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Winter Reset: From Seasonal Blues to Spiritual Rebirth · Eye Opener Society

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  Hello, everyone. Welcome back to EyeOpener Society. I'm very excited to have
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  everybody gathered here.
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  I thank you again, you're a wonderful audience for hitting play,
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  downloading and everything else.
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  And I just want to also say too, thank you to other countries,
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  Spain, Germany, UK, Wales.
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  I've noticed that a lot more people are picking us up from overseas And I welcome
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  you with wide open arms Thank you for tuning in to us So I hope that we can
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  get something done together But today we have Lizzie back again Thank you Lizzie
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  Lizzie how are you doing?
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  Doing just excellent, just enjoying the fall season.
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  Yes, in the fall season, going into the winter season, going into the Christmas season.
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  This is a time of year where we kind of become reclusive, at least for me. I know I do.
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  And I was actually out recording another episode today, a solo episode,
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  just in case you, Lizzie, were not able to do one today.
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  But I'm going to put that one out anyway this week.
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  But I went outdoors to do the episode and I'm keeping myself focused that way
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  because as the sunlight starts to dissipate much earlier than normal and we
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  get very little bit of sunlight,
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  I've noticed some people and some of my own collective here at My Opener Society,
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  they don't have the time because they're trying to focus on themselves.
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  And this is good but if
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  you're doing that and you the audience are
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  you focusing on yourself like if you come around this time a
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  year now you know now that i'm thinking about it some
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  people are in temperate zones you know you don't have to deal with all the nothing
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  with the shifting and the daylight savings time and all but those of you that
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  do have the four seasons and experience that many people go and they recluse
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  themselves and they hibernate, so to speak.
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  But are you really reflecting on yourself? And that's something Lizzie and I
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  were discussing because I think we need to focus on ourselves more.
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  Once we come back and into the new season, we're refreshed.
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  We have so much more to think about. We have so much more to say.
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  And I'm just hoping that people are doing that. And I know, Lizzie,
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  you have some thoughts on it too as well.
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  Yeah, I think that it's just super important. You know, everybody likes to be
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  high vibe all the time, right? Like that's the obsession.
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  But it's really just not realistic.
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  And I think in nature, it's naturally patterned in for time for pause.
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  You know, the seasons, winter gets cold. You have to stay inside more,
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  right? You pick more indoor activities.
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  The moon even changes people's emotions, women's menstrual cycles.
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  It's like built in all of it for just sometimes an activity,
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  really high power. and then sometimes pause.
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  And I think it's kind of like in a balance of both of those.
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  And I think when you try to push one of them, it pushes you too hard into the other.
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  I think that's maybe where seasonal depression came from. Or I think that's
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  where mine came from anyways.
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  Yeah. And it's funny that you mentioned that because I've done a whole podcast
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  episode on that, but I changed the perspective.
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  I went into seasonal happiness.
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  What changes your mind on everything?
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  You know, it really does help and say, Okay, well, the season's here.
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  It's really not that bad.
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  But you also mentioned like in the whole witchcraft society too,
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  you know, it's a celebration of each season and each season holds some meaning anyway.
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  So winter and witchcraft represents the death of everything.
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  It's a life cycle. We got to live, we got to die. And then there's a rebirth on that.
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  And I think that's a lot of the reason too. So a lot of people do feel that
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  this time of year is the start of the death season.
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  Yeah. I mean, in nature, the trees all die and we all kind of focus.
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  And like I said, with the activities inwards for me personally,
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  I think this started because my birthday's in October. Right.
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  And so a long time ago, I started a tradition where every year I do a journal
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  entry, kind of not quite a summary over the last year, but just kind of a,
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  just like a little bit of where my thoughts are at that time.
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  And it kind of ends up starting like a whole season
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  of self-reflection and then
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  as I got older and I kind of really watched the seasons I
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  think what happens is if you can catch the wave of something
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  it goes really easy but when like this
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  society tries to keep us going the same every day
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  right summer winter same level of activity
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  every day of the week and I think that
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  that just throws you off because you
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  can't maintain that and if you can follow
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  the flow of it and naturally go up and
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  down with it then so self-reflect
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  for me from about my birthday mid-october to
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  yule december 21st that's supposed
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  to be like the birth of the sun right that's when
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  days start getting longer that the 21st is usually the longest night of the
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  year and so at that point you're still quote self-reflecting because it's winter
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  time or whatever but it's more about dreaming and building because you're catching
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  the flow of something new versus closing out something old.
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  I like that. And I like that because it's also something that I was thinking about doing too.
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  And I actually did start doing that for this year, especially.
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  And I just started recently. I was fascinated with looking into all different religions.
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  And I started to research a little bit. And I picked up the Book of Enoch.
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  And I started reading that. And I want to also pick up anything related to Buddhism and all.
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  And I'm trying to apply all of the different thoughts.
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  Ominism. You know, it's fascinating to me. Religions, at least.
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  Because no matter what you read, there's always some similarities.
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  Places and names kind of change. But there's similarities across all these different books.
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  And I've been more fascinated not with
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  religion but just philosophies of religion much like
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  Buddhism is a philosophy hermeticism that's my favorite
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  that's what you know I got tattooed on me it's hermeticism it's it's all a philosophy
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  but a lot of this it really seems to pack into the same bible that everybody
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  you know follows you know you're not going to find the stories to be exactly
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  the same, but they relate extremely.
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  And of course, me, I sit there and as I read all these things,
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  I replaced the people with aliens
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  because it suddenly makes so much more sense when you're reading it.
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  And the one thing that fascinated me with the book of Enoch,
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  when they describe God, God is a person with an entourage and clothing and all.
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  To me, that wouldn't be you.
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  An almighty source a creator of all things
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  that's a person or an alien
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  so i like
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  this and that's why i'm going to dive deeper into this during the colder season
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  so instead of going through seasonal depression i get to go through a seasonal
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  learning and i start to apply that to my own stuff because the one thing i mentioned
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  to you i wanted to practice more of my intuition and some of my gifts,
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  finding out more what they are and how to use them and how to apply them.
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  And it takes practice. And I figure might as well do that rather than just sit
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  and say, oh, it's it's winter and it sucks.
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  You know, you got to do something different or better than what you think you
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  need to do during this time of year.
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  Oh, yeah, for sure. It's so easy to just want to like curl up and watch a movie or something.
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  You know what I mean? And just like get through it. But truly,
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  like if you can use that pause for learning or or whatever it is that you're
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  doing you just the next year will be will be better it's not that and not monotonous
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  oh i can't say the word right now yeah right.
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  Of the same every single year i think that's why people get really like uh anxious
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  and stuck in a rut is because they're doing it every day the same and every
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  year the same and you have to mix it up winter i've been thinking about painting
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  again because it's been a while since i've painted,
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  and now it's going to be cold. We can't go do nothing.
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  Seems like a good time to just start painting again because otherwise I'll watch
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  TV and I don't really want to do that. Yeah, yeah, I hear you.
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  And as the audience knows, and as I know especially, it's like I know you take
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  pauses yourself when your energy is getting too much and you even told me the
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  other day, hey, this might be it.
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  You might not hear from me for a little while and I get that.
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  That's Lizzie, you know, and...
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  What I like, though, about that, you recognize these patterns.
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  And then when you do take your breaks, you come back more fascinating than you were before.
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  And then I'm more fascinated and it drives me, you know.
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  So this is a good thing. You have a pattern that you follow yourself, but you listen to it.
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  And I think that's what everybody needs to do.
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  Everybody should say, hey, I'm feeling a little stressed out.
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  No, rather than focus on that, recognize it and turn around and say,
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  okay, we're going to do something about it.
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  And you reinvent yourself. You know, in some way, you don't have to change everything.
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  But yeah, change things up.
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  Learn something new. Like me, I want to learn more about religions.
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  You want to go back to painting.
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  Maybe some people want to go into music or whatever the case.
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  Maybe reinvent yourself.
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  Try something new. So this way, something new emerges because just like you
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  said, this winter is not so much the death of everything, but it's the beginning
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  of the rebirth because it's just a cycle.
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  Just because we're going through the season of death, it's really a rebirth
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  because that's what's next. And we can't have that next step without the death, if that makes sense.
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  Yeah, everything, everything. feminine masculine energy light dark creation
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  destruction it all balances back and forth and you really can't have one without
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  the other and same with like as you're trying to.
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  Evolve yourself you have to turn inward and
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  then you have to turn outward you have to go inward
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  and do all this work find all this peace find all this
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  creation and then you have to share it with the world and
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  that's going to adjust how you're feeling about it what you're doing with it
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  and then you're going to turn back inward again and I think that's where I think
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  a lot of people get stuck is because they they have a hard time sharing it or
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  how to pull that out because that That's hard to be perceived and to share your own perspectives.
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  Yeah, it is. And actually, if anybody is having any difficulty with that,
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  I mean, they could contact you because you're very good at that.
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  I mean, you worked with me the other day. You did not have to, but you did. Yeah.
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  It made me feel confident. It really did.
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  Because, I mean, even though most of the stuff I knew what was going on, you reinforced it.
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  Because you're coming from a completely different, not just so much a different
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  perspective, but Christ, you're coming from a whole other state so far away, you know.
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  But yet, you're still connected enough to read these things.
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  So, definitely, people need to reach out to Lizzie.
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  And you can be found on TikTok, energy.by.lizzie. and it's on TikTok or on Instagram.
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  If you check your Instagram, I don't know.
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  I might actually delete that one. I'm having a moment with it. I got you.
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  But you can always reach out to EOSmeditation at gmail.com.
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  That's the email for us here at Eye Opener Society.
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  And I can always get you in touch with Lizzie because she's really good at this.
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  And that's the focus of these podcasts really is I want to help people in some
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  way, shape or form, whether you're just listening to us for entertainment or
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  if you're actually taking something away.
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  And if you are, that makes me feel great.
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  And that's what I always try to do. And like I said, I have no practice.
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  I have no certifications for meditation and all that.
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  That's like saying Jesus needs a certification.
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  Think about that. But I've been doing it for so long that maybe the way I'm doing it,
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  somebody could use a few tips and tricks. And that's why Wednesday night meditations
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  have changed a little bit.
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  I went from guiding meditations to giving people tips and tricks and ideas and focus on how to do it.
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  But again, you do the research and find what works for you. Just like Lizzie
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  finds what works for her, I find what works for me.
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  We can help each other out as a collective. And by the way, how are you doing on that, Lizzie?
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  I know you wanted to try and start a club um have
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  you been on top of that have you gotten any new ideas for
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  that um so i am going to start a club because
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  i think that needing to be certified in order to
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  balance your own energy is illogical and i
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  agree with you i think if we all just come together and we're
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  like hey this thing is working for me then everybody
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  else can take pieces of it and build their own
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  thing and that's that's what i want i want to build somehow
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  a collection of people where they can be
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  like hey I'm looking at this thing right here and
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  this is what I'm learning about it and everybody else can kind of
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  put their two cents in and we can all practice something
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  together and I want to create this so badly but I have a zero money for it and
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  not really any knowledge on what technology can create a space where I can moderate
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  but not but like still allow people to be free to add stuff.
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  And, you know, we are in a capitalistic world. People need to make money.
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  I want a spot where I can make money and other people can make money,
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  but also there's stuff for free because it shouldn't be behind a paywall,
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  but your time should be paid for.
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  And so there's like there's so many things going into it that I just don't yet
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  know how to create this logistically for people across.
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  Wherever they're at. Well, I'll definitely try and assist you with that because the concept,
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  the whole idea is really, and I think it's actually needed because,
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  yeah, I think coming into a room where people have like-minded problems or whatever,
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  and we all work it out collectively, I think we learn so much more.
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  What I've learned, especially in the past year and all, Is any type of mental
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  health It's so It's so limited These days And you can't find help When it's really needed.
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  You know If you're in a crisis Obviously you
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  need something immediate But to have some sort of long term care Ever since
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  COVID A lot of that's gone away It's such an overfilled feel Like there's just
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  no more room And even I had difficulty Trying to find it at one time So I said
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  it's so much easier to talk to people with similar problems and all.
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  And even if they don't have it, the same problem is,
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  They might have thoughts and ideas that actually may be beneficial to you.
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  So I like that idea of a club, much like a book club, but coming in just as
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  people club. We're coming in as a collective.
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  This is what we got. This is where I am at spiritually. This is how I've been feeling.
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  Has anybody else explored that? So I really would like to get that rolling with you.
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  I really think, like I said, it's needed. It's a great idea.
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  And I think it's something you would be very good, you know,
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  leading because you just have that ability.
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  You've been doing it long enough. You've been working with energy long enough.
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  And just from what you've done with me. Yeah, it needs to be done.
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  OK, so let's do it. Thank you. I appreciate it.
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  For a long time, I wanted to start like a school or something for people to
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  learn how to do it themselves. That was, I think, the first course that I had
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  put out when I first got on TikTok is essentially all like the basic skills.
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  But when it comes down to it, everybody truly just has such a unique path.
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  It's not really logical for it to be like an educational type thing.
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  It's got to be an inspirational thing.
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  And, yeah, we've got to figure out how to do that. The whole thing's got to
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  be flipped. Everything's just wrong. I got you.
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  Well, we'll get it together. It's a thought right now. It's in the thought process.
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  We'll get it on paper together.
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  And I'll help you as a friend. And we'll get this out there for everybody.
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  And I would love for it to see the light of day And we could bring people into it,
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  So again Audience out there Everybody that's listening Especially all the other
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  countries now That are tuning into us I'm extremely appreciative of that And
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  I really appreciate your listens And all that.
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  So, again, if you need Lizzie on TikTok, energy.by.lizzie. And you can find her on TikTok.
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  Definitely follow her. Don't forget to check out all of our other wonderful people.
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  Elaine is going to have a new episode out for December. So get your horoscope
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  and your astrology readings.
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  We'll be looking forward to hearing more from Ann Lund's Haunted and Waiting,
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  as well as Sunset Child's Out There podcast.
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  I'm hoping we get something from The Sound Within as well, from Hannah Rose.
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  There's so many people in this collective But
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  also once I move And I'm in my new space My
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  stepdaughter Hannah With Hannah's unrealistic desires I'm
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  going to be lighting the fire under her ass To get some episodes out I will
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  definitely be helping her with that So yeah definitely everybody Keep tuning
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  in because there's always Going to be something new something different I'm
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  going to try more of the story time as well Hey whatever works We're going to
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  do it Lizzie I thank you again And thank you for your,
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  you know, not only being a co-host, but for being a wonderful friend and for
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  sharing everything that you have. It's always good talking to you.
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  Thank you so much. Thanks for having me on here as always.
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  Absolutely. So don't forget, tune in to us every Monday morning for another
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  episode. And don't forget, Wednesday night meditations as well. We'll talk.