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Hello and welcome to Practically Magick.
I am your host Courtney Pearl.
I am a Celtic priestess andhealer, pagan, folk witch.
I am here to talk to you today aboutour topic, animism will save the world.
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Animism and embodiment, I believeis the answer for us today.
Um, but first, I'm going tostart our episode pulling a card.
And, um, I will just, uh, just prefacewith We may have a visitor because she
was scratching at my door and she wouldnot leave me alone until I let her in.
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So if she pops on screen or youcan hear her little tingle of the
bells, you'll know that, um, myfamiliar Titian is here today.
Here she is!
So if you haven't seen the videoand you're not on YouTube, uh, my
black cat Tishen just joined us.
You might hear her collar jingling,but she's gonna hang around
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while we do our episode today.
I'm gonna pull a card from the OshoZen Tarot deck, which I am still in
the midst of exploring a little bit.
And I have really enjoyed, uh, Thecolors and the energy of this deck
was given to me as a gift here.
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I'll show the cover.
So for those who are watching onYouTube, you can see what deck
I'm using to pull a card today.
So if you haven't heard myepisodes before, if this is your
first time, I always pull a card.
to start each episode becauseI want the energy of the
episode to be, uh, summarized.
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I want something to encompass amessage that we are meant to receive.
So if you're listening to this episodeat some later date and you're thinking,
well, that card doesn't apply to me.
I always set the intention that whatevercard we pull for this episode is exactly
what you need to hear or know about today.
So the card that I havepulled is ripeness.
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I'm going to show theimage on our video here.
Ripeness is an interesting concept.
So what I get from this is verymuch like when is the time to act on
something because it feels naturaland it feels like something is ready.
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So if there's something that you'vebeen thinking about acting on and
you're not sure when is the time toactually put it into motion and to
act on it, maybe you've been hesitantand you're afraid to go for it.
This card, because, um, the fruit onthe tree reaching a level of ripeness,
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they will naturally fall off the tree.
But when the fruit is ready to be pickedand eaten and, um, enjoyed, I get the
sense that you wait too long, you havefruit that's rotting on the vine, right?
Instead of being the right time.
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So to not pick a fruit when it's tooearly, but also to make sure that you're
not waiting too long on something, thatyou are not thinking to yourself, well,
I need to have all my ducks in a row.
Everything needs to be perfectbefore I pull the trigger on this
thing that I'm trying to accomplish.
Um, I see this a lot in groups thatI'm in with, um, business people, uh,
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especially if they're like me, they don'tconsider themselves a business person.
They just want to be doing whateverthey're passionate about and they
would like to be making a livingdoing what they really love.
And they are hesitant to start it asa business because It's a little scary
and very risky to go out there and putforth a lot of investment time and energy
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into something without knowing if it'sgoing to take off, if it's going to be
successful, or if you're going to havethe response you would like to have.
Um, I know in the healing work thatI do, I'm, I have times where I feel
like clients are seeking me out andI feel like that's really good for
my business and what I want to do.
would like to be happening.
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And I have times where it feels like,um, I really have to work hard to
make myself known so that people knowwhat I have to offer and would like
to, um, maybe pull the trigger ontheir own healing as far as booking an
appointment and actually going for it.
Um, I've often said to people, you know,A lot of my clients, I've noticed, have
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to be exposed to me and the idea of meand what I offer and healing work and
energy work for a while, maybe several,several times before they go You know, I
think I'm ready to book a session and totry this, or maybe I'm in a place in my
life where this is really what I want.
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But there are a lot of people in differentavenues and different walks of life who
have come to the Daybreak Network groupor the Daybreak Business Community group.
And, uh, we meet togetheronce a week to support each
other and to create community.
And some people are there because they,don't have a business but would like to
start one and just don't really know how.
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Um, and it can be scary but if you waittoo long you're going to talk yourself
out of it and sometimes you just need topick the fruit when it's ripe and ready.
So if you have something you've been kindof sitting on for a while Maybe this is
the time to make, to take action on it.
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I have classes and courses that I'vebeen kind of slowly, uh, building
and releasing, uh, on my website.
Um, I have a rituals and spellsclass that's coming up soon, and
I'll probably teach that again.
But I, I have a lot of people inmy life that are looking to learn
more about those things and theysay, Hey, you should do a class.
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And my fear is always.
What if I put this out there, Istart a class, and People think I
don't know what I'm talking about.
People don't think that I haveany experience or knowledge or
people, I just do not get it outenough for people to sign up.
And so I ended up having nobody sign upfor it, which has happened to me before.
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Just so you know, it happens to everybody.
I think that startssomething new like that.
And so I have a lot of fear and I have myown fear that I have to overcome and say,
I need to create a space and a situationwhere I can release this into the world.
I can do my best to let peopleknow about it through social
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media, through, um, throughavenues that I have at my disposal.
But then I just also have to releaseit into the universe's hands and
say, if there is someone meant totake this class and someone's seeking
me, it will work out for them.
And I will fill this classas much as is necessary.
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And I have to trust the energy.
to open itself up, to create a vacuum forwho needs it, and also just, just let,
just release that opportunity for them.
Like the class is here.
It's ready.
I have created it.
I've put it together.
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So it's here and then hope for the best.
So I hope that helps you in whateverit is you're hesitant to release or
hesitant to get out there into the world.
This podcast, for one, is a great example.
I know that if you go back and listento some of the first episodes that
I've done, it's a little bit unsure.
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Um, I know what I'm talkingabout, but I maybe don't seem
like I'm talking about it.
confident in what I'm talking aboutbecause it's hard to just get there,
get on camera, get on a microphone andstart releasing the information you have.
And it's out there in theworld and sometimes it works
out and sometimes it doesn't.
So some episodes are just likeright on and some just sound a
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little more Um, I like to say sweatybecause it's kind of nervous, right?
Nervous energy.
Uh, I stand by it though.
All of the episodes I've releasedI think are still great content.
I may seem a little bit more nervous,but I think that the actual information
that I released, I stand by it.
I think it's awesome.
I just am glad that after a yearof podcasting, I can be a little
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bit more comfortable in front of acamera or in front of a microphone.
Hopefully.
Hopefully by now.
All right, so just do it.
Just do it.
Release it.
Do, do your thing.
You do you.
Today I would like to talk aboutthis subject that I'm really,
really passionate about, whichis animism will save the world.
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I've actually taken several classes,uh, workshops from people smarter
and wiser than me, where they namedthe workshop Just That, where they've
said, Animism will save the world.
And I thought this would be a perfect timeto have this discussion and to talk about
this a little bit because, um, we are ina point in history and time that things
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do seem very overwhelming and chaotic.
And, um, if you're like me, a lotof people are watching what's going
on in the, in our country, in theadministration, in what different
groups of people are trying todo, and it can be very scary.
It can feel very overwhelming.
It can feel Like, we ascitizens are just helpless.
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to it.
And, uh, and I wanted to create thisspace, not just to, um, to argue about
politics of who's right, who's wrong,whatever it is, but to acknowledge that
there are plenty of us, whoever youvoted for, whatever, whatever court
you happen to be in doesn't matter.
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It's validating to understandthat there are many of us that
do feel the way that we feel.
And that Sometimes when we as aindividual person don't feel like we
can possibly do enough, um, there areplenty of things we can try to do.
We can raise money for charitieswe feel very passionate about.
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We can create spaces where people,marginalized groups can feel safe
and, um, I'm doing my best to thinkof all of the ways that I can to do
that, even just at a local level, uh,with whatever influence I happen to
have, whatever, whatever I can do.
Um, but the idea of animism, um, itgoes quite comfortably, hand in hand
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with the idea, uh, around paganism,which is animism, is the idea that all
things have a soul, a vibration, um.
and deserve to be treated as kin ratherthan as domain for us to dominate.
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So it's anti colonialism for one, Um, it'skind of decolonizing within ourselves too,
to understand things in a different way.
And ancient cultures all over theworld have participated in animism
in the way that they experiencemythology, the way that they
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understand the world around them.
It's understanding the land not assomething that we take ownership
of, but that we take stewardship of.
It's understanding that when weengage with which we live on.
For example, your homeand your yard, okay?
Your home and your yard has treesand rocks and bushes and plants
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and creatures living on that plotof land that you happen to own.
Engaging with it in a different wayis not to say, that's just a tree
that I have to prune and take care of.
That's not a tree that is part ofmy landscaping and it serves the
purpose that I, I get to look at it.
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I get to use that tree as partof my aesthetic for my home.
But it's engaging with the treeas if it is one of a family member
and you're taking care of, aswell as it's taking care of you.
That you are in symbioticrelationship with the tree.
And this idea can also, um, can relateto a lot of things going on, um,
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in policies that are being enacted.
For example, pronouns.
It's important that pronouns are used torespect people as well as the land and
the creatures and the people around us.
So instead of, for example, a sycamoretree, which is what I have on the front
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of my yard and in front of my house.
Um, instead of it being a sycamoretree and saying it when I refer to it,
but to, let's say, give it a pronounof he or she, they, um, to give it
personality and to respect them asa member of this sycamore nation.
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Um, when I meet a bee, or abutterfly, or a ladybug that
is hanging around in my yard.
I am not just seeing an insect, I amengaging with one member of an entire
nation of kin that relates to me.
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So understanding that Even the landitself is not just, uh, an object for
us to use, but to understand and relatewith it on a different level, the
way that ancient peoples and ancientcultures have done, um, long before
we decided that we could interpretcertain religious texts as human beings.
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Human beings, even certain human beingswith certain ethnicities have ownership
and dominion over everyone else.
And I understand that you can quotethe Bible to me all day long and say
that, you know, that we as humans, wehave, we're supposed to, um, use animals
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and plants and land as we see fit.
It's like we were given it byGod, given that right by God.
But A truth is with that mentality wehave seen over generations and thousands
of years, we've destroyed our planet.
And if we want to get back to a placewhere we are in stewardship and in
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relationship with our land, with ouranimals, with our, um, and I have my
cat sleeping right here on my lap.
Let's see if I can show you without Boink!
There she is.
She's hanging out.
Maybe she just loves this, uh,this topic of discussion today, so
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she's decided to hang out with us.
Okay, so that is the idea of animism.
It's basically all of us who areraised in a generation of, uh,
listening to Pocahontas sing,um, Colors of the Wind, right?
Every rock and tree and creature hasa life, has a spirit, has a name.
So, um, the rocks even.
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And we can go back to our elementaryschool science class and we can talk
about how, you know, some things areliving and some things are non living.
But what I understand about energeticsand the way that the world works is that
whether it's a living or non living thing,we are all made from the same materials.
That we originate from thesame, uh, um, life forms.
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And we all vibrate at a frequency.
So we interact and relate with eachother whether we know it or not.
When we're sensitive enough to feel it,we know that crystals and rocks from my
episode about crystals, Crystals 101.
Go back and watch that.
What we know is that even rockshave a vibrational frequency
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that can affect our frequency.
So we are still in relationship.
And mythology was one way, the storiesthat indigenous cultures have told, one
way for, to teach the next generationthat we are in relationship with the land.
We are not in ownership of it.
We, we don't just use it forour own, um, satisfaction.
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We understand it as a point of usefulnessto the creatures as well and the, the
animals and plants that live there.
And, um, we don't over pick orover harvest because we want to
allow more for everyone to use.
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Um, I'm getting a lot of, of theresources that I'm telling you today
from the book, Braiding Sweetgrass.
So Robin Zimmerman, if you haven't readthat book, it's a fantastic example of how
indigenous people here in North Americahave seen and interacted with the land and
how it changed when, um, certain groupsof people came to colonize that land.
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And we are influenced by those people.
Some of them, we are descendants of them.
So we're very heavilyinfluenced by that mentality.
And if we want to begin to reversethe damage that was done, we have
to look and see things differently.
And that means decolonizingwithin ourselves.
I also want to talk aboutbodily autonomy and embodiment.
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That when we take ownership of our ownbody in a different way, when we step
into sovereignty with our own bodies,which is The original practice of yoga
was meant to, um, to do that kind of, uh,Ooh, what's, what am I trying to say here?
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The, the way that we takeownership and embodiment of our
own bodies and release energy.
through the movements andbreath that we do during yoga.
That's what it was originally for.
It was a spiritualpractice that yogis used.
It has been Westernized just like a lotof other things from other cultures.
Uh, those of us from Western cultures, um,Northern European cultures and American
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culture, we have, we have adapted andchanged it so much that I'm not even
sure what we practice a lot of places.
Um, which is now practicedin India where it originated.
Um, but I almost feel that, um, in theeffort of not culturally appropriating
what it is or what it was, uh, we shouldjust call it a new thing because it
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wasn't, um, what most of us interact withas yoga isn't what it was originally.
But somatic movement, healing in movement,and grounding and embodiment are Some of
the similar ways that we can engage withour bodies in such a way that we remember
where we came from and how we connectwith everyone and everything around us.
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It's like when people take psychedelicsfor healing purposes, a lot of them
experience similar things where theyunderstand God in a completely new
way and they understand our connectionwith each other in a whole new way.
I don't know how many times I've heardpeople say that when they've had an
experience for healing purposes, medicinalpurposes, they have reached a point of
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realizing that the connection and oneness.
between everything, not just people,but everything on this earth, everything
in this universe is connected to Godor what energy God was, the creation
or source of creation in the universe.
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So when we engage with thesepractices, when we engage with
bodily, autonomy, movement,grounding, uh, dancing, meditation.
These sorts of activities that helpremind us where our body is, what our
body is all about, um, what it's for,its purposes, and that it's our own
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relationship with it that is so healing.
And these things all connect becauseI'm talking about engaging with our
bodies in a new way, as well as how weengage with the outside world, right?
So the way that we respondwith a tree, the way that we
respond with our own bodies.
And a lot of people, especially inmodern society, they struggle with,
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um, things like body dysmorphia andnot feeling In good relationship with
their own body, I myself have struggledwith this almost my whole life.
And I still struggle with it indifferent moments throughout my life.
Where I look at my body and Ican't even fully see my body
for the shape or way that it is.
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I'm almost, um, tricking myself in mymind, um, that I look, more unhealthy,
bigger or smaller than I actually am.
Not really totally connected and sometimesfeel absolutely at war with my own body.
And I know a lot of people that, thathave had that experience and not just
women, although it's more prominentwomen and because of our society and, um,
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the media, but it happens with men too.
It's very much about just feeling notthat, connected to our own bodies and
not feeling self love for our bodies.
And when we set ourselves free fromexpectation and set ourselves free
from that war with our bodies, we canengage with activities like dancing
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and feel like I don't feel selfconscious at all when I feel free,
when I feel ownership of my body.
And for some people, it starts much,much, much simpler first, before
they actually can get out thereand move their body in such a way
that would feel too self conscious.
They're too self conscious to do that.
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One thing I want to question though, iswhy, why do we feel so self conscious and
why is it that some people even feel Oh, alot of people actually feel self conscious
dancing or moving their body, even whenthey're alone in their own space, in
their own room where no one can see them.
Turn on music.
They might feel like they want to dance,but they feel too self conscious to dance.
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They feel too self consciousto move, even by themselves.
And that awareness is powerful, tojust stop and ask yourself, whoa.
I even felt self conscious around myself.
Why?
Why can I not give myself that freedomand satisfaction of being totally free
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in my own body, moving to music as Isee fit intuitively and listen to my
own intuition and listen to my own body.
For a lot of people that sufferwith disorders that are connected
to eating disorders, connected tobody dysmorphia, um, it's connected
to their unwillingness to let go ofcontrol and it's connected to their,
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uh, their at war with their own body.
And sometimes it's a small steptowards just looking at their own
arm or their own leg and every dayjust looking at themselves in the
mirror and saying, This is my arm.
This is my leg.
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And just working from there.
Because just taking that ownership andembodiment moment to take that connection
and say, I Um, this leg and this legis part of me and it's not all of me.
My body is just one part of me.
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So it's going within for that sortof connection and it's going without.
In our, uh, lovely state of Utah, so forthose listening anywhere else, you can
use a landmark that's, um, close to you.
But I'm going to use this example.
Uh, we have the GreatSalt Lake here in Utah.
It's a, it's a source of pride.
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It's something that wefeel, um, connected to here.
However, because of Um, policyand the way things have operated
here in our government or, um,or the way that things have gone.
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You can tell I'm trying really hardto navigate wording just right so
that I don't offend certain groupsof people, but we have not been
particularly good at seeing the landmarks
Appreciating what we have here.
Um, some people would look out atsome of the uninhabited areas of
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Utah and would say, It's a desert.
It's, it's uninhabitable.
It's like, there's nothingthere but sagebrush.
And indigenous, indigenous cultureswho were here before this area
was colonized and colonized.
would look out over a whole span ofthat desert and say it is plentiful
and abundant of medicines and foodsources and all kinds of things that
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they would be able to make good use of.
So that's already howwe relate with our land.
It's a really powerful andimportant step to take in how we
can question what we've always done.
and begin to move forwardin a space of relationship.
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So the Great Salt Lake, uh, hasbeen drying up for many years now.
We've been in a bit of a drought.
There has been, um, Argumentson both sides of, you know, for
one, the Great Salt Lake hasbeen drying up for millennia.
We used to be part of Lake Bonneville,used to be part of a much larger
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body of water that was most of Utah.
And now it's down to the Great SaltLake, you know, uh, what we have now.
And so it is shrinking.
It's getting smaller because that'sjust what it's always done anyway.
partly because of our misuse ofwater conservation in our state
and a lot of policies that havedirected water other places.
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And we haven't necessarily been reallygood at being good stewards of the
land and the water here in Utah.
Um, the tribe of Shoshone, uh, band ofShoshone nation here in Utah have been
a great advocate for, uh, policies thatcan help conserve water and conserve our,
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um, our wildlife and areas here in Utah.
So if you have means to call yourcongressperson and your representatives
in government and say, I would liketo do what needs to be done to, um,
conserve water and to be proactive inbeing able to save our Great Salt Lake.
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Now, one way that we can haverelationship with our land is instead
of the Great Salt Lake being an it inour minds, it's just a body of water.
We can start to imagine it as a she.
When you see, um, when youspeak about someone and you use
pronouns that are respectful, itcompletely changes the energy and
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the vibe of how we relate to it.
For example, you wouldn't, uh, seeyour grandma cooking at the stove
and say, there it is cooking dinner.
It's cooking our dinner.
It would be disrespectful, probably,to speak about grandma that way.
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You would want to say,she is cooking our dinner.
Isn't she so great thatshe provides dinner for us?
and language of gratitude.
It doesn't hurt either.
But when talking about somebody witha pronoun, that is how the ancient
civilizations would have talked aboutthe land and the creatures and, and
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the plants that provide us with food.
I'm really sorry if you canhear those licking sounds.
That's my cat taking abath right here on my lap.
She just picks the most wonderfultimes and places to do that.
Especially on, on my lap when I'm
recording a podcast or when sometimeswhen I'm trying to go to sleep at
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night and she's doing that in my ear.
But we'll forgive it because she is ourguest today in our subject of animism.
She is a member of ourfamily and we love her.
And what I would like to do today, whatI would like for us to finish off with
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is that when you are feeling particularlyoverwhelmed about everything going
on and you feel helpless and you feellike things can be a little bit scary,
And you were right to feel that way.
It's valid that when you watchthe news and when you're on
social media, you're seeing what'sgoing on and it's not nothing.
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Um, and I understand the unwillingnessto look away because it feels like
it would be worse to ignore it or topretend everything is okay when it's not.
So I don't recommend that.
But when you need a break and whenyou need to feel like you are yourself
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again, that you are in charge ofyour own self, your own body, I
recommend that you dance for a sense ofgrounding in your body and embodiment.
I would recommend going outin nature whenever possible.
When you have a moment to step out intoa field, or a forest, or a mountain, or
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a trail, or somewhere where there is verylittle people and very little influence
from other human beings in the vicinity.
When you get a chance to be a littlebit away from everything, and you
get a chance to just look in thesky, and look down at the earth.
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And know that in that moment, when youare out there, you're just one more
human being on a planet full of humanbeings, all trying to figure this
out and all trying to do their best.
And that when you're out there,no one else is in charge of you.
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You're out of reach.
from all the people and all thethings and all the institutions
and all the policies that are goingto try to take ownership of you.
You get to take your sovereignty back.
And I would do that as much aspossible to remind you that even as
they make laws about you, even asthey say what you are allowed and not
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allowed to do, you are going to havethese small moments, these reminders.
Not a weekend retreat that youpaid thousands of dollars for.
Just one moment of resistance.
One moment of standing your ground.
One moment where you getto stand on the earth,
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on the land itself, and under the sky,and say, in this moment, there is no
one telling me what to do, and no one.
can stop me from standing here on my own.
It's the same idea as taking anap in the middle of the day.
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Other people might tell you that youwere supposed to be at work and you're
supposed to be doing this and you'resupposed to be doing that and maybe
get this done and here's your to dolist that hasn't been completed yet
and you don't have time for a nap.
Everybody needs you.
Everybody needs you for everythingthat you're doing all the time.
And small acts of reclaiming yourbody, your time, your sovereignty
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can help one small moment at a time.
And that's all they are.
These are all small little moments oftaking back ourselves, our autonomy.
Because eventually thoselittle moments will grow.
And those little moments willbecome other people's moments too.
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You can change the worldby changing yourself.
You can balance the worldby balancing yourself.
I truly believe that.
So in small moments, every daytake a moment to say, I'm tired.
My body needs to rest.
I know I have a lot to do and I knowall these people need me, but I'm
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going to take 15 minutes and I'mgoing to take a little 15 minute nap.
Or, I'm going to dance.
I'm going to put on some music.
I'm not going to give two mmmm about what anybody thinks.
Whether they like my dancingor not, whether they think
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I'm crazy or weird or not.
I'm not going to care about any of that.
I'm going to take this one moment toremind myself that my body is mine.
It's not just here foreveryone else's purposes.
So I'm going to take this momentand I'm going to dance it out.
I'm going to play the music thatmakes me feel good and makes me feel
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like myself again.
And every time you walk by a tree, arock, a bush, an insect, a dog, a cat,
whatever it is, Look at them just a littlebit differently than you did yesterday.
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Look at them as akin to you.
A member of their nation.
Greet them as if you are greetingan ambassador to another country,
representing that country.
They are equals to you.
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And maybe one little step ata time, we can begin to change
the world in how they see
everything else around them.
If you would like an opportunity todance it out with me, I'm going to be
starting up a series of dance parties.
The first one is going tobe online, February 15th.
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So, No matter who you are or where youare, you can log in, go to my website
to the eventsPage@www.prismhealing.com,and I know I don't have to say the WW
part, so don't tell me I know that.
I'm just letting you know where to go.
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You are gonna go to Prism.
Dash healing.
com go to the events and you will see away to buy a ticket to our online dance
party that we are Having February 15th.
This means that you get to dance withme, but you can do it from the comfort
of your own home And I think I'm gonnado a series of these just to get people
in the mood for our dance parties.
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This is for people who may be a littleself conscious about their dancing
and just want to start out small,want to figure out how to intuitively
move their body, want to startfeeling comfortable in their body.
Um, and what I'm going to dois I'm going to allow you the
option to turn off your camera.
If you would like during the zoomcall, you can do it from your,
from your bedroom, from a spacethat you feel comfortable in.
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You can wear your PJs and yoursweats, and you can just sit there.
with us.
We're going to start with verysimple movements that just make you
feel a little bit more comfortable.
Maybe a little swaying, a little rocking,a little bit of, um, somatic movements.
And then we're going tobuild on that with music.
So please sign up for My Body,My Dance Party on my website.
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I have it in the works to doa local dance party for women.
and queer folks.
So anyone identifying withnon binary trans women.
Um, yeah, anybody who is looking for asafe space to move their body and dance.
I think this would be particularly usefuland helpful for moms because I'm a mom.
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I am roughly middle aged andThe thing about our age group
is we still love to dance.
We do.
We love to dance, but we don't reallyknow where to do it because we are too old
to be going clubbing with those 20 yearolds, 22 year olds, you know, they're,
they go to the bar, they go to the dance.
And also, I don't know about anybodyelse, but I have always felt super
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uncomfortable in those spaces.
I don't feel comfortable dancing becauseYou know how when you're dancing and
you're starting to feel like it'sfun, even when you're just with your
girlfriends, you're just like, Ohyeah, the music is getting me going.
It's fun.
And then you look over at the barand there's just like a group of
men kind of just staring at you.
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Like they're super excited that you cametonight because they get a free show
and they're just going to watch theseladies dance and move their bodies.
And they're like, yeah.
So they're kind of ogling you.
And you're just like, Oh, come on.
I just want to dance.
I don't really need you to be likestaring at me and making me uncomfortable.
I am trying to create a spacewhere this is a safe space
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for everybody to dance it out.
Nobody's going to belooking at each other.
They're going to be soenveloped in their own dancing.
That the only reason they're goingto be looking at you is to get some
ideas about how they should be moving.
Oh, I like the way she's moving.
I'm going to move like her and that's it.
So.
Also, women our age, we want to goout dancing, but we don't want to be
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out until two in the morning anymore.
That's not our jam, right?
We want to be in bed by 11.
At least I do.
So none of my dance partiesare going to go out past 10.
We are going to be in bed by 11, ladies.
So if you are interested in coming to mydance parties, please, uh, stay tuned.
Follow me on Facebook, on Instagram.
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I'll be posting about theseevents when I get them set up.
I've already talked to a venue.
I've already got it in the works.
We're just narrowing down adate for that first event.
What else?
Okay, so find me on social media.
I'm on Instagram atPrism underscore healing.
My website is Prismdash healing Instagram.
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Prism underscore healing.
I'm on Facebook, CourtneyPearls Prism Healing.
Um, of course, you can messageme here through this podcast.
If you have any questions or storiesyou would like to tell me in relation to
what we've discussed today or any futureepisodes you have some ideas about, I
would love to bring back from season one.
We did questions from a listener.
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So if you do have Something you'd liketo ask me about, um, a situation you
happen to be in and you're not reallysure what to do, and you'd like some
ideas, um, some things to help youin your life, uh, please reach out to
me on any of those platforms, um, andif you have liked and enjoyed this
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We would love that.
And we would love it if you just said hi.
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I would like to take this momentto thank Ride the Wave Media for
producing and putting out this podcast.
If you're interested in doing apodcast of your own, I highly recommend
getting them to produce it for you.
So reach out if you would like your ownpodcast, I can connect you with them.
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And I would like to thank SarahAlbert, who runs the Sunshine
Community here in Daybreak.
And I would also like to take a minute,shout out to my friends at the Daybreak
Community, the Daybreak Network thatmeets every Wednesday at one o'clock.
I've been help heading that upwith my friends Cambria Davis.
The Fresh King Benjamin, uh,Carla, Liftgate Parties, and
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Alicia Hensley, Interior Designer.
These are my buds, these are myfriends, and I love that we get to
create a little community of network.
Um, all of the people that meet withus at one o'clock on Wednesdays,
um, have become like a family to me.
So, thank you for everything,and we'll see you next time.
Witches and wizards, go make Magick.