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315 - Human Design Variables Series: Environment Arrow · Unshakeable with Human Design - A Human Design For Business Podcast

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  Welcome to Unshakeable with Human Design, the show dedicated to
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  helping entrepreneurs use human design to shift from hustle to
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  flow without sacrificing results.
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  Come here to become an unshakeable human and build an unshakeable business
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  according to your human design.
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  I'm your host, Nicole Laino.
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  Hello, and welcome to Unshakeable with Human Design, everybody.
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  I'm your host, Nicole Laino, and we are here today to talk about variables.
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  Once again, we are in episode two of our variables series.
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  For those of you just joining us.
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  This is a series that I'm doing on the variables.
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  Those are the arrows when you're looking at the human design chart that
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  sit on either side of the head center.
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  So there are four arrows.
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  There are going to be four episodes to this series.
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  This is episode two, and this one is going to be about environment.
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  Before I do that, I do want to introduce the variables a little bit in case
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  this is the first episode that you're joining us, you didn't listen to the
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  first one, which was on digestion.
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  I want to give you a little overview of what variables are and why they matter.
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  So variables are what we call below the line.
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  This is the substructure of human design.
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  This is what happens underneath.
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  So it's not the stuff that we necessarily have control over, but
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  it is the stuff that influences us very deeply on an energetic level.
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  So this is stuff that it's not so much that you're like, I'm
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  going to go use this out there.
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  It's not like you're going to use it necessarily as a strength, but what this
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  can do, what human design variables can do when you're living in alignment with
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  them, one, they can explain a lot about why things have worked or haven't worked.
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  Why you might have a certain way of working that other
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  people don't really understand.
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  They can contribute to making you more productive in a balanced
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  way, helping you find your flow.
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  What is your gas and your brake?
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  Variables can tell you the ones that are really not obvious to you.
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  So we obviously have with the five types, we get our strategy and authority.
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  We get our signature and our not self themes.
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  These feel very much in our control.
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  They give us something to show us our way of operating.
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  The variables are much more subtle, so you want to do is, I
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  would say like come to this with an open mind and a playful heart.
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  Be willing to experiment with these aspects so you can
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  find what works best for you.
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  Now, how is this different than reading a bunch of books and taking what
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  works out, for you out of those books?
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  Well, what we're doing here is we're giving you the sandboxes to play in.
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  We're showing you, here's what might work for you.
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  Play with these specific things.
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  And if you want to dive deep into this, we've created a guide for you.
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  It's a free guide on the variables that encompasses everything that we're going
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  to talk about in these four episodes.
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  And it goes into a little bit more detail because we're going to keep this high
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  level, we're still going to give you detail, but there'll be more specific
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  detail, obviously they're written out carefully in the guide, and if you'd like
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  to take this home with you, so after these episodes you have something to refer to.
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  Please download the guide.
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  All you have to do that is go to nicolelaino.com/variables.
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  You can download the guide there, or you can DM me on Instagram.
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  "Variables" and we'll send you the guide.
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  So let's dive in.
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  Let's dive into human design.
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  Today we're going to talk about the human design environment.
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  We did human design digestion, variable of digestion.
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  Today we're going to talk about environment.
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  Now environment.
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  Is still on the left side.
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  This is the bottom left arrow.
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  The last episode we did the top left arrow.
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  We're going to talk about the bottom left arrow.
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  Now environment, just like all the other variables, it exists below
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  the line and it's about place.
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  It's about the environment that we're in.
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  One of the mistakes that people make with environment a lot of times, when they
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  see their environment on their chart.
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  And they want to know what it means.
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  You see the word mountains and you're like, what does that mean?
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  It doesn't mean that you have to live in a mountain.
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  Don't take things too literally.
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  And I know that it can be literal, but we want to, again, play.
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  Play with these things.
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  These are going to be broader themes that are going to tell you
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  what places or types of places.
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  What types of environments set your nervous system naturally at ease.
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  And also, which ones are just suitable to nurture your body, they nurture
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  your nervous system, they nurture your energy, but there's a bit of that right
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  place, right time aspect of this as well.
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  So if you're in the right place, then you have a greater probability of intersecting
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  with the things that are right for you.
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  There's just some places that we feel really at home.
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  You travel, you go someplace or you move to a new city and
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  sometimes it fits and feels really great and other times it doesn't.
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  You'll notice that some of these environments are pretty flexible.
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  This is all going to tie to your work environment.
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  They're all pretty flexible.
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  I don't think there are any of them where you could say, I
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  couldn't create this where I am.
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  Right?
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  And I'll talk a little bit about mine, and how mine and my husband's
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  are very different, and we currently live in one that's a little bit more
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  geared to his environment, but what I do to sort of play with that and
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  try to work with what we've got.
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  Because I didn't find this information.
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  This part of human design.
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  I didn't know anything about this before we moved.
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  I might have made some different decisions.
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  I love where we live, but I might have made slightly different decisions about
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  our house or maybe the neighborhood that we picked if I had known what I know now.
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  But I do work with it still.
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  I shift the way, where I work so that I can be more productive.
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  And that's what really you can get out of this.
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  The environment can be a very key aspect of your productivity.
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  Again, if you find yourself not able to produce, you feel like you're facing
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  a lot of resistance in the way that you work or how you produce what you
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  need to produce, maybe the right ideas don't arise and you feel like you're
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  following strategy and authority.
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  Environment very well might be something that you want to play with,
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  that you want to experiment with.
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  Now it doesn't mean you have to do it all the time.
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  But it might help you to do it some of the time, particularly if you have
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  a big deadline, if you are working on something really important.
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  Again, I'll talk to you about some of the examples that I have for my own life
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  when we dive into and we get to my type.
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  So it's going to tell you the type of places that nurture your body, calm
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  your body, your nervous system, and each one has its own specific nuance.
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  Okay?
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  So let's dive in.
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  There are six different environments because we are always going
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  on that line theme structure.
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  There are six lines in human design.
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  When we get our profile, like I'm a 5'1 you might be a 2'4 or a 3'5.
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  All of those profiles, they range from one to six.
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  It's a six line structure.
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  And all of the variables are structured along that same six line framework.
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  okay.
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  The first one is caves and people might be like, Oh, I gotta go live in a cave.
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  No, think about like more the essence of what a cave would be.
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  Caves people need to feel usually in control of their environment.
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  They need to feel cozy.
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  They don't typically like being in wide open spaces.
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  They don't want, and I don't mean that you never want to be in them, but what makes
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  you feel safe or where you want to come home is having your own specific space.
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  So never knowing where you're going to work, never knowing where you can put
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  your stuff or how you can get comfortable.
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  All of that is going to maybe make a caves person feel really unsettled and
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  maybe they'll feel like they can't work.
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  So when they get their own space, so this might be a digital nomad, might have a
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  hard time if they're a caves person, if they don't have a specific place to work.
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  That doesn't mean you can't do it.
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  It just means that you might have to get creative with the space
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  that you create for yourself.
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  Even if you have a tiny apartment, do you create a little corner, that's yours,
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  that makes you feel like you get to control that environment and it feels
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  cozy and it feels good for you, right?
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  That's what you want to try to cultivate.
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  That's what you want to try to create.
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  And if you're finding that when you move around and you don't have
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  that specific place I'm not a caves person, but when we renovated our
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  house, I didn't have my space.
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  And I didn't really know where I was going to work.
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  So I got a WeWork space, I was going to a co working space, which I really enjoyed.
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  Like I said, I'm not a caves person, but they have little booths and certain
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  corners there that maybe if a caves person felt kind of displaced, I could see that
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  not being their most productive time.
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  And then maybe having to take a little bit of time to get their groove with that.
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  But they might pick a booth.
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  They might pick one of these little corners to tuck away
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  and they might get there early.
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  So they make sure that they get that same spot every day.
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  That might be a way that they experiment with it to see how they feel, okay.
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  So that's caves.
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  Markets.
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  Markets is a funny one.
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  It's where you can showcase your talent.
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  Think of the energy and the essence of buying and selling, commerce, trade.
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  So a mall, a trading floor, a co working space could definitely be it.
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  An office or a studio where people were able to come in and come out.
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  I have a client who is a designer and she has a design studio.
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  So people can come in and come out of there.
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  She can showcase her work.
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  They can look at it.
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  They could just say like, Oh, how talented are you?
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  And then they can choose to work with her or not.
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  She's not necessarily actively selling herself.
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  Now, that's the type of environment.
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  A town square would feel like that, potentially, for her, right?
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  So, this is how that sort of works.
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  And when you're in that type of environment, again, what we're
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  creating is a space where the wind feels like it's at your back.
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  Where you feel like you have energy working with you rather
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  than energy working against you.
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  You'll also probably find that being in that environment, you'll start to
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  interact with the right people, the right opportunities will start coming to you.
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  Why?
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  Well, if you feel better in your body, cause strategy and authority
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  is all about strengthening your aura.
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  Strengthening your aura is all about being in your signature theme,
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  which signature themes are positive.
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  No matter how much you're in alignment outside of your life.
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  So as you're following your strategy and authority, you're in alignment,
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  you feel satisfied, all of that stuff that will take care of most of this.
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  But if there's still a little unease, or if we want to turn that dial up,
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  how do we create positive feelings in our body on an energetic frequency
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  level through our nervous system?
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  Well, let's put us in the right environment.
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  Let's set our bodies and our energy at ease.
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  And that's what environment can do for you.
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  So if you're a markets person, being in a market setting and playing
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  with that and what that could look like for you, see how you feel.
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  Try it and see.
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  How do you feel when you're not in that environment?
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  See how you feel.
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  Document it so that you can actually really reflect on it.
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  Third type of environment is kitchens.
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  This is another one that's really funny because people are like,
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  do I have to work in my kitchen?
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  No, but you could.
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  There's nothing to say that you couldn't work in your kitchen and that might
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  feel really good for you as well.
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  Think about kitchens though.
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  Kitchens are a place where production happens.
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  Things happen.
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  They're busy.
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  They are lively.
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  Things are transformed and created there.
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  A shop, a lab, a studio, that kind of environment might
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  feel really good for you.
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  If you're a kitchens person, you might like to be in the thick of things where
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  things feel like they're happening.
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  I also find that kitchens people can sometimes feel really good in
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  like an urban environment because so much is happening there.
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  I used to love to work at, again, not my environment, because mine is
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  very simple to recreate if I want to.
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  There's lots of ways I can play with it.
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  But when I lived in New York, so that was most of, like, all of my 20s I was there.
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  I lived there my whole life before that, but when I was working in New York, and
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  even when I was in LA, come to think of it, I worked a lot in restaurants.
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  I worked a lot, like, sitting at a bar, or sitting in a restaurant at a
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  table, and just working, not coffee shops, I worked at restaurants.
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  And so that would be an example of how like just that lively atmosphere
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  where stuff is happening, people are working, things are happening,
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  that is a nurturing atmosphere.
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  Mountains.
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  Mountains is, this is my environment.
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  So that's the next one is mountains.
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  Mountains.
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  Yes, you could be in a mountain.
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  And I do have to say, like my own personal experience with this.
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  My family and I went to Utah one summer and I love the mountains.
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  I just do.
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  And I always did.
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  I always felt drawn to high altitude.
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  I love to ski.
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  I loved climbing trees on roofs.
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  Being on the top floor of anything was always where I wanted to be.
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  I never wanted to be on the ground floor.
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  It was always way up high.
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  And we think that everybody is that way.
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  We think like the way that we are, we just sort of like, well,
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  everyone loves the top floor.
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  True necessarily.
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  I really love to see out a window, a top floor window.
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  I used to love going to like the Rainbow Room in New York and just going
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  up there and viewing New York City from up there, from that restaurant.
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  That is something that always made me feel good in my body.
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  It's not just, oh, it's so pretty.
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  It was like, no, I just feel good up here.
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  And that's what mountains is about.
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  It's about a vantage point.
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  It's about height.
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  It is about altitude.
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  It is about the quality of the air.
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  So there's lots of aspects to this, that there's a reason why being on
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  a high floor somewhere makes me feel something and makes me feel good.
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  So I usually ask for a high floor when I go to hotels, or if I'm
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  choosing where to go work, and I know that I'm going to need that, I
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  do pick places that have elevation.
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  Our public library here in Austin has a balcony overlooking the river.
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  So it's like this unobstructed view and it's up high.
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  So I might go there and I might sit and work and look out at that view.
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  I get a different perspective.
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  I get my best ideas there.
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  So when I'm working on certain things, that's something that I will
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  absolutely make sure I have if I'm working on something really important.
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  But there's a difference why, so those things work for me.
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  I can game it that way.
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  It actually is very different when I do go to an actual mountain.
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  When I get to a higher elevation, I can feel my body just relax in a way
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  that I can't get it to relax in any other way, with any other method.
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  We got to Utah and the second I got there and It was like, Oh God, I love this.
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  I love this.
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  I love this.
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  I love it.
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  It was like my soul was calling out about how much I loved being on a mountain.
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  Looking out at it all, but just the feeling of it.
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  It was the energy of it.
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  It's the air quality, the thinner air.
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  I really like the drier air is suitable for me.
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  So that's mountains.
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  The fifth type is valleys.
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  This is my husband's type.
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  So I'm mountains, he's valleys.
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  This actually has more to do with being close to civilization.
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  So being close to town, being close to things going on, but
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  not right in the middle of them.
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  So this can be very suburban, that feeling but it is an active environment.
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  It's not the burbs, it's not rural, it's not totally secluded.
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  It's something that feels like it's close enough.
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  Where we live in Austin.
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  We are about 20 minutes from downtown, but we're about 10 minutes from
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  another area that's very bustling.
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  We're close to everything, we have access to everything, it's very easy
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  for us to get to where the action is.
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  And that's really kind of perfect for my husband.
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  There's also an aspect to valleys that has to do with sound.
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  It's not too quiet.
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  That there is something, that there's noise that's sort of carrying
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  through, if you think about like how a valley noise would carry
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  through and dissipate and disperse through the open surroundings, right?
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  That would be another way that you look at this.
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  Each of these types I should mention has two variations to them.
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  So there's valleys, there's narrow, and there's wide.
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  Mountains, there's active, and there's passive.
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  We get more into that in the guide.
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  I'm not going to go into all of that detail here, simply because I just don't
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  want to confuse people, and I want to keep it really simple and really tight.
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  Because if you just start playing with this, environment is one of those
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  things that you can really start to play with and start to see big impact with.
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  This is honestly, I like them all.
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  Environment I think is the easiest one to conceptualize and understand and play
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  with and then I think motivation is also, which is the next one that we'll do.
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  Motivation is also just one that is super super valuable and you can
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  start to see that work in your life.
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  And all of these show up very differently for us and that's what
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  makes them so fascinating and so useful.
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  So the last type, the last environment is shores.
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  I will mention the variation for this one just because people
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  can get a little confused.
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  There's natural and artificial shores.
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  So one's man made, one's natural.
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  And this is really about transformation.
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  This is about natural transitions between environments.
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  Where does one thing end and the other thing start?
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  So that you're on the cusp of something.
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  You're on the edge of something.
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  Something is going to stop being one thing and become something else.
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  It can be on the edge of town.
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  It could be literally on a shore where the sand and the shore is
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  ending and the water is beginning.
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  The body of water is beginning.
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  All of these areas, this is, again, something to play with.
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  But if you're natural shores, you might find that you really
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  benefit from being around water.
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  That's just something I've heard from people.
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  These are the people that they're like, I'm a water baby.
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  I'm a beach person.
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  I need to be near the beach.
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  I need to be near this.
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  And then when we look, there shore is natural.
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  And I'm like, if that's what feels right for you, I understand why.
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  And maybe you reconsider moving because it might not be the best place for you.
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  And we don't want to find out the hard way, by moving away and then being
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  like, no I really needed to be there.
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  Cause this can affect your health, this can affect your
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  productivity, your overall happiness.
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  And this is why when we're in the wrong place and things just feel really
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  bad and we don't know why, sometimes changing place can suddenly just
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  make us feel better and this is why.
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  Like we as people can't really say, why do I feel better here than I do here?
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  And then we get into, well, my family is in this place, and we
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  have obligations here, and my job, and we're not thinking about maybe
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  what our soul is calling out for.
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  And this is why moving place can have such a profound impact on our lives, right?
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  So, shores, natural or artificial, is it a man made shore?
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  Is it a man made transition?
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  That we're looking at, and an example of that could be like, the edge of town.
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  One of the things I'm thinking about is, like, because this would apply
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  to mountains as well, but from a shore's perspective, do you live on
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  That would be an example of an artificial shore.
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  It's not an actual shore, but you're seeing a transition
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