EPISODE SUMMARY:
Welcome back to another special episode of The Conscious Consultant Hour! Join us this week as we dive deep into the important topic of community, and how our community truly supports us.
It has been a while since I had done a show without a guest, and for this special episode I will be focusing on community. What is community, how does community support us, and how do we find the community that is right for us?
We all think we know what community is, but do we really? Is your community where you live? Is it your family or your peers?
In this episode I’ll explain why our true community is none of these. I’ll go into what the real qualities of a supportive community are, and how we can use our discernment to know if the community we choose is the right one for us.
Tune in to " What Does Community Really Mean?" and discover a different perspective on community and hear some personal stories of the impact of community on my own life.
Tune in and share your own thoughts and feelings about community on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page.
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00:00:45.140 --> 00:01:01.120 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Good afternoon. Good morning. Good evening. Wherever you're tuning in from welcome to the conscious consultant hour awakening humanity. I am very, very pleased that you are all here with me today.
00:01:01.530 --> 00:01:14.830 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's 1 of those special shows. I haven't done one for a couple of months. It's just you and me. So if you're catching us on the live stream, let me know your questions, your comments. What are you going through? Did you do last week's homework?
00:01:14.870 --> 00:01:25.130 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Let me know, and I'll answer all your questions during this show. Did you catch last week's show with Jeff and Jennifer? It was a wonderful interview, all about leading with light.
00:01:25.160 --> 00:01:31.779 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Hope you had a chance if you didn't catch it. Please go back into the archives. We've actually had a number of really good shows lately. So
00:01:31.860 --> 00:01:34.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I hope you've been keeping track.
00:01:35.070 --> 00:01:43.680 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So yeah, it's just you and me today. And of course I'm still starting off my show, as I always do with a blog post that I wrote a couple of years ago.
00:01:43.960 --> 00:01:46.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And this one's actually kind of funny.
00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:50.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: since it's just you and me today.
00:01:50.420 --> 00:01:53.010 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because this blog post is
00:01:53.270 --> 00:01:56.010 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the person who constantly talks
00:01:56.050 --> 00:01:58.369 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: only desires to be heard.
00:01:58.530 --> 00:02:01.619 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Maybe I'm writing to myself.
00:02:01.790 --> 00:02:03.010 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: jeez
00:02:03.030 --> 00:02:07.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: all right. So let's see what this blog post is all about.
00:02:08.630 --> 00:02:12.340 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We all know someone who just loves to talk.
00:02:13.160 --> 00:02:18.029 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: They speak so much that you can't do anything but listen.
00:02:18.850 --> 00:02:23.780 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Everyone around them sees how much they ramble.
00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:29.439 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yet for some reason the person seems so unaware of how much they talk.
00:02:29.820 --> 00:02:34.290 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It is easy for us to criticize them for talking so much
00:02:34.320 --> 00:02:38.069 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: just to let you know. I am very aware I know how much I talk. I talk a lot.
00:02:38.760 --> 00:02:42.770 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Many people will just get impatient with them and stop listening.
00:02:43.310 --> 00:02:48.670 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How often do we take the time to ask why they talk so much?
00:02:49.390 --> 00:02:54.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Is it that they have so much more to say than everyone else?
00:02:54.740 --> 00:02:58.850 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Are they just addicted to the sound of their own voice.
00:02:59.180 --> 00:03:08.059 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or do they have just no clue? How inappropriate it is for them to just keep speaking all the time.
00:03:09.390 --> 00:03:12.950 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Perhaps there is something deeper going on.
00:03:14.590 --> 00:03:15.770 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Maybe
00:03:15.900 --> 00:03:18.850 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the person has some deep need
00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:21.680 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that just never gets fulfilled.
00:03:22.790 --> 00:03:29.489 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Or could there be some trauma in their past that keeps them expressing without a pause
00:03:31.710 --> 00:03:38.610 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: many times the person who is constantly talking has a strong desire to be heard.
00:03:39.260 --> 00:03:46.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: for whatever reason they feel that if they are not constantly expressing themselves.
00:03:47.010 --> 00:03:49.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that they will not be seen or heard.
00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:53.830 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: this may come from a deep fear or lack
00:03:54.410 --> 00:03:56.440 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: a fear of being alone.
00:03:56.960 --> 00:03:58.620 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: for this person.
00:03:58.710 --> 00:04:02.560 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: being alone is a very scary thing.
00:04:03.940 --> 00:04:09.940 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It may be that they were left alone as a baby when they needed food or to be changed.
00:04:10.500 --> 00:04:15.780 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or it could just be that their parents were so caught up in their own challenges.
00:04:16.570 --> 00:04:18.519 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: They had no time for them.
00:04:19.810 --> 00:04:24.520 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It may also come down to a deep sense of lack
00:04:24.550 --> 00:04:26.000 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: of self-worth.
00:04:27.500 --> 00:04:33.009 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: a deep-seated fear that they actually have nothing to contribute to life.
00:04:33.030 --> 00:04:41.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so they must keep talking to prove to themselves that they do not, that they do have something to contribute.
00:04:41.870 --> 00:04:45.340 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: regardless of the actual reason.
00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:48.519 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It all comes down to trauma
00:04:48.640 --> 00:04:51.090 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in one respect or another.
00:04:52.430 --> 00:04:55.879 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So, knowing all of this, what do we do?
00:04:56.730 --> 00:05:02.109 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How do we deal with the person who just can't shut up.
00:05:03.880 --> 00:05:08.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: The 1st thing is to approach the situation with compassion.
00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:17.000 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Almost certainly the person has no idea that they take up as much space as they do
00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:22.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to attack them or make fun of them, will not help the situation.
00:05:23.420 --> 00:05:26.209 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That may only make things worse
00:05:27.030 --> 00:05:35.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when we can start with reflecting back to them what we hear them saying, so that they can know that they are heard.
00:05:36.660 --> 00:05:40.890 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yet without professional help. That may only work a little.
00:05:41.400 --> 00:05:47.939 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Ultimately we have to decide what is appropriate for us
00:05:48.890 --> 00:05:53.500 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to have our own boundaries, and decide for ourselves
00:05:54.190 --> 00:05:55.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: how much
00:05:55.430 --> 00:05:58.109 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is too much for us to handle
00:05:59.670 --> 00:06:04.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when we hold those boundaries firmly but compassionately.
00:06:06.010 --> 00:06:10.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We. We then hold those firm. Sorry. We then hold those boundaries firmly
00:06:10.980 --> 00:06:12.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but compassionately.
00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:16.889 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: do not make the other person wrong, for being the way they are
00:06:17.050 --> 00:06:19.240 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that helps no one
00:06:19.830 --> 00:06:22.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: hear them when you are together.
00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:27.200 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and decide how much you can listen.
00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:32.320 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: then wish them well, and move on with your day
00:06:32.860 --> 00:06:37.160 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: for certain, they will try to find someone else to listen to them.
00:06:37.540 --> 00:06:43.619 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and if the opportunity arises that you might suggest they seek professional counselling.
00:06:43.890 --> 00:06:44.970 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Take it.
00:06:45.700 --> 00:06:49.070 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: they may hear, or they may not.
00:06:49.860 --> 00:06:51.680 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It is not up to you.
00:06:52.520 --> 00:06:54.500 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Perhaps one day
00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:59.210 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: they will find that they do feel heard.
00:07:01.490 --> 00:07:05.580 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and then they might just stop talking so much.
00:07:06.420 --> 00:07:08.359 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Do you know someone like that?
00:07:08.960 --> 00:07:13.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Can you be compassionately firm with your boundaries with them?
00:07:15.460 --> 00:07:20.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So this post kind of comes from a conversation I had with my wife
00:07:21.300 --> 00:07:22.453 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when she
00:07:23.930 --> 00:07:35.599 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: She overheard a conversation I was having on the phone with someone who just kept talking and talking, and I would say, yeah. And I really, I just didn't say much. I was just listening.
00:07:37.270 --> 00:07:41.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and she was like, My God, they talk so much.
00:07:42.180 --> 00:07:44.170 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We had a conversation, because we know
00:07:44.250 --> 00:07:48.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I've come across many people in my life who just love to talk.
00:07:49.900 --> 00:07:54.179 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And the old expression is. Yeah, they just love the sound of their own voice.
00:07:55.450 --> 00:07:58.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But I just kind of felt like.
00:07:58.310 --> 00:08:05.049 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, when somebody's talking all the time. There's something deeper going on. There's something more there.
00:08:07.210 --> 00:08:10.989 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And it really to me it just made so much sense that
00:08:12.830 --> 00:08:15.640 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: somebody who talks all the time
00:08:15.690 --> 00:08:18.059 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: must never feel heard.
00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:21.640 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because when we feel heard.
00:08:23.550 --> 00:08:25.870 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: then we don't need to talk as much.
00:08:27.100 --> 00:08:29.499 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But when we don't feel heard.
00:08:29.860 --> 00:08:32.880 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that's when we're constantly
00:08:34.789 --> 00:08:36.650 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: thirsty for
00:08:36.789 --> 00:08:41.239 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: someone anyone to just listen to us.
00:08:44.140 --> 00:08:45.450 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so.
00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:49.739 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: if we understand
00:08:51.210 --> 00:08:57.759 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that this extreme behavior, this inappropriate behavior where they're speaking all the time.
00:08:58.820 --> 00:09:01.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: comes from a pain they're feeling
00:09:02.910 --> 00:09:06.229 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it can make it a little bit easier to work with them.
00:09:08.750 --> 00:09:13.030 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I've worked with a number of people in ceremony where
00:09:16.050 --> 00:09:19.329 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: where they just couldn't sit and be with themselves.
00:09:19.550 --> 00:09:21.989 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that there was so much anxiety
00:09:22.040 --> 00:09:24.810 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and so much fear and pain.
00:09:25.130 --> 00:09:37.099 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that they had to keep talking, just to let the energy out that the prospect of just sitting still and just being with themselves was so scary to them
00:09:38.880 --> 00:09:42.299 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that they had to keep expressing themselves.
00:09:42.570 --> 00:09:45.259 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and even if I guided them back to
00:09:45.660 --> 00:09:49.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: being a little more internal, or being with their breath.
00:09:51.420 --> 00:09:54.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or just practicing sitting with themselves.
00:09:54.610 --> 00:09:56.360 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It wouldn't last long.
00:09:59.680 --> 00:10:00.890 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so
00:10:01.140 --> 00:10:04.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you can see with people like that.
00:10:04.500 --> 00:10:07.029 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's coming from their anxiety.
00:10:07.450 --> 00:10:09.839 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's coming from there
00:10:10.660 --> 00:10:13.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: need to fill up the space
00:10:15.030 --> 00:10:20.269 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because the idea of empty space. The idea of
00:10:20.920 --> 00:10:21.900 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: just
00:10:23.620 --> 00:10:28.009 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: just being in the silence is such a scary prospect to them.
00:10:28.490 --> 00:10:31.220 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because then they have to listen to their own thoughts.
00:10:31.980 --> 00:10:35.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because then they have to feel their own feelings.
00:10:38.410 --> 00:10:41.779 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And for many of us that's like, what's the big deal.
00:10:42.100 --> 00:10:46.510 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But for some people that actually is a big deal
00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:49.119 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that actually is
00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:52.800 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: terrifying for some people.
00:10:57.690 --> 00:11:06.579 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So how do you deal with someone like that? Because nobody enjoys being with someone who just constantly talks and talks and talks and talks.
00:11:10.470 --> 00:11:11.760 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And really.
00:11:12.050 --> 00:11:15.580 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when we find someone who has such extreme behavior.
00:11:18.100 --> 00:11:18.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the
00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:26.550 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: only way I can think of to really handle that situation that serves us. The listener
00:11:27.900 --> 00:11:29.970 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is to know what our boundaries are
00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:34.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is to know what's okay for us and what's not okay for us.
00:11:35.890 --> 00:11:39.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and to just call it out and just be like, look.
00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:41.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know.
00:11:41.504 --> 00:11:46.209 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I've got 5 min, that's all you got, and then I gotta go. And that's it.
00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:52.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or like you ask them one question, hey? I just want to know about this one thing. Just tell me about this.
00:11:53.460 --> 00:12:00.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and they they tell you all about it, and then they start going off on tangents. And it's like, Thank you. Really. I just want to know about that one thing.
00:12:00.160 --> 00:12:03.850 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm glad you know, things are okay, I got to go now.
00:12:05.260 --> 00:12:06.609 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so
00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:13.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: by keeping that strong boundary with ourselves of what's okay for us and what's not.
00:12:14.450 --> 00:12:19.600 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Then we can have that strong boundary with the other person.
00:12:19.970 --> 00:12:22.040 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And we can be okay with
00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:29.369 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: interrupting them, telling them we have to go or finding some reason why you can't continue the conversation.
00:12:30.110 --> 00:12:32.619 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Because basically, we've just reached our limit.
00:12:33.810 --> 00:12:35.710 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And it's okay to
00:12:35.890 --> 00:12:37.539 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to have limits.
00:12:38.020 --> 00:12:44.149 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Right? We we don't have to indulge somebody like this. A 100% of the time.
00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:51.289 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and sometimes depending on who the person is.
00:12:51.792 --> 00:12:57.240 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know. Sometimes you can learn a lot from just listening to them. Ramble and ramble and ramble.
00:12:57.350 --> 00:13:00.740 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you can learn a lot about who they are
00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:04.200 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and what are they obsessing about?
00:13:06.810 --> 00:13:11.149 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So if we have the patience, and we have the time and the compassion.
00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:15.510 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and we can really just sit there and listen. Just sit there and listen.
00:13:19.290 --> 00:13:21.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and we don't have to.
00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:23.510 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know.
00:13:24.220 --> 00:13:27.440 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: make it something more than it is.
00:13:32.310 --> 00:13:39.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But I just kind of feel, at least for myself, and and this may not be for everybody, but just for myself
00:13:40.590 --> 00:13:44.970 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when I can see that someone is talking so much out of their pain
00:13:45.850 --> 00:13:48.629 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and their anxiety
00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:54.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and their trauma, that that's what's really causing them to express themselves so much
00:13:57.670 --> 00:13:59.810 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that then I do my best
00:13:59.860 --> 00:14:02.450 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to let them know that I heard them.
00:14:03.400 --> 00:14:07.380 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and sometimes it means interrupting them and saying something like.
00:14:07.630 --> 00:14:10.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Oh, so what you're saying is da-da-da-da
00:14:11.490 --> 00:14:15.069 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: like? Is this really what you mean? You mean da-da-da-da.
00:14:16.070 --> 00:14:19.840 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And you reflect back to them what you've heard from them.
00:14:20.650 --> 00:14:26.629 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and maybe sometimes you can reflect it back to them in a way that gets them to think about it a little bit.
00:14:29.710 --> 00:14:32.040 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and depending on the person
00:14:32.660 --> 00:14:36.550 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: for some people that will help them to really feel heard.
00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:39.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And they'll really appreciate that
00:14:42.130 --> 00:14:44.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when you
00:14:44.400 --> 00:14:46.280 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: can do that.
00:14:50.570 --> 00:14:55.609 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, they they just might start talking a little bit less
00:14:57.140 --> 00:15:03.560 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when they can really feel that you're being present with them, that you're hearing them.
00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:06.259 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But you're understanding them
00:15:07.450 --> 00:15:11.729 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that once we really penetrate the surface and get in there.
00:15:12.430 --> 00:15:15.070 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but that might be all they need.
00:15:16.580 --> 00:15:18.630 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and so maybe they slow down.
00:15:20.710 --> 00:15:22.030 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Maybe they
00:15:23.630 --> 00:15:26.010 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: be a little more present with you.
00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:29.719 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Now again, this doesn't necessarily work with everyone.
00:15:30.070 --> 00:15:37.900 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know. There are some people who are narcissistic and self-centered, and borderline, who, you know, will just do anything to grab all the attention.
00:15:39.280 --> 00:15:42.729 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but for someone who's doing it out of anxiety.
00:15:43.880 --> 00:15:49.930 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'll give you another little trick sometimes I say to them, especially when they talk really fast.
00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:57.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'll say, can you please slow down, because I really want to hear every word you have to say.
00:15:57.640 --> 00:16:02.549 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and when you speak fast. It's hard for me to hear what you're saying.
00:16:05.060 --> 00:16:07.339 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and you get them to just take a breath
00:16:07.510 --> 00:16:09.129 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and slow down.
00:16:12.160 --> 00:16:15.710 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and then maybe just maybe
00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:27.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: maybe there'll be a little bit of space, a little bit room to have a conversation instead of listening to a monologue.
00:16:30.010 --> 00:16:37.769 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Of course, reading this blog post on an episode where I don't have a guest, and it's all just me. It's kind of like the pot calling the kettle black.
00:16:38.750 --> 00:16:39.610 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But
00:16:40.430 --> 00:16:49.059 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I do this. I do these kinds of episodes, because my loyal listeners have told me that they really like it when I riff on a particular topic. So
00:16:49.701 --> 00:16:52.860 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yeah, this is. This is just this blog post.
00:16:53.560 --> 00:16:59.720 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Take it for what it's worth. Maybe it's just me calling out myself, but maybe this
00:16:59.870 --> 00:17:01.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: helps, and
00:17:01.700 --> 00:17:24.520 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, helps you to relate to somebody who, you know, like this. So the title of the blog post again, is the person who constantly talks, only desires to be heard. And of course you can find that on my personal website, theconsciousconsultant.com, or on the talkradio dot Nyc website. talk@talkradio.nyc slash blog.
00:17:24.740 --> 00:17:28.630 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: all right. So we're going to take a quick break. And when we come back
00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:30.530 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: let me talk about
00:17:30.550 --> 00:17:35.810 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: our topic this week, which is what does community really mean?
00:17:37.926 --> 00:17:49.019 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And just had a real experience of community this past weekend. And I'm going to talk all about community. And I'd love to hear your comments and questions and thoughts around community as well.
00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:55.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So you're listening to the conscious, consultant hour awakening humanity. We do this every Thursday
00:17:56.040 --> 00:18:03.769 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: 12 noon to one PM. Eastern time, right here on Talkradio, Dot, Nyc. And all over social media on Youtube, Facebook, Twitter Linkedin Twitch.
00:18:04.050 --> 00:18:05.870 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And we'll be right back
00:18:06.360 --> 00:18:09.290 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: with the rest of our show in just a moment.
00:20:24.920 --> 00:20:30.270 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And welcome back to the conscious consultant hour awakening humanity. So
00:20:30.770 --> 00:20:35.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: let's let's start getting into our topic of the day.
00:20:36.645 --> 00:20:38.310 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Which is community.
00:20:38.520 --> 00:20:39.750 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And
00:20:40.020 --> 00:20:46.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and still I would love to to hear your comments and questions and experiences all around community
00:20:49.670 --> 00:20:53.600 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and you know it was quite interesting. The concept
00:20:54.090 --> 00:20:57.729 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: of community was not one that
00:20:57.970 --> 00:20:59.880 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I was really
00:21:02.010 --> 00:21:06.120 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: super aware of the importance for myself
00:21:06.330 --> 00:21:09.580 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: for a long, long time, and it was probably about
00:21:09.650 --> 00:21:12.179 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: maybe 10 years ago.
00:21:12.250 --> 00:21:15.319 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: a little more than 10 years ago, when
00:21:15.330 --> 00:21:18.520 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I started doing this ceremonial work, that
00:21:19.780 --> 00:21:22.959 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it really started to become front and center for me.
00:21:25.170 --> 00:21:26.200 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and
00:21:27.380 --> 00:21:29.999 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I felt like I really found my community.
00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:31.870 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I felt like
00:21:32.230 --> 00:21:35.030 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the people I was working with at the time.
00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:40.229 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: They were like brothers and sisters to me. And and I really so appreciated them.
00:21:44.350 --> 00:21:45.500 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And then.
00:21:46.270 --> 00:21:55.579 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when I look back over my life, I realized, Wow, like, there are many places that I in my life that I was trying to create community
00:21:55.960 --> 00:22:01.509 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: from different organizations I was involved with with different friends at different times.
00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:11.590 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I was always the kind of person to try and bring people together, helping to coordinate meetings and things like that and facilitate meetings.
00:22:12.760 --> 00:22:13.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so
00:22:16.180 --> 00:22:21.350 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Community started to be more present in my consciousness and more
00:22:21.610 --> 00:22:23.549 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: front and center for me.
00:22:26.220 --> 00:22:28.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And then this notion about.
00:22:29.210 --> 00:22:32.669 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, with doing the ceremonial work of
00:22:32.750 --> 00:22:36.860 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: of seeing how, when people come together to do their deep healing work.
00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:39.569 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and they share their
00:22:39.700 --> 00:22:46.239 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: stories with each other. They still share their trauma with each other, their pain, their grief, their anguish.
00:22:47.750 --> 00:22:53.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and they find someone else who also has grief and pain and anguish, and can relate to them. And
00:22:55.310 --> 00:22:59.179 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and there's such a similarity between them that it really
00:23:00.520 --> 00:23:06.489 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: just that connection. Just that sense of community can be tremendously healing for people.
00:23:09.900 --> 00:23:10.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And
00:23:11.740 --> 00:23:14.389 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, when we talk about community.
00:23:16.020 --> 00:23:19.720 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we tend to use the term in a lot of different ways.
00:23:22.810 --> 00:23:29.519 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know, sometimes when we talk about community, we mean just the neighborhood that we live in and and the people who surround us where we live.
00:23:30.830 --> 00:23:36.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But is that real community? Are those really the people who will be there for us?
00:23:37.460 --> 00:23:39.279 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Maybe sometimes
00:23:43.240 --> 00:23:46.290 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: sometimes people talk about community. It's about
00:23:46.370 --> 00:23:50.559 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: their religious affiliation, their church synagogue, temple.
00:23:52.890 --> 00:23:55.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Are those people really community?
00:23:55.540 --> 00:23:56.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Maybe
00:23:58.250 --> 00:24:02.330 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: other times, it's about our family, our relatives.
00:24:03.780 --> 00:24:08.200 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Maybe it's about our heritage, our nationality, our race.
00:24:12.940 --> 00:24:16.209 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What is it that makes a community, a community?
00:24:19.190 --> 00:24:21.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And for me, what I've
00:24:23.010 --> 00:24:24.610 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: come to
00:24:24.620 --> 00:24:28.060 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: realize and come to appreciate
00:24:28.290 --> 00:24:31.359 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and come to really feel in my body
00:24:33.980 --> 00:24:35.980 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is that community
00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:39.000 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: for me is a group of people
00:24:39.250 --> 00:24:42.130 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: with a shared experience
00:24:43.860 --> 00:24:46.509 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that that shared experience
00:24:46.670 --> 00:24:48.730 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is so powerful
00:24:50.900 --> 00:24:52.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that there's something that
00:24:52.900 --> 00:24:58.789 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: they can share with each other that they can't share with people who haven't had that experience.
00:25:02.830 --> 00:25:03.720 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and
00:25:06.770 --> 00:25:10.030 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and sometimes that experience can be a painful one.
00:25:10.300 --> 00:25:14.770 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It can be an uplifting one. It can be a spiritual one, a religious one.
00:25:16.140 --> 00:25:20.789 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It can be an experience of being persecuted. It can be an experience of being
00:25:24.590 --> 00:25:29.780 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, pushed against it can be an experience of being hurt or or injured.
00:25:30.800 --> 00:25:33.289 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I think that sometimes that's why.
00:25:34.330 --> 00:25:35.880 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when people
00:25:36.540 --> 00:25:39.269 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: have some experience and they go to one of these.
00:25:39.780 --> 00:25:45.229 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, meetings of other people have had the same experience, like alcoholics, anonymous Al-anon.
00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:48.609 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Other kinds of quote, unquote anonymous
00:25:48.750 --> 00:25:50.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: meetings
00:25:50.870 --> 00:25:58.039 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that people can feel closer to the other people who've been through that same challenge that they've been through
00:25:59.630 --> 00:26:04.200 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: than their neighbor than their brothers or sisters and their family.
00:26:07.620 --> 00:26:10.340 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So that shared experience
00:26:10.500 --> 00:26:12.309 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is what really
00:26:12.870 --> 00:26:16.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: lays the foundation for true community
00:26:17.780 --> 00:26:20.730 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in the way I'm using the word community.
00:26:21.090 --> 00:26:27.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and there are many ways to use the word, and and there are many different flavors of community.
00:26:27.930 --> 00:26:30.229 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But when I talk about community
00:26:32.170 --> 00:26:35.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: community or the people who get you
00:26:36.180 --> 00:26:37.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in a way that
00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:39.409 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: other people don't get you.
00:26:40.610 --> 00:26:44.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: They're people who support you in a way that other people don't support you.
00:26:45.360 --> 00:26:48.349 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: They're people who you feel safe with
00:26:49.210 --> 00:26:52.280 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in a way that you don't feel safe with
00:26:52.610 --> 00:26:53.850 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: other people.
00:26:56.420 --> 00:26:58.639 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And when you find that community.
00:26:59.870 --> 00:27:04.449 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that community can be so so precious to us.
00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:18.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And when we come together and you, you know
00:27:19.730 --> 00:27:20.660 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and
00:27:21.260 --> 00:27:27.870 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you you know that feeling, you know you found it when you have this experience, and this was an experience I had.
00:27:28.130 --> 00:27:32.609 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, 10 years ago, was a few months after I started doing the ceremonial work.
00:27:34.130 --> 00:27:50.579 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and the person who who was facilitating at the time he used to do these meetings every Monday night he would rent a space, and you could just show up. You didn't have to Rsvp. And just whoever came came, and we just talk about where we are in our process.
00:27:52.260 --> 00:27:58.830 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And I remember I hadn't been to a ceremony for a while, and I hadn't been to one of these. We call them integration meetings for a while.
00:28:00.220 --> 00:28:01.760 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and it
00:28:02.500 --> 00:28:11.099 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I I just had this feeling, oh, I gotta get to the meeting tonight. I gotta get to the meeting tonight. So I left work and I was a little bit late. But I didn't care.
00:28:11.940 --> 00:28:19.239 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and I and I got down there, and I remember opening the door to the room and walking in, and I seeing everybody's face.
00:28:21.750 --> 00:28:26.089 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and when I saw them my heart just sang.
00:28:26.650 --> 00:28:30.369 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I felt like my chest just opened up.
00:28:31.300 --> 00:28:35.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I just knew I was exactly where I was supposed to be.
00:28:37.520 --> 00:28:41.579 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and just that feeling of being with these people that I
00:28:41.650 --> 00:28:45.850 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: cared about so much, who I knew cared about me.
00:28:46.390 --> 00:28:48.339 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It was like a homecoming.
00:28:48.770 --> 00:28:50.450 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and it was like, Oh.
00:28:50.950 --> 00:28:52.070 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yeah.
00:28:52.340 --> 00:28:54.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: these are my people.
00:28:57.700 --> 00:29:01.150 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And that's when I knew this is my community.
00:29:03.540 --> 00:29:05.159 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's when you
00:29:05.760 --> 00:29:07.450 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: see them.
00:29:09.560 --> 00:29:14.229 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and you just feel your heart lift
00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:17.809 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: just by their mere presence.
00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:20.210 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That's community.
00:29:20.440 --> 00:29:25.059 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That's how you know, you found your community
00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:28.199 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and everyone's community is different.
00:29:29.590 --> 00:29:30.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And what
00:29:30.580 --> 00:29:34.940 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: brings different people together, or different aspects, different things.
00:29:39.480 --> 00:29:43.079 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And you may say to me, Sam, like that sounds great, but
00:29:43.100 --> 00:29:45.800 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I don't know who my community is.
00:29:49.020 --> 00:29:50.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Go and find them.
00:29:52.110 --> 00:29:53.430 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: They're out there.
00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:55.330 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There's
00:29:55.870 --> 00:30:00.572 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: 8 and a half or 8 something 1 billion people out there.
00:30:02.460 --> 00:30:04.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I can guarantee you
00:30:04.870 --> 00:30:08.069 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that whatever your life experience is.
00:30:08.610 --> 00:30:11.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: whatever you're feeling in the moment.
00:30:12.070 --> 00:30:15.810 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There is a group of people out there somewhere
00:30:16.460 --> 00:30:23.359 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: who feel the same way, who've had similar experiences, who can relate to you in a way that no one else can.
00:30:24.070 --> 00:30:25.769 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Those people exist
00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:29.969 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when you have such numbers as we have today.
00:30:30.010 --> 00:30:32.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: they can't not exist.
00:30:33.740 --> 00:30:35.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There's such
00:30:35.530 --> 00:30:36.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: a plethora
00:30:37.500 --> 00:30:39.989 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: of individuals and people.
00:30:43.020 --> 00:30:47.130 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And sometimes we can find them online. And sometimes we got to find them in person.
00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:51.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: whatever it is. That's okay.
00:30:54.670 --> 00:31:00.699 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So okay, it's time for me to take another break. I've been talking a lot. Yes, I know I talk a lot
00:31:01.860 --> 00:31:04.779 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and when I come back I just want to talk about
00:31:04.990 --> 00:31:11.429 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the experience of community from this past weekend, and I'll tell you all about it. And why to me.
00:31:13.380 --> 00:31:15.890 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when I saw the way people came together.
00:31:17.040 --> 00:31:21.450 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It gave me that feeling like this is a real community.
00:31:23.750 --> 00:31:29.400 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So everyone, please stay tuned. You're listening to the conscious, consultant hour awakening humanity.
00:31:31.100 --> 00:31:35.539 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We do this live every Thursday 12 noon to one Pm. Eastern time.
00:31:35.610 --> 00:31:39.489 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: right here on Talkradio, dot Nyc. And we'll be right back
00:31:39.500 --> 00:31:41.930 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to talk more about community.
00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:53.980 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And welcome back to the conscious, consultant hour awakening humanity. I'm speaking this hour
00:33:54.590 --> 00:33:56.309 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: all about community.
00:33:57.070 --> 00:33:59.070 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so why did I
00:33:59.090 --> 00:34:01.699 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: choose this topic for this week.
00:34:02.060 --> 00:34:04.840 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I mention it here and there, but
00:34:04.940 --> 00:34:07.319 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I decided to dedicate a show
00:34:07.860 --> 00:34:09.919 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to this topic, because
00:34:10.620 --> 00:34:12.120 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: this past weekend
00:34:12.260 --> 00:34:15.049 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I was up in in New Hampshire.
00:34:15.260 --> 00:34:18.810 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: working with a group of people doing the healing work that we do
00:34:21.830 --> 00:34:24.760 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And we've gone up there a number of times.
00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:30.400 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and it was just so beautiful to see the way
00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:33.120 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: people came together.
00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:40.869 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and it was interesting because they were. Most of the people were actually related to each other in some way.
00:34:40.889 --> 00:34:45.279 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but there were some people who were there who were not related, who were just friends.
00:34:48.969 --> 00:34:52.379 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and as we went through the ceremony together.
00:34:54.210 --> 00:35:00.730 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and people talked about their pain, their overwhelm, their challenges in life.
00:35:03.920 --> 00:35:08.520 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and then not just to me, but to each other. And that's the key.
00:35:10.540 --> 00:35:14.389 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I was just watching and observing.
00:35:14.420 --> 00:35:17.350 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: not all the time, but much of the time.
00:35:18.340 --> 00:35:26.969 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and seeing how people were there for each other, supporting each other, listening to each other.
00:35:29.610 --> 00:35:35.669 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and justing, just allowing each other's process to unfold the way it unfolded
00:35:37.720 --> 00:35:40.245 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it just really felt like,
00:35:42.020 --> 00:35:46.330 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: this is really what community is all about.
00:35:49.310 --> 00:35:53.730 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and the truth is, that sense of community started long before
00:35:53.740 --> 00:35:57.429 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we went up there long before the ceremony started.
00:35:59.690 --> 00:36:01.160 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because
00:36:01.200 --> 00:36:05.259 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: one of the participants who's who's here in New York City, near us.
00:36:05.796 --> 00:36:14.389 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: She had met a couple of the the people of of this group in other ceremonies they had come down to, and she had decided to come up
00:36:16.470 --> 00:36:17.510 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and
00:36:18.270 --> 00:36:26.299 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and one of the people from the community who who had never met her, actually picked her up at the bus stop brought her to the cabin.
00:36:27.430 --> 00:36:33.489 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and she started to get support, you know, arranging all this even before she ever left New York.
00:36:34.510 --> 00:36:39.150 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So people were showing up for each other and connecting to each other outside
00:36:39.690 --> 00:36:41.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: of the ceremony.
00:36:44.870 --> 00:36:47.289 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so, seeing how people
00:36:47.970 --> 00:36:50.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we're really there for each other.
00:36:53.900 --> 00:36:57.120 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it had a very special feeling to it.
00:36:58.900 --> 00:37:02.480 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And then there were people who were relatives of each other
00:37:02.670 --> 00:37:03.750 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: who
00:37:04.660 --> 00:37:07.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: admitted to family members that
00:37:07.510 --> 00:37:10.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: they didn't always show up the best.
00:37:13.180 --> 00:37:16.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And there were other people who said how.
00:37:16.560 --> 00:37:25.880 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: knowing that this other person, who they didn't even know that well, was going to come to the ceremony put a smile on their face, and that made them both feel so good.
00:37:28.790 --> 00:37:30.549 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and seeing how
00:37:32.740 --> 00:37:35.610 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: everyone was there for each other.
00:37:37.410 --> 00:37:44.450 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: even though they were going through their own process, even though they were dealing with their own pain, their own overwhelm.
00:37:45.540 --> 00:37:47.530 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Seeing the support
00:37:47.770 --> 00:37:51.040 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that everyone was giving each other.
00:37:51.550 --> 00:37:59.639 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: not because they were told to, not because it was expected of them, not because there were rules around it. No.
00:38:00.390 --> 00:38:04.019 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: they did it out of the generosity of their heart.
00:38:04.750 --> 00:38:11.409 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: They did it because they were coming from a place where they felt so connected to each other.
00:38:12.040 --> 00:38:16.320 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: regardless of how well they knew each other or didn't know each other.
00:38:18.760 --> 00:38:20.600 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and not to me.
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:24.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Really.
00:38:26.580 --> 00:38:31.019 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that to me really is what community is all about.
00:38:31.350 --> 00:38:35.509 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And it was so precious and so special.
00:38:36.930 --> 00:38:39.709 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and you could feel it in the air.
00:38:43.970 --> 00:38:47.129 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And in some ways that's what community is all about.
00:38:47.230 --> 00:38:50.059 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's about this inevitable quality
00:38:51.780 --> 00:38:55.620 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that you can't quite touch. But you can feel
00:38:58.370 --> 00:39:00.660 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you can see it.
00:39:01.770 --> 00:39:04.320 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but you more have to experience it.
00:39:12.180 --> 00:39:17.850 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And yes, like being in a in a cabin, in the woods, on a lake
00:39:17.910 --> 00:39:20.170 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in a beautiful environment.
00:39:20.290 --> 00:39:26.950 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, that helps to to sort of drop our normal defenses and drop our masks a little bit.
00:39:29.180 --> 00:39:31.000 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But ultimately
00:39:33.220 --> 00:39:36.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it really just comes down to
00:39:37.450 --> 00:39:40.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: sharing our hearts with each other.
00:39:42.030 --> 00:39:43.440 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And that to me.
00:39:43.510 --> 00:39:46.579 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is really what community is all about.
00:39:48.370 --> 00:39:52.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's it's sharing ourselves, our dreams.
00:39:52.500 --> 00:39:57.580 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: our fears, our nightmares with each other from our hearts, not from our heads.
00:39:58.720 --> 00:40:01.630 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Community doesn't happen in the mind.
00:40:02.260 --> 00:40:04.670 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Community happens in the heart.
00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:08.740 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and when we connect
00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:10.060 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to people
00:40:10.420 --> 00:40:15.279 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when we can feel that shared experience with someone else.
00:40:17.210 --> 00:40:19.909 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and then we can carry it through
00:40:20.470 --> 00:40:23.069 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: out of that shared experience.
00:40:24.130 --> 00:40:28.930 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Part of the reason why this group has such a feeling of community
00:40:29.110 --> 00:40:32.619 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is because of the way they connect outside of the ceremony.
00:40:32.730 --> 00:40:35.660 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How do they connect when they're not all together.
00:40:36.220 --> 00:40:42.729 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and the fact that they're still interconnections. And they're talking to each other. And they have chats go groups going on and
00:40:42.750 --> 00:40:45.889 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and they go to do things together.
00:40:48.510 --> 00:40:55.209 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and look, did that happen before they came together in ceremony? Yeah, absolutely.
00:40:56.830 --> 00:41:01.750 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But did it start to happen more once they came together in ceremony totally.
00:41:03.630 --> 00:41:06.870 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And it and it's not just even the frequency
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:08.700 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it's in the
00:41:08.980 --> 00:41:11.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: how they come together.
00:41:11.330 --> 00:41:14.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's in the vulnerability.
00:41:14.510 --> 00:41:15.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's in the
00:41:16.140 --> 00:41:20.139 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: authenticity with which they come together.
00:41:20.610 --> 00:41:23.880 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: even outside of the ceremonial space
00:41:25.380 --> 00:41:28.789 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that really builds that sense of community.
00:41:30.300 --> 00:41:34.670 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Now look, this kind of feeling, this kind of sense. It doesn't happen overnight.
00:41:35.630 --> 00:41:44.999 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I mean, there was already sort of a foundation in place before we came up to New Hampshire, but we've been going up there, I think, for like 2 years now.
00:41:45.410 --> 00:41:50.410 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, probably going up there 2 to 3 times a year, maybe more, maybe less.
00:41:53.340 --> 00:42:00.710 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But each time it builds each time people come together, there's that feeling a little bit more and more and more
00:42:03.120 --> 00:42:04.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so
00:42:04.950 --> 00:42:07.619 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I don't want it to sound like.
00:42:08.210 --> 00:42:20.859 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Oh, people just come together once, and there's instant community. No, it's it's not like a freeze. Dried ramen noodles that you just pour in hot water and boom. You've got instant community that that's not the way this works.
00:42:23.410 --> 00:42:25.590 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and not
00:42:25.740 --> 00:42:30.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: every group of people that come together in ceremony and have an experience together.
00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:31.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Former community
00:42:33.420 --> 00:42:38.580 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it. It takes a little bit more than just that. That may be a foundational piece.
00:42:43.140 --> 00:42:46.029 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but it takes some consistency.
00:42:46.180 --> 00:42:49.619 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It takes some regularity of coming together.
00:42:50.120 --> 00:42:53.189 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and it takes coming together in that way
00:42:54.520 --> 00:42:56.339 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: where we really
00:42:56.890 --> 00:42:58.740 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: drop our masks.
00:42:59.050 --> 00:43:00.630 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: where we really
00:43:01.790 --> 00:43:05.810 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: allow ourselves to be vulnerable and authentic.
00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:19.200 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and share what's really going on in our life that we don't usually share with people that we don't usually want people to know that that we don't usually feel comfortable talking about in polite company.
00:43:21.850 --> 00:43:24.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's when we get over ourselves.
00:43:25.060 --> 00:43:26.320 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's when we
00:43:27.180 --> 00:43:29.560 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we show up. And we say, Look.
00:43:29.600 --> 00:43:42.499 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm struggling because of this and that. I'm struggling with finances. I'm struggling with health. I'm struggling with connection. I'm struggling in my relationships. I haven't really been showing up in the best way.
00:43:43.010 --> 00:43:46.049 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's when we can really be honest
00:43:46.640 --> 00:43:48.040 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: about that.
00:43:48.770 --> 00:43:50.320 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Honest about
00:43:51.460 --> 00:43:53.779 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: are false.
00:43:54.420 --> 00:43:59.029 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: honest about where we don't feel good about ourselves
00:44:00.090 --> 00:44:02.759 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when we can show up that way
00:44:03.790 --> 00:44:06.039 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and share that with others
00:44:07.050 --> 00:44:09.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: they feel then safe
00:44:09.980 --> 00:44:11.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to share with us
00:44:12.040 --> 00:44:14.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: their own feelings of
00:44:14.530 --> 00:44:22.029 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: inadequacy, of of lack, of self-worth, of lack of confidence, of whatever it is
00:44:29.140 --> 00:44:31.270 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when we show up that way
00:44:32.150 --> 00:44:33.770 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: consistently
00:44:34.350 --> 00:44:35.860 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: with each other
00:44:38.490 --> 00:44:43.740 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and metaphorically holding each other's hands as we walk through the fire.
00:44:46.190 --> 00:44:48.399 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That's what builds community.
00:44:48.580 --> 00:44:51.640 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That's what creates the bonds
00:44:51.890 --> 00:44:55.810 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that hold us long after
00:44:57.260 --> 00:44:59.060 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we've been together.
00:45:02.330 --> 00:45:05.480 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and true ceremony is timeless.
00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:10.059 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: True community is
00:45:11.860 --> 00:45:13.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is beyond
00:45:13.630 --> 00:45:15.040 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the physical.
00:45:17.580 --> 00:45:20.700 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There's an energetic quality about it
00:45:21.830 --> 00:45:25.399 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that just when you get together with this group of people.
00:45:27.020 --> 00:45:28.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: there's that
00:45:28.430 --> 00:45:30.420 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: sense of belonging.
00:45:30.690 --> 00:45:35.259 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There's this sense of like, this is my tribe. These are my people
00:45:36.260 --> 00:45:38.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: like these are people
00:45:38.130 --> 00:45:43.010 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I would walk over broken glass, for, like these are people
00:45:44.220 --> 00:45:52.090 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: who, if if they were in trouble like we would be the 1st one there, even if it's 1 o'clock in the morning
00:45:52.500 --> 00:45:53.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to help.
00:45:56.490 --> 00:45:57.840 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That's community.
00:45:58.860 --> 00:46:00.380 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that's connection.
00:46:01.950 --> 00:46:03.070 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Bats
00:46:04.260 --> 00:46:06.430 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: coming from our hearts.
00:46:09.340 --> 00:46:10.840 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Alright. So
00:46:11.320 --> 00:46:12.909 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that's my little
00:46:13.500 --> 00:46:15.729 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: story from this past weekend.
00:46:17.350 --> 00:46:18.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I got one more break.
00:46:19.780 --> 00:46:22.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I got a few more things to say about community.
00:46:23.590 --> 00:46:31.030 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And I noticed the comments on the video. Live streams, aren't, you know, very active right now? But I'd love to hear
00:46:31.220 --> 00:46:35.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: your questions, your comments, your experiences about community
00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:38.109 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: put it into the Comments section.
00:46:38.130 --> 00:46:41.500 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'll respond, and I'll comment on what you put in.
00:46:41.690 --> 00:46:45.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I'll come back and wrap it all up.
00:46:45.850 --> 00:46:51.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You're listening to the conscious consultant hour weakening humanity, and we'll be right back after this.
00:49:00.600 --> 00:49:02.439 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And welcome back.
00:49:03.170 --> 00:49:10.689 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So we've been talking all about community this hour and the importance of it. And what real community is.
00:49:12.530 --> 00:49:15.269 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So why is community so important?
00:49:15.600 --> 00:49:20.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Why is this coming together and being connected with these people, with people who
00:49:21.730 --> 00:49:25.710 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we feel we're connected to in a different way? Why is it so important
00:49:29.010 --> 00:49:30.190 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: thing is.
00:49:30.250 --> 00:49:32.029 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I think we can all agree.
00:49:32.540 --> 00:49:36.099 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There's a good amount of challenges in the world today.
00:49:37.090 --> 00:49:42.340 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Life is more complicated. Life is more challenging
00:49:42.560 --> 00:49:44.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: than ever before.
00:49:47.560 --> 00:49:52.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and things are getting more extreme. The weather is getting more extreme, I mean, look what just happened. And
00:49:53.070 --> 00:49:56.869 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in the southeast and in North Carolina
00:49:56.920 --> 00:49:59.430 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: with the hurricane sweeping through
00:50:00.090 --> 00:50:05.419 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and literally communities being physical communities being wiped out
00:50:06.690 --> 00:50:13.469 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and people being stuck because all the roads are flooded. There's no electricity, no cell service.
00:50:15.430 --> 00:50:20.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That's when real community steps up and comes forward and helps each other.
00:50:20.560 --> 00:50:25.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And I have friends down in Asheville, and you know. I heard about how
00:50:25.410 --> 00:50:34.119 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, people were really checking in on the older people. People were trying to help people who had small children and help people who didn't have a lot of food.
00:50:35.730 --> 00:50:41.290 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and people really came together for each other in the midst of all this devastation.
00:50:43.080 --> 00:50:44.710 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I don't
00:50:44.780 --> 00:50:47.119 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: want to predict bad events.
00:50:48.200 --> 00:50:53.860 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But if you just look around, things like this are happening more and more and more
00:50:54.050 --> 00:50:55.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: every year.
00:50:56.550 --> 00:51:00.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: They say this was a once in a lifetime. Hurricane.
00:51:01.940 --> 00:51:05.849 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There's going to be more once in a lifetime. Weather events.
00:51:07.900 --> 00:51:11.520 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: things are getting tenser around the world. There are more
00:51:11.630 --> 00:51:15.179 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: regional conflicts than we've seen for a while
00:51:16.090 --> 00:51:17.860 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: more wars happening.
00:51:19.440 --> 00:51:25.279 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I don't know what's gonna happen with that, but that could spread, they become. They could become bigger conflicts.
00:51:29.440 --> 00:51:30.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I am
00:51:31.220 --> 00:51:32.710 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: cautiously
00:51:33.730 --> 00:51:34.890 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: hopeful
00:51:37.980 --> 00:51:42.369 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that even though things are looking bleak, that things will get better
00:51:42.410 --> 00:51:43.740 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: eventually.
00:51:44.640 --> 00:51:48.730 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But it sure feels like things are going to get worse before they get better.
00:51:50.520 --> 00:51:51.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so
00:51:56.210 --> 00:52:01.690 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in this time of great change and increasing chaos.
00:52:02.290 --> 00:52:03.870 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: community.
00:52:06.840 --> 00:52:13.319 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: local community, community of people who, you trust with your life
00:52:13.470 --> 00:52:16.030 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: becomes increasingly important.
00:52:19.060 --> 00:52:21.420 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so that when we have
00:52:22.220 --> 00:52:25.409 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: some challenge that we're facing.
00:52:28.700 --> 00:52:32.510 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that we know we have others to rely upon. And we're not all alone.
00:52:33.960 --> 00:52:36.070 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Now. The interesting thing is.
00:52:36.640 --> 00:52:38.850 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Some of the people who say
00:52:39.820 --> 00:52:43.780 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: they feel isolated and lonely, and they don't have community
00:52:44.280 --> 00:52:53.899 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: are some of the people who isolate themselves and don't look for community, and don't put themselves out there and don't try and connect to people to find their community.
00:52:55.760 --> 00:52:59.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I sincerely hope you're not one of those people.
00:53:01.230 --> 00:53:07.809 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I trust that if you're listening to this show, if you're listening to this podcast. If you're listening to this live stream.
00:53:09.980 --> 00:53:11.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but you're not one of those people
00:53:14.110 --> 00:53:16.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that you recognize that
00:53:16.830 --> 00:53:18.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the importance
00:53:19.550 --> 00:53:20.650 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: of
00:53:20.740 --> 00:53:26.939 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: connecting with like-minded, like-hearted, like-spirited people
00:53:29.370 --> 00:53:30.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: who can really get you.
00:53:32.660 --> 00:53:36.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and sometimes you find them in the most unlikely of places.
00:53:36.890 --> 00:53:38.799 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And sometimes they're not
00:53:38.880 --> 00:53:45.800 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: right there. Next to you, sometimes they're around the world, because in today's world that's so virtual and so interconnected
00:53:46.220 --> 00:53:51.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: via technology. Lots of times we find our community, and they're not in our hometown.
00:53:56.130 --> 00:53:59.319 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but depending on the size of the town you live in.
00:53:59.830 --> 00:54:02.589 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: If it's a city. It's large enough.
00:54:03.780 --> 00:54:06.600 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You can find at least some of them locally.
00:54:10.230 --> 00:54:12.199 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so for me, the
00:54:12.580 --> 00:54:13.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: antidote
00:54:14.490 --> 00:54:19.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: for all the division and polarity we see in society today
00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:22.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is to come together.
00:54:22.870 --> 00:54:29.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's to find community. It's to find those people we can truly feel safe with and trust.
00:54:31.150 --> 00:54:35.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And just maybe, maybe, if enough of us
00:54:35.390 --> 00:54:36.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: model
00:54:37.210 --> 00:54:41.320 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: what it's like to behave like. We're in a community.
00:54:42.740 --> 00:54:45.949 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That type of behavior will catch on
00:54:46.560 --> 00:54:48.190 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and will spread.
00:54:49.270 --> 00:54:52.219 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and that sense of community will grow
00:54:53.060 --> 00:54:55.850 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: beyond our immediate community.
00:54:56.250 --> 00:55:00.030 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and we can find ourselves in a larger community.
00:55:00.830 --> 00:55:02.979 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We can find ourselves
00:55:05.380 --> 00:55:07.599 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in a worldwide community.
00:55:11.830 --> 00:55:13.430 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And for me.
00:55:15.090 --> 00:55:16.499 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: this is my
00:55:16.980 --> 00:55:19.199 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: call to action for all of you.
00:55:19.830 --> 00:55:21.580 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: This is my
00:55:24.620 --> 00:55:26.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: sincere hope.
00:55:27.100 --> 00:55:28.620 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: an intention.
00:55:28.770 --> 00:55:30.040 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and wish
00:55:30.080 --> 00:55:32.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: for all of my listeners
00:55:35.430 --> 00:55:37.659 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that you will find
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:39.670 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: your community
00:55:42.410 --> 00:55:46.510 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that you will find that special group of people
00:55:48.430 --> 00:55:50.659 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: who you feel held by
00:55:50.770 --> 00:55:52.419 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and who you hold.
00:55:56.890 --> 00:56:00.150 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and maybe they're next door, and maybe they're
00:56:00.490 --> 00:56:02.180 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: across the ocean.
00:56:04.520 --> 00:56:08.170 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Maybe they speak the same language as you, and maybe they don't.
00:56:10.940 --> 00:56:13.270 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But what is it for you?
00:56:15.140 --> 00:56:18.189 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What is it that you love so much
00:56:19.100 --> 00:56:23.589 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that when you meet someone else who also loves that same thing.
00:56:25.090 --> 00:56:28.869 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that it brings you a sense of connection.
00:56:28.940 --> 00:56:33.189 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: a sense of yeah, like this is my person. These are my people.
00:56:33.670 --> 00:56:36.980 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Can you even identify what that is for you?
00:56:40.760 --> 00:56:41.830 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: For me?
00:56:42.510 --> 00:56:45.070 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's all about raising consciousness.
00:56:45.880 --> 00:56:53.009 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's all about supporting people in having a more conscious, a more aware, a more awake life.
00:56:58.390 --> 00:57:01.840 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And that's why I do this. And that's why I have this show.
00:57:01.960 --> 00:57:05.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and that's why I do everything that I do
00:57:06.390 --> 00:57:08.909 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is to touch people's lives
00:57:09.840 --> 00:57:12.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in a way that empowers them.
00:57:14.820 --> 00:57:18.380 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to be more conscious, more aware, more awake.
00:57:19.540 --> 00:57:21.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: more inspired.
00:57:21.460 --> 00:57:22.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: more motivated
00:57:23.340 --> 00:57:25.750 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to be who they really are.
00:57:26.770 --> 00:57:32.239 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And oh, what a community we would have in this world if everybody
00:57:32.580 --> 00:57:34.120 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: would just be
00:57:34.280 --> 00:57:38.079 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: more of who and what they are.
00:57:41.080 --> 00:57:43.210 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So that's my show for this week.
00:57:43.800 --> 00:57:46.070 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What does community really mean?
00:57:47.930 --> 00:57:51.479 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'd love to hear from you what community means to you.
00:57:51.690 --> 00:57:56.180 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And what if your experience has been with community, good, bad, and otherwise.
00:57:57.270 --> 00:57:59.709 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I hope you'll join me next week
00:58:00.660 --> 00:58:02.899 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: for the conscious consultant hour.
00:58:03.980 --> 00:58:10.200 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And of course, if you missed any part of today's show, you can always catch the replay on talkradio, dot Nyc
00:58:10.420 --> 00:58:12.720 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and all over all the
00:58:12.820 --> 00:58:17.659 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: podcasting platforms, apple, Google, spotify Pandora iheartradio.
00:58:18.674 --> 00:58:25.160 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: loyal listener. Sanaya. Thank you. Beautiful advice, and we thank you. I will catch the beginning of the show in the recap.
00:58:25.500 --> 00:58:28.889 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Thank you, Sanaya. Yes, so please catch the replay.
00:58:29.270 --> 00:58:33.999 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Thank you all for tuning in. We will talk to you all next week.
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