Sometimes, we do all these things when we think we will expand spiritually.

I don't know your routines, but mine often include meditation in the morning, prayer, calling in my angel guides, and automatic writing.

I record my thoughts and sometimes list action steps because I've asked what the most important thing I can do today is to expand. 

Then I have to write those things down and then do them. 

It's a super easy process when you get into its flow. 

But I've discovered here: I can do this for three days straight.

There's something magical about the number three. There are three in the Godhead; Christ rose on the third day. 

There's been magic in threes in history, especially when discussing spiritual expansion. 

Sometimes, when you arrive at a new place you've never been, your spirit expands; it opens up for three days straight. 

Then, all of a sudden, you can't get out of bed, and this crash happens. It's a thing. 

I want to normalize, name, and discuss it because if you think your expansion is herky-jerky, starting and stopping, you're not wrong. 

I like to equate it to breathing. 

Sometimes, you're only going to exhale. Sometimes, you're only going to inhale.

You are inhaling and exhaling sometimes, and it's shallow. 

Sometimes, we take a deep, big, cleansing breath and recover.

That's what spiritual expansion is like, especially if you're trying to make space, meaning you have to give up some of the old self to make room for the new self. 

We're trying to create space, create space, create space. 

On a recovery day, it might feel like watching a movie. It's like, can't get going. 

Where did my morning practice go? How come I don't have the same excitement or drive behind?

My expansion over the last week: Not to worry; it will not be like that forever. 

You're just expanding, expanding, and then taking a break.

What's so interesting is the very first part of my career was fitness. 

It went from just training people to draining them very specifically for hormonal fat loss.

In hormonal fat loss, this is the type of workout that you want to do if you just want to burn fat calories. 

You don't want to burn all the calories because some are from muscle. 

But you will have to exercise differently if you want to lose calories—the ones stored in your body and your metabolism can be used for energy to exercise.

 Don't listen to your body. 

It's just whining; it's just crying. Just keep going be tough. 

You can do hard things if you just keep on going. You don't ever listen to that little inner voice that is trying to get you to rest. 

Let me briefly explain the exercise format I taught and how relevant it is to listening to your spirit. If you want spiritual expansion, ControlZilla cannot tell you what to do and when to do it.

You should know that's going to be too much.

We need to tap into "Little You", and "Little You" has a lot to say about what we're doing and what we're not doing. 

If "Little You" has not been listened to, she's not been cared for. She seems rattled. 

Things are going on in there that she's like, fight or flight, and she's like, this is not safe.

She's asking me to be super intense in my workout. 

Then, she contrasts that by telling me to rest. This is not safe. I don't know which one she wants, but I'm trying to do what she's asking me to do. 

We're getting outside confirmation to do it right and the workout right. 

This is what I used to teach sprint and rest, but it was rest-based training because that was the emphasis. 

Why is resting a workout routine? How could resting increase your metabolism? 

It works like this. 

If you give everything you've got, I don't care if you're 500 pounds or an elite athlete; your intensity is still yours. 

The maximum effort you can give is still your maximum effort to give. 

If you give it everything you have, how sustainable is that long-term in the workout? 

Can you do it for a whole minute? Can you do it for five minutes? 

Are you supposed to do it for the entire workout? We could also examine elite athletes and their work.

When they're in a sprint race, they give it everything they've got, and then when they cross the finish line, they rest.

How long does it take them to finish if they give it everything they have? It's about 9; it takes seconds. 

It took 9.34 seconds to finish, not an hour, not half an hour, not 15 minutes, not five minutes, not one minute.

What does an athlete's body look like? A sprinter. I'm not talking about a marathoner. 

Marathons are skinny fat. They're just no muscle. They used it all up because they kept going forever. 

I'm talking about a sprinter. They maintain their muscle, and they burn fat. They're super lean. 

Let's consider this. We'll consider it in the spiritual sense of sprinting and resting for spiritual expansion.

Are you still with me?

I don't want to make this about fitness, but it's a good example because your body always gives you indicators of what it needs. 

If you asked an elite athlete after 9 .34 seconds to complete the track, not just the straightaway, the whole track, they'd be like, "No, not at that intensity. I can't; it's not sustainable."

I gave it everything and then fell on the other side of the finish line. I'm totally out of breath.

I spent all my energy instantly consuming any ounce of sugar or glycogen when I put on the power and just started going. 

It was spent in 9.34 seconds.

Our minds are conditioned to believe we're here to do hard things. 

We'll keep trucking through life, doing hard things that we never get out of the hard things loop to start spiritually expanding exponentially.

The only way to burn fat calories exponentially and rapidly is by turning on the turnurner and giving it the it needs. 

It has to have recovery. It cannot continue to sustain that kind of intensity. This is getting good. 

If you're expanding, maybe you decided to read scriptures or say your prayers after eons of not saying prayers because you lost hope.

If you're trying to expand whatever you are doing in your spiritual expansion, that's what you're here for.

We're here for the growth. We're here to turn darkness into light, 

We're not here to stay the same forever, to stay in our comfort zone and get uncomfortable. I know it's painful. How funny is that? 

But it's important; it's necessary for life satisfaction and fulfillment. 

To see what else we can do. Right? 

If we're here for that kind of expansion, it will be intense, which also makes sense; it stands to reason that you will need to rest and recover. 

Then you go and expand. It's super intense. Then you recover. 

When you do that, the level of which you have created space to expand, like breathing, right? It's never going always to be out and is never going to always be in. It's going to be out and in. 

When you're out of breath, what are you doing? You're making up an oxygen debt. 

If you've been super intense, you have to stop and rest and re-pay that oxygen debt. And that's what you do when you're breathing heavy, right? 

The breathing intensity increases until the oxygen jet until the oxygen debt in your bloodstream has recovered, and then the breathing comes back down and normalizes. 

This is how you learn to expand spiritually. 

You listen to what your body needs. 

It would be ridiculous to ask anyone to go into an intense workout that will get them the desired results; they want to burn fat. 

They don't want just to do cardio for the rest of their lives. They want to do anaerobic cardio, right?  Not aerobic cardio.

That burns all kinds of calories, and it burns while you're in the workout and doesn't burn or have an afterburn after the workout. 

Anaerobic activity, which is super intense, is not sustainable for any length of time, right? 9.34 seconds, with recovery involved.

That is only going to burn fat calories. It's going to meet the goal you had in mind for yourself. I just want to be a lean version of myself. 

We're not talking about body type, bone structure, or anything else. We're talking results. 

At the end of the day, burn the fat calories for me. Thank you. 

If that is how you get it done, it's high intensity with recovery: 30 minutes of high intensity with recovery, high intensity with recovery, high intensity with recovery. 

How do you know it's high intensity? Because your heart rate goes up. 

You must make room for all the breathing.

If you were to say, okay, well, I have to keep my breathing the same, but I will have the intensity high, it would be impossible. 

You're asking for something that cannot be done. 

That's when you start to think, "Okay, I've got to allow my body to do what it needs to do to get the result I want." 

It's no different in your mental capacity to step aside and let your spirit and your body take over and say, "Okay, we can do this," but as soon as it doesn't feel safe, that inner child, that inner director, says, "Can't do it, done, all done." 

You could have gone 15 seconds because you're still trying to play around with it. Was that everything I had? Did I go intense enough? 

You may be 15 seconds, not 9.34. Right? Elite athletes have done this so many times. 

They feel completely safe to give it everything they've got and trust their bodies that they left nothing undone when they cross the finish line. 

There was nothing left behind. Could they?

They're not saying to themselves that I should have pushed a little bit harder because I wasn't sure I would make it across the finish line. No, no, no. 

They know because they've done it enough. Right?

This takes practice. It takes practice listening to yourself.

When do I push? When do I rest? When do I give it everything I have? When don't I? 

You start to build trust with yourself. 

You start to build confidence where there was some doubt before. It's like, I don't know, if I push that hard, I might die.

You won't if you're listening to your body. 

That's why if you go into spin class and the instructors say to turn ittell you, go harder, keep going, and stop, you can do it. 

We have five minutes. It's like, my gosh, I think I'm going to die. You're right.

You're 100 % right because if you did give it everything you had, it would last 10 to 15 seconds. 

Then you'd have to back it off, catch a breath, recover. 

Let me just tell you what resting does. Resting and taking a recovery break send signals from the brain that start to feel like this is dangerous. 

We send safety signals through the body, saying we can rest whenever possible. 

We won't judge how long it took us to get rest. We'll just take our rest because our bodies tell us to. 

You're starting to build trust in your brain with your body. It's like, you'll listen to me for a change. Isn't that unique?

Your body is like, okay, I told you this was getting dangerous.

 It was scary, and we had to rest, and your brain is like, okay, you need to rest. I got you. I got you. 

I'm going to take my time, I'm going to take rest, and I'm not going to push you. 

I, ControlZilla, will not push you, body and soul, any harder than you can. 

Man cannot run faster than he's able. He just can't. Simp! It doesn't stand to reason the way we're built. 

We have all these signals going off inside of us. 

If you want to reset your nervous system, be a calm individual, or be a fat-burning machine, it's all the same thing.

It's all the same. 

You must listen to your body because it knows it has the current, the energetic current running through it, and a stream current.

We can harness water and generate massive power, such as electricity. 

Our bodies are the same. They're made of water. 

The current running through our body that flows downstream always knows where to go. Isn't that unique? 

The current in your body is never trying to push up against nature. It's not trying to go upstream because currents don't run upstream; they run downstream.

Your body always knows where to go, and your brain says, "No, everybody else is still going." No, we have to go longer, harder, faster. No, no, no, no. 

Can you hear yourself in your own life? Is this a story of you? 

I love this idea because when we get good at listening to the requests, please stop, please rest. 

You're like, no, I would look stupid in the class. I’d be the only one who couldn't do it. No, no, I'm not going to do that. Okay. 

Then, you get to stay in survival mode. 

Your stress hormones are high. 

You're sending signals to your whole body: store fat, don't burn fat. 

We're not safe because she's not listening to us. 

She's just going to drag us, flapping behind, and she's just going to take charge and burn down buildings and take names. What? Why?

ControlZilla doesn't know what you need because she is busy keeping you safe from everything that has happened in the past. 

If you want a new future or a new present, we cannot be referring to the data we have collected our whole lives from the past.

We have to create a new database.

The new database says I can push hard until I can't, but then I can rest until I can go hard. 

If I push hard, I can rest anytime I want. If I rest and recover, I can go back to trying hard.

See, a sprinter that gives it everything they've got in 9.34 seconds and crosses the finish line.

They're completely out of breath, and they have to breathe and breathe and breathe and breathe to recover the oxygen debt from the effort they just made to reach the finish line.

If they're recovered, can they do that again?

But can they return to the starting line and do it when they're still out of breath? Absolutely not. 

It's only duplicatable after recovery.

Your spirit is the same way. 

Do not get upset with yourself if you're like, man, I was really on it.

I had a new morning practice. I had it going on as I felt something was beginning to get in the zone. 

I was starting to feel God's word for me. Then I don't know. I couldn't get out of bed. 

I watched TV. I ate chocolate. I scrolled on my phone, and now I suck. Is that true? No, it's not. 

It's not true. 

You don't suck.

You're experimenting. You're just in the middle of finding out how hard you can push before you need rest and how long you need to rest before you can make it. 

That's all. That's all you're trying to figure out. 

You're just trying to listen. 

If you just turn this off and it's like, okay, brain, thank you for everything you've done. I won't run out in front of cars. I promise not to put myself in that kind of danger.

But right now, we don't need you.

We will listen to the inner self, which will stay rattled if we don't tap into the nervous system that needs your attention. 

She needs you. 

She needs you to say, what do you need?

 How can I help? Are you ready to push? Does that sound good? 

You want to do something? 

Your push might be today. I feel like stretching for the first time in nine years. 

You just stretch and listen to your body if that's your push. 

When it's had enough, it's like, okay, all right. 

That was better than a poke in the eye; we did it.

Your push will look different depending on your stage of life and your goals, hopes, and dreams. 

Your spiritual push, if you discount it and like, yeah, but so -and -so is doing so much more and so -and -so is practically a medium these days because they are so spiritually in tune, and I'm still trying to figure out even how to talk to God. 

If you compare yourself, this will go poorly. 

If you want this to go well, just accept yourself. 

This is where I'm at, how far I've come, and what we're doing. 

Today, this is what feels right to me. And in that moment, this is where I am.

You begin to act and behave in a way that allows your spiritual growth to happen. It's no different than a workout. 

If you're not an elite athlete, which 99 % of us are not, and you're just a weekend warrior, you can't expect yourself to get across the finish line, whatever that is for you, in 9.34 seconds.

But if you're listening to your body, you will know exactly when you've had enough and when it's time to rest. 

When you've had enough it's time to rest.

When you've had enough, it's time to rest. It might be one round, five rounds, or whatever. 

Time-wise, if you're thinking of exercising, take 30 minutes. Spiritually, it's like three days.

Just watch what your sequence is. 

If it's three days, great. If it's one day, great. If it's an hour, awesome. Cause it's just right for you. It's right where you're at. 

That's what we're trying to do. 

We're trying to tap into your nervous system, and it's like, okay, done, done, done. We're done. 

We're just looking for agreement here. 

Your brain must turn its will over to the guidance in you. Just.

Stop being bossy up here saying, well, that's not what the program said to do. 

Stop being bossy. You're not the program. 

You're not a program, an exercise routine, or a spiritual practice. 

You're not something that somebody out there said, this is what it looks like; follow this. 

Because then it negates having an intuitive knowing anyway. What do we need that for? 

If we follow a formula built for the masses, we won't consider you as a person and discover what works for you.

It's a big deal because otherwise, we're just following everybody else, and we need to take the time to know our preferences. 

What do I need? 

That's why if you're exhausted, burned out, so tired that you can't figure it out, I don't know, cookie, cake, ice cream, if that's you, it's only because all of that exhaustion is trying to get you to slow down enough to say, "What do you need?"

What's best for you?

Stop listening to everybody else. They don't have the answers to the test. I don't have the answers for you. 

But I'm trying to point you, guiding you home. I'm trying to get you to go back to you and say, What do you mean? That is your most important work. 

You can get out of your way here. 

Forget about what you've learned about in the world, how you have to show up for everybody else,, what you need to look like,, what you need to act like,, how many spiritual practices you need to do,, and all the morning miracle routines you've read about. 

Like, shh, that's noisy.  Be here, be still, and practice, practice. 

What do you need? What do you need now? How about now? 

As you expand and make space for this new you, there's room, and you will get better and better and better. 

When I was actually in the middle of my weight loss program, even though I didn't know that's what I was doing.

I was just like freeing myself up. Let's do something fun. 

Life has gotten way too serious. 

We moved our family up to a mountain town. The elevation was like 3000 foot difference. 

Up at that elevation is when I just started my morning practice. 

At that time, my morning practice consisted of sprinting and resting. So, I promise I'm not a runner. 

But at that time, where we were and our family was running a business together. 

I only had time to sprint and rest. really didn't have too much to do with weights or anything like that. 

It was super simple, right? Put on my clothes, get outside, sprint. Okay. Can't keep that up. 

Stop, walk, rest, sprint. But I was doing it at a higher elevation. 

When we finally got home after the summer was over and that lower elevation, I was like, What is going on? I could run forever. 

My sprints intensified. My breathing capacity, the amount of time I could sprint and sustain it went from like 15 seconds to 30 seconds. 

I was like, what is that? I was not in fitness at the time.

I was not aware of the difference of training at a higher elevation would have on my respiratory system.

I want you to think about your respiratory system as you think about your spiritual system.

You're going to practice and some of these things are going to be at a higher elevation.

You're raising your frequency to operate in a higher, a higher place than where you were when you're feeling low and unenergized. 

If you're doing something new and, and spiritually elevated in your frequency, it's like, it's going to be hard and tired. the, I, my sprints were short up on the mountain and down below I could go forever. 

I was like, wow, did I get that much better? Only because of the elevation, right? 

If your elevation is high, you're gonna need to stop and rest because it's gonna feel harder. 

You'll be like, my gosh, I can't figure it out. It's like I gave myself three days and I guess I can't do it. No, no, no, just let yourself rest and then go back to it. 

Let yourself rest and then go back to it.

just like breathing, it's not always out, it's not always in, it's just out and in.

It's out and in on cue, on an impulse, on an electrical current, because your body's telling you what it needs. 

Now, if we can practice breathing well.

We can definitely practice listening to our spirit as we try and expand and put these new practices into place and then allow ourselves to completely rest and recover from that. 

That doesn't mean we're going backwards. It doesn't mean that we couldn't do it. It just meant that we needed a break. 

We needed safety and security again, because that was a lot. 

It was intense, and then we recover, and then intense, and then recover. 

That intensity expands. It gets better and better.

Our recovery is at a different level now. It's not back where we were. It's at a different level. 

You'll find maybe your recovery is in a creative space instead of a nothing space. 

Maybe you find that your recovery is, is tapping into your nervous system through painting or through writing or pottery or something that feels more creative to balance out this high energetic work that you're doing and then recover and then go back and then recover and it turns into this beautiful symphony of breathing in and breathing out and letting yourself expand the way you were meant to expand. 

But the bottom line is that you were and are meant to expand. 

Don't give up on your spiritual practices. 

When that growth calling comes in, it's really hard to ignore. So go with it. Practice it.

See what it's gonna feel like. 

Do it for a day. Do it for an hour. 

Give yourself a chance and then rest. Then go back to it and then rest.

You will find your perfect rhythm and your perfect pattern for personal spiritual expansion.

It's never gonna be faster than you can handle. 

It's gonna be right on time because it's all happening for you.

You can't make it up. 

You can't push it harder. 

So go with the flow. 

You're going to love it.

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