The School of Greatness - 618 Faith Over Fear with Gabby Bernstein

Episode Date: March 23, 2018

“RESISTANCE IS WHAT BLOCKS US FROM RECEIVING SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE.” There’s so much happening in the world right now. One thing we can’t do is give in to the fear. Instead, give in to love. Give support, passion, and nothing but love to everyone you meet. For this 5 Minute Friday, I decided to refer back to an older episode of The School of Greatness with Gabby Bernstein. Gabby is a NYT bestselling author, she’s regarded by Oprah as one of the emerging spiritual leaders of our time, and she is a powerhouse force of love and healing. Learn about how you can make the world a better place on Episode 618. In This Episode You Will Learn: The root problem we all have (1:12) How great movements were created (1:58) What we need to keep our eyes out for (2:52) Where resistance comes from (3:42) The secret antidote to the world’s problems (4:15) Plus much, much more

This is Five Minute Friday! Welcome everyone to a very special edition of the School of Greatness podcast. Super, super pumped about our guest today. Had an amazing interview and time with Gabby Bernstein. For those that don't know who Gabby is, her book that just came out hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list. She is an international speaker, a spirit junkie,

and an author of a number of New York Times bestselling books. She was featured on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday as a next generation thought leader, and the New York Times named her a new role model. She appears regularly as an expert on the Dr. Oz Show and leads talks and meditations for sold-out audiences around the world. Forbes called her one of the 20 best-branded women, and Self Made Magazine named her one of the top 50 women in business. the top 50 women in business.

Some of our problems are far worse than others. At the root, we all have the same problem, which is choosing to lean into the fear, choosing to believe in the fear. Now, I want to be very clear. I don't want to offend anybody. So I don't want to take away anything from the people who are suffering versus the people who are thriving

in first world countries, right? So let's not take anything away from the real who are suffering versus the people who are thriving in, in first world countries. Right. So the, the, let's not take anything away from the, the, the real suffering in this world. But from a spiritual perspective, there's, there's one problem, which is believing in the fear. And the more we believe in the fear, the more, the more that becomes an epidemic and that epidemic becomes a war, becomes all the division that we see in the world. It becomes racial injustice or becomes, and that's, you know, the root cause of all the problems in this world are based on our belief and fear. And so those people that are suffering and stuck in these very, very difficult situations, the ones that will thrive, and I write about many of them in the book, Leymah Gabawi, and I write about Victor Frankl,

and I write about the people who in the midst of the darkest moments chose to see the light, chose to see with love, chose to lean into love, and chose to lean into faith. And because of that faith created movements. Gandhi, right? Created movements. And so because we have these divine powers of example, it's very easy for us to lean on them you know and say it's it's it's that many people are given a um a tremendous of a tremendous amount of of difficulty that will be far worse than the average person right but in the same breath what are you going to do with it

um it's a lot to ask of somebody who's lost their home and doesn't have, you know, how do you find love in those situations? But at the root of it all, it is a choice. It is a mental decision. And so there probably, we should keep our eyes out for the miracles that we hear from the refugees, right? It's like people that through prayer and faith can have, you know, found, maybe found their way into a home that was exactly as

it needed to be. Or, you know, there are miraculous stories. But I mean, in the same breath, it's also what I think is most important is for those of us who are in first world countries that don't have these problems, right? Or people who are not suffering from war, you know, war or violence or bombing. It's really our responsibility to show up. Yeah. Show up in the greatest way that we can in honor of those who don't have the support and the resources that we have.

And so I can say that with conviction that you can speed up by slowing down. And really, so what it is, is that resistance is what blocks us from receiving support and guidance. Resistance comes from the belief systems and fear-based thoughts that keep us negative and in these low, low vibe energy. It's in the absence of resistance that we start to feel supported. So when we can shed the patterns and belief systems and energy and start to truly breathe and truly believe,

believe, believe, believe, that's when we can allow ourselves to genuinely receive the support that we need and that we long for. So love is the antidote. Love is the opposite. And love, not from a romantic love conversation, but love being the energy and ever-present essence of love that is within us and around us, and it's the truth of who we are.

And so when we start to reprogram our thinking and reorganize our belief systems and change our energy, we return to love, as Marianne Williams would say. We return to love. That's the title of her book. It is, her most famous book. We return to love, and that remembrance title of her book. It is. It's her most famous book. We return to love and that remembrance. Really, I believe that a spiritual journey truly is unlearning fear and remembering love.