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Danielle Matthews - Brain Body Self · Postcards to the Universe

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Welcome to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa Caprio. Do you believe in magic?
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Capria. Hey everybody, and welcome to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa Creating
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the life you create. It's Wednesday, my favorite day of the week.
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I love doing my show. I meet the most interesting people. I hope
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you guys are doing well today. I have another amazing person, author of
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mind Control It's All in your Head and Yell Matthews, and she's my guest
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and she's gonna join me in just a few minutes. I just want to
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say welcome to anyone who is listening to me for the first time. I
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me and to the newbies. Just a little bit about me. I am
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a photographer, I'm an artist, and I'm an author, and I wrote
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about your postcard. So going back to the book that I can't even believe
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it came out right before COVID, I'm doing live readings. I decided to
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who you think would benefit from listening to the live readings. And what I'm
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not you know, I just want to. It reminds me to focus on
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things that are good, things that are positive affirmations, things that we want,
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and it's just I found it a very powerful way to use a visual
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component, because that's what I'm all about. I'm all about the visual component,
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and this week's is I have taken my power back and it's one of
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the stories from my book, and I'm re photographing them. So the photographs
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that I'm releasing each week are different from the ones in the book. I
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decided to go through the book step by step and rephotograph each postcard and tell
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share a little bit about that person's story, and then you can read that
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on my blog, or you can follow along and you can hear the story,
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or of course you can always buy the book and then you can see
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all the stories. Okay, so that's just a little bit about what I'm
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doing. I'm also doing a Manifesting through Gratitude workshop Thursday evenings. It's a
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visual journey, so we're going to be using our camera phones as a tool
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for manifesting, using and focusing on gratitude. It runs Thursday evenings six to
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eight pm, and you can find out all about that if you go to
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Postcards to Theuniverse dot com. I have the whole thing about the workshop and
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how it's laid out. It's five weeks start to finish. We keep rotating
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them and it's a lot of fun. It's online. You can show up
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in your pajamas if you want, with all your tools, all your crafts,
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and we're going to be making postcards. It's going to be a lot
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of fun. And in the new year, I am going to be doing
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a one off Saturday making a manifesting postcard workshop. So when I have that
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date, I will let you guys know about that. Okay, So let
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me get to my guest today, Danielle Matthews. At the age of twenty
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three, Danielle was hit by a drunk driver and sustained a life altering injury
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to her brain. The medical world said that there was no hope of recovery
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and told her to accept this life as her quote unquote new normal. Although
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her body was physically impaired, her spirit was strong and she refused to believe
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their diagnosis. Her mind was determined to recover, and she did. She
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is a testament to the concept of post traumatic growth and has since built an
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international business, leading an organization that did two point two million in sales last
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year, authored an e book called mind Control It's All in Your Head,
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and shares her life altering experience with countless people around the globe. She is
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well versed in post traumatic growth, spirituality, personal development, philosophy, cellular
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health, and entrepreneurship. Post Traumatic growth is how to use challenges in life
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as teaching moments so you can learn the lessons that will propel you into your
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next phase. Turn your pain into your power. I love that. So
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for more information, if you go to her website, brainbodyself dot com you
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can find out more about Danielle. Welcome Danielle. Thanks so much for being
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here with me today. Yeah, Melissa, thanks for having me. I'm
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so excited. Okay, so I'm going to let you tell your story.
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Obviously, it started when you were twenty three with this terrible accident, So
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you want to share about what happened and how you got from there to the
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work that you're doing today. Absolutely, you know it's interesting. I think
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life is always uniquely preparing us for the next step. And as a kid,
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I was always curious about how things worked in the body, and I
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went to school, I studied biology. I was always interested in how things
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work, and out of school, I took a little bit of break before
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going into graduate school, and I did teach for America. I was teaching
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for a couple of years in Denver, Colorado, and after my second year's
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teaching, I was home. It was summer break. I was, you
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know, kind of doing the rounds of seeing friends, seeing family, and
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I was It was seven o'clock in the morning. I was up early.
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I had just hung out with my friend the night before for his birthday,
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and I was meeting my family to go to a wedding, and everything changed.
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I was headed out of Baltimore City and a gentleman that had been drinking
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the night before got behind the wheel of his car and passed down while driving,
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and his car ended up coming into my lane and hitting my car head
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on, I mean, like headlight to headlights, which was actually very lucky
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because the car took a lot of the brunt of the force. I mean
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that's the way a car is like designed to be hit. And so my
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body was okay. In fact, I actually I walked out of the car.
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Oh my god, wow, very clear. Yeah. We thought I
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was okay. I mean honestly, like I had burned from the airbags and
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you know, some bruises and stuff that were already happening, but I seemed
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okay, to the point that actually the paramedics didn't bring me in even though
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I was saying to them, I said, like, I don't feel right,
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like I feel really out of it. And they said, when you're
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just in shock, you know you've had a really shocking experience this morning,
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Like it'll be okay, it'll wear off, and you know, at twenty
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three, I didn't know any better. I'd never been in a situation like
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that before. And my parents were coming to the scene, and when they
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got there, my mom looked at me and she said, something's not right,
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like you don't seem like yourself, and so they took me to an
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urgent care. And the crazy part is they missed my injury. Also.
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They also said I was just in shock, and they told me to kind
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of just carry on with life and it would go away. And a week
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later, I was in so much pain, like my head, oh my
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god, life, Like natural light felt like someone was, you know,
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putting a flashlight in my eye. Any sort of noise was overwhelming, and
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I was hearing everything at the same level. It was like I could hear
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the ac as well as I was hearing like the fork and knife on the
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dinner plate and someone talking to me. It all was coming at me at
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the same level, and it was so overwhelming, and I was just my
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personality had changed quite a bit. I was very blunt because it was like
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life was just too much. Wow, and yeah, it's kind of crazy.
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We eventually got in with my primary care provider. He said, and
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you know you have a head injury. You know you need to see a
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neurologist. And I went into the neurologist and they basically said to me,
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look, what you have is classified as a mild traumatic brain injury. And
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honestly that felt like such an oxy moron at the time because I remember looking
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at the doctor and saying, nothing about this feels mild. I said,
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I can't. I can't do any normal functioning, you know. And he
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said, well, you know, moderate and severe means you have a brain
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bleed or you're in a coma. He said, be grateful that it's just
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mild. And I thought, okay, but how do I function in life?
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And you know, I attempted to go back to work. I've always
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been an athlete my whole life, since I was like eight years old.
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I was a swimmer. I competed in snowboarding in college, Like I was
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always doing different athletics, and you kind of pushed through, and so I
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kind of attaphed the same adopted excuse me, the same attitude, and I
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attempted to push through this injury. But it became very quickly, very clear,
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very quickly, that that wasn't really going to be an option. I
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ended up, you know, trying to work but being unable to, and
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ultimately I lost my job because I couldn't remember what I was saying. I
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couldn't remember kids' names, I couldn't handle the life in the schoolroom. I
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was having panic attacks and I was driving, so someone was having to drive
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me to school to teach, and it was just it was a so I
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once I lost my job, I lost my income, and at the age
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of twenty three, I had not prepared for a scenario like that, and
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oh sure, he had to move back in with my parents, and I
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found myself really on a journey of recovery that you know, it lasted a
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long time, but yeah, it was a wild thing. How quickly life
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can just turn on you. No, that's amazing, and for anybody listening,
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it just shows you the seriousness of a brain injury, right, because
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if you were bleeding from your head, they would have rushed you to the
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hospital and they would have done whatever they do, scans, MRIs, whatever
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they do to look at your brain to see what kind of a had trauma
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you had, right, a brain trauma. But they didn't do that because
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you got out of the car and you walked away, which probably was because
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you were filled with endorphins because you were in shock. Right. That's why
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a lot of times we don't feel pain when we first get injured so bad
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because it's our body's natural way of protecting us, and we feel it later.
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But it's amazing at how much a brain injury can completely derail your whole
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life, which it sounds like happened after the accident until you kind of built
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yourself back up. And you don't call it post traumatic stress disorder. You
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don't call it that because I'm sure there's trauma around the car accident that's natural.
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But you call it post traumatic growth. So what is post traumatic growth?
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Well? To me, you know, I think PTSD is normal when
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something shopping happens to your system and we go through a trauma, it is
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a normal part of just the emotional process to grieve what you lost, to
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be upset, to have anxiety. I think what I see is that sometimes
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people get stuck in that trap. And I was stuck there for about a
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year. I was feeling like a victim, and I was feeling like this
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shouldn't have happened to This wasn't fair, you know why me and of all
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people, you know, it shouldn't have happened to me. And I realized
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about a year in my doctor actually said to me, Danielle, you know
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this is your new normal, Like your body has done the feeling it's going
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to do, and you need to just adjust your life around these symptoms and
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you need to move on. And I remember it felt like he kicked me,
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and I mean it felt like a punch in my gut where I was
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like, you got to be kidding me. I was twenty four and he
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was telling me basically, you're going to be in a dark room for the
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rest of your life, unable to vanage life. And I thought, no
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way, Like number one, you're fired, Like that's not going to be
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it. But number two, I thought, Okay, Danielle, you got
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to figure something out here. And I think there's this concept people people talk
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about karma all the time, and I think people have a misunderstanding of it.
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You know, there's external karma and there's internal karma. And external karma
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is like say you have a billiard table and you you know, you hit
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the white ball, and it hits all the different billiard balls and they're all
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moving all over the place. Like external karma was the white ball, but
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it caused a ripple of events. You know, I don't know what ripple
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of events led to that man and I being on the same road and you
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know, being hit by him and me getting a brain injury. Like that
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was external karma. Your internal karma is your internal response to an event.
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And your internal response is the only thing you have control over. It's the
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only thing that actually really matters in life, and it will ultimately determine the
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outcome you know that you experienced what your life experience actually is. I think
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it's easy for people to understand. Like I always think about someone who maybe
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there's an alcoholic father who has two sons, and one son, you know,
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grows up and becomes an alcoholic and the other one never touches the drop
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of alcohol. And you ask them like, well, why are you the
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way you are? And they both say, just look at whom my father
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was well saying that's nal karma, same dad, that's an alcoholic. One
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internal karma was well, I've never had a ben example, this is just
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how life is, and becomes an alcoholic. The other says, I'm never
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going to touch this. This isn't the way I want to live my life,
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and therefore their outcome in life is very different. So what I learned
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about a year in to my accident, when I was told basically people in
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the external world didn't have an answer for me, That's how I took it.
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I said, Okay, thank the neurologists don't have an answer. The
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world's not offering a solution. I need to go inwards. And I just
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started to reflect on okay, Danielle, what do you have control over here?
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Like what can we manage? And I was severely depressed. I had
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severe anxiety. I was having panic attacks all the time because the moment I
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thought about in my future, I freaked out because it was like I didn't
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know how I feel a day from now, let alone if I'd ever be
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able to work again, and you know, if I thought about the past,
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it felt like that was flipping further into further away, this you know
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woman that had been so successful in life and had achieved so much, and
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you know now I couldn't do any of those things. I didn't even recognize
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myself. And so I just I forced myself into the present moment, and
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I forced myself to internally think, Okay, what would make me happy right
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now? How could I be with this situation? What if I just say,
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there's new rules on this game that is my life, and now I
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have to find happiness within these new rules. Like instead of focusing on what
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I can't do, why don't I focus on what I can do? And
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I just shifted write the internal karma, the internal response, and I started
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to say, Okay, well, I could walk the dogs, I could
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sit in nature. I could enjoy my grandparents and sit in a dark room
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with them. You know. I started to find say I could cook,
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I could read, I could have face to be created, which I had
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never ever allowed myself to just like be, I was always doing right,
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And I started to realize that this internal shift that was happening was literally impassing
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my external world. My parents became less stressed because they saw that I was
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actually happier. My internal vibration shifted. I went from being angry and depressed
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and resentful to joyful, grateful, like happy. And when that shift occurred,
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and I know you know this well because it's what you talk about,
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I attracted in the answer to my physical challenges and I started on the process
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of actually repairing for my brain injury that I was told I number would wow.
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Yeah. See, it was that internal shift that you made instead of
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looking at yourself as a victim, because we can and we do have things
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happen to us, which if you just see what happens, you could call
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yourself a victim. You decided, I don't want to live in victimhood.
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This terrible thing happened to me. That's true. I have some issues now
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that I have to deal with and I have to address, but I don't
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have to accept what others are telling me, and I can start to look
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at my life differently. And you had an emotional and a vibrational shift,
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which is so amazing because that is when these outside things started coming into your
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life that helped you heal so really quick. Because you mentioned this a couple
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of times about having to be in a dark room. So this brain injury
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has affected how you can be in light. Are you still having those issues
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about being in the outside with a lot of light on your Does that still
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bother you and hurt your eyes or bother your brain? Thankfully, I've had
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basically a full recovery. I a mega paint the picture of how things were.
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Yeah, I could not handle noise, I couldn't handle my I had
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severe migraines. I would get tired after like two hours of being up and
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I would have to nap. I would get overwhelmed going to the grocery store.
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Like no one realizes the grocery store is one of the most all of
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the colors, all of the people, all of the lights. It was
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like that would be the one activity I could do in a day, if
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you know. I had to go grocery shopping, and it was good therapy
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for me crushy to like push myself. But it would knock me out because
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I just couldn't I couldn't handle it, and you know, I'd get dizzy.
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I mean, there was like a litany of things that I was having
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issues with. My processing seed was really slow, Like I It's kind of
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like I was thinking through much like I couldn't get the words out I wanted
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to. I could describe it, so I couldn't like articulate what was in
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my mind. It was just really slow, which I'm not used to,
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like I'm used to what you're hearing now, which is like a very saft
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mind that's like connecting and conversating and and happy. And I was just I
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was really depressed. It was a really really dark time. Wow. So
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when you said everything, things started to shift for you and you in your
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family noticed. Your parents were happier because they could see that something shifted inside
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of you, and you manifested these things to help you heal. What were
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the things that showed up in your life that helped you on your healing journey.
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Yeah, Well, we got a phone call from an acupuncturer and she
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had known my mom and she knew what was going on with me, and
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she said, you know, I've come across something in my practice. It's
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a biotech discovery that helps with stiular repair. It's called redox signaling ribox redoct
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okay, And she said, she said, this basically increases the communication in
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your like in your body so yourselves can better detect where things are damaged yourselves,
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activate the genes that help with your immune response, and you know,
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modulating hormones and all this stuff. And she said, you know, all
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of her clients were having results with it, and I, being a biology
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major, I was like, I never heard about that stuff. Like that
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sounds crazy, I wrote her, all, which is wild. I think
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I didn't know about the law of attraction back then. I didn't know that
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the universe would provide answers as you should. I didn't know I was unconsciously
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competent in the fact that I had shifted my vibration but right. So my
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mom, however, was more aware, and so she bought this stuff.
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She started using it, and my mom had great results with her own like
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strange of motion or hands, and my dad started to be able to like
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work out and do more. I mean, they were like, oh my
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god, we feel thirty years younger. And they said, Danielle, look,
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we've researched this stuff and basically it cannot hurt you, Like there's really
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no toxicity. It's native to your body. Your body will recognize it,
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it won't contraindicate, like just drink some stuff and just see what happened.
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Like, there's no there's no downside, right, it either won't help or
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will help, So let's see. And that's that's really the thing that started
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to shift everything. So when I started to it's like a liquid you drink
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and okay, that's what I was going to ask you, what is it?
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It's a liquid that you chaing. Okay, okay, is it considered
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homeopathic? Is it considered a homeopathic kind of thing? Because I know a
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little bit about No, Okay, yeah, it's not a homeopathic honestly,
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like I would put it in a category of its own because I'll tell you
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what it's not. So it's not nutral, it's not an antioxidant. It's
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not an essential oil. It's not a CBD. It's not a homeopath pathic
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remedy. All of those things are great. I mean I tried all of
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those things. This is really this is like if you were to think of
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your body as like a house, and you know, the typical things we
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have to support our body, or like the nutrition, it's like the building
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blocks, like the raw materials that we give the body. This is more
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like the workers that come on to the job site and actually get the job
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done, like they put it all to work, like they take the shingles
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and they put it up on the roof. Right. This is the workforce
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of the body, a labor force. And you have a lot of these
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readoct molecules when you're young, and you make less as you get older.
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And I mean I wasn't that old. I was in my mid twenties.
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But it's just I had so much damage. It was like, you know,
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five diys trying to get a job done after a hurricane, Like it
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takes more time. If you could put twenty guys on the job site,
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the time will collapse. And that's what happened with me. So I started
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drinking this stuff. I was drinking about eight ounces a day, and I
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didn't notice anything like major. It wasn't like this cut up like you know,
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yeah, my full moment and nothing like that happened. But about three
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months in, I noticed that the pounding in my head like stopped. And
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that had been constant since the day of my accident, like constant. Wow.
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And I remember thinking to myself, Man, if this is the only
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thing that this helps me with, like I can live life now, like
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I can I can function in the world if my head's not pounding. But
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as I stayed on it, my clarity came back. It was like I
26:00
wasn't thinking through mud anymore. My energy came back. I wasn't having to
26:03
nap, and as I continued, my sensitivities are like they're not here anymore.
26:10
You know, you ask if I still am in a dark room.
26:11
No, I can handle life. I live in Florida and it's the suntime
26:15
state, and I can be honest. Any Wow, it has been a
26:21
beautiful journey, and I'm just so grateful that, you know, she got
26:26
the pinion from the universe to call my family and to let us know that
26:30
this was an option out there. Oh my god, that's amazing. I
26:33
want to talk more about that, but I see that we're coming up.
26:37
We're coming up to the half hour mark, so let's take our break here
26:41
and then we'll come back in a few minutes and we'll continue our conversation.
26:45
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and welcome if you're just joining me. I'm speaking with Danielle Matthews and she
30:04
is sharing with us her journey from a head injury, from a car accident,
30:12
back to her healing journey, really back to being where she wants to
30:18
be now in her life, and she's sharing that with the world. So
30:22
it's really really interesting. So so Danielle, of course during the break,
30:25
I had to I had to google free docs. I'm like, let me
30:30
look it up, and I'm like, oh, this is really really interesting.
30:33
So it's I mean, obviously i'd have to really look into it.
30:37
But is it is it that the it's it's helping your cells heal on a
30:45
molecular level faster. Is it like supplying each cell with whatever it needs to
30:51
heal itself in a faster manner? Like I don't know how to explain it,
30:56
and played English, so you know better than me. So I'm just
31:00
trying to form what I briefly read. If that's what I'm understanding, you
31:03
did your research, Well, yeah, if I have to say, like
31:07
in a nutshell. So like the redox doesn't do the healing, but what
31:10
it does is it stimulates the call for help, so the body can do
31:14
what it was want to do and it can get back into its optimum.
31:18
I often think of it like the life force of the body, and it's
31:21
just bringing more of the life force into you so that the communication is stronger.
31:26
It's like getting five bars of service back on your cell phone when you
31:30
know you've had one bar service, Like when the signal's there now right,
31:33
the phone can do what it's designed to do. Your body can do what
31:36
it's designed to do. And it's all about cellular repairs. And so you
31:38
know, my issues were more in my brain, but it doesn't matter,
31:42
like every issue in the body is a cellular issue. Like we're just trying
31:47
itself. And every person that you know will were to drink this or they
31:52
have a topical version now too, Like it just will stimulate the signaling to
31:56
where those damaged cells are, and you know, you think about the ripple
32:00
effects of that with what that would mean for each individual person. Yeah,
32:05
no, it's really amazing. I'm definitely going to read more about that after
32:08
the show. That's see, this is the reason I love having my show
32:13
because I learned something from each person who I have as a guest teaches me
32:19
something that I didn't know, and you know, information is power, right,
32:22
so it's like I love learning more things. So okay, so now
32:28
you're feeling that you're starting to see some things happening, You're starting to feel
32:32
better. Did you go into other healing modalities to try to accelerate the healing?
32:40
What did you do when you started to notice hmmm, I am kind
32:44
of feeling better here with this, taking this, This is doing what it's
32:46
supposed to be doing. I kept everything the same. I mean, so
32:51
I started using this two years out from the accident, and in post two
32:57
years, I had tried a variety of things that I had done boxing treatment,
33:00
I've done the feedback, We'd changed my diet, I was taken supplements.
33:05
I feel that I had primed my body to be in a very like
33:08
all the materials were on the job site, right. So when the redox
33:13
came in, it just amplified everything and I was not about stop anything that
33:17
I was doing. I was like some combination of like this coming into what
33:22
was already in my system is rocket, so I just kept everything and then
33:27
about six months in I said, okay, let's start peeling some things away
33:31
and see if I still feel good. And so I just slowly started to
33:35
pytratee off everything else that I was doing until just the redox was left and
33:39
I felt fabulous. And it's now been oh my gosh, it's been nine
33:44
years. So I failed to this day take my redox. I believe you
33:49
know, there's more and more research that has come out with it. And
33:52
like the biologist in me, obviously after I had this experience I had,
33:55
I went okay, like, well, what actually happened, Like what on
33:59
the side of the level is really going on? And I started to learn
34:02
that this was upregulating like the NRF two pathway, which helps with inflammation.
34:07
It helps your body detoxify because it increases blue defiance levels, and I was
34:13
like, this just makes sense to stay prolessed, right, Like once you
34:16
lose your health, you never want to again. And I think you know,
34:21
we realize as you like, I know you realize this well, and
34:23
those listening probably are more in change with this, but like our physical body
34:27
is a vessel and we need to keep it at as optimum, because if
34:30
it's not at as optimum, we cannot connect in you know, with the
34:34
fine as well, our intuition is not going to be as strong, Like
34:37
we're going to be distracted by the physical things that are going on. And
34:40
so I have worked diligently to keep my physical body well and like, if
34:45
myself stay healthy, like that's going to truckle up to help every part of
34:49
my body. So that's what I have stayed on and stay true to.
34:53
I obviously like eat well and I stayble hydrated. Right there, all these
34:57
things need to happen. But this really was if I had to look at
35:00
my journey, this was like the tipping point, like this was when things
35:07
really started to shift when that got introduced into my regimen. Yeah, I
35:12
mean, I imagine it must have, especially when you started noticing that some
35:15
of these issues you were dealing with we were no longer there, like the
35:21
head pounding and the migraines and the you know you can't help, but notice
35:24
how you can function so much better when you're not having that twenty four hours
35:29
a day, seven days a week. I can't even imagine. Now do
35:32
you consider that? Because I know you talk about quantum healing. Is that
35:37
something that you call Is that what quantum healing is what you were doing?
35:40
Or can you explain to us who have never heard that before quantum healing?
35:45
Yeah? Absolutely So as I kind of continued on my journey of recovery,
35:51
I entered I would say more of a spiritual journey, and I think that
35:55
that's true of most people that go through trauma. And I think that's the
35:59
journey of post traumatic growth. Is it opens you up to asking seeker questions,
36:04
maybe more esoteric things that we would typically ask, like well, why
36:06
am I here? Like what is my purpose? What am I doing?
36:09
And I started to really ask these things and I ended up at an Oshbrom
36:14
I met my spiritual teacher, and I started to learn a lot more about
36:17
just you know, who I really am and this whole body of mine complex.
36:22
And I started to meet some really incredible healers, quantum energy healers,
36:27
like just beautiful people from around the world. And as I started to share
36:30
the readop with them, they started to have a very different opinion of it.
36:37
Like I understood it from the biological standpoints, right, the stuff that
36:39
we can like test here, and they were feeling the energy of the product,
36:45
and they were saying, Dan, yell like, the energy of this
36:46
is like meeting me before your energy does. When I entered the room,
36:50
like what is this stuff? And then when they would use it, they
36:52
would say things to me like, well, this is shifting my body.
36:55
I feel that I'm shifting into a crystalline state. I feel that, you
36:59
know, it's to calcimind my pineal gland, all these things that like the
37:02
scientist doesn't can improve. But I've heard it so often from people in the
37:07
spiritual community. I went, you know, it makes sense, like the
37:10
link that my brain like has a very logical brain, but I also,
37:15
you know, know that this is very true everything they're telling me in the
37:16
realms that they're in touch with, but I'm just not. And I said,
37:20
well, this makes sense because redox it's reductance, and oxidant it's the
37:24
exchange of electrons. So on the cellular level, what's actually going on is
37:30
that there's an energy transfer. And when we go into the quantum field,
37:34
we know that everything is just energy and it's the flow of energy. So
37:37
when I say it's quantum healing, it's because that's what's going on. We're
37:42
actually moving and putting more energy into the system encoded in a way that the
37:47
biological body knows how to work with it and to signal more repair. And
37:52
it's just it's incredible. Then what you know, the body knows what to
37:57
do with that. But we're talking about on a quant of levels more energy
38:00
getting introduced into the system, and you know, the body just knows what
38:05
to do with that. So that's the way that I look at it.
38:07
Wow, No, it's really I'm really gonna look at this more because you
38:12
know, I take I take asthma medication. I take it like I'm down.
38:15
You know, I've gone down on my own naturally, and I just
38:17
don't want to be on it. I just don't. And I'm going to
38:21
look at this because I don't want to be a slave to pharmaceutical medications.
38:27
And I'm not knocking them, So whoever's listening, I'm just saying personally,
38:30
I would rather just not have to have that in my in my cabinet.
38:36
So yeah, that's very interesting to me. So let's talk about these spiritual
38:39
lessons, especially from a person who is very is it left brained? Is
38:45
it that you're very left brained? If you're very analytical and logical. Is
38:49
that is that right? I always get those wrong right or left brain?
38:52
So if you're if you're very left brained, how did you reconcile this with
38:59
the spiritual lessons that came to you from what happened to you? Because in
39:02
the beginning, you did what we all do. Something terrible happened to you.
39:07
It was traumatic, and you said, why me, how could this
39:10
happen to me? I'm a good person, you know what I mean.
39:14
I'm sure you said that I'm a good person. Why does this happen to
39:16
me? So what were the spiritual lessons that presented themselves as you were going
39:22
on this healing journey? Well's really interesting. As I mentioned earlier, like
39:29
I was, I couldn't think about the future because I get this, And
39:32
I couldn't think about the past because I get depressed. And so interestingly I
39:37
forced out of like necessity so that I wouldn't take my own life. I
39:40
mean it was that drastic. I was like, you need to be in
39:43
the present moment, Daniel, Like you got to just stay present, right,
39:46
and every spiritual teaching, what does it tell you? Yes? True
39:52
present? And so I didn't understand at the time right that I was like
39:57
tapping into the core in the essence of a lot of the spiritual teachings.
40:00
But when I was present, what opened up for me was like this doorway
40:05
opened, and all of a sudden I started I started to be able to
40:09
see that I had these thoughts that were not helpful, and that my own
40:15
mind was actually incredibly detrimental to my well being. And I started to go,
40:21
why am I paying attention to my mind? My whole life, I
40:24
had been identified with my mind. That's who I thought I was, and
40:29
that's like my emotions when they came, I just expressed them, and that
40:31
was how it was. But in this space, because I was really so
40:37
present, I noticed that these like reflexive actions were coming in my mind and
40:43
you know, reactive emotions to certain situations. And I saw it first in
40:45
other people honestly before I saw it in myself. But then I started to
40:50
see it in myself and I realized that I could just be the witness,
40:54
that I could actually watch this and not engage with it. And this literally
41:00
set me free. It is what allowed me to increase my vibration. And
41:06
it was about twenty fifteen so my askedid happened in twenty twelve. It so
41:08
about three years later I found myself going to an Oshrum. The way I
41:15
had got there is kind of an interesting story, but the moral of it
41:17
was I had helped a woman named Comedy Desai, who is an incredible spiritual
41:22
teacher. I had helped her with a book citing research about what the West
41:24
had to say about meditation. So I was helping her with that and she
41:30
said, I'd love to get you a training. Why don't you come?
41:31
You can meet my father and it's in Florida. And I had kind of
41:35
written it off, but then I ended up moving to Florida and I called
41:37
her and I said, where is this place? And you know, she
41:40
said, Daniel, it's two hours from you. It starts in like a
41:43
week. What comes, we have space leads. So I walked onto the
41:45
grounds of the Omri Yoga Institute. I didn't know what an Oshram was.
41:51
I didn't know I didn't know who her dad was. Well, her dad
41:53
as I mean, like a living legend. He's one of the first foods
41:57
that came over from India. At sixties, he founded for Bolu Institute,
42:00
like just amazing individual. And I listened to these teachings and what they said
42:07
on the very first day resonated with me. So they said, look,
42:12
the Yogi used to study this question. There was one truth that if known
42:15
solved everything, what would that to see? And what they landed on is
42:21
that the truth is that you are not your thoughts. You were the witness
42:24
that is there before, during, and after. And I thought, oh
42:29
my god, that is the same thing that I learned, and that was
42:32
the thing that set me free. And so after that, for the next
42:36
ten days, I was wide open, heart blown open, mind open because
42:39
I knew the truth of that statement, and so I just listened to everything
42:45
else that these guys had figured out over the years. And I also had
42:50
direct experience. So they developed tools like yoga, nidra, a specific guided
42:54
meditation, and yoga therapy, and I would do these things and I would
42:59
experience viscerally in my own body. You know, these teachings that on the
43:02
mind level made sense. But then when you can experience connecting with the divine,
43:07
when you can experience being more than your thoughts, being more than your
43:10
body, it just makes those lessons undeniable. Mm hmm. Wow. No,
43:19
I know exactly what you're talking about, and I've heard other guests talk
43:27
and have had similar experiences, and I know from my own personal experiences with
43:32
some things that have happened what you're talking about. So hopefully people who are
43:37
listening are really kind of grasping the deeper meaning of what you're saying. But
43:42
a good way to practice is being just in the present moment and when a
43:46
thought comes in, really asks why that thought came in, and realized that
43:51
you don't have to accept that thought, just witness it. It's practice.
43:55
It takes practice, right, I'm sure. I'm sure you've this all the
44:00
time, but it's really really interesting. Now did that lead to your book
44:05
Mind Control? It's all in your head? Yes, Actually this might be
44:09
the best place for people to start. So what I sted to realize was,
44:13
Okay, there were some simple steps, like there is a process I
44:15
went through that opens me up to all of this, and so I share
44:19
those steps in the book, and I kind of share in my like,
44:22
through my story, the steps that it took for me, so that anyone
44:25
else can apply them. And it's a free you know, it's a free
44:29
ebook, free download. You just go to my website, Brainbodyself dot com,
44:32
slash ebook and anybody can grab it because it's like, I don't want
44:37
you to have to go through what I went through to learn these lessons.
44:38
I do believe these are the secrets to the universe. I mean this is
44:44
this is revealing to you what the human journey is all about, and it
44:49
makes it all make a lot more sense. Uh. And I think when
44:52
you master this inner world, and when you understand the inner self, the
44:58
external world just becomes a playground. You don't take anything so seriously, you
45:01
don't take yourself so seriously, and you realize that everything is actually unfolding for
45:06
your benefit. Like my accident is the best thing that's ever happened in my
45:09
entire life. It has taught me so much. It has allowed me to
45:14
become a person. That's why I talk about post traumatic growth, because without
45:16
that trauma, without a reflection point, when life is going good, you
45:22
don't question. But because it went poorly, because there was a massive challenge,
45:27
I had to dig deeper, I had to pull something else out of
45:30
myself. I had to ask different questions and therefore it get different answers,
45:34
different results, different outcomes, and you know, now I'm in a position
45:39
where I'm helping others, Like I have a course of inner management mastery,
45:43
and I'm helping other people have these same discoveries to see how that can then
45:46
impact their life. And you know, I've been sharing the readocs with people
45:52
all over because how could you not, you know, you come across something
45:54
so powerful and you're like, things happen for a reason, Like I think
45:59
there's a reason that I was a biology major and then I did education,
46:02
you know, before my accident, And now what an interesting form it's taken
46:07
that I'm educating about a biotech discovery, you know, like, yeah,
46:12
it's just it's beautiful how all the pieces come together. Well, I'm glad
46:17
you said it, because that's what I was thinking when you know, listening
46:22
to you talk that this happened to you because it had to happen to you
46:28
because you were the right teacher to share the information in the right way,
46:31
or it wouldn't have happened to you. It would have happened to somebody else.
46:35
That's the way I believe about everything, right. And there's people that
46:38
have these of certain people that certain things happened to, and they take their
46:44
pain and they transmute it, right, and they say, Okay, I
46:50
I got something terrible happened and I found a way to heal from it,
46:55
and I have to share that information so people don't have to go through the
47:00
trauma to get to the healing part, right. You know you don't know
47:05
that, don't right, So it's like you have to share the information,
47:09
which I love that that's the work that you're doing. And what is it
47:17
now? Like, so I'm looking at the time, So we have nine
47:22
minutes, so we have a little time. So what is it that is
47:27
the most important thing that you think people who are listening to you, after
47:31
the experience you've had, should take from what you're sharing with us just to
47:37
live life in the world as it is today. I mean, if you
47:42
look at the world today, it's very stressful. People are so stressed out,
47:45
people are so angry. You can feel it, you know online.
47:50
I mean, if you're socially online, you can see it. Everywhere you
47:53
go. All we hear is bad news, bad news that comes at us
47:58
twenty four hours a day. We never get a break anymore. Like back
48:01
before you know, where there was a time, you know, before the
48:06
internet, where people had like the day was shut off, you could rest,
48:10
you know, we don't have that anymore. So that is damaging to
48:15
ourselves talking about cellular damage. So what can we do just living a regular
48:21
life? What I would say the number one thing and then I'll share a
48:25
secondary, But the number one is to understand external Thus internal equals outcomes the
48:32
external world, the things that are happening, so the car accidents, the
48:37
politicians, the you know, everything that's going on externally is going to happen.
48:44
We have very little control over it, right, but it's our internal
48:49
response that's going to determine our outcome, our result, the way that we
48:52
feel life. So how are you choosing to be with what's going on?
48:57
Are you allowing it to upset you? Are you your body and your mind
49:01
all of these intense things, or are you shutting it off? Are you
49:06
choosing? Right? We all have a choice, So I would say,
49:08
in any situation, figure out what choice you have where you do have control
49:15
and start there. You know, can you leave the situation, can you
49:20
voice an opinion, can you you know, shift or change anything because of
49:23
the power that you have over that act where you can and realize where you
49:29
can't and then what I have learned is that when you shift the internal world,
49:35
you start to ripple out. So it's like light shining in a dark
49:38
room. When you shine light, the darknesses vanishes. There is no power
49:44
struggle. And when you have a higher energetic vibration, you shift the energy
49:50
of the room. So the more you work on your inner state, the
49:53
more you're able to master the inner world, the more you have control over
49:59
how you interact, respond, how you're able to keep your own you know,
50:02
feelings and emotions regulated. The higher the vibration, you literally will shift
50:07
and change the people around you. And when you know, when they say
50:10
be the change you want to see in the world. I always thought that
50:14
was like an action that you took and be like, you literally have to
50:17
internally be at a higher vibration and it will shift and change around you.
50:24
And I think that more people like we have to realize that we have that
50:30
choice. We're not at the mercy of this external world. We actually have
50:32
an internal choice about it. And the more of us that realize that,
50:36
it's like more life's getting turned on and then there's going to be like a
50:39
wildfire, you know, around the world, and it will shift everything but
50:44
we have to teach people this because people are not being taught that. And
50:47
you know, the world is so divisive. It's pulling us so much into
50:51
our ego minds, it's pulling us into the vision, it's making us fearful.
50:54
All of these things are very much of the mind, the thing that
50:58
we are not, but it can take over because of the way our bodyline
51:00
complex is built. So sure, that would be my advice. The number
51:06
one is just go internal, figure out where you do have control and what
51:09
you can can't do to react and respond to the way life's shown up.
51:14
Yeah, do you have a daily practice that you do that sort of sets
51:17
the space so that you approach the world that way? Like you said you
51:22
were in an ashrum for a little bit. Do you do a morning meditation
51:24
or like, do you have something that is a quick that helps people shift
51:30
out of being engaged, being plugged in, you know, to the outside
51:34
world, and how to plug into the internal world. The breath is the
51:38
bridge. So Okay, I practice breathing. I'll do it in the morning,
51:45
and I do it throughout the day. I did it before our call.
51:47
I breathe in through my notes, and I breathe out through my mouth,
51:51
and it's so simple. And the inhales maybe the kind of three the
51:53
x sale to five, the point being the excale should be longer. And
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that's literally hold the energy, like our life force gets pulled up into our
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brain, into our mind in all of these thoughts and fears of stress.
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The most you start to breathe, energy follows attention. So now you're bringing
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attention to the breast and it actually pulls the energy back into your body and
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you will feel a shift, like your nervous system will actually shift, it
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will start to balance out, and that is going to help you being more
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in control than your day. It's going to allow you to take power back.
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So that's something I also get out in nature every day, so I
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now live in the middle of the woods. I love it. I think
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that resets me. I'll pet my dog right if something's going off, you
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know, he grounds me. He's like my little healer. And I practice
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Yoga Nindra, which is a guided meditation. And if anyone has a hard
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time meditating, Yoga Nindra is done laying down. You do it comfortably and
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you just listen to a voice guide you. And if you go to my
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website. If you go to this self tab, I have a free one,
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so anybody can listen to it. It's just twenty minutes and it will
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profoundly fift you. And you can find twenty minutes in your data reset,
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whether it's the beginning in the middle of the end. I kind of stick
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my Yoga Nindra wherever I feel like my body needs to hit the reset.
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Butson, yeah, no, that's good. I like Yoga Ninja too for
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meditation because I have a hard time sitting and just letting my brain go completely
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silent. I'm much better when I have a meditation that is guiding me.
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You know. I seem to be able to latch onto the voice and go
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on that journey much easier than if I'm left to my own if I'm left
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to my own brain devices. Well, oh my god. Yeah, So
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you have a lot of things that you're offering. I mean, just the
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fact that you know, for you guys listening, she's giving away her ebook,
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which is very generous your mind control to anybody who wants it. Mind
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control. It's all in your head, you know, And I think everybody
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listening should download that because you know, like I said, earlier. Information
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is power, right, and it's just showing us another way to think about
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things because we can see that things are changing now. Is there anything that
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you didn't get to share that you feel is really important. We only have
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a couple of minutes left, and I want to give you that opportunity.
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I think that the other thing I would say is if you want to reach
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out and connect, I'm all over social media. I love you know.
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I want to be a bright light online. Because of what you said earlier,
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Melissa, there's so much negativity and intensity. I just put out things
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of value to help remind you round you, bring you back into the spaces
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that you do have control over, remind you that life is actually beautiful and
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amazing. Things are unfolding, but we forget that there is polarity in life.
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And I'd say this is the second tip that I'd like to just leave
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everybody with. We live on a planet where there is hot and cold,
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there's love and hate, there's dark in light. And the problem we humans
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get into is that we have a preference. Right, my dog doesn't care
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if it's daytime or nighttime. He just exists. We start to have a
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preference. We like this, we don't like this, and what happens is
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that guess this into duality where something shows up that is the opposite of what
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we're wanting and we're resisting it. If we can just go back to accepting
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that this is all part of one hole. In order to know freedom,
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you have to know what it's like to be controlled. In order to appreciate
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your health, like I do, I had to lose it, so one
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gives the others. You know. I was looking at birds yesterday just flying
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overhead, and like I was actually with my spiritual teacher, and he said,
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birds don't appreciate their freedom because they've never known bondage. Hmmm. I
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love that it's true. Oh my god. Well, Danielle, it has
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been such a delay. Please check out her brain byself dot com and connect
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with Danielle. Thank you so much for being with me today. And guys,
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go to my website check out my Manifesting through Gratitude workshop and I hope
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you join me. Thank you for listening to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa
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creating the life you crave. And I'm wishing everyone a wonderful week filled with
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joy, abundance and love. Peace,