February 25, 2025 • 29 mins
Do you ever get the sense that there is a higher, wiser part of you that can stay at peace even when there is chaos around you? A part of you that is able to intuit the next, right step when you’re in unknown territory? That sees through the masks of others and recognizes the truth of who they are? There are many words for this wise voice — I’ve been known to call it the “narrator voice” since it’s the same voice in a story that sees the whole of the narrative arc while the hero struggles with tunnel vision. In his book The Immortal Diamond, Richard Rohr calls this voice the true self.
Whatever you choose to call this deep wisdom, one thing I know for sure is this: writing is an amazing way to connect with your innate wisdom. In today’s episode I teach you a simple writing prompt that helps you see through the lies of your false self and hear the strong, sturdy voice of your true self more powerfully than ever before.
Listen in to learn more.
You can read Immortal Diamond by Richard Rohr by clicking HERE!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Pick up the pieces of your life, put them back
together with the words you write, all the beauty and
peace and the magic that you'll start too fun when
you write your story. You got the words and said,
don't you think it's down to let them out and
write them down and cold it's all about and write
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your story. Write, write your story. Hi, and welcome back
to the Write Your Story Podcast. I'm Ali Fallon. I'm
your host, And on today's episode, I want to talk
about a pretty big topic that I brought up in
last week's episode, and I want to continue to unpack
it today because I think it's just that important. I
want to talk about this idea of the true self
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versus the false self, or that's probably the language I
think that I'll use today on the episode to talk
about it. There are a thousand different ways to talk
about this, and there is no one right way. If
you would have asked me, I don't know, ten or
fifteen years ago, I probably would have said that the
true self versus false self was God versus me. I
would have been in a morning quiet time and I
would have been journaling or reading my Bible, and I
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would have said, God spoke to me or God said,
or God shared this wisdom with me, and I would
have felt like that wisdom was coming from God. That's
not exactly the way that I see it now, doesn't
always feel aligned for me like that, But I think
if that does feel aligned for you, that's one hundred
percent appropriate way to talk about it, and there are
lots of other ways to talk about it too. I've
also shared before in a previous episode about an author
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named Esther Hicks who also sometimes goes by Abraham Hicks,
who's written a ton of books. But the delineation that
she shares the way she talks about it is that
there's Esther the person, the human person, and then the
wisdom comes from this collective group of beings, is how
she describes it. That she calls Abraham, and these beings
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are spirit beings who don't live on planet Earth. They
live I don't know how you want to talk about that,
on the other side and the beyond, in heaven, whatever.
And she's connecting with this group of spirit beings and
she's channeling their information into her books. And she's written
a dozen books at least. I've listened to several of
them on audio. I've talked about them on a previous episode.
I think that's a whole ra habit trail that we
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could go down. I have a lot of thoughts about
Esther and Abraham Hicks, but there's so much in what
she shares that really is wisdom and that is helpful
and that is supportive to people. And that's just the
way she talks about it. That there's Esther the human,
and then there's the group of beings named Abraham that
she's connecting to. That's where the wisdom comes from. There's
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also Richard Rhr, who's an author that I've talked about
a few times before. I think I shared his book
Breathing Underwater. I love Richard Rhr because he has this
way of helping me stay connected to my heritage and
my roots in Christianity. I evolved past that container a
few years ago in my life, and there were just
a lot of reasons for which I couldn't totally align
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myself with that worldview or that way of thinking anymore.
And Richard Rhorr has helped me to stay connected to
many aspects of Christianity and many aspects of the person
of Jesus and the Hebrews scriptures and the New Testament
and so many different parts of my faith that helps me,
you know, feel like I'm not severing off my left
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arm in order to move forward. I'm able to kind
of like keep the parts of this faith that still
align for me and still makes sense to me. And
Richard Rhr wrote a book called The Immortal Diamond that
talks about the difference between the false self and the
true self. So that's how he talks about it, that
there's this false self that is the character that we
created that's moving through our life as a way to
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please other people. Please our parents, please our schoolmates, you know,
please our spouses, please our kids. However, like we have
created this version of ourselves that moves through the world
trying to make other people happy, and that's our false self.
And then there's the true self. The true self actually
is connected to the wisdom. The true self knows the
way for the true self feels deep in their soul
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that this story is going to resolve in a beautiful
way and that all things work together for the good
of those who come together in God. And that's how
Richard war talks about it. So, however you talk about it,
however you feel about it, whether you feel that there's
the human you and you're connecting to this being or
group of beings from the other side. You know, I
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know that sounds kind of kooky, but think about it
for just a second. Like, if you've lost a loved one,
do you feel that you can connect with them, you
can connect with their energy from the other side. I
just want to bring this down to earth for a
second so that you don't feel like this is such
an impossible concept to wrap your brain around. If this
feels new to you or even feels triggering to you,
the idea that we can connect to someone's essence, to
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their soul, that their soul is eternal, that their soul
doesn't just die when they leave here on earth, and
that we could connect to that soul from here on
earth while they are on the other side is not
that crazy. So I want you to just keep that
in mind as you think about like and sort of
wrestle with this idea of someone channeling the energy of
another being. It does sound a little crazy and it
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can be hard to take in, but for the sake
of today's episode, I want you to just consider that
this is one way of seeing this. This is one
way of looking at it, and another way of looking
at it is the true self versus the false self.
Richard Rhor's way of talking about it is the one
that resonates for me the most and aligns with me
the most when I hear him talk about it, it's
just like, Oh, it's so easy to think about that,
it's so easy to use that language. And whatever it
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is for you. And maybe it's something else that I
haven't even mentioned, but whatever it is for you that
makes it feel easy for you to talk about this.
Every time that I say true self versus false self,
or higher self versus lower self, or whatever words I use,
I want you to almost in your mind just replace
it with whatever makes sense for you, because there's no
point in struggling to understand a concept inside of a concept,
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you know, I want to what I want to talk
about today, The most important thing I want to say
is how how can we connect more deeply with this
part of ourself that has the wisdom, this part of
ourselves that sees the whole picture, this part of ourselves
that knows that this story is coming to a meaningful resolution.
How can we connect more deeply with that part of ourselves,
and I don't want the obstacle of channeling or whatever
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to get in your way. I'm going to use that
as an example, but I don't want it to be
an obstacle for you. So if it begins to feel
like an obstacle for you, just start to replace it
in your head with whatever language feels aligned and makes
sense for you and makes it feel super easy to
engage with this process. Because one of the things that
I'm going to show you today, I want to teach
you an activity that I've been doing myself for a
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really long time that I've been teaching in writing to
heal workshops, and that is really similar to something that
I learned from another creator that i'll talk about in
just a second. The alignment was so cool for me
to see because when I saw him teach this, I
was like, wait a second, I've been doing this forever,
and the activity is so simple that you almost could
overlook it, and yet it's super, super powerful, and it's
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an amazing way to connect more deeply to yourself, to
your true self, not the you that's people pleasing everyone,
but the you that's like the deep, true you that
came here with a mission and a purpose and knows
exactly what that is, and is totally willing to face
any obstacle and is totally willing to sit through discomfort
and isn't at all worried about the problem that's in
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front of you right now, and isn't it all concerned
that you know, the smaller you feel, stuck or whatever,
that higher you exists. And I want you to be
able to leverage this activity to connect more deeply to
that part of you. So quick story, I want to
tell you how this happened. I was scrolling on Instagram
one day, as one does, and into my feed popped
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this guy who Sometimes I don't understand the Instagram algorithm.
I'm like, I'm like, how did you think that this
would be interesting to me? And yet it did end
up being interesting to me. But sometimes Instagram shows me
things in my feed that I'm like, even somebody that
knew me very well would not have been like, oh,
Ali is gonna love this, and yet I did end
up loving it, So thank you Instagram. So the algorithm
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puts this guy in my feed. His name is Lee Harris.
Lee Harris very similar to Esther Hicks. Abraham Hicks is
a channeler. So he is a content creator, an author,
a writer, a person on Instagram who shares his wisdom.
He says he's channeling it from a group of beings
who he calls the z's that are on the other side.
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So this is very similar to Esther Hicks, who's written
all these books and taught all these workshops and done
all these conferences channeling the wisdom that she says doesn't
come from Esther, it comes from Abraham. Lee is very similar.
So maybe this is why Lee got in my feed
is because I was listening to Esther Hicks books on Audible. Perhaps,
so Lee comes in my feed and he does this
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thing that I find really interesting called the Energy Update.
Every single month, at the beginning of the month, he
shares the energy update for that month. And the energy
Update is just like, Hey, here's what's happening in the
app sphere, here's what to be thinking about. Here are
the themes for this month. Here's kind of the zeitgeist
for the time that we're living in the next thirty days.
This is what's sort of going on. And this information
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is not coming from Lee. According to Lee, It's coming
from disease. This group of beings that he's channeling from
the other side. So I'm like so fascinated by this.
I'm just like very curious. One of the things that
has been so fun for me in stepping back from
the container of the faith of my childhood and seeing
it from a broader lens has been the ability to
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do this with almost everything, like every set of beliefs,
whether it's astrology, which you know, in my upbringing, astrology
would have been like evil, don't touch that with a
ten foot pole. That's a slippery slope and you'll get
sucked down the hill. And now even just in the
broader conversation and the cultural conversation, astrology has come into
a different light, and I feel like we have a
little bit more spaciousness to think about it differently. And
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this has happened for me with a lot of different
ideas or topics or ways of seeing the world, where
I'm like, I can look at this with an open
mind and an open heart. It doesn't mean that I
have to say that's true, but it means that I
can come into contact with it, I can read it,
I can I can see it with open eyes, I
can see it with an open heart and I can
just go interesting, fascinating, tell me more about how you
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see the world, And I feel a lot of freedom
in that. It has really opened me to be able
to see things from lots of different vantage points that
I never would have gotten to see if I wasn't willing.
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So this was one of those moments for me. I'm
watching Lee Harris, I'm like, you know, do I really
believe that there's a group of people called the Z's
that you're channeling their wisdom from. I don't know, like
big fat question work. I don't know how the world works.
Maybe there is, maybe there isn't, But I'm just gonna
check this out because it seems like the things that
you're sharing are coming from a wise place and they're
supportive and they're helpful for not just me, but first
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seems like a lot of people. And so I'm just
watching as he's sharing these energy updates. This was kind
of all last year twenty twenty four. Late last year,
shortly after my dad passed, Lee shared a free workshop
on his page that was about connecting with your guides.
So he was like, if you've always wanted to connect
with your guides, you know I can teach you how
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to do that. My guides are disease and I've learned
how to connect with them, and I can teach you
how to connect with your guides from the other side. Well,
I was really fascinated by this because my dad had
just passed and I was thinking, like, I mean, death
will do this too, where you start to think about
like what is life? You know, like this human body
that we're in is just a shell of a thing.
Our soul is eternal, It exists forever. So what happens
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when we die? Like can I connect to my dad?
Can I connect to the essence and the energy of
who he was? Is he there guiding me? Can he
talk to me? Can he give me wisdom? Are there
other people in my heritage who can do that? Like,
you know, my mom's mom, her biological mom, I never
met because she died before or well I guess she
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died shortly after I was born, and I may have
met her as a baby actually, now that I'm thinking
about it, but my mother and her were estranged and
so we just never had a relationship. I never really
got to meet her, and I think about her a lot.
I'm like my biological grandmother. Her name is phyllis, and
I'm like, what is that? Like? Am I connected to her?
Like we share DNA, we share blood, and yet I
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never knew her. Can I connect to her? Essence? Does
she see me from where she is? Can she talk
to me? Can she share things with me? So I'm
asking myself all these questions already, and I was just
very curious about it, and so I thought, like, I'll
sign up for this free workshop and see what Lee
has to say about connecting with our guides. So I
sign up for the free workshop. There's a whole lead
up to the main meat of the message where he
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teaches you the activity, the exercise that he does to
connect to guides. And the leadup is like, here's why
it matters to connect to your guides, Here's what I
think about guides, Here's who my guides are, Here's how
it's helped me over the years. And then and here's
the exercise that I do. And he teaches the exercise,
and I'll teach it to you in just a second.
I'm gonna teach it to you exactly as he taught
it to me. And then I'm going to tell you
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why this mattered so much to me. But essentially what
I noticed was, I'm like, oh my gosh, I've been
doing this in one form or another since I was
very young. This is always how I've been connecting to
what I would call my true self or my higher self.
I've been doing this for as long as I can remember,
and I've been teaching this in healing workshops for as
long as I can remember. And what a bizarre thing
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that I think of him as so different than me.
It's like, Oh, you're channeling like this group of beings
from beyond. That seems kind of wild, and yet what
we're doing to connect is the same. And here's what
he taught. I'm going to teach it to you just
exactly as he taught it to me, and then I'm
going to give you a few variations of it in
case it feels easier for you to connect with the
activity through my variations. But what Lee taught is to
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open your iPhone. Let's say, if you don't have an iPhone,
that's fine. You can open whatever phone you have, or
you can use a piece of pape pen It's also
fine you need a blank sheet of paper. So if
you're going to open your iPhone, open to your notes app.
Let's say and open a brand new note. You want
a blank sheet of paper, and I want you to
write the date at the top of the sheet of paper.
The date I'm recording this is two ten twenty five,
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so two ten twenty five at the top of the page.
But your date's going to be different because this will
not publish until a couple of weeks from now, so
your date's different. You write the date at the top
of the sheet of paper, and then below the date,
I want you to write this question. This is the
question that Lee gave to me, what do you want
to show me today? And then you free write, So
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the question at the top of the page is what
do you want to show me today? I've done this
several dozen times since I learned it from Lee late
last year. I did it really consistently for I don't
know a month ish and then fell out of the
practice and then came back to it at the beginning
of the year. And one thing that will sometimes happen
for me is I respond to the question through like
a free write. If you've done Julia Cameron's before, if
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you've done like the Artist's way, it's very similar to
the brain dump that she teaches to those morning pages
where you just stream of consciousness, you write whatever comes
to your mind and start to notice the different sensations
when something comes through that you think of putting on
the page that feels like, yes, that's important, that's it,
that's a piece of wisdom for me versus kind of
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all the rubbish. Because there is a difference, there's a
different energy around it. Sometimes you write stuff that you're like,
this is just the kind of rat race that my
brain is on. It's like the you know, negative thoughts,
like the hamster wheel that my brain does, just like
life is over, this is horrible, You're too tired, it's
never gonna get better, you know whatever, that stuff versus Like,
one thing that came through for me this morning was
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connect with your confidence. Connect with your confidence, use your voice,
And that wisdom came through for me in this practice.
So I want you to begin to notice the difference
in the tenor, Like use that word tenor and think
about that metaphor, think about the difference in the tenor
of one note versus a different note. So connect with
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the different vibration of one sentence versus another sentence. You know,
life is terrible. It's all falling apart. It's just chaos.
You know, our democracy is being systematically dismantled. That kind
of tenor of like lah, just the hamster wheel, the
rat race that your brain does versus connect with your confidence.
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It's different. They have a different vibration to them. And
one kind of cuts through the noise of the other.
One is just noise, and one like has like a
slicing like it cuts through the noise. It has a
clarity to it, It has a supportive nature to it,
It has like a yeah, I don't even know how
to describe it beyond that, but to see if you
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can start to tell the difference between one and the other,
and you could. Even as I've gotten more practiced with this,
one of the things that I've done is begun to
leave out the noisy parts, like just leave him out,
Just don't even put them on the page. Julia Carmon
would say, I think you put it all on the page,
which is also fine. You know the purpose of morning
pages is to kind of dump out what's going on
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in your brain so that you can get to the
good stuff. And I think that's one practice in one
way of doing it too, that also can be quite effective.
This practice is a little bit different. It's about connecting
to that true part of yourself that why is part
of yourself, that narrator voice that knows where the story
is going. And see if you can feel the difference
between the two. And maybe only what you put on
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the page is the narrator voice. Maybe the only thing
you put on the page is the clarity. But you know,
even as I'm saying that, I'm thinking about how one
of the things that I teach writers when they're putting
together memoirs is to learn to fluctuate back and forth
between hero voice and narrator voice. The reader actually needs both.
The reader needs to know that the hero feels like
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all is lost. The reader needs to know that the
hero doesn't know what the hell to do next. The
reader needs to know that the hero is deeply flawed.
The reader needs to know that the hero doesn't see
a way forward. The reader needs to know that the
hero doesn't believe in themselves. The reader needs to know
that hero feels like total despair. Everything's falling apart, nothing's
going to work, it's impossible. And the reader also needs
to know, just like a taste of narrative voice is
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all that it takes to float the reader through the
darkest part of the story to get them to the resolution.
They just need a tiny little nudge that a happier
time is coming, that the hero doesn't see everything that's
around the corner. They just need like a slight little
inkling that maybe something better is on its way. And
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I wonder if the same is true for us as
we're living through our stories. I wonder if we also
just need like the slightest nudge that everything's going to
be okay. It can feel really provocative to say to
someone who's in the midst of a crisis, actually, everything
is going to be okay. It can feel almost like
there's part of you you'll feel if someone says that
to you. You're like, no, it's not there's no way
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that everything is going to be okay, and yet it is,
And yet it is. Everything is going to be okay.
I love the Chryl strad quote. You know, this feels
like the most honest and sometimes helpful way to hold
these two tensions at once. She says most things will
be okay eventually, but not everything. Acceptance is a small
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quiet room I may have even shared that quote here
on the show before because it's such a meaningful quote
to me, and it floated me through a really difficult
time in my life when I was going through my divorce.
Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything. Acceptance
is a small quiet room, and so there's acceptance for
the parts that are going to fall apart, that are
going to die, that are going to fall off, that
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are not going to be okay on the one hand,
and yet from that higher vantage point, even the things
that are not okay eventually are actually okay in the
broader scope inside of that wider perspective. And again, like
I talked to on last week's episode, this is not
a cheap, easy, toxic positivity. This takes such incredible courage
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to get to this point where you can hold both
at the same time that this thing in my life
that I love and care about was falling apart completely
and it is not going to be okay, and also
I'm okay, and also it's okay. That deep, deep sense
of acceptance and surrender to what is is not an
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easy place to come to. This is not just like yeah,
things are fine, everything's fine, We're fine, I'm good. Yes,
oh yes, life is good. This is not that, this
is not that. This is like I'm deeply, deeply not okay,
and I'm also okay at the same time. So I
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learned this technique from Lee and I start doing this,
And one of the things that I thought about immediately
as soon as he taught it to me was how
I've been doing something very similar since I was really young.
One of the things that I used to do was
write the day at the top of the page and
write the statement A few things that are true for
me today, or ten things that are true for me today,
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or five things that are true for me today are
and I would just list them out bullet points. And
I've taught this in my writing to heel workshops over
and over again too. There's something about simply stating what
is true for you today that tends to unlock that
deeper wisdom. Let's just say, as I was sharing this
exercise with you, you were thinking like, ugh, no, I
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can't get there. Either the idea of channeling feels too
out of alignment with you, or the whole thing just
You're just like, I can't get myself to a place
where I feel like things are okay because they are
so so deeply not okay. If that's the case, it
might be easier for you to start with a prompt
like five things that are true for me today, Because
one of the things that is so miraculous that I've
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watched happen over and over and over again is that
when you admit what is true, it doesn't stay true forever.
And I think we're so afraid that if we admit
what is true for us today, if it's a deeply
painful truth, we're terrified that it will stay true forever.
So you write something on your list like you know,
I want a divorce, or you write something on your
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list like I don't want to be here, or you
write something on your list like I'm devastated, I'm horrified,
you know, I'm so hurt, I feel like I'll never
heal whatever it is. Like, you could write something really
heavy and difficult on your list, and I'm telling you
there is something about owning your truth that makes it transform,
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that makes it morph into something new. It just is
true for today, but it doesn't stay true forever. In fact,
sometimes it stays true for about ten minutes sometimes, And
this is why, you know, venting sometimes works. It doesn't
always work, but sometimes venting can be a really effective
tool for sort of like letting the steam out of
the instapot, like just like letting the press sure out,
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because sometimes all it takes is for you to be
like I hate him, you know, to be like, actually,
the truth is, I don't hate him, but I'm feeling
so much anger right now and i don't know how
to fix it, and I'm really stuck and I'm lost,
and that's a different truth. And even I'm stuck and
I'm lost will be true for now, but maybe ten
minutes from now it's not quite so true. And so
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telling the truth has this way of allowing a transformation.
Another thing I love about this activity is the question
what do you want to show me today? Can be
a question to whomever you want it to be. This
can be a question you're asking God. It can be
a question you're asking your loved one from the other side.
It can be a question you're asking your guides. It
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can be a question you're asking your true self, your
higher self, your narrative voice. However you want to frame this,
it is open to interpretation, and so I don't think
it needs to be about connecting to, you know, a
group of beings, a consciousness on the other side. If
that feels like too wacko and woo oo for you,
then just drop it, like no need to carry that.
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If it feels heavy, if that feels like expansive to
you and you're like, yeah, that is exactly how I've
experienced this, then by all means, take it and run
with it. And you could even go find Lee Harris
and follow him. And I'm sure you've probably already read
Esther Hicks because she's probably the most well known and
like mainstreamed channel that we have, I would imagine. But however,
you want to frame this for you, frame it the
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way that makes most sense to you. If you want
to say, God, what do you want to show me today?
Or guides, what do you want to show me today?
Or Mom from the other side, what do you want
to show me today whatever it is? Or true self,
what do you want to show me today? You can
frame it however it makes sense for you. And so
I want to challenge you to take this writing assignment
and do it every day for a couple of days
in a row. You know, James Pennabaker's famous research around
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the healing power of writing says that if you write
for four days in a row, for twenty minutes at
a time, you experience a measurable improvement in your immune system,
a measurable improvement in yourmune. So some literally the control
groups got sick fifty percent less often than those who
didn't write, which is insane. So even if you could
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just set a goal for yourself to do this for
four days in a row, for twenty minutes at a time.
One of the things that I'm doing because I have
felt really guided recently to take a break from Instagram.
I'm not sure if I'm off of Instagram forever for good,
but i do know that for this period of time
that Instagram. Being on Instagram, even if I'm just scrolling,
if I'm not posting, if I'm on Instagram, I'm being
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so heavily influenced by the input that's coming in. And
it's not all bad influences. Obviously. I shared the story
about connecting with Lee Harris, and I could share one
hundred others like that that have been really supportive and
helpful for me. So Instagram is not a bad place,
but I'm so easily influenced by like the negativity, the
political stuff that I get so easily sucked in that
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I don't stay connected to this higher, wiser part of myself.
And so maybe for you it's Instagram, or maybe for
you it's something different that you can feel pulls you
away from your own wisdom. If there is something in
your life that pulls you away from your own wisdom,
you don't have to villainize that thing. Maybe it's TV,
maybe it's hanging out with a certain group of people.
Maybe it's alcohol, maybe it's foods, I don't know. Whatever
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it is, for you, you don't have to villainize that thing.
It doesn't make that thing bad. It's just like, yes,
this thing is pulling me away from my wisdom, and
I want to come back to my wisdom. So one
challenge that I gave myself is to take a break
from Instagram for right now. I don't know how long
this will be. To be off of Instagram completely, like
it's it's not on my phone at all. And when
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I have the impulse to go to Instagram to sort
of check and see what's going on in the world,
instead I tune into my wisdom. Instead, I do this
exercise and I will keep the note open on my
phone all day with the date at the top of
the page, and different wisdom comes in at different points
of the day. You know, if I do it first
thing in the morning, there's wisdom that comes through then.
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But also, I'm sitting at a coffee shop after I
ordered my coffee, and I'm waiting for five minutes for
my chi or whatever, and normally I'd be scrolling Instagram
just to kill the time, and instead I'm connecting with
my wisdom. And I want to challenge you to do
something similar to this, because I think we will witness
absolute miracles take place when more and more of us
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choose to disconnect from the things that are pulling us
away from our wisdom and to connect in to the wisdom,
to connect into the higher self, to connect into the
true self, to connect in to God, to connect in
to love, to connect into whatever you want to call it.
When we do that, we're going to begin to see
such radical clarity come through about next steps. That this
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time period that we're in that does feel heavy and
dense and dark and chaotic and confusing, and it does
feel in many ways like, oh, all is lost. I
have no idea how we're going to get through this,
both individually and collectively, and yet such radical clarity is
going to come through that we're going to know exactly
what to do next. We are going to feel planted
and ground. We are going to feel so alive and
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so free and so clear about who we are and
how we're meant to show up in the world. And
that clarity comes from simple, simple, simple things like this.
So I just want to challenge you four days in
a row, twenty minutes at a time. I think what
will happen is you will experience such a surge of
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clarity and motivation and momentum from those four days that
you're probably going to want to go beyond the four days.
But just shoot for four days, twenty minutes four days.
It's easy. Shoot for those four days. Do this writing
assignment for four days in a row. Report back to me,
Let me know how it goes, let me know how
you feel, Let me know what you learn, because I
maybe at some point I'll read to you some of
the things that have come through for me. But I'm like,
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WHOA Many writers have had this experience too, and artists
where you write something or you make something like a
song or a piece of art, and you just like,
where did that come from? Because I, my false self,
my small self, did not do that. That is wild,
that that came through me. So I want to dare
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you to practice connecting with your wisdom this week, four days,
twenty minutes a day. Just start there, See what happens,
See how it goes, See how much momentum you create,
see what kind of wisdom you gain, and make sure
that you let me know how it goes. I will
see you back here next week on the Write Your
Story podcast
Pick up the pieces of your life, put them back
together with the words you write, all the beauty and
peace and the magic that you'll start too fun when
you write your story. You got the words and said,
don't you think it's down to let them out and
write them down and cold it's all about and write
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your story. Write, write your story. Hi, and welcome back
to the Write Your Story Podcast. I'm Ali Fallon. I'm
your host, And on today's episode, I want to talk
about a pretty big topic that I brought up in
last week's episode, and I want to continue to unpack
it today because I think it's just that important. I
want to talk about this idea of the true self
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versus the false self, or that's probably the language I
think that I'll use today on the episode to talk
about it. There are a thousand different ways to talk
about this, and there is no one right way. If
you would have asked me, I don't know, ten or
fifteen years ago, I probably would have said that the
true self versus false self was God versus me. I
would have been in a morning quiet time and I
would have been journaling or reading my Bible, and I
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would have said, God spoke to me or God said,
or God shared this wisdom with me, and I would
have felt like that wisdom was coming from God. That's
not exactly the way that I see it now, doesn't
always feel aligned for me like that, But I think
if that does feel aligned for you, that's one hundred
percent appropriate way to talk about it, and there are
lots of other ways to talk about it too. I've
also shared before in a previous episode about an author
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named Esther Hicks who also sometimes goes by Abraham Hicks,
who's written a ton of books. But the delineation that
she shares the way she talks about it is that
there's Esther the person, the human person, and then the
wisdom comes from this collective group of beings, is how
she describes it. That she calls Abraham, and these beings
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are spirit beings who don't live on planet Earth. They
live I don't know how you want to talk about that,
on the other side and the beyond, in heaven, whatever.
And she's connecting with this group of spirit beings and
she's channeling their information into her books. And she's written
a dozen books at least. I've listened to several of
them on audio. I've talked about them on a previous episode.
I think that's a whole ra habit trail that we
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could go down. I have a lot of thoughts about
Esther and Abraham Hicks, but there's so much in what
she shares that really is wisdom and that is helpful
and that is supportive to people. And that's just the
way she talks about it. That there's Esther the human,
and then there's the group of beings named Abraham that
she's connecting to. That's where the wisdom comes from. There's
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also Richard Rhr, who's an author that I've talked about
a few times before. I think I shared his book
Breathing Underwater. I love Richard Rhr because he has this
way of helping me stay connected to my heritage and
my roots in Christianity. I evolved past that container a
few years ago in my life, and there were just
a lot of reasons for which I couldn't totally align
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myself with that worldview or that way of thinking anymore.
And Richard Rhorr has helped me to stay connected to
many aspects of Christianity and many aspects of the person
of Jesus and the Hebrews scriptures and the New Testament
and so many different parts of my faith that helps me,
you know, feel like I'm not severing off my left
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arm in order to move forward. I'm able to kind
of like keep the parts of this faith that still
align for me and still makes sense to me. And
Richard Rhr wrote a book called The Immortal Diamond that
talks about the difference between the false self and the
true self. So that's how he talks about it, that
there's this false self that is the character that we
created that's moving through our life as a way to
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please other people. Please our parents, please our schoolmates, you know,
please our spouses, please our kids. However, like we have
created this version of ourselves that moves through the world
trying to make other people happy, and that's our false self.
And then there's the true self. The true self actually
is connected to the wisdom. The true self knows the
way for the true self feels deep in their soul
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that this story is going to resolve in a beautiful
way and that all things work together for the good
of those who come together in God. And that's how
Richard war talks about it. So, however you talk about it,
however you feel about it, whether you feel that there's
the human you and you're connecting to this being or
group of beings from the other side. You know, I
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know that sounds kind of kooky, but think about it
for just a second. Like, if you've lost a loved one,
do you feel that you can connect with them, you
can connect with their energy from the other side. I
just want to bring this down to earth for a
second so that you don't feel like this is such
an impossible concept to wrap your brain around. If this
feels new to you or even feels triggering to you,
the idea that we can connect to someone's essence, to
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their soul, that their soul is eternal, that their soul
doesn't just die when they leave here on earth, and
that we could connect to that soul from here on
earth while they are on the other side is not
that crazy. So I want you to just keep that
in mind as you think about like and sort of
wrestle with this idea of someone channeling the energy of
another being. It does sound a little crazy and it
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can be hard to take in, but for the sake
of today's episode, I want you to just consider that
this is one way of seeing this. This is one
way of looking at it, and another way of looking
at it is the true self versus the false self.
Richard Rhor's way of talking about it is the one
that resonates for me the most and aligns with me
the most when I hear him talk about it, it's
just like, Oh, it's so easy to think about that,
it's so easy to use that language. And whatever it
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is for you. And maybe it's something else that I
haven't even mentioned, but whatever it is for you that
makes it feel easy for you to talk about this.
Every time that I say true self versus false self,
or higher self versus lower self, or whatever words I use,
I want you to almost in your mind just replace
it with whatever makes sense for you, because there's no
point in struggling to understand a concept inside of a concept,
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you know, I want to what I want to talk
about today, The most important thing I want to say
is how how can we connect more deeply with this
part of ourself that has the wisdom, this part of
ourselves that sees the whole picture, this part of ourselves
that knows that this story is coming to a meaningful resolution.
How can we connect more deeply with that part of ourselves,
and I don't want the obstacle of channeling or whatever
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to get in your way. I'm going to use that
as an example, but I don't want it to be
an obstacle for you. So if it begins to feel
like an obstacle for you, just start to replace it
in your head with whatever language feels aligned and makes
sense for you and makes it feel super easy to
engage with this process. Because one of the things that
I'm going to show you today, I want to teach
you an activity that I've been doing myself for a
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really long time that I've been teaching in writing to
heal workshops, and that is really similar to something that
I learned from another creator that i'll talk about in
just a second. The alignment was so cool for me
to see because when I saw him teach this, I
was like, wait a second, I've been doing this forever,
and the activity is so simple that you almost could
overlook it, and yet it's super, super powerful, and it's
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an amazing way to connect more deeply to yourself, to
your true self, not the you that's people pleasing everyone,
but the you that's like the deep, true you that
came here with a mission and a purpose and knows
exactly what that is, and is totally willing to face
any obstacle and is totally willing to sit through discomfort
and isn't at all worried about the problem that's in
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front of you right now, and isn't it all concerned
that you know, the smaller you feel, stuck or whatever,
that higher you exists. And I want you to be
able to leverage this activity to connect more deeply to
that part of you. So quick story, I want to
tell you how this happened. I was scrolling on Instagram
one day, as one does, and into my feed popped
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this guy who Sometimes I don't understand the Instagram algorithm.
I'm like, I'm like, how did you think that this
would be interesting to me? And yet it did end
up being interesting to me. But sometimes Instagram shows me
things in my feed that I'm like, even somebody that
knew me very well would not have been like, oh,
Ali is gonna love this, and yet I did end
up loving it, So thank you Instagram. So the algorithm
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puts this guy in my feed. His name is Lee Harris.
Lee Harris very similar to Esther Hicks. Abraham Hicks is
a channeler. So he is a content creator, an author,
a writer, a person on Instagram who shares his wisdom.
He says he's channeling it from a group of beings
who he calls the z's that are on the other side.
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So this is very similar to Esther Hicks, who's written
all these books and taught all these workshops and done
all these conferences channeling the wisdom that she says doesn't
come from Esther, it comes from Abraham. Lee is very similar.
So maybe this is why Lee got in my feed
is because I was listening to Esther Hicks books on Audible. Perhaps,
so Lee comes in my feed and he does this
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thing that I find really interesting called the Energy Update.
Every single month, at the beginning of the month, he
shares the energy update for that month. And the energy
Update is just like, Hey, here's what's happening in the
app sphere, here's what to be thinking about. Here are
the themes for this month. Here's kind of the zeitgeist
for the time that we're living in the next thirty days.
This is what's sort of going on. And this information
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is not coming from Lee. According to Lee, It's coming
from disease. This group of beings that he's channeling from
the other side. So I'm like so fascinated by this.
I'm just like very curious. One of the things that
has been so fun for me in stepping back from
the container of the faith of my childhood and seeing
it from a broader lens has been the ability to
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do this with almost everything, like every set of beliefs,
whether it's astrology, which you know, in my upbringing, astrology
would have been like evil, don't touch that with a
ten foot pole. That's a slippery slope and you'll get
sucked down the hill. And now even just in the
broader conversation and the cultural conversation, astrology has come into
a different light, and I feel like we have a
little bit more spaciousness to think about it differently. And
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this has happened for me with a lot of different
ideas or topics or ways of seeing the world, where
I'm like, I can look at this with an open
mind and an open heart. It doesn't mean that I
have to say that's true, but it means that I
can come into contact with it, I can read it,
I can I can see it with open eyes, I
can see it with an open heart and I can
just go interesting, fascinating, tell me more about how you
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see the world, And I feel a lot of freedom
in that. It has really opened me to be able
to see things from lots of different vantage points that
I never would have gotten to see if I wasn't willing.
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So this was one of those moments for me. I'm
watching Lee Harris, I'm like, you know, do I really
believe that there's a group of people called the Z's
that you're channeling their wisdom from. I don't know, like
big fat question work. I don't know how the world works.
Maybe there is, maybe there isn't, But I'm just gonna
check this out because it seems like the things that
you're sharing are coming from a wise place and they're
supportive and they're helpful for not just me, but first
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seems like a lot of people. And so I'm just
watching as he's sharing these energy updates. This was kind
of all last year twenty twenty four. Late last year,
shortly after my dad passed, Lee shared a free workshop
on his page that was about connecting with your guides.
So he was like, if you've always wanted to connect
with your guides, you know I can teach you how
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to do that. My guides are disease and I've learned
how to connect with them, and I can teach you
how to connect with your guides from the other side. Well,
I was really fascinated by this because my dad had
just passed and I was thinking, like, I mean, death
will do this too, where you start to think about
like what is life? You know, like this human body
that we're in is just a shell of a thing.
Our soul is eternal, It exists forever. So what happens
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when we die? Like can I connect to my dad?
Can I connect to the essence and the energy of
who he was? Is he there guiding me? Can he
talk to me? Can he give me wisdom? Are there
other people in my heritage who can do that? Like,
you know, my mom's mom, her biological mom, I never
met because she died before or well I guess she
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died shortly after I was born, and I may have
met her as a baby actually, now that I'm thinking
about it, but my mother and her were estranged and
so we just never had a relationship. I never really
got to meet her, and I think about her a lot.
I'm like my biological grandmother. Her name is phyllis, and
I'm like, what is that? Like? Am I connected to her?
Like we share DNA, we share blood, and yet I
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never knew her. Can I connect to her? Essence? Does
she see me from where she is? Can she talk
to me? Can she share things with me? So I'm
asking myself all these questions already, and I was just
very curious about it, and so I thought, like, I'll
sign up for this free workshop and see what Lee
has to say about connecting with our guides. So I
sign up for the free workshop. There's a whole lead
up to the main meat of the message where he
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teaches you the activity, the exercise that he does to
connect to guides. And the leadup is like, here's why
it matters to connect to your guides, Here's what I
think about guides, Here's who my guides are, Here's how
it's helped me over the years. And then and here's
the exercise that I do. And he teaches the exercise,
and I'll teach it to you in just a second.
I'm gonna teach it to you exactly as he taught
it to me. And then I'm going to tell you
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why this mattered so much to me. But essentially what
I noticed was, I'm like, oh my gosh, I've been
doing this in one form or another since I was
very young. This is always how I've been connecting to
what I would call my true self or my higher self.
I've been doing this for as long as I can remember,
and I've been teaching this in healing workshops for as
long as I can remember. And what a bizarre thing
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that I think of him as so different than me.
It's like, Oh, you're channeling like this group of beings
from beyond. That seems kind of wild, and yet what
we're doing to connect is the same. And here's what
he taught. I'm going to teach it to you just
exactly as he taught it to me, and then I'm
going to give you a few variations of it in
case it feels easier for you to connect with the
activity through my variations. But what Lee taught is to
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open your iPhone. Let's say, if you don't have an iPhone,
that's fine. You can open whatever phone you have, or
you can use a piece of pape pen It's also
fine you need a blank sheet of paper. So if
you're going to open your iPhone, open to your notes app.
Let's say and open a brand new note. You want
a blank sheet of paper, and I want you to
write the date at the top of the sheet of paper.
The date I'm recording this is two ten twenty five,
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so two ten twenty five at the top of the page.
But your date's going to be different because this will
not publish until a couple of weeks from now, so
your date's different. You write the date at the top
of the sheet of paper, and then below the date,
I want you to write this question. This is the
question that Lee gave to me, what do you want
to show me today? And then you free write, So
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the question at the top of the page is what
do you want to show me today? I've done this
several dozen times since I learned it from Lee late
last year. I did it really consistently for I don't
know a month ish and then fell out of the
practice and then came back to it at the beginning
of the year. And one thing that will sometimes happen
for me is I respond to the question through like
a free write. If you've done Julia Cameron's before, if
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you've done like the Artist's way, it's very similar to
the brain dump that she teaches to those morning pages
where you just stream of consciousness, you write whatever comes
to your mind and start to notice the different sensations
when something comes through that you think of putting on
the page that feels like, yes, that's important, that's it,
that's a piece of wisdom for me versus kind of
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all the rubbish. Because there is a difference, there's a
different energy around it. Sometimes you write stuff that you're like,
this is just the kind of rat race that my
brain is on. It's like the you know, negative thoughts,
like the hamster wheel that my brain does, just like
life is over, this is horrible, You're too tired, it's
never gonna get better, you know whatever, that stuff versus Like,
one thing that came through for me this morning was
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connect with your confidence. Connect with your confidence, use your voice,
And that wisdom came through for me in this practice.
So I want you to begin to notice the difference
in the tenor, Like use that word tenor and think
about that metaphor, think about the difference in the tenor
of one note versus a different note. So connect with
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the different vibration of one sentence versus another sentence. You know,
life is terrible. It's all falling apart. It's just chaos.
You know, our democracy is being systematically dismantled. That kind
of tenor of like lah, just the hamster wheel, the
rat race that your brain does versus connect with your confidence.
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It's different. They have a different vibration to them. And
one kind of cuts through the noise of the other.
One is just noise, and one like has like a
slicing like it cuts through the noise. It has a
clarity to it, It has a supportive nature to it,
It has like a yeah, I don't even know how
to describe it beyond that, but to see if you
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can start to tell the difference between one and the other,
and you could. Even as I've gotten more practiced with this,
one of the things that I've done is begun to
leave out the noisy parts, like just leave him out,
Just don't even put them on the page. Julia Carmon
would say, I think you put it all on the page,
which is also fine. You know the purpose of morning
pages is to kind of dump out what's going on
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in your brain so that you can get to the
good stuff. And I think that's one practice in one
way of doing it too, that also can be quite effective.
This practice is a little bit different. It's about connecting
to that true part of yourself that why is part
of yourself, that narrator voice that knows where the story
is going. And see if you can feel the difference
between the two. And maybe only what you put on
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the page is the narrator voice. Maybe the only thing
you put on the page is the clarity. But you know,
even as I'm saying that, I'm thinking about how one
of the things that I teach writers when they're putting
together memoirs is to learn to fluctuate back and forth
between hero voice and narrator voice. The reader actually needs both.
The reader needs to know that the hero feels like
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all is lost. The reader needs to know that the
hero doesn't know what the hell to do next. The
reader needs to know that the hero is deeply flawed.
The reader needs to know that the hero doesn't see
a way forward. The reader needs to know that the
hero doesn't believe in themselves. The reader needs to know
that hero feels like total despair. Everything's falling apart, nothing's
going to work, it's impossible. And the reader also needs
to know, just like a taste of narrative voice is
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all that it takes to float the reader through the
darkest part of the story to get them to the resolution.
They just need a tiny little nudge that a happier
time is coming, that the hero doesn't see everything that's
around the corner. They just need like a slight little
inkling that maybe something better is on its way. And
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I wonder if the same is true for us as
we're living through our stories. I wonder if we also
just need like the slightest nudge that everything's going to
be okay. It can feel really provocative to say to
someone who's in the midst of a crisis, actually, everything
is going to be okay. It can feel almost like
there's part of you you'll feel if someone says that
to you. You're like, no, it's not there's no way
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that everything is going to be okay, and yet it is,
And yet it is. Everything is going to be okay.
I love the Chryl strad quote. You know, this feels
like the most honest and sometimes helpful way to hold
these two tensions at once. She says most things will
be okay eventually, but not everything. Acceptance is a small
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quiet room I may have even shared that quote here
on the show before because it's such a meaningful quote
to me, and it floated me through a really difficult
time in my life when I was going through my divorce.
Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything. Acceptance
is a small quiet room, and so there's acceptance for
the parts that are going to fall apart, that are
going to die, that are going to fall off, that
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are not going to be okay on the one hand,
and yet from that higher vantage point, even the things
that are not okay eventually are actually okay in the
broader scope inside of that wider perspective. And again, like
I talked to on last week's episode, this is not
a cheap, easy, toxic positivity. This takes such incredible courage
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to get to this point where you can hold both
at the same time that this thing in my life
that I love and care about was falling apart completely
and it is not going to be okay, and also
I'm okay, and also it's okay. That deep, deep sense
of acceptance and surrender to what is is not an
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easy place to come to. This is not just like yeah,
things are fine, everything's fine, We're fine, I'm good. Yes,
oh yes, life is good. This is not that, this
is not that. This is like I'm deeply, deeply not okay,
and I'm also okay at the same time. So I
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learned this technique from Lee and I start doing this,
And one of the things that I thought about immediately
as soon as he taught it to me was how
I've been doing something very similar since I was really young.
One of the things that I used to do was
write the day at the top of the page and
write the statement A few things that are true for
me today, or ten things that are true for me today,
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or five things that are true for me today are
and I would just list them out bullet points. And
I've taught this in my writing to heel workshops over
and over again too. There's something about simply stating what
is true for you today that tends to unlock that
deeper wisdom. Let's just say, as I was sharing this
exercise with you, you were thinking like, ugh, no, I
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can't get there. Either the idea of channeling feels too
out of alignment with you, or the whole thing just
You're just like, I can't get myself to a place
where I feel like things are okay because they are
so so deeply not okay. If that's the case, it
might be easier for you to start with a prompt
like five things that are true for me today, Because
one of the things that is so miraculous that I've
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watched happen over and over and over again is that
when you admit what is true, it doesn't stay true forever.
And I think we're so afraid that if we admit
what is true for us today, if it's a deeply
painful truth, we're terrified that it will stay true forever.
So you write something on your list like you know,
I want a divorce, or you write something on your
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list like I don't want to be here, or you
write something on your list like I'm devastated, I'm horrified,
you know, I'm so hurt, I feel like I'll never
heal whatever it is. Like, you could write something really
heavy and difficult on your list, and I'm telling you
there is something about owning your truth that makes it transform,
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that makes it morph into something new. It just is
true for today, but it doesn't stay true forever. In fact,
sometimes it stays true for about ten minutes sometimes, And
this is why, you know, venting sometimes works. It doesn't
always work, but sometimes venting can be a really effective
tool for sort of like letting the steam out of
the instapot, like just like letting the press sure out,
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because sometimes all it takes is for you to be
like I hate him, you know, to be like, actually,
the truth is, I don't hate him, but I'm feeling
so much anger right now and i don't know how
to fix it, and I'm really stuck and I'm lost,
and that's a different truth. And even I'm stuck and
I'm lost will be true for now, but maybe ten
minutes from now it's not quite so true. And so
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telling the truth has this way of allowing a transformation.
Another thing I love about this activity is the question
what do you want to show me today? Can be
a question to whomever you want it to be. This
can be a question you're asking God. It can be
a question you're asking your loved one from the other side.
It can be a question you're asking your guides. It
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can be a question you're asking your true self, your
higher self, your narrative voice. However you want to frame this,
it is open to interpretation, and so I don't think
it needs to be about connecting to, you know, a
group of beings, a consciousness on the other side. If
that feels like too wacko and woo oo for you,
then just drop it, like no need to carry that.
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If it feels heavy, if that feels like expansive to
you and you're like, yeah, that is exactly how I've
experienced this, then by all means, take it and run
with it. And you could even go find Lee Harris
and follow him. And I'm sure you've probably already read
Esther Hicks because she's probably the most well known and
like mainstreamed channel that we have, I would imagine. But however,
you want to frame this for you, frame it the
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way that makes most sense to you. If you want
to say, God, what do you want to show me today?
Or guides, what do you want to show me today?
Or Mom from the other side, what do you want
to show me today whatever it is? Or true self,
what do you want to show me today? You can
frame it however it makes sense for you. And so
I want to challenge you to take this writing assignment
and do it every day for a couple of days
in a row. You know, James Pennabaker's famous research around
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the healing power of writing says that if you write
for four days in a row, for twenty minutes at
a time, you experience a measurable improvement in your immune system,
a measurable improvement in yourmune. So some literally the control
groups got sick fifty percent less often than those who
didn't write, which is insane. So even if you could
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just set a goal for yourself to do this for
four days in a row, for twenty minutes at a time.
One of the things that I'm doing because I have
felt really guided recently to take a break from Instagram.
I'm not sure if I'm off of Instagram forever for good,
but i do know that for this period of time
that Instagram. Being on Instagram, even if I'm just scrolling,
if I'm not posting, if I'm on Instagram, I'm being
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so heavily influenced by the input that's coming in. And
it's not all bad influences. Obviously. I shared the story
about connecting with Lee Harris, and I could share one
hundred others like that that have been really supportive and
helpful for me. So Instagram is not a bad place,
but I'm so easily influenced by like the negativity, the
political stuff that I get so easily sucked in that
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I don't stay connected to this higher, wiser part of myself.
And so maybe for you it's Instagram, or maybe for
you it's something different that you can feel pulls you
away from your own wisdom. If there is something in
your life that pulls you away from your own wisdom,
you don't have to villainize that thing. Maybe it's TV,
maybe it's hanging out with a certain group of people.
Maybe it's alcohol, maybe it's foods, I don't know. Whatever
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it is, for you, you don't have to villainize that thing.
It doesn't make that thing bad. It's just like, yes,
this thing is pulling me away from my wisdom, and
I want to come back to my wisdom. So one
challenge that I gave myself is to take a break
from Instagram for right now. I don't know how long
this will be. To be off of Instagram completely, like
it's it's not on my phone at all. And when
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I have the impulse to go to Instagram to sort
of check and see what's going on in the world,
instead I tune into my wisdom. Instead, I do this
exercise and I will keep the note open on my
phone all day with the date at the top of
the page, and different wisdom comes in at different points
of the day. You know, if I do it first
thing in the morning, there's wisdom that comes through then.
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But also, I'm sitting at a coffee shop after I
ordered my coffee, and I'm waiting for five minutes for
my chi or whatever, and normally I'd be scrolling Instagram
just to kill the time, and instead I'm connecting with
my wisdom. And I want to challenge you to do
something similar to this, because I think we will witness
absolute miracles take place when more and more of us
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choose to disconnect from the things that are pulling us
away from our wisdom and to connect in to the wisdom,
to connect into the higher self, to connect into the
true self, to connect in to God, to connect in
to love, to connect into whatever you want to call it.
When we do that, we're going to begin to see
such radical clarity come through about next steps. That this
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time period that we're in that does feel heavy and
dense and dark and chaotic and confusing, and it does
feel in many ways like, oh, all is lost. I
have no idea how we're going to get through this,
both individually and collectively, and yet such radical clarity is
going to come through that we're going to know exactly
what to do next. We are going to feel planted
and ground. We are going to feel so alive and
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so free and so clear about who we are and
how we're meant to show up in the world. And
that clarity comes from simple, simple, simple things like this.
So I just want to challenge you four days in
a row, twenty minutes at a time. I think what
will happen is you will experience such a surge of
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clarity and motivation and momentum from those four days that
you're probably going to want to go beyond the four days.
But just shoot for four days, twenty minutes four days.
It's easy. Shoot for those four days. Do this writing
assignment for four days in a row. Report back to me,
Let me know how it goes, let me know how
you feel, Let me know what you learn, because I
maybe at some point I'll read to you some of
the things that have come through for me. But I'm like,
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WHOA Many writers have had this experience too, and artists
where you write something or you make something like a
song or a piece of art, and you just like,
where did that come from? Because I, my false self,
my small self, did not do that. That is wild,
that that came through me. So I want to dare
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you to practice connecting with your wisdom this week, four days,
twenty minutes a day. Just start there, See what happens,
See how it goes, See how much momentum you create,
see what kind of wisdom you gain, and make sure
that you let me know how it goes. I will
see you back here next week on the Write Your
Story podcast
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