Redefining Happiness and Embracing Self-Approval

We are here to talk about this thing that we all strive for , we all want , we all , we all seek to get it , but we don't realize that it's already here . You're over here doing this and you're doing that , trying to obtain this thing that we're going to talk about , but little do you know . If you could just be , you would already have it .

It's called freedom , freedom , free , dumb Freedom . We all really , at the end of the day , we want to be free . That's , that's when you have freedom . You've obtained these three things , okay , and I'm going to break them down kind of each , what , what , what each of them is and why .

Like , your freedom was not something that was out there or that somebody needed to fight for in order for you to have it . Good God , almighty , we're starting already . We are getting into it . Your freedom was your inherent nature .

See , freedom is the is the culmination of the trifecta , the trimurda , the high , the holy , the holy trinity , the three things that you actually are a peace , love and joy . But peace , love and joy can only be obtained in the present moment .

So , when I'm fully present and my mind's not off wondering , creating all these scenarios of what's going to happen or what I could be , or what if this doesn't happen , or getting stressed out or feeling anxiety , when my mind is not off doing that or it's not stuck in the past and worrying about the traumas that have happened , or maybe what I should have done

to feel and regret , shame and guilt . When I'm fully present , i will be that what I actually am of peace , love and joy Peace in the sense that I know that I am and that which I am is that I am . I'm enough as I am . I do not need something else . Joy meaning I have . A peace beyond understanding . It's not contingent on anything on the outside .

So we got , we got programmed . We got dupe . We got hoodwink . We got bamboozled . We got taught that happiness was what we were supposed to be striving after . We're not supposed to ever be happy . That's not what you were supposed to do . Happiness was pseudo joy . We've talked about this before .

So if you're happy about something , that means that that thing on the outside is determining your happiness . But we know the moment that that happiness is taken away , what are we going to feel ? We're going to feel the opposite of it , which is what we call sadness .

So , understanding that joy is not contingent on something on the outside , here's the thing I'll tell you about it . You'll know when you're in a state of joy , because you're not going to be jumping up and down and say yeah , yeah , yeah , life's the best , yeah , yeah , yeah .

No , you were just being , you will be in a joyful state , and there are no words really to articulate it . I used to think joy was me going to be walking around with a smile on my face . No , joy was presence , meaning . I wasn't , i wasn't worried about anything , i wasn't stressed , i wasn't regretting , i wasn't feeling shame or guilt .

And then love , the last thing love , love , love , not love in the sense that what we , what we , what we , what human being , love , that's not love . What human beings do is not love . I will tell you this because somebody will tell you I love you . Oh , i love you , jane , i love you so much , but don't you dare cheat on me .

Don't you even think one moment about leaving me ? You see how this works . So we over here talking about love , and but really it's just lust . If you have a pet , if you have an animal , now you get to experience love . This is why we love animals , we love babies , because they are love . They are love . Love is not an act .

Love is a sense , a state of being . Love is your true nature , and what I mean by love is it's recognizing that there is no separation between anything or anyone , that everything is the one thing . Everything is coming from the same primordial force . So we talk about unconditional love , but most of our love is actually conditional lust .

No-transcript , i'm gonna go ahead and let that marinate . What most of us are doing is what we call conditional lust , meaning I lust for you as long as you are doing what resonates with me . The moment that you don't resonate with me , maybe you're not a part of the religion I'm part of . Maybe you don't view spirituality the same way I do .

Maybe you are a different political party affiliation , maybe your sexuality is different than Now . I don't love you anymore . So that's not love . That is what we call lust , and it comes with a condition . So now , if you are a part of the same thing that I'm a part of , then I will lust for you or I will love you . No , no , no .

Unconditional love , meaning there was no reason . I don't need no reason , i don't need no reason as to why I love you And I don't actually love you . I am love . Good God oh my , you ain't trying to hear me right now . You are love , that is what you are . You are love . The squirrel is love , the tree is love , the dog is love .

This is why we say God is love . Yeah , everything is love , because love was the thing that held this universe together . Love was the thing that was holding everything together , because everything was just one thing . The moment that you recognize this , now you've moved into the frequency of love . And guess what ends up happening now ?

Now , i do not view from this dualistic , illusionary perspective of separation , of duality , of the ego . So when you have peace , love and joy , you will see this thing that what we call freedom was always here . You will be free . See , really , at the end of the day , you seek other people's love , but really it's not their love that you want .

You just wanted their approval . And the reason why you wanted their approval is because you hadn't quite yet approved of yourself . And the reason why you hadn't approved of yourself is because there was things in our past that we had not yet reconciled , we had not yet dealt with .

There was things that we needed to work on , and because we needed to work on these things , we essentially never got . We never learned how to self-validate , self-approve . So now you're using somebody else . So now you actually have become a slave to them , because you needed their approval and their validation for you to be enough .

So you're not actually free , you're actually living in slavery . See , this is what a lot of people don't realize Slavery was of the mind . Slavery was of the mind . I don't have to actually chain you up to be enslaved . To be enslaved . You hear Mike Tyson talk about when he went to prison .

He said that was the most , that was the most free that I felt when I was in prison . It's never going to be of the body . It's never going to be of the body , it's always going to be of the mind .

So if slavery is of the mind , that means freedom is of the mind as well , because slavery and freedom are the same energy , just different end to the pole . So in order for you to become free , in order for you to become free , you needed to just be . This was how , by you achieving presence . The only way I can be present is to reconcile the past .

See , when I reconcile the past now ? now I'm okay with all these things that have happened . I've learned from them , i've grown from them , i've accepted that this is what it is . So now I can , in this present moment , i can . I can just be , because I use all these transgressions , these traumas , these adversities , these setbacks , all of these things .

I've used them to mold me into the awareness that I have right now . And what I'm doing right now is actually what's painting the picture of where I'll be tomorrow . So I accept all of this and now , because I've accepted everything that's happened , now I'm just being here . I'm just here , i'm present .

So now I have a peace , because I know that nothing in my past can affect where I'm going in the future , but it has an influence on it , but I'm just being here right now . So my peace , my love and joy now are not happiness , it's not love , it's not security . These are all things that are on the outside .

The key was for you to become aware of this moment in space and time and bring your awareness here and leave it here and now as much as you could . When you do this , you will see that freedom freedom was not something that could be bought or could be thought for , or could be obtained outside of right now .

So when we say , oh , i'm so grateful you're he , he was fighting for our freedom , you can't fight for my freedom , you can't . I appreciate what you're doing , but my freedom is not anything outside of my own mind . That was where the slavery was taking place . The slavery cannot take place outside of your mind .

Remember , everything is happening on the mental plane . That's why I say your life is mental , your life is mental . So . So the key , the key is recognizing that that thing that you think is going to set you free on the outside is the same thing that's actually keeping you bound up right now on the inside .

That thing that you think is going to make you free that man , that money , that job , that house , that car , that opportunity , that approval , that validation from someone on the outside is the same damn thing that's keeping you bound up and wound up and enslaved right now .

So here's when life changed for me , when I realized that freedom was not something that could be obtained or bought , or it was not a transaction . Freedom was something that was my inherent nature . So all I had to do was get back to being who and what I was . But in order to do that , I had to get rid of what I was not .

So I grew up with all these programs . The society got ahold of me , my culture got ahold of me , my race got ahold of me , my religion got ahold of me . All these things were telling me what I was . More importantly , they were telling me what I was not , and because I was unaware , i believed it And then I subscribed to it .

And now this is what my reality started to mold and shift to , so it conspired to see that it was in line with my beliefs . So when you start understanding that the outside of this world , the external , is just the mirror , and the mirror is only going to mold and conspire to whatever the internal image was .

But what you don't realize is that the internal image was actually good , god Almighty . The internal image that you have created for yourself was actually somebody else's creation . Look at your life and look at the belief systems that you have . What is your belief system around money ? What is your belief system around marriage ?

What is your belief system around divorce ? If you look at it , 99.99% of the time your belief system is actually somebody else's that you've adopted and made your own . So you really ain't even living your life . You're not even living your life . You live in somebody else's life . So now , guess what ?

You over here trying to , you trying to do this and do that , but you , man , you can't do it . If you over here , living through somebody else's perspective , you can't do it . So when you start to realize and this is what I'm telling you I , when I realized that my my Being locked up mentally , it was me , i was doing it .

I'm the one who's got myself wound up , i'm the one who's got myself locked up right now . This was my own mind . Oh well , we know , through the law of polarity , there's going to always be an equal opposite energy . So if I'm the one who's locking myself up , i'm the only one who can set myself free , and And the same goes for you , my friend .

So do not blame your family , do not blame your spouse , do not blame your job . Do not blame the lack of money you may have . Do not blame the resources that you do not have . Do not blame what your childhood it ain't got nothing to do with that , because that wasn't the issue . Remember that everything that we're experiencing , we're not actually experiencing it .

You're actually just experiencing your perspective of it . That's what you're experiencing , but your perspective was molded by your beliefs , and your beliefs were , probably 99.9% of time , they were molded by somebody else . So really , what I need to do is start molding my own and creating my own beliefs and start becoming account able .

Account able I'm accountable for my life . I'm responsible for my life , for my inner world . If I can start doing that , ain't nothing is content . What universe is gonna stop me nothing ? and this is all that's happened . This is all that's happened . So here's why I tell you your freedom , your freedom , is not anywhere outside of you .

It cannot be everything , everything , everything , everything , everything , everything , everything . Hear me when I say this . When I say everything , that means that everything First starts with you . It cannot exist outside of you . Nothing exists outside of you . So if that's the case , we know that freedom cannot exist outside of us .

It cannot , so you can do what you want to me . You can lock me up , you can put me underneath the jail , you can have me bound up slave , that I don't not matter .

But you cannot take my freedom away from me , because my freedom was going to be found on the inside of the circle , and I know that nothing on the outside can never get to the inside unless I Have unconsciously Allowed it to come in . And that's the issue right now .

This is why you're struggling to get out of this place of low vibration , of low of energy . It's not because of what's happening . That is not the issue . If something is bothering me , i know that I let my guard down for a little bit . I know if something has me in a lower state , i've let myself down .

I'm sorry , i've let it in unconsciously And now the universe is using this as a way for me to heighten my awareness , to see why I let it in . People are going to say well , what is financial freedom ? You know what financial freedom is . All freedom is when you don't need to depend on anything else to be free .

I don't need to depend on money for me to have peace , love and joy . That's what it means to be financial free To be financially free . I don't need any of these things for me to have this . So you can be financially free without having the money . But here's the way manifestation works , because you are already free without the money .

That's why you'll get the money . So you can't create more and you cannot build and manifest consciously from a place of attachment . That's actually showing you that you are actually unconscious . So if I think financially or that money is going to give me freedom , i'm actually just pushing money away from me , and this is what the ego does .

It will develop attachment to it , like I got to be financially free , i got to be financially . I got to have it , i got . You can't be financially free . You have to first be free and then financially , it will correspond . Do you see how this works ? Y'all ain't trying to hear me right now . Ain't nobody trying to hear me ? Y'all ain't trying to hear me .

You're not trying to . I know good and well that you're not trying to hear me right now . You're not trying to hear me right now . I didn't need the thing in order for me to be free . The thing is freedom had to come first . Peace , love and joy had to come first .

When you have peace , when you have love , when you have joy , you won't need anything , because everything else was just a placeholder . It was just a placeholder , the only one , with . The reason why you thought you wanted the big house is because you wanted everybody to look at how nice you was living .

When you know good and well , when you lay down on that back and you go to sleep at night , that bed's going to sleep the same way as if you was in a 10 by 10 . Do you see ? So you really don't want the big house . That isn't what you want . You don't want the big house .

You wanted what you believe the big house was going to give you permission to feel . That's what you wanted . And really , at the end of the day , you thought the big house was going to give you approval , validation on the outside . But you really didn't want the validation , approval on the outside . You just wanted it for yourself .

And the moment that you approve it for yourself , guess what you're going to feel ? You're going to feel peace , you're going to feel joy , you will feel love , not lust , but love . So now , if I can get to this place of peace , love and joy , i've just become free from everything , everything , everything , everything , everything . I do not need anything anymore .

And because I do not need it , it is not the placeholder , it's not going to create any peace , love and joy in my life , because I recognize that is actually what I am . So now I've detached , i don't need it , i don't need it , i don't need it . So now , guess what you're coming from ?

You're not coming from the lower energy of lack , you're actually coming from the place of abundance . That's what abundance was . Abundance was recognizing that you didn't need anything because you already had everything . Do you see ?

this is why billionaires go to Buddhist monks , but Buddhist monks don't go to billionaires for help , because one thinks this amount is going to make me enough , This is what's going to make me whole . And the other one said I don't need anything to be whole . I don't need anything to to to , to feel joy . I don't need anything .

And this is how you were always going to create your life . You were going to create consciously . It was going to be done through detachment . You're creating now , but maybe the issue is you're creating from attachment , So now you're creating from fear . So now you're creating from lack . Now you're creating from scarcity .

Now you're creating from a poverty consciousness , and this is what ends up creating more of the same thing . So this is what we call being in a rut . I'm in a rut right now . Why do I feel stuck ? I feel like I'm in a rut , nothing's working . Why ? Because you're putting out , in your broadcasting , the wifi signal .

With your heart center , with your heart chakra , you're putting out the energy of lack of poverty , consciousness , of scarcity . We got to you , do the work and figure out why . What is it ? Why do I have such an attachment to money ? Why do I think money's going to make me whole ? Why do I think money's going to make me happy ?

Why , oh , you were programmed . You were programmed that you had to have a certain amount and then you'd be okay , But little did you know when you got there , it made you feel like you had to keep going to the next thing . And then you got there and you had to keep going . It was never enough .

So now what happens is is your enoughness was rooted in the money , but now , because the money's never enough , you're never enough . Oh good , god almighty , y'all ain't trying to hear me , did you see , do you see ? So this is what I'm trying to get you to realize Freedom is recognizing that there was nothing that was out there .

There was nothing that was out there . That's what freedom was . Everything was inside of me , my body , my mind . It was literally self producing . I did not need something on the outside in order for me to produce that emotion , because the only thing that I wanted in that physical thing was the emotion that it was going to give me permission to feel .

But I don't need that anymore . I don't need that because I produced that emotion myself . Good God , almighty . Now because I produced it , i don't need it . And now because I don't need it , that's when we'll have it . So , my friend , the whole point of this is for you to set yourself free . You're the only one who could set yourself free .

You're the only one who can enslave yourself . Start to become aware of these pockets and these parts of your life where you feel as though you are not free . And if you spend some time there with a piece of paper and a pen and maybe close your eyes from moment to moment , you will start to see that it was a self inflicted , nonsensical wound .

You did it , you did it . You did this to yourself . Nobody else did it . You did it . Accept that , own that . So now , because you did it , you're the only one who can fix it . So when I told you , life changed for me . When I realized that nobody was going to fix my life for me , nobody could help me . I used to think .

This is why I kept getting myself in situation after situation after situation , because I thought somebody else was going to do something for me before I did it for myself . That's a bar . Go ahead and don't at me . You keep thinking somebody else is going to do something for you that you have not yet done for yourself . You need to do it for yourself .

And guess what ? Then they will do it for you . And they're not doing it for you , they're just adding to the energy that you've already put into it . So find yourself , know yourself And then be yourself The self . When you do that , you'll see that your freedom was not out there . It's always been here .

Continue , my friend , to set yourself free And , as always , i wish you nothing but the best on the pathway to your results .