance in the Navy and I saw and I worked in communications and I saw an incredible amount of message traffic coming through ah about some. Secret shit and what I witnessed 12 hours later on the news is that all these different news agencies would be reporting on the thing where I saw the the reports we had were you know it was bullet point this happened then this happened this is how this is how we responded because. You create us. It's called a sit rep you create a situational report so that we can learn from it and make better decisions in the future. It's a life or death situation on creating these sit reps. You would not create one and then put a bunch of flowery language in it or or put anything that. Might not be true to make yourself look better. You don't do that because right? So you don't do that and then so I'm looking at at what I would trust to be very factual information. 43:16.00 Max Shank Um, you don't hide it within 10 pages of prose. 43:30.17 mikebledsoe Then turn around 12 hours later and I'm watching the news and I see Msnbc reporting it 1 way Fox reporting it another way Cnn reporting it another way and I just remember one day after being just. Months and months of sifting and looking and and being exposed to these 2 things happening at the same time and I go holy shit they're they're manipulating the the public at large and then I and then I I leave the navy. 43:55.63 Max Shank Ah, the. 44:01.13 mikebledsoe And I start studying years later I study marketing and then I get deepened up into marketing I'm studying things like and Nlp I'm studying hypnosis I'm studying how language is used to to 1 influence yourself and influence others because you're you're influencing other. Yourself with every word that comes out of your mouth and through your mind is influencing you and which and the words that come through your mind include the ones that come from outside enter your ears and then go through your mind and so there are. Combinations of words and certain words when used in a certain way are have greater weight for influence with an individual so watching seeing the objective data come through watching how it's manipulated seeing how much bullshit. Actually does exist there and then learning how it actually works ah does put me in this very interesting position and part of me wants to stay on the rooftops and be like hey this is what like can't you know that this what it is but but. 44:59.82 Max Shank Ah. 45:13.75 Max Shank And. 45:14.94 mikebledsoe People are fish in water who don't know that they're in water and if you in my experience I talk to certain people who are very intelligent and they are plugged into Twitter all day and they know who said what? And. What's going on in Ukraine and they understand like war policy and all this stuff and I go I'm looking like it's like all your information is bad. You don't have any good data points. So it's like if if we assume that what you. 45:45.30 Max Shank The. 45:51.80 mikebledsoe No is actually true then you're right? But the problem is is the premise for which you're making your argument is actually wrong and so the. 46:02.90 Max Shank That's a big distinction is to know that you could have a valid thought process very logical and correct. But if the premise is false. The result is still false. 46:14.28 mikebledsoe And this is this is a conversation that I I have some friends that are you know buried pretty deep and in these in some narratives and anytime I bring this type of stuff up. There's a. You can see the emotional reaction and the and the immediate rejection of of a of a statement I'm like you know what there's and my girlfriend I Go Why don't you like tell them about this or this or this I'm like they're not they they stop hearing me as soon as they. You saw that physical reaction. They didn't hear anything after that. Yeah I immediately got categorized as some crazy asshole. Ah yeah. 46:53.88 Max Shank You're on, you're on the other team is the thing right? You're the devil. You're the devil. You're on the other. No seriously, you're on the other team and everything you say will be ignored or misrepresented or just. Blindly mistrusted. It's better to not have any opinions that are too strong. Actually there was a really good conversation. Um Gavin Debecker who wrote a gift of fear he was on Joe Rogan's podcast the other day and. Joe Rogan changed his mind about something in real time and it was really nice to see because Gavin Debecker is a good communicator and he's patient. Guy. You could tell in the conversation. It was worth. It was worth a listen I really enjoyed it and they were talking. 47:33.92 mikebledsoe A. 47:42.56 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna go look that up right now? What? um. 47:49.41 Max Shank Were talking about ah model mugging I think it was called and Gavin Debecker was saying it's awesome and it's ah you know a 6 hour course 1 hour a week for six weeks and Joe Rogan um at one point was like oh I totally disagree. You got to learn martial arts for a long time. In order to make any of those ah make any progress because otherwise you'll have this false sense of confidence and you know as a martial arts teacher in this and that and he was like that and Gavin De Becker said wow you have ah a really strong opinion about this and Rogan was like yeah I do and he's like well. Let me tell you something that you don't know and he talked about the 23000 people who had gone through the program and had had better results in violent encounters and explained more about the program was and. Hundred percent credit to Rogan because I've seen him do this a few times and it's one of the more admirable traits in a human being is he goes gosh I really didn't understand it was like that and that that makes a lot of sense and he completely changed his mind within minutes and it's so rare to see something like that. And it's really encouraging any time I do and you're much better off not having such strong opinions really about anything because those are those are the hardest holes to dig yourself out of because you dug those holes yourself. By having too strong of an opinion the ability to change your mind is the sign of an agile and flexible mind and we've talked many times how adaptability is the chief survival characteristic. So if you get caught in these fixed mindsets and opinions that. Really aren't based on true premises and valid thought processes. It's like an extra prison that you have attached onto your being and if you think of one of the ways to greater mental and physical peace. As relieving yourself of the psychological burdens of the ego and breaking the back of the ego so that you can dance and you know drum to the rhythm of the universe not to raja style then it makes sense that you would not want to engage. In having such strong opinions because they are really more burdens and they're not very practical most of the time either. It's not like you get anything out of it and we can tie it back to the way that we use technology people are so desperate to. 50:36.50 Max Shank To wave their own little flag and just say hey everyone I'm smart I know what's going on. Hey hey everyone I'm smart I know what's going on, please please like me give me some sort of positive feedback positive attention and that's what I see um happen a lot is it's. Fishing for compliments from the people who are already your side and alienating the people on the other side even more so it makes no sense to me what you're doing that for except to make yourself feel better. You might as you would be much more honest to just say. Hey hey everyone could you give me a few compliments I'm I'm looking for some validation Today. Can you tell me I'm smart and good but people don't want to do that because it sounds ridiculous, but they're perfectly willing to par it out the narrative of their team. Without having done any kind of searching for whether this is true or valid. So you're safer to just not have too strong of an opinion about things. It's very burdensome. 51:47.13 mikebledsoe Yeah, if your if your ego can withstand it. There's are you familiar with ah Byron Katie okay yeah she's um, she came up with something called the work and she. 51:56.20 Max Shank That name sounds familiar. 52:04.68 mikebledsoe She also wrote I think one of her books I've got it somewhere around here. It's called ah, 1000 names for joy and ah she her background is very very interesting and that she's not a psychologist. She didn't study spirituality. Anything like that and yet she became one of the most profound ah speakers and you know like you quote unquote therapists that ever lived and if you really want to be impressed with her. She does something called. 52:31.46 Max Shank And. 52:39.47 mikebledsoe Ah, the work and the turnaround and she has a 4 step process that she takes people through you can just Youtube Byron Katie the work and you'll be able to witness it and the the idea of the work is the premise of it is that. People are creating suffering in their own life. Oh I want to talk about this first. The way she got to where she is now is she lost her fucking mind she lost her. Ah she went through down this really negative. Rabbit hole ended up like walking through the desert and she was gone. 53:14.14 Max Shank Well, how did we get here? How did we get here. Didn't We do roughly the same thing I mean you and I lost our minds at least once E trent. 53:15.75 mikebledsoe Back in the 80 s huh what do you mean. Oh for sure for sure. Um, but I don't think we were suicidal I only I wasn't suicidal when I when I lost it was one of sick. 53:31.65 Max Shank We weren't so far gone maybe does suicidal mean you're like really going to do it or you just thinking about what it would be like because who doesn't think about who doesn't think about what it would be like. 53:41.36 mikebledsoe Yeah, there's suicidal ideation. Yeah well of course there's suicidal ideation and then there's suicid all um. 53:53.60 Max Shank I mean I have it all planned out like you you want to do it. You want to but I'm a perfectionist that that's why I haven't done it. 53:57.87 mikebledsoe I Just want to I just go skydiving and not not pull the cord man just go skydiving I don't pull the cord. That's that's my mask you know if I'm ever gonna go. It's probably I'll do it. 54:08.62 Max Shank The problem is I'm a perfectionist I'm still planning out the perfect suicide which is the only thing that's saving me. 54:11.96 mikebledsoe Ah, ah. So ah, anyways, she she basically had ah a major mental breakdown and ah, you know there's something. Ah, there's a few people out there. Jeed Mckenna is another person who basically went through a mental breakdown took about 2 years to get through it. 54:35.61 Max Shank Ah. 54:37.12 mikebledsoe Which is what what they have in common is they stop believing their thoughts and they got down to they were able to stabilize the perspective of truth which is just a constant presence with reality without the. 54:42.32 Max Shank Ah. 54:54.33 mikebledsoe Ah, without stories narratives things like that getting a fixed and attached to so she has a 4 step process for any narrative you might have to pry your identity from it and so ah, the the. 54:57.89 Max Shank M. 55:06.54 Max Shank Ah. 55:12.99 mikebledsoe The key issue is that people believe their thoughts and when you believe your thought to be true. You then identify for it with it. It becomes part of who you are and if you try to wrestle the belief out of somebody's ego. The ego is gonna fight back and say no, no, no Motherfucker. If I Let go of this then I'm gonna die going back to being accepted by the tribe because yeah, and so and so I need to be accepted by the tribe if I let this go. It's a very deep. Ah you know. 55:35.61 Max Shank Right permanence. 55:50.26 mikebledsoe Deep thing in your psyche. It's not something where you just hear me talk about it and go Okay I'm good with it I've been I've been hip to this conversation for a decade and I'm still you know wrestling with constantly questioning is this a belief or is this what I'm noticing or you know like there's a constant. Ah. 55:54.28 Max Shank Are. 56:09.99 mikebledsoe Questioning going on which I think is very very healthy if. You're not doing that if you haven't stabilized reality which I think almost you know, probably a handful of people alive on the planet have actually achieved that the rest of us are walking around with some type of narrative. Some people are so bought into it. They don't. Don't even know their beliefs might not be true and then to to be operating from a place where you're actually questioning your beliefs as and being based in something that's not reality is ah is ah I think a really healthy place to be and and that means that the ego has to you have to have a relationship to the ego. That is ah that is not so attached you know and if anyone is if anyone really wants to get to the core of beliefs and language and all that I think Byron Katie is likely the best. Practical resource There's some other really cool resources out there if you're really into the conceptual shit but she has got one of those practical tools I've seen out there. 57:17.61 Max Shank So it all comes back to trying to ease suffering basically right because suffering is resistance and the opposite of resistance is acceptance so you accept the death of the ego which. 57:24.56 mikebledsoe Now. 57:37.10 Max Shank The reason people fear death of their body is because the story ends I I like to phrase it that way at least makes sense to me I would be willing to hear any argument to the contrary because I like a good argument, especially a civil. 57:41.61 mikebledsoe That's right. 57:52.11 mikebledsoe Um, I'm afraid of the horns and the pitchfork fellow. Yeah. 57:55.76 Max Shank Argument. We're afraid of the devil that makes sense. Ah he seems pretty sinister. Guy seems like he would enjoy torturing you for a really long time. But anyway so jokes on him I dig it. 58:05.78 mikebledsoe I Might like it though start jokes on him. Um. 58:14.70 Max Shank Give it to me Diablo Man. Ah so we're talking about how to ease suffering pretty much and allow us to live with more peace more prosperity more productivity and. More productivity That's where technology comes into play and a tool is just a tool. It is in fact, ah more about how you use it So a scalpel in the hands of a child is very dangerous but a scalpel in the hands of a surgeon can. Save your life so understanding what you're trying to do with the tools you have available and is it more mindfulness is it more intentioned is it more deliberate. These are all Synonyms. Of course. But look computers are such crazy leverage machines but most of the time we're just floating stuff out there um to get validation which is an external trap rather than an intrinsic joy of doing and being. So recognizing what tools are most important in your life is a good place to start kind of embracing a minimalist attitude toward the tools that you possess and. Not necessarily does it Spark joy. But what is the real use of this can I get along without it and the same way. A computer can totally trap you on the internet if you don't have wisdom and you have a computer with internet Connection. You are fucked. Your your soul will be gone if you're going on Pure instinct and you have a computer with internet Connection. You're Gone. You need to have some wisdom to control these very powerful tools. It's the same with the refrigerator. Wow. What an amazing Concept. A refrigerator can store all this food. But if I have unregulated gluttony instead of wisdom which you know there are ancient proverbs that say eat until you're 80% full. It's It's the simplest thing. But that's why knowledge is easy but wisdom is really the practice of Knowledge. It's knowledge applied to your specific Situation. So I think having ah an appreciation for technology is maybe a good first step. 01:01:00.26 Max Shank And recognizing how fortunate we are to have access to the goods that we have access to and to put yourself in a scenario where you don't have access to these tools and what life is like and then reintroduce them back. Into your existence. You'll have a greater appreciation for them and they'll you'll use them a lot more deliberately I think. 01:01:28.48 mikebledsoe Well sir that that feels like an end of show synnosis. Yeah yeah, yeah, same. 01:01:34.19 Max Shank Boom I Love it. Yeah so I think the I think the modern technology is way Easier. We don't need to talk about it too much and I think the the ancient wisdom has a lot of facets to it. It. It does primarily center around questions people have been asking for a long time and how do you find peace in your being joy in your doing and gratitude in your having. 01:02:07.60 mikebledsoe Yeah, beautiful, well said? Yeah I think about um, a really good example is you know how do you for those who use Instagram how do you use it are you are you a pure consumer that's just scrolling through that's. Being used by technology or are you are you using technology are you are you creating with it and not only are you creating but are you creating something that that brings you joy and brings other people joy and so I think about technology is simply an amplifier of it's going to amplify what is if. If if your life is full of destruction. You're gonna be able to amplify that destruction if your life is full of creative creative energy. You're gonna be able to create unlike you were be able to you were able to create before so be aware of that and the number 1 technology. That we all have access to is language. So what? what was that noise. 01:03:13.23 Max Shank Dude I was gonna say the same thing I'm I'm right there with you. There's no, there's no more valuable technology than language. That's why you and I harp on it so much is because it is ah other than getting comfortable sitting quietly and just. 01:03:14.52 mikebledsoe I. 01:03:30.40 Max Shank Doing things in silence it. It is the the key to unlocking and relieving yourself of these burdens. 01:03:34.78 mikebledsoe Yeah, if you can master that you can be the creator of your world and if you don't master that you will be the slave to other people who have mastered language. So ah, ah. 01:03:48.44 Max Shank Pooh. We. 01:03:52.78 Max Shank Ah, it reminds me. It reminds me of this thing I was reading about ancient Egypt where the the priest or the leader had ah a temple that no one else could go into and they would bring him gold and food and women and shit like that. 01:03:57.39 mikebledsoe Ah. 01:04:11.82 Max Shank And he told them that every night he had to negotiate Mott M a at which is balance with the equal and opposite world on the other side but of course no one could ah confirm this but I was just thinking what a powerful. Language swindle that is to say hey listen every single day I'm going to negotiate with essentially the other world or the underworld to make sure there's balance in all of our lives as long as you bring me all your gold and food and all this Stuff. While I go into that private room and handle this negotiation. It's it's crazy that you can get people to do things just by making noises with your mouth speaking of marketing and sales I mean it's Crazy. It's Crazy. It's Crazy. It's not Fair. It's not Fair. It's basically cheating because your relation with your relationship with yourself basically language related in a lot of cases understanding the definition of things your relationships with other people largely language related and then your relationship with your customers. You are setting the tone. 01:05:10.67 mikebledsoe Yeah, go. 01:05:24.51 Max Shank With every word you say it's It's not Fair. It's not fair that it's such an unfair advantage that if you can speak and communicate in a way that is both clear and inspiring. You can exponentially. Amplify. Whatever it is. You're slinging if you're slinging carpet cleaning or fitness products like myself. It is fully an unfair advantage and I can speak from experience. 01:05:45.14 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 01:05:55.80 mikebledsoe Absolutely and an overlooked thing around language I think most people when they hear using language especially in the way we've been talking about it is in regard to marketing or Pr Politics Media they're thinking about the outside language. Well there's also the internal dialogue you're having with yourself mastering that will help you master yourself and then the next layer inside of that is the the thoughts that are made up of words that are operating in your subconscious. And I I believe that everybody has witnessed this whether they recognize it or not they witness something that's been living in the subconscious pop up into the conscious realm of their mind and they go where whered that thought come from that was fucking weird that thought's been in there. For a long time more than likely and ah, you're just now you just now have awareness of it and it's likely been causing your your personality. It's been causing behavior for you and you didn't even know it. So I think it's safe to say if you. This is one of those useful beliefs that I have which is 95% and I I say 95% to get people a little more credit but I think it's probably closer to 98 or 99% of what's operating in your mind is subconscious, unconscious and ah. We we give ourselves a lot more credit for thinking that we're we're doing things on purpose when most of what we're doing is is an autopilot function and ah for me it. It's really cool to do conscious programming where I am. 01:07:37.10 Max Shank The. 01:07:48.44 mikebledsoe Intentionally bringing thoughts into my mind that are going to move me where I want to go but I find even more power and subconscious programming if you learn how to hypnotize yourself and embed codes that you want to operate without any conscious effort. Throughout the day. There's ways to do that as well and maybe I should put together a course or something I told somebody recently at a mastermind that they go well what thing could you bring to the group that would benefit them well I could teach you how to hypnotize yourself. Everybody's heads turn. Never heard of that before I've heard of hypnotizing other people. Yeah, you can hypnotize yourself but you know what show is wrapping up so I to save that little trick for later later it. It's really simple so hit hit me up on Instagram if you want to know about it oll ah send you a free Pdf or something. Have to make it up. 01:08:44.62 Max Shank Cool modern technology. 01:08:49.89 mikebledsoe All right max it out where where are people finding you these days. 01:08:56.77 Max Shank Well I'm currently at the top of a very tall mountain studying with a monk who is 500 years old to figure out the meaning of life and he says in another couple hundred years. We just might figure it out. 01:09:11.80 mikebledsoe Nice, nice looking forward to hearing the answer to that I'm gonna be using all the new biotech that's available to live to for another 200 years so I think we're gonna be good to go. Ah, you can find me on Instagram at Mike Underscore blood so and yeah check out the blood so show for more content interviews go to http://matchschk.com. He's not gonna toot his own horn today for whatever reason so go to http://maschank.com and check out. Courses on how to do cool stuff with your body and I'll see you next time Levy Max 01:09:50.67 Max Shank Love you buddy! Thank you.

Can you trust enough to take the next step in the darkness? Alchemy for Water people is having the ambition to get to get where you want to go but having no idea how to get there. It's just about trusting in the moment that you can take the next step. The post 092 Alchemy for Water: Trust with a Capital T appeared first on Inspired Action Podcast.

Moe Factz with Adam Curry for January 26th 2022, Episode number 74 Description Adam and Moe celebrate Moe's Freedom! Download the mp3 Big Baller Rob Steffens Executive Producers: Rob Steffens Dreb Scott Stephen Deane Craig Kohler David Roll William Taylor Andrew Sir Bates Melody Mugler Chris Bailey John Taylor Eric P Bradon Shipley Anne Marie Porter ASSOCIATES Stephen Kirkpatrick Craig Kohler David Roll William Taylor Andrew Sir Bates Melody Mugler Chris Bailey John Taylor Eric P Bradon Shipley Anne Marie Porter ASSOCIATES Stephen Kirkpatrick Associate Executive Producers: Tobias Williamson Nikolaus Wagenfeiler Capital T Daniel Miller Michael Williamson Eiichi Kitagawa Mike Kuplicki Terry Wentz Episode 74 Club Members Melody Mugler Chris Bailey John Taylor Boostagrams Check out the show on Podcasting 2.0! Boost us with Value 4 Value on: ShowNotes Clips Music in this Episode ShowNotes Archive Donate to the show at moefundme.com Search for us in your podcast directory or use this link to subscribe to the feed Podcast Feed For more information: MoeFactz.com Last Modified 01/26/2022 16:51:10 by Freedom Controller  

SHOW NOTES: This week, Cerita Ibrahim and I took the conversation to another level as we talk about the truth about trauma – what it actually is, why it is unhealthy to not recognize them, and the danger of pushing them way down our subconscious minds. Learn why we should not allow our “filters” to control us. Highlights from the conversation: [02:16] Cerita Yvonne Ibrahim, MSW, CCTP, CCTPII, CCHt · Therapist & Coach · Relational trauma expert · Founder and CEO of Love U [02:45] Trauma is everywhere In any relationship we experience, there is some kind of trauma involved. We think traumas are all huge, but then there are also insidious experiences that happen over time. Trauma, in its essence, means “a deep emotional wound”. It is not about what happens TO you, it is about what happens INSIDE of you, as a result of your experiences. The big T traumas can be abuse, experience in a natural disaster, or neglect. Although, what happens inside us remains the same, whether we experience Capital T traumas or emotional neglect. Understanding this will help us learn why we struggle in our relationships. [04:45] How trauma can be experienced Trauma is not limited to what was done to us. Rather, it is something we experience, witness, or something that directly happens to us. 9/11 can be very traumatic even to those who are not physically in New York. There are so many iterations of how trauma can be experienced that will dictate the way we relate with people, especially in our relationships. [15:00] How trauma is expressed (men vs. women) How trauma is expressed looks different in men versus in women. Men may need to look into doing more personal development. Connecting to our emotions can also be difficult, especially when we push them down for so long. This can cause us to even question what type of emotion is in there. Is it sadness? Fear? Or Anger? This is why it is important for our men to normalize doing personal development work. [23:30] Creating a personal glass ceiling When we allow our trauma to continue to fester and we do not look at it, we create our own personal glass ceiling. We can be successful, it's not that we can't, but there will always be a barrier that we keep hitting. And we would wonder why we could not get past that point. The truth is there is something else that is causing that personal glass ceiling that is keeping us from allowing ourselves to fully enjoy our life – the abundance of life. Catch up with Cerita Yvonne by checking her website at https://learntoloveu.com or contact her via email at hello@ceritayvonne.com. You can also check her social media channels: Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cerita-yvonne-893b361b3 Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-8KlJaQhtCx55m_r9hW02A See you on the next one! Hosted by: Dr. Maiysha Clairborne Ready for the next level in your life? Join the Movement! Become a part of the Mind ReMapping Nation, an exclusive community that empowers your growth & accountability. Go to www.MindReMappingNation.com Interested to learn Mind ReMapping? Have you thought about becoming a coach? You can! Attend our next Mind ReMapping LIVE Training in Atlanta, and learn the tools to remap your mind in this transformational NLP/Hypnosis and Coach Certification training. Visit www.remapmymind.com or schedule an interest call at www.remapmymind.today --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/remapyourmind/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/remapyourmind/support

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Capital T dhe Ardian Bujupi kanë sjellë këngën “Andiamo”, një bashkëpunim që u pëlqye shumë nga fansat dhe arriti majat e klasifikimit në The Top List. Megjithatë, ata e kanë ‘thumbuar' jo pak herë njëri-tjetrin në intervista e rrjete sociale. Në një intervistë, Capital T u shpreh se Ardiani nuk ishte mjaftueshëm mirënjohës për suksesin që kënga e tyre arriti. Nga ana tjetër, Ardian është kundërpërgjigjur në rrjetet e tij sociale, duke i kërkuar që diskutimet t'i bëjnë live.

Welcome back for Episode 21! Ok Legends! We are back with a serial killer or I should say serial killers episode. This one is ROUGH and it a 2 parter, Capital T trigger warning as we discuss all aspects of this murdering trio, as It's a little bit...Hideous   Please be sure to like and share the story and follow us @itsalittlebitpodcast on Instagram, It's a little bit podcast on Facebook, Yep finally did the thing or email itsalittlebitpodcast@gmail.com

Singer/Songwriter Jaxony Reign joins the show to talk about her latest release 'Capital T'. We also discuss the challenges and evolution of the current music industry, future goals and projects, and also some insight and details behind her thinking when creating the new track and new music coming soon! Also playing the new hit Capital T exclusively right here on DTongRadio as well as another one of her hits 'Let The Credits Roll'. Share with the universe and support indie music :)Stream Jaxony Reign music on...Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/artist/3FLQXcELt24lWpr1EcoBHNApple Music:https://music.apple.com/us/artist/jaxony-reign/1529348905Website:https://jaxonyreign.com/Connect on Social Media @JaxonyReign

anything that's alive is either growing or dying, in an array of relationship with alive. Meet Today's Guest: Jean Kadkhodaian Jean Kadkhodaian and her husband, Dr. Ray Kadkhodaian, have been counseling thousands of couples since 2002. They work with couples as a couple. Their experience inspired them to create the Couples Synergy Method, a proven system to develop strong, resilient and empowered relationships. Join their online community called, Connections, and listen to live weekly webinars. Learn how to work on your relationship through their #1 podcast for couples called, "Couples Synergy - Real Couples, Real Stories". Treat you and your partner to a fun-filled relationship boosting Weekend Intensive, or work with Dr. Ray & Jean personally through their premiere Couple 2 Couple coaching program. Dr. Ray & Jean were married on February 14, 1998, and have 2 adult sons, a daughter-in-law and 2 pet stingrays. They enjoy riding motorcycles, scuba diving, hiking and traveling.  Tell the audience a little bit about your story. I have eight siblings. And I grew up in a home that had a lot of a lot of chaos. I coped with that by working full time when I was in high school, so I would work and go to school, and I was pretty lonely. Early on, I got into a relationship with someone that ended up being a fairly toxic relationship. I was a mess. About a year after that, he decided to go away to college, and I didn't have a plan. I decided to join the army. When I got on the plane to go to basic training, I thought, you know, I'm going to reinvent myself. The whole town where we lived knew who we were because were such a big family. There was always like a label that I couldn't get out from under. I was the youngest girl, and I was really shy, and I got on the plane, I'm like, I'm not going to be that anymore. I remember getting off the plane and shaking people's hands and introducing myself and having this false confidence which basic training really reinforced. I learned a lot about self-care and self-esteem and self-worth and discipline. And that really changed my life. I came back home and got lost again and got pregnant at 20 years old. That was such a life changing event of mine. I joined a single mom support group, and I decided that was the work that I want to do. At the time I found out I was dyslexic, and it was the beginning of the word processor. I don't think I could have gone to school unless I had that to correct my spelling. I muscled my way through school with my son. I think I started when he was three and finished my bachelor's when he was eight. I continued to work really hard on myself during that entire time and I was in another toxic relationship. Relationships became something that was a really strong passion of mine to figure out. And at some point, once I finished my bachelor's, I bought my own condo, which was a huge accomplishment for me. I was actually going to plan on being single the rest of my life because I was so bad at being in relationships and they were so painful. I spent three years and what I would say is you have to become the person that you want to spend the rest of your life with, in order to be in a relationship where you have something to offer another person. And of course, once I got into that three-year mark where I really knew myself, I had all these wonderful ways of getting my needs met through family, friends, work kids, and pets. That's when I met my husband. At the time, we were both working on our master's degree in clinical psychology. We started working in community mental health where there's very little training. We decided we could do it better. We started working together as a couple with couples. The incredible part of that journey is that when I was 30 years old, and my son was nine years old, I fell in love with a guy who was 24. Ray and I had this big age gap. We didn't look good on paper, but we both had this passion. He too was coming out of a seven-year toxic relationship. We had a drive to figure out how to feel safe and healthy in a relationship while supporting and growing together. As we started working with couples, we developed a method called Couples Synergy Method. You can't do this work without living it. Throughout our relationship, we have gone through, and we share on our podcast, that we fight, we work through stuff, and we continue to grow and learn and develop. I don't know any other way to live. It's never been comfortable. Just as it is been painful, it's been as awesome. You've taken your wisdom from years of training in the industry to start with Lighthouse Emotional Wellness. Tell us a little bit about what that. The foundation of it is, we started working with couples, and then what would happen is our couples wanted their kids to come on board. We have a second program called Family Synergy Therapy. We also work with individual people. And about 50% of the work I did was with couples and 50% was with individuals. I got certified in hypnosis, which I knew nothing about. From there I dove into understanding our spiritual anatomy and energy healing and how to use not just the talk therapy or the conscious parts of the brain, but the hind brain in the limbic system. When someone goes through a trauma, they're going to respond in their fight or flight system, which is not in the hindbrain. If they haven't really fully developed, they're not going to be able to do talk therapy very well. I have a rule, I don't work with anyone just in hypnosis, or energy healing, and I don't work with anyone just in conscious. It's a merging of the two, that helps people transform and not go into regression. We hired a staff to work with the other people. And then we have people who do EMDR biofeedback. We've had people add yoga into therapy, or we had a personal trainer and she did boxing. There's not a lot of space for this in the mental health field to bring in different tools to help people. The Lighthouse is a place for our therapists to have the freedom to bring in things like aromatherapy or EMDR, where they can integrate into traditional counseling methods. It's for individuals, kids, families, all of the above, but our specialty is couples and families. Can you share a little bit more about different kinds of therapy? The interesting thing about my journey is I do have a foot in both worlds. And that's what I was trying to figure out when we were doing couples synergy, because it's such a passion of mine and my husband's to work with couples. But I always bring in this other piece. I thought I had to give one up for the other, and we found a way to make it both work. And that's why when we do the weekend intensives we do a component of teaching about meditation and sound healing and some spirituality. I was explaining to you in the fifth chakra is that it's connected to our sense of taste, sense of smell, our sense of hearing, our bronchia, our lungs, in our throat, which are all the symptoms of COVID. To me, when we have illness, that means we're going through some form of adjustment, some transformation. We're told we have to wear masks and the fifth chakra is about speaking your truth. The difficult thing about speaking your truth it that the fifth chakra comes from our spiritual center. Our truth is actually a small t truth. Capital T truth is gravity, and gravity is going to work the same whether you're Russian or American, or have money or don't have money, or you're younger, you're older. It works exactly the same. Small t truth is, what job should you do? How many kids should you have? Should you get married? Where should you live? What's true for you, and what's true for me is completely different. And so we get away from that right or wrong stuff. You see that in the world right now with everyone having a lot of strong opinions, and everyone is really frustrated. I guess that goes back to this idea of taking personal responsibility. When we talk about the, the mess of your life, the garbage or the fertilizer of your life, if you take responsibility for that, then you have power and become empowered. If you want to give up responsibility, then you are in a place with what I call force, where you give up forces external, so you either give up your control to something external to you, or something external is trying to control you. Going into an example of elderly couples that have been together for years, can you delve into the biological aspect of that kind of relationship? Yes, so there's actually a biological component to that, which is really fascinating. Before I get to the biological, there's generational. When my grandparents got married, you didn't get divorced. You didn't care about happiness. You didn't care about happiness and the job that you did. You went to work, you did your 40 years, you got your gold watch, and you put food on the table. This happiness business is hard work. When my parents got married, my mom met my dad at 15. They got married, and she was 19. She had seven kids by the time she was 30. So did most of the friends she had. That's how they lived, and they she stayed home while my dad worked. Now, we have many options. You can't go back to your parents and say, hey, how did you make that work? Because their life was so different. A study was done on our brain chemistry and what happens when we fall in love. And in the beginning for the first nine months to two years, our brains are like on drugs. It's like you can live on sunshine and water and you don't even need to sleep. I think that's our brains way of saying, hey, it really is fabulous to connect with another human being, it's really worth it. And then that chemistry slows down, and we go into something called the commitment phase. The commitment phase is where you as, are we going to really work on this? Do we have enough in a romance phase to say, let's stick with it? Because not being with you is, is not going to increase my life as much. If I was going to define what a healthy relationship is for my grandparents, it would be, to be together till you're dead. But to me, it's a relationship that you're growing and thriving in. And if you're not growing and thriving in it, it probably isn't a healthy or successful relationship. In some relationships maybe they're only going to last 10 years or 15 years. They don't have that longevity, but they still serve that function, and that purpose to get you through that part of your journey. So then once you make it to the commitment phase, you get into what we call the transition phase. And this is where most couples don't make it unfortunately. This is where the work is. Where you are raised like this, and they were raised like that, and that's your domestication, but somewhere in the middle is healthy. My husband and I don't have issues anymore. Issues are in the beginning. Like who's doing the dishes, who's going to pay the bills, those kinds of issues. What we have now is healing moments and in a forging of who we are as a couple. And that really does take 20 to 25 years to get to. What you're seeing in couples that are 25 years plus, if they did the work, their brain chemistry is more exciting than the people in the beginning, which is really cool. They found two periods where it dips the four-year mark and the 10 year mark. And their hypothesis was if you got together and created a child, the child's physical development up till age four was going to have a much more success rate of survival. And we're talking back in the day at 10 years old when people were mature and independent and had been working on the farm forever. So at 10, there's their chance of getting to full adulthood and reproducing was greater. And they think biologically, we're designed to have those kinds of impacts at four years and 10 years, and then the 25 year mark. If both people in a relationship are committed to doing the work, then you will, even though it may be difficult, forge together. Correct? Right. The Couples Synergy Method that we teach is a 12 week course. And this course is designed to show you the process of how you do the work. This is not traditional therapy, we're not diving into things. We're showing them, here's your relationship dance, here's how you communicate and here's how you show up for your partner to help them heal those wounds that really have almost nothing to do with you. Although when they're talking about the toothpaste or whatever it seems like that, but we call that an iceberg. So you're looking at the 15% above the water, which you're part of. You probably hurt your partner, they hurt you. But it's sitting on 85% of history and the pain is 100%. If you could see your partner as a four year old that's hurting, you certainly wouldn't go up to a four year old be like knock it off. You'd ask what's wrong? We lose that with our partner, because it's so personal and so painful. We teach them that whole process. And then at that point, they know how to do this kind of work. And they understand themselves to that level. And then from there on is, is the growth process of that. People want to go to therapy, and they don't understand all the underlying things, and they want to fix that little bit at the top. And it doesn't work. It's not sustainable. It's really growth through that kind of stuff that we are really passionate about teaching and why we continue to teach. How to connect with Jean: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/couplessynergy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/couplessynergy/ FREE GIFT LINK: https://go.couplessynergymethod.com/Connections  

Capital T rhymes with P, but it also rhymes with E, which stands for Episode! Family-friendly, clean, enjoyable, joyous, and with a bit of a lesson, too, grab your pearls...

Marxist Commi, Socialist Cy, and Capital-T back at it again. Also Naim.

In this episode, Janneke Neissen Co-Founder of Capital T, talks to our host, Cameron Albert-Deitch, about his Book Smart pick,  Becoming by Michelle Obama

Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com.Good morning, welcome to Mosaic Church. My name is Jan, one of the pastors here at Mosaic along with Pastor Shane and Pastor Andy, if you're new or if you're visiting, we'd love to connect with you. We do that officially through the connection guide and the worship guide or the connection card in the app or online. If you filled that out, we'll be sure to get in touch with you over the course of the week. With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's holy word.Heavenly Father, we are so thankful because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross bearing the penalty, the wrath of God for our sin, we now have access into your presence. We don't need a temple and we don't need a high priest, we don't need sacrifices, Lord, because on the cross, as you bore the ultimate sacrifice, you said it is finished and you now give us access into the Holy of Holies which is your presence, we thank you for that Lord. Lord, we thank of that in your presence we have access to the only things that satisfy us. We seek to find satisfaction in knowledge and we know that every truth in this world falls so short of knowing you and being known by you.Lord, we long for unconditional love, we long for a love that lasts, love that is endless and we can't find it anywhere but in you. You loved us so much that you gave us your only begotten son. Lord, we seek justice. We long for justice in this world. We long for this world to be what it ought to be, how it should be and yet it falls short and still that desires deep inside and we know that only you can satisfy that desire under the reign of Christ. Lord, we long for beauty. We long to see that which ravishes the soul and everything in this world falls so short, but it is found in you.And Lord, every single one of us, we long for a home and eternal home, a place of peace and comfort and security and you alone can offer us that in your presence. And we thank you that all of that is accessible to us when we come to you by grace, through faith and repentance and humility and we do that now and we ask Lord, satisfy our souls. And we pray all this in the beautiful name of Jesus Christ, Amen.Today we're concluding our sermon series through the first part of the book of Psalms that we've been calling Balm Psalms in terms of this is ointment from God, this is an anointing from God for our souls. When we come to the Lord, open up the Holy Scriptures, the Holy Scriptures are an extension of God himself and this is how God reveals his presence to us, his person to us as, his power to us.The title of the sermon today, as we look at Psalm 84, the title is, what do you want? What do you long for? What do you seek? There's this curious passage in the gospel of John in chapter one where John, the baptizer who has apostles, he has his own disciples. He sees Jesus Christ, his cousin, he sees Jesus Christ. And he said, "This is the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world."The next day, his disciples, one of them being Andrew, another disciple of John, they see Jesus Christ and they follow him. They leave John the Baptizer, they start following Jesus, Jesus turns around and he asks a question. He says, "What are you seeking?" They're caught off guard by the question, they don't really know how to respond. They don't even know what they're really seeking, but they are seeking it. So they respond by saying, "Rabbi, where are you staying?" And in response to them says, "Come and you will see."One of them, Andrew, then the next day goes to his brother, Peter, and says, "We have found the Messiah." What he's saying is, we did not know what we're seeking but we're seeking something that only Jesus Christ could offer. They found the anointed one and they found the anointing for their souls. So question before us is, what are you seeking? What do you want now? What do you want in the future? What do you want in life? What do you need to say? What do you need to achieve? What do you need to get to say when you get it that, "I'm home, I've arrived."It's the question buried under every single one of the questions in our hearts, we are what we want, our desires, they drive us, our wants, our longings, everything deep inside of a heart. All of these things together are at the core of our identity. Our heart is the wellspring. The desires of the heart is the wellspring that leads to our actions that leads to the behavior. That's why Proverbs 4:23 says, above all us, guard your heart because from it flow all the wellsprings of life, everything you do flows from your heart. So we're taught in scripture, pay attention to what you love, not just what you know.Knowing God isn't just a matter of knowing theological treatise, is knowing theological facts and truths. You got to pay attention to what you love, curate your heart, be intentional about it. And growing in the faith is so much more than just knowing facts, it's yes, knowing something and yes, we are to be renewed by the transformation of our mind. The truth need to penetrate our minds, but then we then need to fall in love with the truth. We need to align our longings, align our cravings, our desires with God's. And that's not an excuse, contentment can't be an excuse for complacency.A lot of people here talk about being satisfied in the Lord and a lot of people think, "Okay, now I don't have to do anything in my life. I'm satisfied in the Lord with where I am." No, once you're satisfied in the Lord, he equips, he strengthens you in order to fulfill the purpose that he has for you. Jesus Christ was the most ambitious person who has ever lived. He literally showed up and said, "I am going to save the world." And he did what he did because he found satisfaction in God. It was fuel for him to accomplish his work.As Holy scripture says that the word of God is something that divides our spirit and our soul. It judges the thoughts and attitudes of our heart. A lot of people and this is what our culture teaches is, you are what you think, but we're so much more than that. We're not just what we think, we are what we desire. And you can just look at your life, how many times did you do things that you know you shouldn't have done, didn't need to do and thinking it was just physical appetites?You know you should not eat whatever this is in front of you but you're going to, this isn't good for me, but I'm going to eat it. This thing I don't need to buy but I'm going to buy, why? Because I want it. Our desires are more than anything, control our actions. And this is what we're talking about today is, is taking our faith from our mind and let it penetrate and saturate our hearts so that it then begins to transform our lives. That's what Psalm 84 is about, it's an expression, it's a poem of someone longing for that which ultimately satisfies more than anything else, which is the presence of God.Would you look at Psalm 84 with me? Psalm 84:1, how lovely is your dwelling place Oh, Lord of hosts. My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord, my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God, even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young at your altars Oh, Lord of hosts. My King and my God blessed are those who dwell in your house ever singing your praise. Blessed are those whose strength is in you and whose heart are the highways to Zion.As they go through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs. The early rain also covers it with pools. They go from strength to strength, each one appears before God in Zion. Oh Lord, God of hosts hear my prayer. Give ear O God of Jacob, behold our shield, Oh God. Look on the face of your anointed for a day in your courts is better than 1,000 elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness for the Lord God is a sun and shield the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. Oh, Lord of hosts blessed is the one who trusts in you. This is the reading of God's Holy and Falbo authoritative word, may write these eternal upon our hearts, three points to frame up our time long for God to draw near to God and finally enjoy God, first long for God.If this is your first time reading Psalm 84, if you're new to Christianity, or if you think of Christianity just as some world religion, you perhaps find verses one and two very puzzling. The emotion here, the descriptive language of the affections that this person feels, this worshiper of God feels for God, how lovely is your dwelling place? What a tremendous word, lovely. When's the last time you used the word lovely? How lovely is your dwelling place, Oh God.He's focusing on the beauty of God's dwelling place and by dwelling place he's talking about in his mind as an old testament believer as a believer in the old covenant, he's thinking about Jerusalem and in Jerusalem, it's the temple. And within the temple, is the Holy of Holies, that's where the presence of God resided. And it was marked by a mysterious light to show the presence of God. It was God's Shekhinah glory and only the high priest, only once a year, only after undergoing rigorous rituals could enter into the Holy of Holies. Everyone else desired to be there, but they understood, we can't be in the presence of God and the Holy of Holies without dying because of our sin.He longs to be there in the presence of God. Verse two says, my soul longs, yes, it faints for the courts of the Lord. When was the last time you had a desire like this, I long to be there? And it's talking about a particular place. If you are not from the area and you've desired to go visit family during the pandemic, you know this feeling of homesickness. In particular if you're an international student or from outside the United States you know this or if you're an immigrant you know this feeling, this desire of homesickness.My family immigrated here when I was five, but for some reason every winter I still have a desire to go back to Estonia. There's something about going back and smelling the air and feeling the presence of your homeland, that's what he's talking about. You miss this place. He longs for it. And it seems so strange for us to talk about God's presence like this, this longing or homesickness for the presence of God. How often do we long for God like this?And I want to show you that we do long. We have these yearnings deep inside of our hearts and it's yearning and a longing for things that only God can give you. Even if you're not a believer or if you're just interested in Christianity or you're new to the faith, I want to show you that deep inside your heart you will long for things that only God can give you. And what do I mean? I mean, things that separate us from the animal realm.Animals are satisfied if they have everything necessary for survival; food, shelter, security. You can have the best food, you can have shelter, you can have security and you will not be ultimately satisfied, why? Because there's something in our human consciousness that desires, something that transcends the physical. We have at least five transcendental desires, deep inside of our hearts. We have a desire for perfect knowledge. We have a desire for perfect love. We have a desire for perfect justice. We have a desire for perfect beauty and the desire for a perfect home.Perfect knowledge is the first one, perfect knowledge or truth. We want to know and we want to know what is true. We long for this, even as little kids. Little kids, what's their favorite question? Why, why is the sky blue? My daughter's had this kick, my daughter Elizabeth. She had this kick where she wanted to know the world record of everything like, "Dad, what is the heaviest stone in the whole world? What is the deepest point in the ocean? What is the fastest animal in the whole animal..." Why, why, why, I don't know why. Thank God for Wikipedia, and I don't even know if that's true.But have a desire for what is true, we long for desire for what is true. Even in a post-truth culture that we live in, there's fact-checkers. We hear something, is this true? Then there's a fact-checker, and then you find out that a fact-checker is actually sponsored by a certain political side. And then you find out that that's not true and what is true? I don't know. But we long for Truth. What is Truth? Capital T, Truth. Partially, this is why we long for knowledge. We love to know. We love to learn. This is why there's such a boom in podcasts. This is why Amazon is such a gift from the Lord, in terms of books. Do you want a book? Yes. And half a second, you buy that book and then it comes in and you add it to the stack of the other 30 books by your bed that you have not read. You read the introduction you're like, "I'm bored, next book."We want more, podcasts and books and lectures online and we long for scintillating conversations with people. We're impressed with knowers. You're about to finish one degree and you're thinking about... I'm finishing my doctorate in preaching from Westminster at the Abbey, I just finished my last class. And as I'm finishing my last paper, I'm like, "Ooh, now I can start another degree." We want more knowledge. We want to know more. I was having a conversation with someone recently and they were like, "Imagine not having any bills. What would you do if you had zero bills?" And the person's like, "I would go get another degree." Maybe that's just Boston.We want to know. We want knowledge. We long for truth. We also long for perfect love and not just to be loved, we long to be perfectly loved, unconditionally loved. We long to be fully known and fully loved, and everybody is looking for this. And what we think of in terms of perfect love, unconditional love, is love from another person. But we understand no matter how great a person is they're not perfect therefore, they will not love you perfectly; you're also not perfect. So then if you're looking to each other for that ultimate love, that perfect love, you'll only meet dashed expectations. We can't satisfy each other's perfect or unconditional love.I was trying to think through who is the closest person in my life that loves like this. I think it's kids. I think it's little kids who they don't know just how bad you are just yet, they get to know that the older they get. My mom and dad, they're not perfect either. But my three-year-old, she doesn't know yet. She shows my wife her love, by going up to her and licking her in the face. "Why are you licking her?" "Because I love her." Why? Because for her and mom and ice cream are in the same level, unconditional, I'm going to love you.And every single one we long for, from our stories to our movies, to the art, to the music, we're in transferred love stories. How did people meet? How did they end up? Where we long to end up happily ever after. We also long for perfect justice and by justice, I don't just mean what's fair. Yes, it begins there. Little kids, you don't have to teach them this is fair, this is not fair, it's written on their heart they know and we like them when we see that something's not fair, we're outraged. If that thing does not get fixed, then all of a sudden it turns into cynicism. But we don't just want justice, this isn't fair it needs to be punished.The opposite side of justice or the flip side, the positive side of it, is goodness. We want goodness. We want good to happen in the world, to people, to us. We want the world to be as it ought to be, as it should be. And we may disagree on what that looks like, but this idea of oughtness or shouldness it's written on each one of our hearts. We expect more justice or goodness than our finite world can deliver.We also long for a perfect beauty. We see glimpses of beauty and nature in magnificent red sunsets, majestic snowcap mountains. We see this glimpse of beauty in music or we see in art. Even sports; the perfect throw, the perfect catch, the perfect hit, the perfect championship. There's art, is this art? The perfect baked good, there's art there. It does not satisfy. We need another vantage point or we need that same thing again or a different or more of it and then after a while, we get bored with imperfection.Think of your favorite song, you hear the song for the first time and it's a hit and you listen to it over and over and over and over. After a while, it loses that power to move you. Nothing changed with the song, but you just got bored with that glimpse of beauty. And then we long for a perfect home or a perfect place of harmony or peace. It's a yearning to feel comfortable in this world, secure in this world. Think of how many channels, how many resources are invested into this and to shows about houses, about restoring houses, renovating houses, real estate shows. Why do we have this idea of a forever home? And that's the phrase that's used; this is where I want to live forever, this is where we are going to find our ultimate home.Five inner desires, and any solely, earthly satisfaction of these five, they always leave us frustrated. No matter how good this physical representation of this transcendental desire, it still leaves us wanting because we want the perfect version because we know that the perfect version exists. How do we know that? Well, it's written on our hearts. We seek these things; perfect knowledge, perfect love, perfect justice, perfect beauty, perfect home and it's things that only God can give us in himself. Deep inside we know that this is true, it's written on our hearts.The New Testament Version of this Psalms is found in 1st Corinthians 2:6-10, which have all of these components and you can study this text. I'll just read it here. Among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age who are doomed to pass away, but we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God. That's the knowledge that we're looking for. The ultimate knowledge, the ultimate truth, the ultimate wisdom, is we impart the secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory, for our beauty.None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. Crucifixion here, this is God's justice poured out on God's son for our sin. But, as it is written, what no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, this is a beauty that we long for. What God has prepared for those who love him, that's a love that we long for. These things God has revealed to us through the spirit, for the spirit searches everything, even the depths of God and the depths of God is the home that we're looking for.We are created to find our home, our knowledge, our beauty, all of these transcendence things in God. St. Augustine of Hippo wrote 1600 years ago, he said, "Thou hast made us." God, you've made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find the rest in you. So what do you long for? I want to submit to you that underneath every single one of those longings is a desire for God, for things that only God can give you. And this is where sin gets in the way. Sin clouds our vision. Sin comes to us, and this is Satan, this is the world, this is flesh. They all tempt us to find satisfaction in things, and experiences, and people, in anything other than God, even in good things. But if you seek the ultimate from a good thing, it turns into idolatrous thing and an evil thing, a deprave thing.A good thing, when you're seeking the ultimate innate, can turn into a deprave thing. Look at Jeremiah 2:12-13, be appalled, O heavens, at this, be shocked, be utterly desolate, declares the Lord, for my people have committed two evils, they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.Evil one, refusing to find true refreshment for the hunger and thirst of our souls in God, instead seeking that satisfaction for the thirst of our souls in things, other things, cisterns. And that he says, they're broken, they can't hold this water. Forsaking God's fountain and seeking to make our own, whatever this is. The first evil, turning away from God. The second evil, seeking that which only God can give us in whatever it is that you long for. And it starts with the desires of the heart. It all starts there; gluttony, lust, envy, enmity, sloth. It's all in anger. It's all in there.And then we seek to find satisfaction for those things, in things. And what it does, it only makes us thirsty, it only makes us hungry and never satisfied. So this is what the psalmist is saying and he says, "I know that nothing in this world satisfies therefore I want to be in a place that does satisfy, which is the presence of God." And he's picturing in his mind Solomon's temple, but it's not about the temple it's about what the temple represents. And what it represents is, God's covenantal love and his knowledge. He says, "Israel, I've chosen you. I've decided to put my presence within you. I've decided to reveal myself; my will, my law, this is how you find satisfaction in me.That's why Psalm 84:1, he begins with this longing; How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts. And it's a longing to be in the presence of God. Verse two, my soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy. My heart and flesh, he's not just saying my mouth, he's not saying my throat, not my vocal cords, my flesh. He longs for God with almost a physical desire. He talks about this soul; my soul, the innermost being and starts there. But it's like a hunger, it's like an ache that works itself almost physically.And the language that he uses to describe the intensity, the desire, this language that's used elsewhere to talk about romantic relationship. A lover is almost kept from his beloved, that's the kind of language that he uses. And he even expresses jealousy for birds, that's verse three; Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my Lord. Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise.He's jealous of these birds who are nesting in the rafters of the temple, their ways unimpeded into the temple courts. They soar above everything that is in the way of this psalmist entering the presence of God, and they build these nests on top of the columns. He's yearning to be in the presence of God like this, why? Because the psalmist, most likely he didn't live in Jerusalem. Most likely he came to Jerusalem once, twice, three times a year at most for the festivals. They would come and they would experience the presence of God, and then they would leave. And as he experienced God he said, "I wish I could just stay here. I wish I could be in the presence of God uninhibited, unimpeded."When I was in my early 20s and I was studying God's word and I loved God's word and loved God's truth and before God called me into ministry I was like, "Man, it must be so cool to be a pastor. Pastors get to be in the presence of God all the time, that's their job. They just study God's word." Of course, the pastor standing up here is going to tell me how great the presence of God is because that's what he does full time. That's all of his professional waking hours, that's all he does. And then I became a pastor.And one of the things I've realized after becoming a pastor is, becoming a pastor like most people that become pastors we call them the ministry, they do it because they love God's word. You love feasting on God's word, but feasting on God's word is a different skillset than preparing a feast of God's word. It's like someone who's like, "I love food. I want to devote my whole life to food. What can I do? I'm going to go into culinary school. I'm going to become a chef." You loved eating, but you spend all your time cooking. That's what's going on.So as I'm sharing with you how great God's word is, how great the presence of God is, I'm also preaching the same thing to myself because you can prepare a tremendous meal without even having a taste of it yourself. So it's to say, you need to develop in yourself this appetite, this longing, this desire for the presence of God. My wife asked me last night, she said, "What are you preaching?" I said, "Developing a longing for God." And she said, "What are your practical tips for that?" I don't have any because you know what, I preach God's word.Are there any practical tips in here? Obviously, I can give you practical tips. You can't develop a longing with practical tips. That's like saying, "I need practical tips for developing a desire to see beauty everywhere." You can't. It's either you have it or you don't and if you don't, how do you get it? You ask God. "God, I want this longing. I want this hunger. I want this thirst." And it's a blessing from God and of ourselves, we do not have this active desire. And here the psalmist, you see it in him. And it's one of these things that's better caught, not taught.Yeah, I can give you these little practical points and I'll give you a few after, but it's more like this person longs for God and they found God and they're satisfied. And God, I want what this person has. And he says, "The maker of heaven earth invites us into this relationship, into this presence of longing anticipation and delight." The second point is to draw near to God. So you long for the presence of God, but then you need to actively draw near to God. You have this desire, if it's given to you by God, if not you ask for it. Once it is given to you, then you need to practically draw near to God.And here I'll tell you this, this is really important and most likely if you've been in the faith for a while, you know this. Whenever there's a longing for God, almost immediately there's something that shows up that keeps you from acting on that longing. And there's different reasons for spiritual warfare or the flesh or the world, there's a resistance. There's almost like a force field that's all of a sudden enclosed over, so he longs for the presence of God.And then verse five, he starts talking about needing strength. Look at verse five, "Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion." He says, it's a blessing when your strength is in the Lord. Why is he starting to talk about strength? Because you need it, that's the assumption here. All of a sudden, he's like, "Yeah, longing for God. This is great." And then he's like, "Yeah, but to be drawn into the presence of God, you need a strength that is not your own. You need strength from God." Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in God, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.Blessedness of worship belongs to those who desire and then act upon it, despite the resistance from the enemy. Look at James 4:7-8; submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Draw near to God that sounds great, but he says in order to do that you need to actively resist evil out there, Satan, and resist evil within.And the evil within that he's talking about is, this double-mindedness. And the double-mindedness, every single one of us who pursues the Lord you know exactly what this is. The spirit decrees what God commands, but the flesh does not. I want to do what God tells me to do, but I don't do the things I want to do, instead I do the things I don't want to do, that's Romans 7, there's this fight on the inside. And that's why he says, "You need strength and blessed are those whose hearts are the highways to Zion."Why is he talking about highways in the heart? Well, he's talking about a longing to draw near to God that's willing to overcome the patterns that we've been used to. And by patterns that we're used to what I mean is; when you are used to a life of sin, sin becomes almost second nature. Sin becomes like, you don't even have to think about it, your mind just goes there and then your actions follow where your heart and your mind... You ever been really tired at work, back free COVID when you had to drive to work? And you were really tired at the end of work and then you get in your car and then you drive home, and then you pull in and you're like, "I do not remember the last half hour. I have no idea how I got home."It's like your muscle memory took over. You were thinking about a million other things, but you got home safely and you didn't kill anybody. You're like, "Whoa, how did I do that?" Something like that happens in our heart. Our heart, our desires, once our heart wants a thing, and it begins to follow that thing over and over and over there's a rhythm in life and you begin to act without even thinking about that action. It's just natural. It's a pathway. And the more you do that in your heart, the broader it gets. Now, it becomes a highway in the heart. And he says, "Blessed are those whose heart are the highways to Zion to God's presence."Well, this is one of the things, in terms of spiritual disciplines and one of the things that we need to learn to do is, we need to re-navigate the paths of our heart. And we need God's word and God's people in our life and you need to train yourself up in righteousness where it's like, "Yeah, this path feels natural, but I know where it leads. Instead, I want to follow God's pathway, the pathway into God's presence." It doesn't feel as natural and it takes a lot more work, but the more you do it the more natural it becomes.And then when you're by yourself, and you have nothing to think about, think about Sunday afternoon, there's naps and then there's Sunday afternoon naps. I don't know why Sunday afternoon they're just more blessed especially after church; church, Los Amigos Burrito, nap. Right before you go into your nap, analyze what you're thinking about. Analyze where your mind naturally gravitates when you don't have to think about anything. And he says that, if you want to experience the presence of God on an ongoing daily basis, train up your heart, your thoughts, your desires, to travel on the highway to God.Do we have highways in our heart to the presence of God? And this includes spiritual disciplines on a daily basis; wake up, a cup of coffee, scripture, prayer. And includes fasting, silence, solitude, community with other believers, corporate worship. Corporate worship is so crucial to our health as believers, our maturity, but also our health. For 11 years, I've been in one of those transient cities in the world trying to convince people, "God is great. Find your satisfaction in God."And then people become believers, and it's like, "Corporate worship is crucial, it's important. Joining a church membership, you are all one body of believers. Covenant membership, crucial. You have the Holy Spirit as a believer and the more believers together, the more Holy Spirit we have together. So yes, corporate worship is important and this is how we show the world the glory and the majesty of the presence of God by gathering together. Corporate worship, corporate worship, corporate worship, it's important," then COVID hits.And then we didn't have church for like three, four months and then we're back to church and wearing masks and social distancing. And then we've got people in the church and there's people in the culture, on two sides of the spectrum. The first side of the spectrum right here is, "I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I can't do anything. I'm going to die. Yeah, I'll go to the grocery store and I'll hang out with my friends."This right here, part of the sermon, this is for between you and the Lord, what's the Lord telling you? Obviously, there's people who need to stay home immunocompromised. But there's also people who are like, "Yeah, I'm not going to go to church. I'm going to take a flight across the country." And I've been on a flight recently, it was on American Airlines. And here's what happens on American Airlines, I had a person sitting right next to me. And also on American Airlines they're like, "Mask, mask, mask, mask, mask. Okay, it's coffee time. Okay. Everyone, take your mask off." And then everyone's pretending like, "Oh, okay. COVID knows during coffee break do not..." What I'm saying is, just be consistent. If you're going to stay home, just be absolutely consistent and so don't hang out at the beach with friends, et cetera.I just don't use COVID as an excuse. Pastor Shannon, Pastor Andy and I for the longest time, we didn't want to do live streaming because we understand the very second you're doing a live stream when a person is just a little lazy on a Sunday, they're staying home and they're like, "I'm still worshiping with my..." No, there's something physically important that is, body beliefs. That's one side. The other side, we've got Christians who are like, "Do you understand what this is? This is government overreach. This is going to lead to totalitarianism. It starts with a mask. It's only a mask, and then all of a sudden they're going to send you to the Gulags, that's number one. And then going to church with a mask and then being told where to sit? No, that's impinging on my freedom. Liberty or death, that's my only two options."So we got people over here and people over here and all I just want to say is, corporate worship is important and that's it. There's risks in everything. There's risk in driving. There's risk in taking the tea. There's risk in going out to eat; even more so now with outdoor dining, you're going to get a chill and get sick. Psalm 84:6; as they go through the Valley of Baca they make it a place of springs, the early rain also covers it with pools. He says, "We need the presence of God, see God, long for God." And then after we do, you begin to draw near to God. And as you do, there's temptation, there's a force field, there's an enemy. And then also, there's these physical challenges to drawing near to the presence of God.And here he brings in the Valley of Baca, which is the valley of weeping. I'm pursuing God, I want God's presence, but then as I long for God's presence, I see my own brokenness. I see my own sin, I see this in the people around us and represents this place of affliction. And part of the affliction's the enemy pulling us back from God or times when we just feel dry inside, empty of joy like a parched desert. And what he's saying is, when you find yourself, you're drawing near to God and you find yourself in this place of temptation or Valley of Baca, valley of weeping, you got to keep going. When you get here, the temptation is to stay there. When you feel a lack of joy to stay in this place, a lack of joy, and instead of breaking through and continuing to seek after God, we begin to seek joy in sin, joy in things that only cause more spiritual thirst.So he says, when you stay here, when you fight through this Valley of Baca, that's when God will send springs and rain and covers it with pools; living water, springing up to eternal life. And then he says in verse seven, they go from strength to strength. So you got strength from God to keep going. When you got strength to keep going, you got a little stronger and you go from strength to strength. It's as if, "God, I want your presence, I'm drawing near. There's a forcefield, I'm going to break through." As you break through, you get more strength. And the more strength you get, the more presence of God you want and the greater the pull toward the presence of God.And then as he mentioned, Zion, one of the things that he does here is, he stops, he pauses and he prays for the political situation in Israel that's verses eight and nine; O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer. God of hosts, which is used in verse one, three, eight, and 12, is saying, God of armies. God of all spiritual armies. God there's something in the political realm, the physical realm in my culture and my society, that's keeping me from experiencing your presence. And he says, God, Lord of hosts give ear, God of Jacob, Selah, behold our shield, O God, look on the face of your anointed. Your anointed, he's talking about the King. God, look in the King. God help us politically.Your ultimate protection, your ultimate shield. Most likely the psalmist here is in Second Kings chapter 18, in the days of King Hezekiah. Where the King of Syria comes in, he takes over Jerusalem and keeps the people of God from worshiping God. So the psalmist calls out," Lord, please bless us. And as we draw near to you, give us strength." So long for God, draw near to God and then as you draw near to God and you begin to enjoy the presence of God, you begin to realize that whatever the cost was to get here to the enjoyment of God it was worth it.Look at verse 10, for a day in your courts is better than 1,000 elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. By doorkeeper, he's talking about, I would rather be on the threshold of the presence of God. I would rather be the lowest of the low in the presence of God, the highest of the high, in whatever the world has to offer. And the presupposition here, and this is really important, is he understands that there's trade-offs. If you want to experience more of the presence of God, deeper fellowship with God, walking with God, abiding with God, to say yes to that, you got to say no to a lot of other things.In your heart, you need to resolve God's presence. One day of God's presence is more satisfying than 1,000 years in sin and 1,000 days elsewhere. And this is one of things that we need to and I'm not sure we believe this is Christians. I'm not sure we believe God's presence is better than sin. Do you believe that? And I ask because this is one of the greatest temptations of Satan, the greatest lies of Satan. And one of his most insidious lies is that the Christian life is boring, that it's dull. It's full of drudgery. It's void of anything scintillating, exciting.Sin is exciting and anything to do with Christianity is just boring, and that's one of the biggest lies of the enemy. And once you start analyzing, even go through times in your life when you have sinned, what happens next? What happens next is emptiness every single time. It over promises and under-delivers every single time, and yet we still believe that sin is more exciting than the presence of God. It's not. Look at how the psalmist talks about God's presence.Psalm 16:11, You make known to me the path of life, in your presence, there is fullness of joy, at your right hand are pleasures for evermore. He says, you can have the ultimate satisfaction for your soul, which makes all of life so much more enjoyable. Psalm 34:8; Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. Psalm 36:7-8; how precious is your steadfast love, O God. The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.They feast on the abundance of your house, and you will give them drink from the river of your delights. Uses the metaphor of food and drink, as a way for us to understand satisfaction of the soul. Psalm 63:3-5, Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live, in your name I will lift my hands. My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips. It's getting to that time, where I'm getting hungry for lunch.He's saying this God's presence satisfies the soul like fat and a rich food. What's fat and a rich food? He's talking about steak, obviously. What's it say in the Hebrew? Ribeye. Tomahawk ribeye. That's what he's talking about. He uses the greatest physical food as a way to say, this is what happens in the soul. My wife and I last night we were... we do bedtime story from the Bible and scripture and prayer with our daughters. And last night when my wife was reading from a children's Bible about Jesus, this is where words chronologically, Jesus at the wedding in Cana, they ran out of wine. Jesus' mom comes to him and says, "Hey, you got to help them out, they're out of wine." Major faux pas back in the day. And then Jesus, he said, "Okay. Take the six jars," they're about 30 gallons each. "Fill them up to the brim with water and turn them into wine," and then the wedding continued.And then I'm like, "What's going to be the application of this story in a children's Bible?" And the application was, we're all sinners and we need to repent of our sin and when we do, Jesus forgives us. Amen. Let's pray. It's true. Repent of you sin and you will be forgiven. I was like, "I don't think that's the application." My wife's like, "What's the application?" I was like, "The application is, this wedding's boring and Jesus made it fun. That's the application." Responsibly, obviously, 180 gallons of wine responsibly. It's an absolute lie of Satan that life is more enjoyable apart from God, that's a lie. It's an absolute lie.God wants you to enjoy life, but he wants you to seek ultimate satisfaction in him which makes the rest of life so much more enjoyable. Indeed, the presence of God is worth it. One day in God's presence is better than 1,000 in the greatest vacation. That's why St Paul said, "Indeed, I count everything as loss, because it's a passing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake, I've suffered the loss of all things count them as rubbish in order that I may gain Christ. I'll give everything up, in order to gain Christ."Psalm 73:25-26; whom have I in heaven but you? And there's nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, my God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 84:11; the Lord is a sun, a source of life and light, and a shield, he is our source of protection. The Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. He said, "Seek ultimate satisfaction in God and then God longs to bless you with honor, with favor, with all the other things. He'll give you those good things, as long as they don't become idols."He says, "God is our shield." Why is God our shield? What is he a shield from? First of all, he's a shield from our own sin. He is a shield from the wrath of God that we deserve for our sin. And how do we know that God is our shield? Because he sends his son to die on the cross for our sin, bearing the wrath of God that we deserve for our law-breaking, for our evils of seeking satisfaction and things other than him. And Jesus Christ covers us, when we run to him as our refuge.And then Psalm 84:12; O Lord of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you. Blessed is the one who trusts in the finished work of Christ on the cross. Blessed is the one who trusts in God, who fills us with the Holy spirit. Our bodies are now the temple of the Holy Spirit. We don't need the temple, the priest, the sacrifice, because of Christ we have access into the presence of God.So we go back to the beginning question, What do you want? What do you seek? The scripture tells us, seek God, he alone is a source of perfect knowledge and truth. Jesus is truth. He alone is, and offer's perfect love. God is love. He alone offers us justice and goodness. He is perfect justice and goodness. He alone offers us perfect beauty, he is beautiful. And God alone offers and is our perfect home, our perfect place of belonging.I'll close with the Ephesians 3:14-21; for this reason I bow my knees before the Lord, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. That you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever, Amen.Let's pray, Lord, we thank you that you are the all-satisfying God. Lord, we do repent that so often we seek satisfaction in things, other new people, other new experiences, other than you. Lord, we thank you for the reminder that you are a God who cares about our wellbeing, our ultimate wellbeing, beginning even now. You said that whoever believes in your son, Jesus Christ, has eternal life now. I pray that everyone here; everyone hearing these words, turns from sin, turns to you and lives a life of satisfaction and joy and peace as we pursue you, as we long for you, as we draw near to you and as we enjoy you. And we pray this in Christ's name, Amen.

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Yes, Girl. You read that correctly. Lemme explain myself. All our lives, we're told to strive, achieve, be motivated, stay productive, blah blah blah. After 15 years of being employed (damn...half my life), I'm tiiied. TY-ERD. Capital T. Why are we conditioned that our worth tied to what we do? Why is it the status quo to burn ourselves out and wear it like a badge of honor? I'm over it. Today's episode gives some more background info of how I got to this space and what I'm prioritizing instead. If you're over it too, hopefully this helps give you some perspective on deciding what's important for you. Find me on Medium: https://medium.com/@ashlyndtuffentsamer Instagram Shmingstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashlyndtuffentsamer/

What is truth? The co-hosts take on the little topic of truth. Capital “T” truth? Lowercase “t” truth? You decide. Given that none of us expected 2020 to bring a pandemic lockdown, it makes sense that Irenicast would quarantime to boldly enter a crisis of truth and reality. What can we claim to know as true? The conversation begins with an attempt at defining the nature of truth. Co-hosts discuss uncertainty, relationship to truth, views on reality and the relationship between truth and power. Who gets to decide what is true? Who benefits from a collectively accepted truth? The conversation turns toward pseudo-intellectualism and its hold on people. Co-hosts wonder about human agency, choosing one’s individual truth, human development, and ultimately the journey toward accepting “not-knowing” as a valid path. The episode ends where the next episode will begin - a discussion of moral truth. Is there a universal and pragmatic “right” and “wrong”? You will have to wait until the next episode for the answer to that question. However if you stay tuned until the end, you will not have to wait to hear about Rajeev’s naked escapades in a pick-up truck which he reveals (pun intended) in a rousing segment: Two Truths and a Lie.   Special Announcements (00:00:00) Conversation on What is Truth (00:03:28) 2 Truths and a Lie Segment (01:07:56) ANNOUNCEMENTS - FACEBOOK LIVE EVENTS During quarantime, we are offering additional ways to connect via Facebook Live.  You can find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/Irenicast On Thursdays, Casey will be popping on to share his thoughts on the week and let you know about what else might be happening with the show.  He is calling this time Thoughtful Thursdays. Every Sunday morning at 10am PST, Jeff and Rajeev are going to live to hangout.  It is a great opportunity to ask questions, share some of our favorite things and have a generally good time.  We’re calling it Sunday Mic Check. 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40 minutes of Albanian music. Ledri Vula, Dhurata Dora, Mozzik, Ardian Bujupi, Capital T, Melinda, Tayna, Elvana Gjata and more. Check my play dates on instagram/djlilquize Enjoy this live mixtape.

The Case:  Camille is 38 and has experiencing unexplained joint pain, fatigue and generally not feeling like herself. Blood tests revealed an elevated ANA but that could mean many things and doctors were unable to give her a diagnosis. Further bloodwork pointed to an issue with thyroid and inflammation.   The Investigation An elevated ANA can mean a lot of things but generally it indicates that there is an autoimmune issue which could be lupus, scleroderma, Sjogren’s syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, or a variety of other diseases. However, a positive ANA is not considered enough to diagnose any of these. In Camille’s case, I could see from the additional blood work I ran that there was more to this story; that there was perhaps more than one puzzle piece missing to complete this picture.  Dr. Keesha Ewers is an integrative medicine expert, a popular speaker, and the best-selling author of Solving the Autoimmune Puzzle: The Woman’s Guide to Reclaiming Emotional Freedom and Vibrant Health. She’s board certified in functional and Ayurvedic medicine and the Founder and Medical Director of the Academy for Integrative Medicine Health Coach Certification Program.   Holistic Medicine Includes the Mind When we are dealing with a physical ailment, like Camille was, we assume that the cause of the issue is entirely physical. However, as Dr. Keesha explains, we need to look at these issues from a holistic perspective. Our emotions send signals to our mind which can create a biochemical reaction. We’ve discussed in past episodes how long held beliefs can manifest into physical ailments (see episode 007) and this is certainly the case with autoimmune disease.    How Emotions Affect Us Physically Dr. Keesha conducted a study in 2013 called the ‘Healing Unresolved Trauma Study” aslo known as the HURT study. In this study she found that young brains that are not fully developed (up to the age of 26) are affected by any kind of trauma (emotional and physical) that they encounter. These traumatic experiences can be as innocuous as feelings of rejection or being not good enough. Young minds try to make sense of these experiences by creating stories around them to give them meaning. These become beliefs. In turn, the young mind develops an adaptive strategy (to avoid future negative emotional experiences) which becomes hardwired into the brain and we carry that with us into adulthood. When we experience a similar emotion as adults, without knowing it, our brain references back and triggers a response.    What’s Happening in the Body During Fight or Flight? We’re all familiar with the fight or flight response but Dr. Keesha explains that the brain can trigger this response even when there is no real danger as a result of these early emotional experiences. The physical response is however the same even if the trigger isn’t a tiger but something like rejection. The brain sends a message to our adrenal glands to release cortisol. This sends oxygen to our muscles, raises our blood pressure and our heart rate (all thing needed for fight or flight). At the same time it shuts down the unnecessary systems including fertility, sexual desire, and digestion. It also changes the way we take in information – it shifts our focus away from the now to the future (or from here to there – where safety is) Our hormones are not designed to be continually in that mode. Eventually, we run out of cortisol. This causes a new chain reaction (because your body is still in fight or flight) so the body starts to steal your progesterone stores from your reproductive organs. This creates a hormone imbalance.    The Root of the Root Cause I talk a lot about getting to the root cause of the problem on this podcast, but often it can be tricky to see the root of the root. We might be able to trace the issue back to a hormone imbalance (and correct that) but we need to keep digging to see what caused that hormone imbalance. This can be a very challenging thing for people because we tend to not tie our physical condition to long held beliefs or emotional triggers from our youth. And, often we feel that this ‘new’ problem can’t be related because it came on ‘all of a sudden’.  However, it’s more likely that the condition or symptoms were the result of a system breaking down after long-term stress.    Capital T vs. Small t Trauma Many people think of trauma in the sense of what Dr. Keesha calls capital T trauma like sexual abuse, abandonment, PTSD, domestic violence, neglect, or psychological abuse. However, research shows that lower case t traumas does that exact same thing to your hormones, biochemistry and brain function. Dr. Keesha says that everyone experiences some form of lower case t trauma in their life.    Is Autoimmune Your Fault? Dr. Keesha is adamant about shifting this paradigm of blaming ourselves for developing an autoimmune disease. Yes, our brains may be the cause but we were never in control of how our brains are wired as a result of our childhood experiences. That’s biological. Blaming and shaming is not going to fix the problem. Instead, she believes that we need to face these old traumas. Ayurvedic medicine says that autoimmune is undigested anger and so, we need to digest our anger, emotions, feelings, memories and experiences from our past. This often requires some professional help.    Can Autoimmune Be Cured? Dr. Keesha is an example of how dealing with old emotional wiring can change your physical health. She had rheumatoid arthritis and was able to reverse it through counselling and adjusting her diet. Remember, it’s a holistic approach. It’s not just the mind but the body too. She says that dealing with autoimmune is like taking the hero’s journey. Once you acknowledge the challenge, you need to find a mentor to help you develop the skills that will help rewire your brain and response to emotional triggers. You’ll also want to work with a holistic nutritionist and or a function medicine doctor. Dr. Keesha also shares her top three tips for anyone dealing with autoimmune in the podcast.    Mystery Solved This holistic approach worked for Camille. First I introduced her to technique called T.R.E. which stands for Trauma Release Exercise (more on this in an upcoming episode!). Next, I worked with her on her diet to balance her immune system and lower her inflammation. She also worked with a reputable counsellor to deal with her emotional triggers (which were not related to any big T traumas and she had no idea were the source of her physical issues).  Within 6 months, her ANA results were negative and she no longer presented with autoimmune issues.    Eliminating Health Mysteries For Camille we were able to find those hidden missing pieces of her health puzzle and help her turn her day to day well being around. Could past traumas be the missing clue for you or someone in your life?    Links: Thanks to my guest Dr. Keesha Ewers. You can connect with her on her website here: https://www.drkeesha.com/ and through Facebook and Instagram. Dr. Keesha has is also offering you her Autoimmune Blueprint for free. Click here to grab it.    Suggested Products: Immune Mod A   Thanks for Listening If you like what you heard, please rate and review this podcast. Every piece of feedback not only helps me create better shows, it helps more people find this important information.   Never miss an episode - Subscribe NOW to Health Mysteries Solved on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or Google Podcasts. Find out more at http://healthmysteriessolved.com   Related Podcast Episodes: The Case of the Teacher Who Was Always Sick w/ Dr. Mario Martinez   PLEASE NOTE All information, content, and material on this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to serve as a substitute for the consultation, diagnosis, and/or medical treatment of a qualified physician or healthcare provider. 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On this week's edition of the Free Form Rock Podcast, we review Redbone's 1970 album “Potlatch”playing 3 songs from the album.  We start our episode with our newer artist spotlight featuring, "Angela“ by Spendtime Palace and "The Invisible" by Tytus. We play you out with “Trouble with a Capital T” by Horslips  and  "The Chauffeur" by Duran Duran (live). Please subscribe to our podcast  and be sure to give us a 5 star rating on iTunes. You can also follow us on Podbean! Until next week, take it easy and rock on! Links For Artist: http://www.redbone.be/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EH2GSCK?pf_rd_p=f3acc539-5d5f-49a3-89ea-768a917d5900&pf_rd_r=EXVSPFYYPD5G8CVA0J2T

THAT is the rich topic we dialogue on in this little, BIG wisdom drop. We believe this is Truth with a Capital T. And, we are sure that growing into this truth takes our time and presence. In a world where we are conditioned to look outside for answers or validation again and again, this commitment to time and presence to self and stillness is the path. [Find more about Julie and Sylvia via http://julielarkin.com/ and http://sylviasalcedo.com/]

Pentru ca satisfacția clientului să fie maximă, obiectivele unei afaceri trebuie să fie excelența și originalitatea. Explorăm aceste caracteristici alături de Andrei Ștefan, fondatorul Capital T, firmă de imprimat tricouri.

In dieser Podcast-Episode hören sich Kevin, Kira und Alexios das neue Album „Berlin lebt“ von Capital Bra an. Nach den bisherigen Single-Releases “Neymar“, „5 Songs in einer Nacht”, „Berlin lebt“ und „One Night Stand” präsentiert der Berliner nun sein viertes Album in zwei Jahren. Die vier Singles hätten erfolgreicher nicht einsteigen können, denn alle sind auf der Platz Eins der Charts eingestiegen. Ob die drei aus der BACKSPIN-Redaktion die 15 Tracks von Capital Bra feiern können, wer neben Capital Bras Rap-Wucht untergeht und ob Capital Bra auch auf Albumlänge überzeugen kann, könnt Ihr im brandneuen BACKSPIN Podcast herausfinden.

Nicholas Snow welcomes Veteran Entertainment Executive Jim Beatty, who turned his attention toward the growing crystal meth problem in his hometown of West Hollywood and other cities. His organization has produced a dance number titled “Don’t PNP with Tina.”  The track is performed by the WeHo parTy boys, a new all-male burlesque revue he co-conceived and created with casting director Laura Willoughby.  The troupe, comprised of WeHo’s hottest and most talented dancers, had its debut Valentine’s Day at Rage Nightclub in West Hollywood.“The CAPITAL ‘T’ in WeHo parTy boys is there for a reason,” he says.  “It serves as a reminder and a warning.”PromoHomo.TV is presented with the support of Desert AIDS Project, Lulu California Bistro, and EIGHT4NINE Restaurant and Lounge, and is a very proud media sponsor many more organizations and causes.  For more info, visit www.PromoHomo.TV and click on the Advertisers link.

Nicholas Snow welcomes Veteran Entertainment Executive Jim Beatty, who turned his attention toward the growing crystal meth problem in his hometown of West Hollywood and other cities. His organization has produced a dance number titled “Don’t PNP with Tina.”  The track is performed by the WeHo parTy boys, a new all-male burlesque revue he co-conceived and created with casting director Laura Willoughby.  The troupe, comprised of WeHo’s hottest and most talented dancers, had its debut Valentine’s Day at Rage Nightclub in West Hollywood.“The CAPITAL ‘T’ in WeHo parTy boys is there for a reason,” he says.  “It serves as a reminder and a warning.”PromoHomo.TV is presented with the support of Desert AIDS Project, Lulu California Bistro, and EIGHT4NINE Restaurant and Lounge, and is a very proud media sponsor many more organizations and causes.  For more info, visit www.PromoHomo.TV and click on the Advertisers link.

In this episode we're continuing to learn about discernment with Colette Chase and will go over two helpful exercises to hone our skills. Topics:  Upcoming Workshops and Recap of Discernment [00:00:44] Alignment Exercise - Ground-Source-Center-Sphere [00:02:36] Find Present Time [00:13:29]  What are the Scales and how do we learn how to discern with them? [00:16:30] True with a Capital T or small t [00:19:44] The Numbers and The Different Scales [00:27:04] Discernment Exercise – Scale [00:37:33] Just because you know an answer doesn’t mean you should go say it [00:55:39]  Links and Show Notes: Psychic Awareness & Opening March 12-13, 2016 Profound personal healing sessions with Colette Submit questions here or use #FIKApodcast on social media. Find your guest, Colette Chase, at Facebook.com/DivineWingMinistries, Twitter @ChaseinGrace, and via email at crchase7@gmail.com. Find your host, Erica Eriksdotter, at https://www.StudioEriksdotter.com,http://www.instagram.com, https://www.twitter.com/eeriksdotter You can find this podcast on iTunes and on Stitcher - be sure to subscribe! Thanks for listening!

Ready to Get Lifted? Tracklist 1. Bucie - Not Fade 2. Mangesto ft. Ashya - Slow 3. Rowick Deep - Deeper Than The Ocean 4. Capital T ft. Taymah (Dario M's Beachside Mix) - Perfect Love 5. Jkriv ft. Adeline Michelle (Ethan's Quiet Moments Mix) - Another Night 6. Shirley Jones & Jean Carne (Sean McCabe's Remix) - Whatever It Takes 7. Matthew Bandy ft. Josh Milan - Wish 8. Afronaught & AphroDisiax ft. S - Held Onto Me 9. Distant People ft. Chappell (Tikki Tembo Vocal Remix) - Blows You Away 10. KlevaKeys ft. Julie Iwheta (Booker T) - Stay 11. Imaani Brown - Mama Used To Say https://ladyduracellqueenoffunk.podomatic.com http://www.ladyduracell.com https://www.wegetlifted.com http://www.facebook.com/LadyDuracellDJ http://www.facebook.com/groups/ladyduracell http://twitter.com/LadyDuracell Get Lifted Clothing: http://www.JackFresh.com

This is show #35, National Women in Blues Festival Preview Podcast for the middle part of October, 2007.   We start off this preview podcast with playing Let the Blues Move You and Trouble with a Capital T. Who else are we gonna hear from on this Friday night preview show? Well, how about with Red Hot Mammas and Cool DaddyOs, Snuggle Up, and Wild Thing a.k.a. Mary's Blues! Following Sandy will be , with Moonshine, and Ba Loo Lah Blues. Then we'll hear from with Old Love, and Faces of the Blues. We'll hear a little more from Lara with playing It's Alright! We'll wrap up our podcast with our Friday night headliner with Somewhere in Atlanta, and Blues and Greens. What a lineup! Have iTunes and want to easily subscribe? Keep the Blues Alive and Keep the Blues in the Blood! Dave