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The Subtle Doors are the Ones that Open · Remember Why You Are Here

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If we want deep change in our life,
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oftentimes it is not about yanking the big doors open,
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but it's about seeing where the door has been hidden in the wall of our life
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this whole time.
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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 to yourself and remember that most important thing of all,
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why you're here. I'm Asia Suler, author,
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earth intuitive. And in this episode,
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I'm excited to drop into a topic that's near and dear to my heart.
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And the title of this episode is one that has actually been sitting now in my
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brain and my spirit for months.
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And that title is The Subtle Doors Are the Ones That Open.
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In this podcast today, we're going to explore why that is,
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why it is that subtlety will be the thing that opens up the new era in our
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life. Why when something isn't healing instead of trying harder,
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we need to go for that subtle approach.
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We need to soften our approach and why this ability to tune
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into the subtle,
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how this ability to tune into the subtle is the very thing that opens our
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perception of the Otherworld, opens our perception and new possibilities,
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and also allows us to attune to the visions that are
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awaiting us in this life, the visions we're here to fulfill.
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I've been really profoundly moved by the way in which
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my intuitive reading for this month about this month being one of seership has
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been unfolding so far, the ways in which we're seeing our own patterns,
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seeing the patterns at play in the world, and then through that seeing,
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really opening up to new visions in our life and opening up to the kind of
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seership that really nourishes our spirit.
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It's been really wonderful to connect with those who've decided to step
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into my Substack, Remember Why You're Here, same name as the podcast,
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and those who've decided to become paid subscribers.
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So this month I released a video class called Be Your Own Seer that is
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specifically a guide to help you release any of the blocks and
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obstacles in the way of your ability to see for yourself,
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to understand what is the language through which spirit and your own wider self
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and your guides communicate with you.
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And then I guided folks in the class to receive a vision for the next few months
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because I just really have this feeling like a lot is going to be moving,
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shifting, transforming, coming into focus in the next few months.
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So that's been really rich to sit with folks in that class.
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And if you're interested in that class as well as all my other paid content,
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I release about two posts a month, meditations, classes,
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behind the scene looks at my books,
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follow-ups on the monthly intuitive readings,
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then I would absolutely love to see you there, your support.
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It's really making a lot possible in my world and in this podcast and in all my
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sharings. So would absolutely love to see you there. If it is resonant for you,
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I'll put the link here in the show notes. So with that,
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let's continue on in this theme of really
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being our own seers. And what does that mean to be able to
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peer into the world around you and receive the kind of healing and messages and
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openings that you need? So the title for this podcast, like I said before,
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it came in months ago and it really was like
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a healing download for me in the process that I was in at the time.
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And I realized that this pretty much sums up a lot of the healing work
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really I've done my whole life,
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but especially that I've been super focused on in the last five, six years.
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And it's one that I think us as sensitives really in particular need to hear.
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So we are entering this time right now where the veil is thin.
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I talked about this in a podcast a couple weeks ago.
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We're really in the deep of that time now. We're tipping into Scorpio season.
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We're entering into that Halloween, Samhain, Day of the Dead portal.
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It's a time where that veil between the worlds naturally begins to thin and
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we can start to receive more information from the other side,
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from the spirit world, from that world that we often call the subtle realm.
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And so how do we receive these messages?
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How do we connect to the guidance and the visions that are here to
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help us in life? The easiest way to do this,
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the most direct way to do this is to learn how to attune to the subtle.
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This is one of these things on this planet that I find really fascinating.
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And if you're a sensitive person like me, we were actually built to do this.
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But the reality is if we want deep change in our life,
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oftentimes it is not about yanking the big doors open,
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but it's about seeing where the door has been hidden in the wall of our life
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this whole time. Have you ever experienced this?
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It's like you have a pattern or a program or something in your life you deeply
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want to move and shift.
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And it just seems like even when you gather all your energy to yank the door
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open,
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it still doesn't quite heal or doesn't quite move or you're not
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quite clear.
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That's often because what we want is this obvious answer and this obvious
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shift and this obvious change.
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And yet what we're being asked to do is notice that that hidden door
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has been there all along. It's just about attuning our subtlety,
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our ability to see subtlety to that kind of perception.
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And so it's one of these things that came to me in the midst of my healing
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journey. If I'm stuck at an impasse, if I cannot move forward,
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if I do not know what to do next,
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I need to stop making overtures and I need to ask myself,
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what is the subtler approach?
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So here's an example, a little bit of a funny example for my own life right now.
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My daughter is going through a phase right now where lots of sensory stuff is up
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and no socks will do. No socks are the good socks.
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And there's many ways I could go about this.
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We've definitely bought different kinds of socks for her to try.
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We try different methods to get the socks on, socks in the house,
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socks in the car, socks right when you get to school. I mean, you name it.
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And it's one of those things where
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kind of in the beginning of this journey with the socks,
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which has been a journey for a long time, let's be real, but this time,
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this season is just the volume got turned up.
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I could be a cheerleader for the socks. I could be like,
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"These socks are so cute. Look at the rainbows, blah, blah,
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blah." I could kind of get big in my pronouncements like,
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"If you don't get the socks on,
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then we won't be able to leave the house and then we won't go do the fun thing,
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blah, blah, blah," all the things.
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But what I have found works the best at helping her to get her socks on
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is simply just bringing over the socks with as much subtlety and neutrality as
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possible, just going, "Here's some socks,
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give them a try." And it's this subtle approach where I am
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not charged, where I am not attached,
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that tends to be the moment where she actually puts her socks on.
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And let's be real,
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she wants to put socks on because she wants to be able to put shoes on and she
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wants to go out and do things in the world.
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And it just is such a reminder to me that when we have these things,
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and this is a silly example,
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though it is an example that does affect my life on a daily basis,
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but it's one of those examples where we see that often when we
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get in that place where something is not working,
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what we want to do is we want to hit it harder.
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We want to figure it out, excavate, get that door open.
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But what if the next great opening in your life doesn't come from trying harder
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and it's not about pushing further or demanding a breakthrough?
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What if it's really about learning what to notice,
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learning how to notice what is already here,
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how to notice and go into even more subtlety in your life?
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And this is something that I know through having studied somatic healing that
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the biggest shifts happen in small increments, the 5% shift.
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Can I notice 5% more in my body today than yesterday?
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Can I take a breath that's 5% deeper?
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And I was always so struck by this,
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that it's these subtle shifts that are the ones that stick.
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And oftentimes what's happening in our body when a healing is not taking place,
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when we're not receiving the vision that we've dearly been asking before,
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it's because we're putting too much stress, intensity and pressure on ourselves.
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We're trying to go too big.
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But we know too that a subtle shift can turn a whole ship.
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And that is exactly what we're asking for and what we're attuning to when we
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sink into this phrase, the subtle doors are the ones that open.
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Because oftentimes we try our hardest to open that big heavy castle door
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and it feels like we should be able to open the big heavy castle door.
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If what we're dealing with is that heavy and that hard,
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we should be able to open that door and it doesn't open and we start to feel
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helpless. Meanwhile,
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there's a hidden door right there in the castle wall and all we need to do is
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run our finger along it and it starts to open,
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but we need to be able to tune our perception to start noticing more and
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more subtlety. After all, as I said at the beginning of this podcast,
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this term the subtle world is a synonym for this term
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for the spirit world, for the hidden world, for the mystical world.
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And this is often how we attune to spiritual messages and
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wisdom.
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It's often how we attune to the kind of healing that is awaiting us in the
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Otherworld. All the seeds for our personal healing,
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they already live in the Otherworld.
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And it's often just about being able to attune to that wisdom
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that already is there for us in the world right alongside this one,
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in the spirit world, the world of the hidden, the world of the subtle.
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And we do that through embracing subtle information and
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embracing subtle perceptions. For most people,
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how we receive visions and awarenesses and intuitive information,
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it will not hit us over the head. For most people,
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it's going to be the subtle vision.
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The one you had that was in your mind when you first woke up this morning,
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it's going to be the song lyric. It's going to be the title,
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like the subtle doors are the ones that open that just seem to float in and sit
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with you and are working on you and seem to be carrying something.
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It's attuning to the subtle feelings inside of your body.
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And how did you feel when you walked into that room?
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How did you feel when you opened your computer and you started to work on that?
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How did you feel after you had that conversation with that person?
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I think as sensitive people, many of us are often just surviving our days,
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which makes sense. There's a lot to survive in this world.
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But what ends up happening with that is that we don't give ourselves
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or our lives are not set up in a way where we have the time and the space to
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attune to subtlety. We are literally just trying to get by and it makes sense.
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When you are in fight or flight, when you are overwhelmed,
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it's going to be really hard to hear that subtlety.
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And yet I think this is what so many of our sensitive bodies are asking of us
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because here's the deal. As a sensitive, you were born to attune to subtlety.
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That's literally what the instrument of your body was created to do was attune
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to subtlety, attuned to subtlety in the shifts of the light,
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the shifts of someone's emotions or moods,
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the micro expressions on someone's face,
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the shift in the emotional body of the herd,
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the animal that you're with, the family group that you're a part of.
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All of these things are things that we as sensitives were designed to be attuned
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to. And what I have found is when as sensitives,
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we don't have the time and the space to attune to subtlety,
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things start going haywire.
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I often say that I have a very loud body in
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terms of what it communicates.
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And the moment I step off my own path of authenticity,
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the moment I overload my plate with too much,
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I develop a whole variety of very colorful ailments.
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My body is creative with the kind of ailments that can come up for me in my
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life.
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And one of the things that I have learned in a hard one kind of way
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over these years,
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now we're going on 20 years of different iterations of chronic health
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issues, chronic illness, chronic pain,
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is that when I don't have the space and time to attune to subtlety in my life
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for whatever reason, maybe I'm overbooking myself,
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maybe I'm going through a major passage,
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maybe there are things that are completely out of my control,
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but when I don't have that time to attune to subtlety,
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I start getting out of attunement with my own self.
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I start getting out of alignment with my own self.
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And so what I have found is that when I
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even just give myself five minutes to attune to subtlety within my body,
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what am I actually feeling right now? Where do I feel it? What is that feeling?
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What is that feeling? How is it striking me? What is its temperature?
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What is its texture? What is its weight?
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All of these things, when I give myself five minutes,
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what does it feel like to stand outside to feel the sun on my skin right now?
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It helps me recalibrate in a way really nothing else does.
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And it's this ability to tune to subtlety,
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including subtlety inside of our own selves that opens up the portal of our
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awareness and our innate intuitive capacity as sensitives.
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So I have set back into doing intuitive readings this fall and I have
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found in my readings that it's often these most subtle hints that I get.
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It's just like, I don't know, those float into my brain.
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Something about a certain time period or something about
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someone's presence in this person's life, it'll be subtle, it'll be neutral,
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it'll be calm,
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and I will often want to ignore it at first because it's so subtle.
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And every time I say yes to those subtle hits and I share them with someone,
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that is always the thing that ends up being kind of the gem
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of the whole reading.
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And so I've learned over time and now through this fall of stepping back
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into intuitive readings to be even more attuned to subtlety,
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to prize the subtle over the obvious in whatever it is that I'm receiving.
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And I often find that these subtle downloads provide the biggest insights.
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Our spirits will also communicate to us in a subtle way.
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So as I said, our intuitions often come in in subtle tones,
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especially at first. In the beginning, it'll be very subtle.
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And what I have often found is that if I can attune to subtlety,
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if I can pay attention,
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the moment that my heart starts beating a little bit faster or the moment that I
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feel my pelvic floor start to tense up,
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if I can pay attention to that,
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if I can slow down and listen and breathe into it,
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I can often avoid whatever it is, a pain flare.
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I can avoid a larger falling apart in my life in one way, shape or form.
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I have seen this happen over and over and over again in my existence.
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The subtle messages come in first and when we
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either ignore them because I want to say that,
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but that's unkind because sometimes it's not like we're ignoring them,
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we're desperate.
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It's just that we are stuck in places in our life in which we're overwhelmed,
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we're overbooked, all the things, and there's always a doorway.
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There is always a subtle doorway, no matter how overwhelming life is.
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There is a crack in the wall that is actually a door that once you
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touch it, it begins to crack open. And so for me,
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a lot of this does come back to attuning to subtlety within my own body.
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And this is why this is so essential for my fellow sensitives
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because what ends up happening with a lot of us in our gifts is that we attune
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to the outside world.
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We attune to especially other people's emotions,
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the weather of what's going on in our family,
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the social gathering that we're a part of,
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what's happening at work with all our coworkers,
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what's going on with our children. These are important skills.
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It's a beautiful skill to have.
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And yet what often ends up happening is that we've over attuned to the outside
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world and under attuned to what's going on within us.
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And we have a lot going on inside of us. That's on purpose.
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We are incredibly intuitive because we are such deep feelers,
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because we are so sensitive,
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but we need to have the inner permission to attune
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to what is going on within us. Information is always coming in.
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It's just that often it is subtle, especially at first.
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And so this is how our spirit is communicating with us.
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This is how our body is communicating with us.
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And if you want that new door to open into your life, ask yourself,
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how can I attune to the subtle? So
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this is something that really sits at the center of my heart and of my life
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experience. As I mentioned before,
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I have dealt with chronic pain on and off again in my life now for over a
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decade. And it's something with this iteration of chronic pain.
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I had a pain condition from my early 20s, come back when I got pregnant.
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And as you can imagine,
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it's kind of the nightmare pretty much to have something that you thought you
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healed come back completely and just be fully back in it,
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fully and completely back in it and be like,
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am I just back at square one once again?
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And because this pain condition is something that I have taught about
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extensively before, worked with immensely, I thought, okay,
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I'm just going to go right at it with all my tools and it didn't work.
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Why didn't it work?
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Why didn't it work for me to go back into what is
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chronic pelvic floor pain diagnosis vulvodynia,
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to go back into this with
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the sledgehammer of all my tools?
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It's a question I asked myself for years after it persisted after birth,
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after postpartum. And the answer,
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I think a huge answer was the fact that
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I did not have the space in my life to attune to the subtlety, to realize
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that what my body was asking of me was not to go to another PT,
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to sign up for another course,
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to do another huge overhaul or big ceremony.
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My body was asking me to slow down and just attune to what is here.
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Noticing the moment the tension got a little bit more and just breathing into
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it.
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Noticing when I had an emotion come up that made me want to just grab for my
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phone and zone out or get up and start cleaning the house manically,
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what is arising? What am I actually being asked to feel here?
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And so this has been a major, very humbling learning lesson for me.
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I was being asked to reconnect to my ability to attune to subtlety,
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beginning with my ability to attune to myself,
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the subtlety within me. As I mentioned before, so often as sensitives,
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we learn how to smooth over our own emotions,
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our own intricacies, our own complications, our own feelings.
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And so we stop remembering that we are subtle beings as well.
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And the amount of finesse and attention and time and love and energy
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and presence that we're bringing to the outer world is the same amount of
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presence we need to bring into our bodies.
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And one thing that was really interesting for me in healing in this iteration of
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chronic pain was that even when I went to go see these PTs who worked
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directly with my pelvic floor, I mean, I probably saw five different PTs.
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It never stuck and it never worked.
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And it wasn't until I started working with someone who helped me see my entire
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body through this lens of subtlety like, huh,
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do you notice the moment that instead of activating your core,
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you're tightening the muscles in your neck? Interesting. Let's be with that.
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Let's be with that subtlety. Can you notice the moment that shifts?
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We're not even trying to change it.
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We're just trying to notice the moment that that shifts.
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And I started to realize that there was a whole complex world
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of subtle messages inside of myself that I had been missing.
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And I have a lot of compassion for myself with this because life is hard
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sometimes. You have big major changes in your life.
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You're just trying to survive and it makes sense in those moments that we might
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not be able to tune to subtlety.
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But why it feels important to say this is because sometimes we can get into
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moments and times in our life where we feel like there's no hope,
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where we have tried the biggest things possible and it has not shifted,
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so it must not be shiftable.
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And yet oftentimes it's because it's the subtle doors that are the ones
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that will open. It reminds me too of,
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I used to, when I was younger, always say to people,
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I like deep tissue massage. I want to get in deep.
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I really want you to release that. And I was always told by people,
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you have a high pain threshold and you can really take a lot of pain.
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So I thought, okay, this is what you do.
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You really get in there and then it really releases.
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And it was really not until I got a little older that I realized
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those kinds of massages are too intense for me.
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Even if it is letting go of my muscles, is it releasing the pattern?
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Is it releasing the pattern of the stress in my body? No.
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And I realized actually the kind of massage that I used to poo-poo,
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things with long strokes like lomi-lomi or Esalen massage that I was
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like, you're barely touching me.
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It's like you're not getting into my muscles at all. This isn't relaxing.
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I realized that that actually is what I need. I need the subtle touch.
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I need the long connective strokes.
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I need that time and space to attune to what is going on inside of me.
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I think this is why I have always loved subtle medicines,
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things like flower essences and energetic healing because over and
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over and over again,
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I've seen in my life that the big massive overtures that I have taken,
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that they don't work and they don't land unless I am attuned to the
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subtlety. And it's those subtle doors,
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the ones that crack open that even when we do need to make the big change or
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undergo the big treatment,
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if we are in contact with the subtlety while we are doing that,
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that is the thing that will really open the gateway of our spirit,
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that will really open the gateway so that this could be a healing on all levels,
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on a physical level, on a spiritual level,
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because the subtle doors are the ones that open. So in my experience,
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the more you can work on the subtle level,
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how subtle can you get?
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Can you notice the moment your breath shifts?
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Can you notice the moment your energy drops?
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Can you notice the moment that a muscle
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tightens or the moment that this subtle sense of opening
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is coming in or that subtle yes inside of your body,
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the more you can attune to subtlety,
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the more the subtle world and its levels of healing will open to you.
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And this is really how we access that healing of the spiritual realm.
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And when we access healing on a spiritual realm,
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that ripples out into healing into every other realm of existence.
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So how do we do this? How do we attune to the subtlety? Well,
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if you are sensitive, you know how to do this.
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It's really just about turning the lamp of your attention inwards instead of
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always having it be focused outwards. And this will require some practice.
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And that's part of the deal is when we attune to subtlety,
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the changes are subtle over time as well.
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This is what I always used to say about flower essences. The changes are subtle,
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but when they're made, they're solid. When the changes are subtle,
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but when they really land, it's like they become set in stone.
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They become something that is so a part of the fabric of our life that we forget
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what it was even like before. So the very first thing I will say,
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if you are someone who wants to attune to more subtlety,
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more messages from the spirit realm,
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more potential of healing inside of your own life,
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especially with the things that feel immovable,
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the first thing to do is to turn the volume down in any way you can.
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We are all going through at certain times in our life survival period.
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So take this advice and apply it to where you are
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at in your life right now, but in any way you can turn the volume down,
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whether that's having quiet time in the dark before you go to sleep at night,
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whether it's taking half an hour to go walk outside in the middle of your day,
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whether it's sitting in the car before immediately walking into the next thing,
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walking into the grocery store, going to pick up your child,
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can you turn the volume down a little bit?
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Can you wear earplugs if you need to for part of your day? Can you wear glasses?
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Sunglasses. Any way in which we're turning the volume down,
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we're turning the volume down on the sheer overwhelm of stimulation that we're
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receiving, which is a lot,
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especially in our modern world with all the screens and all the devices.
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It's a lot. It's not subtle. None of that is subtle. It's very overwhelming.
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So any way in which we can turn the volume down will automatically bring those
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subtle messages out.
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It feels like no mistake to me that the biggest insights I've had in my life
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come when I am either on vacation or
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retreat or I've decided to turn my phone off for 24 hours
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or I'm on a walk for half an hour in the woods.
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It's always in those times when those subtle messages come in.
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So in any way you can, wherever you are in your life, turn down the volume,
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let the intensity dial down in whatever ways you have control over because
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there's a lot of things we don't have control over,
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but lessening the intensity of some of the inputs in your life so that you can
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start to notice what is going on inside of me?
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How can I be more open to the tiny shifts of subtlety
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within me?
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And give yourself grace with this because we live in an overstimulating world
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and all these things take time and they take practice.
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Also, trusting your hunches.
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So when you do get a subtle hit about something, take a subtle step,
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see how it works out. Oftentimes if I get a subtle hit and I take a subtle step,
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I will feel subtly better.
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And that is really the best we could ask for because that's what true healing
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looks like, subtly feeling better and better and better.
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Subtly getting more and more access to your capacity,
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subtly feeling more and more alive.
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That is really what we're going for with healing.
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I also wanted to guide you through a quick little exercise here.
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If you have the space and time to help you really feel and attune to subtlety,
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and this is something you can keep tuning into for yourself as you
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maybe even repeat this mantra in your life,
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the subtle doors are the ones that open and you really set a prayer in your
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heart of like, show me the subtle answers.
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I want the subtle answers because the subtle answers are the ones that will make
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the question dissolve eventually with time.
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So part of becoming a seer is to become an expert in reading your own
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subtlety. Oftentimes I have a lot of people ask me,
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how do I know that something is like intuition or a message versus anxiety?
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And some of this is practice,
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but once you start to get clear on the packages that they arrive
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in, it can become pretty obvious.
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Anxiety will be urgent. It'll often have judgment with it.
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It'll feel the sensation side of my body will be one of constriction,
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one of heaviness, one of pressure.
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It often comes in with either a past or future orientation,
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something like in the past,
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like we don't want that to happen again or the future.
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We better watch out because we don't want this to happen versus
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intuition is very present focused. It's very neutral.
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Intuition in some ways doesn't even really care whether you follow it or not.
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It's just like, here's the advice,
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here's the subtle offering. When I tune into my body,
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I tend to feel more expansive, more open. There's no judgment.
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There's no sense of I have to do this. If I don't do this,
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then who knows where I'm going to be or how I'll turn out.
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Instead, it'll more so have this feeling of, why not?
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Give it a try. Let's see what happens. I'm curious.
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So the way in which these two bits of information will come in will
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come in differently.
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And yet what I often find is the more we can attune to the
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subtlety within our own body,
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the less anxiety's going to need to get our attention.
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The less overwhelming our anxiety will be. And sometimes this is, for me,
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just a practice of attuning to what is there and the anxiety or the worry
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or the alarm. And once I start attuning to that,
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it's like my body can start to let go of these overwhelming messages of,
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oh my gosh, we're overwhelmed. Do something, do something and be like, oh, okay,
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Asia's actually paying attention to us.
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And so now we can get into these more subtle levels or layers of how we're
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actually feeling. So here's the exercise we're going to do.
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This is going to be a gentle somatic tracking exercise so that you can feel a
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yes in your body.
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And this is really just practice for you attuning to subtlety.
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The feeling of understanding what your yes is will come more and more over time.
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Maybe you're already very attuned to this,
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but it's always a great exercise to just turn our attention to
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what is a yes inside of me.
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So the goal here once again is just to be attuned to what's subtly happening
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inside of you. So to begin with,
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I invite you to choose something you know you want to do.
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So it could be something like, oh,
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I'm so excited to get in my bed tonight and snuggle with my comfy socks on or
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I want to go out and feel the sun on my face in the garden.
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Or it could be a vision you really want to fulfill this season.
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Talking about the visions that are unfurling for us this autumn,
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a lot of them feel big. I know a lot of you are really in process with things,
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but if you do choose a bigger vision,
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just choose something that maybe you don't feel a ton of stress or pressure
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around, you just feel excitement around. Okay.
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So once you have that thing that you know is a yes inside of your body,
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like you know is a yes for you without thinking too much about it,
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without overthinking it, now just imagine yourself doing that thing,
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that thing that's just kind of undeniably something you want to do. So for me,
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it's getting into bed tonight.
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Super excited to snuggle into my cozy fall bed. And then just notice now,
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literally even imagine turning the lamp of your attention inwards and just start
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to notice the subtlety within your body.
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Notice any sensations are here.
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Maybe what first draws your attention.
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Is there an area of your body that it's first drawing your attention in?
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Just letting your awareness go there with curiosity
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and noticing what's here.
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If you had to describe the sensation,
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what would you say? What is its temperature?
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Is there a texture?
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What is its weight?
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How is it moving?
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And as you breathe into it,
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just see if this sensation moves or shifts in any way just as you're breathing
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and as you continue to imagine yourself doing this thing that you really want to
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do.
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And this sensation might be really subtle and that's wonderful.
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If it's really subtle, attune to what's really subtle about it.
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And through this attuning right now,
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just come up with a phrase or a few words that you can use to describe this to
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yourself. If you're in a space to do so,
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you could even say this out loud or jot it down on a note in your phone or a pad
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of paper.
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And know that this is one way in which your subtle body communicates
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a yes. Yes, that's something I want to do. Yes,
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that's something that feels really good. Yes, yes, yes.
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Okay. Now we've had our yes. Now let's attune to the opposite.
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Let's try a no. So let's do the opposite
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of whatever it is you knew you wanted to do. So for me, that's like, okay,
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instead I'm going to deep clean the kitchen.
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Instead of getting in bed and resting tonight before sleep,
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I'm going to deep clean the kitchen. Okay?
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So choose whatever's your version of deep cleaning the kitchen,
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the opposite in a lighthearted way,
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the opposite of whatever this vision was.
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See yourself doing it. Picture that in your mind's eye. Use your senses.
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What would it feel like to be in that scenario?
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What would you hear? What would you smell?
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And now go ahead and tune into your body once again. Again,
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the subtlety of what's here and just notice what's different.
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You might go to that same location in your body or you might go somewhere else.
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Once again, noticing the sensation, the temperature,
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the weight, the texture,
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any movement here.
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Noticing what a no feels like in your body.
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And then coming up with a few descriptor words for that for yourself,
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maybe saying it out loud or again, jotting it down. For me,
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I felt this heavy constriction around my heart.
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It felt like just like metal doors kind of falling in on each other.
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That's my body being like, "I don't want to do that.
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That's not what I want to do." My spirit being like, "No, Asia,
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no." So go ahead and shake that off. Once again,
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place the image of the thing you really want to do and the thing your spirit is
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saying, "Yes, this is a door that will open for us. Yes,
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this is a door that is open to us.
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Just place that back in the center of your heart,
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in the center of your body." And just know that you got a little bit closer
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right now to attuning to what is a yes and no inside your body.
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And then you can start to feel that throughout your day.
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Do I want to work on my newsletter first or do I want to call my friend back?
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What's the yes? What's the no?
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Attuning to the subtlety of what we are feeling in the moment because it's the
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subtle doors that are the ones that will open.
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And I promise you, the more you attune to subtlety in your life,
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the more your life will open.
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I often find for myself that one of the biggest impediments to me attuning to
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subtlety is my own patterns of urgency,
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my own patterns of feeling like I need to do this thing, I need to get it done.
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It needs to be fast,
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otherwise people are going to be upset or someone's going to be unhappy with me
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or everything's going to fall apart.
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And it's good to notice when those patterns come up and the way in which they
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push you and the way in which that urgency is actually taking you out of this
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moment of just noticing subtly what's here.
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You can notice subtly tracking what's going on inside your body,
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noticing where your clothes meets your body,
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maybe where parts of your body meet the floor or meet the surface beneath you.
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If you are listening to this right now and want to just look
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around, notice what's here.
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What are the colors in your room or outside your window?
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How do your hands feel with whatever it is your hands are doing right now?
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Notice that when you have the space and the time to attune to subtlety in your
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life, all these answers start to arrive.
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Notice that when you gift yourself
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the space and the capacity to
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really turn your awareness towards what your sensitivity was designed for,
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to see and relish in the seeing of the subtle,
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that all these doors we thought were hidden from us begin to open in
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our life.
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So as you move into this season of seeing and this season of
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downloading this vision of healing for your life and your future and
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your own aliveness,
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may this awareness of the subtle continue to open doors for you.
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And as you attune to this,
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I guarantee you more and more of the subtle world will come to support you.
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You'll be able to see the ways in which you are supported in the subtle
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existence,
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in the subtlety of all the benevolence that is surrounding you.
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And if you are interested in going deeper into these kinds of
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practices, this somatic practice,
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I do a longer version of this in Be Your Own Seer,
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as well as doing some work to unblock some of the ways in which fear has
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kind of placed obstacles at times in our ability to see and our
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ability to attune within and then to download this wider vision for the
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future, for the fall ahead, for the vision that is calling you forth.
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I would absolutely love to see you over in that class on my Substack.
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And no matter what you're being called towards right now,
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no matter what is feeling like the right path for you, just ask yourself,
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what is one small hint you've been getting in your life? I'm serious.
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It could be tiny, a tiny little hint.
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This is how my healing path has opened again and again and again.
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It's not the overtures. It's like the little hint of like, huh,
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I think that I should go see that person next. I don't know why,
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but that just seems like the right person.
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Or I think it's time for me to finally watch that video I saved over on YouTube
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or read that book or start taking that medicine.
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Ask yourself, what is one subtle hint you've been getting in your life?
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Maybe it'll come to you immediately as I'm speaking these words,
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and can you follow it? Can you follow that subtle hint? Can you
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go into it like it's a curious adventure to see where it will take you to know
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that
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truly why we're here in so many ways is to attune to the
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great subtlety,
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the great privilege and subtlety of having a body,
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of being in this sensitive body, on this sensitive planet,
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and that there's liberation and subtlety. There is beauty,
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there is liberation, and there is healing as well.
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So big blessings for whatever it is you are
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moving through this autumn,
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whatever it is you're seeing and through seeing how that seeing is shifting your
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life. I feel like we are all doing deep, deep work right now.
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And I think we all need to be reminded as we are moving through a lot of these
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deep tides that doors continue to open, the doors are never shut.
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Even when it seems as if a big bar has been placed in our way,
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there's still that hidden door in the wall of the castle and the subtle doors
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are the ones that will always, always open.
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So I'm sending you so much love for the rest of this month and the rest of your
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season ahead. And as this time unfurls,
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as you find those doors and the walls of whatever castle you're within,
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may it bring healing, may it bring possibility,
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and may it bring you that thing that is perhaps the most healing thing of all,
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remembering why you're here.