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The Metaphor of your Soul · Remember Why You Are Here

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That font of poetry that is your own soul will
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forever be giving you these metaphors to help you understand
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who you are, why you're here,
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and why you chose to come be here in this existence.
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Hello and welcome back to Remember Why You're Here,
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a podcast for seekers
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and sensitives where you can relax, receive, reconnect
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to yourself, and remember that most important thing of all,
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why you're here.
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I'm Asia Suler, author, earth intuitive teacher.
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In this episode today, we're going to talk about something
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that I just love.
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It's just one of these things that I love talking about,
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and that is the metaphor of your soul.
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So in this episode, we're going to talk about how to connect
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to your own soul, you know, why we can tend to miss some
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of our soul's communications,
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the way in which our soul communicates with us,
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and we're going to learn how to read the
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language of our souls.
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You're going to learn how to communicate with your own soul,
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your own wider self.
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So before we get started, I just want to take a moment
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to thank everyone who has joined me over on Substack,
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the Remember Why You Are Here Substack.
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this August day, to thank you all so much.
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around Remember Why You're Here is really just so special,
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and I feel honored to be a part of it.
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notes if you're interested.
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Okay, so let's, let's get into our episode for today.
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First, let's talk about what I mean when I say the word
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soul, because this is one of those poetic words
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that people use in a lot of different ways.
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So here's how I define soul.
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I define soul as our own wider self.
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Some people like the term higher self.
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I like the term wider self
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because it's something we're a part of.
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Our soul is the essential essence of who we are,
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the wider light from which we come.
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Our soul is its own individual entity
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with its own qualities and characteristics.
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And our soul sends part of itself to this lifetime,
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to this place,
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and this time to live out an experience inside
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of our bodies here on this planet.
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So our soul's the part of us that is beyond this lifetime
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that encompasses all lifetimes that is, you know, sort
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of the truest essence of who we are in, in connection
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with our, our widest self, our widest knowing.
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So our soul is our, our self with a capital S.
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This is where we come from. This is our ultimate guide.
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This is something we're always a part of. We never leave.
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We can never depart from our own soul.
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We are always connected to our own soul.
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We are a part of our own soul.
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And our soul is really like the ultimate spirit guide in
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this lifetime because your soul knows why you came here,
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you know, what you are planning to do.
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Our souls can remind us of why we are here,
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which we all need reminding of every once in a while.
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So being able to be in communication
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with your soul is really about being able
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to be in communication with your own widest knowing,
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your own widest self, with the part of you that sees
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that big picture, that knows innately who you are
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and that trusts beyond, beyond all doubt
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that you are loved absolutely
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and unconditionally exactly as you are.
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Your soul understands your destiny.
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Your soul is holding all of the blueprints for all
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of the unfoldings that are
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possible for you in this lifetime.
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I just love this term soul to me.
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I mean, literally it's so soulful.
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And so I love this concept of connecting with our soul
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as a way to connect with this wider self.
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So why do we sometimes miscommunications from our soul?
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So our soul is always communicating with us.
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We don't come to this planet
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and then we're just like without any guidance or help.
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We never lose that connection to our soul.
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It's impossible to actually sever that connection.
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And so we're constantly receiving information,
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communication, and support from our soul, this wider part
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of us that wants to help us on our journey, wants to,
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to help us, you know, remember why we're here,
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continue down the path.
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Why do we sometimes miss these communications if they're
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happening all the time?
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Well, this is why. Our soul most often speaks in metaphor.
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This is one reason why I'm calling this podcast the
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metaphor of your soul.
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So our soul likes to speak in what we call metaphor.
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So just to define metaphor here
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so we're all on the same page, metaphor is a figure
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of speech that compares two different things
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by saying one thing is actually the other
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or actually like the other.
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If you want to get technical here with metaphor,
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we don't typically use like
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or as, that would be a simile, but you get the picture.
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Metaphor is comparing one thing to another.
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It is a way in language
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to express a concept
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that is inexpressible directly.
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So, you know, if you gaze into your child's eyes
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and they're so beautiful, you feel like you're whisked away
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and be like, her eyes, like I think about my, my child when,
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when she had been recently born.
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I was like, her, her eyes are like as deep as lochs.
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You know, her eyes are like these deep water
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lakes of Scotland.
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Like I, I remember saying that to someone like, oh,
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her eyes, like they're as deep as lochs, you know,
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as deep as these lakes.
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And, and so I'm using, in this instance,
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this is technically a simile, but stay with me here.
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We're just using metaphor as an overarching concept,
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but we're, we're using something to reference
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and express something that's inexpressible,
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that's actually bigger than direct words can fully capture.
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And it's only through making connection
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between those two things
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or between those set of things that we can start
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to grasp the totality of something that exists
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beyond the grasp of our language.
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And this is the language that our soul speaks in.
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This is the language that our soul has to speak in. Why?
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Because our soul remembers and sees the big picture.
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Our souls know, knows, you know, your soul knows
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who you've been in every lifetime, understands
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all the mysteries of existence, all the mysteries
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that we come here and purposely forget.
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And so imagine you're being that understands the widest view
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of reality, all of life's mysteries
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and mysteries of the universe,
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and you're trying to communicate to someone
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who has a language, you know,
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whether you're talking about actual lizard,
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literal spoken language
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or just the language of that's accessible in our brains,
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you know, the language of how we view things,
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being in a body that is m- much, much, much more limited.
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How do you do this? How do you express something
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that is literally beyond in some ways our, our ability
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to grasp in this lifetime?
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And that's for a purpose, right?
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We come here, we place the veil of forgetting on
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so we forget who we are and where we come from.
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That's like part of the fun.
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I'm doing some air quotes, part of the fun of being here.
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It's part of, it's part of the, the,
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you know, it's part of the story.
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It's part of the experience.
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How do we then, how do we then guide this part of ourselves?
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How would our, how would a soul,
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how would a wider self guide then this part of us
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that purposely is here
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to be disconnected from that wider view?
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Well, you have to speak in metaphor.
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You have to speak in a way that references, that helps that,
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that person grasp the,
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the bigger reality from which you're communicating.
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So our soul can communicate with us in our dreams
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through signs
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and synchronicities, through inner nudge, nudgings,
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you know, gut feelings, intuitions,
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things other people say to us.
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But why we often miss it is that we miss that the,
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the language is one of metaphor,
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that we're actually not looking for.
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It's, that most often it's not super direct messages.
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Sometimes it can, this can happen for people,
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especially if you are, you know, claircognizant, if
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that's how you receive.
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But for most people, the soul speaks in metaphor.
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And you know, one of the things about metaphors is
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that they capture layers of reality.
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A metaphor can have several meanings at once.
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You know, for example, if I talked about my daughter's eyes
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and I said, you know, they were dark and deep.
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You're like, okay, dark and deep.
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But if I say they're, they were as dark and mysterious
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and fathomless as a, a deep loch, it's like there are layers
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of meaning there, right?
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There's, there's depth, there's mystery, there's profundity.
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There's, there's that edge of the unknown.
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There's the connotations that we have with the word loch,
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especially if you're not Scottish.
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You know, we think about the Loch Ness monster.
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Like we think about these like deep mysteries of existence,
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you know, like the, the complete unknown.
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And so when I say that, I'm, I'm like referencing a, a truth
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and a reality that is so much more vibrant and complex
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and multilayered than if I would just say her
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eyes were dark and deep.
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And so this is why our soul likes to speak in metaphor
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because it can hold more layers of meaning.
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And it's closer to the truth of
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the reality from which our soul is communicating,
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which is this wider reality that is beyond our
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language's ability to directly conceptually grasp.
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Another really beautiful thing about metaphors
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and why I think it's our soul's preferred method
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of communication is the way in which metaphors create
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connection and create relationship.
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Relationship is at the, the most basic like level
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of this reality of our planet.
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We come here to experience having a self,
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like an individuated self.
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What an interesting concept.
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And then through having the self be able
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to encounter others in relationship.
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It's a very creative process of individuation, separation,
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and then being able to relate.
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How does this relationship work?
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What happens in the in between?
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And so because we come here on this planet
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to have relationship, the beautiful part of metaphor is
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that it automatically creates connection.
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It creates relationship. It's comparing two things.
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This is like this. Well, how are these two things similar?
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You know, if this is its own entity
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and this is its own entity, well then
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where do these two places meet?
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It gets our brains started, starting
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to think in the language of relationships
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and connection, which is really where all healing
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and revelation and realization happen.
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And just through deciding to look more for the metaphor,
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to, to embrace metaphor more fully in your life,
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you're coming into, to deeper connection as well
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with your own soul.
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You're, you're developing and deepening that relationship.
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It's a very handy tool, right, to describe the,
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the indescribable.
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And on, I think, maybe perhaps the most poetic level
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of why our soul likes to speak a metaphor, it's
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because we are living inside
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of a metaphor on this planet.
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If you think about it, if you break it down,
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if you think about this concept of a metaphor as, you know,
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sort of using language
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and a construct to reference, to compare it to something,
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to reference something greater.
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It's like a, a microcosm of the macrocosm.
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Like, you know, you're comparing these two things
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so you can see the, the bigger whole.
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Well, all of reality is, is a metaphor for wider existence,
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you know, the physical reality.
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You know, this is all a manifestation of a metaphor
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for a wider existence that we can't fully capture in words
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and that we will never fully know while we are embodied
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and in this lifetime.
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That's, you know, like I said, it's part, that's part
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of the fun, that's part of the experience.
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And so leaning into metaphor is also leaning into the
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nature of reality.
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All of your life is a metaphor for the wider journey
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of your soul, the wider journey of your soul's own evolution
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and expression.
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So everything that also is happening in your life is, is
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referencing as well this wider journey
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and this wider expression
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and your soul's wider unfolding, which is
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so much bigger than even just this one individual lifetime.
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So of course, our soul's going to love to use metaphor for
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that reason as well
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because it helps attune us to the metaphor of reality
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and start to see even in sort of what we might perceive
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as the most simplistic
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or, you know, direct aspects of reality
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or mundane aspects of reality, this reference to the spirit
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of things, this reference to the unseen, this reference
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to something greater.
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So this, as I said, can come up in a lot of ways,
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but I've been thinking about this a lot recently
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as I've been getting back into doing more
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intuitive work, more one-on-one intuitive work,
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and really noticing how I've always worked in images,
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and you'll see
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that throughout my monthly intuitive readings,
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but just how important the metaphors of those images are
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and that the deeper I go into the metaphor that I'm given,
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the more layers will unveil itself.
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So here's just a little example.
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I was giving a reading for someone the other day,
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and I was shown a waterfall.
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And, you know, I could be very straightforward.
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I could be like, "Oh, are you. Do you live by a waterfall?
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Are you going to travel to a waterfall?" And you know,
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that those wouldn't be like incorrect, right?
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But I understand that the soul speaks in metaphor.
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And in, and in this reading, I was specifically connecting
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to this person's soul.
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And so I understood that this was a metaphor.
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And because it was being given to me, I also knew that,
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that their soul was using a lexicon
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or a dictionary of images
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that would help me to make sense of that.
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So for, for me, you know, I think of waterfalls as times of,
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you know, intensity where time moves faster,
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changes might happen kind of quickly
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where there's like a big shift from where you were to
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where you're going.
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It was time of like identity change, like literally the,
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a river's flowing and the, the waterfall happens
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and that's like a, that's a, a rupture, a shift.
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And so I was going through all these layers of meaning
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in my own life and in my own understanding
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and then communicating that to her.
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And it really stood out to me
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how if I hadn't thought of the metaphor
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of waterfalls
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and what, how I know waterfalls, what waterfalls evoke
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inside of me, I would've really missed
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some important messages for her
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and for, you know,
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the way in which her soul was communicating to her about
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what was going on in her life right now, which was a lot
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of change, which I didn't know about.
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So how do you speak the language of your soul then?
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You know, how, how do you start to speak the language
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of your soul in this way?
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Well, we, there is an importance here, right,
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in putting on our poet's cap, to start viewing life from
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this as if you were a poet.
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You know, understanding that we are all poets in this
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existence and, and, and really starting to, you know,
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think about things metaphorically to, you know, open up
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to the, the creativity that might be there, that expression.
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Instead of going beyond just, you know,
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the immediate direct response and, and opening our mind.
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There's a really beautiful saying
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that a good poem is like a net.
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What makes the poem is not the, the rope itself,
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but the space in between.
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I've always loved this so much.
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And so there's also this piece of leaving space in between,
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you know, when you receive, maybe you receive a message
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or you, you have a dream or you experience a synchronicity
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or sign in your life to give it space, to breathe, to,
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to understand that like there, there's so much meaning
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that can be relayed in just that one image
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or just that one experience.
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And so, you know, to, to realize
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that we make the connections that we need
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to make often when we give ourselves that space.
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So ways in which you can give yourself space.
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And then as I was talking about with the waterfall image
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that came to me in this reading, you know,
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you developing your own lexicon of, of images
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and metaphors is going to be important.
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You know, what does this mean for you?
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Because, and I, I say this a lot when I talk about dream
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work, but I think it's important in any intuitive work
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and in connecting with our own souls.
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Our souls, our wider self, they're going to communicate
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to us through our associations,
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through our life experiences, through, you know, the poetry
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of what we have experienced.
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And so notice what appears to you again and again,
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and what that means to you.
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You know, what is your association with waterfall?
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You might have done that reading differently.
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Or if your own wider self gave you that image, if you asked
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for an image and you were given that image
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or you asked a question
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and you received that, you
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know, what would that mean to you?
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Maybe you did have a waterfall in a park nearby growing up
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and you had a formative experience in that park,
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and so it's going to bring that up for you.
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Your own wider self will use that beautiful bank of wisdom
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and knowledge to create the most perfect metaphor.
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Our souls are very creative in this way.
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They love creating beautiful metaphors for us to step into
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and to unpack and to see the layers of.
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So, you know, start to notice that.
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Notice reoccurring themes in your dreams.
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You know, what, what shows up again and again?
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And what is cool is that the more we start
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to tune into those metaphors, the more we can sort
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of go past the first layer of communication
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and start to receive the additional layers.
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So here's an example. I, over the years, I've noticed
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that cars have a very specific meaning in my dreams.
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Now, I'm not a car person.
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Like if you ask me what car someone drives in my life,
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like it, I probably don't know.
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Like I probably can't name the make or the model.
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I could probably name the color maybe.
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But so I'm not very attuned to cars.
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So I know this about myself.
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So it was really interesting
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to me when I started having very specific dreams
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where cars figure prominently.
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And I realized pretty quickly that these dreams
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where there is a car, normally
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I'm in the backseat.
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And that is signaling to me like, "Asia,
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you're not in the driver's seat right now.
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There's actually someone else who's communicating
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to you right now through this dream." So it started with my
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several different grandparents of mine coming
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and driving the car, being in the front seat.
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I've had other dreams where living people are in the front
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seat, but I always know that when I'm, when I,
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when there's a car, it means
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that there's like a, this is a vehicle.
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It's a, it's a vehicle
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for a message that's trying to come through.
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And if I'm in the backseat, it often means that it's
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someone else, another consciousness coming in
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to communicate something to me.
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It's a visitation, so pay attention.
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And then, you know, once I understood this, then, you know,
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my own wider self
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and my guides,
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my ancestors started using the car in creative ways.
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So, so there would be, you know, issues in different parts
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of the car that would alert me to issues in different parts
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of my body, for example.
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So the more you can tune into your own lexicon of images
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the more that that dictionary will get deeper
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and you'll have, you'll have more words, right?
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It's like there'll be more words to express the poem.
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So start to write these down.
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Start to notice, you know, maybe you always see cardinals.
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You know, start to just note that.
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How do you feel when you see the cardinal?
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And what comes up for you?
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What is that connected to for you?
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Or, you know, maybe recently you've just been
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seeing rainbows everywhere.
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You know, take note of that.
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This is you developing your own spirit dictionary.
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And so once you become aware of this, then it's going
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to be easier to understand and receive these messages.
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Also, a really important thing with poetry in general,
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including the, the poetry of our own souls
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and these metaphors that come through is
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to notice how you feel.
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You know, good poetry is not, I, in my opinion,
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about the expertise of how words are used.
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That's fun. That can be part of the creative process,
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but good poetry is good because you feel something.
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You don't even need to know what the poem is about.
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You don't have to understand why the poet
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created every single line.
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You just need to know that you're feeling something.
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And the same is true with the metaphors
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that are being sent from our own soul.
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The same is true with this information that is coming in
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from our own wider selves.
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Notice what you feel. Tune into what you feel.
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You know, notice in life what has a feeling tone for you.
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You know, you could drive past a beautiful elm on the street
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and, you know, every time you pass it, just have a feeling.
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Someone else could drive past it
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and literally never notice that tree.
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But you have a feeling every time you drive past it.
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Notice that feeling tone.
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Notice what gives you goosebumps, what makes you stop,
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what strikes you as particularly beautiful.
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These are all parts of this lexicon of the, the metaphors
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that your soul will use to communicate with you.
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So, you know,
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these are all ways in which our soul will come in
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and gift us messages, again, in dreams,
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through signs, through synchronicities.
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But we can also ask. Keep asking. Ask for dreams.
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You know, ask for a, a sign or,
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or a synchronicity in your life.
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This is part of the rules of existences that we need to ask.
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So ask and then be open.
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Ask and put on that poet's cap, put the feather in your cap
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for whatever you'd like to use here,
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whatever metaphor makes sense for you.
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And, and see what metaphor comes in.
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You know, I even like doing these metaphorical walks
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where I ask a question and then I do a walk in nature
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and I just see who shows up, what appears to me.
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And, and what appears in a way where then I have an emotion
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or a feeling come up.
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And I know that this is part of the metaphors of
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what is being expressed to me, what is being shared with me.
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After I take these walks, I often will come back
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and I just write whatever it is that stood out to me.
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Writing is a really good tool to translate
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what might come in and feel like a little nebulous
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and to translate it into reality.
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And so some of you might be very clairvoyant.
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You might really see these images,
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but for a lot of us, it's actually more
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of like a feeling sense.
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Like I feel like I'm sitting by a waterfall, for example.
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Or, you know, I, I, in the case of this walk, you know,
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like I, a branch fell down and I,
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and I felt this swooping feeling inside of me
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that actually felt very liberating.
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So again, like a feeling sense inside of you.
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So you might, it might come in more as that.
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Sometimes people are more clair audient.
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They might like hear something, hear song lyrics,
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or hear like a snippet of poetry in connection
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with something, but all of this is metaphorical.
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So when you come back from this walk
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in this specific example, sit down
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and write down whatever occurred to you,
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especially if it had a feeling tone
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and just like free associate.
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That free association, like this is often the poetry
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that I love the most.
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It makes these really beautiful leaps.
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Again, this idea of like the,
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a good poem being like a good net.
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What makes it a good net is the space in between.
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They make these leaps and in the leap part, that's, that's
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where all the beauty happens.
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We go from this to this
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and whoa, something just happened inside of me.
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And so when we free associate
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after, for example, going on one of these walks,
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I call them oracle walks often.
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If going on an oracle walk, asking a question,
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and you come home and you just free associate, you know,
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whatever, whatever happened, note it down, free associate.
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Yet free association, just that idea, that idea, that thing,
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that image, that, those words, that is you creating poetry.
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That is you grasping the more metaphorical meaning behind
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what you just experienced.
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And you know, how will you know that you have like really,
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you know, hit on your soul's meaning
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or the intent behind that metaphor is it'll be a feeling.
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There will be like a feeling of like peace,
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but also like rightness
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and excitement that it's, it's like a feeling of
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settledness, but also expansion at the same time.
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And so just start to notice and like chart your feelings.
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And sometimes we kind of have to catch ourselves like
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a little unaware because our brain can want to insert itself
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and overthink things.
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And this is why I love things like walking
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and the free association writing.
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Also dreaming because it kind
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of puts our conscious mind a little bit in that backseat
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and it allows us to be a little more open.
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So sometimes people ask me this question of like,
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how do I know it's not, you know, my conscious mind
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or, you know, really it's more of like,
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how do I know it's not my like worried mind,
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my fearful mind, my anxiety coming in?
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Well, because normally those, those associations
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or those messages will come in with a feeling of fear,
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urgency, criticism, judgment.
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And that's how we know that that's our brain trying to,
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you know, control the message, control the situation, trying
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to protect us from danger.
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And like, you know, God bless our brain.
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It's our brain has a purpose.
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And in this instance, you know, we want to free ourselves.
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This is why we're putting on the poet's cap.
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It's not about, you know, figuring it out.
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That's not the energy behind poetry.
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That's not the energy behind metaphor.
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It's about experiencing it.
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It's about being open to like the wonder of the layers
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of meaning inherent to, you know, that,
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that one single metaphor.
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You know, ultimately, you know, your soul itself
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is also this beautiful metaphor for
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an inexplicable level of reality for, you know,
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your soul is unique and entire unto itself.
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And it is referencing this reality
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of the divine that, you know, we in our lifetimes are here
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to experience mostly through a veil, through, you know,
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these interesting layers of being here in a body
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and being here on this planet.
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But your, your soul is poetry in that way, contains poetry.
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The, the poem of who you are is whole and intact
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and can, can never be diminished, can never be destroyed.
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And, and that font of poetry that is your own soul will
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forever be giving you these metaphors to help you understand
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who you are, why you're here,
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and why you chose to come be here in this existence.
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So there's this really beautiful quote from the movie Bright
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Star that is attributed
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to John Keats in, in one of his letters.
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And the, the quote that I love goes like this,
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"A poem needs understanding through the senses.
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The point of diving in the lake is not immediately to swim
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to the shore, but to be in the lake,
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to luxuriate in a sensation of water.
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You do not work the lake out.
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It is an experience beyond thought.
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Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.
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And I think ultimately this is why our soul communicates
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with us through metaphor,
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because our own soul is soothing
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and emboldening us to accept the mystery of reality, to
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orient ourselves to the fact that the point
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of being here on this planet is not to figure it out,
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but to be in the lake, to be in the experience, to,
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you know, be here
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and in whatever way we can luxuriate in the sensation
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of water, this sensation, the experience of being here
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that is a temporal, that is brief,
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that is something our soul was really interested
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in experiencing, and so we wade in.
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We waited into the lake
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and here we are in the midst experiencing it.
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And our soul is simply asking us to be here in the midst
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of the mystery of it all and know that there is meaning.
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So thank you so much for listening.
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Thank you so much for being here on this planet, for all
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of the beauty that you are pouring into this world.
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I do have a big announcement, which is
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that I have officially started
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doing intuitive readings again.
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I'm opening my books for this fall
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for one-on-one intuitive readings,
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and I'm calling these readings your soul's image,
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because what I was directed to do was to open my books
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to do these intuitive readings,
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and through these readings, I bring in an image
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from your soul for you that will help you connect
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to your own soul and your own wider self.
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Along with that image, I also call in
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and we meet one of your guides, as well as answer some
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of your questions about your life.
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So I'm about to open my books for this next week, so,
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and I have a feeling they're going to go really fast.
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So if you're interested in booking one of these readings,
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you can sign up for the wait list below in order
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to receive first word when they open.
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And I'm only going to be opening a couple months at a time,
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so I will open more sessions later this fall if you were not
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able to get in this time around.
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But that is coming up next week, so go ahead
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and get on that wait list if you're interested,
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and I would be so honored to help you connect
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with your own wider self, to connect you
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with the metaphor of your soul.
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So thank you so much for being here.
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It's really such an honor
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to be walking with you on this path.
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As we move into the times ahead, the deep times,
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the deep lake of time, may, may all of the, the poetry,
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the metaphor that comes your way
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help you open up this connection to your own soul's knowing,
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to your own unique energy, the possibilities that are here
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for you in this lifetime, and may it help you remember
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that most important thing of all, why you're here.