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Hi.

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I'm Sandra Champlain. For over

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twenty five years, I've been on a journey

1:01

to prove the existence of life after

1:03

death. On each episode,

1:06

we'll discuss the reasons we now

1:08

know that our loved ones have survived

1:10

physical death, and so will

1:13

we. Welcome to Shades

1:15

of the Afterlife. Today is a special

1:17

birthday episode and you may ask, well,

1:19

whose birthday is it? Mine?

1:22

I was born in nineteen sixty six,

1:24

impossible to believe that I am fifty

1:27

eight years old. For

1:30

any birthday, whether it's yours or mine,

1:32

we get to treat ourselves to something

1:34

we want. Maybe people in our lives

1:37

make a big deal about us, but it's our special

1:39

day and I thought for this episode,

1:42

I'd like to give you and

1:44

I a dose of something

1:47

that I want for my birthday. What

1:49

I want is a reminder that

1:51

we are all eternal souls

1:54

having a human experience, that

1:56

no matter how hard life

1:59

is, that we are surrounded by loved

2:01

ones. There's a bigger picture and

2:04

all those stressful and difficult

2:06

things that we deal with in life, that

2:08

they're all not just education for

2:11

the soul, but that we grow and

2:13

that we learn, and then the biggest

2:15

picture is we're able to help another

2:18

person in their journey. While

2:20

I really want chocolate cake

2:23

with mint chocolate chip ice

2:25

cream, I'm holding back and

2:27

I thought that this is

2:29

just the dessert that I needed

2:32

for today. We all have

2:34

our stresses, don't we. Life

2:36

is difficult. I know and

2:38

believe it wasn't meant to be easy. However,

2:41

the older we get, we're dealing

2:43

with a lot. Some have kids, jobs,

2:47

families, aging parents.

2:50

You may be experiencing grief, an

2:53

illness, money problems,

2:56

whatever that may be. I want

2:58

each and every one of us to get that

3:01

booster shot in the arm that makes

3:03

us feel like a million bucks, that

3:05

who we are is one of a kind,

3:08

that our life matters, that

3:10

we are perfectly on track.

3:13

I do have some other things to celebrate with

3:15

you. First of all, our fantastic

3:18

Sunday Gathering just turned

3:20

four years old. Yep.

3:23

When COVID hit, we thought we'd do an inspirational

3:25

service with medium demonstration

3:27

included online for

3:30

people who were trapped in their homes, which was

3:32

all of us. Little did my friends

3:34

and I realize that we

3:37

keep it going, and so now it's turned

3:39

four years old. There's been

3:41

over eight hundred friends

3:44

and family members living in the

3:46

spirit world who have made their presence

3:48

known and given messages from the

3:50

other side through our medium demonstrations.

3:54

Each week, we have one hundred and fifty

3:56

to two hundred people from around the

3:58

world that gather. It's it's

4:00

friendly, it's inspiring, and like

4:02

I said, we get to see right there on

4:04

the court how close loved

4:07

ones are through our medium demonstrations.

4:09

So that's a big reason to celebrate. Now

4:12

I've got a really special one

4:14

which I haven't told too many people about.

4:17

Last year it was Mother's

4:20

Day, something came on TV,

4:23

A little thing popped up and said, if you have

4:25

an extraordinary mom and you want

4:27

to share a story, here's a QR

4:29

code and scan it and submit your

4:31

story. I have a fantastic

4:34

mom. Her name is Marian Champlain.

4:36

She's phenomenal, and I knew

4:39

that I wanted to submit a story. I

4:41

didn't know who I was submitting it to. So

4:44

I created a short story

4:46

about my mom and coming over from

4:48

Germany as a little girl, and her family

4:50

losing everything in Hamburg,

4:53

Germany during the war, parents

4:55

immigrating to the United States, and

4:58

who she is, who she's always been for me.

5:01

A few months later, I got an email

5:04

requesting an interview, and

5:06

I still wasn't sure who I was

5:08

talking to. But of course

5:10

I love my mom and if there's any possibility

5:13

in sharing her inspiring story

5:15

and her make things happen attitude,

5:18

I'm going to do that. The good

5:20

news is the story,

5:23

which not only I submitted, but

5:25

that interview that I had, was

5:27

turned into a chapter of a book.

5:30

The book will be coming out

5:33

very soon. In fact, depending

5:35

on when you're listening, it may already be

5:37

out. Book comes out April sixteenth,

5:40

twenty twenty four. It's

5:42

called Love Mom, just

5:45

like if a mom signs a card Love

5:47

Mom. It's written by doctor

5:50

Nicole Sapphire. She's

5:52

a radiologist and director of

5:54

breast imaging at the Memorial

5:56

Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

5:59

in Jersey. This

6:01

is a big deal because she's

6:03

been on the news talking

6:05

about it. She's been on TV. The

6:08

book has already hit number one on

6:10

Amazon and Barnes and Noble,

6:13

and it hasn't even gotten out to the

6:15

general public yet. Two

6:17

days ago, the publisher sent

6:20

my mom and I a private copy. And

6:22

you have to know, I hadn't told my mother

6:25

about this because there

6:27

was always the chance that this wasn't

6:29

going to happen. A few weeks

6:31

ago, I did tell her because

6:33

doctor Sapphire was on TV

6:36

publicly announcing it. And so

6:38

we've been very excited the past few weeks.

6:41

But can I tell you we've got the book.

6:43

It's beautiful. My Mother

6:45

is chapter ten, and

6:47

there's thirteen pages dedicated

6:50

to her. The book is a perfect

6:53

gift for Mother's Day or any

6:55

day. You don't need to be a mom to

6:57

read it because throughout the pages are

7:00

stories of empowerment people

7:03

that have overcome great obstacles

7:06

done great things. There's humor

7:08

in it, great quotes, absolutely

7:11

beautiful. So if you have a special

7:13

person in your life, whether they are

7:15

a mom or have a mom, check

7:17

out the book Love Mom

7:20

by doctor Nicole Sapphire and

7:22

be sure to read chapter ten on

7:25

my Mom. On this birthday

7:27

episode today, I thought

7:29

I would read some pages from

7:32

my book We Don't Die, a skeptics

7:35

discovery of life after Death.

7:37

When I wrote the book, yes

7:40

I wanted to deliver information about the

7:42

afterlife, and yes I wanted

7:44

to help people through grief, but I

7:46

also wanted it to be a handbook

7:49

for living that no matter where

7:51

you are in your life, you can open to a random

7:54

page and find some empowerment

7:57

to remind you of who you really are.

8:00

Yes, that divine soul having a

8:02

human experience. I figured

8:04

today we can celebrate

8:07

together and be reminded of who

8:09

we are. After I had written

8:12

the book, it was quite a while

8:14

until it was published, and just

8:16

before it went to press, the

8:19

publisher said, we need you to read

8:21

it one more time to make sure there

8:23

are no obvious errors. Of course,

8:26

but the day I had to read

8:28

it was the day after

8:30

my aunt and I put our beloved

8:33

cat Millie to sleep. We

8:35

had had Milly for many years and

8:37

she was just a bundle of love,

8:39

and it was one of the most painful things we had

8:42

to do. As anyone knows,

8:44

whether you lose a person in your life

8:46

or sometimes those feathered

8:48

or furry, four legged or

8:50

two legged friends can sneak

8:53

closer into our heart than anyone.

8:55

The last thing I wanted to do was reread my

8:57

book, because I felt like I had read it many

9:00

times. But there I was in deep,

9:02

deep fear and grief, and

9:05

that was an emotional wreck, to be honest with

9:07

you, And when I read the words

9:09

and we Don't Die, my grief

9:11

was soothed and all was well

9:14

with the world. My friend Shelley

9:16

gave a copy of We Don't Die to

9:19

her dad, who was quite in

9:21

his elderly years, knowing

9:23

that it probably wouldn't be his thing,

9:25

but she loved it so much she couldn't help

9:28

but give it to him. Well, Shelley's

9:30

dad passed away and when he

9:32

passed his copy of We

9:34

Don't Die had been well

9:37

used. She was told by

9:39

friends that he would gather with his gentleman

9:41

friends, read from the book, discuss

9:45

some of the topics, read

9:47

the inspirational quotes, and

9:49

so many of the pages of the book had the

9:51

corners folded down and pages

9:54

with words underlined and things that were

9:56

really important to her. Father.

10:00

Quick story of We Don't Die. As

10:02

you may know, I am a chef

10:04

by trade and owned a catering company

10:06

with my mom for over thirty

10:09

years, working with race car teams.

10:12

When the book came out thirteen years

10:14

ago, I had a table set up

10:16

under our food tent and people could purchase

10:18

a copy and I would sign the books. One

10:21

of the race car drivers bought a copy.

10:23

He said, Sandra, this really isn't my

10:25

kind of thing, but I like you. I

10:27

support you. I'd love to get a copy

10:30

of your book, which was nice. He

10:32

read it and as an owner of a car

10:34

dealership, he started giving my

10:37

book We Don't Die to people that

10:39

bought new cars. As a

10:41

race car driver, he's done very

10:44

well in racing and last year

10:46

at one of the biggest races

10:48

in the world, Mom and I watched

10:50

on TV and he won it.

10:53

I sent him a text just congratulations,

10:56

and he said what he read

10:58

prior to getting in that race car was

11:01

We Don't Die. A skeptics Discovery

11:04

of Life after Death by Sandra

11:07

Champlain. Although I

11:09

wrote it, you know how I feel about

11:11

me being a medium in

11:13

a different way those

11:16

in the unseen world, my inspirers,

11:19

your inspirers, whoever

11:21

wants to work through me to get this message

11:23

out to the biggest population

11:26

on planet Earth, I'm going to share

11:28

it. So today if you just

11:30

want to sit back, relax and see

11:32

if we can all move the needle

11:35

from whatever may be bothering

11:37

you or stressing you in life today

11:41

to just have that extra bit of

11:43

comfort, direction, hope,

11:46

faith, and not only is everything

11:48

going to be all right, but you are one

11:51

heck of a powerful soul and

11:53

that your life means something. If

11:55

you don't already have a copy of my

11:58

book, certainly you can purchase

12:00

one wherever they sell books. But

12:02

also if you go to we Don'tdie dot

12:05

com and at the bottom of the page

12:07

and to your name and email address, it

12:09

says you get the first few chapters. The

12:11

truth is it is the entire

12:14

book. If you are somebody who is

12:16

experiencing grief, please

12:18

know Chapter ten is how

12:20

to Survive Grief. It's how our

12:22

brain chemistry changes, why

12:25

we experience grief. Things

12:27

to do to help move through the

12:29

pain, and there is so much

12:31

comfort and information if

12:34

you are experiencing grief. That

12:36

is a must read and then you can go back

12:39

and read everything else or do whatever

12:41

you wish. Again, that is that we

12:43

don't die dot com.

12:46

Let us go into our very

12:48

first break and when we get

12:50

back, I am going to read to you

12:53

some powerful things that are going

12:55

to have us all be recharged

12:58

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13:00

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14:34

Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife.

14:36

I'm Sandra Champlain and this is

14:38

my birthday episode. So

14:41

a gift to all of us is me

14:43

reading from my book We Don't

14:45

Die, a skeptics Discovery

14:47

of Life after Death, also

14:50

known as a Handbook for

14:52

being Human. Of course, yes,

14:54

I include a lot of information about

14:57

life after death. And I can also

14:59

tell you that if you've listened to

15:01

Shades of the Afterlife since the beginning,

15:04

I've got one hundred and

15:07

eighty episodes about the afterlife.

15:10

So there's actually much more here in

15:12

one hundred and eighty hours than

15:14

in my book. There are some other

15:16

chapters like the reason for living

15:19

life on Earth, Becoming a skeptic

15:21

is easy, the Reality of life

15:23

after Death, Trusting the

15:25

world's greatest minds, religious

15:28

agreement for life after death, life,

15:31

the grand illusion Heaven

15:33

is closer than you think, seeing

15:36

with your eyes closed, reconnecting

15:39

with those you have loved and lost, surviving

15:42

grief, the genius

15:44

of the human body, riding

15:47

the emotional roller coaster. It

15:49

is all in your mind. Ten

15:51

daily habits to supercharge

15:54

your life. Those, my

15:56

friend, are the chapter titles.

16:00

Now, what's the reason for living on

16:02

Earth? To learn to love, to

16:04

experience, to be in this world

16:07

with other people having relationships,

16:10

to learn to grow, to love, to

16:12

forgive, to help other people

16:15

in the hereafter? I think it's good

16:18

all of the time, and coming to this

16:20

place called Earth, we

16:22

forget who we really are, and

16:24

we're in almost a virtual

16:27

reality world that seems

16:29

so real we're convinced that

16:31

it's real. Life isn't easy.

16:34

There are many hardships, and

16:36

out of the toughest times, I think is

16:38

when we grow the most. There's certainly

16:41

a lot of joy here too, but most

16:43

of the soul growth comes from the hard

16:45

stuff. I start my book

16:48

talking about my experience at the Omega

16:50

Center the first time I recorded

16:53

electronic voice phenomena. Yes,

16:55

out in the wilderness with a little

16:58

tape recorder, sitting in

17:00

a cabin alone, talking

17:02

to my deceased aunt and uncle,

17:05

grandmother and grandfather, asking

17:07

them if this life after death stuff

17:09

is real and I'm meant to help people with

17:11

it. That I really needed to hear from

17:14

them. It couldn't just be images

17:16

that came into my mind, like in the medium

17:19

classes that I had taken, I needed

17:21

something more, something tangible

17:23

or audible, And in the course of the next

17:26

minute, I recorded just the sound of

17:28

rain drops, and when I played back

17:30

the recorder, it recorded raindrops

17:33

with a few words from me talking to

17:35

my deceased loved ones. And at the very

17:38

end I said good night. And when I played

17:40

back to recording, I'll never forget

17:42

it. It said good

17:45

night, Sandra in a man's

17:47

voice, two women whisper

17:49

good night, good night, and

17:51

then another male's voice says good

17:54

night. Experiences

17:56

like that are life changing, and

17:58

I'm grateful to have that. In many

18:00

more. I go on to talk

18:02

about the voice that's

18:05

in our heads. We have

18:07

this voice that is not our friend,

18:09

and I thought in the beginning of the book it's important

18:12

to address that because that's

18:14

also the voice that has us be cynical

18:17

and skeptical. Is

18:19

it good to be skeptical. Absolutely.

18:22

In fact, two episodes ago, the

18:25

whole episode was about dealing

18:27

with cynical skeptics. Skepticism

18:30

is good, but when that little voice

18:33

tries to prevent us from having

18:35

a good life or a great life,

18:38

then we've got a problem. Here's

18:40

what I say about the voice, and

18:43

we don't die. There is no

18:45

doubt in my mind that our past plays

18:48

a role in who we are today, and

18:50

you probably agree with that statement. As

18:52

a kid, I grew up feeling very different,

18:55

separate from my brothers and sisters, very

18:58

much alone, not good enough,

19:00

and that there is something wrong with me. To

19:03

make matters worse, I had a

19:05

constant companion talking to

19:07

me every moment of my life.

19:10

I call it the voice. People

19:12

call it all kinds of different things. The

19:14

ego, the identity, the inner voice,

19:16

the inner critic. We all have

19:19

one. And if you don't think that you do,

19:21

just stop listening for a moment. If

19:27

you just heard in your mind, what little voice

19:30

do I have, Well, that's the

19:32

voice. The voice never stops

19:34

talking. One of the classic flaws

19:36

of all human beings is this. We

19:39

think the voice is our voice.

19:42

No, it is not ours. The

19:44

voice is a complex survival

19:46

mechanism that takes the information

19:49

it received in our past and

19:52

uses it to shape our future

19:55

so that it survives. Did

19:58

you hear what I said? I said it

20:00

survives most of the time.

20:02

The voice wants you to survive,

20:05

but not always. I've not been

20:07

in the mind of a person who is

20:09

contemplating or succeeds

20:12

in taking their own life. But I can imagine

20:14

the voice does a great job at convincing

20:16

the person that ending their life

20:19

is the only option they have. By

20:21

just knowing we have the voice and

20:23

that it wants to survive and

20:26

it doesn't always empower us. Is

20:28

so important when things happen

20:31

to us in life, or we're investigating

20:33

something like life after death,

20:36

we need to be able to distinguish between

20:39

that voice and who we really are,

20:41

and I call that our soul

20:44

self. Our soul self is

20:46

that part of you that is wise, all

20:49

knowing, loving and compassionate,

20:52

the part of you that can listen to the voice.

20:54

When you listen, the voice mostly

20:57

speaks negative words to you. It

20:59

convinces you to be afraid that

21:01

you're not good enough, and ultimately,

21:03

it prevents us from having the results

21:05

we want in our lives. Here's

21:08

an example from me. Once

21:10

I trained to run a marathon.

21:13

However, I was not in good enough

21:15

shape to run an entire marathon,

21:18

and I canceled my trip to Jacksonville,

21:20

Florida, where the marathon was set

21:23

to happen. However, my

21:26

soul self told me that I could still

21:28

succeed on a marathon. And

21:31

on a bitter cold winter's day, I

21:33

headed north out of my driveway

21:36

and I walked twenty six

21:38

point two miles. I had no supportive

21:40

friends, no one cheering

21:43

me on, nothing. It

21:45

was just me on a country road

21:47

in the middle of winter, with a vision

21:50

of accomplishing a goal. I

21:52

used every mind game that I could

21:54

think of to keep myself motivated.

21:57

I imagined small gnomes at the side

21:59

of the road hearing me on. I

22:01

tried to keep my mind clear and focused

22:04

my attention on the sounds of the

22:06

birds, the shapes of the trees,

22:08

and it was a peaceful walk. Eventually

22:12

I made it back to my house nearly

22:15

eight hours later. It had already

22:17

gotten dark outside, and my entire

22:19

body was sore and exhausted.

22:22

I collapsed on my couch and

22:25

do you know what the voice inside

22:27

my head said. It said,

22:29

Sandra, you are a failure.

22:32

Everybody knows that you don't walk

22:34

a marathon. You only run

22:37

a marathon. Don't bother telling

22:39

people that you walked, or they will

22:41

just laugh at you. It was in

22:43

that very moment that I saw

22:45

how the voice, my ego,

22:48

my inner critic was not me.

22:51

My soul self lovingly told

22:53

me that completing twenty

22:55

six point two miles on foot was

22:58

something less than one percent that the world's

23:00

population had done. I was exhausted

23:03

and I began to cry, and I

23:05

realized that I've believed

23:08

the voice my entire life,

23:11

that what it said to me was the truth.

23:14

In that moment after my marathon

23:16

day, I was free. In

23:19

that moment, I had power.

23:21

I'm going to take a break from reading for

23:23

just a second. Just yesterday I

23:26

had a conversation with doctor Antonio

23:29

Harrison and anyone who

23:31

has a virtual reality headset

23:34

called Oculus. There's an app

23:37

called Supernatural, which is an

23:39

exercise routine, and I took

23:41

some time to talk to doctor

23:43

Harrison, who we lovingly call

23:45

Coach Doc, about getting

23:48

power over that voice.

23:51

You can hear the episode in full on

23:53

my YouTube channel, We Don't Die, Episode

23:56

four hundred and forty. But

23:59

he said something that I never

24:01

considered. He said, talk

24:03

to the voice, make friends with it,

24:05

perhaps journal give it a voice.

24:08

Why are you here? Why do you say negative

24:11

things? He said. By doing

24:13

this practice, he got power,

24:15

compassion, and understanding

24:18

for not only the good

24:20

things, but the darker things

24:22

that we each struggle with

24:24

inside of us. I thought that was

24:27

an excellent tip. In that episode,

24:29

we talk about not so much life after

24:31

death, but different things that we can do

24:34

to live life powerfully.

24:36

There are exercises that I ask

24:39

listeners or readers of

24:42

We Don't Die to do, and

24:44

with the chapter on the Voice, I

24:46

request that people either

24:49

interview people in your life

24:51

and ask them what are

24:54

the strengths that you have? And

24:57

if you don't have anyone to ask, you

24:59

can pretend you're asking them, and

25:01

you know those things about you that

25:03

you're smart, you're generous, you're

25:06

funny, etc. Make

25:08

a long list of this person

25:11

and all these great attributes you

25:13

see, you are not who

25:15

you think you are. You are honestly

25:18

who other people say that you

25:20

are. Isn't that interesting? Another

25:23

powerful thing you can do is

25:25

write a list of all of your

25:27

successes and accomplishments,

25:30

even times that you've been daring

25:33

and courageous. It may take

25:35

a little time, but when you look

25:37

at that list of all those accomplishments

25:40

and add that to all

25:42

those positive attributes that people

25:45

say you are, you start to get

25:47

an idea of who you really are. And

25:50

in those moments you

25:52

see that the voice is

25:54

not correct. Who you

25:56

really are is one heck of a powerful

25:59

person, and doing this exercise

26:02

will help you get back on track.

26:05

It's not a one time only thing for

26:07

here. Just telling you this story

26:10

today reminds me of

26:12

all the troubles that I have in life,

26:14

how I've been listening to my voice a

26:17

little too often, and I too, am

26:19

much greater than I think I am. We're

26:22

going to go to our next break and when

26:24

we come back, some more empowering

26:27

highlights from my book We

26:29

Don't Die, The Skeptics Discovery

26:32

of Life after Death. You're listening

26:34

to Shades of the Afterlife on

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Well, you're online Shades

27:00

of the Afterlife with Sandra Champlain.

27:06

Hi, this is ufologist Kevin Randall

27:09

and you're listening to the iHeartRadio and Coast

27:11

to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast

27:13

Network.

27:29

Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife.

27:31

I'm Sandra Champlain. In this episode,

27:33

we're celebrating my fifty eighth

27:36

birthday. In my book, We Don't Die,

27:38

a skeptics discovery of life

27:40

after Death, was published thirteen

27:43

years ago, not just to talk about

27:45

the afterlife and grief, but

27:47

to empower all of us to have a

27:50

great life. So many

27:52

call it a handbook for living. I'm

27:55

reading some highlights, some empowering

27:57

highlights. That is, this chapter is

27:59

called life the Grand Illusion.

28:02

Do you remember the song by the band Sticks

28:05

back in nineteen seventy seven. Here's

28:07

a lyric. So if you think your life

28:10

is complete confusion because your neighbors

28:12

got it made, just remember that it's

28:15

a grand illusion and deep inside

28:17

or all the same. The

28:20

definition of illusion is something

28:22

such as a fantastic plan or desire

28:25

that causes an incorrect belief

28:28

or perception of reality.

28:30

So our life seems pretty real, doesn't

28:32

it. But let's listen to

28:35

chapter six of mine. What

28:37

if the point of being on planet Earth

28:40

is to experience emotions, be

28:42

able to use our five senses, and

28:45

enjoy the unique atmosphere only

28:48

available here. What if we

28:50

come from some other place to experience

28:53

these things in order for our

28:55

soul self to grow and mature. What

28:57

if life really is a grand illusion like

29:00

the band Sticks sings in

29:02

the quote I just read this chapter

29:05

will address the possibility and the

29:07

probability of life being

29:09

a grand illusion. We live

29:11

our day to day lives believing we are

29:13

important individuals, that the things

29:16

we do on a daily basis are important,

29:18

and our relationships are important. What

29:20

we eat is important, exercise is

29:22

important, getting an education is

29:24

important, Doing our very best is important.

29:27

Telling the truth, of course, is important. Having

29:30

a good job is important. Being loving

29:32

and forgiving is definitely important.

29:35

We live our lives filled with emotion. Don't

29:37

we Think of something you are worried about

29:39

right now. Could it be your health

29:42

or a financial situation. Maybe

29:44

it's a conversation you're afraid to have,

29:46

or you're worried about your son or daughter.

29:49

How does worry feel? Yeah,

29:51

it feels awful. Think of

29:53

some of the fears you have. Some of

29:55

us have the fear of flying. Others

29:58

have fear of public speaking. Any

30:00

are afraid of dying. Others are afraid

30:02

of being alone. Some have fears

30:05

much much worse. Think of someone

30:07

you love, and I mean really love. Take

30:10

a moment and feel how good love

30:12

feels. It can be a person

30:15

or a pet. Think of them

30:17

now and soak up all of

30:19

that love that you have for them.

30:23

You deserve to feel good, Yes,

30:25

you deserve to feel good.

30:28

You're a wonderful person, you're smart, you're

30:30

loving, you do your best, and you deserve

30:33

to feel good. And when you think

30:35

of the successes in your life, what are

30:37

you proud of? Like

30:40

I said earlier, what do people love

30:43

about you? What

30:46

makes you so different from other people?

30:49

I hope you're feeling special right now

30:52

and unique. You should,

30:54

because out of the over eight billion

30:57

people on planet Earth right now, there's only

30:59

one you. And if there was

31:01

one grain of rice for every human

31:03

on this planet, you would be one

31:06

grain in one of the sixty

31:08

one thousand gallon containers

31:10

filled with rice. So that puts in perspective

31:12

how many of us there are on this planet

31:15

right now? Did you know that our Earth

31:17

has been spinning well over

31:19

three hundred thousand years

31:22

with human beings living on it. In

31:24

two thousand and eleven, scholar

31:27

Karl Howbe published an article

31:29

how many people have ever lived

31:31

on Earth? The number is over

31:34

one hundred and seven billion, and

31:36

each one of us has felt pain,

31:39

pleasure, special, unique,

31:42

all of those things that human beings

31:44

feel. Have you realized we're

31:46

living on a planet. That's

31:48

a miracle. We live just the right

31:50

distance from the Sun with everything

31:53

we need from plants, water,

31:56

and more so that we can survive.

31:59

Out of those elements, we have the

32:01

medicine we need from the basic

32:03

elements of Earth. Everything

32:06

we see and everything we use

32:08

has been created. To me, that's

32:11

all a miracle. This Earth is

32:13

about four point six billion years

32:15

old, but life did not exist

32:18

on it until about two billion years

32:20

ago, when all the bacteria and

32:22

algae began to appear. Plants

32:24

didn't appear until about four hundred

32:27

and thirty million years ago, reptiles

32:29

three hundred million years ago, and modern

32:32

mammals seventy five million years

32:34

ago. The first apes appeared

32:36

about thirty five million years ago,

32:38

and the first ape like men about

32:41

ten million years ago. Men

32:43

and women as we know ourselves

32:45

today only appeared about three

32:48

hundred thousand years ago. I

32:50

also include in this chapter that

32:53

there are over seven point seven million

32:55

species of animals. There's

32:58

quite a bit of life here on planet

33:00

Earth. Could it all be by chance

33:03

that we are here by accident.

33:05

The point of this chapter, by the way, is

33:07

to get you to think that perhaps

33:10

there is a bigger picture to who

33:12

you are and what is your life for, and

33:14

that you're not just some random chance

33:16

creation, that your life is important

33:19

and there is meaning to it. Speaking

33:21

of grand illusions, there are

33:23

things that are real even

33:25

though we cannot see them with our eyes,

33:28

things like radio waves, television

33:30

signals, GPS systems, and

33:33

of course the wireless Internet. Personally,

33:36

I believe our deceased loved

33:38

ones are in that same invisible

33:41

space, that space that exists

33:43

all around us. They no longer

33:46

have bodies, but they continue

33:48

to vibrate as energy, no

33:50

different than the music we hear, but

33:52

we cannot see. They are literally

33:54

here after death, better

33:56

known as the hereafter

34:00

case. In point here, more than two

34:02

kinds of energy can be in the same place at

34:04

the same time, so there's no reason why

34:06

our loved ones are not here. In

34:09

fact, what if our world is

34:11

part of their world?

34:13

They're the reality. We come here

34:16

temporarily, and when we return

34:19

after physical death, we find

34:21

a world very much like we have

34:24

right here, and it truly does feel

34:26

like returning home. In

34:28

this chapter I also go into

34:31

how big this universe is. Scientists

34:34

can't really put their finger on it, but

34:36

they say our home, which is the

34:38

Milky Way galaxy consists

34:40

of somewhere between two hundred to

34:43

four hundred billion stars.

34:46

Our sun is just one of these stars,

34:48

and it's believed that at least ten percent

34:50

of these stars have planets and their solar

34:53

systems. These kind of figures

34:55

boggle my mind. And

34:57

while we think of the outer universe

35:01

that's ever expanding, our inner

35:03

universe is just as mind

35:05

blowing. And when we look at things from

35:08

a quantum level and we get down

35:10

to the tiniest bits

35:12

we are made up of, is something called

35:15

quarks, invisible bands

35:17

of energy that make up our atoms

35:20

and our molecules and our cells.

35:22

And if you were to put a tiny

35:24

camera and one of the atoms that

35:26

make us up, it wouldn't see anything

35:29

because all we are is invisible

35:32

vibrating energy. So is

35:34

our life a grand illusion

35:36

in the big picture. This chapter also

35:39

deals with perception, and

35:41

I think it's important because we deal

35:43

with other people, write miscommunications,

35:48

arguments, and all of that. On

35:50

page one h three, I

35:52

talk about perception and what we experience

35:55

we think is true. However,

35:58

our human brains

36:00

about two thousand bits of information

36:03

per second through our senses. I

36:05

know it seems like a lot, but every

36:07

second there are four hundred

36:09

billion bits of information occurring

36:13

in the world around us. That's why

36:15

if you and a friend witness the

36:17

same thing, you may have two different

36:20

stories. Their mind didn't pick

36:22

up the exact same two thousand bits

36:24

that yours did. We humans

36:27

also live our life based on

36:29

our past. Some people love

36:31

the ocean, They love swimming

36:34

in it. They have no problem jumping

36:36

off a boat and into the water. Others

36:39

who may have had a loved one

36:41

drown or perhaps as a child

36:43

seen the movie Jaws, may

36:46

not have that same love for the water.

36:49

Same water, two different stories.

36:52

Why this chapter is important

36:54

in my handbook for being human is

36:57

that we never know the bits

36:59

of information that others in our

37:01

life have picked up. We don't

37:03

know what's happened in their past that

37:06

has them see life the way they do,

37:08

and we don't know what their little

37:10

negative voice inside their mind

37:13

is telling them. And bottom line,

37:16

have compassion for others. They

37:18

too are souls having a human experience,

37:20

and if we can do our best to see life from

37:23

their eyes, it will make us more

37:25

loving and compassionate. Remember

37:27

my favorite fortune cookie message,

37:30

the best place to stand in

37:32

an argument is on the other person's

37:35

side. A couple of the extra

37:37

credit assignments I have in this chapter

37:40

is watching the movie What the bleep

37:42

do we Know? Also, there's a great

37:44

show called Hyperspace, And

37:46

not only that, doing a little visual

37:49

imagery. Imagine yourself

37:51

taking a lemon out of the bottom

37:54

drawer of a refrigerator. What does it

37:56

feel like in your fingertips? And imagine

37:58

putting it on a cutting board and cutting

38:00

it into four wedges, and you

38:02

could smell the lemon and you can see

38:05

some of the juices coming out of it.

38:07

And just imagine that you pick up one of those

38:09

segments of lemon ice cold in

38:11

your fingertips, and you bring it right to

38:13

your mouth and take a big bite.

38:17

Is your mouth salivating? Can you taste

38:20

the lemon? You see? Because

38:22

our minds are so powerful, it doesn't

38:25

have to be real to feel like

38:27

it's real. I leave you with this chapter

38:30

just knowing you are so much more

38:32

than you think you are, and with the

38:34

possibility that our life truly

38:37

is a grand illusion. And the

38:39

good news is you are

38:41

in control and life can

38:44

be a very exciting adventure.

38:46

William shed said, a ship

38:49

in a harbor is safe, but

38:51

that is not what ships are built for.

38:54

And Mark Twain said, twenty

38:56

years from now, you will be more disappointed

38:58

by the things you didn't do than

39:00

by the things you did do. So

39:03

throw off the bowel lines, sail

39:05

away from safe harbor, catch

39:08

the trade winds in your sale, explore,

39:11

dream and discover. We'll

39:13

head off to the break now, but as

39:15

we do, take a look at everything in your

39:18

surroundings and find the

39:20

magic, the wonder and

39:22

the miracle to it all. We'll

39:25

be back. You're listening to Shades

39:27

of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio

39:30

and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal

39:33

Podcast Network. Stay

39:42

there, Sandra will be right back.

39:49

Hey, it's the Wizard of Weird Joshua

39:51

P. Warren. Don't forget to check out my

39:53

show Strange Things each

39:56

week as I bring you the world of the

39:58

truly amazing and right

40:01

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40:06

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40:11

This is Afterlife Expert Daniel

40:13

Braakley, and you're listening to the iHeartRadio

40:17

and Coast to Coast AM Peronormal

40:19

Podcast Network. Welcome

40:35

back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra

40:38

Champlain, it's my birthday episode,

40:40

and I'm sharing just some highlights

40:43

from my book We Don't Die, a

40:45

skeptics discovery of life

40:47

after death. And I thought it was such a

40:49

good idea to share these things

40:51

with you today, but I realized there's

40:53

so much more I want to share that there's

40:56

no way in four

40:58

segments I can cover all the great

41:00

things. So again, you can have a

41:02

free copy of my book that We Doo'tdie

41:05

dot com the bottom of the page.

41:07

Just put in your name in your email address

41:09

and you will receive an email

41:12

with the PDF of the whole thing.

41:15

Back to life being an

41:17

illusion and we are not who we

41:20

think we are. I am a

41:22

firm believer, as you know from

41:24

all the episodes about near death

41:26

experiences, that our consciousness

41:29

is not held in our body, that

41:31

we are interconnected with maybe

41:34

everything. The chapter I'm looking

41:36

at right now deals with remote

41:38

viewing, which is an esp technique

41:42

I teach it on one of the episodes.

41:44

In fact, I have the domain name Shades

41:46

of the Afterlife dot com and you

41:48

can easily scroll back and see

41:51

the titles and play all

41:53

past episodes. But when you have

41:56

an experience of closing

41:58

your eyes and having the

42:00

intention to know something

42:03

that's on someone's table on

42:05

the other side of the world, and you get

42:07

images and thoughts and feelings

42:09

and maybe a shape, and the person

42:12

you're talking to on the other side says that's

42:14

correct. It's mind blowing being

42:17

able to tap into the past and

42:19

sometimes even the future. I

42:21

don't think the future is written

42:23

out yet, but I do think

42:26

that there are times where it's

42:28

obvious that people are tapped

42:30

into more. Here's an example.

42:33

In eighteen ninety eight, fourteen

42:36

years before the Titanic was

42:38

even built, a man named Morgan

42:40

Robertson wrote a book called

42:43

Futility the Wreck of the titan

42:45

The similarities between his work

42:48

and the Titanic disaster are

42:51

astonishing. In Robertson's

42:53

fictional ship, the Titan

42:55

was the largest craft, afloat

42:58

equal to that of a first class

43:00

hotel, and of course unsinkable.

43:03

Both his book and the actual

43:05

Titanic were around eight hundred

43:07

feet long, sank hitting

43:09

an iceberg in the North Atlantic

43:12

in April around midnight. Even

43:14

the speed they were going was about

43:17

the same, and in his fictional

43:19

work, the titan had too

43:21

few lifeboats. It's fascinating.

43:24

There is more to life than meets the eye,

43:26

and certainly more to you than you know.

43:29

We've heard it said many times

43:32

that gratitude is the secret

43:34

weapon for feeling good and having

43:36

results show up in our lives. Albert

43:39

Einstein said there are two ways to live.

43:42

You can live as if nothing is

43:44

a miracle, and you can live as

43:46

if everything is a miracle.

43:49

And it's interesting, as I read this book

43:51

and I know this about gratitude, how

43:54

many of us really make it a

43:56

practice. You see, the voice,

43:59

that negative voice we talked about earlier,

44:02

is not interested in you feeling

44:04

gratitude. Gratitude is the enemy

44:07

of the voice. It would much rather have you

44:09

feel fear or doubt.

44:11

Gratitude, I think is

44:14

a superpower. Not only are

44:16

we divine beings that can

44:18

tap into the past, present,

44:21

the future, the hereafter, but

44:24

we can make things happen as well.

44:26

I know gratitude helped with my dad

44:29

with pain relief. Gratitude

44:31

can turn a bad mood into

44:34

a good mood. When you have some time,

44:36

put on your favorite music, maybe from

44:38

when you were in high school, sit down with

44:40

a piece of paper and write out fifty things

44:42

you are grateful for, and as you

44:45

write them, feel gratitude, really

44:47

think of why you are grateful

44:49

for these things. If you keep a

44:51

gratitude journal of not only

44:54

what you're grateful for and how you feel,

44:56

but pay attention to what starts

44:59

showing up in your life. I believe

45:01

if you give gratitude for things that haven't

45:03

happened yet, that they may cause

45:05

them to happen. I know in my heart

45:08

we are so much more powerful than

45:10

we give ourselves credit for. Mahatma

45:12

Gandhi has this quote. Watch

45:15

your thoughts, for they become words.

45:18

Watch your words for they become actions.

45:21

Watch your actions for they become

45:23

habits. Watch your habits

45:26

for they become character. Watch

45:28

your character, for it becomes

45:31

your destiny. It all

45:33

begins in our mind, giving gratitude,

45:36

paying attention to the voice. There's

45:38

also another tool called

45:41

being in the present moment. The

45:43

present moment is the gateway for

45:45

remote viewing to take place, for

45:47

psychics and mediums to tap

45:50

into our soul's power

45:52

people in the afterlife. The

45:55

present moment can take us out of pain

45:57

and into moments of great inspiration.

46:00

I don't know if you know this, but some of the

46:02

greatest minds in the world would

46:05

tap into this peaceful place, and

46:07

then the ideas for their greatest inventions

46:09

would appear. I'm talking about Leonardo

46:12

da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Henry

46:14

Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, Albert

46:17

Einstein. Even modern day people

46:19

think of Clint Eastwood, George Lucas,

46:22

Tina Turner, Sting, Paul

46:24

McCartney. Whether you call it quieting

46:27

your mind meditation, being

46:29

still, there's a magic that

46:32

unfolds within when

46:34

we quiet the mind. Here's a

46:37

quote by Walter Russell. Every

46:40

genius thinks inwardly toward

46:42

his mind instead of outwardly

46:44

toward his senses. The genius

46:47

can hear sounds coming out of the silence

46:49

with his inner ears, he can vision

46:52

nonexistent forms with his inner

46:54

eyes, and he can feel the rhythm

46:57

of God's thinking and his knowing,

46:59

which are a blank slate to the

47:01

man who believes that he is

47:03

his body. When a human rises

47:06

to the exalted state of genius, he

47:09

becomes a co creator with

47:11

God. The mind

47:13

is its own place and in

47:15

itself can make heaven

47:18

of hell and a hell of

47:20

heaven. That's by John Milton.

47:22

We human beings are designed by

47:25

nature with that voice to see

47:27

negative and look for negative, even

47:30

when things are fantastic

47:32

in our life, it's still looking

47:34

for negative and telling you it's not enough.

47:37

That's why gratitude is

47:39

a superpower. I include

47:41

in the book ten habits to

47:44

supercharge your life, and I'd

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like to read those to you now. One

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in the morning, wake up your soul self.

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Most days, the voice is in the driver's

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seat. We want to put the voice in the backseat

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so you can start your day with

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as much feel good as energy as possible.

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Open your journal, write down

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your desires in just a few sentences.

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Also, write down your successes,

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those things that you're proud of in your life.

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Jot down what people love about

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you. Ultimately, wake up

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your soul self means feel good

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about who you are. You deserve

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whatever your heart desires. Two.

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Think your own thoughts. The voice

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is eager to be in the driver's seat all

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day long. It's important to watch your

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thinking. Notice when the voice

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is driving. Usually these are times

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when you have fear, worry, or negative

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self talk. First, you must catch

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the voice talking, acknowledge

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it, have it sit in the back seat. Think

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of what you're grateful for, think

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of what's important to you, and practice

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thinking your own thoughts. Three

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is be in the present moment, meditation,

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quieting the mind, sitting in the power,

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whatever you want to call it is. But

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also when you are living

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from moment to moment, be in

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the present moment with whatever you're

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doing or whoever you are with.

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Number four is eating healthy

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and exercising. If you think of

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our bodies as this high

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performance energy vehicle that

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we get to drive while we're here

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on planet Earth, just like your car, you

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want to have it running well, so take

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care of it. Number five is make a difference

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for another. Also means be of

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service to someone else. When

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we focus our sits on others. Isn't

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it interesting how good it makes us feel

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and our problems seem to dissipate.

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Maya Angelou's great quote, I've

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learned that people will forget what you said,

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people will forget what you did, but people

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will never forget how you made them feel.

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Number six is take one action

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towards your dream. There's

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a great book called God will Work

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with you but not for you.

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When we take a step in the direction of our dreams,

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I believe the universe or God

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says, let's help them out and

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works with us. Number seven is

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do something that makes you feel good.

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We spend so much of our life looking for negative

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Pay attention to what gives you joy

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and make sure you include that

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in your day. Number eight is laugh,

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remote view or try something new.

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There's a Yiddish proverb what soap

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is to the body, a laughter is to the

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soul. And again there's

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some instructions on remote

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viewing. Number nine is have

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integrity and be responsible.

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Integrity is doing

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what is right, doing what you know

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to do, even if no one else is looking.

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Certainly we make mistakes. We can

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be in communication and clean that

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up. But being responsible means

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living your life not from the viewpoint

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of being a victim. And certainly,

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yes, bad things happen, they do.

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But if we can look at life that

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everything that happens to us is

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either an opportunity to learn or

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say, you get a flat tire when you're driving.

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You can be mad and wrong as much as

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you want and blame the tire, blame

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a pothole in the road. But if you say,

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you know I could have taken a different road,

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I knew I had tire problems, I could have gotten

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that fixed. That responsibility

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doesn't make it right, but it puts you

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back in the driver's seat. And

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the last thing I talk about is having

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a gratitude practice at night, just

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taking some time before you go to bed

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and looking back through your day and finding

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the good, finding the miracles.

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It was good for me to share this birthday

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episode with you because even

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though I wrote the book, I'm not an expert

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in this. But I'm left in

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a state of wonder for who I am,

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for this technology allowing

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me to put my voice here and

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then you, wherever in the world you are,

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you get to listen. I'm left with gratitude,

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empowerment, and certainly

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with a friend. Come visit me at

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weedotdie dot com. Remember

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the song lyrics, row Row, row

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your boat gently down the stream,

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merrily, merrily, merrily merrily.

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Life is but a dream. It

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is a dream. It's a grand illusion,

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seeming oh so real. But you

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are much more powerful than

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you know, and you deserve all

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good things. I'm Sanders

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Champlain. Thank you so much for

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listening to Shades of the Afterlife

52:37

on the iHeartRadio and Coast

52:39

to Coast am Paranormal podcast

52:42

network.

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And if you like this episode of Shades of the

52:50

Afterlife, wait until you hear the next one.

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