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Monday Mar 30, 2020
Monday Mar 30, 2020
How To Overcome The Negative Influence of Others
Why Do we let others Dim our Light? Why do we let others opinions influence who we are and how we act and interact with others? Why do we let society police our behaviours and actions?
This is something I continue daily asking myself and continue daily working on for my self to continue to elevate into the person I am meant to be and am becoming.
Even after all these years of training and looking inwards and overcoming all the programming (sorry still trying to overcome) and all the pre hardwiring in my mind, I have found myself down playing my actions and who I am to either please, appease and or keep the peace with others I have chosen to work with, be around or partnered up with.
I say this out loud to myself and each one of you, UNACCEPTABLE! This Is No Way To LIVE - Life is to short to Dim YouR LIGHT for anyone...ever...PERIOD!
If they do not respect you enough, or respect who you are, then why would any of us ever choose to be around them???
It's them who are fearful, worried and care about what others think, so they use that fear to try to influence us into the NORAML BOX, that they have accepted!
F that and F them!! NEVER EVER STOP BEING YOU!!
With Love~
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Sunday Mar 29, 2020
Sunday Mar 29, 2020
Real Men Spartans and Corna Virus 2020 And Beyond
This is Sparta, do you remember the movie 300?
Yes, I know it was just a movie, however there is a small factor of truth from that movie, the fact that all civilization, all ancient cultures had a group of men a group of warriors who rose up and protected the tribe.
These men, (and yes absolutely if you dig deep enough there were even tribes of females that were bad ass monsters who protected their tribes, family and or group) but the fact being they had a mentality they had a will and a duty to survive and thrive.
In the current times we are in, wow are we in the gutter to say the least, men are mainly lost puppies that can not make a decision unless the women in their life does it for them. So first off it is a fact that women are the mentally stronger group currently (again this is not every single man or every single female, but in gereral).
The military men types I train with...boss, I mean unreal strength mentally and physically, but outside that most men I know are in their 30's and still living in mama's basement and mama paying the bills, and so be it right.
Having said that so who the phuck is going to lead during these trying times? Not those sissies rite!!!
Most of the physical trainning I do is mostly women demographically, and again of course there are men, lots of men, but the majority are women...bad ass women who run shit! Boy I love it and I love their strength and beauty. They will lead!
The main thing to understand in this time the time where we all as humans need to level up, show up, excel, overcome, thrive and survive, the ones who have been babied, or to call it what it is are soft as shit, will be left behind. We need leaders, we need strong ass humans to push forward.
Step up, stand up, and take what is yours...empower oursleves! Lets go!!
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Saturday Mar 28, 2020
Saturday Mar 28, 2020
Bare Foot And Learing The Ancient Ways The Simple Things
I am super tired of all the weekend warriors out there who take a course (which is amazing by the way, love the fact we are all trying to better ourselves) but so so so so many of the students and practitioners I run into seem to think that there is this elaborate spiritual hierarchy that only a few people get to experience.
Absolute BS! There are no better there are no worse, there is only those who do, an those who sorta do, and then those who fake it!
So one of my biggest lesson on this last ancient session I was on, was so so simple that it actually shook something in my core, the saying IT IS THE SIMPLE THINGS, rang very true.
So remember it is the Simple Things.
I was the last one in line on our hike the "old timer" the man who has had the ancient knowledge passed down to him in his line of lineage, stopped me at the trail head and said "You Are Ready".
Ok so I trust, that is all. I trust.
No clue what he means, what we are doing, what the plan is. I get asked to take off my shoes and my shirt. Simple as pie.
Then we commence on the hike in quiet and alone as everyone else speed along.
The things I learned in silence, and saw while everyone speed past....Amazing and priceless.
Step up to 2020, step up to this new world we are embarking on, step up to your own power~
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Friday Mar 27, 2020
Friday Mar 27, 2020
Stop The Madness We Are Back
I had the chance to train with some of the most saught after technicians in the soto zen game. Very last minute and very out of the blue, which is how you know the universe wanted it to be this way. I was in the back woods, trainning and learning some very deep ancient ways. More than anything though I was working on myself, my higher self.
So it's time to call out all the BS out there, all the fear needs to stop, time to level up team. Amazing things to come!
We talk Longevity through a Healthy lifestyle, a mix of Mental, Physical and Spiritual knowledge, the Mind, Body Soul trifecta - Negative 2 Positive Everyday
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Friday Jan 17, 2020
Friday Jan 17, 2020
AI TAKE OVER OR A CONSPIRACY THEORY? Good old Elon Musk must know some pretty cool things rite! Did you know that most technology in movies has already been out to governments ect for I think at least 10 years. Meaning movies are not able to show the most up to date tech. So the public is very much in the dark as to what the newest of new tech is. Interesting right
After an impromptu meet up at a local breaki spot today as a few of my people flew in for a wedding (which I was unaware of and not invited to) we braved the cold temps to have a quick sit down to just max, and relax, and shoot the S$%T as it were. The topic of discussion was the temp and how crazy cold it has been and for how long.
So not a let's save the world type conversation just classic 'we have not seen each other in a long time so lets catch up and just vibe'. Here is the unique thing for me when I (as always sit back and observe) the universe always teaches us something....Even when we are just gossiping!
The one friend who came in from a warm climate said so what is the temperature exactly, to which we all looked at our phones ( Just another fact of life). Boom and this is where it gets weird. 5 different people, 5 different phone, from 5 different place yet all geo tagged to the location we were all sitting in, and guess what.
5 different temperatures were given. Weird right? Which one was right? Why the different temps?
We made sure we were all on the same location, we all made sure our location was set to current and yet still these different temps. The range was well over 12 degrees between them all. This then lead into a very heated fire side talk about A.I, how we rely more and more on devices, how we really wouldn't have second guessed the temperature if one person said ohh it's "XX" degrees out. So how do we know what we are being given or told or what we ask the device is correct?
That's kinda a deep rabbit whole to go down isn't it. We have become headline readers only, we can't do math without using the phone, directions and numbers are a thing of the past as we just follow whats on the phone or app.
Our attention spans continue to drop and we want things quicker, so how in the end are we fact checking or double checking if what we are being told or given is correct???
Just a little thought that came up today!
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Thursday Jan 16, 2020
Thursday Jan 16, 2020
DENTAL ASSISTANT AND MEXICAN FARMERS A TALE OF 2 WOLVES. We all have these 2 wolves in us, these 2 sides to us the good and the bad.
It took me almost 15 years to realize it is a must to embrace both sides and to not think one is better than the other or that one should never be used or looked at. In actuality they both serve a purpose for our greater goals and good. Without looking into our "dark side" or what in sotozen (the form of mindset study I practice) our shadow self. Which is the part of us we never ever want to shine a light onto. For many reasons including fear, embarrassment and shame.
So I had as always a conversation this morning where this shadow side and this mindset thing we all work on was brought to light for me in 2 different news articles from 2 different countries and ways of life.
The absolute best way to look at something if you want to grow in the spiritual aspect, meaning take out all the things we were taught and actually see things for what they are what they are meant to teach us!
Very difficult practice by the way! This allows us to shed light on things through a different lens if you will and we can see something (possibly) for the first time.
Without getting into all the details of what we go over in the show what was and is always right in front of us is some form of a lesson so that we are able to grow into the human we are meant to be.
For me I mention how when I first got into mindfulness studies that I ASSUMED that you had to be a push over, that I should not speak up for myself, defend myself, think in a negative way. Yet the other side of me which trained with bad ass fighters and military personal felt alive form this mentality and training. A TALE OF 2 WOLVES
The fact being we all need to take back our Universal right to self empowerment! Which is why the article of the Mexican Farmers who took matters into their own hands ( on numerous occasions by the way) by simply knowing whats actually right and wrong (and acting on it), not thinking what others will think of how I think of what is right and wrong have inspired many of us to look deep inside and take inventory on what it is we are doing here on this planet and what is the reason for being here on this planet!
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Wednesday Jan 15, 2020
Wednesday Jan 15, 2020
AGE IS NO EXCUSE TO GIVE UP. This episode is all about the listeners of The IGNITE YOUR PURPOSE show who are past that prime age range of 24-27 for males and females which society deems is our PEAK years!! I laugh and I laugh hard at that nonsense.
So I was asked to attend a gathering of sorts with a few clients and friends of IYP, and as always I sat in and observed the entire meeting/sit down and just got a vibe got a feeling of the pulse of the team, and I did toss in a few words here and there. Yet the main focus was to see how this group of women was feeling, and what they were doing about how they felt.
Were they just having a cry session about how nothing will ever change, or was it a step into the WOKE State, the new 2020 vibe?
So out of the group there were a lot of them who were sick and tired of being sick and tired, and of them all there were 2 who had already made the change for the better. 2 years deep to be exact.
So again as an observer, the visual look of the 2 who had already started making the steps to better and empower themselves was very very noticeable to me anyway. They looked alive (meaning their skin did not look grey) their eyes shined brighter, their minds were sharper, they just looked healthier and younger.
All this aside the best line that this one lady said who had already made the change was " don't make it complicated just start".
We already now the fast food, the pop, the alcohol, the processed foods, the lack of greens is all a problem. So why not baby step by baby step just make a change each day. This does not mean never again will I ever have a pop, but it does mean you know better that it's a treat not a staple in your life.
It also does not mean you have to go out and train with Olympic Athletes to get yourself into shape, but again it does mean get your butt out there and move, sweat, enjoy the outdoors!
In the end I was just happy to see women supporting and empowering each other to be and do better, we need more of this. We need our women healthy and strong this is a fact!
We talk Longevity through a Healthy lifestyle, a mix of Mental, Physical and Spiritual knowledge, the Mind, Body Soul trifecta - Negative 2 Positive Everyday
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Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
The Red Pill The Matrix and Being Woke, what a start to 2020 for some of our listeners! The fact that there is going to be a lot of us who wake up and the fact that there is going to be a lot of us who go back to sleep is just a starting point.
So what does woke and sleep mean? Well, as always I use the MATRIX reference as a jump off point, but sleep to us here at Ignite Your Purpose means to continue to follow and fall prey to our old ways, our old beliefs, and our old system of repeating what we already know and do.
An example would be if you always take the same route home from work or school, its just auto pilot, its easy, no need to think, no need to experience anything new, we are use to it. So there will be no surprises we feel safe and secure.
To be Woke as all the cool kids call it nowadays is to simply wake up out of the old system we use to follow blindly. It's a starting point of questioning why it is we do the things we do. Where did it come from, why do I believe it, why is it that I do this repeatedly, who taught me this and so forth?
So as I mention in this episode when I started to wake up 12-15 years ago it was far from easy. Most people around you will think you are nuts, they will for sure try to bring you back to sleep. I mentioned as well that it's no different from trying to follow your dreams. All those who never ever did follow their dreams or who gave up on their dreams are the ones that will tell you it is and never will be possible. So stay here in sleep land with us.
This is just a belief system most of us follow. Its easier really to stay inside the box where everyone else is.
Why because we can avoid judgement, the biggest fear we each have!
Until we question it we can never find the key to our self imposed prison! It is a lonely, difficult road, only because we will feel not secure and being human were are told security is what we must have to feel safe.
However once you begin this journey there is nothing else like it, to feel alive, to feel truly freed, to be able to think for yourself...priceless!
We talk Longevity through a Healthy lifestyle, a mix of Mental, Physical and Spiritual knowledge, the Mind, Body Soul trifecta - Negative 2 Positive Everyday
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Saturday Jan 11, 2020
Saturday Jan 11, 2020
Jumping on the band wagon just because. So does it feel rite or do we just want to be rite and have our ego be apart of the winning team? Honestly think about that one, as I sat in on a town hall type meeting I was witness to an escalation of words simply to be part of the winning team.
I had no dog in the fight it was not my country and I was simply there as an observer to see how the human mind and spirit react to debate nowadays in a political religious and dietary style conversation.
I was not at all surprised by the reactions as each one of us has this DNA this mindset this never back down from our belief system type mentality even though the facts may prove us wrong. Been there many many times myself personally on this empowering journey of mine!! Yet to observe, to be out of your own way and see it and think, Phuck is that what I look and sound like...it’s a fast track way to transform yourself (in my opinion)
In this particular setting when a gentleman in the audience presented video fact , written fact on documents in question at this open forum debate, he was at the start questioned heavily and he responded with clam facts each time and I’d say he was correct at least 85 percent of the time as to what he was referring to and all seemed very low key.
Now as this progressed and he kept basically kicking butt on the subject “ the opposite team” went from conversation, to yelling to threats of fake news and fake documents as from what it looked like to me was their inability to contest the facts. I think we all have this in us.
Our ego takes hold our beliefs are to strong and we would rather fight to the death than admit we are wrong. This is a place each of us need to look inside to make the change on the outisde.
We talk Longevity through a Healthy lifestyle, a mix of Mental, Physical and Spiritual knowledge, the Mind, Body Soul trifecta - Negative 2 Positive Everyday
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Friday Jan 10, 2020
Friday Jan 10, 2020
Am I a failure because I gave up on my New Years resolutions?! Yup it’s that time, a little over a week or so into the new year and guess what stats show (and we all believe the hype of stats rite) they show 33 to 35 percent of all who set out goals on New Years have give them up already.
Now as the days go on that number grows higher. I say this all the time January 2nd until about the 15th gym is packed, then it slowly starts to tapper off until by the end of February it’s empty again.... go figure rite!! But again personally I think these massive long lists of goals we make and try to achieve for ourselves are basic set ups to fail. How much thought and real consideration do we put into these? Its feels good to WANT to get these goals said out loud and started but we sometimes don't really understand what it takes to accomplish them.
If we don’t have the discipline, the mindset, the experience and drive then there is no way we can execute our goals. As humans this leads to a low a rut the feeling of depression or regression so we give up and fall back into our normal routine. So what can we do to actually accomplish or start a new routine, well start and start small with really achievable goals each day!
Again from my experiences, simple small baby steps day by day over a long period of time creates a routine, which then forms a habit, which then over time we can turn into a lifestyle!! So no we are not a failures we just have to re think the game plan!
We talk Longevity through a Healthy lifestyle, a mix of Mental, Physical and Spiritual knowledge, the Mind, Body Soul trifecta - Negative 2 Positive Everyday
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