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Bless up everybody who don't know I am Heinz today. In hindsight, it's nice to be back. We're in a new year, man. Many new transitions. I almost feel like a whole different person. I've been feeling so human lately, just like, wow. Like all the feels, the experiences, and we've been having gratitude for it, even the difficult ones, because we know that we are growing through whatever we are going through. And we're given new situations and experiences to learn and evolve and understand ourselves on a deeper level. And that is what is happening for so many of us this year. So many of us this year are rewriting the rules, rewiring our minds and transforming ourselves from the inside. You know, one of the greatest skills in this life, I believe, is the art of noticing beauty. The art of placing meaning into our days and learning what to amplify, what to amplify. You know, sitting in meditation the other day in the mind and I, I noticed for a while I was amplifying the wrong thoughts. I was putting them on a pedestal. I was giving them so much energy. We do that sometimes, don't we? We amplify the worries, we amplify the doubts, we amplify the what ifs. But what if everything does work out? What if it goes exactly according to plan or even better? Knowing what to amplify is key because many of us, we are tormenting ourselves with the wrong amplification, amplifying our insecurities. So focused on what we don't like and not creating space and Platforming what we do love about ourselves, what we have done in our life thus far. All of us have clown climb mountains and overcame hurdles. You know, I often have to sit and just like, look at myself and be like Heinz and really remind myself of everything I've done. Not even the external achievements, but the ones inside as well. You know, the habits we rewired, the discipline we instilled, the forgiveness that we gave, and yeah, also the money that we've made, the awards that we received, the lies we have impacted. Why don't we amplify those realities more? Those thoughts, right? You know, you could be a number one selling Billboard artist and still feel like a failure. It happens. Because your next single just didn't do as well. And there you are discrediting the past 15 years of work, the practice, the hustle, the networking, the ups and downs, almost loving losing your apartment, moving to a new city to make it. And then you make it and then boom. But then one moment of failure gets amplified over everything else that has happened. Has that happened in your life where you are amplifying your current failures or your current shortcomings or your current insecurities over all the growth that you have done. There is nothing wrong with identifying what needs work. There is nothing wrong with being real and being like, listen, we failed and in this area, but we know that failure is just simply information for our foundation. It's a nutrient for our own soil. What have you been amplifying? Because amplification is not just attention, it's also repetition with emotion. Whatever you amplify starts to strengthen itself, right, with repetition. And when you amplify it, you give it emotion. If it's something that you don't like, what happens? Your chest, Your chest tightens up. Nervous system unregulated. You worry about it, so you're giving it energy. Whatever you replay internally, whatever you emotionally revisit, whatever narrative you keep playing, those ones will become dominant in our lives. They become your life. The loudest story wins. And that could be a beautiful thing or an unfortunate thing, depending on what we are amplifying again. Most of us amplify what went wrong. Most of us are amplifying the things we don't like about ourselves, what still isn't finished. Think of a child. Think of a child when they're growing up and they're learning, you know, and you're, you're, you're, you're teaching them how. Do you teach them? Do you just point out all their negatives? You know, when they're Learning to walk. And they get up on two feet for the first time, holding onto the table, and they take one step and then they fall down. Do you shame them for that step, for falling down? No, actually, you don't even address them falling down. You amplify the one or two steps they did take. Like, I'm sure we've all seen, like a kid, you know, walk for one of the first times. What happens? Everybody cheers. The kid falls down, looks around and just sees everybody amplifying what they did. Kid has no, no real realization that it even fell down. Because it's just like, oh, my God, I did something amazing. Look at everybody looking at me. But imagine that that baby, that kid fell, and everybody just pointed to the kid like, you fell and shamed them and made them feel guilty for it. What would happen? The kid would fear to walk again. It would have a delayed response in life. I would fear it. And a lot of us have done the same thing to ourselves. That's why we procrastinate. We're protecting ourselves. We have taught our nervous system that the very things we want to do, we. That they're not safe because we have amplified our fears, our negative emotions around it. A lot of us have been doing this for a long time in our whole life. It applies to relationships too. I think about your partner, or if you have one, or if you've ever been in a relationship, somebody you love, you know, when they do something you love, you point it out, right? You name it, you let it be felt. When you did that, that made me feel good. I love the way you speak to me. That's amplification right there. But if you don't do that, right? If, like, your appreciation is just silent and you speak to people in a way of just what they don't do, like, oh, you don't give me enough attention. You never do this. How does the other person feel? They may feel like they're showing up for you in many ways, but yeah, there's something to work on. But you never address the things that they do right. It's gonna bruise the connection. You're amplifying everything that is wrong, nothing wrong. Again, as being accountable and noticing what needs work. But are we over amplifying the wrong things? When we amplify what is only missing, we erase the present and the past as well. The good things in the past, the things that allowed us to build ourselves up to this moment in time. But the right amplification doesn't ignore what hurts or what is weak. It Balances it and still celebrates what is worthy of celebrating. That's how connection stays alive with others and and ourselves. Because we have a relationship with ourselves. What you amplify doesn't just affect your mood, it affects your whole identity. We create our identity. Before you become a disciplined person, you tell yourself, I am a disciplined person. It starts in the mind, it starts in the heart. It starts in the spirit. How you feel on the inside is what manifests on the outside. So what you amplify is not just a thought. It's your identity as well. Through repetition. If your mistakes get most of the airtime, then you're never going to see yourself as growing. You're only going to see yourself as a failure. That's your identity. If your effort goes unnoticed, you become a untrusting person with yourself. Even when you're doing well, you can't even notice because you've shaped a new identity for yourself. You don't trust yourself, you don't rise to the potential. You don't see the beauty in yourself. Wrong amplification. The self image is always under attack. We're always attacking ourselves. What we didn't do, what we have to do, forgetting that our presence has purpose and there's so much beauty about us. And you know, perfection is simply progress. You know, we are perfection is simply progress. Let me say that again. The thing is, the negative is always louder for some reason. Think about the Internet, how a publication that they want our attention, what do they do? They lead with a negative. Often the article will actually tell a whole different story. But they know, they know to title that article or that video, whatever it may be, with something negative. Negative because negativity screams. And often the positivity, it's quiet, it's not as sexy. You know, if you go online and you say something negative about a whole gender, you know there's going to be people who get riled up, they disagree, or people who agree because they're hurt, they're in pain. Maybe you just go online and say, hey, let's love each other. And everyone's like, yo, tell this hippie to get out of here. You know, the positivity in life doesn't shout as much, doesn't demand attention, it doesn't create panic. That's why it doesn't get platformed sometimes. That's why it doesn't get amplified. Growth is subtle, sometimes unnoticed, right? Like bamboo, growth grows five years under the ground. Five years under the ground. Developing a strength, right? But we live in a microwave society now, so things that are quick, get the attention. Stability is quiet. A lot of people don't like relationships unless there's tons of excitement because stability seems boring. So they choose the partners that aren't good for them. Love is often just at a balanced volume. It's not too high, it's not too low. You know, what is healthy rarely screams. What is healthy is not addicting. You know, you've never bought a smoothie, drank it, and been like, I need another smoothie right now. Nah, but you probably bought a bag of chips and been like, yo, I can, I can eat a whole other bag of chips. You understand? Because the salts and the oils influencing our brains. So when you amplify what is only, you know, loud, you mistake noise for truth. Yeah. The insecurities, the doubts, the things that you are focused on that you know, need work and you're over amplifying the failures. There's just becomes your reality because it's all that you can see. And again, there's nothing wrong with examining our flaws. There's nothing wrong with putting a magnifying glass to what needs work in our life. The problem is never changing lenses, never changing the lens and magnifying glass. When you pull that out and you, you look at yourself real deep and be like, oof, I can see some wounds that I have to heal. The bank account needs some love. Oh, whatever it may be, that magnifying glass is temporary, not a permanent worldview. Don't forget about your whole self. Right. You know, if you sprain your ankle, you have a sprained ankle. Yeah, you limp a little bit on that ankle, but your left hand is fine, your right hand is fine. You can still do everything that you can do with your left and right hand. You don't throw away the right hand just because the left ankle is struggling. A lot of us do that with ourselves. We understand one part of ourselves that it's a little weak, that needs a little bit of love. And what do we do? We amplify it to the point where we forget about our whole self. We demonize our whole self for the one part of ourself that needs work. Correction without context becomes cruelty. A lot of us, we are cruel to ourselves. Yes, we have to correct certain things about ourselves, but the context is it's just one part of ourselves. It's one part of our life. You understand? You may have a lot of community in your life, but business isn't going too well. You're out of a job. Okay? That's one part of your life. Maybe it's the other way around. Money is flowing, but you lack community. Celebrate what you have done. Celebrate what is good. Celebrate all that energy that you have cultivated in your life and use that energy to pour in to what needs a little correction. The wrong amplification doesn't just make us sad. It makes you forget who you are and who you are becoming. You lose self trust, you lose momentum. You lose gratitude. Not because it's gone, but you drowned them out. You didn't lose your way, you lost the signal. You are still there, but you have forgot who you are through the wrong amplification. So where do we go from here? You know, I'm not calling for fake positivity or just complete delusion. No, I'm calling for balanced amplification. Not forgetting ourselves, not chasing more, but remembering what is also here right now. Remembering what we've lived through. Remembering what we have built. Remembering the love that we have given and received. The heartbreaks we have healed and overcome. Man, some of us, the fact that you are just willing to love again should be celebrated. Nobody celebrates that though, right? You went through a bad, bad relationship with a really toxic person. Or maybe you just went through a relationship and it didn't go the way you want it to go and you were heartbroken thinking that you would never be able to love again. And then look at you, open again, ready to love and receive love. Whoa. Celebrate that. You can't put it on your resume. No. People aren't going to clap for you in the streets. No. But you, you can clap for you. Remember the parts of ourselves that kept going. Let the. Let the flaws inform you, not define you. Let your essence, your history and your growth become your identity. Use your mistakes as teachers, not narrators. Because when we forget what is already beautiful in our life, we start speaking and living from a place of absence instead of truth. The truth is, no matter the wrong applications that you have been platforming constantly in your mind, there is so much to be grateful for about you. So much beauty, so much strength, so much creativity, so much compassion. So much that you have been through. Your becoming is beautiful. And remembering this is bringing us back into balance and regulating our nervous system. That's how you bring your nervous system back into a centered place. Bring it back out of survival mode, out of this mentality of I gotta do, I gotta do, I gotta do, I gotta do. If I don't do, then I'm not loved. If I don't do, then I can't impress. If I don't do what's Good. No, let's shift it around. Be curious about what we can do with our time on this planet. So turn the volume down on some of those amplifications and turn the ones up that allow you to feel good and pour into the ones that need some correction because your inner world, your inner world is always here, always listening. Sometimes you have to turn the volume down on what wounds you and turn up what builds you. And I understand that you have all that you need to succeed. There's no race. You're on your own pace. Remember who you are and enjoy your becoming. And you done know that I said everything gonna be all right. So vibe ting and we power by cheer. Thank you. Oh, also, there's a meditative experience that I released. It's called the pause. That's about 25 minutes. It's a really beautiful experience. This is a paid experience to download self talk meditative experience. This is to help you rewire the mind, bring you back to your center, your nervous system. You might be like, well, what's the difference from the podcast? This is something that you actually, it's the actual practice. It's very beautiful. Same, you know, good energy, a little bit more sound design. And I lead you through a self talk meditative practice to bring you back to pause and remind you of your possibilities. It's a beautiful experience. I would love for you to check it out. You know, and yeah, it's also just something, we're going to be, going to be doing more of them as well. And if you just love the podcast, you know, it's another, it's another way to support the podcast. So.