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Ep 42 | Trusting What You Already Know: Embracing Sensitivity, the Body's Signals, and the Inner Voice · Rise & Realign: Conversations for the Sensitive Soul

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Welcome to Rise and Realign, Conversations for
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the Sensitive Soul. I'm Melissa and this space
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is for those of us who feel deeply, love fiercely,
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and sense the world in ways that are hard to
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explain but impossible to ignore. Here we honor
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your sensitivity as a strength. not something
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to fix. Through reflections, realignment, and
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soul -led stories, we remember how to move through
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life in a way that feels true to who we really
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are. This is your space to rise, to realign,
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and to come home again and again. to your own
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wise, sensitive, authentic self. Well, I can't
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believe it's been two whole weeks since I recorded
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my last episode. Episode 41, infinite value,
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reclaiming inner authority from inherited patterns
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and spiritual amnesia. Well, in that episode,
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I shared from my own lived experience of questioning
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and doubting myself, of feeling the weight of
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judgment from both within and without, right?
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And of the gradual unwinding of a nervous system
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that was wound tight for decades. Well, today,
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what's coming through me is really Again, touching
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on how, you know, last week not recording, that
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wasn't something I had intended, you know, I
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usually feel like recording, you know, but so
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much was going on, you know, in the cosmos and
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directly in my own personal life experience.
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And my heart just said to tend to myself. So
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that's what I did last week. And I hope that
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whatever you are navigating, you know, in these
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past two weeks, that you've also been able to
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take more breaks to breathe love and to just
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feel, you know, what's arising for you. Because
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remember, embracing sensitivity is honoring,
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right? Like those sensory intelligent signals
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that we receive and just feeling what we need
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to feel because that's healing, right? Like when...
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When an emotion is evoked within our body, that
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is a form of release, right? We are revisiting
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something from our past, from our ancestral lineage,
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right? Like that is something that's coming up
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for us to just be with, you know, and that's
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not the easiest thing. for highly sensitive individuals,
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right? Like those of us who have this sensitive
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nervous system, right? Sometimes we just want
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to escape the uncomfortableness. And quite literally,
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that's what keeps us in recurring patterns, right?
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Whether they're mildly unhelpful or significantly,
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right? And again, we're each on our own very
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unique journeys. You will hear me say that repeatedly.
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So there's no judgment from me as to how long
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it takes any of us, you know, if we were to measure
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it, so to speak, right? Because there are so
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many factors, so many variables, so many elements
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that go into why we're even navigating what we're
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navigating. And, you know, I'm just really grateful.
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I'm really grateful that I've had the opportunity
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to, you know, wake up to my own inner truth and
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wisdom and authentic voice and to be able to
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recognize, you know, when old patterns are activated
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because that's when we can breathe into it. And
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that's when we start unraveling and releasing
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it, right? Like, we don't always understand that
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the mind -body connection, it's inseparable,
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right? Even if we don't pay attention to it,
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we don't understand it. There is no way, you
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know, to not speak to that wholeness, right?
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And for me, I also include, you know, that spiritual
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side, right? That soul connection to the creative
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source. But when we just stay focused on that
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mind -body connection, you know, like, so much
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of our experiences are stored, right? And they're
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stored, there's so many... So much information
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out there that you can, you know, listen to and,
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you know, I'm sure you've heard, you know, the
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body keeps the score, but there's so much more
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that we can understand on a much deeper level,
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right? If I haven't spoken about it much, you
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know, I got trained in quantum biology for health
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a couple of years ago and I just continue to,
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you know, attend each year because there's so
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much new research that supports what my own spiritual
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awakening was revealing for me. And it puts it
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in language that I'm finding is really helpful
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to the women that I support. You know, like when
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I'm talking about connecting with nature, you
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know, and the way I explain it, you know, I hear
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from The wonderful sensitive women, you know
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that I'm supporting that they've they've not
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thought about it that way You know, they've not
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heard it that way and I feel like I guess maybe
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because you know, I have this Gemini Sun sign,
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you know and an Aquarius rising I think I have
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a Capricorn moon. I'm not sure on that one. Sometimes
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I forget. But anyway, you know, I'm here to be
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a bridge. I've always been fascinated with, you
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know, how do we understand, you know, A to B
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and then to C and to just really connect it all.
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It's truly a pleasure for me to learn all that
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I've learned through my own spiritual awakening
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and direct knowing right to then also exploring
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more of the science right that supports this
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inner knowing and again that's from quantum biology
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for health training but also from there are so
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many incredible you know, individuals who have
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walked this earth, who have shared, you know,
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their own downloads, right? Their own direct
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knowing, you know, whether it came through channeling,
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you know, putting themselves in a trance, whether
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it came from just a direct knowing. There's so
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many incredible resources out there. And so I'm
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just one. one bridge, you know, to helping people
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connect the dots that perhaps they already are
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starting to wake up to more curiosity about.
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And so it's really such an honor to share my
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journey that supports others in their own remembering,
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right? So today, I just want to remind you that,
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you know, if you've been someone who has been
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kind of pigeon -holed or, you know, really spent
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a lot of time within certain frameworks, right,
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whether it's a career path, a relationship, right,
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family dynamic, social, whatever it may be, you
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know, you may find yourself starting to question,
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like, That maybe you are waking up to new information.
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Maybe you are, you know more curious Maybe you're
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the one who's starting to make some changes where
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other people are not even interested like it's
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not even on their radar Right, and I just want
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you to know like You're not alone number one,
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right? Even though it can feel that way and I
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can totally relate because after my spiritual
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awakening in 2008 I Really had a hard time finding
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anywhere and anyone who could really understand
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me Although I'm so blessed my best friend and
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former husband, you know was with me through
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that And I can still talk to him to this day
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about, you know, that experience and the subsequent
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years. But we can also, you know, doubt ourselves,
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right, question ourselves, you know, when we
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don't feel like there's somebody else who can
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relate, who can understand. So. I'm here to let
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you know if you are somebody who's waking up
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to any of these different aspects of yourself,
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right? Like recognizing that there is this direct
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inseparable mind -body connection, right? And
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that it's only going to take you in a direction
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of more dis -harmony, right? Dis -ase. if you
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ignore the body's communication and messages,
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right? Because the body is directly reflecting
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what's been held in mind, right? And again, that
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can be ancestral lineage contributions, not just
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your own lived experiences. But the cosmos is
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also a really great way to understand yourself
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and your journey and why it might be different
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and why it might be unfolding the way it is.
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And again, there's no one right way. Um, I used
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to do presentations on the human design system
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because for me, you know, I got exposed to human
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design, um, 2013. So yeah, over 13 years ago.
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And at first I found it incredibly supportive
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for me understanding like why was I feeling the
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way that I felt? You know, why did I have this
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spiritual awakening? You know, and it gave me
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a lot of language and a lot of support. So I
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will incorporate human design into some of my
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sessions when it seems really helpful. But I
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also share, you know, with my clients astrology,
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right? And Especially when we're sensitive and
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you understand that, you know, embracing sensitivity
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means also understanding and embracing this depth
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of processing that you experience. Vedic astrology
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is that deeper layer, that deeper level, so to
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speak. And there's a little bit of precision
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that comes with, you know, the differences there.
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So I'm certainly someone where, you know, I meet
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the women that I support where they are. And
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I'm just fascinated in so many different areas
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because you've heard me say this before, there's
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no one right way. There is absolutely infinite
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possibilities. infinite ways to live life and
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to experience life. And so my invitation to you
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is to take more breaks to breathe love because
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as you connect with your heart, your body, your
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breath, you're actually allowing yourself to
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come into that centered space where you can start
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to hear and feel more of that inner communication,
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right? Where you're connecting your mind your
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body your spirit and that wholeness of who you
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truly are, you know And I know that this isn't
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something that you know, most people are even
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considering You know, I support people in different
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ways. I also do integrative health clarity consulting.
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And so that's focused on the body, you know,
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first in the sense of, okay, what are we looking
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at? Right? Like, what are your symptoms? What
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are your labs showing? How are you nurturing
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your body? Right? Like all of those kind of physical
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aspects, right? Movement, sleep. But what's what's
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interesting, you know is You know a lot of the
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doctors that they're seeing, you know refer them
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to all these other doctors and it's like So you
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have like six different specialists who are trying
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to support your health. That's an exaggeration
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six I mean one of my clients and we're working
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with like I think four different specialists
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But anyway, the point is is you know, they're
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looking at certain parts of what's going on for
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you, and how to approach that, right? Like, what
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tests what medication, you know, what does it
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mean kind of thing. And when we understand that
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mind body connection, right, whether it's through
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PNI, right, psychoneuroimmunology, I mean, there's
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so many different ways I've also been trained
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in biological decoding where it's going back
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to you know what was the experience right that
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preceded these health symptoms right like we're
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looking at what did you experience what what
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were you not able to process at that time right
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not just what are the physical you know choices
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that you're making and that's really important
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from my perspective because, and believe me,
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I've done it. I certainly was a person where
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I'd be like, oh, I ate that, or, oh, I didn't
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eat that, right? And it's just like, we're looking
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to only our physical, right? That cause and effect
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type of perspective, but that's only part of
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it, right? So, It's really important to understand
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that we are whole beings and what we don't process,
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whether we want to call it mentally, physically,
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spiritually, right? Or in that wholeness, right?
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Then it gets compounded, right? I refer to it
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as, you know, waterlogged. In some ways, in my,
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your sensitivity is intelligent design essentials.
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um course and group but my point is is if we
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just run around and say okay what do we do physically
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or what did we do physically right like we're
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missing a key element which is the mind and again
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i've been fascinated with the mind since i was
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a teenager started working in lock psychiatric
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wards at 19 so like this is just been my path,
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my purpose. And of course, astrology -wise, I'm
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Gemini. And I'm ruled by Mercury. There's just
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so much astrology -wise that explains who I am,
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which is why I like to share it with others.
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Because again, the more we know ourself, the
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more true to ourself we can be. And then when
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we are experiencing the shifts that happen through
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the cosmos, right, that, um, that helps us see
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like, oh, okay, this thing seems to be falling
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apart, right? Or this, this symptom, you know,
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or this illness, whatever it is, seems to be
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getting worse, right? Like we can start to look
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at it from a different perspective, which says
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like, What is this revealing for me? Like, what
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is the opportunity here? Right? And I know that's
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not always the easiest to do. I, again, have
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certainly lived my own periods of time where
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I was very focused on my physical health and
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what's wrong with me. And you've got to figure
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this out. What tests next? You know, for them
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to repeatedly come up with, you know, I don't
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know, it could be this. But now, you know, I
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live in a way that really listens and and honors,
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right? Like embracing sensitivity to the point
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where it's like, oh, okay, I love and listen
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to my body as it changes. So what is this revealing?
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Right? So and actually, you know, recently, my
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own child was in a lot of pain. And I could tell
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his own fears were, were arising. And I could
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recognize the old patterns of how, you know,
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I was as a kid. Because I've shared in other
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episodes, like I was, you know, doctors, hospitals,
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tests, oh my gosh, that was my whole childhood
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you know into adulthood I would say it wasn't
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until you know a few years before my spiritual
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awakening that I finally said enough is enough
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you know this medical you know path is not helping
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me in any way long -term and oftentimes not helping
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at all and causing more harm so It was interesting
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to support my own child in ways that I have never
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thought of doing before, but that definitely
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showed supportive to him. And like I said, my
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quantum biology for health training just enhanced
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some of the things that I had already been putting
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into practice, but maybe not as consistently.
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Like, you know, using sound healing, right frequency
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through sound frequency through tuning forks,
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you know, using red light and near infrared light
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therapy, like all things that support our body's
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natural ability to come back into balance, you
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know, and so I just want to keep bringing you
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back to you that you have everything that you
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need inside. But we don't always know that or
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trust that or even tune into that. And so I'm
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somebody who's here to continue to live it and
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lead it in whatever ways that I can. So I'm inviting
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you to trust yourself more. Trust your own intuitive
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knowing, right? Trust what's coming up for you
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over what somebody else tells you, what somebody
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else says, right? Because as sensory intelligent
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individuals, you absolutely can connect with
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that communication, but it does take some focus,
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right? I think I've talked about focus in another
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episode too, like, you know, we can have a lack
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of focus and be trying to focus on too many things,
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right? That's not strengthening our focus. So
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we really want to focus inward, you know, start
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our day focusing inward, right? And we want to
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make sure that we're checking in with ourselves
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throughout the day so that our focus stays pure
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with what is for each of our highest and greatest
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good from day to day. And that's going to change
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for some more than others. Because again, we
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all have very different journeys. You know, like
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I'm somebody who I've always been unconventional.
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I've always felt, you know, as though there's
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always more to learn. There's always more to
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discover. Um, and so I've just always been somebody
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who learns and grows expands and then boom, it's
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like, Oh, something new, you know, um, I'm not
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here to just stay in one lane and master, you
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know, one career path or one, anything, you know,
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I'm somebody who is here to share a variety,
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you know, and, and I'm really grateful for that
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because, you know, It allows me to support more
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individuals because it doesn't have to be my
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way, right? I don't have one specific way. I
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would say the only one way that I can say I truly
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align with is that the living law of love, you
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know, and that, you know, we each have this infinite
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wellspring of love and light within us, but we
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don't always understand how to tune into it,
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how to tap into it, and how to live from it.
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So that's where I'm coming from today. But yeah,
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I feel like now's a good time for us to, you
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know, take a break and breathe love together
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to just give you that opportunity to tune inward.
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So I invite you to make sure that you're in a
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safe place. If you're going to close your eyes
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and if not, you know, please keep yourself safe.
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But let's have you just noticing your breath.
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You know, if you can close your eyes and just
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notice your breath. Just notice as you're inhaling
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through your nose, you know, feeling the temperature,
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maybe you're feeling it on the roof of your mouth.
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And then as you exhale, if you're exhaling out
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your nose, just again, notice the temperature.
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So you don't need to change anything. You can
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take a break and breathe love just by noticing,
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right? Because you are being breathed, right?
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So just noticing that breath. That's moving freely
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through you. And if you feel called to, I certainly
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invite you to take a deeper inhale through your
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nose and exhaling at your own pace through your
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nose or through your mouth. Through the mouth
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helps signal your nervous system more directly
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to relax. And then maybe the next time you want
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to take that nice deep inhale, long spine, maybe
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take a second inhale before you exhale. And again,
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take a break and breathe love is not one specific
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type of breathing practice. It's just a way to
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connect you with that love and light that's within
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your heart. And so it's a reminder, right? It's
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to realign you with your own heart's wisdom,
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your own inner guidance. And it's to help your
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nervous system to move from stress to rest because
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we need that daily practice, right? We need that.
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Just like you wouldn't run all day without resting,
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right? Like, you know that that's just going
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to increase the adrenaline and the stress in
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your body and that's not healthy, right? So same
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thing with our breathing. We don't want to be
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constricting it and pushing through, you know,
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every experience. We want to be oscillating between,
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you know, more focused, intentional, you know,
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whatever work we're doing, whoever we're talking
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with, right, but then also honoring the need
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to move into that rest. So taking a break and
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breathing love is a way for you to connect and
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tune in to you again. So if you've continued
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with your breathing, you know, I just encourage
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you to feel maybe place your hand on your heart,
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you know, just feel that place in your heart
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center where that leaven light resides so that
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you can trust in yourself more and trust in your
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connection to whatever word you use for source
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and to just know and affirm. I invite you to
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say, I am safe. I am supported. I am here. And
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so, before we close, I invite you to continue
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with your breathing. You know, connecting with
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your body and your breath and to what feels true
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for you right now. There's nothing you need to
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fix. Just notice what's here. Where the heart
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leads, the body remembers and the soul awakens.
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As a reminder, we are here together to rise.
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Reclaim. Remember. And as always, I'm so grateful
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you're here. You are so important. Your voice,
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your presence matters and know that you have
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infinite value. And if you'd like to walk this
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sensitive and strong path with me, you are invited
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to explore everything at realignwithmelissa .com.
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Take good care of you. Much love and light.