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May 24, 2024

I became an apprentice to a millionaire medicine man

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Welcome to Raw Thoughts w/ Riley – where I’ll share unfiltered personal reflections, and insights on my journey to self and life mastery.

Join us every Thursday as we explore bold ideas, lessons, and perspectives designed to spark your curiosity, confidence, and creativity.

Today’s Raw Thoughts:

Something on my mind: The feeling of the wish fulfilled
Something I am learning: No one or nothing can give you what you need
How I recently failed: A man is only as good as his word
How I recently won: Proper preparation prevents poor performance
Story & lesson: How I became an apprentice to a millionaire medicine man
Q & A: I might be getting divorced…

Something on my mind: The feeling of the wish fulfilled

“Everything is energy, and that’s all there is to it… Match the frequency of the energy you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way.”

Albert Einstein

I have been learning about psychology obsessively now for 2+ years.

There’s one thing I have learned above all else : if you unlock your mind, you unlock the freedom to be, do, or have anything you want.

“It’s all in your head…” The one catch? It’s not necessarily your “brain”. It’s your “mind”. Your mind is a combination of your physical body, brain, and energetic body.

It is not only what you think with, but how you experience reality. Your thoughts. Your consciousness. You experiencing yourself reading this right now.

I’ve talked about the subconscious mind in other articles, but long story short it’s the most powerful part of your mind.

It’s the part that runs 95% of you without you even being aware. Your thoughts, beliefs, emotions, personality, and even your results.

It’s sub conscious, meaning you aren’t aware of it.

In my studying of how the mind impacts our lives, I discovered something insane.

The Law of Reversibility : If a physical fact can create a psychological state, and a psychological state can create a physical fact.

Or in other words if A can create B, then B can create A.

Steam → Water, Water → Steam
Heat → Light, Light → Heat
Something Happens → Feeling a Certain Way
Feeling a Certain Way → Something Happens

One simple example: If making money can make you feel grateful, then feeling grateful can make you money.

Remember:

What you visualize in your mind, and fill with emotion with repetition will come to pass. Positive, or negative.

Worrying is using our imagination to create chaos. Visualizing is using our imagination to create our dreams / desires.

Go read the story of almost any successful person, they all talk about “seeing” themselves doing or being or having the life they live now.

“If you will assume your desire and live there as if it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.”

Neville Goddard

Something I am learning: No one or nothing can give you what you need

How often do we hope that someone, or something else will fill one of our needs?

People seek love in all the wrong places and from all the wrong people, just to be left emptier than before.

Others seek happiness or a sense of joy, only to go further into the void.

We want everyone, and everything to cater to us. To give us something that we think we need.

In reality, that is only something we are not giving ourselves.

Not feeling appreciated? When is the last time you celebrated yourself?

Feel alone? Do you keep yourself company?

Not feeling loved? Do you love yourself?

If we aren’t good with ourselves, or treating ourselves with love, respect, and patience… can anyone else?

Life isn’t fun anymore? What are you doing to play?

Same Shit different day? Aren’t you in control of how you choose to live?

Not making progress, or feeling stuck? It’s only as hard as you choose to make it.

If life isn’t what we want it to be, whose life is it? Who can do something about it?

You can give yourself what you need, and find what you are looking for within.

Only then will the world reflect those things back to you.

How I recently failed: A man is only as good as his word

“You can do anything, but not everything.”

David Allen

I’ll cut to the chase. I consider myself a man of my word, but lately I realized I have been out of integrity.

I bet 6 people $100 last year that I would win a Jiu Jitsu tournament.
I hand shook that I would complete a brutal challenge by the end of this year.
I committed to a group of 100+ people I would be more successful in my online business by now.

The problem? I set myself up to fail. I overestimated how much I could get done, or stay on top of.

It sucked to get honest about this. But, I am making it right and admitting it.

I will pay those people (they forgot, I didn’t). I will not commit myself like that again without more consideration. I will accept that things changed, or didn’t go as planned.

How I recently won: Proper preparation prevents poor performance

I’ve been building some great habits, and momentum again!

In bed by 10pm
Daily training & mobility
Practicing daily meditation & visualization
On track for a record for monthly income in June!

The secret? I’ve been making time to prepare.

Plan the next day the night before
Create a plan for each day, and week
Use my schedule with flexibility to allow for space

It feels damn good.

“Proper preparation prevents poor performance.”

James Baker

How can you help yourself to be more prepared?

What are you working on right now? Reply and let me know.

Story & lesson: How I became an apprentice to a millionaire medicine man

Around 18 months ago I boarded a flight to Costa Rica. I was on my way to a foreign country for the first time, all alone.

I was on what some would call a pilgrimage, or what I would call a mission.

Ayahuasca was calling my name in the heart of the jungle, and I answered.

I was never better, or the same… and I can say it saved my life in many ways.

Fast forward to October 2023. I was driving to California for my second ceremony at Aluna.

I experienced a hockey stick effect of personal growth.

During my Training to Run Retreats

I fell in love with the land, the people, and the work they were doing.

When they offered to let me be their apprentice, I was honored.

The Ceremony Space at Aluna

Alex, Attila, and Daniella are the founders of Aluna. For over 15 years they have been changing peoples lives for the better.

Attila and I recently partnered to run a Mens retreat in August.

I am beyond grateful for the opportunity to share this powerful, and healing experience with others.

Learn more about The Rite of Passage Retreat.

Questions & Answers: I like someone, and they ghosted me… What do I do?

I recently had someone from my past reach out, we hadn’t really talked in 2-3 years.

He was in a difficult position as his marriage was on the verge of divorce, and he was struggling.

He said “Riley, I saw you went through a relationship ended a few years ago. Your life fell apart, and you seemed destroyed. But then, you bounced back better than ever. How did you do that?”

Relationships ending, deaths in the family, or really any form of major life change can be so hard.

One second, your life is one way. The next? It’s never the same again.

I have been destroyed like that several times in my life.

In the dark night of the soul, wondering if I still even want to be alive… yet knowing that it’s all for a greater purpose.

The best advice I can offer to anyone in this situation is this: Focus on you.