WHAT WILL THE AUDIENCE LEARN?
This week, on The Conscious Consultant Hour, we have another wonderful show with just you and Sam as he shares a personal story about his life, and why presence matters so much.
EPISODE SUMMARY:
It is so easy to get taken out of presence. For most of us it happens when we are young, just trying to escape our pain. Sometimes it happens when we are older, and our life is just not what we thought it would be. We look to escape in so many ways. It might feel good at the moment, but in the long run we are only cheating ourselves.
When we stop running away from what is, and turn our attention to what we are running away from, we can find true liberation. The path forward may not be easy or fun, but it is the most rewarding path we can take.
Tune in and listen to Sam’s story of how he came to find presence once again in his. He will share from his chapter of the newly published book, From Good To Greatness, and bring you on the ride of his life!
You can share your own thoughts on our YouTube channel, Facebook Page, LinkedIn Page, and even our Twitter feed. What is challenging you to be in the present moment? Join in and share your stories with us!
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This week, Sam takes us on a journey into the power of presence. To set the stage, Sam opens with a passage from his book, Everyday Awakening. Titled "To get past the need to know, we must cultivate trust," this excerpt challenges our relentless pursuit of answers and unveils the secret to genuine happiness. Sam's words will captivate your mind and heart as he unravels the profound connection between our desire to know and our need for security. Drawing from his own life lessons, Sam invites us to embrace the mystery of existence, urging us to release the grip of control and surrender to the beauty of acceptance. Don't miss out on Sam's book, available at www.everydayawakeningbook.com.
Sam shares his contribution to the remarkable book, Good to Greatness, which includes a passage on the power of presence. With years of practice, Sam has become a true master of staying in the "now," but it wasn't always this way. Sam candidly opens up about the challenges he faced in his youth, which shaped his inclination to disengage from the present moment. He tells us about the start of his spiritual journey, revealing the pivotal role played by his schizophrenic friend, who became an unexpected catalyst for personal growth. The relationship he had with this person was dark and complicated, a re-emergence of his family dynamic. It was a pivotal experience that shed light on the wounds he carried and prompted him to address and overcome his dissociation.
It wasn't until later in his healing journey that Sam grasped the true meaning of presence. To overcome spiritual blockages, Sam turned to plant medicine, a powerful tool that helped him relinquish the desire to control. Sam came to understand that stress often stems from a lack of trust. Staying rooted in the present relieves the anguish of harping on the past or anticipating the future. Life, he asserts, is not a linear path, but by trusting in what it brings, we can discover its purpose. Sam's upcoming book, Good to Greatness, delves further into the concept of presence and explores his personal journey in greater detail.
Sam explains what his definition of presence is. He highlights that our anxieties often hinder us from fully embracing the opportunities that each moment presents. While the process of letting go can be complex, Sam shares that plant medicine has played a transformative role in his own journey, expediting the process of releasing attachments. He acknowledges that disassociation can serve as a healthy coping mechanism in certain situations, but he also recognizes that it frequently arises as a result of past traumas. He urges his listeners to be curious and seek out support.
00:00:22.420 --> 00:00:52.210 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Good afternoon, my conscious co-creators. Good morning, good evening. Wherever you tuning in from wherever, whenever welcome to the conscious consultant hour awakening humanity, I am very, very pleased that you are all here with me today. Yes, whether you're tuning in on talk radio dot Nyc or at Kmt and in Palm Springs, California.
00:00:52.390 --> 00:01:02.730 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or wherever you're tuning in from on the Podcast, on, on the replay. Thank you for tuning in today. I'm very happy. You're all here with us today.
00:01:02.940 --> 00:01:24.580 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: This is one of those special shows. No guest. It's just me and you. So let me know if you have questions, comments, anything you would like to hear about anything you would like me to delve into. I do have a particular topic today. which is
00:01:24.660 --> 00:01:27.669 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: about being in the present moment.
00:01:27.860 --> 00:01:45.550 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and we'll get into. Why, I'm talking about that today. But first, of course, we have our little section from my book Everyday Awakening. We we're getting pretty far through the book. I we we're we're definitely going to finish before the end of the year. But,
00:01:45.870 --> 00:01:55.030 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I have to see how many more. I'm not sure I have to double check So today, on the section from my book is entitled
00:01:56.140 --> 00:02:01.430 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to get past the need to know we must cultivate trust.
00:02:02.100 --> 00:02:14.119 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's actually very relevant what we're gonna be talking about today. So I hope you're gonna stick around for the whole show. So here's a section from the book. There are so many things we feel we need to know.
00:02:14.150 --> 00:02:18.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: For example, we may feel we need to know our purpose in life.
00:02:19.020 --> 00:02:29.620 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We may feel that we need to know who our soul mate is. We may feel the neat that we need to know what happens when we die.
00:02:29.710 --> 00:02:40.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because all of these needs are not really needs at all. Many of us live perfectly happy lives without knowing any of it.
00:02:41.210 --> 00:02:48.349 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: In fact, knowing these things will not necessarily help us to be any happier.
00:02:51.790 --> 00:02:53.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What if we don't like the answers?
00:02:55.630 --> 00:02:58.649 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What if we want to change them? And we can't.
00:03:00.050 --> 00:03:01.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: they would be?
00:03:05.160 --> 00:03:17.709 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: if we knew all these answers? Indeed, if we really knew everything that we thought we needed to know, would we not keep finding other things we felt we needed to know.
00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:23.300 knowing the answers does not give us a more fulfilled life.
00:03:23.690 --> 00:03:35.599 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Knowing the answers does not automatically make us happier. healthier or wiser. The reason why is because the need to know comes from fear.
00:03:36.410 --> 00:03:41.119 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: not trust. feeling. The need to know
00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:52.559 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: feeling, a need to know is a symptom of the desire for security and certainty, and not based on love and acceptance.
00:03:55.710 --> 00:04:01.219 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: what we do not know, because we feel knowing will make us safer.
00:04:01.700 --> 00:04:10.769 As if knowing. The answer to all these questions will somehow make everything better for us, as if knowing will help us be less fearful.
00:04:11.890 --> 00:04:19.640 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Perhaps the biggest lesson in life is learning that we don't have to know everything
00:04:20.440 --> 00:04:24.039 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that not knowing is actually a great gift.
00:04:24.550 --> 00:04:31.720 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that when we live with curiosity and trust instead of fear and doubt.
00:04:31.890 --> 00:04:40.899 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that when we cannot know and still be happy. we can have our fears and not let them drive us.
00:04:41.030 --> 00:04:48.519 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We can get past the need to know, and instead cultivate acceptance of what is.
00:04:49.140 --> 00:04:51.480 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: cultivate trust in life.
00:04:58.300 --> 00:05:01.840 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: perhaps not that that the way we wanted
00:05:01.980 --> 00:05:04.850 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yet taking care of. Nonetheless.
00:05:05.230 --> 00:05:08.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: here we are. We survived.
00:05:08.610 --> 00:05:12.049 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Even when we didn't know how we would make it.
00:05:12.750 --> 00:05:32.009 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We didn't know how we made it to this point in our lives. We also don't really know how tomorrow, next week, next month or next year, will go for us, is probably true, more true now than ever before. Yet, as we trust, we are empowered to move forward
00:05:32.020 --> 00:05:35.970 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and continue our journey in life.
00:05:37.710 --> 00:05:40.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so where can you trust more
00:05:41.080 --> 00:05:44.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and no less in your own life.
00:05:45.840 --> 00:05:46.830 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So
00:05:47.970 --> 00:05:51.899 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: this section of my book really comes from
00:05:54.130 --> 00:05:57.860 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: very much my own life experience.
00:05:59.470 --> 00:06:05.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: This is really something that I've I've had to reflect on a lot.
00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:11.289 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because I've been in so many circumstances throughout my life
00:06:13.440 --> 00:06:14.830 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: where
00:06:15.780 --> 00:06:25.040 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I had no idea what was gonna happen the next day, or or even when I got home from work that night.
00:06:27.550 --> 00:06:28.930 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and that
00:06:30.850 --> 00:06:32.660 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: really
00:06:34.630 --> 00:06:36.179 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: a sense of
00:06:39.450 --> 00:06:41.130 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: like surrender
00:06:41.670 --> 00:06:46.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because I couldn't. I couldn't know I couldn't control.
00:06:48.230 --> 00:06:56.969 I I. There was nothing left for me to do but accept and trust, and put one foot in front of the other.
00:06:59.380 --> 00:07:04.220 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I guess. being thrust into that kind of
00:07:04.630 --> 00:07:09.770 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: place in life, and it wasn't early early on. It was as a young adult.
00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:16.060 but but they were often like 2 things that can happen
00:07:28.740 --> 00:07:31.160 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or we still get a little traumatized, but
00:07:35.400 --> 00:07:41.040 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because we got through all those days, all those nights, all those challenges.
00:07:45.630 --> 00:07:48.210 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And it it it's
00:07:51.990 --> 00:07:55.640 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it's not that. It's not difficult, of course it is.
00:07:56.750 --> 00:08:08.500 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and it's not that it completely squashes our desire to know. Look. I I've been through the worst of it. I still love to know what's gonna happen.
00:08:08.650 --> 00:08:11.100 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: even though I know I can't know.
00:08:12.110 --> 00:08:18.720 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and and oftentimes that I find actually like gets me in trouble like this, desire to to want to know things.
00:08:19.210 --> 00:08:23.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but what it's really done for me.
00:08:25.660 --> 00:08:31.379 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's just helped me to trust life a little bit more.
00:08:31.520 --> 00:08:45.160 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that if I could get through those excruciating, challenging. awful parts of my life to get to where I am today and where I am today. I I feel pretty good about
00:08:48.380 --> 00:08:51.060 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that. If I could get to here like
00:08:51.310 --> 00:08:53.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I think I can trust, I think I can
00:08:55.140 --> 00:09:00.639 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: cultivate a little bit more that you know everything's going to be all right.
00:09:00.770 --> 00:09:14.069 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and being all right does not mean it's gonna go the way I want being all right is not about everything is going to go perfectly.
00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:16.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: absolutely not.
00:09:21.340 --> 00:09:23.539 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It just means that
00:09:28.010 --> 00:09:38.380 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm going to be taking care of. Not necessarily the way I want. But one way or another things will work out. Everything will be okay.
00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:46.609 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And indeed, the the ultimate trust comes from.
00:09:47.640 --> 00:09:51.170 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: even if the worst case scenario happens.
00:09:52.980 --> 00:09:57.240 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: even if I die, which we're all going to die anyway. I mean, it's kind of funny.
00:10:00.510 --> 00:10:08.119 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We we're also afraid of death, and it's like inevitable it it's gonna happen whether we want to do or not.
00:10:10.490 --> 00:10:14.950 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But I've had enough experiences. I've had enough
00:10:16.050 --> 00:10:17.580 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: glimpses
00:10:19.160 --> 00:10:23.419 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: of what it is like to merge back into the universe
00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:35.420 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that even if I die, that's still okay. I mean, yeah, some people are going to be sad that I'm not here anymore.
00:10:37.910 --> 00:10:48.339 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But my soul, my spirit, my consciousness. will still be okay. And and ultimately like that is the biggest
00:10:50.990 --> 00:10:52.939 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: thing to trust
00:10:55.210 --> 00:10:59.749 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and it. And it's the the biggest thing that society
00:11:00.160 --> 00:11:11.569 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: pushes at us about that need to to be afraid of death and and religion makes it like that. This.
00:11:13.670 --> 00:11:16.750 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: this this finality.
00:11:18.100 --> 00:11:18.900 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and
00:11:19.910 --> 00:11:35.550 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I just can't believe that I've had too many memories of past lives, too many incidences. I've talked to too many people who've survived near death experiences and have come back to tell their stories
00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:39.939 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that I just know.
00:11:41.390 --> 00:11:48.420 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and a very conscious level, maybe not quite on an unconscious level, but on the conscious level. I know the death is not the end.
00:11:50.930 --> 00:12:03.860 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And indeed. I personally believe, because of experiences that I've had. that when we cross over to the other side. It's actually an ecstatic, beautiful.
00:12:05.370 --> 00:12:08.940 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: oh, amazing experience!
00:12:12.650 --> 00:12:16.780 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And even though it's amazing, it doesn't mean we have to rush to get there
00:12:17.140 --> 00:12:29.139 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that that we shouldn't be rushing to, to kill ourselves or to die. because the the juice of this life of having senses and in a and a physical.
00:12:29.280 --> 00:12:35.949 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: a oh, existence is, is so juicy, even even in its agony. It's juicy.
00:12:38.460 --> 00:12:40.729 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so there's no need to rush there.
00:12:43.180 --> 00:12:52.940 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But if we can in our heart of hearts know that even when we die we're going to be okay. Them
00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:57.410 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: what we else do we have to worry about?
00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:09.630 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Look N, none of us want to be in pain right? That that's a lot of what the fear does is it just helps us to want to avoid pain. I'm all for avoiding pain, believe me.
00:13:11.980 --> 00:13:17.749 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but we, when we can live life in trust and curiosity.
00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:27.079 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it gives us such a richer life, such a deeper life. such a
00:13:28.630 --> 00:13:31.429 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: such an experience
00:13:31.770 --> 00:13:35.780 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: of the juiciness of everything.
00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:44.150 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: even those things we don't want to experience. Sometimes those can be the juiciest we learn the most. We grow the most.
00:13:49.020 --> 00:13:51.950 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I'm talking from personal experience
00:13:53.540 --> 00:14:04.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and look. When when I was going through that period in my life that was excruciatingly awful. I couldn't wait for it to be over. I wanted to get through it past it
00:14:04.690 --> 00:14:06.270 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: like anybody else.
00:14:07.850 --> 00:14:12.970 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That's normal. That's called being a human being. It's okay to be human.
00:14:15.100 --> 00:14:18.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What I'm trying to share with you
00:14:21.040 --> 00:14:23.420 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is that there is a better way.
00:14:25.510 --> 00:14:32.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and that if I had heard somebody say the things that I'm saying today back then
00:14:35.020 --> 00:14:36.720 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that maybe
00:14:38.410 --> 00:14:41.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: maybe it would have been just a little bit easier for me.
00:14:43.750 --> 00:14:51.660 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so I'm hoping that what I say today and the stories I'm going to share with you during the show today.
00:14:53.730 --> 00:15:00.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We'll just help you to sink into that sense of trust
00:15:03.420 --> 00:15:06.180 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that life is going to be all right.
00:15:07.250 --> 00:15:13.189 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and I see loyal listener Sonia, saying, Yes, let's live with some curiosity.
00:15:14.190 --> 00:15:17.720 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know curiosity is one of our greatest tools.
00:15:19.340 --> 00:15:27.849 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and when we trust it makes access to that tool so much easier. so much easier.
00:15:28.630 --> 00:15:38.949 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Now look, it's not to say there aren't big problems in the world. This is not to say that we don't have challenges in our personal lives, in our business life and our careers
00:15:39.140 --> 00:15:40.880 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in in everything.
00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:46.539 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Of course, we have challenges. That's again. That's how we grow.
00:15:48.520 --> 00:15:55.949 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but just because we have challenges, and just because things aren't easy, and just because things don't always feel good, does not mean
00:15:57.350 --> 00:16:01.959 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: just not, does not give us a reason not to trust.
00:16:05.930 --> 00:16:09.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And indeed, when we do trust life
00:16:11.090 --> 00:16:12.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: somehow.
00:16:13.830 --> 00:16:17.759 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: things just work out so much better for us.
00:16:18.990 --> 00:16:20.090 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: easier
00:16:21.090 --> 00:16:26.040 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it makes getting through these challenges so much more
00:16:27.810 --> 00:16:30.060 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in in a beautiful manner.
00:16:33.470 --> 00:16:34.440 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So
00:16:39.970 --> 00:17:01.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that section is entitled to get past the need to know. we must cultivate trust. And so so, apropos for what we're gonna talk about today, and of course, you can get my book every day awakening the URL. You can just go to www. Dot everyday awakening book.com. That'll take you to the Amazon listing.
00:17:02.140 --> 00:17:17.099 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: a. And you know, if you're like me. But you like to support the small independent bookstores. We're in major book distributors, so you just gotta go and ask them, say, Hey, this book every day awakening by Sam Leibowitz, I would love to order. Can you order it for me?
00:17:17.250 --> 00:17:23.619 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So please do. And I see other. A loyalist near Adrian says I have lots of challenges.
00:17:32.650 --> 00:17:38.969 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Lots of us have challenges. The having challenges is normal. I feel you.
00:17:39.630 --> 00:17:48.850 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And again trusting that you're gonna get through those challenges and that life will continue to support you
00:17:49.600 --> 00:17:56.669 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: like. That is the easiest way to get through those challenges. And just to be curious
00:17:57.200 --> 00:17:58.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: about.
00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:00.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know.
00:18:00.800 --> 00:18:03.200 how do those challenges serve you?
00:18:04.650 --> 00:18:09.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What can you learn from those challenges? What can you take from those challenges
00:18:10.700 --> 00:18:17.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: asking those kinds of questions will really help to to
00:18:25.430 --> 00:18:29.560 All right. It it it's time for me to take my my first break.
00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:40.509 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when we come back I have a big announcement, let you all know something. and we're gonna get into today's topic, which is very much
00:18:40.770 --> 00:18:42.610 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: related to
00:18:42.890 --> 00:18:45.919 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: this section of my book.
00:18:46.430 --> 00:19:17.659 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm entitling this this episode in the present moment. and you'll understand why. So please stay tuned. You're listening to the conscious consultant hour awakening humanity. We do this every Thursday, 12 noon to one P. M. Eastern right here and talk radio dot Nyc. And on our Youtube channel, youtube.com slash talking alternative Facebook on facebook.com slash talk, radio, Nyc and Twitter and Linkedin and and and now we're on twitch TV,
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00:19:52.510 --> 00:19:56.379 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: will be right back after these messages.
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00:22:14.190 --> 00:22:27.919 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and welcome back to the conscious consult. Now we're awakening humanity. Thank you all for tuning in today. I'm very pleased that you're with me again. This is one of those shows. It's just me and you.
00:22:28.370 --> 00:22:42.439 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm very glad to see my loyal listeners tuning in. So Naya, Adrian. Sure Patty is gonna be tuning in soon. if you listen to the show. I I know I I see on my livestream.
00:22:42.440 --> 00:23:02.130 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: there's a lot of flickering going on. This happened last week to to check my computer and see why I'm getting so much flickering on the video. Any of you tech geniuses out there. Know. Let me know why, in my zoom, suddenly flickering. So much so. I have a big announcement. I wanted to let you all know I'm very, very happy
00:23:03.850 --> 00:23:28.329 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: not only am I best selling author of Everyday Awakening, not only am I a 2 time bestselling author, because I also contributed to a book called Game Changers, volume 7. But I am now a 3 time bestselling author. because I'm also contributed to this book. Good to greatness. which is a series of stories from 20 different successful people
00:23:28.430 --> 00:23:56.350 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: all from a a group I'm involved with, compiled, my my dear friend, Christine Monahan, we had a big good to greatness event yesterday. It was wonderful. Several panel discussions. Lots of people came out to it. So check out good to greatness. Here's what the cover looks like compiled by Christine Monaghan and and yours truly, I have one of the chapters in it, and my chapter is called In the present moment.
00:23:56.880 --> 00:23:57.970 And so
00:23:58.610 --> 00:24:01.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: let me. I just want to read the first
00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:11.090 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: 2 paragraphs from my little section of the book, and this will kind of set the stage for what? we're going to be talking about today.
00:24:11.740 --> 00:24:13.629 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So in the present moment
00:24:21.020 --> 00:24:31.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: My own life, while challenging at times, has shown me the importance of fully living with our awareness focused on what is happening right here
00:24:31.250 --> 00:24:43.659 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: right now. over the years I've come to know both the difficulties as well as the benefits of such a practice. as well as experiencing the freedom that can come from it.
00:24:44.260 --> 00:24:51.139 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I never realized how much I tried to be not present to my life.
00:24:51.910 --> 00:25:05.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: From the time I was a child living with parents who were emotionally unavailable because of their own challenges. I just wanted to be somewhere else. I remember how the red brick house I grew up in always felt cold.
00:25:05.670 --> 00:25:09.359 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: not just physically cold, but emotionally cold.
00:25:09.900 --> 00:25:16.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I couldn't articulate that articulate that at the time I could only feel it
00:25:17.300 --> 00:25:22.119 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so. My section is all about sort of my journey
00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:27.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: from lack of presence to presence.
00:25:29.120 --> 00:25:37.680 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and this very much goes hand in hand with what I was talking about earlier, about trust, and not needing to know.
00:25:40.670 --> 00:25:42.040 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because
00:25:45.010 --> 00:25:51.149 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: a a as a child. And again, I I didn't have an awful childhood.
00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:58.610 but it was challenging for me. I I was kind of the sensitive kid. I didn't really fit in that much
00:25:58.800 --> 00:26:05.789 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: with other kids. I I, you know, been abused. I've been beat up by bullies in the neighborhood.
00:26:07.330 --> 00:26:13.249 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and then I got involved sort of at the beginning of my spiritual path some
00:26:14.100 --> 00:26:25.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: 43 years ago. God can't believe it's been that long got involved with some friends that I met through the college I was at.
00:26:27.490 --> 00:26:33.730 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and really kind of started me on this path, and and it turned out that one of them was schizophrenic.
00:26:36.850 --> 00:26:38.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and
00:26:39.370 --> 00:26:45.130 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: his family would have nothing to do with him. His parents were dead, none of his relatives cared about him.
00:26:46.320 --> 00:26:50.610 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I kind of not that I felt responsible for him, but
00:26:53.810 --> 00:26:59.399 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: he he was in some ways so smart, I mean genius
00:26:59.870 --> 00:27:02.610 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and very kind.
00:27:03.790 --> 00:27:08.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I just felt like if I didn't help him he'd just end up on the street.
00:27:09.560 --> 00:27:19.340 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and so I ended up moving in with him and his girlfriend. I ended up supporting them, for I lived with them for 6 years. I ended up supporting them for like close to 13 years.
00:27:22.370 --> 00:27:23.480 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And
00:27:24.280 --> 00:27:31.100 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in the beginning things weren't so bad, and there was a lot of hope. And and and I really thought that
00:27:31.120 --> 00:27:39.919 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know I could help improve things. But as time went on things got worse and worse and worse.
00:27:41.670 --> 00:27:53.730 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I'd get up early in the morning to to go to, you know. At first I was a bank teller, and then I worked in another department at the bank and and and get up earlier to go to work.
00:27:54.740 --> 00:27:56.249 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and then I come back.
00:27:57.700 --> 00:28:07.759 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and then there'd be some problem. and he'd break his glasses or he'd break something, and there'd be some big problem, and we'd spend hours talking it through.
00:28:09.160 --> 00:28:21.840 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And it was really challenging. And then eventually, I got even a second job. So I worked evenings abstensively, just to to make more money, because, you know, we never had enough money.
00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:26.829 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we we we were always. It was always a challenge to make rent every month.
00:28:29.670 --> 00:28:30.740 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and
00:28:34.860 --> 00:28:37.159 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I just didn't want to be there.
00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:49.600 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so my sort of lack of presence that I'd cultivate younger from just not wanting to be with my family. Be at home
00:28:49.730 --> 00:28:55.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: now. I put myself in a situation that it was just so painful to be present. I just
00:28:56.690 --> 00:29:00.860 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: couldn't deal with it. I did anything I could to get out of it.
00:29:02.530 --> 00:29:10.279 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so eventually I I did move out. I did stop supporting them, and they continued on.
00:29:12.270 --> 00:29:13.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I
00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:19.500 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: started to to come on my path of healing.
00:29:22.080 --> 00:29:26.979 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And I didn't really know in the beginning that my path to healing
00:29:28.170 --> 00:29:33.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: was really about learning to be more present to what was going on in my life.
00:29:38.210 --> 00:29:40.699 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And it it it's
00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:48.999 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it's very challenging to be present when you're in the middle of so many challenges.
00:29:50.060 --> 00:29:56.079 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And that's why, Adrian, when you, when you post the comment that you have lots of challenges, I hear you.
00:29:56.600 --> 00:30:00.000 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I feel you. It ain't easy.
00:30:03.140 --> 00:30:08.100 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's not, but we don't have to suffer as much as we think we do.
00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:14.589 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and I think that's really the message.
00:30:16.840 --> 00:30:24.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's we can go through so much. so much. and we can still be okay.
00:30:27.810 --> 00:30:32.729 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so I see loyal listener, Paddy checking in, as I always knew you'd be there, Patty.
00:30:32.790 --> 00:30:45.319 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so let's take a a quick break, and and I'll kind of continue to take you sort of through my story, and and how I was able to come to the place of
00:30:47.510 --> 00:31:04.810 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: not needing to know as much. and learning to just trust. so that I could be in the present moment that much more. So everybody. Please stay tuned. You're listening to the conscious. Consult in our awakening humanity.
00:31:05.010 --> 00:31:27.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: please. If you have comments or questions. If you're listening to the live stream. Please put your comments in in the Comments section. If you have questions yourself, challenges you're dealing with. put it in there and and say, Hey, I'm I'm dealing with something like this. You don't have to be too specific. Just let me know, and and I'll give you my perspective on it. If how.
00:31:27.210 --> 00:31:32.620 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: perhaps, being a little more present might make it a little bit easier to get through it.
00:31:44.460 --> 00:31:46.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in just a moment.
00:33:50.700 --> 00:34:08.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and welcome back to the conscious. Consult now awakening humanity. No guests this hour. Just me and you Just if you see me on the live stream, and I'm looking this way and looking that way, I'm I'm just checking on my different monitors on the different live stream, seeing what people are saying.
00:34:08.260 --> 00:34:17.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And I really do truly appreciate you being here. I know that. you know. Sometimes it's it's more engaging, more interesting.
00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:34.320 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so. I've been talking about presence and and and my challenges in life of being present.
00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:42.160 And even once I started my healing path I didn't still know what it meant to be present.
00:34:44.310 --> 00:34:48.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and then, 9 years ago, when I I
00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:54.770 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: got reintroduced the idea of using plant medicine work to
00:34:55.489 --> 00:34:59.750 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to really find ways to heal it. It it
00:35:00.100 --> 00:35:04.730 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: help to unwind some of those past traumas traumas in such a way
00:35:04.790 --> 00:35:07.719 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that I I could not imagine.
00:35:09.460 --> 00:35:14.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and part of it. you know it. It goes back to what I mentioned before that
00:35:16.330 --> 00:35:19.219 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: those experiences of knowing
00:35:19.970 --> 00:35:25.669 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that even in the worst worst worst case scenario that we're not going to be here much more.
00:35:26.160 --> 00:35:28.350 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: The things are still okay.
00:35:31.030 --> 00:35:32.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that
00:35:35.740 --> 00:35:41.009 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it really helps to unwind those fears and that need to know.
00:35:41.370 --> 00:35:43.500 and that desire to
00:35:43.710 --> 00:35:45.609 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: control everything
00:35:47.380 --> 00:35:52.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and ultimately to really, truly be present in life.
00:35:55.100 --> 00:35:57.430 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's really about trust.
00:35:58.480 --> 00:35:59.680 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: ultimately.
00:36:02.510 --> 00:36:13.710 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because if we're not trusting that things are going to work out if we're not trusting that things are happening for our highest good, even if we don't like it in the moment.
00:36:14.680 --> 00:36:18.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: If we can't find that place of trust inside of us.
00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:22.400 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Then why should we be present?
00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:30.309 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Why should we experience the agony and the suffering, and the discomfort
00:36:33.150 --> 00:36:47.480 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and look? Let's get real. Sometimes we're in situations that just planes suck. Maybe we've lost a loved one. Maybe we lost a relationship. Maybe we've lost our career or our business.
00:36:48.010 --> 00:37:03.509 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Maybe we have been used to a certain lifestyle, and now we we no longer have that lifestyle may maybe just. We don't like the way the world is going, and we just want to get back to the way things used to be. But we can't go back.
00:37:05.640 --> 00:37:10.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah. Things are tough. I know I've been there.
00:37:11.430 --> 00:37:13.229 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Things can be stressful
00:37:17.410 --> 00:37:22.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that I still firmly believe that stress comes from not trusting.
00:37:24.990 --> 00:37:36.340 because if we're stressed about something that means we don't trust that, either. We're going to be okay. Someone else is going to be okay. Things are going to work out the way they're supposed to. Tomorrow is going to be okay.
00:37:38.570 --> 00:37:46.650 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And it's so interesting that when we're really present. when we're present, we're not thinking about the past, and we're not thinking about the future.
00:37:48.080 --> 00:37:51.010 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So where is the stress? In the present moment?
00:37:51.310 --> 00:38:09.589 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: The stress in the present moment is only if in this very moment, this instant we're feeling, we? We? We're in a horrible situation. We're experiencing pain. There's someone pointing a gun at us to someone trying to mug us or break into our homes like, okay, yeah, in that present moment things are stressful.
00:38:10.210 --> 00:38:14.690 But let's face it. That's not the majority of our life.
00:38:15.410 --> 00:38:19.010 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: The majority of our life actually can be quite boring.
00:38:19.290 --> 00:38:23.509 and the majority of life. We're not in a life or death situation.
00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:33.760 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and that's a really good tool to use to, to alleviate some stresses. Just to ask ourselves, Is this a life or death situation?
00:38:34.680 --> 00:38:39.159 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Because 99 of the time? The answer is, no.
00:38:43.430 --> 00:38:46.279 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Now, sometimes we are. I. I remember.
00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:56.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, 40 years ago, in in my neighborhood in the Bronx, I I was went to the bank to make a deposit. and a guy came into the branch with a gun.
00:38:57.060 --> 00:39:23.119 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and he's like, Give me the money. Give me the money, and and one of the tellers one of those women she started freaking out. I think she was like diabetic or something, that the manager said, and she went into insulin shock or something. So the manager went in. You know, grab the money from everyone's Castro put it in a bag, gave it to the guy. He ran out. The police came a minute later, chased him. I think they ended up. I think I heard he did. They shot him and killed him in the local park when he was running away.
00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:34.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But yeah, in that moment when that guy came in with a gun and everyone got down on the floor, my heart was beating so fast
00:39:35.390 --> 00:39:39.360 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because you don't know what's gonna happen in that next moment, and that's scary.
00:39:42.530 --> 00:39:50.590 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And if you get go to the doctor and you get some kind of diagnosis that you have some life threatening illness. That's scary.
00:39:53.700 --> 00:39:58.330 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But when we have a moment, then we take some time and we calm down.
00:39:59.990 --> 00:40:04.180 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and that moment is past. We don't need to keep reliving it.
00:40:04.690 --> 00:40:07.520 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We don't need to keep being in it
00:40:09.500 --> 00:40:13.710 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: again with curiosity and trust.
00:40:14.170 --> 00:40:18.000 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We can take those moments and be and wonder
00:40:20.420 --> 00:40:38.399 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: what was I really experiencing? What was I feeling? And the really fascinating thing is the more of those experiences that we've had in the past. That's somewhere years ago. We went through this and we went through that, and we went through this, and we went through that.
00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:47.789 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And when we can realize but you know what I'm still here. I'm still standing. I'm still living. I'm still breathing. I'm still live.
00:40:51.040 --> 00:40:57.210 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Does not that sense of the fact that we've made it this far
00:40:57.280 --> 00:40:59.150 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to this day.
00:41:01.150 --> 00:41:05.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Does. Is that not reason to trust more?
00:41:06.890 --> 00:41:14.880 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And if we look back, did we know everything that was going on? Did we know what was going to happen in our life? Absolutely not.
00:41:16.260 --> 00:41:27.100 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I mean, when I was in high school. Did I have any idea of how my life was going to unfold and what it was gonna look like. Absolutely not.
00:41:30.460 --> 00:41:32.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Did I have plans.
00:41:33.860 --> 00:41:48.069 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: millions of plans like constantly getting dashed? I mean, I wanted to be an astronaut, but at the time you had to go through the Air Force and be an Air Force pilot to be an astronaut, which means you had to have 2020 vision. Well, I've been wearing glasses since I was in third grade
00:41:48.220 --> 00:41:50.889 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: ain't no way. I'm getting 2020 vision.
00:41:51.960 --> 00:41:53.010 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So
00:41:54.080 --> 00:41:56.629 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: there goes the dreams of being an astronaut.
00:41:58.330 --> 00:42:04.879 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And then, when I was in school, and I learned about entrepreneurial opportunities, I thought, Oh, well.
00:42:05.010 --> 00:42:32.669 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, maybe I can't. I can't be an astronaut, but maybe I can make enough money and become a millionaire back. Then I didn't even think in terms of billions. I got a million or make enough money, and maybe I can own a space company or have a a company in the space industry. Maybe I one day I can get to space as a passenger which now, actually, I I could with with Spacex and Virgin Galactic and all these other things. I just haven't made the millions of dollars yet.
00:42:35.060 --> 00:42:45.039 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but constantly, one after another, I, my my just dreams of of what my life would be like, just constantly got blown up.
00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:53.890 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and so after the first few times, it was like. Do I know what's gonna happen? No.
00:42:55.010 --> 00:43:01.330 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I I just gotta accept what life is. Gonna bring me and trust. That's gonna be okay.
00:43:03.930 --> 00:43:11.900 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And believe me, I've made lots of mistakes in the process. I've lost more money than I've made and different business projects.
00:43:14.040 --> 00:43:18.670 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Could I have imagined where I would end up what I would end up doing
00:43:19.120 --> 00:43:34.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: having a show like this running a station. you know, being married to a woman who's a therapist and being involved in the healing and helping people to to overcome trauma. No, I never in a million years thought this is what my life would be like
00:43:35.550 --> 00:43:43.090 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: living in Manhattan. having a beautiful apartment and being able to travel the world.
00:43:45.180 --> 00:43:48.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I had no clue. no clue.
00:43:50.990 --> 00:44:00.420 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and this is why I oftentimes say the universe has a much better imagination for my life than I do.
00:44:03.090 --> 00:44:05.420 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because if I were to base my life
00:44:05.450 --> 00:44:08.019 and live my life on my
00:44:08.430 --> 00:44:10.630 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: past experiences.
00:44:13.160 --> 00:44:24.620 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There is no way I would have ever thought I could be as happy as I am. It's fulfilled in what I do touches many people's lives and have
00:44:31.510 --> 00:44:50.899 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So one more break just a reminder. So if if you want to read more. I just gave you the first couple of paragraphs, but please feel free to go out and get the book good to greatness. You can find it on Amazon, and and it's published by hybrid goable. So it's also in in major book distributors.
00:44:52.170 --> 00:45:02.869 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: check it out. Not just in my story. But there are many wonderful stories of people who've overcome cancer and people with business challenges and all kinds of stuff. It's really a wonderful book.
00:45:05.150 --> 00:45:08.880 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So I gotta go to commercial break my last break when I come back.
00:45:09.950 --> 00:45:12.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Let's talk about presence. Really.
00:45:13.910 --> 00:45:14.710 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What
00:45:15.150 --> 00:45:20.369 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: does it really mean to be present? And why is being present
00:45:20.540 --> 00:45:32.580 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the best place for us to be in our lives. So please stay tuned. You're listening to the conscious consultant now awakening humanity, and we'll be right back in just a moment.
00:47:41.830 --> 00:47:47.449 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and welcome back to the conscious consult now awakening humanity. So we're talking about
00:47:47.690 --> 00:48:10.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: presence being present. And you know I I guess I should really. Well, first I want to thank Patty. I I see loyal listener, Patti, commenting on the Youtube live stream just listening to you. Sam makes me feel less stressed. I've had one of those weeks just going forward. I'm I'm so glad, Patty, and I really appreciate you tuning in, I mean, out of all my loyal listeners. You, Soniaa William, you're you're always there, always commenting.
00:48:11.570 --> 00:48:14.000 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I so appreciate you. Thank you.
00:48:15.820 --> 00:48:19.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What do we mean by presence when I talk about presence? What do I mean?
00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:23.290 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Presence
00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:26.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is about
00:48:27.890 --> 00:48:30.160 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: making our awareness
00:48:31.180 --> 00:48:33.280 fully and completely
00:48:33.650 --> 00:48:35.690 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to being right here right now.
00:48:39.720 --> 00:48:42.400 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and being right here right now
00:48:44.010 --> 00:48:48.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is so rich. there is so much to take in
00:48:50.710 --> 00:48:54.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that when we're fully present.
00:48:54.250 --> 00:48:58.639 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We're actually in the strongest, most powerful
00:48:58.960 --> 00:49:00.840 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: place we can be.
00:49:02.330 --> 00:49:06.500 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because when we're fully present. we notice they
00:49:08.300 --> 00:49:23.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: maybe I hear the birds chirping outside. Maybe I'm talking to someone, and when I'm fully present with them I can feel their body language. I can sense whether they are stressed or not stressed. If they are joyful, if they are happy, if they are curious
00:49:25.730 --> 00:49:28.240 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when we're really present.
00:49:30.610 --> 00:49:34.479 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it becomes obvious what is happening in the moment
00:49:36.520 --> 00:49:44.350 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and what really keeps us from being present or worries, anxieties. concerns
00:49:46.200 --> 00:49:48.849 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: which all come from
00:49:51.020 --> 00:49:52.680 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: a lack of trust.
00:49:54.110 --> 00:49:59.879 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and that lack of trust is developed because of trauma that we've been through in the past.
00:50:02.680 --> 00:50:08.680 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and unfortunately, I don't know a better way of getting through that, but
00:50:08.790 --> 00:50:15.819 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we really have to get through it. We have to remember it, experience it, process it and let it go.
00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:46.400 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And this is why I'm such a believer in plant medicine work, because it's it's one of the most accelerated ways I know of to get through this. It's why I believe in working with a professional with a therapist, but not just any therapist, because a lot of therapists focus on just talk therapy which is not very effective. It doesn't really help us to get through our challenges quickly. I much more believe in sort of the body centered form of therapies. I mean, again.
00:50:46.970 --> 00:50:59.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: what my wife does emdr somatic, experiencing, somatic intervention, but breathwork, I mean things that are very focused on our body, because these things live in our nervous system.
00:51:00.080 --> 00:51:08.670 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and if our nervous system is wound up, if our nervous system has all this trauma from the past in it? How can we really be present?
00:51:10.590 --> 00:51:22.750 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: The the, the that anguish, the the the lack of self-worth, the the the lack of self-esteem. It's constantly taking us out of presence, taking us out of presence, taking us out of presence.
00:51:23.970 --> 00:51:35.690 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because those things constantly give us worry constantly. Give us a concern constantly make us want to disassociate.
00:51:37.610 --> 00:51:46.950 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: No, I'm not saying this association is always necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes it's a necessary tool to get through whatever we're experiencing in the moment.
00:51:50.660 --> 00:51:54.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But when we can release and let go of that experience.
00:51:55.420 --> 00:52:02.179 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when we can change our stance from one of protection to one of curiosity.
00:52:06.710 --> 00:52:08.740 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the idea that
00:52:09.230 --> 00:52:19.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: life happens for us and not to us, and that even if we can't see how what we're experiencing is for us and not to us.
00:52:19.610 --> 00:52:22.699 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But still it's for us and not to us.
00:52:25.100 --> 00:52:28.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It it just helps us to breathe a little easier.
00:52:28.640 --> 00:52:32.919 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It just helps us to relax a little bit more.
00:52:33.220 --> 00:52:36.060 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and then we can be present a little bit more.
00:52:39.230 --> 00:52:56.680 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: My wife always gives me a hard time, because I'm doing so many different things. And for those who haven't heard I'm now the Executive Director of the Evolutionary Business Council and Organization. I've been a member of for many years, and it's very near and dear to my heart. I'm very honored that I was asked to take on this role.
00:52:57.400 --> 00:53:03.549 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But I'm doing that. I'm running the radio station. I'm I'm I'm doing the other things. The conscious consultant.
00:53:03.880 --> 00:53:07.019 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How do I manage all these different things?
00:53:08.140 --> 00:53:16.710 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's only one way I could do all this. and that's because I'm present to what needs to get done right here and right now.
00:53:17.110 --> 00:53:29.199 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So when I'm doing my show. I'm doing my show. I'm not thinking about the 1 million other things I need to do when I'm working on the Ebc. I'm focused on that when I'm doing my conscious consultant work I'm focused on that.
00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:35.399 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And hey, do things sometimes up to the cracks. Sure, I'm human.
00:53:37.040 --> 00:53:43.599 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But by being really present to what's calling my attention
00:53:44.640 --> 00:53:48.769 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to where my energy is lined up to. In the moment
00:53:50.520 --> 00:53:55.219 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm more focused. more creative, I'm more productive.
00:53:56.750 --> 00:54:00.290 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And when my energy is not lined up with what I'm doing.
00:54:00.970 --> 00:54:07.309 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I gotta take a break. I gotta do something else. I gotta go somewhere where I can be present to something else.
00:54:08.200 --> 00:54:13.070 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Even if that being present, maybe to doing some puzzle on my phone.
00:54:16.610 --> 00:54:18.610 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There's all kinds of presence.
00:54:22.570 --> 00:54:32.979 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And if we want to really cultivate presence. Trust. trust is so essential.
00:54:34.200 --> 00:54:43.719 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: This is the root and core. And why should we trust we should trust? Because life got us to this moment right here right now.
00:54:46.620 --> 00:54:54.620 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Other people didn't make it here. My friends, who I lived with for 6 years, and I supported for almost 13 years.
00:54:58.210 --> 00:55:01.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: A year ago Christmas time they died in the fire.
00:55:09.660 --> 00:55:10.590 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So
00:55:12.750 --> 00:55:20.099 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: just the fact that we're here right here right now is a reason for us to trust right here right now.
00:55:24.040 --> 00:55:30.180 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and when things are tough and they'll get tough. Ask for help from life
00:55:31.370 --> 00:55:34.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: from other people. If it's appropriate.
00:55:39.290 --> 00:55:42.130 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Trust that there's help out there for you
00:55:42.150 --> 00:55:49.179 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in one way or another. It's not always physical help. Sometimes it's just moral support, emotional support.
00:55:51.110 --> 00:56:05.610 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Be curious and look for how is what we are going through serving us. even if it doesn't feel like it's serving us in this moment right here, right now.
00:56:06.450 --> 00:56:11.170 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: overall in our life in general, it's serving us somehow
00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:17.720 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: what we learn. what we experience.
00:56:19.180 --> 00:56:23.609 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It all brings us to such a rich place in life.
00:56:26.470 --> 00:56:30.590 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: even if we can't see how in the moment trust that life will
00:56:33.270 --> 00:56:37.610 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so thank you for tuning in today. again.
00:56:37.970 --> 00:56:52.810 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: this book. Good to greatness. Number one bestseller, please pick it up. This makes me a 3 time best-selling author. I can't believe it. I never thought I'd even be a one dime bestselling offer, let alone a 3 time that selling off there. So thank you all for tuning in.
00:56:53.000 --> 00:56:58.190 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and they and Paddy thank you. I'm glad you're enjoying these moments with us together.
00:57:01.600 --> 00:57:12.989 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and remember, if you did miss any part of today's show, you can always catch the replay on talk radio that Nyc on our Youtube channel. Please make sure you subscribe to our Youtube channel.
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00:57:57.240 --> 00:58:05.780 Make sure you come back next week. I get a wonderful guest in store for you next week. She's really something. I I hope you'll tune back in. and
00:58:06.050 --> 00:58:07.510 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you take care.
00:58:08.860 --> 00:58:10.070 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: trust
00:58:11.140 --> 00:58:13.380 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: practice being present.
00:58:14.710 --> 00:58:16.779 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: learn to be curious.
00:58:17.570 --> 00:58:20.519 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and next week come back and let me know.
00:58:20.550 --> 00:58:22.190 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How did that go for you?
00:58:22.960 --> 00:58:26.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Thank you all. We will talk to you all next week.
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