2325: What Can I Do For You, Dad? by Bradley Charbonneau of Pass The Sour Cream on Family & Parenthood

[00:00:00] This is Optimal Relationships Daily. What Can I Do For You, Dad by Bradley Charbonneau of PassTheSourCream.com?

[00:00:09] Hello everybody, I am your host Greg Audino and welcome to Optimal Relationships Daily.

[00:00:16] Now, in today's episode Bradley shares a unique 4-hour plus meditation experience and what he learned from it.

[00:00:23] So let's get right into it and start optimizing your life.

[00:00:31] What Can I Do For You, Dad? By Bradley Charbonneau of PassTheSourCream.com?

[00:00:39] Newsflash, Father keeps giving son mathward problems but he's not even alive anymore.

[00:00:46] Attention, dearest children and people who have parents living or otherwise.

[00:00:51] If you are open to the idea, your parents are reachable and you can communicate with them.

[00:00:57] But be warned, things can get a little... well, unexpected.

[00:01:02] In fact, what you expect will not happen, you will only get what you don't expect.

[00:01:08] I know it's a difficult concept to follow, but roll with me here.

[00:01:12] Following is an account of what I experienced during a marathon for our plus meditation where I connected with my dad.

[00:01:20] He and I were chatting about completely ridiculous stuff.

[00:01:23] I was pretty excited to have such a clear channel of communication with him as previously it has been a little more foggy.

[00:01:31] I asked him what he did all day. He said that one thing he likes to do is pick out people on earth and help them.

[00:01:37] He showed me a man who picked up some litter, my dad always hated litter bugs.

[00:01:42] And so my dad dropped a little bit of love onto the man.

[00:01:45] See? He says to me, very cool. I think to myself that my dad is doing exactly the sort of thing he would like to do.

[00:01:53] As he tells me what he's doing and more about life up there, a question comes to me and I just blurred it out.

[00:02:00] What can I do for you, dad?

[00:02:02] I have no idea what he'll answer, maybe he'd like an in and outburger, although I'm not sure how I'd get that to him.

[00:02:08] Maybe he'd like me to do something for him. I have no idea.

[00:02:12] He replied slowly and with great intention and clarity, you can rain down love on your family.

[00:02:19] He paused.

[00:02:21] His choice of words don't sound like something that he would have said, but again, this is expecting the unexpected.

[00:02:28] As the words sink into me, I'm overwhelmed with emotion and I'm immediately swimming in tears as I have a feeling,

[00:02:35] a knowing that he just has so much love to give that it's immeasurable and the only bottleneck is not him or love,

[00:02:44] but accepting it, allowing it.

[00:02:46] I don't say anything as it doesn't seem like he's done talking. He continues again very slowly and deliberately,

[00:02:53] making sure each word resonates and rings through me.

[00:02:57] So when you get to the point where you've given them all of the love you can give,

[00:03:02] and you don't think you can give anything else, then give ten times more.

[00:03:06] Let me pause here to give a little primer on what life seems to be like where my dad is now.

[00:03:11] It seems that things are all just lighter, maybe in the physical sense, but also in every sense of the word.

[00:03:19] Less serious, less heavy, lighter on your feet, carefree,

[00:03:23] but there's also a sense of play of joking, even pranks and slapstick humor.

[00:03:28] My dad continues, or he pauses as if to make sure I was paying attention, but my attention is solely on him.

[00:03:36] Or, you can give them all that love and raise it to the power of three.

[00:03:43] So you can either give them all of the love you can and multiply it by ten,

[00:03:48] or raise it to the power of three, whichever is greater.

[00:03:52] If there was any sense of heaviness that I living and breathing do on earth

[00:03:58] and having a conversation with my recently deceased father during a marathon,

[00:04:02] on four and a half hour, four a am meditation where he is giving me the most serious

[00:04:07] and best advice I've ever heard on parenting, it is all gone as my dad is toying with me.

[00:04:13] Possing math word problems back to his son from beyond the grave?

[00:04:17] Even better is that he doesn't even think this is all the funniest thing ever.

[00:04:21] He's honest and truly more interested in me figuring out the math problem than any humor he sees in it.

[00:04:27] But we're not even done yet.

[00:04:29] Later on during my meditation, I realized that it was an even more complex math problem than I had imagined.

[00:04:37] He had dropped a cryptic message into a puzzle.

[00:04:40] I figured I just needed to find out what was X in the equation.

[00:04:44] X times 10 is greater or less than X to the power of three.

[00:04:49] So let's try a few examples.

[00:04:52] 3 times 10 equals 30, whereas 3 to the power of three equals 9 or 30 is greater than 9.

[00:05:00] 9 times 10 equals 90, whereas 9 to the power of 3 equals 729

[00:05:05] or 90 is less than 729.

[00:05:09] 24 times 10 equals 240, whereas 24 to the power of 3 equals 13,824

[00:05:16] or 240 is less than 13,824.

[00:05:20] You get the idea.

[00:05:22] I would need to find out where the point was where X times 10 was less than or greater than X to the power of three.

[00:05:30] If X times 10 was less than or greater than X to the power of three is masking the true knowns of the equation.

[00:05:38] It finally occurred to me that I already know the value of X.

[00:05:43] Remember in the word problem that X equals love.

[00:05:46] Remember who is posing the question and where he is.

[00:05:50] Love is infinite.

[00:05:51] Love is infinity.

[00:05:53] Infinity multiplied by anything is infinity.

[00:05:56] Infinity to the whatever power is still infinity.

[00:06:00] It doesn't matter if it's multiplied by 10 or raised to the third power.

[00:06:04] It's still infinity.

[00:06:06] The whole word problem is a trick.

[00:06:09] The test was to get us to realize that love is infinite,

[00:06:12] and that there is an unending supply of it.

[00:06:15] And whenever we think we have depleted the supply,

[00:06:18] we only need to reach deeper to find more.

[00:06:20] And there is so much more.

[00:06:22] In fact, there is more than we can comprehend, more than we can imagine.

[00:06:27] There is more than 10 times more.

[00:06:29] There is more than love to the third power.

[00:06:32] There is an infinite amount.

[00:06:34] There is so much that we don't understand it.

[00:06:36] All we need to understand is that it is there

[00:06:40] and available to us to distribute and give as much as we possibly can.

[00:06:45] And then multiply that amount by 10.

[00:06:51] You just listen to the post titled,

[00:06:53] What can I do for you, Dad?

[00:06:55] By Bradley Sharbo-No of Pass the Sour Cream.com.

[00:07:00] Thank you to Bradley for sharing his work with us.

[00:07:02] I had to do my brain by steps to keep up with those numbers for a little bit,

[00:07:06] but I'm no worse for the wear.

[00:07:07] Hopefully I can say the same for you guys.

[00:07:09] A simple yet powerful concept illustrated by both Bradley and his father.

[00:07:13] Certainly a powerful experience for him as well.

[00:07:17] And it is powerful experiences like these guys that have the power to change

[00:07:21] even our most hard grilled outlooks on life.

[00:07:25] Anyone who shares love the way that Bradley does

[00:07:27] is bound to have a few of those types of experiences.

[00:07:30] So I would encourage everyone to take a page out of his book

[00:07:34] and witness the wonders that can unfold.

[00:07:37] Thank you for joining me today.

[00:07:38] And remember the power of infinity, everybody.

[00:07:40] You can forget everything else from pre-algebra,

[00:07:42] like I have, but I'll promise to remember the power of infinity if you do.

[00:07:46] Alright?

[00:07:47] I will see you tomorrow where you're up to my life awaits.