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Hey there and welcome back to Feminine Initiative.
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All right, let's get into today's episode and before we
do, I actually have another question for you.
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you want to
take action or you want to bringa change in your life that you
feel is going to have a positiveimpact on the world?
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But then you have a thought of, well, I'm not really going to
make a difference Who who am I if I do this thing?
It doesn't really matter. Like, for example, what's coming
to mind is maybe you didn't properly rinse out your
recyclables. Like, you know, when you have
peanut butter, you really want to rinse out all of the peanut
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butter before you put it into your recycling bin.
Otherwise, they're not actually going to recycle it.
It's just going to go in the garbage.
And so do you take the time to really clean it out to make sure
that that container is getting recycled?
Or have you ever, you know, had garbage with you?
Maybe you're on a road trip, or maybe you're hiking in the Bush
and you don't feel like carryingthis garbage anymore.
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And so you just kind of toss it and you're like, yeah, you know,
1 little sack is not going to make a difference.
There's so many examples. Or do you spit gum outside
thinking, huh, it's fine. It'll, you know, 11 gum is not
going to make a difference. I actually hear this so often
when it comes to plant based eating.
Many people have told me that, oh, you know, I, I want to cut
my consumption of, you know, fish or beef or whatever it is,
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but who am I? I'm not actually going to make a
difference. They are still going to have the
fish or the beef in the stores. And so me not eating it isn't
going to put a dent on the world.
And so I'm just going to keep doing it.
Have you ever found herself in asituation?
I mean, I'm almost certain that you have because I most
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certainly have, because we all kind of fall into that trap
sometimes minimizing our own influence that we can have and
thinking that we don't really make a difference when that
couldn't be further from the truth.
I want to share with you the story of 100 monkeys, also known
as the 100th monkey theory. Back in the 1950s, there were
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scientists who were studying monkeys on the Japanese island
Kashima and the scientists were providing the monkeys sweet
potatoes that they would just drop in the sand for the
monkeys. The monkeys really loved the
taste of the raw sweet potatoes,but they didn't enjoy having the
dirt on them. I mean, who likes eating gritty
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sand in your mouth right? Until one day an 18 month old
female monkey named IMO found a solution.
She picked up her sand covered sweet potato and brought it to
the sea where she can clean it before she ate it.
She then taught this to her mom.She also taught it to all of her
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playmates who also taught it to their moms.
And so now there was a group of monkeys who were all cleaning
their sweet potatoes in the sea before eating them.
Scientists continue to study this between 1952 and 1958.
And somewhere in that time, it is said that one morning there
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was roughly 99 monkeys who took their sandy sweet potatoes,
brought it to the sea to wash itbefore they ate it.
And by nightfall, there was 100 monkeys who took their sandy
sweet potatoes and washed it in the sea before eating it.
And then something unexplainablehappened.
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Almost magical. The majority of the monkeys all
of a sudden started washing their sweet potatoes in the sea
without actually learning the behavior from others, without
being told from another monkey to do this.
The majority of the monkeys juststarted doing this.
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So the theory says once there isa critical mass of individuals
in any kind of species that are all doing the same kind of
behavior, it will just topple over into the rest of the
population. They will just know it.
They will just pick up the behavior without actually being
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taught to do it. It really ties in the thought of
collective consciousness that everything really is energy.
Everything is available to us atany moment in time.
And when there is a critical mass, a specific point, a
specific number of individuals in any species that is doing
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something that has a belief thathas an action that they're doing
that is reaching the collective consciousness and is available
to every other individual withinthat species.
So if we are to apply it to us, we can look at what we're doing
and realize that we actually have so much power and we hear
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it already that we are like the sum total of the five people
that we hang out with most. Or have you ever had an
experience where you're spendingso much time with someone and
then all of a sudden you start to have their same mannerisms or
their same way of speaking? You start to say something that
they say and whenever you say it, you think of them and you're
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like, oh gosh, I'm picking up their their habits.
We all have these mirror neuronsthat were watching others and
were starting to imitate them all in a subconscious level
without actually knowing. And this really reinforces the
truth that if you want to changethe world, you must first start
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with changing yourself. And this is the point that I
really wanted to remind us all of today, that change happens
within us and that if we think that we don't make a difference,
our energetic presence makes so much of a difference.
And when we look at these commonsayings that were the majority
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of the five people that we hang around or are mirror neurons, we
can start imitating others. Well, that stands for us.
We can be that energetic leader.People can start imitating us.
We can be the person in the group of five individuals that
brings change onto others. Do we really have that power
when we start taking positive action, taking the action that
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we want to take, knowing, believing in the difference that
we are making, especially when we're looking at change to a
global level and we can think, Oh yeah, I'm just one person.
I'm not really going to make a difference unless I bring
everybody else along with me. So let me try and get everybody
else to change with me. But we actually don't really
have to do that. When we instead take that stance
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as the energetic leader in our life, we get so clear on the
change we want to bring forth. We get so committed and
disciplined on our own path. We continue to fill ourselves
up. We become the best that we can
be. We put our attention on to
ourselves. Knowing that, and I say this on
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every podcast episode almost, that when you feel good, that
radiates. When you fill your cup first,
you are going to spill that over, spill that goodness over
into everyone else around you. It is an energy, we feel it.
It is a formless substance that is out there that everybody else
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has access to as well. And if we're going to look back
at this 100th monkey theory, if we be the change that we want to
see and have faith that once that reaches a critical mass, it
is going to spill over, isn't that a beautiful thought?
And if everything is in this collective consciousness, when
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we get these ideas, they're not necessarily our own.
We hear this a lot when it comesto artist.
If someone is writing a song, for example, and they're getting
an award or whatever and they'relike, oh, but the idea didn't
actually come from me. I was, I was channeling it or it
came from something else. There was something greater at
play here. We are all part of a collective
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consciousness. Our thoughts are not necessarily
our own. It is an energetic frequency
that can be picked up by others around us on an unconscious
level. So once we reach a critical mass
of everybody doing this certain behavior, it is going to become
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more widely accepted. As I was doing research on this
hundredth monkey theory topic, one of the articles that I was
reading, I forget the title of it or the source, but it was
mentioning that at what point did drinking and driving become
so unacceptable? When there was a number of
accidents that happened, when there was enough people that
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were affected by the negative consequences of it, that now, I
mean, of course it became a law.But even prior to that, like
what was it that actually made it so frowned upon?
And that is collective. We have people who haven't even
suffered the negative consequences of it, but still
look at it at such low regard. This summer, we had an
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infestation of June bugs. I think I mentioned that on the
podcast. And I was recognizing within
myself that I hate those things,but I recognize that I was
fearing them. Like literally like schoolgirl
running away, acting like a schoolgirl, running in the
parking lot when when these guyswere flying.
It was ridiculous. And so I started thinking, why
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am I so afraid of these things? I'm not afraid because I've ever
been bitten. It's just stories that I been
told. I've been told that my grandpa
was bitten by them four. I mean, he survived the bites
and so it wasn't anything that bad.
It hurt of course, but that was it.
So why did it create such a great amount of fear?
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There's only one other person that I know who has ever been
bit by these June bugs before. Or for example, I've been stung
by Hornets before 1 summer I wasstung 3 times by Hornets and I
used to fear them so much before, but now that I've been
stunned by them, I'm like OK, it's not.
It's not even that bad. Why did I have so much fear even
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before ever being stung? It wasn't my fear, I was picking
it up from others around me. It's like we have this consensus
that humans don't like these kinds of bugs.
We don't like these things because it can hurt us.
Though there's only a few of us that have ever really been
subject to that hurt. Isn't it interesting how we all
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just adopt this belief? The majority of us, I'm not
going to say we all, but the majority of us adopted this
belief without having actually ever experienced it.
Could this be the 100th monkey theory?
Could we have reached a criticalmass in human consciousness
where, yeah, we're kind of born wired to think that, oh, these
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are dangerous. As I'm saying this, I am
recognizing that we're also taught that as children.
But it is interesting nonetheless.
And it does present the opportunity to bring us back
into our personal power, to recognize the power that we hold
to bring change in our world simply by being the greatest and
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greatest version of ourselves. By focusing on bringing change
to us, not anybody else outside of us.
Not telling everybody else what kind of changes they should do,
but by embodying the changes within us and through our
behavior, through our actions, through our the energy, through
our attitude, others will begin to mirror that change within us.
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So we are not responsible for how others are behaving.
We are only responsible of ourselves, of our own energetic
frequency. And that frequency is part of
the collective consciousness. And once the collective
consciousness reaches a criticalmass of that positive behavior,
that positive attitude, that positive belief, then it'll be
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accessible and easily transmittable to everybody else.
I thought this was such an empowering thought and I really
wanted to share it with you. So I hope this resonated with
you and empowers you to really stand true in your life.
And you are making such a greater influence than you can
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even quantify right now, than any of us can quantify.
So keep doing what you feel is right and true for you.
And that is going to have such abeautiful ripple effect.
Thanks so much for being here with me today.
And if you know of someone else who can benefit from this idea,
then please share it with them. Until next time, be empowered.
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