7.7.21 - The Ash Cash Show

Money ain't a thing. Money ain't a thing. Money in the bank. Money in the bank. We can talk, but money talk. No talk, no work. The Ash Cash Show.

Ash Cash Show.

The Ash Cash Show. Ash Cash Show. The Ash Cash Show. Ash Cash Show. The Ash Cash Show. Show, show. Ash Cash Show. Ash Cash Show. The Ash Cash Show. Ash Cash Show. The Ash Cash Show. Ash Cash Show. Baby, I got too much money. Welcome, welcome, welcome to the, uh, to Ask Ash Show every Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 9 AM Eastern Standard Time. Tell a friend to tell a friend. Uh, make sure you go to askashshow.com, subscribe to the podcast. Go to ashcashtv.com, subscribe to the YouTube channel. So, um, yeah, I just, I just heard the news, so that's why I'm a little like a little lost for words. I don't even know where to go with it. Yes, I just got news that the president of Haiti was just assassinated and his wife— Yo, Drew, what up, man? Yo, I just heard, bro. Like, um, it's crazy. Like, I don't even know how to— so let me, let me, let me tell, let me tell you though. Let me tell you how crazy this is, right? Um, and how You know, God knows best, right? And let me tell you how crazy this is. So, y'all know I went to Haiti for the first time. Buddha Blast, happy birthday! The Bud, yo, everybody, everybody wish the Bud a happy birthday. It's my brother's birthday. So, let me, let me, let me tell you, let me tell you, right? Let me tell you how crazy it is. So everybody know I went to I went to Haiti. Free to live oh nine. What's up, Miss Wendy? So so I went to Haiti for the first time in 2020 last year for my birthday. And so I went to I went to Haiti and we went to Cap Haitian. You know we went to Cap and um. And when we went to Haiti, it was a great experience. We had such a great time. There was so much, we learned so much. It was so much history, right? Because as Haiti being the first free republic, you know what I'm saying? You know, I, um, it was a great time, right? It was so great that we, you know, the fam— it was me and the family. And it was so great that we was like, yo, we're gonna come back, you know what I'm saying? We're gonna come back to Haiti. And so my wife, you know, she turns 40 next week in God's will. So we had planned a whole trip Right, we had hoped— we had planned the whole trip to go back to Haiti for her birthday, you know what I'm saying, next week. And, um, I guess because, um, you know, we, we had wanted like the whole family to go. CJ, appreciate the badge love. We had wanted the whole family to go, so we was kind of like reaching out, you know what I'm saying, like we was kind of reaching out to everybody. And, you know, to get, you know, to get, you know, folks to come with us or whatever. And, you know, timing and things just didn't work out. You know what I'm saying? Things just didn't work out. Um, and so I was— so, you know, we decided, we was like, you know what, we're not going to go to Haiti twice. The reason why we were going to go to Haiti was because the second time was because— Hello, thank you for the badge, love. We was gonna go to Haiti the second time because we realized that there's so much history and we wanted to experience it again. And so we were gonna, we were gonna go next week, right? But because things didn't work out, we wound up canceling the trip to Haiti and going to St. Martin. So I'm not here next week. So next week, in God's will, you know, the family and I are going to be in St. Martin celebrating the First Lady's 40th birthday. And, you know, that was just a last-minute switch. We was like, all right, since we ain't going to Haiti— Ramiah, thank you for the badge love— we're just gonna go to St. Martin instead. And so now, right now, this happens, right? Can you imagine? Can you imagine? And prayers to the family. So I'm not making this about me. So let me just say that first and foremost, you know what I'm saying? I'm not making this about me. So prayers to the family, prayers, prayers for the country, you know what I'm saying? Like prayers going up. Appreciate you, uh, appreciate the bad love. So I'm not making this about me, but I am saying that, you know, can you imagine had we— not just us, right? Because it wasn't just my immediate family, you know, we were getting other parts, other people in the family to kind of, you know, go along with us. And can you imagine what that would have been like, right? Like what that would have been like I don't even think we would have been able to go, to be honest, because I'm pretty sure the country is now in turmoil, right? I wouldn't have felt safe taking my family, you know, to a country that the president was just assassinated, like, you know what I'm saying? So prayers, you know what I'm saying? Prayers, man, prayers go up. To the to the to the to the president, to his wife, to the country. And you know, it's it's it's it's almost like it's almost like a testament. I want to say to to today's daily word or today's daily aspiration. We go. We gonna, we gonna still party, still go on. So we gonna, we gonna, we gonna talk real quick, um, because today's daily aspiration, um, today's daily aspiration is about, um, oh man, today's daily aspiration is about seizing the moment, you know what I'm saying? And this beat is fitting, right? You know, if y'all remember this song, it's like, yo, if you had 24 hours to live, what would you do? You know what I'm saying? And I think that a lot of times we don't realize—

Man.

Man, happy Wednesday. My creators and lovers of life, welcome to the day that you realize that today is the most precious commodity you currently have in your possession. Today's daily aspiration is dedicated to living every day as if it's your last. Now more than ever, it is imperative that you stop putting off for tomorrow What you can do today. We all know tomorrow isn't promised, yet we dream for it as if it's a sure thing.

Sheesh.

We all know that yesterday is dead and gone, yet we lust for it like it has the ability to come back. We all know that today is all we have, yet we treat it like a stepchild. Stop wasting energy on things you cannot control. All you have is here and now. That's it. They say you only have one life to live, but if you do it right, then once is more than enough. Now is the time to get out of that dead-end job. Now is the time to get rid of that relationship that is causing you misery. Now is the time to reach as high as you can reach and fulfill all of your wildest dreams. What if this is it? What if this is it? Ask yourself, what if this is it? What if you had 24 hours to live? Would you be able to look back at your life and smile or look at it with regret? Tomorrow is too late. Do it now. Conquer that fear, live your life, and don't take any prisoners. Um, man, and it's crazy because, um, man, it's crazy because I, um, you know, I wrote this, I wrote, I wrote this message About seizing the moment, you know, prior to even hearing the news of you know the president's assassination, you know. And I mean, you know, it you know it just drives the point home just a little different. You know what I'm saying? It just drives the point home a little. It's a little different. Keith, what up, Keith? My brother. Um. Because man, like, like, who would have thought, right? There's no way the president, right? There's no way that the president thought that today was, was his last day, right? There's no way that the president, um, even fathomed. I don't know. Right, I don't know. But, you know, the president and his wife assassinated in their home. And, you know, most people who are— who leave this earth, you know what I'm saying? Most people who leave this earth They don't, they you know they don't, they don't, you know they don't anticipate it. You know I'm saying? You don't anticipate it. And so it's imperative, yo. Like I, I, I can't even.

I don't even.

I'm lost. I'm a. I'm lost for words because it's like. How could you really play with life, you know what I'm saying? Like, how could you really play with life? How could you play with life when you, when you, when you don't know when that time is going to come? All of the things that we're putting off, all of the things that we're waiting for, all of the things that we're saying later on, all of the things that we're, you know, you know, you know, giving contingencies on.

Right.

Like, how do you— like, how? You don't even know. You're putting off— you're putting off being happy right now for a tomorrow that doesn't even exist. Like, tomorrow doesn't even exist, and you're putting off tomorrow For something that doesn't exist. I'm gonna play. Let me play this real quick. I had, I had a record done, right? So I forgot who he was talking to, but somebody had mentioned Eckhart Tolle. He wrote a book called, you know, he wrote a book called The Power of Now. And in The Power of Now, right, in The Power of Now, you know, it talks about the importance, you know what I'm saying. Witness to Elevation, thank you for the badge love. It talks about the importance of being here in the now. And so there's a summary of the book that I found online that I thought was a really great summary. And so I need y'all to take heed. We'll play this once or twice if y'all need it. But this is so fitting. This is so fitting today and the energy of today. Peace and blessings.

Into dismissing them without any contemplation. These concepts— today we're going to do a book review on The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.

The Power of Now.

Concepts in this book can come across as very simple, but don't let that trick you into dismissing them without any contemplation. These concepts, although simple, are profound. With that said, keep an open mind going into this. You may get an initial reaction to resist what the book teaches, But just put your opinions and judgments to the side for a few minutes and consider the possibilities. The 3 primary concepts I wanna focus on are as follows. 1, you are not your mind. 2, the present moment is all we ever have. And 3, acceptance of what is. There are many other lessons in the book, but I wanna focus on these now just to keep it simple. The Power of Now, lesson 1, you are not your mind, you are not your thoughts. Quite a bold statement, I know. See, the problem of humanity is deeply rooted The mind is an incredibly useful tool, but we have become identified with it. The tool, as they say, has taken over the master. We believe that the mind and its constant stream of thoughts—

This is barred up though. Let's not lose the message.

I'm sure by now you've noticed that your mind is constantly chatting away. The voice in your head speculates, complains, judges, compares, and so on. We habitually think and worry about the future. And if we're not doing that, then we're replaying the past events in our mind. Our thoughts, our mental dialogues are compulsive. They have taken most of us over. And the insane thing is we don't even realize it. Most of us are on autopilot. Most of us just go through life chatting to ourselves incessantly and letting our conditioned mind run our lives. Early in the book, Eckhart asks the reader, can you be free of your mind whenever you want to? Have you found the off button? Can you stop the stream of thoughts and just be? If the answer is no, then you're unconsciously identified with the mind. It's using you and you probably don't even realize it. There is much more to you than just that stream of thoughts. If you're hearing this for the first time, you may be confused. You may say, well, if I'm not my thoughts, then what am I? That's a great question, and in my opinion, asking what am I is one of the most important questions you can ask yourself. That is the beginning of self-inquiry, awareness, mindfulness, or whatever you want to call it. So how do you get closer to realizing what you truly are? It all starts with awareness. You start by listening to the voice in your head as often as you can. Instead of being consumed or identified with your thoughts, you take a step back and just observe them. You try to create a sort of separation from yourself and your thoughts. It's super easy to get wrapped up in the stream of thoughts your mind is constantly coming up with, but just try your best to catch yourself in the stream of thought and just observe what's going on. Make a game of it like you're pretending to watch something in a lab. Observe its reactions, actions, thoughts, and so on. After you've done this for a while, ask yourself if you notice any repetitive thought patterns. Be there as the witnessing presence of your thoughts and do so without judgment. Listen impartially throughout the day and take note of what your mind is doing. Once you start to get a glimpse that you are not the thinker, you're able to watch the thinker in your mind more objectively. When you observe your thoughts, you'll see that there's a higher level of consciousness at play here. You are that higher level of consciousness. Consider this: if you're observing your thoughts, can you be your thoughts? The answer is no. You're actually much more than thought. You are beyond thought. Over time, and as you become better at observing your thoughts, you'll feel a deeper presence behind the thought. When that happens, the thought loses its power over you. Because you have disidentified from the thought stream. You have disidentified from the mind. Now, if you keep this practice up for long enough, eventually you'll experience a gap between thoughts known as no-mind. The gaps will be short at first, but they will get longer. The no-mind gap is not some trance-like state. It's quite the opposite. You're more aware, awake, alert, and fully present in this state. Another way to get into the state of no-mind is to focus your attention in the now. Become intensely conscious of the moment you're in. This draws your attention away from the mind and into the now. You are alert and aware, but you're not thinking. You can do this at any time throughout the day. If you're waiting in line or at a stoplight, become intensely aware of the moment you're in. Let go of thought and see things without the filter of your mind. Look at things without labeling or judging them. It's very challenging at first, but don't give up. Keep doing this and you'll eventually get a glimpse of no-mind. This could be a very confusing concept if you've never heard it before, so let's hit on a couple of Eckhart's quotes to really drive it home before moving to the next lesson. The single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of the mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. The wider the time gap between perception and thought, the more depth there is to you.

Behind the wheel, he's hit the back.

That is to say, the more Hey. The moment your attention turns to the now, you feel a presence, a stillness, a peace. You no longer depend on the future for fulfillment and satisfaction. You don't look to it for salvation. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it. For most of us, the mind has become out of balance. Our compulsive thinking is an addiction The only way out is to realize the truth: you are not your mind. You are not your thoughts. The mind is simply a tool to be used when necessary. You can still pursue goals, but you will realize that there is nothing in the future that will save you or make you happy. You don't need something in the future. You're just happy being, being here and now. That brings us to lesson 2: the present moment is all we will ever have, so live in the here and now. As mentioned earlier, our minds can be preoccupied thinking about the past or thinking about the future. We are very rarely in the present moment. So our goal here is to be more grounded in the present moment. Yes, thinking and planning for the future is necessary in today's world, but let's be honest, over 90% of our thinking is repetitive and useless, and it's often negative. Don't take my word for it. Listen to your mind for 10 minutes and see for yourself what it's saying. When I started doing this, I realized that my mind was just a rambling stream of random Mostly useless repetitive thoughts, like a tape that was on repeat. Now, if you're offended by this, thinking, well, I'm not like that, well, that's just your ego talking. Your ego is the one getting offended. As you are not your thoughts, you are not your ego either. Tolle tells us that the only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step you are taking at this moment. You may have an outer purpose and outer goals, but they should not take up so much of your attention that they become more important than the step you are taking now. Now is all there is. Remember, the mind is always trying to escape the now since it has no power here. The mind needs the past and the future, memory and anticipation, to exist. It hides from the present. It wants to live in the past and create a story for itself, or it wants to look to the future towards some kind of fulfillment. As Tolle says, time and mind are inseparable. If you take away time by focusing on the now, The mind falls to the background. Observe how your mind habitually escapes to the past and the future. The moment you realize you're not present, you become present. When you observe it, you're not trapped in it anymore. Be what Eckhart refers to as the silent watcher. The more you're focused on time, past and future, the more you miss the now. Another great point here is that you can always handle the present moment. You can always cope with the now. Problems arise when you get wrapped up in the what-ifs and I should haves. Usually everything is fine in the present moment and you can handle whatever it is that comes your way as it happens. But when you get so wrapped up in the future and start worrying about tomorrow or a week from now, that's when stress arises, and that's exactly where worry and anxiety come from. Ask yourself, what is missing in this moment? Really contemplate that one. The answer is nothing. All these wants, desires, and regrets come from the mind's obsession of the past And future. You can't cope with the future because it is a mind projection. It's not real. Is there ever any other time except the moment you're in? No. Even when you think of the past and the future, you're doing it in the now. If the present moment is all we ever have, shouldn't we be fully present in the moment we're in? We should make that the focus of our daily lives. Cory, what up? What up? Back to the past or plan for the future when you need to. But your primary focus should be on the now. If not now, when? As Eckhart states, you've never experienced, done, thought, or felt anything outside the now.

I'm gonna let this rock. I don't wanna interrupt.

Is it possible for anything to happen or be outside the now? The answer is obvious, is it not? Nothing ever happened in the past and nothing will ever happen in the future. It happens in the now. A memory is just a trace from a former now that you're recalling in the now. Do you have any problems in the present moment? Not tomorrow or in 30 minutes, but right now. Let's once again hit on some quotes from The Power of Now before moving to the— Use your senses fully. Be where you are. Look around. Just look. Don't interpret. See the lights, shapes, colors, textures. Be aware of the silent presence of each thing. Be aware of the space that allows everything to be. If you set yourself a goal and work toward it, you're using clock time. You are aware of where you want to go, but you honor and give your fullest attention to the step that you're taking at this moment. Usually the future is a replica of the past. Superficial changes are possible, but real transformation is rare and depends upon whether you become present enough to dissolve the past by accessing the power of now. How does your mind operate? Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are? Are your actions a means to an end? Is fulfillment always just around the corner or confined to short-lived pleasures such as sex, food, drink, drugs, or thrills and excitement? Are you always focused on becoming, achieving, and attaining? Do you believe that if you acquire more things, you'll become more fulfilled, good enough, more psychologically complete? Only the present can free you from the past. And finally, The Power of Now, Lesson 3: Acceptance of What Is. So while you're being grounded in the moment you're in, you also want to be completely accepting of it. You don't want to allow any resistance to come in. You may think that the situation creates the suffering, but that's not so. Your resistance is. Accept the moment as it is now. When you resist what is, you create pain for yourself. Between what is and what your expectations are, there's a gap, and that's where resistance lies. Again, the first step is awareness. Observe how your mind labels, judges, and creates resistance to what is. Over time, this will get easier to do, and you'll become somewhat objective to the mind's thoughts, and they won't have such a firm grip over you. You can then allow the present moment to be. Work with it and not against it. Accept it as it is and then act. No one is saying that you have to accept a crappy situation and do nothing about it. Remember, it's still okay to say no to people or to walk away from a situation. But now let it be a non-reactive no. Not from reaction, but from insight. Accept the moment as it is, as if you had chosen it, and then do something about it if needed. Eckhart calls this surrendering to the now. Surrender is the letting go of mental-emotional resistance to what is. And I must stress this point. This does not mean giving up or being complacent. As Eckhart Tolle stated, true surrender does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yourself in and do nothing about it, nor does it mean to cease making plans or initiating positive action. Surrendering is yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. The only place where you can experience the flow of life Is now. So to surrender is to accept the present moment unconditionally and without reservation. When you acknowledge that there is resistance, you're making resistance conscious. You're no longer coming from reaction and resistance. Once you acknowledge it, ask if there is anything you can do to change, improve, or remove yourself from the situation, and then take action on the one thing you can do in the now, not the other 100 things that you may or may not do in the future. of what you can do right now. Tolle also states, the external conditions that were being resisted also tend to shift or dissolve quickly through surrender. It's a powerful transformation of situations and people. If conditions do not shift immediately, your acceptance of the now enables you to rise above them. Either way, you are free. And if you cannot surrender, take action immediately. Speak up or do something to bring about a change in a situation or remove yourself from it. Take responsibility for your life. Eckhart states, surrender does not transform what is, at least not directly. Surrender transforms you. When you're transformed, your whole world is transformed because the world is only a reflection. Life is like a mirror. If you saw something in the mirror you didn't like, would you attack it? Of course not, because you'd be attacking yourself. Become friendly with it and it becomes friendly towards you. There are no problems, only situations. To be dealt with now, or to be left alone and accepted as part of the is-ness of the present moment until they change or can be dealt with. So see if you can catch yourself complaining, either through speech or thought. When you're complaining, you are not accepting what is. You make yourself into a victim. Let's hit on some final quotes from the book before summarizing and wrapping this up. It is not the overall situation that you need to accept when you surrender. But just the tiny segment called now. Inner resistance cuts you off from other people, from yourself, from the world around you. It strengthens the feeling of separateness on which the ego depends on for its survival. Surrender will move you closer to people. Through surrender, you'll accept what is, and that means accepting people as they are. You won't judge, criticize, reject, label, or attempt to change people. When you accept resentment, moodiness, anger, and so on, you're no longer forced to act them out blindly, and you're less likely to project them onto others. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within, secondary reality without. If there is truly nothing you can do to change your here and now, and you keep—

Here we go, back to the bad blood.

Then accept your here and now totally by dropping all inner resistance. The false, unhappy self that loves feeling miserable, resentful, or sorry for itself can no longer survive. This is called surrender. Surrender is not weakness. That's my quick breakdown of The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. Let's summarize quickly. 1, you are not your thoughts. Observe your thoughts to see them for what they truly are. 2, the present moment is all we ever have, so be more grounded in it. And 3, surrender to the now and accept what is. Why fight what is already in existence? Instead, whatever it is, allow it to be and surrender to it. These 3 lessons get deeper and deeper the longer you practice them. So if this piqued your interest, spend some time on them and go pick up a copy of this book. It's an absolute masterpiece.

You are now listening to mindrightradio.com, the only place to get inspiration and motivation all day, every day. Um, man, the power of that. Yo, I'll be honest with y'all, I wish, uh, I wish I had the energy to break this down because this is so powerful. Um, yeah, I, I just thought my mind, like, my mind's just running through so much, so much things right now. Uh, prayers up for Haiti as well, you know what I mean? Specifically for Haiti. Um, For the president, for the for the family. Um, man. So this is powerful though. So I don't want y'all to miss this. I hopefully that's why I didn't really talk. Um, that's why I didn't really talk because I because I you know, uh, I just don't have the I don't I don't have the energy right. I don't have the right energy and. I want to make— I want to make sure that we understand that all you have is right now. You know what I'm saying? Like, I need— I need you to get that though. I need y'all— I need you to— I need you to get that. I need— I need you to know, right? I need you to know that all you have is right now. Um, in fact, I might just play it again, right? Um, yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, it's just— it was just so many bars in this joint. Um, yeah, it was so— it was— it was so many bars. Like, like, and so this is just a random review. So, uh, people are asking who this is. Um, I didn't see the person's name. Um, this is just a random review of The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, and it's so powerful because ah man, let me let me see if I can do it.

Today we're going to do our book review on The Power of Now.

Let's see if I can. Let's let's see if I can. I don't know.

Let's see. This book can come across as very.

I'm trying. Look, look. I'm trying to get my mind right to be able to break it down. Because this is so— I mean, I mean, this is so powerful, you know. It's so, it's so powerful. And honestly, um, it's fitting, you know what I'm saying. All right, let's, let's see, let's see if I can—

We're gonna do our book review on The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.

Let's see if we can catch some bars.

Concepts in this book can come across as very simple, but don't let that trick you into dismissing them without any contemplation. These concepts, although simple, are profound. With that said, keep an open mind going into this. You may get an initial reaction to this, what the book teaches, but just put your opinions and judgments to the side for a few minutes and consider the possibilities. The 3 primary concepts I want to focus on are as follows: 1, you are not your mind. 2, the present moment is all we ever have.

You are not your mind. Present moment is all you have.

And 3, acceptance of what is.

And 3, acceptance of what is.

There are many other lessons in the book, but I want to focus on these for now just to keep it simple. The Power of Now, Lesson 1: You are not your mind.

You are not your mind.

You are not your thoughts. Quite a bold statement, I know. See, the problem of humanity is deeply rooted in the mind itself. The mind is an incredibly useful tool, but we have become identified with it. The tool, as they say, has taken over the master. We believe that the mind and its constant stream of thoughts is who we are, but we are much more than that. I'm sure by now you've noticed that your mind is constantly chatting away. The voice in your head speculates, complains, judges, compares, and so on. We habitually think and worry about the future, and if we're not doing that, then we're replaying the past events in our mind. Our thoughts, our mental dialogues, are compulsive. They have taken most of us over, and the insane thing is we don't even realize it. Most of us are on autopilot. Most of us just go through life chatting to ourselves in incessantly and letting our conditioned mind run our lives. Early in the book, Eckhart asks the reader, can you be free of your mind whenever you want to? Have you found the off button? Can you stop the stream of messages? If the answer is no, then you are unconsciously identified with the mind. It is using you and you probably don't even realize it. There is much more to you than just that stream of thoughts. If you are hearing this for the first time, you may be confused. You may say, well, if I'm not my thoughts, then what am I? That's a great question, and in my opinion, asking what am I is one of the most important questions you can ask yourself. That is the beginning of self-inquiry, awareness, mindfulness, or whatever you want to call it. So how do you get closer to realizing what you truly are? It all starts with awareness. You start by listening to the voice in your head as often as you can. Instead of being consumed or identified with your thoughts, you take a step back and just observe them. You try to create a sort of separation from yourself and your thoughts. It's super easy to get wrapped up in the stream of thoughts your mind is constantly coming up with, but just try your best to catch yourself in the stream of thought and just observe what's going on. Make a game of it like you're pretending to watch something in a lab. Observe its reactions, actions, thoughts, and so on. After you've done this for a while, ask yourself if you notice any repetitive thought patterns. Be there as the witnessing presence of your thoughts and do so without judgment. Listen impartially throughout the day and take note of what your mind is doing. Once you start to get a glimpse that you are not the thinker, you're able to watch the thinker in your mind more objectively. When you observe your thoughts, you'll see that there's a higher level of consciousness at play here. You are that higher level of consciousness. Consider this: if you're observing your thoughts, can you be your thoughts? The answer is no. You're actually much more than thought. You are beyond thought. Over time, and as you become better at observing your thoughts, you'll feel a deeper presence behind the thought. When that happens, the thought loses its power over you because you have disidentified from the thought stream. You have disidentified from the mind. Now, if you keep this practice up for long enough, eventually you'll experience a gap between thoughts known as no mind. The gaps will be short at first, but they will get longer. The no-mind gap is not some trance-like state. It's quite the opposite. You're more aware, awake, alert, and fully present in this state. Another way to get into the state of no-mind is to focus attention on the now. Become intensely conscious of the moment you're in. This draws your attention away from the mind and into the now. You are alert and aware, but you're not thinking. You can do this at any time of the day. Waiting in line or at a stoplight, become intensely aware of the moment you're in. Let go of thought and see things without the filter of your mind. Look at things without labeling or judging them. It's very challenging at first, but don't give up. Keep doing this and you'll eventually get a glimpse of no-mind. This can be a very confusing concept if you've never heard it before, so let's hit on a couple of Eckhart's quotes to really drive it home before moving to the next lesson. The single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of the mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. The wider the time gap between perception and thought, the more depth there is to you as a human being, which is to say, the more conscious you are. The moment your attention turns to the now, you feel a presence, a stillness, a peace. You no longer depend on the future for fulfillment and satisfaction. You don't look to it for salvation. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it. For most of us, the mind has become out of balance. Our compulsive thinking is an addiction of sorts. The only way out is to You realize the truth. You are not your mind. You are not your thoughts. The mind is simply a tool to be used when necessary. You can still pursue goals, but you will realize that there is nothing in the future that will save you or make you happy. You don't need something in the future. You're just happy being, being here and now. That brings us to lesson 2. The present moment is all we will ever have, so live in the here and now. As mentioned earlier, our mind can be preoccupied thinking about the past or thinking about the future. We are very rarely in the present moment, so our goal here is to be more grounded in the present moment. Yes, thinking and planning for the future is necessary in today's world, but let's be honest, over 90% of our thinking is repetitive and useless, and it's often negative. Don't take my word for it, listen to your mind for 10 minutes and see for yourself what it's saying. When I started doing this, I realized that my mind was just a rambling stream of random Mostly useless repetitive thoughts, like a tape that was on repeat. Now, if you're offended by this, thinking, well, I'm not like that, well, that's just your ego talking. Your ego is the one getting offended. As you are not your thoughts, you are not your ego either. Tolle tells us that the only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step you are taking at this moment. You may have an outer purpose and outer goals, but they should not take up so much of your attention That they become more important than the step you're taking now. Now is all there is. Remember, the mind is always trying to escape the now since it has no power here. The mind needs the past and the future, memory and anticipation, to exist. It hides from the present. It wants to live in the past and create a story for itself, or it wants to look to the future towards some kind of fulfillment. As Tolle says, Time and mind are inseparable. If you take away time by focusing on the now, the mind falls to the background. Observe how your mind habitually escapes to the past and the future. The moment you realize you're not present, you become present. When you observe it, you're not trapped in it anymore. Be what Eckhart refers to as the silent watcher. The more you're focused on time, past and future, the more you miss the now. Another great point here is that you can always handle the present moment. You can always cope with the now. Problems arise when you get wrapped up in the what-ifs and I should haves. Usually everything is fine in the present moment and you can handle whatever it is that comes your way as it happens. But when you get so wrapped up in the future and start worrying about tomorrow or a week from now, that's when stress arises, and that's exactly where worry and anxiety come from. Ask yourself, what is missing in this moment? Really contemplate that one. The answer is nothing. All these wants, desires, and regrets All of our problems come from the mind's obsession of the past and future. You can't cope with the future because it is a mind projection. It's not real. Is there ever any other time except the moment you're in? No. Even when you think of the past and the future, you're doing it in the now. If the present moment is all we ever have, shouldn't we be fully present in the moment we're in? We should make that the focus of our daily lives. Sure, you can go back to the past and plan for the future when you need to, but your primary focus should be on the now. I appreciate you, Nama. If not now, when? As Eckhart states, have you ever experienced, done, thought, or felt anything outside the now? Do you think you ever will? Is it possible for anything to happen or be outside the now? The answer is obvious, is it not? Nothing ever happened in the past and nothing will ever happen in the future. It happens in the now. A memory is just a trace from a former now that you're recalling in the now. Do you have any problems in the present moment? Not tomorrow or in 30 minutes, but right now? Let's once again hit on some quotes from The Power of Now before moving to the final lesson. Use your senses fully. Be where you are. Look around. Just look, don't interpret. See the lights, shapes, colors, textures. Be aware of the silent presence of Be aware of the space that allows everything to be. If you set yourself a goal and work toward it, you are using clock time. You are aware of where you want to go, but you honor and give your fullest attention to the step that you're taking at this point. Usually the future is a replica of the past. Superficial changes are possible, but real transformation is rare and depends upon whether you become present enough to dissolve the past By accessing the power of now. How does your mind operate? Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are? Are your actions a means to an end? Is fulfillment always just around the corner or confined to short-lived pleasures such as sex, food, drink, drugs, or thrills and excitement? Are you always focused on becoming, achieving, and attaining? Do you believe that if you acquire more things, you become more Felt good enough or psychologically complete. Only the present can free you from the past. And finally, The Power of Now Lesson 3: Acceptance of What Is. So while you're being grounded in the moment you're in, you also want to be completely accepting of it. You don't want to allow any resistance to come in. You may think that the situation creates the suffering, but that's not so. Your resistance is. Accept the moment as it is now. When you resist what is, you create pain for yourself. Between what is and what your expectations are, there is a gap, and that's where resistance lies. Again, the first step is awareness. Observe how your mind labels, judges, and creates resistance to what is. Over time, this will get easier to do. You'll become somewhat objective of the mind's thoughts, and they won't have such a firm grip over you. You can then allow the present moment to be. I'm gonna upload this later, uh, inside of my radio. No one is saying that you have to accept the crappy situation and do nothing about it. Remember, it's still okay to say no to people or to walk away from a situation, but now let it be a non-reactive no, not from reaction but from insight. Accept the moment as it is, as if you had chosen it, and then do something about it if needed. Eckhart calls this surrendering to the now. Surrender is the letting go of mental-emotional resistance to the present.

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And I must stress this point: this does not mean giving up or being complacent. True surrender does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yourself in and do nothing about it, nor does it mean to cease making plans or initiating positive action. Surrendering is yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. Maria, the only place where you can experience the flow of life is in the now. So surrender is to accept the present moment completely and without reservation. When you acknowledge that there is resistance, you're making resistance conscious. You're no longer coming from reaction and resistance. Once you acknowledge it, ask if there's anything you can do to change, improve, or move Remove yourself from the situation and then take action on the one thing you can do in the now, not the other 100 things that you may or may not do in the future, but what you can do right now. Tolle also states the external conditions that were being resisted also tend to shift or dissolve quickly through surrender. It's a powerful transformation of situations and people. If conditions do not shift immediately, your acceptance of the now enables you to rise above them. Either way, you are free. And if you cannot surrender, take action immediately. Speak up or do something to bring about a change in a situation or remove yourself from it. Take responsibility for your life. Eckhart states, surrender does not transform what is, at least not directly. Surrender transforms you. When you're transformed, your whole world is transformed because the world is only a reflection. Life is like a mirror. If you saw something in the mirror you didn't like, would you attack it? Of course not, because you would be attacking yourself. Become friendly with it and it becomes friendly towards you. There are no problems, only situations to be dealt with now or to be left alone and accepted as part of the is-ness of the present moment until they change or can be dealt with. So see if you can catch yourself complaining. Either through speech or thought. When you're complaining, you are not accepting what is. You make yourself into a victim. Let's hit on some final quotes from the book before summarizing and wrapping this up. It is not the overall situation that you need to accept when you surrender, but just the tiny segment called now. Inner resistance cuts you off from other people, from yourself, from the world around you. It strengthens the feeling of separateness. Less positive influence. It depends on for its survival. Surrender will move you closer to people. Through surrender, you'll accept what is, and that means accepting people as they are. You won't judge, criticize, reject, label, or attempt to change people. When you accept resentment, bitterness, anger, and so on, you're no longer forced to act them out blindly, and you're less likely to project them onto others. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within. Secondary reality without. If there is truly nothing you can do to change your here and now, and you can't remove yourself from the situation, then accept your here and now totally by dropping all inner resistance. The false, unhappy self that loves feeling miserable, resentful, or sorry for itself can no longer survive. This is called surrender. Surrender is not weakness. That's my quick breakdown of The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. Let's summarize quickly. One, you are not your thoughts. Observe your thoughts to see them for what they truly are. 2, the present moment is all we ever have, so be more grounded in it. And 3, surrender to the now and accept what is. Why fight what is already in existence? Instead, whatever it is, allow it to be and surrender to it. These 3 lessons get deeper and deeper the longer you practice them, so if this piqued your interest, spend some time on them and go pick up a copy of this book. It's an absolute masterpiece.

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I might, uh— Money Making Mitch, what up? Um, I might, um— Mitch, thank you for the badge love. I might play this back tomorrow, in God's will, to kind of dissect a lot of this stuff. But hopefully, CPWATL, thank you for the badge love. Hopefully y'all got the message. You know, yeah, you know what I'm saying? Like, all you got is now, you know, all you got is now. And I'll tell you why it's so crazy to me, because there's just so many thoughts that are going through my mind right now. And so, you know, you know, I, you know, I said, I used to wake up like 4 in the morning. But then I started getting later and later and later. And then eventually, you know, it's like maybe like 5:30. But 4 in the morning was always like a great time for me to be up. Because I get to, you know, get to pray, get to meditate, get to, you know, just kind of be with myself a little more, you know what I'm saying? And, and so this morning, you know, so like, you know, yesterday, you know, I play ball and all that stuff. Woke up 4 in the morning. So I said, yo, I need, I need, I need my body to get used to waking up at 4 in the morning, you know. And so I woke up this morning, you know, I didn't, I didn't change my clock, you know, woke up. Thank you for the badge, love. I woke up four in the morning, and yeah, I prayed. You know, I prayed, did my salats, and as I was praying, a message came to me. You know, a message came to me. It's so it's I'm telling you it's crazy. That's why sometimes you be too like like like I want to say. I don't want to say there's any, you know, there's any such thing as like too much enlightenment, but it's crazy how everything just kind of like went together, right. So, you got to remember, I sent out the daily words, shout out to my guy Griff. I sent out the daily words a month in advance, you know what I'm saying. And so, yeah, I can't say it no other way. I send out the daily words a month in advance. So today's daily aspiration was already sent. Like, I don't schedule them. Griff schedules them. He puts them out, you know what I'm saying? He sends them to the list. So I woke up this morning, I prayed, and I got this message, right? I got this message from God. that said that I need to— I need to— Oh no, not even I need to. I got a message from God that said look around and see the common thread in everything in your life. That was the instruction, right. The instruction for me was Look around and see the common thread in everything in your life, right. And so, you know, first thing I did is I looked around, right. And so, First Lady and I just got our bathroom redone, you know, we got our bathroom redone. And we didn't really like the way the floors look. And so, you know, instead of hiring somebody to redo the floors, I just was like, I'll do them, you know what I'm saying? And so, you know, we got on like stick-on tiles, not even like, not even like, I'm not ripping up the floors. Like, I literally was like, we, I mean, we got the whole bathroom done. But we, but, you know, our plans is to, I won't get too much in our business, but our plans is to, you know, Do you know Airbnb the current house? But that's another thing. Um, and get a new house, but Airbnb the current house. And so, as I'm doing it, so I'm like it doesn't make sense to put to to do the expense of getting a new you know getting a new floor. So I just did the stick-on tiles. So where am I saying that? So part of it was as I'm putting the stick-on tiles, the doors are are not you know are not closing. Um, and then I, I got halfway finished it. Like, I didn't fully finish it. It was like halfway finished. So, um, and then I had all my tools on the floor, and the bathroom is really, really big. So the tools are on the floor, but you, you can still function with it, but it's still on the floor. And so I looked, I observed that. Then I walked into my closet, and, um, when I walked into my closet You know, I have a, you know, I have a bench, you know, where you sit down and then, you know, all around my clothes and stuff. And I had just did like laundry and I didn't hang up my clothes, right? So all of my clothes are there, neat though. It's neatly put in a pack, it's neatly put in a pack, but it's neat, but it's still stacked up. I didn't do that. Then I went downstairs to my office. And I just bought a bunch of merch, right? Then I'm about to go to my guy Blue to get embroidered, right? So I bought a bunch of merch like polos and shorts and stuff like that. And I want to get them embroidered, you know, like, so instead of me wearing like I'm wearing Nautica right now, but instead of wearing Nautica, I would have an AC logo, you know what I'm saying? So I'm working on that, right? And so I got a bunch of merch. I got like a bunch of polo shirts, a bunch of shorts, all like a lot of them, right? A lot of pieces all sitting on my chair in my office. And then I get a— then I get an email. I get an email about 2 sales that I got for a funnel that I didn't even finish, right? And so the message was like, yo, Yo, look at your life. Like, I'm giving you all these opportunities and you are not fully finishing. Like, you're jumping to the next thing before you finish. And this is just me being fully transparent, right. It's like, yo, you multitasking, you jump into the next thing before you even finish, right. And so when I got that message, two things could have happened. Two things could have happened. I could have, I could have sulked in it. I could have just stayed in it. I could have, I could have beat myself up about it, right? I could have beat myself up. I could have said, yo, bro, you always starting stuff you never finish. You know, I could have beat myself up about it. But you know what I did? I said, yo, bro, yo, what can you do right now? Right? Like, what can you do right now? Forget, forget about— right, it's 4 in the morning. Said, bro, forget about— like, yo, what can you do right now? What could you do right now? Like, that's, that's what, that's what my mindset— my mindset, yo, what could you do right now? Forget it. And so you know what I did? I stopped thinking. I stopped thinking. I stopped thinking about it. I stopped thinking about, oh, why? So, because immediately what my mind started doing Right. What my mind started doing, my mind started thinking of all the stuff that I've started that I haven't finished. So now I gave you 1, 2, 3, 3 different scenarios that I'm walking through my house, or 4, 4 different scenarios. I'm walking through my house and my email that is signaling to me that I got to finish what I start. And my mind immediately started to think about all the deliverables that, right, my memory started thinking about all the deliverables that I could have, that, that I didn't finish. You know what I'm saying? So, but instead of staying there though, instead of staying there, right, my mind said, F that. Right, like literally, literally my mind said, yo, F that. What could you do right now? And so I said, yo, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna pack up my tools, right? I'm gonna pack up all my tools and I'm gonna take them downstairs. You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna hang up all my clothes. So that's what I did. I went to the bathroom. I took all my tools, packed them up. It didn't even take me that long, right. It didn't even take me that long. It took me what, 5 minutes. I packed up all my tools, I got everything out the way, and then I took them downstairs. Done. While I was in the bathroom, I noticed that the garbage was full. I took the garbage out, picked it up, done. I went into my closet, I looked at the clothes, I started hanging, right. I started hanging up all my clothes, I started hanging up all my clothes. Then I ran out of hangers, right. Then I ran out of hangers. And so, my mind said, all right, you can't finish this project, right. You can't finish this project because you got to go buy hangers. No stores are open right now, so you're going to do it later. But then I said, no, do it now. And so, I looked in my closet and I said, yo, there's a bunch of stuff in here that I'm probably never going to wear again. Let me take those down and let me send them to Goodwill. So, I took them down, made myself hangers, hung up all of my stuff, right. Hung up all of my stuff and then now I have a bag full of clothes that I'm about to give to Goodwill that I walked downstairs with and now I've done that. Then, and it's just all within the same hour, this is not like a long time, right. Then I went to my office and I folded up all of the clothes, I folded up all of the clothes and started writing the colors that I needed for my guy to embroider. I looked at the shorts, I said what shirts do I need to You know what shirts do I need to order? Because I because each shorts is a different two-tone color, and I said I need I need new shirts. So I wrote down what shirts I needed right in in order to to match the shorts so I could be fly with my own gear this summer, right? It took me less than an hour, and then I said all right, I need a track. So let me go and look what the aspiration was. And just like that, just like energetic alignment, today's daily aspiration was about the power of now. And so, I decided I bet power of now, let me find something, right, to coincide with that. Then 5 minutes before the show, I get word that the Haitian president was assassinated, right? And as I'm listening to the track, I'm saying to myself, yo, just do it. So I could have spent time— so here's what I'm saying. Not only is this eerily alignment, right? But I— so here's a bar. I'm gonna leave y'all with this bar. And then I got to go. I'm going to leave you with this bar. Is that there are going to be moments, right. There's going to be moments in which you could reflect or there's going to be moments in which you could just make ish happen. Sometimes we are— we want to be the victim so bad that in our reflection, we're reflecting on the things that are going to compound the issue that we're not doing, right. And so, if we're feeling guilty about something, if we're feeling sorry about something, if we're feeling remorseful about something, normally we want to be a victim so bad that we'll take, you know, we'll find other evidence of, oh yeah, I never finished this. Oh, I didn't finish that. Oh, I didn't finish this. Oh, I didn't finish that. And so, the mind starts to reflect on the ish that's going to confirm your victimhood. So, I could have did that. I could have sat there and reflected on my victimhood or you can make ish happen right now. Because the truth of the matter is that it don't matter how much stuff I didn't finish because I can finish it right now. It don't even matter. It don't matter. I could have a million things that I didn't finish. I can finish what I could finish right now. And so, a lot of times we're dwelling on reflection. Yo, let me reflect. Oh, oh, this relationship didn't work, so let me reflect on all the other relationships that didn't work. And now, as I'm reflecting on all the relationships that didn't work, I feel— I now feel insecure. It got to be something wrong with me, I'm doing something wrong. Or yo, this business deal didn't work, let me reflect on all the business relationships that didn't work. Let me, let me, let me, let me. Or you could work on now, or you could work on now, or you don't even got to reflect. Or you could say these are the type of relationships I'm looking for and this is how I'm going to conduct myself in my relationships and I'm moving forward. This is the type of business relationships that I'm looking for. This is how I'm going to conduct myself in a business relationship and this is how I'm going to move forward. These are the things that I didn't finish. I still have breath in my body, I still have life, I still have now. I don't have yesterday, yesterday is gone. I don't have tomorrow, I don't even know if tomorrow's promised. But right now, I can put the tools away. Right now, I can hang up my clothes. Right now, I could donate, you know, donate clothes to Goodwill. Right now, I could, you know, order my shirts. Right now, I could get my colors ready so I could send to my graphic designer. Right now, I can finish the funnel so that when somebody buys a program that they're getting what they pay for. Right now, right now, right now, right now. And so, I need us to stay now. I need you to work on now. I don't even— don't even think about tomorrow. Forget about tomorrow. Forget about tomorrow. Forget about— don't even reflect. I don't even want you to reflect. Reflection is a waste of time. You don't even reflect. I need you to stay right here in the now. Stay right here. Don't go nowhere else. Don't go nowhere else. Don't go, don't go to yesterday. Don't go to last week. Don't go to a year ago. Don't go to five years ago. Don't, don't, don't go to eight o'clock. It's nine thirteen. Do no, don't even go to eight o'clock. Just do it now.

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Yo, Don, you don't even got to work on getting in there right now. You ain't got to work on that, you can do that right now. That's the power. Yo, hey yo, listen, you know the power right now is that you don't even got to work on it. Yo, yo, you know what's so crazy is that you don't even have to like— the power you don't have to work on right now because right now is right now. Working on it means the future. Working on being in the now is still working on the future. So you don't even— yo, you don't even have to work on being in the now. All you— all you got to do is just be. You ain't even got to work on it though. That's the funny thing. Hey, yo, that's— yo, that's the funny thing. The funny thing is you got to work to think about the past, right? You got to work to think about the past. It's work that needs to be done for you to think about the past. There's work that needs to be done to think about the future. Yo, I'm here. Hey yo, I'm here with you right now. Ain't no work. I'm not working. I'm here. Just be. Just be present. Just be. Just be here now. Just be here now. That's it. Just be present. Yo, just enjoy your— enjoy this. Like, what are you surrounded right now? Right, stop. Don't know. Don't think about nothing. What like you right here? You here with me right now. We here now. We listening now. We motivating now. Right? Just be. Just be here. Nadira, thank you for the bachelor. We here. I gotta go, y'all. I gotta go so I could be somewhere else. I was like, um. I appreciate y'all.

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