What's The Frequency

Hi, guys. My name is Donny Rouse and you are listening to the podcast One Life. What's the frequency? Have you ever noticed that your body is telling you to act or do something? And maybe in the past you've kind of done something counter to it, ignoring it, thinking maybe that it was something wrong with your thinking or that you were in some way judging or whatever the case may be. What I'm here to tell you today is that when you get that inkling, that gut feeling that is meant for you to follow, there's a message there, and I like to call it your internal warning system to tell you whether you're in or you're out of alignment with maybe your energy in that moment in time, in which case it may be saving you. But in all it's your gut trying to tell you something. Trying to tell you that maybe something's off or maybe something's right. This was particularly true of my most recent trip in Miami. I went down to Miami, Florida. I had been there for almost two months. I was in Miami and then I was in Puerto Rico. And the story I'm about to tell you is kind of one about feeling the gut. Feeling the gut. And then also what my mind was trying to tell me. So the two were in contradiction of one another. So I was in Miami about. This was going back three months ago. I was in Miami about the end of December and I had an amazing time. I met tons of people, business contacts. And after that brief trip for a week and a half, I came back home for a month before heading back down to Miami. This time the energy was a little bit different. When I was in Miami this time, the first week, yeah, everything was all fun. But then I noticed that the scene was changing. I mentioned in the past that Miami, day to day, it changes. And if you're in South Beach, south beach is kind of like the party zone. If you're trying to get work done, not necessarily the place you would want to be. You'd probably want to be maybe inward towards the west side of the Miami beach, or maybe somewhere on the other side in the mainland. So as I was jumping around, I was jumping around from hostel to hostel because I was trying to look for an apartment. And with Miami, it was kind of challenging. So we would get bidded out by people. We would put. I was with a friend and we would put a sign a contract for six months or, you know, inquire about six months, someone else would come in with a year and then we would lose the apartment. So jumping around from different place to place, Something would have felt off. And the people around me, like a lot of people who were coming in to Miami Were doing recreational drugs. There was one hostel where literally, people who would roll right off the street, who wouldn't even belong to the hostel, would roll off the street, roll a blunt, and smoke it right on the patio of the hostel. And they didn't even belong there. And this is not. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong. If that's your choice, that's your choice. What I'm trying to say is that it was out of alignment with what I wanted, how I live and conduct my life. So as a result, I felt this energy that was in constant contradiction with my environment. Some time had passed, and I decided that I needed to get out of Miami. So I booked a trip to Puerto Rico. I was talking one night with my friend Greg, and we're like, you know what? Why don't we just go somewhere close by? Let's go to Puerto Rico. Like, I brought it up, and he was like, all right, let's do it. And I was like, oh, man, he's calling me on it. Sunday night, I booked the flight to fly out to Puerto Rico that following day. On Monday, when we were in Puerto Rico, San Juan was beautiful. Old town was beautiful. And there was. While it was nice there, there was also. I had this feeling like that. Like a safety feeling. Some of the people I'd met were also into recreational drugs, But Greg wasn't me and Greg had this kind of this common tie. And so when people would go out, they would go out to these parties that were being held in slums. And I was told that during normal tourist times, Going to these areas would be fine because there'd be tons of tourists there. Everyone would be partying. But when. Because it was dead, because of the restrictions on the nightlife, this wasn't the time to go there because you would be an outlier. So the friends I had, the people I'd met at the hostel, they were going out, they were doing this. And I chose to stay back. I chose me and my friend Greg, we just kind of mellowed out, and we hung out before renting a car and going to overdrankon. We come back the. Maybe like, a few days later, and the group from the hostel were all going out to a bar. And then from that bar, they were going to go to this party in another slum. So I felt a little kind of peer pressure. My friend Greg was going over to this bar to meet everyone from the hostel. And then when he realized that they didn't take any credit card because he didn't have any cash on him, he ended up coming back towards the hostel to meet me. I thinking he was over there at the bar, went over there. So we kind of crossed paths without even knowing it. When we were at. When I was at this bar, the people I know from the hostel were like, hey, we're going to this place, you're coming. And at first I was like, you know what, I really don't feel like going out. You know, all right, fine, fine, I'll go. And so I said I was going to go, but there was still this uneasiness in my gut. And then so I stepped to the side a little bit. Everyone was talking, doing their thing, and I just asked myself, well, how do we really feel about going to this party? And I was like, the truth is, to be honest with you, I don't feel like going. I'd rather like. It doesn't feel right. I'd rather go back to the hostel and get an early night's sleep. And so that was my decision. The following day I was talking with some people who went to this party and they were telling me how it was just kind of like a disaster. I don't remember the name of the movie. There's a movie from. I think it was like from early 2000s about this house party. And then all of a sudden it just turns bad and there's a song that's like the theme of it. I can't remember the name of the song, but it's not important. But anyways, things had turned to the bat. So this group that went to this party, they went to the party and one of the guys took out his phone and started videotaping because he thought it was just a cool looking area. Immediately a 16 year old with a semi automatic weapon came up to him and started screaming at him, telling him, you know, show your phone, show your phone. And made him delete the video. He immediately was like, all right, where the hell am I? What's going on here? So they went to a bar. The girls who were part of this group said like they felt a little bit off. They're like, you know, they weren't going to have any drinks at this. Well, two of them said they weren't going to have the drinks. One of them did and it didn't turn out good. So they were, they didn't want to drink because they felt they didn't feel safe. Sometime through the night they told me that they heard this commotion outside. So they walked out to see what it was, and someone was getting beat with the butts of the rifles or of the guns. They were just getting beat. And this guy was like, you heard him moaning? They're beating him to the ground. And the guy, the bartender who was living there told my friends, listen, we have to get out of here now. So they quickly left. One of the girls had stayed behind because they couldn't find a missing one. And they. So they left behind her. She was looking for the girl, but couldn't find her and ended up having to try to find a way back to the hostel. And there's all these sketchy people trying to get her to, you know, do you want a ride? You need help? And she's like, no, no, no, no. She said she's from New York. She's like, listen, I know a sketch ball when I see one. So she waited until she found a girl, someone whom she felt she can trust, and they were going in the direction. So they ended up giving her a ride back to. I believe the place is Condado, where we were staying. The following day, one of the girl was still missing. Where the heck is she? And I'm not going to go into details of what happened, but as it turns out, she was there. She was with the guy that she had met the prior night who was living there. And then she had blanked out. Turns out they are dosing drinks with whatever you want to call a date rape Spanish fly. And again, I'm not going to go into any details of that, but when I heard this the following morning, I was like, oh, my God, thank God I did not go that night. And thank God I listened to my gut. I ended up going back to Miami and kind of disappointed. I'm like, well, did I have as good of a time as I could have in Puerto Rico? Should I have been, you know, more adventurous? And I kept questioning myself, I'm in Miami now, staying a little bit around, like, the Little Havana place. I met up with my friend Fatih, and we're walking down the street, and all of a sudden we hear like. I'm like, what is that? And we're walking in the direction of this sound, and it sounded like gunshots. So my friend Fatih is like, I think we should go this way, like, making a joke out of it. And we turned, we walked the opposite direction. And at that point, I was like, all right, this is not where I want to be. This is not where I should be right. Something like this doesn't feel the vibration of everything, which is very, very chaotic. So I left and went to visit a friend in Palm beach before eventually coming back to Connecticut. So after that, I was talking with my friend Gorette and I was telling her, she was like, well, how was your trip? Tell me all about it. And I was going through the account. I was telling her, like, about Miami, about Puerto Rico. And then I was saying how, you know, as I was telling her everything that transpired in my mind, I was like, my mind was saying, well, you know what? This was me following my gut. This was me following the energy I was feeling. Like when something didn't feel right, I didn't do it. So before, I was kind of, like, beating myself up over not being adventurous, not having as good of a time as I could have, when in reality, I was just. My gut was telling me one thing, and I was kind of at odds with it, but it ended up turning out to be the better. And hearing this, and then I told her, I said, yeah, this is how I was feeling. It's so funny, as I'm explaining this to you, I realized that I was really just following my gut and that all the decisions I made were the right decisions. And she says, well, of course. She goes, your environment is everything. I'll repeat it again, because it is the most important thing I'm going to say. This podcast, your environment, everything, there's different vibrations all around you, right? Some are higher, some are lower. And that even varies depending on what the topic is at hand. So if you're in what like. And I'm not, I'm not judging, saying lower vibration. For me, it was because it's not like the lifestyle of doing recreational drugs. That's not me. Right? So you get to decide is that you, in which case, more power to you. But for me, it was out of alignment. So this vibration was down here. And being in that environment, you know, it just didn't feel healthy to me. So what I want you to walk away with this is to learn how to trust yourself, to learn how to feel into your body. Because if something feels off, chances are it is off. You can do a little bit deeper inspection and say, okay, well, what am I feeling right now? I'm feeling this. Okay, and what does this feeling mean? What is it trying to tell me when you know what it's trying to tell you? Listen, because the mind and the body, like that gut feeling sometimes contradict, as they did with me, but the gut. Trust your gut, don't try to talk yourself out of it. And this goes the same thing with the things you want in life, right? When you're going towards something you know you want, right, your gut is saying, hey, go for this, this feels good. And your mind might be telling you the opposite, saying, hey, no, no, no, I'm afraid I don't want to take any changes here. No risks. But your gut is saying, woo. You know, it's charging with the fist forward. Listen to your gut. It will not steer you wrong. Lastly, I'll leave you with a quote that I like. It goes, you won't always God didn't give you the ability to always make the right decision, but he did give you the ability to make the decision right. Meaning whatever decision you make, even if it's wrong, you always have the chance to correct it. So in those instances where your gut is telling you go ahead, it's a learning experience, right? There's always a correction that you can make to make it right. Guys, I hope you enjoyed this podcast. I hope you enjoyed this little journey that I took of the account of my most recent trip. And then again, the biggest takeaway is just trust your gut. Trust what your body is trying to tell you, right? That is the biggest takeaway because I don't believe it will steal you wrong. If you enjoyed this, please give it a share. Give it a thumbs up. Invite your friends to check out the One Life podcast with Donnie Rouse. 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