I Feel Overwhelmed by My World Right Now — The Spiritual and Emotional Growth Needed to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed and Find Peace and Meaning

for more, knowing something is missing.

“Then this podcast is for you, so here's your host, Joe Medigan.”

Hello, and welcome to week. My name is Joe Medigan, and I'm the host of the We Podcast.

Over the past few weeks, something incredible has been happening.

Not just here in the United States, but across Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom, Australia, Nigeria, India, and other parts of the world. More and more people have been discovering way. And I don't believe that's happening because people are simply looking for another podcast.

I really don't.

“I believe it's happening because people are quietly looking for the same thing.”

You know, we're looking for peace, we're looking for meaning, we're looking for connection. And quite honestly, we're all looking for hope. The world is changing faster than most of us know how to process it. Every day, we wake up to more uncertainty, more division, more information, more pressure, more expectations quite honestly than our hearts were ever designed to carry.

Somewhere along the way, many of us stop living and simply stop started surviving. We became overwhelmed, not because we're weak, not because we're broken, but because we've

been trying to carry a world that was never been designed to be carried alone.

One of the most humbling realizations I've had over the past couple of weeks is watching people from different countries, different cultures, different walks of life, all finding the same conversations here at we. It reminds me that while languages may be different, our hearts are remarkably the same. We all know what it feels like to be lost, to feel alone, to worry about the future,

to wonder if we'll ever feel like ourselves again, to carry burdens that seems too heavy. Those aren't just American problems, those are human experiences and millions and millions and millions of people around the world are quietly feeling the same way. Maybe the answer isn't that there's something wrong with us.

Maybe the answer is that we've simply forgotten something we've always known.

That healing doesn't happen alone. That happens when we remember the we. Today we're going to talk about something I believe everyone in the world carries right now and that's a little bit of overwhelm and some of you a lot of overwhelm. Others hopefully not as much, not just being busy, not just having a stressful week, but

living in a constant feeling that you're mind, your heart, your spirit. Is carrying more than it was ever designed to hold. And together we're going to discover a spiritual and emotional truth that helped me quite honestly stop carrying the way to the world and I finally want to share what happened. I lived in dark forever, I lived in confusion forever, I lived disconnected from ever.

“And now I have to tell you, I truly do live in peace and my life is full of meaning.”

And with that, welcome to wait. I am just in awe and in gratitude and I could go on and on of how blessed I feel. I had the opportunity this past week, I was given a trip, I was given a cruise and it's interesting how the decades just pile up, how the decades just happened. As I was thinking about it and my producer, Miss Wendy called me up and literally gave

And I was in awe quite honestly and in gratitude and just amazed. But what really happened, the awakening that happened for me was I started thinking, when

it was the last time I was on a vacation and I never truly came up with an answer and

then I kind of looked back, I said, "Well, where has my life been?"

“Quite honestly, in my 20s, the decades of the 20s, I was drinking and dragging every”

day. In my 30s, I was in recovery and seven of those years of my 30s, I was in the deepest darkest place that humanity can put a person, I've talked about that a lot. In my 40s, I got married, great lady, she was over here today, had two kids, amazing

though how we grew, but we grew in different directions.

I'm going to talk about that a lot because it's happening a lot today in the world today, really is, by 50s, I've been a single dad and now in the beginning years of my 60s, it's all changing again and it's all part of the change that causes a tremendous amount of overwhelm, it's all part of the voices in our head that creates a tremendous amount of overwhelm and we're going to talk about what overwhelmed really is and then I'm going

to go through and share my stories of course and share my experiences and just help you try to help and I say it all the time and I want to welcome the tens of thousands of people

“that are new because that's what's happening here and it's happening because our topic”

here is not an easy one but it's a necessary one, it's not a quick fix, I'm not a quick fix, podcast, the weed podcast is not a quick fix, the weed podcast quite honestly has become the number one rated emotional healing, human transformation podcast on Apple podcast. Now is that an official thing? No, but I've hit top 200 numerous times, I'm in the top to 50, 80, 90% of the time now, why? How does a show like we with 34 episodes? How does

it compete with massive media and massive celebrity influence and massively wonderful podcast? How does it compete? Well it competes because all of you are here and the things I'm saying that are going to be different than you hear anywhere else, you're remembering the same truth that I live and I live it not because I'm unique or I'm special or any of that, absolutely zero, I'm just the guy, just like you, just the guy, the difference

is I started this process now literally almost 40 years ago. By first conscious thoughts

were out when I was 26, I'm 63 and we're going to talk all about that today. But before I get into the episode, I want to just say some thank yous to the people around the world. Again, this past week, the country of Germany, the weed podcast was ranked number one. And why do I say that? I say it not because it's special for Joe, but every time I see these rankings and I see and I go right down the list, France, top 10, Nigeria, top 20, United

Kingdom, top, I mean I go right down the list. Why do I say it? Why do I share it with you?

“I share it because the only way a podcast ranks high against global magnificence out there,”

the podcast out there, the intelligence, the wisdom that's out there is tremendous. But the only way it ranks so high is because people are listening and people are listening again and people are listening not just to one episode, but they're listening to multiple episodes. And why is that important to Joe? It's because I've kind of now I'm full circle for a decade. My life was so miserable that I remember thinking 30 years ago and when I get out of all this, I really

want to help humanity do something different and that's happening here at the weed podcast. And I just really want to thank all of you. I want to thank you for your support. But more importantly,

and you're here, let me put it another way. The only reason you're here is because you're on a

“spiritual path. And the only reason you stay is because you're a spiritual warrior. Those are just”

absolutes. And for the last podcast that I did, why do we feel so lost? I was downright angry in that podcast. I was and I've told you from the beginning I'm going to be as open and as honest and intimate as I possibly can be, numerous podcasts. I cry most of the time through. A lot of times, I'm an emotional guy and I'm going to show you that vulnerability is just who I am and it's really okay. You can be deeply connected spiritually and which means then you are deeply connected emotionally.

But you're going to be grieving a lot. Hopefully, your heart's opening. Well last week, I was mad. I was literally angry and I'm hoping and I really as I thought about it later, I said, I'm really going to be curious to see how the world responds to that kind of sickness and that kind of protection and that kind of literally sharing a reality of true and false from my perspective with

“spiritual backup to what I was saying. And quite honestly, that particular episode exploded. Why?”

Because the divinity in me is connecting to the divinity in you and I'm really grateful that you're here. Super excited. My book, "Filling the Void," we are just about live. Visit JoeMidget.com. You'll be able to get it for free, download it for free, or we're going to be able to ship you a copy of it. I just need you to pay for shipping for me and we'll get it to you around the globe. So I'm really excited. "Filling the Void," was my original book that came through me

well over 30 years ago now. It was back when I was living in the room. I was two years sober, maybe, and I hear a voice in my head that says, "You're going to write." Listen, I'm not writing. You're going to write, Joe. I'm not writing. The voice eventually said, "You're going to write? Are you not going to sleep?" I remember thinking. "All right. What the blankity blank blank blank? All right." Soulmates came through me, which is a poem that's in the book. Several other poems came through me,

which now are all integrated in that book and then eventually got out of pad a paper and a pencil and started writing. 166,816 words later, 22 months later, the book was finished. In its original format, the original title, it's called "Your Inner Child has Rights 2." A common man's quest to become one with God. Well, we've changed that now. The book is the

“same. It's my story and I always want people to know that if I can, you can. That's why”

what makes the wee podcast unique and that's why I'm super excited to talk about the voices of we and I'm going to share about that here in a second. But what makes the wee podcast different than a lot of podcasts out there, we are an experience show. The wee podcast is about sharing our experience strength and hope. Not telling you what to do, not telling you

how to do, not telling you what to believe. Ever, I will never do that. I'm going to constantly

ask you to go inside and find what works for you. What you believe, how things are for you, regardless of the social environment around you. Why? Because you're different than your social environment. You are. How do I know that? Because if you weren't, you wouldn't be able to make it five minutes in one of my podcasts. You wouldn't. So we're an experience strength and hope podcast. And what we're doing with the voices of we, which next Tuesday is the first launching

of that. So starting next week, we're going to have two episodes, one on a Tuesday, one on a Thursday. Voices of we are going to be the Tuesday episode. And what I'm going to be doing in the beginning,

I've got some people that are willing to be contributors. The very first show. And I'm going to tell

we're going to be talking with them. And then they're going to be sharing their stories, their experiences. And then I'm going to be sharing those initially, just myself, my interpretation. But my hope is over time. And I know the development of the show over time is that these people

and their hopes. And as part of the contributing base, what I'm doing is because the we podcast is an awareness podcast, not a solution podcast. I'm an awareness podcast. But I've got

some amazing people. For example, my life coach, Dr. Karen Louise, I haven't asked her officially.

I'm going to be meeting with her next week. If she'll be willing to be a contributor, which I'm 99% sure she will be. Why? Because she's a solution person. You know, she just is. And I want to be able to create awareness. But then I want to be able to tell the audience where they can go when you're ready to start taking action and get support. And it's great to bring up all this awareness. But if you don't have help moving through it, it kind of stops there. Well, I'm not a

“stop guy. I'm going to bring awareness. And then I'm going to bring support. And that's why the”

voices of we are so important. And quite honestly, to be completely honest with all of you. What's happening here at the weed podcast is divinely unique. I can go on and on and on. And I don't want anybody to ever get confused as if the weed podcast has anything to do with the man. Me. It doesn't. It has everything to do with the message. Now, I admit, I am very practiced at conveying a message that I've been trained to listen to my divinity. I am very good at that. No question.

But it's not Joe's message. It's not. And that's why, you know, about a month ago or so, I had my little red hawk experience, which a lot of you know, there's a particular female that

I cross paths with almost four years ago. And I'm a big fan of hers never matter yet. But

“same kind of thing happened about a month ago, just randomly. This woman crosses my path through”

the social media world. Every time that would happen randomly, I go and I look up her name. And then I don't even look for her. I look for whatever is around her. Well, sure enough, I came up with the idea voices of way. Why? Because if there's only one voice, it's very hard to separate the message from the voice. And I don't, this is not about Joe the man. This is about the message that Joe has the ability to communicate. Well, the voices of weed is going to expand because there are tremendous

numbers of people way more connected to me, including this woman I keep talking about. She's the first person that I ever, I actually crossed the paths with literally on social media, of course, that was more spiritually connected to her heart than I was, which I was just elated. And there are others out there now, you're listening here, a tremendous percentage of you listening here on this podcast are more spiritually connected to your heart than I am. And I am very practiced,

especially you women out there. And I say that, why do I say that? Because there is a mass majority of women out there. Even when you were mentally fried, emotionally beat up, codependent or addictive. I don't care what your path looked like. A huge percentage of you, you still had your gut instincts the entire time. Now, were you following? No, were you acknowledging them? No. Were you shaming yourself and beating yourself up? Because you couldn't follow up,

probably 10, 15, 20, 30 years ago. But the intuition you're gut instinct, the solar plexus is open

“from most women. And that's a true advantage. And that's why when women connect spiritually”

to their heart, add that to their intuition. That's why women are so powerful. And I know that

now for an experience, literally, because for myself, my stomach chakra, just started opening up 90 days ago. Literally, I've got a lot of things to talk to, to care about. I know her stomach chakra has been open forever. I can tell. I can feel it. And I say that in such a way, because as beings, as human beings, the spiritual sense of yourself, there's multiple ways people do it. Well, for me, I'm an audible guy and a heartfelt guy. So, audibly, I can hear and then I write,

I hear and then I speak, I can feel emotionally feel set. I can emotionally feel the mad glad sad and scared. And I can sense things through my feelings, but not through my intuitions. That's just all opening up for me now. And the more humanity wakes up, the more these characteristics

are very different types of guidance systems. They very are. They really are. And for a lot of women out there, you've got them all. And I just applaud you. I look forward to meeting all of you, literally, because it's through that, it's through those connections, through those communions that allows the world to heal one person at a time. And I'm really, really excited about it. With the book coming up, my plan is to collect email dresses. I want to get a huge,

global email world of consciously connected people, true spiritual warriors. So every time we have new books, our new authors, our new whatever, they're coming to the We Podcast. It'll be a free

“download. It just will be. And why am I doing that? Because that's how we heal. I've come across”

some of the most amazing messages around some of the most amazing people with the message that's

just fabulous. And I think to myself, 50 people won't read that book. Not because the book is in excellent, because the author of the book doesn't have a vehicle, doesn't have a mechanism to get it out to the globe. Well, that's one of the many benefits that the We community is creating, that we will have access, you will have access to some really powerful work that all different types of people do. And I'm really excited about that. I really am. So let's talk about over one.

What is it? Like literally, you hear the people say, I'm so overwhelmed. What the heck does that mean? Truly, overwhelmed comes in all different forms. It comes from mental, comes from emotional, comes from spiritual. Of course, as you all know, that's kind of how I break up the podcast. And but overwhelmed, excuse me, overwhelmed is truly the experience that is an internal struggle,

“quite honestly, that happens when there's more of whatever it is you're dealing with,”

then your conscious awareness can participate with. So many of us wake up and we've got five thoughts, ten thoughts, 50, a thousand, a hundred, a hundred thousand. And the thoughts just keep going over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and our head. And you know, the challenge is most of those thoughts, most of the thoughts that

cause overwhelmed, we're going to talk about it, are thoughts that are always predicting your tomorrow

to be more of a doom and gloom than a grander space. How did I know this woman I always talk about, is so connected to her divinity, is because when I read what she wrote, she was talking about her tomorrow being grander that her today. Well, I can tell you folks, nobody gets mentally overwhelmed by too many grand thoughts of your tomorrow. You get mentally overwhelmed because all of your thoughts are about a crazy tomorrow. From the emotional position, basically, it's just your feeling,

so many feelings and you're so confused and your mad, glad, sad and scared all at the same time. And there's just so much suppressed emotion that every time you have an emotional response to something, there's not space because it's all been so suppressed. So from an emotional overwhelmed position, it's like you almost get buried in your own sense of feeling because everything is buried and it just keeps growing and it just keeps getting bigger and it just keeps getting more and

more and more and then we don't know what to do with it and then basically when you get so overwhelmed

emotionally, it clouds everything. It's kind of like a wet blanket over your head constantly. And that's a real challenge. Again, later in the show, we're going to talk about that.

“And probably quite honestly, one of the most confusing, though powerful, spiritual”

overwhelms that happen is because the guidance system of your yesterday doesn't work in your today. It doesn't. The guidance system that guidance you, that helps you make decisions that creates right and wrong, that points direction, that kind of helps you go left to right, forward or backwards, up or down. All of that, the guidance system, the internal guidance system that spiritually guides you, it's changing. Literally, we're going to talk about that today.

used to always say ABC and then when it was ABC you followed that direction and now the guidance

“system communicates you as one, two, three. When the wonder were overwhelmed. It's like,”

we get in the middle of, we know we're on a spiritual path, but we're in the gap between where our yesterday doesn't work, but our tomorrow isn't developed in here. We're here in the middle today confused as crap. And that causes spiritual overwhelm. So let's start with the mental overwhelm. I mean, what is it? All the voices. You know there are two basic fears, really. There's two basic kind of fundamental fears. A fear you're going to lose what you have and a fear you're

not going to get what you want. It's that simple. A fear that you're going to lose what you have

or you're not going to get what you want. And from that position, if you think about it kind of that simple, what happens? We start living life. We wake up on a Tuesday and we had a kind of not too good Monday. And then we wake up on Tuesday and the not too good energy of Monday starts our Tuesday, right? Well, again, when you have all the voices in your head that are predicting Tuesday is going to be not too good from Monday. Then you wake up Tuesday and Tuesday. You're already

feeling not too good. Then the voices tend to, the voices tend to pile on themselves. And then we

literally start believing that the voice of your today can truly predict your tomorrow. Why?

Because tomorrow happens just like the voice said it would. Literally. And it's in that spiral that the voices themselves pile up on each other. Literally. And it was listening to a particular podcast where this gentleman was saying, you know, that's just all programmed in your

“this that the other thing. And all you have to do is go reprogram it and start your day as a different”

personality. And I said, you know, that's as an interviewer. Someone beat this guy being interviewed. I'm thinking of myself, man, that sounds fantastic. Now, you know, it's all a load of crap. Why? Because I've been doing this for 40 years. And if it was literally as easy as he said, it would be everybody do it. Personalities would change. Your personality would be dog crap on Monday. Your personality would be fantastic. One would got on Tuesday. And who's going to choose a personality

of dog crap over a personality of oneness? Nobody is. So what does that mean? Why do we keep having dog crap days? Because the shifting of our personality from a mental position is complete nonsense. It doesn't work. How do I know it doesn't work? Because if it did, if it was that simple flippo, dog crap personality to one, this personality, if it was that simple, flip the switch. Do it in meditation. And if you have in a bad day, just meditate for 62 hours straight and then

everything will be fine. You know why I know that's none of that works. Because the voices that they're trying to change through meditation, the voices that have paralyzed your personality in the not so good, dark days, the voices aren't sourced in your head. They don't come from your head. You hear them in your head. Those voices are sourced in your heart. Literally. We're going to talk about that more in the emotional section of this podcast today,

“but that's why meditation doesn't change a thing. Can it calm you in the, now moment? Sure,”

can. Am I opposed to meditation? Absolutely not. I think meditation is fantastic. It's a great way to just calm down. It's a great way to just bring some peace. It's a great way to just calm yourself for a little while. Does it heal anything? No. Hear me? It heals nothing. How do I know? Because any of you that have been on this podcast for a while have heard the concept of meditation, you're entire adult life. And if meditation healed something,

you would be healed, walking on water, transcendent, and coming back. Doesn't work. Why? Because the voices that it's supposed to be changing aren't sourced in your head. They're sourced in your heart. And that's why, for me, quite honestly, I realized what I realized, just not long ago,

I wasn't on the internet. I had a staff that did our internet work. Jackie, she's fabulous.

“You look at my avion energy website. Jackie, in a man named Tom Beldoni,”

out of Chicago and my business partner, Mr. Jim, they did it all. I did none of it. So I wasn't exposed to the world. I wasn't. My journey was really me with me, truly. So when I heard all the

voices, never, ever, not one time that I ever say to myself, I want to change up my voice in my head.

Never. I never asked that question. Never said that. I always was guided for the beginning to say, "Why do I have the voice there in the first place? Why do I have the voice?" Not, let me change the voice. And, you know, I know it's confusing. I do. You can't go on a self-help self, whatever the heck they call these different podcasts out there. Podcasts that talk about your emotions, podcasts that tell you how to do things. You can't go on any of them. You can't go on

literally one of the most famous podcasts in the fricking world been around for 40 years and not hear the same thing. Just change your mind and it will be all right. Center later, I'm going to be on all those podcasts and center later those hosts are going to look at me. They're going to try to challenge why because for 40 years they've been hearing that the new thought movement is the solution. How do I know it's not the solution? Because for 40 years, especially the hosts,

some of these big jows, for 40 years they've heard the same thing. And for 40 years they challenge

they have the same challenges, emotionally, spiritually, physically. Why? Because you're basically

trying to fix the bandaid. Not heal the wound. So, the starting position of all that, you're overwhelmed and you hear just the thousand voices. Please don't try to get rid of the voices. Please, it doesn't work. Get out of pad of paper. Get out of pencil and write the voices down. Write them down. Now, if you're like me, the first time I did that, I wrote 12 pages of voices. I did. I hope you get my book, filling the void. I talk about it

a little bit. My second book, which is called "Why We Feel Alone?" I'm in the final editing

my side of the editing of "Why We Feel Alone?" And throughout that entire book, I go through

these exercises. We have to get the voices out, not continually battle as if your voices are against you. They're not. The voices are the red flag. They're not the source. The source is emotional wound underneath the voice. Not the voice itself. So, every time you try to change the voice, are you trying to act like the voice isn't there? Are you trying to suppress the voice? Are you trying to act like, you know, just forget about it. Go do it anyways. And it doesn't work.

All it does is bury in more emotional shame. It works for everybody else and not me. How do I

“know? Because that was me for years. And you're basically being asked to do the impossible. Why?”

Because it doesn't work. And let me make it as clear as I can make it. Do I literally care that there could be a thousand influences in a room and a thousand of them, one thousand of them would say, positive affirmations work. Just change your mind and me standing on the other side. Do I care? No. Why? Because it doesn't work. How do I know that? Because you know what folks, if that concept actually worked, why are you on this podcast now? Why? If it worked like

all of these influencers say it worked, just change it, you wouldn't be here. Why? Because you had changed it. You'd already be walking on water, have the beautiful wife, our beautiful husband, made all the money you ever need and travel in the planet. But you're not. I'm not saying you're not doing all those great things. But you're here on this podcast. Which tells me there's

“something in you has always known. There's something more. What's the something more?”

Well, the something more is the honoring of those glassful personal destructive, hateful, hurtful,

trying to change, honor those voices. How? Write them down. Now, when I say honor, I say

“honor because that's what unconditional love is. When we unconditionally honor the voices,”

you watch how your world will start changing. Why? Because the battle against you never win.

Hear me, you can battle against those voices until Christ comes again and you will never win. Why? Because you're battling the symptom, not the source. The voice is not the source, the voice is the symptom. And how do I know? Well, because if you're on here, I'm sure you've tried. I'm sure you've tried the meditation concept. I'm sure you've tried to change your mind. I'm sure you have. And if it worked, you wouldn't be here. So the honoring of the voice, right, is

when you write it down. And when you write down the voice, which is going to find is that there's hundreds. Hundreds. My very first voice? I don't have any voices. That was a very first thing I said. My sponsor Nancy. Now, this is 30 years ago, probably 28 years ago.

Joe, you got to write down those voices. I'm like, what voices? All those critical,

shame-based, hate-filled voices. I'm like, what are you talking about? I don't have any of those. She said, this is what my sponsor Nancy would always do. She go, aha. She never ever gave me an answer. She go, aha. I left there literally. I left that session thinking, what a miserable blank blank blank. She's not nice. She's not this. She's not that. I never did hear it. I literally left her office full of critical, hate-filled, shame-based voices at her. Never heard it. So eventually,

she suggested it to me several times. And eventually I said, all right, fine, I'll do it. So later, whenever that was, got out of piece of paper, the very first voice I heard was, I don't have any voices. And as if an act of God, quite honestly, the pen just kept writing. I'm to this and I'm to that and get the book filling the void. I go through the exercise a lot. Definitely get my second book. Why we feel alone? I talk about it all the time.

The voices and give a bunch of examples because when you get those voices, when you start writing, the voice is down. Why is it so powerful? It's because when you write the voices down,

“and then you have to share it with somebody. When you write them down, you share it with somebody.”

The part doing the writing is a higher you. The part being written about is the wounded you. Your world is not where you want your world to be. Your external experience is not where you want it to be because it's mirroring the voices of your most wounded part. Now does that mean everybody on this podcast has a miserable hateful? No, no. Most of you don't have deep, dark, I can't breathe life. You don't. Some of you do. I did.

A lot of you don't. And that same voice will say you're not a spiritual being. Don't you remember what you did 14 years ago? You're not a spiritual enlightened person.

“No one cares what you have to say. You can literally be a multi-millionaire in the middle of”

a 10,000 square foot house with family that loves you. A business that's had really profitable and helped a bunch of people. And your voices could be saying to you, as you're trying to pursue your next thing, reinvent yourself again, your voices could be the voice is saying, don't get anybody money. Won't help. What are you talking? Who's going to read your book? You're an entrepreneur in the oil business. Why would anyone want to talk, listen to you about

your spiritual path? Your voices could be the voices keeping you from living a grander you. Again, the reinvention concept. This woman, this website that came across that I mentioned before, I realized I better get this woman's permission before I keep putting her website out there.

I mean, good as gracious. Last podcast, I think you've always had five or six thousand people

I guess, well, you know, I've never been accused of not having large male energy. I have massive

“male energy. And I'm assuming she's going to be okay that five thousand people heard about her website.”

But anyways, this particular website talks about reinvention. So the voices that hold us back go anything from I'm too ugly, too fat, too stupid, to whatever I'll never make money. Whole world of that. To no one will love me if they really knew me, blah, blah, a whole world of that. All the way to the place of you're not a spiritual being. You drink too much. You're not a spiritual being. You don't even like people. You're not a spiritual being. No one would want to read your book,

which is nothing to do with your wealth, nothing to do with your family loving you. So the voices in our head that cause us overwhelm. The reason they cause us overwhelm is not the voice itself.

“It's the context of the voice. It's the intention of the voice. And what is it? The glass”

empty voices in your head. It's not the voice itself. It's what the voice is predicting your tomorrow to be that causes the overwhelm in your today. How do I know? Because if you had a voice that said, oh my God, I can hardly wait till tomorrow because tomorrow I'm going to make $50,000. I'm going to help 40 people. Everybody's going to love me and my book's going to be number one on Amazon. You could have 127,000 glass full voices predicting your tomorrow to be granted in your

today. And overwhelm would not be your experience. What do you mean, Joe? You just said I had 143,000 voices in my head. I know. But it isn't the 143. It isn't the number of voices that's causing the overwhelm. It's the context of the voice. When you have 143,000, whatever the numbers you know, I make stuff up as I go. Whatever the number is, if those voices are all predicting your tomorrow to be worse than your yesterday, that's where overwhelm comes from. And any

predicting voice of a glass empty tomorrow is based on her. It's based in fear. So where does the

“overwhelm come from? You're constantly perpetuating fear. Remember the two basic fears?”

Not going to get what I want. I'm going to lose what I have. If you listen to your voices and of the prediction of your tomorrow, it's going to be one of those two things. And that's why you write them down and from a mental position. Does that heal anything? No, does it heal the reason they're there? No. But what does it do? It starts giving us a little bit of hope that we're starting to have discovery. Basically, the second part of my title, right? The emotional

growth needed to stop feeling overwhelmed. From the mental side, you will stop feeling so overwhelmed. If you start writing down all the voices of the 10,000 voices in your head. Basically, the only reason there's 10,000 is because there's about 80 different topics that you repeat a hundred times. So when you're writing your voices, you can write down one voice that comes out. That could be responsible for 30 different

repeats of the 10,000. Write them down. You'll be amazed. Tell them to somebody else. You'll be

even more amazed. When the telling of somebody else, why that's so powerful, is because that's

really where the communion of the we were not supposed to do this alone, healing doesn't necessarily happen. Alone, it happens in the we. Well, when you write down the voices, you're identifying your internal we for the first time, most of you. Literally, humanity is sitting there with all these voices going through it, none of them favorable most of the time. And your divinity is the part writing down the voices that it hears. So in that moment in time, when you're writing

down your voices, there's your divinity, your higher self doing the writing and what's that

part writing about your humanity who has all the glass empty voices. Now, I always talk about the

we humanity, divinity, inner self, the source of those voices is not your humanity position. It's the inner self. That's the emotional part. We're going to talk about that in a minute. But

being written about, you're multi-dimensional. There's two of you while you're doing that writing. And then you take that data, you take that information, and you share it with somebody who can hold the same space for you. So you're taking the we, which is your humanity and your divinity,

“you're sharing it with another person, and then the we goes into a collective. And that's how”

together, we heal humanity, literally, one voice at a time, one smile at a time. And eventually what you'll see

is you do that enough, and I say enough, how many first steps you're going to have to do? I don't know.

I did a bunch of them. Why? Well, I had a ton of voices. Most of you don't. Most of you don't have near the number of voices I did. Do this, don't. But so you'll do multiple first steps, and why is that important? Because until you write them down and you see them on paper, there's no real awareness. So if there's no awareness, there's no ability of choice. Hear me. If there's no awareness of the voice, there's no ability to make choice

when you're out in the Tuesday morning. There isn't the only voice you hear is the glass empty voice.

So on Tuesday morning, the first week of the month on Tuesday morning, if all you have

is glass empty voices guiding your life, guess what? You're going to make the same choices that Tuesday that you did the Tuesday before and the Tuesday before and the Tuesday before. Why?

“Because there's no awareness that the voice is guiding you. That's why here are all these”

influencers out there saying, "Well, you just have to change a personality." Again, kidding, if we could do that, we'd have done that already. Can't. Why? Because the voice isn't the source of your personality. The heart is. Well, so why doesn't make a difference to choice? Hear me. Why does it make a difference? It gives you choice because on a wear, there's no choice. The only behavior is the glass empty voice. Once you start writing those down and you say,

"Oh my God, look at all those voices. I didn't even know all those voices were in there." Then the next time you hear those voices, here's the trick. Listen for the voices on that pad of paper and when those voices are trying to guide you, choose a different choice. Hear me. Why do we write them down? We create a sense of a we, human self-devent, higher self, share with somebody else so we create a community of we. But the main reason is because the only way

you can truly change your choices, your action steps on Thursday morning is that you have to be

“aware of what part is guiding you. That's why the awakening process is so important. It”

and it happens as a consequence of writing the voices, not negating the voices, honoring the voices, not battling with the voices, making the voices real instead of making the voices raw. We wonder why we feel like crap all the time because influencers out there making those voices like they're your enemy. They're not. They're you. They're just like your left hand. Are you right hand? They are as part of you as any other voices. That's why I got so mad last week.

I hear some pompous whatever judging a human being's character because they're quote-unquote have victim thoughts. Nothing wrong with you. If you have victim thoughts, zero wrong with you. Now those victim thoughts are an absolute red flag for a hurt inside of you. I'm not suggesting we want those victim thoughts of those dark thoughts that are hateful, rageful thoughts running your life anymore. Why? Because those are the thoughts that created the

world you don't like. Those are the thoughts that are creating the world you're trying to grow out of. But no one tells you how. Doesn't surprise me. The weepod guess has been the number one ranked how to podcast on Apple now over two months. A man in a microphone. Number one, there's 27 major categories on Apple. The weepod guess. Number one on how to. Why? Because the how to

change your world, your extra world starts by writing down the glass empty voices first.

Once you write them down, then you're going to see on a Tuesday morning when you get a little practice with it. You're going to see what I used to do when this first started to happen for me

I knew including family members. I had to say goodbye to all of them just so I could be in a

sacred place of silence to heal. So literally what I would do when I learned this concept that I'm explaining here, I'd get to a stop sign and I remember I didn't know where I was going. But I'd get to the stop sign and the way I learned a new path of being guided, I would say, well, if in

“the past I'd always go left, I'm just going to go right and see where it takes me. That's what I”

would do. Now I didn't have conscious awareness, but I'm telling you now. But that's why you can actually, there's no way to make different choices. If your glass empty voices are the only voices

you hear. The reason you're so overwhelmed from the mental position, all the voices in your

head, is because they build up on each other. And every one of those voices is predicting a gloomy tomorrow, not a grand tomorrow. Write 'em down, tell somebody. Then you'll be able to hear the glass empty voice and make a different decision. So you're Tuesday morning decision making process changes because you start becoming aware of the voices. You start becoming awake in lightened to your glass empty voices. And before I move on to the next sentence, hear me folks,

your voices in your head. They're not against you. They're not your enemy. They're not. They are

a reflection of a part in you that's hurting. It is. The answer is in the emotional sense of self.

That's where you heal. What I'm talking about now doesn't really heal anything. Those voices stay with you, but they don't have to be your only guidance system. How do you walk one with a higher sense of self? Learn the difference between glass empty voices and glass full voices. Your glass full voices that are in you now are literally sourced by a higher sense of you. When I read that woman's document four years ago now, she's talking about a grander

tomorrow. That's her divinity doing the writing. I can hardly wait to meet her someday and ask her she's consciously aware of that or not. It doesn't matter if you're consciously aware. I don't it doesn't matter. If you're talking about a grander tomorrow, that's your divinity. If you're talking about a gloomy tomorrow, that's your wounds. That's your humanity. Well, how do we start living? How do we start creating an external world that mirrors more a grander you than a lower you?

“You have to be able to discern the different string glass empty glass full guidance systems.”

Well, how do you do that? You have to identify the glass empty voices in the beginning. How do you do that? You're right, the list towards starts. Tell somebody else. From an emotional overwhelmed, this is the part that, quite honestly, this is where the real work comes in. This is where the true healing comes in. It's the emotional overwhelmed. What is it? Most of the overwhelmed is when you're heart,

your feelings, your sensory, everything is just an overload where you're feeling so much that you even close down. You're feeling so much that it seems like a wet blanket over your head. You're feeling so much that dark becomes your normal. That's where a lot of people are. Trust me when I'm telling you this. It has nothing to do with financial status where you live the color of your skin, male or female. Now, I will tell you. Women go through the exact same

thing as men do. They do. The difference is there's a massive number, a pretty significant percentage of women have been able to grieve their entire lives. That is not the case for a massive

“percent of men. It's not. It's really not. And that's why I really look forward to having conversations”

on the voices of we, from the male side, which is mine and from women's side and their perspectives, because it's a real-life conversation. I think you're going to find fascinating. And I say all that, not that women aren't overwhelmed with emotion. They are. Why? Because women emotionalize a lot bigger percentage of their life than men do. They do. I literally just had this experience. My 19-year-old, in his mind, were moving into an apartment. He's going to college tomorrow.

Literally. Now, here's a young man that's been on a plan for 60 months. For 60 months,

will be day 1800. Six months, times 30 days. In his mind, he's like, "Yeah, move into an apartment and all I need is my laptop and baseball bat so I can swing and I'm good." I love it. It's exactly what he thought. That's stereotypical, male energy mindset. Now, he's got this sweet young female friend, powerhouse, 1600 on her SAT, was choosing between going to Duke or Vanderbilt,

just this amazing young female who comes in and she's like, "Ah, ah, we're packing your clothes.

We're doing this. We're doing that. We're going to be all organized and you're going to put it in boxes and I'm going to help you unpack." He comes to me and says, "What is that? Where does that

“come from?" I said, Joseph, that's called woman. That's why men love women so much. I love the concept”

of women. I could go on and on about that concept. I really could. Why? Because the mannerism, the mechanism, the style in which so many women present themselves out into the world is just freaking cool.

It's lighter. It's more joyful. It's more creative. It's more organized. It just is

literally. Is that a bad thing for men? No. Do a lot of men have any idea what they're doing? No. Well, guys, if you got a woman like that, just to be quiet. Let her do her thing. She's here to help and believe me when you're done, the apartment's going to look like a home. Not a 19-year-old who is viewpoint. It's going to look like a home and that's a really beautiful thing. How do I where do I get to all that? So why is emotional overwhelms so intense for women? For men,

“it's intense because the amount of emotion they never emoted is stuffed in there. That's why”

so many men instead of feeling sad are scared. They go to rage immediately. Most. A lot. They do. Why? Because rage is easier. Why? Because rage is a reactionary pattern that makes their mental side of masculinity feel like it's still in control. Well, big boys stop taking your anger out on your girlfriends. I could tell you 40 stories I've come across recently of narcissistic men that take advantage of really kind intuitive heartfelt women. Those days are over. They're over.

So a lot of men get emotionally overwhelmed, which then comes out in their reactionary patterns

“with rage. Most the time. Women, they're overwhelmed a lot because the emotional”

the style in which they commune on so many different action steps throughout their day has an

emotional component to it. Literally, I met this most amazing young female on this cruise.

She and her husband were there. And this woman, late 30s, and you could just see it. Her child likeness. She was creative. She was bubbly. The style in which she talked the adjectives in describing her meal. Ask her husband. How's your steak? Good. And he meant that how's your steak? Oh my god, this is the best steak I've ever had in my entire life. I'm going to go home and tell 700 people how great the steak is. I'm not getting my heart burst with glory.

I love it. Now, so women, the mannerism, the style in which they come out into life, a lot of women, you have an emotional component to just to a lot of different action steps. Well, that's all great when the emotions in your life are wonderful. It's all great when the emotions in your life are favorable, but it can be really, really freaking hard when you have an emotional component to major action steps for major interactions in your life. And when those major interactions aren't

really going your way, makes it even harder. When those major interactions are stress filled,

and I know it, I'm not speaking at all or nothings, even though it's hard in this type of

“presentation that the sound like a M, nothing I'm saying here is in the absolute, but it's in the”

mass majority. It is. It's in the absolute mass majority of the people on this podcast. And you have to understand, I'm not talking to the unconscious world out there. My last podcast, why do I feel so lost? I made the comment, you know, that the mass majority of people around you don't conscious. They don't know that they don't know that they can think of their own thoughts,

they can be aware of their own thoughts, they don't. I'm not talking about any of those. I'm

talking about people that would be connected here, the spiritual warriors of the world. And I don't care if you're in France, you're not a kingdom or Canada, Norway, Germany or Nigeria. I don't care where you are around the world, because this isn't a, this isn't a location experience. This is a humanity experience, truly. And that humanity experience is such to where people here, there's an emotional connect. There's a spiritual reason you're here. And since the

feminine side of self, which is waking up more and more, I talk about it all the time where you all have a male side in the female side. The female side of self is waking up. Humanity is waking up to herself, my TEDx, that is doing really well right now. Humanity is waking up to a feminine side of self. It just is. And as that happens, the feminine side of self has the emotion and spirit

“together. That's why you're here because that's the part I honor and I talk about and I help”

support where any influencer out there who's talking about the positive affirmations and the new thought movement as a concept of heal, that concept is more focused in the mind, which is the male side of self. Is it wrong? No. Does it heal? No. I've told you a thousand times because if it did, you wouldn't be here. Well, so for women in that position where so many things are emotionally connected, that's why they're so empowered when they're in that full place. That's why they're so creative.

They meaning heartfelt people. And it's also why emotional overwhelmed can be massive. Huge. I have a friend right now who losing her best friend, her dog Tucker, precious 12 years, and the emotional consequence for her has been devastating because there was an emotional communion. There was an emotional connection. There was an emotional bond, which is fantastic. Now am I saying men don't have that? No. Some do. Most don't. Most don't. And that's not about

thing. It's just the facts. And so from the emotional overwhelmed position, right? What do we do with it?

“What do we do with it? Well, the truth is when you have, when you're feeling a lot of emotion,”

you know what you have to do, you have to stop your world and feel and e-mote, express, get the emotions out. Any of you that have listened to me in my past podcast? I did that podcast the day after my dad died. And I'm literally grieving on the podcast. I talk about

this amazing young singer, Amy Manford, who is just this, she's fabulous. And for three months,

two and a half months, I'd listen. There was just something about this woman's tone that helped my heart open. So when I'm grieving the loss of my father, I basically shut my world down besides the work and care for my kids, had headphones on. I grieve with music because it helps my heart stay open. And I grieve until the grieving is done. Not until Joe's done. I grieve until the grieving is done. And so for a lot of people, that needs to happen. Now, here's the challenge. Society

for generations has demonized sensitivity, demonized it. What do I mean? Emotional kids? Are you sissy? Somebody that's too emotional? What's wrong to hurt your feelings? Literally. Society

Society has made it wrong for millennia. Why? Because the people making it wrong are out of control.

“They don't know what it is. They don't. Are they wouldn't make it wrong? Literally. I came across”

the woman the other day. And again, a child like this, she's in her 40s. And I could just see it. And we're interacting some and talking and her husband was around. And I don't think he said it. But she said, yeah, she says, you know, I'm just a little immature. I'm like, what are you talking about immature? I didn't say this to her. I said it later. We're talking about immature. That's not immature. That's child likeness.

You know why the quote with Wayne Dyer, that podcast I'm talking about, where Wayne Dyer quotes Jesus, which is the one that I titled when my dad died. You know the wording that Jesus said, return to a child. Now Wayne Dyer, when he wrote that book,

“he wrote a book. Now for those of you that don't know Wayne Dyer, looking up, he sold 40”

some odd million books before the internet was a thing. Literally, Wayne Dyer passed away 20 years.

He is probably one of the original people out there in the world that brought the concept of the higher power to the globe, literally fabulous human. He did a book called Wisdom of Ages. In that book, he chose 60 people and anybody on this podcast would know the names of those 60 people, like Confucius, like Buddha, like Mohammed, like Beethoven, like whoever. Well, one of them of course he chose was Jesus. And each one of these people, mother Teresa was another one.

Michelangelo was another one. Each one of these people, he went through their work and he found the one title that he felt kind of described them the most. And for Jesus, the quote, there's an entire Bible he could have chosen from. Tens of thousands of different quotes that Jesus, what I said, what do you pick? I have to return to the child way back when I was in a very

“deep and dark spot doing my inner child work four years into seven years of dark. I never forget”

good enough for Wayne Dyer, good enough for Joe, good enough for Jesus, good enough for Wayne Dyer,

good enough for Joe, the whole inner child thing. And so the community with the child is a powerful

thing. Well, society makes it wrong. Society kind of the people that are making sensitivity wrong, the people that are making child likeness wrong, but the people that don't know what it is, and that's basically where society used to be. Now here's a woman who her whole life has been connected to an emotional side of herself, a deeper part of herself, but her society instead of honoring her and supporting her and making her wonderful and giving all these wonderful adjectives.

He called her a mature. How do I know? Because out of nowhere, I didn't ask that. She volunteered that information. Yeah, I'm just a little immature, which tells me she was taught young, and then through her teens and twenties, that her emotional capacity of child likeness was made wrong by her community. Why? Because otherwise, she wouldn't have called herself. She wouldn't have labeled herself immature. She wouldn't have, she would have labeled herself connected.

Literally. Well, that's part of the challenge. That's part of the overwhelmed. She got these people that are massively connected that can truly feel their feelings and emotes their feelings and be guided by their emotions and society makes them wrong. Society makes them less than. So people are out there trying to expand in the world and the world's making them wrong. Literally. The wonder they feel overwhelmed. They're doing it perfect.

But the world's saying you're not. Well, folks, the world doesn't get that opportunity anymore. You're here at the WeBodcast. You're in the We community. And the We community is honoring all parts of you. We're honoring those voices in your head that are the dark and the dismal and the hurtful and the hateful. We're honoring those voices. Why? Because there are a reflection of hurt. They're not your enemy. They're a reflection of hurt. And we're going to help heal

more communion, as you're more and more connected. We're going to honor that. The more sensitive you

are, the grander you can, you can relate out in the world. Think about this. For the mass majority of human beings that have their names have gone down in the archives of time. What do they go down in time four? Besides a guy like Albert Einstein, who literally went down for his intellect, his brain. But not really. If you really go and learn Albert Einstein's secrets to where he got all the knowledge, he would take naps every afternoon. And as he came out of the afternoon nap,

he'd be his words. I read it in a book. His words were, I would get these inspirations from

something I couldn't really describe. And then I'd go prove to see if it's right around.

So Albert Einstein's not known for his connection to divinity. But all of his physics and all of the stuff he put words to, his knowledge came from that. But think about the names of the past, the Michelangelo's. Why do we know Michelangelo? All that's right, it was a painter. What is a painter do? He creates, where does creation come from, feminine side of self? I could go on, I could go person after person after person. The people that are going down in the archives of eternity are remembered,

not for their intellect, but for their communion. Hear me, the people that go down in the archives of eternity. You name one. They didn't go down for their intellect. They went down for their creative communion, their creative expression, the mannerism in which their thoughts, words, deeds, music,

“whatever it is, came out in the world and changed the way somebody felt. That's why they go down”

in history, which is not on the male side. So literally the most iconic names of human history are the people that were deeply connected to their emotional sense of self, which caused them to have a deep communion with their divinity. And it was through living as that divinity that they put it out into the world and they're still known for it decades later, centuries later. And why do I bring that up? Because if you're on this podcast right now, you've got a part of you that's waking

up in a way that it's never woken up before. While it wakes up, there's going to be emotional sides.

There is, there's going to be a motion to come up. How do you know when the emotions need to be expressed? You're going to hear five thousand crazy ass voices in your head. Those voices aren't your enemy. They are the red flag that says I've got a motion to come up. How do we get the emotion out? We give a voice to the darkest part. We give a voice to the deepest part. If you're

“hurting, you got to feel it. And if you're hurting, you have to give a voice to the part that's hurting.”

My book, Why we feel alone? Which again, go to JoeMidika.com. Keep checking it. Feeling the void is going to be available soon. JoeMidika.com. And that's where all my books. I've got three books that are going to be coming out over this next six, eight months. And they'll all be for free. You know, you hear the story. JoeMidika.com. And I talk about it over and over and we have to give a voice to the deepest part. Why? Because when you give a voice to the part that's been in the

dark, you're bringing light to it. What is enlightenment? Enlightenment isn't, it's a process of awakening. Enlightenment, where we bring light, we bring awareness, we bring honor to the darkest parts. Well, when those parts that are in the dark feel honored, they express when they express unfortunately, if freaking hurts, it's called pain. It's called emotional release. Yes.

“Is it easy? No. And if you go in deep, buckle up and make sure you have help. That's why the”

voices of we and the contributors are going to, I'm going to have a group of contributors that will have online places that right now would be the time in my presentation here in the future, where I would give you a list, go here, go here, go here, go here. I don't want to keep telling this one woman's website without her permission. But I'm soon, I hope to get it. I literally want to tell 100,000 people a month by the summer about this woman's website. Why? Because she can help

I can bring awareness. She's got solutions. And there's going to be other people to do the same

thing. And I keep saying that because the emotional side of self, the feminine side of self, which has emotion spirit, it's waking up. Different. It's happening faster than ever before. It just is. And from that position, right? When you give a voice to the deeper parts, the emotion parts, the emotes. And the more they emotes, it's not going to be necessarily just five minutes. It might be five hours. I don't think it's going to be seven years like me. Why? Because you're here.

You're connected already. You probably had 20 years of spirituality when be here. I had zero. So I started from below ground. That's why my time was so long. But I'm telling you,

the more you remote and the more you feel and the more you express and you honor that

part through expression, you watch how the voices in your head, the mental voices in your head, become less and less and less. And the truth matter is folks, the only reason you're not currently living, walking in complete communion with your divinity, like the deities did of the past is because of those voices in your head. When the voices in your head are gone, because your heart is healed,

“the only thing left is you and the truth. You and your communion. The oneness. That's what's left.”

That's true enlightenment. Part of the challenge, of course, is where the generation of change you, me, people like us, where the ones doing it first. Literally, I can promise you if you're on this podcast. You are able to give things emotionally, spiritually, mentally in an emotional and powering support of way to your children in ways your parents were not able to give it to you. I promise you that. And I'm going to know any of your circumstances. But of the million people that will hear

this podcast right now, I guarantee there's a million people that would say, yeah, I know exactly

we're talking about. My parents were there for me, but they never really told me they love me.

My parents were there for me, but they never really told me they were proud of me. Why? Because 50 years ago, the emotional support, the empowering of your emotions, emotional connection,

“it didn't exist. The concept did not exist. That's why the new thought movement when it started”

in the 80s was so powerful. It was a whole new conscious concept. Is that better than nothing? Yes. Now, the we podcast is taking people to the next place. That's why we're ranked as the top emotional emotional, emotional growth podcast on Apple. Why? Because I want you to grow. I don't want you to negate the voices. I want you to honor the voices. Why? Because the voices are the red flag to the hurt, to the deeper darker parts. Bring light. Bring honor. Give them emotion.

Our give them light. Give them a voice. Deli mo. Doing it. Are the people around you going to understand? No. They're not. But you want to get out of your emotional overwhelm. The only reason you're in emotional overwhelm is because there's too much emotion stuck. There's too much emotion stuffed inside. One of my most popular podcast. Why do I feel stuck? Listen to it. And I'm going to continue to suggest. Listen to all the podcasts and make sure you go back and listen again.

The podcasts are more like a library than a one and done. They're more, they're more evergreen, if you will. You're going to hear things in them that on a Tuesday in March. It kind of tweaked your buttons and you didn't really like it. You clicked off. You went to another one. That's the

“one you need to go back to and June. Listen to them over and over. Why? Because every time you listen”

to them, the divinity in you is going to connect with something the divinity in me is put in that podcast. Truly. So it's going to happen. So get in the habit. I've got a friend of mine that literally every time she goes in her car. The we podcast comes up. She has listens to different episodes. And I say that because your community around you doesn't have any idea what you're going through. They don't. The people at your church don't have anything that have any idea what you're going through.

When you're at fourth to July party, this coming weekend here in the States, most people that are drinking and drug and having a good life. They do not know what it's like to be a spiritual warrior. I do. The we podcast can keep you company while you go through your challenge and it will celebrate. You're going to hear the celebrations as you go into your blories. And that whole

countries. Why? Because this is a humanity waking up experience. And think about it folks. My goal is 100 million downloads a month. That's only 1% of humanity. Hear me. You can look and you're going to be in a community of 100 people and there's not going to be another person typically that knows

“what the heck's going on for you. They don't. I do. The we podcast does. And that's why I suggest”

listen over and over. Spirit shall overwhelm. It's always my favorite. And always kind of

leave it towards the last because this is where it really gets cool. As we deal with the voices we honor them. We write them down. We tell somebody else. We experience multidimension. As you understand that the voices aren't the sources stuff to motion, you give a voice to the darkest parts. Dual hand journaling. Eventually all that stuff kind of does its course. And you start moving into different styles and how you're being guided. And that is the most overwhelming part of the entire

process. Hear me. The spiritual transformations you're going through. It's the most overwhelming. Why? Because you were told your whole life that if I'm a connected with God, then everything's going to be wonderful. It's going to be very, very loving, dovey. And I'm just going to feel fantastic. So if I'm

not feeling fantastic, I'm not connected. That's a load. It's simply not true. It's not. God never

said it's going to be easy. God's not codependent. As you walk through your dark time, God is not going to rescue you. God's going to give you the strength and courage based on free will. If you ask for it, you have the courage to walk through your dark spots. God didn't create your dark spot, humanity did. But God will give you the strength and courage to walk through. Walk through doing what, identifying the voices and healing the wounds, identifying the voices and emoting the emotions.

“That's what the walking through means, feeling those feelings on the other side of your”

come out. Part of the largest challenge. And I'm literally starting to write a book on this right here. That's what I'm getting ready to say. Talk about this kind of six different phases of guidance systems. And when you're in a particular guidance system, that's not working. Life itself is just a challenge. You wake up on a friend in Tuesday and it's overwhelming because you got their

based on glass empty voices. The first guidance system that basically 99% of people are guided by,

it's addiction cessiation. Hear me, most people. Now, probably most of you on this podcast, I'm guessing that a large percentage of you around the globe that are on this podcast, you probably had your first conscious thoughts 10 years ago, 20 years ago, like myself almost 40 years ago. It wouldn't be surprised me at all. But I can promise you prior to your first conscious thoughts, your action steps were addicted based. What does that mean? You're taking

the action step on a Tuesday, whatever the behavior you were doing to try to say she ate some need in you and labeled it love. Our labeled it wisdom. Our labeled it something every fairy and really sounded cool. So you looked good in the mirror and the girls liked you. Well, it's cessiation of addiction. What does that mean? You're out at a bar, you're out at a bar, you're on a picnic, you're at church, and from a man's position, you see a woman and she's beautiful,

she's sexy, you don't know it because you haven't met her yet, so you don't know if she's smarter or not, you don't know if she's, you know if she makes money or whatever, but you just physically and you see her, it feels good. So what do you do? You figure out a way to talk to her. And when you talk to her and she actually looks back at you and likes it, then we call it love. That isn't love. If you need another human being in your presence

for you to feel good, that's not love. That's go to Benets. Hear me, if you need somebody else to in your presence for you to feel good, that's not love. Let's go to Benets.

“And that's why a lot of men, it's why women are so confused. That's why so many women,”

so many women don't get it because men are attracted by what they see. A most women are attracted by what they feel. So literally, you have two people trying to connect with each other

saying, you know, when I'm on a date, I just wish my male partner would ask me more questions. What she's not getting is, he's perfectly satiated by just looking at her. She's beautiful. And I don't really care the model-esque position of what you look like. If your male partner is sitting there looking, he likes it. So from the man's position, most, not all, most. And I will say all from the unconscious position.

They don't want to talk. They don't need to talk. They're not communing through communion. They're communing through what they see. And by literally just looking at you across the table, they're feeling better. Watching how you drink your coffee, they're feeling better. Let alone when you stand up and you walk away because they're looking.

“And for a lot of you back then, you're hoping they're looking. That's why you shake your back”

side a little bit more than normal. Anything wrong with that? No. Sation. Addiction. Sation. That's what it is. Is that a bad thing? No. This is where people live. So where I live, literally, I go right down the list. When every person that was ever really drawn to, I was drawn to their beauty first. Why? Because I wanted something now. I would see a beautiful female and my heart felt fuller.

Hear me because I saw a beautiful woman, my heart felt fuller without seeing her my heart was empty. Now again, I thought the heart thing was cool. And then it would move into all the rest of the,

you know, personal desires. But the truth is, if I didn't see her beauty, I wasn't feeling anything.

“Now let's flip it. Women, you're out there. Now again, a lot of women based on”

Sandsome. Wow, that guy's a stud. Look at those muscles. But most aren't necessarily looking for muscle bound GQ guys. They're looking for people that seem to have a sense of confidence. Seems to have a sense of a steam. They seem to stand straight. Look tall. Kind of feel like they could protect. Kind of feel like they could provide. So from a woman's position in the unconscious world, now these are broad strokes perspective

when a woman looks across the room and she sees a, you know, a sloppy drinking too much hunched over. Nobody, no woman's looking at that and say, that's in my guy. That's the man I want to meet. No. You're looking across the room. You're looking at the man that's standing tall. That regardless of his physical facial appearance, you're looking for that sense that when you look at them, you feel safe. You feel protected. You feel like they could give to you in a sense of honor.

Why? Because you don't have it in yourself when you're unconscious. And from that place, the unconscious place, it's where most people start to bath. Literally, satiation, addiction, satiation. We are guided into our world. We do a job because the job makes us feel better. We do a job because the job makes a gives us money and the money makes us feel better. We move somewhere because when we move there, the location makes me feel better.

The question is why don't you feel good in the first place? Well, that's where unconscious goes to conscious.

And in the gap between addiction, satiation. And then becoming aware that you can think of your thoughts, because prior to awareness, you don't know that you don't know that you can be aware of your thoughts. I've told the story numerous times. In my early 30, I'm my early 20s. My oldest sister and I, we had a business together. We had a family business. She would come into my office and try to explain this to me.

“I'll never forget it one time. I said, take your psychobabble blank blank blank and get the blank blank,”

blank blank out of my office. Oh, she was trying to do. Does that mean realize that I could hear my own thoughts? Unconscious people don't know it. They just don't.

So when you go from unconscious to conscious, you know what happens? They're very first

conscious thing you do is you start hearing, oh, that's right. All those glass empty voices. All those glass empty voices. And it's when you start hearing all those glass empty voices, so many people get stuck right there, especially if you're in the new thought movement delusion,

Everybody else around you doesn't even know they have the voices, but at least you're aware you have the voices.

Well, the challenge the reason we get stuck there is because most influencer just in just ignore those and move on. Act like they're not there and move on. Act just meditate because it's the meditation. And if they didn't work for three minutes or five minutes or do it four hours a day. Well, what the heck? If you got to meditate for four hours a day to call them your voices,

“it doesn't work. Why? Because the voices are right back there tomorrow morning. How do I know?”

What's the other way? She wouldn't have to meditate every day for four hours. I literally just heard it on a podcast. Yeah, the guy says, oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know I meditate for two hours. He was proud as punch. This particular massive following. proud as punch. So what's telling me is it takes you two hours a day, it takes you literally 10% or longer of your day to calm your glass empty voices down enough to where you find peace and

you're out there telling the world how to feel. Ouch! It's all I can tell you. Ouch. Well, at least being aware of your glass empty voices is granted then completely unaware. In that process, oh my god, talk about overall. When I when I didn't know and then I knew the 12 pages concept, I would go to a stop sign and I would just sit there for five minutes. I couldn't figure out whether they go left or right. That literally happened to me for a couple of two or three months.

That's when eventually I came up with the concept, well, well, if I always turned left, I'm

“going to turn right. That was the only way I knew how to do it. And we write down the voices in”

the first step, we start the part doing the writing is a higher you. The part being written about is the lower you or the human you that hurt you. And then eventually there's two of you. And when there's two of you, a higher you which has glass full voices and the lower you or the human you that has glass empty voices, telling people doesn't heal the glass empty voices, but telling people the act of telling is humility and humility also empowers our starts,

starts bringing awareness to the higher you. And it's the higher you that literally is the glass full voices. So when you go from only glass empty voices to now you're in the world of a lot of glass empty voices, but now some new glass full voices, that's a different, a very different part on the path. It's a very different part on the spiritual path. And when you're in that spot, spiritual overwhelm is an absolute, it happens. You don't know if you're coming to go in. Why?

Because on Tuesday morning for 50 years I always went left and now a part of me's telling me to go

right. For 50 years I always went to the party with two bottles of jagganos. Now I'm being guided not just not go to the party with jagganos. I'm being guided not to go to the party completely confused for a long time, very spiritually overwhelmed. Why? Because I was just confused. I didn't know if I was coming or going. Over time we get more and more practiced at following those glass full voices. And if that's all you really need to do and most paths, most folks are not guided to go

into the depth of pain. You're just not. You don't need to. But you do need to learn how to be guided by your glass full versus your glass empty. And as you get more and more practiced at being guided

“by your glass full voices, it's a wonderful place. I'll never forget it. I really got practiced at it.”

And I really thought that wow, this is cool. I mean, look at me. I'm here and it's a Wednesday morning now. And I hear all those crazy voices that want to take me to the bars and nope, not going there because I'm going to go a glass full way which is to go to Stomach. I literally had two parts and the best in my ability it shows glass full. And I thought I wasn't having I just knew I was cats meow right then. And then I meet a young woman. My heart opens up.

I'm in my mid 30s. She's in her late 20s. And I said, oh my God, what is this? My heart, it opened. And my counselor Nancy, follow your heart. Time to, you know, now it's time to start following your heart. It's like, what the hell does that mean? Follow your heart. I didn't have any idea. Now again, I will tell you a mass percentage, especially women on this podcast, a mass percentage of

you're so confused when you're sitting across the dinner table at a man, he doesn't know what you're talking about following your heart. He's following what he sees because what he sees is making his heart feel fluffy. His heart feels sparkly and he likes the sparkle. You're asking him to commune from his heart, communicate from his heart, ask questions from his heart. He doesn't

“know what you're asking. He doesn't even know how to feel from his heart. And that's why it's”

so confusing for most. I'll never forget. I thought I'd lost my mind. My counselor said,

yeah, but you found your heart. Single largest, the biggest distance in the human experience is the distance between you had in the arm. That's why the entire thought movement, they're stuck in their heads. How do I know? Because they think the solution is in their head. How do I know? Because that's what they say. Change your mind. Well, if you could change your mind, you wouldn't be here. If you're here, then you're either already practiced at feeling your heart

or you're wanting more information about it. Well, the feeling of your heart counselor, that's

the tough one because you have to feel all the emotions. Oh, that's right. You get to feel the

“good ones. One of my podcasts that talks about spiritual awakening, returning to the child.”

I literally talk about eight different emotions on that. I read listened to that podcast on my cruise, eight different emotions. And really there's only three, maybe four that are hard ones. There's five or six that are really cool. They're really hard. But the whole concept to following your heart. And it feels right. And it seems right. And you know, the more I do it, the more felt right. I was in awe. I was like, what the heck is this? And I was in therapy the whole time.

The challenge is that nobody told me at the time that the person I was sitting across, she had to feel the same way for us to be a communion. What she did. She didn't feel the same way.

She never acted like she did. But I was so new at the whole concept. I didn't know. I thought

“what the hell. I feel it. So she must talk about narcissistic codependent. If I talk about a narcissist”

to go to bend it, I'm feeling it. So she is. Well, she wasn't. So one day when I find out she dating a man she had just met, damn. Like a two by four across my head. I thought, hear me, I thought was doing the right thing by following my feelings. Well, you want to follow your feelings. But if you're going to commute with somebody that has to be feeling some both ways, that experience put me in the deepest parts of my darkness. I wrote a poem

the dark before the dawn, which I read on the last podcast. Get my book. You can see it, filling the void. Joe Mitigod.com. That's six months. It was probably the hardest part I had. I was four or five years sober. I literally experienced, I felt like my own heart betrayed me. But what happened was I realized that the heart following your heart is great. When I went from following glass full voices in my head to following my heart, can you say confusing? Can you say

overwhelming? Can you say I don't know what the heck is going on here? Well, I just explained the story would happen. I was so I didn't know that I didn't know literally. Well, that whole following your heart concept, right? It's a great one. But it's not the end of all of all. Why? Because emotions come and go. Emotions have high and low. Emotions are probably the most are probably the most inconsistent guidance system you'll ever have. Is it wrong? No. But it's there's such variables

to your emotions. And in that particular experience, what happened for me? Eventually, it was right around the time when Princess Diana died. And then a little while later, Mother Teresa died. And I would sit and listen to Elton Johns, a candle in the wind, which they rewrote for Princess Diana. 500 times. And it literally felt like my chest cavity was being torn apart. That's how much grief I was in. Because I had followed my feelings. But eventually, what happened when my heart

opened, I transcended in to the experience not following my feelings as a guidance system, following my feelings as a loving system. But I went from my feelings to my knowing's. Hear me? I went from my feelings to my knowing's being a guidance system. When you just know

it can be the new job. It can be where you live. It can be a new friend. It can be a new partnership.

“It can be whatever. But following your knowing's, knowing's are concrete. They're not absolute.”

Just because you're following your knowing's doesn't mean you're going to get what your knowing's are telling you to follow. But they're not, it's not fleeting. Emotions are highs and lows. Emotions have all sorts of variables. Following your knowing's is very steady. It's very comforting. And it's very stable. It's very secure. When you have a knowing about something, there's a foundation in you that gives you strength to take the action to follow the knowing.

And then, of course, if you're doing the right thing, there's going to be a motion after because it's going to be cool. But following your knowing's, the gap for me, the overwhelm for me, the six months of absolute, double, dark, camp, breathe. Oh, my God. I betrayed myself,

“misery. I lived in. That's, I think that class that qualifies for overwhelmed”

between learning to follow my heart and follow my knowing's. That's a confusing one, folks. A lot of you are there now. You followed your heart's your whole day, your whole life. You've done what you love. You had relationships because you loved. He did things because you love. Anything wrong with that? No. Are you out growing that? Yes. And knowing's are the next state. And knowing's are very cool. They really are. I really thought for the longest time,

that was the end, they'll be all. But then I went to South Africa, a year ago,

and I learned that 400 million people in South Africa don't have water. And I had exploded.

I've told that story a thousand times. And something happened. And in that experience, I literally realized, and I learned that your humanity, knowing's are still of your humanity. And the gap between following your knowing's and following your divinity, that gap can't be measured, because it's not about measurement anymore. Going from addiction satiation to a addiction satiation as a guidance system, to glass empty voices as the next guidance system,

to glass full voices as the next guidance system, to a mode to following your heart as the next gas guidance system, to following your knowing's as a guidance system. Every one of those guidance systems are more advanced, more connected, grander experience of your humanity's style of guiding you. Anything wrong in any one of those? No. Wherever you are on that path, that's just your path.

“That's why that guy labeling, labeling the initial parts of this path, that's something”

less than perfect, made me so mad, it's not true. Wherever you are. And I always thought that was the

end all be all until the past couple years. And that's where I learned the difference between gratitude and grace. And when you're following your knowing's, you're taking action steps, based on what you know, and you're pursuing to do something, and you're pursuing gratitude. What does that tell me? Your knowing's are still all part of your humanity. Now, the last place, and I don't know what happens after this, this is where I am now,

is you go from being guided by your knowing's, which is your humanity, to surrendering all of that, and being guided by your divinity. And why do I say, there's no measure of distance between the two, unlike your heart to your head, that's still a human experience, and human experience has distance. Human experience has timeframes. Human experience has opinion, has emotion, has a concrete sense of your humanity's experience in it. You're pursuing that, which seems okay to you

as your human self. Then, when we surrender beyond that, and your divinity starts guiding you, you're not pursuing gratitude, you're pursuing grace. What is grace? Grace is the experience, you gain in yourself by giving back to the world. And I experienced that when I met this little girl Patricia over a year ago now, well over a year ago now, who needed $60, because her arm is broken, and if she went and got the $60, she would have lost her arm that had cut it off, literally.

the veil between me and she left, there was no veil anymore. I could literally feel her as if

“she's sitting in the car with me, sitting in my living room. And the grace I felt, the internal”

feeling of grace I experienced in that moment was something I'd never experienced. And today,

13 months later, the grace is the same, that's the difference. Gratitude is an ever-chasing event. You do something on a Tuesday, you accomplish it, you're gratitude, you're grateful for on a Wednesday, and then eventually you do it again. Is there anything wrong with that? No, it's great. We're growing beyond it. A lot of you are growing beyond it. A lot of you are pursuing your next thing. Again, right here, when I get permission from this particular female to share about her website

about the reinvention, and I figure out what Dr. Karan's doing on reinvention, I would tell you about

“them because they can help you because you're here because you're seeking something. And most of”

you, a lot of you are seeking the reinventing of your spiritual world. You're accustomed to pursuing

gratitude. You're not as familiar as pursuing grace. The true transformation of living in communion with your divinity is the pursuing of grace. While I was flying back from South Africa, I had this idea. I just thought about it. My seat was $3,000. The people up in the front, their seats were $15,000 to $20,000. I celebrate people with money. I think it's fantastic. But my thought was, if somebody has $15,000 to pay just to have their legs stretch for $15,000,

then they would have the money to put $10,000 into a while in Africa. And that whole concept

“came to me, that's why I came up the idea 1% one time. Well, in that whole experience, right?”

I come back and I'm a guy who builds. I'm a guy when I'm inspired. I go take action. That's why I started the non-profit called Project Smile. Educate the poorest communities of the world. We've had over 80,000 people download our education stuff. It's all free. Project Smile. That world, go find it. But I came up with this concept of 1% one time. And through my live stream, which I started, we literally got to a place that had 55,000 people on a live stream. And because of that,

a man who's a developer out of Dubai was introduced to me. I sent him my book. Why we feel alone, completely unedited. He has a spiritual experience, realizing that God's inside himself. So we and he and I really connect. Now, over the previous 10, 15 years, through his darker, harder, can't breathe times, he made a commitment to his higher power. That says, when I get out of this, and I get back, I'm going to give 20% of the proceeds to help heal humanity, to the people in need.

Well, long behold, I had two caregivers. Long behold, I introduced them. And one of my caregivers, I got videos. They had to literally walk 45 minutes almost every day. Little kids to go get water out of a stream that the farmers used upstream. They had no water. Well, because of all of this concept, right? I introduce Farhan to my caregivers. Don't hear anything. Four months later, I get a picture. In that picture, my caregiver, Brother Allen, is sitting at a table with Farhan,

his wife, and four of his employees. They're in Uganda. For Brother Allen, he got them beds. He got them supplies. He got them food. He got him a bunch of stuff. For my other caregiver, Brother B, I just, he bought him a water system, a water system, a well, a well, and they're building a school on the ground. So, here's a community that from before time, they had to walk 45 minutes to get water, little kids in pails. Well, because Farhan went there, I just got the picture the other day.

They're building, I saw them drilling technology today. You drill deep enough. There's always water.

Well, they drill. The water was then. They drilled a well, and then they put up a tower. The well fills the big bin, and a community of 100 people now have water. Why? Because when I'm flying back, I have the idea inspired. 1% one time. And when you follow your inspirations,

your inspirations to go into creation, because the world benefits when it goes from creation to manifestation. Well, that's exactly what happened here. Was there any financial benefit from Joe? No, but the grace I experience knowing that because I'm practiced enough to follow an entire community of 100 people now. Don't have to make that walk anymore. An entire community of kids will have a school right on their property because of Mr. Farhan. And then when I realized

the amount of money Farhan spent somewhere around $50,000, the size of his company. He's got like

$5 million a year to spend because he's super successful. $50,000, it barely moved a decimal place

for his CPA. But it changed the entire lives of a community of 100 people. Literally. Why? Because Joe's learned how to follow his divinity, moving from gratitude to grace. Now by the time I got there, was that very overwhelming? No. When I say my head exploded, it did kind of overflowed. I'm practicing, though, that says, I don't really get overwhelmed

“in that type of position anymore because I'm a guy who takes action. And that's what happened.”

I follow my divinity. The whole thing was inspired through me. I get that picture. I now see the well, the 1% one time. I didn't do another live stream. Again, my red hop comes into my life and I was guided to start the Weepot guest. And here's why. Because not only are we're going to

have 100 million downloads a month. And we're going to create a community where 100 million

conscious people are in a community. And we're going to share information. We're going to share stories. We're going to share books. We're going to share the creative sense for ourselves. So we can all continue to wake up because 1% turns to 2% turns to 5% eventually heels all the world. In addition to that. Think about it. I have a million downloads a month. I think I can get some wealthy people to be a guest on here. Of course I could. Why? Because Joe needs the money? No.

I've said it before. I'm in the beginning stages of an eight figure by out. Joe does not need the

money. Does Joe have the $4 billion it takes to heal to get wells all the crafts across Africa?

“No, I wish I did because that's what I would do with it. But because of all of you,”

because of all of you, we're going to get the weed podcast to the top 10 in the global charts. We're going to get the weed podcast to multiple millions of people a month. The bigger we get the weed podcast audience, the more availability will be able to have to get people on here. That can share their true experience, strength and hope. The differences, their experience is going to be dark. The strength is going to be powerful. But their hope is going to be, I've made multiples of

millions and now I'm pursuing my next adventure. Why? Because it's as they pursue their next adventure and they invest back in humanity. That's why how collectively we heal humanity. Some people,

“that's what their role is investing back in humanity. A lot of people investing back is in a cookbook”

for your family. It's in holding the door for a neighbor. It's in holding somebody's hand when they lose a pat. It's in giving back from a place of overflow. And as we do that more and more, as we come together more and more, as we share our overflow more and more and more, that's how we heal humanity one smile at a time. Thank you so much for being here and thank you so much for your support. So that's it for today's episode of The We Podcasts. Head on over an Apple Podcasts

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