Soul-Care: Multidimensional Tools for Tending Your Body, Energy, and Life

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now is really the time.

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to be coming into our truest knowing each time you shake off that old

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script and find the resource to step into your courage and inner

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wisdom, you're causing a ripple in that fabric that connects us all.

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So your soul care, the way that you tend to your energy and yourself is vitally

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important, and it's never been more so.

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Welcome to a Lone Traveler's Guide to the Divine, a podcast for

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dreamers, seekers, healers, and anyone on their healing journey.

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My name is Amanda Lux, and I'm the creator of the Elevation Hive School and Community

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for Energy Medicine and dreamwork

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over the course of the last six episodes, we just completed a series on how to

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cultivate energetic alignment through the five elements by speaking to some

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of the different characteristics of each element, touching on some of the

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various ways they show up in our chakra system, and in our bodies and our lives.

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We've explored some of the attributes, gifts, and challenges,

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the elements animate for us.

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In this next series of episodes, I'm gonna be talking about soul care, taking

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these concepts even deeper , and offering some more action-based tools, and Today

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I'm gonna be discussing how soul tending through making relationships to your

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energy can actually enhance your life, your health, and all your relationships.

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And I'll be sharing how energy medicine is not only a modality

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that we can use to help others.

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It's also a way of life, a form of personal practice that I call soul care,

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I'm gonna be sharing a guided visualization that you can use to

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make relationship to your own energy system, attune your energy and orient

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yourself to a specific issue in your life, whether it's mental, physical,

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emotional, relational, whatever,

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so that you can begin to tend to yourself in this way.

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I'm gonna begin by just reading a little excerpt from my book, the Soul

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Care workbook, that I've pulled from actually a few different sections that

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talk about what energy medicine is, what soul care is in this context, and

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really why it's the most fundamentally valuable thing we can practice in order

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to heal, grow, evolve, and show up in the world as our best possible self.

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Soul care is a multi-dimensional version of self-care.

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It's about tending to your physical, emotional, and mental bodies, as

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well as your rituals, desires, dreams, essence, and energy.

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It's about devotion to the self and the inner sanctity of your sacred beingness.

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It's about tending your relationship to the mother, this planet that

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holds nourishes and provides for you.

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Most of all, soul care is about hunkering down, digging in gently,

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compassionately, turning towards and within, so that you may develop a

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practice of listening and tuning into your energy and therefore your whole being.

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Beyond caring for our minds and bodies, this is about tending to your subtle body.

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Holistically.

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Your subtle body makes up 99% of you that comes from the mystery.

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It's the vast aspect of you that is creating your experience.

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It's underneath the thoughts and vibrations that give rise to

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your pains and pleasures, your illnesses and your accomplishments.

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Soul care in this context is based in energy medicine, energy medicine

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treats disease at the vibrational level from where the dysfunction arises.

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It is holistic and preventative, ancient and cutting edge.

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There are many different modalities within the broader context of energy

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medicine, but the principles that I teach and that I talk about are mainly

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based in polarity therapy, which is heavily influenced by Ayurveda.

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Polarity works with the electromagnetic patterns expressed in the mental,

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emotional, and physical planes to determine where energy flows and

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where it is not flowing optimally.

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Life energy could also be defined as the animating force, the cosmic spark

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or breath of life, also known as prana.

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In Sanskrit, it is our spiritual essence.

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Energy precedes matter.

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It gives rise to our physical structure as well as our emotional,

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mental, and subtle layers of being.

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Life energy has its own intelligence that both affects and is affected by the

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digestion and assimilation of all our experiences, beliefs, and perceptions.

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Most simplistically you could say that when energy is blocked,

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illness or disease arises.

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When our energy flows freely, we experience health and vital.

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this is true, but of course it is simultaneously true that health from a

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holistic perspective is a dynamic, complex journey that is not so black and white.

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When we endeavor to work with our symptoms or circumstances at

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the energetic level, we recognize that life itself is the medicine.

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This isn't always the thing that brings us the solution or the cure.

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Rather, the medicine is in the process of observing, acknowledging,

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learning from and acclimating to our ever-changing energetic matrix.

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There is power in bringing our patterns to consciousness.

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Working with your elements provides a construct through which you can

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view the world, your idiosyncrasies, strengths and struggles.

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It provides a language and a means to communicate with your energy system.

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By learning how to observe yourself, you can rewire the broken connections,

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heal your past, create a new path, and find empowerment in each present moment.

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. By cultivating these tools, you will make shifts on the subtest

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levels that ripple out infinitely both backwards and forwards in time.

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Taking responsibility for your energy brings healing to not only your present

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moment self but your ancestors and future generations on a quantum level as well.

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Creating a devotional practice means honoring yourself in the highest way

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possible with radical self-acceptance, deep self-love, endlessly curious,

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exploration, rapt attention and fascination, fierce determination.

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Surrender to an acceptance of your divinity.

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The world is your mirror.

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Every challenge.

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A holy teacher every day a new opportunity to remember that you are worthy.

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Learning to work with your own energy

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is really about learning how to listen to your.

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self To the below the surface conversation that's running through every aspect of

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your life that's informing everything that manifests on the physical plane.

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Our energy is the matrix that all our experiences arise from, and

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what that means is that there's really no such thing as an accident.

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There's no way that our energy isn't influencing what happens in our life.

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The circumstances that we find ourselves in, the ways that we view

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our relationships, the thought patterns that help us make our decisions, they

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can either be keeping us stuck or limiting us, or they can be propelling

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us into new and greater versions of ourselves, our life experiences.

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Are all just reflecting.

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What's happening in our energy.

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And if we wanna change those bad habits or get rid of those unhealthy thought

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patterns, or transform our career or experience deeper, more resonant

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relationships, we can do this most effectively by listening to our energy.

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I wanted to share a bit of my book to give context for what Soul Care means

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to me as we begin this new series so we can explore the, the idea of how energy

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medicine can be utilized as a practice and how we can apply this to our lives

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in practical ways to feel better I will be sharing a guided visualization that

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is an energy attunement in a bit so that you can experience how that really feels.

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But before we go there, I wanted to just share something about my own

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experience of learning how to listen to energy in case there is a part

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of you that is not so sure about it.

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And I think it's a really natural.

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to question what we can't see or touch with our physical senses,

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Even if you have felt energy before and you have a sense of what that feels like.

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which you definitely have.

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Everyone has felt energy , but you might still question your understanding

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of it or your ability to trust it.

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And that is also really normal.

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Tuning into your energy and listening to your soul's needs on a deeper level

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like this just takes practice, which is exactly why I see it as a practic.

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And if we ignore it for even a little bit, sometimes it gets out of shape.

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, we have to work it out in order to keep it in shape.

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Cuz sometimes it, it gets dull if we're not using it.

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And to just honor the skeptic or even the subtle voice in you that

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isn't so sure if you can trust it.

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I thought I would share that there was a time when I didn't

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know if I could feel it.

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In fact, there was a time when I wasn't even sure that massage worked, and

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that's about as hands on as it gets

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when I first went to massage school, I was super

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skeptical about whether or not massage could actually do anything.

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I couldn't really understand why touching somebody's skin and moving your hand

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around on the outside of their body was gonna do anything to their muscles, And

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I had to learn how to like, engage my imagination in order to picture the

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muscles below the surface cuz there's all these layers of tissue and fad and,

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and fluids between the skin that I was touching and the muscles underneath that.

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So I didn't really understand at first how that could be effecti.

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And it took me a little while I had to experience it for myself and I had

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to give a lot of massages in order to really begin to picture and feel what the

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tissue felt like when it was healthy and what it felt like when it was all bound

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up, and how to identify that sensation of release for both what I could feel

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and for what my client was feeling.

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And over time it became second nature.

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It was so obvious to me that it was incredibly supportive for the whole

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body that I could see people having emotional shifts, mental shifts, as

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well as getting rid of longstanding pain patterns that they didn't

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have any other way of treating.

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I literally had people who would go to the doctor they would be.

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diagnosed with pain, idiopathic pain, , they don't know why.

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There's just pain there, and they'd be given, you know, told to take

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ibuprofen or stronger pain medication.

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They didn't have any solutions and they didn't really try to look

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at what was causing that pain.

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They just said, oh, you have pain treated with this painkiller.

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And I can't tell you how many times and how many clients I experienced, you know,

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finding ways to relieve that pain, either through direct body work, through massage

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techniques, but also through the energy work, through meeting them with what

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was going on in their life and making those conscious connections between how

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they were feeling stuck or what wasn't working for them internally, emotionally.

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Or maybe it was just something old that was trapped there.

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, through addressing these issues that were otherwise sometimes incurable or long

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standing and chronic, they were able to find relief and resolution and create

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new patterns and new ways of being.

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And it's really, really, really incredible to watch that happen.

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And I've been practicing for over 20 years and I've seen thousands of of

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people go through these processes.

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So it's not like it just was a one-time thing,

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but this also gave me an opportunity to really look at our medical system.

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I've worked with a lot of doctors and naturopathic doctors and

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various practitioners who've referred patients to me and.

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One thing I've learned about this Western medical system is that it, it's really

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quite broken . Like it really, really is.

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It seems that a lot of times Western medicine is really focused on, or

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emphasize the cessation of symptoms.

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They don't really look at the whole healing journey of the individual.

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If someone is sick, they give 'em a pill.

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If it's, if they have something broken, they wanna fix it.

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If there's a disease, they wanna fight it.

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Death is considered the enemy.

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Illness is an outsider to be conquered, and in my opinion,

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that's a really colonialist way to to view things actually.

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And so polarity was really appealing to me because it comes from the amalgamation of

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all of these different spiritual insights

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and energetic healing traditions that incorporates ideas from the far east,

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from ancient hermetic philosophies and indigenous medicines, and it synthesizes

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all of these healing principles that have been around since before time or

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words were recorded it's in, even in the astrology of the stars and the origin

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stories that are told around campfires, and it completely aligns with everything

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that modern science, especially quantum physics, is just now being able to prove.

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But coming back to this idea of how available are we to be able to listen

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to what's being spoken underneath our symptoms, and as a practitioner,

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I think about, what is the client really saying underneath what they

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even know consciously, what's showing up in the colors they're wearing,

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and in the inflection of their voice.

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How can I be present and hold space for them?

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How can I honor my own intuitive knowing?

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One thing that I tell my students when I'm teaching polarity therapy is

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that this, this medicine is ancient.

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It's everywhere.

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It's already within.

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. And no matter how new any of these ideas or concepts or techniques

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may be to you in your logical left brain, you can invite your intuition

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to come into the conversation.

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Your creative knowingness, and that resides within all of us,

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you who are listening to this.

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You don't have to be some kind of wizard to tune into energy

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medicine, . It's available to everyone.

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We are all made of energy.

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So this work is really just about remembering.

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It's about coming home to our own alignment and then showing

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up and helping others around us to find their alignment as well.

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When we are in our alignment, then we're able to listen and we're

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able to reset those imbalances.

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So energy medicine isn't necessarily about treating and imbalance, though.

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It's about listening, and it's about returning to that alignment where the

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system can then reorient to wellness.

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It's a little bit different than treating and imbalance directly.

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It's like how can we resonate with what is well, what is already

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flowing, and enhance that in the body and in our life and our energy.

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and then it's about honoring that whatever imbalance is showing up

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in our body or in our life, that that is a healing opportunity.

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And as a practitioner, I'm not concerned with how or when or if they're

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presenting issue even gets treated.

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Specifically.

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What I'm interested in is orienting myself to what's the message underneath it?

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What's the lesson?

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What's the symbolism, the aha or the physical, mental, emotional alignment

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that is needed so that maximum energetic flow can be restored.

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And all we need to be thinking about is how can energy be flowing?

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, we don't have to focus so much on our symptoms, but if we get curious

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about what's underneath them, that's when true healing begins to happen.

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I think that our dominant culture, especially in the Western world

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and, and the way that we live, really it does cause a lot of

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divisiveness and a lot of sickness.

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But in polarity there's this idea that everything's on a continuum, and

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the more we awaken and the more that we evolve, the more ignorance and

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chaos we'll be showing up as well.

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That's just how it works.

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So now is really the time.

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to be coming into our truest knowing there's never been a better time.

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For those of us who are listening to our own energy and tending the subtle fields

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that make up the fabric of our existence.

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Whatever we can do then for ourselves, we're also doing for the collective.

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Each time you shake off that old script and find the resource to

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step into your courage and inner wisdom, you're causing a ripple in

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that fabric that connects us all.

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your soul care, the way that you tend to your energy and yourself is vitally

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important, and it's never been more so.

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So I just wanna say that you can do this, that you were made for this, that

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maybe you're already practicing some sort of energy work or maybe you have

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no idea even what that really means, even though I just talked a lot about

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it, . But you do have this inside of you.

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We all do.

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And it's really just about tapping into that fundamental truth of our being and

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being willing to go out into the mystery to like hold space for new possibilities.

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To not have to fully understand is actually a really good place to start.

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It opens up that vast creative mind and our imagination is really the vehicle we

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wanna be utilizing because that's, that's how we tap in, that's how we perceive

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energy is through our imagination.

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So I'm going to be transitioning into this little exercise and it is

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a, a bit of a guided visualization.

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So depending on where you are right now in this moment, it might

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be good for you to like not drive a car if you're gonna go deep.

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But I just wanna invite you to take this in to whatever depth works for you.

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Don't overthink it.

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If you need to set yourself up in a space where you can really

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settle into this, then I invite you to go ahead and and do that now.

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And maybe you wanna pause this and come back in a minute.

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So the purpose of this visualization is just to do a little energetic attunement,

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and this is about what does that mean and what does it feel like to come into

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alignment and what happens to the rest of our body and our life when we do.

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That's what we're gonna be doing together here is just being curious about that.

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So wherever you are, uh, just begin by taking a few clearing breaths just to

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bring your awareness from the outside world to the inside of yourself.

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Calling your attention inward, not focusing on the past where you've been,

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or who you think you have been up until now or the future, and where you're going.

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We're just going to come into the now, this present moment

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with an openness and a curiosity.

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And you're invited to just tune into your body from here to notice if there's

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any sensations, any emotions, and just take a moment to become present

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and pause here and really notice what's going on inside of yourself.

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Maybe you already have an awareness of something that's knocking on the door

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of your consciousness, but in a moment I wanna invite you to allow an issue

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to come forward that you would like to resolve or tend through this alignment.

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And that could be something that's going on physically.

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It could be something in your life that you wanna shift.

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What is one thing in this present moment that would like some tending?

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or maybe what's the first thing that comes into your, brain when

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you ask yourself that question

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and just making a decision to go with that thing that's popping up for you right now.

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I wanna just invite you to begin to make relationship to that.

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Maybe there are specific sensations related to it.

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Maybe there's an emotional quality, and if it had a color or an image

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or a word, what would that be?

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And I just wanna invite you to, in your imagination, decide on a number

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that you're going to apply to this.

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Issue that you're experiencing, on a scale of one to 10, what

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is it at for you right now?

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One being it's just a little pea shoot in the soil of your being, and 10 being

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it's like a massive tree of discomfort.

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And how big of a deal is it in this moment?

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That's really all you wanna decide.

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How much is it challenging you?

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And maybe you wanna speak this number out loud, just fully acknowledging

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how it is for you to have this thing going on in your life.

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And so now that you've identified how intense it is for you or how big of a deal

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it is, right in this moment, . We're gonna give it some space, some acknowledgement,

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maybe offer just a compassionate moment to honor whatever it is for you.

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Honor that it has its own intelligence, its own purpose.

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Honoring that it's part of your heroes or healer's.

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And maybe it's just one of the many beautiful or terrible or beautifully

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terrible obstacles that you came here to learn and grow from.

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Maybe it's perfect.

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And when we allow that idea to come in,

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what we're really doing is just bringing in a little bit of trust in your soul's

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ability to take care of this and to be taken care of in your ability to learn

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and heal in exactly the right way.

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And timing that is perfect for you.

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Even if you cannot in your wildest imagination, determine how that is true.

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We're just going to invite the mystery around that,

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and now that we have acknowledged that there's a thing, maybe there's

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many things going on for you.

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, we're just going to let, let it be for a minute, opening the doorway of possibility

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that it could become something new.

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And we're gonna do that by now.

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Just focusing on our own alignment.

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Coming into an imagination of the spine.

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And in the center of your spine, there is a hollow place that is full

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of liquid, that has a pulsation, your cerebral spinal fluid.

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And within that fluid, we could imagine that there's also a subtle

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energy that's flowing and breathing.

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And that subtle energy that flows through the center of our spine, it

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also flows through our entire body, through every cell and molecule.

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And it extends even beyond our body, out the top of your head growing

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up through the crown chakra.

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You could imagine this glowing light, rising up.

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All the way through the atmosphere, out into space, into whatever idea you can

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conjure for the center of the cosmos.

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Perhaps that is a place that you would consider your source, the origin

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of your soul, your highest self,

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and connecting with this energy, allowing yourself to draw that down

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and in and through you infusing your body with your own divinity, and

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moving down through the bottom of your spine, allowing it to grow like roots

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through the floor and into the center of the earth.

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Connecting with that healing, nourishing earth energy, allowing yourself to

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draw that energy up and into your body,

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and as the energy of the earth and the energy of sky mingle within you,

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in The center of your spine.

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Is being infused with unlimited resource.

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And from here you are in alignment.

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And in this expansive space, healing is possible.

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Remembering from here that you are already whole, that you already have

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everything you need, that you have access to it all from this place,

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and inviting in any insight, any support, any energy that is necessary

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for you in the moment to find more balance, more flow in your energy,

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in your body, and in your life.

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And as you begin to acclimate to this more expansive way of being,

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I wanna invite you to bring your attention back to that initial thing.

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And just notice, be curious what has changed about it,

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whatever number it was at before.

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Where has it come to now?

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Maybe there's a new word or a new.

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Or a new insight available, And as you're ready, I invite you to return

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your awareness to this present moment, to what's going on within and around you as.

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And in completion,

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I just want to invite you to really honor yourself for being willing to courageously

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explore your energy in this way., acknowledge these shifts for yourself.

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Whatever is coming up for you is perfect.

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Nothing has to be different, but it almost always is,

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this is a tool that you can return to anytime it is yours.

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You have access to it through your imagination.

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Connecting on this axis of expansiveness is one way that we

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can begin to orient our energy.

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And through this attunement, our energy begins to flow

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and pulse more efficiently.

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No matter how old or chronic or brand new and recent, our issues may be that

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it's through that courage to explore in a multi-dimensional way, that

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we can affect powerful change both within ourselves and in the world.

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So I am going to continue with this next series deepening into that more

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the, the tools, that address how we can tend to ourselves in a sacred way.

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And what soul care really is, is just that, it's just tending, it's devotional

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practice that's devoted to yourself.

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I'm really excited about the next five episodes that are coming, where

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We'll go into each of the elements to really find some actionable ways

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and exercises to work with them.

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. So thank you so much for listening, and I hope that you found this episode helpful.

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And if you did, then please share it with your friends,

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And as always, I'm just so honored to be sharing energy

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in Sacred Community with you.