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Plant Healing is Ancestral Healing · Remember Why You Are Here

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Your life, your beautiful precious life,
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is an offering. It's an offering for the evolution of this world.
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It's an offering for the healing of your lineage,
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and you are already helping this world just by being yourself.
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Hello and welcome back to Remember Why You Are Here,
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a podcast for seekers and sensitives where you can relax, receive,
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reconnect yourself,
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and remember the most important thing of-all why you're here.
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I'm Asia Suler, author, earth intuitive, herbalist and teacher,
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and in this episode today we're going to talk about how plant
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healing is ancestral healing,
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how the two work together to support one another,
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but also how through just working with the plants,
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we are naturally undertaking the kind of ancestral healing that we're
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So I have seen the rise of both of these disciplines,
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immensely, over the last 15 years.
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Plant medicine and ancestral healing have both really raised to the forefront
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of our cultural awareness. And this is for good reason:
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not only because both are so deeply needed and both are so deeply a part of
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our human history, our evolution,
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our literal matrix as human beings,
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but also because the two work really well and really powerfully together.
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I have absolutely seen these two disciplines weave and work together
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essentially in my own life, each one supporting the other,
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each one helping the other to flourish, to open,
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to reach greater heights of potential.
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And I also see that there is such a potential right now in the
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world for these two forms of healing to be more
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intertwined, because at the end of the day,
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I really think plant healing is ancestral healing.
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And in this podcast we're going to talk about why. So first,
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let's talk a little bit about what plant healing actually is.
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What do I mean when I say plant healing?
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So of course there's physical healing on a physical level with plants.
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So working with tinctures, teas, salves,
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eating plants... That is one layer of plant healing.
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But then there's also plant healing that is emotional and spiritual.
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So this more energetic plant healing also can really help us
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step deeper into the kinds of ancestral healing we're being called to in this
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lifetime.
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Plants are multidimensional beings and they work with us on all these different
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levels. So we could be, for example,
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burning a plant and we can have that smoke around us,
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and that can be having a physical effect on our body.
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It can be helping to lower cortisol in our body,
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helping us to come into a parasympathetic state of being.
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But then there's also things happening on a spiritual level as we're burning
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that plant: we are clearing our auric field, we are opening our energy up,
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we are asking for benevolent energies to come in and support us.
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So plants will work on all these different levels when you work with them,
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period. They're always helping us to work not only on the physical level,
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but on the spiritual and emotional level as well. So when I say plant healing,
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this is what I'm talking about. I'm talking about working with plants,
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whether physically or nonphysically,
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but working with plants to promote all these different multidimensional layers
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of healing, which happens naturally when you just start working with the plants.
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So now let's talk about ancestral healing. What is ancestral healing?
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So we are at a time in our world right now where we are dealing with an
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incredible backlog of intergenerational trauma.
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All you have to do is look around and you'll see that this is true.
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And what happens is that trauma will be carried on in a family,
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be passed down through a family,
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until it reaches someone who is here to release it.
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It's almost like carrying down a very heavy backpack.
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And then you find someone who has the ability to unpack the backpack so that
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it's not so heavy as you continue to pass it down.
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And what I'm seeing right now in the world is that there are many, many,
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many of us who are coming in to do this clearing work for our families.
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We are at a turning point on this planet.
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And in order for humans to be able to align themselves
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with this turning point, to be a part of the great healing,
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we have to undertake this work of releasing this intergenerational heaviness,
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this intergenerational charge that we are carrying.
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And this doesn't mean that it's all up to you to release every single
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aspect of heaviness in your lineage, but likely, if you're listening to this,
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you have been tasked with releasing some of this from your lineage and some of
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your family line. And so when we talk about ancestral healing,
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we can talk about very literally healing the patterns that
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we have been handed.
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We can also talk about just healing in general in our lives,
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showing up in a present way in our lives. And that itself,
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just naturally starting to ripple out healing along our lineage.
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All of us have ancestors who are really
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healthy, radiant spiritual beings who are helping to support us in our life.
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Some of us might have to go kind of far back to connect with those ancestors,
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especially if we're wanting to connect with ancestors who had a really
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harmonious relationship with the living world,
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who were in connection with the animacy of this world, who saw,
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understood, and respected the soul of this world.
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You might have to go back hundreds if not thousands of years depending on where
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you come from in the world,
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but know that that is just a drop of time if you look at the full span of
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humanity.
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So no matter who you are or how much heaviness you feel you have in your
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lineage, you absolutely have super radiant, healthy,
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profoundly wise,
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guiding ancestral spirits who are here to help support you as you heal
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the stuff that comes in between.
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And what I've often found is that you don't even need to directly address the
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stuff that has happened in between,
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or directly address the people in your lineage who you know went through really,
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really hard stuff and perhaps passed on or made that transition,
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still having a lot of unresolved stuff.
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You don't necessarily have to go right there.
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You go to this place of self-healing and this place of calling on your
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wise and benevolent guides to support you.
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And ancestral healing also takes place on all these different levels, right?
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It's a physical experience, but it also is emotional and spiritual.
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And what I have found is that plants really can help us connect into these
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vibrant ancestors,
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these ancestors who know what it was like to be in a harmonious,
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loving relationship with the living world,
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who understood the deeper themes of existence,
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who understood their roles as humans on this planet,
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who are connected to all that is. And why are plants so good at this?
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Because plants are our ancestors.
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Plants are the beings that made our ancestors' lives possible.
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All of our ancestors were in deep relationship with plants. If they weren't,
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they would not be here. You not be here.
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And so all of our ancestors looked to the plants as their
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ancestors, as their guides, their mentors, their elders. And so in this way,
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plants are our ancestors. They support us.
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They help us in our becoming and our healing.
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So when we work with plants,
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it's one way to work with ancestral healing
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and work with it in a way where we naturally are bringing in so much
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light, so much support, and so much potential.
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Plants are literally light catchers. This is what they do, right?
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That is what the function of chlorophyll is.
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These plants are sun catchers, they capture the light,
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and they turn that into energy in life. And so when we work with plants,
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especially if we have this framework of plants as
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gateways into ancestral healing,
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we literally bring light into that process,
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and the plants as our ancestors will help us.
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One of the easiest ways to start working with plants as a form of
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ancestral healing is to work with plants as food. And I guarantee you,
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you already have family recipes, stories,
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ways in which food already connects you into your ancestry,
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already connects you into your lineage and your history.
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And so working with plants in this specific way of calling in healing
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for your lineage, calling in healing for your ancestors, can be super powerful.
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So this could be as simple as researching and making an ancestral dish,
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something that will connect you to your ancestors,
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to the topographies that they move through the lands in which they lived.
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A lot of us in this world are transplants.
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We are not living in the lands in which our people were originally
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from.
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And so working with food can really help us literally kind of put our body
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back into those places,
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to put our body back into relationship with those plants. If you think about it,
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your ancestors might have lived in a single place for 20, 30,
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40,000 years in relationship with the plants that grow in that place.
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And so these plants very literally built the bodies of your ancestors.
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They built their DNA, they informed their evolution.
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So doing this research to find out,
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what plants would my ancestors have been eating,
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what kind of dishes were they eating?
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And trying that in a way where you sit down, you have a meal,
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you might even decide to have a ancestral meal-sometimes called a dumb
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supper-where you eat around a table and you leave a space clear specifically for
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the ancestors, and you put a plate in front of that space and you feed them.
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And at the end of the meal,
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you take that food and you put it outside as an offering for the earth.
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The next layer I want to talk about here is working with plants specifically for
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your own healing.
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Because you are the ancestors.
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You carry their lineage inside of your blood, inside of your DNA.
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And so just by focusing on your own healing,
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you are doing ancestor work. This is really at the heart,
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in a lot of ways, of ancestor work,
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is being able to be present with the patterns inside of ourselves and
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being willing
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to meet them and do the work that's necessary in order to heal them.
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And so often, whether we know it or not,
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the patterns that we're carrying inside of our body are ancestral,
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so they are passed down through our lineage.
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And this could be something that you see as a genetic marker in your body,
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but it could also be something that is turned on or activated by having grown up
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in the family system you grew up in,
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by being exposed to what you were exposed to earlier on in your life.
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And certainly when we look at things like diseases, addiction, mental health,
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these are all things that are deeply, deeply ancestral.
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And so all of us are working with ancestral patterns all the time.
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It's kind of the goal in some ways of being embodied;
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that's like the gift we're giving to humanity and to this planet of like, yes,
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I'll agree to come be in a body and I will do this work of getting present with
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myself and my patterns and the things I want to heal because that in of itself
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will heal my lineage in all directions. In my client practice,
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I would often help people orient to something as an ancestral pattern.
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And one of the key indicators that something is probably an ancestral pattern is
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if it's hard to get rid of. If someone's like, yeah,
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you just take this thing and then it goes away and you take the thing and it
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doesn't go away, and you're like, uhhh, what's going on there?
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You're probably working with something that's ancestral, at least in part.
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And one thing that I find is empowering in this-because sometimes it can feel
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like ugh, now you have to deal with this thing,
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and it's ancestral and it's not even just mine,
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and how do I do that?-is knowing that it's being made manifest
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because you can heal it. A lot of these things,
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they travel in almost like a sleeper way through families,
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and it's not made manifest in the way it may be making itself manifest in your
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life right now in an unavoidable way.
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And it is being made manifest because you have the ability to heal it,
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because the ancestors are recognizing you as someone who can heal it.
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And so with this, what I find,
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especially when you've been around the block of trying to heal this thing,
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of working with the conventional ways of looking things up and trying to
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do it that way, I find that your intuition is essential here.
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And over the last 15 years of working with people on plants,
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I've seen that people's intuition with plants is often dead on-with the
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plants that are the right plants for them to be taking,
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to be working with energetically, emotionally, spiritually.
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Just go into a store, pick a flower essence off the shelf that calls to you.
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I guarantee you that your body, your body's wisdom,
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will lead you to the right thing.
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And this is why I'm so passionate about teaching people how to interact with
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plants in an intuitive way,
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because our bodies are our spirit guides in this capacity.
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Our bodies that we came into in this lifetime, they are of the ancestors.
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They are an ancestor.
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And so our bodies and our psyches and our intuition will lead us towards the
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avenues of healing that are right for us. And the plants are just,
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they're always so excited about helping us with this.
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The plants are deeply invested in the evolution of our planet.
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They want to see this planet thrive and grow and enter her next era of
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becoming.
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And they're deeply invested in humans because we have a big impact on this
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planet. Currently that impact is not so positive.
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But what this shows you is that we have the ability to make an incredibly
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positive impact.
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Anything that has the ability to make a very challenging or hard impact,
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or just big impact in whatever direction,
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shows you that it has the ability to make profound impacts, profound changes.
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So that's the same for humans. We're seeing right now...
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What we're seeing in the world at large is the interplay
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of intergenerational trauma, unresolved, writ large.
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So when we work with the plants to begin healing what we're
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carrying, everything changes. Our roles as humans changes,
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our understanding of ourselves as humans changes.
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The way in which we use our incredible creative potential and energy on this
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planet, as a species, changes.
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And I really believe that the plants are deeply invested in this and in us for
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this reason. There's this level on which your life,
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your beautiful, precious life is an offering.
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It's an offering for the evolution of this world.
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It's an offering for the healing of your lineage and
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living in that place of knowing that you are the sacred
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offering, you are the beautiful, precious,
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important,
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beloved peace that's being offered on behalf of the healing of the world.
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It can be really empowering to know you are already that.
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You don't need to do anything different, be anything different.
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Just you being in your healing journey, your healing experience,
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and calling in the guides, your vibrant ancestors,
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and the plants who will help you connect with them,
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the plants who will help you do this internal work, this presencing work,
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this healing work with yourself, that that's actually all we need to do,
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that the offering is already in motion.
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You are already helping this world to come to a place of better healing,
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of resolution, of opening,
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of potential just by being yourself.
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So how do we start working with this? Well,
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we've talked a little bit about this already,
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but the number one thing I'm going to recommend to you,
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especially if you're really feeling that vibrancy of working with plants as a
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way to just naturally have ancestral healing happen in your life,
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is to ask for a plant ally.
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Plant allies are plants that specifically want to come in and work with us on a
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personal level to help us heal, grow, unfold.
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Plant allies can work with us on emotional levels, spiritual levels.
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They can also work with us physically.
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And so I invite you to ask for a plant ally to come into your life.
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And one of the things I found with this is that we simply need to be consistent.
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So sometimes we ask once and no one shows up,
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or we don't feel like any plant is particularly calling to us and we let it go.
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But you have to keep asking. You have to keep being consistent.
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So have a journal where you write down this intention every day,
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say this intention out loud every day. And once you're getting clear on this,
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you're making a clear petition asking for this plant ally to come
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in, then start noticing who shows up.
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Another thing you could do is ask your really vibrant ancestors to show you a
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plant ally,
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to help you connect with that plant ally who really is going to help you in your
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lineage. But once you make that petition,
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you are opening up then to who might show up.
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And sometimes I think we expect this to be very flashy, very big,
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very in our faces, but in the reality,
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it often ends up being a lot more subtle. It ends up looking a lot more like,
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oh wow, I'm really fascinated by that plant.
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Or I heard someone talking about this plant and I just can't stop thinking about
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it. Or you go to a plant nursery and there's just a flower that you're like, ah,
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who are you? Tell me more. So again,
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this is following your natural inclination, what you're leaning towards,
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your body's wisdom, your intuition, and knowing that you can't get it wrong.
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You cannot get it wrong. If you lean into whoever's showing up for you,
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whatever plant is showing up for you, there will be healing there.
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There will be messages, there will be potential.
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So asking for the plant ally to come, watching them come in soon,
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seeing who arrives, and then spending time with this ally.
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And this is so much of what we do in Intuitive Plant Medicine.
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Literally the whole journey begins with you making direct contact with the plant
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ally who wants to work with you now,
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and then continuing to work with them over eight weeks of all these different
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gateways of perception and connection.
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And I've seen incredible healings happen for people with just having
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this framework of working with an ally and having these gateways of being able
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to start hearing their messages and receiving their healing.
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But you can start to do this for yourself today. When your plant ally comes in,
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do some research, find out who they are: Where did they come from?
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Where are they native to? Where do they like to grow?
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A lot of times where they grow, how they grow, what they look like,
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is all profound information for us.
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And this is a whole philosophy called doctrine of signatures,
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which is that we can look at a plant and its growth habitat,
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its natural formatio,.
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and that in of itself is a beautiful metaphor and information for us about its
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medicinal use, the kind of medicine it carries, and in this capacity,
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the kind of medicine it's bringing to you and your ancestral system.
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So really put on your poet's cap and look at the plant in this way.
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Be with the plant, research about the plant in this way.
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And notice what stands out to you, what threads are standing out to you,
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because they will stand out. They'll almost ping off of your attention.
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And write those things down.
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Write down what is standing out to you about this plant,
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and you'll start to see these threads come in of understanding the
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themes that are arriving for you in your ancestral healing,
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in the healing work that you're undertaking in your body, in your lifetime,
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and on behalf of your lineage.
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Plants in the living world often speak through metaphor,
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through these storied images.
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And so the more we can align our consciousness with that perspective,
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the more and more information and perspectives we will receive.
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And then of course,
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find out if your plant ally can be worked with in a physical capacity.
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Can you make an infusion, a tea? Can you eat the plant?
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Can you dry and burn this plant as a kind of sacred smoke?
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All of these are ways in which our ancestors worked with plants,
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and all of these are ways in which our ancestors worked with plants to connect
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with their ancestors. Ancestor work is not new in this world.
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It is one of the oldest practices of human healing and
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integration that exists on this planet.
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All of our ancestors worked with their ancestors,
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had a relationship with those that came before them,
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and plants were often a direct way that they could make that connection.
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So when you work with plants,
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not only are you connecting into your vibrant ancestors,
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your ancestors who are plant healers,
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but you are connecting directly back into this whole beautiful,
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profound lineage of plant workers,
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of plant healers who worked with plants to connect all the way back to the
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beginning of your lineage, and to the beginning of time.
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Your relationship with plants will evolve over time,
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like all relationships do.
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You will receive new understandings of that plant,
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you'll receive new healings.
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And it's really through learning how to listen to our own selves and our own
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intuition that we can follow that thread.
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And this is the most beautiful aspect to me of plant healing and ancestral
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healing: that often we think there needs to be so much effort,
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and when really, it's just about that next right step.
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It's just about following that thread and letting it take you.
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And when you can learn how to trust that and follow that,
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everything unfolds from there, the next step that you need,
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the next thing that you need, the next avenue, the next vista.
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And it's all about trusting that part of you: your inner knowing,
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that aspect of you that is saying, this is the right step.
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So if you're listening to this and you're saying, yes,
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this is the right next step for me.
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I am ready to work with plants in this kind of deep way,
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to work with plants for physical, emotional,
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spiritual healing and ancestral healing that I would love to see you in
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Intuitive Plant Medicine.
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We have had people from all across the spectrum join us in this course in the
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last nine years,
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people who are incredibly accomplished herbalists and
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healers,
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and people who are in completely other fields or who are just starting out.
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We've had everything from acupuncturists to accountants in the course,
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and I have seen over and over again that working with the plants in this
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capacity is not just for those of us who consider ourselves to be herbalists.
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It's for all of us.
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It's for all of us because all of us have this deep ancestral
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connection with the planets. All of us are here to be part of the healing,
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in this world and on this planet. I really loved what one of our students,
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Jolene said about the course. It just really touched me. Jolene wrote,
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"I've been an herbalist for over a decade. I'm a highly sensitive,
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and this is the best class I've ever done. It will literally change your life.
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Even if you're not an herbalist or an intuitive naturally,
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you should absolutely take this course.
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This course has meant so much to me and has grounded me, comforted me,
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and encouraged me in such a huge way. I don't have words. Seriously,
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best decision I've made this year was to sign up for this."
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So this course is all about helping you connect to your
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intuition, your specific flavor and brand of intuition, which is unique to you,
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entirely unique to you.
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You'll explore that and then you'll open to this primary relationship with the
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plants through working with the plant ally who really wants to come in through
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you right now. And from there,
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we're going to explore so many channels of how to work with the plants:
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plant channeling, plant, dream work, flower essences,
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on the body treatments. We have a whole section about ancestral plant healing.
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We go into earth acupuncture. We work with plants and stones.
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So there's so much to work with in this course over the eight weeks that we will
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be together in the program. And once you sign up for it,
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you have access to it forever. So if you're interested in that,
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this sale is ending on Thursday, so definitely check it out before then.
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And just know that I'm sending you so many blessings for your work in this life.
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It's huge. What you are doing is huge.
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Whether or not you realize it.
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You are already doing this powerful healing work of healing
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your lineage and of helping to heal the earth by saying yes to whatever
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is naturally coming up for you in your life.
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And that's the thing I think we all need to remember right,
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is we don't need to go out to seek these things that need to be tended or these
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avenues of healing. They will come to us.
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What you need comes to you and what needs to be done
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is already arising in your life. You already know it. You already see it.
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You're already working with it in your life.
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And I just want to take a moment to acknowledge you in that,
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to thank you for that,
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because it's incredibly profound and it is making a huge difference in this
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world. Whether or not you see it, it is immense.
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This is what needs to happen in our world in order for healing to take
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place.
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And the role that you are here to fulfill in that is incredibly important.
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So wherever you are in the world, whatever season you are in,
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as you step deeper into this time of connecting with the plants and connecting
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with the living world,
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may you receive the support that you need to keep going,
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to remember that healing is possible,
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to remember that there are so many possibilities for your life.
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And as you work with these mentors, these teachers,
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these guides in the living world, in the green world,
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may they help you remember the most important thing of all:
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why you are here.