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You are the EXACT medicine the collective needs right now. · Soul Salon with Ayandastood

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You are the medicine that we need.
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You are the voice that we seek.
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You are the messenger of a
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message that only you can deliver.
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You are the exact medicine that the collective is calling
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in right now.
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I need you to take your gifts, your message, your magic, your purpose so seriously
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because exactly what you feel called to express is what someone longs to receive and hear from you.
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You have so many gifts, so much deliciousness, so much medicine to offer to the collective.
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Hello, Divine Soul, and welcome or welcome back to the Soul Salon.
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Today, I want to invite you to take your voice, your vision, your way of expressing in the world,
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however you feel called so seriously.
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You have come here with a divine purpose and part of your
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purpose is to express, to take up space, to tell the stories in your heart, to share the song
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in your soul, to share your soul song with the world and to trust that there are people within
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the collective who have come to earth in part to receive what you are here to give.
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I believe that
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we are all givers and receivers of divine messages in this life and that you have a message for the
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collective that is urgent, that is deeply needed, that is necessary and that no one else can deliver
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in exactly the way that you can.
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But if you're like me, the voices of doubt, of perfectionism,
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of shame, of never feeling quite good enough can get loud.
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Sometimes it can feel like those are the
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only voices in the room.
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And in those moments, I'm going to invite you to get quiet and to let
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the voice of love, of light, of compassion speak to you and speak through you.
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There are going to
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be times where you will be invited to hold the void between the resonance you know is possible
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for your voice and the response you are receiving.
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This can look like not getting a lot of views on social media,
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not feeling like your message is reaching the people
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that you know it is meant for,
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but it is keeping this conviction that there are people
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who have come here to read your writing,
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to listen to your music,
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to hear your voice speak the way that only it can.
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and can you hold the faith that they are in the process of finding you
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and we don't know how long this void or this gap between what you know is possible and what you
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live we don't know how long that will be and I know it can feel humiliating to feel like you're
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speaking into a void or to feel like you're not showing up in the way that you know you could be
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first I want to invite you to celebrate yourself to feel so proud of all the healing work that you
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have done of all the self-love and the collective love that you have been and you have given
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all the ways you are stepping into your own magnificence and generosity all the ways you
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are remembering your sacredness because you have nothing to become and we all have everything
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to remember, to return to, to return to the fact that we are sacred, to return to the creativity
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that we embodied in childhood, to return to the dream that we've dreamt for years,
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to return to an abundant imagination of what is possible.
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Your voice is the medicine that someone is calling in, something that you know,
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something that you've seen, the way that you see and experience the world,
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the story that you feel called to share and tell.
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Someone is calling that message in through you.
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And as a sacred messenger, I know it can feel like a lonely path.
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Like you know in your heart that something is possible, but you're not quite fully there yet.
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this is what makes you a visionary is holding that knowing visionaries act as if the world
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that they see is inevitable and in our world we have so many of the wrong kind of visionaries
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people who have huge visions for what's possible but that huge vision isn't rooted in love it's
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not rooted in mutual thriving but you are a loving visionary through you we get to become
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more healed, more loved, more expressed, more free.
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And as we look around at the paradigms
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that are not serving us and the paradigms that are hopefully crumbling around us as a new earth
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paradigm rises, you are one of the rising voices that have been sent to us.
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So believe even in the
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moments when doubt is trying to seduce you.
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Believe that you have something to say.
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Believe
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that your medicine is more important than your perfection.
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Believe that your medicine
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is more needed, more longed for, more required, more requested, more ordained
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than your perfection.
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The voice of perfectionism,
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the voice that this is not good enough,
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no one understands what you're saying,
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people aren't going to watch this video,
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this is not going to get enough views.
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The voice that the song isn't good enough,
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the book's not good enough,
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the essay's not good enough,
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that voice, we all have it.
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And yet we get to choose the light,
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we get to choose love,
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we get to choose possibility.
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over pessimism.
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We get to choose to be generous with what we have to share,
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to know that we are future ancestors of the collective.
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People will turn to either what we have said
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or the fruits of our saying.
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We are planting seeds under whose shade
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we may never get to rest.
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This is a quote, I'm not sure who said this,
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but someone else said it.
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I'll try to find the quote and put it on the screen.
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but we are here to leave a legacy
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and your legacy is loving
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your legacy is empowering
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your legacy is generous
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when you choose to be seen
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when you choose to share your gifts with the world
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there is a discomfort that you carry
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and this changes face at different points in your journey
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so I am currently holding the discomfort
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of going through ebbs and flows with viewership.
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This is a part of the journey.
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It feels like you work so hard to get to a place
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where people are resonating with your message
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and they're finding it.
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And you think, oh, I've arrived.
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This is my reality now.
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And yet it's not quite that simple.
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Nothing is ours really to keep.
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Things change, seasons shift.
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And so now I'm being asked to hold my voice even when it's not getting a certain number of views.
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It can feel embarrassing or humiliating to feel like, oh, you have a certain number of followers, but you don't have a certain number of views.
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But don't you see how many forms of humiliation our inner critic subjects us to?
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When we have no followers, we're humiliated that we don't have followers.
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When we do have followers, we are humiliated that, you know what I mean?
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there'll always be a story for this part of you to cling to as to why you're doing something wrong.
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You've been sent here with a message that people have been sent here to receive.
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And that message could be simply your energy.
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It could be what you channel.
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I believe you are part of the fabric of our healing, the fabric of our highest becoming.
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And so we're never going to feel as covered, as nurtured, as expansive, as if you are not stepping into your divine purpose to express in this life.
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Have courage and move with courage.
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Have faith and move with faith.
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And trust that the universe makes no mistakes.
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So if you are dreaming of being on that stage, it is because there are people dreaming of witnessing you, of cheering for you.
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People are waiting to cheer for you.
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People are waiting to line up to support you, to be front row at your performance, at your offering to the world.
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And even when, especially when it makes no sense and the dream in your heart feels illogical,
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trust that you've been sent with medicine and that unlike a tree or unlike other aspects of nature
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you've also been sent with the possibility that you may block your own growth
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trees don't get to let doubt stop them from growing evolution in other parts of nature
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doesn't have this exact same it's a different form of consciousness
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but our consciousness is the kind that can actually
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be toxic to our own growth and we know that primarily society social paradigms social systems
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are most toxic to our growth but we also know we internalize these voices we internalize the
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voice of perfectionism we internalize the voice of colonialism we internalize the voice of patriarchy
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the voice of homophobia the voice of ableism the voice of anti-fatness the voice of all these
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systems depending on your identities we internalize the voice of anti-blackness we internalize the
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voice of being against the feminine within us so we think we need to read more we need we need to
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know more we need to speak more assertively we need to move faster we need to do more and we
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distrust this other possibility within us trust
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you've been sent here for a reason many reasons really and you would not have this calling if
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there were not souls on the other side of the calling let me say that again you would not have
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this calling if there were not souls on the other side of the calling
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you wouldn't feel called to be an actor or an actress if there were not people who felt called
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to see you embodying the humanity of specific characters being a beacon of possibility of
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expression for the collective you would not have the calling to write stories if there were not
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souls who came here to read and be moved and touched by your stories you would not have the
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calling to speak if there were not souls who had the call to listen.
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Ignore reality.
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Ignore the
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number of views you're getting.
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Ignore the agent saying no.
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Ignore the low listens on your music
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and have faith that the possibility you see, it is on its way.
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But we are not the most skilled
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at noticing slow grace, which is the only kind of true progress.
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Progress is slow in nature.
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So it may take time for people to catch up, but they are catching up.
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And as artists,
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we build the archive, we build the mosaic so that people might find one shard and suddenly
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be brought into a whole new picture.
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So while in the moment one video, one song, one essay may feel insignificant,
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you are building the mosaic of your expression, one audition,
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one application for a grant.
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It is these tiny actions that compound over time.
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And this is how the beautiful mosaic of our creative lives
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begins to take shape.
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I'm sending so much love to you.
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how can you move with faith in the direction of your calling?
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How can you trust the collective calling on you,
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calling through you, calling to you,
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current generations, future generations,
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a whole set of ripple effects that are supposed to emerge from you.
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From one sentence you say, from one word that you utter,
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from one energy that you embody, so many things can unfold.
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Because we all know that when we are witnessing someone in their expression, we cannot help but want to express.
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You have a natural ripple effect that is meant to take root through you.
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A chain of reactions that is supposed to grow and spread and unfold and unfold through you.
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trusting that this ripple may seem
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insignificantly small in the beginning
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but this is the only way
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that anything meaningful is ever built
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everything that looks so grand and obvious now
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and inevitable now
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was once just a speck of possibility
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in the mind of a visionary creator
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and you are that speck of possibility
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just as you imagine these realities know that you were imagined just as you call in what feels
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impossible know that you are an impossible calling there's so many reasons that someone
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could name why you shouldn't exist there are so many unreal statistical physical material
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immaterial unseen unseen visible and invisible possibilities that had to be true just for you
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to be breathing here today, to be being here today,
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let alone at the level of consciousness that you do.
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So who are we not to believe in the impossible?
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Who are we not to believe that through us,
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even our wildest dreams are possible?
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And my invitation to you is to ask,
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who does the collective get to become
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through me embodying the stream?
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Through me on that stage, who's in the audience?
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maybe a mother comes with their child maybe the child sees a possibility that they never had seen
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before someone who looks like them singing expressing sharing their story sharing their music
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maybe their entire life unfolds differently because of you on that stage maybe the mother
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thinks to themselves i wonder what would make me feel that free and maybe both of them step into
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more possibilities through you expressing.
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So think of who the collective
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holding your book in their hands,
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listening to your podcast,
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watching you on a screen.
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Who do we get to become
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through you allowing your medicine
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to be felt,
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to be shared,
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and to be expressed?
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And I want to say it again
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because it is so important.
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We value your medicine.
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We crave your medicine.
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far more than we crave your perfection.
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We want to feel your true essence and energy
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far more than we want to experience excellence
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or your image of excellence from you.
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So I'm sending all the love and the light to you.
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I'm in this journey with you
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it always takes courage
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to be seen
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to share yourself
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to raise your hand
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to have a difficult conversation
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to tell someone you love them
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to apologize
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to be witnessed in your vulnerability
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but as the magnificent Audrey Lord says
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we fear the visibility
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without which we cannot truly live.
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You being seen, sharing your medicine is our medicine.
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I'm sending so much love to you
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and I will see you on the next soul session.
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That just didn't feel right.
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I'm sending so much love to you
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and I'll see you on the next soul session.
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I love you.
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Bye.
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my darling my love my soul sibling thank you for stepping into the soul salon if you are still
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hearing or watching this we are soul siblings we are resonating on the same frequency and so
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something you may struggle with that i struggle with is the fear of being seen you know that
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visibility is involved in you living your creative purpose and being in your power serving the
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collective through your gifts through your magic through your medicine in order to do that you know
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you need to be more seen than you are allowing yourself to be right now.
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I have a gift just for
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you, heart made for us on this frequency.
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And it is a free ebook called the soulful visibility
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guide that is soulful visibility.
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Like we don't just want to be seen.
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We want to be felt.
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We want to be heard.
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We want to move and be moved.
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So I do have a free gift for you.
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And all you need
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to do is go to my website i understood.com and there you will be able to input your email address
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and receive this directly to your inbox this is such a juicy and delicious guide and i change the
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free offering every few months so you know get it while you can all the links are in the show notes
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so thank you so much i love you and i will see you on the next soul session okay i love you bye