Hey guys, I wanted to record another message, and this is from Rhonda Burns'The Greatest Secret, as I go through some of the greatest books of all times, in my opinion, that they can be grasped, the concepts, everything in your life starts to work, and that's our whole goal is to help you get good at life and just really move the hearts and minds of humanity in a positive way. And so this is chapter two. titled The Greatest Secret Revealed. And so I'm going to go through this and then do just a short meditation that you guys can practice at any time, whether it's at work, you can go take a quick break in the morning, in the evening, whenever.
And then I'll actually record a whole other separate meditation that you can use really to just allow the greatest secret or the presence of God is really... whatever you want to call it, the greatest secret revealed is the fact that you're one with the source of all creation, the life of all creation, the presence of God, whatever term you're familiar with. And that really, when you get in touch with that and allow yourself to be that presence of God, that all the hot spots in your life tend to dissolve in your presence, in the presence of love and infinite power of God.
And so anyway, chapter two, the greatest secret revealed. It starts out with, why is it so? So if you have discovered this truth, why haven't the majority of us realized who we are? How can billions of people have missed something so vitally important to our happiness?
We've missed discovering the greatest secret because of one small obstacle, a belief. Now, unfortunately for a lot of people, if they grew up in certain religions that teach separation from God, that's the belief. That's the belief that's keeping you from this. And nothing can be further from the truth.
The real you is the presence of God, is the source of life, of all creation, of love. The infinite presence of all things is within. And you can access it, this unlimited love and infinite presence of God at any time by taking your attention off your thoughts, where they can a lot of times take you down this road you don't want to go.
And this chapter really addresses that. And putting into really just... Allowing yourself to be aware of the life, the love, the source of all creation that naturally resonates and radiates out of your heart area.
That simple process actually slows down your analytical thinking and then really gets you into this meditative state. And so anyway, that single belief that you're really separate from everything you could ever desire is the real problem as they go through this book. The belief is that we are our body and our mind.
The real truth is you're the all, meaning your mind, I'll talk about this a little more in depth in the chapter, your mind or your thinking are not there to lead you around and cause stress and anxiety by thinking about the wrong things. That's what most people do all day. So if you're, you know, as we've been sharing, if the belief was from, you know, teachers, parents, religious teachers, Sunday school teachers, et cetera, that you're separate from God, Nothing can be further from the truth, and that's really the belief that keeps people from understanding this greatest secret, that everything is.
You're not just this mind and body that you have to be drug around in misery through. Those are divine gifts that you can use to create life exactly how you want. And so, as she goes through this, is believing your body creates the biggest fear of humanity, the fear of death.
And then again, as I said, if you, depending on your religious beliefs, Somehow that you might even go to hell or be tortured forever. Nothing's further from the truth, guys. And that really causes a lot of anxiety.
It causes a lot of trauma in people. So the biggest fear of humanity is fear of death. When your body dies, you fear you'll no longer exist. It's like a dark cloud hanging over your life. Here's the good news.
You're not your body because your body is just going to come to an end one day, as all material things do. The world is completely made up of material things, and not one of these things will last, including your body, which appears and disappears through the process of birth and death. What you actually are never dies. The eternal part of you, the spiritual part of you, the presence of God in you never dies.
And so, in big, bold letters here, you are not your mind. And I want to take a little bit of time with this one. Here's what Rhonda Burns writes. The voice in your head is not you, yet you've probably believed it is you for most of your life. While the voice in your head sounds like you, seems to know a lot about you, has become very familiar with you, it's definitely not you.
That voice in your head is your mind, and you are not your mind. Now, I wrote some notes on this, and I want people to really understand this. Your mind and your body or the ability to think and use your brain to create is a divine gift.
They allow you to feel the feeling of as if your prayers have already been answered or allow you to feel what it would feel like in your dream life are all divine gifts. They're there for you. They're not for your mind and your emotions to carry you around where you don't want to go.
It's for you to take your mind and emotions and direct where your life goes. And so I just wrote some notes here. You are to control the mind, not have bad programs controlling you.
Your mind and body are divine gifts to shape life exactly how you would like it to be. It's not for worrying, stress, trying to figure things out, etc. In fact, one of the things that's really interesting is your analytical mind is only as good as the information you put in there.
Now, what's really interesting is we go through some of these meditations, these books. There's all-knowingness. The presence of God knows everything. The life.
Source of all creation knows everything. Every answer is already available. So you don't have to rely on, I've heard it described this way, is the progressive way is you must read books. You must do all these things.
You must become better every day. Sure, those are fine. Those are noble.
But there's a better way is the whole point is. Or you can just go straight to the end. And tap into that all-knowingness, that all-power of God, that all-peace of God, that all-presence of God that's always there.
And have the answer to any question whenever you want. And so, anyway, the whole point is most people just spend all their time in their analytical mind, their thinking mind, thinking thoughts. Unfortunately, a lot of the things they don't want to happen all day. And so, the whole point of this is, hey, that's just a gift from you.
That's not you. That's something that you have and you experience as a gift is your mind, but you shouldn't let it control you. You are to control the thoughts that you have. You have complete control of whatever you want to think and feel at any time.
And so, are you really the person you think you are? The ego, the imagined self, the pretend self, the separate self, and the psychological self are a few of the names that teachers and sages have given for our mistaken identity. All these descriptions refer to a body and a mind that together make up what we call a person.
When we refer to ourselves, most of us are referring to this person that we think you are. However, a person is what you experience. It's not what you really are. The presence of God is in this body having an experience. The life source of all creation is having unique experiences in all of us.
So, as she continues, what's the problem with believing we're this limited person? In my case, this person that people would call Mike Popovich or whatever your name is. What is the problem with believing you're an ego or a person?
Here's the truth. Most people, now, if you already have great programs running that you truly can do anything you put your mind to, those are all great. But here's the problem. Most people don't have that running.
They have wrong beliefs running. It says we feel small and extremely vulnerable. We're afraid of bad things happening to us. We're afraid of illnesses, getting old, of dying. We're afraid of losing the things we have and not getting the things we want.
We live in a state of lack, believing there's not enough. Not enough money, not enough time, not enough energy, not enough love, not enough health, not enough happiness, not enough life. Even worse, we believe we're not enough.
So none of this is true. In fact, it is the very opposite of what is true. But we can never have true lasting happiness while we hold on to those limited beliefs that we're only a person.
Why is it so hard to see through this ego, to let it go, to stop believing in the solidity of this little guy? We've reduced ourselves to, oh, we're separate from God, we're these little things, where the truth is you are the presence of all life, of all eternity, the presence of God in a body, experiencing a mind, experiencing a body, they're divine gifts. But when you make yourself small is where the problem is.
Why do we hold on to this apparent real self when beneath and around and above and swimming all through? It is this gorgeous other reality that really is real. I think this is so great right here.
This can be counted on for sustenance for perfect peacefulness, meaning thinking is only as good as what you put in there. But there's a whole other spiritual realm where the point of prayer and meditation is to slow down that analytical mind so you can tap into this infinite presence, infinite love, infinite answers to questions. infinite health that's always available.
You can either do it the slow way, try gaining it through study, etc. Or what these books are trying to show is point you to what's already available. You can have all of that in this other stream of awareness, of stream of consciousness, or becoming aware of the presence of God that really dwells. And so if you're familiar with Joe Dispenza's work will probably do some of his books as well.
He says it like this, is most people think they have to drag their mind and body through time and space, meaning if it's going to happen, it's up to me. He goes, but there's a better way. And this is what she's talking about, is becoming aware of the presence of God in you. That's effortless. That's universal power and universal appeal.
It's the easy way. And he says, or you can learn to create from the field. And that's simply slowing down the mind, allowing yourself to use the mind to picture.
everything working out in a beautiful way for you. And the emotion is if it's already happened. And that typically is gratitude. Because gratitude means I've already received this.
So you're allowing yourself to feel what it'd feel like as if everything in your life is already working. And that energy that your mind and body create actually create a new life for you. And so just a couple more things in here. When you believe the voice in your head is who you are, You automatically leave everything it says. You leave all the thoughts your mind generates.
See if any of these you've ever done or heard. I know I certainly have. Thoughts like, I'm getting old. I'm too tired.
I'm not good enough. I can't do it. I don't have enough time. I'm not as healthy as I used to be. I don't have enough money.
I'm not smart enough. My eyesight is not as good as it used to be. I don't feel loved.
He or she doesn't approve me. I didn't deserve it. I'm scared of dying.
I don't know what to do. Here's what's interesting. When you're born, guys, you come out of divine perfection. You're birthed into this.
The presence of God is now in this container called you, having an experience. You don't have any of those limitations. Those all have to be taught or learned.
And she says, these are all limitations imposed on you, usually imposed by others to you, or taught by others to you, imposed on you by your mind. Who you are is unlimited. Of course it is.
The presence of God, the source of all creation, is unlimited. Which means... absolutely nothing has power over you because the real you is the presence of God that has power over everything. So if you make yourself small, you think, oh my gosh, this is happening to me versus wait a minute, I am the infinite presence of God that contains all things.
Then nothing has power over you. Again, in big bold letters, trading unhappiness for truth. I've said this a lot in different teachings I've done.
Is dependent on your belief system, dependent on your theology, typically what's going to have to happen is you're going to have to make a decision of do I want my life to work? Do I want bliss? Do I want happiness?
Do I want peace? Do I want abundance? Do I want a healthy mind and body? Or do I want my wrong theology to be right? They're usually not the same thing.
It's hard for people to accept because in one way you've been taught this is the truth over here. But to any... Any religion, any philosophy, any teaching that teaches that you're separate from all things is going to limit you.
And it's just not how it works. It's actually not. It's not truth. There's no search to find the truth because it is what you already are.
This is a big one, too. It may take people years and decades to learn this truth. But it's just because you had to eliminate all the things that you thought that were incorrect. But you already are what you're trying to become. You already have what you're trying to get.
You already have the peace that you're trying to get. You already have the abundance that you're trying to achieve. It's allowing that divine power, that divine flow to come out of you and create it.
And so there's no search to find the truth because it's what you already are. Meaning it doesn't have to take years. It can. It doesn't have to take a lot of time. How much time does the presence of God, the creation of all things take?
There's no time. It is already. Everything that you could ever dreamed of already exists.
It's just allowing yourself to tap into that frequency, that energy of what that is. And so how could you search for yourself? It's only that the majority of us have been constantly looking away. It must be outside.
I must have to read that new book, etc. Now, I love reading and doing these things, but it's really, if it's good, it always has to point you back to, you didn't need this book. This book was just here as a tool to point you back to the realization you already have it.
So as long as you're enjoying it, the process, then it's okay. But if it's coming from this energy level that I must do this in order to get, somehow it never gets there. It really never gets there. Because you can't obtain something you already have.
You can only move further away from it. And so that's a really interesting concept. So here's the reveal.
I don't know about you, but at first it seemed anticlimactic, the greatest secret, the big reveal. Then you're like, wait a minute. So just see if you have the same reaction.
Here's the big reveal. Are you aware? If you look, it's on just those three words with a question mark on the page.
If you really answer it, that is a big reveal, because the true you is the presence of God, or awareness, or some people call it consciousness. And it just means the one that even knows I'm reading this book is the presence of God, or awareness, or consciousness. There's something bigger than all of it. So she says the answer must be yes. Are you aware?
The answer must be yes. Otherwise, you wouldn't be aware of the question I just asked you. Let me ask you again.
Are you aware? You have to pause and go, yes, I realize I'm present, and I'm the one that's aware that I'm being asked that question. And that awareness is really who you are. You are that awareness. Or you are that infinite life source, the source of all things.
You are the presence of God, whatever that is. It's always eternal. Another all caps, you are the awareness that is aware of everything.
Meaning, if you think you need to become a guru, you need to spend years of study, you need to do all these things, then you have to ask yourself, what is aware that I think I need to do all those things? And you realize that's the true you, that's the presence of God. The fact that you could even have that thought, oh, I need to go work and become and do, versus just be, that is the presence of God. having the awareness that you're having these thoughts that you think you need to do all these things.
Now, that's not true, but that's the presence of God revealing to you, you're the one that even is aware that you have those thoughts. And so, if you can get that, it's kind of an interesting concept, but it really is true. And the whole point is that you're bigger than everything.
You're not this limited mind. You're not this limited body. You are the presence of God that has a divine gift of a mind.
It has a divine gift of a body. And so as she starts to finish up this chapter, she says this, Consciousness or awareness is also known by some religions as the presence of God. We've been talking a lot about that already in this chapter.
When a person has a divine experience, an experience where they feel they were touched by God, the individual mind and ego drop, which then reveals awareness or the presence of God. It's the same thing. Consciousness, universe.
I know a lot of religions get really nervous about that, but it really is the same thing. Awareness of the presence of God. There's a feeling of pure love, infinite peace, beauty, happiness, and bliss, which cannot be mistaken for anything but divinity, because that's always there and it's always available. It's only the mind and our emotions taken on the journey away from pure love, infinite peace, beauty, happiness.
And we think, oh, that's who I am because I'm feeling this. No, that's just something you're experiencing. The true presence of God is aware that you're experiencing that. In reality, we are the infinite being or the presence of God or one or the spirit, whatever you want to call it, the infinite being rather than the human being.
We are the infinite being having a human experience. A lot of the religious teachers in all the different aspects really all talk that way at the end of the day. You're not this limited person, in my case, named Mike Popovich or your case, whatever your name is. You are the infinite presence of God, the omnipotent. omnipotent power of God, the omniscient knowing of God, the omnipresent, all present through all times and spaces of God, having an experience as Mike Popovich, having experience as being a being.
We are the infinite being having a human experience. It's really interesting. And so, it says, in many ways, the truth of life and of ourselves is actually the complete opposite to what we have been taught. Instead of looking outward to the world, meaning I must read that book, et cetera. Oh, it's all okay.
I love reading. I've got a lot of books, but it's really, if they're, if they're true is they're going to talk about two different tracks. One is the progressive track. You must do all these things. You must do all this work.
You must do all these things. Joe Dispenza would call that matter pushing matter, which takes a lot of time and it takes a lot of energy. Or you can learn to just allow it.
to be present in the spirit realm and allow it to unfold in your life with freedom and effortlessness. And so if you're thinking out there versus inside is what she's concluding this chapter on. If you're looking for God or how to do or anything out there for fulfillment, for answers, for truth, we need to turn and look inward because it's only in this direction that we will find everything we're looking for.
Our breathtaking world and everything in it is meant to be enjoyed to the fullest. The happiness, joy, love. peace, intelligence, and freedom that are, you could call it awareness, you could call it the presence of God, the goodness of God, that is your true nature. That's the true spirit within you.
And that can only be found with you. And so... I'm going to turn my video off, and I'm just going to do a short meditation here, but I will record a whole separate meditation, so it's just on its own that you can access at any time, to really become aware, taking your attention off your mind, your thinking, your body, which can take you on a journey you don't want to go if you don't have good programs in there, and just use this infinite presence of God, use this awareness to really just bathe any hot spot, any place of distress, any place of strife, contraction, anything that doesn't appear like it's going the way you want it, and just allow yourself to tap into this infinite presence of God that you always are, you'll find that it quickly dissolves.
And so, like I said, I'll create a whole nother meditation, but I'll just do a quick one with you, and I'm going to just turn my video off because it can get a little distracting sometimes when you're looking at me closing my eyes. If you're driving, etc., you can just do this. But let me preface it, and then we'll just do a quick little meditation.
So as we were talking about, guys, is you can take your mind off thinking and place it on the awareness or the presence of God. And you can notice this life, this love, the source of all life, the source of all creation that radiates from the heart area. That's just becoming aware of the presence of God.
That's just realizing you are that awareness. And when you do that, the mind slows down. And you realize you can tap into unlimited love, which is always available.
You can tap into the unlimited peace that's always available. You don't have to let your mind wander trying to figure out how to solve things or what's the answer to a question. You'll realize that the answer to every question is already available and exists. So you can receive divine guidance.
And you can let go of all anxious thoughts, of fear, of worry. And we just place your attention away from your thinking and into that presence of love that radiates from the heart area. All those things that seem to be impossible situations dissolve. We need to allow the presence of God to be there, that infinite love and infinite life.
So I'm just going to walk you through a little meditation. Like I said, I'll record a whole other one. But just take a deep breath. And as you exhale, just realize your body completely relaxes as you exhale.
And I'll just take another deep breath. And as you exhale, just let your mind completely relax. I'm going to take one more deep breath. As you exhale, just let your mind and body completely relax. And just for a moment, I'll just ask you to...
Take your mind off whatever you're feeling, whatever you're thinking about, anything that's causing you stress, strife, contraction, anything in life that doesn't appear to be going how you'd like it, and just become aware of the love, the source of all life, the source of all peace, the infinite presence of God. that radiates from the heart area. It's always there. Just really allow yourself to feel that love, that presence, that divine light, that divine energy that's radiating out of the heart area, and you can drink in as much as you want.
Just really allow yourself to feel loved and supported by this divine light, by this divine love, divine this divine God, the presence of God, the fact that every atom in the universe is there to love you, to support you, to move for you. Just allow whatever is causing any kind of anxiousness, just hand that over. Just allow it to leave your body. And just know that there's love greater than you that will take care of all the situations for you. It'll handle it and resolve it in a beautiful way for you.
Just continue to allow that infinite love, that infinite light that's radiating out of your heart area just to be present. That's going out of you and into you. And every time it goes out of you and into you, it just gets bigger. and bigger and more peaceful and more peaceful and more loving and more loving and more powerful and all-powerful. That's the true awareness, the love, the power of God, the consciousness that you are.
Just really allow your heart to let go of any feeling of stress, of fear, of anxiousness, and just know that you're loved and supported. Just really allow it to let go. And just see that love, that light, that presence of God that's coming out of your heart area. And just see it bathing every situation, every part of your life in this infinite presence, this infinite love that already has the solution, that already has all the answers, that has already have everything you desire, is already available. And just for a moment, allow yourself to feel how good it feels that this infinite presence of God, this infinite love of God.
The life source of all creation is handling everything for you in a beautiful way and resolving everything in the best way for you. Just allow your heart to feel how good it feels knowing that all of your prayers, all your desires have already been taken care of. How grateful would you be knowing that this prayer has already been answered? Allow yourself to feel how grateful you are that this has already been taken care of.
That's already been answered. Now, just bless your whole life. I love you.
I bless you. Bless your mind. I love you.
I bless you. Bless your body. I love you. I bless you. And just love and bless this infinite presence of God.
I love you. I bless you. Just bless your past. I love you.
I bless you. Bless the current situation. I love you.
I bless you. Just give thanks and gratitude for your future life. I love you. I bless you.
Thank you that everything's already been taken care of. Feel how grateful you are that all of your prayers have already been answered. I love you.
I thank you. I'm grateful for you.