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See you again.

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See you again.

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Long time no see.

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Right.

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Oh, beautiful flowers back there are those Valentine's Day or just because just because.

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Which are the best guy.

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Yesterday. So, but they're really pretty.

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So we went we went shopping yesterday and, and he asked me, he'd gotten me some flowers the last time we went shopping, and so we were we were walking by the same section of the store.

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And he looked at me and he said, Do you still have flowers and I said yeah yeah mine are so good. It's like, Okay, so he walks over the section.

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More.

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It's great because the other bouquet was this, you know, how did she just have to call them over time you know that you know, as they die off you know so it's it's a much smaller bouquet than it used to be and I had to like, then of course you're

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cutting it up so it has to go in a smaller and smaller base.

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So the little ones over there and so here's the here's the big one.

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You got different bases, you got to take me.

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You what, I'm just like what mine I just like wait for them to just be like me.

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And just like okay.

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That's great.

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I used to work for a florist, and so I learned different things like, well, you know, if the leaves are in the water it poisons the water so always make sure that when you put your, your flowers in that you strip all of the leaves that are going to be below

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So it didn't poison the water, you know, so in other words your, your flowers last longer and then obviously you know every few days you you re you re add water and then just cut off this the stems, and you know by at least an inch do it an angle you know and all that stuff.

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So eventually at some point there's so few flowers that are it and then you pull out the flowers that are bad.

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So that they don't so that they don't poison the rest of the flowers, because, you know, you want the ones that are doing good and healthy to stay.

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So it's just little things like that that I'm that I'm just kind of like following is like okay how can I make them last as long as possible like okay we'll just keep the keep just call out the bad ones, you know, so that the good ones will keep looking good so in sometimes they'll stay for two weeks.

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Yeah, I mean we're just talking about like it like sometimes don't get used to flowers from the grocery store and they'll you can sometimes they'll last like at least two weeks.

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So, I know, just because you're just kind of watching them and whatever.

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i'm a very low maintenance person, but I do like flowers so it's just there's a balance, you know, and like like I said i'm very low maintenance person, but I like I like a clean and orderly home.

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So I just create balance like it's like okay well I like it clean and orderly but now let's not go overboard, because then that's no longer low maintenance so.

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figure out where all my priorities are anyway hey Diana.

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you're in your chair.

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How are y'all doing yes i'm in my chair.

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I like seeing you there.

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By the is that a fireplace that's in your bedroom.

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No, it's a it's the the owner just put it like a review could see it's just like a piece of it just goes all the way up it's it's on part of the wall, or it was there and she just left it there payment it just like a corner yeah yeah.

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I like it because it's an old building right.

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yeah it's like 100 years old this this building and she remodeled it she restored it and what I love is she left a lot of the original hardware and windows, like the windows are just if you can see.

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You can see these windows, but did it go up.

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Did it go up.

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Like, do you see the windows. Oh wow they're very tall. Yeah, they're like the original windows. Oh, nice. Yeah, so she tried to to keep it all, which they say it's more expensive to maintain or to try to restore than to put on you.

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Really, I didn't know that.

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Yeah, because you want to keep the, the original.

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Yeah, like the hardware on my the bathroom door, that one looks, I've haven't seen it's like those big old.

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You know, it's like a big old big old lock. Yeah, big glass knob. Yeah, yeah.

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Cool.

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Yeah, she's, she's really her and her husband they're they're older, they're lawyers.

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Immigration lawyers both her and her husband, and this building they just have it as a kind of like an investment. Okay.

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Yeah, well I'm glad that they did a good job with it and cared about it and stuff. So, it's nice to keep.

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Like what we were talking about, you know, it's good to have a balance with everything, but it's nice to have a, it's nice to have people that have a heart for keeping things are restoring the old things.

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So that we can keep using them. Me I'm a very very big fan of using history, not putting it behind glass.

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So, now I mean, you need to do that with some things but I love how in Europe they they all still live in those old houses. They just keep them up you know and I just love it.

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I'm like oh my word this thing is like older than America and you live here.

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Yes, well this this neighborhood is like, like the first historical district like in Texas. This area I don't know if you've heard about it's called the King William district.

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It has like, like 25 blocks of historic like houses. Okay, and you can walk around and just be like, you know, because some people have done such a great job in.

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Wow.

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This is what is so interesting what I love to talk about this area is because this started at the end of 1800s, like 1870s, 1870s, and then to the early 1900s, but the people that built here originally, they were immigrants all mostly all immigrants.

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And so the houses are huge. And there were first time wealth builders, because they made their, they made their money by like steel and cotton. And so the history of it is like they didn't have any money they were like, they were all immigrants and I love that

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story because it's so like the American dream, you know, exactly. That's cool. That's really great. Oh nice.

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Hi Karen.

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Just the four of us tonight.

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Hey, so for me it always feels weird when it's just us on because I'm like, but the rest intensive is bigger than, you know, people in Norway, you know, it's like two in the morning, can't blame them.

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But anyway, it always feels weird.

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People are missing and then like, no, they're not. I mean Rita is tonight but you know, it's so usually feels like a small group.

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What did I just miss.

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Diana was telling us about the, the historic district that she lives in is the oldest historic district in Texas, and was started by wealthy immigrants who were making meaning like they were immigrants who were who were who were new money.

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They were making their money in like cotton, steel, etc. And so she was saying that one of the really cool things about the about the history of her particular area is the fact that it was like founded on the quintessential American dream.

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You know, so in the last.

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Very cool.

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Yeah, well I'm all chill tonight here I just got done hurrying up with dishes and things so I could get here and jump on I was doing that to you.

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I was finishing my dishes. Yeah.

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Are those real roses behind you. They are so I got him for me yesterday. So, beautiful. Thank you. Yeah, he always spoils me with flowers, just because.

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That's time.

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I like that.

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You know what I do, but I buy myself flowers, a lot. Oh, that's great.

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Yep, I just take care of. Yep.

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Because I love.

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Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, and I would imagine you would because you've got all of those, you know, I've noticed that you've got house plants and stuff too. So, like, I know I was kind of drooling over the plants as we walked out of the store the other day.

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And totally separate from the, from the flower thing we were, we were leaving and I was like, Oh, I just bought a little pot to put my okay we're totally getting started.

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sidetracked here, but I got a little basil plant.

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I'm so excited because it smells amazing.

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That's why I like these in my kitchen because they smell amazing.

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And then just whenever you want, you just, you just tear it off.

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Basil's so expensive at the store.

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Oh my word.

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It's ridiculous.

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So I got this at Walmart, so it's very cheap.

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And then I got, I went to the, um, I went to the, uh, the, the outside

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hardware part of it and got that pot for like less than $5.

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I was like, steal.

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So I just got that yesterday.

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So anyway, I was very much, you know, now that we're here and, and where it is

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that we are, I was like, you know, I want some, I've got it, we've got a balcony.

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It's like a, it's almost like a large deck, but it's, it's, it's on the second floor.

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So anyway, and so there's room for, um, plants and then the previous lady who

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lived here, which is my best friend's mom, she's a big gardener and she left

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all of her pots and plants, all of her pots here, so I've got all of this stuff

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to play with and remember that this is the old apartment I used to live in

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when I started the rest intensive.

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So my old window boxes that I left her mom, they're still here.

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So I could use those and put them on the railing too.

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She loved him because they moved into an assisted living home.

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So, um, so anyway, she, she didn't have any place for all of these pots anymore.

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So, but anyway, so down to the task at hand.

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So does anyone, um, have any questions or how have things been going?

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Um, I've loved that.

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I've gotten to talk to some of y'all and past, uh, a couple of days.

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So, um, and, uh, I'll send out a reminder to everyone to, um, sign up for

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the first transformation session.

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The last day is tomorrow.

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Cause I had like all the weekend open, you know, and then also tomorrow.

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So hopefully people that are, um, still, uh, would like, um, a transformation

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session, I'll have some time, um, that it's convenient tomorrow during my open

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times and, um, yeah, and then the only day you have.

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Yeah, because remember I sent that message on Friday that I had Saturday,

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Sunday and Monday open.

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So those three days, sorry, I was super busy at work and I

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haven't even read your message.

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So if you want to check tomorrow, see if you can grab a good time.

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Okay.

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And I'm kind of busy tomorrow, so hopefully it'll work.

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Oh yeah.

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I'll look at your times.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Yeah.

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And what else I can say?

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Oh yeah.

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And then the second transformation session, we're not going to schedule

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until after the, the, um, program is over, meaning like we might schedule,

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I might open my calendar before then.

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But the point is like, it'll get, it'll allow the program basically to be

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extended a week for y'all, because I mean, it's not really extending it a

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week, but my point is that it's as if it did, because you'll be able to, um,

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uh, we'll be able to like connect kind of like a, almost like a fireside chat

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only it's like private, and then you'll just be able to, um, uh, asking

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questions that maybe has come up or whatever, because sometimes that's

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what people, what happens is, is all of a sudden when the program closes,

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like, oh my word, but, but life still goes on and now I have all these

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questions, so it gives people an opportunity to have things that come

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up to be able to ask or whatever.

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In fact, I even had a lot, I had a, um, a lady, um, from one of my past

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rest and intensives reach out and talking about, when am I going to do

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the next one?

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Because she wants to join because she's like, you know, I'm just finding

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that, you know, just going through life.

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I'd like to have the rest intensive support community and teachings to

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just kind of walk with me through this season that I'm going through.

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Um, and, um, so anyway, just kind of like to help to re anchor and, and all of

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that, so I'm working on the next thing that I'm going to do, I still haven't

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fully structured what it is, but I'm, I'm coming up with a structure and

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it's very, very, very different from anything I've done, and I'm very

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excited about it, very, very, very excited.

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So anyway, it's not finalized yet because I'm still working on my internet.

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So I'm like, I can't promise something I can't deliver yet.

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So I'm waiting until I check on my internet next tomorrow.

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That's where the hotspots, this, um, this to help me solidify what it is that I'm

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going to offer for the next rest intensive and whatever.

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So I'm not sure, but it might be more compact than, than I've been doing.

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I've been doing six weeks at a time and this one might be three.

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I might just, it might be, um, like, uh, making it more.

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What would you say just, I don't know, just more, I don't want to say intense like it's scary intense, but it's just more packed in a smaller amount of time.

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And i've got a few i've got some some additional support things that I think people are going to really like so anyway i'm excited about kind of planning all of that.

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And so y'all are the first to know that it looks like they're i'm going to have a journal that i'm creating and that i'm going to provide to everyone.

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To be able to kind of like help support them in their journey and that they cannot fill out and stuff and it's because some people are finding that very, very helpful and what else I don't know might have like a text group.

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um where it, it is not it's not on Facebook messenger it's like actual text the phone, but people don't have each other's phone numbers or anything, but it provides a bit of like connection and continuity.

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To kind of like help people feel a bit more to kind of create a bit more of an immersive environment so.

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Things like that, but I think will help support in a more concise amount of time, because I know that, for some people, six weeks sounds like a really big commitment, especially when they hear that it's meeting three times a week.

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So I thought well, maybe we can make it, maybe a bit shorter, but.

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Maybe that'll appeal to certain people in certain schedules so so, since I have given y'all all kinds of time to think.

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Any questions.

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or thoughts or.

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Anything you know that's been coming up have y'all watched some of the new things that I posted like say, for instance, you know the the ultimate choice or.

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If you don't want to you know for when you don't want to spend time with God I posted that and and i'm also going to be posting.

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A couple of videos when I can upload a couple of videos on how to make friends and rest because i've been asked about that.

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So I did a couple of videos, maybe two years ago, when I was asked that by more than one person at a time at at the same time, and it was just on people's hearts and so i'm going to be posting that.

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And I had think at the time I had I had one person struggling to make friends just because.

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She I don't know I think she had a lot of fears and then I had someone else who was trying to make friends, but couldn't seem to connect.

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You know, so she was she one person was struggling to make the effort and then the if i'm remembering all this correctly, and then the other person was real was making the effort.

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But couldn't seem to connect, and so they were wondering, and it was causing a lot of and then relationships that they currently had in their life like friendships and whatever.

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All of this was causing them a lot of strife a lot of stress because they're like well, how do I, how do I find friends and then, how do I.

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How do I make them and how can that be how can it be effortless without it being so hard, you know with that, and so I did I did a couple of little.

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couple little videos basically a part one and a part two so i'll be posting that but and have those additional things that i've done have those been helpful.

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Oh, and another one did y'all see the one that I posted called rest shifting tools there y'all see that.

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Okay, so that one for those of you haven't seen it, you can get it under the rest retreat and supportive teachings and also it's in the it's in the discussion wall, so if you scroll down it's like.

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it's like just a few posts down and if you click on it and open up it actually is a write up where I walk people.

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And through the rest shifting tools so you have the teaching on it, so I recommend that you go through and just read this article that I wrote up about you know listing all of the different things like.

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You know, no shame and no condemnation and stop and no judgment and whatever because I I kind of phrase it in in some ways that maybe I didn't in the video and and people have said that they found it very helpful, I very much like the part at the end.

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Where I talked about the fact that Jesus all to always remember when we're going through this and we're trying to shift into rest for always remember that Jesus had the victory.

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Jesus is already gone through it and Jesus knows the struggle that you're going through when you're trying to shift into rest, he knows the pain.

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He knows the suffering he experienced it and he overcame so if he could overcome if he could prove that in.

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his humanity, not his divinity.

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it said that he basically kind of set it aside.

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not to be considered or something like that.

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he overcame in his humanity.

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that when you're going through all of this stuff

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and it's as hard as it is to shift,

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it's as hard as it is to let go, that Jesus knows.

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and da, da, da, that you really can't know right now.

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through as much pain as you're going through

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that I could pop in with and say and kind of reference

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posting the journey shares and everything.

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That's your desktop is my favorite.

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all kinds of time to think of things,

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how has life been going?

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to a specific question that you're trying to understand.

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No, what are you living?

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it is that you wanted to come into the arrest intensive

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I don't have anything.

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Yeah, go ahead, Karen.

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Well, a couple of things.

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I have not been able to take the time to meditate.

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So any suggestions on how to do that?

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Because I did have some good, I think, revelation today

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and some good things happened at the place I go fellowship

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a lot with my spiritual mom.

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even though I haven't slept good for a couple of nights.

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So you all keep standing with me for that

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to shift a little bit, if you would.

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But the meditation is what I'd like to do.

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so I could grab it real quick.

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when you were redoing the thing.

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I couldn't get to it.

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So I don't have any excuse.

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If you have any.

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So on what, on getting motivated to do it

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or on what kind of meditation you're talking about?

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and just kind of like you taught,

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even just taking 10 minutes to just kind of slow

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your breathing down and let the thoughts come and go.

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while we were doing this rest intensive.

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So the thing that honestly has just really helped me,

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who are doing it as well, but I'm

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sure that it's just really helped me.

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I'm sure that there are other people with other tips

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and tricks.

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is to just completely, that has helped me slow myself down

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is by sending intention basically to myself saying,

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hey, look, all of this stuff that's very active

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and making decisions about, dah, dah, dah.

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Hey, look what you need to, you need to slow down because it's more than just

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simply the breathing and whatever, because the breathing is very helpful,

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but the breathing is a tool to send intentionality to the rest of yourself

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of like, Hey, this is what we're doing now, whatever it is that you're anxious

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about, or whatever it is that you think has to get done or has to be decided.

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through is, um, is to do that.

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To the point where the rest that you are going to, uh, uh, that you're going to

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basically let go and you're going to tell the rest of yourself to do that.

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eyes and imagining a blanks black screen is if I was looking into space or

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something with no stars, and then I imagine one light, you know, at some

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point, very, very far distance in the future.

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of that, but I don't give him a shape.

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like I'm not alone and that I, it helps me focus my focus, my meditation on him,

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as opposed to opening up my mind and spirit to just kind of whatever it keeps

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me focused, basically in a manner of speaking, it keeps you protected.

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Focusing on the Lord, because there's more than the Lord that's

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in the spirit realm, right?

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you always want it to be in the covering of the Lord because meditation is also

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done by non-believers that are kind of opening themselves up to all kinds of

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not like interacting with them, but it's like you, it's almost like you, you

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calling him to, I don't know, calling in his protection, but y'all, y'all

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aren't like discussing anything.

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You're not like solving any problems, you know, but he's there and he's

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covering you while you are learning to let go and be vulnerable in his presence

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without having to learn anything or, or figure anything out.

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wonderful and you're not thinking you're trying to look, you're trying to.

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don't want them so active, so hyper.

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come in all of these problems to solve, or, oh my word, Jesus is wonderful.

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think about Jesus, you know, that's perfectly fine, especially if that's

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the point of your meditation, um, is to just, is to just focus on.

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know, just allowing your attention to be drawn to it, you're going to

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know what the thought is you're going to know, oh, I just thought about that.

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Whatever, you know, as opposed to saying, oh yeah.

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I shouldn't be thinking about that.

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whatever it wants to think about, but you, but it just comes and it goes

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right through you because you don't ever pay any attention to it.

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own thoughts, unless you remember and reestablish your own authority over

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yourself, but it also slows down your activity, everything within you starts

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calming down and you start moving from.

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I know that alpha comes before beta in the alphabet, but, um, I don't

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how fast those, which ones are the fastest, but anyway, gamma is the, is the fastest,

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resistant to the Lord talking to you. You're less resistant to, you're less resistant to hearing

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him and whatever. And that's the kind of the benefit of it is you're trying to, you're trying

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to reduce your resistance. And then you just, so if your purpose is to meditate on scripture,

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then you think about nothing, but that scripture, like saying like, maybe like be still and know,

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there is a teacher that I listened to that talked about meditating on scripture and use,

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be still and know as an example. And he said, for instance, what you can do is he said,

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think about each word, basically give each word it's time and just say, be,

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be, and then be still, be still. And like, really be kind of like intentional with everything and

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just allow the meaning of it, like spiritually God's meaning that he put when he, what he put

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into the words, when he spoke them, when he spoke that be still and know that I am God, you know,

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when he spoke that, when he wrote scripture, you know, through, through human hands,

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just allow whatever it is that he meant by those things to come up in your spirit between you and

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him and allow those things to just really allow something, allow the revelation of his truth to

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be birthed within you by you, by how would I put it, kind of like experientially instead of,

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instead of like something that you're learning or trying, like you're learning with your head

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and you're trying to figure out and you're trying to understand, and you're trying to,

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but just rather let the spirit reveal to you what it means, as opposed to your mind hearing

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something, learning something or figuring something out. Because think of it kind of,

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this is what I mean. I don't mean this to sound complicated. It's just, it's just know that it's

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deeper than our own mind. So think of it kind of like the fact that, that how do you get to know

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God? You don't get to know God by reading books about him. You get to know him by experiencing

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him by like simply being with him. And then there's something that you're, that jumps up in

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your spirit and you're like, oh my word. I know, I know I didn't know God was like that. You just

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learn something about God simply because you experienced it. It's that kind of a thing of

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allow the Lord to reveal himself and the meaning of scripture to you simply because it comes up out

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of a knowing of your spirit, because you're allowing your spirit, which is in the spirit realm

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to reveal who has access to the spirit of wisdom, spirit of knowledge, spirit of understanding,

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allow yourself to be taught by the spirit. And then if you've got all of your mental resistance

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that you have lowered down into theta, it's a lot easier to hear your spirit.

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It's a lot easier to receive things from the Lord. Does that make sense? Oh,

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I think I may have lost you. Does that make sense? Yes. Yes. It did. Would you recommend

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maybe setting a certain time each day? That's what I thought about doing, but it didn't.

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it as part of, I would set it as an extension of one of those routines for me. That's what I find

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to be easiest. So instead of saying, oh, at nine o'clock every day, well, if you don't get up at

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the same time, every day doing nine o'clock may not make sense to you, but it would, if you just

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like, well, as soon as I get up, I do this. And then after I do that, I do this. In other words,

424
00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:56.880
if you have a routine of like, I do these things like for me first, as soon as I get up, I go to

425
00:33:56.880 --> 00:34:01.920
the bathroom and then I, and then I get in the shower and then I get ready and then I, whatever.

426
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:07.840
And then I come out and then I eat. So if I have it, if, if I have it as one of the steps of a

427
00:34:07.840 --> 00:34:14.880
longer routine, then I'm more likely to get it in than if I have to do it at nine o'clock every day,

428
00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:20.320
because my, my life really works a bit more in routine than it does at certain times.

429
00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:26.000
So that's more helpful. You're more likely to get it in, uh, than otherwise you're always

430
00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:29.360
going to have something come up around nine o'clock or your routine's thrown off today.

431
00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:31.920
And I'm like, I can't do it at nine o'clock because I'm in the middle of this.

432
00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:39.440
Yeah. I like that. Yeah. I like that. Okay. And then one of the routine before bed,

433
00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:43.520
you'll let you always brush your teeth before bed, you know, just adding it in as one of the

434
00:34:43.600 --> 00:34:52.960
routines. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's good. Um, and then a while ago I just got in, um,

435
00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:57.120
you haven't been pretty peaceful all day, but I had a girlfriend stop by that. I was giving her

436
00:34:57.120 --> 00:34:59.920
some, some shoes that I wasn't wearing. And

437
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.940
And, uh, she stayed longer than I thought, which was okay.

438
00:35:03.240 --> 00:35:05.480
But then it just kind of ran my time.

439
00:35:06.200 --> 00:35:08.520
Uh, cause I had to rinse off and, and stuff.

440
00:35:08.520 --> 00:35:12.520
So I found myself getting kind of in hurry sickness cause I, I wanted my

441
00:35:12.520 --> 00:35:17.560
dishes done and, you know, teammate and stuff to sit down and do this class.

442
00:35:17.560 --> 00:35:21.360
So, so my mind's kind of, and not just in my hurry, but my

443
00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:26.440
mind's kind of hurrying, you know, do you have any tips for that?

444
00:35:27.400 --> 00:35:34.440
For that, um, what I do is I always go back to owning myself because I feel,

445
00:35:34.480 --> 00:35:37.880
because something like that feels like, okay, things are getting away from me.

446
00:35:38.080 --> 00:35:40.600
I'm running out of, I'm getting out of control.

447
00:35:40.760 --> 00:35:45.720
Like, as in, like, um, I, as if I'm being driven by what is happening.

448
00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:48.440
And I'm not going to have to remind myself of that.

449
00:35:48.680 --> 00:35:50.080
Like, nope, I get to decide.

450
00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:53.800
I recommended this to somebody who, uh, in the last rest intensive, who was

451
00:35:53.800 --> 00:35:57.680
asking me questions about what do you, you know, I actually, I can stay in rest

452
00:35:57.680 --> 00:36:02.120
most of the time, but what's really hard is when I'm in the middle of making

453
00:36:02.120 --> 00:36:04.200
supper and the siblings are squabbling.

454
00:36:04.560 --> 00:36:08.440
And all of a sudden the doorbell rings and, you know, I don't

455
00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:09.680
want to know what to do first.

456
00:36:09.680 --> 00:36:12.000
You know, all of a sudden it's like everything, I felt like everything

457
00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:13.360
needs my attention right now.

458
00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:17.040
And I told her, I said, it doesn't, I said, flat out.

459
00:36:17.040 --> 00:36:18.400
It doesn't, we just feel that it does.

460
00:36:18.440 --> 00:36:21.440
We just think that it does because we want our lives to work a specific way.

461
00:36:21.480 --> 00:36:24.240
And we were like, well, I want to avoid these consequences and whatever.

462
00:36:24.240 --> 00:36:28.280
It's very dangerous to live our life is with the purpose of trying

463
00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:29.960
to avoid particular consequences.

464
00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:33.800
It's a very defensive posture and a very victimized posture.

465
00:36:34.160 --> 00:36:35.960
So I told her, I said, I recommend.

466
00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:38.080
And so it's the same kind of thing that I've recommended for you.

467
00:36:38.440 --> 00:36:41.360
As I said, everything can handle just a few seconds.

468
00:36:42.200 --> 00:36:45.960
So to just stop and own yourself again, choose that.

469
00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:47.280
No, I am in control.

470
00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:48.600
I am the mom.

471
00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:50.280
What do I want to do?

472
00:36:51.040 --> 00:36:51.960
Do I want to deal with this?

473
00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:53.280
Do I want to deal with this or do this?

474
00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:56.400
You just have a split second to kind of make a decision, but own yourself.

475
00:36:56.720 --> 00:36:58.040
You just do it really fast.

476
00:36:58.040 --> 00:36:59.920
You're like, no, you just stop and remember.

477
00:36:59.960 --> 00:37:00.320
Nope.

478
00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:01.320
I own me.

479
00:37:01.600 --> 00:37:02.520
This is my house.

480
00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:06.440
And God says that God, remember the thing that I recommended to y'all that y'all.

481
00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:07.160
Um, I think.

482
00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:08.920
But it's today, Tuesday, Saturday.

483
00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:10.480
So I think I mentioned this on Thursday.

484
00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:15.480
So I recommend to everyone, you know, as you just use as kind of like a, a mantra

485
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:19.760
question that you just continue to remind my, to remind yourself of to kind of like

486
00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:21.960
recenter yourself, re-anchor yourself.

487
00:37:22.200 --> 00:37:23.240
Are God and I okay?

488
00:37:24.200 --> 00:37:24.640
Yeah.

489
00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:24.960
Yeah.

490
00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:26.280
He says that he and I are okay.

491
00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:31.840
You know, and understand, uh, and so, and then it was a, let me get, get back to

492
00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:33.160
that in just a second, let me finish this.

493
00:37:33.480 --> 00:37:36.080
And then, so if you, as soon as you realize, okay, no, God and I are okay.

494
00:37:36.640 --> 00:37:37.560
And I own myself.

495
00:37:38.160 --> 00:37:38.400
Okay.

496
00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:39.320
So what do I want to do?

497
00:37:39.400 --> 00:37:44.320
I don't really have to get all the dishes done and even, and you never know.

498
00:37:44.680 --> 00:37:48.440
I mean, as soon as they leave, you know, God might, you know, enable me to get

499
00:37:48.440 --> 00:37:50.000
them done really quickly.

500
00:37:50.160 --> 00:37:53.080
So it's fine, but I own the situation.

501
00:37:53.240 --> 00:37:54.400
I own the dishes.

502
00:37:54.640 --> 00:37:55.800
I own the process.

503
00:37:55.840 --> 00:37:56.880
I own how I do them.

504
00:37:57.560 --> 00:37:59.720
I own how fast I would decide I want to do them.

505
00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:01.920
I'm in charge, you know?

506
00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:06.280
And, um, and we can get frustrated by like, everything's just not cooperating,

507
00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:09.520
but we can't feel threatened by that.

508
00:38:09.520 --> 00:38:11.800
We have to like own ourselves between us and the Lord.

509
00:38:12.080 --> 00:38:15.280
And that's what I would, um, would, uh, recommend.

510
00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:18.960
And then there was, and then I was not wanting to get sidetracked.

511
00:38:19.560 --> 00:38:23.360
So I stopped what I was about to say about the whole, you know, our, our God

512
00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:26.520
and I okay, and I don't remember what I was going to say about that, but anyway,

513
00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:31.240
um, that's what I would recommend is that, and that's why I keep driving this

514
00:38:31.240 --> 00:38:34.720
point home is remember that you're important.

515
00:38:36.120 --> 00:38:41.640
So a lot of what it is that we struggle with can be solved by remembering that

516
00:38:41.640 --> 00:38:43.360
we really are who God says that we are.

517
00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:44.560
He says that we're valuable.

518
00:38:44.560 --> 00:38:45.520
He says that we're important.

519
00:38:45.520 --> 00:38:52.680
He says that we're significant and, um, and we're not, we're not victim to what

520
00:38:52.680 --> 00:38:59.760
other people, uh, decide or how they act or how they respond to us or whatever,

521
00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:02.600
or how creation responds to us or whatnot.

522
00:39:03.240 --> 00:39:09.320
Um, and things just don't have to, just because things don't go a King's way

523
00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:12.440
doesn't mean that he's suddenly not a King or that he doesn't have power.

524
00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:15.840
It means that he lives, exists.

525
00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:18.760
He rules a kingdom in which everything underneath his

526
00:39:18.760 --> 00:39:21.360
jurisdiction has its own free will.

527
00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:28.640
So he needs to be a King that they want to follow because they feel covered and

528
00:39:28.640 --> 00:39:34.080
protected and provided for because he proves it, he actually protects,

529
00:39:34.080 --> 00:39:35.840
he actually provides for.

530
00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:38.400
So we want to be that King.

531
00:39:39.120 --> 00:39:44.120
Um, and, uh, but it just simply, but if things don't go our way, it just

532
00:39:44.120 --> 00:39:49.040
simply means, well, we're ruling a kingdom that can choose or not choose us.

533
00:39:49.720 --> 00:39:51.400
Just like we can choose or not choose God.

534
00:39:51.400 --> 00:39:53.400
It can choose whether or not it wants to choose us.

535
00:39:53.880 --> 00:39:59.440
They, it usually does, but it takes a bit because it's afraid and it's in chaos

536
00:39:59.520 --> 00:40:00.040
and it doesn't.

537
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:01.960
no any other way to live.

538
00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:05.680
But the more that we show up as a real king

539
00:40:05.680 --> 00:40:10.000
and as a son of God that loves as God loves

540
00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:11.680
and acts like our father,

541
00:40:11.680 --> 00:40:16.680
the more that it will take that new instruction.

542
00:40:16.840 --> 00:40:17.920
So think about right now,

543
00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:21.560
chaos is the habit of creation.

544
00:40:21.560 --> 00:40:26.560
It is its MO, it's its way of operating.

545
00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:29.040
So when we give it new instruction

546
00:40:29.040 --> 00:40:30.480
and it changes into order,

547
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:33.840
that will be its new way of operating.

548
00:40:33.840 --> 00:40:36.640
It will not immediately revert

549
00:40:36.640 --> 00:40:38.480
if we suddenly forget who we are.

550
00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:46.280
How do I put that?

551
00:40:46.280 --> 00:40:51.280
So we're teaching it its brand new way of life,

552
00:40:51.560 --> 00:40:53.440
a totally different lifestyle,

553
00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:58.000
a totally different modus operandi, totally different.

554
00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:00.720
And so it's going to, so right now,

555
00:41:00.720 --> 00:41:04.440
it feels like it's default.

556
00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:05.280
That's what it is.

557
00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:06.440
We're changing its default.

558
00:41:06.440 --> 00:41:08.480
Right now, its default is chaos.

559
00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:11.720
Not really, because honestly it was made for order,

560
00:41:11.720 --> 00:41:12.920
but just generally speaking,

561
00:41:12.920 --> 00:41:16.400
its default thing that it wants to do all of the time,

562
00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:19.560
that it's natural go-to is chaos.

563
00:41:19.560 --> 00:41:21.680
And so your introduction and your instruction

564
00:41:21.680 --> 00:41:23.320
to call it to order,

565
00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:26.680
to call it to respond to order is going to be new.

566
00:41:27.680 --> 00:41:29.640
But like, and when I'm talking about all this,

567
00:41:29.640 --> 00:41:31.040
I'm talking about things like your feelings,

568
00:41:31.040 --> 00:41:32.400
that feeling of like,

569
00:41:32.400 --> 00:41:34.600
or your mind going really, really fast,

570
00:41:34.600 --> 00:41:36.680
or you're starting to panic

571
00:41:36.680 --> 00:41:38.960
or you're starting to getting anxious,

572
00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:41.920
or the fact that maybe the dishes aren't cooperating

573
00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:43.120
and they're not being done as quickly

574
00:41:43.120 --> 00:41:45.160
as you wanted them to or whatever it is.

575
00:41:45.160 --> 00:41:47.880
So whether it's the creation inside of you

576
00:41:47.880 --> 00:41:50.160
or it's the creation outside of you,

577
00:41:50.160 --> 00:41:54.200
it has a default to operate in chaos.

578
00:41:54.200 --> 00:41:56.640
But when you give it new instruction,

579
00:41:57.480 --> 00:41:59.360
by continuing to give it new instruction,

580
00:41:59.360 --> 00:42:02.360
it learns that you are,

581
00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:06.920
it learns by your consistency that you mean it

582
00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:09.880
and that you are dependable,

583
00:42:09.880 --> 00:42:11.560
that you can be relied on,

584
00:42:11.560 --> 00:42:14.000
that this really is who you are,

585
00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:15.600
that this is the new principle,

586
00:42:15.600 --> 00:42:17.200
this is a new kingdom,

587
00:42:17.200 --> 00:42:18.680
there's a new sheriff in town,

588
00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:21.840
and this is its new way of living.

589
00:42:21.840 --> 00:42:26.000
And then that order will be its new default.

590
00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:29.680
Even if something odd and random comes in

591
00:42:29.680 --> 00:42:32.120
like an unbelief or a lie about the Lord,

592
00:42:32.120 --> 00:42:33.800
you know, that you said believe or whatever,

593
00:42:33.800 --> 00:42:38.080
it's so used to operating in an agreement with the Lord,

594
00:42:38.080 --> 00:42:40.520
you know, and respond to you appropriately,

595
00:42:40.520 --> 00:42:42.320
that that's gonna be its default,

596
00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:45.640
even though you have some random like wild hair sometime.

597
00:42:45.640 --> 00:42:47.240
But right now it's not,

598
00:42:47.240 --> 00:42:48.880
its default is the chaos,

599
00:42:48.880 --> 00:42:50.400
but we're eventually gonna switch it

600
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:52.920
to its default is the other.

601
00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:54.880
So anyway, but that's what I would recommend

602
00:42:54.920 --> 00:42:57.920
is just remember who you are.

603
00:42:57.920 --> 00:42:59.240
That's why I always say

604
00:42:59.240 --> 00:43:01.360
that the thing that you always come back to

605
00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:04.440
is who does God say that he is to the degree

606
00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:06.640
and what degree does he say he is that?

607
00:43:06.640 --> 00:43:09.480
And who does he say that I am to the degree

608
00:43:09.480 --> 00:43:12.400
and what degree does he say that I am that?

609
00:43:13.560 --> 00:43:16.760
So everything comes back to that question.

610
00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:19.280
So to shift disinterest

611
00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:21.640
and to give us an anchor for our faith.

612
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:24.080
Like, what am I supposed to be believing?

613
00:43:24.280 --> 00:43:28.400
Oh, I'm supposed to be believing who God says that he is.

614
00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:30.280
And to the degree he says he is that,

615
00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:33.600
who does he say that I am to the degree he says I'm that?

616
00:43:33.600 --> 00:43:35.800
That exactly happened to me.

617
00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:41.920
What has changed my life is the talking to the soul.

618
00:43:44.640 --> 00:43:46.400
Did never do that before.

619
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:48.920
I know it says it in the Bible that David did it,

620
00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:51.000
but never did it.

621
00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:52.720
And I started talking to my soul.

622
00:43:52.720 --> 00:43:56.240
At first it felt weird, it felt kind of weird.

623
00:43:56.240 --> 00:44:01.160
But today I had a reason to kind of go,

624
00:44:01.160 --> 00:44:04.280
woo, like I had something happen with my son

625
00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:06.200
and normally I would have just gone,

626
00:44:06.200 --> 00:44:08.240
like I would have just been all,

627
00:44:09.520 --> 00:44:14.520
and I was just so, like nothing had happened.

628
00:44:15.680 --> 00:44:19.400
I mean, I was just like, my goodness,

629
00:44:19.400 --> 00:44:21.840
because one of the things that I,

630
00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:24.240
because I used to suffer with anxiety and fear.

631
00:44:25.600 --> 00:44:28.720
So I would, yeah, I had been speaking to my soul

632
00:44:28.720 --> 00:44:30.160
since we started the class,

633
00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:34.200
speaking, you know, not to be afraid,

634
00:44:34.200 --> 00:44:36.560
you know, to release fear,

635
00:44:36.560 --> 00:44:38.200
kind of something that I heard you say

636
00:44:38.200 --> 00:44:41.480
that the spirit could handle it.

637
00:44:41.480 --> 00:44:42.320
Yes.

638
00:44:42.320 --> 00:44:45.520
But let the spirit handle, you know, it can take it.

639
00:44:45.520 --> 00:44:47.520
And things like that and thinking,

640
00:44:47.520 --> 00:44:50.920
well, it makes sense, I'm gonna speak to it.

641
00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:53.360
And I had been, and do not be anxious,

642
00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:55.640
you know, talking to my spirit,

643
00:44:55.640 --> 00:44:58.040
my soul, do not be anxious, you know, do not,

644
00:44:58.040 --> 00:44:59.880
you know, when I felt I was getting.

645
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.880
Cause some things would trigger me, like, especially like on Facebook, I would,

646
00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:12.000
you know, something would trigger me and I would be like, Oh yeah. And it's just been wild,

647
00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:21.280
you know? So if y'all are not doing that, talk to your soul. It works today was the proof.

648
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:28.320
And it, I mean, it's awesome. I, it sounds so simple, but it works.

649
00:45:29.040 --> 00:45:34.000
Yeah. Because yeah, you're remembering who you were and you presented yourself to your soul.

650
00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:38.160
You're like, no, you know, this is how it is. It's all okay. You can choose to receive me or not,

651
00:45:38.160 --> 00:45:43.120
but I am here to protect you. If you'll lay your, if you'll lay down your own sense of like,

652
00:45:43.120 --> 00:45:47.360
I've got to do it myself. If you, if you lay it down and start doing it and you let me do it for

653
00:45:47.360 --> 00:45:51.600
you, I'll do it. And then your soul is like, Oh, okay. This all gets excited. It's like a kid.

654
00:45:51.600 --> 00:45:56.640
You're like, okay, thank goodness. Somebody else is in charge, you know? And so it can,

655
00:45:56.640 --> 00:46:03.360
it can really love it is spent. It was made to submit to the soul. And so it gets very excited.

656
00:46:03.360 --> 00:46:08.720
What it gets scared about is, can I trust it? So that sometimes it's like, Oh, I'm not used to

657
00:46:08.720 --> 00:46:13.280
trust. You're talking about the spirit. No, the soul. Sometimes he's like, I don't know if I can

658
00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:18.160
trust the spirit. Oh, the soul isn't trust. Sure. If they can trust the spirit, just like we're

659
00:46:18.160 --> 00:46:22.160
sometimes not sure if we can trust God, you know, it's the same idea because our spirit is in

660
00:46:22.160 --> 00:46:26.560
alignment with God. So our soul is really, you know, like, I don't know if I can trust God,

661
00:46:26.560 --> 00:46:31.200
you know, to the end of our spirits and go with God. I don't know that I can trust the spirit,

662
00:46:31.200 --> 00:46:36.880
you know, is it's fear. So that's why sometimes it'll take, it'll take a bit, but it was made

663
00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:43.920
to submit. It wants to, it just doesn't know whether or not it's safe. So the more that you,

664
00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:48.320
and that's why you just kind of have to, that's what it is that we're doing with our, with our

665
00:46:48.320 --> 00:46:53.840
souls is like, okay, let go. It's our soul. That's holding onto something. And we're just

666
00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:58.640
encouraging it. Let go because you really are safe when you let go, you know, you're not going

667
00:46:58.640 --> 00:47:02.240
to fall into oblivion. You're not going to be unprotected. You really are safe. So you were

668
00:47:02.240 --> 00:47:07.040
doing it that you were, you were standing in it and you were owning yourself. And that's what

669
00:47:07.040 --> 00:47:11.200
happened immediately. Your soul calms down. And so, yeah, so that's what I was saying, Karen,

670
00:47:11.200 --> 00:47:15.040
you know, if you do that, your soul, your, what you're doing is you're just owning yourself.

671
00:47:15.040 --> 00:47:18.640
You are shifting into your spirit again, remembering who it is that you are. And then

672
00:47:18.640 --> 00:47:23.120
the son of God, son of God presents itself. And then the, and then the rest of creation,

673
00:47:23.120 --> 00:47:28.240
including her own soul and body goes, okay, there he is. In other words, there's our king.

674
00:47:28.240 --> 00:47:31.440
Okay. We can, we can finally let go now. You know, we don't have to be anxious. We don't

675
00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:35.360
have to try to make it happen. The spirit says it's going to be okay. So it's going to be okay.

676
00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:39.440
You know, the spirit says he's going to take care of it. And the spirit is trusting God. The

677
00:47:39.440 --> 00:47:44.320
spirit's like, yeah, my God's responsible for the outcome. So therefore I know I don't have to worry.

678
00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:50.640
So, you know, Hey, y'all, y'all let it go. And then, and then I'll take care of it. And my idea

679
00:47:50.640 --> 00:47:56.880
of taking care of it is always giving it to God and he always takes care of it. So, yeah. So thank

680
00:47:56.880 --> 00:48:08.240
you, Diane. I appreciate that. Was that helpful, Karen at all? Yes, that was helpful. Yes. And I,

681
00:48:08.240 --> 00:48:14.640
I liked that balloon. Who did that? Oh, yes. Annette. Wasn't that great? I haven't gotten

682
00:48:14.640 --> 00:48:23.520
the comment on it yet. That's great. Yes. I loved it. Yeah. Yeah. So tag your aunt Tammy.

683
00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:36.880
Okay. Something that it's more, I guess, logistical. So I know, well, I enjoy being

684
00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:43.200
in community. I've been in community, like, I guess, 10 years. So good. And the girls that

685
00:48:43.200 --> 00:48:48.400
were like really great friends, Rita's involved. One of those, we, we decided to not do like a

686
00:48:48.400 --> 00:48:54.560
weekly community, but I wanted to like, no pressure, but like have other people in the

687
00:48:54.560 --> 00:48:59.440
past, like said, Oh, I'm on rest intensive. Like we still want to meet once a week, or

688
00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:04.400
do you allow that? Like we wanted to exchange numbers if those people were okay to just like,

689
00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:09.840
encourage each other and have a space to like, with people who have the same type of framework of

690
00:49:10.640 --> 00:49:18.960
teaching. Oh yeah. I can totally allow it. I just don't create the space for it because then I know

691
00:49:18.960 --> 00:49:25.200
that I'm going to have to referee because all of a sudden it's no longer a mentorship. It's community

692
00:49:25.840 --> 00:49:31.360
and you know, communities there's, there's no structure. And so therefore, so I've always told

693
00:49:31.360 --> 00:49:35.600
people, I'm like, Oh, are you kidding? Kimmy? Everybody wants it. Everybody's so excited. Oh,

694
00:49:35.600 --> 00:49:41.280
actually I want it. I was like, great. Somebody go build it. I said, you go build a Facebook group.

695
00:49:41.280 --> 00:49:46.880
No one has done it. It's been three years. I can't tell you the number of people that have

696
00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:51.840
said that they want it. And I'm like, that's great. I said, somebody go do it. In other words,

697
00:49:51.840 --> 00:49:55.840
I said, it doesn't even have to be much. I said, y'all just have a, have a, have a messenger

698
00:49:55.840 --> 00:49:59.840
like chat group, you know, and y'all just chat in there or someone create a group.

699
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.000
before you've got your own wall.

700
00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:03.400
You know, and you just all talk in there

701
00:50:03.400 --> 00:50:04.240
and you just embody it.

702
00:50:04.240 --> 00:50:05.440
I said, yes, let's listen to it.

703
00:50:05.440 --> 00:50:07.080
I said, I'm not going to create it

704
00:50:07.080 --> 00:50:08.720
because then I know it's going to happen.

705
00:50:08.720 --> 00:50:11.080
Ashley, so once you've said this to me,

706
00:50:11.080 --> 00:50:13.360
I haven't had that very much of the rest intensive,

707
00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:15.480
but I've had like once or twice

708
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:17.880
where someone said something, I'm like, okay,

709
00:50:17.880 --> 00:50:19.800
so I need to go and talk to so-and-so and say,

710
00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:21.240
hey, look, this is a safe place

711
00:50:21.240 --> 00:50:22.920
that really wasn't very kind.

712
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:25.600
You know, so I'm like, I don't want to do that.

713
00:50:27.120 --> 00:50:29.880
So I was like, if y'all want to do it, go for it.

714
00:50:29.920 --> 00:50:31.200
So yes, absolutely.

715
00:50:31.200 --> 00:50:32.680
In fact, I encourage people to do that.

716
00:50:32.680 --> 00:50:34.840
I said, hey, by the way, even without them asking,

717
00:50:34.840 --> 00:50:37.240
I'll tell them, hey, if y'all want to exchange numbers,

718
00:50:37.240 --> 00:50:40.200
if y'all want to like, if y'all want to do,

719
00:50:40.200 --> 00:50:42.560
like I said, y'all get make Facebook friends

720
00:50:42.560 --> 00:50:43.720
with each other and whatever.

721
00:50:43.720 --> 00:50:45.240
I said, yeah, absolutely.

722
00:50:45.240 --> 00:50:46.760
But I haven't done it.

723
00:50:47.840 --> 00:50:49.560
No, I completely understand that too.

724
00:50:49.560 --> 00:50:51.920
Cause it's like, if you do it, then it's kind of like,

725
00:50:51.920 --> 00:50:52.920
oh, well it's not working.

726
00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:53.920
Something's not going on,

727
00:50:53.920 --> 00:50:55.960
whether it's technical or whatever.

728
00:50:55.960 --> 00:50:57.880
So Ashley, you're the leader, fix it.

729
00:50:57.880 --> 00:51:02.480
I'm like, no, no, I've got a program.

730
00:51:02.480 --> 00:51:03.360
That's what I'm doing.

731
00:51:03.360 --> 00:51:04.760
I'm spending my time at that.

732
00:51:04.760 --> 00:51:09.320
But I've always wanted people to be involved.

733
00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:12.240
Okay, this also, so this is another interesting thing

734
00:51:12.240 --> 00:51:15.920
is that after a while,

735
00:51:16.800 --> 00:51:20.960
some of the enthusiasm can wear off.

736
00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:24.080
And so meaning like people just start living it

737
00:51:24.080 --> 00:51:28.520
and then they just become focused in other areas.

738
00:51:28.520 --> 00:51:31.640
And I noticed that even though I left

739
00:51:31.640 --> 00:51:34.280
like the original rest intensive group open

740
00:51:34.280 --> 00:51:36.160
from three years ago,

741
00:51:36.160 --> 00:51:41.160
they will very rarely, basically never get in there

742
00:51:42.160 --> 00:51:45.240
and interact with one another, ever.

743
00:51:45.240 --> 00:51:47.120
And I'm like, but I left it open.

744
00:51:47.120 --> 00:51:48.440
You can do it all the time if you want.

745
00:51:48.440 --> 00:51:51.320
And I didn't, but some of them

746
00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:53.200
just really enjoyed each other's company.

747
00:51:53.200 --> 00:51:56.120
And they like made like Facebook friends with each other.

748
00:51:56.120 --> 00:51:58.640
So I still watch, they all comment on each other's

749
00:51:58.640 --> 00:52:00.040
like posts and whatnot.

750
00:52:00.040 --> 00:52:01.120
And then a few of them,

751
00:52:01.120 --> 00:52:03.400
I think have even connected on like Marco Polo.

752
00:52:03.400 --> 00:52:06.000
If y'all know Marco Polo, I love Marco Polo.

753
00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:08.520
I'm very, I spend seasons of my life

754
00:52:08.520 --> 00:52:10.680
where I spend a lot of time on Marco Polo,

755
00:52:10.680 --> 00:52:12.560
like chatting back and forth with people.

756
00:52:12.560 --> 00:52:15.680
And so some of them will connect on Marco Polo

757
00:52:15.680 --> 00:52:17.760
and they still, after three years

758
00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:19.400
are connecting on Marco Polo

759
00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:21.120
because they've made friends, you know?

760
00:52:21.120 --> 00:52:22.440
So yes, absolutely.

761
00:52:22.440 --> 00:52:24.760
I always encourage people to do that

762
00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:26.040
and recommend it and whatever,

763
00:52:26.040 --> 00:52:29.000
but no, I haven't like hosted anything

764
00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:31.440
just because I knew it would take some energy

765
00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:33.800
and I wanted to, that I was gonna somehow be,

766
00:52:34.720 --> 00:52:37.440
they were gonna kind of feel I was responsible for it.

767
00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:39.720
And I'm like, no, no, no.

768
00:52:39.720 --> 00:52:41.920
So I'm gonna spend my energy somewhere else,

769
00:52:41.920 --> 00:52:44.920
but I've always been all for people keeping up,

770
00:52:44.920 --> 00:52:46.560
you know, that community aspect.

771
00:52:46.560 --> 00:52:49.120
So I do know that certain people

772
00:52:49.120 --> 00:52:53.960
have joined the rest intensives multiple times

773
00:52:53.960 --> 00:52:55.800
because it keeps that community.

774
00:52:55.800 --> 00:52:57.320
But part of the reason, again,

775
00:52:57.320 --> 00:52:59.400
I have known this by experience,

776
00:52:59.400 --> 00:53:01.240
is that eventually, you know,

777
00:53:01.240 --> 00:53:03.160
they just become focused on other things.

778
00:53:03.160 --> 00:53:06.880
And so the community aspect ends up

779
00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:09.600
really only being very beneficial

780
00:53:09.600 --> 00:53:12.280
where people will invest in themselves

781
00:53:12.280 --> 00:53:15.400
and in each other during the program.

782
00:53:15.400 --> 00:53:18.440
But after the program, unless they found a special friend,

783
00:53:18.440 --> 00:53:20.200
they just start getting focused on other things.

784
00:53:20.200 --> 00:53:23.240
So, but anyway, but that may just simply be

785
00:53:23.240 --> 00:53:25.400
because no one else has taken up the charge.

786
00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:27.560
So if you wanna probably be the person

787
00:53:27.560 --> 00:53:32.560
that finally does a rest intensive alumni group, go for it.

788
00:53:32.560 --> 00:53:33.400
Oh my gosh.

789
00:53:33.400 --> 00:53:35.840
Also, if you wanna do like a gathering,

790
00:53:35.840 --> 00:53:38.680
a once a year rest intensive gathering.

791
00:53:38.680 --> 00:53:40.440
I've thought about that actually.

792
00:53:40.440 --> 00:53:42.000
That would be fun.

793
00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:45.680
Yes, you know what I've actually also considered

794
00:53:45.680 --> 00:53:48.400
is doing something kind of like a rest intensive.

795
00:53:49.200 --> 00:53:51.760
But only not from ground zero, like for seasoned people

796
00:53:51.760 --> 00:53:55.560
and doing a rest intensive only for alumni.

797
00:53:55.560 --> 00:53:57.920
So in other words, everybody's on the same page

798
00:53:57.920 --> 00:53:59.840
because they've already all been through the program

799
00:53:59.840 --> 00:54:02.440
and they're all living it to some extent or another.

800
00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:05.200
And so in other words, you're talking with people

801
00:54:05.200 --> 00:54:08.720
that you're all in the same place.

802
00:54:08.720 --> 00:54:11.400
You've all like, hey, this is what we've chosen.

803
00:54:11.400 --> 00:54:13.960
And let's just interact with other people

804
00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:15.320
that have chosen to live the life

805
00:54:15.320 --> 00:54:17.440
that we're choosing to live.

806
00:54:17.440 --> 00:54:21.960
So I have thought about that, but anyway.

807
00:54:21.960 --> 00:54:24.240
But yeah, I thought about like doing some kind

808
00:54:24.240 --> 00:54:26.040
of like a reunion.

809
00:54:27.360 --> 00:54:28.320
That's cool.

810
00:54:28.320 --> 00:54:32.240
Yeah, cause I was talking to Kim and I was just like,

811
00:54:32.240 --> 00:54:35.000
and I was telling her like,

812
00:54:35.000 --> 00:54:36.840
I was doing good and everything.

813
00:54:36.840 --> 00:54:39.200
And I was like, yeah, I did have some anxiety about like,

814
00:54:39.200 --> 00:54:43.120
okay, like when this goes away and you know, like you hit.

815
00:54:45.600 --> 00:54:46.440
And I was like, Ashley,

816
00:54:46.440 --> 00:54:49.440
she's really good about like expressing kind of like how,

817
00:54:49.440 --> 00:54:51.880
like kind of, you know, the whole, you said relationship

818
00:54:51.880 --> 00:54:54.120
is not about like just the tools or whatever.

819
00:54:54.120 --> 00:54:56.680
It's a relationship with the being, like with God.

820
00:54:56.680 --> 00:54:58.040
And so I was like, that was really comforting.

821
00:54:58.040 --> 00:54:59.080
I felt good.

822
00:54:59.080 --> 00:55:00.280
But I do have this real.

823
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.680
occurring. It's just like, I'm in a space and there's certain

824
00:55:03.680 --> 00:55:06.160
people that can understand and speak this language, like not

825
00:55:06.160 --> 00:55:08.920
everybody gets it. You know, like Diana just shared

826
00:55:08.920 --> 00:55:12.160
something about speaking to her soul. And I'm like, okay, like

827
00:55:12.160 --> 00:55:16.500
we all got it. Totally said that before. Like, I'm literally

828
00:55:16.500 --> 00:55:19.880
speaking to my soul. Like I just was like, so that just I was

829
00:55:19.880 --> 00:55:23.320
like, oh my god, that's great. It just carried a moment ago

830
00:55:23.320 --> 00:55:26.360
talking about meditation. I was like, yeah, okay, I did do that

831
00:55:26.360 --> 00:55:28.500
once. But I never really thought about like doing it on a

832
00:55:28.500 --> 00:55:31.780
regular basis. But then I was like, well, my friend Kim, she

833
00:55:31.780 --> 00:55:34.820
says she does it quite frequently. And she like just

834
00:55:34.820 --> 00:55:37.660
has all these experiences. So it's like I get so much value

835
00:55:37.660 --> 00:55:41.860
from hearing other people and learning from everybody's just

836
00:55:41.860 --> 00:55:44.420
gives you another perspective that you might not have thought

837
00:55:44.420 --> 00:55:47.860
of. So yeah, I mean, we did a community we were like once a

838
00:55:47.860 --> 00:55:52.060
week, we had, you know, an hour or two that we set aside from

839
00:55:52.060 --> 00:55:56.340
our lives to do it. And we it was great before because we all

840
00:55:56.340 --> 00:55:59.580
lived in the same area. And so we did it together. And then we

841
00:55:59.580 --> 00:56:01.780
would like have this whole thing in chat. And it was great. And

842
00:56:01.780 --> 00:56:04.260
then the pandemic came in that it was just kind of like all

843
00:56:04.260 --> 00:56:08.540
zoom. And so it wasn't the same level of, you know, touch, I

844
00:56:08.540 --> 00:56:11.300
guess. But you know, we've been living on zoom now for some

845
00:56:11.300 --> 00:56:15.500
years, and this is on zoom. So I'd love to see all 80 faces,

846
00:56:15.500 --> 00:56:18.260
you know, once a week or every other week, you know, just

847
00:56:18.260 --> 00:56:20.860
putting it out there. So I'm happy to coordinate. You're

848
00:56:20.860 --> 00:56:26.500
willing to pressure. Yeah, that would be great. Tammy, Tammy,

849
00:56:26.500 --> 00:56:28.260
if you want to start that we'll support you.

850
00:56:37.180 --> 00:56:39.780
I've heard that too before. It's like, okay, well, if someone

851
00:56:39.780 --> 00:56:41.180
still does it, we'll come.

852
00:56:43.780 --> 00:56:49.380
Be the one that finally does it. Three years. Three years. I

853
00:56:49.380 --> 00:56:50.660
believe she's going to do it.

854
00:56:58.900 --> 00:57:02.940
Yeah, no, go ahead. I was just gonna say now are we going to

855
00:57:02.940 --> 00:57:08.060
have access to our rest intensive, right? So not the

856
00:57:08.060 --> 00:57:14.820
discussion wall, but all of the all of that you are on. So

857
00:57:14.820 --> 00:57:18.540
that's going to be like, I don't know how to use for archived or

858
00:57:18.540 --> 00:57:22.180
whatever. But so not the discussion wall, but you do

859
00:57:22.180 --> 00:57:25.180
have will have access to all of the content of like all of the

860
00:57:25.180 --> 00:57:30.220
teachings, like everything under the rest, all of those tabs on

861
00:57:30.260 --> 00:57:33.540
the far left, all of the recordings for your

862
00:57:33.540 --> 00:57:36.940
transformation sessions, all the recordings for your fireside

863
00:57:36.940 --> 00:57:39.820
chats, and the rest groups and all of the teachings and all of

864
00:57:39.820 --> 00:57:42.780
the additional teachings that I added in the article, you have

865
00:57:42.780 --> 00:57:43.940
access to all of that.

866
00:57:44.460 --> 00:57:46.820
Can we look at the can we look at the discussions that are

867
00:57:46.820 --> 00:57:49.220
already there just not add to them? Or are they not there at

868
00:57:49.220 --> 00:57:49.620
all?

869
00:57:51.140 --> 00:57:56.020
Well, yeah, they're not they're not there at all. If that

870
00:57:56.060 --> 00:58:00.820
because yeah, they've never, like from one place to from one

871
00:58:00.820 --> 00:58:05.220
rest intensive to the next, the discussion closes. And so they

872
00:58:05.220 --> 00:58:08.100
don't have access. So historically, what it was, is

873
00:58:08.100 --> 00:58:11.380
people so now I'm on that platform. So that new platform,

874
00:58:11.380 --> 00:58:16.180
so don't have access to those, those discussions. But you so

875
00:58:16.180 --> 00:58:19.060
it's just like kind of like being in a Facebook group. And

876
00:58:19.060 --> 00:58:21.860
then like you're in, you're added to the Facebook group. And

877
00:58:21.860 --> 00:58:25.700
then once that once the thing is over, well, then you're removed

878
00:58:25.700 --> 00:58:28.460
from the Facebook group. And then I would I was adding the

879
00:58:28.460 --> 00:58:31.700
new people in. So that's what happened to y'all. So y'all were

880
00:58:31.700 --> 00:58:35.900
added into the old one, while the previous people in the rest

881
00:58:35.900 --> 00:58:40.340
intensive aren't there anymore. Does that make sense? So it's

882
00:58:40.340 --> 00:58:43.780
like whoever is at the discussion group is for whoever

883
00:58:43.780 --> 00:58:47.020
is currently active in the rest intensive. Okay. Does that make

884
00:58:47.020 --> 00:58:48.060
sense? Yeah.

885
00:58:51.220 --> 00:58:54.580
When? So it will only be active until when?

886
00:58:55.460 --> 00:58:59.700
March the 11th, the end of March the 11th. Okay. Yeah, but you'll

887
00:58:59.700 --> 00:59:03.500
have access to all of this stuff that's recorded. Okay, so it I

888
00:59:03.500 --> 00:59:05.500
think it'll look a little different because right now it

889
00:59:05.500 --> 00:59:08.940
looks a little looks a little confusing. I don't think it's

890
00:59:08.980 --> 00:59:12.620
it's not going to be listed as weeks. It's going to be listed

891
00:59:12.620 --> 00:59:15.540
as you know, it'll, it'll say, you know, you'll have the rest,

892
00:59:16.180 --> 00:59:18.940
the rest retreat and supportive teachings, and then it'll have

893
00:59:18.940 --> 00:59:21.500
something like and then it'll have like, all the fireside

894
00:59:21.500 --> 00:59:24.300
chats, and then I'll have all the rest groups, you know, so

895
00:59:24.300 --> 00:59:27.180
it'll look easier than it looks right now, because you no longer

896
00:59:27.180 --> 00:59:33.300
need it in like the weekly form. Okay, yeah. So it has all of the

897
00:59:33.300 --> 00:59:36.500
information that's in the left hand side, that will still be

898
00:59:36.500 --> 00:59:40.660
there. Okay, you have lifetime access to that. So

899
00:59:41.660 --> 00:59:45.180
Oh, okay, lifetime. So, and we can do one meeting with you

900
00:59:45.180 --> 00:59:48.060
tomorrow. If we haven't done it, then you're going to be able to

901
00:59:48.060 --> 00:59:51.980
do one next week. You're saying? Yes. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, those

902
00:59:51.980 --> 00:59:56.380
if y'all have to. So I wanted to include one during the program,

903
00:59:56.780 --> 00:59:59.420
and then one after. Okay, so

904
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:01.440
Are those one hour or are they?

905
01:00:01.960 --> 01:00:02.560
Yes.

906
01:00:02.680 --> 01:00:02.800
Yeah.

907
01:00:02.840 --> 01:00:03.120
Okay.

908
01:00:03.400 --> 01:00:03.600
Yeah.

909
01:00:03.640 --> 01:00:07.680
So in those are, yeah, those are normally, you know, outside the rest

910
01:00:07.680 --> 01:00:09.440
intensive, those are 200 an hour.

911
01:00:10.080 --> 01:00:10.440
Okay.

912
01:00:11.040 --> 01:00:15.000
So, so inside the rest intensive though, you know, I gave, I gave everyone two.

913
01:00:15.160 --> 01:00:16.400
So hopefully that's helpful.

914
01:00:16.560 --> 01:00:17.560
So it depends on the person.

915
01:00:17.880 --> 01:00:18.800
I'll hopefully find it.

916
01:00:18.800 --> 01:00:19.160
Okay.

917
01:00:19.520 --> 01:00:21.040
Is our last meeting Thursday?

918
01:00:21.920 --> 01:00:29.440
Yes, but the, but the is open until end of the day on Saturday.

919
01:00:30.240 --> 01:00:30.680
Okay.

920
01:00:31.440 --> 01:00:32.240
Okay.

921
01:00:33.160 --> 01:00:33.400
Yeah.

922
01:00:33.400 --> 01:00:34.200
So that's true.

923
01:00:34.200 --> 01:00:36.080
We do meet just two more times.

924
01:00:39.120 --> 01:00:42.960
Would you believe though, that this, uh, we didn't use to meet this often.

925
01:00:42.960 --> 01:00:44.280
We used to only meet once a week.

926
01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:45.560
Really?

927
01:00:45.560 --> 01:00:51.720
And then, and then I extended it to two and then what did I do?

928
01:00:51.960 --> 01:00:56.040
Uh, I think last October I extended it to three and I noticed that it worked

929
01:00:56.040 --> 01:01:02.880
really well that people felt were felt like just overall that it just kind of

930
01:01:02.880 --> 01:01:07.760
helps their, um, help the community aspect, helps their ability to kind of

931
01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:14.280
like, not just be more immersed in a new, a new, uh, this new way, like emotionally

932
01:01:14.280 --> 01:01:18.960
and mentally in a new way of living, but also that it, um, I don't know, just

933
01:01:18.960 --> 01:01:20.440
give them multiple touch points.

934
01:01:21.080 --> 01:01:26.720
Um, and gave them opportunities to ask questions a bit more in real time, because

935
01:01:26.760 --> 01:01:30.080
otherwise something could happen and then you have a whole week to wait

936
01:01:30.080 --> 01:01:32.240
before you can ask a question, you know?

937
01:01:32.480 --> 01:01:36.800
So I wanted to include, you know, multiple touch points.

938
01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:39.680
Um, so that's why I did it three times.

939
01:01:39.680 --> 01:01:46.320
So even though that to some people can seem like pretty often, I like, you know,

940
01:01:46.600 --> 01:01:51.800
it's, I was going to say, I like to remind people, but it's, it's that it's

941
01:01:51.840 --> 01:01:58.320
because of the importance of the fact that it is that we're changing a lifestyle.

942
01:01:58.600 --> 01:02:04.000
We're changing the perspective and the source from which we do everything.

943
01:02:05.000 --> 01:02:09.240
I mean, all day long, including while we're asleep, everything has

944
01:02:09.240 --> 01:02:10.400
to be done from this perspective.

945
01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:13.720
It's not like some new cool thing that we're adding to our life, like speed

946
01:02:13.720 --> 01:02:18.720
reading, you know, new little hobby I'm doing, you know, it's like, it's the

947
01:02:18.720 --> 01:02:23.560
foundation from which you're making all of your decisions, how you're making

948
01:02:23.560 --> 01:02:26.920
decisions, how you're feeling, how you're approaching God, how you're approaching

949
01:02:26.920 --> 01:02:29.160
your marriage, how you're approaching your children, how you're approaching

950
01:02:29.160 --> 01:02:33.120
the business, how you're approaching it's everything it's how to have faith

951
01:02:33.120 --> 01:02:34.480
in God, how to have whatever.

952
01:02:34.680 --> 01:02:40.280
So, because of that, I needed it to be very ingrained in like, um, in them

953
01:02:40.280 --> 01:02:43.600
during a very intense six week period of time.

954
01:02:43.760 --> 01:02:48.160
So can you imagine how more intense that I'm just thinking of intense?

955
01:02:48.160 --> 01:02:53.400
It sounds like a very negative word, but how more, um, immersive it's going to

956
01:02:53.400 --> 01:03:00.720
feel for me to, um, reduce it possibly down to three weeks where I'm looking at

957
01:03:00.720 --> 01:03:05.800
that I've battled, I batted around two weeks, I batted around four weeks, but I

958
01:03:05.800 --> 01:03:07.000
think it's one of the things I'm going to do.

959
01:03:07.000 --> 01:03:10.760
I'm adding in some things, like I said, that I think are really going to help

960
01:03:11.160 --> 01:03:16.240
people solidify it even more in their life in a shorter amount of time than six

961
01:03:16.240 --> 01:03:17.800
weeks, that's kind of my point.

962
01:03:19.040 --> 01:03:22.720
So, um, uh, the reason I do six weeks and I've told you all this multiple

963
01:03:22.720 --> 01:03:26.960
times is because it's not that you need all the teaching for six weeks.

964
01:03:26.960 --> 01:03:28.600
It's not that that takes that long.

965
01:03:29.040 --> 01:03:35.040
It's to allow life to come up because you hear it all in one weekend, but think

966
01:03:35.080 --> 01:03:39.320
about how you didn't know how to apply it until stuff started coming up and

967
01:03:39.320 --> 01:03:40.520
you're like, okay, well, wait a minute now.

968
01:03:40.520 --> 01:03:41.160
What about this?

969
01:03:41.160 --> 01:03:41.400
Okay.

970
01:03:41.400 --> 01:03:41.920
Wait a minute.

971
01:03:41.920 --> 01:03:42.640
What about this?

972
01:03:42.920 --> 01:03:46.000
So that you can actually live it in real time.

973
01:03:46.000 --> 01:03:49.720
And I wanted to make myself in the community accessible to support each

974
01:03:49.720 --> 01:03:53.280
other in real life in real time.

975
01:03:53.280 --> 01:03:54.840
So that's why it's six weeks.

976
01:03:55.480 --> 01:03:59.720
And so anyway, I keep batting around with the word, Lord, is there any way to

977
01:04:00.120 --> 01:04:04.240
reduce this at all, you know, and still make it as impactful.

978
01:04:04.440 --> 01:04:10.880
So anyway, I'm always, if you could take like what you've heard from this class

979
01:04:10.880 --> 01:04:16.880
and other classes that has, that has, you've heard that to work the most that

980
01:04:16.880 --> 01:04:22.760
could help you in the reducing of the, to, you know, focus on those pieces.

981
01:04:23.720 --> 01:04:24.880
Yes, no, you're right.

982
01:04:24.880 --> 01:04:26.000
And that's what I've done.

983
01:04:26.040 --> 01:04:29.200
That's actually what I applied every rest intensive, like y'all are getting

984
01:04:29.200 --> 01:04:33.960
the benefit of all of the concise from other groups, plus new things that

985
01:04:33.960 --> 01:04:37.000
I've had to add because of things that people kept running into.

986
01:04:37.440 --> 01:04:39.040
And so I'm like, oh, well that's, that's helpful.

987
01:04:39.040 --> 01:04:40.400
So I started adding that in.

988
01:04:40.400 --> 01:04:45.880
So there's a lot more meat packed in and now than even there was beginning.

989
01:04:46.920 --> 01:04:48.920
And there's a lot of things we used to talk about.

990
01:04:48.920 --> 01:04:49.760
We don't talk about anymore.

991
01:04:50.600 --> 01:04:51.760
The Facebook class.

992
01:04:51.800 --> 01:04:54.600
I mean, the Facebook group will still be a part of that because I haven't

993
01:04:54.600 --> 01:04:56.080
seen all the videos on there.

994
01:04:57.320 --> 01:04:58.000
Uh, no.

995
01:04:58.000 --> 01:05:00.080
So that not the Facebook group itself.

996
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:05.840
So if you if you remember from I mentioned that you know when the when I mentioned the page of like

997
01:05:05.840 --> 01:05:10.880
what all is included in the in the rest intensive that is something that people have access to from

998
01:05:10.880 --> 01:05:16.800
the beginning that they join the the program and then but then they get but they no longer have

999
01:05:16.800 --> 01:05:21.360
access after the program ends. What they have access to is all the recordings. So you don't

1000
01:05:21.360 --> 01:05:27.360
have access to the Facebook group afterwards but you do have access to all of the the recordings

1001
01:05:27.360 --> 01:05:34.480
that we did during the week. It was during that weekend the rest and the rest retreat

1002
01:05:34.480 --> 01:05:38.640
as well as the supportive teachings that I added in the platform. The Facebook group

1003
01:05:38.640 --> 01:05:44.080
anyone's in there that you want to watch you'll want to watch them before March the 11th. Okay

1004
01:05:44.080 --> 01:05:49.440
I'm glad I asked because I'm going to be busy watching videos. I know well you know there's

1005
01:05:49.440 --> 01:05:56.400
almost yeah just know that that I don't know your soul and spirit have got a lot more than you know

1006
01:05:56.400 --> 01:06:01.680
than you're even consciously aware of. But there's so much information there's so much there.

1007
01:06:01.680 --> 01:06:07.040
I mean there's yeah I've been looking at those videos and oh my gosh there's just so much stuff

1008
01:06:07.040 --> 01:06:12.720
it's so good so good. Yeah it's just uh just over a long time of like just answering people's

1009
01:06:12.720 --> 01:06:19.760
questions. That's how I created all of those teachings is I ended up not doing as many

1010
01:06:19.760 --> 01:06:25.760
actually any of them I think any new teachings during this rest intensive but Rita will tell you

1011
01:06:25.840 --> 01:06:32.800
I did a lot of new teachings last rest intensive because of the types of questions people were

1012
01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:38.960
asking. I hadn't answered those I'd answered those questions a gajillion times but I hadn't

1013
01:06:38.960 --> 01:06:43.760
answered them in like I'd answered them in like fireside chats or private conversations

1014
01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:49.440
but not a standalone teaching and I suddenly realized okay wait a minute multiple people

1015
01:06:49.440 --> 01:06:55.200
are asking this question so let me create a standalone. So ended up that last rest intensive

1016
01:06:55.200 --> 01:06:59.200
I had so many questions that I thought hey you know what I'll go ahead and do a supportive

1017
01:06:59.200 --> 01:07:05.600
teaching on it and I've gotten to just pull from those this year this rest intensive because y'all

1018
01:07:05.600 --> 01:07:11.360
were asking some of those same questions. So if y'all hadn't I would have been you know doing some

1019
01:07:11.360 --> 01:07:16.640
maybe doing some of those uh teachings this time but I just had to do them last October or November.

1020
01:07:16.640 --> 01:07:22.560
So um so anyway that's what a lot of those are from are when people ask me questions if it's

1021
01:07:22.560 --> 01:07:27.040
something and I think you know what I think that I'm going to get this question a lot um and I want

1022
01:07:27.040 --> 01:07:32.720
to go in it's not a quick answer I want to really build context around this answer I'll do a teaching

1023
01:07:33.920 --> 01:07:39.520
so anyway so that's what a lot of those are populated from. Now the first uh uh just to

1024
01:07:39.520 --> 01:07:43.680
let everybody know what she's talking about if you go to the Facebook group and go to guides

1025
01:07:44.400 --> 01:07:48.960
you know right under the main picture of Jesus with the little boy again Facebook group not the

1026
01:07:48.960 --> 01:07:54.080
platform basically the Jesus the little boy same picture as in the one of the platform you look

1027
01:07:54.080 --> 01:07:59.520
below if you're on your computer you know it'll say something like about and whatever and one of

1028
01:07:59.520 --> 01:08:04.640
them says guides click on that and you'll see all of these teachings and you'll see I think three

1029
01:08:04.640 --> 01:08:09.840
different categories one is fireside chats all the way at the bottom but the other two the top

1030
01:08:09.840 --> 01:08:16.720
one is my original rest intensive series it was I was literally filmed in this kitchen it's so weird

1031
01:08:17.520 --> 01:08:23.680
back here three years later so those teachings are so good isn't that I wish you could you would

1032
01:08:23.680 --> 01:08:29.840
load them up on the platform they're so I'm glad I'm glad you like them yeah it's um would you know

1033
01:08:30.560 --> 01:08:38.240
that um that the people that um have access to both the what I call the kitchen series because

1034
01:08:38.240 --> 01:08:44.800
I did it in the kitchen that kitchen series and the ones in um uh or the ones that I professionally

1035
01:08:44.800 --> 01:08:49.680
did which are the ones you know that we all watch that weekend people that have access to both of

1036
01:08:49.680 --> 01:08:55.120
them say they go back to the kitchen series more I'm like really why those are so unprofessional

1037
01:08:55.120 --> 01:09:00.000
and I'm like chatting with all kinds of people no I think I think it was uh it was like where

1038
01:09:00.000 --> 01:09:04.240
you were at I think it's like maybe a place where you were at and where you were pouring out of you

1039
01:09:04.800 --> 01:09:10.560
like probably so revelation a lot of revelations yeah I'm glad you like when you talked about the

1040
01:09:10.560 --> 01:09:19.040
soul being out of the body like the soul like I was just like what yeah and I had that vision

1041
01:09:19.040 --> 01:09:23.359
as weird as it sounds to say I had that vision right here when I was standing right here in this

1042
01:09:23.359 --> 01:09:27.680
in this bathroom right right here um I was standing there in the bathroom one day and I

1043
01:09:27.680 --> 01:09:32.080
looked and all of a sudden all of these people like appeared in my mind's eye not in real life

1044
01:09:32.080 --> 01:09:36.640
but you know it's like wait just a second what's going on and people are coming out of other people

1045
01:09:37.200 --> 01:09:42.960
and I'm like I don't know what's going on so yeah that happened here and so I was able to all of

1046
01:09:42.960 --> 01:09:49.840
that God taught me so much here this is where God taught me about um not only that I start the rest

1047
01:09:49.840 --> 01:09:54.560
intensive and so all of that stuff like that vision all of that stuff was very fresh but God

1048
01:09:54.560 --> 01:09:59.680
taught me the word rest right over there he said it you know I was laying there and he said actually

1049
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:11.680
rest. Really? And then also I was here when I learned to choose that he loved me. So it was

1050
01:10:11.680 --> 01:10:17.200
this, that God had just really met me in this place. I've told my best friends, I was like,

1051
01:10:17.200 --> 01:10:24.080
if I could buy this place, I would. It's mine, you know, because the Lord just established so

1052
01:10:24.080 --> 01:10:28.880
much between he and I. So anyway, this, so all of those things that I tell you, all of those stories,

1053
01:10:28.880 --> 01:10:35.360
they literally happened where I am right now. And it's like, I don't know, it's 750 square foot

1054
01:10:35.360 --> 01:10:41.760
apartment or an 800 square foot apartment, something like that. And, and so it's not very

1055
01:10:41.760 --> 01:10:46.960
big. It's just very small and very intimate. And it was between me and the Lord. And this is,

1056
01:10:46.960 --> 01:10:51.440
so all of this stuff for me, it's very real. And as I always tell everybody in the rest intensive,

1057
01:10:51.440 --> 01:10:56.480
I've lived this and I speak out of what it is that I live. I speak out of what it is that I

1058
01:10:56.480 --> 01:11:01.120
personally believe in what I personally experienced and everybody else can just choose whether or not

1059
01:11:01.120 --> 01:11:04.720
they want to do that and whether or not it sounds good to them, you know, and whether or not they

1060
01:11:04.720 --> 01:11:12.480
feel a reaction or response in their own spirit from the, from God, when I speak these things.

1061
01:11:13.440 --> 01:11:20.240
So I didn't learn these things. I experienced them. And then God began to give me the words.

1062
01:11:20.240 --> 01:11:25.280
So I knew what I had to explain it to myself, let alone to someone else. So, so anyway,

1063
01:11:26.000 --> 01:11:30.800
all of those, all of those original ones were here in the, here in this kitchen, actually,

1064
01:11:30.800 --> 01:11:35.920
they were all very, I would do notes. I would write up some notes and then I would just jump

1065
01:11:35.920 --> 01:11:40.640
on live and just start going. So they weren't professional. They were the first times I'd ever

1066
01:11:40.640 --> 01:11:45.680
taught some of that stuff. Cause prior to that, I'd always taught it in context of like,

1067
01:11:46.240 --> 01:11:51.760
not counseling. And what's it called? Consulting where I was doing business consulting for people,

1068
01:11:51.760 --> 01:11:58.880
for Christian entrepreneurs about how to operate their businesses in rest. And I would just teach

1069
01:11:58.880 --> 01:12:04.400
them these print, these ideas in the moment, like they would ask me a question because,

1070
01:12:04.400 --> 01:12:12.400
so I didn't have any curriculum before. I just started, they would ask me a question and I would

1071
01:12:12.480 --> 01:12:17.760
I, I just started, they would ask me a question. Hey, Ashley, this is, we would just jump on it on,

1072
01:12:18.400 --> 01:12:22.400
on a session, private consultation session. And then they'd start asking me questions and I'm

1073
01:12:22.400 --> 01:12:26.800
like, okay, here's the answer to the questions. And then, so when I started the rest intensive,

1074
01:12:26.800 --> 01:12:31.840
I was like, okay, how am I going to do this? No, one's asking me questions. I'm just supposed to

1075
01:12:31.840 --> 01:12:37.360
teach. What am I going to teach? Because I always used to teach to questions, but if I don't have

1076
01:12:37.360 --> 01:12:42.400
questions, what am I going to say? You know? And so the Lord just said, okay, well first teach me

1077
01:12:42.400 --> 01:12:47.200
about the teach about their love. It teaches them about my love. So I'm like, okay. So the first day

1078
01:12:47.200 --> 01:12:52.880
I like at late at night, I hit live and I said, okay, now we're going to talk about God's love.

1079
01:12:52.880 --> 01:12:57.280
And then I would talk about it. And that was that I had written some notes and you could see me like

1080
01:12:57.280 --> 01:13:00.720
periodically looking at the notes and whatever. And then the next day I'm like, well, what's on

1081
01:13:00.720 --> 01:13:04.880
my heart? Well, based on all the questions yesterday, well, let's talk about this today.

1082
01:13:04.880 --> 01:13:12.880
You know? And that's how I created the rest. It's very, very organic, very spirited. So I'm so glad

1083
01:13:12.880 --> 01:13:19.920
that you liked it. It was very authentic. It's very real. Yeah. So how did you get to see those,

1084
01:13:19.920 --> 01:13:28.000
Diana? Were you on, are they? I just, when I, I just saw them on there, um, cause you know,

1085
01:13:28.000 --> 01:13:32.160
the guide. Oh, are they on the Facebook? Are they on the Facebook? They're on the Facebook

1086
01:13:32.160 --> 01:13:38.400
on guides and just look at the rest. But you just keep scrolling down and then you'll see videos.

1087
01:13:40.320 --> 01:13:44.160
Okay. Okay. All right. And then what did you say, Ashley got, how did God

1088
01:13:44.160 --> 01:13:47.840
teach you about his love? How did you say it at that, at your apartment there?

1089
01:13:47.840 --> 01:13:53.360
That's where you, um, remember that when I was, I didn't remember when I was telling y'all about

1090
01:13:53.360 --> 01:13:58.480
that. Maybe like when I, about faith where I told God, um, where I was like, you know, Lord,

1091
01:13:58.480 --> 01:14:02.400
I just don't feel loved by you. I've always wanted to feel loved by you. Never experienced

1092
01:14:02.400 --> 01:14:06.720
it. And I, or I've never felt like I was experiencing your love. And it's very frustrating

1093
01:14:06.720 --> 01:14:10.720
to me. And it feels like it's your fault because it feels like I've done everything and you're not

1094
01:14:10.720 --> 01:14:16.000
coming through on your end of the bargain. And then I realized, well, if it's anybody's fault,

1095
01:14:16.000 --> 01:14:20.000
it's always mine. You know, it's not God. So what have I done? You know, what have I,

1096
01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:24.320
what is it that I've done? And what is, I've not done. I thought I've done everything. I have read

1097
01:14:24.320 --> 01:14:28.400
the Bible from cover to cover. I've tried to obey all the laws and all of the things that it says

1098
01:14:28.400 --> 01:14:33.760
that God wants me to do. And I still don't feel his love. So is there anything that I haven't done?

1099
01:14:34.400 --> 01:14:39.920
And I got really serious with myself. So is there anything really honestly that I haven't done? And

1100
01:14:39.920 --> 01:14:45.840
I thought, well, I haven't chosen. I thought I've tried to convince myself. I've tried to feel it.

1101
01:14:45.840 --> 01:14:51.760
I've tried to find it, tried to find his love and see it, you know, and, and, and the things that

1102
01:14:51.760 --> 01:14:56.800
would happen to me and I didn't work. It's like, so what's the one thing I haven't done?

1103
01:14:56.800 --> 01:14:59.760
I thought I haven't chosen it. I haven't just decided.

1104
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:03.160
That if he said it's true, then it's just going to be true.

1105
01:15:03.160 --> 01:15:04.880
That's just, there's just all there is to it.

1106
01:15:04.880 --> 01:15:06.300
It is true then.

1107
01:15:06.300 --> 01:15:11.960
And I'm going to make believe it feels like I'm making believe, even though I knew I wasn't,

1108
01:15:11.960 --> 01:15:13.800
it feels like I'm making it up.

1109
01:15:13.800 --> 01:15:15.440
I'm just believing that it's true.

1110
01:15:15.440 --> 01:15:18.840
But it was like, I've got to make it, I've got to choose that it's reality.

1111
01:15:18.840 --> 01:15:20.080
And so it was right over there.

1112
01:15:20.080 --> 01:15:27.240
I was laying, I was, I was, um, procrastinating, getting up for, to work on building a business

1113
01:15:27.240 --> 01:15:33.560
that wasn't going anywhere and wasn't successful and I wasn't getting any leads and whatever.

1114
01:15:33.560 --> 01:15:37.920
And so, um, felt very unloved and very unseen and all of that.

1115
01:15:37.920 --> 01:15:43.280
And so I just decided, okay, God, if, if God says he loves me, then I'm going to choose

1116
01:15:43.280 --> 01:15:44.280
that.

1117
01:15:44.280 --> 01:15:45.280
He loves me.

1118
01:15:45.280 --> 01:15:46.280
Okay.

1119
01:15:46.280 --> 01:15:47.280
Wow.

1120
01:15:47.280 --> 01:15:48.280
I now live in a world in which he loves me.

1121
01:15:48.280 --> 01:15:52.120
So I get out of bed and I start making the bed and I'm like, okay, God loves me right

1122
01:15:52.120 --> 01:15:53.120
now.

1123
01:15:53.120 --> 01:15:54.120
I'm choosing it.

1124
01:15:54.120 --> 01:15:55.120
Oh my gosh.

1125
01:15:55.120 --> 01:15:56.120
Well, isn't that interesting?

1126
01:15:56.120 --> 01:15:57.120
God loves me.

1127
01:15:58.000 --> 01:15:59.000
I get into the shower, I get in the shower right over here.

1128
01:15:59.000 --> 01:16:02.600
And then I'm just like, okay, God is enjoying me right now.

1129
01:16:02.600 --> 01:16:03.600
He's looking on me.

1130
01:16:03.600 --> 01:16:08.520
He's delighting in me while I'm taking a shower and I'm enjoying the physical effects of how

1131
01:16:08.520 --> 01:16:11.360
he created water and how it created soap.

1132
01:16:11.360 --> 01:16:15.000
And I'm actually thoroughly appreciative and I'm actually enjoying this process.

1133
01:16:15.000 --> 01:16:18.720
And he loves the fact that I'm in delighting in something he's enjoying.

1134
01:16:18.720 --> 01:16:21.440
He just, he's just, he's just looking on me.

1135
01:16:21.440 --> 01:16:23.240
He's just so excited.

1136
01:16:23.240 --> 01:16:25.920
And I'm like choosing that all of this is true.

1137
01:16:25.920 --> 01:16:30.000
And then I get out and I get ready and I'm like putting on my makeup and doing my hair

1138
01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:32.280
and I'm like, oh, he just loves me doing this.

1139
01:16:32.280 --> 01:16:36.520
He just, he's just, you know, showering on his love on me and he doesn't find anything

1140
01:16:36.520 --> 01:16:37.520
wrong with me.

1141
01:16:37.520 --> 01:16:40.800
And he's not looking on me saying, actually you should be doing something else instead

1142
01:16:40.800 --> 01:16:43.240
or you should be hurting or why haven't you done this?

1143
01:16:43.240 --> 01:16:48.320
Or he's not looking at me thinking glass half empty, you know, this, so I kept telling myself

1144
01:16:48.320 --> 01:16:50.800
that then I made breakfast like I did.

1145
01:16:50.800 --> 01:16:54.640
And then I'm thinking about all of this and I'm choosing it in every moment.

1146
01:16:54.680 --> 01:16:59.480
And that's what changed everything for me and changed me into choosing that God loved

1147
01:16:59.480 --> 01:17:02.000
me.

1148
01:17:02.000 --> 01:17:06.880
And where I began to finally experience and feel that he did.

1149
01:17:06.880 --> 01:17:12.480
So after the faith came the experience and the evidence, because I chose it first.

1150
01:17:12.480 --> 01:17:15.480
So I began to see it, I began to experience it.

1151
01:17:15.480 --> 01:17:16.480
I began to live it.

1152
01:17:16.480 --> 01:17:20.880
I began to feel it, but I had to choose it before I could feel it.

1153
01:17:21.120 --> 01:17:28.080
I had to come into agreement with it in order for it to become reality in my existence.

1154
01:17:28.080 --> 01:17:32.680
And anyway, so that's what I was talking about.

1155
01:17:32.680 --> 01:17:33.680
That's good.

1156
01:17:33.680 --> 01:17:34.680
Thank you.

1157
01:17:34.680 --> 01:17:35.680
You're welcome.

1158
01:17:35.680 --> 01:17:36.680
Oh, wow.

1159
01:17:36.680 --> 01:17:38.240
I did not realize how late it was.

1160
01:17:38.240 --> 01:17:40.200
We're just chatting away.

1161
01:17:40.200 --> 01:17:44.400
So I will see y'all on Tuesday for the rest group.

1162
01:17:44.400 --> 01:17:47.440
I hope y'all are all going to have a really good night.

1163
01:17:47.440 --> 01:17:49.360
I'm not cutting anybody off in line.

1164
01:17:49.360 --> 01:17:51.560
No one's like holding some very important question.

1165
01:17:51.560 --> 01:17:52.560
Okay.

1166
01:17:52.560 --> 01:17:53.560
All right.

1167
01:17:53.560 --> 01:17:55.200
Well, y'all, you're welcome.

1168
01:17:55.200 --> 01:17:57.040
Well, y'all have a good night.

1169
01:17:57.040 --> 01:17:58.040
Yeah.

1170
01:17:58.040 --> 01:17:59.040
Jump on the Facebook group this week.

1171
01:17:59.040 --> 01:18:05.040
If y'all wanted to see any of those, any of those teachings, like I said, the, the original

1172
01:18:05.040 --> 01:18:09.360
rest intensive series, which is 13 part series that I did here in the kitchen, that one's

1173
01:18:09.360 --> 01:18:10.360
at the top.

1174
01:18:10.360 --> 01:18:12.400
Once you hit guides, it's at the top.

1175
01:18:12.400 --> 01:18:15.920
And then if you scroll down, you'll see like all the supportive teachings.

1176
01:18:15.920 --> 01:18:20.240
Some of them are ones that I've added to the group that y'all have access to.

1177
01:18:20.240 --> 01:18:25.520
And just because I've added, you know, whichever ones, you know, people specifically mentioned

1178
01:18:25.520 --> 01:18:31.360
this specifically, that there were particular questions about, I added those in the end.

1179
01:18:31.360 --> 01:18:34.680
And so some of them will, you'll recognize, and then some will just be additional ones

1180
01:18:34.680 --> 01:18:38.120
that y'all might find helpful to watch because they were specific questions that other people

1181
01:18:38.120 --> 01:18:39.120
asked.

1182
01:18:39.120 --> 01:18:40.120
So, okay.

1183
01:18:40.120 --> 01:18:43.480
Well, I will see you on Tuesday then.

1184
01:18:43.480 --> 01:18:44.920
And I hope y'all have a good night.

1185
01:18:44.920 --> 01:18:45.920
Bye guys.

1186
01:18:45.920 --> 01:18:46.920
Love y'all.

1187
01:18:46.920 --> 01:18:46.920