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S1E14: Body Empowered
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In today's episode we get Spirit's insight on lessons we learn through our physical body, the intentions behind body modification, and how we can cultivate better body image.
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00:00:01
Speaker
Hey everyone, welcome to Spiritually Desperate with myself, psychic medium, Jimmy Bay, and my co-host, spiritual enthusiast, Danny Amaya. Please join us as we deep dive into the soul, connect with spirit to help answer some of life's challenges. We'll be discussing a variety of topics to help guide you and keep you empowered. Let's begin. yeah
00:00:24
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Hi everyone. Welcome to today's episode where we're discussing all things related to the physical body, body image, and just to get spirits insights surrounding this topic as always welcomed by Danny and Jimmy. How y'all doing today? I am really wonderful. I'm excited about this topic because about 99.9% of us do not like our physical bodies, even though we choose them. So this is going to be a neat topic to talk about, a fun topic to discuss, and maybe it'll shed some light and some clarity on why you chose the body that you chose to live in in this life. I'm doing good. I'm interested in this, and I am ready to see what spirit has for us, Jimmy.
00:01:11
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I apologize for my voice. I've been coughing for about a month and a half now. And ah yeah, so it's sounding like this. So how should we start this off today? Well, Jimmy, you just said we choose our physical body. I've never actually thought about that. So in this lifetime, when we're planning out our lives, we also choose how we want to look physically.
00:01:35
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Yes, ye we choose what body we're gonna incarnate into. It's part of your life plan and your body plays a major role in how you learn your life lessons. It's the host that carries you through each lifetime and um will be your vehicle, your guide to help walk you through this life. So you physically choose you choose your physical body to go with the life that you're choosing to live.
00:02:02
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And that's why certain people's bodies are more sensitive to things. Certain people have more physical illnesses. Certain people are athletes and there's different, you need certain bodies to carry you through a certain lifetimes. Interesting. I never thought about it like that. So then why do so many people hate their bodies, do you think? That's our own vanity.
00:02:25
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It's our humanness, our own vanity, and we're always trying to change ourself and better ourself. And in a way, Maya, I think that has a lot to do with our evolution, so to speak, our soul's growth, too, to a degree. But it's more so our vanity and our humanity. you know We chose this body, we chose how we look, um right up in even our names we choose. So all that has a lot to do with how you're gonna live out your life, the reason you're living out certain lifetimes, and what you're learning through your body, because think of about it, your body is your most psychic element. So what does spirit think about people that want to change their body, whether it's a breast augmentation, or PBL, or lipo, or someone that's working out to get gain muscle, steroids, like I don't know. They um they do.
00:03:17
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It's going to sound repetitive. they don't really Not that they don't care what you choose to do to your body. However, they would like us to learn to accept our bodies. What happens with humanity in the human form, we tend to go extremes. We never can just fix something. you know They don't mind physically. like you know God forbid, if you have breast cancer and you're getting breast augmentation or breast implants or anything to repair,
00:03:42
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there really kind of keen with that, as long as it makes you feel better about yourself. Same thing with some cosmetic surgeries, but the one thing that the that I do see a big shift in when I talk to people that overdo cosmetic surgery and over steroids and working out and everything,
00:04:04
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It's too extreme. They like moderation. Although it's your life to have the experience. So like I said, it sounds repetitive. There's no real judgment towards it. However, it's because you're making yourself feel better. That's one thing. But their big thing is for you to learn to accept the body that you're in. You can improve the body and physical state that you're in. They're fine with that. But a lot of people do a lot of people make that choice based on external values instead of internal changes or medical need so if it's like based on you know what this is going to help me feel better as a human i don't really care what other people think about it it's for me then that's okay but if it's more so you know i want to be accepted by my community and i think having this perfect body is going to be the way you know with social media etc then that's one thing right they don't like i said they don't judge it maya but they do it's it's
00:05:03
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the lessons that go with it, that the soul lessons that go behind it, and the inertia behind it as well, that they factor in. So then it sounds like a lot of our soul lessons, because so many people really dislike the body that they're in, is to learn self-love, I guess? Yes, absolutely.
00:05:23
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Absolutely, because if you ask a lot of your friends and I see this, like I said, about 99.9% of the people that I read really do not like their bodies. And if they do, then they kind of suffer the other end of that where they're very vain, extremely vain and extremely external people. I've read that energy too. And the thing is, it's about finding the moderation, learning acceptance, learning how to heal yourself. Like I said, if you get a nose job,
00:05:53
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you're getting a nose job to feel better about yourself. That's one thing. But like I said, if it's an external value to be accepted by other people, to be looked at, it to feed your vanity, they don't necessarily like that. But like I said, there's no judgment. It's what are you learning from there? What are you doing with? So how can someone begin to shift their perception of their body if they're struggling with body dysmorphia or eating disorders or things of that nature?
00:06:23
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to really know that their body is there to help them, that it's their temple. You know, you've heard that saying, you hear it in Buddhism, you hear it in Hinduism, your body's your temple, to honor your body as a temple, to really get in tune with your body and know how to nourish it, know how to heal it, understand and accept its flaws and everything around it. You know, take care of it like a baby. Take care of your body like a baby.
00:06:49
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you know nurture your nurture your body. I think what happens is people try to change their body so much and try to escape their life through their physical being instead of going internal and doing the internal work and then changing the outer being. you know It's about alignment with the head and the heart, but it's more going inward. And like I said, learning, you know for instance, um Maya, you're a vegan vegetarian. i'm I'm not. It's like knowing that that that style of eating works for you and eating meat works for me. it's It's learning, learning your body, learning how to use your body, learning the limits of your body, learning
00:07:30
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how to motivate your body, how to heal it, how to push it, how to drive it, the exercise, the stamina. It's really going inward and examining yourself. Instead of trying to critique it, I think the biggest thing is that human beings do is they criticize themselves. You know, as far as eating disorders, that's usually somebody that's not dealing with internal internal trauma but and some possibly external trauma that's occurred. So it's about changing the thought about that and the thought about how you're eating too. If you're overeating, it's about learning moderation. Like I said, the one thing with human beings that they don't do is moderation. You see this even with spirituality. I've talked about this before. You have men and women that are extreme spiritualists, but yet you know aren't living their lives because they're living their lives so spiritually that they're not enjoying their life.
00:08:22
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or thinking that becomes a way of life, which is true, but there's a balance of that. There's a yin and yang. What are spirits insights on? Because as as far as I know, having a physical body is pretty rare for a soul to experience, correct? Like it's not very common to kind of have an earthly experience with a physical body. So how does spirit ideally want us I guess, to utilize this physical body because it's such a unique thing that we get to experience on Earth. They didn't want us to give it respect, to really respect it. I think a lot of times when you have people that have surgeries and that over-exercise to extremes, it's the lack of respect for the body. They think if they have more muscle on them or if they keep pumping iron, then they're going to be strong.
00:09:13
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but they're not thinking about they're doing steroids to get that strength. Or like I said, for every nip and tuck a woman or man has, they're changing in everything about them. But again, that's a little bit of a disrespect to the body. So you wonder why you have problems later. It's like that the storyline of um breast implants. You know how the breast implants were making women sick? Yeah. Well, you can't change the body and not have a consequence. So there's consequences of changing your body as well. it does' it Some of them are good. Some of them are not so good. And there's like I said, there's no judgment.
00:09:45
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but that and and essence may have been for a woman to have sickness from breast implants may have been because she did it out of vanity, not liking her breasts, not enjoying her body versus, you know, I really need to feel comfortable in my skin and this is for me or or accepting who they are.
00:10:08
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I don't know if that came across very clear. but No, I get it. I think it's hard too, right? Because you know I totally understand wanting to adjust your body if it's affecting your mental health. like Let's take breasts, for example, just because it's a really popular procedure. like Let's say every time you get in a swimsuit or you know you're just hating your body every time you get naked or whatnot, yes, you can work on self-love, which is important. But I also see people's reasoning on,
00:10:37
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wanting to feel a little bit better um about themselves, right? We see this with nose jobs as well. And I see what you're saying of, once it happens though, what did you learn from it? Did you actually reach that? Or now are you fixating on, well, this can be changed too then. And now this can be changed too versus, no, you know what? This may still not make my body, quote unquote, perfect, but I accept and I love this for what it is. And this little boost in confidence was nice because of what procedure?
00:11:06
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yeah they Like I said, they don't mind the boost in confidence like you're saying, but what happens, it becomes an addiction to want to alter everything and not deal with the internal, what's going on psychologically with you.
00:11:20
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so Their biggest thing is to go make sure that make sure you're in alignment. That's how I would say it, to make sure you're in alignment. They're not opposed to anything. But what happens, it becomes very almost addictive. Because it's so easy to change everything that you're not dealing with anything on an internal level. And what I would see this with men and women that do have a lot of cosmetic surgery, they're wanting, for instance, a love story that's authentic. But they're not presenting themselves as authentic.
00:11:50
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You have fake hair, fake breasts, fake nails, fake everything. And then you wanna love story somebody to really see you for who you are. When you're not even showing who you really are. With every injection, every whatever, six weeks, six months, whatever it is. With every like hair extension, with every breast implant. There's people that, like they really crave somebody to see them and love them for who they are, but yet they don't show who they really are. And they don't like who they we really are.
00:12:19
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Yeah, or they don't love themselves who they really are. So then what a spirit, because I think social media has really exacerbated and made us more vain. How do they feel about social media?
00:12:31
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They're not quite the fan of it. They like that it's now globally connected us all, and that we're learning from so many different places all over the globe, or we're learning different styles, east and west, and everything's kind of blending and merging. They like that concept. But as far as image is concerned, um it's become it starts to lack individuality.
00:12:56
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Because if you're altering everything about you, you're losing your individualism. you know And a lot of that, you'll find like women that get breast implants when they're older. For example, is fear, fear of aging, instead of just letting themselves age gracefully. And that's societal, but that's also somebody's own personal impression upon themselves. And I'm like, like I said, I'm not hating anybody. I don't like say, yes, this is good. No, that's bad. Do what you wish. It's your body. Live as you wish to live. But psychically, when I ask spirit about that, it's like a fear.
00:13:30
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It's an insecurity with yourself. And they would like us to be more secure, but if you're getting breast implants, let's say you're 50, and you decide now my breasts are sagging, I need to boost them up, that's a fear of aging and insecurity. And maybe you need to look at that fear because you'll be nipping and tucking everything and pulling everything to keep it looking young when h aging is a natural cycle of life.
00:13:57
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Yeah, so if you know it's one thing like you're saying Maya and Danny if you want to improve your body and prove your looks to kind of bring yourself a ah deeper self-esteem stronger self-esteem But you have to look at when you're weighing it out at some point your aging and your body fades the physical fades So you're left with the residual of that You're still going to age no matter what what you have done to your body and
00:14:23
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And for women, I do think that's difficult in gay men because there's a lot of gay men getting nips and tucks and everything. I think that's difficult um because that's a societal pressure. and that's But that's a pressure that society places upon. That's a myth that we have to start to extinguish.
00:14:44
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it just Yeah, like anti-aging isn't exactly the greatest word, right? But it's used to market everything because it inherently just tells us that aging is bad. Right. Like I told you, I think I told you, I think it was both of you. I sent you a text about my grandmother who just used baby magic on her face from the time my aunt was born and her skin was flawless. Baby magic.
00:15:07
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You know, nothing top dollar, nothing outrageous. That's what she used on her skin, and her skin was perfect. you know it's it's I think it's more of an advertising myth. I think it's more of a societal myth. And you're going to start to see that shift. Because with um Pluto entering Aquarius, you're going to start to see truth pop up.
00:15:29
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There are people, I don't know how you feel about this, Jimmy, where they say in You can think I'm crazy, but this is just what I've looked into. They swear by, they believe anti-aging is a myth and what they do is, not a myth, but all the products, right? All these brands, everything, you don't need all these products, they say. What they do is they talk to their body and they talk to their cells and they say, like for example,
00:15:58
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Wow, like my skins is so plump today ah My skin is hydrated. My cells are turning over like affirmation type of practice um maybe even tapping etc, but and They kind of reverse eight they say they've reversed age in that way. They've produced collagen Less decrease wrinkles, etc hair growth. What do you what are your thoughts? those people are my heroes. They're 100% on point because it's all psychological. What we think is what we believe and that becomes our truth and our reality. That becomes a reality. That's like I think I was telling you about um when I had my hip replaced. I would wash my body and I would tell my body how much I loved it.
00:16:47
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Like, you know, I would tell my body how much I loved it. I would bathe my body because I had to do Spongebats. So it was like, ah I was listening to classical music, you know, it was all in my zone. But I would tell my hip that my hip was just a normal part of my artificial hip, that it was part of my normal body. And I grew bone around my my artificial hip.
00:17:07
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It's all mental. So they're right on track. They're light years ahead of people. It does take some effort because it takes consistency and um being aligned with yourself. But that's what I'm talking about, Danny. It's about getting in tune with what works for your body, what foods work for your body, what medicine works for your body if you're taking medicine. Can you do holistic? But yes, I 100% they're on point, they're my heroes. And that's what we need to start changing within ourselves, or we could start changing, like the we need, um to shift our our perspectives our of ourselves and how we see ourselves. Everybody is beautiful. every that You choose to come in, too. And like I said, I don't think with all my medical issues and health issues and leg issues and pain issues that I've been having, that if I didn't have this, if I was in another body, it wouldn't survive. I could tell you that right now.
00:18:02
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I love my body for carrying me through each day and the strength that it provides for me. you know Do I get stiff and achy? Do I fall down and I'm clumsy? Absolutely, I fall all the time. But that's the nature of who I am. And that keeps me humble. That keeps me who who I am. But as far as you're saying is about the mental thought, because what we say, think, do, and believe becomes our truth and reality. So to create that type of mantra for yourself is What a beautiful spiritual practice and a sacred art for loving the body. And I'm sure you're releasing certain chemicals that are probably good for your skin or other parts of your body versus if you're just always negative about your body, you're just releasing high amounts of cortisol all the time, which is creating that aging. Yes, there's ah um there's a book by Dr.
00:18:56
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is Dr. Ito, I can't remember his first name, called Hidden Messages in Water. And he took water and exposed it to certain music, and water from all over, certain music, words. um He's a Japanese doctor. He exposed it to beautiful things, negative things, and froze it, and then photographed the crystals that it created. Like the word love created beautiful crystals.
00:19:23
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The word hate or loser created horrible crystals. So what we say to ourselves becomes our truth and our reality and think about your body and how you think about yourself daily. you know So that's a great example of that. It's a great book to read. And I'll post it on Instagram as well as as well as Facebook to share because it really gets you to think about how you speak to your body and what you're creating within. Totally.
00:19:52
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I think i I love that research as well. the My only thing sadness about that is that they haven't been able to replicate it, which makes me sad. That doesn't mean I think that it's wrong.
00:20:03
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i think i've I mean, there's a we see it too when gardeners talk to their plants. you know That's kind of just been knowledge that gets passed down and talk to your plants and and there must be certain vibrations that carry through and if the body's mostly water, it definitely matters. So it's I think it's just such a hard thing.
00:20:25
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to put into practice, like you said, consistently? Because, well, I mean, what what was the point of everyone looking so different than was it to learn self-acceptance and self-love? Is that why there's so many different types of bodies and features and colors of eyes, et cetera? Yes. Yes. And the thing is, when you chose your body, you loved your body.
00:20:48
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When you chose your life plan, this is the body you picked for yourself because you liked that body. you' and You didn't pick something that you wanted to come into that wasn't a good body for you. so and this is Like I said, this is why this is all external and it has a lot to do with your life plan and and why you chose the body you chose. But like I said, yes, as far as different bodies and different eye colors and nationalities and races and cultures and everything, it is to teach acceptance because we have to be experienced, we have to incarnate in many different bodies to understand them, to have our experiences. You know,
00:21:29
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um If you incarnate as of a full figure person, Maya, all the time, and you know you're very thin and slender, um'm not somebody's not gonna know what that's like.
00:21:42
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So and what goes with that? Because people think when you're thin and slender or you're muscular and you're attractive, then you know you're well-liked and you have it easy. And think about the humanity of things for a minute. So you have to try on different bodies, different races, different cultures, different backgrounds to learn everything and experience what everybody experiences at all times. Yeah. We love to put so many judgments on it. Like attractive people have it easier or like a certain body has it better.
00:22:13
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I know what I'm coming back next time with. What you coming back next time with? I got a list. What are you bringing in? I'm going to come back as a gymnast. ah yes absolutely yeah That's so random. Like a tall gymnast, a short gymnast. Like what do we think of it? A short gymnast. I like being little. Aw. I like being little. A gymnast. You can flip all over with really good hips, Jimmy. But I may have already been that.
00:22:42
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because i I'm fascinated with gymnast. I love all kinds of things. Like I told you, this comes it back in the prior of lifetimes and that's a different topic. And we maybe we'll discuss it in dreams because you know my dreams are very in that direction as life dreams. But that being said, I love how my body moves even though my body is very stiff. So I'm fascinated by my body and how the potential it has to move. And that like, you know,
00:23:10
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And that's why I like gymnasts and things like that. When I watch how the body just moves and stretches and, you know, could I do that? I don't know that I could do that in this body, but I may have done it in another body and that might be why I am admire it so much. Do you like dancing? I love dancing. I just yeah have two left feet, but I love dancing.
00:23:32
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I love that I have really like like a dancer. I have really long legs and um I've had dancers tell me I have dancer calf, whatever the hell that is. Then my calves are very developed like a dancer would be. All right, Danny. what was What was your list, Danny? oh My list was, I thought we were talking about bodies. I have no idea what i'm when' like what I would do with my life. I know i'm I'm going up a few cup sizes. I know that. You had me both.
00:24:02
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ah Spirits like, Maya, Danny, you are missing the point of this podcast here. that where yeah except And I'm going to be able to tan. I'm not going to be burning every second I go outside. I have a list. Oh no, I think about things too. I think about things with my body arching. So when when you do body modifications, does it alter your personality or how you present to the world? Yes.
00:24:30
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It might give you confidence and more self-esteem. It might make you even more neurotic and vain. So you might be a little more neurotic about how your appearance is. But um when you do alter it, your personality does change. Same thing like when I get into my novice face reading. When you change your face, it changes your personality. When you change your personality, face changes. How about like Botox? Does that change things?
00:24:56
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A lot. That changes a lot. I feel like Botox is having its moment again. Botox will change your face or change your personality in a minute. Really? We just lost so many followers. I know. We're not saying don't do it. No, no, no. Like I said, I'm not condoning or hating on anything. Do what makes you feel good. I'm just kidding. Spirituality is about that. You've got to do what makes you feel comfortable, gives you peace, and makes you feel good about yourself.
00:25:25
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but um Just try to do an amount of ration and try to love internally first. but Be in alignment before you get those frown lines removed. But like I said.
00:25:37
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um your Your personality will definitely change if you get Botox immediately. You can see, and the way people approach you will change. What happens with that though, you might be masking something where you're trying to portray something. For instance, because micro expressions say a lot, so if you're filling in filler everywhere and you want to be received lovingly, somebody might not be able to read your face correctly because they can't see that. Or if you're, let's say, just a not so nice human being,
00:26:07
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yeah wow and you're filling it in to be a nice human being, then that the dragon person comes out after that. Look, it's insane. interesting So you can hide things with filler and you can hide things with Botox and it'll change personalities and how people are attracted to you, the type of people. That's what I was saying about the people that get the breast implants, the hair, the nails, everything that's artificial and want somebody that's really authentic.
00:26:35
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unless they are in alignment with that energy, because fake is aligned with fake at times. I read many fake men and women that are aligned with their fakeness and truly believe they're superficialists. Is that a word, superficialness? Yeah, I think it is. Anyway, I made it up. But they're truly in a line with being fake.
00:26:59
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And you can see them. They're easy to pick out. They're the people that you see on Instagram and on TikTok and on Facebook. You were like, yeah, that wedding looks so beautiful. Oh, she looks so hot. He looks so hot. Look at that body. They're on alignment with that. So they're like authentic in the fakeness. Yes. So you can be authentic in the superficial. Yeah. And you'll see that with men and women.
00:27:27
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they date people that are exactly like them because when they start to date people that are just like them, that's that ah like attracts like. So remember one thing, who you are is who you attract. There's something in them and you regardless on a soul level. So when, so when say men and women attract people that, you know, when the guy, when guys sit here and tell me that they they're spending tons and tons of money on women,
00:27:56
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that aren't really authentic and being who they are as people that want relationships. And the she wants me to be spend money on her, blah, blah, blah. There's the artificial energy in that essence because you're not going after somebody that's got depth. And maybe either you're being misread or maybe there's something in misalignment with you, but or aligned with you. you. I don't know. Maya, so it's our fault.
00:28:25
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We got to reevaluate ourselves, Danny. No, but is even with me, like whoever I date or whoever I'm involved with, it mirrors me. its Same thing with your friends. The one thing about with your friends is you'll see that i like attracts like there too. Patterns attract patterns. If you're attracting fake people, then that must mean something about you is not honest and upfront as well.
00:28:47
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And you could see that in friend as we grow more comfortable and in our bodies and more authentic with ourselves, then we'll change what we attract as well, too. But like I said, if you're attracting fake people, then there might be something about you that's a little bit fake because birds of a feather flock together. That is a true statement. I believe true statement. And that's why, like I said, I'll read men and women. Like I said, a lot of guys, oh, she only wants this. She only wants that. Well, if that's what she only wants you for.
00:29:16
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then that means something about you is not in alignment. You know, if the guy's spending money and she wants his money, something with that guy is in misalignment with himself to attract that person and vice versa with women with men.
00:29:32
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When we're feeling stagnant or we need a shift, whether it's in the energy around us or a community, what's spirits insight or advice, if you will, on the first steps of doing that? Is it OK to kind of change the energy up of your physical appearance, whether with clothes, hair, et cetera? Like, how can we get out of that rut? Absolutely. They want you to grow and evolve and change. The one thing, if you're going to change your body up, this is a rule of thumb.
00:30:00
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If you're going to change your body up, integrate it into who you are. Integrate it into who you are and don't be ashamed of that. Own it. When your body does change, you do change and what you attract changes, try to integrate it into part of yourself, but may remain true to who you are. The one thing I think with myself, when I've been smaller, whether I've been larger, I think I stay very true to who I am. I don't think I change.
00:30:28
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that much. I might get more confidence, a little bit more esteem when I'm in a smaller build because I feel healthier about myself. But I think I'm the same person across the board. And that's what and how you can tell that. What's interesting is your friends and the people around you don't see your weight gain. They don't see your weight loss. They just see you. That's like a lot of people, you know, having ah a minor limp. People tell me they never notice my life.
00:30:57
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You know, with ah with my disability, they'll never notice my life. That's somebody that's really in alignment with seeing you for who you are. So it's stepping into authenticity. And I think, I think it's a hard word to wrap your head around. Like how, what spirits insights on how to discover your authentic self.
00:31:16
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real honest self-reflection, really honest self-reflection and self-discovery. And the thing is, when you go into a place of self-discovery and reflecting, it's a constant evolution. That's why you're constantly changing. your but And that's what would shifts your perspective on your body, changes the energy of your body, changes the energy of their thoughts and what you're attracting. That's, I think, Maya,
00:31:44
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on a very raw human level, that's what's hard because things start to shift and you don't always see that shift or notice it, or you don't necessarily know what to do with it once it does shift. So it's constantly, I would say that be have real honest self-reflection and conversations with yourself and think about who you are and start to really stand in conviction of that truth, like what your moral values are, what your what your core is. but What do you core believe?
00:32:12
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You know, if your body's shifting and changing, who are you at the core? The one that this has been a difficult lesson for me, even with um with all my physical elements at this time, I've had to learn that I'm still the same person I've been. Even if I'm not physically feeling healthy, even if I'm not physically feeling so attractive and not exactly where I would like to be. How about piercings and tattoos?
00:32:40
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Oh, interesting. Very interesting. I could ask this question a lot. um Again, moderation. To some degree, they feel it's expression. And then other degree, they feel it's body mutilation. That took a turn. Yes, it's it's it depends. Like I said,
00:33:06
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They don't judge. they're not judging They're not judging. It's not a judgment. But some people do it to to it's like a fix like an addiction. So it it becomes like an addiction. That's where they're going with it. It's not like and sometimes they see it as like I said, it can be considered a body mutilation and that causes you not necessarily to love your body as your body is because again, you're changing it. However,
00:33:33
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Like I said, there's no judgment. It's how are you integrating it? If that's who you are, tattoo, everything. Yeah, because some people use it as expression, right? Where they they feel like they're expressing themselves. Or have you seen people who cover literally their entire body and they might get, you know, little like horns implanted and stuff or split their tongue? Like how, but can you argue that that's them expressing who they authentically think they are?
00:34:02
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You can argue that, but like I said, the way spirit sees that there's, um, there's soul lessons around that. I'll say it like that. I think like when spirit says, says it's mutilating, it's more so when they're masking some type of trauma or internal pain, not so much that they're abusing their body, but what are you covering up that you don't really like? Same thing with the splicing of the tongues.
00:34:26
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and things like that. It's like, why do you want to be so extreme versus, expression is one thing. And, you know, I might get flagged for that because in general, but what are you hiding with all that? What what is underneath all that? So I know Spirit it told us, you know, to integrate the new changes into your body, into acceptance and self-love, self-compassion, et cetera. What is their best advice on actually how to do because I think it's easy to be like, oh, integrate it. Well, what does that actually mean for people? They would like us to really um accept our bodies and accept the changes that we make. If you're going to change and alter your body in any way, accept the change that you made.
00:35:13
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But you know one nose job turns and the two nose jobs turns and let me fix this too. Let me take that out. I really don't like this. Let me alter that. They botched this. They did this. i mean Let me put in more filler. Let me put in more filler. Let me put in more filler. I need more filler. that That's the issue they have that lacks the consistency. The little bit goes a long way. and yeah And what people fail to realize is some alterations are a temporary fix.
00:35:43
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But how to integrate that into part of who you are is to really accept your body and the changes that you made with to it. you know Like I said, my ah having the quad repair, I might not get my full extension back, but I'm grateful that I was able to repair that quad. I was grateful that I was able to have that done and you know that I could have that. So it's learning to live in the new body that I now have.
00:36:09
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You same thing with the hip replacement. Let's go. Like if you want to take it a little more medical, just to explain it a little easier, you know, things like that. It's, it's learning to accept, you know, you might not be able to heal everything. And I've said this to you, you might not be able to heal everything, but if you get some healing out of something and that's good.
00:36:26
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Same thing if you're doing it to alter um for an external cosmetic look. Learn to accept that that's who you are. And your your personality will naturally at some point assimilate that energy. But like I said, the the biggest myth on cosmetics and cosmetic surgery, and even people with makeup, the makeup issue, and not to drag on women, is it's all temporary.
00:36:57
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It's all temporary. So the thing is you're constantly having to change that and add to it. You know, and then it I think what tends to happen from what spirit tells me is it may make you even more hypercritical.
00:37:14
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Interesting. Yeah, that's fair. and And that comes back to, especially with makeup, is this an, I'm doing it because it's an expression or is that I'm doing it because I'm hiding or trying to cover something up or look different. Right. Cause I do, it is, it is art in so many ways, but it can, it's the balance. Why do you think Emo and Goth are so big?
00:37:37
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Do you know those type of energy is not that attack that community? I'm not trying to attack anybody live how you want to live, but there's something they're trying to express that they can't vocalize Interesting. I mean as a teenager. I definitely ran that eyeliner a little too thick. Okay. I did one I Can't picture that night. I cringe We need pictures and I can't reach your proof or didn't happen so naturally Attractive, they're natural. You're sweet, I know. But I just... A little too much black eyeliner, you know? Just... Not too much. My eyebrows are a little too thin at one point. All the things. Oh, well, you're meaner. Do you think you were meaner and more edgy? With thinner eyebrows? Thinner eyebrows are gonna make you more cutthroat. You know, it was when I moved to the US and I was feeling the most like I didn't fit in in my life and I felt like I had to be somebody else, if that makes sense. Like, I felt like...
00:38:36
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I have to use this. I love your eyebrows. I love my thick eyebrows now, but... You have very straight, squared off eyebrows. Straight, cheater, honest, upfront. And they wrap around their eyes, which is wisdom. I think this episode's been super enlightening. And I think, as you mentioned in the very beginning, a message that we probably all can hear. Because the point of having a physical body is not that we're here to critique it our whole lives and want to always change it. It's to celebrate it.
00:39:05
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you know, treat it with respect, um see what we can do with it, right? So and before we close here, does Spirit have, they they pretty consistently gave us some good messages, but is there anything else they want to leave us with in terms of how we should view our physical body? To love it and to nurture it more, to love it and accept it and nurture it more unconditionally and to give it gratitude.
00:39:31
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to be grateful for the body that you have as it carries you through every day, every experience, every emotion, every sensation. And like I said, your body is the most psychic thing about you. So learn to listen to it more, learn to hear it more and learn to align it, align it with who you are and be truthful. I think that was a beautiful message for all of us to hear.
00:39:58
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so Of course, thank you as always to Danny, Jimmy, and Spirit for some enlightening insights. Thank you everyone who's listening. I'm excited to see what we dive into next episode. We'll see you all