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Train Your Mind: Using Anxious Feelings | Preview For The Week | Seer Sessions #217 · Seer Sessions

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Hey everyone, it's Gina. You're listening to Seer
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sessions. Each week for the rest of the
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year. There's going to be a theme and
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within that theme I'm going to tell you why I chose that theme,
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how to use these hypnotic journeys.
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And then there's going to be 3 hypnotic journeys each week
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available to you to dive deep into that theme.
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So this week we are going from anxious feelings to feeling
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peace, clarity, confidence, even like a lighthearted curiosity
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about life, even when life gets like heavy.
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Now I am saying this, but I am not a doctor.
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I am not telling you to do one thing or not with your
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medications, with your mental health.
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All I'm saying is that I am someone who has struggled
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consciously and unconsciously with anxious feelings my entire
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life. And the thing that has helped me
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the most is hypnosis. But hypnosis is like the bedrock
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for me. It's really the place where I go
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figure out like why these things are happening to me, gain wisdom
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and clarity about how I can move forward.
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Me, Gina, What makes this energy happy in this earth suit is not
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what society wants me to do. So society wants me to get a
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corporate job and and get married and have kids and
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essentially shut the fuck up. And that is a recipe.
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Even marriage for me is a recipe for anxiety and depression.
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I want to follow society's lead. That definitely is the path of
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least resistant, at least as I can conceptualize it.
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But when I'm living that life with those traditional things, I
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personally feel stifled, anxious, whatever.
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And not that that's your story, but we all have, most of us
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listening to this podcast, I would imagine, have a pretty
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good life in terms of like how shitty life can be.
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And so at least at the very least, we can maybe see like,
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hey, I've created this great life, and I'm still harboring
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all these negative, heavy feelings that are holding me
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back. And that's really what this week
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is all about. So here's what this is going to
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look like. You'll be exploring moving away
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from anxious feelings and toward peace, clarity, confidence,
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curiosity. And you're going to have chances
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to do that. You can do that in tomorrow's
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episode. I have a journey to another
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lifetime that's designed to help you experience that today.
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And then today see feel things differently.
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So you can not only feel more peace and clarity after that
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hypnotic journey, but also come away with knowledge, insights,
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maybe even some next steps as to like how to continue down that
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path. And then the episode after that,
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we're going to take a hypnotic journey to your higher self.
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Now I call your higher self to me what that energy is, It's the
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eternal energy of you. So this energy of me that's
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animating this body is eternal. When this body stops working,
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that energy leaves and that consciousness changes and it's a
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different experience. Just like when I was born, my
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consciousness changed into this experience, into this body.
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Now with that, I believe that we can access the eternal wisdom
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within that eternal energy that we actually are.
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Now, you might see this as a soul.
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You might see this as, you know, a branch off the collective.
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I see it as kind of a branch off the collective, but also this
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really wise, calm, peaceful version of me, the part of me
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that holds all the wisdom of all my lifetimes, all of my lessons
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learned. So that is the source, that is
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the intention. So we do the hypnotic journey.
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We get to that place of your higher self energy and we ask
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all kinds of questions about the anxious feelings you have.
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What can you know about them? What can you understand about
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them? How can you take that
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information and move forward? What are some next steps, some
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action steps, some shifts you can make?
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What are some things that you do that contribute to those anxious
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feelings? And with that in mind, what can
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you do to essentially have an antidote to those feelings?
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What can you do to nourish yourself, to lift yourself up,
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to change your perspective? So it's not only about that
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experience of that hypnotic journey and getting that
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information, but it's about getting even more information of
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like and what this means for your future and what can you do
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next with that? And another thing that's so cool
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about the hypnotic journey to your higher self energy is that
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that wisdom, your inner guidance, it's always there,
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it's always talking to you. But a lot of times we don't, we
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can't like really tune into the subtlety of it.
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But when we go into that hypnotic trance state, your mind
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is incredibly quiet, your body is quiet.
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You've removed all kinds of distractions in your environment
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so you can have that experience. You get a clear taste of what
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that inner guidance sounds like, the perspectives, the angles,
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the facets of it. And it's not only great in that
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session and the information you get, but having that knowledge
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and that connection to your inner guidance serves you for
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the rest of your life. I mean, as long as you want to
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pay attention to it after that journey, it'll be even more
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clear to you what that voice is and what what that voice sounds
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like and kind of the flavor of the decisions that it makes.
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And that'll help you effortlessly and automatically
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for the rest of your life in every decision that you make.
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And with that, every time you experience your higher self, it
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gets even more potent, even more clear, even more undeniable in
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your everyday life, which is so cool.
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So it's not only that journey, but it's like the practice of
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journeying like that is also will shift your trajectory to
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just more expanded awareness, more wisdom, more inner peace, a
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higher consciousness, A consciousness elevated above
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your own bullshit, like I like to say.
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And then the third hypnotic journey every week is a
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directive hypnotic track. So what that means is you do the
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hypnotic induction, just relax and listen to it.
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Your subconscious mind is open. We evoke some positive feelings
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within our body just to really activate that, build that mind
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body connection between emotions that you want to feel and being
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able to feel even more of that. And then from there, we go into
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the affirmations, the hypnotic suggestions, all about you
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moving from these anxious feelings and moving to a state
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of more peace, more clarity, Clarity about who you are, where
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you're going in life, what this life is about, what decisions
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you're making. And then also curiosity, A
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lightheartedness. And then in all of that, just
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more confidence in you showing up, not doubting yourself,
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feeling confident, stepping forward, feeling a lightness
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about it, seeing challenges more so as like instead of something
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to hold you back, look at a challenge and think, how am I
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going to use this to become who I'm becoming?
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Or how am I going to use this to create the life I came here to
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create? Now, what's so cool about the
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directive hypnosis track is that all you do is listen to it as
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you're falling asleep at night. When you go to sleep at all
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times, your subconscious mind is there.
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It's always listening, it's always observing, it's always
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directing. And so in this space, we access
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your subconscious mind. So even if you're falling
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asleep, you're still getting these hypnotic suggestions.
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So I'll go even more into that during the intro of that
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episode. But my recommendation is for you
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to listen to that every night for 30 nights.
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And what that does is it makes these subtle subconscious
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shifts. And to have that reminder every
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night, you start to see how much these subconscious changes are
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influencing your life in a positive way.
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And so it's not only a cool practice to do for a month just
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to see what happens in the positive changes that come your
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way. It's just such an impactful way
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to make those profound shifts in our life and to listen to it
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every night for 30 nights. It's just a really cool way to
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watch these subconscious changes kind of bloom and unfold in your
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life over such a big chunk of time in all of the show notes of
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every episode. I have my e-mail address so have
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an experience. I would if you want someone to
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talk about it with, definitely send it to me via e-mail.
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Takes me a few days to respond most of the time but I do read
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them all. I will respond to you so please
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let me know. I want to know how this lands
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for you and especially because I plan on doing more hypnotic
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journeys like this, I want to know if there's like another
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angle that would work really good for you or if you're like,
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hey, with my anxiety, it's this way.
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Can you talk about it like that? Like that whole conversation is
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really fun for me. I never think that I have all
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the answers really on my journey.
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I'm just like, here's where I'm at.
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That's where I was. You want to avoid that.
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Here's what I would recommend. And so that's where we're at.
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I'm not a doctor. I'm not telling you to do one
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thing or not with your mental health.
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Whatever you do, there is your own business, but to reflect and
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get to know yourself and what works for you will always
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benefit you, no matter what expert doctor, healer, or
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whatever that you're working with.
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So I picked this theme to kick it all off because I'm someone
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who has experienced anxious feelings consciously and
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unconsciously my entire life. And so for me, hypnosis is the
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thing that has worked the best to like shift that, move me away
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from those things, give me insights, clarity, wisdom on the
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decisions I'm making in everyday life that unconsciously
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contribute to me feeling even more like that.
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It's so, so valuable. So if I were to label it as like
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anxiety for me has been the reasons I've played small, I've
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run away from relationships and situations, things that not
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necessarily that I should have stayed or should have done
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things differently, but I can see now that that was a trauma
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response that I don't want to repeat.
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And so even though there will be situations and relationships
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that I leave in the future, I want them to be because of my
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intentional, clear, confident, knowing of what is for me, not
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like, oh, I'm freaking out. I just got to run, you know,
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which is where I have been for most of my life.
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And that to me has changed my life.
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It has changed how I trust myself, what I believe I'm
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capable of, and in all of that, that completely changes the
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things I commit to, what I see as an opportunity, what I see as
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a challenge. And all of that is my life.
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And so I'm relating to my life completely different.
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And so I want to take this potent theme and just kick it
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off and give it to you all and see how much it helps you.
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For me, my anxious feelings were something that used to really
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hold me back and make me feel even more resentment and
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frustration. And now it's just simply a
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signal from my body. And it's not something that I
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need to freak out even more about.
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It's not something that needs to derail my day unless I I find it
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to be the thing that I want to do.
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But when we're in these heightened emotional states,
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it's even more important that we have that clear connection to
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ourselves, to our clarity within that emotional storm.
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And so that's my hope too with this journey.
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When it comes to my anxious feelings, yes, hypnosis is the
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biggest thing that's moved the needle.
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Open doors to other opportunities, open doors to
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incite wisdom that has like changed decisions, changed how I
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show up in my life. But in addition to that, like
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hypnosis, of course, self reflection, just in general.
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So whether that's a writing practice, a journaling practice,
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meditation daily or nearly daily, just check in, reflect on
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your life. It seems like it doesn't matter.
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It seems like a waste of time. But we process things like that.
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A lot of times people go to therapy once a week or once a
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month. They don't ever process their
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life until they get there. So that used to be my practice.
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And not that there's anything wrong with that.
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I I don't think there's a bad way to process your life, but
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but when we're dealing with these anxiety like feelings,
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it's nice to have this pressure valve that gets released.
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It gets released just a little bit every day or nearly every
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day. And that's really what a writing
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practice is for me. Another thing that's really
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helped is this idea of like expanding my capacity for
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enduring grit. I've noticed that the more I
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push myself in mileage and elevation on the trails, the
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less anxiety I have anywhere else in my life.
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And it's just kind of like, because I start my day and some
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parts of my hike are incredibly challenging, I come out of that
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and it's like, am I sweating? Do I have a backpack on?
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Am I on a 20% incline? I'm fine.
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Like these things are not stressing me out.
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I'm not stressed out because this person's unhappy with me.
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I'm not stressed out because this thing didn't go my way.
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Like, it's fine. Again, I'm like elevated above
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my own bullshit. And a book that really helped me
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put words to that whole phenomenon that's been occurring
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in my life over a couple of years is called The Comfort
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Crisis by Michael Easter. It's such a good book, such a
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good book about expanding your capacity for like enduring and
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hard times. And in that book, he even draws
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the connection between not having that grit and that
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ability to endure. It's something that we've kind
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of evolved out of because we live in a temperature controlled
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area. We, you know, wear the right
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clothes. We're in a car, we're wearing
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shoes. We just have insulated ourselves
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from discomfort, which feels really good.
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But he's been able to draw this connection in that book that
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that is kind of related to our ability to feel more anxious,
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like feelings, more depressed feelings.
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Is this inability to endure this not feeling gritty, feeling just
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like a big baby who's always uncomfortable the moment it's
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not dry and 74°, you know? And anyway, you wouldn't think
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they were related, but I've been feeling that so much in my own
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life, moving to Arizona, hiking so much.
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I hike every day. And so I've been feeling that.
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And then reading that book recently, just put words to it
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essentially. So if that's interesting to you,
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check that out. What else has helped my anxiety
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is just a like a general dedication to switching my
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thoughts the moment I can. So I used to a lot of times
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think like, oh, that worked for them, but it won't work for me.
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And I really felt that that was really true.
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And now I'm seeing, even though I can't think of one particular
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thing, it's like I just don't think of it like that in my life
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anymore. Now I'm like, what do I want?
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Oh, it seems impossible. Oh, they've done it.
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What did they do? And now I'm studying what they
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did to get there. And it's it's less about can I
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do what they did and more about I'm observing what they did and
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seeing what fits in my life for what I want and where I'm going.
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And there's a brutal honesty in that.
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There's an awareness of my thoughts.
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And when I'm thinking small and when I'm thinking that I can't
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do it or I'm being incredibly resentful or overly fearful or
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worrisome, I notice and as tiny and, and, and like it wouldn't
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matter. When I notice those thoughts, I
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actively pay attention to them. And if there's no Nuggets of
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wisdom there, which there usually isn't, I actively change
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the subject in my brain. I turn on an audio book, I turn
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on a podcast. I sit down and go to work.
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Like if I've taken a break from work and my mind is wandering, I
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will intentionally focus on something else.
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And sometimes I have to put my body in a different space, get
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it moving into a different space, sit at a desk, sit
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somewhere else. And sometimes it really is just
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actively, oh, I'm going to not think about that and I'm going
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to think about this, right? I'm not trying to see the world
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like that anymore. I'm not trying to see the I'm
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not trying to be naive, but I'm not trying to see the world as
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something that makes me frustrated, resentful.
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I want to see the world as a place that I thrive and there's
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opportunities for me. Like, why wouldn't I want that?
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I mean, there's just as many challenges as there are
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opportunities. You know, the equal and opposite
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is always true. And so why wouldn't I take the
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positive route? So for me, that's really a a
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daily practice is like when I notice I'm having a lot of
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these, like negative, stuck, heavy thoughts is to notice it
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and not be like, yeah, it's true.
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Like I used to kind of rally around them and get myself fired
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up. And now I'm like, is that true
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though? Is that true?
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Can I see it differently? Are other people doing it
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differently? Is there evidence that I could
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do this differently even if there's no evidence in the
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world? So it, it sounds so tedious, but
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not engaging in those thoughts and, and not in a way where I'm
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stuffing them down. I engage to the point of like,
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oh, I'm thinking about this. Any Nuggets of wisdom here?
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Any new information, any new ideas on the remedy or the
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antidote for this? No, just waffling, just
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ruminating. OK, I'm changing the subject.
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And so I know it sounds super small, but it really is just
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like a dedication to switching my thoughts.
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And then in that is switching my perspective too, right?
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Like, oh, I'm thinking that that's not an option because I'm
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coming from the perspective of I'm not shit and I can't do
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that. And that changing your thoughts
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is the gateway to changing your perspective and really double
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checking that. So I really see those as kind of
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together. For me, anxious feelings always
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are way more heightened when I have not moved my body.
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If I don't go outside or move my body for an hour or two a day, I
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feel anxiety. That's just the way it is.
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So when someone tells me, oh, I'm just feeling so anxious, I
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have all these anxious feelings. A lot of times I'll ask them
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like what's your movement practice?
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How do you move your body? And for the most anxious people,
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they are not moving their body. And I would be driven insane
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with my anxious feelings if I didn't move my body.
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And for my whole life, I've always known that.
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I've always known that. But working in the exercise and
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fitness industry, it was always this thing of like, don't
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exercise too much or that's a problem.
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Are you exercise anorexic? You know?
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And it was almost like if you work out for more than an hour,
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it was like a red flag. And now if I'm moving my body 2
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hours a day, even 3 hours a day, like whether it's a weekend and
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I take a really long slow hike, or maybe that's during the day
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and I have like a couple hours hike in the morning and then I
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do Pilates in the evening. Or maybe I'm at home and my
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movement is more like stretching and fascia rolling, whatever.
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I have to move this container. This container is animated by
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energy, energy that wants to move.
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And I'm so thankful I have a fucking ton of energy and it
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will turn against me if I don't move my body.
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So move your body. And what's the best movement for
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you? Something that you'll actually
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do. I'm not being snarky or nasty.
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That's the actual fucking truth. Like, what feels good to you?
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And what will you do every day? And what will you miss on the
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days you can't do it? Because inevitably there will be
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a day here or there that you can't do it.
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That's the goal. So don't stop trying new things.
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Don't stop. Expanding your awareness and
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understanding how you like to move your body, how you can move
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your body. Like be on that journey to find
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a practice of movement that you love, that feels good.
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And fuck everything else that everyone says about it.
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It's not enough, it's too much. You're going to get injured.
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What are you running away from? I'm running from my anxiety.
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I'm running from the insanity of this world, and it feels so
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good. And I've never felt so good in
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my life. OK.
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Other things that I've done is like getting crystal clear on
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where I'm going. So I used to think, oh, I would
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kind of like a business like AB and C or oh, I see steady growth
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year after year. So I just kind of took that as a
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good thing. But I never said here's exactly
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where I'm going, here's exactly what I want.
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And I don't, I haven't done that in any area of my life in so
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long. And there are reasons why I
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stopped doing it. Some of them valid, some of them
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not. It doesn't matter.
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Here I am now and I am crystal fucking clear on where I'm going
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and who I am and how I'm getting there and I am not giving my
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energy to a man anymore. I am not giving my energy trying
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to fucking fit in. I am crystal clear on where I'm
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going. So things that used to cause
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anxiety was I would make a decision and then doubt myself.
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I would give someone help and then feel resentful.
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And it was constant, this constant circle of feeling that
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way. And it wasn't until I got
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crystal clear on who I am and where I'm going that all of that
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left. Because if I help someone, I
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have more than enough energy to help them.
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And it feels good to help. I don't even feel resentment
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about it anymore because I'm taking care of myself and taking
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care of my business and where I'm going.
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But before, when I was not doing that, I wasn't taking care of
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myself. I was not clear on where I was
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going with that was frustration, doubt.
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Did I make the wrong decision again?
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Fuck it, get super clear. So that's why I have worked into
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these hypnotic suggestions in these hypnotic journeys is this
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idea of you getting clear, like where are you going?
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Who are you? And that isn't something that
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maybe you will get a flash, it'll be a clear picture.
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But for me, that has been something that I work on and I
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get a little bit of information on almost every single day.
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And it has created this picture that is so clear and so true to
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who I am. And to watch it unfold now isn't
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frustrating. I don't need the whole picture.
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It's actually really fun to watch it unfold and get curious,
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like what's this going to turn into?
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What am I going to do with this energy?
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It's like I actually feel curious and lighthearted about
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it. Where before it was almost like
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this burden, something that made me feel frustrated, resentful
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most often to myself. And being able to move from
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that, getting clear, trusting myself massive in alleviating
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dread, fear, worry, all of that stuff.
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So those are the things that have really helped me and the
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clarity piece I've really woven into these hypnotic journeys.
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But there's also space for you to get more information about
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like you specifically, like what would help you with your
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specific and anxious feelings and what's your route to move
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through it or get beyond it or prevent it entirely.
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As I was creating this, you know, I was getting a little
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jealous. I was like, I want, I want this,
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I want this information for me today.
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Like I've been on a journey with all of this stuff for so long
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and so many of my clients are on a journey with it.
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That's actually all of the topics for every week through
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the end of the year is something that I've wrestled with and my
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clients, multiple many clients have wrestled with.
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So I'm like, OK, these are themes, let's dive in.
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But I as I was creating it, I'm like, oh, I'm kind of getting, I
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want to know this information for me right now.
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So I sat down with my higher self energy.
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So here I'm going to read it to you when I asked what I can know
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about my anxious state. OK, so here are my higher self
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notes. Be present with your anxious
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state. It takes strength and endurance,
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but you can build it. Similar to your second weekend
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with ayahuasca. You can be in that anxious
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state, in a state that used to be overwhelming to you, and you
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can sit there and you can know peace and feel joy and gratitude
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and love when your body is feeling so chaotic.
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Continue to cultivate this. You want even more of that.
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So add this to your training. You're already doing these
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endurance efforts. This is another thing you can
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add to your training when it gets uncomfortable, use it.
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Go within, find your peace, find your clarity, find your reason.
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Get into the energy of I'm going to do this and practice,
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practice, practice. So that piece of it where it's
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like getting the energy of I'm going to do this.
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So I mentioned, I think it was last week that I'm planning this
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massive hike, which I'm going to tell you more about and I'm
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going to talk all about the training for it and all of that.
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So this is something that's been on my mind, right?
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So my higher self energy is like, hey, this, this is like
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something that you already want in your life.
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So use this energy, right? So the thought for my higher
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self was, Gina, when you're at night brushing your teeth, I
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want you to feel the energy of I'm going to fucking do this.
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And I can do that about anything.
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And it's just about feeling the feeling within my body and my
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mind of I'm fucking doing this. I'm doing it, I'm doing it, I'm
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doing it now. I'm going to do it tomorrow.
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I'm going to finish it. I'm going to do it like
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cultivate that within me. So I'm like, why would I do that
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while I'm brushing my teeth? What does that mean?
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And it was about tying it to something in your day.
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So that's it. Just Gina, when you're brushing
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your teeth, be in that energy. Think about those things.
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And so start with something small, right?
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So I'm, I'm doubting myself. This hike is so big that I'm
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doubting myself. But I will can do it.
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I will get there and you'll hear about my journey to get there.
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But it was like being in that energy is the practice I need.
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So last week, I think it was in episode 214, I spoke about this
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big hike that I want to do and how my awareness used to be so
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caught up in the negativity of it.
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Like when I was sleeping on trail, it's like, I'm cold, I
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miss my home, blah, blah, blah. And I would just sit in those
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feelings and then wonder why I always felt so like held back by
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my homesickness or something. And instead it was like, yes,
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stop doing that. And part of my training now is
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actively feeling in my body I'm doing this and I can do this.
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So even though I don't feel it about that hike right now, I can
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feel it about tomorrow's hike. I can feel it about the classes
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I'm going to teach in Pilates tomorrow.
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I can feel it about my relationship with my ex-husband.
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I'm nailing it. I can feel that way about being
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a parent to my dogs. I can feel that way about so
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many things in my life that typically the world would say
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you shouldn't. Don't spend too much time
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congratulating yourself on that. And it's not about that.
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It's about cultivating that feeling in my body, building
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that neuroplasticity of I'm doing this, I can fucking do it.
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So my higher self was like, do that every night when you brush
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your teeth and do that. And the more you do it, the
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bigger the thing that you're doing and the thing that you're
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nailing, the bigger it'll get. And the hope is, is that by in
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six months or seven months, when I'm doing this massive hike
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every night, when I'm brushing my teeth, it does not matter
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what kind of day I had. It doesn't matter what kind of
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little bitch crybaby I was on the trail, None of it matters.
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I will be brushing my teeth, reinvigorating myself with the
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feeling the being of I'm doing it and I'm going to continue to
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do it. The other thing about that is
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something I said to myself or I said to a few people this
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spring, but I heard it because I was there for every time I said
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it. I said it's like it just, it
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wouldn't be spring if I wasn't laying awake at night dreading
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the hike that I planned. Whether it's a four day
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excursion or a five day excursion in the Backcountry
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with, you know, like four or five women or some huge
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endurance effort like going across the Grand Canyon or doing
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the local 50 mile trail around Prescott.
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Like I'm always doing these big efforts that scare the shit out
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of me. And I do want to keep doing
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that, but I don't want to feel worry and dread in the middle of
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the night most nights leading up to that fucking hike.
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And so this was another remedy for that.
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It was like when you are on the trail, Gina, you cannot afford
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to even be in the habit of thinking like that.
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So every night, brush your teeth, reset that slate, fill
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yourself up with that feeling. So really my higher self was
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reminding me of like in the excess energy of worry,
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frustration, resentment, whatever it is, use that energy
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and shift it and do something different and think about
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something else, like be in a different way.
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And now some some people will say it feels contrived.
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How is this working? And we can evoke A genuine real
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experience in our body just by thinking.
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So have you ever thought of a future event that made you so
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nervous or anxious or whatever that you just, it stressed you
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out, it increased your heart rate, your body temperature,
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maybe you got a little moist under the armpits.
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That's a real feeling created by your thoughts.
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And so why not do that in the opposite direction?
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And instead of training worry, stress, dread, fear, a
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pessimistic outlook for the future, intentionally shift
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that. Intentionally think about things
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that I already do that make me feel clear, peaceful, confident,
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like I can do this. And then my higher self goes on
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to say, yes, change your thoughts.
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But even better, practice being in that state of optimism every
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day, in your mind and in your body.
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Think of a goal that feels insurmountable.
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Check one that you could work toward every day.
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Even the smallest decision, the smallest task.
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Just think of a big ass goal, work toward it every day, even
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in even if the work is like, I worked on it for 90 seconds.
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I looked something up, I sent an e-mail, I did whatever, no
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matter how small, work toward it every day.
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And then Gina at night, brush your teeth, feel it, believe it
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to be true, feel that in your body.
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And it said that's good practice for what you need to do on the
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trail and an antidote for your anxiety, your anxious feelings
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when you're on the trail. So and then it goes on to say,
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feel gratitude that everything that got you here, rely on
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everything that got you here. Use that as a reason to trust
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yourself. See how much you've done, see
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how much you've learned, see how much you've overcome.
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All of this is good practice for what you need to do.
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And it's an antidote for anxiety anytime, whether you're on the
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trail or not. So this idea of an antidote, it
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came in and it was basically like often times on trail, like
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the first few nights, I just don't sleep well.
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And sometimes it honestly feels like I don't sleep at all.
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Like I'm just laying awake in this tent waiting for sleep to
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come get me and it just doesn't. And anytime I'm awake in the
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middle of the night, the chances of anxious thoughts coming in
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are just like sky high. It's like the risk of it is
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just, it's almost inevitable, I would say up until this point.
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And so all of this like brush your teeth intentionally feel a
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certain way. That's also practice.
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So when I'm laying awake in the middle of the night on the trail
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feeling anxious, I can notice it and then intentionally shift,
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shift to that well worn feeling, that well worn shift that I did
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everyday, brushing my teeth, shifting to this feeling of
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being confident, capable. Yes, this is uncomfortable, but
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I am doing it and I will do it. So that's what I got for my
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higher self. What are you going to get?
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I can't wait to find out. Let me know.
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OK everybody, that's our episode for the day.
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