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(Auto-generated)Welcome back, you wonderful people who matter so very, very much.

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I'm so glad to see that you returned for more.

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To kick things off today, I wanted to pass along another useful thing that I've discovered,

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particularly during my time explaining the Breaking Laugh to people.

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It's a way of talking about something that I don't really have the words for.

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And I hope you don't mind if we talk outside today, because, well, I just think it'd be

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nice to sit outside with you today.

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I think we could all use a little outside time given the last year that's taken place.

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Let's go outside to a nice sunnier day, and come sit with me and we'll talk about a few

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things.

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We'll see how an outdoor show goes.

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If you like it, let me know.

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If you don't, let me know.

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So yeah, one of the things that I wanted to talk to you about is something that you're

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not sure how to talk about.

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When you're dealing with a very complex thought or emotion, you may understand it yourself

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to a degree, but have a hard time explaining it to someone else.

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Well, perhaps in response to the concepts that I had to figure out how to explain, I

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developed the Michelangelo approach or the footprint method.

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It's incredibly useful for situations that are emotionally charged because, as I mentioned

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before, emotions are one of those things that you tend to have to describe in the abstract.

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And if you've read my book or heard me read my book on here, which if you don't know,

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that's the entirety of season one of the podcast is my book, then you know how abstract some

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of these concepts I talked about are.

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This method is so useful for talking in relationships about your emotions and about your feelings.

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But in order to tell you about the Michelangelo approach, I need to tell you a little bit

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about Michelangelo.

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If you never looked into the great master sculptures and marble, he was that he was

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a master.

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You should absolutely look up his veil sculptures and his anatomy studies.

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He had this brilliant way of giving weight and realism and texture to flesh and cloth,

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though these pieces were sculpted out of marble.

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It's said that Michelangelo was quoted as saying that his sculpting process was, he

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looks at a block of marble, sees in it what he wants it to be, and then he proceeds to

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cut away everything that isn't it.

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There's a lot of times where you're in an argument or trying to explain something that

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you are emotionally charged about, and you won't have the right words to just express

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what's wrong or what it is that's right.

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In those cases, there are bound to be sentences that you know you could say to the other person

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that would tell them a lot about what it is that you mean to tell them, but to say that

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sentence would imply a bunch of other stuff that isn't the right way to describe it.

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The Michelangelo approach, or the footprint method, encourages you to state that you're

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going to make a statement, and then encourages you to put out the whole block of marble,

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make that sentence statement, and then spend time chipping away at what that statement

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doesn't mean, so that they can see the foot by way of the footprint, so that they can

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see what it is you mean to say by way of what you didn't mean to say within what you did

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say.

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They get a clearer picture of what it is you actually mean as you start to carve it down.

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I'm telling you, this is useful for explaining anything, really.

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In fact, I may actually use that right now in answering a question that was recently

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posed to me.

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So the question in question, it was regarding what happens from here, with the show, with

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the book, and with me.

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They asked me if I was starting a religion, and I had to think about that for a minute,

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because I am proposing a new point of view when it comes to our interactions with our

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creator, but I am in no way excluding any other faith.

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The concepts I'm teaching plug in well with all the existing religions.

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So is this a religion?

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No.

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Is it a belief structure?

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Not really.

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Is it a cult?

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Definitely not.

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I haven't asked you guys for anything, except I guess I will now.

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Subscribe if you get the chance.

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You know what?

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Subscribe.

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Do me a solid.

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Subscribe.

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That will help the show out a lot.

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The more subscribers you have, the bigger an audience you have, and the more it gets

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recommended out, the more it hits the algorithm that shows it to new people, the more of a

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chance that other people have to learn what you've already learned.

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It's good, right?

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It's worth knowing.

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So we're not a cult.

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All it is is a series of concepts and observations arranged so I can show you what I've found

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to be the reasons we laugh, what some of that laughter is actually doing to us, rational

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reasonings towards believing in a creative force, what our purpose is, some of the reasonings

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behind why we don't get to have proof, and how real happiness works.

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And you, my friend, are one of the very first steps that this series of concepts and understandings

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is making on its way into the waters of human knowledge.

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And I know I've said this before, but I do hope that you will pass it along, continue

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it forward, live with it, and teach from it.

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It takes a little bit of courage, but so it would seem do all things that are truly worth

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doing.

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But before it takes courage, it takes some just doing it.

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Some just saying, okay, we're doing this, and go.

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And pushing yourself into taking the first steps and boom!

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Suddenly you're there, and you know what?

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After the first steps, most of the time, it's really not that hard, nor does it really require

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courage, especially if you already trust God.

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During your first steps of living this, it's easy to see all the rest of the world as what

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I used to have, to feel surrounded by a world full of comforts and temptations of what would

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seem to be the easiest routes.

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Those go with the flow routes, and ones that your feet used to trot, those paths will feel

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like a home that you are away from.

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And they feel a bit like going back to them as a trespass of sorts.

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But then, as some time passes, you begin to see the path for what it is.

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A self-motivated arrow towards that which you thought you wanted, banged around from

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different events, being stumbled and knocked around by different occurrences, the path

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that you find yourself on apart from it, is less of a narrow strip of guidelines, but

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a whole wide open world to walk through.

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Allow yourself to be drawn off course to help someone else.

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I'll say this again, allow yourself to be drawn off course to help someone else.

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You've already talked about exploring the paths that you find yourself landing on.

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All the very best paths require someone willing to step onto them.

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Slight focus shift for a moment, but let's say you need some help finding the path.

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Ask for help.

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And after you ask for that help, one of the best things you can do is focus on doing some

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good.

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In fact, and this is something I should definitely share on the show, all you have to do to feel

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God's presence is to do good.

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If there are scarier moments where you want to feel God with you, actively turn your mind

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from fear and place it in love's hands.

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Make a plan, something and fall through with it, but come up with something nice that you

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could do for someone, some way that you could help someone, some way that you could just

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make their life just a little better, just even for a moment.

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Aim your heart at what good you can do in the world, and then aim your head and your

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hands at it.

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And make the decision to desire doing this more.

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Because God speaks on a whole nother level, way beyond that of clumsy human language.

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And yes, languages are beautiful and brilliant, but it's not ideal for something that is magnitudes

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greater in complexity than we are.

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From what I've experienced, God doesn't speak through words as much as he speaks through

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emotions and through everything else.

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Don't forget that God is hidden in everything.

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He tends to speak in moments.

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For me, he flecks the fabric of reality in response.

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During my journey he had a billboard put up several years before I asked a question, just

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waiting for me to come out from under that bridge when I asked if I could wait a day

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to leave.

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I asked it and boom, right there.

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My answer on a billboard that had been weathered from several years of exposure.

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And do remind me please to tell that story, because that's a pretty good one.

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My point is, I think that emotion is a lot closer to the language that God speaks.

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And when we start aiming those hearts and minds and hands at doing some good, we start

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tuning ourselves into that connection we have with God, that frequency that God speaks on.

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And nothing properly helps to switch from fear living to remembering that God is all

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and he's got my back, like turning your heart, your mind, and your hands towards making someone's

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day a bit better.

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Making someone happier makes it so much easier to talk to him and to hear him.

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And you know what, hey, added bonus, you get to put some more good out there into the world

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as well.

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Yay you.

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So there you go.

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Yet one more reason to be good to them.

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Please be good for them and you're going to be magnificent.

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So be sweet.

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Bye everybody.