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Erin N Newman · Postcards to the Universe

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Welcome to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa Capria. Do you believe in magic?
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What if you were told that all you had to do was get a
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little creative and work a magic spell to bring anything you can imagine into your
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life. Here on Postcards to the Universe, we will share manifesting tips,
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postcards, creativity, abundance, and prosperity. Here's your host, Melissa Capria.
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Hey guys, and welcome to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa creating the
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life you create. How are you guys doing today? As you can tell
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if you listen to my show last week, I had really bad learnchitas,
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but I still went on, so I'm proud of myself for doing that.
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And I listened to the show and I did actually sound pretty sexy, so
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that was funny. But my voice is back today, so I'm happy about
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that. I have a really cool show today. I have author of The
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Answer Within How to Access Your Spirit Guides for Alignment and Abundance, Aaron Newman
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as my guest, and she is going to join me in just a few
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minutes. I finished her book this morning and I loved it. So yeah,
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I'm excited to talk to you guys about that. Just a few things
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about me. If you're joining me for the first time, I want to
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say welcome. I so appreciate you being here, and I hope you keep
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coming back. And just so you know, a little FYI. We always
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put the show up on home times in the archives, so you can always
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listen to any show if you miss a show live. And I also upload
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the show on my website and on my podcast Postcards to the Universe dot com,
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so you can find any show there if you want to catch up on
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previous shows. I am a author and a photographer myself, and I have
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a book and it's titled Postcards to the Universe, Harness the Universe's Power and
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manifest your Dreams. And my book is all about manifesting abundance in all the
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different areas of our lives where we want more abundance, love, relationships,
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money, health, all that good stuff. So what I did is,
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because I'm a photographer, I had people create what I call a manifesting postcard.
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It's kind of like a mini vision board. And I have people make
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a postcard and send it to me, and when their manifestation shows up in
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their reality, they if they feel comfortable share their story with me. I
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photograph the postcard and tell their story. And that's what the book basically is.
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In a nutshell, it's sectioned off in the major life themes that we
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like. I said, we want more abundance, and I have a bunch
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of writing exercises and fun manifesting games you can play to bring more abundance in
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whatever area of your life you want. So if you're interested in doing these
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inner work exercises and reading people's incredible journeys of transformation and manifesting, grab yourself
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a copy of my book, which you can find at Barnes and Noble and
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of course Amazon, you know, and your local bookstore carries. Some local
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bookstores carry them, and if not, they will order it for you if
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you prefer to order it from a bookstore. So a few things I do
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a what I call magical message, and I post them on social media's and
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it's usually a manifesting postcard with the an affirmation. And I like to focus
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on affirmations because I think that they're really powerful, and this week's is saying
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yes. But what I'm doing now is I'm re photographing all of the post
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cards that are in my book. Because I am also doing live readings from
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my book on social media. I'm doing it on I'm releasing them on TikTok,
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Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn, so you can also follow along there
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and see the readings or listen to the readings. And so I decided to
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rephotograph the postcards from the book to do that. So this week's is about
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a woman who contributed in to my book, Jenny, and she talks about
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how she manifested a free trip to Mexico. So it's pretty cool. So
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saying yes for all of my regulars who listen to me each week, I
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just want to give you a shout out, thank you so much for joining
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me, and I hope you keep coming back. I'm also I've been talking
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about workshops, and I'm officially now doing two workshops. One is titled Manifesting
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through Gratitude, a Visual Journey, and it's online. Both of them are
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online, and this one runs five weeks on Thursday evenings six to eight pm,
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and we're covering living in gratitude using writing exercises and doing a daily visual
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gratitude practice using our camera phones to help us get into alignment with the energy
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of abundance, and we're going to focus on worthiness, self love, health
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and wellness, financial abundance, and our money story, and of course personal
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relationships, family, friends, and romance. And there will be an open
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forum for questions and answers and personal check ins. And I'm going to give
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writing exercises and daily photo prompts and tips of what to do. And I'm
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also going to be asking everybody to make a manifesting postcard in each area that
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we cover during the workshop, and at the end you're going to have a
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beautiful visual gratitude journal. So it's really powerful. I highly recommend it.
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I do it on the regular just for myself, so I want to share
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it with you guys. And then I have been talking about another workshop and
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it's official. It's out. So it's a one day, three hour workshop
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called putting your Wishes to Work and Manage fest Shoot the life you desire.
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And we're going to be making a manifesting postcard. In this workshop. You're
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going to learn how to create something that you want to bring in for the
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new year. So that class, like I said, is just a one
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off. It's January sixth, one to four pm Eastern time now if you
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want to find out more about the workshops or you want to register. If
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you go to Postcards to the Universe dot com and you go into workshops,
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you'll see both workshops listed there and you click on that and it will take
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you to either one and you can find out more. And I hope that
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you join me and I see you over there. And for those of you
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on Facebook, I have a group called Postcards of Love. It's public.
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We share just fun and uplifting stuff, so you can also find me over
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there. All right, So now let's get to my guest, Aaron Newman,
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and she is a speaker and author and soul fire ignit trick for women
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entrepreneurs. She helps business owners to overcome mindset blocks so that they can truly
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do what lights them up in their business and make them income they desire.
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The answer within how to access your spirit guides for alignment and abundance is aligning
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with your true purpose and create your unique version of success. Find the answers
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to all your important, real, real world questions. By connecting with your
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spirit guides. Aaron Newman teaches you how to safely work with them in a
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non appropriative way, regardless of your background or belief system. These guides help
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you make money doing what you love, relieve physical pain, cultivate kindness,
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heal ancestral patterns, and more. Aaron presents thirty hands on prompts that support
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all aspects of your life and give you the wisdom to move forward despite obstacles.
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By journeying to your spirit guides, you'll become more compassionate and release blocks
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along your sacred path. Perfect for any experience level, this easy to use
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book encourages you to align with your deeper purpose and bring the magical back into
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the practical. I love that and for more you can find about Aaron,
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you can go to her website, which is Aaron and Aaron Newman dot com.
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Let me spell it for you, so it's E R I N N
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E W M a N dot com. Welcome erin, Thanks for being here
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with me today. I'm so excited to be here, Melissa. I love
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that introduction. Thank you well. When I was reading your book, I
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saw, oh, she's talking a lot about saying stuff I talk about.
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So of course you know that's that's why we resonated to each other. So
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how did you get into the kind of work that you're doing today and what
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inspired you to write your book. Yeah, well, I guess like everybody's
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journey, it's it's not linear. I would definitely say yeah, I would
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definitely say that I got into the work of connecting with your soul guides because
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I was writing fiction at the time and really wanted to know how to do
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that kind of work. So I started, yeah, following a bunch of
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different people, as one does, and eventually landed on a shamanic practitioner training
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out in Colorado that I undertook for three years. And Yeah, and like
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I said, it just it just kind of continues from there. It just
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sort of deepens into your bigger message, which for me is really that this
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work is accessible to anybody, and that it can be accessible to anybody,
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and that you know, like like you shared already, that I'm really interested
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in bringing that magical back into the practical. Yeah. I love I love
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sentenced so much because I've talked about this a million times, like magic,
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magical is like my favorite word, so I'm always using that word. So
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I love it because I think that we do have more magic in our fingertips
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than we realize that we do. And it's just like tapping into it.
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Right. So you talk a lot about accessing your spirit, guys, and
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in the book you show us how to do that, which you have all
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these wonderful journaling and these prompts and exercises for us to follow along. So,
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like, how did that start for you? Were you just like writing
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and then you got a message or or like a thought came in your head
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and you knew it wasn't coming from your brain because we always get like,
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did I make that up? You know kind of thing. So I'll like
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to share your experience for sure. Yeah, I mean for me it was
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it was an actual process that I take people through in the Book of Journeying.
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And that's when you're entering into that altered trans state, which sounds really
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out there, but you know, you get into an alter translate when you're
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just watching television, right, we all kind of can zone out. And
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this has a very specific purpose of accessing something that's bigger than us, right
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of whatever way you want to think of the life force, the all that
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is source, God, universe, the thing that is bigger than all of
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us and unites all of us. And for me, that gets translated into
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spirit guides and or working with source directly. But in the book, I
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walk everybody through a process of journeying where you're you can you know, you
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can do it with meditation music, you can do it with drumming music and
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whatever, or even just silence, right, But I personally find it really
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helpful to utilize either a drum or meditation music. It helps me drop faster,
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but really dropping into that altered trance state verse, that space of silence,
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that space of where your conscious mind has been able to let go at
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least for a little bit. And then asking to meet with a specific guide.
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And then the third step is really trusting that whoever shows up or whatever
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shows up is actually real, right. And I mean we can talk all
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day about the concept of real and reality, but that that guidance that you're
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receiving is for you, It's real, It's coming in for you with a
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very specific purpose. And I mean I think that step three is probably the
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hardest part for everybody. Right. Is this real? Am I imagining it?
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Am? I? Yeah? Am? I just making things up in
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my head? And what I always share with people is who cares if you
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are right? Like if the information is good, if it's valid if it
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helps you, if it moves you forward in some way or heals you or
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gives you guidance. Why do we have to put this whole like right left
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brain structure? Yeah, right, no, yeah, I know, yeah.
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I always feel like for me, usually my signal that it's not something
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I'm making up is I'll get like a charge in my body like either goose
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bumps or something like a shiver or some kind of a physical charge that makes
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me think, oh, okay, this is a message for me. I'm
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not making this up. This is being given to me, you know.
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So that's from my own personal But that's only because I've I've done so much
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work and I read so much and I've take so many courses that I've been
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practicing stuff for so long that I've gotten to that bar, Like I didn't
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start out that way. Because, believe me, if I got those messages
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early on in some relate situations in my life would have saved me a lot
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of pain. Right, But we probably would have ignored them, you know.
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That's yeah, I think we do get those messages and we just ignored
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them. I mean how many times, you know, I don't know how
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old you are. But how many times in my early twenties did I do
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some really stupid stuff? But I knew like my stomach was clenched up right
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like that anxiety was already present. But I got it right, I just
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I just asked, did this thing anyway? So yes, I've done that.
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Yes. In fact, my ex husband, the first time I met
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him, the first thought I had was I remember you. And the second
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thing I heard was I'm in trouble and I ignored it. And I and
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let me tell you, I was in trouble and I ignored it. I
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know, I know. I still get goosebumps when I say it because I
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remember it. I was so clear, and I you know it. Whoever,
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my angel guys or spirit guides like you're not listening. Oh well,
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I never learn the hard No, we never do. I have to learn
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the hard way. So and you said something and I and I thought this
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was interesting because I've heard spirit guides before. But you talk about, you
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know, discovering who your spirit guide is, being open to that and seeing
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what messages and what comes. But you also talk about connecting to a body.
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Now I've heard of gatekeeper, but I've never heard of a body protector
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before and you talk about that, that's a new one for me. What
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can you share a little bit what what a body protector is. Yeah,
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essentially, it's a guide that So the concept of full travel is that you
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know, your body's still there, your soul is out there in the ether
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somewhere, hanging out, going on these journeys. And the concept of a
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body protector guide is that they're actually physically there with your body, you know,
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still keeping one eye open, kind of you know, still keeping that
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sort of sense of place and you know, actual body here. I personally
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tend to not that's the word I'm looking for. I tend to not focus
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so much on oh, you have to have all these protective things around you
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in order to do this work. But I know that for some people that's
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really supportive and really helpful, and they really want that, right, They
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really need that, you know, because there are things out there, you
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know, and people have experienced all sorts of psychic trauma and different things,
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and so a body protector is an additional layer of this. Is that guide
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who's going to be like, look, we need to come back right now,
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you know, we need to be present here. You know, you're
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going to are kind of Again, I don't I don't personally have a lot
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of that ye experience in terms of you know, anything negative. But for
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some people they Yeah, for some people, they really really want all those
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levels of reassurance. And and sure, I've definitely yeah, so I've definitely
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had experiences where my body protector or my gatekeeper was like, look not today,
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right, Like, that's not it's not a precipitous time today. Let's
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let's just chog. Yeah. Yeah, And you talk about being open to
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how it shows up, because you talk about in the book the octopus,
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your octopus. Yes, that you were like, you know, which is
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kind of also like people have animal totems and that could be a spirit guide
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or body protector. It just depends on what your experiences while you're journeying,
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while you're going through the journey, and what shows up for you to pay
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attention to that. So sure, like what was the first time you met
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your first year if you're a guy, Like, what did it look like?
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What did it feel like? So anybody listening maybe like, well,
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maybe I've had this experience and I'm not not paying attention, right, My
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first guide was I was actually receiving a massage, which you know, nice,
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it's very interesting, but you know, when she had this amazing music
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on and I just felt and she was also a shamanic practitioner, she had
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a lot of other stuff like happening, and it was a massage, and
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I just felt this experience of having this one guy come coming in, you
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know, swooping in, rushing in and just holding out his wings, you
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know, and I just felt that presence so strongly, like you said,
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the goosebumps, you know, and it was like I'm still getting goo bumps
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right now, Like it shook me to my court, like oh my god,
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this is this is I don't even know what powerful. And I would
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say that over time, it doesn't quite feel like that as much anymore,
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but you know, it sometimes does. I guess it's kind of like meditation,
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right, It's like, yeah, sometimes it's amazing and transcendent and you're
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like, oh my god, and then some days it's like it's a practice.
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You know, you have to come back to it and you know,
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reconnect in again, like like if you haven't gone to the gym in a
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long time, you know, and you're like, oh, yeah, it's
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time. Yeah, Yeah. Now it's interesting because when you said, okay,
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so it happened to you the first time you were getting with such,
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but you actually did kind of have a physical experience, like you felt it,
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Like that's the thing, you can feel something, Right, you have
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to be like open to kind of being able to feel it, and not
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as soon as you having an experience like get like shut it down, you
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know, because we have a tendency to do that, you know, like,
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oh my god, what is this, and then we shut it right
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down before we're able to fully appreciate the experience. Right, Yeah, for
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sure. And I think what's also important in what you just said is,
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you know you were talking about being able to feel it. I think we
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also have to and I talk about this in the book, so you also
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have to be open to whatever way it shows up, you know. I
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think we're such visual creatures out here in the world, like you know,
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reading marketing, all those things. Right, We're expecting sort of this full
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Disney Pixar revy to happen the first time we experience our guides and it doesn't
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it well, it never looks like a Disney movie, but be like,
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it might not be visual at all. Right. Some people really just have
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sort of a felt sense of things. They have that experience of very kindesetic,
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very you know, touch oriented. They feel it in their body.
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Some people get more of a download like okay, this is what you're supposed
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to be shown. Or some some people it's very auditory. You know,
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you hear this voice and you it's it's like literally words spoken into your ear.
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So and all of the above, right, it could be a mixture
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of all of the above, and even more so, I think it's just
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us as humans and especially those of us raised in the West of saying it
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doesn't have to look like we think it's going to look either. You know,
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the message can come in so many different ways and come from the cardinal
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on your back lawn or you know, or doing a journey, right,
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it can come in a bunch of different ways. Yeah, and it does.
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It does. And so I could something like a strong nudge to do
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something. And you're like, where did that come from? Why do I
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write? Yeah, like, so, yeah, that's pretty interesting. So
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tell me about octopus, tell us about your little action. Yeah, and
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you're like, I thought it was going to be something bad ass, Like
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you never get what you want. You never get what you want. Yeah.
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I think we all hope that our guides will be badasses really right,
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of course, I mean some of mine are like some of them, yeah,
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well is pretty badass. It just right. Exactly after I, you
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know, got really comfortable with her, I was like, oh, yeah,
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you are a badass. Yeah. But at the time I was like,
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oh, I went like a tiger, you know, of course,
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right since there was claws and yeah, she she showed me all these really
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well so octopus came instead of the tiger. Okay, look for there.
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And and then throughout that first journey with her, because I was like,
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well, great, what can you do? You can't really protect me,
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and she showed me this really cool again. It was one of those like
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felt sense plush visual, right. She showed me this really cool visual of
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her sort of covering my entire body, you know, and just protecting me
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in this sort of like octopus line. And then she was also showing me
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that she was a mother too, you know, and showing me all of
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her little octopus babies everywhere. And it was just you know, when you
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speak about it doesn't sound that exciting, but it was really powerful. It
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was just this like, oh my god, like you just felt this coming
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home, you know, and yeah, yeah, And what was her message
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for you though, like what what did you feel as she wanted to tell
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you? Like what was the I don't know if you would call it animal
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medicine. I've talked to other people sometimes I call it that, like what's
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the animal men? I love that? Yeah, yeah, I mean just
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that softness can be so protective too, right, that and that power and
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that strength in her right in a creature that we don't think of that way
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necessarily, but how much power and strength she had and again through that process
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of motherhood because I have two kids, and you know, she was just
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showing me her own strength as a mother. And I think by way of
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implication, then how I can show up differently in my motherhood's you know,
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both with that softness but also with that strength. And it was just yeah,
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it was just really beautiful to feel. Again, I think so much
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of it is this this. Yeah, you know, you can't put everything
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into words, but a felt sense. Yeah, yeah, a felt sense.
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I know. I know, well, I know exactly what you mean
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because I've had similar experiences, you know, not with an octopus necessarily but
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with others, you know, so, but and I just fight, like,
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like with the message and an octopus. They're so intelligent, right,
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they can figure their way out of anything. So that's kind of interesting,
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right, So, like, if the octopus is coming to you, like,
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is it also telling you listen, whatever you're going through, you could
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figure your way out of it, because I'm showing you how easily it can
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be done. Because they're like ingenius. If you ever watch those videos you
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know them, Yeah, yeah, or that documentary with octopus. Oh my
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god, I cried. I just cried, like, yeah, I was
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just leaving. No, that was so good. Oh. So do you
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connect with her a lot? Like do you try to, like do you
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make it a regular practice in your life or just when you feel you need
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her? You know, It's really funny because this conversation was reminding me,
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like, it's time, it's time to really be with my guides a lot
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more right now. Yeah, I've been doing lately a lot more of this
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longer meditation where I sit with the energy of stores see what the message is
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there. But literally, this conversation Wissa is reminding me like it it's time
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to bring that back into your practice. And just really be with all of
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your guides again, and they'll also show like that's great. She must be
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she must be tapping me on the shoulder and she was one of her arms.
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Let's hold that thought though. I just looked at the time and were
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at the halftime. So let's take our break now and we'll come back and
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we'll talk more about that. You guys stay too, We'll be back in
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if you're just joining me. I'm talking with author Aaron Newman from a lot
30:11
of what we're talking about is from her book The Answer Within How to Access
30:15
Your Spirit Guides for Alignment and Abundance. So before the break we were talking
30:19
about your your active was tapping me telling me she wants to meet with you.
30:22
I guess that's what I got when I was on the break. So
30:27
she's like, tell her she wants to meet with you. So I guess
30:32
you need to reconnect. Yeah, I love that. So I want to
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talk about alignment because you talk about alignment and a lot of people don't know
30:41
what that means, Like, what does that mean? What do you mean
30:45
when you tell us about you know, discovering you know what our soul path
30:49
is and our sacred path and we have to be in alignment? What do
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you mean by that? Yeah? I think I could mean many things.
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The way I speak about it is that our sole purpose here on the earth
31:08
is to learn and grow, right, And so I think a lot of
31:14
times we get tripped up in the idea that we have to have this one
31:18
defined soul purpose and when we know it, then everything is going to sort
31:22
of you know, rainbows are going to fly out of your button, like
31:25
is going to make sense? And and so instead I like to think of
31:30
it as this is my soul path, right, and I'm just I'm just
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stepping more and more along my own soul path and the alignment. For me,
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the best way to describe it is when you when you feel like you're
31:44
out of it, right, when you feel like you're not you're not walking
31:48
that soul path, You're not doing the things that are really lighting up your
31:52
soul and it could be you know, it could be small or it could
31:55
be huge, right And I think when people hear these concept they think,
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Okay, that means I need to go quit the day job tomorrow and go
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find my alignment and go back onto my whole path or maybe find it for
32:07
the first time ever. But I think there's always a middle ground. I
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think there's always some smaller baby steps that you can take towards that alignment right
32:16
now, versus you know, having to quit the day job right but maybe
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there's things you can do even within that day job that are that are more
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in alignment for you. You know, I'm not going to do these kind
32:29
of things anymore because I hate them, and maybe, you know, maybe
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I find a way to delegate them, or maybe I find a way for
32:36
somebody else on my team to do them. Whatever. But here's the other
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things I really really love doing. Can I do more of that? You
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know? Can I bring more value through those things? So yeah, alignment
32:46
Again, I feel like it's easiest to define it when you're out of it,
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you know, when you're feeling that's that nagging sense of like, God,
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there's more I'm supposed to be doing here and it does not look like
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this, right, it doesn't look like the thing that that that I have
33:02
been doing maybe and not even you know that's even true for entrepreneurs, right,
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we get to these spaces, Yeah, we get to these spaces in
33:12
our business room, We're like that message no longer feels aligned for me,
33:15
It doesn't. It doesn't light me up to keep talking about this anymore.
33:17
It doesn't light me up to keep offering, you know, like for you
33:21
maybe, Melissa, it's like, I don't want to do another workshop for
33:22
around yeah, you know, yeah, and I feel like too for me,
33:29
like about about you know, like where my sole path is, Like
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I feel like when I'm in alignment with my sole path, things come flow
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easy. It's like, you know, if you've ever tried to make something
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work and like in your mind you think, well, it has to work
33:45
because it's a good thing, and it'll look like this and it'll be like
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this, and no matter what you do, it's like trying to jam you
33:52
know, a round peg and a square hole or a square peg in a
33:55
round hole, however you say it, and you're like trying to force it
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and it's not working. And I'm like that's a good indicator that this is
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in alignment with what I'm supposed to be doing. Right, But when I
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am, things just flow so easy, they just come. There's no forcing
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it, you know, it's just like allowing it, which is a big
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difference. At least that's my personal experience with it. Yeah. I love
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that explanation. And I think, you know, this comes back to what
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we were talking about earlier too. Is that practice, right, Because in
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the beginning, you know, when you're when you're first trying to figure out,
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okay, well, what even is my fell path? What does she
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even talking about? Right, it's going to all seem overwhelming and bewildering and
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like, well, how do I choose one of these things versus the other?
34:44
But the more you do that choosing process, the more you step forward
34:47
without having total clarity, the better you get at. Like what you just
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said is that sense of like, Okay, this feels like heavy effort,
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I'm bagging my head against the wall, and this feels like flow ment ease.
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You know, I'm just gliding down the river. But I think there's
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a practice there too, of continually choosing. You know, I'm going to
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continually open myself up to those messages. I'm going to continue to keep listening.
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Even though we were saying, yes, it feels like it's in slow,
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but it's still scary. It's not scary, I think. Yeah,
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that other thing is it's not easy for anybody. I think, you know,
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yes, the pathway is lit with little fairy twinkling lights, but it
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is still scary. You know, it's scary to say, Okay, this
35:37
this thing that's been making me money over here, I'm not going to do
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it anymore, or this revenue stream or this one kind of workshop or this
35:44
one kind of client, right, any of those things. Is it's scary
35:46
as crap to anybody, right, But yeah, you still have to take
35:52
action, and you still have to. Yeah, you can't just just be
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like, Okay, I'm going to be in alignment and just sit on your
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couch on Netflix. Yeah, I mean maybe for a little bit you can,
36:05
but not for a long term. Right. Yeah, you have to
36:07
take inspired action. You have to constantly be you know, moving, can't
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just be stagnant. Mm hmm yep. Then I really believe, you know,
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your clarity comes through action. You know, you taking that step or
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multiple steps is going to show you like like you said, Nope, this
36:27
feels really hard and I'm efforting too much over here, or no, this
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feels aligned, this feels like it's on my path. This feels right,
36:34
you know, even though those things might be scary. Yeah, And you're
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constantly tuning into yourself and asking yourself the question like how do I feel,
36:44
what do I think? Why is this coming up for me? What do
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I need to learn? It's just a practice, like anything else, it's
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a daily practice. And I love that you after you talk about us getting
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in our alignment whatever that is, abundance because that's like my favorite area.
37:01
Yeah, I just sometimes I just want to jump right to the abundance part
37:06
and like not to anything we can. Yeah, let's jump into the abundance.
37:12
And I love that you talk about healing money beliefs because I don't think
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people realize how much we have these stories around money, right, Like everybody
37:24
like and once you have that money story, and if it's a money story
37:30
of poverty trying to get abundant financial abundance, you have to heal that money
37:36
belief. So why don't you share a little bit about about abundance and healing
37:39
that that money belief oh for sure, for sure. So I actually have
37:45
a whole other book called Spiritual Preneur that I go really deep into the money
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block. Ooh yes, yeah, what's it called again? Say it again?
37:52
What's it called Spiritual Preneur? Oh? I love that? Oh yeah,
37:58
that's great. Yeah, that's a good one. Mm. Yeah.
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And I think it can happen or does happen at every level that you have
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to look at those money beliefs again, right, because even once you hit
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six figures or seven figures or eight figures, it's not like the money blocks
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go away. And in fact, the core of them, you know,
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those core beliefs about I'm not enough and it's not safe to do this,
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and I have to work really hard to make money, and I'm only allowed
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to have a certain amount. Right. That amount might change, but your
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patterns might still be showing up. Right. You might still be putting everything
38:34
on a credit card, or you might still have you know, spending way
38:37
beyond your means, or you know, never actually accumulating wealth. Right,
38:43
maybe you make a lot of money, but it doesn't transfer into savings,
38:45
you know. So there's all sorts of patterns, and they again they're not
38:51
specific to any income level. I think people think, Okay, I'm gonna
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heal my money believes and then I'll be out of poverty. Well, yes,
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awesome. And you know there will be other ones there. You know,
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there'll be other beliefs there that we want to look at, because I
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think to those of us that understand how much our belief systems play into our
39:13
outer reality, I don't think they are everything. I think we are co
39:16
creating, but a big part of it is our beliefs. You know,
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even even in something as simple as you know, when you get into one
39:27
of those doom spirals and then everything seems to go wrong in your day,
39:30
right, like the dog throws up and the whatever, like you know,
39:37
but the same thing is happening on a subconscious level with with your money stories.
39:42
And an abundance guide is such a beautiful, beautiful and powerful way to
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start to look at those money stories and start to heal them too, because
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for me, that's that's one of the awesomest parts of having guides and working
39:58
with your guys. And you can literally just like can you please heal this?
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Like I can't. You know, my conscious mind is struggling with X,
40:07
right and and what you'll often find, and you know, I think
40:15
this is true in any in any sort of psychological underpinning of belief systems,
40:21
is that these beliefs are created to keep you safe. Right, They're created
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for protection, They're created for a reason. Yeah, I mean your younger
40:29
self or your half myself or whatever you want to think of it as creative
40:34
these belief systems to keep you safe within your family of origin. And that
40:37
means that that they're there for a reason, right, and that we can't
40:44
just snap our fingers and be like, oh, I'm done with that belief
40:45
system. Now. There's an element of safety there, There's an element of
40:50
your inner child needing to conform to the people around them. And so therefore
40:55
I created subconsciously a belief system that's said, I have to work really hard
41:00
to make money because that's how mom and dad or whoever you grew up with
41:04
right also believed right. And so yes, we, through this work with
41:12
guys, can disentangle those belief systems and heal whatever there is to be healed
41:16
again. You know that that might not be everything in one day, and
41:22
probably won't be, but starting to play with your guys around this topic is
41:28
it's just beautiful work. It's really really cool work because, like I said,
41:31
they're going to show you aspects and facets and memories and things that your
41:36
conscious mind isn't really even aware of, and that is of itself, is
41:40
really healing. Yeah, and I do like what you said about you know,
41:45
I have to work really hard to have money. A lot of people
41:50
have that belief, and it is an inherited belief. Many times, would
41:54
our parents believe what our grandparents believed, and so on and so on and
41:58
so on, and you get even deeper into healing these beliefs around abundance,
42:06
whether it's money or how whatever it is. It doesn't matter what it is,
42:09
because you talk about going into the ancestral abundance blocks, which I love
42:14
because I think a lot of people it's interesting, and I'm noticing more and
42:19
more people talking about this, so that tells me that it's important. Right,
42:24
you go, you do the work, you take the courses, you
42:27
get the healings, you go to the practitioners, you do the journeying,
42:30
you do the journaling, you do everything, but there's still something that you
42:35
can't quite release, you can't quite put your finger on it. And it's
42:39
interesting now how more and many people are talking about ancestral DNA and how we've
42:45
inherited some things, right, And that's like the thing that clicked for me
42:49
that made so much sense, like why can't I release this? Why can't
42:52
I let this go? It may be something that's much deeper. So,
42:57
yeah, what have you discovered about healing these ancestral blocks that we have for
43:04
the work that you're sure? Yeah? So I'll maybe maybe go off the
43:08
topic of money here a little bit and just hopefully hopefully this analogy will work
43:13
for people. So I have this long addiction to chocolate, and I mean
43:22
it's a lot of chocolate, Like, yeah, I probably eat I probably
43:24
eat a meals worth of chocolate every day. And everyone around I love chocolate
43:30
too. I have a piece of chocolate every day, but I only have
43:31
a smile. Oh no, it's everyone around me is always like, yeah,
43:36
but you're healthy and you do you know yeah yeah yeah, I'm like
43:39
no, dude, It's it's really an addiction, I promise you, Okay.
43:44
And so I have looked at this gotten healing around I mean you name
43:49
it, I have done healing around it, right, Like okay, paid,
43:52
paid, all sorts of people to do work around this and what what
43:57
Yeah, And when I came to understand and with my guides, was that
44:02
this is really old. You know this this so my mom was raised poor,
44:09
my grandmother was raised poor, My great grandmother was raised poor, like
44:13
like very poor, right, yeah, and so food equalled love and sweet
44:22
equaled love. Right, they weren't very demonstrative my mom is that's phenomenal.
44:27
Like my grandmother never said I love you, right, but but she would
44:30
buy you hostless cupcakes or she would make you a whole pie or whatever.
44:32
And that was the way she showed it. Yeah, and so it literally
44:38
you know, we're learning from epigenetics. Is this this stuff gets passed down
44:43
in our dna, you know, but even from an energetic level, if
44:47
you think about like grandparents and great grandparents and great probably great great grandparents,
44:53
right, Like this concept that I can give you this piece of chocolate and
44:59
it equates to of that's huge, right, and the accumulated effect of that,
45:05
like so for me it was really freeing, like well, shit,
45:07
no wonder, sorry, I don't know if I could swear you're fine,
45:13
I mean, no wonder. It feels that heavy to me like it in
45:15
a place where I have unlimited access to this thing that that for generations has
45:23
equaled love a and me gives me an immediate hit of that right, Like
45:29
it's like as soon as it touches your tongue, it's like cocaine. You
45:34
know, that immediate pleasure receptor is lit up. And so it was very
45:39
freeing for me to see it in that way, to see, Okay,
45:45
well, this has been compounding for generations, this energetic pattern has not just
45:52
been mine to own, and so yeah, it's been really really freeing,
45:55
and it's interesting. Yeah, I can see that. I can see that,
46:01
especially if your grandmother's way and your mother's way of showing love is like
46:07
through sweets and baking and cooking and giving you I love you. This tells,
46:12
oh, Aaron, I love you. You're giving yourself that every day
46:15
and it's represented chocolate on a daily basis. So how are you with chocolate
46:30
now now that you have this awareness? How has it been less? Okay,
46:37
but you still got the chocolate. Yeah, it's still there, I
46:43
think, Yeah, but it's a lot less. It's a lot less,
46:45
So I mean I'll take less. Well, I had a friend who is
46:52
a psychic and she told me that dark chocolate, especially dark chocolate, has
46:58
a grounding effect. Did you know that? I that I love that.
47:04
I love that, and I think that is part of what it is.
47:07
Yeah, because maybe with your going on so many spirit journeys, your feet
47:10
aren't on the ground a lot and maybe you need to be a little bit
47:14
more grounded. I actually love that concept. Yes, so maybe you can
47:20
add that to yeah the reason. Yeah, well i'll report back what you
47:29
guys know. It is at least a lot less and I think, like,
47:34
yeah, having that awareness is so and that's you know, to come
47:37
back to the sort of financial abundance and money blocks. The more you can
47:44
see why these patterns showed up, I think it's it's really healing and really
47:49
helpful. And and again I also love asking my guides to Okay, can
47:52
you actually just heal this? Can you just go ahead and take it away?
47:58
Yeah? Right? Yeah? And you talk about past lives too,
48:02
have you discovered because that's coming up more and more. And I mean people
48:06
have been talking about past lives, I know for a long time, but
48:08
but but people are realizing or having memories or realizations that they've brought something over
48:17
into this life that they're trying to heal from from a past life. Have
48:22
you discovered anything like that in your personal experience or with any of your clients,
48:29
both for myself and with my clients. And I think again that question
48:35
of is this real comes up very often the past life and sure and I
48:42
have the same response there, which is like, doesn't matter, you know,
48:45
if we think of this as some part of our psyche versus Okay,
48:52
it's an actual past life thing that actually happened, and I'm feeling you know,
48:55
the energy around that to me only, it doesn't matter, like whatever
49:01
you want to think of it. You can be totally skeptical and do this
49:04
work, you know, and as long as you feel like, yeah,
49:08
that that felt really heal and afterwards, you know, that felt like I
49:14
really shifted something around that. And I think it is really helpful for your
49:20
brain, both your conscious mind and your subconscious to have something to say like,
49:24
this is the underpinnings of this whole thing. You know, this is
49:28
where this came from. And now I've released said, right, I don't
49:31
have to have this energy around it anymore, you know. And I think
49:36
it's very very very common, especially in visibility, showing up speaking your truth,
49:45
you know, because if you think about it, you know, like
49:49
for us as business owners, as women business owners, we weren't even allowed
49:53
to have businesses back in the day, right, and so for us to
49:59
now show up in this way, like, of course there's some energy around
50:04
that. Of course there's some again, whether you call that past life or
50:07
just just that feeling from society of like are you even allowed to do this?
50:12
Are you allowed to make money from your gifts? Are you allowed to
50:15
show up as a woman and actually make really great money? Like, yeah,
50:19
that wasn't part of our collective for a long time, and so yeah,
50:24
of course there's stuff around that in yours. Yeah, so interesting.
50:28
So have you done a journey where you've asked if a certain belief has originated
50:32
from a past life and gotten an answer? Ah? Yes, all the
50:37
time. And with my and with my clients too. Yeah, I think
50:43
I think you're you're kind of able. I mean again, especially after you
50:46
do a lot of this work you're starting, you start to be able to
50:50
sense into like this feels really old, Like this feels like it's not just
50:54
yours, you know. Yeah, And so as we're starting to work on
51:00
that belief system. I'll sometimes just say like this, this feels like it's
51:05
older than you are you having that sense also, and you know, do
51:07
we want to do some full level work around it? And yeah, I
51:13
find that so fascinating. I have a friend who has some very clear memories
51:19
from a few of her past lives and she talks to me about it,
51:22
and I find it so interesting because I don't know if I could say that
51:25
I have that experience, but I believe in past lives. I believe in
51:31
that, So I think I've had moments of, oh, maybe that is
51:36
from a past life, you know kind of thing, but not like these
51:38
clear memories like my friend has, where she has like she can tell you
51:45
the story and she has these full on visuals from a past life experience,
51:49
which I think is so fascinating that some people have those flashes, you know.
51:54
I mean, it makes sense to me, and you know, just
52:00
talking about that, it just made me think that because you talk about appropriation
52:05
in the book and about being white and about appropriation, and I was thinking,
52:10
and this is just me, So is it appropriation if we've had a
52:15
million past lives and we've basically been everything, every task life. Like,
52:20
just because I'm a white girl in this life doesn't mean I was in my
52:22
last life. So I'm like, hmm, I wonder how that applies.
52:25
So it could my ancestral DNA like actually be multi faceted in the sense that
52:32
I am connected to every race you know, ever originated. You know,
52:39
you know what I'm saying, This is where my brain. Yeah, I
52:43
do, And I would say that. I mean, obviously we are all
52:45
connected to every race everywhere, but y'all came from Africa and right our original
52:52
ancestor. And in your current life experience, you're white, I'm white,
52:57
and I'm white. That yeah, so that comes with white privilege, the
53:04
privilege that we are given to walk into a store and not be treated differently
53:07
by the color of versus. And so yes, obviously we all share that
53:15
DNA, we all share that collective wisdom. And I do think we have
53:21
a responsibility as a responsibilities work yeah to being careful and yeah, yeah,
53:28
and really and go seek out people of color who do if they're open to
53:35
it, who do this kind of work and are open to people learning from
53:38
them, you know. And there's so many different traditions all over the world,
53:43
right like that that I don't we've touched noon, but right now it's
53:51
so interesting. And then it's so funny because I always get mad that I
53:53
have to check the white box because I'm Italian. I'm one hundred percent Italian,
53:58
and I'm like, why is there not an Italian box? There's a
54:01
Latin box, Hispanic box. Why do I not have a box that's just
54:07
my Yes, I mean yeah, I mean why, it's fascinating, right?
54:15
Why are we you know? I have I have people you would consider
54:22
white whose skin color is darker than some of my Caribbean friends, you know,
54:28
so it's like, yeah, why are we terming one thing? One
54:30
thing? And I don't know it's it's really yeah. I think as we
54:37
mature and our consciousness opens, there's going to be more feeling of inclusion all
54:43
the way around. We're just not quite there yet. That's my personal my
54:46
personal belief. So so, Aaron, we only have like a minute.
54:52
Is there anything that you want to share that we didn't get to say,
54:55
or you want to tell us about how to connect with you. I'll give
54:59
you the platform to share the last minute. Yeah, come find me on
55:04
Instagram. Would love to connect with you. Guys. I'm Aaron Newman coach
55:07
on Instagram, and I just want to really say that, you know,
55:13
like we said in the very beginning, you guys get to do this work
55:15
too, right. It's not gifted to just one person in our world.
55:20
It's gifted to all of us, and I just hope you'll explore it for
55:22
yourself. Thank you. And they can find your book on Amazon, Barnes,
55:30
Andnoble dot com. It's out everywhere. Yeah, out the place,
55:35
Okay, all the places, and check it out because there's some wonderful exercises
55:40
in it. All right, Thank you so much. Erin. It was
55:44
such a pleasure talking to you today and everybody my pleasure. Thanks guys,
55:51
and check out my workshops. You know it's fun. I'm excited about them.
55:53
Thanks for listening to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa creating life you crave.
55:58
And I'm wishing everyone a way wonderful week filled with joy, abundance and
56:01
love, peace,