Dave Kashen explains that joy, abundance, peace, and power are already part of who you are. The work is letting go of ego and the stories you tell yourself, then relaxing back into your essence.
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One of my favorite things to invite clients into is the idea that it's always already here, right? Like everything you want is, like if you really think about why do you want all the money? Why do you want all the status? Why do you want people to know you sold your company for a billion dollars? There's some feeling that we're wanting, that we think that that will give us joy, abundance, peace, powerful. Those feeling states are actually just part of our essence of love. And if you clear out the noise, the clutter, the stories, it's what's left over. It's not something you need to attain or get or acquire. It's actually our essence. And so the game almost becomes like dead simple. It's like, can I just, you know, remember that that's actually who I am and relax back into it, let go of all that's in the way, and like there's nowhere to go, there's nothing to do, like it's always already here. And even as I say those words, I'm like reminding myself, I feel myself like settling. I don't know if you can feel yourself like settling back into like, oh, okay. And then because we're human, we perceive something as threatening, and then we get into our ego state, and you know, then we like the Keto Master, we just drift and then come back and just try to do that faster and faster.