Where does courage come from

Hey, Hola, happy Tuesday. How are you knuckleheads? We’re getting ready for some deluge here in Northwest Indiana. So I thought I’d get out here and get this video on the road. So I finished chapter 35 for the book, yes, 35 and I wanted to share a couple of paragraphs and then talk about 35 the title for chapter 35 is, where does courage come from? There’s so many crazy ideas about courage. You know, you just got to get more courage to do it. So let me read the first paragraph, and then I’ll share the last one, where I kind of wrapped everything up and and I’m hoping that this will motivate some of you to live more courageously, right? Okay, here it is. I have always been intrigued by the concept of courage. Webster defines it as the quality of being brave. Okay, so someone is brave, but it doesn’t explain its origins. I was recently talking to my brother and his wife, Jeannie, about courage. Her idea was that we need courage to do difficult tasks. But I asked her, where does it come from, and how does one cultivate courage? The first time I went skydiving, I was literally terrified, like weenie out. Okay, I didn’t feel very courageous, but somehow I was able to jump in this chapter. I will explore its origins from my experiences as well as others. In doing so, I hope to develop a template that will guide us to behave more courageously when necessary. I also hope to explain how to cultivate it within us. My hunch is that courage is more of a verb than it is a noun. This idea came from a book I read by Rabbi Cooper entitled God is a verb Kabbalah and the practice of mystical Judaism. The word verb means action, existence or occurrence. What if Webster described it more as a verb rather than a noun? This will get us closer to understanding what is needed to increase our courage, because it’s action based, rather than just the concept. Cooper’s book opened me up to seeing God in a whole new light as a verb in action. Therefore seeing courage as a verb may get us closer to understanding it. I have heard so many people say, I’ll do it when I feel more courageous. I’ll leave my marriage, my job, my addiction when I have more courage. Well, guess what? It never really happened that way I would. I would have stayed on the plane forever if I was counting on feeling that way. So what it what enabled me to jump 1400 feet? This is what I want to explore in the rest of the chapter. If we come to understand how it works, then maybe the world will begin to evolve more rapidly through seeing people act more bravely, and when you look at people that do brave things, you know, veterans, firefighters, etcetera, etcetera, what’s motivating that right? What makes them jump into that horrible house that’s burning down? What makes a veteran run out of that field. Okay, so courage, to me, is more of a verb, because it’s an end result of something else. And what I explained in this chapter, when a parent runs into a burning house, what motivates them to do that fear of losing a child. You know, I have a dear friend who recently quit a job in a very toxic environment, Kate, with no job prospects. I had another friend that quits teaching in her second year with no job prospects. What made them do that? Well, the one was so miserable, the teacher she couldn’t stay that motivated her to act courageously. The one with the toxic work environment left because she was so ticked off at the way she was being treated and disrespected on the job. So I think when we start to use our negative feelings to motivate us, you know, I I want to talk about the skydiving when I was 26 I was supposed to jump, and I own it today, I wean it out. Okay? I let the fear take over. Well, when the idea came back to me at the age of 50, I didn’t want to feel like a coward again, because when I weaned, it out. 26 and you know how we rationalize stuff wasn’t for me, wasn’t the right time and all that BS we tell ourselves in our head, basically, I we need out because I was too afraid. So the feelings of cowardliness and being a wussy made me jump out the second time and the third time and the fourth time. And that was it, and it was over. I may go again. So here’s the second paragraph that I ended the chapter with. I want to kind of wrap all this up. I once read that courage is a reward for doing something brave. Initially, this confused me, until I started to unwrap the idea courage. When I landed safely after free falling 1400 feet, I felt like a rock star doing something that that courageous built some courage inside of me. So yes, it is a reward when we take a risk or make a big change, like my two friends did when they quit those jobs, Courage makes us feel more confident, bold and fearless, and I want to stop here and say something about that. When you do things that make you feel bold, confident and fearless, you’re going to be willing to do it more and more. But if you don’t ever do that, you stay stuck, you stay in your little comfort zone. But it’s in the doing that we become this way courageous, not in avoiding or thinking about it. That’s why I’m not a big fan of self help books or positive affirmations. It’s in the doing that we change, not the reading about stuff or talking about stuff. This is why I think of courage as a verb, because it’s connected to our actions. People’s self confidence increases exponentially when they act courageously, but they won’t know it unless they take those risks. They need to use their pain and suffering to get off the Schneid and try different things. I hope this chapter has been inspiring for those of you who are ready for some new adventures. Our souls know the plan, but we need to follow it to get all the rewards for Living Courageously. Our world will will feel, feel the effects of this, and our Creator will be there to make it happen by supporting us like it did for Moses. So basically, it’s a win. Win. Reality is better for it, and we’re better for it. But most people, when they’re feeling whatever they’re feeling, and they get stuck, what I try to do with clients is to get them unstuck by helping them tap into the feelings they’re feeling. Like, let’s say you’re in a horrible marriage, and deep down, you’re miserable. Well, I can accentuate those feelings. Help them feel it more. We can use those feelings for action. The trouble is, as we all know, there’s some people that are such settlers, they’ll stay there forever if we let them, because, like Joe Dispenza talks about, that becomes your natural state of being. You don’t know any better, but there’s always that little wisdom inside the soul, inside that knows what it wants to do here. I can’t imagine what our wonderful world will look like if everybody every day, going to work whatever they’re doing in their vehicles were going to satisfy their soul’s purpose. Man, it’d be like Christmas every day for us. We wouldn’t have to just wait for December 25 would we so chew on these ideas? I think courage is a result of something, but courage is really confidence, boldness, bravery, fearlessness. But how are you going to develop that if you stand, sit on the Schneid and don’t get off the Schneid? All right, all right. Love you guys. God bless you. I’ll be talking soon about something Bye, bye.