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Well.

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Go to a sensory impression of it. And if anxiety comes up, then you. You can pay attention to. You can say, thank you, anxiety, and still go back to the memory of what it felt like to enjoy something. And if you just say thank you, anxiety, you are there. I see you. You are not fully identified with the anxiety at that moment. If you think that you are your anxiety, if you are fully blended with your anxiety, you're believing something that is not true because you're know that anxiety is in your natural state because it feels horrible. There have been times when you have not been anxious. Right before you fell asleep. A moment with a kitten purring in your lap. It doesn't matter how small it is. You zero in on that and you recreate circumstances and you remember while you sense. I'm hoping this works with my nose and I'm really excited to try it with anything else you remember while you sense that's the key, Colette says. Would this also work with other things, like trying to remember what it was like to make enough money? I'm struggling financially at the moment and find it hard to imagine ever making enough money again. That's a really, really good example. I genuinely think that money is primarily energetic. It's a thought form that humans have thought up. Even gold isn't really worth. It's not much. If you're starving on a desert island, you could have all the gold in the world and it wouldn't help you. But we assign value to things, and it's the value we assign that makes it valuable, makes it money. So you have the essence of money as part of your imagination system. And when you remember times that it was abundant, I really, really believe, and I've seen this many times, you behave in ways that are more consistent with actions, but bring money into your experience. You have better ideas, you strike up better partnerships, you make better things. You just. If you're living in this joy of richness, money is one of the riches that finds its way to you. And when you're struggling and cramped around it and all you can remember is being poor, it's very hard for money to get in. It really, really is. So it sounds odd to imagine and remember being feeling abundant. When you're feeling like there's not enough, our culture says no, you got to focus on the not enough. And that way you'll be motivated to work, work, work. No. Creates all the wrong synapses and creates all the wrong behaviors to bring value into your life. If you can remember living in rich abundance, you will be much more interesting to people who have value to offer you. Yeah, so I want. I know I have some friends who are wonderful people who have always lived in a sense of abundance, whether they had much or little. And they just by surprise came into a huge amount of money. And I've just been giggling and happy for them ever since I heard. Because these are people who just live abundance and. And they don't. It doesn't matter whether they have it or whether they don't. They always seem to believe and act as if the earth is full and there is enough to spare and everything's going to be fine. And I do think that is the kind of energy that brings in more wealth. Not to criticize you if it hasn't happened for you yet. Zenful Mama says, how can we get in touch with it simply by deep relaxation. I think relaxation is the pivot point because the moment you stop relaxing, you're trying to control the way your thinking goes. And this is not control based. The people who are talking, the doctors who are trying to help people get their sense of smell back didn't say really focus on smelling and really try harder to smell things. They said, put a lemon by your face, breathe through your nose and remember smelling lemons. Don't try, just associate. You have that you don't sense and remember sense and remember. Put your hands on the tree and remember your knees not hurting. It's just kind of a fun. All of us have the thing of like, imagine a time when things were good. But to add a sense experience seems to anchor it in something that we've actually been through and that. So deep relaxation is a big part of it. But try a sense connection of some kind. Something you can smell, taste, touch, hear, see, and really zero in on that. All right. Tracy says, is this a similar mechanism as gratitude? I'd say similar but not identical. Gratitude brings, basically what happens is as you start to go into the memory of something that was good even before you get back the thing you want the gratitude for, the past experience starts to flow. And I don't know about the metaphysics of gratitude. I mean, there's a lot written about it, about how it brings things in. But I do know about the psychology and the psychological research on gratitude, which says that it is the single thing that makes us most likely to feel happy. And if we can generate feelings of gratitude, then that happiness is going to last much longer than if we don't experience feelings of gratitude. So maybe let's add that in. Imagine put a lemon by your face and remember smelling lemons and then be so grateful for the times you smelled lemons instead of being afraid of the times when you won't be able to taste a lemon or smell a lemon ever again. All right, so Kate says it's a fine line between using this technique to connect A positive time and living in the past. How can we resist the inclination to live in the past and use the technique to enhance the present? That's a great question. So the only thing you're bringing from the past is a sense memory. Okay, so it's something a dog or cat would remember. It's not that you remember eating lemons on the porch with your grandma. And now your grandma's gone on to the next stage and the house she lived in has been bulldozed. And you sure wish that house were back. And you sure wish you could just talk to grandma one more time. That's getting lost in the past. The taste of lemon, the smell of lemon is not connected to any specific time in the past. You're bringing up the sense that you experienced in the past. It's just a thing. It's just a solid, real world, five senses experience that you're having. And as you start to think, oh, I wish I had the situation that was there in the past, that's the time to say, hey, stop it now. We don't need to go back to the past. What we need to do is know that this experience is always available to us. And the interesting thing about memory to me is that I think it defies the. Well, it doesn't defy the physics of time. Because the physics of time say that everything is present all the time under certain conditions. It allows us to get out of the trap of the arrow of time. That is part of the condition of having a human brain thinking that we are moving forward at a certain pace from the past to the present, and that the past can never be recaptured and that the present is always slipping away from us, those are things that make us attached to negativity. And when you are just in a sense, impression, and you know that lemons have been tasted by people for thousands of years, they may be tasted for many years to come. It has nothing to do with the line of time. It is just the taste of lemon. And then you associate that with something that you're doing now. I think you bridge the gap between the present moment and the experience you had in the past. And what it does is it reignites the ability to experience that thing as an ongoing event. So I think that we should go into our meditation now.

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My assistant here keeps getting up and making me think there's something that I.

A (20:50)

Need to pay attention to. Okay, we're not going to do that. We're going to go into the meditation. And those of you who've been here before know the meditation that I mean. And those of you who haven't can just play along. And this is something that I think actually we can link into the experience of being non physical. One of the things that's interesting about being raised Mormon is that Mormons believe that we all existed as identities before we were born. It's called the pre existence. So I from, from my earliest memories was told that I existed before I had a body and will exist. Well, actually Mormons believe you'll have your body forever. But the idea that I existed before I came here seemed perfectly natural to me and it never really went away when I left Mormonism. So I do believe that there was a time when in some form, all of us were consciousness prior to being physical. And the thing about the space, silence and stillness meditation is that it drops us out of matter and into an experience on this planet that may be similar to what we had going on before there was any physical, before we had any physical aspects at all. And maybe this is the way of going back to the. The deepest sense memory, the memory of no thing, the memory of no time, no, no action, the undergirding of everything.

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That we see as physical.

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So let's do the meditation. Start by getting really relaxed, as relaxed as we can, and then asking the question. Thank you. Les Femi from the Princeton Research Center. Is it possible for me to imagine the distance between my eyes?

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If you're looking at the computer screen.

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Or at your phone.

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Instead of looking at my image on the screen, look at this space between the image you see your eyes. Look at the empty space between.

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Is it possible to imagine the distance.

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Between my eyes and the back of my head? Can I imagine the space inside the atoms, huge component of space inside the atoms? Between the crown of my head.

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And.

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The nape of my neck? Can I imagine the distance between my right shoulder and my left shoulder? Can I imagine the space inside the.

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Matter.

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It makes up my chest, my heart, my lungs? Can I imagine the consciousness of space filling these empty, empty spaces where there is no matter? Can I imagine the space inside my legs, the emptiness there and the.

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Lack.

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Of necessity to carry any burden at all? The openness inside my body? Can I imagine the space inside my heart flowing seamlessly to connect with the space inside the hearts of everyone on this broadcast from all over the world? Can I imagine the space inside the planet between me and someone who is watching this broadcast on the other side of the earth? Can I imagine the empty space inside the atoms of the earth, between the two of us? Can I Imagine the absolute peace and stillness that embraces every action, every vibration through this whole planet. Between me and everyone else on this broadcast. Can I imagine the silence under every sound? Can I hear it? And by using imagination, this is another interesting product of real scientific research. Les Femi found that by asking these questions about the emptiness and the space, we calm our brains and the brain calms the whole body. And a very calm person in a room can calm the whole room. And a room full of people, like a gathering room full of people spread out across the globe. If we can come into space, consciousness, remember what it was like at the best of times, all the best of times, silence, space and stillness were there, holding us outside of time and completely, absolutely secure. We are absolutely safe in space. Stillness and silence.

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So that's how we bring the good times back.

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I hope that you all go out and do what I'm going to do.

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As soon as I get my smell back, which is I'm going to smell all the good things the world has to offer and really, really appreciate it. And in the meantime, have a wonderful, wonderful week until we meet again on the Gathering Room. Love you by.

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