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The Universe is PREPARING you. · Soul Salon with Ayandastood

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  Hello Divine Soul, I am sending so much love and light and beautiful energy your way.
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  It has been a long time coming for me to create this Soul Session.
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  So if you are new here, welcome to the Soul Salon.
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  May it serve you, may it touch you, may it reach you,
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  and may it be felt, may it be received from the most loving part of you,
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  and may it be sent from the most loving and generous part of myself.
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  So a question that many of us face in this journey of life is,
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  why is it taking so long?
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  Like why is it taking so long for whatever I am calling in into my life?
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  For some of you this may be a romantic love or partner, it could be a community, it could be
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  friendship like a really solid friend or group of friends.
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  For me it has been healing.
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  I think many
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  of us here can relate that there's something that you wish would heal much faster than it's healing.
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  Now I've been on this journey with my voice for a year and a little bit okay and I literally thought
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  that this would be three weeks, like just a little bit of an in and out.
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  And it's been years.
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  I mean,
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  it's been a year.
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  It's been a year, but I literally, it feels like it's been decades.
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  So basically, long story short, I have a form of acid reflux called laryngeal-pharyngeal LPR
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  reflux, which affects the vocal cords and which can manifest in symptoms like dryness, coughing,
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  a strained, tight, dry throat, and which makes speaking feel very challenging and feel hoarse.
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  It's almost like I heard someone describe it as though you are driving a car with the emergency
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  brake on.
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  Okay, so we don't like that.
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  So when this started last February, I was like, oh my
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  word, this will just be an in and out.
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  They'll give me some medication and then it will be solved.
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  And here I am more than a year later and I'm still grappling with this issue.
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  And what is
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  really heartbreaking about this is I am a speaker.
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  I came here to speak like I, you know, they don't
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  talk about, okay, you found your purpose and then what?
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  You know, you have a body, you have this
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  human experience where sometimes your purpose is taken away from you.
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  But I do believe that we are
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  infinite, we are multidimensional, and so we can continue to evolve and find new ways of expressing.
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  But this has been a really humbling journey for me.
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  But this is not about me.
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  It's about you.
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  So
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  like me, there's something in your life that you wish would happen faster and you wish would come
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  sooner.
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  It could be a level of financial freedom and abundance.
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  It could be that will unlock the
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  kind of life you actually want to live, unlock how you want to spend your time and how you want to
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  spend your energy, unlock a level of freedom that you can see so clearly is meant to be yours,
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  but is not yet your reality.
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  As we know, in the infinite plane, like the 5D plane of vision and
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  of possibility, everything happens instantly.
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  Right now, you can imagine yourself living the
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  life of your dreams.
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  Right now, we as a collective can imagine ourselves frolicking, enjoying the
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  abundance of the earth because it didn't have to be this way.
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  It's all very instant in the
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  imagination.
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  It's perfect, it's infinite, and it's instant.
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  But in the 3D world, in the material world,
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  things happen much slower.
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  You can have a vision for starting something and then actually start it
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  five years later.
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  You might desire or see it so clearly where you are singing on a stage and it
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  may take five years, 10 years for you to be on that stage.
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  You might envision yourself at the
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  book launch, writing the book, you know, signing copies of your beautiful book that's going to be
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  underlined and dog-eared and just like loved and loved upon.
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  But then it takes many years to write
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  that book.
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  So we know that time works differently in imagination and vision versus in this reality.
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  But we also know that everything we are living is a manifestation of imagination.
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  And so whose
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  imagination are we living in?
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  Often the colonizer's imagination of what is beauty, what should time be
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  used for, who is valuable, even the word value.
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  You know, the way we perceive reality, I always
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  think of why did the colonizer fight so hard to teach us their languages and to insist that we
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  speak English and Spanish and like these languages.
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  It's also to control our relationship to reality,
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  which has been sustained.
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  But that's another, you know, a whole new topic.
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  But what I want to say
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  is that there's this gap.
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  There's the speedy, instant imagination,
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  and then there's what's happening,
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  which takes longer, you know, which is slower.
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  And so we need to tend to this imagination
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  because it is a birthing place
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  for the kind of world we wish to see.
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  And as we can see with what's happening with AI
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  and all of these things,
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  when a few people's imagination
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  get to dictate the world we live in,
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  there are very severe consequences for all of us, okay?
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  So I need you to believe in your dreams and your imagination
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  and fertilize and nourish and plant those seeds,
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  but then also be patient.
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  Oh my word, it's so unsexy, isn't it?
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  Like we just want more glamorous
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  advice.
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  We want a hack.
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  We want something we've never heard before.
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  But what I believe when it
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  comes to wisdom, which is a deep commitment that I have, is living a life in a way that is in
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  pursuit of deeper wisdom.
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  So with wisdom, nothing that is wise hasn't been said before.
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  That's the
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  beauty of wisdom.
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  You know, a lot of the way that capitalism is framed is about novelty.
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  It's about
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  something new it's about innovation but actually returning is a very powerful force that we
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  especially black people indigenous people brown people asian people we have the we have the wisdom
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  to live peacefully with the earth so it's about returning to the wisdom you know versus reinventing
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  wisdom now of course wisdom then meets modern times like the wisdom of how to use dating apps
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  or whatever that's um more in alignment with the timeline we're living now but the principles are
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  often ancient principles.
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  Okay, so what are we talking about now?
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  So the question was,
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  why is it taking so long?
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  We are reconciling that things in our imagination are fast,
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  things in reality can be slow.
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  They can also be fast.
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  Sometimes things happen way faster than you
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  think they will happen.
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  But more often than not, it's the opposite.
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  Now, especially when we are
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  dealing with natural processes, we only need to look to the earth to see that anything meaningful
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  takes time to develop and grow you know an avocado tree for example can take 5 to 13 years
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  to bear fruit we have an avocado tree and it hasn't been born fruit in 20 years so nature is
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  much slower we can see that the tree it is so sustainable but it grows very slowly and because
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  we have been many of us severed from that relationship with the earth again because of
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  capitalism and supremacy and the way that cities dominate the collective imagination of where it's
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  worthy to to live a life and also all the job opportunities and all the things so we move to
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  the cities and we sever our relationship with the earth now if you have a relationship with the
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  earth if you have places where you walk in nature or places where you go the ocean by you know that
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  that is a form of abundance that most people on earth right now don't have like beautiful access
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  is to nature okay and we also know that that is tied to class and race in terms of access to green
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  spaces so anyways let's continue so what i need so i need you to know that that's a form of abundance
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  but now what i want to tell you the key word when you ask yourself why is it taking so long the
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  key word that i invite you to remember okay is preparation so the next time you ask yourself
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  why is it taking so long the key word that's going to pop in preparation i'm being prepared
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  i am being prepared it had to take this long for me to be ready for the magic the magnificence the
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  abundance that is coming my way you know how in university sometimes there are prerequisites you
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  have to have taken in order to take a certain class like you can't just jump to the most
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  complicated math class or history class or English class.
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  Sometimes you first have to have taken,
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  you know, mathematics one or intro to calculus before you take an advanced calculus class.
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  But many of us are trying to order on, trying to order on instant delivery, a lesson for which we
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  are not fully prepared.
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  So the universe gives us the curriculum for us to become the version of us
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  who is prepared for what we are calling in to not only experience it, but to hold it, you know,
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  like lottery winners will get a lot of money and then just because they were not prepared and also
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  to enjoy it like people who fear that they may lose everything if they if they relax so they
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  never take days off you know they just are always working or they always are stressed because they're
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  scared that it's just going to be taken away from them so they got what they wanted but they can't
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  enjoy it so what if everything happening that is quote-unquote taking so long is preparing you
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  to enjoy, hold, and sustain, and grow, let's add grow, what you are calling in.
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  So your dream relationship.
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  And you think, but where is this person?
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  Why are they taking so long?
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  What I like to believe is what if every single person you are meeting is either,
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  I learned this actually from the coach Annie Lala.
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  She's a love and dating coach.
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  She says that treat every single person you date either as your soulmate
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  or as preparation for your soulmate.
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  So if you are in a situation or you're in a relationship
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  that doesn't serve your highest good,
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  you needed to be in that classroom
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  in order to receive the lesson
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  to then become the version of you
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  who can meet your dream partner on their level
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  and on your level that you are supposed to embody
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  in that relationship.
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  Now, of course, we're not justifying anyone
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  who treats you badly or abuse or any of those things.
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  Absolutely not.
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  You are precious and you should be treated as such.
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  And we are not glorifying that in any way,
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  But what we are saying is we can choose to believe that it's almost like there is a classroom curriculum unfolding for us through each person and each interaction.
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  Now, let's talk about business.
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  In business, you may be manifesting something happening like this.
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  Like, for example, me and my best friend Alex, we run a creative membership and we had all these plans about how quickly we thought that the membership could grow.
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  And the universe said, ding, ding, ding.
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  No, no, no, no, no.
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  You are being prepared.
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  You're not ready for that level of growth yet.
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  So all these challenges come as they do in the creation of anything meaningful.
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  If you write a book, it's going to be challenges.
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  If you start a podcast, starting is the challenge and then sustaining and continuing is the challenge.
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  There will always be challenges, but those challenges are here to mold and shape you into the version of you who can enjoy what you are calling in, who can hold it, who can grow it, who can nurture it, and who can be that juicy, abundant tree with lots of fruits.
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  Because that tree earned those fruits.
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  the conditions came together and had to be right it took patience it took years and we are being
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  severed removed from this more patient and slow understanding of life because of capitalism and
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  consumerism so because there's this idea of instant gratification we then apply that to our dreams
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  we apply that to what we're calling in we apply that to our bodies i heard this creator on tick
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  on YouTube.
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  She said, your body's not Amazon Prime.
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  It takes the time it takes to heal.
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  And her name is Molly Pelletier.
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  I forgot her last name, but she's been a saving grace because her
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  whole channel is all about acid reflux.
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  So she's been like, she's been taking care of me because
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  her videos really speak to me and they've been really helpful in terms of managing acid reflux.
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  So if you have acid reflux, definitely go check her out.
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  Random, but yes, the things of life.
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  So I just want to remind you, preparation.
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  Okay, so what is something that you are calling in and
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  what if the universe is trying to prepare you?
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  Let me give you another metaphor.
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  So we use the
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  metaphor of the classroom.
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  What about a meal?
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  If you told me, oh, I want to eat something delicious,
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  but I only have five minutes for you to make it for me.
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  What am I going to be able to make you
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  in five minutes?
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  Something that's already made.
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  But what if I want to make you the most luxurious
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  feast?
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  I want to marinate.
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  I want to stew.
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  I want to create a broth overnight.
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  I want things to
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  seep.
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  I want complex flavors.
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  I want to go all the way to the market and get you your favorite fresh
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  spices.
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  Okay, I want to go and get the best fresh produce, but it's going to take a while because
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  it's not in season.
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  I want to go and actually ask for help in preparing the dish so that I get the
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  best hands in the kitchen with me to prepare the dish.
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  I want to make you handmade bread.
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  I don't
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  want to go buy you bread, which would take five minutes.
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  I want to make you bread.
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  I want to knead
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  that bread.
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  I want to wait.
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  Well, wait first.
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  I want to grow my own starter kit.
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  Okay.
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  I want to
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  create the starter.
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  That's going to take some time.
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  So do you, do you pick up what I'm throwing
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  here?
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  I think you pick it up.
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  If I want to make you something magnificent, like, oh, scrumptious,
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  something flavorful, something complex, it's going to take time.
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  It's going to take time.
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  Some of the ingredients may not be in season.
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  Maybe I want to get you the best ceramics.
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  Maybe
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  I want to make the ceramics.
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  Maybe I want to first learn how to make a ceramic.
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  Do you catch what I'm
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  throwing?
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  So what if the universe is cooking up the most delicious, complex, magical feast that's
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  going to wow you?
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  It's not just going to be someone handing you a banana.
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  It's going to be a complex
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  feast of all your favorite flavors.
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  But the trade-off is it's going to take some time.
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  So the
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  feast you are calling in because you are someone who's here to manifest magic and miracles and
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  possibilities that no one in your lineage has seen before sometimes what you will be asked to hold
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  is that it's going to take longer than you think it is supposed to take because maybe you need to
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  meet this person or you need this person and this person to meet before you meet them maybe
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  you need your partner out there learning conflict resolution from someone else
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  maybe you need to wait a little bit to move to that dream city of yours because on the day you
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  move in the elevator is going to be your next partner maybe you needed to wait to move to the
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  city so that when you are in the city you're so grateful even these minor inconveniences that
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  everyone complains about you know in big cities people complain you know because yeah there's a
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  lot to complain about but you're like because you waited so now you're in this energy of
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  gratitude of earning you earned it and you feel so alive to its magic and you don't focus on what
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  is missing or lacking in the experience maybe your consciousness needed that separation so that the
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  union could be a true source of celebration so whatever you are calling in if it is taking time
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  trust you are being prepared it could be energetically to truly receive something with
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  gratitude with openness it could be financially it could be emotionally it could be spiritually
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  you're being prepared it could be that you're being prepared to become the teacher of the
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  lesson you're supposed to teach so i've gone through this journey and here i am talking to
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  you about it so what if the universe knows okay this woman we have a voice that we want to speak
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  through her so if we have her go through this experience she's going to have a more rich message
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  to share at the end because suffering unfortunately does do that not that you have to suffer to have
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  a message but what do most people talk about on that TED talk stage and it's not only because
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  people you know it resonates and it creates connection and it's the human condition
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  so what am I being prepared for I want to ask you what might the universe be preparing you for
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  when you ask why is it taking so long can you change your tone of voice from judgment frustration
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  to curiosity.
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  Why is it taking so long?
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  Oh, I wonder who the universe wants me to meet through
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  this waiting.
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  I wonder what the universe wants me to experience in this womb space where so much
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  creative potential happens.
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  Because at the end of the day, as we all know, again, wisdom is a
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  returning.
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  Wisdom is something we already know.
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  We know that when we focus too much on the destination,
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  it robs us of the beauty, the richness, the flavor of the aromas as they're cooking is just as magical
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  as once they've been cooked.
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  Am I right?
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  Being in the kitchen, knowing you still have to wait,
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  but there's a lot of beautiful erotic potential
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  in the waiting.
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  So allowing this to be on purpose, there's no mistakes.
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  Maybe it's taking this long because it needed to,
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  just like a tree is not going to birth a mango in one month.
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  Anything meaningful takes time.
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  You took nine months in the womb
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  And many of you, your parents waited ages before that, before you came to them.
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  You know, there's challenges with pregnancy and so forth.
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  There's a waiting period to any manifestation.
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  Think of how many years some of these filmmakers have it in their mind before they actually make the movie.
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  Your dream book, like so many things, are cooking in a slower oven than what we see.
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  There's invisible growth.
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  I always like to think of the tree growing in two directions.
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  Yes, we see it growing up, but underneath the ground, it's growing deeper and deeper and more complex roots into the earth so that it can blossom in both ways.
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  So there is invisible growth happening through your waiting as there is in any darkness.
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  There's darkness happening.
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  There's a womb.
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  There's the roots of the tree.
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  There's growth happening underground that we cannot see, but that is necessary for everything that we then will come to see.
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  if you are trying to grow on social media and you're asking yourself why is it taking so long
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  first i just want to say the funnest part is when when you you think you want all the the funnest
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  part and so many creators say this the most fun part is when no one knows you you think you want
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  to be viral you think you want to grow i mean let me actually you get to decide what your funnest
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  part is but i just want to say maybe you are being prepared for what is coming your way nervous
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  system wise energetically you're being prepared and the universe is preparing something so
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  scrumptious for you to nibble on for you to enjoy snack on delight in okay so why is it taking so
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  long i invite you in the comments to share why in a curious fun playful delicious flirtatious way
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  why could it be taking so long and just dream about why this time needs to happen you could say
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  maybe there's someone that i need to meet that i can only meet at a certain time maybe there's a
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  beautiful partnership coming my way but it's taking a while because they're still becoming
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  who they need to be in order for me to meet them and for them to meet me emotionally so just being
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  creative about the possibilities because we always assume the worst when things take longer than we
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  think they should i'm sending so much love to you and i'll see you on the next soul session i love
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  you bye my darling my love my soul sibling thank you for stepping into the soul salon if you are
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  still hearing or watching this we are soul siblings we are resonating on the same frequency and so
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  something you may struggle with that i struggle with is the fear of being seen you know that
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  visibility is involved in you living your creative purpose and being in your power serving the
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  collective through your gifts through your magic through your medicine in order to do that you know
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  you need to be more seen than you are allowing yourself to be right now.
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  I have a gift just for
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  you, heart made for us on this frequency.
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  And it is a free ebook called the soulful visibility
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  guide that is soulful visibility.
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  Like we don't just want to be seen.
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  We want to be felt.
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  We want
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  to be heard.
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  We want to move and be moved.
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  So I do have a free gift for you.
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  And all you need to do
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  is go to my website, I understood.com.
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  And there you will be able to input your email address
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  and receive this directly to your inbox.
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  This is such a juicy and delicious guide.
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  And I change
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  the free offering every few months.
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  So you know, get it while you can.
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  All the links are in the
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  show notes.
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  So thank you so much.
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  I love you and I will see you on the next soul session.
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  Okay,
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  I love you.
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  Bye.