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Season 3 - Ep. 1 - I'm back! Welcome back episode "Soul to Earth" podcast. "Why it's hard to connect with your Spirit Guides ?" · The Liminal Lounge Mediums

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  SPEAKER_00: Soul to Earth podcast is back after an 18-month hiatus.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm really looking forward to sharing with all of you what's been going on to dive into what is coming next.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're new to my channel or the podcast, my name is Carrie Coss.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a psychic medium and Akashic Records reader, a mentor.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's get into the episode today.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a reintroduction episode to the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of you know me from my YouTube channel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you've seen me on social media, but not all of you have known me from my podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I actually started this podcast four years ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I started this podcast, I was new to really sharing my journey publicly in the way that I am now, certainly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so much has happened between when I started the podcast and now.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to be uploading all of my episodes over time.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think there's about 24 of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they started with me explaining my own journey as an intuitive and what happened to me when I had my awakening at the age of 19, growing up in the Bay Area in Berkeley, California, and being fortunate enough to be able to go to a clairvoyant training program to develop my abilities.
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  SPEAKER_00: So be sure to check those out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I'm going to tell you what we're going to be doing going forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've thought a lot about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for me to commit to something, I want to do it wholeheartedly, which is what I do with everything else when I am teaching, when I'm working with clients, and anything that I do on a workshop level, I always am very good at following through.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I wanted to make sure that the podcast was going to really work.
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  SPEAKER_00: One thing though is I really encourage you, if you like what you're hearing or excited to know more, be sure to comment and also be sure to engage with the actual podcast itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: So wherever you're listening to me, whether that be on Spotify or Apple Music, Amazon Music, or anywhere else, please be sure to like the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be sure to share and comment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I would also really like to know what you're interested in knowing more about.
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  SPEAKER_00: What are some of the things I'm going to be covering?
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  SPEAKER_00: I am going to be covering working with your intuitive abilities, helping you to be able to recognize, understand, develop, and open up your psychic abilities.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psychic abilities are something that everyone has.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I like to bring them into our everyday lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: And some of you are also becoming psychic mediums yourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that is certainly also going to be part of the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm also going to be talking a lot about working with spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, spirit for me encompasses working with the divine, working with your spirit guides, your ancestors, working with different entities that you align with that could be deities, goddesses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of these things I am certainly not an expert in, but I have a high level of curiosity, and I'm going to be bringing on people that I know are going to be able to give you a lot of information and feed your curiosity as far as guest mentors.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have some amazing ones lined up.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're also going to be talking about divination.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a huge passion of mine, working with tarot, oracle cards, runes, and even Le Normand.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I will be trying out new things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I'm not an expert in all of these, understanding that this is just something I am really excited about myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I love to go down and explore the roots of the different divination systems and how people use them in everyday life.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we're also going to talk about energy healing.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a big part of the work I do.
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  SPEAKER_00: My training started with learning to do energy readings, which means that I'm looking at someone's aura, their chakra system, and what might be blocking them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the readings I do are based in looking at the energy field.
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  SPEAKER_00: A big part of the work that I do now is based in the Akashic records.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're going to be talking a lot about working the Akashic Records, what they are, and how you can learn to also open up your own records and work within them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Finally, my level of expertise would be doing past life regression.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I tie all these things together and then also explore more.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have a lot to look forward to together, and I can't wait to get started.
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  SPEAKER_00: This episode today, in particular, though, is something that I've been processing with my spirit guides and then also in my online community and with my members.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is working with your spirit guides.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the main questions that I'm asked a lot is how do I work with my spirit guides?
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  SPEAKER_00: How do I know they're around me?
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  SPEAKER_00: How do I differentiate between my imagination and then being able to understand them?
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, a lot of people have had experiences which are really mixed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some people have had a lot of images or they've heard voices or they've seen things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe even in a meditation, they've experienced different results.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just depends.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that the more time you spend on your spiritual path and connecting with the spirit world, your relationship with them will develop over time.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's really something I think most intuitives and mediums I know work with their guides for an entire lifetime.
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  SPEAKER_00: So looking at it from that point of view, I think is really helpful.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the things that I know I struggled with, and then a lot of my students and clients struggle with, is discerning what is them and what's their spirit guides, and whether or not they feel like they're making it up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is certainly understandable because when you're starting to open up your intuition and work with your psychic abilities, your mind is trying to understand what is happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our minds want to be able to pull apart and understand and recognize what we're experiencing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's not always easy to move from the third-dimensional realm of the physical, the material, into the energetic, into the subtle realms.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one of the things that I think helped me a lot initially was just to really trust my firsthand experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not to spend as much time worrying about if I was doing it right.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then also being able to have a place where you can share your experience, I think, is really helpful.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's one of the reasons I created my community, The Sanctuary, is because there's so many people now that are developing their abilities, but they feel very alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one thing that makes growing spiritually difficult is when you're isolated and you second guess what your experience is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's very hard to validate something when it's happening just to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really believe that's what spirit meant for us anyway, was to be able to share this with each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we go back into the spirit world, we connect with all parts of our own soul family, but also we go back to the place where we began, which is that we are interconnected with all life and we are just separate.
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  SPEAKER_00: So being able to have something or somewhere where you can connect with other people where you feel comfortable and encouraged and you feel positivity, that's when you can really start trusting what you're receiving.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's my belief that before we come into these bodies, that we have spirits that we love and that we trust, which are known as our spirit guides, make a plan with us.
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  SPEAKER_00: A plan that looks something like this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, guys, it's my turn.
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  SPEAKER_00: I drew the straw.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to go into this body.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to be born on this date.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to live in this area of the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these are the things I'm going to be going through, the big life lessons.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in that, what do you say?
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  SPEAKER_00: Shall we work on this together?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's my belief that our guides agree to this.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have likely done this for them when they've incarnated in other lifetimes as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they really serve as your community members, as your team.
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  SPEAKER_00: There isn't a hierarchy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you incarnate, you're really doing this on your own, but with them as a support.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the more you spend time just talking to them out loud or in your mind or with journaling, where you acknowledge them and also let them know how you're doing, what you need, chatting with them about parts of your life, interacting.
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  SPEAKER_00: And part of I think what happens is that they're around our energy field.
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  SPEAKER_00: And our energy field receives signals, information, images, thoughts, feelings, vibrations, and we have information being transmitted to us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so when people start connecting more consciously with their guides, they might go into meditation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe they see an image of them, or possibly they hear them, or they get a feeling when they sense that they're around.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all of those things are part of what lets you know that your guides are near you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can ask them to do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can ask them to come in close, to overshadow your energy, to create the link, connect with you heart to heart, or even mental mind to mental mind in your third eye.
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  SPEAKER_00: And just notice what you get.
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  SPEAKER_00: The main thing when you're doing any kind of spirit work is you want to release expectation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Expectation is what shuts down and cuts off this connection of openness in our energy field.
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  SPEAKER_00: And really, I have a whole 10-day class, which is to meet your spirit guides, are short classes.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're about 10 minutes each.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in each of those, you go through an exercise where you open up your energy and connect with one guide at a time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in that, you just notice what you're receiving.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every time you do it, it's going to be something slightly different.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're really wanting to get more information about them, you can ask them, what is your name?
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  SPEAKER_00: And the main thing is when you hear a name internally, you want to trust what you're receiving with your main psychic abilities, which are through hearing, seeing, sensing, and knowing, and also through touch, all those points are part of how your spirit guides communicate with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one thing I've noticed, since this is something I'm reflecting on myself, my spirit guides are coming to me less and less in my mind's eye in a physical form.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I met my primary spirit guide, whose name is Gideon, and I had a solid image of what he looked like when I first started working with him and met him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's a big Scotsman and he was very playful, Joe feel, a lot like an older brother.
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  SPEAKER_00: I could make him out very distinctly.
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  SPEAKER_00: But over time, I noticed sometimes I didn't get an image of him, and sometimes I would only get a flickering of him.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, because I knew what he felt like and how I felt being around him, that for me was something that we call a calling card.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is how I knew it was him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And over the years, his image has actually changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Once I asked him, why do you look a little different?
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, Well, I've changed because you've changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that really got me thinking about how interconnected we are in the spirit world with our own guides.
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  SPEAKER_00: But also, our guides don't really have an image in the spirit world.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're simply using what in our imagination or memory would serve as something on a human level that would make us comfortable, that would make us feel as though it was more tangible and that they were more human.
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  SPEAKER_00: But really, they are probably genderless when they're in the spirit world.
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  SPEAKER_00: One thing to know, though, they come with love and they come with encouragement.
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  SPEAKER_00: And probably they have specific things that they really work on with you that they help you with.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it is a tradition, and this is something I learned from a friend of mine who studied with the spiritualist church, that there are four primary spirit guides.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is something that I've adopted and feel is accurate for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'll talk more about them at a later episode, but they all serve different purposes and they help us in a multitude of ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the primary thing is you don't want to get stuck on that because as you grow, they grow, and they might really move into other roles for you that change over time.
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  SPEAKER_00: The more you go on your spiritual path, the more things will change.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's because you're growing, you're ascending, you are moving forward on your evolutionary path.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that will also change when it comes to the spiritual work.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the main thing is try and be as open as possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is something that's helped me a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are moments when I say to my guides, just show me who you are so I can have something solid to hold on to.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not always easy because sometimes I find it very challenging.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I want something very physical and you can ask them for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you're feeling discouraged, if you're feeling like you're not getting anywhere with your spirit guides, or you have sometimes mixed results when it comes to that, try to stay positive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be sure to check out this mini class I have on connecting with your guides.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also just let me know in the comments what your experience has been and if you feel challenged.
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  SPEAKER_00: My final words for this episode is thank you for being here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also, if you're working with connecting with your guides, be as open as possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ask them to come in close and let them know that it helps you to get as much evidence that is relatable and understandable for you and your relationship.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll see you on the next episode.