If You're Still Carrying Old Pain, Listen To This | Gregg Braden

0:00Oh, could this vintage store be any cuter? Right? And the best part? They accept Discover. Accept Discover? In a little place like this? I don't think so, Jennifer. Oh, yeah, huh.

0:11Gregg Braden:Discover's accepted where I like to shop. Come on, baby, get with the times. Right, so we shouldn't get the parachute pants? These are making a comeback. I think. Discover is accepted at 99 % of places that take credit cards nationwide. based on the February 2025 Nielsen Report. Hi, my name is Lewis Howes, and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:42How can one learn to break an interpretation that they've lived a life of pain, sadness, and suffering, not deny the experience that happened to them, but not define them moving forward and holding them back from the abundance that they want to create in their life. That's the beauty of our humaneness and our divinity. We have the ability to choose. We must accept the responsibility with that choice that we choose not to be defined by our past. That was a choice. It was a conscious choice I made when I was young. I looked at my father's life. I looked at the destruction, the emotional destruction.

1:18I looked at what it was doing to me. And I said, my younger brother, and I love my brother, and if he's watching this, I haven't talked to you for a while, brother, but I love you. He carries that hurt and allows that to define his life. And so all of the misfortune, and this is nothing new, you've heard this, all the misfortunes, the bad relationships, the bad jobs, whatever it is, it's somebody else's fault. You know, you're looking around you for the reasons. and that is a fundamental shift in in understanding our relationship to to the world we must choose consciously or subconsciously i'm not saying it's always a conscious choice but on some level we choose to be defined by what the circumstances of the past or we choose to free ourselves human divinity is what allows us to do that if we don't have our human divinity the ability to innovate, to imagine, to create, to love.

2:16These are all facets of human divinity. You begin to see why it's so important for us to preserve, to claim and preserve our humanist, our bodies. I think perhaps the greatest task that we're given as humans is to honor, preserve, protect the gift of our bodies. because once we relinquish our humanness to the technology, we'll never get it back. Once we give our humanness, once we give our biology away, we'll never get it back, and we become something very different. This is what Ray Kurzweil is talking about, and it's what the others are talking about, but it comes down to something even deeper than that.

3:02And if you're going to do a soundbite, maybe this is going to be the soundbite because not everybody's into the good and evil. Not everybody's into the technology and all of that. It comes down to love. The question that we all ask ourselves, do we love ourselves enough to accept the gift of our humanness and the responsibility that comes with being human and our divinity, expressing our divinity fearlessly in this world? That's the question we're all asking ourselves. And without a verbal answer, the choices that we make, the politics that we choose, the medical systems that we choose, the food that we eat, the wars that we create or the peace that we create are the answer to that question.

3:46We're all answering it right now, but how can you answer it if you don't know the context? So I'm going to go back. Good and evil. A battle between good and evil. This is a very different battle. You don't win this battle. It's not the kind of battle that you win by fighting. We don't want to win. We want to triumph. And the way you triumph, and this is the beauty. You don't have to know any of this. The way we triumph is by living the best version of ourselves. We live our humanness. We live our divinity. We love fearlessly. We innovate. We create. We forgive without expectation. When we do that forgiveness, we do all of those things.

4:21And by doing that, that is the very opposite. The evil wants to defeat us by separating us from those expressions. When we live them, we have triumphed. Wow. And I think that's the beauty of where we are right now. So again, if that makes sense to me, of course.

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