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The Bridge Between Fear and Flow: Find Your Groove Again · STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.

• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: Hey there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Groove has always been the password on my iPad.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd enter it every day before class began to access my music.
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  SPEAKER_00: Standing in the corner of the studio with my back toward a room full of dancers, I could feel their energy waiting for me to begin.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd take a deep breath and type the word groove.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a ritual of sorts, and it connected me not only to my music, but to the possibilities of what I might create.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I had nightmares that I was just standing there frozen, unable to unlock my music, standing on the bridge between fear and flow.
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  SPEAKER_00: In music, the bridge connects one section to another, carrying the listener to a less familiar place.
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  SPEAKER_00: That change in the status quo creates tension, but it also elevates the experience, amplifying anticipation, curiosity, and offering a new perspective before returning to the familiar refrain.
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  SPEAKER_00: In life, fear often plays that same role.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fear creates tension.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fear signals transition.
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  SPEAKER_00: And fear, if you are willing, can also invite curiosity.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we meet fear consciously, it becomes the bridge from rut to groove, from stagnation to movement, from habit to possibility.
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  SPEAKER_00: In this analogy, you are the dancer and life is the song.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if repetitive unconscious thoughts create our ruts, what keeps us from finding our groove?
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  SPEAKER_00: What's standing in the way?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, that's where our inner blocks come in.
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  SPEAKER_00: The veritable trolls that make it difficult to cross that bridge.
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  SPEAKER_00: These invisible forces dig our ruts and hold us there, whispering doubts and distractions that keep us from moving forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: I call them Lisa's.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not just because they happen to be my initials, but because they're often as automatic and familiar as our own first name.
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  SPEAKER_00: They show up without us even realizing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Habitual patterns that feel like just who we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: It also helps me own it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because at the end of the day, I'm the one creating them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I take responsibility for that, I also reclaim the power to change them.
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  SPEAKER_00: L is for limiting beliefs, the ingrained convictions that quietly dictate what we think is possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: I is interpretations, the stories and judgments we attach to what happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: S is for saboteur, the inner critic that feeds on fear and self-doubt.
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  SPEAKER_00: And A is for assumptions, the expectations that the past will repeat itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: L-I-S-A, Lisa, these are the blocks that disrupt our flow.
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  SPEAKER_00: The good news, once we name them, we can begin to tame them and cross the bridge from rut to groove.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: If this has tweaked your interest, this is an excerpt from the book that I'm writing called I Get To: The Power of Energetic Choice.
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  SPEAKER_00: In it, I'll break down limiting beliefs, I'll break down interpretations, I'll break down saboteurs, I will break down assumptions in order to clear the way for access to higher energetic choice to be continued.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Lisa Hopkins.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stay safe and healthy, everyone, and remember to live in the moment.