Kim O’Niell: It can be so easy to just automatically accept what someone else puts on us and-
Jeoffrey H: Yeah. Well, see another thing that I developed too because as I was listening to so many different teachers, one of the ways that I’ve figured out how to get this right for myself, is that I would ask myself an empowering question of, “Okay. They just gave me some spiritual jargon. How do I know that to be true?”
How do I know that to be true. That is instantaneously opening my mind up and my life up to me, to see how what they’ve just said to me is true in my experience, so I can instantly can take it from a belief to an actual knowing because my life has shown me where it is true for me.
That’s a question that you can ask yourself when validating anything that you are hearing from somebody else. How do I know that to be true? And if you don’t have a direct reference from that, or you if you just need to give yourself a moment to see how that’s true, let life show you, then if you don’t have that reference, well give yourself a day, and you will have a direct experience on that teaching if you’re curious about knowing how true that can be for you.
Now again, true only means somebody held a thought long enough in their mind, and they created the direct experience of the thought that they were thinking. Again, this is … We’re making this up as we go along. That method of operation that we are playing with here because if I’m calling myself Jeff Free, guess what? I don’t believe any fear based teachings.
Okay, I have a direct knowing and experience of that there’s nothing but love here, for us. I know that when I decide to turn the page and leave this physical body, that I’m not going to go someplace and be judged by something and punished in any way shape or form. It’s not going to happen. It’s not true for any of us. And so you see how people are, if you put that knowing and that direct experience of … Okay look, there’s nothing for us. He just said, “There’s nothing but love here for us.”
“How do I know that to be true?”
If you’re ready to feel that, then you’re going to get that experience. Then you’re going to know it, and then you’re going to stop behaving in certain ways that make you think that you have to justify. That you have validate your life. That you have to go through hoops to get to some certain place. To some forever far off land, to feel good over there, and you start to feel good right here.
When I really stopped going through hell, my judgments day, was when I stopped judging myself so harshly over anything that I did.
Kim O’Niell: Mm-hmm (affirmative).
Jeoffrey H: Just said that everything that I did, “I did it. So what? Moving on.”
“Really? Moving on?”
Why should I kick myself in the butt over something that I didn’t know better at the time when I was behaving, but now I know better and so now we’re done. I’m not going to continue to punish myself over something that I’ve already learned the lesson of.
Kim O’Niell: Yeah.
Jeoffrey H: You see our society is doing that all the time, but in the end or in the continuum, I’m going to have to prove someone else wrong for me to be right. I don’t have to, again, live my life and I will not live my life from a place of that, I’m going to be in judgment of some outside deity.
At some point in my existence. That’s not going to happen. I know that’s not going to happen. That’s just me, and that opens my life. That opens my consciousness. That opens everything up to me for as far as the realm of possibility because again I lived my life from impossible, and without changing any of the spelling in that to a more positive light. Instead of living from impossible, I went to, “I’m possible.”
Kim O’Niell: I feel that going back to what you were talking about earlier when you shared your story about being in martial arts, and then you did the visualization guided meditation, and source came through. And said, “I tried to get you the message through different avenues.”
I think that’s a lot of it too, is that love that is there for us continues to try and show its presence in our life, and it comes through all these different experiences and avenues, and sometimes those experiences or avenues are lessons or messages that maybe we need to ponder a little more.
I can think of messages in my life that I have gotten time and time again, and it’s like I just wasn’t allowing them in because we have that free will. We have that free will to kind of block ourselves off to it, just as much as we have the free will to finally say, “Okay. Let me allow that in, and see what’s there.”
One of the messages that I have been getting for the last one to two years was, “Kim, have more fun. Kim have more fun.” And I was like, “Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know, I know.”
Jeoffrey H: LOLOL we say yeah I’ll have more fun later. I’ve got to got to work hard.
Kim O’Niell: Damn I’m like, “Damn I got to do this work, and …” I would do the justifying and I even say this with caution, but I would even justify, “Well yeah, but this work that I’m doing is fun, or this thing that I’m doing is fun.”
And it’s just like even you were saying, “Yes because I do have work that is fun for me.” But I needed for me personally, I needed to take it even beyond that. Let’s even stop with the fun work. Let’s just have fun, fun.
Jeoffrey H: Yup. Yup. Absolutely.
Kim O’Niell: It’s just amazing how I’ve already started to see, “Oh, that’s what you were trying to show me.” Just have fun.
Jeoffrey H: Yup.
Kim O’Niell: It’s not wasting time. It’s not-
Jeoffrey H: Right.
Kim O’Niell: It’s not frivolous. Fun serves a purpose. It actually, for that reason, my word for the year is joy-
Jeoffrey H: Mm-hmm (affirmative).
Kim O’Niell: … because joy reminds me to connect with that energy, that allows me to also remain open to see those … See the love coming through, all the different experiences, and messages that continue to make their way to me.
Jeoffrey H: Yeah. I totally dig that because when you said, “Joy.” I have an acronym for that. Joy is your journey of your omnipresent yes.
That is a really fun, cool way to … Again, for me to … Because again I make these rules up and I change them when I want. I’m making up more rules for me to have fun, all the damn time. All the damn time because there’s so much … It’s not just this phone interview. It’s not just how I might feel 10 minutes after this interview. Magic is found. Joy is found in every moment.
Kim O’Niell: Let me say for anyone right now who is thinking, “Why would you do that right now? There are so many other important things going on in the world.”
Because why not? Your life is now.
Jeoffrey H: Yeah.
Kim O’Niell: Why not?
Jeoffrey H: Mm-hmm (affirmative).
Kim O’Niell: Your life is now. We have every reason available to make our life allow. Allow our life to be joyful. For it to be fulfilling. I mean, I think if we want to choose to use all those other things going on to be an excuse for not, that is exactly why it’s an excuse or reason to have fun and be joyful. Because I mean, at the end of my life, I’m the only one who’s going to be looking back at it saying, “Did I make that worth it? Did I have a good time? Was this worth my time and energy on earth?”
Jeoffrey H: Yeah.
Kim O’Niell: And I want to say, “Heck yeah.”
Jeoffrey H: Mm-hmm (affirmative).
Kim O’Niell: So …
Jeoffrey H: No you’re … Everything was right because again, having fun with this and making this very simplistic … Life is either two things, something to feel good about or something to feel bad about. We do that simplistic dance, that changes your whole life right there, and that’s what you’re talking about. That’s what we’re talking about. That’s what’s being expressed through the simplicity of this conversation.
Kim O’Niell: Yeah.
Jeoffrey H: Who knows how many times we’ve changed the world in one sentence, and it’s only been … Whatever time frame has gone past, but if someone can hear just that one sentence that changes their life or they make that one decision, and that one breath that goes, “Wow this is cool.”
That is what we’re talking about. There’s magic in every moment, in every moment. That’s it. Okay, I’m not even going to try … I’m not even going to quantify it in any other direction. There’s magic in every moment, and allow.