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Ep 6 Understanding Your Spiritual Awakening · The Liminal Lounge Mediums

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  SPEAKER_00: This is the Soul to Earth Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Carrie Coss, psychic evidential medium, mentor, and witch, here to help you explore your connection with the spirit world and discover your own grounded spiritual practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hello, everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: How are we today?
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  SPEAKER_00: My goodness, it is already mid-September 2024.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am really excited about today's episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is something that actually about a week ago, I had another plan for this episode, completely another plan, which we will still do an episode on that particular thought that I was going to have, but we're going to go in a slightly different direction.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really think it's incredibly important for at least me as a spiritual mentor and a coach to be able to offer those of you that are brand new to your spiritual journey as much support, guidance, clear information and encouragement as possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I'm going to do a little series, which I believe will be a three-part series on things that will help you during your spiritual awakening.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first part of this will be being able to really recognize and understand and validate when you start your spiritual awakening or your spiritual journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: And to be able to talk about some of the telltale signs that are happening probably in your life during a spiritual awakening, and also some common themes that happen to a lot of people.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're also going to definitely go into, I'll tell you a little bit about my story and what happened for me during my awakening, as well as some of my students.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I'm going to definitely offer some guidance, some tips, some really fundamental things that I think will really give you, first of all, a lot of encouragement, some comfort, validation, and some guidance.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's get into the episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm going to start with my story first of all, and which we've talked about before on the podcast, but in relationship to my actual experience, what happened within me during my awakening, I think it's important to know that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And again, I'm sharing this with you because I really want you to find comfort, validation, and a sense of that you're not in this alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's so important.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I know my students always feel very comforted by these type of stories and um hearing other people's stories.
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  SPEAKER_00: So not just my story, but others' stories too.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when I was just after high school, I moved into my own apartment with a roommate.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were so excited.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were starting college, we had both had part-time jobs, and it was just a really exciting time in my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I had a framework of what I wanted to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so one night, um, my roommate and I actually brought home one of my favorite uh cuisines, and that was Chinese food.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, we grew up in the Bay Area, and Chinese food is really good in the Bay Area.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we had this really lovely meal.
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  SPEAKER_00: We went to bed that, you know, that night.
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  SPEAKER_00: We both had, I think, probably work the next day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And about two hours after I fell asleep, I woke up and went through an experience which triggered and was a telltale sign of I believe in awakening.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can happen for a lot of people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I woke up and I had the biggest panic attack.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I had no idea because I'd never had a panic attack in my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was hyperventilating, I was, I felt spacey, I started moving what I call now like shifting out of my body, my thoughts started racing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I felt sweaty palms, um, I didn't know how to articulate what was going on.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I woke my roommate up and I said, I something's happening to me and I have no idea what's going on.
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  SPEAKER_00: So from that point, she she drove me to the emergency room.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I had no idea what was going on.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I got to, you know, in and spoke with the doctor, I started to tell him what was my symptoms were.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he looked at me and he said, I think you're having an anxiety attack.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I went, I'm having a what?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, and I he said, You're having a panic attack.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd never heard of a panic attack.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know what that meant.
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  SPEAKER_00: And from there, I, you know, was went back home, went back to sleep, but I from there on, I had this impending doom and fear that something was that that was going to reoccur and happen again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, during that time, at the very same time, I became deeply, deeply just motivated to be able to understand the psychology of why this happened to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I wanted to get to the bottom of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I wanted to deeply understand this the the sim, not just it from the physical standpoint, but what was happening in my mental state and what was happening with like what happened in my energy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I began, you know, trying to seek out as much information as I could possibly get my hands on.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that led me on this path of being able to, I started reading all these books about which really were the these things of you know, metaphysics and um understanding energetics.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I even went so far as to studying things that now I know are much more about somatic healing and energetic healing, but I wanted to get to the bottom of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it really sent me on this journey, which then led me on my path.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was almost like this insatiable thing that I had to understand it, but it was it was more than just for my own mental health, it was this desire, and that wanting to understand was became my purpose, and it really drove me and compelled me forward on my path, and it was just this need to understand things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And from there, as I began to read more and more and more, things started like synchronicities started to happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Things started falling in alignment.
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  SPEAKER_00: I started meeting people that also talked about things like what I would consider now to be the language of spirit, energy, synchronicities, timing, how we manifested things.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was just this insatiable thing that became my path and never ended.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so the keynote thing that I wrote here as one of these sort of telltale signs of an awakening is this personal growth and evolution.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I have some of these specific signs would be that these are triggered by life events.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes, uh, so mine in my case was, you know, I moved out of my house into my own apartment, and that's started it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Although now I know better because I think my higher self set things up that way for me to never get too comfortable and stuck in a career.
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  SPEAKER_00: That this is this is something I'll talk about in a minute, but that was part of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it can be a change in life.
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  SPEAKER_00: You also something that happens during a spiritual awakening often is when you lose someone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and that could either be through divorce, that could be through death passing, that can be through a breakup.
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  SPEAKER_00: Often that something that triggers a spiritual awakening where all of a sudden you have these more dramatic things happen to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You start having, say, for example, vivid dreams, or you start sensing things where you're when you go into places, you maybe even see spirits.
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  SPEAKER_00: You might even have um someone that has passed visit you, you know, either in either consciously during the day or in a dream.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it often a spiritual awakening is very much coupled with life transitions and crises that we experience, things that really matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: So big events, I should say.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so the next thing I want to talk about is just to be able to validate that I believe that on our planet right now, we are massively going through a spiritual awakening.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's not just uh, you know, handfuls of people here and there, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people, I believe, are going through a large awakening.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is changing and shifting and um moving us in our awareness and getting us to be more aware of that which we cannot see with our physical eyes, but that which is of spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so this is moving us into a place of wanting to understand more and to understand, you know, energy, to understand our abilities and to be able to utilize them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of us even feel moved to do this as a career.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of us just want to live more in our purpose, more in alignment with things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I do have my own perceptions and my uh from my professional experience, as well as my own personal experience and spiritual experience of why this is happening and what this is about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I truly believe that, you know, we as a species, we are spirit, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We are body, mind, and spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're spiritual beings having a human experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: And just as they say from an astrological perspective, you know, we are going through this shift, moving from this Piscean age into the age of Aquarius, which is more of a time of enlightenment.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is a time of bringing ourselves more into fullness as human beings to be able to understand ourselves more than just going through these, you know, these daily things of getting up, going to school, going to work, getting married, having children.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are more than this.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are greater than this.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so part of it, I believe, that has happened to so many of us is that as our higher selves plan this ahead of time, we have soul contracts where we are coming onto this planet right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are incarnating many of us and we are awakening.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as more and more and thousands of us, you know, begin to awaken, we awaken those around us, we awaken the planet, and we live more in harmony with each other, with our planet, and also just in general, begin to elevate the vibration.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, obviously, we can see it all around our world, how our world is crumbling from the old way of being into the new, from living more in synchronicity with the divine feminine energy.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've heard of this, we will talk more about this on this podcast, and living in alignment with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, part of this is you awakening, going through your journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, as people begin to awaken, they start to notice things, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like synchronicities.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what are those all about, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Synchronicities, one of my favorite things to talk about are those are those meaningful, supposed coincidences and moments when things seem to fall into place perfectly.
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  SPEAKER_00: For example, you look on the clock and it says 1111, and you notice that all the time you're seeing this, this you know, series of numbers.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1111, 1111.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was my series of numbers, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or 222 or 444, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or 777, those are your numbers, and it's leading you to making you feel like you are things aren't just happening randomly.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're happening, they're being activated specifically because of trying to get your attention.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is your higher self and spirit's way of making you, in fact, wake up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I want to say when people are beginning to go through their awakening, it can be disconcerting.
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  SPEAKER_00: So some people really feel like everything they've done up until this point feel as though they have been not doing it consciously.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they sometimes feel as though they have been, you know, not um paying as much attention to these things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, they don't feel as much of a uh being in sync with things they used to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this can be all types of things.
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  SPEAKER_00: This can definitely start with something as rudimentary as they are no longer drawn to the foods they used to eat, they are no longer drawn to the shows they used to watch, the books they used to read, possibly the friends they used to spend time with, the relationship they're in, the job they're in, what they're studying, how they spend their time.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is one of the things that I, as a spiritual mentor, work with regularly, that a lot of my students and clients come to me and they say, I no longer feel like I fit into the life that I used to have.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's why it's so important to start with the fundamentals of what is really helpful to stay grounded during a spiritual awakening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because after all, you know, when these things happen and you start to feel a shift, one thing that I think is really important for our nervous system and for our mental health is to first of all take a deep breath, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Work on just being present in the moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the so that's my first tip is grounding, breath work.
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  SPEAKER_00: When all these shifts are going on, sometimes there's this impetus to want to just get rid of everything, cut off relationships, stop going where you used to go, stop doing the things you used to do, completely throw everything out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I would say my advice is don't do that because that will put you into a little bit of shock and also a tailspin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rather just take your time, focus on your breath, focus on being centered, and just make one change at a time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Definitely seek out people that are like-minded, um, that you can talk to about this experience, but that are gonna also help you keep grounded and that are gonna help you just break things down and stay in the present.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so the first thing I always teach my students and my clients is to focus on your grounding.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a grounding technique, which I definitely recommend uh, you know, learning.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's different ways to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some people like to just get out in nature, take their shoes off, put their feet in the ground, connect to the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Primary one is I teach my clients to imagine that they have a root or a grounding cord that is literally stemming from the base of their spine and the bottoms of their feet.
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  SPEAKER_00: And just imagine those roots are going down to the center of the earth, and then they're being grabbed onto by this beautiful golden molten center, also known as our Mother Earth, Mother Gaia.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a loving presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is gonna just help your aura, your energy field, and your chakras relax, just come into center.
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  SPEAKER_00: From there, of course, you can work on energetic things like filling yourself up with a big white sun or a golden sun.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are gonna just help you feel relaxed, calm, not overstimulated.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, your nervous system is shifting and you're becoming more sensitive and aware where you might have not had that before.
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  SPEAKER_00: So being gentle with yourself is very important.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, when it comes, we're going to talk in another episode about your actual spiritual abilities, your psychic abilities coming into play as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so that we will save for another episode coming up, but you're going to start having hyper-focused awareness and being much more noticing things that you may have not noticed before.
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  SPEAKER_00: The main thing is to validate your experiences, but to feel a sense of calmness and ease.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, focusing on an ease in your breath and grounding because of this heightened sensitivity and awareness.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, questioning your beliefs, increase synchronicities, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Also a drive for a deeper meaning and purpose in your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Many of my clients come to me and they feel as though what they've been doing in their career or with whatever they've been studying isn't fulfilling them, and that they long for something that gives them a sense of purpose, where they're using their gifts.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the first thing I say to them is let's just take this step by step.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the first thing, again, we want to get really grounded in our energy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to focus on our breath, and then we want to learn about our abilities, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But also what we want to understand is how to find our own inner navigation system.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a big part of that is being able to listen to your intuition.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're going to talk in another episode about what is your intuition?
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  SPEAKER_00: How does it show up for a lot of people?
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  SPEAKER_00: How to be able to recognize it, how to be able to work with it on a daily basis for just direction, guidance, and a sense of clarity.
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  SPEAKER_00: So important.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, and again, because we're looking for deeper meaning, we're looking for deeper purpose during own awakening, the best guidance you have is what you get from your own intuition.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, you're becoming aware of your spiritual gifts, as I mentioned.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the other thing I always like to tell people is that you're going to be going through big emotional shifts.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when you're more sensitive and you're more in touch with uh your psychic abilities and you're adjusting them and noticing them and that they are a part of your daily experience now, your emotions can also get very activated and triggered.
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  SPEAKER_00: And some people feel a little bit like an open nerve.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh again, I want to validate that experience and also help you to understand that this is a more of a transitional state that you will learn to integrate into your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: You'll learn to uh protect your energy, uh, to be able to have boundaries, things of that nature.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, this is part of the awakening journey and something that takes some time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, with that, you want to also think about getting a journal.
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  SPEAKER_00: A journal is a wonderful way for you to be able to write down your emotions, to be able to reflect on the experiences that you're having, and to be able to gather insight and understand yourself from an objective perspective.
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  SPEAKER_00: When everything is bottlenecked and stored inside of you, it's really easy to begin second guessing yourself, doubting your experience, and also your mind can want to make sense of it and rationalize it or else dismiss it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so putting it outside of yourself onto paper really gets you into a perspective more so of objectivity, which I think is extremely important when it comes to uh your path and integrating these things into your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I do want to let you know that my work, the work I do and my school, we um everything is based around helping you on your spiritual path from the very beginning to deepening into further uh when you as you grow through your journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I would really like to encourage you to be able to sign up for it's absolutely free to join the school.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also feel free to book a session with me if you just want to be able to understand what the changes you're going through, how to be able to integrate your new found awareness into your daily life and to be able to develop a grounded practice that really helps you understand your journey and validate experience as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: The other thing that's so important is community.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, when we're going through our spiritual awakening, we can often feel isolated.
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  SPEAKER_00: I felt very isolated for uh quite some time, actually for over a year.
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  SPEAKER_00: I felt like I was the only one that was going through this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought, you know, something was wrong with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it wasn't until I began to talk to other people that were going through the same thing that made me then understand that I was not alone and that this was a normal thing that a lot of people were going through on the planet at that time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even more so now, there are more people out there to be able to help support you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what my entire school and my membership was all about, the Sacred Seer School.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I have enjoyed this first episode of talking about your spiritual awakening.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the next episode, we are going to talk about the beauty of working with your spirit guides and how much your spirit guides can help you through your awakening and your spiritual journey and throughout your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, as always, thank you so much for being an incredible part of this community.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we'll see you in the next episode.