Become Somebody New: Tools for Personal Transformation
Enjoy an intimate, alive, and inspired conversation with myself and my partner Christopher Gerber who is an artist and exceptionally wise being, about the process of shedding old outdated behaviors and limiting beliefs, while taking courageous leaps towards becoming a new you.
In this episode
- Christopher shares how Dr. Joe Dispenza, famous speaker and author of many books including "Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself", was his personal chiropractor back in the day... and how his invitation to "become somebody new" actually worked to not only cure his chronic low back pain, but transform his life.
- How getting a haircut can help you call in the partner of your dreams
- How to get your beliefs on board when manifesting or shifting your alignment
- How to transform and release blocks- physical, mental or emotional using the Body Mind Bridge Hypnotherapy method (in a short guided exercises)
- The elemental blueprint for personal transformation
Summary
Welcome dreamers, seekers, empaths, and healers! My name is Amanda Lux of the Elevation Hive school and community membership for energy medicine and dreamwork. In this podcast, I share teachings, musings, poems, songs, and interviews with other amazing humans who walk the healer's path.
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Transcript
I'm constantly having the experience of contraction and
Christopher Gerber:expansion, that it's an ongoing process of finding out what makes me feel like
Christopher Gerber:I'm contracting , my complaints, my fears, all of those cause a contraction.
Christopher Gerber:And what am I creating that causes that contraction and forgetting about that,
Christopher Gerber:like acknowledging it, seeing it, letting it go, feeling those little epiphanies
Christopher Gerber:of expansion that happened after that.
Christopher Gerber:And it's a, it's a fun game.
Christopher Gerber:I think that's the biggest thing is that it's, it's really fun
Christopher Gerber:to play with alignment to the great, the great work is play.
Christopher Gerber:Hmm.
Christopher Gerber:It's, it's hard.
Christopher Gerber:It's hard.
Christopher Gerber:There's tears, there's anguish, there's fear, there's, and it's still play.
Christopher Gerber:It's, it's the best kind of play.
Amanda Lux:Welcome to a Lone Travelers Guide to the Divine, a podcast for
Amanda Lux:seekers, dreamers, healers, and anyone on their healing journey.
Amanda Lux:My name is Amanda Lux, and I'm the creator of The Elevation Hive School
Amanda Lux:and Community for energy medicine and dreamwork, and I am changing.
Amanda Lux:I'm going through a lot of transition and so this episode is really all about that.
Amanda Lux:And I believe that we are all always changing.
Amanda Lux:We are constantly growing, evolving, shedding old skins and courageously
Amanda Lux:wiggling our way into a new incarnation.
Amanda Lux:I am gonna be having a conversation about this in this episode with
Amanda Lux:my partner Christopher Gerber, who is an amazing artist.
Amanda Lux:He's an amazing creator of realities, and in this episode, he and I are
Amanda Lux:discussing and sharing tools and resources and thoughts and challenge
Amanda Lux:points around personal transformation.
Amanda Lux:Specifically in regards to this concept of becoming somebody new.
Amanda Lux:They say that we shed all of our old cells and.
Amanda Lux:Completely regenerate every seven years or so, and I looked it up and what I
Amanda Lux:learned is that actually there's about 330 billion cells that are replaced daily.
Amanda Lux:The equivalent to about 1% of all of our cells are replaced every
Amanda Lux:single day in 80 to 100 days.
Amanda Lux:30 trillion cells have been replenished, which is the
Amanda Lux:equivalent of an entirely new you.
Amanda Lux:So it's not actually every seven years.
Amanda Lux:It's much more frequently that we are completely regenerated
Amanda Lux:and we can reimagine ourselves.
Amanda Lux:We don't have to regenerate the same old being with the same old
Amanda Lux:pains and fears and stuck patterns.
Amanda Lux:We don't have to drag those forward into our future over and over again.
Amanda Lux:It's an option to just relinquish and become somebody totally different.
Amanda Lux:Which is absolutely thrilling in my book, and so I've been
Amanda Lux:really working this muscle.
Amanda Lux:I'm kind of a transformation junkie, obviously.
Amanda Lux:I, I work in the business of coaching and healing so I've had
Amanda Lux:the great honor of witnessing so many people, change dramatically, heal
Amanda Lux:dramatically, and I've experienced it over and over again in my own life.
Amanda Lux:So this conversation is meant to be an anchor for you in your own process.
Amanda Lux:So if you are going through a change or you want to, and you're not sure how to
Amanda Lux:initiate that, or you know someone who's going through a big life transition, this
Amanda Lux:is an episode to just give you a little.
Amanda Lux:Insight, maybe some tools.
Amanda Lux:I'll walk you through a guided visualization process but mostly this
Amanda Lux:is myself and my partner having a conversation about the things that
Amanda Lux:have kept us limited and the ways that we have been able to harness
Amanda Lux:the energy of alignment and really consciously shift and make things
Amanda Lux:happen in a new way, in a new frequency.
Amanda Lux:And I've been doing this very, very actively in my life, currently changing
Amanda Lux:a lot of things in my life, taking huge leaps, building this incredible
Amanda Lux:healing center here in Washington State.
Amanda Lux:This has been a vision and a dream of mine for so long, and I finally just
Amanda Lux:in the last month, let go of my private practice for a while so that I could focus
Amanda Lux:100% on my dream and step fully into it.
Amanda Lux:It's just been a huge transition.
Amanda Lux:We're creating this magical domes to dream in, to heal in a
Amanda Lux:healing center, a retreat center.
Amanda Lux:It's, I just really would love to invite you to keep following my, , social media.
Amanda Lux:Follow the website, elevationhive.com so you can keep up with all the
Amanda Lux:incredible things that are happening.
Amanda Lux:I'm so blessed to get to have access to this incredible property
Amanda Lux:that is on the Salish Sea, that is ancient trees and water, and
Amanda Lux:it's a beautiful, beautiful place.
Amanda Lux:And the land itself has participated in this transition.
Amanda Lux:I've been listening deeply.
Amanda Lux:To what it wants and how I can honor that vision with the least amount of impact
Amanda Lux:so that I can share it in the best way.
Amanda Lux:So that's what I've been up to.
Amanda Lux:And this episode is really in a way honoring this transition for myself.
Amanda Lux:And it's also about honoring and supporting and being in comradery
Amanda Lux:with you and your transitional time in your life, wherever you are.
Amanda Lux:Because if you're an evolving person, you're going through a transition.
Amanda Lux:And if you're a human being, then your cells right now are renewing, and this
Amanda Lux:is an opportunity for you to choose what you wanna hang onto, what you wanna
Amanda Lux:let go of, and who you want to become.
Amanda Lux:I wanted to have this conversation with you in particular because, well,
Amanda Lux:we live together, we know each other well, and you're brilliant . And
Amanda Lux:we have these incredibly exquisite conversations every single day.
Amanda Lux:And specifically we've been discussing for a little while now,
Amanda Lux:maybe we always discuss this, but this idea of becoming someone new.
Amanda Lux:And that particular phrase made its way into our vocabulary because of your story.
Christopher Gerber:Well, so a lot of people now know Dr.
Christopher Gerber:Joe Dispenza as the writer, he's got thousands of followers all
Christopher Gerber:over the world and has done great things with, , his teaching.
Christopher Gerber:But I knew him.
Christopher Gerber:I met him back.
Christopher Gerber:He was a chiropractor, and he was my chiropractor.
Christopher Gerber:And I would go in with the same chronic lower back pain again and again.
Christopher Gerber:And I was like, maybe he's just not a good chiropractor, because I keep coming
Christopher Gerber:back with this same low back problem.
Christopher Gerber:And I told him, so I'm like, Hey, I keep having this, you know, The
Christopher Gerber:same back problem all the time and, and not really realizing that I
Christopher Gerber:was also going in and telling him the same sad stories all the time.
Christopher Gerber:The same, same thing.
Christopher Gerber:And he looked at me at the end of one session and he says, well,
Christopher Gerber:you just have to be somebody else.
Christopher Gerber:my first response to that was like, no way.
Christopher Gerber:I, I'm me.
Christopher Gerber:You know what?
Christopher Gerber:Well, how could you tell me to be somebody?
Christopher Gerber:I'm just gonna become more and more me.
Christopher Gerber:And I, I, I was, I was offended and I didn't get it.
Christopher Gerber:And uh, and it was really like years, years that went by and I finally got
Christopher Gerber:what he said about being somebody else, because that person that was in his
Christopher Gerber:office before, the person with the lower back pain and the same complaints and
Christopher Gerber:things like that, is not the same person.
Christopher Gerber:As I am now, , as long as I was that person, I was probably
Christopher Gerber:always gonna have that same back pain, and it took me a while of,
Christopher Gerber:reworking consciously becoming somebody else, and it, it started me on this
Christopher Gerber:journey, just learning to take inventory.
Christopher Gerber:Like who am I really being, I know who I think I'm being and it's like,
Christopher Gerber:it's almost like three columns, right?
Christopher Gerber:There's who I think I'm being, who am I really being, and who do I want to be?
Christopher Gerber:Mm.
Christopher Gerber:And how it was that , and it's not what we have, it's what we're being,
Christopher Gerber:and I kind of do it backwards.
Christopher Gerber:Oh, if I just had this, then I could do this.
Christopher Gerber:And then I would be this thinking that that would get
Christopher Gerber:me to being this somebody new.
Christopher Gerber:And it wasn't really that at all.
Christopher Gerber:Like what I learned is that it was a process of like, oh, be
Christopher Gerber:the successful artist and then do what a successful artist would do.
Christopher Gerber:And then lo and behold, I have what a successful artist would have.
Christopher Gerber:You know?
Christopher Gerber:And I even did that, with relationships, I thought, you know, for years that I
Christopher Gerber:wanted to have a good partner, right?
Christopher Gerber:And if I did certain things, then I would have a good partner or.
Christopher Gerber:It wasn't until I started being a good partner, like
Christopher Gerber:what would a good partner be?
Christopher Gerber:You know, like what was that definition?
Christopher Gerber:Then doing what a good partner would do.
Christopher Gerber:And in the process of building this beautiful garden and keeping
Christopher Gerber:bees and making my place beautiful and doing all these things that
Christopher Gerber:I would do for a partner, you literally walked into my garden.
Christopher Gerber:So that was a great example of being someone different.
Christopher Gerber:A little tangent.
Christopher Gerber:Not a tangent, like right before that happened, I had, I had always
Christopher Gerber:had like long hair and I took great pride in my long hair.
Christopher Gerber:It was my, my freak flag.
Christopher Gerber:I'm different from everybody else.
Christopher Gerber:I'm an artist.
Christopher Gerber:I can have my hair long, no one's telling me to cut it.
Christopher Gerber:All sorts of reasons to have my long hair.
Christopher Gerber:But really it was, it was barbarian long, you know?
Christopher Gerber:It was not, it was not well kept.
Christopher Gerber:It was not, it was just shaggy.
Christopher Gerber:And, and, and in many ways it probably just said, keep off, stay away.
Christopher Gerber:And I, I guess I caught myself in the mirror one day and I'm like, oh yeah,
Christopher Gerber:that's not, you know, if I want to be somebody new, if I want to be that partner
Christopher Gerber:and I'm like, oh, I want to be the king.
Christopher Gerber:I don't wanna be the barbarian anymore.
Christopher Gerber:I wanna be the king.
Christopher Gerber:And I actually went to a.
Christopher Gerber:Hairstylist That's so much more than a hairstylist.
Christopher Gerber:Sarah?
Christopher Gerber:Ann.
Christopher Gerber:Ann, yeah.
Christopher Gerber:So I went into Sarah Ann at the beauty temple.
Christopher Gerber:At the Beauty Temple, and I'm like, I've decided that I want
Christopher Gerber:to welcome a queen into my life.
Christopher Gerber:And so I want the king haircut.
Christopher Gerber:Now, I wouldn't tell this to any hairstylist, but that's what Sarah
Christopher Gerber:Anne of the Beauty Temple does.
Christopher Gerber:She like, what are you getting rid of?
Christopher Gerber:You know, like as we cut this hair away, what is that you want to bring in?
Christopher Gerber:And it worked.
Christopher Gerber:I got that haircut.
Christopher Gerber:I felt like the king I invited you to over to hang out with my bees and maybe paint.
Christopher Gerber:Wasn't that like a week later?
Christopher Gerber:Yeah, just a week later after, after the haircut.
Christopher Gerber:When, when it finally grown in, you know, it takes a little bit for the
Christopher Gerber:hair to, but I think by then I had to, I was, I was rocking the king.
Christopher Gerber:Yeah.
Christopher Gerber:Being the king.
Christopher Gerber:Because otherwise you wouldn't have shown up.
Christopher Gerber:Mm-hmm.
Christopher Gerber:Hmm.
Amanda Lux:Thank you.
Amanda Lux:, you met Dr.
Amanda Lux:Joe Dispenza.
Amanda Lux:He was your chiropractor.
Amanda Lux:You were having chronic low back pain.
Amanda Lux:You went in and one day he, he just said to you, you need to be somebody new.
Amanda Lux:You need to stop being who you were.
Amanda Lux:This person with the chronic back pain, and you need to become somebody else.
Amanda Lux:And.
Amanda Lux:At the time you didn't really receive that very well because
Amanda Lux:you wanted to be more you.
Amanda Lux:And I think that's an interesting distinction, that when we become somebody
Amanda Lux:else, there's this idea of attachment to who we are or who we have been.
Amanda Lux:Even if we want to be something else, we still have this idea of , who we
Amanda Lux:are and we don't wanna let that go.
Amanda Lux:I haven't read any of his books still, but I did skim through and I,
Amanda Lux:I did think that it was interesting.
Amanda Lux:He talks about becoming nobody.
Amanda Lux:And in order to become the somebody that you wanna be, you have to be become, no.
Amanda Lux:And I really loved that because it, to me that was saying, You have to let
Amanda Lux:go of being attached to who you were.
Amanda Lux:Like there's this ego attachment to our old problems and our old pains
Amanda Lux:and our old ways, even though they keep us stuck in a place that we
Amanda Lux:don't wanna be, that we somehow keep dragging them forward into the future
Amanda Lux:complaining about the same things.
Amanda Lux:Right?
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:There's
Christopher Gerber:definitely a little death that happens.
Christopher Gerber:You know, there's, there's a little death that like has to happen.
Christopher Gerber:I mean, the beauty of it is, is we can have these also little reincarnations in
Christopher Gerber:one life, remembering the last life.
Christopher Gerber:But at the same time, oh, now we can do something different because we
Christopher Gerber:are someone completely different.
Christopher Gerber:I've mourn that there are times where I've mourned, there's a, there's a moment
Christopher Gerber:of grief with that, that little death.
Christopher Gerber:And I think a lot of times when people find themselves in situations, , , they
Christopher Gerber:are experiencing that little death without knowing that they're
Christopher Gerber:experiencing that little death.
Christopher Gerber:Yeah.
Christopher Gerber:And that's the time where it's most important to write the new being.
Christopher Gerber:It's the caterpillar inside the chrysalis that's absolute goo.
Christopher Gerber:You know, it's not, it's not a butterfly, it's not something in its
Christopher Gerber:genetics remembers that it's this, you know, not a munching, crunching,
Christopher Gerber:crawling being, it's a flying nectar sucking completely different thing.
Christopher Gerber:It's so important to imagine at that goose stage who we want to be, and
Christopher Gerber:that's where I came up with, you know, the, the concept of the, the list, you
Christopher Gerber:know, to really write down who we want.
Christopher Gerber:The more we can bring that into reality.
Christopher Gerber:And even if it's getting a haircut, right?
Christopher Gerber:Like that haircut was a way of
Amanda Lux:calling it in through action, right?
Christopher Gerber:Yeah.
Christopher Gerber:Yeah.
Christopher Gerber:Action's a huge part of
Amanda Lux:it for me.
Amanda Lux:Speaking it out loud, writing it down, you know, doing things that, that symbolize
Amanda Lux:to me, those, I call those ritual actions, that there's consciousness behind the act.
Amanda Lux:Therefore it becomes a ritual.
Amanda Lux:To actually get the haircut on purpose, to signify to your subconscious that
Amanda Lux:you are no longer that old person, that you're releasing the old hair and you
Amanda Lux:had witnessed, you had somebody there to hold space for you and to receive
Amanda Lux:your intention as you did it, as you went through this transformation.
Amanda Lux:And then we have to actually let go, like do the work of letting go of
Amanda Lux:whatever that was that old being.
Amanda Lux:And I love that you said to mourn it,
Christopher Gerber:I've had a pretty long practice and it's successful practice
Christopher Gerber:at writing things down and burning them.
Christopher Gerber:There's, there's something about the fire for me that makes it, and writing
Christopher Gerber:it down on paper, that whole, the most profound things will come from that.
Christopher Gerber:That, and I've, you know, I've also, at the same time, drawn a lot of
Christopher Gerber:my, or written a lot of those things and have an ongoing sketchbook.
Christopher Gerber:You know, you could call it a journal of mine's, more of a sketchbook.
Christopher Gerber:And it's really amazing to see that sort of manifestation journal.
Christopher Gerber:Like it's, it's great after 30 years of doing it to be able to look back
Christopher Gerber:and go, oh, that came not in the way that I thought it was gonna happen.
Christopher Gerber:Not in the way that I pictured it, but that happened.
Christopher Gerber:And I have a list of saying that I had thought of that before.
Christopher Gerber:And the more I get that reaffirmation that, oh, this actually works, the shorter
Christopher Gerber:the intervals of time are between when I write them down or when I draw them.
Christopher Gerber:And that actually happens because now I have the experience of
Christopher Gerber:knowing, oh, this happens.
Christopher Gerber:It's not just somebody saying it happens.
Christopher Gerber:I have that experience.
Christopher Gerber:And so, yeah, I think it's, it's one of those things that everybody
Christopher Gerber:has to do for themselves, but to have a record and be able to look
Christopher Gerber:back on it is, , helps the process.
Amanda Lux:in the last 12 episodes.
Amanda Lux:I've been discussing the elements in different facets.
Amanda Lux:One episode per element,
Amanda Lux:You could apply it to anything teaching, creating things, you know, dream work.
Amanda Lux:There's the elemental dream work format that I've created.
Amanda Lux:So if you haven't listened or you're not familiar with the elements, you're
Amanda Lux:invited to go back and listen to those.
Amanda Lux:But specifically the elements offer a construct.
Amanda Lux:And to me there's this whole, blueprint for transformation.
Amanda Lux:And I was thinking about how I would overlay the elements in this
Amanda Lux:context of personal transformation of becoming somebody new.
Amanda Lux:Starting with the ether element, that the ether is really about space.
Amanda Lux:It's about the field.
Amanda Lux:It's the highest vibrational frequency.
Amanda Lux:It's when the inspiration is initially coming through and it's
Amanda Lux:like we're tuning to that thing in the field that we are becoming.
Amanda Lux:It starts there, right?
Amanda Lux:It's not manifest yet.
Amanda Lux:In the realm of the ether.
Amanda Lux:It's not even a conscious thought we haven't even gotten
Amanda Lux:mentally engaged in it yet.
Amanda Lux:It's just first coming through.
Amanda Lux:It's the invocational quality of what is coming, and I think it starts there.
Amanda Lux:Our transformation starts in the ether where we initially a align with our soul
Amanda Lux:path and we or we realize that our old path or our current path is no longer
Amanda Lux:aligned with where, where we need to go.
Amanda Lux:And so when once we recognize and come into consciousness that
Amanda Lux:there's something new coming through, then it moves into the air.
Amanda Lux:And the air element rules the mind.
Amanda Lux:It's the heart chakra and it's where we become conscious and maybe at that
Amanda Lux:point we actually speak and put it into form and start writing down and, you
Amanda Lux:know, engaging with the energy in an organized way around what we are becoming.
Amanda Lux:Making that list, like you're saying, taking that inventory mentally, becoming
Amanda Lux:aware and engaged with the process of, of who we are, who we were, and who we want
Amanda Lux:to be or who we are being called to be.
Amanda Lux:And then we move into the fire element, which is where we can actually
Amanda Lux:take physical action around it.
Amanda Lux:Right.
Amanda Lux:We engage in the ritual act of cutting the hair right or of.
Amanda Lux:Telling your client, telling my clients that I, I can no longer work with them.
Amanda Lux:I'm taking some time off.
Amanda Lux:And really taking that step is when we bring it from the air
Amanda Lux:into the, the manifest reality.
Amanda Lux:We start to engage with it.
Amanda Lux:And that's more of a ritual enactment that where we're, we're
Amanda Lux:still calling it through, , but we're taking action around it.
Amanda Lux:And then we move into the water element, which is the second chakra.
Amanda Lux:And that deals with sort of our physical intuition, our subconscious,
Amanda Lux:so in that phase, I think of becoming someone new, we're
Amanda Lux:actually becoming more receptive to what are the resources we need,
Amanda Lux:and what are the attachments we need to let go of second chakras A lot about that.
Amanda Lux:Letting go, letting things making room.
Amanda Lux:And then also becoming more receptive to being able to align and receive
Amanda Lux:the resources we need in order to birth this new reality, this new self.
Amanda Lux:And when we get to the earth element.
Amanda Lux:That's about completion.
Amanda Lux:And to me that's a lot about sort of grounding into what we are really needing
Amanda Lux:to let go of the old way, bringing old things to completion completely
Amanda Lux:so that we can actually step into this new physical manifest reality.
Amanda Lux:And that would be the earth completion.
Christopher Gerber:For me, I'm a painter and when I really want
Christopher Gerber:to make something happen, one of the things I'll do is, is paint.
Christopher Gerber:I'll also dance.
Christopher Gerber:And in both my, my dance and my, , art, It's water element.
Christopher Gerber:I know I'm in the watery flow when I forget what that
Christopher Gerber:focus was in the first place.
Christopher Gerber:Like I go into the painting, I'm thinking about this, I'm listening to
Christopher Gerber:music, I'm getting into the colors.
Christopher Gerber:All of a sudden I forget what I was so focused on in the first place.
Christopher Gerber:And that's the moment where I know that that idea is released into the universe.
Amanda Lux:I love what you said about forgetting about it, you were mentioning
Amanda Lux:that earlier as sort of a forget about it.
Amanda Lux:Sort of a zen, you know, I don't know, play.
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:Well,
Christopher Gerber:My experience of there's so many times, so many,
Christopher Gerber:like almost on a daily basis where.
Christopher Gerber:I'll lose something and it's often something very important and key in
Christopher Gerber:the moment, and I'll be really kind of stressed out and looking for it.
Christopher Gerber:And then for whatever reason, I'll forget about it.
Christopher Gerber:And I'll of a sudden I realize that I'm looking right at that object.
Christopher Gerber:That I could not see before.
Christopher Gerber:And I think that that has become a big part of my, , alignment process, , it's a
Christopher Gerber:point of neutrality that forget about it.
Christopher Gerber:Like, when you really take that to that point of neutrality, you
Christopher Gerber:allow the universe to come to you.
Christopher Gerber:If I'm thinking about things, what I realize a lot of times if I'm
Christopher Gerber:thinking about 'em really hard, I'm pushing 'em away from me.
Christopher Gerber:I'm thinking so hard about it.
Christopher Gerber:I'm literally pushing it away and the moment I forget about it and let that go.
Christopher Gerber:There's this place of neutrality that all of a sudden that thing will show up
Christopher Gerber:and go, oh, that's exactly what I wanted.
Christopher Gerber:Wow.
Amanda Lux:I love that.
Amanda Lux:Especially because even when you were saying that you keep this journal and the
Amanda Lux:sketchbook and that you can go back and see that the things that you were calling
Amanda Lux:in have come, but they didn't always come in the way that you think they will come.
Amanda Lux:They don't always show up.
Amanda Lux:In accordance with our, our ideas or our plans.
Amanda Lux:And so when we forget about it, we're really allowing the intelligence
Amanda Lux:of our higher knowing or the higher organization of things to step in
Amanda Lux:because we don't wanna think we know how it should look really.
Amanda Lux:Right.
Amanda Lux:And that when, if we can just set it and forget it, is what I say.
Amanda Lux:And even with a session, you give a session and then you
Amanda Lux:forget about the session.
Amanda Lux:You don't ruminate on it because then you are, you know, You're getting intermingled
Amanda Lux:energetically in a way you're attached to the healing or the outcome.
Amanda Lux:That's not neutrality, right?
Amanda Lux:That's not really the best way to be in relation.
Amanda Lux:So it's imperative in the healing arts that we, that we forget
Amanda Lux:about, the work that we let it do.
Amanda Lux:Its thing that we let the client go completely.
Amanda Lux:Or if we're in our own process, that we go through the process and we let it go.
Amanda Lux:And that letting go and that forgetting is really where things get to.
Amanda Lux:The magic happens.
Amanda Lux:I've been contemplating a lot the, the things that get in the
Amanda Lux:way of our becoming someone new.
Amanda Lux:Because for myself, going through this transition very actively
Amanda Lux:during the last month specifically, I've really been keenly aware.
Amanda Lux:Of all of these specific things that are coming up for me, I've been observing
Amanda Lux:myself getting in my own way or the old patterns that I am attached to that I have
Amanda Lux:to acknowledge and let go and release.
Amanda Lux:And I've been really aware of, the things , that we do to sabotage our own
Amanda Lux:efforts or the things that keep us stuck.
Amanda Lux:And for me, I, I've broken it down, I think, into these sort of steps.
Amanda Lux:Like one is about coming into awareness of the old patterns, right?
Amanda Lux:Like you were saying, take an inventory.
Amanda Lux:And that as soon as we start to engage in this new path, , we really do have to
Amanda Lux:let go of the safety of the old thing.
Amanda Lux:There's a reason why we were doing the old thing, even though it wasn't bringing
Amanda Lux:the result we wanted, we kept doing it.
Amanda Lux:We kept being it because we didn't have what we needed in
Amanda Lux:order to do something different.
Amanda Lux:But becoming aware of that old pattern and then being willing to let it go is super
Christopher Gerber:scary.
Christopher Gerber:Well, and that's where that power of the observer, you know, to take that second
Christopher Gerber:place of, you know, you're having the dream, who's observing that you're having
Christopher Gerber:the dream, be that observer, and in some way, like I find, , in community, It
Christopher Gerber:can be really challenging because there are so many people that are used to
Christopher Gerber:observing you how you were the old self.
Christopher Gerber:And they're like, oh, are you still doing this?
Christopher Gerber:Or are you still doing, like, oh, I'm a completely different person now.
Christopher Gerber:And there's a part of me that has to retreat.
Christopher Gerber:And sometimes it's just retreating to the studio.
Christopher Gerber:it's that that chrysalis, that outer protective, , shell that is created.
Christopher Gerber:And it could just be a moment in space and time where you're not , making
Christopher Gerber:judgements on your observation, and you're not letting other people's judgments
Christopher Gerber:or observation affect the experiment.
Christopher Gerber:So how do we, how do I create that, that neutral spot?
Christopher Gerber:And again, I know that I do that with my.
Christopher Gerber:My studio space, like it's very, , isolated and I'm just now recognizing how
Christopher Gerber:much I like that and how much it's a part of my process of creating the next step.
Amanda Lux:Containment is an essential key ingredient
Amanda Lux:in, , building up our reserves of courage in the midst of transition.
Amanda Lux:Not necessarily going around and telling everyone what we're doing and when
Amanda Lux:it's still in its early stages, right?
Amanda Lux:There's that embryonic phase where we need to have it be a
Amanda Lux:little bit in the womb, right.
Amanda Lux:, contain it just a little bit.
Amanda Lux:There's
Christopher Gerber:great power and secrets and I, it
Christopher Gerber:took me forever to learn that.
Christopher Gerber:Until I start to experience those little steps of manifestation
Christopher Gerber:towards that direction.
Amanda Lux:Knowing when to, you know, hold space for your own
Amanda Lux:transitions and when to share them.
Amanda Lux:That there's power in sharing it and in involving other people in the visioning
Amanda Lux:and the celebration, and that there's power in the containment of it at
Amanda Lux:a certain phase when it's, , it's not quite ready to be birthed.
Amanda Lux:My friend Elizabeth calls that the fertile darkness.
Amanda Lux:When it's in the fertile darkness and it's of that yin place that, that
Amanda Lux:negative pole it's, it's magnetically attracting what it needs to become,
Amanda Lux:what it will be, but it isn't there yet.
Amanda Lux:And we go through phases like that in our lives.
Amanda Lux:So often as we are evolving, we're constantly changing and
Amanda Lux:we wanna be constantly changing.
Amanda Lux:It's important, to evolve and to let go of what we were and the old
Amanda Lux:limitations, the old limiting beliefs, the old confines, and, and it's scary.
Amanda Lux:So I think we get in our own way , when we are just too, stuck in the fear.
Amanda Lux:So, Fear can be an indicator actually that we're on the right path.
Christopher Gerber:Oh my, my complaints are my path to power.
Christopher Gerber:And I laugh at that because, you know, for a while I just had complaints for the
Christopher Gerber:sake of, I don't know, complaining like I wanted to have the poetic complaint.
Christopher Gerber:But more and more I realized that, , what I'm complaining about
Christopher Gerber:is often what I'm fearful of.
Christopher Gerber:I'm expressing a fear.
Amanda Lux:Well, and it's usually something that you abre
Amanda Lux:witnessing, but it's a reflection of something in yourself.
Amanda Lux:Right.
Amanda Lux:We were discussing that it's a mirror.
Amanda Lux:The things that we're complaining about are the things that we, we don't wanna be.
Amanda Lux:And we're seeing them magnified back at us in the world around us.
Amanda Lux:And it, it's disgusting.
Amanda Lux:But we're not aware.
Amanda Lux:We think of it as other, and usually that's the unconscious moment when
Amanda Lux:we still think we're something.
Amanda Lux:But you know, at the same time, I think when we are willing to admit
Amanda Lux:that that's us, that there's something in us that we are repelled by, , that
Amanda Lux:we're seeing and that, we don't want that, that's really an invitation
Amanda Lux:moment also to become something different, to take in the reflection.
Amanda Lux:There's something too about congruence, and this is about
Amanda Lux:like when we say one thing and do another, and I think that's something
Amanda Lux:that keeps us in the old pattern.
Amanda Lux:We don't realize yet that we're doing it, but we keep saying, you know,
Amanda Lux:I'm ready to transition out of this old thing and into something new.
Amanda Lux:I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready for this new thing.
Amanda Lux:Or I would say, you know, I'm ready to really get mastery over social media.
Amanda Lux:But then I would just like hide from social media and not want to engage
Amanda Lux:with it and not really feel equipped to dedicate the time and energy necessary.
Amanda Lux:To actually go full force into that or to hire somebody else to do it
Amanda Lux:for me, I wasn't doing either thing, you know, I just kept saying over
Amanda Lux:and over, I'm ready to do this.
Amanda Lux:I'm ready to do this.
Amanda Lux:But I wasn't doing anything different around it and I was having all of
Amanda Lux:this disdain for it and struggling.
Amanda Lux:And finally I kind of came to this realization that, there was
Amanda Lux:a resource that I didn't have.
Amanda Lux:There was something missing that I needed that I didn't have.
Amanda Lux:And I kind of had to relinquish that intention together.
Amanda Lux:And because the more I said, I'm doing this, I'm doing this, and then the more
Amanda Lux:I didn't do it, the less in alignment I felt I was the less in integrity.
Amanda Lux:So there's this thing about like, what do we keep saying
Amanda Lux:we want, but yet we're not.
Amanda Lux:Doing something different in order to get it.
Amanda Lux:We're still doing the old thing.
Amanda Lux:We're still being the old thing, and it doesn't align.
Amanda Lux:And then we're just in that struggle point, you know?
Amanda Lux:Yeah,
Christopher Gerber:yeah.
Christopher Gerber:I, I realize more and more that alignment is the path of the devout hypocrite.
Christopher Gerber:And by hypocrite, devout hypocrite is, yes, I know I'm not doing the actions,
Christopher Gerber:but I'm gonna keep saying this anyway.
Christopher Gerber:Because I know that this is going to lead me to the place I want
Christopher Gerber:to be, even though I'm not that.
Christopher Gerber:And eventually I'll get to the point, time and time again where I'll start to
Christopher Gerber:be that and that's where if you're not devout, you're not gonna move beyond it.
Christopher Gerber:You just say, oh, I'm a hypocrite.
Christopher Gerber:Obviously I'm not doing that.
Christopher Gerber:And you drop that whole pathway.
Christopher Gerber:But as being the devout hypocrite, you recognize your hypocrisy and
Christopher Gerber:just slightly adjust the, the trim tabs as Buckminster Fuller,
Christopher Gerber:speaks of like how a plane doesn't make these great big swerves.
Christopher Gerber:When it needs to adjust by, a few degrees, which could be a few miles
Christopher Gerber:off It's little tiny adjustments.
Christopher Gerber:But first I have to recognize the hypocrisy first I have this
Christopher Gerber:quote and then, oh wow, I'm doing the exact opposite of that quote.
Christopher Gerber:How do I be something different?
Amanda Lux:That feels like, , that moment of faith where we recognize
Amanda Lux:that we're saying one thing and doing another, where we can see the path
Amanda Lux:ahead that we wanna get to, but we just really see all the things that
Amanda Lux:are in the way, everything that's in the way of us getting there shows up.
Amanda Lux:And then we have to move through that gauntlet a little bit and
Amanda Lux:we have to hold focus on what we wanna become and have that faith.
Amanda Lux:where
Amanda Lux:We have to not give up on ourselves, even though we're not that thing yet.
Amanda Lux:Even though we don't have it, it's not fully here.
Amanda Lux:We're in creation process and in order to become in integrity, we
Amanda Lux:have to acknowledge where we're off.
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:And then we have to forgive ourselves for being off.
Amanda Lux:So there's forgiveness in there too, right?
Christopher Gerber:I had a really big problem with manifestation and like, why
Christopher Gerber:I use the word alignment now, because, you know, I was taught or somehow got this
Christopher Gerber:idea that if I saw myself as fabulously wealthy, even though my checking account
Christopher Gerber:is at negative $19, then I would manifest the $19,000 and make up for that.
Christopher Gerber:Like all I had to do was like, think, not do any other actions.
Christopher Gerber:Yet I knew that I was, on some level, I knew that I was lying to myself,
Christopher Gerber:that I wasn't magnificently wealthy.
Christopher Gerber:, and I started, playing this game where I would, , pick up change on the
Christopher Gerber:floor, on the ground, on the street, no matter what denomination it was.
Christopher Gerber:And I'd say money comes to me because that was the truth, right?
Christopher Gerber:Like, do I have a million?
Christopher Gerber:Am I, am I fabulously wealthy?
Christopher Gerber:No.
Christopher Gerber:That's a lie.
Christopher Gerber:My body knows it's a lie.
Christopher Gerber:Reality knows it's a lie.
Christopher Gerber:I'm not fabulously wealthy, but if I start saying, money comes to me every
Christopher Gerber:time I find money and I find more and more money, , my reality, my beingness knows
Christopher Gerber:that, oh yeah, money does come to you.
Christopher Gerber:I've seen it happen.
Christopher Gerber:I've witnessed that.
Christopher Gerber:That's, that's not a lie.
Christopher Gerber:Mm-hmm.
Christopher Gerber:It didn't quantify it, but
Christopher Gerber:that number gets up bigger and bigger, like that simple game of
Christopher Gerber:telling the truth in my alignment.
Christopher Gerber:And so alignment is this process, ? It's not instantaneous.
Christopher Gerber:It is a process of a aligning more and more.
Christopher Gerber:Yes, I've found 25 cents and money comes to me.
Christopher Gerber:And I remember having one day where I was working on this, bid, and I went
Christopher Gerber:out and someone had, I don't know, maybe their pocket had broken open or
Christopher Gerber:something, but there was change all over the ground, just in the middle
Christopher Gerber:of the yard or wherever I was walking.
Christopher Gerber:And I'm like, oh, money comes to me, money comes to me, money comes to me.
Christopher Gerber:Like, look at all this money that's just coming to me.
Christopher Gerber:And I thought, oh, that's hilarious.
Christopher Gerber:And I went in and.
Christopher Gerber:And the bid had gone through and it was like a $30,000 bid, that
Christopher Gerber:kind of came out of nowhere.
Christopher Gerber:You know, like we're literally, I was excited to have that change
Christopher Gerber:cuz that meant, oh, okay, cool.
Christopher Gerber:Coffee money, right?
Christopher Gerber:And then to go in from that and then have, oh yeah, $30,000 the, the bid went through
Christopher Gerber:and the checks in the mail and here we go.
Christopher Gerber:So money comes to me.
Amanda Lux:I love that story.
Amanda Lux:, I love that you found the tiny truth, kind of like the tiny deaths.
Amanda Lux:There's like the little truth, right?
Amanda Lux:Like where that thing that we're trying to create, where is there a little bit of it?
Amanda Lux:And that sort of is that gratitude piece too, right?
Amanda Lux:Where we find, well, where is that happening?
Amanda Lux:And that's, in polarity we call that the positive pull, ? Finding the positive
Amanda Lux:pull of where is that already happening?
Amanda Lux:How can we cultivate gratitude for the thing that we're calling in, in the small
Amanda Lux:ways that it's already here, or maybe that we resonate with from our past.
Amanda Lux:Maybe at one point we did have that, going on and we can anchor into that
Amanda Lux:past or into a future vision or into the smaller ways that it is true, right?
Amanda Lux:And that then we just have to amplify it.
Christopher Gerber:Well, and I've had times where, literally just
Christopher Gerber:being grateful for the next breath.
Christopher Gerber:Like, what have I, isn't it great that we don't have to like, run
Christopher Gerber:around and find the next breath?
Christopher Gerber:Like, I guess that's called drowning.
Christopher Gerber:But like if, , you were walking around and your day-to-day like, oh, I'm
Christopher Gerber:almost out of air here and I've gotta run to the next section to get, like,
Christopher Gerber:I'm so grateful that I can just, like, there's a, there's, there's a breath.
Christopher Gerber:All I have to do is inhale and there's like life-giving oxygen.
Christopher Gerber:It's fantastic.
Christopher Gerber:And there are days where it seems like that's all I had, like everything
Christopher Gerber:else was really, really crappy.
Christopher Gerber:But just having gratitude for breath, having gratitude for
Christopher Gerber:that glass of water, and it does magnify and it's the little truth.
Christopher Gerber:Like this is true, I can breathe right now and I don't have to run around
Christopher Gerber:from, place to place and, you know, pay somebody for the breath tree or whatever.
Christopher Gerber:I,
Amanda Lux:I love, I love that you're, you know, you are a truly magnificent
Amanda Lux:manifester actually, and I love , that you're, sharing that, that there
Amanda Lux:have been moments where it felt like just the next breath was enough.
Amanda Lux:And I love that that gives permission, for anyone listening that no matter how
Amanda Lux:far away you might feel from that thing that you want, that you feel you're called
Amanda Lux:towards in this lifetime, even if it feels so incredibly distant or impossible,
Amanda Lux:that you really, you can align with that, that you are aligning with that.
Amanda Lux:And on a quantum level, you already are that.
Amanda Lux:There isn't anything really between you and that ultimate thing.
Amanda Lux:There is no time, there is no space.
Amanda Lux:It is all, happening.
Christopher Gerber:There was some teacher that said the kingdom of
Christopher Gerber:heaven is as small as a mustard seed.
Christopher Gerber:And that's what it really kind of, and I don't know if you've
Christopher Gerber:ever seen like a mustard tree, but a mustard tree is like huge.
Christopher Gerber:It's ginormous.
Christopher Gerber:Like it's really, and it's, the seed is really, really tiny.
Christopher Gerber:And so that little seed of truth, the biggest, most magnificent truth that
Christopher Gerber:we can think of is based in that really small truth that we can find that thing
Christopher Gerber:that we, that is right in our hand right now, no matter how small it looks.
Christopher Gerber:Mm-hmm.
Christopher Gerber:And then it's our, our process to nurture that seed.
Amanda Lux:That's a beautiful visual that we can hold onto the, the fullest
Amanda Lux:potential of who we are here to become.
Amanda Lux:And that, even within the seed is, is the whole tree, and
Amanda Lux:within the, micro is the macro.
Amanda Lux:If we are on an evolutionary path, which hopefully we are,
Amanda Lux:we're not going backwards, we're not, devolving in our lives.
Amanda Lux:If we are really stepping into and purposefully actualizing ourselves and
Amanda Lux:our dreams and engaging in our reality and our ex experience intentionally.
Amanda Lux:Then we are always growing and shifting and changing, and it's uncomfortable to
Amanda Lux:let go of the old thing or to realize where we are out of integrity and
Amanda Lux:to realize what we need to bring to completion and what we need to release.
Amanda Lux:And then to take that brave step of believing in the tree, even as the
Amanda Lux:seed and then , there's this moment.
Amanda Lux:I think that happens When we're engaging our lives and we really finally do
Amanda Lux:say yes, there's this principle of, I've heard it called escape velocity.
Amanda Lux:Have you heard of this?
Amanda Lux:No.
Amanda Lux:And I was thinking about that today a little bit, because the second we say yes,
Amanda Lux:we actually step onto the path, oftentimes there will be this surge of, , challenge.
Amanda Lux:Oppositional forces will come into play.
Amanda Lux:And that even just happened for me like in the last 24 hours.
Amanda Lux:As soon as I say yes and release the, then these oppositional forces come into play.
Amanda Lux:And the trick is, to not be swayed.
Amanda Lux:To just see like, oh, this is that obstacle course, that test that, are
Amanda Lux:you really truly ready to embody this this new way, this new frequency,
Christopher Gerber:right?
Christopher Gerber:Yeah.
Christopher Gerber:The obstacle is the path as the stoics say.
Christopher Gerber:And so to hold the focus that's what makes the big difference.
Christopher Gerber:Like, you've gotta hold the focus.
Christopher Gerber:And that's, the great work is holding the focus, holding onto
Christopher Gerber:those little truths, holding onto those seeds, nurturing those seeds.
Christopher Gerber:, regardless of the outside circumstances.
Christopher Gerber:This is a truth that I know, I know that money comes to me cuz
Christopher Gerber:I found 25 cents this morning.
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:And holding on while also letting go.
Amanda Lux:Right?
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:Holding the focus while forgetting, doing both.
Amanda Lux:Yeah.
Amanda Lux:Being both things.
Amanda Lux:Being the old thing and the new thing.
Amanda Lux:And being nothing.
Amanda Lux:Being no one willing to let go of the egoic identity that we have, , created
Amanda Lux:around who and what makes us who we are.
Amanda Lux:Letting those old definitions fall away.
Amanda Lux:I went through a training years ago, back in I think 2012, uh, called the Body
Amanda Lux:Mind Bridge, hypnotherapy, , training.
Amanda Lux:Shuna Marelli, , wonderful, wise woman, she taught, this process.
Amanda Lux:And it's this most simplified version that I could, impart in
Amanda Lux:this moment that is so profound.
Amanda Lux:I'll invite you as an action, you know, a ritual action to imagine this with me.
Amanda Lux:Sharing her process, there's the old way that we have been, And so
Amanda Lux:just tune into in your personal life as you listen, there's something
Amanda Lux:that you wanna change in your life.
Amanda Lux:There's some new thing that you're becoming, or that you would like to
Amanda Lux:become, but you're not quite there yet.
Amanda Lux:Or maybe you're there in some ways, but you're not fully embodying it.
Amanda Lux:So there's this old way and this new way, and when we tune in to the old
Amanda Lux:way, the frequency that we are no longer wanting to perpetuate, there's usually
Amanda Lux:some kind of block that relates to it.
Amanda Lux:It's formed some kind of stuckness in our being because it's old and it's
Amanda Lux:no longer what we wanna perpetuate, but it's still showing up in our experience.
Amanda Lux:And so if you can tune into your own body right now and just invite.
Amanda Lux:That old frequency that you no longer wish to perpetuate, invite it to, to
Amanda Lux:show up in some location in your body.
Amanda Lux:Maybe it shows up through a sensation or an image, you just become drawn
Amanda Lux:to a particular location in your body where it lives or has lived.
Amanda Lux:And just becoming aware of what shape is that, what the sensation is of this
Amanda Lux:old way, or the image or the word, and naming it, being willing to name it, being
Amanda Lux:willing to identify it, being willing to associate with this thing that maybe
Amanda Lux:we've tried to ignore or dissociate from.
Amanda Lux:But really inviting it to come into your awareness, fully relating to it.
Amanda Lux:And the second step, once we have made relationship, is to find out how it has
Amanda Lux:served us, to invite it to inform you as to why you created it in the first place.
Amanda Lux:Why did we need that block?
Amanda Lux:Why did we need that old paradigm?
Amanda Lux:How did it support us?
Amanda Lux:How did we come to create it?
Amanda Lux:And just acknowledge and really honor that it served a purpose.
Amanda Lux:And then maybe once you are able to acknowledge.
Amanda Lux:Why it's here, or why you kept it all this time, or how it served
Amanda Lux:you in some way or another.
Amanda Lux:And there may still be ways that it, it's still serving you right?
Amanda Lux:Or maybe you're just ready, completely ready to let it go.
Amanda Lux:But you can invite then some symbolic transformational process to occur.
Amanda Lux:You can invite it to shift,
Amanda Lux:You can invite it to change, to release, and maybe there's some
Amanda Lux:aspect of it that you need still.
Amanda Lux:And it could just have a new form, a new image, a new name, and
Amanda Lux:you can claim that for yourself.
Amanda Lux:Or maybe it's ready to go from caterpillar to butterfly.
Amanda Lux:Maybe it's just ready to be something totally different and notice how it feels
Amanda Lux:in your body when you allow that to shift.
Amanda Lux:Sometimes there's pain associated with the old way and the pain goes
Amanda Lux:away, or it changes color or form.
Amanda Lux:When we realized how the old frequency served us, the old
Amanda Lux:paradigm, , the old stuckness, even.
Amanda Lux:And we can stop, dissociating from it and really acknowledge why we needed it.
Amanda Lux:, and then thank it even, you know, be grateful that we had
Amanda Lux:that in the way that we needed.
Amanda Lux:It was some compensation that got us through.
Amanda Lux:if we're gonna be on our evolutionary path and we are willing to constantly
Amanda Lux:change and become someone new, then this is not just something we do once, this
Amanda Lux:is something that we could do as a practice in our lives . Regularly letting
Amanda Lux:go of the old way, the old you allowing yourself to transform and transition
Amanda Lux:to be in the void, to hold, delicately what we are calling in and to release
Amanda Lux:it and let it go at the same time.
Christopher Gerber:I'm constantly finding out more, having the experience
Christopher Gerber:of contraction and expansion, that it's an ongoing process of finding
Christopher Gerber:out what makes me feel like I'm contracting and the, that's those.
Christopher Gerber:Falsities, like the things that I am not, the things that I don't
Christopher Gerber:have, my, my complaints, my fears, all of those cause a contraction.
Christopher Gerber:And the evolution is expansion.
Christopher Gerber:Like, for a while I was like, oh, evolution is like linear or
Christopher Gerber:hierarchical and being, you know, didn't want to, didn't wanna do that.
Christopher Gerber:But when I embraced the concept of expansion that, we look out through
Christopher Gerber:these great telescopes and we see that the universe is constantly expanding,
Christopher Gerber:I know expansion's possible because I can look around and see that.
Christopher Gerber:I, have learned to look for the parts where I'm contracting.
Christopher Gerber:And what am I creating that causes that contraction and acknowledging
Christopher Gerber:it, seeing it, letting it go, and feeling those little epiphanies of
Christopher Gerber:expansion that happened after that.
Christopher Gerber:And it's a, it's a fun game.
Christopher Gerber:It really, I think that's the biggest thing is that it's,
Christopher Gerber:it's really fun to play with alignment the great work is play.
Christopher Gerber:Hmm.
Christopher Gerber:It's, it's hard.
Christopher Gerber:It's hard.
Christopher Gerber:There's tears, there's anguish, there's fear, there's, and it's still play.
Christopher Gerber:It's, it's the best kind of play.
Amanda Lux:Hmm.
Amanda Lux:Thank you.
Amanda Lux:Thank you so much for listening to this episode of a Lone
Amanda Lux:Traveler's Guide to the Divine.
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