The Spiritual Grind
Dr. Jenni PhD,RN,CHLC,CH and medium and Rev. James ORD, MhsB have spent countless years studying and practicing many modalities within the "Spiritual" domain. Dr. Jenni has dedicated her life to helping others by attending countless schools and developing each of her practices and strategies. Rev. James has studied many modalities and Native American practices and they have Both decided to open their library of knowledge to share this information with everyone in a down to earth style, with hope to assist in making your journey easier and more abundant.
The Spiritual Grind
The Dance of Intentions and Achievements
Ever considered yourself a Bluetooth speaker, channeling wisdom from the universe? Join us as we journey through the transformative landscape of intentional living. From our early podcast jitters to the notion of expanding into video content, we'll share how embracing our own evolution has shaped not only our personal growth but our understanding of how intentions can truly manifest. Discover the power of verbology and why setting intentions in the present tense is key to realizing those big financial aspirations.
Intentions versus goals—what’s the real difference? In our light-hearted chat, we unravel the nuances between these two concepts, likening goals to stepping stones and intentions as the consistent rhythm of our daily lives. With playful anecdotes, including the unexpected advent of wireless speakers, we explore how to align intentions with current realities. You'll find tips on moving from "trying" to doing, and learn why smaller, achievable goals can be the secret confidence builders that guide us toward our grander visions.
Imagine setting an intention and watching as the universe surprises you in ways you couldn’t dream of. We delve into how flexibility and surrender are crucial when aligning with our higher selves, sharing stories of serendipity and divine guidance that transcends our initial dreams. Between humorous interruptions from our feline co-host and the tale of a million-dollar check, the episode is a reminder to be open to life's unpredictable opportunities. Join the conversation and transform your approach to intentions by blending them seamlessly with action and an open heart.
Good morning, dr Jeannie. Good morning, how are you today?
Speaker 2:I'm hanging in there like a monkey.
Speaker 1:Hanging in there like a loose tooth.
Speaker 2:No, like a monkey.
Speaker 1:Oh, on purpose, On purpose, awesome, that's great, great, that's actually great. Wow, you're so spiritually, I'm ready to go bananas you're so spiritually awakened because you just rang the, the pre, the prelude to my topic of the day of course you seem surprised no, not surprised. You know what I do want to say one thing that when we started doing this, we were very nervous.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And how much more comfortable are we now.
Speaker 2:I feel like I'm pretty comfortable.
Speaker 1:I am not comfortable at the idea of making actual videos yet, but I'm embracing it, which is why we haven't started, because the energy is not right yet, but we'll get there. We'll get there. I agree, our intentions are clear, but speak of the devil.
Speaker 2:Where? Where is he? I want to meet him.
Speaker 1:You want to meet him, you want to say hi, shake his hand. You know he's an angel too, you know, of course, that's what they say. That's what they say. So we've always talked about beliefs. We've talked about clearing beliefs. We've talked about, we've talked about expectations. We've, you know, we've talked about many subjects in in once or twice in every one of these podcasts we've brought up. It depends on your intentions, and we have never done the podcast on intention setting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you gotta be friends with the darkness so that you can embrace and allow the light.
Speaker 1:Of course you got to have contrast, so you know what you really want In walks the devil. Okay, sorry, was that creepy.
Speaker 2:I mean, to some it might be. Oh, I'm used to your shenanigans.
Speaker 1:But you know we've never talked about intentions and how to clearly do them and how to make sure that your intentions are set and worded properly. And you know we did a podcast on an intentional life but we didn't even talk about in the podcast on how to do intentions, how to set your intentions for the day.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And so I think that's our podcast. Topic of the day is intentionally living.
Speaker 2:Okay, we shall see.
Speaker 1:Living with intent.
Speaker 2:We shall see if that's where we go with it.
Speaker 1:Right. You just never know. With us we get a little crazy sometimes.
Speaker 2:You never know.
Speaker 1:But anyway. So when we want to create a reality in a certain way and we have looked at our beliefs you know, because you say this all the time to me is you got to watch your wording, your verbology, as you call it and when you're setting intentions, the way you word them can really muck up the system or limit that intention.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:For example, that we're going to talk about. The elephant in the room everybody always talks about is finances. Everybody always wants to have, you know, multi, multi-million dollars in the bank. They have a financially free life and they set their intentions and then they, they go into action and the problem is is their intentions weren't rooted right in their actions. You know there's multiple aspects to it and I don't want to, I don't like to use the word. The problem, but the reality is, is there's a lot of people that don't know how to do intentions and don't know how to to live in a life with intent okay and when we step into reality.
Speaker 1:And we, we were, we are trying to create we we, we, we, we made sure, that's our french, that's our, that's our redneck french.
Speaker 2:Oui, oui, oui, oui, mais sure, that's our.
Speaker 1:French for the day, that's our redneck French. But when we get up in the morning, you know I do a couple of things where I set my intentions. First of all, I get up in the morning and tell myself I'm going to be happy, healthy and whole. And today and I am going to intentionally be happy- so just okay.
Speaker 2:So if we're going there, let me point out Okay. If you're going to do it, just setting that intention in the manner that you just did, you'll never achieve it.
Speaker 1:Thank you, you're right.
Speaker 2:Because that's the word, that's the verbology that you were talking about. You set that sentence up, actually keeps it in a future tense type energy that never lets you achieve it.
Speaker 1:That is correct, that's completely correct, and we as humans have a tendency to think that the word intention is a verb.
Speaker 2:What is it?
Speaker 1:It's not a verb.
Speaker 2:What is it?
Speaker 1:I believe it's a noun, it's a place. The result of your intention is a place or an action, and so I think the word intention is more of a noun than a verb. The person plays your thing because you're intentionally making yourself a person a certain way. You're intentionally wanting to go do something and or you intentionally want to be somewhere. Okay, and so when we use intentions, you're right Me saying in the morning, I'm going to be happy, healthy and whole. I just put that intention in the future instead of saying I am happy, healthy and whole in the mornings. And that's where the virology of intentions come in.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:You got nothing. We're done, we're done. See you later. Am I supposed to start the music?
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 1:We're done with the podcast. Okay, yeah, I mean there.
Speaker 2:it is in a nutshell podcast.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, I mean, there it is, in a nutshell, the shortest, the shortest podcast ever. And so I I think another faux pas that happens, you know, and this would get brought up yesterday to me, because you had a conversation with a lady day before yesterday and we were talking about it yesterday of how does she go from what you had talked to her about to how, how did? She didn't know how to get to that spot and as we got to live in a spot of whatever y'all talked about, she didn't disclose to me what y'all talked about, but she did. You know, it's about intention and that's what I told her. You have to live a life of intent. You intentionally do things and you set it up and trust your higher spirit to guide you through that process and like and I gave her kind of an example I said you don't wake up in the morning and say I want to be this, because that is a futuristic. I'm going to do this, I'm allowing this to happen because everything has to be in the present tense and directed.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean not everything. Okay, I'm receiving this now would be an appropriate way to state something yeah, so not everything. If we're going to be quite literal, okay you know, sometimes I am no never.
Speaker 1:You're not liberal or assertive, either one liberal literal or assertive assertive is not a bad thing. No, I know, I know clarity of words okay, I don't know, what that means well, I wasn't saying it was a bad thing. I just people don't like hearing the obvious stated to them and you're very good at that when they know inside of them what's going on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know you come to me, I'm gonna pull it out.
Speaker 1:If you're ready to rock and roll, we're gonna do it yeah I get it, yeah, and if they're coming to you, then they're in a spot already.
Speaker 2:So yeah, they're ready for that, For sure.
Speaker 1:And like this girl said yesterday you know, jenny just told me everything that I already knew. She just made me hear it.
Speaker 2:You know, listen that I mean that's a brief little. We'll go on that little bifurcation segue. I don't teach anybody anything, right, I am merely the channeled vehicle by which the information comes from that person's own higher self or guidance council vehicle that's chosen because it's a vibrational resonance with that person at that time that that they're able to hear what's already been coming to them in a manner that they can hear it, you're just a blue I I don't heal them, I don't give them knowledge.
Speaker 2:I am just the conduit of the information when they're ready to receive it and accept it the bluetooth speaker to the universe maybe maybe you know it's funny.
Speaker 1:That just brought up a thought I remember when wireless speakers come out and the first one was like very expensive and they had it on johnny carson's show and johnny carson was like how you gonna get the sound from over there to over there? You can't do that without a wire. It's just funny.
Speaker 2:I don't know what popped in my head okay anyway, so the one of the biggest trip ups that I hear people use on a constant basis, whether they're at level one of their awakening, or two or ten, they will say I'm trying to do that right, I'm I'm trying to do it, I'm trying, I'm trying to do da-da-da-da-da Right, I'm trying to do it.
Speaker 1:I'm trying, I'm trying really hard, I'm trying really hard.
Speaker 2:And that is a huge trip up because, again, that is verbology that keeps it just out of grasp. Yeah, just out of reach.
Speaker 1:What marries with intentions? I find a lot is people's purpose. Who's Mary? Well, you know Peter and Paul.
Speaker 2:Sorry, what comes to my mind is Mary had a little lamb. I'm so tired of hearing that song.
Speaker 1:It's the only song she's learned so far on the cello. And when you're learning a musical instrument, you have to play the one you know before you're done, because it makes you feel good, right? So people have a tendency to marry intention with purpose and to be very clear your purpose is your purpose. Everybody has their purpose, whatever that is we don't know. Some people don't know what their purpose is, and I think they'll understand it more the more they awaken. But they have an idea in their head of what their purpose is and when they have this idea in their head, they have a tendency to set intentions towards that purpose, which is the exact, in my opinion I'm sure Dr Jenny's going to ring in on this In my opinion is the exact opposite of what you're supposed to do, because your purpose is your purpose, your intentions are your daily reality and it can be long-term reality. And you know you say when I am 50, I am going to own a Maserati, or I will own a Maserati when I'm 50.
Speaker 2:And that is defined by you as what An intention.
Speaker 1:As an intention.
Speaker 2:I see.
Speaker 1:Now, if that Maserati is part of your purpose, because you want to own a Maserati, because you're going to have a rental car business, then I think that intention is set for the wrong thing. Do you understand where I'm going with that?
Speaker 2:Not at all.
Speaker 1:So well. I just want to make sure that we understand that defining purpose and defining intentions are two different directions. It's a bifurcation.
Speaker 2:Okay, so define it for us.
Speaker 1:Setting intentions are a purposeful way to create your reality in the present. Your purpose is something that is evolving and changing. Sometimes, and when you set intentions towards a purpose you have no idea you may, your purpose may change down the road, and so now you've set intentions towards a purpose that may change.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And so when we set our intentions, we have to do it for what we want currently and work towards the purpose that we have, but not using the intentions to drive ourselves towards the purpose.
Speaker 2:So what's the difference between an intention and a goal, for example?
Speaker 1:Well, a goal is something that you never attain because it's a goal. I'm going to get to this spot. Okay, my goal is to do this. My goal is to do that. It's an is-to thing. Having goals are just something. Don't get me wrong. It's great to achieve goals and it's great to push towards goals, but when you're going to a goal, you're going to that goal always.
Speaker 2:Well, you just said it feels good to achieve goals, so you're not always going to goals. At some point, obviously, you reach your goal.
Speaker 1:Yes, I agree.
Speaker 2:A little bit of a contradiction.
Speaker 1:Well, no, it's not a contradiction.
Speaker 2:I want to make sure, I'm very clear. You're not being very clear. That's why I'm calling you out. Where's your ring button?
Speaker 1:I'm very clear. That's why I'm calling you out. Where's your ring button? I'm not ringing. So what I want to say is this is it does feel good to achieve goals, but I don't think I've ever achieved a goal and just stopped there, and that normally means that we have either A set our goal to a lower level, that is easily attainable, not a bad idea it's not a bad idea if you're working through some personal issues with confidence it's baby steps okay, please elaborate well.
Speaker 2:To set smaller goals that are achievable builds belief, trust, confidence and getting to a bigger goal.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So I mean having a small goal I don't think is a negative or a bad thing. I think it's a good baby steps at a time kind of thing to get to the bigger thing that you want to achieve.
Speaker 1:Okay. So when I used to do lecturing on goals, on goal setting, okay, when we would set a goal, we would put landmarks, so to speak, throughout that goal.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:That is I want. My goal is this and by this date I want this part, or I will have this part achieved by this date, I will have this part achieved. By this date, I will have this part achieved. So you're right, You're doing little baby steps and achieving those little timeline of events and you're achieving those. Yeah, but when you make yourself a goal and you set your intentions to meet these spots, then each one of these is a confidence builder, but the goal is the end result, and so each one of these is a stage.
Speaker 2:Each one of them is a goal.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:They're just small, little goals.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:My question was, though what's the difference between setting goals and setting intentions? I was just curious what is the difference?
Speaker 1:Are you like fishing me here?
Speaker 2:No, no, no, Because I know you know, that's the answer. No, I'm just, I'm not fishing you.
Speaker 1:I think you're fishing me. I didn't even bring a. I think you're setting me up here so you can slap me.
Speaker 2:I didn't even bring a fishing pole. I feel like this is a set up question. No, I'm just asking what is the difference between setting an intention and setting a goal? People want to know.
Speaker 1:Setting a goal is a human thing. Intention is for something to create your reality within.
Speaker 2:Does a goal not create a reality?
Speaker 1:Well, it can, it can help. So here's an example I want to get the highest paying job in my company. That's my goal I want to have the highest paying job in my company.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And so I go to work, I set my goals my mini goals, as you call it towards that.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And when I get up in the morning six months later, I now have this job, I have achieved my goal, and in the process of all that, you buy a new house, you buy a new car. You're doing all these things because you're making the more money you ever have in your life. You're creating your reality at the same time, outside of that goal, Right? And so your intentions along the way was oh man, when I get this level, I'm going to go buy a new house.
Speaker 2:That's not a goal.
Speaker 1:No, you're setting your intention within the goal. I think your intentions are the steps of the goal.
Speaker 2:Well, what?
Speaker 1:This podcast is not going the way I imagined it at all, the way I imagined it at all, and I think sometimes Jenny does this to me on purpose, because she tries to make me look like a fool.
Speaker 2:No, not at all I'm getting clarification.
Speaker 1:Excuse me higher self, can you? Fix this please. Higher self are you?
Speaker 2:listening. Where's the door knocking button? I know right. Is anybody home?
Speaker 1:Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door. I feel like I'm pulling teeth here.
Speaker 2:I don't know why.
Speaker 1:Wasabi, I feel like I'm at the dentist's office and somebody's yanking my teeth out right now, because Jenny is just not opening the door to jump in here, like she normally does.
Speaker 2:I am just, she is reframing it.
Speaker 1:I can see it in her energy and she's doing it on purpose. So, whatever you all, I'm not being mean I see her energy and I see what she's doing. She's capping the little thing off on top of her head on purpose, just so she can get me later.
Speaker 2:No, that's not at all what I'm doing.
Speaker 1:I see it.
Speaker 2:I am cleaning up some confusion around the verbology.
Speaker 2:We create different definitions, and sometimes creating separate and different definitions can jam us up, and so I am wanting to clean that up a little bit can jam us up, and so I'm wanting to clean that up a little bit, because there is no difference between setting a goal and setting an intention. They're one of the same. It's just that when you are at kindergarten level or first grade level in your awakening process, you call them goals, and when you get to a spiritually higher level, then we choose a new word that has a different persona and we call them intentions Because I guess spiritually it sounds better they're the same thing.
Speaker 1:So you just proved my point. You were fishing me because you had the answer right there in your mouth. And then you're just like okay, yeah, please, yeah, come on, give it to me, give it to me.
Speaker 2:I just wanted to get clear on what the collective perspective Ooh, collective perspective, ooh ooh ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Speaker 1:Chicka, chicka, chicka, chicka, chicka, chicka, chicka. What?
Speaker 2:Collective perspective. Okay, was about those two words. We can clean it up a little bit.
Speaker 1:Okay, you just did, thank you.
Speaker 2:And big goals and little goals are, it's all the same thing.
Speaker 1:Okay, please elaborate.
Speaker 2:Well, so you go through life, creating your own reality. You experience the variety of life called contrast.
Speaker 1:Spicy.
Speaker 2:Positive contrast, negative contrast, so that you can pick up the menu of life and decide. You know, I liked this part of it, this part of it, this part of it, but I didn't necessarily care for this. So when I make my new order to have an experience make my new order to have an experience I'm going to set the intention or define the goal that I would like to have, this similar experience, but I want to have it with meat and cheese and ketchup only. So goals and intentions are the same thing. Okay, just to be clear. And baby goals and large goals are the same thing. It's just a technique or a permission slip that gets you motivated and off your butt to get something accomplished in a certain trajectory on a certain topic. Okay, and you're constantly simultaneously creating goals or intentions on many different topics all at the same time, because life is divided into many different topics.
Speaker 1:I heard the highway Life is a highway Life is actually many highways going in many different directions all at the same time. Some are country roads, some are highways.
Speaker 2:And so there is no really difference in the two.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:They're one and the same, as I'm getting it now.
Speaker 1:Okay, so how do we clearly set intentions?
Speaker 2:Well, you want to set them in the now, so there's two. Okay, so there's two different ways to go about it.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, different ways to go about it Okay. Okay. So you have a um, you have a future tense intention that you're setting because you have a goal that is what you perceive to be bigger than what you can instantaneously manifest here's, here's the here's the break it down part. If you didn't have a belief pattern or program that was in place that keeps you from saying, okay, I want this and snap, I'm going to bring it into reality right now, then you would not need intentions or goals.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So, because you have that in place and there's another mechanism in that we're not quite ready as a species to have instantaneous creation, because we're tweaking our abilities to do that and it be exactly what we wanted. Okay, because sometimes it's nice to think, oh, you know what I'd like to have that, and if it instantaneously was created, then you say, oh, I don't really like that part of it. Erase, erase, erase, erase part of it. Erase, erase, erase, erase. And so sometimes the lag time in the creation of it is allowing you to get clear and give you the opportunity to come to that realization of okay, yeah, you know, I thought initially I wanted this, this and this, but this part of it. I've changed my mind and I don't really want.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So, as an evolutionary species, that lag time, sometimes in having the creation come in instantaneously, is a great benefit. So when you're setting your intentions, there are two different kinds and I'm going to use intention and goal interchangeably.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Setting the goal or the intention is you have the ones that you set in the future tense, because you have a belief or pattern or program in place that says, wow, that's a really big goal. And I am not at a place yet where I feel like I can make this happen right now. And this is something I want to put in place because I'd like to see it happen and I want it to come into my reality. So I'm going to set it out there and let it kind of boil and marinate.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Then there are those components which are your action plan of how to get from where you are now to that goal. Okay, and those are little mini goals or mini intentions.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:If you want to be happy for then you, that's a, that's a. For most people it can be a very attainable thing, and so you will want to. When you're ready to have it now, then you will get to a place and actually it'll happen, naturally, by the way the mechanism works.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:You'll want to retrain the habits of getting up in the morning, looking at yourself in the mirror and saying I am happy now. Okay, and at first, if you're not really happy, it'll feel like kind of a lie, it'll feel like a mistruth. But you have to remember you're retraining a habit, okay, you're retraining your initial thought process so that you have a different habit.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Let's take a different habit. Okay, If let's take a different example. If you get up every morning and your habit is to go have a cup of coffee, smoke a cigarette, have some chit chat and then take a shower, get dressed, Are you talking about a left-handed cigarette? I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1:Left-handed cigarette. Yeah, that's the one that smells funny.
Speaker 2:I never knew it was called that. I smoke with both hands, so, okay, I was today years old when I learned what a left-handed cigarette is.
Speaker 1:That's funny, why is it called a left-handed cigarette? Is that's funny?
Speaker 2:why is it called a left-handed cigarette I?
Speaker 1:don't know that's what back in the day.
Speaker 2:That's what they called it I mean, what if you're left-handed? Is it called a right-handed cigarette?
Speaker 1:well, I guess it depends if you're thinking in your left brain that's another podcast that is another podcast so.
Speaker 2:So you are going to set intentions or goals in both manners and they're both beneficial to some extent, based on where you are in your beliefs, patterns and programs. So they both serve a purpose.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:What it's going to do. When you set that long-term goal because you have a belief that it can't come into play yet, or by design, you're just not ready for the whole manifestation to happen. The what Manifestation?
Speaker 1:Okay, my tongue got a little in the way I tripped on my new tongue.
Speaker 2:They have them on sale at Walmart.
Speaker 1:It sounded like you said manifesting I don't know.
Speaker 2:I just know I stumbled over my tongue. That's funny. I bought it on sale, so it may not be quite the fit.
Speaker 1:Buy one, get one free.
Speaker 2:Yeah, at Walmart on that little sale kiosk. Thing.
Speaker 1:And the clearance aisle.
Speaker 2:Clearance aisle oh look, a new tongue. Only $1.50.
Speaker 1:Hey, $1.50,. Buy one, get one free. Oh, I got a coupon, I got a half off.
Speaker 2:Look, they have multicolored.
Speaker 1:That's funny.
Speaker 2:And so, like the example I used, if you're wanting to work on your mental perspective of yourself, it is you know the sigh, there's the sigh, there's the sigh.
Speaker 2:It is a good idea to set your intentions on the having it now, set them in the present tense, even your goals.
Speaker 2:Set them in the present tense because you don't want them to hang out in the future forever. And so, even when you write them down, I want to be a doctor, I am a doctor. What it does, it's okay to write it down in the future tense to get it out, but then start writing it in the present tense, because what that will do is it will begin to help you embrace the concept of being the doctor, finding that energy, and there's some other techniques that you'll do along with it, because if you're just verbally wording it, playing the little verbology game, that's not going to get you there. For most people it's a start, it is, but it's not going to get you there. And so you know the mechanism. What will happen is is, when you set that intention, it's going to bubble up beliefs, patterns and programs that are not beneficial to get you to that place where you want to go, and it gives you the opportunity for them to come up.
Speaker 2:You get to kind of figure out why they're there. How did they get there? Am I ready to get them moved on, dissolved, redefined, reprogrammed, so that you can clean up your vibration, so that you can align with the reality that you basically have created, that's sitting here in your little virtual queue, so to speak, because you don't manifest and you don't. You're not like. It's not like childbirth, where you set a goal and now you've got to breathe and push through it to give birth.
Speaker 1:That's the end sound.
Speaker 2:To this concept through challenges and trials and tribulations and Lamaze class. It's not like that. Okay, you create the concept of what you would like to experience. Next, your higher self takes that idea and holds on to it and begins to design it exactly the way. That is magnificent. Whether you let it in the way that it was designed or you let it in in a little bit more mucky perspective is based on your beliefs, patterns and programs. So you're aligning with the energy of that reality that's already created and it's sitting here in your queue, waiting for you to step into it and begin to live that lifestyle or that thing, or have that thing now what about the intention trap do?
Speaker 1:you know the trap of when we set intentions and then we have an expectation. It's supposed to look a certain way and we're not open enough to allow it to come into how spirit brings it in yeah and we have a tendency at least I did. I learned this a long time ago and I learned it from you, by the way is is when you set an intention and you are going through your daily life, you have to be open and receptive to whatever that looks like.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, your clay of life has to be malleable, it has to be reformable. You can't bake it off. Yet we have sculpting class today. I thought I would chime in with that.
Speaker 1:I caught the side smirk over there as he was making the sculpting class.
Speaker 2:So, whenever you're building your daydream, so to speak, and creating that next thing that you want to experience, you're going to create, because your human mind only has a certain level of ability to create this thing that you would like to experience, on a on a low level, it doesn't conceptually have the ability to take it to that uh, divine, miraculous serendipity place that's higher self's job.
Speaker 2:It's not even the mind's job, right, if you can just put your brain around that, that you're going to take it to the the, the level by which you have the ability to do through your daydream, okay. But then release it and don't insist or expect it to turn out exactly the way that your daydream went. And if it's not turning out that way, immediately go into that place of okay, something's wrong. It doesn't look the way I had it built in my daydream. Relax into it and let it manifest into the magnificent version, so to speak, of what's set up for you.
Speaker 2:That's being insistent that it has to look. The way that your daydream looked, or the way that you've created in your head is a very, very limiting place to be, because your physical doesn't have the capacity to even daydream to that 11th dimensional, 20th dimensional level. It just doesn't have that ability. It wasn't designed to have that ability. It's not. That's not its job okay its job is to perceive what it receives from the brain mechanism.
Speaker 1:Okay. So I totally agree with what you said, and I think that's the part of it that I struggled with was allowing life to happen as it's supposed to. When you set your intentions, you move towards your intentional living, and when it kind of throws you a little bifurcation in there, that's away from what your expectations are, and if you battle it, then that just slows the intention down.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the biggest trip up that I find when working with people is the concept of the time space continuum. What I mean by that is oh gosh, it's been 30 days, why isn't this happening? I need it now. And getting tripped up with the time span yeah, uh is something people battle with often, because they want it now. Right, but you've got to get. You've got to get to a place where the reason it's not coming in is because it gives you an opportunity to look at it.
Speaker 2:Why why is it not coming yet? What beliefs, patterns or programs do I have in place that are not letting it come in yet? Why am I perceiving myself as not being ready to accept it? Is it because I have an underlying belief that I am not deserving of it? Am I seeing it that I'm not worthy of something this big and this ostentatious? Do I have a view that what I'm daydreaming is so big that it's unattainable? Like a good example of that would be somebody who wants to increase their money flow and they daydream about winning the multimillion dollar lottery, because to them, $5 million is a lot of money. If it's too much money that they can't conceptually put their wrap their head around, because their beliefs are in the way then, yeah, then they'll keep it in the future, in the future, and it won't come.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's completely right. And so you have to look at the opportunity you're being given to dive a little deeper in why the time part of it is not happening and and why it's bugging you.
Speaker 1:Cause, if your intentions are coming true, it is definitely 100% your relief system.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or habit, or habit pattern program. It's one, it's some something of that mechanism.
Speaker 1:You know I'm, when I was in high school, this, I did this personal development class and then that burst, the first day of that personal. When I was in high school, I did this personal development class.
Speaker 2:And then the first day of that personal development class. You said it so ominously.
Speaker 1:No, it wasn't ominous, it was actually a really good class. The very first day of that class, the teacher said Take a bath. Here's a blank check for you. You're going to write yourself a million dollar check. And you're going to take that check with you for the rest of your life, until you can cash it, and that was a mistake.
Speaker 2:Why.
Speaker 1:Because I cashed that million dollar check but it could have been a $30 million check and I screwed that up. Why didn't I write it for $30 million?
Speaker 2:You just weren't there yet. $30 million seemed like an unachievable thing, and you weren't there yet.
Speaker 1:Right? Well, that's exactly what I'm getting to. The point of is, when you do intentions, they need to be clear and concise and open. And you can write yourself a million-dollar check, that's fine, but write yourself a $5 million check, a $10 million check, a $20 million check, and keep all of those, yeah, and allow it to be open and receptive.
Speaker 2:Or write that million-dollar check and when you achieve that then write the next number, write the next number, write the next number. Those are the baby goals or the baby steps to getting to the bigger one. Totally agree that is a good game to play with when you're setting intentions or goals, especially around money and writing yourself a check.
Speaker 1:Well, you could hold that cat down. Golly, let her go. Just kidding, she needs her own microphone. She does, she needs something. Can you imagine?
Speaker 2:putting headphones on her and putting her she needs her own microphone. She does, she needs, she needs. Can you imagine putting headphones on her and putting her in front of the microphone?
Speaker 1:well, she definitely gets on the mic every week yeah.
Speaker 2:So she likes to come in the office because it's very quiet and tranquil and she'll spend the day in here just kind of lounging, like this is her calm space. So in the mornings or when we come in to do a podcast, I always have to trick her to get her out, because she likes to get up here and walk around on the.
Speaker 1:Push buttons, like she's sitting there one day and recorded an eight and a half hour podcast because she hit the record button on the mixer board and it's sitting there recording her all day, right.
Speaker 2:Or she likes to get up here and sit with me.
Speaker 1:Rub on the mic.
Speaker 2:Getting away of the microphone, so we have to send her away.
Speaker 1:Yeah, pretty funny.
Speaker 2:But the editor, I'm sure, will cut that out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know and you guys probably won't hear it. She's got it down some. I don't think she's got it completely eliminated yet, but she's getting there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think she's got it completely eliminated yet, but she's getting there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because she has to be able to isolate that sound by having that sound clearly and freely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then she can set that.
Speaker 1:So if you do hear that sound, no one is killing the cat.
Speaker 2:She's pitching a fit at the door because she wants to come in.
Speaker 1:And when she gets mad she has feline vestibularitis and so when she gets mad it works her skin to where she has that jumping skin syndrome.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it makes her chase her own tail and she's like she's a little, she gets really grouchy.
Speaker 2:A little disabled cat.
Speaker 1:But back on to the intention setting. I think we have kind of came across the major parts of that, and one is when we set our intentions, we got to be clear and concise. They have to be free of expectation and they have to be, as you say, mini attainable along the way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, and it's like anything else, the more often that you do them, and do them from a conscious place, the better you'll get at them.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:So don't be too hard on yourself.
Speaker 1:Practice it, you know, just practice it. And I think the last part of it that that, uh you, you taught me about intentions a long time ago was to be open to the result without a complete vision of what you think it should look like, and I think the openness is a which kind of marries in all the rest of them together.
Speaker 2:but the openness for me was different because I had to allow the ultimate intention goal, whatever that is at the end of my and in my reality, to be however it looked and right, because you remember this as you go about your day, your higher self your higher self stays in that spiritual state and knows exactly what you intended to come here and learn and grow from. So your higher self knows how to beautifully choreography the, put together the, the next thing that you want to experience. Yeah, you setting a goal or an intention is just your way of saying to the higher self, the universe, your guides Okay, listen, I'm ready for the next thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, listen, I'm ready for the next thing yeah I'm ready for the next thing, and then it will be put together on a level that is huge yeah, well, she is getting worked up.
Speaker 2:I tell you she is um and then um, your higher self and your counsel will help you begin to work through those beliefs, patterns and programs and bring them to the surface as you're ready to look at them. That's what growth and evolution really is really looks like. So you'll get that inspirational thought of of okay, I am setting my intention in this way, of I am trying to clear beliefs around this topic. Then what will happen is you'll get things cleared up. You'll you'll get more comfortable making the intentions and then, one of one, one day you'll be like I am trying to get this belief cleared and it'll ring your bell and you'll be like, oh, you know what? I can say that better Because you've grown past that and you've become practiced at it, yeah.
Speaker 2:And it will happen naturally if you're aware of working with the system. So don't be too hard on. Oh, I shouldn't have said it that way. Now it's not going to work, rats, because it doesn't really. It doesn't happen that way. You're practicing each given moment and and as you evolve into the next level, it'll naturally happen. You'll say something and you'll say oh, you know what, I can clean that up.
Speaker 1:I said that wrong.
Speaker 2:And I can make that a little better. So I you know what I'm. I'm clearing that belief now. Let me rephrase that and you'll, you and you will, you'll, you'll rephrase that sentence, sentence, or, or that goal, if you will, um, and, and then you'll get to a place where you're like, oh, I can make that even better. Yeah, for example, we'll go back to the money. One for a second. I'm trying to manifest money that might be the elementary level.
Speaker 2:Then you say I am manifesting money now.
Speaker 2:Then what will happen next is I want to manifest $100,000 by the end of this year 2025, through the means of writing a book.
Speaker 2:So you'll just become more and more advanced in how you're creating that goal or that intention. Then the next level might be that you leave the money, part of it a little more open ended. Bring me the monetary abundance that is in divine flow for me and then, just trusting that that number is going to be incredibly ostentatious and out there, as big as you can possibly imagine. That's just how the setting of the intention or the goal works. Imagine that's just how the setting of the intention or the goal works and you grow into it, in, in, in each step that you take, because you're teaching yourself to be more and more in alignment with the receiving of the vibrational frequency of letting your cup be bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger to to the extent of getting to a place where a million dollars is not such a big number that it's unattainable right, yeah, totally agree because if you back it up just a little bit of where where you are, $50 is, we'll go even less than that.
Speaker 2:$20 is pretty attainable. Most people make $15 to $20 an hour. You could go to your job, work an hour and poof you have $20. Or you could be walking down the street and find a $20 bill, be walking down the street and find a $20 bill. So setting an intention that you're, that you're um going to find a $20 bill today somehow, some way, might be a fun way to start, because $20 or 10 or five, or a free cup of coffee whatever wherever you're at on that, start playing with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2:Because we are still a certain level in the collective of a seeing it is, believing it mentality. So if you're still there, to where you can't just believe it without seeing it, you'll put in place, or can put in place, some things that will validate it for you. And so, you know, start playing with it. I intend to receive a cup of coffee today. I don't care where, I don't care how, and I want it to be free. I need it to be free.
Speaker 2:Start baby steps, start baby steps and then, as you evolve, your intentions will get a little more intricate and concise, but at the same time a little more relaxed and open. It's kind of fun the way that it happens.
Speaker 1:Right close on the last part of the intention. That I think is a big trap as well is for some reason in the spiritual world. For many years now you may have a different opinion of this, but for many years I've it felt like that people thought just setting intentions didn't require any human action oh, yeah, good one oh, I've set my intention. I can just sit here on my I'm gonna sit on my laurels and wait for the world to give me something.
Speaker 2:Whoever laurel is, I know right, poor laurel, poor laurel. I know she must be flat as a pancake now.
Speaker 1:And so you have to be open to the action. Just set the intention and be open to the things that you are moved to do.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 1:Because we are in this dimension, on this planet, to have experiences, and part of those experiences are the actions behind our intentions.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So if you get that inspired thought to go and do something, just know that that's an inspired action that you're being moved to take, that you're being moved to take. And if you don't take it, then you're sending the message out to your council, your higher self, the universe, that okay, well, I'm not really ready to take action for whatever reason, or it'll be viewed as okay, she's not going to take action. So then we're just not going to.
Speaker 1:Right, because this is where it gets confused. This world and this universe owes you nothing. They've already given you everything and it's your job to go live it. And when you have an intention that's set out there because this happens to us all the time we have a goal or intention that we've set out there and for some reason, on a friday or saturday, we'll be like, hey, let's go do this, and we have no idea, because what's going to go on during that time, but yet it always seems to be something that happens that varies into our intention.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or the intention changes completely.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it can be completely opposite of what we said.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:And and we have no idea, you know, like that time we went to the to uh the show in Tampa, we ended up meeting four or five people in the spiritual world and we were just going to a home show.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And and we had, and then we ended up talking to them and then we end up going to an expo, yada, yada, yada. Make a long story short is you. You have to be open to your, to your motivated actions. If you feel motivated to do something, go do it. Yeah, because you it could be somehow 19 dimensionals away, related to your intention that you've set.
Speaker 2:And it's not a could be.
Speaker 1:It is, it is.
Speaker 2:It is intertwined with divine flow and divine guidance.
Speaker 1:And when you go on those action journeys, make sure you are open-minded even to the homeless guy walking up to you on the street to say something to you, or just a random person in the elevator makes a comment.
Speaker 2:Listen, pay attention to your, to your reality, yeah, I mean and as you evolve, if you can get to a place where you go set out to do your errands or your tasks, or you're gonna go do um a movie. If your journey changes to where you didn't get to the movie. Look at it from, not a place of oh my God, traffic was so bad, I missed the movie. Look at it from a place of, okay, there's obviously a divine flow going on here and I am going to experience something.
Speaker 1:And I some humanly going to get mad at the traffic because I'm late. I'm going to get road rage, I'm going to honk my horn a million times, I'm going to slam on the brakes a lot and speed up real fast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's not really probably the best way to go. The best way to it'd be to say, okay, you know what. This is happening for a reason, yeah, and I am very excited and curious to see where this journey is actually going to take me it's like when we went to watch that show Not having expectation, and insistent that it must look that way, right, because I can't tell you how many times we've set out to go do a list of things we want to get done, right?
Speaker 2:And the list doesn't get done at all, but we still end up on an amazing journey that we didn't even like. I can give you an example for us is.
Speaker 1:You know when that movie wicked came out, we kept trying to go see it and we could never get seats. Yeah, and we just kept on trying kept on trying instead of just saying okay, okay, hire yourself. Obviously you're not supposed to go see this movie. I get it, I understand. Thank you, spirit, for showing me that Move on. No, what happens? James goes ahead and buys the tickets.
Speaker 2:We go to watch. The wait for it was saying that movie was not good, it wasn't the best movie and I could have waited to see it at home, at home, instead of paying but the food was exceptional.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the food was good, but the movie irritated me. When we left and they find out, because they don't tell you there's a part two to it they just they just throw it out there and then, and it's not to mention, it's long and it's got very awkward negative nancy.
Speaker 2:That's, that's enough. Anyway, don't give it away.
Speaker 1:Spoiler alert some people may enjoy it, but the nonetheless point of it is is I didn't pay attention to the. You know we set the intention to go watch a movie. We didn't say that we were going to go watch wicked yeah we looked and see what was playing and we were like, oh wicked, let's go look at it because we've seen the advertisements for it. Let's go watch that. And then we, then we could never get seats. But I didn't listen to my higher self saying you might want to find a different movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then when we did go we were late because the traffic that's where this scenario comes from. I mean we left like an hour and a half early.
Speaker 2:And because of traffic we couldn't find a parking spot, couldn't find a parking place. It was crazy, it was insanity. And then we got there, and so we go to a like it's called Son of Bistro in Hyde. Park, it's like a movie eat place.
Speaker 1:So you get to eat while you're watching your movie.
Speaker 2:It's very, very cool and the food is absolutely amazing. But you order. If you get there in time, you order in your seat that you're going to watch the movie from. And they have little swing out tables we showed up tardy and we had to order our food at the window.
Speaker 1:We basically had to serve ourselves, and then the movie was what? Three?
Speaker 2:hours long. You got a little aggravated. I did get aggravated.
Speaker 1:I was aggravated at the whole freaking scenario because I didn't listen to my higher self and I didn't realize it till after the movie, like, oh I was like, okay, well, being aggravated is not gonna help, because that's never happened with us before that.
Speaker 2:Oh, it has. I mean in the going to santa bistro I mean going to santa bistro.
Speaker 1:This is true, yeah and so it caught me off guard because I wasn't open to seeing the signs.
Speaker 2:Signs, signs, everywhere the signs.
Speaker 1:It was ridiculous. It was totally ridiculous, really. I did that. It was my fault, but because I wasn't open to the signs.
Speaker 2:It's not really a fault thing. No, I know I'm saying. What did it allow you to be able to see and look at, though, or remind you about in your process?
Speaker 1:oh, to be open to and receptive to the signs of the things when you set your intention to do something.
Speaker 2:To be open and receptive yeah, I mean it's a good segue into this quick comment that sometimes, when you set an intention, if it's not something that is truly in alignment with what you want to experience, higher self will help you along that not to experience it. And so you got to read those signs as well. Yeah, I agree, either it's just not time or higher self knows that if you go and see this particular production, it's not going to be a pleasurable experience, and so sometimes higher self Well, throw all sorts of roadblocks and blocks in your way, right.
Speaker 2:It puts things in, in, in motion to keep you from going in that direction, and so sometimes you want to look at it from that perspective as well, if it seems, um, just not.
Speaker 1:Just not in flow.
Speaker 2:It's just not in flow. You'll get to a point where you can tell the difference. Yeah, then coming to that place of okay, you know what, we're all good. I must not supposed to be doing this right now, or maybe even at all, and so I'm going to let it alone, and if I'm supposed to be doing it, it'll come back around when it's time or when I'm supposed to be doing it.
Speaker 1:Yep, totally right. Well, I feel complete. Do you feel complete?
Speaker 2:I'm good.
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