#97: The Energy of Healing: How Feng Shui Shapes Health and Harmony With Cyd Sedgwick
What if the key to health and transformation isn’t in a pill bottle, but in the unseen energy patterns that surround us?
On this episode of Beyond The Pills, host Josh Rimany, the Modern-Day Medicine Man, welcomes his dear friend, mentor, and feng shui master Cyd Alper Sedgwick. With decades of study and practice in energy, consciousness, and flow, Cyd brings wisdom that reaches far beyond design—it’s about harmony, balance, and the deeper truths that shape our bodies, minds, and spirits.
Cyd has been studying feng shui for over 30 years, mentoring under some of the most renowned teachers and carving her own path as a healer and shaman. She has worked with Josh personally—in his home, business, and healing journey—always reminding him that “energy is the foundation of healing and transformation.”
In this conversation, they dive into how energy influences every area of life: from the way we feel in our own bodies to how we show up in relationships, careers, and communities. Cyd explains how the invisible forces of energy flow affect not only the spaces we live in, but also the confidence we carry and the choices we make.
Her insights reveal why feng shui isn’t just about moving furniture—it’s about aligning our external world with our internal truth.
Listeners will come away from this episode with powerful shifts in perspective:
- Energy as Medicine – why the unseen patterns of energy are often the missing link in healing.
- Harmony in Action – how simple changes in your environment can spark profound transformation.
- The Flow of Confidence – how balancing energy empowers us to live with clarity, courage, and purpose.
- Beyond the Physical – the spiritual side of feng shui and how it connects body, mind, and spirit.
Cyd’s wisdom is practical yet deeply spiritual, offering tools to step beyond chaos and into flow. As she puts it, “Healing doesn’t start with what’s outside—it starts with the energy you carry and the space you create for it to move.”
Josh reflects on his own journey and the influence of Cyd’s mentorship, noting how the shift from focusing on pills to focusing on energy has unlocked deeper layers of healing for himself and others. Together, they illuminate a new path forward—one where true wellness is about alignment, not just prescriptions.
This episode will challenge the way you think about healing and inspire you to take a fresh look at the spaces, patterns, and energies shaping your life.
👉 Tune in now to Beyond The Pills with Josh Rimany and discover how Cyd Alper Sedgwick’s approach to energy and flow can help you unlock harmony, confidence, and lasting transformation.
Featured Quotes from the Episode:
- “Energy is the foundation of healing and transformation.”
- “Healing doesn’t start with what’s outside, it starts with the energy you carry and the space you create for it to move.”
- “When we align our inner and outer worlds, confidence flows naturally.”
Links & Resources:
- Cyd Alper Sedgwick on LinkedIn
- Full Circle Fung-Shui and Life Design
Transcript
Hello, hello.
Speaker:Welcome back to this episode
Speaker:of Beyond the Pills.
Speaker:I'm Josh Rimini, pharmacist turned healer.
Speaker:And today I am joined by
Speaker:someone who has been not
Speaker:only a dear friend and
Speaker:mentor of mine for many years,
Speaker:Sid Alpert Sedgwick.
Speaker:Sid is a feng shui master.
Speaker:She's been studying feng shui for thirty,
Speaker:forty.
Speaker:I don't even know how many
Speaker:years we will find out,
Speaker:but most most of my life for sure.
Speaker:She is very experienced with energy,
Speaker:consciousness and the
Speaker:unseen patterns that shape
Speaker:all of our lives.
Speaker:She has studied and mentored
Speaker:under many people.
Speaker:We share the same friends.
Speaker:She is a shaman in her own right.
Speaker:Sid has worked with me in my home,
Speaker:in my business and in my personal journey,
Speaker:always reminding me that
Speaker:energy is the foundation of
Speaker:healing and transformation.
Speaker:Her wisdom goes far beyond design.
Speaker:And we'll find out it's
Speaker:about harmony flow and the
Speaker:deeper truth of how energy
Speaker:influences not only our body, mind,
Speaker:and also spirit.
Speaker:I'm so excited to bring this
Speaker:conversation to you guys.
Speaker:We've had many, many,
Speaker:many conversations over the
Speaker:years that I often share
Speaker:privately about consciousness, energy,
Speaker:and living in alignment so
Speaker:that you can experience her
Speaker:beautiful presence and guidance today.
Speaker:Welcome to the show, my friend.
Speaker:Thank you, Josh.
Speaker:What a wonderful opening.
Speaker:I love it.
Speaker:I like it scripted.
Speaker:I like doing those for
Speaker:people because you get to hear your side,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:And then sometimes we don't
Speaker:take pause in that.
Speaker:And so you've been a
Speaker:monumental person in my
Speaker:life in many different ways.
Speaker:And I'm really excited to
Speaker:have this conversation.
Speaker:This is why we are not using
Speaker:the video today because we
Speaker:had exclusive conversations mouth to ear,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:We haven't had any video chats.
Speaker:We speak in person on occasion,
Speaker:but most of our
Speaker:conversations is rooted
Speaker:around this mouth to ear approach.
Speaker:And so thank you so much for
Speaker:joining me today and sharing your wisdom.
Speaker:Let's start off by just
Speaker:introducing people to you.
Speaker:You've been studying and
Speaker:living energy work for decades.
Speaker:How do you describe what
Speaker:feng shui really is beyond just design?
Speaker:Well, actually,
Speaker:if we open up the
Speaker:translation of feng shui,
Speaker:it means wind and water.
Speaker:know the water we have huge
Speaker:amounts of water in our
Speaker:lives and the wind creates
Speaker:the energy of that water so
Speaker:that's basically feng shui
Speaker:it's wind and water it's
Speaker:the flow of energy in the
Speaker:clockwise you know same
Speaker:direction of the planet
Speaker:we're moving in the same
Speaker:direction as the planet
Speaker:with feng shui when we
Speaker:start to try and do
Speaker:something else that's when
Speaker:we have all the
Speaker:that the obstructions that
Speaker:stop the natural flow.
Speaker:So feng shui is about simplicity.
Speaker:It's really hard for us to
Speaker:live our lives as simply as
Speaker:possible because we have
Speaker:coercively under the yang
Speaker:energy of the last five thousand years,
Speaker:which is beginning to peter out,
Speaker:which I'm delighted to hear,
Speaker:it's beginning to peter out
Speaker:to allow us to start to
Speaker:really declutter not only
Speaker:our homes and businesses,
Speaker:our garden sheds, our garages,
Speaker:our spare rooms, our bodies, our brains,
Speaker:all of that.
Speaker:There's a whole bunch of
Speaker:clutter in there that we don't need.
Speaker:And we carry it around with us.
Speaker:And so that's basically what feng shui is.
Speaker:The basis of it is natural
Speaker:flow of positive energy.
Speaker:I call it the quantum
Speaker:physics of positive energy.
Speaker:We've had many of these
Speaker:conversations before
Speaker:because I think a lot of
Speaker:the times people listen and
Speaker:they hear feng shui and they think,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:balanced placement of furniture or,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:colors and things of that nature
Speaker:that match the energy,
Speaker:which is a part of that.
Speaker:But we will talk a little bit about that.
Speaker:But what you said is really
Speaker:important because there's
Speaker:the modern aspect to this ancient wisdom.
Speaker:And this conversation that
Speaker:we have in this podcast is
Speaker:all about the fusion of those two.
Speaker:So I love that you brought
Speaker:in the quantum energy
Speaker:Because we're hearing about
Speaker:this more from a modernized perspective,
Speaker:but this is something
Speaker:that's always been a part
Speaker:of the principles of feng
Speaker:shui and decluttering and
Speaker:moving in the flow of energy,
Speaker:the things that we cannot see.
Speaker:Yes,
Speaker:and it's sort of interesting to note that,
Speaker:yes,
Speaker:things are beginning to be simplified.
Speaker:I think all of us, a lot of us,
Speaker:are sort of pushing against
Speaker:the amount of stuff that we have.
Speaker:you know I just moved from a
Speaker:very large condo down to a
Speaker:tiny tiny little apartment
Speaker:but so much so that I
Speaker:called this the boat house
Speaker:but it was amazing that
Speaker:even I who've lived this
Speaker:life through two
Speaker:generations by the way my
Speaker:mother was a feng shui master
Speaker:and as I am now.
Speaker:So, you know,
Speaker:it's living life so simply
Speaker:that we understand that we
Speaker:don't need a lot of the
Speaker:stuff that we carry around with us,
Speaker:not only the physical stuff,
Speaker:but the mental stuff.
Speaker:you know when we start to
Speaker:work on the feng shui of
Speaker:the body which I started
Speaker:working with and on several
Speaker:years ago it was amazing
Speaker:how much stuff we can let
Speaker:go off and it's and
Speaker:recognizing that absolutely
Speaker:everything we do makes a
Speaker:difference and it's either
Speaker:a positive difference or a
Speaker:negative difference and we
Speaker:have that choice
Speaker:we have that freedom of choice.
Speaker:If we want to carry around
Speaker:years and years of hurt and sorrow,
Speaker:and we all do it,
Speaker:I'm no exception to that rule,
Speaker:but once we start to
Speaker:recognize that to feng shui
Speaker:means living in the present,
Speaker:and living in the present
Speaker:is incredibly hard,
Speaker:for our brains to understand,
Speaker:but it's incredibly
Speaker:releasing and wonderful
Speaker:when we actually just know
Speaker:that we can live in the present.
Speaker:What happened yesterday, ten years ago,
Speaker:twenty years ago, and for me,
Speaker:a hundred and eight years ago, you know,
Speaker:has got nothing at all to
Speaker:do with me living my life
Speaker:and breathing today.
Speaker:So today is a completely
Speaker:fresh era of feng shui,
Speaker:particularly in my home.
Speaker:So everything in my home has a purpose.
Speaker:If it doesn't have a purpose,
Speaker:it doesn't belong here.
Speaker:And I don't mean a practical purpose.
Speaker:There's also beautiful art
Speaker:on the walls and beautiful
Speaker:pieces of art that I own and my rugs,
Speaker:et cetera, but it all has a purpose.
Speaker:because everything,
Speaker:absolutely everything I do
Speaker:makes a difference to my
Speaker:life and the life of everybody around me.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:you know, part of clinging onto things is,
Speaker:is that attachment we have
Speaker:to all this stuff.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And I think the first, the first, second,
Speaker:and maybe third lessons
Speaker:I've got for you years ago
Speaker:was to simply declutter,
Speaker:declutter your office,
Speaker:declutter your mind, declutter your house,
Speaker:just declutter.
Speaker:Um, and, and, and,
Speaker:and then reminding me or,
Speaker:or having me learn,
Speaker:through that experience of
Speaker:how does it feel, right?
Speaker:When we declutter our lives
Speaker:or even if it's one room or one desk,
Speaker:it feels different.
Speaker:And I think that's part of
Speaker:this process that we take, you know,
Speaker:My programming that I'm
Speaker:launching very soon, it's been launched,
Speaker:but we're launching it nationwide.
Speaker:You know about it,
Speaker:but it's partly rooted
Speaker:around those concepts of simple,
Speaker:simplicity.
Speaker:Simple can be sophisticated.
Speaker:but it doesn't have to be complex.
Speaker:And so making wellness made
Speaker:simple is part of what I
Speaker:love to do because I think
Speaker:people get complex even in
Speaker:their own health journeys
Speaker:about this and that and
Speaker:diagnoses and labs and all
Speaker:these supplements when we
Speaker:haven't really centered
Speaker:around the basics yet.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And even that decluttering
Speaker:is decluttering the types
Speaker:of foods we eat as well.
Speaker:You know,
Speaker:if you're going to drag synthetic
Speaker:things into your home, your sacred space,
Speaker:your home and your office
Speaker:and your place of business,
Speaker:those are your sacred spaces.
Speaker:And in feng shui,
Speaker:there are two super sacred spaces.
Speaker:And one of those super
Speaker:sacred spaces is the kitchen.
Speaker:So the kitchen is where we
Speaker:bring food in to prepare,
Speaker:to feed ourselves and our families.
Speaker:So knowing that we're only
Speaker:bringing the very, very best,
Speaker:not the most expensive, but the best.
Speaker:of what we want our families to eat,
Speaker:what we want to put into our bodies.
Speaker:So our home becomes that
Speaker:sanctuary of sacredness
Speaker:where we honor who we really are.
Speaker:We are divine beings,
Speaker:each and every one of us, no exception,
Speaker:absolutely no exception.
Speaker:If we are living in this moment,
Speaker:in this mindful moment,
Speaker:then we are a sacred being.
Speaker:And we need to learn to
Speaker:allow ourselves the joy of
Speaker:good health and a good mindset.
Speaker:And part of that starts with our homes.
Speaker:So if we have just like, you know,
Speaker:if you open up your fridge and you go, oh,
Speaker:my God,
Speaker:what's this at the back of the fridge?
Speaker:And it's a moldy old piece of cheese.
Speaker:You can't wait to throw it out.
Speaker:Okay,
Speaker:so that's what how we need to look at
Speaker:stuff that we have around us,
Speaker:which is draining us of our
Speaker:positive energy.
Speaker:Does it start with awareness?
Speaker:It definitely starts with awareness.
Speaker:It's coming out of the coercive energy,
Speaker:as I mentioned earlier,
Speaker:the yang energy that Lao
Speaker:Tzu talks about in the Tao.
Speaker:That's that coercive energy
Speaker:where everybody was doing
Speaker:what everybody else was doing.
Speaker:So we have had cartoons and
Speaker:weird movies in the past of
Speaker:everybody wearing the same thing,
Speaker:walking in the same way,
Speaker:eating the same foods.
Speaker:not recognizing that each
Speaker:and every one of us is an
Speaker:individual we are each all
Speaker:of us are individual divine
Speaker:beings okay so if we are if
Speaker:we start to become aware
Speaker:then we don't accept all
Speaker:the garbage that you know
Speaker:we've been taught
Speaker:Now, we're not blaming anybody.
Speaker:I have to stress that immediately.
Speaker:We're not blaming our parents,
Speaker:our teachers, or anybody for what it is.
Speaker:We just, if you like,
Speaker:we were taking information
Speaker:and we thought that's what
Speaker:we have to do to fit in, okay?
Speaker:We lost between being born
Speaker:and the age of seven,
Speaker:we knew that we were special.
Speaker:We knew that we had the
Speaker:ability to do a lot of things,
Speaker:and we had an enormous
Speaker:amount of wisdom in our bodies.
Speaker:We were born with it.
Speaker:That's the Ling energy.
Speaker:At the moment of conception,
Speaker:that Ling energy, your Qi energy,
Speaker:enters you,
Speaker:and that's a very divine moment, okay?
Speaker:And so you look at your children,
Speaker:anybody looking at their
Speaker:children or anybody, you know,
Speaker:with children, you know,
Speaker:it's a case of they are
Speaker:very special beings,
Speaker:not because they're your children,
Speaker:but because they are divine
Speaker:beings and they're here for a purpose.
Speaker:So mindfulness is being present now,
Speaker:not yesterday,
Speaker:but now in this very moment, right now,
Speaker:being mindful.
Speaker:And it's such a, it's a, it's such a,
Speaker:a simple and, and useful, right?
Speaker:We, we talk,
Speaker:there's all this talk about
Speaker:mindfulness and being present and,
Speaker:and in that space,
Speaker:I love where you brought in, you know,
Speaker:the zero to seven where, you know,
Speaker:there's, there's the ancient wisdom side.
Speaker:I've studied the neuroscience side of,
Speaker:of that piece of mind,
Speaker:but like where the spirit
Speaker:and the soul have awakened
Speaker:into these special, beautiful
Speaker:beings that haven't been
Speaker:corrupted with programming
Speaker:yet you know I think those
Speaker:formative ages we taught
Speaker:you and I've talked many
Speaker:times about programming and
Speaker:child emotional programming
Speaker:but looking at it from this
Speaker:perspective of of these
Speaker:these beautiful beings
Speaker:these souls that are are
Speaker:awakening to all of
Speaker:everything they're just
Speaker:they're you look at these
Speaker:children they just they they're
Speaker:They are present in the moment, right?
Speaker:They're not worried about
Speaker:the past or the future.
Speaker:They're really just
Speaker:centering in on every single day,
Speaker:every single moment.
Speaker:And seeing the awe on my
Speaker:little girls' faces when
Speaker:they were in those ages was
Speaker:such a beautiful place just to witness.
Speaker:Because it is true what you said.
Speaker:It's just so true.
Speaker:So thank you for bringing that up.
Speaker:Yeah, but we've all done this.
Speaker:We've all been coerced into fitting in.
Speaker:And so that's when, from the age of seven,
Speaker:and I think this is a scientific fact,
Speaker:but this is what I believe,
Speaker:but I believe that somebody
Speaker:has really worked at this
Speaker:more accurately than I have,
Speaker:that we download our
Speaker:childhood from our parents
Speaker:and our communities,
Speaker:our friends and our teachers.
Speaker:And you see it over and over
Speaker:and over again.
Speaker:You know, people following
Speaker:Let's say Taylor Swift, bless her heart.
Speaker:She's a wonderful person,
Speaker:and I don't know her,
Speaker:but I assume that she's a
Speaker:wonderful person.
Speaker:But this mass following is
Speaker:because people have to
Speaker:attach to something that's
Speaker:wonderful and makes sense
Speaker:to them and don't recognize
Speaker:that they are beautiful.
Speaker:the same she's just she's a
Speaker:divine being in her own
Speaker:right as is as is all her
Speaker:siblings and everybody else
Speaker:but so are the people that
Speaker:are desperate to be part of
Speaker:that community so we give
Speaker:up our lives and our
Speaker:beliefs because we want to
Speaker:fit in so we forget we
Speaker:forget that we came with
Speaker:all this information
Speaker:From the age of seven onwards,
Speaker:we think that we just have to fit in.
Speaker:No matter what,
Speaker:it's important that we fit in.
Speaker:And then the trouble starts,
Speaker:that we have to protect ourselves.
Speaker:And so then we're creating
Speaker:who we think we are, not who we are.
Speaker:We don't have to create who
Speaker:we are because we're already created.
Speaker:We just have to learn to grow with it.
Speaker:What are some things you
Speaker:bring clients through to get to that?
Speaker:I know from my perspective,
Speaker:and you've been really
Speaker:instrumental with me and
Speaker:moving towards wholeness in
Speaker:my own self and what I
Speaker:would consider authenticity
Speaker:is what I think we're
Speaker:talking about here is we've
Speaker:shared this on some other
Speaker:episodes where we talk about living
Speaker:living your life, our, you know,
Speaker:our own lives in that authentic way.
Speaker:And I think that's part of
Speaker:part of what we're talking about here is,
Speaker:is, you know,
Speaker:everyone has the right to be
Speaker:vibrantly healthy and vibrantly alive.
Speaker:And to me, that means we're,
Speaker:We're moving towards what is
Speaker:in alignment with us, the soul,
Speaker:our purpose.
Speaker:But talk to the community here,
Speaker:the tribe we've created here,
Speaker:the audience,
Speaker:about what does that look like with you?
Speaker:How do you bring people back
Speaker:to that space where they've forgotten,
Speaker:as you said?
Speaker:Yeah, it's sort of interesting because,
Speaker:as you know, Josh,
Speaker:we've had conversations for many,
Speaker:many years now.
Speaker:And each and every one of
Speaker:them has been a delight.
Speaker:And each and every one of
Speaker:them has been a tough transition because,
Speaker:again, it's the decluttering.
Speaker:It's the declutching of the
Speaker:coercive belief that we are
Speaker:just one of a big mass of people.
Speaker:You know, like the amoeba,
Speaker:we're just in there and
Speaker:little bits of us break off
Speaker:to create another set of amoebas.
Speaker:You know,
Speaker:remember that from biology a
Speaker:hundred years ago, okay?
Speaker:But it's living our life
Speaker:understanding that each and
Speaker:every one of us has,
Speaker:it's not that we have the right,
Speaker:but we have the divine
Speaker:right to understand that we
Speaker:live our lives differently
Speaker:from each other.
Speaker:We live our divine lives at
Speaker:a different pace to Mary
Speaker:that lives next door.
Speaker:Okay?
Speaker:They have their real world.
Speaker:We have our real world.
Speaker:But we have to know that we
Speaker:have that grounding that is
Speaker:necessary to give us the
Speaker:strength to keep moving forward,
Speaker:no matter what.
Speaker:No matter what we get knocked down with,
Speaker:where we have a broken heart or we have
Speaker:sadly it may be an illness or a loss,
Speaker:we are still divine beings.
Speaker:So we have to understand
Speaker:that our state of consciousness
Speaker:is important for us to develop,
Speaker:and it's important for us
Speaker:to develop as the individual that we are.
Speaker:Your Ling energy that
Speaker:entered you at the time of
Speaker:your conception is your Qi.
Speaker:Your Qi,
Speaker:I like to describe it like it's a candle.
Speaker:And there's a flame.
Speaker:That flame can be very
Speaker:bright and it can be very
Speaker:healthy or it can dim.
Speaker:And when you allow that
Speaker:light to be snuffed out by
Speaker:other people's behavior,
Speaker:then you're going to get
Speaker:sick and sadly you're going
Speaker:to lose your life.
Speaker:But getting to the point, in conversations,
Speaker:it's all about
Speaker:decluttering even,
Speaker:decluttering all the sadness,
Speaker:all the history, all the stuff,
Speaker:but recognizing also the
Speaker:responsibility in each and
Speaker:every one of us is not to
Speaker:point a finger and say,
Speaker:that person hurt me,
Speaker:therefore I'm going to behave badly,
Speaker:or I'm going to be miserable,
Speaker:I'm gonna make everybody
Speaker:else's life miserable.
Speaker:No,
Speaker:we have to accept responsibility for
Speaker:ourselves.
Speaker:So just like everybody else,
Speaker:I've had a lot of bad
Speaker:things happen to me.
Speaker:But I came to the conclusion
Speaker:probably many years ago now that, okay,
Speaker:what was my part in this?
Speaker:And when you start to
Speaker:recognize that each and
Speaker:every one of us has had a part in it,
Speaker:it's not all that person's behavior.
Speaker:It's my behavior as well.
Speaker:And it's not me behaving badly.
Speaker:It's me allowing the other
Speaker:person to treat me badly.
Speaker:Therefore,
Speaker:I'm not honoring my own divine self,
Speaker:first and foremost.
Speaker:Now, in the Tao,
Speaker:which I talk about a lot
Speaker:and I teach a lot,
Speaker:we talk about the great integrity.
Speaker:And integrity is actually
Speaker:part of the Bagua map for feng shui,
Speaker:which is called fame.
Speaker:And I quickly tell people
Speaker:it's not about how famous
Speaker:you are or how you're going to gain fame.
Speaker:It's about your integrity.
Speaker:And it's not how you view your integrity.
Speaker:It's how the universe views
Speaker:your integrity.
Speaker:So then we go back to the Tao,
Speaker:the great integrity.
Speaker:The number one rule in the
Speaker:great integrity which Lao
Speaker:Tzu developed is you love yourself first.
Speaker:Now,
Speaker:in the coercive yang energy of the
Speaker:last five thousand years,
Speaker:we've always been taught to
Speaker:give to other people first.
Speaker:Do this, do that.
Speaker:But if you're on an airplane
Speaker:and the masks fall out of the ceiling,
Speaker:they tell you to put the
Speaker:mask on yourself first,
Speaker:then your children.
Speaker:Now, our coercive teaching is, oh,
Speaker:I put it on my children first.
Speaker:But then we risk our
Speaker:children not having a mother or a father.
Speaker:You see how this works?
Speaker:We have to love ourselves first.
Speaker:We have to put ourselves
Speaker:first so that we can
Speaker:develop that love for
Speaker:everybody around us.
Speaker:Then we have an abundance of love to give.
Speaker:And we're not resentful.
Speaker:And we're not angry.
Speaker:We're not coercively
Speaker:demanding to be made special.
Speaker:Well, it's that whole question.
Speaker:concept of, you know, my,
Speaker:I think one of my friends,
Speaker:Brent calls it self full or self rich,
Speaker:where we're not doing it in
Speaker:a selfish way.
Speaker:And you taught me this and
Speaker:I've gone through my own spaces,
Speaker:like when your cup is over full,
Speaker:then you can impart what's
Speaker:left for others rather, you know,
Speaker:I had this wrong for many
Speaker:years where it was business,
Speaker:people first, but beyond me,
Speaker:and I love giving, I love, you know me,
Speaker:we're healers, so we love doing that,
Speaker:but the energy is something that becomes
Speaker:I guess the way I would put
Speaker:is distorted in some ways
Speaker:when there's not enough for you.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And for the person.
Speaker:So I love that you said it in your way,
Speaker:because there are many ways
Speaker:to look at this.
Speaker:But the concept is true.
Speaker:A big capital T truth is like love,
Speaker:love yourself.
Speaker:fullness until you have
Speaker:enough to share with others.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And, you know,
Speaker:it's when we heal peace by listening,
Speaker:not only listening to ourselves,
Speaker:excuse me,
Speaker:but listening to people outside
Speaker:of ourselves, then we're not reacting.
Speaker:One of the worst things that we can do,
Speaker:and we all do it.
Speaker:I did it for years and years and years.
Speaker:We react to something,
Speaker:and then we desperately try
Speaker:to put it all right after we reacted.
Speaker:But Lao Tzu,
Speaker:there's a wonderful little
Speaker:verse that Lao Tzu wrote, and it says,
Speaker:the wise are heard through their silence,
Speaker:always selfful through selfishness.
Speaker:selflessness, not selfishness,
Speaker:selflessness.
Speaker:So,
Speaker:and I think that it's recognizing that
Speaker:if we take care of ourselves first,
Speaker:then we have an abundance
Speaker:of everything to give everybody else.
Speaker:And there's no reason for us
Speaker:not to because we have an
Speaker:abundance of it.
Speaker:So, you know,
Speaker:I think there's so many
Speaker:people have been so sick
Speaker:for so long simply because
Speaker:they don't have it to give anymore.
Speaker:And then they're scraping the barrel.
Speaker:You know, you can invent that saying,
Speaker:scraping the barrel,
Speaker:trying to find something to give, give,
Speaker:give, give.
Speaker:Well,
Speaker:the bank balance is empty by that time.
Speaker:You have a debit and you have a credit.
Speaker:And if it's not balanced,
Speaker:and if you're not balanced,
Speaker:and life isn't balanced,
Speaker:and feng shui is a very
Speaker:important aspect of balance,
Speaker:then you can't be you.
Speaker:You can't be yourself.
Speaker:And then,
Speaker:but do you even know who yourself is?
Speaker:And that's why in conversations,
Speaker:we start to recognize very gently,
Speaker:very gently in conversations,
Speaker:as you well know,
Speaker:we start to find our way through the maze,
Speaker:through all the garbage,
Speaker:all the decluttering.
Speaker:We're decluttering all our emotions.
Speaker:It's not therapy.
Speaker:You know,
Speaker:it's a different kind of healing.
Speaker:I like to call it spiritual healing,
Speaker:and it's not religious.
Speaker:It's a spiritual healing.
Speaker:It's recognizing that I am
Speaker:totally decluttered inside of myself,
Speaker:that it's bursting out of
Speaker:the top of my head, and I'm unwell,
Speaker:I'm angry, I'm upset,
Speaker:and all because we need to declutter.
Speaker:We need to feng shui the mind, body,
Speaker:and spirit.
Speaker:I love that you said gently, right?
Speaker:I think a lot of times then,
Speaker:especially in the West world,
Speaker:we have this pill for the ill,
Speaker:get it done,
Speaker:rip the bandaid off approach.
Speaker:And, you know,
Speaker:and so I had that thought this morning,
Speaker:anticipating this conversation,
Speaker:thinking about the journey
Speaker:that I've taken and that
Speaker:we've had and shared
Speaker:together and thinking about,
Speaker:how do you talk to someone?
Speaker:Cause I have this too, when I,
Speaker:in my coaching and the
Speaker:people that I mentor and
Speaker:coach that work with me is there is this,
Speaker:this, well,
Speaker:I want to get into the mantra that I,
Speaker:you've shared with me, but is the,
Speaker:the concept of like allowing
Speaker:it to unfold rather than
Speaker:being so caught up with making it happen.
Speaker:Does that make sense?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:It's the push less, allow more.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:I wanted you to say it.
Speaker:So I borrowed that for many years and it's,
Speaker:it's deepened my experience
Speaker:in life and spiritually those,
Speaker:those simple four words have,
Speaker:have had such a pronoun, uh,
Speaker:definition for me in my life
Speaker:and ever expanding so talk
Speaker:to us a little bit about
Speaker:the con the those four
Speaker:words those four words
Speaker:multiply over and over and
Speaker:over again it's it's really
Speaker:fascinating and I like to
Speaker:write the push less
Speaker:on the top line and then a
Speaker:gap and then underneath
Speaker:allow more and as you study
Speaker:the push less you know
Speaker:there's a whole range of
Speaker:emotions come through like
Speaker:you know do I push should I
Speaker:not push should I give up
Speaker:should I do this should I
Speaker:do that but just allow
Speaker:Allow more.
Speaker:Allow more for yourself.
Speaker:Allow more for the other person.
Speaker:Allow this.
Speaker:Allow that.
Speaker:And I think those four words
Speaker:are so incredibly powerful that, you know,
Speaker:even now,
Speaker:I still often bring them up for myself.
Speaker:even though obviously I've
Speaker:taught the push less,
Speaker:allow more over and over
Speaker:again to so many people.
Speaker:And to be honest with you,
Speaker:I don't even know where they came from.
Speaker:I don't know where those
Speaker:four words came from,
Speaker:but it's sort of like a big gato cake.
Speaker:There are many, many, many,
Speaker:many layers in those two sets of words,
Speaker:push less, allow more.
Speaker:And I think if you sort of
Speaker:stick that up on your desk
Speaker:or on your fridge or in your car even,
Speaker:you sort of give yourself
Speaker:permission that you don't
Speaker:have to keep pushing if you
Speaker:have to keep pushing so
Speaker:hard you know then you need
Speaker:to be pushing somewhere
Speaker:else you know you can't
Speaker:move that car if the brake
Speaker:is still on no matter how
Speaker:hard you push it and you
Speaker:know allow yourself time to
Speaker:stop and take a break and
Speaker:be nice to yourself you
Speaker:know that's that's you
Speaker:honoring your divine self
Speaker:But then all the push less,
Speaker:allow more sort of also
Speaker:works into many aspects.
Speaker:We're back.
Speaker:There.
Speaker:Okay, we're back.
Speaker:We had a little technical difficulty,
Speaker:but now we're back.
Speaker:Welcome back,
Speaker:part two of this beautiful
Speaker:decluttering conversation with Feng Shui.
Speaker:Hey, maybe we just needed an intermission.
Speaker:Yeah, we needed a break.
Speaker:We were trying to declutter
Speaker:some things maybe.
Speaker:We were deep in our
Speaker:conversation when we got
Speaker:technical difficulties on their push less,
Speaker:allow more conversation.
Speaker:Did you want to continue
Speaker:down that path of how
Speaker:that's deepened for you?
Speaker:I was in such a flow and I can't remember.
Speaker:where I flew to.
Speaker:So anyway,
Speaker:I think the push less allow more.
Speaker:You're probably going to edit this anyway.
Speaker:I think those four little words are very,
Speaker:very important because they
Speaker:give us license,
Speaker:they give us breathing
Speaker:space to really look at the
Speaker:power of those four words.
Speaker:You know, pushing, we push, push, push,
Speaker:push because that's our coercive nature.
Speaker:That's how we've been taught
Speaker:to behave in that way.
Speaker:And in honoring our ancestors,
Speaker:we continue to do so and
Speaker:have done so now for the
Speaker:last five thousand years.
Speaker:And that's the yang energy, the yin yang.
Speaker:It's the yang energy is to
Speaker:push and force and demand.
Speaker:and and it's the male energy
Speaker:that's not to say that I've
Speaker:got anything against men I
Speaker:absolutely do not but we
Speaker:all even females have a lot
Speaker:of male energy but as we
Speaker:push push push push we
Speaker:forget to recognize that we
Speaker:don't need to we can actually stop and
Speaker:One of the most important things to learn,
Speaker:most important thing I've
Speaker:ever learned is not to react.
Speaker:And that's a really,
Speaker:really hard one because
Speaker:we're already formalizing
Speaker:in our minds what we're
Speaker:going to say before the
Speaker:other person's still in the
Speaker:middle of their argument.
Speaker:So we react and that's a
Speaker:complete waste of time and
Speaker:a complete waste of our energy.
Speaker:So if we can learn not to push,
Speaker:in that sense but to push
Speaker:for the right things not
Speaker:the wrong things that will
Speaker:make that will help us deal
Speaker:with the grounding that we
Speaker:need for peaceful living so
Speaker:the push less so push less
Speaker:by all means allow more is
Speaker:allowing not only ourselves
Speaker:to have grace for ourselves,
Speaker:but to have grace for the
Speaker:situation as it arises.
Speaker:So there are many,
Speaker:many ways that push less,
Speaker:allow more can be used and
Speaker:operated and considered and
Speaker:thought about.
Speaker:And it's really up to the
Speaker:individual to work those
Speaker:four little words out and
Speaker:use them as a guideline for themselves.
Speaker:But there is a lovely little
Speaker:saying that from this pain,
Speaker:when you get enough pain from this,
Speaker:this gives you enough to blossom.
Speaker:And I think that's the allow
Speaker:more of those four little words,
Speaker:that little mantra.
Speaker:Yeah, I've used them for many,
Speaker:many years now.
Speaker:And like I said, it's deepened for me.
Speaker:It deepens as time grows.
Speaker:And part of that process is
Speaker:to allow for what I've been
Speaker:calling divine timing.
Speaker:Sometimes as visionaries and
Speaker:entrepreneurs and go-getters and moving,
Speaker:you see where things are going.
Speaker:But sometimes that...
Speaker:timing of it manifesting
Speaker:into realities or it
Speaker:becoming a reality takes a
Speaker:different time frame.
Speaker:And that's just something
Speaker:that I've learned over the time.
Speaker:And the other, the other thing that I,
Speaker:that deepened for me probably maybe,
Speaker:I don't know how long ago,
Speaker:but when I think we had a
Speaker:conversation and it was like this big aha,
Speaker:where he had his like,
Speaker:push less does not mean don't push.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:We always we have to take action,
Speaker:but we also have to allow
Speaker:for whatever's to unfold.
Speaker:So to me, it's really balancing.
Speaker:There's never really balance.
Speaker:I feel I think it's just
Speaker:understanding that
Speaker:sometimes we may be pushing too much.
Speaker:We need to push a little less,
Speaker:take foot off the gas,
Speaker:and sometimes we need to allow more.
Speaker:and let things unfold naturally.
Speaker:And I think, like you said,
Speaker:it's one of those things
Speaker:that I've kept close and
Speaker:dear to my heart and my being,
Speaker:because it is one of those
Speaker:things where you're never
Speaker:going to solve that equation.
Speaker:It's just something that's
Speaker:going to deepen over time.
Speaker:And I think once you
Speaker:It's just like the journey, right?
Speaker:When we're on this journey
Speaker:of life and consciousness, there's,
Speaker:there's the onion that unfolds,
Speaker:but it never, it never ends.
Speaker:And when I think when you
Speaker:can sit with that, with, with the, the,
Speaker:the, the mindset or the energies of,
Speaker:and that's okay,
Speaker:that's actually a good thing.
Speaker:Then it becomes a lot easier.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's, I think, um,
Speaker:I think one of the important
Speaker:things is recognizing, yes,
Speaker:you're absolutely right about,
Speaker:it doesn't mean not taking action.
Speaker:It doesn't mean just sitting
Speaker:there like a blob.
Speaker:and not having self-worth.
Speaker:But it is about action
Speaker:equals energy equals positive energy.
Speaker:So ultimately,
Speaker:it has to be to a positive place.
Speaker:And that positive place
Speaker:allows that cycle of
Speaker:positive energy to move in
Speaker:the same direction as the planet,
Speaker:as the universe.
Speaker:We move in a particular direction.
Speaker:If we're pushing against that energy,
Speaker:then things are going to become,
Speaker:are going to become unraveled.
Speaker:So it's not accepting our
Speaker:lot and just saying, oh, well, okay, well,
Speaker:I'm not going to try anymore.
Speaker:It's really sort of sitting at it.
Speaker:And as you know, Josh,
Speaker:I like to teach people to
Speaker:look at things from a different angle.
Speaker:Sometimes it's just a
Speaker:different angle that we need to look at,
Speaker:not keep pushing in the same direction,
Speaker:which is a negative.
Speaker:So I was listening to
Speaker:something on Gaia recently,
Speaker:and I think it was on Gaia.
Speaker:This man had had a stroke, a young man,
Speaker:and he had two little girls, I believe.
Speaker:I won't say his name because
Speaker:I haven't got his permission.
Speaker:But what struck me out of
Speaker:the whole documentary was him saying,
Speaker:the stroke was a necessary
Speaker:purge for learning.
Speaker:And he's paralyzed from the neck down.
Speaker:He's beginning to walk now,
Speaker:but for years and years,
Speaker:he was paralyzed from the neck down.
Speaker:And that's another thing to
Speaker:bear in mind is why is this happening?
Speaker:Why is something happening to me?
Speaker:What is my part?
Speaker:What is my responsibility in this?
Speaker:And that's a very important
Speaker:aspect as well.
Speaker:We can always point fingers and blame,
Speaker:but we have to look at what
Speaker:is... I always say to myself, okay,
Speaker:what's my part in this?
Speaker:What did I do?
Speaker:What didn't I do?
Speaker:What's my responsibility in
Speaker:this situation?
Speaker:Because that's all we really own, right?
Speaker:And I think that's a beautiful thing.
Speaker:It's like pointing the fingers inward,
Speaker:you know, versus...
Speaker:Pointing that we can always
Speaker:look for the outside world affecting us.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:But when we point our
Speaker:fingers inward is that the
Speaker:phrase I use a lot that
Speaker:helps for sure is because, you know,
Speaker:there is no there.
Speaker:everything is for some level
Speaker:of purpose and sometimes we
Speaker:don't that purpose or that
Speaker:reasoning or that learning
Speaker:doesn't unfold right away
Speaker:again and there's some
Speaker:things that have happened
Speaker:in my life over this past
Speaker:year you know you've been
Speaker:through this journey with
Speaker:me but like some things have unfolded
Speaker:just at the right time like
Speaker:you know sometimes you have
Speaker:a like you said a piece of
Speaker:art or some level of
Speaker:something where you knew
Speaker:you wanted it is there and
Speaker:then for some reason it's
Speaker:its purpose reveals to you
Speaker:right and and so sometimes
Speaker:we don't have that again
Speaker:that's that allow more
Speaker:peace which I love we're
Speaker:deep diving in this because
Speaker:sometimes we don't know and I I think
Speaker:what,
Speaker:what is my part is the other thing is
Speaker:like,
Speaker:what am I supposed to be learning here?
Speaker:When I say that to myself in any situation,
Speaker:whether it's deemed good or
Speaker:bad or negative or positive,
Speaker:it's what am I supposed to learn here?
Speaker:Because everything is a
Speaker:learning experiment and
Speaker:everything is happens for a reason.
Speaker:Like you said,
Speaker:your friend or your acquaintance,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:unfortunate things can happen,
Speaker:but they're there for a
Speaker:reason for us to learn
Speaker:something at that timeline, you know?
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Well,
Speaker:and I think that brings us back to
Speaker:finding the source.
Speaker:Finding the source of what does this mean?
Speaker:What does it represent?
Speaker:Now,
Speaker:we can do all kinds of things with
Speaker:feng shui to allow the
Speaker:energy to flow in a way
Speaker:that declutters us from so much of this.
Speaker:As a feng shui master,
Speaker:I've seen just about everything.
Speaker:But I think it's also
Speaker:recognizing that what's the
Speaker:message in this?
Speaker:What can I do?
Speaker:What's the source of this problem?
Speaker:It's not Ethel.
Speaker:Ethel didn't steal my bagel
Speaker:and run away with it.
Speaker:What's the source of that reason?
Speaker:Maybe she was hungry.
Speaker:Maybe I could have been more generous.
Speaker:But it's going to the source
Speaker:of the push less, allow more.
Speaker:It's going to the source of
Speaker:our own being and
Speaker:recognizing that we are
Speaker:filled with wisdom.
Speaker:we are absolutely
Speaker:chock-a-block full of
Speaker:wisdom we were born with
Speaker:this wisdom but by the age
Speaker:of seven we had forgotten
Speaker:it because we wanted to fit
Speaker:in and you know all of this
Speaker:I'm not telling you
Speaker:anything you don't know but
Speaker:there are some people that
Speaker:don't know it that they
Speaker:reckon they think that the
Speaker:whole world is against them but you know
Speaker:If we actually go back to
Speaker:the source of our being,
Speaker:we begin to understand why
Speaker:all of this has a purpose.
Speaker:And we weren't just born to
Speaker:do something like, I don't know,
Speaker:sweep floors or make pills.
Speaker:We're actually here to learn
Speaker:and we're actually here to recognize
Speaker:our part in the makeup of
Speaker:the planet as it is right
Speaker:now in this very moment
Speaker:what's my purpose and once
Speaker:I know what my purpose is
Speaker:then I can I can do it I
Speaker:don't have to be confined
Speaker:Oh,
Speaker:I can't do that because I don't have
Speaker:any training.
Speaker:I didn't go to school.
Speaker:I didn't do this.
Speaker:I didn't do that.
Speaker:So, you know,
Speaker:I'm just going to give up and
Speaker:become a blob until the
Speaker:time comes for me to die.
Speaker:No, life is not a bitch and then you die.
Speaker:That's exactly what it's not.
Speaker:Life is about learning.
Speaker:No matter what we want to
Speaker:learn or what we don't want to learn,
Speaker:we will learn whether we like it or not.
Speaker:So we might as well go
Speaker:halfway to accepting it.
Speaker:So we push less and we allow more.
Speaker:Well, and the thing is, you know,
Speaker:you brought up a good point is like,
Speaker:we're here to learn, we're here to grow,
Speaker:we're here to expand.
Speaker:My question is,
Speaker:we've had this conversation
Speaker:many times off recordings for sure,
Speaker:is you mentioned that five
Speaker:thousand year cycle.
Speaker:Well,
Speaker:where are we in our
Speaker:consciousness now because
Speaker:you you seem to be have
Speaker:this excitability when we
Speaker:talk about these topics now
Speaker:because why now like why
Speaker:why is humanity ready for
Speaker:expanding beyond the
Speaker:physical and into these
Speaker:realms of understanding
Speaker:energy and intuition and
Speaker:and moving from not just
Speaker:the intellect but into this
Speaker:intelligence that like you
Speaker:said that is untapped because
Speaker:We've forgotten it because
Speaker:it's always been there.
Speaker:And, you know,
Speaker:the sages and the gurus of the world,
Speaker:there's like, you're,
Speaker:you're already there.
Speaker:And,
Speaker:and so talk to me a little bit about
Speaker:why now,
Speaker:why is consciousness moving in
Speaker:this direction?
Speaker:And why is,
Speaker:why do you think humanity is ready for,
Speaker:for moving beyond?
Speaker:This is beyond the pills, right?
Speaker:Beyond.
Speaker:It is beyond the pill.
Speaker:And I think that's, um,
Speaker:You know, my mother used to say something.
Speaker:If we were naughty, she'd say,
Speaker:now this is beyond a joke.
Speaker:That just came into my mind
Speaker:when you said that about why now?
Speaker:And I think it's because
Speaker:it's beyond a joke.
Speaker:You know, I think people are recognizing,
Speaker:oh, just a minute.
Speaker:You know, I don't have to accept this.
Speaker:This is not what life is
Speaker:supposed to be about.
Speaker:Life is meant to be filled with joy.
Speaker:we can,
Speaker:and gurus have been saying this for
Speaker:hundreds of years now,
Speaker:we can sacrifice the suffering.
Speaker:This is absolutely our choice.
Speaker:And we can choose to go one way,
Speaker:or we can choose to go the other way.
Speaker:We keep going back to push less,
Speaker:allow more.
Speaker:So the more I allow myself to
Speaker:have an open mind and an
Speaker:open heart and let's go
Speaker:back to the very beginning
Speaker:of this is this five
Speaker:thousand years of coercive
Speaker:energy was based on brain
Speaker:and just brain yeah heart
Speaker:was not even considered for
Speaker:the last five thousand
Speaker:years secretly we all kept our hearts
Speaker:but now people are beginning
Speaker:to recognize you know what
Speaker:the heart was here first
Speaker:the heart was here before
Speaker:the brain okay feelings and
Speaker:thoughtfulness loving
Speaker:kindness was here before
Speaker:all of this other stuff
Speaker:took over so the last five
Speaker:thousand years of coercive
Speaker:yang energy is the reason
Speaker:why now people are
Speaker:beginning to say I'm done
Speaker:I'm done with all this misery.
Speaker:I'm done with all this unkindness.
Speaker:And yes, we're still an awful lot to do,
Speaker:but there are an awful lot
Speaker:of people on this planet
Speaker:who are working very, very hard.
Speaker:You know,
Speaker:I've been watching it now for many,
Speaker:many years, just working very,
Speaker:very hard in doing the best
Speaker:they can to be decent, loving,
Speaker:kind people.
Speaker:It's far more of them than the other.
Speaker:let's call them the other, okay?
Speaker:The ones that are cruel and
Speaker:vindictive and grabbing and greedy,
Speaker:you know, their lifespan, I think, as,
Speaker:I'm not saying as a people,
Speaker:but as an energy is
Speaker:beginning to be weakened.
Speaker:There are far more people who want
Speaker:peace and harmony,
Speaker:then there are people who
Speaker:want to maintain power.
Speaker:And I think that's very supportive.
Speaker:And I think it's, I love the idea of it.
Speaker:And that's what I work for
Speaker:on a daily basis.
Speaker:You know,
Speaker:the more kindness that we can
Speaker:show each other.
Speaker:I've noticed, I mean,
Speaker:I don't go out and about
Speaker:that much anymore,
Speaker:but I have noticed that
Speaker:Like the other day,
Speaker:somebody took me to the
Speaker:supermarket so I could have a walk around,
Speaker:see what I wanted them to
Speaker:get for me on my shopping list.
Speaker:So many people smiled at me and said,
Speaker:hello.
Speaker:I don't remember that four years ago.
Speaker:But more and more people are doing it.
Speaker:And I think more and more
Speaker:people are beginning to
Speaker:recognize that we have to
Speaker:stop all this misery.
Speaker:We can sacrifice the misery,
Speaker:sacrifice the suffering.
Speaker:Well,
Speaker:I think it's important because it's
Speaker:expansion.
Speaker:And I think that's the piece
Speaker:that we're talking about here is,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:humanity has gotten out of
Speaker:survival mode and out of
Speaker:these centers of survival and, you know,
Speaker:fight or flight.
Speaker:Like we still need those
Speaker:mechanisms in place,
Speaker:but we're moving beyond
Speaker:that and into the age of,
Speaker:out of the age of
Speaker:information and into the
Speaker:age of intelligence,
Speaker:this super intelligence,
Speaker:and we're not talking AI here,
Speaker:we're talking
Speaker:The intelligence we've always known,
Speaker:the information that's
Speaker:always been there is moving
Speaker:into the heart and it's not woo only.
Speaker:There's science into this
Speaker:where humanity is moving
Speaker:towards wholeness,
Speaker:towards a unified space and
Speaker:moving their consciousness,
Speaker:or if you can call it energy,
Speaker:you can call it vibration.
Speaker:It's really all the same.
Speaker:We're talking in this space
Speaker:of moving beyond those survival, power,
Speaker:greed, money,
Speaker:and we're seeing that doubling down,
Speaker:I think.
Speaker:Big pharma, big food,
Speaker:these spaces where the old
Speaker:and the new kind of philosophies of life,
Speaker:it's not or.
Speaker:I feel like the word and is
Speaker:appropriate here.
Speaker:We need those things.
Speaker:And an and has been one of
Speaker:those words that's had
Speaker:another many layers to it in my life.
Speaker:It's not duality.
Speaker:It's not or.
Speaker:It's this and.
Speaker:We're moving up.
Speaker:We're moving out of this and
Speaker:into this space of being, not doing.
Speaker:Because we are human beings.
Speaker:We're not human beings.
Speaker:doers.
Speaker:We do, do, do, but then all of a sudden,
Speaker:the outside world just
Speaker:doesn't feel like we have
Speaker:all this level of success.
Speaker:Then all of a sudden, we're not whole.
Speaker:We don't feel right.
Speaker:There's something missing.
Speaker:That missing is that wholeness.
Speaker:That's what we're talking about, I think,
Speaker:in this eloquent,
Speaker:nice way of we're not vilifying anybody,
Speaker:but we're moving beyond the
Speaker:the archaic things that have
Speaker:been around for a while
Speaker:it's just we're moving
Speaker:beyond that and I feel like
Speaker:this is the time you and
Speaker:I've had lots of
Speaker:conversations this is why
Speaker:uh one of my friends calls
Speaker:it the conscious avengers
Speaker:like the people that are
Speaker:out there building these
Speaker:bridge towards a better way
Speaker:of living a better way of
Speaker:life a better way of humanity
Speaker:because I think we are ready.
Speaker:I think our species,
Speaker:our evolution of humanity
Speaker:has gotten us to this place
Speaker:where I also think this is
Speaker:why it's a little sticky.
Speaker:I use the caterpillar
Speaker:turning into the butterfly analogy,
Speaker:like we're the chrysalis.
Speaker:We're in the middle, right?
Speaker:We're moving from
Speaker:This age of information and
Speaker:into intelligence and this
Speaker:new and beautiful ways of
Speaker:expanding our consciousness
Speaker:and and growing in ways
Speaker:that we can use this
Speaker:beautiful brain of ours
Speaker:beyond just the
Speaker:intelligence we have today and.
Speaker:We're right there in the middle of it,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:What's in that middle, right?
Speaker:That bunch of goo that doesn't know,
Speaker:but somehow energy and love
Speaker:and what all that stuff
Speaker:does is it emerges into the
Speaker:beautiful butterfly and
Speaker:that becomes transformation.
Speaker:I think that's a great analogy.
Speaker:I think it's often, you know,
Speaker:it does get overlooked.
Speaker:I mean,
Speaker:the caterpillar was eating its way
Speaker:into oblivion, if you like,
Speaker:ignoring everything that
Speaker:was going on and just
Speaker:munching away and causing
Speaker:all that damage and havoc.
Speaker:But as far as he was concerned,
Speaker:or it was concerned, he or she, it,
Speaker:is basically providing for itself.
Speaker:And then suddenly it finds
Speaker:this need to cocoon and become this goo.
Speaker:And eventually, and the struggle that that
Speaker:the butterfly has in getting
Speaker:out of the cocoon is where we are,
Speaker:I think, as a humanity right now.
Speaker:There are lots of people in cocoons.
Speaker:They don't really know
Speaker:what's going on inside, which is really,
Speaker:really sad.
Speaker:But it's that unconditional
Speaker:love and coming to a place of love.
Speaker:And that means going back to our hearts
Speaker:not not the machine that's
Speaker:pumping blood around our
Speaker:bodies that's obviously an
Speaker:important part but that
Speaker:heart where we really look
Speaker:at ourselves and understand
Speaker:what's my part in all of
Speaker:this what am I doing to to
Speaker:improve everybody's lives
Speaker:outside of my own circle I
Speaker:can't keep munching on on
Speaker:the the leaves and creating
Speaker:havoc as a caterpillar when am I going to
Speaker:come into the cocoon of
Speaker:knowing that there's
Speaker:something more than just this.
Speaker:There's something more.
Speaker:And everybody's beginning to see it.
Speaker:I say everybody.
Speaker:I know there are some people
Speaker:who absolutely have no clue,
Speaker:but all we can do is put
Speaker:out conditional love for them.
Speaker:Unconditional love, I should say.
Speaker:And just that force of loving energy
Speaker:that thousands and thousands of people,
Speaker:you know, I mean,
Speaker:all these big groups of
Speaker:meditation and they have been for many,
Speaker:many years.
Speaker:We can change that energy
Speaker:and that energy is slowly shifting.
Speaker:And no matter what's going on politically,
Speaker:you know, all over the world,
Speaker:it's not just here,
Speaker:it's all over the world.
Speaker:That's the coercive energy
Speaker:that is slowly disintegrating.
Speaker:And that's where we need to
Speaker:consider that in the meantime,
Speaker:all of us in our little cocoons,
Speaker:are we ready to step up and be loving,
Speaker:kind, thoughtful beings in the future?
Speaker:And I believe that.
Speaker:I truly do because I see it too,
Speaker:more and more conversations I'm having.
Speaker:I think people, you know,
Speaker:whether you want to call it
Speaker:an awakening or a realization is,
Speaker:I think,
Speaker:And you said it right.
Speaker:Like I've been in these
Speaker:meditation groups where
Speaker:thousands and hundreds of
Speaker:thousands of people are all
Speaker:changing the energy and you
Speaker:can actually they they they
Speaker:actually measure this.
Speaker:They see the energy shifts,
Speaker:which is really cool for my
Speaker:analytical brain.
Speaker:But the energy does have
Speaker:like we can shift energy.
Speaker:humanity's energy with with
Speaker:with the singular approach
Speaker:we take and I feel like
Speaker:that's a big lesson for me
Speaker:and for everybody is to we
Speaker:can only affect what we do
Speaker:right is what we do which
Speaker:affects the whole and and
Speaker:that that convergence
Speaker:happens well there's you
Speaker:know and it's seeing what's
Speaker:inside of of you you know
Speaker:that's accepting the
Speaker:responsibility for ourselves
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:seeing what's inside and let go
Speaker:the thoughts and find the quietness.
Speaker:And it's in those moments
Speaker:that we actually go, okay,
Speaker:what can I do to improve?
Speaker:Again,
Speaker:let's go back to the great integrity.
Speaker:What can I do to make my
Speaker:life more loving and kind
Speaker:inside of me first so that
Speaker:I can be loving and kind
Speaker:for people outside of me?
Speaker:And listening,
Speaker:what you said was really
Speaker:beautiful is the pause, right?
Speaker:The pause of the non-doing
Speaker:is when the voice comes, right?
Speaker:And a lot of the times we're
Speaker:stuck on the phone,
Speaker:we're doing all these
Speaker:things and there's no
Speaker:intentionality around
Speaker:non-doing these days.
Speaker:And I feel like that the
Speaker:more I sit and wait and
Speaker:pause and do the things
Speaker:that I need to do to quiet down,
Speaker:Then that's when the downloads come.
Speaker:That's when the intuition comes in.
Speaker:That's when the harmony and
Speaker:the beautiful ideas come
Speaker:through rather than always
Speaker:being plugged in.
Speaker:And I've been reading a lot
Speaker:about this and seeing a lot about this.
Speaker:This is why we call it like
Speaker:going out in nature and
Speaker:pausing and putting space
Speaker:in your calendar to literally be.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Go and hug a tree.
Speaker:I know it sounds,
Speaker:people used to laugh at that years ago,
Speaker:but now people are going, Oh, you know,
Speaker:you'll get it.
Speaker:You're giving and receiving
Speaker:in hugging a tree.
Speaker:We all are connected, right?
Speaker:Everything is connected and,
Speaker:and we don't sense it with our minds.
Speaker:That's the point is,
Speaker:is even if you just don't
Speaker:even are aware and you're
Speaker:in your forest bathing or
Speaker:you're in nature, you know, it's,
Speaker:It's the disconnect.
Speaker:I read this the other day
Speaker:was we are sixty percent
Speaker:less connected to nature
Speaker:than we ever have been in
Speaker:our in our cycle because of
Speaker:all the things that are
Speaker:keeping us out of alignment
Speaker:and plugged into non-reality, I guess.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And that's coercive.
Speaker:But we know it's a gift to be human.
Speaker:So we have the power,
Speaker:we have that power to
Speaker:unplug if we want to.
Speaker:It's always a choice, right?
Speaker:It's the choice we make.
Speaker:That's right.
Speaker:I want to switch gears
Speaker:because we're almost at our time space.
Speaker:I wish we had more.
Speaker:I want to ask you a question.
Speaker:What's one simple but
Speaker:powerful shift any listener
Speaker:could make right now in
Speaker:their lives to bring more
Speaker:harmony and more positive
Speaker:energy into their life?
Speaker:One thing.
Speaker:That's a hard one.
Speaker:Whatever comes to mind.
Speaker:Well,
Speaker:I feel that we should each and every
Speaker:one of us take care of
Speaker:ourselves and be
Speaker:responsible for ourselves first.
Speaker:And I'm a big believer in
Speaker:that because if I am upset
Speaker:about something,
Speaker:then it's my responsibility
Speaker:to find the solace or solace that I need.
Speaker:And that means stepping
Speaker:outside nine times out of ten.
Speaker:I've got this beautiful pond, et cetera.
Speaker:You know,
Speaker:I spend a lot of time outside in nature,
Speaker:just, just being,
Speaker:just literally being in nature,
Speaker:not doing anything.
Speaker:I'm not walking a marathon anymore.
Speaker:That would be nice.
Speaker:I'm not, you know,
Speaker:I'm not doing marathons anymore.
Speaker:I'm not sailing.
Speaker:I'm not running.
Speaker:I'm not jumping.
Speaker:I'm just being in nature.
Speaker:And just,
Speaker:if we can learn just to be in our
Speaker:own selves,
Speaker:Even if it means that you can't,
Speaker:if you live in the city,
Speaker:if you can find a little park somewhere,
Speaker:then just be in nature.
Speaker:If you have a balcony, just sit,
Speaker:be in nature.
Speaker:It's all around us.
Speaker:Nobody's taking it away.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:And that's what I did this morning.
Speaker:I have my morning ritual, as you know.
Speaker:And I have a little balcony and I just,
Speaker:it's almost like a little treetop.
Speaker:I sit and watch all my trees
Speaker:and the beautiful sky.
Speaker:And I just sit.
Speaker:I sit.
Speaker:I don't even contemplate.
Speaker:I just sit and be.
Speaker:Just be.
Speaker:It's so therapeutic.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So I love that.
Speaker:And don't forget the
Speaker:butterfly can pollinate,
Speaker:a caterpillar cannot.
Speaker:That's a deepening of my
Speaker:analogy I hadn't really thought of.
Speaker:There we go.
Speaker:As we become the beautiful
Speaker:butterflies that we all are,
Speaker:then we can spread this goodness.
Speaker:We can give and receive.
Speaker:We can receive it and we can give it,
Speaker:which is the basis of feng
Speaker:shui is giving and receiving.
Speaker:Sid,
Speaker:what do you most hope people will feel
Speaker:and carry with them from your work?
Speaker:Um, peace and tranquility.
Speaker:I thought, you know, that's, that's,
Speaker:that's my goal is for
Speaker:people not to be suffering.
Speaker:And a lot of our suffering
Speaker:we do to ourselves.
Speaker:I recognize that.
Speaker:I recognize a lot of my
Speaker:learnings from my experiences.
Speaker:I had a part in it.
Speaker:But getting to that place of
Speaker:peaceful tranquility, I think,
Speaker:is the goal.
Speaker:You know,
Speaker:I'm knocking on the door of my
Speaker:eighties very soon,
Speaker:which is hard to imagine.
Speaker:And the more
Speaker:I do so,
Speaker:the more I recognize that I'm
Speaker:still in a hurry to spread
Speaker:this peacefulness to everybody.
Speaker:And there are plenty of
Speaker:opportunities for people to do so.
Speaker:There are plenty of people
Speaker:doing what I'm doing.
Speaker:But just open up your hearts to receive.
Speaker:It's so simple,
Speaker:but I also recognize how
Speaker:incredibly hard it can be if we resist.
Speaker:So don't resist.
Speaker:I think that's the allowing
Speaker:part that we all can learn
Speaker:from every day.
Speaker:We all resist and attach to
Speaker:things and allowing them to
Speaker:be unattached and to not be
Speaker:attached is such a
Speaker:beautiful thing and to just
Speaker:allow things to come the
Speaker:way they're supposed to.
Speaker:because that's how I've
Speaker:lived life for a long time,
Speaker:and you've helped me in many ways.
Speaker:You work with people,
Speaker:but you also work with
Speaker:organizations and
Speaker:businesses on these goals.
Speaker:concepts and moving these
Speaker:things energetically not
Speaker:only for businesses and
Speaker:professionals but for
Speaker:people so um we'll share
Speaker:with how on the the links
Speaker:here and how people can get
Speaker:in touch with you in case
Speaker:they want to learn more or
Speaker:want to have a beautiful
Speaker:conversation okay I'm
Speaker:always open for a
Speaker:conversation I think you
Speaker:know the more we can share
Speaker:with each other
Speaker:The more we can learn about each other,
Speaker:because we you know we do
Speaker:need rather isolated lives
Speaker:and especially.
Speaker:You know a lot of people are
Speaker:now self employed or
Speaker:they're working from home
Speaker:or in different professions
Speaker:and they set out to be,
Speaker:which I think is a good thing.
Speaker:You know,
Speaker:I think the more that we move
Speaker:away from the coercive
Speaker:energy and it's happening,
Speaker:and I'm very excited about that.
Speaker:I have seen a huge change in
Speaker:the last thirty years and
Speaker:it's escalating now.
Speaker:People are recognizing that
Speaker:they don't have to be
Speaker:lawyers and judges and all
Speaker:those kinds of things.
Speaker:There's another part of life
Speaker:that they can really love and enjoy.
Speaker:If they want to plant trees
Speaker:or they want to make pottery, then do it.
Speaker:Who said you can't do it?
Speaker:Well, I know who said you can't do it,
Speaker:your ancestors.
Speaker:But, you know,
Speaker:we are people in our own
Speaker:right and we're loving, kind,
Speaker:generous people, all of us.
Speaker:Even those that we don't see
Speaker:as that down inside,
Speaker:that's who they are as well.
Speaker:Thank you for that.
Speaker:It's such a beautiful
Speaker:Such a beautiful time to always have good,
Speaker:beautiful conversations with you.
Speaker:Thank you for sharing this
Speaker:wonderful conversation with the world,
Speaker:I guess,
Speaker:in the way and manner in which you shine.
Speaker:So you've been a real big
Speaker:part of my life and journey.
Speaker:And I thank you from the
Speaker:bottom of my heart, my friend.
Speaker:And I thank you for walking
Speaker:this journey with me, Josh.
Speaker:It's been a lot of fun.
Speaker:And I hope it goes on a lot longer.
Speaker:Yes, I believe.
Speaker:It's a lot to learn, yeah.
Speaker:For sure.
Speaker:For sure.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:That's a wrap, guys.
Speaker:Thank you, Josh.
Speaker:Thank you, Sid.
Speaker:It's been such a fun time.
Speaker:Until next time, stay well.
Speaker:You too.
Speaker:Bless you.
Speaker:Bye.
