WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 Sovereign Soul, entry two. What is the bottleneck 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:06.639 of our being? I think most people on the planet 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:09.359 would agree that we live in a time where information 00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:12.300 is plentiful. We can know anything, anytime, 00:00:12.500 --> 00:00:15.859 with the advent of the internet and now AI, along 00:00:15.859 --> 00:00:18.760 with a myriad of devices that deliver us information 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:21.280 on demand. Along with the constant access to 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:23.859 information that we may or may not be interested 00:00:23.859 --> 00:00:26.960 in or may or may not be helpful, we are also 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:29.460 constantly being bombarded with all types of 00:00:29.460 --> 00:00:31.179 information from our environment, through our 00:00:31.179 --> 00:00:34.520 senses, our phones, computers, and TVs. that 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:37.560 we interface with and communicate through consume 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:40.560 a great deal of our attention or available bandwidth 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:43.539 on a daily basis. We give them total access to 00:00:43.539 --> 00:00:46.020 our lives, many times not even thinking about 00:00:46.020 --> 00:00:48.520 the effect they may be having on our bodies and 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:52.039 our minds, let alone our beings. Yet, as a species, 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:54.780 we have never been more unhealthy and unhappy 00:00:54.780 --> 00:00:58.159 on many levels. What gives? Why? Where is the 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:01.469 bottleneck of our being? By definition, A bottleneck 00:01:01.469 --> 00:01:04.310 is a point of congestion or restriction that 00:01:04.310 --> 00:01:07.489 slows down or limits progress or flow. It can 00:01:07.489 --> 00:01:09.849 refer to a physical space, but it doesn't have 00:01:09.849 --> 00:01:13.150 to. The bottleneck I'm referring to is the one 00:01:13.150 --> 00:01:15.689 affecting the rate of change in a person, the 00:01:15.689 --> 00:01:18.549 bottleneck of being. For example, what stops 00:01:18.549 --> 00:01:20.790 a person from changing their habits and behaviors 00:01:20.790 --> 00:01:23.370 once they know with a reasonable amount of certainty 00:01:23.370 --> 00:01:26.310 that those habits are a detriment to some aspect 00:01:26.310 --> 00:01:28.310 of their life? Maybe it's their physical health, 00:01:28.409 --> 00:01:31.629 like smoking or drinking too much. or their financial 00:01:31.629 --> 00:01:34.230 health by gambling or not showing up for work 00:01:34.230 --> 00:01:36.549 on time and getting fired, or their emotional 00:01:36.549 --> 00:01:39.209 health by being overly worried or concerned about 00:01:39.209 --> 00:01:42.150 things that they can't even control. Clearly, 00:01:42.430 --> 00:01:45.109 the examples of this are many and varied. But 00:01:45.109 --> 00:01:47.829 the point is, when someone has the information 00:01:47.829 --> 00:01:51.129 and can no longer claim ignorance and still does 00:01:51.129 --> 00:01:54.150 not engage in healthy change towards a more orderly 00:01:54.150 --> 00:01:56.790 existence, where is the bottleneck in their being? 00:01:56.959 --> 00:01:59.579 What's stopping the process? Let's start with 00:01:59.579 --> 00:02:02.920 a quick synopsis, a recounting of how I got from 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:05.379 where I was to where I am putting me in front 00:02:05.379 --> 00:02:08.080 of you right now. I was a holistic physician 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:11.819 for over 25 years. I looked at thousands of people 00:02:11.819 --> 00:02:14.639 on a variety of levels, treating them as whole 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:17.199 beings, physically, mentally, emotionally, and 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:20.199 spiritually, many times in the same visit. I 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:22.960 catalyzed and facilitated healings of all kinds, 00:02:23.020 --> 00:02:26.159 witnessing amazing results on all kinds of issues, 00:02:26.379 --> 00:02:29.319 giving many people undeniable evidence that what 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:32.580 happened was a reestablishment of order that 00:02:32.580 --> 00:02:35.419 removed a dis -ease pattern. Anyway, I would 00:02:35.419 --> 00:02:37.879 always close the visit with the homework, in 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:40.419 other words. That is, what you need to do to 00:02:40.419 --> 00:02:43.159 keep this alignment in place and to keep it going, 00:02:43.620 --> 00:02:45.699 and what it is that you can no longer do that 00:02:45.699 --> 00:02:49.280 will undo it. time and time again. They would 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.780 in earnest acknowledge it, agree to it, and then 00:02:52.780 --> 00:02:54.939 not follow through. I was wise enough to know 00:02:54.939 --> 00:02:58.319 it wasn't personal. Nothing is in the end. I 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:01.219 had great relationships with many of these people, 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:03.620 and between the results they received in our 00:03:03.620 --> 00:03:06.479 visits and our rapport, they had every reason 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:09.159 to believe me and recognize the experience was 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:11.860 real and that they should follow through to continue 00:03:11.860 --> 00:03:14.300 the healing process so they would become more 00:03:14.300 --> 00:03:17.020 permanent. Yet the math did not lie. And time 00:03:17.020 --> 00:03:19.099 and time again, many of them would come back 00:03:19.099 --> 00:03:21.819 in a similar place or slightly ahead of where 00:03:21.819 --> 00:03:24.800 they were before the visit due to a lack of follow 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:27.240 through. The miracle didn't stick at the highest 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:30.020 level. The order didn't hold where it was when 00:03:30.020 --> 00:03:32.639 they left me. What was the bottleneck of their 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:35.400 being? Where was the rate limiting step in the 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:38.240 process that was not allowing them to keep or 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:40.860 hold the potential healing that was clearly possible 00:03:40.860 --> 00:03:43.629 at the time of our visit? but due to a lack of 00:03:43.629 --> 00:03:45.810 follow through and willingness to change on their 00:03:45.810 --> 00:03:48.090 part, could not be maintained at the highest 00:03:48.090 --> 00:03:51.009 level. In other words, why was there being unable 00:03:51.009 --> 00:03:53.569 to efficiently go from receiving the awareness 00:03:53.569 --> 00:03:56.349 and order in our visit, through an integration 00:03:56.349 --> 00:03:58.610 process that would allow the new order to be 00:03:58.610 --> 00:04:01.509 used in practical application, and then finally 00:04:01.509 --> 00:04:04.349 the implementation or putting it into practice 00:04:04.349 --> 00:04:06.770 phase that would allow it to become a more permanent 00:04:06.770 --> 00:04:08.949 part of their behavior and their being going 00:04:08.949 --> 00:04:11.719 forward? The putting into practice phase, hence 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:15.139 the title of my book, The Practice, is key because 00:04:15.139 --> 00:04:17.680 once it is accomplished and done so with some 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:20.339 level of repetition, the results of the change 00:04:20.339 --> 00:04:23.240 has become undeniable and that reinforces the 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:25.680 motivation to continue the practice of change. 00:04:25.939 --> 00:04:29.240 This feedback loop of awareness feeds the changes, 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:31.819 helping them to become a new normal and hence 00:04:31.819 --> 00:04:34.779 the foundation for behavioral change going forward. 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:37.579 So why were the systems of a great percentage 00:04:37.579 --> 00:04:40.639 of people willing to receive information healing, 00:04:40.899 --> 00:04:43.220 higher order, and common sense in the visit with 00:04:43.220 --> 00:04:46.560 me, yet be unwilling to take the next steps. 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:49.939 What I came to realize was their systems were 00:04:49.939 --> 00:04:52.660 not available enough to receive the new data 00:04:52.660 --> 00:04:55.339 from the experience we were having together and 00:04:55.339 --> 00:04:58.160 hold on to it long enough for it to become integrated 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:01.040 and more permanent part of their operating system 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:04.019 and affect long -term behavioral changes. And 00:05:04.019 --> 00:05:07.160 still the question remained. Why was there a 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:09.699 bottleneck around integration and implementation, 00:05:10.060 --> 00:05:12.319 leading to a greater awareness of benefit and 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:14.899 a feedback loop of foundational change? What 00:05:14.899 --> 00:05:17.860 was the resistance to change and limited availability 00:05:17.860 --> 00:05:20.879 based in? Even though the person was open to 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:23.339 receive the healing and higher order in their 00:05:23.339 --> 00:05:27.040 lives with me in the room, and why was this resistance 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:30.180 so resistant? When contemplating a question such 00:05:30.180 --> 00:05:32.579 as this, I have always found the best place to 00:05:32.579 --> 00:05:35.279 look for possible solutions is within myself. 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:38.360 and observe the natural world around me. As well 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:40.639 practiced as I was with going through the process 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:43.259 of realization, integration, and implementation, 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:46.480 where was the bottleneck of my current being? 00:05:46.939 --> 00:05:49.480 Maybe studying this in my own life would help 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:52.120 me to know the reasons that it exists and so 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:55.980 many others. It was a path I had to follow, and 00:05:55.980 --> 00:06:01.459 there was only one way to follow it. Push away 00:06:01.459 --> 00:06:02.120 from the peer.