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Ep166. Elevating Consciousness Through Meditation and and Mindfulness. · The Inner Wealth Podcast

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Do you ever wake up feeling like there's something missing in your life?
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever feel the need to escape your business?
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  Speaker 1: Are you running your life or is your life running you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mike Kitko and I'll help you design and create a life so authentic and aligned with who you really are that you'll get excited just to wake up.
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  Speaker 1: I'll help you create real wealth, success and freedom from the inside out.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Inner Wealth Podcast, where we learn and choose to live inspired each and every day.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: I've done a lot of episodes on this show about authenticity and about allowing yourself to just fully be yourself and allow yourself to show up to understand what's inside of you, trying to get out into the world and then be that fully and surrender into that.
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  Speaker 1: Now I've done a lot of episodes and I've made a lot of progress in this area, because my identity was all twisted and knotted up and I withheld myself and I compromised who I was on a daily basis and I just man.
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  Speaker 1: It was a very it was a very strugglicious first 43 years of my life and I've made a lot of progress, but I'm still.
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  Speaker 1: I still have a lot of work to do in this area and today I want to talk about the most recent thing that I've allowed to come out of my soul, to come out of my heart and to really make an impact in the world out of my heart and to really make an impact in the world.
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: Last week we had Inner Wealth.
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  Speaker 1: My business is Inner Wealth Global and the Inner Wealth Mastermind is our exclusive family of typically entrepreneurs, business owners, driven professionals, people that own their own circumstances, they make their own decisions, they call their own shots and they're creating time freedom, they're creating financial freedom and they're creating freedom, internal freedom, spiritual freedom and this is the work that we do together.
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  Speaker 1: We had our retreat in Gatlinburg, tennessee, and every six months or so we just get away and we go and get a multi-million dollar mansion and we rent it for the week and we all get together and we all jam together and it's a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: And we've been to Denver, colorado.
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  Speaker 1: We've been to Sedona, arizona.
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  Speaker 1: We've been to San Antonio, texas.
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  Speaker 1: We've been to now Gatlinburg.
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  Speaker 1: We've been to Miami the last retreat was at Miami and this one was in Gatlinburg but we have a lot of fun together and we do a lot of really, really deep, deep work together and it's a very magical time.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very mystical time together, time together, and that's the thing that I've allowed to come out and play.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't been to one of my live events and what I mean by that is an intensive workshop, an in-person intensive workshop, or a retreat of mine you might not fully know the work that I do with people.
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  Speaker 1: I actively lead guided meditations in my live workshops and typically over the course of two days, whether it be a retreat or an intensive.
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  Speaker 1: And the difference is with a retreat, that's my mastermind, our mastermind getting together and an intensive, it's open to the public and people can come.
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  Speaker 1: And people have come from around the, you know, from coast to coast, from the country, from the US.
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  Speaker 1: Come to so far Nobody's come from an international but come to a workshop.
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  Speaker 1: We've had these workshops in St Louis and New Orleans so far.
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  Speaker 1: But they come to the workshop and I'll start to do some mindfulness work with them and what I do is I'll get them into a seated or even a position where they're laying down and I'll start to guide them into meditation, getting them inside of their body, into meditation.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: Getting them inside of their body, getting them inside of themselves to really understand exactly what's happening in their mind and body.
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  Speaker 1: Now, when I do this, when I lead people in meditation, typically if someone's never really meditated before they're going to struggle, they're going to have a struggle experience, typically because it's uncomfortable at first.
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  Speaker 1: When you try to sit in silence and stillness and put your attention, your focus and your awareness inside of yourself, of yourself, before you start doing some spiritual work, some spiritual cleansing work, to start to resolve and dissolve trauma experiences and to let pain and suffering and to let false beliefs and stories of insecurity and inadequacy and levels of insignificance, before you start the work of letting these things go, it's usually generally not a very pretty place inside of your mind and body.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I experienced that way back in 2016 when I started doing the work.
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  Speaker 1: In 2016, when I started doing the work and as I, when I first started meditating, I struggled to even sit still for like fricking 30 seconds without twitching or without being uncomfortable, and over time, I've been able to clean out a lot of the clutter, a lot of the gunk that was inside, a lot of the pain and suffering, and now I can sit with myself for hours and just enjoy the environment that's in my mind and my body, which feels liberating and it feels free and it feels fulfilling and it feels empowering inside of my mind and my body.
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  Speaker 1: When somebody starts this work, like I had a few people last week at my, at my retreat, at our retreat, I had a few people that had never really meditated before and you could see, I could see on their faces, you know, and there were, there were about 20 of us in the room.
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  Speaker 1: I can see on their faces and I can see by their twitching and they started to, you know, maybe scratch their.
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  Speaker 1: They had a at that moment.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when I put them into meditation they had to scratch or they had to cough or their body was fighting, just sitting in silence and stillness.
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  Speaker 1: And this is typical when you start a new meditation practice.
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  Speaker 1: Your body is not used to sitting in silence and stillness without looking for a distraction of some sort.
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  Speaker 1: And in this case, when you're, when you, when I put people into meditation and they're not used to it, they start to twitch and they start to shake and you can see the discomfort in their body.
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  Speaker 1: Like sitting with themselves for even a minute is very, very uncomfortable for them.
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  Speaker 1: Silence and stillness and getting your awareness inside of your mind and body, things inside of you start to rearrange themselves and you start to shift your level of consciousness.
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  Speaker 1: And as you let go of the pain of the past, as you let go of the painful beliefs and thoughts and emotions and disempowering stories that you have inside of you, and when you let go of the disempowered emotion of experiences from your past, beauty starts to take over and beauty and these, a higher feeling state, a higher emotion starts to take its place.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the benefit and the power of meditation is you clean out the internal clutter and you allow more beautiful energies to flow into you.
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  Speaker 1: Now it sounds woo-woo as fuck, but this shit works and I know because I'm a product of it and I'm also a mindfulness teacher and in these events, I lead people through meditation and I can see the power of their breakthroughs.
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  Speaker 1: Oftentimes at these meditations, when I start to do something called shadow work, which is get them to experience a feeling and an emotion that they've been running from their whole life, and I, I I invite them and I get them connected to it so that they can finally feel it, because what you feel heals and what you, what you pretend doesn't exist, what you, what you fight, these things, what you try to um, repress and suppress and escape.
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: When you push these emotions, when you try to ignore the pain that's inside of you, it just remains what you feel heals.
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  Speaker 1: When you finally face the things that you've been running from your whole life, it starts to free up and you start to become liberated from it and the energy of that experience, the energy of that fear, the energy of that experience starts to dissolve, starts to resolve and what you feel heals Starts to resolve.
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: And what you feel heals, you begin the process of healing your internal trauma and your internal conflict.
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  Speaker 1: When I get people into shadow work, oftentimes when they're facing the thing that they've been running from their whole life, they start to crack open and they start to cry.
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  Speaker 1: And in a room of 20, at any given time, I might have 10 people.
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  Speaker 1: When I'm doing this level of work with them deep, deep spiritual work when I'm doing this level of work, at any given time, I'll probably have five to 10 people crying and it means that the pain that's inside of their mind and body is beginning to heal, because what you feel heals and what you resist persists and it's turning your attention and awareness on the things that you try to ignore your whole life and you've been running from.
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: That's how you begin to liberate yourself from lower level states of consciousness and, in the process, higher level states of consciousness take their place.
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: Now, over the course of two days, I led four active meditations, four guided meditations, one in the morning and one in the afternoon of both days, and the people that left that two-day experience were not the same people that walked in.
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: They left at a completely elevated, higher and elevated level of consciousness and they walked in.
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  Speaker 1: They began to let go of their pain.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: They began to let go of of their, their grief and their sorrow and their fear, and they let, they began to let go of their suffering, and they continue to do this work after the event.
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: And the more you do this work, the more you heal from the inside out, and that's why this business is called inner wealth, because we heal from the inside out and we create wealth from the inside out.
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: We succeed from the inside out.
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  Speaker 1: The inner world changes the outer world.
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  Speaker 1: The outer world does not change the inner world, and it's important that we start from the inside and work out.
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people who have a lot of money and they're enjoying none of it because they're actually miserable inside of their mind and body.
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  Speaker 1: But when we set out to clean out the clutter that's inside, resolve internal conflicts and internal money beliefs and money fears, and they try to rearrange their external world to change the internal environment, and it doesn't work.
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: Nothing outside of you can fix a conflict that's going on inside of you, and these conflicts are insecurity, inadequacy and insignificance.
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  Speaker 1: When we begin to do this deep work, when we begin to get inside of our consciousness, when we begin to get inside of our mind and our body, we literally start to let go of the pain and the punishment and the struggle, the stress that's been eating you alive and keeping you in survival mode your whole life.
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  Speaker 1: But it's uncomfortable to start because you need to take your attention and awareness and put it somewhere where you've probably been trying to avoid it your whole life inside, and that's where the goldmine is.
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: When I started this episode, I said it's going to be about authenticity, because I want to tell you about my journey.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: For many years in coaching, I wouldn't leave meditation.
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: I talked about meditation, but I didn't do anything with my students to help them meditate.
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  Speaker 1: I kept some of this stuff to myself because I was afraid of being perceived as too woo-woo, as too mystical, as, too, I'm air quoting weird, so I wouldn't do the work with people that really changed everything in my life, because this is the work that changed everything in my life.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: There are teachers out in the world right now, coaches and teachers that success coaches that will help you punish yourself to create wealth and success and I will not, but I will help you let go of the pain so that you can not only create more wealth and more success, but so that you can revel in it as you do.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: But there are coaches and teachers that just their whole job, it seems like, is to broadcast some guilt and shame and threats and blame and tell people they're lazy, hustle whores and grind gurus.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I call them, coined by Angie Kiko.
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  Speaker 1: But in this deep meditative work, that's where we find the real freedom and the real fulfillment that we've been craving our whole life, and I did my students years ago.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: I did my students a great disservice by not sharing this with them, by not leading meditation, by not actively teaching them and showing them the path, by not sharing a journey with them.
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  Speaker 1: That would set them free, because I was afraid of how I would be perceived and that was inauthentic.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: When I lead meditation now, with each meditation that I lead and I guide folks in, I become more confident in it and I become less, I guess, anchored by or being concerned about how I'm perceived.
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  Speaker 1: But this is the work that changes the world.
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  Speaker 1: This is the work that changes lives.
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  Speaker 1: Authenticity requires some courage, because oftentimes we're so busy rejecting ourself, we're so busy dismissing ourself, we're so busy punishing ourself that we don't understand what we really want to share with the world and who we want to be in the world, how we want to engage and how we want to interact with the world.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: But and oftentimes what you most want to share comes with stories that you can't share it you can't be that and it's it just starts to erode and starts to eat away your authenticity.
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  Speaker 1: We're each unique.
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  Speaker 1: There's over eight billion people on the planet and there's no two people that are exactly alike.
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  Speaker 1: So automatically out of the chute, you are different than everyone.
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  Speaker 1: There's something unique, there's something beautiful, there's something distinct about you, and it's your role and responsibility in this lifetime, in your material purpose, to let that person come out and play, to let that person engage and interact with the world.
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  Speaker 1: At times this is a very strugglicious experience and subtly we lie to ourself and subtly we lie to ourselves.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: And the hardest thing for a human being to do is to be 100%, radically transparent and honest with ourselves.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: In my work at retreats and at intensives, when I lead meditation, when I actively guide people in meditation, I often record these things.
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  Speaker 1: The reason I record them is so that I share them with my students and I share them with my followers so that they can actually continue to do the work after the live experience do the work after the live experience.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: There was once, there was a time, where I was doing meditation but I wasn't sharing it with anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Then I was sharing meditation with everyone, but I wouldn't actively teach them and I wouldn't record them, even though some of my students back then started asking me to record them and to publish them.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't because it took another level of courage that I didn't possess at that moment.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: And now, not only do I share meditation, but I lead meditation and I publish my meditations so that everybody can get the benefit of the work that I do and of tools and techniques that will change your entire life.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: In every circumstance, authenticity is about letting every piece of you come out and play, even if other people think it's weird.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: And the only reason that this ego of mine thinks that it's weird to share, too weird to share, is because early on in my journey, I thought this was all too weird to do and they were just stories.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: And what I've witnessed, what I've experienced over the last few years, is the more of myself, my authentic, my powerful, the authenticity, the more I share it with the world, the more the world embraces me and accepts me, not rejects me.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: When I was leading and guiding meditation and I saw all these people in the room crying from letting go of past pain, letting go of suffering, letting go of inner torment and struggle and conflict, starting to let it go.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: And then I brought them to a place where I started to ask them and invite them to allow higher level feelings and higher level emotions come into their minds and their bodies Like stories, new stories, like I am valuable, I am worthy, I am successful, I am loving, I am loved, I am significant.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I have nothing to prove to anyone when I started in allowing them or asking them to invite themselves and giving them permission to get into that space.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: They started crying out of joy.
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  Speaker 1: Not only were they letting go of the pain that they've endured, that they've held on to and been running from.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Now they started replacing that pain with freedom, and that took the emotion in the room to a whole different level.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: And then we did some release work, where we actively sought out the pain and we began to release it like shadow work.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: And I teach something called soul sciences, where it's human design and gene keys and some natal astrology.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: You heard Ashley May Fernandez on an episode recently.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: This is all really woo, really weird, really mystical stuff, or so I thought.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: The more I share it with the world, the better the world gets, and the more my people, my students, my clients, my allies, the more they evolve and the more they grow and the more their circumstances change.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: And all I have to do is just be authentic and just be honest with who I am, with what I love and what I want to share with the world, and withholding any of that is not only doing them a disservice, it's doing myself a disservice.
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  Speaker 1: There's something inside of you right now that wants to come out and play.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: What is it of you right now that wants to come out and play?
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  Speaker 1: What is it?
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  Speaker 1: There's something inside of you that's looking to be created, that's looking to be unleashed, that's looking to be invented.
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  Speaker 1: What is it, and why won't you let it come out and play?
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Why won't you allow yourself to experience the full essence of who you desire to be at a deep level?
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: And what will it take for you to finally give yourself permission to be all of you instead of only parts of you?
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: This is the work that will free your soul, but we've got to let go of the pain of the past.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: We've got to let go of attachment to what should be, and we've got to learn how to take full control and responsibility over what's happening in our mind and our body, knowing that we only control our inner environment.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: We only influence our external environment.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: We only influence our external environment.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Guys, these meditations are powerful and impactful and I've put together a package of them.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: It's been available on my website for some time, but if you go to innerwealthglobalcom, you can access this package, and every time I publish a new meditation, I throw it in that package and it just continues to grow and you'll continue to get more tools and more techniques that'll set you free and rearrange your circumstances, and it's a privilege and honor for me to create these and record them and share them with you, because this is the work that works.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: And if you believe, like I believed, that this is too woo-woo, well, I'll let you know that I'd like to share with you that the woo-woo works.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: The woo-woo works only every time.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Today going forward, share your entire self with the world.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: There's only one of you.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Don't worry about who anybody else is in this world.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Decide who to be and go be it.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: If you enjoyed what you heard and you want to learn more, go to wwwinnerwealthglobalcom for more tools and resources.