Renew Your Spirit: 5 Ways I’m Finding Hope & Strength Right Now
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So I ve not been able to get here to a microphone to talk to you, but I just have so much to share with you. And so thank you. Thank you.

Thank you for spending the time with me. A couple days ago, we flew from nash, filled to chicago. And when we got to the airport, the gentlemen who was picking us up at the airport and driving us to the hotel um was named earnest.

And when we got off the plane and you found his car and he had the biggest smile and just radiated positive energy. You know, people like this that is just hard to be in a bad mood around someone like that. They fight you on IT with their energy IT almost like their a ji night know with their positive life force.

Energy is what I got. And so we stand in there with a bigger smile. And even though this has been a really long stretch, your work travel and even though I have been like you, so overwhelmed and sad and horrified by the news that is dominating the headlines right now, there is something about his spirit that just lifted us all up. And so we're driving in to chicago and he's at the wheel and i'm in the back of the car and we're just chatting up a storm. In addition to his positive energy, earnest has one of those voices is like.

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So for smooth voices, so smooth IT was as if I was a liquid butterscotch, and i'm just soaking up every word. And if that's not enough, he also spoke in poetry, the kind of person that can just string together a sentence, and you find yourself closing your eyes, and just not in along as he is. Rop, in just one beautiful truth form after another.

And all the sudden I got this feeling inside me, and I thought him. I wonder if honest st. Is a minister and so I said, artist, any chance for your minister and he just just started laughing like you got email, you got me, yes, i'm a minister.

Yes, i'm a minister and then went on to explain that, in his opinion, the difference between a pastor and a minister is that a pastor is somebody who is responsible for a church and for the convergence of the church. But a minister, a minister, is a person who spreads light and spreads positive energy, who ministers, by lifting people up. Now we were not talking about any kind of particular religion.

We were just talking about spread and light, positive energy lifting people up. And so I said to artist, you know earnest, I am here in town because I have to um give a speech tomorrow morning and I believe that when I am standing on that stage and i'm looking out into that audience, I am spreading light. I am showing people a different way to look at the situation that they're in or the things that they want in life that I too am in the business of positive energy and lifting people up.

And IT would be an honor to have you come and have you experience um me doing what I do because i've been experiencing what you do. And he said yes. He said yes. And I was one of those moments where I just love when you say yourself, I am sitting right here with this person for a reason.

And as we got closer and closer to downtown chicago, and as earnest kept down ministering to the three of us in his car, as he was spreading his light and talk in all kinds of positivity, I SAT there and thought to myself, I am supposed to be sitting here, and he is supposed to be in the driver seat, and we are supposed to meet IT is just one of those moments. And I want to open you up to a really important idea that sometimes the light, or the connection, or the support, or the love that you need, it's not going to come from the people, you know. Rather, the universe will put a stranger in your path to give you exactly what you need in that moment, even though you didn't know you needed IT.

And what I didn't know is I had gotten off that plane in chicago feeling exhausted by my work schedule and feeling so heartbroken over the news right now. I didn't realize how much I needed a little light. And I want you to remain open to the fact that they are going to be strangers that cross your path today, this week, this month, this year, that can give you the connection, the love, the light to support, the help, whatever IT is that you need without you even realizing IT.

And you are also that stranger for somebody else that you can without even realizing that you're doing IT. Because earnest did not step in the driver seat and go, i'm just gonna ft. These women up.

He was just being earnest. He was just shine in his light. And the interesting thing about strangers, think about this. Absolutely everybody that you love was once a stranger to you, and all IT takes to turn a stranger into a friend, or to somebody who support to or to the love of your life, is taking a moment to connect with the light in one another.

And so earth did come, and he was so qty arrived, brighten early, and I was so proud to have him there. And we SAT him right up front in the in the audience of thousands of people next to are, you know, corporate client. And he just soaked IT in.

And then when I was over, we had some time in what they call the back of the house, you know, behind, know, the front of the house at a hotel. We are standing back there. And I said, so earnest, what you think? What did you think? And he said, some of the most beautiful things to me.

He said, you know, ml. IT was so amazing to sit there. And what you do, what you do. And there is no doubt that you are a minister. In fact, everybody is man is a minister, because everybody has the power to spread light and positive energy. Everybody has the power to lift people up.

But as you were standing on that stage and you were pouring your heart into every single person there, did you notice thousands of people? And every single person was quiet as a church mouse. They were reflecting, they were considering what you were saying.

And I want you to know, mail IT was so much more than positive energy. Because what you do is you make a way out of no way you are reminding people of their power. You're reminding them of what they really want out of life, that they don't want to be stuck, that they want to a feel more.

And then he said this, he said, melt, do you know what you are and I said, no he said, you're at the lights. And when he said that word, lighthouse IT immediately brought me back to a really incredible childhood memory. I mean, light houses hold a lot of importance for me.

I grew up in western michigan and a tiny little town right on the shores of lake michigan. And if you don't know the great lakes, if you're listening, and one of the hundred and ninety four countries where this show is syndicated around the world, and you've never seen the great legs, they're just like an ocean, like you cannot see across them. They are huge, huge waves. They are enormous. And so I grew up in a tiny little town that was surrounded by lakes that all fed into the great lake called lake michigan.

And one of my dad's favorite things to do on the weekends, if he wasn't on call and he didn't have to work, was to get up really early and jump in the boat and drive out from the little lake we live down through the channel into the bigger lake, moscato an lake, and then out the big channel, mosi an lake, and out into the wide open and vast lake michigan, an. And what he loved to do is he love to fish for steel head. And I would often go with them.

Now, here's a thing being a little bit of a worry. Ward, as a kid, I was deadly afraid that we would get out there to the big, open, vast ocean like lake michigan, and we would be swept t away like I had a really active imagination. So my dad would be having the time of his life with a cigar's mouth, and he's got all kinds of lers in the water and his fish in the steel head run.

And my mind would be a spending, what if, what if the engine doesn't start? What if the storm roles over what is one of those big, dark thunder storms comes in and and the other, and the wind picks up and the wave start going, and the boat get slipped over, and dad and I find ourselves lost at sea, and there will be times that my debt will try to start the engine up after we'd been out there for a while, way offshore, and we go. And then IT wouldn't start, wouldn't start.

And then i'd start to panic, and I never really like, would you calm down? Just calm down. And then he would say, well, we are not going to get lost, just look.

And he turned on a point at the shoreline, and there, off in the distance was the lights. And the lights that was on muskie channel is lighthouse LED gig, an south peer head lighthouse. And what my dad would say, he said, mell, that lighthouse is always there and that light houses there, so you don't get lost.

See, IT doesn't matter now how foggy IT is or how dark it's gonna get, or if a storm lows in, we're going to fine because the lights has one job. The lights is always shining its light so that IT can bring you home. IT lets you know that you're never alone and you're never lost.

And when I would look at that lights, even though I was kind of far away, I got to be honest with you. IT made me feel a little safer. And that made me feel like my dad, I were not alone out there in that big old great lake like michigan, but that we were connected to somebody who could and who would help.

And if you've ever been lost, if you ever had that experience, we've been lost whether you're driving around and all the city have to pull over because you don't know where where you are or maybe you're in a new city and you're walking around in circles and you can't find your way, or huck, I remember being a freshman in college, and I was so lost a drama college like I didn't know where my classroom was. So when you're feeling lost, it's really scary. But then there is that moment when either somebody stops and says, are you lost or you say to somebody else, excuse me, i'm a little lost and the person says you, you're not lost.

I know exactly where you are and I also know how to get where you're going. And that right there is such an amazing feeling to have someone say to you, you're not lost. I know exactly where you are, and I know how to get you where you want to a go. And so today, that's exactly what I wanted talk to about this feeling that I think is really universal right now, a feeling lost, especially when the world feels like it's very dark.

And when you're feeling lost, how can you navigate this? How can you move forward again? And I know that you, but exactly how I felt this week as i've been watching the news unfold, IT feels like a huge dark storm has blown in, that the fog is here, that we're spinning around.

It's scary and I don't know about you. But whenever I feel like things are really dark or I feel very lost and i'm not sure what to do, I sort to feel paralyzed. That's kind of my initial reaction that I get stuck, I get angry, I feel uncertain, my energy starts to drain for me. I feel so sad. And i'm sharing that with you.

Because if that's how you felt recently, I want you to know you're not alone in feeling that way and IT might not even be that you feel lost maybe right now because what's happening in your personal life or because you live in a part of the world that is in conflict, in crisis that you do feel like you're holding on for dear life, that you are trying not to drown. And I also want you to know if that's how you feel as you hear my voice, or you're watching this video, that you're not alone. There are so many people, unfortunately, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people that feel that way right now, too.

And so today i'm thinking about our conversation, not like this is a podcast episode. I'm thinking about our conversation as me sharing with you how i'm feeling. And what I really wanna do, because i've been thinking a lot about this, especially sense, earnest and this metaphor of the lights, is I want to speak to the situation that we're in right now.

And in particular, i'm gonna try to shine a light, a light so bright that I hope IT reaches you, because we can't allow ourselves to get so caught up in the darkness that is in the world around us that we forget to love one another. We cannot forget to appreciate the small things or the moments that we have. Even when the world around us feels like a spiralling in chaos, we can't forget to help someone in need.

And we can't forget that we, even if we're just watching this all unfold in the news, that we are just one step away from being the one who needs to help. And if you can hear my words right now, or you can watch this on youtube, I want you to consider something yes, you may feel deeply afraid and you may feel lost. But you're not lost.

You have you. You're not alone. You're not buy yourself your with yourself. And there are so many people around the globe who care about you and you're also not paralyzed.

That's kind of our first response, right? When something scary happens that we disconnect from ourselves, we disconnect from everybody else. We start to honker down. We feel stuck. We start to get paralyzed. I am here to shine light on the fact that there are small things that you can do right now, first, to weather this storm, and second, to start to see yourself and what you can do in a different life.

My hope is that by the time you and I were done talking today, that you're not gonna feel so stuck, that you're gonna feel so hopeless, but that you will feel reconnected to your strength, and you will feel empower by some very simple things that you can do right now to help yourself and perhaps help somebody else who need you. I am onna. Show up today and B.

A. lighthouse. And i'm gona shine a light so bright because I want to illuminate a path forward for you that will help you navigate this moment.

A lie house is not actually interested in who gets the light. A lights is blinking in a rotation so that the light is there for all to see. IT doesn't select or discriminate which ships get to see.

IT. IT shows its light for anyone within its reach. I love that. I absolutely love that because that brings me back to you and to this moment, and to the awesome, like, amazing power that you have see. When I landed in chicago, I saw the light inside of earnest.

He was just standing there by minute for anybody who cared to be basking. And in that light lifted me up. And then the next morning, earnest saw the late me as I was just beaming IT out for anybody in that audience who cared to allow IT to light the way.

And you, you have a light inside of you. What is the light? The light is your humanity.

It's your compassion. It's your ability to laugh, to love, to hug somebody, to listen to care. It's what you feel in your heart, and that's why your heart is breaking right now.

Your heart is breaking because you're seeing innocent people suffering due to war or natural disasters or senseless hatred and violence. And, you know, I don't know about you, but when I watch the news, I have to remind myself, because it's easy to forget this fact that these innocent people are victims. They are other governments, and that's why so many people around the world need your light right now. And i'm going to talk to about how you can tap into that light bread after we take a quick break and hear a word from our sponsors. Stay with me because i'm going to be waiting for you when we come back.

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Welcome back. It's your friend male. And you and I are talking about how we can take care of ourselves and show up to this moment in life as a lights both for ourselves and for other people.

And i'm also gona share with you some of the things that I am doing that are making mistake connected to midnight and keeping me crowded and keeping me in a place where I am not getting sucked into the darkness. I am staying above IT so that I can help and so that I can stay connected to my power. See, even when nothing seems to make sense, there's always something that you can do.

And what you can do right now is to be a lights for other people to cast your light into the dark storm, for anybody who needs IT to see IT. And what does that even mean? male? Well, let me talk about that for a minute.

First of all, whenever I feel really low, I find that the fastest way for me to lift my own spirits is to help somebody else. And one of the major ways that you can do this is find ways to volunteer, whether it's in your community or offering up support for some of the amazing relief organizations that are out there. Just find ways to be part of the force for good.

And look, I know what you already thinking. Well, are you kidding me? A, I am sad and scared and horrified, and I can barely get out of bed and a mainlander the news, you want me to help other people now I can barely function myself.

Well, here's what I have to say. Well then helping someone else is exactly what you should do if you can help yourself. Research has found over and over again that helping somebody else not only feels good, but IT does you good. And there are number reasons why.

First of all, IT distracts you from the sorrow, grief, fear and worries that can become this echo chAmber in your own brain that starts to make you feel isolated and paralyzed and stuck and full of despair by supporting other people in need. There are so many interesting things that happen with your perspective. When you are supporting somebody else, you realize you have more power than you think.

And i'm talking little stuff. You could run errands for somebody. You could work hot lines, you could check in on friends and family. By supporting somebody else, need you gain a new perspective about your own situation.

And there's something magical that happens when you start giving back because you realize that you do have more power, then you think you do. When you sit alone and you tell yourself there's nothing that you can do, you will start to spiral, you will feel more depressed. And I know you know this is true.

I mean, just think about the times that somebody's done something nice for you. In those moments when somebody else helps you, you feel seen, you feel lifted up. And the second thing that I want you to do is to be soft with yourself right now, because the world's suffering IT is impacting you, too.

In fact, doctor tam a. Bryan has been featured on the last two episodes that we published as a saying that whatever is happening out there is happening in here too. And what he means by that is that you are absorbing the energy and the stress around you.

Everybody on the planet right now is impacted by this. And even if you're not vibrating with a lot of stress, people around you are they are worried they're watching the news. They may not be able to turn that off.

They are worried about loved ones. They are worried about what might happen. And this energy is impacting you. And if you are watching the news, yeah, you can turn that off, but you can't turn that off in your body.

And so if you are having a hard time concentrating or falling asleep or procrastination has ticked up where you feel like your own edges or you're starting to slip in the feeling like nothing matters in life is hard. That is an example of how this is impacting you. And so IT is critical that you take steps to take care of yourself right now, because you deserve IT.

And in order to lift other people up, you gotta make sure that you start by lifting yourself up first. And so I thought a lot about this. How am I doing that for myself? And I came up with five things that i'm doing right now that are helping me to stop the overwhelm and stop the despair, and to stay connected to my light, to the power that I do have, and to a connection to something greater than this very scary moment. And i'm going to tell you what those five things are after a short break from worth march sponsors, and you Better believe i'm going to be right here awaiting for you when we come back.

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Welcome back. It's your friend, male. And i'm so happy that you're here.

I'm happy that we have each other, and i'm happy that you and I are going to lock arms and we are going to shine our light spread. And here are the five things that i'm doing right now. They are making a real difference in my ability to stay grounded.

And so the first thing is spiritual practices. I am a very spiritual person, but since this news began a week ago, I have really become intentional about making sure IT is part of my daily, and sometimes several times at daily thing that i'm doing. And you know that spirit al practices work like one of the things i'm doing right now.

praying. I'm praying for each and every single human being who has lost their lives or their loved ones. I'm praying for people who are in harms way who are fearing for their lives.

I'm praying for those of you that are struggling right now with anxiety and fear and grief. And i'm praying for compassion. I'm praying for healing, and I am praying for peace.

And you want to know what else i'm praying for. I am praying for our collective light to shine brighter than this terrifying darkness that is rolled into the world right now. Since the beginning of time, spiritual practices have helped people through some of the most tragic experiences.

So whether for you that means prar, or meditation, or journal, or gathering with other people of a similar faith, or even for me, just taking a walk outside, getting outside, getting off my phone, taking a walk in the woods, or here's what I did this morning. I was driving down the road, and I have a friend that i've talked about on this podcast that is a flower farmer. She's the hour flour farm.

And SHE has all these value fields. And I pulled over because I saw her working in one, and I left my car running, and I just silently walked through the rose in her flower field. And as I walked, I took in each individual flower, and I would stop and look at IT, and I would look at the bumble b that was lying there in the center, all drunk on pollen.

And I got lost in the beauty of nature. And i'll tell you what being able to connect to something greater than this scary moment that's going on in the world, IT really helps me. That helps me to stay grounded.

IT helps me to be calm, and that helps me to show up in a very different way during this moment. And if you're listening to my voice, are you watching this video and you're in a part of the world where you can't get outside, just not an option for you. I want you to try visualizing yourself outside in your favorite place, or visualized yourself with people that you love.

If you close your eyes and allow your imagination to take you there, IT might just really help. The second thing that i'm doing is I am using the ten, five old now. This is something I do in my day to day life, but I have ten excited at this moment.

And here's with the ten five rules. It's a simple way to connect with people that you know or that you don't know. And every time I share this, I always get people that right in and say, well, this is safe for me to do.

Well, if you're comfortable, try this. But IT is really fantastic. You can use this on a grocery store.

You can use a college campus. You can use this at work. You can use this on a sidewalk.

You can use this at a stop light. It's wonderful. And here's how IT works. Whenever your ten feet away from another human being, just look in the eyes and smile.

That's IT.

Look in the eyes and smile and try to hold the smile and your eye contact for three seconds or more. M, because a funny thing happens when you do that. When you look at somebody else in the eyes and you smile, a big, toothy smile, you are signaling to somebody else's mira neons in their brain that you are friendly, that you are a safe connection, and somebody else's myr neons can help, but then mire your response.

And so if you look at somebody in the eyes and they look back, and you smile, and you hold that smile from more than three seconds, you watch theyll grand right back because they can help IT. We are wired for connection, then when you get five feeds away, smile again and say hello. And the reason why this ten five world is so great is because it's a simple and instant way to connect with somebody.

The fact is we are not strangers when we are all suffering around the globe, and we are all in this right now, even though we show IT very, very differently from one another. And so the five ten rule is just a simple and fun way that you can both reconnect with that late inside you and use IT to connect with someone else. Because when you truly take a moment to see someone, and that's what I wanted to do.

I do not want us to turn away from one another, because when we do that, we buy in to the darkness. I want us to turn tod one another. I want us to to lead with our humanity, to let the light in from one another again.

The third thing that I am doing that is helping a lot is advice that I got from doctor timer briant, where he says there's a big difference between staying and formed, not innovating yourself with the news, because how much time you spend watching the news does not equal how much you care. You can care deeply about what's happening with other people and not watch the news at all. I personally do not watch, listen to the news. I read the news.

why? Because I wanna a stay informed, but I want to protect my mental health. This is a way I can be soft with myself, remember, because if I let my mental health tank, and if I let my mood and my mindset and all of that go with IT, i'm not gonna able to show up in this moment and navigated in a different way.

And so please try not to stress yourself out by staring a traumatic imagery to the extent that you can. In fact, my husband and I have also required that all three of our kids delete tiktok because the imagery on that platform right now is way too much for your nervous system and your heart to process. And so please do not look at IT focus on showing how much you care by your actions rather than the content that you're consuming.

It's gonna be way Better for you. okay. Next, this is a fourth thing that i'm doing that makes me feel a little bit Better.

I am reaching out to people, and in particular, I am checking in on my jewish and my muslim friends see these recent events. They have sent shock ways through both global communities. Please let your friends know that you care about them, that you're thinking about them. Please let them know that they are not alone in this.

And another thing that I love to do is that when I am aching out to a friend of mine who is really going through something, whether it's this situation that we are witnessing right now, or it's somebody that just lost a loved one or got a scary diagnosis, or is dealing with something very attic, I always reach out and I check in and I tell them how much I love them, and then I end IT with this. You do not need to respond. I just wanted you to know that i'm here and you're not going to go through this alone.

And the reason why I love this is because when you reach out to somebody unexpectedly, ly IT feels so good. I mean, think about the times when somebody text to you unexpecting vely and right, all my god, that's so nice of them. And when you send the text, you create that light inside somebody else.

That's the first gift. The second gift is when you say you don't need to respond, because if somebody y's going through something very traumatic, they do not have the energy to check in with you. And so you give them this beautiful gift when you relieve them of the burden and the guilt of having to and not being able to.

And finally, I have been thinking about this metaphor of the lights over and over and over again. And I find IT so empowering to think about the role that you can play as an individual in the dark storm that somehow thinking about shining that late inside of you in a three sixty fashion for anyone around you to see or fill what a gift that is to give other people. And by thinking about that, metaphor allows me to rise out of the individual emotion or heaviness that I feel so that I can take action and feel like i'm doing something.

And the ways that I do that is, when I see despair, I respond with hope. When I see sorrow, I respond with love. I'm meeting agitation with kindness. And i'm inviting you to do the same. Do not get pulled into the darkness.

As I said earlier, the words that earnest said to me, we cannot allow ourselves to get caught up in the darkness in the world and forget to love one another and help one another in need. Do what you can to help yourself and to help somebody else see the good in you and in them. And if you really don't know what to do, just smile with people, just say hello, just reach out to your friends. A little bit of goodness, because a very long way right now. And in case no one else tells you this today, I wanted to tell you that I love you and I believe in your ability to shine your light at this moment, because it's a moment when the world needs the most.

Oh, and one more thing I know, this is not a blue per. This is the legal language. You know what the lawyers right? And what I need to read you.

This podcast is presented solely for educational and entertainment purposes. I'm just your friend. I am not a license therapies, and this pocket is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist or other qualified professional. Got IT good. I'll see in the .

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