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“Armageddon or Enlightenment?” #71
12 Plays11 months ago
In our first conversation of the new year, we start with a Ram Dass quote and delve into our personal mantras for living a good life. What do we do when we feel out of alignment? How can we make sure our days are well spent, regardless of what the future holds?
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://LifeStudent.com
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Transcript
Introduction and Purposeful Living
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On today's episode, we start with a quote by Rondoss and get into all the ways to live a life of purpose.
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We explore our own personal mission statements in life and uncover some ways that we can make a positive difference in the world every day.
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Enjoy the episode.
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Welcome to Stay Sparked.
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We are two old friends who have been sharing conversations for years and years and years, and now we are sharing them together with you.
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I am John Halcyon, a author, joy activist, and host of the Hug Nation YouTube channel.
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And I am Betsy Finkel, who is the creator of the Power Affirmation Journal and Somatic Bodyworker.
Experiencing Gratitude and Seasons
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And we like to start these episodes off with a check-in with gratitude.
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Betsy, what are you grateful for today?
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Well, today I am grateful for winter.
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This is one of my first winters in Asheville.
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I moved here a few months ago and we're in the thick of it.
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It's mid-January almost and it's so beautiful this time of year.
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It's crisp and sunny and I just feel so grateful to get to experience winter.
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the seasons because the last many years I was in San Diego and it's not as apparent.
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And so I'm really just soaking it up.
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We, we, this time of year we call it hoodie weather when you have to wear long sleeves.
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That's, that's,
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Here it's like layers.
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You have to plan like to leave 15 minutes early to put all your extra layers on before you go out.
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I love it.
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Nice.
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I am glowing in gratitude from some beautiful holiday connections and getting to spend Christmas with five and a half year old Asher.
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It was just such a magical experience to giggle and play and spend the holidays with a little one.
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So I'm still feeling so much gratitude for that.
Ram Dass's Teachings on Mind and Heart
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And today on the episode, we wanted to talk about, well, I guess it's inspired by a quote by Ram Dass.
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And so first of all, I'll share the story and then we'll see what inspires in each other and hopefully in you.
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After a lecture, somebody asked Ram Dass that he said, look, the world is so crazy right now.
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I mean, are we headed towards the age of Aquarius or are we headed towards Armageddon?
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And Ram Dass said, you know, I don't know.
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I really don't know.
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But I asked myself, if we were headed towards the age of Aquarius,
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what would I do?
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He said, I would quiet my mind, I would open my heart, and I would work to reduce suffering in the world.
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And I think to myself, well, what would I do if we're heading towards Armageddon?
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I would quiet my mind, I would open my heart, and I would try to reduce suffering in the world.
Aligning Personal Missions with Actions
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And I have found that quote to be so incredibly helpful.
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That idea that
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No matter what is happening in the world, how can we live in a way that we feel like we are doing what we should be doing?
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And if there is a way, if there is a way to live according to that it doesn't matter, then that means we get to spend so much less energy worrying about the future.
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And so there's so many times over the last year when I've been spun out into conversations or articles and scrolling about future panic.
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You know, what's going to happen?
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What's going to happen?
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Oh, no.
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And to just go back to this quote and say, well, whatever does happen, how am I going to spend tomorrow?
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And for me, I feel like the...
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the idea of waking each morning and reminding myself that I'm a love ambassador and trying to find the ways to gift whatever that is and find the ways to
Finding Flow and Purpose
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heal myself.
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That's really like, I love the Ram Dass list of things, but to be totally honest, the idea of quiet your mind, I get this little twinge of like,
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I'm not really good at that.
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I don't really meditate.
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And then the other thing is reduce suffering.
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While I love the idea, it also feels like, I'm no Mother Teresa.
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And suffering, what does that mean?
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Like dressing people's wounds?
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I don't really do that.
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So for me, I like kind of substitute, work on myself, heal myself, and practice gifting.
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Because that's like, oh, I know that if I do that every day, if I try to remove the obstacles to my ego stuff that keeps me from being a loving person in the world, if I'm continually doing that and I know I can do that, I know that's a good use of my time.
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And I know that if I'm looking for the little ways that I can help fill in the cracks, lift somebody up, if I just look for ways to gift throughout my day,
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That also is, I know it's going to be a great use of my time, no matter what, whether we're heading towards Armageddon or Utopia.
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That's so beautiful.
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Well, that's your unique purpose.
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Your unique mission on this planet.
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And I love that you are harvesting the wisdom from Ram Dass.
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That was his mission, his purpose.
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To simplify the mind, to quiet the mind and open the heart and contribute to reducing suffering.
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And I think that's a really beautiful modeling.
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And we can each...
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Kind of find our own pillars.
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And when I'm hearing you share that, my sparks are instead of quieting the mind, which I do like to do, and I would imagine you actually do quiet your mind a lot more than what you give yourself credit for, even though you don't do the traditional sit down, get still, focus on one point.
Empowerment Through Clarity and Contentment
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But I'm sure you find flow state.
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That's what I consider flow state, accessing that space, that liminal space that is in the flow, whether that is through dance or through being in nature or making art, accessing that space that is just so beautiful and present moment oriented.
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I think it's a gift to ourselves and to the collective.
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Because the worry, the tension that comes from fear of the future, or even, you know, stress of what's to come.
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I think that flow state or quieting the mind or what your pillar was.
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You know, what was your first one?
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Heal myself.
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Heal yourself.
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Healing yourself.
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It all brings us into the moment.
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And then opening the heart, I love that you use gifting as an example of that.
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Because when you give, it does open the heart.
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It does feel like it is like, oh, when we find that wellspring of generosity within, it does feel like my heart opens and softens and there is...
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greater access to trusting the perfect unfolding of all of it.
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Whether we're all going to, you know, go extinct in the next five years or we're going to like turn this ship around and have an incredible, transformational, long lasting experience of our species.
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You know, to get into that place of trust.
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It's really awesome to feel that.
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It's interesting how the wording and how it resonates with us is important.
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I know that's something that you work with in affirmations and things.
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You've got to find the words that work with you.
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Reduce suffering and gifting.
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In many ways, it's the same thing.
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A gifting, you're trying to find what is...
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what is something that could be fixed?
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What is, what is something that is hurting that could be relieved?
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What is some burden that could be lifted, which is reducing suffering.
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But I hear reduced suffering and it puts me into like, it just feels like heavy and dark.
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And so,
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Practice gifting to me is a way to make it into a light spreading activity instead of a dark fighting activity.
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Maybe the exact same energy.
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I do work with the homeless, which I guess you consider is reducing suffering.
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But it feels I like it to feel light and joyful.
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So to me, I think of it as a gifting practice.
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Yeah, so beautiful.
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And I also hear being in service.
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Yeah, that's another could be another perfect wording of it.
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Right.
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It's all kind of like the same saying the same thing just in a different way.
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And I think that the that but the that idea that what we really want to be doing is figuring out what is that what is that what are the phrases what is the directive that makes us feel good about yes that would be a good use of my time no matter what you know what would be what would what would I feel like is heading in the right direction no matter what.
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I feel a
Activism and Personal Contributions
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mantra coming on or like a, you know, a way of living direction.
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And here we are at the beginning of the new year.
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So much of the conversation is, you know, do you have any words for this year?
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What's your, you know, intention for 2025?
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And I feel like Ram Dass really gives us a beautiful simplification of, of that because his was to clear the mind, open the heart and reduce suffering.
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You know, mine is access flow from the heart and be in service.
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Hmm.
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You know, and those are ways of life.
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And that is, it can be changing every single day.
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And it can be something so simple that I can do by myself at home.
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Or I could go big and do something out in the world.
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Same with you.
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You know, you can gift yourself something.
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And same with Ron Boss.
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And I think this is, so this whole idea, I think, is really critical.
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Because it's not saying...
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hey, ignore what's going on in the world and just do your own thing.
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It's saying, what's a way that you can do your own thing where you're helping the world no matter what?
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And just having faith in that.
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And then you have so much more energy to be present, to be loving, to be in service, to be reducing suffering because you're not worked into these distractive narratives of panic or worry or
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Yeah, well, and it's very difficult to operate functionally from a place of panic or worry.
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Stress creates tension in the body and dis-ease in the body.
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And all of that makes it very difficult to make a positive difference in the world.
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If we can relax into the knowing that everything is unfolding in perfection, even if that means horror and despair and extinction or whatever, Armageddon, as you said, how can we move towards it with our own unique contribution to it?
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You know, we're going to add light.
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We're going to add darkness.
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I'm hopeful that most of the people out there listening to this show called Stay Sparked are in the mindset around bringing light because that's what this is about.
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It is a dark time.
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There's a lot of things to worry about, a lot of things to be stressed about.
Incremental Actions for Sustained Impact
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A lot of systems are crumbling.
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There's a lot of things that are pretty messed up and upside down and a lot of just tragic things that are happening in the world that can create a lot of
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Oh, despair.
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But how do we find a glimmer, a tiny little sparkle of hope in the world that we live in, even when we can be so frustrated or fearful or stressed about the things?
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You know, and I think we keep coming back to this really beautiful quote, what's mine to do?
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No matter what's going to happen, all I have control of is myself and my daily actions.
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So I think that that's what we're talking about.
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Yeah.
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And I think that there's, it's so tempting to feel disheartened and like, it doesn't matter.
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Like if we're headed towards a cliff, then it's easy just to go, well, then I'm not going to try so hard.
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And like, if we're headed towards a cliff,
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the end, then why am I recycling?
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And this quote is like, no, no, no, no.
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You're not thinking about it right.
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The only thing that you have control over is your part.
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So all you need to do is do you in integrity and just trust and just have faith.
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Because, well, for me, there's a piece to this, which is that
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you are connected to something that is way bigger than this reality in this world.
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And so regardless of how the narrative of this planet's story goes, your spiritual story continues on.
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So your role during your lifetime is to
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spread love, work on your traumas, heal yourself.
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So that regardless of the story of this chapter of this reality, the story of your life should be one of healing and love.
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Yeah, and contribute it.
Daily Integrity and Impactful Actions
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So when we are paying attention to the fact that there's a lot of things in this world that need to change.
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So for me, I would love to speak to one of my tension points.
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And sometimes I feel a little despair that I got to keep coming back to my own personal part of it and contribution is single use plastics.
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And how frustrating it is, you know, to-go containers.
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And there's just so much.
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It's overwhelming sometimes.
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And I feel really mad and tense and frustrated by a lot of it.
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And I feel sometimes like the only one who is bringing to-go containers in my car and carrying mason jars with me.
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And it's like, okay, yeah, it might be kind of weird to do that.
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And I don't care at this moment.
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Like, okay, I'm going to build a new habit.
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I'm going to do these little things.
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Even if, you know, I go to a restaurant and see them giving hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of these single-use plastic things away and I'm just one person bringing my own.
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It's like, how do I actually just stay confident in my own self and know that I'm doing the best that I can in my own way, even if we are going to get buried in trash one day?
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you know.
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But then I start paying attention to all these organizations that are actually making a really positive difference.
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So one way that I stay sparked and kind of like
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help to clear out some of that tension is I start following on my social media feeds some of these organizations like Zero Waste Organizations, Waste Free Planet, some of these threads that are showing really awesome things that are cleaning up the oceans and places in India that are having these new ways of doing things and there is more and more people that are waking up
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And so sometimes when I feel like I'm that weird girl, the only one in the restaurant that brings her to-go thing, it's like, oh, wait, no, there's a lot more people.
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I just can't quite see them.
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It's not as televised.
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And he's being hopeful by paying attention.
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I think that's a good reminder that there's always so many more people like you out there than you're aware of.
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And media in general is not giving you that reflection.
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And one of the things that I try to say every morning is that
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There are millions, maybe billions of people out there that are eager to be as connected and open-hearted as you are.
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And sometimes they just need someone to demonstrate, to role model, to be a little bit, to show that it's okay.
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So the other thing that I was going to say is that this reminds me of one of the ideas that is helpful to me as a direction, not distance.
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that if you get too caught up in the scale of a problem, it's easy to just feel like, what's the point?
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Whether it's single-use plastic or people experiencing homelessness or anything, it's just, what's the point?
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But if you can change the focus to how far you have to go instead of just, am I going in the right direction?
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And I think that's what Ram Dass is trying to say.
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Look, we're not focused on
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Ending suffering in the world.
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That's not my job.
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My job is to reduce suffering in the world.
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And then every day I can be victorious.
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Every day I can say, I did it.
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I did it.
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I did it.
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I did it.
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And with anything that matters to us, we can be going in the right direction every day.
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And then every day we can be like, yes, I did it.
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I was going in the right direction.
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And that is sustainable.
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Yes.
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And like these little steps that can make a big difference.
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Yeah.
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I also like instead of reducing suffering, contribute to a better world.
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And how powerful if every morning we start the day with that question.
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How can I contribute to a better world today?
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And then at the end of the day, reflect on it.
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And maybe some days it's like a very simple thing, like giving a smile to a stranger or like reaching out to someone you know is going through healing, you know, or maybe it's bigger on other days, like what you do with Help the Homeless, you know.
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Maybe it's something, some donation, something that we're doing every day to make this world a better place to contribute.
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One of the things that I try to do in coaching and in workshops is to make an inventory of the ways that you can contribute.
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Like what are the gifts that you have?
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And it can be really illuminating to realize all the different ways that you can be of service, you know, through your attention, through the way you treat family, to the way you cook, to the way you listen, to the way you are patient in a parking lot and to the way you give someone a ride.
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And so just kind of being aware of all these different ways, you start to realize, oh, it's actually kind of easy to
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To live this way, I just got to just look for the opportunities.
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Look for the opportunities.
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Well, and also give yourself that acknowledgement.
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I think that's really key because they're probably already doing a lot of really good things.
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And unfortunately, a lot of people are pretty hard on themselves.
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Internal dialogue around, am I doing enough?
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I'm not sure if I'm even making a difference.
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Who am I in the grand scheme of things?
Aligning with Personal Values and Growth
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But when you sit down and you make a list of those simple things that you're doing every day, it really can...
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shift things on that internal aspects of our thoughts and start to see ourselves as a good person.
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Oh, I actually am making a positive difference in this world.
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Oh, I'm a good person.
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Okay, that feels good.
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And then we can start to relax and then start to actually have a lot more joy in our lives.
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And then that in itself contributes to a better world, right?
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Because joy can be so contagious.
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Yeah, I think that is a really good point that
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being in a place of self-awareness of your own joy, happiness, without guilt.
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If you can be walking through your days because you know you're following whatever your directive that you have for yourself of being of service or being patient with my family, if you can be doing that, then you walk differently.
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And then you are spreading a vibration to everyone you interact with
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It's kind of lifting them and inviting them to that same space.
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That's activism.
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That's really important.
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Yes, absolutely.
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And it starts within.
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I know it's like kind of cliche.
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We've all heard it a million times, but it really starts within.
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When we have that inner dialogue, the kindness inside and the recognition, self-recognition, like I'm a good person.
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I'm making this, I'm contributing to a better world.
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You know, then that starts to build that inner confidence and the inner radiance, in my opinion.
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Totally.
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And I think that the tuning into that,
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Maybe even tuning into what is in the way.
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Like if you are trying to find out or to write your, this is the thing that would do it for me.
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Are there things in your mind that you feel like you're out of integrity?
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Are there things that you're doing that maybe...
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feel like you're going in the opposite direction of what you should be doing every day.
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Well, what an amazing opportunity.
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Like, oh, I guess I got to stop drinking single-use water.
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Oh, I guess I got to stop doing whatever it is.
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Or I guess I can put a little extra attention to this.
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It's this beautiful opportunity to keep fine-tuning your kind of daily directive for yourself.
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Yes, I love that.
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It's a journaling prompt.
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Am I being in integrity with myself?
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Where can I get into greater alignment with the habits that are connected to what I care about?
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Check in.
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Do a little internal check in and then readjust.
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Super powerful to call ourselves out for that too.
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And I would say that it's not, that's not a destination.
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That is a lifelong process.
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I was with a coaching client this week and it had to kind of like say, oh, I felt like I was very, very,
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I thought I was being very successful and rocking in my in alignment.
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I'm doing it on a daily basis.
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And then wham, realize, oh, I am addicted to some substances and realize I had to vastly reevaluate my behaviors so that I could communicate.
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get back into that alignment.
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I had no, I mean, for a long time, I didn't know I was out of alignment.
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And so what was, let me say that differently.
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The path that was my alignment worked until I became aware of different aspects of myself.
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And then I corrected it.
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And I think that's what we got to keep doing in our life.
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It reminds me of a Joe Dispenza quote where he says, a belief is not limiting until you realize that it is.
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It's just a belief.
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Same thing with like a bad habit.
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Right.
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A bad habit, but we don't realize that it's a bad habit.
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It's just a habit.
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Until we start to bring awareness to those things that are actually not healthy for us, then we can start to change the pattern, change the thinking, change the habit, change whatever it is to get into a better alignment with who we actually want to be and how we actually want to be acting and thinking and being.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And I think that's the path of personal growth, I think, is...
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Do I feel in alignment?
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Awesome.
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Great.
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And then when you, how can I tune into the ways that I'm not?
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And then, oh, okay, that's where I can do some work.
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And then tell you, okay, now I feel good again.
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There's, I mean, there's methods.
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There's no path that is the right way.
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to do it.
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Like you, in your examples of single-use plastics and things, those are the elements that are most critical in your, you know, of actions that are, could be in and out of alignment.
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But that doesn't mean that's the same for everyone.
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I know that there was a time in my life when, I confessed to you right before we broadcast, I used to get...
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crates of single-use plastic bottles delivered to my house.
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And that was not out of alignment to me until I realized that it was.
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And then every time I drank the water bottle, I could feel it like, oh, okay, I got to fix this.
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And so, and the more that we can remove those kind of obstacles to our flow, obstacles to our feeling just we're good.
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Yeah, I think it's just, it's like a hygiene that we just got to keep doing, keep doing, keep doing as we grow and recorrect and get feeling good again.
Crafting Personal Mission Statements
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Mm-hmm.
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Readjust.
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Yes.
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So here's the closing spark if you're open for a little wrap.
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My closing spark is a little instigation for those of you out there that are listening.
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What are your pillars?
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What are those three things similar to what we talked about, this quote from Ram Dass,
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He works on the three pillars.
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One is clearing his mind.
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Two is opening the heart.
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Three is reducing suffering.
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I spoke to being in flow state, giving from the heart, and being in service.
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Hal San, what were your three?
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I was just saying heal myself and practice gifting.
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Spark is gifting, right.
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Yeah.
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So what are your pillars out there?
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Hopefully you are feeling sparked to really tune in, fine tune your mission statement for your life.
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That's what it feels like.
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This is a mission statement for life.
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No matter what direction we are going as a human species on this planet, whether or not we are going to implode in our life poem or expand into some...
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completely beautiful next level heaven on earth realities we don't know all we have is right now and so how are we gonna love it and so the instigation is also to send us what are your pillars what lights you up so what keeps you going send it to um either our instagram you can put it in the uh in the chat you'll see our instagram is i think it's stay sparked and then also if you want to pop on
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Apple Podcasts and scroll down, you'll see write a review.
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You can always put them in there too.
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That helps us a lot actually to spread the sparks.
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So my closing spark is a little nudge and instigation to y'all out there.
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I love that, Betsy.
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And I really feel like this idea is so big and so huge that finding your mission statement impacts so many aspects of life.
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So I guess my closing statement is just going to, I'm going to double down and encourage you to do the homework that the challenge that Betsy just put out.
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Because if you have an idea,
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of what the basic directive of your day can be that will make you feel like it's a good use of your day no matter what.
Resources for Life Mission Alignment
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You can start every day with that reminder and it can change everything.
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If you can start your day, which is one of the reasons why I do a morning broadcast and I invite you to join me every day at 9 a.m.
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Pacific time on YouTube or Facebook, but YouTube, the Hug Nation channel.
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Come in, share gratitude and say, who do I want to be today?
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okay, I want to be someone that reduces suffering and opens my heart and whatever it is.
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Because if you just say that to yourself when you start the day, the next time you get that phone call or that email or whatever, you already know.
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You already know the base ideas that you're going to use to answer the question, to make the decision.
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And you keep living day by day like that.
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Those days add up to a really powerful presence in the world.
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Absolutely.
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It becomes your guiding light, your north star.
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Yeah.
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And that's why I live life in affirmation.
00:29:09
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And so before we close it out with an affirmation, maybe you can share with us a little bit more on how people can find you online.
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I love that you do the 9 a.m.
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broadcast.
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And how else might people find you and maybe even work with you directly?
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Yeah.
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Thank you, Betsy.
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Yes, the links to the morning broadcast as well as the noon gratitude circles and working with me one-on-one as a coach, you can find all of that information at lifestudent.com.
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Lifestudent.com, which has links to even fun stuff like how you get a free sticker from me or a t-shirt and stuff like that.
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So yeah, come stay connected.
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I have one of your stickers on my computer.
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The Love Ambassador.
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Nice.
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Beautiful offerings.
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How did we find you?
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Well, I also have a website.
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I have poweraffirmation.com where you can get the Power Affirmation Journal, which is a tool to help you reprogram limiting beliefs.
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It is on there.
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You can find the Power Affirmation deck that I just launched recently, which will do an affirmation.
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From there, I also work with clients one-on-one, really taking them on the journey of reprogramming limiting beliefs with the journal and the cards and some mindset practices.
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I do groups.
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I just started a new group as well, which I'm super excited about.
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And then I also do in-person body work, massage therapy, energy work.
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I do aerial somatics.
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I'm in Asheville, North Carolina.
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So great.
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Please reach out if any of those spark interest for you and you'd like to receive some of my magical medicine.
Closing Affirmation on Embracing Change
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Nice.
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And in the meantime, I would love to sparkle and sprinkle some affirmation magic into your ears from the power affirmation deck.
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Why don't you, I'm shuffling right now.
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Why don't you, Halcyon, tell me when and I'll pull a card.
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now.
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Okay.
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I am evolving now.
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I welcome change.
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I embrace change.
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I am change.
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I attract the people, things, and experiences that serve my highest good and support me in the best ways.
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I create a new reality for myself with my thoughts, words, and actions.
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I trust myself to make the best decisions for the path I'm forging ahead.
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I have the power to create big changes within my thinking, my habits, and my life.
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Yes, we do have the power to make big changes within our thinking, within our habits, and within our lives.
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And that's what we're here talking about today.
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So I hope this inspired y'all.
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I know I'm feeling sparked.
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Thank you, John Halcyon.
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I love you so much.
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I love you too.
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Stay sparked, everyone.
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Find us on Instagram at StaySparked and leave us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts.
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Thanks so much for helping us spread these sparks.