don't dance around the perimeter of who you are here to be dive in fully and completely Gabrielle Bernstein a role model for Spiritual Seekers there's this great story I once heard by a spiritual teacher who I cannot remember who told me this because it just fell into my lap and it's the story of uh people being in a really really bright room like this a bright room with their hands over their eyes screaming I'm so scared I'm so scared I'm so scared it's so dark in here when all you have to do is just take
your hands off your eyes and remember that you are in the light and that is the journey I have been on for the past decade I have been on a journey of releasing my hands to the presence of The Light Within Me The Light Around Me The Light Within You The Light Within this chair The Light Within every being I encounter and that has been my experience of Just One Day at a Time one moment at a time releasing the presence of the blocks to that presence of that Light Within Me and so that journey
of unlearning and remembering has required a lot of tools and a lot of principles and a lot of people and a lot of assignments that may not have always been fun but they have been exactly what they needed to be a lot of people will say things to me like whether it's an interview or just a conversation or in a lecture how did you get where you are whatever that means but how did you get where you are and and my response is lots of little right actions lots of little right actions moment to moment
right actions to release the blocks to the presence of Love Within Me moment to moment right actions and what happens when you practice some kind of self-reflective spiritual exercise in place of acting out you create a new pattern you create a new habit one of the greatest places in the world that's taught us this is the 12 steps don't drink go to meetings don't drink go to meetings don't drink go to meeting whatever it is you know call your sponsor these are the patterns these are the tools that we would use in the 12 Steps
in those moments when you think you need a drink you use these tools well the rest of the world not the entire world has not been blessed necessarily with the 12 Steps so you have 108 steps now thank you and my advice to all of you so I said this to the woman who is addictive with the food and I said this to the woman who was having bad relationships and he said this is the woman who was broke the same lesson you're in an addictive pattern you're addicted to your fear and you're acting out
with your fear use this book as a Tarot deck open it for the message that you need and get to work and put that lesson in place of The Addictive pattern so if you have that one moment of just practicing the tool whether it be a breath tool or a tapping tool or a self-reflective thought whatever it is that this lesson is giving you and you do it and you reorganize your energy and you get out of that crazy space that is the miracle that is the miracle so that's one of the really important messages
here is that when we're in that place of stress or we're in that place of addiction we want to have these tools to get out and that is how I recommend we use it and when we do the questions tonight we're going to do a little bit of that I might not actually give you an answer I'm going to have the book answer you cool we're going to make we're going to make a deck I forgot to tell you we're gonna make a deck just telling my Publishers all the things that they're going to do
with me um so the next lesson in the book that is just so radical for me and and this is when I was saying that you that I'm learning from my book my book is teaching me your presence is your power if you want to live in that life of flow if you want to attract that partner if you want to get that book out into the world if you want to make more money if you want to just feel better you have to stop worrying so much about how you look and what you say
and start practicing how you be how do you be what do you bring forth what do you show up with what is the energy that you imprint onto your office mates what's the energy you imprint when you come into a room of strangers what is the energy that you imprint on a date what is the energy that you imprint when you're walking on the streets of New York City what is the energy that you bring forth is it an energy of fear is it energy of tension is energy of chaos or is it an energy
of free-flowing awesome power it's an energy of spirit coming through you is an energy of inspiration excitement enthusiasm I had such a radical example of this last night of see the extreme difference between the energy of someone in one and Arena and the energy that they bring forth in another a woman slowly walked up to the microphone in Connecticut and she was like very nervous and she looks at me and I'm staring at her and I'm like I know you how do I know you and she looked at me and she goes I'm your wedding
photographer I shot your wedding five months ago I was like oh sorry but it actually wasn't my fault I didn't remember or recognize the energy she was bringing forth her question that came out was about how she said look I don't know what to do because when I'm behind that camera something electric happens in me when I'm behind that camera and I'm at a wedding I am just a machine I was like that is how I would describe you you are a machine at a wedding and I just bring it forth and I come with
all of my light and all of my enthusiasm and all of my power when I put that camera down I don't know who I am I crumble when I go home I'm I'm stuck I'm scared I'm anxious when I come up to this microphone I don't know how to speak and I say oh so you know what honey it's not that I didn't recognize what you look like I didn't recognize how you made me feel because the woman I met at My Wedding made me feel comfortable made me feel electric made me feel beautiful and
sexy and excited to be getting married and the woman that just walked up here made me feel like I needed to save her and that was such a radical example of how we have these areas of our life where we have that moment of bringing forth that great presence and then we had these areas where we just shut it down we cut off communication we just completely lock ourselves up and do you guys know the difference when you are in your light and when you are out yes okay so this is the lesson in this
book your presence is your power as each of us starts to wake up that presence within us we start to elevate all of the beings of light around us because each person that you encounter is a holy encounter it's an opportunity to bring that person down or it's an opportunity to bring that person up and it doesn't matter what you say or how hot your outfit is it matters what you bring what you bring forth the energy and the presence that you bring forth that is all that matters if your presence doesn't work neither will
your word your presence is infused in the books you write your presence is infused in an email your presence is infused in a phone call your president is a fusing a glance what is the presence that you bring forth and you have such a power within you to heal so many just with a glance but we just don't take responsibility for that power we don't we focus so much on on the externals and not enough on on how we be and so that's a huge huge message and and you know I had another really neat
experience of my presence working on my behalf um I visited Germany a few weeks ago and they were all on their headsets and they were not necessarily um understanding my language so they had to have an interpreter and so I come out and I I was one of the first speakers in this series of different this full weekend event I was in Germany one day in London I closed so I opened in Germany closed in London I show up to Germany and I'm like I am going to bring it for these German people my ancestors
and so I show up and and I'm and I'm and I'm almost dancing I mean you probably have noticed I I speak with my with my physical presence as well so I was I was I was dancing with them a bit and it came like halfway through the the talk and we were vibing we were in a good good Zone me and the Germans and and I I said to them I said why don't you take off your headphones why don't you just listen to me with my energy not with my words so they took
off their headphones and they never put them back on they kept them off and they and they just spent the last half hour of this talk with me just with me feeling me getting the intention of the message through me not through my words and we didn't even need those words because the energy and the connection was so much louder and so that is the power we all have that power we have that connectedness and it's our choice and our tool on any given moment to just tune it up or tune it down the last
part of this talk before we open up to all of you is this is this message that you may be walking through life feeling a little bit disconnected to what we call in our lexicon purpose right does anybody feel like they don't necessarily know what their purpose is anybody like looking for their purpose in their career anybody in a career where they're like I this is not my purpose um okay so this concept of purpose is is is is interesting and I very boldly put on the cover of my beautiful Cover Book I said this
book will help you find your purpose kind of bold how will I find my purpose with 108 short tools well it's quite simple we all have the same purpose we all have the same reason for being here we're here to learn and unlearn we're here to awaken to the presence of light within us and we are here to Share the Light that is your purpose your purpose is to heal all of the fear-based wounds that you have chosen to believe in and in that healing awaken that light within you and then go out into the
world and be the light and so I had a really powerful example of this come up in my life and I said a prayer for a girlfriend of mine who um was having a lot of trouble in her career she was in a career that was not in alignment with who she is she's in finance and she's this really amazing fashionista and really into music and really into art and just really creative and groovy and and then she goes to this Bank every day and she doesn't feel connected and not that there's anything wrong with
going to a bank every day because that's a very powerful job and it's an amazing job it's not for her and so for almost a decade she's been in this career path and she's just felt so disconnected from this career path and so I I said a prayer for her when I was in Brazil and I just said you know help me uh speak through Me Help Me Guide this person in my life let me be of service and however I can and I pray for them to have a healing they need a miracle so
I come back from this trip and within like a few days of my my return I'm with her and I get this download like you know when you're like I need to tell you something right now and you have no other choice but to just speak that happens to me a lot actually but but in this moment it was clear it was downloading okay I was no longer it was no longer me speaking a voice greater than me came through and I said I just need to tell you something I was like very directive your
job is not to be a banker your job is not to be the best at creating these deals your job is not to do the best spreadsheet or be the most liked in the office your job is to be the light your job is to bring your positive attitude into an environment that is not positive your job is to elevate the people around you in an environment where the boss is leading with an iron fist your job is to show up with a good attitude so that you can just Infuse that with every being that
you meet and make people feel better when they're knocked down and your job is just to be the light and for whatever reason the universe aligned that day and my message was exactly what she was ready to hear and so she went to work and she put on her little suit and she walked to work and said I'm going to be the light and she walked into the office and said I am the light she didn't tell people that but she brought it and then she she called me and she said had a good day
at work today being the light it's a good time being the light and and and then within a matter of days Days her whole perspective about her career change her whole energy around her career change people started wanting to work with her more things that would have bothered her for a week and a half or a month or a year didn't even phase her anymore she just became so elevated and so much more magnificent and so much more in her power and in her presence and in her greatness as a result of just being that
light and showing up and realizing that and so the message here is that you may think that your job is to be a mom or your job is to be a banker your job is to be a publicist your job is to just be fashionable or whatever no you know that that is what part of what you do is your day-to-day experience but your job in all those experiences is to bring forth that light within you is to be the light and so I I challenge anyone who's been struggling with finding their purpose to to
tap into this message and start to apply it in your own life go into your office tomorrow or Monday and say to yourself I am the light in that moment when that boss comes down on you in those moments when you feel disconnected from your inspiration okay what what do I need to do to bring forth the light you know call somebody be of service right that great message if you're feeling helpless help someone on sun tzuchi says this so so that's that's this this this final purpose point is just to be the light bring
the light it's a time for each individual to have their own Awakening so that they can wake up their sister and their mother and their brother and their friend and their neighbor and the cab driver and just bring that message forth in all that they do and so that message of I am not here to create disciples I am here to create teachers is my mission and this book this book is a teacher's manual it's a teacher's manual it's a it's it's a book for you to Master on your own and then it's a book
for you to share as you master these principles and these tools they become yours these are not my tools these are your tools the last lesson of this book is you are the guru you are the guru we need you there is a call for light workers there is a call for people to wake up to their Highest Potential and I welcome you to use this as your guidebook and use this as your teacher's manual so that is the primary purpose of this book it's to wake you up so that you can wake up everybody
around you and so that you can most importantly wake up to your Highest Potential and your highest truth and that place within you I said it a talk one time and I don't even know where it came from don't dance around the perimeter of who you are here to be dive in fully and completely dive in don't dance just go dive and do it now get that Miracle right now we need you so that's that's the story here that's the message that's what this book is about this book is about helping you get out of
that stressful Place quickly and having that toolbox so that you can use it and and Own It magnifying your presence and recognizing that your presence is your purpose being the light and extending that light in all that you do and then teaching it and sharing it and being an expression of it if you like this video and you want to get more Gabby check out the next one right over here