I asked four different AI chat bots to do the following task and I wanted to compare and show you what the results were. So the task I asked was to take the following transcript and change nothing other than adding punctuation marks because I wanted to turn a video that I made into a short blog post. So I asked chat GPT, Claude, Bard and Lama which is from Facebook. I used a tool called chat hub dot gg. It's a Chrome extension, chat hub dot gg. And I logged into my various services and it's able to give the same prompt to these different AI bots. And I'll show you what happens. Well, first of all, the loser is Facebook's Lama because it's not that long of a transcript. It was a three, four minute YouTube video and basically it started out okay except it was not able to complete. So there you go. But the chat GPT, Claude and I was actually surprised Bard were all able to complete it. In other words, they had enough, long enough of a context window, all of them. Claude has the longest context window of 100,000 tokens. Chat GPT has I think 8,000 tokens at this time and then Bard, I don't know how many but they were all able to long enough to do the job. Now the question is which one did the job more faithfully? Remember the task was to change nothing other than adding punctuation marks. So let's go ahead and take a look. I copy pasted each one into a separate Google document. So three more, three Google documents total. This one is from chat GPT. It's, I use chat GPT the most. So I'm kind of using this one as the baseline to test with the others. And this one did fine. I believe in the work that you're doing for your clients, for your customers, for the world, I believe that the work. So it did nothing other than put punctuation marks because as a YouTube transcript, which I can show you originally, you could see that there are no punctuation marks and there are the spelling I should have been capital I, et cetera. It's really just a giant wall of text with no grammar or punctuation. And so chat GPT does did a fairly good job, right? The job of all this. Okay. And then Claude also did the same thing. Very similar, right? If you look at chat GPT and Claude is very similar. And then Bard also quite similar except Bard gave more paragraphs. So I ended up doing Google docs has a compare documents feature. So I use that to compare chat GPT to Claude and chat GPT to Bard. So I wanna show you. This one is comparing chat GPT to Bard. Okay. So we know that this is the chat GPT by base. The base is chat GPT because, and then you'll see anything that Bard deleted and anything that Bard added is in pink. So just make it a little bit bigger here. So this is, let's see here. So Bard added a work here that actually, I think does make it better. Bard added, I think a paragraph break and Bard added Bard instead of adding, yeah, instead of adding word here it made the sentence longer which actually I felt was more poetic. And then it changed this into its own pair and it changed this one sentence into its own paragraph which I thought was actually quite good. It's more, like I said, poetic or flows better. It's more punchy, I should say. All right. So long story short, I went through all this and I actually liked Bard's version best. I think Bard did the best job of doing the task. And then I compared chat GPT to Claude and I didn't like Claude's version as much. And in some cases, actually this is I think grammatically correct given the sentence, but it's not as, it doesn't flow as well. So long story short, I liked Bard's version the best which surprised me. Now, given that Bard's context window is probably not as long as chat GPT I don't know how it's gonna do with longer videos but if it's really like a 20 minute video or something I probably go to Claude because of its longest context window but there are other tools out there that can kind of chop up your prompt requests into shorter ones and stitch it all together and chat GPT, something like that. But if you know of such tools and extensions that you use that you really love you can go and comment below but I just wanna show you the task. I am doing this more and more where I'm turning my old videos especially the shorter videos into short blog posts and social media content. So I thought that this was a really useful prompt and again, the prompt is take the following video transcript change nothing other than adding punctuation marks. So I hope this is helpful and thank you for watching.


politics and land in Hawaii with Dennis Isaki on Think That Hawaii. Today we'll be speaking with Ralph Kusni, a contractor on the island of Kauai. As a volunteer on the state board of registration, he uncovered some information regarding local elections that didn't seem right. So he went all the way to the Supreme Court. We'll find out what he learned. Please note that his comments are his own and do not formally represent the Board of Registration. Ralph, welcome to Think That Hawaii. Thank you. Ralph, please tell us a little bit about your background, starting from growing up in Hilo and on the west side of Kauai. Did you say you were seventh generation in Hawaii on your mother's side? Yes, seventh generation on my mother's side, fourth on my father's side. So the family's been in sugar. My grandfather worked for Hawaiian Electric on a Wahoo, and I had relatives that were carpenters that came over from Denmark and were shipbuilders in the whaling industry also. So kind of a diverse trade there. So you're far from being a Malihini. First, do you work for another contractor with your wife, Laura, as your boss? Yes, I met my wife, Laura. She was my boss. The other contractor that we worked for, and we got married and we started our own business about 15 years ago. Okay, yeah, we spent some time fishing together at Ni Hao. That was fun. Ralph, please tell us a little bit about the Board of Registration first. The Board of Registration is designed to hear appeals from voters who've been challenged as far as their residents. If somebody challenges another voter's residency that they can vote on the island of Kauai, the county clerk will give a ruling and if it's challenged, then the Board of Registrations will hear that challenge. And with the Board, you had some information that didn't seem right. We don't want to sound like Donald Trump in disputing a voter count, but you had some discrepancies or inconsistencies. You said you found out. And can you please tell us a little bit? Go ahead. Can you tell us a little bit about it? So when I got on the Board, I didn't know anything about the elections. So I wanted to find out everything that I could and I didn't even know where the elections office was. So I had to start with that, figure out where that was, and then I set up a meeting with the county clerk and the head of elections and had about an hour meeting with them, asked them what they did, and they described everything to me. And two things kind of stuck out as far as the 2020 election goes. So I asked for the drop box and mail-in ballots, information, chain of custody information for the 2020 election. And there was no chain of custody. They had misplaced all the chain of custody information for 2020. But they did have a summary sheet. So I took the summary sheet and I added it up. And I compared it to what the state had and there was a 3,379 vote difference. So prior to that, going, let me back up a step, but I got some analysis from prior elections prior to going into there. And starting in, if you can see this chart, I'll try to hold it up. But what this chart shows, let's see if it comes into focus or not, there we go, is that there's an inverse relationship between Democrat and Republican voting. So if a Democrat, if this first one here, Republican got a lot of votes, the Democrats were down. That's in 2004, 2008, the Democrat votes were up, the Republicans were down.  And then 2016, Hillary Clinton was less popular here. And Donald Trump picked up a few more votes. So what's interesting about this chart is that in 2020, Donald Trump picked up a lot of votes in Hawaii, and with the rule of inverse relations, you would expect that the Democrat number would be close to the Republican number. So what happened instead in 2020 is that number, the Democrat voting went way, way, way, way up. So two things to take away from this graph. One is that nobody talks about, the Republicans got the largest percent increase in votes in the nation. So Hawaii had the largest percentage increase in Republican votes. The other thing that's interesting is that Joe Biden was more popular than Barack Obama in the state of Hawaii. So there's different ways you can view this graph or look at it. But the long story short, there was a lot more voters that voted in 2020 than any other election. So you can attribute that to mail-in, different things that happened. But when I went down and asked for the Dropbox data and I added it up and the county had received 30,702 ballots. The state reported counting 34,081 ballots. So I went back and I emailed the county and I said, hey, aren't these numbers supposed to be the same? So the county's responsibilities, as I understand it, is that they receive ballots and then they compare them to signatures on file and they make sure that the voters, a registered voter has a proper signature on file. They sort those ballots into the 16 precincts and then they give them to the state to count. So what I was asking the county is, if you only received 30,702 ballots, how did the state count 34,000? So the difference is 3,379 ballots. So I got several answers. One was that it was a manual miscount over time. And I wrote back and I said, I don't believe that you can miscount or not count one in 10 ballots. I just, I don't think you can be that bad at it. So the final answer, the official answer that I got is that the county receives ballots and they do not have an official count. They only have an approximate count. And the only reason why they have a count is to allocate manpower for the counting of the ballots. And so I wrote back and I said, okay, I do not understand this. The county has a chain of custody protocol. When they go to each drop box, they're supposed to fill out forms, keep logs, it's a protein page protocol. It's called the place of deposit collection procedure. And they're supposed to keep all of the data and know how many ballots are in their possession at any time. But what they're telling me is that they only have an approximate count. And the ballots in their possession, they don't know how many they have. They don't know how many they picked up. And that's the answer that I've been given. And it doesn't pass the smell test. So, Ralph, is this the primary or the general election? So this was the 2022 election. General election is what I'm talking about. So I started talking to them prior to the primary, before the primary election. And I found out these discrepancies. So we had no chain of custody information. They had lost all of the chain of custody information. All of those records are supposed to be held for two years. And there was a 3,379 vote difference. So within my email chain, the state got tagged onto the email. And they proceeded to tell me that they do all these things to check the election. And they brought up specifically a law. It's called HRS 1642, which ensures that the ballots are being counted correctly. So I didn't know what that meant. And when I got the email, it was on a Friday afternoon, I said, I'm going to do research on this law. Send me all of your audit information on this law. And what you did to audit the vote in 2020. So they sent me a one page paper with signatures from all people from Oahu, the elections officials from Oahu. So nobody from the island of Hawaii was involved with the audit. And nobody, there's no other documentation. I was not given any other documentation on that audit. But one of the things they said was that we follow HRS 1642, which I'm going to get to in a minute. But as far as I can tell that has not been done and is not being done on any of the elections. So let me, let's see. So moving forward to 2022, we were on the email chain. They said, we're getting ready for the 2022 primary. We can't talk to you anymore. We're going to, we're going to get ready and going our way. So what I asked them to do is I said, please have a daily auditable accounting of the, the ballots that you get through Dropbox, through the mail. As far as I know, the mail, when it comes in, they give them a receipt that says how many ballots come in. And there's a whole place that the positive collection procedure work of documents are supposed to be kept. When I received the 2022 data, the first two days were missing. So there's 1905 ballots that have no chain of custody documentation. So the county is telling me that they don't have the documentation, but chain of custody was not lost. And I don't, chain of custody is having the documentation, is my understanding of it. So I'm a little confused by their, by their answers. And I, there's a whole chain of emails asking back and forth for this information. And long story short, in 2022, they're also telling me they do not keep accurate numbers, the numbers that they have are strictly to allocate manpower. And I just, it doesn't pass the smell test in my opinion. So getting more, the word out there so these things can be logged is, is important. So the bigger picture when I, when I started looking into this is who counts the vote? Do you know the answer to that question? Both corners. Do you know who counts the vote? It's part inner civet is a company hired out of Austin, Texas, counts the vote. Who audits, who checks to make sure that they're doing the count properly? He's supposed to have people from both sides of the aisle. I'm guessing Republicans, right? The audits are not being done correctly per law. So HRS 1642 is a law that says that you're supposed to compare 10% of the precincts and compare the results of two randomly for the island of Kauai is two randomly chosen precincts. And you get the original paper ballots, you randomly pick two precincts, you get the paper ballots from those two precincts and you handpound them and compare the results to see if the computers are counting accurately. What they are doing is two, in my opinion, sleight of hands. The first audit that is done is a logic and accuracy test, something to that effect. But they preselect the ballots to be audited and they take, they preselect a batch of ballots and they put them in the computers first and those are the ones that are being audited. So in an audit, the word random comes up. And when the voting machine and when the company heart intercept is picking which ballots are audited, that's not an audit. They're controlling everything. And the ballots are counted, everything has gone through and miraculously everything is correct. A way to do that would be have the observers randomly pick a ballot batch and then audit that ballot batch as the election is going. You can pull that off the side. So that's the first red flag. The second audit, the post audit that's being done, is they're taking their, they actually randomly selected two precincts. However, they're not taking the paper ballots, they're using ballot images to audit the precincts. So when they get the ballot image, the ballot image is controlled by heart and their civic. And there's no way to know if everybody knows what Photoshop is, those ballot images can be changed. I'm not saying they are being changed, but the law clearly says that your supposed to audit with the paper ballots, the original paper ballots. And that is the verifiable, that is the, I forget the language, but it's the that's the verifiable vote. That's the original document that came from the voter and that's what needs to be counted. So when you do the ballot images, it could be changed, somebody could hack in, it could be changed, somebody could hack in, you would never know. And if you take, say county council rates, you can look at the number results on one side and you can look at the names on the other side. If names and results were switched around, how would you ever know that they're different? How would you ever know that the second place wasn't actually the eighth place and that the third place wasn't actually the fifth place in the first, you know, how would you know those aren't flipped? And on the mainland, they've had instances where it was just a clerical error where those names were switched. And that could be the difference between somebody being on the council or not being on the council and somebody being the head of the council or not being the head of the council. But Ralph, if once we lose the chain of custody to the consultant and then we want to take it back, even if you get the paper ballot, you could say the same thing, they already had control of it, so you're not 100% sure, right? Well, the paper ballots, you're going to tell if they've been changed. You don't know if there's some loss or whatever. Well, then you're going to find that out in the count, so let's take 2020, but they didn't even know they had a discrepancy until I brought it up, okay? If the paper ballots, one in 10 paper ballots were supposedly missing from when the county collected them, they collected nine out of 10 that the state said they counted. If they would have taken two precincts and taken the paper ballots out, they would have noticed a number of differences, even if they just counted the ballots and didn't even see who won the races, they would have figured out that there was a discrepancy. They might have, unless all of the mistake was in other precinct. Correct, correct. And that's, I don't, I'm just saying what the law says right now. I don't agree with the way this whole thing is being done, but the law clearly says you're supposed to do 10% of the precincts, which Kauai is 16, is 1.6, so rounds up the two and that's documented. So what happened to that 1900 missing ballots? The 1900 and the 2022? Yeah. We don't have the chain of custody documentation. So they're saying the county is telling us that they never, they don't have the documentation, but they never lost chain of custody. So the way this place of deposit collection procedure reads is the documentation is the chain of custody. So they're kind of missing words at the moment. So the big picture, I can go, they did one last audit and the audit was done on a batch of ballots. A batch of ballots has a ballot batch report. So if my understanding is a batch of ballots is kind of a handful of ballots that will fit into a computer and it'll count at one time. So let's say the number is 200.  They'll count, they'll pick a race and they'll compare the numbers to the ballot batch report. The problem with this audit is it doesn't add to any. So we have requested getting all of the ballot batch reports because it seems like the ballot batch report is the accurate number, is the accurate tabulation of a ballot batch, but they do not add all of the ballot batch reports to get a total number. So again, it's another sleight of hand where the ballot batch report, they'll add the ballots in that ballot batch. It adds up, but it doesn't total to anything except for that single report. Now, if they would release all of those reports, then we would have something that we could audit, if that makes sense. Then you would have a random audit that would, but that sample size is not large enough to do much with. Even the 10% of the precincts is a very small sample size. So like you say, if it was all in one precinct, all of the, that 3,000, then you wouldn't catch it. But you should, that they print out precinct reports for each precinct. So you can pick it up from there. And when you compare the ballots to the actual precinct report, then you should be able to pick up if there's across the board deviations, if you will. Okay. So with all the discrepancies, you went all the way to the Supreme Court. Tell us what you found out from that. The case that I put into the Supreme Court was, I said, there's election fraud on part of the officials. I notified the state elections office, the county elections office prior to the 2022 primary. And I said, you guys are not doing the audits correctly. And you're not keeping count of the ballots correctly. And I went through in detail on that and said, please do the audits according to law and be able to describe how you did the audits. Well, they didn't reply to any of my emails. I talked to observers. They told me the audits were done on the ballot images for the post audit. And they were done with a pre-selected, the first batch of ballots on the primary audit, the first audit that was done. So both of those do not pass the audit. They're not random. And they're not with the original paper balance. So I went to the state supreme court and I said, there's election fraud on the part of the election officials. And they are willingly not doing their job, which there's a line item in the toy revised statutes about election fraud. And it specifically says that if an election official does not do their duties according to law that is the election fraud, the states, the state supreme court ruled not on the merits of the case. They said they are not allowed to rule on the election fraud in a primary election, only a general election. So they said basically, there is no general election to nullify. And I asked for them to nullify the election until the audits were done properly. They said there's no general election to nullify. So relief cannot be granted in our case. So we'll see what happens in the general election. There was something that said that they do something only to make a difference in the election also, right? Well, they said they're the only thing the supreme court can do is rule on which candidate won. And so I specifically said I'm not advocating for a candidate. I'm just advocating that the lobby followed. And I think there's everybody can say that they're scratching their heads with the primary results on both sides of the ticket Democrat side and the Republican side saying, hey, something is something is fishy. And if they would do the audits, it would just it would support what they're saying. And by them not doing the audits per law, it just makes you think more that something the various might be happening. And why are they going through sex extremes to not do the audits properly? Right. Okay. We don't have too much time left. So so the big where do we go from here? Well, the big picture that I want everybody to aware of is that the elections used to be decentralized. It was in one day. The ballots were counted in one day. And in each precinct, they were counted. Okay, they were tabulated and we had the count in one day. We have centralized the election. So it's only being counted in one spot. Hard inner civic is counting the votes. Nobody is looking over their shoulder to see they control everything they control the audit they control which ballots are being audited and how it's being audited. So nobody is allowed you're not allowed to look at the source code of the machine. And you're not allowed to look at the paper ballots and compare the county. That's the problem. And so where did we go from here? We need to go back today of voting and get rid of the voting machines because the voting machines cannot be trusted. You can hack into them. There's all kinds of stuff that both sides of the party, Democrats in 2016, Republicans in 2020 all claimed that the elections were hacked. Everybody knows it can be hacked. We just need to get rid of the machines and go to all paper ballot, one day voting in person, IDs, and that would solve most of our issues. Yeah, thanks. Sounds like in this 1970s I was working in the Marshall Islands and on Marjorie they throughout the Marshall Islands there was a referendum. It was an election to see what kind of governance they would do, what become a separate nation. And they had this big warehouse with the ballots and just happened that my coworker and I borrowed that warehouse and we were together with all the ballots to supervision. And then later on they said, hey, we got to get a picture. Nobody got a camera so they borrowed my Instamatic camera, got some official pictures of the ballots sound something like that in the 1970s. Anyway, thanks for your time. Sorry, we were running out of time right now, Ralph. Mahalo to our guest, Ralph Kusni. Mahalo to our viewers and think tech Hawaii. If you like the, if you like the think tech free media shows, please help support think tech Hawaii. Non-profit platform with a donation. Aloha. Thank you so much for watching think tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn and donate to us at think tech Hawaii.com. Mahalo.


Hello everybody welcome back to esoteric Atlanta. I am joined here with one of my friends Emmy. How are you doing Emmy? Good. How are you? I am well, I'll just I'm not gonna spill the beans But I discovered something that was pretty hysterical and it will be shared on my channel in a couple weeks from a video I've shared it with Emmy. It's pretty hysterical, isn't it? So I'm in a pretty good glee mood right now It has to do with the word Messiah it'll come out in a couple of weeks guys But I've literally it took me forever to get to that recording because I was laughing so hard So anyway, I'm in a great mood right now I had some rakey with Emmy a couple of days ago and girl fixed me right up So I hope you guys will once again go and visit Emmys YouTube channel holistic genie with Emmy and Emmy what again is a good email for people to reach you because I did have somebody in the Community board ask for your contact So how is a good way for people to reach you? Emmy at abundant life holistic calm and I will put that in the description box to you guys as well We know I know you're pretty busy with all of our Yoga course people with their rakey sessions and stuff like that But if people want to reach out to you and start that connection and he's amazing I also want to remind you guys that next or Thursday of this upcoming Thursday. I've got Morgan Who is a stronger nurse more famously known as a stronger nurse coming on my channel? We are going to talk about Shadow work we're going to talk about his his journey through a strong a yoga everything Under the Sun we have a bunch of people submitting questions I told Morgan off-air that he quickly became a fan favorite During the shadow work challenge and he didn't know that I had used his videos, but um, you know, I really like I I There's so many great videos out there for my strung up people But I like that. I like Morgan. He's very calm. He's very gentle And I like that he is a father and a husband And so he's giving given because most of the other teachers we used were women And so I liked having I liked having a masculine perspective and on this practice as well And so I'm super excited about Morgan coming on the show I'm sure this will not be the only time he comes on shows with us And if you guys once again, I know people in the signal group have asked a lot of questions and a lot of questions for Morgan But if you have any other questions you want to ask Morgan Place them in the comment section below or on the community tab if you want to remain anonymous You can send me the question over on signal and I will keep it anonymous anonymous when I talk to him Somebody asked me if I would ask him to do like a modified have primary series kind of like we did I'll ask him that because I think he'd be totally totally cool with that one thing. I like about him They see Teth. He has a beautiful practice, but he's so mellow. He's so mellow and so humble and I know Emmy has been watching a lot of his Emmy has been watching a lot of his videos as well. I think she had her kid come in the room guys So so any Anything you want to know from Morgan? Just let me know in the comment section below Is there anything you want to ask more Morgan and makes I know you've enjoyed his channel, right? Oh Yeah, I especially love watching the videos with his family He's just okay that I don't know what video it was but it was a recent one and the baby was in there and The baby started crying and the way that he handled it was just so Beautiful it was just like oh, this is a stronger right here this calm This calm cool. It's okay. Everything's fine It's like that is so beautiful, you know his his kids are going to be So emotionally fit well, I watched once a day of his where his kid like coughed in his face and You know, it was perfect timing like it was perfect comedic timing But the kid is like what one or two probably didn't plan that it just literally came up and coughed in his face And he just kept going and and yeah, yeah, I'm really he talks a lot I haven't even spoken about seventh series on my channel. I don't think There's a joke. So we have this first six series of the ashanga system But then seventh series is family life and so Guruji used to say like you you can't practice seventh series until you've practiced all the six series Prior to it because the seventh series is the hardest Hmm and he did a video watched it today yoga is hard where I'll put it in the description box where he gets into What seventh series looks like? And he drew a graph about how this is me by myself but then I became a husband and then I became a dad on the holidays I'm also a brother and an uncle and a son and he talked about how I you know He showed a picture of himself as a kid He was like this is how my parents still see me and as much as I want them to see that I've changed I also have to acknowledge that they have changed as well You know, and it was just beautiful the way that he spoke about that and that's what I love, you know The athleticism in the ashanga practice is impressive. Of course it is But if you want to see beautiful athleticism by a ticket to Cirque du Soleil Because this is yoga. This is not the asana is just a tool. That's all it is. It means nothing It's just a tool if you use asana the way that it's supposed to be used as a tool Then it's the most important thing you do every day But if you're using the posture work the asana work for the ego or for gymnastics Then it's the least important thing you do during the day And I think we are we kind of shot some ideas back and forth. I think we are going to cover some of that In our conversation about the athleticism. What does it mean about the friction? How we view our bodies all that that kind of stuff I think that's something we are going to be speaking about it It'll be interesting to have a male's perspective as well because women obviously and then have very different bodies But we both go through go through the aging process We both go through the process of having children having dependency. He as a man has a different level of maybe How he feels he provides for his family than his wife does so just too interesting to kind of hear those Perspectives and what it means to have a family when you're doing a spiritual a spiritual I think we spoke about that a little bit or maybe it was in the yoga course. We spoke about this how um so in India the brahman so brahman is the upper caste and brahman is the priestly caste and So in India all the teachers are brahman's. They're of the priestly caste And if you are not brahman No matter what your life is like you are considered a householder So even for me as someone who does not have to who single who doesn't have children. I'm still considered a householder And so what does that mean compared to the brahman? Well, and most of the most of the time the brahman's did not now that they have children and stuff But they didn't so they had in a lot of ways. I think the householder Has the harder practice. I Was gonna say and that if I were to ask Morgan a question that would that would be it because I'm you know I'm assuming that he's practiced Way before having a family So what I'd like to know is The difference between following a spiritual practice When you're single and you don't have the demands of a family versus The spiritual practice within a family Because like you were saying I think the householders following a spiritual path and awakening and working through your karma and All of your triggers and everything I Feel is much more difficult when you are dealing with family and children and homeschooling and jobs and businesses and YouTube channels and you know husbands and wives and grocery shopping and cooking and cleaning and all of this all of that these life demands I would get Frustrated and irritated that I had all this stuff going on because what I really wanted to focus on was my spirituality and one day I had an epiphany in meditation. I was like no No, I've done that before what I wanted to do was be in the thick of chaos and Anchor in the love and anchor in the spirituality and the light in the midst of chaos Because your spirituality isn't that chaos It's having that kid cough in your face Right like your kid like cough in your face while you're trying to shoot a video and Being able to be calm like him and just keep going, right? I mean, I don't have kids, but I have a nephew and two nieces. I've had more boogers Slobbered on my face in the past 10 years Then I ever did and you know, it's easy.    So okay, you know, I still I still get my wife free and that and that dichotomy of having that being in your life I mean, I don't have kids, but I I remember my nephew was born The kid that made me an aunt and I held him for the first time. I was like, this is what true love feels like Because I now understand No hesitation I would give my life for this little being That can't even wipe his own butt right now. I would absolutely without hesitation I still feel that way. I would throw myself in front of a Bus any day of the week for any of those kids? So I understand that Unconditional love as they're coughing in your face wiping their boogers on you, you know and then that's but then getting that frustration where They're screaming crying at four o'clock in the morning have needed their diaper change But you're supposed to be doing your practice at this time The kidneys are diaper changed and and what does that look like and I do think that that is the harder You know, I will I won't say names, but a few years ago. There are a few ashtanga teachers in the community who Come from very wealthy families like oil money wealthy and There's a kid that's probably 10. He's like in his late 20s Which he got authorized pretty early for an offer for a usually you're in your like late 30s when you First start because you take so long to get that and this kid comes from a very wealthy family From the Middle East. He's not Middle Eastern. He's white, but he oil and he made a post a few years ago on Facebook about how You know, he travels around teaching all his students should stop eating at four o'clock in the afternoon So that they're and get to sleep early prepared for my store. Well, I do that. I stopped eating between four and five But it rocked a lot of people the wrong way this post because most of your students are What about that mom who has three kids? She's helping them with homework in the afternoon She's taking them to all sorts of sports practices. She's cooking dinner. She's working full-time But she's still making it a priority to come to mice or every morning and yeah, she might be eating late and She might not get as much sleep. It's you think she needs But who has the bigger devotion here? The kid with the trust fund who doesn't have to do anything Because it's all paid for Doesn't have children doesn't have a wife or the woman who has three kids a full-time job Everything in between but still makes that time to come to my store in the morning Who has the bigger devotion? It's all perspective, right and and so that That was you know, and so yeah So we're gonna get into that with with Morgan as well and and and so this also brings us We're gonna talk about some things that are coming up in this first of all We have a mini challenge many challenge before the 60-day challenge. I talked to Shanti about this Wednesday after we filmed on I so on the Solstices so we have a solstice coming up on the 21st for us in the northern hemisphere This is our winter solstice for our people in the southern hemisphere. This is your summer solstice But on solstices we typically do in a very esoteric way a hundred eight sun salutations That's all your practices that day. I've done this before I was telling Emmy and Shanti and I were talking a lot about the sun salutations and how that really needs to be taught because it's the basis of all awesome of practice and so I agreed to Film a video of a hundred eight. I'm not doing a hundred eight left film I'm gonna do a couple with modifications for people and then I'm just gonna count for a hundred eight so people can play it and do it at their house for themselves and so that's gonna be up on the 21st of December For you guys so that can be something that you work up to for a little mini challenge in the middle of Before I were waiting on the 60 days to do the hundred eight. I mean, I think I mean sun salutations to me They are the creme de la creme of all Asuna is the sun salutations I think they should be the warm-up for everybody in sports and everything is to do sunset Even days that I just do bar. I do sun salutations before I do the bar just because Nothing gets your blood pumping gets your muscles activated like Syrian on the scar a you know So and I know I'm gonna do so I think the first couple I'll film myself doing a modification Because like I said a lot of times on the YouTube's you see people doing more demonstration where they're gonna show the fancy jump back And if you hear bopping around guys, that's construction next door But I'm gonna show you guys how to modify what to do.  So anyway Let's talk about the upcoming shadow work challenge any Emmy is gonna actually do like a week of The grief what with grief right and how to work through grief Yes. Oh, should we tell people about the book or should we put that in there? Well, I'm gonna do so the first month We're gonna do polishing the mirror by Ram Dass in the second month We're gonna do another Ram Dass book. So and that's gonna be with the grief. So you want to talk about that book quickly? Sure Sure, sure. So of all the books and Counseling and therapies and and groups and different things that I've tried for grief My favorite is Ram Dass's book walk in each other home. It's There there is so much good stuff out there on grief work But Ram Dass's book was the only one that I found that was centered around unity and oneness everything else that's taught about grief comes from a Perspective of separation like you're separate from your loved ones. You're separate from God and How do we heal? Being separate and you know, those things those things are good and there's definitely good suggestions, but Ram Dass's book was It was it was the last thing that I read and oh my gosh, it was so healing just even reading the book was healing Yep, that's it Yeah, yeah, such a beautiful book Ram Dass is amazing. Oh, isn't he amazing? He pat for guys who don't know Ram Dass I Consider him to be one of my teachers even though I had the opportunity to almost meet him at one point, but a chickened out I had sent him an email This is right before I started going to India and I mess I sent him an email And I just wanted to thank him so much for all of his books And I was about to head off to India for my first trip and I just really felt so inspired And I thanked him for being so vulnerable and sharing all of his his struggle And everything that got him to where he is today and like lo and behold I got an email back from his assistant at that time And the assistant was like Boba Doss wants to meet you. Can you at that point? It was Skype Can you Skype with him and I put it off because I was so nervous. I was like I don't know what I'm gonna say like I'm gonna get on the Skype and be like You know, so I put it off and I'm kind of mad at myself for that because he has since passed away But his books I mean, I quote him all the time I Feel like he he literally And I'll put his YouTube channel in the description box below guys because you can you can listen to a lot of his talks on on YouTube still and Especially polishing the mirror which is what we're gonna start with which is great because I think in polishing the mirror I remember correctly. He does start to talk about a little bit of grief. He does talk about the power of death and How we need to treat death as a celebration and the process of death just as we celebrate birth as a celebration And he talks about his mother passing away and when he was younger and all that kind of stuff And so it'd be great to start with polishing the mirror and then go into this book with from Doss and Walking each other on that's where I get it from that quote is we're all just walking each other home Another great great quote from him is treat everybody like they're God dressed in drag Because they are You know they are You know and I love what I love so much about Rom Doss too is that you know He's born Richard Alpert and he was a Harvard professor of psychology and back in like when psychedelics and drugs got really big he Was approved by Harvard to do experiment experiments with like acid and psychedelics and The experiments got a little out of hand. He ended up an addict got fired all that kind of stuff But to make a long story short. He's so smart. He's so intelligent, but he doesn't write his writing is not demeaning and I feel like I've been in the academic world a lot a lot of the yoga world is very academic as you can see It's heavy philosophy and I hate that when people write Books on philosophy, but they try to Write in a very demeaning way Yeah, like kind of like like you should know all this stuff already and you're just not doing it Yeah, and they use words that are huge that nobody uses Yeah, like, you know, so okay, great I can I can look at this at this this horse as well You know, but what I love about Ram Doss is he writes in a way that every human being understands What he's saying and he writes like he's talking to you as a comrade as as a as an equal not as a teacher and He'll say something like really mind-blowing in some of his books like it'll go groovy. I Love it. All right something mind-blowing the next sentence. It's just groovy. That's it You know and so he he you know towards the end of his life He had a stroke and he did a whole documentary after that stroke because obviously He needed to learn something His learning wasn't over. So he was like universe took away my My little use of my legs. So, okay, what do I have to learn now that those are gone? You know and that's where I get the whole interesting thing, you know when we hit something in our practice That's hard and you've been there at me where it hurts and there's tears instead of connecting and living in that pain and making that pain like Your emotional compass, can you look at that pain feel the pain and go ah interesting? Mm-hmm. That's what I learned from Ram Dass you know and you know, he's a His story is just amazing and I am well forever be grateful to him and he did pass away in 2019 December of 2019 right before we went into the fiasco that we're in he dot He was like 90. I mean he nothing's sinister. He just passed away And I kind of feel like it was kind of like right before we fell off into the precipice of everything in this timeline He was like, all right, my work is done I'm out You guys know what to do now and I've actually know that film still sounds weird But I feel like I felt him around me from time to time which might sound kind of weird But I quote him a lot and so I'm happy that we are gonna be using some of his work In this in the shadow work cuz and you see pictures of him and you just kind of want to hug him Yes, you know like you just would cut a lot of them. Yeah, can we make like Ram Dass plushies? And he I told the story I think I told him the yoga the yoga course cuz you know Yoga is is basically its mental focus if that's meditation is finding a one point of focus And so you can find yoga and so many different things, you know The asana is the traditional practice But there's many different ways where you can find a one-pointed focus and Ram Dass tells the story like back in like the 70s where everyone was like hippies He was doing this big talk on his time with Neen Crowley Baba his guru in India And all these hippies these smelly dirt twirling hippies The long hair were in that auditorium like grooving it out with Ram Dass and Ram Dass said in the front row There was this little old lady with her purse and her pearls on Listening to Ram Dass speak and she would be nodding her head in agreement He she kept catching his eye and he kept thinking she's supposed to be here like this is not this is One of these things is not like the other The conference or the talk do you as people were greeting him she came up and he was like ma'am Did you come here on purpose and she was like yes, I so I So and he's in that moment. He realized she had found meditation and sewing She had stumbled upon and she realized that she had stumbled upon something and she obviously researched it You know went to the library because I was before the internet and went to hear his talk To hear what he had to say because she had stumbled upon What he it took him becoming a drug addict ending up in India high on acid To find meditation she found through sewing. I Just think it's such a great story Yeah, so I So I saw you know, so and it also teaches you not to judge another person's path because Even though she wasn't dressed as the hippie in dirt twirling nor she been to India She didn't have to do all that. It just took her picking up her needle and thread and she figured it out Yes, I have a similar experience a couple of my kids when they were Really little were so sensitive to everything and so I had to use cloth diapers and cloth diaper covers are very very expensive, but knitting needles and crochet hooks and Marino wool is not expensive So I knitted and crocheted diaper covers and I made so many I made far more than what we needed because after a while I realized that It calmed me down. It regulated my nervous system. It like refreshed me It was like sometimes I would feel you know reborn after sitting down and knitting or crocheting something and I was like I Totally get Why people do this now?  But anyway Yeah, my grandmother my mom's mom when needle point every time there were four girls My mom had forced our three sisters and each kid each sister had two kids So anytime a new grandbaby was being born my grandmother would go needle point a new stocking And so when she passed away we all got our stockings now Some of my cousins don't have stockings because they were born after the fact But that's always meant a lot to me like my stocking at my mom's house means a lot to me because that was my grandmother And so I started needle pointing and I loved it I've thought about it getting back in a needle pointing again because I loved it so much I would sit I remember sitting on my bedroom floor and at like 12 years old we're at a TV in my room like watching probably MTV or something and No pointing and I'm in it was I would have so it was so fun and you get in that flow. And so that that's that's meditation That's what that is And so and that's why we do the the Austin of practice is to give our mind something to focus on, you know It pulls up the energy. Yes, there's so many different components to this But the most important thing is it's getting giving your mind a one-pointed focus So let's go deeper into shadow works I know I mean there was a conversation a single group kind of about the journal light Let's talk a little bit about the journaling with shadow work and and so and I did this because of my Experience and my education and that's why the 60 day channel challenge is gonna look a little bit different because I'm gonna have Emmy Shanti Catherine Stephanie all helping me create the template and so we're gonna have all these different perspectives all these different Experiences and education levels Putting knowledge in so I'm not just throwing exercise on a template and then asking questions I'm picking specific exercises that I know From my education are going to potentially trigger Certain emotions and then I asked the questions Based on what's potentially going to be coming up With the exercise so can we first let's talk a little bit about that through your experience exercise can pull up emotion Can it any yo? Yeah Yes, absolutely. I started experiencing that Well before I was committed to the sastra practice, but even since even since doing this practice I've had so much come up Brice says I'm one of the lucky ones because my karma comes out early. I don't feel lucky like I I'm watching all of these people Just whip through this stuff and here I am completely wrapped What I should be used to this by now You are lucky. Listen, I have seen when I okay So in India and I'm what I actually want to talk to Morgan about this because we're both India trained and I'm the same teacher You know, there are what I've said it before and I'll say it again I do not want to go past third series, which is good. Most people don't anyway You don't see fourth series being practiced except for an India because it literally grosses me out fourth series Literally grosses me out. I cannot handle watching it. I Maybe maybe that man now I'm hearing God laughing like Take your own advice like you should probably be doing four series of but what tends to happen and and Todd has said this before With the ashtanga system You can't leapfrog.  They're all hard They all have different purposes primary series comes first because it is physical therapy second series is not a show And it's it's it's nerve therapy the third the third through six are all advanced don't ego therapy But the primary series alone full primary series in like a vinyasa flow world would be considered an advanced class Because they're advanced pot. There's like behind the head all sorts of stuff Now the reason why we have six series which only one person living has ever completed all six of them And that's my teacher charat the palm guru. So that's how hard it is It's so that every single person also is challenged And I have seen it. I have seen it where somebody a student will very easily go through first through third series. No problem Their ego gets a little inflated Then they get to fourth series And they hit one of those postures and Their body and it's like a slap across the face. They hit a wall and the temper tantrum The freak out That happens is not pretty Now there are people in fourth series that have hit walls all the way along and they they can handle that Intensity because they've already struggled and other, you know, they've just evolved through it And so I always tell people be wary of those Who had an easy time and first through third? Because if something are missing and they haven't hit it yet But if it hit you in primary series good Because the people who get hit hard in primary or second series, they're the most humble They're the better teachers They get it They absolutely get it. I'll give an example too that horrified me and and also Todd We were both in India at this time together and the Mysore room in India It's not like my so rooms you go to Around the world because there's so many students that the room is packed and you have to sit literally sit in the lobby and wait to be called in for practice So you're watching as other people are practicing before you and There's this guy who I'm not a huge fan of he was assisting short He is an authorized teacher so I can assist her out if I want but this guy was assisting and Todd was watching too And we have these drop-back stand-ups at the you start learning them at the end of primary series where you stand up from a back bend and then you drop back stand up drop back stand up and These can be a lifelong practice for people because there's a right way to do them And there's a wrong way to do them and wrong way can cause you know a thousand times Okay, a thousand one times not okay. Well, some people including myself.  I can't stand this guy I won't say his name.  Anyway, he was assisting and this girl was drop-back standing up But her heels were coming up just like much just like 90% of the Astonga population does and the assistant this guy Came up and was like fussing at her about it and he said you got to keep your heels down Well, I can't can't get back with my heels down and he was like that's okay. I'll spot you I'll have my hands there to catch you Well, I didn't spot her She smacked her head on the floor, but this is one of those people this assistant who I've known for years now I've practiced beside him for years now and He's never had any issues in his practice There no issues have come up yet for him and so his understanding of friction isn't there So that's why like David Grieg who is my original teacher He I don't know he's very hush-hush about how far he got and how far he's gotten in his practice as far as I think Someone said he got into fit series. I'm not 100% sure because he won't talk about it He's a very private, but I know that he's had a lot of issues in his practice because of the way he teaches He understands He understands the limitations He understands Working with the limitations and that the limitations are not necessarily a bad thing They're actually the resistance you need to create that light and that fire and that's I've said it before He was the one that changed my perspective on that because I've told his his mice room and Philly would be packed And he would have these like and I started practicing with him when I was in my 20 So I was one of these girls in my 20s that was thin and athletic and all this stuff So the young girls would come in and he'd be like whatever next plaster But when an elderly man would come in who was overweight Had a belly Couldn't touch his toes David got so excited Because now we have something to work with The people that were just doing it they didn't have anything to really work with We had to okay next posture. We had to keep going until we found that thing to work with But when the person that walked in and already had something to work with There was already an Obstacle of extra weight. There was already an obstacle of tightness. This was resistance It's like resistance training. It's like using weights. That's a resistance. Your body's already providing that. Yes This is exciting. And so that changed my perception Watching him and seeing how he worked with that and I'll never forget. I used to practice beside this man Who had a fake leg? I think I've talked about this before and he had had his fake leg for years So he was very comfortable It was no big deal for him. He had learned how to work with it. Well the first time David worked with him David walked in and was like Like a kid on Christmas morning because now there was a new puzzle There was a new obstacle and how exciting is this and he would sit there I'm not gonna say the guy's name because I know he still lives in Atlanta But he would say, you know, I'm gonna make up a name. Oh Johnny Johnny How does this work? What about this and the fact that that you can still and that's what I learned watching him work With my friend who was an amputee that this energetic body were like pushing into the big toe that that energy was still there even if the leg was not That you could still access that energy even if the land and that puzzle and how incredible How amazing the universe gave you this opportunity the universe took your leg And so now you get the privilege of Finding the substance of energetic body without the physical manifestation. How cool is that? Wow the universe decided or your soul decided to be in a body that has the propensity to gain weight How cool is that? Because now you already have the resistance You don't have to find it your soul gave it to you. Wow What can you learn from that struggle?  What about someone who's a hundred sixty pounds? How much stronger are they than I? How much more is there to really activate and push into than I have And I think we see I think we were talking about this idea of like wanting to obtain perfection And so I think sometimes we see people Who have like the perfect practice and we think that they've obtained something, but that's simply not true Because in my experience the people with the pretty practices are Usually haven't attained that much at all Unless there's someone like a stronger. I mean I I will I will be honest primary series came very easy for me I went through it very quickly But my hamstrings have always been open. They've always been open.  That's when I punched him Feldman That's how I broke my sacrum. I had to go back and relearn second series second series put me into trauma therapy Because my nervous system started shaking uncontrollably So for me Like if I do an awesomeness shot like a picture for marketing I'm gonna put my leg behind my head or do a forward fold because that's what I excel in that's what looks good on a picture For marketing, but my real practice lies in second series because that's where I'm triggered That's where there's resistance. That's where it's oh I punched a teacher interesting Why did I do that because not no one else in the room doing that posture did that? Why did I it's the same posture? What was it what was there alchemically for me? That made me do that Without it was so instinctual. I didn't because I've never hit never hit anyone in my life except for Tim Feldman So why? I've also had back surgery. So that's interesting, right? So there's a connection there There's a weakness. There's a and we know that nothing in the physical body is just calls of just nature It's all a manifestation of something else. So what is that? That's where I get that's where you get to Nancy drew yourself You become the boxcar children. You're off to stop the mystery To figure this out because the karma is the work. It's your work. And so and I know like Just chatting with Morgan offline like he's got a beautiful practice But we're probably gonna talk about the struggles too, you know And that's why I had a broken bone. I think or a dislocated shoulder and He practiced through that Yeah, he has some kind of injury I was going through his videos and I saw that and I was like that is fascinating. I Practiced through my broken sacrum. I Talked about it with you with the with Catherine. Yeah, you're not doing your full practice And and that's the choice you have so when I broke my sacrum. I was in a my sore room not here No, I wasn't in I wasn't in Georgia. I was in a different state And I had been kind of like manipulated this this teacher is not that I'm not a good person I've been manipulated to come up and practice with him for like a week in Ohio and my friend my friend from Canada drove down and met me so that was fun and I got to his shawa and Anyway, he did an adjustment on me that you're not supposed to do and like I said my legs We kind of got into a little bit of an argument over I had driven the 10 hours up to Ohio and Whenever you travel You're supposed to do primary series Like when you get there just to settle your body back in from traveling Because or anytime you go through anything crazy You need to just go back to primary series for a while to let your body Reground itself and we kind of got into a little argument because he wanted me to jump right in the second And I was like no, I'm not going to do that Because I know I know this practice and that's not going to be good for me because I already am but I'm already You know traveling is bought to derangement.   I did not need to be adjusted in it at all. There was no reason to adjust me in it But he comes around and this guy was like he's like six foot four six foot five big guy on sits on my back sits on me and Then takes my legs and pulls them towards him So he's pushing my back down as my legs are coming towards your back is supposed to be curved in this posture the biggest loudest pop Raying out throughout the whole my story when my friend who had driven down to meet me to practice me Sat up and like looked I could see him and I felt intense pain But I just kind of froze and the teacher the guy Did not get off of me Even after that sound came out of my body. He did not he kept staying there I went through the whole rest of my practice I think I was in a state of shock because I didn't feel anything really I felt some pain right when it happened until I got back to the hotel and I fell on the floor I couldn't get off off the floor.  I had no idea it was broken I didn't know until I came back to Georgia and was still in Just crying pain and I'm I can take pain.  There's more to the story that I found out later about why Let's just say he's a man and he wanted something from me that I wasn't willing to give him And I didn't know that at the time because he's a married man That never entered my mind But I wasn't going to be there to do that for him So I had a lot of anger come up towards him. I had to modify my practice so much I Had to really but I kept moving but I said this with captain this morning.  I'm tired of these bad people But I started to kind of separate the idea of a human can be faltered But the teaching is still pure just because he did something fucked up does not mean that the teaching is not pure And my friend from Canada who was there when this happened Because he is like a movement specialist. He really worked with me to try to help me figure out How to help heal my body? I was in my mid 30s at this time like I wasn't a young young chick You know and because the practice at this point I've been doing the out strong practice for so long that my body did have a level of comfort in the practice and You know, there wasn't a lot of shocking change because it was used to it And my friend kept saying you need to try bar try bar because it's going to really Get your core stronger in a different way and get your glute stronger to help the healing process And I went to a couple bar classes here in Atlanta. I wasn't impressed but that's how I found Marnie Alton Was through that experience and she literally changed me She offered me without her even knowing it. I found a level of healing through her That went beyond the sacrum break She has helped me heal things And I would have never found her if it wasn't for this issue with this asshole teacher and So every time we're confronted with this so for me that break was an obstacle It was resistance. It was friction and I had a choice I could have walked away or I could have leaned into the friction which I did and that's how a whole new world opened up for me which was through Marnie Alton's bar and And I kid you not My body at this point at almost 40 years old. I'm in better shape now Than I was before the break and it's because of her and So what the devil used for bad God will use for good. And so we take these points of resistance and are karmically That teacher needed to do that to me Karmically I asked for that because karmically The cause and effect of that the action reaction Opened up a whole new world of healing for me that I would have never found without it and You know and so I am very grateful for all so I guess to make a long story short Every place where you feel struggle is a sacred place Where you excel in anything is not what's sacred It's where you struggle That's what's holy That's the magic I keep telling I tell my live in live in person classes this and I tell the online classes this I'm bored by pretty yoga Pretty osuna bores the shit out of me It's not interesting I'm gonna see Cirque du Soleil and they do it better as my teacher says like whoop-de-do you can do a handstand Fantastic anybody can do a handstand They practice That's not impressive But when I see someone come into in the yoga room who's falling all over their mats Having a hard time balancing Sweating, but they're focused and they're working it makes me emotional because that's beautiful mmm That's what's inspiring I get emotional thinking about it The 22 year old that hasn't had anything.  He was like if you want to impress me be a good person Hmm, you know many and he's so funny in the yoga mice or room If someone does a handstand where there's no handstand called for do you know what he does?  You'll get pushed over. That's your ego Hmm That's not called for in the practice. So why are you doing it? It's not called There are places where handstands are called for very specific places But it's not called for in a sun salutations. So why are you doing it? Who are you trying to impress? You can't impress sure. I he's seen it all. He's done it all Mm-hmm.    What is that you might not know what it is you might have inherited that nugget of anger from grandma You don't know but now it's yours hot potato. I passed it to you now. It's yours What are you gonna do with it? When you haven't like we talked about that with Richard Simmons in the challenge that he was born with a foot deformity mm-hmm, and Then he became one of the most inspirational people right and this is also why I know they were talking about all the questions so let's kind of talk about that Amy about this idea of perfection and what this means and You know this can kind of spill over into shadow work, too Yeah, yeah, so I think you know most of us has have went to public school or I like to call them public indoctrination centers and Mine was one of my parents paid for me to be a doctor. Oh, man And You know, we're all accustomed to being focused on the grade and getting a good grade We're not focused on learning and there there isn't an emphasis on what a child knows. It's just what it what are your grades? What are your grades? I mean even parents and grandparents they don't ask the Children typically well, what did you learn? What did you like about today? What was the most interesting thing that happened today? They want to know about the grades and so that's what our focus is on and to get the grade You have to do everything and you have to be you know Perfect with it But with shadow work, we're not going for a grade and it's very very personal so even if you answered just one question for the entire month of November and You answered it well and you learned something about yourself and you made a change You did exactly what you were supposed to do You're not behind You're not you don't have to catch up. It's not a race. You don't have to compare yourself to anyone else If you can't finish a day or if you can't finish questions or if you don't have enough time to journal I know we're all busy. We probably all have children and Families and jobs and pets and homes and you know, I'm sure most of us don't have maids and cooks and butlers and all those things So we're doing life all ourselves so Whatever it is that you can accomplish Using a template like what Bryce made it's just a template you can pick and choose Whatever you get done is beautiful Yes, it's beautiful and as I was telling Emmy before because I mean I've both been on a shadow work journey for a very long time so with the questions that I ask and that will be asked in the Basically there's there's not going to be any less questions and there's probably going to be more and what this is doing guys So what what we're doing with these questions is when we go with as you notice There's momentum that builds up to certain exercises. We're not just going to start you on the very first day with a heavy We're going to have you get acclimated to the exercise acclimated to journaling and then we get to those heavy Days you've built up to this and the exercise that I put for the template of that day is going to trigger certain feelings that we want to trigger certain resistance and So when I ask a lot of questions or write a lot of questions down all those questions are doing you don't even have to answer any Of them. They're prompting you to think about things Do I suggest I? suggest What you did Bryce was brilliant by the way and and I saw I saw I saw that What I would suggest is For the day and the questions for the day Answer the questions first that you don't want to Don't start with the quit don't just start with the questions, you know from top to bottom. I Mean unless they build on each other, you know, there's exceptions But if there is a particular question or questions that you don't want to answer do those first That's where your struggle is. That's where your trigger is. That's where the interesting stuff is going to be That's where the beauty and the epiphanies are going to come from is doing the stuff. You don't want to do and doing it first You know because then if we have limited time At least what we're working on is really going to dig deep and pull that stuff up And I even suggest because when I wrote the template and I was like and I would every day Or my channel I'd go put through the next day and I would read through all the questions So that you would already be thinking So like I would read the questions at the beginning of the day So that I would feel the energy of the practice of the exercise the meditation and then I'd have these questions in my head that I would be Kind of contemplating all day before I sat down at night to journal So you don't even have to answer any of the questions as long as you are Contemplating and being prompted over what is betrayal? What is grief? What is childhood trauma and so you can start to ask yourself those hard questions that you don't have to tell that And no one's reading your journals like I'm I don't want to read your journal I would feel like I was an invading in your privacy if I read your journal I respectably I respectively would decline to read your journal because that is supposed to be Your most intimate thoughts just for you. And so I want to reiterate that too. First of all, yes This is just a template The words the template we sent you they're just words on a paper. That's all they are They're just words on a paper with links on them. That's it. That's all it is. It doesn't make you You don't get an A. You don't get it a B. You don't get it. There's a grading system You your experience is what brings life to the experience Your feelings is what brings life to the words on those paper But the words on those paper is like how many people do you know, Emmy who are really good cooks? Maybe you're one of them I'm not I had to I had to call my mom to ask her how to boil an egg not that long ago So I am not that great of a cook But how many people do you know that our good cooks? I can get a recipe But then kind of do their own thing with the recipe there to kind of see But they're just using the recipe just kind of as a suggestion Yeah, I do that. Yeah, it's the same thing with the template, you know with the it's this is kind of The outline we're going with But if you have we have come to a day for betrayal and I ask you a bunch of questions about betrayal I'm having and then I asked and I won the questions asked was when where did you betray yourself? So have you ever thought about that? Where have you betrayed yourself? You know, we put blame on all these people who've heard us But where are we hurting ourselves because we have to first hurt ourselves Before that wound can be open to allow someone else to do it to us, too Hmm, you know and so these this is what I'm prompting. It's not that you have to answer it Listen, it's not an essay. I'm not gonna check your spelling.  I Have a really hard time with with processing that Because I and this is my struggle Because once you've been betrayed Your level of trust drops in people and I don't want to be the person that doesn't trust anyone I don't want to be the jaded person. I want to constantly be able to extend my heart to people and my often I don't want to be the person that's afraid But I am there is a part of me that's afraid now. There is a part of me I've had to really think especially as of late I was massively betrayed and I want to be able to forgive. I Want that and I'm having to work through that because there's fear there And so that's my own shadow work because the reality is is that fear is coming from me So how do I heal that with mice? That's my that's my part of my work on this journey You know, but for somebody else it could be different. We all have different stories The karma is all different I do want to bring up too because I said this to me too We're also looking at the arc for Dodger as well So there's two things that are happening one can be this need to be perfect But another situation we're looking at is the artful Dodger. You want to explain the artful Dodger? This is from David great. Let's tell David great talk to what is the artful Dodger and me We all have we all have our own little artful Dodger. Oh, yeah, the artful Dodger would be the part of your mind when You're supposed to get on your mat and oh, I have to go pee Oh, I need to switch to laundry if I don't switch laundry right now. My stuff's not going to be done Oh, I forgot to pull me out for dinner. Yeah.  Oh bad. Oh That kind of stuff is artful Dodger not wanting to do the work coming up with very crafty clever clever Yes, very tactical Excuses or reasons why you should wait or not do it or procrastinate or What have you? It's that it's that part of you that that likes to justify and Talk you out of doing what's good for you. It's your ego Exactly ego comes in so many different forms and one thing wrong dolls talked about is When you are doing a spiritual practice and you really start to push the ego into that corner The ego all of a sudden will push back in a very major way Like a lion it comes out right before it dies And I think that I think we go through many ego deaths actually But you know so an artful Dodger could be you could be using the need of perfection to not answer the questions Because when we answer those questions in shadow work, what are we challenging our ego? Mm-hmm the pain we feel is coming from the ego Because the ego is what will die one day You won't your soul's eternal, but your soul isn't your ego Leo's a false soul And whenever we have to look at these these these shadows in our self we have to face our own imperfection We have to face our own shortcomings We have to face the the side of us that can be abusive even to ourselves And the opposite way so I've struggled with inflammation and I know and they asked you with Autoimmune issues and right when I broke my sacrum. I started to really heal my autoimmune flare it up Which I know why it's because I was angry. I was pissed at this this teacher and I really went through a year or so Where I was doing the morning altar, but I was I was processing a lot of that anger and it was showing up as major Arthritis like to the point where I would get up in the morning and I can hardly at 35 36 years old could hardly get out of bed Because my body was so fucking inflamed and then I'd have to go teach So it'd have to take like for ibuprofen before I go teach just so I knew that I would be able to support Somebody in a posture in a back bend not drop them because I was so it was bad. It was bad And I was in India and I was talking with my teacher and copper. I had a schedule a meeting with him And I typically don't really go to charot for personal stuff But this was a major and I was like, I don't know what to do. I was like my arthritis is really bad I talked to him about my sacrum all that kind of stuff. He knew everything about that was going on And he looked at me and he goes, you know, the sixth day a week practice is just general He goes for now you do four days a week You give yourself three days a week of rest Your body's been through a lot and it needs to it. He doesn't need the stimulation and I kind of Kind of so what my ego will do is the exact opposite of trying to avoid the practice It will dive deeper into it to punish myself.  I was punishing myself I was abusing myself because I was mad at myself for allowing that to happen and When he said that it hit me It hit me that I need to let myself rest Because I have been through a trauma and Again, that's when I started incorporating more bar and I got stronger and it's informed me more on how the decisions that I make I'm also bought to pit us So I do have the propensity to do that anyway bought to pit is that's you know a cop a person will go the opposite way Well, they'll rest too much right they'll punish themselves by overeating or by you know not allowing their but where I will Go the opposite direction and so now I'm like okay, so he was pointing something out to me That I think my teacher could see that that I was beating myself up I was taking over abusing myself from what that teacher had done to me I took over from him and and that is that was huge epiphany for me And so now I do about three to four days of my Austin of practice in the other days. I do bar That's what I do Because then and then after that Recognition I already started doing Marnie Alton, but then her words and her classes started to heal me even more because I was more I was more ready to hear it Because I had realized what I what I was doing to me does that make sense Absolutely, and so the artful Dodger is artfully my favorite movie when I was a kid was the 1968 Oliver The sing-along the musical and I had a little crush on the artful Dodger The kid who played the artful Dodger, but um, but you know, we all have that artful Dodger We are our egos are always going to find a way to try to sabotage the work Because once the work is finalized once we break through the ego can't exist It's you're in your egos in a life is in a life-or-death battle right now It's the Robin a story It's gonna get really crap Crafty because you know as as you grow spiritually your ego becomes Spiritual and then you have this spiritual ego and you're like wait a minute.   It looks like an accountant Because he's not interested in dressing the part Because he is the part he doesn't need and so I we laugh at that all the time people who like come in They're like all groovy and they like wear like 50,000 malla beads and like, you know lit it and it's like First of all, you're not supposed to show your malla beads to anyone kind of like your private parts You're not supposed to show them to anyone, you know, it's it's kept away and see you use it Then you put it away, right?  So it's kind of like your messiah.  Yeah, if you feel like you need to advertise You might want to write about that. Yes I'm not only I only talk about my past experience for marketing purposes. So people can trust me as a teacher But beyond that I'm not in the grocery store telling the person aside and you know, I broke my sacrum once You know, I've been to India multiple times No, that's just for me You know, it's just for me.   What just happened?  And he said I'm here to practice and Tim said Guruji told you to go teach And Todd was like, oh, I'm not ready to teach and he was like dude. You're never ready. You just gotta go do it Guruji told you to go do what you do it. He thinks you're ready And Todd was like, where do I go and he was like, well, you're from the southeast, right? Is there yoga in the southeast? No That's where you go Make some Take it green do it. So Todd was the one who brought yoga to the southeast You know and that's and that's just kind of how it happens. And so there's no grandiose.   No, I looked at charade and I go Are you sure? And charade just like bobble this at me. I was like, why did I say that? Of course, you're sure. I was like, are you See are you sure? It started bobble his head.  I'll I'll do it now But anyway guys, so I think what we want to say before we get into the 60 day Challenge is there are going to be more questions. There is going to be more work But that does not mean that you have to answer all of them. They're just Yeah, you don't have to you don't have to do You don't have to do any of it if you just did one day it it will still bless you. You're not you're never behind Whatever you get done Is exactly what you're supposed to get done Yeah, you know, just just keep in mind Keep your ego in check make sure you're not making excuses for yourself But whatever you get done patch yourself on the back you deserve it. You don't have to get an a You don't have to do it all I didn't do it all I didn't I didn't do it all I didn't expect people to do it all I I might my Goal is to always over deliver So that you have Options and so that you and riddle me this like say this happens say like you're doing the challenge You come to the day where there's a lot of questions about a hard topic and you're like, I'm not going to do this I'm not ready for this but then six months down the road You might be doing your practice and you might remember that go back pull the template up and now you're ready Now you're right. Even if you even if you don't Answer every question or per taken in every exercise The seed is planted. Yep. The seed is planted and and it will come back to you down the road if you're not ready for it now You think reading through the yoga sutras the first time you get everything from the yoga sutras on the first read No No, no, I in fact, I read a couple of day I read a couple every day So I can really go through it and go slow and underline and highlight and really just take it in I've been rereading the yoga sutras now yearly for 16 years I every time in india I go back and I retake us the same sutra class over and over again 16 years. I've done it even before I started going to india. I reread it every year Do you know what happens to me every year? I already know Yeah, I I see something in a different way even teaching them Happens to me every time I teach the sutras. I find something. I'm like, oh interesting Now I see what he's saying here So same thing with even though I'm not I'm not baton jolene by any stretch of the imagination But when we're looking at this deep work, it's not going to be taking it's not a checklist It's not a grocery list. You just check off, right? It's a constant like the eight limbs of ashtanga yoga. They're constantly working in a wheel together It's constantly just because you handle the the topic of grief and this upcoming challenge And he's going to do a thing a week of grief Just because we're going through it in one challenge doesn't mean that it's not going to reappear A year from now in your life But what's going to happen though is you're going to be more evolved and better equipped to recognize it And you can go back and pull the template up and be like, oh my god, let me reread this book again Let me read. Okay. I'm seeing my grief in a different perspective I'm seeing my anger at it in a different perspective now And because I can see it in a different perspective, I can heal a different different side of this As my friend Cindy says, I'm just trying to get through this life to not bring karma into the next We don't want to bring the louis baton travel set with us. We want to leave it in this life So that our next life is different different obstacles So if you guys have any questions about that, do not hesitate to ask I did, you know, I told emmy that we kind of debated on whether bringing this up or not But yeah, I just wanted to clarify that there there will still be questions. There will probably be more questions in the next Go round, but it's not Mandatory it's not not mandatory. Yeah It's just a prompt. All it is is a prompt That's it No one is reading. I no one is going to be reading your journal No one is judging you No one trust me when you get deep in a shadow where you're not judging anyone. Are you?  Like I have no place to judge anyone What they're going through, you know, but just observe the artful dodger Ask yourself those hard questions and then again Maybe the questions that you don't want to answer now. It's because it's not time In six months from now, maybe it will be time. I don't know You know, trust the path you're on Trust that this is hard, but it's hard for everyone And it and it's we're all we're all just walking each other home, right?  So anyway, you guys, um, yeah, anything you want to end off with emmy Um, okay, so I will say this doing shadow work can sometimes be heavy And well, it can a lot of times be heavy So I really encourage you guys and maybe we can incorporate this in the 60 day challenge But I really encourage you to spend some time Looking at your character assets What is it about you that you love? What is it about you that other people love? What are you good at? What comes easily and naturally to you, you know, I noticed this beautiful interaction in the signal group and I have not seen love and support and encouragement by such a large group of people. I don't think anywhere I mean, you know, maybe in my recovery groups, but those meetings are small I mean, we have so many people helping other people and I really think that that we should take time to Love ourselves and and remind ourselves how wonderful we are and and all of the good Qualities and good aspects about ourselves that we have because that's so so important. It's so important That's why I think I'm going to do this again in the 60 day where one day I had you write a letter by hand To someone that you really admired in your life And to send in that letter of how much you loved them and respected them and after you did that I had you Write down everything you loved about that person in your journal and then reflect on that Those are actually qualities of yourself Because the light you see in someone else is your just like the things about someone else that annoys you or things that about yourself You need to heal the things you love about someone else are also things about your it's all a reflection of you So I'm going to do that again the next where you're going to be maybe a couple of times in the challenge Writing a letter to someone your colleague An old friend that you really admire and just tell them and also ask like how would you feel if you got that letter? You know from somebody that Sends you a letter of like admirate, you know So you're not only healing yourself. You're helping healing someone else And that's why a lot of times at the end of the really hard ones. I said, well, what if I think after you draw What are five things you like about yourself? What are things about you that are cool? And you have a cool sense that you think you got a cool sense of music Like I think I have really cool taste of music, you know What are what are things about you that are I know I'm fun.  We've gotten so many. We are the book club was a suggestion and signal I mean, there's so much suggestions going on and I'm so excited. There is going to be way more Choice for exercises because let's face it the people who did the 30 day challenge Your fitness level is now on it. You now need more friction than someone who's just starting which is okay Right. It's now. I always say don't compare a chapter one to somebody else's chapter 10 Well, now honey, you're at chapter two. So you can now help the person at chapter one And you can help the person now starting a friend that wants to do it with you You see, you know what? Here's an eight minute bar video. I'm going to do the 45 But you start with the eight Just start with the eight minutes and see what happens. Just see what happens Yeah, that's a great idea. That's a great idea Like maybe we could all get a friend or two and tell them about this challenge and see if they'll join us and then Help them and I said this on my video that I think just released but I'm going to try fingers crossed For one of the prizes for the 60 day challenge is a private lesson with Marnie Alton So there's going to be really good. We got really good prizes. I'm going to try for that one next one Um, I'm also going to donate a private lesson with me as well Um, I know Emmy just donated a rakey for the nest 30 days I'm assuming everybody who donated is probably going to donate again because they're all helping me with a template So such cool prizes.  Have you noticed that in our group?  Like that's intense and Wow So proud.  Wow I want to come tap with you.  No, like this is incredible You know like that is that is where you you pat yourself on the back and realize you're actually the winner You are actually the prize The other stuff is just extra And so Yeah, tell your mom how many 80 year olds I had so many people in their 80s doing this and me I don't know if they're on signal because I don't think my 80-year-old grandparents knew how to work a cell phone so I don't know though, but um, but 80 year old people are like my parents are in their 80s and they're doing it That's awesome Isn't that amazing? I mean how badass is that?  No, you're not you got that much more wisdom to work with You know like look at you. You are the wise one. You are the one coming in this You're gonna have a whole totally different perception on what's happening because look what you've lived through You know how many recesses have you been through, you know, so that's incredible and and I'm just I'm just so I'm so proud of every person you guys are heroes to me You know you you you've I thank you because you you healing yourself is also healing our world and we got to share this place together So I thank you For doing your part For not sitting on the sofa and eating your popcorn and what but deciding to get up and actually do something And I am so proud and so grateful to each and every one of you For making that decision to send that email in and get that template Amen So all right you guys so next challenge is the 108 sun salutations on the winter solstice I will have that up on my channel. I'll send it to emmy to put on hers as well I might need an ambulance You go slow as you need to Just see it as interesting and you got to take a little pee break in between and notice how shaky you are I just think oh interesting. I'm shaking right now. This is interesting Am I taking all morning? That's fine. That's fine.  That's fine You know so anyway guys. All right. We love you guys and we will talk to you all soon. Bye everybody. Bye


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss the following question and the question says solve the inequalities. Part A is 2x plus 5 is less than 17 in the system of natural numbers. Part B, 5x plus 4 is greater than 21 in the system of natural numbers. Part C, 3x plus 7 is greater than equal to 1 in the system of integers. Part D, 4x minus 1 is less than equal to 15 where x belongs to the set containing the elements minus 5, minus 4, minus 2, 0, 1, 3, 5, 9. Let's start the solution now. In part A we have the inequality 2x plus 5 is less than 17. Subtract 5 from both sides so we get 2x plus 5 minus 5 is less than 17 minus 5. Since same quantity is being subtracted from both the sides so the inequality remains same this implies 2x is less than 12 divide both sides by 2 so we get x is less than 12 divided by 2 since both the sides are divided by a positive number so the inequality remains the same. This implies x is less than 6. Now we have to find the solution in the system of natural numbers so we have to find all the natural numbers which are less than 6. We know that natural numbers less than 6 are 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 hence x is equal to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. This is our solution for the first part. Now in part B we are given the inequality 5x plus 4 is greater than 21. Subtract 4 from both the sides so we get 5x plus 4 minus 4 is greater than 21 minus 4. Here again there is no change in the inequality because same number is subtracted from both sides. This implies 5x is greater than 17 now divide both sides by 5 so we get 5x by 5 is greater than 17 by 5. This implies x is greater than 17 by 5 which implies x is greater than 3.4. Now we have to find the solution in the system of natural numbers and we know that natural numbers greater than 3.4 are 5, 6, 7, 8 and so on till infinity. Therefore the solution is x is equal to 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and so on. Now in part C we have the inequality 3x plus 7 is greater than equal to 1. Subtract 7 from both sides so we get 3x plus 7 minus 7 is greater than equal to 1 minus 7. This implies 3x is greater than equal to minus 6. We now divide both sides by 3 so we get 3x divided by 3 is greater than equal to minus 6 divided by 3. Since 3 is a positive number so the inequality remains same this implies x is greater than equal to minus 2. Now we have to find the solution in the system of integers and we know that integers greater than or equal to minus 2 are minus 2 minus 1, 0, 1, 2, 3 and so on till infinity. Therefore the solution is x is equal to minus 2 minus 1, 0, 1, 2, 3 and so on till infinity. In part D we are given the inequality 4x minus 1 is less than equal to 15 where x belongs to the set containing the elements minus 5 minus 4 minus 2, 0, 1, 3, 5, 9. Now we add 1 on both sides so we get 4x minus 1 plus 1 is less than equal to 15 plus 1. Since we have added same number on both sides so the inequality remains the same this implies 4x is less than equal to 16. We now divide both sides by 4 so we get 4x by 4 is less than equal to 16 by 4 since we have divided both the sides by a positive number so the inequality remains the same. This implies x is less than equal to 4. We are given that x belongs to the set containing all these numbers that is x belongs to the set containing the elements minus 5 minus 4 minus 2, 0, 1, 3, 5, 9. Now we choose all those numbers from this set which are less than or equal to 4. These numbers are minus 5 minus 4 minus 2, 0, 1, 3. Therefore the solution is x is equal to minus 5 minus 4 minus 2, 0, 1, 3. With this we end our session. Hope you enjoyed the session.