Hey.
All right.
How you doing?
There we go.
Good.
How are you?
Doing good.
Having some interesting technical challenges.
Yeah.
I mean, having some interesting.
Technical challenges, but other than that.
Doing good.
Same here.
Are you real?
I think it is.
Meeting. So we're good.
Yes.
Hey, Amy.
Hey, how'd you get in step?
It was asking me for a password.
Me two, I fought it about four times.
Yeah.
Sometimes you forget to click that button that requires a password.
I thought maybe you'd do that for the new group or something just to
keep the riffraff out.
I have been hearing about.
What do you call that? Yeah.
The what is that called? Zoom bombing or whatever.
Yeah.
So, but I've never had any issues though.
I had a person on.
A work call once.
And I was doing a training for work and I'm like, who is this person?
And they, they didn't have their picture up there. And I asked my boss,
I'm like, do you want me to kick him off? Cause I was hosting it.
He's like, no, we have a lot of new people.
And it's not like it's a private session or something. It's just,
it's a group group session.
Yeah.
Well, I just got caught up today on this.
Both lives this week. I'm like, where have I been?
I don't have Facebook notifications on.
So I always just kind of check Facebook every now and then.
Yeah, I do the same thing. I don't, I don't have notifications.
For my Facebook either. So, cause yeah,
I'd be getting them all the time.
Okay.
Good to see y'all.
What was I saying?
Yes.
Yeah, the notification. So I don't do this anymore, but you know,
You're really quiet, Ashley.
I have you turned all the way up and I can just hear you.
Okay.
What?
It's just, you're far away from the mic.
I think.
I wonder what the mic is on my computer.
You're sitting back. You're usually up closer.
It's like you have more.
Yeah.
Okay.
Can you hear me now?
Yeah. See, that's much better. You just move up a few inches.
I can't hear me throughout the, whatever I decided by the way, what.
I have.
Hearing loss. I hate to admit it, but I'm sorry.
I didn't know that till one day I was listening to a movie with my
daughter.
And we were sharing headphones and I had one.
And she was like, mom, it's your ear.
Give me that other one. It's better. She goes, mom, it's your ear.
I'm like, Oh my gosh.
So like one ear is really bad. I'm like, that's awful.
I can't hear you.
Okay.
So, um, because, uh, uh,
The.
Um, my computer is not as good.
Uh, you know, the microphone I didn't think was maybe as good.
The quality of the video, the camera was good.
And so I decided to just do it on my phone.
Oh, anyway.
So I'm having to do that because, but then now my point is that now I'm looking at zoom and the quality looks better than
It did.
Earlier, I don't know. It just looks really grainy. I'm wondering if you know I'm wondering if it's
Small if it looks fine, but it's because it's so large on my computer when I'm recording it that the quality just looks bad because this is looking better. So, oh,
Huh.
My quality is really bad. Does my frame look really, really, really bad because it must just be the camera on my laptop.
Okay.
Well,
I found it.
I've seen you record something for work that you posted on your on Facebook, and I just assumed it was on your computer and it looked like good quality, but
Your iPhone for that.
I don't have an iPhone. It's just a cheap phone, but it's better than this laptop.
Okay.
Well, it's about 10 after and so we can get started. Does anyone. Sorry, just I burned myself when I was making my dinner. So figuring out what was wrong with my finger and oh yeah, it's no big deal. It's just like a full mold. It's not much. I was
I was frying up some of the venison summer sausage that my friends brought me and I hit the side of the pan. I was doing it with a knife, turning it all over the knife and just got a little sick with the edge. So does anyone have
Any questions from, I don't know, just what's been going on with y'all or from the lives that y'all were watching this week. We've got one more live tomorrow about
And about that I mentioned about spiritual leadership in relationships in business. So, but, um, and then, and then of course we'll still have stuff in the new group. I'll still be coming on live periodically doing stuff, but
It not to the extent that I was doing this one. And then, of course, y'all get to read y'all get to see the same information that we've talked about only new videos. And I've noticed that when I'm doing the new videos. I'm talking about it in different ways. I'm mentioning, you know, things that I didn't
That I didn't mention before. And you know how it is. It's just, it could be the same teaching and it's just a different way of doing it, but it's a different way of doing it.
Totally different. So anyway, y'all have some new material if you're interested. Yeah. So does anyone have anything to start with. So I got nothing. I've got no questions.
I do
I hope that I'm coming with the answers.
My questions. I've got to take
Yeah, you're supposed to have the answers for this group so
Right, you're amazing.
I have a couple things since they're both the others are muted. I guess I don't have anything right now. So I'll jump in. First of all, I listened to both of the lives and this week this morning. So I took in a lot of information.
It was just phenomenal Ashley just can't get over how life changing how profound you you are you're teaching the Holy Spirit.
Really, and I call you every day.
Good. It's so good. And I know sometimes when you stop and you go, I don't know if that's clear and I'm yelling at the recorded. It's good. It's good.
Did not sound good coming out to my
Having done a lot of videos myself. I know what you mean. And, and, you know, one of the things that
The first thing that I wrote on here listening to you was I I always would prepare my
Things. And one reason is that is because I speak to young moms and I know they don't have a lot of time. So I better say what I'm going to say really quickly and I just committed to making my
Videos it first it started like five minutes and I try. And now it's like I'll keep them under 10 minutes. Sometimes there's seven
But I don't like him to go more than that. So I'll prepare, but I've also noticed over the years that when I just in a spontaneous like I can preach to the walls so good.
And it's like, then I try to put it on paper and conceptualize it and teach it.
But, but, you know, and I, and I had a mentor, as far as speaking goes, he would say the same thing like speak from your heart, you know, have a
Kind of a loose outline. We're going to talk about, but just let the spirit flow through you. So having experienced you you all this time and then hearing you talk about, you know,
I wrote down. I don't even know what you were saying.
I wrote down. I don't even know what you were
saying, but you know how you hear what the Holy Spirit is saying to you about the message and
you were saying not a formula, the Spirit generates the results and you were talking about getting
clients. So it wasn't, this wasn't really about how you present or anything, but just creating
the environment and being authentic and that be what you want to attract and to focus on yourself
and be your true self. And what I wrote down was no rehearsal allowed the Spirit to flow.
So that's kind of what the Lord was saying to me. And like I said, I've experienced that. It's just
like that fear of getting up in front of people, even if it's on camera and being able to shift
to that gear. And because I, like I said, I, I try to be time constrained. Like you can talk for
an hour. I can talk for an hour and it will all come out eventually. But when I want to speak
to a direct specific topic for five minutes, you know, I have to, I, I felt like I have to know,
I mean, I would rehearse and say it word for word, even though it was my words,
you know, just so I could get everything in there. I would know what I was going to say.
I would say it and, you know, get it done. But I don't know if that's the best method, even though
it is inspired. It's Holy Spirit inspired. But anyway, I'm just thinking out loud now that
really wasn't a question. You can talk about that if you want. But what, what, what are your
thoughts about that? I mean, you know, I'm speaking to young parents. They're very busy.
They don't have an hour a lot of times to sit down and listen to something. And so I tried to make a
little bite-sized chunks, give them one point to take this, think about this or try this.
So what are your thoughts about that? Yeah. So the key really is to own the information,
to embody what it, to embody what it is that, you know, you're selling, what you're passionate about,
why you're passionate about it, et cetera, as opposed to just spitting off information and
spitting off. Yeah. Sorry. I thought it was an alert. Just spitting off information. You're,
you're that you've researched or whatever, not anything wrong with that. But I'm just saying
that it, if you, that, that needs to be the minority, not the majority. The majority is
you just, you just need to be and live the thing. And then you're, and then as you express
that information or whatever, through your spirit, it's, it comes out more succinctly. It comes out
more, how would you put it? You end up dropping gold nuggets and pearls faster and more often
than you realize, because we know information and we think, well, everybody else knows this too.
This is easy. Like sometimes some of this stuff that I feel like I'm expressing,
you know, in, in these teachings just feels basic to me. When I heard it though,
I have to remember it was not basic. It was revolutionary to me. And I've got to remember
that I, I've taught enough. I've taught enough in corporate settings. I've taught enough in,
in, in school settings to, to realize that what we think, what the presenter thinks of as easy
or as basic really is not basic to other people. So in other words, we can actually say a lot more
value in a short amount of time than we give ourselves credit for, is my point. And so,
but again, we can prepare ourselves by truly owning the information, truly believing in it,
et cetera, but there's nothing wrong with preparing. Again, that's part of your spirit,
whatever you want to do. The problem is if we're preparing because we don't trust ourselves,
that's the problem. The problem isn't the preparing. The problem is why we're preparing.
And so there's, there's no right or wrong to what it is you're doing. You just think about,
so what is it that I'm doing? Am I, did I, was this all from my spirit? Was this, is this all
spirit led, et cetera. And I'm just trying to be very concise and like take all this stuff out and
remove all of these extra words and just say it like this instead of like this, there's nothing
wrong with that at all. So there's no should or shouldn't or whatever. But I just wanted to
mention, it's important that we trust ourselves and that we give credit to the fact that we know
more than we think that we do. And it is more empowering to other people than we realize that
it is. Because again, what's revolutionary to them is not the information, it's our spirit.
They could have heard that information 500 times, but when they hear it from you, suddenly they get
it and their life is transformed because it's the spirit, not the information.
Life is not transformed by information.
It's not.
You're right.
Okay.
I think you're doing good.
Yeah.
And I know that some of that was, like you said, doubt in my ability to communicate effectively
without preparing.
So there's a mixture there.
And I am a word Nazi, so I don't like to have extremes.
So anyway, so there's, it's just, yeah, like everything else, it's, there's no right or
wrong.
It's what the Lord is speaking to you, what works for you for the right reasons.
All of that.
Yeah.
I'm going to make sure no one's messaging me telling me they can't get in.
Well, Holly said she couldn't get on tonight because she had a big client.
Oh, that's exciting.
Yeah.
Cheryl, did you have something I see you're unmuted?
Yeah.
I don't know if this really connects to anything we've been talking about.
Could you maybe speak to helping us focus when our attention is diffused so broadly?
I just feel like, I just feel like sometimes I get so, I get my hands in so many pies that
I can't, I can't focus on anything and do well at anything.
Any one area.
Does that make sense?
I'll second that.
Yes.
I feel though that I kind of need a little bit more context.
I know what you're saying, but at the same time, to make the answer a little more succinct.
Can you give me, I don't know, like a, like an example, like along the middle of this,
but I need to be thinking about this or how do I juggle all of these things that, I don't
know, can you provide a little more clarification or context?
I feel like it's happened the worst, like just during the last few weeks, trying to
keep up with the homeschooling and the, and like kind of trying to learn what I can do
to be involved civically in my state with some things.
And then I just feel like it's completely distracted me from my business.
And like when I sit down and I'm like, I need to spend some time with business now, I don't
even know what to do.
Like it takes all my energy and my creativity.
Yeah.
Does that make sense?
Yeah.
So part of it, very interestingly, so this is, this is completely related to what we're
talking about because it actually has to do with a lack of rest in the mind.
I was wondering if, as I was talking about, I was like, that goes back to.
That's right.
Yeah.
So it just goes back to the fact that we, we can't quite let go of something because
we think we're going to drop it.
And so we're trying to hold that one and hold this other one and hold this other and hold
this other one while we do this, but we'll, we'll, we can't, we can't focus on this.
If we're, if our arms of everything else, we've got to drop them.
And one of the reasons that we don't drop them, it likes like mentally or whatever is
or emotionally.
In other words, we're, we're holding, we're holding on to something and we're not releasing
it.
We're creating our own resistance.
So because again, we're holding on to something, we just need to release for a minute.
We're not releasing it for forever.
We're just releasing it for a little bit and then, and then realizing that this is important
and we assign, you know, particular time to it, you know, say for instance, if we're worried
that I'm going to kind of fall through the cracks over here, you know, and which is,
which is means that we're not in a place of rest, if we're worrying, that's why we're
not wanting to put something down.
So for instance, the fact that people say that women are really good at multitasking
and they say that it is, as if it's a good thing, sure.
There's an element to which is the thing, the vast majority of the way that we multitask,
however, is not how.
It's not restful, and it's stressful because it means that we're worrying, and it means
that we're concerned that we can't let something go, or else we're going to lose it, or it's
going to overcome us, or it's going to go into chaos, or in other words, we're trying
to control our world too much.
It'll be fine.
It'll be there in five minutes, so we'll put it back.
And if we're worried about it, if we're like, well, I'm going to forget about it, no, just
write ourselves a note so that it's out of our head, or we set a timer of how long we're
going to be working on whatever, but we remember that, no, now's the time that I've determined
I'm going to focus on this, and the only way that I can actually do this effectively is
if I release everything else that's not irresponsible, and it's perfectly fine.
You'll notice the same thing emotionally with memories, with emotions that we're in, and
traumas that we're dealing with, or maybe things that, I wish I could think of how to
describe this, but I don't know, things that have been happening maybe the past few days,
the past few weeks, or the past year, that we're holding onto, trying so desperately
to not forget, we don't realize it is actually taking up our brain capacity, and it's not
kind of like being zip-filed and categorized for us to access later.
We're keeping it open all the time, and so it's taking up a lot of our brain power, taking
up a lot of our emotions, and so we don't have enough room for new things, so that's
part of the reason why when we move into new things, whether they are like what you're
talking about, all these different things that you can be involved in, you know, homeschooling
your children, and then civic duties and responsibilities, and, you know, your business, and church,
or whatever else, when, whether it's on a practical sense, or on an emotional and in-memory
sense, when we're holding, if you write things down, then, and I'm not talking about all
the practical stuff, but like especially let's think about for your memory.
If you just write it down, it's like closing a window on an internet browser.
You've got 500 windows open. It's taking up all of your RAM. You know, your computer starts
running really, really slowly, even though you're only looking at one tab. They're all open.
We have to close them. Now, interestingly, I don't know what y'all think about this, but
the practice of meditation, and no, we're not talking about the creepy
stuff from India or new age stuff. We're talking about where you get your mind to
stop and slow down, and it allows your body to rest, and by the way, in, in, if you get yourself,
if you move your brain waves from beta all the way down to theta, if you do that, which is right
above, what is that one? I don't remember what that one is, but, you know, I think it's like right
above. If you move it into theta, it actually allows your body to get 10 times more rest than
it does when it's sleeping, so when, and when you move your brain waves down into theta, in other words,
when you move your place, when you move your brain down into a place of rest, it shuts down all those
windows that we have open, and we don't realize we have open, and so what we have to do is once we've
done that, once we've closed all those windows, and we try to, try to like, and then we rest for a little
bit, and then we try to take, we have to forcefully reopen all the windows in order to, because
they're closed, so it's not like, oh, they're just closed for a little bit, and then as soon as we
went back, they're all, they're all open. We have to forcefully open all of them, so it's really,
it's really helpful for us to understand, and it, it's helpful for us to see it kind of in terms of
like an internet browser with lots of windows, whether it's all these practical things that you
have going on, or it's all these emotional things that you're trying to, trying to handle at the same
time, or it's a whole bunch of things that you're trying to keep in your memory, and you're not
journaling them to just get them out of your head, and know that, hey, they're there, so you don't
ever have to forget that they happened, and you can look it back at them at any time. Even stuff
like that, what's called the data dump, all these creative ideas you're trying to keep in your head,
you won't write down yet, you know, you're like, oh, well, I need to, I need to think about that a little
longer, what does it have to put it down and out of your head, because otherwise it's taking up all
of your, in your mind, and it can't be creative. Creativity can only come when there's lots of room
and lots of space. The tighter and more constricted it is, we can't be creative, so.
I don't know. I feel like I just talked all over the place. Did that help?
Yeah, it gave me some good ideas. Yeah.
Okay. So you're welcome.
But yeah, just if you just put aside time,
and I don't know how structured you want to be about this personally.
I'm not a big fan of like extreme structure,
but that's just how I like to live my life.
And but if you just kind of get yourself an idea of,
okay, I'm going to spend my time working on like for the next even five minutes.
It doesn't have to be long five minutes.
I'm going to help so-and-so with their homework just for five.
Because like they've asked you a question as opposed to thinking.
Oh, I'm right in the middle of something.
So I'm just kind of kind of dabble over but I'm still holding on to this.
Drop the thing for five minutes,
like completely drop it not get over here completely.
Don't think about it anymore.
If you are concerned and get lost up and you can set a timer.
So tell Siri or whatever to do five minutes,
but give yourself Holy to it
and you will be able to get stuff done faster
because you're putting all of your brain power and energy and emotion towards it.
Yeah, helpful.
Yeah.
Yeah, like yesterday.
I was emptying the dishwasher and fixing lunch
and teaching a language arts lesson all at the same time.
I know it sounds like it's actually productive,
but it's counterproductive.
They say that our brains actually were not made to multitask
that they were made to focus on one thing at a time
and we in it sounds counter
because we think oh my word the world is going to go to hell
in a handbasket while I'm working on this one thing for five minutes
and that's a lie that women have blues.
We do one thing at a time
and it doesn't have to be for an hour it could be for five minutes
and then another five minutes another minute.
It's really not good to switch our minds that quickly
because every time we do or is shifting a gear
and it actually takes a lot of time
but the point is it's better than trying to juggle all of them at once.
So if I've watched it,
I have lived it and I have watched people
that are that are considered super multitaskers.
They don't get nearly as much done in the quality
that other people do that.
It looks like it because they look busy
and they you can ask them about anything
and they can tell you a little bit of all kinds of stuff.
So what they seem like they got it all together is alive.
Anyway, yeah, you really will do yourself a favor
and get exactly what you want faster
and with higher quality if you if you segment even for this one.
Yeah, can you line my kids up and tell them that for me?
One at a time.
I know.
I have four girls.
That's why through the day I'll start on one one direction
and that's all I do through the day
is I just kind of go back and forth like bouncing.
So I think one just right now.
Yeah, my daughter who's 21 and home for a little bit now
told me the other day mom just slow down.
You do you try to do everything so fast
and I've been thinking about that
and I realized that when I I don't you don't get any more done
when you're kind of rushing through things
and you have a hurried mentality.
My mom was like that.
She had 10 kids.
I've learned that because I had eight kids
and so you're always there's always so many things waiting
and but I've just taken note of it lately
that I don't have any reason to rush anymore.
You know, I don't have even have a reason so just
But you know, you've been practicing life a certain way
for so long that you just have to stop
and look at yourself and go I need to stop that.
So it's probably a similar thing to the multitasking is feeling
like you always have to hurry to get everything done.
So you won't have enough time to do it all.
The one thing I was going to just add
what you said is that you talked about dropping down
into that Theta brainwave state.
Now, how do you you do that through meditation or just
so all that meditation is it sounds like a really scary
like, you know for Eastern word really meditation is just
getting your brain down to Theta.
It's not like practice and whatever there's tools
and stuff that we have that people have associated.
the whole meditation thing, but it's just getting your brain down to theta. That's what meditation
is. And so, yeah, that's very helpful. I didn't know what I thought about all of that. And then
I just started, I started practicing it with the Lord in the same place. And I was like,
discipline Nathan. And I would, my body and my brain would get a shocking amount of rest
in a short amount of time. And I don't remember everything. I was sleeping better,
everything. It was just wild. And because your body, when it's, when it's able to start resting
and it realizes, okay, there's nothing that we have to do, it starts repairing itself.
And it also starts releasing emotional traumas that have, that have buried themselves in stress
that have buried themselves deep down physically into the body as physical chemicals. And it
begins to release all of that. I mean, stuff that, I mean, if you do, if you go down into theta
for long periods of time, I mean, over, over season, well, then you can actually release
traumas that are like decades old. I mean, it's, it's really wild anyway, because that it's,
it's not that you're releasing the, the traumas, you're not releasing the beliefs that you held,
you're releasing the effects that those, that, that, that those traumas that held in the body,
the poisons that it put in the ways that it, the ways that it housed it, et cetera. So in other
words, it's almost like going to the doctor. It doesn't change the reason why your blood pressure
is high, which could be because you are stressed and you believe that you're that, that God's
abandoned you and you're the only one who can take care of everything. So the doctor doesn't
fix the problem. He just fixes the effects that have resulted in the body from the problem,
but we can continue to make it happen. So it, that's what, that's what meditation is when I'm,
and it's, again, that's a really scary word to send people. It used to be to me of like,
oh man, it's heresy. It, once I discovered that, uh, that scientifically what it is,
as opposed to like a religious stuff that people add to it, once I discovered scientifically what
it is, wow, that is so interesting. It's just dropping yourself down into, into theta, which
theta waves are just, um, cause y'all may remember that wave is, is a lower wave frequency. So it's
where the waves are slower, which probably all know this cause you're all homeschooled children.
And then you may remember from way back in high school, we learned that. Um, but yeah,
the waves are just slower. So your brainwaves are just, it's a place of rest. You're also much more
creative. Fascinating. Okay. Talking about creativity. So Edison realized this about himself,
that he was the most creative right before he went to sleep, which means he's in theta because
you're dropping your brainwaves down. You're very heightened in beta. That's where we're at. That's
where probably I am right now. Really, really fast, but you drop yourself down into theta.
And that's right before you go to sleep, which is that Delta. Yeah. Delta wave right before you go
down to Delta, you're hit theta. And, um, and so your brainwaves are slow, but you're still a,
but you're still awake. So what Edison used to do is that's where he would come up with his
bright ideas. And, um, if you like, if he had an issue or something and he was puzzling it,
he would, he would, he would put himself in a chair, put a metal pan right below his, uh,
right by his, I don't know, his knee or whatever. And then he would have his hand palm out on like
the arm rest with a metal ball in it. And well, his arm would be on the arm rest, but not the,
but not the hand. And he would do it on purpose like that. So that just as he was going to sleep,
you know, his, his, his muscles are relaxing and he dropped the ball, the metal ball would hit the
wake up so he could remember what it was that he'd been thinking about in theta. Otherwise you,
you hit, think of all of these great ideas and you go to sleep and then you, and then you don't,
they never come into your consciousness. So what he used to do is he used to wake himself
up out of theta so that he could remember the creative ideas that came up with them.
So that was interesting. So that, uh, so when you slow your brainwaves down, you're most creative
when you are in beta, you're very active and you're very driven towards a particular goal
and you're trying to achieve or accomplish something. But when you're in theta, which
is where we need to be, you know, need to always, you know, impress, well, then you can, um, uh,
then you, uh, can, you're able to be much more creative.
I'll go ahead.
So for your meditation like do you have an app that you use or do you like what does that practice look like?
What I would do there are some really
Christian
Like it works
Trying to think of what they're called really but Christian instrumental music
pieces on YouTube
I like and I'll
Post that group after this
It's called be still and it's really pretty. I've got all of these different and a different Christian songs
But I did and it's all instrumental and it's more gentle than some of the others or you could listen to rain
You can you know
How to get those apps or those up those things on YouTube where it's just rain or it's like trickling water or whatever makes you
feel relaxed
For me that it's that that music that helps me usually the most
and so I do that so that there's noise and
Because I've noticed that we in complete silence sometimes my mind tends to wander but I can allow myself
Carried along the wave of music
Yeah
but it just it just helped me because it just kind of like picks me up and carries me and carries me along as opposed to
Is it you know, it's supposed to me it feels like I have to try harder sometimes silence
Also, you'll notice that if you don't well, then you'll hear the ticking of the clock
Or you'll hear these tiny little bitty sounds that you never ever notice
But suddenly the silence you're in and they're jarring. I mean, it's like this
Bird a mile away and you can hear him, you know
And so if you have this if you have just a little bit of music, it's helpful
So I that's what I do in the end and then
You have to well, there's different ways to do it
What I started out with which was the most helpful for me because I had so much going on in my head
I didn't know how to not think I did not know how to not
Have something going on in my mind and seeing something in front of my eyes, so to speak in my imagination
so what I did is
I
Would close my eyes get myself in a very comfortable position
Just sitting, you know with your with your I don't know whatever
So good, you know your feet flat on the floor or your feet up or whatever and then have your back supported
And then what I did everyone's going to be different. Some people like their hands down on their on their and on their legs
I liked my hands up like this two reasons one
It was very relaxing to me and the other it felt like a gesture of vulnerable
vulnerable
surrendered and
Open to receptivity from the Lord
So for me, that was that that clicked in my head and that worked
So I do that and I did that I had a guess it was yesterday
I
Guess it's so relaxing. Anyway, I would just sit like that and I would just listen to the music and again
I would completely blank out my mind. I literally don't think of anything. I mean anything
Except and so it's like I'm just looking at blackness
And then if I needed something to focus on I would make a white light really far away
And then if I needed to have a meeting I would tell myself that was Jesus
I'm like, so it felt like I was he was with me, you know
But I had to make sure to not like think things about him
Oh, I love him and I wonder what he looks like and you know
It just just know he's there and then what you're gonna notice is thoughts keep coming into your head. So here's the trick
The thoughts keep coming into your head and think of them kind of like are like a person who's in an airplane
Who has is going is in there in an airplane for the very first time and
They're draw in and they're they're way high up and then all of a sudden the plane starts, you know
Descend to to land and it's in you're going towards the clouds because now you're about the clouds one towards the club
Well, if you've never flown before and you don't know much like maybe you know
We were kids and we flew for the first time we think oh my word. We're gonna run into the club
You know that the cloud must be solid we're gonna run into it and it and that's not true we go right through it
It's the same thing with with thought
Just let
Don't don't don't stop and focus on don't look at him. Don't focus on just let him keep coming and go on by
They're not a threat
The thought can only be a threat if we stop and grab a little bit and think about it
It's gonna come into your mind just like keep going, you know, like Jeff you were talking about sometimes you just throw something over your
You were talking about
In your, in your testimony, you said, even if you still feel like you might be carrying a backpack,
you feel like there's a hole in the bottom, that you just drop it back there and it just falls
on through. So in other words, it's that same idea with, with our thought that we, we just,
you don't grab a hold of them. You're just, you're just looking, you see nothing but blackness.
You need a focal point. You've got that white light that you can call Jesus if you want to.
And, and then you're going to have thoughts that are coming at you and you just, you don't stop
and give them any credence. You don't stop and give them any, any, any validity, any attention.
They're going to try to like kind of scream at you. You just let them move on by, because remember
you have more power than they do. And the only power they have is if you stop and grab a hold of
it, you don't grab it, just let it go on by, you know, it's like going through a cloud. They just,
they just keep kind of coming at you, coming through your head, and you don't ever think
about any of them. They just keep coming and you just let them go. And then that's how you
drop yourself down into Theta. So that's one of the practices that you can do a variety of things.
But that one, that for me was the most helpful because I wondered, how do you stop thinking?
Well, you don't, you just don't, you just don't grab a hold of any of them,
any of the thoughts. And that's the problem. It's where we stop and grab a hold of one like,
oh my goodness, well, maybe I should do something about this now.
It comes and then it goes. It's not a threat. It's like going, it's like going through a cloud.
Is that helpful? Yeah, thank you.
That's what I do. And I've actually taught other people how to do that as well.
So, yeah, my doctor recommended one to me, but I never really got the point of it because like,
I don't know, they just kind of talked and talked and I felt, I don't know.
I think that part of it is, again, people need something to latch on to because we're addicted
to it. We're addicted to having to think about something and have to have something to latch on
to. So yeah, the guided meditations have not been helpful for me. The only time that they've come
close to being helpful is after I had a lot of practice and of like not thinking, you know,
going into meditation on my own, as well as if they were very, very, very, very, very gentle
and there was nothing, they weren't giving me any instructions and they were just talking,
then that was helpful. If they're giving me instructions,
then I move into active mode. I'm like, oh, I got to do something,
you know, even if it's supposed to be like, well, think about this. Think about that. I'm like,
okay. All right. Got it. Got to think about it now for me.
So now I can see the point of them, but I'm saying that people are struggling, you know,
with it. I don't recommend it. So some people, you know, it's helpful and it gives them an
anchor, but the other has worked really, really well for me. And I was able to shift into it really
fast. How do you know when you're in Theta state or do you really know, or do you just,
I want to know. I said, you know, you are so relaxed, but you're awake.
I fall asleep so easily. I fall asleep very easily.
What I've found is, you know, it's right before you go to sleep and also right after you wake up.
And a lot of times I will wake up and I'll, that's when my mind is kind of like the most sharp
because it's clear. And like, if there's something I'm, I've been dealing with or want to know that
I'll ask the Lord a question and then I'll fall back to sleep and I'll have a very vivid dream
about it. And usually like there's something significant or an answer in the dream.
And I, I haven't done that for a while, but if I'm intentional about that and I know everybody's
life is different. Y'all young moms probably don't have a chance to fall back to sleep,
but you know, for me, I could do that. And especially now with no school, which is great,
but I would keep a notebook beside my bed because, and if I remember to, or, or even this,
if I go to sleep at night and I would ask the Lord a question and I would say, Lord, I need to know
about this. And I would expect him to answer me. Then usually I'd wake up in the morning,
I'd pay attention because it's like,
said, like Edison did the ball in the pan thing because you can lose those
thoughts so easily because you come into that different brainwave state and
they're down here and you're subconscious now.
So, um, but yeah, it's amazing how well that worked.
Like when I was writing my book, I would go to sleep at night and I'd say,
Lord, you know, what do you want me to write next?
And I'll wake up in the morning and I grabbed my notebook and I would
just start writing furiously.
So it's really cool.
I mean, the Bible says the Lord instructs us in the night.
So even if you, I mean, you're going into a deep meditative state when you
sleep, so if you can't like meditate during the day, cause you don't have
time and use that nighttime, it's worked really well for me if I'm
just intentional about it.
Yeah.
I'm glad that you mentioned all of that.
Um, it's important to also, that is another tool that to have a notebook
by your bed where you write everything down before you go to sleep.
So you stop thinking about it because it's time to go to sleep.
If it's not time to go to sleep, don't go to bed.
If there is something that you need to do, then get up and do it.
Otherwise, if you have decided, no, this is time to go to sleep.
Don't do anything else.
Don't think about anything else.
Don't try to plan.
Don't try to, don't try to problem solve because if you need a problem
solve, don't get in bed because you've told yourself, this is what we're
going to do, and then you change your mind.
No.
Yeah.
But I'm going to problem solve while I lay here.
No, no, no, no.
One thing at a time.
So just write down, you know, the things that you're thinking, okay, well, you
know, I've got all these things in my head and it's hard for me to fall asleep.
Then just write them all down and then put it down and it will be
there for you when you wake up.
And then it's always good to have that so that if you wake up in the
middle of the night, you're thinking about things, write it down, go back to sleep.
Or, you know, so like first thing in the morning, you think about something
like, oh, that's a great idea.
And then like what you're talking, pick it up and then, and then, uh, and
write it down so you don't forget it.
Um, anyway, those things are helpful because you start realizing how to take
things out of your, out of your head and increase the amount of RAM and brain
power and emotional energy that you have to handle everything.
Otherwise, everything is getting all like what you're talking about, Cheryl.
Everything is getting subpar.
It's not getting your fullest.
And so it's like, you can't do anything well.
So the trick is if God is not impressed by how many balls we're juggling.
It's very, it's very unimpressed by that.
So we don't have to think of this volume anymore.
We don't have to think it was like, oh, my word, I'm doing all of these things.
It's like, which things has he given me?
Which of the things are we collaborating on and just focus on those things.
Those things, each thing in its season, you know, each thing in its time and in
its season, um, and the seasons don't mix.
So, so
I actually do the list thing on my kitchen cabinet in the corner.
There's a piece of paper.
A lot of times it's taped up there with an index card and I'll have
just a quick scribble across it.
They may not know what it means, but I know what it means.
Oh, Dan, that things will ricochet around in my head to the point that if I don't
get them out, something's going to fall out.
I'm going to forget it.
So I have to write it down to get them in order.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Cause you forget it or it's, or you're trying so desperately to hold on to it,
that all of your energy is going to it.
And then you don't have your energy available for answering questions or
coming up with another creative idea.
Okay.
So I noticed that, um, with, with, uh, journaling.
So I don't know if y'all, y'all journal, I journal and I journal, um, a lot of my
most emotion and, um, um, and, uh, mental journeys and my spiritual journeys with
the Lord, and if I am trying to remember too many things that have happened or
whatever, it, um, uh, it, it, it takes up all my energy, even though it's, it's
just emotionally related and it's already happened and not doing anything with it,
but I don't want to forget that it happened because it meant something at the
time, well, I've noticed that there is a huge difference, huge.
I mean, even emotionally, if I just write it down, if I, if I chronicle it in my,
in my scribe, it's in my, in my journal.
Um, so I do that a lot with my, uh, with my emotions as well, just things that just
get it down and out and then your brain's free.
I mean, it's almost like you can, you can actually physically feel the difference.
After I finished journaling, I physically feel it.
So, anything else or is everyone good?
Well, I just want to share just a kind of a testimonial with you.
So when I was listening today to you talk about how creation serves the sons of God,
that was huge.
There was so much in me that had it the other way around.
And just hearing you talk about that from different perspectives and different ways,
it was just like, it was just so freeing to me.
And I was in my bathroom and I was standing in front of my mirror, I have a water filter
system in there.
So I fill up my water jug and I'm waiting for the water jug to fill, so I'm just standing
there and I'm listening.
And I was just like standing there and I, it's like all of that, all the lies shifted
out of the way.
And suddenly I was in that position of receiving rather than trying to manipulate creation
to serve me or manipulate a process or whatever you were talking about.
And I'm telling you, I felt like there was this spiritual like dumping, like all this
stuff I've been keeping away because I was trying to work for it.
I literally, I was saying, I felt like almost like I was sweating because of the power that
I just felt coming like, now you can receive it.
It's just here for you.
It was so incredible.
And I'm like, wow, but it was, it was very powerful.
I haven't really gone back to process three yet at all, but I just, I mean, I don't really
know that I have to.
It felt like just shifted my perspective so much that it opened me up to receive everything
that God has, you know, like already given us, you know, which, you know, includes all
of creation, everything, all the spiritual principles, everything is there.
It's all in the universe for us, but like you said, we resist it.
We create our own resistance.
So it was that, I just want to go, that was just really powerful today.
So thank you for telling us that.
Yes, that's, that's amazing.
It's amazing.
And yeah, it's, it just creation is meant to service the, not just the physical objects,
but anything in the metaphysical, the spiritual principles.
Hey, Carrie, the spiritual principles of Siri thinks I'm talking to her because I yelled
out, Hey, Carrie, I thought I said, Hey, I'm excited that I'm finally here.
We're good.
You're fine.
We have this recorded, but you know, also, you know, like what I said, or not just the
physical objects, like, I don't know, animals and trees and plants, but also, anything in
the metaphysical, such as, you know, spiritual principles, spiritual laws, in our business,
even though we can't see a business because, business is just a theoretical, theoretical,
but it's a metaphysical thing.
It, it also is creation.
We collaborate with the Lord to create it and all of creation, anything that is created
needs us.
So, and it's just waiting for us.
And it serves us, like I said, even in spiritual principles, including rest.
So there's no need for us to strive to interrest and, you know, striving to interrest like with
work, because rest, man was, the Sabbath or rest was made for man, not man for rest.
Even that was meant to serve us.
It's a, it's a, it's a, an environment for us to be able to take advantage of and step
into.
Anyway, so that's neat.
Thanks for letting us know, Amy.
Pardon?
I said, thanks for telling us about that.
Yeah.
It was, it was very significant.
So I'm excited to see how it plays out in my, in the tangible realm.
We'll see.
I'm excited.
So, well, does anyone have anything else before, before we go?
Other thoughts or?
Nope.
Everybody good?
Okay.
Well, it was good to get to see everybody.
Good to see you, Kerry.
I was sort of back there in there in the darkness somewhere.
I'm sitting up here.
You probably see like all kinds of lights.
Flashing the Josh's on the TV. And so I'm like getting all kinds of different
Lighting
Yeah, yeah.
Flashing a little bit
Looked like you're in a movie.
Yeah, I was glad to jump on at least for the end, but I'm gonna have to definitely rewatch the recording
Yeah, yeah, it'll have to it'll and whatever it's called it'll process and then
I'll be able to like it has to convert or something. So when it finishes converting I'll upload it to the new group. It'll be in the new group.
Oh, okay. Perfect.
See everybody glad y'all are doing good. And we will have our other our last slide for for the group and the old group and tomorrow. So I'll be the last one. And then we'll just do everything from that point. Oh, from that point on in this group.
Awesome.
Well, I'll see y'all later. Y'all have a good night.
Thanks, Ashley.
See
I care.