Why The Universe Takes Things Away

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I sit and think about my life and the journey that I'm on and the proverbial ups and downs . We have our ups , we have our downs . The question that I always ask is why , why , why , why , why ? You have your ups and you have your downs . We all do . The question you need to ask yourself is why .

When you figure out why , you'll see that the ups and the downs are actually one thing working together .

When you understand that this universe is holographic meaning the macro is just a bigger micro and the micro becomes a macro of a new , smaller micro , and so forth and so on the Russian nesting doll is a perfect example of this we start to understand that whatever is happening on the cosmic level , or maybe on a macro or a universal level , is happening within us

as well . Here's the example I give this universe is constantly balancing itself out . If you look at Africa , africa has this drought season . That has this rainy season . If you look at winter and summer , right , we have our cold months and then we have our warm months . There's a constant yin and yang . There's a constant masculine and feminine .

There's a constant balancing act that this universe participates in , because that is the name of the game I was just telling my son the other day . I said what's the key to life ? He said I don't know . I said balance . This is the key to life . It's balance because the universe is constantly balancing itself out .

So if it's balancing itself out on the macro level , on the scale of the universe , the planet , why in the world would it not be balancing itself out for you ? Why would it not . So here's how I started to look at my own life . You start looking at business , you start looking at your relationship , you start looking at just your overall body .

There's a balancing act that's constantly going on . So sometimes business may be great , sometimes the money's flowing in , sometimes you just every shot you shoot you can't miss . But then the universe has to balance itself out . And here's when I say this a lot of people think the balancing out is when something's taken away , then something has to be given .

It's also on the other side too , it's not just one side . You got to understand that this universe does not deal by man's morality and ethics and have feelings and emotions and all that , and it doesn't care . It's simply operating off of energy and what's given must be taken away at some point , and what's taken away , something else must be given .

So the reason why I'm saying this good God Almighty , y'all didn't want me to start preaching this early Understand that anything that is taken away in your life , it was never taken away for good . It was never taken away so you went without forever . It was taken away because there was a balancing act .

But the issue is , you forgot what something was given to you . So what happens is a lot of times we'll cry when something is taken away . Oh , he left me , oh , she broke up with me , oh , I can't believe I lost this . But you failed to realize the thing that you lost at some point had to have been given to you .

Good God , almighty , let me go ahead and say that one more time , before you get down in your spirit , something that was taken away at some point would have been given to you . Look at the balancing act of buying and selling . Know that every time that you sell something , you first had to buy it . Know what you're selling is what you bought .

I think Outcast said that back in the early 90s , right , andre 3000, . Know what you're selling is what you bought . So cut that big talk . Know what you are selling is what you bought , and what you bought will eventually be sold , because this universe must balance itself out . So why do I say this ?

When you understand the cosmic order of how things work , how this universe works , we are not to hold on to anything . You were never supposed to hold on to anything , not your relationship , not your concepts , not your perspectives , nothing , because everything's constantly evolving , it's constantly balancing itself out .

So here's what I see with a lot of people in life . What happens I get to see behind the curtain in a lot of people's lives ? Here's the issue . Here's the issue . They think , when something is taken away , that it was the end . They think , when something's taken away , oh my gosh , I'll never recover .

They think , when something's taken away , I'm being punished . Dear God , what did I do ? Why me ? This was me . This is what I used to think . I used to be on my knees every day . I had to point . I got sores on my knees . I got sores on my knees . I used to be praying to this thing called God . God , where are you at ?

Why are you taking everything ? Why do I have done ? I'm being nice , I'm being kind . Why am I being punished ? Why is this man ? No , I understand what I understand , but get up off your knees , girl . Get up off your knees . Start understanding that this is just a balancing act . The tide had to go out if it came back in . And guess what ?

It won't go out forever . It's gotta come back in . So I'm telling you right now . I'm telling you right now I'm speaking only from experience and the subjective thing that I call life . I will never tell you or give you advice on anything that I have not experienced myself . When it was four years ago , five years ago now , and I've questioned why ?

Why is this being taken away ? Why is my world crumbling ? Why has this happened to me ? But see , I was asking the rhetorical why . I wasn't asking the why , like I really wanted to extract the information . I was asking why from the state of the victim consciousness .

I wasn't asking why because I generally wanted to get the information and learn the lesson so I could move on . That wasn't why I was asking why . I was asking why from the state of the victim saying why me instead , now that I understand and know what I know that had to have been taken out , for what was going to replace it .

And when you understand the cosmic order and the cosmic balance of this universe , what's taken away will always be replaced with something just a little bit more advanced , something just a little bit more aware , something just a little bit more evolved , something just a little bit more tailor suited for you individually . Do you see how this works ?

So I told you , I've shared many times this sacred wound , this thing that was taken away , all these things . You know my persona , my identity , my ego , all of these old paradigms that crumbled away due to this financial hardship .

Here's what I realized that had to been taken away for the new you to come on in , for the new abundance to step in , for the new opportunities , for the new thought forms , the new self-belief , the new self-concept . You see how this works .

That old had to go , we had to throw it out . You over here trying to build a new house and you got these old bricks . You got old bricks trying to build a new house . We got to get rid of the old bricks . But sometimes that's uncomfortable because you had identified and you only knew the old bricks . So you think the old bricks was what it was .

But this is the beauty of the universe . So I told you , when you do the work on yourself , it will figure out a way to do the rest . It will meet you halfway because it can't let you do all the work because now it's violating the universal principle of balance .

So if you see , you're doing all of the work , you work on yourself , you shadow work , you're healing in your inner child , you're doing all of these things . The universe says we can't let her just do all this . She creating debt , and the universe always pays it debt off , always , always . Hear me when I say this .

Hear this in the soul of souls the universe will always pay its debts off . It will never leave you high and dry , never will it , ever . It always has to balance itself out . Your responsibility is asked the why , but don't let the why be rhetorical , because when you ask the why , now the balancing act can begin .

I've extracted the information , I've gotten the lesson that needed to be learned . Now I can start moving on . You see how this works . I can start moving on with life now because I got what I needed .

I need to realize that it wasn't the situation , it wasn't the business partner , it wasn't losing the money , it wasn't messing up my credit , it wasn't losing my house . Good God , I didn't want to start preaching , but here we are . It was none of those things . The universe simply did that so it could introduce to me this thing that we call perspective .

See , I had heard of perspective , but I did not know what perspective was . I had heard that the glass was either half empty or half full , but I did not know what that truly meant . So the universe said look , we won't have to take everything away . The only way you're going to extract the information is by you shifting your perspective .

And at that moment , my friends , is when I learned what perspective was . And when I learned what perspective was , the universe said okay , cool , let's go ahead and balance it back out . He got what he needed . He got what he needed .

Remember , I told you that it's just balancing itself out , and when it takes away and it replaces , it's going to come back with something that's just a little bit more evolved , something just a little bit more self-aware .

But by me asking that question and getting to the point of why this happened , so I could evolve my perspective and realize that I could change my reality by changing the way I looked at it . I had come back just a little bit more self-aware . I had just come back just a little bit more evolved .

And the universe says now , now we can begin the process of replacing . But here's where we get in trouble . Sometimes we get in trouble because we hold on to , when it's replaced , how quickly we forgot , how quickly we forget how we feel when it was taken away . So now we hold on to it .

And now , when we hold on to it , we create this thing that we call excess potential . Now here's what I mean by that . You ever wanted something really bad I mean really really bad and then it didn't look like it was going to happen . You see , you wanted it really bad .

That created a desire , that created an energy , that created an imbalance , but then , when you let go of it , it balanced itself out . And then , when it balances itself out , that's when you got it . But then , when you got it , what happened ? You got super excited about it . Oh my gosh , I got this new car . Oh my gosh . And you were so excited .

And then the next day , the next week , somebody were in Because you had created too much of an imbalance . Good God , almighty , you see what I'm saying right now . This is coming straight from the source . You had created the imbalance energetically . You had given too much , you got excited about it and the universe like whoa , whoa , whoa , whoa .

We gotta balance this thing back out . There's too much of this quote unquote what humans would call good energy . We gotta balance it out with a little bit of negative . So this is why we were never supposed to get too high or get too low . It's the one who keeps the wings steady . Why do you think ?

A plane , a bird , anything flies best when it's level , because the energies are balanced out . They're operating in harmony with this universe . You see how this works . That's why they got an engine on one side and engine on the other side . They don't have two engines on one side and none on the other . It had to be a balancing act .

So the same goes for you , and this is gonna be hard for us as long as to hear I can't hold on to the good things and I gotta be willing to let go of the bad things . That's just half of it , though , but I gotta be willing to let go of the good things and not hold on to the bad things either . Do you see how this works ?

So this is why meditation , this is why non-duality was so powerful , because we didn't get too high , we didn't get too low . We stayed in complete harmony the balance of the universe and then we allowed the universe to do what it does .

See , when you understand , you read the book the Alchemist Santiago , when he was going on this journey to find the treasure at the pyramids . And the alchemist told him when you're on your personal legend , when a man goes , or a woman goes after their personal legend . They're seeking to find themself . They're following their passions . They're following their heart .

The universe will conspire . It will conspire . That means it's gonna go out of its way . It's going to do what it needs to do to ensure that you stay on the path and when you start understanding the path is nothing more than what's optimal for your expansion of self-awareness .

Go ahead and let me go and put that in it , because you gonna put this on a reel or you gonna put this on a story and I'm gonna re-tag you in it . I'm gonna re-post it . The universe is only taking you down the path which is optimal for your soul's expansion of self-awareness . That's all . And now it's the balance to get .

So the reason why I say this ? Because it's okay for you to let go . It's okay for you not to be jumping up and down because you got that promotion . That's okay . It's okay for you not to be crying and sinking into a state of depression because somebody passed away . That's okay too . See , we've distorted what reality is .

We've gotten away from just looking at things as universal . Now we go by human emotion . So now we think irrationally .

So we think when someone passes away or something quote unquote tragic happens , we're supposed to throw the biggest pity party and sink ourselves into a lower , depressed state , but not understanding that one point , when that person good God Almighty , that person who was quote unquote taken away , who died too early , you had to understand that at one point they were

given to us as well . So this is how we deal with death , this is how you deal with losing someone . You can't lose something that you did not already have in your possession . So , yes , they are gone , but at one point they were given . And this is the balancing act of the universe the give and the take , the giving and the receiving .

So if we go to the financial level now , we understand why it said you were supposed to give , because this is acting in harmony . You know , when you hold on to something , you're just stopping the flow of the universe from replacing it .

And remember what I told you I don't like to use the word better , but for human purposes , so you can understand this and fathom it it's always going to replace it with something that's quote unquote better , always Something that's just a little bit more evolved , something just a little bit better . Look at your skin cells do the same thing .

They regenerate them so they don't come back as the same little crusty thing that they were before . They don't do that . My wife goes and gets her nails done from time to time and she gets her nails down within three days . She's like , oh my gosh , my nails are going in and you can see like I need to go get them done again .

I say yeah , yeah , because the body's going to regenerate itself . It's not going to regenerate itself as it was . It's going to come with something better . So if it's doing it on a micro level , it's got to do it on a macro level . Do we see how this works now ? So that's why it's okay to let go .

It's okay to let go , but you can't let go until you got the permission . What's the permission ? It's the information . The information from a situation is what allows you to let go . When you learn why , when you ask that question , why you extract information , now you can go ahead and let go .

And this , my friends , this , my friends , is how you stay in harmony and the balance of the universe . So for all my athletes out there that listen to this when you have your career high , enjoy it . Do not hold on to it . Enjoy it , but do not hold on to it .

When you have that good day at work , enjoy it , but do not hold on to it when you have lost something or you feel like you're going through a tough time . Extract the information , learn the lesson , ask the question what is this showing me ? What am I learning ? What is it I need to know ?

So when I come back and do this again , I'll know how to better handle it . Extract that information and here's what you're gonna see . You're gonna start

to fall in line . This is a little pocket . Think about you got a wall on each side of you . There's a little fine pocket where you ain't bumping into the walls . You just like in this flow zone . I call it the flow zone , right , the flow zone , Not the bro zone from Trolls , but the flow zone . Now I'm in the flow zone .

I'm not bumping the walls now , I'm just flying . Even the walls are tight , but I'm just somehow just finessing . I'm going through it . Right Now you can find the flow zone Because when something good happens , you enjoy it , but you're just like yeah , this is cool , great , this is awesome , but I'm not gonna hold on to it .

And when something bad happens , you say man , what is this ? Man , this is tough right now , but you know what ? There's something I need to learn . What is it ? What is it ? What is it ? Oh , I got it and you'll start to see how this works . So we don't wanna create excess potential , you don't wanna understand .

Everything that you create manifest in your life is going to be a certain frequency , but once we start sending more energy to that frequency than what's needed , the universe has to balance itself out . So I'll give you a personal example of this .

Right , I told my community a part about this and I had a speaking opportunity pop up here and I was supposed to go to Seattle . I'm gonna go to Seattle in June , two days , june 5th and 6th . So we started the negotiations and they're like well , we had a keynote speaker and they dropped out last minute . We're only six months out and we need a speaker .

And somebody within our company saw you on LinkedIn and said , hey , we think you'd be great . So they reached out . I have to on a call with them . They're like oh my gosh , this is perfect . Yes , so you can do them . But yeah , yeah , I'm available . So this was before Christmas , so we're still in 2023 .

They're like , okay , well , we'll send you the contract here in two weeks after the new year . I'm like , okay , cool . So then I get an email from them and they say , hey , we actually this was really hard , but we had a vote . It came down to people who were not on the committee for selecting the keynote .

We had to use them of who we would go with , right , and it was between you and somebody else , and we chose somebody else . Now I was super geeked , super excited after this opportunity to go and speak in Seattle . We had all planned out we're gonna bring a family , right , it's only two days . I got something that night and I'm gonna speak the next day .

We're gonna make a vacation out of it . Blah , blah , blah . I was already getting so excited . I was like , yeah , this is gonna be great , it's gonna be June , and then we go blah , blah , blah .

I was sending too much energy , I was creating excess potential , so the universe had to balance itself out , so it presented itself in the way of not getting this opportunity . But in that moment I have a choice . Now I can go down the left side or I can go to the right side . I could ask myself okay , what is this teaching me ? What do I need to learn ?

Or I could play the victim and say , well , it was me . And say , oh my gosh , I can't believe they didn't ask me how come ? I'm no good , I'm not good enough . I wish I knew . I should have lowered my price . I'm not good , and you see what I'm saying . So now I could have started to self-sabotage .

That would have created too much of an energetic imbalance . So instead , here's what I said to myself oh man , dang it . I feel bad for them . I feel bad for them and it's no disrespect to this other speaker , but they're not me , dang . Oh well , we'll keep it moving . So then , the next question I asked myself is why you got too high .

You got too high , you created an imbalance . The universe balances itself out . Who cares ? Let it go , eff it , right , Eff it . Who cares ? So now , when I have that mentality , that detached energy now I'm bounced back out I say now , who cares ? Let's keep it moving . I swear you on everything .

The next week , exactly a week later , seven days , I get an email from somebody locally . Locally , I say locally , it's in Indiana , but it's within like an hour and a half , two hours , and they're like we're looking for a speaker . I said , okay , well , what's the deal ?

They're like oh , it's actually four speeches , two speeches on this day , two speeches on the next day , for all of our 650 employees . I'm like okay , that's four speeches , four speeches . Seattle was only one speech . So what do I do ? I'm like , okay , well , you gotta do , I'm gonna charge four times this amount . Actually , you know what ?

I'm gonna charge three times that amount . I'll give you a deal , right ? So I write back and I tell them . I say here's what it is . They say sorry , our budget is only this . And at that moment I laughed , because their budget was the exact same amount of what I was going to do in Seattle .

So , because I did not get caught in the lower vibration the week before , the universe came back with this energy and said okay , he's bounced out , let's see how he handles it . So I said okay , fine , I'll do it . But here's where it gets interesting . Now I told you I have to do four speeches , but really the time that I have to do them is lower .

I don't have to do it for an hour and a half , I only have to do four 45 minute speeches . So when you look at four 45 minute speeches , it ends up being the same as the one hour and a half speech , close to it at least . But here's my point . Here's my point . The universe balanced itself out . I said , okay , I go into it . Yep , boom , boom .

I had to go to Seattle . Those two days I gotta go here . It's two days I Got to go . I was gonna go to Seattle speak for this much . I'm going here to speak for this much . See , the universe doesn't care about all the little details , name ocean . I don't care about none of that . It's just , look at that , the pure energy of it .

You're gonna go do something that you were gonna do up there and you're going to get the same amount of energy returned to you that you were . You see how this works . So this was a telltale sign that once I had eliminated the excess potential by detaching , it could now be replaced . And here's the beauty of it .

I don't have to go out of town , it's just right up the road . I'm not gonna miss any time at home . Do you see how this works ? So the universe gave me something actually better than what was before . And this , my friends , is the balancing act of understanding that what is taken away will always be replaced . So do not cry over what you do not have .

Give thanks to give gratitude , extract a lesson in detach , because at some point the universe has to give it back . I'm a living testament of it and if you look back at points in your life , you have endured this , you have encountered this . You have done this before . We thought it was over .

We thought it was over To the point that we let go and the universe gave you back something that you could have never imagined . We see this all the time with pregnancy . People try to get pregnant , try to get pregnant , try to get pregnant , try to get pregnant . They can't get pregnant and then when they say who cares ? They stop trying .

That's when the universe balance itself back out . So understand the language of this universe and how it works . It's energy and it doesn't need any more energy than what it needs Once it needs it . That's it . So how do we do this ? How do we do it ?

Because there's no , there's no good if I , if I tell you all this and you don't know how to do it , we're not gonna get too high , we're not gonna get too low , we're gonna be grateful for all things that come to us , because all things that come to us are either affirming or they're teaching us .

They're either saying , hey , good job , you did it , or they're saying , here's something you need to learn . So now we're not looking at it from the place of good and bad . So now , because we're not looking at from the place of good and bad , we don't even create the foundation or the opportunity to have excess potential .

It can just be , and that , my friends , is how we balance out our life . So please understand , life's gonna have its ups and downs . It has to . If there's an up , there's a down . If there's a peak , there's a valley . This is just a balancing act of this universe .

So , no matter what you're going through , no matter how much it's raining right now , no matter how many storms you got going on in your life , no matter what it may look like good , god Almighty , I'm speaking over your life right now no matter what it may look like , please , please , please , please , please , understand that at some point it has to balance itself

out . But it cannot do so Until you balance it out by releasing and letting go . Next week February 1st , 2nd and 3rd I have a free , a free program called release . This is the premise behind it . I'm gonna help you give yourself permission to let go of the things that you've been holding on to so you can balance Everything back out .

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