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What DO-ERS have, that DREAMERS lack. · Soul Salon with Ayandastood

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  So you have the kind of imagination that can take us to a place that co-creates heaven on earth, utopia for all, with the music you make, with the sounds and the music and the sound healing maybe you create, with your words and your language and your world building.
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  So when I really advocate for you being seen, it's because, let's think about this.
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  Let's think about...
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  the unrealized potential.
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  Now, when we are taught this idea, it's really framed in the individual sense that you are here to actualize your highest potential on earth so that when you get to the end of your life, you don't regret that you could have done and been more.
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  And you feel like you gave your everything to this one wild, precious life in the words of Mary Oliver.
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  So that is one way to see it, but it is very individualistic.
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  What about at a collective level?
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  Imagine we all have potential within us to be a source of love to the collective.
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  So let's say I have a voice, right?
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  I like to sing.
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  Let's say there's a version of me who makes music that allows people to feel loved.
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  Okay, so there's a potential within me.
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  But then let's say I say, oh, but I'm afraid I'm not a good enough singer.
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  Okay, let's say I say that.
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  So now we have all the ripple effects that would have unfolded if I had made this music that make people feel loved.
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  That makes people feel loved.
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  And let's say you, you have stories you write.
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  And these stories just open up this whimsical energy within people where they feel connected to their inner child.
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  And they feel like they have incredible dreams.
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  And they're suddenly seeing the world differently.
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  And they're more playful.
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  And they have more energy when they're around children.
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  So they treat children where in a way that's more nurturing to their imagination.
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  So the ripple effects of your stories is this whimsical energy that flows through you.
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  So now let's say, but now you think, oh, the stories are not good enough.
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  They could use more editing.
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  So you don't share the stories.
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  So now we have all the ripple effects of what those stories would have created in the world not happening.
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  So what you can see is we're one.
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  I'm one person.
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  You're one person.
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  You're one person.
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  Eight billion of us.
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  If we all have unrealized light that wants to be expressed through us, but we're so stuck in shame, fear, perfectionism that it never comes.
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  That means there's a whole unrealized dimension of reality that is waiting for us to claim it.
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  Ha ha.
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  It's waiting for us to say this is what we want to make for each other.
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  So then it becomes less about my individual potential and what I may regret at the end of my life.
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  And it becomes about the collective's potential to experience love and light through me.
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  And it becomes about...
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  being a channel for the collective's well-being.
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  And it becomes about all of us acknowledging that there is always a dormant possibility seeking to be born in each of us.
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  We are a womb for creation.
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  What will we give birth to?
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  What will we allow ourselves to be the home of?
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  And if we think about it at a small scale, it may seem like, oh, but it's just a sub-stack essay.
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  It's just a song.
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  It's just a photograph.
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  It's just an exhibition.
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  It's just an event.
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  But let's, we are one.
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  Let's zoom out and see all of the just songs.
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  See all of the just books.
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  See all of the just poems that aren't being made because we don't feel worthy of the making and then of the seeing of those things being witnessed.
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  And we see that there's actually a whole other frequency we could be living on if we all stepped into that light energy of sharing what we are here to share in this lifetime.
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  If we all showed up and we said, you know what?
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  I have videos to make.
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  I'm going to make my videos.
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  Everyone has had their life changed by a video who's watching this.
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  I mean, listen.
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  So now imagine all those people who made the videos that are changing you.
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  If they allowed the fear to stop them, then all the ripple effects just in your life that wouldn't have happened.
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  And now take that out and extrapolate that to everyone else who watches their videos and look at all the potential in the collective that we are here to unlock.
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  So the reason why people like you must be seen is because you help unlock our potential to be more in alignment with the highest possibility, which is love.
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  Which is union, togetherness, communion, freedom, freedom, liberation.
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  Okay.
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  And this is the legacy we've all inherited.
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  Okay.
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  All of us are here in part because people have fought and lost their lives, been saved.
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  Unalived to systemically create more freedom for the collective.
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  Now, they might have not seen it that way in the moment, but we all stand on those shoulders.
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  So who will we allow to stand on ours?
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  So what you must do, I believe, is you sacrifice the ego protection in order for the soul expression.
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  You say, I'm willing to be judged.
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  You say, today I was doing my eyebrows and I was like, I don't like, they don't look great because, of course, we live in this toxic beauty standard.
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  So I have that voice.
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  I told you there's an orchestra.
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  So there's that voice in my head that's always policing us.
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  That's telling me, but I say, but I have a message.
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  What the fuck do my eyebrows have to do with a message?
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  You see, that's what they want.
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  Beauty is a distracting force.
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  It's trying to suck all your energy into it so that it distracts you from doing your work.
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  Is my work to have eyebrows that look the way that this society and culture that's so messed up told me to look?
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  No.
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  And I have a lot of different forms of beauty privilege.
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  Even within that context, what I'm saying is that's not my work.
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  Did I come to earth to have a certain kind of eyebrow, to look a certain kind of way?
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  Or do I have a message?
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  And is that a distraction?
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  Now, this does not take away.
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  People are mean.
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  People are hateful.
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  There's hate comments.
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  I'm not taking away from.
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  I'm not saying this is easy.
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  I'm saying we are sacrificing what people may say about our egos because we know that we have a soul resonance that is trying to cut through the bullshit into the light, into the heart to awaken something in someone so that they go and they write that idea down or they start that organization or they host that event.
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  Right.
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  Or they finally forgive themselves and say, you know what, I'm worthy of compassion and I did the best that I could with the information that I had.
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  And I don't need to hold on to the shame for the rest of my life because who benefits from that?
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  except the powers that be that want to shame me, okay?
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  So we say, what am I here to invoke?
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  What am I here to awaken?
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  And therefore, if you judge my eyebrows, babes, that's okay.
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  I can live with that.
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  And therefore, if you say, you should have said it this way, oh, that's okay.
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  If you say, why are you only quoting these kinds of people?
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  That's okay.
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  I accept.
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  That is my cross to bear.
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  I accept it.
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  I say, that's fine.
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  I say, it's okay.
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  I say, it's okay.
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  You know, in many of my interviews, because I'm now stepping into podcast interviews and many of them, I'm like, oh my goodness, I didn't say this and I didn't say that and I didn't ask that and I didn't comment this and I didn't include this and I didn't and I didn't and I didn't and I didn't and I didn't and I didn't and I didn't and it's like, oh my goodness.
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  There's so much criticism.
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  But I say, that is my cross to bear.
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  Even if people do comment,
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  You didn't do this.
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  And maybe they're right because there's always a kernel of truth.
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  That's what I believe in conflict resolution.
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  You must always acknowledge there's a kernel of truth in what your partner is saying and what your friend is saying.
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  Even if you don't like the image it reflects of you because you're like, I'm not that.
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  I'm not that kind of person.
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  That's not how I see myself.
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  There's a kernel of truth.
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  And part of their soul's purpose has been to bring it to you.
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  So receive it.
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  So, yes, even if people comment certain things that I don't like, there's a kernel of truth within them.
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  It's painful, but there's a kernel.
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  And yes, they could have said it in a kinder way.
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  Yes, they could have said it in a more compassionate way, but also there is a kernel.
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  Fine.
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  So even if people do say that, even if people say, oh, you do this and you always do this and you don't do this enough, that is my cross to bear because I have something to share that I need that needs to be experienced.