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Surviving Soul-Forging Times · Remember Why You Are Here

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When you let go of some of that grasping around how things need to
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be or have to be the way things want to be as they desire to
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be, will come into being.
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Hello and welcome to Remember Why You Are Here,
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a podcast for seekers and sensitives where you can relax, receive,
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reconnect to your own self and remember the most important thing of all:
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why you are here. I'm Asia Suler, author,
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teacher earth intuitive.
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And in this episode we're going to talk about surviving soul forging
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times.
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We'll discuss what exactly a soul forging time is,
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why it's important for us,
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how we're living through one right now on earth and
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how to survive it and not only survive it but thrive
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through having experienced it.
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So this episode feels very dear and important to me right now in my
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life.
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And I think it's when we're all feeling in this moment now here on
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earth.
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It first came through for me when I was living through
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and surviving Hurricane Helene here in the mountains in Western North Carolina
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this past fall.
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And I had this kind of front row seat through that experience
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of what it is like to live through an epic natural
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disaster.
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What it is like to be disconnected
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from all the things that normally make your life possible.
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Things like running water, electricity, cell service,
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gas roads going in and out of where I live.
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Every major highway except for one was destroyed or closed.
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And so I had this really pretty intense,
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powerful, soul forging experience.
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And what I have found moving through this is it's given me
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this fodder,
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this roadmap and this way to talk about these experiences
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that can really help as we move collectively through what
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I see to be a soul forging time.
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And this is something I talked about a lot in my reading for 2024
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when I did my intuitive reading for this year that this was going to be a year
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of soul forging on a collective level.
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And so I think this information and this roadmap is really important at this
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time.
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And the cool thing about it is as intense as it is to be
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forged,
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it also means that we are coming into our power in a completely new way,
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that you are reconnecting to yourself, your mission,
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your soul in a way you probably have not experienced yet on this planet.
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And that's a good thing.
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So what do I mean when I talk about soul forging? Well,
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I'm not a blacksmith,
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but my understanding of forging is that there is an intense alchemy that
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happens when you forge something.
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Think of anytime you've ever seen someone work metal,
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whether in person or if you've watched a video,
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they're taking this piece of metal, heating it up,
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shaping it, rolling it, pressing it, changing its shape completely.
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Its essential self remains the same,
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and yet it's being forged into something different,
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being forged into decoration,
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being forged into weaponry, being forged into utensil,
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being forged into something other than it knew itself to
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be. So in this way,
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forging time, a soul forging time is moving into the fire.
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It's like going directly into the fire and the heat of an experience in
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order to be transformed and changed.
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Sometimes we choose soul forging times on purpose,
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but what I found more often is that we don't choose them.
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They tend to just happen to us.
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So you might be in a moment right now where you are in a soul forging
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time, but if not,
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I'm sure you can remember one times where it felt like you were being
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cooked where everything that held your life together in a certain way,
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your whole structure of reality started to shift and change beneath
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you. This could be a loss of a relationship.
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This could be a shift in your health, your wellbeing,
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loss of a home, radical change in any way,
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shape or capacity, birth of a child.
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All of these are soul forging experiences that bring
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our essential element like the metal of who we are to the surface.
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And I think that there is an essential importance to this kind of soul
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forging that we come here to this planet planning
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for and knowing that we are going to experience these times and that these times
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are important because they help to reshape us.
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They help to mold us once again back into the shape of our
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destiny to realize the shape of our destiny once more.
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So let's talk a little bit about how to know if you are in the midst of a soul
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forging time right now in your life.
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And I prefer this term over something like a very hard
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time or a dark night of the soul.
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And it might be all those things too,
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but it's helpful to have this framework of I'm in the midst of a
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soul forging time.
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It gives it this very heroic element to it like you're on your own Lord of
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the Rings type mission at this time in your life,
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but how do you know that you're in the middle of one right now?
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So here are some signs. One, you don't know what's going on.
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And I say,
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this was so much love in my heart because Lord knows I've been there a lot,
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but it's this sense of this feeling like what is actually going on right now?
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I don't have the template for this.
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I have not lived through this specific kind of thing before.
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Some aspect of this feels very new to me, very unsure.
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It might even be in a specific way in your life. You're like,
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what is going on on a day-to-day basis in my life?
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I have never seen this kind of thing happen in this kind of way.
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My routines are all out of whack.
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If you have this feeling sense of like I do not know what's going on,
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then you're probably living through a soul forging time.
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Number two is it's really hard to directly envision
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your future. I am a very future oriented person.
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I love daydreaming about the future. I love having plans, visions, goals.
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When I am living through a soul forging time,
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it's like all that drops away and I can no longer envision my
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future.
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It's very scary to a part of my brain and my psyche that absolutely loves that,
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loves holding that vision, loves working towards that vision.
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But there's also a piece here where we need to be willing to even let
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go of the reaching for that visioning of the future. And here's why.
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It's because the future is changing in this very moment
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in soul forging moments
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your future is being redefined. Now,
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I think we all come here for a reason. That's literally why I named my podcast.
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Remember Why You Are Here. It's to remember right,
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those things that drive us, that brought us here that we're passionate about,
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that we're here to give to this planet.
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And nothing is set in stone in terms of how that's going to manifest
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or how exactly you're going to evolve.
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And so when you're in a soul forging time,
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it's almost as if this wider aspect of you,
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and if you've been following me for a while,
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you know that I really like the term wider self rather than higher self
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because for me, my higher self is something I'm a part of.
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It's this wider energy and awareness that I belong to.
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And so our wider self is always holding this vision, right?
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But here in the vessel of our bodies, we can often forget,
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right?
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Or we grow accustomed to a certain shape or way of being in the world and we
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only take up that space. Well, when we're in a soul forging time,
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it's like we're reforging the container of who we are so that our soul
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can sit in it in a different way so that our soul itself is actually
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enriched and changed by the experience of being here.
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That our soul is able to receive the learning and the knowing and the growth
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that it yearned for, that it desired in coming here to this planet.
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And so in this way,
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it is almost essential actually that you let go of
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this visioning of the future,
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this vision of what's to come because it's changing. And in fact,
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it's probably going to take on a new and more radical shape than you ever
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could have imagined from where you were previously.
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It's like your ability to even hold that awareness and that imagining
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of your future is growing in its capacity.
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The vessel of your imagination is growing in its capacity.
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So if you're in a soul forging moment and you can no longer glimpse your future,
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know that that's a positive thing, that's helpful,
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let it go because on the other side,
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so much clarity is going to stream in.
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And the third sign that you might be in a soul forging time is that certainty is
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in flux.
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There are things in my life that I'm certain about,
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and some of those things are eternal.
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Like I am certain that this earth loves us
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and that I'm here for a reason. I'm certain that I love my child.
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I'm certain that it's a gift to be on this planet.
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Those are some of my certainties.
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But what happens during a soul forging time is that some of these certainties
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that are a little less eternal,
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but nonetheless were things you were pretty certain about before
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suddenly are no longer certain.
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Suddenly these things that were kind of like the bedrock of your
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existence that you planned around,
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that you mapped the whole world out within are no longer certain.
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The map itself has changed. And this happens
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pretty organically when you have a big change come up
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during a soul forging time, if you've had a big loss or a dramatic shift,
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it's like that map of certainty that bedrock has
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changed beneath you and it is terrifying.
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It's terrifying to have the things that you were so certain about,
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whether it was the land where you live,
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your town, your loved ones, your job,
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these things that you almost didn't even have to think about, right?
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When that certainty is in flux,
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it's almost like you are set free to
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imagine something different.
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And I say this with so much love and compassion in my heart because
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losing those certainties can be absolutely heartbreaking
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through the hurricane, losing my apothecary, losing our entire town.
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That's heartbreaking in a way that doesn't change,
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even as I know this is a absolute soul forging time where more of
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me is now coming to this planet and my mission is even that much clearer.
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And yet when certainties are in flux,
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it opens up our perception.
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It gives us the ability to widen our field of vision and our field of
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knowing.
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It's really normal and natural as human beings to want to have a
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certain field of our knowing,
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to have the things that we know are certain and there's a reason for this.
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When we're certain about something, we don't have to think about it anymore.
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That's helpful. There's a lot of things to think about.
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And so when you're certain about something, there's a part of you that goes,
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okay, that stone is right there. I don't have to think about it anymore.
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I know it's right there, but what happens when that stone tumbles down?
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You have to rethink everything.
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You have to rethink the whole map of your existence.
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So if you're in a soul forging time,
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likely the things that you were certain about aren't feeling so certain
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anymore, and that can be a really challenging experience.
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But what I want you to think about is that certainty like being that
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standing stone or perhaps like being a tree in the forest,
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this old tree that you thought, there's no way this tree could ever fall.
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And then it does,
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and it's shocking and it's hard.
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And on the other side of that shift, a space opens up in the canopy,
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the ground is revealed. New seeds can take root.
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You view your landscape differently,
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and not only are you viewing it differently, you're seeing it.
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This is the thing about the things that we're certain about.
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Studies have shown that when we kind of have something categorized certain in
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our brain, we literally stop seeing it. We stop noticing it,
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we stop perceiving it. So when certainties in our life change,
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it opens up our field of perception.
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It's sort of this semi psychedelic awareness that gets
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opened up where you're actually seeing your life again with fresh
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eyes. You're seeing your world again with fresh eyes, your relationships,
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your career, your path in life.
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All these things now have the ability to be seen with fresh eyes,
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and that's valuable, that's so valuable,
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and it doesn't negate the pain, right?
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I walk around here in the mountains where I live and some hillsides,
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every single tree it feels has been broken in half like a matchstick.
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The land here looks completely different.
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Things I never thought would change streams,
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creeks that became raging rivers that entirely and completely changed the
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geological history of that place, that valley.
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Nevertheless,
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it has revealed this layer of
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existence that I didn't see before.
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It is literally unearthed rocks that may have never been held
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by a human hand or seen by human eyes.
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And it's powerful to have those maps
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change and that power and that
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opening of new perspective gives us the potential to come once
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again back into ourselves with an expanded perspective,
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to let ourselves be forged by the fire of what we're experiencing so that we can
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be an even wider container for our own soul and our own being.
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So you might, after listening to this, be saying to yourself,
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I am in a soul forging time. Or maybe you're thinking, oh gosh,
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I really remember that time in my life.
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I know what it's like to live through that.
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Or maybe you're even a place of being like, yeah,
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we're there as a world right now. We are there.
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And if you're in that place, I'm going to tell you I'm in that place with you.
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So this is pertinent information for wherever you are.
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But the next piece I want to share is what do you do?
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What do you do in those soul forging moments?
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Because it is so confusing and hard
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and you feel untethered in this way, and it can be scary.
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What do you do in these soul forging times these times that look so dire and so
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drastic,
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but are literally actually reshaping the container of physical reality,
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including the container of your own self so that more can be held so that your
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soul is literally enriched and grows through this
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experience? This is like the stuff.
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This is the stuff that your soul came here for,
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but what do you do on a very real human level?
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What do you do during these times? Well,
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the first thing I would suggest is to look for handholds of meaning.
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That's what I call them, handholds of meaning. And
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these are not the new vistas that you're going to get to and look out of and be
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like, I have it all figured out. No,
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this is like you scaling a wall and you just find one handhold
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after another. That is all that's being asked of you right now.
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You don't need to see the whole future. You don't need to see 10 steps ahead.
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Just the next step.
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Find that next handhold of meaning where you can continue to hold on
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because there's this level on which that's all that's really being asked of you
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during a soul forging time is just to hold on.
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The alchemy is already happening within you.
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The alchemy is already taking place.
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You don't need to do any special kind of ritual.
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You don't need to set up an altar in order for it to happen.
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It is happening and your job is just to hold
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on while it is happening.
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It is literally like a weather event that you are experiencing
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and your job is to hold on.
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So looking for handholds of meaning.
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Are there moments where you felt affirmed or had a tiny,
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tiny little bit of clarity?
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Or are there things that you can see and
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understand that help make sense of what happened to you that morning?
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You don't have to understand the big picture here,
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but just those tiny little handholds of meaning.
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Feel free to revisit things in life that have been helpful.
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Or if you do find something, write it down.
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It can be really helpful to keep a journal at this time.
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And at the end of the day,
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just write down whatever that little handhold of meaning was.
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Write it down. Because the thing is,
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it feels little like this tiny little shift and you're like, okay,
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I have a new handhold. I can hold on just a little bit longer.
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But one handhold after another is what gets us right to the top of the
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mountain. It's what gets us to that vista.
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So know that it's really okay to not have the full picture right now to
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just have a handhold of meaning and to find the
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next one when it comes.
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Another important thing that can help you through this time is to remember that
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nothing is ever exactly as you think it's going to be.
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Whatever you imagine the future is going to be,
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it won't be exactly that, and that is a positive thing.
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So have you noticed this? When we have a vision of the future,
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no matter what that vision is, whether it's positive or negative,
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it's never exactly like that.
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Even if you're very clairvoyant,
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even if you have these super crystal clear images sometimes come in for you of
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the future or really strong feelings,
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it's never exactly like that, right?
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There may be elements that are even more delightful than you could have imagined
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or elements that are more challenging or it's just not better or worse.
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It's just slightly, slightly different.
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And this is a very positive thing.
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So here's why we as humans have this negativity bias.
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We tend to focus on what's negative because we're trying to protect
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ourselves and make sure hard things don't happen.
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But then what does end up happening is we often can have sort of a slightly
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negative bent to what we imagine will happen in the future,
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this sort of catastrophizing. So if you are catastrophizing in any way,
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and during soul forging times,
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one thing I do find is that we tend to go into this place
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of despair where we say to ourselves, A, X, Y or Z are going to happen,
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or B, I'm never going to feel excited again.
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I'm never going to feel enliven again. I'm never going to have direction again.
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Everything that I've been building is just going to fall apart like a pancake on
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itself. So when you catch yourself in those cycles,
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remind yourself nothing is ever exactly as you imagined it was going to be for
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better or worse.
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And that should feel like this sort of freeing trickster energy.
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It's such a trickster energy at play in this world that even the
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most specifically clairvoyant of us all will
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never have the full picture of what the future holds.
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And that's on purpose partially right, because the future is being written now,
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but it's so helpful to remember when you get into these despair cycles of
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thinking, I will never get out of this,
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or things are inevitably going to be bad,
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or I'm losing everything that I've built to remind
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yourself like, ah, nothing's ever exactly as I thought it was going to be,
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as I think it's going to be. And that's positive, right?
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It leaves space for the beauty of the mystery,
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the beauty of the potential to come in,
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and there's so much beauty and so much potential that's ready to come in for
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you.
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And when you let go of some of that grasping around how things need
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to be or have to be the way things want to be as they desire to
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be will come into being. So remind yourself of this.
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It's also really helpful,
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especially when going through the hard aspects of soul forging
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times to remember that the
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earth loves you, this planet loves you,
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the unseen elements that are manufacturing and co-creating and
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bringing this precipice into view, that they're loving forces,
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that the general force behind the world is one of love and benevolence
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and care, and that in fact,
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you are so loved and your growth is so important to the
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overall development of this world, to the evolution and healing of this world,
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that the message that you need to grow will never stop
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being delivered. It will never stop being delivered.
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And this can feel hard sometimes, like,
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why am I at this healing precipice again, I'm dealing with this issue once more.
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Here I am in the cul-de-sac of whatever the thing is that
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comes up again and again. But to remember that
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this is a message. This is a message coming from your own wider self,
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from the heart of the world,
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and it's a message that keeps coming because you are
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that loved. Your evolution and growth is that important,
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that you're not going to be let off the hook without stepping into it.
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That the forces that care for your evolution and growth will
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continue to come, to make themselves manifest,
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to send these messages, these opportunities to grow,
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to grow, to grow. Your growth is that important.
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What you came here to give is that vital.
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It's that necessary. So you were not being punished,
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even though I know sometimes it can really feel like that,
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but you were not being punished by the challenges that are coming up,
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especially when they're repetitive patterns, issues,
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challenges that just seem to just cycle in your life.
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It's a message that is once again being delivered because the heart of the world
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is saying, do you will not be left behind. You'll not be left behind,
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not in this lifetime.
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You are here to continue to blossom and unfurl.
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You're here to give your gifts. You're here to live into your potential,
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and this world loves you so much.
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There's no way that is going to leave you behind.
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And that is why this is coming up again. Now, saying all of this,
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the reality is also that soul forging times can be
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hard on our bodies, on our soma.
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There's literally a part of our bodies that is going to be saying,
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this is not okay with me. This is hard. This is stressful.
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I like certainty. I like safety.
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I like knowing that the way things are going to be.
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And so it can be really helpful to have somatic tools
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to be a companion to your body in this time,
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even if there's a part of our psyches, our wider spirits that know,
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yes, this is for the greater good of my unfurling,
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that I am becoming this vessel where I can hold more and more of who I am.
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The animal of our bodies needs support during this time.
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Shock,
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trauma these are very real aspects of living
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through especially a soul forging time that's very shocking and
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it kind of tends to be shocking, soul forging times.
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There's normally an element of it where we are deeply
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surprised by what has taken place. We didn't see this coming.
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And so having somatic tools to be a companion to your body to help your
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body and your nervous system as you move through this time can be really
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important.
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So one of the first most basic things that you could do is to shake.
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So literally to just shake your body,
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whether you are dancing and shaking it out,
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or whether you're just letting your whole body shake with emotion,
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shake when you're crying. You could lay on a vibrating board,
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you could twerk, you could do a shimmy,
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whatever helps you shake.
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Shaking is a very primal somatic response to stress
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and shock. And oftentimes,
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if we don't let ourselves shake,
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the energy of that shock can live in our body still and become trauma.
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So letting ourselves shake and maybe having a daily shaking practice can be
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really helpful in letting go of some of this stored charge.
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And when we have stored a charge,
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our body will continue to try and complete the cycle,
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whatever that cycle is to try and complete it so that the charge can be
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released.
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And so sometimes this can look like manifesting more issues.
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It can look like sort of
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recapitulating a trauma.
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And so if it feels like you're kind of in this space where you can't get a
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break,
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one thing you can do is try literally giving your body a break by shaking,
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shaking, shaking, shaking,
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because this really helps to integrate and release the
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charge that we're carrying. So even in this moment,
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you could try shaking your hands and just notice as you shake your hands,
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if you have the ability to do so,
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that even just a little bit of that energy can be released.
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And that's super duper helpful.
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I noticed when I was living through the hurricane the first time I went to the
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apothecary, and that was an entire experience unto itself.
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It was dangerous and very hard physically and emotionally.
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When I came home,
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my whole body shook like a leaf for hours,
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and it was really important that I let that go.
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It is super important that I let that happen when it was arising,
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and I made a practice of continuing to shake in the days after and even the
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months after. So that's one tool.
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Another tool is called a butterfly hug. And so this is pretty simple.
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You take your two hands,
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you cross them over your chest so that your thumbs meet,
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and then you intertwine your thumbs,
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and then you lay both hands sort of opposite of one another on your chest.
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So you'd have your right hand on the left side of your chest,
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your left hand on the right side of your chest,
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and you can keep your thumbs intertwined here,
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or if that doesn't feel comfortable,
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just have your hands sort of crossed over your chest and then you alternate
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tapping on one side of your chest versus another.
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This somatic technique was literally developed in the
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aftermath of a natural disaster to help people survive
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moments of big upheaval and change.
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But it's really this bilateral stimulation is super helpful for regulating our
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nervous system for coming back into this settled state of
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being in our nervous system. So you can do this for 30 seconds, a minute,
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even longer,
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and just see how long it takes until you just reach this sense of settledness.
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Again, nothing's fixed, but you're settled again.
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There's a sense of being able to touch your center.
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The last practice I want to hand to you is called comfort object,
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eye gazing.
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This is also a somatic tool where you find something in your
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environment that is very comforting for you to look at,
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and you let your gaze rest there.
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So the first thing you're going to do is actually literally move your neck
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around in a circle, not a specific circle,
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but just let your neck move in all directions. So you look to the left,
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you look to the right,
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you really let your head move up and down and all around.
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And this movement of our neck is signaling to our nervous system that we are
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safe, right? When we're in a high stakes moment,
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we're going to want to be looking straight ahead.
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We're focused like a laser beam.
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So when you specifically intentionally move your neck around,
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it is signaling to your nervous system, oh,
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we must be safe enough to look around us.
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So really look all around the space that you're in.
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And then once you've really taken a good look all around,
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letting your eyes move too as you, your head, your neck, and your eyes,
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then find an object,
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something that you can rest your gaze on that is comforting.
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So when I first returned from
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making my way to the apothecary, hiking onto the island,
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I was in a pretty big state of shock after that experience.
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And I was sitting in the grass of
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this farm. We didn't have running water at the time still.
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And so we went to a farm where they did have running water to take a shower
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because I was covered head to toe in this toxic sludge,
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wasn't fully geared up or prepared for the reality of what that was going to be
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like.
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And I could feel that I was literally living outside of my
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body. I was not inside of my body. I was so in shock.
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But I remembered these tools, I remembered them. And so I did this.
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I looked all around and ended up letting my gaze
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fall on this trellis of tomatoes that they had and
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was looking at the tomatoes and all the different stages of growth.
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And it was really amazing to notice that just this simple motion of
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first looking around and then letting myself really
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be comforted, really letting myself be comforted by something in my field,
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did a lot to help myself come in. And I did all the things.
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I was shaking on purpose. I was looking around. I did the butterfly hug,
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and it was actually life-changing to witness how my
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soul came back into my body. And this is something that's really important.
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And another big reason why I bring up somatic exercises in particular
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is because in order for a soul forging time to actually forge our soul,
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our soul needs to be present. And it makes sense, right?
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When we're going through a really, really hard time or something traumatic,
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something shocking, that part of us fleas is like not going to be here anymore.
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That's by design. It's important.
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It helps keep our souls and our psyches intact to
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dissociate in that way. And yet,
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in order for the integration to happen on the other side, for the evolution,
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the growth, the potential to come in,
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we need to bring our souls back in to our bodies,
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back into the vessels in order for our soul to then both forge
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us in their next evolution and be forged as we grow and
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evolve and change.
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So these are just three somatic exercises that I find to be really helpful that
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will really bring you back into your body so that
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your soul can do its work,
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your soul can be changed from what you've experienced,
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that you can evolve more into this wider
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receptacle, this wider vessel that you are meant to be. And lastly,
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I find it super helpful if you're in the middle of a soul forging time to
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remember other soul forging times in your life.
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To remember how you were in the midst of it. When you were in the midst of it,
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you had no idea how you were going to survive this.
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It felt like everything had changed. Everything was up in the air,
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and yet you did. And so they can give us templates,
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they can give us handholds of meaning to look back and see, oh,
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I had no idea what was being forged in that time,
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but I would not be the person I am today without that experience.
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So much so that maybe even a part of you is grateful that it happened.
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So look back to those times because they will help to guide you for the times
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ahead and to know that as much as we are living in a time where everyone
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keeps calling it unprecedented times,
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there's this level in which it's not.
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There's this level in which everything under the sun has happened before
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in one iteration or another.
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And so when you look at a collective level and you start to feel like
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the world is going to hell in a hand basket,
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you can remember that human beings have lived through so
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many cycles of cataclysm and change.
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We have gone through great bottlenecks in which our species almost completely
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died out. We have seen empires rise and fall.
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We've seen the worst of humanity and the best of humanity.
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We have lived through it all our ancestors have lived through it all.
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So as we walk into this time this year of 2025 this
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year that I had called in my reading a Soul Forging Year,
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remember that you have the tools to live through
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this.
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Your ancestors lived through every imaginable iteration of
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change, cataclysm, upheaval. As humans
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we were designed to actually withstand this, to move through this,
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to be forged by it so that we can continue to bring the invaluable
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gifts that we carry as a species and as individuals to
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this planet.
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I don't think any soul forging times happen by
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accident.
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There are opportunities that the earth is helping
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to bring into being that we're part of
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co-creating because the deepest part of us,
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the widest part of us, wants to grow, wants to evolve,
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wants to be forged by this experience of living
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here on this planet because there's a freedom in it.
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There's a freedom in evolving into who you always
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knew you were meant to be.
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And what's really cool and kind of radical about living through hard
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times,
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living through soul forging times is that your mission can get super clear.
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All the stuff that isn't for you anymore,
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that you don't need to worry about anymore, you don't need to handle,
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you don't even need to pay attention to, you don't need to read about,
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you don't need to watch.
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All that stuff gets really clear because you notice the way in which it
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takes you away from what's most important,
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the way it takes you away from your heart's mission.
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Soul forging times make what is very important
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collectively, but also personally to you, very, very clear.
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So embrace that gift of this time,
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whether you're personally in a very soul forging time,
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or whether you just are experiencing the vast soul forging that we are in as
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this world.
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Know that things are being made clear for you in your own
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lives, for the collective.
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There is a deep and powerful clarity coming out of this time.
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And on the other side will be this new fashioning,
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this new forging,
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this new patterning that can hold even more
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potential than what we can currently imagine.
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So thank you for being here.
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Thank you for living through these soul forging times,
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for being willing to continue to be here. You're vital,
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you're really important for this moment in time. If you weren't important,
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you wouldn't be here. What you have to give who you are,
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it's an essential part of this whole.
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And you being willing to be forged by your experiences
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and by what we're moving through collectively on this planet is a really
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important piece of the becoming that is at play in our
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world right now. So if you are loving this podcast so far,
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They mean so much to me,
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dedicate themselves to this one thing,
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which remembering why we're here.
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So thank you so much for being here, and I'll see you next time.