August 16, 2025 • 22 mins
This episode explores what happens when we forget our innate power-through the story of a brilliant bird who forgot how to fly-and how neuroscience subconscious reprogramming, and Rumi's wisdom can help us remember our forgotten potential, and rise.
• Alex, a bird who spoke three languages but forgot to fly after a storm, mirrors our human tendency to forget our capabilities
• Many of us crawl through life not by conscious choice but because our brain's survival wiring makes us believe it's safer
• The brain creates neural pathways that become default responses when we experience pain after taking risks
• Our Default Mode Network (DMN) reinforces limiting beliefs whenever we're on autopilot
• Chronic stress hijacks our prefrontal cortex, literally preventing us from seeing new possibilities
• Neuroplasticity means our brains can change at any age through visualization, identity work, and embracing novelty
• Try journal prompts to identify where you've forgotten your wings and what soaring would look like for you
• Use the guided meditation to reconnect with your innate potential to fly
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Just Count Me In, a podcast designed to
help you break free from yourlimitations and step into the
life that you actually weremeant to live.
I'm Sari Stone and I'm aholistic coach with a background
in education.
For the past six years, I'vebeen guiding people to transform
their lives from the inside out.
My journey, to be honest withyou, was not always clear.
(00:24):
Side out, my journey to behonest with you was not always
clear.
For years, I actually felt likeI was living someone else's
life, checking all the rightboxes but never feeling quite
truly fulfilled.
That all changed when Iexperienced a few miracles, met
some incredible teachers and hada major wake-up call that
forced me to shift my entireperspective.
(00:44):
And had a major wake-up callthat forced me to shift my
entire perspective.
Wayne Dyer once said when youchange the way you look at
things, the things that you lookat change.
And that is exactly what thispodcast is about Helping you see
your life in a new way so thatyou can start living with
authenticity, purpose andpassion.
Each week, I'm going to bringyou 30 minute episodes filled
(01:06):
with insights, practicalstrategies and inspiring
interviews to help you uncoverwhat truly lights you up and
identify what's been holding youback.
Eventually, this is going toignite your motivation and
create real change.
Are you ready to step into thelife you were meant to live?
(01:27):
Then just count me in, hit,subscribe and join me on this
journey.
If this episode resonates,please share it with a friend
who needs a little inspirationtoday.
Let's do this together.
I hope you're having a greatweek this week.
I'm actually recording this onthe weekend.
It's my dad's birthday today,so a little bit of an emotional
(01:51):
day for me, and I do want todedicate this episode to him,
because he showed me that it isnever too late to remember your
wings and reclaim your power tosoar.
Have you ever met someone orsomething that reminded you of
(02:12):
your own forgotten potential?
Today, this episode is aboutthe story of Alex, a bird who
inspired me beyond words.
He spoke three differentlanguages, outsmarted most
creatures, yet he forgot how todo the very thing that birds do
he had forgotten to fly.
(02:33):
I'm going to give you thebackstory on how we met Alex.
We were staying at a place inCosta Rica, a VRBO, and this
particular place was really justnot a good vibe for us.
That had never happened to usbefore, but it just didn't feel
good.
We stayed there a couple nightsand we were so upset because we
(02:53):
only got one week off a yeartogether to go on a vacation and
here it was staying insubstandard conditions with
leaky plumbing, and it justdidn't smell good.
We later found out I think itwas built on a burial ground.
There was just all kinds ofthings.
So we were going for a walk andI was talking about it pretty
(03:14):
upset, and I found a piece ofdriftwood had a blue butterfly
on it, and I love bluebutterflies.
That's the symbol for CostaRica and I just love them.
We decided to go down that roadand keep talking.
Well, it turned out that therewere these cottages built on a
(03:34):
beautiful hillside, and one ofthem was vacant.
We met the owners, pierre andRenee.
They were lovely and it waslike a French, a small French
cottage.
It was just charming is theonly word I can think of for it
and adorable and immaculate andthe plumbing worked and it was
(03:55):
perfect and it was vacant and wedecided to just take the sunk
cost factor.
We had already lost money onthis other place, spend the
extra money and book ourselveshere.
We could not have made a betterchoice.
Because of that, not only did wehave a great rest of our
vacation and we so enjoyed theircompany, but I met the bird
(04:18):
that I will never forget, and hedefinitely changed my life.
So what does Alex's story haveto do with us?
What does that have to do withus as human beings in general?
It has everything to do with us.
Many of us have wings thatwe've forgotten.
At the point that I met Alex,my life looked great on the
surface and it looked like I wasreally successful and had met
(04:42):
all my goals, and I just keptfeeling this overwhelming
feeling that I hadn't.
I was just going to die with mymusic in me if I kept going,
because I had so much more tooffer than I was giving and I
had to shrink and contain myselfso much to be successful in my
place of employment that it justwas killing me inside in a way,
(05:06):
and I felt like I couldn't fly.
So he really hit home.
We're going to learn about whathappens in the brain when we
forget our possibilities and howthe subconscious keeps us
grounded, and how you canremember your possibilities,
your wings, through neuroscienceand practical steps.
(05:29):
I'll share some of the things Idid, because I'm at a much
better place now and there'll bea little wisdom from Rumi.
At the end, by popular request,I'm going to do a five-minute
meditation to help you feel yourwings again, so let's dive in
Picture.
This A gorgeous, intelligentbird.
(05:50):
He's on the cover of thisepisode, living in Costa Rica.
His name is Alex.
He spoke three languagesfluently.
He understood humor, commands,tone.
He was conversational.
He was charming.
He was conversational.
He was charming.
He was clearly a genius of abird.
I've never met a bird like him.
(06:12):
But here's the twist Aftersurviving a massive storm, alex
was rescued.
He had injured wings and he hadforgotten how to fly.
Yep, you heard that right.
A bird who spoke threelanguages could not remember the
most natural thing for himspreading his wings and soaring
through the sky.
(06:32):
When the storms passed, hestayed grounded, walking and
hopping from branch to branch.
The only time he flew was whena storm hit, which in Costa Rica
they do have tropical stormsand a lot of rain.
He would panic and fly reallyhigh up in trees.
They would have to get somebodyto rescue him and every time he
(06:55):
would forget again, once he gotup there, how to get down.
It was sad and also fascinating.
He had everything the wings,the strength.
He definitely had theintelligence, but his experience
of fear and survival hadrewired his instincts.
Here's the question how many ofus are living the same way?
(07:19):
And here's what I asked myselfwhat is Alex here to teach me
and why is it like this for us?
As humans, we are all born withwings not the physical ones,
but we've got the capacity forcreativity, for courage,
(07:40):
heartbreak, failure,disappointment, rejection,
sometimes trauma.
We start to believe it's saferto crawl.
The truth Most of us don'treally stop flying because we
can't.
We stop because somewhere deepdown, our brains decided this
(08:01):
isn't safe anymore.
Rumi said you were born withwings.
Why prefer to crawl throughlife?
Our brains decided this isn'tsafe anymore.
Rumi said you were born withwings.
Why prefer to crawl throughlife?
And I really don't think that Iever preferred to crawl through
life and I don't think weprefer to crawl through life
consciously.
It's our subconscious and thebrain's survival wiring that
(08:22):
makes us believe crawling issafer.
We're going to talk about brainscience, because I dove into
this, trying to figure out why Ihad forgotten my possibilities,
why we forget our possibilities, I learned that our brain is
wired first for efficiency andsurvival.
(08:43):
So when something is dangerousor painful, the brain encodes
that memory really stronglybecause its job is to keep us
safe and alive.
If you once tried something biglike starting a business,
dancing on stage, loving fully,trying out for a job or a
(09:03):
promotion, and it ended in pain,your brain creates a warning
system don't do that again,because it's wired for
efficiency and survival, notendless exploration.
The brain loves predictabilityand our brains form neural
pathways that become defaultresponses.
(09:26):
This is called learnedhelplessness when the brain
predicts that your effort is notgoing to matter and it stops
trying.
We then have habits of thought.
We know that we can need that.
These thoughts, theserepetitive thoughts, can carve a
path to depression.
Rewiring creates paths toresilience, where we can
(09:55):
actually unlearn these false,negative beliefs.
So I work with people.
We rewire our brains.
The neural pathways sound likeI can't.
That's too risky.
Just play it safe, stay small.
That's for other people.
I'm not good enough to do that.
Next, the default mode networkDMN comes into play and that's
the part of your brain that getsactive when you're not focused
(10:18):
on a task, when you're driving,daydreaming, reflecting or just
looping a thought.
It's where your sense of selflives, your identity narrative.
This says I'm not good enough,I'm just going to fail.
They're never going to givethis to me, I'm not going to get
that break.
Then the DMN will reforce youevery time you're on autopilot.
(10:41):
It's like playing the samerecord over and over again.
Eventually you forget thatthere's another song.
Time you're on autopilot it'slike playing the same record
over and over again.
Eventually you forget thatthere's another song.
And stress don't even go there.
Stress shrinks all of yourpossibilities because when we're
under chronic stress we knowthat the amygdala, the brain's
fear center, hijacks theprefrontal cortex which is
(11:01):
responsible for your vision, foryour creativity, for your
problem solving.
So you honestly can't see newoptions.
So the role of that defaultmode network is active when
we're resting.
So it is sneaky.
And because it's responsible foridentity in our narrative self,
(11:22):
and because it's responsiblefor identity in our narrative
self, it's really hard toovercome those old beliefs
unless you go in and reprogramconsciously your subconscious.
In Alex's case, the stormreprogrammed his instincts to
prioritize safety, which it'sthere to keep you alive.
For us, storms like heartbreak,disappointment, failure,
(11:48):
rejection they do the same thing.
We stop flying, not because wecan't, but because the brain
convinces us that it's safer onthe ground.
Because it is safer on theground, how do we remember our
wings?
The magic word isneuroplasticity.
Your brain, thank God, canchange at any age.
(12:10):
Here's three powerful ways thatI actually used and I use with
my clients.
One, and we probably talk aboutthis in every episode
visualization the picture inyour mind.
Mental rehearsal.
Visualization the picture inyour mind, mental rehearsal.
So close your eyes and seeyourself doing the thing you
fear or desire.
Feel the feeling, feel theemotion that you want to get
(12:38):
from that experience andmemorize that emotion.
Every time you do this, the DMNrewires with repetition and
emotional change and you'regoing to make more of those
neural connections Becauseremember, your brain doesn't
know the difference.
Your brain is lighting up inthe same places as if you were
actually doing it, so it'sactually as though you are
(13:00):
practicing.
Number two I did some identitywork.
I started telling a new story.
I started telling rememberingthat I was born to soar, and we
know that that default modenetwork rewires with repetition
and emotional charge.
So you can take charge of yourbrain and go into your
(13:21):
subconscious and totally changeyour story, totally flip the
script for what's going on inthere.
Novelty and curiosity are thethird way.
Try something new every day.
New experiences create newneural connections, making your
brain more flexible.
(13:42):
I do something and I call itneurobics instead of aerobics.
I think I forget who it was,but there was a coach who had
coined that phrase, so I don'twant to say that it was my
original.
But even if it means going upthe stairs with your right foot
instead of your left if youusually go left first or
brushing your teeth with theother hand, anything that's a
(14:04):
little bit different will help.
And remember, you are notbroken.
You're just human and you'rewired to survive.
But now, if you're listening tothis podcast, I think by now
you realize that you were bornto thrive.
Here are some journal promptsthat you might want to try this
(14:25):
week.
Where in my life have Iforgotten my wings and what
storm made me believe that Icouldn't fly?
How am I repeating that?
How am I still living that out?
Is the tail wagging the doghere?
If I spread my wings now, whatwill soaring look like for me?
(14:51):
If I spread my wings now, whatam I afraid of?
So repeat after me.
I was born to rise above fear.
My wings are strong.
(15:15):
I trust the air beneath me.
Every day, I remember more andmore of who I am.
So now, if you have time, we'regoing to do a short meditation.
If not, if you're driving, cutthis and come back to it when
(15:37):
you can.
So first I want you to sitcomfortably and close your eyes
and inhale deeply for four, holdfor two and exhale for six.
(15:58):
Again, inhale for four, again.
Inhale for 4, hold for 2 andexhale for 6, dropping in,
(16:24):
inhale for 4, dropping in.
Inhale for four, hold for two,exhale for six, exhale for seven
.
So, sitting comfortably, feelingthe light streaming in from the
(16:49):
top of your head, above yourhead, about 200-300 feet, just
connect.
You can have your eyes closedand roll them up, or you can
have your eyes open and look upand feel your body supported by
the earth beneath you, feel thecenter of the earth, coming up
(17:10):
through those areas that aresupported and meeting with that
light streaming in from above.
Notice your thoughts as cloudsin the sky.
Your thoughts come and go andremember I am not my thoughts, I
(17:39):
am the sky.
I am not the movie on thescreen.
Now imagine that you're Alex,perched on a branch.
You've weathered the storm, butthe sky calls you.
(18:04):
Feel the sunlight warming yourwings.
Spread them wide, stretchfurther than you ever have
before and let the wind lift you.
You rise higher, freer,weightless, whisper.
(18:30):
I was born to fly.
Feel this.
What?
What do you see?
Look around, what do you see onthe horizon?
What's underneath you?
(18:56):
When you're ready, place yourhands over your heart and say
softly I remember my wings, Ichoose to soar.
You were born with potential.
(19:22):
You were born with goodness andtrust.
You were born with ideals anddreams.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling,so don't you have wings?
(19:43):
Learn to use them and fly.
You are free.
You always were.
Open your eyes when you'reready.
Alex didn't stop being a birdwhen he forgot to fly, just like
(20:06):
you don't stop being limitlesswhen fear makes you forget.
Your wings are always there.
The question is will you usethem?
My dad didn't really spread hiswings until after he retired.
Luckily, he lived a really longtime after he retired and he
retired young.
My mom was just getting tospread her wings and she didn't
(20:33):
even have a year of it and shedied.
So I've had two differentlessons in my life very powerful
teachers, and right at the timein my life when I met Alex, I
realized that, even though Itook my mom's lessons with me, I
(20:54):
still had more.
I still had more in me, and ifI didn't spread my wings, I was
not about to really fly.
If today's episode spoke to you,share it with someone who needs
to remember their wings.
(21:14):
And if you want to go deeper,download the guide in the show
notes.
Remember your Wings Three Stepsto Rewire your Mind for
Possibility.
Remember your Wings Three Stepsto Rewire your Mind for
Possibility.
Please remember to subscribe tothe podcast and you can click
on the link to sign up for theemail list.
I'd love to be in touch withyou and until next time, keep
(21:36):
soaring and just count me in.
Thank you.
Welcome to Just Count Me In, a podcast designed to
help you break free from yourlimitations and step into the
life that you actually weremeant to live.
I'm Sari Stone and I'm aholistic coach with a background
in education.
For the past six years, I'vebeen guiding people to transform
their lives from the inside out.
My journey, to be honest withyou, was not always clear.
(00:24):
Side out, my journey to behonest with you was not always
clear.
For years, I actually felt likeI was living someone else's
life, checking all the rightboxes but never feeling quite
truly fulfilled.
That all changed when Iexperienced a few miracles, met
some incredible teachers and hada major wake-up call that
forced me to shift my entireperspective.
(00:44):
And had a major wake-up callthat forced me to shift my
entire perspective.
Wayne Dyer once said when youchange the way you look at
things, the things that you lookat change.
And that is exactly what thispodcast is about Helping you see
your life in a new way so thatyou can start living with
authenticity, purpose andpassion.
Each week, I'm going to bringyou 30 minute episodes filled
(01:06):
with insights, practicalstrategies and inspiring
interviews to help you uncoverwhat truly lights you up and
identify what's been holding youback.
Eventually, this is going toignite your motivation and
create real change.
Are you ready to step into thelife you were meant to live?
(01:27):
Then just count me in, hit,subscribe and join me on this
journey.
If this episode resonates,please share it with a friend
who needs a little inspirationtoday.
Let's do this together.
I hope you're having a greatweek this week.
I'm actually recording this onthe weekend.
It's my dad's birthday today,so a little bit of an emotional
(01:51):
day for me, and I do want todedicate this episode to him,
because he showed me that it isnever too late to remember your
wings and reclaim your power tosoar.
Have you ever met someone orsomething that reminded you of
(02:12):
your own forgotten potential?
Today, this episode is aboutthe story of Alex, a bird who
inspired me beyond words.
He spoke three differentlanguages, outsmarted most
creatures, yet he forgot how todo the very thing that birds do
he had forgotten to fly.
(02:33):
I'm going to give you thebackstory on how we met Alex.
We were staying at a place inCosta Rica, a VRBO, and this
particular place was really justnot a good vibe for us.
That had never happened to usbefore, but it just didn't feel
good.
We stayed there a couple nightsand we were so upset because we
(02:53):
only got one week off a yeartogether to go on a vacation and
here it was staying insubstandard conditions with
leaky plumbing, and it justdidn't smell good.
We later found out I think itwas built on a burial ground.
There was just all kinds ofthings.
So we were going for a walk andI was talking about it pretty
(03:14):
upset, and I found a piece ofdriftwood had a blue butterfly
on it, and I love bluebutterflies.
That's the symbol for CostaRica and I just love them.
We decided to go down that roadand keep talking.
Well, it turned out that therewere these cottages built on a
(03:34):
beautiful hillside, and one ofthem was vacant.
We met the owners, pierre andRenee.
They were lovely and it waslike a French, a small French
cottage.
It was just charming is theonly word I can think of for it
and adorable and immaculate andthe plumbing worked and it was
(03:55):
perfect and it was vacant and wedecided to just take the sunk
cost factor.
We had already lost money onthis other place, spend the
extra money and book ourselveshere.
We could not have made a betterchoice.
Because of that, not only did wehave a great rest of our
vacation and we so enjoyed theircompany, but I met the bird
(04:18):
that I will never forget, and hedefinitely changed my life.
So what does Alex's story haveto do with us?
What does that have to do withus as human beings in general?
It has everything to do with us.
Many of us have wings thatwe've forgotten.
At the point that I met Alex,my life looked great on the
surface and it looked like I wasreally successful and had met
(04:42):
all my goals, and I just keptfeeling this overwhelming
feeling that I hadn't.
I was just going to die with mymusic in me if I kept going,
because I had so much more tooffer than I was giving and I
had to shrink and contain myselfso much to be successful in my
place of employment that it justwas killing me inside in a way,
(05:06):
and I felt like I couldn't fly.
So he really hit home.
We're going to learn about whathappens in the brain when we
forget our possibilities and howthe subconscious keeps us
grounded, and how you canremember your possibilities,
your wings, through neuroscienceand practical steps.
(05:29):
I'll share some of the things Idid, because I'm at a much
better place now and there'll bea little wisdom from Rumi.
At the end, by popular request,I'm going to do a five-minute
meditation to help you feel yourwings again, so let's dive in
Picture.
This A gorgeous, intelligentbird.
(05:50):
He's on the cover of thisepisode, living in Costa Rica.
His name is Alex.
He spoke three languagesfluently.
He understood humor, commands,tone.
He was conversational.
He was charming.
He was conversational.
He was charming.
He was clearly a genius of abird.
I've never met a bird like him.
(06:12):
But here's the twist Aftersurviving a massive storm, alex
was rescued.
He had injured wings and he hadforgotten how to fly.
Yep, you heard that right.
A bird who spoke threelanguages could not remember the
most natural thing for himspreading his wings and soaring
through the sky.
(06:32):
When the storms passed, hestayed grounded, walking and
hopping from branch to branch.
The only time he flew was whena storm hit, which in Costa Rica
they do have tropical stormsand a lot of rain.
He would panic and fly reallyhigh up in trees.
They would have to get somebodyto rescue him and every time he
(06:55):
would forget again, once he gotup there, how to get down.
It was sad and also fascinating.
He had everything the wings,the strength.
He definitely had theintelligence, but his experience
of fear and survival hadrewired his instincts.
Here's the question how many ofus are living the same way?
(07:19):
And here's what I asked myselfwhat is Alex here to teach me
and why is it like this for us?
As humans, we are all born withwings not the physical ones,
but we've got the capacity forcreativity, for courage,
(07:40):
heartbreak, failure,disappointment, rejection,
sometimes trauma.
We start to believe it's saferto crawl.
The truth Most of us don'treally stop flying because we
can't.
We stop because somewhere deepdown, our brains decided this
(08:01):
isn't safe anymore.
Rumi said you were born withwings.
Why prefer to crawl throughlife?
Our brains decided this isn'tsafe anymore.
Rumi said you were born withwings.
Why prefer to crawl throughlife?
And I really don't think that Iever preferred to crawl through
life and I don't think weprefer to crawl through life
consciously.
It's our subconscious and thebrain's survival wiring that
(08:22):
makes us believe crawling issafer.
We're going to talk about brainscience, because I dove into
this, trying to figure out why Ihad forgotten my possibilities,
why we forget our possibilities, I learned that our brain is
wired first for efficiency andsurvival.
(08:43):
So when something is dangerousor painful, the brain encodes
that memory really stronglybecause its job is to keep us
safe and alive.
If you once tried something biglike starting a business,
dancing on stage, loving fully,trying out for a job or a
(09:03):
promotion, and it ended in pain,your brain creates a warning
system don't do that again,because it's wired for
efficiency and survival, notendless exploration.
The brain loves predictabilityand our brains form neural
pathways that become defaultresponses.
(09:26):
This is called learnedhelplessness when the brain
predicts that your effort is notgoing to matter and it stops
trying.
We then have habits of thought.
We know that we can need that.
These thoughts, theserepetitive thoughts, can carve a
path to depression.
Rewiring creates paths toresilience, where we can
(09:55):
actually unlearn these false,negative beliefs.
So I work with people.
We rewire our brains.
The neural pathways sound likeI can't.
That's too risky.
Just play it safe, stay small.
That's for other people.
I'm not good enough to do that.
Next, the default mode networkDMN comes into play and that's
the part of your brain that getsactive when you're not focused
(10:18):
on a task, when you're driving,daydreaming, reflecting or just
looping a thought.
It's where your sense of selflives, your identity narrative.
This says I'm not good enough,I'm just going to fail.
They're never going to givethis to me, I'm not going to get
that break.
Then the DMN will reforce youevery time you're on autopilot.
(10:41):
It's like playing the samerecord over and over again.
Eventually you forget thatthere's another song.
Time you're on autopilot it'slike playing the same record
over and over again.
Eventually you forget thatthere's another song.
And stress don't even go there.
Stress shrinks all of yourpossibilities because when we're
under chronic stress we knowthat the amygdala, the brain's
fear center, hijacks theprefrontal cortex which is
(11:01):
responsible for your vision, foryour creativity, for your
problem solving.
So you honestly can't see newoptions.
So the role of that defaultmode network is active when
we're resting.
So it is sneaky.
And because it's responsible foridentity in our narrative self,
(11:22):
and because it's responsiblefor identity in our narrative
self, it's really hard toovercome those old beliefs
unless you go in and reprogramconsciously your subconscious.
In Alex's case, the stormreprogrammed his instincts to
prioritize safety, which it'sthere to keep you alive.
For us, storms like heartbreak,disappointment, failure,
(11:48):
rejection they do the same thing.
We stop flying, not because wecan't, but because the brain
convinces us that it's safer onthe ground.
Because it is safer on theground, how do we remember our
wings?
The magic word isneuroplasticity.
Your brain, thank God, canchange at any age.
(12:10):
Here's three powerful ways thatI actually used and I use with
my clients.
One, and we probably talk aboutthis in every episode
visualization the picture inyour mind.
Mental rehearsal.
Visualization the picture inyour mind, mental rehearsal.
So close your eyes and seeyourself doing the thing you
fear or desire.
Feel the feeling, feel theemotion that you want to get
(12:38):
from that experience andmemorize that emotion.
Every time you do this, the DMNrewires with repetition and
emotional change and you'regoing to make more of those
neural connections Becauseremember, your brain doesn't
know the difference.
Your brain is lighting up inthe same places as if you were
actually doing it, so it'sactually as though you are
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practicing.
Number two I did some identitywork.
I started telling a new story.
I started telling rememberingthat I was born to soar, and we
know that that default modenetwork rewires with repetition
and emotional charge.
So you can take charge of yourbrain and go into your
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subconscious and totally changeyour story, totally flip the
script for what's going on inthere.
Novelty and curiosity are thethird way.
Try something new every day.
New experiences create newneural connections, making your
brain more flexible.
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I do something and I call itneurobics instead of aerobics.
I think I forget who it was,but there was a coach who had
coined that phrase, so I don'twant to say that it was my
original.
But even if it means going upthe stairs with your right foot
instead of your left if youusually go left first or
brushing your teeth with theother hand, anything that's a
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little bit different will help.
And remember, you are notbroken.
You're just human and you'rewired to survive.
But now, if you're listening tothis podcast, I think by now
you realize that you were bornto thrive.
Here are some journal promptsthat you might want to try this
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week.
Where in my life have Iforgotten my wings and what
storm made me believe that Icouldn't fly?
How am I repeating that?
How am I still living that out?
Is the tail wagging the doghere?
If I spread my wings now, whatwill soaring look like for me?
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If I spread my wings now, whatam I afraid of?
So repeat after me.
I was born to rise above fear.
My wings are strong.
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I trust the air beneath me.
Every day, I remember more andmore of who I am.
So now, if you have time, we'regoing to do a short meditation.
If not, if you're driving, cutthis and come back to it when
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you can.
So first I want you to sitcomfortably and close your eyes
and inhale deeply for four, holdfor two and exhale for six.
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Again, inhale for four, again.
Inhale for 4, hold for 2 andexhale for 6, dropping in,
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inhale for 4, dropping in.
Inhale for four, hold for two,exhale for six, exhale for seven
.
So, sitting comfortably, feelingthe light streaming in from the
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top of your head, above yourhead, about 200-300 feet, just
connect.
You can have your eyes closedand roll them up, or you can
have your eyes open and look upand feel your body supported by
the earth beneath you, feel thecenter of the earth, coming up
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through those areas that aresupported and meeting with that
light streaming in from above.
Notice your thoughts as cloudsin the sky.
Your thoughts come and go andremember I am not my thoughts, I
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am the sky.
I am not the movie on thescreen.
Now imagine that you're Alex,perched on a branch.
You've weathered the storm, butthe sky calls you.
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Feel the sunlight warming yourwings.
Spread them wide, stretchfurther than you ever have
before and let the wind lift you.
You rise higher, freer,weightless, whisper.
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I was born to fly.
Feel this.
What?
What do you see?
Look around, what do you see onthe horizon?
What's underneath you?
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When you're ready, place yourhands over your heart and say
softly I remember my wings, Ichoose to soar.
You were born with potential.
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You were born with goodness andtrust.
You were born with ideals anddreams.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling,so don't you have wings?
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Learn to use them and fly.
You are free.
You always were.
Open your eyes when you'reready.
Alex didn't stop being a birdwhen he forgot to fly, just like
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you don't stop being limitlesswhen fear makes you forget.
Your wings are always there.
The question is will you usethem?
My dad didn't really spread hiswings until after he retired.
Luckily, he lived a really longtime after he retired and he
retired young.
My mom was just getting tospread her wings and she didn't
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even have a year of it and shedied.
So I've had two differentlessons in my life very powerful
teachers, and right at the timein my life when I met Alex, I
realized that, even though Itook my mom's lessons with me, I
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still had more.
I still had more in me, and ifI didn't spread my wings, I was
not about to really fly.
If today's episode spoke to you,share it with someone who needs
to remember their wings.
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And if you want to go deeper,download the guide in the show
notes.
Remember your Wings Three Stepsto Rewire your Mind for
Possibility.
Remember your Wings Three Stepsto Rewire your Mind for
Possibility.
Please remember to subscribe tothe podcast and you can click
on the link to sign up for theemail list.
I'd love to be in touch withyou and until next time, keep
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soaring and just count me in.
Thank you.
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