Hi and welcome to Dear to Dream. This is Debbie Dashinger and So much to share. I'm gonna start by telling you that this show Dear to Dream Has been nominated for two People's Choice podcast awards I just found out that we are number 200 in self-improvement in the USA on Apple Podcasts Also the show ranks 148 in South Africa 20 in Vietnam. It's so cool like that you're listening in all these countries. We're top 10 in several countries and we're 21 in Slovakia. And thank you I love getting these statistics and finding out that you have a dream and creating your dream is as Important to you as it's been in my life and continues to be right because dreams are fluid It's not just a one and done. It's something we create and once we're done with it and living it out into the world Of course more is revealed and the next right piece comes along and it's incumbent on us to create that too or It'll go to somebody else So do create your dreams because it's the greatest feeling and I believe it is the song that our soul came here to sing Dear to Dream is available on over 40 syndicated outlets. So join us. You can go to Apple Google Podcasts Spreaker Stitcher Anchor FM BBS radio I heart radio Spotify Pandora and more and do leave a review because it allows people who love this kind of Transformation conversation to find the show as well This show is sponsored by dr. Dane here and access consciousness We love the work that they do out in the world. So if you're ready for some really fast Energy healing or you want to become a facilitator. They are located all over the country doing workshops as well as online Got her dr. Dane d8. I am here h e r dot com and access consciousness Dot com I want to start out the show by sharing that I was reading an Interview with the actor and I'm pretty sure producer Sean Hayes from Will and Grace and he said something that was kind of riveting for me he was asked for advice and Sean Hayes said I always implore people to ask themselves two things What do you want? And what are you waiting for?  What is it that you want and what is it that you are waiting for? I keep pulling back the curtain and telling on myself right now because I want to propel myself forward I wouldn't say that this was my dream but I will absolutely tell you that the divine gave me a piece recently which was so surprising and an unexpected for me, but it's about shamanism and to go study shamanism and So I'm pursuing that I'm finding a couple of schools and some of them necessitate leaving the country for a little bit to go study So that's my big ass dream is around shamanism. Who would have thought but here I am pursuing it What about you? What are you waiting for? Do you want to learn how to revitalize and recreate your life? I hope so because my guest today is Lisa gar She is the host of the aware show and also host of the hay house being aware show and in the Los Angeles market listeners here Lisa on kpf k 90.7 fm and in New York on w ba I 99.5 fm Lisa is a regular weekend host on coast to coast fm a coast to coast am syndicated on over 600 stations around the world and her current series on Gaia TV is called inspirations on Gaia Lisa is the author of the best-selling book becoming aware how to repattern your brain and Revitalize your life as a result of healing a tragic brain trauma Lisa found her own voice and became a voice of change for the world Lisa Welcome to dare to dream. It is so great to have you so much fun. It's so great to be on Thank you so much. I love what you've created. This is and I completely understand and respected I think this is awesome. Thank you Yeah, thanks. I feel like with sisters doing such kindred things out into the world And so to marry you to my audience I'm some many of whom I'm sure I've already know you and if they don't then Let's get them on the bandwagon too So I want to start because it was so interesting when I researched you Lisa That you have over the years Added shifted radio stations venues where you put out your show Getting your hosting getting your voice out there, you know for me That's fascinating because I resonate. I've been doing this almost 13 years So I appreciate that and I want to know about The being aware show and the aware show starting And how you've navigated this and how you've ended up where you are right now doing what you're doing right now I am on my 20th year. I can't even believe it's been 20 years because it's not It's not anything I ever set out to do I never set out to have a radio show or be a broadcaster although I I went to school for broadcast journalism. It's just because it was fascinating to me, but I I you know, I didn't set out to be a broadcaster and I was working in television production And behind the scenes and producing segments and I thought that's what I wanted to do And I got to know and make friends with a lot of the people you work with because you're together 24 seven And so they were mountain bikers We they took me mountain biking. They were crazy mountain bikers. I mean crazy good So I had to keep up and wound up getting into the race circuit with them Which was all great because it was just a good way to pull off steam But in one series final race of a california state championship It was very brutal conditions. It was 108 degrees. It was 5000 feet of climbing and it was 24 miles. I can't remember 27 miles It was brutal and I wound up Passing out on the bike at the top of the mountain And I didn't know it. I had no idea All I knew is that I saw that there was this girl in front of me and she was in first place And I was in second place and somehow the thought came on if I could just pass her on this descent cross over the bridge I've got this. I'm done And I think that's what the last thought was is I'm done And you know, were you dehydrated? What was going on in your I must have been I I don't know because I drank I had 100 ounce camel back in my back And I had electrolytes But I think I hit a rock with my head because my helmet was shattered So when they went to go find the helmet, it was cracked in like 13 places And that wouldn't have happened if I just hit the ground Even though I was in the mountains, but I must have hit a rock and I must have You know, the helmet was dislodged off my head. My body was was shredded and I I don't know what all I know is that I was unconscious at the bottom of this mountain And my body was trying to get back on the my bike In the momentum of my body from being in the race for that long Wanted to get on the bike. It's a thing that happens with the adrenaline But my mind didn't and my mind went somewhere else and it wasn't even my mind I Debbie I found a state of pure bliss I felt like it chills talking about I found a place of just pure expanded Seamlessness and it exists all around us at all times. It's completely available to us I do not suggest cracking your head But I do know that I couldn't have slipped into this state being whatever you want to call it If I was pursuing these goals other other goals and and being such a person of pursuing goals I really found that everything was so expanded and connected That we are all together and everything we do and that That state is indelible in my mind And I don't know if I was because my body was failing and I was I was even tuned into the medics that came to the side of my body. I was tuned into their Purpose and their thoughts and their feelings because I remember it wasn't mine I remember down on your body. Were you actually separate from your body? Totally separated didn't feel the body at all. No awareness of the body The body was being put on stretchers and it was throwing up and it was there was a helicopter that came to put the body in the helicopter The body was failing And then I realized I realized so much from this Debbie. I realized first of all We're so much bigger than we think we are We are so much bigger than we think we are and we play so small into these little Containers of bodies and then then we fight and quibble with each other in those little containers And then we get those containers sick and it's not necessary None of it is if we could just connect into the space of all that is and that's such an ambiguous term But you and I feel a connection and we're in two different locations But we're looking into each other's eyes and we feel each other's energy and that's palpable That's that's a thing and I love that and I know that's why I know that this is this is a space that's accessible to everyone So shortly after that dealing with a lot of memory loss and a lot of injury and a lot of brain trauma Took me a good half maybe through going through EEG and Neuro feedback and zillion trillion supplements that I discovered along the way To find that it's a daily practice.  I have to find ways that Remotivates the neurochemistry and the brain to uptake the serotonin to find the dopamine from somewhere and to get all those happy Neurochemicals together to then have a great day and come up with solutions and be resilient and find my way And that's how the radio show goes Was me finding all these brilliant people that I have was they were helping me someone who was a Psychic who became my mentor someone who was a Neuro feedback specialist. I had neuroscientists. I have acupuncturists I went to all the alternative methods because there weren't any other There were no medical solutions for an interbrain at the time post-inclusive syndrome. What was that? It was 20 years ago So that was how I fell upon Synchronicity I sat in many many days sitting in my living room just meditating and grounding and running my energy and Asking for and finding this veil being very thin and trying to find that space again That space of seamless connected consciousness And I found that through synchronistic events A friend said there's a radio station That's going on if it's being sold to a korean network and the drive time hosts are leaving and they're looking for a host Do you want to do this? Never done radio ever I just had produced television and I kind of had an idea of how it should flow what segments should be like and It started there and los angeles on kypa in a tiny studio and then high rise on sunset olivar and Then you know that came into the next thing and then I got on to kpfk and wba and k and gaya and hay house and in 4,000 something interviews later. I Don't see this as a job. I see that as a destination as a destiny as a As a dream as you say as a dharma. I just this is my love. This is my passion. This is my mission What does it continue to give you? Synchronistic meetings with people That you admire and Yeah, talk about that. Okay.  Look at the beautiful bright light you are and I get to talk to you I get to talk to you for an hour. How cool is that? How cool is it to talk to greg braden and find out about the the shifts of the planet 11 million years ago happened And how amazing is it to talk to dr. Dane? Oh Dr. Dane He's got a such a special place in my heart. He helped me with my father's passing. I mean literally helped me Unbelievable was that recent? Yes Yes, yes, and it was in a moment where my dad was struggling so much and I called dane and I said dane Please I don't know what this is And he said are you ready? Because this is kind of my specialty He went into my dad's spirit and he escorted him off the planet He died like that Couldn't think of a better way to do it. Wow You know and and from a cab dane was in a cab in japan. He goes Okay, give me a minute got in the back of the cab. He's like, are you ready? At that moment my father passed with dane escorting him into the heavens. I mean Ah I mean, how do you get This I mean How do you get More blessed than this to have access to these incredible people on our planet and it is my mission to You know just Blast this to the world just to let the world know we have access to these incredible new thought leaders healers thinkers On either side of my desk. You're my walls or floor to ceiling with their books. I love I love these thinkers these leaders these practitioners these authors. I love them all and I've now they're friends and I could that couldn't be cooler Yeah, I totally understand and master level conversation and friendships with influencers like this who feel powerful beautiful friends Um, so it's so yummy to hear you say this And I love the idea of the books their books their words surrounding you Like to broadcast their information every day I get to lift these leaders into a bigger platform every day and that's part of you to do this starting I mean, it just occurs to me. You know two decades ago That's pretty radical when you think about it. This was not the conversation du jour back then The fact that you would open this up and have that kind of you know mission It's not even a leap of faith that you were so driven by this accident to say I'm stepping in and introducing all these people Yes in radio, which I've never done. Yes, I'm making that commitment because it healed my brain And not only is this possible that you can do the same, but here's how I'm a big howl person Here's this person. Here's this person and here's this angel communicator and here's someone that's a psychic And here's wane dire who talks about you are You know, whatever this I have a whole wane dire section here of That your intention becomes your reality. Nobody was saying that back then And he was you know really brought the law of attraction into form through his all of his incredible work on intention setting and that was You know such a great mark in the world and Yeah, I mean he that wasn't the conversation and I'm on a left-wing liberal radio station I mean they're talking politics all day and here I come in talking about angels I never advertised it just was word of mouth because this is what people wanted to hear because they were talking about it Anyway on their phone with their friends or they're you know going to these various things. I have a squishy ball in my hand. Sorry What's that far Got a brain thing But I that's you know, that's what I get is like those that level of communication with people Help me heal and it will help other people heal And to have those conversations in the middle of and I'm on free speech tv now In the middle of talk talk talk about progressive politics and all of this then you come in with this beautiful practical how How do you set an intention? How do you eat right so you can have clear thoughts? How do you get to know your relationships better and heal them? How do you assist people who are passing? I mean It's all the same conversation if you really think about it. Debbie. It's all the same thing politics Trump catalyst Transformation it's really all the same thing So here you are you're in a mountain bike race. You're trying to think in first place. It's right there But instead you have this traumatic injury And it sounds like you are really really lucky and we're very lucky to still have you here today What was it like for you to come back from that accident? That was a definite journey. I lost a lot of my memory from my childhood which was You know gone when you would in conversations my short term memory that I was having That I had a company at the time and I still had that my employees were saying back to me You told your client this Nothing no recollection. It's like going and searching your computer for a file that's been deleted And it's not even They're ever there and it was it's scary because I was starting to second guess myself and wonder if I even How could I not remember those conversations? I would see people from my childhood No recollection embarrassing and and I didn't want to go to the whole brain injury thing So it was kind of like I felt like I was hiding it And it was it's a very uncomfortable feeling when you have that level of memory loss and So I had to create a daily practice for myself first of I write everything down Everything's either written and I have it in my phone now and everything is accountable to this day You have all these practices. Yeah Yeah, I write everything down I do I just have to just it helps me Remember, I mean I have notebooks and I have notes in my phone and all of that just because it really just helps me stay But also the practice of reading Information than doing a radio show the next day and read the information and doing the show the next day has really helped me improve That practice every day where I absorb information and spit it out and recreate it the next day has really helped And that's why the brain exercise is that I recommended that people do and they can get any all these memory great memory Programs that are out now are they really do work. They're really great. It's an exercise It's just like any other muscle. You just have to exercise it So when you did brain nastics, I understand in order to get fully back Can you give an example of brain nastics some kind of an exercise that's easy that somebody might want to do Yes, oh, there's so many fun ones Um, one of the things I do is I create if I have to remember something and say there's a list of things I need to remember I remember it in a story. Jim quick teaches this This is a great story a great way to remember things is you remember the story of it So if I have to Call kate and I need to remember to get eggs at the store and then I need to send an email to find out about a contract I will simply say Kate was looking for eggs in her contract And I'll just remember things that way and or a grocery list you can make it fun and remember things that way Especially people tend to be forgetful. It's great to create these little stories in your mind Of the your things to do your list of things to do and just to do it as an exercise is It's a lot more fun that way One of the other things I love to do is I love looking at something Closing your eyes and remembering what it is that you saw so it helps you build your photographic memory as well That's great. But also for me I read things on a different level also It's not just the fun techniques, but I've also learned to heighten my other senses So if I am in an experience with someone and I can't remember their face I will remember the energy and the essence of that human being so I look into people's hearts when I see them And see their essence and their vibration and their soul And that having a memory impediment is great because it teaches you just like someone with a hearing impediment We'll learn more to listen to people's mouths or with hands. It just heightens other Senses and develops other senses and those help me in everything developing my intuition everything Anything residual from the accident any kind of brain injury effects that you're still experiencing today You know, I would say that my brain when I wake up is completely different than the brain I have after an exercise I am committed to exercise every single moment every morning As a brain exercise for me and if it's 45 minutes or if it's an hour and a half or if it's I'm a long bike ride I'm still on my bike. I Have to do that and I can literally feel the neurochemistry change in 17 minutes My thoughts will change. I will come up with solutions. I never thought I could have I will become a positive human being and speak with other human beings. I have It changes me completely and a lot of people say that regardless of having brain injuries of how good exercise is for your brain It's so important Daniel. Amen talks about it and John Asarap and all the people that talk about brain Talk about the importance of exercise It really helps move the neurochemistry boost the dopamine serotonin all the happy chemicals start to go I'm sure you've experienced the same thing, but I am committed to it every day of my life Yeah, I can't imagine not I literally can't I think my personality would suffer Totally right. I'm happy when I'm moving. Yeah, I like and I really like I kind of like challenging myself if I were to be honest There's something about Feeling like my brain says you can go here and then feeling into my body and going no I can go further And I love that Yes, yes, and it can be done in many different ways I mean you can do that there's a zillion classes if you are If you're sitting you can do exercises with your arms with your stretching Lots of great people talk about energy movement like Donna Eden great memory. I mean great movements that you can do for your brain Cross crawls all sorts of things. There's a lot of great exercises for your brain Specifically to rewire your brain every single day And I understand that you are currently pursuing a master's degree. Is that right? Yes in transformational psychology, which I love. I absolutely love I took a little pause on it because I got so busy with the broadcasting And it's philosophical research society. So it's an amazing amazing place So it's in that building there in Los Feliz. Yes, but they have an entire online program So there's brilliant teachers Raymond moody was one of my teachers and that's actually how I met him Was he was one of my professors and he was on your death experiences and he's an incredible professor You have to write things and turn them in and get graded on them. You have deadlines and and so forth and thesis and and He was how I learned that I had a near-death experience. I had no idea I was pursuing that masters at the time And when I learned I was already broadcasting and when I learned about this whole idea of Going outside of your mind and connecting and that Seamlessness and the indelible market leaves on your brain as it could just happen You will never forget that And the the expanded consciousness and the connection to purpose afterwards He had like a 21 point checklist for people because he's had, you know, in a NDE experience I went down that 21 point checklist and realized, oh my god that happened to me That was my experience and so Became a big fan of raymond's and and we become close friends after that because I now know The work he's going into now with shared death and crossing over and coming back is wow incredible Incredible stuff. So an m a and transformational Psychology, I love how that sounds. How close are you? Um about So half a year away. It's a two-year program. So I know so I have a little bit more to go But that's okay. I loved it really fun Okay, I figured when my daughter goes to college, I'll have more time and I'll finish it with her I mean, she'll do her thing and I'll do my thing and we'll compare it And before we take a break, I just want to mention you are going to be at the conscious life expo I think I don't know how many years I've been there at least 10 years 11 12 Whatever, but I've been going a really long time in covering it You've been there a really long time. Tell me what you're going to be doing and Why do you keep going back?  It's like it's funny because it's on the night of the academy awards and it's kind of our It's our little academy awards, you know, it's the who's who is all there at the conscious life expo It's an opportunity to get our consciousness community together in the tune of a hundred thousand people Throughout the weekend. It is very busy shoulder to shoulder lots of fun lots of Lots of love lots of connections. I meet my audience there. I don't get to see them a lot because we're on radio So I get to meet people talk to people I have a booth up near the media check-in on the top So I have my books there and I'm doing signings and giveaways and Hosting panels and gaya is there my network. So I'll be in their community in that Red the top of the stairs. They have a huge space. They're always there So I'll be in there giving away fun swag and it's it's just a fun space to be and connect with our community because we see each other A lot electronically So yeah, that's why I love it. So you're going to be very very busy Um, I will see you there for people who are interested. You can go to Los Angeles conscious life expo. Just look it up It's fully accessible and you can get your tickets there people fly in from all over the world to attend Huge hotel and it's true. There are the minions are there There are so many people coming in and out and they're your people, right? They're your tribe. It's fun It's really fun. Yes to connect with people face to face. Yes. Yes. So we come back we're going to find out more about lisa being a conscious catalyst as a business woman And ultimate visibility formula is about to roll out again So if it is your time, especially if you're a spiritual entrepreneur You would like to be interviewed on radio and podcasts in 60 days or less The ultimate visibility formula is the course for you We have a blast in there build such a beautiful community and you'll get the entire system Even if you don't have prior publicity knowledge, even if you don't know where the shows are I give you all of it the contacts the shows how to figure out what's right for you How to submit yourself get your package together private coaching with me And you do get a private session and that is a game changer Your speaking points how to avoid freezing or fudging and how to be very confident and savvy instead So who's this program for you? Well the program is for you basically if you want to be seen As an authority in your field and if you want to start to be interviewed in six weeks or less Go to debbie d.net Slash visibility to register And there is also a video there for you that starts teaching you about how to get interviewed and that's my free gift So it's debbid Dot net slash visibility And if you're just tuning in after we've started this is dare to dream I'm featuring today Lisa gar She comes from a long line of entertainers including her aunt actress terry gar her grandmother phyllis gar An original radio city music hall rock cat Lisa hosts the being aware show on hay house radio ad the gallium inspiration series for gallium tv She's a regular host on coast to coast a.m Syndicated multiple stations around the world and has one of the largest tele summit series on the internet You can find out more at the aware show dot com Lisa are you still doing tele summits? Is that still a thing? No, we um we stopped doing tele summits a while ago after it got set fairly saturated We started the whole industry and it was fun and it was great while it lasted and again It was another platform to get as many people the visibility as as possible and it was really really great I had Wayne dyer on and and bruce and all sorts of great people that got to their messages got out to Millions and millions of people it was really really great. We did it for about five years It was a powerful time. I loved it back then in the good old days I do before it got saturated as you say when there were purists such as yourself just a handful of hosts Who really knew how to feature spectacular people and we had so much as an audience access to them Calling in engaging with them experiencing their healing and their gifts and then getting packages. Yes Deep discounts. It was really great But like any good idea it became Combonatized and somebody came up with formulas and how to create your own summit and as a lead magnet It was a good idea at the you know for someone to move it into that direction. It definitely Saturated itself though and now but look we're in an environment Where people just we want people to get access to as much healing content and information as possible and the information is out there So if you want to learn about on my website at the aware show dot com There's a place where it says archive and you can just put in Diabetes you can find every guest that I've interviewed on diabetes or there's a search function there If you have questions about anything if it's a it's a service it provides information to people who Have it all in one place and that's that's great. It's not all in one place But it's definitely the people I've interviewed and the people that I understand To be wonderful and the best in their field in one place And I saw linked in that you were or once were an Emmy nominated casting agent Yes, I have yes, I have a company that does that that is a casting company. I've done that for 30 years And so still yeah Yep, still we do Now so we do audience casting So when people want to go to a television show and maybe the show needs more people to send the audience that are there for tickets and fans Which quite often happens there shows that take that 6am and you know go until midnight and people aren't always available We cast people to sit in the seats And it's a very niche niche niche business been doing it for 30 years And it's it's challenging. It's definitely challenging just because there's only a few companies that do it But it provides jobs to Thousands and thousands of people we pay people to sit in audiences to see tv shows So you're getting paid to do something that's entertaining that you you know, don't need any qualifications to do Uh, you just need to be you know Able to sit and clap and laugh and have a good time So it's a really it's a really cool service.  How does that show up? Well, this is can be very challenging and when you are dealing with laws that change and people with personalities and and um, I found the entertainment industry to be quite competitive and I was very um, my experience of that was that I was getting eaten alive by that experience and I couldn't understand the infidelity and It didn't make any sense to me and so I Choose to go through business as a conscious person Now I do not always get that right because there are things and aspects of my business that I can't see and don't see But somehow they want of revealing themselves to me. So I try to look at it and say, okay This was an issue. I want to transform this. I want to make it the best to come possibly be Let's change this. Let's do this. Let's adapt to this and That's what I mean in business by being a conscious catalyst And in the aware show what exactly what we do is we bring people who are going to catalyze your consciousness Who are going to give you new information or thoughts or ideas about things or how-tos or different perspectives or if They can do it. You can do it. It catalyzes you into thinking it is possible To do what you want to do people that say, okay, well, you set your intention and you get your desire Well, we think if you watch just something like, uh A talk show maybe Oprah She was a great example of showing you people that could do Amazing things and that they got through adversity and they were tragedy to triumph people What I'm doing is the how-to piece of it is this is how here's the five steps. Here's the 10 steps Here's the book. Here's the course. Here's the way that you your first step Here's how to do if you have a setback. Here's you know, and it covers everything From you know from uh, I just had a really great woman on talking about addiction and and what a I had no idea that there was a difference between people that are ripped by addiction And casual drinkers. I didn't know that and she helped me become aware then talk about that very vulnerable place She was in that she was jealous of people that were just able to go to a party and have a casual glass of wine and I Wow, I I realized how much freedom she just gave all the people that had that same experience That were gripped by alcohol and they They now have somebody that sees them And they have somebody to go to to to ask about what do I do in this situation and her book is great with tips and You know and resources and stories and whys and oh, you know, I love that Did I answer your question that was What was your question What show is this? What are you talking about here? It was a good clue. It was a good story. It was a good story. I went on a tangent there I mean clearly, you know guests do that to us. We I I feel you like I get really impassioned by people I can show up at a party and rather than talk about myself I can talk about this segment. Yes Changed me just listening to this person or someone else's experience and I I really feel familiar With your passion And you know and it's interesting hearing your story lisa because we have so much in common I came to radio 13 years ago. I was an actress and a singer Professionally and then I was doing voiceover cartoon work and I was literally looking for ways to get myself out there That's it new ways to get my voice out there saw an ad for radio I was totally not interested in radio Went to do it was doing this music show, which you know was in my wheelhouse bored And then they said we're going to give you your own talk show and it's like the divine stepped in and just well Here is the amalgam of your life Dare to dream metaphysical and but I came out of the spiritual closet Doing my show. I didn't realize Wow till then how deep it was Wow, and now look you're being called to shamanism Yeah, amazing amazing. I mean that's what a journey it it unfolds It really unfolds and if you just keep following the mission and try to listen to the signs I pray for four things all the time Yeah, I pray for protection and for myself and my family and and those the loved ones around me I pray for guidance. I pray for Clarity to see the guidance That's that's a big piece Because the feather the brick the wall You know it all it comes in different forms the guidance does I pray for the clarity to see what the universe is showing And and the the other thing I pray for is action in the supportive action And yeah, and the and what you're doing there is you're going into that place of listening To the guidance to the divine to that Download that came in that said you need to be doing this. It's bigger than you It's bigger than you and you say yes to the universe and you say, okay I can do this. Can you give me protection? Can you give me guidance clarity to see and hear the guidance and action? Yeah Yeah, I and you know when the divine has a great sense of humor because they know that they need to I'm a sign person like it really works well for me My mother has Alzheimer's right now So I was recently cleaning out her entire apartment In order to move her somewhere I'm cleaning out her place in Santa Monica and going through a ton of stuff And I was going through her photos and I found a picture of myself I'd never seen before do not recollect And there I was dressed up.  That's the first thing I look at at my lock screen to remind myself. Okay That's another that's another prayer I have and to be honest with you is To remember who I am every day. There's so many things out there that can knock us off our path There's people and there's things and there's events and there's news and there's relatives and there's all sorts of things To remember who you are is such a prayer All the time to remember how am I speaking to this person and how are they hearing what I'm saying How what am I saying here? And how is it impacting this person? Danny and Brinkley talks about this end of life review That you I didn't experience this when I went through my NDE But he talks about going to the tunnel and then you're see all the people you've ever impacted on in your life Whether or not that is true It is a great lesson if you really look at people And you look at how they are receiving what you are saying and how you are behaving The impact you make in the world consciously is very important.   I was watching a baby Watch his mother the other day Enamored by her speaking to her friend and it was just every you could just see the imprint going in You know, it's all it's all how we We are conscious mapping everything around us So we need to really be conscious of how we impact the field and the world around us too I love that. So let me be reminded today of who I am That's very powerful, especially where you started at the beginning of this when you talked about how When you left your body after the accident and you're in so much bliss and oneness I'm curious when you wake up and remember to say that Remind me who I am today. What has been happening for you recently around that? Oh Wow Well, first of all, I've been going through a lot of business challenges because this law changed this ab 5 law changed And turned my casting company upside down and inside out And I've been really challenged as a business person more than ever because all of a sudden we've had on board 50,000 people on to payroll. It's in undertaking that I It isn't possible and I'm learning that a month in tapping and turned in january and I have been pushed and challenged and broken and thrashed and tested and Oh Everything that can go wrong has gone wrong this last month. It is been beyond brutal And I every night go to bed and say remember who you are remember who you are remember who you are So that I don't need your react To people who are wanting to accuse me or hurt me. I don't need your react to unfairness I don't become a victim to the law That I become a that I'm a leader for my all of my staff that's going through this insane transition with us You know to be a partner to my husband who is my business partner also in that company And to deepen and thicken that relationship and not to treat him like an employee But to treat us as equal heartening loving partners. I mean everything I'm saying is me remembering who I am every day Who it has been a whole new level of Putting to practice what I preach Yeah, yeah, and a 30 year company to get turned on a 10 like that is an eye opener Every band aid's been ripped off everything So it's been fun. That's why I have the stress I'm surprised it's not in your mouth like a bit But this is life, you know, this is reality you have to practice and learn what you all you do and utilize it Or it's for nothing. You're fake.   How are you approaching this? How is this going? Who are you? Are you approaching this in the right way? Did you lose your call? What caused that? How could you have done that differently? You know at night I was going to bed going Oh, I said oh god, I blew through that one. Oh, that didn't feel good. Ouch. That probably hurt and then I Got this great message from the you know, I'm very connected to the divine and I have a constant dialogue going on with My guides and I know how supported I am and I know the tribe I have and I'm constantly leaning on them like God is my ceo And I'm constantly leaning on the divine intervention for everything I'm doing and I check in every night and say did I forget who I was today? And if I did can you please help me remember who I am the next day? And so I do that daily, you know, I push back from the email. I don't trigger off I'm very conscious about what happens when somebody somebody's projecting something on to me I you know, it's that's the only business should be These you should be able to rise above without being taken advantage of and to still use your voice And to be empowered to use your voice and push back when it's necessary But in a way that is you know strong and stern and not just take it as a woman So it sounds like you have a divine board meeting Oh The evening when you're letting things go that you sit there with your divine ceo and your guides and counselors and just Around the boardroom get that conversation every morning as well I won't get out of bed until I've had that connection with the divine to pray for the day To set my intentions for the day doesn't matter if an alarm goes off of the kid needs to go to school I have that few minutes to myself with my connection with the divine to pray for that day And to set my intention and to feel good about today So that I can go into the day feeling supported and feeling that I'm praying constantly For protection guidance the clarity to hear it and the ability to act protection and guidance the ability to hear it And the choice to act man, that's everything. Let me tell you you cannot have any component of that Without the finale because you could know everything But without choosing Oh god, and I know this so well in my life without choosing it is nothing and it will not be created I mean occasionally we have some really divine manifestations obviously that come to us, but really we Are the attractor the actor so so important the other thing I loved about what you shared lisa is Bad-ass boundaries. I found through my mother's Alzheimer's part of my healing journey has been about having a voice Because people in my family will let me tell you no I'm so blessed like that my uncle who's super involved on the east coast My brother's super involved on the east coast I would be buried Even though i'm the only one here However, I still need a voice. I still need to tell people when I cannot or This calendar will not work or something else needs to happen or I've done enough for the time period Yes, yeah, it's so important It is very important as and as women we tend to maybe not say something or Not speak up and that was very big programming from the past from our our mothers from the 50s and We you know We have an option now to change that for our daughters And it's very important to learn and to teach them Use your words to get what you want. That is my motto with my daughter Use your words to get what you want. You're not going to get what you want unless you say it Use your words to get what you want to motto in our house I know she's a firecracker boy. Watch out for that one It's a great lesson to teach young girls It's a good one. Yeah. Yeah, well When we come back we will be finishing up with lisa and finding out ultimately What is she next dare to dream folks? If you'd like to be part Of this podcast dare to dream team you can go to patreon.com slash dare to dream Donate money a dollar a cup of coffee whatever it is because you help sustain the show The object to the show is to show you there's no way you can fail if you're choosing to do what's in your heart So what would it take for you to feel completely bold and free and as lisa's saying? Be in conversation know what is yours And if it inspires you to do then take action and make it so So please consider being part of this team at patreon.com slash dare to dream and If you are ready to learn how to be interviewed on radio and podcast And you'd like to register for the upcoming course do so at debbie d.net slash disability I'm interviewing lisa gar. She is host of the aware show and author of becoming aware You can find out more about her at the aware show dot com And lisa Yes, you're the dream What are you next dare to dream? What are your future dreams and goals? Well, I one of the things I'm really excited about is I have created a media mentoring program And it is more it's very complimentary to what you're doing in terms of helping people I'm a bit of a story whisperer. I can hear somebody's story and teach them how to Present that story in a way that can help the most people And thus they attract the right people to work with them if that's what they want or to read their books or to speak in front of And it's a matter of it's just a formula that I've come up with as a result of doing this for so long and listening to so many stories done right done wrong And sometimes I'll take over for a guest and tell their story for them because they're so in it They can't see how it can help so many people and So what I have created is this kind of proprietary formula that's it's like it's a A graph and it's a program of how to I work with you to get to Extrapolate your story to really find out what were the moments and the turning points in your life that made the biggest impact on you Some people say I don't know my story We go through chunks of your life when we split it into the first 20 years and then the middle 20 years and The future and we go through there and we find out What has turned you and defined you and what did you do through your hero's journey hero's journey around Changing that and then where are we going in the future with it? And that's that then takes somebody on a journey of their own life helps them put their story in order and to Just bring up the most important pieces from it and in telling that story Catalyze somebody else to realize this is what you did in order to make these changes to create the life that you want to create And here's how I can help you And so either it's on a year. We take that whole entire story that I help you craft and Put it on to a video and then you can see it on you can use it on your facebook page You can put it on your website. You can utilize that two to three minute crafted story To bring in people that can work with you that are in affinity with you. It's a rapport builder It's I mean people You have to if you're in business if you're an entrepreneur You're interested in speaking on stage if you're an author if you want to be interviewed if you want to network Beyond panels like anything that gets you out there It's so important. And so are you working lisa with people privately or is this a group? Yes Yes, I do it in both ways I work with people privately where there's three sessions and if you go to the aware show dot com forward slash media mentor There's a three session program where it's three hours What on zoom and we record the zoom sessions and we help you I help you unpack your story Get into the specific graph and choreography that I kind of have for stories because I see stories as a finely choreographed dance And it's kind of like a swan lake where it reveals itself without knowing the choreography And then I get and then I help the final session of the two to three minute presentation And then get you to videotape it either on your page or facebook or wherever So that's the full program. There's another part where I just help you with your story So if you're further along in your career or you just want to reform your And help you put it into a format of a video to get it up onto your social or website or wherever There's that way of doing it or work with groups of eight And we're on zoom and we work on each other's stories and it's really magical. That's really fun Where people help with other people's stories and my god people's stories are amazing I mean, they don't even know it. They don't even know it. I spoke with this guy who's a relationship coach and he Is a relationship coach because he went through a very tragic divorce And where his wife took his three children across the country and he didn't see them And it was just broke his heart and now they have Created a second house for the wife You know, he and the wife co-own where they have their holidays and family dinners and once a month They'll all get together. They both live with their perspective Families and it's just like wow really But everybody's one happy family every now and then It's great for him to you know, really have a place to go back east where they all live And feel connected Just you know, people create neat things to help themselves and as a result They tell their story and it helps other people realize what's possible Can you just share a couple of elements? What makes a spectacular story? What is it that you look for that creates that standout Story that also moves the audience helps the audience connect with whomever the storyteller is and know I want to know you more work with you be with you Yes, yes, it it starts by asking the right questions of your audience, you know, what would you like to have? Would you like to stop hiding? Let's use the voice for example. Would you like to learn to use your voice?  I had an experience and i'm not talking about myself But this is where I would go with that when I viewed my mom not one of my clients Her mother never stood up for her she Always she was unfortunately abused by her father and she learned as a result of that to go through this journey Of learning how to stand up for herself and to help her community. She's from korea Learn how to speak up and to be women in korea and to have a voice very unheard of At the time and she took that then moved to america and is now teaching Young girls here are from korea how to speak their voice and use and have their truth and to do it in a safe environment And this is you know, it's just like that's how a story unfolds It's beautiful. It's tangible. It shows Deep connection. It shows Tragedy it shows resilience. It shows your journey and it shows how I can help you It's turning your mission What you went through your your message into your mission Your mess and your message into your mission anything you want to say here at the end lisa That's I mean this is do what you love Do what you love and it will unfold itself for whatever reasons that you're doing it And you can keep your day job but do what you love also And you will find that it expands and it helps people There's a formula that for success that I have extrapolated from these thousands of interviews that I've done One is to tell your story, which isn't so important because it helps people identify with you And the other thing is to turn that story into your career in some way to catalyze that story into your career And the third and important element is to help others with it Thank you for sharing your brilliance today on the show lisa. Thank you for the opportunity debbie It's wonderful to meet you and I get to see you at the conscious life expo. I can't wait. It's been amazing Okay, I end today's show with this quote from hot magandhi It is health that is the real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver Subscribe to the show and tune in to the upcoming interviews in the following weeks on this number one transformation Conversation, you'll be able to see me engage with james redfields from the celestine prophecies the channel paul selig and Third time on her show dr. Sue mortar and if you're enjoying I know she's amazing. I'm just I have a girl crush on dr She's amazing. She's incredible. Yes.  Yes Yes, you're doing a year. Of course. You're doing a year of miracles didn't even occur to me Yes, it's her. Yeah, and that's something else you can engage in with lisa not to be missed She's offering so many beautiful things out into the world And if you're loving this podcast, but you'd like to see me and the guest animated doing our thing and engaging and Syncing up here. You can go to youtube.com slash debbie dashinger. Thank you so much for joining us on the show today And remember that the secret of success as always is the courage to begin in the first place


important from Reed's bus Reed's doing a little stripping out you guys know this part of it this is normally a two-man job, but It's actually Reed. I was like how on earth did you get all these things out with one person? So Reed actually is a magician And he has go-go gadget arms that go under the bus That's right. Actually, I'm just kidding, but we'll show you exactly how it does it Give us a little demonstration here because nobody knows how to do this Okay, hey those little levers with the back side. Wait, hang on. Wait, let me get my lunch money first. Oh someone lost their lunch money Well, it's not my dollar it's yours true. So you take these little levers and the seat pops right off Let me throw that out You don't have to get underneath this thing to zip right out. Yep, and these two I'm lifting up Yeah, I see that Look at that one person job one person job now. This is not gonna work on everybody who buys a rusty bus just FYI Well enough force So should do here Freaking loose Just lean against it towards the back. Yep Oh my gosh, look at that look at that one person job He's holding these are flange bolts. I'm guessing they're flange nuts on the other side so they grip into the metal That's how he's getting loose. It's the easiest Reed's making quick work of these seats here great Idea there, dude There you go Then you know one thing I've learned about this bus is that it doesn't really like cold weather starts Thank goodness for the webasto. Otherwise this thing would never start In cold weather. All right over the past couple days. I did some unexciting things change the oil oil filter and also went ahead and did the Transmission filters plural. There's two and I got this Allison transmission stuff. Guess how much this stuff cost A five-gallon pail. It's gonna take almost all the five gallons. It's a special TES 295 that is what it calls for about $50 a gallon But O'Reilly's does a price match with any internet, you know retailer. So got for 220 I know what you're thinking Ouch, that's expensive. You gotta read help me out on the final last day here Let's go take a peek at the bathroom. It is completely finished Oh, we still got installed the handles no big deal and the drain and obviously missing a toilet But as far as the construction part of it is all done just got to add some caulking and And we're good to go Job job well done, sir. Okay. Thank you guys. I'm leaving Okay, we'll see each other on the road Stay with you for like a week Honestly, I feel it's weird. I feel like we've been friends much longer than Yeah Exactly awesome time safe travels. Thank you repainting the bus there. Yeah. Yeah, red red tractor Yeah, well, thanks like the gray and the yellow and everything right it's gonna look super multicolored I know it's been a pleasure hanging out with you guys I'm glad you guys you randomly hit me up and and asked to stay at his house Remember his house is your house. Oh, I know so I'm not sure if I Exactly explained it good enough But so they were traveling in this and then they come over and then before I know it read is like hey Take my spare car We switched vehicles I know a bed frame in the back and we just got our mattress in today and come over to God love Seriously, yeah, that was I mean Built out a suburban in a day For like under a hundred bucks. Yeah, I think it's like a hundred and Or two hundred and forty dollars for everything. That's great including mattress, right? Yeah mattress and frame everything That's wild and the star of the show bring it in Thank you for the hospitality. Thank you for the bathroom Thank you for making miles because miles then made part of my bathroom and yeah, so thank you I'll see you possibly soon Okay, I'll be down. I'm telling you you may I may bring Jen bring her I can talk her into doing the mattress on the bus as long as she brings her a slow cooker and green chili.  I'll see you in a week. I hope Dude, you're amazing. Thank you so much Honestly, I can't thank you thinking you what you've done for me and my family. I Know a lot of money or gradually make up. Well, thanks I just kind of pointed you in the right direction and found you your next home on wheels, so there we go It was really Oh, yeah, we already stripped it out So 40 footer like I said before in a previous video 2010 Bluebird all-american with an 8.3 Cummins Remanufactured engine with 11,000 miles on it. I'd say it was a pretty good deal. Yeah, so Thank you for everything That's right You guys don't know about that story, but if you meet me in person and ask me about that story It's hilarious a crack up. Well, we loaded the bus up. It looks like I got more stuff than I did before That might be true This is also kind of a a Little bit quicker of a getaway than from Colorado custom coachwork, so I'm just hoping I didn't leave anything under the bus We'll find out real quick So far so good transmission is incredibly smooth Very very glad it made the change before heading out of town Anytime I go on very long trips I was kind of thinking my mind like what could go wrong. What can I replace what needs to be? Fixed or what needs some attention? I'll do it today to share. I will otherwise I'm gonna blast through a little pit stop in Albuquerque I said we're gonna jump around a bit because this is kind of a marathon a sprint But actually I stopped in Albuquerque to see Claire bear Claire bear is here. She's alive and well And also you guys know Dean the school. He just showed up. I took like the most epic nap I didn't sleep well enough past couple nights for some reason. I thought his bus was Smaller than mine, but it actually almost looks the same size or bigger, but anyways, so here's the update I ordered two Carrier bearings if you guys are mechanics, you know what that is if you guys aren't I ordered two parts I'm picking them up tomorrow. I'm gonna pick up some flooring tomorrow and Get to the van build starts today. I'll get there tomorrow the big deal. It's still like a 12-hour drive. So You know just gonna play it safe, you know and also Claire started a channel So I'll put a link down below if you want to see what Claire's been up to She's cranking out. I don't know how many videos you got four five Okay, so if you guys want to keep up with Claire what she's doing like I said, I'll put a link right in below everybody can Everybody can follow along her her journey Good warm out here and Dean. Let's can we see your bus? Dean just did a remodel. So let's take a peek at Dean's bus. All right, so Everything looks the same here Yeah cushions. All right, so Dean went with a pine ship lap, right? Okay, cuz I was telling my horror stories about the tongue and groove. It wasn't a lot of fun I ended up being cheaper too. So really Awesome So, uh, yeah, read the front part that looks whoa, you got the same lights as I got those lights It's soft white or bright. It's the soft, but then I have still my orange You know Lights in there. Oh fun TV if you couldn't tell yeah, that's cool. So Dean Speakers up front. Why are you going east? What why all the upgrades? Where are you going? All because of navigation nowhere, Michael He's been begging me to come to New York. I didn't go there and now they're saying go down to Florida So I'm going there. Mm-hmm. It's only twice as far as or as just as far as going up to Alaska for me So, oh, wow. Yeah, that's true. It's a lot of miles. Yeah Um Very solid very solid ceiling. Yeah, this is so my I'm having issue on that issues But just the nature of the beast being very thin wood. My wood is already, you know Curvy in some places and So Dean's is completely solid. So if you guys are asking me, hey, what kind of you would to use whatever all that stuff Um Get a hold of the school II or just look at his remodeled. I'd recommend this I mean, we're just plan to duck a little bit. Yeah, I'll tell you on six to so Yeah, yeah, I had that I had the roof here to exactly the same. Yeah, we're similar height. So anyways But yeah, it looks amazing dude. I like the remodel. Yeah, the bedroom is so much better now They have the oh, yeah permanent bed so much storage underneath. I can show you some of it's going on here I've got storage to last to get to my water tanks under here. Yep. I have Laundry one there. Oh nice Blankets a camping gear going to there cool, and then just tons of storage underneath. Nice. I like this plus This is very homie very homie. It's so much better. Yeah. All right two days of driving later And I have arrived guys. This is just one part of this This whole this whole setup here I'm parked right next to steampunk Steve Hopefully in park next to Bob Mondale. I don't know if that's his bus yet But yeah, this event is much much bigger than it used to be and Everybody's here for a good cause to donate their skills to somebody in need basically Anyways, let's jump into another video right after this because I just I literally sucked outside on a cot As you can see my bus a finished yet


Aloha, it is September 21st, Monday, 2020, and we are thrilled to have Kit Wynkoop joining us again to talk about some Tibetan Shambhala meditation. We spent a very brief time before talking about this topic, which can help all of us in our daily lives, especially now when we need it most. Kit, thank you so much for joining us again. Aloha, Winston. Thank you. Appreciate it. You know, I wanted to, right before we start, I want to put people on your website so that they can go for more information so they can follow along. It's a great website. What is your website? It's hoikaah.org that's spelled H-O-I-K-A-H-A dot org. H-O-I-K-A-H-A dot org. Correct. Hoikaah. And what does that mean? Well, literally it means return to the breath, but the calm down is breathing life back into. Breathing life back into. Correct. Okay, today our title is Steps to Living Aloha, Mindfulness Leads to Aloha. And our description is that, which I think is good and I'd like to read it, caring for everything that can be seen, heard, smelled, taste, touched, sensed, and imagined, as if it were the most important thing in the universe, had been lived as a spiritual practice in Hawaii from antiquity up to as late as the 1980s. Today it's called the Aloha spirit, but to the Hawaiians of old, living Aloha was part of the culture and didn't even have a name. Defeat a stranger passing by. That is pure Aloha. We need to start letting ourselves live Aloha once again, or more accurately, be lived by Aloha. This is what makes positive change in the world. Aloha is the spirit of all existence. It's the life force energy of the universe. It's the true nature of reality. It is the underlying consciousness of all that is. This Aloha can be discovered through Tibetan Buddhist meditation to connect with and live it. Living Aloha leads one to experience a life of generosity, loving kindness, compassion, and virtue, thereby bringing balance, peace, and harmony to oneself, the planet, and all sentient beings. That sounds lovely and a state that we should all be in. Tell us, if we practice this, what percent of the time can we live in Aloha like this? Do you think it's... Well, I mean, that's a very good question. I'm still working on it myself, so I don't have a personal answer from experience, but from what I understand and what I remember as a kid, there were still people alive back then who were living from Aloha. There's a gentleness that comes across. In fact, I met a woman recently who really exhibited this. She was very gentle. She was very caring and you could just feel her Aloha reaching out. And that's how she lives, you know? And there were certainly more people, a lot more people back in the 60s here that were living that way. But the Tibetan Buddhist meditation masters would say, it's totally possible. It's possible to work your way to 100% of living like that. And they would not use the term Aloha, but they would use Buddha nature or the true nature of reality. Is this the same as like a Christ consciousness or...? Yeah, nicely. Yeah, that's totally... And just so our viewers might be clear, you are what we might call local Howley. You grew up here, right? And you were honoured by a local Hawaiian family down the street. Is that right? That's correct. In my off time from my own parents, they didn't want me in the house a lot. So I just sort of ventured down the street. A very kind, bolder Hawaiian, native Hawaiian couple adopted me essentially and sort of taught me what Hawaii culture is all about and predominantly about Aloha and how to exhibit that and recognize it and share it with others. Did they teach you openly or was it just through example or both? It was pretty much both, you know. And it was the old Hawaii way of learning that if you were...  You know, it was very gentle. Again, it was very gentle. It was like, no, no, boy, that's not how we do things here. It wasn't scolding. And it's interesting because the Tibetan Buddhist meditation is instruction and guidance is all about being gentle. The instructor is gentle with the students and the instructors indicate to the students that it's highly important to be gentle with ourselves. Meditation on the path to living Aloha is a path of becoming our own best friends. So it's important to sort of connect that way. That's a wonderful point. And, you know, starting with gentleness.  That was a question that we had. How is this different? How is Tibetan Shambhala Buddhist meditation different than other forms of meditation? Or is it or is it substantially different? And how would you say that it is itself? Well, I think it's very similar to other sects of Buddhism, Buddhist meditation. You know, there are five or six natural sects of Tibetan Buddhist meditation. And they're all very similar except that the Shambhala version sort of works one up to where the other sects kind of plot people right into. It's kind of like being pushed into the deep end of the pool where Shambhala is sort of like come down the steps in the shallow end will sort of guide you out to the deep end. So it's not so such a jolt. In difference with other meditation techniques is that those techniques are very much a concentration as opposed to the Buddhist meditation technique, which is essentially letting go. And so we're letting go of, you know, what we're holding onto about ourselves in the world, in our attitudes, but other more modern meditations are pretty much about concentrating on something. You know, some form of mantra or something of that sort. So when we meditate, is it that we want to be detached from our what's around us or engaged with what's around us or maybe both? Or how would you, what's the purpose of meditation? Because a lot of people I think in the West struggle with this idea of meditation of people say, I can't meditate, but you probably heard that many times. Yes, yeah, I can't meditate. There are too many thoughts in my head. You know, I don't have enough time. Meditation is actually being able to live with all of that and without those thoughts or that lack of time dictating how we live in the world. So meditation, again, is essentially letting go of control and it is grounding ourselves in just being fully human. So we're not zoning out and we're not sort of getting into a, you know, what some people may say is bliss out or blissful state, but more along the lines of observing and strengthening our mind to really be able to allow all of the distraction and chaos to happen around us without, without us grabbing hold of it or being attached to that and reacting. So sort of just letting life be, letting life come at us as it does and then being able to deal with it as best as, in a more fully present manner. Yes, and it's also allowing all of our sense perceptions to come in and working with those as a path to allowing ourselves to see what we hear, what we see or feel, you know, all of that into our lives and allow it to just be and observe it from the place of equanimity or the middle way. Totally present in a place of equanimity. Yeah. Okay, because I think that's, a lot of people maybe think of meditation as, I don't know, it's an interesting thing that's maybe escape or something. How many times would you say you meditate in a day? Do you meditate for 30 seconds at a time or for 30 minutes or all over the map? Well, I personally have two formal meditation periods, one in the morning and one around 5.30 in the afternoon and the one in the morning is about an hour and a half. But I do a basic meditation, the kind of what we're talking about. And then I have another practice that I do on top of that, turn it into a basic meditation. And you also teach meditation. Tell us about what, what you, how, what meditation you do and also what other services that you offer that people might find useful. Well, I teach Shama to Vipassana, which is literally mindfulness awareness meditation, as taught by the historic Buddha to Dawa Sanko, who was the king of Shambhala at the time. And he wanted to practice that he could take back to his kingdom, which was pretty much in the same social disaster as we are right now. And he was able to live in the world as opposed to becoming a monk. You don't have to be a monk if you meditate. So we can live in the world our full lives and still meditate. And we can actually take that meditation up off the cushion into our daily lives. So the first part of the journey has really been building a foundation of this mindfulness awareness meditation so that we can easily pull that into our awareness throughout the day when things are chaotic or, you know, stressful. And we can sort of just drop into that meditation, still be aware our eyes are open, and we're actually engaging at the same time. Do you teach a technique to be sort of Pavlovian in response when, when so stressful when you start to feel wigging out that you, oh, this is the time I can start meditating. Yeah, absolutely. So it's, it's a training where we're training our mind no different than going to the gym to be aware of when we're about to have an emotional response to something. And it's almost like an aha moment as we go through this path of meditation. It's like we get better and better, we get stronger and stronger at being able to do this. But we can actually start to feel ourselves being pulled or hooked into a reaction. That might not turn out very pleasantly for ourselves or other people. And then at that point, when we notice that arising, we can actually make a choice, whether we want to continue down to that pathway or just let that emotion course through our bodies and out as opposed to just holding onto it. So being, maybe being able to be response able instead of just reactive. That's a very good way of putting it. You know, a question about this. I think that can we be, can we be active people engaged in our community? Maybe it's not necessarily to get rid of emotions certainly or not feel sadness or anger or loss. That's not what it's about. Is it? No, not at all. In fact, that's a natural part of life as human being. You know, we can't get rid of our thoughts. We can't get rid of the distractions or chaos or emotions that arise in relation to things that people say or things that happen around us. But what we can do is work with our own minds in those situations to be able to come to a place of peaceful abiding in observation, almost like going to a movie, seeing it for what it actually is without a conditioned response of habitual speaking or acting that we've been carrying all our lives.  And yet they're not aware that most of those actions, most of the words that come out of their mouths are habituated from very early on. And certainly everybody has had a moment where they say, oh my God, I think I just sounded like my parents. And that's just a small tip of the ice. I wanted to follow up on that idea of classes. We have a question from a viewer who just beamed in and said, do you teach students via Zoom? And if you do, is it harder? What are your classes? When are they offered? Are they different levels? Do you do private classes or are they group classes? And how does that work? Yeah, I do it all. And it's all via Zoom right now. I have one student who's a close friend who comes over and we sit like eight feet apart and wear masks. So I guess it's meditate, yes. But predominantly my classes are on Zoom. And it's essentially an hour and a half to two hours of time where we sit and we meditate. And then there's a lesson. And then there's a discussion. And this can happen on an individual basis or with a group. I have them all. So it's quite, you know, from an individual, some people just want to be on their own when they're in a learning environment, which is totally cool. And then some people like being in groups. And from a group interaction, there's certainly more wisdom that arises out of the students that share their experiences. And this can spark deeper learning for other students in the sessions. Do you have an ongoing class right now? And if so, what are the requirements for students? Well, I don't have an ongoing class. It's sort of a successive learning path. So we would start with one, to go to two, and go to three, and so on. So I'm always looking to start new classes. If there's anyone that wishes to do that. And what was the other part of your question? What do you require of students? Oh, just simply a commitment to sit for 20 minutes every day in meditation and do those studies, which are not very much. I usually send out a few articles to read each week, their weekly classes, and then be open for discussion about what they lean out of the lessons and any questions they may have. Is, you know, given our, we've had a lot of, maybe called new age or new thought, permeate our consciousness in America since probably the 60s, I'm just guessing, as a response to both globalization and also people wanting something different than perhaps they were raised with that wasn't fitting their paradigm. And certainly, we didn't have a lot of Tibetan, Buddhist, Shambhala teachers, or people that had experienced that. But I do know that the apartment house of Yogananda filled the Los Angeles Colosseum back in the 20s or 30s. I mean, this was, you know, tens of thousands of people coming out to see this Indian Guru, and that was across the United States. I think he came for the Conference of World Religions. So that's the autobiography of Yogi. And it's really interesting that it started, and there's, I think, been Americans have been open to a certain, you know, curiosity about Eastern religions and mysticism and all of everything else going. So it's, is this, but my question is, given our times, we wake up in the morning and somebody may still be president that's just extremely, you know, frustrating for some percentage of the population, or maybe for others, it's that somebody else was the president that they didn't like. And now that's over, but they're they're dreading what could be next. When we're confronted with this sort of onslaught of daily assaults to our psyche, to our well-being, or a mental, emotional, psychological, social structure, and it's coming so fast on the internet unless you're completely disconnected. And even then, we're living in COVID time. So we can't even get together with our pals, even if we're not on the internet, go down to the park. How do we stay engaged in the world, but stay balanced? Or can we be engaged in the world? Or do we just have to pull back from it and put Facebook and put TV and just meditate? Or can we do both? Can we be engaged? And can we be angry? And can we be challenging what is really, we find morally or ethically offensive and still remain engaged in a Buddhist contemplative or even just meditative practice? Yeah, absolutely. You know, I recently on speaking Facebook saw a meme where there was a yogi and there was a student and the student said, what is the problem with the world? And the yogi said, you've disconnected from the source. And that's absolutely the very issue, no matter what you call source from your beliefs, believe traditions. We've, you know, I call it aloha in the tradition of pilahipaki. You know, it's, we've forgotten how to be with that all, all knowing all pervasive energy of the universe.  It's pure love. And we have forgotten how to vibrate or at that frequency. And we've gotten so caught up into our own egos that we have been lost in how we are out in the world. And Tibetan Buddhist meditation in other techniques, I mean, Yogananda touches pure love, you love, you know, love each other, gets to back to that place. We're trying to get back to the true nature of reality, which is that place, which is aloha. And we can do that through meditation very easily. It takes practice and it takes dedication to keep it up. But very quickly, people notice that they start to connect with that aloha and it is so beautiful that that is what inspires them to continue meditating and continue to follow the path of meditation. You know, we got another question coming in from a viewer who asks, says, I have aphantasia. I'm not sure if I'm getting that right, aphantasia, an inability to visualize mental images. So it's hard for me to do typical meditation, like visualizing myself on a beach and just breathing. Do you think I can do this type of meditation? Oh yeah, absolutely. Again, a hard thing back to what we were talking about earlier, because it's not concentration.  So because Shavit of the Passion is all about just finding one thing to be mindful of, and that would be the breath, and allowing ourselves to let all the distractions come in and not be bothered by them as we, I don't want to say focus, that's too strong a word, be aware of our breathing. And of course, at the beginning, it's a little challenging, but very quickly within a week's time, people start to see success. Could we, you know, we don't have many minutes left. Could we do a three-minute meditation and take us out of the, is that, is that appropriate to do something like that, to just give people a sense of what we can get, even in three minutes? Yeah, I think so. So it's a seated meditation, so we would be seated, and our eyes are open and they're gazing at the floor a few feet up from us, about four to six feet. And our hands are on our thighs. I'll mind the time. And just become aware of your breathing, how your body moves when you're breathing, how your body feels. Follow the in and out breath. Now just follow the out breath only, and really look at it. Notice how it starts in your lungs, and it comes out through the esophagus and the nasal passageways, and it flows out of the body and dissolves into the space around us. Feel that, and follow it, and if you can, become the out breath in your imagination, feeling it, following it, flowing out of the body and dissolving into space. And you might be, mind might spark with the sound or because of the visual in front of you because your eyes are open, and it'll label it and categorize it and have an opinion about it and lead you down some storyline about it or something else can be different, and all of a sudden you're not even here. When you notice that, simply acknowledge it by saying thinking, and come back to follow the out breath, relaxing outward. Every time you're distracted, just simply come back to the out breath, acknowledge the distraction by saying thinking, and come back to the out breath, relaxing outward. One helpful hint in these meditations is thinking of thoughts as clouds, and as they arise we acknowledge them by saying thinking, and then just watch the clouds dissolve right back into a vast open sky. So Winston, this is really just a very touch into a full meditation. I usually take about a half an hour just for meditation instruction, but we're acknowledging the thinking, the distractions, the smells, everything we sense, there are sense perceptions, we're acknowledging that it's happening, and yet we come back to this out breath, feeling a peaceful abiding of just flowing out and dissolving into space. And as we do that, we're building, we're strengthening our ability to be mindful of one thing and saying, yes, these other things are there, and yet this is, this was my aim, I'm following this breath, and thank you other things, but the more we do that, the more proficient we become at it, and the more we can live our lives in peaceful abiding. And aloha. Even just a short time, your voice is very calming for me, so I could just, it's almost hypnotic, but it just gets me in a calm place right away. I think for folks, everybody needs this, there's nobody who could not benefit from this, especially now. I will refer them to your website, koikaha.org, k-a-h-a.org. Kit is a marvelous teacher, he's the real deal and been there and done that, and can lead you to a greater sense of aloha within sight of yourself, and so you can deal with everything else around you that's come in so fast. I want to thank you for being with us today, Kit. You're going to come back again, and maybe we can just do a show only that's just meditation, so we can get more there. That would be awesome. Thank you, Winston. Thank you again, and everyone, I hope you've enjoyed the show I have. There's so much to explore here and unpack. Please go to Kit's website, and we will look forward to seeing you another time here on Out and About Something.


What's up everybody jason from jazz music case breaks calm you happy new release a guy's 2021 upper-deck series to hockey four box Hobby break three random teams each number two just sold out and again ten total spots everybody gets three random teams in the NHL We have one combo teams Which is Winnipeg and Anaheim Jets Ducks comboed into one team to make it even 30 and we're no veteran common ship But everything else will six young guns per box You got a couple canvases UD portrait rookies regular peachy pla Peachy update cards and retro cards and of course blue border parallel cards So here we go guys. Here's a dice roll. Here's a customer names We double them up or triple them up sorry to give you guys Three spots and we roll it and it is a five and a four for nine times. Good luck nine times one two three four five six seven eight and Nine there might be Nick just probably not today. We only have a couple cases for today I think we get some more stuff later on Thursday and Friday. So look out for that maybe later in the week But I think the random teams will be pretty good because everyone's gonna want a piece of Minnesota and you know senators and whatnot Croft at the top down at Josh Bruce One two three four five six seven eight What's up Aaron? What's going on, buddy? When are you coming down? All right, hold on guys. I forgot to title the page. Oh Sorry, let me put it back so I can tell you guys your original names. Sorry. All right, so Croft You have the predators Shawn with the flyers nuts for Shawn Um Brian with the yachts gens with the blue jackets and flames Shawn with the ducks jets Shawn with the lightning gents with the devils marlin with the hurricanes Shawn with the capitals Josh Bruce and my king This was the blues Shawn with the senators Jens with the Rangers Sharks Blackhawks. We have marlin with the Knights Shawn with the avalanche Brian crop of the red wings Peter with the penguins Shawn with the Dallas stars Brian crop of the Oilers Panthers Bruins Peter with the Minnesota Wilds Marlin with the savers Shawn with the leaves Peter the Islanders and Josh Bruce with the Montreux Canadians Yeah, let me know what day and if we're available, you know, we can plan it out for the most parts I think like Tuesdays and Thursdays will be good Wednesdays. I mean I might Wednesdays and Fridays if anything I might be here early Yeah, let me know man. All right guys anybody want to trade quickly. We'll get some pennancy. We'll be right back I Guys no trades, right? Have you ever even know the shoebox with it?  I know I hate that one I hear you guys Again depending on what time Joe gets here if you guys sell the next one, I can probably squeeze that one in And break that go a little over one o'clock, but I think This will leave me to like 115 or so. So I think Think Joe will be here by then so it might be my last break But hey Joe can break this new hockey for you guys as well and pull you guys some big hits But we might have some of these available for personal now I know at the upper deck is a little bit more strict when it comes to selling personal So we can't really advertise our price online We are a certified diamond dealer and Authorized group breaker so we can break this on release. They get all the products on release day, but There's only about four or five Places around the world that can advertise their prices online Couple breakers in Canada David Adams the city I believe so usually with us you have to DM us Email us call us and has to be like one-on-one with the customer I know some people when they find out the price. They say it in the chat. I mean obviously we can't stop you guys from saying that but We might have some of these available for personal on ice you later with me, so Stay tuned for that in store. Of course, you know, we can advertise a price I mean, I know sometimes people think like, oh, why the hell they do that for sometimes I kind of question it too, but I think it does help their prices stay relatively high No one's undercutting anybody really But I think after a hundred and eighty days or whatever the six months Is then you can advertise your prices. We got some Dylan Kozans. We got a UD checklist Kozans and soup sale, but no Capri soft or So young guns so some sold out pretty quick after that. We'll find out Canvas Victor headman And we got Ilya Sorokin burden Johnny ducks Kill me car award winners me cool off Andreas Anthony see you canvas love them on my Kingsman. I just do it all David Kashi case I And Jalen Chatfield I Nicole Iealers Nicola, Reggie materials Mackenzie and Whistle Shay Weber and Shane Bowers dad worse Oh Boston Eddie box filler I loved his uh his uh Little segments. He did. I forget who he did it with with like what was hiding in that box Yelts to the really cool card Nico me cool. Ah Xbox bread, hall UD canvas Ty Smith young guns chase for the Panthers Vitali Tony D'Angelo And Jake odd and dirt odd and dirt Pavel Connor Ingram portraits Oli You got a red award winners Tampa Bay Lightning Kevin Lacanon Next box or next side Sam Reinhardt Roman Yossi I was just to have at least three more young guns on this side Nice little Matt Roy just got a new contract with my Kings a little clear cut and Joe Kelman for the Sharks Drew Dowdy canvas And Ian Mitchell Joe wall Joseph wall, sorry Cal foot What up to you guys are going buddy Mackenzie Wow still nothing yet Next one's halfway there guys Kind of want to see what's in the last four boxes if I don't pull anything crazy here guys So solid out now and I can add to my schedule. I'll just I'll just quickly try to break that All right guys last box here All right last two boxes guys. Good luck Artem You got a Ryan Nugent Hopkins canvas We got William Lags them back to back all their hits right there Chase portraits Brandon Crawley Roman Yossi award winners Ovi canvas and Braden Shen Dazzlers Mikey Anderson Khrushchev You got a red Sen Alexander Romanov Young guns there for the Canadians There you go Suits ill Otto Sanders is going to Shawn Matic There you go man That's a couple hundred dollars right there Anders Lee, I think he's off for the season right? I think he's towards ACL Hardest thing to get And Braden Burke UD canvas for the yolks Alec Ragnula The Hawks Mackenzie, I think we pulled like four young into this guy already Alexis LaFernier Program of excellence that'll be going to the Rangers and gents And Capri saw there you go So each box has top two players you're looking for Yotes, that's going to Peter And that's what 300 bucks now remember there could be more Mason Marchman Jordan Bennington UD canvas And Ty Dellendry Dazzlers and Deep Pietro to 250 The MVP insert Keegan Polsar For the Vegas Golden Knights Spiro, yeah, man a lot of people kind of forgot about it Including myself. I found out our again on Monday. I was like, oh, yeah, I forgot about that Baxon Miko Rantinen I feel like I has to take clear cut of a checklist here Leafs that's going to Shawn Vancouver Canucks going to Shawn. No need to randomize that There you go. We just pulled our first one and Tsutsu as well in these last four boxes Nikola Rangers There you go, very nice Well, I'm glad we got one of each in these last four boxes, but there still could be some massive heat hiding in the last four Pre-soft program accents LaFernier Tsutsu So there you go guys appreciate it. Don't randomize this to do here actually because this uh It's clear cut I have to take part here checklist Shawn has the Leafs and the Canucks. So I don't need to randomize that Very nice. And of course we got a lot of young guns Canvases To insert There you go guys. Appreciate it. Jasper's case rakes.com