February 16, 2023 • 33 mins
There are four soul questions in primordial sound mediatiation, Who am I? What do I really want? What am I grateful for? and How can I serve? By asking these four questions we invite clarity, healing, awareness, and so much more to connect us more deeply with our purpose and divine being. This week Devi guides us through meditation for each question.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M from grandmothers who whispered in their baby girl is.
Two fathers on dimly lit street corners, instructing young soldiers
to always keep their eyes open. You be queen, you
(00:21):
were fired. You will pass through centuries on the hands
of your daughters. They called you wisdom. Proverbs on the
backs of diamond eyed school children who grew into hymnals
recited by amethyst holding urban philosophers who recited neighborhood commandments
out of the windows of restored Alchemedo chariots. To keep
the warmth of their blood, be wise, be smart, being black,
(00:46):
Opal Brown courts bloodstone and prayer. Be every form of
jim see king told, scribe, scribe, told son, son, told wife,
wife told her daughter, and daughter told the ass is.
The EMSs has told me that you would come to
give wisdom. Thousands. They said you would come. Dropping Dropping
(01:09):
gim Hey, Welcome back to another episode of The Dropping
Gym's podcast. I'm your host, Debbie Brown. This episode, I
want to dive into a little meditation. I've been getting
some beautiful feedback on the past few episodes, and it's
been really beautiful reading for those that have been connecting
to the meditations how much that that has allowed you
(01:33):
to deepen your practice. UM. Meditation is, as many of
you know by now, UM, just one of the most gorgeous,
powerful tools to be in your healed, whole, full self,
your most awakened self, and a deep passion of mine
(01:54):
is teaching meditation in a way that allows it to
come to life for us and allows us to connect
to a practice a lot faster. As we discussed in
a previous episode of the podcast Triggers and Meditation, there
are some barriers to being still, in being quiet, even
(02:14):
though it seems like you know that would be simple,
not moving and not talking, but it's challenging and that's
part of how we build our practice. So today I
wanted to share something with you when I was first
becoming a meditation teacher, when I took a deeper leg
of study in my practice after practicing for a few years,
(02:40):
I really learned new depths of the beauty of being
able to get into the gap. And the gap is
that sweet space when we're meditating. Uh, in between thoughts,
So had one thought it completed and before you moved
to the next one, there was probably a Milla Milla, Milla, Milla,
(03:01):
milla second in between, and that is the space of
pure potentiality where nothing has yet happened, but absolutely anything
else can UM. It is the highest form of our
creation is available in that sweet spot. And so some
of the beauty about cultivating a meditation practice is you
(03:24):
get to stretch that time that you're in the sweet spot.
So what may start as a millisecond, and even now
some days it's still a millisecond, you know, you might
find that you actually get a minute of that um.
Maybe you're getting five minutes of it. I don't know.
Maybe one day you get hours of it UM. But
(03:46):
that space, that space of potential, that's where healing is birthed.
That's where healing is deepened. UM. That's where healing occurs.
And that's also where your purpose occurs. That's where some
of those breakthrough thoughts come in about not just yourself
(04:09):
in your life, but the breakthrough thoughts of what you're
here to grow, what you're here to build, what you're
here to transform, Those awarenesses about the higher version of
who you're called to be with the actual roadmap to
it or the actual kind of mission marching orders that
(04:31):
you're meant to pursue. That's what's found in that sweet
space of meditation. So, yes, meditation is so gorgeous for
nervous system regulation. It's so amazing for our mental health,
our emotional health. UM, it's so amazing for the calm
(04:51):
you know that is so often spoken to. The meditation
is also incredible for the creativity, for the way that
it just kind of galvanizes you towards your bigger dreams
UM and gives you so much clarity around those things,
heightens your intuition. Just it really activates you. It turns
you up, it turns you on. So I wanted to
(05:14):
guide a meditation today. That was part of the fundamental
teaching practice when I was learning to be an educator
and meditation and so, as I've shared many times, UM,
I went through the gorgeous program that Choper offers many many,
many years ago, and the Choper certification program, which is
(05:36):
part of Um Deepak Chopra is just incredible life's work
and life study and life sharing. Um. It was birthed
around utilizing your primordial sound. Now that's something we can
get into at a later time. But it's all about
the calculation of your birth time, birth location. A lot
(05:58):
of things you use in astrology and finding out um
the Sanskrit word that best resonates with your individual soul
and spirit based on that information, and then you use
that secret word silently to yourself as your mantra for
your meditation practice. And the importance of a mantra is
(06:21):
especially as you're learning to meditate. It becomes a really
really powerful tool for being able to release thought, to
notice and have an awareness when you are stuck in
the thought, and then be able to come back into
um the openness to find the gap that we just discussed,
(06:42):
so beautiful, beautiful, beautiful UM. But as I was learning
to teach in that program, and something that I've done
on stage so many times as I've hosted retreats all
over with Deepak is deepos beautiful system of four soul
questions in Primordial Sound meditation. And there are four questions
(07:06):
that as we guide meditation, we speak out um as
we are teaching people um how to come a little
bit deeper into themselves. And so the four soul questions,
I want to break them down for us and give
you a little more awareness around what's happening when you're
(07:26):
asking each of those questions and then we will have
a meditation together where you can kind of sink into that,
really savor that. So this episode is best listen to
UM when you're not driving, and when you're not maybe
operating any having machinery, or doing anything that requires safety.
(07:49):
UM I would highly recommend that you spend maybe more
than even the first lesson with this episode. So maybe
let this be a companion with you in your practice
for the next week or however long you feel cold
and really see where it begins to guide you. Mm hmm.
All right, So let's first start this conversation by centering
(08:14):
ourselves if it is possible for you where you are
at UM, I would like to invite you to get
a little more comfortable, to find an area that you'd
like to sit in. UM, support your spine, keep your
belly soft, whatever feels comfortable for you. And now let's
(08:36):
just take a couple of deep breaths in and out together.
We did this maybe three times, so just very casually,
we want to settle and kind of ground into the
space and into this moment. So I want to invite
you here with your eyes still open but soft. I
want to invite you to take a deep and hail
(08:58):
in through your nose and we'll hold it at the
top and releasing through your nose, In through your nose,
(09:21):
and release, and in through your nose and release. Now
(09:42):
return to a breath that just builds natural and nourishing
for you. Whatever pace feels good that it is allowing
you to really bring in some energy into your body
and keep that circulation moving. All right. So I want
to walk through the four so questions and then I'm
(10:04):
gonna go back and I'm going to speak about each
individually for a moment, and then we'll get into our meditation.
So in primordial sound meditation, the four soul questions are
who am I? What do I really want? What am
I grateful for? How can I serve? Who am I?
(10:33):
What do I really want? What am I grateful for?
How can I serve? So that first question, who am I?
The reason we invoke that question and why it can
be such a beautiful tool is who am I? But
without all the conditioned beliefs I have about myself? Who
(10:59):
am I? When I am not all the roles that
I'm playing in the world. But we're really asking with
that question who am I? We are inviting our soul
to come forward. We are inviting in an opportunity to
glimpse our higher self, our most authentic self, the version
of us that is whole, that is worthy, that is
(11:21):
in existence, even when we are not someone's friend, even
when we are not someone's relationship, someone's parents, someone's work,
or someone's boss, even when we are not whatever. It
is that the some of our personalities tells us we are.
Who am I? You know, one of the fundamental mantras
(11:46):
and meditation is I am. And when we say I am,
we don't follow that with an answer. So this is
the precursor to the I am. We are looking to
invite in the I am. And so as we ask
these questions, we are not actually looking to fill them
(12:06):
with answers at all. We are asking the question as
an invitation and invocation um and intention of what can
possibly come in that is not yet known to us um,
but very often is a deep remembrance. So it feels
eventually very soft to land into. So who am I?
(12:33):
We are inviting in mystery. We are inviting in layers,
we are inviting in facets. We're inviting in a prismatic
experience into knowing ourselves. Who am I? There is so
much to know, there is so much to remember in
(12:53):
that statement. So that's the first question. The next question
and primordial sound meditation is what do I really want?
What do I really want? I think a more maybe
um spiritual way of saying that is, like, what are
(13:16):
my desires? The reason we are asking what do I
really want? It's because the truth is, most of us
have no idea really, right like, we are so filled
with things happening in society, with being influenced. Good Lord,
(13:37):
we're in the midst of that right now, right the
last ten years, being told, being in a space where
we are looking to match energy or compare ourselves, right Like,
it's very it's very rare that we all naturally know
(14:01):
what we really want. The beauty is, that's what we're
here to find out because none of us know, but
all of us think everyone else knows. And when we
invite in that question what do I really want or
what is my deepest desire? We invite in healing, we
invite in clarity, we invite in purpose, we invite in awareness,
(14:25):
we invite in the opportunity to expand and explore what
do I really want? On a surface level, it could
be while I want a relationship, or I want this job,
or I want this to happen. I want to be
seen like this. And then what's under that? Right? Because
(14:48):
what made that a desire for you? When we find
out the things that we're desiring, we can go a
little deeper and we get to look at why do
I desire that? Which sometimes on Earth's what unmet needs
are present that may desire our attention. You know, it
could bring up things from your life's history that need
(15:13):
to be observed, witnessed, healed, transformed for all of the
reasons that are usually personal to each of us. And
then when we get to that layer, we get to
get curious, what do I want? What do I need
now that I've landed in a healthy space? What do
(15:36):
I need? What does feel good when I'm not just
looking at life through a more surface view? What is
a deeper need? What is a deeper desire? It helps
us cultivate our healing, It helps us cultivate our purpose
because when we understand what our needs are, we also
(15:59):
get to understand the opposites of that of what we
have to give as well, Right, like, what are the
areas that we are able to share ourselves more deeply
because we're so aware question number three, What am I
(16:20):
grateful for? What am I grateful for? Gratitude is one
of the most important, profound pieces of ourselves to cultivate
and grow and enhance. Living a life of gratitude allows
(16:47):
so many of the things that come to us to
feel even better because we feel enough where we are.
When we have a heart of gratitude, we're able to
meet ourselves deeper. We're really recognizing and honoring needs that
we have. We're recognizing and honoring ways that we potentially
(17:11):
showed up or opened ourselves enough to receive and so
important that we open to receive. So often, and I
know many can relate to this. You know, so often
people are trying to give us the best of what
they're able to give us. And that doesn't necessarily mean
(17:32):
it is what we think we need. It doesn't necessarily
mean it's what we give. But everyone has their own
way of giving, and sometimes when it's not what we
think we want, or it's not reciprocal in the way
that it's how we would do it or give it,
we don't recognize it. And there's a real opportunity miss
(17:53):
there we're not receiving something that could be really beautiful
to be on the receiving end of, and we're not
able to really see or honor the person that's giving
the giving, which can sometimes be a feeling of an
injuring or a harm for them. And that's not necessarily
our responsibility. But showing up as the higher, softer version
(18:18):
of ourselves for people in our lives is it's important,
you know, as long as our boundaries are also protected,
it's important. And so what am I grateful for? You know,
Let's get fundamental. Let's realize where we might be missing
opportunities to see beauty, grace, love and gratitude and things,
(18:38):
you know, where are my needs met? Sometimes I feel
so deeply grateful for, you know, things you may not
take time to stop and see someone doing something a
little extra when you don't know them and they absolutely
don't have to and they're doing it just because or
just because it's the right thing to do, or because
(19:00):
they had time to do it. You know, being on
the receiving in of some of those small gratitudes is
so beautiful, you know, even if I'm in the car,
I really try to acknowledge, like if someone lets me over,
I write, I raised my hand in my mirror so
they can see and say thank you for that. You know,
granted we're emerging and we're in and out all day
(19:20):
and night, but being able to just take a moment
that required something, thank you. You know. The more we
can practice doing that, the more we're able to see
how abundant life actually can be for us. And we
also just energetically are creating an energy around us that
says we really like that, we like receiving things that
(19:43):
feel good. And I found just from my personal experience
and experiences of those I know, that allows the universe
to kind of program at a higher level for us,
you know co Cree eight experiences that we're really responding
(20:04):
to in a heartfelt way, UM, and those experiences of gratitude,
it really creates a pathway for us to now be
attracting more things that will be grateful for. UM. So
gratitude practice. What am I grateful for now? The fourth question?
How can I serve? How can I serve? How can
(20:26):
I serve? Service to all? Service and love? It is
why we are here. Being of service is your purpose.
That is my belief, that is what I live by
that is what I believe for myself. Service is my purpose.
(20:47):
That is why it is less about what is my
job title, and it's more about how do I recognize
and observe my unique gifts so that I can connect
it to something that is of service for the greater
good to all. That is my purpose and very often
(21:09):
we add a little curiosity and creativity to that, and
we're able to have a purpose that can also be
the things that we do in life and in the world,
and that can you know, potentially earnest money or get
to a place where existing in our purpose, existing as
ourselves is how we can live um and how we
(21:32):
can meet our needs as well. So how can I serve?
We have to always be looking for how am I
meant to now share this? We are all conduits of
awakening for one another. We are all conduits of healing
for one another. That's the intention. It's not always executed
for each of us, but that is the intention, a
(21:53):
path of service to all for the highest good. And
when we're all on that path, that means we're also
receiving service from others UM. So it doesn't feel like
an imbalance. Being of service is not being a murdyr.
Being of service is not you in servitude and not receiving.
Living a life of service is a tuning to the
(22:17):
divine flow of why we're here to have this shared
experience through self actualization. Um. But when we are in
a space of healthy service, serving through purpose, we are
also receiving so much that reciprocal flow. So much so
(22:48):
those are the beautiful for soul questions. And now let's
test them out just a little bit. Okay, so we
will have a beautiful meditation here after listening, I want
to invite you now to readjust your body to a
level of comfort that feels supportive. Straight spine, soft belly,
(23:14):
connect to your heart, connect to your breath, and now here,
gently close your eyes, and let's start by allowing your
body to come into an even more relaxed position. To
notice any tention in your body and release it. Maybe
(23:36):
it's your jaw, your neck, your shoulders, drop them, release
that jaw, release your arms, release your stomach, your hips,
allow your legs and your knees and your calves to soften,
(24:00):
and really experience yourself as taking root right now in
this grounded, present moment. Now, notice your breath and your body,
the gentle rise and fall of your chest. It could
feel comfortable in this space to have your hands palms
facing up on the tops of your thighs or on
(24:22):
the sides of you in a state of receiving. It
could feel good to maybe place the hand on your heart,
maybe one on your abdomen, either your solar plexus or
sacral so above or beneath your navel. And I will
(24:42):
invoke now the four soul questions. And again we are
not looking to fill these questions with an answer. We
are asking them and releasing them. Taking a deep breath
here in and out. Oh am I, Who am I?
(26:27):
What do I really want? What do I really want? Yeah?
(27:33):
What am I grateful for? What am I grateful for?
(28:39):
How can I serve? How can I serve? M um
(29:17):
um um um um um bo m m m h.
(30:34):
Coming back into this present moment, taking a big deep
inhale and through your nose mhm, and releasing through your
nose and releasing your position in this moment. If it
(30:56):
feels good, you can bring your hands to prayer position
of the center of your heart and just hold your
awareness there, taking a bow forward. Now I must stay
the lighten me recognize as and honors the lighten you.
(31:17):
Those are the four soul questions. Spend some time with
that as EBL the next few days. I also recommend,
if you feel called, making it a part of your
daily practice. It's an amazing meditation to deeply connect to
while on your journey and also as a beautiful refresher
(31:41):
and moments of transition. You know, we are always evolving,
we are always deepening our awareness. That is the intention, UM,
and so being able to really connect and commit to
that and open to that and utilize these questions when
(32:01):
you're in those moments to say, you know, who am
I now? What am I becoming? What wants to be
known to me? Mm hmm. All right, that's it for
this week. I will join you next week, next episode. UM,
and please share this episode with a friend. If there's
anyone in your life that's been curious about meditation, UM,
(32:25):
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(32:46):
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your favorite shows. M
M from grandmothers who whispered in their baby girl is.
Two fathers on dimly lit street corners, instructing young soldiers
to always keep their eyes open. You be queen, you
(00:21):
were fired. You will pass through centuries on the hands
of your daughters. They called you wisdom. Proverbs on the
backs of diamond eyed school children who grew into hymnals
recited by amethyst holding urban philosophers who recited neighborhood commandments
out of the windows of restored Alchemedo chariots. To keep
the warmth of their blood, be wise, be smart, being black,
(00:46):
Opal Brown courts bloodstone and prayer. Be every form of
jim see king told, scribe, scribe, told son, son, told wife,
wife told her daughter, and daughter told the ass is.
The EMSs has told me that you would come to
give wisdom. Thousands. They said you would come. Dropping Dropping
(01:09):
gim Hey, Welcome back to another episode of The Dropping
Gym's podcast. I'm your host, Debbie Brown. This episode, I
want to dive into a little meditation. I've been getting
some beautiful feedback on the past few episodes, and it's
been really beautiful reading for those that have been connecting
to the meditations how much that that has allowed you
(01:33):
to deepen your practice. UM. Meditation is, as many of
you know by now, UM, just one of the most gorgeous,
powerful tools to be in your healed, whole, full self,
your most awakened self, and a deep passion of mine
(01:54):
is teaching meditation in a way that allows it to
come to life for us and allows us to connect
to a practice a lot faster. As we discussed in
a previous episode of the podcast Triggers and Meditation, there
are some barriers to being still, in being quiet, even
(02:14):
though it seems like you know that would be simple,
not moving and not talking, but it's challenging and that's
part of how we build our practice. So today I
wanted to share something with you when I was first
becoming a meditation teacher, when I took a deeper leg
of study in my practice after practicing for a few years,
(02:40):
I really learned new depths of the beauty of being
able to get into the gap. And the gap is
that sweet space when we're meditating. Uh, in between thoughts,
So had one thought it completed and before you moved
to the next one, there was probably a Milla Milla, Milla, Milla,
(03:01):
milla second in between, and that is the space of
pure potentiality where nothing has yet happened, but absolutely anything
else can UM. It is the highest form of our
creation is available in that sweet spot. And so some
of the beauty about cultivating a meditation practice is you
(03:24):
get to stretch that time that you're in the sweet spot.
So what may start as a millisecond, and even now
some days it's still a millisecond, you know, you might
find that you actually get a minute of that um.
Maybe you're getting five minutes of it. I don't know.
Maybe one day you get hours of it UM. But
(03:46):
that space, that space of potential, that's where healing is birthed.
That's where healing is deepened. UM. That's where healing occurs.
And that's also where your purpose occurs. That's where some
of those breakthrough thoughts come in about not just yourself
(04:09):
in your life, but the breakthrough thoughts of what you're
here to grow, what you're here to build, what you're
here to transform, Those awarenesses about the higher version of
who you're called to be with the actual roadmap to
it or the actual kind of mission marching orders that
(04:31):
you're meant to pursue. That's what's found in that sweet
space of meditation. So, yes, meditation is so gorgeous for
nervous system regulation. It's so amazing for our mental health,
our emotional health. UM, it's so amazing for the calm
(04:51):
you know that is so often spoken to. The meditation
is also incredible for the creativity, for the way that
it just kind of galvanizes you towards your bigger dreams
UM and gives you so much clarity around those things,
heightens your intuition. Just it really activates you. It turns
you up, it turns you on. So I wanted to
(05:14):
guide a meditation today. That was part of the fundamental
teaching practice when I was learning to be an educator
and meditation and so, as I've shared many times, UM,
I went through the gorgeous program that Choper offers many many,
many years ago, and the Choper certification program, which is
(05:36):
part of Um Deepak Chopra is just incredible life's work
and life study and life sharing. Um. It was birthed
around utilizing your primordial sound. Now that's something we can
get into at a later time. But it's all about
the calculation of your birth time, birth location. A lot
(05:58):
of things you use in astrology and finding out um
the Sanskrit word that best resonates with your individual soul
and spirit based on that information, and then you use
that secret word silently to yourself as your mantra for
your meditation practice. And the importance of a mantra is
(06:21):
especially as you're learning to meditate. It becomes a really
really powerful tool for being able to release thought, to
notice and have an awareness when you are stuck in
the thought, and then be able to come back into
um the openness to find the gap that we just discussed,
(06:42):
so beautiful, beautiful, beautiful UM. But as I was learning
to teach in that program, and something that I've done
on stage so many times as I've hosted retreats all
over with Deepak is deepos beautiful system of four soul
questions in Primordial Sound meditation. And there are four questions
(07:06):
that as we guide meditation, we speak out um as
we are teaching people um how to come a little
bit deeper into themselves. And so the four soul questions,
I want to break them down for us and give
you a little more awareness around what's happening when you're
(07:26):
asking each of those questions and then we will have
a meditation together where you can kind of sink into that,
really savor that. So this episode is best listen to
UM when you're not driving, and when you're not maybe
operating any having machinery, or doing anything that requires safety.
(07:49):
UM I would highly recommend that you spend maybe more
than even the first lesson with this episode. So maybe
let this be a companion with you in your practice
for the next week or however long you feel cold
and really see where it begins to guide you. Mm hmm.
All right, So let's first start this conversation by centering
(08:14):
ourselves if it is possible for you where you are
at UM, I would like to invite you to get
a little more comfortable, to find an area that you'd
like to sit in. UM, support your spine, keep your
belly soft, whatever feels comfortable for you. And now let's
(08:36):
just take a couple of deep breaths in and out together.
We did this maybe three times, so just very casually,
we want to settle and kind of ground into the
space and into this moment. So I want to invite
you here with your eyes still open but soft. I
want to invite you to take a deep and hail
(08:58):
in through your nose and we'll hold it at the
top and releasing through your nose, In through your nose,
(09:21):
and release, and in through your nose and release. Now
(09:42):
return to a breath that just builds natural and nourishing
for you. Whatever pace feels good that it is allowing
you to really bring in some energy into your body
and keep that circulation moving. All right. So I want
to walk through the four so questions and then I'm
(10:04):
gonna go back and I'm going to speak about each
individually for a moment, and then we'll get into our meditation.
So in primordial sound meditation, the four soul questions are
who am I? What do I really want? What am
I grateful for? How can I serve? Who am I?
(10:33):
What do I really want? What am I grateful for?
How can I serve? So that first question, who am I?
The reason we invoke that question and why it can
be such a beautiful tool is who am I? But
without all the conditioned beliefs I have about myself? Who
(10:59):
am I? When I am not all the roles that
I'm playing in the world. But we're really asking with
that question who am I? We are inviting our soul
to come forward. We are inviting in an opportunity to
glimpse our higher self, our most authentic self, the version
of us that is whole, that is worthy, that is
(11:21):
in existence, even when we are not someone's friend, even
when we are not someone's relationship, someone's parents, someone's work,
or someone's boss, even when we are not whatever. It
is that the some of our personalities tells us we are.
Who am I? You know, one of the fundamental mantras
(11:46):
and meditation is I am. And when we say I am,
we don't follow that with an answer. So this is
the precursor to the I am. We are looking to
invite in the I am. And so as we ask
these questions, we are not actually looking to fill them
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with answers at all. We are asking the question as
an invitation and invocation um and intention of what can
possibly come in that is not yet known to us um,
but very often is a deep remembrance. So it feels
eventually very soft to land into. So who am I?
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We are inviting in mystery. We are inviting in layers,
we are inviting in facets. We're inviting in a prismatic
experience into knowing ourselves. Who am I? There is so
much to know, there is so much to remember in
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that statement. So that's the first question. The next question
and primordial sound meditation is what do I really want?
What do I really want? I think a more maybe
um spiritual way of saying that is, like, what are
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my desires? The reason we are asking what do I
really want? It's because the truth is, most of us
have no idea really, right like, we are so filled
with things happening in society, with being influenced. Good Lord,
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we're in the midst of that right now, right the
last ten years, being told, being in a space where
we are looking to match energy or compare ourselves, right Like,
it's very it's very rare that we all naturally know
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what we really want. The beauty is, that's what we're
here to find out because none of us know, but
all of us think everyone else knows. And when we
invite in that question what do I really want or
what is my deepest desire? We invite in healing, we
invite in clarity, we invite in purpose, we invite in awareness,
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we invite in the opportunity to expand and explore what
do I really want? On a surface level, it could
be while I want a relationship, or I want this job,
or I want this to happen. I want to be
seen like this. And then what's under that? Right? Because
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what made that a desire for you? When we find
out the things that we're desiring, we can go a
little deeper and we get to look at why do
I desire that? Which sometimes on Earth's what unmet needs
are present that may desire our attention. You know, it
could bring up things from your life's history that need
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to be observed, witnessed, healed, transformed for all of the
reasons that are usually personal to each of us. And
then when we get to that layer, we get to
get curious, what do I want? What do I need
now that I've landed in a healthy space? What do
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I need? What does feel good when I'm not just
looking at life through a more surface view? What is
a deeper need? What is a deeper desire? It helps
us cultivate our healing, It helps us cultivate our purpose
because when we understand what our needs are, we also
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get to understand the opposites of that of what we
have to give as well, Right, like, what are the
areas that we are able to share ourselves more deeply
because we're so aware question number three, What am I
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grateful for? What am I grateful for? Gratitude is one
of the most important, profound pieces of ourselves to cultivate
and grow and enhance. Living a life of gratitude allows
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so many of the things that come to us to
feel even better because we feel enough where we are.
When we have a heart of gratitude, we're able to
meet ourselves deeper. We're really recognizing and honoring needs that
we have. We're recognizing and honoring ways that we potentially
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showed up or opened ourselves enough to receive and so
important that we open to receive. So often, and I
know many can relate to this. You know, so often
people are trying to give us the best of what
they're able to give us. And that doesn't necessarily mean
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it is what we think we need. It doesn't necessarily
mean it's what we give. But everyone has their own
way of giving, and sometimes when it's not what we
think we want, or it's not reciprocal in the way
that it's how we would do it or give it,
we don't recognize it. And there's a real opportunity miss
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there we're not receiving something that could be really beautiful
to be on the receiving end of, and we're not
able to really see or honor the person that's giving
the giving, which can sometimes be a feeling of an
injuring or a harm for them. And that's not necessarily
our responsibility. But showing up as the higher, softer version
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of ourselves for people in our lives is it's important,
you know, as long as our boundaries are also protected,
it's important. And so what am I grateful for? You know,
Let's get fundamental. Let's realize where we might be missing
opportunities to see beauty, grace, love and gratitude and things,
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you know, where are my needs met? Sometimes I feel
so deeply grateful for, you know, things you may not
take time to stop and see someone doing something a
little extra when you don't know them and they absolutely
don't have to and they're doing it just because or
just because it's the right thing to do, or because
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they had time to do it. You know, being on
the receiving in of some of those small gratitudes is
so beautiful, you know, even if I'm in the car,
I really try to acknowledge, like if someone lets me over,
I write, I raised my hand in my mirror so
they can see and say thank you for that. You know,
granted we're emerging and we're in and out all day
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and night, but being able to just take a moment
that required something, thank you. You know. The more we
can practice doing that, the more we're able to see
how abundant life actually can be for us. And we
also just energetically are creating an energy around us that
says we really like that, we like receiving things that
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feel good. And I found just from my personal experience
and experiences of those I know, that allows the universe
to kind of program at a higher level for us,
you know co Cree eight experiences that we're really responding
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to in a heartfelt way, UM, and those experiences of gratitude,
it really creates a pathway for us to now be
attracting more things that will be grateful for. UM. So
gratitude practice. What am I grateful for now? The fourth question?
How can I serve? How can I serve? How can
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I serve? Service to all? Service and love? It is
why we are here. Being of service is your purpose.
That is my belief, that is what I live by
that is what I believe for myself. Service is my purpose.
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That is why it is less about what is my
job title, and it's more about how do I recognize
and observe my unique gifts so that I can connect
it to something that is of service for the greater
good to all. That is my purpose and very often
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we add a little curiosity and creativity to that, and
we're able to have a purpose that can also be
the things that we do in life and in the world,
and that can you know, potentially earnest money or get
to a place where existing in our purpose, existing as
ourselves is how we can live um and how we
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can meet our needs as well. So how can I serve?
We have to always be looking for how am I
meant to now share this? We are all conduits of
awakening for one another. We are all conduits of healing
for one another. That's the intention. It's not always executed
for each of us, but that is the intention, a
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path of service to all for the highest good. And
when we're all on that path, that means we're also
receiving service from others UM. So it doesn't feel like
an imbalance. Being of service is not being a murdyr.
Being of service is not you in servitude and not receiving.
Living a life of service is a tuning to the
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divine flow of why we're here to have this shared
experience through self actualization. Um. But when we are in
a space of healthy service, serving through purpose, we are
also receiving so much that reciprocal flow. So much so
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those are the beautiful for soul questions. And now let's
test them out just a little bit. Okay, so we
will have a beautiful meditation here after listening, I want
to invite you now to readjust your body to a
level of comfort that feels supportive. Straight spine, soft belly,
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connect to your heart, connect to your breath, and now here,
gently close your eyes, and let's start by allowing your
body to come into an even more relaxed position. To
notice any tention in your body and release it. Maybe
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it's your jaw, your neck, your shoulders, drop them, release
that jaw, release your arms, release your stomach, your hips,
allow your legs and your knees and your calves to soften,
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and really experience yourself as taking root right now in
this grounded, present moment. Now, notice your breath and your body,
the gentle rise and fall of your chest. It could
feel comfortable in this space to have your hands palms
facing up on the tops of your thighs or on
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the sides of you in a state of receiving. It
could feel good to maybe place the hand on your heart,
maybe one on your abdomen, either your solar plexus or
sacral so above or beneath your navel. And I will
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invoke now the four soul questions. And again we are
not looking to fill these questions with an answer. We
are asking them and releasing them. Taking a deep breath
here in and out. Oh am I, Who am I?
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What do I really want? What do I really want? Yeah?
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What am I grateful for? What am I grateful for?
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How can I serve? How can I serve? M um
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um um um um um bo m m m h.
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Coming back into this present moment, taking a big deep
inhale and through your nose mhm, and releasing through your
nose and releasing your position in this moment. If it
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feels good, you can bring your hands to prayer position
of the center of your heart and just hold your
awareness there, taking a bow forward. Now I must stay
the lighten me recognize as and honors the lighten you.
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Those are the four soul questions. Spend some time with
that as EBL the next few days. I also recommend,
if you feel called, making it a part of your
daily practice. It's an amazing meditation to deeply connect to
while on your journey and also as a beautiful refresher
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and moments of transition. You know, we are always evolving,
we are always deepening our awareness. That is the intention, UM,
and so being able to really connect and commit to
that and open to that and utilize these questions when
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you're in those moments to say, you know, who am
I now? What am I becoming? What wants to be
known to me? Mm hmm. All right, that's it for
this week. I will join you next week, next episode. UM,
and please share this episode with a friend. If there's
anyone in your life that's been curious about meditation, UM,
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let's support them with a few more tools now instead, Hey,
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