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Stay Sparked #41 "Magical Living"
6 Plays2 years ago
What does "magic" mean to us? How do we cultivate magic in our daily lives through intention and ritual? And how can we remember to avoid excess skepticism to stay open to possibilities?
HOSTS
BETSY FINKLEHOO is a healer of massage therapy, CranioSacral and Dharma Coaching. She is an 8 year burner and has spent the last several years seeped in the personal development world, cultivating her passion for transformation and growth. Her recent project, The Power Affirmation Journal and virtual group empowers women to cultivate self awareness and healthy habits so they can live in greater freedom, mind body and spirit.
http://poweraffirmation.com/
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HALCYON is full-time Love Ambassador. He is the founder of Hug Nation YouTube channel and daily zoom gratitude circles. He is co-founder of the Pink Heart Burning Man camp and the 1st Saturdays project for people experiencing homelessness. In his free time he coaches individuals on how to live joyfully and authentically. His other podcast is "Hard on the 80's."
http://JohnStyn.com
JANUS REDMOON is a 10-time Burner, and has spent the last several years as an advocate for psychedelic medicine research and treatment. He is the founder and CEO of NuWorld Nutritionals, a nutritional supplement company providing mushroom-based, all-natural products to improve and maintain health for both body and mind. (Use code "SPARKED" for 10% off)
http://www.nuworldnutritionals.com
MASSIVE Thank you to Dub Sutra for their beautiful opening music. Check out their incredible music catalogue online.
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Transcript
Introduction and Episode Overview
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Welcome to Stay Sparked.
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On this show, we explore how to stay inspired in the modern world through the most profound lessons from Burning Man, relationships, entrepreneurship, psychedelics, spirituality, travel, and more.
Exploring Magic and Intention
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On today's episode, we talked about magic and what that means to us.
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We talk about how intention and ritual are very much a part of everyday magic.
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And what practices we can incorporate into our lives to bring that magic home.
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Enjoy the episode.
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Hello and welcome to Stay Sparked.
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I'm Betsy.
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I'm Healthian.
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And I am Giannis.
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And we are three friends here to share sparks of inspiration to light you up.
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Thank you so much for joining us once again today.
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And thank you so much for leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, helping us spread the sparks.
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And also you can find our Instagram page where you can actually be interactive with us.
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So make sure you guys find us on there.
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Our handle is staysparkedpodcast.
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see you out there and the wet worldwide web.
Hosts Share Personal Gratitude Moments
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And today we are going to dive into a really fun topic around magic.
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And before we get started on this fun conversation, we're going to share gratitude.
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So Helzian, you want to spark us off with what you're grateful for today?
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Sure.
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I am feeling grateful for an awareness that after a lifetime of thinking my parents were not cool, I had this epiphany that, you know what, my dad was pretty cool.
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And so I got to tell him this week and I'm like, dad, I never wanted to admit this to you, but you're a cool guy.
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So I'm glad I got the epiphany and the ability to tell him.
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Oh, okay.
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Beautiful.
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Oh, that's fun.
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Yeah.
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Or I have to, I would have to want to hear more about that later.
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For sure.
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That sounds fun.
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So my gratitude for the moment is.
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For our midwives, as people, as you two know, and people who are listening, my partner and I are expecting a baby coming up any day now.
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And we had the midwives over last week to check out the space because we're having a home birth.
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And they were just, they're awesome.
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They're cool.
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They're no nonsense.
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They're like, get it.
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They get to the point.
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And...
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but they're very cool and supportive and there's, yeah, it was just a fantastic meeting.
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I had no reservations about it, but after meeting with them, I actually got a little bit like a little bit more excited about the process.
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So yeah.
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So good.
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So necessary.
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I'll share my gratitude is for dance.
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I've probably shared this gratitude many times, but it just continues to support me in feeling good mind, body, spirit.
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And I got a really good dance session in this last weekend for like an hour and a half straight and an ecstatic dance.
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And I feel amazing from it.
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So my gratitude is for movement and dance.
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Yeah.
Incorporating Magic into Daily Life
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And I'm actually really grateful to talk about this, um, this conversation with you guys around magic and what is magic and how do we incorporate the essence of magic into our lives and how do we see it?
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Um, it's such a complex dynamic conversation and I love getting to talk with both of you because you both always have such unique perspectives and I'd love to just kind of
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start off with that inquiry around what is magic to you?
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How do you see magic in the world?
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How do you interact with it?
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What is it?
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Oh, boy.
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That's tough.
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When we were getting ready to start thinking about this topic, I had a big wall of resistance of like, oh, gosh, I'm going to be the heavy skeptic in this conversation.
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And I do have a lot of skepticism about almost everything, which we'll get into more.
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But for me, magic, the more I thought about it, for me, it's all those things that are kind of outside of the
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the default reality, but that are affecting my life and are affecting the world.
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And the older I get, the more I realize that the default reality is a very limited part of what is happening.
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So to me, magic is all those flows of energy and intention that are impacting myself and the world around me.
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Beautiful.
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I love that.
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That makes me think of the unseen, what is in the unseen realms, right?
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There's so much that we can see in this dimension, but there's also a lot happening beyond the veil of what we can actually see.
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So yeah, that's definitely resonates with me.
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How about you, Giannis?
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Well, there is a definition that a friend of all of ours shared with us, shared with me several years ago that kind of resonated with me and said that everything in this world can be categorized and can be put into three categories.
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There is the known, there is the unknown, which can be made known, and there is the unknowable, which can never be known.
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That's that said the unknowable is still something that we can access and we can work with as long as we're don't attach to what that is.
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And our, you know, our, a lot of our, a lot of people's lives is, is, is directed towards making the unknown known while also knowing that there are stuff that we can, we can never know.
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And we can tap into that and, you,
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Yeah, kind of create our own cosmology in the world about how things work.
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And when we kind of like, well, how's that going to work?
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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But the thing is, there was a trip that Betsy and I took along with several other people to Dominher Italy several years ago.
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And they have this whole wild-sounding technology that they would say, okay, this is what this is, and this is how it works.
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And I remember a few of us, myself being one of us, like, okay, how does that work?
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And they're like, we don't know.
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All we know is that it works.
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And they're just like...
Manifestation and Co-Creation
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okay, super skeptical, but let's try it out.
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And a number of us would try these things out and they would work and they would have the, they would do the thing that we were told was going to happen and be like, how did that happen?
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They're like, we don't know.
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It's just kind of, it just works.
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So, so a definition of science of, of,
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magic by a lot of people is science that um hasn't been like proven yet um like if we were to show like a cell phone to somebody from 100 years ago that would be magic to them so it's it's you know they're kind of two sides of the same coin science and magic is just uh science is just um magic that hasn't been understood yet or vice versa yes that's so beautiful
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Yeah, I love this concept because one of the reflections I get from a lot of people that witness my style of living is, oh, Betsy, you're so magical.
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You live such a magical life.
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And for a long time, I always, I kind of would resist that expression because I'm sitting here going, I'm just living life.
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I'm human.
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I'm doing my normal thing.
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But then I started to realize it's a little more out of the box.
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and not so traditional style of living, you know, in your typical nine to five, or just a simple kind of lifestyle, I do have a tendency to kind of explore the edges of what's possible in this dimension, and opening up to new ways of thinking and new ways of trying on things.
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And, you know, the buzzword of manifestation, you know, things materializing out of thin air, as it seems, you know, of course, it's
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That's like the essence of, you know, the Houdini, right?
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He's able to like pull a rabbit out of a hat.
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It was like, how did he do that?
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And it's like, how did I manifest a multimillion dollar house to live in?
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You know, it's not like I just was sitting there waiting for the house to appear.
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There is a process that we get to experience and be in what I consider a co-creation with the universe, right?
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And the quantum realities of, you know, the unseen.
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And so I think it's a really wonderful way to start to see the world and start to live from that place of abracadabra.
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Abracadabra is another expression of magic, which do you guys know what the meaning of that is?
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Or like the translation?
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Abracadabra?
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Yeah, roughly.
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I'd love to hear your explanation.
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Yes, same.
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Like a pretty basic translation that I've heard is words create.
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So you speak and so it is right.
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And so it is essentially our words, our words create.
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And so that is definitely a way of living from my perspective in magic.
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Yeah.
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Well, it goes to, you know, I'm real, I'm a, I'm a big fan of entomology and the,
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Where do these words or descriptions come from?
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And to the best of my knowledge, that is where the term spelling comes from.
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To spell something means to create something.
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We create with our words and our words create as a result.
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I mentioned before in one of our earlier podcasts
Intention and Ritual Practices
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how nothing is created unless it is spoken.
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about first like even doesn't matter like a business idea or a book like i'm going to write a book like no book just appears unless those words are actually said aloud um i need to go you know like clothes don't appear in our closet until we're like i need to go shopping i need i need i need new pants or whatever then you know you will have new pants but to me my own cause you know going back to like our own cosmology is like
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We need to speak these things into existence.
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And I think that's where, you know, that is where the term spelling comes from.
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So to, you know, our words create.
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So it must first be uttered and then it can be created into our reality.
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And I also, you know, think that comes down to belief.
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I don't, I think it's really hard for things we, we want or we want to experience or we want to have whatever, or just the way we want to live.
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If we don't believe we can do that or can have that,
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It's really hard, if not impossible, for these things to come into our life.
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If we don't believe that we deserve love, we're probably not going to find ourselves in a loving, you know,
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you know, kind relationship with anybody, frankly.
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So we have to, we have to, you know, get to this place of belief before, you know, before we experience it, you know, you know, there's a lot of, a lot of people are like, you know, I'll believe it when I see it.
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You got to flip that around.
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It's gotta be, I will believe it.
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And then I will see it because that's, that's, that's how it goes.
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It's such a difficult thing, though.
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That is, I think, the struggle of the skeptic is, you know, well,
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prove it like well but it's not going to happen if you don't make space in your mind for it to be a possibility so if you are are limiting the possibility of something happening by your by your beliefs you are not going to see it it's not going to be witnessable it's like the the basics of like cognitive bias and confirmation bias and your brain finds evidence for what it already believes to be true and the same is true of limiting
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you know, what is possible.
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And so if you are given a medical treatment and you don't believe it's gonna work, it's not gonna work.
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You know, there's just, there's, and if you don't believe that you're gonna have opportunities to live in a multi-million dollar home, you're not gonna see it when they happen.
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They're not gonna be, it's not gonna even be around you, but you need, it might be a possibility.
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It might be an option for you, but you won't see it when it's right in front of you.
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And I think to me, that's a big part of my understanding of magic is breaking through the limiting aspects of our minds.
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Reality in a brand new brain, there's so many pathways that could be formed to what reality is.
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But as we start to live, we start to limit what our reality is, what is possible.
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And then we live in those grooves.
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And anything outside of those groups is simply impossible unless you can find some way through magic or otherwise to go to, to expand that.
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And that's, so my, within my skepticism is this deeper understanding that I am, I know I'm limiting reality by my, the grooves in my, of my brain.
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So how can I chip away or, or, or open up to more possibilities?
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That's a good question to be in.
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How can I start to expand my perspective of what's possible?
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Yeah.
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Because that really does open up this infinite mindset.
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Because, yeah, we are somewhat conditioned to see things in a limited viewpoint.
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But when we start to open and expand our consciousness to see, then we can get really surprised by how powerful our imagination is.
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you know, and I, I feel like I also want to incorporate the, the power of intention into this conversation, intention and ritual, right, are very much a part of magic and my personal experience, to be able to get to that place of having the belief that you're speaking to, Yanis, right, holding that strong belief of anything is possible and having that expansive,
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awareness, right?
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That anything really is possible.
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And then incorporating rituals that can support that ongoing intention, right?
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Of opening up to more goodness, more abundance, more love, you know, just alignment even, right?
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Because if we're sitting here questioning whether it's possible or we're in habit patterns that don't really support the belief, then it's very easy to fall out of
Personal Rituals and Beliefs
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it.
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So the rituals are
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And the intentions, regular intentions can really help to just fan those flames.
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So for me, I have started to incorporate very simple intention practices throughout my life.
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Like journaling is a huge one for me.
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I have many different journals.
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One of mine is very specific for gratitude.
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One is specific for affirmations.
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As you know, the power affirmation.
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And then I have one specifically for intentions.
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And as we're talking about spelling, right?
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Spellcasting or words are powerful.
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When we write down or when I write down my intentions, even it might just be even one word sometimes, then it helps me to just really bring it into a certain frequency within my soul, within my being.
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So that way I can operate from that place and I can be reminded of those intentions on a regular basis.
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Yeah.
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That's, that's something just real quick.
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That's something that somebody was able to drive home to me.
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Cause I was like, ritual and so forth.
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And it's like,
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No, if you look at ritual as a form of meditation, it allows you to focus and allows you to narrow your focus into what it is that you're looking to do.
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Because it's so easy to be like, oh, I just want this thing to happen.
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It's like, no, sit down with your cards, your journal, whatever, light a candle.
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And all it does is narrow your focus, get the other distractions, you know,
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off your plate so that you can focus on your intentions for what you're looking to accomplish.
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And once I framed it like that ritual as meditation, I got a lot more, I don't want to say results, but I got a lot more intentional with my life and my life improved as a result.
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Yeah.
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And it sounds like your resistance and skepticism softened around it.
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Yes.
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Because the word ritual can have some certain
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connotations to it.
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And if you're not a particularly woo woo or spiritual person, it can be like, oh yeah, let's go and pull out some crystals and be a little woo woo.
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Right.
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But like really when we are looking at our life, we're always, we have so many rituals throughout the day.
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You might make coffee every day.
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That's a ritual, right?
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Where I see that where the magic comes is in is where you infuse intention into your ritual.
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Yeah.
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And what you're speaking to is having the intention of presence and focus, which is very powerful because that ripples out into the rest of our day and our interactions and our endeavors and our projects.
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You know, I definitely was I had some judgmental, skeptical thoughts about certain rituals and crystals and affirmations and many of those things.
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And I was lucky to get to a dark night of the soul of just really being humbled and having to ask.
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and look to people that I knew and that I saw to be living lives that I admired.
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And Betsy, you were one of those people where I'm like, wait, so how crazy that I am judging the practices
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of someone who is living a life that I would like to have closer to my own while I am unhappy with the way my existing practices are leading to a place of despair.
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So I had to really get broken down to be like, my beliefs around these things are not serving me.
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So can I surrender?
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Can I let go of my trust of my brain's limitations and try and be more open
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to beliefs that the old version of me was not open to.
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So powerful.
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I'm so glad that I could be in there for you, Halcyon.
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Yeah, thank you.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And, you know, I think it's important for each of us to find our own connection because the way that I do my own ritual is maybe not going to be the same as somebody else's.
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You know, yes, I love crystals.
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Crystals are a huge part of my life.
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I carry with them, them with me everywhere.
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I have crystal altars in my house.
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I just love them.
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They work for me.
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They feel really good.
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But crystals might not be something that really resonates with everybody, you know, but you might have something else that really supports you.
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Maybe you love incense.
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Scents really are good for you.
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And you mentioned that.
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some kind of smoke, right?
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Sage or Palo Santo or some other way to be able to just connect to your own practice and your own intention, right?
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I think that that is the most important that is that it feels authentic, right?
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Because if we're forcing a ritual or like just doing some certain steps because a book or another person told us to do the thing, then it's coming from our head.
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It's not coming from our heart.
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It's not coming from the soul.
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It can feel forced.
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And so the most important thing is to really find that authentic expression of your own unique ritual and intention to bring through what it is that you're wanting to bring through.
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And it might be something as simple as peace.
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Right?
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Simple.
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That's a very powerful intention to call forward.
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I'm going to light this candle and call in peace.
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Mm-hmm.
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Right.
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It doesn't have to be some elaborate spell, but really, you know, when we can come into that, that, um, that place, it can open up so much for us in our lives.
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I love the way that you speak to these rituals with, with a, an openness.
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You know, I know that I struggle when I'm ever told that, you know, with, with, with an absolute certainty about a crystal, for example, oh, this is going to do this for you or this, you know, oh, oh, you're a Gemini.
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Well, that explains this.
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Like any, anything that is kind of like,
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super absolute, I struggle with it.
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I'm of the belief that humans are meaning makers.
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We make meaning out of all sorts of stuff.
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And because there is not an absolute truth,
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Don't get too attached to things.
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If the meaning you're making doesn't serve you, then try to change that meaning.
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And I think that's part of these rituals and things are a way of like, well, how can I kind of push the meaning in a direction that works for me?
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It's such a Gemini thing to say.
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But yes, somebody showed me one time that she had a, she would make her tea in the morning and the mug she would drink it out of was on the mug.
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It said, I am confident.
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And then her little like French press kind of crossed you and make it also said, I am confident.
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And I'm like, so I go, this is how this, so this is how you, you get confident or you bring confidence.
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She's like, yes, exactly.
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She's like, I, I drew, I brew my tea with the idea that is, I am a confident person that this helps me to become confident.
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I drink it.
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And so therefore I am, um, like, and you know how this works.
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How do you know this works?
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She's like, because I, because I believe it works.
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Yep.
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That's it.
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And, um,
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And that went on to a conversation about how you have to incorporate
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our bodies into this, into a practice.
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You know, like with, you know, when it comes to somatics, like how do we work through this trauma or whatever?
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You got to get your body moving.
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It's like, you got to move, you got to move the stagnation that can potentially exist within the body.
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And when it comes to creating, you know, magic or tapping into that, you want to get your body involved, whether it's something that you are drinking, eating, that is prepared with intention.
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Scents are a huge thing, like oil diffusers, like, oh yeah, whenever I want to like,
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create something or focus something, I'll just put some blue Lotus oil into my oil diffuser.
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And then it just fills my house with this Lotus oil.
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And then it allows me to focus and go into the thing.
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It's like, Oh, okay, this is happening because I associate the scent with this happening and therefore it happens.
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And it's free.
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You know, I've, I've experimented with this.
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it's kind of wild how fast it actually it actually works and it works because again it comes back to the belief that's um it's like all right it's it really can be that simple um there's a friend that we all have uh he goes you know he's known as the wizard i guess you'd say and
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He talked about how, yes, we can do these rituals and they're effective and they're powerful.
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He's like, but you can get to a point where you essentially just kind of wave your hand.
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And like, if you want a sandwich, you just kind of wave your hand and then a sandwich, you know, comes your way.
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And moments after he said that, his wife just comes in and is like, who wants a sandwich?
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And he just looks at me and he's like,
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It's not hard.
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It doesn't have to be hard.
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It's not rocket science.
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It is as difficult or as easy as you want it to be.
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And it was like, okay.
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Just like kind of seeing stuff like an action.
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Yeah.
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Seeing is believing, certainly.
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And everyone has access to that.
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Everyone.
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You don't have to be a wizard.
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I mean, it helps.
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It definitely
Magic in Modern Culture
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helps.
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It helps to have the Gandalf kind of, you know,
00:23:42
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robe and the staff and the hat certainly not necessarily magical tools yeah you know and i actually i'm so glad you brought that forward because over the last little while of my life last decade or so i have met many real wizards like embodied wizards some wear the hat some carry the staff some just wear nike and adidas
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you know, and are cloaked in the human form, but are true wizards.
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And when I say true wizards, what I mean by that is people that are embodied in the essence of their creation and know how to alchemize and know how to use specific tools to elicit different outcomes and
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You know, I got to meet this wizard that was in Canada who has an apothecary and he has all kinds of different herbs and tinctures and they do different things.
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And it's a really beautiful gift that he has cultivated.
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You know, I know a lot of real witches, you know, they're like women that are embodied in their abilities to be able to interact with the unseen realms.
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And be able to weave that kind of magic into their daily lives.
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And I love it so much because, you know, there was a time not that long ago that people were embodying these archetypes and it was not safe.
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You know, there was a lot of people that were killed for being so outward in their expression of magic.
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And now it feels there's more and more people that are coming out and saying, I am a witch.
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I am a fairy.
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I am an elven wizard.
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I have a friend, I think we all might know too, that he's the elven wizard and he's creating a business around his archetype of being a wizard, you know, and it's way more acceptable.
00:25:35
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And it's so beautiful because it is, what I see is also bringing some ancient practices, ancient tools and traditions from paganism and from some different
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systems to be able to live in the most beautiful way.
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There's some really beautiful gifts that that style brings.
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It stretches me to hear about that.
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It's definitely a stretch, but I love this practice because I keep going back to, you know, when you witness an example of the sandwich appearing, it's like, oh, okay, wait, no, there is a possibility beyond what my brain wants to say is possible.
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And for me, I keep going back to
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three things.
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Plyamagic, the fact that things, when I'm at Burning Man and there's all these people who are kind of surrendering to the possibility of magic happening, it seems to happen in a legitimate, almost measurable way.
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And so if there's a human who is embodying a wizardry in that kind of intensity, it makes sense to me that they could summon the same kind of magic in their life.
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And the other two things I think about a lot are placebo and hypnosis.
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We're like, even at the most core scientific provable way,
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thoughts do change reality.
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You know, it is absolutely like biologically things change based on the, the, what someone is believing.
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And so to, to limit our own belief of this mystical, this magical seems to be like, and it seems like you're scientifically cutting yourself off from that stuff.
Belief, Placebo, and Magic
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Yeah, it's, yeah, the placebo thing is real.
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And just the fact that, you know, science is accepted.
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Yes, your thoughts and your beliefs can affect physical outcomes.
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Like that's a real thing.
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And that has been proven.
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And so we can, so that's true in this realm.
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There's no reason it can't be true, like spread, like spread out into the world.
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Like if, like, if I believe that,
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certain things are possible when it comes to my life, my living situation, I absolutely can influence that.
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That's been proven.
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So it's just the only, and it comes to,
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The only limits are the ones we self-impose on us.
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They're the ones that people try to heap on us that we accept as being true.
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And like you said before, Halcyon, the young mind, anything's possible.
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That's why it's so easy to play make-believe as a four-year-old because it's all possible.
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But then the older we get, the more stuff gets imposed on us.
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Our mind gets these grooves placed into it.
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And then certain ways of thinking are kind of fixated in us.
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And then we kind of lose that.
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as a result.
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So, uh, it's, you know, challenging to bring that back certainly, but it's not impossible.
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Yeah.
00:28:33
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I love that you said that because I hear that quite often with a lot of my clients that I work with, whether it's like through body work or some of the energy work that I do, um, you know, this concept, I feel like I lost the magic.
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Right.
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And that's like, you know, getting kind of swept up into the hamster wheel of this, of
00:28:53
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this reality in a way and kind of forgetting that we are in this really beautiful, magical existence and that life can be magic, right?
00:29:05
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It's the mundane that can kind of cloud our vision to see beyond the veil of illusion and
00:29:14
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is a continuous practice, right?
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And kind of remembering on a regular basis.
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I have this concept of remembering and forgetting, remembering and forgetting.
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I'm remembering this incredible magical existence that I live in and I get to play in and there's so much beauty and possibility and synchronicity and all kinds of amazing things that are happening in our world.
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And then sometimes...
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getting swept up into the like frustrations and the density of what's happening and the pain.
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And it's very real.
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But it can also get sometimes paralyzing and it can cloud the vision.
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And I'm sure we've probably all had conversations with somebody who is deep in the thick of depression, right?
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Maybe we've been there ourselves, right?
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To have a moment of going like, I can't see beyond, you know, just outside of my own personal little cloud right here.
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Like magic is so far out of my reality right now.
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How do I get it back?
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right?
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There is this feeling of like, I know it's there, but I can't access it.
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Right.
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And that comes back to from what I love to do and teach is everyday intention, everyday ritual, really continuing with the consistency.
00:30:32
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Even when things are challenging, finding a way to look for the gratitude, finding a way to see something that's beautiful.
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Maybe it's just one flower that you pause to look at that can help pop you out of that, that place of density.
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And then let that be like the first rung,
Sharing and Kindness as Magic
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you know, on the ladder back up, up the spiral of inspiration and back into the magic.
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And, you know, an old saying, not an old saying, but something that somebody told me once is like, when you are needing something that you are having trouble accessing, you
00:31:07
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That's your signal to give it to someone else, to put it out, that thing you need, put it out into the world.
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I could use some support right now.
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Why am I so unhappy?
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It's like, well, send a happy note to somebody.
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And you might be surprised that just gets the ball rolling.
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And again, it sounds like there's some simple, silly kind of thing, but I've seen it time and time again when I've remembered to do that.
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And I've been on the receiving end of that.
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It's like, oh, you know, I'm not feeling too great today.
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So I thought I would just send you a note saying like, hey, how are you doing?
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And I'm like, thank you.
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Thank you.
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And then it starts a conversation.
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Then by the end of the conversation, we're both like lit up and it works.
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So give that thing you're looking to get.
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I have a note in my kitchen that says there's magic in every act of kindness.
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And that's it.
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It does have a ripple effect.
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Kindness is magic.
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From my perspective, it really is.
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Because if you offer an extension of kindness to somebody, it can change the duration of their day.
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It can maybe even shift and impact someone's life.
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you know, Halcyon, you have probably seen that time and time again with the way that you have been helping the homeless for so many years now, right?
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These simple acts of kindness, these big acts of kindness make a huge difference and can really create more magic in the world.
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Yeah.
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I want on that idea of like remembering and forgetting.
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I've been thinking a lot lately about how
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When I am grounded and spiritually in a place of remembering of like oneness and divinity within and within all is when I'm the least...
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certain about anything it's when i have the most awareness that my mind is limiting you know and i'm like ah that's possible that is also all is everything is possible because i just i i'm noticing the my human experience the my mind's conclusions are so limiting compared to the deeper remembering and when i am
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off when I'm forgetting is when I get attached to things and this never happens.
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This always works.
Letting Go and Trusting the Universe
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This never, you know, and it's and it's that forgetting space is when I'm closed off to magic is when I'm saying, look, that's that's not the way the groove in my mind.
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There's that's not a possibility.
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And so I really think that remembering and forgetting and maybe even the cultivating the remembering or cultivating a mistrust in the mind for me is a way to get greater access to magic.
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Love that.
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Yeah, I feel like, you know, it's a reframing of the phrase ignorance is bliss.
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So it's like, it's, and it's true.
00:33:50
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It's true on the, it's true on the like less than positive sense, but it's also true in the positive sense.
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It's like, well, yeah, I'm happiest when I don't know every freaking thing.
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Or I remember that I don't know every freaking thing.
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It was like, when I feel like I need to know and I need to have my hands around this thing and I need to have my mind around it and so on and so forth, there's not, and everything is fixed.
00:34:10
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That's a challenging place to be happy in for me at least.
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And I find that when I'm, when I'm in,
00:34:17
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Like when I'm in a relationship with my partner, when we are in that space of like kind of trusting that things are going to kind of work themselves out, we can kind of both like, ah, all right.
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So whatever crunchy space we're in right now, there's a belief that we are going to on the other side of that, we're going to is we're going to get back to where we want to be.
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And I don't know how we're going to get there.
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But the belief that we're going to get there is almost enough to just be like, all right, just ride it out.
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It's going to be fine.
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It's going to be awesome.
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And that's and I found that true, like when it comes to my work opportunities and opportunities.
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Other types, what I don't know how I'm going to get there, I trust and I believe that I'm going to get there.
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And therefore, I almost 100% of the time do get there.
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It always works out.
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It always works out.
00:35:04
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Yeah, having that deep trust is a huge part of the letting go as well, right?
00:35:09
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Because in the manifestation process, it's like we're continuously checking in, like, is it here yet?
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Is it here yet?
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Is it here?
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It's not here yet.
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It's not here yet.
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It's not letting go, right?
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But when we can come into that place of trust,
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that everything is working out in the highest and best way, even in the challenges that I'm experiencing right now.
00:35:28
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I trust with quiet and calm confidence and the perfect unfolding of all things.
00:35:34
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Then watch as we let go, the magic reveals itself.
00:35:39
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And that has been my affirmation.
00:35:40
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That has been my consistent return to that place of I trust with quiet and calm confidence and the perfect unfolding of all things.
00:35:50
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And things just continue to work out.
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It's like guiding light.
00:35:54
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And, you know, I want to I want to just share one more thing here.
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I think we're probably getting to a place of like closing sparks.
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But I'm reminded of insight I got from Burning Man and three, the three of us here have that common thread.
00:36:07
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We're all burners.
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And it always it's just wonderful to bring it back to you.
00:36:11
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The lessons of Burning Man.
00:36:12
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And it was my second year.
00:36:14
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I was on my way out there and I had this mindset of, I'm going to go out there and find the magic.
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I'm going to look for magic.
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I'm so excited.
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I was like, so kind of naive.
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I know that I want to, I want to find synchronicity.
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And I was there for like four or five days and I was like, where is it?
00:36:34
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Where's the magic?
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Where is it?
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I don't see it.
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I don't see it.
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I don't see it.
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And I started getting so frustrated because I wasn't seeing the magic and I was looking for it.
00:36:44
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And everyone says that Burning Man is so magical and it's a portal and all this stuff.
00:36:48
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And then I hit a low point on the playa and I was feeling really just down and alone and something shifted inside of me.
00:36:57
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I went to the temple and
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And I had a little moment with myself and something shifted inside of me, a very subtle, subtle shift.
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And I was able to let go of this need, this grasping onto, needing this magic to show itself.
00:37:14
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And as I softened around it, then the rest of the night, the rest of the burns,
00:37:19
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revealed synchronicity after divine meeting, just like profound coincidences.
00:37:25
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And it was so beautiful.
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And it was one of the biggest lessons for me around letting go, stop trying to chase the magic, chase the, uh, the synchronicities because that's going to, it's just going to slip right through your hands.
00:37:40
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You're not going to find it.
00:37:41
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You have to just trust and allow and stay open to the inspiration to flow.
00:37:48
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Yeah, it's
Applying Playa Magic in Daily Life
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funny.
00:37:49
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It strikes me as a, you know, like you were like a fish looking for water in that moment.
00:37:58
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And it reminds me of my closing spark is also a Burning Man story, but just.
00:38:05
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Being on the fly my first year and not even really being told anything about the magic that's out there.
00:38:11
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And so I wasn't necessarily looking for it.
00:38:13
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But over the course of that first, that week, I was, I would find myself in these crazy synchronistic scenarios of having a belief about, or having a thought about someone and then turning around and they're walking right up to me or just multiple things like this happening to the point that,
00:38:34
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By like four days into it, I was like, what is happening?
00:38:37
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What is happening around here?
00:38:38
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Why is I'm swimming in this like muck of magic that's happening and it's and it's great and I love it.
00:38:46
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But this is crazy.
00:38:47
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Is it me?
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It's like the people I started inquiring with people.
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They're like, no, no, that's what that's what's awesome about this place.
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It's so on and so forth.
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And and.
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And it's like full of magic, but the real trick is taking this back into the world, back into the default world.
00:39:02
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It's easy out here.
00:39:04
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It's possible out there, but it's hard, but you can do that.
00:39:07
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And really getting that driven home to me and then
00:39:11
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meeting people who are putting that magic into practice and what we call the default world where we're at now, um, being like, Oh yeah, there's this, this can be done.
00:39:19
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This, you know, make the world your playa was the, was the, was the phrase.
00:39:23
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And I'm been surrounded by people who are doing that or still doing that.
00:39:29
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And my world has changed as a result.
00:39:31
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It's like, you know, it's easier, it's easier to,
00:39:35
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tap into that ever existent magic when you are surrounded by people who are who are doing that and are believing that so like surround yourself with people who are doing the things that you want to do and magic is magic comes pretty easily that way so beautiful environment yep yes
00:39:55
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So my closing spark is one, an appreciation for you all, you too, and letting me let my skepticism use this opportunity to to to exercise and open up my own kind of confining mind.
00:40:14
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And that awareness of how much for me magic is about removing the certainty, removing the old stories that don't have room for it.
00:40:26
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And so to coming back to the experiences at Burning Man or coming back to people that I witnessed have connections or stories.
00:40:35
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And then in my life, the times when I have
00:40:38
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been let go of a certain outcome and then been able to notice and be in receive and be aware of an opportunity that I couldn't have seen if I was too attached to my mind story of how it was supposed to be or what was possible.
00:40:57
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And so there's, there is magic in simply, uh, being open to possibility.
00:41:05
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Yes.
00:41:06
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So beautiful.
00:41:08
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Well, I love that all three of us also have a unique expression of our own magic in the world through affirmation, through supplementation, through gratitude, through service, right?
00:41:23
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So love to take this as an opportunity to let you guys out there know how you can find our work in the
Products and Practices for Transformation
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world.
00:41:30
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So I will share just a little peek into my offering in the world currently is poweraffirmation.com.
00:41:38
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It is a project that helps people to really get into a right relationship with themselves and to really cultivate sustainable happiness.
00:41:47
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And the journal is a tool to help to reprogram limiting beliefs and using gratitude, intention, affirmation to really alchemize limiting beliefs.
00:41:59
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And I'm also a somatic body worker and intuitive energy healer.
00:42:03
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And I love working with people one-on-one, helping them to transmute things in their bodies and their minds and their spirits.
00:42:10
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So you can find me on my website.
00:42:12
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And also in the show notes, there is a free download for one of my power affirmations, an audio version.
00:42:19
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So that way you can persuade your subconscious mind to really believe in yourself and to manifest more magic in your life.
00:42:29
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So check it out.
00:42:32
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Well, thank you, Betsy.
00:42:34
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You can find a lot of my goodies at johnstinn.com, including my t-shirt store, which kind of has little spells on them.
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The way I think of my t-shirt phrases are the little phrases that I want to keep in my mind to keep my mind open, keep to a possibility, like love more, fear less, float more, steer less is
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Float more, steer less is my way of tricking my brain into not being attached to the way I think it's supposed to be.
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And then also I would invite people to join me on my morning love broadcasts or daily gratitude circles.
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If you identify with healthy skepticism,
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Gratitude is such an easy way to cast a spell into your day and to change your reality in a very kind of easy way to shape the day ahead with the way you think.
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So I invite you to join me every day.
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And the links are at johnston.com.
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I have my company, New World Nutritionals.
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Speaking of changing your mind, it's a nutritional supplement designed to elevate your state of mind.
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Helps with symptoms of anxiety, depression, ADHD, even PTSD.
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Helps with all sorts of neurological problems.
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And even if your brain is functioning well, it definitely helps you to focus on the positive aspects of life to allow you to see the world in a way that is enlightening.
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for yourself and therefore others as well.
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It's all mushroom-based, good ingredients, lots of people getting great results with it.
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I'm very proud of it and happy to be offering that to the world.
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And you can find it at newworldnutritionals.com, spelled N-U-worldnutritionals.com.
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You can use the code SPARK for 10% off of all of our products.
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And before we do a, uh, an affirmation, I hope we get an affirmation.
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I want to, as a user of newer nutritionals, uh, it's also a product that is, is exceptional and for neuroplasticity.
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So if you, when you've got the grooves in your brain, there are very few scientifically proven tools to, to get yourself out of those grooves and, and, uh, your products are ones that do that.
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So highly recommend.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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I agree.
Closing Affirmation and Invitation
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And speaking of infusing our, our neural pathways, another way to strengthen those neural pathways is through the repetition of affirmation and the spirit of closing our stay sparked.
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Thank you all for listening or join me in an affirmation.
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So you can close your eyes.
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If that feels good for you, that helps you just drop into yourself and take a nice deep breath.
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I welcome magic into my life.
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I welcome magic into my life.
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I live a magical life.
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I live a magical life.
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I embrace magic as my reality.
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I embrace magic as my reality.
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I trust and let go.
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I trust and let go.
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I trust and let go and live with pure intention every day.
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I trust and let go and live with pure intention every day.
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And so it is.
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Thank you all for listening.
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Thank you for staying sparked.
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Stay smart people.