Survival Essentials - Shelter Solutions -Section Four - Insulation

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We get into episode thirty-six of Survival Essentials. 
Shelter Solutions - Always stay protected from the harsh elements. 
Section three - Insulation.

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SPEAKER_00 0:13

Welcome to Inside the Raven's Eye. I'm your host, Alan Mitchell. My medicine name is Raven's Spirit. This podcast is partnered with Earth and Spirit Medicine, owned and operated by Winfield Ivers. His medicine name is Coyote Thunderhawk. He is a shaman here in the state of Utah, so make sure to visit Earth and Spirit Medicine.com. In this episode of Conversations with a Shaman, we get into episode 36 of Survival Essentials Shelter Solutions. Always stay protected from the harsh elements. Section 3, insulation. This and so much more in this episode of Inside the Raven's Eye. Thanks for listening and enjoy. Alright, so here we are, another episode. And we are on episode 36. Section 3, Shelter Solutions, and this one is all about insulation. I know in the past few episodes I've always like immediately like gone past the wilderness and straight to home. Like in this modern wilderness. And you know, like driving here, I was thinking about because I actually went out and after our spirit quest and kind of just had this feeling around a Thanksgiving one. I talked about it in the past about just around a break time around my work schedule. I had four days to go up into the wilderness and build a shelter and and just do that whole that whole thing. And so and I took about two weeks prior to that to go up and start building and slowly, because I had a hike up, I don't know, I I took you on that hike. It was about three miles. It's a good little hike to get to there. And so it took a lot of work over those two weeks of just going and just building little by little. And there's a lot of lap uh rabbit brush up there, I think that's the name of the plant. And I just kept on insulating more and more, and I thought I had it enough. I was like, okay, this is like huge. This has to be enough. And this is Thanksgiving, and here it's pretty cold, you know. So when the time came, I remember being in the shelter the first night, and I wasn't even close. I remember the ground was good. I was like, okay, I got the ground. Probably most, in my opinion, one of the most important factors. I was like, okay, the ground's good. But I kept on seeing all these little holes in my shelter, and I was just like, gosh dang, I was like, I I'm not even close. And but that was like that reminded me this morning about life, was like trying to get things insulated and we think it's good enough, and then we kind of come become complacent, stagnant in areas where we just okay, I I took care of that a month ago or whatever, and then we kind of let it go, and then all of a sudden it just starts to erode away more and more and more. And then but I was thinking about well, there's different situations in insulating your shelter, whatever that is, maybe in the wilderness or at home in our relationships and all that. So I kept on thinking more and more about sometimes we feel rushed and we have to do it right then and there, and then there's other times where we can, you know, take our time, but I was like, okay, so if I'm even when I'm feeling rushed, am I being am I really rushed? Am I really taking a moment to be like, okay, yeah, the sun's going down, I need to build a shelter, but am I if I'm being frantic in this situation, you know, it's not gonna help me any. So I was really thinking a lot about this, is even in any kind of shelter, patience was the biggest thing that jumped to my mind. Be patient no matter what situation you're in. If you're not patient, if you're not really looking at the details, even in uh in my own personal life, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna leave a bunch of freaking holes for anything to come in and out as I please, you know, or as it pleases, I should say. So um, with saying all that, I'll hand it over to you.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

Awesome. And I'm super excited. I think I might have said that a couple times on the podcasts, but a few months back we had my son Lakota on podcast with us, and today my sister Kelly is here, and I'm super excited about that. I was telling her this morning I hope to have more interaction in these podcasts upcoming, and uh we'll uh definitely go that direction with them. I uh uh uh see value uh in what we're doing more and more and more. So thanks, Alan, for all that you do and preparing all the time for these podcasts. So that first step in survival essentials, preparing and training. Okay, ever since I met you, that's uh you took that one, whether you know it or not, and went right to work and you're still doing it. So then a moment ago, talking about the patients, uh that mindset really, you know, like how to uh uh go about things without being frantic, like you mentioned. And uh and sometimes we don't know how much insulation we need until until we get cold or or uncomfortable. And so we've talked about uh uh the different types of shelter, we've talked about the location of shelter, we've talked about the creation of shelter, and now we're talking about insulation. And uh probably the the uh uh easiest way to indicate insulation in our modern world is that most of us think of the we insulate our homes. We put insulation in, something that helps reduce the temperature from the outside to influence the inside as much. Something that can even help in somewhat of a noise reduction, uh, something that uh it we don't think about as it being a whole lot of protective material around us, all like we don't go around saying thank you so much for my insulation and my walls. I'm just so grateful for that. It's not a common statement. And so when I'm in the wilderness, well, I'll just say this, because I keep thinking about this this morning. The first wilderness therapy youth program that I worked for, which now has a documentary out called Hell Camp. And so I right, yeah, I and so I I started with this program, Challenger, back in 1989. And so I gotta go right to work out there through the the beginning of winter, through winter, cold temperatures, seeing the the gathering ice, really thin layers of ice that would freeze above the washes where there's not really water, but there's condensation, taking that and trying to melt it down without having it uh taste burnt because burnt water is odd to drink. It's not something that happens a lot, but when you're turning ice into water, I learned it was a slower process. But what I was learning is along the lines is how cold it gets at night, and how much one can curse the sun in the day, maybe when it's too hot, and how much one can ask for the sun in the middle of the night when it's so cold. And so this bipolar activity within us about our comfort zones is interesting to me. And so gratitude comes into play all the time, all the time, all the time. Thank you so much for this cold, cold night, because I don't want another one, and I'm gonna try and figure out what I can do. So when you lay on the ground, there's a lot of terminology as far as you know, can heat conduction, convection, and how heat gets drawn out of our bodies from surface material like rocks that are cold. So if you're leaning against a rock, it'll just suck the heat out of you. If you're on the earth, it'll suck the heat out of you. These types of things, the wind, the air, the chill, you know, what reduces our internal temperature? What starts to cause us to feel frantic? Okay, so you brought up frantic, you know, when do we start to feel that? Uh, what level of discomfort do we get to before we start to seek the comfort? And if we're around others, how willing are we to ask others to assist us if we're not feeling that comfort? Maybe they have something to help us. So when you think of that in real terms today with kids, and you know, they're they're just not reaching out as much for help. There's a lot of, and it's not just kids, but I'm bringing that up because all the time I'm thinking about the youth. So going back out in the wilderness with this Challenger Wilderness Therapy Youth Program, and we made coal beds. It was the first time I'd ever made a coal bed. The instructor that was my lead guide when I first went to work out there, he taught us how to make coal beds that night. But I learned a lot more about coal beds after he taught us how to do them. Because I kind of had some feelings that I ought to put a little bit more dirt on there than because I'd already been doing wilderness survival, but I'd never made a coal bed. But I know fire. I know when I can even cover a fire with dirt, and then I can go back in the next day and dig out the heat and make a fire. So when we were doing these coal beds, and we've got a group of 15 people, three guides and 12 kids, you gotta make a lot of fire. So we made these little trenches. Everybody made their own little trench. We had a main fire. Then we started making fire in all the trenches. Then we started bringing in stones to heat the stones. So now, depending on where you get your stones and how much uh water condensation may be in those, they become time bombs. They're explosive. Okay. And they're uh also when you after you get your fire going in your trench and you lay it all around, you get your stones evenly laid out, because you're trying to equalize the temperature, see, all around. So when you can have all those stones in there and make it nice, then you bring the soil back over the top. And like I said, I had a feeling I had to do a little bit more. So when I woke up in the night, and I'm because we also had sleeping mats, cheap little foam insulated mats, so these kids wouldn't have that temperature sucked out of them. Because yeah, it was tough, but you know, we're not trying to kill people in a sense, I guess. That was maybe the philosophy. I don't know. You can watch Hell Camp and find out, okay? I had good experiences out there and I enjoyed working with the kids. I didn't enjoy the other leaders, but nonetheless, when I woke up in the night and I'm smelling burnt rubber, and I smell it like very strong. So I sit up and I see smoke coming off the person's mat next to me. It's on, it's it's smoldering. And I look around and there's a lot of smoldering going on. Okay, people's tarps, their sleeping mats, their wool blankets, there's a lot of smoldering. People had not put enough between the soil. So when they were moving around and the soil's not compacted down, and then all of a sudden you've exposed a hot stone, and that hot stone's come. So we we did some what we might call rectifying through the night. But getting up in those cold temperatures and hustling around can also increase your internal body temperature. So try to remember to learn to work with the conditions in which you're in and keep in mind that it might be productive and it might be uh solution-oriented. So when we get up in a panic moment with the smell and noticing it burning, I'm like, hey everybody. And then panic starts to happen. Oh, my stuff's burning. And so at that point, and that's a minor panic in the wilderness, really, okay, but interesting. So I learned a little bit about insulation that way. Another time I learned about when you can insulate and when you combine fire and insulation. I was on a little weekend wilderness survival trick. I took tri tri gosh trek. And so I was out with a guy that he was teaching a class, and I thought I could learn a little more. And so when we went out, I made a really nice shelter, and I had a really nice uh fire within it, and I had a big stone behind me that would reflect the heat, and I had this convection oven going on, circulating heat. Well, anyway, I was stoking my fire through the night. I had all my firewood there, so I could just reach over and just keep it slightly stoked. Well, the wind changed directions after I stoked it at one point and it caught my shelter on fire. So this is in March, we didn't have anything but the clothes on our back. So we just had our, you know, our jeans and our shirts and a jacket, and then we were to make our shelter uh work for us. So I had to have a lot of stuff under me, like you mentioned, Alan. You the ground side was good, yeah? So the top side, though, when you start to have the seeing the light, I think you mentioned before on the last podcast, just seeing like the light through it and being, oh wow, I didn't get that done well enough. If there was a storm, I could be drenched. So, anyway, a lot of so my shelter caught on fire that night when the wind changed directions. So then I was up and I'm tearing my shelter apart, stomping on it. The wind's blowing little pieces everywhere, and I'm just kind of wondering, because I'm up there on this hillside all by myself. The rest of the group was down in this little area inside some junipers. I thought I had a good little spot, but the wind, the wind, okay. So learning more about how I get insulated or when I am insulated, what kinds of things can take away or influence or or be some sort of uh an experience that causes me to adapt quickly, to respond quickly, to be able to do something immediately towards something that's going on. So sometimes in life we freeze, sometimes we don't know how to respond. I've been in so many situations over and over and over again where it's a first aid situation. Someone is physically compromised in first aid. Well, it's been me before too, and it's something where you have to be able to have a mindset that is beyond the circumstances, a mindset that does not allow any frantic. See, we can't call upon the God force when we are in a frantic or worrisome or fearful state of being. We cannot access that divine intelligence that surrounds us when we are from the inside pushing it away. Okay, so we have to calm quickly, boom, like that. Okay, so somebody goes down, you're hiking out there with a group, and somebody falls. Hey, Curtis fell, he's down, he's passed out. You know, so well, then you have to figure it out because then everybody starts to take on that fearful energy. And you have to be able to insulate yourself from fear, okay? And you have to be able to insulate yourself from 15 people's experience from fear. So, how do I go about that? Well, I start assigning people a job immediately. You, you, and you, get your water bottles out. You, you and you, get your bullion cubes out. We need to get him some sodium in his body. I need you three to build a tarp over us right now. We need to be out of the sun. Get your water bottles out, okay? Now get your bandanas, saturate them, okay? All right. So where are you cooling down? I need you on his neck, I need you under his arms, and I need you down on his legs, okay? We got to pour water on him, whatever. Okay, so yeah, we're going fast, okay? It sounds almost panicky. No, it is so stimulating and so constant because it doesn't allow them to get anything else in there. When you're in that place and you're trying to focus on one thing, you need to pound it in there so fast. Let's break that down, okay. So we don't realize that we are being altered on the inside by stimulus on the outside. Sometimes we don't realize it until you go to the doctor and they say you've got cancer. Now, some people might say, Well, what are you talking about there? You saying that I might have brought that on myself? I'm saying, yeah, that's possible. You know, sometimes because in that negative thinking, if you're building a crappy shelter every time, you know, because you're just not going to put in the energy to make your circumstances better, you're not willing to put in the energy to beautify. Remember, we talked about that earlier, sis. So when we're in a position of compromise, we have to understand that there's something beyond that. It's just a temporary moment. What's on the other side of that? Access that. That's the divine intelligence, that's the calmness, that's the place, the third party observing. If you go back and just listen to any of the podcasts, okay, you're going to remember this third party observing. You have to pull yourself outside of yourself. I know it's almost like pulling your head out of uh something, you know. And so you you come out and you look and you go, oh, okay, I'm seeing the big picture now. You want to see the big picture. You always want to see the big picture so you don't get caught up in the little drama circumstances that bring us back to fear, worry, panic, anger, uh, sometimes even to the points of rage. And then, and then so I'm coming back to this cancer thing. And if you've ever been in one of those, you don't think all those toxic chemicals from anger and rage are doing something negatively on the inside of your body to all those cells? Oh, yeah. So then you gotta start thinking, hey, you know, I'm defined. How am I going to insulate myself every day? Because you know what? Not everybody's going out there in the wilderness. And if you are, yeah, listen to these. I do my best to teach you in word how to go about your preparing and training and how to go about your stopping and first dating, how to go about your mental clarity and focus, how to go about your navigation and signaling, how to go about resources, water, shelter, fire, food, how to go about living a balanced and prioritized life with certainty. And through all the experiences, you'll find joy to be uh an eight out of ten experience. That's good. Eight out of ten is good. You know, and those other those other two, well, that's just the way it goes. You know, sometimes we trip. Sometimes, you know, somebody bumps into us. Sometimes things happen. But if you know ahead of time and you remember at the moment not to get caught up, you just start practicing it. It's just like guitar, you know, or any kind of thing that you go about, the more you do it, the better you get at it. So I was pissed for years because I practiced it over and over and over. I was so angry. And and I knew how to use that anger energy to be productive and I thought effective, but not effective as to what it was doing inside of me. So over the last several years, and if you go back and review the podcast and can just kind of look back in your own life, because that's what I'm saying about mine. You know, I've shared a lot of my life. So when you go back and you look at your life and where you're at right now, just be like, okay, well, I'm right here right now. And and let's just say that nothing of the past matters for a minute. Let's just say, okay, I'm right here right now. So you just say, okay, I'm right here right now, right in front of me, I've got my sister over here, I've got Alan. I can see our little smudge bowl over there. We were burning a little bit of sage, got a, you know, this artificial fireplace. It's kind of cool here in my my uh living room here, and you know, so when we start to say I'm right here right now, and and then it's like, okay, well, how am I feeling about that? Do I feel good about that, you know, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually? And then we begin to calculate, okay, on that 10, where am I at physically? Oh, let's say I'm about a six out of ten. I'm not where I want to be, you know. What could I do differently than starting right now, instead of looking back and thinking, well, geez, I've been through so much or whatever, think about what I can do now to start to give benefit. And it's not, because if you're continually continuing that cycle of thinking negatively, like I was continuing that cycle of anger, it was to my own demise. And so after a while, it's like, tell you you I had to retrain everything because you get so habitualized to behavior. It's interesting. And then to shift that behavior and to not blame circumstance or other people and to get accountable to that and to the idea of self-mastery and to be able to look at every day, I'm right here right now. How can I go about insulating myself and making myself feel good? You know, because oftentimes we're saying things like, gosh, you make me so mad. No, no, no, okay, we make our own selves that way. We have a decision in everything. You can choose everything, everything, all of it. Okay. If if you're gonna get angry and you're angry, say, I chose it, hey, I chose to get pissed, and I'm enjoying it right now. Maybe not, okay, but I'm just saying, you know, at least get in there and understand you're in an experience that you're choosing. So let's just say right now, and you're listening to this podcast, and you're laying in a hospital and you've got cancer, and you're going, geez, and okay, so I'm right here right now, and I'm laying here and I'm in all this whirlwind of stuff. I'm not really sure what to do. So, whatever that scenario is for you, okay, and what are you gonna do differently right now, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, how are you going to go about insulating yourself and keeping yourself, okay, we're talking about shelter, always staying protected from the harsh elements. Because wind, snow, ice, sun, all these beautiful things, man, you know, if we're exposed too long, we can be compromised. And so we learn to do the navigating and signaling through this. But I kind of want to quiet up here. I I want to just kind of let it open up here, you guys. So what do you think, sis?

SPEAKER_02 24:49

Um moving through all of that, as I'm listening to you and also appreciating what Alan offered at the beginning. In my mind, it came to like when you said the frantic state. Um, and for me relating here and now in life, you know, and insulating, because I'm not in the desert. I'm not out there in those needs at this moment in the elements. Pardon me. Um picturing the chaos, I feel like for me in so many ways, you know, we're surrounded by a lot of chaos in the in the world, in our communities, sometimes in our minds, in our homes, you know, whatever, whatever that case may be. And then like you said, that you know, okay, what what can I do here and now about what I'm sensing? For instance, if the anger comes in, it's like, okay, honoring that on one level, so that, you know, this phrase comes to my brain about feelings buried alive never die, and I've experienced some malese with that, I suppose, if you will, within my body. What you retain in yourselves, you know, you just that desire to maintain um for me, my countenance, cheerful, a positive element, maybe not totally acknowledging or understanding my own accountability for certain things. So then now, like you said, with the here and now, I love and appreciate, you know, the ability that we all have at any given time to stop and kind of process some of that and make the shift. Um, I heard a phrase once too, pause and pivot. All right, pause. What what what's happening? Well, I don't like where I'm going with that. So I'm gonna pivot, I'm gonna turn, I'm gonna change, whether it be your thought, your feelings, your actions, whatever. There's the other one. What's the other one? Um words, thank you. Um whatever that is, I don't like that. I'm accountable to choose. And so I appreciate like feeling that part, because we also don't want to, in my mind, I don't want to insulate myself from everything to where I'm with the fear, within the fear. I don't want to be in that fear state where I insulate myself. Well, I can't experience any of this because then I'm because then I I don't like it. It hurts, it's painful, it you know, it's not desirable. And yet having that appreciation for um the gratitude for the experience because I know what I do want. I know how I do like to feel. So then breaking it down, then what am I gonna do about that? What action am I gonna take? What thoughts am I gonna feed myself? You know, what um sustenance, nourishment, nutrition I'm gonna feed myself in all those realms, spiritually, physically, mentally, and emotionally. And sometimes I move through that with a little more grace and ease, and sometimes um I experience what what the you know what's happening? And so then also having to acknowledge that accountability, how did this how did I allow or not insulate myself from that permeating energy that I don't choose to reside in? I don't know. I think I'm making sense. I love the part where you prepared, Alan. You prepared and your ground felt really good and you you prepared, and then the you're in there and you're like, oh, light's coming in. Oh, there's these little holes, like you said, that might not protect you from the elements. So I love being able to like that's a beautiful um visual to like apply to okay, spiritually, you know, I know I have this foundational grounding that I love and rely on. But where are these little holes of what's coming in that I'm not having, you know, just more growth in that insulation that protecting? Same with my physical health and wellness, you know. Um I'm doing this. XYZ, I'm exercising, I like good, I call it yummy nutritious food. It's like, you know, these things physically move my body, these things that I know that I also enjoy. And then, but where are the holes? Where are the gaps? Mentally, it's the thought spinning out, you know, insulation, grounding, you know. The pause, considering where I'm at with that at the time, and emotionally, someone doesn't make me feel anything, and re recognizing that, because in a human experience, maybe in a relationship with someone, maybe it's someone you don't even know. It doesn't have to be a close relationship, but then realizing where are the gaps in if I allow that person to affect how I'm feeling right this moment. There's a beautiful analogy, and then I'll kind of move on. But with a a little story, some gentleman went to the newspaper stand, and the newspaper stand owner was really gruff and rude and not kind. And the one that was buying the newspaper said, you know, thank you very much, yada yada, whatever he said. And as they walked away, his friend said, How could you be so nice when that guy was so, you know, rude or whatever? And he's like, I'm not gonna let someone else ruin my day. You know, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna, I'm, I'm doing this. He made a choice. And I love that analogy. I think it can be applied for me all the time. Somebody else, there's another one, you know, seven billion people on the planet, and you're gonna let one alter how you're moving through, you know. So I love this insulating thing, but referring to it as a protection as opposed to uh it's dual. Because you're keeping out certain elements, but you're not insulating yourself so fully that you aren't enjoying your life.

SPEAKER_01 32:04

What do you think, Alan?

SPEAKER_00 32:07

Well, for me, uh yeah, it's um it's also this element for me personally, right here, right now, you know. Um, so I've had you help with some people, you know, that there is certain energies that were just darker and it so needed some medicine work with you in regards to a home and land clearing. And it's my point in that is sometimes when we try to take on certain things, know your elements and know when you need to ask for help, you know. Um and so for me that was something that I still need to like. I'm I'm I'm much better at it, but like I'm like you, like a Scorpio. Like I go into a under a rock and I'm all like not and I think at certain parts in my life where I I'm all like okay, yeah, it was just an ego thing with me, not even realizing it was, you know, just you know, growing up that way. Then all of a sudden becoming more like evolving to something bigger and better is like saying, Okay, right. So what a couple days ago, I said, Okay, something isn't right, and you told me, he's like, Yeah, your grandpa told me this morning, and so I was like, Okay, and but you asked, he's like, Hey, well, I need to be in person and I need to meet these people. I didn't miss a beat, man. I freaking got home, I got out of my car, I'm like knocking on your freaking door, you know. I'm all like, and and I knew that it was, you know, and there's always energies conflicting, and I remember too, because I won't use the people's names, but going downstairs and then meditating, I'm like, okay, I felt good, it went well, you know, it of course it's gonna go well. But then my grandpa came and said, Okay, so we invited the brother here, and so that was the biggest, like, I was like, okay, my grandpa invited them. It was like, and I like that aspect of knowing that we can reach out not just to to you or anybody, but also our ancestors on the other side. But like you said, you kind of have to go inside and you have to be in a place of patience and peace, really, uh certainty, knowing to connect to that God power. And maybe that god power is just allowing you to reach out to your loved ones on the other side. It's just like, okay, first you need to work on you, as you always say, you know, because if you don't, you say, Yeah, I did pray, but okay, interesting prayers, you know, if they're screaming and yelling, you know. I don't know if I would call that a prayer, but for me, it it really is this element of also knowing just as important it is for you to insulate your own shelter. Sometimes things are a little bit more expansive and out of your reach uh where you're at spiritually, so you have to reach out to whoever that is that maybe is a little bit higher up that can be like, okay, yeah, you good job in reaching out and asking for help when you need it.

SPEAKER_01 35:08

So excellent. Yeah, and so just kind of in regards to that and you know, the ancestral part. So, you know, here comes your grandfather, you know, in spirit form, and in regards to inviting other spirits that you know you don't know. These aren't people that uh were a part of your experience in life that had had death upon them, but they are those of people who are dwelling in this home where you live. And so with that in mind, you know, it's really, really something to think about when we're in these shared spaces. How do we go about insulating ourselves from so much energy? So let's just do that. How does one go about insulating themselves? In other words, keeping themselves safe and protected from the harsh elements of this world, one way or another, no matter what. You know, we're raw wilderness right now in this world and society every day, this very second right now. Something I've learned over uh being able to be in a position uh in so many circles of people who were in uh circles of you know therapy, et cetera, and uh different uh residential treatment centers or things like that, most of them indicate that all they want is to feel safe. That has been one of the most interesting things. They wanted to feel safe more than they wanted to feel happy. They wanted to feel safe. So when you feel safe, we're talking about this the other day about you know, scariest times, you know, and and uh fear, things like that. And so to feel safe, once there's a feeling of safety, once mom and dad are back home, okay, you hear the the the noises in the house in your home and you're babysitting your siblings or something, and and you hear the noises or something, and you know, the thoughts begin to go, and then you know, all of a sudden there's some safety, and we feel safe again, okay, and then we're not worried. It just goes away. When something that we have come to be familiar with that is symbolic of some way we've never thought of, safety, to us, we get comfortable, we get familiar. Complacent was a word you mentioned earlier, Alan. And so as I'm thinking about all this and kind of how you were going about expressing this, sis, with the uh the thoughts. I'm gonna come back to that in just a second. Okay. Because to me, the greatest insulation that we can provide for ourselves is in our thinking bank. So let's just quickly review this because feeling safe, you know, how do we create our own feelings of safety and certainty? We can't rely upon others, we can't rely upon our environment, we can't rely upon circumstances. Uh, yeah, you gotta do the work first. You gotta go inside, you gotta find out a way, something you have within you that you can put into action through aligning your thoughts towards feelings and actions. So uh let's just go back real quick here, okay? Survival essentials. Number one, preparing and training. Always be in a state of readiness, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Think about it. Go back and listen to them. Number two, stop in first aid. If you ever feel lost or stranded, stop. Well, I've seen more lost and stranded people in society than I ever did in the wilderness. If you ever feel lost or stranded, stop. Okay, S-T-O-P, stop, think, observe, plan. Remember that acronym, people. I learned it in the Boy Scouts. Pretty simple. So stop, think, observe, and plan. And then we go on to number three, mental clarity and focus. And this is the really powerful uh place for all of it. Everything has to kind of come back to number three here. Because we want results. And we have to think it, we have to speak it, we have to feel it, we have to act it. Our thoughts, our words, our feelings, and actions are our greatest resources. Yes, on the outside we need water, shelter, fire, and food. But when we're using our thoughts and our words and our feelings and our actions to enhance ourselves physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. See, the entire universe plus is all about increase. And it's an increase of light. It's an increase of love and light. It's an increase of this just purity. So call it what you want. We have words, love and light, okay? But it's it's more than that, okay? It is more than that. I don't know how to help configure it in our minds, but whatever that is, we have to think about how we have the say to increase ourselves by doing things, aligning our thoughts, our words, and our feelings and our actions to get the result of increasing ourselves physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. So you use that thoughts plus words plus feelings plus actions equals result. We're already living it. Go back and listen to it. So then we go to number four, and we're about navigation and signaling, and you've got to know your terrain. You've got to get to know your environment. You've got to know the most beautiful environment, yours, your own soul, your very own inner being. Most people shy from that. They're so busy, you know, keeping themselves protected from pain and suffering that they don't even take the opportunity to go in and build a beautiful little fire that's so bright that it begins to nourish themselves and radiate out, that that literally pushes all that other stuff away that you don't have to hide under a gosh damn blanket, see? Okay, so so when you're talking about this dual, you know, part of insulating oneself. Oh, I'm gonna, you know, I'm insulating myself. Yeah, I've done that. I've kept myself safe and protected from a bunch of A-holes out there, pain, suffering, whatever. Okay, think about it. You know, but what good does that do to hide in a freaking cave? You know, think about that too. What kind of experience are you having from fear? F-E-A-R, false evidence appearing real. Okay, so I really appreciate you, Nick Cruz, wherever you are, for teaching me that. So when we come upon these things in our lives when we're not feeling safe and protected, okay, pretty simple. All right, I'm not really feeling that safe, I'm not really feeling that protected. Oh, I don't feel supported, I don't feel loved. Ah, geez, geez, stop it. S T O P, stop, stop that victimization, stop it right now. Insulate yourself with yourself, okay? Go in, find your truth, you know, and and enlighten it and make it begin to increase and vibrate so realistically. And how do you do that? Well, you got to get inside your head, okay, because your own thoughts are working against you in most cases. Why? Because on that, and it's deeper than a subconscious level, believe me, okay? It's interesting. And when you look at the energetic fields around you, you're talking about a minute ago with your house and land clearing. And so let's just say uh spirits that don't have our best interest in mind. Let's just say disruptive spirits that don't have anything better to do than try to take away the very essence. So they go around and piss on your fires, in other words, you know. They're just going around trying to put out your light, okay? And when we don't want that. But what happens is we begin to do that to our own fires. We're sitting there urinating all over our light and with our thoughts. And we're not even, and then we're blaming the world. We're blaming circumstances. We're hiding under a blanket or in a cave, and and we think that's called enjoyment. No, and that's why there's depression, anxiety, you know, that's why there's all these. I don't want to go down that list, okay? You know, everybody's been diagnosed with every damn word they can come up with, and you might as well start looking at those as a gift, and you might as well start acknowledging that, hey, you know what? Depression is just real. Well, what is depression? Well, let me just say this. Some days when you want the sun, it's not there. All right? Some days you want the gosh damn sunshine and it's not there. Can you find the beauty without it? Can you enjoy the day without it? Judas Priest, you know? Come on, people. This is real. This is real. So real. If you do not go inside of yourself and learn to insulate your mind, how do you do that? Well, you have to start scripting. Okay, because you've got this gosh damn recorder script going on and it's all jacked up. You need to rewrite your script so you can sit down. I am Winfield Michael Iverson. I'm a good person, and I'm here in this beautiful body. Now, remember in my other podcast, okay, when I say this beautiful body, okay, you know, so I've had these diseases, you know, I've been pronounced and diagnosed from physical, mental, emotional, you know, even spiritual through through ecclesiastical leaders telling me it's gonna take you a long time, young man. You know, all that kind of a thing. Where it's so uh interesting to try and find your place and feel good about who you are no matter where you go, because the environment is outside and inside. But the one that you have the control over is the one on the inside. So when you learn that you can have a say, when you learn you do have a say, when you learn you are the say, when you become the say, you radiate on every level. And people can't help but feel it. Some of them run away and some come up and want a hug. Doesn't matter. Don't stop being your best self. Insulate yourself properly. Get inside the mind. Rewrite your script, make it one page, make it two pages, make it three pages, but every day you write down all the beautiful things about you. I am a wonderful human being. Oh, are you? Remember when you yelled at your kids earlier? Oh well, see, that's the other script you don't want anymore. So you say, well, yeah, who cares about that? Right here, right now, I am a loving and nurturing husband and father. I am supportive to those whom I love. I am taking the inside journey, and I am aligning my thoughts, my words, my feelings, and my actions to the result of certainty because I like to feel certain. Certainty feels good to me. I like to know that no matter where I go, I just feel certain. Okay? Because that's different than fear. I've been in fear. I don't like it. False evidence appearing real, okay? It's not real. Yeah, you know, we get this fight or flight. And that bear coming down the trail running at you, and you see that slobber coming off him. That's never happened to me. But if you did, you know, you'd probably run. That's a good thing, okay? That's that's a good method of thought. That's a good method of insulation. I doubt he's coming up to get a hug. So we want to make sure that we are assessing, okay? So you get in your shelter your first night, you assess because you're laying down and you look and you see the light, and you're like, oh, I've got some holes. I like what you're saying about the gaps, Kelly, and all those areas. So then the next day you get up and you work on your insulation. Then you get in bed that night and you assess. Oh, a couple gaps today, but man, that's a lot better. Don't get caught up on the gosh damn gaps. Get caught up on it. It's getting better. Nice. Rewrite the script. Don't let what didn't happen that you wanted to have happen. Don't let not having the sun get in the way of your own brightness. Okay, that's all I've got to say. Let me just close it out. Unless you guys want to say one last thing, but if we do, I think it'll just go on forever.

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There we have episode 36 to survival essentials. Shelter solutions. Always stay protected from the harsh elements. Section 3, insulation. Remember the message from Hawk. The importance of insulating yourself, your home, from the harsh elements. Take time to figure out what are the harsh elements, how to go about eliminating those things out of your shelter, your home, internally and externally. If you enjoy this podcast, please remember to share this with your loved ones, family, and friends. Give us a rating and follow us so you don't miss any upcoming episodes. Thanks again for listening and much love and God bless.