February 29, 2024 • 44 mins
In this episode, Devi emphasizes the need to create a container for creativity, a space that supports and inspires our creative endeavors. She shares her own experiences for designing a container that inspires her work, her desire to learn new things, her imagination, and how she experiences life altogether. Devi discusses the essence of play and the fearlessness required to reclaim and cultivate a journey that is creative and abundant.
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Take a deep breath in through your nose. Hold it.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Now, release slowly again deep in helle hold release, repeating
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internally to yourself as you connect to my voice. I
am deeply, deeply well. I I am deeply well.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I am deeply wow. I'm Debbie Brown and this is
the Deeply Well Podcast. Welcome to Deeply Well, a soft
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place to land in your journey. A podcast for those
that are curious, creative, and ready to expand in higher
consciousness and self care. This is where we heal, this
is where we become. Welcome back everyone, I'm Debbie Brown again,
and this is Deeply Well. This episode, I want to
talk about creativity. I shared a couple episodes ago that
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have been kind of in my back with creativity. Very
gratefully I say that, I think that is something that
is such a big theme for our collective consciousness right now,
is reclaiming our creativity. Very often, for those that have
done some rebirthing or inner child healing, a big focus
is on childlike play and reconnecting to the things that
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we loved in childhood. But depending on what your life
has looked like, your experiences, your current circumstances, you know
that can feel really foreign. You know, this idea that
play is easy, it's kind of fun to poke and
prod that a little bit because at its foundation, it
absolutely is. It's it's simplicity. At its finest, it is
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giving yourself over to your innate, natural emotions and you know,
being enthused with the experiences around you and activating your
imagination and having a fearlessness to try new things, to
look silly, you know, to do whatever movements feel good.
For those who have young children, I think we know
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that all too well. Our kids are always making you know,
these kind of faces where I'm like, I don't even
know your face could twists like that? How did you
think to do that? Or you know, my son in
particular is the king of play. His imagination just it
inspires me endlessly. But you know, depending on life and
all the things, just becoming an adult, you get naturally disconnected.
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Play is actually hard.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
When I first had my son, I found it really
hard to engage in play. I felt like I needed
to be doing something or you know, I just couldn't.
I couldn't really lock in in that way, especially because
you know you're working with developmental ages that you've passed
but the core of play is kind of leaning into
this natural connection to creativity that you don't have to
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think about. You know, that's really the essence of play.
It's creation, it's creating joy from nothing. It is, you know,
expanding your heart and mind and being fearless to create
something to do in that moment, something to feel good about,
and connecting to it in that way can really start
to be something not only healing, but very beautiful. Now,
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when you take it a step past that and you
use that kind of incredible energy, you can also unlock deeper,
higher layers of your purpose. You can really come into
an ownership of yourself and your path that can be
profound and that cannot be taken from you. So taking
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time to investigate and invest in one's creativity it's really
such a sacred devotional act, and it is very uncomfortable,
especially if you're not used to allowing that kind of
freedom into your expression, into yourself or you know, for
whatever reasons, you have limiting beliefs that make you question
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if you could, or you should, or you know, if
you're worthy enough, if you're smart enough, if you'rxxx you
know all insert all words enough and the truth is
always that you are we are, and so sinking into
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the patience that is required to cultivate creativity is something
that I have come to have a tremendous amount of
reverence for. I didn't really realize, I think, until this year,
when some of those deeper elements of my creativity began
to really just like burst from the seams. I didn't
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realize how much time it actually takes to create your container.
And I often think about life and spiritual expression and
practices and devotion in terms of container. You know, the
word container, It is something that is kind of the parameter,
the holding, the space holding for whatever the experience is.
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And so you know, when I'm working, when I'm having retreats,
or when I'm working one on one, I often take
a lot of time to explain to who I'm with
that we are setting the container for our experience together,
our time together at retreats. I do. It's you know,
it's really we're setting the container for the entire group
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and how we'll all be held by this experience. You know,
in a private conversation, even with friends or family, it
could really look like saying, you know, let's set the
container for this conversation. My intention is to be in
community with you, in conversation with you with an open
heart and open mind, you know, kind of walking in
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with it the parameters, the structure for what is happening
and bringing forward some intention setting and open heartedness is
having a container for something. And so when it comes
to really bringing your creativity to life and making it
uniquely your own, because you know, we can watch all
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the all the hack videos and things like that, and
you know, if you listen to this show, you know,
in a lot of ways, I'm kind of a purist,
and I don't I want everyone to come into their
highest expression as themselves and buy themselves but with support,
you know. But it's really our inner journey. And so
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you know, I try to abstain from getting a lot
of influence from other places, and I've really worked to
train myself to lean into my own divine inspiration and
to trust it immediately. And I think that that is
something that has very powerfully led my life, and that's
something that's open and available to each one of us.
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But part of that is, you know, building your intuition,
really being in practice with checking in with your gut,
with creating that channel to your higher self, to your
higher power, but it can be powerful, you know, leaning
into your divine inspiration is a feeling. I know some
listening know it well and you might be saying it's
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a feeling that it's it's pretty indescribable. And it's also
deeply connected to the idea of being a sovereign being
or being in your sovereignty, which is incredibly important and
I think most especially in this day and age for
women to come into that space. But everything is a creation.
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You know, we use the word creativity, of course, the
root word is probably create, creation, creator. It's all in
the same vein of being an active participation with whatever
is in front of you, being an active participation with
your life, co creating with the divine right, co creating
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your healing, creating something. Creativity is. It's really the blood
coursing through your veins that's in service to whatever it
is you are creating. But every single thing we do
is a creation. Everything we do is us co creating,
and that's why in previous episodes I've shared. One that
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comes to mind is a favorite with my dear sister,
my beloved Leila Dahlia. What we talked about on there was.
You know you can create anything. You can co create anything,
including your own pain, just like you can co create
your healing and you can co create you know the
higher vision you have for yourself and your life and
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all the ways you're meant to use your brilliant to
your wisdom, your skill sets, you know your purpose in
service to more so, when we are beginning to set
the stage to really embody the power of being an
active creator in this life and in every interaction that
you have, both perceivedly big and small, it's important to
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create the container of creativity. And when we start doing
the work, and when we start looking at ourselves with reverence,
with trust, with confidence and our abilities, it becomes a
lot easier to create that container. You start to just
kind of notice, what do I need to invoke my creativity?
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What do I need to invoke my inner genius, my
inner muse, my inner artist, And that is uniquely our own,
Which is why I think, you know again, TikTok videos
are dope. All the stuff, there's so much information. I
was actually just looking some stuff up myself. But it's
important to not just recreate what's in front of you.
That can be a good starting point, you know, getting
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that initial bump, to get those wheels turning, to get
those hands moving, to get that vision clear, to get
that esthetic refined. But ultimately it's important to really look
at your own life and your experiences and your wants,
your needs, your desires, your tastes, your likes, your dislikes
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as the inspiration for what that container is going to
look like. So a couple episodes ago, I shared kind
of what my journey has been, especially as many know
right now, I am in the midst of finalizing my
book Living in Wisdom that I cannot wait to get
to you. Huge shout out to GCP Balance. So it's
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been really important for me to create this space, and
I think I was looking at that from the lens
especially of having written in a book a little bit
over six years ago and remembering how incredibly stressful that
was and how I got everything out that I wanted
to say. But it was kind of a lot of
agony to get to that place, to create a structure
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that made sense to my unique brain on how to
get my work out of me. And so part of
the way that I'm showing up in my life in
this last year, and I feel really strongly this year coming.
It's about creating the systems and the structures that are
supportive to what I meant to birth in the world,
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to the various things I meant to birth in the world.
And I know that's true for each of us, because
every single person living, every single person connecting to my
voice right now, has something the earth desperately needs, truly,
whatever that is. And it doesn't have to be so big,
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right And it's not nothing is too small. It's it
doesn't matter what size it is or what it looks like.
But every single person on this earth has something that
the rest of us could really be changed by. So
it's important that we lean into the truth of what
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we're here to do, which is to create always. Whatever
that is, it's creating goodness between you know, you and another,
it's creating perhaps a piece of art or writing a book,
or it's creating a moment, whatever it is, we are
always doing it. And I found that, you know, the
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only times we really get stagnated or unable to move forward,
or unable to advance in our lives or in our
goals for our own inner healing, consciously, subconsciously, it's when
we stop creating, most specifically when we stop making choices,
because choices are creation. Every time you make a choice,
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whatever it is to stand still, to move forward, to backtrack,
to stay, to go, to do this, do that, have
this conversation. Every single choice is something that you are
consciously creating, and it now has its own path and
now has its own timeline. It now has its own consciousness,
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and it's existing in some form and always will, you know.
So it's just it's important to look at all of that,
and so as we think to create our container. One
of the things that I was doing was I've had
this office in my house for many years, and I've
worked out of it for many years, but it was
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ever my preference. I would always find myself going to,
you know, like a coworking station, or for a little
bit of time, I've rented some space, and I don't
know why, I just couldn't really lock into being in
this room. And as I shared recently, you know, I
took several weeks to just get it in this kind
of shape that brought me to life. And so my
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office has a bathroom attached to it, and so in
the bathroom, I kind of turned that into like my
little inner child room. So when I was going through
these boxes, I got out of storage and I was
looking at my whole life in front of me. I
picked out some things that really resonated and continue to
resonate with who I am now, that really show me
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the truth of myself and my life and you know
the fact that I've really always been myself, and you
know that. Along with some pictures and even a couple stickers,
I kind of have just like put them everywhere, kind
of like a kid too, just like taped up everywhere,
which is kind of unlike me because I am very
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I'm very David Beckham with the way with my esthetic.
But yeah, So I did that in that room, and
then in my actual office, I got everything in the
exact tiptop shape it needed to be. I then brought
in I created an altar that's just for my office
and my creativity that includes a really beautiful statue of
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Shiva and Pavarti and a huge amethyst crystal candles, a
sacral chakra, bell a maala, and a big piece of fluorite,
a piece of coon site, a piece of ctrine, a
piece of moldabite, and some beautiful stones that I got
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from one of my breathwork teachers, and so it's set
up on this little table and it's my creativity altar,
and every day I kind of walk over to it
and I ring the bell and I just love it
being here. So that was one of the things that
was important to me. I also have this small stack
of books out that are inspiration books for me. One
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of them is this book that I've been obsessed with
the last maybe six months or so. It's called The
Book of Obscure Sorrows. Oh my god, it is like
I can totally be a certified sad girl. And it
is a book that just says all these things that
I've always thought. I'm like, what he created a word
for that. It's really brilliant. I also have a few
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books of poetry, one of Hafee's and one of my favorite, Roomy,
and then I have a copy of a book that
I love dearly called The Way of Mastery. And so
those are always books that inspire me. I've read them
a million times, especially the latter ones that I mentioned.
So sometimes I'll just walk in my office, I take
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a few deep breaths, I activate my reiki, meditate, a
little bit, and then I read a couple pages and
then I get going because I got a lot of
work to do, so then I'm at it. But doing that,
I created a collage board. I really love collaging. It's
something that I kind of do to activate every project
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that I work on, whether I'm working for a company
on some meditations or you know, one of the multitude
of things. But for everything that I do, I usually
give it its own collage of inspiration that has images
of things that are my muses, people that are my
muses right now, and I have fun turning it into
like a little mini art piece. And I found that
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that just really kind of energetically connects me to whatever
I'm working on. And then I put it up and
you know, for the entirety of the length of whatever
project I'm a part of, you know, I look at
it as I'm working on it, and it keeps me.
I think, especially as someone that kind of has a
multitude of projects happening at one time, it really anchors
me and connects me instantly into what I'm working on
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in that moment. So I really love making those. I'm
looking at the one that I have up right now
for my book and it makes me some mile. I
also have different you know, different invocative totems, you know,
different things and symbols that really speak to me. I
kind of pop up different places and then I get
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everything laid out that I need to see to do
my work well and to get you know, my brain flowing.
So those are some of the ways that I set
the container here. And I always kind of turn on
alist playlist as soon as I get to my office
and it takes me a couple of minutes to settle in.
But now that I have taken the time to kind
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of activate it in this way. Also, you know, got
my files all in orders. It's very nice and tidy.
I'm able to get going pretty quickly, and I really
appreciate that. So that is my container for creativity. And
I also have to feed it by, you know, before
I start my work day. I have a little program
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of things that I do cold plunge, take a walk outside,
get my kiddy off to school, have some coffee, have
you know a little something, and then I get moving
and I like to stay in silence for about twenty
thirty minutes. And then I get in my office and
I get going and so that has been that's been
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really special, especially the last several weeks, it's been really special.
So consider that on your path to creativity, you know,
creating a container for each thing that you're doing. And
that container can be like a collage. It can be
its own little journal, or its own little area, or
its own little file folder. But it's something that you know,
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every time you open it, you're able to instantly activate
and deepen in what you're doing. And I think you know,
in wisdom tradition, when you think of the way people
have Hindu deities or any kind of deities that people
work with, you know, the correct way to do it
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is to put it in an enclosed space and give
it up and then when you open the door, the
energy expands and it fills you. But then you close
the doors, so you're housing the energy that you're tending
to within whatever this container or vessel is. So it's
very similar to that. I found the way some of
that creative energy can flow. You know, at the end
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of every night, I make sure the door is always closed,
all the lights are always off, I kind of put
the room to bed, and then when I come in
the morning, as I explain, I kind of wake it up,
and I've just found that that really is creating some potency.
There really is kind of a felt experience in here
that's so supportive to the act of creation and to
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getting your ideas out and really standing in your fullest
expression for whatever you happen to be working on deeply well.
So that is one of the ways I have been
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experiencing creativity lately. I've also been really connecting to different hobbies.
So I don't think I've shared this on the show yet,
but I was tweeting about it, and I put it
in my threads and on my Instagram and all those places,
and you know, I was I was thinking about some
of the ways that I feed myself. I'm a lifelong learner.
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I know so many that listen to this show are.
We are always trying to kind of sink our teeth
into something, expand into something, and so I love to learn.
I always have. I have always been fascinated, interested, deeply curious,
and actively pursuing a lot of different things at the
same time, sometimes very contrasting things, which kind of leans
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into you know, when I previously had my career in broadcasting,
you know, I was on the radio, or was doing
the Grammy Red Carpets. But then on the weekends or
with my vacation time, I was disappearing and I was
doing you know, meditation, teacher training, breathwork, teacher training. I mean,
you know, over the last decade plus, and so sometimes
things don't always go together, but I always trust my
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gut and I study what I feel interested in at
the time, even if I'm building kind of like my
own little study systems for it. So I love to
do that. So when I think of free time, I
almost never Netflix and chill. It's always kind of like
get out that big book in your highlighter and also
open your computer so you can do secondary research on
something that interests you. Oh yeah, that's me. I'm just
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my sale. So one of the things that I love
to do every year is decide what is the theme
that I want to study for this year. And I
usually pick anywhere between like one three, sometimes even five
if they're kind of shallower topics, things that I'm going
to spend the year kind of exploring in my free time.
So if I get a bit of free time, that's
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when I might read a book on that subject or
you know, watch some videos or make some calls, meet
with some people that are experts in that space, do
deeper research. I love, love, love to research constantly, and
so this year I've kind of done that. A big
priority I have for my year this year is I'm
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working with a new healing modality within the energy family
that I'm really excited about. Not going to call it
out right now, but I will share it in the future.
And I actually think I might have my teacher on
the show. But I'm a reiki master a few times over.
I work with USUI, Holy Fire and Corona, and then
I'm also tuned to two other energy systems that I
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cannot name at this time, but two other energy systems
that I love to work with. And so energy is
really important to me and it's a big part of
the way the way I move. And so there's a
new system that I've been really interested in that I
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think can be so beneficial and so supportive to the
work that I do. So I'm in a twelve month
program working towards that. And then I also decided, because
I got into yoga in the last couple of years,
I decided to just go ahead and do a teacher
training for yoga, and so I'm going to do that
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this year. And one of the things I'm excited. You know,
it's not necessarily something I'm going to actively teach, but
I love immersing myself into something when I know I
want to master it or I want to gain personal
expertise for my own body in it, and then I
like to, if I'm able, push myself. If I'm able
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time wise and you know, money wise, I like to
push myself and just do the teacher training because it
holds you accountable and you get a really high caliber
understanding of something that you're doing. I love doing teacher training,
so that's how I learn best. It's how I kind
of can be accountable, can commit to something. So I'm
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going to do that. I'm doing a two hundred hour
one this year that I start next month, so I'm
really excited for that, and I kind of had to
slip and slide it all over my schedule, like I'm
traveling a lot this year. So even when I'm at
the Black Effect Podcast Festival, which just got announced this week,
I'll be doing my panel and then I'll be going
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to my hotel room to do one of the virtual
classes with the rest of my classmates from the hotel
for a couple hours. So I love stuff like that.
I love to get down like that. But quick break.
Speaking of Black Effect Podcast Festival has officially been announced.
It is happening in Atlanta April twenty fourth, and I
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will be doing a live podcast on the main stage.
I have two amazing guests that are going to be
joining me that I will announce later. So I'm really
excited to be there. So if you plan to be
in Atlanta, I can't wait to see you at the festival.
Please come up. Let's talk about the show. Let's you know,
let's connect. I'm really excited. I'll have more, more and
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more and more to say on that as we continue
to ramp up in it closer to the date. So
those are some things that I'm studying more deeply this year.
I've also taken on a couple new hobbies. So I'm
taking a sewing class, and I just got a sewing
machine and I've been practicing sewing. That is something that
I want to start to begin my learning and so
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I'm gonna go slowly. But sewing is a hobby this year,
and so is tennis. Tennis I just started playing a
little bit during winter break, and I just found that
I feel so free doing that. So I'm really excited
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to kind of get a chance to do that maybe
a couple times a month this year and see how
it feels. And you know, that's something that once you
get some connection to you can continue playing for the
rest of your life. So really looking forward to doing that.
And let's see what are some I think that's kind
of what I'm focused on with some of the free
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space in my life. But also other hobbies that I'm
always actively pursuing are like astronomy, fascinated by it, love
to study astronomy, love to stargazze, astrology obsessed gardening, gardening
as a really really special hobby in my life. Photography, painting.
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I love to paint, Drawing. I love to draw, especially
with my son, he is such an artist. Building different things.
I have like a little workshop bench in the garage,
Like I like to just put stuff together and collecting,
so I feel like I'm never bored. I always feel
kind of really full and engaged, and you know, kind
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of having all of those things that interest me really
keep my creativity alive. So feel really grateful to have
a chance to kind of sink into stuff that interests me.
So consider, you know, what are a couple of things
that you may want to learn on YouTube, take a
class and see if there's a local, you know, community
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space to do something, maybe free tie cheek classes in
the park or you know, whatever it is. What are
a couple of things that you could add to your
year that can help kind of keep that flame sparked
inside for all the other work that you're called to do.
I want to share too, one of the things that
I promised myself I do this year. Last year, I
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traveled a lot for work. I was gone, gone, gone,
and it was amazing. I worked with incredible people. I
learned so much. I had fun, but also it was
really exhausting. And I'm a mother of a five year old,
and I don't want to have that much movement in
my life at this point in his childhood, and so
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I have. You know, I kind of told myself that
this year I was going to cut down work travel
by about seventy five percent, and then I was going
to try to up my personal pleasure travel by about
thirty percent, so that travel that I do with my son,
and then travel that I can do quickly and slowly
by myself, and so this past week and I did that.
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At the last second, I decided to book a flight
to San Francisco, which I live in La So San
Francisco is such a beautiful flight. It's like forty five minutes.
Might be in traffic for one hundred hours once you
leave the airport, but I was only, you know, on
the plane for forty five minutes. So I popped up
to San Frian. I met up with one of my
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best friends in the world, and we I had like
maybe thirty hours in the city, and I can't even
begin to tell you it was truly one of the
best days of my life, like one of the best
weeks of my life. I had such a blast. A
group of us were out there together, and so a
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very small group, but we started out by having this
impeccable tie dinner with like the most mind blowing scallops
I've ever had, and it was, oh my god, it
was delicious. Met people out, drove around the city, went
to sleep. The next morning, woke up and we went
to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and again
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I was with one of my best friends April. We
just have the most beautiful friendship that I'm so grateful for,
and we have such a shorthand with one another, just
such a fun, beautiful, loving, deep connected relationship. And we're
just so similar in our travel styles and in the
things that were interested in. So we just have the
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most special time together whenever we're together. And so she
and I got up and we went to the museum
and both of us one of our favorite artists is Kusama,
and so Kusama had a installation at that museum. She
did two kind of experiential cubes that are just mind
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blowing and put them on my stories on Instagram this weekend,
so you might have seen it. But we checked out
her exhibit and it was like God, ah, and then
don't let me free in a museum gift shop, getting
all like the artists merged. So it was, yeah, it
was very lit. But then also while we were at
the museum, I had a chance to check out a
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few other exhibits that I really felt like God called
me to the museum, like just to see that. And
one of those exhibits was from an artist named Wolfgang
Tillman's and it was called to Look Without fear, and
it was this very provocative photo series that was just
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exhibited in such an interesting way. It was actually kind
of like explaining I did to my bathroom. Like they
hung up all of like his art in this museum
with like pushpins and the walls and like paper clips,
so it looked like almost like a kid's not even kids,
it just looked like a person's bedroom, you know, where
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you just kind of hack the things that interest you
on the wall, just tack them up. But it didn't
have like any real rhyme or reason to it. It's
just like, you know, I want to see this, so
let me put it up. And it was really, really beautiful.
And then there was this music exhibit. I will not
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even do it justice if I try to describe it
to you, but I hope you if you get a chance,
google it, and if you happen to be in the
San Francisco area or it shows somewhere else. I just
cannot tell you enough. The exhibit is called The Visitors.
It's an immersive hour long video installation that features individually
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recorded footage of several musicians. I'm not going to pronounce
these correctly. Please forgive me. Ragnar who is on guitar
in a bathtub, warming up and playing instruments and singing,
and all of his bandmates and so they're all Icelandic artists,
but they somehow ended up in this insane house from
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eighteen fifteen in upstate New York. They're all playing the
same song, but they're doing their individual parts of the
same song, and they're all in their own separate room
in the house doing that song. This kind of like
well worn mansion in upstate New York. There's like a
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cannon outside, there's ambient sound, and each person is kind
of hollow in their own room. One person had a cello,
one person had a guitar, a piano, another is singing.
Everyone had their piece of the art in their own room.
But they were all playing at the same time within
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this house. But none of them could hear one another,
but we could hear all of them. Oh, I can't
make it make sense, but it it was spectacular. I'll
just never forget it, and I hope I get a
chance to see it again. I was so moved by it,
Oh God, so moved. So if you get a chance,
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check that out. It was called the Visitors. It's at
the San Francisco Modern Art Museum and it was originally
filmed in twenty twelve, so the visitors musical exhibit deeply well.
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After that, I then went to this really cool Indian
music store in Berkeley and I got something that I
love kind of collecting instruments. I have, like some sound
bowls that I love. I have monochord that I play,
and some drums I like jamming out and I've always well,
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in the last few years, I've wanted a shrewdie box,
which is an Indian instrument and kind of I mean
not quite. It kind of looks like an accordion but
no keys, but it's kind of a similar concept, like
it's the air pushing through to make the sound, and
it's a very distinct sound. So I was able to
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get a shrewdie Box there, which was really really exciting
to me.
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And then we had this incredible lunch at this really
beautiful creole restaurant with just delicious, delicious food.
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I mean, god, it was just beautiful. It was beautiful.
So we make it back from Berkeley back to San
France where we're staying, and then that night we kind
of closed out the evening by going to Andre three
thousand show New Blue Sun, which he is doing along
with his band. Big shout out to Carlos Nino and
everyone that is a part of that incredible tour. Shout
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out to Andrea for his incredible album. I can't say
anything about it. It's something you have to experience, and
you know, a footage from it gets released, you'll see it,
but it an experience.
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It is an experience, and I am.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Deeply inspired by that experience. If you get a chance
to go to the show. It's the last day February
for me as I'm recording this and so I know
the show is in atl this week and then it
comes to LA. If you get a chance to see
Andre three thousands New Blue Sun Tour, drop everything that
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you're doing and get there, you will be changed. It
is so inspiring, so inspiring, so inspiring. So there's just
not words, so deep. I hope at some point he
releases you know, the footage, if he wishes, and then
you can see. But it is it's an experience like
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no other. And yeah, I left San Francisco so full.
The next day, I went to brunch with a couple
new friends. We went to this beautiful place I think
it was like in little Italy. It's it's like a mainstay.
I think it's called Mama's. And the creole restaurant was
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called Angeline's. I don't remember the name of the taire restaurant,
but Mama's. And it was delicious and I had a blast,
and we had incredible conversation that was so nourishing, and
you know, and then I grabbed my suitcase and I
ran it to an uber and got on my flight
and made it home in time for my son's basketball
practice and got him to bed and got us a
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fresh start on Monday to go to school. But that,
you know, that little twenty four to no twenty four
to probably thirty hour trip, it did so much for
my soul. So I'm going to try to make that
a part of my life, whether it's you know, catching
like some quick little something somewhere, or even just taking
a drive or going to, you know, a part of
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my own city that I don't get too often and
kind of letting myself walk around for the afternoon, or
you know, just kind of bring my senses to life.
It was really special. So these are some of the
ways I'm building my container for creativity. I'm getting, you know,
some of the meaningful work that I'm so excited about
this year out. This is the way that I'm also
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you know, inspiring my own creativity and finding my muses
and my bursts of inspiration, and so far it has
felt utterly divine, and I feel so grateful to have
tapped into whatever this flow is that I'm connected to
right now in this moment. So thank you as always
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for listening to the show. Oh yeah, and one more
thing that I'm doing that I wanted to share that
has been kind of fun. So I don't get any
service where I live. I never have, and I kept
trying to get these boosters and it doesn't work, and
so I ended up getting a house line, and I
have like a few house phones scattered throughout the house,
and so you know, for people in my close life,
I'm like, hey, hit me on the landline. It has
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been so fun hearing that phone ring in my house.
I've only had it for a couple of weeks, but
it is felt so good hearing this like ancient sound
ring off in my house. It's actually been like very regulating, nourishing,
nostalgic in the best way. I do not like having
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my phone on me, So I just kind of put
my phone away and then I hear that and I
love it. And I've gotten several clocks that I've placed
around my house so that, you know, stay connected to
the time or I'm able to see, you know, if
I'm meditating how much time has passed, all the things.
But it's felt really nice to remember what life felt
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like at some point in my childhood where you needed
a clock to know what time it is, you needed
to know how to read the time, not digitally, and
you got these sporadic phone calls that you couldn't really control,
and the ring would just, you know, go, and you'd
be like, oh, wonder who that is? And you answer
the phone and you talk, and that has been nice.
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I love it all right. Something to consider for this week.
Consider for your soul work, what does your creativity container
look like if you have one? And if you have one,
is there a way to spend some time refining it?
You know, I think our creativity containers can stand to
be kind of every so often, maybe every spring equinox,
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or you know, once or twice a year. So is
there any refresh that you want to do? Is there
any new kind of art or experience you want to
bring into that container, maybe some incense even, or you know,
just move things around, get creative with a placement of things.
And if you don't currently have a creativity container, what
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could yours look like? What could you start kind of
putting up on the wall. And don't be scared to
get it wrong. You know, it doesn't have to look
perfect right now, probably to you know, the average person,
my office probably looks nuts, but it looks beautiful to
me and supportive to me. So figure out what that
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looks like for you, and give yourself a couple of
months to kind of expand into that, to move things
around before you settle on anything, you know, play with it,
have fun with it, put some stuff on the wall,
take it down, change it here. Do this, you know,
take a few months, but see what kind of atmosphere
you can create in your own setting that lends itself
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to activating your creativity. And if you do, take some
pictures and send them my way. Let me know. Teg
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Now, release slowly again deep in helle hold release, repeating
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internally to yourself as you connect to my voice. I
am deeply, deeply well. I I am deeply well.
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I am deeply wow. I'm Debbie Brown and this is
the Deeply Well Podcast. Welcome to Deeply Well, a soft
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place to land in your journey. A podcast for those
that are curious, creative, and ready to expand in higher
consciousness and self care. This is where we heal, this
is where we become. Welcome back everyone, I'm Debbie Brown again,
and this is Deeply Well. This episode, I want to
talk about creativity. I shared a couple episodes ago that
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have been kind of in my back with creativity. Very
gratefully I say that, I think that is something that
is such a big theme for our collective consciousness right now,
is reclaiming our creativity. Very often, for those that have
done some rebirthing or inner child healing, a big focus
is on childlike play and reconnecting to the things that
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we loved in childhood. But depending on what your life
has looked like, your experiences, your current circumstances, you know
that can feel really foreign. You know, this idea that
play is easy, it's kind of fun to poke and
prod that a little bit because at its foundation, it
absolutely is. It's it's simplicity. At its finest, it is
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giving yourself over to your innate, natural emotions and you know,
being enthused with the experiences around you and activating your
imagination and having a fearlessness to try new things, to
look silly, you know, to do whatever movements feel good.
For those who have young children, I think we know
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that all too well. Our kids are always making you know,
these kind of faces where I'm like, I don't even
know your face could twists like that? How did you
think to do that? Or you know, my son in
particular is the king of play. His imagination just it
inspires me endlessly. But you know, depending on life and
all the things, just becoming an adult, you get naturally disconnected.
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Play is actually hard.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
When I first had my son, I found it really
hard to engage in play. I felt like I needed
to be doing something or you know, I just couldn't.
I couldn't really lock in in that way, especially because
you know you're working with developmental ages that you've passed
but the core of play is kind of leaning into
this natural connection to creativity that you don't have to
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think about. You know, that's really the essence of play.
It's creation, it's creating joy from nothing. It is, you know,
expanding your heart and mind and being fearless to create
something to do in that moment, something to feel good about,
and connecting to it in that way can really start
to be something not only healing, but very beautiful. Now,
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when you take it a step past that and you
use that kind of incredible energy, you can also unlock deeper,
higher layers of your purpose. You can really come into
an ownership of yourself and your path that can be
profound and that cannot be taken from you. So taking
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time to investigate and invest in one's creativity it's really
such a sacred devotional act, and it is very uncomfortable,
especially if you're not used to allowing that kind of
freedom into your expression, into yourself or you know, for
whatever reasons, you have limiting beliefs that make you question
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if you could, or you should, or you know, if
you're worthy enough, if you're smart enough, if you'rxxx you
know all insert all words enough and the truth is
always that you are we are, and so sinking into
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the patience that is required to cultivate creativity is something
that I have come to have a tremendous amount of
reverence for. I didn't really realize, I think, until this year,
when some of those deeper elements of my creativity began
to really just like burst from the seams. I didn't
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realize how much time it actually takes to create your container.
And I often think about life and spiritual expression and
practices and devotion in terms of container. You know, the
word container, It is something that is kind of the parameter,
the holding, the space holding for whatever the experience is.
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And so you know, when I'm working, when I'm having retreats,
or when I'm working one on one, I often take
a lot of time to explain to who I'm with
that we are setting the container for our experience together,
our time together at retreats. I do. It's you know,
it's really we're setting the container for the entire group
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and how we'll all be held by this experience. You know,
in a private conversation, even with friends or family, it
could really look like saying, you know, let's set the
container for this conversation. My intention is to be in
community with you, in conversation with you with an open
heart and open mind, you know, kind of walking in
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with it the parameters, the structure for what is happening
and bringing forward some intention setting and open heartedness is
having a container for something. And so when it comes
to really bringing your creativity to life and making it
uniquely your own, because you know, we can watch all
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the all the hack videos and things like that, and
you know, if you listen to this show, you know,
in a lot of ways, I'm kind of a purist,
and I don't I want everyone to come into their
highest expression as themselves and buy themselves but with support,
you know. But it's really our inner journey. And so
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you know, I try to abstain from getting a lot
of influence from other places, and I've really worked to
train myself to lean into my own divine inspiration and
to trust it immediately. And I think that that is
something that has very powerfully led my life, and that's
something that's open and available to each one of us.
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But part of that is, you know, building your intuition,
really being in practice with checking in with your gut,
with creating that channel to your higher self, to your
higher power, but it can be powerful, you know, leaning
into your divine inspiration is a feeling. I know some
listening know it well and you might be saying it's
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a feeling that it's it's pretty indescribable. And it's also
deeply connected to the idea of being a sovereign being
or being in your sovereignty, which is incredibly important and
I think most especially in this day and age for
women to come into that space. But everything is a creation.
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You know, we use the word creativity, of course, the
root word is probably create, creation, creator. It's all in
the same vein of being an active participation with whatever
is in front of you, being an active participation with
your life, co creating with the divine right, co creating
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your healing, creating something. Creativity is. It's really the blood
coursing through your veins that's in service to whatever it
is you are creating. But every single thing we do
is a creation. Everything we do is us co creating,
and that's why in previous episodes I've shared. One that
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comes to mind is a favorite with my dear sister,
my beloved Leila Dahlia. What we talked about on there was.
You know you can create anything. You can co create anything,
including your own pain, just like you can co create
your healing and you can co create you know the
higher vision you have for yourself and your life and
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all the ways you're meant to use your brilliant to
your wisdom, your skill sets, you know your purpose in
service to more so, when we are beginning to set
the stage to really embody the power of being an
active creator in this life and in every interaction that
you have, both perceivedly big and small, it's important to
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create the container of creativity. And when we start doing
the work, and when we start looking at ourselves with reverence,
with trust, with confidence and our abilities, it becomes a
lot easier to create that container. You start to just
kind of notice, what do I need to invoke my creativity?
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What do I need to invoke my inner genius, my
inner muse, my inner artist, And that is uniquely our own,
Which is why I think, you know again, TikTok videos
are dope. All the stuff, there's so much information. I
was actually just looking some stuff up myself. But it's
important to not just recreate what's in front of you.
That can be a good starting point, you know, getting
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that initial bump, to get those wheels turning, to get
those hands moving, to get that vision clear, to get
that esthetic refined. But ultimately it's important to really look
at your own life and your experiences and your wants,
your needs, your desires, your tastes, your likes, your dislikes
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as the inspiration for what that container is going to
look like. So a couple episodes ago, I shared kind
of what my journey has been, especially as many know
right now, I am in the midst of finalizing my
book Living in Wisdom that I cannot wait to get
to you. Huge shout out to GCP Balance. So it's
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been really important for me to create this space, and
I think I was looking at that from the lens
especially of having written in a book a little bit
over six years ago and remembering how incredibly stressful that
was and how I got everything out that I wanted
to say. But it was kind of a lot of
agony to get to that place, to create a structure
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that made sense to my unique brain on how to
get my work out of me. And so part of
the way that I'm showing up in my life in
this last year, and I feel really strongly this year coming.
It's about creating the systems and the structures that are
supportive to what I meant to birth in the world,
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to the various things I meant to birth in the world.
And I know that's true for each of us, because
every single person living, every single person connecting to my
voice right now, has something the earth desperately needs, truly,
whatever that is. And it doesn't have to be so big,
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right And it's not nothing is too small. It's it
doesn't matter what size it is or what it looks like.
But every single person on this earth has something that
the rest of us could really be changed by. So
it's important that we lean into the truth of what
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we're here to do, which is to create always. Whatever
that is, it's creating goodness between you know, you and another,
it's creating perhaps a piece of art or writing a book,
or it's creating a moment, whatever it is, we are
always doing it. And I found that, you know, the
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only times we really get stagnated or unable to move forward,
or unable to advance in our lives or in our
goals for our own inner healing, consciously, subconsciously, it's when
we stop creating, most specifically when we stop making choices,
because choices are creation. Every time you make a choice,
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whatever it is to stand still, to move forward, to backtrack,
to stay, to go, to do this, do that, have
this conversation. Every single choice is something that you are
consciously creating, and it now has its own path and
now has its own timeline. It now has its own consciousness,
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and it's existing in some form and always will, you know.
So it's just it's important to look at all of that,
and so as we think to create our container. One
of the things that I was doing was I've had
this office in my house for many years, and I've
worked out of it for many years, but it was
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ever my preference. I would always find myself going to,
you know, like a coworking station, or for a little
bit of time, I've rented some space, and I don't
know why, I just couldn't really lock into being in
this room. And as I shared recently, you know, I
took several weeks to just get it in this kind
of shape that brought me to life. And so my
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office has a bathroom attached to it, and so in
the bathroom, I kind of turned that into like my
little inner child room. So when I was going through
these boxes, I got out of storage and I was
looking at my whole life in front of me. I
picked out some things that really resonated and continue to
resonate with who I am now, that really show me
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the truth of myself and my life and you know
the fact that I've really always been myself, and you
know that. Along with some pictures and even a couple stickers,
I kind of have just like put them everywhere, kind
of like a kid too, just like taped up everywhere,
which is kind of unlike me because I am very
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I'm very David Beckham with the way with my esthetic.
But yeah, So I did that in that room, and
then in my actual office, I got everything in the
exact tiptop shape it needed to be. I then brought
in I created an altar that's just for my office
and my creativity that includes a really beautiful statue of
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Shiva and Pavarti and a huge amethyst crystal candles, a
sacral chakra, bell a maala, and a big piece of fluorite,
a piece of coon site, a piece of ctrine, a
piece of moldabite, and some beautiful stones that I got
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from one of my breathwork teachers, and so it's set
up on this little table and it's my creativity altar,
and every day I kind of walk over to it
and I ring the bell and I just love it
being here. So that was one of the things that
was important to me. I also have this small stack
of books out that are inspiration books for me. One
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of them is this book that I've been obsessed with
the last maybe six months or so. It's called The
Book of Obscure Sorrows. Oh my god, it is like
I can totally be a certified sad girl. And it
is a book that just says all these things that
I've always thought. I'm like, what he created a word
for that. It's really brilliant. I also have a few
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books of poetry, one of Hafee's and one of my favorite, Roomy,
and then I have a copy of a book that
I love dearly called The Way of Mastery. And so
those are always books that inspire me. I've read them
a million times, especially the latter ones that I mentioned.
So sometimes I'll just walk in my office, I take
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a few deep breaths, I activate my reiki, meditate, a
little bit, and then I read a couple pages and
then I get going because I got a lot of
work to do, so then I'm at it. But doing that,
I created a collage board. I really love collaging. It's
something that I kind of do to activate every project
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that I work on, whether I'm working for a company
on some meditations or you know, one of the multitude
of things. But for everything that I do, I usually
give it its own collage of inspiration that has images
of things that are my muses, people that are my
muses right now, and I have fun turning it into
like a little mini art piece. And I found that
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that just really kind of energetically connects me to whatever
I'm working on. And then I put it up and
you know, for the entirety of the length of whatever
project I'm a part of, you know, I look at
it as I'm working on it, and it keeps me.
I think, especially as someone that kind of has a
multitude of projects happening at one time, it really anchors
me and connects me instantly into what I'm working on
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in that moment. So I really love making those. I'm
looking at the one that I have up right now
for my book and it makes me some mile. I
also have different you know, different invocative totems, you know,
different things and symbols that really speak to me. I
kind of pop up different places and then I get
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everything laid out that I need to see to do
my work well and to get you know, my brain flowing.
So those are some of the ways that I set
the container here. And I always kind of turn on
alist playlist as soon as I get to my office
and it takes me a couple of minutes to settle in.
But now that I have taken the time to kind
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of activate it in this way. Also, you know, got
my files all in orders. It's very nice and tidy.
I'm able to get going pretty quickly, and I really
appreciate that. So that is my container for creativity. And
I also have to feed it by, you know, before
I start my work day. I have a little program
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of things that I do cold plunge, take a walk outside,
get my kiddy off to school, have some coffee, have
you know a little something, and then I get moving
and I like to stay in silence for about twenty
thirty minutes. And then I get in my office and
I get going and so that has been that's been
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really special, especially the last several weeks, it's been really special.
So consider that on your path to creativity, you know,
creating a container for each thing that you're doing. And
that container can be like a collage. It can be
its own little journal, or its own little area, or
its own little file folder. But it's something that you know,
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every time you open it, you're able to instantly activate
and deepen in what you're doing. And I think you know,
in wisdom tradition, when you think of the way people
have Hindu deities or any kind of deities that people
work with, you know, the correct way to do it
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is to put it in an enclosed space and give
it up and then when you open the door, the
energy expands and it fills you. But then you close
the doors, so you're housing the energy that you're tending
to within whatever this container or vessel is. So it's
very similar to that. I found the way some of
that creative energy can flow. You know, at the end
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of every night, I make sure the door is always closed,
all the lights are always off, I kind of put
the room to bed, and then when I come in
the morning, as I explain, I kind of wake it up,
and I've just found that that really is creating some potency.
There really is kind of a felt experience in here
that's so supportive to the act of creation and to
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getting your ideas out and really standing in your fullest
expression for whatever you happen to be working on deeply well.
So that is one of the ways I have been
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experiencing creativity lately. I've also been really connecting to different hobbies.
So I don't think I've shared this on the show yet,
but I was tweeting about it, and I put it
in my threads and on my Instagram and all those places,
and you know, I was I was thinking about some
of the ways that I feed myself. I'm a lifelong learner.
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I know so many that listen to this show are.
We are always trying to kind of sink our teeth
into something, expand into something, and so I love to learn.
I always have. I have always been fascinated, interested, deeply curious,
and actively pursuing a lot of different things at the
same time, sometimes very contrasting things, which kind of leans
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into you know, when I previously had my career in broadcasting,
you know, I was on the radio, or was doing
the Grammy Red Carpets. But then on the weekends or
with my vacation time, I was disappearing and I was
doing you know, meditation, teacher training, breathwork, teacher training. I mean,
you know, over the last decade plus, and so sometimes
things don't always go together, but I always trust my
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gut and I study what I feel interested in at
the time, even if I'm building kind of like my
own little study systems for it. So I love to
do that. So when I think of free time, I
almost never Netflix and chill. It's always kind of like
get out that big book in your highlighter and also
open your computer so you can do secondary research on
something that interests you. Oh yeah, that's me. I'm just
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my sale. So one of the things that I love
to do every year is decide what is the theme
that I want to study for this year. And I
usually pick anywhere between like one three, sometimes even five
if they're kind of shallower topics, things that I'm going
to spend the year kind of exploring in my free time.
So if I get a bit of free time, that's
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when I might read a book on that subject or
you know, watch some videos or make some calls, meet
with some people that are experts in that space, do
deeper research. I love, love, love to research constantly, and
so this year I've kind of done that. A big
priority I have for my year this year is I'm
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working with a new healing modality within the energy family
that I'm really excited about. Not going to call it
out right now, but I will share it in the future.
And I actually think I might have my teacher on
the show. But I'm a reiki master a few times over.
I work with USUI, Holy Fire and Corona, and then
I'm also tuned to two other energy systems that I
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cannot name at this time, but two other energy systems
that I love to work with. And so energy is
really important to me and it's a big part of
the way the way I move. And so there's a
new system that I've been really interested in that I
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think can be so beneficial and so supportive to the
work that I do. So I'm in a twelve month
program working towards that. And then I also decided, because
I got into yoga in the last couple of years,
I decided to just go ahead and do a teacher
training for yoga, and so I'm going to do that
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this year. And one of the things I'm excited. You know,
it's not necessarily something I'm going to actively teach, but
I love immersing myself into something when I know I
want to master it or I want to gain personal
expertise for my own body in it, and then I
like to, if I'm able, push myself. If I'm able
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time wise and you know, money wise, I like to
push myself and just do the teacher training because it
holds you accountable and you get a really high caliber
understanding of something that you're doing. I love doing teacher training,
so that's how I learn best. It's how I kind
of can be accountable, can commit to something. So I'm
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going to do that. I'm doing a two hundred hour
one this year that I start next month, so I'm
really excited for that, and I kind of had to
slip and slide it all over my schedule, like I'm
traveling a lot this year. So even when I'm at
the Black Effect Podcast Festival, which just got announced this week,
I'll be doing my panel and then I'll be going
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to my hotel room to do one of the virtual
classes with the rest of my classmates from the hotel
for a couple hours. So I love stuff like that.
I love to get down like that. But quick break.
Speaking of Black Effect Podcast Festival has officially been announced.
It is happening in Atlanta April twenty fourth, and I
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will be doing a live podcast on the main stage.
I have two amazing guests that are going to be
joining me that I will announce later. So I'm really
excited to be there. So if you plan to be
in Atlanta, I can't wait to see you at the festival.
Please come up. Let's talk about the show. Let's you know,
let's connect. I'm really excited. I'll have more, more and
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more and more to say on that as we continue
to ramp up in it closer to the date. So
those are some things that I'm studying more deeply this year.
I've also taken on a couple new hobbies. So I'm
taking a sewing class, and I just got a sewing
machine and I've been practicing sewing. That is something that
I want to start to begin my learning and so
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I'm gonna go slowly. But sewing is a hobby this year,
and so is tennis. Tennis I just started playing a
little bit during winter break, and I just found that
I feel so free doing that. So I'm really excited
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to kind of get a chance to do that maybe
a couple times a month this year and see how
it feels. And you know, that's something that once you
get some connection to you can continue playing for the
rest of your life. So really looking forward to doing that.
And let's see what are some I think that's kind
of what I'm focused on with some of the free
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space in my life. But also other hobbies that I'm
always actively pursuing are like astronomy, fascinated by it, love
to study astronomy, love to stargazze, astrology obsessed gardening, gardening
as a really really special hobby in my life. Photography, painting.
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I love to paint, Drawing. I love to draw, especially
with my son, he is such an artist. Building different things.
I have like a little workshop bench in the garage,
Like I like to just put stuff together and collecting,
so I feel like I'm never bored. I always feel
kind of really full and engaged, and you know, kind
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of having all of those things that interest me really
keep my creativity alive. So feel really grateful to have
a chance to kind of sink into stuff that interests me.
So consider, you know, what are a couple of things
that you may want to learn on YouTube, take a
class and see if there's a local, you know, community
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space to do something, maybe free tie cheek classes in
the park or you know, whatever it is. What are
a couple of things that you could add to your
year that can help kind of keep that flame sparked
inside for all the other work that you're called to do.
I want to share too, one of the things that
I promised myself I do this year. Last year, I
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traveled a lot for work. I was gone, gone, gone,
and it was amazing. I worked with incredible people. I
learned so much. I had fun, but also it was
really exhausting. And I'm a mother of a five year old,
and I don't want to have that much movement in
my life at this point in his childhood, and so
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I have. You know, I kind of told myself that
this year I was going to cut down work travel
by about seventy five percent, and then I was going
to try to up my personal pleasure travel by about
thirty percent, so that travel that I do with my son,
and then travel that I can do quickly and slowly
by myself, and so this past week and I did that.
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At the last second, I decided to book a flight
to San Francisco, which I live in La So San
Francisco is such a beautiful flight. It's like forty five minutes.
Might be in traffic for one hundred hours once you
leave the airport, but I was only, you know, on
the plane for forty five minutes. So I popped up
to San Frian. I met up with one of my
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best friends in the world, and we I had like
maybe thirty hours in the city, and I can't even
begin to tell you it was truly one of the
best days of my life, like one of the best
weeks of my life. I had such a blast. A
group of us were out there together, and so a
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very small group, but we started out by having this
impeccable tie dinner with like the most mind blowing scallops
I've ever had, and it was, oh my god, it
was delicious. Met people out, drove around the city, went
to sleep. The next morning, woke up and we went
to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and again
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I was with one of my best friends April. We
just have the most beautiful friendship that I'm so grateful for,
and we have such a shorthand with one another, just
such a fun, beautiful, loving, deep connected relationship. And we're
just so similar in our travel styles and in the
things that were interested in. So we just have the
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most special time together whenever we're together. And so she
and I got up and we went to the museum
and both of us one of our favorite artists is Kusama,
and so Kusama had a installation at that museum. She
did two kind of experiential cubes that are just mind
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blowing and put them on my stories on Instagram this weekend,
so you might have seen it. But we checked out
her exhibit and it was like God, ah, and then
don't let me free in a museum gift shop, getting
all like the artists merged. So it was, yeah, it
was very lit. But then also while we were at
the museum, I had a chance to check out a
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few other exhibits that I really felt like God called
me to the museum, like just to see that. And
one of those exhibits was from an artist named Wolfgang
Tillman's and it was called to Look Without fear, and
it was this very provocative photo series that was just
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exhibited in such an interesting way. It was actually kind
of like explaining I did to my bathroom. Like they
hung up all of like his art in this museum
with like pushpins and the walls and like paper clips,
so it looked like almost like a kid's not even kids,
it just looked like a person's bedroom, you know, where
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you just kind of hack the things that interest you
on the wall, just tack them up. But it didn't
have like any real rhyme or reason to it. It's
just like, you know, I want to see this, so
let me put it up. And it was really, really beautiful.
And then there was this music exhibit. I will not
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even do it justice if I try to describe it
to you, but I hope you if you get a chance,
google it, and if you happen to be in the
San Francisco area or it shows somewhere else. I just
cannot tell you enough. The exhibit is called The Visitors.
It's an immersive hour long video installation that features individually
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recorded footage of several musicians. I'm not going to pronounce
these correctly. Please forgive me. Ragnar who is on guitar
in a bathtub, warming up and playing instruments and singing,
and all of his bandmates and so they're all Icelandic artists,
but they somehow ended up in this insane house from
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eighteen fifteen in upstate New York. They're all playing the
same song, but they're doing their individual parts of the
same song, and they're all in their own separate room
in the house doing that song. This kind of like
well worn mansion in upstate New York. There's like a
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cannon outside, there's ambient sound, and each person is kind
of hollow in their own room. One person had a cello,
one person had a guitar, a piano, another is singing.
Everyone had their piece of the art in their own room.
But they were all playing at the same time within
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this house. But none of them could hear one another,
but we could hear all of them. Oh, I can't
make it make sense, but it it was spectacular. I'll
just never forget it, and I hope I get a
chance to see it again. I was so moved by it,
Oh God, so moved. So if you get a chance,
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check that out. It was called the Visitors. It's at
the San Francisco Modern Art Museum and it was originally
filmed in twenty twelve, so the visitors musical exhibit deeply well.
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After that, I then went to this really cool Indian
music store in Berkeley and I got something that I
love kind of collecting instruments. I have, like some sound
bowls that I love. I have monochord that I play,
and some drums I like jamming out and I've always well,
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in the last few years, I've wanted a shrewdie box,
which is an Indian instrument and kind of I mean
not quite. It kind of looks like an accordion but
no keys, but it's kind of a similar concept, like
it's the air pushing through to make the sound, and
it's a very distinct sound. So I was able to
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get a shrewdie Box there, which was really really exciting
to me.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
And then we had this incredible lunch at this really
beautiful creole restaurant with just delicious, delicious food.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
I mean, god, it was just beautiful. It was beautiful.
So we make it back from Berkeley back to San
France where we're staying, and then that night we kind
of closed out the evening by going to Andre three
thousand show New Blue Sun, which he is doing along
with his band. Big shout out to Carlos Nino and
everyone that is a part of that incredible tour. Shout
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out to Andrea for his incredible album. I can't say
anything about it. It's something you have to experience, and
you know, a footage from it gets released, you'll see it,
but it an experience.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
It is an experience, and I am.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Deeply inspired by that experience. If you get a chance
to go to the show. It's the last day February
for me as I'm recording this and so I know
the show is in atl this week and then it
comes to LA. If you get a chance to see
Andre three thousands New Blue Sun Tour, drop everything that
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you're doing and get there, you will be changed. It
is so inspiring, so inspiring, so inspiring. So there's just
not words, so deep. I hope at some point he
releases you know, the footage, if he wishes, and then
you can see. But it is it's an experience like
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no other. And yeah, I left San Francisco so full.
The next day, I went to brunch with a couple
new friends. We went to this beautiful place I think
it was like in little Italy. It's it's like a mainstay.
I think it's called Mama's. And the creole restaurant was
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called Angeline's. I don't remember the name of the taire restaurant,
but Mama's. And it was delicious and I had a blast,
and we had incredible conversation that was so nourishing, and
you know, and then I grabbed my suitcase and I
ran it to an uber and got on my flight
and made it home in time for my son's basketball
practice and got him to bed and got us a
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fresh start on Monday to go to school. But that,
you know, that little twenty four to no twenty four
to probably thirty hour trip, it did so much for
my soul. So I'm going to try to make that
a part of my life, whether it's you know, catching
like some quick little something somewhere, or even just taking
a drive or going to, you know, a part of
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my own city that I don't get too often and
kind of letting myself walk around for the afternoon, or
you know, just kind of bring my senses to life.
It was really special. So these are some of the
ways I'm building my container for creativity. I'm getting, you know,
some of the meaningful work that I'm so excited about
this year out. This is the way that I'm also
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you know, inspiring my own creativity and finding my muses
and my bursts of inspiration, and so far it has
felt utterly divine, and I feel so grateful to have
tapped into whatever this flow is that I'm connected to
right now in this moment. So thank you as always
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for listening to the show. Oh yeah, and one more
thing that I'm doing that I wanted to share that
has been kind of fun. So I don't get any
service where I live. I never have, and I kept
trying to get these boosters and it doesn't work, and
so I ended up getting a house line, and I
have like a few house phones scattered throughout the house,
and so you know, for people in my close life,
I'm like, hey, hit me on the landline. It has
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been so fun hearing that phone ring in my house.
I've only had it for a couple of weeks, but
it is felt so good hearing this like ancient sound
ring off in my house. It's actually been like very regulating, nourishing,
nostalgic in the best way. I do not like having
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my phone on me, So I just kind of put
my phone away and then I hear that and I
love it. And I've gotten several clocks that I've placed
around my house so that, you know, stay connected to
the time or I'm able to see, you know, if
I'm meditating how much time has passed, all the things.
But it's felt really nice to remember what life felt
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like at some point in my childhood where you needed
a clock to know what time it is, you needed
to know how to read the time, not digitally, and
you got these sporadic phone calls that you couldn't really control,
and the ring would just, you know, go, and you'd
be like, oh, wonder who that is? And you answer
the phone and you talk, and that has been nice.
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I love it all right. Something to consider for this week.
Consider for your soul work, what does your creativity container
look like if you have one? And if you have one,
is there a way to spend some time refining it?
You know, I think our creativity containers can stand to
be kind of every so often, maybe every spring equinox,
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or you know, once or twice a year. So is
there any refresh that you want to do? Is there
any new kind of art or experience you want to
bring into that container, maybe some incense even, or you know,
just move things around, get creative with a placement of things.
And if you don't currently have a creativity container, what
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could yours look like? What could you start kind of
putting up on the wall. And don't be scared to
get it wrong. You know, it doesn't have to look
perfect right now, probably to you know, the average person,
my office probably looks nuts, but it looks beautiful to
me and supportive to me. So figure out what that
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looks like for you, and give yourself a couple of
months to kind of expand into that, to move things
around before you settle on anything, you know, play with it,
have fun with it, put some stuff on the wall,
take it down, change it here. Do this, you know,
take a few months, but see what kind of atmosphere
you can create in your own setting that lends itself
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to activating your creativity. And if you do, take some
pictures and send them my way. Let me know. Teg
me at Debbie Brown at Deeply, Well, thank you for
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