If you're watching this video, I would guess you've already discovered that there's a correlation between your own personal journey, your spiritual journey, and the astrology of full moons, new moons, and eclipses. Especially, all have a profound, accelerating effect on your pursuit of self-development, spiritual deepening, and your pursuit of happiness and wholeness. It might not always seem that way because these full moons and eclipses, especially, can be quite disruptive.
They can feel, as they're approaching and especially during their peak, quite chaotic, and it can feel like a lot of different changes are unfolding in your life unexpectedly. Emotionally, you probably feel less equipped than usual to handle it. You probably feel more sensitive to your own emotions; you might feel like it doesn't take much to get really riled up, really upset, really anxious, really afraid, really concerned, or really irritated.
You also can probably feel the different vibrations and emotions from other people more strongly, and that, in itself, can be quite disruptive. But all of this is basically side effects of you having more awareness. You're more aware of what's always been there, but now it's obvious.
From this place of clarity, naturally, people find themselves making new choices, putting them on new timelines, if you will, heading towards a life that is more representative of their true potential, true power, and true preferences. I make these energy update videos to share with you the different themes because every full moon and eclipse brings with it its own challenges, its own opportunities for growth, expansion, and positive change. My intention is to help equip you with some information and guidance so that you can make the most out of this potent full moon.
Right now, we have a full moon and an eclipse, a lunar eclipse, and a full moon coming up on September 17th, I believe. It’s a big one; it’s a powerful one. You probably already feel it right now, which is probably why you're finding yourself watching a video like this looking for answers, because your life might be stirred up as it is.
Well, welcome, my friend. I'm happy to have you. My name is Victor Odo, and welcome to my YouTube channel.
What I'll do now is get into the five different themes that will help make this general message a lot more specific to what you might be going through right now. Theme number one: you might find yourself fed up with your lower self, your patterns, your conditioning, and your old conditioned emotional reactions to various things in your life. This can be obvious, like bad habits, where you're witnessing yourself do something in a kind of compulsive way, and you know better.
You know where it's heading; it’s heading to more pain, more suffering. But because it's a habit, you do it anyway. It could be more of a mental habit, the way you internally respond to various things, especially within your relationships and the things in your life that matter most, where there’s a lot on the line and where you feel more of an attachment.
Sometimes when these things have changes or variations, it can evoke these emotional responses. You might now be realizing that some of these emotional responses are not serving you; they may even be making matters worse. It can be kind of frustrating when you witness yourself behaving in a way that all of a sudden makes you acutely aware that there are like two selves.
In fact, Carl Jung, a very famous and awesome Swiss psychologist, talked about the two selves. He discussed the shadow; you’ve probably heard that term, "the shadow. " Yeah, it’s like a conglomerate of these lower impulses, conditioning, a constellation of old emotions and energies, thought patterns, and actions.
Then there’s the second self, I think is what he called it—the second self that’s like your higher self. That’s your spirit, that’s your better judgment, that’s your intuition. For a long time, you and most people, unfortunately, still go forth through life as if they’re one thing.
They’re one thing; they’re unable to yet differentiate between their intuition and their lower selves, where this full moon is going to make it quite obvious. It can be disturbing as you witness yourself behave in ways that you're appalled by. I'm going through this right now.
To give you an example with my wife: my wife and I, for the record, have been together almost 20 years now; we've been married for over 15 years, and it's been a beautiful journey. It’s funny, when people meet us, they say, "Oh man, you guys look so happy! You're like our template for a relationship, and you guys are so in love!
" And that’s true—we are happy, and we are in love. But, oh my God, it has not been easy. Because when you get close to somebody, you inevitably encounter their lowest self.
I have the ability to really trigger my wife, Patty, tremendously, to where the monstrous lower self can come out once in a while, and she with me. What we've been noticing lately is that we've been having minor disagreements in our current life, and it’s dredging up the past and all of our past resentments for all the different things each other's lower selves have done to one another. It’s causing us to overreact emotionally with these intense old patterns, this almost outdated paradigm of arguing and debate.
It’s becoming so obvious that we’re doing more harm than good. But our challenge is, and has been, we know it’s happening. I know, and I’m being pinged when.
. . My insecurities are running the show, and so too are hers.
But it's so hardwired, it's so conditioned, it's so difficult to—uh—to fight against these strong wires and conditioning. Both of us are fed up; we're like, "We can't do it! I can't put up with your lower self any longer, honey!
" And she's saying the same about me. We're like, "Well, what do we do? " When this happens, when things come to a head like this—and for you, it could be with anything; it doesn't have to be with your significant other.
It could be with a friend, or just your relationship with your life, with yourself even—we are witnessing ourselves do things that we know are just bad for us. They're destructive, they're causing more harm than good, and you're wondering, "How do I break out of this? " It can feel kind of hopeless.
My partner and I have had times when we thought, "Man, I don't know if I can keep doing this. This is just too much negativity. I don't know what we're going to do.
" But whenever we are able to settle in, ground ourselves, and come to some type of clarity, we know what you probably know or sense: that it's just time to move on. It's time not to break up, but to upgrade. It's time to move on from this old paradigm of doing things that's very familiar to our past selves, to our former selves—the selves that really can't continue on this positive vibrational expansion journey that we're on.
It's got to go; it's got to be left behind. It doesn't vibrationally match. That's why it gets so intense, and it can seem really just in your face.
I found that, as they say, it's so cliché, but it's "darkest before dawn," my friend. When it gets like this, it usually means you finally have a sufficient amount of awareness to where you can transcend it. So don't lose hope.
You may get frustrated with yourself and your situation if you relate to this, but with that said, be sure to take some quiet time. You can really journal, or you know I have a little typewriter I type on, and just sort of process my thoughts. If you can get still and quiet, I suspect you will be able to create enough distance from it to learn what you need to learn from the situation and move on.
And it's worth it. It's worth it. It's tough when these full moons roll around and your life is stirred up, and you have obligations, you're busy, and then all of a sudden, these big emotional things are happening.
It's like, "Oh my God, when will it be over? " But sometimes, we really need to get our attention and say, "Hey, you need to chill out with this. You need to move on from this.
" Whether for you it's stopping eating ice cream at night, or just stop limiting yourself, stop letting your inner critics stop you from doing all the things you know you want to do—whether it's like me with a relationship, it could be anything. You know what it is; it's probably very clear to you, even like a week or so out from the full moon. Use this intensity, use this awareness as a springboard to finally, once and for all, leap out of this old paradigm and into the new one, which is exactly what is happening right now.
Number two: a call to action. A lot of times, our life puzzles aren't as complex as we would like to think. A lot of times, the solution to maybe a life puzzle or a challenge is quite simple; it's just that you don't want to do it.
You don't want to take the simple action step because it's perceived as really hard, maybe out of your league. It's something that you don't think you can do, you don't believe you can do. A lot of times, when it gets like this, we start to psychoanalyze ourselves and think, "Whoa, where's all this coming from?
Why am I not taking action? Maybe it's the mother wound; perhaps it's past lives. Maybe I'll do a past life regression and get to the bottom of it.
" You can go on this little tangent of shadow healing, which is a good thing, but sometimes it's to avoid, again, the simple action step that you just don't really feel like doing. But it's a time for action. There are times, there are seasons spiritually, especially when it's best to not just jump into action because you might be premature.
But sometimes folks, myself included, can tend to linger there because it's more comfortable to sort of passively throw on a guided meditation and align my chakras. Whatever it is, that's safe, that's comfortable; no one's going to break into my house when I do that. But going out and doing the thing that scares me to death—that's the hard thing.
But a lot of times, it's that that needs to happen. For example, I found myself many years ago, when I was 19 years old, recovering from a nasty heroin addiction. I was unsuccessful multiple times—in and out of rehab, back and forth, back and forth, like six or seven times.
After a bunch of rehabs and therapies, I realized one of the main reasons I used. . .
Heroin, in the first place, BEC was because it cured, pretty much cured, at least temporarily, my anxiety. I had no anxiety—zero. I felt cool, like Fonzie, finally, and I could just be myself and relax in social situations.
I did a lot of work about that—where that comes from, things like that. You know what really finally cured me of that anxiety? It was doing something that made me anxious.
I remember finding myself at these—I eventually moved down to Florida, where there's a lot of people in recovery; in Florida, if you don't know that. Before that, I was living in Michigan, and I'd go to the 12-step meetings. They had, you know, 20-30 people, and you broke off into groups of five, and you shared, and that was very hard for me—to share in front of a group of people.
But anyway, I found myself in Florida, where the meetings had sometimes up to two or three hundred people, and they didn't break up into groups. If you wanted to share, you were sharing in front of the entire group. You raised your hand, and they called on you.
You had 299 people turning their heads, looking right at you, and for me, that was like my worst possible nightmare. I was off the drugs; the anxiety was back times ten. I was so hyper-sensitive, and you know what I made myself do?
I literally muscled my hand up there, and it was so hard—it took all my strength—and I thought, "Please God, don't call on me. " Oh, there he is! They almost could sense I didn't want to talk, and they thought it might be fun to call on me.
I got called on a lot, and you know what happened when I got called on? My face would turn, I want to say, like purple—not just red, but freaking purple—like I was going to explode or something. Like a cherry tomato or something.
Sweat would just bead down my face, and my brain just took a leave of absence. I had no thoughts, no nothing. I had nothing to say.
I raised my hand, and it was like, "Okay, go. " Sweating, red face, nothing to say. I had multiple very embarrassing shares that were just very sloppy, we'll just say.
But you know what? I kept coming back, as they say—"Keep coming back! Keep coming back!
" I kept coming back and raising that hand, and before you know it, maybe like a year and a half later, when I graduated from this halfway house I was staying in in Florida at the Bokeh House, I gave a speech to all the people—a couple hundred people. I had the microphone; I was walking around on stage like I owned the place. Now I’m a public speaker, and I love it!
I enjoy speaking; obviously, I have a YouTube channel. And it wasn't because I had some kind of breakthrough insight by doing dream therapy or breathwork or AASA or psychedelics or whatever. It was because I made myself do the thing that was very uncomfortable.
It was a time of action. What action step are you avoiding? You know what it is—it's not about not knowing; it's about not doing it.
What is it that you could do today that can move you forward in a positive way towards a life that is more representative of what you really want it to look like and feel like? Now is a time where that action is supported. It still might be difficult; I'm going to talk about that in a minute—the resistance—but it's a time of action.
And number three, it's a great time—which is a beautiful timing with point number two of what I just mentioned. It's a great time also to break through that resistance. You know, you probably know logically that the things you're avoiding aren't going to kill you.
It's not like it's that dire of a circumstance. But for whatever reason, it's hard. And then when that's the case—when you know it's not like the end of the world but you're still kind of afraid—then there's shame involved.
There's embarrassment. Like, "Man, I should be able to do this thing. I should be able to turn on the camera and film my first YouTube video.
I know my head's not going to explode; I know the world's not going to rain down fire. It's just a matter of my feelings being kind of intense, and I know that! " So, the fact that it's eluded me for so long, and I've struggled for so long—now I feel embarrassed and ashamed, and now it makes it even harder.
It just adds to the resistance. I had this—it could be really simple. For like six months, for example, I've known I should quit this particular gym membership.
I have two: one that I go to with my wife and daughter that's close, and this other one I was going to with my friend Aaron, and Aaron moved. So, for like six months, I haven't been going to this other gym. It's like a hundred bucks a month or something, and I know, "Okay, okay, you should cancel this, dude.
" Every time, you know how many times I wrote down in my notepad, "C: cancel gym membership" and not done it? Probably 50! And then it just became harder and harder.
You know, months go by; ding, ding, ding—this gym is living fat because of my money that I'm not even spending at the gym. I was like, "Why is this so difficult? What are you afraid of?
Are they going to hate you? Are they. .
. ? " Going to be a shame you.
They going to whatever. I didn't know what it was, and I thought about it quite a bit, and eventually, I just walked in there. I had to make myself go.
I said, "You're here. Here are your car keys, Vic. You're going to drive your car.
You're going to go there. You're going to walk out of the car. You're going to say, 'I need to cancel,' no matter what they say, even if it is weird and awkward.
You got to do it; you're wasting your money. " I had resistance. I had something inside of me that did not want to do that.
I probably— it probably goes deeply down to my need to please people so I feel worthy. It's a bunch of childhood stuff connected to it. Regardless, that doesn't matter; I'm wasting money.
I need to cancel the freaking gym. I just made my— I didn't psychoanalyze myself anymore. I walked into the gym, I canceled the gym, and they were totally cool about it.
It was no big deal, which is the case a lot of the time. A lot of times, what happens is we will initially get like a glimpse of our potential—our potential future, a potential career situation, a potential relationship, a potential living situation, or whatever—and it feels so resonant, and we know it's true. In this sort of state of foreseeing this future scenario, we feel oftentimes very optimistic, very confident, very much in our power.
So it can be kind of confusing when it comes down to doing the basic grounded nuts and bolts action steps to get us there that all of a sudden all this resistance comes. Earlier on, I would feel like, "Oh, maybe it's not time to act. Maybe I need to look at myself.
Maybe I need to work on myself. " I found that can only take you so far. I found that once you understand that it's okay to quote-unquote force things once in a while, if I didn't force things sometimes, there are hundreds of potentially life-changing YouTube videos that would have never gotten out because I'm not always feeling super guided by the universe to do it.
Sometimes it's like, "I made a commitment to my audience, and I need to make a video. I'm going to do my best. It might not be the best I've ever done, but I'm going to do it anyway.
" And it works. I remember years ago, my buddy Aaron and I were building this webinar. I don't know if you know what a webinar is; it's like an hour-and-a-half-long presentation with different slides and things like that.
We had maybe 200 slides, and it's for our full-time purpose business. We each had to make one, one for his audience. Aaron's a YouTuber as well, and I made one for mine.
I will never forget just how laborious that was—the creation of the slides, the learning of all the different things to put in the webinar, the filming of the webinar, because there was like a high stakes to it. So every time I'd record myself, it was like a two-hour thing. Sorry, it was just almost forced uphill in the mud, in the rain; you know, getting banged by— you know, I'm taking this metaphor too far.
You get the idea. It was hard. The whole time, there was never a moment when I was like, "This is just flowing creatively.
" It was forced. And I finally, after— I remember the very night before I had to do my webinar, it was like for three hours; I was sitting there in front of the thing, recording, editing, recording, editing, making mistakes, editing. I was exhausted.
Finally, it was done, and then there was all this pressure because Aaron, the day before, did his webinar with his audience. So he invited a bunch of people to come to the webinar, and we were selling our program. So you basically get pretty much immediate feedback.
Your webinar, all these weeks and hours of hard work, is either going to succeed or fail—it's very concrete. Aaron succeeded massively. He did great; a lot of people joined, and it was a really good vibe to it.
It was very exciting, and you know, it was very lucrative and very helpful to the people who joined; it was amazing. But now it was my turn. Not only was it hard, not only was I nervous for my own sake—for my own insecurities and my own worthiness, all that kind of stuff was there—but also, I felt this pressure because Aaron did so well that I had to do a good job as well.
I will never forget just how hard it was. I remember doing the webinar; it was actually pretty easy. I just pretty much had to welcome people.
It was a live webinar with about 300 people. I had to welcome them: "Hey, what's up, guys? You know, welcome.
Where are you from? " That kind of thing. And then all I had to do was hit play and let my webinar that I recorded play.
But then it was like time stood still because I knew, like an hour in, is when I would reveal the offer. At that moment, I would see—did all this work succeed or did it fail? I was so filled with resistance that I remember going outside; I couldn't even watch it.
I went outside and jumped on Aaron's trampoline, trying to just burn off some anxiety. And sure enough, it worked very well. was amazing.
It was, it did really well and I was very happy. Me and Aaron, it was like a huge milestone for us in our entrepreneurial journey. It was like the most money I've ever made in a short period of time, and it was that webinar, you know, worked for us for a good two or three years.
It was a worthy investment. But imagine if I had waited until I felt in the flow; that thing would have never, ever, ever gotten done. And now is the time to just know that you don't have to let this resistance stop you.
I'm not saying ignore your shadow and bury your head in the sand and deny the lower self. Give it attention, do the shadow work, but also don't—it's endless. There's a bottomless pit of stuff, and you probably have realized that if you've done enough of it.
You realize there's always more. You have some breakthrough insight, and it's soon replaced with more awareness of yet another aspect of your shadow that also needs tending to. But as far as making your life better, at least for me, it usually comes down to just the commonsensical, obvious action, and right now is a fantastic time.
Again, what have you been avoiding, my friend? Don't let this resistance stop you. You don't have to, and that's the empowering thing.
Once I did that webinar, among other things in my life—once I quit the gym membership—in fact, I felt unstoppable after quitting the gym. I was like, "What else have I not been doing because of this exact same feeling of contraction, heaviness, tightness, fear? What else am I stopping myself from doing?
What else am I missing out on by not acting on the things I know I want? " I guarantee there are things you know you want, whether it's a relationship, whether it's a new job, whether it's to live somewhere else, whether it's whatever it is. And it's only us that stops ourselves, but we don't have to.
So let this be permission for you: you don't have to let those feelings stop you ever again. They're not that strong. A lot of times, once you move through them and do the thing, it's not the end of the world anyway, and you realize a lot of it was just overembellished in your mind.
Number four: owning who you are. A lot of times what prevents us from doing these simple action steps is the fact that we don't accept ourselves as who we are. We think we need to be more first.
"Once I'm confident, then I'll share at the Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Once I'm comfortable and know everything under the sun, then I'll build the webinar. Once I'm completely free of resistance, then I'll quit the gym membership.
" Nuh-uh. I'm enough now, and so are you. I know you have work to do.
I know there are still shadow aspects that you'd like to heal—great! You're still perfect right now. I remember years ago we were running this plant medicine retreat in Costa Rica.
I was around a bunch of extroverts. You might assume I'm an extrovert because I make YouTube videos, but I'm not. In real life, I'm quite quiet.
I'm like a stereotypical introvert; I'm not really talkative at all. I'm quite quiet, and I don't like crowds. I don't like attention.
I prefer just to kind of chill with a couple of people that I know very well. I'm that kind of person, you know? But I was around a bunch of extroverts.
My wife is a big-time extrovert; Patty, my buddy Aaron Dowdy, he's a massive extrovert. He can talk to anybody, and he can talk forever. Like, he doesn't have to rest.
I always have to take naps and stuff because I get tired around people. Him and Patty are there, Matt, our buddy Matt, he was there too, and even some of the medicine workers are very extroverted. Our friend Heather Hoffman from Activation Vibration, she was there at the time, and she's a big-time extrovert.
And then there was me, this quiet guy. I remember being around them, realizing like, I don't really say all that much. I just pretty much sit there the whole time.
I started to feel funny about that. I started to become like, I wonder what it would be like to be more like them. I saw how free they were and just how comfortable they were in their own skin to kind of gab and make small talk and play around and be playful.
I thought, man, I wish I was more extroverted; I wish I was more like them. And then one of the nights during a ceremony, this all came up for me—all this like wishing I was somebody else kind of thing—and it came up. After the ceremony, we're all kind of going around just talking and sharing our experiences, and I expressed this sort of timidly, you know, "I wish I was more like you guys.
" And they're like, "Victor, no, we need you to be the way you are. " They started sharing with me all these different nice qualities about how they appreciate how I'm kind of quiet, but then when I do say something, it has impact because I don't talk all that much. They say there's like an energy to me that's stoic, and it makes them feel calm and comfortable.
Regardless, I'm not trying to boast myself up, but they were saying all these nice things, and I was like, that is kind of true. That is kind of how my natural temperament actually is. And just hearing.
. . How people perceived me was so different from the way I perceived myself.
It gave me this sort of permission slip to relax into who I naturally am and to own who I am, and not to feel like I should be being different. I should be more talkative; I should be more exciting; I shouldn't be so quiet. None of that is actually the truth.
The truth is that God, or whatever made me exactly as I am, did so for a reason, and there's nobody on this planet—and there's nobody that's ever walked this Earth—that has been like me, or you, ever. Imagine how free you would feel if you finally just owned who you are, not trying to be somebody else. It's a time—not only where it's advantageous, I would say, to do that because of the full moon and eclipse—but my prediction, if you want to hear a prediction, is that you'll do this.
If you can allow yourself to do this, you will feel really good, really liberated, really free, and finally start to see your true magic, maybe for the first time. And that is a game changer; that is an absolute game changer, my friend, for anything in life. In fact, I was just giving a lesson the other day to our full-time purpose-driven business clients.
These are people who have a spiritual business, and I teach them how to market and sell and do all those kinds of things. That was my lesson. I pulled up this funny YouTube channel as an example of this—of this really, I would say, almost confrontational, older gentleman, probably 75 or 80 years old, who is doing really well on YouTube.
He does everything pretty much against the grain; he doesn't follow any of the important things that an educated YouTuber would do. He doesn't know anything about thumbnails or titles or all these different things that go into that. He just shows up with his guitar; he's always smoking cigarettes, drinking beer, and offending people.
But you know what? His channel is exploding right now, and I'll tell you why: it's because he's not putting on a character at all. He's just being who he is, and even with those qualities, because he's being himself and owns who he is, there's this attractive quality to it.
There's this beautiful message he's probably unknowingly sending out to the world, and the message is this: it’s cool to be you; it’s okay to be yourself. I see it all the time with people who are trying to grow YouTube channels. They see what's working, and they try to do that, carrying it out almost like an actor on a stage.
Some people become really good at the acting, but if it's not really who they are, even though on paper it should, in theory, work, it never does. Then you have people over there breaking the rules, like this dude being himself and just exploding. Authenticity sells; authenticity is magnetic.
But for you to really be authentic—that's a nice word spiritual people like to float around—but to really be authentic, first we must accept who we are and own who we are. It's not easy; I don't do this perfectly, and I'm not saying you need to as well. But now is a chance to really let go of this idea that you need to be someone else more so than ever before and feel a higher degree of freedom in being yourself and also an awareness of the results it brings you.
That is heavily supported right now, my friends. Finally, number five: your dream reality. During this time, you might sense that there are a lot of endings going on—a lot of changes.
Changes to things that you weren't expecting to change; changes to big parts of your life that you were maybe not wanting to change. It can feel like your whole reality is just being shaken up. Then you add to the mix all the stuff I talked about regarding your shadow healing journey and things of that nature, and it can feel like madness.
But I’ve found that there have been maybe a few times in my 20-year awakening journey that this type of degree of shake-up has happened. Some people can call it the dark night of the soul; there are different terms for it; it doesn't matter. It’s just like a cosmic shake-up, and it's basically saying you don't know how good your life could actually be.
You might think you want all this stuff in your life, but what if I told you it could be like good—like 20 times better? Better versions of these things and situations, and sometimes even people are out there in existence. You’re at a vibrational level where you can have it all, but we know, left to your own devices, you're not going to do any of that.
You're going to stay where it's comfortable, right? So the full moon and the eclipse come in, and they shake it up. They make it almost impossible to cling to the past, to the old self, to the old illusion that we're not enough, things like that.
The process of transformation, much like a butterfly bursting through a cocoon, can be painful; it can be scary. But it’s leading to you flapping those beautiful, gorgeous butterfly wings and almost ascending to a new level of a vibrational reality where it’s not just one thing; it’s more like your experience of life can be greatly upgraded and improved. Or even the smallest thing, even like maybe—like you, I really like this pen—and maybe.
. . There's a better pen, and it's like, wow, this pen writes so much better!
I had no idea. I wish I would have clung to this, and it's like that for everything. Obviously, a pen's no big deal—bad, bad example—but people.
People you work with, living situations, careers, where you live—all these different things can be massively, massively upgraded in ways that you can't yet see. That's what makes it so challenging. It's not like your higher self is saying, "Listen, let go of this pen.
There's a kick-ass pen coming from Amazon, and you're going to get it soon, and here's what it looks like. " That would be like, "Okay, cool! I can wait a few days for that pen.
" It's not like that. It's just like, "Let go of the pen," and I'm not going to tell you why. You're like, "No, I like this pen.
" You don't need it; let it go. It's heavy; it stops writing correctly; you start misspelling words. You're like, "Man, that's what happens with the full moon.
" Then you let the damn pen go. But then it's something else: "Let this friend go. " "No, I don't!
I like this friend. We've had a history together. " "It's not working; let it go.
" "We're not going to tell you why; just let it go. " No friends, no pens. You're out of a job, your landlord boots you out, and you think, "Man, my life is plummeting into horror!
It's getting way, way worse. " Temporarily, and usually from these letting-go experiences, we learn a lot about ourselves—about our psyche, about our life, about who we really are and what we really want. Sometimes, the absence of things we think we need, when it's sort of like forced away, then it frees us up to think differently, to think outside of the box.
Then, all of a sudden, these ideas—these very easy-to-come-up-with ideas—start bombarding your brain. There are things you could do now that you've let go of this thing, but they're never going to come when you have the pen and the thoughts and the feelings and the situation to mirror it, reinforcing itself. You've got to let go of the pen first, and then it opens you up.
Even though it's painful and you don't know why in the beginning, now's the time to let go of whatever is heavy in your life. My friend Kyle C. E.
, he's a comedian, a real cool guy, says, "If it's heavy now, it's only going to get heavier. It's going to be even heavier tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day. " Why not just let go now?
Let go now and see what the universe has in store for you. I can tell you this from my own experience: every time this has happened to me, I've always resisted out of fear and mistrust, and I usually held on until the bitter end because I'm a stubborn guy. Then I would let go because a full moon would come around and pretty much bring situations to a head that forced it upon me.
I'd freak out, and then I'd look around as these new things—people, circumstances, feelings—come into my life. These new ideas, these new passions, these new hobbies. I'm going to boat right now!
These new things just come into your life to replace the old, and you're like, "Whoa! I like this so much better. " I would have never in a million years thought of any of this myself.
I didn't even know I wanted this thing. I needed this initially challenging experience to reveal to me that I did want this thing, and now I can have it because now there's space in my life. And before you know it, your life can just take these massive upgrades over and over and over and over again.
There's always something new; there's always another version of what you may think you want right now. And there's no fighting it either. You may have tried—I’ve tried!
I tried to hang on and say, "No, I don't want this upgrade," even though I sense it's going to be cool. I still don't want it; I feel loyal to my situation. Even when I tried, it just becomes so heavy, as Kyle says, that you have to let go anyway.
So learn from me; take—learn from my mistakes. Just let go sooner; it'll be a lot easier. And then, as you do this, you'll develop this type of trust in the flow of your life.
So these transitions, which are going to keep coming—it's not just one time—become smoother and smoother and smoother, and then you can upgrade yourself faster and faster and faster and faster into the person you really are, with the life you really deserve. With that said, my friend, before I go, I want to let you know I did mention the Ayahuasca retreats. We do them like once or twice a year in Costa Rica.
I'm going to leave a link down below if you want to come to the next one. If you're interested, I normally—normally they book up, and I don't have a chance to kind of let my YouTube audience know because I do them with my friend Aaron Dowy, and he shares it with his audience. But if you've ever been feeling the calling to plant medicine, to Ayahuasca—this is not for everybody; it's for people who really feel a calling to it, and it's been kind of coming into their life synchronistically and you feel like it might help you—then it might be a good match for you.
I'll leave a. . .
Link down below if you want to check it out. Just for the record, we're not shamans; I don't claim to be a shaman. We work with amazing medicine workers right there in Costa Rica where it's legal.
Um, we just organize it—my friend Aaron Downey and I—and we bring the people, and then the shaman pretty much run the show. We're just kind of there to participate. So anyways, I'm not going to get into it too much now, but this is somewhat intriguing.
I'll leave a link down below; check it out. If not, totally cool! Have an amazing day, my friends.
God bless you all. See you next time. Peace!
