Speaker Identification

Speaker 1 - Aero, Host
The speaker self-identifies as Aero during the opening, introduces the program and topic, thanks supporters, leads most transitions, shares experiences from restaurant work, sings near the end, and closes the show.

Speaker 2 - Rob / Robbie, Discussion Participant
The speaker is addressed as Rob and Robbie during the conversation. He discusses meditation, forest walks, a motorcycle trip to Pennsylvania, tree-treatment work, workplace interactions, and offers an extended closing reflection.

Speaker 3 - Sheila, Discussion Participant
The speaker is addressed as Sheila. She contributes observations about allowing thoughts to dissipate, attachment to positive possibilities, laughing with oneself, and developing a relationship with one's spirit.

Speaker 4 - Prerecorded Opening Vocal / Song
The episode begins with a produced musical introduction. The vocalist is not identified in the transcript.

Speaker 4 - Prerecorded Opening Vocal / Song:
You can feel it, can't you?
Something shifting, something breaking through.
This isn't just a voice.
This is a signal.
Mmm-hmm.

They told you where to look for truth,
Somewhere distant, far from you.
Built up walls inside your mind,
So you would never truly find.
But in the silence, in the space,
There's something time cannot erase:
A quiet knowing, deep and slow,
Calling you to take control.

No more waiting.
No more doubt.

Welcome to A St. Thomas Show,
Where the truth begins to glow.
Not above and not below;
It's alive inside your soul.
This is where the veils come down,
Where the lost are finally found.
Hear the call; it's time to know.
You're alive on A St. Thomas Show.

Every system starts to fade.
Every fear begins to break.
What was hidden comes to light;
It emerges from the night.
You don't need a crown or throne.
You will never not be your own.
Every answer that you seek
Lives within; it's yours to speak.

Feel it rising.
Feel it now.

Welcome to A St. Thomas Show,
Where the fire starts to grow.
Not a whisper, not an echo;
It's the truth you came to know.
Step beyond the old control.
Take it back; reclaim your role.
This is where your power flows,
Right here on A St. Thomas Show.

No more searching outside.
No more giving your life away.
This is the moment.
This is the day.
Stand up.
Awaken.
Remember.
Become.

This is A St. Thomas Show.
Feel the energy explode.
A new world begins to show
From the seeds we choose to grow.
No more fear.
No more lies.
See it now with open eyes.
Hear it, feel it, let it flow.
This is A St. Thomas Show.

You're not tuning in.
You're waking up to A St. Thomas Show.
To A St. Thomas Show.

Speaker 1 - Aero:
Greetings, greetings, greetings. This is A St. Thomas Show. You can call me Aero.

Speaker 2 - Rob:
I'm at the adult table, for sure.

Speaker 1 - Aero:
Awesome. How are you doing?

Speaker 2 - Rob:
I'm doing well. I'm here. I'm doing the kids' table. I did that when I was, I think, 38 years old. I was at a family gathering thinking, “I should be with those kids. The kids' table is way more fun.”

Speaker 1 - Aero:
Yeah, it is. The adult table is the wrong table.

I want to offer some thank-yous. Sheila is always in the house. We want to thank Don and Doug at BBS Radio. They are 100 percent our technical support. We are all excited to see the new platform. They are creating a new website and a sensational new platform.

I want to encourage anybody who writes or sings their own music, or has music they do not want owned by a music label, to call BBS Radio. They are very encouraging, knowledgeable, and experienced in what they do, and they will help you along the way. I have even seen books advertised, and they have a television platform, although I cannot speak to that. I do not know anything about television, and I am not interested in having my picture out there.

Thank you to the listeners. We do not have a show without you. The subscribers and one-time donations are absolutely golden. If you like what we are doing and want to support us, I believe the lowest subscription level is $5.99 a month. That helps us maintain the show and keep it running.

If you do not want to make a monthly commitment, you can go to the right column. At the bottom of that column, there is a donate button. Enter A St. Thomas Show and make a one-time donation. Anything helps.

Next Sunday at noon Central is my alternating show, The Project Review with Q&A. After today's show, you may want to call in to that program. I encourage you to call with questions, insights, or anything you would like to share.

We also have a Q sister, Teresa Songbird, on BBS Radio Fridays at 3:00 p.m. Central. Her show is called All Learning Reimagined, and the series she is working on right now is Self-Embodiment. It is about learning to know yourself, which connects with much of what we are going to discuss today. It is a great series. She is around the seventh or eighth episode, and her show is 30 minutes long. It is a great program to tune into for helpful insights.

Our Q brothers, Johnny and Kevin, host Q-Men Perspective on Saturday mornings at 10:00 a.m. Central. I absolutely loved their show yesterday and was highly inspired. I want to discuss a post from Elon Musk that they mentioned on their show. They are great brothers who bring a lot of humor to the table. All three are great light beings, and I encourage you to check out their shows.

Without further ado, today's topic is doing the work and going within. I want to encourage people to do the work. Many people want to create beautiful things and avoid struggles. They want certain things in their lives, but they are not willing to do the work. How many times can we discuss the commands? How many times can we say, “Go within”?

Speaker 2 - Rob:
How do you answer that question, Aero?

Speaker 1 - Aero:
That is a good question. We may have touched on it at other points, but what does “go within” mean? You can suggest that somebody go within, but what does that actually mean? It is easy to say, but unless someone has listened to three years of Ron Amatron's shows or Q's shows, the phrase may not be clear.

It took me years to understand it. When I first heard both of them saying, “Go within,” I thought they meant meditate. My reaction was, “Ugh, meditate.” I work 12-step programs, and the Eleventh Step concerns improving conscious contact through prayer and meditation. I always thought that was the step I practiced the least. I struggled to sit still because I had very restless energy.

I tried many kinds of meditation. I thought going within meant that I would have great, dreamlike revelations, receive insights, and be inspired with knowledge about what to do next. They described it, however, as going into the heart rather than the mind.

For me today, going within means calming the mind. For a long time, I tried to turn off my mind, become empty, and have no thoughts, but I never succeeded. What helped me was advice to pick one thing and focus on it, such as a color or a shape. Someone also suggested choosing a favorite scene, such as a beach or mountain.

The problem was that when I imagined a beach, the scene became very active. I saw birds flying, waves rolling in, and heard all the sounds. It was not a singular focus. A color worked better for me. I am also very interested in crystals, so I can put a rock in the palm of my hand and focus on it.

One of my main points about doing the work is asking, “What am I focusing on?” If I am going to call something meditation or going within, it means stopping the chatter in my head and focusing on one thing. That could be the rock in my hand, a color, or a shape. Some people may see a pyramid.

Speaker 3 - Sheila:
One thing I would add is that we are not actively eliminating the thoughts in our minds, because then we are putting our attention on the thoughts. Instead, we allow the thoughts to dissipate because we are focused on something else.

Speaker 1 - Aero:
That is a great point, Sheila. Rob, let us throw the question back to you.

Speaker 2 - Rob:
I resonate with what you were saying. There is so much emphasis on meditation. I remember being five or six years old and trying to meditate at taekwondo. I thought, “I came here to learn punches and kicks, and now you want me to sit still for 45 minutes?”

It can be good to be physically still, but you can move with a still mind, and you can sit still with a racing mind. What good is meditation in that situation? Ron said he was not necessarily against meditation, but he advised people not to go outside their bodies. If you are sitting there daydreaming or mentally leaving your body, what is the purpose? We are here in physicality to do things. I like a passage in the Essene Gospel of Peace that says, “Only in movement is life.”

I do not want to sit still while my mind is racing, because then I am creating a negative experience, in my opinion. I am not at one with what is. That is why the mind-to-heart drop is powerful. You are commanding the energy. Rather than resisting what is, you switch your focus and bring yourself inward.

I often tell people that most of our problems are in our heads, and they concern either the past or the future. Unless somebody is actively punching you in the face, the thing hitting you is your thoughts about a situation that already happened or might happen.

For me, going within now means doing the mind-to-heart drop, shrink-wrapping my aura, and being completely present where I am. Eckhart Tolle talks about inner-body awareness. If someone is speaking to me and I become triggered, I ask what is triggering me. I notice whether my hips, back, or legs are tense, or whether I want to run away and stop listening. Then I ask why. Those triggers can be gifts.

Going within means listening to your intuition and being present in the moment. I do not think it necessarily has anything to do with formal meditation. I tried meditation as a child and again about 10 years ago when I was exploring spirituality. I focused on candles and performed different rituals, but, in my opinion, they had no validity for me.

This morning, I went for a hike in the forest with my mother. That was going within. It was more meditative for me than sitting still, repeating mantras or affirmations. Walking through the forest, experiencing the energy and beauty, brought me into my body and heart. Going within means containing my energy and being fully present where I am.

Speaker 1 - Aero:
I like that, especially the attention you are bringing to these words. As I said, when I first heard people discussing going within, I thought they meant meditating. Now I connect even the word “meditating” with mind energy, almost like dreaming.

The mind-to-heart drop may be familiar to regular listeners, but I do not want to assume everybody tuning in today knows it. We use a command and say it three times:

“Spirit within, take the thoughts in my head and place them in my heart.
Spirit within, take the thoughts in my head and place them in my heart.
Spirit within, take the thoughts in my head and place them in my heart.
Five, four, three, two, one - heart.”

Then I breathe. Today, breathing is one of the best things for me to focus on. A long time ago, when I was struggling to sit still, someone had me take a simple walk. It was not a walk with many distractions or difficult terrain. I did not have to think about stepping on rocks or walking off a cliff. I could simply walk and focus on my breath.

She told me that if something captured my attention, I should not condemn or correct myself. I should slowly return my attention to my breath. More recently, a woman I was doing a session with tapped her upper lip and said, “Bring your focus right here.” Now, when I focus on breathing, I can feel the air entering my nose and moving past my upper lip. I can also feel my upper lip as I breathe out. That is a new and interesting point of focus for me.

Speaker 2 - Rob:
That is useful because I am also a strong believer in the breath. I used to practice Wim Hof breathing, but that can involve a lot of mind energy because you are doing it for a particular purpose. You may hyperoxygenate your blood, which could be preferable to shallow breathing, but you can eventually reach a point where, if you are truly at peace, you are aware of your breath without needing to force your focus onto it. You simply experience and witness it.

Focusing on or experiencing your breath is part of going within for me because your energy remains within you instead of broadcasting outward. We sometimes call it “spiritual fishing.” We have cast our lines into the future and the past, replaying memories or anticipating future events. Reel those lines in. Reel your spiritual energy back into the present moment.

Speaker 1 - Aero:
Exactly. You brought up another topic I wanted to discuss. Focus is one part of self-awareness: stopping and acknowledging what I am experiencing, what I am feeling, where my focus is, and what I am focusing on. Another part is attachment. What am I attaching myself to?

I had a struggle this week connected to something that happened at work about two weeks ago. I did not initially realize how attached I had become to it. During the following week, I remained at work mentally reliving what happened. Once I attached to it, I created mayhem and frustration. I eventually heard myself complaining out loud at work because I had held onto it for so long.

I was attached before I voiced or expressed it, but because I kept hanging onto it, I reached a day when I complained and became a little dramatic. I wrote a pointed little sign and taped it somewhere the customers could not see but everyone in the restaurant could. I was making a point.

When I came home that night, I realized how far I had gone into complaining. I eventually turned it around, but first I had to recognize where I was, what I was doing, what I had attached to, where it came from, how far back it went, how it started, how it built, and how I had created it.

Nothing had changed over that week and a half with the people I worked with. I was the one who kept compiling and attaching meaning to the experience. As we learn to witness and hear ourselves, we can watch what we are focusing on and identify our role: “I created this. I attached here, and this is where I took it.” Then I can allow myself to remain in the process of learning, waking up, acknowledging who I am, and learning to respond differently.

Why did I carry it for so long? I do not know. Maybe I carried it so I could bring it to the show. Over the past few days, I woke up from it. I went to work last night, had a great night, and laughed and giggled.

A coworker who had not even been at work on the day I posted the sign came over while I was about to compliment her 14-year-old son. It is his first job, and he is one of our bussers. I was going to tell her that he was doing a great job and had become my favorite busser because he was new, energetic, and enthusiastic about learning and working.

Before I could say it, she started chewing my ass out. All I could do was giggle because I knew she had not been there on the day I put up the sign. Obviously, people had been talking about it. When she finished, I said, “I was just going to tell you that I really love your son. He is doing a great job.” She replied, “Oh. Well, I heard about the incident.”

I told her, “I do not even know which incident, because last week had a hundred incidents, and I left all of them in last week.” Then we laughed and giggled for the rest of our time together. It was cute. Somebody had been talking about me.

Speaker 2 - Rob:
You touched on a good point. I experience something similar at work, and it connects to going within. As you said, inner awareness involves paying attention to what you are thinking and why you are thinking it.

I ask myself whether I am being a dark-side practitioner by using mind energy. Even thinking, “I wish this person would understand,” can make me catch myself. I think, “Okay, I am being a dark-side practitioner.” In my understanding, light works only in the present. If that person is not here, I may be sending a form of psychic or mental-attack energy toward them, even if that is not my conscious intent.

I actively try not to think about other people in that way, but it is difficult because many of us were taught through religion to think about and pray for others. Growing up Catholic, I was taught that I had to do that. I now interpret that as psychic-attack energy. It took hearing Ron discuss it repeatedly before the idea made sense to me.

Thinking about somebody, forming an opinion about them, or judging what they should do can be seen as going against source, because source allows free will and free choice. It is as though you believe you know better than the divine what that person should be doing. Instead, you can come into acceptance of that person.

I now tell myself, “That person is perfect the way they are. They are running a program, just as I am.” I might think they are not at the same level as I am, but even that is a judgment. What level am I at? There is no objective way for me to judge it. I can simply say, “That person is perfect. That is who they are. That is where they are. That is what they said.”

I recently began thinking that much of going within is connected to what is held within our DNA. In my view, every cell in our bodies contains thoughts, feelings, and experiences from our lives, as well as information from previous generations and ancestors. Some people believe those ancestors missed ascension at other times. We do not know how long our body genetics have been here. It could be a hundred thousand years. From that perspective, we carry an incredible amount of information, data, experiences, and emotional charges within us.

When those things come up, that is an opportunity to go within and release them. You can say, “This is inside me, and I need to get it out because it has created a charge or energetic blockage within me.”

Speaker 1 - Aero:
There is also the realization that I create my own reality. Sometimes people say what they say to me because I am drawing that experience toward myself. Q once said something to me, and it took me a week to consider why he had said it.

I also called into Don's radio show once to discuss a subscription, and the conversation turned to voting and politics. He asked who I was voting for. I gave him the standard statement I had adopted before January 1: “The only thing I have to say about politics is that I love you no matter who you vote for.”

That statement came from an experience at a public booth. I did not want to have political conversations there, but I had Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s book The Real Anthony Fauci for sale on my table. A man came up, began talking about the Kennedys, and the conversation became political. I did not want to repeat that experience.

Don then “big-brothered” me, as I describe it. He challenged me by saying I was letting people bully me into not having a voice. I took that seriously because I believe I attracted his comment. It was part of a pattern I had already witnessed. Q had also pointed it out to me.

The last time I spoke to Q on the telephone, he asked, “What is the one thing you have in every relationship in your life?” The answer was false accusation. I felt that somebody was always accusing me of something. It was similar to the coworker who began chewing me out for what she thought I was going to say about her son.

Now I do not have to react. I can recognize, “There goes that program again. Here we go again.” It is an ongoing program, but I can acknowledge it for what it is.

Speaker 2 - Rob:
That is the thing I hope listeners understand. Coming back to the present moment is constant work. It is a moment-by-moment practice. There is no pill that completes it for you. You keep doing the commands every day, and perhaps the gaps between needing them become longer.

For example, when I wake up after dreams, especially if dreams are parallel lives, I sometimes return to this body feeling out of balance. It usually takes me about 40 minutes in the morning to get myself together. I wake up, drift back to sleep, enter a dream world, and then tell myself, “Okay, I have to get up and focus.” I do commands and actively remind myself to use them. I have only been doing this for a couple of years, so it is still a process.

It is daily, moment-by-moment work. People often think there is a magical pill or solution, but there is not. You continue practicing the mind-to-heart drop, commanding your spirit to return to your body, shrink-wrapping your aura, closing your crown chakra, or using whatever commands help you. You may need to do those things multiple times each day until you can remain grounded for longer periods.

Speaker 3 - Sheila:
There is a flip side to attachment. Occasionally, I go far in the other direction. Something very good happens, and I feel elated in that moment. Then I suddenly attach that excitement to everything that might happen in the future because of this one event. I have to remind myself to detach from all those possibilities and choose only the next step.

Speaker 2 - Rob:
That is very well put, Sheila. It is easy to get pulled into daydreaming. Yesterday, for example, I was looking for places to stay in Pennsylvania during a motorcycle trip with my brother. I became excited when we found a little place, but then it was not available for both nights. I entered a fantasy about the trip and started worrying about what we would do. I spent half an hour in my head about something that had not happened yet.

This occurs in many areas of life. I am trying to become more balanced. It is not that you cannot celebrate or become excited, but life is changeable. Over the past few years, I have become excited about projects moving forward, only to have circumstances change six months later and a deal fall through. You go from elated to deflated, and you lose peace on both sides of the experience.

Now I try to say, “This is good. This is a win. I appreciate it. Now, on to the next thing and the next step.” I try not to sit in daydreaming, fantasizing, and imagining. As the CCR song says, “Someday never comes.” It is always now, and events may not unfold the way you expect. That is a lesson we all learn in life.

Speaker 1 - Aero:
I like that you brought up excitement, Sheila. In 12-step programs, they call a period of elation the “pink cloud,” but then people want to shoot it down by saying, “It is just a pink cloud. It is not real.” I say, “Bask in it. Sit in it. Breathe it in.” Instead of going into the mind and projecting every possible future outcome, enjoy the moment. Ride the wave of excitement.

I titled the topic “Let's Do the Work,” and I initially thought it sounded dull and drudging. We learn to treat “work” like a four-letter word. Yet the reward is wonderful. There is so much joy and excitement when I practice something repeatedly and finally see the results. When I see the fruit born from the work I do, it is worth it. There is so much joy and peace.

Sometimes I have to encounter the same theme again, such as being falsely accused and choosing not to react. I spent much of my life feeling falsely accused and reacting. This time, I remained at peace. In fact, I giggled. It is rewarding to recognize progress from the work we do.

Speaker 2 - Rob:
Even laughter is a good way to dissipate the energy.

Speaker 1 - Aero:
Laughter is great. A good vibrating belly laugh works for me.

Speaker 2 - Rob:
I am glad you brought up laughter because this work can be frustrating. Some days, it is very difficult to stay in the moment, avoid becoming upset, and stop anticipating everything that might happen and everything I might have to do. We create silly scenarios.

When I notice that, I bring my attention back to the moment and laugh. I say, “They got me again. I am out of the moment and out of peace.” I laugh at how challenging it can be to remain present, and I try not to beat myself up about it.

Speaker 1 - Aero:
That is a practice too, and it becomes easier. Last night, I needed that coworker to chew me out the way she did. We work in a restaurant and are constantly moving between the dining area and kitchen. For the first 15 or 20 minutes after she confronted me, every time I came near her, I started giggling because the situation was so funny.

I finally said, “Thank you so much. You just made my day. I cannot stop giggling about that.” Then she started giggling too. She had worked many double shifts in a row and was very tired. I think the laughter was good for both of us. We kept it going for a while.

Speaker 3 - Sheila:
May I add something? People sometimes say you have to learn to laugh at yourself. Here is another question: What if you laugh with yourself?

Speaker 1 - Aero:
Yes. Again, notice the words we use. Observe what we focus on, the words we choose, and what we speak aloud. In our view, those things have creative power because we are creators of our own reality. When we become aware of what we say, we can begin connecting the dots between our words and the things we bring into our lives.

Something I said a moment ago may show up later, even if I spoke without conscious awareness. The practice is to acknowledge it and become the observer.

Q once said something that baffled me: “The answer to this human experience is not to care.” I could not wrap my mind around that because I thought my greatest asset was that I cared. I have a beautiful heart. I love, and I care deeply. I care about myself, the people I work for, and the job I do. I want to do a good job regardless of what anyone else thinks.

I have worked jobs where coworkers complained that I made them look bad. I thought, “Whatever. I am going to focus on what I am doing.” I care about an employer's equipment. I have seen coworkers who do not care for it, but I want to take care of things and avoid damaging them.

This past week, however, part of my problem was that I cared what time I went home at night. We were staying very late, and there is a backstory that is now in the past. I cared about what other people were or were not doing. I cared what time I left, what time I got home, and how quickly everything happened. Then I attached to it and would not let it go.

Here is another example. I was bird-watching when a small creature came out of the grass. It was a kitten. I said hello, and it began meowing and came directly to me. Some boys were playing soccer nearby. I could not bring the kitten home because I have an alpha cat who would not accept it. I asked the boys whether they needed a kitten. They told me there were about four tiny kittens in the grass.

I knew this kitten was not completely feral because a truly feral cat would probably run from me. Somebody may have been feeding it, or perhaps it had been abandoned. The kitten came to me, and I became attached. I could not stop thinking about it for about three days.

I kept telling myself, “I am not going to feed it,” because, in my theory, if you feed a cat, you become responsible for continuing to feed it. I thought, “If that little kitten is going to live outside, it has to learn how to survive and hunt.” I did take it some water because it had been around 99 degrees for days, and there was no nearby water source. The kitten looked okay, but I could not get it out of my mind because I cared. My mind kept saying, “Poor kitty. Poor kitty.”

How do we not care? Many listeners to Q's show have said, “I just want to help people,” because we are trained to care.

Speaker 2 - Rob:
That is a good question to ask yourself. Q also says, “Take great care.” We are universe creators, so take great care, but do not care what other people think. It is difficult to reach that point.

I had a conversation with someone recently about other people's opinions. I said, “I do not even care what I think, let alone what other people think.” It takes practice. You still want to bring quality and care to everything you do.

I made a note when you discussed caring for things at work because I experience that too. It is easy to fall into an identity-mind trap. In my work, I care not only for my employer's equipment but also for people's trees, gardens, and homes. People take great care of those things.

One woman praised my work so strongly that she called the office. She said, “Rob did such an amazing job,” thanked me, and asked whether she could request me the next time. I told her she probably could if I happened to be nearby on the route.

She said I had done a great job, and I told her, “That is because I treat your home and backyard as though they are my own.” I do not mean that I take ownership of them. Yet if we are creating our own reality, who is to say they are not part of what we are creating? Everything belongs to no one and, in another sense, to all of us.

If we treated everything as though it were ours, we might take more responsibility and care for it. We are here together, yet also alone, creating our own realities. Unless I go out and create something, I do not know whether it exists in my experience. In my understanding of light, nothing is created until you create it. If you are creating it, treat it with care.

Speaker 1 - Aero:
There is a paradox in that. If I treat something as my own, I will treat it well, but I do not want to care for it as a possession. If something happens to it, I may become attached and upset. If it breaks or somebody steals it, why should I become bent out of shape? In this assimilation, I believe I can create anything I want.

It is challenging. I do not want to call it hard because I can become excited about a challenge. I like to play, and a challenge can be like a puzzle. It can be fun and entertaining.

Maybe the answer is to become excited about the task. That is what I did when I returned to work determined to have a good time. I decided to become excited about going to work, rolling silverware, and whatever else needed to be done. Turn everything into an art. Be present. Do it with glee.

Speaker 2 - Rob:
Yes, the art of everything: sweeping, washing dishes, and doing ordinary tasks. I return to the idea of doing everything in a sacred manner. I have that phrase written on my computer screen. It is okay to put care and quality into what you do rather than acting haphazardly. When you are careless, you stub your toe, make mistakes, forget things, and fall out of balance.

Take great care, but do not care. In other words, do not become attached to outcomes. You mentioned the way we say, “I do this,” “I do that,” or “I am a good person, so I deserve this.” We create an identity through mind energy. Then something happens, somebody does not respect us, and we ask why. It is still mind energy.

Sometimes things simply do not work out. Someone may not appreciate your effort, and you may not receive a thank-you. That is the way it goes.

I experience that at work with my supervisor. I do not think he has ever said, “Good job.” If I make a choice, the response is often, “Why did you do this?” or “You should have done that.” He rarely asks why I chose a particular direction. Instead, he says I should already know or should have acted differently.

That makes it difficult to tell him anything because he always seems to have something negative to say. Then I ask myself, “Is this in me? Is it being projected toward me?” I can see times when I have behaved similarly, become frustrated, or spoken sharply to people.

Still, I remind myself that another person's behavior is not necessarily a reflection of me. Sometimes our bodies bring forward what we need to heal, but not everything that happens is necessarily our own reflection. I like the saying, “Other people's opinion of me is none of my business.”

In my view, people are separate energies doing their own things. Sometimes someone is simply having a bad day. We do not necessarily attract every event. We may become pulled onto another person's timeline.

Since listening to Q and Ron, I have become more conscious of the timelines I enter. I used to feel that I had to jump in, say something, do something, or provide the solution to everything. Now I often observe without speaking. I try not to place people on timelines or create as many timelines as I once did.

Speaker 1 - Aero:
There is a new woman at my workplace. I will not go down the rabbit hole of the judgments I had when she first started, although I observed myself judging her. She began walking past people and saying, “You're doing a great job.” She said it to everybody, and it became contagious.

Soon, everyone started saying it to everyone else. It changed the whole mood. It delights me when she is working because the phrase spreads throughout the workplace. She is new and works only a few hours, but it has been a joy to watch her influence take hold and hear other people repeating, “You're doing a great job.”

It does not matter what your private judgment is. It is simply a positive thing to say to one another, and it helps keep the mood positive.

Speaker 2 - Rob:
That is a perfect way to look at it, and it brings me back to something you mentioned earlier: Why do we focus on the negative?

I recognized that negativity can become habitual because other people practice it. When we return to the shop at the end of the day, everyone asks how things went, and the conversation often immediately moves toward complaints. One day, I decided I did not want to be pulled into that negativity bias.

When somebody asked how my day had gone, I said, “My day was amazing. I am here. I arrived back, which tells me I did not die. Blood is pumping through my veins. My truck worked. There are thousands of parts in my body and in my truck. I drove through the city, visited people's homes, and completed everything. So much had to go right for me to be standing here answering that question.”

Why focus on the tiny part of the day that went wrong? Perhaps 99.9 percent of the day worked, while 0.001 percent did not. Yet we focus on that small negative part.

We see a negativity bias in news and social media because drama triggers duality, fight-or-flight reactions, and cortisol. People become attracted to it. If somebody asks how a day went, part of us may want to hear drama. A peaceful day with nothing unusual can seem like there is “nothing to write home about,” but an enormous number of things had to go right.

Why focus on one bad event and stew over it for three days? Why not focus on the fact that today is a new day? The earlier event has no relevance in my current reality unless I choose to keep reinstalling it.

Speaker 3 - Sheila:
So the themes are focus, attachment, learning not to care, and becoming the observer.

Everybody has heard the question, “Is your glass half empty or half full?” I once heard someone say, “I am truly blessed that I have half a glass.” I loved that.

Speaker 2 - Rob:
Then the engineers in the room say the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Speaker 3 - Sheila:
And someone with a poverty mentality might ask, “Why aren't you sharing what is in your glass? You are hoarding the liquid.”

Maybe we should all share the glass today and drink from an endless well of strength and abundance. It is endless because we can create another glass, another filling, and whatever else we want. We are the creators. Is that a definition of communion, Aero?

Speaker 1 - Aero:
I do not know. That may be a topic for another show: the definition of communion. There was a brief time when I was in a church and participated in communion, so that would be an interesting A St. Thomas Show topic.

I have also been looking closely at words. Churches call a service “Mass.” I hear that as “mass consciousness,” or a mass pool of energy containing thought energy and prayers, both positive and negative.

People may think, “I am a good person. I pray for others.” But in our view, everything seeks balance. Ron often drew attention to the sound of “pray” and “prey,” suggesting that praying for one thing may draw its opposite. That is the interpretation being discussed here.

I also thought about the word “parish.” I do not know whether every church uses that term, but the church community in which I grew up was called a parish. I connect the sound of “parish” with “perish,” meaning to pass from existence or be destroyed. From that perspective, when someone enters a collective church or Mass, I question whether the individual spirit is being sacrificed to collective consciousness and mind energy. In other words, I ask whether the spirit is “perishing” within the collective.

Some of us are becoming aware of what we consider black magic embedded in language. For new listeners, that is part of what we mean when we examine different words. I used to say “good morning” to everybody. Now I hear the word as “mourning” and think of saying “good grieving.” I believe that association is engineered into language, and I find it troubling.

Teresa also brought up the word “decide.” She focused on the ending “-cide,” which appears in words such as pesticide, suicide, and homicide. Because of that word association, I try not to say that I “decide.” I say that I choose.

I choose to have a great day. I choose to become excited about something. I choose to sit, observe, and not react. I choose today.

The larger practice is becoming aware of the world around us, the engineering we perceive in language, our programmed thinking, and the way we were raised to rely on rational thought. We do not want to make every choice from the mind. We want to enter the heart and make choices from the heart.

That returns us to going within and doing the work. Let us become excited about the work because of the rewards. My life has changed greatly over the past few years as I have learned and practiced these ideas. I am genuinely excited to get out of bed, live my life, have fun, experience joy, and remain at peace. Peace is golden to me, and I treasure it.

Speaker 2 - Rob:
What takes us out of peace? Becoming attached to an outcome or assuming that something should be different from the way it is.

Speaker 1 - Aero:
Yes. It means becoming one with what is. We may say, “This should not be happening,” but why? It is happening. The question is how we are going to respond.

Speaker 3 - Sheila:
I hate to interrupt, but we are about seven minutes before the hour. Do we want to wrap up with final words?

Speaker 1 - Aero:
Yes. I want to sing a short song. I usually sing earlier, but I wanted to bring out much of the work and discussion first. This song is called “Strength of Your Spirit” by Alexa Sunshine Rose.

Speaker 1 - Aero, Singing:
Trust and allow.
Trust and allow.
Trust and allow the strength of your spirit, always.
Always trust the strength of your spirit.
Always trust the strength of your spirit.

Speaker 1 - Aero:
Whoops. That became squeaky. Sorry. I was trying to sing a little higher than my natural tone of voice. I am not a music person, so I do not know the proper terminology or whether I mean lower notes or lower tones. Normally, I sing “I trust and allow” in a natural range, but I wanted to go a little higher today, and it became squeaky.

Finding where your voice naturally belongs can be difficult. Singing is a real practice for me. I constantly blame my brother Q for putting me here singing in front of people, but it is okay. I have to be an example. It does not matter how I sound.

Singing has become an important tool in my life. Alexa Sunshine Rose sings beautifully. The people who sing to me and fill me up also fill my spirit. I enjoy singing with them and listening to their music.

Robbie, what closing thoughts do you have for us today?

Speaker 2 - Rob:
On the topic of going within, I do not know whether I have shared this on the show before, but it bears repeating. It comes from a Ringing Cedars book and a parable of two brothers.

The story is very interesting. After a lifetime of traveling, one brother returns to his brother's property. I believe the inscription says, “All you seek, wanderer, you carry with you. You will find nothing new, and you will lose with every step.”

When we look to the outside world for answers, we lose our spirit to people, places, things, experiences, substances, and other external sources. We have to trust that the answers are within us.

I grew up watching The X-Files. Through the 1990s, the repeated message was, “The truth is out there.” That became programming for me. I was taught to look outside myself for answers. Eventually, I realized it was time to go within.

Do not seek your answers in something outside yourself. You carry them within you. That is part of doing the work. For me, taking a walk in nature is a better way to allow answers to arise than calling a friend or searching externally.

Trust your spirit. Trust yourself. Trust your intuition. Trust your gut instincts.

Speaker 1 - Aero:
Beautiful. Trust the strength of your spirit. Go within and find your heart space. Sheila, what do you have for us?

Speaker 3 - Sheila:
Our spirit is within, and it is with our spirit that we develop a relationship. That relationship is also a relationship with ourselves - our true selves. When I say, “Laugh with yourself,” that is the self I mean.

Speaker 1 - Aero:
That may be where the Buddha's laugh comes from. I love it. Thank you.

This was a great show. Let us call it a wrap. Love, love, love, love. Thank you, everybody. I appreciate Rob, Sheila, Don, BBS Radio, and all the listeners. Thank you all so much. It has been awesome.

Speaker 2 - Rob:
For sure.

Speaker 1 - Aero:
Love, love, love.