Episode 18

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Published on:

2nd Mar 2022

You can stop helping Putin win the war

Ukraine - Russia crisis is tragic and something we could never have imagined in this day and age but here we are.

In this episode, I talk about how our reaction to all the news and events is adding fuel to Putin in winning this war.

I also discuss how we all can consciously stop helping Putin win this war.

Listen to this short episode, and let me know in the comments what you think of it and what are you doing if anything to help people caught up amidst this crisis.

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Transcript
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Welcome everyone to yet

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another episode of this show.

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You know, it's interesting

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the times

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we are in now, we're barely out of Covid

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and now Ukraine and Russia.

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You know?

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And it is what it is right.

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I don't want to get into the politics of.

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You know, Right and Wrong.

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We all know we can sense,

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you know, what is right or wrong.

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All I know is that the War

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may not be called in for.

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Right, it's not justified.

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But again,

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it's what it is, right?

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And as I was

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thinking of

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Ukraine, Russia, Putin and,

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you know, many other such leaders; todays

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leaders, modern day leaders,

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you know, we end up questioning like,

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why is it so hard?

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Like, how can they decide such things?

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And it's easy.

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If you watch news constantly,

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it's easy to get scared,

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you know?

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Yeah, and be fearful about

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what's gonna happen next.

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In fact.

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Yesterday, only I was speaking

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to my father,

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who is in India,

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and he was telling me, you know

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that the news are saying

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that there may be

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attacks on UK and maybe UK

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will get into the fight.

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And you know, if that happens,

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you must return home as soon as possible.

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And.

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And

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I don't know

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whether it will happen or not,

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but I know that

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the news are just overwhelming.

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They are just boring and making,

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you know, something microscopic

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look such huge,

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you know,

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and I'm not denying that there are,

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you know,

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people are suffering in Ukraine.

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There is what is happening in Ukraine.,by

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all means, it's not justifiable.

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You cannot put your head around and say

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it's OK. At least

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where, from where I sit and stand.

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I cannot.

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But as I was thinking about it

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and I was watching all the news negative,

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all the news

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about people

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who are protesting against,

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you know,

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Russia and Putin

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and the police

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in all the countries rallying up to ,

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you know, create policies or, you know,

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declare Russia as war crimes and all that

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which again,

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not getting into the politics

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is also creating negative, right?

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I was thinking.

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That, you know, all that negative

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is just feeding

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the monster and making

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that monster bigger than that it is.

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All the negative.

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And if you keep hitting,

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you know,

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I almost want to say "Don't HATE Putin

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because he's going to thrive on it".

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That monster, that energy,

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you know, thrives on that hate.

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Think of it.

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You me,

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anybody you know, anybody I know.

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You know, the pets we have, the animals.

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We know everything in this existence,

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If you boil it down to the micro level,

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its ENERGY

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right to the smallest cells, atoms

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it is just energy.

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Everything is energy,

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you know, the water, the sun,

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the air, the food we eat.

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Everything is energy.

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And what we are doing, even this speaking

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you listening is energy,

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it's the

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transformation of energy

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from one form to another.

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And that's all

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is happening in

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this existence, is

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just from one form of energy

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to another form of energy, right

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And we all have been given

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every day a limited set of energy,

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every day

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we wake up

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with a certain amount of energy

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and we may spend it all

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or we may spend it some,

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but we have been given

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limited amount of energy

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in a day to spend and use, right?

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Yes, we often focus on time

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that we have limited time,

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but we're actually in reality.

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We have limited energy.

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Time is what humans created, right?

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Time is a

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construct of

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humans, whereas

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energy has been given to us.

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Energy is what keeps us alive.

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Everything is energy right?

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And we have a limited amount of it

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to spend every day.

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Right,

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our thoughts, our emotions.

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This is all energy.

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And whenever we focus our mind,

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wherever we've put our attention on.

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We spend that energy on that thing.

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So if you are thinking about

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something nice,

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somebody you love,

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something you didn't pass.

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Or some holiday that you want to go.

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Your attitude

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like you're

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spending your attention on thinking about

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just spending your energy there.

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Your allergy is being expended

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in the form of thoughts

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and emotions you having for that.

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So anything that you think

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puts your attention on.

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You are spending that energy

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on that thing.

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Now that could be something nice

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or something you don't like.

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Maybe it's forward.

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Maybe something happened in the morning.

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Maybe somebody said

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something in the meeting.

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Maybe it's news.

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Maybe it's Putin.

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Maybe it's by then.

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Whatever it is, right doesn't matter.

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Maybe it's more.

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Do maybe stop

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whoever you want to spend your energy on.

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Maybe it's a wife, children,

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but.

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Whatever you are

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putting your attention on,

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it is taking that analogy, or let's say

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you had 100 units of energy and a day

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you're spending your energy

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of that 100 units

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on something like that,

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something could be put in there,

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something could be Ukraine,

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that something could be a work,

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that something could be a family.

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Whatever you're doing,

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you're spending that money out,

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that units of energy out.

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The question is,

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how do you spend it consciously

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or is somebody stealing, right?

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When news, when social media,

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when your friends, you or a boss

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who is bully or a customer

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who is yelling at you or whatever, right?

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Somebody

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grabbing your attention,

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taking your attention away from you.

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They are stealing that energy from you

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because you're not consciously giving,

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because you're reacting.

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It is not a response.

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It's not a conscious response

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that you're doing.

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So in a way, it's being stolen.

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It's being robbed out of you,

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and you're not even aware.

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Let's put this analogy into two frames

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for easier

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understanding, there's positive

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there's a negative right.

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Let's see

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what whatever Putin is doing

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is all negative, right?

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We don't like it.

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Everybody is against it.

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It's negative.

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It's war is skill sets suffering.

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It's just not needed, right?

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And it's negative.

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So all those decisions

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are coming out of that.

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Negative energy

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is creating something negative.

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And here we are,

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we are reading the social media,

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which is being negative

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about all that negative is being done.

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And then we are creating

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negative thoughts

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that are resulting in negative emotions

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and more negative and negative negative.

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Look, how big is the negative getting

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through the SATs, science

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or math, negative

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and negative makes positive.

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It just grows

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right was Putin's negative

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and this is our negative.

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And now it's this big.

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This is why his timing on

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all the hate that people media

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everybody is giving him

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because it's just getting

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bigger, bigger, bigger.

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Yes.

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And we,

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you know, break at some point,

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it may just burst out, but right now

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is becoming such a big thing.

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And that is why it is important to

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consciously think of

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what you're doing with your energy.

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The let's have a radical idea

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actually is not radical, it's radical

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to say it now,

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but it has been shown and proven

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throughout the ages.

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You know, thousands of years ago,

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all the mistakes

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and the ways

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beings that walked through this hole

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have talked about it

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as often in all over scriptures as see

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instead of focusing their energy.

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On hearing Putin, how about love Ukraine

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or how about sending some

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love to Putin?

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The had soles lately

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far out

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to love somebody who is doing all that

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chaos right,

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who is creating all the mess.

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And I understand it right?

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You have to be at certain

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conscious levels to be able to do that.

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But for a minute,

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for just entertaining me, for just this

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moment, few just think of it.

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Dan is creating.

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All the negative energy, right?

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All the West mess, mess,

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if we start sending some love that side

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and form of avatars, emotion and energy

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and just create some love there.

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So the negative.

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War mass negative.

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Our response

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prayers love positive flight

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when they collide, it's just got a

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it's not going to grow up, it's going to.

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Help bring this negative, right?

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And I know it seems so far out,

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it seems airy fairy.

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Trust me, it works like people

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who are consciously

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doing that looks.

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You know, this is why Mother Teresa

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now never went in a

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rally against the law

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or rally against violence.

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She was always there in our rally

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in Forbes, so she was always on

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the positive side of things

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rather than being engaged in something.

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Because when you being

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against something,

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you are just creating

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negative and negative,

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it just thrives on it.

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So all these leaders thrive on ride

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and other thing to think of her

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as somebody who was acting like this,

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like Putin, is just beautiful.

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Was just afraid

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of losing something, right?

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The thing is the buildings,

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the more days of the world,

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they are afraid.

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Why else will you create the hate?

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You only create hate

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because you lack love.

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You know Lao Tzu says,

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"Love is a decision,

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it's not an emotion ".

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That means you can decide to love.

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I am not sayin love

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Putin's decision of war, love war.

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I'm saying just send love to Putin.

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What do you do when somebody is sick?

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You give them love, right?

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What do you do when somebody is afraid?

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Give them love.

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Right, that's

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the only thing that conquers.

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That man

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sitting in there is afraid, is sick,

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so send love.

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I also wanted to read some quotes

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before I end this episode

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with what I wrote.

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Rumi says "Love is the bridge

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between you and everything".

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He also said

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"Through love, bitter things seem sweet;

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through love

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bits of copper are made Gold".

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You know, if you cannot give love,

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if you cannot send love.

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How about stop

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spending your negative energy

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and emotions, reactions to that,

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do something positive with whatever

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you're feeling?

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You know, donate to a charity

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that's supporting Ukraine,

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you know, create videos,

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create awareness, helps

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the people

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of Ukraine in your own ways, right?

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I've seen so many incredible things

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being done on social media

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to support those

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causes to help the people

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on the ground other than just seeing

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within is all the negative stuff.

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Everything that makes you afraid,

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hateful, angry, just totally, you know,

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already give it a break and maybe

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look at things

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that people are doing to make it better.

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Help them,

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you know,

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by contributing

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your time, money and friendship,

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whatever you can.

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And that probably is a better way

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to handle the situation.

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So I'll end this episode.

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But just this little piece of writing

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that I thought about this morning

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while meditating and hopefully.

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It reaches you out in the place

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that it reached me today.

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Hate cannot win hate,

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only love can.

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Hate cannot cure

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sickness, only Love can.

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Hate cannot remove

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fear., only love can.

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And hate

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cannot create freedom,

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only love can.

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For when you love,

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And when you give love.

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You are one

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with who you truly are.

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So give love, give love,

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give love.

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Thank You.

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All right.

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with Manpreet Bawa
After 20 years as a successful IT professional in corporate America, I seemed to had it all. I raised over 10M’+ in sales, but I was unfulfilled and unhappy for not being in control. Suddenly I realized: if I died tomorrow, all I would be known for was 20 years of career success and nothing else. It wasn’t enough for me, so I worked feverishly to get out of an unfulfilling rut.
I learned my lessons about investing in self and equally focusing on soft skills aka life skills like leadership, communication, etc. a hard way. But it doesn't need to be this hard.
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