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Spirituality For Beginners (5 Super Simple Steps): Meditation, Journaling Etc · The Spirit Nomad: Spiritual Awakening + Life Purpose

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  Are you new to spirituality? Perhaps you recently had a
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  spiritual awakening and now you're wondering how do I
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  actually walk the spiritual path?
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  Like which practices can I use? Which tools to help me reach
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  enlightenment, peace, and true happiness?
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  That's what we'll be talking about today, broken down into
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  five simple steps for beginners. Make sure to stay until the very
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  end as the fifth one is quite underrated, but so important.
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  Thanks so much to Keene for sponsoring this video and more
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  on them later. I've been on the spiritual path
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  for around 8 years now. I grew up in an atheist family
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  and was very skeptical of anything.
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  Woo, woo. Anything that couldn't be proven
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  by science, I would reject. It was my dream to get a job at
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  Google. And one day I actually did.
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  And I realized, wow, I thought this would make me happy.
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  But it's not. I feel just as trapped.
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  I don't feel fulfilled. And that's when I realized, OK,
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  what is true happiness then? So I quit the job and I
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  backpacked around the world. I went to South America and I
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  did ayahuasca, which is a plant medicine, and there I got to
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  experience a true ego death where I I was touching my body
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  and I felt like this is not me and Julia and my identity and my
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  thoughts. This is not me, and I could feel
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  who is me and who is not. I felt like a distance to my
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  body that this is just a shell and that we are spiritual beings
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  having a human experience. I've heard that phrase before,
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  but that was the first time where I truly felt felt it.
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  And since then I've been on the spiritual path, have many
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  little, many awakenings throughout.
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  It never really stops, and you can't really go back to how it
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  was before a spiritual awakening.
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  Sorry to break it to you if you thought, but you're in it now if
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  you've had your spiritual awakening.
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  So let's make the best of it. Before I dive into the five
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  steps, know that there's nothing right or wrong on the spiritual
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  path. Every person's spiritual path
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  will look different and which practices they enjoy, so just go
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  with what feels right. So these are just five steps
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  that has worked for me, and I'm hoping a few of them will work
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  for you too. The first step that I recommend
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  for beginners in spirituality is to start reading books and
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  exploring. Spiritual practices can be
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  theoretical or they can be practical just in school How you
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  have like chemistry where it's very hands on, but you also
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  learned about the different elements and everything.
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  So I recommend starting in theory because otherwise if you
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  start the practices, you don't know why you're doing them and
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  you might just be like why? Let's just go back to my own
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  life. I've read so many spiritual
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  books, but the ones that were really life changing for me,
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  especially at the start of my spiritual awakening journey, was
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  Conversations with God by Neil Donald Walsh.
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  This is a book series that I had recommend.
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  Another book is The Untethered Soul.
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  So start by reading spiritual books in many different areas
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  and see which ones call out to you.
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  Most of these books will probably include some practical
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  exercises to do meditation styles.
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  For example, you might explore Sufism which has this dance
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  where you. It's called whirling, I think,
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  which is a type of meditation. You might read a book about Zen
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  and it will include a Zen meditation.
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  Try it out and see what feels good to you.
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  And that brings us to the second step, which is meditation.
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  Everybody knows the meditation is beneficial.
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  It makes you more focused, more present, more productive.
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  But the reason why it's so good for your spiritual path is
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  because it's puts you more in your soul.
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  So your soul is leading the way in your life rather than your
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  ego mind. And the reason why it's so
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  important to operate from your soul rather than your ego is
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  because your soul knows exactly your divine plan.
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  And following your divine plan is what will make you the
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  happiest. Suffering happens when we
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  operate from the ego and we try to stray away from our divine
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  path. That's when we get miserable.
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  You might have noticed that if you've been in a toxic
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  relationship and you've tried to make it work, but it's just not
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  working, and the amount of suffering you've experienced
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  from that is a good example. Or if you've had a job that
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  really, really stressed you out and it wasn't aligned with you
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  at all, and you didn't like it, but you felt comfortable there
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  because your ego likes familiarity.
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  It likes what it already knows. So going out in the unfamiliar
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  and quitting your job can be hard for the ego.
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  But if you meditate on a daily basis, your intuition goes
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  stronger, only notes what's best for you.
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  So you would know when is the right time to break up with a
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  partner who is not the one for you or when to leave a job that
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  is not right for you and you'll quicker get to your happiness
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  and your divine path. So I recommend trying out
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  different styles. I have actually a 30 day
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  meditation challenge where you get to try some of the most
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  common meditation techniques, so I will link that in the
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  description. What's important to know about
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  meditation is that it's not about winning.
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  Every time you get a thought coming up in your head, which it
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  will trust me. You just need to calmly bring
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  yourself back to your breath, your mantra or whatever focus
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  point you have during your meditation.
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  So don't beat yourself up if you have thoughts because I've been
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  meditating for almost 20 years and I still have thoughts coming
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  up. A good start is to do guided
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  meditations before you do yourself LED meditations and
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  there are so many apps out there, for example Inside Timer
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  which is free. There's also tons on YouTube you
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  can follow along with. Step three is to find your
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  spiritual community, your tribe. Because walking the spiritual
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  path can be very lonely, especially if you have a family
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  or if you have a friend. Circles where they haven't had a
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  spiritual awakening themselves yet and they might think that
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  your new behaviour is weird and something's off.
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  So it can be easy to question yourself and be like, oh do me
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  by I do need to go into a mental hospital, so there are many
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  websites for this. I recommend meetup.com,
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  eventbrite.com. You can also find friends
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  online, for example through Facebook.
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  What I did when I moved to this small town is I posted in the
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  local Facebook group saying, you know, I mean to spirituality,
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  low attraction, meditation. Is there any other spiritual
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  people out there I'd love to meet up?
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  And that's How I Met my my favorite local friend here.
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  And we're still friends now three years on the line.
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  And it's been so good to have a spiritual friend, as when you
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  are on the spiritual path, that's all you can think about
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  and talk about, because you'll see so much weird things after
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  your spiritual awakening, like synchronicities, signs that you
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  want to talk to a spiritual friend about and only they will
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  understand. Step 4 is to start journaling,
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  preferably daily if you can. Here you can write down any
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  coincidences or synchronicities, as we say, because there isn't
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  really any coincidences in life. So that you feel less crazy if
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  you have surgeon synchronicities coming up over and over again.
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  So you have like a track record of what has actually happened.
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  And writing down what you're grateful for as well is a really
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  good way to raise your vibrations and feel more
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  happiness and peace in your life.
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  Step 5 is to spend time in nature.
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  Spending time in nature can be a deeply spiritual experience.
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  Take walks in the forest, sit by a lake, or simply spend time
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  outdoors to connect with the natural world.
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  I like to take off my shoes and just put my bare feet in the
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  ground on the grass or on the sand, and it's a great way to
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  reduce inflammation. Connect to Mother Gaia.
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  And that is very important because as a spiritual person,
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  as an old soul, you might be a lot in your upper chakras, so up
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  here in your head, and you want to bring it down.
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  This will prevent disease and make you more grounded and feel
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  more at peace and less anxious. So now you might be asking, how
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  do you know you're actually making progress on the spiritual
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  path? How do you know you're actually
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  walking it and not straying away from your divine path?
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  in love, relationships, career and more.
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  And every few months I ask what my spirit guide has to say.
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  So I simply find a spiritual advisor with good reviews on
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  knowing about what my spirit guide wants me to do, because I
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  will feel it in my intuition. I will see synchronicities
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  around me. But it gives you that extra
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  confirmation, which is especially important if you are
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  in the beginning of your spiritual path, when you might
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  not be as in tune with your intuition yet and
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  synchronicities around you. I actually talked to a psychic
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  on Keene, I think 3 weeks ago, and I asked, you know, what does
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  my spirit guides have to tell me?
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  And by the way, everybody has spirit guides, OK, everybody
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  does. So you do too.
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  And they're always helping and supporting and protecting you.
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  And they said that they're proud of me, that I've been more in my
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  flow this year, which is exactly what I wanted to achieve this
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  year. So I hadn't even told her any
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  background information about that.
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  So to hear that my spirit guides are proud of me and that I'm in
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  flow confirms what I had a hunch about, that I have been more in
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  flow, more in my feminine energy, which I want, which I
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  wanted to accomplish this year before this year I have been
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  more rigid, more in my ego of like I need to accomplish this
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  no matter what, rather than tune into what I actually feel like.
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  I also asked my psychic what is the reason why I've been feeling
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  more called to learn instruments.
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  Like I got some singing balls, some Tibetan singing balls, I
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  got a beautiful flute, a Native American flute.
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  And what my spirit guide said is that this will help me connect
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  with spirit more and connect easier with my spirit guides.
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  shaft with a spiritual advisor. I actually prefer the shaft
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  function, It's very easy and then you get like a shaft
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  transcript afterwards that I can look back on.
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  So King is a really good starting point when you're new
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  to the spiritual world. It's kind of like having a
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  coach, you know? When you're just starting out,
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  something New South homework. Sign up to Keene and ask what
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  I'd love to hear where are you at in your spiritual journey and
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  which practices that I listed are you going to implement more
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  in your life. Let me know in the comments.
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  Love you so much and have a beautiful day.