First snowfall of the year.
It's beautiful.
If you guys celebrate Christmas, I hope you have a good Christmas.
Snow makes the cold worth it.
At least it looks like a winter wonderland.
This seems to be one of those days where it seems appropriate to just sit by a window, read a book and drink some hot chocolate or a hot cup of tea.
Although i have some school work to do, i'm almost done.
It's the last week of school.
We'll be finished up pretty soon here and then, once i'm done, school be moving and i have some very big plans coming up that i'm not quite ready to reveal.
But big things coming up, especially for the liminal group community and my mentorship program.
Uh, the liminal program has something to do with that and what's going to come in the next years for the community and myself is oh, it's so exciting and I'll show you guys soon, but it's related to me moving somewhere and building something.
That's all I'll say.
Anyways, it's freezing.
The spiritual war is real.
And it's important that you know that, because when you're in a rut or you're in a depressive state, you're feeling more anxious, more insecure, more doubtful, more fearful than normal.
It's important that you know, it's not always as simple as you versus you.
You know, this is a super popular saying and, like modern personal development culture, it's you versus you.
You know you're your own enemy, but i don't subscribe to that at all, because what you are is of divinity, you are of god, but there is however, a force that exists that is older than time, and it's called evil.
That's what you're up against, you see.
And so, while you're in this depressive state, you're in this rut and you don't know how to get out, and you're stuck in this endless loop of pointing yourself in the mirror and saying what the hell is wrong with you, while this evil, dark energy lurks in the corner, is having the time of its life, because it has it exactly where it wants you, as it continues to fester in your subconscious mind and burrow itself within your spirit like a parasite and deprive you of happiness and fulfillment and joy and gratitude and excitement for life to be better, to improve, to choose the path of good.
You'll remain in that cycle endlessly, until you wake up to the fact that there is another enemy in the room.
In fact, you were never the enemy to begin with.
You have to have your own back, like.
If you don't have your own back, then what are we doing?
You know, and i think so many people, because of sayings like it's you versus you, you're your own enemy, you're like it has people stuck in this dreadful cycle of thinking they're really the problem, when in reality, evil has festered itself within their subconscious mind and has programmed them to like reliably, live based off a faulty foundation and continue to involve themselves in bad habits that lead them right where the like.
It's just this.
You know it's a really dangerous game to play.
It's extremely dangerous.
And so I just ask that you think to yourself, maybe this isn't just a rut.
Maybe this is a spiritual attack.
Maybe I'm under attack here.
Maybe I have let some sort of negative energy, some sort of negative presence force into my temple, into my life.
And I've allowed it to fester for too long.
And I've been pointing the finger at the wrong freaking person.
Honestly, i think that nine times out of ten that will be the case, because i don't think that you're really ever the problem, like you're never really the problem.
The problem is that negative influences find themselves into your life, and if you allow them to control you too much, if you allow them to take up too much space, if you allow them to influence you too much, then it will kind of shift things deep within yourself and cloud your identity to the point where you don't really know how to operate like your true self anymore, and so it becomes very easy.
You know it's a very vulnerable state to be in, And so you find yourself forming new habits that are bad, new thought patterns that are bad, new presumed methods of action or behaviors or perspectives that are flawed and skewed.
The good news is God has given you the power to always win that battle.
But half the battle is just realizing what the real enemy is, what the real opposing force is.
It's not you.
It was never you.
And when you realize that it's really liberating, because you realize really, by that point you've won the war.
You've won it.
Do you see?
You know, in that scenario it becomes a lot easier to find the fighting spirit within you, to want to fight back.
Because you don't want to fight against yourself.
No one wants to fight against themselves.
You have to have your own back.
And so how do we fight back?
Well, we need to flood our eyes and our ears and our senses with purity.
And I think that there are.
Know i was going to say that it's pretty subjective as to what you find gives you a sense of purity, but i think that there are kind of universal things in you know music, for example.
There's certain types of sounds and music like frequencies, binaural beats, um church hymns or you know things like that, classical music, and that is perhaps uplifting or something like that or motivating or inspiring, can give you a sense of purity, a sense of revitalization, a sense of healing.
The same goes with food.
If you were eating junk food all day, if you're drinking soda all day, if you're eating McDonald's all day and sugar and you're drinking a ton of caffeine and nicotine, you're going to just feed into that negative energy more.
And that might sound dramatic or far-fetched, but it's not.
How you fuel your body really determines greatly, all backed by science, of course.
I think this is well known by now.
Your cognitive function, you know, and that is what, like your cognitive function, is being limited by what you fuel your body with.
How do you expect yourself to have where?
Again guys, we're fighting against a, an energy of force that is older than time itself, like we got to take this kind of serious.
You know what i mean.
So let's skip on the mcdonald's, let's skip on the chick-fil-a, for for a little bit, and let's do whole foods Um, no added ingredients and water.
Let's try that.
Sleep is very important as well.
And I know all of these things might sound a little bit boring, but it's important that we don't skip over the basics, because you can do all the fancy stuff that you want, but if you're not getting enough sleep and you're eating like trash and you're listening to music that is awfully depressing and depressive, then none of the whatever you do out like it's just not going to work because you don't have a foundation that stand on this.
You have to get these things right.
So you have to get eight hours of sleep.
That's generally what's recommended.
Some people like well, seven's enough for me, or maybe a little bit more.
Whatever, eight hours on average.
Okay, just get enough sleep.
Make sure you're being rested well, you know.
Make sure you're moving, you're exercising things like that make sure you're getting sunlight all the basics.
Okay, you have to do those first and now.
If you want to talk about like real real, real stuff, you need to be armed with the word of god, and I refrain from talking about religion on my channel because my message is not about religion.
It's not about any one belief or faith, I should say.
And so what I'll say is whatever belief that you have, arm yourself with the word of God, because amongst many monotheistic and even polytheistic religions, many of the values and morals are very much the same when it comes to God and how to live a good life and what is good and righteous.
So reading whatever religious texts that you subscribe to will always be better than not reading anything at all.
And so that would be my advice for that. it's something that i have really been working on in recent times for myself included that's been an area of my life you know i'm very new really to the whole spiritual side of things well not spiritual but you know religious side of things i'm very new to to to my belief in god it's only been a few years for me most of my life i was an atheist and then i was agnostic and then you know through self-discovery I started to find an essence of a creator a God and long story short that's how I came came to my belief but you know it's it's something I'm working on too so if you have a hard time doing that I don't want you to feel like you're behind the ball you know or you're not you're not doing enough just start from today or tonight and read a chapter and i think that will be enough to point you in a better direction you know and that's doable you can that's within your grasp right now that's within your grasp and lastly i want to say make sure you know whatever everything has energy everything has energy so again whether it's the music you're listening to or the food you're eating or the people you're hanging out with you know like the type of environments that you find yourself within what kind of conversations are you having on a day-to-day basis you know what are you watching online it all carries weight and it all matters we have this habit especially nowadays we're so desensitized to so many things That we often think of many things that we see online as harmless or doesn't really mean that much.
But that's not how it works.
It all counts.
All of it counts and it all carries a certain type of energy to it.
And if you're very reckless with the type of energy that you're inputting into yourself.
Whatever it may be, it matters.
And if it's negative, it's going to add to that pool.
So be cognizant, be intentional about what you're listening to and what you're influencing yourself with, and with these things in place, there is no way that you lose the spiritual war within your life.
You know, maybe you've been in a rut for years, maybe you've been depressed, maybe you've been anxious, maybe you've been fearful of something, maybe you've had a regret or something that's just eating away at you and it's causing you to not be able to live your life like you wish to live it.
I advise that you really open your eyes to the spiritual war, understand that you are not the enemy.
It's not you versus you anymore.
It's you versus evil.
It's you and God.
It's you and good.
It's you and what is righteous versus evil.
And all of a sudden, it becomes that much easier to stand up and do something about it.
Thank you for your time, and I will see you soon.
