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Ep 26 | The Two Paths: Choosing the One-Hearted Way in a Two-Hearted World · Rise & Realign: Conversations for the Sensitive Soul

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Welcome to Rise and Realign, conversations for
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the sensitive soul. I'm Melissa, and this space
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is for those of us who feel deeply, love fiercely,
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and sense the world in ways that are hard to
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explain, but impossible to ignore. Here, we honor
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your sensitivity as a strength, not something
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to fix. Through reflections, realignment and
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soul -led stories, we remember how to move through
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life in a way that feels true to who we really
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are. This is your space to rise, to realign and
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to come home again and again to your own wise,
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sensitive self. Today, I'm sharing about my first
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visit to Sedona, Arizona in spring of 2009. And
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the reason that this is coming up for me to share
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with you is because although I have visited,
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you know, Sedona, Arizona and surrounding towns
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since 2009, I just deeply recall hearing about
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the Hopi people. That's H -O -P -I. And, you
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know, them being here in Arizona. And I was with
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my former husband and our two children at the
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time, and we were on this tour bus. I'm not sure
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if we were... you know, going to the Grand Canyon
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at the time. It was a long tour bus ride. I remember
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that. But the tour guide was just so passionate
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about sharing the ways of the Hopi people. And
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it really touched me very deeply. And I just
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felt like yes i want to know more about these
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people and the way they live um and what stayed
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with me was you know the explanation about these
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two paths um and I'm not a historian, and history
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is actually probably one of my worst subjects
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in school. I never really liked having to memorize
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dates and hear about the pain and the hardship
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of so many people that just, you know, for a
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sensitive woman, it was... uncomfortable right
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because and again back then i didn't understand
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why but I'm taking in just like any of you who
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are in this, we'll say 15 to 30 % of the population
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with this high sensitivity trait, right? You
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just, you're taking in more, you're feeling more,
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you're processing more, right? You are experiencing
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more. So when we're hearing about other people's
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heartache and pain, right? That deep empathy
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that you naturally possess is why it feels so
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uncomfortable. um but anyway back to the Hopi
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and um so I remember hearing about how you know
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it's even you know it's drawn you know in different
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places and apparently you know the Hopi um their
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indigenous North American culture with roots
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dating back to 2000 BCE. So, I mean, this is
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one of the, you know, longest, a deep continuity
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within these people. And so... What I remembered
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and I just really lit up when this tour guide
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talked about it was the two paths, this prophecy
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rock, right? And the upper path is considered
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this two -hearted path. That's where, you know,
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people are dominated by their head, technology,
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right? Separation from nature. there's consumption
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and this leads to destruction right and then
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there's what they call the lower path and they
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call it one -hearted so that's where the heart
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dominates harmony with natural law right so with
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nature with stewardship and this leads to renewal
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and They also talk about the four worlds and
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humanity has lived through four worlds and we're
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currently in the fourth world, a time of materialism
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and imbalance and awaiting a transition to the
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fifth. So we're not actually waiting, right?
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Like that's what's happening. But when we look
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at it from these two paths, I mean, for me, again,
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I want to share this because when I had my spiritual
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awakening, I recognized that there was this disconnect
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within me. I was living from my head. I made
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all decisions from my head. I doubted what my
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felt sense was. Um, you know, I questioned, you
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know, why other people did what they did. You
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know, I held things and carry things in my body
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much longer than was ever healthy or good for
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me. Right. But that spiritual awakening helped
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me realize like. My heart, my true essence, my
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higher self, my soul, whatever language you use,
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right? I mean, I use a variety of them depending
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on, you know, who I'm talking to or in what sense.
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But when we come back to our heart, our heart
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has this intelligence, this wisdom, this has
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the largest electromagnetic field of the body.
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Why is it so hard for so many to tune in and
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trust their heart, right? And again, as highly
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sensitive people, I just feel like this is a
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time of awakening for so many. And my sense is
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that more sensitive souls are waking up to their
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again their heart's guidance right I mean I call
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it my inner guidance at times you know where
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I'm just like amazed where I'm guided to go and
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what's revealed and I really feel like that's
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you know that's why educating and raising awareness
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for those of you who are also highly sensitive,
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has just never left me. It's been a calling to
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just keep helping you understand, right, that
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this depth of processing that is a core element
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of those of us who have this high sensitivity
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trait, right, that depth of processing can sometimes
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have us you know, repeating patterns way longer
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than they're healthy for us, right? Whether that's
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reflecting on situations that have already occurred
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and we kind of feel like we're in a loop with
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it, right? Or where our nervous system, you know,
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is... linked in to that loop. And so now we're
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operating from the pattern of our nervous system.
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Right. But for me, everything that I share and
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everything that I do, you know, is coming from
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my heart. Um, and you know, I, I am here to share
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that love and that light because I know the highly
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sensitive individuals in my life, whether that's
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in my personal, right, family, friend, colleague,
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you know, and amazing women who are my clients,
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I see them as the heart of humanity because of
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how much depth of caring there is, right? And
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There can also be too much coming from the head,
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right? Too many distractions, whether that is
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technology, whether that is being inside more
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than you're outside in nature, right? Whether
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that means you're in patterns that have you,
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say, you know, more focused on consumerism and
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consumption, right? Whether that means... shopping
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for more things than you actually need, right?
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Then you can actually process, um, right? Like
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the imbalance that can occur for highly sensitive
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individuals, because again, you're more open,
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you know, to taking in all of, you know, whether
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we call it energy, whether we call it electrical
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waves, whether we call it thought waves, you
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know, like we're more open to sensing and feeling
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what our environment has, right? And so this
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is just why I continue to encourage you to...
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become more aware of what it means to truly be
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a highly sensitive individual. This is why I've
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created the essentials course for sensitive and
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strong women that is called Your Sensitivity
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Is Intelligent Design. Because the days of us
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feeling misunderstood, undervalued, you know,
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judged and having our own inner critic that's
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not kind, right? Like those days are over. You
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know, this is the time for us to rise in awareness,
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in light, you know, to be more connected in our
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heart and to that love and light within us. Because
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again, there's so much wisdom. and creativity
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and intelligence that we can more easily access.
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But we need to understand our differences. Because
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again, roughly 70 to 80 % of the population cannot
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relate to how we feel or how we're processing
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things more deeply, because that's just not their
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design. And again, neither is better than the
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other. If we're not understanding ourselves,
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if we're in situations and environments that
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are unhealthy, right? Because again, that openness,
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that's where that differential susceptibility
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piece is, you know, we can excel when we're in
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healthy, nurturing environments. And we will
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also experience more pain and suffering when
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we're in unhealthy environments and situations.
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So Again, this is an invitation for you to become
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more aware of what it means to be a highly sensitive
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person. How are you wired differently so that
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you can realign on an ongoing basis with your
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own light, right? Your own wise, sensitive self,
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which is here with absolute gifts and greatness,
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you know, and joys to experience in this world.
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But I know it's not always easy to get to that
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point where you can see it and feel it. Because
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again, I have lived through enormous amounts
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of pain and suffering on my own journey. And,
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you know, I can see how the pain and the suffering
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is what often is a catalyst for us to want to
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understand how to rise up out of that, right?
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Because we feel so compressed, so heavy, things
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seem so dark and daunting, right? But there was
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always this resiliency within me that got me
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back up, even when I thought like, I'm knocked
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down, like this is the worst of the worst, you
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know? And I know that's true for you too, you
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know? So wherever you are on your journey, I
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honor you. And I just want you to know that you're
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not alone. And your heart is, is your access
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point. You know, it's your compass. It's your
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inner guidance. It's the place to get still,
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to just take a break and breathe love. Right?
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Let's do that now. Just inhaling through your
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nose. And again, a little more. And now a nice,
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slow, long exhale. You can make a sound or just
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like you're blowing out a candle, whatever works
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for you. But just exhaling long and slow, just
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letting it go. And again, whenever you're ready,
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inhaling through your nose, nice and deep, long
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spine. Another inhale. And then nice, slow exhale
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or sound out your mouth. Again, just releasing,
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relaxing, letting go. And at least one more.
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Inhale through your nose. Another inhale. And
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then exhale long and slow. Right? You're here.
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You're safe. You're not alone. So a little bit
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more that I wanted to share with you about why
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I'm speaking about the Hopi tribe and this longevity
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of their journey is because I am back in the...
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Verde Valley and Sedona, Arizona area. And this
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time, you know, I really felt called to visit
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the Four Corners. And I really didn't know why.
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But I just trust my inner guidance that says,
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hey, you know, this spring and summer, let's
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do that. Okay. So but this time when I got into
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the Verde Valley, I just felt this peace wash
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over me, this sense of calm, this sense of this
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feels like home, you know? And like I said, I've
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been to Arizona several times, the first in 2009
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after my spiritual awakening. But this time,
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it just felt very different, very beautiful.
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And I came across something. Because so many
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people talk about the healing vortexes in Sedona
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and why people would want to visit Sedona. And
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what's interesting is I did stay in Sedona probably
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after I had been in Verde Valley for a week.
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And I didn't feel that calmness. I felt more
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of like a lot of motion. that wasn't ideal for
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me so i did move out of the that sedona area
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and i learned you know more about the challenges
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the really traumatic history of of the people
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um and it really just made my heart drop, you
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know, to just be aware of, you know, and I'm
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talking, this is like the 1870s, you know, is
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when there was this, oh gosh, it looks like the
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trauma in the Verde Valley was from the 1860s
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to the 1870s. And when I was learning about it,
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I was just like so heavy in my heart, like. How
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can others be so disconnected from their own
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heart to inflict so much pain on others when
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they are, they, they were here first, they're
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connected to the land, you know? And so that's
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when I just started pulling the pieces together
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of my own journey of, you know, why like, oh,
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2009, I was called to visit Sedona, Arizona,
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and, you know, how how that was an amazing visit.
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And then, you know, I mean, here I am 17 years
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later, you know, visiting again, and having more
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of this whole picture, right? Like, the trauma
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and the pain of the people here you know and
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also the healing energies of the area but it
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brought me back to the resiliency of the Hopi
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people you know and the others I know again I'm
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not claiming to be accurate there's a lot of
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different tribal names that I just wouldn't even
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want to say incorrectly. But I remember the Hopi
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and did my research on that. But again, it just...
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you know, it just reminds us, right? I mean,
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whether we're looking at it from the two paths
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that the Hopi have talked about, right? With
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that prophecy rock of, you know, the two -hearted,
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where people are living from their head, you
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know? And I sometimes will share like, You know,
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I envision it like people's heads are, you know,
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moving forward while their body's just being
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dragged behind them. Like they're just living
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in their head. They're not connected to their
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body and there's not vitality, right? There's
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not like this health and happiness and harmony.
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They're just living from their head. And so,
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you know, when we think of one hearted, right,
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we think of that heart brain coherence, you know,
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that happens when we take a break and breathe
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love, like I like to call it, you know, or when
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we're doing breathing exercises, right? Because
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again, the heart is sending more messages to
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the brain than the brain does to the heart. And
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I mean, there's just a wealth of information.
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You know, I love how HeartMath Institute shares,
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you know, so much research and why I feel it's
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really beneficial for those of us who are highly
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sensitive to have that education, right? Because
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again, your heart knows so much more than your
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head could. And this is why You know, I refer
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to being a highly sensitive person as sensory
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intelligence, because I want to support us moving
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out of our head and our cognitive intelligence,
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right? Because so many of us are high functioning,
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you know, especially women, because that's who
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I'm here to support. I'm a woman, I'm a mom,
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right? I'm a daughter, I'm a sister, all of those
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things. i'm an entrepreneur and a holistic psychotherapist
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right and a spiral guide because there's just
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there's just got to be more of us who are living
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from our heart who are trusting that knowing
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right that inner knowing we don't have to figure
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it out with our head we don't have to write these
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lists of to -do's we don't have to um you know
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write a pros and cons list like we need to be
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trusting ourselves more we need to trust in our
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own hearts intelligence and guidance and this
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has been the journey that i've been on since
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2008 when i had my spiritual awakening and it's
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not super easy if you've been somebody who has
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been in this pattern of living from your head.
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And, you know, what's interesting is, you know,
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I certainly studied neuroscience and quantum
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physics and positive psychology and spiritual
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psychology about 15 years ago. And I really,
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I really see the importance of seeing it with
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that holistic lens as opposed to just through
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one lens. Because sometimes I'll hear, you know,
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someone who maybe studies neuroscience, right?
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And that's their specialty. And they'll talk
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so much about what the brain does, which I don't
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dispute, you know, the brain has its purposes
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and its function, right? But again, your heart,
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It knows. Your heart has the largest electromagnetic
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field, larger than your brain, right? Because
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they can do, they do studies, and I don't recall
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the name of it, but it's... It's not even the
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one that they put on your head. It's not the
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EEG. There's one where it like measures it outside
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of your head. So again, the field, your thought
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field, right, is smaller than your heart. So
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your heart has the largest electromagnetic field.
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So when we live from our heart, we trust what
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we feel, right? We trust, again, that. inner
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knowing, that compass, right? And we connect
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more with it every day. That's how we live from
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the heart. That's how we live in the flow, right?
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And again, I share my own experiences just because
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there were so many years where I didn't share
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with many people at all because it was really
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rough. there was a lot of things that were breaking
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down for me, as far as my material world, you
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know, relationships, and, you know, how I was
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showing up in the world. And it was confusing
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for me. And I'm somebody who, again, I need to
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live it before I lead it. Right. And so I've
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really got a crash course in understanding how
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to trust myself, how to tune inward, you know,
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how to get silent and still and receive the messages
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more clearly from, again, my own heart, my own
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higher self, right? My soul. And I'm not special
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in the sense that, you know, I can do this and
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you can't. No, we really all can. But the question
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becomes, are we so overwhelmed, so overburdened
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or so stuck in old patterns that don't serve
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us that we're just not living in alignment, you
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know, with our own heart's guidance as much as
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we would like to. And so. That's why I show up
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here every week to just keep sharing, because
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I want you to know that you're not alone. You
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know, even if you feel like you're alone, because
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I know that feeling, you're really not, right?
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And whether it's... listening here, whether it's
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listening to others who are sharing a similar,
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but maybe a different perspective, right? Like
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trust what resonates for you, you know, and what
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do I mean by what resonates for you? What feels
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true for you? Like what makes you want to listen
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to somebody, you know, what? What lights you
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up inside? Like that's your yes, if it lights
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you up inside. And even what may bring tears
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for you, right? Because I remember when I felt
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my most alone in my transition from, you know,
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using more of my cognitive intelligence and my
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heart intelligence, right? Because there were
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times when I was just like, well, maybe I'm not
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doing this right. So let me go back to trying
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to think this way, you know? It was uncomfortable,
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but I found, you know, others who were guiding
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me to my heart, who were speaking more clearly
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the language of the soul. And that's where I
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was just like, yes, I want more of that. And
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so that's why I'm showing up because I just want
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you to know you're not alone and you have an
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amazing light. within you. And again, love is
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available. It just takes our conscious choice,
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you know, to be here now. So well, if You recognize
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yourself in any of what I shared, which I know
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there was quite a bit with the Hopi people, you
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know, the two different paths, you know, and
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again. um this is a time on our planet i mean
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they call it the fourth world um but we know
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from whether it's astrology you know channelers
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there's so many different voices out there who
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are talking about this being a period of the
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choice point, you know, and I'm here to advocate,
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you know, keep choosing your heart, keep choosing
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to connect with nature, you know, keep choosing
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to feel the feelings that you need, right? Because
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we got to feel it to heal it. And when we do,
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you know, that just allows us to breathe more
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deeply. And our breath is our bridge, you know?
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It helps us connect with our heart, our heart's
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intelligence, our heart's guidance. And if you're
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new to my podcast, like I said, I've recently
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created Your Sensitivity is Intelligent Design.
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And it's an essentials course for highly sensitive
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women. And it's science informed, right? So it's
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to help you understand that your sensitive system
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is an intentional design. It's not a flaw to
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fix. And it's where you can learn to rise up.
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out of old patterns of getting waterlogged, of
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self -abandoning, right? And maybe that's new
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language for you, but a lot of us highly sensitives
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who feel deeply, care deeply, love deeply, you
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know, are often trying to meet the needs of others
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while not even noticing our own. So this essentials
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course is really... a way to support you in understanding
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your unique design, how your brain is wired,
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your nervous system, the different life stages
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and ages, whether it's, you know, spiritual awakening,
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20s, 30s, pregnancy, motherhood, all of that,
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being a highly sensitive woman and these different
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points, you know, our sensitivity shows up in
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different ways. It's also a place where you'll
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create your own personal realignment map. And
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then we walk it together across the year in the
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sensitivity realignment spiral. And the first
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gathering is at the summer solstice. And you
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can explore that further on my website, realignwithmelissa
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.com. So before we close, I invite you to return
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to your breath, to your body, to what feels true
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for you right now. There's nothing you need to
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fix. Just notice what's here. Where the heart
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leads, the body remembers, and the soul awakens.
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And remember, we are here together. to rise,
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reclaim, and remember. As always, I'm so grateful
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you're here. Take good care of you. Much love
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and light.