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Hello everybody and welcome to season two, episode one of the Awaken Together podcast.

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I'm Kat.

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I'm Jen.

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And today we are going to do a little catch up with you.

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It's a new year, it's 2022 and then we're going to get into some real soul level conversations

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about the power of the collective.

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Yes, we are.

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Yes, it's going to be a good one.

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So to give you a little insight into my life, the past month or so has been a really great

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time for reflection for me personally.

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I've been doing some grounding and considering all that I was building in 2021 with my business,

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with aligning my life into one that feels really aligned with my purpose.

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That was my year for 2021 was aligned and now heading into this new year of 2022, I've

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set my word for the year as rooted.

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I have some big things in the works.

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Yeah.

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I like it.

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I have a new job coming up down the line which, Jen and I can't wait to tell you about that.

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We are going to be officially co-workers.

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How funny.

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If you listen, you know our synchronicities already.

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This is just meant to be.

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It's amazing.

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I'm so excited.

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It is.

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So we're going to be co-workers.

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Kyle and I are looking to buy a house in the next three months and just grounding into

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everything that I've been building with my health coaching practice, with retreats and

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some more joint efforts with catalyst living and sensible wellness.

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So that's me.

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I want to turn it over to you, Jen.

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Yeah.

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The New Year's processing was great.

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I loved our season one, Waking Together event that we got to do and we'll definitely do

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another one after season two.

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That was so nice.

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We still have a lot of family stuff coming up over on my end.

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So there's been a lot of kind of reintroduction of old wounds and triggers, but obviously,

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yeah, it's really beautiful to see how I've evolved and how I handle those things.

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And it's definitely always a interesting thing to get to watch.

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But I did my vision board for the next year, which was so creative and fun.

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And it's a very inspiring board.

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I have kept it close and I'm really looking forward to next year.

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I reflected and said my 2021 year ended up just being magic.

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I couldn't remember what word I had set because my journal for last year was left in my storage

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unit along with all my other stuff.

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But for this year, I set my word to inspired action because I was just thinking I just

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love that feeling of knowing that what I'm doing feels truly inspired.

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And I just want to live in that as much as possible.

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So set that kind of as my goal.

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And yeah, I've been really working on a lot of grounding this last couple of days, especially.

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So love the rooted theme too.

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I'm sure that'll fall on my path as well.

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Oh, yeah, for sure.

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It's meant to.

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So I was kind of in between grounded and rooted.

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And here we are using our tools when we need them.

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Yes.

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So today we are going to talk to you about a concept that is definitely far out probably

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for some people, but it is very beautiful when you kind of grasp this concept or at

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least consider this concept.

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So we're going all into collective consciousness and we thought that would be a great way to

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start season two because our inspiration for even naming the podcast, Awaken Together,

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was knowing that there is a collective mentality that me and Kat definitely prescribed to.

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And we wanted to be able to share some of our deeper thoughts on that concept in general.

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Yeah.

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So to talk about the power of collective, collective consciousness, we wanted to start

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off with a little definition for those who this may be very brand new to.

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So collective consciousness is the set of shared beliefs, ideas and moral attitudes which

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operate as a unifying force within society.

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So for all of my empaths, raise your hand.

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Hand is right.

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Yeah, I know, I know, right?

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Oh, chances are if you're listening to this, you've had at least empathic moments if you

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don't fully identify as one at all times, but chances are you've felt that collective

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energy before.

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It's all about feeling others energy really tangibly rather than just a hint or a semblance

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of it at some points.

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And in season one, we talked a lot about like ego versus the soul.

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And ego in its essence, it's your identity in human expression.

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So that's where we get those I am phrases of like, I am a teacher, I am a salesperson,

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I am a student.

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It's what tells us what's wrong versus what's right.

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And it's also kind of a defense mechanism about protecting yourself.

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So in many ways it is necessary for us to continue functioning as human beings, but

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we don't need to be living from this place of letting our egos dictate and rule our worlds.

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It's a big part of what keeps us separate rather than one of the whole.

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And so I think when it really comes down to, I think all of us can see that there has been

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further division.

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And we've talked about it as some are awakening and some feel like they're just falling into

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really old patterns.

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And I think, but when you take like all the superficial stuff and the kind of general

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disagreements that people have, I do think when you trace those down to their origin,

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it's a big difference in individual thinking versus collective thinking.

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And so yeah, when we talk ego versus soul, when you do believe that it's about you and

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only you and you take everything personally, and we've talked about disassembling kind

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of the personality in general, those are the things that I think we've built our world

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on.

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I think we've built our world in a system that has function on ego and personality.

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And so for many of us in the kind of more awakened mindset, I think it's very exciting

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to think that we're dismantling a structure that was built on kind of that.

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Some people have it, some people don't power kind of mindset and breaking that down to

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we are one.

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And if we all deeply do that healing work within ourselves, it's going to change and

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reflect what our actual reality looks like and the way the system is structured in general.

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So what affects collective energy?

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A lot of what we're talking about is rooted down to feelings and feelings that cause us

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to act in a certain way.

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And so in society, we see fear.

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Fear causes division.

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It causes disconnection.

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It's a really strong emotion that has power in driving forces.

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It can be used for good in some ways when it's not just fear alone, but it's actually

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paired with here's what we do about it.

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Here's how we help each other.

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But we do see fear used as a tactic by toxic leadership, by politics sometimes to gain

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that power and further divide and kind of increase the ego and the need for it and the desire

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to protect yourself as an individual rather than thinking about your neighbor and how

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this affects us as a whole.

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We've seen that a lot like with global events, the pandemic, right?

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And I think if we look through history, there's been individuals that have been able to stand

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out to create larger movements.

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And some of that has been done in the name of ego and some of it has been done in the

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name of love or fear or looking back and forth.

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So I think you can definitely pinpoint the power of one person standing in their beliefs

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and being able to shift the mindset of a lot of people around.

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We talked about it a little bit in our nervous system regulation, talking about groups of

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people kind of, it's that group think mentality and you can think of it somewhat from a psychology

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point or you can look at it even from an energetic standpoint or even they've been able to prove

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physical links and groups coming together with similar intention.

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But when we trace that down, the soil that that is built on can still be done out of

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fear.

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So if a entire group is coming together in the name of everything is wrong and we have

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to fight and there's this kind of maybe mindset of we're in danger, maybe that group doesn't

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end up creating as much of the changes they want.

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And that is what we're hoping to do in the kind of spiritual community is I think remind

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people of this greater flow state, this greater belief that if we all deeply love ourselves,

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we can reflect that love and that changes can occur without even having to be something

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we necessarily fight through.

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But when we're standing in our own truth and power and that's rooted in love that can also

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have just as much significance and lead to just as much change.

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One of the things we were talking about when we were planning for this episode is I think

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one of the scariest things when you start talking collective mentality is it can sound

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very scary if you look at some of your maybe more dysfunctional people in the family that

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you've removed yourself from or you think of individuals that maybe you would have labeled

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as toxic or I don't want anything to do with them.

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And then when you're talking collective and that we are all one, it's very scary to lump

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yourselves up with some of the people you've labeled as yeah, being completely different

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and opposite to you.

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So to address a little bit of that, I love the book The Seat of the Soul.

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I've talked about this book before on our podcast, but I really think when we zoom out

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from the individual and you get that mindset anyway, you see that someone's toxic behavior

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is so much more than who they are as a person, but it's zooming out to kind of that dysfunction

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that we've created in society anyway.

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And maybe they are a side effect of that disconnected society versus they are so intentionally

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trying to be the worst person.

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They could have prescribed a lot more to deeper collective insanity in a way, does that make

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sense Kat?

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It does, yes, absolutely.

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We can kind of instead of feeling this responsibility of like, man, we all have to rise as a collective,

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but look at all these people that are holding me down and holding society down.

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I love what you're saying, Jen, of like shifting that perception of rather than I need to disconnect

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from all of these people, there is something to setting boundaries and that's important,

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but seeing them as from that lens of love and compassion as they are victims of their

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dysfunctional environment and how can I tap into my place of love and centeredness and

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just show up as the best version of me and hopefully that can inspire someone else to

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be vulnerable enough to do that themselves and show that it's okay because when we show

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up as being the most rooted, plugged in versions of ourselves leading from that place of compassion,

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then we inspire others to do that too.

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So rather than just avoiding the areas of people that maybe you have a hard time with,

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try to just see them from that different lens and of course keep your boundaries sturdy

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and steady, but just shifting that simple, that viewpoint can bring a lot of peace for

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me.

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Yeah, because when you're sending hate their way because of all of the things they've done

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wrong, you're affecting your own energetic body as well.

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When you can zoom out, even if there's a long list of personal things that person has

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done to affect you negatively, if you zoom out and see it as being a side effect of something

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deeper, you also then are viewing them with more softness and that doesn't take as much

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of your own energy reserve either.

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So it's bringing it back to forgiveness and the significance of forgiveness.

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It's just a different charge that you're giving other people then.

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So I think whatever perspectives you can gather that sends softness to people that maybe think

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opposite than you or are so kind of stuck in mindsets that you can see are toxic, if

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you can find a way to view them where you're extending more love and light, it really does

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not only shift how much of your own valuable energy you're expending on trying to not like

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that person, but you're also then letting them meet some light.

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So it's a beautiful way to think for sure.

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Yeah, there's a wisdom there, right?

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A hundred percent.

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And yeah, we were talking about that too.

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Believing that we're a part of something bigger, like one collective maybe moving forward wheel

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in some way, when you think that way, you no longer are, you know, it's tough to do

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your own personal journey and really see the significance in it when you're not kind of

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zooming out to think of it being as part of something bigger.

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For me, that belief system that there is a higher flow state or a higher force guiding

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us and that when we can be in tune to that, it's so much, it's not about us.

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It's about something so much more beautiful.

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I think that has been a beautiful anger for me to see the significance in doing all of

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the work, even beyond just what it feels like to me.

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Of course, it feels amazing once you learn how to take care and love yourself.

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But I think that's what kind of can be something that keeps guiding me back.

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If I feel a little lost and helpless, knowing that it's a part of something more beautiful

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definitely is grounding for me.

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Yes, it's so beautiful.

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I love that and I definitely resonate.

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It makes me think about a little bit of past lives and how we just continue to come back

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here until we have fulfilled our souls purpose.

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We'll get into this in another episode with the Akashic Records and past lives.

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I highly recommend it for this season.

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Yes, yes.

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I've been listening, making notes, so that's to come for sure reincarnation.

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But yeah, it's like when I feel like I am living my truth, I'm living my purpose.

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Not only do I shine my light for others to be inspired to do the same, but I'm in my

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flow.

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And when I'm in my flow, I affect others and others go into their flow and knowing that

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we are all connected and supporting this higher mission, it just feels so good.

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It feels so much better than just thinking that I'm just someone here twiddling my thumbs

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because then what's the purpose of life?

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Yes, agreed.

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And so we thought it was important to mention too.

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I think when you go into kind of any collective group, we have built tons of structures within

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a structure.

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We've talked about continuously eliminating your boxes so that you stay receptive and

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open to a sense of flow.

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But I think when you enter into any community space, I think especially in this wellness,

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spiritual healing, even in that sector where people are trying to find more collective

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good, you can still feel this root of fear at times where people are looking to what

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is pulling us away from knowing we are one?

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from being able to communicate with my spirit guides, being able to tap into higher powers,

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maybe manifestation and you start trying to find the root of what's pulling you from it.

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And so we can get into this really lost mindset of the government and all these deep things.

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You see these concepts, I think if you're new to the awakening journey, maybe you haven't

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met that side of the communities, but it definitely is out there.

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And so what I try to remind myself continuously as a gauge is, is this making me, like, I'm

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living more fear.

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Am I all of a sudden then wanting to view other people through the lens of hate because

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I think that they're doing me wrong?

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ego back in.

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I need to find who's doing something wrong.

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I need to find someone to blame.

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That's looking outside of yourself yet again.

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that fear based thinking remind yourself that ego can creep in into the most healed version

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of somebody and try to make identity out of it, where then all of a sudden you're right

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and someone else is wrong.

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Definitely wanted to preface.

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Yes, I'm so glad you brought that up because pointing fingers gets really dangerous.

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You're always looking for someone or something to blame when things go wrong and like you

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said, it takes us away from what's true and what's real.

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So let's talk about fear, love, and hate for a second because these are some of the most

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powerful emotions that do drive behavior.

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coin of love.

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And we need to be really passionate and care about something in order to quote unquote

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hate it.

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And so I think coming back to that of like, we all just care so much.

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We all just care and what a beautiful way to level with someone is even if you see differently

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like Vax versus anti Vax division, extreme opposition.

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It's like the beauty that we care.

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And Aristotle in his work, Politics, he referenced this, he said it as wisdom of the crowd.

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And so I just love this whole thought that forever, for so long, people have known that

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group think, herd mentality, the wisdom of getting more minds together is more powerful

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than just being siloed.

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And that's a way that we as humans are designed, right?

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We weren't designed to live on our own in the woods forever.

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We were brought up in tribes if you trace our lineage all the way back.

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and cousins.

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case and we live in our homes and sometimes far away from people.

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This is what's meant to be.

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We are actually better together and together we can uplift each other.

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And that is definitely the way we structure society is that you're out for yourself.

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You need to, yeah, you know, our whole entire society is set up for just like your own household.

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That's, we very much lost that community link.

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And I do think that's the lingering loneliness.

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A lot of us feel is that it is supposed to be more than that.

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But at the same time, we see a beautiful change in a lot of people doing this, this self-love

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work and the mental health stuff is being very recognized.

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And I think we're just really starting to, you know, everyone's theorizing on why we're

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seeing an uptick of so many problems.

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and find it even online social media.

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People are kind of creating their own little communities and we're getting back to that

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and realizing the value of that.

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And we can if we all deeply believe that for sure.

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Yeah, I think now we have the language for it too.

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Things that have always been true.

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Now we have more ways to connect for better or for worse, right?

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Sometimes it can be a little exhausting to always be so plugged in.

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But you know, when we take away the comparison and just trust that, yeah, we're all brothers

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and sisters here as an integral part of the whole of existence.

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Like, whoa, that changes the whole energy of it.

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It really does.

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Little perspective change, 100%.

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Yeah, so we wanted to talk about some of the just overall positives.

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Now that you have some context of the kind of what it all looks like, what it all can

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feel like, the moments that I have felt the biggest collective shifts in my own life have

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pretty much all occurred at different yoga retreats, different yoga events in yoga class

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even when I've been in that moment of just seeing everyone in their rawness, their wildness,

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leading with their weaknesses, not trying to hide and shield their weaknesses, but being

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able to be authentic.

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Those are the moments when I feel almost a cord tying myself to every single person

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and it's receptive and it's not just taking, it's like a perfect balance of giving and

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receiving.

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I'd love to hear, Kat, some of the moments you felt that real collective mentality.

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So one time where I really remember this, like I'll probably never forget, it was early

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on in my yoga practice and I was in Shavasana and I was very much in my shift of understanding

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what kind of life I wanted to live and what I wanted to let go of and my identity and

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what that meant for my work and the people I hung out with.

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But so I was going through all of that just mentally, emotionally, physically and at the

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end of my yoga practice, I was just laying there in the studio in Shavasana and I was

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just overtaken by this sense of love and calm and peace in this collective consciousness

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that we're speaking of.

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And I just remember thinking like, whoa, if everyone could just experience this feeling,

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the sense of calm and peace, there would be no war, there would be no hurting each other.

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All of these global issues could be resolved just because of this one feeling.

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So that has stuck with me and I returned to it often in Shavasana and in meditation and

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just knowing that this is available to all of us but sometimes we don't know how to access

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it.

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And so that's why light workers, healers, even just everyday common people, just turning

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to meditation and taking moments to check in with yourself, have some quiet time and

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still your mind, that's everything.

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And then the other times that I've experienced this sense of collective consciousness that

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screams out to me is music festivals, which is such a big part of who I am and what's

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made me who I am because I'm telling you, the dance floor is my church.

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And moving and grooving and just looking around and catching a smile of a stranger through

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the crowd and just knowing that we are all looking out for each other, like we are all

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there together, vibing to the same beat, same song, and that we care and that there's just

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so much love there.

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That's when I also experience a collective consciousness to the highest extreme.

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Yeah, so beautiful.

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floors when people are truly just expressing and you see that movement in someone's body

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and it's just raw and wild.

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Like, you know, I think, yeah, you can go to a dance floor definitely where people are

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still very scared to fully move and release their body.

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But when you're in those moments of just like unmasking, which is another topic, I definitely

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we're going to delve into this week or on the season is, yeah, what it looks like to

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like unmask for especially like the neurodivergent minds, but I've been focusing a lot on that

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myself that when I lead with my raw, wild, it's kind of what maybe would be previously

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labeled as weird side.

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I'm also giving so much permission for people to meet me with that same type of energy.

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And I think the more spaces we can create where we are standing in our authentic truth,

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the power behind that and what can happen is truly unreal.

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I really, really, really do believe that.

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That is why we are in this space doing this podcast.

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We really deeply, deeply believe in collective change.

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Definitely.

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Yeah.

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And a big part of this podcast is making these big ideologies digestible and accessible

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to everyone.

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So in just thinking about that, I mean, meditation is a really direct, fast, powerful way to

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magnify your intentions and your energy.

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And as you focus on sending peace and healing and love to those in need, you also become

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a healthier, more joyful version of you.

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And I mean, a loving kindness meditation where you think about your own desires to be happy,

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healthy and free, and then rippling that out to someone you love, and then rippling that

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out further to someone who's neutral to you, and then going as far as considering someone

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who maybe you dislike or have challenging times with considering their want and need

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for the same exact things.

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It takes that mask away.

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It kind of levels us.

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It brings me to my knees.

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And just, it's very humbling.

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So that's one tool that immediately comes to mind for me.

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There's also some pretty powerful visualizations that you can consider, such as the way that

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a tiny pebble, when you throw it into a lake, causes large ripple effects on the water.

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Something like that about how every little action ripples out.

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And it's important, like you transmit vibrational energies, and by you doing so, that sends

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it out to others around you, whether you see it or you feel it or not.

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It's powerful stuff.

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You are not just a drop in the ocean.

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You are the ocean in a drop.

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One of my favorite sayings, like embodying these mentalities can do wonders.

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Yeah, and my advice is to show up in all versions of yourself.

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Don't feel like you can only leave the house when you're having a really high energy, happy

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day.

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Show up in the days that are really hard too, so that people can see that there's not one

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emotion that's bad.

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Show up in your silly version, your loud version, your sorrow version, any way, because honestly,

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we all have the same underlying emotions.

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It's just the fear that we are alone in them that really creates that disconnection.

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Beautifully said.

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So much truth there.

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Yeah, and it's like we are not here to be carbon copies of each other or just to transmit

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love and light all the time.

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That runs flat, so yeah, showing up exactly as you are gives permission for others to

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do the same too.

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Yes, and we will talk more about Soul Blueprints in next episode when we go into astrology.

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Lots to say on that.

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So yeah, I hope that this conversation hits you in the heart and you see the deep significance

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of what we're doing and we're so thankful that we're building this Awaken Together community.

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If you don't follow our Instagram page, it is Awaken Together podcast and we share the

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episodes on there and we also are going to be doing a schedule change.

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We'll announce that on the page too for the podcast.

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So we're going to do this episode.

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We're always going to put a week in between, so it's going to be bi-monthly most of the

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time.

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So when then, we might throw you guys a little guest episode as me and Kat definitely have

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some people we'd like to bring in to help share some other subjects and new insights.

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So be on the lookout for guest episodes this season too.

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We're definitely going to share some of that, but every other week generally.

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So if you want to stay up to date on when we've launched an episode, just follow our

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page.

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Yes, we have lots of good stuff on there for you and it's the most direct way to give

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us your feedback on these episodes and any topics that you'd like to hear more about.

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This is for you.

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This is why we do this.

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So we love connecting together in community and we have a really exciting announcement

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for you all.

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I wish I had like a little drum roll.

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Yeah, right?

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So we are announcing our very first joint Awaken Together retreats.

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It's going to be, yeah, it's going to take place the last weekend in April from April,

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what's the date, the 27th until the 1st of May.

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It'll be in Breckenridge, Colorado.

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So for all of our local people, hopefully you can drive on over and for those who aren't

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local, it'll be a really beautiful way to connect.

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It's going to be full of yoga, wellness, nature adventuring, self love circles, sisterhood,

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and we're not announcing this to the public quite yet.

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So you are our inner circle.

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You get first dibs.

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The way where you can learn more about this and sign up is on my website.

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It's www.catalystliving and that's Catalyst with a K. www.catalystliving.com slash offerings.

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And you can read all about it right there.

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Let us know what questions you have on Instagram.

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And if we don't fill our limited 10 spots, then we will be going public with this, but

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there's a lot of interest.

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So we're stoked about it.

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It's going to be really special.

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I'm so excited.

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Me too.

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All right.

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Well, we thank you guys for joining us and we will see you next week.

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Goodbye, Cat.

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Goodbye.

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Happy New Year again.

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You too.

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Bye.

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Bye.

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Bye.

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Bye.