Spiritual Perspectives: Discerning News- Telsa Siege, Here Come the Judges & Finland's Happy Place

Bonus Episode: Season 1 Episode 13 of ...Discerning News.  

Reflections on what's happening at the macro level can help you find solutions for your everyday experience of life.  What do Attacks on Tesla in Canada, Federal Judge Legal Challenges re Deportations, and Finland  again the Happiest Place news stories have to do with personal spiritual awareness?  Find out here in Season 1 Episode 13 of "...Discerning News"  hosted by Teresa Shantz, Author and Podcast Host,  Tom Shantz, "The Spiritual Businessman" along with Tiger Coll, D.D., President, Wayshowers College (SM).

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Discerning News and Spiritual Perspectives
• 1:34 Tesla Controversies and Collective Energy
• 14:46 The Legal System: Balancing Law and Morality
• 27:14 Understanding the Law and Its Spirit
• 38:48 The Power of Kindness and Community
• 49:14 Leadership and Personal Development

Transcript

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We are back for another episode of and what are we in? Discerning news. Spiritual perspectives. How about that? 13 13 that seems pretty lucky. So this is going to be a really good one, huh? Yeah, I think it's a good number. I'm feeling a number. I'm feeling lucky lately. I don't feel like I'm very fortunate, so we are glad to be back here with you guys. The trio here and we are.

going to be sharing some great news stories today, hopefully some inspiring moments for you listeners and we thank you for listening. So hey, tiger, let's kick it off. All right. The first story I'm going to draw on for us to regroup around is I don't know if many of you have heard this, particularly in America, but other countries now, the latest story is that Canada has experienced some of these

violence or abuse with from to Tesla outfits. So this is kind of that, you know, political stuff going on where people are abusing these cars or dealerships based around that Elon Musk is doing these things. So this is in the news of late and people are are doing things like throwing Molotov cocktails or keying.

keying the car, know, is where they scraped the car. or they had one where they were stripping all the tires from the cars, in parking lots. And so they're doing similar things, started expanding to Canada now. that was the, latest news of it, but I want, thought of bringing it up because it's a, an interesting thing that's just happening. I, a lot of times I was saying before we got started, it's like, I don't want to talk about this stuff, but, it is what's going on.

And when I saw it and I just relaxed a little bit more, had some interesting insights. So I just wanted to pass that along and see what you all pick up from that new story. Well, first thing that comes to my mind around a spiritual perspective is there's a specific energy that's around. And so a lot of people, if they resonate with an energy field or an energy that's prevalent,

they will jump on the bandwagon. So I say this in the sense of I saw, um, uh, there was a guy yesterday. I watched a little YouTube thing and he had a Tesla and there was a video of a guy walking up to it. And then on the front wrote something like, you know, you're a Nazi or whatever. And so the guy who owned Teslas or Nazis or something. yeah, something like that. But the guy who walked up, you know, he had a mask on, he got,

they know they found him. So someone was like, I know who he is. And his name was obviously being put out for being prosecuted now, right for violence. But so what I'm trying to say is energetically, the gentleman who walked up to that car and did that looked a certain way. Okay. And so he looked maybe like he might have a bit of animosity or a bit of confusion, a bit of like, I don't give a crap what I'm doing in the world. That's, that was just what I saw from what he was wearing.

what he had on his face. so whenever there's an energy that's very prevalent, especially an energy of confusion, a confused energy that wants to destroy, wants maybe anxiety, fearful, whatever, man, people could just gravitate towards that. And then they can do all kinds of outlandish stuff. And so that's what comes to me about this is that there's

and energy and it happens on both sides. It happens with positive energy, right? Like people can come together and they can build or they can do, but then with negative energy, they'll come together and they can destroy and there's fear and whatever that is going to be, you know, played out. So it's people playing out a specific energy right now on the planet. And this is a very one that you brought up this week. And I'm glad you brought it up because of the fact that

to be aware of why things like these happen all over the place. Like you're saying it was primarily America. Now it's Canada and who knows where else it's gonna be, but it spreads like a wildfire, wildflower, no wildfire. Fire and flower. So that's my spiritual perspective. No, it wasn't. Next. I'd like to add that

If I am feeling confused or anxious, you know, there's a subliminal, not so subliminal message, you know, the fellow, so the fellow wrote something about people who own Teslas or Nazis. So what, what is he feeling inside? You know, is he feeling controlled and, you know, it's great to rebel.

at the appropriate time, it's great to protest, but to go out and deface someone else's personal property, who obviously has nothing to do with, know, Elon Musk, he just happened to have bought a Tesla some time back, probably. It's just there's not a fairness there. So I take your point that, you know, for those people without their own direction, you know, that

get caught up in revenge or are feeling, you know, anxious and threatened. So, you know, it's not just this one area where this person that soul in that physical body is feeling threatened or anxious, there may be many areas in their life, you know, and they don't have that inner security to know that no matter what.

big picture is everything's going to be okay. And it kind of, you know, it'll lead a little bit into my story where I talk about the rules and regulations of society. And, you know, so I'll wait to I'll hold my fire on that. that is kind of related. They always are, aren't they? Yeah, they always find a way. The needs of the soul.

You know, this, this is interesting. I mean, we didn't really, we don't talk about these things before we get going, other than making sure everybody knows what the big picture is going to be. And I was actually going to share pretty much, but the two of you were picking up. So I'll just add to it. Really. The first thing I'll just bring up is, you know, I, I never really had as I got, we got a good friend of ours who said, you know, I don't have a dog in that fight. You know, it's like, you know, what is this all about? But

maybe in the last 10 years, I've started to like Tesla. I've actually took a test drive and this is a bunch of years ago now, right? And so it's like, okay, this is a pretty cool thing, and I'm getting on that bandwagon and stuff like that. And the latest thing that happened, I just started thinking, our brothers and sisters, have some good people who do the work that we do and they have

two Teslas and they, that was my first exposure. They let me drive, drive it and so forth. was really great experience. So I really appreciated that. So, but now I start thinking about like, shit, is somebody gonna do something to them and their car and you know, and they, they don't have any acts to grind per se, you know, they're matter of fact, they might even be with, you know, the, what people are concerned about, you know? Yeah, they're, they're, they're pretty liberal.

But they, you know, they're, they're, be more, they be with the thing. But now I'm like, okay. Well, my friends, you know, I get all kind of now I'm getting a little bit possessive of like, I'm protective, like, well, what's going to happen to them, you know? And that's the energy I want to talk about, which is your point is, there, there, there's a thing there where people are looking and they're not seeing, right? It's like getting caught up in the headline.

and not actually reading into what the article is saying type thing, right? That I'm using that as a metaphor, right? So I can get all, if I don't have direction, which is what your point was, if I don't have personal direction in these, and we have people in our society who aren't organized, they don't have their own purpose set clear, then they become usable instruments and people who,

can do this are typically usable instruments. I'm not saying that those people are bad. I'm seeing that because they don't have direction, they can get skewed. Right. And I liken this back, you know, years ago, we, we had this, the Vietnam conflict and when those soldiers were coming back, they were spit on and they were told that they were baby killers and the whole thing. And that was the movement.

back then, know, there were people rebelling because it was too much oppression. They didn't want to be involved in this kind of conflict. And so they were that the soldiers were the easy targets, right? To do that. And then later on, things got more organized. People got smarter, like, well, we shouldn't be doing that to them. Let's let's go work with the people who are making the decisions, right? I mean, and that's a smarter way to do it because the people are just following, you know,

what they thought was right. Yeah, my dad was drafted. Exactly. He didn't go, Hey, I want to go to Vietnam. right. That's right. And so this, to me, this comes back to that point that the two of you are bringing up is here we have this whole now, for those who believe in this, you have waves of energy that move through planet earth and souls that come in to work with certain of those energies. And that's why you have that kind of sense of that history keeps repeating itself. Right. Right.

And it's because you have all this energy that moves in. then there's this, these souls that just, how are there are part of that to come to work with that. And that's part of their life process. Right. But the interesting thing is, is you can kind of watch it on a chart of like, okay, this is what happens. And then, you know, big empire and then Rome falls. And, know, before that, get a big Greece and they're going to do an old Persian empire falls. Right. You just see this repetition over and over again.

And so to me, start looking at that bigger picture and here it is in a smaller, it's not a big empire thing, but it's, it is a smaller indication of like, here we are going after people who just doing their everyday thing. they're an electric car. mean, my goodness, you know, they just want to do their piece and here they're getting a part of this situation that they're never even signed up for. And so to me, that bigger picture.

is about the souls without direction. Right? If, if, if I have, and this is what it comes down to, this is my regrouping of the whole story is if I have my personal direction clear, then I cannot be manipulated or moved at least too far. Right? I know I'm going to be susceptible to stuff, but when I have my own direction, I know what the heck I'm doing. And I

I can evaluate, okay, is this going to really help me get to where I need to be? Or is this a complete right turn or am I going backwards? And so that energy of direction spiritually is an absolute top notch priority. It's right up there with knowing the big picture. That's why we talk about, know, click on the link and get the, the video series because it gives that

big picture, it allows me to go right. That's part of what I'm here for. And now I can organize my direction. can, now I can start working with and find my niche in life. Right. mean, imagine if more of us did that. Imagine more people in the world just started getting focused on number one, the big picture of life and what their direction is. What is your direction? What is your direction today? Are you going to the grocery store?

You listening to this? What else are going to do? So it starts with that simple thing and then everything else sprouts or naturally you were, we were talking about another thing on, in the, in the green room, before we got started, green living room. right. we were talking about how one thing builds and breeds to another and it's a natural outgrowth. So it's amazing what happens when I have direction and I maintain that direction.

So much stuff is positive. consistency also. Yes, that's right. Can't be up, down, up, down. So to me, this is all about my personal direction. This is what it reminds me of is how important it is for me to have my personal direction as someone who believes in living a spiritual life as a personal growth, a way of life. How important direction is so I don't get caught up in personality or what

You know, the news, newscasters says, or this, you know, night show host says, or, know, what my neighbor's going on about. I can evaluate that and be of service where I need to be and know that sometimes being of service is not where I need to be. but anyway, direction is the key. And if I can have that clear, I can be inspiring to other people and I can give some pearls of wisdom because I'm on that track.

I'm on my path. So personal direction, spiritually. All right, team. That was our first story. Stay tuned. We're going to be come right back for another exciting story and discerning news.

And we're back. And are y'all ready for the next story? Cause Tom is ready to share it. How about it, Tom? Yeah. My story today is about the legal system and we talk about, you know, out of the two natures of man, the intellectual and the feeling nature that, science, you know, was born and the religions were born out of the feeling nature and science was born out of the intellectual nature. And then from there,

We have our rules and regulations of society, which come from scientific truths, like if I run in front of that truck, it's going to obliterate my physical body as it's moving down the highway. And we have moral values, so respecting each other. And it's really important that it's a part of the game, the rules and regulations. And so I would say the legal system and

So the story that I was attracted to was the one where the, the federal judge has, had created these court orders and wanted the, deportees that were a part of the terrorist gang, you know, turned around in mid flight. And, that was the story, you know, that, because there's an act from

the 1800s or 1700s, I think it was the 1700s, the alien something act. And it was, I think it was 1700s. Yeah, 1700s. And when you look into the language of the act, there's, there is, you'll have our you'll have lawyers on both sides of the aisle of both sides of the bench, you might say, you know, that could conceivably argue the case.

that it makes sense for the deportations to take place under this act. But you can also have people that will question, you know, that as well as that really the valid statute, you know, under this situation. So I bring that up. And we brought this up before. And I think at this time, I guess I'll turn it over because those are the best facts. And then I'll wrap it up with my

Spiritual thoughts and the bigger picture perspective after that. So yeah, so So just to add on to what you're saying this for those who haven't been care following any of stories or stuff this is all related to immigration and deporting People in in particularly for America, but there's other countries. Obviously, this is becoming a big issue around the world

But that's what this is connected to. they just deported the gangs, the terrorist gangs or the what they're that came over the border when it was opened. So that's what the story is about, that they're deporting a bunch of people in this case, you know, criminals and so forth. There's concern about people getting, you know, wrapped up in that that aren't part of the criminality. But that's the story of it. And so the judge

the sending these people out in planes, getting rid of them. And then, you know, the judge is saying, wait a minute, something's off here. You've got to turn the plane around. All right. So that's the story that you were talking about, right? So that to me, that the, the thing that I'm hit with here personally is the letter of the law and the spirit of the law. Right. And I'll get, I'm going to end up finishing there on that, but

All of it, you hit the nail on the head. All of it comes back down to that balance of thought and feeling. And in our society, everything operates based on respect, right? It's a respect is the key word. That's the operative word that allows us to get along. Right? So, you know, my rights end where yours begin and yours begins where mine, you know, that whole thing. Okay. So the respect is another way to say.

In order for me to live in an organized and civilized society, I'm going to have to conform. Right. And there's a part of me that doesn't want to do that. You know, I want to do what I want to do when I want to do it, where I want to do it kind of thing, you know, but conforming actually just means respect. That's, that's what it means in order for me to work with other people. I'm going to end up conforming one way or another. This is the thing. If I, if

If I have a relationship with someone, I'm going to end up conforming to a degree so that I can have that relationship. And the other person too, we'll have to do, you know, we have to give and take basically. Now, if you, I apply that to the world and society and the country, I'm going to have to conform a bit, you know, in order to play the game. So to me, it comes back down to respect for myself.

respect to where I begin and end. that's what is initial stimulus for me. And then also the, with that in mind, right. Coming from that pivot point, like I need to respect myself, self respect.

That whole thing about, you know, love yourself so you can love other people and, you know, feed yourself and then you can feed other people. All that is true. I have gone through a myriad of ups and downs with that to just test it, right? Right. That is true. There is no other way. Now I know some of you are going to listen to this and you're not going to believe me and you're going to go try do it anyway. Great.

Right. You won't respect sometimes, then you'll respect too much. Sometimes I get it. We all go through that, but at the end of the day, it comes back down to self respect because there's no way for me to actually work with another person or a society for that matter. If I don't have that in myself, none, all I'm doing is working off the idea of what I think.

respect is supposed to be rather than my personal experience of it. It's kind of like saying, and this is probably the better way to say it is love to hear your point on this one is I'm, I'm going to get into a relationship and I'm going to give you love based on what I saw on the TV, based on what I was told in school and based on what I read in a book rather than I fully love myself. I know what that

feels like I'm going to share that feeling with my partner. I'm going to share that feeling with my community. And that is a big difference between me trying to put out the idea of love rather than the feeling and the experience of love. So that brings me full circle back to self-respect and in my, this society. And, that's number the, the big key to the whole thing.

And so to wrap it up with the letter of the law and the spirit of the law for me to see clearly what's going on in the environment and what's transpiring there. I have to come to a place, a source, right? I'm for those of you listening, I'm like, I'm touching my belly and my chest, you know, I've got to come back to that place of self respect. Otherwise I have no chance of discerning what this headline is.

And what's actually going on because it's the letter of the law is the spirit of the law. You know what? I'm more of a spirit of the law guy, but you know what? I also know that I need the letter of the law. Otherwise we start don't have one. We lose that structure without the letter of the law, but I need to have that bigger picture to understand what's the spirit of this whole thing. So for me to discern it, I need to come home to that self-respect and then discern it.

Otherwise I am going to be just like the earlier story we talked about. will be without direction and I will be used as a pin cushion or used as, as Mike says, confusion wants to use me, right? I've become a usable instrument because I don't have that self-respect. I don't know where my own pivot point is. So to me, it comes down to yes, it's discerning the spirit of the law and the, uh, the letter of the law, but I need to start.

from self-respect. Interesting. Well, so this was an interesting subject for me because of the fact that there's been so much going on in last four years with, especially in America and many other countries also with, you know, people coming in from outside that are not legal and coming through different borders and different systems and through, you know, boats and planes and trains.

Well, actually they have been in different places, but so the thing that really came to my mind and the word is timing. timing came up to me because irregardless of, you know, what's the right or wrong thing to do, you know, who's leaving the country, who's, who's done this and that the judge that or the judges, I think it was actually one judge, right? Yeah.

that was trying to bring these planes back. Well, you know what? He missed the timing. The plane's already gone. So for myself, when I'm working in my life, I recognize that in discerning. Now, of course, a judge, I mean, that's a whole other, whole other beast, right? Because he's, you know, talking at a different level, different people, different attorneys, different this, the people in the back who don't like what's going on, the people over here.

But when I bring it back down to being practical for my life, when I miss my timing for something, I'm okay. I guess I'll wait till the next time comes around. And in this situation, you know, there's a plane full of, you know, illegal aliens going back to a country. You can't really just turn it around and come back because they've already landed. They're already off the plane. They're already in another jail. They're already, I mean, who what the international waters. There's a whole bunch of scenarios, but

But I like to really bring it back to being practical in the lot, you know, in our lives, because that's what we're really all about. We share these stories, we share these concepts and beliefs and spirituality and la la la. But how am I going to make that practical for me? So when looking at it, it's again about timing and the importance of being in my pivot, myself staying cleansed energetically and being able to make my timing to be in the right place, working with the right people at the right moment for myself.

And this judge, man, he missed the timing. That's just what I'm going to say about it. Missed the timing. Well, what, uh, where I got to with all this was that, and, to be clear, they're talking about using the something alien act, you know, 17 something or another, and, uh, they were deporting gang members, you know, that were, have been deemed it. The president has deemed them as a terrorist organization.

So there's different rules to follow versus the normal deportation of somebody say in a green card or, you know, that has some other sort of legal legal visa status. So, but what struck me about this is that I get really intrigued about the arguments pro and con towards, you know, what, and I used to be an FBI agent. So I have some training in the law, although I was trained as an engineer.

I have a real affinity for the law and I like it. I understand it. I look at statutes and I say, well, this says this. And I know how to look at the elements of what the law is supposed to mean. And I understand case law and how I understand how the dynamics of it all work. I'm not a lawyer or anything, but I get it that prior court, you know, when judges have made rulings in the past,

that sets case law and precedents. So what struck me was not so much to get caught up in the, who struck John, as I often say, legal back and forth, although I have my opinions and preferences, so to speak. what struck me was how I get so interested in all this. Like I'm ready to click on the next YouTube video to hear more.

you know, to hear this person's perspective, to hear that side of the argument, I thought, what is that about, you know, and a couple things was that I often ask myself that, like, I think I want to highlight that, that if I'm attracted to a novel or a movie or something, that's on my mind. Recently, I've been reminded, reminded myself to go, so what is that really about, you know, take it another level deeper, and

The feeling that I have is around what Tiger you sort of alluded to and, and Teresa, that's a good thing about the timing is really interesting what people are putting themselves through because of their, the timing, you know, that we get down to the letter of the law or the spirit of the law. And, you know, there's a spiritual purpose to say a lawyer, and that is to

work with facts, get clarity of a situation. And yet we all know lawyers that are, you know, scam artists really, or they use the rules against people. They use the law against innocent people. So what do we call that? They abuse, you know, the law. So it struck me that, you know, I'm real interested in seeing, are we going to work with the spirit of the law or

the rules and regulations we've defined, you know, are we gonna work with the original purpose of I respect me, I respect you, or are we looking for a way to get over on somebody? And to me, that's an out of balance between the intellect and the feelings. It's an out of balance intellect kind of perspective, a kind of approach to it. And then fairness, so, you know,

the intellectual idea they have a fairness to the say gang members versus what is what is the true fairness in this situation and am I going to be fair to myself first before I'm fair to somebody who might not deserve that you know or and so this is where we get caught up in all the moral issues and the intellectual toing and froing and the really the only solution is how do I come back to what's

fair for me and fair for the people around me. And you know, it is important to stand up for the bigger picture and a bigger picture of fairness. But I, I noticed that I brought this up in one of the earlier episodes as well that, you know, when my sons were playing basketball, and when whichever team is losing the other parents, the

the team of the losing parents all start going, Hey, that was a foul and a did this to him and how come he's not calling that penalty? And you know, all that stuff starts happening. So whenever we don't like something or we're competing with each other, all of a sudden it's not fair because that's a, that's a bad interpretation of that statute when there's probably no precedence. That's the trouble. we're coming up. Why are you using such an old statute? Well,

You know, they were using a really old, never used statute against Trump a while back. So rather than try to adjudicate who's right or wrong, because there's, there's other facts, there's other perspectives, there's misinformation that gets out there. Like in the terms of the timing of the court orders and stuff, it's like, I have to get back to, you know, are we, are we erring towards abusing the system and using it against ourselves? Or are we working with that?

the spirit of what was intended and created. Cause it's all just a game. It's all just a game. something else you want to share about that? I, the thing I'll add with what you're saying, you picked it up is that the adversarial system within, things that are legal and, they're, my predecessors just talk about how the legal system, you could get involved into what they would call C zone or, or a higher level of confusion when it goes out of balance.

Right? When it's in balance, brings balance, it brings balance back to society. It has an energy of bringing justice, you know, the scales, bringing it back in. And so when it goes off, you know, no one's happy kind of thing. But the adversarial system that's set up in there, if there's not some arbiter,

that is looking at the big picture, bringing up your point about the spirit of the law, then you basically the that competition that's there, it's meant to be there in order to flesh out, clarify the to clarify things, that's what it's meant to do. And so that I need to be aware of that that's happening around me, so that ultimately I can get the balance for myself.

And this is a war. when I'm at a balance inside myself, I'm in war with my thoughts and my feelings. Right. And, so if I don't realize that there is some of that naturally is meant to happen. So I get the best out of it. get the balance back then, then that's, if I forget that I'm going to be caught up in it. And that's the key for me spiritually too, that within myself.

what concepts do I have or what moral judgments do I make against myself that keeps me from really tuning into the feeling or the spirit of what was what was required. And interestingly enough, through the week, you know, I was really regrouping on right and wrong and experiences that I had as a young child that, you know, I was telling Teresa, she was laughing at the stories, you know, because it's funny little kid stuff in a way.

But how, it's not because I consciously, you know, it stayed with me several decades, you know, this experience. And one of the things that as I was regrouping it, you know, I, I wasn't thinking of, well, you know, I did wrong then. And, know, and I wouldn't do it now, of course, but, you know, almost still carrying that right and wrong vibration or this guilt that we kind of subtly move in, you know, on in different in new situations.

And I was sharing with Teresa how, know, my parents did the best they could, but my guidance was giving me this impression like, you know, it's just all progression. It's just all progression that on the positive side, I was really working with my sensitivity and I was going for what I wanted. On the other side of it, I was learning there were boundaries to that, you know, within our society. And I think,

with with regards to the both stories that we're talking about. That's what we seem to be unclear of that we need more parents to be more spiritual work with their spiritual helpers or their guides, so that they're not passing along a lot of baggage. So in a way, my my behavior conformed to society's ideas, based on the punishments and so forth that I received, and it was valid, and it was the best they were they could do. It wasn't a big deal, really, but

what my guidance said, you know, you were so sensitive, you're picking up your mother's guilt for letting you do that, you know, or for not watching you and catching you sooner, you know, so I got, I picked up the double whammy, you know, kind of a thing. And I guess with both stories, we can just see that there's this toing and froing instead of, because so many of these legal issues that come up,

Whilst I get intellectually curious, you might say they do become an abuse. And how do I abuse myself is I, I hold back on what am I really feeling? You know, what's the spiritual, you know, bigger picture concept there, because it's all good. And anyway, that's what I wanted to share about. Okay. Well, right now we're going to take a little break and we'll be right back.

with a positive story from Teresa.

And welcome back. All right, team, we're now this, this it was 13 podcasts, 13, and now you're going to hear our inspirational message, the inspirational story that I think we wanted to convey. So here we go, Teresa, take it away. Yeah. So the story that I was inspired by this week is around the energy of kindness. So in looking at a lot of the world, we sometimes miss, Hmm, where's the kindness in people?

And this is a big deal. So I found a report and an article about it was a study by Oxford's Wellbeing Research Center. And it talked a lot about believing how important it is to believe in kindness, that believing in the kindness of others is truly the key to happiness that belief. And then they talked a bit about Finland. And Finland is what ironically enough World Happiness Report it comes from

They're on the top of the list for like eight years. Finland is the kindness, kindest place to be. Okay. They also found that benevolence and positive social connections such as meal sharing, being together, deliver a happiness boost. And if we believe that we are happier, sometimes living in a caring community also helps that. And one thing I thought was interesting is that is happiness isn't just about wealth or growth.

It's about trust, connection, and knowing people have your back. And that if we wanted to have a stronger communities and economics, we must invest in what truly matters, each other.

Boom, on to you, Thomas. Well, from a spiritual perspective, that's where investing in myself, you know, if I, if I'm kind towards myself, it's easier to be kind to everybody else. And it really, geez, it just comes right back to that, you know, like if I, if I can nurture myself a bit, if I give myself a break a bit, and relax, then it's easier for me to be

you know, kind of other people. Did you want to write something down there? I'm going to in a second. I want to put my pin down here so no one heard. Yeah. I thought I said something. Let's just say something really profound. Something profound. We're to write it down there. Tom. Absolutely. Everything you say. Everything I say. Everything. I I got the recording. I could watch it again and again and again. Yeah, that's right. well.

It seems to me that that trust is really key. But if I, as you were sharing earlier, Tiger, know, like I've tried it the other way, try to trust people outside of me or unless I trust myself, unless I have enough benevolence for myself, it's, it's not going to translate well. and I may be a do-gooder in that situation. I may be doing

what seems to be good or what I've been trained to do, or what TV says I should do, something outside of myself, but if it doesn't, and so not all of that is bad, as long as it resonates with me in terms of what I feel. So my motivation, how I move myself comes from what I feel, and then I organize myself, and then I move forward. And there seems to be...

lack of that in the world. There are a lot of sensitive souls out there who are struggling because they're looking there. They have all the sensitivity they need. In fact, beautiful, deep sensitivity, beautiful awareness, spiritual, psychic awareness. And yet, their, their concepts or their training is to look outside themselves and doubt that.

And so the more that I'm looking within first, that happiness within me exudes out. then guess what? Everyone around me starts to feel happier because as I heal myself, you know, just by being relaxed, helps other people relax. Another inspiring and good story. You know, so, so the, think what I'm going to start with and I'll end with on this one is

the keyword leadership. And the reason why I'm going to go there is because what you're hinting on, Tom, is about the more I, you, we focus on our personal development, we can't help but become more sensitive to our environment, more sensitive to our feelings, to our...

what's happening and our bodies and everything. So that's just a natural outcome. It's a natural outgrowth of that. When I work on something spiritually, I work on myself with my personal development or whatever, you know, in your church, or if you're in the metaphysical community, the more you work on yourself, it is a natural thing to start becoming sensitive to the environment and to people. And so that

That's why I bring up leadership. need to be aware that my number one priority is to be leading myself in this life. Right. I don't have to have a big flag and, know, make people go in some direction or something like that. that's certainly is a part of leadership, but it's not the core of leadership.

It's not the nucleus of what's all about. And the nucleus is to be able to lead myself to be in that role for myself all the time, which is my natural state. Right. so leadership is where I'll end up with, but the, the thing that I, I'm going to add to it is what do I want to be a part of? Right. You have all these, I mean, the, the,

the experiment or, know, their survey and all this kind of stuff. mean, it's kind of like, well, why are you taking the survey? Of course, everybody likes kindness. And of course, you know, it's, it's almost common sense, but it's easy for me to get caught up in the world out there. I forget that kindness is in everything I do. I forget that it needs to be a part of my beingness. and, and

The add to add to that is that we talked about this might have been two sessions ago or so. but.

I am I going to be so am I going to be the person who says I'm going to love that one, but I'm not going to love that one. I'll be kind today, but I won't be kind tomorrow. that person over there. I'll be kind, but I'm not going to be kind over here. You know, what energy do you want to be a part of in my life? If I want to be a part of something and you brought that keyword up, I have to be consistent. If I don't have consistency in my life, I'm going to be susceptible to the

strongest current around me, whether that's positive, negative, whether, you know, whatever it is, I'll be susceptible to it. Doesn't mean I always get sucked up in it, but I'm susceptible to it because I'm not consistent. kindness is a natural outflow of me being kind to myself, of me being in joy with myself. So

sometimes, you know, I have bad days, so I kind of have to go the extra mile in my thoughts and in my body and say, Hey, how you doing today to the cash register or, know, and then, the moment I move myself forward in that manner, my energy lifts. Right. My, it's like, you know, if you, if you, if you see the aura, like the aura expands, right. Gets brighter or whatever you want to call that, you know, my continence is there. So for me to be consistent.

in what I want to be a part of. Do you want to be part of love? Do you want to be a part of kindness? Do you want to be a part of abundance? Then that's what I need to be feeling all the time. that it doesn't, you know, so this is what the contrast of that is if I'm jaded, right? It's either being jaded or I'm in the fairy tale of being positive all the time. Right. And we joked about that. They did the toxic positivity.

Right. It's like living in a fairy tale that I believe everything is going to happen and it'll just come to me and I don't have to do anything. It'll just show up in my lap. Right. And you know, that's going to lead to the seesaw of energy. So if I, if I want consistency in my life, if I want that kindness in my life, I have to be aware that there are things in my life that can make me jaded. Right. That's that, that's that energy of, well, I love this one, but I won't love that.

Right. I'll be kind today, but not tomorrow because you know, that's the day I got to go to work. You know, so that is a inconsistent energy and it doesn't help me advance spiritually, let alone with people. Right. Now, then I attract people around me who like that crap. They, I attract friends that like me being inconsistent and like the fact that I'm kind one day and not kind the other.

What kind of friends are that? You know, so that's the key for me to be aware of and kind of a wrapping it up there. have a, when I was in the service was working with these guys, they were very, very, very professional and they talked about really good guys, just really top notch, good guys. And when I say good guys, I mean, like they were professional, but like off when they were off duty, so to speak.

They were kind, they were loving, they had great families and they did the right thing, especially, you know, as a societal perspective on it. But I remember we were grouping, we were having beers with each other and we were talking and the one guy, I was pretty young at that time, and the one guy says, you know, Tiger, you have to be worse than the worst terrorist, but do the best.

to do the greatest work. And what he was trying to say to me was I have to be aware of all this terrible stuff, but I'm here to actually be of service and help things. You know, it's that whole thing about the sheriff who used to be the criminal and now he's the sheriff and now he does a great job because he knows what can be happened and he knows how to fix it. Right. He knows how to, because he's, he's like, okay, that was just a one level of consciousness. Let me move past that.

You know, these are the people like the, the, the, the policeman without the gun, you know, that's the Andy Griffith show, you know, is the, kind of thing is like, he'd through a war and all that. Okay. So I don't need to go do that anymore. I know how to work with things above that, but it comes down to me is it comes down to a leadership as a sensitive. If I'm going to be kind and I want that in my life, I need to have the inner leadership to be that all the time.

And I'm going to have my down days. We all know that you're going to have your down days. get it. But what's going to be my inner standard? What am I going to lead myself toward? I want to lead myself toward love. I want to lead myself toward abundance. I want to lead myself toward kindness. Hmm. Very nice. That felt very kind. So yeah, for myself, I guess I was really inspired by this short sharing and short, you know, article I found because

I really like being kind to people. I mean, you know, like you're saying, Tiger, there, you know, yeah, there are days when I wake up to, I'm like, I just don't feel quite so right or something moving in on me. And so there's two things that really pop into my mind about kindness. One is discerning. How do I discern those times when I maybe don't feel like being kind to others? And, and why am I feeling that way?

And so one way that for myself that I work with my discernment is I call in and work with my spiritual helpers. We all have a team of spiritual helpers. We brought them in. They came in with us. They're going to leave with us and they're here to support us 24 seven. But we have to do our part. We have to call on them. We have to ask for support. And I feel that with that discernment and if more people understood the power they have around them.

you know, and within them with their intuition, but getting those hunches, insights and impressions through your spiritual helpers can make you make people feel not alone. And I feel that's why a lot of people maybe aren't embracing more kindness because they aren't kind to themselves because they don't understand the power they have within them. So discernment is one thing. And the other big key for myself around this is judging and not judging other people and where they're at. And

This has been a real big key for myself the last few years as I've worked with, like my mom who moved close to us almost three years ago, you know, where she's at energetically, moving back into a job where all those people are energetically and knowing that we're all in different places. Some people have had a lot more, a lot rougher road to go down than perhaps I have, and some have not. But knowing that most people

Whenever they're, you know, embracing kindness or not embracing kindness, I'm not going to judge that because it's really again, kind of what you were saying, Tiger, about, you know, leadership. It's about how am I working with my energy? How am I working where I can discern what I'm feeling, how to shift my energy from cleansing, working my guidance, and then moving into that arena of kindness more often than not. And

investing in that piece of myself. And that's why we're all we're all here and why we all do this work, because we have invested not only this lifetime, many, many other lifetimes to be right here right now, sharing with you guys, that is a spiritual investment in the bank of spirituality in the bank of you know, the universe. so banking on that and investing in the, you know, the camaraderie we have and the people that I'm connected to.

And knowing that what that truly matters is having each other is a real key to kindness. How about that guys? Does that feel good? Does that feel like we're kind enough to each other? Sounds beautiful to me. Does that feel like a good place to stop? That feels like, think good podcast, great podcast. So we want to thank all of you out there for listening and to another and watching another episode of this, of spiritual perspective, discerning news and knowing that

You know, and all the news we're out there listening to and you know, around that there's a different perspective that you might want to just consider when you do hear these stories out there. And we're glad to bring the stories we brought today because I think that really helped solidify a different perspective for yourself. And we hope that you got a lot out of this episode. Rock and roll. Thank you for letting us share until next week. We'll be back.