This is a transcript excerpt from a YouTube conversation (Dec 29, 2020) between Josh Trent and a guest focused on reclaiming personal energy and shifting from "consumer" to "creator" consciousness. Key ideas: attention fuels energy ("where our attention goes, our energy flows"); addictive consumer behaviors (smartphones, substances) as forms of giving power away; using metaphors ("Pac Man" over-consumer) to notice patterns; cultivating inner peace, intuition, and inspired action as sustainable creative fuel; energetic sovereignty practices (auric protection, morning rituals) to distinguish personal from others' energy and help clients bridge knowing→doing.
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Choosing creator consciousness over consumer. It's like you begin to see how our society is so built around a consumer society. We've just been conditioned to consume, you know, whether it's pharmaceutical drugs. For any problem that you have in the body. Don't listen to your body. Like, just take this pill right here's. And. And so to, you know, the drugs, alcohol, you name it, everybody's got their thing right now. It's like smartphones. So addictive, right? So every time that we're giving away our attention to these things, these distractions, we're actually giving our power and our energy to them because where our attention goes, our energy flows, right? So this was a game changer for me because I literally called it Pac Man. The Pac man program, right, was my over consumer. And he was like, Frank the Tank dude. He was ready to like, let's party. Let's drink a ton. Let's like, eat as much sugar as we want. Like, he's the one that's. And he's very persuasive sometimes.
Hedonism is fun.
Yeah. And so that noticing the Pac man showing up when he wanted to just like, like be ravenous and just consume like all these things, and then noticing the effects of that over time, I was like, man, this is steering me further from where I want to be, who I want to be, and what I want to accomplish. And so it was like this coming to terms with myself. My truth of, like, man, I actually don't have healthy relationships with alcohol, with my phone, with, you know, social media.
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And so little by little, I went through this process, this inner peace process and went through this journey connecting the dots and was able to witness as I metabolize this energy within my being that I'm no longer need because I'm gaining the lessons from it and the blessings. And then as that metabolizes, then it's like you're feeling the same energy that creates planets flowing to you and through you. That. And you know, that feeling, it's like you're just super tapped in, turned on, and like, ready to rock. And you can't contain that energy all in one body. It feels too good. So you want to share it, right? And that's what ins. That's that inspired action that ensues more creation. Yeah, right. Like, I want to channel that until, like.
And that's sustainable. Like, like, inspired action is like a wellspring. Like, it comes from the ground naturally because Mother Earth has water inside of her. And it just comes out because that's what she likes to do, she likes to give us water. And you like. There's so many different ways I could approach that. The thing that I heard you say that resonated the most was like, that sustainable fuel source where you're coming from, inspiration. And inspiration is like, it's a wellspring that could never be exhausted. But motivation, like, being motivated, it's so interesting that myself and so many people can fall into the motivation trap. Like, I want to be motivated. I'm going to motivate myself. And that's cool if you want to, like, climb a little section on mountain or jump over a gap. Like, you need to be motivated in those moments. But inspiration, how does inspiration connect to the creator consciousness? And what are some of the pitfalls that bring people to the. To the consumer consciousness?
So many of them. I mean, just think about where your attention is going on a daily basis. You know, is it really going towards what you want to create this list of ideas and these things that you want to bring to the world before you die in this lifetime? How much energy and attention are you giving those, you know, or how. How much time are you spending tuning in to allow more of those to flow in? Right? And so when we come back to that natural state of inner peace, then we're in a receptive mode where we can receive that stream from Mother Gaia of, like, amazing ideas of, you know, inspiration. And that's what's cool, is like that operating from that place is different than having to use a million mindset hacks to motivate yourself to get your butt off the couch and actually, like, do something which either way gets you there eventually. I just prefer the inspired action approach simply because the quality of the energy at which I'm creating with is so much more exciting and fun. I always tune into intuition. It's our own medicine that we're all gifted with. Sometimes it's harder to listen to than others, but intuitively you can navigate. Notice what comes up on your radar. Okay, I want help with this. Like, I'm sick of this. I'm ready to change this aspect of my life, right? Then notice as those answers start showing up, like those puzzle pieces start filling in. You might notice now I'm hearing more information about how to get out of debt or whatever the issue is, right? And then, then really tune in to the intelligence within your body and notice, like, does this feel intuitively expansive, like, this is going to help me on my path? Or does this feel like it's a little more contractive, like it's not quite the path, like the way. Thanks for the information, but that's not quite it. Those little, like, maybes or doesn't quite feel aligned, those are really key components to pay attention to because then you're tapping into the intelligence, the body, using your intuition medicine. And it can steer you to all the right guides, the mentors, the, you know, um, and. And as you, you know, consume their information or feel their vibration, then you tune into that even more and it's like, oh, yeah, this person has some codes that I could definitely use and could help me on my journey. And then if it's in full alignment, then have the courage to, like, step up and reach out to that person.
You know, I've used the analogy of, like, intuition being a sword that cuts through all the bullshit. And so there's practices to sharpen it, right? Like, how do you obviously drinking clean water, sleeping, practicing thinking good thoughts, being around the right people, practicing emotional hygiene. You know, like, all these tools are powerful, but a lot of these tools, people can hear neck up and be like, all right, I'll make the spreadsheet.
But they never do it, right?
So there's something about this bridge between knowing and doing that is my favorite thing to talk about because it is always a learning curve for me. And I think all of us, let's be real, like, we, you and I know a lot of things. I mean, we got like 80 plus years of wisdom in this room, okay? But the application of our knowledge is really like the meat of emotional intelligence, physical intelligence. So when you work with clients, how do you help them on that bridge? Like, how do you, how do you help them cross that gap?
Yeah.
Is it, is it loving? Is it accountability? Is it a combination of both? I mean, what's your, what's your sauce on that?
It's definitely a combination. And what's great is by getting really good at attuning to my intuitive medicine, that that helps me steer where to go with clients and their needs, right? Once I understand exactly where they're at, where they want to go, then I tap into my intuitive medicine. And the key to that has been coming back to these practices to regain energetic sovereignty. We talk a lot about sovereignty, but energetic sovereignty is like fully embodying each and every cell and every molecule and atom of your being with your unique life force energy. So that, that means you get to take a look at, like, where you've been taking on other people's energy. Might be getting stomachaches from it. Second chakra stuff where you've been giving your power away and feeling like, you know, crawling up in a ball, you know, and then as you attune to this subtle energy body and learn these protective practices, you can literally create an auric field that is a healing sanctuary for you. And that's part of, you know, my good morning rituals that I share and my practice, my pillar that I keep coming back to so that I can tell when I'm, you know, been entered with or like feeling into other people's energy and like what's mine, what's theirs. And then using these practices to maintain that energetic sovereignty is like my home base. And so this is a lot of what I teach with my clients so that that can become their home base. And then with that it's really beautiful to witness because then they're starting to source answers for themselves and then they're starting to like choose their path more wisely on their own.
