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(43) HOW TO HEAL YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM ✨MANIFEST WAY FASTER · Alignment With Jenn

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Welcome to this episode of the Alignment with Jen podcast.
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I am your host. Jen, it's easy.
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And today we're going to be talking all about the
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relationship between your nervous system and
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manifestation. This is such a juicy topic and I
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know it is going to help you manifest more amazing, beautiful
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things into your life. So I want to start off with a
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metaphor. And the metaphor is this idea
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that you are like a pot on the stove.
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And ideally that pot is not boiling, the burner is not on.
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That pot is just sitting there chilling, right?
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But what happens is as we go about our lives, we pick up
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fears, doubts, limiting beliefs, traumas, negative experiences.
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And what happens is that causes that pot on the stove to start
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to gently boil. And then maybe in sometimes in
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our life, we go through a divorce, we go through a
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traumatic experience, that pot can just start to really,
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really, really boil. And sometimes it can boil over.
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That is what happens with our nervous system when it is out of
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alignment, when it is in a state of constant stress, a state of
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fight or flight, and it is difficult for us to manifest the
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things that we want. When our nervous system is in
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that boiling state, right, or is in the overheated state.
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We ideally want our nervous system to be in a really calm,
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tranquil place. Think of like a beautiful body
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of water, right? Maybe not a stormy ocean, a calm
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lake. That's ideally what we want.
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And so when we are looking to manifest our next level, it's
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really valuable for us to understand the state of our
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nervous system because if we're getting to that place where our
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nervous system is kind of boiling over or things that we
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want to manifest make us feel that level of boiling over.
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And I'll get more into that. What can happen is we can
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sabotage it or it can be difficult for us to manifest it.
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So that's what we're going to talk about in this episode.
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In the next episode, I'm going to give you a bunch of tools and
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strategies to help you really regulate and calm your nervous
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system. So I know you're going to
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absolutely love this and I can't wait to get into it.
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I want to just give this idea before we fully dive in that
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your nervous system is essentially the capacity that
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you can hold. It's essentially the capacity
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that you would can hold. So when our nervous system is
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calm and regulated, we can hold more, right?
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We're more creative, we're more innovative, we're more
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thoughtful, we're more present. But when we're in that state of
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stress or we're manifesting something and it causes our
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subconscious mind to feel that state of stress, then it's more
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difficult for us. There's more resistance.
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We're less creative, we're less open to solutions.
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Truly, when our nervous system is in that fight or flight
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state, it actually shuts down our creative capacity and we
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move from being a creator to be being more focused on protection
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and survival. And that's what we're going to
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get into. And how do we live more in this
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creative nervous system state? I have this friend and he's an
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insanely powerful manifester. He said that he will not think
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anything that he does not want because it will not manifest.
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And he was like, one time he's like, you know, I won't think
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about a private jet very long. He's like, because I know it'll
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end up in my driveway. That's how powerful the
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manifesto he is. And he said one thing that he
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always does is he always focuses on the state of his nervous
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system. And he designed his entire house
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to keep him in that alpha and Theta brain wave state.
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Those are those more relaxed brain wave states.
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And so I think that's such a powerful way to think about this
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is when you are able to get into that more regulated nervous
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system, you're able to access those brain wave states where
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manifestation is easier. I've talked about this in other
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episodes, but the alpha and Theta brain wave states are
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those creative states where you're more magnetic and you're
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able to draw things to you. Some people call it the wealth
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wave versus beta. When we're in that analytical
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mind that it's where we're stressed out, it's that boiling
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pot of water always have to be right.
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There's levels of beta. High beta is like that boiling
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pot of water. But when we're in that space,
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what happens is they call it the poverty wave because it's much
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harder for us to manifest and attract things with our
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thoughts. The reason he designs his entire
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house to keep him in that elephant Theta place is so he
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can manifest more easily. So just a cool thought for you
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to think about. So I want to start off just by
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talking about why having a healed nervous system is so
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powerful for manifestation, because it essentially makes you
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a really, really powerful coherent magnet.
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You've heard me talk before, if you've listened to any other
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episodes, about the coherence of your nervous system and the
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coherence of your heart. And we are always sending out
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these electrical signals to every single thing around us.
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And when we are in high vibrational emotions like
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Lovejoy gratitude, we're sending out a coherent frequency into
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the field. So what we attract is more
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coherence, and we do that from a regulated nervous system.
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When we are in flight or flight or stress, our nervous system
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sends out a signal that looks like this.
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It's very jagged and messy. It attracts more chaos.
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It attracts more of the things that we don't really want,
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difficulties, challenges. It literally shuts down the
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creative capacity of our brain. Having that healed nervous
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system, having that ability to stay in that regulation, that
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calm place is going to allow you to draw in more of the
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experiences that you want to have.
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More of. The love, the joy, the fun, the
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creativity that you want to create, rather than stress, is
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going to attract more things to be stressed about.
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I want to talk a little bit about what the nervous system
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really is before we get deeper into this topic.
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The nervous system essentially has two different modes that you
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can think of. It has the sympathetic and the
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parasympathetic. Sympathetic is what people refer
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to as that fight or flight. It was originally designed for
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more primitive times in the human experience when we would
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have a threat like a lion or a bear or some type of predator
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that was actually chasing us. Nowadays that's very, very, very
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rare, especially in developed countries.
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That is not as useful of a system anymore.
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And what happens nowadays is that sympathetic nervous system
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gets switched on and it's difficult for it to get switched
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off. Because what would happen is,
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let's say back in the day we had a threat of a lion.
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We would outrun that lion ideally, right?
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If we're still alive. Typically what the nervous
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system would do is discharge in some way.
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So it would shake, it would release, it would do something
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to release those stress chemicals, those stress
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hormones. When a deer is chased by a
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hunter and escapes, that deer will literally flop on the
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ground and start to shake. That's to release that stress,
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to release that trauma. So that way it's no longer
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living in the psyche. But what happens nowadays is we
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have threats that are not isolated within time.
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They span a long time, right? Maybe at work you have a
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presentation that you have to do in front of your boss and you're
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nervous about it, but it's not for three weeks.
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So it creates this low level stress or financial stress that
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goes on for a long period of time, especially if it's related
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to our limiting beliefs of never having enough money, right?
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That can, even if you have enough money, that belief can
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still play out and create this nervous system response of low
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level stress that's constantly there.
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One of my teachers, my NLP teacher told us that he said
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that in all of the years, and he's been doing this since he
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was like 17 and he's in his 50s now, he said all of the years
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that he's done this work, he's never seen an illness that was
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not tied to stress. And I've heard that over and
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over from holistic practitioners, stress is such a
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powerful, powerful force that harms the body.
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And so we wanna get out of that state, not only because it's
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more healing, but it also allows us to manifest more.
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So we don't wanna be in that sympathetic state.
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We wanna be in the parasympathetic state, and I
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started calling the parasympathetic state the
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receptive mode. It's literally when you are more
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receptive to ideas, to intuition, when you feel like
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you're having a strong intuition.
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People talk about how it's in the shower or when they're
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driving and they're not thinking about anything usually because
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you get into that receptive mode, that alpha and Theta mode,
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and you're more open. OK, so parasympathetic is when
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we're more relaxed. They call it the rest and
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digest. When your body can devote energy
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to healing, it can devote energy to being the creator of your
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life to actually manifesting what you want.
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But when we have these constant sources of stress all the time,
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either that be limiting beliefs, fears and doubts about finances,
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living out of alignment, maybe it's being in the wrong
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relationship. I believe that our stress is
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largely because of the meaning that we apply to things.
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Yes, there's going to be more stressful experiences, but we
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always have a choice of how we filter and assign meaning to
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that experience. That's why two people can be in
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the same situation and one can find it very stressful and the
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other one doesn't find it stressful because they're
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assigning different meaning to that experience, right?
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I had this client who she went through this horrible divorce.
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There was all sorts of messiness in this divorce, one of the
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worst divorces I've heard about. And when she came to speak to
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me, she was like, you know what? I am so grateful for this.
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And I was like, really, tell me more.
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She's like, because now I get to start this new chapter.
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I get to be the best version of me.
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I've learned so much. I get to overcome this, right?
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She assigned a very different meaning, and thus her nervous
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system was a little stressed from this experience, but it was
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not nearly as stressed as if she had piled on all these negative
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meanings. So we're not even getting into
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the tools of this yet, but that's obviously one of them,
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right? Is the meaning that we assign
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that can move us from that parasympathetic to the
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sympathetic? A large part of that is our
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thoughts and how we're using our thoughts.
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So sympathetic fight or flight, it's activation, it's
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mobilization. It is when the blood flows in
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order to help us run or fight from a threat.
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It moves out of our brain and our central nervous system to
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our extremities. So that way we can run and
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fight, right? Obviously, we're not as creative
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or thoughtful or intuitive when we're in the parasympathetic.
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Our body can actually relax and begin to repair.
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And that's when we're going to receive those intuitions on our
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next steps on what the next thing is to do.
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This is something I find so interesting is that with my
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clients, I've seen so many of them go through my program and
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my program massively calms your nervous system because we clear
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out so many emotions and fears and doubts.
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And so many of them, their intuition just gets so much
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stronger where they just know what to act on.
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They know what to call in. They have these things just
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drawn to them because they're not in that sympathetic state
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anymore. They're in that parasympathetic
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state and that's what's possible for you.
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I know if I'm in that parasympathetic state, I'm not
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going to try to figure something out because I'm like, I
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literally am running on one cylinder instead of eight
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cylinders. I'm running on diminished
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capacity. So what I typically will do, I
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did this the other day. I was feeling stressed about
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something. And so I went to this energy
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healing place that is where I live and you can go and you sit
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and it's really super, super relaxing because I knew I, I
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couldn't solve the problem from that.
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And then I left and I had the solution.
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I moved myself in order to get that solution.
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So that's the second thing I wanted to mention.
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The third thing I want to mention is that nowadays there's
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there's really this difference between real danger and
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perceived danger. And a lot of our stress comes
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from perceiving danger where there may not actually be
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danger, right? Real danger is things like I
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might actually, you know, get bit by a stray dog on the
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street, right? Or walking to your car alone at
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night. I feel like that can be actually
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dangerous, right, for a woman. So there's these moments where
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we're going to actually have real danger.
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But a lot of what we experience in modern society is perceived
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danger. So an example of this would be
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social media. So many people come to me and
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they're like, I really want to grow on social media, but I'm so
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scared of it, right? Is there anything really bad?
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Is that actually life threatening?
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No, it's not Posting a real on Instagram is not.
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But to our subconscious mind, it feels like that.
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And that's a lot of the fears we deal with in modern society.
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Sometimes it could be getting a text message from someone you
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didn't want to get a text message from and it stimulates
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your nervous system and it can create that sympathetic nervous
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system response or an e-mail from your boss.
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My friend told me she got an e-mail the other day and it was
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just from her boss and it said can we talk today at 3:00?
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And she that said the whole rest of the day, she was convinced
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she was going to be fired, right?
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That is perceived danger because it's not actually physically
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dangerous, right? But now in modern society, those
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are the kinds of dangers we experience, and they create a
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more prolonged experience on the nervous system.
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I want to talk about the four typical different responses that
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the nervous system has because this can be really helpful for
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you to understand how your nervous system is responding
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with what you're manifesting. Because our nervous system is
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going to be the first thing that actually blocks us from
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manifesting what we want. Our nervous system and our
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subconscious mind work faster than our conscious mind.
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So that's why I can say that I want to post on social media,
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but if subconsciously I'm terrified of what my best friend
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from middle school is going to think, right, or what people
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online are going to comment, I might have a nervous system
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response that blocks me from doing that.
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I see this so often with my clients, with money, with
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relationships. So this is going to give you a
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really helpful little system. So the first one is flight.
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It's where when we experience that nervous system response
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where we think something is a threat, we will actually remove
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ourselves from it. So flight might look like trying
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to control your way out of a situation, trying to control the
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situation in order to be safe, right?
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It's like showing up. It's fighting against whatever
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you're experiencing. So this for a lot of people can
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actually look like overworking or over controlling because
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we're trying to get control over a situation, right?
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Have you ever, when you're stressed, you're just like, I
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just need to work, right? That's the fight response of
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your nervous system. There's a fear that you're
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trying to overcome, and so noticing when you have these
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things come up for you can be so, so insanely helpful.
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It can look like micromanaging, right?
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Making sure that everything has to be a certain way.
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I had this friend who would really, really micromanage her
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home. So anytime you'd go over, like,
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if you put something where she didn't want it, it should get
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really upset. And that is a fight response,
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right? There's something beneath the
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surface that needs to be dealt with.
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Another fight response that I think can be very sneaky is
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always feeling like you need to fix or improve or become better.
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This can show up as like this mindset of like always needing
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to fix, improve, or optimize like nothing is ever good
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enough. Think of fight as like you are
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trying to resist against what is.
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So if you are manifesting more money, but you feel like you
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can't relax, right? You feel like you're always
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overworking. That's your nervous system's
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response to it. So noticing in the areas where
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you feel like your manifestation is blocked, how is my nervous
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system showing up? And what can I actually do to
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create safety in that experience?
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Because that's what the nervous system's entire goal is, is to
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feel safe and to keep you safe. So we don't counteract these
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behaviors by fighting harder, by overworking more.
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We counteract them by creating safety, right?
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Like I did, I went to the energy healing place because I was
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like, I am feeling stressed. I know I'm reduced capacity, so
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I need to create safety. And the thing to know about
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fight is it's not very compatible with receiving,
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right? If we're fighting, we're
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literally actively resisting something in life.
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And so when we want to get into that receptive mode to receive,
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which is what manifestation is, it's about receiving the things
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that we want, then we have to get out of that fight mentality
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because we're pushing against life.
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We're not allowing life to naturally flow.
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Then we have flight. So flight is this idea that if I
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run fast enough, I can avoid this threat.
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Some people are going to be like, Oh yeah, that's me.
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Think of this as like avoidance, totally avoiding something,
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constantly trying to stay busy over scheduling yourself,
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restlessness, scrolling, right, going to do something to avoid
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how you're actually feeling, how your nervous system is actually
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feeling and resolve that true emotion that's underneath.
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It can be numbing. It can be never actually
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finishing something. So I just talked to a client
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recently and she wants to be a screenwriter and she said that
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for the past five years, she's always avoided ever making
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progress past a certain point. That's flight, That's her
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nervous systems, like tapping a certain capacity.
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And it's like, OK, this is our boiling point.
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This is where it gets really uncomfortable.
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We've reached the point that it feels comfortable and it's going
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to start to flight, it's going to bounce.
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This can look like jumping from idea to idea.
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I see this so much in people who especially in business, right?
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As business starts to get hard. I see this in myself actually,
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as I'm saying this, as business starts to get hard, they jump
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from thing to thing to thing to thing rather than actually
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sticking with something when it gets difficult.
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People do this in relationship, right?
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They do this in relationship when they're constantly looking
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for new, more exciting relationships rather than
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actually going up for the deeper work and that deeper level of
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intimacy. And the thing with flight as
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well is it also makes receiving difficult because you are
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literally avoiding the thing that needs to be healed in order
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to move to that next level. It's like, let's say what you
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want to manifest is in the middle and you're just dancing
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around it, right? You're never actually anchoring
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in and allowing yourself to move to that next place.
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And then we have freeze. So freeze is literally the
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shutdown, right? You can think of this as you
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wanna start your business, but you're literally just can't get
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yourself to do it. You're sitting on the couch
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scrolling through your phone or you wanna start dating and you
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just open the dating app and literally don't do anything,
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right? You just cannot get yourself to
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take any of the actions that would move you toward what you
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want because your system doesn't feel it's safe.
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These are all ways that your system protects you from a
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perceived threat. Typically nowadays that threat
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is perceived right. It is an unconscious fear that
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we have picked up somewhere along the way.
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Freeze can look like overthinking right?
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Just constantly staying in this thought process.
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One of my friends told me recently she heard about someone
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who was using AI and he was basically just using it all day,
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talking to ChatGPT all day and going in these loops and staying
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in these loops, right? Never taking the actions, but
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kind of staying in these loops, right?
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That's the freeze response when we're not making any momentum
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forward and we're just kind of like laying in bed on your
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phone. So I have this client, this was
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a couple of years ago, and she's a really well known author and
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she released a new book. And she said that the day that
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she released that book, she was so terrified of the response
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from the Press, of the response of social media, the response
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from people that she couldn't get out of bed.
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That's the quintessential freeze response, right?
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So it's not just when we're manifesting something, right?
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Our nervous system capacity matters the whole way because we
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can manifest something. But if those patterns still
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exist, there's still going to be lessons that we need to overcome
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in that process. I said this and I think one of
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the most recent episodes about we don't just want love for one
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moment. We don't want just love wealth
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for one moment. We don't want health for one
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moment. We want it for our lifetime.
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So we have to have a nervous system that can hold it without
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going into these responses. Then we have the fond response.
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This is one of my personal favorite flavors that I've had
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to really work to overcome. So it's if I please you, I will
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stay safe. And this is the classic people
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pleaser, right? Not speaking up for yourself,
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over giving, always saying yes even when you want to say no
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because you're just like, OK, if I can just be quiet, stay in the
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corner, no one's going to notice me and I won't disrupt it and I
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will be safe. I'll be protected.
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It's under charging, right? It's not really sharing content
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that actually activates anyone because you don't really want to
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rock the boat. You don't want to experience any
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of that. Discomfort, it's having weak
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boundaries, it's dimming your own desires.
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So the fond response is like just this contractive.
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All of these are really kind of these contractive energies that
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don't allow you to fully expand into who you want to be.
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And the issue with the fond response is it's a lot of self
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abandonment. So I hear this from so many of
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my clients in relationships, they will self abandoned.
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I feel like this is actually really common in women where we
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will want to please that partner.
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And so we will, you know, it starts off really subtly, right?
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Maybe you don't speak up for something that you need because
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you're like, I don't want to rock the boat, right?
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But then you don't want to rock the boat 1000 times and you end
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up resenting that person because the whole time you've tried to
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protect yourself, protect yourself, and you've created a
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relationship that wasn't right for you.
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The thing to know about these 4 responses, so fight, flight,
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freeze and fawn, is that they are protective mechanisms and
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they're very intelligently designed.
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The issue is that in modern society, they cause a conflict
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between where we are and where we want to be.
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So it's really valuable for you to think about in the areas of
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your life where you want to make the most progress, where you
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feel like you are kind of the most stuck.
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What patterns are showing up for you?
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I recommend journaling about this today if you can and just
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noticing how am I really showing up in those areas?
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What am I avoiding? What am I running from what?
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Where am I overworking, right? Where am I over people pleasing?
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Because those are all patterns that I guarantee they're not
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just showing up in that area. They show up in so many areas
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and, and the more that you heal those patterns, the more that
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you are going to be able to live the life that just truly meant
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for you and the more that your nervous system is going to feel
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amazing doing it. The last thing I want to say to
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this is that I'm sure you can kind of see now that this
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dysregulation in the nervous system and all dysregulation is,
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is the nervous system feeling unsafe.
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It blocks our ability to receive in all of these very clever and
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unconscious ways. And so for you, when you want to
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manifest that new level and you find yourself procrastinating or
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you find yourself over people pleasing or not having that
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conversation with your partner that you need to have, those are
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all the nervous system trying to protect you.
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What we have to do is we have to work at that subconscious level,
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that root level and show it that it's safe to have these things,
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that you are safe and whole and complete no matter what happens
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in that experience of your life. So as always, if you would like
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support with this, this is the bread and butter of what I work
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on with my clients in my more intimate programs.
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You can send me the word podcast on Instagram and I'll send you a
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5 minute video about that program.
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And also, if you're not following the podcast, please
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follow. It really helps this get out to
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more people and I hope you've loved this.
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Please leave me any questions in the comments.
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All right, bye.