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Ep 63. Release the Outcome: Become Magnetic by Enjoying Ordinary Moments · The Manifestation Station

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You're listening to the manifestation station podcast i'm your host holly edwards
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and together we can help create your magic.
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Hello, you gorgeous manifestors, and welcome back to another episode of the
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Manifestation Station.
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The sun is shining. We are happy. We are sharing the positive vibes. That's what I'm doing.
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I'm sending you some serious, positive, happy, beautiful, yellow vibes through
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your earphones, through your headphones, through the speakers, wherever you are.
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That's what I'm giving you on The Manifestation Station. This is the podcast
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where we talk about manifesting your dream life, elevating your mindset,
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and generally becoming the most magnetic version of you.
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So I am your host, Holly, and as always, I am so happy you're here.
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I cannot believe you've chosen to play The Manifestation Station and spend the
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next half an hour or so with me.
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Aren't I so goddamn lucky
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thank you so much wherever you are whoever you
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are thank you so if you're
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listening on your morning walk maybe you're driving somewhere exciting maybe
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you're driving to work maybe you're cleaning the kitchen or are you curled up
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with a cup of tea I'm genuinely so grateful you've decided to press play today
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and I do think today's episode is one of those topics that sound simple.
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It's so simple, but I truly believe it is one of the biggest energetic shifts
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that you can make in your life.
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And I've kind of just figured that the most happiest women and men,
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the most happiest women I know all do this one thing.
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They get excited about the small things in life, the things which some of us
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may think are just everyday things in life that we don't give notice to,
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we don't open up our eyes to, perhaps we don't give gratitude to,
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but they are honestly, think about the happiest person that you know in your life.
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And I bet you they all do this thing and they get excited about the small things in life.
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So that could be their coffee ritual, their gym playlist, their walking in the
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morning, their workouts, the show that they're watching on Netflix,
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the things that they've saved up for and gone out and bought, sunsets, sunrises.
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Clean sheets, rain on the window.
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It's the people that can tune in
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and notice these beautiful moments
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but also celebrating celebrating and
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making a big deal out of these small things and life it's not about the big
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moments of when we reach our desire it's not about the big milestones the the
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moment that you get married,
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the moment you have your kids, the moment you get a promotion.
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Now, I know they all sound amazing and they are.
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They are milestones in your life. And of course, they are ones that you want to reach.
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But if you think about the amount of time in between these milestones, they're the moments.
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They're the moments that we need to give credit to.
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They're the moments that we need to shine a light on.
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They are the moments, they are the real moments in life.
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And this is the thing, these people, these people that are the happiest people that I know.
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And I must admit, I would say in the last few years, I've always loved life
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and tried to appreciate life.
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And I've been through my tough moments. I really have.
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But I'd say even more so in the last few years, I have made this conscious effort
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to notice beauty around me, to consciously go out and seek fun and adventure and life.
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And again, that doesn't mean huge holidays. It means taking myself off for a
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walk in the morning, listening to my favorite podcast, going to my favorite coffee shop.
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Even if I'm working, it's trying to make a lunch that I know will make me smile.
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It's catching up with a friend.
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It's setting intentions for my day. Even if I'm going into a job that feels
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a bit heavy and feels a bit much, it's setting my intentions to say,
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do you know what? I'm going to have a good day today.
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And making sure that I seek the people around me that maybe lift me,
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that boost me, that make me laugh.
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It's about celebrating moments that feel like wins.
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And these are the moments that we are really living in.
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And that's why today, I'm going to talk about why this one simple step changes
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everything when it comes to manifestation, when it comes to happiness,
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and living a life that actually feels magical on a day-to-day basis.
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Not someday, not when everything fits into place, not when you've met your soulmate,
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not when you've got money in the bank, but right now.
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Now, one of the biggest questions I get asked as a manifestation coach is the
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last step of manifesting. It's the most.
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Difficult to grasp and it's the one that people often overlook
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and it's to release your attachment
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to the outcome so when you want to manifest
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something so badly we do all the you know we focus on all of the other steps
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of manifesting we're positive we focus on our goal we take actions to move towards
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our goal but this step at the end is basically releasing your attachment to the end goal.
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So what does that mean? It basically means that you let go.
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You let go of your tight grip, your grip on figuring out and stressing about
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how and when your manifestation will arrive and in what form.
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But actually, what happens, the tighter that we grip onto desperately trying
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to force that manifestation to come true and to attract it into our lives,
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what happens is that we end up manifesting from a place of lack.
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And when we manifest from a place of lack, all we attract in are feelings,
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thoughts, experiences that match that lack. So we attract more lack.
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It's very easy for me to say it release the
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attachment don't worry it will come when it will come and and I
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understand how hard that is I've been there so many
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times before when I was single and living alone and I
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really really wanted to manifest my soul mate I kept
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saying to people look if I know I'm not going
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to meet him for another 10 years but I know he's coming
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that's fine I will relax but you
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just want to know it's all going to be okay and I would try
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and you know manipulate or maneuver
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certain situations to force something to
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happen in certain situations if there was
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someone I was really interested in it I would try and hang on
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to it even though actually perhaps the you know if it was a guy and actually
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what what they were delivering to me what they were showing actually wasn't
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enough for me but because I wanted that soulmate you'd kind of try and make
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something happen you know if maybe if you're online dating and the guy's being
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a bit flaky and you keep trying.
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Whereas now, and actually at the time, the more I figured it out,
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you're showing your true colors.
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That's not for me. I would let go of that attachment and I would move on knowing
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that the perfect person would arrive at the perfect time.
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It's easier said than done. I get it. But the biggest question I get asked is
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how do I release my attachment to the end goal?
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So how do you manifest kind of that thing that you want to attract in without
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feeling desperate, without feeling like you've lost hope, without feeling like
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you want it so badly now that you will not be happy until you get it.
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The best way to do that, and firstly, let me just use a little example.
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You have to imagine that if you're manifesting, you have to imagine that you're
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ordering something off of Amazon.
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When you order off Amazon, you have a scroll through the shopping page and you're
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like, okay, what do I want to manifest?
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What do I want to purchase off Amazon? Okay, you put something in your basket,
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you click pay, you know that product has been ordered.
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That's your manifestation you've ordered it with the universe when
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you order from amazon you don't then fret about how
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and when it will arrive you just know that
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it's coming you don't figure out
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the journey that it needs to make on the road to get to you which
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person is going to deliver it at what time will
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it arrive you just know you trust that your
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order has been received and it will be delivered and that's
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what you need to do with your manifestation so people
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go okay I get that but how do
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I release my attachment to the outcome the biggest
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way to do that is to get excited about the small things in your life now the
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day-to-day life that we are living not the huge milestones not when you've met
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your soulmate not when you've got your promotion or not when you've got your thousands in the bank.
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Everyday life is taking up so much of our journey, our chapter of our book.
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So by getting excited about the small things in life and generally appreciating
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life and living life to the full every single day, that doesn't mean you need
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to be having a spa day every day or you need to be booking a holiday every day.
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I'm talking about making the small moments count and I think one of the biggest
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lies we've ever been sold is that happiness arrives after something happens,
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after you meet your partner, after you buy the house, after you get the promotion,
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after you make the money, after you lose the weight.
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It's always after and we see that you'll be happy once you've met someone.
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You'll be happy in your dream house. But the happiest women I know,
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I'm going to keep banging on about it, they don't live like that.
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They're not waiting for the big moment to arrive. They're not saying,
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I'll enjoy life once things calm down a little bit.
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I'll feel grateful once I've achieved a little bit more.
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I'll relax once I've sorted out my long list.
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They've realized something really, really powerful and that life is mostly made
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up of those ordinary days.
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And if you can't enjoy those, then you are basically deciding to spend most of your life waiting.
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Imagine that, the story of your life. I always say to my clients,
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imagine your life like a movie.
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Your life has to have ups, downs, peaks and troughs so that you actually appreciate
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those highs and probably appreciate the lows as well when you come out of them.
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But actually, if you were to look back on the movie of your life and you were
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constantly waiting for happiness when you've reached your goal...
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Life. That movie is going to be a little bit dull.
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You are just standing around waiting for life to happen rather than taking it
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by the horns and going right this is my life.
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What can I do today to put a smile on my face and to enjoy my life?
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And I also think this ties into the people I've talked about lucky girl syndrome before.
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You know the women who feel lucky. You
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know the ones they always seem to have everything that works
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out for them opportunities appear to
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drop in their lap they meet the right people they seem relaxed
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and happy and magnetic and people
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will say and actually I must admit I've had a few comments like this on social
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media from people that I don't know they go well it's all right for people like
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you things just fall into your lap and I know other people like this as well
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and they they appear to be really lucky and but actually when you look closer.
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There is a recipe for that. There's usually something different about these people's energy.
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They are enjoying life. They are noticing happy moments.
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They are excited about the small things in life.
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And that energy, that energy is incredibly attracted to life, attractive to life.
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Because manifestation it responds not
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just on your actions but it's your emotions and
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your frequency so think of it as
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like this that when you feel joyful present
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appreciative alive you are broadcasting your frequency and broadcasting actually
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a completely different signal to the universe and that's the way you have to
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imagine it when you're manifesting you have to think that you have these invisible
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kind of radioactive waves coming off of you.
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Maybe not radioactive, that sounds dangerous, but you have to have these.
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Invisible energy kind of waves you know
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like a microwave we can't see the energy that comes off
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of it you have to imagine that you've got these
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energy waves coming off of you when you
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feel joyful present and alive in those
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moments you're broadcasting that
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frequency you're tuning in to a
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high vibrational frequency and the universe will
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match you on that now I had a client recently and
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they said it was really interesting she said it's really funny that you
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say this about your energy attracts that
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that same energy and I always say to people be the
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energy you want to attract and I used this
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example the other day that my partner and I we were
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walking along we were checking out this village near to
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us really lovely little village and he
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said it's real shame he was thinking about like how lovely it would be to
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move there and he said it's a real shame because he said I really like this
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village and he said but everyone seems really moody and stuck up and he said
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look everyone you pass like everyone's putting their heads down they seem a
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bit like you know if you if you
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don't live in our village then and I looked at him and I said oh my god.
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Ben I said be the energy you want to attract so I thought no there's no way
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I'm sorry there's no way these people are miserable they've probably got things
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going on in their own life maybe they're a bit shy. They don't want to say hi to a stranger.
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There's nothing personal in it. I said, be the energy you want to attract.
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And I said, look, I'll show you.
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I said, look at this. So it's like we had a little experiment.
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The next couple, we walked past, they had their heads down exactly like he had said.
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And I said, with a big smile, they looked up, their faces lit up.
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And they were like, what a beautiful day.
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And my partner was gobsmacked. He was like open mouth and he went, that was amazing.
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So I said, Ben, be the energy you want to attract.
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The next people we went past, he did it. And he went, hi there,
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hello, lovely weather or something like that, and a nice smile.
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They probably thought we were nutters walking through this village going, hello, everybody.
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And the next couple, they looked up and they stopped and they had a chat and
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we had a lovely moment. And he was like, you're so right.
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And I said, look, be the energy that you want to attract.
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If you want to, sometimes I go, if I go into work and I'm thinking,
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oh, I'm not really feeling it today, I'm feeling a little bit off balance,
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maybe mentally my mood feels a bit low
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kind of say to myself do you know what Holly come
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on be the energy you want to attract and I think what do
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I need today sometimes I just need kindness
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and calmness and I'm going to have a peaceful day so
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I be that energy I'm peaceful and I'm calm and I attract people
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that are peaceful and calm sometimes I go in
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I go I'm going to be magnetic today I want happiness I
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want laughter today and I be that energy I
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bring that energy I say hello to people I you
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know I don't know might bring people some lunch in or
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some chocolates or whatever it is be the
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energy that you want to attract so going back
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to releasing your attachment to the end goal and enjoying the present moment
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I think it's really important to remember to operate on this different signal
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to the universe it's not desperation it's not lack it's not life isn't good enough yet,
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but it's more that you are radiating this energy and you are jumping on this
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frequency that tells the universe life is beautiful.
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And when that's your frequency.
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Life tends to give you more love. That's the amazing thing about manifesting
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and the law of attraction.
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When you tune in to that frequency, it's so weird, but like more love and happiness
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and contentment lands in your lap.
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It is that simple. And I do remember, I think a few years ago,
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I think I was walking home from work.
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I was a bit tired. I had lots of responsibilities going on at work and budgets
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to sort because I also work in film and TV which can be quite stressful.
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And I remember thinking oh I'll just be happier you know once this calms down
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once I've got this job out the way and I realized in that split second I looked
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up and I walked past this cafe and
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I saw someone sitting outside in the sunshine with a coffee with a book.
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Looking completely peaceful and it's like
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it hit me like a ton of bricks
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me going I'll be happier once this job's over
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my contracts at work are generally can be a
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few months up to six months nine months or
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something like that I thought why am I wishing my
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life away no wonder I'm swamped
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no wonder because all I'm doing I'm manifesting from
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a place of lack I'm giving off signals of tiredness
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exhaustion stress negativity I
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suppose and when I stopped and looked at this woman I thought
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that is contentment that is happiness
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and I thought no this is in my control
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this is the way that I am managing my responsibilities it doesn't have to be
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like this I can look for the lovely moments I can create lovely moments and
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nothing was stopping me then but I realized something I'd just been living in
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this mindset for a while of life will start later.
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Later when things improve, later when my job's over, later when I have more
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time, later when things are a bit more perfect.
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And that mindset, that will quietly steal years from you.
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That's wishing your life away. And I really had this moment of thinking,
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I can't believe I've been doing that. No more of that for me.
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And that's why it's so important to romanticize your life. There's this phrase
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that you may have heard of online lately.
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I've definitely posted some things on my social media. I've done an episode
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on the manifestation station about it.
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Romanticize your life. And honestly, I love it.
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It has completely changed my life and the way that I live my life on a day-to-day basis.
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Because what it really means is
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it's deciding and making a
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choice that your life is worth noticing
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it's not just a highlight reel it's not
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the big achievement it's the everyday moments it's
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your morning coffee ritual it's your morning walk in the sunshine or the rain
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the way the air feels when the weather changes it's a song that you love playing
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in the car it's lighting a candle when you get home from work.
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It's buying yourself fresh flowers.
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It's watching your favorite Netflix show. It's putting on clean pajamas and
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climbing into clean sheets.
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Now, these things sound tiny and you might be thinking, yes,
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Holly, we know this. You've told us this before.
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But when you start noticing them and when you start making a conscious effort
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to do them and to attract more of them into your life, Now, this is within your
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power. This is within your control.
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And that's what I love about this episode is that you may be thinking,
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yeah, but on day-to-day level, like my life isn't that great.
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Well, this is in your control.
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There's no reason that you can't strip your bed tonight and give yourself some
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clean sheets or light yourself a candle and journal for a little bit,
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put on some clean PJs, go for a walk in the morning, go and grab a coffee,
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whatever it is that will make you smile today.
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That is what you are going to introduce into your life and it will change the
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power of your manifestation game.
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And that's what it is. This is so powerful. I want to come through your speakers
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and just shake you and go, this is going to change your life.
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Now, let's talk about manifestation because this is where people often get stuck.
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They think that manifesting is about the big thing that they want we spoke about
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it earlier your dream job the dream relationship money in the bank and yes don't
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get me wrong of course those things matter and that's what we're going to work
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on together to help you attract these desires into your life.
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But what actually creates the magnetic energy that attracts those things into
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your life is the way that you feel day to day.
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And that is why when I say to my clients, we work towards strategies and we
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set tasks and manifesting homework about steps that they can take to attract their desires.
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But quite often what I do as well is I strip it back and look at how they're
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living on a day-to-day basis and introducing small steps and rituals that increases
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the happiness on a day-to-day basis.
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And the women who manifest the most beautiful lives often have this attitude
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of I already love my life, not because everything is perfect.
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And let me tell you this, not everything is perfect in anybody's life.
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So even if you're looking at the person on social media who
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looks like they've got it all not everything is perfect
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so that so you may as well have this attitude that
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do you know what I already love my life it's okay
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that everything's not perfect yet but these people that are really happy they've
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trained their brain to see the beauty everywhere and honestly I do this more
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and more and I chat to my sister quite most days who's also very much into manifesting
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she's my manifesting buddy we'll talk to each other and she just spoke to me this morning actually.
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And she said that on her walk, she went for a lovely walk this morning.
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It lifted her mood. She wasn't feeling particularly great when she left the house.
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It lifted her mood for halfway on the way out on the walk. She listened to a podcast.
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On the way back, she put her headphones away.
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And she said she enjoyed nature. She said she looked around.
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She said she saw a woodpecker.
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She was listening to the birds. She was listening to the trees.
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She was feeling the sun on her face.
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It may, to some, feel insignificant.
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It may, like some people listening to this may go, yeah, but I'm trying to manifest
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a million pounds, Holly. Come on, help me out here.
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Let me tell you this. Put everything aside.
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Put all of your big huge manifestation milestones to
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the side and start doing this
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today when you leave this podcast today
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do something that makes you smile
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notice something that is happy today
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and all of this energy
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it says to the universe life is good which
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the universe will match the law
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of attraction it is a law what you put out
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is what comes back to you if you start saying and noticing
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and feeling life is good the universe
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will give you more reasons to feel
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that life is good and there is a science in noticing the good things there's
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actually psychology behind this as well now I've spoken about this many times
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I've just written about it in my manifesting book that is currently still being written.
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The first draft is not far off, I'd like to say.
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Your brain has something called the RAS, your reticular activating system,
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and its job is to filter out what you notice.
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So if you focus on problems, your RAS clicks in and it will go,
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ah, okay, Holly's trying to see problems. I will show you more problems and
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I will bring you more problems.
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This is a psychological actual thing you know this is neuroscience the more
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problems you focus on the more you will see your RAS goes okay you want to see
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problems no problem Holly here you go here are all the problems in your life.
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If you focus on beauty, on gratitude, on excitement, you'll start to see more
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things that match that feeling.
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So it's like tuning into this radio station and the happiest women I know are
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tuned into the frequency of life is good.
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Not perfect, but good.
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And the more you tune into that radio station, the more your brain and your
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reality start finding evidence to support it.
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Your RAS will kick in and go oh we're looking
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for the good look at all of these good things that Holly's noticing your RAS
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kicks in and it goes oh Holly wants to focus on the good things so more good
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things come to you and the universe will match your frequency it is as simple
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as that so one thing I've noticed.
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About these happy people that we keep talking about is they create tiny rituals.
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Now this is something that I do. It's not expensive. It doesn't need a huge life overhaul.
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They are small moments that people genuinely enjoy.
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So for example, and I've been doing this a lot recently, I've been exploring
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coffee shops or taking myself off to my favorite coffee shop when I have a day
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off or when I have a morning off.
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It's creating a playlist. So I've got a playlist on my Spotify that I add to
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often and it's called Raise My Vibrations.
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All the songs that make me want to get up, dance, sing to the top of my lungs in my car.
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I go on walks. And this is again, is something that these people do, go on walks.
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Now, if I'm low, if I'm, I did an episode the other day for those that are regular
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listeners, a couple of episodes a day,
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it was the power of walking and what
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it does to you now again this has changed my life it sounds
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simple there are times if I'm feeling rubbish
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I go Holly just take five minutes five minutes
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and go and walk outside and I come back feeling 10 times better we
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also celebrate buying something that we've saved up for so these people that
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are happy all the time it's like celebrating do you know what I've saved up
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for this pair of trainers I've saved up for this handbag these people they take
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time to watch sunsets and sunrises.
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Now, if you follow me on Instagram, then you'll know that last year I joined
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the 5am club and I was watching sunrises every day.
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And I kept thinking, I kept looking around and there was no one up.
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There was no one else on the roads. There was no one else walking.
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And I'd be looking around thinking, this is free.
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How on earth is no one else experiencing this? This is the most amazing thing
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I've ever experienced. And.
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Not everybody's doing it. And that was a simple thing.
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Sunsets, sunrises, they're free and they feed the soul, honestly.
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The other thing that I always do and a lot of these happy women do,
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we enjoy our skincare routine.
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We create a skincare routine which makes us feel luxurious. It makes us feel
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appreciated. It makes us feel cozy and loved and taken care of.
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We light candles. We cook meals that we love.
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Sometimes if I'm home alone, if I've had a day that's
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a bit heavy I think do you know what what meal would make me really happy
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today is it a really lovely nutritious homemade
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meal is it just my favorite comfort food is
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it a favorite meal from my past when I was a kid now
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some of those are quite simple and quite beige but sometimes it will
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make me happy it's that simple what makes you
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happy what feeds your soul are
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you listening now thinking oh you know what
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would make me really happy is to go home and cook myself some sausage and mash
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or a jacket potato yes one of my favorite foods is a jacket potato my partner
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Ben takes the mickey out of me all of the time he is a connoisseur he is a very.
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Very good chef he doesn't he's not a chef for a living he's a remarkable cook
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and sometimes he goes right Holly I will cook you anything you want what would
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you like and I go a jacket potato with beans and cheese and he looks at me.
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Like it's really sad. And I think you've got no idea. This is just little old
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manifesting me who loves a jacket potato and it makes me happy.
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So there we go. You've learned something new about me today.
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And none of these things, just like my jacket potato, none of these things are
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about impressing anyone else or doing things which you feel like is the happy thing to do.
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It's not following things just that people do on tiktok
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or you know if skincare is not your thing that's fine
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you don't need to do skincare maybe giving yourself a bubble
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bath is your thing maybe taking yourself for a walk is your thing whatever is
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your thing it's not about doing things that you think look good very instagram
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worthy it's not about impressing anyone else it's what makes you feel like you are alive it's.
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And here's a funny example. I mentioned it earlier. Clean sheets.
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I swear, clean sheets are one of the greatest joys in life. I've chatted to
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girls at work at length about clean sheets.
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And if you ask your friend, go and do this kind of little experiment,
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go and ask your friend and go, you know, how does clean sheets make you feel?
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Watch someone's face come alive. everyone you speak
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to they go oh there's nothing
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better than getting into a bed with
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clean sheets now I had this the other day and my
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sheets had only been on for not very long actually at all just a few days and
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I was feeling a bit stuck I was feeling a bit stagnant a little bit low mood
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I thought I'm going to change the sheets and I just know it's going to ignite
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this new energy And do you know what? It did exactly that.
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And it made me so happy. And this is what I mean, that tiny shift.
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It happens hundreds of times a week.
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And you could make that happen a hundred times a week. Your favorite meal,
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going for a walk, your coffee, having a laugh with someone at work, all of these examples.
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So the question becomes, are you noticing what's lovely in your life?
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Or are you rushing past it, waiting for something bigger to arrive?
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That is what I want you to take away from today. That's what I want you to ask yourself.
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And when life is hard, let me say something here. This doesn't mean ignoring difficult things.
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Life will always have its challenges.
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You are, even if you're the most amazing, happy, you know, manifesting manifesto there is.
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Life will still deal you cards that you don't enjoy. You will still get stressful
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situations. You still will deal with loss, disappointment, rejection, uncertainty.
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But learning to appreciate those small moments doesn't mean pretending that
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everything is perfect. It actually means that you...
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Allow yourself to find the joy to exist alongside difficulty.
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And that's actually a tool that I use alongside difficulty.
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And a lot of these things I'm talking to you about today, they help me to,
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I was going to say thrive, but sometimes they help me to survive the difficult times.
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Now this morning, I'll tell you, I've had a really, really busy week.
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I'm filming on a TV show at the moment. I'm doing
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my manifesting and I'm trying to create a new
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kind of manifesting package for people that they can
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take kind of like
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a course I suppose that's what I'm putting together at the moment and life you
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know it's just a lot of life happening around me and this morning I had the
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morning off and I was I went for a walk and I was trying to move my energy around
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and I came back and I thought what's going to make me happy today I thought
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you know what this morning I'm gonna I'm gonna bake a cake.
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It was really, really simple. And I just thought my partner wasn't at home.
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And I thought that rather than me sitting and doom scrolling on my computer,
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I thought I did all of my notes for today's podcast.
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I'm not going to doom scroll. I'm not going to watch the TV.
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I'm not going to mope around. I'm going to do something that brings me a little
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moment of joy. And that's exactly what I've done today. And I'm actually staring at this cake now.
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When I get off the podcast, I need to put some butter icing in it and some jam
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and all of this is making me feel so happy and alive and this is what I mean
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it's creating these moments that exist in.
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These joyful moments that exist alongside difficulty.
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And it means that you tune in, you hone in and you notice the warm cup of tea, even on a hard day.
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It means enjoying a conversation with a friend, even if other things feel really uncertain in your life.
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It means letting life still have color and texture and not just closing the blinds,
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the blackout blinds on your life, because everything's so difficult and
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I've spoken about this a lot recently and you know my
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partner and I and I have actually dealt with quite a lot of stuff
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in this past year and more so
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in these last 12 months I have really had to dig deep and go I am going to force
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myself now maybe force myself is the wrong word no no maybe that works but I've
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made a real conscious effort to go what's one thing I can do that makes me happy
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today I've said this before you've you've probably heard this on one of the other episodes.
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It might be having my favorite lunch. It might be like I made myself some smoothies
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the other day and I got a load of fresh fruit and I got a lovely new cup to
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drink it in. It made me happy. It's simple things.
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And it's this kind of resilience that is just incredibly, incredibly powerful.
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So here's something I'd love for you to try. And this is like your new experiment.
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So for the next seven days, treat yourself like life or treat your life like it's worth loving.
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Not later, now. Notice things.
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Get excited about things. Celebrate things. Say things out loud like this coffee is amazing.
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The sun on my face is lifting me. I love this song. This song makes me want to dance.
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The sky looks beautiful today. These sheets, my fresh sheets smell amazing.
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I feel incredible. This walk feels good.
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Say these things out loud because what you're actually doing is you are training
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your nervous system to experience life as enjoyable.
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And when you're baseline frequency, your baseline emotion shifts towards appreciation.
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Your energy shifts, your mood shifts, your confidence shifts.
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And very, very often what follows, your manifestations start arriving faster too.
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How could you not love that? And this is what I say to people about releasing
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the attachment to the end goal. Start enjoying life now.
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Release your attachment. You won't be happy when you receive your desire because
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you're already happy now, what happens is that those manifestations normally
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arrive quicker as soon as you release it and start enjoying your life now.
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And if you do take part in that experiment this week, please do let me know.
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I'm on Instagram at thehollyedwards and at the.manifestationstation.
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Please slide into my DMs. You know I love reading them.
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You know I love... Do you know what? I actually, can I just say,
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I read every single one of your DMs, every single one.
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I love resonating with your stories. You guys, you tell me like,
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guess what happened to me today?
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Guess what happened, Holly? And I honestly, I just love it. So thank you so much.
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If you like the podcast, please rate, review or subscribe or all of those.
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It would be lovely to get some star ratings.
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And as I say to you every week it really helps the podcast be seen by more people
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be heard by more people even so that's great.
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I'll leave you with this. Think about someone who loves their life.
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Think about that person, hold them in your mind. I bet you they are fun to be around.
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They're warm, they're relaxed, they're magnetic.
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That energy, that energy attracts opportunities, new friendships,
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romance, ideas and success.
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And not because they're chasing life, but because they're in love with living it. It is that simple.
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So here's my little challenge for you today. Now, for the next seven days,
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you're obviously going to be noticing these lovely things that are happening in your life.
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But before you go to bed tonight, write down five small things that you enjoyed today. Not big things.
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These have to be small. That's the only rule here.
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It could be a funny reel that someone sent you, the smell of your shampoo,
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the song that you've not heard in ages that you heard this morning,
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a moment of quiet, a moment of peace, and do that for a week if you can.
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But even just today, just to kind of get you started. I don't want to overwhelm you.
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I guess I've got a feeling that you might be amazed at how quickly life starts
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to feel different for you.
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Now, because the happiest women I know, they don't wait for bigger,
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bigger life to feel alive.
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They decide that this one is worth loving and that decision changes everything.
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So thank you so much for spending this time with me today on the Manifestation Station.
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If this episode has resonated with you, please share it with a friend,
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pop it on your Insta story or send it to someone who deserves.
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And it's a reminder that life is happening right now.
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And until next time, you gorgeous lot, stay magnetic, stay grateful and keep
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manifesting your magic.
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And I'll see you on the next episode. Goodbye.