Rewriting The Rules: Learning To Trust Yourself & Intuition!

We start with a simple snow day “rule” and land on a bigger one: your mind is where your whole world gets interpreted. We talk through how to rebuild trust in intuition by becoming the observer of your programming and asking who benefits from the rules you absorb. 

• snow days as an example of unwritten social rules 
• losing trust in intuition during stressful life changes 
• daily practices as the “vitamins” that restore connection 
• the body as a transducer that turns perception into meaning 
• belief versus doubt as a personal choice inside the mind 
• authority, education, and curated information shaping context 
• stepping back into the observer role to see the program 
• “Who does this serve?” as a filter for news, algorithms, and labels 
• discernment with channeled messages and fear-based clickbait 
• rules reframed as agreements that can serve everyone 
• language and syntax as rules that enable connection and creativity 
• attention economy incentives and why unplugging brings clarity 

A wonderful act of rebellion is to put down your phone 
Turn off your computer 
And listen to the birds

Transcript

Weather Talk And Unwritten Rules

SPEAKER_01 0:10

We are all on the line.

SPEAKER_00 0:13

Why? In rural Warsaw Lakes, with the ducks swimming and the ground soaked from all the rain yesterday.

SPEAKER_01 0:22

Yeah, it's nonstop rain.

SPEAKER_00 0:24

It's a little overcast. Birds have been a great time. Cardinal sang to me as I took the garbage outstorm. Right over my head is a tree.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

Yeah. In PEI today, it's an ice day. It's freezing rain. Schools are closed and I'm stinked, but what a sneaky thing that freezing rain is. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:48

It's like breath can't make up its mind. It's gonna rain, but it's cold enough to snow, but it's not gonna be snow. It's just gonna be ice. On the other hand, it's nice to have an excuse to not have to leave home.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 1:07

So that's like an example, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:11

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

We as a society accept people staying home on snow days and freezing rain days. It's like a rule. You're supposed to go to work, but on freezing rain days, you don't have to.

SPEAKER_01 1:27

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 1:29

It's a rule. It's an unwritten rule. It's not written down anywhere. Yeah. Probably most companies have that policy without ever writing it down. And they'll write it down in some kind of really nice language like we shall never require our workers to be unsafe. Because that sounds so nice. But what they mean is, yeah, once in a while we'll have a rain day or a snow day, amazing rain day. Yeah. Rules.

SPEAKER_01 1:55

Yeah, rules. That's what we're chatting about today.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

Talk for days.

SPEAKER_01 2:00

Les could talk for days, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:05

He does.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

I am through this process. I'm I'm struggling right now, but through this process, I'm I am trying to connect with my guides. And it's funny how you can feel really connected in life for periods of time, and then it's like the tap just turns off. And man, oh man, am I struggling recently?

SPEAKER_00 2:32

Well, I think sometimes, you know, it's kind of like taking your vitamins or going to the gym. You start to feel better. You know, you're you're tapping in every day, you're allowing yourself to be guided, you're collaborating with your highest self. Then you get good at it, and things start to get good. Right? Good things start to happen. And then you forget that the reason you're feeling so good is because you've been taking your vitamins, or you're feeling so good because you've been going to the gym, or you've been feeling so good because you've been doing your meditation, or you're feeling so good because you started a new habit that was a really good habit, and it caused you to really start to thrive a little bit. And then you're so busy thriving that you forget the new habit, and then you feel a little lost, a little, a little disjointed, a little disconnected, a little confused.

SPEAKER_02 3:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

And it's those daily practices that are really the magic. Some days we really need to do them and we don't want to. Some days we need to do them and we do them and they help. Some days we don't need to do them, but we do them anyway, and that really helps us soar. And some days we don't need to do them and we don't do them, and then that becomes the new habit.

SPEAKER_01 3:55

Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 4:00

And that makes you normal.

SPEAKER_01 4:03

Normal, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

Don't judge. Don't judge. There's no there's no need for judging.

SPEAKER_01 4:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:10

There's no need to say that's good or bad. It's beautiful to recognize the pattern.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:16

I see that in myself. I see that uh happening with me very often. And it just brings me back. All right, let's try again.

SPEAKER_02 4:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:27

Yeah. Yeah. I know it's not related to rules. I just, I just, I guess I just need to talk it out for a minute here. It's just this lack of trust in my intuition that's been happening. I think with the house being on the market and I have uh uh it's just been a roller coaster of emotions. This is it, I can feel it. Nope, it's not it. This is it, I can feel it. Nope, it's not it. And it's like I'm it's like I have totally lost trust in my own soul's intuition. And every night I I go to bed and I I I guess in a way pray in my own way. You know, I I try to talk to guides or uh or God or source or what have you. Sometimes aliens will all go there, but try to receive information. And of course they're telling me channel, go back to channeling, typing, channeling, typing, channeling. And that's what I used to do. I have a hard time writing and channeling. Like you write really fast, and I and I still don't keep up, but you still don't keep up. I I for anyone who doesn't know me, I've said this a number of times over the years. This and I know this is gonna sound crazy, and like, how does that even happen for you, Hillary? But like I have a hard time keeping a sentence in my head. That sounds so bad. I don't even but when I'm channeling, if I'm writing it out, if my hand isn't moving fast enough, I lose it. I lose the with the sentence or whatever. But yeah, so I'm I'm I gotta go back to typing. Yeah, I gotta do it. I want to do it. And if I use your self-hypnosis, I am allowed to do it. What else? I am meant to do it. Oh my god. So anyway, back to rules.

SPEAKER_00 6:45

No, that's what the trust thing is what we were supposed to talk about yesterday.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

Oh yeah.

How Senses Build Your Reality

Belief, Doubt, And Personal Autonomy

SPEAKER_00 6:50

Yeah, that's what you're going after. I I wanna maybe this is maybe this is part of rules, but there's an idea that I want to convey. I started two yesterday and we headed in another direction. Our body is like a great big transducer. It's picking up signals. The breeze in the air, the moisture in the air, the sunlight. These are all things that we perceive. And then there's the very active world of humans, and we hear voices and sounds and machines, and we're constantly picking up what we're perceiving. All of that perception is coming to us because the body is like a transducer, it receives information and focuses it and sends it into the brain. It's perceiving contrasts and changes. My voice speaking words is a change from the silence, and your ears pick it up and send it into your brain, and your brain deciphers it. And if I was to speak a different language, you would pick up the sounds and not be able to decipher it. And all of that is going on inside you. What's going on outside you is being picked up by this massive camera, microphone, sentient system, and it's going into your brain, and your brain is, we can we can say without any contention, your brain is integrated with your mind. And so although the world's going on all around you, right, um, it's really only happening, it's really only being interpreted, it's really only being brought together into a formalized, intricate picture in your mind. You have something difficult happen to you where you lose your sight or you lose your hearing or you lose your your sense of control over your body and and you you don't feel and you can't move. Your perceptive abilities change because the thing isn't really happening out there. It's happening in your mind, and it only gets to your mind through your body. And when your body doesn't work the way some other bodies do, not everything gets through. And then the mind has a different interpretation of the whole thing. And the whole world has all this stuff going on that's just out of reach of your body's transducers. And unless you go out of your way to get that information, like watching your newsfeed or, you know, your sports channel or talking to people, you don't pick up on all that other information. And so then what's in your mind, because it's all taking place in your mind, that's the location of it all. Then your mind has an incomplete picture. Your mind is actively, completely focused on interpreting all of that information. None of the information matters. What matters to us is what it means. So our life is really going on inside our mind, and it is completely interpreting all of this information into a package that you can call very well my view of the world. Because it is very singular, it is very unique to you. You're interacting with a number of people, but those number of people are bringing to you information via their view of the world. So this is all very, very limited. It's hard to call any of it truth. And because it's really, really a massive interpretation going on in your mind, it's really not a representation of reality. Because it begins with being completely limited by your senses. If it's outside your senses, it's hard to perceive. If it's outside your senses, and other people have developed machines to perceive a wider spectrum of light or a wider spectrum of sound or a more delicate receptor for variations in conditions beyond what your body can do. That's really interesting. And it's more information. And when you pay attention to those people, you can add that to your breadth of your view of the world. That's called education. Having other people tell you what they claim to be the truth about what's going on out there in the world. We have methods where we try to make sure the information that we share is accurate. And we call that a method, we call it science. And if we do it this way over and over and over, the information we generate from it, not necessarily the conclusions, but the information we generate from it becomes more reliable and we trust it. All of this goes on inside us. Now, our interpretation of all of that is ours. It's nobody else's. We have very similar interpretations, most of us all the time interpreting the same way. And we are encouraged by education systems and news services and those in positions of authority to interpret things the same way they do. But the only place it's going on is inside me. And the only person that has control of what's inside me is me. I can allow things in. I can allow authorities to have an impact on me. I can allow teachers, politicians, and doctors, and lawyers, and these people who seem to know things that I don't know. I can let them have a certain amount of authority over me, and I can allow what they tell me in, but I don't have to. I have the power of reason. I have the power of my own mind's capacity to reason and measure and logically think things out. And in that process, I can see the gaps in the information, the things that are assumptions that may or may not be true. And when I see things and I see that they may or may not be true, I choose something. I choose whether or not to believe. People believe a lot things, and people are encouraged to believe a lot of things. Because at this point, the information is incomplete. It's inconclusive. The opposite of believing is doubting. I doubt this. The information is incomplete. I can see that the information is incomplete, and I doubt that. And I am very much trained in the world systems of rules to believe very specific things that lack a lot of evidence and to doubt a lot of things to have a whole lot of evidence. But all of this is going on inside my mind. And nobody knows what's going on inside my mind except me. I reflect it in my emotions, I reflect it in my behaviors, I reflect it in the way I respond and react to the things and information that comes in through my perception. But most importantly, I inside me get to choose. And let's stop there and say, good, because that's your autonomy, that's your uniqueness. That's who you are. Who you are gets to look at all this information coming at you and all these rules coming at you from society and all this stuff coming at you from authorities, all this gets to look at all of that and still get to choose. You know what? I don't really believe that. And I really, really doubt those things. And then there are the things inside me that I have a sense of knowing. And we've lost touch of that. We've really lost touch with our sense of knowing. We're very reliant on our perceptions, we're very reliant on our body, we're very reliant on experts and authorities. We're very reliant on the training that we receive in the form of education and an upbringing and all that stuff that we call typically programming. I'm very reliant on all of that, and I'm encouraged to trust that over myself. And there's the flaw. It's all only ever happening inside my mind. And my mind has some innate characteristics of logic, some innate characteristics of awareness, and it also has a body of knowledge that we ignore, or sometimes we mess with because we think we know things we don't know. Because all of this process is so confusing, it's hard to know who we really am, who really, who I really am, who we really are, who I is. Right? Because it's so piled on with stuff from outside me, and it's all only being processed inside me, and it's all subject to the interpretation that's based on my past interpretations, that's based on my training. And that's what I refer to when I talk about my context. My context, the way I'm viewing the world, is based in that little creation. There's nothing little about it, that creation of me inside me and my awareness and knowledge. Now, when an idea comes to me that's inspired, it didn't come to me through all of that information process. It didn't come to me through perception, it came to me from somewhere else. Well, if I am really clear about what's going on outside me, and I'm really clear about how my mind works, then I can be really clear about whether or not this inspired idea is true, that it should be trusted. And I might decide based on all the things that have happened and come to me, I might decide that my instincts are the best things to trust out of everything. I don't need to tell anybody that. Trust is a decision, and trusting our internal voice and our guides, for some people sounds nuts. And for other people, sounds like the only truth. Again, it's only happening inside me, and nobody has to know.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

Yeah.

Unhooking From Noise To Hear

SPEAKER_00 19:49

I don't have to go around talking about it. But if I can get in touch with that again, if I can clear my mind of my programs and see and observe the kinds of ways I've been trained and controlled, and I can see the way that society wants me to be this kind of person and see how that contrasts against my preferences and choose to be the kind of person I am so that all people only see the effects, and the effects are almost always really beautiful, right? If I am clear and confident and content in myself, I am at peace. And because I'm at peace, I only bring peace to the world. I only express peace. When I am chaotic, when I am confused, when I am upset, that's what I express to the world. And the world becomes a chaotic and crazy place. Okay, I'll stop.

SPEAKER_01 20:46

Yeah, I over the last few weeks I've had a number of clients that ask the question, how can I get in touch with my intuition? How can I talk with my guides? And they're not asking me that, they're asking their guides that in session. And over and over, like way more than usual, they are saying, turn off your phone, turn off the TV, unhook, right? And so I think as we talk about, you know, people come to us to show us what we need to learn, and we're learning as they're learning, and you know, the circle of life idea. So but what what just came to me, what just came to me is I like to think that I can watch the news and not get sucked into it, not like feel emotional about it. But what the the image that just came to me, and I think it's from my guides, huh, is when the news comes on, I put up a wall, right? So imagine this wall being thrown. I'm just watching it. I'm blocking it. Some emotion maybe is creeping in, but it's like, I'm just blocking it. But what's coming to me is that I've put up the wall for everything right now. And I've become retracted. Does that does that make sense? So to turn off the TV, to stop engaging in the news, even though I, you know, I have this perception that, oh, I can watch it and not be affected, I am affected because I'm putting up a fear wall. And I'm carrying that wall forward. And I think that wall is like pushing itself into other areas like connecting.

SPEAKER_00 22:43

And that's part of your context.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:47

So you recognize that as I think, you know, as a hypnotist whose job it is to help people change their programs, it's really valuable to simply recognize your program.

SPEAKER_02 23:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:01

Because in that moment, you would be you go from the programmed one to the observer of the programmed one.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

Yes. Right?

SPEAKER_00 23:11

And by being the observer of the programmed, I can see the program now, and I can see its veracity and its its falseness. But most importantly, and this is what keeps coming to me, is I can ask the question, who does this program serve? And that's the question. We're going to talk about rules probably tomorrow now. We're going to talk about rules. But that's the question.

SPEAKER_02 23:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:41

If I can pull back to being the observer, I'm no longer part of the chaos in the world. I'm not picking sides any. I'm not one of these guys or one of those guys. I'm not this kind of fan. I'm not this kind of political persuasion. I'm not that kind of nationality. I'm not this kind of ethnicity. I'm not any of that. I step back and I say I'm a mind and I'm observing that. Then I can look at all those things, all those labels, and I can say, who does this serve? Who gains from me seeing myself that way? And now I can start to decipher it. So let's consider those. I want to step back and say, let's consider those to be primary questions. The first question we talked about for a couple of months, what do I want? Not what does the world want for me? Not what do my parents want for me? Not what does my boss want from me, right? But what do I want? It's a hard question. You've really got to step back from everything that's going on to answer that question. And when I observe the world, and I've come to the place just like you where I don't trust anything. I don't just let any information in, right? Because information now is being curated. And that's important to understand that what information comes to us comes to us through an AI algorithm and a news service and a government and who do they serve? What do they serve? And so to step back and see everything as an interpretation, not a fact, and say, who does this serve? Now you're going to detach yourself a little bit from what's coming at you. And then you can go from, well, if that serves them and this serves those other ones, what do I want?

SPEAKER_01 25:56

You want to serve yourself.

Authority Stories That Become Rules

SPEAKER_00 25:58

There we go. What do I? Maybe I want peace. Maybe I want love. Maybe I want calm. But now by stepping back and observing the mind, not being entrenched in it, but being who I really am, the observer of it all, with innate capabilities, I can look at this and ask, and this I'm finding very useful now in my life, ask for guidance. And then I trust that. And the more I trust that, the more things seem to tumble into place. The more calm I experience in spite of what's going on in the world, the more I'm an observer and not a participant, the less I get sucked into picking sides. And who does it serve to get us all picking sides? Certainly not us. So I believe now, and I've come to the conclusion now in my life, when I choose a book to read, I tend to read beautiful stories or alternative information, but mostly I'm reading channeled works. And there are many, many channels out there who are bringing forth information they don't understand, but are bringing it forth. And dwelling on some of that, those ideas, I find I get clarity and I become more of an observer and less of a participant, even of my own mind, more of an observer and less of a participant. And I think that there's value there. And nobody has to know. I mean, here I am, like a knucklehead, putting it out in the podcast. But the truth is, nobody has to know. Nobody has to know that I do that. Nobody has to know how you, in your own mind, curate, select, and trust the information that comes to you as an observer, not a participant.

SPEAKER_01 28:07

Yeah. Yeah. And I think these rules, they creep in in all kinds of ways. One that stands out to me is, and you might not think of it as a rule, but think about think about going to the doctor, and usually I hear this with women. I'm sure it happens with men too. But usually women speak about it. Maybe you're older and you go to the doctor and you've got some anxiety or something going on, and they tell you, oh, this is just because you're aging. This is just happening because we're aging. No, this doesn't happen. This didn't happen to me. Is that what you're thinking?

SPEAKER_00 28:49

No, I love it.

SPEAKER_01 28:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:51

I love it.

SPEAKER_01 28:52

But it it goes right in.

SPEAKER_00 28:53

There you go.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

It goes right in. And I can't even believe I can't even tell you how many clients I've had to get them to imagine just giving those words back to the doctor. Like, I don't accept this rule of yours that I'm just having this because I'm aging. You know, of course there's things that disclaimer here, like of course there's things that might be going on that are going on. But I think that, you know, we throw around the word, oh, it's just because you're aging, oh, it's just menopause, oh, it's just this, oh, it's just that. And then they, you know, disregard what you're going through.

SPEAKER_00 29:36

When authority speaks, we listen. It goes right in, right? But there's a crack going on in the world today. And the crack is we're coming to realize that the authorities that we put all this trust in are not trustworthy. We're starting to say to the world, no, I'm not so sure of what you say. And there's a there's an opening here. And this is a beautiful thing. It's the beautiful thing where we all say, I'm done being told who I'm supposed to be or who I am. Our mind is predisposed through its programming to accept the words of authorities and act on them. And if that's what you want to do, God bless you, go for it. I have no judgment, I have no complaint. But I believe that there is a huge movement in the world today of people who are asking the question, who am I really? They're asking the question, what can I trust? They're saying, Who am I? What do I trust? And what will I accept into my mind as truth? And that's why there are thousands of people today who are very publicly channeling, who are very publicly sharing what's coming to them into their higher mind, from their higher mind. We have an energy in the earth today where people are asking that question, right? Who does this serve? What do I want? And that that is blossoming, and people are embracing it and it's bringing those people peace.

SPEAKER_02 31:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:35

I don't have to participate in the system. I can if I want, God bless you, go for it, right? Whatever brings you peace. And if you listening to the authorities in your life is bringing you peace, then I only wish you well. But if you listening to the authorities in your life is causing you to go, what? I don't accept that. That's your invitation to ask yourself, well, what will I accept? Who does this information serve? What do I want? And then listening to yourself. How do I move forward in peace and in love and in creation, in the truest sense, happiness?

Discernment With Channeled Messages

SPEAKER_01 32:21

Yeah. I think it's important too in the world of channeling right now. We see it everywhere. If it's in your algorithm, I'm sure many people don't see it. But to have discernment with that too, right? If it feels right or real or like it resonates with you, you know. I've spoken to a few people now that and uh keep in mind, okay, this is the YouTube sphere, is sometimes the titles for channeled messages, type titles for the YouTube videos, are sort of clickbait. And what I mean by clickbait is that they're they're pushing the narrative of fear to get you to click on it. And so I see that a lot right now. I think it's moving a little back from that, but have discernment when you're listening to to channeled messages as well. I think that's important.

SPEAKER_00 33:24

I think what's really important is to is to be confident that your truest, highest self is not going to encourage judgment.

SPEAKER_02 33:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:34

It's not going to encourage condemnation. It's never going to tell you to start a war with somebody or something. It's never going to tell you to fight. It will encourage you to withdraw. It will encourage you to take care of yourself. It will encourage you to be loving and forgiving and releasing. It's going to be very, very supportive to you and your mental health. It's never going to encourage attack. So if you start to hear attack or judgment or condemnation or dividing or encouraging hate or fear, that's that's that's not your higher mind.

unknown 34:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:24

That's your program. That's what you were raised to think. And I I only can say, I hope you find your way through that to the place of your peace. And that's what we do for a living is help people try to move their way into their place at peace and encourage them to open the door, crack it open a little bit, see the light through, and realize there's nothing wrong with you. You're just a computer that's been programmed badly. And once you get rid of the bad programs, you're going to find that you are more peaceful and you are more clear and you are more content. And you don't need to change the world. You just want to change yourself and the way you perceive the world. And you start to become an observer rather than a participant. And that's when you're really at a level where you can have an impact on your own life.

SPEAKER_01 35:24

The the image that comes to me when you say computers, imagine, like once you start to look at all this stuff, yourself, your emotions, your patterns, just imagine yourself as receiving a laptop. And you receive this laptop, and it is coded and programmed by somebody else. And here you are trying to find the X button and where to save files, and what is this? And it's, you know, it's just a mess for most of us. And then you get a little pop-up and it says upgrade to 4.0 or whatever. And that's you. That is your moment where you can start to upgrade that computer into what you want it to run like, not what somebody else wanted you to run like. Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_00 36:29

Makes wonderful sense. So I I uh just have two more things to say. The first thing I want to say is that you have been, we have been, I have been, for sure, programmed to think that I can't understand and that there are things that I should just trust other people with. And I'm just gonna say, that's not true. It's not true. What's important, you can understand. What they want is for you to back away and let them run things the way they want. And who does that serve? Right? Second thing I want to say is is to begin the process for tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01 37:10

Or Monday Monday.

SPEAKER_00 37:11

For Monday, about rules. I want to to understand a very, very basic understanding of rules. So I'm gonna offer a really easy example of rules and who they serve. Language is a set of rules. It is how I use my throat and mouth, and my head and my shoulders, really, it's all part of it, to make sounds that are symbols of words, that are symbols of concepts, that are symbols of our external world that we perceive. And when I adhere to the rules, one of the rules might be syntax, the order in which I put the words. Words order I put, I broke the syntax rule and you didn't understand what I said. I put the words in order, and now I follow the syntax rules, then you understand what I say. We agree on what certain words mean. What does the word rules mean? Well, for some reason, we interpret the word rules as meaning an authority has said this is the way it is to be done. And generally, when you ask the question, who does that serve? It serves the authority. But when it comes to language, who does language serve? Serves all of us. It allows us to communicate, it allows us to create, it allows us to create art, it allows us to create big, wonderful things. It allows us to create ideas and conversation. It lets us engage with each other, it lets us connect. Language is a set of rules, and we accept them. And every generation makes them their own, right? Every generation has their own lingo, their own jargon, their own set of meanings. They make them their own, but they agree to them. And this is the thing, this is the magic. Can you think of rules not as an imposed system, but as an agreement? When we agree to use language this way, wonderful things can come of it. It serves everyone. Those are the kinds of quote-unquote rules that are really agreements, and we all agree to them. And by agreeing to them, things are better for all of us. Like traffic rules. You drive on the right. Well, that serves everyone. Because if everyone's just going anywhere they want on a paved surface, things are going to get messy soon, right? So those rules are agreements. So now replace the word rules with agreements, or take your definition of rules and call them agreements, things we all agree to. And when you say, I will only be bound by the rules that we all agree to, you're really shaking things up. Because rules are agreements. They only work when we all agree. They only work when we all comply. Who does this serve? So take your definition of rules and replace the word rules with agreements. Do we all agree? Do most of us agree? Do a lot of us agree?

SPEAKER_01 40:55

Yeah, and in most cases it perpetuates a consciousness agreement.

SPEAKER_00 41:00

Absolutely. And wouldn't those be the best rules that we all consciously agree to?

SPEAKER_01 41:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:07

Those would be quite acceptable rules, like the rules of language. Very acceptable. Don't mind them at all. See how they serve me, see how they they serve society. I see how they create, I see how they serve my curiosity, the rules of language. So I agree to them. I have no problem. Don't need to disagree. Don't want to disagree. Want to willingly comply, uh, you know, unless I'm writing poetry.

SPEAKER_01 41:39

Well, uh, what what do you notice happens when each generation breaks the rules a little bit with language?

SPEAKER_00 41:48

From my perspective, they own it. They own it. They create a certain amount of what's the right word?

SPEAKER_02 41:58

Upeval?

SPEAKER_00 41:59

Disruption. Disruption in communication between generations. Judgment. Well, when people want to stick to the rules and you want to create new rules, you're going to get a certain amount of conflict. And some people might take that further and turn it into judgment. And then we might see how language is an example of how the generations fight with each other. And maybe young people want to create for themselves. They want their world. And they exercise that through using new words and new ways. And older people can get angry because they feel like it's unfair because they want to understand and they're being excluded. But, you know, they they generally get over it. They generally can get over it. You know, that's the thing about the way we live. We live in generations. The next group are coming into a world that the previous group was in charge of. I used to say this to my students at the college all the time. I say, you're reaching the age where we're going to hand you the keys to the car. You're becoming of the age where you're going to get to be in charge. You know, I used to joke with them, you know, I'm finally at an age where my prime minister is younger than me. Like that's a big thing. I was always used to my prime ministers being old farts, older than me, anyway, right? Each generation has got its own view on the rules. And that's a beautiful thing, I think. Right? It's the resistance of others that creates the problems.

SPEAKER_02 43:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:41

Anyway, that's just an example, right? A simple example of rules and rules that we would all just be happy to agree to, that are really helpful, that would really facilitate wonderful things.

unknown 43:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:53

And then there are others. And then the best question is who does this serve?

SPEAKER_01 44:00

Usually it's advertising companies. But that's a whole other butt.

SPEAKER_00 44:04

Well, we live in a world, and and this I think is valuable to recognize. We live in a world, a worldwide marketplace.

SPEAKER_01 44:13

Yeah.

Resisting The Attention Economy

SPEAKER_00 44:14

There isn't very much that isn't above money, for money, by money, through money. And this is where a wonderful act of rebellion is to put down your phone, because that's just all about generating profits.

SPEAKER_02 44:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:31

Turn off your computer, because that's just all about generating profits. And listen to the birds. And listen to your higher self. And trust that which is love and peace and kindness.

SPEAKER_01 44:44

Yeah. I love how you can explain things.

SPEAKER_00 44:49

I feel blessed to get these understandings. It calms me down.

SPEAKER_01 44:55

Yeah. All right, everyone. So thank you, thank you. Enjoy the rest of your week as well. And we will see.