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How to Survive in this World as a Sensitive · Remember Why You Are Here

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Being here on this planet as a sensitive, it's not just about surviving.
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You are this powerfully attuned instrument of change
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and powerful instruments often need extra
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care.
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Hello and welcome back to Remember Why You're Here,
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a podcast for seekers and sensitives where you can relax, receive,
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reconnect yourself and remember the most important thing of all,
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why you're here. I'm Asia Suler, author, earth intuitive,
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teacher and highly sensitive person. And in this podcast today,
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we're going to talk about how to survive in this world as a sensitive.
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So if you are a sensitive who has been feeling overwhelmed lately,
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or maybe for a long time in this world, I made this podcast for you.
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This episode is for you. In this episode,
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we're going to talk about why sensitive people are overwhelmed right now in the
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world, as if it weren't obvious,
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but we're going to go into the specifics of why it is the way our nervous
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systems are built means that we are more likely than not experiencing a sense of
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overwhelm right now. And I'm also going to go into five energy practices that
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I use all the time to help me come back to center,
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because when we know how to release the overwhelm,
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come back to ourselves,
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we can then access the gifts that we're meant to bring to this world.
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And ultimately, in this podcast,
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I'm speaking to the part of you that feels like,
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how can I possibly survive living in this world?
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And hopefully by the end of this podcast, you'll not only know how to survive,
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but how to thrive as well. Before we get started,
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I wanted to mention that my 12-week in- depth Spiritual School for Sensitives
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Earth Angel School is closing for enrollment next week.
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So we only open the doors to this school once a year,
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and that door is closing next week on April 15th.
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That will also be our first day of class. We have weekly classes every week
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for 12 weeks, as well as discussion groups led by me,
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a whole library of bonus materials,
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guided meditations to accompany you throughout your day,
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and an optional in- person retreat at the end.
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On our first day next week, we're going to dive into the secret.
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This first class is called the secret, and in this class,
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I talk about the way in which this term Earth Angel can actually
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help you open up to an understanding of yourself that you probably have never
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had before,
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and that is going to completely reset the way you see yourself and your
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sensitivity in this life from here on out.
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I'm so excited to get started with this new cohort.
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Everyone who has joined so far is such an incredible person.
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What makes this course so special at its heart is the community,
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the way in which folks show up for one another, support one another,
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and how we are all evolving together because ultimately we're here to support
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each other, to step into our own souls unfolding,
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to understand who we are, how we work,
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and really flourish on this planet. So if you're interested in the program,
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you have until next week to sign up. And that link is
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asiasuler.com/earthangelschool. So let's get back to the episode today.
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If you are feeling overwhelmed, I want you to know you're not crazy.
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The world is incredibly overwhelming. The world be wild right now,
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and it's going to be wild for a while. Things that are going on right now,
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there is an immense amount of intensity politically, environmentally,
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technologically. We are living through a time of enormous,
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enormous change.
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And if you are someone who feels deeply,
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notices subtlety, picks up on emotional and energetic undercurrents,
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this moment of history is probably going to feel pretty overwhelming.
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And if you're listening to this,
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you probably are that kind of person because this is who a sensitive is.
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This is how us sensitives operate.
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So I want you to know that if you feel overwhelmed right now,
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you are not broken. Your nervous system is just incredibly responsive
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and you are not crazy.
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You are literally just feeling the bigness in the energies right now in this
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world. But there is a way, even amongst the intensity,
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even amongst the bigness to meet what is happening,
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to companion yourself and to learn how to be
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able to be with bigness and translate it into
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big changes for yourself,
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into big ability to access your own life force,
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to understand your own internal guidance system and to show up in the world in
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the way you most deeply desire to.
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So let's go into some specifics about why as sensitives,
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we get overwhelmed when there are big things happening in the world. Well,
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very specifically, sensitive people,
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we are designed to be early detectors of change.
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This is why evolutionarily sensitive people are created, among other things.
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And so we can detect when there is emotional tension in the room,
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when there is social unrest, even if it's unspoken,
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we are tuned into collective grief and environmental changes. We are tracking
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all of these changes. So anytime something is shifting in the field,
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we're noticing it.
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We are perceiving it and we are also using that information to pick up on
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patterns. And so we are noticing subtleties all the time.
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And in a world that is less than subtle,
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you can imagine that that's a lot of information that our systems are intaking,
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understanding, and trying to find patterns within.
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I also want to name this fact that though it's true that as
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sensitives,
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we will get overwhelmed by literal information like reading too many
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articles about the same thing or being exposed to too many different pieces of
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news in a day. It's also true.
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And what I find is that sensitives will often sense the change in the world
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before they even read the news. Have you noticed this in yourself?
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I've noticed this in myself, that I might take a day away, for example,
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from looking at my phone or tuning into the news,
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and I'm just feeling this inescapable sense of anxiety
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or panic or overwhelm. And it doesn't fit with my life. I'm like,
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" Nothing's happening right now in my life. Why does it feel so intense?
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"And then I log back in and I see that something big has happened while I've
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been away. And while no one has talked to me about it,
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I have not read anything about it anywhere.
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My body was picking up on it in the field.
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My nervous system was picking up on the subtle changes in the global
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environment and already responding to it. And so I just want to tell you,
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you're not crazy.
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If you are having these big emotional dips or overwhelm and you're
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maybe not even that tuned in to what is happening on a daily basis,
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know that your nervous system is picking up on it, is trying to respond to it,
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is tracking it,
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and is trying to perceive the pattern so you're not nuts. This is literally how
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you were designed.
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And you can imagine that that does make it hard to not feel overwhelmed
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at times because when big things are happening,
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we're then using a lot of ourselves to track that bigness and make it make
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sense.
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Because this is the reality of being a sensitive person is that we're tracking
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everything all the time. Even when we don't think we're tracking,
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our tracker is still on and it's working in hyper mode.
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So especially if you're an empath when it comes to other people,
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you are constantly tracking their wellbeing and their nervous system.
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And this doesn't just stop with your intimate acquaintances or intimate people
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you know. This extends to people online, the people you're reading,
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it extends to the people you're reading about,
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other people in other parts of the world here you will never meet.
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You are also attempting to track them, how they're doing,
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how their nervous system is. It's a beautiful aspect of being an empath and
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being a sensitive that we have the ability and desire to track other people
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to track how they are doing and where they're at.
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And it becomes untenable when we are literally trying to track
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millions of nervous systems at one time.
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So giving yourself a little bit of grace here and knowing that one of the things
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that we do as empaths in particular with this tracking
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propensity is that we perspective take.
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So I know I remember this when I was a kid that when I first started learning
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about really hard things on the planet,
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like violence and atrocity and war and genocide and all of
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those things that I would then obsessively perspective take,
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like obsessively try to put myself into the position of someone who
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was experiencing this kind of harm or oppression.
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And this is just something that sensitives naturally do.
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We just perspective take until we literally can't even feel anymore
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what our perspective is or where we are at.
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And so you're probably innately doing this, whether or not you even realize it,
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whether or not you're even aware of it. The moment you hear a story,
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any kind of story,
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whether it's a story your friend told you or it's a story on the news,
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you immediately jump into perspective taking of like,
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what would it feel like to be that person? How would this feel my body?
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What is the emotional landscape?
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It's so beautiful because it gives us the ability to understand people,
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to empathize with people,
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to access unconditional love for those that we care about
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and those who we encounter in this world.
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And you can imagine that that's overwhelming for our bodies because not only are
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we being exposed to stories, events, things that are hard to process,
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but then we're doubling down by putting ourselves into that
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situation in our minds and our consciousness and our emotional body. And our
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bodies don't read that as something different than what's happening for us right
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here, right now. So yes, of course, this will also cause a state of overwhelm.
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We as empaths and sensitives are often processing other people's
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emotions and collective fear.
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And so not only are we taking on individual perspectives,
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but we're kind of like this wide open container where we're doing
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work in the collective to process collective energies as they're moving through
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us. We're receptive to them,
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and so we literally receive them and then we move them through ourselves.
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And so all of these things
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are things that make being a sensitive person just so very beautiful.
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It's why we were created. It's why we are the way we are on this planet.
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We are innate healers and transformers.
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We carry templates for a way of being that the earth is in a
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movement right now to return to within humanity. And you
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can imagine,
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especially in our interconnected world where we are exposed to frankly,
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just way too much sensory detail and information on a daily basis that
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sensitives,
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us as sensitives will feel overwhelmed more often than not.
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This is why we need this thing called energy hygiene.
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So energy hygiene are practices that help you clear, regulate,
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and replenish your nervous system.
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Think about energy hygiene like a shower or a bath for your energy.
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What ends up happening when you're sensitive, sensitive people, we care.
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We can never stop caring. That's never going to end. So you care,
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you care deeply.
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And what happens is we end up over accumulating emotional residue and
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charge from the world around us.
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We accumulate and stay in a state of nervous system activation.
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And this can cause things like mental noise, fog, exhaustion,
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and overload. And so if you are experiencing those things,
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you can know that you probably need a little bit of energy hygiene in your life.
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And this goes hand in hand with boundaries.
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I talked about boundaries a few podcasts ago. If you're interested in that,
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definitely check that out, how to set boundaries to create new worlds.
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We need emotional,
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energetic and attention boundaries in order to
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have the space that we need to process what is ours and let go of what is not
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ours. And so this energy hygiene practices,
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which I'm going to go into in a little bit,
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these practices that will help you feel yourself again and release what's not
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yours go hand in hand with setting the boundaries that you need so that you're
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not constantly overgiving or constantly having things come into your field
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that bombard you and make you unable to actually feel and access yourself.
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Because at the end of the day, we as sensitives,
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we're made to not only survive this world,
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but to help humanity survive. And so your role
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as a sensitive is first to understand how you can survive in any given
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moment in time. And once you do that, once you know how to care for yourself,
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even in the midst of bigness,
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you become a force that helps humanity survival.
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And not just our physical survival, but our emotional, energetic,
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and spiritual survival as well. Sensitives,
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we want the heart of humanity to survive.
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We want our heart to be even more intact.
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And it starts with knowing how to care for ourselves in a world that
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contains a lot of bigness, a lot of intensity, and a lot of change right now.
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The whole goal for us as sensitives is to continually come home to ourselves
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because when we come home to ourselves, we have access to the energy,
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perspective, power, and possibility that can create new worlds in this world,
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that can feed, change, transformation,
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revolution. And so it begins with coming home to ourselves and accessing our
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power again.
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So before I go into these five practices to help you come home to yourself,
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I would love for you to just take a moment and think about the last time you
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felt fully at home in yourself. Let's resource ourself in this moment.
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When's the last time you felt like just really at home?
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And as you concentrate on this and bring it to your awareness, I'm curious,
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what was it that you were doing?
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Maybe you can see yourself in your mind's eye, in that place,
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in that time.
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I'm curious if you were alone or with someone.
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If you were with someone, who were you with? Was it a human?
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Was it your animal companion?
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And I just want you to bathe your nervous system for a second in this memory of
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where you were, what you were doing, who you were with,
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just really sensing that feeling inside of yourself of being home.
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And now I want you to notice how much
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power and energy you have access to now inside of yourself
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for remembering this moment.
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Think back to that moment where you were really at home in yourself.
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Can you feel this sense of inhabiting your whole body?
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This sense of energy flowing outwards from you,
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this sense of creativity and possibility coming
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online.
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And I want you to just feel in a tactile way that energy inside of yourself now,
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that power. Feel how fruitful that power is,
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how that power can move things,
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can change things. How just for existing in this world,
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that power shifts the fabric of reality.
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So that is what we're going to return to here when I talk about these five
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practices for coming home to yourself, and this is why we do them,
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so we can access this power,
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this power that not only fuels us and our ability to be alive and survive on
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this planet,
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but that facilitates us to create the change we are meant to bring to this
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planet through inhabiting ourselves fully and completely exactly
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as we are. So these are five practices that I turn to,
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especially when I feel overwhelmed in the world.
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And I find that these five practices can really help create a pillar of
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foundation and support so that you not only feel like, okay,
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I think I can survive this world, but you also start to feel like, okay,
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I am not only here for this, but I was designed for this.
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I was made for this. I was made for this time for a reason. Okay.
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So practice number one is to keep a palm stone in your pocket.
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So I love working with stone medicine.
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I think stone medicine is one of the most powerful medicines on this planet.
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It is ancient. We have been a relationship with stones forever as human beings,
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and there are a couple benefits of keeping a stone on you. First of all,
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you get the energetic or metaphysical properties of that stone.
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So a lot of empaths like to work with dark stones,
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things like black tourmaline, for example,
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or smokey quartz as a way to protect or shield their energy.
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So if you feel like things are bombarding you all the time,
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keep a black stone in your pocket. Slip it into your pocket,
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or I definitely have known people who if they don't have pockets,
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they put it in their bra,
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but a way for it to be close to you. And even if it's possible for it to be on
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your skin, this can also be really helpful.
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I also love to keep pink stones in my pockets.
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Pink stones help us release anxiety and panic.
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Pink stones connect us to our heart again.
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I find them to be very soothing for the emotional body.
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Rose quartz is my absolute favorite, but I also love rotonite and rotochrosite.
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So these are some of my all time favorites, but why keeping it on you?
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Why keeping it in your pocket? Well,
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beyond the fact that you're actually receiving that stone's energy,
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it is helping to remind you of the intention that you're setting with that
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stone. It is working with you and your energy and your consciousness,
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and it's helping your nervous system to have an anchor point and have a
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place where you can release tension.
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So my favorite thing about having stones in my pockets is the way they become my
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fidget toys. So fidget toys are actually really,
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really helpful items to help us release energy in our nervous system.
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So having any kind of fidget, and in this case,
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I'm talking about having a stone in your pocket.
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It's so wonderful when you have that stone in your pocket, how it warms up.
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So it becomes your body temperature.
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You can stick your head in your pocket and play around with the stone at any
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point, pull it out, hold it, keep it in your palm.
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And these sort of micro movements,
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it prevents the body from going into overwhelm.
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So this is why we do things like hair twirling or why we bounce our foot.
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This is really helpful and regulating for us.
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And it also keeps the energy circulating as well as discharging any nervous
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energy. So you might have other fidget toys that you love,
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but I just love the combination of the energetic medicine that stones bring
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us,
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the anchor point that they can help remind us of our intention with the stone,
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and then the reality that they're just wonderful to hold onto. They're such nice
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companions and make for really wonderful fidgets to have around.
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So I recommend going either to a stone store or just walking around
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outside and finding a stone that feels really good to hold in your hand.
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That's really the only requirement.
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Set an intention with that stone and then keep that stone with you,
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especially when you go out into the world because it will really help you set
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those boundaries,
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release the built up energetic tension that you tend to accumulate throughout
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your day and come back to your center.
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The second practice for energy hygiene is to shower at night instead of in the
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morning. So some of you might be morning showers out there and you're like,
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"Aja,
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I am not going to let go of that morning shower." And I'm not saying you have
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to,
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but I am saying that it is very helpful at the end of the day to have a shower,
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even if it's adding on to your morning shower,
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maybe having two showers a day. If you have access to running water and the
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ability to do this,
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showering at night is incredibly helpful for releasing
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charges that are ready to go, ready to be composted,
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ready to go back to the earth. Without even realizing at us as sensitives,
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we pick up charges throughout the day.
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And most of us actually have a really profound relationship with water because
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we already recognize that water helps us to release those charges.
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So my favorite practice at the end of a day is once my daughter's asleep,
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once the tasks for the day are done,
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I go and I take a shower and it doesn't matter whether or not I need that
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shower. If I'm overwhelmed that day, I will be taking one.
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And it doesn't even have to be long. It can just be a few minutes.
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I don't wash my hair.
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I put my hair up. I just let the warm water run over my body.
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Not only is this very relaxing and soothing for our nervous system, obviously.
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I mean, we were born before we were born,
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we were created in a womb of warm water.
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Warm water is one of the easiest and fastest ways to relax a nervous system.
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As it moves over you, it's also releasing and cleansing away the day,
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cleansing away the energies that you've picked up throughout the day.
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And what I've noticed is that if I complete all those sort of the tasky stuff
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before I shower, I shower and then it resets my energy,
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especially if I'm feeling tired or I'm just like doomscrolling instead of
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actually doing the things that will nourish me,
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I will convince myself to put the phone down, to step away, go take a shower,
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and then I often feel reinvigorated to do the things that are actually going to
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feed me. I take quiet time for the rest of the night, time for myself,
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time to nourish myself,
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and it really helps me reset so that I can meet the next day feeling fresh
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again. The third practice is to do a weekly tech Shabbat.
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So when we go on our phone,
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especially if we're logging into something like social media,
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we are literally being exposed to thousands of nervous systems
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every single time we do that. Even if you have your algorithm curated,
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so you're only being shown things that you really care about or you find really
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interesting or you find really funny,
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the fact remains that when we enter that field,
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we are interacting with thousands of nervous systems.
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And remember how we talked about how as sensitive people,
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we naturally track nervous systems.
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It's just one of those things that we're going to do. Well,
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you can imagine that being on your phone and being engaged in technology is
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linking you into so many nervous systems,
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so much energy in the collective that we don't even realize how much energy is
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going towards that,
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how much we're pouring into that. So one of my dearest friends in the whole
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world observes an Orthodox Shabbat. And for the longest time,
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we have all known that from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday,
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she is unavailable. You cannot text her. You cannot call her.
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You will hear from her again on Saturday night.
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And so I was really inspired by this practice that she upholds for herself and
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her family to start turning off my phone at Sundown Friday until sundown
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Saturday every single week.
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I have done this on and off now for years.
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I was very consistent about it before my daughter was born.
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After my daughter was born, some things shifted a little bit.
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I felt like I needed to be able to communicate with caregivers, et cetera,
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et cetera.
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And now I'm at the space where I can really go back into this textShabot.
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I have my life set up in a way where there are other ways to communicate. We
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have our schedules, we have our programs.
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And what I noticed when I started doing this again after a couple years of not
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having done it,
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is that it was literally shocking how much energy I had again,
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just for turning off my phone for 24 hours. And there are workarounds for this.
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You could get a landline if you still need to be in contact.
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If you live with someone and they're not doing a textShabot,
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you can let people know, "Hey, if there's emergency,
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text them." So there are ways to do it where you still create the feeling of
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connection or safety.
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But what I often find is that even knowing that someone might text us,
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even knowing that there are texts we still need to respond to,
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it is a constant pull on our attention and our awareness and our energy.
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Turning off the phone,
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it's like there is a background sound going on the whole time,
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like the dryer has been going on for hours and it goes off and all of a sudden
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you don't even realize how loud I had been and how much you had been having to
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deal with sensorially. And then it goes quiet and your whole body just
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relaxes. That's how my weekly tech Shabbats feel.
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It is actually magical what happens for me when I turn
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my phone off for that 24 hours.
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I also choose to turn off my computer and turn off TV to step
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away from those devices altogether.
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I normally find that Friday nights are the most creative nights of my week.
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I end up having huge brainwaves and breakthroughs about what I need to do to
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shift things around in my life to feel more alive, to feel more in tune.
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I have creative breakthroughs. I relax in a way.
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I don't relax any other time of the week. I'm more present with my daughter.
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It's really incredible to see how much I
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default to being engaged in and in tracking other things.
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And when I take that away,
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I see my capacity for presence. It's such a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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This will interrupt the patterns that you have where you are giving away your
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energy to your devices,
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where you were plugged in in times where you really need to be attuned to
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yourself.
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I deeply recommend a 24-hour Shabbat if you can swing it.
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If you cannot take a 24-hour break, design something that works for you.
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Maybe it's a six-hour break.
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Maybe it's setting limits on the apps on your phone and then sticking to it,
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having a 15-minute limit on whatever app you know that you end up scrolling on
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and kind of frittering away or giving away the time that you know you need for
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yourself.
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So there are steps and ways to create these limits and these boundaries.
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But what I will say is that if you have the ability
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to turn it all off, even just for a couple hours,
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you will notice so much open up for you. And I want that for you.
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I want you to have that space. I want you to have that time.
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And the thing about sensitives is that we're here to know how to attune to
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ourselves. For all of us, the answers are within, but for sensitives,
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it's an extra big task in this lifetime because we're so
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good at attuning to other people because we will naturally often put ourselves
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second or put ourselves last.
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It is at the heart of what we're here to do to learn how to attune to ourselves
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first, to hear ourselves first. But that inner voice, it can be subtle,
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it can be quiet. And so tuning out the distractions,
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taking a literal break will help you hear the guidance within you so that it
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will actually help you navigate everything else in your life.
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It'll help you have the clarity and the perspective that you need to make the
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changes you need in your life, to feel at home in yourself,
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to sit at your center, to feel replenished,
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to actually feel replenished by your nights or your mornings or your time. So
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highly, highly recommend this.
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If I could recommend any one thing for myself,
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my past self, my future self as a reminder of like, "Hey,
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it's possible to actually feel good again in life.
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Here's the only thing you need to do is take a 24-hour break from your phone and
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from technology,
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and it works like a charm." The next practice is a practice
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from Qigong and Taoism that I absolutely love.
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And it's this practice called heaven and earth energy bathing.
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So in Taoist understanding,
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we have in the lower part of our body underneath our belly button,
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there's this area called the lower dantian. This is our lower abdomen.
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And in qigong, this is where your core energy reserve lives.
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It's the root of our physical vitality. It's where we ground.
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It's our basis for emotional regulation.
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And so this practice,
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sometimes it's called pouring light. I like heaven and earth energy bathing or
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just energy bathing. The practice is this.
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The practice is that you hover your hands at your low abdomen here,
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this space where your energy reserves live.
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Imagine filling up your hands with light, warmth, energy,
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nectar,
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and then lift your hands over the midline of your body,
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up over your head.
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Feel yourself actually lift this energy up and pouring it over your head like
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a bath and really feel and see that energy moving,
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not just down the front of your body, but down your whole back body as well.
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And you can actually do this more than once.
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So if you gather the energy, pour it over your head,
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imagine it flowing over your head, replenishing you, nourishing you,
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and then cycling back into this part in your low belly,
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actually increase seeing the energy there and then pulling it up again and doing
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it again. I particularly like to do this in moments when I already feel
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nourished or when I just notice that I'm feeling really well.
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I find that when I do this energy practice, it's giving me
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energy, it's giving me life force.
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It's almost like it's an energy bank for the times ahead,
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for times when I might need to feel more of that energy.
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And literally it's gathering up your chi, your life force,
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and bathing yourself in your own chi.
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And one thing that is really cool I will mention is that I started doing this
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practice just intuitively before I found out that this was a practice in qigong
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and in Taoism. And I just absolutely love that. I think this is very intuitive.
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A lot of us, when we need resourcing, we place our hands over our low bellies,
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we hold ourselves here.
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And so this is just a natural extension of what will innately be drawn to
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do to hold ourselves here is then to hold yourself,
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hover your hands over this part of your body and then pour it over yourself and
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allow it to percolate and to really see it percolating and filling
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up yourselves with energy and vitality. In qigong,
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there is this awareness that qi or energy follows Yi,
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which is the intention.
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And so sometimes what I find with highly sensitive people in particular is
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that we want to do it right and
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we want to really make it happen.
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And the thing about this concept of ye is it's not about forcing,
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it's not about effort. So it's not about how good can you do this practice.
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It's more about this concept that gentle awareness is what guides energy.
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Not hyper focus, not like busting butt,
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it's gentle awareness that creates pathways for energy to flow.
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So one way of thinking about this in Qigong,
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I talk about the amount of energy you would use to hold a baby bird.
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That's the kind of gentle awareness you want to hold as you
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bring this energy up and flow it over yourself.
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It's almost like the more gentle you can be in your awareness here,
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the more that energy will flow. So try this practice out next time you're
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feeling good or next time you're just in a moment that you want to remember,
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you want to infuse into yourselves.
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Try this energy bathing practice and notice how you can refill yourself.
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Notice how you can feel nourished.
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The final practice I want to give to you today is something called a oracle
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walk. So I take oracle walks often.
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I recommend you take oracle walks in a natural place, if possible,
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or in a place where there are other beings, the more than human world.
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So you don't have to be in pristine nature,
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but walking through a park or walking through your neighborhood underneath the
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trees. And an oracle walk is when I use these,
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especially when I feel really overwhelmed,
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when there's a lot of energy and charge inside of myself and I almost feel like
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untouchable,
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almost like nothing can get through. When I have that kind of feeling of like
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literally like no nourishment is able to penetrate me right now, no perspective.
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I'm just like, I don't even know.
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I'm so overwhelmed and high energy and chaotic.
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The activation is so big that I just feel like the nourishment I need can't get
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through. This is when I'll do an oracle walk.
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And so these oracle walks are where you ask nature to
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come touch you. You're saying like, "Hey,
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I'm having a really hard time releasing this charge. Please come touch me.
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Please come reach out to me.
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" And so what you are doing with an oracle walk is you are setting an intention
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before you walk to ask the living world,
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to ask the wisdom that lives in the earth and the wider world to come touch you,
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to come reach you,
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to come reach you where you are so that you can start to move out of this state
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of freeze or fight,
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flight or fawn that you're in. And so it's really simple. Oracle walks,
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once you start walking, let go of whatever it is you're trying to process.
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Just let your mind be free, whatever wants to be there.
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But walk until you notice something calls to your attention.
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Just be aware of your environment. Look around.
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Look for the thing that feels like it's the message or the oracle,
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the answer to your need to release and be seen
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and connect to what's meaningful again.
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This is a practice of letting the natural world mirror a truth back to you.
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What you'll often find is that there's something on your walk,
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whether it's big or whether it's little, that ends up calling your attention in,
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that ends up really like providing this sense of relief or aha or just a sense
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of grounding.
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And this is a way to be in connection with nature,
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to be in communication with the more than human world,
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but it's also really, really helpful for our nervous system. And here's why,
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especially as a sensitive,
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we are used to tracking everything as I've mentioned before,
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including other people and their nervous systems.
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When we start doing things like an oracle walk where we're paying attention to
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the more than human world,
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we're shifting our tracker so that instead we're tracking nature.
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Instead, we're tracking bird song, we're tracking trees,
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we're tracking the wind. And this is so relieving for our nervous systems.
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This is the kind of subtlety that we were designed to really, really,
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really be attuned to.
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And it can really help downregulate our nervous systems to create a sense of
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more expansion and more possibility again,
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to soften and release the energy and the charge that has built up within us so
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that we can feel safe again in the world so that we can be open to the
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nourishment and the guidance that wants to come in. Here is a little bonus too.
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If you are on this oracle walk and you do feel a really big charge in your body,
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one thing that I love to do is to move my body in a way that
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helps me process this charge. So what do I mean by this?
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So here's an example.
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If I read something that day that just disgusts me that I just find absolutely
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repulsive while I'm walking,
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I might mime puking or just expulding it from my
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body or shaking it off. It's almost like water from my body.
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I might shake like I'm having something on my fingertips or shrugging off
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a coat that feels icky.
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Doing these movements actually really help us
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somatically to complete the energy or the charge.
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So often we have this charge inside of our body and our body wants to do
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something to complete that circuit. So whatever it is you're feeling charged by,
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ask yourself, what does your body want to do with that?
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Or if it was a situation that happened in the past that you're ruminating on or
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is bothering you in that moment, so what did your body want to do then?
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Did you want to run away? Did you want to push someone?
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Did you want to take your glove and slap someone across the face?
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Whatever it is. Do that motion with your body as you walk.
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Incorporate it into your walk.
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And this will be just like extra bonus round of releasing that charge from your
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body of completing that energy circuit and then opening yourself up again to
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hear that quiet,
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nourishing guidance inside of yourself to access once again,
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your own life force, your own directionality and your own inner knowing.
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So I hope that these five exercises are helpful. If you do these exercises,
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I'd love to hear from you. How do they work for you?
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Which one was your favorite?
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You can leave me a comment if you're listening somewhere where there are
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comments available or leave me a voice note over on my website,
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asiasuler.com/remember. I love hearing your voices.
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I love hearing stories from your day,
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and I would love to hear how these land with you because at the end of the day,
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being here on this planet as a sensitive, it's not just about surviving.
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It's about knowing how to thrive, how to be nourished by our own energy,
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how to be in our creative, passionate flow,
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how to love in the way we want to love in this world,
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to be nourished by the way in which we love and the way in which we want to give
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love,
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to be transmuters of energy on this planet. As I said
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before, highly sensitive people, we were designed to help humanity survive,
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to help the heart of humanity not only survive, but thrive.
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And so you are this powerfully attuned instrument of
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change and powerful instruments often need
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extra care. It's just how it goes.
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So I recently decided to start trying to learn violin.
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I have wanted to play violin since I was such a little girl and a friend of
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mine gifted me a violin years ago and it has just been sitting in its case
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and I've been too overwhelmed to start, but I finally sensed this energy,
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this space, this capacity myself this year.
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So I got the violin out and I'm just learning very, very basics with it.
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And I realized once I got this violin out that it has been sitting in storage
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for over 10 years and that violin needs some TLC, I realized, oh,
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I need to take this violin into the shop. It needs new strings.
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It needs just like extra care because it's such an exquisite
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instrument.
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Exquisite instruments need extra care and then they can
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produce exquisite creations.
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You are an exquisite instrument.
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You are deserving of this level of care because what you can
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create, what you can emanate into this world is life changing.
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It is world shifting. It is incredibly, incredibly healing.
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In the times to come, as we continue to move through these big changes,
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we are going to need the artists, the healers, the seers, and yes,
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the sensitives because the bigness of this time,
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it is going to continue to unfurl.
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It's not about waiting for the bigness to end.
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It's about accessing the center of ourselves in a way
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where we can meet the bigness and we can actually see ourselves unfold
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in response to this invitational bigness in the world where we can actually
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feel more of ourselves. We can access more of ourselves.
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We can access more of our creativity, our energy, our potential,
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and the healing that we are meant to bring to this world.
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So if this is resonating with you,
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if you are ready to truly thrive on this planet as a
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sensitive, I would love to journey with you in Earth Angel School.
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We are getting ready to get started next week.
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The group that has gathered already is incredible.
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This community just absolutely blows me away.
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If you are someone that wants to learn how to work with your sensitivity
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to unlock the gifts you came into this world carrying,
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if you want to create a life that actually supports your nervous system,
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if you want to make clear decisions,
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know which way to go with guidance from your deepest self and be able to connect
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to your widest knowing. If you want to be able to set boundaries with ease,
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the boundaries that you need to thrive and discover the role that you came here
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to play on this planet,
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come join me. This is a intimate 12-week program.
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It is by far the most personal thing I do,
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I offer in the world. We gather for weekly classes together,
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discussion groups.
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I get to hear about you and your heart and you get to receive what you need
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to feel truly in your power in this world to understand who you are,
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why you're here and the gifts you have to bring.
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It's amazing what can happen on the other side of learning these practices,
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these tools and these reframes. So as one of our students, Laura said,
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"I feel so much lighter now in my soul, more peaceful, stronger, and confident.
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I also feel excited about my future like I haven't for a very long
42:15
time. I was unsure about the cost at first,
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but I can honestly say it was worth it. This class absolutely changed me.
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" So if you're feeling the call, if it feels like it's your time,
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I would love to have you in the program. We only open enrollment once a year and
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enrollment is closing next week on April 15th.
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So know that who you are is important.
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Your sensitivity is a gift.
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It is here to help this heart of humanity survive,
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and it begins with you being willing to tend to the gorgeous
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exquisite being that you are, this being that is capable of so much creativity,
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so much healing, so much potential, and so much resonance in this world.
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Your energy is what shifts this world.
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Your energy is deserving of safeguarding.
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It's deserving of sanctuary.
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So as we move into this world and more and more things
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unfurl or present themselves to you,
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may you remember that there is a center inside of yourself that is untouchable.
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May you remember that you are important to the unfolding of this world.
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May you remember that the way in which you care for your energy and you
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resource again in your own creativity is an essential nourishment to this
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world and may you remember that most important thing of all,
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why you're here.