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How to start channeling · Remember Why You Are Here

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The Earth wants us to be channels for her.
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The Earth wants us to learn how to listen to her voice and to bring
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those messages into our actions, our expressions,
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and our interactions with others.
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Hello and welcome back to Remember Why You Are Here,
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a podcast for seekers and sensitives where you can relax, receive,
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reconnect yourself and remember the most important thing of all:
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why you're here. I'm Asia Suler, earth intuitive,
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author, teacher, and channel.
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So I have been using channeling in my work now for a
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decade.
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I started teaching channeling couple of years after I
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really began incorporating it into my work.
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So I've now been through many years of guiding other people through learning how
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to channel,
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and I really find it to be just one of the most helpful tools,
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not only in intuitive work or in
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creative work, but just in life in general.
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It's one of those practices now I tune into on a daily
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basis. I use channeling for creating podcast episodes,
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clearly, especially my intuitive readings, but just episodes in general.
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I use channeling to create my classes,
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to help me make decisions in my life.
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It is one of my absolute favorite tools,
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and it's something I'm really passionate about helping other people to
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access. In large part,
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because I truly believe we are all channels;
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human beings are natural channels.
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And so this is not a skill that is reserved for the elite. In fact,
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it's a skill that is innate to all of us that we can all access and that
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when we can access in this way, when we have the tools to know how to channel,
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we can just lead these lives that are so much more graceful,
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so much more supported.
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We can move through the world with this feeling of confidence and
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clarity.
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This has been up for me in a really big way this past fall as I've been on
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this sabbatical, writing my second book,
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because there's this level in which all creativity is
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channeling. Good creativity. The kind of creativity where we're like,
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where did that come from? Or we see a painting or we hear a song and we're like,
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wow, this is connecting to me to something I can't even name.
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How did they come up with this? That's channeling.
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And there's all different things we can channel,
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all different ways we can channel. And I go into that into the recording.
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I'm about to share how to start channeling, but to me,
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that's where all the richest art really comes from.
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So while I have been deep in research this fall
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and in scholarship and experiential things while I write,
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I'm also channeling constantly all the time to bring this through.
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I was reflecting on this in particular because when I made this recording,
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it was right before my last book came out.
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And so it just felt like such a sweet thing to
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reshare now, as I step into creating this next book,
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and as I realize that I've taken everything I've learned through writing that
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first book, my first book Mirrors in the Earth,
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I've taken everything that I've learned in writing Mirrors in the Earth,
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and I have now expanded upon that in this next book.
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I've taken the practice that I had of channeling,
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this practice that I didn't even have a name for at first,
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but realized with time was channeling,
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was channeling these messages from the earth,
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and now I'm wielding it consciously.
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And it's been really incredible to see what happens when you become a
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conscious channel,
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and that is just so much of what this guide is about.
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So if you are interested in how to start channeling,
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keep listening because I'm going to detail the steps for you to
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begin to step into this channel that is uniquely your own,
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this channel that you are.
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In my last decade of working as a teacher, writer and practitioner,
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I started to realize something.
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The information that was coming through me wasn't coming from me.
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It wasn't coming from my mind.
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I realized this because I would be in session with a client or I'd be teaching a
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class and all of a sudden this information would come through me
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and it was deeply healing,
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not only for the person I was speaking with or the class I was sitting with,
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but for me.
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Receiving that message and that information was a healing experience unto
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itself.
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And I started to realize as the years went on that this is channeling.
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Now, I firmly believe that we all have this ability to channel.
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I am not special in this way.
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Every single one of us here on this planet is a channel and we're all
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really being called to inhabit that specific channel now.
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This is your guide to stepping into the
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channel that you are.
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I used to be freaked out by the concept of channeling when I was younger.
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I thought it meant giving over conscious control of yourself, your body,
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your personality,
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and that it meant opening up to entities that I really didn't know anything
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about or frankly wasn't even sure I could trust.
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Then I realized something:
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channeling at its most basic is just opening to a wider wisdom
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than what we can access with our conscious mind. And the fact is,
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we're all it all the time.
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So if you've ever gotten dressed up for a date and you were really feeling
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your fierceness or thinking about a movie star or a rock star
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who you wanted to embody, that's channeling.
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Or maybe you had to give a speech and you thought about a mentor or a teacher
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who really means something to you in your life and you are bringing that energy
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into your body and into your speech, that is also channeling.
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The key is to become a conscious channel,
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to really decide who and what type of energies you want to
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embody, what you want to channel or bring into your life.
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So we all have the ability to tap into our wider wisdom:
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aspects of yourself, your wider self,
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your higher self, your divine,
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or perhaps any beings in the non-physical world or physical world that you
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feel drawn to or look up to. You can bring that energy into your body,
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into your life to help guide you, make better decisions,
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to live out the full authenticity of yourself and to really find and
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isolate the choices in your life that hold the most light and potential for you.
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So what is channeling really at its most basic channeling is just a frequency
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shift.
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You can feel it like in that example of going out on a date or being about to
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give a talk, you can feel your energy shift.
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And so this frequency shift is you deciding to tune into a different kind of
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energy, a wider energy,
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an energy that you really want to embody and feel in your life.
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,For me,
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true healing channeling is stepping into wiser,
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loving,
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benevolent energy and letting that energy move through me to heal me
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and to help me in my endeavors.
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So when we shift our frequency or our energy in this way to be open
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to channeling a certain energy or frequency... For example,
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you could decide to channel an old growth tree.
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It doesn't always have to be that you're channeling an archangel or
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one of your guides. You can channel anything. That's the beauty of channeling,
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because everything has energy. So when you decide to open up to channeling,
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you can also receive life guidance,
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receive support in making decisions,
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and overall just infuse your life with a different feeling state.
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So how do you start channeling? How do you start consciously channeling? Well,
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I think the best way to start is to get clear in your intentions of who
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or what you want to channel or interact with.
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When we get specific with our intentions, we're actually directing our energy.
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We are making this direct energetic connection to that entity or
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that energy that we really want to embody.
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Once we get clear on who or what we want to channel in our life,
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then that's the time to call in your circle of protection.
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So you can call in colors, you can call in guides,
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perhaps animal guides that are in your life, ancestors,
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any beings in the physical or non-physical world that feel protective to you,
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that help you feel that sense of safety.
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So you're going to call in that circle of safety,
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and this is really just helping to support you in making a clear connection to
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that energy that you are wanting to channel.
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So once you feel that that connection is open,
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and over time you'll learn how to really tune into the subtlety of that.
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But I know for me it often feels like a relaxing,
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I can sense my mind starting to quiet down a little bit and almost like
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an eye dilating or a camera lens opening,
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I sense myself expanding in this way while another part of my mind quiets
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down. So once you sense this connection is open,
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that's when you can drop into the active channeling part.
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So I recommend either starting with written or spoken channeling.
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So this is just a way for you to translate what you're feeling into words you
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can revisit later. So when you do written channeling,
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you just get a piece of paper and once you sense that you're in that soft,
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receptive, connected state, you just start writing.
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And I think it's good to set a timer for something like five minutes so you
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don't put too much pressure on yourself that you're going to download a whole
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manifesto. Just give yourself five minutes and write stream of consciousness.
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So get your pen on the paper and don't lift your hand until that timer is
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up. And just see what comes through.
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Try not to think about it as it's flowing through you.
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Don't judge it or evaluate it as it's moving through you,
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just keep writing and then you'll be able to read it at the end.
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What I have found about written and spoken channeling is that after I
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read it or listen to it back, it's often actually quite simple.
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And sometimes people get discouraged looking at this and think, well,
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this is so simple. Like for example, might say something like,
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"we want you to love yourself," or "spend more time outside." But the thing is
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you're not looking for the complexity of the words.
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You're looking for the energy behind them,
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because that's really what you're bringing in and capturing through these
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words, whether you're writing them or you're speaking them.
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So if you want to do spoken channeling,
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you can just get your phone or any other recording device, like a computer,
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and just press record and start
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speaking. So for me,
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it helps to close my eyes or otherwise have a soft gaze so I'm not so focused on
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the world around me. And again,
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I just start speaking and I keep speaking and I try to just continue on.
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If at any point you get stuck, whether writing or speaking,
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try repeating the same thing,
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this will help you actually attune your mind to the energy that's coming in
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and make sense so that the flow can continue on.
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When you feel complete or when the timer's up,
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take a moment to thank the energy that you've connected with, and then,
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after your channeling session, immediately after, or, take some time later,
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and then go back and look at what you wrote.
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Sometimes it will take some time for it to really land with you. Again,
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it's the energy that you're looking for and the energy that we're really wanting
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to pinpoint here is this energy of loving non-judgment
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and benevolence. The energies that you want to channel,
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the entities that you want to channel,
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that is the energy that they're going to hold. And I often recommend for people,
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if it's their first time doing this,
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to just try and tune into your wider self or your higher self,
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whatever term makes sense for you.
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The part of you that has the bird's eye view to tune into that part of you,
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that's a very safe, solid-feeling place to start.
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And from that place,
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you can be pretty clear that if something comes in that has a
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tinge of judgment or criticism to it,
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you can be sure that you weren't actually channeling this being of
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love and light that you had intended to channel. And you know what? That's okay.
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We're all in a process of learning how to channel what we want to channel.
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For example,
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instead of channeling the news we heard that day or channeling the patterns we
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had from childhood. As I said, we're all channeling all the time.
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So we're just learning how to change the channel,
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literally how to change our frequency to channel what we want to channel.
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So if what you wrote or what you spoke had that tinge of judgment to
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it, or there's a way in which it doesn't make you feel good,
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then you can know it just wasn't quite the right channel.
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And that's totally okay because you're learning how to do this and you will try
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again. You will know that it's the right channel,
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that it was the energy you wanted to connect to because no matter how simple the
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words are, the feeling of it will make you feel good.
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It will make you feel expansive, free,
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understood.
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Even when the guidance or the information is around something like a life
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change or something we need to shift,
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there will still be an aspect of it that just by hearing it,
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it will make you feel free. And that's how you know you've got the good stuff.
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My job for the last 10 years has been all about working in
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tandem with the earth to channel healing for people,
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whether that's making medicine,
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teaching classes in wild spaces or working one-on-one with
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clients. And over the last 10 years of working intimately with the earth,
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in all these ways, I have learned something:
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the earth wants us to be channels for her.
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The earth wants us to learn how to listen to her voice,
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to listen to the plants and the animals and the stones,
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and to bring those messages into our day-to-day lives and to bring
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them into our actions, our expressions, and our interactions with others,
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to listen to her voice,
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to listen to the plants and the animals and the stones,
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and to bring those messages into our day-to-day lives and to bring
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them into our actions, our expressions, and our interactions with others.
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Humans have this unique ability to both intuit information
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from their surroundings, from the living world,
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and then to use their intention and their incredible abilities of communication
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to pass that information on, to share it with others.
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The bedrock of any change is culture,
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and the way that we create and shift culture and revolutionize
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culture is through this intuitive connection.
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It is through this ability to speak to the living world, to the wider world,
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to understand the messages it's bringing us,
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and to infuse those messages into creating the kind of lives and cultures we
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want to be a part of.
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Over this last 10 years of working intimately with people, plants,
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stones, in the living world,
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I have had amazing experiences of self revelation
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and healing and tandem with the natural world.
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And I'm so excited now to announce that those experiences and the
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profound messages that this earth is passing on through me are now
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available in my first book, Mirrors in the Earth:
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Reflections on self-healing from the living World.
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This book has been a true labor of love, and it's been a healing experience.
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It's been a channeling experience. And how do I know that?
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Because writing it has healed me.
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The book is about this core concept that the earth wants us to learn about
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ourselves, to understand ourselves,
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and to embrace ourselves with compassion,
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because it is through learning self-compassion that we step into the
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gifts we are here to bring to this earth.
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The book is a series of reflections given to us from the natural world that
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show you just how good you are, how precious and how worthy,
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by looking at all of the natural processes going on around us.
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The natural magics of the earth reflect back to you just how natural and
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magical you are. So now, I would love to hear from you,
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as I describe channeling,
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are you realizing that you actually have had an experience like this before?
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What was that experience like?
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And I'm particularly curious now that we've talked about this idea of being a
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channel for the earth,
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have you ever received a message from the earth - maybe from a plant or an
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animal or a landscape - and if so, what was that message?
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What came through for you?
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The things that we each receive are essential and vital.
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We are all receiving a part of the healing.
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And together when we each bring forth what we've experienced,
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what we've heard, what we know to be true, and what the earth has given us,
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we can become a part of healing the whole.
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So I hope that this guide was helpful for you. If you begin to channel,
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I would love to hear more about how that has gone for you,
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what comes up, the messages you receive.
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You can leave me a comment or head over to AsiaSuler.com/remember and
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leave me a voice note.
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And if you're interested in being guided to connect with the Earth,
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to specifically use writing as a form of channeling to access the
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earth's wisdom and ignite your creativity,
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I have an online nature writing workshop and series of magic lessons called
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Writing the Earth's Voice.
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This four module course was designed to help you connect with the sentience of
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nature, so you can really understand the nature of your creative gifts.
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Inside the course,
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I guide you to make direct contact with your healing guides in nature.
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I help you tap into your abilities as what I'm calling an "earth oracle" so that
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you can understand more about your unique creative gifts.
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I will walk you through channeling earth energy for healing and revelation,
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and really walk you to the door of this enchanted
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world that we live in,
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so you can access the stream of guidance and wisdom that lives in the earth.
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Because you are here to play a unique part in the earth's evolution
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and Writing the Earth's voice,
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the channeling and the creativity that we undertake within this special writing
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workshop, is here to help you understand that unique part.
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I often say that this workshop is spending the afternoon in a magical cottage at
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the end of the woods.
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So if you're interested in a cozy experience of stepping into a flow state of
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creativity and communion with nature, head on over to my website,
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AsiaSuler.com and check out that course there.
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So thank you so much for listening. Thank you for being here.
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Thank you for being the channel that you are.
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What you are bringing onto this planet is so important, it's so necessary.
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And the light that you embody just by being who you are
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is the biggest force of healing you could ever bring to this planet.
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So thank you. And may all these connections that you're making,
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may all of the energies that you tune into and channel and all the ways in which
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you're expanding your understanding of who you are,
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help you remember that most important thing of all:
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why you're here.