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Ana Maria Vasquez: Animal and Nature Intuitive · Colorado Soul Stories

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Welcome to Colorado Soul Stories, showcasing changemakers and creatives,
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past and present, who have helped to make Colorado not just a pretty place to
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behold, but a soulful place to be.
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I'm your host, Mama Jill, longtime Colorado resident, former teacher,
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and freelance journalist.
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Let's get started with our next episode. Your home, my home. Your home, your home.
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Music.
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It ain't gonna take away our home.
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I've been here for 20 years now and I plan to stay for more.
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These folks are my family. These folks are my home.
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We'll rebuild these streets and houses, help those that need the most,
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support our brothers and sisters, and tomorrow we will...
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Okay, welcome back to Colorado Soul Stories. We're on the road in Nathrop,
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Colorado. We're actually re-recording a little bit with Ana Maria here.
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We recorded in a studio and lost the first half.
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So I'm at her beautiful house here near the woods in Nathrop,
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surrounded by her kitty cat, you might hear.
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And there's horses outside. So...
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You know, it's a house. It's real. Ana Maria Vasquez is a animal and nature
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multi-sensory intuitive.
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And her journey towards that started after some hard things happened to her.
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And she transformed that into a new life. Welcome, Ana Maria.
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And let's talk about your journey.
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How fun is this to have these Colorado conversations? I'm so grateful you're doing this. Me too.
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So there are animals here. There's a reason for that.
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Ana Maria loves animals and they love her. The animals are used to talking to humans in my house.
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I love it. I love it. So sweet. It's the sweetest cat ever. What is his name?
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That's Sammy. He's 16 years old. Yeah. Gosh, you can't tell.
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He's very youthful. Okay.
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Let's start with you coming to Colorado. I came to Colorado after I got my master's
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degree in communications and adult education.
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And I was headhunted to come work at Fort Lewis College. I guess it's a university now, actually.
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But I got to work there for eight, ten years.
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And then I got headhunted again by an independent bank in Durango.
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And then I kind of went back and forth between the two.
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And then the big, you know, the recession in 2008 hit the country.
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It finally hit Durango in 2010.
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And that's when my big life tsunami happened. I lost my job.
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I lost my home and my land.
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I could get another job somewhere. But I felt like, you know,
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I did everything I was supposed to do and the way I was supposed to do it.
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And here I was still miserable. So I was stunned when I lost the job.
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And there I am, you know, sitting in the ashes that used to be my life.
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And I'm like, if I have to do this again, I want to do it different.
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I want a deeper connection.
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I grew up like a huge connection with animals.
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Like we were saying, of course, there's a lot of animals around here.
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I was a kid who if there's a cat under the table in the kitchen,
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that's where I'm going to be.
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Right. Or the dog in the backyard or whatever. I would have never said that
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I was an animal communicator because we didn't even have that word when I was growing up.
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It wasn't like one of your choices on career day. That's for sure. Right.
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Should be. Yeah, I know. But I knew I was so close to them.
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So I knew that's what I wanted to do. And I had heard from other spiritual teachers
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that we're all wired for that.
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We can do that. We're just too distracted, right, by the modern world.
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So I thought, well, then that's what I want to do.
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So I had a spiritual teacher and I said, this is what I want to do.
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And she gave me an assignment and she said, for 30 days, I want you to go out
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to a tree, put your hands on it and just be with this tree for 30 days,
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for 30 minutes. And actually, at this point, I had moved to Wisconsin because
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I had lost everything, right?
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I had to move in with my dad, you know, at this point where you are not expecting
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that to happen in your life, right?
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So that's why I feel like I am the poster child for all of this work because
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I didn't want to do those things, but it's how it unfolded.
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I thought she was full of crap, to be quite honest.
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I was like, she doesn't know what to do with me. She needs 30 days to come up
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with something. But I am an overachiever and I'm a really good student.
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So I was like, I'm going to do this to the letter if for no other reason than
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to come back at the end and say, I did it. It didn't work. What else have you got? Right. You know?
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And so for three weeks, I went out every day to the same tree,
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30 minutes, felt very silly, very like self-conscious.
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Like, what am I doing? And I didn't even know if I was like touching the tree and inappropriate.
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Right. I just didn't know what I was doing. So I really just spent a lot of
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time talking about that to the tree.
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And three weeks went by and nothing happened, right? There wasn't any hallucinating.
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Anything. And somewhere in that third week or so, at the end of that third week,
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I was in my house, in the living room, and I asked a rhetorical question,
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you know, kind of talking to myself out loud.
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And I don't even remember what the question was because what happened next was
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so amazing and changed the absolute course of my life.
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So I asked this question out loud And I hear in an audible voice outside of my head the answer.
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And I was like, where did that come from? And it felt like it came from the tree from outside.
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And so I stood up and went to the window and I was like, was that you?
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And I heard again in a voice outside of my head, yes.
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And the first thing that I said was I asked to talk to animals.
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I don't know what to do with a talking tree. and now I'm embarrassed I thought
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that was my answer but that was my humanness I didn't understand anything about
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the energy I didn't understand any of this stuff and.
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It chuckled. The tree chuckled. And it said, the animals are coming.
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This is a recalibration process.
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And then I honestly thought I had had a mental break, right?
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Because a tree is talking and I'm hearing it. We're not taught about that kind of stuff.
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And fortunately, right from my time in higher education and things,
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I had a lot of really good connections to very good mental health professionals.
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And so I was like, OK, I can check that out after I listen to what this tree has to tell me.
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I take mental health very seriously. And I was also very curious.
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That started this ongoing situation where I would ask the tree questions that
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I didn't know the answer to, but I could find the answer to.
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Things like, what kind of tree are you, right? I didn't know.
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I had asked him, well, what should I call you? And it said, you can call me Ruby.
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And I thought, oh, that's sweet, Ruby. And then I said, okay,
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well, what kind of tree are you? And it said, well, I'm a red pine.
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And I was like, well, that's a little too on the nose. Don't you think, Ruby the red pine?
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And so I got a friend who was a botanist and knew trees just,
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you know, so that there wouldn't be any questions.
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And he's like, he thought I was silly because he's like, this is a red pine.
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We have lots of them around here. I can't believe you don't know this, right?
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So I was grateful for that and even more intrigued at this point.
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And so I didn't notice right away, but I eventually noticed that she was missing her canopy.
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And she was in between a bunch of other trees, so I couldn't tell right away.
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But one day when I was out there, I noticed she didn't have her canopy.
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And so I asked her, and she said very short words, big wind or big storm,
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strong wind broke. And I was like, oh.
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But it also looked like, oddly, right from my landlord's apartment that you
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could, from his kitchen, it looked like it would be the perfect view.
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Like maybe someone did it intentionally.
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So I was in his kitchen one day and I asked him, what happened to that one tree?
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And he said almost word for word what Ruby had said to me.
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Oh, my God, it was a big storm. And this huge wind came through and then it was just broke.
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And so it was those pieces, right? And sure enough, the animals did come.
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And it was, I want to say, within six weeks after that first experience,
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the animals started showing up.
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I had taken my dogs out to go to the bathroom one night.
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And they were black dogs and they went one way. And I turned around and I almost
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tripped over another black dog.
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And I was like, what is going on? But there was nothing there. right?
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It was like, the way I describe it is like Star Wars, where Princess Leia is
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playing that video, and you see it like an overlay.
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So I'll like see things as an overlay. In this case, it was a little,
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a smaller, medium-sized black dog with white on the tips of its ears and on its chest.
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And I was like, what was that? And I heard, again, another voice say,
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you'll know when you need to know.
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At this point, I was doing some life coaching with folks, you know,
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trying to decide what am I, how am I going to do this?
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And then I was in a life coaching session and I heard in my head, ask her about the dog.
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And I thought, I'm not going to ask her about the dog, right? She'll know I'm crazy.
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I'm still trying to prove I'm not crazy. And I kept getting the nudge.
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So I finally said, tell me about the medium sized black dog with the white tips
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on the ears and the white on the chest. And it gets really quiet.
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And so I'm like, all right, like she knows I'm crazy.
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It's up. Everybody knows now. And she starts crying.
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And this is actually, I'm very used to this reaction now, 15 years later,
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right? And she said, that's not possible.
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She said, that dog died 14 years ago. And I said, well, I don't know what to
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tell you, but he was in my backyard last night and let's see what he has to say.
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And we were able to share a message and it meant a lot to her.
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And then, you know, it was like a faucet was turned on and the animals started
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coming through and it's multi-sensory is like how I explained it, right?
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So I will sometimes hear things either in my mind's head or outside,
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or I'll see something in my mind's eye or again on an overlay in the physical.
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Sometimes I'll feel something or just have a knowingness. A lot of times personalities
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will come through of the animals so I can confirm, Right.
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There'll be these times where even though I'm just in the room by myself,
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it'll feel like they've got their paw on my leg or they're pushing on my arm. Right.
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Every once in a while, something will show up ahead of time.
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I've had it here in the house where I get up in the morning because I work from
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home and I'd walk in and I would see in a recliner.
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Somebody sitting there, but I could tell it's not a real person.
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And then I look and they're like, I'm here for someone later is what I'll hear in my head, right?
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It's all like you can understand why you would think you're crazy.
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So you really have to know that you're mentally sound because you know, that's true.
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And then the confirmation. I'm not trying to convince anyone.
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It's the confirmation that comes through the information that I couldn't possibly know.
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Like with that gentleman, when I finally got into the session,
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I said, just so you know, your dad has been here all morning.
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And I said, there's a big man.
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He's a large man in overalls and a red flannel shirt.
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And he didn't want to be late. So he just sat in my living room and she said,
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oh my God, that's my dad. He's exactly like that. He would never want to be late.
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And he wouldn't want to impose and he would just try and want to stay out of the way.
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So it's really fascinating when those things happen.
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And again, it happens because everything is energy. So it doesn't matter if
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it's your dog or your dad.
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And it doesn't matter if they're embodied or they've crossed over because energy, everything is energy.
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And when we have these connections with loved ones, it never ends.
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And we always have access to that.
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That's powerful. That is really powerful. Yeah. And I'm, you know,
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lived in smaller places.
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I had to not just rely on my local economy.
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So I work globally. I have clients around the world and it's wonderful.
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It's so rewarding because the animals, they reflect messages back to us through their behavior,
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through their physical issues that are going on because we're so connected to
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them and we've got these soul contracts and they always, they're so excited
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to be able to get the messages to their people.
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And the people are like, I had no idea. Right. How would you know? Yeah.
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Wow. So how do people find you?
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I'm fortunate that I get asked to speak on a lot of summits,
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a lot of online conferences.
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I have my own classes. I teach classes. I have private sessions.
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I have certification programs.
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My website is intentiontraining.com. Right. And I'll put that on the website
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for this episode so people can find you.
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And there's also a book called Nature. Is that what it's called? The whole title?
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Divine experiences with trees, plants, stones, and landscapes.
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That makes sense. It is long.
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So I feel like once you got going on this awareness, and this all started about
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15 years ago, did you say?
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Yeah. In 2026, I'll be celebrating 15 years in business professionally,
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right? I was doing it for a little bit before that, as I was honing my skills,
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making sure I was mentally sound, things like that.
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But it really took off quick and big. Wow.
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That is so cool. Since I scheduled this interview, I mentioned what you do.
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And so many people have just been, oh, yeah, I know an animal intuitive or I
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use animal. And I'm like, OK, cool.
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And we talked earlier about how Colorado is a place that might be a little bit
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more open minded about things like that.
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How has the landscape here contributed, would you say? Well,
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I feel like folks who are drawn to Colorado, whether they were born here and
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stay or whether they, you know, migrate here, they have this connection to the outdoors.
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They want to be outdoors and or the wildlife.
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Right. Or, you know, we have the joke in Salida that you show up and you get a bike and a dog.
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Right. Like they hand it out at the at the edge of the city.
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So it's that piece. People are already connected to nature.
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I get this a lot where people come up and they're like, you're never going to
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believe this. I'm like, OK, well, maybe you'll believe it.
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But they had this amazing experience with a bush when they were out jogging
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or they were mountain biking and they heard a tree talk and they're like, is that possible?
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I'm like, oh, it's possible.
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And so, yeah, people seem to just be more open because of that connection.
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They know already that being connected with the natural world makes them feel
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better. And it's important, right?
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There are biological things that happen. There's that whole movement grounding,
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right, or earthing, where you put your bare feet or your bare hands either on
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the ground or on a tree, and you're receiving negative ions, right?
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They know that negative ions are released, and the way that atoms in our body
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work, they have to have balance.
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And when we're in synthetic environments, we get unbalanced.
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And all of these electronic, you know, I'm pointing to the TV,
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I'm pointing to the console, I'm pointing to all of the electronics, right?
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They are pulling from the cells in our body because they want those negative
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electrons to balance themselves. It's not anything bad or nefarious.
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It's just how things work.
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And so our body is the biggest organic thing that any of these things can pull from.
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So it's important that we are continually replenishing that.
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And you do that by going outside at least five minutes, right?
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They're saying 20 minutes, but the more that you can do it, and most people
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probably recognize this, we feel brilliant when we're out in the woods.
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And I guarantee you, it has more to do with us remembering, right?
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Coming back to our center, remembering who we truly be, remembering that we're
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connected to everything.
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And so there are actually like physical things that are happening to us that
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don't happen to us if we don't spend time outside.
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And so moving from nature being this beautiful backdrop to an actual ally,
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right, that you're connecting with, it makes a difference.
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I wonder, we all work in front of computers and some people longer than others.
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Those people need even more. The term is called EMFs, right?
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Electromagnetic frequencies. And so they're coming out at you all of the time.
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Again, you know, I've been fortunate to have all these different coaches and
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mentors that aren't fear-based. They always come from love.
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And so they're always like, you can do whatever you want, but have an exit strategy, right?
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So if you're going to sit in front of your computer all day,
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what are you going to do at the beginning of the day, right? Can you get outside?
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Can you take a five-minute break and just stand outside?
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You know, what are the things that you're going to do? That's a good thing to
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really consciously think about that.
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And of course, I think of my husband who's a very hard worker,
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but sometimes he's, you know, it's like almost 12 hours sometimes.
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Yes. And I beg him to get outside. If he could incorporate that into a routine.
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He loves outside. Don't get me wrong. He's just a hard worker.
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I'll go home and suggest that.
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Even just standing still, five minutes, bare feet on the ground.
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Or if people can't do that, right, because it does get cold here in the winter,
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then bare hands on a tree, like the trunk of a tree.
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Yep. Because you have to have touch. There's all these on the bottom of your
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feet. There are between 50 to 80,000 receptors.
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And that's why we put things like oils and things on our feet because it's taken up, right?
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Reflexology happens on the soles of our feet. This is a big deal.
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And our hands too. We don't have as many in our hands, but it's a good substitute if you can't do it.
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Another thing is to sit on a rock because, you know, you look at your spinal column, right?
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That is all just an information superhighway. You know, that's your wiring.
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And then you've got your tailbone. And when your tailbone comes into proximity with that rock.
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Now, rocks are electromagnetic beings, really.
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They're putting out energy and they're pulling it in. And when you're in their
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energy field, which is typically four times the diameter of the rock,
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you are receiving that energy.
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This is a big deal. You're getting a huge boost. And if you're sitting on it,
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you're receiving that information.
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It's huge. It's fascinating. We move through our life so asleep,
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not realizing all the amazing things that are happening, the energy exchanges that are happening.
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And when we're tuned into it.
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You see more magic, right? Like so much more amazingness is not missed. Yeah.
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So her partner is not here right now, but I love the story.
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You don't have to tell the whole details, but that was a bit of a magical experience for you also.
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And do you see that as connected to your whole kind of journey? Absolutely.
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Right. Like that's the thing. It's the piece about you connect to your intuitive
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abilities because it allows you to live a more guided life.
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And that's exactly what happened, right? Like I was in the listening,
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where was I going to move back to when it was time for me to come back to Colorado?
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Because I knew I was coming back, right?
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And so I ended up in Creststone.
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And one of my friends had called me on it. She's like, so you moved to this
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tiny, tiny little remote mountain town.
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Anyone who knows Crestone, right? A couple hundred people tops in the summer, right?
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We've got more people, but it's not a lot. And she said, you said you wanted to meet your partner.
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How are you going to do that in this tiny little town?
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And I said, well, I don't think he probably lives there, but I think we're going
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to end up being in the same places, right?
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And one of the things that I do is I work on being an intentional manifester
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in my life because we don't even understand how powerful we are as energetic beings.
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We are electromagnetic beings, meaning we put out signals and we attract signals.
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So we want to be intentional about what we're putting out there.
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So I had been being intentional.
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I wanted to call him my beloved and these were the traits.
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These were the things that I wanted to do with my partner, right? So I had a list.
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Well, it turns out at the same time, my partner, I call him my Zen cowboy,
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he was doing the same thing. He was making a list of things that were important
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for him in the woman that was going to be in his life that he was trying to call in.
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And so one afternoon, I, you know, of course, I fell in with the musicians and
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the artists in Crestone, just as how I'm wired.
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And so the band, the Blue Rooster out of Crestone was going to be playing in Salida.
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But I got to go over the pass, right, over Poncha Pass. And I thought, oh, I don't know.
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It's going to be a lot of work. and I kept getting the nudge, right?
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Hearing the voices, like, just go. It'll be fun.
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And so I decided, well, actually what happened was one of the band members was
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having a birthday and one of the wives was making a chocolate cake and I'm very food motivated.
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Very much like a lot of my clients, I guess, right?
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Always treat motivated. And so I thought, well, I could drive over the pass
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for chocolate cake. So I came to Salida.
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They were playing at the boathouse for anyone who knows Salida.
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He was dancing with one of our neighbors, who happens to be one of our neighbors
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now, and I was dancing with one of the band members' wives and we danced right
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into each other and he said, you know,
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hello. And I said, hello. And normally, right?
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Like my thing is, if you mention you're an animal communicator,
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people weed themselves out right away.
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They're either going to say something snarky or kind of condescending or,
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you know, they're going to be really weird.
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And so I said that and he just stopped and said, oh my goodness, I love animals.
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And I have a huge connection with animals.
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And as I say, the rest is history, right? 10 years later.
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And it was that part about both of us consciously manifesting it. Right.
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Everything is energy. What are you going to do with the energy around you?
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The part that is also cute that he tells it was love at first sight.
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Love at first sight, Jill. That's what it was. Let me tell you about it.
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That does sound like him very much so. Very sweet.
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Very sweet. And then And you end up, you know, coming together and he moves
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you out to his property, which we're at right now.
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How many acres do you have? Forty. Wow. Yeah.
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Really pretty spot here. I'm not going to say exactly where it is,
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but wonderful mountain views and right by the forest.
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And I've never met such friendly animals as I have met here.
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So this is also where pieces of your journey came into play,
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like the medicine wheel. Yeah, you know, this piece about like earth-based practices, right?
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Because the earth helps us remember, right, who we are, why we're here,
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this deeper connection piece.
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And Indigenous folks around the world have had that close connection.
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All of us, if we go back far enough in our lineages, we were tribal people sitting
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around fires, being outside, being connected to the natural world.
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And when you're living in the natural world in that way, you have to pay attention
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to the signs and symbols because it's imperative for your survival.
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And one of the earth-based practices that we found around the world,
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it's not just North American-based, are medicine wheels.
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And they are a collection of stones. Typically, they start with the four-directional
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stones. And it really is this physical piece of working on the land that reminds
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you that you're connected here, you're connected above. I was pointing to my heart, sorry.
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I forget sometimes on audios that we're connected to everything and that there
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really is no difference between us.
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And so with those medicine wheels, you start with the directional stones, right?
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You find the east, the west, the north, and the south markers,
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and you put down bigger stones.
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Then you fill them in with smaller stones, and each stone can correlate with
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a time of year or the planet or a plant or an animal.
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They all have very different significance. And again, it's going to depend on
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what tribal affiliation you have or your lineage, what you've learned, yeah.
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And so in my teachings, in my trainings, I had initiations working with the medicine wheel.
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And so I would oftentimes just kind of create my own medicine wheel with four
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directional stones, whether it was on my desk or just outside,
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but just, you know, to connect with and go through the process of connecting
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with each direction and the elements and all of those pieces.
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So I had been living here on the land, I don't know, a couple of years probably at that point.
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And I'd been walking the land every day, right, as part of my own personal practice.
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And one day I came to a clearing in the trees and I was like,
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oh, this wants to be a medicine wheel.
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And so I shared it with my partner and he was like, oh, yeah, that feels really good.
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So he started collecting stones like right away.
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I was very impressed. Like I would sit, you know, doing my work and I would
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watch him with a wheelbarrow go high with all these barrels of stones.
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And so he got them all out there and he said, OK, it's time to lay the directional
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stones. And you do it very ceremoniously, right? Because this is a ritual.
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This is very special. You're connecting with the actual energy,
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the entity of the direction of the east and the direction of the north.
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And, you know, each one has its own energy and it correlates with different
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seasons of our lives and even day.
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You've had time of day and all of this. So we're getting ready to do this.
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And I look down and I'm starting in the east and there's already a big stone
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in the ground in the direction of the east.
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So then I start like looking around and I look and there's one in the south
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and there's one in the west and there's one in the north.
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And I'm like, how did I not see that? I mean, you know, there's a little growth
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and stuff. And so I got the compass out.
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And sure enough, it's only a few degrees off, which means at some point it was set.
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And we do know the San Isabel National Forest, which is what we back up against, was an old Ute trail.
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They would go to Mount Princeton, right?
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And then the hunting grounds in this area. So it makes a lot of sense that it
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would have been. I've been in communication with...
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With some different chiefs of different tribes to ask them.
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It wasn't a written down. It's not like it would be cataloged.
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Oh, yeah, in Nathrop, it's this, right?
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But everything that they asked me and that I talked to them with seems to have
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pointed to that. And so we reactivated it.
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We maintain that and we use it in our practice.
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And it's a very sacred, you know, it's a church, right?
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And you need to treat it as such, just like if you go into a cathedral or a
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temple or you know, something to that effect.
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And so right in the book, I tell the story because it's a phenomenal story.
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But before I did that, because my publisher had asked me, you know,
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can we tell the medicine wheel story? And I said, I don't know if I can, right?
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I know part of the story is mine to tell, but I don't know. It's bigger.
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This was handed down. I need to go be with it. So I was in meditation for multiple
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days about that and talking and I walked the wheel each day.
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And on the last day that I did it, I finished and I sat down on a bench that we have next to it.
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And these deer walked through on the north side.
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And at this point, my great Dane Astro was with me. He didn't move.
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His eyes were trained on him.
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The deer were trained on us. And it was this huge buck and a doe.
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And energetically and symbolically, metaphysically, deer have to do with a gentle
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luring to new adventures and traditional ways.
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And so I knew right away, this was about sharing, right? This is a new adventure,
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get it out there and share the traditional ways.
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Then there was this Clark's Nutcracker. It's a big gray seed eating bird. Yeah.
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And these birds are phenomenal. They will plant 30 to 50,000 seeds throughout the summer.
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And they find almost all of them. They have an over 90% rate.
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I don't know who studies this, but they have over 90%.
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And that energy and their energy, again, the symbology has to do with ancient
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wisdom being uncovered again.
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And so I knew, right, like, oh, you start piecing these together,
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and you get the puzzle that comes together that says, yes, it's time to share the ancient wisdom.
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And you're, of course, in your practice and being aware, there was a woman visiting
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me when we had our interview scheduled.
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I think we were getting together the next day, and I only saw her for a couple
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hours, but she shared with me that she was pursuing these probably coincidences,
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some people might call them.
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Certain numbers were coming up for her, but she was paying attention,
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and she was trying to make sense of it all.
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And I just wanted to validate that
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piece that we all often have these serendipitous, coincidental things.
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We talk with our friends about this, and we've got a group that we can kind
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of go, yeah, that's cool.
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It's not just,
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for us, a coincidence. It's something more, and we're trying to pay attention.
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And what I like about your practice when you're supporting other people is that
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you let them own their experiences and you help them maybe notice,
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yes, that might be a symbol, and that's your specifics.
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Yeah, your intuitive backpack. I help you unpack your intuitive backpack, right?
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We all know, all of us in Colorado know what it's like to have a backpack on
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and be like, where is my granola bar, right?
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Oh, shoot. It's at the bottom, right? Or my water or my map,
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right? I need to know where I'm going.
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And when you have a hiking partner, right? They can turn you around,
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dig in the bag. Here's your flashlight.
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Here's your water. Here's your map. Eat your granola bar, right?
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And it just makes it easier.
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It's not that they're doing the hike for you, but you're helping them get the
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tools. And that's exactly it.
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Because the way that our intuition works is it works with our subconscious mind,
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which doesn't have language.
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And so it's colors and feelings and thoughts and emotions, right?
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And so what will happen is something will be trying to get our attention,
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right? And it will hit that subconscious side of the brain.
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And then the analytical brain can help us connect the dots.
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Except for most of us, what happens is the intuitive side shows up and the analytical
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side shows up like a bouncer.
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And it's like, who is that? Cite your source. Where'd you get that information?
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And the intuitive side goes and runs away.
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So we have to train our brain to watch for that.
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Right. So I know right when a deer shows up, I know what it means for me. Right.
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I've worked with them enough. They've come up in other people's sessions.
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And so it's that piece about helping people tune in because all of us are wired
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for this, but we're wired a little bit differently. Right. Some people are more clairvoyant.
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They see things more. Some people hear more. Some people feel things more.
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I definitely work with people that are, you know, one of those.
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Mine comes through typically all of them and usually simultaneously.
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If I sit and dissect it, I can say, okay, this knowingness dropped in first, then I saw that.
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And then I, you know, and I really have to discern, but that's fine, right?
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But for most of us, it's all happening concurrently. It's the small voice.
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It's the quiet one. The one that's like, me, me, me, me, me,
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look at me. That's not it. Thank you.
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Stand over there. Now let me feel in. And it's a very small nudge.
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And that's why it's subtle energy.
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So we have to learn how to not be distracted and pay attention, right?
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Like most of the time when I'm just going through my day, right,
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I'm distracted like everybody else.
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But when I'm in a session, right, like I have sat down, I've done breathing.
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Maybe I'm using essential oils.
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Maybe I've got some crystals, right? You kind of prepare. Yes,
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to slow my mind down so that I can be aware.
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She's been using this word unfolding. Golding, and I actually mentioned you
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in a couple other interviews, so your name comes up.
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When we're talking about listening and paying attention, sometimes when we're
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trying hard, it is a form of distraction.
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And I had a really tough night last night. It was the night before the podcast launch, right?
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And something was going wrong. And I was in tears. I couldn't figure it out.
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And I actually called my son and he called me down.
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He told me all the things I used to tell him. So we could do that for each other
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now. But I thought about stuff you and I talked about, taking a deep breath
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and just being more present and take a few steps back.
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And that unfolding word came into my head. And I'm like, I've just got to go to bed and let it go.
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And then everything was all right the next morning, which was magic to me, I must say.
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And I said a lot of grateful things and kind of felt very wondrous about that and happy.
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Yeah. But my conversations with you lately definitely helped me with that.
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Oh, I'm so glad. Oh, yeah.
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You know, I always look at it like a big cosmic scavenger hunt,
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right? We get one piece and we don't know the whole thing.
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We can't say the whole puzzle, but we're given one piece.
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And what are we going to do with that, right? Are we going to feel into it?
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Are we going to be like, meh, whatever, right?
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And then we'll get another piece, right? And that is the unfolding, right?
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That next piece. One of the things that was taught to be channeled through a
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tree was a three-step process.
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And so the first thing is what's up, right?
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It's not working. The technology is not working and it needs to be working.
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There's a timeline here.
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I have contractual obligations, whatever it is. That's step one.
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Step two, how do you feel about it? Because emotion are energies in motion.
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And that's important. That energy is telling you something.
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So I'm mad. I'm sad. I'm scared. I'm angry. I want to quit.
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Like any of the emotions, just let them come up. We spend so much time trying to push them down.
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And it's like, you know that old game whack-a-mole where
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you'd like hit the little mole comes up you hit him this is very violent
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and I wish we had a different example but it's what we got and then
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you hit him and he pops up somewhere else that's what happens with energy if
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we don't deal with it so we do the first step what's up second step this is
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how I feel a bit about it and the third step allows us to create a pivot point
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and it creates a shift in in our the trajectory of our energy so even though that's happening,
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even though I can't get the tech to work, and even though I can't stop crying
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about it, that's not my ultimate truth,
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right? This is bigger than me.
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My truth, this is little and stupid. I can breathe, right?
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And then when we shift into gratitude, our whole vibration changes.
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As we do that and we shift the energy, that allows a new attraction to come
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in, right? So you go to bed, you're like, there's nothing I can do anyway.
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And it can shift, right? When we're on it so tight, it can't move.
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That's good advice. Well, right. And the thing is, is we're energetic beings.
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We move through our day and then we get hit with energy. And what we try and
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do is contract around it, right?
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If I can make the energy smaller and more manageable is what we're thinking
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without thinking it, right?
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But that's not it. We need to expand around it so it can flow through. Okay.
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Right. But we want to control it and fix it. And we can't. Right.
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It's just a human condition. Nothing that we do is wrong. Some of it is just
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more effective than other things. Yeah. Yeah.
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Oh, my goodness. It's been a joy to be in Ana Maria's surroundings.
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It's very welcoming and cozy and filled with animals.
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Thank you so much. Thank you, Miss Jill. This is great. Yeah.
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Have a good rest of your evening. You too. Okay. Bye-bye, everybody.
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