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What light are you bringing into the darker months? · Magic Divorce Club Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to this Magic Monday, 12th of October.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are in a new moon cycle,
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  SPEAKER_00: which means there's only like this one,
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  SPEAKER_00: then the next one, and then we're into the darkest day.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's all kind of winding down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything's getting a bit darker.
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  SPEAKER_00: The days are getting shorter.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I feel like this is a good opportunity to go,
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  SPEAKER_00: how am I going to bring some of the light with me into this darker phase?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I guess looking at the different things that do bring us light, do bring us joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can,
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  SPEAKER_00: this is a good time to set an intention for the next kind of 28,
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  SPEAKER_00: 30 days to think about what,
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  SPEAKER_00: You would like to spend some of your time doing, if that makes sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for my intention for this month has been to think about money
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  SPEAKER_00: because I planned like I think in December last year that October was going
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  SPEAKER_00: to be money month in the Magic Divorce Club.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so my intention that I have sent for this next bit is to try and
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  SPEAKER_00: What's the word?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like
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  SPEAKER_00: trying not to equate my self-worth with money as much
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  SPEAKER_00: and separate myself out and just feel a bit more chill around it
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  SPEAKER_00: and less like I'm doing something wrong all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm setting myself a little challenge over the next month to be like, okay, how can I...
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  SPEAKER_00: Separate out these two things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Money is over here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm here.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not the same thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And however much I have doesn't mean anything about me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a human being that's worth something irrespective of how much I have in the bank
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  SPEAKER_00: or where it came from.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that just to give you an example of what you might be thinking about.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you've got something that is challenging for you at the moment,
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  SPEAKER_00: just see if you can Come up with something that you'd like to challenge yourself
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  SPEAKER_00: with over this next month that will make it feel easier, I think.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yes,
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  SPEAKER_00: like I say,
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  SPEAKER_00: we can also be thinking about how can we bring this light with us into
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  SPEAKER_00: the dark phase?
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hope that made some sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let's just go on in.
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  SPEAKER_00: So get yourself into a comfortable position.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want to wrap yourself up in your blanket, go ahead and do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then just either having a soft gaze on something in front of you,
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  SPEAKER_00: or if you're ready to close your eyes, go ahead and do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're just slowing down the breath for a comfortable, deep breath for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you don't need to be struggling to make the deepest breath,
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  SPEAKER_00: just Focusing on slowing it down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Inhaling all the way down into the pelvis, the lower belly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as you exhale,
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  SPEAKER_00: actively relaxing the muscles in and around your sitting bones,
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  SPEAKER_00: the pelvic floor, down into your hips and the tops of your thighs.
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  SPEAKER_00: You might want to take a few breaths here to really relax this space.
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  SPEAKER_00: Letting the lower body know that it's safe to slow down now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spending a few moments noticing where the muscles are gripping on.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of the time we don't even notice that we're just bracing, ready to run.
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  SPEAKER_00: So using that exhale to soften the top of the hip flexors,
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  SPEAKER_00: feeling the legs get really heavy,
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  SPEAKER_00: settling into the ground, allowing gravity to do its thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just hold us up, hold us steady.
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  SPEAKER_00: Focusing your breath in and around your jaw.
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  SPEAKER_00: So big inhale into the front of the face, your mouth into your neck.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then as you exhale,
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  SPEAKER_00: soften the top of your shoulders, relax up the side of the neck, open your jaw.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just feel that tension melting away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Flowing out through your mouth,
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  SPEAKER_00: through your lips, using everything you can to relax the mouth and the jaw.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a connection between the jaw and the pelvic floor and often
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  SPEAKER_00: if we're really tight in our jaws, it also makes the pelvic floor grip on as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you could even use your hands if it helps just to rub down the sides Of the jaw here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Helping to soften those muscles and let go.
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  SPEAKER_00: And
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  SPEAKER_00: washing your breath down your arms.
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  SPEAKER_00: With your exhale, allowing the shoulders to drop away from the ears.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let your arms get really heavy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Softening the space around the collarbone.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then allowing your breath
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  SPEAKER_00: to return to its natural rate,
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  SPEAKER_00: cadence.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let your attention fall on your breath.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whether it's how it feels,
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  SPEAKER_00: the sound it makes, whatever you see in your mind's eye as you breathe in and out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Staying with your breath.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if at any point you notice your mind has wandered off,
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  SPEAKER_00: be ever so gentle and kind as you bring it back to your breath.
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  SPEAKER_00: From here I invite you to come to the Magic Divorce Clubhouse.
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  SPEAKER_00: This beautiful, steady,
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  SPEAKER_00: inviting building with its protective blue layer all the way around the outside.
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  SPEAKER_00: You feel that pull, you're ready to go inside.
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  SPEAKER_00: Knowing that as you step through the thresholds,
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  SPEAKER_00: anything that you have been carrying,
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  SPEAKER_00: whether you know it or not,
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  SPEAKER_00: any threads and cords,
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  SPEAKER_00: vying for your attention when you absolutely do not need to give it.
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  SPEAKER_00: As soon as you step through the doorway,
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  SPEAKER_00: you feel everything that isn't yours fizzling away,
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  SPEAKER_00: going back with love to wherever it belongs.
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  SPEAKER_00: And just take a moment, once you're safely inside, to acclimatise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Feeling your feet on the soft, spongy ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: Noticing the air around you as golden and blue sparkles.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just noticing what feels different now that The only things you've brought
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  SPEAKER_00: with you are your things.