¶ Introduction to Raw Conversation
Welcome to a special edition of Redesigning Life . Many of you know I have a new show called the Sabrina Soto Show Out and I was able to invite amazing experts in their fields just to come in and have a great conversation . But because it's a show , we have to edit it down .
Now , these conversations , they were so good that I wanted to publish the raw , unedited version , and that's what this episode is . You're going to hear action and you may hear a crew in the background , but I wanted to publish this so you can really listen to the entire chat . So here you go , please , on set and action .
Michael Beckwith , I can't , I can't , I cannot believe you're in my house . This is my house . I know , michael , I don't think you understand that you have changed my life . I'm going to get emotional . You're the reason why I have this show .
I know that you probably get this all the time , but you taught me the key to being grateful and you know I think it's something that I didn't understand how much it would unlock the universe for me and it changed my entire life .
When I saw you , I watched the Secret before you were on Oprah and there was something when you started speaking on the Secret that it was as if the universe unlocked possibility for me . So can you teach or can you tell the viewer ?
This whole show is about your roots and embracing your roots and embracing the things , the adversities you've come through , to be where you are . And even if somebody is going through something , can you explain to the viewer just your philosophy and how gratitude really is the key
¶ Gratitude as the Universal Key
to joy . Thank you , I know that was a very , very long introduction . I apologize .
No , it's okay . And what you said about me assisting to change your life , that's the music to my heart and my ears . That's why I do what I do , and gratitude is the key that unlocks the door .
It's like it's a vibrational frequency , and when one trains themselves to be grateful , opens themselves up to even taking baby themselves to be grateful , opens themselves up to even taking baby steps to be grateful for anything , the vibration of your body is lifted and we tap into the field of infinite possibilities that begin to flow through us .
It's as if you know we may have heard this when you were growing up you know , if you don't stop crying , I'm going to give you something to cry about . Yes , Well , the universe says if you don't stop being grateful , I'm going to give you something to be grateful for .
So what happens is you create a vibrational match to unlock possibilities that you may not even know exist because they're outside of your present way of thinking . But just being in the field of gratitude opens up possibilities , opportunities , possibilities are amplified .
You begin to see things that previously may have been there , but you couldn't see them before because the perceptual windows were dirty with complaining or worrying , anxiety , anxiousness . So it's a practice , it's a training , but it literally changes the chemicals in your body .
You begin to produce tonic chemicals that amplify the immune system , create a coherence around the brain . You basically change your biology by being grateful , yeah , and then opportunities open up .
I start my day with five things to be grateful for . I even created a journal that my daughter and I do in the mornings , and it's something that's free , right .
But I think a lot of people who are listening to this maybe aren't in a space where maybe they don't like their job or they don't like their partner , so they say , well , I don't want to tell the universe thank you for the thing I'm not happy with , because then I'm just telling the universe that I'm okay with it .
So can you explain the philosophy behind that ?
It doesn't work like that Right , when you shift your attention to something to be grateful for , there's like a I call it energetic shape-shifting .
So let's say you have a part of your life that you don't like , you place your attention on the part of your life you're grateful for and since we are not really totally flesh and blood , we are vibrational beings we start to shift the vibration of our being , which begins to alter even the areas in our life we don't like .
So if you are just finding that , okay , I don't like my job , but I do have a washer and dryer that works Absolutely .
My heart is beating , I'm alive , I exist . So what happens ? I become available to guidance and wisdom that can now come to me intuitively or through direct knowing that assists me in changing those other areas of my life . Now , if I continue to just complain about those other areas of my life , I'm in resistance to them and I amplify it Right .
But if I shift my attention to what I'm being grateful for at the same time , beginning to create a vision , beginning to articulate what I do want , the energy flows in that direction Right , because everything is vibration .
Can you explain that to you ? When you and I spoke and I wanted you to be on the show I speak about vibrations , but I think when people hear vibrations and universe and all these words , they either think two things it's too woo-woo and , you know , it's a little too out there , a little too hippie granola , right , right right .
¶ Science of Vibration and Attraction
Or it's they think , well , I'm religious . Or you know , I can't believe in vibration because I believe in , you know , fill-in-the-blank God .
Yeah Well , today all of what we're saying is science . Forty years ago it was woo-woo , but today you can actually get on a machine and measure the thought forms . You can actually do biofeedback and actually measure your thinking . And there are some thoughts that are vibrating low and there's some thoughts like love , gratitude , peace , compassion , kindness .
They vibrate at a much higher oscillation . So it's not woo-woo anymore , it's now scientific . So if an individual trains themselves to stay in gratitude , scientific .
So if an individual trains themselves to stay in gratitude , they're actually in a higher vibratory field which , like attracts , like you actually bring into your life those same kind of vibrations , those same kind of people , circumstances and situations that match that . Yes , it's a vibrational match Right .
It feels like magic when I'm vibing . And it is like magic to me because out of nowhere I'll get an email , Out of nowhere I'll get a phone call , Out of nowhere I'll bump into somebody and it is . I can't explain it , but it works that way .
But then when I'm in a funk , things start going wrong , Things start breaking around the house , so it really does work that way .
It's like attracts , like that's the law of attraction , yes , and then what happens is the law of attraction is a linguistic convenience , for actually we have everything we want within us as spiritual beings . For people who absolutely believe in God , as you were saying , we're all spiritual beings having a human incarnation . We arrived on the planet with everything .
We are fully franchised expressions of the infinite , but we have to unpack it . So with that awareness , when we begin to activate the law of attraction , we begin to feel gratitude , thanksgiving , appreciation , we start to actually go into what I call the law of resonance .
We start to resonate with the feeling that I already have something , and then that goes into radiation . We start to radiate that feeling . And then what happens after that ? It starts to show up , it condenses itself . We call it manifestation , it manifests . The invisible becomes visible . So you go from attraction to resonance , to radiance manifestation .
So people have to train their mind and heart to stay in the gratitude vibration . Sometimes it's hard , it is . So there's like three levels of gratitude Find something to be grateful for , you know . And then there's being grateful for even the challenges , because the challenges carry seeds of activating potential . Can you explain that a little bit more ?
There are gifts within us , there are powers within us . There's intelligence within us , but sometimes a challenge coaxes it out of us , right ? You know , we don't try to run away from challenges . We say that challenges we learn how to navigate challenges , so it activates our potential . A challenge is a gift in work clothes .
And then , as so as we begin to look at life , challenge is a gift in work clothes . Right , it's coming to teach us something , there's a lesson in there . And then the third level of gratitude one is being grateful for something . Two is being grateful for the challenge Difficult .
Thirdly , you start to grow into an awareness where you're just grateful for nothing , right , you just have an attitude of gratitude . And then what happens ? The universal presence fills that up with more and more to be grateful for . Yep no-transcript .
I had my whole
¶ Challenges as Gifts in Work Clothes
family . We went through a really hard financial time At that time . I was a teenager and I felt like my life fell apart . Yes , it was awful , but I wouldn't be where I am now had it not been for that challenge . I was in my early 20s and I was in a job that most people would say is successful . I was making good money , but I was miserable .
I was miserable and I watched the Secret A friend had introduced me . I had to pay $4.95 to download it because it wasn't the book yet , it was just on the computer . And that night , after watching the Secret , I fell asleep . I woke up for some weird reason , at 4 o'clock in the morning .
I couldn't go back to sleep , so I wanted to be on TV doing something creative . I didn't know what that opportunity would be and I went on Craigslist and there was a job posting . It didn't say what it was for , but they were looking for someone who had TV credit and was a designer . I threw in my resume . That was my first HGTV show .
Had I not woken up at 4 o'clock in the morning , had I not watched the Secret the night before , had I not sent that email , my life wouldn't be where I am now . And so that goes to show you . I didn't have connections in Hollywood , I didn't have an agent , I didn't have anything .
But because what happened was I watched it and I remember your face and , knowing that anything is possible , I started going well , it's going to come to me . I just knew it . And I started training for a job I didn't even have yet . So can you explain that ?
You said I knew it . Yes , I knew it . So you were already in the feeling of it happening before it manifested . That's what the whole teaching is about . It is done unto you as you believe . Now we would say it is done unto you as you feel . So you felt your way into that dynamic and it had to show up .
Four o'clock is a good time to wake up , really . That's when I wake up every Sunday . I wake up at four . Why ? Because I have to get ready to go speak at Agape . Yes , so you know four o'clock is really . There's no psychic energy in the air , there's no debris , there's no mental debris , because most people are sleeping . So you wake up at four .
There's a clarity . So you woke up at four . Your intuition guided you to look on Craigslist , for that's a weird place to look it was .
You can get free sofas and jobs on television , your career got jump-started . Yeah .
But it was your intuition and your direct knowing from the feeling tone that it's happening . And that's where we have to have people live . We have to live in the feeling tone that it's happening . It's happening right now and then it unfolds . Now that's a training . People have to actually monitor their thought , monitor their conversation .
What's coming out of your mouth , you know until you're actually sitting in the feeling of gratitude .
You brought up agape , you invited me and the experience I think was just I can't explain it the vibration that was in that center , your teachings , it was something I think a lot of people , everyone , should experience . But can you explain to somebody who's watching , like , how did you get started ? How did you start the Agape Center ?
Agape Center is celebrating its 38th year . I'm the founder , so that's kind of a long story , but anyway , I had to give up my resistance to starting a spiritual community . You know , I had a very intimate relationship with the presence I call it the presence , that's never an absence and so I was a spiritual therapist , you know .
I worked with people five to eight people every single day , six days a week , and I was pulled to start a community . I didn't want to , I wasn't trying to be a public person , but eventually I had to yield to that calling . Why ?
didn't you want to be a public person ?
I was kind of shy . You know I liked the small groups . You know I had a destiny call to speak and I went to speak one time and it was natural it flowed for me . But you know , when you're getting ready to start a whole spiritual community , people say you know , when you're dying , your whole life flats in front of you .
Well , that's what happened to me when I started a community . It was like my whole life , what am I doing ?
Yeah .
But eventually I couldn't say no to the inner calling . My whole life , what am I doing ? But eventually I couldn't say no to the inner calling , and so it's one of the most inclusive spiritual communities in the world , in the United States . Everybody's there , as you saw . Everyone's there .
All religions , cultures , ethnicities are all in there , celebrating the divine presence that's within all of us , called by millions of names , and so it's a wonderful place for regeneration , healing , renewal , inspiration celebration right there . It's beautiful .
If somebody's watching this and they feel sort of stuck in a rut , where do you think what's the easiest way to start transformation ?
where
¶ Practical Spiritual Hacks for Manifestation
do you think what's the easiest way to start transformation ? There's so many techniques . What you can do is when you go to sleep at night , right before you go to sleep , you can just write down what it is that you really want in life . Not ego desires , but what do you want your life to look like ? Just write it down .
You know , I like to have a life in which there's a tremendous amount of peace , prosperity , health . You know , write it down . You can even be a little bit more specific and then , right before you fall asleep , you read that you feel that it's happening . What does that feel like ? Then you go to sleep . That starts to work on your subconscious mind .
While you're sleeping .
While you're sleeping . Then , when you wake up , let that be the first thing you read . Don't jump on social media , don't look on your phone . Read it . You're still sleepy . Now it's called the hypnagogic state You're in between sleep and awake , so your mind can be programmed better .
You just read it , you feel that it's happening and you go on about your day finding something to be grateful for . That's one spiritual hack , so to speak , that will help jumpstart you , changing your subconscious tendencies .
I know that hack of like the feeling is where the magic happens and the way that I understand it . Please tell me if I'm wrong , like correct me if I'm wrong . When I want to manifest something , whether it's a job or a relationship , I pretend that it's happening .
I close my eyes and I feel as if it's happening and I try to hold that for 17 seconds and I don't know where I made that up . I think I read that somewhere , but that vibration goes out into the universe and attracts that situation towards me .
Is that true ? We live in a return to cinder universe . Tell me about that Whatever you send out comes back Like karma . Yeah , so 17, . One to seven is eight , which is a number of manifestation . So you're actually feeling that it's happening and that is the key . You're doing it Perfectly .
That's it . And I tell my daughter when I was trying to explain to her the law of attraction I mean she's so young but I said , imagine that you have angels up in heaven and they don't know . No , and yes , they only know what you're thinking about and when you're thinking about it they want to bring you more of that .
So if you're thinking about bad things , they don't know that it's good or bad , they just bring you more . So try thinking of the good things constantly so that you get more of the things you want .
You are describing the subconscious mind . The subconscious mind does not have a no or yes . It only knows what you're interested in . So if you're interested in love , if you're interested in beauty , peace , abundance , wellness , well-being , then that becomes a part of your personal law . Everyone has a personal law .
There's a law of the universe , but we all have our personal use of that law . Most people are using it unconsciously . They've been programmed by environment , circumstances , conditions and situations .
But what you're teaching your daughter is to have a personal relationship with the law by constantly placing her attention on what she wants to experience , not what she doesn't want to experience . Right , because I'll do that . But but yeah , but it gets . You get what you're interested in .
So if you're constantly thinking about what you don't want , the universe doesn't know you don't want that , right . It just knows you're thinking about it , right so they're like sure we'll give you more .
Yeah , that's what you're thinking about , what you don't want .
The universe doesn't know you don't want that , right ? It just knows you're thinking about it , right ? So they're like sure , we'll give you more . Yeah , that's what you're thinking about .
Yes , so you have to shift and become interested in beauty , interested in love , interested in abundance , interested in joy , interested in kindness , interested in service , and then that begins to multiply , magnify in your life .
Yes , Multiply magnify in your life . Yes .
What are your daily practices ? What does Michael Beckwith do ? I wake up and I generally stand and I'm grateful , I bow and surrender to life . Then I ask for the power to handle every assignment that comes to me . Today there's my assignment on my to-do list and then there's always things that come that aren't on my to-do list .
Somebody calls I need some help , whatever the case may be , so I ask for that assignment . I go into the kitchen , I drink some warm water with minerals and lemon at the beginning , I make a special tea . I go to the gym , I work out , I come home , I make my smoothie , drink my smoothie , meditate and then get ready to go into the office .
I saw that you brought me a smoothie .
Yeah , we did .
So can you tell me about this ?
¶ Morning Routine and Superfood Secrets
This is a miracle , really .
Yeah .
Okay , tell me . People have always asked me you know , what do you do ? You have a lot of energy , what do you drink , what do you eat , et cetera , and I have certain ingredients that I would make my smoothie with . So one day I was in Costa Rica and I'm writing down I want to design my own green drink .
And I end up helping this man's wife who was going through some spiritual changes . So I finished working with her , sitting down , writing , and he says what are you doing ? I said I'm writing down this green drink I want to develop and I start to describe what I wanted . And I went ashwagandha and I went all the super grains , et cetera , et cetera .
And he says I'll do it for you . I said you'll do what . He said I own Neutral Rise . He said you've helped my wife . You tell me the ingredients . We'll have our chemists and biologists work on it . So they took what I wanted and created this green drink . So what would have taken me a few years to put together happened inside of a year . Do ?
you see what this ?
is .
Well , of course , you're the master of it , so it happened Do you see it and you're like yeah , I know , I am the one who teaches this .
So before a year was out , this was created . This superfood greens drink . It's called Adaptazin Adaptazin From NutriRise .
And what do you mix it with ?
Water . Well , this particular one is almond milk that I made myself . Of course , you did Blueberries , avocado , the superfood , greens and some protein powder . Please , it's a basic one .
So this is how you start your day .
Oh Wow , does it taste good .
That's delicious . Yeah , that tastes like a vanilla milkshake .
It's magnificent , but it has all of your minimum daily needs for your body dimple . That's a meal . This is a meal . My daughter would love this too . Yeah , the teenagers love it because they don't have to hold their nose to drink it .
Yeah , oh , my gosh Michael , that is so good so .
I don't leave the house without drinking that .
I'm not going to either . No wonder you're glowing , michael . Leave the house without drinking . That I'm not going to either . No wonder you're glowing . Michael , I cannot thank you enough . I really . I started off telling you how I'm so grateful for you . I cannot believe .
I don't know if you remember the first time I saw you , I was on a panel and you walked in the room and I audibly gasped Like I could not believe I was in your presence . So the fact that you're sitting here in my house am I dreaming ?
You're dreaming yourself awake .
I feel like I am dreaming right now . This is beautiful , I cannot thank you enough for how I'm going to cry again , how you've changed my life and how I knew you before I had my daughter and because of you I've created this life for me and her Beautiful , and you've allowed me the .
You've given me the strength to know that I am responsible for my own life .
Yes .
And that I have the anything is possible .
Yes , yes , responsibility means the ability to respond rather than react , I know so you have now moved into the space of responding to life from the feeling tone of gratitude and thankfulness and appreciation . So then , life brings that right back to you in ways beyond your wildest imagination .
I'm beyond grateful for you . I'm beyond grateful for your time . I cannot thank
¶ Closing Gratitude and Inspiration
you enough .
Cheers . Thank you for the invitation .
Cheers . You've inspired me . You've inspired me to create this life , to create this show . I hope that you're also inspired at home to make the small changes , to redesign your life too . You're the best .
We're becoming our inner architect for our own design . Designer jeans . I love that Spiritual designer jeans .
There you go .