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The Tao of Modern Living
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In this episode of The Intuitive Move, we explore how ancient wisdom can guide us through the challenges of modern life. Drawing from Tao Te Ching, a book written over 2000 years ago, I share 7 timeless lessons — from living with mystery and paradox, to leading with softness, and moving beyond ego. Through personal stories of career setbacks, I unpack how these teachings show up in everyday life. With reflections on trust, simplicity, abundance, and compassion, the episode closes with an invitation to notice where your ego might be steering — and how to shift back into intuition, presence, and heart.
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Introduction to Tao Te Ching and its Modern Relevance
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Nadia Stejskal
Did you know that there is a 2000 year old book, which if it was applied in the modern life, it would solve all the world's problem? We are talking about the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tse
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Nadia Stejskal
This book, which was written over 2000 years ago, it's still as modern and as valid and as applicable as any other personal development and spiritual book. And I will dare to say these summarizes all spirituality books that I read so far.
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Nadia Stejskal
This is the Intuitive Move podcast and welcome to the episode 6 where we are going to discuss ancient wisdom, modern life, how we can apply this 2000 year old book in today's life and solve our problems in the easiest way.
Inspiration and Personal Journey with the Tao
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Nadia Stejskal
So this book caught my eye because I first started reading another book, which was the explanation of this one. The other book was the Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life by Dr. Wayne Dyer And he basically explained all the chapters, which this Tao Te Ching has 81 chapters,
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Nadia Stejskal
Each chapter has a lesson, and this Change Your Thoughts book explains each of them and ways in which they can be applied in the modern life.
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So with that book, Dr. Wayne also blew my mind, and I thought I need to read the original, Why the Tao Te Ching? Also, why does it sound so familiar?
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By the way, the Tao Te Ching, so Lao Tse, Lao Tse, and was the founder of the da Taoism, the philosophy and the religion.
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So let's dive right
Harmony with Life's Mysteries: Lessons from Chapter One
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in. In this episode, we're going to explain or try to apply the first seven lessons of the Tao. The first lesson is called Living the Mystery. Okay.
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And nowadays in the world of Chat GPT we have answers practically instantly and we have the answers of many complex problems, at least from JGPT perspective.
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So this lesson, on the first the very first chapter of the Lao Tzu Ching is about embracing, first and accepting and learning to live with a mystery.
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we don't need to learn everything. We don't need to have the answers to all our questions. So this is how I think when he wrote it 2,000 years ago, but now it's more relevant than ever.
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Nowadays, with all the technology and all the answers, which makes us have more questions and we want to know more and know more, and we don't even try to live with a mystery. And some things...
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are better experienced and some things are better just to be and how much crisis we have right now in the world about not learning how to be.
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mystery.
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And speaking about this, it comes to mind that how many times you didn't know what the future will hold. But what came after, was much better.
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So I find that this chapter also can be applied to that situation. where we think that we need to know everything, we need to plan for everything, for every single thing.
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And then when we plan every single detail, we actually limit ourselves. And that's another thing that I think Lao Tse wanted to say in this in this book.
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Everything is a a missed a mystery and if we let it be a mystery, then we open ourselves to something much better, to something perfect for us.
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This reminds me of the time where I was planning to move to Australia. And when I think back on that time, I did some planning, but I also left some room for the unknown because I literally didn't know.
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And I was excited. And And I came here with a little bit of plan, but not everything planned. And I went with the flow. So I find the whole book in general,
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invites you to go with the flow don't fight against you know the current is that how you say it and so use the environment and mimic nature to let things be in the way that they need to be ah so deep and at the same time embrace whatever result it happens So it's about leaning in and let things be.
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So, so amazing. So that's the first lesson about embracing mystery.
Embracing Opposites and Learning from Paradoxes
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The second lesson is called living with paradoxes.
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And the essence of this chapter is about opposites. Good, bad, success, failure. How one defines the other.
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How we wouldn't have success if we didn't have failure. How we wouldn't have beautiful if we didn't have ugly. Literally, that's what the chapter says.
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And also, so it's about letting go the labels. So let's sit with this. This is too much. I find too much and this needs to be explained and applied in this world.
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So if we embrace paradox, first, this explains all the paradox moments that we had in our lives. Like, for example, the time where I was for the first time in my life assigned to a role and I had my first direct report in the company where I was.
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And also, our surprise, this direct report didn't like me and that was okay. So I tried to accept it. Not only that, but this direct report was...
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a little abusive and did some bullying to me and the first thing i thought is what the hell why this is my first direct report experience and i have this being which is so mean to me that was a paradox to me why why would you do that universe
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But when you're having a really hard time, trust me, sometimes you don't have space because it's such the anxiety that you don't see anything good out of it. At what at one point, so then I was finding a little bit of light. Okay, maybe I can learn from this. So what's the lesson for me?
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And I decided that that the lesson was to teach me to protect myself, to protect my energy. So maybe I don't need to be the nice girl
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I decided to... connect with myself more, protect my energy, do some ritual Here we have a candle, literally candles can protect your energy and you don't need to be a believer for it to work.
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A candle lifts the vibration of the room and cleans up anything. And I was cleaning up basically my energy every single day. and getting ready in the morning before work.
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And then I started to feel actually a little sorry for the person that was being aggressive with me. And at one point, the person resigned.
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So it was literally after I accepted the situation and I i said to myself, okay, we might as well take something good out of it.
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and That was a huge lesson and also a huge paradox.
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Once I accepted that I could learn from the situation, I could really embody that.
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I was going to work really happily. was like, okay, if my job is to receive hate, literally I'll do it. It's okay. As long as I'm doing something good for the world, okay, I'm removing hate from a person. Okay, that's it.
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I'll do that. I'll clean up my energy later. Literally, three days after AH-HA the person resigned.
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So... Oh my God, this Tao is so powerful. um is a reason why it's is still so up to date, even 2000 years after it was written.
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It's so relevant. Everything can be applied. i strongly recommend you. and And actually, so this book, you can find it for free. There is a free PDF. It's a good way to start.
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But I warn you, it's a little complicated and speaks with metaphors a lot. So you can try if it's your style.
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And then definitely if you're into the topics that I'm saying... Definitely go to the Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life, 81 Lessons from the Tao,
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now it's life-changing. This book, I find that this book put names into things that I experienced, but I didn't know they existed.
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So yeah, really powerful.
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And
Simplicity and Abundance: Lessons on Possessions and Scarcity
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at some point you find that the chapters relate with each other.
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And for example, the chapter three is living without possessions, owning you. So oh we can suspect what this will be about.
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The essence is that is to reduce attachment to possessions and excess and focus on simplicity. And this chapter, I love it so much because if you don't know me, I am kind of minimalist. You can't really tell right now because I i like also a little bit of color and I'm into candles and all that now.
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But I prefer the clean and minimalistic style. And my sister will laugh if she hears this because I was kind of obsessed when I was around 26, 27 year old.
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When I discovered this minimalism movement, I thought, that's what I want. That's what I am. And I embraced it. And I literally went to Europe for three months with a carry-on suitcase.
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So yes, I was a minimalist. And it helped me to go to Europe in a much easier way. So the lesson three is about leaving possessions without owning you.
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And what what can we say? i i would love to say this. Have you ever consulted with your intuition before buying something?
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Maybe you did it without noticing it. But have you ever tried a dress or that any piece of clothing and you thought, I feel amazing, and and you see yourself wearing that in different situations?
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That is your intuition. So that is your intuition sending you signals saying, yes, girl, this is it. Or sometimes you see a dress which is beautiful, but then you wear it,
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and need the size and the fabric, everything is perfect. However, there is a je ne sais quoi, which you don't know why you don't like it.
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That is also your intuition. So I challenge you the next time that you buy something that you not don't normally buy, so those one-off items, I challenge you to go to the change room or if there is an opportunity to sit aside in the shop, sit and think how you feel.
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How many times do you ask yourself how do you feel with an item that you're potentially going to buy? And do you see yourself wearing that, using that in certain situations?
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Try to visualize them. If you're not able to feel it, then maybe it's a sign that you shouldn't buy it. And I know there are so many techniques around purchasing, like buying, waiting 24 hours before buying the item.
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I find that that's a very common rule that some people know. And I like it. It's good, but it's more for beginners.
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If you want to go a step further, you don't need to wait 24 hours. You can access your intuition and you can ask, do I really need this?
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When am I going to use it? In which situations? Does this add value to my life? You can ask all these questions and just stay silent.
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Wait for the answer. I promise you, you'll find and you'll hear the answer. You have the power inside you. I'm just here trying you to see it.
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so And also, this technique doesn't only apply for those one-off items. So those one-off purchasing, that's fine.
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But the most amount of things that we buy are things you know for everyday living... like groceries. i know And I know this is crazy, but I also apply this technique to groceries.
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So you can make the list.
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After that's done, go to your intuition. Ask your intuition, what do you want to eat? How do you see your yourself? Like what do you see having for dinner in five days?
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So in this way, you can do the groceries once a week very efficiently, but at the same time, ask your intuition, because sometimes the mind only knows about, you know, nutritional balance, and planning, and budgeting.
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But the rest, then it comes Wednesday, and suddenly you need steak. And you when you went to the grocery stores, that day you were a vegetarian, or you wanted to be vegetarian.
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I know this is going a step further. But it works and it helps me save a lot in takeout. So imagine if you're planning with your mind, you plan everything, it's perfect, but then it comes Tuesday and then you want Chinese chinese food.
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or And it comes Wednesday, want pizza. And nothing of that was in the shops, so in the in your list. You can't prepare that. So then you need to go to the supermarket every single day.
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You can do that. Go ahead. But if you don't don't have a lot of time and you want to use it wisely, you can make the list and sit with it just five minutes, even in the car before jumping out to the supermarket. You can sit in the car, make the list. OK, is this what I want? Would I want something different?
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Have I been craving something lately? And remember, cravings can be a result of anxiety or something related with mental health.
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But also cravings can be a lack of nutrients. So if you're suddenly craving like pasta, that maybe means that you haven't consumed a lot of carbohydrates.
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This is not nutritional advice nor medical advice, but please don't give your health to your healthcare professional. You are the owner of your health and you should ask your intuition too.
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ask yourself, ask your, not only your intuition, like in the spiritual level, but also ask your body, ask your body, what do you need? Do you need steak? Do you need pasta?
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Have we missed some nutrients? And trust me, your body will tell you exactly what it needs. And you can ask for, instead of for that day, you can also try to ask a little bit more in advance, maybe stretch it to three days and then you can stretch it to a week.
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limitlessly.
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The lesson four is about living limitlessly. The Tao is infinite and abundant. Scarcity is an illusion.
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We are infinite beings. So it's time to reflect that into our ways, into our lives. What story do do we tell ourselves?
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I don't have time. No. How about we change the addon I don't have time by i choose to do another thing right now.
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Or that's not a priority for my time right now. Or I already planned my day and there is no space for that right now, but I might consider it for tomorrow.
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So instead of saying I don't have time, you say I've got this time, I decide to spend it in this way and I'm sorry this doesn't fit.
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So that gives you more power, so you have You know, you are the owner of your time. If you're not the owner of your time, who the hell is? It seems like if you're a parent, your time is owned by your kids.
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No. So you decide to use your time with your kids with doing some hobby and cleaning the house, for example.
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You are the owner of your time and the words that you use around it matters.
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Another area where we could improve the wording or the expressions that we have is around money.
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the way in which we manage money, and today said I was like, do you use the word budgeting? So that's a word that everyone uses and it's actually a financial term and there is nothing wrong with it.
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However, instead of budgeting, we could say allocation. So budgeting, in psychology, it brings me limit vibes.
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It brings me, yes, the the limitation. um Instead, allocation, it brings me some more, okay, owner vibes. I've got this and allocate this for the And I allocate some other money for the other activity.
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So think how these little, very small changes can make a huge impact in our energy, in our in the way in which we attract.
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Also, that the same that we said for time, the I don't have time. So for money will be I can't afford it. And we could yeah we might as well say that's not a priority right now.
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The same that we said for time. I choose not to spend my resources in that right now. I've got other priorities.
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are talking about the world is abundant. We use vocabulary and we use our ways to limit the abundant world in which we are.
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The lesson five is about living with impartiality.
Neutrality, Compassion, and Valuing Feminine Qualities
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The essence is that the Tao doesn't take sides.
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Nature gives sun and rain to all. Practice neutrality and compassion.
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So what I understand about this chapter and this lesson is that by staying neutral, we can prevent a lot of problems. For example, in the case where someone is aggressive with you, you can stay neutral And keep behaving in the same way in which you will behave with another person, even with a loved one and with with a friend.
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You will stay kind and respectful to your friend and your loved right? So you can be also respectful and kind to the other person, the person that is being aggressive with you.
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That is the most powerful thing that you can ever do. And if you think about changing the world, that literally changes the world. If you are kind to your bully, if you're kind to the person that was aggressive with you, you're changing the world.
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And as I said before, so I i am in a journey of self-discovery, I think for three years now. I read so many books and I entered into a loophole and I calmed down and then I embraced, you know, femininity and not doing all the time.
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And now this podcast is me trying to embrace femininity and trying to, instead of reading on and accumulating knowledge, I might as well use it to transform other person's life. Even if I touch one person doing this podcast, so I will be really, really happy.
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So the chapter five about living with impartiality, like the sun, the whole Tao as well talks about being like nature.
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Nature doesn't discriminate. Nature gives to all. doesn't discriminate, it doesn't give the apple to someone and doesn't give the apple to another person. It gives apples to everyone, whoever is there.
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takes it, it's yours. The sun heats our skin for all, all races, all countries. It doesn't matter. And the rain, it it doesn't matter what social status you have. It will rain for you too.
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So I know this is silly, but if we apply that to an argument and to stay neutral and not not to aim to stay calm, but if you aim to stay neutral, I find much easier to stay calm.
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like you are feeling extremely embarrassed, something happened, like you maybe you made a mistake and everyone is pointing at you at work, is especially in those situations, this works. Remove yourself from the situation and add your best friend.
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So in situations also where you are receiving aggression or you're in a very toxic environment, the more you remove yourself from the situation,
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the much the much easier will be for you to see it as a neutral situation. There is one party, there is another party, this is happening, I am here.
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I know it is hard, extremely hard, but if you try to stay neutral and you are you, no matter who the other person is, so you will be embracing neutrality and everything will become much easier.
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And I've got an example, which actually was very hard because we are humans and we have our ego. The ego wants to be right. The ego wants to be the best or, you know, ego wants some spotlight.
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So I had this job for a while and I had the most abusive and toxic manager ever. don't know if I attract these people.
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You know, I start blaming myself, but whatever. i had this manager. And the person was moved to another area. So it was coming to an end. The period in which this person was, my manager was coming to an end.
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And I spoke to my dad and he said, but and give them a gift by something like an attention, like a detail, like a small detail. I was like, are you crazy? How can I do that?
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And I said, no, I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. And then I did it. And it was the best feeling ever. It was not about superiority. It was about, I am this, I am good, I'm like neutral normal good person and if I will give an attention a detail to anyone which will have a last day with me so why don't I do that with a person that was really mean to me and it felt really good it felt like all was clean like I don't know if you believe in karma but I felt like me karma was like clean all clean I'm
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I'm clean. I don't owe anything to anyone. I'm on my own here. ah It felt really, really good. I felt neutral.
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That's the truth. And I embraced this chapter. Chapter five, living with impartiality. Maybe next time I won't even get mad.
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I will be, okay, you want to be toxic? Okay, you want to be rude? You want to be aggressive? Go ahead.
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That will be a dream. So the next lesson of the Tao is about living with the eternal feminine.
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And you will say, oh, this is for women. No, we all have the masculine and the feminine energy,
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And not not the if you maybe lean into receptivity and nurturing and soft, it doesn't mean that you're a woman or that you're feminine.
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No, it means that you know what to embrace from each side. Sometimes we need to be a little masculine and rigid and put limits and use a little bit of power.
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But sometimes we need to be soft and receptive and lean into our femininity. This chapter talks about mother nature to me, in my opinion. So it talks about the mother of all, and I think of mother nature.
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And it says... what it What it says, it makes me think that if we all lean into our feminine side, we will be in a better world, for sure.
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There is a reason why the best leaders of the world are female. And again, it's because females and women tend to lean into their femininity a little more. But some men, like Mahatma Gandhi,
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did a huge lot of change in regard to violence, and he literally stopped violence.
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And he wasn't a leader that leaned into their power. No, he was a person that was a a from that influencing and example style.
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So this chapter to me reminds us all that we should lean as well into our feminine side. And think about, there are some really cool leaders in the world like Sana Marin, the former Finland prime minister,
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and also the current prime minister in Iceland, Halla Tomás Dóthir. So they are making a lot of change if you go and research. They did so much for their countries.
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That's very impressive and it's amazing all the things they did. And so that's there you have, good is that amazing? What style of leadership you want to have? I always ask my teams, what style of leader you want to be?
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Do you want to use your power? Do you want to need to use your authority to lead others? And do you want to need to use rules? Or do you want to influence them to be their best selves, to learn the lessons for for themselves so they can grow and learn and serve the team?
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No, you're not a woman if you lean into the feminine side. We both have both sides. In fact, sometimes women forget that we have a feminine side. We are more masculine than the men.
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But that's another story.
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The
Selflessness and Serving Others: The Final Lesson
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lesson seven and last one for today, it's about living beyond ego.
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I know it's hard, but we need to try. The Tao serves all, not itself. We are not doing this for the Tao. The Tao doesn't exist itself.
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It's us who give the meaning. So the same applies for everything. The true greatness is selfless.
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Be kind and generous and serve others, no matter who they are. So if you live outside your ego, you'll be this person who helps others no matter who they are, no matter their job title or their social status.
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This chapter, living beyond ego, doesn't mean avoiding or blocking ego from our lives. No, it means seeing, okay, I've got this or this is coming from my ego and then choosing not to follow it.
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The best example is when you're talking to yourself and you're talking to yourself in a very harsh way or... Your voice is being really mean. Like, oh, why? Like me when I wanted to start the podcast and my voice was telling me, i who are you? Who are you to start a podcast?
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What? In English? Like, why? You don't even speak English properly. That was my ego voice telling me, encouraging words about starting this podcast.
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So I identified it. Okay. Yes, this is coming from fears. This is coming from past trauma. I got it. You're here.
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i have it because I'm a human being and I leave it aside. And then i lean into, i try, I try really hard to try to find this intuition, intuition voice. And so finally I didn't even have to try hard. I was just, I needed to be in silence for a while.
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And finally the voice came out and it it said, that the podcast will be a really good platform, a really good like a starting point, first to remove all my blockages with being seen.
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Nadia Stejskal
And the voice of my ego was telling me, i all your friends are going to laugh, are going to say a lot of hateful things to you. And you're going to have a lot of haters. Are you sure you want to do this? And then when I leaned into my intuition, and it was like, yes, this can be a very first step for you to overcome all these blockages. And then after that, you can do this, this and this.
00:32:38
Nadia Stejskal
So this can be a great thing to get started and explore your interests. See how the two world two voices were really opposite to each other. And it doesn't mean that you will not have an ego.
00:32:53
Nadia Stejskal
No, even the most enlightened person in the world has an ego. But what once you have more awareness and you grow and you grow and you try to sit with yourself and get to know yourself,
00:33:04
Nadia Stejskal
you can leave the ego voice aside. That's it. It's not so complicated. okay, who is this coming from? Where is this coming from? The ego or my inner voice with my best interest in play?
00:33:19
Nadia Stejskal
And you can see. You follow the words that you want. So living beyond our ego, that was the last lesson. And there is 81 lessons. So if you want, we can do them all.
00:33:33
Nadia Stejskal
I love this book so much, so much so that I went to China. Yes. I can also share bit about that story about going to China.
00:33:44
Nadia Stejskal
I really, really loved. I started the Tao, the Qing book before going to China and then took ages. took, I think, four months to read it and I didn't even read it per se. I listened to it.
00:34:00
Nadia Stejskal
So imagine it's very difficult because of the metaphors, but it's worth it. And I think if we start talking about the Tao in the way in which it can be applied in the modern world, it's much easier than to go back as and you say, oh, of the Tao, yes.
00:34:18
Nadia Stejskal
So
Conclusion: Applying and Sharing Tao's Wisdom
00:34:20
Nadia Stejskal
yes, we have come to the end of the episode. And thank you so much for joining me in the intuitive move. Remember, trust the mystery, embrace the paradox and stay true to your intuition.
00:34:36
Nadia Stejskal
Let go what doesn't serve you. Don't accumulate more than what you need. Lead with softness when you can. And check in with your ego before it takes the wheel.
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Nadia Stejskal
Life is full of lessons. In every day, you can find but one more lesson. And sometimes the hardest experiences are the ones that help us grow the most.
00:34:59
Nadia Stejskal
We know that. If something today resonated with you and you felt related, I would love to know how you would like to apply the Tao in your everyday life in the comments.
00:35:13
Nadia Stejskal
And I invite you to follow me on social media. I'm Nadia and I'll see you next time. Bye for now.