Self Discovery - Recognizing "AHA" moments

Spiritual Perspectives: Discerning News on current events relating to our personal energy and experience.  The hosts discuss the significance of speaking from a personal perspective, emphasizing the importance of sharing experiences in the first person. They explore how this approach fosters personal growth, transformation, and accountability. The conversation highlights individuals to express themselves authentically and the impact of personal experiences on spiritual journeys. The hosts encourage listeners to embrace their unique paths and recognize the power of their voices in the collective narrative.

Takeaways 

• Speaking from the eye is essential for authentic communication.
• Transformation begins with personal accountability and self-awareness.
• Sharing personal experiences fosters connection and understanding.
• Absolute vulnerability can lead to empowerment and freedom.
• Growth occurs at one's own pace, leading to accelerated development.
• The importance of discerning the energy behind others' words.
• Personal experiences are the foundation for spiritual journeys.
• Using 'I' instead of 'we' or 'you' creates a deeper connection.
• Vulnerability is not weakness; it is a source of strength.
• Creating a safe space for sharing enhances personal growth.

Season 1 Episode 29 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 Sharing from the First Person
• 3:28 The Importance of Personal Experience
• 6:43 Transformation and Personal Responsibility
• 9:27 Accelerated Growth Through Self-Expression
• 12:36 Accelerated Growth Through Self-Expression
• 15:29 Empowerment Through Sharing Personal Experiences
• 18:20 Conclusion and Reflection on Spiritual Perspectives

Transcript

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Here we are, the summer series. We're back for another episode. How you guys feeling? I'm feeling rocking. I'm ready to roll. Let's go. Let's do this. I feel relaxed, confident and happy to be here. Excellent. Well, so as a lot of us listen to the news and try to discern what the heck is going on out there, a lot of times it's interesting to listen to what people are, how people speak to you through the ether, through the YouTube, through the

things we see out there. So we really wanted to bring it home, so to speak, and talk a little bit today about speaking from yourself versus outside. So would you like to share a little about this, Tiger? Yeah, I think that we're talking about speaking in the first person when I guess you Tiger, I was gonna add speaking in the first person when you're sharing you want to start again.

No, go ahead. Keep going, Tom. I feel confident, happy and patient. This is going to be a good episode, everybody. Well, okay. What I get from when you're bringing that up is ⁓ I'm coming back home to what I need to be working on. And I have a limited time here and every year goes by faster.

So I need to get down to the essence of what I'm doing here. It's kind of like people who are really good in business, right. And who are abundant. They've, they've removed a lot of the shaft, you know, they're, go right for the wheat and they know what works and doesn't work. So one of the tools and techniques to say that I need to work with here is I need to speak in the eye. Right.

Not from a narcissistic perspective, like, ⁓ the world of raw balls are on me and all this kind of crap. I'm, saying that if I don't bring it home to how I am working and how I'm feeling, then basically I'm, and you brought this up, Tom, you, said that I'm using other people to disguise. So I don't have to address things. So for instance, to get.

make it sound more practical here. It was in the green room. Is.

I would like to do this or how I feel about this or when this happens to me, I do this. When I, if I change that to start saying, we feel this or they do that all the time. I mean, you know, we live in a society, you know, we have teamwork, right? I say they, I say you, I say, you know, that's fine. But the source of it comes from the, me, my, and I.

That's the source of it for me. And so if I'm not having that place of home there, and I'm not communicating at that level, then I'm going to stay at the surface of things. And I'm always going to stay away from change. I'm never going to let myself change because I'm hiding it and camouflaging it in, ⁓ we should be doing this. And you know, they should be doing that. I never could bring it back home.

Yeah, and this is something that since I've been working with the way shores college, which actually this summer is eight years. So it's, this is something that's really instilled almost like a foundation of the way shores college is speaking from the eye. And for myself, it's so hard to listen to other people when they talk about they knew and we and unless it's you know, like in a specific way, but when people are sharing their truths or their knowledge and on

you know, obviously on the news that we hear a lot of people sharing a lot of things about themselves, but are, but when they're not sharing from the eye, it makes such a different energetically. And honestly, I can feel the difference. I can feel the sincerity. I can feel the truth. I can feel the bringing it back home to themselves as they're sharing it with people, because that's really what we're all here to do. We're all here to

go through our unique journeys, have our experiences, and then share forth what we put together for ourselves for others who are either behind us, next to us, or maybe sometimes ahead. People are, it's sharing, that's a key aspect of this. would you to talk, Tiger?

You crazy crazy anyway

As I was saying, I feel confident, happy and patient. And so grateful about that. Yeah, that's how I feel. Is that you feel? Yeah. And we put on these intuition now workshops online, which some of you have attended. And one of the first things we go over is that we like to have you share in the first person or read some of the materials that we have that we offer in the first person. And the reason for that is just to help you relate to it more.

The other thing I find is that, you know, when someone says you this and you that it feels preachy to me. It feels like they're not. And I don't necessarily relate to what they're talking about. It's not something I feel I do. And ⁓ all that I do know that in society, when you have ⁓ folks on talk shows and podcasts that

say, well, you this and you that and you know, I know they're talking about their own personal experience most of the time. But it always gives if I talk like that, it gives me a bit of camouflage, you know, a little bit of a shield to stand behind. And when you come to do some spiritual work on yourself, ⁓ which is just unfolding, it's important for me to be I found to be honest, and say, well, you know,

I experienced this and I experienced that and not assume that everybody else goes through the same emotions. So to me, I don't mean it from an egoistic point of view that it's all about me, but it is about me at first and then it flows from there. And by sharing honestly about my experience and what I go through, maybe some of the thoughts or the emotions that I'm looking to release or replace or heal.

then you know, I'm it helps me be more honest with myself is probably what it's about. Yeah. So the word transformation is coming up. So what is that? What do you take with that word? Well, okay. So I come in alone and I go out alone. And that is a spiritual principle. It's not religious, it's not dogmatic, it's not mean.

It's not a down, it's not up. It's just a fact. I come in alone and I go out alone. Now, you know, I'm never lonely, right? I got my team of spiritual helpers. I got you guys. I got you guys. I got everybody. I got, we got 8 billion people on the planet. You can't kick them away for God's sake, you know? So, but the, the, the facts are, is if I don't change my state of consciousness, nobody will.

And so if, if you're talking about transformation, then I need to be a part of that. I need to be doing it again, not an egocentric way, but who's going to do it. If I don't do it, who thinks for me, who breathes for me. I do. So if I am not included in the equation, then what am I doing? I'm not doing anything. So transformation.

I guess I would say transformation starts with me. Yeah. So as you're talking about that, what I'm picking up for myself is that it's in my ball game and my ball, my ballpark, my field, like I'm the only one that can do my transformation and no one else can. And that's what I hear you saying, especially with, you know, we come in alone, we go out alone.

And we have these amazing people around us and support team on the other side of the, you know, the spiritual part of us that are backing us the whole time we're here. But for myself, I'm the only one that can do my own transformation. And as I'm transforming, and as I'm sharing, I am more inspired, especially these days, just keep it in the eye, to keep it, you know, from what's my perspective that I'm sharing with those out there in the, in the world.

And that also empowers other people to do their own work. Because I can't tell I don't know what you've come to do, Tiger. I don't know what you've come to do, Tom. But I know that, you know, we are like minded with the things that we're expressing and sharing in the world. But we can only do I can say we that time, own transformation individually. That's it. Yeah. And I think it's important that we don't get dogmatic with it. You know, like you can never say you or you can never say we or we don't mean it that way. I don't mean it that way. ⁓

However, when I'm involved in the programs that we offer through Wayshower's College and also through ⁓ our Intuition Now series that Theresa and I have put together, you're in a safe space. You're in a place where we've all agreed this is how we're going to do it and what happens in Intuition Now stays in Intuition Now or what happens in some of these courses.

and workshops that we put on, know, stays in it. So you're, it's, it's a nonjudgmental atmosphere. We allow people to share what they're experiencing without giving them feedback on it instantaneously. so to add to that, cause you're inspiring me is do you want, if you're listening to this, chances are you want to grow at your own pace and you don't want to do it at someone else's pace.

You want to grow at your own pace. So that is going to be an accelerated growth. So even though you go at your own pace, maybe that's a steady thing, maybe it's fast, it's going to be accelerated because you're now focused on, want to grow. want to evolve. I want to do better for myself. The moment that happens, the moment that decision is in place, you are in the realm of accelerated growth.

And speaking in the eye is a part of that. It's, it's, it pulls out, excretes out, right? It sifts out all the extraneous stuff that's going to keep me from my accelerated growth. And this is the thing that I, why it doesn't feel good to me anymore by not speaking in the eye, meaning just keep it always in the you and they, and we, and never coming back home. Why it doesn't feel good because

There's no power there. I can't do anything with it. It's always out there. It's like some God out there that's going to do something when in reality, God helps those who help themselves. So for me, it's all about the reason why it's important is for because I'm here to have accelerated growth. Damn, you said it. That's all we need to say. You brought it home, Tiger. Well, I do have one more thing for you to.

Chuan, you ready? Okay. Okay. I'm going to say a key phrase and I want to get your feedback from it. All right. Everybody ready? Ready? Here we go. Absolute vulnerability.

That makes me, that makes my whole heart go like, almost like the alien thing. Yeah. But it also feels freeing. Yeah. And it also feels empowering. And I know that some of the keywords we've been sharing on these summer series episodes. So like it's, all coming together. It's beautiful. Yeah. So that's, keeping it in the eye and expressing what I want to share from my experiences is exactly that. Tom?

Yeah, there's such a, you know, once I grow faster there, it's hard to go back. You know, once I take the spiritual perspective of what I'm going through, or as we were sharing the spiritual perspective on the news, for example, I noticed it's harder for me to watch other perspectives. You know, I, want to just get the facts of what's happening and anything else like that. Boy, the rehashing and the speculation. So

Once I've tuned into this growth within and awareness of how I'm going through this, I don't wanna get off it. I wanna stay on that fast track that feels way better than putting up shields. Having said that, there's times to play the game in society and to balance that. And what we're talking about,

You know, it's, it's important that I don't brag about my troubles. Yeah, because, you know, I don't really need all that mental therapy that people want to give me. So if I'm in an ⁓ environment or a container, so word Teresa likes to use, uses these fancy spiritual words, container, it's friggin very, very special. to call it group work. She calls it container and master classes of

containers. That's right. Containers of master classes of masterful souls. Anyway, ⁓ bring it home, Tom. I'm going to bring it home and ⁓ for Tiger needs to share too. Yeah, he can share on this too. The ⁓ so that's that's that I offer that perspective that it's important not to brag about my troubles because it's, in a in that clear environment where we've got the ground rules set.

you know, think about it, when I was a young person, I would say what I relate to from what you're sharing is is that, of course, I wanted help, of course, I wanted to trust other people that I was working with to learn and grow from, you know, so somewhere along the line, I picked up a feeling of not wanting to go there and put up a shield is, I would say is epidemic in our society. But on the other hand, let's not

over, you know, let's keep it in balance, right place, right time, right space. All right, so I guess what's your perspective on that? Absolute vulnerability to me is that it brings me back to a complete freedom of dogmatic ideas. If I'm if I'm completely open, if I'm what would be traditionally called vulnerability, if I'm willing to

be open and be free and be exposed to all that. Then what happens is that, cause we started this whole thing talking about speaking in the eye, right? That brings it all this energy where I'm out there thinking out there or trying to maneuver out there or trying to control out there. All of that starts to come back home. I can only control me.

My thoughts, my energy, my actions, my abundance. I'm in charge of that. So that absolute vulnerability allows me to say, be able to share what I feel without worry, without fear or guilt. It also, ⁓ takes all the survival energy out because I have to pass through these things. If I say to someone absolute vulnerability,

They're going to go through a whole series of machinations. mean, like, Whoa, they're going to hit all kinds of, you know, concepts and resistance to get to that place. And that's that accelerated growth to me. That's that why I, come home and why we share from the eye again, not from a narcissistic place, but from just a true place. And just as a final note to this, I find.

It's my opinion and my experience that the people who do work with this, right? Like try it for a week. mean, don't, don't make yourself a pariah, right? Don't like I this and me and my, and all the time, just kind of come home, share from the I more this week. Right. But I find that when I'm in that vibe, I want to be of service. I want to give.

I want to just be a hundred percent. It's, it's, it's, it's the opposite, which is what you brought up. And when we were talking earlier, it's the opposite of narcissism. When I'm focused on my energy, I can't help myself, but to go out and, work with people, I can't help it. So that's to me, this is that the power of what it comes back down home to me, my, and I.

Yeah. And thank you for your sensitivity there, Teresa. She could feel I had something more to share. I sure could. She was going to wrap it up a minute ago. what? we're sensitive. Yeah. Well, I the mental message. the Bluetooth is working. Yeah. The Bluetooth is working. In share freely, Thomas. In the, you know, when you're on a show with your wife, it's a challenge to share freely.

And when you're on a show with people who are spouses, it's interesting to so partner life partner. Anyway. The ha ha come as I share from my experience and I share what I'm going through. I'm empowered. Oh, there's that word again in July to, you know, the spirit can give me some input and that's the best part. So I don't have to.

tell people what the answer is. You know, when I'm working with people in that way, let them get their own aha moments, because that's how any of us really learn anyway, nobody listens to anybody unless they've already thought of it themselves. Or when once they think of it as my favorite line, when it becomes their idea, I share in the first person I get insight then more clearly from my guidance. we hope this episode might instill and inspire you to

for yourself to speak from the eye. Also recognize when you're hearing news out in the world, what are you discerning with the spiritual perspective of how they're coming across and how they're sharing. So that's a really good place to kind of. That's a good one. Because I know that I that's what I do when I listen to people speak. I'm like, wow. So thank you again for listening to another episode of Spiritual Perspectives Discerning News, our summer series. We've enjoyed it so much. Yeah, we look forward to coming back next week and sharing more news.

Take care. See you soon. Adios. Muchachos.