April 29, 2025 • 29 mins
When was the last time you checked in with what you’re carrying—emotionally?
As nature shifts into spring, it’s the perfect moment to pause and take stock of what’s going on inside. This week on A Really Good Cry, I’m exploring the idea of emotional spring cleaning—clearing out the feelings, habits, and stories that no longer serve us.
I’ll share gentle, grounding practices that help me create space for clarity and ease, from breathwork and journaling to small rituals rooted in the season. We’ll talk about how to release what weighs us down—grief, resentment, or energy that isn’t ours to hold—and how that release can open the door to deeper healing and self-connection.
If you’re feeling the pull to let go, reset, and make space for something new, this episode is your invitation to begin.
What We Discuss:
- 00:00 Introduction
- 00:58 Start of something new
- 02:05 Breathwork for grounding yourself in the moment
- 04:27 Why do you need clean energy in every area of your life
- 05:19 What is the meaning of spring?
- 07:50 Nature will ALWAYS show you what you need
- 10:03 Journal prompts to help you let go of emotional baggage
- 11:40 Why letting go requires love
- 13:05 Free writing
- 13:36 Spring is planting new seeds
- 16:34 The power of your environment on your energy
- 18:31 Fire rituals
- 21:38 More journaling prompts to go deeper this season
- 23:22 Emotional detox starts with better boundaries
- 24:14 Commit to something new
- 25:01 Seasonal change
- 26:39 Let go of what no longer serves you
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Spring is also about planting new seeds. So yes, it's
about letting go, but then what are we filling that
space with the new space that has opened up for us?
So spring is about planting new seeds, literally and emotionally.
In nature, the soil is soft again, the cold is passed,
the light is returning. And actually it's so true within
us as well. When you clear emotional clutter, when you
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release all these stagnant feelings and patterns, you create fertile
ground in your inner world. You make space, you soften,
and you become ready to plant something new. I'm rather
Wukiah and on my podcast A Really Good Cry, we
embrace the messy and the beautiful, providing a space for raw,
unfiltered conversations that celebrate vulnerability and allow you to tune
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in to learn, connect and find comfort together. So today's
been one of those days where honestly I feel like
punging something, but all I think I really need is
to go outside for a really long walk. This week's
episode it's all about spring cleaning, and you know what,
I have had the itch to clean, whether it's physically,
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mentally emotionally, I just feel like this is the season
to be light and bright. So people, it is time
to let go. You have been holding on to all
the things that do not serve you, that are not
letting you thrive, and have kept you way down all
through winter and honestly maybe even longer than that, and
we need to let that go. Okay, because spring is
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the season of new beginnings. It's the season of fresh
air or vibrancy, of lightness, And how are you gonna
have space for any of that if you're still holding
on to all of that? The Japanese actually call it
ma it's the space between things. Spring invites us to
create emotional muh space between people, between thoughts and our
roles and responsibilities.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Space is so sacred, it's.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Kind of a little bit like time, and you cannot
receive when you are full. You know what, This is
a pretty heavy topic, and also because of how I
felt this day, I feel like I need a bit
of a breath, and I feel like you might too.
I'm getting that feeling. So before we dive in, why
don't we take a moment to come into the present
moment wherever you are, whether you're in your car, whether
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you're at home, whether you're laying down Remember that breath
is your anchor that brings your mind back into alignment
with your body. So place your hand if you can,
hand over your heart and one over your belly, and
take a deep inhale and a slow exhale, feeling your
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body softened with each exhale. Let's take a couple more together,
take a deep.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Breath in and exhale.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
If you weren't doing this before, With your next breath,
breathe out with your mouth instead of your nose. Feel
your belly fill up with all that new fresh air,
and as you breathe out, remove all that stagnant, stale
energy and air that sits within you. One thing I've
been trying lately is humming. It sounds really random, but
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it's actually beautiful. So with your next couple of breath,
take a deep breath in and have a humming sound
on the way out, and feel the vibration flow through
your entire body, feeling all the clean air coming through
into your body. If you have an eye shut, keep
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them shut for a little bit, feel all the vibrations
running through your body, and when you're ready, open your eyes. Honestly,
I needed that so much like I cannot explain to
you how much I needed that and how much those
few breaths changed everything for me. Now, let the noise
settle in your mind and let your body know that
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it is safe and it is time to be open
to letting go. I don't know about you, but this
season of my life, I just really wanted to be
clean and fresh, with clear energy internally and externally, whether
it is with myself or whether it's with other people.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And I think that's really important, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I think about that, whether it's with friendships, relationships with
people that you don't really know.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You don't have to be best friends.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
The bare minimum is having clean energy between people and
clean energy in the things that you do. And so
in order for that to happen, you need to practice
creating clean energy. Practice taking things in and out of
your body regularly in your physical body. When things build
up in your body, whether it's in your arteries, whether
it's in your bowl, whether it's in your heart, when
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those things happen, it creates stagnancy, It creates toxins, and
it creates disease.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And our mind is no different and our heart is
no different either.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You know. Actually, in pretty much every single tradition, the
season of spring marks a return to life.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
How beautiful is that? The return to life?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
And it always like noticing these little moments that nature
or God or the earth send me for a reset,
for a refresh, or a little spruce or a little
moment of reflection on how I can better live my life.
And I think if we're looking for them, they always
show up. Whether it's the season that we're in, whether
it's the night turning intoday, whether it's the moon cycle.
There's just so many different moments in time where we
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can decide it is time for a reset or a refresh.
One perspective that has encouraged me to do this is
actually constantly seeing my body as a gift. And when
you start shifting mindset to that, when you see something
as a gift, you look after it so much more.
You're more careful with it, you have a deeper appreciation
for it. And so these little cleanups that we do,
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whether it's mentally, physically, or emotionally, are all part of
that gratitude gesture back to God, the universe, back to
your body for doing what it does. In traditional Chinese medicine,
spring is the season of the liver. That is the
organ that's actually responsible for emotional detox and energetic flow.
So when the liver is balanced, there is vision and vitality,
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and when it's blocked, we feel frustrated, irritated, and even hopeless,
which is also why doing a physical detox during spring
is really important. I actually spoke about this in a
newssetter I did recently, and I talk about how spring,
according to Avada, is known as the season we get
the most amount of Like, well, the transition between spring
and winter is the time period where we get the
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most amount of mucus. I'm a bit stuffy at the moment.
It's a really hard transition for our body to do.
It's when there's a lot of kafer in our body. Now,
Kafa is essentially a mixture of earth and water. Those
elements rise in our body during that time, and so
spring is the end almost of kafer. Season is cool,
it's moist, it's heavy, and that actually is mirrored in
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the qualities of the emotions that we accumulate, whether it's
grief or attachment or stagnation, so it will be the antidote.
In I Rada, it says that the antidote is always
the opposite. And so if you're feeling stagnant, if you're
feeling heavy, if you're feeling down, the antidote is movement
and clarity and release. And so it's really beautiful to
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see how all of these little different cultures, different thought patterns,
they all kind of come and say exactly the same
thing in a different way, which.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Makes me think, you know what, there's something to this.
It must be real.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
And you know, nature shows us what we're supposed to
be doing. I always say this that whenever you feel
lost in life, whenever you don't know what to be doing,
whenever you're confused, look out in nature or tell you
what you should be doing, like somewhere somehow it is
reflecting what we should be doing for ourselfs. And an
emotional sprinkleen doesn't need to be dramatic, like it doesn't
have to be extreme, nothing does. It's really about these
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tiny rituals of clarity and asking the questions that are necessary,
taking time to reflect. We suffer more in our imagination
than we do in our reality. We carry all these
conversations that never happen, maybe some that did happen that
don't need to live in us anymore tension that does
not belong to us, taking on other people's pain, other
people's drama, and all these ideas of who we should
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be that actually block who we are trying to become,
and sometimes we just get used to living in this way.
We accept the feeling, either because deep down we believe
that's what we deserve, maybe it's a hint of self sabotage,
or because that's all we've known for too long and
it's just become comfortable. It doesn't always have to be
big things or huge issues, but we go through so
much on a daily basis, physically, mentally, emotionally, and you know,
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every single thing that we absorb through our senses, whether it's.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
What we see, what we hear, what we taste, what.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
We touch, what we smell, and even what we emotionally feel,
it leaves an imprint on us. I heard this term
a while ago in Sanskria and it's always stayed with me.
It's called some scars, and they are these impressions that
are left through everything we experience. Think of them like
little footprints that are left behind in the sand of
your consciousness. Some are light and easily washed away, others
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are deep, and embedded and stay with us for years,
sometimes lifetimes, as some scara could be a hurtful comment
that you've internalized, a moment of joy that has shaped
your self worth, or even a recurring passion of fear
or comparison. The more we feel or think something, the
deeper that groove becomes. And unless we pause and become
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aware and lovingly tend to them, these impressions quietly influence
every part of our life, how we see the world,
how we interact with people, how we relate to other people,
and even how we respond to ourself. So we're not
just trying to tidy up the surface level feelings here,
We're really looking inward and asking these questions. Now, you
might want to get your journal out or your pen
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and paper out for this. I'm going to share some
prompts with you that I use when I'm journaling or
trying to release during this time period. So the first
one is what impressions am I carrying that are not mine?
Which ones are outdated? Which ones am I ready to
soften to rewrite to release. The next one is what thoughts, stories,
or emotional baggage am I still carrying that I can
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lovingly lay down that I've had in me for far
too long, and with love I let go of because
I do not need them anymore. Whose energy am I
holding that isn't mine to carry anymore? What has been
taking up unnecessary emotional space in my mind or heart?
Maybe that is people pleasing, Maybe it's anxiety about things
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outside of your control, or maybe it's old wounds you
just haven't realized are still bleeding under the surface.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
So I hope you guys wrote those questions down or
are reflecting on them right now.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I can repeat them if you want, or I'm assuming
you can probably rewind and hear them back. But I
think those are really important ones. Whose energy and my
holding that isn't mine to carry anymore? What thoughts, stories,
or emotional baggage am I still carrying that I can
lovingly let go of? And I say lovingly because nothing
ever leaves us through fear, anxiety, or anger where we're
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actually in fear. And this actually applies physically too. You
know sometimes they say that when you're trying to lose weight,
if you end up dieting too hard, your body goes
into this panic mode and it actually instead of letting
go of things, if you go into too much of
a calorie deficit, it actually starts to hold onto fat
on your body rather than letting go. And so it's
kind of the same in our body and as it
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is in our mind. You know, there's such a deep
relationship between the two. So when you start trying to
let go of things aggressively, your body actually holds onto
them tighter. And so with every single thing that we do,
just as we see our body as a gift, you
have to think, how can I lovingly put this away?
How can I lovingly let go of this? Because our
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bodies used to holding on our mind could be compared
to horders. That's what I think that we are sometimes,
whether it's holding onto things because you think it means
you when you let go of it, you're letting go
of the pain, which means that you're letting go of
that person's responsibility or that accountability for it. Or when
you let go of something it actually means that you're
no longer connected to that person or that thing anymore.
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You're letting go of a version of yourself that you
were before. You know, there's so many reasons why we
hold onto things, and so really breaking this down, what
impressions am I carrying that are not mine, which ones
are outdated, which ones am I ready to rewrite or release?
And I think free writing is really beautiful for this,
where you just put pen to paper and you start
thinking and you start writing. It's been such a beautiful
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thing that I've practiced, and it helped me when I
was trying to get into journaling because I used to think, oh,
am I going to do dear diary, sitting here writing
about my life. But actually, free writing is anything and everything.
You can have a prompt like this, and anything and
everything that comes into your mind you just put pen
to paper. It does not even have to make sense.
You can just keep flowing with the thoughts that come
into your mind and eventually it should take you to
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where you need to be or what you need to release.
Spring is also about planting new seeds. So yes, it's
about letting go, But then what are we filling that
space with the new space that has opened up for us?
So spring is about planting new seeds literally and emotionally.
In nature, the soil is soft again, the cold is passed,
the light is returning, and honestly, I'm actually in the
process right now of planting all my new plants and
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herbs in my herb garden, planting new flowers and every
single herb under the sun. I've got dill, parsley, cilantro,
I'm trying to grow some chilies. I've got a lemon
tree in the back, you know, and all these flowers
that I use in my temple area as a form
of devotion, we offer flowers, and so I have all
these beautiful flowers and also edible flowers. And actually it's
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so true within us as well. When you clear emotional clutter,
when you release all these stagnant feelings and patterns, you
create fertile ground in.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Your inner world.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You make space, you soft and you become ready to
plant something new. So ask yourself, what seeds am I
planting this season? What seeds do I want to plant
this season? Who do I want to be?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
These seeds can be intentions, they can be new ways
of thinking. They can be.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Gentle commitments or emotional qualities that you're inviting in, like
courage or calm, or creativity or connection. So I guess
you could think of it as who do I want
to be? Who do I admire? What qualities do they
have and how am I going to plant them into
my being? And what does that look like for me?
And then usually, you know, with a garden, you can't
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just plant the seeds. You can't just think of something
you want to be and then not figure out the
root to it. You can't just plant a seed and
leave them. Those seeds need tending to. They need attention
and water and sunlight and a whole lot of love,
and they need time because please remember that growth is
quiet before it's visible. Most people, when you see their flowers,
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they've been doing all the gra beforehand to get themselves there.
So don't be disheartened when you don't see it the
next day or the next day or the next day.
Just know that you're taking all these tiny steps towards
creating that quality or that intention that you are so
beautifully planting, watering and loving, And so you don't need
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to be something new overnight. You just have to prepare
the ground, make it fertile by removing the things that
are no longer needed, by removing those weeds, and then
nourishing that soil, nourishing that seed so that it can
grow slowly and steady. It's oh can you hear the
birds in the background so beautiful. So all of this
is just a beautiful reminder that every flower was once.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Just a seed.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Nature teaches us so much if we're watching, and like
I said before, like whenever you have a dilemma or
a difficulty in life, take a walk in nature and
the world will show you the answer in some way.
And every single time that you choose to do this
process we're talking about where you're excavating, removing, and then replanting,
you are making it easier to live a life of
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alignment with your true self. And you know, honestly, I
was reflecting over these past couple of weeks. I started
doing a lot of things that were kind of out
of my character. If I'm completely honest, not out of
my character, I would just say that weren't taking me
towards being my higher self, that weren't feeding the seeds,
that weren't nourishing the seeds, but probably nourishing more of
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the weeds. Whether it was staying up too late where
it wasn't nourishing my physical body, whether it was going
to environments where it was knowing my consciousness to be honest,
dark environments, love music, you name it. And it's not
that I didn't have fun. I had a great time,
but I was really I really became aware of energy
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and how much it can do, not just to your
physical body, but to your mental state too. How are
the people around you acting, how it can really affect you.
And it really is true. The things you surround yourself with,
you become, and so I've become. I came out of that.
I did a couple of days of it, and I
was like, oh, I think this is enough for me.
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And now I came back into my spiritual practices on
the weekend on Sunday, and it was just so refreshing,
Like I slowly felt my consciousness rising, and it was
simple things like waking up early again, sitting in my
meditation practice, reading a book that that spoke to my
higher self and not my lower self, choosing not to
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turn the TV on and instead sitting outside and listening
to the birds and reading a book like these things
sound so simple, but when you're stuck in this pattern
of tending to your lower conscious self, it ends up
feeling like normality when it really shouldn't. And then when
you start trying things that actually are speaking to your
higher self. You notice how different it actually feels. And so, yeah,
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tend to your higher self, not do your lower self.
And if you do, do your lower If you do,
tend to your lower self. On I said it for
a couple of days and then brought yourself out of it,
because you'll go through ups and downs of it, you know.
And you know, I was thinking about fire rituals. I
have this practice. Every single morning, we light a candle.
It's called THEA. So we light Yeah, I guess the candle.
It's made from cotton wool. You dip it in some
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sort of usually traditionally it's ghee or.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Other oil or whatever, and you light the wick.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And these fire rituals have been used for thousands of
years across every spiritual tradition, whether it's vading fire ceremonies
in India to indigenous burning ceremonies where fire marks purification
and the welcoming of new life. And so I actually
grew up doing this tradition of lighting this THEA.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
And whenever I do like this candle, I have.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
A beautiful thought or I guess a meditation or a
prayer that goes through my mind where I'm saying Let
this fire represent burning all the negative qualities, all the
things I don't need, all the things I do not
want any longer in my heart, in my life, and
my body. Let this burn it up, just like this
flame is burning. Let this purify my body. Let this
be a representation of my desire to purify my intention,
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my heart, my body, my mind, my soul. And so
I really enjoy this process of the fire ceremonies. If
you think about it, fire is transformative. It turns dense
into light, It turns physical into ether. It turns the
old into ash and an emotional spring clean. We can
kind of borrow this wisdom symbolically or physically, and you
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don't need a grand ceremony. But all you need is
a single candle that can be sacred. Or you can
write down your emotions or your patterns, or the questions
that we just spoke about. You could write your answers
down and when you're ready to release it, you can
just set it on fire in a safe environment. Whether
it's the stories that keep you small, the weight you're
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tired of carrying around, you can rip it, you can
burn it. It does not need to be dramatic. It
can be if you want it to be, it just
needs to be done with deep desire to let go
and give it up to the fire.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
That's all you have to do.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
And actually, when you witness something leaving your life physically,
it registers and your nervous system as a real release.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
And I kind of guess that's why.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
You know, in our tradition we do cremation, and it
was part of other traditions too, But I remember my
mum telling me that when she experienced the cremation of
her dad, everything felt so heavy. Everything felt so so
heavy the days going up to it, the cries, the
intense feelings, and as soon as she saw that fire ceremony,
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it felt like a weight had been lifted. And I
think that's something for the people who are experiencing the loss.
But also it says in our practice that when the
physical body is burnt, it actually releases that person's attachment
to this physical world so that they can hopefully go
into the spiritual world. It releases all the last physical attachments,
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and that's what fire does. It tends everything, even the body,
into ashes. I kind of went off topic there, but
I thought that was it really symbolizes what it can
do for us in this moment in time where we're
trying to release and let go, let the flame be
the line between what was and what's next. A few
more questions to reflect on if you want to get
even deeper, is what do I want to feel more
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of this season? So whether it's peace, freedom, clarity, joy, confidence, lightness.
I encourage you to use more words than just happy,
like what does that mean for you? Break it down?
What does the word happy mean to you? What does
the word peace mean to you? And dissect those emotions
so you can make it into a reality.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Like peace.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
So let's just break down peace. For example, peace could
mean having open communication with my partner where we resolve
arguments better. Peace could mean sleeping through the night. Peace
could mean waking up and not reaching for my phone
straight away in anxiety. What does that peace look like
for you? And if you do end up clearing out
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what you don't need, what are you trying to call in?
So that's the other question, what are you trying to
call in? Once you've done the clearing out and once
you name those feelings, ask yourself what can I do
more of to support the emotions? And so you're identifying
what it is you want, you're defining it, and then
you are creating the path, the root, the process of
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how I'm going to actually make these true, make this
happen for myself. So think habits, think boundaries, think new
ways of thinking, or simply it might just be rest.
Another question that actually can get quite emotional when you're
answering it, but I think it's very necessary is if
my heart could speak, what would it say today? And
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that won't change every single day, and so it's actually
a beautiful prompt to use every day. If my heart
could speak, what would it say today? Is it feeling heavy?
Is it feeling light? Is it feeling suffocated? Is it
feeling lost? Like, what is your heart feeling? If it
could speak, what would it say? What is it holding?
What is it craving? What is it desiring? And a
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big part of emotional detoxing is also boundaries, not just
with others, but also with our own mind. You are allowed,
just in case you need permission, which you don't from
me for sure, but just in case you need a reminder,
You're allowed to not answer that text. You're allowed to
stop replaying those conversations over and over again. You're allowed
to move on from the past. You're allowed to not
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carry what isn't yours. You're allowed to literally say no
without a huge explanation or justification. That last one was
aimed at myself, because I really struggle with that. I
feel like I have to give a whole flipping paragraph
every single time I'm trying to.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Say no to something.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I have to explain everything, I have to go into
depth when really simply it's just a no. I just
can't write now. So when it comes to boundaries, ask yourself,
where in my life do I need stronger boundaries with
others or with myself?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And then a fun one.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
You know. Spring is also a BYuT new beginnings in
so many different ways. So one thing I love to
commit to is a new practice, a new ritual for me.
I've been craving education. I really wanted to learn something new,
and so I'm signing up to this herbology course. I
can share with you guys if anybody wants to know
about it, because I just want to learn more. And
that's a ritual practice that I know is going to
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fuel me in a way that I really need. And
so that's something that I'm committing to you could do
something for your emotion, for your physical body, I recommend
doing something for your emotion. And for me, it was
something I felt really empty about. I really was craving
learning more, and so it fuels me emotionally, physically and mentally.
But what are you going to do for your emotional
rehennewal this spring that you are going to commit to what.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Ritual or practice.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I read this poem and I thought it was really beautiful,
and I'm going to read it for you. Guys, says
there is no shame in beginning again. The trees do
it every single year, the sky does it every single morning,
the moon does it every single month. You were made
to return to yourself over and over and over and
each time a little more whole. And I'm thinking about
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this a lot lately because something I think we all
get confused about when we're feeling lost is that it
wasn't part of the plan. We're like, oh my gosh,
I just feel empty. Oh my gosh, I don't feel
good about myself. But you know what, as soon as
you see it as part of the process, this thing
that we see nature do where it hibernates in winter,
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then in spring it starts coming to life. Then it's summer,
it's in full bloom. Then in autu it slowly starts
to slow down, goes back into hibernation, starts to change colors,
starts to change shape and the way that we see it.
And then in winter it goes back into hibernation. And
so in that same cycle, we have that in us too,
And so how bizarre would it be if we didn't
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have these different seasons of life. So when you think
about why am I going through this? Why is this
a difficult time? Why do I feel lost? Why don't
I feel like myself? Know it's part of the seasonal change.
Know that it is part of our life seasons that
we are meant to go through. Don't see it as
something that is odd or that makes you feel abnormal.
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See it as part of normality. And it makes life
feel so much better and more manageable and helps you
to understand the phases that you go through in life.
So I'd love to end this with a visualization that
often helps me. So if you're not driving, close your eyes,
and if you are, you can probably still do this
while you've got your eyes open to picture the emotion
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or thought that you want to release as a stone
in your hand. So, whether it's anger, jealousy, remorse, guilt, sadness, grief,
name that emotion in your mind, the one that comes to.
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The surface of your heart.
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Usually the one that, as soon as you feel it
you try to bury it. Usually the one that when
it rises to the surface, you get that pit at
the bottom of your stomach, You get that lump in
your throat, you get that feeling of don't talk to
me about this, otherwise it's going to make me cry.
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Find that.
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And imagine it as a stone in your hand. Feel
its weight. How heavy does it feel. Is it like
a feather, is it heavy like a concrete stone? What
does it feel like? How big is it in your heart?
How much space is it taking up? How much energy
is it requiring to keep alive inside of you? How
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much energy are you using to keep it alive? Now,
imagine taking that stone or that concrete weight and putting
it into a river and watch it, Watch the water
carrying it away.
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What do the waves look like.
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Are they hard and fast and heavy to be able
to move that concrete or are they light? And did
it move away softly and gently? Notice how your body
is feeling without it. Notice the space that it's created.
Notice the feelings you have inside of you. Are you
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missing it? Are you worried? Are you anxious about it
leaving you? How does it feel? And then repeat this
out loud or in your mind. Well, this beautiful bird
is chapping in the background, and I hope you can
hear it. Say this, I let go of what no
longer serves me, and I what nourishes me.
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It's as simple as that.
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I let go of what no longer serves me, and
I welcome what nourishes me. I let go, And you
can shout this as loud as you want. I let
go of what no longer serves me, and I welcome
what nourishes me. And let me tell you that bird
is singing. I hope you guys can hear it. Can
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hear it. You can't reply to me, but I can
hear it, and it's beautiful. Well, thank you guys so
much for listening. I hope this was useful. I hope
it was.
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Relieving.
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I hope it made you feel a little bit lighter,
a little bit brighter, or at least gave you the
process in which to feel that way. At some point
in your life when you choose to use this, and
I hope you use the spring bloom to plant seeds,
to remove the weeds, to do all the things that
you have wanted to do in your life, because I
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think that's what spring is about, the time of opportunity,
is what I see as Thank you all so much
for listening, and see you guys next week.
Spring is also about planting new seeds. So yes, it's
about letting go, but then what are we filling that
space with the new space that has opened up for us?
So spring is about planting new seeds, literally and emotionally.
In nature, the soil is soft again, the cold is passed,
the light is returning. And actually it's so true within
us as well. When you clear emotional clutter, when you
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release all these stagnant feelings and patterns, you create fertile
ground in your inner world. You make space, you soften,
and you become ready to plant something new. I'm rather
Wukiah and on my podcast A Really Good Cry, we
embrace the messy and the beautiful, providing a space for raw,
unfiltered conversations that celebrate vulnerability and allow you to tune
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in to learn, connect and find comfort together. So today's
been one of those days where honestly I feel like
punging something, but all I think I really need is
to go outside for a really long walk. This week's
episode it's all about spring cleaning, and you know what,
I have had the itch to clean, whether it's physically,
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mentally emotionally, I just feel like this is the season
to be light and bright. So people, it is time
to let go. You have been holding on to all
the things that do not serve you, that are not
letting you thrive, and have kept you way down all
through winter and honestly maybe even longer than that, and
we need to let that go. Okay, because spring is
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the season of new beginnings. It's the season of fresh
air or vibrancy, of lightness, And how are you gonna
have space for any of that if you're still holding
on to all of that? The Japanese actually call it
ma it's the space between things. Spring invites us to
create emotional muh space between people, between thoughts and our
roles and responsibilities.
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Space is so sacred, it's.
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Kind of a little bit like time, and you cannot
receive when you are full. You know what, This is
a pretty heavy topic, and also because of how I
felt this day, I feel like I need a bit
of a breath, and I feel like you might too.
I'm getting that feeling. So before we dive in, why
don't we take a moment to come into the present
moment wherever you are, whether you're in your car, whether
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you're at home, whether you're laying down Remember that breath
is your anchor that brings your mind back into alignment
with your body. So place your hand if you can,
hand over your heart and one over your belly, and
take a deep inhale and a slow exhale, feeling your
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body softened with each exhale. Let's take a couple more together,
take a deep.
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Breath in and exhale.
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If you weren't doing this before, With your next breath,
breathe out with your mouth instead of your nose. Feel
your belly fill up with all that new fresh air,
and as you breathe out, remove all that stagnant, stale
energy and air that sits within you. One thing I've
been trying lately is humming. It sounds really random, but
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it's actually beautiful. So with your next couple of breath,
take a deep breath in and have a humming sound
on the way out, and feel the vibration flow through
your entire body, feeling all the clean air coming through
into your body. If you have an eye shut, keep
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them shut for a little bit, feel all the vibrations
running through your body, and when you're ready, open your eyes. Honestly,
I needed that so much like I cannot explain to
you how much I needed that and how much those
few breaths changed everything for me. Now, let the noise
settle in your mind and let your body know that
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it is safe and it is time to be open
to letting go. I don't know about you, but this
season of my life, I just really wanted to be
clean and fresh, with clear energy internally and externally, whether
it is with myself or whether it's with other people.
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And I think that's really important, you know.
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I think about that, whether it's with friendships, relationships with
people that you don't really know.
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You don't have to be best friends.
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The bare minimum is having clean energy between people and
clean energy in the things that you do. And so
in order for that to happen, you need to practice
creating clean energy. Practice taking things in and out of
your body regularly in your physical body. When things build
up in your body, whether it's in your arteries, whether
it's in your bowl, whether it's in your heart, when
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those things happen, it creates stagnancy, It creates toxins, and
it creates disease.
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And our mind is no different and our heart is
no different either.
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You know. Actually, in pretty much every single tradition, the
season of spring marks a return to life.
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How beautiful is that? The return to life?
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And it always like noticing these little moments that nature
or God or the earth send me for a reset,
for a refresh, or a little spruce or a little
moment of reflection on how I can better live my life.
And I think if we're looking for them, they always
show up. Whether it's the season that we're in, whether
it's the night turning intoday, whether it's the moon cycle.
There's just so many different moments in time where we
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can decide it is time for a reset or a refresh.
One perspective that has encouraged me to do this is
actually constantly seeing my body as a gift. And when
you start shifting mindset to that, when you see something
as a gift, you look after it so much more.
You're more careful with it, you have a deeper appreciation
for it. And so these little cleanups that we do,
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whether it's mentally, physically, or emotionally, are all part of
that gratitude gesture back to God, the universe, back to
your body for doing what it does. In traditional Chinese medicine,
spring is the season of the liver. That is the
organ that's actually responsible for emotional detox and energetic flow.
So when the liver is balanced, there is vision and vitality,
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and when it's blocked, we feel frustrated, irritated, and even hopeless,
which is also why doing a physical detox during spring
is really important. I actually spoke about this in a
newssetter I did recently, and I talk about how spring,
according to Avada, is known as the season we get
the most amount of Like, well, the transition between spring
and winter is the time period where we get the
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most amount of mucus. I'm a bit stuffy at the moment.
It's a really hard transition for our body to do.
It's when there's a lot of kafer in our body. Now,
Kafa is essentially a mixture of earth and water. Those
elements rise in our body during that time, and so
spring is the end almost of kafer. Season is cool,
it's moist, it's heavy, and that actually is mirrored in
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the qualities of the emotions that we accumulate, whether it's
grief or attachment or stagnation, so it will be the antidote.
In I Rada, it says that the antidote is always
the opposite. And so if you're feeling stagnant, if you're
feeling heavy, if you're feeling down, the antidote is movement
and clarity and release. And so it's really beautiful to
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see how all of these little different cultures, different thought patterns,
they all kind of come and say exactly the same
thing in a different way, which.
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Makes me think, you know what, there's something to this.
It must be real.
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And you know, nature shows us what we're supposed to
be doing. I always say this that whenever you feel
lost in life, whenever you don't know what to be doing,
whenever you're confused, look out in nature or tell you
what you should be doing, like somewhere somehow it is
reflecting what we should be doing for ourselfs. And an
emotional sprinkleen doesn't need to be dramatic, like it doesn't
have to be extreme, nothing does. It's really about these
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tiny rituals of clarity and asking the questions that are necessary,
taking time to reflect. We suffer more in our imagination
than we do in our reality. We carry all these
conversations that never happen, maybe some that did happen that
don't need to live in us anymore tension that does
not belong to us, taking on other people's pain, other
people's drama, and all these ideas of who we should
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be that actually block who we are trying to become,
and sometimes we just get used to living in this way.
We accept the feeling, either because deep down we believe
that's what we deserve, maybe it's a hint of self sabotage,
or because that's all we've known for too long and
it's just become comfortable. It doesn't always have to be
big things or huge issues, but we go through so
much on a daily basis, physically, mentally, emotionally, and you know,
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every single thing that we absorb through our senses, whether it's.
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What we see, what we hear, what we taste, what.
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We touch, what we smell, and even what we emotionally feel,
it leaves an imprint on us. I heard this term
a while ago in Sanskria and it's always stayed with me.
It's called some scars, and they are these impressions that
are left through everything we experience. Think of them like
little footprints that are left behind in the sand of
your consciousness. Some are light and easily washed away, others
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are deep, and embedded and stay with us for years,
sometimes lifetimes, as some scara could be a hurtful comment
that you've internalized, a moment of joy that has shaped
your self worth, or even a recurring passion of fear
or comparison. The more we feel or think something, the
deeper that groove becomes. And unless we pause and become
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aware and lovingly tend to them, these impressions quietly influence
every part of our life, how we see the world,
how we interact with people, how we relate to other people,
and even how we respond to ourself. So we're not
just trying to tidy up the surface level feelings here,
We're really looking inward and asking these questions. Now, you
might want to get your journal out or your pen
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and paper out for this. I'm going to share some
prompts with you that I use when I'm journaling or
trying to release during this time period. So the first
one is what impressions am I carrying that are not mine?
Which ones are outdated? Which ones am I ready to
soften to rewrite to release. The next one is what thoughts, stories,
or emotional baggage am I still carrying that I can
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lovingly lay down that I've had in me for far
too long, and with love I let go of because
I do not need them anymore. Whose energy am I
holding that isn't mine to carry anymore? What has been
taking up unnecessary emotional space in my mind or heart?
Maybe that is people pleasing, Maybe it's anxiety about things
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outside of your control, or maybe it's old wounds you
just haven't realized are still bleeding under the surface.
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So I hope you guys wrote those questions down or
are reflecting on them right now.
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I can repeat them if you want, or I'm assuming
you can probably rewind and hear them back. But I
think those are really important ones. Whose energy and my
holding that isn't mine to carry anymore? What thoughts, stories,
or emotional baggage am I still carrying that I can
lovingly let go of? And I say lovingly because nothing
ever leaves us through fear, anxiety, or anger where we're
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actually in fear. And this actually applies physically too. You
know sometimes they say that when you're trying to lose weight,
if you end up dieting too hard, your body goes
into this panic mode and it actually instead of letting
go of things, if you go into too much of
a calorie deficit, it actually starts to hold onto fat
on your body rather than letting go. And so it's
kind of the same in our body and as it
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is in our mind. You know, there's such a deep
relationship between the two. So when you start trying to
let go of things aggressively, your body actually holds onto
them tighter. And so with every single thing that we do,
just as we see our body as a gift, you
have to think, how can I lovingly put this away?
How can I lovingly let go of this? Because our
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bodies used to holding on our mind could be compared
to horders. That's what I think that we are sometimes,
whether it's holding onto things because you think it means
you when you let go of it, you're letting go
of the pain, which means that you're letting go of
that person's responsibility or that accountability for it. Or when
you let go of something it actually means that you're
no longer connected to that person or that thing anymore.
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You're letting go of a version of yourself that you
were before. You know, there's so many reasons why we
hold onto things, and so really breaking this down, what
impressions am I carrying that are not mine, which ones
are outdated, which ones am I ready to rewrite or release?
And I think free writing is really beautiful for this,
where you just put pen to paper and you start
thinking and you start writing. It's been such a beautiful
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thing that I've practiced, and it helped me when I
was trying to get into journaling because I used to think, oh,
am I going to do dear diary, sitting here writing
about my life. But actually, free writing is anything and everything.
You can have a prompt like this, and anything and
everything that comes into your mind you just put pen
to paper. It does not even have to make sense.
You can just keep flowing with the thoughts that come
into your mind and eventually it should take you to
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where you need to be or what you need to release.
Spring is also about planting new seeds. So yes, it's
about letting go, But then what are we filling that
space with the new space that has opened up for us?
So spring is about planting new seeds literally and emotionally.
In nature, the soil is soft again, the cold is passed,
the light is returning, and honestly, I'm actually in the
process right now of planting all my new plants and
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herbs in my herb garden, planting new flowers and every
single herb under the sun. I've got dill, parsley, cilantro,
I'm trying to grow some chilies. I've got a lemon
tree in the back, you know, and all these flowers
that I use in my temple area as a form
of devotion, we offer flowers, and so I have all
these beautiful flowers and also edible flowers. And actually it's
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so true within us as well. When you clear emotional clutter,
when you release all these stagnant feelings and patterns, you
create fertile ground in.
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Your inner world.
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You make space, you soft and you become ready to
plant something new. So ask yourself, what seeds am I
planting this season? What seeds do I want to plant
this season? Who do I want to be?
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These seeds can be intentions, they can be new ways
of thinking. They can be.
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Gentle commitments or emotional qualities that you're inviting in, like
courage or calm, or creativity or connection. So I guess
you could think of it as who do I want
to be? Who do I admire? What qualities do they
have and how am I going to plant them into
my being? And what does that look like for me?
And then usually, you know, with a garden, you can't
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just plant the seeds. You can't just think of something
you want to be and then not figure out the
root to it. You can't just plant a seed and
leave them. Those seeds need tending to. They need attention
and water and sunlight and a whole lot of love,
and they need time because please remember that growth is
quiet before it's visible. Most people, when you see their flowers,
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they've been doing all the gra beforehand to get themselves there.
So don't be disheartened when you don't see it the
next day or the next day or the next day.
Just know that you're taking all these tiny steps towards
creating that quality or that intention that you are so
beautifully planting, watering and loving, And so you don't need
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to be something new overnight. You just have to prepare
the ground, make it fertile by removing the things that
are no longer needed, by removing those weeds, and then
nourishing that soil, nourishing that seed so that it can
grow slowly and steady. It's oh can you hear the
birds in the background so beautiful. So all of this
is just a beautiful reminder that every flower was once.
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Just a seed.
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Nature teaches us so much if we're watching, and like
I said before, like whenever you have a dilemma or
a difficulty in life, take a walk in nature and
the world will show you the answer in some way.
And every single time that you choose to do this
process we're talking about where you're excavating, removing, and then replanting,
you are making it easier to live a life of
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alignment with your true self. And you know, honestly, I
was reflecting over these past couple of weeks. I started
doing a lot of things that were kind of out
of my character. If I'm completely honest, not out of
my character, I would just say that weren't taking me
towards being my higher self, that weren't feeding the seeds,
that weren't nourishing the seeds, but probably nourishing more of
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the weeds. Whether it was staying up too late where
it wasn't nourishing my physical body, whether it was going
to environments where it was knowing my consciousness to be honest,
dark environments, love music, you name it. And it's not
that I didn't have fun. I had a great time,
but I was really I really became aware of energy
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and how much it can do, not just to your
physical body, but to your mental state too. How are
the people around you acting, how it can really affect you.
And it really is true. The things you surround yourself with,
you become, and so I've become. I came out of that.
I did a couple of days of it, and I
was like, oh, I think this is enough for me.
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And now I came back into my spiritual practices on
the weekend on Sunday, and it was just so refreshing,
Like I slowly felt my consciousness rising, and it was
simple things like waking up early again, sitting in my
meditation practice, reading a book that that spoke to my
higher self and not my lower self, choosing not to
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turn the TV on and instead sitting outside and listening
to the birds and reading a book like these things
sound so simple, but when you're stuck in this pattern
of tending to your lower conscious self, it ends up
feeling like normality when it really shouldn't. And then when
you start trying things that actually are speaking to your
higher self. You notice how different it actually feels. And so, yeah,
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tend to your higher self, not do your lower self.
And if you do, do your lower If you do,
tend to your lower self. On I said it for
a couple of days and then brought yourself out of it,
because you'll go through ups and downs of it, you know.
And you know, I was thinking about fire rituals. I
have this practice. Every single morning, we light a candle.
It's called THEA. So we light Yeah, I guess the candle.
It's made from cotton wool. You dip it in some
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sort of usually traditionally it's ghee or.
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Other oil or whatever, and you light the wick.
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And these fire rituals have been used for thousands of
years across every spiritual tradition, whether it's vading fire ceremonies
in India to indigenous burning ceremonies where fire marks purification
and the welcoming of new life. And so I actually
grew up doing this tradition of lighting this THEA.
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And whenever I do like this candle, I have.
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A beautiful thought or I guess a meditation or a
prayer that goes through my mind where I'm saying Let
this fire represent burning all the negative qualities, all the
things I don't need, all the things I do not
want any longer in my heart, in my life, and
my body. Let this burn it up, just like this
flame is burning. Let this purify my body. Let this
be a representation of my desire to purify my intention,
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my heart, my body, my mind, my soul. And so
I really enjoy this process of the fire ceremonies. If
you think about it, fire is transformative. It turns dense
into light, It turns physical into ether. It turns the
old into ash and an emotional spring clean. We can
kind of borrow this wisdom symbolically or physically, and you
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don't need a grand ceremony. But all you need is
a single candle that can be sacred. Or you can
write down your emotions or your patterns, or the questions
that we just spoke about. You could write your answers
down and when you're ready to release it, you can
just set it on fire in a safe environment. Whether
it's the stories that keep you small, the weight you're
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tired of carrying around, you can rip it, you can
burn it. It does not need to be dramatic. It
can be if you want it to be, it just
needs to be done with deep desire to let go
and give it up to the fire.
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That's all you have to do.
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And actually, when you witness something leaving your life physically,
it registers and your nervous system as a real release.
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And I kind of guess that's why.
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You know, in our tradition we do cremation, and it
was part of other traditions too, But I remember my
mum telling me that when she experienced the cremation of
her dad, everything felt so heavy. Everything felt so so
heavy the days going up to it, the cries, the
intense feelings, and as soon as she saw that fire ceremony,
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it felt like a weight had been lifted. And I
think that's something for the people who are experiencing the loss.
But also it says in our practice that when the
physical body is burnt, it actually releases that person's attachment
to this physical world so that they can hopefully go
into the spiritual world. It releases all the last physical attachments,
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and that's what fire does. It tends everything, even the body,
into ashes. I kind of went off topic there, but
I thought that was it really symbolizes what it can
do for us in this moment in time where we're
trying to release and let go, let the flame be
the line between what was and what's next. A few
more questions to reflect on if you want to get
even deeper, is what do I want to feel more
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of this season? So whether it's peace, freedom, clarity, joy, confidence, lightness.
I encourage you to use more words than just happy,
like what does that mean for you? Break it down?
What does the word happy mean to you? What does
the word peace mean to you? And dissect those emotions
so you can make it into a reality.
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Like peace.
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So let's just break down peace. For example, peace could
mean having open communication with my partner where we resolve
arguments better. Peace could mean sleeping through the night. Peace
could mean waking up and not reaching for my phone
straight away in anxiety. What does that peace look like
for you? And if you do end up clearing out
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what you don't need, what are you trying to call in?
So that's the other question, what are you trying to
call in? Once you've done the clearing out and once
you name those feelings, ask yourself what can I do
more of to support the emotions? And so you're identifying
what it is you want, you're defining it, and then
you are creating the path, the root, the process of
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how I'm going to actually make these true, make this
happen for myself. So think habits, think boundaries, think new
ways of thinking, or simply it might just be rest.
Another question that actually can get quite emotional when you're
answering it, but I think it's very necessary is if
my heart could speak, what would it say today? And
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that won't change every single day, and so it's actually
a beautiful prompt to use every day. If my heart
could speak, what would it say today? Is it feeling heavy?
Is it feeling light? Is it feeling suffocated? Is it
feeling lost? Like, what is your heart feeling? If it
could speak, what would it say? What is it holding?
What is it craving? What is it desiring? And a
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big part of emotional detoxing is also boundaries, not just
with others, but also with our own mind. You are allowed,
just in case you need permission, which you don't from
me for sure, but just in case you need a reminder,
You're allowed to not answer that text. You're allowed to
stop replaying those conversations over and over again. You're allowed
to move on from the past. You're allowed to not
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carry what isn't yours. You're allowed to literally say no
without a huge explanation or justification. That last one was
aimed at myself, because I really struggle with that. I
feel like I have to give a whole flipping paragraph
every single time I'm trying to.
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Say no to something.
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I have to explain everything, I have to go into
depth when really simply it's just a no. I just
can't write now. So when it comes to boundaries, ask yourself,
where in my life do I need stronger boundaries with
others or with myself?
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And then a fun one.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
You know. Spring is also a BYuT new beginnings in
so many different ways. So one thing I love to
commit to is a new practice, a new ritual for me.
I've been craving education. I really wanted to learn something new,
and so I'm signing up to this herbology course. I
can share with you guys if anybody wants to know
about it, because I just want to learn more. And
that's a ritual practice that I know is going to
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fuel me in a way that I really need. And
so that's something that I'm committing to you could do
something for your emotion, for your physical body, I recommend
doing something for your emotion. And for me, it was
something I felt really empty about. I really was craving
learning more, and so it fuels me emotionally, physically and mentally.
But what are you going to do for your emotional
rehennewal this spring that you are going to commit to what.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Ritual or practice.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I read this poem and I thought it was really beautiful,
and I'm going to read it for you. Guys, says
there is no shame in beginning again. The trees do
it every single year, the sky does it every single morning,
the moon does it every single month. You were made
to return to yourself over and over and over and
each time a little more whole. And I'm thinking about
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this a lot lately because something I think we all
get confused about when we're feeling lost is that it
wasn't part of the plan. We're like, oh my gosh,
I just feel empty. Oh my gosh, I don't feel
good about myself. But you know what, as soon as
you see it as part of the process, this thing
that we see nature do where it hibernates in winter,
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then in spring it starts coming to life. Then it's summer,
it's in full bloom. Then in autu it slowly starts
to slow down, goes back into hibernation, starts to change colors,
starts to change shape and the way that we see it.
And then in winter it goes back into hibernation. And
so in that same cycle, we have that in us too,
And so how bizarre would it be if we didn't
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have these different seasons of life. So when you think
about why am I going through this? Why is this
a difficult time? Why do I feel lost? Why don't
I feel like myself? Know it's part of the seasonal change.
Know that it is part of our life seasons that
we are meant to go through. Don't see it as
something that is odd or that makes you feel abnormal.
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See it as part of normality. And it makes life
feel so much better and more manageable and helps you
to understand the phases that you go through in life.
So I'd love to end this with a visualization that
often helps me. So if you're not driving, close your eyes,
and if you are, you can probably still do this
while you've got your eyes open to picture the emotion
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or thought that you want to release as a stone
in your hand. So, whether it's anger, jealousy, remorse, guilt, sadness, grief,
name that emotion in your mind, the one that comes to.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
The surface of your heart.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Usually the one that, as soon as you feel it
you try to bury it. Usually the one that when
it rises to the surface, you get that pit at
the bottom of your stomach, You get that lump in
your throat, you get that feeling of don't talk to
me about this, otherwise it's going to make me cry.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Find that.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
And imagine it as a stone in your hand. Feel
its weight. How heavy does it feel. Is it like
a feather, is it heavy like a concrete stone? What
does it feel like? How big is it in your heart?
How much space is it taking up? How much energy
is it requiring to keep alive inside of you? How
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much energy are you using to keep it alive? Now,
imagine taking that stone or that concrete weight and putting
it into a river and watch it, Watch the water
carrying it away.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
What do the waves look like.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Are they hard and fast and heavy to be able
to move that concrete or are they light? And did
it move away softly and gently? Notice how your body
is feeling without it. Notice the space that it's created.
Notice the feelings you have inside of you. Are you
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missing it? Are you worried? Are you anxious about it
leaving you? How does it feel? And then repeat this
out loud or in your mind. Well, this beautiful bird
is chapping in the background, and I hope you can
hear it. Say this, I let go of what no
longer serves me, and I what nourishes me.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
It's as simple as that.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I let go of what no longer serves me, and
I welcome what nourishes me. I let go, And you
can shout this as loud as you want. I let
go of what no longer serves me, and I welcome
what nourishes me. And let me tell you that bird
is singing. I hope you guys can hear it. Can
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hear it. You can't reply to me, but I can
hear it, and it's beautiful. Well, thank you guys so
much for listening. I hope this was useful. I hope
it was.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Relieving.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I hope it made you feel a little bit lighter,
a little bit brighter, or at least gave you the
process in which to feel that way. At some point
in your life when you choose to use this, and
I hope you use the spring bloom to plant seeds,
to remove the weeds, to do all the things that
you have wanted to do in your life, because I
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think that's what spring is about, the time of opportunity,
is what I see as Thank you all so much
for listening, and see you guys next week.
Host
Radhi Devlukia
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