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Abraham On "The Stream"

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Imagine taking your canoe

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down to the river's edge

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a very nice fast moving stream

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and your oars or paddles are

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already attached to your boat

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and you put it in the water

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and you deliberately turn it upstream

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and begin paddling very hard

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against this fast moving current.

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And we say

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why not just turn and go with the flow?

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And our human friends

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invariably say

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doesn't that seem lazy?

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That seems lazy.

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And then they will say

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my mother would not approve of that.

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Or my teachers.

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They all had me pointing the other way.

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In fact

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every plaque on my wall

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was based upon paddling upstream.

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And I was measured against

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the others who did it too

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and the better we did it

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the better we were able

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to fight that current

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then the more proud

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our human friends were of us

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and the bigger the trophies and monuments

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and we hear that

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when you die there are even more.

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And we want you to know something

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in fact it's worth writing this down.

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Nothing that you want is upstream.

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Nothing that you want is upstream.

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And the reason we know that is because

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we've seen the cycle of life.

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We know that Source

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extended itself here

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into that which is you

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and we know that you are asking

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as a result of your leading edge experience

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- just like you knew you would -

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for more

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and we know that Source

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is becoming that more

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that you are asking for

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and is calling you to it

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and so we know the source of the Stream.

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And we know that when you turn

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and go with the Stream

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you feel ever so good.

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That's what positive emotion is.

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Varying degrees of it

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but it's what positive emotion is.

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And we also know

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that when you buck that current

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it can beat up on you pretty good

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and that's what negative emotion is.

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We want you to understand

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that there is only one Stream

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that you might be going with or against

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but there is only one Stream.

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And when you learn from those around you

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to go against the Stream

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then you want to pronounce

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that there are evil streams.

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That there are streams of sickness

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or streams of badness

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or streams of poverty.

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We say no

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just one Stream.

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You're just not going with it.

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You say oh that can't be.

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If it's a stream of goodness

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why is it beating me up so?

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And we say

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because you're clinging to the bottom.

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It's beating you up

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because you're not going with

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your self-created Stream.

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Do you get this?

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And that really is the strongest point

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that we want to make with you.

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This Stream of Well-Being

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is a powerful stream

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and it takes you downstream

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whether you go easily or not.

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In other words

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when you look around at your environment

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you've just got to aknowledge

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that well-being abounds.

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Your planet continues

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to spin in its orbit.

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And even beyond

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the well-being that is obvious

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- more obvious to

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some of you than others granted -

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but even beyond

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the well-being that is obvious

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we want to remind you that

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even when you get farther downstream

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and you have that

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which you call your physical death

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which there isn't any of.

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We like to be disrespectful of death

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since there isn't any

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and call it 'croaking'.

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When you - when you croak

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you really move rapidly

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with this Stream of Well-Being.

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In other words The Stream of Well-Being

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is not only dominant

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it's all that there is.

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So while you can be

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in this physical body

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and you can fume and fuss

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and give yourself a lot of grief

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and point in opposition of The Stream

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to the point

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that you beat yourself up pretty good

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and then claim

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that there can not possibly be

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a Stream of Well-Being

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because your life is going so badly.

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We want to say to you

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if you would let go

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of your resistance

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and start going with the flow

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you will discover

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how good this Stream can be to you.

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The river guide said

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to all of Jerry and Esther's friends

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you know

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that rock is not moving with the flow.

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And because it isn't

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and the water is rushing past it

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if we get our raft

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sideways up against one of those rocks

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it will be big trouble for us.

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It could turn us over

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trap you in the rocks

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and the stream will

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beat you up.

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So the idea

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is not to get up against one of those

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boulders that is not moving.

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He made it very clear.

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He said if you will listen to me

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I will guide you around them

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and if you don't listen to me

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you may end up

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up against one of those rocks.

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And we say

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the same thing applies in this Stream

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that is flowing so rapidly.

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When you let yourself go with it

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you have a glorious ride

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but when you paddle against it

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or cling to the bottom -

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when you don't let yourself go

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that's what fear and depression -

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that's what that feeling of

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loss of control is.

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That's what that feeling of

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disempowerment is.

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And we also want to remind you that

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this Stream is not

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being assigned to you by someone else.

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Source or God or someone benevolent

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or not benevolent is not saying

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oh let's speed up their Stream

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and see how well they do.

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You are the one

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that makes your Stream go

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to the speed it does.

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A mother on a recent seminar

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took a break during segment of lunch

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and had lunch with her child

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who said to her

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when you get back

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if you get a chance

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would you please ask

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Abraham a question for me?

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And she said, I will.

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And he said

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why are grown-ups so grumpy?

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And we said

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it is the best question we've heard

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and it applies to

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what we're talking about here

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more than anything else

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that we can think of.

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Grow-ups are more grumpy

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than children -

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there are grumpy children

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but grown-ups on the whole

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are much more grumpy than children

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because they've lived more life

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and they've got a faster moving Stream.

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And when your Stream is moving fast

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and you're not flowing with it

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it's beating you up

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and it makes you grumpy.

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In other words

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it just comes down to one thing

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and that is

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if you are to be the joyful being

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you want to be

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and that you are meant to be

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you've got to go with the flow.

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And when you don't

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you don't feel good.

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It's just that simple.

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Not going with the flow

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of your own creation

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is what makes you feel

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unfulfilled.

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It's what makes you feel dissatisfied

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and worse.

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It's what makes you feel overwhelmed.

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It's what makes you feel frustrated.

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It's what makes you feel angry.

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It's what makes you feel fearful.

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It's what makes you feel discouraged

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and depressed.

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Not going with the flow

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is what is at the heart

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of every negative emotion that you feel.

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So when you think about that

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break it down into the simple terms

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that we want you to hear.

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That means that your life

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just like you knew it would

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has caused you

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to launch many rockets of desires

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that if you're feeling negative emotion

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you're not keeping up to speed with.

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On the other hand

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if you do keep up to speed

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with the rockets of desires

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you've launched

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you feel wonderful.

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You feel wonderful when you

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launch the desire.

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You feel wonderful

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even before the desire manifests.

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You feel wonderful even though

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you don't see the evidence

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of it manifesting yet.

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You feel wonderful wonderful wonderful

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all the way to manifestation.

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And when you feel wonderful

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manifestation of what you want

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is assured.

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And when you don't feel wonderful

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manifestation is slowed

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maybe even held apart

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your entire lifetime from you

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and most important

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even more important

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than you not manifesting what you want

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is that you feel rotten all the time

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while you're not letting it flow.

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So we want you to get a sense

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from this analogy that we're offering

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- a very apt appropriate analogy -

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that if you will just make a decision

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that however you can make it happen

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you're going to turn

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and go with the flow.

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Sometimes we think -

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especially those of you

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who've been listening to us for a while -

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as we crow about the good-feeling emotions

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being on this end 0:08:02.960,0:08:04.090 of the emotional scale

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love and joy and

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all of that wonderful energy

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and on the other end of the scale

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are things that feel like

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depression and fear and anger -

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and we know that we give you the impression

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that your work is to

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not only not be on this end of the scale

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but get to this end of the scale

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as quickly as possible.

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And of course we'd rather that you felt

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this way than this way

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but what we really

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want you to understand is that

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since The Stream is moving

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we really are not asking you

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to turn your boat downstream

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and put a motor on it

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and get all the way down here

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as quickly as you can

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because we know the power of The Stream.

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You don't have to do that.

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In fact you don't even have to

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turn your boat in The Stream.

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Just stop paddling upstream.

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Just stop paddling against the current.

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The current will turn you.

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And this is the thing

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we most want you to hear.

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As the current turns you

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that's your point of relief.

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And when you think about it

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that is your only choice.

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Upstream

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or not.

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Upstream or not.

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Of course it's nice

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when you're choosing downstream

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and you're so good at it

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that you can really choose it

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but your choice in any moment is really

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to feel worse

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or better.

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Worse

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or better.

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And when you make that decision

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all day every day -

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I could beat the drum

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of this situation and make it worse

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or I could just stop talking about it

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and make it better.