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Raise Your Vibration with Michael Beckwith

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” — Mahatma Gandhi

Michael Beckwith is one of the most influential spiritual teachers of our time. As the founder of

the Agape Spiritual Center, a bestselling author, and a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100, he

has helped millions break free from limitations, shift their mindset, and step into a life of

abundance, purpose, and fulfillment.

Through his books, speaking engagements, and Take Back Your Mind podcast, Michael bridges

ancient wisdom with modern self-mastery, offering practical tools to rewire subconscious beliefs

and unlock your highest potential.

In this episode:

• How to find — and answer — your calling.

• Why your subconscious beliefs dictate what you manifest.

• The most important rituals to include in your daily routine.

• How to raise your vibration to fulfil your potential.

Before we begin, the right bit of inspiration can completely change the trajectory of someone’s

life, so if there’s a friend or loved one who needs to hear this episode or could use some help to

Win the Day, share it with them right now.

Let’s WIN THE DAY with Reverend Michael Beckwith!

James Whittaker:

Michael, this is a really surreal moment for me. I'm deeply grateful for all of the work that

you have done. I first came across you in 2006 in the film The Secret, and I just want to

say thank you and acknowledge you just for being here today.

Michael Beckwith:

Thank you so much. Thank you for the invitation. It's my joy.

Well, to kick things off, do you want to tell us a little bit about how you define your life

philosophy today?

My life philosophy?

Yeah, I feel like you've had such an interesting exposure and immersion in so many

different religions and cultures and everything else. I'd love just to hear, yeah, just how

you sort of sum it all up together in the world that we're in today.

How I sum it up is, one, that we are here to remember a promise we made to ourselves before

we incarnated, that we made a promise when we entered into the earth plane that we would

distribute and contribute our gifts to make a mighty difference on this planet. And we knew

before we got here that there would be tribulations, that there would be the ending of a

paradigm and the birth of a new one. We already knew that. So I say that we're here to

remember our promise and to remember our promise is to have some kind of spiritual practice.

And with spiritual practice, that yields insights and revelations that are beyond our present

paradigm so that we can live in a higher state of choice. So we could actually choose a

possibility that already exists within the quantum field and bring that into manifestation. So I say

promise, practice, and possibilities is kind of where I'd live.

So good. But choose it means proactive rather than reacting and being passive. One of

the things I see that frustrates me a lot is I'm walking through life every single day, you

see people, there's this apathy through which people go through life. You don't want to

be too urgent in everything you're doing, but I feel like a lot of people could benefit from

just a little bit more urgency about connecting a bit more with their potential and how

they show up every day.

Yeah, choice is a function of expanded awareness. Without that, as you just indicated, you

become more reactive. You react to situations, circumstances, people, places and things, but

you're not really participating in your own destiny. You're simply living a life of reactivity. But

when we begin to choose and participate in our destiny, there are signs that follow that. There's

an inner guidance that we catch, begin to hear it in a language and in a way that we can

understand. We come out of the milieu of our society and all of the noise and begin to hear

something else that's ringing within us.

So this is a participatory universe. You participate through choice, not just reacting. And you

respond rather than react, and we all have that potential.

Yeah, there's something I talk about a lot. This is basically the foundational principle of

what it means to win the day. Feel free to push back and offer a different perspective if

you feel like it, but talk about each day, if you do not make the decision to win, you have

automatically made the decision to lose. That's it, I feel like by default we're going to fall

victim to distraction and procrastination, and that obviously results in things like poverty,

ill health, misery, toxic relationships, all of that stuff that you don't want over the years.

It's absolutely true because there's a tremendous noise, there's tremendous agendas, people

vying for our attention, for their own agenda. And if you're not thinking for yourself, then

something's thinking for you. And then you end up living a life based on somebody else's

agenda and not your own. So you have to decide and you have to choose.

Decision means cutting away anything that's hindering you, that's decisive, that means you're

cutting away. And choice is when you expand your awareness, you're able to see clearly and

you choose something. So you have to decide and you have to choose every single day, or

you're cut adrift on the sea of mental garbage.

Not good. Take us into your personal story. Who was the first person to believe in you

when you were young?

Oh my God. My parents were very proactive in their belief in me and my brothers. My mom, I

can see her, they both passed on, but I can see her now having a strong belief. My dad, he was

very forthright, but he believed. And that's my primary years.

And then there were other individuals. There was a woman, a spiritual teacher by the name of

Lissa Sprinkles who saw a lot in me. And I'll always remember when I went to see her one day,

the first time I went to see her as a spiritual therapist. When she opened the door, when she

looked at me, I saw what she was looking at. She was looking at excellence, she was looking at

this presence of beauty. And it shocked me because I could see what she was seeing. And

everything I thought I was going to talk about in the session disappeared because I had this

instant awareness of who I was. I had already had a spiritual awakening, but it kind of sealed it

with her. So she was one of the individuals.

And in college, I met Dr. Howard Washington Thurman, who's a great theologian, but primarily a

mystic. He was the one who brought the nonviolence movement to Dr. King. When I met with

him, the energy was so very profound and so very powerful.

So you began to see in the mirror, in your own reflection what some of these aspirational

figures were seeing in you.

Absolutely.

Connecting with that frequency.

Yes. Yes.

So interesting.

I could feel it and I could see it. It was kind of shocking. But then you have to grow into it. Once

you see it, you have to actually prepare yourself inwardly and grow into that. You have to be

proactive about that.

I feel like then, at least in my own experience, you become addicted to being in those

circles of people who have that self-belief, they're doing things, they see the world

without limitations. And sometimes, to go back to other places where you grew up or

maybe friends that you had in high school or disagreements that you have with people

over the years, it almost seems a bit limiting to go back to some of that stuff, even

though you have a duty, especially if they're family members and things that you have.

Like I'm from Brisbane, Australia originally. I've been in the States now for the last 12

years. And sometimes when I do go back home, I feel almost a little bit haunted by this

life that I used to have through some of these experiences, which, of course, is just part

of growing up. But I come back and within a couple of days, I'm just connected with

some of the people over here that I'm... People like yourself and other people where just

that energy is so great, at least for my creative work and the impact that I want to have in

helping people.

Absolutely. After a while, you make a choice to stay with openhearted high-minded people

because you are a part of the company you keep. I, like you, I don't really truck with high school

reunions and things like that. I did go to one a few years ago, I was invited to speak there and

things of that. And when I saw some of the people that I went to school with, some of them were

still the same. They had the same opinions and thoughts and things of that particular nature.

So like yourself, I'd rather hang with people either by myself or with people who are seeking to

grow or to make a difference on the planet. Other than that, you're kind of wasting your time.

Absolutely.

Yeah. Yeah.

There's a very famous Napoleon Hill quote, which I'm sure you're well aware of. "Every

adversity carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." Looking at your entire

life, what do you feel like is the greatest adversity you have faced that you've been able

to identify an equivalent or greater benefit in?

When I was in my young 20s, I was attending USC. I was a psychobiology major, and one of the

ways... And I just transferred from Morehouse College in Atlanta where I'd met Dr. Howard

Thurman. And I got caught up in selling weed in order to finance my way through SC, and also

to have my own private stash. But at some point I realized this was not my destiny. I had a

tremendous spiritual awakening when I was at SC. And on my last deal, I got arrested. Very last

deal, I got arrested with about 200 pounds of marijuana, and some guns and things of that

particular nature. I was told by the inner voice, by the presence within me, that I was going to

walk away scot-free, that this was not my destiny. And I believed it.

So I'm sitting in a courtroom, I'm reading Chaotic Meditations by Bhagwan Shree Rajnees. That

was his first book, it was a little pamphlet. I have no interest in the court case because I've been

told I'm walking free. My friends thought I was crazy. They said, "You should leave the country.

This is not going to be good for you." I said, "No, I'm going free, it's not my destiny."

Sitting in the courtroom, the assistant attorney, I had two attorneys, one I hired and the other

one was his assistant, asked this motorcycle cop, why did they go to my house? They lied. The

guy wasn't even there, but that's not a part of the story. And he said, "Well, the informant said

there was a big drug deal going on and we got a search warrant. We saw the drugs going down,

drug deal going down, so we went in and arrested him." So the assistant attorney said, "That's

hearsay evidence. We demand that the informant come and identify the defendant." Judge calls

everybody to the stand and says, "Please have the informant here within three days."

Show up to court three days later, the prosecutor says, "Your honor, the informant will not come.

He's afraid for his life." Judge says, "Mr. Beckwith, I have no other recourse but to set you free. I

hope I never see you in my courtroom again." I said, "Your Honor, you never will." I walked out

of there scot-free, no record, nothing.

I went home. The house next door had a weather vane. The weather vane was pointed in the

direction of the wind. And I remember looking at that weather vane and thinking, "If this means

what I think it means in terms of my destiny, I want that weather vane to point in the direction of

me against the wind." Before I could finish the thought, the weather vane pointed directly at me

and I just started crying. I fell to my knees and I surrendered my life to this vast presence that I

had had an encounter with previously, this presence of love and beauty everywhere, and I never

looked back.

But that adversity and the listening to this inner voice, this feeling, this guidance totally changed

my life. I surrendered to it and I live my life based on my connection with what I call the

presence that is never an absence. The presence of love and intelligence and beauty that's

everywhere if we will but listen.

Self-love being the most important one of those to tick off?

Self-love is extremely important. Without self-love, you project obstacles and hindrances from

your self-loathing that you create for yourself because you're not embracing who you are. So

self-love is one of the beginning stages of personal growth development and unfoldment.

And that's not egotistic love, it's an awareness that you are endowed with the intelligence, the

love, the beauty, everyone is, and you're loving this within yourself, and you want to set it free.

But you also see it in everyone else. You're not trying to be better than anyone, you're only

trying to be better than your previous self. So self-love is extremely important.

And I've heard you talk previously as well that that opens up forgiveness. Very hard to

forgive when you have that self-loathing.

Forgiveness is key. Without forgiveness, you create debt in your life because you're living with

the phrase that somebody owes you something. They owe you an apology, they stole money

from you, they need to give you the money back. They gossiped about you, they need to make

amends. So you're living in this space of they did this and they owe me this. Now by law, the law

matches that with, oh, you think you're missing something? Here's debt. Here's an obstacle. So

without forgiveness, self-forgiveness and forgiveness of others, you actually create the vibration

of lack in your life. Forgiveness cuts all that free. And doesn't mean you condone what

somebody did, but you're no longer connected to it.

Yeah, I really want to dive into that. Before we do, have you ever had a conversation from

a higher consciousness reaching the heights that you have back to you in that moment

when you feel like you were at your lowest point?

What do you mean?

So there's a close friend of mine who passed away a couple of years ago, Dr. Mark

Goulston. He was a psychiatrist at UCLA, one of the world's top experts on

communication, just a really beautiful soul. And I had some, we all have our own rock

bottom moments, and I had described to him on his podcast actually, which was very

confronting for me at the time, to have to relive all of those different things. And what he

encourages people to do is when they're in the present, which they should be, and in a

place where they feel like everything has happened for a reason, and you're in a good

place now, like I have a clear mission. I'm married, I've got a family, I've got everything,

health, everything I could possibly want. To go and replay that moment in my own mind

of what happened, but be there and observe and even have a conversation with myself

from the person-

Oh, I see.

... I am today, as well as the person going through that to stop it being such a haunting

memory.

Oh, absolutely. You can go back and reframe it and heal it. Yeah, I've done that, I've done that

kind of work. I've even had the experience of, how do I explain it? For instance, when I was 27

and I'd had a spiritual awakening, I'm on my way to a senior citizen center, they've invited me to

speak. I'm driving in my car to the Valley. It had been raining, and all of a sudden the clouds part

and the sun is shining, and I have a visitation from myself in the future. I'm wondering, what am I

going to do with my life? And a future self comes to me and says, "Keep doing what you're

doing, you're on the right path. You've made it. I'm the result of your decisions." I thought that

was... It gave me such an uplift.

So now, years later, I founded Agape. It was a Wednesday evening service, I'm speaking in a

building right over here. We used to have a building right over here. And I'm in this expanded

state, and as I'm driving home, I suddenly see young Michael. He's 27, he's driving in his car,

and he's wondering how his life is going to turn out. And I say to him, "Michael, you're okay.

Keep doing what you're doing. I'm here." So I've had the experience of being the young person

wondering about something, and I've had the experience of being who I am, talking to the young

person. And then there was another part of me here that was my next level of future. So I've had

that experience in real time of being the person wondering, being the person answering, and

then being aware that there's another aspect of me seeking to emerge.

How can people open to have that? Is it getting a bit more in tune with your intuition? Or

are these things that have only happened to you a couple of times? Or is this something

that you feel like you can almost call on demand now?

Well, what I do, first of all, I think individuals need to have some kind of meditation practice

where you're coming out of time and you're holding your attention on that which is real until it

becomes active in you. And then one of the practices that I do is that when I... This is just one

practice. When I go to sleep, I'm starting to fall asleep, I have a certain list of things that I'm

working on, some people that I'm praying for, family members, things for Agape. And I read

them as if they've already happened. I'm falling asleep. And then as I'm falling asleep, in the

field of infinite potential, I choose a possibility. I choose it and I feel that it's happening, and then

I go to sleep.

So what happens with that is sometimes I'll have a lucid dream in which I'm actually living in that

reality before it manifests. And then I watch as things start to happen in this 3D world, bringing

that into expression. So I'm choosing something, and it's really good to choose it when you're

about to fall asleep and then re-choose it when you're waking up, when you're in what is called

the hypnagogic state, that state between sleep and awake. So I practice that.

It's like surrender before you fall asleep.

Yeah.

So you can relax and then connect with it when you're in the morning and you can-

Yeah.

When it comes to meditation, we have a mutual friend, Emily Fletcher from Ziva

Meditation.

Oh, yeah. Yes, yes

She's great. What I love about that is it incorporates a manifestation piece because

without that, just that stillness, I just become, as a lot of entrepreneurial minded people,

you get a million thoughts going through your head. So I'd been a failed meditator for

many, many years before I found Ziva, and it was so great to be able to do that. But in

terms of your meditation, are there any specifics about the meditation that you like, that

you feel like would be beneficial for other people to explore?

I hit at it from different angles. But first of all, I invite people to, as you relax, however it is your

way to relax and feel that you're in a frequency of love, and then you establish an intention. And

one intention is I'm intending to wake up to my glorious nature, because everyone's

sleepwalking to a greater or limited degree. So I'm intending to wake up, and that develops a

feeling of intention that I teach people to take your attention, put it on the intention.

And then from there, you have simultaneous awareness. You become aware that your body's

breathing. Why is that important? Because you can't breathe in the future and you can't breathe

in the past. Breath is present. So you're with your intention, you're very present. And I teach, the

present is not the same as the eternal now. The present is a tense in time, whereas now there is

no time, but it's close to the now.

So you're in the present watching the breath, you enter into your meditative practice, one, as if

this is the very first time you've done it, so you have your beginner's mind. You listen with your

entire being, because there is a broadcast of intelligence everywhere, so that you can hear it not

with ears, but with your whole being and you sit in that phase. And then you become available

to insight and revelation.

There's no good or bad meditation. Every meditation is good because some meditation is

agitation, cleansing out dirt. Some meditation is insight and revelation where you feel, oh my

God. But you have to have both.

If you put dirty clothes in your washing machine, you can't go right to spin cycle. It has to have

agitation to clean out the dirt. So sometimes the meditation is just you're releasing that which

doesn't serve you, but you're able to look at it without resisting it. And then sometimes your

meditation is, oh my God, you have the most greatest insight, greatest sense of connection. But

both are necessary and both are magnificent.

So that's one phase that I teach. But I teach, I'll teach Pranayama, I'll teach certain breath

techniques and things of that particular nature. What's important is why are you sitting? What's

the intention?

Beautiful. I love that.

Napoleon Hill wrote in Think and Grow Rich, bestselling self-help book of all time, he

wrote that the starting point of all achievement is desire. Yet one of the core tenants of

Buddhism is that life is suffering and the source of suffering is what you desire. So how

do you balance the hunger for future achievements with happiness in the present?

Well, the word desire comes from the word to sire. So real desire is that there's something

already within you that you are willing to express. So you embrace that which is seeking to

express, it's called a desire, but it's not a longing for there. It's a longing to activate and to set

your potential free. So I embrace setting my attention free, and I'm not living in an expectation

because I keep the expectation minimal, but I keep celebration high. So minimal expectation,

total participation, great celebration.

What does that mean? I'm not expecting, and I'm not anticipating. I teach, you're not an

anticipant, you are a participant. So since this desire is actually something already within me, I

participate with it. I'm feeling that it's happening. I'm seeing that it's happening. So I'm

participating, and then I'm celebrating that it's happening.

So I'm not longing for the future. I'm absolutely activating something that's already happening.

I'm bringing it into expression. Does that make sense?

Yeah, it does. Absolutely.

What about disconnecting from thoughts that don't serve you?

I teach, you observe those thoughts. If you resist them, you, you'll create more energy for them.

So you actually look at them, become interesting. Now, there's an interesting thought. Where did

that thought come from? Don't believe everything you think because don't know where they

come from.

One thing you can't trust, you can't trust your own mind because you don't know who

programmed it. But you can trust this vast presence of intelligence and you can trust your

practice. Those are the two things you can trust. This ineffable presence of love and beauty, and

your own practice. Everything else, you can't trust.

So you observe it. Interesting thought. Where did that thought come from? Self-loathing, oh my

God. Worry, anxiety. So it becomes more like a game of watching. Now, the scientists have a

word called the observer effect. Anything you observe changes on a subatomic level based on

observation. So if you have intention with observation, that's the observer effect on steroids. So

I'm intending to wake up. Then I'm observing, oh, look at that thought, ooh, self-loathing. But I

have an intention to wake up. Those thoughts and those thought forms begin to disintegrate

based on observation. If you fight them, you give them power. If you observe them with

intention, they dissolve.

And you can take whatever data points you need, like maybe I'm a little bit tired right

now, I need to allow myself a bit of rest.

All of that.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Especially with you obviously being on stage in front of however many people every

single week, I imagine you must feel run down at times or certainly retreat to places

where you get a little bit of rest to recharge.

After I speak, I go upstairs and I hydrate, get a bite to eat, and I go home and I rest. Sometimes

the family comes over and we socialize and they know that after a couple hours, I'm going to fall

asleep. They don't take it personal. Night, night, everybody, I'm taking a nap.

Just nodding off at the table.

Because I'm up at 4:00 in the morning.

Affirmations are a big one for you. Are there one or two favorite affirmations that you'd

be open to sharing with us?

I like the affirmation... There's a couple. “I'm available to more good than I've ever imagined,

realized, or experienced before in my life.” That affirmation takes me out of my present point of

view. I'm available to more good, you can say more prosperity, more good, more health,

whatever than I've ever experienced, imagined, or realized before. So I'm making myself

available to that, which is outside of my present paradigm. I'm making myself available to the

unknown. I'm available.

I like the affirmation “Now and forever, I demonstrate and manifest harmonizing prosperity,

abundance, perfect health now.” Now and forever, I manifest and demonstrate. And you can put

whatever you want in there, harmonizing prosperity, harmonizing wealth, health now. So I'm

setting something in motion that this is permanent. Now and forever, I'm demonstrating this. So I

go, I like those two affirmations.

Are there any other daily rituals you feel like people should add to their day?

Well, I think that you should never leave your home without some kind of ritual. Whether you

have an affirmative prayer, whether you're meditating, whether you're doing the life-visioning

process, whether you're studying something inspirational, so that when you go out into the

world, you have a buffer against everything that's going to try to steal your attention. There's

going to be traffic, there's going to be some kind of something on the news, there's going to be

something in social media, something in the hatersphere about negativity about somebody.

But if you establish yourself, what I like to say is when an astronaut goes into space, an

astronaut takes its own atmosphere with him or her. They're not drawing on the atmosphere

because there's no atmosphere in space. So I try to teach people, when you go out into the

world, you carry your own atmosphere. You're a cosmonaut. You know what I mean?

So when you're doing your affirmation, you're doing your prayer, you're doing your study, you're

doing your meditation, you're establishing an intention, you're creating an atmospheric bubble

around you. And here is where you live. So you're in that world, but you're of this world. You're

in the world, but you're of this. And then after a while, you become like spiritual Teflon. You can

observe craziness, but it's not going to touch you because you're not in that world. You're here.

And then this world starts to expand. You start to carry this feeling, this vibration everywhere you

go. Even in the midst of calamity, in the midst of traffic, in the midst of whatever, you're in this

world.

Even in the midst of hearing everyone's problems.

Absolutely.

Which I imagine you hear a lot of. And a question I wanted to ask you as well on that is

how did you reconcile the fact that you're sort of in the business, your mission is helping

people, as many people as you can, as effectively as you can, but when did you realize

that you couldn't help everyone on the planet? And if trying to do that, all that would

happen is that you would just burn out in the process?

Well, everything is set up. Before I started Agape, I was a spiritual therapist. I saw six to eight

people every single day, six days a week. And I saw a lot of miracles, I saw a lot of... Once I

could get an individual to come into harmony with their real nature and being, I saw great

change. And there were individuals that were fighting for their limitations. They took a little

longer.

So I don't try to fix people. I work on myself to see people. I see their divinity, I see their

perfection. I see their potential, and that's who I talk to. So I know, even when I was teaching in

the university, that sometimes I'm planting seeds that I'm able to see grow. Sometimes I'm

planting seeds, I may not be able to see it grow. It may happen five years from now. I may plant

a seed in somebody, it may not take right now, but it's there. Five years from now, suddenly

something happens, maybe a crisis happens in their life and they have to grow. Or maybe they

have an insight and then I'll see them five or 10 years later and they're like, "Oh my God, what

you told me 10 years ago, I get it." So I live for the long run for people.

That's so interesting. I don't think I've heard that before. You don't evaluate your own

performance and your own merit on how someone transforms very quickly. That's

something that I do a lot of. You allow yourself the patience and the kindness to let

things unfold naturally rather than trying to force an outcome that may not be there

because of the person or the circumstances or whatever.

They may be growing through it. It's not their time because of their own self-loathing or whatever

the case may be. But I know I planted that seed. A farmer plants a seed. Sometimes it doesn't

grow right away, but the seed is there and it's going to grow under the right condition. And

maybe for that individual, that condition might be a divorce. Suddenly they're bereft and they

have to turn to something. It might be a great insight they have. The seed is there. It's going to

grow under the right condition.

Divorce, you just mentioned there, divorce is such a big one. People go through life with

a chip on their shoulder about how they feel like they were wronged by this other person.

If you've got kids in the mix, it gets very, very challenging, very, very emotional. How do

you feel like those people should be able to move past some of those things and how

they feel harmed to be able to live a more joyous life again?

Well, there are three questions when one is going through divorce or a loss. First thing is accept

what is. So if a relationship is changing and you're divorcing that relationship that you had, you

can't go into wishful thinking, "I wish I would've done this. I wish I would've, could've." You

accept what is, you have to accept this is over.

Secondly, you harvest the good. What did I learn in this relationship? What did I learn about

myself? What did I learn about other people? You harvest the good.

Thirdly, you forgive everything else. So if you go through those three stages, acceptance,

harvest, and forgiveness, you don't walk around with a chip on your shoulder. You realize...

I went through a divorce many years ago and had two kids, still have them. And someone asked

me on a program one day about my unsuccessful marriages. I said, "I've never had such a

thing. They're very successful." I said, "My first marriage, two beautiful kids. This is what I

learned, we're all very close," until she passed recently, the mother of my children passed

recently. We were friends to the very end. Supported each other, loved each other. We just

weren't married. Very successful.

So I don't let the world define success because sometimes that lesson is learned. People go in

different directions. But while you were together, you learned very valuable things if you pay

attention, if you ask the right questions. So I did not allow that individual to put a narration on my

life that I had an unsuccessful marriage. It was very successful. She grew, I grew. We love each

other. We're good.

I can see then diagnosing people with marriage issues, a lot of the time it might be

because someone is not an active participant in the marriage in terms of everything

they're going on there. Maybe they're too distracted, maybe they're too immersed in work

or some of those other things that we had mentioned there, like being a participant,

doing the work, whatever it takes. Obviously, there are times when it's not going to work

out for various reasons, but I can see now a lot of relationships where one person is not

an active participant. It's going to be very difficult for you to keep that relationship going

in that container.

Absolutely. Sometimes an individual is really heaven-bent or hell-bent on just staying the same.

The other person is open to growing and being different versions of themselves, and that's

called a mixed marriage. Sometimes it won't work.

I do know of a marriage where that did work. There was a lady by the name of Vitura Papke,

great spiritual practitioner, great mystic. Her husband didn't believe in all of this stuff. He thought

it was a bunch of wackadoo stuff. But they loved each other. He didn't stop her from doing her

thing. She didn't stop him from doing his thing.

Then one day, she's driving home from a spiritual conference and her car on the freeway, the

engine caught on fire. She had to pull over. This is before we had those things on the freeway

you could call somebody. She's an older lady and she was stuck on the freeway late at night. So

she closed her eyes and she imagined that the car was okay, it was going to start, and she

prayed and she started, the car started up. So she drove home and she told her husband, "Go

look at the car. It caught on fire, but I got it started."

So he went outside and looked at the car and he said, "You didn't drive that car home?" She

said, "Oh, yes, I did." He said, "It's impossible. The fire burned the wire connected to battery. It

is impossible that you drove this car home." And she said, "I drove the car home. You saw me

drive in the driveway." He became a believer.

Oh, interesting. That's what it took for him to convert.

Yeah. He started coming to her to see spiritual conferences because he saw this something that

was supposed to be impossible happen with her. But up until that time, they got along. But she

was in one world and he was in another.

Yeah. How do you feel about skeptics that you just see in your daily life? Just people

who were skeptical about just pretty much everything?

Probably now, I'm in a bubble, so I don't really see too many skeptics. I'm at my office with my

staff. On Sundays, I'm with this vast community. I'm traveling to conferences and speaking. I

don't really see skeptics. Every now and then online, somebody may say something skeptical.

And it doesn't bother me, I just say, "Well, skepticism and cynicism are definitely tools to keep

you from the kingdom."

Absolutely. In terms of limiting beliefs that hold people back, what are the most common

ones that you see people have?

There's not enough good to go around. Scarcity and lack, it's a big one, and it's perpetuated by

our society because the society is driven on consumerism. It's an immature economic system

that's built on debt and a non-renewable resource. So everything is built on debt, and so lack

and limitation is a big lie. Limitation and scarcity doesn't even exist in a vast universe. It doesn't

exist, but people believe it. And then powers that be create that as a condition to keep people

wanting more of something that's not going to satisfy. So lack of limitation is a big belief.

Unworthiness is a belief. I'm unworthy to be happy. I'm unworthy to be successful. I'm unworthy

to be loved. It's a lie. Each of us are spiritually endowed with everything that life has to offer. It's

within us all, there's no... This vast presence, whatever name you want to call the presence,

doesn't make special people. People specialized. Doesn't just make a great piano player. Here

you go. Generally, that piano player specialized his or her time, their intention to learn how to

play. And then after a number of years, they could play music. Then they became very musical,

and we said, "Oh, aren't they special?" No, they specialized.

So that's with anything, you can specialize being an entrepreneur. You can specialize being an

artist, a poet. You can specialize in anything and develop a mastery around it. People will say,

"Oh, you're special." No, I just took my time. We all had the same amount of time every day, we

had the same amount of seconds, same amount of minutes, same amount of hours. What you

do with yours and what somebody else is doing with theirs is going to determine their mastery. If

someone's laying on the couch eating potato chips, watching television all day, they're not going

to become a great artist or a great orator or a great writer or a great podcaster. It's not going to

happen.

So there are no special people. They're just people who specialize using their time to develop

some level of mastery.

So well said. If people suck at something, they just haven't done the reps.

They haven't done the reps, man. Just keep doing it, keep doing it, keep doing it until you

develop mastery.

With all the people you've helped, is anxiety a big one? I feel like anxiety is more and

more common these days. I'm hearing people who have asked me for advice have had

kids that refuse to go to school because they have anxiety. People are feeling anxious

about the work that they have, anxious about their family situations, stressed out parents

who are trying to keep their marriage together with two working parents and all of those

different things. How should people handle and approach anxiety if they feel it

overwhelming them every day?

Well, the mental health issue with anxiousness and anxiety really exacerbated after the

lockdown of healthy people, when there was the whole pandemic frequency, and that became

kind of a catchphrase. So that becomes contagious. It becomes a part of the gestalt, mental

issues, anxiety, anxiousness, and people can catch it. Just like people can catch a cold, you can

catch a thought. So then anxiety and anxiousness, it's in the social milieu now.

So anxiousness and anxiety is generally a projection of a worst-case scenario into the future. So

what I teach people to do is to learn how to project a best-case scenario. You have to

re-enchant the imagination. The imagination has been hijacked by a worst-case scenario.

Something bad happens, something doesn't go to your plan. You start thinking, "Oh my God,

this is going to happen. I'm going to go home, we're going to have an argument. We're going to

get divorced, or I'm going to get fired."

You don't have to let your mind run amok like that. You can actually take the time and

re-enchant the imagination and ask, what is the best thing that could happen from this? Just ask

the question. Your mind will start to fill it in. What is the best thing that could happen from this

particular experience? You start to fill it in. Then you start to become aware, "Oh, yeah, that's a

possibility. Oh, that's a possibility. That's a possibility."

Now, what's happening there? Your energy's rising, tonic chemicals starting to flow. Your

immune system is getting stronger. The brain coherence is starting to happen. Now you're able

to think more clearly. Solutions are happening, answers are happening. So instead of your mind

just running amok, now you're in a different frame where you get to catch wisdom because

you've asked a different question. What is the best case scenario out of this event that seems

so bad right now?

So if we can just stop, hold your horses for a minute, the mind's going crazy. The mind's not the

controller of you, you're the controller of the mind. What's the best thing that could happen?

So I try to teach people to work with best case scenarios, and sometimes people have to build

into it. So the best case scenario may not be totally big, maybe just something little. But then it

starts to grow, imagination starts to be used wisely. I call it re-enchanting the imagination that's

been hijacked by the world.

You've mentioned a few questions already today that people should ask themselves. Do

you have a structured process or a specific set of questions that you ask yourself to help

you show up as your best every day or every year or every quarter?

Well, years ago, I originated what is called the life visioning process in which you sit in

meditation and you ask what is... You could say it in different ways. If a person likes the word

God, I teach, obviously, God is not a guy in the sky. God is a presence of love and beauty and

intelligence. What is God's idea of itself as my life? It's one way of asking. What is seeking to

emerge through me? Because we've all come here with gifts. So you begin to ask those

questions, and if you're sincere, you'll start to hear not just with your ears, but you'll start to

catch the idea of your life.

The next question is, what do I need to become in order to manifest this idea? That's the

growing edge. You start to hear, I need to grow in this area. I need to develop this talent. I need

to forgive, whatever. What do I have already that can be in service to this vision that's

emerging? This is a very important question because as the law says in scripture, to he or she

who has, more is given. To he or she who has not, even that which they have is taken away. It's

not personal. If you feel that you have, if you feel it, more comes. If you feel that you have not,

then you're creating the condition to lose. It's just law, it's not personal.

So what do you have that can be in service to the vision? You start to, your mind will start, "Oh, I

have these resources. I know these people, they could probably help me. I have this gift within

myself." So now I'm vibrating with having, you see.

Then from there, you ask, what is it that no longer serves me that I'm willing to let go? Again,

things will bubble up. These kind of conversations don't serve me. This complaining doesn't

serve me. Being with those people that are always gossiping about other people, that doesn't

really serve me. You start to see, become conscious of things you can let go of.

And then you wrap it all up in willingness. If there's willingness, there's a way. If there's

willfulness, there's a wall, because you're making yourself available. What's the vision? What do

I need to become? What do I have? What can I let go of? And you feel willingness and you stay

in the vibration of willingness.

That's a short version. But the universe answers every question you ask. We just have to ask

higher questions.

Ask positive, yeah, higher questions. The Secret, released in 2006, did a great job of

broadcasting the law of attraction and a lot of personal development principles to the

world. What do you feel like it got wrong? I feel like there's lot of misconceptions about

the law of attraction.

Well, I don't think it got anything wrong. I think it was a beginning Trojan Horse to sneak into

society. So we'd use bells and whistles of materialism, and you could have money, your body

can be healed. You can get a car, have soundtrack, getting people all involved in it. But it was a

beginning, it wasn't an ending. It was just a beginning to let people know that they determine

their own destiny. You're not a victim to what has happened to you.

So it's beginning, so there's a lot of criticism around it, but you don't criticize stairs when you get

an elevator. You know what I mean? And you don't criticize an elevator when you learn to

levitate. It was beginning, and so I don't criticize it. I just know that it couldn't be all to everybody

because it was a beginning.

And if you look at Rhonda Byrne, who created it, who asked us to be in the movie, it came about

because she was going through a very dark time in her life. She's going through a divorce. Her

father died. She was in depression. Her daughter gave her a little book that had these principles

in it. She was 50 years old, and she said, "How can I live 50 years and not know these basic

principles?"

But what was her gift? She was a movie producer. That was her gift. So she took her gift,

rounded up teachers so that the world could know about this, because it took her 50 years to

bump into it. So she was not a teacher, so-

It was exceptionally well-branded as well. I feel like the intrigue that they created-

You can't see it until this time. It's called The Secret.

Yeah, secret club that everyone wanted to be a part of.

Right, right. She did a good job.

Yeah. I was an executive producer of the Think and Grow Rich movie that came out a few

years ago, and I also wrote the book Think and Grow Rich: The Legacy, that came out

with that, and I can see the limitations. A lot of people ask me about, why is there so

much stuff in the book was missing from the film. There's a hundred minutes of run time

in the movie, there's only... Every movie is essentially a beginner course.

Absolutely. Well, we went out and did seminars later to fill in the gaps, what could not be in that

movie. We talked about, it's not materialism as much as it is your own growth and development

that you have to participate in. But in a movie, it was just, here it is. And it got people excited,

got people enthused, people who began to study more. It brought millions of people into the

metaphysical movement.

At that time, many people embarrassed about this stuff. They thought it was woo woo. I used to

say people would put book covers around their metaphysical books. They didn't want people to

know they were reading it. And if somebody said, "What are you reading?" "Oh, porn." They'd

rather say they were reading porn than a metaphysical book because it was all woo woo. Now,

what? All these years later, with the advent of quantum physics and epigenetics, biofeedback,

measurement of auric fields, brain coherence. Now it's not woo woo. Now it's science.

Yeah. It's almost too many personal development books as well at the moment, isn't it?

Yeah, yeah.

There's so many out there.

Yeah.

The frequency of wealth, a lot of people want the ability to earn a specific income, or

maybe not, they want wealth without being emotionally connected to the ask that they

have. How do you feel about the law of attraction in terms of wealth creation, getting on

the frequency of money?

Yeah. Well, this is how I deal with it. The law of attraction is a linguistic convenience for

radiation, radiance. So what happens is the law of attraction, those words were bite-sized words

that people could understand. You don't have something, this is how you attract it to yourself.

In reality, what's happening is as you come to a level of coherence around what you want, you

begin to feel that it's happening now, it's a feeling tone. It's called the law of resonance. You start

to have a level of resonance around it before you see it. Then from resonance, there's radiance.

You start to actually radiate that frequency. You're walking, radiating it, not trying to attract it.

And then from there is the law of emergence. It emerges from you. Now, it looks like you've

attracted it, but you've actually come into resonance with it, and you've developed a level of

radiance so that it emerges.

So I take people, you can actually go through meditational stages where you actually, what does

wealth feel like? What does it feel like? First, you use your imagination, pictures and things like

that. But then you come to a feeling, oh, I feel all of my needs are met right now. I'm not anxious

about the future. I feel that I have all of my needs met. I can go anywhere in the world and have

whatever it is I need. What does that feel like? You see?

Now I'm coming into resonance with that. Now there's a radiance about me. And then that which

is within me already starts to emerge. I get guidance, I get wisdom, direction. There's

manifestation.

So the law of attraction is actually a linguistic convenience because you're not attracting

anything. You already have it. You're just opening it up so it can express through you.

And that radiance connects you with opportunity. That leads to monetary-

People say often they start to notice opportunities, but they were there all the time, they never

noticed them before. They couldn't see them. They had all these blocks, about how hard things

were going to be or lack or limitation. Then suddenly, they see all these opportunities, or they

see these people that they're connected with, that they'd never saw them in their proper light

before. Great resource. Not that you want to use people, but the people there, they're your

friends. They love you, they would help you. Yeah.

What you focus on.

You see life differently.

Yeah, yeah. What you focus on, such a big one.

Right. Right.

Yeah. Albert Einstein has a famous quote. He said, "A calm and modest life brings more

happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness." And I've

felt that restlessness as you have that pursuit of success, if you look at someone who

has a maybe more stable corporate job, they might've been in the same job and for a

couple of decades, it's a very calm life compared to particularly entrepreneurial minded

people. How do you feel about that quote?

Say the-

"A calm and modest life-

Oh, calm and modest life.

... brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant

restlessness."

I think it's a good quote. I separate a businessman from an entrepreneur. A businessman's

bottom line is profit. An entrepreneur wants to change the world using the modality of business.

The bottom line isn't just profit. The bottom line is securing happiness for employees, changing

the world in some better way, making a contribution. Business people, this is not all business

people, generally the bottom line is profit regardless of what they're selling.

But definitely a calm. There's another statement that I like is to he or she who can perfectly

practice in action, all things are possible. So when you come to that space of there's not a lot of

activity, but you're feeling connected, then everything opens up for you. It's calm. And you don't

move until it moves you. So you're not just spinning your wheels. Yeah.

Brilliant. When it comes to people connecting with purpose, how does someone get clear

on their calling and what they're put on this earth to do?

Well, I believe that everyone has the same purpose, but everyone has different missions.

Everyone has the purpose of reflecting and revealing the infinite according to their uniqueness.

We've all shot from the eternal source of all creation, so we have this purpose to reflect back to

it everything that it is, but according to our uniqueness. Somebody may do it as an artist,

somebody may, their mission may be to be a teacher, a doctor, whatever.

So two things. One, even in the vision process, if you ask, what is my vision for my life? You'll

start to get inklings of what is it that... How you're to contribute. And it'll have something to do

many times with your natural gifts. When you were a kid, things you loved to do. And if you take

whatever your natural gift is and turn it into a mastery, and then that becomes a center point in

your life, spokes will come out of your mastery, and you find yourself being more of a

renaissance person. You start it with the mastery of whatever it is your main thing is, and then,

"Oh my God, now I know how to do this. Now I know how to do that. Oh, now I'm writing. Oh,

now I'm speaking. Oh, now I'm on television. Now I'm doing a book."

But maybe your mastery may have been poetry. Your mastery may have been writing, your

mastery may have been art. But you start there and then you find that you can take that same

feeling of mastery into other areas of your life.

You can see the problem there with teenagers and young adults who aren't even trying

anything.

Right.

Yeah.

Particularly in these days where so much has been closed down and the mind has been

hijacked by fear. Yeah.

So it's very important that we have small groups. And one of the things that happened many

years ago was we had television groups, Tell A Vision. And we had people all around the United

States meeting in small groups, and all they were doing was going into meditation and then

telling a vision for their life, and then having the group support them. Holding them accountable.

What did you do today to walk in the direction of your vision? Who did you speak to? What did

you say?

So nowadays, the great pirate, I call it the great pirate, can steal your attention. The great pirate

is entertainment. Not putting down entertainment, but some people are so

entertainment-minded, the basketball, the football, the Super Bowl, television, then all the

different series on TV, 150 channels, it steals people's creativity. So you actually have to pull

away from that and give time to yourself and catch a vision, and then walk in its direction every

day. Baby steps, doesn't have to be monumental. What happens is when you take baby steps,

you develop momentum, and then mighty mo moves you out of inertia, and then you're pulled

by something.

Everyone wants to be having these conversations, but that's just not the right... yeah, not

the right outlet.

That's why they need to be listening to your podcast!

That's right.

Can you listen to my podcast?

Exactly.

They need to turn onto something that's going to take them out of the lethargy of the mind.

Yeah. That's why at the start, every single podcast I do, it's always the right bit of

inspiration can completely change the trajectory of someone's life, so share it with them

if they need to hear it.

Absolutely.

If there's someone that you know.

Yeah.

Yeah. If you could leave the audience with just one spiritual principle to live by, what

would it be?

A principle to live by? You've entered into the earth not to get anything, but to give everything.

You have everything. You're here to circulate it. So since the world can't make you happy, it's an

illusion that it can, you've come to give. You didn't come to get. So if you ask every day, what

can I contribute? What can I give? How can I share? The universe will fill your hands with

something to give. If you say, "How can I get?" You're starting with lack.

Brilliant. Last question before the rocket round, on your best day, what's an affirmation

that you would write on a flash card that you could show yourself on your worst day?

All of my needs are met, and everything is working together for my good.

I love it. Well, let's now move into the Win the Day Rocket Round. 10 questions for some

quick answers. You up for this one, Michael?

Let's go.

Number one, what quote inspires you the most?

Pain pushes until the vision pulls.

Number two, morning coffee or evening wine?

Morning smoothie.

Oh, nice. What do you put in the smoothie?

I wake up in the morning, first of all, I drink warm water with minerals and lemon. And then I

make a special tea, herbal tea with cacao cordyceps. I go work out and I come back, I make a

smoothie.

I have my own green drink. It's my own product. It's called AdaptoZen from NutriRise. So I use

my green product. I use a special protein powder, avocado, blueberries. I make my own almond

walnut milk. And I drink that every morning. And every day, I may put a little different things in it.

Yeah, love it. We'll include a link to that in the show notes as well.

Yeah, please.

Number three, what's one bit of advice you would give your 18-year-old self?

18? You're on the right path. Don't give up.

Number four, what book do you gift the most or that contributed most to the mindset you

have today?

There'd be three books. For the Inward Journey by Dr. Howard Thurman, The Man Who Tapped

The Secrets of the Universe, that's about the life of Glen Clark. I mean, Glen Clark is the author,

Walter Russell. And the other book is The Man Who Talked With Flowers, it's about the life of

George Washington Carver. Those three books are very powerful.

Is there a unifying theme across them or are they different for each book?

It's a unifying theme. Walter Russell was the greatest mystic that ever emerged out of America,

and it showed his life. This is the book about him. When you read the book about him, then

you'll go to his own books. But it showed him as a young child growing into adulthood. He

invented duplex, he was a multi-millionaire. He raised Arabian horses. He was an ice skating

champion at 67 years old. He was a great mystic. He taught these metaphysical principles. He

added elements to the empirical chart without any formal education. He had a cosmic

consciousness opening. He saved my life because when I got opened years ago, I thought I

was going crazy. And when I studied his work, I realized what was happening.

George Washington Carver, many people think he was a scientist. He was a mystic. He woke

up every day at four o'clock in the morning. He asked nature, "What are you good for?" His

famous quote was, "If you fall in love with anything sincerely, it will reveal its secrets to you." So

he fall in love with nature and she would tell him everything. Then he'd go into his laboratory and

prove it.

And then Howard Thurman, pure mysticism. He was able to bring light into dark areas of one's

life. It's a good book for people to have.

I love as part of your journey too, finding mentors through the written word. It's a core

theme in a lot of the people that I've interviewed is you don't, especially when you're

starting out, you don't necessarily need to have all the mentors in real life. You can find

them in books and have conversations and all of that.

You can imagine them sitting there talking to you.

Yeah.

I had a mentor, when I was first opening up, I would leave my body and go to a class. And then

they would be teaching metaphysics and there was this guy always teaching. And then one day,

I'm asleep but I'm in this space. One day he said, "The class tonight's going to be taught by

Michael Beckwith." I was shocked because I know I'm dreaming, but I know I'm awake. And I

said, "Oh my God."

So I walk up to the front of the class and I said, it can be broken down into eight words, "It is

done unto you as you believe." Then I counted it is done unto you as you... Eight. And a bead of

sweat rolled down the side of my head and I woke up in bed sweating because I realized I was

not sleeping, I was actually hanging out.

Years later, I found out that man's name was Ernest Holmes because I saw a bust of him at a

church and I said, "Oh, that's the guy I see at night." And I said, "I know this guy." And people

looked at me like, "You don't know him, he died in the '60s." And I said, "No, when I go to sleep

at night, I see him." And they thought I'd kind of crazy, so I telling people that story.

Number five, was there a vulnerability you once hid within that became your

superpower?

Very shy person. Very inward and liked being alone. So that became the ability to sit by myself

in meditation for long periods of time, which then began to be allowing for different aspects of

me to come forward to speak and to be present with groups of people. But that initial turning

within, that initial wanting to be alone became a strength.

Number six, what's one thing you've learned about failure?

Don't give up. It's the only fail if you stop. Failure would take you into different roads. Maybe you

thought you were supposed to go left. If you don't give up, you realize, "Oh, I was actually

supposed to go right."

Number seven, if you could sit on a park bench and have a conversation with someone

alive or dead, who would it be?

It'd probably be Walter Russell. Yeah.

Number eight, what tool or resource best helps you run your life or your business?

Life visioning and meditation.

Number nine. Share one thing on your bucket list.

Oh. I've been to a lot of places, but there's one country in Africa and I can't think of the name of

it right now, I want to go there. It's a special place. I don't know why I'm blocking the name right

now, but on my bucket list, it's probably traveling to more countries and being in different

cultures. I think that one thing that this vast presence created nothing exactly alike, no people,

no rocks, no snowflakes, no trees. Diversity is built into it, and so I like to see different cultures

and different places.

It's so good for that, just tapping into infinite potential, isn't it?

Yeah.

You just get around the world and realize how small everything is and just how expanded

your mind can become.

I can't believe that only 10% of the population of America have passports.

Is that right?

Yeah. Less than 10%.

Wow.

You got to see... Even if you don't travel outside the United States, you want to travel some

other places around the world and see that your thinking is just one way of thinking. It's not the

right way, it's just one way.

Yeah, for sure. And last question, number 10, what's one thing you do to win the day?

I'll tell you what I used to do. At the end of every day, and I'm thinking I'm maybe bringing this

back, I had in my trunk a cooler and it had sparkling apple juice and it had wine, it had different

things like that. And whoever I was with at the end of the day, I'd open up the trunk and

whatever your thing was, if you like wine, if you didn't drink, we would all toast that we made it

through another day and it was great. So now I just go into a deep level of gratitude at the end

of the day, but I'm thinking about bringing that back.

I love it, bring it back.

Yeah.

Well, there are a bunch of ways to connect with Michael, and we'll link to all of these in

the show notes. You can follow him on Instagram @michaelbbeckwith, grab a copy of his

many books on Amazon, and visit his website michaelbeckwith.com. Again, all that and

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