Podcast 395 - Lessons From a Tough Year & Plans for 2025

Podcast 395 - Lessons From a Tough Year & Plans for 2025

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0:02

Welcome to Subconscious Mind mastery

0:04

Thomas Miller Miller, concluding 2024. And

0:06

I have some and I

0:09

have some end

0:11

of the year reflections and lessons a

0:13

we turn a calendar page here

0:15

in real those of you who might of you

0:17

who might be listening down the

0:19

road, just going to go through some

0:21

very practical applications, especially when

0:23

it's been a little tough

0:25

lately, because that's kind of

0:27

the basis of what I'm

0:30

working with. with. 2024 was a

0:32

but I have some I have some

0:34

good and good good reflections and good

0:36

directions ahead based on all of

0:38

this. you you current current with

0:40

the podcast and you've been listening

0:42

to some of the past

0:45

episodes through this year, you will

0:47

pretty much know the story,

0:49

but everything began in January in

0:51

the plans to make an unexpected

0:53

move, and that I covered

0:56

in episode 375. A unique unique

0:58

situation that certainly added something

1:00

to the manifesting list over the

1:02

years the I reflected back. back,

1:04

a car, getting rid of an

1:07

RV, an RV, getting another RV, a RV theme

1:09

there, finding the right finding the right

1:11

apartment RV, the RV a now

1:13

So free house. telling you just

1:15

telling you all that to

1:17

say things things are possible when

1:19

you follow this journey. But

1:21

boy, this year did not

1:23

end up as expected. So

1:25

here was this this I

1:28

noted something here here, an unexpected

1:30

move. Things did not end

1:32

up as expected this year.

1:34

Episode this year. Episode 375, few

1:36

back, the unexpected transition

1:38

that began in January

1:40

of 2024. January of and then

1:42

And then episode 376, the next one. one,

1:45

covers an unexpected

1:47

family situation. situation. and And

1:49

then 394 kind of brings

1:51

it of brings

1:53

it forward to

1:55

an unexpected medical

1:57

condition. So I

1:59

moved out here

2:01

to take care

2:03

of a dear

2:05

friend, the lady

2:07

who owned the home.

2:09

where I lived in Aspen for

2:12

almost three years when I was

2:14

there 2015-16-17 into 18, well in

2:16

the end of 2024 here as

2:18

outlined in episode 394 she had

2:20

a significant life-threatening medical setback. So

2:22

it has been a year of

2:24

unexpected. The year began in North

2:26

Carolina. It's ending in California. and

2:28

of course in between that was

2:30

an unexpected hurricane in North Carolina

2:32

that very much affected the area

2:34

where I was still is affecting

2:36

so many in such a tragic

2:38

situation. So as I was writing

2:40

that unexpected list I thought well

2:42

you better look at where Uranus

2:44

is in your chart where the

2:46

year began and where it's ending

2:48

because Uranus in astrology is the

2:50

planet of surprises and sure enough.

2:52

The year began with Uranus in

2:54

an exact square aspect, which if

2:56

you don't follow astrology is a

2:58

tense aspect or a challenging aspect.

3:00

Uranus in the sky right now

3:02

is in a square, a challenging

3:04

situation with my own Uranus when

3:06

I was born. So all of

3:08

these sudden surprises shouldn't be a

3:11

surprise under that kind of astrology.

3:13

And to be honest with you,

3:15

I just wasn't thinking about it

3:17

whole through this year until I

3:19

just looked at it. Because, why?

3:21

Because I've been busy focusing on

3:23

all this other stuff. And then

3:25

as I look ahead, there are

3:27

some other challenging aspects from two

3:29

other big boys, Mars and Pluto,

3:31

in the chart. So the fun

3:33

and games are not over yet.

3:35

But I'm thinking maybe if I

3:37

expect challenges in 2025, maybe it

3:39

will turn out differently because I

3:41

didn't expect them last year and

3:43

wow got sidewacked. But I'd like

3:45

to just reflect on, and I

3:47

think I've got five or six

3:49

or seven things here that I'd

3:51

like to go through of things

3:53

that happened and lessons learned from

3:55

this year. And the first one

3:57

is just what we were talking

3:59

about. about thank I

4:01

thought. that I had that I had

4:03

worked these new ways of

4:06

living and new ways of being

4:08

that are encompassed in almost

4:10

400 episodes this this podcast. that I've that

4:12

I've worked that into my life. You're

4:14

you're new and you're just dropping into

4:16

this podcast, it is kind of an

4:18

audio blog journal, if you will, of

4:21

development from from

4:23

way of life of life a new way

4:25

of living. of living driven by by

4:27

and realizing the subconscious mind

4:30

mind still everything that we

4:32

do. that we do. the the operating

4:34

system, if you will. So

4:36

the first thing I thought of

4:38

was first thing literally of God that

4:41

I developed the tools that

4:43

I have over these past the

4:45

or so years to learn how

4:47

to develop this. 15 or so it

4:49

made it easy? how to develop

4:51

this. Has it tough. No.

4:53

This Have I had my moments? I had

4:55

my moments? Yeah. do I wish

4:57

I could unwind and a a magic wand

4:59

over it? Well, yeah, if you listen

5:01

to the one about the family, you would

5:04

say, yeah, you you would say, yeah, I would

5:06

say this, I that if I acted that if

5:08

I acted appeared as, oh, it's no big

5:10

deal, you just blow through you just kind

5:12

of thing. it, that I would not

5:14

trust me, for sure. me I would

5:16

run. run, because it does

5:18

hurt, life does hurt, and

5:20

we know that. reality. reality. It's

5:23

the tools that we develop

5:25

through these processes that give us

5:27

the quiver full of techniques

5:29

that we can use. use as we we

5:31

create the new reality. a lot

5:33

of a lot of people

5:35

will wallow in their

5:37

challenges. sympathy to do it for sympathy, or

5:39

to get attention, they or simply because they

5:42

don't have the tools to get out.

5:44

a There's a great little verse tucked

5:46

away in a a tiny book toward the

5:48

end of the Old Testament in the

5:50

Bible that says, for the lack of

5:52

knowledge, lack of my people perish. perish. lot

5:54

of people today today search for the answers.

5:56

They want to be handed answers. They

5:58

They don't go digging. They don't acquire the

6:01

knowledge and thus they perish. So another

6:03

lesson is not to wallow. However, we

6:05

have to heal and that's the authentic

6:07

part of what I've tried to do

6:10

this year is to heal. I had

6:12

to be quieter this year, fewer podcasts

6:14

because I had to grieve. Also my

6:16

focus was distracted this year. Lots of

6:19

changes, lots of adjustments. So those of

6:21

you who have gone through relocations or

6:23

relocations of your situation, maybe a partner

6:25

has left, you feel like you've lost

6:27

some of your grounding, which we're going

6:30

to talk about in a minute. It's

6:32

always good to check on where you

6:34

are. Healthy grieving or wallowing for attention

6:36

and sympathy, because we have to pick

6:39

up and move on. And that leads

6:41

to another lesson, like picking up and

6:43

moving on. Since this podcast started, you

6:45

guys have followed me like a ping

6:47

pong ball around different places. I think

6:50

it went Dallas, Colorado, Dallas, Florida, North

6:52

Carolina, North Carolina, California. That's a lot.

6:54

But when my kids were in high

6:56

school, junior high, and then in high

6:59

school, my goal was when they were

7:01

independent that I wanted to travel. So

7:03

this is something I created and I

7:05

own it. I wanted to see different

7:08

parts of the country. I wanted to

7:10

experience different cultures, different states in the

7:12

United States, for those of you listening

7:14

outside. One state can be different from

7:16

another. I guess those of you in

7:19

Europe, it would be like living in

7:21

Denmark, for example, and then living in

7:23

Germany. They're different. I'll tell you, California

7:25

and North Carolina are different. They are.

7:28

but for an adventurer that's part of

7:30

the challenge isn't it to experience these

7:32

different things but i have learned one

7:34

thing from all of that and that

7:36

is that there is a grounding and

7:39

there can be a lack of grounding

7:41

in places there was a uh... sermon

7:43

actually it would turned into a book

7:45

and now it's I think you can

7:48

download, called Acres of Diamonds. It's a

7:50

great story. Short, but I highly recommend

7:52

you read it because we all tend

7:54

to at times think that there's something

7:57

better over there. And Acres of Diamonds

7:59

teaches us that often it can be

8:01

right under our feet, literally. So if

8:03

you are blessed to have a place

8:05

where you have support, you love where

8:08

you are, you have family, friends, or

8:10

whatever there is for grounding around you.

8:12

If things generally work for you there,

8:14

then I would say be careful about

8:17

getting itchy to leave that grounding. The

8:19

energy that you are leaving may or

8:21

may not be matched in the new

8:23

location. And in fact, I would say

8:25

from my experience, chances are it won't

8:28

be. Energy shifts pretty dramatically. Over that

8:30

list that I mentioned, this is just

8:32

purely my own personal experience. Dallas was

8:34

good for business. challenging for relationships and

8:37

it was close to my Pluto line

8:39

so all of the transformation that's mentioned

8:41

in this podcast and that's really still

8:43

the theme of my life is transformation

8:46

happened in Dallas Aspen by far the

8:48

most fun I've ever had in a

8:50

short period of time but how it

8:52

concluded was now it's your time to

8:54

go back and get busy and put

8:57

this out and that's when everything that

8:59

I've been doing really took off after

9:01

leaving there and going back to Dallas.

9:03

Florida? Boy, that turned out interesting. The

9:06

day I arrived was the day that

9:08

I was setting up my audio booth

9:10

and I lost control of the wall

9:12

that has the heavy solid core door

9:14

and it went into the walls of

9:17

a very vergoin landlord who was downstairs

9:19

literally dusting the top of the blades

9:21

of the ceiling fan with a dry

9:23

paint brush. He was dusting the ceiling

9:26

fans and I was crashing through his

9:28

wall upstairs. to show you the kind

9:30

of guy he was he ran up

9:32

the stairs when he heard the crash

9:35

and his question was,

9:37

are you you okay? And

9:39

And that meant a

9:41

lot. lot. When the

9:43

cover, the concrete cover

9:46

of the septic tank,

9:48

cracked I I walked

9:50

over it, as

9:52

I had for eight

9:55

months, and fell

9:57

in, said, he said,

9:59

tear up the lease.

10:01

I know you're

10:03

not happy here. And

10:06

then I had

10:08

the wonderful opportunity of

10:10

living basically on

10:12

both sides of the

10:15

of the in North

10:17

Carolina, and that was

10:19

a blast. a I

10:21

got to experience

10:24

the the Linville the the

10:26

rock and all in there,

10:28

and and whatnot, and then I

10:30

I got to experience Western Carolina

10:32

where, course, which of has been

10:34

devastated by by Hurricane Helene, and I and

10:37

I love both of them. then has

10:39

has been its own opportunity for

10:41

growth and challenge. I've had to

10:43

make adjustments out here. here. And that's

10:45

kind of the next point point, because

10:47

we go through these changes and

10:49

life situations adjust and we have to

10:52

adjust with them. them, what you

10:54

what you focus on through it. the

10:57

experiences that you will you will

10:59

have a year and a half, year and

11:01

a half, the years down the

11:03

road and beyond. So be

11:06

careful, and I've had to catch

11:08

myself here with this this because I

11:10

promise you the contrast between

11:12

the fertile tree-lined of North Carolina

11:14

and the hot, rocky, dry, desolate

11:16

of of Southern California is as

11:18

stark as day and night.

11:21

But I had to realize this

11:23

as its own unique experience

11:25

and start creating what I was to

11:27

do here I made some adjustments.

11:30

Basically, midsummer, it took me about three

11:32

months just to get over the

11:34

shock of what had happened. what had

11:36

happened. That's episode 376. but i started in the

11:38

summer to make the adjustments and

11:40

started to get things back going.

11:42

things back you know, this is another

11:44

point when you get knocked back.

11:46

get knocked might be a little harder

11:48

to believe in the new the new because

11:50

you can get focused on the current

11:52

reality. on the current If I had i

11:54

had on the the that I was

11:56

feeling, was feeling the what the heck

11:58

have I done done feeling then I would

12:00

be creating that for myself six

12:03

months, 12 months, 18 months, etc.

12:05

down the line. So often in

12:07

these kinds of situations, the worst

12:09

lens to look through is the

12:11

current lens around us. Look to

12:13

the future. Astrology is a great

12:15

picture of this because as we

12:17

watch planets move around on the

12:19

chart, there are fast movers and

12:21

slow movers. The fast movers come

12:23

in, they do their thing, and

12:25

then they kind of move on.

12:27

And that's a lot of what

12:29

life is like in situations like

12:31

this. Things come up, they happen,

12:33

and then it moves on, and

12:35

we move on. One of the

12:37

blessings of astrologies, it shows us

12:39

cycles. And just think of that,

12:41

this is a cycle of life,

12:43

and it's going to pass. And

12:45

you know, there's an upside to

12:47

all of this, too, obviously, because

12:49

those who don't take risks are

12:51

not going to get beaten up.

12:53

There's a great line, a great

12:55

quote says, if you don't go

12:57

out on the branch, you'll never

12:59

get the best fruit. I know

13:01

that I have a risk profile

13:03

built into my chart. To take

13:05

a risk like I did is

13:07

really nothing to me. It's kind

13:09

of the wiring diagram. So in

13:11

that sense, you have to figure

13:13

out your own path, obviously, but

13:15

don't let fear keep you from

13:17

stretching into something that you'd love

13:19

to try. If you feel overly

13:21

secure and overly safe where you

13:23

are, that can often sometimes. be

13:25

keeping you from something that might

13:27

be even better. So we all

13:29

have to find what's right for

13:31

us at any given moment. And

13:33

the way to do that is

13:35

not to ask our friends and

13:37

not to go seek some other

13:39

thing. Intuition. The answers are inside

13:41

of you and we have a

13:43

lot of episodes here on the

13:45

topic of intuition. And I'm going

13:47

to be doing more in 2025

13:49

because I think that is the

13:51

absolute key. When I stood on

13:53

the patio of this house that

13:55

I'm in now in Southern California

13:57

in January, I asked very quickly

13:59

and I had to say we

14:01

are about to make a significant

14:03

decision here. I need to know

14:05

and I need to know now

14:07

and I need it to be

14:09

accurate and I did my little

14:11

muscle testing and intuitive process and

14:13

three times it said yes do

14:15

the deal this came from inside

14:18

this was not knee jerk it

14:20

was in that moment but that's

14:22

the way I've come to live

14:24

that I know that I can

14:26

rely on a quick answer so

14:28

I know this is the path

14:30

and the plan that I was

14:32

to be on and back to

14:34

episode three seventy six I tried

14:36

four times to intervene in that

14:38

so that we could clear the

14:40

air around the issues that were

14:42

at hand there and four times

14:44

was prevented. I also know that

14:46

these timelines of energy and consciousness

14:48

are separating and sometimes we have

14:50

to purge and prune stuff that

14:52

needs to be purged. I hope

14:54

all of that comes back around

14:56

if it's supposed to and I'm

14:58

holding for that. I mean I'm

15:00

holding for the love and the

15:02

forgiveness that hopefully could show up.

15:04

But I'm also content if the

15:06

timelines separate and that's what it's

15:08

supposed to be as well Because

15:10

there are two different energies at

15:12

play in that whole situation and

15:14

many of you have family situations

15:16

with Separating energies as well My

15:18

thoughts and prayers are with you

15:20

during these times because it is

15:22

things are changing and here's another

15:24

point when things look their darkest.

15:26

They're often at the turning point.

15:28

So don't give up there is

15:30

a master plan There is a

15:32

testing. We're going through it all.

15:34

We're being cleansed. We're being prepared.

15:36

What if there was the space

15:38

of non-attachment to that which did

15:40

not serve that would hold you

15:42

back? So some things have to

15:44

fall away. I think in some

15:46

regards we can't even imagine what's

15:48

in front of us as we

15:50

turn this new year over and

15:52

enter 2025. I think the opportunity

15:54

for true spiritual leaders is going

15:56

to be enormous going forward. So

15:58

going into that, do you want

16:00

to be light and nimble or

16:02

chained and bound? We have to

16:04

trust that there is a process

16:06

and a knowledge that knows more

16:08

than we do that is helping

16:10

us, truly helping us, even by

16:12

removing some things that don't serve

16:14

us. And maybe, final point, you're

16:16

someone who has not gone through

16:18

a setback like this. In some

16:20

time, maybe in quite a while.

16:22

Also, don't analyze that either. It

16:24

would be great to make yourself

16:26

available to those who are going

16:28

through it, either energetically through prayer

16:31

and emotional support. There might be

16:33

opportunities for financial support. I've had

16:35

one of those happen in my

16:37

life, and it is the greatest

16:39

blessing I could ever imagine to

16:41

give this dear friend of my

16:43

families a little bit of support

16:45

that they need financially. It's just

16:47

the ultimate blessing. So if your

16:49

life right now is more in

16:51

the clear, hold the space for

16:53

those out there, some you may

16:55

know, some you may not, who

16:57

are going through the challenges. Use

16:59

the blessing of your current grounded

17:01

clarity to help others who are

17:03

in the shifting positions. And if

17:05

you know somebody going through some

17:07

tough stuff, you have their email

17:09

or their text number, send them

17:11

a message every now and then.

17:13

Hey, I'm thinking of you. I

17:15

love you. Chin up. Chin up.

17:17

And then those ultimately vulnerable words,

17:19

anything I can do to help

17:21

you, question mark. There's a story

17:23

in the Bible, came very alive

17:25

for me as I was going

17:27

through all of this with my

17:29

family. In fact, it was one

17:31

of the ones that I looked

17:33

up around this whole concept of

17:35

salvation or inheriting eternal life as

17:37

stated in the New Testament. Somebody,

17:39

it's in Luke chapter 10 if

17:41

you'd like to look it up.

17:43

Somebody came to Jesus and said,

17:45

how can I inherit eternal life?

17:47

Jesus said, well, when you look

17:49

in the book, what do you

17:51

see? The guy said, love the

17:53

Lord your God with all your

17:55

heart, with all your soul, with

17:57

all your strength, and with all

17:59

your mind, and love your neighbor.

18:01

as yourself. That's a pretty good

18:03

interpretation of what I see in

18:05

the Bible as quote unquote salvation.

18:07

Have a God connection. Pierre Tilhart

18:09

de Chardine, we are not human

18:11

beings having a spiritual experience. We

18:13

are spiritual beings having a human

18:15

experience and we tone out the

18:17

spiritual being part. So the first

18:19

part of salvation is have a

18:21

connection with God. Very simple. That's

18:23

what Jesus said. Good answer. But

18:25

then the guy comes back with

18:27

the hook question. And he says,

18:29

but then, who is my neighbor?

18:31

Like, where is this boundary line

18:33

of helping? Jesus said a man

18:35

was going down to Jerusalem from

18:37

Jericho and he was attacked by

18:39

robbers. They beat him up, left

18:41

him in the ditch for dead.

18:44

A priest was going down the

18:46

road, he saw the man, and

18:48

he walked on the other side

18:50

of the road, so he wouldn't

18:52

be bothered by this poor victim

18:54

of this crime. Another... leader, the

18:56

priest, the religious people, the folks

18:58

that carry their spirituality on their

19:00

sleeve, if you will. He snubbed

19:02

his nose and walked away on

19:04

the other side of the road

19:06

as well. So the spiritual people

19:08

wouldn't be bothered by this person

19:10

who had a need. Then it

19:12

says a Samaritan came by and

19:14

saw him and took pity on

19:16

him. Now, to give you the

19:18

context, let me just put it

19:20

this way in modern terms. Let's

19:22

say that the guy in the

19:24

ditch was wearing a magga red

19:26

t-shirt. It said that he voted

19:28

for Donald Trump, and the person

19:30

who came by was wearing a

19:32

Harris, Kamla Harris t-shirt, and was

19:34

a Democrat. That's the difference between

19:36

the person who was lying in

19:38

the road and this Samaritan. genetically

19:40

they were basically half cousins culturally

19:42

they absolutely hated each other so

19:44

this Samaritan this Democratic Harris supporter

19:46

picked the man up out of

19:48

the ditch bandaged his wounds I

19:50

guess he was carrying a first

19:52

aid kit put the man on

19:54

his own donkey paid

19:56

the said, Please take

19:58

care of him

20:00

I'm going on

20:02

a trip and

20:04

when I I return,

20:06

I'll come back and check check, anything I

20:08

owe you, I'll pay it I owe you, I'll pay So

20:10

then. So Jesus of these which of passed by

20:12

do you think was a neighbor to

20:15

the man who had fell to the

20:17

hands of the robbers? hands The man said,

20:19

The man the one who had mercy

20:21

on him. mercy on said, go and

20:23

do likewise. do likewise. It's It's

20:25

really all about looking

20:27

for opportunities to serve.

20:29

to make some So in going

20:31

to make some changes in

20:33

2025. the year is First of all, my

20:36

I of the year is deep inside, I

20:38

want to look deep inside, look in

20:40

my own eyes in the bathroom mirror,

20:42

and I want to make sure that

20:44

everything that I'm doing is aligned. I'm

20:46

going to brush up the going to

20:49

brush up the look of the

20:51

podcast a little bit this year. We're

20:53

going to have a new logo, logo.

20:55

a little bit of a new

20:57

treatment on the old logo. How about

20:59

that? And a new animation and

21:01

focus more on videos and breathing some

21:03

life into the subconscious mind mastery YouTube channel, channel,

21:05

putting some focus there. So a

21:07

lot of these episodes will be in

21:09

the future so the audio So the audio

21:11

will be extracted from the video.

21:14

And then sometimes we'll just do an

21:16

audio podcast like normal. but

21:18

I'm also going to do more interviews

21:20

of interesting people who have also overcome

21:22

these kinds of things things are on

21:24

their journeys and hear their stories. So I'm I'm

21:26

looking forward to all of that. We're

21:28

We're going to start with my dear

21:30

friend, Michelle Blood who now is kind of

21:33

a neighbor. I I mean, she's a couple

21:35

of hours down the road south of

21:37

me here, so we're going to connect.

21:39

Fred is going to be around around

21:41

then other interesting people with interesting stories

21:43

and we'll be looking for authenticity as

21:45

well as we go. go. So hope this helps.

21:48

helps. has its cycles and through

21:50

them we learn and grow. So

21:52

we'll see you in 2025 with

21:54

some more ways that we

21:56

can grow and that we we

21:58

can enjoy the journey. I'm

22:00

Thomas Miller. Thank you so much for

22:02

listening. Miller.

22:05

Thank The stories and opinions

22:07

expressed on this podcast

22:09

are independently those of the

22:12

host and guests and

22:14

are not intended to be

22:16

taken as medical advice

22:18

or to replace medical care

22:20

from a licensed professional

22:22

when appropriate.

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