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The following podcast is part of the Mind, Body, Spirit
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dot fm podcast network. Welcome to Intuitive Connection, where spirituality
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and psychology meet to help you be your best and
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brightest self. I'm your host, Victoria Shaw, and in each episode,
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I'll help you to awaken your own inner wisdom, step
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into your power, and live a more divinely inspired life.
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You're here to let your inter light shine. Are you ready?
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Let's do this? So hello and welcome to Intuitive Connection.
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I'm your host, intuitive counselor and spiritual guide, Victorious Shaw.
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And today I wanted to pop on and share about
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an experience I had the other day watching a basketball
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game and how interesting it is and how our life
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can be or live differently, and I think in a
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lot of ways, in a more fulfilling, joyous way when
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we already know how things are going to work out
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and spoiler alert, everything's always working out for you and
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everything is always okay. And when we know that deep inside, right,
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life just becomes a really fun adventure that we get
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to navigate and play and explore, right, but we don't
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necessarily take it as seriously. And all of this was
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reminded to me. I don't know if that's good grammar,
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but I think you know what I mean an experience
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I had recently watching a basketball game, and so I
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have been a fan of the team, the Detroit Pistons
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for as long as I can remember, since I was
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a little kid. I used to go to games with
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my family, especially with my dad and my whole family,
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and sometime I think it was like two years of
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just going to games. We had season tickets before I
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even saw them win a game. So I was like
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a diehard fan, and we went a lot throughout my
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childhood until in the late eighties early nineties finally we
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had a winning team and that was a very exciting
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time in my life. And then again in the early
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two thousands and again now they're playing really really well
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and they're leading their division, the Eastern Conference, so that's
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really really exciting, and so I've gotten back into watching
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these games and it's really super fun. One of the
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barmbers is is that in the past, when I would
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watch Pistons games, I was in the same time zone
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as the Detroit Pistons, the Eastern time zone, and so
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the majority of the games would be in my time
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zone or thereabouts. But nowadays I'm on the West Coast,
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and so if my beloved team plays a game at
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seven thirty PM, that's four thirty for me, and I
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might still be working. I'm trying, but you know, I
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have to manage all these different facets of my life.
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So I have taken to watching some of the games
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on replay. And the first one that I watched on
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replays the one that kind of inspired this podcast. But
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I've watched a couple now that way. And the thing
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about watching a game on replay right is you probably
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know how it ends right because it already happened. And
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that was with this first game I watched. It was
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a phenomenal game between the Detroit Pistons and the Boston Celtics,
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who are my least favorite team in the NBA. Sorry
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Celtics fans, but I've been holding a garde since the nineties.
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Go figure. But anyway, if you love the Celtics, I
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still love you. So I was watching a phenomenal game.
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It was a really really good game, and it was
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a close game and a lot of times and so
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it was like a little bit of some Cliffhangary moments.
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And the thing was it was a replay, so I
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knew my team was gonna win, right, I knew it
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was a sure thing, And nonetheless, I really enjoyed the game,
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the artistry of the game, even a little bit of
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like the cliffhanger aspect of the game, even though I
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knew they were going to win. And friends, you know,
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if you know anything about me, you may also know
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that my other favorite thing to do in my spare
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time is rom coms and romance novels, right, And what
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I love about both of those genres, right is they're happy,
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feel good and you know how they're going to end. Right,
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It's always a happy ending. And I started thinking about, like,
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what would life be life if everything was like this, right,
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if we knew in our course all going to be okay.
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You know, there's some ups and downs, there's some problems
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that you know, we got to figure out how they're
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going to get solved, right, but they're going to get solved.
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It's all going to be okay. And you know, watching
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the game and having that experience made it so fun.
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It didn't wasn't anxious. I wasn't worried because I knew
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my team was gonna win, and of course, luck in
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the short term in life, we don't always know that
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things are going to turn out the way that we like.
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When I watch a game, you know, in my time zone,
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or when I have the opportunity to start in another
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time zone, or a lot of times, right I just
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catch the second half, which is fine too, and I
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don't know how it's going to end. It may not
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turn out the way that my mind wants it to.
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I always want the Pistons to win. I am a
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huge Pistons fan. Go Pistons, right. But in the deeper
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scheme of things, the truth is, it's all working out.
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It's all working out, and it's all working out for
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a couple of reasons. One because everything that you want
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eventually will find you. Okay, it may or may not
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be in this body, but it may. But it's a coming.
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It's a coming. You're creating all the time, and every
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unrequested desire is manifesting somewhere at some time, even if
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you are not experiencing it right now. And the more
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that we recognize that that's so, the more we open
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ourselves to the possibility that we might experience it sometime
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really soon, because we'll be aligned and experiencing it in
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this timeline and from this point of attraction. Okay, but
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there's also a deeper reason why things are always working out,
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because there's nothing wrong with anything at your core in
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a spiritual sense. You're safe, you're well, you're okay, you're beautiful,
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you're lovable, you're strong. All of the things that the
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human world sometimes seems to convince us is not true
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is just part of the illusion, right, It's just the illusion.
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It's just the shadow side of who and what we
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really are, right, which is a turn of love, that's
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pretty much it, right and peace and joy. And so
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when we can tap in more and more to that,
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then we're living in alignment with the true resting place
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of our soul. And again we're going to experience that
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more and more in this physical form. But the bigger
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thing to God, say that I got from this experience
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of watching the game and knowing how it was going
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to end, or knowing that it was all going to
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be okay, is that I was just relaxed. I was
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just enjoying the show. I was curious to know how
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the game was going to play out. I was curious,
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you know, to see, like when you know we were
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down so many points, how we were going to get
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back up because I think we were going to win,
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and so it was very fun in that kind of way,
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but it wasn't this nail biting Oh my god, you know,
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everything could be wrong, what's going to happen next? And
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that's how many of us live our lives. The guys
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even say that's why so many of us are attracted
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to sports and things like that, because it sort of
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mimics and mirrors that kind of constant state of tension
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and stress that we go through. Now believing that you know,
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our highest selves will prevail and on the highest level
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they will. They are they already have. Everything is working
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out exactly right, just in this moment. Now you were okay,
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you are lovable, you're safe. All is well. And again,
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the more that we can tune into that and live
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from that presumption, the more delightful life becomes, because then
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when we get an obstacle or something going on, rather
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than panicking, we go back to that natural state of
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well being and we say, whatever is here as part
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of the and it's part of the show. But in
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the end, everything is going to work out for me, okay.
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And again, this may or may not mean in your
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physical body okay, So we kind of got to let
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go of that, but it very well made the guides say,
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they don't want me to qualify so hard because they
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want you to restore faith that things are going your way,
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because when you believe that, they will more and more.
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But what it really is is tuning in too, that
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true state, that truth that no matter what's happening out there,
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really and truly you're all right, you're all right, and
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even when the worst thing happens, right and we leave
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our bodies right, we change into that other state. I've
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been shown again and again by talking to my spirit
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friends they're doing okay, they're at peace, and you can
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have that here now too, more and more and more
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by remembering that core truth that everything is always working
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out for me right, that all as well. And that's
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the experience I had watching this game. I was watching
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the game, and I knew how it was going to end,
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and it was just fun because I just wasn't stressing about,
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you know, what was going to happen, because I already knew.
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I just had to figure out how they were going
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to get there. Fast forward to some other games that
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I watched since that experience and A few of them
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have been prerecorded, where I tried not to know how
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they ended, but then my Facebook, you know, when I
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picked up or pinged or something, it was in my feed.
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So I haven't watched a recorded one blind yet. I tried,
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but I've watched a few, you know, in real time
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where even when the Pistons lost, gasp, and you know,
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remembering the experience of watching that game with the Celtics
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help me remember just how fun it is to watch
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the game, Just how fun it is to watch the game,
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to see what's gonna happen, to see the ups and
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downs without this huge attachment to how it has to
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be and how it has to work out and what
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has to happen, and without the guide saying I want
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to get this right from them, but they say go ahead.
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That thing and that feeling in the pit of my stomach,
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you know, where I feel like I'll be diminished somehow
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if my team doesn't win, and though on some level
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that can create some excitement because the unknown is exciting.
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And you know, occasionally I'll read a novel that I
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don't totally totally know how it'll end, but I'm known
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to cheat friends if I'm watching something and it looks
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like something bad is going to happen, or something I
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don't like is going to happen, then I'll I'll just
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ask Google, you know, does this person die? Does this
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work out? And then usually if it's bad news, I'll
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fast forward through the iggy part or stop watching altogether.
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Because I actually like to fill my cop with things
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that make me feel good, and I'm just not that
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attracted to the drama so much anymore. I like to
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feel good as much as possible, and so that's why
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I gravitate towards these feel good experiences. And yet, when
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you are watching a basketball game, part of the fun
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is knowing that maybe they're not going to get every game,
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you know, and win every game. And that's okay too,
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because you see, here in life, if we look at
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it from that soul's perspective, your soul knows a couple
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things that your human self tends to forget. Number One,
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on the highest level, it's always working out for you,
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and maybe not even on the highest level, it's just
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always working out for you, and your soul knows this
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to be true. Two, your soul doesn't really care about
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the nitty gritty of how you carry that out right,
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it's all a game to your soul, you know, it's
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all working out, everything's exactly as it should be, and
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then it becomes kind of interesting to see, like how
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you're going to play, how you're going to play what
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you get right, it's really really fun. And your soul,
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the Guide say, also doesn't have an attachment to a
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specific outcome, right, And that's really hard for our human
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selves to understand, especially, And I'm going to kind of
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ask this question too, knowing that we come in here
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to do something, we come in here with an intention.
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So guys, does that really mean that your soul doesn't
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care if you don't achieve your soul's intention? And the
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Guide say that in that question, I am completely misunderstanding
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everything or getting it wrong, is what they're saying. They
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were saying, Have I heard of correct me, I'm misunderstanding
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everything wrong, which does not make logical sense, but that
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is literally what I heard. So I'm gonna take a
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breast so I can hear them really clearly now. And
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they're just laughing, so as they sometimes do. They must
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just think I'm really cute right now. But what they're
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saying is this, and I want to tune back in
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because I lost the thread altogether. What they're saying with
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this is when your soul comes in with an intention,
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with an idea, the main point is to play. You
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think about it, you're taking a theme, right, and you're
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exploring that theme for many different angles, and maybe you're
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throwing in some potential obstacles or some potential, right, because
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early in life we kind of create, you know, the
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potential for what we're going to create later on, based
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on the experiences we have early on that tell us
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how life is supposed to work. And they say, even
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those early on experiences are often attracted in by ones
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that you had in other bodies or other dimensions or
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other things too. Right, So this is a very simplified
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way of explaining it, but they're saying, you have an intention,
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you have something that is attracted in all the things
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that you're experiencing now, and your soul is fascinated about
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that and excited about that. And remember, all these lifetimes
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and things are happening all at the same time, so
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your soul is stretching in all these different directions and
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doing all these different things and just enjoying all of
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the movement, all the things that are happening, But your
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soul doesn't really care specifically about what happens. Your soul
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is just in it for the ride, and it's your
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human self that experiences those moments of alignment and goes, oh,
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that little how do I say it? Am I getting
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this right? They say, yes, go ahead, these little pieces
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of you, these little they say, waves of intention that
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ran off to do a little fun path. If you
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think about it with the analogy that Victoria's given, and
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you think about your soul as something apart from you,
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which it isn't. You're just an expression of it and
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everything's happening at once. But if you think perhaps that
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there's a piece of you right in a higher realm
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looking down, which they say is a fair approximation of
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how you could understand things from your vantage point, that
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little piece of you, which you may call your higher
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self or your soul, is just enjoying the show. It's
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loving you, it's cheering you on. It understands what that
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little piece of you set out to do, and it
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might be really excited when you know you make the
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slam dunk or you make a good play. But it
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also knows that you have forgotten sometimes, my friends, is
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that it's all working out and everything's wow, and everything's
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working all the time in perfect synchronicity, and no matter
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what step you take right in the end, it's just
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going to take you back home to all the beautifulness.
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And so your soul can apprehend, which your human self
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often forgets, that internal rightness, goodness, you know, and everything
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that is. You know, it doesn't mean that you know
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your soul isn't cheering you on in those moments that
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you're like, yes, I got this absolutely. It just also
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means that your soul isn't sobbing when you know, when
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you don't get it right the way, you know. I
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was kind of sad in the Eastern Conference Finals of nineteen.
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I feel like it would have been eighty eight. I'd
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have to google it. When we had it. We had it,
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we were about to get the Eastern Conference Finals. There's
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just seconds left and we had a three point lead
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or whatever that was, and Larry Bird stole the ball
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and that was the end of that was the end
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of that championship run for the Pistons, right, And I
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don't think a lot of people in Detroit slept that night,
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it really stunk unless you are self t expanded, and
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then that was probably one of the greatest moments in
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basketball history, right, And you know that's what your soul understands. Right,
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it's all freaking amazing. And it's only your ego that says,
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you know, it's got to be this way, and it's
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got to be me, because your higher self sees your
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and everything right, and everything is a win, and everything
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is beautiful, and so it sees the intrinsic rightness in
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all that is. So anyway, that's what I was thinking
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while watching the game, and I thought it was just
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such a beautiful metaphor of life. And of course, friends,
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on the human level, we might be disappointed when our
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team doesn't win. Okay, it might make us sad, and
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of course we may have, you know, negative experiences when
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things in our world are difficult or hard or don't
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go the way we want them to, things big and small. Obviously,
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a basketball game winner loss is not a super big
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deal to most of us in the scheme of things,
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unless you know, we're a professional basketball player and our
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livelihood is dependent upon it. And so in those moments,
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of course where you forget that it's all a game,
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and you know it's all working out, and it's all
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just beautiful, and that the greatest joy is just living
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every moment just as it is, and just you know,
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coming back to presence each moment and saying, this is
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so fun. What am I going to do next? But
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in those moments where we forget that, love yourself, hold yourself,
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soothe yourself, and then remind yourself all as well, and
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everything is always working out for me. All right. That's
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all I got on this one. I hope you enjoyed
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this as much as I did. And again, if you
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are a fan of another NBA team or you don't
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like the NBA at all, I still love you so
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very much. I'm so grateful to each and every one
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of you for tuning in and letting you do what
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I love to do. And I hope this one made
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your day just a little bit brighter. Love you all,
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and now miss day. All right, that's a rot for today.
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