It's a light on consciousness even while awake and so what Aaron's talking about and what you and I are obsessed with is continually just raising that as you get older and we see it because of a lot of people who were. Let's say they hit their forties or fifties by the time that they had been in that grind of working a very repetitive job and bickering with their loved ones.
Fighting with their family and, and playing the victim card and all that kind of stuff in that, in those lower states of consciousness, by the time they're 40 or 50, there are often times have just had their face kicked into the dirt by the boot of life and they've lost that childlike joy.
That playfulness, their creativity. And what we think is that as you get older, you want actually to magnify that. You want to be more playful, more joyful, more alert, more alive, smarter, more capable, more competent, have more energy to do the things that you want to do. And that's a beautiful thing and that's why we're so passionate about sharing this type of work.
Julian's done this within the framework of releasing trauma and getting people to do energetic releases of things that have classed onto them or trauma energy and letting it out and a focus that I've had along with really being on board with that in loving what he's doing there is even just in my regular daily life, getting out and socializing with people, laughing with people, getting you know, taking in influences that are positive and uplifting.
Anything in my experience that it sorts of gives us like the light level of discomfort, but it forces you to align to the presence and it gets really addictive. Once you know what presence feels like or what it feels like to be in what we would call a higher state of consciousness.
I want to spread this out because you feel a different type of energy and you want to share it with others. Then funny enough, the more that you share with others, the more that you move up to. It's kind of a crazy thing. That's something that I've done through a lot of socializing and laughter and my favorite thing to do is like Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday, it just goes out to someplace where there are lots of people just talk to everybody there, crack jokes with everybody, make everybody have so much fun and you know, Julian's done that for years
Watching you now getting teaching live and I'm just saying what you're doing. I'm going to say it here first. I want to be the first. I think you're going to crush it. I think you are going to Arusha. Let's set it for us here. Okay, my little life. Look, the biggest quality that I see that people that shove them into a low vibration state are they do what I would call it. They major in minor things, so like life is so beautiful. There's so much to life. There's if you ever actually just truly look into the eyes of another person or you know you're just petting your dog or your walking in nature or you're even walking.
I mean heck, even just like a, a manmade strip mall. There can be incredible beauty, obviously some more than others, but you know there can be truly incredible beauty in anything that you look at it. You can just look at a simple apple and if you just really look at it like I would say if you're watching right now, try just looking at the palm of your hand for a minute and looking at the finest little details in it. Or if I look at the railing here really, really closely, or take a breath, just take a deep breath and notice how it feels. Life is such a miracle.
We live in a society where you can, you have websites you can go to just travel the entire world. We have education available online to make an incredible amount of money. We have an understanding of health where even though there's still a lot of controversies around which held approaches work, there's a lot of incredible information about health, wealth building, raising your consciousness, raising your vibration.
There is so much that we can do. There's so much potential to life and what we tend to do in a lower vibration state as we made sure minor things. Oh, Janet bothered me at work. Oh, she didn't respect me. That guy cut me off in traffic. I'm a victim. And why is it that an in spiritual work, being a victim is one of the big topics versus say gratitude. Well, as you raise your vibration, you go from being a victim to gratitude.
One thing that we found was really helpful to say, speaking with somebody who might be homeless and seeing struggle that they have, and oftentimes if you want to understand low vibration thinking, if you speak to a homeless person who feels very victimized, you can see that a state of consciousness is now manifesting it.
Pettiness is one of the great enemies of a truly great life. Whereas imagine what your life would look like if instead of spending your time on anything petty at all, you put 90 percent of your time on it.
Just laughing, having fun, enjoying your moment to moment experience, and then from there using that to open yourself up and working towards your highest goals, working towards learning, working towards contribution, and if you didn't just talk about this or theoretically sort of say that sounds great, but really do it starting now and think of what your life would look like.
And once they're on this journey, it can. It can feel sometimes isolating because you're seeing people, you're in your little track and you become who you hang out with.
But I know that something Jew and I talk about why we were kind of curious your take on that and how you feel inside. The way that I view it is most people are just going down what they're thinking of is they're completely in the autopilot mind. They're thinking thoughts. They've always thought, you know, there's that Dr. Joe Dispenza’s type of thing where he always says or did they say for neuroscience on average, we think 60 to 70,000 thoughts a day and of those 90 percent of cycles in the day before. We're consistently going to work the same.
Every day we're talking to the same people having similar type conversations. We're getting up on the same side of the bed, we're doing all the repetitive stuff over and over and over again. And that's triggering the same emotions which are triggering the same actions which are triggering the same everything.
Most people are sad but true. A lot of people are in deep hypnosis of society, and they are attached to the thinking of the thoughts that they're thinking. That's why if you look at the chart of consciousness, maybe I'll put the chart right here just to show and I know if you've been watching my channel, you've seen it many times.
You'll notice that you see shame, fear, guilt. Eventually, you get up to a spot of neutrality. In neutrality, that's where you learn how to observe your thoughts, where you learn to detach from those, and when you detach from them, you start to identify yourself a little bit differently.
When you identify yourself a little bit differently, you may find that the people that you've related to for your whole entire life, all the sudden you don't relate to them in the same way and your closest family too, and the people you lapped too, and they I that experience with my own family.
When I went through my what is called a spiritual awakening, which is where I learned how to observe my thoughts. I realized I didn't have to let the idea of ADHD holding me back and he did more because that's what doctors told me I had because I have so much energy. You can fix it with Meditech.
Exactly small doses of pharmaceutical every single day and that's why I took that. I took that. I worked at. I took, I took Adderall and I worked at Barneys. I worked at. Do you know what she's done? I got a lot done. I worked at Nordstrom's and I was selling a woman's shoes. I would take one, I would go into work and I would sell so much and then I would go home at the end of the day and my energy was just.
I couldn't sleep well at night because the side effects of it or you don't sleep very much and I could eat a lot, so I was trying to gain weight and I couldn't eat a lot. Having that hard side effects and man there's going to be something else. That's when I came across the research on meditation and I, at first, I thought it was kind of woo.
I was like, Oh, what is this? I had all these ideas of mantras and I was like, I don't know if I resonate with this. What I realized though is okay, I'm looking like what Adderall does, it increases dopamine, right? And what I found out is that meditation makes you as well decreased the amount of cortisol, which is the stress hormone and increase the amount of Serotonin and dopamine.
I started to learn it and then my whole life changed because I started to see myself differently. I started to dis-identified from my past and I had like growing up and stuff. I had an abusive ex-stepmom and stuff like that. I went through a lot of pain between the ages of seven to 15.
And then I carried that even after 15 years old and my dad divorced her, I still carry that guilt. I still carry that. I didn't feel like I was enough and I know that's something you talk a lot about. I didn't feel like I was worthy. I didn't feel enough. And because of that I was going around and looking for it in many different ways. I would drink, I would smoke, I would do all of these things.
And then when I learned meditation I realized I no longer had to identify with the thoughts that I was having and I realized I didn't have to even I became aware of the definitions I had. I realized my definitions were creating my reality, so I believed I had ADHD. I bought into that premise, so therefore victim a victim mentality. Exactly. There's something wrong with me.
Resistance, and then I became aware of that label. I said, well, you know what? I'm going to reframe this. I just have a load of energy. What I'm going to do is I'm going to ground that by meditating and walking on grass barefoot or something like that. That's what I did and when I did that, it changed my whole entire life.
When you're doing what you're passionate about, it feels really good when you are attached to the negative thinking, you don't feel so good. The key is not to pile on some new idea, it's not to get some new type of cool theory that's going to change everything. It's more so letting go of that no longer serves.
Knowing that the natural high vibrational state of consciousness of love, that's why people that are what we call it, enlightened anyways, like a show or whatever they've said before, that enlightenment is more of a realization than anything else because it's not something that you attain people seeking a lightened. It means that don't currently have it, when at a vibrational level that's really who we are.
Just living in reaction and people can't snap out of it because you're just constantly following this chain. It's like effect, effect, effect. You're always at the effect. There's that famous saying, you know, if you don't have a plan for yourself, someone else will that reactive say thing that's running you that has a plan for you, and then going even deeper.
What is that reactive thing? It's been stuck and say a lower consciousness state of being, I'm reacting from past trauma. Whatever is running you and no one addresses that, you know, we just always run from it and even our solutions, we try to find these surface layer solutions which are still an escape and this is tying into where you were saying also about letting go. Letting go is so key because say the traditional approach, you might realize, “Okay, I'm reactive. I don't feel good enough.”
I'm in a lower state of consciousness. What can I do to go from here to up here and it doesn't work that way because even from you're trying to go from down here to up here, you're doing it in reaction to this, like say I want to be confident. You'll never actually be confident because it's in response to you not being confident to begin with. I want to be happy in reaction to you.
It keeps it alive. I want to be enough. Keeps the fact that you're not enough alive and that's why the goal is and how do I get from up down here to up here. It's how do I realize I'm up here? What are the lies I bought into that are holding me there? And then letting go of all that, you realize more and more that you're already there and funny enough the more you move up and it's something to reflect on too.
It's like you can't become enough. You can't because it means you're not enough, to begin with. You can only start by being enough and then the journey becomes identifying those, those things that are telling you're not enough and letting them go and that takes you down this whole other journey where you can look at some surface things like, “Okay, I guess I believe this. Let's release the charge around it.”
But then it's like, what are some past experiences that I haven't validated that I haven't integrated yet? Past trauma, for example, different core beliefs. And you've got to really venture down. Like it all starts with awareness in your life, but even in your own mind, like venture down in your shadow, you know, I'm sure you're familiar with shadow work if not look that up. That’s the thing that really changed my life in ways.
I mean, I couldn't even imagine it was like, wow, it's not about adding more or optimizing, which is the traditional self-help route. Doesn't mean there's anything wrong with that. By the way. One of my, the things I say all the time is, it's not the thing, but the place it's coming from, like to make money, go be successful, but don't do it.
It's looking at different patterns in your life. Everything's awareness. One practice that I love to in terms of bringing stuff up is I'm doing a death meditation. I don't know if you've ever done that where it's like you literally sink into the perspective of, I just died right now.
Letting go will change your life in ways you cannot imagine. And don't be afraid of bringing your awareness to dark things. You know, without the law of attraction, which I completely believe in, but there's like this belief where it's like almost always be positive, always be positive and yeah, and it's like, okay, well that's true, but if you're forcing yourself to be positive, that means you're not positive. There's still something that's there, understand that.
We all have all these thoughts. Like in the background, it's like you're not good enough. You sucked into it. It's like you got to become aware of it first to process it. Don't try to avoid it. The crazy thing is that a lot of those things in their subconscious mind between the ages of being born up until about the ages of eight to 10 years old, you're in primarily a theta state, which means that everything in your environment, you're a sponge soaking up information, and it could have been as something as small as your mom saying something to you.
The key is always awareness. It's asking yourself this simple question, what would I have to believe is true to be experiencing this? Because here's the thing, emotions come from beliefs. Unless we have a belief about something to be true, we won't have an emotion.
For example, if it's a rainy day, rainy days, a neutral idea, it depends upon my interpretation of a rainy day. What I believe, what I believed that means as to the kind of effect that I get out of it, so if I give it a positive meaning that I've experienced a positive emotion, but the idea itself is neutral.
The key to all of this stuff is when you start to ask yourself the question, what would I have to believe is true to be experiencing this? You can then start asking your brain what memory in my past may have attributed to this belief, to this pattern, to this belief that I'm not worthy? Your brain will then look for the answers.
The brain will start to find. The answer is maybe it takes you a day or two. Maybe you're walking the next day after your kind of frustrated, you can't remember what that is and all of a sudden, you're at the grocery store and you remember, wait, there was something that happened. I think I was my parents were going through a divorce at four years old and I have this memory of something happening and you become aware of it.
Here's the cool thing about this whole process. It is just as simple as becoming aware of whatever that belief is or whatever you have to let go of is. It doesn't have to be more complicated. A lot of times people are like, oh, it can't be that simple. I just become aware of the limiting belief or I just become aware of what I need to let go of and then it solved.
It can be that simple because the moment you are in the awareness of it, you see that maybe for 20 years you've been acting like a six-year-old. You've been responding the same way that you did when you were six years old and you're responding like that now that you're 26 years old went out of the awareness without the awareness that that was something that happened when you were, but you're playing that pattern over and over and over again.
The key is just becoming aware of it. Because in the moment of awareness, you realize that it doesn't relate anymore. It served you for a period of time of what we were talking about, the unconsciousness on being not aware of it, and then because you're not aware of it, linking up to the social conditioning of what everyone else is doing or just going on autopilot. The key is to be aware of it because in the awareness is where you gain your power back.
We don't see a need to impose that on people because maybe someone's not ready, but it's really amazing what you can do with a group of people that are ready and see them go through that process or even in, you know, online academies, you guys have your academies and creating that environment online is even really amazing.
I mean I've just seen online groups that are so positive and people could just look forward to getting home and being part of it and raising themselves up and then getting into a higher a set of results, which then, of course, they have more good to share it. I just, I love upward spirals and I love combining that with things like nutrition, herbs, lifestyle choices.
The other one though, which is so big, and I know that as teachers yourselves, both you guys have experienced this, is things just get easier. It is a state of higher vibration. There's an, there's an ease to it. People, people in the lower vibrations that I know because I've been there at. I couldn't go there so now. What happens is, you know when you fall off the wagon, that's like our equivalent, like right? It's like you when you go back into a low vibration state, things are just difficult.
You've been triggered. When you're talking to someone, a little vibration state, they're like, but this person said this and this is happening, and they're looping on negativity and it just seems difficult. You'll see it even when you're teaching in a room where all of a sudden it just becomes easier.
And if you look someone in the eye, you say, thinking about your biggest problems right now, do you think you can solve them? And they're like, yes. Oh my God, of course, I can. But in a lower vibration state, it just seems like you're climbing up a mountain. I've even seen this and say public speaking, I share that because both of you have speakers.
I remember when I was younger I would add. I have all this on videotape too, which is so crazy, right? YouTube and all the stuff. I remember doing this, doing a talk might be so difficult and I would be nervous in front of the camera and let's say that I was tired. You're way past her bedtime. He goes to bed early. I go to bed late. Say you're tired. Right? And I would be like, I can't do this.
Well, I'm tired. I remember one time I was in New York, I had an about a 400-person audience waiting there the next day, including a couple of celebrities and I was saying to our friend Mike's House and there was construction outside the front of his apartment in New York.
I slept about an hour and you know, I'm a younger guy and I'm walking in there and one hour sleep with all these people expected and I'm just miserable thinking how am I going to do this? Or there's been times where I've spent a lot of time and money maybe to travel maybe earlier in my career when I wasn't in as much financial abundance.
I'm spending my last dollar to go to Phoenix, Arizona to shoot a certain type of video and it's just not panning out in the cameras on me. It is hard. And I'm thinking about how broke I am or you don't have in front of the big seminar.
What I found as I got older was that those talks where I kind of rose above it and did my very best. Even from just a relaxed mindset, I feel like I can communicate more power and more ease with minimal effort.
Things just become easier. And this is what, this has really become my obsession. These two things. One is the majoring in minor things and just watching myself, but you know, observing in myself when I'm just getting obsessed over things that are irrelevant instead of like the 10 things that if you actually focus on your life would be amazing.
And putting more and more time on that, putting more and more time onto experiencing joy and the most common of situations, getting myself to start laughing, not letting the energy just die down, but enjoying each moment and valuing, treasuring it.
One realization that I had, and this was a really weird realization, as I was watching that game. One Lebron James almost single-handedly beat the best team. The warriors. What was his name? Who's The guy? It was Jr Smith. Right? What happens is he almost when's the game? And then wait, which is just like a miracle to just to watch us. If you know what you're watching, you can see it on a spiritual level. You're seeing a whole other level to this.
A lot of people are surprised. I'm a sports fan and they don't understand what I'm getting out of it. I'm not like doing, as Jerry Seinfeld says, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not. I'm not like, Hey, you know, it's not like that. It's maybe a little, but for the most part, it's, you know, it's, it's the um, it's what I'm really seeing. It could be incredible, right?
What I believe is that the universe puts w when we're on a mission to rise up, the universe will put these obstacles in front of us and we're either in spiritual growth. We say we go into the creator or the creation, what do we want to create or the creation, do we need that physical thing or do we move up into a high vibration state?
What are we attached to? Are we going to stay rooted in our high vibration state? Or we going to go into the physical. And typically, the fiscal is always moving. There's that duality. You see Lebron and he, he actually had this incredible series a couple of years ago, so he's in this one and he, he literally performed what to me looks like a miracle.
And you remember that game. It's like watching a miracle honestly. And then you see that he gets tested where Jr Smith does this ridiculous thing and he talked about a low and say this poor guy too, he's had a pretty tough life.
They talk about trauma, right? Basically, he thinks that they've won the game. He runs the bowl to half court and the game's tied. Lebron melts down, pouts freak out, they lose the game bad. And then afterward he goes and punches the wall, breaks his hand, plays the rest of the final with a broken hand. Talk about it because it's the only.
Give them an advantage revealed at the end. Right? I saw that and you know what I thought to myself when I watched this from like a practical perspective, want to give a good practical tip here. I thought I've seen myself do that. Like maybe I'll be shooting a video. It was so good. And then we lost the audio are we lost the shot? And I get, I get frustrated, I get attacked. It's like a pain.
What I actually had done to shift internally was to say, even if I contribute everything that I have in this lifetime, someday the world's going to end. Ultimately, it's still my responsibility to be joyful and present right now regardless of what's happening. Still, take the lesson from and try to not have it happen again.
Learn from it. Make a new process. Because otherwise, you're just, I think you call that a spiritual bypassing, right? Where you just like, I'll just be spiritual, not going to fix my audio or something like that. You still have to address it now going from there.
I think it's always a series of inquisition, what solutions have not resonated with and not even able to physically see what traumas have and I let go of yet what energetic phenomenon, you know, like pendulums and things like that am I not aware of yet and how and just living this general lifestyle. I truly believe the sky's the limit.
That's why we're so passionate about it. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I like what you said. I think that when it comes to what you did is when you first got triggered by everything that was happening when you lost the footage, it's almost like you transformed the energy just by allowing the energy to be there.
Because the prior pattern you had was that it was coming through and then you were resisting it because it shouldn't have been there and it was a constant reminder of the past experience, but it was the moment that it was looked at from a new perspective or it would not even look that from an EU perspective.
It was brought into presence. It was brought into being that things began to change. There's this triad of having, doing and being, and you'll see that certain people that get into more of a resistant type state where they're really, really trying. Anytime you have to really try.
You're creating a lot, a lot of resistance, so that trying comes from doing, but the key is when you shift into being. The other part I'll talk about for a sec is understanding our self-image because the part that may have also been in a way coming back at you was the old self-image. It was these barriers that we put in ourselves of our self-image for the way that we see herself, that the universe will sometimes give us a sign.
Give us something that happens that says, are you sure you have changed? Because it'll give you the old pattern. Think about everything we experience in our life is a mirror reflection of what we believe to be true. If we wait for the mere to change, we will wait forever, but the moment we allow the mirror to be different and we change ourselves is when everything changes.
The universe will give us this mirror reflection every now and then of who we were before. Because a lot of times there's a momentum to our self-image because there's a pattern that we've all been living for a long period of time. We continue to do experience it.
But the key is when we move from doing into being, when we're aware of it, and we make that choice to move forward because we understand we are shedding the old part of our self-image that no longer serves us, the self-image that scared a lot of times that's a self-image that likes familiar themes, so it's trying to keep us safe.
The self-image is trying to do and trying to keep us to survive. It's doing something good for us in the eyes of that ego, that part of ourselves. We have to innovate, nurture it, a note, no, it's there and then make the conscious choice to continue to push through it.
And when we do, we get to that high vibrational state and in my own life I've noticed that the more I have I guess become successful or really just been in the flow of what I do, the easier things become at the very beginning.
And then you could write it, and then you write it. Exactly. In reality, Trans Surfing, many of you have heard me talk about this thing called the wave of success. The wave of success is where you become aware of something that happens, you give it a positive meaning and you increase your state of being and then you experienced more of a reality that reflects that state of being and you keep writing that up.
The only time that'll knock you off the wave of success is if something happens and when something happens, you give it a negative meaning it bumps you off that wave because of the meaning you're giving it, but remember there is a reality where there's a positive that comes from it and a negative.
It depends upon your perspective because whatever perspective you're in will be the pattern recognition that you see in your life. The key to this is being aware of what those patterns are. Understand that self-image is trying to do its best to keep you safe, nurture it, allow it to be there, but then make the conscious choice that you're going to move through anyways and then shift from that of doing to being.
It may be a little bit of a process in the beginning when I started daily videos on YouTube, I had to do for the first like 30 videos until I became and I saw myself as somebody that creates daily content, someone that generates a lot of content, high-quality content. I started to embed, embellished that into my self-image.
Then it became natural because I have begun to become it and in that becoming of it, everything happens easier because it's a natural flow of who I am. And it's the way we're letting go of old layers. We're shedding the old way of being. We label things so fast, you know, and experience like saying hypothetically right now, the camera just died. Like we lost the video. Camera died immediately. I would just send to my mind, be like, no, the video's gone. It's over. And I would judge the experience and whenever that happens, because it's still occasionally done, I always remind myself, how do you know? How do you know it's bad?
You don't necessarily know why are you so quick to judge something that is bad is when reality doesn't conform to what you think is good for you, but how do you really know perhaps the camera dying and losing the video is the best thing that ever happened to you. Some common ones that you hear all the time is, you know, my relationship ended. This is horrible. How do you know? How often did a relationship end for you to be in the future with someone else?
And you're like, thank God it ended because I met this new person. Someone who's way better for you or a job, you get fired. You're like, this is so horrible. And then you find a job that you were meant to be in. This is so common. Reflect on those moments.
What happens every single time? Um, you're taking action and being. That's true. Yep. And next time something hits where you're like, oh, I can't believe this. How do you know? Even in terms of different emotions, you know, what causes a suffering is our resistance to it? Like, say you're anxious, how? Why is that bad? Like what keeps you anxious? It keeps you feeling bad.
Are you feeling bad about feeling bad and feeling bad about feeling bad, about feeling bad? If you're like, imagine all the videos you ever watched, it's like, hey, when you feel anxious, that's awesome and you are conditioned that way.
When anxiety kicks in, you're like, Oh yes, awesome. And it would actually be an enjoyable, pleasant feeling. Exactly. A lot of it's the labels bring awareness to the different labels. I love also you said about our identity. You got to identify like who are you? You know, what are your ceiling of success and all these different areas.
In what ways are you hoping? Are you being held back? For me, an identity I had for a long period of time was the self-destructive artists and it would always just keep pulling me back. I couldn't truly be successful or say healthy, so on and so forth because then it was no longer self-destructive. Identify that, nurture and embrace it by embracing it, you'll let go of it.
Then you'll expand beyond that. And the last point I'll say with the making things hard versus easy, his view this as an example, a lot of us have a certain ceiling of success when it comes to the people we deserve to be with or be around, whether it's romantically or in terms of friendships.
And you can catch yourself here. Your ceiling is where you start feeling stifled around that person. Say you go on a date and you're talking to someone and you're like, you know what? I'm kind of in the same league, or I'm actually outside their league.
You're going to feel very comfortable and things are just going to flow. You're not going to be stuck in your head is going to be very easy. As soon as you're with someone who you believe is outside of your league based on, again, conditioning, core beliefs, your identity, so on and so forth. Suddenly you're going to freeze and you're going to start allies like, oh, they're outside of my league and things are going to be very, very hard.
We're like, okay, they're out of my league. What can I say? Let me think of the perfect thing to say. And things just become very, very hard. And that's a lot of the patterns that people are stuck in. In today's world. I used to be like that.
There are still some cases where I am where it's like we're always fighting against the same with like self-sabotage instead of identifying self-sabotage and letting go of the sources is not have it.
We have it and we just keep finding techniques and ways to fight against it. And everything is heavy. Instead of doing that, identify the cause, let go of it. You shouldn't be stifled, you shouldn't have self-sabotage. It should be easy.