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What the Earth is Asking of You · Remember Why You Are Here

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  What is this one thing that the earth is asking of you that you can take on
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  today to truly help this planet? Self-compassion.
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  Hello and welcome back to Remember Why You're Here,
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  a podcast for seekers and sensitives where you can relax, receive,
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  reconnect to yourself and remember the most important thing of all,
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  why you're here. I'm Asia Suler, author,
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  earth intuitive, teacher,
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  and in this episode today I wanted to revisit a message
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  that has really been at the core of the center of my life now for many years and
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  one that I need to hear again and again.
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  Life is just one of those things that continues to happen.
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  I find that being sensitive means not just being
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  attuned to our own journeys,
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  the things that are happening in our personal lives.
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  It's also about being aware of what's happening in the
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  larger community, in the world as a whole in humanity,
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  whether or not we realize it,
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  we're often attuning to these big larger themes
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  around us.
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  I know for myself as I go about my day-to-day, daily life,
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  I can often start to get this feeling like I'm not doing enough.
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  Somehow my ability to show up for the
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  world is not up to snuff,
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  that the way in which I'm showing up in a day-to-day kind of way in my
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  work, in my parenting, in my relationships, in my business,
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  that there's something that I'm not fulfilling.
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  And so much of this comes down to as sensitives,
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  our drive and our orientation to be
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  attuning to other people.
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  This is part of the setup of being a sensitive person and in
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  particular the experiences that we have throughout our life,
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  that we often receive this message that we are most valuable
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  when we are tuning to other people. And this includes relationships in our life,
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  but this also includes wider global patterns, the larger stage.
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  And there's a reality in which as sensitive people,
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  we actually do have a really strong ability to hold
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  compassion, to connect to humanity as a whole,
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  to envision better futures,
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  to recognize patterns of what's happening in the world and have the
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  ability to access visionary states,
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  visionary information to bring in data,
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  to bring in awareness of how to shift.
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  So all of this is true and at the same time,
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  we can also get a little lost in constantly projecting our awareness
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  outwards. And when we do this, we start to self-abandon.
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  And so anytime I start feeling like I'm
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  somehow doing it wrong, when I start feeling like I'm not doing enough,
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  when I start having this stress,
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  like my little life is somehow not up to snuff,
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  I come back to this message, to this transmission,
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  this awareness that has really been at the heart of my work for so long.
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  So let's go ahead and play this audio,
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  what the earth is asking of you so that if you are in a moment of time right now
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  where you are really feeling like you're holding a lot in your heart,
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  you're really wondering how you can show up for the bigness of this time,
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  keep listening because this is your ability right now to connect
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  into the truth of what the earth is asking of you.
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  For those of us with an ecological consciousness,
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  we're always asking ourselves, "What can I do?
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  What can I do to help this earth?
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  What can I do to help the healing?" Often the options or
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  the solutions seem really overwhelming,
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  like something that would be impossible for a single person to take on or would
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  take many lifetimes. But what if there was something?
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  What if there was a solution and something that you could do,
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  something that you could start doing today that would make all the difference in
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  the world?
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  What is this one thing that the earth is asking of you that you can take on
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  today to truly help this planet? Self-compassion.
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  I used to think self-compassion and selfishness went hand in hand,
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  but the exact opposite is true.
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  Self-compassion is about learning to see ourselves,
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  to understand ourselves as a whole part of nature,
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  just as a tree is a beautiful part of this planet.
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  Self-compassion helps us to see the same within ourselves and it helps us to
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  come back into wholeness within our own being.
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  The roots of the problems in our world right now come from
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  fragmentation. It comes from wholeness having been broken.
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  I remember hearing the physician and author, Gabor Mate,
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  describe trauma as a disconnection from yourself.
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  In the moment that trauma happens,
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  the experience is too intense that we can't fully stay with ourselves,
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  so we actually break from ourselves. Now,
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  this is a way to adapt to the stress and shock of this moment,
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  but then we always need to be able to come back on the other side to come back
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  into wholeness. Now, if we look at the world at large,
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  what we see is trauma playing out and basically every
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  manmade disaster and ecological hurt that's going on in this planet.
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  It's the trauma of individuals and whole cultures who are disconnected from
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  themselves, who don't remember their wholeness.
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  When we can have compassion for ourselves, what we've experienced,
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  how we react to things, what's going on in our life,
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  we come back to our own wholeness. We reclaim the wholeness within us.
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  We begin to heal our trauma by simply coming back to this wholeness and
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  reuniting with the width of who we are.
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  And when we can acces that,
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  we can begin to understand the gifts that we were meant to bring into this
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  world to help this planet heal,
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  to help the earth on this journey of regeneration.
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  When we can see and recognize this wholeness in ourselves again,
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  we access the most precious thing of all, which is our gifts,
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  the gifts that we came here to give this planet,
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  the gifts that we are here to translate and bring to this earth to help the
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  earth heal. For this reason,
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  the earth is always reflecting back to us our goodness. The natural world,
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  the living world is constantly showing you your wholeness.
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  It is teaching us self-understanding and self-compassion because the living
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  world, which is much wiser and wider than our own minds and selves
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  knows that self-compassion is essential to stepping into healing
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  personally and globally. So if you need some science to back this up,
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  research shows that increased self-compassion can help us also
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  increase our sense of responsibility towards others, morality and empathy.
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  Stable self-esteem is also positively correlated with things like
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  curiosity to learn new things and a desire to challenge ourselves.
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  If we take all of this as a whole,
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  we see that learning self-compassion is not a side pursuit in the healing of
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  ourselves in the world.
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  It is essential that when we learn how to have compassion for ourselves,
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  we step into our power as those who hold healing and hold gifts for this planet
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  for our communities and for ourselves.
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  Learning self-compassion has been a huge part of my journey here on this planet.
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  If you had asked me 10 years ago if I struggled with self-compassion or
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  self-love, I probably would've told you no.
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  And it was because I was so disconnected from what true self-compassion felt
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  like that I wouldn't have even have known that what I experienced about myself
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  or the way I saw myself in the world wasn't actually my wholeness.
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  I wasn't seeing myself for who I really was. Now,
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  there's a lot of reasons why we can start to doubt our own goodness and lack
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  compassion for ourselves and normally it boils down to some sort of trauma in
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  our life, which all of us have experienced at some point in our existence.
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  But the incredible thing is all you need to do is spend time with the living
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  world and this earth will show you your wholeness again.
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  It will lead the way back to self-compassion.
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  And this is exactly why I wrote my book, Mirrors in the Earth:
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  Reflections on Self-Healing From the Living World.
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  This book is a guide from the living world that takes you on a journey in
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  tandem with nature to go from self-recognition to
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  self-acceptance to true self-compassion.
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  Each chapter will introduce you to the living world to a process that is going
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  on around you to the magic of this earth we call home and it will
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  show you exactly what the earth showed me through all these explorations that
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  you are good, that you are worthy,
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  that you are needed and that you are beloved because at the end of the day,
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  the truth is self-compassion itself is a force of ecological
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  healing. The earth knows this and it's time for us to remember this as well.
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  Your journey of learning to come home to yourself is essential to the whole and
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  I wrote mirrors in the earth to help you on that journey.
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  This piece of self-compassion being a force of ecological healing,
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  self-compassion being the thing that the earth is asking for us has been
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  so essential for me in my life and I think it's really important for us
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  sensitives to remember because the thing is even the fact that we are
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  asking this question,
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  what is the earth asking of me is an indicator of our heart,
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  is an indicator of our compassion,
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  is an indicator of all the ways in which we are actually so dedicated to
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  this planet. I really think as sensitives,
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  we come in with a deep desire to be of service to this planet,
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  that we come in and have this sort of innate
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  deep connection to the earth.
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  And I just really want to take a moment today to honor you for the fact that you
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  ask that question,
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  for the fact that you are curious and just for you to know that the fact that
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  you're asking that is an indicator of how deeply you care
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  and the earth wants you to remember that you are
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  nature,
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  you are the earth and that everything begins from this
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  place of self-compassion. And even though I clearly wrote a whole book on this,
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  it's something that I need to remind myself of again and again and
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  again, because a lot of times those programs of self-admonishment,
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  of putting ourselves last,
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  of somehow feeling like we are doing it wrong, those programs are strong.
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  Those programs can really be interwoven into the fabric of our lives in ways we
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  have a hard time seeing.
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  And so grounding in this awareness every day that one of the
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  biggest gifts you can give this earth is self-gentleness,
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  self-acceptance, and self-compassion.
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  So I'm curious today,
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  what is one thing you can be gentle with yourself about?
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  Is there something that you've been bringing up again and again as a
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  self-criticism today? Is there something,
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  even if it's subtle that you've been putting pressure on yourself around to do
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  or to accomplish,
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  just take a moment right now and notice that voice.
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  Notice whatever is connected to the stress or the activation in your body right
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  now, notice what that voice is saying.
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  And then once you notice what this voice is actually saying,
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  because sometimes we're not even realizing what that voice is actually saying,
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  but once we can tune into what that voice is actually saying,
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  then we can come in with some self-gentleness.
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  Sometimes I imagine that the earth is speaking to me through my voice,
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  sometimes it's a tree or a flower,
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  but I allow that voice to come through and I
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  speak to the part of me that is really trying to keep me safe in so many
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  ways, trying to keep me safe by trying to keep me in line by constantly
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  self-monitoring and I bring in this other voice, the voice of the earth,
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  the voice of the plants, the voice of the angels,
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  whatever works for you and I reply. And in that reply,
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  I try to find any way in which I can just be gentle myself today.
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  Sometimes it just begins with saying,
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  "That makes sense that you feel that way and in this moment I'm going to give
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  myself permission to slow down." That makes sense that you'd be wanting to
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  monitor that right now and right now what's
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  most helpful is for me to remember that I'm just human.
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  That makes sense and for now I'm going to put that thought down and simply
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  breathe.
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  So tune into the gentle response that is being asked for
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  here,
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  that the response that helps that part of you that is constantly self-monitoring
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  to just relax even just 5% here today because I
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  promise you when we can connect to self-gentleness in moments
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  like these, we access so much more creativity, so much more vision,
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  so much more potential and we come back into the on place where we can really
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  make the greatest change in this world and that's within our own
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  selves.
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  So thank you for being with me today as we revisit the absolute need
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  for self-compassion that we sensitives have.
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  And if you would like to connect even deeper with me or even deeper into this
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  space, I would love to see you over on my new Substack.
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  Remember why you are here.
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  There have been amazing conversations around some of these podcast episodes over
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  on the Substack.
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  I've also been sharing extended reflections on the episodes
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  as well as monthly roundups talking about our intuitive readings going even
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  deeper with them at the end of the month.
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  And this week I actually just released a little mini course
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  follow-up episode to our intuitive reading for this month called The Dream
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  Remembrance Recipe because I have gotten this hit
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  that our dreams are coming in this month in a big way to help us
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  really orient to the shifts that we need to make inside of ourselves to
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  fully be in alignment with our paths,
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  to fully be in alignment with kind of the runway that I see is
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  the last half of this year.
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  It's sort of like a runway where so much can happen and so many of the messages
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  that are coming in for us from our own wider self through the earth will be
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  coming in through our dreams.
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  And so I created this little mini course specifically for this month
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  this time to help you really open the portal of your dreams to remember them
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  more to call in some big dreams. So if you're interested in that,
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  head on over to my Substack and check it out. It is a paid post,
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  but it's just $5 a month to acces all of the paid content over there on the
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  Substack as well as that deeper community.
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  So thank you so much for being here with me for this episode.
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  Thank you so much for all the ways in which you are continuing to companion
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  yourself in this life. It's a big deal, it's big work.
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  And as you continue to do this work for yourself,
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  as you continue to show up for yourself,
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  may be blessed with moments of vision and perspective and may you
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  always be able to connect to and remember that most important thing of all
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  why you're here.