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Trusting the Universe is an art, but it can feel like the hardest thing to do when you’re trying to manifest your desires. For years, I was a super-controller, thinking that the more I held on or the harder I pushed, the faster my dreams would come true.

I’m here to tell you: it’s the opposite. The real secret to manifesting is to get out of the way. And it’s not about doing more; it’s about being in the right energy.

In this episode, I’m giving you my complete guide to making that shift. I’ll share the story of how I thought I was manifesting a TV show, but by using these methods to surrender, the Universe brought me something even better—this podcast! I’m breaking down my proven steps and the exact mantras I use to let the Universe lead me to my desires.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • My 3-step method to stop doing and start allowing.
  • 3 magnetic mantras to shift your energy and attract your desires fast.
  • Why saying “it’s this or something better” opens the door for miracles.
  • How to release rigid attachments and welcome what’s of the highest good for all.
  • A simple prayer to build unshakable faith in divine timing.
  • Why surrender isn’t giving up, but “giving over” to a plan greater than your own.

When you stop trying to make things happen, you create space for miracles. If you’re ready to let go of the struggle and become a Super Attractor, this episode will show you how.

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This podcast is intended to educate, inspire, and support you on your personal journey towards inner peace. I am not a psychologist or a medical doctor and do not offer any professional health or medical advice. If you are suffering from any psychological or medical conditions, please seek help from a qualified health professional.

dear gabby #274 Aug 11, 2025 spiritual connection

the spiritual secret to letting the universe do the work

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Hey there. Welcome to Dear Gabby. I'm your host Gabby Bernstein, and if you landed here, it is absolutely no accident. It means that you're ready to feel good and manifest a life beyond your wildest dreams. Let's get started. Welcome back to Dear Gabby. Today we're talking about how to stop trying to make things happen and how to let the universe take over.

Trusting the universe is an art, and it is one of the absolute hardest things to do when we're trying to manifest our desires, and people often get this wrong. They think that the more I hold onto something or the harder I push, the faster it will happen. The faster my desires will come into form, but it's quite the opposite, my friends, the more we control, the more we deflect.

Strangling your dreams actually sends a message to the universe that you don't [00:01:00] trust the divine order. It's a message that you're trying to hold on so tightly and that you don't believe that the universe has your back. And when we control, we get in the way of the real secret to manifesting.

The secret is to get out of the way. And the good news is this, I've mastered the art of allowing, and I can teach you the methods today, and I've taught millions of people how to surrender to the power of the universe, and this is the most important tool I've ever shared. So in this episode, I'm gonna break it all down for you.

These are my proven steps for getting out of the way and letting the universe lead you towards your desires. The first method's gonna surprise you. It's to forget what you think you need. Forget what you think you need. You've been strangling, you've been controlling your desires for way, way, way too long, and when you forget what you think you need.

You're actually sending a message to the universe that there's a better plan, that there's a plan that's better than your own. You're sending a message out to the universe that says, you know what? I'm [00:02:00] actually willing to let go, allow and trust. And I have a really great story related to this. In 2021, I was manifesting a show.

I was working on putting together this TV show project. I had been out in the world. Focusing on it, taking tons of meetings with different networks, really just working hard to make this thing happen. And in many ways, I felt a little bit like I was trying to control the universe and I was kind of playing games with the universe like, this is supposed to happen now and it's supposed to be this way with this network.

And I kept pushing and pushing. Then I kind of got to this place where I was a little bit fed up and I just surrendered it all. I started to use the tools that I'm about to teach you, and in using these tools, I gave it over to the universe and I trusted that the universe had a better plan than I did.

Fast forward a month later, I decided intuitively that I didn't wanna wait to be picked, and I wanted to just begin. So I started going on my Instagram feed and every single Wednesday at noon, I started doing this show called Dear Gabby. I'd get on and I would bring [00:03:00] random people from all over the world into my Instagram live, and I would start workshopping them.

Dear Gabby and them. Within a month of this show, people were showing up thousands of people every single Wednesday at noon. It was this beautiful community of people coming together. There was so much energy and. Everyone was obsessed with it. To this day, I still have people coming up to me saying they loved Dear Gabby, they couldn't believe that it was this thing that got them through COVID.

And about a month into doing the show on Instagram, I started getting requests from all these different podcast networks. We wanna do a show, we wanna do a show. Not only was I getting calls from these networks, but I was also getting calls from agents wanting to sign me and represent me for a podcast show.

One month later, I signed the contract for Dear Gabby, my podcast, and here we are. We're still doing the show today. This is an example, the perfect example of how the universe has a better plan than you do. I thought it had to be one way. When I let it go and I trusted and I had fun, and I just said, you know, I'm not gonna wait to be picked.

I'm just gonna listen to my intuition. I'm gonna jump in. I'm gonna do it anyway. [00:04:00] Doing it anyway led me to the clearest path, to trusting the universe, being guided and allowing for whatever was of the highest good to come into form. And here we are. We're still here. So the moral of the story is that instead of controlling the universe, I let go and I surrendered, and I allowed, and the universe guided me to a manifestation far beyond what I could have thought was possible, and in a way that was much more relatable to my lifestyle.

And it's continuously growing. This manifestation continues to grow, and I'm still allowing, I'm still just in the presence of allowing the universe to show me where to go and what to do. And that's what I'm gonna teach you. The exact steps that I took to let go of that desire and to trust. Universe to show me where to go, what to do, and to help me allow rather than control.

That's what we're here for. This point is really, really important. But if you don't, also couple this point of allowing instead of controlling. If you don't couple this point with the next step, then you're gonna really miss the miracle. [00:05:00] So let me get you to the next step, and I want you to stick around for all of the steps because every single one of them is gonna guide you to exactly what it is that you need to let go trust the universe and allow your life to be divinely guided.

So here's the next step. Offer it up. This method is very, very important. The universe can't take from you what you are not willing to give away. We hold on so tightly, we're strangling our desires. So when we're strangling our desires, we're actually getting in the way of allowing the universe to reveal to us what is of the natural order, what is of the highest good for all.

And so this step is so important, is just giving it over, offering it up. And I think that the simplest way to offer something up is through a prayer. Turning over your desires to the universe through prayer. We always start our prayers with the words. Thank you. We say thank you because it implies that it's already done, that it's already in the hands of the universe.

We're not saying, please, or [00:06:00] I need this or bring this to me. We're saying thank you for. Revealing to me exactly what I need to know. Thank you universe for taking this from me and guiding me to the next right. Action. And I want you to allow that to be your prayer. Thank you universe for taking this from me and guiding me towards my desires.

Thank you. Thank you, universe, for taking this from me and guiding me towards my desires. I love this prayer because it's gonna actually just take this desire. Offer it up to the universe and just say, show me what you got. I once had an audience member ask me, Gabby, how often do I need to surrender? And I replied.

I looked at this young woman, I said, honey, when you think you've surrendered, surrender more, turn over your desires. All throughout the day, you wanna wake up in the morning, say your prayer. Thank you universe for taking this from me and guiding me towards my desire. Each time you notice yourself getting hung up about an outcome or you're trying to control something, I want you to just surrender it all and give it over.[00:07:00] 

Just say, thank you, universe for taking this from me and guiding me towards my desires. This step is so crucial in the process because you can't let the universe guide you unless you're willing to give it away. It's a crucial step. The next step is the absolute most important. This is the most important step in the entire flow, and this is gonna prevent you from falling back into your controlling mindset.

So listen up to this one. But before I jump into that, I want you to also recognize that if you wanna take this practice to the next level and really truly surrender to the universe and know that the universe is guiding you every single step of the way, I welcome you to join me for my 21 day. Trust the universe Challenge the 21 Day Trust Universe. Challenge is guided meditations daily practices, and it's gonna put you into such a point of attraction where you just become a magnet for what you desire. Click the link in my show notes or go to dear gabby.com/universechallenge. This is not something to miss. It's less than a [00:08:00] cup of coffee a day.

Go check it out dear gabby.com/universe challenge. Alright, so here's the method that you've been waiting for and it is a good one. It's a really important method. It's to stop doing and start allowing, allowing is an art, but we often think the opposite. We think that the more I do, the more I will attract.

This is a huge no-no major, no-no in the world of manifesting and attracting, because the less you do, the more you allow and the faster you can attract your dreams. Take that in. The less you do, the more you allow, and the faster you will attract your dreams. So the next time you wanna take an action out of fear, or lack or overdo something, I want you to sit back and just take a break.

I want you to just do nothing. I once had this coach back in the day. This was about 20 years ago now, and I was just doing all the things. I was meditating, I was [00:09:00] manifesting lists. I had all the books next to me. I was going to my yoga classes. I was trying to attune my energy and I said to my coach, I'm not manifesting.

I'm doing all the things, but I'm not manifesting. And she looked at me and she said, stop doing everything. And start doing nothing. She said, go eat an ice cream. Look out the window, do nothing and chill. And that's my message for you. Do nothing and let the universe take over. And the step really matters because the ego, the fear voice inside of you, wants to convince you that you just have to do, do, do, to make things happen.

But it's the opposite. This isn't about pushing, it's about allowing. So when you apply these three methods into your life, you are going to radically change everything. Remember, the first method is to forget what you think you need and trust that the universe has a better plan. That second method is to offer it up with your prayer.

Thank you universe for taking this from me and guiding me towards my desires. And then that third method is to [00:10:00] stop doing and start allowing these three methods in conjunction. Really just remembering it's not your plan. It's the universe's plan. Giving it over and to stop doing these three methods are gonna put you into such a valuable point of attraction.

You're gonna get into a place where you're starting to trust the universe. You're starting to feel that presence of energy within you and around you, guiding you, supporting you, showing you where to go and what to do. And you don't have to figure it all out. You don't have to push and control anymore.
You can trust that the universe has your back. So you have three mantras that are gonna set you up for manifesting your dreams.

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Now I'm sharing three magnetic mantras that will help you attract your desires immediately. Manifesting is an art. And one of the hardest things is to know how to start, how to begin your manifestation practice. And sometimes doing all the spiritual work isn't enough because manifesting isn't about doing more.

It's about being in the right energy. But here's the good news. You can shift, you can realign, and when you do this, the universe meets you So. Fast. So let's dive into three mantras that will help you align [00:15:00] your energy and become a true magnet for what you want. This has saved me time and time again. You see, I've mastered the art of allowing out of a necessity.

I am a recovering controller and I've been reprogramming my brain for years to trust the universe and this method of using these. Three specific magnetic mantras is how I went from super controller to super attractor. There is great, great power in affirming your commitment to the universe and surrendering your desires through mantras, through affirmations, through words.

This is how you can learn to trust the universe more. So I want you to make this first mantra something that you repeat regularly. It's this or something better. When you say it's this or something better, what you're doing is you're saying that. I have a desire, I have a dream, I have a vision, but when I control it, I know I'm in the way.

So I'm gonna take this desire, I'm gonna offer it up to the universe, and I'm gonna trust that it's this [00:16:00] desire or it's something better. And this allows you to trust and know that your desires are wonderful, they're important, but that the universe has a plan sometimes better than yours. So it allows you to hold that desire, but also release it to the universe and trust it's this or something better.

There might be something else on the way. Trusting. This is major. This is one of my favorite mantras. But if you don't couple it with the next one, then it's just gonna be words that you're saying rather than an energy that you're creating. So here's the next mantra. Welcome. What is of the highest good for all?

This mantra helps you release rigid attachments to specific outcomes, and it helps you open up to this limitless energy, limitless possibilities that are aligned with universal wisdom, and it's about surrendering control and trusting in the Be nevol. Force trusting in the synchronicities of the universe, trusting in a force greater than your own.

And here's how I want you to work [00:17:00] this mantra. Every morning I want you to wake up and for one minute, I want you to quietly repeat the mantra. I welcome what is of the highest good for all. Just repeat it to yourself silently or out loud. I welcome what is of the highest good for all, and I want you to center yourself and just allow yourself to really trust that the universe is taking this from you.

When you say, I welcome what is of the highest good for all you are in this energy that's free flowing and allowing, and you're welcoming in something beyond what you need to control and trusting that there might be a plan better than yours. This is a very relaxed energy and this is why it puts you in such a powerful point of attraction.

And after setting that intention, I want you to start to just feel your energy shift and just notice that you've surrendered this outcome. You've offered it up, you've said, I welcome. What is it the highest? Good for all? And remember that you can just be in that energy of desire and [00:18:00] allowing at the same time.

You don't have to control it, desire and surrender. Can coexist. This is a powerful mantra that has the capacity to completely change how you manifest and how you attract into your life. And by consistently affirming, I welcome what's of the highest good for all. You're actually building faith in the universe, which is gonna bring us now.

To our final mantra, this is a mantra that is all about trusting in divine timing and without faith in the universe and without trust in that divine timing, you're just gonna go back and forth manic manifesting. You're just gonna keep going into that lack of faith and then faith in it again. And I just want you to stay in the flow of the faith in the universe.

I want you to feel that energy surround you and protect you and guide you. Each morning I want you to say this prayer. I trust that it's safe to surrender to the universe, and I know I'm being guided. Just repeat that every single morning to build trust. I trust that [00:19:00] it is safe. To surrender to the universe, and I know I am being guided.

This mantra signals to the universe that your surrender is there, that you're willing to let it go, that you're willing to trust that benevolent plan, that you're willing to believe that there's something bigger and better, far beyond your human perspective, and this is helping you release resistance to any controlling or needing to make things happen. And it's expanding your receptivity. So when you're open to that energy of just giving it over and surrendering more, you're allowing the universe to show you where to go and what to do. And so these three mantras put you into a powerful point of attraction because they make you feel a different frequency.

They put you into an energy of faith. They put you into an energy of love. They put you in energy and a frequency of trust. They put you into a place of releasing control and knowing that there's more beyond your physical sight, that you're [00:20:00] always being guided, and that there's a presence of energy within you and around you.

And you might have thought that manifesting was hard. Maybe that's what you started this episode thinking manifesting is hard. But now you know that there's these powerful attracting statements, these mantras that you can just use anytime, anywhere to let go. Trust the universe and know that you're being guided.

And I wanna just remind you that this doesn't end here. There's so much more that you can do to uplevel your manifesting practice, your spiritual practice, and to deepen your faith in the universe. And so I welcome you, invite you to join me for my 21 Day Trust the Universe Challenge. And this challenge is a 21 day guided journey where I'll take you on a path of releasing fear.

Trusting in the divine presence of the universe and really believing and knowing that you are indeed being guided. All the details are at dear gabby.com/universe challenge. I welcome you to [00:21:00] join me on this journey, and I also welcome you to take these beautiful mantras, use them in your day-to-day life.

Allow these practices to guide you and open your heart to feeling that presence of the universe around you, protecting you and guiding you and supporting you. So you used to think you had to control it all. Every detail, every outcome. And you often probably thought that if you didn't force your desires into existence, that they weren't gonna happen.

That just wasn't gonna work. And trusting the universe probably felt impossible or too risky, or just uncertain. But now something has shifted. You understand that surrender isn't giving up, it's giving over. It's choosing peace instead of pressure. Faith instead of force. Knowing and trusting, and the divine guidance of the universe.

And so now you know that your desires don't need to be chased. They just need to be trusted. They just need to be spoken, and they need to be felt, and they need to be released, and they [00:22:00] need to be allowed into form. The art of allowing is now something that you can master with these methods. Take that in, let that settle into your body.

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To close out today's episode, I wanna share a story from a live talk that I gave in New York City back in 2016. This is the perfect example of everything we've been talking about, and this is all about how trying to force your desires can block your manifestations and how the true magic and the true miracles unfold when we finally surrender.

In this story, you'll hear how my husband and I were manically trying to manifest the perfect apartment and how everything shifted the moment we let go of [00:28:00] control and trusted the universe to show us a better way. So if you felt stuck or uncertain about what's next, I think this story is gonna really, really land for you.

So I'm gonna talk to you about manifesting. I have to talk to you a little bit about what it means to have a manifestation mishap. I had one a year and a half ago. My husband and I were manifesting manically. We, yes, it was ugly. We had this vision goal dream of owning an apartment in New York City. You already know where I'm going with this.

And it was right at the peak of the market being the highest. And it's still pretty high, but it was worse if you could believe it. And I'm so glad I'm telling this story in front of a bunch of New Yorkers. 'cause you all just totally get it. And I had this vision. We knew exactly what neighborhood we wanted it to be in.

We knew exactly what price we wanted to spend. We knew exactly how many square feet we wanted to live in. We had all, we had the list we were manifesting, put that list in a vision board. We had taken out scraps of [00:29:00] pictures. We were in it to win it. We knew what we wanted and then we hit the streets with our broker and it became very clear, very quickly that what we wanted was not within our price range.

Not only was it now within our price range, it wasn't even in the borough we wanted to be in. And so we started, our search started going miles and miles away from what we thought to the point where we were all the way out and who knows where. And it just started to get quite depressing and we, you know, we were putting bids in on apartments that we didn't even want.

We would go to an apartment and be like, well, is it okay that the windows face a wall? Maybe? I think so. And it just got ugly. It just got worse and worse and worse. And we just started to get into this mantra. This is Unfun that became our mantra. This is Unfun. This is Unfun. We were fighting all the time.

We were spending all of our hours and evenings and weekends trying to find this house, find this apartment, find this home that we needed to be in, that we wanted to get to in a certain amount of time. We wanted to turn around and we [00:30:00] didn't want it to have to be this way or that way. And it became this manic manifestation.

We kind of hit a wall when we went into Brooklyn and we looked at this apartment and we walked up the steps to the apartment and we walk in and there's this big glass encased, like, you know, those cases that hold weird things in them, like maybe they have like flowers or it had like 55 googly-eyed dolls just staring at us, like wacky dolls that had the apartments felt like pissed, like it was a nightmare.

It was very clear at this point that we were just not having fun. We go home after this googly eye department and we sit down at the dining room table. My husband says the mantra, this is unfun. This is unfun, this is unfun. And I looked at him and for whatever reason, there was a glimmer of hope and there was a burst of light that came in.

And I said, there has to be a better way. And those are the magic words. There has to be a better way. Those words opened me up to start a dialogue with [00:31:00] my husband. I said, okay, well, we know that Unfun doesn't get us anywhere. Let's say a prayer. And he said, okay, let's pray. We say our prayer, and I say, thank you universe for guiding us to solutions beyond our logical mind.

We open up to creative possibilities. That was it. That was our simple prayer. We open ourselves up to creative possibilities. In an instant, we both just started feeling better because prayer is the medium for miracles. That moment when we shift our thinking and we can shift our thinking when we choose to, and a prayer is a choice.

The moment that I said that prayer, I started to feel like my energy began to reorganize. I started to feel the negativity shift. We started to laugh again, and then I started to look at my husband. I said, you know, honey, we've always talked about this apartment in New York City, but maybe it's not in New York City.

Maybe we wanna go. And we always said that we wanted a place in the country. Maybe it'll be fun. The operative word, maybe it would be fun to go up and just see what's up in the country and see if maybe that's the [00:32:00] direction we go in instead. And he said, oh, that sounds like fun. Fun is the operative word.

So he gets on the internet. My husband's very good at shopping online and he gets on the internet and he starts finding some listings and within minutes he finds this listing for this house that's up on a mountain. And it, it made no sense, but it was awesome. He's like, we gotta go see this house. And I was like, this just makes no sense.

He's like, no, we gotta see the house. So he calls his broker within 24 hours, we're driving upstate to go look at a few houses, one of them being the mountain house. The first house that we go to see is the mountain house, and we drive up the driveway and we go up this swervy beautiful driveway into the woods all the way to the top of this mountain, driving into the beautiful circular driveway.

And we see all these lights on and we see this beautiful stone laid out all around the house. And we walk into the house and you walk through the door and you walk out and all you see is this vision of this incredible foliage. 'cause all you see are trees. And I look at my husband, I'm like, this is [00:33:00] awesome.

This is incredible. This is amazing. And I can't believe it's this brace because I'm coming from New York City. So this is incredible. And I look at this house, I look at the broker, I look at my husband, I say, this makes no sense, but it feels really good. So I wanna mention that word again feels really good.

We go and we look at these other three houses, and while they were wonderful, none of them felt the way that we felt about the mountain house. So we started to go back and visit more and learn a little bit more about that property and learn a little bit more about the house. And we were coming to a place where we maybe we'll put a bid on it.

At this point, I started kind of freaking out a little bit because I'm like, this is the opposite of what I thought I needed. This is the opposite of what my logical mind was telling me to do, but it feels really good. We get into this place where we're about to make this offer and we invite my husband's parents to see the house because my father-in-law's really good about getting under the hood.

You know, he is like checking it all out, looking for everything. And so he's looking all over the house. [00:34:00] And prior to going up there, I had called my friend who is a medium, and her name is Colette Barron Reed. And I called Colette and I said, Colette, I'm kind of freaking out a little bit. I'm thinking about putting in a bid on this house, but it makes no sense.

It's not what we thought we were going to do. It doesn't make any sense logically. She said, well, F Logic. Then she says, have you asked for your sign? Said what Are talking about. She said, well, whenever I go out and I find a new home, I ask for a sign. And she went on to tell me this. That's last, a house that she bought.

She was looking for her sign, which is a dragonfly, and she walked into the house and right before she was about to leave, she looks to her left and on a little book was an imprint of a dragonfly. In that moment, she knew it was her house and she bought the house and this was the perfect house for her.

So I said, okay, cool. I'll ask for a sign. I want my sign to be an owl. And I just throw it out there. I just drop it in her lap. My sign is an owl. She says, okay, cool. Go find your sign. So [00:35:00] I would go up to the house for my father-in-law to look under the hood, and I am walking in the door hunting owls. I am like, where are my owls at?

And I'm looking for them everywhere. Are they on pillowcases? I'm lifting up sheets. I'm looking for owls everywhere. The first thing I see when I walk into the house is this little card with a dragonfly, and I was like, oh, there's my dragonfly. But I hadn't found my owl, and I swear I was looking everywhere.

We were in the house for like an hour, and I, I wasn't caring about like what needed to be remediated. I cared about my owl, and so I was on the hunt. I leave the house, I called Colette. I said, listen, I didn't find my owl, but I found your dragonfly. And she said, oh, that's enough. We talked about the dragonfly.

Let that be enough. Keep moving ahead. We go to get a coffee in the town on our way out back to the city. And then as we walk back to my car, I look to the left of my car and this massive bumper sticker on the back of this car is this wackadoodle owl just lying at me. And I was like, what? [00:36:00] And he was so excited.

So we found her owl, and a week later we put in the offer, offers accepted right away. And then we're like, oh shit. Like what do we do now? At this point we had to head to London 'cause I had a bunch of talks in London and I started to get very nervous because, and as anyone knows, if you've bought a house, you know that it comes with a lot of hidden things that hopefully you find before you buy it.

And with that became all these ideas of some remediation and things that had to get done and a lot of moving parts to make this thing work. And of course, me and my husband feeling like very uncertain about this manifestation because it again, no longer made sense with our logical ideas. So here I am and I'm in London, and I, I get on my knees and I say a prayer and I'm like, God, I need some more owls.

That was my prayer. I need more owls. I'm feeling uncertain. I don't know what's up. And all of a sudden we, we walk out to the streets of London and I think the Brits just really like owls because they were [00:37:00] everywhere. There were owls in the graffiti, there were owls on bowls, on dishes, on pillow cases.

And even with owl, after Owl after Owl, I was still stuck in uncertainty. I was still feeling hopeless and fearful and in the story of this doesn't make sense logically and, and how is this gonna fit into my life? And I wasn't expecting this and all the things that we do to, to really deny the miracle.

Later that night, after seeing thousands of owls in the streets of London, I headed to the St. James Cathedral, which is a beautiful church that I give TOXs in in London. And I've been there year after year and there's this gorgeous guy who does the sound and he's a painter and he always gives everybody a really nice, beautiful piece of his art.

And he always gives me a bear. Year after year, he gives me a postcard of this bear, like I have 15 bears. And this year he walks up to me, he says, Gabrielle, I knew that your husband was coming with you, so I brought you two pieces of art. And the first one he hands me is [00:38:00] for my husband and is the bear.

And then he says, and for whatever reason, I really thought you'd need this, and he hands me my owl. And so in that moment, I took the spiritual surrender. I accepted the invitation. I said yes. I allowed myself to surrender fully to my owl. And a year ago, I closed on my mountain house and I am happy, happy, happy In my mountain house.

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