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Ep 48. Romanticize Your Winter: Cozy Rituals for Manifesting · The Manifestation Station

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Welcome back to another episode of the Manifestation Station.
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I am your host, Holly Edwards talking everything, manifest-y,
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wonderful, light, positive, abundant energy.
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It is officially November here in the UK.
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Well, actually, it's November everywhere, isn't it? What I mean to say is that
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I've mentioned it a couple of times recently,
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but the winter is creeping
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in if you're in the UK and if
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you're not well you enjoy your lovely
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sunshine but at some point you might get some winter now it is winter officially
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in the UK that means it's getting colder the nights are getting darker far quicker
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I feel like it's already like it gets to like 4 p.m you're like oh it's getting a little bit dark.
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And if you are a summer girly like me, then what happens this time of the year,
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most years, is that I kind of start grieving the summer girl me.
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And, you know, everything that comes with summer, dressing for summer,
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the summer evenings, the weekends where you're sat out in the garden till 10,
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11 p.m. and you're just like, you just soak it all up.
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There's lots more outdoor activities, outdoor socializing.
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And yes, winter is cozy and it's lovely.
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I mean I personally I'm a
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summer girl through and through and even to dress I'm just I'm
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very practical and I don't like going out and being
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cold so sometimes I find you
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know trying to find an outfit for winter sometimes I'm
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like I always have to throw on so many layers that I'm a bit too
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practical and I miss I miss dressing for summer however this isn't a negative
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podcast about it's winter this
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is actually has a bit of a spin on it this one now I all about this year,
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embracing not wishing away the winter and thinking oh it's cold and it's a long
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winter I am fully embracing it you know why we have air in our lungs we are
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healthy we are happy there There
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are some people in the world who would be absolutely longing for a winter,
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a healthy winter, maybe with their family or whatever.
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That one is it's just that we need
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to learn don't we to be grateful and
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to appreciative of all of the seasons and
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actually this is a big realization for me
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because if we're not doing that if like me sometimes
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you kind of think oh hurry up winter I bring
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on summer kind of wishing our lives away and
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one of the big things about manifesting and
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manifesting well is that we are learning
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to enjoy the ride now you
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know that saying happiness is not a destination it's
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the journey exactly that we don't want to wish
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our lives away for our summer holidays and
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yes that is going to come but how can we embrace
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these winters now personally for me
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all of a sudden this year I'm already
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fully invested in winter I mean I'm I'm such
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a Christmas girl anyway I love Christmas so I always love
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the builder I'm normally from the 1st of December in Christmas mode but this
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year I feel like as soon as November hit as soon as Halloween disappeared I
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was in I was fully invested you know sometimes when you see the Christmas stuff
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in the shops I went into John Lewis and I think it must have been on the 1st of November.
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And a lot of the Christmas decorations were up. Now, you know,
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like sometimes people go, oh God, too early.
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I was like, this is magic. This is magical. I was so into it.
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And I suddenly realized that for me personally.
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So if you don't know this about me, I also,
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as well as being a manifesting coach, I've been manifesting for 20 years,
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but actually for 20 years, I've been
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working in film and tv and I'm very grateful
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that I get to design the hair and makeup for amazing
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films and tv shows which means I've
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traveled the world filming and last year
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actually for the last two years last year throughout
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January and February and then at
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the end of the year around Christmas November and December I
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was filming in the desert in Morocco I
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was filming this amazing project project with lovely
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actors and lovely director and
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team members and I was so lucky
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that I was away and I had winter some and we
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were filming near Marrakesh which was amazing and I
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had the most gorgeous experience but actually what I realized is
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that I skipped a lot of winter now I
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thought that's fantastic and it was I came back with
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a tan just before Christmas I you
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know throughout December was on rooftops and swimming pools and I was out there
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for my 40th birthday because I am a December baby I just had the time of my
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life and yeah and I was there in January as well so actually I'd skipped a lot
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of the winters now whilst that was amazing and had the most amazing incredible experience.
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I have realized, I only realized this the other day, that this is why all of
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a sudden I'm fully invested in Christmas this year.
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Even more so, I always am, but even more so, I'm embracing the season fully,
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the coziness, the blankets, the candles, the, you know, the nesting.
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And I've just realized it's because I skipped this time of the year last year
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in the UK. and it has opened up my eyes and given me this whole new vision and
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this whole new appreciation for winter.
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Now, I know it's not always easy, you know, particularly January,
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February, the other side of Christmas.
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I am fully embracing winter this year and I kind of want to talk to you about
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it, how we can embrace it, how we can manifest during these months when maybe
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we feel a bit slower or we feel like hibernating.
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So hear me out. This is what I'm learning this year, that winter doesn't have
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to feel like something we suffer through.
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Winter can actually be the season
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that makes your manifestation stronger because it makes you slow down.
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You physically slow down in winter. because we're not doing those late nights
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out in the garden having barbecues.
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Yes, we might be on some rooftops in London having champagne.
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Yes, we might be doing that. But also we're given more permission to slow down
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and slowing down long enough to be able to hear yourselves, to gather your thoughts,
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to gather some reflection.
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So today I want to talk to you about how to romanticize winter.
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Now, I am romanticizing to the max at the moment.
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Now, I did an episode on the manifestation station, I would say,
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about six months ago, and it was called Romanticizing Something.
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If you scroll back, you'll be able to find it. But it's basically about how we can.
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Romanticize even the smallest moments in our lives, just to make it feel like
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we're in a film and it's like a Pinterest board and it's Instagrammable,
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but it's not for show. It's for,
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making and elevating things in your
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life and your surroundings to romanticize even the
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most simplest of moments and that's
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what we can do this winter how to
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feel cozy and aligned even when the weather is questionable
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and how to use this season as a mindset reset instead of a slump so this episode
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is your permission to slip into the softness to slow down to stop being so hard
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on yourself and to bring some real life magic into these darker moments.
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And actually, winter energy is secretly perfect for manifesting.
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Let's talk energy. We treat winter, maybe not all of you, but I would say the
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majority of us Brits, we like to moan about the weather.
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We like to moan about the rain and how cold we are.
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But we do treat winter like it's like the enemy.
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And it's kind some of us like lose our sparkle the
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second the clocks go back but energetically winter
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is actually the season of incubation
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think of nature nothing is
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growing on the surface but underground roots are
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forming they're strengthening the seeds are
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settling in the foundation of spring is quietly
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forming but in the invisible and that's
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how I want you to envision yourselves this winter that okay
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we might maybe shut ourselves off off more and
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we might start to hibernate but actually think of your roots the grounding work
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of your manifestation those seeds that you've been planting they are working
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their magic and those roots are strengthening even if you can't see any progress yet.
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So if you're not feeling hyperproductive, if you're craving the slower mornings,
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the earlier evenings, if your social battery is unplugged, that is not you being lazy.
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This is just you being seasonal.
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The more that you can embrace that, the more you are going to glow and flourish.
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And actually, there is a thing, I cannot remember the name of it.
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I cannot remember the name of it. There is a theory about living seasonally
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and how you can adopt those seasons.
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And I suppose that this is a kind of a theory, a take on that.
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I don't know the ins and outs of that. But I definitely feel romanticizing your
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winter is just going to propel your manifesting journey.
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And do you know what else it's going to do? It's going to make you appreciate
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now, appreciate the winters, the rain, the weather. You know,
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this is going to be the thing, the time for you to gather yourself and your thoughts.
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Manifesting, it isn't about being high vibe 24-7.
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I always talk about raising your vibrations and it's so important,
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but it's also about being attuned to your energy.
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And winter energy is just that. It is gentle. It is grounding. It is cozy.
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It's reflective and it is beautifully slow.
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When you work with that energy instead of
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fighting it you manifest in a way that feels natural and
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not forced this is about us not
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fighting the winter not us fighting the seasons wherever
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you are in the world right now just relate that to to whatever is happening
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in your seasons wherever you are work with the seasons and don't force just
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let what comes natural Naturally, natural.
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The mindset shift is from taking it from, you know, it's winter,
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it's cold, it's miserable to that main character winter era.
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So this year, I decided if I can romanticize a coffee, I can romanticize a whole season.
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And honestly, I can't tell you how open my eyes are to this theory.
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And I know it's going to change your life. And I really, this is why I was adamant
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on this being the theme of this episode today.
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And here's the mindset shift that I'm making. And you are welcome to steal this if you want to.
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So instead of it's dark, it's cold and I'm miserable, just try it's dark and
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it's cold, which means candles, soft blankets.
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Slow dinners, early nights, warm hearty meals and extra time for me.
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You're being given the gift of time. Yes, I know December can be quite socially
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demanding, if you want it to be.
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But also, we are gaining time to ourselves because the season is shutting down, slowing down outside.
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You get more time indoors, more time for you, extra valuable time for you.
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So winter isn't taking anything away from you.
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It's offering you a different version of your life.
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Just for right now and you
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get to choose how you see it and as always with manifesting
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it is your perspective that creates
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your experience and that's like anything isn't
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it you know there are always things happening to us some
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of those things can't be helped but it's the way that your perspective your
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perspective that puts a spin on it creates your experience So what if this winter
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was your cozy era, your healing era,
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your glow up era from the inside?
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What if this season was the one where you restored yourself?
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You are reborn, you are refreshed, you are reset.
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So I'm going to give you some cozy, seasonal manifesting rituals that you can do.
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Just pick one of these because you're in your slow era.
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You are hibernating.
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Say hibernating, but I want to say you're kind of tucked away hibernating,
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but very alert with you and your thoughts.
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That's all we're doing. So you don't have to work your way through every single
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manifesting ritual that I'm going to give you now.
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Just pick one that resonates. come back to this another time during you know
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midwinter come back and do another one,
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Let's get into the rituals, the real ones, not the ones where you need to wake
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up at 4.30 and, you know, drink moon water.
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That's not what we're doing right now. These are easy, cozy,
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real life rituals that actually help your mindset.
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The first one I'm going to give you I absolutely love and it is the candle intention ritual.
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This is going to be your new favorite every
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evening light one candle
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and set one intention for how you want
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to feel tomorrow it is
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that simple not what you want to achieve or
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what you need to do this is just one intention
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for how you want to feel tomorrow how
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you want to feel manifesting a
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lot of manifesting is how you want
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to feel if you don't know what to manifest manifest a
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feeling manifest happiness peace calmness power
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whatever you want to feel because if
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you can manifest that feeling ultimately you
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are going to attract more experiences people and
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events that match that feeling so
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because your feelings determine your energy and
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your energy attracts everything this is why this intention works so say it out
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loud or quietly in your head light your candle and just say tomorrow I choose
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to feel then pick your word Calm,
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driven, magnetic.
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Joyful, abundant.
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Confident Whatever you want, it's simple, it's cozy and it's powerful,
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The next ritual that you can do, number two, is the 10-minute winter walk reset.
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Now, I did this this morning, guys. It is, what are we now?
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We are mid-November, so in the UK, it has just got a little bit cold.
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Now, this morning, I had a big weekend. I've got loads going on.
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I am filming. I've got manifesting clients. I've got my podcast.
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I have a live event this Thursday. So by the time you guys listen to this...
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That would have been complete. And I'm so excited. It's called the 12 days of manifesting.
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And if you came and you're now listening, I really hope you enjoyed it.
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I'm speaking to future, future you and future me.
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And let's just say it was successful. It was high vibe. It was inspiring.
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And if you can come to my next live event, be sure to come there because the
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live events are so electric and full of like-minded people and energy.
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There is just something magical that happens each and every time at the live events.
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So if you do get a chance, I'm going to try and do a lot more next year.
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So if you do get a chance, please do look out.
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I put them on my socials. If you're not following me, I'm at thehollyedwards
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on Instagram and at the.manifestation station.
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So what I was going to say is that number two, this ritual is the 10 minute winter walk reset.
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So what I started to say was how busy my week is. I had a busy weekend.
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So it's Monday today that I'm recording this.
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And I woke up and I thought, I have loads to do.
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I was really tired. I was really cold. I was like, oh my gosh, my head is blurry.
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Now what I did, and I'm an
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advocate of moving in the morning particularly in
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fresh air now I really didn't fancy it guys I'm not gonna
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lie but I have never regret
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I have never ever regretted going
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out in the morning and moving even if I don't fancy it so sometimes even of
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an evening if I need to reset my energy or break up stagnant energy I take myself
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off on a 10 minute walk and now this can be this ritual is the 10 minute winter walk reset.
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Now, I already said to you at the start of this episode that sometimes we stay
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in a lot more, we're not outside as much, but I think it's so important that
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Even though we're having cosier nights and staying in and hibernating,
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it's still so important to get outside.
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We need our daylight. We need our vitamin D.
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Even if it's grey, even if it's cloudy, even if it's raining,
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getting outside resets your energy.
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So you don't need to be in, you know, you don't need to be a winter outdoor girly.
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Just a 10-minute walk in the crisp air can change your entire mindset.
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And this is where I find when you do this ideas drop in.
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Motivation kicks in. This is where your clarity comes.
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This is where you reconnect with yourself and you reconnect with nature.
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There's something magic in just a 10-minute reset walk, honestly.
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I come up with my best ideas when I go for a walk or I go for a run, even if it's 10 minutes.
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I might feel really stagnant beforehand, not feel very motivated.
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I go for a walk and I'm thinking, right, this is what I'm going to do with my
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podcast. I'm going to do this at my live event. I'm going to contact this person
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and I'm going to reach out to that client.
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Whatever it is, it comes to you. It's like a magical reset and it just lifts
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the fog from your brain, lifts the fog from your energy and your mindset.
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I cannot recognize it enough. And just use that time, that 10 minutes,
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just use it to ask, what do I need today?
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And could I just say, whilst i whilst i have said that
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a lot of ideas and clarity comes to me you
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don't have anything really to do on that walk if you
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do nothing else but just walk and think of nothing that is
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also resetting your energy but just use this
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time and just say like what do i need today i quite
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often ask myself this like what do i need to get through today
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sometimes i just need to offer myself kindness sometimes I
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do need motivation sometimes I just
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need peace and that's it and just
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think like what would my future self do today if
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you're feeling inspired what would my future self do today
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what energy do I want to bring
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into my evening just set the standard from your day for your day just whatever
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you're whatever you're doing whatever time of day you go just set your standard
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of what you want to feel what energy you want to bring for the rest of that
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day it is a short walk but it is a big reset.
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Number three is the warm drink manifesting moment.
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I told you they were all going to be cozy. They were all going to be lovely
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and delicious. And this is it. This is simple.
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This is simple, guys. Simply choose yourself a warm drink, one that makes you
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feel full of love and coziness. It could be a tea.
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It could be a hot chocolate, a coffee, whatever feels cozy to you.
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And just have your drink there. wrap your hands around it and just ask yourself,
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if my dream life was guaranteed, how would I show up today?
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Let the warmth bring you back into your body. Sometimes our mind wanders.
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We think of our ever-long, like ever-continuing to-do list, the to-do list that never gets complete.
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Sometimes we're thinking of that and all the things we need to do today and
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all the things we haven't done.
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But just ask yourself, if my dream was guaranteed, how would I show up today?
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It's such a simple question. let that warmth
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bring you back into your body you know
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what happens your nervous system calms your
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energy rises your manifesting becomes
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easier again it's actually what
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it's doing it's a little ritual but actually what it's doing
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it's kind of shaking up that energy again
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and it's just giving yourself a tiny little
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energy reset and if you're going well these are
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so small yes they are and the
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more research I do on manifesting the more I
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live and breathe it myself after decades of
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kind of being into manifesting it's small steps regularly done that really change
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your life they really change your life and it is these moments we constantly
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do them and check in with ourselves and something shifts.
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Number four is the cozy night in visualization.
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So at night time, get yourself under a blanket and maybe just before you turn
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on Netflix, I'm not going to lie, just before I started this podcast, it's Monday evening.
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I quite often do my podcasts in the morning, but I've got a busy,
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busy week, as I've already told you.
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And I just had this feeling before I press play on Netflix, I've currently got
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it locked and loaded, ready to go. I can actually see the home screen.
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I'm currently watching Nobody Wants This. It's so cute.
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It's such an easy watch but it's heartfelt and it's wholesome very nice for
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this time of year if you haven't watched it go and watch it it's just lovely
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and it's funny and it's cute.
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Anyway before you watch Netflix just
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have a moment to visualize your future self living
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your winter in her
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dream so just your future self just living
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the best winter ever and just
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visualize future you where is she
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what does her home look like what
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does she wear what does she eat do
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who does she hang out with how does she
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feel in her space just take
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yourself through that a moment and just think of yourself under a
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blanket I'm visualizing for you now I'm visualizing
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you under a blanket before you hit play on
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the remote control before we put netflix on just
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close your eyes for a minute five minutes now sometimes i
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do this at bedtime sometimes i do it under the
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duvet sometimes i turn the telly off and i'll just have five
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minutes five minutes before i fully close my
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eyes to go to sleep and i just lay there and i
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just i think about i visualize i visualize
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my future my future me who's already
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who already embodies everything that i want to be and everything i'm trying
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to manifest it feels really fun it feels really fun and we're combining it now
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with our cozy season and we're making it a part of our kind of staple it's like
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a staple ritual you don't have to do it every night just every now and again
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just check in with yourself.
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Bring your manifestations into this season and not just the summer.
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Sometimes we feel more motivated than the summer.
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But actually, this is just entwining those manifestations into our season now.
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Number five is the bedroom glow-up for better energy.
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I love a glow-up and I love a glow-up for your space as well.
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Winter is when we get to spend a lot more time indoors and particularly in our bedrooms.
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So I cannot drum this in enough.
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Make it feel good. Make your bedroom feel like your sacred space.
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Your bedroom should be the place that you walk into and all of your stress is
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left at the door so everything home comfort, home furnishings, cushions,
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blankets, things that feel soft on your skin.
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Candles, lamps, mood lighting, nice
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piece of artwork or just decluttered
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whatever works for you and here's some quick
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reset ideas that you can do I put a
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reel on my Instagram Instagram I reckon it was
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probably a few weeks ago maybe a month ago and I
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went out and I had a complete reset for my
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bedroom it felt like it needed it I feel
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like the duvet covers were just feeling a bit meh
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and it was winter season was was here
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and it was creeping in and I just thought I'm not feeling
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the coziness it needs a little reset now this does
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not mean you need to go out and spend loads of money now personally
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I did pop to Dunelm here in the UK and I
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got a new duvet cover I got some new
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throw pillows to put on and a lovely throw at the end of the bed
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I didn't spend a fortune but I got it in colors
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that just ground me so I got kind of um it's actually kind of like I always
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love neutral tones earthy tones they always ground me whatever works for you
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so I have greens and browns and kind of deep reds, but it's all very soft.
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And every time now I walk in my room, I'm like, oh.
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The stress goes away, I can't wait to climb in my room, in my bed.
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But you don't want to be like, you know, throwing washing off the bed to try and get in.
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You don't want to have like a pile of stuff at the end of the bed that you're
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looking at, even if you can throw it away into cupboards for now.
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But here's some quick reset ideas that you can take.
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Change the pillowcases. So just
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go and give them a wash if you've got new ones to put on or clean ones.
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Give those a refresh just to be able to lay on
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those pillows smell that fresh linen
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smell there's nothing like it I guarantee you it will calm your
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nervous system maybe fairy lights or
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lamps or nice mood lighting just add a lamp add
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some fairy lights or something declutter your
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side table your bedside table whatever you have sometimes
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it can become a bit of a dumping ground maybe you've got
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a drawer next to your bed and it's kind of just got everything in it
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just take five minutes and just have
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a little kind of reset a declutter throw anything
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else out that you don't need in there just organize
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it and whatever you're looking at when you roll over when you're kind of half
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asleep if you're seeing clutter you're seeing things and tissues a mess and
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whatever it is you don't realize that that infiltrates your subconscious and
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it kind of tells you life is a bit messy it's about.
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Romanticizing so make it look nice on your bedside table maybe you've got,
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I love, do you know what really is romanticizing your bedside table? Now, I haven't got this.
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I take up my Stanley water cup to bed.
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But have you seen people that have these kind of, what are they?
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Almost like a carafe and it's got a glass on the top.
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And it's like a bottle of water, but the glass hangs over the top so nothing
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gets in it. I'm like, it's bougie.
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In fact, maybe I'll look at getting one of those. If I do, I'll post it on my Instagram.
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But listen, you don't have to go that far. But if you're thinking,
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hell yes, I'm going to romanticize my bedside table, then get something.
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Maybe a little vase with one flower in.
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Maybe you've got an affirmation card next to your bed.
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Just declutter the bedside table, give it a little reset.
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Grab yourself a new candle, another instant, quick way to kind of reset your bedroom energy.
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Soft bedding, like I said, a new duvet cover or just clean the sheets. That's simple.
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Maybe get yourself a book maybe invest in
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a book instead of your phone so that your phone is
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not always simultaneously like it works
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together in tandem you get into bed you go on your phone maybe
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cut that habit and just have a bed even if you even
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if you grab a book and keep it next to your bed
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with a bookmark in you will be more
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inclined every now and again even if you just read two
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pages if you're like me sometimes I like a
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little scroll on my phone before bed trying to get
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up the habit more and more just pick up a book two pages
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done and then even when I find up I do
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that even if I then watch tv after that I just find that I'm more invested in
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the in what I'm watching I'm more content and I'm kind of more present I suppose
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there's something about it switching your energy remember your environment shapes
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your energy and your energy shapes your manifestations applications.
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This is about embracing gentleness and winter is definitely not your season to burn out.
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You are not meant to be your most productive in winter right now.
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That's just not the version of who you need to be right now.
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I know that many of you have jobs and lives and kids and husbands and pets and
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everything like that going on and life is a million miles per hour.
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But this season right now this winter
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version of you doesn't have to be your
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most productive if we're seasonal
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you're meant to be you're meant to restore reflect to re-center to reset your
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vision and reconnect with who you are becoming and this season is about getting
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honest like what actually matters to me next year.
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It's about kind of starting to tune in to who you're becoming and who you're
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entering January 2026 as.
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What do you want to leave behind in 2025? We will do a proper reset episode at the end of the year.
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So do tune in for that and do subscribe to the podcast so that when that comes
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out, maybe towards mid-December to the end of December, I like to do it a little
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bit earlier than needed that gives you all time to kind of.
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Implement what we're talking about in the episode and
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to kind of we'll do a resetting episode to
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get that so do watch out for that please subscribe to the podcast if
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you're not already whether you're on apple or spotify it
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doesn't take long at all and when you do you get an alert and actually i think
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you get an instant that download to your phone so if you're commuting and if
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you don't have internet you will have the manifestation station on the go so
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also think about what would my future self thank me for doing right now.
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And let this be the season that you choose gentleness over perfection and softness
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over burnout and manifesting, it thrives when you're not in fight or flight mode.
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And this is like intentional living over pressure.
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That's what I love about this season. It's intentional living.
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It's intentionally creating these cozy corners. It's intentionally reflecting,
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intentionally romanticizing the season that we're in.
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It's about choosing to be more gentle, not thriving.
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Think of that, manifestations, they don't thrive in fight or flight mode.
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Trying to get that out there. Then we go, I'm not going to edit this episode
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either, guys. This is just a free, this is live.
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So yes, I may have stuttered a few times, but I don't care. I've got my cozy
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slippers on. I've lit the fire. The heating's on.
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The candles are lit. I am romanticizing with you.
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So here's some winter reflection prompts for you and if you are romanticizing
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this season and you think you might want to have a little journal and maybe
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if you never journaled before,
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I used to think it was a bit you know is it really going to do that much if
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I get my journal out when you start sometimes I have a block in it that I go
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oh can I be bothered can I be bothered to get the journal out I'm going to be
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really honest with you guys but every time I do it,
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Every time I write, every time I write my gratitudes, sometimes I just write
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about what's going on in my day.
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A bit like a diary entry, but it's more to get my thoughts out,
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my fears out, my doubts out, my gratitudes out.
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There's something about putting pen to paper that physically and mentally offloads
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that weight in your mind.
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And it's kind of clearing and decluttering that baggage.
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So I highly recommend to have a little journal every now and again.
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It could be five minutes. It could be half an hour's worth.
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Sometimes you can sit and open your journal and not know what to write.
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And this is why I like to give people some ideas for some journal prompts.
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So here's some for you that you can write down this month and then follow on
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with your thoughts. Number one.
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What am I craving more of this winter? It's really good to kind of check in
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with yourself. Like, what am I craving more of?
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Is it peace? Is it rest? Is it socializing?
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Whatever you feel like you need this winter, that's what you want to embrace.
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And that's what you want to think about.
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Now, I personally, I definitely am craving,
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I don't want to say, it's not, well, no, it is rest it's coziness
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it's self-care but it's also
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for me it's also about celebrating and
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I've had a very busy year with work and we've been working on the house we've
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had lots of building done and I've been traveling around the world filming and
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I'm also feeling like I'm craving some more celebrating,
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out with the people that I loved, getting dressed up and feeling like I'm going
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into the city and seeing some life and seeing some...
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Some atmosphere and some music and some sparkle.
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You know how I said at the opening of this episode that I've been away and where
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I was away for the last two winters in the desert.
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It was very different to London and it's very different to Cambridge where I live now.
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And, you know, I feel like I'm craving some of that.
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So on one side, it's the coziness and it's the rest and embracing this season of slowing down.
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And on another side, it's celebrating the people in my life,
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the atmosphere, and getting out there, putting my heels on and putting some
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sparkle on and some bright colored clothes and just having a dance, having a socialize.
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Now I need to think about how to do that actually, because as a freelancer,
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I've been a freelancer for 20 years in the film world.
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I'm also a freelancer as a manifesting coach and a freelancer as a podcaster.
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This means that I do not get invited to any
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Christmas parties and I am a
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Christmas party girl so if any of you would like to
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invite me to a Christmas party yes please I
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would love to come and have a champagne put on a pretty dress and
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I want a party and you know what I'm also going to do now that I'm
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talking to you about romanticizing this season I'm
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going to throw myself a self-employed Christmas party
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that is exactly what I'm going to do I'm going to do some nice dinner
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I'm going to put some tunes on and I'm going to pop some champagne and
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I might put a dress on and I might record it
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and put it on my Instagram so yes lonely me
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will be dancing around my kitchen having a self-employed Christmas
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party if you are also self-employed what
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do we do about this should we join forces and have oh my god that's a great
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idea we should join forces and have a self-employed Christmas party that's an
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idea anyway back to your journal prompts the next one you could do is what feels
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too heavy for me to carry into the new year.
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What feels too heavy for me to carry into the new year? It's a really good way
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to kind of just tap in into how you're feeling and to compartmentalize it.
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How about number three? What version of me is being born in this slower season?
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Who is going to come out on the other side after hibernation?
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What about where can I soften?
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Maybe you're being too hard on yourself. Are you hard on yourself at the moment?
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Think about where you can soften.
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How about what would make this winter feel magical for me?
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I actually think this is one of my favorite because sometimes
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we do actually need to check in with ourselves and go what would
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what would make this season magical
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what works for you not just what you think someone
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else should think or what you should think or what
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you feel like society should be telling you to do
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maybe that's that you should be going to socialize more
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when actually you want to stay in and rest what would feel more magical for
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you these prompts they help
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your subconscious to open up and winter naturally brings
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things to the surface so embrace it give
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yourself a winter manifesting challenge and
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you know me I love a challenge anything where we
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can make manifestation fun I am your girl
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so here's your winter cozy manifesting challenge
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just for the next seven days if you
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can just do these three things light
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one candle and set one intention every
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evening take a five to minute to
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a five to ten minute winter walk now you know that's so easy even now like i'm
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recording this at 7 p.m it's dark outside please be careful of course but you
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know what just put your trainers on five minutes you can walk you know to the
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end of the street and back that is your five minute winter reset walk that's it.
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And the third thing is to romanticize one tiny moment of your day.
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Now, I could say this, please, please, please do this.
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Every single one of you listening, please romanticize one tiny moment of your day.
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Just one. Your morning drink, your slippers, your evening routine,
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your commute, your meal, cooking your favorite meal, getting your favorite meal deal at lunch.
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Whatever romanticizing means
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to you. romanticize the tiny things and your energy shifts massively.
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It also shows that you value yourself, you value your life and it shows that
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you're present and the universe loves all of those things.
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I guarantee you by day seven you will feel calmer, you will feel clearer,
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more connected and genuinely excited about winter instead of dreading it.
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Like old me used to, I used to panic about winter and I'm thinking,
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where have I been this whole time?
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Yes, I enjoy them and my birthday is in winter as well.
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So I've always gone out and party and have fun, but there's a deep kind of sorrow
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inside of me that would almost be like, oh my God, I slightly dread the winter
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and I can't believe I've been doing it. I now think it's going to be the best thing ever.
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And yes, we'll look forward to spring and we'll look forward to summer,
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but let's appreciate winter too.
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Well, thank you so much, my lovelies, for spending this cozy winter moment with
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me on the Manifestation Station.
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If you are living your best life somewhere in Australia or the Maldives or the
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Caribbean where you're listening to, think of us Brits in winter and just find
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a way that you can sync with your seasons.
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I'm not going to edit that out. I just had a little cough there.
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Don't worry. I'm still romanticizing life in this podcast.
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So I really hope this episode helps you see that November is not as a dip in
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your energy, but as a doorway into your next version of you.
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A softer you, a grounded you, a more connected you, a you that is leading with
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intention instead of pressure.
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And winter is not here to dim your light, ladies and gentlemen.
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It is here to help you find your new kind
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of glow and you are going to be glowing from
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the inside out well if
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you liked this episode if you took anything
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from it please share it with someone who might need a
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little bit of winter magic and as always like
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I've said come and say hi to me on instagram at the holly
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edwards and at the dot manifestation station I
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love seeing you guys romanticize your daily moments
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it is one of my happiest things when I know that you are loving manifesting
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and that you're getting lovely little magical moments in your life so until
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next time stay cozy stay gentle and keep manifesting your dream life goodbye.