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5 ✨ woo-woo ✨ things that are worth it · Lately with Lexi

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SPEAKER_00: I've spent more than 15 years studying and teaching yoga, breathwork, and meditation, so
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SPEAKER_00: Let's start with the first one that most people don't do.
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SPEAKER_00: Morning sadhana or daily spiritual practice.
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SPEAKER_00: This is my hidden secret.
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SPEAKER_00: And across nearly every spiritual tradition,
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SPEAKER_00: whether Vedic,
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SPEAKER_00: Christianity,
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SPEAKER_00: This is a window of time about 90 minutes before sunrise when the veil to
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SPEAKER_00: the other side or the heavens is the thinnest,
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SPEAKER_00: meaning this is the best time to connect to God.
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SPEAKER_00: It's also said that any spiritual practice you do during this time is 40 times more powerful.
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SPEAKER_00: And personally,
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SPEAKER_00: my morning practice has evolved a lot over the years and I'll continue
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SPEAKER_00: to adopt my sadhana to best serve my life depending
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SPEAKER_00: on what season I'm currently navigating.
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SPEAKER_00: Now you might think that I'm a morning person because I like to get up early,
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SPEAKER_00: but truthfully I am not at all a morning person.
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SPEAKER_00: It really takes me a bit of time to wake up and adjust and get ready for the day.
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SPEAKER_00: So right now my morning sadhana looks like waking up.
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SPEAKER_00: I like to bundle myself up.
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SPEAKER_00: I have my morning whites that I love to wear,
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SPEAKER_00: and I put on the comfiest socks and my meditation clothes.
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SPEAKER_00: I love to wear the same thing every morning.
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SPEAKER_00: I
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SPEAKER_00: also have a pashmina scarf that I like to cloak myself in when I am preparing for my sadhana.
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SPEAKER_00: It just, yeah, helps to contain the energy and it feels so good.
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SPEAKER_00: Now a few things.
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SPEAKER_00: I'll jump on my vibration plate for anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes just to wake up
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SPEAKER_00: the lymph and feel more open physically.
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SPEAKER_00: I find that movement is so important to help drop me deeper into meditation.
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SPEAKER_00: Another thing that I do that I'm obsessed with is nausea oil.
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SPEAKER_00: I will put two drops in each nostril.
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SPEAKER_00: Nausea oil is this Ayurvedic oil that has these different therapeutic herbs,
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SPEAKER_00: and it really helps to open your third eye.
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SPEAKER_00: And again, it just kind of helps set that tone for going into that deep meditative state.
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SPEAKER_00: After a little bit of movement,
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SPEAKER_00: once I'm ready to hop on my meditation cushion,
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SPEAKER_00: I always start by clearing and shielding my energy field.
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SPEAKER_00: This is a total game changer.
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SPEAKER_00: It really sets the tone for my entire day.
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SPEAKER_00: And to be honest, when I don't do it, I feel it.
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SPEAKER_00: I notice it.
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SPEAKER_00: If you're like me,
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SPEAKER_00: if you are a highly sensitive person,
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SPEAKER_00: if you're intuitive or you want to be and you want to wake up those gifts,
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SPEAKER_00: it's so crucial to shield your energy.
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SPEAKER_00: That way you're not taking on other people's emotions and energy.
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SPEAKER_00: And I mean, there's so much that we cannot see with the physical eye that is coming at us.
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SPEAKER_00: So always, always, always, I start by connecting to my guides, clearing and shielding my energy.
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SPEAKER_00: Then I move into some breath work.
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SPEAKER_00: And the breath work really depends.
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SPEAKER_00: There's so many different yogic breath techniques that I love and different kriyas that I do.
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SPEAKER_00: So if I am wanting to calm my over-lidical mind,
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SPEAKER_00: if I want to ground my energy,
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SPEAKER_00: if I maybe want to increase my energy and creativity,
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SPEAKER_00: there's different breath works that I'll do just depending on the day.
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SPEAKER_00: And then there's also times where I'll do like a 40-day sadhana where I'm doing
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SPEAKER_00: the same yoga kriya or breath work or meditation.
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SPEAKER_00: I love doing those.
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SPEAKER_00: I find that like that really helps too to have a specific intention for my sadhana.
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SPEAKER_00: And then after breath work, I always chant mantra.
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SPEAKER_00: I find this so healing and therapeutic.
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SPEAKER_00: It activates the vagus nerve and it just helps to connect you
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SPEAKER_00: to your personal voice, your power.
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SPEAKER_00: If you have ever felt that your voice has been stifled or like you have struggled
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SPEAKER_00: to speak your truth or to speak up, Or you hold back at all.
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SPEAKER_00: I think chanting mantra is so valuable.
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SPEAKER_00: It's one of my favorite things to do.
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SPEAKER_00: And it doesn't have to be complicated.
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SPEAKER_00: It doesn't have to be a long mantra by any means.
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SPEAKER_00: Three ohms, total game changer at just resetting everything.
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SPEAKER_00: And then finally, to kind of wrap up the sadhana, meditate.
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SPEAKER_00: That's what it's all about.
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SPEAKER_00: But if you are someone who feels like You're not good at meditating.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't like meditating.
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SPEAKER_00: It's hard for you to sit still.
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SPEAKER_00: It's hard for you to quiet the mind.
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SPEAKER_00: First, just know that not all meditation has to be about quieting the mind.
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SPEAKER_00: Personally,
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SPEAKER_00: I find that a lot of times when I'm having a lot of thoughts in my meditation,
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SPEAKER_00: it's a really productive meditation because I'm clearing the gunk.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm just taking out the trash, the cobwebs.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm just clearing that space because what happens if we don't bring those thoughts
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SPEAKER_00: to the surface, they're still there, but we're unaware of them.
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SPEAKER_00: We're just not conscious of those thoughts or those stressors.
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SPEAKER_00: So if they do come up,
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SPEAKER_00: if you feel like you're struggling to meditate,
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SPEAKER_00: trust that that is part of the process and it's really, really good.
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SPEAKER_00: But also,
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SPEAKER_00: when you do sadhana during the ambrosial hours,
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SPEAKER_00: 90 minutes before the sun rises,
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SPEAKER_00: you're going to automatically notice that you can drop deeper into meditation.
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SPEAKER_00: You'll also find that by starting with a little bit of movement,
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SPEAKER_00: breath work,
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SPEAKER_00: and chanting, It's also going to help you to drop deeper into meditation.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, depending on how much time I have, I mean,
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SPEAKER_00: I have condensed,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: sadhana's if I only have 10 minutes,
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SPEAKER_00: like if I'm traveling or my schedule's really wonky,
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SPEAKER_00: I can fit a lot in in 10 minutes.
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SPEAKER_00: But if I have a full hour, like I'm going to love taking that.
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SPEAKER_00: I would say overall, what I love about my
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SPEAKER_00: We practice sadhana every single morning together because
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SPEAKER_00: the benefits are actually amplified when you practice together.
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SPEAKER_00: If you have a roommate,
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SPEAKER_00: a partner,
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SPEAKER_00: a spouse,
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SPEAKER_00: a friend that wants to do sadhana with you,
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SPEAKER_00: I also find that really,
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SPEAKER_00: really beautiful and I love getting together with people to do sadhana.
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SPEAKER_00: So I'm curious,
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SPEAKER_00: let me know in the comments if you have a morning sadhana and what it looks like.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm always super curious to learn about what other people are doing because I think
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SPEAKER_00: that the best sadhanas are the ones that we create for ourselves, right?
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SPEAKER_00: It doesn't have to be something rigid that you stick to
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SPEAKER_00: and it's exactly what somebody else is doing.
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SPEAKER_00: I have studied so many different spiritual traditions.
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SPEAKER_00: And with that,
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SPEAKER_00: there's been times in my life where I feel like, oh,
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SPEAKER_00: I really need to do sadhana this specific way or I need to stick to this kriya for
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SPEAKER_00: a set amount of time.
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SPEAKER_00: But I think the best thing is having your own internal compass that's guiding you.
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SPEAKER_00: Now the next woo-woo habit that's life-changing is energetic hygiene.
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SPEAKER_00: And I've kind of touched on this a little bit already in my sadhana.
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SPEAKER_00: And this is so important because if you are an empath like me,
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SPEAKER_00: you probably very easily pick up other And
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SPEAKER_00: honestly,
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SPEAKER_00: in my opinion,
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SPEAKER_00: everybody should be practicing energetic hygiene,
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SPEAKER_00: especially with how fast-paced and technologically driven our world is today.
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SPEAKER_00: It's so important.
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SPEAKER_00: So energetic hygiene is part of my morning sadhana.
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SPEAKER_00: And again, if I don't do it, I feel it.
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SPEAKER_00: So energetic hygiene is essentially clearing
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SPEAKER_00: and shielding your energy every single day with intention,
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SPEAKER_00: prayer, and visualization.
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SPEAKER_00: So as an example,
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SPEAKER_00: my fiance experiences sleep paralysis, not often, but every once in a while he does.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm always checking on him.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm like, well, are you doing your energetic hygiene?
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SPEAKER_00: Are you clearing and shielding your field?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think that comes just with time.
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SPEAKER_00: The more you start to practice and become aware of
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SPEAKER_00: the energy around your physical body and you start to develop this ability
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SPEAKER_00: to command your space and your energy,
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SPEAKER_00: you really reclaim your power and you won't take shit.
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SPEAKER_00: It's the easiest way I can put it.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so here's why energetic hygiene really matters.
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SPEAKER_00: We are so much more than our physical bodies.
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SPEAKER_00: I think we just forget.
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SPEAKER_00: We are energy light beings.
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SPEAKER_00: In kundalini yoga, we understand that we have 10 bodies.
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SPEAKER_00: So we have the three minds, positive, negative, neutral.
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SPEAKER_00: We have our pranic body.
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SPEAKER_00: That's a part of the breath.
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SPEAKER_00: We have our physical body, of course.
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SPEAKER_00: We also have our subtle body, our aura, our arc line, our radiant body, and our soul.
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SPEAKER_00: Was that 10?
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SPEAKER_00: I think that was all 10.
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SPEAKER_00: So often,
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SPEAKER_00: very unknowingly,
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SPEAKER_00: our energy is being hijacked or it is being siphoned or getting attached
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SPEAKER_00: to other people's energy or they are unconsciously attaching to our own.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's not necessarily a conscious thing from one person to another, but it's happening.
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SPEAKER_00: So if they have no idea and we have no idea,
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SPEAKER_00: like at the end of the day,
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SPEAKER_00: someone's got to take responsibility to clear the field because if we don't,
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SPEAKER_00: no one will.
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SPEAKER_00: And then we're stuck walking around with a lot of heavy, dense energy that isn't even ours.
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SPEAKER_00: And then the worst part is it impacts how we feel,
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SPEAKER_00: it impacts our mood and how we show up in our lives.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's really important we step into our energetic sovereignty.
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SPEAKER_00: And the best part about energetic hygiene is that your intention of clearing
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SPEAKER_00: and shielding your energy alone, that's enough.
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SPEAKER_00: The direction of your thoughts are that powerful.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't have to be intuitive or psychic or a healer to do this work on yourself.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact I believe it's way more powerful that we learn how
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SPEAKER_00: to do our own energy healing versus outsourcing our power and relying entirely
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SPEAKER_00: on energy healers to do the work for us.
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SPEAKER_00: Plus that's really just not at all realistic when this should be a daily practice.
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SPEAKER_00: And again, it doesn't have to be complicated.
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SPEAKER_00: It can literally take two minutes.
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SPEAKER_00: If you'd like me to share my personal prayer and visualization technique,
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SPEAKER_00: let me know in the comments and I can make a video specifically for that.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you're curious and you want to dig a little bit deeper
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SPEAKER_00: into energetic One is going to be Lisa Renee of Energetic Synthesis,
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SPEAKER_00: Julie Pyatt or Srimanti, and Olivia Magdalena of The Rose Lineage.
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SPEAKER_00: All right.
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SPEAKER_00: The third thing is praying out loud and bonus points for doing it in a mirror
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SPEAKER_00: and gazing into your own eyes.
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SPEAKER_00: The eyes are a portal to your soul after all.
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SPEAKER_00: So just like how your intention is powerful when it comes to energetic hygiene,
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SPEAKER_00: your spoken words are just as potent.
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SPEAKER_00: They are quite literally spells.
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SPEAKER_00: So ask yourself, what spells are you casting?
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SPEAKER_00: How often are you declaring your desires into existence?
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SPEAKER_00: What does your self-talk look and sound like?
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SPEAKER_00: So for me,
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SPEAKER_00: I have what I call my morning magnetism,
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SPEAKER_00: which is a one page of prayers that I've printed out
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SPEAKER_00: and I recite out loud every morning.
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SPEAKER_00: So these prayers are...
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SPEAKER_00: I think it is such an underrated hack to directly talk to your body.
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SPEAKER_00: Asking your mind to clear any ruminating thoughts or anxiety
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SPEAKER_00: or even asking your body to increase your focus, your energy, and vitality.
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SPEAKER_00: There's this yogic belief that all disease starts first energetically.
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SPEAKER_00: So any disease first manifests as dis-ease.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you have a sprained ankle or if you deal with low back pain...
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SPEAKER_00: Get curious about what is the energy tied to that part of your body or
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SPEAKER_00: if you get sick or come down with illness.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a valuable practice,
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SPEAKER_00: I think,
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SPEAKER_00: because it invites you to be more introspective and inquisitive to what's going
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SPEAKER_00: on beneath the surface.
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SPEAKER_00: Before things are shifting physically, what is happening now?
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SPEAKER_00: Mentally, energetically.
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SPEAKER_00: And you might be surprised just by posing that question to yourself,
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SPEAKER_00: what comes up,
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SPEAKER_00: what aha moments you might come across,
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SPEAKER_00: or what further insight you learn about who you are or why maybe you're dealing with
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SPEAKER_00: that back pain.
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SPEAKER_00: I talk about that a lot.
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SPEAKER_00: I can share a video I shared about my personal spiritual awakening that started
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SPEAKER_00: with herniating my spine and having a lot of back problems.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you're curious about that,
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SPEAKER_00: I have this podcast episode and video where I walk through examples Exactly how
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SPEAKER_00: that manifested first energetically and then was something I experienced from
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SPEAKER_00: a pretty young age.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's been such a gift.
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SPEAKER_00: It has truly been a teacher.
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SPEAKER_00: Any sickness, pain,
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SPEAKER_00: illness,
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SPEAKER_00: body ache,
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SPEAKER_00: like it's The body is so intelligent and it is protecting ourselves
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SPEAKER_00: and I think there's a lot of this that is tied to what's happening
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SPEAKER_00: on their energetic realm.
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SPEAKER_00: So get curious.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, and even if you don't believe in all of this like woo-woo,
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SPEAKER_00: just remember that the placebo effect is a powerful thing and you can literally tap
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SPEAKER_00: into that when you're specifically directing your self-talk.
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SPEAKER_00: And personally,
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SPEAKER_00: I love doing mirror work,
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SPEAKER_00: praying out loud,
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SPEAKER_00: gazing into my eyes,
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SPEAKER_00: especially as I'm doing my skincare or getting ready in the morning.
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SPEAKER_00: I think this is a great place to incorporate these prayers
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SPEAKER_00: where we can really speak our desires into existence.
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SPEAKER_00: Another thing I'll add here,
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SPEAKER_00: when I think about meditation,
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SPEAKER_00: and Julie Pyatt taught me this,
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SPEAKER_00: when you think about manifestation, what's happening is there's a slowing down.
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SPEAKER_00: I think a lot of times we believe, well, if we want to manifest, we can't just sit on our hands.
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SPEAKER_00: We have to show up.
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SPEAKER_00: We have to take action.
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SPEAKER_00: And yes, that is true.
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SPEAKER_00: But what if there was a slowing down?
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SPEAKER_00: What if there's this pause before the breakthrough?
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SPEAKER_00: And we see that a lot.
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SPEAKER_00: Oftentimes there's this liminal space where we maybe question something
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SPEAKER_00: that we felt was so true and right for us in our lives.
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SPEAKER_00: I like to share that because I think there's this connection to our self-talk.
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SPEAKER_00: And our beliefs and our manifestations and this co-creation with the universe.
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SPEAKER_00: And again, this all begins on the energetic plane first.
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SPEAKER_00: And so imagine that there's this slowing down that is required and that is happening.
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SPEAKER_00: And when we do that,
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SPEAKER_00: manifestation becomes this very feminine receptive portal where there's full trust,
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SPEAKER_00: surrender in God's divine timing and divine plan without the need to force or prove
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SPEAKER_00: So I think that's kind of important when we think about manifestation instead
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SPEAKER_00: of thinking about, I don't even like using the word manifestation.
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SPEAKER_00: I love thinking about manifestation in terms of alignment and coming
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SPEAKER_00: into greater alignment in your life.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, and that kind of segues perfectly into the last woo-woo habit
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SPEAKER_00: that I recommend you explore.
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SPEAKER_00: This is one of my favorites,
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SPEAKER_00: and this is all about understanding your Vedic astrology,
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SPEAKER_00: specifically your karma and dharma.
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SPEAKER_00: I love Western astrology, which is what most people are familiar with.
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SPEAKER_00: It does a great job of helping you understand your personality
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SPEAKER_00: and different energy cycles that you're moving through.
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SPEAKER_00: And what I love about incorporating Vedic astrology is the downside.
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SPEAKER_00: So essentially answering the question,
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SPEAKER_00: What am I here to do?
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SPEAKER_00: What is this all for?
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SPEAKER_00: And the second aim of life is ARTHA or prosperity and material success.
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SPEAKER_00: Something that you don't maybe think is explored or talked about a lot in
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SPEAKER_00: the spiritual world, but it is because again, we are in the 3D.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm saying again as if I've already spoken this and I don't believe I have
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SPEAKER_00: in this video,
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SPEAKER_00: but I just like to point this out because Artha is about the material world.
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SPEAKER_00: It is about the 3D and mastering this plane.
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SPEAKER_00: So think wealth, career,
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SPEAKER_00: resources,
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SPEAKER_00: your security,
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SPEAKER_00: and your ability to create material success on the physical plane because we live
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SPEAKER_00: in this 3D capitalistic world.
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SPEAKER_00: So why not have fun in the material while we're here?
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SPEAKER_00: And then third, we have Kama, which is pleasure and desire.
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SPEAKER_00: So think love,
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SPEAKER_00: relationships,
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SPEAKER_00: sensuality,
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SPEAKER_00: creativity,
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SPEAKER_00: beauty, enjoyment, and then also the fulfillment of healthy desires that you have.
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SPEAKER_00: This is all about, you know, what do you want to experience in this lifetime?
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SPEAKER_00: And then lastly, we have moksha, which is liberation and spiritual freedom.
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SPEAKER_00: Think freedom from attachment, ego,
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SPEAKER_00: identity,
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SPEAKER_00: different karmic patterns,
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SPEAKER_00: and ultimately the cycles of suffering and Insight
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SPEAKER_00: into moksha helps us really understand how do I become truly free?
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SPEAKER_00: Because what you'll learn when you experience the love of your life,
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SPEAKER_00: when you experience the dharma,
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SPEAKER_00: the purpose that you know you were born to experience,
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SPEAKER_00: once you start to check off these boxes on the material plane,
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SPEAKER_00: like You hit this point and it's like, is this what it's all about?
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SPEAKER_00: Is that it?
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SPEAKER_00: And I love that quote.
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SPEAKER_00: I can't remember who said it.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like, I wish everybody could just get rich and realize that's really not the point.
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SPEAKER_00: That's not enough.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm totally butchering that quote, but you get the point.
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SPEAKER_00: So spiritual liberation, to me,
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SPEAKER_00: it is I know that's a lot,
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SPEAKER_00: but those are the four aims of life, of a good life in Vedic astrology.
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SPEAKER_00: Vedic astrology really helps give us insights that our
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SPEAKER_00: And we have different karmas that we came into this world with,
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SPEAKER_00: and we have different life experiences that we're here,
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SPEAKER_00: in my opinion, to navigate so that we can grow and evolve.
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SPEAKER_00: And Vedic astrology is one tool to better understand and know yourself.
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SPEAKER_00: Overall,
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SPEAKER_00: Vedic philosophy isn't necessarily saying that you should reject money or pleasure
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SPEAKER_00: So using Vedic astrology is a tool to learn about what is in right alignment for you
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SPEAKER_00: when it comes to your purpose and your karma,
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SPEAKER_00: ultimately moving you towards that spiritual liberation and freedom.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, when it comes to morning sadhana,
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SPEAKER_00: energetic hygiene,
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SPEAKER_00: praying out loud,
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SPEAKER_00: and Vedic astrology,
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