Bonus Episode: You Can't Cancel Out Your Blessings.

And that is great news. Every guru will tell you how you're supposed to pray or meditate or manifest. But what if no one single person has the magical key? 

If you have unplugged from the Matrix and you worry about this, that, and the other, this message might be for you. 

Transcript

Transcription by Otter.ai.  Please forgive any typos!

Sara Causey discusses the concept of living outside the societal norms, drawing parallels to the movie "The Matrix." She emphasizes that nothing one does or says can cancel out God's blessings, regardless of one's spiritual or religious beliefs. Sara reflects on the stress of commuting, the financial burden of car ownership, and the potential impact of AI and robotics on jobs. She shares personal anecdotes, including her own struggles with business and the importance of stillness and faith. Sara concludes by reassuring listeners that they don't need to be perfect to receive blessings and encourages them to let go of worry and anxiety.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

God's blessing, living outside the Matrix, The Matrix, road rage, traffic stress, job dissatisfaction, AI and robotics, higher power, intuition, stillness, faith, anxiety, human experience, self-employment challenges.

Welcome to the Causey Consulting Podcast. You can find us online anytime at causeyconsultingllc.com, and now here's your host, Sara Causey.

Hello, hello, and thanks for tuning in. I wanted to hop on and record a sort of bonus episode. It was something that I just felt couldn't wait. I've mostly been recording and publishing episodes for the Causey Consulting podcast on a monthly basis, but this was just something that really came on my mind last night. I was standing at the vanity, brushing and flossing my teeth, just normal before bed kind of things, and I had this very clear message. You could call it a word of knowledge if you're more comfortable with that, but a very clear message of there's nothing that you're going to do or say that's going to cancel out God's blessing for you. Now you don't have to be spiritual or religious or anything like that. I really steer clear of any one particular religious affiliation in this podcast because I want it to be inclusive. So I don't know who else besides me is meant to hear this message, but I did feel very strongly that it's meant to help somebody else as well-not only me, but somebody else who might be struggling. I always say I don't give you advice or tell you what to do or what not to do. You have to be an adult and come to your own decisions. I just know that, for me, when we make a decision to live outside the Matrix, it can be really scary. It's liberating, but it's also very scary. And if you'll remember in that movie, The Matrix, there's a guy that gets unplugged and he decides he wants to go back. He'd rather go back to Fantasyland than live unplugged and outside the matrix, and that impulse can be difficult to overcome. The other night, I finally watched that movie from 2020 with Russell Crowe called Unhinged, where he's like this dude that just goes off his rocker in road rage, like he's already mad about something else that has happened, and then he gets into a road rage situation and just goes absolutely bonkers. It gave me terrible anxiety, but not for the reason that you might think. I wasn't scared of him. I wasn't scared of the scenario. To me, what freaked me out tremendously was the beginning of the film. Here's this woman. She's trying to get everybody out the door. She's squeezed financially. She's trying to get her kid to school. The car's got the check engine light on, and it's kind of a beater because she can't afford anything better. And then there they are stuck in all of that traffic. They get in this lane and it slows down. They get in that lane and it slows down. They get on the freeway and then there's a pileup, and it just turns into a mess. And I was like, I can't even remember how many. Like I, I couldn't even number how many mornings and then evenings I spent that way. In the morning, you're fighting to try to hurry up and get to a job that you don't even like, to deal with a boss you don't like, to deal with coworkers you don't like. You're fighting and stressing yourself out to the nth degree to get to a place that you completely hate, and to do a job that, in many cases, could be done from home. Granted, there are some jobs that still need to be done in person, but a lot of them don't. So there you are, sat in that vehicle, and now think about the prices of cars. My God, 4050, $60,000, and that's not even for a fancy rig. So you have to pay out the wazoo for this vehicle, and then get on the freeway, and take your life into your own hands with a bunch of kooks. No, thank you. Years ago, when I was on the pirate broadcast with Russ Johns, I remember he and I were talking about that before we ever even went on the air. He was telling me about life as a traveling salesman and how he'd be gone Monday through Friday. He had the weekend with his family, and then he'd have to get right back on a plane again and go somewhere else. And he was like, looking back on it, I don't know how I did that. I guess I just did it because I didn't see any other alternative at the time.

And I can relate to that. I think back to, as Sting said in the song "Synchronicity Too, packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes, contestants in a suicidal race-that's how it feels. You're just you get in this lane and then you get in that lane and you're trying to go too fast. Now I got to hurry up and get there, and the boss is going to be mad. And then all you want to do is go home. So when you finally get the opportunity to get out of there and go home, you got to fight rush hour traffic of everybody trying to leave. It's just a nightmare. I remember hearing a story. Whenever Marlon Brando moved to New York, he wasn't famous yet, and there were there was a period of time for a little while actually where he was homeless and he slept on the sidewalk, and he loved it. Contrary to what you might think, he was like, "Oh my God, I'm in the big city and I'm free. I can sleep on the sidewalk and nobody cares. This is wild. But he had been out carousing all night with one of his friends. It was like 567, o'clock in the morning, and they start to see the city waking up. People are getting ready. They're going to work. Men are in their suits and they're going to catch a taxi or to walk or take the subway or whatever to get to a job. And Marlon looks at his friend, and he's like, "Not for a million dollars, man. They had been out all night, and they were getting ready to go home, go to sleep. And he was like, "I don't, I don't want that life. I can look at that life already as a young man and say, 'No, thank you.' And it hits us at different points in time. Some people never get there. Some people say, "I like that life. I like my job. I like my coworkers, and so this message may not be for you. It really may not. You may just want to shut this broadcast off and say, "Whoever it is that she's talking to, it's not me. But some of us get to that point where we're like, "Not for a million dollars, man! I couldn't do it. I cannot imagine getting back in the car and fighting traffic like that and taking my life into my own hands to try to get somewhere that I don't even like, that I don't even want to be to do a job that a could be done from home and b may not even need to be done anymore. AI and robotics are coming for a lot of white collar jobs. I know that people don't want to admit that to themselves. They don't want to hear that. They want to bury their head in the sand and be like an ostrich. Maybe if I don't see it, maybe if I don't hear it, it'll never impact me. Maybe that's not a gamble that I myself would want to take, but maybe. So I I don't know who else is meant to hear this, but it is really difficult when you decide that you're going to live outside the matrix, and then it's like, oh my God! Whether you are living on your own wits or whether you believe in a higher power, there's so much information out there. It's like the internet has caused an explosion, like a giant vomit of information, and everybody has an opinion about everything. Everybody's a critic. My God, it's like, no. You don't pray like that. You pray like this. You don't talk to God like this. You do it like that. You don't talk to Jesus or a law like this. You do it like this. You don't meditate like this. You do it like this. You don't manifest like this. You do it like this. You don't. You don't do law of attraction or law of assumption or Neville Goddard or Bashar or Esther and Abraham like this you do it like that, and you can spend your life ping ponging around.

Well, I listened to this preacher, but my prayers didn't work, and so now I'm going to go over here and listen to this guy, or I listened to this manifestation coach, but she gave me advice that didn't seem to work, and nothing has really changed, and so now I'm going to go over here. I've talked on the broadcast before about what I called scurrying mouse mode, like your business is in trouble, and so you're just going from pillar to post. I know that because I've lived it. That happened to me in my first iteration of self-employment. I could not figure out why my staffing business was not taking off. It was like, how could I have been so good doing this job for other people? But then I get out and I start doing it on my own, and I feel like I suck. How could this possibly be? So I went from here to there, from this person to that person, from this coach to that coach to this business advisor to that business advisor, hoping that somebody could help me. Just give me a magic formula, give me a sign, give me sales copy that finally converts. Give me something, and I was seeking and seeking and seeking, really from a very desperate place, and not finding. And that can happen in any situation. It doesn't have to be to be business. It could be I really want a romantic partner, or I really want to solve my financial issues, or I really want to get a health diagnosis, so we're just all over the place. One of the hardest things that we can do, especially for those of us like myself, those of us who are doers, who are Type A or recovering Type A personalities, one of the hardest things we can do is to sit still. The scriptures about be still, listen to the still small voice, cast your cares upon me. My yoke is easy, my burden is light. It's kind of like yeah, okay, but I still should be doing something. What can I do? What can I do? What can I do? It's tough to be still, and so hearing that message for me was amazing. To just be standing there, brushing my teeth and flossing my teeth, and to hear there's nothing you're going to do or say that's going to cancel out God's blessing for you. It's not like oh, I prayed a prayer in in a moment of frustration. I said, God, will you please help me, please? Oh, that cancels out your blessing. Not going to manifest now. Not going to get any help. God's gonna be mad. We have to let that go, in my opinion. We have to let that go. It's not doing us any favors, and I really think we can end up inadvertently worshiping the God of worry and anxiety, not because we meant to, but because it's familiar. It's it's like having faith in bad prophecy. What is the worst possible scenario that could happen here? And yet, we've had plenty of evidence in our life of the opposite. There have been times in my life that I've been like, I don't know, man. I feel kind of weird. I better go have my labs done, and then my labs would come back normal, and I'd be like, Oh, well, thank God for that. But yet we can convince ourselves, oh my God, it's doom. We could have a run-of-the-mill head cold or a run-of-the-mill infection that can easily be treated with penicillin, and be thinking, Oh my God, I'm going to die. This is it. This like like Fred Sanford. I'm coming. This is the big one, and it turns out to be one big nothing burger instead. But yet we tend to think, this could be really bad. This could end me. This could ruin me, and then a week later, you may not even remember whatever it was, whatever dust up that made you mad, may be totally irrelevant to your life at that point in time. There's nothing that you're going to do or say that's going to cancel out a blessing, or if you don't want to think about it in terms of God or some kind of deity or source energy providing a blessing or a miracle to you.

There's nothing you're going to do that's going to screw up your own intuition. That's going to screw up your own judgment. If you would rather believe in a higher self than a higher power, that's fine too. But whoever is meant to hear this, I believe, will hear this. And just know, there's nothing you're going to do or say. There's not some, oh, I accidentally prayed from frustration. I accidentally manifested the wrong thing. I I accidentally tuned into the energy of lack because I looked at my bank account balance and got mad, or I accidentally tuned into the frequency of sickness because I woke up with a sore throat. You have to let all that stuff go. Guess what? You're a skeleton inside a meat suit. There's going to be times having this human experience where you flub up, and if all it took was one mistake or one errant thought to cancel out a blessing, that would be a pretty fickle deity anyway. So be of good cheer, whoever it is that's meant to hear this. Be of good cheer, and just know that that you don't have to be perfect to get the job done. Take care of yourself, and I will see you in the next episode.

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