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Good Risings. I'm Brian, and

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this is grateful Grains.

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Welcome back. We're on the final

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day of our week, spiritual awakening.

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It's all about freeing ourselves from

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the things that get in the way of us knowing and

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embracing who we are deep down and

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directing ourselves toward the future

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self the us we'd like to become.

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Monday, we talked unpacking suppressed emotions.

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Tuesday, we had a brief conversation on meta station.

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Wednesday, we dove into shadow work.

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Yesterday,

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we explored the trifecta of peace,

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compassion, empathy, and gratitude. And

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today, we're reprogramming belief systems.

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Our identity, who we believe we

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are, is the accumulation of

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all our life experiences, and

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our conscious and subconscious perception

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of those events. It's often

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rooted in our earliest memories.

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The things that we found pride in, the things that

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we attached to. Our critical

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minds generate beliefs and opinions

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as a result. We see and

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judge the world. From a perspective

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based entirely on what's unfolded in

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and around us thus far. Our

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traumas,

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our victories, our disappointments,

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how we've been loved and how we've been

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rewarded, how we've been punished

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and how we've punished ourselves, all

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play a role in our thoughts and feelings

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about not only ourselves, but the

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world around us. This is

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why our response to external topics,

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events, People situations are

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often prefabricated. They're

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not necessarily coming from analytical

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thought, They're coming from that

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subconscious gut reaction, our

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innate response. We

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filter those subconscious thoughts of opinions

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and reactions by introducing consciousness

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to the idea before letting it out

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into the world. And that takes quite

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a bit of extra effort for someone who's

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not well practiced in the discipline. So

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how do we change those automated responses

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if they're so deeply ingrained in who

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we are. Well, sometimes

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it takes us detaching from our identity

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altogether. It's a little bit like

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moving a house off its foundation and onto

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an entirely different foundation. That

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being said, a lot of people, if not

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everyone, go through these kinds

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of monumental changes in life naturally,

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and the shifts happen in every direction.

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Devout Christians can lose faith and

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set out to rediscover what morality

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means outside of God.

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Career criminals can find Jesus

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and become pastors. Sometimes

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it's a slow burn, as information slowly

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chips away at our beliefs, and

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sometimes it's one sudden blow.

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These major changes might cause a

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shift in the perspective that we have

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on our lives thus far. And

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or a shift in the perspective

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that we have on our lives thus far

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brings about major changes. When

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we experience these wake up calls,

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so to speak, our lived experience

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begins to inform our subconscious in

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an entirely new way, whether

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positive, negative, or neutral.

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So let's say we want to make sure these major

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shifts are positive.

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We want to grow in the right direction. How

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do we troll our trajectory when

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the mechanisms are subconscious.

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It boils down to three awareness,

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openness and information.

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Awareness by bringing ourselves

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into the present moment, by giving

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that critical voice in our head, an

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identity and recognizing that

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we're separate from it. We're able

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to meet that voice in our head and give

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it pause before it reinforces our

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beliefs or opinions. And that's when

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we turn to openness. Openeness

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that other truths have valued

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and other truths may better serve

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us It's the simple willingness

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to allow information to shift

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our perspective. And

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from there, information. The

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pursuit of information We

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seek out the alternative answers.

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Let's look at the example of being afraid

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to fly. Maybe a parent figure

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was afraid of flying. We felt heard

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or witnessed that fear at a young

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age. That formed the seed of

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fear in us. From that point,

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confirmation bias led us

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to subconsciously pay closer

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attention to plane accidents throughout

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our lives. We'd likely pay

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closer attention to conversations where

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other people confess their fear of

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flying. In short, we've spent

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our entire lifetime thus far,

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subconsciously galvanizing a deeply

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rooted fear of flight. The

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work of reprogramming begins

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first with awareness. We

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bring awareness to our emotional and psychological

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responses to news about plane

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mishaps. We bring awareness

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to conversations where fears of

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flying are being discussed.

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When new information enters our minds,

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which leads to that habitual fear based

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response or the galvanization of

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that deep seated fear, we

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pause instead.

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We're engaging rather than simply

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reacting reacting reacting. We

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hold the response in our minds eye and

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we consider the idea that it's not

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logical after all, even

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though everything in our body

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is telling us that it is. We

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become open to the idea that when

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we believe to be true in this case

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that flying is dangerous is just a

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small piece of the puzzle of truth.

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A bite sized selection of information

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our minds have been curating over

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the course of our lives. From

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there, we begin to seek out information

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contrary to what we believe. We

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look at states statistics on flight failures.

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Maybe we follow commercial pilots on Instagram.

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We start to pay closer attention to

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success air travel. Maybe

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we even begin to realize that it

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would be impossible to pay close

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attention to every successful plane

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flight. I as thousands upon thousands

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are happening every single day.

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Slowly but surely, we take control

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of that automatic fear response in

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our heads. By dictating a

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conscious confidence in flight. Up

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until now, we've given our fear

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of flying respect as we've under

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stood it to be based in fact. With

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new information, a new perspective, we

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see our fear of flying up until

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now has been irrational and

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it's of the past. It's

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possible to reframe how we think

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about ourselves and the world around us in the

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very same way. Those

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building blocks that make up who we are

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actually can shift, we actually

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can change our minds. And

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in changing our mind, we can

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actually change who we perceive ourselves

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to be. It's more than

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just a beautiful thought. By practicing

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awareness, we can re engage with our subconscious.

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We can enact new habits like reflection,

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positive self talk, and intentional

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joy, and we can legally shift

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the way we feel about ourselves and

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the world around us.

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Keep in mind, those mental shifts can

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work wonders for our physical well-being

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too.

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Thanks so much for joining us on Grateful Grains.

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You can find us on Instagram at Risings,

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or you can find me at b

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mcmuff. We'll see you again Monday.

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Until then, remember, a better

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tomorrow starts with today.

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