November 13, 2024 • 31 mins
Today we explore the endurance of love and of all of you Loving Consciously warriors walking a path of love. We acknowledge the times we are collectively living through and how tempting it can feel at times to quit, AND, love keeps going. Love doesn't give up. We invite you to tune in to this shorter 30 minute discussion calling forward the endurance warrior within all of us to continue cultivating love and light on this planet.
We leave you in love with this offering for contemplation: love endures all - will you endure all for love? 🤍
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the world as we know it is collapsing and changing and moving and right now it's on us as leaders,
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as people who are doing the work to hold that frequency of love and to guide everybody that we
can back to themselves, back to love. And so I just offer as you navigate this journey of choosing
love and like the warrior that I know that you are, you choose to endure and you choose to keep
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going and you choose not to give up. There is literally no more important time than right now
to get really serious about your choices. Who are you surrounding yourself with? What are you
consuming? Getting really, really clear on who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose? And
where am I putting my time and energy and attention? What am I putting in my field in all forms?
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We are called to surrender to the flow of life no matter what it brings based off of the knowledge
that no matter what shows up in our experience, it is for our highest good. It doesn't matter
where you are and what you believe. The path of choosing love is the path of a warrior. It is
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the path of a leader. It is the path of a being who says I am going to endure. We are all called to
endure the challenges in our lives so that we can become the heroes of our own stories. Whatever you
do to choose love in your life, in your experience, in your reality, I invite you, I encourage you,
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I call you forward as a fellow light warrior of love to choose to endure.
Welcome home to the Loving Consciously Podcast. My name is Ameris and my name is Eric and if
you are like us, nobody taught you how to love. We are best friends and life partners here to
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vulnerably and authentically share our journey while exploring the sacred realms of love,
consciousness, relationships, spirituality, and all that they encompass. The intention of this show
is to help you consciously relate to yourself, others, and everything else in this universe.
Together, we can embody a more intentional and fulfilling way of giving and receiving love.
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Loving Consciously. Through eight years together, we have had the opportunity to overcome deep
patterning and programming as well as trauma related to mental health, addiction, pregnancy loss,
infidelity, and immense grief. After six years of experiencing these challenges with no knowledge
on how to heal or love each other, we separated. After us both spiritually awakening and recommitting,
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we formed our conscious partnership and have spent the last two years cultivating a divine union
founded on unconditional love, devotion, and commitment to personal growth. Thank you for
joining us and doing the work alongside us as we explore this beautiful world of love and
consciousness to co-create a new world of love. As you courageously walk this path,
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remember to have grace with yourself and know that you have both the capacity to love consciously
and the power to always choose love. Namaste and welcome back to the Loving Consciously podcast.
Today's episode is titled Love Indoors and we played around with this quite a bit from keep going
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to don't give up to persevere and we landed on this word indoors, which we're going to get into
defining in a bit here after our intro and personal updates. It felt really resonant with what we are
going through right now in this country, on this planet, collectively, spiritually, energetically
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to talk about this concept of endurance and enduring. Before we get into kind of the meat of the
episode, it's been two weeks and a day since we did a personal episode. We are a day late posting
this because we are navigating some pretty severe car troubles, more on that later. And so apologies
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on being a day late from our normal Tuesday schedule. We have been going through it. When we last
talked to y'all personally, we were in Asheville and I don't think it needs to be said that that
was an incredibly transformative time in our lives and we're still integrating and we deeply miss
that place. That episode that we released, A Call to Love for Asheville, is our least performing
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episode ever in the history of this show. Over a year and 44 episodes now. And if I'm being honest,
it's pretty disappointing because it was a call to love for this community that's going through
something incredibly difficult and to see so few people answering that call was a little bit
disheartening. And so I'd like to invite, if you're listening, to please go listen to that.
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You know, it's a really beautiful perspective on coming together in times of tragedy and how we
can support ourselves and everyone, including those in Asheville through difficult times.
Last week, we had one of our biggest episodes of this show. Aaron Abki, our friend and former
spiritual teacher, well still spiritual teacher, but the person that we graduated the online
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Academy for Consciousness, if you will, came on the show and gave a gospel of love. And if that
isn't more resonant with the show and the mission that we're doing here, you know, I don't know what
is, definitely check that out. It is a landslide of our highest performing episode yet. No surprise
there. When we left Asheville, we went through North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
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And we are coming to you now from Georgia, where we have been stuck for several extra days,
navigating these car issues that we have been experiencing. And in this time, we have reached
only three weeks left of this journey. If you're new here, we've been on a one-year,
full-time tour of this country, and we only have four states left. We have also made a really big
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decision on where we are going to settle when this is done. And we're not going to announce that
just yet. So keep sticking around. Once we feel ready to share that with the world, we definitely
will. But we've made our decision and we've booked a spot. So that's super exciting. And that kind
of brings us into today's episode and even just up to last night, what we were experiencing around
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this concept of love endures. I think it's really important before we get into really talking about
this, that we define the word. We like to do that on the show because we have these ideas of what
these words mean. And I know every time I look them up, I'm very surprised that they didn't
necessarily always mean what I thought they meant. And most importantly, what is the energy and
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intention behind the word, behind the meaning? Looking at this word, endure. Right? When I first
started searching, the kind of classic example that came up is to hold out against, you know, to suffer
through, etc. It was this very like negative definition. There was definitely an energy to it.
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And words don't have energy, right? Like they're just words. Our meaning and intention and our
experience is what gives them the energy. As I dug deeper, I found a really beautiful definition
from the Bible, from Hebrews. Essentially, it summarized as to be strong, steadfast, firm. And
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in this scripture, it's talking about Moses in exile and how we mustn't give up halfway through
our trials. And so I liked this one better because to be strong, to be steadfast, to be firm, to hold
out. And right now, with everything we are individually and collectively going through in
this awakening and ascension and frankly spiritual war that we're living through,
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I don't think better words could describe what is being asked of us when we choose the path of love.
To endure, to be strong, to be firm, to continue to hold out and hold that frequency of love,
even when it's not easy, even when you might feel tired, even when your preferred political candidate
doesn't win, we have to endure because love endures. Thank you very much for bringing us back to the
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etymology of the word endurance. You know, when I think of the word endurance, it brings up the
analogy of a marathon because that's kind of what the awakening journey is like. It's most
certainly not a quick sprint and you're off to the finish line. It's an endurance run. It is a journey
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that we are on for the entirety of our lives. And so endurance is a key component to be able to
stay strong in the face of trials and tribulations so that we can continue to grow. It's an incredibly
important element because it pushes us past our perceived limits. I think back to our time in
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Iceland when we were trapped in a snowstorm with little to no visibility and essentially driving
on faith. If you haven't heard that story from us before, we were driving in the middle of this
storm. Cars were going off the road and freezing because they would stop and the snowstorm would
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pick up so much they would actually freeze the car in its tracks so you can't stop. And we were
kind of in the middle of the line and people gave up. The people in front of us who were leading
the charge through the storm reached a point where they were no longer comfortable pushing forward
and they stopped and we were next and we were faced with the decision of do we just pull over
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and wait out the storm and potentially miss our flight back home the next day or do we push on?
We did just that. We operated on faith. We operated on divine guidance and trusted in our partnership
and our ability to navigate the storm and we pushed on leading all of those who are following
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behind us out of the storm who are brave enough to follow in our tracks. And that speaks to the
power of endurance, the power that we have as lightworkers on this planet to be able to hold
the frequency of love, to be able to hold the frequency of light when our brothers and sisters
around us are going through it when it seems like there isn't really any hope and the world as we
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know it is collapsing and changing and moving because it is. And right now it's on us as leaders,
as people who are doing the work to hold that frequency of love and to guide everybody that we
can back to themselves, back to love, back to faith. It makes me think about like the ego, the mind,
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if you will, always wants to give up right at the precipice of a breakthrough or a miracle.
Like when I look at my life, you know, even that Iceland story in this last week,
when I look at these moments of feeling like I am so tired, I don't want to do this shit anymore,
you know, whatever stories my mind is offering up and I persevered and I chose love and chose to
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endure and continue forward, there was always magic on the other side. I just really want to
encourage you wherever you are in your life, whatever you're navigating right now, keep going.
We have two mantras that we use and you know, do what works for you. I personally think that we've
gotten way too serious and picky about some things like don't use negatives, the subconscious mind,
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the this, the that, whatever works for you works. Our mantra for many years was we don't give up.
We don't give up and whether we were hiking Mount Shasta, driving in an Iceland storm,
hiking an Icelandic mountain to a geothermal river, whenever we felt like we couldn't go anymore,
we would start chanting out loud together. We don't give up. We don't give up and that really helped
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because we set this value for this family that we don't quit. You know, we are not down here on this
planet in this amazing awakening and expansion of consciousness to just give up and so either one
that works for you, keep going or we don't give up or both, we interchange them. We found that that
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really helps us. Just that simple reminder, no matter what you're experiencing and feeling right
now, just keep going. Maybe you need to do the Nemo song in your head. Just keep swimming, just
keep swimming, just keep going because giving up, it's just not an option, right? Love doesn't give
up. Love always keeps going because love is eternal. Love always is and always will be and so if love
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keeps going and light is infinite and it keeps going, then you can too. Thank you for bringing
that mantra and it's been such a useful tool in this partnership and as individuals navigating this
experience. It's really helped us in our conflicts too where everything in me wants to leave the
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relationship or to pull away and say, you know, I can't go any further and to sit back and say,
no, we don't give up. That's one of the biggest reasons I believe that we have made the transition
from unconscious partnership to conscious partnership is this ingrained belief and knowing
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that neither of us are going to give up, that we are in this for the long run. You know,
something that Amherst and I have been contemplating lately that you, my lovely partner, have brought
to the table is the idea that the universe is not conspiring against us but is actually conspiring
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for us in everything that we do that includes the challenges. If you think of the concept of God or
the divine, the creator, the grand architect, if you will, they are not done until it's good
because perfection is in the design and if we quit before the design is finished,
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then we are essentially accepting that reality as the finished product. It's like getting up in the
middle of a movie during the worst scene when the hero is at its lowest and has lost everything
and experiencing the weight of the world on their shoulders and saying, okay, that's the end of the
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movie, let's get up and go. No, right past all of those challenges is the opportunity for the hero
to rise up, to conquer, to come back and build something better to be the hero of the story.
And that is where endurance comes into play. We are all called to endure the challenges
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in our lives so that we can become the heroes of our own stories and help God, the universe,
spirit, co-create something magical in our life.
Lea to you to make an architecture analogy. Eric always coming in clutch with the analogies.
I'm feeling really called to just do a vulnerable share here because,
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you know, I had just posted recently on social media an update about us with some pictures of us
because I don't do that very often. We don't actually really take that many pictures.
And I was talking about the birth of this show. So if you'd like to hear that, you can definitely
go over to my Instagram. It's Amorous Loves You. And I was talking about how terrifying the show was
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and putting our whole story out there and sharing our shadows and our trials and our love and our
joy and everything in between with the whole world, you know, like this is out in the airwaves now.
Anyone in the universe can access it and like not knowing how that was going to be received.
And making a commitment. When we founded this show, we made a commitment to put it all out there,
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to be vulnerable, to be authentic. That has been difficult at times. You know, this episode was
supposed to release yesterday. We are recording this in real time today, the day it'll release.
And we actually started recording it for like 15 minutes. We got 15 minutes in and it just wasn't
resonating because we weren't energetically aligned. You know, we have had had had a really
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beautiful weekend in spite of what happened and I'm going to go into that right now. And then
it's something shifted yesterday. We weren't drinking enough water, neither one of us had
meditated. We'd had a stressful day that didn't really go how we thought it was going to go.
And we just weren't in energetic resonance. And we were trying to co-create this episode about love
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enduring and we weren't in alignment. After realizing, you know, what's in our highest good is to not
record this and to take this night to get right. Something kind of happened energetically. There
was just, I think, between being tired and there was just this disresonance and it led to conflict
and it led to us sleeping separately last night because there was so much energetic
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disresonance. People may have opinions about this, you know, for us. That actually tends to happen,
you know, once every so often. I'd say, I don't know, I can't quantify and put a number on it.
We also spend 24-7, 365 together in a 28 foot travel trailer, traveling with four dogs. We
get no time apart. We work together, we share our business, we share our podcast, we share our home.
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But it does. Occasionally, sometimes we just need to sleep separately. We need some space
to sleep in our own energetic field and decompress so that we can start anew the next day.
And that was really beneficial for us because today we're in more resonance than we've been
in a while and, you know, it just really goes to show, like, love enduring can look many different
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ways. As I was thinking about this episode, I was thinking about advice and ways that you can
endure through this spiritual war that we're living in, the ways that you can continue to choose love.
First and foremost, it's being authentic, radically honest, radically vulnerable, you know,
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taking care of yourself like we did last night with this podcast. We could have done it. We could
have forced through. It would have taken three times as long. It would have been a headache. We
would have been up late and it wouldn't have been as good of quality as this is going to be
because we weren't aligned, you know, and we chose to take care of ourselves last night.
And now we get to come at it with fresh eyes and create something that is aligned that has the right
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energetics, you know, honoring yourself and your space and what you need. And I think the last
thing I really wanted to call out is like healthy choices. Right now, there is literally no more
important time than right now to get really serious about your choices. Who are you surrounding
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yourself with? What are you consuming? This includes your food. This includes your media,
your music, your information. What are you doing with your time and energy and attention?
Are you paying into the system? And I'm not saying that's inherently wrong and always,
but just getting really, really clear on who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose? And where
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am I putting my time and energy and attention? What am I putting in my field in all forms?
Because as we move through this election cycle, which in case you weren't aware, it's not over yet,
I think it's about to get even crazier in this next few months. And the transition that comes of
that and in this world, when one of the major players in the world changes power, we are going
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to need to be very intentional with all of these things I've just mentioned. And so I just
offer as you navigate this journey of choosing love and like the warrior that I know that you are,
you choose to endure and you choose to keep going and you choose not to give up.
Please, please, please be very, very mindful and very intentional with who, what, where,
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when, how and why you do what you do. Thank you for sharing all of that. You're very kind with
the not in resonance. And by that she means I was experiencing some really,
really challenging emotional experiences. And I was struggling to stay in the energy of grace.
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Yes. And it was interesting because I have not felt such rage and such anger in a very long time.
I'm sure many of you lightworkers and conscious people on this planet can relate that as we are
observing the evolution of our consciousness on this planet. We are also experiencing this
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phenomena of us all feeling connected and kind of entering this mode of sharing emotions and
and states of consciousness that may or may not be ours. And so as we work through the emotions of
the collective and those around us, we are being asked to endure through those emotions
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to meet them with love and to usher in light and during these times of darkness.
Absolutely. You know, again, vulnerable share here. I completely relate and empathize with anyone
out there who's feeling the tiredness and the not wanting to do it anymore. You know, we mentioned
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in the beginning of this episode that we've been navigating some car trouble. That's an understatement.
On Saturday when we made it to Savannah, Georgia, we started to hear a weird noise in our rear end
of our Tahoe that tows our trailer, aka our home. And we took it into Chevy and found out that our
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entire rear differential had failed. And the parts through them were not only on backorder for
two to four weeks, upwards of a month, they quoted us almost $5,000. It was now
midday on a Saturday on a holiday weekend. No one could help us until Tuesday morning. So we
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were already stuck in Savannah an extra day, didn't have a car the entire time. So like 20 plus miles
of biking. And you know, come Tuesday morning, here we think, okay, there's going to be a local
mechanic that can help us. They're going to get it in today. They're going to get it fixed.
We ended up having to tow on said broken differential 60 miles out of town to find a
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powertrain special tee shop. And it's now Wednesday and it's still there. And in the middle of
recording this episode, they've just called us and let us know it's done. And it's done for half
of what Chevy quoted us. But we cannot tow on it for 500 miles. That's a lot of miles. I'm actually
having to six, 18, it's like seven, eight hours of driving. And not only that, every 15 to 20 miles,
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you need to pull over for 30 minutes and let it cool, which is just not doable, right? Like,
that's just not doable. Like we have a schedule, we have things booked, we tow our home with this.
And so we're now having to come up with creative solutions like renting a U-Haul truck to tow
our house, and you will be driving the Tahoe and pulling over every 15 to 20 miles. And you know,
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it's situations like this where it's like, I just don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to do
any more breakdowns. I don't want to do any more, you know, insert blank, whatever it is, right?
This is just one example. And I'm called to endure. I'm called to choose love. I am called to
I am called as a light warrior on this planet and a conscious person to rise above the uncomfortability,
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the inconveniences, the conflict, the emotions of others, like you were saying about, you know,
feeling the anger of the collective. We are called to rise up. That is why I say light warrior,
because this is a war and we are warriors, you know, if you are listening to this,
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whether you are choosing love or on a consciousness journey, on a spiritual journey, you just like
love, you don't know what any of this stuff means. It doesn't matter where you are and what you believe.
The path of choosing love is the path of a warrior. It is the path of a leader. It is the path of a
being who says, I am going to endure through these moments in life when, you know, these things are
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happening around us. It's the time more than ever to do that. I just really want to reiterate,
take care of yourself right now. Be very, very mindful of who and what you are surrounding
yourself with. Your body is your temple treated as such clean water, healthy, alive, organic,
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clean foods, you know, right now, especially, stay away from the mainstream media.
It's very, very, very not good for our mental well being. It's really the time to say, you know,
am I getting out and connecting with nature or am I sitting at home watching Netflix?
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Am I scrolling social media on my phone or am I out serving my community?
Whatever you do to choose love in your life, in your experience, in your reality,
I invite you, I encourage you, I call you forward as a fellow light warrior of love
to choose to endure when it gets tough, when it's uncomfortable, when it's annoying, when it feels
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rageful, when it feels like you just can't possibly go on anymore. Tap into that inner strength,
tap into the divine, God source creator, whatever word you use,
tap into that energy of the collective consciousness and find a way, whatever works for you,
to keep going. If you're listening to this and you're experiencing that burnout, that
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pit where you think, I can't possibly push past this anymore. It's typically because our cup has run
dry. The first step that we can take to practice endurance and pushing through these barriers
is to fill our cup, like you said, Amherst. It's to make sure that we are taking care of our vessels
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physically, spiritually, mentally. It's choosing to surrender because we are not the ones in control
here. We are called to surrender to the flow of life, no matter what it brings, based off of the
knowledge that no matter what shows up in our experience, it is for our highest good. It is
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a call to overcome, it is a call to grow. And so just knowing that and embodying that helps
to face every situation with love and acceptance rather than resistance. And then once you've
filled your cup, once you have surrendered and you're coming from a place of embodiment and love,
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now you can consciously address the situation. It's not about coming up with solutions to a
problem. It is about raising your frequency and your vibration to a state of consciousness that
is higher than you are at now, so that you can clearly see the passage through. And I promise you,
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when you take care of your own experience, when you surrender to the current of life,
you will see that passage through. I would really love to, as you were talking, I was like,
I guess the passage through is we're going to be spending our entire night and half of our day
tomorrow aimlessly driving hundreds of miles pulling over every 20 to 30 minutes to cool down for
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half an hour. Sometimes that's what the passage through looks like, y'all. Like honestly, it's
just sometimes you just got to go 15 miles and cool off for 30 minutes and then go another 15
miles and cool off because it takes 500 miles to break it in. Maybe that's a new frequency,
maybe it's a new thought, a new belief, a new way of being, a new action or healthy habit that you
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are bringing into your experience. I think it's a really good analogy. You got to break it in. And so
whatever you need to do to take those steps, I am really calling on you to tap in to your inner
strength, tap in to the warrior that you are, be steadfast, hold on to the love because the love,
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not only endures, the love is what will help you endure. Choosing love and being in that frequency
will push you forward as we continue to move on in this journey. And so we would love to leave you
with a contemplation here. Love endures all. Can you endure all for love?
the world as we know it is collapsing and changing and moving and right now it's on us as leaders,
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as people who are doing the work to hold that frequency of love and to guide everybody that we
can back to themselves, back to love. And so I just offer as you navigate this journey of choosing
love and like the warrior that I know that you are, you choose to endure and you choose to keep
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going and you choose not to give up. There is literally no more important time than right now
to get really serious about your choices. Who are you surrounding yourself with? What are you
consuming? Getting really, really clear on who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose? And
where am I putting my time and energy and attention? What am I putting in my field in all forms?
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We are called to surrender to the flow of life no matter what it brings based off of the knowledge
that no matter what shows up in our experience, it is for our highest good. It doesn't matter
where you are and what you believe. The path of choosing love is the path of a warrior. It is
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the path of a leader. It is the path of a being who says I am going to endure. We are all called to
endure the challenges in our lives so that we can become the heroes of our own stories. Whatever you
do to choose love in your life, in your experience, in your reality, I invite you, I encourage you,
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I call you forward as a fellow light warrior of love to choose to endure.
Welcome home to the Loving Consciously Podcast. My name is Ameris and my name is Eric and if
you are like us, nobody taught you how to love. We are best friends and life partners here to
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vulnerably and authentically share our journey while exploring the sacred realms of love,
consciousness, relationships, spirituality, and all that they encompass. The intention of this show
is to help you consciously relate to yourself, others, and everything else in this universe.
Together, we can embody a more intentional and fulfilling way of giving and receiving love.
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Loving Consciously. Through eight years together, we have had the opportunity to overcome deep
patterning and programming as well as trauma related to mental health, addiction, pregnancy loss,
infidelity, and immense grief. After six years of experiencing these challenges with no knowledge
on how to heal or love each other, we separated. After us both spiritually awakening and recommitting,
(02:42):
we formed our conscious partnership and have spent the last two years cultivating a divine union
founded on unconditional love, devotion, and commitment to personal growth. Thank you for
joining us and doing the work alongside us as we explore this beautiful world of love and
consciousness to co-create a new world of love. As you courageously walk this path,
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remember to have grace with yourself and know that you have both the capacity to love consciously
and the power to always choose love. Namaste and welcome back to the Loving Consciously podcast.
Today's episode is titled Love Indoors and we played around with this quite a bit from keep going
(03:25):
to don't give up to persevere and we landed on this word indoors, which we're going to get into
defining in a bit here after our intro and personal updates. It felt really resonant with what we are
going through right now in this country, on this planet, collectively, spiritually, energetically
(03:48):
to talk about this concept of endurance and enduring. Before we get into kind of the meat of the
episode, it's been two weeks and a day since we did a personal episode. We are a day late posting
this because we are navigating some pretty severe car troubles, more on that later. And so apologies
(04:12):
on being a day late from our normal Tuesday schedule. We have been going through it. When we last
talked to y'all personally, we were in Asheville and I don't think it needs to be said that that
was an incredibly transformative time in our lives and we're still integrating and we deeply miss
that place. That episode that we released, A Call to Love for Asheville, is our least performing
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episode ever in the history of this show. Over a year and 44 episodes now. And if I'm being honest,
it's pretty disappointing because it was a call to love for this community that's going through
something incredibly difficult and to see so few people answering that call was a little bit
disheartening. And so I'd like to invite, if you're listening, to please go listen to that.
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You know, it's a really beautiful perspective on coming together in times of tragedy and how we
can support ourselves and everyone, including those in Asheville through difficult times.
Last week, we had one of our biggest episodes of this show. Aaron Abki, our friend and former
spiritual teacher, well still spiritual teacher, but the person that we graduated the online
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Academy for Consciousness, if you will, came on the show and gave a gospel of love. And if that
isn't more resonant with the show and the mission that we're doing here, you know, I don't know what
is, definitely check that out. It is a landslide of our highest performing episode yet. No surprise
there. When we left Asheville, we went through North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
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And we are coming to you now from Georgia, where we have been stuck for several extra days,
navigating these car issues that we have been experiencing. And in this time, we have reached
only three weeks left of this journey. If you're new here, we've been on a one-year,
full-time tour of this country, and we only have four states left. We have also made a really big
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decision on where we are going to settle when this is done. And we're not going to announce that
just yet. So keep sticking around. Once we feel ready to share that with the world, we definitely
will. But we've made our decision and we've booked a spot. So that's super exciting. And that kind
of brings us into today's episode and even just up to last night, what we were experiencing around
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this concept of love endures. I think it's really important before we get into really talking about
this, that we define the word. We like to do that on the show because we have these ideas of what
these words mean. And I know every time I look them up, I'm very surprised that they didn't
necessarily always mean what I thought they meant. And most importantly, what is the energy and
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intention behind the word, behind the meaning? Looking at this word, endure. Right? When I first
started searching, the kind of classic example that came up is to hold out against, you know, to suffer
through, etc. It was this very like negative definition. There was definitely an energy to it.
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And words don't have energy, right? Like they're just words. Our meaning and intention and our
experience is what gives them the energy. As I dug deeper, I found a really beautiful definition
from the Bible, from Hebrews. Essentially, it summarized as to be strong, steadfast, firm. And
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in this scripture, it's talking about Moses in exile and how we mustn't give up halfway through
our trials. And so I liked this one better because to be strong, to be steadfast, to be firm, to hold
out. And right now, with everything we are individually and collectively going through in
this awakening and ascension and frankly spiritual war that we're living through,
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I don't think better words could describe what is being asked of us when we choose the path of love.
To endure, to be strong, to be firm, to continue to hold out and hold that frequency of love,
even when it's not easy, even when you might feel tired, even when your preferred political candidate
doesn't win, we have to endure because love endures. Thank you very much for bringing us back to the
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etymology of the word endurance. You know, when I think of the word endurance, it brings up the
analogy of a marathon because that's kind of what the awakening journey is like. It's most
certainly not a quick sprint and you're off to the finish line. It's an endurance run. It is a journey
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that we are on for the entirety of our lives. And so endurance is a key component to be able to
stay strong in the face of trials and tribulations so that we can continue to grow. It's an incredibly
important element because it pushes us past our perceived limits. I think back to our time in
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Iceland when we were trapped in a snowstorm with little to no visibility and essentially driving
on faith. If you haven't heard that story from us before, we were driving in the middle of this
storm. Cars were going off the road and freezing because they would stop and the snowstorm would
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pick up so much they would actually freeze the car in its tracks so you can't stop. And we were
kind of in the middle of the line and people gave up. The people in front of us who were leading
the charge through the storm reached a point where they were no longer comfortable pushing forward
and they stopped and we were next and we were faced with the decision of do we just pull over
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and wait out the storm and potentially miss our flight back home the next day or do we push on?
We did just that. We operated on faith. We operated on divine guidance and trusted in our partnership
and our ability to navigate the storm and we pushed on leading all of those who are following
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behind us out of the storm who are brave enough to follow in our tracks. And that speaks to the
power of endurance, the power that we have as lightworkers on this planet to be able to hold
the frequency of love, to be able to hold the frequency of light when our brothers and sisters
around us are going through it when it seems like there isn't really any hope and the world as we
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know it is collapsing and changing and moving because it is. And right now it's on us as leaders,
as people who are doing the work to hold that frequency of love and to guide everybody that we
can back to themselves, back to love, back to faith. It makes me think about like the ego, the mind,
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if you will, always wants to give up right at the precipice of a breakthrough or a miracle.
Like when I look at my life, you know, even that Iceland story in this last week,
when I look at these moments of feeling like I am so tired, I don't want to do this shit anymore,
you know, whatever stories my mind is offering up and I persevered and I chose love and chose to
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endure and continue forward, there was always magic on the other side. I just really want to
encourage you wherever you are in your life, whatever you're navigating right now, keep going.
We have two mantras that we use and you know, do what works for you. I personally think that we've
gotten way too serious and picky about some things like don't use negatives, the subconscious mind,
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the this, the that, whatever works for you works. Our mantra for many years was we don't give up.
We don't give up and whether we were hiking Mount Shasta, driving in an Iceland storm,
hiking an Icelandic mountain to a geothermal river, whenever we felt like we couldn't go anymore,
we would start chanting out loud together. We don't give up. We don't give up and that really helped
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because we set this value for this family that we don't quit. You know, we are not down here on this
planet in this amazing awakening and expansion of consciousness to just give up and so either one
that works for you, keep going or we don't give up or both, we interchange them. We found that that
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really helps us. Just that simple reminder, no matter what you're experiencing and feeling right
now, just keep going. Maybe you need to do the Nemo song in your head. Just keep swimming, just
keep swimming, just keep going because giving up, it's just not an option, right? Love doesn't give
up. Love always keeps going because love is eternal. Love always is and always will be and so if love
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keeps going and light is infinite and it keeps going, then you can too. Thank you for bringing
that mantra and it's been such a useful tool in this partnership and as individuals navigating this
experience. It's really helped us in our conflicts too where everything in me wants to leave the
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relationship or to pull away and say, you know, I can't go any further and to sit back and say,
no, we don't give up. That's one of the biggest reasons I believe that we have made the transition
from unconscious partnership to conscious partnership is this ingrained belief and knowing
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that neither of us are going to give up, that we are in this for the long run. You know,
something that Amherst and I have been contemplating lately that you, my lovely partner, have brought
to the table is the idea that the universe is not conspiring against us but is actually conspiring
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for us in everything that we do that includes the challenges. If you think of the concept of God or
the divine, the creator, the grand architect, if you will, they are not done until it's good
because perfection is in the design and if we quit before the design is finished,
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then we are essentially accepting that reality as the finished product. It's like getting up in the
middle of a movie during the worst scene when the hero is at its lowest and has lost everything
and experiencing the weight of the world on their shoulders and saying, okay, that's the end of the
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movie, let's get up and go. No, right past all of those challenges is the opportunity for the hero
to rise up, to conquer, to come back and build something better to be the hero of the story.
And that is where endurance comes into play. We are all called to endure the challenges
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in our lives so that we can become the heroes of our own stories and help God, the universe,
spirit, co-create something magical in our life.
Lea to you to make an architecture analogy. Eric always coming in clutch with the analogies.
I'm feeling really called to just do a vulnerable share here because,
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you know, I had just posted recently on social media an update about us with some pictures of us
because I don't do that very often. We don't actually really take that many pictures.
And I was talking about the birth of this show. So if you'd like to hear that, you can definitely
go over to my Instagram. It's Amorous Loves You. And I was talking about how terrifying the show was
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and putting our whole story out there and sharing our shadows and our trials and our love and our
joy and everything in between with the whole world, you know, like this is out in the airwaves now.
Anyone in the universe can access it and like not knowing how that was going to be received.
And making a commitment. When we founded this show, we made a commitment to put it all out there,
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to be vulnerable, to be authentic. That has been difficult at times. You know, this episode was
supposed to release yesterday. We are recording this in real time today, the day it'll release.
And we actually started recording it for like 15 minutes. We got 15 minutes in and it just wasn't
resonating because we weren't energetically aligned. You know, we have had had had a really
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beautiful weekend in spite of what happened and I'm going to go into that right now. And then
it's something shifted yesterday. We weren't drinking enough water, neither one of us had
meditated. We'd had a stressful day that didn't really go how we thought it was going to go.
And we just weren't in energetic resonance. And we were trying to co-create this episode about love
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enduring and we weren't in alignment. After realizing, you know, what's in our highest good is to not
record this and to take this night to get right. Something kind of happened energetically. There
was just, I think, between being tired and there was just this disresonance and it led to conflict
and it led to us sleeping separately last night because there was so much energetic
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disresonance. People may have opinions about this, you know, for us. That actually tends to happen,
you know, once every so often. I'd say, I don't know, I can't quantify and put a number on it.
We also spend 24-7, 365 together in a 28 foot travel trailer, traveling with four dogs. We
get no time apart. We work together, we share our business, we share our podcast, we share our home.
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But it does. Occasionally, sometimes we just need to sleep separately. We need some space
to sleep in our own energetic field and decompress so that we can start anew the next day.
And that was really beneficial for us because today we're in more resonance than we've been
in a while and, you know, it just really goes to show, like, love enduring can look many different
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ways. As I was thinking about this episode, I was thinking about advice and ways that you can
endure through this spiritual war that we're living in, the ways that you can continue to choose love.
First and foremost, it's being authentic, radically honest, radically vulnerable, you know,
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taking care of yourself like we did last night with this podcast. We could have done it. We could
have forced through. It would have taken three times as long. It would have been a headache. We
would have been up late and it wouldn't have been as good of quality as this is going to be
because we weren't aligned, you know, and we chose to take care of ourselves last night.
And now we get to come at it with fresh eyes and create something that is aligned that has the right
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energetics, you know, honoring yourself and your space and what you need. And I think the last
thing I really wanted to call out is like healthy choices. Right now, there is literally no more
important time than right now to get really serious about your choices. Who are you surrounding
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yourself with? What are you consuming? This includes your food. This includes your media,
your music, your information. What are you doing with your time and energy and attention?
Are you paying into the system? And I'm not saying that's inherently wrong and always,
but just getting really, really clear on who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose? And where
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am I putting my time and energy and attention? What am I putting in my field in all forms?
Because as we move through this election cycle, which in case you weren't aware, it's not over yet,
I think it's about to get even crazier in this next few months. And the transition that comes of
that and in this world, when one of the major players in the world changes power, we are going
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to need to be very intentional with all of these things I've just mentioned. And so I just
offer as you navigate this journey of choosing love and like the warrior that I know that you are,
you choose to endure and you choose to keep going and you choose not to give up.
Please, please, please be very, very mindful and very intentional with who, what, where,
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when, how and why you do what you do. Thank you for sharing all of that. You're very kind with
the not in resonance. And by that she means I was experiencing some really,
really challenging emotional experiences. And I was struggling to stay in the energy of grace.
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Yes. And it was interesting because I have not felt such rage and such anger in a very long time.
I'm sure many of you lightworkers and conscious people on this planet can relate that as we are
observing the evolution of our consciousness on this planet. We are also experiencing this
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phenomena of us all feeling connected and kind of entering this mode of sharing emotions and
and states of consciousness that may or may not be ours. And so as we work through the emotions of
the collective and those around us, we are being asked to endure through those emotions
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to meet them with love and to usher in light and during these times of darkness.
Absolutely. You know, again, vulnerable share here. I completely relate and empathize with anyone
out there who's feeling the tiredness and the not wanting to do it anymore. You know, we mentioned
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in the beginning of this episode that we've been navigating some car trouble. That's an understatement.
On Saturday when we made it to Savannah, Georgia, we started to hear a weird noise in our rear end
of our Tahoe that tows our trailer, aka our home. And we took it into Chevy and found out that our
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entire rear differential had failed. And the parts through them were not only on backorder for
two to four weeks, upwards of a month, they quoted us almost $5,000. It was now
midday on a Saturday on a holiday weekend. No one could help us until Tuesday morning. So we
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were already stuck in Savannah an extra day, didn't have a car the entire time. So like 20 plus miles
of biking. And you know, come Tuesday morning, here we think, okay, there's going to be a local
mechanic that can help us. They're going to get it in today. They're going to get it fixed.
We ended up having to tow on said broken differential 60 miles out of town to find a
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powertrain special tee shop. And it's now Wednesday and it's still there. And in the middle of
recording this episode, they've just called us and let us know it's done. And it's done for half
of what Chevy quoted us. But we cannot tow on it for 500 miles. That's a lot of miles. I'm actually
having to six, 18, it's like seven, eight hours of driving. And not only that, every 15 to 20 miles,
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you need to pull over for 30 minutes and let it cool, which is just not doable, right? Like,
that's just not doable. Like we have a schedule, we have things booked, we tow our home with this.
And so we're now having to come up with creative solutions like renting a U-Haul truck to tow
our house, and you will be driving the Tahoe and pulling over every 15 to 20 miles. And you know,
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it's situations like this where it's like, I just don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to do
any more breakdowns. I don't want to do any more, you know, insert blank, whatever it is, right?
This is just one example. And I'm called to endure. I'm called to choose love. I am called to
I am called as a light warrior on this planet and a conscious person to rise above the uncomfortability,
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the inconveniences, the conflict, the emotions of others, like you were saying about, you know,
feeling the anger of the collective. We are called to rise up. That is why I say light warrior,
because this is a war and we are warriors, you know, if you are listening to this,
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whether you are choosing love or on a consciousness journey, on a spiritual journey, you just like
love, you don't know what any of this stuff means. It doesn't matter where you are and what you believe.
The path of choosing love is the path of a warrior. It is the path of a leader. It is the path of a
being who says, I am going to endure through these moments in life when, you know, these things are
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happening around us. It's the time more than ever to do that. I just really want to reiterate,
take care of yourself right now. Be very, very mindful of who and what you are surrounding
yourself with. Your body is your temple treated as such clean water, healthy, alive, organic,
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clean foods, you know, right now, especially, stay away from the mainstream media.
It's very, very, very not good for our mental well being. It's really the time to say, you know,
am I getting out and connecting with nature or am I sitting at home watching Netflix?
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Am I scrolling social media on my phone or am I out serving my community?
Whatever you do to choose love in your life, in your experience, in your reality,
I invite you, I encourage you, I call you forward as a fellow light warrior of love
to choose to endure when it gets tough, when it's uncomfortable, when it's annoying, when it feels
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rageful, when it feels like you just can't possibly go on anymore. Tap into that inner strength,
tap into the divine, God source creator, whatever word you use,
tap into that energy of the collective consciousness and find a way, whatever works for you,
to keep going. If you're listening to this and you're experiencing that burnout, that
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pit where you think, I can't possibly push past this anymore. It's typically because our cup has run
dry. The first step that we can take to practice endurance and pushing through these barriers
is to fill our cup, like you said, Amherst. It's to make sure that we are taking care of our vessels
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physically, spiritually, mentally. It's choosing to surrender because we are not the ones in control
here. We are called to surrender to the flow of life, no matter what it brings, based off of the
knowledge that no matter what shows up in our experience, it is for our highest good. It is
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a call to overcome, it is a call to grow. And so just knowing that and embodying that helps
to face every situation with love and acceptance rather than resistance. And then once you've
filled your cup, once you have surrendered and you're coming from a place of embodiment and love,
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now you can consciously address the situation. It's not about coming up with solutions to a
problem. It is about raising your frequency and your vibration to a state of consciousness that
is higher than you are at now, so that you can clearly see the passage through. And I promise you,
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when you take care of your own experience, when you surrender to the current of life,
you will see that passage through. I would really love to, as you were talking, I was like,
I guess the passage through is we're going to be spending our entire night and half of our day
tomorrow aimlessly driving hundreds of miles pulling over every 20 to 30 minutes to cool down for
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half an hour. Sometimes that's what the passage through looks like, y'all. Like honestly, it's
just sometimes you just got to go 15 miles and cool off for 30 minutes and then go another 15
miles and cool off because it takes 500 miles to break it in. Maybe that's a new frequency,
maybe it's a new thought, a new belief, a new way of being, a new action or healthy habit that you
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are bringing into your experience. I think it's a really good analogy. You got to break it in. And so
whatever you need to do to take those steps, I am really calling on you to tap in to your inner
strength, tap in to the warrior that you are, be steadfast, hold on to the love because the love,
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not only endures, the love is what will help you endure. Choosing love and being in that frequency
will push you forward as we continue to move on in this journey. And so we would love to leave you
with a contemplation here. Love endures all. Can you endure all for love?
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