Episode 20
20. Why Your Spiritual Gifts Need Your Body: A Conversation on Grounding
Grounding is one of the most overlooked parts of spiritual and personal growth.
You can be deeply connected to energy, intuition and possibility, yet still feel unable to act, create or follow through.
This episode explores why.
We look at what happens when your energy is open but your body doesn’t feel like a safe place to land.
Why ideas and visions feel powerful in your mind but collapse when you try to bring them into the physical world.
And how grounding reconnects you with presence, stability and the capacity to turn insight into action.
If you’ve been feeling disconnected from your body, scattered in your energy or unable to act on the visions you sense so clearly, this episode will meet you exactly where you are.
Topics we explore:
- How dissociation develops and why it disconnects you from clarity, motivation and trust
- Why spiritual gifts, intuition and creativity need a grounded body to function
- The link between grounding and real-life momentum, follow-through and focus
- How grounding changes your relationship with your body and supports long-term healing
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Transcript
This is the House of Andrea.
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:I'm Andrea Lee Matthies, an artist,
photographer, and clairvoyant medium.
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:And in this podcast, we explore what it
really means to thrive as a soul having
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:a human experience, how to connect with
our energy, transcend those edges and
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:boundaries that we create for ourselves.
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:And open to the full
spectrum of who we are.
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:If you're ready to see yourself
differently, to sense more deeply,
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:and to expand into more of who you
are, you are in the right place.
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:Let's dive in.
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:Hello and welcome back.
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:I'm your host Andrea Lee Matthews, and
today I wanted to talk about the concept
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:of grounding, particularly in the world
that we are in here, of starting to
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:really open ourselves up and connect to.
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:Everything that we are at a soul level.
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:Everything that exists for us in
our past, in our future, timelines
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:and everything that exists for
us in source and in the field.
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:Grounding is such an important part
of the process that I really wanted
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:to just spend some time unpacking
that today, what it means, how I
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:ground, and why we can't skip it.
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:So I wanna start with a little bit of
a story give a little bit of context
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:to my journey with connecting in
with my senses, opening myself up,
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:and how I discovered that I actually
wasn't grounding enough and it was
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:playing havoc on my, my abilities, my.
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:Ability to focus, my ability really
to do this work in this space.
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:And I think the best place to start
with this is to share a little
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:bit about my journey with my body.
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:Which, if you've been listening to my
other podcast, Body Diaries, I talk
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:a lot about my, my history with my
body and in early episodes of this
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:podcast, a little bit about the journey
that I've had, But one of the things
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:that I have had to navigate over the
longest time, it's way, way better
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:these days, but one of the things
that I had to navigate for the longest
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:time was disassociation with my body.
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:And disassociation for me has
always been this feeling that
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:my body wasn't a safe place,
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:that it wasn't a place
that I ever wanted to be.
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:I had a really difficult relationship with
my body because when I was a child, I.
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:Was always overweight.
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:I grew up as a, a rotund, a chubby
child that was picked on a lot and,
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:clothes that were fashionable or that
I really wanted to wear didn't fit and
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:everything was really uncomfortable.
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:And quite early on I developed an eating
disorder, a binge eating disorder.
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:So to manage my feelings, I would snack
and I would eat particularly sweet,
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:um, or comforting foods that took me
away from the feelings that I had about
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:myself and about the body that I was in.
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:And so being in my body just became
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:This place that I just didn't wanna be.
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:A place of discomfort, of shame,
of embarrassment, of disgust.
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:So it was just this sensation that grew
within me over and over again, over
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:time of I don't wanna be in this body.
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:Right, and I just completely
started to disassociate from that.
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:I would wanna be everywhere else other
than present in my physical form.
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:So whether that was buried in stories
or movies or computer games, I got.
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:Heavily into gaming back in
the mid to late nineties.
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:Um, all those amazing retro games that
had great stories underneath them.
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:I loved the movies and I think
that's also where this love for.
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:Multimedia and programming and film.
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:My early degrees came from because it was
this magical escape that happened to not
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:be in the physical, now, not being in my
physical body, being in the, the realm of
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:imagination of wonder that felt tangible.
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:It wasn't just.
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:A daydream imagination
or being somewhere else.
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:In my mind, these were physical places
and stories that I was experiencing
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:in through these creative arts and
creative forms that I just wanted to
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:be in those places, or when I started
to develop my spiritual abilities
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:and things like meditation practice.
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:Being anywhere else other than in the
present moment in my physical body was
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:just delicious, you know, and this,
this eating disorder, this battle with
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:my body lasted decades and decades and
decades, Up until my late thirties.
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:And so this was a very well grained,
well patterned behavior of mine that
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:it wasn't even something that I felt
like I needed to escape because it was
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:just so familiar and so comfortable
and it, it felt good to be if it was
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:a meditation out there in the ether.
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:In a visualization where everything
was possible and everything felt
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:light and felt good, or buried in a
creative project or something where I
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:was creating a world that was perfect,
magical, comfortable, exciting, and
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:this, this disassociation just continued.
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:But what it meant was that
I was never fully present.
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:I was never fully in my
body in the physical moment.
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:There was always a part of me, even
if I was at work, even if I was doing
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:that heavily strategic, logical work
or present in a a relationship, a
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:friendship and experience, there was
always part of me that was still.
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:Out there, but when you spend your
entire time out there, yes, you
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:can be tapped into some of the
incredible things in the field.
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:But There's no real way to take all of
that incredible stuff that we visualize.
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:All the stuff that we remember talking
about last week on the podcast is
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:remembrance is plugging in and tapping in.
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:We can be connected to that being
out there, being in our meditation
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:or being outside of our bodies,
but the body and the physical
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:experience is how it gets grounded.
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:Into reality.
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:It's how it gets grounded
into physical form.
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:And so I had to learn to create safety
in my body, to ground my energy back into
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:my body, back into the present moment,
to be able to do something with it, to
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:be able to really powerfully connect.
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:All that I was both energetically,
spiritually, in a soul level and
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:physically into this form to be able to
really do this work at the highest level,
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:to be able to be everything that I am.
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:Because yes, we are souls
having a human experience.
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:But we're having a human experience.
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:The human part of that is
being in a physical form.
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:It is being tangible and
physical and grounded.
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:We can't just go, I mean, we can, but
it's not the same level of experience.
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:We can never really achieve or experience.
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:Everything that is here for us to
experience in a lifetime if we remain
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:disassociated, if we remain out there
and avoiding being in the physical body.
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:And I really do understand what it
feels like to find it impossible
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:to come home to your body but.
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:Being brave enough to do the
work to face the fear to go.
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:Into the places where you don't wanna
go and face it and just say, I see you.
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:I've got you.
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:I love you.
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:I'm returning you home.
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:I'm letting this go.
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:Working with the incredible
energies, modalities, healing,
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:whatever format your soul.
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:Yearns for or speaks to you.
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:Being brave enough to face that, to come
home to your body changes everything.
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:Because when we start to remember
who we are, when we start to remember
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:what we are capable of, what we are
tapped into, what is available to us,
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:and we are grounded, we are present.
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:Yeah, that's when we can
actually do something with it.
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:We have this incredible, visceral,
next level source of power to
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:be able to fuel those actions.
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:I don't know if you've ever had
that experience where you have the
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:incredible idea come to you or.
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:you start to get that spark, that
passion, that forward drive, that
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:yearning of, of an idea or a desire
or a vision that you're having.
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:And I'm like, this is it.
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:This is what I wanna create.
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:And then it comes to actually having
to take action or do something with it.
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:And all of a sudden
you, it's like you hit.
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:And a huge wall of doubt, a
fear of shame of I'm tired.
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:I can't harness the momentum.
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:I can't find the strength.
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:All of a sudden, all I
wanna do is just lay in bed.
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:It, it feels heavy, it feels
lethargic, it feels tired.
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:That's because we are not in our physical
form and we are trying to execute physical
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:things from an ungrounded, disconnected
spread all over the place, energetic
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:place, and it becomes impossible to
really live this human experience, Which
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:a core part of that is to create things.
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:I, I honestly believe that one
of the reasons why we incarnate
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:into the human form is yes to
experience things physically, but
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:it's to create things physically.
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:And that could be artistically, that
could be by using your voice, that
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:could be by creating something that that
heals people, inspires people, motivates
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:people, brings people back together.
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:Those things are very.
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:Physical, they're tangible.
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:They take physical actions and
decisions and movement and connections
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:and getting into rooms and spaces and
building things with your hands, even
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:if that's just typing on a keyboard.
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:It requires you to be connected
to your physical form and grounded
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:into the earthly plane, to be able
to take all of that energy and make
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:something with it through your body.
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:And so that's why having some grounding
practices can start to bring you
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:home, can start to create enough
space, enough reconnection with
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:yourself that you can start to heal.
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:Some of those things that are keeping you
out of your body, some of the pain, some
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:of the trauma, some of the, the fear, the
shame, the judgment, the self disgust.
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:I say these words with such love because
they are things that I have been through.
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:I have felt that the depth of
disgust that we as humans are
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:able to manufacture for ourselves.
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:Is mind blowing.
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:The depths that we can go to
from a disconnected self-hatred
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:perspective always blows my mind.
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:Just how much we can feel and create
for ourselves, opening the door to
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:coming home, making that decision,
making that commitment to ourself,
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:Choosing to come home to be back in this
physical, physical experience is one
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:of the bravest, noblest most powerful.
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:Decisions that we can make, and it
will change the trajectory that we're
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:on dramatically because instead of
operating outside of the body in the safe
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:zone, in a space where we feel less of
those dense self loathing, self hating
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:emotions, instead of staying in that
space, we can come into and face them.
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:Hold space for them, love them.
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:Let them be there, and then move them
out, move them on, change them, change
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:the programming, change the coding.
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:And there are so many incredible
modalities that you can use to change
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:the programming on those, even simply
powerfully we can make the decision.
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:The line in the sand drawing on
what we were talking about last week
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:in the episode around remembrance.
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:We can just remember what.
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:It feels like to not have that,
even if we have to reach way back
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:into the past, we can remember and
declare and decide enough is enough.
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:I want this physical experience, this
human body, this connection that I
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:have with this physical body of mine.
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:I'm choosing and am deciding to change
the relationship that I have to come
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:home to that, and that's where some basic
grounding practices can open the door
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:to being able to make that decision.
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:And one of the most powerful ways
is connecting with the earth.
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:Connecting with the earth because
the earth, and when I say earth,
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:I just mean the physical surfaces
underneath us because everything
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:underneath us is supported by this
incredible powerful planet Earth.
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:Right?
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:Even.
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:Even if you're in a building, even
if you're on the 20th floor, you're
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:in a house or you're in something
that is sitting on this incredible,
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:powerful, beautiful rock that is
spinning and twirling and traveling
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:through space in the universe, that
is complete magic and it is real.
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:It is tangible.
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:It is a physical, and the earth
knows that it's a physical.
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:Object that it's a physical experience
and it is so good at connecting
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:to itself, connecting to the
evolution, the growth, the expansion,
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:the expression of what it is.
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:And so by allowing ourselves the
ability to connect to the earth, to
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:connect our physical material, to
something that is equally, powerfully
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:physical helps our bodies remember
what it is like to love itself and
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:express itself confidently and freely.
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:And by opening the door of this
remembrance, by mapping the power
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:that resides in this rock that we're,
that we're sitting on, that's floating
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:in space that loves itself, that
expresses itself, that is unconditional
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:By connecting our physical form to that.
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:We can match that frequency,
we can match that remembrance.
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:And when we start to match that, it
creates a safer place for us to come home
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:to for our soul, our energy, our essence.
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:It opens the door for
that energy to come home.
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:And sometimes all we need is to
start that process, to open the door
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:to get a tiny, even if it's just a
minuscule glimpse of what that feels
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:like, that tiny, tiny little glimpse.
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:That is enough for parts of our
soul, parts of our energy to be
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:able to return to the body, to
reconnect, to remember what it feels
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:like to be whole, to be powerful.
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:It just starts that process of
remembering that we can over time.
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:Sometimes it's quick.
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:Sometimes it takes a little
bit longer, but over time we
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:can start to ground back in.
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:We can start to realize that the physical
experience, the human experience,
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:is actually a delicious, incredible.
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:Life changing, life motivating
experience that is available to us.
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:And as we come home, that's when we
can get into those powerful decisions
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:of, I no longer want this shame.
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:I no longer wanna carry this trauma.
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:That trauma, that fear, that shame.
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:I'm gonna start either working with
healing modalities to heal it, or I'm
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:going to start declaring that I love
myself, regardless that I'm coming
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:home regardless that it is safe to
let this go and play a different song,
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:have a different tune, have a different
frequency of safety, of trust, of power,
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:And allowing anything that you've
gone through to be held with love.
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:Of growth, of expansion, of change,
of a remembrance of your bravery.
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:It is possible to get to a point where
you can look back on anything that's
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:happened to you Of trust, of bravery, of
courage, of gratitude for who you were
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:and how you led yourself through it.
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:To be able to see how it forged you
through fire to be the incredible person
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:that you are to do the work that you do,
to be able to connect with your soul,
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:with your spirituality, with your energy,
your essence, in the way that you can now.
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:Because it opened you, it expanded you.
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:It forced you to look at shadows and
heal and grow and expand to be able to
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:receive more, to tap into more, to be
able to then have a physical experience
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:that's grounded in reality in a
physical body that you can now leverage.
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:To create the magic that you're here
to create, to create the art, to
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:create the events, the experiences,
the fashion, the music, the
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:everything that you are here to do.
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:You're now coming home to a physical
experience in a physical body grounded.
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:Ready, present, active, able to move.
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:You're not just in the vision
or in the clouds or in the
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:ether where it's safe anymore.
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:You're grounded in that physical body
to be able to do something with it.
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:There is no better experience.
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:And so I just, I want you to know that
if you are in a place where it feels
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:impossible, it, it still feels scary.
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:It feels difficult.
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:It feels like.
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:Unfathomable.
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:Honestly, you're just listening
to this and it just, you're like,
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:that's not gonna happen for me.
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:My trauma is too deep.
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:My trauma is too big.
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:It's too scary, it's too fearful.
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:I've never been able to overcome
it, and so I don't know how
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:I'm going to overcome it.
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:It's, I kind of lag it up in the ether.
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:I hear this a lot, and I do
remember feeling this myself.
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:It's like, I like it up here.
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:Why would I go anywhere else?
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:Why would I look at the shadows?
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:Why would I go back into those feelings?
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:Don't make me feel that anymore.
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:Don't make me look at that again.
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:I understand that.
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:But just know by living up in that
space, in that ethos, you are only
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:getting half of the experience.
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:That you came here for as a
soul incarnated in your body
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:at this time, you're only
getting part of the experience.
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:There is so much more for you to feel,
for you to create and coming home
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:to your body, grounding in bringing
your whole self, your spirituality.
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:Your energy, your essence, your mind, your
emotion, your physicality, the things that
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:you can touch, smell, taste, you know,
experience through your physical senses,
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:amplified by your energetic senses, your
intuitive knowing, your clairvoyance,
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:your Clance, your everything.
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:Bringing those together in the 360 is what
is going to blow your mind in terms of the
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:potential of the experience that you have.
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:But it takes the courage
to choose to come home.
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:It takes the bravery to ground
back in your body, and the way to
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:open the door to that is to just.
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:Take the baby step and start connecting
to the certainty that is under
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:your feet, that's underneath you.
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:Even if it's like 20 stories
down underneath the building.
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:That building is certain.
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:That building is made of material that
is certain that come from the earth,
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:that are connected to the earth.
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:You can go out in nature, barefoot
and naked and lay on the ground too
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:if you want to, but just feeling
yourself reconnect to the certainty
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:to the earth who knows, and trusts and
loves being in its full expression,
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:It'll start to bring you home again.
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:And you'll start to realize
how non-negotiable it is, how
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:incredible it feels to finally love
your body, to finally be home in
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:a vessel that can create magic.
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:And here's the best part.
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:You don't actually have to
change your physical body.
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:To fall in love with the experience
of being in a human body.
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:This has been one of the biggest
lessons that I have learned over my
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:lifetime, particularly having such
a strong history of despising and
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:being disgusted by my body based on my
weight or my appearance or the things
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:that a judged as being imperfect.
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:It is possible to love the physical form
that you're in when your soul is grounded
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:in it, and it remembers everything
that you have been now and in the past.
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:You can fall in love
with your physical form.
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:Without changing it, without losing
a ton of weight or being the picture
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:perfect thing that you think that
you have to be, you can actually
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:be in your physical body and.
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:Realize how powerful your sense of
touch is when you run your hands over
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:incredible surfaces and textures and
get that whole body chill and be like,
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:Ooh, I remember what this feels like.
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:Or to smell something, or taste something,
or see something, hear something.
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:Experience an interaction with someone.
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:It doesn't matter what you look
like or what you can and can't do.
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:These things don't amplify these
experiences that I'm talking about.
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:What amplifies those experiences
is being anchored with your full
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:awareness, your full consciousness,
your essence in the physical form
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:to be present, to receive them.
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:And it's amazing what happens when you
bring all of that and you anchor that
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:into your body and then you start to
have these experiences and you realize.
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:Those other things that
you thought mattered.
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:Appearance looks certain size,
certain shapes, certain ability.
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:They actually don't matter.
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:They don't matter as much.
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:And your love for yourself grows that
you're like, oh, imagine what I can
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:achieve regardless of where I am,
regardless of what I can do or how I look.
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:My relationship with my body and myself.
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:Has changed dramatically
over the last, oh gosh.
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:It happens.
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:more rapidly every year.
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:But if I compare even just five
years ago how I felt about my
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:body to how I feel now, it is.
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:Like worlds apart.
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:The disgust, the constant dieting, the
needing to look a certain way, to feel a
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:certain way has all dropped away now, and
I just love being in my physical body.
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:Even though, of course I still.
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:Aim to look after it.
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:I fuel it.
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:Well, I work out, you know, I would love
to be able to dress in different clothing,
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:but that is not enough for me to not love
myself now, to not show up, to not take
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:those micro actions based on the fears
that I had in the past or the judgments.
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:None of that.
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:Matters.
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:Now I can take micro actions because
I want to have those experiences and
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:I love myself enough to back myself.
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:These are the kinds of things that start
to shift and start to change when we
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:come down and anchor into our bodies.
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:When we connect into everything that
we are, all of our senses, all of
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:our soul, of our essence, and all of
that remembrance, everything that is
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:around us, we realize we are more.
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:Than just the physical body that we
judged or we had terrible experiences
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:in that we disassociated from.
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:We start to come home to the full
experience of being a soul in
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:a human body at this time, and
just what is possible for that.
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:And when we love ourselves on
that level, we dream bigger.
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:We push ourselves further into our
potential, which is just magical.
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:And our lives start to change.
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:And before we know it, we look back
even over short periods of time.
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:Like I look back six or 12 months
ago, and I'm like, how is my life
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:so beautiful and so expansive?
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:Now how is this even possible?
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:Like I, I did, this wasn't even
on my radar to feel like this.
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:But we realize it's real.
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:It's true.
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:The the things that we were willing to
face, the work that we were willing to
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:do, the connection back to ourselves
that we were willing to make was worth it
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:because this is where I am now and this
is what I love and this is everything.
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:So if you are feeling like it's time.
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:It's time to heal the disassociation, to
come back home to your body because you
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:know, you feel the power of your soul,
of your essence, of everything that you
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:are plugged into, but know that you need
to be in your body to be able to do that.
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:You need to be.
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:Back in love, in trust, in connection
with the physical part of this experience.
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:Start to ground, start to
connect back to the earth.
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:There are so many different
grounding practices that you can do.
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:You can access the body through breath.
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:You can, like I said, just.
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:Be conscious and aware of feeling
the earth underneath you, being
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:supported, being held by something
that knows how to love itself.
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:You can go out and spend
more time in nature.
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:Connect through physical touch
of trees and rocks and water.
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:Swim in the ocean.
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:Get your feet in the sand in
the mud, stand in the rain.
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:Get under the moon like
there are in infinite.
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:Number of avenues to get yourself
back into the physical form and
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:just trust your intuition on that.
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:Whatever pops up in your ideas, in
conversations, interactions, things
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:that pop up around you, watch for those
moments on opportunities of grounding.
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:Once you make that choice of, okay,
universe, please bring me what makes
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:the most sense to me to start grounding
back into my physical form so I can
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:experience this whole connection.
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:Just watch what comes up and
comes to you and follow it.
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:Don't get into your head.
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:Don't.
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:Second guess.
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:Is this the thing?
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:Is this the grounding practice?
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:Is this what you meant or
is there something else?
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:Oh, I don't know if that's enough.
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:Just don't let any of that
mind chatter in the way.
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:Just get in to whatever
you're guided to do.
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:And allow yourself to start
connecting back to yourself.
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:'cause it will change your life.
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:It will change everything, and you'll
start to be able to experience this
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:life in the full infinite possibility
of what it is to be a human.
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:At this time, in this body,
in this lifetime, who's fully
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:connected to their senses, to their
abilities, to their knowing, to
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:their soul's, wisdom right now.
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:If you wanna share your favorite
grounding practices, please do.
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:I would love to hear them.
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:Of course, the invitation is always
there if you want to work together to
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:dive into this, to look at what your
grounding practices are, what your
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:soul is calling for in this space.
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:Reach out to me.
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:We can work together one-on-one.
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:I'm always, always here.
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:But in the meantime.
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:Just listen to your body and start
playing with some of the ways to just
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:open the door to coming home, and then
following those signals of where you
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:can start to heal, to love yourself,
back to a place where you're whole.
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:And really live everything
that you're here to live.
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:I love you.
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:I hope you have an absolute beautiful
week of starting to come home to yourself
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:and I'll see you in the next episode.
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:I.