"Prosperity, Protection, and Peace: The Three Pillars of Fulfillment"

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1:49This is The Ed Myeret Show. All right, welcome back to the show, everybody. So first, just another thank you. I want to thank you so much for sharing the episodes every single week. As many of you know, we were just named the number one show in the world in our category, and that's because so many of you share our episodes every single week. So this week, I want to discuss three Ps with you. Prosperity, protection, and peace. How's that sound? Want to spend some time talking about that this week? I know I sure do. How many of you would like a little bit more prosperity, be able to have more protection in your life, feel more protected, be able to protect your family better, and the holy grail of life, have a lot more peace in our lives.

2:30And so I want to discuss those with you this week. And, you know, I get asked a lot, you know, we get the questions submitted to what people want me to cover on the show. Oftentimes, it's related or correlated to these topics. One of the things I get asked a lot about is my opinions on the law of attraction. Is it real? How does it really work? On success, on mindset, on can you really think things into your awareness? Can you think and grow rich? or do you have to think and do to become rich and rich in every single area? Rich meaning prosperity, rich meaning in protection, and rich in the most important things in our life, which is peace.

3:01And so you were born to protect somebody. And that person may be you to protect your own peace, as Trent Shelton has said at our events. It might be financial protection. I don't know what it is, but I know that it's going to require two things. It's going to require prosperity and peace. and I want to talk to you this week about both of those things prosperity protection and peace in a really condensed right at you format because I really believe that it's the most important thing you could do for yourself and here's the biggest kicker of this whole thing everything you need to win is within you right now everything you need to win is within you right now it's a matter of you tapping into it it already exists within you you lack nothing there's no part of what you need to become that you don't already possess.

3:47It's a matter of it being dormant inside of you. And we need to tap it so that it becomes alive again. It's like turning a switch on inside somebody that has been off. It's not that the power isn't connected. It's not that you're not ready to go. It's that the switch has been off. And when you flip that switch on, it shines a light into who you really are. If you can actually begin to live life by flipping these switches on at any given time, all of a sudden it starts to give momentum to your life. You're like, I've turned another part of me on, another part of me on, another part of me on. All of this already exists within you.

4:21It's just lying dormant and we need to turn it on right now. And so let's just jump right in. And some of the things that I've learned from my mentors and that I've just discovered in my 53 years on earth. So first thing is this, you have to know that you already are what you want to be. You have to know that you already are what you want to be. It's just a matter of tapping into that version of you, that extension of you that's not yet been tapped into or revealed yet. But that part of you that you want to be, you already are. It's not something outside of you you have to go get. It's an awareness.

4:55It's a tapping into. All of that potential was sown into you when you were born. In my faith, you were created in the image and likeness of God. And so all of these things, this is so important to start out today, that you want to be, you already are. There's just a block there that's not allowing you to reveal that version or that extension of yourself, or you haven't tapped into that part of you yet. And so to start out, you've got to live by complete faith in this assumption and that know when you have thoughts and feelings that don't serve you and they enter your awareness and they're kind of contradictory to that thought, that is not from God.

5:33That is not high vibrational frequency. It's low vibrational frequency. In my faith, it would be from the adversary or the devil. Let me say this to you again. You've got to live by complete faith in the assumption that it is true that you already are who you want to be. And it's just a matter of discovering that part of you. This is so critical because I think oftentimes people think, I'm just not that way, or that part of me doesn't exist, or I'll never have that, or I've got to go chase this. And it's not outside of you, it's within you. And what's great about life is it's always been within you.

6:09It's just not been a part of your awareness. And so when you think a thought that is contradictory to that, know that that's the adversary. If you believe in my faith, you know that that's the adversary, that's not from God. If you don't share my faith and you think about energy and frequency, which I also believe in, it is the lowest possible vibrational frequency because it's not true. And so it reduces our light. It dims our life and high vibrational frequency. The highest thing that vibrates at the highest frequency is truth. Truth vibrates at the highest frequency. And so remember these things, your imagination is a revelation in your life of what's possible.

6:46You know, I use the word dream and vision a lot, but in my book and the power of one more, I use the word imagination. Imagination in your life is a glimpse of what's possible. It's a revelation. I really believe dreams to some extent are God just showing you a little peek of what's possible in your life of what your potential is. I don't believe dreams in most cases are hallucinations. And it's your imagination telling you this is possible for you. And so when you live this way, when you believe that you already are who you want to be, now you may need to change some behaviors and some thoughts and tactics so that you tap into that part of you.

7:23But this notion that you are not that is a lie. That is the adversary trying to get you to doubt, trying to get you discouraged. Because if I can get you doubting and discouraged, you're going to quit. Or you just won't try as much. Or you'll try without belief. And trying without belief is empty. When we attempt something, we've got to believe. We've got to know. Because when we effort something with knowing it's much more powerful than hoping. And so when you live this way, you can call all things into existence as if they already did. You can go into a partnership with God and pray about it and call the things into your life and pray for that direction and that discernment to call it into your life.

8:04And by doing so, the universe begins to cooperate with you in this assumption. See, when you assume something great is going to happen in your life, if you're a person of faith like I am if you're a Christian, the word of God is very clear about what your potential is and how you were made and what the outcomes of your life could be. And even if you're not a person of faith, you are somebody who truly knows that you've seen other people in life that come from less than you acquire great wealth, acquire great protection, acquire peace in their life, because they eventually find out it was always there.

8:40See, one thing you've got to believe is that you're not a conformist. That's what cowards do. Cowards conform to what everybody else thinks. Cowards conform to what people have told them about them. I don't listen to what other people have. If I had listened in my life to what other people had told me as they projected their limiting beliefs upon me when I was an athlete or my intellect or my potential, or even people projecting emotions onto me about me even wanting to be successful. Well, why do you want money? Or why do you want to help so many people? Why isn't where we are good enough? If I'd have allowed conformists to project their small thinking onto my life, it's almost terrifying to think about where I would be in my life right now.

9:22And not only that, I would not have the wealth that I've built in my life, but I wouldn't have the protection for my family. And I certainly would never have tapped into peace. Peace is really finally understanding who you are and whose you are. And so you're not to conform us. That's what cowards do. Your job is to partner with God in the creation of your life and to ask for direction, ask for the resources, ask for the right people, ask for him to help you tap into what is already within you. And so if you can pursue what's already been placed in your imagination, see, here's what really happens.

9:57Actually, it will begin to pursue you. When you get into this state of knowing the things I've discussed today, and then I'm going to talk about as we go forward. Believe it or not, these things will begin to pursue you that you imagine and dream about. It won't be such a grind. I'm not saying you're not going to work and bust it and get after it and overcome adversity and obstacles. That's all part of the game. But what you will find is that more things will pursue you. More people will show up. More circumstances, more opportunities will begin to pursue you if you can start to believe that what's been placed in your imagination.

10:32See, I actually think imagination is actually not from our mind. I think imagination is actually from our hearts. We see it and feel it in our mind's eye, but I believe it's generated. Our dreams come from our hearts. And so it'll actually start to pursue you. And when you truly feel it.

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12:28who you believe you are and what you believe you are and long-term human beings find a way to be consistent about what they believe about themselves that the world conspires to deliver to you what you really believe you're worth what you believe you're capable of what you can most actually believe you already are you are given that which you are long-term in life and for a long time in my life particularly when I was younger I thought well that's just absolutely not true I didn't choose to grow up in an alcoholic family with my dad using drugs. I didn't choose to, you know, not be six foot five and be able to dunk a basketball.

13:06These aren't things of my choosing. But the fact of the matter is of the things that matter in life, I have found in my life that I eventually attract who I believe I am. And I've been given in my life, the people, the places, the circumstances that I believe I'm not just worthy of, but that I believe I'm capable of. and so when you can adopt the feeling that would be yours already is if you were already in possession of something let me say this again maybe a little bit more clearly if you can begin to work on having the feeling that would be yours as if you already were in possession of something and you can rehearse that feeling over and over again repetitively acting in congruency with it you walk and you talk etc as if you already possess it that you begin the process of thoughts are magnets of drawing those circumstances into your life.

13:58So let me say this to you again. I want you to begin to work on adopting the feeling that would be yours if you were in possession of that vision or dream for your life. So that thing you imagine, that relationship, that body, that amount of wealth, you know, we talked about prosperity. That's the wealth part. Protection could be that you feel in a relationship you're safe in, or you've built, you know, protection for your own family and that you can physically or financially defend yourself or spiritually defend yourself and then peace in your life see if you can actually begin to adopt the feelings and the emotions repetitively and you begin to create that what we'll just call chemistry in your body that neuro biochemistry in your body that's consistent with that the dreams and the things that you imagine and when you rehearse that feeling repetitively over and over again what happens when you rehearse it is you become familiar with it and your mind moves towards what it's most familiar with.

14:51And because you were familiar with this and you are acting and feeling as if you possess it, you begin to behave in a way behaviors, your habits and rituals change the way you walk, you talk, you act the choices you make daily. And all of a sudden you begin to draw those things your life, not just because of some magnetic, you know, whimsy manifestation thing. No, it's that Plus, you're beginning to see things because of the way your reticular activating system works in your brain that were always there but you missed. Or hear things that were always there but you didn't hear. Or feel things that were always there but you didn't feel.

15:27And on top of all of that, you're starting to take actions that are congruent with that version of you that already existed. Whereas before you weren't. So it's not just some, you know, draw it into your life thing. Although that's part of it. You will begin to behave differently as that character in the story simply because you begin to rehearse and adopt these feelings because we attract who we are. If you can begin to feel, you guys, I work very hard when I set up a goal or there's something I'm really envisioning. I'll repeat it over and over and over again. And I've learned to rehearse the feeling I have as if I already possess it.

16:01And I'm convinced that I already do, that it's already within me, that I already have it. And so most of the times when I've reached most of my goals, quite honestly, it wasn't a surprise when I got there because I had been living as if I possessed that emotion, that feeling, that thing, that relationship, that whatever it might be for a very long time prior to it actually showing up or manifesting itself in my life. You know, really be it is the point. You know, I learned from Wayne Dyer many years ago, my mentor, that really who you are and the person that you truly are, there's really two of us.

16:41There's an ego part of us. And that part of us is really concerned about what you possess, how much you have, what's mine, he would say. And that version of you is, it's okay. There's nothing wrong with it. But the ego is always concerned about what's mine, what's mine, what's mine. And to some extent, we believe if something is mine, it can't be yours. And so oftentimes, when we believe that, there's a subconscious unconscious thing that happens with a good person. And a good person thinks, well, if I acquire that thing, it's taken from someone else is if these things are finite. And so that there's a block in many good people that think, well, if I do get wealthy, someone else has to get poor.

17:27Or if I am happy, that's at the expense of someone else. And that's a fallacy. And so this idea of the ego about what's mine, it doesn't serve us because if you're a good person with an ego, you begin to think you're taking from someone else and most people won't do it. They won't take from someone else. Now that's a false belief. But then Wayne would talk about what he would call the sacred self. And the sacred self, which I believe to be so true. This is the person of you walking in congruence with God, with whatever your scriptures are. That person just wants one thing and that's to be at peace.

18:04That's what you really want. You don't want a bunch of stuff you can't take with you. Having said that, prosperity is one of the key things we've talked about today and will. So is protection. One of the great things about being wealthy is you can protect your family. They can live in a safer place. If they need something, their car needs repair, or they've got a health issue or help with something, you can protect them. So that's a great part of it. But the ego is concerned about what's mine. And somehow we actually begin to believe subconsciously that if it's mine, we've taken it from this other person.

18:35And that's why we actually don't possess it because we're a decent human being. We don't want to take, we want to give. And so what if the truth is that what you really want is peace? What you really want is peace, But you think if I had more prosperity and I had more protection, then I could afford myself the time to work on my peace. And what I'm saying to you is that you can have all three and all three of them already exist within you. The key thing is to give to others that which you want most in your own life, to give people protection, to give people all the gifts of them being more prosperous in their life in any way that you can, to give people the gift of kindness and grace and peace, because it's the true way that you tap into your own.

19:18See, you can't transfer to somebody that which you're not experiencing yourself. The greatest gift you can tap into yourself in the sacred version of you is what I call peace. In my book, In the Power of One More, I write a chapter on equanimity. Equanimity to me basically means peace even under duress, even under stress, that when you can find peace, even in the most tumultuous times, in the most difficult times, you've tapped into the most powerful and amazing gift God gave you, the most unbelievable part of you as a man or a woman is your ability to find peace even under duress. And then when you find that peace in your life, which is what you really want, the prosperity and the protection is a very natural byproduct.

20:02When I say peace, I don't just mean in unison with God, although that's the most important one. Let me tell you the type of peace that I would love for you to have if I could wish a gift for you above the peace of God, which goes beyond all understanding. Peace with you. To be at peace with yourself. To be at peace with yourself. I love me. I like me. I've tapped into all of the good things that God gave me that were always there. Finding peace with yourself and loving yourself is one of the most sacred gifts you can ever give you. And I believe one of the keys to doing that is you have to know yourself before you could love yourself.

20:45And so the parts of you that you need to know is that all of these beautiful gifts already exist within you. But I think there's a part of life of self-discovery where we have to see ourselves behaving in congruence with who we really are to truly give ourselves that gift. Now that shouldn't be the case, right? But I can tell you that I think to be at peace with yourself, you have to know yourself and to know yourself is to act in congruence with who you truly are. So if I'm right that all of these great things that you think you want already exist within you, and if you can begin to adopt that belief and act and feel as if you're that person already, what I'm saying to you is you'll find a peace within yourself that will give you every other thing you want in your life and these things will begin to pursue you.

21:31So yes, I am saying you need to change the way you behave. You need to start to act like the woman you're capable of being you need to start acting like the man You're capable of being see ask yourself. This is the protection part. Who should you be protecting in your life? Do you have children that you need to be protecting better than you are financially spiritually emotionally? Do they need to see a happier version of mom or dad? Are you charged with protecting your parents? Maybe you're young Listening to this and at some point your mom and dad are going to need you to protect them like they protected you Right.

22:01Is it your brothers or sisters? Is it friends of yours? Is it you? Do you need to do a better job of protecting you? Not allowing the wrong people in your life and toxic people to come into your life and hurt you over and over again. What is it? Who are you charged with protecting? Because that's part of your calling in life. Prosperity is a birthright of yours. I don't just mean wealth. Prosperity is a right to feel prosperous, to feel as if you're growing, to feel as if you're expanding. And when you are tapping into those parts of you and changing the way you behave, you're going to begin to like you a lot more.

22:36You're going to begin to love you a lot more.

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23:09So how do you create that new life you want, that new you that you're looking for? How do you change stuff, right? It's the great question that I get asked all the time. And it's a mixture between what you do and what you think. I think Think and Grow Rich is one of the greatest books I've ever read at the same time. In fact, it's the number one book after the Bible that I recommend people read. Then I recommend the power of one more by me. Having said that, I don't believe you just think and things happen. I don't believe you just sit there and meditate and things are drawn into your life. But I believe it a little bit.

23:42I believe it's part of the equation. I believe what you think about causes you to behave differently, causes you to vibrate differently, causes you to pray differently. I know that what you think about and what you believe about yourself, you tap into. And so it's true that you probably right now ask yourself, what are three or four of your biggest dreams and goals in your life? Whether that's a new relationship or a certain level of prosperity, as we've talked about. Relationship probably falls under protection that you feel safe and loved and believed in and cared for. That may be through a new intimate relationship.

24:18It may be a new friend that you want in your life. It may be a new business partnership. And then peace in your life. What are the real emotions of just true peace you want to have? And if you begin to think through that, people ask me all the time, Ed, what's the key? There are no, there's no one key, but I can tell you that the things we're discussing today matter. And if anything I have seen in my life is that long term in our lives, we end up getting out of life who we believe we are. Now I talk oftentimes about the thermostat analogy, and I just want to share this with you again. it's been stolen by enough people in personal development the last couple decades.