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Stephanie Banks · Destination Unlimited with Victor Fuhrman

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Speaker 1: My name is Victor Furman. Some call me the Voice.
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Speaker 1: I've always been fascinated with human nature, spirituality, science and
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Speaker 1: the crossroads at which they meet. Join me now and
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Speaker 1: we will explore these topics and so much more with
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Speaker 1: fascinating guests, authors and experts who will guide us to
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Speaker 1: Destination Unlimited. How may channeling and soul to soul communication
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Speaker 1: enhance our confidence and self trust, improve our relationships, clarify
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Speaker 1: our soul's purpose, and help us find our way to
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Speaker 1: laughter and joy. My guest this week on Destination Unlimited,
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Speaker 1: Stephanie Banks, found this path through conscious channeling. Stephanie Banks
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Speaker 1: is a highly sought after intuitive channel mentor and guide
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Speaker 1: who helps people connect on the soul level. She channels
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Speaker 1: from the perspective of any soul currently on the planet,
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Speaker 1: souls on the other side purely non physical beings such
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Speaker 1: as spirit guides, as well as trees, animals, and gaia.
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Speaker 1: When her mother's dementia made verbal communication impossible, Stephanie found
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Speaker 1: ways to communicate with her mother's soul. This was the
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Speaker 1: beginning of her channeling journey. As a conscious channel, Stephanie
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Speaker 1: is both the vessel to receive the message as well
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Speaker 1: as a guide to provide depth and context for the
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Speaker 1: information coming through. She uses her keen sense of humor, love,
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Speaker 1: and compassion to join her clients in their spiritual experience.
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Speaker 1: Stephanie also mentors clients in discerning their own inner voice
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Speaker 1: of wisdom. She's the author of the bestseller Joining Jonie,
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Speaker 1: Staying Connected to Your loved One through Dementia and Beyond.
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Speaker 1: Her website is so insight dot com and she joins
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Speaker 1: me this week to share her amazing path and discoveries.
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Speaker 1: Please join me in welcoming to Destination Unlimited Stephanie Banks. Welcome, Stephanie, Hi.
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Speaker 2: Victor, thank you for having me. I'm really excited for
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Speaker 2: our conversation today.
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Speaker 1: And thank you for joining us and sharing your path
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Speaker 1: and experience. Please share with us your path and callings
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Speaker 1: before channeling came into your life.
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Speaker 2: M well, it was pretty mundane. Channeling changes everything. Everything
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Speaker 2: becomes more magical and beautiful and profound. But prior to
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Speaker 2: my discovering this aspect that all of us have to
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Speaker 2: be able to connect to define energy and wisdom, I
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Speaker 2: was a speech language pathologist working in hospitals with medically
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Speaker 2: fragile infants and adolescence. Doing my thing, I am a
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Speaker 2: mother of three. I was raised in a very typical household,
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Speaker 2: I would say, and so really nothing out of the
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Speaker 2: ordinary except for my deep connection to the natural world.
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Speaker 2: So I spoke to trees and animals. I sort of
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Speaker 2: figured everybody else did too, but now I know that's
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Speaker 2: not the case.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Did you have any intuitive experiences before channeling opened
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Speaker 1: up for you?
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Speaker 2: I'm sure I did, but there really isn't anything that
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Speaker 2: stood out for me that I could say, Oh, that
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Speaker 2: very moment was my awakening. In terms of this, it
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Speaker 2: was really a friendship that opened the world of channeling
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Speaker 2: to me. I met a best friend who was a
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Speaker 2: professional channel and that's the very first exposure I had
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Speaker 2: to this world of work, and it did change my
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Speaker 2: life from that point forward.
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Speaker 1: Tell us the story behind your book, Joining Jonie, Staying
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Speaker 1: connected to your loved one through dementia and beyond.
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Speaker 2: That book sort of wrote itself through me. It's a
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Speaker 2: practical story, share and guide for anybody who has this
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Speaker 2: face with the challenge of supporting a loved one who
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Speaker 2: has dementia or really any cognitive disorder that is progressive
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Speaker 2: in nature. My mother had a type of dementia that
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Speaker 2: affected young people her symptoms probably started in her late forties,
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Speaker 2: and they were not so great at diagnosing this type
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Speaker 2: of dementia back then, so they kept saying she had
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Speaker 2: depression or anxiety, and so she was being medicated for
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Speaker 2: that instead of you really looking at what the underlying
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Speaker 2: issue was. So by the time we discovered she actually
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Speaker 2: had dementia, she was fairly involved in the process of it,
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Speaker 2: and our relationship was really suffering as a result. As
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Speaker 2: you know, I think most people have know somebody or
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Speaker 2: have been personally touched by dementia. It's very common. Alzheimer's
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Speaker 2: is included with different types of dementias, and it becomes
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Speaker 2: very difficult to maintain one's connection with the person who
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Speaker 2: is experiencing that. There are personality changes, There's difficulty with
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Speaker 2: concentration and attention, of course, memory involvement. And I was
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Speaker 2: noticing that my connection with my mother was really suffering,
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Speaker 2: and even though I had all this clinical background and
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Speaker 2: experience in speech pathology, it wasn't working on her. It
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Speaker 2: was actually more of a disservice to our relationship for
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Speaker 2: me to try to apply my clinical knowledge. So I
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Speaker 2: asked my best friend if she would please channel my
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Speaker 2: mother's soul and she did. And through that experience, those
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Speaker 2: multiple experiences, I was able to understand more of what
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Speaker 2: my mom needed from me. So I wrote a book,
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Speaker 2: not necessarily based on the spiritual aspect of it, but
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Speaker 2: in showing people how they can actually joining their loved
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Speaker 2: one in their own experience without trying to pull them
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Speaker 2: out of their world and sort of force them into hours.
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Speaker 2: And that's what the book is really about.
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Speaker 1: And what lessons did you learn in communicating with your
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Speaker 1: mother's soul, Well.
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Speaker 2: She was very forthcoming about all the things I was
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Speaker 2: doing wrong, so I am grateful for that. One of
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Speaker 2: the things I learned was that in my efforts to protect,
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Speaker 2: or what I thought was protect my father, I was
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Speaker 2: actually getting in the way of their sole agreement, their
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Speaker 2: sole relationship. So one of the things my mother's soul
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Speaker 2: imparted to me was that I really needed to stay
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Speaker 2: in my own lane. I had a relationship with her
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Speaker 2: that was separate and apart from the relationship she had
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Speaker 2: with my father, of course, and when I would try
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Speaker 2: to intervene, even if it was from the most well
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Speaker 2: meaning place, it was disrupting what their dynamic was. And
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Speaker 2: so I really I learned to step back from that
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Speaker 2: and really allow for them to have whatever journey they
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Speaker 2: were meant to have, and just work on how I
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Speaker 2: could support my mom and how I could also make
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Speaker 2: sure my own needs were getting met within the context
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Speaker 2: of a relationship that was very strained. I also learned
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Speaker 2: from her that it's just like I said a moment ago,
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Speaker 2: it's not such a kind thing to do to bring
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Speaker 2: someone out of their whatever is their reality, especially the
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Speaker 2: person who has dementia or Alzheimer's. And so if my
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Speaker 2: mother was insistent that she needed to wear a sweater
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Speaker 2: and it was ninety five degrees outside, which is pretty
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Speaker 2: typical where we live, then I just go get her
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Speaker 2: sweater instead of trying to, you know, orient her to
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Speaker 2: the fact that that's not a good idea or it's
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Speaker 2: too hot for a sweater. If she feels like she
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Speaker 2: needs it, then just go get it. I learned how
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Speaker 2: to keep the path smooth rather than try to insist
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Speaker 2: that she come around to my particular viewpoint.
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Speaker 1: Why is it easier to intuitively communicate with a person
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Speaker 1: who has dementia.
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Speaker 2: I think from the place of intuition, there's a lot
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Speaker 2: more trust and you can be present to just what
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Speaker 2: is instead of the thinking mind. So the intuition, the
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Speaker 2: intuition comes from the right hemisphere of the brain, and
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Speaker 2: the logic and problem solving and linear thinking comes from
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Speaker 2: the left hemisphere of the brain. And I believe we
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Speaker 2: have a culture and a society that is very focused
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Speaker 2: on left hemispheric skills, and so therefore we have underdeveloped
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Speaker 2: right hemispheric skills. So intuition, if you are willing to
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Speaker 2: trust it and develop it and practice it, and that
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Speaker 2: it's also along with creativity and imagination and yeah, there's
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Speaker 2: music and all sorts of things come from that right hemisphere.
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Speaker 2: And if we're willing to sort of lean into that
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Speaker 2: and develop that side, then we can have an even
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Speaker 2: more certain understanding of what's going on for another person.
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Speaker 2: Intuition allows us to connect more at the heart level
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Speaker 2: than anything the logic linear left brain thinking can allow
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Speaker 2: us to do. So, if you can intuitively communicate with somebody,
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Speaker 2: you don't even really need words. You can read all
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Speaker 2: sorts of other bits of information from body language, facial expression,
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Speaker 2: nonverbal communication, energy in general. And I think that's something
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Speaker 2: that we can rely on more than just what we
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Speaker 2: think we know.
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Speaker 1: A personal share in nineteen seventy five, I was in
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Speaker 1: the Air Force and I was stationed in Korea, and
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Speaker 1: one morning I had a message in my head and
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Speaker 1: it said, call your mother. She needs to hear from you. Now.
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Speaker 1: I was always one who would trust that inner voice,
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Speaker 1: no matter when it came, and differentiated between the voice
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Speaker 1: that shouts the voice of ego or the voice of
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Speaker 1: spirit guidance, whatever it might be, whatever people consider it
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Speaker 1: to be, and had not had a negative letter from
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Speaker 1: my mother. We would write monthly, and so I did.
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Speaker 1: I followed the voice and I called my mother. And
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Speaker 1: back in those days, we had wired telephones so that
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Speaker 1: people could pick up a phone in one room and
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Speaker 1: pick up a phone in another room. And my mother
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Speaker 1: and my sister picked up the phone extensions simultaneously, and
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Speaker 1: I said, Mom, is there anything wrong? And my sister says,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, how did he find out? And it
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Speaker 1: turned out she was scheduled for major surgery the next day.
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Speaker 1: And the voice told me to tell her that the
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Speaker 1: operation would be a complete success. You'd have a complete
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Speaker 1: and full recovery. Everything was going to be just fine.
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Speaker 1: She needed to hear that from me, and I'm grateful
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Speaker 1: for that gift.
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Speaker 2: Broke out and chills all over my body. That is
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Speaker 2: a beautiful story and a perfect example. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Wow, absolutely, is your mom still with us.
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Speaker 2: She's not. She has been on the other side for
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Speaker 2: eleven years. And what she's doing from the other side
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Speaker 2: is pretty much as soon as she passed, she started
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Speaker 2: sending a cardinal, which was her favorite type of bird,
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Speaker 2: to my son's bedroom window every day throughout the day.
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Speaker 2: And when my kids were younger, because this is quite
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Speaker 2: a while ago, we got such a kick out of it.
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Speaker 2: You know, hi, Grandma, and there she is sending us signs.
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Speaker 2: And then over time the bird we now consider to
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Speaker 2: be a nuisance. He still comes every day all day.
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Speaker 2: He pecks at the door, the window. He drives my
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Speaker 2: dogs crazy. But it's still so delightful because that's her.
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Speaker 2: You know, I have no doubt that that is her.
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Speaker 2: It's astonishing how connected to the animal world and the
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Speaker 2: natural world spirit is.
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Speaker 1: So After this experience with your mom, what were your
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Speaker 1: early channeling experiences like what led you into channeling yourself?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, when I saw what was possible for saving
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Speaker 2: my relationship with my mother, because that is what channeling
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Speaker 2: did for me. It gave me a deeper understanding of
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Speaker 2: what we were actually here to do together. And this
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Speaker 2: is not something I would have ever understood, even from
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Speaker 2: younger years. This is not something that would have made
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Speaker 2: sense to me. So it did come at the perfect time,
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Speaker 2: and I felt like, if this can rescue a relationship
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Speaker 2: that was really so tumultuous, difficult, challenging, frustrating. In fact,
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Speaker 2: I would I would sometimes dread having visits from her
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Speaker 2: or going over there because I knew that it was
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Speaker 2: just going to be hard and I didn't always have
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Speaker 2: the energy for it. So channeling and understanding her from
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Speaker 2: the soul perspective could shift that so that now I
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Speaker 2: couldn't wait to get together with her, and we would
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Speaker 2: dance around the kitchen and we would make up silly
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Speaker 2: songs and we would laugh at nothing, and we just
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Speaker 2: infused joy back into our relationship together. And it also
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Speaker 2: gave us some very powerful and poignant moments where even
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Speaker 2: though her language and her access to language was failing
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Speaker 2: because of the dementia, I still knew what she needed
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Speaker 2: and what she wanted to communicate because of that intuitive connection.
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Speaker 2: So I realized, if this is possible in a very
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Speaker 2: complicated mother daughter relationship, then where else could it be
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Speaker 2: applicable and useful in my life? So I started to
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Speaker 2: take classes. I started to learn how to channel from
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Speaker 2: the perspective of my higher self and from the perspective
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Speaker 2: of my spirit guides. I learned how to channel the
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Speaker 2: souls of my children, the souls of other ancestors, the
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Speaker 2: souls of my dogs. It's endless, there's no limit when
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Speaker 2: we tap into soul level information to what it can
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Speaker 2: do and the healing it can bring in the depth
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Speaker 2: of understanding. So it has completely changed every aspect of
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Speaker 2: my life, and of course it allows me to reach
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Speaker 2: many many others and bring this sort of healing forward
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Speaker 2: for those who who resonate with it.
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Speaker 1: You describe yourself as a conscious channel. What does this mean?
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Speaker 1: How do you connect and with whom do you connect?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I learned about this term when I was in
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Speaker 2: an interview. I had a channeling interview, which was something
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Speaker 2: that I had never had before. But I wanted to
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Speaker 2: provide services to a local New Age store some probably
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Speaker 2: fifteen years ago, and the owner said, Okay, I have
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Speaker 2: to get a feel for your work first, So come
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Speaker 2: in and I'm going to ask you questions and you're
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Speaker 2: going to channel answers for me, and this is very stressful,
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Speaker 2: as you might imagine. So we sat in a little
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Speaker 2: room and she asked me to channel all the beings.
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Speaker 2: She asked me to channel, and when I was done,
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Speaker 2: she said to me, I'm very glad to see that
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Speaker 2: you're a conscious channel and she said, because that's really
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Speaker 2: all I want to that's what I resonate with, and
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Speaker 2: that's what I want to offer through my shop. And
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Speaker 2: I said, oh, thank you. What is that? What does
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Speaker 2: that mean? I had no idea what the difference was,
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Speaker 2: But the type of channeling that I do, I'm very
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Speaker 2: aware of the messages that are coming through. I see images,
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Speaker 2: I do have feeling and sensation, emotion that comes with it,
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Speaker 2: but I am the only one inhabiting my body. When
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Speaker 2: I channel, there's no energy that's overtaking me or that
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Speaker 2: is moving me physically in a certain way, and so
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Speaker 2: that is that's what's referred to as conscious channeling. I
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Speaker 2: remember the messages, I remember what I've said. I might
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Speaker 2: not remember every detail because they come through rather quickly,
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Speaker 2: but I am fully aware, and so that's what I
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Speaker 2: understood then to be conscious channeling. And then there's trance channeling.
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Speaker 2: Which is different than what I do. And there are
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Speaker 2: some beautiful trance channelers out there as well, so we
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Speaker 2: all work a little bit differently with spirit, but conscious
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Speaker 2: channeling is how I work. It's kind of how I
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Speaker 2: was first exposed to channeling, and so I decided, then
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Speaker 2: that's what I'm most comfortable with. I want to be
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Speaker 2: the only one in here, in this body, experiencing what's
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Speaker 2: going on, and so my guides work with me to
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Speaker 2: ensure that that things stay within the context of my
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Speaker 2: comfort zone. So that's how I would describe it.
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Speaker 1: And so a client comes to you with a question,
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Speaker 1: how do you connect?
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Speaker 2: I prepare for the sessions, and honestly, I feel that
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Speaker 2: that to be a very high vibrational clear channel requires
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Speaker 2: me to have predominantly excellent self care, self compassion, and
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Speaker 2: self love. So most of my preparation is really quite enjoyable.
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Speaker 2: It involves getting out in the natural world, being in
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Speaker 2: my garden, spending time with my animals, with my children,
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Speaker 2: with my beautiful friendships and relationships. The things that nurture
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Speaker 2: my heart and bring me to a higher vibrational place
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Speaker 2: are what make me a clear channel. So does meditation,
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Speaker 2: which is essential. So do mantras which I do, music, movement, yoga.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of things that I do to prepare
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Speaker 2: and clear the path so that spirit and souls and
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Speaker 2: energetic beings can come through and bring in the clearest language,
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Speaker 2: so that I can understand that and make that usable
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Speaker 2: and functional to my clients, So that my preparation does
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Speaker 2: require me to look at and consider myself to be
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Speaker 2: a sacred vessel, which all of us are. But we
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Speaker 2: don't always treat ourselves like that. And I think that's
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Speaker 2: eighty to ninety percent of the work is how we
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Speaker 2: are towards ourselves, what our relationship is like to our
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Speaker 2: own soul, to our own spirit team. And those are
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Speaker 2: the practices that I use.
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Speaker 1: And you had mentioned going out into the garden. Do
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Speaker 1: you practice earthing?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm always barefoot in my garden. Sometimes that's painful
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Speaker 2: mulch or unseen stones that I do not perceive before
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Speaker 2: I step on them. But yes, earthing I find to
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Speaker 2: be crucial to the draining out of energy that I
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Speaker 2: don't need, energy that I don't that doesn't serve me.
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Speaker 2: And Guya, Mother Earth, she knows what to do with
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Speaker 2: all types of energy. She is the master composter, so
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Speaker 2: she can drain that energy and turn it into something
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Speaker 2: or route it in a certain way where it can
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Speaker 2: be nourishing somewhere. So I really trust that process and
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Speaker 2: then drawing up the energy of the planet. There's nothing
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Speaker 2: more beautiful or nourishing and loving than that. So she's
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Speaker 2: my girl. Mother Earth is you know. I channel her
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Speaker 2: all the time, through through the trees and through worms.
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Speaker 2: I channel worms, victim, I mean all the beings of
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Speaker 2: life that are created and live this beautiful exist coexistence
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Speaker 2: with us as we share this planet. They have wisdom
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Speaker 2: to share. And yes, get to get back to your question,
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Speaker 2: earthing is very essential to my.
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Speaker 1: Work, wonderful, and you had mentioned channeling souls. What else
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Speaker 1: or who else do you.
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Speaker 2: Channel souls that are here on the planet, So in
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Speaker 2: body moving around, souls that are on the other side,
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Speaker 2: so ancestors and loved ones no longer in body, essence
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Speaker 2: of Earth that can be in the form of trees, plants, animals,
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Speaker 2: Earth herself. We can channel spirit guide. Each of us
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Speaker 2: has a vast network of energetic beings who are specifically
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Speaker 2: devoted to our journey here to helping us lighten up,
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Speaker 2: not take ourselves. So seriously, have more fun, have clarity,
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Speaker 2: expand on the gifts and the offerings that our soul
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Speaker 2: is here to share with the world anything. We can
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Speaker 2: ask anything, any question at all that's sitting on the
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Speaker 2: heart that we would like higher level guidance around, and
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Speaker 2: I can channel wisdom towards that.
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Speaker 1: Have any of these beings surprised you?
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Speaker 2: They all surprise me. There's I am always learning, and
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Speaker 2: sometimes I will pause in the middle of a channel
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Speaker 2: message and I will say out loud, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 2: that's fascinating, because there is there's so much. I'm always
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Speaker 2: astonished by how much I don't know and how much
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Speaker 2: unlearning is taking place, which is really essential, I think,
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Speaker 2: if humanity is to reach that tipping point of moving
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Speaker 2: towards harmony and thriving and life and care for all.
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Speaker 2: But yes, there's there's always messages that, even even from
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Speaker 2: the simplest, especially children, when I'm channeling children for their parents,
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Speaker 2: and their parents' question is, well, how can I serve
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Speaker 2: my child best? Or what? You know? Why why are
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Speaker 2: they not talking to me much anymore? Why is my teenager,
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Speaker 2: you know, so seeming so separate or apart from me?
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Speaker 2: And then that teenage teenager or the soul of that
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Speaker 2: teenager comes in and is able to articulate, this is
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Speaker 2: what I need from you right now, and it's so
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Speaker 2: completely different than what we might be inclined towards as
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Speaker 2: as parents. That's always surprising and illuminating to me. And
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Speaker 2: in the animal world, how how beautifully our animal messengers
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Speaker 2: are connecting to us, and how much messaging they have
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Speaker 2: for us, and how it's really not that they are
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Speaker 2: missing us. We're just distracted. We need to come back
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Speaker 2: to being awake and aware and paying attention to our
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Speaker 2: present moment and our surroundings, and then we can receive
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Speaker 2: all the messages they're here to bring. So it's always
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Speaker 2: there's always just beautiful exchange of energy and wisdom that
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Speaker 2: I would never have known if I hadn't tuned into it.
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Speaker 1: One of the lessons that came through to me regarding
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Speaker 1: children is that we cannot project our experience onto our kids.
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Speaker 1: They live a different life than we lived, and we
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Speaker 1: have to remember that and respect that and work with
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Speaker 1: them on their level, not on our level.
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Speaker 2: That's completely true and still really hard to do. For
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Speaker 2: some reason.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. My website is soul Insight dot com s
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Speaker 1: My guest this week Stephanie Banks. Stephanie, are there common
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Speaker 1: themes that come through while you are challenging?
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, channeling, let's see common themes. Well, I think
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Speaker 2: this has to do with how deeply connected I am
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Speaker 2: to the planet and to the fate of life on
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Speaker 2: the planet. So this is something that is unique to
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Speaker 2: my soul. But I'm not the only one. There's armies
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Speaker 2: of us who are out here to support and love
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Speaker 2: and protect and promote the well being of life here
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Speaker 2: on Earth. And so a lot of the common themes
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Speaker 2: that I am present to have to do with just that,
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Speaker 2: with connecting to the divine energy and wisdom and love
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Speaker 2: and generosity and bringing us back to reciprocity with life
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Speaker 2: on the planet. And so a lot of this has
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Speaker 2: to do with sometimes food right, how we harvest it,
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Speaker 2: who we thank for it, how we interact with the
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Speaker 2: plants that are providing it. This comes through in channeling,
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Speaker 2: and also Gaia will show me or transmit energy and
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Speaker 2: messages that really illuminate a particular moment in time or
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Speaker 2: a particular person's path. I'll share an example of that
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Speaker 2: I have a client whos she's a steward of sacred land.
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Speaker 2: She and her husband and they were preparing their land
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Speaker 2: to make some roads so that people would have would
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Speaker 2: be able to come and stay and receive the healing
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Speaker 2: benefits of this land and have retreats there and just
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Speaker 2: receive nourishment. So with part of the road construction, the
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Speaker 2: person who was doing that type of construction advised them
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Speaker 2: that this tree would need to be removed in order
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Speaker 2: for the road to be have its access and for
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Speaker 2: he just felt it would be the best interest of
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Speaker 2: this project they were doing. So she called me and
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Speaker 2: she said, we're prepared to do this. We're prepared to
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Speaker 2: remove the tree. But something told me just to check
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Speaker 2: in with you and have you channel the tree and
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Speaker 2: see is this okay? Is this in alignment? Is this
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Speaker 2: in right relationship with the land? So I channeled the tree,
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Speaker 2: who she had named Trinity, because there's like three trunks
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Speaker 2: that come from this one mother base of the tree.
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Speaker 2: So I channeled Trinity, and Trinity informs us that she
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Speaker 2: is to stay. She is to stay put. She is,
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Speaker 2: as she described it, a holder of the earth, which
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Speaker 2: just gives me the chills even to feel the transmission
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Speaker 2: of that again. And so this actually changed the plans.
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Speaker 2: My client went back to her contractor and said, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 2: but no, the tree is staying. You're going to have
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Speaker 2: to creatively figure something else out about this part of things.
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Speaker 2: The tree stayed, and within I want to say, was
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Speaker 2: probably about six months. A typhoon came to that area
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Speaker 2: of land. There was a lot of flooding, there was
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Speaker 2: a lot of damage all around, but Trinity stands and
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Speaker 2: she did exactly what she said. She held the earth.
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Speaker 2: So these are the types of messages that come through,
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Speaker 2: and these are the you know, for me, the most
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Speaker 2: exciting common themes. Of course, there's lots and lots that
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Speaker 2: comes through from the human perspective as well, but this
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Speaker 2: is just an example of something from the natural world
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Speaker 2: that can really guide us in being in right relationship
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Speaker 2: and reciprocity and care for the planet.
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Speaker 1: So a new client comes to you, what is a
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Speaker 1: channeling session like for that new client.
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Speaker 2: Well, usually they come to me very well prepared with
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Speaker 2: a list of questions, and if they don't have that,
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Speaker 2: that's okay, there's no pressure to do so, but they've
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Speaker 2: usually given thought to what they need. It's what's driven
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Speaker 2: them to make the appointment in the first place. And
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Speaker 2: so they'll tell me, well, I don't really know how
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Speaker 2: to clearly articulate this, but these are the relationships I'm
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Speaker 2: struggling with, or this is the big decision coming up
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Speaker 2: that I have to make, or this is where I
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Speaker 2: feel disconnected from my own essence or my loved one,
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Speaker 2: or whatever the challenges are. They'll tell me a little
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Speaker 2: bit about what's running in the background of that. I'm
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Speaker 2: not really listening so much to their words as I
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Speaker 2: am listening beyond and behind their words, and that's where
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Speaker 2: their guides and my guides are informing me. Ask about this,
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Speaker 2: get more information about that. This is what you're going
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Speaker 2: to tune into, and then I can tell the client, Okay,
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Speaker 2: I've got what I need. I'm going to tune into
30:20
Speaker 2: your higher self. That's who's here. I'm going to tune
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Speaker 2: into your spirit guides, or there's a grandmother energy that's
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Speaker 2: here for you, or whatever I'm sensing. I bring the message,
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Speaker 2: and then I process the message with them. I'm able
30:33
Speaker 2: to share with them the imagery that's coming through. I
30:36
Speaker 2: often see what I guess can be considered as movies
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Speaker 2: in my mind's eye. I channel with my eyes closed,
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Speaker 2: so I'm able to really perceive a lot more of
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Speaker 2: what's going on, and we process that. I help them
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Speaker 2: make sense of it, make use of it, apply the
30:52
Speaker 2: information that's coming through, and then we move on to
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Speaker 2: the next thing. So each session is so very different
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Speaker 2: than any other because that person and in their relationships
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Speaker 2: and in their life, is really having their own unique
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Speaker 2: soul journey, and it's the greatest honor to be asked
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Speaker 2: to be part of their journey.
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Speaker 1: In this way, you mentor clients in discerning their own
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Speaker 1: inner voice of wisdom. Who or what is that inner.
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Speaker 2: Voice that's our intuition, and you can also call it
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Speaker 2: your higher self, and you can also call it spirit. See,
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Speaker 2: at a certain point, none of the words matter anymore
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Speaker 2: in the way that they sort of segregate or separate
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Speaker 2: out by detail or by nuance. So that inner voice
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Speaker 2: of wisdom is what people might call like our nudges,
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Speaker 2: the things that really propel us in a certain direction
31:51
Speaker 2: that is for our highest good. It's never fearful, it's
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Speaker 2: never shouty and loud. That's the voice, you know, the
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Speaker 2: egoic voice that is designed to keep us safe. But
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Speaker 2: the voice of intuition also keeps us safe if we
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Speaker 2: honor it, if we listen to it, if we trust it,
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Speaker 2: and it is really designed to show us the path
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Speaker 2: to our greatest expansion.
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Speaker 1: Are clients surprised with what they learn or does it
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Speaker 1: become an Aha moment for them?
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Speaker 2: Well, it depends where they are in their journey. For
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Speaker 2: my clients that are pretty deep in their spiritual journey,
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Speaker 2: many of them, after I channel their message, we'll say, oh,
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Speaker 2: my gosh, I knew that, And then I get to say, exactly,
32:39
Speaker 2: there's not likely to be something brand new that I'm
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Speaker 2: telling you because you are so attuned and you are
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Speaker 2: so aware, and you're in your journey. This is but
32:49
Speaker 2: this is so crucial because how many times do we
32:54
Speaker 2: need to hear things over and over and over again
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Speaker 2: before it finally lands. So sometimes it's just my speaking
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Speaker 2: it through their channeled message that allows them to take
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Speaker 2: action on that thing, or allows them to believe and
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Speaker 2: lean back into their trust, which changes the trajectory of everything.
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Speaker 2: So there's that that happens when people are not at
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Speaker 2: all surprised and already knew. And then there are plenty
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Speaker 2: of times when people say I had no idea that's
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Speaker 2: what my spouse needed from me, or I had no
33:27
Speaker 2: idea that that was my person's experience of me that
33:33
Speaker 2: explains why this is going on or why we keep
33:36
Speaker 2: bumping up against each other in that way. So I'd
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Speaker 2: say it's probably half and half.
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Speaker 1: You had mentioned that the voice connects for the highest good,
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Speaker 1: not the egoic voice, but the true voice of connection
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Speaker 1: of spirit. What is the highest good? How do we
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Speaker 1: define highest good?
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Speaker 2: Okay? I believe that our souls are here to for
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Speaker 2: one common purpose. Everybody always wants to know. What's my
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Speaker 2: sole purpose? If we can simplify, it is to learn
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Speaker 2: to love unconditionally, to get closer to agape to that
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Speaker 2: divine perfect love. And the way we play this out,
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Speaker 2: the way we learn this is through relationships. Relationships with
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Speaker 2: our own self, relationships with our family members, our friends,
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Speaker 2: our loved ones, those we work with more than human
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Speaker 2: beings that we are in relationship with, our relationship to
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Speaker 2: the earth. So this is how the soul expresses its growth.
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Speaker 2: It's how it expresses its truth. It's how it calls
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Speaker 2: forward different opportunities and ways to grow. So this is
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Speaker 2: also why we find ourselves sometimes frustratingly. So in similar
34:57
Speaker 2: relationships that feel like they're going no aware or that
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Speaker 2: feel frustrating because we're we are not done playing that
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Speaker 2: thing out. We haven't we haven't received the intelligence sometimes
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Speaker 2: yet about that, or we are stuck in our patterns
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Speaker 2: of behavior and not ready to break free of those
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Speaker 2: to be able to see what more this could be,
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Speaker 2: or what our contribution to this repetition is really all about.
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Speaker 2: So that's my understanding and my belief around why our
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Speaker 2: souls continue to cycle through in this beautiful earthly existence
35:39
Speaker 2: to learn how to be in greater service to divine love.
35:42
Speaker 2: And we are that divine love, but every single day
35:46
Speaker 2: we stray from that, myself included. There's nobody that I
35:50
Speaker 2: know who is in a perfect relationship in this way
35:55
Speaker 2: and in the recognition and expression of this love. It's
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Speaker 2: what it's part of the human experience to try to
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Speaker 2: get closer to it. So that is how we are
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Speaker 2: in the highest service is when we are in the
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Speaker 2: unfolding of our soul's journey to get closer and closer
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Speaker 2: to divine love, which is unconditional and from the vastness
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Speaker 2: of all that has ever been.
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Speaker 1: One of my life lessons and one of the blessings
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Speaker 1: that I've had in my life is, in addition to
36:28
Speaker 1: a forty four year career in industrial technology, I also
36:31
Speaker 1: had a calling in the late nineteen nineties to an
36:35
Speaker 1: organization called the New Seminary of New York, which was
36:38
Speaker 1: one of the first interfaith seminaries in the world. And
36:41
Speaker 1: one of the things that we learned there is that
36:43
Speaker 1: there is an iteration of the Golden rule in virtually
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Speaker 1: every religion around the world. Do unto others as you'd
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Speaker 1: have them, do unto you, Love thy neighbor as thyself.
36:53
Speaker 1: If everybody put everything else aside and just embraced those
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Speaker 1: two facets, what a wonderful world this.
36:58
Speaker 2: Would be, absolutely and that is the world that is
37:03
Speaker 2: absolutely possible because the simplicity of that, how do we
37:08
Speaker 2: want to be treated and treat others in that way?
37:11
Speaker 2: That is? That is love? That's sort of the definition
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Speaker 2: of it. So I love that absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Can anyone learn to channel and connect to our loved
37:23
Speaker 1: ones on the other side, Yes.
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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, I have seen it time and again. The
37:29
Speaker 2: thing is that you one does need to be committed
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Speaker 2: to the practice, and there's not When I say the practice,
37:38
Speaker 2: it sounds like there's one and only, but there's not.
37:40
Speaker 2: It's just like I listed all those things I do
37:43
Speaker 2: for self care and to keep myself as a clear channel.
37:46
Speaker 2: It's going to be a little different for everybody, but
37:49
Speaker 2: with probably very similar components if one is willing to
37:53
Speaker 2: put in the work, the work of showing up to meditation,
37:57
Speaker 2: the work of self actualization, like really digging into where
38:04
Speaker 2: we are stuck, what needs to be healed, what needs
38:07
Speaker 2: to be brought into the light, how we can be
38:10
Speaker 2: in more self acceptance and self compassion, all of these things.
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Speaker 2: There's so many different ways that we can be in
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Speaker 2: service to ourselves, which also means in service to the world. Then, yeah,
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Speaker 2: you can definitely learn to channel from the highest loving frequency.
38:27
Speaker 2: We're all channeling all the time, but we want to
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Speaker 2: learn how to do so from the highest vibration, because
38:34
Speaker 2: when you channel and you bring in the energy from
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Speaker 2: the noisy, dense vibration, not so helpful, not so useful,
38:41
Speaker 2: you just end up contributing to the despair of the
38:45
Speaker 2: world rather than the upliftment.
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Speaker 1: And you had mentioned becoming a clear channel that really
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Speaker 1: requires true listening, listening without interrupting a pine and just
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Speaker 1: listening to what someone else's spirit has to say.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly right, and isn't that sometimes the hardest thing
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Speaker 2: to do.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, What one thing do you want people to know
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Speaker 1: about their own intuition?
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Speaker 2: That it is not separate from you. There are people
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Speaker 2: who think that they're not intuitive, and that's not true.
39:22
Speaker 2: This is a sense that, just along with all of
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Speaker 2: our other senses, we're born with and it is fully
39:29
Speaker 2: intact from the time we're born, and at some point
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Speaker 2: we start to we're taught to separate from it. We're
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Speaker 2: taught to question it. We're taught to doubt it, to
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Speaker 2: disbelieve it, and sometimes even to fear it, which is
39:46
Speaker 2: really unfortunate. So over years of being taught that, or
39:52
Speaker 2: simply recognizing that when we are highly intuitive, it might
39:55
Speaker 2: make other people uncomfortable, and so we therefore learn to
39:58
Speaker 2: accommodate to other people's comfort. There's a lot of different
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Speaker 2: ways that people separate from their true voice. But what
40:06
Speaker 2: I want people to know is it doesn't go anywhere.
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Speaker 2: It's not separate from you. You've just layered some things
40:12
Speaker 2: on top of it, and that's the good news, because
40:14
Speaker 2: you can unlayer those things and recover it and rediscover
40:19
Speaker 2: it and start to use it again.
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Speaker 1: And from my own personal experience, for parents who have
40:25
Speaker 1: a child who start sharing things that may seem a
40:29
Speaker 1: little strange or unusual to them, listen to what your
40:32
Speaker 1: kid has to say, because there's wisdom coming through that
40:35
Speaker 1: child's mouth.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and beauty and love and transcendence, like so much
40:42
Speaker 2: richness from the mouths of our children, of our youth.
40:46
Speaker 1: How may we overcome communication challenges by connecting on a
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Speaker 1: soul level?
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Speaker 2: So I'd start with art centered communication because I think
40:58
Speaker 2: for people that are new to this body of work,
41:03
Speaker 2: just saying, oh, just connect on a soul level might
41:06
Speaker 2: seem a little impossible or a little far fetched. But
41:11
Speaker 2: we all have heart connection. Right now, Victor, you and
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Speaker 2: I are sharing a heart connection. And the heart, I
41:18
Speaker 2: would argue, is the wisest, most intelligent organ of the body.
41:23
Speaker 2: I know that our culture would say it's the brain,
41:25
Speaker 2: But I'm a big fan of the heart, and we
41:27
Speaker 2: do have the ability to attune to and read other
41:32
Speaker 2: people's hearts. There is an attunement that goes on with it.
41:36
Speaker 2: In fact, some of my favorite work of research comes
41:40
Speaker 2: out of Heart Math Institute. So for listeners, go check
41:45
Speaker 2: out the Heart Math Institute, and just see how magical
41:49
Speaker 2: and amazing your heart is at perceiving energy, responding to energy, intuiting.
41:56
Speaker 2: The heart is such an intuitive organ And so I
41:59
Speaker 2: would start with allow yourself, allow your heart to check
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Speaker 2: in with the heart of a loved one, and you
42:09
Speaker 2: can just ask an open ended question like what does
42:13
Speaker 2: my loved one need from me right now in this moment,
42:17
Speaker 2: or how can I be in greater loving service to
42:21
Speaker 2: this conversation or this situation by connecting at the heart level.
42:26
Speaker 2: And I will bet you you'll get guidance because the
42:30
Speaker 2: heart doesn't need to be retrained on anything. It knows
42:35
Speaker 2: and it can guide and lead you. And you can
42:38
Speaker 2: feel in the resonance of your heart and of your
42:42
Speaker 2: greater body when something feels true and right for you.
42:45
Speaker 2: Everybody has a sense for what there yes is right,
42:49
Speaker 2: something that feels open, expansive, warm. We want to lean
42:52
Speaker 2: into it, and then we know what our no is.
42:56
Speaker 2: It feels like we want to retreat, pull away. You
42:58
Speaker 2: might feel constriction, you might feel avoidance or dread. So
43:01
Speaker 2: when you get clear on your yes and no, you
43:05
Speaker 2: can get clear on is what's true for you, what's
43:08
Speaker 2: coming from intuition where you're feeling led.
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Speaker 1: I was inspired. I've been channeling poetry since I was
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Speaker 1: a kid, and I was inspired to write a poem
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Speaker 1: for children called The Brain inside the Heart. Can I
43:22
Speaker 1: share that with you?
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Speaker 2: Wow?
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Speaker 1: We all know the brain. We all know the brain
43:31
Speaker 1: inside our head that's supposed to make us smart. But
43:34
Speaker 1: very few know or have even read about the brain
43:37
Speaker 1: inside our heart. The brain and the heart is very small,
43:40
Speaker 1: but it's much smarter than the other. It's the most
43:43
Speaker 1: sensitive brain of all. When we connect with one another,
43:47
Speaker 1: the brain and the heart can feel things in its
43:50
Speaker 1: very own special way. It always knows when truth rings
43:54
Speaker 1: or when we have gone astray. If we learn to
43:57
Speaker 1: listen when it speaks, we can make our lives the
43:59
Speaker 1: best and navigate its valleys and peaks with love and
44:03
Speaker 1: joy and zest. So always listen to your heart and
44:08
Speaker 1: everything that it tells you. You'll know what to do
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Speaker 1: right from the start, and its wisdom will always bless you.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Picture that came through as a child
44:25
Speaker 2: as a channel poem.
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Speaker 1: No no, no, that came through as an adult four children.
44:29
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that is exquisite.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you so much.
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Speaker 2: Thank you that's exactly. First of all, yes, right, And
44:40
Speaker 2: this is why I want people to check out Heartmouth Institute.
44:43
Speaker 2: They can show you the brain and the heart. They
44:47
Speaker 2: have studied this. There is data, there is science, there
44:50
Speaker 2: is fact behind this. So for those of us that
44:54
Speaker 2: are really stuck in the left brain, yeah, this is
44:57
Speaker 2: actually a thing, and it is You're right. It is smarter.
45:01
Speaker 2: I believe, so much more intuitive and knowing than the
45:07
Speaker 2: brain than the you know what, we get convoluted with
45:11
Speaker 2: our brain, our mind are thinking, our beliefs, et cetera.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. My guest Stephanie Banks, will be back with more
45:18
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Speaker 1: what do you love most and what is most challenging
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Speaker 2: Wow. What I love most are actually the people I
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Speaker 2: get to channel for because it keeps me in the
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Speaker 2: hope that I need to have for humanity. It can
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Speaker 2: be a little tricky, especially for one who does stay
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Speaker 2: informed of global events, to feel the level of I
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Speaker 2: don't want to call it optimism, but love and joy
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Speaker 2: and upliftment when also taking in the difficulty and seriousness
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Speaker 2: of what's going on around. So that's what I love
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Speaker 2: most are the people that I serve and what they
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Speaker 2: are up to in the world. I'm very, very fortunate
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Speaker 2: to channel for people who are saving the Amazonian rainforest.
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Speaker 2: Those are my clients to channel for people who are
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Speaker 2: served in so many different areas on the earth level,
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Speaker 2: on the human level, in the beyond level. So that's
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Speaker 2: what I love most, and what is most challenging, I
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Speaker 2: would say, is I never know what is going to
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Speaker 2: come through what I'm going to say. So the tendency
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Speaker 2: towards like a type a personality that I sometimes identify
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Speaker 2: with that can feel scary. You know, I might I
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Speaker 2: might be channeling for a big group of people or
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Speaker 2: for someone who I really really admire, but it might
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Speaker 2: be a new client that I'm not very familiar with yet,
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Speaker 2: and I can get nervous about that or my you know,
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Speaker 2: I can. I can have just all the same feelings
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Speaker 2: that everybody else does of wanting wanting to be able
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Speaker 2: to prepare, but I can't. There's no preparation for this.
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Speaker 2: I can't like read a chapter and then recite the
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Speaker 2: and I can't really have preparation other than how I
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Speaker 2: take care of myself to be able to bring those
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Speaker 2: messages through clearly. So that's probably what's most challenging is
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Speaker 2: some of the human personality components you.
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Speaker 1: Had mentioned your own practices with regard to Gaya. What
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Speaker 1: are some of the things that you would recommend to
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Speaker 1: our listeners about energetic health, well being and connection with
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Speaker 1: this planet.
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Speaker 2: I think I would want people, especially those who are
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Speaker 2: not accustomed to gardening, to just plant a seed. It
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Speaker 2: really starts that simply. I didn't used to garden. I
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Speaker 2: used to listen to my clients talk about how much
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Speaker 2: regenerative energy they received and replenishment they received from gardening,
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Speaker 2: and I thought, oh, that's nice. Maybe, you know, maybe
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Speaker 2: when I'm older. Why I have no idea why I
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Speaker 2: would want to put this off Now, I garden. I
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Speaker 2: started a little mini food forest in my backyard with
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Speaker 2: my sun when he was like twelve or thirteen, and
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Speaker 2: he has a tremendous green thumb, and he is so
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Speaker 2: attuned to plants it's astonishing, and I thought this would
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Speaker 2: be a good thing for us. To do together, A
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Speaker 2: great place for us to spend time working side by side,
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Speaker 2: being in awe of what grows all on its own,
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Speaker 2: just with some sunshine and water. And this garden now
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Speaker 2: is my respite every day. It is a place where
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Speaker 2: I receive the most replenishment. He is at seventeen, far
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Speaker 2: too busy now to help me in the garden, so
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Speaker 2: it really is I'm kind of on my own, and
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Speaker 2: there's beauty in that too. I just sit out there
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Speaker 2: and I watch the dragonflies and butterflies and birds and
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Speaker 2: squirrels and mice and every creature that and the bees
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Speaker 2: and the flowers and the fruit that grows. I'm in
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Speaker 2: a semi tropical climate, so I grow papaya, as coconuts grow,
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Speaker 2: mangoes grow. I mean, I don't want to make people envious,
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Speaker 2: but pretty much everything grows here and not I got
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Speaker 2: off track, but it started with a seed. And that's
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Speaker 2: what I want people to know. Even if you don't
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Speaker 2: live in an area where you can have a little
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Speaker 2: bit of a plot of land to grow things on,
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Speaker 2: you can get a pot and you can get a seed,
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Speaker 2: and you can start an herb garden and you can
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Speaker 2: just watch a flower grow and talk to it and
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Speaker 2: really become part of the miracle of life here, which
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Speaker 2: is I believe the whole.
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Speaker 1: Purpose absolutely, And you had touched upon this before for yourself.
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Speaker 1: Radical self care. It's essential for everyone, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: It really is. Yeah, I know that when my self
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Speaker 2: care suffers, I am not as clear a channel, I'm
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Speaker 2: not as good a parent, I'm not as attentive a friend.
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Speaker 2: So it's crucial absolutely.
52:57
Speaker 1: How may communicating with our children on a soul level
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Speaker 1: positively impact that relationship?
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Speaker 2: Well, we get to I'm going to refer us back
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Speaker 2: to the beginning of our talk when you were saying
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Speaker 2: how we are not the ones in charge of our
53:14
Speaker 2: children's journeys, right, they are their own souls unfolding their
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Speaker 2: own experiences, and we know nothing. We literally know nothing
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Speaker 2: about what their journey is meant to be. But we
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Speaker 2: have all this previous programming which really does get in
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Speaker 2: the way and interferes with their path and with what
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Speaker 2: they need from us. So when you peel away all
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Speaker 2: that other stuff, the conditioning and the culture and the
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Speaker 2: norms that we've been taught or that we currently believe,
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Speaker 2: and we simply go to soul, then we can have
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Speaker 2: a true understanding of what they're here for and what
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Speaker 2: they need from us in order for us to stay
53:55
Speaker 2: out of their way, but also to protect their path
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Speaker 2: a bit, because that is what we're here to do
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Speaker 2: as parents.
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Speaker 1: I believe have your relationships changed as a result of
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Speaker 1: expressing your channeling gifts.
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Speaker 2: Very much so. My marriage ended, So this is not
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Speaker 2: a little plug. Go ahead and start channeling because your
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Speaker 2: primary relationships may end. However, that's what needed to happen
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Speaker 2: in order for there to be space for all of me.
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Speaker 2: Right there was not room for all of me within
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Speaker 2: the context of that relationship, so the relationship and the
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Speaker 2: container had to change. On much higher notes, I would
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Speaker 2: say that I have the greatest friendships ever, and it
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Speaker 2: is based on truth and honesty and integrity and transparency.
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Speaker 2: And that's what channeling provides. As a parent, I am
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Speaker 2: a much better parent because of the channeling. So in
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Speaker 2: any given moment, even if I find myself stuck in
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Speaker 2: a repetition or you know, old thinking with my kids,
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Speaker 2: my parenting guides are always there to tell me, whoopsie,
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Speaker 2: this is actually where you can do better connecting. This
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Speaker 2: is actually where you can be you know, have the
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Speaker 2: loving influence that you're looking for instead of digging in here.
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Speaker 2: So since I know how to listen for that kind
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Speaker 2: of guidance, it is welcomed to influence me in all
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Speaker 2: of my relationships. And it does, and it has proven
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Speaker 2: to be such a beautiful, treasured, what do I want
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Speaker 2: to call it? Gift really to be able to tune
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Speaker 2: into that and follow that.
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Speaker 1: My guest conscious channel Stephanie Banks. Stephanie, one more time,
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Speaker 1: please share with our listeners where they can get all
55:48
Speaker 1: of your books and find out more about you.
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Speaker 2: Yes, just go to my website soulinsight dot com.
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Speaker 1: Stephanie, thank you so much for joining us and sharing
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Speaker 1: this wonderful, amazing wisdom that everyone really needs to listen
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Speaker 1: to in today's world.
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Speaker 2: Thanks to you, Victor, I so appreciate you following your
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Speaker 2: dharma here.
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Speaker 1: Thank you and thank you for joining us on Destination Unlimited.
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Speaker 1: I'm Victor the Voice Furman. Have a wonderful week